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and to add the more i think about it the more it pisses me off.   There is absolutely nothing wrong with that kids haircut.  He is five years old,  he is a good looking kid.   This is exactly what is wrong with our country.  It has nothing to do with a haircut.  It is about control.  Sickening.

I guess I am white trash and everything else that comes with it.  I took the #1 grandson to the barber and he came away with a mohawk.   Who cares how a kid has their hair cut?   How is a haircut disruptive?   Seriously.   You only get to be a kid one time.  If you are gonna have screwed up wacky hair what better time than when a little kid?  You get to spend the rest of your life conforming to what society says is best for you.

You guys are right. Screw the rules, who has the right to make rules about business,school , FCC or anything for that matter. Total anarchy is the way to go. Mad max type anarchy. Everyone is fine with the rules as long as tey agree with them. You send your kid to school looking like a rooster and he gets sent home it's time to whine about it. Blaaa blaaa. No one needs rules or laws unless everyone agrees with them. Good luck with that. It's asinine that you send your kid to school and he breaks a rule and they send him home. What the hell are these people thinking making a dress code to follow. I give them kudos for enforcing it. I don't agree with a lot of rules I have at work. They are stupid and flat out make no sense ....... But I follow them. It's a stupid rule yes I agree but it's a rule, a condition of attending. If you don't like it go somewhere else. There are many people that are saying the same thing about you owning firearms that some of you are saying about this schools rule, should we take their word for it and turn them in because they don't agree ? Opinions are like..... Well you know.

    Just so we're clear, this is the text of the automated announcement that you received...       If you think that's "very nasty", you should probably take your computer outside and set it on fire now because I'm not sure you're ready for what the rest of the Internet is like.

Since when does a 5 year old get to choose anything, much less a haircut? 

Maybe folks will go back to hoarding guns until this gets sorted out and forget about ammo for a little while :shrug:

Sometimes I really think about buying stock in the company that manufacturers Vagisil.

It still irritates me how they are misleading on the "internet sales". It makes it sound as if anyone can go on the internet, purchase a firearm and have it shipped to their house, no questions asked. Would I like it that way? Ideally, yes! But do not try and paint the picture that this is exactly how you can currently do it, when the truth is obviously far from that.

Anyone know what kind of shoes Rand Paul was wearing this morning?  I hope they are comfortable.

good parents, bad parents, taught about guns or not, sometimes there is nothing you can do (short of the disassembled unloaded locked up 'strategy' which is not viable).   Every year,  in spite of taking precautions, a few kids die in car accidents.  A few drown.  A few fall too far.  Some overheat in the summer and die over a football game.  Some of them grab a gun and shoot themselves or someone else before anyone can move.     Guns are not special.  They are just like any other dangerous item that can cause death or injury in the hands of a child or an idiot.  For every item except guns, this is accepted as normal "crap happens" day to day life in a country where we are not all contained in padded rooms.  When its a gun, though, people act like it is different.    Case in point, last night there was another mass assault at a university.  Its not even in the news this morning.  Because the weapon was a high capacity assault knife, capable of stabbing thousands of times without reloading, but no one cares.  Many were injured, several seriously, and no one cares.   If he had used a pistol, it would be in the headlines for the next 2 months.   I guess the point of my rant is: don't let the liberal news make guns special.   They are not.  Call em on it, if they write off a dozen kids injured in a bus accident as no big deal but one kid shot is huge, call em on it.   20 stabbed is not important?  Call em on it.

if someone wants to off themselves who am I to say they can't

For the record, im only 24 years old and think they were well within the rules to do what they did.

Since parenting experts decided to spread the belief that saying "no" to your child is wrong. The school's policy seems subjective, so maybe the parents have an argument. Speaking on opinion only, I think it's incredibly tacky and trashy when parents do this to their kids. I see it all the time around town, and there seems to be a common denominator with young children who are allowed to "express" their personalities through extreme fashion. That denominator is that the kids are out of control little monsters and the parents are useless slobs.

If you sign a contract to follow a policy you should abide by it or don't sign the contract. Yeah maybe a haircut seems a little silly but a dress code is set to avoid distractions and this hair style was obviously causing one. I signed a contract with my job that doesn't allow me to carry a weapon while I'm working. I think it's silly and even dangerous, but I will abide by it or seek employment elsewhere.

I got tha best wife on earth! My birthday ain't till September but I just got my birthday present. .....now, I have to actually wait until two weeks before my birthday to actually get the gift, but that ain't her fault.............. September 5th I will be within (literally) SPITTING DISTANCE to the left hand side of the stage for IRON MAIDEN and MEGADETH!!!!!! They're ONLY doing 7 shows in the States! Seven shows in seven days and then they're going on a European tour. Somebody raise a fist and give me a HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So whats it gonna take? Alof of people have adopted Molon Labe as their war cry. Wonder if any in New York will follow through, and how many here will condem their actions. This is what we have been afraid and vowed to fight folks. Gun confiscation for any reason is an act of tyrannry. If the line isn't drawn here, we can kiss our gun rights, all of them, goodbye in under ten years. Sent from the backwoods of Nowhere

"He added that, as Democrats, we believe in the dignity of all human beings and..."   Unless it's an unborn child.   Jerkwad politicans.

Having children and guns available for use is a tremendous responsibility; I know I had to do it when my kids were little. Allowing kids access to loaded guns is reckless.   I take exception to the story about the Deputy that said “He took all the precautions, he's a trained law enforcement officer, trains with weapons all the time." He didn’t take all the precautions. I don’t know why he needed to take off his gun to show someone else a gun in the safe, but if you are doing that; you clear it.     It’s terrible that the woman had to die and that this kid and the Deputy will have to live with this. But this was not an accidental discharge; it was negligent.   When I was a cop our instructors told us that no one likes to talk about the mistakes good Officers made who were killed in the line of duty. But they said they were going to talk about them so we didn’t make the same mistakes. This gun owner made a mistake and it cost a life. All this talk about its okay to have loaded guns accessible to small children and expecting them to be “trained” is ridiculous. It’s reckless; hopefully some will learn from this tragedy.

    No, the problem with this country is that there are far too many rules and too many people who think they have the right to make arbitrary rules to dictate the behavior of others because, after all, 'they' know what is right and best for everyone.  The problem isn't that he broke the school rule but the fact that the school has such a rule to begin with.   The more we act like sheep and follow asinine rules simply because 'those are the rules' the more we give up liberty, little bits at a time.  Rules which keep one person from harming another or interfering with the rights of another are one thing.  It may seem like a small thing but rules telling people how they can wear their hair - or choose to style their children's hair - have no place in a free country.

    Odd, my Apple TVs have pretty much completely replaced my DirectTV content, and now I'm not paying for anything in languages I don't speak, or for any channels that I simply don't watch. I find more content I'm actually interested in watching now than I ever did with cable. Most of the time I would sit down to watch my top tier service then I would be frustrated at the number of reruns, DVRed content being off due to a sporting event running long and messing up scheduling, or ads loud enough to wake my neighbors while my wife is trying to sleep. 

Maybe some folks are on the right track saying that a 5 year old boy doesn't truly 'decide' how his hair is cut and that, ultimately, that is the parents' decision.  I would counter that maybe those folks should look at their own argument before posting it.   I would say you are exactly right - the parents' should, ultimately, make that decision.  NOT teachers.  NOT principals.  NOT the school board.  As long as the child's appearance isn't indecent or his/her grooming unsanitary then it should be none of a school's damn business - not one, little bit - what decisions the parents make about his or her appearance.  If parents want to indulge a child's desires for something so innocent as a haircut then that should also be none of a school's damn business.  None.  Period.  Remember, these are the same types of 'educators' who suspend/expel kids for making gun shapes with their fingers.  They are the same 'educators' who become apoplectic when a child so much as has a picture, drawing or doodle of a gun.  They want to dictate minute aspects of a child's life - not to educate but to indoctrinate.   In fact, I have said for some time and become increasingly more convinced that the #1 problem in this country is that people - individually and in groups, private and public - refuse to mind their own, damned business.  Sure, there are instances when people refuse to 'get involved' when they should but much more prevalent are instances when people should just keep their stupid opinions to themselves and let others make their own decisions.  Then, again, perhaps the phrase 'the pursuit of happiness', once listed right along with 'life' and 'liberty', no longer means anything.   I remember a specific incident when I was in either Kindergarten or the first grade (would have been some time around 1976-77.)  At home, mom always poured a little milk into my bowl of chili or soup to help cool it down.  In fact, she did the same to hers.  Well, I did that at school one day and some of the other students raised an uproar because they thought it was 'gross'.  My teacher then told me that I would be in trouble if I did that, again.  Well, I went home and told my mom.  The next morning she went into school with me and had a discussion with the principal and my teacher - the gist being that was the way we ate our soup, she and my father were paying for my lunch and if I wanted to pour milk into my soup then that is exactly what I would do.  I continued to do so for several years and, after that, was never told that it was not allowed.   I have to wonder how many people who feel that the school was in the right sending this child home also feel that the vet who had "Infidel" tattooed on his arm should have been hassled because of it.  Basically, IMO, it is the same thing.

Always a refreshing moment!   Academy in Cool Springs had a rather nice shipment of ammunition on display today. 4x 1,000 round boxes of .223, a handful 375 round CCI Tactical boxes of 22 LR, 25 + boxes of 100 round Remington Target in 22 LR, 10x 100 round packs of Remington UMC in 9mm, 9mm Monarch, Winchester 7.62x51, Independence 5.56, Monarch .223, etc.

One source is stating that background checks will be mandatory for all sales at gun shows and across the internet.  Good luck on defining 'gun show' and 'internet sale'!  Another worthless bill designed to get folks used to background checks for everyone without having any effect whatsoever on crime or mass killings.   Time to call Corker and Alexander and tell them that NO INFRINGEMENT is acceptable!

If a gun is out of a case or safe it is loaded. And I have several guns available to me at all times and they are always loaded. A gun that is locked up is useless and you have no idea when a bad guy will come to visit.   I have always had loaded firearms around the house, even when our son was young. He was desensitized to them early on so the novelty of them wasn't there. He never touched one he wasn't supposed to touch. Shielding a child from anything increases their interest in it. Exposing them to the item removes their curiosity. To my son a gun is just a tool just like a hammer or screwdriver.   When I had relatives over with their young kids the guns were always accessible. The gun would be on a kitchen counter or dining room table and I just threw a washcloth over them to conceal them. Out of sight worked just as well as putting them away. I was also aware of where the kids were at all times.   You can safely have a firearm readily accessible around children. You do need to be aware and pay attention.

To a certain degree, possibly. I am all for freedom of expression, but you have to use some common sense. Following the rules can sometimes suck, but tyats just the way it is. I have a friend that works for a parcel delivery company, and if he wants to keep his job, he must adhere to their extremely strict dress code. This also includes the type of facial hair he's allowed to have. He didn't like being forced to shave his ZZ Top lookin' beard for the job, but that was a call he had to make. I can't tell you how often my daughter comes to me with a request to do something crazy to her hair, or get a piercing other than her ears. I use my better judgement, tell her no, and explain why. It sucks, but in a few short years, she can make those decisions for herself. Until then, that's my job.

I learned the hard way that you don't let hornets build a hive.  We had some in the yard a couple of years ago.  I tried to take a live and let live approach, but it didn't work out.  the father in law took a couple to the head and neck, so we went to war.  Four cans of hornet killer later and there were bodies everywhere.  We were hitting them in the air, on the ground, and down the hole.  After the battle, we were surveying the wreckage, when I heard the sound of a chopper coming in from the left.  I braced for impact, and felt the searing, vibrating burn as the assassin exacted her vengeance on me.  I never saw the assailant, but the damage was done.  Three days of a swollen neck and a week of pain.  Never again I cry, NEVER AGAIN!  All hornets must die!  :0) 

They are correct as far as I'm concerned. NOONE is going to take my guns.... I will leave it at that. Sent from the backwoods of Nowhere

I would too! Good luck.

My guess is that this is red meat for the gun control democrats and cover for red state democrat senators.  It allows team obama and their children to say they did something on the gun control issue while giving cover to the red state democrat senators by way of the "ruling class" rino republican senators; nothing more.    As to the "removing of reciprocy" in concealed carry permits.  As far as i know, the federal government has no jursitiction in this issue.  It is a state issue, not a federal one.    As to this: ".....The Manchin-Toomey agreement would close the so-called “gun show loophole” by requiring that background checks are conducted on all commercial gun sales in the country. ...".  There has always been a federal law that says "all commercial sales" are to be background checked on handguns.  My guess is that this is political pandering and red meat for the democrat "anti-gun" base.  With a complicit media; it will be heralded as a policy victory for team obama.   Interesting read on this subject here:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/04/09/the-gun-control-vote-and-harry-reids-problem/   Here's watchin   leroy

  How you gonna escalate anything once you've been busted. Hell, they can take most everything you own while you're even trying to fight it.   Oh, you mean, "armed insurrection?" Puleese....   What will happen is that after a pretty short while, the only personal sales will be between folks who know each other quite well indeed. And even then there would be some risk, seldom being 100% sure that your buddy hasn't been popped and is snitching his way free.   While 95% of all personal sales will simply  be done with addition of 4473, whether that's through an FFL or whatever other way they may set it up for access.   Might even create a small sub-industry, the free lance firearm transfer agent, licensed to do transfers but nothing else. Who knows at this point. And whatever gets passed during the 113th, it will get tweaked later, too, either by "rule" changes or amending, just like every other firearm law that has ever been enacted.   If you mean more undercover agents getting snuffed, that will play right into fed's hands too. More agents to investigate, easier push for more stringent gun laws once even a miniscule percentage of gun owners are then proven to be violently crazy.   - OS

  I'd simply hire all them Obama Youth Army types as ATF temps to hang around forums and shows to buy guns. Minimum wage at 30 hours per week, no bennies, but a bonus for each bust.   Lowers unemployment rate (more prison guards and federal prosecutors needed, too), spurs economic development (more prisons needed).  And takes guns away, since the now felons can't own them or sell them.   Just all win from the progressive viewpoint.   - OD

Just picked this up for my son. He was very excited and I have to say I love this little thing. I got it home did a nice 3lb trigger job on it and this afternoon we took it to the range. It shot great and he had a blast!!

Likes avatar pictures of half naked men holding a large "tool".....wait a minute...

told his wife about the 3" debacle ... she asked what he did to fill in all the extra space

So if background checks will be mandatory at gun shows, I assume they mean the booths inside, so person to person with your "friends" outside is still good to go?

17lbs is pretty good. . You can probably get it a little lower without having to make many sacrifices. Do you have a water source along your route? You can trim down to 1 liter of water. I carry 2 liters when I backpack (I could carry 1 but carrying an extra liter is just a personal decision I decide I want to do) Again, the best way to reduce weight without buying new equipment is to reduce redundancy (1 knife instead of 2) and to include multi use items (like instead of a camp pillow for me when I hike, I just use a wadded up shirt) The benefit is you will be able to move faster, more stable and with less pain. Which makes for an enjoyable hike or in a disaster scenrio could mean you out survive the people who carry hatchets and D-cell maglights. My personal opinion is speed is the biggest x-factor. I don't think there is one piece of gear you can carry that would make up for a lack of speed. Your pack is a living breathing pack though. You will carry different things in the winter versus the summer. You will find there are things you don't use and you can adjust accordingly. You are doing a good job though!! Ill try to post my setup when it all comes in and you can help me reason through my pack as well! :-) Oh, one thing I would add to your pack is a couple N95 face masks with the plastic valve that let's you exhale faster. It weighs nothing but could be a huge benefit in the event of an outbreak or dusty atmosphere (like 9/11).

I loaded 50 rounds of .38 Special last week, just for bee season.   Love God, love your neighbor, hunt bees.

Yep, read their "made in the ....uh, USA " logo! LOL!!

  I also agree with this but I like netflix FOR the old stuff. I like to find an old TV series that has run it's course and watch it all the way through without waiting a week in between episodes (Battle-star Galactica, Lost, etc.). All the new movies are remakes of the old movies anyways. :rofl:

Read a little about it. They finally compromised on what to put in the bill. It still has to get the votes to be put up for a vote and then it has to pass the house and senate, it is expected to fail. Even if it does passes, it looks like private sales are safe. Everything I read says that it is only addressing FFL transactions. That could easily change before the bill gets voted on. I expect this to be an extremely long process as long there is no 2am holiday votes like in NY

He is trying to get taxes in on the bill as well, tax a transfer, records to be kept.

It's the real beginning of whatever form of expanded background checks we'll wind up with. But certainly the end to private sales at the least.   - OS

Say it with me now; Guns & Leather. D & T Firearms. Nashville Armory. Now repeat. It's a mystery to me why people even go to the gun shows anymore.

You hit the nail on the head. My dad told me several years before he passed that he had the gun converted for 45LC from 41mag. The gun didn't come from the factory as it is now, so I'm guessing from some of the comments that any "collectiblity" is dimished aside from the fact that it was my dad's revolver. I guess I am from the "new school" and desired a more wear resistant finish to preserve the gun under use. I am not one to just let things sit in the safe and oil occasionally except for my hunting rifle....

Let this be a lesson to all those who think the government should be responsible for providing healthcare to the public.  That opens the door to just about anything that they can twist into being detrimental to your or anyone else's health.  This does not even scratch the surface of things that can be mandated or regulated if you think the government should be responsible for your health.    Just another argument in support of the statement, "Big government equals less freedom."  I personally do not find this surprising from the state that thinks it's both acceptable and  curative to regulate the size of the soft drink a person can buy. 

"Hair styling or coloring arrangements which are disruptive or distracting are not permissible." End of story.

Old medical system:  Person needs medical care, goes to doctor, receives care, pays doctor.   Current medical system:  Person needs medical care, goes to doctor, insurance coverage is checked to see who pays, doctor does diagnosis, insurance is checked to see what treatment can be provided, person receives care, insurance is claim is filed, insurance eventually pays doctor.   Medicaid:  Person needs medical care, goes to doctor, insurance coverage is checked to see who pays, doctor does diagnosis, Medicaid is checked to see what treatment can be provided, person receives care according to state standards, Medicaid claim is filed, claim is fraud-checked, claim goes through state review process (differs by state), state eventually pays doctor.   The more steps and administration involved in the process, the higher the cost.  When Medicaid is involved, you have a LOT of people all getting a cut of the process; doctor, doctor's administrator, state administrators, insurance administrators, the State's Medicaid processor, fraud examiners, payment system providers, and more.   More and more doctors are dropping out of the system and going back to the original model:  Person gets care, doctor gets paid.  Doctor spends less times playing administrative games, and the patient pays lower cost.   The best doctors will be tempted to drop out as they can attract enough clients who can pay cash.  What's left will be lower quality and overworked doctors.  Is anyone REALLY surprised that prices go up and quality drops when the government is involved?

Sweet!  David has achieved artificial intelligence within TGO.  'Open the pod bay doors, David'

Some folks believe that jacking prices to ridiculous levels is 'just capitalism'.  Well, maybe in one sense but I don't believe it is very 'good' capitalism.  To me, a 'good' business owner practicing 'good' capitalism - regardless of what they sell - is going to take into account customer relationships, customer loyalty, return business, word of mouth advertising and the like - especially a small, 'mom and pop' type business.  Raising prices a reasonable amount in the current market is one thing but after a certain point it gets ridiculous.   Sure, jacking prices into the stratosphere might make them a healthy profit in the short term - largely from panic buyers, new gun owners (who don't know any better) or people who are so desperate to find a box of ammo somewhere, anywhere that they will pay whatever price these profiteers are asking.  Thing is, eventually supplies return to normal, the hoarders will have all they will ever shoot, the new shooters will have either gone into a routine of rarely shooting, will have sold their gun or will have the experience to know better.  In other words, their 'crisis' sales will have dried up and those of us who remember such things will remember their actions and avoid their shops.  At that time, these same profiteers will be whining about how people should shop local and how the mean ol' Internet is putting them out of business.

That still keeps my biggest reason for not doing it. I don%t want any firearm or accessories that are registered with the government for any reason Sent from behind my anvil in ye olde smithy