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Hey I got an idea. Everyone start using larger fonts. Then I'm can stop wearing these stupid reading glasses. :D

Sorry Mike but there is something wrong with that.  If they don't like the pay rate, benefits, hours, etc, move on.  Free country.  Unions suck companies dry, decrease productivity and lower quality.  Period.  If any worker has a serious issue of safety or other non money grab issue, there are any number of attorneys or state and fed agencies ready to swoop in and protect them.  Their time has passed.

My name is Larry, and I'm in Boston. :shrug:

They can strike if they want. Walmart can fire them if they want. No shortage of people who need a paycheck in this country. For some reason all of a sudden Americans are blaming their employers for why they aren't getting paid as much as a skilled trade or educated person while not identifying they are neither. Want to get paid as much as a doctor? Go be a damn doctor. Seesh. What a bunch of ungrateful leeches. I hope they all get fired.

I couldn't use "Oh S**t", and "Shoot" fits forum theme better anyway. :)   - OS    

What ARE you TALKING about WILLES :rofl:

Mine's pretty easy.  Cop in Tennessee.   Besides, "Incrediblysmartfunnyandhandsome" is too long to type.  :dirty:

Cuz.....oh figure it out.

Well we could all write the President and ask him to come up with a plan..........wait..... But seriously, yeah, this is not looking good. Not surprisingly, on Facebook, news pages, all of the Obama voters that always have something "smart" to say when talking about him sucking, food stamps, Obama phones, Trayvon Martin....they don't have a thing to say. Because they know $#(&($# about what the President is SUPPOSED to be doing, only what he supports for THEM. I mean, they have said jack squat about Syria!

  Yep, I believe you, and think you just made Rightwinger's case!   - OS

This is pretty cool.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAW3dlTMv6g

Because I love her.

Since I am German ,I guess  I am a kraut.. and when I get  upset.. I am a sour Kraut..   Plus.....Loudmouth German Woman was taken..: :jester: )

nothing wrong with them striking for more money.  Good luck to them.

Major Kong was the Slim Pickens character in the movie Dr Strangelove. I like the movie and grew up in the Cold War era. I've used it on several forums for the past five or six years.

As expected, the gangbanger lobby is pushing back against Obama's corporate gun control order:  :jester:   http://mygunculture.com/2013/09/04/presidents-gun-control-order-will-reduce-street-crime

I can't honestly answer this.   She monitors my online communications.           However, I will admit, and not because I am at gunpoint, or that my life is in danger; that my life is better with her in it.

Because you're crazy if you don't own a gun.

So would the consumer.

  Yep, without the union, you'd be watching three, and they'd actually get their money's worth!

No worries, bersaguy. Doesnt bother me. I'm changing my font color to match background color. Here goes... .

  Please Dear Lord NOOOOOOO.....

I think my favorite one was last year when the school sent me a letter telling me that if I wanted my daughter to be insured at the school, I had to pay the premium. However, if she was on free or reduced lunch, they would waive that fee. If I wanted her to play sports, I had to pay that premium as well, unless of course, she was on free or reduced lunch.   I have lost count of the crap she has brought home where they want money from me.   I am a member of the PTA/PTO and it is a joke. The meetings are a bunch of folks standing around patting one another on the back. The 'big' thing last year was spending $2000 to get the 'premium' status of a government funded online program.    The one last week was good, a fund raiser, with that magazine that has the tins of cookies and the smoked meats. There wasn't a thing in there for less than $20. But hey, if the kid sells 20 items, she gets to go to a special all day party at the school. That resulted in a nasty email to the Superintendent.    As a tax paying, attentive parent, the schools make me sick, but something we need to understand is that [i]we[/i] are the minority now. We are getting the government we deserve with the majority vote now.   That is what makes me the sickest.    I am a taxpaying voter.   The majority now isn't.

  C'mon, think Walmart  style -- they'll be happy to take their welfare money as customers.   - OS

Wanted to add that the school my daughter attends has 85% plus of the students on free and reduced lunch with all school fees waived. I pay cash. Sorry for being off topic but this is just another reason I despise the school system amd welfare systems. sent barefoot from the hills of Tennessee

I cannot help what other people do, only what I do. Sounds like yhe schools need to mind their own business. sent barefoot from the hills of Tennessee

You could bounce a quarter off her hooters, and the grew that way. Both of them (wives, not hooters). Two wives, four hooters, two divorces.

She puts up with me.

Brooks is my name.  I change it to Broox to get more street cred

  My thought is that rather than try to change opinion, the idea is to get your point across. Then, at some point in the future, as happened for me, it can all come together and the opinion changes anyway.   A big part of the problem with modern politics is that people refuse to see each others points. A disagreement about the conclusion is thought to invalidate the whole of the other persons argument, leading to an inability to break things down point-by-point and no way to find common ground. I think your summary focuses on the salient point though there are others. Let's break it down some:   1)Are DUI checkpoints "right" in general? I think we can agree to disagree here (If everyone saw things my way, the constitution would not be needed). Some people will think that it's worth inconveniencing a few to keep these drunk drivers off the road. Personally, I'm not real happy with citizens stopping other citizens without direct cause. One thing I love about the US was it was founded as a nation of equals. This kind of thing goes against that and releases undue power to the government. Recheck those Peelian Principles I posted earlier. Also playing into this is that the statistics that lend support (or not) to this seems to have some issues. This is where MADD is a problem because their hysteria tends to preclude a rational discussion of the topic.   2)Is it constitutional? Calls to authority aside, this seems to rest on your definition of "unreasonable". I guess if you feel it's OK for citizens acting under authority of the government to stop and interrogate other citizens going about their lawful business because they /might/ be committing a crime, you could find that acceptable. Hard to see why they bothered with the 4th if that's the case though.   2b)Implied consent. The government does not get to write laws (ignoring the fact that they do so) weaseling their way out of the constitution. Not legal ones anyway. If you can't see where such things lead, there's not much hope for you.   3)DUI. I don't think there's many here that think DUI shouldn't be prosecuted as such but it is an argument that I have heard before. For the purposes of this thread can we stipulate that driving under the influence is a crime that deserves punishment according to the laws currently on the books (BAC levels and such are for another discussion)?

Speed is going to be of the absolute essence in a scenario like this.  By the time you get to day 2, it's going to be too late to start moving distance of any consequence.   Were it to head south, you need to go, and go fast.  I'd cover what ground I could in the car as fast as I possibly could and then look to moving to a bike or something similar - fold up bike or electric razor scooter in the trunk.  Were it me, I'd look to stay off the major arterials and cover what ground I could by car quickly, but when that's no longer feasible, move to an alternative.  My kids have a scooter that I've tried for endurance - 19 miles.  That should get you close enough that you can cover the rest on foot.  But, this gets your commute time to hours as opposed to days (never).

I have no issue with private sector unions. If they think it will work for them, they should have at it. They might run into a slight problem though. Striking work forces work best when in the context of skilled labor. Walmart is NOT skilled labor. If the entire store labor force struck, they could have new employees in place and the stores running as before in a couple weeks if not days. This is one of the major contributing factors to the almost total lack of unions in retail.

Allow me to be the first to disagree, just because. 

My initials.  Clever, huh?   Oh, well, at least my name isn't Sherman Herman Isaac Taylor.  That would make for some interesting initials (my dad's first name was 'Sherman' and my mom used to call him Sherman Herman Isaac Taylor as a joke.)

I couldn't think of nothin' clever!   :shrug:

Occupiers vs Walmart. I wonder who is gonna come out on top of that one. Maybe the Walmart workers will rush to all of those new high paid burger flippin' jobs.

I joined TGO shortly after I had my son. I wasn't used to being cooped up in the house caring for a baby since my "thing" had always been hunting and shooting and being out in the woods. I absolutely loved being a mom, but still wanted to at least talk about my other loves, so I found this forum. I had been carrying a gun for over 20 years and having a child wasn't going to change that, so "PackinMama" just seemed appropriate. ;)

  It's like an orgy of stupid. 

I am a huge fan of th blaxploitation films of the 70's especially those with Rudy Ray Moore like Dolomite. Even the names of the films can be quit entertaining: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_blaxploitation_films   Here is a short film in the same style as most of the blaxploitation films. http://youtu.be/yax7bXcykzk And for anyone who has and hour and a half to kill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1JkNKL1BwE   Can you dig it?

Negative. I don't think the gov should have any right to search me before going on an airplane. I had no problem when airport security was private, as airlines are private. If a private entity wants to search me before entering their establishment that is their call to make. The government doing it is called a violation of my rights.

Esee stuff is great stuff.   And I was just thinking, what a great picture you took, till you spoiled it. :)   - OS

If younpack your kit right, the bag will float. We had to pack our ILBE packs and do swim qual with them in the Marines. I can float a 70 lb pack pretty easy. You can buy military waterproofing bags,or just use contractor trash bags. Put the bag in your pack open, pack everything in bag, then tie with paracord. Pack anything in outside pockets inaide of sealed ziplocs. You can make the pack float enough to use it for a float device to lay on and kick your way across a creek or river. Tapatalk ate my spelling.

Galaxy DX44 with a Texas Star amplifier when needed. Rarely use it since I went HAM though.

Because my carry gun is a Bersa Thunder plus I own several others.

Two words; MORE COWBELL!

Garufa was the name of a sailboat I lived on for 2 1/2 weeks in the Bahamas.  Best vacation I ever had.

    Now, now...Establishment Republicans are hot and lathered up to get into bipartisan bed with Obama on the Syria attacks,  Boehner and Corker will need wet wipes to clean up after the fest they are having to support the President.

I think .243 gets the "barrel burner" rep from folks shooting at the lighter faster end of the spectrum. You can load 100gr way down in the 2000's and you can also load 52gr bullets up around 4000fps. Something tells me the man shooting those hot 52gr loads is going to burn one a lot quicker than the man loading the 100gr bullets. If kept within normal speeds I believe you will find that it will wear much closer to that of other calibers that you are comparing to. I love my .243 and it is possibly one of the most versatile cartridges out there IMO. I can't speak for the barrel life as i've not shot enough to know yet but mine has seen more heavy bullet loads than anything else so i'm not to worried.  

Well done. Nuff said........

... besides the city of Memphis?