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Here's where I get decidedly UN-PC. As a white male I am advantaged, but not how the grievance industry attempts to make it sound. My entire life I was told that I was going to succeed or fail on my own merits, by my own actions. I never had anybody telling me that I was disadvantaged by "X" or that the system was set up against me. That put me in the advantaged place of not having anyone or anything to blame for my own shortcomings. I have to own them. I do ok, but I could have been much more successful in life many ways. The reason I'm not is due to my own poor decisions. I know that and I own it. Many folks have spent their whole lives being told that they are disadvantaged due to skin color or gender and so when they fail, they have an easy target to blame for their troubles never having to look inward and make a true assessment of their strengths and weaknesses. That is how they are really disadvantaged they have someone to blame other than themselves.

That's the spirit!

Food stamps should be abolished and you get a voucher to get a block of cheese, flour, powdered milk, water, and beans from your health and human services establishment. And call all these programs what they are Handouts not entitlements. Also have you noticed how they have started calling Obamacare affordable health care on the news now. He is trying to separate himself from it.

So....it's November first according to my calendar, and the sky has not yet fallen. :ugh:

Holy math Batman! What did I start! :surrender:  :up:

Some of us have a lot of fair advantages too. I won't go into details but my dad pretty much pulled himself up by his boot-straps and made sure he made the best life he could for me and my brother. He is a man I continually measure myself against. Should the good work he put in, the long hours, the night school, the daily grind to be a provider be negated? (Well, judging by what is happening to my efforts, apparently so).   Absentee fathers are not even the complete issue. My dad's dad was one of those. It may even have been what made my dad the man he was. I suspect the main difference was the he wasn't raised in a culture of government dependence. That's the most corrosive element on *any* culture.

They probably have 490 hats they need to unload! ;-) Good luck! Which item are you hoping for?

Her 5 minutes of fame may cost her more than just some media attention. When it comes to  kids, parents  are like a rabid Rottweiler on steroids. As it should be!. We do not want our kids to get hurt. All it takes is some overzealous parent to do something  stupid over this letter.   I would ask her wtf she was thinking..

Well apparently; we folks in Tennessee are pretty damn lucky. I mean, we must have solved every other criminal problem we have if we can now go out and buy a tractor so that we can concentrate on texting while driving!  I wonder what they'll do to stop distractions caused by such things as...   1. A heated discussion with a passenger, or 2. Fiddling with a GPS unit, or 3. Fiddling with a radio or DVD player, etc, etc.

November starts that day.

Congrats to both daughter and dad. You know you've got to mount that head! It'll be a conversation piece for "her" grand kids! You're a lucky man. Shawn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbud8rLejLM   thought this was appropriate.  Warning may not be work safe.

  'Fraid yer a preachin' to my choir thar feller.   Anytime I let myself slip from role of stoic contemporary historian to that of patriot, it's numbingly damned depressing, but neither does my best objective mode exactly foster much  serenity about the Great American Experiment either - which I do consider as a clearly failed one.   I can only equate my relatively close attention to the macabre fascination of watching ants slowly but inexorably kill a scorpion.   Oh "they call me a cockeyed optimist" Shoot

Who cares what these jackasses think.... It's nothin but propoganda for the "children" and a "red flag" to those it's designed to inflame...   noncaring leroy the racist

I thought just being white made one a racist.  :rolleyes:

Here we go again.    If you want to know why just go to a gunshow or look on Gunbroker, Armslist and all the other online places to sell stuff.  Idiots are buying and assholes are selling.   Frankly, I'm mighty tired of it.  This has been going on for over 10 months now.

He probably used a full auto assault sub machine shotgun with a million round magazine.

Guilty.  You know what... It's one on a whole long list of unfair advantages I claim.   I don't want to discount this problem. Being a white, evangelical male, I don't know that I have standing, so to speak.   That said, I will make one point that I find so interesting - and this applies to your average, upper middle class entitled white kid, too.  We're at an inflection point in history.  The internet has changed things radically, and the boat is pulling away without us - all of us.  So many barriers are being knocked down right now, and we're so focused on who's getting what from the government's teat that we're failing to see the world shifting around us.    Education is changing.  We're almost to the point where there are some truly viable alternative paths.  I'm a postgraduate educated Engineer - recognized as an expert in my field.  In the last year, I've taken four Stanford and MIT engineering courses outside of my discipline.  These are the MOOC's (Massive Open Online Courses) that you hear people talking about.  Each one of them has been completely free discounting my time spent.  I've learned so much.   And yet, do you know who's taking advantage of this?  One of my colleagues recently taught one of these courses - and a popular one at that.  We talked about enrollment, and about 1500 people finished the coursework for the class.  Do you know how many of those resided in the US?  About 30.   There is a hungry world surrounding us that recognizes that the internet gives them access to some of the unfair advantage that America has claimed historically.  We're missing it, because we're too busy pointing fingers and complaining that someone got a bigger piece of the pie than we did.  We're about to have our collective asses handed to us.  And it shouldn't come as a surprise, but it will.   I know that I'm privileged.  I'm appalled at our history, but I can't change or affect that.  What I can change and affect is my behavior.  As I tell my kids, you can't affect the fact that the world is unfair and it sucks sometimes.  You can affect how you respond.  I hope that I can use my privilege to help people who haven't had the same experience I've had. 

Republicans are red, Democrats are blue Neither one Gives a fuck About you!

It's both parties. It's us (the people) vs them. It pains me to see people fight so hard in support of political machines that don't give a crap about us. The masses are being played against one another for the benefit of a few. It's been going on forever.

So if some innocent person is killed in a vehicle accident because some other person was texting while driving, is that really "worse" than the exact same situation except that the person was messing with their radio?  Their GPS?  Talking with a passenger or just plain not actually DRIVING their vehicle?   It's only my opinion but I don't believe the problem is "TEXTING"l texting is just the symptom...the problem is STUPID IDIOT INCOMPETENT DRIVERS and until you get them off the road these people will continue to cause accidents and kill innocent people. You can throw all the $60 tickets at people you want but I can tell you now, if I want to do something that's against the rules, no $60 ticket is going to stop me and i don't think it will stop anyone else either.   A couple of pages back (post 9) bersaguy mentioned that his grandson has already had two and perhaps three accidents that were the results of texting and/or listening to his GPS while driving...if the grandson hasn't come to grips with how stupid it is to do this after two or three vehicle accidents does anyone really think a $60 ticket will make a difference???   I'm not against enforcing the law...I'm not saying people should be allowed to text while driving (and frankly, the whole "hands free" bs is just that...you are STILL distracted while listening to/replying to a text or a phone call while driving)...I'm not discounting the pain or the loss of a loved one killed in a car wreck because of the actions of another driver. However, this "big rig" and $60 ticket garbage is just that - garbage...window dressing rather than having the guts to do what needs to be done. Okay...soap box put away...everyone have a nice Friday.  

So what does it say about a person who comes along and makes wide ranging generalizations about another person's beliefs for the purpose of being insulting?

"Whether people want to acknowledge it or not, whites do have an advantage over minorities."   Applied for any universities, federal jobs, or jobs with companies that deal with the govt?  The exact opposite is true.   Pole Position, I've had to deal with stupid people too. And then I had the pleasure of dealing with institutionalized stupidity.  I personally don't care if you're black, brown, green, or yellow (now, I really hate reds).  But to slack off, not do your assigned duties, screw over your mates, go awol for the weekend and get away with it because you pull the race card...   To be perfectly honest, the most racist people I have ever met were asian, followed very closely by blacks.  Yeah, I've met a (very) few racist whites, but like I said, dealing with stupid people is a cross we all have to bear.  A racist white will get corrected in a skinny minute.  A racist minority is encouraged.  And the white male gets blamed for all of it.   I'm just as tired of that burden as you are. 

As someone who spends all day driving the roads in a semi, it is amazing how many people are addicted to their cell phones. I see countless drivers on a daily basis who can't even put their phones in the seat next to them, or anywhere else but their hands or lap. Less texting. More flashing.   :dirty: 

It didn't happen quickly. The politicians started giving you the weiner inch by inch years ago. You got accustomed to it while hoping that it would stop, because you happened to like your politician. Now some big chocolate guy and his prison mates are ramming with no lube. Yes, it's disgusting, but so is what both parties are doing to us.

Deja Moo ("I've heard this bull**** before") White? You're a racist. Male? You're a sexist pig. Stereotypes are only bad when applied to minorities, cults, or females. Equal opportunity means giving the job to someone who isn't qualified. I've had it with the whining. Either you can cut it or you can't, but quit crying that it's my fault. Next one to get in my face with that crap is liable to get their feelings hurt.

Yeah most of the time its an outright lie. And on the off chance they are cheaper, those gouging pricks can keep it. I wouldnt piss on cheaper than dirt if the whole damn building was on fire. Tapatalk ate my spelling.

CTD sucks

http://www.wkrn.com/story/23856603/paul-dennis-reid-dies     Good riddence to bad rubbish.

They'll probably stay inexpensive as long as most folks can't fill them.   - OS

I'm not racist and I can prove it. all my glocks , ar15's and shotguns are black. I make great sacrifices to make sure they have the best.   just another example of a study done to prove a pre conceived point of view NOT to discover anything new.

Sticky bolt fix:  Shoot, clean, shoot, clean, etc.   Or you could just clean the cosmo residue out of the chamber with plenty of Hoppe's and a bore brush.

Now saying the guy is or was a TSA employee.  Another disgruntled employee shooting it sounds like.  

I'm glad that the students in this case spoke up when they realized this kid had issues. I hope more kids learn to do that when they begin to see warning signs about fellow students. They were thinking positively and that is a good thing............jmho

Its not any less tragic than  any other loss of life.  But this is adding one more thing now we have to be aware of. I think the fine is not enough.I think they do need to increase the fines to hit them where it really hurts. And actually they are using the rigs for  more than just  catching people . texting.

Thats a decent price

DaveS, as bad as the solid and exploding shells must have been, the thought of 4-inch (? - I think 4-inch) "shotgun shells" that were able to mow down entire sections of advancing infantry gives me pause.  How any human could see the carnage inflicted and still move forward simply blows my mind.  And watching a re-enactment is one of those rare instances that can almost make time stand still and the heart stop.  I have been fortunate enough to see Stones River and Shiloh re-enactors in action.  You guys can bring history, and a battlefield, to life ... thanks.

It looks better if you grind or file the back side of the safety. You can easily remove the safety by putting it between safe and fire then knocking it out of the receiver. Just make sure to press the detent back down when you insert it back in.   The safety removal trick will not work on guns with the trigger kit.

Y'all sure have some pretty rifles. ;)

I didn't need the military to pound it into me that I was something special. Like Chuck I had a father that pounded it into me that I was not any better than anyone else and we all put our pants on the same way and if I was going to succeed in this world I was going to have to work hard to get it because no one was going to give me anything without wanting my SOUL in return. So what little I have I did work for and no one gave me anything I didn't earn and I still have my SOUL...............jmho

          My personal empirical evidence differs.  Just saying. Being Christian in the workplace cost me greatly. Not sure about white, or male, but it didn't help. And I am not particularly "evangelical", just held firm to my convictions.

  My money says, if Alex was a member here, he would wind up in the Voldemort hall of fame in less than a week.

It's the first day of Movember.............Viva la Moustache!!!!

I approached people and talked to them the way I would want to be talked to. How it went after that was up to them. Due to the amount of Officers there I am going to say they were dispatched. As you know; when cops are dispatched they respond and check things out. He could have had a polite conversation with them and left. He decided to do otherwise. The rifle doesn’t bother me. When we responded to MWAG calls (simple possession) if I was a back-up Officer I grabbed a shotgun (only because I didn’t have a rifle). We don’t know what information the Officers had prior to making contact. I tried to be prepared for the worst case scenario. When that didn’t happen the shotgun would go back in the rack and I would drive away.

I am chill buddy. I respect David and TGO enough to keep some things to myself. That is why I don't have a million post. Unless you have no life, reading daily about how the poor and uneducated masses are going to riot and come and take the trailer thats been in your family for three decades gets old. MSNBC, FOX and all of the doomsday prophets have an agenda. They are successful when you are constantly afraid which means you stay tuned in, they get higher rating and can charge more for advertising. Do you ever wonder why most the the on air personalities behave like carnival barkers? It's a freak show for people who enjoy a little bit of halloween 365 days a year. When then Lying King is gone is a few years we will be bombarded by daily rumors that the Republican president can't succeed because the libs are so entrenched from the prior administration that America is going to fail at any moment. Then you will be told that you can help save America by sending your one thousand dollar donation to the UncleTedBeckHannityNRASaveAmericaFromTheGhostOfObamaFundDotUSA.

  Holy CRAP! wow, somebody needs a chill pill...

I never said that I hated the place and I'm in no position to affect the kind of change that the mod mentioned. I am more certain than you that some of the post were ignorant, yet very honest because they almost always come from the usual suspects. My superiority is your opinion, just as my post was mine. It never fails. People can say all kinds of stupid crap in these threads and the moment that someones disagrees they are throwing crap on the party. Really? Also, I never called you out. Hell, anyone who has been around for any amount of time knows that your post almost always include humor. At some point even you have to admit that these doom and gloom threads get more ridiculous everyday.

  By first changing the first and basic premise of TN weapons law that carrying a loaded gun is illegal.   - OS