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  They're legislators.  What do you think?

Well nine weeks ago I almost died from post surgical complications, today I walked 3 miles and I've lost 35 lbs. Thanks for the prayers TGO!

  I still think Eugene will prove to be a fraud, just a line of BS he's used to get other people to protect him.   - OS

They didn't have a gun; it was a sammich. Under privileged teens carrying sammich’s are being shot at an alarming rate. It has got to stop!

  I'll simplify all of this -- Ponzi Scheme

  I'm not going to Dolomite's place. He is gonna be one continuous fart

Saw this coming from a mile way. Was planning on placing my resignation on Thursday to give them two weeks to hire a semi decent replacement. Well they beat me to the punch. Where not too happy when I outline the faults with the management and the awful record of employment selection. But now they have their wish with getting rid of the last original.  Good thing I have another opportunity lined up, and am grateful for it.  But I cannot wait to walk in there tomorrow, drop off my shirts and walk out with my binder full of sales leads and plans.  And when they ask me "whats in there and what are you taking", I will tell new the "manager" my sales and customers that will not be going to your store.   Oddly enough. I feel great. I never said no, covered shifts at locations that where over 100 miles round trip and havent had a vacation in three years. Hell, I will go shooting tomorrow to celebrate. And enjoy my last day of fall break.

A republican would have shot them instead of exchanging shots with them.

    Indeed.  Burning bridges is rarely a good idea.  Going out of your way to be a dick isn't exactly classy, especially to your Grandma.  :o         Amen.  I'm making sure my parents get their SS check.  They money they paid in was pissed away a long time ago.  I have no expectation of SS or Medicare if/when the day comes I can afford to stop working. 

The idea that the money you contribute to SS or the unemployment system goes into an account just for you is entirely false. The money you and I are forced to pay into the system is being used to pay benefits to current recipients, and massive amounts of beuracratic overhead. The money current recipients paid in was squandered long ago, and they should've been keeping a better watch on their elected representatives at that time to fix the damage before it got to this point. The government has no business in the retirement planning industry; if for no other reason than as we can all see they're pretty terrible at it. Stealing from one to give to another is wrong, even if the recipient was at one point robbed themselves. As for it being easy to save of you're not paying taxes or scamming the system, I'm sure it is. That has nothing to do with folks who are playing by the rules but not saving money. That's nobody's fault but their own.

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  There has been one change. The mortality rate has been upped from 50% to 70%

Anyone remember 1 billion cut from CDC budget to fund Obamacare? It's like 6 Degrees of Obamacare.

Thanks for your reply.  After posting this I did some more research and found this:   From 1879 to 1884 Winchester bought breech loading double barrel hammer shotguns from a number of English Gun makers. These shotguns were imported, marked and sold by Winchester through a store maintained by Winchester in New York City. These shotguns were chambered in 10 and 12 gauge, and advertised and marked as "Match Gun", "Class A", "B", "C" and "D". The total of all types sold was approximately 10,000. The English Gun makers were W.C. Scott & Sons, Richard Rodman, C.G. Bonehill and W.C. McEntree.

Sometimes it's best to just let it go. This is something I am still working on myself, but I think it'll extend our lives to not get our blood pressure up about small things. :lol: I feel ya, though.

My method to understanding these Amendments is simple.   - If the Tennessean newspaper is for it....., I'm against it.  :down:   - If the Tennessean newspaper is against it......, I'm for it.  :up:     This personal voting guide based on the Tennessean's endorsements has been near 99&44/100% correct for me ever since the Nashville Banner ceased publication in 1998.  

http://fox43.com/2014/10/15/pa-lawmaker-exchanged-gunfire-in-attempted-robbery/  

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So we should just do nothing? If they have to walk, bus, and then take a boat maybe it'll take more than 21 days and they'll die in transit instead of taking a 18 hour flight here. I'm good with any delay I can get. Edit: If Europe would ban flights from these countries it would help also. My children have duel citizenship, US and Brazil, the first time we traveled out of the country and came back through immigration, we presented our US passports only. The agent looked up at me and asked to see their Brazilian passports as well. I filled out all the forms for their passports my self and never mentioned them having duel citizenship. If they know this about my kids, how, in the era of electronic passports, can they not be able to track where a person has been?

  I heard that you couldn't catch it at all here if they LEFT IT IN AFRICA

As far back as '04, I was amazed at the number of Japanese that flew in to the Bardstown Bourbon Festival! No telling the Japan market growth in the last 10 years! On that trip we toured the Buffalo Trace distillery. Our tour guide slipped us a couple of "Japanese Market Only" gold plated Blanton's stoppers. They must pay a heck of a premium to merit such fancy Blanton's stoppers! The value of gold since then may have stopped this Japan perk? Japan stopper on the right. Sure enjoy your posts Mike.357!

You are going to tell your grandma to "suck it"? Ouch

Come on man, just let it go. I understand being upset, I really do, but it gets you nowhere. Just focus on your new opportunities. If they are as bad as you say they are, you don't need to do anything to them, it will come to them naturally. Don't waste anymore energy on them.

Someotherguy, that's impossible because Ebola is hard to catch. You have to have sexual intercourse on a Thursday between 3:27pm and 4:13pm while jumping up and down on a pogo stick that was built by an ancient monk from Argentina and imported by a virgin nun in May of 1974. Any other circumstances outside of that make it nearly impossible.

     If SS were like other social programs where the gov. steals money from you to give to others with zero chance of you ever seeing a dime of it again unless you get yourself in bad financial shape, I would agree with you. But it's not, the gov. steals our money with the promise that they will be good stewards and return that money in payments after reaching a certain age. Unless you are some sort of minister or one of the other few exceptions, you have NO choice, we're forced to pay into the savings/retirement program and would be swept off to jail quickly if caught not paying in so to belittle anyone wishing to receive their forced savings seems like BS to me. The only way to keep the program in any sort of "good" health is to move the age of eligibility back a handful of years or so but I don't think I'm okay with that. I'm thinking that my generation is going to need to be the generations that "took it on the chin" in order to spare our children and grandchildren from the madness and theft that is SS. If we keep paying out at the same rate that SS has always been paid then it will bankrupt SS. My plan only works if my generation lets them bankrupt the SS system and then refuses to allow them to start over. If we don't do both of those things then we're dooming our children and grandchildren to be bullied and stolen from the same as we have been. Like Mike, I'd gladly refuse any and all SS benefits if they would return all monies paid in to date so that I could invest on my own but where I differ I think is that I would be willing to keep paying into SS as it is bankrupted so long as I knew that once it crumbled, it would stay crumbled.

Would someone please explain why anyone would shop at a pawn shop, for guns or anything else? I have been to several dozen of all different sizes and in numerous cities / states. Every single one had almost nothing but used stuff that was in terrible condition, and every item was priced at or even above the cost of the same thing brand new from a traditional retailer. At first I assumed it was just a starting price for negotiations, but on at least 6 times that I attempted to negotiate the clerks indicated their prices were firm and they looked at me like I was crazy. In at least 3 of the shops I tried to reason "but your item is used and worn, and look at this on my phone showing the same thing brand new for less at another store"... only to have the clerks say "but you are not in a retail store, this is a pawn shop" as if that somehow explained why I should pay more. I understand how they take advantage of people that need cash quick, or that want a loan with bad credit, and if those customers know what they are giving up due to their desperation then it's their business. But for the pawn shop to then attempt to sell overpriced junk to cash-rich customers that know better is crazy. So I've always assumed it must be those same ignorant or desperate customers paying top dollar for junk, likely funded by trading away what little of value they have left. I just can't see how else these shops stay in business. Sure, I hear the occasional stories of how someone scored a mint unfired WWII german luger complete with the dead nazi officer still attached for only $127 at their local pawn shop, but I've yet to ever see or get a single deal myself, and I do keep looking once in awhile. The closest I have come to a deal lately is Kwik Kash Pawn in Lebanon where they do transfers for $15.

  I'm fine with them shutting down SS if they give me my money back. That money was taken from me, not as tax revenue, but as a "forced" savings plan. I don't give a rat's ass that they squandered the money. It wasn't their money. And, how the hell can somebody be a leach when they are living off their OWN money? If the government had followed your advice, there wouldn't be a problem with SS because they would never have tapped the damn fund. They don't get to go back on the deal now. 

funny story. (and a bit off topic). i worked for berry's for several years. this was 15-20 years ago. at that time i was in my mid twenties, and was given dave's book by my father. i had no debt, but my dad thought it was a good read so i read it. several months later dave spoke at our church. i had the opportunity to have lunch with him afterward (my father was the pastor) and asked why he didn't mention pawn shops as a good way to save money on purchased items. his response was that he had never met a pawn broker that he trusted. i mentioned berry's to him and told him that i thought they would advertise if he would allow them to. the retail business of the pawn shop increased substantially with that advertising. pretty cool (at least i think so). now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Good luck, it'll work out......

A bit of a drive also but the one in Athens can do it and I've never had to wait more than 15 mins sitting in a chair. When my wife did hers they did all the paper work and out the door in ten minutes with a number to call and a address for prints. I called the number in the parking lot and drove about five minutes down the road and she did the prints.

Any 38 or 357 can be modified to take moon clips, some Performance Center S&W's come like that. I can kinda see the caliber consolidation but not really a factor to me. Maybe more of a factor to LE depts, etc. Able to issue single ammo for duty sidearms and backup. Im also betting that if you compare the two, (.38spl+P and 9mm+P) with similar weight bullets both out of a revolver with a 2" barrel, that velocity will be very close.

What a great tribute to a genuine hero...  Thanks for posting this article... leroy

Not trying to be ugly, but maybe I am old school, but I thought losing ones job other than a bonafide layoff, was sort of taboo, and not to be shared?  Definitely not to be worn on ones sleeve. 

Bull++++ .. if you mess up.. you say you are sorry.plain and simple You have problems at home.. dont bring them to work.. plain and simple. We have our own problems.. but we dont let them out on other people.. plain and simple. he was rude and wanted to fight my husband.. thats a big no no.. what kind of mananger does that?  I dotn need to walk in anyones shoes to know that you dont treat people like crapp when they are in your store..   You dont treat people like that.. period!!!

Have these shipped yet? I've been checking the mail box every day.

Idiocracy is coming true.

Looking back I should have walked in on my crutches and let him settle it.   I don't care what kind of day you are having if you are tainting customers and calling them names you should not be in contact with those customers. There are consequences, Karma, for being an ass.

Of course. Any time there's uncertainty in one's life, the ideal solution is to run and suckle at the government's breast. To heck with being responsible or even self reliant, nobody can do that! Why, having some savings or a rainy day fund? Not being in debt up to your eyeballs and hanging by a financial thread? Unthinkable! No, when in doubt your first response should always be to turn to the government welfare system. It's the American way. :USA: For a lot of folks it's fun to talk about the end of the world, zombies, prepping, etc. Nobody ever talks about financial prepping, and it's a whole lot more likely most of us will face a financial problem long before a horde of zombies come charging at our homes. But who cares about that, there's unemployment, safe link wireless, section 8 housing, etc... :roll:

So... you're saying that $15/hr may be a little much to pay the BK and Walmart crowd as a minimum? :) You can have cheap, fast, and good, but you can't have all 3. 

  I read it! One of THE best books I have ever read on World War II.  Imagine being a man who considered being a Lutheran minister but decided to fly for German Airlines. Then you realize that the German Airlines was the Luftwaffe. Franz Stigler  was an excellent pilot with 17 kills (real kills) but when he came upon a B-17 shot up so bad that he could see through the plane from the bullet and cannon holes. The B-17 was running on 3 engines accept one would catch fire and they would have to shut it down to "cool off". Stigler had a full load of ammo and could have sent the B-17 down easily. Most of the crew was dead or wounded. He then remembered what he was taught in flight school. "Whatever you do in this war, you will have to answer to a Higher Call" .......................what a great read!

Notice he called it a 44? Am I crazy, or is it a 357?

Keep your cool, and keep your mouth shut. (you don't work for them anymore)   And don't be surprised if you are prevented from accessing your <former> office.

Do me a favor and keep me posted on how the crossbow hunting goes (range, effectiveness, etc). The reason for my curiousity is, I'm trying to think through some things but im thinking about trying to set up hunting opportunities for disabled vets. It would be a lot of work because I'd have to prep a lot of property in order to have enough locations that I could give as many opportunities as I'd like to. I've got plenty of people that would be willing to go out on the hunts with them if there were enough interest to need to be multiple places at once. I'm trying to think through all possible disabilities so that I can make provisions and not have to turn anyone away. I'm not sure that I could even get everything ready in time for next season due to the costs and labor involved. Maybe I can get at least enough done by next season to be able to take 5-6 guys out just to give it a trial run. I'm sure a standard compound bow would be out of the question for some of these guys hence the interest in the crossbow.

Yep, remember there was another episode (in Season 4 I think... or maybe 3?) where Carl and Rick had a run-in/meeting with him. He was in that town all by himself, and recounted how he didn't have the nads to pop his walker/wife, which ended up causing the death of his son. And yea, Jericho was awesome, and he was great in that, too. I keep trying to get other folks to watch that series. It's all on Netflix now.

Get some Dickle Barrel Select. Put it I a glass with a little ice...done!

Excellence. Thanks for the recommend mike. This is a great glass of bourbon.

  Can take some of the fun out of life that way though. :dirty:   - OS

Just teach your children that political correctness is for politicians only and not to be used by anyone out side of Government and when their teachers at school try to teach it have your child ask them if they are a teacher or a politician? I only have one grandson left in school and this is the truth. He is now in third grade and his teacher began talking about something the President said about how the people needed to learn more about other peoples origins and learn to accept other nationalities without prejudice.   I could not believe that my grandson raised his hand and when the teacher called on him he stood up and asked her if she was a politician because she sounded like one. She sent him to the office and his parents were. First mistake was sending him to office instead of answering his question and second mistake was calling my son and his wife to the school. The principal spoke to his parents first and told them what question he asked the teacher.    My son asked the principal what the teacher was discussing that made him ask the question. When the principal told him my son said that he was not going to apologize for his sons question because the teacher was trying to teach children what the Government is trying to brainwash children into believing it is right in it's immigration polices are and that he did not believe they were right either.   The Principal said he was going to send my grandson home 3 days for being disrespectful to the teacher and my son said that's fine and you can explain your teaching practices to News Channel 5 Investigates and any other news networks he could get to come out. Needless to say the principal left the room and was gone for about 10 minutes and when he came back in his office he sad the issue had been resolved and my grandson was going back to class.    That was about a month ago and their has been no more issues about it and his report card he got a B grade for that grade period in that class. I told my son not to let them teach him the PC BS and since my grandson has a very high IQ and he knows PC BS when he hears it. If not he will do like he did that day and raise his hand and ask questions. There are a few teachers that have been replaced in his school and it was because of their teaching beliefs and teaching formats from what has been learned by parents...... :cheers: