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Absolutely. Vaccines are one of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind and there's no way I am going refuse medicine that saves literally millions upon millions of lives every year. Besides that, there are kids with cancer or that have received heart transplants and are taking immunosuppressants that are counting on all of us for herd immunity.  

Yes.  Plus I am bringing in a nurse to the office to give them to all my employees if they want one.  

I already did.  Whatever microchip tracking device the Government is putting into us, is already deep inside my arm by this point.

  This is impossible with modern flu shots.  If your wife gets sick after getting the shot, she likely contracted the flu virus before or shortly after getting the shot.  It takes a week or two to be effectively protected.   My son caught it last year and this year.  Last year he caught it before shots were available, and this year just before he was supposed to get it.  Had he gotten the shot last week, he still would have gotten sick, and a lay person would attribute that to the flu shot.  That isn't how it works.   ETA: The vaccine isn't 100%.  Not even close.  So many people get the shot and get the flu anyway.  This tends to be the argument for not getting a shot, which actually makes the flu spread even worse.  If people would simply do a little research and accept that science holds more water than wives tales, we might save a few thousand lives this year.

I say let her visit. There can NEVER be enough reinforcement of the consequences of "bad decisions". That goes not only for all people but especially those at that age.

Lucifer? Nah - i'm for cthulu

Wife and I will both have one.  Seen too many deaths from influenza sequelae in the 55+ population (of which we are both members).    TMFs observation about the "herd immunity" effect are quite valid.

My wife and daughter already had their shots.  My son was supposed to get his at school this week when they were doing them there.  He caught the flu sometime last week and was down for 4 days.  Neither my wife or daughter caught it from him.  I know the perception is that the flu shot is not that effective when you just look at the percentages, but the more people who get the shot, the less it spreads.  It's math.

My MJ Looks a little different now with a Warrior bumper and Bushwhacker cut outs. [URL=http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/JeepMurphy/media/MJ/DSCN1643_zps5ttle2sn.jpg.html][/URL]

I guess I will continue to be in the wrong crowd as often as possible............ :up:

5/32" thick 1095 carbon steel with filework on the spine, Padauk scales and acid etched. It has a copper pin and lanyard hole. It's about 10 1/4" in OAL with a 5 1/2" blade. It's headed to Texas after Mark@Sea finished the sheath.

If they would come up with a shot for East TN sinus issues, then I'd be first in line!

  That's what all of those FEMA caskets are for.

A child should have access to both parents unless one or both are abusing them. Life is about ups and downs, the sooner she learns that the better. Besides, it's not like she is an axe murderer, she screwed up and is receiving the consequences; a good lesson me thinks.

In general, people at Walmart are much more frightening than people at gun stores.

What if an agoraphobic walks into a gun store? Would he still be the wrong crowd?

Bad crowd? From what I have seen this crowd is made up of people who are responsible, honest, friendly, concerned with the evil in our world and government, willing to help those in need, but who happen to enjoy guns and like our founding fathers realize the need for guns in a free society. Bad crowd , if y'all don't mind I think I'll just continue to hang with y'all.

  Allow me to interpret their explanation into a REAL explanation.  

Just to add, over 30,000 of your fellow Americans will die this year from the flu.  Many of them will be people with compromised immune systems who depend on herd immunity to protect them from contracting the virus.  Since a good chunk of us here will get cancer at some point in our lives and will undergo chemo treatment, you might want to at least do some research on these vaccines to better understand them.  I'm sure if your kid was getting chemo, your opinion on getting a simple vaccination would drastically change.   http://www.healthline.com/health/flu-shot-side-effects#FluShots1   http://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/10-flu-myths

"Does he throw holy water on you and see if you melt?" Now that's funny right there but I don't think he is looking for vampires, just Christians but with that in mind he might want to have a pet pig in the store while sale is going on or offer free pack of bacon with every purchase..................jmho

Are you suggesting a Jewish person might lie about their faith in order to get that 5% discount? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I've really heard the term "common sense gun laws" beaten to death in the past few days.  I really believe that this phrase was coined to 1) insult anyone that does not agree with the proposed measures and 2) subtly convince the uneducated, uninformed and the fence sitters that going against the proposed measure would defy logic.    I know that I am preaching to the choir here but only a fool would simply go along with any government proposal without examining the contents for themselves and drawing their own conclusions. 

I love their motto: "Eat in Peace."    Because if they don't post, we'll come in like Yosemite Sam and blast the place up, just as has happened, what, zero times now?

I'm planning to make some belt sheaths for various hatchets and small axes and I made this prototype for my Wetterling's #115 Hunter's Hatchet. I'm looking for some feedback on it, including suggestions for improving the design. It's made with heavyweight saddle leather has a filler along the blade edge. I'm thinking the belt loop on the back can be improved by sewing/riveting on a wider loop. Any other thoughts?

Ramjo didn't have a shooting table, and he wanted a table that he could move easily by himself. We thought about a small lightweight table, or perhaps a table on wheels with a trailer hitch. After throwing around some ideas, I thought it would be convenient to make a table that could be taken apart and assembled by one person without any tools, and if it could fit in the bed of my truck, that would be a bonus.... So here's what I came up with... It's four pieces and the top is the heaviest (probably 40-50 lbs that will hopefully get lighter as the pressure treated wood dries out) And it's surprisingly stable... Now I just have to build Ramjo one, because I'm keeping this one! Perhaps I can improve on the overall design a little more. Feel free to steal this idea or offer any suggestions

Depends on the circumstances, some people need killing.

Here's a summary of CDC data encompassing the period 1976-77 through 2006-07.  Excerpt:  "A previous study (2) presented an average annual estimate of 25,420 influenza-associated respiratory and circulatory deaths during a 23-season period; this study estimated an average of 23,607 annual influenza-associated deaths using the same model but over a 31-year period. The findings in this report are similar to those of previous CDC studies (2,3) and other cross-decade studies that used similar models (4,7)."   One thing you have to recognize is that true influenza infection results in widespread systemic effects:respiratory and circulatory most heavily affected, but you can also see renal, hepatic and even Central Nervous System (CNS) effects in some people.  Therefore, the cause of death is more likely not "influenza" itself - it is a breakdown/overwhelming of one of the bodies primary systems (ie, pneumonia, cardiac/vascular failure, secondary infections (respiratory and otherwise) due to immunosuppression brought on by the overall degradation in health, etc).   As earlier noted, true influenza infection is debilitating - you usually fell like you've been hit by a truck that then backed over you to see what he hit.  Average recovery time for people otherwise generally healthy runs 3-4 days; if you have any kind of underlying health condition, that can double or more.    This article provides estimates of the number of influenza cases, cases requiring medical intervention, and cases resulting in hospitalizations that were averted by the 2013-2014 vaccine (latest year for which data is compiled). During October 2013–May 2014, influenza vaccination resulted in an estimated 7.2 million fewer illnesses, 3.1 million  fewer medically attended illnesses, and 90,068  fewer hospitalizations  associated with influenza.  In that vaccine year, the predominant strain was an influenza A (H1N1)pdm09 virus: H1N1 serotypes are generally associated with a lesser degree of hospitalization than the Influenza A H3N2 serotypes that have been predominant in most recent years.  

When it comes to my children, I don't pretend, lie, or excuse.    This is your current reality, your wife and you and your daughter need to face head on. 

      It's a woodworking trick that works on plastics too. The tape isn't to stop the bit or guide it, you place it over where you want to drill and the tape helps keep the edges smooth by "clamping" them down as you drill/cut. Sign makers use a special low tack wide masking tape when cutting custom shapes and what not to help the edges stay smooth. I think thats what musician is referring too, maybe not though.     Looking at the pics I'm wondering if drilling it out might not be the best bet? I'm thinking that if you went just as deep as the stock you could then get it out and possible yank the remnants from the tube. Any way you go there will always be a small hole there unless you fill it with something (epoxy?) so I wouldn't think that it being a step up in size would matter too much?

Dude you ain't lying...I feel like my head is about to explode. Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk

I have visited many people in jail and have been in jails and prisons extensively with volunteer work I used to do.   A general comment is that it seems to me that you envision this as being much worse than it will be   I think your and your daughter visiting your wife is a good idea.  It isn't that hard.  You and she go to the facility and sit in a waiting room.  The waiting room will be filled with families with children.  I've never seen negative behavior in a jail waiting room. They will take a group of you back. Normally, you speak on a phone through glass.  Yes, your wife will be in jail clothing, but other than that it won't seem different.   I don't see that sticking by her for a mistake or visiting her in jail is enabling her in any way - as you say, she is taking responsibility for her actions.   Your daughters comment about her being in jail sounds like teen rebellion rather than an ugly comment.     My thinking in speaking with your daughter, as well as your wife, is to say that she made a mistake and has to face the consequences of that mistake.  The good thing is that she recognizes that her behavior was negative.   I know many people who feel like getting sent to jail is the best thing that ever happened to them.  Also, 6 months isn't much time.  It is fortunate that he crime was relatively small.  The sentencing on financial crimes has a lot to do with how much money was involved.   As far as helping your wife prepare, google 'preparing to go to jail' and you will find good suggestions.   Everyone I knew in jail was male.  The basic suggestions for them:   Stay to yourself. Stay out of the common areas when possible.  Don't try to influence what is watched on TV - lot's of fights over that. Don't act like a victim - the Google links will probably talk about that.   VERY IMPORTANT:  She shouldn't let anyone give her anything.  A common way that folks are turned into sex toys is that they are given things - food, cigarettes, etc... and come to learn that when they can't pay back they have to submit to sex.

5 posts in 4 years, I believe OS has competition.

On the more traditional one first shown I think it would be handy to have the belt loops attached with only a single rivet on the bottom with enough space to swivel a bit. That way it would be possible to sit down easily without taking it off. 

      Same here RD. This is my 'I give a crap face'.    :tough:

Kahrman, after seeing your pics and going out to my gun safe a few things dawned on me 1) i have a spot for that thing in the door 2) i dont really think that gun is "for you" When you wanna pawn it off on some sucker you just send me a PM!!! Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk

I've been told my whole adult life I'm not right why change now

  The other sad thing is that there are probably party line Republicans who would vote for Hillary if she would just put an 'R' next to her name instead of a 'D'.  For instance, look at the mental acrobatics folks did when Haslam first ran for governor to try to convince others (and, probably, themselves) that he really was 'on our side'.  It is too much about party politics on both sides and voting to make sure their team wins the superbowl...er...their party wins the election than about really looking at individual candidates and voting for the best person for the job.  Heck, sometimes even people who would compare Lucifer, himself, favorably to a particular candidate during primaries will bend over backward to get others to vote for that same candidate once he/she wins the primaries.  Just because a candidate might be slightly less onerous than their other major party counterpart still doesn't mean he or she is a great choice.

For those of you that have Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/Gun-Free-Dining-144575962244929/timeline/   For those of you that don't:   "GFDT will stop operating as of June 1, 2015. It has been difficult for us to continually update the changing policies of the hundreds of restaurants listed in our database, and to       keep up with the many closings and new openings taking place in the restaurant industry. We want to thank all our supporters, and hope that you can all -- on your own -- ask restaurants that serve alcohol to post no-gun signs."

  Oh, I doubt that is a statistic even possible to determine.  I guess you could estimate if you knew the number of people who get vaccinated each year and bounced that off the percentage of effectiveness and number of deaths from the flu, adjusted to remove the deaths of people with compromised immune systems (that wouldn't be valid data to enter).   So if half of the number of those who die from the flu don't have compromised immune systems we have a number of 18,000.  If 30% of Americans get vaccinated and the median effectiveness percentage of the vaccine was around 55%, you'd get just shy of 3,000 people.  But that equation was with unknown numbers... just illustrating an example.  The number could be more or much, much less. 

  That's not how it works.  The flu virus doesn't get "stronger" by any means, it simply mutates.  The flu vaccine is like a medical whack-a-mole.

I'd hit that, pretty sure Hillary does not have that body.

you can also get the upper with iron sites or a flat top your choice, I had a FT wit cmore red dot

I hope the parole officers were done eating anyway and were asked to leave before paying.   Regardless, I wouldn't even take them up on the free lunch after they kicked me out.

With bigger tires, I'd try to find one with a D44 rear axle. Look for signs of radiator and water pump leaks. I'm on my third radiator and 2nd water pump. The 4.0 motor is a beast. I've got a 2000 Sport myself.

I best be quiet on this right now. Want to remain a member in good standings. All I have to say is make the Killing Fields Illegal and you should slow down and probably stop 90%+ of these type issues..................JMHO

do you have door gunner mount for your stand?

  This is one of the reasons why bothering to check the internet is a bad idea as it contains conflicting reports. Also if a person knowingly carries into a location that is posted off limits and is subsequently busted for it, if it becomes known that you knew the location was off limits your charges can be escalated.   If the door is posted then I avoid going inside, if the door is not posted I'm under no obligation to search the internet or make phone calls to make any determinations....

If I'm reasonably well dressed and out eating I've started politely asking managers at places that are currently posted if they would like to change their mind to win a customer and get added to the "posted!" app as a non-posted alternative. I've had one business owner get angry b/c someone else had apparently stickered his business without asking him and one manager that removed the gunbuster while I stood there.(and it has stayed down) I've found that if they see the app and realize how easy it is for me to find a gun friendly alternative on the handy map and dine elsewhere(across the parking lot in some cases) that all of a sudden they don't so much like being on the list of restaurants I won't patronize. I've also talked to several that won't budge but I'm always very respectful of their opinions and thank them for taking the time to speak to a potential customer.

Yeah, I used to troll their facebook and counter their BS arguments with logic. Their general comeback usually involved "feelings"...