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I tried to avoid wally world because of their predatory practice of destroying the competition then lowering their selection. Then they began political statements, last year they pulled pistol ammo. this year? walmart is dead to me.

Quoting this from a spot on post to save space... I remind myself of the primary purpose for wearing the mask all the time, which is as you said to take care of others over myself. There are two ends of the professional spectrum I come into contact with a lot...the Radiologists I work with and service industry (grocery store, restaurants mainly), and they both need others to be reasonable. For the rads, I want to make sure my practice has the bench depth to keep shifts staffed with healthy and rested physicains sticking needles in people under ultrasound guidance, reading your ED scans, mammograms, and oncology PETs. For the service workers, I would absolutely feel like a heel if I was the reason somebody who needs that hourly pay had to sit at home for two weeks, and possibly have a hefty medical bill on top of it. A lot of people are hurting right now, and I feel a sense of duty to make sure folks willing to show up at work don't lose out because of me. It's kind of ironic that there is a not so small subset of "government isn't the answer" types who aren't stepping up when an individual action as simple as the mask wearing for the collective good is the best thing we can do to keep the country open and the government from taking the case numbers into a new series of authority we'll never get them to relinquish.

There were plenty of conspiracy theories. And there were two sides to everything that came out. And lots of folks took a side. The response hammered the economy. And yes, some folks could see a benefit to that. Others believed that the cost/benefit equation was out of whack. And some believed that it was all made up. Personally, I have always believed it was real, and have always believed it was exploited by some. But, to each his own. I guess it's ok to believe that some folks aren't going to get richer due to their own manipulation. Never seen that one before. The government slacked on the PPE stash long ago. But, that's easy to understand how if you have ever done budgets. Global pandemics of this size are rare. Available vaccines change everything. The presence of antibodies (for theraputics) changes everything too. I want this thing gone. EDIT: And BTW, I'm never one to give the government too much credit. It is a self serving beast.

The problem with some of the conspiracy theories surrounding COVID is that in order to believe them, you have to think the government is far more competent than they really are. What we've seen is a government that really wasn't equipped to handle something like this. We didn't even have a good stash of PPE.

Eh, open-air space and I suspect the people immediately around him are people he's around all the time without a mask anyway. Family? Friends? Co-conspirators? This week has been a really good reminder, for me at least, of a very fundamental truth. Having COVID reminded me of it. Watching Joe Biden be inaugurated reminded me of it. Not everything is political, but everything can be politicized. Each of us have the power to allow ourselves to be focused, or not, on the political aspects of anything. Nothing good comes from listening to politicians or pundits for medical advice.

Dang Bill, you really took this down to lower Broadway. (For you younguns, lower Broadway uses to be quite seedy in it day. Not the tourist trap it is now)

I finally found some W748. The guy had 3, 1 pound bottles. Bought all 3.

This morning I sent a letter to my state representatives Sen. Paul Rose and Rep. John Gillespie asking them to put together legislation to protect our Constitutional Rights and make Tennessee a Sanctuary Gun State. I am asking all TGO members to please contact their state representatives. https://www.thecentersquare.com/arizona/arizona-republicans-file-2nd-amendment-sanctuary-bill-to-ban-state-aid-in-federal-anti-gun/article_e4883a3e-59dd-11eb-8c41-23a13b0c6336.html A handful of Arizona Republicans are behind a push to make their state the fifth to keep state resources from assisting in any federal activity they consider contrary to the Second Amendment. State Rep. Leo Biasiucci, R-Lake Havasu City, filed the Second Amendment Firearm Freedoms Act on Jan. 14. Like other measures, it would ban the use of local resources from enforcing any federal law or executive rule that could be seen as running afoul the constitutional right to bear arms. “This state and all political subdivisions of this state are prohibited from using any personnel or financial resourced to enforce, administer, or cooperate with any act, law, treaty, order, rule or regulation of the United States government that violates Amendment II of the Constitution of the United States,” the bill reads. Alaska, Idaho, Kansas, and Wyoming have passed similar measures. The bill also declares any federal measure deemed to run up against the 2nd Amendment to be “null, void and unenforceable in this state,” but federal laws supersede state-enacted measures. Other similar resolutions have been seen as symbolic. The bill was introduced just days before President-elect Joe Biden is to be sworn in. On the campaign trail, the former vice president promised to enact gun control measures, including a ban on assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and institute universal background checks. First coined by a southern Illinois state’s attorney in 2010, Second Amendment sanctuaries quickly proliferated and are now standing resolutions in hundreds of towns and counties across the nation. Supporters say gun sanctuary laws mirror other states keeping cooperation from federal immigration agents attempting to deport undocumented residents. The Giffords Law Center, named after former Arizona Congresswoman and assassination survivor Gabby Giffords said in a 2019 report that Second Amendment Sanctuaries threaten gun laws that would save lives. “At a time when states across the country are looking for smart public policy that will reduce gun violence and save lives, gun policy must be based on evidence, not misguided rhetoric,” the report reads.

For the past few years, we have used Amazon's AWS S3 storage for file attachments, profile photos, etc. I am in the process of pulling that data back onto TGO's own web server for a variety of reasons. While these tasks run in the background, you may notice that some photos and file attachments don't work for a few moments. They will resume working properly as each file moves over. This does several things for us: 1.) It removes a dependency on a hosting platform that has proven it will cut you off at a moment's notice if they do not approve of your content. 2.) It strengthens our SSL encryption a little by keeping all content served up from one server. 3.) It gives me some options if I want to move us to a different software package. Before you freak out about that third bullet, I am not actively pursuing that but I am always watching to see what advancements other platforms are making.

Yep. The only thing the government is good at is hoodooing people into furthering its expansion. The best and brightest minds that our country has to offer generally don't go into politics, and yet our society seems to trust their chosen political team implicitly.

The mask thing is pretty simple to me. It's only complicated because it has been heavily politicized like most other things. A mask will trap the droplets that transport the virus. I wear one in public because it's the law around these parts. I'm convinced that they work in a lot of cases, but not all. The whole Covid 19 response has been a bunch of genuine care for the human race, and blind opportunism from politicians, health care folks, and folks in general. I'm going for the vaccine ASAP. My girlfriend has some auto immune stuff. Her doctor has recommended against the current vaccines for her. He's waiting on the third.

Wrangler. Until recently, all made in the USA. Now assembled in Mexico, Guatamala, Puerto Rico, and other places. Fabric is still mostly made in USA. Have you tried the 'relaxed fit' style. A little extra room where us older guys need it.

I agree with peejman on a french cleat. Great way to hang large heavy things.

Yep, I'm aware - I've had extensive training in biology and microbiology although that was back around 1995. Back then the scientific community was debating whether a virus was a form of life or not since it cannot create it's own DNA/RNA. Without a source of water the virus would survive off of what water is inside its version of a cell membrane until it is depleted. That would depend on the surrounding humidity and the permeability of the tegument and the envelope.

The medical community like this guy?

If we are to assume that most of the medical community is wrong in their belief that masks help slow the spread, what exactly is their motivation for telling us to wear one? Why would they lie to us about something like that? Every person I know that works in the medical field believes that masks help slow the spread.

https://www.who.int/news/item/20-01-2021-who-information-notice-for-ivd-users-2020-05 Of course, NOW, they are changing what they tell the public. Again, what has changed?????

Diamond Gussett jeans are very well built and comfortable. They are sold in Bon Aqua outside of Dickson at one of their outlets. All materials and labor are American.

A cheap one at that. I’m a little insulted you would think such a poorly constructed trap would ensnare me. You have likely correctly surmised that I hold a more textualist/originalist view of the text. That doesn’t mean it must remain unchanged for eternity. It simply means that we must use the mechanisms laid out in Article V to change and not attempt to re-interpret it willy-nilly based upon the current mores or social movements. (I may be skating a little close to the politics line with that last paragraph. I will justify it to myself by maintaining that it is important to understand how to interpret the Constitution if one is to defend a constitutionally enumerated right.)

Duluth's ballroom relaxed fit jeans are quite simply the best I've ever owned. They retail for about $60, and the gosseted crotch is worth it. They can fit everything from casual to a good pair of jeans to wear with a button down shirt and a blazer for a decent look. If you've for the time to visit, the store in Franklin often has sales going on.

Maybe. Supposedly. Some anyway.

Yes, Please. I'll back you! Foreign JUNK? You mean like Walther, Sig, H&K, CZ, Glock, Beretta (yeah the last two do have manufacturing/assembly facilities here), Canik, IWI/IMI, those darn AK rifles, and all the others I can't name at the moment?

No, not at all! It was a good post worthy of your time, effort, and experience. Put it back up. The popcorn comes from a prediction of what is bound to happen this being a gun forum and all (or any Internet forum). Folks will come along to add their two cents of what is better or critique what works for you.

At some point my 501's turned into 550's and 560's as I started to be challenged with my....err...density level? When Levi's started to be less attractive, my wife, who is a huge fan of Kohl's sales brought home a pair of jeans by Chaps. They were more just a bit more generous in the seat than the relaxed Levi's without giving you the pooped in your pants look of some relaxed fit jeans. The 5 or 6 years that's my preference when she has coupons. I've noticed that in the last few years, almost all brands have gotten worse about size variation. Which doesn't play nice with my size variation. So I prefer to go to the store to pick them out. I take one of those 3ft mini tape measures with me and confirm the waist and and inseam are on the right side of the number, Sometimes that extra inch isnt you! ...but most of the time...yeah, it is.

And just like that, Tennessee has a new AD after three days. Let’s see who he’ll find for a coach, if there are any players left to coach that is.

These are solid jeans. I prefer Imogene & Willie for my going out jeans but you won't like the price.

LOL @ “co-conpirators” I have two problems with this virus—we almost certainly have flawed numbers because we incentivized a covid diagnosis, death, or trip to the respirator. Also, there is wide acceptance of politicians making medical decisions and medical folks making political decisions. I did recently read one medical expert’s opinion that social distancing is not effective unless people are 30 METERS apart. If Team Kamala adopts that as policy, I guess I will have the whole second floor at work to myself.

#1 is good enough for me.

Amen to Diamond Gusset. Best I have ever owned.

They are open. Terry passed away last year, but he left the store to the girl who worked for him. She’s still running it.

It was more than an inconvenience—I was down for the count for a week or so. I was hoping when I inevitably got it, I would have mild symptoms for a couple days like so many have. That ain’t how it went, but I didn’t freak out and run to the hospital. I was looking forward to losing taste for a while so I could possibly lose my fondness for chocolate chip cookies, but I lost only smell and that was temporary. I’ve read antibodies are good for two months or eight, nobody really knows.

Tolerate me, please, while I wax poetically about masks. I'll preface my words by saying that I am a COVID-19 "survivor" and fairly recently at that. I am pretty sure I know where I contracted it because I hadn't been anywhere else. I am sure I caught it at church recently on a day when we had record attendance and I could count the number of people wearing masks on one hand. Out of a few thousand. The fact that I was wearing a fleece face covering while volunteering (outside in 20-degree weather, mind you) didn't help me. I was exposed and then followed it with an abusive and exhausting pace at work for the next three days that sapped my body's ability to resist the virus. It was the perfect storm, so to speak. So here's the deal: You all know the science and statistics regarding N95 masks, fabric face coverings, and why none of them are going to stop you from inhaling something as small as a virus. But hopefully you all possess the common sense to understand that those same things will stop you from spraying a cough or a sneeze 10+ feet away from you, and keep you from coughing into a hand that you then use to touch or handle something that other people are going to touch or handle. And that's the whole point of them. This particular virus is pretty communicable. It both "survives" on surfaces and remains airborne long enough, if coughed or sneezed into the atmosphere, to be a problem for people in confined spaces. A mask isn't going go keep you from catching it but it has a good chance of stopping you from spreading it to other people. I made it nearly a year without contracting it and credit that to working from home 100% of the time since last February, avoiding prolonged contact with large groups of people in confined spaces, using hand sanitizer before I get into any of my vehicles after handling or touching things that other people might have handled or touched, and staying reasonably fit by exercising almost daily and getting plenty of sleep. I wore a mask or face covering whenever I was in close proximity to others in public, but that was never for my sake. Now that I've had it, I will keep wearing a mask until enough people are vaccinated that we can stand-down. Having the antibodies for it helps me. It doesn't help anyone else. It doesn't stop me from having the crap lurking in my sinuses where I can spread it to other people, but a mask will mitigate it. TLDR: Masking is effective for everyone's sake except the wearer. The weak link in this protocol is anyone who chooses not to wear one when around other people. If the reason you don't want to wear a mask, is because it doesn't help you directly, you might need to consider whether you're being a selfish asshole or not because I am pretty sure that anyone who does wear a mask is helping you. These statements are based on personal experience, common sense, and 40+ years of understanding the scientific method and believing that medical professionals aren't out to get me.

I have been involved in geneaological research for a few years now. Ever since I learned that since I had a grandparent born in Ireland that I too was eligible to be an Irish citizen. Two years later, I sit here with both a US and an Ireland passport It makes me hugely popular on March 17th, but I am, in fact, what is known as a Plastic Paddy, lol. Irish by fact and by heredity, but not Irish in reality if the makes any sense. Still, sometimes I feel safer traveling outside the US on an a non-US passport. I have learned three things about genealogy: 1. My grandfather was full of $hit. Incredible liar. None of his "embellishments" were true; 2. You have to carefully vet what others have in their trees before accepting that they are in fact your relative. There are many Michael Dohertys, and it took me a long time to confirm which one was MY Michael Doherty, for example. Sometimes you make the connection in another person's will that has a bequeathed's address attached to it and then you can confirm via historical censuses (Censi?). I had a very hard time with a pair of consecutive censuses that indicated a brother I had never heard of (Bill or William). I also had a document requesting a headstone by a known grandparent of a previously unknown brother, James Vincent. I had no idea WTF was going on. Then I discovered an obit written (and subsequently published) by a known sister of that grandparent. The deceased was listed in the headline as "James Vincent aka Bill SoNSo." That solved the mystery they were one and the same, but who the hell named James has a nickname of Bill? That is not a diminutive nominative. Not a logical nickname for James. I only suspect that he went by Bill to honor a sibling that did not survive childhood. :Shrug: 3. There are many dead ends. Those can occasionally get resolved by revisiting them at a later date. Discoveries of previously-unpublished or un-discovered obituaries and death/birth/marriage certificates can crack open tough nuts.

Of course they are not going to directly come out and say it, but they recommended the cycle count of 40, 40 when they damn well knew that after 33 it was pretty much guaranteed to give many false positives. So why would an organization charged to protect us from health issues actually make the situation worse? @TGO Davidsays we wouldn't survive something like ebola, if he is right, it won't be because of the public, but because of the manipulation by the very organizations that are supposed to give us correct scientific data, not political data.

They also have a store in Lynchburg. Not cheap but made in Tennessee I believe and I hear they are comfy and last a long time.

I grew up wearing boot cut Wranglers until my physiological geography shifted in my 40s. I switched to Wrangler Carpenter jeans and pick up a pair whenever I catch a pair on a really good sale and add them to the stack. I have a garage / yard stack and a wear away from the house stack.

Ok so there's some problems with deliveries. We've been through all that. But what the hell is with the counter clerks? Now my local post office is the main one in my little city. The counter sales are set up as such. 4 registers along a long counter all of which are fed by a single line of customers. Next customer just goes to whatever clerk is open. Normally there are 3 clerks working, sometimes two. #4 is almost always used strictly for passports. I've had to go to the PO twice in the last week. Once just for stamps and the second time to mail a package. Both times I was the 4th person in line when I got there. Both times 30+ minutes to take care of my business! I mean really these people were sloooowwww! I've noticed that quite often a clerk will assist one customer, then disappear into the back for 5-10 minutes. Come back, do one more customer and disappear again! You can see it in their faces, they just don't give a damn at all. And its been like this for as long as I can remember.

Sam's Members Mark. 14/15 bucks each.

I'm a little cheap too, but I buy Wrangler mostly because they have a couple extra belt loops that make my carry belt happy.

Duluth has some bulletproof clothing..

Right now its Key overalls or Duluths Denim. They aren't cheap but if youre rough on clothes like I am well worth it. Fit good too.

Believe it or not, this should be cheaper for us in the long run. I won't have to pay AWS each month.

Excellent! :up: I'm currently abandoning all social media and other business platforms that are anti-1A and anti-2A, etc. If everyone would walk away, 75+ million working class Americans, we could really shrink their bottom line. Heck, I’ve spent tons of cash on Amazon. I was buying nearly everything from them. We can’t continue to support businesses that do not support our Constitutional rights.

Hey Derek if you want you can give me a call and we can schedule a reloading session. Figure that would be the best crash course for you and you have already been by the house and seen my reloading setup.

Derek12, your avatar scares me. That kid needs friends and a life. Lol.

If its brass your after I have a bunch I'd be willing to sell.

Regardless of how you feel about Reuters or the media in general. this article is a good example of why some of our terms and conditions exist - especially as relates to participating on the forum and what sort of content you may or may-not post. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-inauguration-threats-insight/as-inauguration-nears-law-enforcement-scrutiny-drives-u-s-extremists-into-internets-dark-corners-idUSKBN29K20U I am also attaching the article as a PDF since links to external content tend to change or get archived over time. 2021-01-15 (Reuters) Inauguration Law Enforcement Extremists Internet.pdf

Ohhhhhhhhbhhh crap! Must find mind bleach! And eye bleach! I mean, it's not like I walked right into that one or anything, right?