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I will have to politely disagree with you on this. Addicts of opiates obtain their drugs through pain clinics or dealers that get the drugs through pain clinics. The amount of drug that an opiate addict uses varies by the addict but they can readily obtain enough to get their fix through the supply line simply because it is being produced and can be obtained from the pain clinics in a somewhat legal fashion. As I stated in my previous post meth cooks have several people buying the pseudoephedra for them. Without an outright ban of pseudoephedra it will always be availible in some amount. However if it was prescription only the amount that a person would be prescribed would be so minute that it would be a small drop in the bucket compared to what is actually needed to make meth. I'm not up to date on the current laws as I have been out of the business for a couple of years but as of 2010 there was a state registry of pseudoephedra purchases but there was no network which linked all retailers so buyers would buy their monthly limit at Kroger, then go to Walgreens, then CVS, etc. By making the ingredient extremely hard to get production would undoubtedly be slashed. Beware however the only thing worse than a methhead that is high is a methhead that is having withdrawals.

I worked in loss prevention for six years, most of that time was spent in Putnam and Anderson Counties, both big meth places. I've had a lot of experience around methheads and it is a very scary situation. One store that I worked at had a pharmacy and normally my tactic to catch shoplifters in that store was to sit in the pharmacy like I was waiting for a prescription, I would wait until a methhead came in and bought or tried to buy Sudafed, I would then follow them around the store while they stole other stuff, it was like shooting fish in a barrel. It was never hard to distinguish who was buying because they had a cold and who was buying because they were making bathtub crank. I'm not normally one to promote any kind of laws or regulations but the key to stopping meth is to make pseudoephedra containing products prescription only. It takes a good bit of pseudoephedra to cook up a batch of meth. It was very common for non users to buy for the cooks as the street value for a $10 box of Sudafed is around $40. Users will also buy it and trade it for the finished product. If pseudoephedra containing products were prescription only it would be nearly impossible for cooks to obtain enough ingredient to make any tangible amount of the drug. I'm sure addicts would move on to something else but not many drugs available today are more destructive than meth.

Ah let them do their thing. One of them will probably fall asleep with a joint in his mouth, it will then fall into his nappy beard, create a flash fire, catch his nasty dreadlocks on fire and before you know it there will be 10,000 hippies in a blaze of stench.

Slipping of the drive belt would be the first thing that I would check.

I've been going through the same thing lately as I have been doing lots of wading creek fishing. I've tried old tennis shoes and sometimes I wear old hiking boots with a pair of Smartwool socks. Each has it's ups and downs almost just depends on what I specifically plan on doing that day as to what footwear I choose.

Wouldn't it be great if we lived in a country where the government could tell us what color we could paint our cars?

To answer the question of the OP I would find that obscene. Obscene is tricky to prove though because it is subjective. What one person may call obscene and be offended by another person might find completely acceptable. I think a good litmus test is how a small child would act if exposed to that material. (I'm not in any way advocating doing this.) Would you want your four year old to see that? Didn't think so.

Dude, what kind of drugs do they have you on over there at the super double secret agent place? Oh and your mom said you can come upstairs now, dinner is ready.

Jonnin- Any sweet tea aficionado knows that the only way to make real sweet tea is to add the sugar to boiling water and then steep the tea bag in said sugary water. Adding the sugar to already cold tea will not properly properly sweeten the tea as it will not dissolve. This will leave you with an unsweet beverage with a sweet sand like substance in the bottom. OP- Sorry I've never heard of a crocus cloth. WestwindMike- I was thinking the same thing about hosepipes as I was reading the thread. More on sweet tea... First time I went to California I'd been off the plane at LAX for about 2 hours. Needless to say I was experiencing some hardcore culture shock. We go to a steak house and our waitress is your stereotypical dumb blonde, the sun and some other things probably had completely fried her brain. The conversation went like this. Watiress- What would you like to drink. Me- I'll have sweet tea. Her- I'm sorry, what was that? Me- I'll have sweet tea. Her- Sweet tea? I'm sorry I'm not sure what that is. Me- Do you have tea? Her- Yes, we have tea. Me- Well you take tea and you put sugar in it, that's sweet tea. Her (not sarcastic, dead serious)- Wow! That sounds really good, I'll have to try that sometime.

Just the kind of info I'm looking for. Looks like the fix to the strawberry milkshake is the replace the radiator with a particular aftermarket unit? Pretty sure I have the same lousy cupholders in my '97 Avalon. They are good for, well getting your beverage all over yourself and the interior of the vehicle. Can the sagging suspension be fixed with aftermarket coils?

I'm considering my next vehicle and I'm looking very closely at 4runners. Them seem to be a pretty good value over the pickups which I originally wanted. Seems that a Tacoma outfitted about the same as a 4runner is about twice as much. It's a Toyota so I know they are about bullet proof. Anyone know of any concerns? I'll be shopping within the next couple of months but I don't need it until the fall so I will take my time to find the right truck for the right price. I'm looking at the 1996 and up models in the $4-6K range. I've noticed they are offered in 4 cyl but I will be towing a 6x12 trailer full of firewood a few times per year and it seems like that 4 banger would be stressed under that kind of load? 4x4 is a must, gotta have it so I'm not stranded in the winter, plus I really hate dragging deer back to the truck, I'd rather take the truck in to get the deer. I see a few that have manual transmissions which I would prefer but they seem to be few and far between. However I'm not scared of an automatic with 200k on it if it has been properly maintained. Ideally I'm thinking V6, manual, 4x4, with the transmission not being a must. Thoughts?

Might work for you. I have a 23, and a 27 with a 9mm barrel as well. I can't carry the 23 comfortably (23 and 19 are same frame.) I can carry the 27 all day long. I carry a back up mag if I think it's necessary. I also have problems concealing the 23, but I'm a skinny guy.

It's okay, they're just New Yorkers...

This is really stupid. Here is a news flash, a cell phone is not a necessity. Unlike most of our population I do not use a cell phone, much anyway. I don't get coverage at home or work or in between. I travel quite a bit in the winter and I have a prepaid phone that I use then. That way my cell phone usage is costing me $30 a month for 1 or 2 months as opposed to the $1200+" per year I was paying with Verizon. The last 4 months that I had Verizon I used less than 20 minutes each of those months, so I couldn't justify keeping a cell phone. The difference between myself and the free phone recipients though, just to be fair, is that I do have a landline at home. I think the point of the program is so people can use the phones to help them get jobs and what probably more government benefits. Admittedly it is hard to get a job without a phone number, but here is an idea... Visit a business where you would like to work. Fill out an application, turn it in and explain that you don't have a phone. Return every 3 days or so and ask the manager if he has looked at your application. If you will appear eager and ready to work it is probably entirely possible that they will hire you without having a telephone. All these government programs giving people this and that disgust me. I think it is Obama's way of rewarding his voters. Get a job, earn it, or do without! Sorry I think I got into a rant there.

I'm sure Bloomberg is all over it.

Know what I think is scary? At the end of the article it stated that NYC voters opposed the ban on softdrinks 51%-46%, meaning that damn near half of NYC voters are really stupid.

I'm with BigK, if I carried a large knife or a fixed blade I may think about looking at regulations before carrying it in a foreign place. I really wouldn't think twice about carrying my 2 1/2 inch blade lockback. Heck, IMO a locking blade is a safety feature that makes the knife safer to use. I consider a knife to be a tool that I use everyday more than it is a weapon. I would check the regulations on carrying my knife just about as quickly as I would check those about wearing a belt or carrying a ball point pen. Usually I am in the "ignorance of the law is no excuse crowd" but when the New Yorkers are coming up with these asinine laws I just do kind of believe that "Ignorance is a perfectly acceptable excuse for stupid laws and that a person should make sure that their knife is well concealed at all times."

We can thank the mall ninjas for that one. Lights and lasers on a slingshot? No thanks, I'll take my hickory stick and a thick rubberband. I really didn't need to see that before I had coffee this morning. ATTN mall ninjas: it is in fact possible for a weapon to function without accessory rails, flashlights and lasers...

I played paintball with a slingshot ONCE, you gotta be tough for that, hurts way more than a paintball gun.

I saw three box turtles crossing the road within about a 3 mile stretch yesterday. I stopped and moved one, the other two were not in locations where it was safe to stop. And I wasn't interfering, I was helping him along the way. Interfering would be if I took him to where he just came from.

So what constitutes a knife as illegal in NY? I remember when I used to work loss prevention my boss was fresh out of NYC and told me that I was not allowed to apprehend anyone who I knew possessed a knife. I laughed at her and told her that I might as well go on home because in TN everybody carries a knife. She said that "only criminals" carried knives in NYC. Yeah, I don't miss that gig.

Looked at a kayak at Wally world this morning, looks like a fairly decent set up for $250. I'm going to wait a bit and search Craigslist and see what I can come up with. I think a kayak would be ideal for the creeks I fish. I could also access Calderwood Lake, Chillhowie, and Lower Chillhowie all of which are within a 15 minute drive of my house.

Some of those comments are sickening. I spend a lot of time in the GSMNP and I'm armed 100% of that time. OC mostly in the park as long as lots of people aren't around.

Say he was from Georgia?

Recently I've had to order a few small items off of the internet. All of these things were specialty motorcycle parts. Each of the three items that I've ordered would fit in the palm of my hand together, yet I have had to pay $12-14 to ship each one. Seems a lot of these distributors are only shipping UPS and I guess that is where their rates start now. All of these items would easily fit in a USPS Flatrate box and could be shipped for under $5. It just frustrating since I'm paying as much or more for shipping than I am for the items in question.