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I hate to hear that. Seems like more and more, in this economy, the big corporations are no longer taking care of their employees. I feel your pain. I don't work on commission, but I do work for a company of 65,000 and we've had our benefits cut way back. They no longer pay for any kind of insurance, so the employees are now footing all the bill. I'm middle of the road pay wise, I feel sorry for our lower paid staff. It hurt us pretty bad, IT had to hurt them even worse! Of course, our stockholders are happy up on Wall Street.

That's great news. Nice to see that the City Council is amenable to changing old and out dated laws.

One of the reasons I will never live in the Northeast, Illinois or California. The water in all those places is contaminated!

I got to say the Obama Administration stepped on it, with this issue. They couched it in the wrong terms. Now they have reversed the issue and are now going about it on another track. One that will win in the long run. I have to agree with you Mike, regardless of how they do it, we will being paying the price for it. But I would rather pay that price, than spend the money over 18 years paying for a child someone really didn't want. It's a lot cheaper in the long run. Will it end all unwanted pregnencies? Nope, I think we all know the answer to that. But it will eliminate a lot of them. I'm not happy with Obama Care, but something needs to be done in this country about health care. The company I work for pays NOTHING towards health care now. They do get us some sort of discount, because we have 65,000 employees and the insurance companies are slobbering over themselves to get to all that money. For my family and I, we are spending $11,400 for insurance a year, plus another $2000 for a health savings card for drugs, co-pays, glasses, etc. If you are in business for yourself and your spouse doesn't have coverage where they work either, then you know the costs of insurance. But for the vast majority of those that work were a company provides some or most of their insurance coverage, then I wonder if you really do know the cost. I pay more in health care coverage a month than I do for my freakin' house! And the cost keeps going up. We had a 15% raise in rates over 2011. I expect it to be the same next year.

If either party isn't playing ball with us, then I'm all for sending them a message. Maybe Mr. McCormick or Ms. Harwell doesn't need their positions at the end of November. A vote the other way for Pro-Gun Reps, regardless of party seems to be in order here.

It'll have a heck of a kick too! Might want to consider an upgrade to the Nancy Pad!

This law makes no sense to me. Why can't you have one in the chamber in a car, in a long arm? In my mind, a long arm is pretty much useless in the close confines of a car any way.

This is why I plan to hold my mose and vote for whoever is the Rupublican Candidate for President. We are not really voting for President here. We are voting for the the next couple of Supreme Court Justices to be named later, whoever they may be.

Thanks for the other links guys!

After reading the story, I doubt that the homeowner will face any charges in the end, I pretty sure that here in Knoxville, the police would buy his lunch! That sort of stuff just doesn't happen here.

But this thread wasn't talking about a natural disaster. It was talking about a take over of the Government by the President.

I do think there are scenarios where the Federal Government might declare martial law, but all those scenarios are quite drastic and none are because a President decided to make himself King for life. The examples I think are likely are really only two. The least likely event I see is a nuclear attack by a hostile Government. Now I think the likelihood of that actually happening is pretty remote, because there are only two countries in the world capable of taking us "out"; China and Russia of course. China probably won't do this, because we are the largest buyer of goods coming out China. Why cook the proverbial "Golden Goose"? So that doesn't really make sense to me. Russia has too many internal troubles they are fighting presently, to be mounting any kind of a nuclear attack on us and even if that wasn't the case, they want to be where China is now, with them selling as much of their domestic product to us as feasible. So we are back to the Golden Goose argument again. Actually, I think the other scenario is much more likely to happen, because the country that hates us the most is about to go nuclear. That scenario involves exploding around 2 to 5 nuclear warheads a hundred miles or more above the North American Continent and destroying all our electronic infrastructure. Then you will have a mass die off, because we are no longer set up to move food and other supplies around this county without adequate communications and computers, in order to feed the masses. Most cities in this country, only have enough food to feed their populations, in the stores, for 4 or 5 days at the most. Then it's starvation time. Of course, said county has to know it will cease to exist if it does something like that, but I am worried that their leadership doesn't really care about that. So I think an EMP attack is the most likely scenario of declare martial law. I don't really see Washington being able to effectively control the country regardless of could transpire, even under OS's Financial Collapse Theory. There are two many people, flung across a huge country, for even a large Army to pacify. It's just not feasible. As for a President setting himself up as King for Life, in order for that to happen the Military would have to go along with it and I don't see that happening either. And if they did go along with it, what's to stop them from going whole hog and deposing the New King for Life and becoming a Military Junta? Another thing would stop a President from becoming King for Life is the Financial Institutions in this county, because dictators and Junta's are bad for business. They would just stop the money flow and after it all dried up, then the King for Life or the Junta will fall apart. Change in this country will come through society and not because a man wanted to become King For Life. I'm not worried at all about that. As for militias and such, most of those type groups are a bunch of Wannabes led by slightly smarter person than their group (which isn't saying much) or religious fanatics that I have no use for. Thanks, I'll just rely on my family and friends and watch the skies for a couple of real brilliant burst of light.

Do they make accessories for it, like holsters and speed loaders and such?

I remember the crash, but knew nothing about the officer's involvement until last night when I saw the video on the local news. I suspect while watching a video on a computer screen, it might be hard to pick up the car that's crashed into a tree, 15 feet from the edge of the road. Watching it on a 27" TV made it very evident that there was a crashed vehicle up against that tree. You could even see the smoke starting to come from the engine compartment as the trooper passed. I know this road and I know where the tree is. The topography is flat as a pancake. There is a field there that is kept mowed. There was nothing to hide the car at all. The slow down was the nail in the coffin for me. It was evident in my mind at least, that the Trooper saw something. Maybe he didn't know what it was, but it should have been evident in my mind. Obviously, Col. Trott, Commander of the Highway Patrol thought so to. He flew into Knoxville and personally drove the road three times at the speed recorded by the Officer's car and determined that there was no way Trooper Morgan could NOT have saw the accident. His attempt to put out the flames was poor at best and his statements to the investigators didn't help his cause either. I think it was pretty much a slam dunk that he should be fired. In a court of law, I would also have a hard time siding with the state. As for speeding on Emory Road at 3 in the morning, it wasn't very evident to me that there were many people out to be endangered. I do suspect that this young man, he was too old to call be called a kid, was probably under the influence, but I guess we will never know. In my mind this was one fool chasing another fool, with bad consequences. As for blaming the parents, I think this is a little harsh. People do stupid things. We all did when we were young. It wasn't our parents fault anymore than it was the man in the moon. Blame it on the young man that died.

Thought I'd share a publication I've found to be full of good articles about simple living, prepping and the outdoors. If you want to purchase an edition to checkout in the Knoxville area, Kroger in Fountain City keeps it on the shelf in their Magazine section. In the lastest edition there are topics about cooking on hot stones, how to make a hotwater heater that doesn't run on electricity. How to make a poor man's contender (waste of a good commie gun, if you ask me) and an article on the North Bay Forge Survival Bushcrafter knife, to name a few. Their website is Backwoodsman Magazine Check it out!

No more UFC for me!

A graduate degree costs a lot more than an undergraduate degree, as well. Unless you can realize another $15000 to $20000 more a year, I don't see a Masters as that much more beneficial. If you are set on a Masters, though, get out of school and go to work for a company that is willing to pay for at least part of the cost. I know that's hard to do in this economy. I know a lot of new Civil Engineers are graduating and staying in school to get their Masters because there are no jobs for them. The problem is, there are no jobs for them afterwards either. Also if your degree offers a Co-op Program, I highly recommend it. The new graduates I know, that have gotten jobs all went through a Co-op Program.

We need to see pictures! Even the innards!

I will vote for whoever wins the Republican nomination, for one reason only. Yes I am a one issue voter. I will vote for the Republican Nominee because whoever becomes the next President will have the chance to seat 2 to 4 Supreme Court Justices and I would like those Justices to have a conservative bent. I don't see Obama nominating someone like that.

I still think the odds on favorite to win the Republican Nomination is Romney, because he has the better organization. Gingrich and Santorum aren't even on the ballot in VA for goodness sake! How can you win an election when you can't even get on the ballot in all fifty states? For that matter, I'm not sure Gingrich is on the ballot here yet.

I shop at Walmart, Target and K-Mart. But I shop at Kroger for my groceries. I think it's cheaper over all and has a better selection of food. I shop for the best price I can find. Money is tight. My family has to make every dollar count in this economy. If we don't, we become homeless and a burden on society. I'd love to see ma and pa businesses make it, but not at the expense of what it might cost me and mine.

I shop at Walmart, Target and K-Mart. But I shop at Kroger for my groceries. I think it's cheaper over all and has a better selection of food.

Played back in HS, in the late 70's. Then stopped in the 80's. I've not played D&D since. I did get into Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate II, EverCrack (EverQuest) and Marrowwind: The Elder Scrolls III, on computer. My son picked up Skyrim on Xbox and I've started again. Only reason I'm not playing tonight is Tennessee is playing Miss St. on Basketball. That's the advantage of keeping your kids bedtimes early. You get to play on Xbox after they go to bed!

Just call me the Lefty Libertarian! This is actually about the same spot I was on the Political Compass Test. Can't deny that's about right. Foreign Policy Culture

Just call me the Lefty Libertarian! This is actually about the same spot I was on the Political Compass Test. Can't deny that is about right. Foreign Policy Culture [/img]