Marswolf

Wish I could come over Mike. But this is a hurry up and wait day. I have to wait on a phone call and then head up the opposite direction for a while.

http://www.ncvc.org/src/main.aspx?dbID=DB_Tennessee571 Looks like the guy could be charged with aggravated stalking. I'd either get him charged or call a press conference demanding the authorities explain why he hasn't been charged. Bad publicity often gets action in an election year.

Some very smart organizations have their conventions annually alternating among west, central, and east Tennessee. But I'm getting the feeling that no one wants to drive more than 50 miles.

Sure Len. Dream on.

I suspect there are a lot of folks in your position.

I assume safety. I'm guessing they are concerned about getting their finger or retention strap, or whatever, inadvertently on the trigger and it going off.

Yeah but those little gut-busters are great goin' down. Pizza is in the oven.

I got out stuff for a chicken roll-up but I'm losing gumption by the minute. I think I may switch to frozen pizza.

Ain't that the truth.

I imagine the Democrats are in a panic. Everyone has forgotten whatever Obama said last night and the Republicans, if they win, will have someone to run against Hilary in eight years.

I just hope she can stick to the topic. I don't know if she wrote all of her speech, but the Geraldine Ferraro and Hilary as pioneers, or whatever, was a bit much. Sounded hokey and insincere.

Obama has already put his foot in his mouth saying that McCain picked an inexperienced person to be only a heartbeat away from the Presidency. Actually I think he mentioned her being a small town mayor and ignored the fact she has been a Governor for two years. Besides, in terms of experience, I don't think I'd bring that up if I was Obama.

OK!

I guess he just need to pre-pay for his daughter's funeral.

I think the announcement will be during the noon (EDT) hour. Tom Ridge's name keeps coming up. Can't stand that guy. Sarah Palin is denying that she is the choice. But I could go for her.

I can attest to all of that. Bet none of you know that the agave field was a Blue Agave field - the best to make quality Tequila from. Yes I'm a connoisseur. OTOH, the sickest and drunkest I've ever been in my life was from alternating tequila and moonshine shots. Couldn't drink the stuff for years after that.

Martin either has out or is about to release an album of banjo music with Scruggs and others. Read about it on a music RSS feed I subscribe to. Martin also played on Tony Trischka's album last year. That may have something to do with this video. http://rounder.com/index.php?id=album.php&catalog_id=6924

Well, the Titans are good for something. Their game ran long last night - after the start of the Obama drivel. So, even if the Ticks almost got tied by Green Bay in the last two seconds of the game, that was better than watching the coronation in Denver.

+1

Let me bring up another case. About midnight in April 2002, James Norwood walked to his car in the parking lot at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City. Two men approached him, forced him into the back seat of his car and eventually strangled him to death. They took the car because they wanted it for a bank robbery. But this case has problems too. First, Norwood was only 19. Second, the assailants pretended to be undercover officers and patted down Norwood before forcing him into the back seat of the car. The details are pretty interesting and can be found in one of the assailant's appeal in the 6th Circuit. http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/05a0729n-06.pdf In all honesty, I don't think legal campus carry would help the students that much in situations like this where you have individual confrontations. First, you have to be 21. Then you have to take the carry class and wait for the permit. Then you have the problem of people pretending to be undercover cops. You draw a gun on a real undercover cop and you are likely to have them mopping your blood up off of the pavement. Where it might make a difference is in situations like Virginia Tech. It seems to me that such situations are the proper argument for student campus carry. But I see no reason to not allow everyone with a permit to carry on school campuses. As it is now, such prohibition doesn't keep the bad guy shooters out of any school. It only prevents the good guys from having a gun when they might be able to eliminate a threat. Restrictions on good citizen carry make no logical sense. Schools, restaurants, bars - anywhere without metal detectors - only hamper good people, preventing their help in eliminating bad people.

I cooked my pot roast all day. Good stuff. I have always wondered how Coors gets that Rocky Mountain spring water to their Virginia plant....

You can write in Donald Duck but he won't get elected.

I hate drinking Chardonnay with hair in it.

I'm not going to get dragged into that conversation again, but that wasn't the situation.