Marswolf

Actually, that has occurred to me.

There is a place on State Street in Bristol. They host some of the music during the Rhythm & Roots Reunion each year. I went in to hear the band but forgot that they also serve beer. I thought about it while listening and then spotting the bar. It's just possible that I had my little back pocket gun with me and decided to not leave. But I don't think I'll say that is what happened on an open board.

Reagan did pretty well as an old fart and didn't die in office. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's five years after leaving office. No reason to think that anything dire would happen to McCain. But I do agree that the choice of VP is important. I'd have to go with Fred Thompson right now.

That's a pretty good synopsis, Jackdog. I might add that the paid privilege is rather limited. How many places can you not legally go into with your handgun? It's not just bars and yuppie restaurants. It's also pizza places, and many barbecue places. When you think about it, there are lots of places we go into but many of us who never have an alcoholic drink there, like a beer. I had lunch with Towerclimber last week. I had salmon and iced tea. But the place sells beer and I couldn't legally carry in there. Same when we had our first East-Tennessee shoot in May. We ate at a barbecue place that serves beer. No one got a beer but none of us could legally carry. It seems to me that the test should be whether you are drinking, rather than if the places sells alcoholic drinks. But how many times have we all said that?

Not to sound like a broken record (gotta come up with a more up-to-date metaphor....) but this is absolutely no worse than many striker fired handguns, unless the 1911 has a hair-trigger. I have never figured out while a Glock, or other striker fired handgun without a safety, is considered safe but a cocked and unlocked 1911 is a danger to the world.

Here is a very good summary page of how the delegate selection process works and the current results. http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/states/TN.html Note that the delegate selection process is not finished, and that the voters do not select all of the delegates. Note that the politicians reserve a fair number of delegate votes that they alone select.

I think the deal is that we choose a candidate and the delegates. When they go to the convention, they vote until the party nominates someone. But I think party rules, or maybe state law is that they have to vote for the candidate the voters selected for the first two voting rounds. After that, they decide who they want to vote for.

Probably a better tactic is to find a bank that doesn't have the sign and tell them of your irritation with the no gun signs and that you want assurance that they will not put them up before you change to their bank.

I shudder every time I think of that video.

Maybe I can find my Barbarella tape.

That sounds like a fair price. They are ugly as sin, but pretty good shooters.

Looks nice. When I had one I found a soft case at Wally-World for $10. It looked plain enough that it wouldn't be worth stealing. I have a friend who carries a bunch of expensive guns in a child's suitcase.

Eastman Credit Union is posted in my area. But the signs are not legal, so I ignore them.

I always vote.

The store finally meandered in this morning over here. A couple of rumbles of thunder but no wind to speak of. We are getting a bit of rain now. That's one reason I like this area. We get a tornado once every 10 years or so. If I lived around Jackson, I'd have a storm shelter.

Yeah, it's a big mess. I hope Hillary gets the nod...eventually. I think she would be easier to defeat than Obama.

I'm not sure what a "true" Republican is. I doubt Abraham Lincoln would agree with any of our definitions. I'm not sure Reagan would either. I don't fit the litmus test for being anti-abortion. So I guess I'm not a true Republican. I don't like abortion as contraception. I also think it is less moral to bring an unwanted child into this world than to prevent it's viability. I also very strongly think a true patriot wants to keep the government out of our private lives as much as possible. So I'm anti-government-interference, including in abortion matters. I think that should be the proper true Republican position. I'm a religious person, but think that the government should be run on a secular basis. I think that was also the clear intention of the country's founders. Bush and Huckabee don't agree. I think true Republicans can be Methodists and Baptists, Muslims, agnostics and atheists. I think we should eliminate government "entitlements." That includes Medicare, and Social Security. That should be the true Republican position, but it isn't. I don't think you will find many more true Republicans who think we should eliminate those programs than liberal Democrats. Apparently self-reliance is not something that true Republicans value. Sounds a lot like Ron Paul, doesn't it? But his foreign policy is idiotic. Thar's not the way a true Republican should think. Paul is more dangerous than even Jimmy Carter on defense. So if I have to accept taxation for entitlements, religious zealousness tests, and intrusive abortion laws, I guess I don't want to be a True Republican. But I'll continue to be a True Conservative in my mind, unlike the True Republicans. I prefer to conserve liberty as much as possible, while dealing with the realities we face today from foreign sources. I think the definition of a true Republican may be being revised at the polls. Maybe a bit more secular. Maybe a bit more realistic. Maybe a bit more inclusive of the ideas I'd like to see in the people I feel comfortable voting for.

You can block landlines - for a slight additional monthly fee, but I don't know about cell phones. Guess you have to call your carrier.

Correct. If you want the flip up barrel, you have to go with the Bobcat. The Cheetah doesn't have that feature.

Tri-Cities is posted, but I don't know if they are properly posted. I haven't flown out of there through the terminal in years. But the pertinent info is that an airport terminal, before the security check area, must be posted just like any other commercial business or most government places.

Or 9mm Kurz or 9mm Browning Short or 9mm Corto

Looks to me like expensive cup-of-ramen.

Oh, I was outed early on. Someone got mad at me and told everyone my name and that I was a librarian. Since I had already said I was chairman of the county library board, it wasn't exactly a secret that I had something to do with the library. But library employees also can't be on the library board. (Duh)

I had to look that one up. Never heard of them.

I didn't recommend the Kel-Tec P3AT (one is in my back pocket as I type) because I'm pretty sure she wouldn't like the recoil. The Ruger is a Kel-Tec ripoff, but it does weight just a bit more. Wal-Mart around here will sell rounds all night long. I'm sure we did that discussion in another topic some time ago. They have to shut down gun sales because the state doesn't run checks 24 hours a day.