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and that is the point. It started with Carter's CRA and through to Bush II. It spanned all those congressional classes as well. 700 billion won't fix the inability of congress to turn down power and money. This is not a corporate problem or a Presidential issue. It is congress that opened the door, made the laws, controlled oversight, granted permission, rejected reform, and now claims to have the solution. I don't care so much about blame, but if you don't identify the problem you can't fix it. Immediate fix is deregulation of the lending sector to free the capital that is tied up, insure the loans, suspend capital gains, etc (current problem) and long term is term limits. As I've said before, these guys are there so long they get incredibly efficient at working the "game" to their benefit. Corporations only have the power they have because the man behind the curtain (congress) grants it. as I said before congress uses big corp as a cash cow. By using regulation and legislation they are able to squeeze out "unfavorable" competition ensuring their donors get richer to make them richer. Is this one party issue? No it is a system issue. Anyone in the system is susceptible. Do Presidents? Sure, but because they are time limited so is their long term damage. Being angry at corp Am. is like getting mad at the 150 lb 10 yr old for being fat. The 500 lb. parent is the real issue!

I think Tungsten was toying with the idea and there is a thread around here where that was discussed. I think Pink was the color of choice in that thread:eek:. IIRC, adhesion is the biggest problem on polymer.

I also don't recall that being directed in that way. I can see your ability to read threads goes hand in hand with your balanced view of this issue. I'm not convincing anyone. It is purely informative. Maybe you should go back to your "reality" of Call of Duty 4!

Yeah that really bugs me as well. I called in a car (unmarked, no number. Used license plate) who ran up on the back of me so fast I could see the whites of his eyes. After I didn't move over, he whipped in a narrow gap between me and the car I was passing in the other lane and speed off weaving in and out of traffic down I-24. The station said well, he was probably on a call. I responded (as nicely as I could) that was crap and explained why. They told me unmarked cars usually were not assigned, so there was no way to follow up on it. The lady was nice and understood, but wasn't a whole lot she could do. I even followed him (it was by my house) to the station. It was quiting time. Now this is an extreme example, but really annoyed me to say the least. He was actually dangerous. Technically the only vehicles that can disregard street postings are the USPS! But I doubt that is a very good policy either. Common sense is what is often left out of legislation.

You are correct. There are two bad laws in force there. It is unreasonable to expect LE, in uniform or out, to be on "duty" 24/7 and then restrict certain tools of the trade in certain places. It is likewise unreasonable to expect HCP holders to lower their self defense standards in certain places. I don't expect either party to suddenly become incapable of good judgment due to their location.

The opposition will call it , but here is a video for those who don't want to read. [ame] [/ame]

I did debate the Maxpedition bag for this purpose.

That's about as bad as these.

The difficulty is you can't prove or disprove a negative. In other words you can't assume an armed persons confrontation with an intruder would have led to a one sided aggressive/deadly encounter. Most gun owners encounters are uneventful (we argue due to being armed) and so never become a statistic. Most of gun owner stats come from the places where gun ownership is restricted and violent crime rises in parallel stats.

I love the Zem headset. You can hear (pretty good at least) casual conversation and they deaden to 32db. Plus they are affordable. Buy them here. http://www.pistolgear.com/products.php?id=31 Here is their website. http://www.sensgard.com/

They are an excellent choice. You will find many go there for their HCP class, as I did. I highly recommend them.

Had the same question and heres what I got. http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2632&highlight=combat+hearing+loss

http://tsfiles.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/bush-called-for-reform-of-fannie-mae-freddie-mac-17-times-in-2008-alone/ Here's a pretty concise one.

You do know that corporations predominately support Dems, right? or do the talking points "feel" better to you. BTW Bush urged congress to fix the mortgage problem since he has been in office. On 22 separate occasion going back to 2002, he requested reform for this particular buisness section in teh economy. Anger is fine when it is placed appropriatley. This is a congressioal problem. They wanted these loans made, they made the regualtion, they had comlete oversight, they blew it. This is not a Presidential issue.

It's real simple. Almost anyplace that teaches HCP classes will also do armed guard. Most of them attend the same class as most of the requirements overlap. The shooting requirements are a little more stringent and there is a little more paperwork.

+1:D

There was an article in one of the mags (can't remember which one) about it and they said it was a good product for competition type barrels and overkill for normal shooting. It is basically bullets that act in various grits to polish out a new barrel. Interesting concept.

I know when I had my motorcycle wreck the Baptist security guard offered to let me keep my gun with me or he said he could take it to the office. I don't know about signage, but I though it was pretty decent of them. BTW - I notified them (the police officer didn't say anything about it) it was in my bag and none of the nurses or doctors acted weird in anyway. In fact it was almost like ok, so what?

Playing devils advocate, I think that was because you said you wife could shoot 1 MOA at 800 yrds or something to that effect. I think i was one of the first to bang heads with him, but as is the case most of the time we let things go and moved on.

For hunting I'm gonna be using 154g SP. The HP and all the rest are made to not expand. Typically a bad thing on CPX2 animals.

Everything is cause and effect. When you try to inject socialism into a free market these things happen. The price of houses jumped when there where more people than houses to go around. there were more people able to buy houses because congress (going all the way back to Jimmy Carter) forced the mortgage companies to loan to these people. They made the loans but used "appropriate" interest rates to cover their tales. When the companies realized they could use congress to regulate out competition by cost prohibitive restrictions and congress realized they could get kick backs by working with them to regulate the companies competition, then you have our current problem. The companies can be corrected through a truly free market (big time reform=less fed and regulations). congress can only be corrected by having a less efficient legislature. By that i mean term limits. They know how to play the game too well. we need people who only know the rules and get termed out before they learn all the loop holes.

Usually they under promise and over perform. Most I've heard from say that a 5-6 week quote is usually less than 2 weeks.

Umm.... while we are at it, I'm missing about 5000 from my post count!

I like it, I like it a lot!

You also forgot to mention he takes every opportunity to make homosexual references in every thread. I really don't understand that guy.