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I was replying to the things you had said you had towed which would easily be towed with such a vehicle. Lesson from that, know a guy with a truck :) Look, if you need a truck, that's fair enough (and if you just want a truck, I ain't gonna argue with you) but it's rarely been an issue for me. Considering the hit on the gas mileage (I get 45 to the gallon and drive 90 miles each day), if I needed a truck, renting one would be an option. Heck, buying one for the period I needed it and then reselling would be an option. My trailer is a 6x4 that I converted to hold up to two motorcycles. It's been sufficient for nearly all my needs so far. It's easier to load the motorcycles on to it than it would be a truck also. When I see a truck, I see one of these with the top down...

There will be another to take their place. Did I hear Gander Mountain's prices went up when they went B&M?

Not if it's clear they could sell for 70. They're there to fulfill their customers' needs, not to bleed out to prove a point.   With that said, I'm not paying that much and I don't suggest anyone else does either. Anyone been in lately to see if anyone is actually buying this stuff?

My understanding is that the CTD complaint isn't so much about raising prices (though plenty seem upset by that) as the mass cancellation of already placed orders to force them to re-order at higher prices.

Here's another way to look at it... Every time I've been in there, there have been people asking for 22. Usually all that's there is some boutique loads at high prices at best. If they have a higher price, likely they can keep some on the shelf and then if someone *really* needs it, they can at least buy some rather than having the shelves empty. Maybe they even paid above the odds to get this stuff just to be able to supply it (maybe one of those bullet bitches could see the writing on the wall and wanted to clear their stock while they could still make a profit on it). This place had ammo available back last year when nobody else had *any*.   Either way, if it's too expensive, people won't buy it and they'll lower their price. If the price is right, it'll sell and they'll make more effort to get more.

  That can all be handled with a small trailer though.   Besides, I though SOP for disposing of trash in trucks was to leave it in the back and wait for it to blow out driving down the road...

  First World: United States, United Kingdom and their allies.   Second World: Soviet Union, China, and their allies.   Third World: neutral and non-aligned countries.   But I get what you mean.     Edit: Hmm, it seems that Malaysia is an ally of the US.

I kinda stopped digging when it started looking like this has been an argument that has been going on for a long time with many people who are a lot more learned about the facts. And it *is* irrelevant now anyway.   In many ways, the constitution is very flawed in being clear in its intentions but I'd hate to see what the lawyers would come up with in current times.

  They had misplaced the key to the freezer?

It likely happens all the time since radar requires line-of-sight and there can be all sorts of reflections and obstructions and interference. And just in case anyone didn't know, I'll just point out that a transponder ident is just a four digit code set by the pilot. There is a "default" number (1200 I think) or you can be assigned a number by air traffic control or there are a couple for emergency situations.

Not to argue the point further since I think we're flogging a dead horse at this point but I found this page fairly interesting.   http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/incorp.htm   If you follow the link at the bottom to the constitutional conflicts homepage, there are some other interesting unrelated items there.

  Very true. Some transponders (I think those on commercial jets definitely would) encode the altitude so transponder off, ground loses altitude data.

  You know it :)

Not going around again.   Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Rights

Maybe have a gradual ramp-up of the majority required to win an election once past a second term. 1 & 2 a simple majority, 3 5% more, 4 10% more etc.

  It's not just about the economy with a diesel either. The torque rocks on a per-liter basis. I have a TDI jetta and I've towed all sorts of things behind it (within its limits) and hardly noticed the drag.

  According to "two people familiar with the details". Presumably, "Top men"...

This is Connecticut's version FWIW  

OK. Be careful talking about what "is" because the 14th amendment and incorporation (20th century) do indeed cause the constitution to apply to the states currently as amazingly well described in at least the first link I put up there.   But Robert, you seem to be taking the stance of "I don't like reality therefore reality is wrong". The second amendment originally protected your rights (which, of course,  exist outside of the law) from the federal government. Your protection from the Tennessee government were protected, per the link above by the Tennessee constitution and specifically the clause         You may not like it, it may seem "wrong" to you but them's just the facts. I have no dog in this fight, I want my RKBA to be protected in all cases but that doesn't mean I will try to pretend the legal system is other than what it is or what it has been.   I'll also note that the wording that you are using implies that rights are granted by law. That is explicitly not the case.   As a secondary note, it appears the forum software shortened one of my links to make it appear that I was linking to the bill of rights which some of you out there may have skipped because you are familiar with it. In fact, my link it to an article about the incorporation of the Bill of Rights and has direct bearing on this discussion. Please don't make me repeat information which is given in that article.

Some more interesting reading.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Rights http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021999469

  Come on, Robert, you should know this stuff...      

Absolutely. Our natural rights are always with us. Whether under the US federal government, the Tennessee government, her majesty's government in the United Kingdom or the most oppressive Shariah state in the middle east.   So it's nice when the laws protect those rights but they don't always.   Tennessee has a constitution. It is similar to the US constitution and the constitution of many of the states around the US. The supremacy clause (and the 14th amendment) notwithstanding, the constitution was designed as a brake on the US federal government. If the US constitution applied directly Tennessee, what's the point of this?   http://www.tncrimlaw.com/law/constit/I.html

  There's a question of whether they should or whether they legally could. The Constitution was originally written to control the federal government. The supremacy clause has since altered that somewhat but there's a reason why the TN constitution has its own version of the bill of rights. It's not redundant, it controls a different level of government.

The constitution is just a piece of paper. It relies on people to give it any authority. Ideally everyone who swore to uphold it would do so. Inasmuch as they don't and inasmuch as we don't hold them to that oath, it has no power.

Doesn't work even when I tweak things around a little. What was it about? Presumably it was images of some sort. How old?