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I tried that when I was first placed on my diet in January. I went to that Truvia sweetener which was not bad but a little costly and I don't use a lot of flour but do in my fried foods because that was one thing I was able to cut back on but not give up. I eat about 1/2 as many as I use to but then my fried foods consisted of fish mostly and I deep fry them in Olive Oil but I have learned many other ways to also enjoy fish. Grilled in Lemon Pepper and wrapped in foil, Grilled in foil with Bell Peppers, onions and garlic with fish just brushed slightly with olive oil. Both of those are lip smacking good. Can do the same thing with Chicken Breasts. I eat wheat bread and Rye bread but did that for many years before learning about my diabetes. Was never much of a white bread person. ........just my................ :2cents:

There are always two side to every story, that's for sure. in the first report the kid Cody was to have sucker punched was what some noted as a Bully. Now with that being known and if the Semi Blind Moderately Autistic young man did at that point go after the Bully, it was probably from sometime in the past that the Bully instigated the encounter and the handicap kid was just tired of it. As far as I'm concerned if the kid was only semi blind and had any type of Autism period the bully had no right to pick on him that time or any other time. I have known a few Autistic kids over the years and it really takes a lot to bring out anger in them. All I have ever known were very passive and mellow .................jmho 

In Australia, the curbside garbage carts are called "wheelie bins." A garbage collector is driving along a Sydney street picking up the wheelie bins and emptying them into his rubbish truck. He goes to one house where the bin hasn't been left out. In the spirit of kindness and after having a quick look about for the bin, he gets out of his truck, goes to the front door and knocks. There's no answer. Being a conscientious bloke, he knocks again - much harder. Eventually, a Japanese man comes to the door. "Harro!" says the Japanese man. "G'day mate, where's ya' bin?" asks the collector. "I bin on toilet," explains the Japanese bloke, a bit perplexed. Realizing the fellow had misunderstood him, the bin man smiles and tries again. "No mate, where's ya' dust bin?" "I dust been to toilet, I toll you!'' says the Japanese man, still perplexed. "Listen," says the garbage collector. "You're misunderstanding me. I mean, where's ya' wheelie bin?'" "OK, OK. " replies the Japanese man with a sheepish grin, and whispers in the collector's ear. "I wheelie bin having sex wiffa wife's sista!!!"

A woman meets a man in a bar. They talk; they connect; they end up leaving together. They get back to his place, And as he shows her around his apartment, she notices that one wall of his bedroom is Completely filled with soft, sweet, cuddly teddy bears. There are three shelves in the bedroom, With hundreds and hundreds of cute,Cuddly teddy bears carefully placed in rows, covering the entire wall! It was obvious that he had taken Quite some time to lovingly arrange them And she was immediately touched by the amount of thought he had put into organizing the display There were small bears all along the bottom shelf, Medium-sized bears covering the length of the middle shelf, And huge, enormous bears running all the way along the top shelf. She found it strange for an obviously masculine guy To have such a large collection of Teddy Bears, She is quite impressed by his Sensitive side. But doesn't mention this to him. They share a bottle of wine and continue talking and, After a while, she finds herself thinking, 'Oh my God! Maybe, this guy could be the one! Maybe he could be the future Father of my children?' She turns to him and kisses him Lightly on the lips He responds warmly They continue to kiss, the passion builds, And he romantically lifts her in his arms and carries her into his bedroom Where they rip off each others clothes and make hot, steamy love. She is so overwhelmed that she responds with more passion, More creativity, more heat than she has ever known. After an intense, explosive night of raw passion with this sensitive guy, They are lying there together in the afterglow. The woman rolls over, gently strokes his chest and asks coyly, 'Well, how was it?' The guy gently smiles at her, Strokes her cheek, looks deeply into her eyes and says: 'Help yourself to any prize from the middle shelf'

Women come and women go but really ugly HOT PINK P238's are hard to come by.   Hope you get the gun back........... :up:

  There has been a few times in my life after becoming an adult that I have stepped into a situation where some young punks had targeted and older or handicap person to pick on and make fun of and poke with a stick. Had I not stepped in it would have eventually had escalated without a doubt. I guess it was just old feelings coming back from days with my brother but I was not going to allow them to continue and willing to do what it took to stop it. It never went much farther before the punks thought it might be best they moved on. As I walked away after getting things settled I had that thought run through my mind of I am my brothers Keeper and I think I might have even smiled.

Hope you get it back and bad guys go to Gray Bar Hotel......................... :2cents:

I won't go into particulars but my brother next oldest to myself had Polio at age 5 and was crippled from that point on but able to function and attend school but walked with a limp and his arms and hands were quit a bit smaller than normal and yea, we had bullies back then also. I spent 8 years of Grammer school getting the sh-t pounded out of me by upper class bullies for sticking up for my brother but after all I was my brothers keeper. I was in 7th grade when my brother entered high school and I could no longer protect him but I had one ace in the hole. I had a buddy that was same age as my brother and he stepped up to become my brothers keeper till I reached high School. Thing is my friend was a freshman that stood 6'3" tall and weighed in about 240 and not even upper classmates wanted to mess with him. Once I made high school my brother had two keepers. Kids are mean for sure and it is not something new. It is just having more attention paid to it now than back then. Brother went on to finish high school and on to Junior college along with my buddy. doctors had told my parents he probably would not live past his early 20's but he went on to marry, have a family and passed away in his sleep at age 42 from heart failure. Lost him in June 1990, 2 days before his 43rd birthday................ :ugh: 

I think Dolo's idea is great but not much use for us folks on city water. I have no well to depend on so I have to depend on a creek about a 1/2 mile from the house if we don't have city water. I began giving that a lot of thought some time back so I went up and made a few trips up and down the creek looking for just the right drops in the stream where I could place my water containers lower than the water level. I then put my theory to the test and it worked well. I purchased a couple Primer bulbs like used on out board motors . I put a plastic 1/2 tube on both ends and pumped the bulb about 4 times and had a good flow of water into my water buckets. Works just like a siphoning system. Surely not as efficient as a well and Dolo's method but would work in an emergency quite well. and would be able to fit in back pack..............jmho 

I found out last December I had type 2 diabetes and they put me on medications for it. I went on the diet they recommended and most of the foods taste like cardboard. I dropped about 25 lbs. I have had High Blood Pressure as it is hereditary in my family for most of my life. My body was destroyed back in 78 when I got pinned between a brick wall and run away pickup truck with no driver and doctors said about 60% of the bones in my body were either broke or fractured. Was operated on 4 times in less than a week just to keep me alive. Spent from April 17th till middle of November in St Thomas Hospital. Doctors told me I should have been killed with all the damage my body received. I no longer have a spline among other things I use to have.  They told me that I would probably recover well till about 50 and then my bones would begin reminding me about that truck every day and rainy days would be worse. Well, it actually began to show up really a lot at age 55. If I walk to the mail box in front of my house and back without a cane I have to stop and rest because my body is hurting so bad. I have a great GP doctor and she tells me I need to exercise more and I raise up my right hand and open and close it 5 times into a fist and she laughs and says "Don't over do it". She knows I can't exercise but I can walk. I can walk into Walmart and take a cart and walk all over that store for hours pain free. Same with Krogers so that is how I exercise weekly. I do shop at Krogers but I just walk at Walmart.   Now with all of that said. I wake up each morning morning and stick my finger and test my blood sugar before eating and coffee. My sugar has been in the safe range since I came home from hospital in December and went on the cardboard diet. Since i am somewhat of a chance taker and always have been I began moving away from the cardboard diet and went back to eating many of the foods I enjoyed before they told me I was diabetic. Since June I have been back almost 100% of my old diet and my sugar levels have actually dropped about 15 to 20 points below the cardboard diet every morning. I spoke with my doctor about it and she said as long as I don't gain the weight back I should be just fine. I gained back 1 pound is all. I am 67 years (young) old and according to the surgeons that have spent time walking around inside my body 10 times now including last January repairing things I should not even be here.  I figure well if I should not be here but still am GOD has something in mind for me and I will be here until he punches my number so I am going to enjoy it while I'm here as best my body will allow me to............jmho........... :up: :up:

In all honesty, I don't think anyone takes our rights and the Constitution lightly here. This is a very diverse site with many folks having their own views on issues but taking the 2nd amendment lightly is not one of them..............jmho

I would just love to be able to drive on a Tennessee Highway and not see a row of orange barrels. That would be a novelty in itself.....jmho 

I know I should feel remorse over this but for some reason I can't. I think in some odd way it is some kind of punishment being handed down for the actions and beliefs of those of the Islamic Faith. This seems to happen at almost every one of these big (I guess you might call it a revival) or holy gathering. I find it strange that of all the people killed the only country to speak up and criticize Saudi Arabia is Iran and none of their people where killed, just a few hurt....................... :shrug: 

Black Lives matter will probably be at his door protesting shortly................... :panic:

Well, it was just an idea and I will continue to send out emails and in some cases if I cannot find an email address for the company next time by I will hand deliver a letter in an envelope addressed to the owner/manager telling them why they lost my business. Doing something is 100% better than doing nothing!!!.........jmho

I have State Farm and have had for about 20 years. Only had 1 claim during that time but was not on house but on my Skeeter Bass Boat.  I hit a rock pile just under surface at J.Percy Priest Lake and damage was well over $4,500.00 to boat and lower unit of motor. Happened on Sunday, called them on Monday at 9 AM. with estimates from two different boat repair places that sent them estimates via fax. I got a call from my agent at 9:15 AM with full approval to repair. I have a buddy that does boat repairs that I could not get in touch with that day but State Farm sent me a check made out to me and I had it on Wednesday and my buddy did all the repairs for the check which was less my $250.00 deductible. I was back on the water in 10 days.  I have my Jeep, Renters and Boat all with them and will not be changing anytime soon.

Thanks to all. Mother and baby doing fine. Not sure about Meemaw though. Her and my Son In Law both stay worn out trying to keep up with their first grandson and he is just out of the terrible 2's and into the 3 year old category. I love saying to my son in law "Better you than me" when he talks about trying to keep up with that youngun................ :up:  :up: 

I'm  great Grandpaw again as of yesterday. Grandaughter gave birth to healthy bouncing baby girl. 5lbs. 10 Oz. Mom and baby doing fine. Grandma more shook up than anyone.........lol. Pictures to follow when I get some..................... :up: :up:

My whole reason for the letters or emails is because all folks that have those signs up are from the left because there is not any or just a few expressing their views to the business owners on our side. I figure that many of the signs go up because someone from the left has been putting it in the business owners ear that they need to put them up and the business owners are not really aware of how much business the signs will end up costing them. If they get enough response from law abiding gun owners with HCP's that they will not be doing business with them it might cause them to rethink their signs. Especially when they are informed that before the signs went up about 1/2 or more of their business came from people that traded there with a concealed weapon and they never had any issues. Gun owners need to be heard just like the left is being heard by businesses...............jmho

Yea , it might help but my goal was to keep the email or printed letter to be short and sweet yet polite and still get my point across that the sign will be costing them a lot more than they paid for the signs......jmho

Copy of my standard email letter: f they don't have an email or website you can always print a copy with the filled in blanks accordingly and hand deliver it next time your close by.   The Letter:   To: (Who Ever)    I have been a customer and patron of your establishment for past (X)years. Recently I was at your business front door when  I saw the newly posted Gun Free Zone sign on your front door.  Since I have been doing business with you for (X) amount of years  I have always carried my side arm concealed while in your business.    Now that you have seen fit to post your location I feel I will now be taking my business else where. I feel that if you don't want legally armed law biding citizens in your place of business you don't want the money that they would spend in your business either.   I wish you and your company all the best but you will now be doing it without my hard earned money.    Respectfully (your name)

i have been thinking about this for some time and last week I began doing it. Every time a business I have been trading with puts up the signs I go else where to get what I want and then come home and write an email telling the store owner or if corporate I tell them I will no longer be doing business and tell them why. I wrote the letter in such a way that it can be used for about any business with just a few things such as company name, Then I stored it in my documents and can use it over and over.   I think if members here would start doing the same thing to businesses that many members frequent and they get enough letters it just might get business owners looking at their bottom lines closer. Take a small business like a Meat & 3 diner that was not posted and all at once is. If enough folks make their feelings know in a professional and polite manner to the Owner/Manager that they will no longer be doing business with them it might bring down more signs. Many places like that probably have more HCP people trading with them than non carry people and if their bottom line begins to show that sign is hurting business things can change quick. The sign can come down as quick as it went up...............JMHO

Hasn't folks figured out by now that they build cars to keep the back yard mechanics from being able to work on them. They have been working on doing that for about 20+ years now and just about succeeded in getting it done. Just last year my son had to pay over $3,000.00 for an Autel Computer Analyzer because he needed to reprogram the computer of a 2008 Dodge Challenger to accept the newly rebuilt transmission sensors to make it shift. Once programmed it worked great. He said he knew he was going to have to purchase the analyzer eventually anyway if he was going to continue rebuilding transmissions. Good thing is the analyzer came with all program adapters through year 2014 so he is good to go for all cars foreign and domestic through 2014. 

Poaching in some sections can get you shot by landowners that also dig Ginseng during the season........... :hiding:

New Gun Link.     http://www.money.cnn.com/2015/09/18/news/companies/silencer-gun-combo/