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The market is crazy now and I'm hearing about labor and material shortages on new construction.
Unless I knew the builder personally, I'd be a bit nervous these days trying to get something built.
As a Realtor selling existing homes It's always a race now to get a Buyer to decide quickly and put in a good solid offer before the 5 other people looking at the same home get there first. And this is little old Cookeville!! And Prices? Seems we will be catching up to Nashville or Knoxville in a couple of years if this pace keeps up. Somethings gotta give I'm thinking. Wages vs Housing becoming a problem again. When we start hearing about easy ARM loans becoming the norm again watch out!
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3 minutes ago, E4 No More said:
There use to be a genre of model builders who would build model ships with wooden sides and mount BB guns as if they were the ship's battery. Then they'd float them in a pond and have battles with each side trying to sink the other.
Your Killing me! I'm missing out on all the fun stuff in life.
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A good skill to learn indeed!
An excerpt from a review of the classic Apocolyptic/Dystopian novel "Earth Abides" by George R. Stewart
New lives are born into the clan, and they learn to navigate, not by street signs, but by waterways, bridges, and church spires. Ish aspires to preserve civilization’s learning and culture for the coming generations. But reality seeps in – first gradually, then abruptly as his bright and curious son Joey dies in a rebound epidemic. Ish turns to the surviving children and shows them how to start a fire without matches and to fashion a bow and arrow – he realizes how much more useful these skills will be to future generations than trigonometry and architecture. Later, he observes that they have tipped the arrows with hammered coins – malleable nickels being the preferred denomination.
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On 8/10/2020 at 11:15 PM, Grayfox54 said:
I built a bunch of models as a kid. Got pretty good at it too.
I was mostly into hot rods, but the occasional plane, tank or ship got in there as well.
Firecrackers were cool. But did ya ever sink a ship with a BB gun?
Dammmit! Now I feel sad I missed out on something as a Kid Sinking models with a BB gun. Never too late I guess
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Used to slap them together as a kid then blow them up with firecrackers for some reason. It was a neighborhood activity blowing things up with firecrackers. I'm 56 and feel so sad for kids glued to a screen all day and not doing anything exciting. Or even get excited over something as frivolous as blowing up plastic models.
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I'm full time in Real Estate and winding down a deal I had before Virus. No new real leads as people are worried I guess, office is closed for the most part for the agents so I'm working from home. If you're looking for something in or near Cookeville I'm available!
Also have a PT job as an essential package handler at FedEx In the early AM hours. I call it my paid workout.
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32 minutes ago, Erik88 said:
It appeared most of Knoxville ignored the social distancing rules yesterday. Cruz Farm on Gay St had a line out the door for people buying "essential" ice cream. Every park was full. People were hanging out in the parking lots in camping chairs.
Does anyone feel like our numbers are accurate? We are reporting 1,512 total cases. It seems that even with people ignoring the rules TN isn't really seeing that many cases. I'm not sure what to conclude from that but Bill Lee is catching a ton of grief online for not doing more. Seems like a mandatory quarantine would almost be overkill for us at this point.
"Essential Ice cream" I hear you, Cookeville about the same. People are just going through the motions. Too many businesses doing half measures. All the take out at Restaurants. People grocery shopping with their kids. If your out touching doors and surfaces your spreading however.....
I do believe the elderly for the most part are self quarantining more. I do see a lot of hand sanitizing. There are less cars on the road. Churches are empty too. All this has to help slow the spread and keep the heat off the hospitals. Now that the word is out for all the elderly and high risk folks who want to live. Maybe we can START the economy back up by Easter and let the rest of us catch this virus or not just like we do with the flu until a vaccine is made.
Start the economy that is if people who end up making more sitting home with an additional $600 a week are willing to.
That part of the emergency Bill is insane!
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About this emergency 2.2 Trillion Bill Trump just signed, the first of many I might add, Remember what the great prophet George Carlin once said.
"The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out."
I'm not saying something had to be done quickly because the switch was flipped on our economy but this is too much and did the switch need to really be switched off on such a broad scale? Targeted voluntary financial support and isolation for the elderly and high risk would have been and still is the way to go IMHO! Cheaper and more effective! I'm really hoping Trump will find a way to do this with all the pressure he's under.
And now we hear more States are putting up roadblock checkpoints?! In my second job I'm considered an essential so they gave me a paper to show authorities why I'm on the road if it ever gets to that. Is it really possible I might get stopped by a uniformed authority and asked that familiar question from 1940s Germany? ..."Show me your papers".
Oh well, multi-thousand dollar checks are on the way to everyone and more money promised. That should quiet the people down for awhile.
he word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.”
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Pardon my ignorance but haven't been buying much ammo past couple of years because of a decent stockpile I've built up between ammo/gun scares. plus I have zero time to practice with two jobs so it hasn't shrank much.
What was the just before Corona and now price on non bulk, cheap, basic "off the shelf per box" FMJ for.....
223/556, 22, 9mm, 38, 7.62/39 ?? If it was on the shelf now of course!
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7 hours ago, Omega said:
I would like to go on record to say that I am in the "this is total BS" camp. I don't know why this has been spun so out of proportion, and all over the world at that. Sure, I know this is a dangerous virus, and that it has been killing folks, but it is still not rising to the Flu numbers or the H1N1, and this happens every dang year. There is NEVER a rush to get TP or other supplies each year, so what makes this one so special? My guess is that the MSM, worldwide apparently, and TPTB have decided a crisis was due, and this was as good as any. I am not saying that you should not take precautions, especially if you are in one of the high risk categories, but nothing more than your standard precautions should be more than adequate.
Flu:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
2019-2020
390,000 – 710,000 Hospitalizations
23,000 – 59,000 Deaths in the US
H1N1:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html
Since they found it in 09' (2009 through 2018)
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/burden-of-h1n1.html
936,000 Hospitalizations
75,000 Deaths in the US
COVID-19 (as of 4pm Yesterday)
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html
Total cases: 44,183
Total deaths: 544
Jurisdictions reporting cases: 54 (50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and US Virgin Islands)
I would love it if the media would put % deaths of our population in US instead of straight numbers. It would help put things in perspective and stop so much of the fear. Also by State and compare percents with Italy, Spain etc. Media hype is creating more fear than need be.
So far the death rate per capita in the US is miniscule. I understand the need to keep the Hospitals from being over-run from a spike in the bigger Cities of seriously ill but now that the info is out about elderly and high risk, I think the focus should be to quarantine the hell out of that population until we have a vaccine or this dies down naturally, Then get the Economy back in gear ASAP.
I agree with the Prez on this one. The cure is getting to be worse than the virus itself. Another great depression like the 30s with this generation?
I cant imagine the spike in suicides, violence, riots etc.
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How my mind works when I saw this post.
1. Cathode Ray tubes implode I always heard because they are vaccuum sealed.
2. Real Tube TVs are really old. Had those little tubes inside that my old man used to always be replacing.
3. Does anyone ever say "watcing the tube" or "the Boob Tube" anymore?
4. I agree with the others if you have to pay to get rid of it smash it up in a safe manner. Elvis Style? There goes my mind again!
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Saw some in Cookevile today at some sort of overstock store that just opened up at near Ollie's there were like 4 pairs.
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I would hope the training aircraft are two seaters with easy ways to "eject" a student who is up to no good. Unarmed training jets crashed into certain places can be crippling to a City.
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Just thinking how lucky that this joker didn't use an aircraft to do more evil deeds. Not sure what aircraft he was training with but lots of targets of opportunity that a Kamikazi even without bombs and missles could do. Isn't there a Nuclear plant within range of there?
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Of course that means we are one step closer to E. W.
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Tucker did a segment on his rise and fall that included a clip of him groveling and apologizing to the women on "The View" about his white male privilige.
Something about how he was so unfairly liked and popular by the media because of his race and gender... they were beating him up over it.
Absolutely sickening how he sucked up to them.
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On 10/25/2019 at 4:21 PM, Defender said:
AS everyone said above, they are anti gun. But i know that a few gun stores do have sites there and do post guns for sale. I regularly see the Goodlettsvile Gun Store there, but Phillip has posted before that they are regularly hiding his page or taking his posts off, or whatever they do to make people not see them. I think he posts a copy of his FFL everyday there. Facebook is a private entity so they can do as they please, but there is talk about regulating them as an utility at times. MEWE is another competitor of Facebook, but it doesnt have the membership or traction that Facebook has. There are things I like about Facebook, like keeping up with folks at a distance, easily, when it works like its supposed to, but the censorship and constant fiddling with the algorithms to determine who sees what when is frustrating. I wish there was a no left leaning viable competitor with the same kind of following and all. Maybe Mewe will get better...
No doubt it's left leaning and thus anti-gun but they are pretty much the default site to be friends, keep in touch, do a little business etc.
Avoiding them lets them win and if your'e a business can make you lose. I'm glad to see all the people out there who post and think as I do. Warms my heart to know some squirmy punks have to sift through all that and try and remove it faster than new content is posted.
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Looks to me like with YouTube they allow just enough to "claim" being unbiased with guns, politics etc. but it's obvious where their core ideology is.
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https://www.facebook.com/TNGunOwners/
I'm reluctantly kinda just getting into facebook to promote my business. I've heard they secretly discriminate against gun discussion but the groups are out there.
When on facebook I did a search and it didnt autofill the address for TNGunOwners. Discrimination? Maybe.
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Used to be a welder and was pretty darned good at reading drawings and prints. One of my bosses used to call me over alot and have me figure out what some drawing or print was all about. Blamed his eyes.... I thought he was full of BS and couldn't figure out the more complicated stuff.
Now I know the ridiculous helpless feeling of not being able to read fine print or even semi-fine print without proper light and magnification.
Sorry old boss for doubting you.
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On 9/4/2019 at 8:39 AM, btq96r said:
You have to ask yourself where this will end...and right now I'm not liking the possible answer. When a major retailer based in the south, focused on southern markets feels secure enough to make this move without much outward prompting, that's a sign.
We're all addicted to cheap communist china products to one extent or another wherever we buy from.
Walmart has it down to a science and some don't have a choice economically to avoid shopping there.
Whatever loss from ticked off 2ndA folks won't make a dent in their profits I'm afraid.
The only good thing is maybe savvy Gun Shop owners will set up shop next to Walmarts. This push against guns will be small victory for small business in the short term.
long term... our rights are fading fast with every mass shooting by these crazies.
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Another "remedy" I surprisingly haven't heard this time around is age resrictions bumped up to 21. (I am against this but perhaps an enhanced BG for under 21s is something they will look at?) unconstitutional I'm sure. And not fair to young people.
BTW, Might stronger BG checks that have been discussed entail just fixing the glitches in the system we already have in place? Nothing new...Just clean up the errors and ommisions that occur. Haven't there been cases where people who are banned by existing laws gotten a gun despite a BG check?
Dems and Repubs should be able to agree on that without debate. That's low hanging fruit.
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Budget 30-6 long range rifles under $400 ??
in Long Guns
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Inherited 100 rds of 30-6 milsurp ammo and thinking I should have a rifle to shoot it!
Never had a "long range" rifle and been researching a bit. The things I like are out of my budget.
Next few months I'll be ready to buy something I'm thinking.
What slightly used rifles would you all be looking at in the $400 range? Ones you've owned or shot.
Won't be hunting. Just Targets and probably not as far as I'd like but want the capability of some real distance.