TGO David

It's helpful to stop and think beyond the borders of brands, makes and models and think about features that you find ideal in a thing. Whether it be a car, truck, boat, toaster oven, computer, smart phone, pair of boots or shoes, pocket knife or... a gun. Sometimes after you jot down a list of things that you find desirable in an item, surprises are found when you overlay that list on top of what's available out there. Sometimes you find that the thing you thought was the perfect embodiment of those characteristics isn't so perfect after all. SO... if you had to list the most desirable features of a handgun for carry purposes, what would they be? AND, just to make it meaningful... force rank them in order of importance.

Also, this article might be of help to any of you who routinely make your text larger inside the editor on TGO. When you do that, the only text you're making easier for you to see is your own. If you want to make everyone's text easier to see, try this: How do I make the text bigger in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera? (digitalcitizen.life) The older I get the harder it is for me to read small text too.

Take a knee, take a loss.

Short Version: I removed it but added it back. I hadn't considered that it would cause a problem if pasting formatted text was allowed but there was no way for you to shrink larger fonts. Long Version: A long time ago, I registered TGO with Google for their analytics abilities. It helps me make sure that we are at or near the top of search results for things related to firearms and 2A laws in Tennessee. They send out weekly reports to show me how we're doing and also to make me aware of any problems that might be present in TGO's website that would cause usability or searchability to suffer. Lately they've been dinging us on large fonts and problems caused by "broken HTML". The latter of the two is a problem sometimes when people copy and paste text from other sites and their browsers bring over the underlying HTML code rather than just pasting the formatted text itself and allowing TGO's software to decide how best to display it. This doesn't happen very often and honestly doesn't affect our scores too much. The former of two, the use of large fonts, happens more often and dings us on our readability and usability scores for people on mobile devices. Unfortunately it tracks back to a few members who commonly use large, bold fonts every time they post. I'm not calling anyone out, but Google is. If that shoe fits you, please consider enlarging the font in your browser's built in zoom / magnification settings rather than setting your font to "20" and Bold within the editor. Neither of these are significant enough of problems for me to implement an imperfect solution. So, I put the font size button back in the editor.

Our bodies metabolize those things unless we just keep consuming them and never do/eat anything healthy. I don't think our bodies are going to metabolize-away the mRNA vaccine.

Gladly.

It is but it isn't. And it really isn't when you throw a threaded barrel in it and pop a Parker Mountain Machine Gen 5 Comp on the end of it. Basically a hair longer than a Glock 17 and a hair shorter than a Glock 34, and it shoots almost as flat as a .22LR If I had to pick one handgun to take to a legit gunfight, this is the one I'd take.

In my experience, the best deer attractant is being midway down the ladder of your tree stand.

Faucci is an utter assclown. His assertion that we don't know what the durability of the natural immunity is in comparison to that of the vaccine is ABSOLUTELY FALSE. We have had experience with the natural immune response to COVID-19 for a FULL YEAR LONGER than we've had experience with the vaccines. What a ####ing lying piece of ####.

What I'm about to say is hard to convey without seeming like an insensitive ass. We've lost good friends to cancer here on TGO and I know we've got folks here dealing with it now. So, I do not say any of this lightly, but it is important to understand the situation. mRNA treatments have historically been used to prolong the lives of patients with aggressive cancers. Note that I didn't say "cure" them. It just staves off death for a bit longer. The cancer comes back, usually, and another mRNA treatment is perhaps attempted. With luck, they get more time. The fact that cancer comes back as it "mutates around" the mRNA treatment seems to closely parallel what we're seeing with new strains of COVID-19 affecting vaccinated people. Those folks, if they lack the natural antibodies that come from having successfully fought off COVID-19 previously, are basically left defenseless by a vaccine that was specifically engineered for an earlier strain. This is why we're reading and hearing remarks from research scientists to the effect that these so-called booster shots may need to be tweaked to address newer strains. How many times can we alter the cellular level of a person's physiology before it begins to stack up and cause problems? The problem is, no one really knows. Because historically the patients who have partaken of mRNA treatments, the cancer patients, don't live long enough to provide researchers with a 10, 20, 30 year data-set. I don't trust the mRNA vaccines either.

BTW... I know some folks are probably teetering on the edge of their seats, but my take on our ability to disagree here on TGO is much like my take on "science". It if can't stand being debated and questioned, it isn't worth anything. You've been here long enough to have proven to everyone that you're not just some troll who happened to find TGO and uses it as a place to agitate people. But yeah, the interval probably will shorten the older I get.

It's literally... the same... medicine. Just different doses and perhaps different delivery mechanisms. You can give animals penicillin also. That doesn't make it a HORSE antibiotic. Seriously man, try harder. No but I knew my lane and how to stay in it. I know this because my elders didn't knock my teeth out, but then again - I didn't have the safety of the Internet to pontificate from back then. No, the interval will probably shorten. I've noticed that my tolerance for bull#### decreases each day.

First, calling it a "deworming medicine" is disingenuous and trite. As others have pointed out, Ivermectin has a variety of applications and is has been prescribed to humans for a long while now. You are calling it that because the media has saturated your brain with the term and because it's derogatory and makes you feel smarter than those fools who pop horse pills. Second, people are choosing alternative approaches to dealing with COVID-19 because there is no Off Switch or Undo Button for the mRNA vaccines. You might be OK being part of a test group for experimental vaccines and rolling the dice that you won't regret it immensely in the future, but other people aren't. Some of those people have been alive 2-3x longer than you have, and experientially understand that scientists have been known to #### up a time or two. Don't be so quick to dismiss them as being naive. People took the chance and tried to cling to sides of aircraft fleeing Kabul, Afghanistan just a few weeks ago. They did it because the alternative looked far worse to them. Honestly, your youthful smugness and condescension toward others reminds me of my oldest son. He's arrogant and an ass. I think both of you will end up regretting some of your positions on issues later in life after you've had a few more miles under your belt and start seeing through the propaganda and bull####.

I am not a lawyer, but I would imagine that it adds some complexity to the scenario of attempting to sue an employer over it. This on top of the normal complexity of suing an employer for terminating employment in an "at will" state. The reasons that an employer in Tennessee cannot terminate an employment are pretty limited: Employee Rights (tn.gov) I did get the J&J shot. I was given the typical sheets of paperwork prior to the jab that explained what the risks were. This is normal fare anytime you admit yourself for any sort of medical care, though. I skimmed it before letting Nurse Ratchet impale my shoulder with her rusty dagger, but I didn't read it in great detail. I'm probably rare in comparison to most folks in that I actually did read a bit of it, though. I would imagine that most folks treat it like the EULA on a software package and throw it in the trash without a glance. It's going to be interesting to see what happens in an employee vs. employer personal injury lawsuit regarding the vaccines. I figure it will differ from state to state according to whatever laws are on their books. The only thing for certain is that lawyers are going to pocket a bunch of money no matter who wins.

Just a general question, but is everyone here familiar with the fact that Congress passed a law in 1986 that protects vaccine manufacturers from being sued in civil personal injury and wrongful death cases? Or that the Supreme Court decided in favor of the Vaccine Act back in 2011 and decided that the federal law protects those manufacturers from design-defect claims as long as the vaccine was properly manufactured and carried adequate warning labels for any appropriate or relevant known effects? I will admit that I was not well versed in any of this until my wife, a Registered Nurse, dropped that little bit of knowledge on me. I could plagiarize, but I'll just throw some links out here instead... Can I Sue Vaccine Manufacturers? (findlaw.com) What Is the Vaccine Court and How Does It Work? (verywellhealth.com)

WAIT! You can't teach me a new word like "asswagon" and then leave! If I hit my thumb full-swing with a hammer, I am capable of swearing like a wounded pirate... but I've never even thought of combining those two words.

Ah, the ever popular Either-Or Fallacy at work. Nice. Completely wrong, but still nice to see that some people choose to reach for that lever since it's an easy one to pull. You actually can have it both ways and we used to do just that in this country when our moral convictions were stronger and we had a basis of ethics that gave us the fortitude to make stands and say, "Yeah - actually I can have it both ways if both ways are right, moral and just." An intelligent person with autonomy over themselves and their business absolutely should be able to pick and choose which causes he or she will support. There is no logical connection between deciding that you don't want a customer's business (i.e. refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding) and supporting the idea that companies should be able to force you to undergo a medical procedure, against your will, as a condition of employment. The only tie between the two is an ethereal hope or belief that there should be a connection, because it gives us a neat little template to lay over top of every problem and absolves us of having to use our brains to make spot decisions. There are several good reasons why I think that a person should get one of the COVID-19 vaccines if they fit into various risk profiles. Wanting a pay-check isn't one of them. You are a rarity on several fronts. Good for you! The bad news is that corporate HR departments and lawyers have had decades of experience dealing with labor unions and know how to spot an insurrection before it gains steam. These days they just fire you before you get a chance to organize a walk-out. "Kill one and the others will take note and be afraid." That sort of thing.

As a COVID-19 survivor, I take firm issue with these baseless claims!

My source was a guy on the ground, doing disaster relief. I couldn't tell you the last time I watched the news.

I'm hearing that the "levee" that the railroad runs atop alongside Highway 70 is basically what caused the sudden, tsunami-style flooding of Waverly rather than them having succumbed to waters rising at a pace that would have allowed forewarning and evacuation. Basically, that raised railroad was never intended to be a water-break but rather just to keep the rails themselves up off of the flood-plain. Unfortunately the area received so much water over such a short period of time, that the railroad did become an unintentional levee and wasn't designed for that sort of thing. The water piled up behind it and then the land beneath the rails gave way and a wall of water poured into town. A neighbor said he was driving through Waverly over the past few days as part of his church's disaster relief team and it was an eerie sight seeing the railway rails and ties suspended in air with nothing beneath them.

CVS Minute Clinic is the only one at a CVS that will do the J&J shot, down here at least. It was definitely a nurse who stabbed me. The pharmacist is the one who jabs you for the mutant DNA shot.

CVS is right up there with them. The nurse who administered my government tracking device went straight down into the top of my shoulder cap with the syringe, like she was trying to reenact a scene from Julius Caesar or something. Et tu, Nurse Sally??

United We Stand, Divided We Fall. Society is playing into the hands of those who want to reset it and remake it in their own image.

No, but I did see this on the news recently and am not sure how it sets with me. I also am not sure how this is possible since a mother's blood supply and child's blood aren't supposed to mix. In fact, bad things can happen if it does. First baby in U.S. born with antibodies against COVID-19 after mom receives dose of Moderna vaccine while pregnant - CBS News

OH, I do want to amend my previous comments about how exasperated I am about this. I should have framed my comments to state that I am not exasperated by anyone on TGO about the ongoing conversation. Actually, I tend to think that this is one bastion of sanity and civil discourse about the topic. I am probably on the verge of mental exhaustion when it comes to COVID-19 just because of how inundated we are with the subject at work, how much of a schism there is about it in my own team, and how "in your face" the company is about it with the employees. I really just need some relief from it. I want to respond "Unsubscribe" every time that I see a post or email about it at work or on social media.