MacGyver

I plan on including mine.

If you ever find yourself in Denver International with some time to kill before your flight, spend a little time outside of the concourse in the area that looks down over one of their two security checkpoints. The number of items you can watch TSA agents pocket in a short period of time is pretty amazing. That said, don't try the above exercise is you're somehow still under the illusion that you're safer on a plane today than you were on September 10, 2001. You'll leave sadly disappointed and disillusioned.

Nice!

There are some ways that fingerprints can become dimished from diseases like dermatitis, but it seems a lot more likely that he simply had an inexperienced person taking his prints. I was recently surprised when getting a set of fingerprint cards done that fingerprint taking has become a bit of a lost art. Since this particular government agency used an electronic scanner, and I needed a specific set of cards, there was literally no one in this agency who could take my prints. Finally, the director - who I'm pretty sure hasn't taken a print in 20 years got fed up with his staff and took my prints himself.

Making mine. Should be together sometime next week depending on the schedule.

Had a friend who had them out last year as an adult. He had a strange, but apparently not that uncommon side effect of post operative bleeding from the lingual artery. They think that had someone not been there with him and been able to take him immediately to the ER, he may well have bled out. Oddly, I think something similar happened to a young friend of mine last year as well. I don't know all the details of that one, but know he had to go back in the hospital a week or so after his surgery.

Saw this yesterday. Creative prank.

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That's great!

I hear Mitch McConnell is the leading advocate for extending the term limit right now. That way he can get all the Republicans in the Senate onboard with making Obama a two-term president.

I think that one of the things that makes this forum unique is that as a general rule, the staff is quite willing to communicate the reasoning behind their actions. That, and we have a membership that is generally unwilling to give troublemakers much slack. Y'all are pretty self-moderating. I would be hard pressed to recall the last 5 administrative actions that we've had to take off the top of my head.

How are those White's holding up, Neil?

And they think they're going to be able to do healthcare...

Who's going to listen to your argument and do something with this petition? Even if by some act of God you advance past the 11 votes you've got as of now and make it to the 25,000 signatures required to advance it to a mailbox no one actually reads, who do you expect to take up your banner? Find me one politician in 2012 who's going to go on the record and say, "I'd like to sponsor a bill restoring gun rights to people convicted of domestic violence." Their opponents wouldn't even need to make commercials about their record, they'd just play the tape of their comments. I agree that there are several problems with Lautenberg. Whether you consider it a 2nd Amendment issue, a 10th Amendment issue, or simply the fact that in many cases it's been applied ex post facto - there are a lot of Constitutional problems with it. It deserves to have it's day in court, and in fact the 7th Circuit heard a case on it recently and reversed a conviction. If you want to be involved in overturning this law, there are paths to do that. Get involved. This petition, however may as well be spitting in the wind. I'm closing this thread because of the above reasons. To all of you who are reporting this thread on both sides of the issue, I'll just say that we give our moderators a fair bit of leeway in making decisions abot what's appropriate and what's not. That's part of the reason they're here.

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I'm so dumbfounded by this, I can't even express it. It's like someone is sitting back and thinking, "How can we flip the biggest bird possible to our men and women in uniform, and by proxy the American public?" "What's Jane Fonda doing? Oh. She's at that wine tasing with Hillary? How about the former junior Senator from Massachuessets who by the way served in Vietnam?"

James Taranto of the WSJ opining about the Washington Post's report that John Kerry is being considered to replace Leon Panetta as SecDef. I don't know that I can actually imagine anything more insulting: [url="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324735104578117152449022528.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion"]http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324735104578117152449022528.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion[/url] [url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-considers-john-kerry-for-job-of-defense-secretary/2012/11/12/8a0e973a-2d02-11e2-a99d-5c4203af7b7a_story.html"]http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-considers-john-kerry-for-job-of-defense-secretary/2012/11/12/8a0e973a-2d02-11e2-a99d-5c4203af7b7a_story.html[/url]

The engineer in me was holding my breath the whole time thinking, "Man, this thing's got a high center of gravity!"

The interesting thing, to me is going to be when all of the rats start abandoning the sinking ship. I expect we may see more than a few trying to cut deals to save their skin.

You know, it's interesting that David Petraeus is still very well respected despite this "personal failing." I don't condone what he's done, but I think a lot of people recognize this for exactly what it is. He was forced out before he made the administration look bad. I have faith that we will hear the whole story. I hope General Petraeus gets to tell his side of things. I hope he doesn't show up dead in a few months. I think we'll hear what happened simply because the administration is trying to cover up too much, and too many people are involved. No way to suppress all of them.

All they lack is someone playing the role of deepthroat.

That's nice!

I'm wishing they would have taken the UN election observer out of my library and put him up there.

With all of the depression setting in regarding the election and the general state of the economy, I'd thought I'd post something that brought a smile to my face today. Note, that as much as I want to dismiss this magazine as Guns and Ammo crossed with an issue of Vogue with a dose of Real Simple mixed in, I've enjoyed something in every issue I've seen thus far. The following is pure unadulterated genius: [img]http://gardenandgun.com/files/111_0.jpg[/img] [url="http://gardenandgun.com/article/krispy-kreme-creme-brulee"]Krispy Krème Brûlée Recipe[/url] This may be better than the slutty brownies that got posted earlier this year. Anyone who tries this recipe either needs to invite me over or post a review immediately. Or both...