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It's not often that I am stunned anymore but this policy is flat out wrong, stupid, or whatever other adjective you care to use.  If the policy was applied to everyone...maybe...but I really don't think it is DOD's (or anyone's) place to encourage or discourage marriage of any kind.  Wonder how many folks will take the leave then decide that they really aren't right for each other and don't get married? I remember when if a soldier (male or female) declared himself/herself to be homosexual we had 7 days to initiate discharge proceedings.  Wanna guess how many used that to get out of their enlistment contract.  I could care less who marries who, or what, but I somehow resent the government encouraging/and or facilitating it.  Am I wrong or out of line?   http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/19/319488/dod-leave-for-samesex-marriage-criticized/  

I had two leisure suits older than you.  My wife gave them to Goodwill while I was out fishing.  Can't trust anybody.

Would it be because ASA went out around 1976? :usa: :cheers: 

Honor your own counsel....if You think You should.......You should.

First time I ever saw $1 gas was on the ALCAN at Muncho Lake, BC.  The guy's pump only had two digits so he just put an "X 2" in grease pencil beside the price.

I used to eat at a Gino's just down the road from Ft Myer, VA....on Glebe Rd.

Four Star Army General Carl Stiner, LaFollette, former Commander in Chief US Special Operations Command and coauthored the book Shadow Warriors with Tom Clancy.

I bought my first gun, a 12 ga Revelation shotgun, at a Western Auto store in McMinnville.  Now there's not many hardware stores that have a FFL and Western Auto has gone the way of the Dodo bird.

Got a somewhat interesting story.  I was stationed in Germany with an army LTC who I found out, while on a ski trip with him and his family, that he had flown a Huey during the battle of Ia Drang.  He had never talked about it before but happened to mention it while we were sitting in a Gasthaus tipping a couple one evening.  He was an interesting guy.  He was commissioned from the US Naval Academy, Annapolis however because he had injured one of his knees playing some intramural sports they wouldn't allow him to become a Naval Aviator.  He talked to the army and they accepted him into their helicopter pilot program.  Sounds strange but it is a fact.  He flew for many years then finished out his career as a MI officer.  He didn't talk much about the Ia Drang other than it was the most terrifying experience of his life.  There's never been any doubt in my mind that he was/is the real deal.  When the book "We Were Soldiers Once...and Young" came out I looked for his name and there it was on page 462.  The last time I talked to him he was retired and living in Durango, CO.  I'm proud to call him a friend.

I remember Nixon well also and yes I did vote for him.  I remember reading one time where he said that he had never owned a gun in his life.  Wonder what we would label him now:  RINO, FAL, etc?   http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Richard_Nixon_Gun_Control.htm

Judge was wrong.  Anybody remember when Frank Zappa named his daughter "Moon Unit Zappa"? 

Ethical a--holes?

This article says that he shot 13 rounds from about 25 feet away.   http://www.adn.com/2013/07/30/2999719/troopers-determine-bear-killing.html

I have a friend, Inupiat Eskimo, that was raised in Point Barrow, Alaska and now works in the Prudhoe Bay Oil Fields.  We were discussing this guy last week and he told me that when he was a kid his village elders consistently hunted and killed Polar bears on the ice pressure ridges north of Barrow with a .22-250.  He also said that many of his relatives still subsistence hunt with a .22-250.  With that said most, but not all, of the folks that I'm associated up there saddle up with a .300 win mag on the low end and most usually with either a .338 win mag or .45-70.  We just got back from a month in Alaska, annual trip, and I must say that in all of the years we've been going up there I have not seen one EBR.  I'm sure they are there  but I haven't seen one and we do a lot of traveling and interacting with folks while there.  On a side note you can walk in to just about any Kroger owned Fred Meyer's grocery/general merchandise store and walk out with a rifle, pistol and shotgun.  I was struck with the availability of just about any ammo except .22.  Nobody that I talked to has seen a round of .22 in a looong time. 

Around 3am today I woke up to see my wife standing on my side of the bed, in the dark, leaning over and whispering to me.  My first thought was to reach for my pistol on the night stand by the bed.  I did this, but my gun wasn't there. In the next couple of seconds many, many thoughts ran through my head;  was someone trying to get in the house, was someone already in the house, where's my gun etc. I remembered that I had shot and cleaned my bedside gun yesterday but while reassembling it I had received a phone call and must have left it by my recliner which is at the other end of the house.  I jumped out of the bed and ran into the closet to get my 870.  As I came back into the bedroom my wife said "Do you really think you need that shotgun?"  I said "Maybe, why?"  She said "I was just trying to tell you that I think that there's a mouse in our mattress!" :eek:  My heart rate had to have gone from about 70 to somewhere above 300 and was now starting to go slowly back down.  Anyway, the mouse wasn't in the mattress but was in the attic.  I got it with a Daisy M853 today.  Learned a few things and among them were;  Make sure your home defense weapon is where it's supposed to be - always - and find out what your wife is telling you before you try to get engaged.  I'm sure there are many more lessons learned in there but I don't think I'll be able to process them until my heart rate gets back below 100. First time in many years that I haven't had some kind of weapon within arm's reach. I just had to tell somebody about this without having to look them in the eye. :stunned:

You mean just like when the Tennessee Sheriff's Association came out of the woodwork at the last moment and bushwhacked the knife bill in the last legislative session?  Said they hadn't know the bill was being considered. Buncha BS.

I do too, but I also remember when the Democrats were way to the right of where most Republican politicians are today.

I saw that exact same Colt .22 ammo at a LGS in FL last week for $65 per 500 brick - no limit.  I thought that was overpriced until I saw the above CTD advertisement. Maybe I should have bought all he had then offered it for resale to CTD. :panic:

IMO Mayor Dean would love for the CMA, and anything remotely connected to country music, to depart on the next bus.

And the stupidity goes on and on.  If this was my child I would be seriously tempted to teach him to sign his name with his middle finger.   http://now.msn.com/school-says-deaf-boys-name-sign-looks-too-much-like-a-gun    

Both 1 and 2.

Ruger Blackhawk .44 mag 7 1/2" bbl.  I bought it new for $144.00 at the Fort Richardson, AK PX in March 1976. To this day I am more accurate with it than any other handgun I have ever owned and I have owned a bunch.  Don't know if that says less about me or more about the gun.

We've been going to IL for years on business trips.  We are always in rural areas and I always scratched my head when everyone we did business with were avid gun owners that seemed to not even know that there were very many restrictions on guns.  They knew they had to have a FOID to purchase ammo but seemed oblivious to any other restrictions.  I'm glad that someone finally woke up although I expect the other shoe to drop - restrictions that aren't obvious.  I certainly hope not but after watching the shenanigans from northern Illinois (my wife's father was an engineer at Caterpillar in Joliet and we were married there) I tend to be cynical where Illinois politicians are concerned.

Agreed. They may also make the very best Flounder sammich I have ever eaten.

Most of my wife's family live in Steinhatchee.  We've been fishing and scalloping there for many years.  Eating at Roy's tonight.