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Nail hit on the head. I waited until I was 37 to get married. Why? My philosophy; "My wife needs to have a hobby and that hobby can not be me." I married a writer/bookworm and former horse jumper. I can't live with a woman that has absolutely nothing for a recreational life. They have their place but why spend all that time with a person putting you under a microscope?

He was shootig a bow with a half naked chic on the hood of his car though.

+1 I was in Iraq the last time Fox ran a story like this and it was a huge SHTF 'cuz the CSB was from Idaho and we were from NYC. People flick their fingers into nonsense BS too, even if they aren't in a gang, for a picture. Idaho couldn't get that through their heads. Funny... yet not.

every time I fill out the forms for unemployment I get another offer. Sure I have been up and down in the salary department but it makes no diff if you are living below your means. Prior to the recession I had always been freelance so I always lived in the box of 'what if?' Ya, I'd like to make what I made before, but you have to pay into the IRA's and the mortgage. Forget the fluff. I really feel for those with kids. I have none but I can just imagine the financial struggle and the relationship issues in this climate.

One of the more interesting articles on the situation I have seen.

Note to self, donate money to SAF!

Ordered. Thanks

WTF? Bitter or resentful because he went to serve his country? He didn't take time off for a vacation. What is wrong with these people? That is only part of the story of what is happening all around the country. At least 17 of the 170 guys I deployed with got screwed out of their job by some loophole or plain old BS. The favorite thing for an employer to do is change the job title and claim that the position was elimnated. Depending on how much effort they put into the manipulation, it can usually work.

That is so awsome! Kinda akes you wish someone made a little medal you could give him.

No. I'd prefer a 12 gauge with an X-full turkey choke and high brass 4s. Head shots with donation to soup kitchens. Everybody eats, everybody wins. That being said, go hug a tree, Maryalice. Again, your definition of a man falls far short of mine

Yea but in a state where you can't even pump your own gas ...

Hey. Well I am ready to serious start looking into this. I think my first step is to get a good book on the subject. At the moment I only have 9mm and I think I would like to concentrate on that to cut my teeth. Any reccomendations?

http://www.military.com/news/article/us ... ESRC=eb.nl Its about time. Way too many of my comrades get screwed after they deploy and have no idea what to do with it or how to fight it. USERRA is the congressional act that holds a deployed soldier's job for them when they are mobilized/deployed.

We could shoot clays off of that at Cherry Ridge!

I don't want to start yet another controversial thread here but, Could you (the collective you) take a job gassing Geese to death with a portable gas chamber?

I'm a cigar aficionado as well... I don't throw my butts away. I snip 'em into an ash tray then dispose of 'em properly. Ya. And failing that I will smear them on pavement until they cruble to little bits. Its just leaves after all, the epitome of biodegradable. Cigarette filters are far less so.

Many years ago my friends development banned smoking on the their private beach because a kid stepped on a still lit one with her bare feet. There is something about cig smokers though that just says you MUST chuck your lit butt on the ground. My next door neighbor always comes around the corner to her driveway and chucks the butt out on the curb in front of my house. Sure, its on the curb, but she will toss 3 or four a day in the same spot. WFT? put it out in the ashtray and then empty that in the trash. How hard is that? BTW, I am not against smoking. I prefer cigars myself.

I would be compelled to think what is wrong with these people. When my sons were young and lived at home I don't think anyone knew. If I was asked, I would not answer. I think it is rude to ask that question. I would nicely tell them it's none of their effing business. My kids are grown and have their own homes now. Present time everyone knows I have guns and am extremely radical and dangerous. :violence-guntoting: Many parenting experts advise parents to make sure that they ask these questions. http://www.parents.com/kids/teens/violence/is-there-a-gun-in-the-house/ It is fast becoming a parental "no-brainer." I, for one, can understand the concern. I know there are gun owners that do not put them in a safe and quite frankly I would be reluctant to let my child in a house where they were not. I remember the kinds of mischief that I was capable as a kid. I am not so naive to think I am the only one.

or "Tramp's Terror"

Sweet, now I just need to move to Seattle, pick up a drug habit and become famous! (because everyone knows you don't actually need to know how to play) Nice, what'd you get? oh, Ibanez. Always Ibanez. I play lefty so there is never to much to try before I buy. This friend of a friend had been trying to sell the lefty bass forever and decided he had had enough. Gave it to me for $50. Right handed models are going for $300 So I think I got a bargain

I'd be plenty happy to write crap loads of stuff about anything but I am hardly an expert

Glennp and edge are my new best friends! (don't think I don't know where you got edge from ) I just picked up a bass guitar 2 weeks ago after years with a guitar. Great fun

Interesting interpretations but I realize now I owe you all an explanation as to why I ask. It's not a trick so don't worry. I don't have kids but I am right on the same page with damagedworld when it comes to no excuse for skipping a safe. My guns are in a safe with two locks, one lock is a key, that key is in a mini-vault. Both are bolted down from the inside, no one short of a safe cracker is getting to them. I am all about preparing for the burgalar when I am not home. but I was at work the other day with a woman that I find has a VERY good head on her shoulders, a tech of sorts. We were talking about incidents with children (she worked at a news company) and I mentioned Bry@n's story about the sleep over mix up. After some discussion, (we had work to do) she said she learned the hard way what to ask before letting her kids play at another persons house. Her questions were in this order; 1. Do you have guns in the house? 2. Are they secure? 3. How familiar are your children with the use of firearms? (!!) This struck me as rather odd. She explained that her son went to a friends house, she had asked question 1 and 2 and was satisfied. What neither parent counted on was that the child that was so familiar with hunting rifles, and by all accounts very good with firearms and safety concious, suddenly took a big mental swing to where he wanted to show off to her son. Her son admitted that after he found out there were guns in the house, and that his mother knew about them and pproved the sleep over anyway, both kids both concluded that it was okay to handle them. They both got into a locked cabinet. Nothing happened but she got very upset when her son came home talking about how he got to handle a real rifle. It got me thinking about a few different tangents. First off, I don't have kids, but I have a platoon of neices and nephews. None of their parents EVER asked if I had a gun but there is really no reason they should think I do not. I just don't want to volunteer the information. As for my opinion, and I have been of this opinion for a while, is that if I have these guns in a safe, combination memorized, one key in existance and it is locked away so tight it would take a blow torch to get at it, Why admit you have guns? It will be one more person in the neighborhood that knows, another gossip that could shoot their mouth off, another way for a criminal to gain intel. This isn't so paranoid as it sounds. The next door neighbors have two beautiful kids about the same age as two of my neices and I could see them getting along well when they come to visit. But the father is this gangabanger wannabe that is abusive, a drug user and couldn't care less who knows he has a chip on his shoulder. Luckily he comes by once in a blue moon, lucky for me anyway. I sure as hell don't want this guy knowing what I have. I am a firm believer in OPSEC. That said, I don't think that you are required to answer a parents question about a gun in the house. I believe the law just requires you to keep them out of their reach. The only problem I see, hence the question, is if I say no I am lying. Morally wrong, sure, but overall I have little issue with it.