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Nice! Thanks for all you do for the cause.

Thank you! But to be fair, I had the joke as soon as Sota made his post, and Krdshrk's post only improved it. But then I had to wait 5 agonizing hours for the right post that I could follow. Fortunately, Scorpio came through with the perfect set-up.

Well, she did agree to the 'Adult Play Date' that Sota offered. She didn't even flinch when Krdshrk suggested making it a three-way play date.

Griz offered good advice. I've bought all of my tires either through Tirerack or Costco for many years, and have great experience with both. Can't comment on Amazon, never thought to look there for tires. Tirerack does let you look up local installers, many of whom will let you have the tires shipped directly to them, and they break out all of the additional costs that can add up quickly...mounting, balancing, stems, disposal fees, etc. I think Costco lumps all that together and you can see what the add-on prices come to. Tirerack will have a LOT more options, and some great online tools to help you sort through them. I've seen the best prices bounce from one to the other. Costco does have $70 off 4 tires specials every month, alternating between Bridgestone and Michelin. A bit of trivia...Tirerack was one of the earliest big online sellers. You'd think it would have been some company selling computers or other electronics or a precursor to Amazon...but no, it was a small family business selling tires in Indiana that laid a lot of the groundwork for how we buy things today.

I've always found it easy enough.

Don't get hung up on genetics and bloodlines. I thought the important thing is what you identify as today.

Neither, but the press event was held at an elementary school, and he's not one to pass up visiting an elementary school.

One can be happy until the 3-gun match is over. But then one needs to go home to the big safe with all of the other guns in it.

Quick, somebody publish 3D printer files for making straws, just so we can watch the California AG bring suit to ban internet distribution of such dangerous information!

Agreed. See who benefits. Maybe you support the cause, maybe you will choose to pick another one.

True. But a big response here may be motivation for kicking off an actual recall drive. Plus, signing it just FEELS so good.

Similar experience to many here, I think. I have US LawShield. But I've never used it, so I really don't know how good or bad it might be.

Fast assembly with a round chambered seems like a recipe for disaster.

Doesn't matter. I won this thread in post #2.

I don't imagine it would calm the author down any to know that the .223 he's so freaked out about generates less kinetic energy than virtually any other rifle ever made, .22 and the other small rimfires excepted.

And no means to light them...

Just label the crates 'laser pointers' and load them on the boat.

The only soccer team I've followed in my entire life just emerged from a cave in Thailand.

They could spread some of that movie money around to the organizations that funded the rescue.

Satellite phone and a cold 12 pack.

I agree with Mrs. Peel. It was a much better outcome than I expected. Just waiting now for the diving doctor and the last of the rescue divers to get out. Kudos for everyone on the outside for the fiendish amount of work they invested in the rescue, and to everyone on the inside for holding it together long enough to get out.

This was 6 or 7 years ago, but when our dog blew out his ACL, our vet said she could fix it...she'd done those surgeries before, but wasn't a specialist, or she could have the local expert do it. Difference in price was maybe 3X and the dog was getting old enough to be less active than he had been, so we had our vet do it. It worked out fine, and I think the cost came in closer to 2K. Lotta variables, of course, but it might be worth inquiring about less expensive options.

Congrats! And, no pressure of course, try not to have the chalk cloud reveal the gender when the unscathed clay bird hits the ground. :-)

I've never been a submariner, though I've dived on a few subs in the north Atlantic. I've been an avid SCUBA diver for decades; mostly shipwreck exploration, so I've got a lot of experience with wreck penetration, deep dives, mixed gas (trimix), staged decompression, and a bit of cavern and easy cave diving. And what they're facing in Thailand is way beyond my skill set. It is daunting to think of getting inexperienced kids out of there on SCUBA, certainly with zero vis in the three sumps they'd have to dive through, and particularly through the one tight passage that won't permit a diver and tank through simultaneously. Those circumstances are about as panic-inducing as any I can think of, and panic there would be fatal. I've had classes that included getting really stuck in a tight cave passage, and losing all visibility in a silt out, but on separate dives, and with the full knowledge that the locations were carefully chosen by the instructor as the spots where they take all of their students to experience getting stuck and silted out. That's a very different thing than what the kids would be facing, and I really hope one of the alternate plans works out. Since they can, with some effort, get supplies and oxygen back to the kids and the coach, and they have volunteer medics back there, they do have time to wait and get this right. More flooding will mean longer sump dives for the rescuers hauling supplies, but the chamber where the kids are isn't expected to flood. There are some mini subs (underwater drones, kind of) in civilian hands being used for cave exploration, but I don't know that any are capable of dragging cables and and tanks and transiting the dry sections between sumps (though they could be helped over by humans). They're all guided visually, as far as I know. Presumably the oil and gas industry and the military have much more capable hardware, but I suspect the problem is that none of it has been designed for this particular problem.

The Washington Post just published an article labelling Hardiman an extremist on gun rights, who if named to the supreme court could vote to strike down gun laws in NJ, NY, and CA, leading to an increase in legal gun ownership and concealed carry. The Post seems to view this outcome as an extinction-level event. Hardiman labeled an extremist on 2nd amendment rights So, I'm liking Hardiman.