Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619

It's ok with me. In addition to the above, the half-wit sidekick and, above all, the goofy suitor are pretty much ridiculous. On the other hand, the opening and closing shots are very good.

I'm a lawyer but know nothing of car battery law; this is a narrow specialty.

Never enough to be angry about, so let's get angry at weather forecasters!

I was never told that. I do remember it was one of the speculations.

Stagecoach Red River True Grit The Shootist

Yeah, but you were talking about "the love of the Quiet Man".....

Maureen O'Hara

He got what he wanted: attention and money.

Would that be an election year in Great Britain (no, they already had their election), Germany, New Zealand, Russia, India, Italy, Spain, France, on and on? Australia,, Ecuador, Brazil.... Our 'election year' is not everything, after all....

Most interesting post to me, because, I've said before, my career has been very similar in many ways to LL's. I tried my first jury case in 1975, having had a few bench trials earlier. Most of my career was defense of personal injury cases as well, products liability, highway design, malpractice, auto accidents, the whole gamut, though I also did a lot of commercial and business trial work. I retired 3 years ago, at age 69, after 44 years of practice. I tried my last jury case just 3 months before I quit. I keep my license active, but I do not practice at all anymore. I have been bombarded with all of the official e-mails from the State Bar and the counties about the impacts of the situation on practice, the shutdown of the jury trial system, and all of the collegial aspects so well described by LL that made for a wonderful profession and a fine career. In my case, I'm just glad that I retired a bit before this hit, so I never had to deal with it. I'm confident that if I hadn't yet retired, this would decide me. I'm with Utah Bob on the 'things will never be the same' front. I don't see how we can constitutionally end the in-person jury trial system-- certainly not in criminal cases, and if criminal cases can be tried, so can jury cases. But motion practice, depositions, etc. as LL says, may change, and I wouldn't want to practice under those circumstances, either. We who entered the Bar around the time that LL and I did were in some ways in the golden age of trial practice, or, as I sometimes put it to colleagues, the last of the golden age and the whole of the silver age! I am very grateful for it.

Masks don't impede "viruses" directly, obviously. They impede the broadcast of many droplets which contain viruses. Also obviously. It matters little if cloth doesn't filter free viruses, as long as it filters some virus-containing fluids. No harm may come from not wearing a mask indoors at a business, or harm may come. But wearing the mask involves no harm whatsoever. So the so-called 'controversy' doesn't really matter.

To me it's fairly simple: mask wearing does no harm. I wear one when I go into any business establishment, whether they require one or not. I don't wear one when I'm out in the open, on a walk, on a bike, in a parks, etc., because there are no distancing issues. It's obvious that the ingress/egress distinction is real and you don't need a host of studies to so conclude. In my own case, I'm a 72-year-old man disinclined to get into an uproar about it; wear it indoors in commercial establishments and help get it over with. If it cannot do harm in such circumstances, one should do it whatever the endless arguments and 'studies'.

tkNothing wrong with his opinions, but he did it in uniform in his patrol car. It's a political statement. Even if an agreeable one, he chose to use the format purposely. They told him to take it down, which was to be expected. He refused. He knew what he was doing and what would happen and it was deliberate, as he admits. The governor didn't tell him to take it down. His superiors in his department did.

I have been very happy for years with the Ruger Redhawk in 4" bbl.

In my own case I've just used these various stores for this and that. Like probably a lot of pards, if I go to Bass or anyplace else, large or small, I look at the ammo shelves and pick up a box of one caliber on another when the price is good. I haven't really got any store loyalty. Gun sales at Bass are getting to be a PITA like most big stores. Take a number; indifferent staff, etc. Of all the chains, the one I've had the most pleasant gun purchasing experiences with has been Big5. Of course, they have very limited selection and no handguns, but they have some good journeyman rifles and shotguns on good sales frequently. Their sales staff claim no firearms expertise. This great, because they are friendly and sell you what you want, and don't pontificate. I, too, try to buy mostly at the locals.