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The first time I came across that - Atlanta, maybe 15 years ago - I let them inspect my purchases. Because I was shocked. The next time they told me they need to check my purchases I ignored them and continue to push my buggy out the door. Once I have paid for that stuff, it becomes mine, and therefore it is nobody's business. At Sam's club I let them look. Because I agreed to that when I joined Sam's club. But I have not agreed to that at Walmart or Kmart or Target or Big lots or Lowe's or home Depot or any other place. As long as it's their merchandise, they can look at it. Of course, if they stopped me to look in my buggy while it was still their merchandise I would walk away and leave the buggy full of merchandise there. But once I paid for it it is mine, and ain't nobody got any business looking at it.

This is from a story. It is fiction. It is not real. So the 9th grader takes the SAT. Gets called into the office a couple of weeks later. Turns out he got the highest grade in the state. Not the highest grade of all the other 9th graders that took the test. The HIGHEST GRADE in the state. The principal is all excited. Going to be in the paper. "Our school taught somebody who got the highest grade in the state!! Boy howdy, ain't we a good school!!!" With the student's name and his photograph. Parents said no. "We don't want any publicity." You think the school would do what the parents wanted, which would prevent the school from getting good publicity? Or would they just go ahead and put the story in the paper anyhow? As I said - this is a story. It is fiction. And in the story they did what the parent wanted. But I find that slightly unbelievable.

All right Mr Dumpty. You say so.

Are you being funny? It's not Christian era and before Christian era, it's common era and before common era. This is not the year of our Lord 2025. This is common era 2025. And King Tut did not live 1400 years before Christ. He lived 1400 years before common era. This is so people can still use the same numbers for years, but not reference Jesus in any manner. Because that's offensive to some people.

My daughter can outshoot me. She has a J-frame 38 and a K-frame 357. She has others, but that 642 is her go-to.

I will echo the "fascinating" comment. But something I really liked about that video was when referring to dates he used the terms BC and AD. Not that CE and BCE garbage.

It should, but I bet it won't.

I recall a novel I read about the AC 47 in Vietnam. And one of the jobs of the load master was to shovel the empties out the door.

Would not open for me yesterday, but I just tried again and it did. Funny.

In Liberty Valance, they make much reference to "south of the picket wire".