Ozark Huckleberry

How much could it mess ‘em up if we all went back at ‘em with praise and accolades for the insights?

Good call. Especially considering ‘JC’s recommendations of a Glock 17, an S&W M&P, etc. as excellent pistols for a ‘newbie’ the thread asking about pistols for novices. And who here calls anyone ‘partner’ instead of ‘pard’?

If I was using the garage just as a utility shed, I'd probably forego the garage door opener, as well. But all it takes is one time of pulling up to the house in a drenching Florida rain to appreciate having the little electric motor to crank the door up for me. Re the 'old school' double-sided latch -- seems to me there's not a lot of point to the extra mechanism/installation hassle, especially with a single-width garage door. On a related note, with the way most garage doors are made up these days, it seems you'd need some kind of solid filler (a wood block, maybe?) to give the lock something solid to keep it from being ripped out of the door.

I had a similar idea for clearing the camps out . . .

Hmm. What of the possibility it’s about stopping unlawful behavior? * ’increase enforcement’ — no more warnings, and allow for expired or counterfeit tag to be allowed as a primary cause for a stop, versus treated as an included/secondary offense. * ‘change laws’ — increase penalties, eliminate any vagueness or loopholes. Good on ‘em. I pay for my plates and registration — not too sympathetic for people who think they can get away with not doing so.

And the paper is probably a restraining order, based on how well it worked.

I had a dog that loved to ride the boat. Head out in the morning, he'd be right there, hopping around until he got lifted onto the bow. Then he'd do a Titanic, 'king of the world,' pose on the foredeck as we cruised down the creek. When we hit a fishing spot, he'd curl up under the helm until someone got a fish on -- then he'd be all anxious until the fish was netted. He'd inspect the catch, then return to his spot until the next hit.

This is my approach. Paper, no digital footprint. Something that can disappear into a shredder or handy fire. I know some folks are fine with it and that’s okay, but I’d no sooner put anything about my firearms into any online database than I’d have a ‘digital assistant in my home, and for generally the same reasons.

Watching the video -- the whip end of it coming around behind the person using it looks like it could be about as dangerous to the wielder as nunchaku.

To the question -- plenty of ransoms have been paid on already-dead hostages. If I'm not mistaken, the Lindberg kidnapping was one such case. It's why 'proof of life' is a thing.

If traffic is flowing, getting into the exit lane then merging back in isn't such a big deal. Oops -- my bad, turn signal, right back in. If traffic is backed up, it implies stop-and-go, or at least crawling along. Then it gets hard to tell the difference between someone who made a mistake, and someone who's trying to entitle themselves to jump a bit ahead in traffic. For my part -- if traffic is backed up, and in my mirror I watch someone pull out of the line of traffic, realize they've goofed and try to get right back in -- no problem, I'll even make room. But pull into the exit lane, be-bop to the last possible point, then want back in? Hell no. Take the exit.

Problems telling a boar from a sow? I’d suggest you stay out of Thailand.

ETC: If the shoe fits . . . . What I DID do, mainly, was point out your ignoring of the retail retail corollary of the economists’, ‘No free lunch,’ rule — when it comes to providing a service, nothing happens for free. Or maybe, the jerks who were trying to find a way to slow the rising cost of groceries, and save customers some money?

Guess Iran blew right through that steely-eyed, 'Don't,' warning. Maybe if he'd warned the mullahs that he'd take 'em out back and punch them in the face.

And where do you think Walmart gets the money to pay for the restocking? It gets rolled into price calculations. In other words -- the customer foots the bill, not Walmart. What isn't getting done because the clerk has to spend time trucking the basket around putting stuff back after someone's pitched a fit and walked out? How many man-hours get wasted, how many additional workers are required? What about the quality of the merchandise that has been handled, and re-handled, dumped into a basket, then shoved back on the shelf? Was some of that merchandise frozen/refrigerated goods that partially warmed before they got back into temp-controlled displays?

Hmm . . . Police today -- National Guard tomorrow? States Push Bills to Allow Illegal Aliens to Become Police Officers

Originally submarines were smaller, conducted shallow-water/littoral ops, and were only manned when underway (e.g., Bushnell's Turtle, CSS Hunley, et al.)-- hence, they were called boats. Even after submarines became deep-water, permanently manned ships, the term 'boats' stuck. ETA: The U.S. Navy. Sometimes it's centuries of tradition unimpaired by progress.

Besides -- isn't the Fortress of Solitude somewhere in the Arctic? Superman probably got a few tips from Santa Claus on negating the effects of atmospheric friction during hyper-sonic flight.

Au contraire

He allows for that by flying downwind.

Before I get flamed for this, understand -- it's nothing personal to anyone here. I respect y'all's opinions on self check-out, but just have a different perspective. Never really had a problem with self-checkout. If keeping costs down translates to better prices, then so be it. But then, I'm also the guy that grabs a cart from the lot on the way into the store since I'm going that way anyway (besides, I like to ride the cart across the parking lot sometimes -- especially if I can do it in full view of a mom with some eight-ten year old kids). Store with self check-out run on average twice the shrinkage (i.e. -- theft) that stores without it do. Part of that's error, part of it's intentional. I hear people talking about taking the 'employee discount' when they go through self-checkout and wonder how that's much different from the person who just tucks it under their jacket. And the clerk who checks the receipt at the door? Store policy. He or she's not making it personal with me, and I figure getting personal and being a jerk to the clerk isn't going to make my day any sweeter. If it does, I think it says something about me, not the clerk. I try to avoid giving store people a hard time -- I can't get away from the idea that they are my neighbors and even if it's a national chain, the clerk putting in a day's work lives somewhere within an hour's drive of me. I might not know 'em personally, but we're all in this together. It IS frustrating when the self-checkout machines don't work as they should, and the clerk isn't able to help. But I've seen the clerk-run checkouts malfunction also, and when that does, just watch the line of people who back up waiting for either the clerk to figure it out, or the head cashier to come, or the store manager.. Think they're any happier that they've waited in line and then get of stuck there while the one machine they've committed to gets sorted out? Some store clerks do get rude with customers and there's really no excuse for that, but they're probably not rude with the first customer who bitched at them. If a clerk gets a measure of me being an ass, it's likely that the the next customer they deal with gets exposed to my attitude as well. I haven't always had this attitude about the self-checkout issue -- maybe I'm just mellowing.

Close to St. Petersburg, as I recollect . . . .

Didn't misunderstand a thing. But as so often happens, there were actually two questions: Question 1: Answer 1: Don't know anything about your dream people, so we can't answer for them. Dream them up again and ask them yourself. Question 2: Answer 2: ETA: I was going to suggest something about a dead cat in a graveyard at midnight after an evil person had been buried, but then I remembered that was a cure for warts.

Anytime I start thinking no one could be THAT stupid, another election proves I have underestimated once again.