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Good stuff. My education requirement for the day is met. Now I can do stupid stuff. Because of our failure with VC Summer 3 I've closely followed the GA Power project. Those 2 utilities had different philosophies on PR. SCE&G was a keep quiet and just work, company. GA Power proactively was in the news. The VC unit was years ahead of the GA unit and the budget was lower. Lower only because of a more favorable site condition. VC's failure was a plus for GA Power. Many of the tradesmen went to GA Power providing them additional workers with specific knowledge. They had already performed the required tasks at VC and applied that knowledge to accelerate the work without making the mistakes that occurred at VC. Jump forward a few years and they have 2 operational units. Now that we know the actual cost, where in the US will the next AP1000 be built? Interesting that the 4 operational units and 6 under construction in China aren't talked about. In China there's much less oversight from things like an OSHA or NRC. With the implosion of Westinghouse and Toshiba, I'm wondering who owns the blueprints/control documents for the plant. Westinghouse never finished them, they were creating them as the plant was under construction. That, and NRC review, was a major slowdown with VC construction. Maybe it's the Canadian investment group that bought the organization. I've lost track of these type details but am glad to see the GA Power units finished and operating.

I'm most concerned about that word "usually." It's my understanding that one can wear lace undies without being labeled a cross-dresser.

No doubt, it's sad. In some cases the laws for animal abuse are stricter or more quickly applied than human abuse. I'm glad that the animal lovers rally together to go after anyone that abuses an animal. That doesn't happen in human abuse cases.

Joe - I don't follow them either. The ones I see are on the daily local and national news. Typical, "the border is secure", type things. A quick search shows plenty written about by various media sources. I get it, you work for the ones that hired you. They have direction they're going and it's her job. Yeah for loyality.

The person decided to cancel the shipment to avoid the risk of the hotel accepting the delivery and it never being returned to her. Even though it was not delivered 5 days after the one-day delivery fee was paid, she had to pay $17 to have it returned to her. The cancellation fee is non-refundable. Apparently this is their policy. Escalating and talking to a manager is worthless. She talked to her peers in Atlanta they told her that it's a well-known fact that the Atlanta PO is understaffed and it's common for mail to be lost or take 5-10 more days to be delivered. If a carrier is out sick that route is just ignored and it takes days for them to catch up.

So much that's occurring makes no sense. Trump is being prosecuted for things that many experts say have no basis in law. Each time a new trial starts his poll numbers improve. Then he campaigns in his off-minutes at a NY bodega and a construction site. It's as if he's becoming a symbol of the little man fighting the big man. The Fani Willis case is falling apart based on her actions. The Bragg case in NY is becoming more comical by the day. It appears that the Supreme Court may rule on presidential immunity causing some charges to be dropped and/or cases delayed. One has to wonder if there's a group of Democrats that don't want Joe reelected and they are the ones in the background pulling the strings. The more airtime Trump gets with these cases the more popular he becomes, and, like 2016, it's free campaign advertising.

Not sure why they would want to fire her. It's incredible how well she can keep a straight face while spewing twisted facts and gnormous lies.

The USPS has declined far too much, to the point that's it's unreliable. Someone came to my house on Monday from Charleston on the way to Atlanta on a business trip. She left something important in Charleston. On Tuesday her hubby had it sent to her hotel in Atlanta Next Day Delivery. The cost was $30 plus $17.50 for Tracking. By Friday it still had not arrived. Tracking indicated that it had not left Charleston. Her options were to have the hotel refuse delivery or cancel the delivery for a fee. The response from USPS was, "If you come to our office we'll refund the $30 if you can prove what you're saying." How does this make any sense? They take no responsibility, don't care and there's no recourse. We're wondering if it will ever arrive at the hotel and IF the hotel will remember to no accept the delivery.

The 2017 eclipse went directly over my old house on Lake Murray. Monday was an off-day at the DZ, had one heck of a party. It was strange - the wind stopped, temperature dropped, birds stopped, frogs started then reversed.

In general we agree on much more than we disagree on. I guess, for you and I, the middle is fairly wide, at least we're not in the extremes. I know you know guns. We've, pleasantly, discussed that. We've discussed the semi vs. bolt action hunting topic and I said I prefer bolt. As for the helicopter pig guys. I doubt the government would ever do anything on private land, and yes there are options to pig control other than helicopters. Seems that the private land owners found a way to do pig control and have customers pay for it. Good marketing, companies called HeliBacon and Aerial Assault. Last week I saw an ad for it in GA. Don't think we've talked directly about the 2nd, if not we've certainly talked all around it. It may simply be too big to change but that doesn't mean that laws can't be enacted. I'm no constitution scholar and have no clue about how hard that would be but maybe it does need changing. Yes, I have friends with all kinds of AR style guns, none of them hunt with them. One guy is ex-special forces and owns numerous automatic weapons. He does the Bonnie and Clyde re-enactment week in Louisiana as Clyde and has a couple operational "Tommy" guns. The other 3-4 I'm thinking about just enjoy shooting them. Fun to shoot but not my thing. Yes, some of them might not turn them in if that became a law. One guy in particular is especially paranoid and will not buy a gun from a dealer, he thinks there's a secret database. Most others I know with guns, at most, own a shotgun, a .22 and a couple handguns. The only semi I've owned was a shotgun, Remington 1100, sold it 25+ years ago.

I guess you don't watch or hear things from TV or other media outlets. You can put AOC (and some other politicos) and the stars of The View on the list. There are plenty others. I freely admit that the problem has become much smaller than it was just 5 years ago. Nothing nutty about wanting gun control. It's the behaviors that can be nutty. To avoid a reply - I said "can be" not "are." They are nutty when the person doing it uses all kinds of incorrect terminology and facts. To add another factor, to me it's nutty to just go after military style rifles when they are only a tiny part of the problem. Reverting to what I've said many times ... wanting laws that are enforceable, legal and reasonable is great. I'm all for that and have listed many that IMO are enforceable, legal and could be passed. Gun confiscation and destruction isn't a workable solution and that's a position that some advocate. We've seen plenty of laws passed that the Supreme Court has knocked down. There are a recent cases in NY, CA. MD and OR. Why pass laws that will be reversed? Elections are a thing - some will do anything to create the appearance of gun restriction. To me it's a waste of time, time that could be spent working on acceptable laws.

Good afternoon Joe, or maybe lunch time for you. Since gun purchase laws are federal (except the extra ones passed in certain states) I'd like to see the federal law expanded to include private party sales. Some states require private sales to go thru an FFL or at least to have the background check done thru a licensed dealer or some other designated entity. That practice is more widespread than I thought. This article has a list of required actions for private party sales. Private Gun Sale Laws by State - FindLaw These are the two laws in SC, some states go further, some less. Note that most of these laws use the term "transfer." I'm assuming that means change of ownership to prevent someone from "gifting" a gun to another. Seems that would also cover transfers to a family member. S.C. Code Ann. § 16-23-30(A): May not transfer firearms to anyone who is prohibited from possessing them under state law. S.C. Code Ann. § 16-23-530(B): May not knowingly transfer firearms to anyone unlawfully in the United States. As to what guns and ammo to cover. The laws above cover all firearms but not ammo, and don't cover private party transfers to peeps than can legally have one. I'd like to see background checks done on all firearm transfers. For a few reasons, IMO, trying to manage ammo would be quite difficult if not impossible. 1) there's so much out there, 2) it's easy to find, 3) reloading isn't difficult, 4) no serial numbers, and 5) it would create another huge underground economy. Of course, that excludes ammo that most regular people aren't supposed to have. Armor piercing, etc. It's concerning that there are particular rounds like Flechette bullets, "exploding" ammo, bolo rounds, and Dragon's breath that are legal in many states. I don't see any real purpose for those. But, the common hollow nose is illegal in NJ.

Sheesh. OK fine. Let's make it easy to follow so that you don't continue to misconstrue what I said. For me ... an anti-gun nut is someone ranting and raving about guns without having any facts or understanding of what they are talking about. They sound like idiots when they talk about "all those automatic" guns, "shooting hundreds of bullets a second" and all the other misstatements they make. Cue the famous clip of Joe arguing with the Chrysler auto worker about guns, talking about an "AR-14" and telling the guy he was full of ++it, while denying what he said during his campaign about gun control. Uh, Joe, you said it, nothing goes away anymore. Yes, they can kill things. I'll disagree that's the sole purpose. Many use them simply as a form of recreation. Be that shooting flying clay targets, putting holes in paper, or chasing cans across field. If that's your idea of all the knowledge that's needed that's an awfully low standard. Anytime one tries to from a credible statement it becomes meaningless due to the inaccurate content. But, yes, anyone is free to say whatever they want.

Yep. That's another big problem that should be easy to fully or partially resolve. With the few firearms I've sold, an ID and a copy of the CWP was required. That stopped one guy from obtaining a gun, at least from me. In SC the gun shows used to be "anything goes", including private sales in the parking lots. A couple years ago they changed that. No more parking lot sales and background checks are done on all transactions.

I'm not following your logic. What do you mean "clinging to it?" If you mean that folks should stop using it to support their argument on guns, IMO that make no sense. The law is what it is and lawyers will use the law as it's written. The racial undertone thing is laughable - look at where the description came from - the anti-gun nuts. As for the scary black gun phrase, as soon as the typical anti-gun nuts take 10 minutes to learn about guns I'll stop using the phrase. It's amazing to me how many stand up publicly to denounce those guns. Even Joe did it. They are clueless about caliber, operation, or anything else. They regularly use the term "automatic" as if all the black military looking guns operate in that manner. All they know is that it looks like a military gun therefore it's dangerous. That's ignorant and stupid. They either don't know or don't care that those type guns are about 3% of the problem. They don't know that the vast majority of semi-auto guns are sporting rifles and if they did ban those that look like a military weapon it still leaves a few million other semi-auto rifles that are just as dangerous. Are they so clueless as to think that if the AR platform disappeared that the criminals wouldn't simply switch to the other firearms? My point has been, and is, that banning that type gun will be almost meaningless. There are too many similar type firearms. The ban would have to include all semi-auto long guns that have the ability to accept a large capacity magazines. How long do you think it would take for the private sector to create high capacity magazines for the ones that don't currently have them? Case in point. Are you aware of a company called Infinite, located in (wait for it) CA!?!? They produce products that act like suppressors but aren't regulated and they're much cheaper than a suppressor. I just learned about these 2 weeks ago at a booth at an outdoor recreation trade show in SC. These peeps are going around the country selling this stuff. I stood by and listened while the Dept of Natural Resources guys questioned the vendor and examined the products. They confirmed that they were legal. As stated before, IMO, bump stocks, binary triggers, these products and others that have a similar effect should be banned. You seem to keep wanting to demonize me. At this point you should realize that I'm middle of the road on all this stuff. You state, ",,,, until folks like you get on board with the idea we have a problem with guns...." I've been clear and my position doesn't support your statement. Regardless of how many times you try to shove me into that corner it's just not true. You continue to make false accusations about my beliefs, gun ownership and other things. I'm not in the NRA, don't own an AR type firearm, or any type of semi-auto rifle or shotgun. Therefore, I have nothing to "give up." as you've stated. Kallend said, "Unfortunately you can WALK from Chicago to a gun store in Indiana in 15 minutes, buy a gun in a state with weak gun laws (ranked 30/50), then 15 minutes later be back in Chicago with a gun that you couldn't legally buy in Illinois." This points directly to a concern of gun owners. Disarming the law-abiding public won't be effective since criminals don't follow the law. It's also an example of a real smart guy that is clueless on the subject (or maybe he just spoke without thinking). It's basic knowledge that a non-resident can't buy a gun from a dealer. Your reply to his statement was, "... if serious gun laws were exacted those law abiding citizens like BillE would hide their guns in opposition." More unproductive and false demonizing. Is it possible to stick to the topic instead of using personal attacks?