kawisixer01

Funny, I've had pistols on my person at many parties and they have never suddenly pulled themselves out and started shooting. I've been at several house parties where I knew for a fact that other people were concealed carriers and our pistols never drew themselves and started dueling with each other. We must have really well behaved pistols.

I make it a point to groan loudly and flush frequently when I hear someone in a restroom on a phone......

Don't get much better than a 700. It's one of the most highly regarded arms ever made. Ruger 77 is a nice rifle as well. I was just looking at a stainless/gray laminate in .300 wm not long ago. Ruger also makes a pretty sweet .308 bolt gun with detachable mag (scout rifle).

Not sure if this is similar to what your looking for? Been wanting to go on one of these locally but seem to travel to much to be able to get on one. http://worldwidephotowalk.com/

There's a dealer literally a mile from my house (johnson tractor Janesville WI). Too late in the day now, but I can give them a shout tomorrow if you need.

lol he posted on his FB that they found the cameras within 20 minutes. Video was recovered on all three, 2/3 still work fine.

lol interesting how the article refers to them as "toys". They are far from "toys".

The debates are a complete joke anyways. People like Ron Paul had a rapidly growing base in the last election and the media purposefully blacked him out, marginalized his ideals, and gave limited coverage. The debates are nothing but a scripted show. Unbelievable that things like the demeaning and downright rude treatment that Biden shoveled out to Ryan are even considered "fair and moderate". If anything, learning about the debates, their rules, and behind the scene agreements has done nothing more than to erode my faith that there are "seperate" political parties in this country versus what really amount to two brands of cola. I want a damn Mt dew.....

lol yup. My first cutaway at like jump 50, walked in threw my rig down in the packing shed and a guy walked over and handed me his second rig and said "get your ass back on that horse now or you might not ever again". I had three more awesome jumps that day.

That's awesome. Let me know when there is a nationwide network of these exchange stations (you know...outside of silicon valley) so that I could drive coast to coast without interruption as fast as I would in a volt. Not discounting their progress (in fact cheering them on), and to be long term successful this is a very important step. But the fact stands I can easily drive coast to coast, or even into BFE, and not have to worry the least bit about a fuel source for a volt, worst case is I have to fill up with petrol and get amazing fuel mileage.. If I had to pick one to buy tomorrow in the current climate I would buy the volt.

Actually I dunno. Yoga is certainly good. But things I have been reading lately have cited studies showing stretching immediately before performance actually reduces performance.

No libertarians promote free markets and the govt staying out of business, and people confuse libertarians with conservatives because they may have one or two beliefs in common. Majority conservatives and majority Dems play the same tune. MORE govt, MORE market manipulation, MORE regulation. Just different flavors of the same crap, and the little guys lose all around.

Because a weapon may have been developed or later modified for the military doesn't mean it is strictly a military weapon. Often times features are built in for cost savings. Nearly every AR made today has a spot on the barrel where a grenade launcher can be mounted, yet nobody attaches grenade launchers to their AR, especially those like me who use their AR's for hunting. It is a feature inherent to the manufacture that keeps costs down because one set of tooling is used. Banning a firearm due to a "feature" is completely illogical and shows the ignorance of anyone who would write laws based on them. The very things that make a firearm "good" are traits that multiple users would want. Compactness and light weight are as important to the guy humping over peaks and valleys chasing deer as it is to the guy doing the same chasing Taliban. Accuracy, durability and lack of failure are is important to the guy hunting enemy in the jungle as they are to the guy sitting through the rain and sandy conditions in a Northern Wisconsin spring turkey hunt. Often the military adopts things that sportsmen have proven in the field long ago. It's like saying a jeep is "military" and should be banned because it has tow hooks and a winch for going through off road conditions and was once used by the military.

Congrats on the new job! Whitewater is a great town. Small town but with a great college vibe. Whitewater puts you pretty much equal distance from Milwaukee and Madison. But if you want to live closer to big city I'd lean more towards Milwaukee than Madison, Madison tends to be higher priced in my opinion. There's Waukesha, and Delafield areas. I'm not sure on school quality. I know Whitewater itself has great schools. Mukwonago is on hwy 43 just south of Milwaukee and East troy/skyknights is just up the road. If you end up actually leaning towards the small town vibe in the end Fort Atkinson and Whitewater are great towns. There is a great Cessna drop zone in between Fort Atkinson and Jefferson that gets a ton of jumpers from the west Milwaukee/Madison/Whitewater area (My home DZ) along with the mentioned seven hills more north of there in Marshall. You are more than welcome to drop into my DZ (Atmosphair skydiving) to chat when you're here. A couple folks at the DZ just moved over to the West Milwaukee area and could likely give much better advice.

Similar to how I feel. 90% of my commercial flights are 1.5-2 hours on regionals, so not much difference between seating anyways. I would prefer if everyone would just get their ass on the plane so we can get airborne. I think it's rather stupid the "levels" of boarding and all the other bullshit around just getting your ass on the plane so we get out of there. (and this coming from someone who's platinum) It turns what should be a 10 minute procedure into a long and drawn out sometimes 30 minute or more ordeal. Most of us on this page are happy and content to spend the better part of our weekends packed into jump planes like sardines, it's a bit comical the same group would be so concerned about where they sit on commercial flight.

I know a number of vets. Some from Vietnam, some from Korea, some from both conflicts and more. Many of these guys have numerous awards of valor, many of them did and saw things they will never speak of. All of them are humble guys that wear their service with honor and pride and will gladly talk about it when the subject comes up, many of them you would never even know served unless you pried it out of them. They came home, put their ribbons and bars in the closet and went on with their lives never expecting another thing from society in return. And there is folks like seems to be more and more common today. They also are proud of their service and rightfully should be....but they also expect things in return and try to use it as a license to get extras or see it as license to at like an asshole. Like the girl in a Lake Tahoe convenience store in line in front of me who badgered and denigrated the poor 16 year old girl running the register because she wouldn't give her a "military discount" when she asked for one, or the guy in the bar a few weeks ago playing tough guy giving everyone shit, trying to start fights, and then claiming his asshole attitude should be excused because he served in Afghanistan. Anyone who dare call him out for being the douche bag he was acting like was automatically labelled as being unpatriotic and unappreciative of his service. I'm just gonna gander this whole incident has just a tinge of said behavior.

I couldn't see anything last night. Was supposed to be above and to the right of the moon?? I looked about 8:30.

I read mass media, I am related to a doctor, I am close friends with multiple nurses. I don't literally experience with my own two eyes, but I consider when I read about something and talk personally with people in the field that I am "seeing" things in the sense. Interesting in all of the points I made in my post you would take issue with the use of one word and address it, rather the actual talking points of the post though.

I think what people are hinting at with tort reform is that we seem to have lost quality and affordability in our health care because of law suits. I've heard of wonderful doctors leaving practice or leaving the country because of our current situation. Doctors over test the hell out of every person who walks through the door "just to be safe" and cover their ass. We seem to forget that doctors are human and make mistakes. They are expected to make extremely rapid life dependent decisions in the blink of an eye with very limited information, and then we have the nerve to stand back and ridicule those decisions a year down the road in the comfort and quiet of a review board room. I see cases where a doctor in an ER receives someone on the brink of death, and outright saves that persons life, only to be sued two years later because the jerk who was saved now feels he got jipped because he can't feel his toe, or walks with a limp due to one very tiny error by the doctor in the rush to save this guys life. The whole thing is that it seems people are not grateful for anything a doctor does for them anymore, they expect perfection and sue like hell when they don't get it. When someone receives a huge payday against the medical community we all pay for it.

I work in machine automation....a raise in the minimum wage would likely drive a significant increase of business in my field. Whatever industry non-service work minimum wage folks are still working in would be driven into automation or off shoring even more. I have seen many automation projects delayed or put off due to not hitting a targeted return on investment by just a couple of percentage points. Any significant forced raise in labor costs would easily increase those roi to the level sought to move forward on those projects. Talking to the folks I know in the service industry, their profit margins are very small already, any forced wage raises in service industries would be directly passed to the customer. So how exactly does that help people? A raise followed immediately with a comeasurate raise in cost of living does nothing to help people.

Shotguns can be substantially more deadly than any rifle out there. The amount of projectiles, and their size inside of one shell is pretty wild. Biden's suggestion just completely shows his lack of knowledge of ballistics and gun laws as well. This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0o7YgiTFm4 shows an interesting perspective of shotgun vs. semi-auto sporting rifle. The fact that no mass killer has used a shotgun loaded with a buckshot round just reinforces the fact that the typical mass killer is not a law abiding gun enthusiast that has the least bit of knowledge about ballistics. I would much rather face a guy with an AR than a guy with a shotty and heavy load.

YAY!!!! Yea I had just read the article and headed over here to update the thread. You beat me to it. lol

Apparently you've never lived in climates that gets below freezing regularly with a manual transmission. It was once common in manual transmission vehicles to avoid using your parking brake during freezing times. You could run around for a couple days in rain and above freezing temps, park your car with the parking brake, and come out of work 8 hours later with a temperature now very much below freezing and a parking brake cable filled with now frozen water which wouldn't release it's death grip. I'm sure we should have thrown that whole car design away because of that little flaw though right?

I know Americans have like a 2 day political memory, but really? Obama was in charge when the whole Iraq fiasco happened? This isn't about Obama, it isn't about Bush...it's about every president we've had for the last 20 or so odd years who have progressively deteriorated our rights and us sheep citizens who have sat back and watched, pointing our fingers at partisan bull shit while blind to the fact that it's obviously not a partisan problem, as our two parties have become two of same flavor. The same sheep people scream "the govt must do something!" well they are, I hope your very small fake sense of security is worth the huge personal freedoms and liberty you have traded for it. In the end the terrorists have won. They sought out to negatively impact our lives and end our freedom loving flag waving way of life. The funny part is they don't have to spend a dollar to do it, don't have to invade us...just have to do something scary enough every couple years to feed our fear and make us call for our govt to do something.....and they do, exactly what the terrorists want done to us.

lol look at the stellar visual clarity in the canopy when it's open. The edges look like they are wavy and covered in body filler. Looking at the cockpit there doesn't look to be anything to create structural integrity around the cockpit. I would think you'd be seeing some gussets and spars. Nope just empty cavity. That's a cute little model set they have there.