Impartial_Observer

In honor of the passing of one of the all time greats:

Being a male, you understand you can't do this by yourself........ right?

We'll send lawyers, guns, and money!

I've been privy to some of the numbers of doing this. My opinion is you can't justify the initial cash outlay. Consider it a capital improvement, much like renovating/new construction of a facility. Once it is installed, maintenance/replacement is justifiable. From what we have seen from early adopters, the surface itself will last 10-12 years. With the cost associated with surface replacement it is cost effective if you're spending anything at all in maintenance on your grass surface.

If I had a dime for every time someone spelled my name Brain, we'd all have a merry Christmas.

Using your Occam's Razor analogy, isn't there a paradox? Shouldn't murders as a whole have risen in proportion to the number of guns in circulation? The gun manufacturers have never tried to hoodwink the market there are anything more than what they are. I'm pretty sure you won't find any studies that indicate how healthy it is to be on the business end of a firearm. I'll grant you we've been down this path before and it's pretty much fruitless. I have always maintained that to live in a truly free society there are inherent risks involved and I stand by that. Statistically there is still a far greater chance I'll be killed by a driver illegally driving drunk going home tonight, than I have of being shot by a kid illegally possessing a firearm.

US manufacturers working to increase sales and gain market share, this is outrageous, when did this start happening? Alas we get to the crux of the matter, who gets to decide an individual's needs?

Count me in for a donation to install an escalator to and from the field!

1=Apples 2=Oranges 3=Ridiculous

At some point alternative fuel vehicles are going to grow to numbers that matter. With a fair chunk of our roads being funded by fuel taxes, there's obviously going to be an issue. And no doubt as cars become more hi-tech, roads themselves will follow a similar path and most likely become more costly. Cummins announced just this week the opening of a new facility in Columbus dedicated to electric propulsion. So there is a paradox coming, but timing is everything, and this ain't the time. My guess is Illinois facing already tight money issues, saw a chance to add everything they can.

Take your pick. Prior to the last meltdown of this forum I posted stats from mass shootings and the presence of mental illness and psychiatric drug use. I'll concede the point, you guys are right, we need more gun laws, especially in light of how well our current laws are working and being vigorously prosecuted.

In one of the articles linked, at least one of the shooters was using drugs, "legal and illegal" and had been in therapy. As I have stated before no one wants to look at the white elephant in the room, there is a recurring theme in "most" of these shootings and everyone refuses to see it.

I still find myself today going back and watching clips on youtube of the old Carol Burnett Show. Conway was brilliant, and Harvey Korman never got his due as a comedic actor in my opinion.

This stuff is so played.

I believe you are correct. In fact I've heard media personnel talk about the fact his name was readily available on social media, but they were honoring the fact he was a juvenile.

Recovering over the weekend from a long vacation, I fell asleep in the lazy boy Saturday night early, must have been 7:30ish. Woke up about 3:00am, hungry. So I headed to Waffle House about 3:30. Oddly enough a nice policeman pulled out and followed my for about the last mile and a half of my journey all the way to the parking lot. Long story short TD, while I understand what you're saying about a criminal element in the early morning hours, I didn't see anyone in the Waffle House that fit the bill, other than possibly the cook, he was a surely lookin dude. And I apologize for not contacting you about going to the Waffle House @gonzoron it was a last minute decision.

Poor parenting!

I have to agree with TD here, I believe this does bring their judgement into question, there are way nicer places. I'm not going to lie here fellas, strip clubs just don't hold the appeal to me that they did when I was a few years younger. That being said showing up at a strip club with a couple of lesbians and buying one of them a lap dance......well that's a game changer.

Perhaps it is a generational thing, but I find it odd an American male doesn't know who Alfred E. Neuman is.

I have no idea, but if I were a betting man, I'd bet he's just a normal dude. Perhaps you're the anomaly here Muda? Personally I've been to professional training events, and have managed to not only learn a little, but have a little fun while there. I just don't see the issue.

Key word in my post trained. All good questions. My main point, if I am trained and have an Indiana LTCH, why can't I defend myself with a firearm in a school or similar soft target?

Peggy Lipton.......I know there are some on here who remember The Mod Squad, I had a major crush on her as a yute. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/12/us/peggy-lipton-dies-of-cancer/index.html

Are you against trained LTCH teachers being armed in school? School personnel can already have firearms on school property with authorization from the school board.