78pbass

wow, this thread is still going? That's impressive, really..

+1 As for the CCL issue, I'd love to see it here. Unfortunately Illinois is not going that way anytime soon. I don't think it would a deterrent for the nut jobs who are out to take out as many as they can then kill themselves at the end, but it would at least give a better chance of stopping them early on in their rampage. I have an anecdote you may like.. A good friend of mine and neighbor was enroute to southern IL on his bike. He's got his concealed and is quite law abiding. Well, when he got just shy of the IL border, he stopped for gas, took his a towel from his topcase (on the back of the bike) draped it over his hand and removed his pistol and holster from the small of his back to lock away. Before he got a chance to drop the magazine to lock in the tank bag (IL law states that the magazine and the gun need to be locked in separate compartments in a vehicle), some guy approached him about his bike. The conversation (and Sean is not social in nature) kept on while the other guy got out of the truck and it got serious fast. here's how the conversation went: Perp: what kind of gas mileage does that get Sean: 40's perp: speaking of gas, why dont you fill up our truck Sean: what? perp: you're gonna you fill up our truck (they start stepping closer) Sean: No, i'm not perp: yes you are! Sean: (calmly lifts towel concealing pistol) No, I am not. They then get in the truck and tear ass out of there. In this case, had he been a few miles further, he may have been mugged and hurt or worse. The CCL did its job the way it was designed.

To me, the only way to keep criminals in check is with a properly documented and regulated Concealed Carry Licenses like we have here in TX. Right now I have no statistics to support my thought, but the concept is if criminals want to commit a gun-related crime, they'd more likely think about it first if they believed ~20% of the people in the 'room' were armed. It could be a false idea, but I know that of the poeple I know with CCL, I regularly trust them all with my kids.

I'm still waiting for Alec Baldwin to move to Canada from the '04 election... +1

Bueno has a phrase for "without the fatty stuff" for all of their items. Its if you dont care about sodium, I had the tortilla soup light-style (no strips or cheese) and a grilled chicken soft taco and it was ~350 cal. Since i'm on an 1800 cal diet, I have to look hard at what I eat. Dickey's Turkey sandwich, oven potatoes and green beans is only 335 cal if you split the serving in half (which is a real portion - restaurants way overfeed us). In fact, you can do well by splitting most portions in half. The upside to doing this is that your dollar goes twice as far. My Dickey's lunch works out to be ~$3/meal for real food. Not bad, IMO