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Sports / VTTW Message Board / My son is coming in on leave and wants me to go with him but
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on: April 15, 2013, 07:03:44 EDT
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I've been suffering from back problems related to being stuffed in airplane seats for too long and Neyland's seats aren't a place of healing for such issues so I'm not sure if I'll go with him or wait and watch it Sunday. We're both optimistic over what's been printed regarding Butch so far.....it's been far too long since the Vol nation has had much to get excited about.
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General Boards / PolitiVOL / And I've seen studies that indicate exactly the opposite, it all
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on: March 07, 2013, 04:02:48 EST
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depends on the criteria used and methods employed. I don't need a study to tell me what I can discern myself....criminals, by definition, do not obey laws. What afflicts America is not lack of gun laws, it is a lack of morals that would dictate a respect for life and respect for others. People get angry for the most insignificant of reasons and are instantly ready to kill someone in order to alleviate an inconvenience or to administer retribution for a perceived offense. A gun in the hand of a good law abiding citizen, who respects the gun and understands how to safely handle the gun is a threat to no one. A person who has no respect for life or others is a threat to everyone whether they have a gun or not, they will find a tool that will allow them to rape, rob and kill.
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Sports / VTTW Message Board / Too many....Lonesome Dove is certainly in there, although
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on: March 01, 2013, 01:38:26 EST
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I don't know that it qualifies as a "movie". I'd have to include Unforgiven, Appaloosa, No Country for Old Men (I consider it a western), Red River, True Grit, Outlaw Josey Wells, Pale Rider (pretty much all of Clint's non-spaghetti westerns), 3:10 to Yuma, too many John Wayne movies to name, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance....as I said too many.
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General Boards / PolitiVOL / Re: Gun control...
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on: February 19, 2013, 09:09:09 EST
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I'm all for background checks at gun shows, no problem with it. I do not support the mag limit portion as this will not save any lives and will eventually lead to no detachable mag's. There are many laws being proposed to ban AR's etc. as was warned would happen but many said "no one is looking to take your guns". Oregon or Wash St. one has proposed mandatory once/yr in home visits from police to verify compliance with proposed gun laws. It's a very slippery slope. It has been demonstrated time and time again that laws such as those proposed have no statistically significant impact on gun violence (this is why the Brady ban, enacted for something like 16 yrs, was rescinded and this is precisely what they are proposing again). Since criminals will not obey gun laws, the only logical way to achieve what the left is pushing for (i.e. safety from all gun violence) is to confiscate and outlaw gun ownership and this is where they would take us. Even one child dying is horrible, but gun laws will not stop it.
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Sports / VTTW Message Board / Precisely why I gave no credence to all
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on: January 08, 2013, 04:28:46 EST
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Those guys know nothing. Until you play week in and week out in the SEC, no one understands the speed difference. ND plays Big 10 football and we have seen how that stacks up against good SEC teams.
of the touting of ND's stats purportedly indicating how comparable their defense was and/or offense, even superior, to Bama....there is no comparison of the accomplishment of winning the SEC, playing an SEC schedule week in and week out, with playing a sprinkling of teams from other conferences. Bama blew all of ND's stats out of the water in 2 qtrs.
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