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My father drank those little "hand grenade" Schmidt's bottles. Still remember him letting me steal a sip as we drove round the lawn on the tractor cutting the lawn. Can't imagine how un-PC that sounds today. "Father and child drinking and operating machinery!" The only thing I can remember that resembled a green hand gernade is those Mickeys big mouths. Roger

My dad still has an old Falstaff bar clock somewhere. Roger

theclipper, I just posted a link to a Nakamichi TA-4A. It was the only one presently on ebay and ends in 1 hour!! You would not need a pre-amp with this unit, and it would be an excellent choice. At least click on the ad and read about it. Roger An eBay member wants to show you this item Hi, I saw this item on eBay and thought you might be interested. Nakamichi TA-4a Stereo Receiver STASIS Amp TA4a 4e TA-4 Current price: $273.50 End time: Aug-04-08 19:24:05 PDT Add to watch list | See similar items Check out this item Learn More to protect yourself from spoof (fake) emails. This email sent through the eBay platform from a sender who thinks you are likely to be interested in this information. eBay takes no liability for sending this email or its content. You can report this message as unsolicited (spam/spoof) email. Copyright © 2008 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. eBay and the eBay logo are trademarks of eBay Inc. eBay Inc. is located at 2145 Hamilton Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125.

You can ebay the Kenwood for partial recoupe of your investment. If you look for a Nakamichi TA4A Reciever on Ebay, a very nice example will bring about $400 if you can swing it, and they have a very top shelf phono section. (the Nakamichi Dragon turn tables still bring $10,000) The TA-4A receiver has 100 watts per channel of clean power that will make you think your Forte's are a completely different speaker. The Nakamichi TA-3A is 60 watts per channel and could be bought for $300 or less, but swing for the 4A if you can. My sisters husband owned a 3A since new, and I had a TA-4A since new that I sold my sister with the Quartets that I bought new. Now they have both models still. When new, I paid $1100 for the Quartets of the showroom floor, and the Nakamichi TA-4A was$1,250, bought same place, same time. Roger An eBay member wants to show you this item Hi, I saw this item on eBay and thought you might be interested. Nakamichi TA-4a Stereo Receiver STASIS Amp TA4a 4e TA-4 Current price: $273.50 End time: Aug-04-08 19:24:05 PDT Add to watch list | See similar items Check out this item Learn More to protect yourself from spoof (fake) emails. This email sent through the eBay platform from a sender who thinks you are likely to be interested in this information. eBay takes no liability for sending this email or its content. You can report this message as unsolicited (spam/spoof) email. Copyright © 2008 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. eBay and the eBay logo are trademarks of eBay Inc. eBay Inc. is located at 2145 Hamilton Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125.

Wish they would bring back real cane sugar in rootbeer and Coke, and put it in a traditional glass bottle. I would pay a premium. Roger

OB, Amy wants it shut down, so I will not discuss it further. Roger

OB, You are correct, I did shoot below the belt, however, I am big enogh to admit it and apologize for it. I do appologize... You still serve rederick and don't address comments made. What does a fire fight response or lack of such experience have to do with knowing how one will react on a one to one with a knife. Your statement had no bearing on the issue, but you made judgements about me without knowing me, just as you were accusing others of not knowing how they would react. If you will not even defend or debate your own stance, how is anyone to respect anything you have to say. Roger

In my oppinion, your Kenwood is by far your weakest link. I have always thought of Kenwood as "pushy button" and a compromise in sound. NAD is good cheaper used gear, although I am not familiar with the particular model you are asking about. Unless it has sentimental reasons for being in the house, I would sell the receier and get the amp. Do you listen to anything at all through your system besides the vynl?? Roger

Jim, [][:'(][:'(][:'(][:'(] I am sorry I didn't know you then either. Roger

Wow ................... Debate what ? The street they named after you .......... ONE WAY ???? .... Yes, I am only ONE WAY, but I suppose your BI??? Never did hear those comments on if you volunteered for the "Vietnam Conflict" or were drafted, or if you actually in country, or in combat, and what ones reaction in a firefight have to do with handling ones self on a one on one with a single assailant with a knife. Do you ever address discussion, or only come in from the side trying to redirect??? Roger

Not to mention that hopefully, we as a society will not have to pay to prossecute the offender, pay to house and feed him, or worry about him getting out in the future and doing it again or further reproducing to teach his decendants such fine social skills and moral values. Roger

No, but I do know many other people who do have firearms, and who do ccw, and who are responsible. It is only unfortunate that you have not met them. Chances are however that you HAVE indeed met them - and never knew it. That's the idea. Actually - I can get 1000 a day, and you have no idea if or what other things the individual was robbed of - including credit cards, other cash, items with personal information on them (address on the license, SS card, etc). You're attempting to say the reason he was shot was because he stole $300. This is wrong, and it is something you need to become aware the difference of very quickly. The guy got shot because he threatened the life of another human being with a firearm. The money or anything else other than the safety and lives of other people is inconsequential at that point. Understand this - YOU DO NOT THREATEN THE LIVES OR SAFETY OF OTHER PEOPLE. You are *nobody* to do this. You are *nobody* to revoke those liberties. The money is moot. It is about safety, security, freedom and the very liberties that others in this thread have been complaining are being stripped or no longer exist. Just because he was walking away doesn't mean that the danger is over, any more than when a guy stops beating his wife is that danger over. He is STILL a criminal, he is STILL armed, and he is STILL going to point a gun at some other innocent person, threatening their life and the lives of the people with them, and rob them. And that is if he doesn't decide to turn around and get more money out of this couple, or possibly kill them so as not to leave any witnesses. He already demonstrated that he places no value on their lives. He is an immediate threat to everyone around him until he is disarmed and subdued. This is not disputable. I think you need to read the article again. No gun battle ensued, and the single shot fired was not in response or retaliation to getting robbed - it was in response to having a gun pointed at him for the SECOND TIME in 30 seconds. How many times are you gonna let someone point a gun at you before you decide to do something about it, or feel that your life and that of your wife is worth protecting and even fighting for? I think you have lost sight of who the real victim in this situation is. This guy did what needed to be done, both to protect the lives and safety of himself and his wife, but also of any other everyday schmoe who was walking down the street. His next victim could have well been YOU. You should be thanking him for taking action to stop this person (read: you shoot to stop, not shoot to kill), and not chastizing him. You really have your priorities and your understanding of victims backwards, man. You would rather have an armed criminal roam the streets and his next victim may very well be you, your family or your friends, instead of having someone with common sense stop this maniac from putting more lives in danger. *shakes head and walks away* srobak, He plays the typical leftist buls--t, where he skirts the issue, and comes in from the side with more crap. If you pay attention to his rederick, he will not debate, nor discuss comon sense, it is not about learning, or knowing anything. He is only interested in winning in his own mind and having the last word. His mind, how ever delusional it may be, was closed before this discussion started, yet he will spout off about others learning. I have learned this much from him, we are wasting our time trying to discuss facts or comon sence with him. We need to extend the same curtisey to him that he has to us, wich would be to ignore anything he might have to say, take nothing into account, and blurt ideals that are not able to be defended or substantiated, and arrogance in our own ignorance because we are correct in our own mind, then smoke some more pot and hold contempt for others who have lost our freedoms, while we sat arround and got high. As far as his dilusions that "gun nuts" are responsible for our loss of freedoms in this country, the only conclussion I can come up with is that he somehow probably thinks that since the NRA had enough pull to get a Republican in the white house, that gun lovers are responsible some how for loss of fredoms and this couldn't possibly of happened from the Democratic side, who was attacking the second ammendment in the first place, but he doesn't even have the spine to say it. Roger

oldenough, I still need to know what you look like, so if ever I see you being hacked up on a bus, I can honor your wishes to sit idly by why you and your family are decapitated and eaten as I would not wish to go against your wishes. Roger

That doesn't even warrant an answer ............... BIG TALKERS online, what .................... oldbuckster, the only [bs] I hear here is you, you still don't address the statements or questions, and don't seem to be equiped for a debate about it. I offered you to call my wife, no [bs] here, you choose to let someone else make your descissions for you?? That is your problem and not highly thought of here, or haven't you visited the other post about whipped husbands yet?? Roger

Amen Indy!! Roger

Are your knuckles raw from draggin' on the floor ? I believe marriage is a two-way street, give and take, and to make comments like, the wife goes before the speakers do, is chest pounding macho ........ I have been married for more than 34 years, and she is far more important than a pair of speakers ................ It's a partnership, not a dictatorship ......... give me a break ................ EH !!!!!!!! Oh, and OB, My wife will be home tonight after 7pm. My phone number is (419)-358-0137 You can call and ask her who wears the pants in this family instead of posting a BS button, to confirm for yourself that there are still those of us that live as men in this country, and not as newtered males.. Roger

Are your knuckles raw from draggin' on the floor ? I believe marriage is a two-way street, give and take, and to make comments like, the wife goes before the speakers do, is chest pounding macho ........ I have been married for more than 34 years, and she is far more important than a pair of speakers ................ It's a partnership, not a dictatorship ......... give me a break ................ EH !!!!!!!! OB, I have been married about 20 years, and dated her 5.5 years before that. I met her cruising when I was younger, and I french kissed her and her best friend the first time I met her, when I was getting out of her car, so I am pretty sure that she knew exactly what she was getting into prior to marriage. You only read what you want, but don't address the statements that are fair questions do you, but I understand.... you must need and outlet after cowing down all day to the Mrs. There is no such thing as 50/50 in marriage, you can strive for 50.5% vs: 49.5%, but somebody has to put on the pants and have the final say on the important things like how the financial plan is going to be handled, how we are going to disaplin the kids, etc, etc, etc. Oh, you can discuss it together, and share feedback, but someone has to captain the ship, at least to some extent. In my parrents home, that was and still is my mother, but not for me. You bypassed my statement about the wife putting her asthetic desires above something that obviously brings her mate pleasure, and that done by either the man or the woman in the marriage, and that spouse does not deserve to be married. I will say a prayer for your nut sack... If you are happy with your marriage, then that is good for you, but I still hold people like yourself that cow to what the wife says and does, for the condition this country is in. I will not coward to my wife, nor will I to you or anyone else. Better go ask permission before getting 3 more CornWalls and a sub, let alone what she might think of working towards 7 TSCM and two subs. Roger

Aaron, The site is not posting the pictures I tried to paste. Email me at rgordon@watchtv.net and I will send them too you directly. I just got back from OOT. Roger

So should those American citizens of Asian descent have armed themselves and used their rifles and pistol to take on the US Armed Forces in order to avoid being rounded up and put in detainee camps? Wouldn't that have been very disloyal, fighting against your own country's forces in a time of war, in effect opening up a home front? Their chances of success would have been pretty slim, too. Those citizens of Asian descent were loyal to America and showed it by obeying the laws of the land, cruel and unnecessary as they were in that case. Islander, By your own definition above, the Jews in Nazi Germany must have been some fine citizen for letting their contries government execute them!! No logic at all... You made two statements and I disagreed with one of them, the one about Asian-American citizens in America. I did not disagree with the idea of Jews or gays in Hitler's Germany defending themselves. Try to keep things straight: Nazi Germany bad, America good (mostly). Seriously, if Asian-American citizens had taken up arms against their own government during a war against the Japanese Empire, they would have been slaughtered and any that were alive today would be seen as treasonous, disloyal, backstabbers. Wouldn't you agree? How they would be portrayed in history would not affect that what they could have done if they had so chosen and that would have been their right to do if they had chosen to do so. This countrys history is skewed in the majority from what is often truely the case. The saga of the American Indian is a prime example, it is also a prime example of our country sumarily executing it's own citizens of a minority status. Roger

Jim, Thanks for the response. Not a thing left of it at all?? What ever happened to the mate to the one you got?? I wouls have gladly traded a very nice complete LaScala for just your empty boxes and cross-over, anything else would have been extra gravy!! Roger

Amen!!! Roger

Jacksonbart, Does your cat have a class 3 liscense, or is he just bump firing?? Roger

Hey SROBAK—don’t take what anyone says here personally. I don’t know OldEnough at all, so I can’t speak for him or against him. So my comments ARE NOT directed at him. However, there an active forum member that I will not call out; but, a year or so ago, we had a lengthy and spirited debate regarding the legalization of drugs and its impact on the individual/society. Now, I’m a former addict (been clean since late 1980, so it’s out of my system). I surrendered too many years to that monster (drugs) but still have to deal with some permanent reminders of those dark years. I faired better than some of my running mates that ended up either in jail or dead. Anyway, I was speaking from direct and personal experience; but, since what I was saying to this forum member didn’t fit into the mold presented by those on the Left—he disregarded it completely and clung to his own philosophy about the way things “really” are and how best to solve the problem—basically giving me the equivalent of the BS button. I couldn’t get him to understand that his textbook arguments fresh out of the leftist operating manual about how things really are weren’t true and often flat out lies that are commonly passed through those circles. I LIVED that life, and for YEARS I only associated with those that also LIVED that life. I saw firsthand how things REALLY WERE (and they weren’t like he claimed)—but, pay no attention to the man on the street, listen to those whose political motives trump the individual that they claim to represent. You see, I’ve learned that many could care less about the individual, only giving them attention when it suits their argument; they are far more concerned with putting on this mystical badge of honor from being counter-culture, anti-establishment or whatever else is the banner of the month. Sorry for rambling, all this trying to say that you can’t convince some because their motive isn’t to learn, to help, to solve, or even to understand those that don’t share the same ideology. So, don’t get upset. And besides, I’m also convinced that some don’t even believe what they say—just like to ruffle some feathers from time to time. Hang in there. If you lived it—nobody can tell you that it isn’t real. BigStewMan, Let me sum up what you just stated with a phrase my grandmother used to say. "He of opinion changed against his will is of the same opinion still" Roger

I agree. I would have been the first one in line to do the act. As I mentioned very early on - I am very bothered by the fact that out of 37 passengers on that bus, not a single one of them took it upon themselves to try to intervene. Even a small group could have easily overwhelmed this guy, and suffered only minor injuries at worst. I would have gone after him myself, and alone if necessary, and unarmed. I have done it before. No - I'm not a hero... I'm a citizen, and whenever possible, I will protect my fellow citizen from harm. This is each of your responsibilities as citizens of this country. "This is each of your responsibilities as citizens of this country" Amen!!! Roger

oldenough, Please post an actual picture of yourself so that if I am ever on a bus with you, and somebody starts attacking you with a knife, I may recognize you, so that I may sit idle and not interveen on your behalf. People who are incompetent in their training with weapons, and those who would disarm this country are the ones to fear, not me. By the way, I don't carry, nor have I obtained or want a CCW, but I believe in the rights of others to do so. Roger