[quote][b]swhitney[/b] - Wish I could get more than 8 seconds to load[/quote]

Could not load the video? Here are some graphics that will help:

http://www.ripcurrents.noaa.gov/overview.shtml

[quote][b]swhitney[/b] - Too many people underestimate the power of even small waves, [/quote]

s, it is important to understand that a riptide or rip current, though caused by the waves, is NOT a wave. It is a current flowing away from the beach and is invisible,. One must understand how to escape a rip current, with is not to fight it, but to swim parallel to the shore until you leave the current behind, then swim to shore.

See the video in my last post.

Learn more with this NOAA video:

http://oceantoday.noaa.gov/ripcurrent/

[quote][b]fixit[/b] - I reject your foundational belief, that we should all be kept by your kind, neutralized for easy handling, stripped of weapons...[/quote]

That is not my belief.

[quote][b]fixit[/b] - All the recent US mass shootings were in "gun free" zones. The elementary school, the theater, even the military base prohibit carrying sidearms.[/quote]

Mass killings are a tiny part of gun deaths in the US. You are cherry picking data, proving nothing. From the article I cited:

REALITY: Most Recent Mass Shootings Have Occurred Where Guns Are Allowed

Mayors Against Illegal Guns: Most Mass Shootings Since January 2009 Have Occurred Where Guns Could Be Lawfully Carried. From a January 2013 report on mass shootings:

Nineteen of the 43 incidents (44%) took place in private residences. Of the 23 incidents in public spaces, at least 9 took place where concealed guns could be lawfully carried. All told, no more than 14 of the shootings (33%) took place in public spaces that were so-called "gun-free zones." [Mayors Against Illegal Guns, January 2013]
Schools, Which Typically Ban Guns, Are Much Safer Environments For Young People Than The Surrounding Communities. A 2011 report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that the proportion of youth homicides that occurred at school has never exceeded 2 percent of total youth homicides for all years where data was collected. In 2008-09, 17 youth homicides occurred at school while 1,562 youth homicides occurred away from school:

[Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics, February 2012]

[quote][b]fixit[/b] - John Lott's research has been peer-reviewed no less than 29 times.[/quote]

Here's one:
http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/03/12/the-nine-worst-claims-about-...

Time for the gun manufacturers to get as far from the NRA as possible.

To be walkable, those sidewalks need to connect interesting places with places that we need to go. Those sidewalks need to be accessible from our homes and our jobs. Those sidewalks must be in environments that attract us, excite us, calm us and make us feel safe. That is not a new phenomenon, but it has been lost in our auto-centric suburban sprawl.

[quote][b]sdsacco[/b] - Thanks Terry, and everyone else![/quote]

Yes, thanks to Big Dawg Tires owner, Terry Stevens, and all of the volunteers for cleaning up our rivers and providing kayaking on the Middle Oconee River.

[quote][b]Anonymous Dude[/b] - Selig has a proposed plan that treats Hickory like a pedestrian mall[/quote]

Not according to the plans that I saw.

[quote][b]nationalchamp1988[/b] - The dream master plan for the ACC commission would be to tear down all the buildings- except the government ones- [/quote]

No, it would not.

[quote][b]Farmer GA[/b] - I do know that the genes are very invasive to other grain types[/quote]

And when a farmer down the road uses Monsanto GMO seeds, and his corn or soybeans cross pollinate with the crop of a farmer who did NOT use GMO seeds, the seed crop resulting from that cross-pollination CANNOT be used for next year's planing because those seeds with Monsanto's genes belong to Monsanto.

http://www.policymic.com/articles/33031/monsanto-s-gmo-seeds-are-activel...

[quote][b]grove600[/b] - No other rights require licensing, nor maybe should they.[/quote]

What other right can result in accidental or intentional death to innocent people by one individual acting alone?

[quote][b]Minion[/b] - the problem is folks are in more danger from the homeless addicts, gang dealers, and thugs targeting people in downtown than religious extremist....[/quote]

Nice use of fear.

"But that legal requirement ignores transportation demands"
And this law changes that?

[quote][b]Zeb[/b] - it's a pretty sad day when [/quote]
Sorry you are sad. I'm happy.

"a group of anti-Obama donors met at an Amelia Island hotel to hear the good and bad news."

Where they had air conditioning, first brought to the South by TVA, a Roosevelt initiative which employed tens of thousands of southerners who lost everything in the depression, in a South that was finally brought out of post-civil war reconstruction by WPA and military bases planted here by Roosevelt, including Redstone Arsenal, which was the first HQ of NASA, a Kennedy initiative, where plans for space exploration and trips to the moon were conceived and planned, and resulted in a technical entrepreneurial prosperity like none the world has ever seen.

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[quote][b]1hutch[/b] - giving back what ? I did not take anything I earned it with hard work.Did you........[/quote]

Wow! Your ancestors and mine sure did waste a lot of effort! You did not need them (but I sure did.).

[quote][b]Watchman[/b] - Most of the people served by this ministry already get government assistance and many of them have never had a regular job.[/quote]

Please tell us where you have learned these "facts". Or are you just guessing?

@GroversMill: Thanks for the insightful, probing question. You have inspired us all to think more deeply into our meanings and thoughts. Your brilliance and spirituality glow before you for all to see in the true glow of your soul and empathy.

@Joel Kight: Thanks, Joel. Your pics gave me a chance to remember Annette with her beauty and grace. I never missed the Mickey Mouse Club and loved those beach movies.

[quote][b]JaxDawg[/b] - Blacks have no one to blame but themselves for their current prediciment.[/quote]

Are you that young, conservative and naive?

[quote][b]The Eagle[/b] - you think we should just roll over and be compliant?[/quote]

No, we should elect officials that would fix these problems. That's how it works here. Not by armed insurrection.

[quote][b]The Eagle[/b] - you think we should just roll over and be compliant?[/quote]

That is not what Leon said:
"When the constitutional order breaks down, there aren’t any constitutional rights. In that event, we could only be exercising our uncontroversial extra-legal natural right to do whatever we think will save our skins."