peacefuljeffrey

The thread started with, "Should Britain be armed?" I think the answer is obvious. Britain IS armed. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

This just shows the utter insanity to which Britain has sunk. A few choice quotes and comments follow. Well hell! As long as they're not getting murdered with guns I don't see a problem! Do you see a problem? I don't see a problem. What's the next step? Ban all kitchen knives? Ban all utility knives? Ban all hunting knives? Since we know the answer is "no," then we move on to examining laws that restrict carrying knives -- the next logical possibility for action. And if we would do that, and expect anti-knife-carrying laws to work, why wouldn't the U.K. consider the same sort of scenario for guns: keep whatever guns you want in your homes for home defense, but no carrying. Just like they're trying to do with knives. Like I said, how can one possibly expect to address this by focusing on THE TOOLS?! People HAVE to have knives in their homes! What's coming next in Britain? Having to LOCK UP ALL HOUSEHOLD KNIVES so that they can't be used against you by a violent criminal who enters your home initially unarmed but arms himself with your very own knives?! Then why not require them to lock up the fireplace pokers and cricket bats too, since an unarmed criminal could break into your home, find those, and kill you with them! What, exactly, is a "knife offence"? Does it imply USING the knife criminally, and violently, against another person? Or does it even include such innocuous things as being a non-criminal who just happens to get caught with a knife that the police consider a "no-no"? (I hear it is very hard to find a knife that can be carried in Britain without running afoul of the law that says you may not have any defensive weapons. Can you imagine having a law like that?! You're not allowed to carry anything that might do you some good in self defense! How fucked up is that?!?! Is it the express intent of Parliament to force people to be at the mercy of criminals?! And just what is up with referring to suspects over 25 years old as "older"? When they said "older," I was picturing 65-year-old codgers! "Stopped and searched." "Stopped and searched!! What kind of fucked-up police-state is being run over there?! The police can just "stop and search" people?! What the FUCK did we save the Brits' asses from the NAZIS for if they were going to just be NAZIS to THEMSELVES?! "A 'problem' with older people carrying knives"... Knives. A tool nearly as old as mankind itself. And the British government and police view having this ESSENTIAL TOOL on one's person in case it should be needed as a 'problem' that needs to be addressed with warrantless frisks and searches. This is some truly fucked-up shit right here, people. The paradigm shift to where the police treat it as a de facto "evil" that someone simply CARRIES a KNIFE -- no mention of INTENT TO USE IT VIOLENTLY -- that intent is simply presumed to be present in anyone who would carry a specimen of this triumph of man's imagination and intelligence, and his hard-earned skill at working with metal. What the fuck did we evolve from cavemen for in the first place, if the fruits of that evolution would be BANNED from us by idiot politicians and moron policemen?! Oh, so now it's no longer, "A person carrying a tool as useful as a knife," it's "the knife culture" "The spread of 'knife culture.' " What exactly is the SPREAD of a thing that has been around for THOUSANDS OF FUCKING YEARS, YOU MORONIC PIECES OF SHIT IN THE BRIDGE HOUSE TRUST?! This is not something "NEW"!! The only "NEW" thing is the asinine policy of trying to OUTLAW KNIVES. I have an idea: NEUTER the male British population. Take all the aggression out of them. Make them more like Parliament. (Oh, wait, Parliament IS aggressive... at taking away people's rights for NONSENSICAL REASONS.) And I am laughing my fucking ass off here, at the lack of foresight that resulted in the gun ban that precipitates this turn of events. Didn't see this coming? WE [I]AMERICANS[/I] DID! If you'd asked, we could have told you that it was out of the frying pan and into the fire when you banned guns. WE knew that knife wounds are typically significantly more lethal than gunshot wounds. You traded the devil you knew for the devil you didn't know. When people get shot at, lots of them get missed. Lots of them survive the wounds pretty easily. Not so with knives. Hard to "miss" a stab! Easier to conceal a knife. Knives never run out of ammunition, either, so you could stab a guy fifty times in no time at all. So alerting kids who carry knives to hurt people to the fact that knives are very effective at causing grievous harm and death is going to DISSUADE them from carrying them... Holy fucking shit, England is down the crapper. Forget 'em. If this is how they think, they are too far gone for us to do anything to help them, and we should just forget 'em like they did in "28 Days Later" and let them tear each other apart, and focus our productive energies on the rest of the world. It took this piece of shit a day to realize that stabbing a person was serious, and that a guy could die of it?! What the fuck is wrong with your schools over there?! Like I said, forget Britain. Too far gone. Must be drinking out of lead goblets all over again or something. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Silly Kennedy! Hammers and screwdrivers are tools. Guns are noisy, scary killing machines. "Designed to kill as many people as possible in as little time as possible" -- which of course is why the police have them. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Of course, this begs the question: "How many death row inmates have you known?" I can't say that I would come up with "justifications" or not -- but I can say that I intend to never murder anyone and I find the thought of doing so reprehensible. If I was gonna pull a Johnny Smith, a la "The Dead Zone" (the movie, not the half-assed t.v. show), and say, assassinate some figure because I knew, and no one else did, that he was a dire threat to the world, if I failed I would at least own up to the attempt, and try to explain why I did it. That may qualify with you as a "rationale" or "justification," but remember, what I initially was complaining about was people who won't even admit they DID it. Those are the cowards. Not some guy who's on death row and comes up with a "reason" why what he did was okay. That's a different thing altogether. Some people go up for murder or manslaughter when the guy they killed really had it coming, and the homicide really was justifiable. Then there are others who did it for greed, jealousy, or outright evil and malevolence. Those are the ones who are so wrapped up in selfishness that they never admit to a court that yeah, hey, I did it and I'm sorry and I shouldn't have. Apparently the guy in this story was different? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Exactly. It was about HIM when he did it, with his little Aerosmith-esque vocal "stylings" thrown in, inappropriately. He did indeed seem like he was flyin' on something, and he did indeed screw up at least twice in the lyrics. I was, quite honestly, waiting for him to freeze completely and just start doing a Frank Drebin out there, you know... "butter bombs in the air..." As it is, I'm pretty sure that he said, "air bombs in the air." -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

[post withheld on account of I have nothing pleasant to say to you, and you are just trying to bait me] -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Oh, how I want to hate him... butt-ugly guy, has fucked, um, literally thousands of girls, and hotter than most I've fucked... and he's a decent-seeming guy on top of it all -- or at least, that's the impression I get from this interview Check it out! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I just finished watching the Rob Lowe remake of 'Salem's Lot, and I have to say I enjoyed it very much. I recommend it to fans of the book (it is not absolutely faithful to the book, however). Hope you also enjoy it. Blue skies, -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You're kidding, I know. Democrats have no sense of morals when it comes to winning. They're scorched-earth all the way, baby. And they are the epitome of hypocrisy when it comes to their so-called "compassion." Wishing for assassinations is just one example of their cynical hate-filled rage at not being able to run the show. They crave power, and are worse about the means they'll use to get it than a crack-addict is about how he gets his rock. The funny, fucked-up thing is that they are the only ones blind to their own hypocrisy. To them, they're doing/saying nothing wrong. To everyone else, they are pitiful lying hypocrites. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Fortunately I don't have personal reasons, but I agree with you and this quote emphatically. It's either that, or live with that evil in your world preying on you and other good people. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Thanks!

I'd rather be dead than in jail for the rest of my life, so it would be more cowardly for me just to die by lethal injection. Plus, if someone killed a family member of mine, I'd rather they were guilty about it for the rest of their lives rather than a year or two going through the courts. No, I mean cowardly in the sense of, if you did it, have the balls to admit that; don't try to convince a jury to acquit you. Have the courage and honor to accept consequences -- whatever the courts say are the proper consequences -- once you've made a decision to commit a crime. This guy apparently has now done that (although I don't know if he insisted on going to trial to try to get out of punishment.) -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

And I think that "good taste" certainly dictates getting the LYRICS right! If you can't be assured of at least doing that, just don't accept the invitation to perform the song! That's entirely apart from "jazzing it up." -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Man waives death-penalty appeals to show remorse to victims' families When you're guilty and you know it, don't be a fuckin' pussy and try to wrangle a way out of paying for your crimes. If you were man enough to do them, be man enough to pay the price -- as this guy did. The only thing I wonder is, since he obviously admits guilt by virtue of "showing remorse," did he go to trial, or did he plead guilty and spare the families the worry that he might be acquitted of crimes he actually committed. The ultimate "man-upping," is when you don't even contest the fact that you did the crime, when you're caught. Looking a jury, a judge, and your victims' families in the eye and saying you are innocent when you are not is the ultimate cowardice. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That's fine, I don't care if the melody was borrowed. Once it became, "The Star-Spangled Banner," it became custom to sing it in a "standardized" way, and, well, we saw how Roseanne Barr took a big shit on American pride with her rendition, and there have been others who have fucked up the lyrics. I don't like the "stylizing" of it, like Tyler just did, and I don't think there is any excuse whatsoever for someone to fuck up the lyrics inadvertently. You can't offer the excuse of "nervousness about performing for a huge crowd" -- these people do that all the time. It's not a big thing for them. Why don't you comment on the traditionality of singing the song in a straightforward way, and the legitimacy/illegitimacy of adding these bullshit personal signatures on it? (You can tell where I stand... -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That's yet another "contrived 'truth' ": that the U.S. has the worst of the fat people, the worst of the stupid people, the worst of the gullible people... as though there is no one stupid, gullible or fat in any other country. The first indication of a LIE, or a false statement, is the attempt to characterize it as universal, absolute, or over-emphatic. So immediately, the implication that this is uniquely "American" makes it suspect. What of the fact that there are tribes in African countries that believe that males with AIDS can be cured of it by having sex with a virgin?! I read about that in a newspaper article about the spread of AIDS in Africa. And does anybody think that antibiotic overuse is only American? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

OMFG. How goddamned lame. Is it SO hard to not fuck up the lyrics of the National Anthem?! "what so proudly we hailed, IN the twilight's last gleaming" Isn't it supposed to be "AT"? And I think he said, "Oh say does that star-spangled banner yet BRAVE..." Besides getting words wrong, I can't stand it when performers extemporize "vocal stylings" into what should be a traditional, unchanging song. That little "bapmmboodap" shit he pulled at the end -- that's the worst. I feel it has no place in the song. My guess is he was high as a kite -- drunk or stoned or tweaked on something. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I don't see that happening after 48 years of marriage. Anyway, my mom's cool in many other ways. It's not like she keeps a leash on my dad. If she does, I just don't want to know about it. My mom was the one who got my dad an intro flight back in 1982. That gave him the start he needed: turns out (I had not known) he'd always wanted to fly. Then he went on to get his pilot's license and has been flying for more than twenty years! As far as I can recall, Mom NEVER flew with him, and whenever he did fly, she was always nervous, and got angry if she didn't hear from him right away when he landed! (This was before cellular phones were all over, too!) Now, my dad -- who did a tandem skydive back in October 2003 -- wants me to call him (or he calls me) after a day of me skydiving. I left him a voicemail joking about how he wants to hear from me so he knows I didn't die! and he, in effect, said, "Yeah, pretty much." LOL! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Good luck, man! IFR, huh? I've thought about getting that rating, too, but haven't set out down that road yet. For now, VFR flying is enough for me; I can't see myself specifically making IFR trips enough to keep those skills current, even if I did get the rating. It is said, though, that IFR skills can be very very helpful even in VFR. You can fly VFR all the time and then one time get stuck in IFR conditions, and you'd better be able to fly "like hoodwork" at least for a little while! Trust me, I know how weird it is to try to fly simply by looking at airspeed, attitude indicator, altimeter and VSI just when it's dark out, let alone cloudy. It's not easy to trust instruments when your inner ear is screaming the opposite! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Do you hab a code in your node? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

"It's a man's life, in the British Dental Association!" -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

LOL!! I keep picturing the John Cleese character from "The Meaning of Life" in the sex education class. Classic British Sex. In. Out. Repeat as necessary. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Those are good, succinct directions, especially the second link with the color-coded turns! When I learned the Monkey's Fist, it was from The Morrow Guide to Knots. I had nothing but problems with it at first: I was new to following knot directions; the directions and photos themselves seemed to be pretty vague. I was given the book as a Christmas gift in 1993, and all Christmas Day I tried to make a Monkey's Fist. I eventually gave up in frustration. I learned other knots from the book, but I did not re-attempt the Monkey's Fist until a full year later, once again on Christmas Day, and this time I was able to make one! (Some time later I figured out that there was something I was doing incorrectly, though, and my knots had three turns on four sides, and four turns on two sides.) Let me tell you, it is one thing to make a Monkey's Fist like that shown on the links you made, and making one with 8 or 9 turns to use as a throwout handle! They are worlds apart in complexity, just from the standpoint of keeping the turns organized as you form and tighten them. It takes hard work. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I've read it in various articles, ranging from BBC stuff online to the NRA magazine. Of course, some here will dismiss anything that comes from the NRA out of hand... and at the same time will believe anything an anti-gun organization will say... -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Heh, no doubt!! I tied a knot called "Planet Earth" once, straight from the diagram in a book. It's a little more complex than the Monkey's Fist, but not as bad as those Pineapples. Trust me, even with a diagram in a book, some complex knots are not at all easy to make. It takes a lot of practice and experience, even to just get used to following the diagrams! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"