peacefuljeffrey

As far as the cruising-in-parks thing, there have been publicized problems, and arrests, of gay men doing things in the bathrooms, etc. Tradewinds Park in Coconut Creek, FL, had such a problem and posted signs warning against this behavior and said that the bathrooms were under surveillance. I read a warning against such behavior on the outside wall of a public bathroom bunker in South Beach (Miami Beach). It even contained a typo: it referred to "Florida Statues" instead of statutes. (The world doesn't really care about getting things right, anymore...) I have never heard of heterosexuals meeting up in public bathrooms for illicit sexual activity... -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Yes you have, like everybody. Sometimes, it only needs some basics. I am of course not "trying to say.." something. I said something, right? What you mentioned with the above seems just to be your way to interpret what you read. Indeed, you did say something. And what you said, actually, leaves NO room for "interpretation": You said we don't have the right to criticize this woman. That's pure falsehood. We not only have that right, we will fight to defend that right, and we will never let anyone make good on a claim that it is not our right to enjoy in perpetuity. You use your freedom of speech to claim that we don't have the fredom of speech to criticize the woman...? As some others are fond of saying here... "Noice." -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I love how anti-hunting, probably anti-gun types are now joining NRA (or at least, claiming to have joined NRA) so that they can say, "Oh, I can't possibly be out to eliminate your rights -- I'm an NRA member just like you!" You know, like that piece of shit Michael Moore did. Just more of the dishonesty of the left. Here's a clue: anyone can join the NRA. They're not gonna go and check if you've ever written an anti-gun letter to the editors of a newspaper, or if you've donated to HCI, or voted for Clinton or Gore... So saying you're an NRA member as a means of claiming you can't possibly mean harm to gun rights is a bogus argument. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Maybe it's just the start of a crusade to make the world safe from radical islam. We can only hope! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Monty Python did all the joking about Scotland that the world will require for quite some time into the future... Who could forget the skit about the Blancmange from the Andromeda Galaxy turning Brits into Scotsmen just so it could win Wimbledon?! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

What the...?! So far, two different statements about how many feet are in a nautical mile... and I add a third: I was always taught that a nautical mile was 6080 feet!! Anyone got anything definitive? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Uh oh... Why? Is he a rip-off of Vonnegut? I forgot to list authors, since the thread actually called for books, but I have to agree with Heinlein, Tolkien, Asimov, Vonnegut, and add H.P. Lovecraft. (He was wayyy ahead of his time!) -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

A three-way tie: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Um, a ban is relaxed, so a demand appears from nowhere because of that, and then a supply appears? Why would the end of the ban create a new demand? Either people wanted it before the ban ended or not. Of course, the fact remains that during the U.S. "assault weapons ban," every single thing that was "banned" remained completely legal to sell, buy and own -- but certain non-functional characteristics had to be modified on certain models of firearm in order to keep making them. Yeah, there's a ban that was accomplishing something good. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

If you can prove that you haven't been beating your wife for the last five years, please provide me with where I can get info, if not you can only resort to disinformation. Is she doing ok these days? He says he's not married. Then he must have KILLED her!! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Don't sweat that sort of thing. Increasing automation of mundane tasks can only lead to more leasure time for the middle class, according to Dvorak. And I believe it to be so. Dvorak, the composer of the New World Symphony?? Um, what happens to that middle class, when the ultra-low rise up really pissed off at being jobless and poor? I guess the middle class'd better hope they can't afford guns! (Maybe that's why the Democrats are pushing to ban cheap handguns!) -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Spiders are creepy, yeah. I was in camp upstate NY one summer, tromping through the woods with a friend, and we came to where the creek went under the main road... a stone arched tunnel about oh...40 feet to the other side. We could see a good way into the tunnel, and although I don't know what kind of spiders were in there, we saw, layered down into the tunnel, spider web after spider web. They were easily 5 - 6 feet across, and in the center of each one was a spider with a body nearly the size of a Christmas light bulb. With the legs, about 3 - 4 inches wide! Scared the living shit out of us. We saw DOZENS of them down into that tunnel! Needless to say, we climbed the embankment to avoid it, and went down the other side to resume following the creek. But I think I fear mosquitos more. I never heard of someone getting a deadly disease like encephalitis from a spider. Yes, some spiders can kill, but usually only susceptible people with allergic responses. Not so with mosquitos. And I am not very convinced that mosquitos can't or don't carrry HIV. Is anyone aware of proof that they don't, and can post? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

And just imagine if the aliens abducted you, subjected you to spider-bite tests, and then their craft was shot down by terrorists with RPGs while you were in it!! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

And all this time, I thought that the primary fear of Britons was of thin, bristly things with long ... handles. I think they're called "toothbrushes"! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Furthermore, Bush was "ambushed" in that interview, the questions about world leader's names thrown in his face rapid fire and out of sequence with the rest of the questions. Even the local interviewer later admitted the questions and technique were unfair. Then someone like that should lose their job. Part of the responsibility of being an interviewer for the press is to give the public reason to believe the press. The media lose credibility when someone pulls bullshit like that. That person should be forced to find another line of work. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That's called POST WHORING Hmmm. I thought "leaving the money on the nightstand" was "post-whoring." -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

How dare you say that when you know I didn't want you to?! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Thanks for all the congratulations and "I'm glads," everyone. Glad to still be here!

A virus that turns people into beaked, prehensile-tailed chicken-monkey monstrosities?! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I am gonna laugh so hard if Kerry actually WINS Florida and LOSES the election... OH how funny that would be! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That type of stuff just doesn't matter when a person eats up crackpot theories. It's easy not to hear reason with your fingers plugged into your ears. That's why so many people are fans of ArtBell... -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

But why should they hate us for these things? We have troops in SA ans Kuwait (and most other Arab countries) at the invitation of their governments, what's their real beef with Israel? What is the oldest reason on earth for hating someone else? RELIGION, my friend. One religion wants the GROUND that the Jews in Israel live on, because once, long ago, special things are supposed to have happened there, and so the ground is so pathologically special to these people (both sides, actually) that they are willing to spit in the eye of their own God and kill to keep or reacquire it. Sick, I know. But the reason is RELIGION. And if people could shed it, but retain the notion of "being excellent to each other," we could have a world full of peace. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

True, like you said, if the middle east didn't have us buying their oil, they... well, they don't have JACK SHIT over there. They sit on dead land, desert. The only reason they have ANYTHING is because they have oil commerce with us, and yet we are assailed for being consumers of oil. How fuckin' lunatic is that?! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Oh for pete's sake, are you saying they didn't hate us long before ANY of that?! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That's how my dad views it, and I've come to see it that way, too. For example, when was the last time, outside of New Jersey, that you saw a gas attendant pumping gas? On the other hand, I have used the self-checkout at Walmart the last two or three times I was there, and I do a better job of putting my stuff into bags in an organized and sensible "this-goes-with-this" fashion than any cashier ever did. And there is hardly ever a line there, unless some overambitious idiot is at the scanner fucking up. But I was conscious of the fact that if enough people use those things, fewer cashiers will have jobs. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"