peacefuljeffrey

Cowering in your heiney holes?? EWWW! Oh... "HIDEY holes." ...Nevermind. Well, thanks on behalf of your fun-jumpers for squaring things away, Wendy. Hey, do they let you park away from all the trees in the middle of the field to keep your cars safe? Would that keep them safer? Anyway, good luck, and be safe yourself. Hang on -- winter's coming -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I love you for making me think of that line! How about this one: "Hey, everybody, look what Chris Griffin's father, Peter Griffin, is doing!" Here's a question: What is the name of the "character" that Stewie blames for not watching their bags at the airport? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

The one that Regis Philbin calls "ConAAAAAN!" -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Holy shit you guys are making me laugh so hard!! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I think it was B. While we're on the subject, How much money did Homer offer "The Plow King" (Barney) to plow his driveway, and on what mountain was that driveway allegedly located? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Ok Roadrash, just for you, this should make your eyes bulge out. Either that, or erupt in flames and run screaming out of my skull!! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

My homeowner's association has very specific rules (see my posts about not being able to have a basketball net!), and a lot of their rules are about the landscaping. If I don't follow their rules, they can lien my house. Left or right? No, really, I thought I just read that the passed a law really recently that they cannot put a lien on your house for homeowners' association fines. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Dude, why don't you just beg him to PM you some? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I donate blood regularly and won't get a tatoo for that reason! Lord forgive me for being so selfless as to cheat someone my blood for personal reasons. Sorry to rant, just personal belief, and I'm not real religious by the way. Personal choice only. I have A+ blood, and half the time here in OC, when you call to get an appointment at a blood drive, they say they don't need any more A+, because its so common here, so I figured a year of not being able to donate wouldn't be a big deal. I'm sorry, if you had a recent body piercing, and are fully aware of the safety guidelines having been followed, and are confident that all sterile equipment was used by a reputable piercer, I don't see a problem with lying and saying that the piercing is five years old... They go overboard about these risks, rule all kinds of people out of donating, and then bitch that there's not enough blood. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Same here. At least when I make a funny, it's not an inside joke whose humor is limited to a clique of, like, four people tops. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Again, what the hell are you talking about?? I was talking, in public view, to johnrich about his expectation about your response to his queries. Where do you see a desire for johnrich's approval for something? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Are you even on the same PLANET as the rest of us??! Why can't you follow this discussion??! WE [I]ARE[/I] TALKING ABOUT [I]YOUR[/I] COUNTRY. I linked to a story about a MASSACRE BY A GUNMAN in YOUR COUNTRY. It was just a few short years ago. He killed himself when the police closed in on him ready to do violence to end his rampage. Then you come along with yet another utterly incomprehensible post about how johnrich is not talking about your country... WTF?!?! We could talk all day long and into the night about how gun control's history in your country is rich with atrocity, and adverse effects. Would you like us to? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Christel should note this line in that story: "The killer took his own life, reportedly when commandos finally stormed the building." Well lookee there: The introduction of a violent counter-response, ended the criminal violence! But, per Christel, I thought that violence begets violence? She doesn't recognize that as the end of the violence, because if the killer's brother starts killing the cops who brought about his death, that's a perpetuation of violence caused by the cops' legal and righteous use of it. Yes, it's crazy, I know. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Yeah, except for this guy: Maniac kills 18 people in peaceful, 'We-live-without-the-need-for-guns Germany Care to comment, christelsabine?? Probably not. I expect you'll come out with some nonsense about how those people who he killed should have waited 49 more years for gun control to take effect and finally produce some fucking results. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Violence can sometimes lead to more violence. But it can also stop a violent offender in his tracks. Pacifism does absolutely nothing to stop violence and can, in some cases, allow violence to flourish. The truth is, violence is here to stay. Carrying or owning a gun, in and of itself, does not propagate violence. I can carry a concealed handgun day in and day out without anybody knowing about it. Having the gun doesn't inspire me to walk down dark alleys alone or start arguments with people who cut me off in traffic. It doesn't do anything whatsoever to spread violence. If somebody pulls a gun on me and asks for my money, I don't intend to test the speed of my quick draw against the speed of his trigger finger. Just because I have the gun on me, I don't have to draw it at the first sign of danger. But if I ever see a woman being dragged away kicking and screaming by a man with a gun, like the couple in the story saw, you had better believe I won't be left completely helpless the way they were. You can play the "how would a gun help you in this situation" game all day. Anyone with common sense knows a gun won't help you in every situation, but in many situations, it can even the odds or even slant them in your favor. If you don't want a gun, don't buy one, but quit working to take guns away from law abiding citizens who are of little or no threat to you or society. A post so nice, you're seeing it twice!

No. As I do not expect such an event daily. And Yes Just as a proposal: Change laws. For the armed attackers, it will be much harder to reach out for guns. And your life will be a little bit easier. But... we are already talking about a person who -- whatever the gun control situation is -- HAS a gun and is pointing it at you on the street! WHAT DOES GUN CONTROL DO FOR YOU WHEN THE CRIMINAL IS POINTING AN ILLEGAL GUN AT YOU? Forget it. People, this is maddening. Either christelsabine is incapable of understanding our points, or she is obstinately unwilling to discuss this in good faith. It's like talking to a wall. Forget it. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Do you draw any distinction between "not let them die," and "let the pop out as many babies as they feel like and keep providing more and more assistance"? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Please give us your enlightened solution to the problem of fighting an enemy that hides among civilians. It's like trying to eat the raisins out of an oatmeal cookie without eating any oatmeal. This is the way they fight because they realize it forces us to inadvertently kill "collateral" civilians. Part of their war is making us unpopular for what we have to do in order to fight them. It's funny, you say that our bombing of innocent civilians causes them to fight us. Why do we bomb the innocent civilians? We never go into countries to CONQUER them -- only to set shit straight when it looks like it is building up to HARM us. In all the time you say we've been "invading" countries, we don't go around ANNEXING them. You are missing the circularity, here. You say that they attack us because we bomb their civilians, but we only bomb their civilians to get at them for having attacked us! What had we done to Afghanistan before Al Quada and the Taliban orchestrated the 9/11 attacks against us? Did we occupy Afghanistan? Had we been under a campaign of bombing innocent civilians there? We ARE hated because we are free -- because the religious zealot extremists over there cannot abide it because their religion instructs them to think we are evil for it. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I very rarely wear shoes at all.

That is a load of crap. If I am going peacefully about my day, armed for protection against attack, and someone attacks me violently and I shoot and kill him to end the attack, I don't continue to go about my day being violent: I have stopped the violence. This ad infinitum thing you claim is false on its face. I wouldn't go to NYC or any other city that bans me from protecting myself. Besides, they are doing a corporate/sanitizing makeover of NYC that is robbing it of all character it ever had. The place SUCKS now. Did you read that they are replacing ALL of the newsstands with homogenized ones that will be owned by one big company? The owners who have had newsstands in their families for decades will now have to rent from this megacorp. Just because the city wants more money: the new stands will have advertising plastered all over them. (The newsies are suing the city for a 1st Amendment violation, stating that they are being forced to associate with advertisers they do not agree with.) That, and the Disneyification of Times Square/42nd Street... make me want to puke. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

As a gdraudte of Cmabdrige, I haev to agere wtih taht alansyis. However, it is a bloody pain in the neck to read it even if it can be understood. IMO, consistently poor spelling and grammar (as opposed to the occasional typo or trailing preposition) is a sign of sloppy thinking. While it works as they state, that never was a study at Cambridge. That was debunked in a newspaper story I read. They disavow the study, but acknowledge the bizarre truth to the premise. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

OMG!!! you mean the rules change based on audience and medium?? say it isnt so.... “[I]mal-pare'[/I], meet the point instead" I never said that we don't make changes that are appropriate. You are taking that to the extreme, though, and saying that rules go out the window! Deciding not to indent is nowhere near on the level of saying, "We don't need apostrophes," or "It's not necessary to differentiate between 'your' and 'you're'." Would you care to comment on something RELEVANT? COULD, have. not should. No, your sentence called for the use of a period, otherwise it was badly constructed. Whatever, dude. You do it wrong, but claim that you intended to do it that way so it makes it not an error. Sure. Ohhh! Now, since you make it clear that you are creating a legitimate new form of art, you are totally correct! Carry on! LOL. Okay, I cans see that this is useless; you simply cannot or will not understand what you refuse to understand. Like it's my biggest priority to get you there... Nope. Time to go flying. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

He's a similar news story and situation, with a different outcome: * * * Troy Jennings, 46, had gotten into an argument with a woman he previously lived with, Judith Carr, on Tuesday night... During the argument, Jennings managed to break the steering column on Carr’s Ford Expedition, but Carr called her 20-year-old son Donald to pick her up. Carr received threatening phone calls at her mobile home throughout the night from Jennings, and around 8 a.m. Wednesday morning, Jennings rammed his GMC pickup into the bedroom area of the home. Jennings then grabbed a hammer from inside his truck and shattered the window into Carr’s bedroom. Carr ran from the room, and at the same time, her son Donald ran in and shot Jennings twice with a 22-caliber rifle. * * * Without that gun in the home, Judith Carr could have been murdered by having her head smashed in with a hammer. And even though the attack happened by surprise, a homeowner had time to retrieve his gun and use it in lawful self-defense, probably saving his Mom's life. The question for you is; would you have preferred that this lady and her son been unarmed inside their home, facing an angry, vengeful man with a hammer? John, John, John... why did they need a GUN? Why couldn't they have gone hammer-to-hammer with the attacker? That way, they could be assured that no stray shots would kill any innocent bystanders, and any kids who might have randomly entered the household could not manage to kill themselves with a hammer. Plus, something tells me that Judith did not do all she could have done to calm Jennings down from his rage. Sometimes a soothing, understanding tone can work wonders on the criminally, violently insane... Plus, I don't think Judith had exhausted her options of going back in time and making sure that Jennings had had good employment, proper health care, and that society had provided a good environment for him to grow up in... -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Yeah, well, the only place around here you can pick those up is at the smarmy, liberal, touchy-feely organic foods store -- and do you know what they get for them!? Like $7.99 a pound! That, and they have a sign on the door that says, "Concealed firearms prohibited." -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You have GOT to be kidding? You utterly missed the point that the guy ended up at the mercy of the criminal either way?! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"