peacefuljeffrey

Which COULD be a problem if you have more than 30 people you dislike that much I'm already at work trying to trim my list. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I want a 20mm Solothurn like Henry Bowman has!! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

A letter in the paper pointed out that the utility companies are responsible only for trimming vegetation on the easements, not on people's property, and that MANY people have trees all over their property (the letter writer disparaged these "tropical oases") that are way close to or overhanging power lines. And even if 10 neighbors on a block have nothing near the lines, ONE guy who does can put out the entire block. People love their banyans and palms, apparently more than they do having television and hot showers. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Called ME a moron but can't figure out that I might be bringing the laptop to work and charging it, and/or posting from work?! Geez, that one was a MEATBALL, Duckwater! But to you, it was a big enigma! Wow... what have our schools wrought? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Reminds me of what happens to spatial orientation when flying in clouds. If you gradually enter a bank, notice that you're turning, and correct to straight-and-level, you feel like you're in an opposite turn! The lefties are so used to thinking that leftist-slanted news is centrist, when they see centrist, they think it's right-leaning! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

If I make up a document to fraudulently incriminate myself or indict my own character, and it's all lies that I concocted, and I leave it accessible on the table, and you discover it and publicize it, never checking or verifying it to find out the FACT that it was a fraud -- you just are so very happy that it puts me in a bad light -- and then I expose the fact that it's all fake, you should rightly be discredited, because no matter what the actual source, your responsibility is to verify facts before publicizing them. I think they call this a "sting" operation -- and I'm not saying that the Republicans in fact did this -- but it would be awful funny to have caused Democrats, through their leftist accomplices in the media, to screw themselves with their own hyper-eagerness to make Republicans look bad. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I don't know of any other industry that has its existence threatened by those who admit their cases have no value but to bleed the other side dry. Maybe tobacco. It's been long established that you can't sue Ford when a drunk driver kills a teenager. Why is Glock or Beretta different? You know what the common refrain answer to that question is: "Cars aren't made specifically to kill people." It's a bullshit argument, but that's what they attempt to use. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You're defending the absurd over-manning of this job, and saying that indicates good management on the part of the power company? "20 trucks and as many guys" to fix a single power line? Does that sound right to you? (First you said it was 50 guys, btw.) Maybe you also have one of those jobs where you lean on a shovel for $22.50 an hour while four other guys join you and two others do the work. Great system. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That would be me, then? You're calling me a moron? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Well, every time this kind of thing happens, and sends ripples across all industries -- and into all countries -- you can thank ANTI-GUN ACTIVISTS, who are at the HEART of this strategy, and this preposterous legal theory. There is no debate about that. They coined this kind of attack. You have anti-gun people over there in the U.K., don'tcha? By the way, this is not about "ambulance chasing." Denis Henigan of the Violence Policy Center is not an ambulance chaser, he is an anti-gunner. He and various anti-gun organizations go around the country helping people bring suit against gun makers and sellers in the hopes of bankrupting the industry through exorbitant legal costs. Don't think for a second that this is really about the money -- the gun industry is not a relatively rich one. They are after extra-legal "legislation." It's a despicable tactic, and we can already see via the lawsuits against McDonald's by fat people that it is spreading its sickness elsewhere. I can't wait til it hits home someplace that the anti-gunners care about. Maybe survivors of victims who could have defended themselves with a gun and saved their lives should sue HCI, Brady Center, VPC, etc. for culpability in those deaths, if they occurred in a "gun control" area. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

They didn't. This was an out of court settlement. There are some inherent flaws in the US legal system that mean that far too often it's cheaper to simply pay people off than fight the claim. There are also incentives to make unfounded claims without the risk of penalties on the claimant. It's a balancing act and IMHO the pendulum has swung too far in favour of access to justice over there. The companies were getting sued and/or about to be sued. This was not a case of the victims' families' lawyers just calling up the companies and asking for money. Everyone knew that if the plaintiffs filed suit, this thing would see an entire trial. Why would you not think so? It's happened several dozen times in the U.S. already! (Of course, the news media love to gloss right over the fact that no judgment against the gun manufacturer or distributor has ever survived appeal.) - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

"Someone" "screwed up on procedure"?! The bill had to be killed because it was perverted by anti-gun democrats from being a bill to protect the gun industry from predatory, meritless lawsuits to being one to destroy the gun industry, and gun rights, by making even more guns illegal to produce and sell! Adding the extension and expansion of the "Assault Weapons Ban" to a measure intended to justifiably protect a legal industry from pernicious, vindictive lawsuits which have YET to win in court and be upheld, mind you is hardly "screwing up on procedure." It's deliberately poisoning the bill against its own sponsors, who then killed it. The bill, as amended, was untenable. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I'll try it and let you know, SWEETIE-PIE! Now who's taking herself too seriously? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You're late, Tuna. I've already retracted and apologized for the "wishing death" comments, and indicated that they were passionate and not in earnest. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Well, it's a good thing they weren't Kallend-class model rocket engines. Those things are crazy dangerous! Prolly not a good idea for them to be available to the general public -- at least, not without a police-department-issued permit, background checks and three character references. Plus fees. Did I forget to mention fees? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I remember the cinderblock stuff but not the watermelon stuff. At any rate, that's my point -- these people can lie and lie and lie and get caught over and over, and people still turn to them for news, because like Rush Limbaugh says, they are just happy to be told what they want to hear, and turn a deaf ear to the proper accusations of LIES. They keep tuning in. It's part and parcel of the disingenuous, truth-avoiding nature of leftists. It's all, "anything to justify my ideology" and never, "Let's pick an ideology that's justified." They want gun control to be the answer, rather than checking to see if it is. They will force the square peg through the round hole and tell you it fits perfectly. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

The whole reason for the generators running is to keep my landlady's refrigerator and the neighbor's refrigerator running. (Mine's not that big a priority -- I don't have a family in my place, and they do.) To ask them to turn the generators off is to ask them to waste the utility of them, essentially. I can only imagine that my landlady had the same noise to deal with when she tried to sleep last night, too. If you heard how fuckin' loud this thing is, you'd wonder why she didn't shut it off of her own volition. I don't make waves with my landlady, for the simple reason that my rent is well below what she could get for the place, and hasn't been raised in three years. That's near to incredible. (Of course, it remains to be seen if she raises it in response to the increased insurance rates that are certain to follow...) - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

If you all think back, NBC's "DATELINE" deliberately falsified tests in an "investigative report" about the dangers of gas-tank explosions in various models of pickup trucks, in the mid-'90s. The reality did not fit their fantasy desires, and the trucks did not explode spectacularly like they had hoped, so rather than spike the story, they GOOSED THE TRUCKS WITH INCENDIARY DEVICES TO [I]MAKE[/I] THE EXPLOSIONS HAPPEN, and then "reported" on it! They got CAUGHT. They were DISGRACED. And they're still on the fucking air. Don't expect this to hurt ABC, or Dan "Anything-I-Can-Do-To-Help,-Mr.-Kerry?" Rather. He'll still be around, protected by his fellow ethically bankrupted network news brethren, and most of all, forgiven and apologized-for by them. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It'll be even farther for him to fall, if these documents are forgeries, since he has SINCE been defending their legitimacy up and down, swearing they are "true." The more he insists, the farther he'l have to backtrack, and I don't think anyone can set off forward again after backtracking as far as he will have to. Yes, he is a putz. Just like Tom Brokaw and the other dude whose name I can't remember. Peter Jennings? Talking mouthpieces for the left, and nothing more. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It's a damned good thing that if and when the anti-gunners "see" a rise in gun crime and get angry at pro-gunners, pro-gunners have guns to defend themselves with, and anti-gunners have no guns to hurt the pro-gunners with. Sometimes things just work out beautifully. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Wendy, thank you for an earnest attempt to help and alleviate my discomfort. See replies below, however. Um, I have no choice but to take COLD showers. The water is heated by electricity, which is unavailable to my block. Not an option. As it is, I have the adjoining bathroom's windows open, and the window right at the head of my bed is open -- despite the fact that it increases the suffering I endure from the generator 20 feet away. You can't get much lighter than sleeping naked with no covers at all. DID NOT WORK or make ANY DIFFERENCE AT ALL. Roger. A-firm. Besides that, the frogs in the pool seem to take care of the bugs pretty well, when they're not busy croakin' and fuckin'! LOL. Where do I get something cool when the problem is lack of electric cooling, and hot, humid weather?? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I photographed the problem pole from behind my block today -- for the first time, I see that it is indeed broken, about 1/3 of the way up, and leaning about 30 degrees toward the property on my block. We had power restored after a mere 15 hours on Sunday -- I was amazed and pleased it was restored in such quick time. We enjoyed normal power for three days, and then at about 4pm on Wednesday, it went out again. Now, bear in mind that it was restored DESPITE the condition of this pole. All was fine. My next door neighbor is the Palm Beach County Fire Marshall. He got information that reached me through my landlady (they're chummy) that the guy who has the pole behind his house called FP&L about it -- apparently AFTER the power got restored -- and they then SHUT off our power. Now, I can't really blame the guy for being alarmed at the state of the pole, to be honest. I have now seen it from a better vantage point and it is truly fractured. I'd be worried about it hanging over my property too. But if it is such a big deal, enough to warrant shutting down the power -- but if the power is turned on, it WORKS -- I think they should just come on by, fix the pole (whatever they have to do), and get us up and running again. There are no other apparent problems standing in the way of our power working, and in fact, if the power was not deliberately turned off, it'd be working just fine. My problem with the bureaucracy is that all over the news, during the weekend, they said, "On Thursday at 5:01 p.m. you will be able to call FP&L and they will have updates about when your power will be restored." You know what the updates say? They tell you -- no matter who you are and where you're calling from -- "Your power will likely be restored by Friday, September 17th." How much good does it do someone to get that information? There's no "schedule" of approximate restart times, which is what I think was implied when they said that after a certain point we could call about when we'd have power restored. Friday the 17th is, like, the date I heard them saying they expect ALL power to be restored!! It's a friggin' WEEK from today! That's not a prediction of anything useful! They might as well have said, "You're sure to have power again before October." For this "prediction," they made us wait until Thursday at 5:01 p.m. And their website was fucked up, too, telling my manager that his power had been restored (online search by account # or phone # for your specific residence). So he called his wife and asked if the power was on, and she said no. The website said,"Your power has been restored," and THEN below that ("In parentheses... Quotated..." ) it had YES/NO question: "Is your power currently operating?" or something like that. He answered "NO!" and when the screen refreshed, it had switched to saying, "We are aware of widespread power outages in your area." Now tell me, how was the initial statement "Your power has been restored" not utterly idiotic given that (a) it was wrong, and (b) at the same time they were telling you it was on, they were asking you if it was!? Look, the linemen may do a bang-up job and a necessary and appreciated one, and it's easy to get impatient at them in spite of the fact that they're working hard, but I really think that the company itself is a clusterfuck, and they shouldn't be making bullshit statements. All they should say is simply, "Look, we have every reason to want your power restored, and we're working around the clock, weather permitting, so please be patient, and in the worst case power will be returned likey by Friday the 17th." But instead, they are blowing sunshine up our asses. I do not appreciate the patronization. I just want the power that I had restored and then taken RE-restored, so I don't get 3 hours of restless sleep with my landlady's fucking generator blaring through the shooting earplugs I am forced to wear to my hot, sticky, sweaty bed. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Oh puhlease, there's more whining about my whining than the original fucking whining! You guys are the fucking perpetual motion machines of whining! So who the fuck forced YOU into this thread to read it? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You are obviously not paying attention. My first post about this came not when the power went out -- I expected that. I posted only when the power was RESTORED, and then SHUT OFF DELIBERATELY because some fuckin' PUSSY down the street got all afraid of the leaning power pole. THAT is when FPL shut off our RESTORED power. And they didn't get it fixed -- which would be an easy fix since they know EVERYTHING ELSE IS WORKING FINE IN THIS AREA. We're entering our second day of NEEDLESS power loss. THAT'S what I'm pissed off about. So I got home tonight for the second night in a row to find no power. And to make it worse, my landlady has a huge ass generator BRAAAPPPPING away about 20 feet from my fucking bedroom window. And it's 10 feet from HER fucking bedroom window, so why it didn't occur to her that maybe the two bars of butter left in her fridge from the FIRST outage are not worth running the genny to save is beyond me, if the cost is the noise through the fucking night. Dude, I don't care if you don't sympathize, or don't understand, or don't read with full comprehension, or don't approve of my righteous rage. But I'll bet you're no prize to live with when something YOU expect to be a certain way fails to meet your pleasure. Either that, or you're SO much better than I am. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Wow, I'm flattered that a quote of mine has made it onto someone's sig line! I think that's never happened before!!