peacefuljeffrey

shouldn't that be "BUSH LIED ... while good men got cavities" heard that from the radical NGDFT group. (National Guard Dentists for Truth) and heck ... maybe they missed a good opportunity at the DNC by not doing something with bandages of amalgam stars, purple tampons or such. Cheers, T Does snorting coke give you cavities? Speaking of dentists... Who the fuck is supposed to be responsible for the upkeep of KERRY's teeth?! Duuuuude! That guy's got some fugly uthermuckin' teeth! Each one looks to be about an inch and a half long, too! And there's all squished together all narrow-like. Maybe he really is descended from true blue-blood stock -- he's got the British teeth to vouch for it. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Yeah, that was on Northwest Airlines. I make it a point to never fly with them because they support gun control idiocy. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Well, just like when there is a shooting in an inner-city neighborhood and the police count on those in the vicinity to turn over the offenders, it is reasonable for us to expect those 25,000,000 people to turn over the 200 or so who are committing these atrocities. If they won't help us get at them, some of those 250M are gonna have to die in a more broadly-scattered effort to get at the evildoers. Hey, man, that's the breaks if you won't help us get at the real bad people. Don't bitch if we have to send in a battalion instead of a squad because you didn't help us narrow down who was doing this shit. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Yes. I'm about over the notion that it is bigoted to say that ISLAM -- its abuse and distortion, I suppose, since everyone says it's a "peaceful" religion -- is the big problem in the world today. Even practiced in its "peaceful" ways, it is my understanding that it is a religion of inequality (look at how they subjugate women) and dogmatic fundamentalism and restrictiveness. I would even say "backwardness." And when you get people who will go gladly to death fighting to kill "infidels," I think we have reached a point where the world should simply not tolerate radical Islam -- should stamp it out because it is harmful to the entire rest of the world. Why are we mincing around not dealing with this constant deadly threat? I honestly don't see anything wrong with obliterating a bellicose people from the face of the planet, since such a move would be done toward ensuring peace for the rest of us who are not waging a guerrilla war against people who are different just because they don't share our religion. (I myself have NO religion.) This has to stop, and it sure as hell won't stop with "educating them and showing them a better way," because they insist that their way is the ONLY way. And it won't stop if we give them their own place to live, because they will still see an affront to Allah that their neighbors are unbelievers! And so they will still feel that their god and their religion drives them to exterminate us. The only way this will stop is when people who WANT to live peacefully and who don't make a practice of intruding on others' lives to kill or change them ERADICATE the ones who DO make a practice of those things. It's called self-defense, people. It's called ensuring your own future. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

As much as I sympathize with these parents, I cannot agree that demands of butchers and psychopaths like these kidnapers should EVER be met in an attempt to liberate hostages. It is unequivocal: when you do that, you tell them to kidnap again the next time they want something -- because they know you'll give it to them, "to save the children!. And then some of the parents were criticizing the government for not keeping their kids safe. First of all, capitulating to kidnapers will not keep anyone safe in the future; it will endanger them. Second of all, what do they think they government should have been doing, keeping schools under military guard at all times? They would have bitched about that, had it been the policy. I guess you can write off the parental reactions as hysterics. You don't go to the people who are emotionally affected by an event for advice or a plan on how to handle the event, that much is clear. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That's not an illusion, the Skull and Bones society is remote-controlling it that way. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You should come to Florida and jump at Sebastian. Our climbout takes us right over a golf course. You could wave to your husband (or spit on him) while he does his thing and you do yours. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I guess the "Should a Skydiver Get Involved with a Whuffo" thread came a little too late for you, huh? I don't intend to get involved in this one, sorry. I think your husband is being petty, fwiw. That's not what marriage should be like, in my view. (I'm not married, though, so take that for what it's worth. I would try to be the opposite of petty with the woman I loved, though.) Good luck. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I have heard some good things about Krav Maga, which is supposed to be some Israeli-origin practical self-defense combat "style." I think it is taught to their fighting forces. What I know of it is that it is supposed to be tailored to real-world fighting, and uses, in part, quick, fight-ending strikes. It even was mentioned in an episode of Malcolm In The Middle a few years ago, when his girlie-friend jabbed abusive brother Reese in the throat with her fingertips and totally disabled him. My brother is taking lessons in it on Nantucket, and from what little he's told me of it, he seems to like it. I plan to look into a school here in Palm Beach county. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Don't forget the sharks with lasers... mh . Different milieu, but, don't forget the dogs with bees in their mouths, and when they bark they shoot bees at you! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You forgot... the Batman! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Oh, puhlease. Yes, let's all pretend that there is no difference between people who try, at least, to behave in a respectable, morally decent way and treat others with respect and dignity, and those who are cynical, malicious users who treat people like living trash and take as much advantage of them as possible, and then flaunt it in a blog as though it's something we should think is admirable. I don't really care whether you find me judgmental or not -- I guess it's a matter of fact, since yes, that post was judgmental. I think the issue now is whether I was justified in being judgmental of this alleged person. I don't think I was wrong. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Neither does the struggle, and sitting around getting toasted is a whole lot more enjoyable, fwiw... BTW, that's the exact response I get from my dad when I tell him it's all futile. He's always all, "Well, that doesn't mean we shouldn't still strive to make it all better," and I say, "Oh, so if I want to jump to the moon, and it's impossible to ever do, I should keep doing leg presses and practice jumps, and even if I may only increase my vertical leap by a couple of inches, it's worth making the attempt at the impossible, right?" Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

They're only apathetic because experience has taught them that voting never EVER got ANYBODY good government, or even any real improvement of life in general that wasn't gonna happen at random anyway. It's people who still believe in the system who are being silly and gullible. Life will just be what life will just be, until ya die. If you think that if Kerry wins, and even IF he can extricate us from our foreign involvements, and even IF he were to miraculously come up with a miracle energy source that uses PowerBar wrappers to run gigawatt generators, humanity would still suffer and wallow in its own excrement of animosity and hatred and poverty and disease and dishonesty and deception. What do you really think Kerry can possibly change? Shit, even Jesus Christ was not able to lead the whole world into peace! If he couldn't, some regular human, or group of humans, might? Pshyeah. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I read a tiny bit of that, and I don't even believe it is genuine. If it is, that girl is vacuous, slutty, whorish, trampy, stupid, ignorant, morally corrupt/bankrupt, arrogant, conceited... the list could go on and on. What a deplorable human being. What a total shitheap of a woman. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

This thread would be better if it was called "Jenny McCarthy," and had photos attached. Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Somehow if we just worked harder, we'd have honest people seek leadership positions instead of thieves, liars, power-mongers and scoundrels?? Surely you don't believe that. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That is absolute garbage. You might try to make that float when talking about society in general, but are you saying that people who voted for Gore and got stuck with Bush "deserved" that and ohh but for them just not doing enough to ensure Gore's victory, they would have had their preferred leader? I did nothing to deserve the government passing the Assault Weapons Ban. I was powerless to stop that, even with the letters i wrote here and there and everywhere, and the money I sent groups to oppose it in Congress. That aphorism is one of the most puerile, stupid ones that get kicked around. It is simply not true but in the most useless general sense. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Did I say I liked him? When?! Where?! See my reply to the "I couldn't care less" thread. I am voting for him because the alternative is a bigger threat to what I care about than he is. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Your approach to deciding when and where to wear a seatbelt seems predicated on your presumed ability to determine when and where you are likely to have an accident in which a seatbelt will save you from harm. That's a fallacious proposition that ignores the fact that very rarely do people have car accidents that they expect they are about to have! Just because I note that seatbelt use would save lives, that non-seatbelt use is stupid and courts disaster, and that people who don't wear them are probably pretty dumb, that doesn't mean that I call for and endorse laws that require their use. It should be a common-sense thing, especially if one reads stories in the paper, as I do, in which it is common -- common -- to read of a driver who is killed without a seatbelt and a passenger or two who are unharmed but for minor scrapes and bruises because they were wearing a seatbelt. If you could demonstrate some reason, some practical reason, why seatbelt use should be avoided when possible, as seems to be your argument (or else, why not just wear it ALL the time to be covered for both when you don't need it as well as when you do?), I might consider your point of view valid. But so far all you seem to offer is rebellion at being told by law you have to wear a seatbelt. What's your big reason for wishing to not wear it when you feel it is "safe" to not do so? Why do you take issue with it? It's an extension of your own argument that it should be up to the individual to decide whether or not to wear a seatbelt! I am taking it to the logical conclusion of those who favor self-determination: "If you have a choice to either prepare for disaster in order to avoid being killed by it or not, and you choose not to, you have to accept your own death by your own negligence, and I accept it just fine too." It's easy enough to be a tremendous lot safer on the road by simply buckling a seatbelt, but many don't do it. I DO relish their stupid deaths because they're asking for it: they have no valid excuse for not wearing a seatbelt, and the laws that require their use don't even enter into it. I do not lament the deaths of people who brought it on themselves by hubris, arrogance, stupidity or ignorance. There are better, more worthy people to mourn, that's for sure. And one fewer idiot on the road to potentially cause me an accident is just fine by me. Because being a skydiver has engendered in me a feeling of kinship with my fellow skydivers of all stripes and colors, NO, I don't gloat and chuckle about CYPRES-less deaths. I do feel, however, that people should make that choice also with a full understanding of what it may do to them, and I have more respect for CYPRES jumpers than non-CYPRES jumpers, I think. If there are practical reasons for not using one, that's different. (I'm not sure what they are but I'm sure there have to be some. High probability of an intentional low opening is one, but I don't know when or why you'd do that. Maybe an AFF instructor sticking with a student who has major troubles/mals.) But all skydivers are my brothers and sisters, and I don't glory in any of their misfortunes, ever. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

DUDE! THIS IS [I]MASTERFUL[/I]! I agree completely, too. I've been trying to get my father to understand this for the last few years. He calls me a "nihilist" -- simply because despite 64 years on this world, he has not figured out that the fact that we are human beings means we will always have these very same problems until we go extinct. That is beyond arguing I ask my dad why it is not ridiculous of him to expect that something our president and elected reps do this term will somehow end war, end fighting, end disease, end conflict, end any of the ills that have plagued mankind for tens of thousands of years. He has no good answer, of course, because the truth is it is preposterous, naive, and misguidedly arrogant, to expect that OUR generation will be the blessed one that figures out the answers we have been seeking for... well... all time. You are right, Funks. It's all a big dog and pony show, meaningless, and worse than meaningless, it's pernicious and preys on our collective gullibility to get us to grant power, prestige and wealth on the very liars who are taking advantage of us. Nonetheless, find myself allowing myself to get embroiled in these discussions on Speakers Corner: not because I think I'll turn the tide and get people to accept my wonderful answers to all these problems and implement them, but because it's cathartic to vent steam about it all. But you're right. Absolutely nothing's gonna change. I'm glad there are people like you out there who, like me, understand that. Just skydive on the weekends. It makes the pain go away.

You better bring some of that Molson XXX from up North, eh? As an aside, to Lurch's recent post, I may have outlined the "logic" being employed by the safety-Nazis, but by no means to I endorse or agree with it! I don't like the legislating of things like seatbelt or helmet laws. It actually breeds a generation of people who look to others to decide what is best for them to do for themselves, and left to their own intuition, logic and decision-making, they would be lost. If a person wears his seatbelt simply because the law says he has to, only half the battle has really been won. It would be fully won if he simply wore it because wearing it makes sense from a safety standpoint. So don't go lumping me with the safety-Nazis, please, just because I understand their "thinking." Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

LOL ... I felt the same way. It was just one big rant. Same here. I can't figure out why someone argues so vehemently against wearing a seatbelt -- I'm not talking about mandatory use, I'm talking about just deciding for oneself that it's a worthwhile thing to do. If you never have a crash that would have killed you without the seatbelt, great! You save on repair bills and insurance premiums. If you DO have a nasty crash, there is a tremendous likelihood that your seatbelt, only if worn, will save you from serious injury or death. I'd like to know if Lurch disputes that fact. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

When did I ever say I was a Nader supporter?? I'll tell you right now, my plan is to vote for Bush because, and only because, of the threat that Kerry is to my right to own firearms. Yes, I'm a single-issue voter, and have been since I became aware of the struggle to protect our Second Amendment rights in 1993. I suppose I will be voting based on this issue until we get a definitive United States Supreme Court decision that adequately protects the right to keep and bear arms for American citizens. Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Really? My first thoughts were of my friends that work in in New York City and of all the other people and how their lives completely changed that day. Then, shortly after, I thought, "Thank god there are people as brave as the ones in the Fire Dept. and Police Dept." Is this thread really going to turn into a base pissing contest about who had the more noble thought more immediately after the 9/11 attacks? Give me a break. "I triple-dog-thought about the brave public servants and the poor unfortunate victims!" - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"