peacefuljeffrey

Do you remember when "gun bans" became "gun safety"? Seems everyone likes to play bullshit games. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Wow, that's just like my dad! My brother got fed up with seeing our dad wearing these big, clunky bifocal glasses, so he got Dad an exam and trial set of bifocal contact lenses for a birthday present. Poor Dad! He is not past it, and wears them just fine, but on that first day, he got so pissed off trying to get them in! And then later that day, he had not been able to detect that they had apparently come out during the day, and so when he tried to take them out, he rubbed his eyes all red trying to remove lenses that weren't there! But now he wears them no problem, and they make it much better for flying (he flies). I also wear them, and they make lots of things easier because some things are a bitch to do with glasses, like kayaking, skydiving, disc golf, flying. Anything you need either good peripheral vision for, or that you can't allow glasses to get wet or knocked off at. Tips: - Always keep a bottle of Renu Rewetting drops in your pocket, especially when you're new to lenses. Your eyes will dry out and the drops make it much more comfortable. - I use Accuvue II, but I can't compare them to other brands because they're all I've used, pretty much. But I have no problem with them. $15 per box, each box has 3 pairs. - Do NOT sleep with them in your eyes. Try to never even NAP with them -- for some reason, they get really sticky if you fall asleep. If you do, make sure to use drops before you try to remove them, or it'll feel like you're tearing the cornea off your eye! - Practice determining which side is the outside and which is the inside. It's not hard. If the lense is inside-out, the profile will be like a bowl with a flared lip. If right-side-out, the profile will be like a hemisphere. Inside-out lenses will irritate your eyelid. - When you take a lense out of the case to insert, fish it out with a single finger. Place it onto your palm. Run some cleaning solution over it and let that run off your hand into the sink -- this will remove any lint fibers that can be on the lense, and yes, you will feel those so get rid of them. Then, get the lense right-side-out on your palm, and sweep your middle finger toward it, with the finger on its side, "palm" side of the finger facing the side of the lense. As you touch the lense, kinda roll your finger "palm" up, and the lense should adhere as your finger tries to pass under it. Now the lense should be on your finger tip. Use your ring finger, or the other hand, to pull your lower eyelid down, and stare at your eye in the mirror. Bring your lense straight onto your eye, and DO put a slight bit of pressure onto the pupil. It will not hurt, but you will be making sure that the lense makes a suction onto the cornea. Slowly release the eyelid, and slowly blink to smooth out any air bubbles that may be under the lense. Good luck. For those of us unlucky enough to still have perfect vision (mine went at about age 26 or so), contact lenses are a decent solution. When skydiving: - keep a bottle of drops in your jumpsuit pocket for use in the plane - always make sure to tighten your goggles just before door opens -- tight is GOOD - if your goggles fog up near jump altitude, pull them away from your eyes and let the steam out, but close your eyes when you do so, to keep them moist - don't be afraid to wear your goggles on taxi and/or takeoff (if they leave the door open) or at the lower altitudes of the climb before they shut the door, because the airflow will dry your eyes - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Hmph. And here I was, after Meigs' closure, thinking that Chicago was good at shutting things down. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Many of the people reading this right now are quite possibly the progeny of women who smoked while they were pregnant. Not sure if my mom did or didn't, but I think she did. And I don't think there's any way to really say whether I (or my three siblings) suffered measurable, discernible ill effects from it. We're all quite healthy, intelligent people with no deformities or deficiencies, etc. Now, when I see anybody smoking, I just think they must not be too bright, if smoking is a decision they made for themselves. How smart can a person be if they actually choose to engage in a habit that: - stinks disgustingly - costs a lot of money - damages one's health? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

"Hey.. PJ!....Theres a man on the floor here....Quick dude bring your steel toecaps!" Hey, J.! Would you pls stop playing around with deepest fears a man (like PJ) could have?? PLEASE You know what? Since you and I are obviously not friendly with each other, your comments regarding me are clearly intended as personal insults. Why don't you stop it? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Tribalism kills just like religious zealotry. What's your point? Aren't they a leftist group, though? Like the Shining Path and stuff? So we can pin down two major problem groups: muslims and marxists. Oh, and the barbaric african tribes. Well, they also attacked us in 1993, and they attacked the U.S.S. Cole in what was that, 2000? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

There seems, to me, to be an intrinsic problem with islam itself, that it seems to really inculcate in its followers a deep-seated hatred of anyone not-muslim, and a deep-seated nearly hysterical zealotry that seems to go far beyond the zealotry of any religion I can think of. In short, I think that muslims become whack-jobs. Oh, and you distinguish between the protesters who were "peaceful" and those who were violent. I don't. Neither group should be protesting: the people against whom they're protesting are [B]FUCKING ENTITLED[/B] to have drawn what they drew!! No one in the world has the sacrosanct, inalienable right to not be offended by others' use of their freedom!! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Rights are not "provided" by the Constitution. The Constitution guarantees rights that are understood to be inherent in us by virtue of our birth. Stating that the Constitution "provides" rights demonstrates a profound misunderstanding: the notion that we are given our rights by our government. Actually, our government is given its powers by us. When enough people get this wrong (have enough people gotten it wrong already?) we will be in real trouble, because the populace will actually expect that all it's allowed to do is what the government says it's allowed to do. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

And they've done such a wonderful job, haven't they? Is there not a neo-fascist/nazi movement alive in Germany? I've read things about youth acting all skinhead-y... So much for the utility of ThoughtCrime. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Crap (if not to say Sch****e). The freedom of speech exactly is reaching its limits the moment when laws are involved/touched. One of them f. e. in Germany is: Denial of Holocaust is punishable. Up to 5 years in jail. Period. Could be up to 30 yrs in Austria. For me it it's fully acceptable. Nonsensical, as I expected. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Glad you added the edit, bill, because it sure seemed like you were rationalizing this kind of a ban. Made me wonder if you would support the banning of specific political parties: they do that in other countries to guard against the re-rise of fascist control, too. How far would you go? Isn't fascist control, employed to prevent the rise of a fascist regime, sorta oxymoronic? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I thought that there were some here who would benefit from reading this passage again. Thanks, Andy. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

"Those who fight monsters must be careful that in the process, they do not become monsters themselves." Isn't that what you're being, by wishing on someone the thing you're angry about him doing? And what's more, this is not a guy who DID the holocaust, he just DENIED it. Hardly the same as imprisoning jews as slaves and/or killing them. And yet you want him to serve in the equivalent of a jewish death-camp prison. Hmmph. You claim to have moral superiority here? You support the criminalization of holding particular views that are anathema to you, and advocate for punishment so harsh that it crosses into torture. Who's the nazi sympathizer after all? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

The criminalization of thought, belief and expression is an abomination. I don't give a shit what this guy said about the Holocaust: Only idiots don't believe it happened. Only idiots pay any attention to those who say it didn't happen. Plus, if no one is allowed to speak their minds about believing the Holocaust did not happen, that precludes any possibility of having a public dialogue during which such people would be exposed for being ridiculously incorrect in their views! But the idea of fighting a return of fascism by using the fascist technique of outlawing certain ideologies, thoughts, or statements is just so incredibly stupid and paradoxical that I can't believe enough educated people voted for it that it became a law. What the fuck are they thinking over there? "Uh, gee, it's dangerous to deny the Holocaust because that could result in the rise of a fascist dictatorship again... so... we'll ban certain speech (*hint*: that's something fascists would do!) to guard against it. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Excuse? I don't believe one needs an "excuse" for speeding. It is common knowledge that speed limits are what they are for revenue-creation purposes, and that they are significantly lower than the speeds at which modern vehicles can be safely driven. The road she was driving on has six lanes total, and the limit on it is thirty-five miles per hour. Her excuse? As far as I am concerned, "Thirty-five is radically too low to be reasonable," is completely valid. Even the cops who give out these tickets know, and sometimes acknowledge, that the limits are far too low. The system is ethically and morally bankrupt for handing out penalties for "infractions" of this nature. The indisputable fact that the vast, vast majority of drivers safely get where they're going is proof that the establishment KNOWS that the typical speed (OVER the posted legal limit) that most drivers operate at is perfectly safe except in a vanishingly small percentage of cases. Those whose speeds spike radically higher than the norm are the problem, not the person doing 46 in a 35, for example. (Actually, I don't know what my gf was ticketed for.) Ask yourself, the next time you're traveling 75 in a 60 along with HUNDREDS, if not THOUSANDS of other drivers on a highway, what YOUR "excuse" for speeding is. Ask yourself how, if all the people around you are not horrible miscreants, they justify speeding right along with you. After all, are we to really believe that they all have guilty consciences for knowing that they're doing something heinously dangerous and risky to the public around them? Is every one of them some sort of flaming careening cannonball of death? Or is it more reasonable to conclude that maybe, perhaps, who knows, the speed they're driving, while above the legal limit, is fine? A better question would be, "What is the establishment's excuse for penalizing people who do so?" They obviously do not stop or deter people from speeding, and the number of offenders they penalize is far less than even one one-hundredth of a percent of the total drivers on the road. Anyone who points the finger at others as though they are "asking for it" for deciding to "speed" is a hypocrite, because anyone who claims they "never speed" is a goddamned liar. But believe it or not, I've witnessed people make that claim. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I think it's idiotic to include as a right anything that someone else might have to provide for you. Health care? That's not a right that entitles you to do something, it's a "right" that requires someone ELSE to GIVE you something. Ergo, no fuckin' way. I think we need to establish a clear-cut right to respond to attack by another person or persons with deadly force. Essentially, the Constitutional codification of the commonlaw right to self defense. It is too easy for some jurisdictions to come close to outlawing your right to preserve your own life. This goes beyond the right to own guns, but it goes hand-in-glove with it. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Why? You shot your wad on the getting-off-without-getting-arrested, right? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I just put on the DVD of "Thirteen Ghosts" again (I just wanted something to watch, and I like the horror effects and Matthew Lillard cracks me up). In the first scene, when they capture "The Breaker," Matthew Lillard puts his hand on the ground and psychically senses the deaths of his victims. Some of the flashy, single-frame shots of the dead victims are hokey, but some of them have that "dead on the scene" grisly realism to them, like the pictures on websites about death. I was wondering, do you think some of them, like the half-naked woman in bed with the shotgun-blast-lookin' wound in her belly, were real dead people, used maybe like stock footage? Sorry, just morbidly curious. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Hahahaha! When I did my first jump, it was 1991 and I was in college. When I told my parents that I wanted to do a skydive, my dad said hold on a bit, let's get you a $100,000 life insurance policy, and then you can skydive! I still have the policy in effect! It costs me just about $265 a year. Why not? I did four more jumps in the next few years after that, but didn't get licensed and really into it until 2003, and my family is cool with it. They know that I do it with safety foremost in mind. Skydive conservatively, learn all you can, force yourself to err on the side of caution, and keep your ego out of the way, and you'll be fine. Please, don't feed their fears by dignifying the notion that to skydive is to go seriously close to death every time. If you go jetskiing, do you treat it as though you're "this close" to drowning? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You're worried? I'm not worried. What are you worried about? What's the worst that could happen? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

If that's true, then I think my girlfriend should be able to easily get out of the suspended-license ticket that fuckwad gave her -- and possibly be due a refund for having to pay to get the license reinstated. Fuckin' bureaucratic bullshit. That's $70 she coulda spent on ME! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Okay, what's your excuse for not having the brains to wear a seat belt? It better be broken or cut off or something, 'cause nothing else is gonna suffice. It begins to sound like you were pretty much begging to get your ass pulled over, and searched...and arrested...and sent off to play with Bubba for a few years... - - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

All in all, that's a really fuckin' stupid plan. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That is such fuckin' bullshit. To argue that way is to admit you agree that the speed limits are exactly the maximum you should ever drive, and that exceeding them is always wrong, and that you should never bother trying to defend yourself in court -- which is exactly what court is for. I suppose that if you are ever arrested for a crime, you plan to just plead guilty and insist that the judge sentence you to the standard jail term, because hey, you played, now you pay. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

How about you pay attention? Her license got suspended because she hadn't sent in the ticket in time. She later called the clerk of court, which confirmed that they'd received her ticket (late) and that since she now had a court date, her license was NOT SUSPENDED. On that say-so, she continued driving. She explained that to the cop, who didn't give a shit. Cops let people go all the fucking time, and he couldn't do it in this case? With a fucking girl, driving a car with proper registration and insurance, etc. Like she's a fucking criminal? Like her story isn't credible? It's shit he can check. My real big gripe is with whatever fucktard told her it was all okay and that her license was not suspended. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"