peacefuljeffrey

Even the lesbians? Oh, wait, that's right -- who would they dress like? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I was saying it derogatorily. I abhor when politicians or anyone in a position of power decide that because THEY find something offensive, EVERYONE must now be forced to do without it. If Giuliani cheated on his wife, all the less legitimacy he has to claim any kind of moral high ground. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Well, let's start by questioning the legitimacy of their claims that Bush doesn't care about blacks when he has a black National Security Advisor... They do claim, after all, that he doesn't appoint blacks to high administrative positions. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It would piss me off to no end, for sure. I liked McCain back when I thought he was an independent voice for reason, until I realized he was a shill for gun control as bad as any other. But Giuliani is no friend of gun owners, either! And he's no friend of freedom of choice. He was the scumbag who used underhanded tricks and his puritan sensibilities to run the adult shops out of Times Square so that it could "Disneyfied." He ran NYC when the NRA's theme restaurant was denigrated and maligned. He presided over NYC as it continued to make concealed carry permits available to the rich and famous, but screw the average Joe or Jane who wants personal protection from crime. I don't like Giuliani OR McCain. I think Rice or Powell should be considered. I'd love to see the faces of Democrats as the REPUBLICANS become the first party to have a female VP elected! LOL! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It's bad enough that McCain is pretty much a Democrat in all but name, but he's also anti-gun AND he wrote that abysmal, almost-universally-repudiated "campaign finance reform law" which really utterly FAILS at its state purpose of "taking the money out of politics," but DOES do a really spiffy job of GUTTING THE FIRST AMENDMENT. So I'd like McCain to get passed over, as punishment for taking a big shit on the Constitution. I'd say go with Powell. Let's hear what the NAACP would say about Bush if he ran alongside a black man. They'd probably just call Powell an Uncle Tom. Maybe they'd have Whoopie-cushion Goldberg make some nasty comments about him. She seems to be the Democrat mouthpiece(-of shit) lately. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I've loaded dozens of CDs onto my I-tunes here at work. Tonight I listened to the GREASE soundtrack! I absolutely love the song "Born to Hand Jive"! I want to get my favorite local band to do a cover of it -- Boxelder would do an AWESOME Hand Jive!

I definitely think that there are big similarities and big differences between me here and me in person. I'm much more affable in person, much less prone to debate and disagreement. I still can be critical, but I'm a lot less unbridled about it in real life. Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Are you saying that it is generally accepted that Bush made that statement in earnest? I find that extremely hard to believe. Are you sure it wasn't tongue-in-cheek? You seem to be implying that it indicates a real danger, a real intent to make himself dictator! I utterly doubt it amounts to that. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Really. I mean, isn't he the guy who has a casino that's losing money?? How the fuck do you have a casino that loses money?! You gotta be an idiot. - It's probably a tax right off. Now if he had an oil company that was losing money, I'd think he were an idiot, but that's a different idiot It's always about Bush, with you... Shall we compare this with these infamous Clinton quotes?: "If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees." --President William Clinton, August 12, 1993 "The United States can't be so fixed on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..."--President Bill Clinton, March 1, 1993, during a press conference in Piscataway, NJ Boston Globe, 3/2/93, page 3, USA Today, March 11, 1993 Speaks volumes about how much he, and Democrats, care about individual rights. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I thought the USPS was already semi-privatized. I don't think I necessarily think the EPA should be abolished. There are corporations that would pollute the country/world to death if no one came after them. I DO think that agencies like the EPA, FCC, et al must be reigned in, because they are just a bunch of rampant bureaucrats with virtually unlimited, unchecked, UNELECTED power. HEAR F-in' HEAR!! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Where is "repeal of all gun control laws"? It sounds like this stuff leads up to that, but then...nothing. What do they say about gun control? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Why don't you gripe to George Soros, who easily could spare enough money to get a third party on the map. Instead, he whores for Kerry. Go figure. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Don't you mean the "plurality" (greatest percentage) and not "majority" (percentage over 50)? I don't know the stats, but I'm under the impression that winning presidential candidates still hardly ever get over 50% of the votes of the electorate. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Really. I mean, isn't he the guy who has a casino that's losing money?? How the fuck do you have a casino that loses money?! You gotta be an idiot. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

LOMoFoL!!! Trump is a putz. Is there any argument there? The funniest thing on t.v. lately is Conan O'Brien, nightly, ruffling his hair, putting on this weird grimace, and strutting up to put his face in the camera before saying, "Yuh fiy-ud!" I love it! Cracks me up every time. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Very good point. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Wendy, you may be perfectly right, but I ask you to recognize which of us has been the one doggedly going after the other for speaking his mind in his posts, and which one has been simply the reactor. Other people have even written things like, 'Dude, what have you got against this guy?" because he never lets up on me. I have not been the initiator of this crap. I think that counts for something. I haven't gone crying for a moderator, either: I'll fight my own battles. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Holy shit! You sound just like ME! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I vote "not peaceful" on that post. What do you all think? I think more and more people are giving less and less of a shit about what you think. What do you think of that? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I just didn't care enough to get it right. That's ironic, since you seem to care so much about what I have to say all the time, and never shut up in your criticism of me. How can you say you don't care? You never seem to get OFF the subject of peacefuljeffrey. You're such a swell guy, having the guts to admit that you deliberately disrespect me by "not caring enough" to spell my name right. I guess I should aspire to be as nice as you are. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Well, it's true I was born with an analytical mind that doesn't let me just coast through life. I notice too much stuff, and yeah, some of it makes me angry. I would not characterize myself though, in general, as an "angry person." And I have to say that what comes across from me on this forum is a weighted representation of only one side of my personality. I guess it's where I vent the part that needs to be critical, and the impression that is given is "angry." But sometimes I'm agreeable and friendly: go figure. Blue skies, - LMAO Wooooaww You are SOOOOOO perfect, Will you marry me? I am SOOO glad I don't give a royal fucking shit what you say or think. You like to be sarcastic in order to make fun of me, and in doing so, you make yourself no better than what you criticize. Nice job. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That's not being analytical. That's being emotional. It's as a result of noticing and analyzing things that I sometimes get frustrated and angry. Like when I see people lie in order to support the gun-control agenda. That's just one example. I'm able to keep a level head when I get letters published in newspapers, though. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Maybe you'd be in a better position to criticize if you spelled my name correctly. It's right there in front of you. What's your excuse, spite? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

This is all true. But be careful about saying "The Democrats this or that" because there are people here who try to imply that you're talking directly about them, because by association they are also Democrats, and so they try to contort your statements into a quasi-"personal attack" on them. It's bullshit, but that's the tactic in use. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

See, that's my point. "We all like to think so." But really, is there anything -- anything at all -- in our human experience that actually justifies thinking so? I agree -- it's a noble thing to hope for. But the bigger question is are we doing ourselves a disservice by clinging to what may just be a theory doomed to failure? I mean, in the social experiment that is multiculturalism, we see either cultures isolating themselves and refusing to mix ("Chinatowns", "Little Havana," "Little Iran," "Little anything, simply means they aren't assimilating), or cultures mixing and clashing, as in the U.S., France, Germany, various former Soviet republics. And in Africa, it happens along tribal lines, with warlords leading the strife. I'm no anthropologist, but I really have to say that it seems that human nature is just to NOT get along! Every day this point of view is proven out, but in the double-think that makes it impossible to be honest about it, we don't let ourselves make the realization. Now, don't go saying, "Ooooh, Peacefuljeffrey is a white separatist!" or some bullshit like that, because that is NOT the case. I just am in doubt about the effectiveness or realistic potential of "multiculturalism" to be a long-surviving thing. I definitely feel that the overwhelming result of it has been negative wherever it has been attempted. Maybe it's time to be honest, and to give NON-RACIST credence to the notion that people of X-type should stay around here, and people of Y-type should stay around there, just for the benefit of all concerned. Is there a good argument to suggest that despite all of the war, conflict, hatred, murder, torture, racism, intolerance that we see happening every day that there is some reason to keep banging our heads against this particular wall? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"