peacefuljeffrey

That is just too funny. So, when did women in America become free to sunbath topless on the beach? I know that at least in New York, women have obtained that right. It happened in court, on the grounds that it's a sexist policy to have one standard for men's tops and another for women's. Men are just as un-free to flash their sexual parts. What's your point? Mostly because our "rules" are long-ago archaic things that are 99.99999% ignored; and they don't forbid things like getting an EDUCATION or getting a JOB, or going out FREE IN PUBLIC. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

And you call me a bigot... I don't know what impression you have of Muslim women, but I see some pretty attractive ones fairly often where I'm at. You have GOT to be fucking kidding me. You really sayin' that you couldn't tell that was a JOKE, like most of the rest of the posts in this thread were meant in humor? If you couldn't tell that, man... you got probs. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

This is a good post, and I agree with it in principle. The only problem is that YES, we DO have to focus on that tiny fringe of a given group that causes WORLDWIDE-LEVEL problems for everyone else. To ignore it is to ignore the smallpox virus just because it's a teeny tiny little microscopic thing so how could it possibly hurt us? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It isn't. Plenty of Muslim leaders have publicly criticised the violence. Besides, millions of people world wide DID stand up and march in protest of the US invasion of Iraq. Did any of you listen? Like fuck you did. Let's talk about muslims dancing in the streets after the hijacked airliners crashed on 9/11/01. And I suppose that the millions of peaceful friendly muslims who are publicly criticizing the current violence were sitting in their homes watching t.v. while it was only the minute handful of evil violent ones out in the streets doing the dancing... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

And various religious faiths are showing us their true faces. Okay, I really mean just ONE religious faith. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I'm really confused. Is Pop a separate person from Frenchy? Isn't that Frenchy's avatar? Is it being used as a joke? What's the deal? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

No. I'm not religious. But I am not sure whether I support or oppose the idea. I also don't know I am comfortable with the idea of gay couples adopting. I just think that society is moving WAY too fast in an "anything goes, any lifestyle is just as legitimate as any other" direction, and we don't have ANY idea what kinds of repercussions there will be, down the line, in terms of just what kind of people we are going to be raising in these kinds of environments. In my mind, "these kinds of environments" is not limited to GAY situations, either. Environments where day-care raises kids for their parents because both of them work and one does not stay at home... Environments where TV raises kids because the parents are ILL-EQUIPPED to BE parents, or just apathetic. Environments where it's treated as perfectly okay that there were never going to be TWO parents in the picture... Lots of departures from the "traditional" family have occurred in recent generations, and I fear that they are not for the better. The big problem is, we are not able to run test-scenarios. We are doing a live exercise and we will be living the result, even if it is disastrous as far as the kind of people who are raised up from these kinds of "families." - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I found a movie I had never heard of, called The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra that is a modern production of the kind of cheesy, horribly written and horribly acted science fiction films of the '50s. It's hilariously funny. The dialogue is deliberately written to be laughable, and the special effects are deliberately made to be unconvincingly bad. I couldn't stop laughing when I watched it. It's like one of those movies they watched on Mystery Science Theater 3000, but this one makes fun of itself -- no one has to make comments on the side! Have you seen it? You should. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

She should have beaten him to death and then gotten off for justifiable homicide. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Good post! Reminds me of a local news story I saw years ago; a guy had gone to get a tattoo of that "fighting Irish" character, and the tattoo artist spelled it "Fighing Irish" (no T). The dude was pissed off and I think he said he might sue. I don't imagine that the artist was doing that freehand. Don't they put a template down first and then tattoo over that? Wouldn't you look first if it were about to be put on you permanently?? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That's tragic and sad. I'm sorry to hear that. Blue skies, John, and my condolences to his friends and family. At least it is clear that he left behind things that people can remember him fondly for. Let's be glad for that. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I'm not avoiding any issue. Clinton padded his revenue with sale of things that would not, could not, did not sell for what he added to the "black" column of his budget. Of course you can pretend there is a budget surplus if you are not bound by having to have REAL MONEY coming in. BTW, I like prosciutto... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

no thanks, the refractory period is a bitch. Aww, man, you have a refractory period? That must suck! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Maybe with the Brits able to be falling-down drunk 24/7 now, fewer of them are able to be violent because they are...simply... passed out! My big problem with British law these days is that the society seems to be falling all over itself to figure out how to appease criminals out of committing crimes, when I feel that the law should be the law, and if you don't abide by it, you go to jail. None of this ass-kissing and giving-away-the-store just to try to get them to willingly go along with the law. You are supposed to be obliged to go along with the law. You guys are just coddling wrongdoers. It may seem to work for the short term. But at what cost later? The first time you give your lunch money to the bully, he lets go of the arm he has twisted behind your back. But then he knows he has you, and he comes back for more money and you'll pay. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Come again? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

When a large group of people care enough to express a particular viewpoint, it is simple for them to take out full-page ads in major metropolitan newspapers to do so. Muslim organizations could do something like this -- exhorting their extremist brethren to stop the violence, and explaining that they themselves condemn it -- but they are not doing it. When a group does something like that, the taking out of the ad itself becomes a news story. Again, the silence is deafening, as they say. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Muslims do us the kindness of keeping their hideous womenfolk fully shrouded in garments. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Nice try. It underscores my point that Clinton was a lying scumbag (true to form) to have listed the sale of that island as an asset in the budget, in order to pad his preposterous "surplus." Bush did not approve a $300M loss, because no one was ever going to buy that fuckin' island in the first place, and both he -- AND Clinton -- knew it. Still Clinton used it in his little charade. Fooled your ass, didn't it. I'd be as upset as you, too. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I like watching shoot-em-up movies with my guns all sitting next to me on the couch, so I can fantasize like I'm Steven Seagal. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Maybe if her husband is mean enough to her and the whole world neglects her needs enough, she'll get depressed and drown the ones she does have in the bathtub... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

What of the FACT that Clinton counted as assets the proceeds of sales of government-held property that was never going to be purchased by anyone? (i.e. Governor's Island) He was adding imaginary money to the "assets" column in the nation's revenue to come up with what looked like a budget surplus but in fact never was. If I said that my revenue for February was going to be $4,000 based on my work income and then added $36,000 for the contents of my home -- even though I was not selling them and had no buyers lined up -- and then I went and spent (on credit) $45,000, wouldn't you say that I had, in fact, spent $5,000 in the red? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That's nice and bigoted. Have a great night!

Of course it was fuckin' hyperbole, dude! -- but if we are not seeing tens, or hundreds, of millions of muslims vocally condemning the violence very soon, what cause would we have to surmise that they actually oppose it? And the vast vast majority of the world's muslim population seem unable to help terrorism-fighters ferret out the minority among them who are violent extremists. Why is that? Are they unable, or just indifferent? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I wonder where UNICEF is. I'm curious if they would turn down donated nutritional goods that were destined to help children who are starving. I guess this is yet another situation where the U.N. is absolutely fuckin' useless and impotent. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Spoken like a true man who has never faced starvation. Let's put the starving kids in a room with the dog food and see if they don't eat it. Besides, another person here posted about this, and there was a link to a story that said the donor insists it is NOT "dog food," and that she and her kids eat it themselves. This shitheaded gov't bureaucrat must want more kids to die of malnutrition and starvation, I guess. Before you can have dignity, you have to LIVE. For that, you need nutritional sustenance. THEN you can get on your feet, work, earn a living, and have your dignity. I hardly think that dying of starvation because you (or someone presuming to speak for you) is any more dignified than eating donated food even if it is dog food... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"