peacefuljeffrey

Way cool! I'm thinking that the kid pictured wearing/using it is maybe not the guy who made it. Maybe the designer/producer is his dad or something. Either that, or the kids's some kind of high-school prodigy. BTW I thought I read something about flamethrowers NOT being specifically illegal. Not sure. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

All that education, and you still drive a Ford? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

This is quite possibly the funniest thing you've ever written. Do you know how most nature docs are made? I don't think that I do, and I certainly never claimed to. But my point is that nature documentaries don't typically have an AXE TO GRIND and grind it mercilessly and the facts be damned, and the counters to various claims be damned too. Why exactly would that be the funniest thing I ever posted, pray tell? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

The reviewer says this: "So let me just say this before we go any further: documentaries have no responsibility to be unbiased or fair. None. And despite what you may think, few ever are. That's not what they are there to do. There, I said it. Let's move on." This statement is prejudicial and false. I believe that documentaries DO have a responsibility to be truthful, balanced, fair, and honest. When I think of documentaries, first of all, I tend more to think of movies about how bears survive through the winter, or how things change ecologically for the animals in the Serengeti when the droughts come. There's little wiggle room for "bias" in such documentaries. But starting out your column by making debatable claims about what a documentary must or must not do... I take issue with that. Who is this guy to officially state that documentaries don't have to be unbiased or fair? At least he doesn't say that they don't have to be HONEST -- but let's face it, part of honesty is not deliberately stacking arguments that are in your favor and completely omitting anything that might successfully contradict your theses. This guy has set up his column with a specious, debatable, foundation, which clears the way for him to excuse Moore's deplorably biased, slanted, dishonest films. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

They must have been those evil rich conservative pro-life top-1-percenters who are not paying their fair share of taxes... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Do you consider yourself a serf? At what point would you? How much do you pay to the government in income taxes? Real estate? Sales? SSI? ... This month I paid $2750 in federal $682 Social Security....I max that out sometime in the summer $160 medicare $338 to the state $490 to the city and $10 for unemployment insurance. Sales tax, 7% I rent. No, I'm not a serf. I'm one of the people who is paying way more than I am receiving in benefits. Your point? Jesus, what the fuck do you DO, rob banks?! You paid in federal taxes double what I cleared last month. And making that kind of money, why the fuck do you RENT? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I agree with you, but I still find it LOL funny that you typed "endocrinated" where I think you meant "indoctrinated." - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

My Mom's prescriptions cost more a month than she ever earned in a month. She didn't choose to have health problems, and she saved nicely for retirement. What now? Um, you say "she saved nicely for retirement." I take that to mean she's got a bit of money... So why should this not be money she spends to maintainher health, vis a vis her prescriptions? "Oh, that's MY money, for Bingo and stuff..." Public dole money should not be given out just because someone is OLD, if they don't have a financial NEED for that money. The whole point, I thought, is to help out those who are in a tight spot, not to take over for those who can comfortably pay their own way. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I thought the question was more about being willing to live without them, and the benefit of having them (possibly for defense). What good do they do you if they are here in the states while you are (indefinitely) over there? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Yes, I went to college, right after high school, as my three siblings had done before me. I was one of the lucky ones whose parents felt it to be their responsibility to pay for everything, righton through college. I did very well in high school -- always a good learner -- but as a result of having learning come easy, I never really did develop a good work/study ethic. I became very lazy, didn't take my college classes very seriously, and did not get very good grades. I did have fun, though. It's easy to look back with regrets about stuff you didn't take the opportunity to do, and I have some of those, but mostly it was okay. Although proofreading calls upon a knowledge of English, my English degree was not required for me to get my current job. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

The only part I agree with is that males and females are different. Sure as shit we cannot allow one set of laws for females and one for males -- our Constitution guarantees us EQUAL protectionunder the law. But I do see a difference between an older male teacher having sex with a young female student and an older female teacher having sex with a younger male student. Young males are typically desperate to get sex, and young females are typically desperate to withhold it. You can hardly claim that a young male who gets given his dearest desire is going to suffer psychological harm from it. A girl, who typically at that age is kind of reluctant and nervous about having sex, as opposed to hyper-eager for it, might be disturbed by being led into it by an older person. - I agree completely. Along those lines - Some lady was on the news today saying the laws should be different for females - her theory was that females aren't usually predatory or habitual sex offenders like males are. And in a case like this, the males child is damaged less than a female child would be. Thoughts? -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

So the class that deals with spelling "psychologist" is next year? Really. How much credibility does a person have when he can't spell the name of the profession he claims to be studying? The only excuse I could see would be, say, ifEnglish is not your native language. You don't appear to have much trouble with the rest of it, though. And even if it were not, something as important as a career choice would be something that I would make sure I knew how to spell in any language I were attempting to use. Good luck finding any "psichologists/psicologists" out there in the first place. This does NOT strike me as meeting the maturity level that ought to be required of a psychologist. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Oh GOD yes.

I suppose I'd feel safe if the vast majority of criminals did not possess FOREARMS. How could they hold a gun or a knife, or even make a fist, without them? Watch your typing, bucko. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

As I understand it, despite missing loads of votes in the Senate as he campaigns to be president, Kerry made sure to make it back to the capitol for one particular vote, and that was the vote on the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act -- the one that the demoncrats poisoned by amending to it an extension and expansion of the 1994 "assault weapons ban." That's the ONE he managed to get back to vote on. And then he poses as a gun-rights-friendly "duck hunter." What a disgusting liar. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That's okay. Your mind is never gonna change, anyway. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

True that. I have tried listening to his radio show, tried to find him funny... and he just isn't. Listening to him is like watching Saturday Night Live... You wait for a joke, you wait for anything funny, and you just never get it. I think I will never understand his appeal. I also can't relate to his fans. When TWA flight 800 crashed off the south shore of Long Island in '95 or so, the local news coverage had live interviews with the rescue/recovery personnel. They took a call from a guy who identified himself as an NTSB spokesman. He was right in the middle of talking (apparently) intelligently about the operation, and suddenly he blurted out, "Babbabooey, babbabooey, Howard Stern, babbabooey, Howard Stern, babbabooey!!" You could see the news guy wince and then apologize for the idiotic and uncompassionate person on the other end of the line. So that's about the size of Howard Stern fans, as far as I'm concerned. They like to laugh at very unfunny things, and listen to a boring person drone on in idle banter with some sycophantic office chick who's good for nothing but occasionally gigglng, guffawing or chastising. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I would be unwilling to go to live and work in the UK, particularly because of the government's (and yes, the people's) views on self defense, and the ownership and carrying of weapons for that purpose. I don't care if the vast majority there do or do not own guns. My right to defend myself and my loved ones includes the right to the most effective means possible, and that specifically means a handgun. I won't even visit the UK now that I know what they're about. I spent a full semester there during college, enjoyed it, but I was at the time ignorant about the anti-self-defense stance that the country has. It is deplorable and inexcusable to effectively outlaw the ability to save oneself from criminal harm. People who advocate that attitude, or tolerate those restrictions, pretty much deserve what happens if they are victimized. That's the fact of the matter with a society that refuses to prepare to protect itself. It's not like self defense is some sort of secret concept or technique that they can fairly say they've never heard of. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Lewis Black says that as punishment, you shouldn't be allowed to have another state resident elected president for a hundred years! I think he's right! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I haven't seen it precisely because I know I would loathe it. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I'm looking forward to it. Tell me one thing, though. How many tentacles does Doctor Octopus have in the film? Is it four, or six? I saw a picture in a magazine that showed him holding/wrecking some stuff with four tentacles, but if that's all he has, then it would mean his legs were supporting not only his own weight, but also the weight of the tentacles, PLUS whatever he was holding. Kind of a continuity error if this was indeed how he is depicted. I plan on seeing the movie this weekend. Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Like I said, it's really hard to tell the details of what's going on in those individual situations. C'mon, give. What guy are you talking about? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Looks like a sailor on the left is about to fall off the dock into the water. The rest of the picture is not detailed enough to be able to see much, though, if you're looking for something more subtle. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Please accept my condolences on the loss of your friend. Feel him when you skydive. He's all around you. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Shit! I knew I should have started logging those comments! As far as me being "right wing" -- HAH! Just because I hate Kerry and won't give up my guns does not mean I am "right wing." -