peacefuljeffrey

Is it just me, or are other people reminded of the fat Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons every time they see this moronic, pathetic loser? He deserves to be taken as seriously as Comic Book Guy, too. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I'm sorry, I just cannot muster the enthusiasm that seems to be so popular now for just "getting out there and voting." To me, there must be more to it than just casting a vote. There really ought to be more thought behind it than is implied by "get out and vote." I would much rather see the uninformed, uneducated masses (read: stupid people who don't think deeply on issues) squander their right to vote by not bothering to, than see them simply vote because they can. An irrationally or irresponsibly cast vote is not a benefit to the electoral system, it is a drag on it. Yes, it's anybody's right to vote as he wishes, but it's everybody's responsibility to take it seriously enough to get oneself informed on the issues. That means more than just watching some slanted Michael Moore movie and then voting with the momentum that gave you. A lot of the people I see interviewed in the paper lately after these screenings come out all hepped-up on political activism, but hopefully it'll be about as lasting as the feeling guys get when they leave the theater after a Rocky movie. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I typically side with Ron, but I agree with this statement. I typically side with Ron, but I see the point that we as Americans DO have a duty and responsibility to oppose our government when it is doing wrong. I have not decided whether we are truly doing wrong or not at this point. I think it is noble and honorable to free a foreign people from a despotic ruler, even if it costs our lives. The debate arises from "why do we do this in one place, but not in the loads of others where there are also despotic rulers?" It's a tough question. For the record, I never served, because I couldn't stomach the idea of taking orders from people I was bound to think were morons, just because they had a rank over me. I wanted a more self-determined life. To each his own. - Normally these threads get my blood boilding, but I'll be damned if that wasn't a great post. Blues, Ian Thank you. I'm glad you liked it. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Not only did the kid get to bang a hot 23-year-old, he's gonna make a ton of cash suing the school district because, as anyone knows, "they did nothing to stop this abuse from occurring." And the public will be out a few million dollars to console this poor kid for the trauma he has suffered. And his parents will buy a mansion and a yacht. What a fucked-up world. But you wait and watch -- I'll end up having called it to a T. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Ohhhh, the Washington Post... That changes everything. We know that they never slant things to the left... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Get it straight: he's the leader of the executive branch. Large parts of his job include visiting other nations and heads of state, and doing diplomatic work. They by definition must be done outside the White House. And why do you think Air Force One is equipped like a traveling White House, and has all kinds of communications equipment? It's specifically so that he can accomplish work while not at the White House. I don't know how you came up with this simplistic notion that if the president isn't in the Oval Office, he's not fulfilling his duties. I guess you're used to a president who considered it his duty to fill the mouths of interns. For that, yes, he mostly was found in the Oval Office. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Well, then, I guess we shouldn't really be discussing the nomenclature we apply to those under the age of 18; we really should be discussing what legal penalties should apply to people of what ages. I personally believe that the more serious the crime, the lower the age at which serious penalties should be applied. We are watching people younger and younger commit more and more heinous crimes. No one knows what's really going on in their heads, so all we really can do is react after they commit these crimes. And sure as shit I don't want a kid who can commit murder at 13 ever to be released back into society again. He's proven he doesn't respect life. Even at, say, FOUR years old, a kid should be able to do that. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You don't think that observable, verifiable voting histories have any bearing on what should be believed?? Kerry is on record as having voted for everything anti-gun that ever came his way. George W. Bush legalized shall-issue concealed carry in Texas. Go ahead and keep telling us that this is all really vague and ambiguous. Blue skies, -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

After al the trampling on the Second Amendment that the Clinton administration did, Bush's administration came out directly and recognized that the 2nd clearly guarantees an individual right, not this bullshit "collective" right that Clinton and other liberals claim (and which constitutional scholars deride). That's one. - Was that before or after he stated that he was in favor of renewing the AWB? Don't know; doesn't really matter. I saw plenty of people saying that he probably said that just to ride the fence when he knew it would not be given a chance to get renewed. I don't like that kind of political "game," -- I prefer people to do and say what they mean and let the chips fall where they may -- but we all knew what the reality was. But Kerry is a sincere and dire threat to Second Amendment freedoms, all the worse because he, like other anti-gun liberals, is trying to camouflage himself in "duck hunter garb" to fool the fence-sitting gun owners into thinking he's a friend of gun rights. He is not. He didn't earn an "F" rating from the NRA for nothing. It's because he's voted over 50 times in his tenure for anti-gun legislation. Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

They are VERY honorable, as were the Kamakazi Pilots of WW2, And the terroists of 9/11. I may not AGREE with them, but they had honor. Of course you would not understand. There is no honor in killing innocent people. I typically side with Ron, but I agree with this statement. I typically side with Ron, but I see the point that we as Americans DO have a duty and responsibility to oppose our government when it is doing wrong. I have not decided whether we are truly doing wrong or not at this point. I think it is noble and honorable to free a foreign people from a despotic ruler, even if it costs our lives. The debate arises from "why do we do this in one place, but not in the loads of others where there are also despotic rulers?" It's a tough question. For the record, I never served, because I couldn't stomach the idea of taking orders from people I was bound to think were morons, just because they had a rank over me. I wanted a more self-determined life. To each his own. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That type of shit happens everywhere in the world. GWB only chooses to get involved when there is oil at stake. So the purpose of this "war for oil" was to drive the price from $1.19 to $2.35? Some "war for oil." Kinda takes the wind out of the sails of your argument, don't it? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It is not the purpose of war to simply kill a lot of people, nor is it the purpose of war to kill innocents. The purpose of war is to establish YOUR way over your ENEMY'S way. If you can do this without having to kill many of them, you've still won the war, and you will withdraw your own troops from harm's way, and you will not seek to just kill more of your enemy's people for the hell of it. You misstate the facts. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Muslim extremists who blow up innocent people, behead civilians on t.v., hijack airliners and steer them into buildings after cutting the throats of the crews, swear to destroy America and all it stands for? Kill them? Hmmm. Might not be so bad. Maybe Bush is right about it. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I just can't seem to figure out why they would try to do this. I'm thinkin real hard. Do you have any idea why? Because they just haven't thought about how DISASTROUS it would be if CHILDREN at that age, with the attendant maturity level were given power over who GOVERNS us. Ironically, I'd bet that these are the same people who are outraged when children are sentenced as adults when they commit murder at 15 or 16 years old. Blue skies, - Seems like you want it both ways - no franchise for children, but treat them as adults when it suits YOU. When it suits ME? No, and how very presumptuous of you. No, I say remove them from society when it serves SOCIETY, because they're pernicious,unrepentant killers. We've had several of them in Florida lately. You might remember the 13-year-old who was so pissed off that he was suspended from school on the last day for throwing water balloons, and for being told by his teacher when he returned to school despite his suspension that he could not come into the class to talk with his girlfriend, that he used a gun he had stolen and brought to school and shot that teacher in the face, killing him. Naturally, "it was an accident." "The gun just went off." "I didn't pull the trigger." "The gun was defective." "What were they doing selling such a gun in the first place? It's a 'Saturday Night Special.' " "It should have been locked away." Even the widow of the teacher tried (eventually unsuccessfully) to sue the gun distributor. (A verdict that assigned 5% of the blame was overturned because the gun was not defective in the slightest.) But was there ANY admission by the kid that he murdered the teacher and was sorry?! This was, according to the defense, anyway, "the kid's favorite teacher." The kid was a cancer in society, even at 13, and we ARE better served that he is sentenced as an adult, and we ARE better served that fuckup minds like his cannot vote. Period. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

First of all, union membership is voluntary, so I'm not sure how it is against their will. And secondly, does that mean I can ask Halliburton for my share of the money that they were given against my will to be used for a political cause in Iraq that I don't agree with? Oh puhlease. Union membership is voluntary? Yeah, only as long as you don't mind NOT WORKING in a given profession just because you don't want to pay to belong to the union! That's hardly a "choice" of not belonging to the union. If it is effectively impossible to work in a field without joining a union, one is not truly free to decide whether to join. If one could work and do just as well IN or OUT of the union, THEN I'd say a person had a choice. You're mincing words. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Plastination -- a process of preservation in which anatomical structures are impregnated with polymers so that they remain life-like, is the subject of a science/art exhibit called "Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies" by Dr. Gunther von Hagens. I read about this exhibit in my local paper today, and the first thing I thought of was a movie I rented for the first time just about a month ago, called Anatomy, in which a promising medical student discovers that some of her peers and instructors are part of a secret, anti-Hippocratic society that experiments on living subjects (victims), and also "plastinates" them to be put on display later. The drug that is used in the thriller movie is fictitious -- but I had NO IDEA that the process is actually possible, although through different means. In the film, there are scenes in a "gallery" of preserved human models -- and when I watched it, I thought that they were most likely just realistic-looking plastic models. Now I wonder, since this doctor created the process in 1978! Maybe the movie used real, plastinated humans! Ironically, or perhaps intentionally, the movie "Anatomy" is set in Heidelberg, Germany -- where von Hagens made his discoveries!! You will see from this link that the exhibit contains real human beings (dead ones) preserved in lifelike poses, but without their skin, or other parts all cut-open like! According to the news article, they even have preserved (and exhibited) the whole body of a woman and her fetus at the eighth month of pregnancy!! (The display is in a separate area so that people can't unwittingly see it. Gotta admit, that could be pretty damned disturbing!) Here's a link to a site about this exhibit: Body Worlds human exhibit I dunno. I'm kinda freaked by the stuff I saw there, especially after having seen "Anatomy." Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I don't have strong opinions about the Iraq war at this time. I consider the whole thing a continuing work in progress, and it is far too early to tell what was "worth it." What if five years from now Iraq is dawning as an organized, free economic power whose citizens vote in free elections to install leaders? Would you then say it was worth some lives lost? As far as the 2nd Amendment goes... We're not talking about what the Supreme Court says, we're talking about the position taken by the administrations. Clinton had solicitors-general going before the federal courts and stating that the administration's position was that there IS NO INDIVIDUAL RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS. That was ARTICULATED in court. Just imagine if they had gone in there and said that you had to be a member of "the press" in order to enjoy freedom to publish what you wish. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

No, your sarcasm is just fine. I was baiting the poster who said liberals are better educated than republicans. That's just one of those unsubstantiated claims (read: lies) that they hope will become truth through repetition. Liberals are famous for doing that. You want examples? -The "Assault Weapon Ban" will get machine guns off the streets -"Assault Weapons" are the weapon of choice for street criminals -Terrorists are building their arsenals by shopping at gun shows -Hollow point bullets are "cop killers" and are designed to penetrate police body armor -Glocks are made entirely of plastic and are preferred by terrorists because they can be brought undetected through airport security checkpoints -The Miller decision by the USSC settled the issue once and for all that you have to be in a state militia to have a right to own guns And these are just the gun-related lies!! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That's really funny, that you imply it's not so bad to have gun violence because mostly it's criminal scumbags killing criminal scumbags. That accounts for a large percentage of the gun crime in the U.S., too. Maybe if we let them kill each other long enough, we'll reach a point where they render each other excinct: we'll still have our own guns (we honest non-criminals, I mean) and there won't be any gun crime going on, and it'll be too hard to justify trying to take them away from us in the face of a near-zero gun crime rate. Problem solved! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

After al the trampling on the Second Amendment that the Clinton administration did, Bush's administration came out directly and recognized that the 2nd clearly guarantees an individual right, not this bullshit "collective" right that Clinton and other liberals claim (and which constitutional scholars deride). That's one. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You left out the picture where the eagle flies off carrying the cat. Yeah... Much as I like cats, I gotta root for the eagle. There's no cat on the great seal of the United States of America!... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I live smack in the middle of Palm Beach County, Florida. I voted in that election. I still have the pristine sample ballot they mailed me. There is no legitimacy to claims that the ballot was too confusing. The people who got "confused" are so stupid and unobservant that we're probably, as a society, far better off that they did NOT get their votes to count. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

The fact that no one has given you reasons to vote for Bush is not a reason to vote for Kerry, either, you know. People told me I should not stick a skewer into my eye. Does that mean I should cut my fingers off with a hatchet? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That guy ROCKS!! If ever there were an American hero, he's IT! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

According to what? The Constitution? Not hardly. There is no law that I'm aware of that says a 12-year-old cannot buy a car from a dealership. Let's say that the kid has enough money to buy a Cadillac Escalade. He's gonna pay a fortune in gas-guzzler tax, luxury tax, sales tax... You think that by virtue of paying taxes, he should be able to vote, which would give him a say in just about every other facet of politics? That's ridiculous. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"