peacefuljeffrey

Now it's been taken over into a political/religeous forum by a select few. What a pathetic display of histrionics. "Taken over"? "Select few"? Could you perhaps tell me how people who don't have any power to lock or delete threads, or to ban users, or to post any more threads or mesages than YOU do, can have "taken over" this forum? And why are you bitching about posts that are not about skydiving when they don't take place in the skydiving portion of the website? Maybe if you'd put a or something, I could write your complaints off as tongue-in-cheek, but amazingly, you seem to be in earnest about your objection to others posting their conscience about what they wish to discuss. You know what? I guess if you're that intolrant, it's too fucking bad for YOU, brittle-man. I think I'll go post a poll to see how many people object to histrionics and melodrama and people who object to other people's choices of discussion topics. Should be very fruitful and rewarding and productive. You know -- just like THIS happy little thread. - - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

LO-FUCKING-L! You mean like THIS thread?! Really, you sound like such a whiner, complaining about the frequencey with which JohnRich posts about something he is completely entitled to do in the part of the forum reserved for non-skydiving talk. What the hell is so wrong with just bypassing those threads? Do you just like complaining about them after you are non-forced to read them? Or do you harbor a (not-so)secret desire to be the all-powerful-grand-poobah-of-the-universe who gets to say who gets to say what and how many times? I mean really, get the fuck OVER yourself, man. I've never seen JohnRich bitching about what YOU post about, or how pointless it may be. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Yes, yes, and yes. Does that have any bearing on the fact that these discussions take place on the part of dropzone.com that is NOT reserved for people to discuss skydiving? For crying out loud, you're a moderator, and yet you seem to bemoan discussions that are taking place in the appropriate place for them! Are the aforementioned subjects any less appropriate on the non-skydiving part of this site than the stupid links to nudie pictures or drunkenness-related posts are? When comments like yours are directed mostly at gun-control threads it makes your attention to them seem kinda bigoted against those in particular, when it is obvious in the extreme that they are not the only non-skydiving redundant threads that get put here. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Especially many times in the same day about the exact same bullshit. It's really sad to see the same shit over and over and over and over and over and over and over again from the SAME FUCKING PEOPLE. Create a forum for politics/religeon/gun control or start deleting these worthless threads. So, you started a bullshit poll for no other reason than you wanted to rant against and denigrate the "same fucking people" who engage in the gun control/religion/politics threads. Go you! I guess you got what you wanted. I see you give so little of a fuck about those threads that you took the time to "waste bandwidth" to check out how many others feel as you do. That reminds me of b1jercat popping his trolling little snout into all the gun threads just to inform an apathetic group of people that he couldn't give a shit about the discussion topic. You and he are living breathing oxymorons, it seems. I guess threads that bear on actual real life issues are "worthless," but I don't see you railing against the "I am so DRUNK" threads. Yeah, those serve a useful purpose... - - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

What relevance does it being "on a fucking skydiving site" have to do with anything? It has no LESS of a place here alongside threads about how drunk someone is, or funny names for vaginas. Really, unless you're trying to argue that the gun discussions etc. should not even be in the GENERAL TALK BACK section, I don't see why you would even mention "especially on a fucking skydiving site." I myself DO care what people think about these issues, particularly because what people think and believe and feel on issues like this guides what they will DO about these issues, and how they will VOTE. Those things (what others do and vote) will very possibly have an effect on me and my life, and my freedoms. Besides, I have a very hard time believing that anyone who is of sound mind actually believes in gun control in actual, genuine good faith. To me, it is such an inherently flawed doctrine that I can't believe anyone who claims to believe in its efficacy (at crime or violence control) really truly believes in it. (Now, we know that some surely "believe" in it because their ultimate goals have nothing to do with actually stemming a real or perceived crime problem...) - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Willie T., recently of Skydive SoBe and now back on Long Island, had been using this new-ish U2 song on his videos and I had not ever heard it before (I don't have any U2 albums more recent than Achtung Baby, actually). It has lyrics something like, "I feel like I could fly... elevate my soul..." something like that. It's a high-energy fast-paced song and it makes me think of skydiving more than any other I can think of. I have to find out the name of it and the album that it's on so I can get a copy. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I love your new Sig line! That is hilarious! (or is that "nefarious"?) - Cthulhu Fhtaghn!, -Jeffrey

I would prefer our foreign policy to based on moral superiority as a ROLE model instead of bludgening other nations into agreeing with us. Our SUPPOSED pinciples of freedom( for who), democracy( you gotta be shitting me we dont even have that in this country) and human rights( better than some worse than some countries ) We need to fix out own shit before people dont think we are nothing more than what this administration is Backwards greedy religeous whackos who want to foist thier worldview on others. Um, we've been a role model with more freedom and liberty than any other country in the world for over 200 years. They don't have to look far IF they want to see a country striving to let its people live free and happy. We ARE a role model. When other countries fester in tyranny AND make attempts to spread their way of doing things, we have an obligation to ourselves and the rest of the free world to stop such movements in their tracks. It's like if you saw a rapist pouncing on a woman in an alley. Would you try to saunter by with a "look-I'M-not-raping-a-woman-why-don't-you-be-like-me" kind of demeanor or would you say that intervention is called-for? For some, who are not interested in behaving in an acceptable manner, setting a good example will be ignored. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Corned Beef and Cabbage 1 - 4 pound Corned Beef 1 head of green cabbage 1 pound carrots, washed but not peeled (unless you must) 2 tbsp canola oil 3 tbsp dijon mustard (coarse is great) 2 bottles Harp Irish beer (from the makers of Guinness) Fresh ground black pepper Coat both sides of beef with fresh black pepper, and brown 3 minutes on a side in pan with canola oil. Place in pot, pour in beer, add mustard and cover the remainder of the beef with water. Bring to a boil, and simmer for 3-4 hours or until meat is tender to fork. Turn beef occasionally because it tends to float with some out of the water. Remove from water and place in serving pan to keep warm -- DO NOT DUMP WATER. Slice meat on slight diagonal across the grain. Slice cabbage into 1/2 - 3/4 inch slices, and cut carrots into 1 inch chunks with diagonal "gourmet" cuts. (They look nicer.) Place cabbage and carrots into the meat-water and bring to a boil. Simmer for 15-25 minutes until carrots are tender. Remove with slotted spoon, place around corned beef in serving pan. This recipe was provided to me by a woman in my office who found it in a magazine. I had announced my intention to bring corned beef and cabbage to work for our St. Patrick's Day pot-luck dinner, and I had also mentioned that I'd never made corned beef and cabbage before and did not have a recipe. This recipe was a HUGE CROWD-PLEASER. Everyone LOVED it -- and I will say that it was the absolute best-tasting corned beef I've ever had in my life! Try it! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Wow, freak me out! I was JUST gonna say that I favor the theme from "Stripes" -- it's so catchy -- and what do I find but the very last post before mine finally brought it up! That's a funky coincidence. I also like the scene in "Full Metal Jacket" where they are clearing some urban area while singing the Mickey Mouse Club theme song. It's a funny take on a cadence song. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I used to be a huge fan of The Simpsons, but I feel that since around 1997 or so they have stopped being nearly as funny as they were in like 1993/94, around the Mr. Plow episode and others. Then along came The Family Guy, and it was like tripping it was so funny! I bought the season 1 & 2 DVDs, but haven't even felt the need to buy Simpsons DVDs at this point. Stewie is about the best TV character since Ralph Kramden. Which series do you think is funnier, on the whole? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I think there may be something to that taught, flat belly too... RrrrOWWRRrrrr! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Ok, so if I feel they are a serious threat to my Family I am going for the shoulder or thigh. Don't worry about missing, I will hit what I aim for. Not a serious threat, nothing beats a little unarmed selfdefense/hand to hand combat. They have a knife...then I will have a bat. I like things being as even as possible. Hey, you're entitled to feel how you want. Me, I think it's silly to feel some sort of noble requirement to limit one's own defensive capability to "EVEN" with what the intruder/attacker is armed with. If he has a knife, I'm gonna have a GUN. No sense in letting myself have to be anywhere NEAR him in order to end the threat he presents. And even before reading Kennedy's response, I myself was thinking that not all of the valid poll responses were there. I hold with the "shoot to stop" philosophy, because if you admit to desiring to "shoot to KILL," they'll hang you up for murder or something. If the means I use to stop him KILLS him, hey, that's his own fault. I am not, when attacked, under an obligation to use very delicate, only-as-much-as-necessary-and-not-a-bit-more applications of force. Even the law recognizes that. But really, why leave things EVEN between you and a criminal? What sense of nobility forces you to let things be anywhere near even when someone has preemptively tried to attack and harm you? I say, stack things as much in YOUR favor as possible! -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Throughout the OPEC countries education is mostly free and of a very high standard. They don't need you to educate them. They may not need us to educate them now, but what will their economy be based on when their oil runs out -- and WILL they blame the U.S. if the U.S. ever obviates its need for their oil? The other countries you cite are bad examples specifically because of what you yourself pointed out -- their economies were NEVER based on some reserve of a precious commodity sitting under their soil. From the get-go, they had to be movers and shakers. Not so with oil-rich Arab countries. I just heard on NPR today about Chad, which they said was about the most backward country in the world. They said that when oil riches come to Chad (as they are beginning to) it will likely fuck them up even more. They mentioned how at one point that happened (in Chad or somewhere else I don't remember) and with the money the public had, they took baths in beer, and men bought dowrys for wives, only to run out of money and have nothing but big families they could not support. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You seem to be deliberately missing my point, over and over again. The point is, when most or all of the companies decide that many customers won't be able to find a company that does not do this -- or if the government starts requiring that cars have the technology in use -- we won't be able to rent cars that don't have it. And simply not renting a car is not necessarily a viable option. What if I have an accident and for two weeks while my car is being repaired, I have to drive a rental just to get to work (not to mentionexamples of voluntary vacations out of town)? What if all the companies had this shit in their cars? Then it's no longer an "option" for me to simply not rent them. At that point I have to. It's not free will if some outside force is ratcheting up the unpalatability of your "choice" until it is so horribly unpalatable to you that you will make the "choice" they want you to make. Sort of like taxing liquor and cigarettes more and more, or suggestions to tax ammunition at 10,000 percent (thank you Ted Kennedy you fatheaded piece of fascist shit). I am not talking about a person who makes the choice between being a fat pig and maybe having to have celery instead of a sundae! I'm talking about when the government, or the car rental companies, leave you a choice between "tough it" or "do it our way." I must have an abridged version. I couldn't find that anywhere! In some cases this is patently untrue. I did not want to have to spend one and a half hours downloading another version of Explorer just so I could continue to do what I had been doing for a long time already -- checking my bank account transactions online. But one day I tried and found out that the old version no longer would communicate with the bank, due to the newer 128-bit encryption. Similar things happen. Eventually you can bet your ass that the phone I have will be rendered "obsolete" and I will HAVE to buy a new one, even though the old one still works fine, because they will change the phone system technology. Do you still call it a "choice" I can make if I either HAVE to buy a new phone, or I can "CHOOSE" not to and simply no longer have use of a phone? It's called "hyperbole." It's used to illustrate a point in heavier terms than usual, particularly to underscore specific points of interest or relevance. It does not have to necessarily be something that would actually happen. You should get my point, though: what if the choice you wanted to make were made extremely unpleasant, even to the point of impossible (like giving your life to a lion attack just to go out your preferred front door)? Again, you refuse to see what I'm talking about. You are like a WALL. I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SIMPLY "KEEP THE PHONE I AM HAPPY WITH" because these companies -- and the government with its endless stream of new regulations -- may very conceivably make my happy phone obsolete, or require a new type of technology. An aspect of this could easily come to pass. What if, under the guise of "security," of course, we come to a point where the government simply says it will stop issuing cash currency, and that everyone will, after a certain deadline, HAVE to conduct transactions with a kind of personal debit card that is linked to a central computer to keep track of everyone's purchases? The fact is, the government regulates the banks, the economy and the treasury. If the government ordered the banks to not give out more currency, and to collect what is around, and refused to mint more money (which they say lasts about one to two years), this is an example of how we can be FORCED to "CHOOSE" what we don't want to do. Watch. You'll see it happen. It may not be such blunt force, but perhaps they'll use various "incentives" by making the choice we would like to make very very inconvenient. It's already happened in Florida with the Turnpike. The toll went up ONLY FOR CARS THAT PAY WITH CASH. The "Sunpass" users still pay the old fees. What if they raised the rate 4000% for the cash users? What can stop them? And would you still be able to AFFORD to make your "CHOICE" to pay by cash? Did I say "Hitler"? Where? I was talking about a particular kind of social behavior. I didn't "lose" jack shit. I think, rather, that you are the one who refused to discuss the point I had made with my example. I wonder why? Who the fuck is Godwin and why should I give a shit what he said? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I'll wait until they put in a Uni-Beam and some repulsor ray projectors in the hands... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I want a pair too -- of butt-cheeks like yours! No! not as my own butt! -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Are you kidding? Religion is so based on fear it's not even funny. This is just another case of people being inhuman to other people. This shithole of a planet is filled with such examples. Everyone wants something. Some want more than is reasonable, or more than they are entitled to. Some steal it. Some bomb for it. Etc. The way I see it, (and in fact the way MANY see it) religion is good for nearly nothing except mollification of fearful minds, and control over the weak-minded -- and it is responsible for more pain, suffering, hatred, war, terror and death than any plague ever has been, or any government or any war. All of this in the name of God? Which God? Which God condones this?! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It's true, I fell for that butt immediately. I wanna see the rest! -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I read the linked comic, the one with Sam Donaldson, and wasn't impressed, but then I went to the start of the week and began with the knock at the door. With each strip, it grew on me more and I actually did laugh out loud at a few. I have always been in awe of how comic strip writers can come up with this stuff day after day for years on end. I couldn't do it, and I can be a pretty funny guy -- in person, anyway. I think the art is pretty good. I like Bobby's dreads -- that's new to me. I'm not sure of the background, particularly Harley's. Is he just a big doofy neighbor? WATCH THE SPELLING, GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION. Nothing pisses me off more than a comic strip with maybe 25 words in it, and one of them is a typo. I mean, how hard can it be to get 25 words checked out?! I see this stuff all the time, and since I'm a professional proofreader, it pisses me off. Please don't let it happen to an otherwise good strip. Have someone check it for you before you publish, even if it's just a buddy or family member. Also, don't fall into the trap that some mainstream comics do of putting the wrong emphasis (usually in bold) on the wrong words. If you've ever seen the strip "Mutts" about the dog and cat, you should know what I mean. (If you've ever tried to read it aloud with the emphasis where the writer places it, you can't do it -- it just doesn't work right.) For example, which makes more sense?: "Are you going to school dressed like that?!" or "Are you going to school dressed like that?!" See what I mean? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I didn't say that it was going to happen in the foreseeable future. Why should its likelihood of actually happening be a prerequisite for you responding to the hypothetical question I posed? If I asked, "Which would fly faster at terminal, me or a watermelon?" would you refuse to reply to the question just because I'm not at all likely to skydive with a watermelon? It seems that the goal of a good many people IS to get us off our dependence on foreign oil. You yourself point out the looming disaster of not doing so; therefore I must conclude that you think we are going to have our backs to the wall some day and will have to do just that. I think either it's unlikely we will get off foreign oil or we will develop the problems you say -- in which case we will then have to get off foreign oil,contradicting your initial statement. Really, though, I tend to think that the wondrous miracle that environmentalists crow about our desperate need to effect would very likely destabilize the entire world economy. I do, however, think it NEEDS to be done, and we should fix the economy once the actual safety of our long-term energy supply is addressed, and the ecology is safeguarded. And I think it is DEPLORABLE that there DOES exist better energy technology, owned by the very people who refuse to let it be developed and employed because it would harm their profits. That's totally fucked up. It's also fucked up that various people who developed such technology SOLD it to companies like detroit auto manufacturers. That's a case of, "I want mine now, and the rest of humanity can go fuck itself while I spend my millions." Truly fucked up greed. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Um, isn't what you're saying about "buy theirs til they have no more, then we're golden and they're fucked" part of what gets the U.S. hated more and more each day, supposedly? I mean, YES, it is the Arab world's short-sightedness to depend on nothing but the decayed dinosaurs under their barren, desolate landscapes, but WE will still be blamed, somehow, for their lack of foresight. It will be said that we should have been over there giving them aid and education and some sort of program for their future, rather than delighting in the fact that some day they'd be out of oil and we'd still have waited to use ours. It has been said and will continue to be said: the world loves to blame the U.S. no matter what we do. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Well, I forgot to mention one toy I love, but it isn't really "stupid," unless stupid simply means a meaningless toy that can amuse for hours despite relative simplicity: Big Air Sportz stunt kites. I got a chance to play with one recently and it is AWESOME! It's like flying a little bitty canopy! I have to get one for myself! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I love it! Not only does it have a skydiving reference, it also has the "Wallace and Grommit" reference. I love those characters! I named my cat Feather. For a dog, how about "Dooooor!"? Or "Airlock," "Windy," "Terminal"... -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

What dog in Point Break? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"