peacefuljeffrey

You've opened that right up for someone to suggest "drowning." - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

How the fuck would you know that? Did you somehow: - identify every voter who is an American Nazi Party member - follow them to every polling place in America - watch how they voted in their booths? Oh, and not just the Nazis but "other extremist groups"? So, PETA members voted for Bush? Handgun Control Inc. members voted for Bush? Million Mom Marchers voted for Bush? Black Panthers voted for Bush? Or are you saying that only RIGHT wing people are "EXTREMIST" groups -- LEFT wing people organize into "ACTION COALITIONS," right? Really, though, how the fuck do you know what American Nazi Party members did at the polls? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It may have been a bit insensitive of him to make that suggestion if he is aware of your condition, but it was far from a personal attack, as I see it. He said that it was POSSIBLE. He did not make an accusation: he merely stated that your sig line causes him to wonder. Is that not allowed? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Tell me something: Why don't you give as much shit to RHINO for being "angry"? Is it that you have some hope for me, and want to save me from the Dark Side or something? Should I be flattered? I just wanna make sure... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

People vote with their wallets. Not me. I vote my ideology. There's an ANGRY PARTY? Yeah, the American Nazi Party. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Kewl , I see you are adding a bit of mysogeny to your repetoire.... be sure to bring that up at the Boogie this weekend and see how far it gets you. creeeeeaaaaaaak... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

...your point being what? Just that black people are known to victimize others simply on the basis of their race. They are not different from white people or any other race. And they are not to be defended when they do bigoted things. But some people seem intent on giving them a by. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It was not an analogy, it was illustrative of the difference between what a criminal can expect to get away with in a place where lots of people have guns, versus a place where everyone is prohibited from having guns. Frankly, for a guy who claims to teach in the higher education system, you need an awful lot of leading before you can see a point. Regardless of whether you are right or wrong about which is more akin to which, I addressed the subject of gun SHOWS and you responded AS THOUGH I had said "SHOPS." It was YOU who couldn't stick to the discussion that was actually going on. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

People don't deserve the death penalty just because they are, through no fault of their own, stricken with mental illness. When that illness causes them to be a tremendous danger to those around them, they need to be removed from society. Permanently. Whether that would be by imprisonment or execution is open for discussion. No? Seemed so to me, too. Everyone making such a hubbub about how unfair it is to treat a mentally ill murderer AS a murderer... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It's theoretically possible that all the oxygen atoms in your bedroom migrate to the ceiling during the night and you die of anoxia. However, I doubt you worry too much about that in your paranoia about being a crime victim. Is there some explainable, simple reason that would cause all the oxygen atoms in my bedroom to migrate to the ceiling? Some reason on a par with the simplicity with which some dude could walk up to you just as you are getting into your car in a parking lot, stick a knife at your back and demand your keys muthafucka? You are grasping, kallend. It looks really pathetic. Dunno how you can't see it... I'm the one paranoid about being a crime victim? If you weren't paranoid about the potential to be a crime victim, why are you so concerned about what other people do with their guns? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Even if all it ever did was make people high and happy, I would not oppose it. I don't necessarily respect the choice to do it (recreationally), but I don't see that I (or anyone) should have a right to stop someone from doing something for pleasure if it does me no harm. Once again, we can point to the legality of alcohol, which does plenty of harm to user and public; but it's still legal. And we can point to the futility of prohibition laws, which failed miserably, with all kinds of unintendended consequences, back in the early 20th century. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

JohnRich, EXCELLENT post. I need not even make my own statement because it would just be a reiteration. From the article: If muslims are calling for "death to so-and-so" because of a paper insult, they are truly deranged and psychotic. Since they make clear that they are a deadly threat to Denmark and France, I posit that those countries are entitled to go into full-defensive mode against muslims, using whatever means necessary to protect themselves from attack. How fuckin' long does the world have to tolerate being on the receiving end of endless death threats from islam? See that? MUSLIMS consider it a sacrilege. If I'm not a muslim, I don't have to limit what I do, say, read, etc. to conform to islamic law. MUSLIMS do. Just as if I am catholic and not jewish, I don't have to avoid eating pork and cheeseburgers. Where the fuck do they get off pretending that because THEY can't do something under islam, that EVERYONE can't do it? So the entire world is supposed to knuckle under to islamic law? Fuck you, dude. Eat shit and die, along with the rest of your hordes. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Not likely, because I take effective anti-theft precautions. As should gun owners with their guns. The only ones I have an issue with are the ones that take no precautions, leave their guns unsecured with kids around, etc. You're impervious not only to car theft but also to carjacking? It is not even theoretically possible that someone might gain unauthorized access to the use of your car, and then use it for criminal pursuits? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

"I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence...." - Mohandas Gandhi But Ghandi saw another choice that was neither cowardice nor violence, and he clearly preferred that. And if he had found that nonviolent sit-ins were met with violent slaughter, he would have advocated, "Fight back," not, "Do nothing; let them slaughter you and show the rest of the world that they're big mean bullies." "Better jaw-jaw than war-war", Winston Spencer Churchill Wasn't that said by a guy who took England through a very trying war because it was obvious that the aggressor could not be reasoned with, and appeals to his compassion would have been met with an escort to the gas chamber? Thanks for providing a great example that even a guy who says talk is preferable to war found that the latter was necessary when one side simply would not sit down to reasonable talks. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You're right, I'm VERY angry at that shit they call rap music. I fuckin' hate it, and hearing it makes my blood boil. Or did you think I LISTENED to it and it made me an angry person? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Then if she were to be released, ever, would you - agree to a legal mandate for her to take her medications? (I'm not sure how that stands, legally. The government saying you MUST take pharmaceuticals? I guess it could be made a condition of release, and if she doesn't agree to it, well bitch I guess you stay locked up...) - agree to a legal PROHIBITION ON HER PROCREATING? That'd be a tough one to make a lot of people swallow, and there'd be protesters everywhere taking her side. But once again, I guess if it were a condition of release, she could always just say no to it and remain locked up. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

WTF is wrong with you? I said GUN SHOW! - A post office is not a show. WTF is wrong with YOU? Try to follow along: I... said... that... no... one... tries... to... shoot... up... a... gun... SHOW... to point out that places where people, lots of people, are expected to have their own guns tend to be the places where criminals don't want to risk pulling a gun in a criminal act against others. How the fuck did you get lost there? You then started talking about gun SHOPS. I did not assert that gun SHOPS never get robbed. That happens probably because the criminal feels he can get the drop on one or two guys manning a gun shop counter. Not the same as walking into a gun SHOW and trying to rob someone, because clearly, you'd never make it out of there. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

...There's a new Mexico? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I'd call it creatively working within the rules. That's bullshit. It's vindictive end-running around a person's right to a speedy trial. See my other post. If that happened to me, I would surely haul their fuckin' scumbag asses into the Supreme Court. If you have crimes to charge me with, fuckin' charge me with them and let me defend myself, win or lose. Metering out the charges one at a time so that you can force me back into court at tremendous expense over and over again, that's just a huge abuse by the government against the people. (Yes, a criminally accused person is still of "the people." Don't believe me? Then why are there always issues of whether a criminal's Constitutional rights have been violated? They still have rights, or we ALL don't.) - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You're correct. The prosecutors should not be able to string out the charges so that if one doesn't pan out for them, they can tie you up for the rest of your life in trials. What if a person was charged with 180 counts of mail fraud? Should the prosecution MALEVOLENTLY charge you ONE AT A TIME, and force you to hire a lawyer for 180 separate trials? How about if they charged you 18 times at a shot? If you got an acquittal each time, they could force you back into court (and likely into jail while you await each trial, if you can't afford bond) 9 more times. That is truly fucked up. But what's also fucked up is that a woman who was so whacked that she clearly did what she did (there is no question, folks, lack-of-guilty-verdict or not) is not mandated to be out of circulation for good, and that there is any possibility that she could be anywhere on her own without an armed guard keeping her on lockdown. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I just watched one of those dollar DVDs -- The Dick Van Dyke Show -- and it turns out that the episode had been directed by... JOHN RICH! Who knew?! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Certainly not! It's bad only if you bite down on a piece and have a large chunk of your molar just break the hell off! It happened to me in '99 at my parents' house, late at night. I microwaved myself a pound of bacon and was chowin' down and CRUNCH! At first I thought there was a piece of bone in the bacon, but it turned out that the tooth was just weakened by a big filling and ready to go. Lucky for me, there was no nerve exposure or sensitivity. I actually waited a lonnnng time before I got it fixed. Bacon is gooooood.

Erm.... Well.... So, see, that's not exactly true. I believe you have to have a record of being mentally ill, and having been locked up for same, before you're prohibited from purchasing. You'd have to be "adjudicated mentally incompetent" to own a firearm. What, would you like it if all it took to take away your constitutional rights was the SAY-SO of someone who claims you're a nut? Do you want loss of rights to be EASY for the government to accomplish? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

When black people got pissed off that Rodney King's police abusers were acquitted, did they go after other BLACK people in the street, or whites and asians? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Discriminate against them about what? Just because they haven't won the right to marry (which is still not an idea that society has quite worked out its feelings about) that doesn't mean they are not protected against any other discrimination. You can't refuse someone housing for sexual orientation. Can't refuse them a job because of it, either. Can't tell someone they can't vote because they're gay... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"