peacefuljeffrey

ExAFO, I completely 100% agree with you. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Murderers lose their moral authority by virtue of being murderers. The idea that a murderer deserves to pass judgment on a molester is just plain laughable. Hmm. So does that mean I deserve to die? For what it's worth, I never said that child molesters didn't deserve to die. I have maintained that it is wrong for them to be murdered in prison by other prisoners. If they should die (and very possibly they should), they should be executed with the moral and legal authority of the People represented by the State. There is no basis for separating the idea of a lifer in prison murdering this priest and someone on the outside murdering him after his release. Do you recognize that? Or are you just happy that some depraved killer in some prison will oblige and do your hypocritical bidding? It most certainly IS hypocritical -- that is not a personal attack. To be happy that someone else will do the murder you want done so that you don't have to do it yourself (be it because you don't have the balls to, or don't want to risk going to jail yourself) is pure hypocrisy. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

See? I'm so glad I gave you the chance to explain!

The big bullshit fallacy of your statement is the fact that these kinds of policies end up spreading to more and more and more and more and more of the good places to work. Eventually there will be only shit jobs for those who value their privacy and object to these bullshit, needless, ineffective intrusions. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That makes a fuck of a lot of sense. Reward him for killing the guy you didn't like by letting a two-time murderer out of prison. So he can kill your girlfriend, maybe? Why don't you people THINK about this stuff? It is really becoming clear that you're NOT. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Bleeding hearts of this kind are a large part of the reason why the good people of society are forced to live with sick, violent criminals in their midst: "some people" actually object to things like victims killing their attackers in self defense. Yeah, let's give him "life in prison" a second time. How fuckin' stupid is that?! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You're saying that extralegal prison killings of child molesters please you because you don't think the current legal sentences are harsh enough. Well, where is the line drawn? I am displeased by the weak sentences they give violent armed robbers. But I'm not in prison. Do I, too, get to kill anyone I feel was let off with too light a sentence, once he's out of jail (in my opinion, too soon)? Or is extralegal execution a privilege we reserve only for murderers who are already in prison for life? You are saying that vigilantism pleases you because the courts do not. There is no other way to call it. So where is the line drawn? Who gets to enact their own version of justice, and why (if you believe it to be the case) should killing child molesters be the exclusive purview of those who are in prison? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You just detailed a FAILURE of drug tests to do EXACTLY what they are SUPPOSED to do -- they failed to detect that your boyfriend, the drug-addicted drug thief, was on drugs. At the same time, the drug tests cost the company's money, the employees' dignity, and subjected 15 other innocent employees to a witch hunt that failed to even find its witch. WTF are you saying now, that you think more employers should do this? Not enough employers are wasting money and intruding into people's lives for zero gain, huh? Should I maybe offer this opportunity for you to clarify what you meant? I strive to be fair... -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

The question is, is it the prerogative of the employer to search you to find out if you engage in illegal activities? And why just this one? Why doesn't the employer send a private investigator to follow you to see if you break the speed limit, hire prostitutes, shoplift...? You're talking about it being illegal, but you're not explaining why THAT ONE ILLEGAL ACT is the one that employers should be trying to detect on behalf of the police. Not only do I not do illegal drugs, I HAVE NEVER done illegal drugs. And if my job said, "Next week, we're starting a policy of random drug tests for all you employees," I would fuckin' walk. In protest, I would quit and tell them they can fuck themselves. Believe me, their bottom line would miss my expertise at what I do, and I would tell them that because they want to drug test me, an employee who does not do drugs, they are going to now lose me. That's an invasion of my privacy that I will not allow to go unopposed. Unfortunately, there is no real chance of getting such policies made illegal -- it would be hard enough to get them made unpopular. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

"Because if you're not doing anything wrong and have nothing to hide, you shouldn't mind." People have lost their grip on the notion that we should not have to live our lives suspected all the time -- by our government, by our employers -- and because SOME people don't care about the right to be left alone and treated as innocent, ALL of us end up subject to the things they don't object to. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

In July 2005 my girlfriend and I drove from West Palm Beach, Florida north to visit her family near Rochester, New York. Along the way, we stopped at a place in Virginia called the Flying Circus Airshow and took a biplane ride in an old Stearman. After seeing her family, we went east to Albany, stopping along the way at the Turning Stone casino (one of those Indian casinos, as I am told). Hit Albany, took the Taconic State Parkway south to Long Island to see my family. I got to do a skydive at Skydive Long Island.

There you go again, expressing explicit support for the notion of CRIMINALS in prison taking it upon themselves to conduct extralegal executions of those other inmates you don't like. Does it not bother you that you are aligning yourself with those who commit murder? Just so that you can get the satisfaction you desire regarding harsh punishment for child molesters? Your beliefs in this matter truly disgust me. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Well, they also have to look at me funny. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Bullshit. We are no more of a "clear and present danger to Iran" than I am a "clear and present danger" to the guy who would come up to me and rob me at an ATM and stick a knife in my gut. He knows that if I become aware of his imminent actions to harm me, I'll do what I can to fuck him up. But his knowing that I'll retaliate if he attacks me does not make me a "clear and present danger" to him. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Good point. I think it's funny that people will say that it's okay for some scumbag already-murderer to beat and strangle to death a priest who was duly sentenced by a court of law to something other than death... I wonder how many of those people oppose the death penalty because it can never be retracted in the case where someone was convicted mistakenly. You're trying to get death penalty opponents to see this rationally and with real-world practicality? Good luck! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Exactly. What would she have done if it became clear that some random stray dog was the one that killed her cat? She'd have no recourse -- random stray dogs are a fact of nature, and they cannot be 100% eliminated. So if she really wanted her cat to be safe, she'd have made it an indoor cat. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

There is no law that says you can't. But the law also says that you are not allowed to have a weapon in an establishment where the owner says you can not have one. Find me a bank that does not have the no guns allowed sign please. I don't recall having seen them near me. Businesses can run into liability problems if they prohibit people from doing something (in this case, carrying a legally concealed gun) and it ends up causing them a problem. (Like, someone might sue if they were robbed on their way back to their car because they didn't have their gun on them to defend themselves.) The law says nothing about carrying where the proprietor says "No guns allowed." The law that would govern that is the one that covers trespassing. And you would have to first be discovered to be carrying a gun, and asked to leave, and then refuse to leave while a cop witnesses your refusal. Let's look at one of the reasons for this: - What would stop a store manager from calling the cops on someone who had a concealed gun in the store before ever asking the person to leave on account of the gun? The cops can't take the word of the manager; they have to witness him ask you to leave before they deem you to be trespassing. They have no way of knowing if you were or were not asked to leave before they were summoned. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Forget all that. Two words (and one of them's French): Ouragan Suits Nancy Tremblay is amazing. I love my Ouragan suit. Here's her website -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Oh, also... Buy yourself the DVD set by John and Martha King... It's referred to as the "King Course". If you buy the Private Pilot set, the Instrument Pilot set is sold at a good discount. If you combine that, a good private pilot study manual (you'll actually get one for book knowledge, and one for flight maneuvers), and the "red book" by Gleim (pronounced "Glime" -- which is a "how-to-pass-the-written-exam" book), you can pass the written exam easily. If your flight school offers a group groundschool for a reasonable fee, take it. (Mine was about two or three hundred dollars.) Use it to supplement your own personal reading and study. Watch through the DVD course, and do the red Gleim book front to back -- that book is excellent -- and schedule and take your written exam. The passing grade is good for TWO YEARS, so you can then set to work on your flying lessons. Good luck, and have fun! Blue skies, -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Well, whose fault was that? You're the one who got into a plane with the word "DOWN" in the name! ...Glad you're okay.

Contact Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) They have information to help people who want to learn to fly, and I think that among their info is stuff on what to look for in a flight school. You're right. It is a wonderful thing "to do."

I've been reading editorials and columns and letters to the editor and articles that the Prius and some other hybrids are not NEARLY as fuel-efficient, or ecologically friendly, as they are made out to be (sometimes depending on the type of driving they're used for). And someone pointed out that their batteries will be poisoning landfills in about 7 or 8 years. Great. And that if/when the battery fails, it'll cost about as much as a Hyundai Accent (which gets very good mileage) to replace them (a cost that insurance won't be covering). And I've seen claims that one would have to drive about 60,000 miles a year to make the purchase of such a car cost-efficient from a standpoint of saving money on gas not consumed. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

So is what kind of car they drive, who they chose to marry, what their sexual practices have been, and what they do in their spare time for recreation. Does that mean employers should dig that information up on a prospective employee? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Adults can't tell other adults they have to stand in the corner, or go to bed without supper, but they can tell children so. Are protections against these punishments in the works as well? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Nope, I just plow on through, let 'er rip! -- the more people who die, the better! How you can think I just want people to be killed is beyond me. I make it pretty clear that I dislike criminals. To take issue with me wanting criminals executed (or killed in the act by their victims or by police responding while the crime is in progress) makes it seem like you sympathize with criminals. Sorry, that's just what comes across from you taking issue with the death of scumbags. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"