peacefuljeffrey

Florida bank robbery suspect (1 of 2) shot dead while holding hostage Well now... I'm so very upset. This man could have been captured alive -- they could have shot him in the leg with a surgically-placed shot! -- and then rehabilitated to become a productive member of society! Instead, they killed him. What's wrong with them?! Can't they see he was harmless?! He shot AT police. He didn't SHOOT POLICE! And hostages said that they "weren't threatened with violence!" (Nooo... a gun pointed at you is not being threatened with violence. Only having it fired at you is being threatened with violence, I guess...) Really... "The hostages said they were treated well and were not threatened with violence, Hansell said." Since fuckin' when is being taken hostage by people with guns being "treated well" and "not threatened with violence." I have news for these idiots: any time someone is holding you from going about your free will, using a gun, you are fucking NOT being treated well and you fucking ARE being threatened with violence. Anyway, I'm glad he's dead, the piece of shit. Too bad they didn't get his bitch, too. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Ohhh, another clicque-y in-joke... We were surely running low on those in here... -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

My cat likes to ...um... lick and bite at my armpits. That's not the sick part. The sick part is that it tickles like hell and I like being tickled so I let her do it! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

The point of this thread is ...what, again? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That's my real reason for having bought a stick. I even went so far as to get the Subaru STi titanium shifter knob for it! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

So now you talk more like the guys in 'A Clockwork Orange', right? They live it... why not talk it? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

More's the pity. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I spent 3 months living (and pub-going) in England and did not encounter warm beer being served in pubs. How did this myth originate? Or is it a myth? Is room-temperature beer a British thing for real? Where do they serve it, and why? And I like fish and chips! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

(There's an age when drinking makes one cool?) Wait a minute, please. Isn't England one of the places (in Europe, duh) where the drinking age is 18? Isn't England the place that has the police handing out CANDY BARS to drunks who are crawling out of pubs 'n' clubs in search of munchies, who can't manage to behave in a civil manner as they do so? Yeah. That's what I thought. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Actually... ...the understanding that "death is forever" comes to children later than many of the other understandings they need to function in the adult world. I think this figures into at least some of the killings we see committed by children. rl I don't. I think that a sick mind, fueled by sick information and sick examples and sick entertainment go a long way toward making a kid just not care about anyone in society but him or herself. And I think that kids certainly do understand that death is forever. But, like many things, it is the GRAVITY of that truth that may elude them for a while. I am only now realizing the stark permanence of death, having lost my mother and my grandmother (in that order) in recent years. I realize now that I can never again ask either one of them questions to which I might really want to know the answer. I can't ask my mother why she chose my name as she did? I can't ask her about what it was like to carry me. These things don't occur to you until years later (in my case, my thirties). But that doesn't mean a kid can't understand that killing someone kills them forever. I think that the sick murdering kids these days simply decide, "Humph. I don't give a fuck!" -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Why is it appropriate to second-guess when NATURAL BIOLOGY tells a person that he or she wants (is ready for?) sex?? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

See, once again we witness that by the time the police can be called and they arrive, the crime has already been committed. Score another for the pro-gun people. We've been saying that all along. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

What, pissing off Brits? I can deal with their reprisals using naught but a long, pointy umbrella! "Avast! Have at thee, foul miscreant!" ...And several butchers' aprons. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I used to occasionally tune in back when I lived in NY and had a moderate commute. I always snapped off the station in annoyance when the show amounted to nothing more than meaningless blather back-and-forth between the people in the studio. Nothing funny was said. It was just boring as hell. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You mean every position in the military has access to weapons? Are you sure, or are you going on again before pausing for a second? I am under the impression that even people who are destined to be desk jockeys in the military still go through basic training and yeah, learn how to use weapons, and occasionally do live-fire training. Am I wrong? I have not been through military training, so I don't know for certain. I'm crazy? I'm ill-informed? Why not read the articles. He DID already actually murder someone -- a Turkish journalist in 1979. (He got a mere 10 years for that.) So yeah, the shitbag should've already been dead when he made his attempt on the pope. And more on your question: YEAH, I fuckin' want those who ATTEMPT murder out of society, too, and execution is a good way to do it. I heard a comedian make fun of this situation once (don't remember who it was); he questioned going easier on a would-be murderer just because he missed. Anything else? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Under what Constitutional authority does the FCC even exist? It may serve a purpose, and it may truly keep the airwaves from being consumed by chaos, but if we needed it so badly, we really ought to have gone about amending the Constitution to grant the fedgov the power to make such an agency. It would have been easy to argue the need for it, and thus pass the amendment, and then the whole thing would be on the up-and-up. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I took issue with that one, too. Calling it a "mistake" makes it sound like even at the time he was doing it, he wasn't meaning to do what he was doing. Sorry. He was. It wasn't a "mistake" -- it was a wrongful act. Let's call it that. I'm surprised that the lawyers for these people don't coach them to use more sincere-sounding phrasing in their "apologies." -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

'Zactly. That's why it's disgusting and worthless. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Convenience, sure, but if you recognize that it is far more expensive than ordinary groceries, and far less nutritious than meals you can make yourself (even simple ones), do you have any excuse for continuing to buy it? Just because it's convenient? You understated: You can EASILY make a meal for SEVERAL people for $8 worth of groceries. If I used $8 wisely spent, I could make a meal I could eat for several days worth of leftovers. Only if I did that and was careful about where my food dollars were spent would I be justified in complaining, if I found that even budgeting more wisely food was too expensive. People are once again, sadly, looking to throw blame and responsibility as far from themselves as possible. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

We never said we didn't miscreants and other shitty criminals. But we're not gonna take the ridiculous PUSSY way out and APPEASE them at our own expense. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Teen gives bullshit apology for racially motivated attack And the kid says, while facing the court and his victim, "I just wanted to say I'm sorry for what happened to you." "What happened to you"?? How about, "I'm sorry FOR DOING THAT TO YOU"?! Have you noticed, like I have, that in a lot of cases where a defendant is found guilty and is being sentenced, right at the moment when he could possibly show some genuine remorse -- or at least FAKE what might seem like genuine remorse -- he makes it seem like he's sorry that something happened that he had nothing to do with? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It's way easier than that! Just unzip the pope-suit he's wearing! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It's expensive food. The whole argument that poor people are "victimized" by the placement of fast food restaurants in their area is just bullshit. It's not as though the powers that be plant them there to the exclusion of also putting grocery stores there. Buy some penne pasta. Buy some fresh lean ground beef or turkey. Boil the pasta, brown the meat, and put some pasta sauce on it -- you have a wide variety of choices. Buy some inexpensive frozen spinach, broccoli, brussels sprouts. Stick that in a pot with a little water and in five minutes you have a vegetable side. This is not brain surgery. But woe, the poor are forced to eat fatty, non-nutritious fast food. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Yeah, that's right, give the FUCKING [I]MURDERER[/I] MILITARY WEAPONS! He's a murderer; he should have been executed. And if they didn't want to do it the first time he murdered, they damn well should have done it after he tried to then kill the pope! A better question is why your personal attacks on me keep being overlooked. That's exactly the kind of comment that used to get me banned. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I'm not interested in having you do an amateur psychoanalysis on me. I doubt that you are a qualified psychologist, for one thing. For another, even a qualified one could not make a valid assessment over dropzone.com... I am "any American who carries a gun." I don't like when I am not able to carry it for one reason or another because I am quite used to it, and knowing that it is one more piece of equipment that can help me out of a jam. I have never had to draw or fire it at another person -- never been robbed or accosted in that manner, although there have been times I maybe was close. But knowing that IF such an event were to occur, it is nice knowing that I have something more than my fists or *ahem* a can of deodorant with which I can defend myself. Some people strap a fire extinguisher into their vehicle somewhere, just in case. I don't feel this is much different. Both will probably not have to use it, but in the event that it is necessary, it can be very necessary. I haven't been out of the U.S. in some years. When I was, I was not yet a gun owner. Now that I am, yes, it would bug me to not have the ability to carry a gun with me -- especially with the state of the world, and humanity's mindframe, today. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"