peacefuljeffrey

Much of the year, it's BALLS-HOT out, and humid, Bill. Cut me some slack. If I walked, skated or rode to work any time from March through late November, I'd arrive a sweaty disgusting mess. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Actually, I just got a bicycle recently, and I rode it to work every day the first week... The problem is, it doesn't lend itself to installing a rack on it, and I need to be able to carry my knapsack (which I can and do wear) as well as a bag or two of dinner. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Occasionally taking the cheap shot is funny. Always taking the cheap shot is indicative of a lack of creativity and an inability to think. rl What of incessantly taking the bait? I'd say that my ability to think is well-established, whether you in your intransigence want to grant recognition to that fact or not. Creativity is more difficult to exhibit, but I even do that now and then. I get the feeling that if I said that blue skies and puffy white clouds and moderate winds are nice to have on a skydiving day, you'd find fault with the statement. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

"My" welcome? What about it? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Well why didn't you just say so, I mean jeesh since you DEMAND it and all Which I take to mean that you don't demand that the criminal justice system actually mete out...justice? Then you're among those people whose permissive attitude toward crime and criminals is responsible for its prevalence? Thanks a lot. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Yeah, you're avoiding them real well. Just because I had not availed myself of the news that day (I'd been busy) you surmised that I never read the paper or watch the news. Very good. Believe what you want. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You don't know shit. How could you even allege to know this? It's so "obvious," that you're 100% incorrect about it? WOW! That's freakin' OBVIOUS! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It's amazing how well you know me, after three days or so of reading paragraphs here and there. You're incredibly intuitive about people, aren't you? In fact, you're so good you neither have to meet them nor speak directly with them in conversation before you know just what kind of person they are and how they would act in a wide array of situations. You need to learn to distinguish between a "mistake" and a "criminal act." -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

A youthful mistake would be toiletpapering a house, or egging it, on Halloween. A D.U.I. involving property damage and the very real potential to KILL someone is not a "youthful mistake" in that sense of the term, and needs to be dealt with "officially" and "meaningfully." As a member of society, I DEMAND that the courts handle someone who breaks such a serious law. I want if for MY protection, and my loved ones'. Rehmwa made the best post on this subject yet. It's not a personal decision, it's a justice decision. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Our paper did a story on the IPOD accessory craze. Showed pictures of stuff like Gucci and Vuitton cases. The headline said, "Would you spend $300 to accessorize your IPOD?" Made me want to frickin' throw up. Really. What kinda fuckin' moron would spend $300 on a designer case for an IPOD? What, besides the goddamned NAME, could even make the case worth that?! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I am exactly opposite. I dislike the "recent" spate of misogynist-type songs, calling women "bitch" and "ho," and talking about degenerate violence as though it were virtuous. I like melodic stuff, not angry stuff. Any insight into why you take a beautiful, graceful thing like skydiving and prefer it to be mixed with "angry" stuff? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Back when Skydive SoBe was open, they used this U2 song that said, "...I feel like I could fly, so high... elevate my soul..." Something like that. I loved it. And then there's some Coldplay song that gets used at Sebastian. I love that one, too. It has piano in it that's realy soothing. Not all skydive video songs have to be thrashy and violent sounding. Oh, I also love the song that they used in the documentary "Adrenaline Rush" when the Freefly Clowns were doing their thing in the intro. And while I'm at it, I recently latched onto the idea that the Red Hot Chili Peppers song "Johnny Kick a Hole in the Sky" would be good for a skydive video... "Testify! Testify! -- Kick a hole right inna sky!" -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

No drugs here -- never have been -- so I can't put them "done." Sorry, I think I did confuse your response with someone else's, actually. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Your neighbors deserve to have that D.U.I. kid punished in a meaningful way, to get the message across that there are serious consequences of doing something like that, which risks innocent lives. You think that kids (or adults) who do something very serious and then receive a slap on the wrist "learn a lesson for life"? What lesson? That they won't be severely punished for severe criminal behavior? That's not a good lesson to teach youth. I don't think that the victimhood is restricted to YOU alone in that case. We have a kid who committed a crime against society by driving drunk -- it just happens that your car is the one he hit. Could have been my girlfriend. Your daughter. Her grandmother. ???????? Um, whuh? Does that mean that a cop who comes to your door because the neighbors heard smashing sounds, your wife scream, you scream, her beg you to stop hitting her, and called the police, should fear a violent response from you? I don't get it. Granted if a cop tries to intervene when you're not doing something clearly wrong, he is out of line, but it sounds for all the world like you would harm a cop for doing his job. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Why? Did you infer that I agree with everything this administration does? I think MY rights are safer under THIS one than under the PREVIOUS one... I actually DID see my right to do, and own, various things that I want restricted pretty noticeably under Clinton. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Red herring. Irrelevant. I have to have served in the U.S. armed forces (during WWII?!) in order to answer this question? Why haven't you asked any other American who has opined that England/Europe needed the U.S. in order to win WWII? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Why would they need you to LET them? They're apparently doing it regardless. The idea that you have laws against the carrying of a basic human tool like a knife is the source of endless hilarity for us Americans, believe me. Next, you'll need a license (which your government will of course deny you) to carry a cigarette lighter. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Carry what? Banned guns? If you're admitting that despite the ban, the criminals get the guns they want to do the crimes they want, then you are admitting that the ban affected the non-criminals who no one has to worry about, and the criminals still can arm themselves and be dangerous. Thanks for doing our work for us, proving once again that bans affect only the good people who let themselves be affected, and are USELESS at addressing crime. That's an asinine, ignorant assertion that concealed carry licensees are reckless, dangerous people. If we were that reckless and inclined toward criminality, why the fuck did we go to the government with a fingerprint card and pay a fee to get a right bestowed that we should already have had? CCW licensees are across-the-board MORE law-abiding than the average rest of society. Arrest/conviction reports I have read about bear this out. I've seen it stated (by people who have done studies) that COPS are arrested for crimes at a higher rate than CCW licensees. You paint the impression of being a bigot against anyone who owns a gun, and your comment about JohnRich is just a hair away from being a personal attack, in my view. Talk about projection! Do you really live in that much fear of those who have guns?! Even the legal ones?! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I'm very fortunate. Two jobs ago, I had to drive about an hour to go 30 miles in rush hour traffic on Long Island. I moved to Florida, and I had to drive about 20 minutes across town from my first apartment. Now I live one intersection and 8/10 of a mile from work, and it takes me about a minute or two to get from my driveway to the parking lot at my job. The good fortune is not lost on me -- I do not take this excellent situation for granted (although the job could stand to pay a little more...) -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It's very very clear that Germany was psychotically murderous, and yes, would not have had any compunctions about leveling a city like New York. (I mean, didn't they try to level LONDON?!) So it's true what you say, there is no end to the avaricious ambition of a nation like that, and no end to the evil that it would do to further its own ends. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Exactly. Before anyone jumps on me, this is what I meant to say. Just like the keystone doesn't hold up the entire bridge, but the bridge could NOT stand without it. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That comes off sounding anti-American, actually. "Not very popular"? Or maybe, we just had something (WEALTH!!) that a couple of very ambitious, imperialist countries wanted to fuckin' STEAL from us after murdering us. Hey? You make it sound as though apart from just being prosperous and enviable, we had done something wrong to "deserve" being hated and targeted. What a despicable take on the subject. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I definitely believe that European nations were going down like Dominos to Hitler, and every nation then was just more of a pool of resources for his military. Yeah, I do indeed believe that Europe was on the ropes, and if America had not sent its people and its resources, Europe would be one big Germany right now, probably duking it out with Russia or China just like we ended up doing. Or maybe Hitler'd have managed to take Russia too after another decade of wearing them down. Either way, American intervention -- and INVENTION -- was PIVOTAL to defeating Hitler. I can't see how there is even any question. Hitler was about to have the Jet aircraft perfected, wasn't he? He had those nasty rockets, too, the V-2 they were called, yah? WE developed The Bomb, right? We hustled up and made the P-51, and it was our bombers that took the major cities that needed to be taken, right? (Including Hiroshima and Nagasaki.) I think that's irrelevant. Without the U.S., the European nations were done for. Even if it were our very first five tanks and three airplanes that got you back into the fight, without them you would have lost. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I feel all tingly inside. Really? That ain't how I feel after reading that... -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I totally don't know what you're talking about. I drive a Subaru wagon. I've taken it to 100mph only one time (the day I got my rig)... I have access to only one hot woman. Granted, that's enough for me.