peacefuljeffrey

Ah. Alliance sympathizer. I see how it is... -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Tom, my sig is also from that theme song. I even painted it on my first helmet!

Dave Cole: Not a famous name, I guess, but he was my instructor for AFP and he was eminently concerned with teaching well, having fun, and being safe. A really good friend, too. The "Dad" of my original skydiving family. J.C. Perren: He took my learning how to be a safe skydiver that much further. Amazingly knowledgeable about skydiving and rigging (hey, he worked (works?) for Sun Path!), and I knew that he was looking out for me while I was working on my A license and didn't know a damned thing. Kept me on the ground when I shouldn't fly, but not by grounding me, but by causing me to question whether it was safe to jump. I'm just awed by the enormity of his expertise about skydiving. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Alright, I just saw this. You're right. Ronda is another person I just need to not get into it with because it'll get me "going" and then get me in trouble. Bill, please forgive the few posts I may have made in this and other threads before I saw your "desist" request, 'kay? Happy new year, everyone.

Ah, but don't you see, you've drawn the forbidden conclusion, and for that you must be maligned. Some people will not accept your departing from the dogma to figure out your own feelings on the subject and coming up with your own take on it. The only thing that would have satisfied some people would be if you had mulled the new discussion on the subject and then said, "Yeah, but, nah, I still feel exactly as I did before and as I've been told ad nauseum: the woman is always 0% at fault and the man is alwaysl 100% at fault." To think otherwise is politically incorrect and therefore will not be tolerated. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Are you a landscaper by trade? You're so very good at hedging. Or maybe you've been in fetish videos: you seem quite comfortable with a foot in your mouth. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Someone's upset because I questioned her need to smoke... -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

It's what you're used to I guess. I would rather my government spanked a few thugs than locked people up without charge for years on end and tortured them. Um, but that's not what it's a choice between. You just set that up. I'd rather eat loads of tapioca pudding every day because I love it than have my fingernails pulled out with a Robogrip plier. But no one said that if I didn't eat the pudding I'd have my fingernails pulled out. I hadn't thought about how few we execute. I suppose you're right on that count. If people got the sense that we weren't fuckin' around, I guess it's possible that fewer people would murder. But people already know they'll lose their freedom for a long time if they murder and get caught, even if they don't believe they'll be executed. The problem is, the people doing the crimes probably really believe they will manage to not get caught, hence the potential punishment, to them, is moot. I simply will not accept the idea of capital punishment as a penalty for malum prohibitum acts! That's insane. Having a gun, just because it's illegal, should not be punishable by death, period. It is 100% assured that if such were policy, there would be good people who were never going to do criminal harm to anyone executed. Sometimes good people carry guns even when/where the law does not allow them, because they wish to be able to protect themselves from criminals if they are attacked. If such a person were found in illegal possession of a gun, I strongly feel that they should not be executed. I've been that person. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I started smoking at a very early age--about the time my thyroid started to fail. When I became symptomatic with Hashimoto's thyroiditis, I was successful in quitting during a couple of the longer hyper episodes, but both times (once after 4 years and again after 2.5 years), I started again. The last time I spontaneously quit was last year when the doctor put me on 25 ug Cytomel along with Synthroid. That lasted for three months. She then lowered the dose, and I immediately started smoking again. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/11/12/nicotine_studied_as_treatment_for_brain_disorders/ I do also note that I have much less desire to smoke when my dopamine levels are high. rl I uh, haven't checked my dopamine levels lately, but my desire to smoke is always nil. Nothing like compounding health problems with another source of likely health problems. Or are you saying that your thyroid disease causes you to need nicotine? Or are you one of those people who claims that they just looooove the "taste" of a cigarette? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

1- "not like anything else could possibly go wrong" is ridiculous. How about bad smelling hair, clothes, breath? How about lung and heart disease? How about ugly yellow teeth? You were awful short-sighted to think that just because other things were going wrong, smoking could not pile more on top of that. 2- Isn't smoking because there was stress in your life a form of giving up, capitulating, being weak, admitting you just can't handle life? I don't mean to pick on you, but it really seems like you're using stress as an excuse. You can get through Basic and AIT WITHOUT cigs, but then some pissant NCO got you so worked that you had to smoke to deal with it? Come on... -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I loved the show, and I loved the movie. Of course, I was quite disappointed that the movie did not feature the theme song of the t.v. series -- or even really feature any of the twangy guitar licks of the series. What about you? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Walt, HOLY SHIT that's a nice gun safe!

If your own brother had done something you truly found loathesome, would you not view him as a loathesome person? How would you separate the two -- the act, and the person? Could a person do something as loathesome as gang-rape a woman and not be a loathesome person? Again, I ask you, "WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO 'STAND BY' SOMEONE EVEN WHEN YOU TRULY KNOW THEM TO HAVE DONE THE CRIME?" If I found out my brother had been the BTK murderer, that moment would mark the end of him being my brother, essentially. It would mean, for one thing, that all the "knowing" him I had done before had been a lie. Learning such a thing about a person's secret life, or secret acts, would be a pivotal point, and for me, it would mean being unable to "stand by him." I'd suddenly be looking at a completely new person, one that I could not relate with. So apart from empty words, what does "be there for him" mean to you? PLEASE ARTICULATE. I don't know how to ask any more clearly for a response that is not simply doubletalk. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You are SO the pot calling the kettle black. But anyway, I can't discuss things with you, because the condescension in your posts is palpable. It's a very off-putting, unflattering trait. Cya. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That's what they said about the American voters when we re-elected G.W. Bush... But then again, the alternative was Kerry, so how stupid are we really? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I've been lovin' that oatmeal flavor from Ben & Jerry's! I could eat it til I'm sick. But lately I've been eating those premade nutty cones. I get the variety pack that has chocolate, vanilla, and caramel varieties; sometimes I take them out of the freezer without the light on so I am surprised with the flavor I get! Best part is licking the chopped peanut pieces out of the wrapper after the cone is gone. Or maybe the best part is the bottom tip of the cone, because it's pooled with chocolate... Whatever. They just rock!

I'm a softie for black labs, too, so that story was touching for me. I'm also a softie for hardcase, down-on-their-luck pets. My own cat, Feather, came from the local animal shelter, and I found her in the "CAT" room; I get the impression that lots of people go to the "KITTEN" room and blow by the "CATS" because, "They're too old." Well, adult cats need/want love, too. Mine was not real old, though -- but at 7 months she didn't have that squeaky-kitten allure, I guess. She's a beauty, though. There's a pic of her attached. But the story doesn't end there. The lady next door is one of those eccentric middle-aged women who loves cats so much that she surrounds herself with about 2 dozen of them (literally) but cares for... well, none of them. They roam the block, and for a while my girlfriend and I were feeding them about 4-8 cans of cat food every day or so. (The lady actually took umbrage and upbraided my girlfriend one day when I was not with her. "What, you make it seem like I must not be feeding them!" My girlfriend should have said (but didn't), "DUH. YES I think you're not feeding them; look at them -- they're ravenous every single time we come out here!" Anyway, one day this little waif showed up hanging around my cottage. I saw her for the first time late late at night, and all I noticed was that she looked siamese, and she had this dangly little right front paw that was crooked at the wrist. The backhand of the paw, at the wrist, was red and raw, and at first I thought it was a poke-through-the-skin fracture, maybe from a car strike. Turns out there is apparently some old injury that healed badly, and that whole leg is useless from the shoulder down. The wrist had been dragging on the pavement (amazingly, it was not infected!), and rubbed raw. Thank god the poor girl has no feeling in that arm below the elbow. My girlfriend decided she wanted to adopt this cat, and I could not oppose her: I had thought about doing so myself. We don't live together, but the cat now stays with me until my girlfriend gets a place where she can keep the cat. Wee's all better now; well, the sore is all healed up, anyway. She still doesn't have use of that arm, but BOY don't you go believing she can't rocket around with the best of 'em. She's a holy terror! Gets up onto the kitchen counter while I'm at work, and actually climbs into the dish cabinets above the counter! (I've found her inside many a time. Incorrigible!) Check out the pics. #1 is my cat, Feather. #2 is Wee Belle Wing, at her first vet appointment.

Heterosexual. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Awesome post, Canuck! Thanks! It's refreshing to see someone who is not into firearms actually pointing out that he is not fooled by the typical anti-gun bullshit that other people who are not into guns try to foist on the public. You are not fooled. I'm glad to see that. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Dude, that's not an ad hominem. Sorry. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Given that it is now widely regarded as simple FACT that the current LIBERAL government is riddled with corruption and graft, I honestly cannot see how they could stand a chance in the coming election. The only way is if liberal-supporter voters are simply that entrenched in their wacked-out beliefs that they will support politicians no matter how crooked just because they share an ideology. I know what you wrote here is more sarcastic than anything else and we obviously have differences. But I've read some of the other things you've recently said in other threads and believe it or not, on some issues we're not as different than you think. I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. It's just an observation. Cool. That happens a lot with me and various other people who often express utter shock that we share common ground. It's fun for me when that happens. I like watching their souls start to show stress-fractures. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Those of us who would do it right -- i.e. being HARSH on those who step outside the law and harm others -- are continuously hamstrung by those who wish to be soft on criminals, giving them the benefit of the doubt and "compassion" that is not due them. The result is they are let out of prison when they should never be, and our crime rate reflects that lunacy. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

My reservations are about what he said regarding shipping handguns interstate. I still am under the belief (because I have been told it so much, and read it in places) that an FFL must be between the seller/buyer at each end. I'm not sure if you're saying that the AWB, which is no longer law, has an effect on shipping of "pre/post ban" weapons. I can't see how that would still enter into it. We can now purchase newly manufacured "pre-ban"-type weapons with no legal impediments other than the ordinary ones... You're aware of that, right? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Do you mean they listen to programs to find out what to think, or to programs that mirror their opinions? I sometimes listen to Rush, and I sometimes listen to that shrill, dumb harpy Randi Rhodes. I more often agree with Rush than I do with her (especially since she is 99% unreasoned, hysterical vitriol and 1% good points. Believe it or not, there are many time I think Rush is wrong, or goes overboard, or engages in sophistry and won't cop to it. No one does my thinking for me but me. But that's too easy an accusation to throw around, anyway. Why not consider that some people haven't thought much about a subject, and then they hear someone else who has speak on that subject, and what they hear makes sense to them, and so they agree and that becomes their opinion? That's not nearly the same as saying, "I'm just gonna go with whatever Rush says about it." -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Are you saying that if you, say, sold a handgun to me, whether in the same state or different, you could just send it UPS to me, when neither of us in an FFL? I seriously think that is not legal. For one thing, an FFL is REQUIRED for interstate sales of handguns (not so for sales within a state). For another, I am pretty sure (haven't I said that before) that the NRA's interpretation of the federal law is what stands: interstate shipping of handguns is required to be FFL to FFL. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"