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  1. His sarcasm is evident. Your's is either non-existent or oddly disguised and quite difficult to detect. Blues, Dave The use of sarcasm was to imply that the rest of us really do believe what he said only sarcastically. I guess you missed that. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  2. OMG we're seeing eye-to-eye on another issue! Shit IS about to get crazy! Next thing you know, three stars will be in the correct alignment for the Antichrist to be born! (Oh, wait, that happened already. Now he's running for prez on the Dem ticket! ) No, but seriously, anyone who actually thinks to call himself an "anarchist" has got to be fuckin' retarded. An anarchist would not recognize any system of authority, right? So if they reject anyone's authority, why would they plead, when arrested for rioting and torching cars and shops, for the system they claim has no authority to provide them due process, and lawyers, and junk??! They always turn into such "I-want-my-lawyer-and-my-mommy" PUSSIES when they get caught being, well, anarchic. And that's how it ought to be. The planet earth simply cannot sustain a human civilization that is anarchic. There will be order, or there will be complete destructive chaos. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  3. Can't you just tell the story, and use your noodle to figure out what you'd have to omit in order to maintain the confidentiality of the person(s)? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  4. Exactly. It's pretty hard to imagine doing that to someone, I guess. That's probably what keeps many people from being ready to do it if it really becomes necessary. How many people, when they are raped, have both of their hands completely incapacitated or bound? I'd say there's got to be a fair number who are not bound when they're raped, yes? They are face-to-face with the attacker. WHY IS IT that we don't hear about more people jamming both thumbs into the rapist's eyes? In fact, I've NEVER in my LIFE read about a rapist having an eye put out! EVER! Have you? Just imagine being a rapist whose eye suffers severe trauma from the finger (or keys, or kubotan) of a woman you're attacking. Will you continue the rape? Of course not. You'll be going, "AAAHHH! MY FUCKIN' EYE!!" Will you continue then to try to beat on the woman. Possibly. Probably. But then, now you're in SEVERE PAIN, HALF-BLIND, and probably have one of your two hands up to your face. Your would-be victim SHOULD now be able to either get away from you, or POUND on you. Right? But all it takes is... evidently more than a lot of people are willing to do. But I seriously would not mind having a few more blind rapists out there. If the criminal justice system is gonna not put these fuckers in jail, they might as well be blind. It's what I'd do in that situation for sure. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  5. Thanks for that. Because it's not like you're already posting enough as it is. Not at all. Yet another pithy, salient contribution! Boy, fella, you're on a ROLL!! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  6. It would take a serious pro to take out Obama, he is extremely well protected. ... Close range is always available as long as the shooter doesn't mine being executed and can successfully smuggle a gun into an event and somehow manage not get noticed while aiming. Well, he could just go out and get one of those ceramic Glock pistols. I hear they're the choice of terrorists, and are undetectable by modern security devices (heh, even their ammunition!). A liberal columnist named Jack Anderson told me so, and people continue to say the same thing. They can't all be wrong! Except when they don't, I guess. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  7. I forgot to add this point: Why is it wrong for an INSURANCE company to not pay for "pre-existing conditions"?? A person who goes to an insurance company and asks to buy a policy, and knows that he/she WILL need to make claims of X amount of dollars, is essentially saying to the company, "Hi. I have cancer. Would you please take my $12,000 in annual premiums and somehow magically turn it into $350,000 worth of radiation, chemotherapy, hospital stays and in-home care?" Can you see how ridiculous that would be? The insurance company exists to earn a profit by providing a service. That service DEPENDS, in the most FUNDAMENTAL WAY, on the GAMBLE that NOT EVERY INSURED is going to need to make claims! It sure as hell is not reasonable to expect the company to just write off X amount of money because someone walks into the sales office and everyone KNOWS he will need the company's money. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  8. Good, thoughtful question. I myself have NO guilt feelings when someone I feel confident is guilty of a murder is executed. None whatsoever. I don't even really feel all that much for the family he/she leaves behind. That's life folks. Sorry for your bad luck that you happen to love a guy who could commit murder. But he has to die. It sets things right. (Oh, I know I'm gonna catch it for that last sentence, boy...) Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  9. OK. Sorry. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  10. Because it happens.. innocent people HAVE died. Given my training.. if I want a confession out of you.. given enough time.... I can get you to say anything I want.... trust me on this Now you're allowing that an appreciable percentage of murderers who have confessed did so because they were TORTURED? Holy shit. Is NO confession worth a goddamned thing? We might as well clear the jails of ANYONE who has EVER CONFESSED! Your implication is that they must have been TORTURED into doing so! By the way, what is this "training" of which you speak? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  11. Because it happens.. innocent people HAVE died. Given my training.. if I want a confession out of you.. given enough time.... I can get you to say anything I want.... trust me on this Financial planners HAVE ripped off clients. Should I not employ one? So what if innocent people HAVE died? They are NOT RELEVANT in a case where a person is certain NOT to be innocent. What is so hard about acknowledging that? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  12. No they are not equivalent... I have No sympathy for Scumbag number one.... The second person would not exist if this country rose to the challenge of providing a basic level of healthcare to all its citzens. But then we're right back to the basic problem -- and you yourself have been bemoaning this problem: we'd be PROVIDING things to people who didn't earn them! We'd be further encouraging the entitlement and welfare mentalities. I take it they won't cover your anger management treatment and anti-psychotic medications? Seriously, I heard a guy talking on the radio once and he made a really good point: we are making a huge mistake in the way we regard the purpose of medical insurance. It is supposed to be insurance. It is supposed to cover unforeseen things. It is not really reasonable to expect it to cover routine or scheduled medical treatment! Face it, if EVERY SINGLE PERSON had medical insurance coverage, and was making the typical, expected claims, there would be no point to having coverage. The companies would be essentially paying out almost all (maybe more than all) of what they'd take in! I mean, come on, the point of having insurance in the first place is to pay less in premium than the insurance pays you in benefits. That can happen only if the company is not hemhorraging claim payments. The system works because (as a very rough example) 1000 people each pay $100 in premiums. There's a pot of $100,000. Only twenty people get sick, and each person's illness costs the company $1000 in claims. The company made $80,000. You've stolen my heart, but I don't hold you in contempt! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  13. hahaha...that's a good one. i'll have to steal that one from you. Can't steal what's freely offered. Enjoy it.
  14. Been getting your facts and figures from Kallend again, I see... Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  15. I'd think that would be a very long book; even in 6 point font and coffee table dimensions. Well, they'd have a lot to say about it, possibly, but the fact (for me) is that for all the technique they may think they have, all they ever seem to do is be feigning sincerity. But I guess they could write a long book of tricks they employ, themselves, to try to get people to think they're sincere. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  16. Couldn't read the address for sending remittance -- naturally! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  17. I'm partial to Spyderco and Benchmade, mostly. (And I can't afford Chris Reeve or MicroTech.) Do you EDC a pocket knife? What's your brand? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  18. Your question makes an erroneous assumption. Assumption, yes. Erroneous, no. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  19. I'd like to think of you as intelligent, but your posts make me unable to do that. There you go lying about what you know to be true again, just because you don't like facing it. *sigh* Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  20. The vehicle's there to sighted people, too, ya know. I believe it is customary for sighted people to look for traffic before they cross. "LOOK TO THE LEFT, LOOK TO THE RIGHT..." We may look left and right but generally we listen in Dolby 5.1 surround. Kallend looks pretty Left to me... Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  21. What a ridiculous question from word one. No one ever said that the purpose of the mission was to execute Saddam Hussein. What an idiotic poll. That’s also not what Dave wrote. Your statement is specious. Is it? The poll options were, "Yes, I'd trade 3000 service members for Saddam's execution No, I wouldn't sacrifice 3000 service members in exchance for Saddam's execution." Dave is clearly equating the choice to go to war with Iraq with a goal, that goal being to secure Saddam's execution. How is what I said specious?? And why do you and others keep misspelling "Hussein"? Is it to do your best to avoid linking the late, deposed dictator with Barack Hussein Obama (the dictator-hopeful)? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  22. No, you're wrong, and what's more, you are totally unreasonable to say that "only history will tell." How do I know this? Kallend told me! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  23. Please reconsider future use of the word "impact" in this sense. This is a trend that has grown stupendously in the last few years, and it's just... horrible. The principal definition of the transitive verb "impact" is to fix firmly by or as if by packing or wedging. (Think of an impacted wisdom tooth.) Yes, the dictionary does list "to strike forcefully," but there are better words to use when our meaning is not a literal striking: why not use "affect" in cases like these? Thank you for considering my earnest suggestion. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  24. Even more pathetic is that you are so wrapped up in your pat response of calling JohnRich a liar, you probably didn't even really read what he said. I find it hard to argue with the sensibility of the following: ***And that brings me back to the case of Iraq. It is premature to make judgments at this time about whether or not the sacrifice of 3,000 Americans has been worth it. Because we do not yet know how things are going to turn out in the long run. If we cut-and-run and let tyranny return, then it will have been wasted. On the other hand, if it changes the political climate in the Middle East, dragging tens of millions of people out of oppressed third-world impoverished lives, into the modern era with freedom and prosperity, then it will have been worth it. So everyone who is making judgments about this situation today, has not the basis to do so correctly. Only history will determine that. I guess we can put a "~" in front of each of his points, and you agree with the negated form of each? If we cut and run now, the 3,000 lives with "~" have been wasted? We do "~" not yet know how things will turn out in the long run in the Middle East? It is "~" worth 3,000 lives to drag millions out of oppression, tyranny and poverty? Hmm... Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire
  25. Yeah -- doesn't she know that like you, I am impervious?! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire