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You need to work a bit on your history cognition, Jeffrey - twice is too much of an honor Yeah, well, your continent and your country have been fucked up for so long, have engaged in evil, anti-humane acts for so long, I'm to be excused if my sense of the history gets a little befuddled now and then. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Once. WWI was not started by Germany. Frankly, I say all the major players in Europe are to blame for that mess. What can I say? Europe's a fucked up place. (For that matter, so is Asia.) Part of what makes these places so fucked up is that despite the fact that they're so fucked up and always have been, they look to criticize the U.S. at every possible turn. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

You just reminded me of when Homer Simpson needed money, and said, "I know -- I'll sell one of my livers! I can get by with one..." Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

You analogies are all fucked up. PETA opposes using animals for research--period. They would have humankind simply leave animals alone to live "free." (Never mind that this would cause endless animal suffering. Even the abolition of hunting would actually engender a lot of animal suffering.) It most certainly is hypocritical to support PETA and then also support things that PETA vehemently opposes. It's not the same as getting things delivered by truck when trucks accidentally cost lives. Not at all. It's like owning guns but supporting the Brady Center's efforts to ban them. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Any word on whether he was carrying the handgun legally or illegally? I mean, if he has any felony record, it's very likely he was illegally carrying. Were any of you guys armed? I know that you were close enough to tackle him, etc., but if he had slipped away and decided to engage rather than flee, would you have been equipped? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Was the truck driver OK? Did he survive a low-altitude convertible collision? We should all be so lucky! Seriously, I'm sorry that your car was damaged. That sucks. I hope the guy has to pay and pay for his fuckup. How the hell did he manage to hit your car, anyway? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

SUCCESS! I went out to a park today with a staff sling that I made, tried it out, and had outstanding success with it For the staff, I used a polypropylene "Escrima stick" by Cold Steel. (It's like a plastic version of a rattan stickfighting stick.) For the sling, I used neon yellow paracord, with a split woven pouch (thank you, Cliff), attaching with a short multiple-overhand knot noose, and the release loop is a fisherman's loop. I spent a little time practicing with my staff sling, and found, as I had been told by the folks at Slinging.org who told me how to make and use it, there's nothin' to it! In about ten minutes or less, I was throwing some proficient shots with my neon-yellow golf balls, and throwing pretty straight, making distances that were probably (unmeasured and approximate) 50-75 yards. I know that if I attach a longer sling, I will get seriously greater distances. In fact, I didn't feel I was maxing out the potential of this particular sling, speed-wise. After I practiced, I made some video, which I have uploaded to YouTube. You can see the final product of that here in my video. I'm sorry that it's difficult to see the golf ball (even though it's neon yellow). I took the video with my Sony pocket still camera. It takes pretty good video for a non-dedicated video camera, but not good enough to get the best detail. After the staff-slinging, I continued on to practice some regular slinging, and that went well also -- actually, it was stunningly satisfying. I'm still kinda buzzing from how well that went. This was my first opportunity to really cut loose with a practice projectile of any significant mass. I was again using the neon-yellow golf balls. HOLY MACARONI!! I discovered that my best throws are, believe it or not, with the Greek style slinging technique. I was throwing some freakin' fireballs, man! Line-drives from one end of the field to the stage at the bandshell at the far end! WHACK! By canting the sling's plane backward like a helicopter that's slowing, I was able to arc the throws and get even better distance. But man, I was surprising the heck out of myself with how reliable and accurate I was becoming with the Greek style. I don't think I'll be bothering to mess with "figure 8" or even "Apache" much anymore. Apache never got me much power, and figure 8 is a bit too involved (and I kept hitting myself in the back last time I tried to practice it). Man, overall, it was a VERY satisfying slinging day for me. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

The salad-dressing guy was an actor?! Well, seriously, he was a classic, indeed. Someone to be missed. I loved him in "The Hudsucker Proxy." What a great movie. You know--for kids. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

A people who psychotically follow an imperialist emperor, a nation that engaged in "death marches" and sneak attacks, is not entitled to an "ethical" response to its atrocities. Frankly, I feel that when a country attempts, by violence, to take over the world, when its would-be victims defeat it, it would not be unfair for those would-be victims to utterly annihilate the attacker and make the world forget it ever existed. In other words, if you are the victim of an unprovoked and deadly attack, it is completely fair that if you triumph in the war, you take over the invading country, make it yours, and kill the last remaining inhabitant. I know that we don't typically do that sort of thing: but I feel it would be justified. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Keeping in mind that any stolen gun is by definition in the hands of a criminal and that any burgler worth his salt is going to try to find a victim's guns because they can be resold. So the report is not saying that 300,000 guns are stolen and used in crimes. . Once in the hands of criminals they are illegal guns and mere possession is a crime. Your argument is both silly and pure sophistry. Besides, it's 300,000 thefts. some of which involve more than one gun, so it's well over 300k guns. Then why aren't we reading about 300k+ gun crimes/homicides each year? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

How about when people talk about, "...in the future"? "We must be more fiscally responsible in the future..." Stuff like that. We can't make changes except for in the future!! Why fuckin' say, "...in the future"?! In the future, I hope people realize they don't need to add that part. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Or a liberal? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Hopefully, he's a member! There are lots of pilots who are not AOPA members, I'm sure, just as there are lots of gun owners who are not NRA members... and they all end up regretting it eventually when they could have used the organizations' help. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Why are you disappointed, Quade? Are you going to tell me that you thought (for some inscrutable reason) that this might end up being a good movie?? From the first time I saw the trailer, I knew that it would not be. As for the ridiculous triple ripoff of 2001, that's either a really clumsy failure to be original, or a really clumsy and ham-handed "homage." Either way, it was someone's poor judgment at the writing/directing end that caused it to remain in the film. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!! I was thinking that when I watched the previews!! I haven't seen the movie, and since it looked like run-of-the-mill Hollywood schlock, I didn't plan to see it until it was free at the library. So I read ahead and looked at your spoiler, and I have to say that, honest to god, I had thought of that already!! Man, I'm good! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Fucking pansy asses... If I had a store, and that clerk got fired, I'd hire him. Agreed. Me too. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Oh-no-he-DIH-INT!! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

What's wrong with pet sex? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

ROFLMFAO That's the same one that made me laugh! DOLL EYES!! HOLY FUCKIN' SHIT THAT IS SO FUNNY!! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

You mean, like our use of the atomic bombs on Japan after your country started the Second World War? Much like the U.S. military's response to aggression around the world -- oddly enough, twice by Germany. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

I really dislike to repeat myself but, just do the math and add some more figures, such like death toll caused by your atomic bombs, and and and ... Iraq. Um, need I remind you that your country's psychotic aggression is what necessitated our use of our atomic bombs? Or that if your country had managed to squeak by and beat us to developing them, your country would probably be ruling the world right now -- a world with no Jews or blacks or gays... Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

There's no need to replace the "c" in "nuclear" with a "k" when making it "nucular." But I agree with all critics of Pres. Bush when they harp on him for saying "nucular." There is simply NO FUCKING EXCUSE. There's no excuse for him to not HEAR it differently from people who are saying it right. There's no excuse for anyone around him not saying, "Uh, Mr. President, it's not pronounced 'nucular'!" Has he known all this time what the right pronunciation is but won't switch to it because people might then seize on his having to admit he's been wrong for so long?? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

I answered "No," but I think my own answer is odd. I'm not willing to drink milk that came from a human breast -- which is supposed to be for humans -- but I'll drink milk that came from a COW'S TEAT, which, well, comes from a fucking COW'S TEAT! It doesn't make much sense, but it's what we're conditioned to. Some comedian, I think it was Lewis Black, referred to how we really ought to be drinking milk that came from chimpanzees, not cows. Maybe he's onto something? Or is it "on something"? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

A small difference, it IS legal here. Yep. That's what it's called today. 60+ years ago, it's been called legal (here), too. Unfortunately. Still comparing the "legal" wholesale rounding up of many thousands (then millions) of people and putting them to death for committing no crime with the arrest, trial, conviction and execution of individual murderers, I see. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_attachment;postatt_id=92754; Do you like this picture of the team you claimed doesn't exist. This has what to do with the discussion of gun control at hand? I guess that when cornered about something you're wrong about, your best defense is to dredge up some unrelated thing you were right about, as though it has a bearing on the current discussion? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire