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(The push-poll style of your question aside...) If you want to be productive, then Yes. But, if you prefer to throw up your hands and have impasse, then choose impasse. It's just that, all the information is out there for people to learn and understand. It really seems that people who hold the anti-gun beliefs do so despite the fact that they should be able to see why they're flawed; and yet, they choose to cling to those beliefs anyway. You take a Chuck Schumer, NY senator (and former congressman). He is as anti-gun, pro-gun-ban as they come. He cannot claim that he has never read or been told all of the things that SHOULD make him see that gun control and gun bans are misguided. We've all called his office, e-mailed him, mailed him, written letters to editors, pointing out that "assault weapons" are not machine guns; that "assault weapons" are used in less than 1% of crimes; that gun control's origins are rooted in racial bigotry; that concealed carry laws have been associated with decreased crime, and NOT "shootouts in the streets"... Are you going to tell me that this man, and his ilk, simply haven't been "reached" by a kindly gun owner? Bullshit. This man's anti-gun bigoted views are deliberately held, and he is intransigent. Many is the anti-gun voter who has been told plenty of times why his position is intellectually void, who clung to it nonetheless. It certainly is not because we pro-gunners are bellicose. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Well, I wasn't there, and didn't get to hear the delivery or how "manufactured" it may have sounded, but I thought that it seemed she was honestly being respectful, almost giving you a, "You have what it takes; next time if the girl's available, you're gonna succeed" kinda pep-talk. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Why does a woman have legs? So she won't leave behind a trail like a snail. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Hon, doesn't your computer play DVDs in the meantime? Anyway, come visit and we'll watch it here on my puny, old 19" t.v. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

I'd take the climbing and leaping ability of a chameleon. We have these little guys all over Florida. They can climb on just about anything, and leap soooo far! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Which is fine. But then don't act like an ass if she responds with "I'm seeing someone." Not saying that you would, but several of these threads have made it clear that some guys think a woman is a bitch if she responds that way. And I've been in that situation myself before, where the guy asked me out and then started acting like a total asshole after I told him I was married (as if I was lying or something). I'll bet that makes you glad you were not available at the time and hooked up with the guy who had the potential to be such an asshole just for being declined. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

What, a person who's seeing someone already when they get hit on is obligated to just drop him and go out with you?? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Thank you for that image. Really. Yeah, I liked that image, too. But I'm gonna go with "Fly like an eagle," nonetheless.

A small difference, it IS legal here. And let's remember, here it is done after a long and arduous process of determining a little something called "GUILT." In Germany, it was done after determining a little something called, "You ain't Aryan, so you get to die in a gas chamber with hundreds of others who also haven't committed any crime." Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

I'll also bet that 7-11 will seek to fire the clerk who kept the gun in the store and shot the robber. Just like Pizza Hut fires pizza deliverymen who shoot robbers in self defense. And it's happened more than once! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Why does the expression "you can bring a horse to water but you can't make him drink" come to mind? Because people are inherently lazy, and the art of persuasion is often difficult. You actually think that it should be our (gun owners) responsibility to educate and win over people who have made the choice to hold irrational, illogical, bigoted and uninformed opinions of guns and gun owners? Not only is that a MONUMENTAL weight to put onto gun owners' shoulders, it's not something we have the power to do. People make up their own minds, and we don't have the ability to override the prejudices of people in every nook and corner of society. At some point, people have to be held accountable for the choices they made to think the way they do. Or is it the fault of black people across the country that they haven't pursuaded the bigoted types to stop thinking of them as "dumb niggers" (to borrow a phrase)? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Don't worry, I'll probably just be watching reruns of "Scrubs" and forget to vote anyway. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Ukrainian ship carrying 30 tanks taken by pirates off Somalia Holy shit. I wonder if they knew what was onboard, and if they have any way to actually sell them for profit. Anyway, I don't understand why ships at sea are not, themselves, armed. They ought to be able to defend themselves. How fuckin' ridiculous is it that ANYONE can approach with guns or other weapons and the first time it happens the good guys have to just give up?! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

I had a boss who had a funny retort when you'd complain about how hot it was: "Oh, don't worry, that's just the temperature." My dad has a saying that he got from his mom, and it's not a stupid one, it's actually one I like a lot and believe in and use often: "Things have a way of working out." It's true: they do.

No, I'll tell you what sounds insincere and cliched: "Our thoughts and prayers are with so-and-so..." IT IS TIME TO [I]RETIRE[/I] THAT TIRED PIECE OF SHIT LINE! And yet, it is becoming MORE popular and common. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

SO many of the stupidass things people say pertain to their religious beliefs. This thread belongs in Speakers Corner so we can really cut loose... I love it when people cite that they survived a disaster because God intervened on their behalf. You take a ferry boat sinking. Someone survives and says, "God was looking out for me. It's a miracle I survived." Gee, what was God telling the people he LET DIE? "Fuck you!"?? Now, what if those who died were taken to heaven? Suddenly it seems that being allowed to live was not the blessing; being allowed to die was... Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Stupid Things People Say: "God needed her/him in heaven." OH, really? God, who has always existed, and who will exist for all eternity, couldn't spare our loved one for a few more measly decades? He had to take her right fucking NOW?! Even though after those extra decades he could take her and have her in heaven for eternity?! What a fucking moronic thing to say. It shows you how irrationally stupid people can get. Oh, and we see this poem repeated in the memoriam ads in the local paper: "If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again." Excuse me?! You're acknowledging that your loved one is in HEAVEN; and you, who claim to love them, would actually go RETRIEVE him from heaven and bring him back to EARTH?! Gee, that's real fuckin' thoughtful! And about infinitely selfish! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

I saw Iron Man when it was in the theaters, and it was a very entertaining movie. I'd call it "really really good!" It's coming out on DVD on September 30. I'm not the type who usually goes running out to pay top dollar for a movie when it's a new release. Usually, I wait for the price to come down--I'm not a "gotta have it" sucker. So I'm on the fence between "Yes" and "Hell yes"... I might decide to go right out and get it, and I might decide to wait a few weeks. What do you plan to do about Iron Man on DVD? Care, don't care... Buy, don't buy... Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Bwawahahahahaha ..... Your best post ever Based on what, accuracy? Must be. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Best wishes on a speedy recovery, Rob.

Who was sucker enough to get an Adjustable Rate Mortgage, see that teaser rate, get hypnotized by it, and then think that they would never get dicked by the bank and have the rate jacked way higher after the initial teaser period?! Talk about your moronic wishful thinking! These are people, it appears to me, who allowed themselves, against all normal thought processess that should go on, that they would forever keep that wonderfully low introductory rate, and that the banks would never feel the desire to increase the rate to make themselves more money. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Typically, "gun nuts" don't refer to non-gun-owners as anything until and unless they have tried to take away our gun rights, or tarred us with epithets themselves, first. Once that occurs, I think it's fair to develop and use an accurate term to describe them. It's not feasible to use all of their first names each time we refer to them, you know. We ("gun nuts") are mostly a live-and-let-live set. It's they who come after us to try to tell us what we may do, own, etc. Why would we call them anything before we got called names by them? They are the ones who disparage our choice. We are perfectly content to let them live their lives without guns if they so choose. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

That brings up another age-discrimination type of issue. We are "adults" at 18, but don't have full legal rights. Can't drink, can't buy a handgun... And then there are the things like this, where you can't get an ATP rating until you're 23?! WTF?! And then there's the shit about not renting a car until you're 25, but I think that's the companies deciding that, not the government. (I rented and drove a 20 foot box truck 200 miles from college to home when I was 19... because Hertz-Penske had no such age restriction.) I think we should pick an age -- and it might be 21, possibly -- to make the NEW "age of majority," and STICK to it, allowing that to be the universal age at which you acquire ALL of your adult rights. This beating around the bush bullshit should stop. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Yeah, I just don't quite see why he had difficulty using a lighter and a road flare to set 20 oz. of gasoline ablaze. Perhaps he tried to light the flare with the lighter? I don't know if that would work or not. I've lit road flares before (like once, maybe twice) and used the cap-striker to do it. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Ditto. Well said, JohnRich. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire