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Well. . . anti-social and strange behavior doesn't constrain one from making money. These types may argue that they aren't "poor". On the other hand, practically all people have someone in their lives. Makes personal relationships/love a non-commodity to be considered "wealth"; relationships come naturally for majority of human beings. So you can't call someone with only love "rich", or someone with all the money in the world but without loved ones "poor" _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

Jealous as hell. Congrats!! _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

I'd hit em. I know how to tune out, nod reflexively and say "uh..huh, uh..huh, wow!, yup, Go hemp. . .uh..huh. " _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

I don't know if those Occupy types can vote with their $1.50 in their bank accounts. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

+1 Just because you are a Veteran doesn't mean you can't be an idiot. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

To get it straight here, I'm not anti CCW or gun ownership. Have firearms in my household myself. My initial beef in this thread was with the whole Heinlin quote. But I have to say that ownership is a great responsibility as I am sure you know. There's many instances where personal defense was successful. But nothing is 100% and skills are highly perishable and should always be practiced. Beware the false sense of comfort guns can give you. It's still only a tool. YOU are the weapon! _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

Bwahahahahaaa .... looks like a Mafia ad! Hey, where's the video? Wanna see blood, bloody intestines. Fixed It. Video is half way down the page. http://www.frontsight.com/video/lastchance.asp?vid=1 A firearm in the house is useless if you can't get to it. I use this example as a tactic based on expected confrontation. If the homeowners had a gun in the house, this may still have happened. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

Still does not change my opinion of his initial behavior. ...And the lane splitting may have contributed to the pickup driver's lack of awareness of where he was. He may not have been expecting a motorcycle to have moved up in traffic so quickly. Elvisio "deleted a long rambling opinionated paragraph about donorcycles" Rodriguez He didn't move up quickly when splitting. The relative speeds weren't even greater than about 2MPH. He had his own lane when he got hit. The reason he got hit was because his lane was going faster than lane two and three. The guy saw an opening straight across and shot through two lanes. The kid would have hit a car in the same situation. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

You are right. He wasn't lane splitting at the end. He had the whole lane to himself. The truck shot through two lanes jockeying for a hole. The bike had his own lane for a bit. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

. . .a comment I made to the driver of that truck who took out that Harley. It was a rough day on the I-15 on our way home. Twenty miles away, an accident reduced the commute to a stop-and-go. Motorcycles (legal in Cali) were splitting lanes and as a passenger of the van-pool, watched them pass by appreciating some of the nice bikes passing by. We saw a Harley, definitely tricked out and well cared for, pass us in our lane three. He split the lane between three and four for one more car and got in front with his whole lane to himself in lane four. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a red Chevy truck veer sharply for what he thought was a clear lane. . .make that two. He was in lane two and shot over two lanes for four. His cut was so sharp, I saw the side profile of his truck. We in the van knew what was going to happen and just watched in horror as he clipped the bike. Next thing I see is a spinning harley, parts flung all over the place and it's rider flying in the air. "We're stopping now." I said, which was a statement not required as the driver, who rides himself, started applying the brakes. We stopped the van in the middle of the interstate, got out and sprinted to the scene shouting "don't touch anything. Don't move him!" Us and a couple of others blocked lanes three and four with our vehicles and I kneeled on the ground, my knees on either side of his helmet, hand on his back, comforting the guy while preventing him from moving which might exaberate a possible unknown spinal injury. He was in some serious pain and thankfully, pissed off. At least he will not go into shock. I didnt see any obvious signs of compound fractures and other than bad roadrash, not any arterial blood. but he was hurting from his hip and arm which was tucked underneath him. Ten minutes later, CHP showed up and thankfully a Corpsman from Pendleton. Cop asked us to help clear the bike from the road and afterwards stayed till the ambulance showed up. All told, about thirty minutes. The kid in the truck was obviously nervous and in tears, but I didn't care. I was pissed that he would be so stupid to rush multiple lanes in what I presume to be impatience. He could have killed him. Out of stupidity! I'm still pissed. People! Understand this. There's no crumple zone on motorcycles and 30 miles an hour is still a deadly speed to be knocked off a bike. Be cautious with lane changes even and especially in slow traffic!! _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

Perhaps...but on the one hand, I'm a pretty quick shot...on the other hand, I could have another gun, pardon the pun. The drop holster is a man's best friend.

Much the same can be said of the "Twilight" series, however . . . those films do NOT appeal to 90% of males. Yeah. When did vampires become such wimps? Remember Dracula? He'd kidnap a guy (who happened to be an attorney), put him on a boat, kill everyone on the boat EXCEPT the attorney - just so he could drive him insane. Now there are vampires who are so sweet and kind and heroic. Awwwwww.. Little cuddly wuddly cutie patootie vampires. I mean, what the hell??? I believe the "goth" clique pretty much destroyed that. I don't get it. . ."i'm so moody. Guess I better dress up like Count Chocula!" _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

Except in. . . Iran, Iraq, Djobouti, Kenya, Entretria, Somalia, Ivory Coast, Mali, Sudan, Lebanon, Phillipine Islands, Indonesia, Russia, Afghanistan, krygrystan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Syria, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Sometimes Belize. . . . It would be a good argument, except that spending a lot of time on the ground in those countries I can tell you that it's still armed bullies against the unarmed general public. Some of those citizens are armed, especially in the more rural areas of Iraq, not that it would matter. For instance, the Jaysh Amadi, couldn't care less and are not so polite to their neighbors. To me, this shows that criminals will not respect a "well armed citizenry" as some would like to believe. Everyone armed will just make the criminals change tactics. In the end, it will be the same: the police will protect overall society. A person with a CCW finding himself alone with a pair of armed assholes will not get the upper hand. We did try in Somalia in '93. The Marines under General Zinni was doing a good job with Aideed in Mogadishu. Then the U. N. took over with their progam and destroyed all that work and later led up to that "blackhawk down" incident. So fucked up the UN tactics, that the new UN cadre found Aideed acting in "self defense", even to the side of almost "not guilty". _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

Thought it might be a reference to Naked short-selling _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

Oh, I forgot Uganda. Very polite people to work with. Friendly, sociable. . . That "well armed citizen" quote is very silly. It's not true. It pays attention to the weapons, not the people who bear it. Any idiot can buy weapons and claim themselves "defenders of the freedom to bear arms" and "protection from the government". But it takes Honor, Sacrifice, Dicipline, Training and the willing to risk all to be a useful protector of the people or rights one believes to protect. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

Except in. . . Iran, Iraq, Djobouti, Kenya, Entretria, Somalia, Ivory Coast, Mali, Sudan, Lebanon, Phillipine Islands, Indonesia, Russia, Afghanistan, krygrystan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Syria, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Sometimes Belize. . . . _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

That fucking fucker fucked fuckin forty fucken fuckers for fuckin fifty dollars. . .fuck, what a fucken whore. I couldn't use "fuck" as an article. Got a noun and adjetive, adverb and a verb. Couldn't do an Article. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

He'll probably shit himself if he realized how many Muslims serve in the U.S. Armed Forces. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

Ignorant fucker. Hope he doesn't think that he represents the U. S. of A. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

Why didn't you get the M series? _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

My bad, you meant judgements in general, not . . . nevermind. I got to watch my drunk posting. Sorry about your dog _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

ooohhh. . . Please don't tell me you have leaned this bit of info by experience. I remember a quite handsome Staffordshire-esque hound you posted pictures some years ago. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

I wouldn't go to any MLB game even if they gave me free tickets, free parking and free beer. Ditto for NBA. NFL? _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

. . .but in seriousness. I believe there are some people that cannot truly test their belief that there is a better place to go and a higher diety to answer after death as an athiest till they are faced with their own mortality on a regular basis. And i'm not talking about the simple act of hurling one's own self out of a plane. There is a phrase that is thrown out there. . ."there's no athiests in a foxhole". I've met many athiests who have been in that proverbial "foxhole" while I played "U. S. Army" in Iraq. They weren't S2 or HHC's. They were 2/502 and and 3ID 11B's and 25A's that played outside the wire on a regular basis. I played also. I didn't convert to Christ. I had my nightsweats the evening before the mission up Route Tampa/Irish as usual, and I faced my mortality regulary. This wasn't stubborness. I know that I would never know that I was dead. I would know nothing. The end. My worry was about my wife and daughter, not some silly day of reconing that is to become. I never really believed. Just felt wrong for some reason. It was when I was older when I was able to research other literature, visit actual places in the Bible and talk to the locals of said area that had a different, if secular reasoning behind what was written in the books, that I realised the difference between the magical qualities of those who never been outside the Bible Belt with their belief and the locals who have lived many generations in on and around the magical areas described. Here, I learned that it was all crap. And you know what? If someone else believes, I would never in my life try to take that away from them. I wouldn't argue against God existing. It's unethical to do this in my opinion. It doesn't take anything away from me. Hell, If my daughter takes up with religion, I would even support her. In the end, it doesn't hurt me. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

Yup. That will do it. I agree. Cubs fan for years here. _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln