peacefuljeffrey

I was that tailgater - and you missed - I prefer a hand full of ball bearings - the 1/2" size works best - Use something that won't possibly bear your fingerprints, then. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I gotta admire the cool detachment in the face of having one's Constitutional right taken away... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Does it take a lot of brainpower to figure out when it's done in fun, and when it is done in mean spirit and malice, or even just teasing (which is also juvenile and stupid and "says something about the poster")? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I'd like to see you litigate that. All these folks who use the images of public figures, as well as of their friends, are going to be SOL if you win. It's possible that now that you've made this post, there's going to be a real run on the John Rich avatar. Just a thought. rl And people said that when I posted the vicious, nasty tirade that Amazon sent me in PM, I was out of line and it "showed more about me than it did about her." So if people were to do this to JohnRich, what does it say about them? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I've been banned, three times, I think, and the longest was for over a year (from SC, anyway). That qualifies me for your top five? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

What is another name for "pajamas"? Blues, Dave What does it say about people that they can't stop referencing me? And yet they tell me that I'm the one who starts trouble. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Batman, thy name is Dan! Great job, man! About the 30 dumbstruck slackjaws... yeah, the vast majority of people are uncaring, ill-equipped numbnuts, and that's what makes people like you stand out. I'd hope that if you were the unfortunate one having the seizure, someone like you would be around... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Why would people who think gun owners are evil non-citizens bother to consider compensating them for what amounts to the legalized theft of their property? Anti-gun people consider themselves so superior to gun owners that they really don't give a shit about the rights of anyone who would opt to own a gun. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

No? Others are right; you have a very misshapen image of the past. There's Elizabeth Bathory. She's alleged to have bathed in the blood of young maidens to keep herself youthful. Vlad the Impaler There were outlaws that killed many however they didnt just stalk people for thrils and fun and whack them. If you had a problem with someone you squared off outside in the streets and had a duel. Or you might just go outside and beat the piss out of each other, problem solved. Of course 100 years ago if you were convicted of murder or some otherserious crime. You were held in jail until a judge arrived, you were put on trial that lasted no more than 2 days at the most, convicted, and you were hung at high noon. NO appeals, no taxpayers money spent feeding you, keeping you alive in plush luxury conditions compared to the way some people live today who are not imprisoned etc etc etc. Just seems to me it would be much chaper if we went back to the hangin days. Might send a message to some of the other scumbags in the world who may get convicted that sit on death row for 23 years. Of course I could be wrong, just my two cents -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

so you would go ahead an kill 123 people because there is a possibility that one of them is a crimial? Cheers, T We as a society cannot suffer the existence of "crimials" in our midst. Yes, I want 123 people killed to eliminate one crimial. Now, if we're talking about "criminals," no, I don't want to cast a wide net and kill innocents in order to kill criminals. Thanks for putting words in my mouth -- everyone knows there's a dearth of them there in the first place. The problems that led to 123 people being exonerated (once again, this is not the same as their being proved not to have done their murders) could probably be addressed by getting real harsh on the people involved in the cases who either faked, botched, or otherwise messed with the system that was supposed to engage FAIR criminal prosecution of the suspected murderers. Give people the death penalty for official corruption, I say. And I will stand by that. Politician takes a bribe? Execute him. DA fakes evidence or withholds exculpatory evidence which comes to light later on and could have spared an innocent the hassle of a trial and imprisonment (much less execution), execute him. And be fuckin' serious about it, no bullshit forever-appeals, and you might see the will of the People triumph over corruption in government; you might see the People take the power back... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

San Francisco, CA just passed a law (it is on hold and will be challenged in court) that bans firearm possession by those living in the city. This law orders the surrender of privately owned firearms to the city for destruction -- with no compensation to be made. I don't give a shit whether you think that because your government never came down from on high and granted you this specific human right (it was never the government's to grant, I would have you realize), you are not entitled to it. Here in America, there are idiot zealots trying very hard to take our rights away -- guns are our right, here -- and so it IS very much like, "What kind of compensation do you feel would be appropriate when we take away your right to free speech?" The fact is, nothing can compensate for the loss of either the right to free speech or the right to own guns. And besides, as I said, San Fransissyco is not even offering monetary compensation. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Never having had a right does not rationalize continuing to not have that right, especially when we are talking about an important human right (self defense, which many argue is THE most important human right) It either should be yours or it should not. And if you don't have it, but you should have it, that is an evil. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

"Tha present curriculum I put my fist in 'em Eurocentric, every last one of 'em See right through the red, white and blue disguise With lecture I puncture the structure of lies Installed in our minds and attempting to hold us back -- We've got to take it back -- Holes in our souls causing tears and fears One-sided stories for years and years and years I'm inferior? Who's inferior? Yeah, ya need to check the interior of the system who cares about only one culture and that is why we gotta take the Power back!" (You got me on a Rage Against The Machine kick now...) - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I'm sorry this happened to you once before with your father, and I'm sorry you're having to face it again with your mom. I wish your whole family well. You have a lot of friends here who have been through what you're going through, and you have their sympathy. I am among them. In late 2000, my mom and dad divorced, and Mom moved down here to Florida from New York -- she wanted to start again and was happy to be here. A few months later, on a trip to NY to work on divorce proceedings, she saw a doctor for abdominal discomfort which they thought at first might be a hernia. It turned out to cancer of the colon which had spread to the liver, and it was advanced, and it was terminal. They gave mom an estimate of 6 months to live, but she died in just over one month. We had time to spend with her, but precious little. I had meant to learn to knit from her teaching me, but we never had time because her decline was so rapid. It was a sad, terrible time for our entire family. There was one tiny glimmer of happiness in it and that was that when she died, our entire family (Dad, me, and my three siblings) were able to be at her bedside, in her home, with her. That gave us at least some peace. Oh, and Mom had gotten to meet her first granddaughter (she would have three grandchildren now; all girls). I know she suffered -- I saw and dealt with it firsthand. I take my comfort from believing that every bit of her suffering is gone now and she has peace. I hope you and your family find yours. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Then what, exactly, was the alleged benefit to society that was used to sell society on the idea? I think that the ban was the result of strings pulled by people who are just ideologically opposed to the idea of free citizens owning guns. And they managed to get popular support by, pretty much, cynically leading the public to believe that bad people would not be able to possess guns. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

How would you like me to compensate you if I were going to take away your right to free speech? Would a couple hundred bucks do the trick? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Even if we accept a figure of "all the way down to only 250,000 illegally held firearms" prior to the ban - how many "illegally held firearms" are believed to have been turned in because of the ban? It's hard for me to imagine any, because criminals don't want to give them up -- and they know that because they were illegal (unregistered) they cannot be tracked. - how many legally held firearms were turned in? I had heard it was only somewhere in the neighborhood of a few hundred thousand, if that. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Yeah, well, then, maybe I'm past the point of caring, and maybe I do think that the minds of those who are wrong about this subject will never be changed, and I'm just in "gloat mode" now. Whatcanyadoaboutit? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

What possibility is there that at least some of those 123 actually DID do the murders they were initially convicted of, but later got off for some reason or other? As in, is it 100% absolutely positively sure that they did NOT do the murders of which they were convicted? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Please clarify what the "court costs" of $300-500k could possibly be... That has me baffled. What, in addition to all the other stuff you itemized, could "court costs" possibly be on top of it all? I'm sorry, "investigations" and "expert testimony" should not cost nearly what you say they do. Paying "experts" to testify is just incentive for them to make shit up to be worth the money. Two million fucking dollars just so society can get what it's entitled to -- to be rid of a piece of shit murderer?! No one ever claimed, though, that economics was the way we were expecting to benefit from executing murderers. Back when execution was first come up with (probably going wayyyyy back in human history), I'm sure there was not much consideration of the money aspect -- just the justice aspect. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

How is it a factor that we might put an innocent person to death if they confess specifically because it spares them the death penalty? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I don't speak for anyone but me; the problem I have with it is, the 150 students who came out to support this guy demonstrate that his mush-brained crap and whiny liberal U.S.-bashing IS making a dent in the skulls of the youths he "teaches." They are impressionable, they see an "impassioned" teacher who thus appears "cool" because he's iconoclastic, and they decide, subconsciously, to adopt whatever it is he's saying. And such mimic-thinking is dangerous, especially when it's absurd thinking that they are mimicking. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Wow do you have a low threshold for being impressed by insults. Is any of that anything close to original? "Waste of space"? Oooh, yeah, wow, how'd she come up with that gem? And "viagra sucking"? Does one suck viagra? I thought they were pills. Besides, how good is an insult about being a "viagra sucker" (whatever one is) when I have never taken viagra in my life? Laaaame. The only funny part about this is that you thought it was witty! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Holy shit, why are you not writing for Hollywood?! The originality is incredible! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You know what, Wendy, fuck that. I used to think that you were a voice of reason, here, and objective. You're not. Yeah, I can see the idea of keeping PMs between the people involved, but this went way beyond the pale. This was unbridled, and unprovoked attack. I did not solicit a PM conversation with her; she sought me out and sent the first barrage. And she escalated it about 10 times more than anything I did. I felt that others should see just what she is capable of. And everyone's too much of a pussy to say, "Amazon, that was over the line." -