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  1. Hooknswoop

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    If they were a bit more efficient with the magazine, it'd probably help. We don't need two copies every month at our house, for example. Frankly, we don't even need one… .



    Check the box......

    Derek V



    Sure, but there's no incentive to do so right now. Discount the dues for people who don't want the mag, and i'll check the box.
    cavete terrae.

  3. Hey kids,

    Just dropped a message to Bonehead since they're too cool to answer the phones when an asshole calls right before they close ;), but hoping someone might happen to know the specs on the bolts, washers, and/or anything else needed to reattach a Mamba visor.

    The lady of the house wants to get back in the sky and lost her attachment hardware >:(. Hopefully it's commodity stuff I can get at Home Despot or whatever…
    cavete terrae.

  9. cvfd1399

    ***I don't know if he was guilty or not, but I do know that I think there was a lot of dirty shit being pulled by the cops and prosecution, enough so that I'd rather see him walk. Based on what I saw on the show, and what I've read rebutting the show's viewpoint, I still think there was enough reasonable doubt to let him go.

    The fact that the nephew was convicted is a SERIOUS miscarriage of justice, and the fact that his first lawyer has cancer is nowhere near enough punishment for that sleazy piece of garbage.

    I'd rather have a hundred murderers walking free than one innocent person in prison. Why? Because I don't want to be the innocent person in prison.



    What!!

    Just like it says. I'm not willing to have my life ruined by the government for something I didn't do, and it'd be hypocritical of me to expect others to be subjected to the same
    cavete terrae.

  10. I don't know if he was guilty or not, but I do know that I think there was a lot of dirty shit being pulled by the cops and prosecution, enough so that I'd rather see him walk. Based on what I saw on the show, and what I've read rebutting the show's viewpoint, I still think there was enough reasonable doubt to let him go.

    The fact that the nephew was convicted is a SERIOUS miscarriage of justice, and the fact that his first lawyer has cancer is nowhere near enough punishment for that sleazy piece of garbage.

    I'd rather have a hundred murderers walking free than one innocent person in prison. Why? Because I don't want to be the innocent person in prison.
    cavete terrae.

  11. wmw999

    But he was succeeded by John Tyler; considered to be one of the less ept presidents. That whole damn succession thing :P

    Wendy P.



    Tyler should have followed his lead.
    cavete terrae.

  12. cvfd1399

    sanders might die of old age in his first term too.



    The best president we've ever had was William Henry Harrison, who had the good grace to fuck off and die before he screwed anything up. More should follow his example.
    cavete terrae.

  14. Iago

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    Years later the United States was ridiculed, criticized, and attacked by the same countries for going into that part of The World and trying to do something about it.



    To be fair, our fucking around in that part of the world is why we had limited-time-only nonstop flights to the WTC in the first place.

    For decades The World has expected the US to secure the Gulf shipping, escort the tankers, and protect the NATO friendly countries. I had a coworker years ago who served in the Navy in the early 80s and could tell you all about being at general quarters for 18 hours on a destroyer doing tanker escort. Not fun.

    But everything that happened was our fault. OK, fine.

    You Sir, are entitled to your opinion. This is still a free country.

    Escorting tankers doesn't involve overthrowing governments and supporting tyrants.
    cavete terrae.

  17. Coreeece

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    When the IRA was bombing and shooting hundreds of people in Britain a few years ago there wasn't an outcry about deporting Catholics, how RC was a religion of hate, etc., etc. Rather, there were collections taken up in Boston, NYC and San Francisco (among other places) to buy weapons for IRA terrorists.

    At various times pretty much all religions have had extremist followers who commit atrocities in the name of their religion.

    How many people have atheists killed for the purpose of promoting atheism?



    http://listverse.com/2010/06/05/10-people-who-give-atheism-a-bad-name/

    But what's a couple million anyway?
    What difference, at this point, does it really make now anyway?

    Of those, Stalin's actions against the churchies are the only ones that even remotely quality for what Kallend is talking about. The rest are just people being cunts that would have been cunts no matter what their person belief was.

    Yet you didn't apply that marginalization until it was atheism that was being criticized - nice double standard.

    I'm not sure if you guys are in denial or just trolling...

    I'm not sure if you're naive or dumb. Nobody is out there going "I am killing you because atheism" but atrocities overtly in the name of some retarded fairy tale have been happening for thousands of years.
    cavete terrae.

  18. turtlespeed

    ***
    When the IRA was bombing and shooting hundreds of people in Britain a few years ago there wasn't an outcry about deporting Catholics, how RC was a religion of hate, etc., etc. Rather, there were collections taken up in Boston, NYC and San Francisco (among other places) to buy weapons for IRA terrorists.

    At various times pretty much all religions have had extremist followers who commit atrocities in the name of their religion.

    How many people have atheists killed for the purpose of promoting atheism?



    http://listverse.com/2010/06/05/10-people-who-give-atheism-a-bad-name/

    But what's a couple million anyway?
    What difference, at this point, does it really make now anyway?

    Of those, Stalin's actions against the churchies are the only ones that even remotely quality for what Kallend is talking about. The rest are just people being cunts that would have been cunts no matter what their person belief was.
    cavete terrae.

  19. normiss

    As a planet, we should have had enough now and commit to actually dealing with this.
    But we won't.

    Fucking humans. [:/]



    The fact that otherwise intelligent, rational people can and too-often do cling to religion amazes and saddens me. I wouldn't seek to take it away from them (and I would ask that they not attempt to force it on me), but I'm long past the point where I will "respect" their decision.
    cavete terrae.

  22. billvon

    >Things not actions

    So he's OK … people driving cars with no … seatbelts …



    Excuse my trimming there, but I don't see a compelling reason these should be mandatory. Lights, horns and brakes are for the safety of others as much as anything. If you want to make a choice involving your own body and you're an adult, so be it. No helmet on a bike, no seatbelt in the car, etc should not be concerns of the government.
    cavete terrae.

  23. SkyDekker

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    His job, in my mind, should be to either sign laws or veto them, and represent the nation when meeting with other people who represent their nation. Certainly he's going to have involvement with economic matters, military and so forth, but most of the things of consequence should be handled by other branches.



    Signing laws, vetoing laws and meeting with leaders of other countries have consequences, sometimes very serious consequences.

    Invading other countries is pretty serious, specially when you end up spending a couple of trillion on it.

    Guess you label those as not of consequence?

    Not really following you here.



    In my mind, invading other countries shouldn't be something the president is ordering, that should be for congress.

    Consider, though, that my favorite president is william henry harrison, who remains the only president who had the good grace to die before he fucked anything up.
    cavete terrae.

  24. SkyDekker

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    The individual president doesn't matter, anyway, except as the answer to a Jeopardy



    Seriously?

    I would think Iraq would look significantly different right now if Bush had not been president.

    If you think that the leader of a country has absolutely no impact on that country, you may want to lay of the mind altering substances and read a history book.



    I'll correct myself: The individual president SHOULDN'T matter, in theory. In practice, William Henry Harrison remains the only president I admire.

    Pretty funny that you just accused someone who has never had alcohol or recreational drugs of being drunk or high, though.

    There are non-recreational mind altering substances. Quite a few of them.

    It was either that, utterly naïve, or incredibly dumb.

    And the individual President should matter. It should matter a lot. Why you would think that the leader of a country shouldn't matter?

    Do you think all leaders should have no influence over those they lead?

    His job, in my mind, should be to either sign laws or veto them, and represent the nation when meeting with other people who represent their nation. Certainly he's going to have involvement with economic matters, military and so forth, but most of the things of consequence should be handled by other branches.

    In my opinion, of course.
    cavete terrae.

  25. SkyDekker

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    The individual president doesn't matter, anyway, except as the answer to a Jeopardy



    Seriously?

    I would think Iraq would look significantly different right now if Bush had not been president.

    If you think that the leader of a country has absolutely no impact on that country, you may want to lay of the mind altering substances and read a history book.



    I'll correct myself: The individual president SHOULDN'T matter, in theory. In practice, William Henry Harrison remains the only president I admire.

    Pretty funny that you just accused someone who has never had alcohol or recreational drugs of being drunk or high, though.
    cavete terrae.