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Can you name one law that criminals follow? Isn't that why we call them criminals?

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 09:05 AM) I carry a gun all the time. Have I ever done anything illegal or harmful with it? Getting lectured over the internet makes me angry. I won't deny that. But there's a long way, for me, between getting angry and deciding to physically hurt someone. Your world back there, like everywhere else, has crime. I carry a gun so that when I encounter crime, I'll still have a means of dealing with it. And read how you handle getting angry. What jobs are you capable of handling in the real world?

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 09:01 AM) You criticize me for using insults and then drop this? Hilarious. By your own admission you don't live in a world where things are decided by rational arguments. You have spoken quite force-ably against people like lawyers who think for a living versus real men like yourself. Those are your words, not mine. I was just drawing the conclusion based on your words.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 08:49 AM) I'd like to live in a world where everything can be discussed with intellectual thoughts and ideas. That'd be nice. But we don't live in that world. And I am real tired of guys like that telling me that guns are for p*****s. It especially pisses me off while I'm in Afghanistan. So sorry, I have a nasty reaction to some pompous lawyer dude from Chicago telling me that my way of life, which doesn't affect him a damn bit, is for weak and cowardly people. Well, perhaps that is the problem. back here that is the world. We don't pull out weapons during a business meeting. You don't go into a car dealer and punch the guy out or call him a limp dick to get a better deal. Do you really think you will go into your kid's school and say "I'm tired of this p**** telling my kid he has to do his homework"? You can't control your anger on the internet, and you expect people to support your right to carry a gun? You are incapable of being elected to any office, you'd tell citizens to go f*** themselves. You can't even be trusted to attend a government meeting. That's the real world.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 08:41 AM) That's your choice. You having a gun isn't a bad thing in and of itself. If you don't want one, fine. If you want one, that's cool too. But I hate this idea that you should be scorned for hiking with a gun or I should be scorned for having one in the nightstand. Actually you are scorned for all the insults you toss out. If someone doesn't agree with you you start calling them things like a limp dick, pigs, etc. We understand that thinking and discussing just isn't your strong part. You are trained to see all problems as being solved with violence. I hope you never try to adjust to civilian life.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 08:04 AM) What the f*** does this post have to do with anything? He challenged me to put down the guns and be a real man. I'm tired of this argument, because it's pleading with me to gamble with my life so I can be enlightened like him. I hope I never have to draw my gun. I really do. It's there for situations when true danger arises. I'm a firm believer in the idea that it's better to have a gun and not need it than to need it and not have it. So I hope I never "need" it, but if I ever do, I'm not gonna be caught with my pants down because some lawyer jackass thinks real men operate based on mere intellectualism. Yeah. Tell your home invader that you're a real man because you make deep thoughts. See how that works. It's thoughts like that which make liberals seem like pompous elitists living in a fantasyland. It sarcastically showed that when you get tired of an intellectual battle you begin thinking of violence instead of walking away. You start tossing insults, calling people limp dicks, pompous, and jackasses and then say that is what being a real man is. Your concept of a real man shouts insults across the internet and rejects thinking in favor of violence. When people (gun owners and non owners) think about other people who should *not* have guns, they believe it is people like you who have a short temper and believe violence is better than thinking.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 08:16 AM) I would not be opposed to carrying a gun if I were backpacking in bear country. I'd rather have an extra can of bear spray. Ounce for ounce I believe bear spray is a better tool to keep you safe backpacking than a gun that you would want to have backpacking. Although the blood trail the bear leaves will make it easier to find where the pissed off bear took you.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 07:48 AM) More dumbassery. I don't carry a gun to be cool. I don't carry it because I'm a weak man who can't fight with his fists. I don't carry it because I want to be a real man (I'm in the army, you're a f***ing attorney, GTFO with this real man s***). And I don't carry it because I want to be brave (I'm in Afghanistan and you're still a lawyer, so GTFO again with this bravery s***). I carry a gun because my life and my family's lives are the most important things to me. I hope I never have to shoot anyone in self defense. That would be awful. But when the threat arises, I'm not going to pin our survival on a fistfight, no matter how strong I might be or how well I know how to fight. I'm not going to hope that he is unarmed so I can overpower him or so I can run away like a little girl. When that threat comes up, I'm going to know from the second it arises that I have the upper hand. I'm not gonna leave any doubts about that. And I'm not gonna put down the weapon so I can show some limp-dick like you what a "real man" I am. This isn't about bravado or machismo. This is about my life. This is about my wife's life. I'm getting tired of this "guns are for p*****s" argument from society's actual p*****s. Have you done a brave thing in your whole stupid life? You wanna talk about real men. YOU'RE A f***ING LAWYER. Repeat that to yourself. You wouldn't know a real man if he walked up and punched you in your damned face. Yeah, real men don't think! They don't have ideas! They kick ass, punch people and shoot guns. f***ing thinking is for women. We'll never catch you with ideas or thinking. No sir, you're a real man. And you can call someone a limp-dick because you carry a weapon, not like an attorney who would have to run away from you like a girl. It is funny that you hate a limp dick but presumably appreciate a nice hard dick. I appreciate the discipline that the Army has instilled in you. Is it officer's school where they teach you to yell insults and swear on the internet? At least after some commie country kicks our militarily's butt YASNY and his buddies will have their guns to save us. We do need citizens armed to fight back when you fail. To fight back shen you turn your weapons on ordinary citizens like at Kent State. YASNY did a great job of explaining it.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 06:15 AM) Some quick comments against this: 1) I'm in the Army. Therefore, I know who's in the Army. And when the order comes out to shoot at American citizens on behalf of a tyrant, we're leaving. It'll be the last thing that "ruler" ever does. 2) Your attempts to be funny are overly simplistic. Ever heard of something called guerrilla warfare? Yeah, it happens all the time. Successfully, I might add. If the conditions ever fall into place, it will happen in America too. And any force trying to suppress that insurgency would have a hell of a time. So do we need guns to protect us from the military or not? How scared are you of American citizens with weapons kicking your Army ass in a battle?

Think he would wear a Sox hat in the HoF?

Two classes this semester, Literary Theories and Topics in Lit History (Women Writers of the English Renaissance). Pretty cool starts to both classes. I may finally be understanding what Plato and Aristotle were saying about literature, art, and science. I'm presenting on Dante next week.

Even worse than the Bulls bringing in Rodman.

Interesting that someone thought it would help the same market teams, I thought it would hurt the small market teams by increasing salaries. High payroll teams like the Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, and White Sox could spend a few million for that last spot, versus a couple hudnred thousand for a small market team.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-...,0,111554.story A quick primer on how the Boy Scouts operate. A local unit (church or non profit civic group) sponsors a unit and pledges to follow all national policies. The local unit is part of a district within a locally run Council. Councils are divided up into regions, the regions report to BSA National. BSA is part of the World Organization of Scouting Movements. Contrary to what many people think Scouting was started outside of the US and each country runs it's own way. For example Eagle Scout rank, the most enduring image, is really an American thing. Anyway, what the vote will be is to allow the local units to decide membership standards. Strictly speaking it would allow units sponsored by churches that have a well known anti-gay stance to continue to discriminate while also allowing those churches who accept gay members to allow them into the unit. Through a "Scouts for Equality" group I belong to I have met several Scouts of the highest moral and character who happen to be gay. I pray that national gets this right. I also pray that my friends within Scouting who are adamantly opposed will see the light and accept everyone who wishes to join out organization.

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Jan 28, 2013 -> 06:58 PM) Ive actually never hunted while using a tree stand. Are there any advantages to it besides having the high ground and better view? It really depends on the terrain and the obstacles. I find being on the ground much more exciting.

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Jan 28, 2013 -> 05:27 PM) Rifle, and yes great eating wild boar sloppy joe! Tree stand or ground?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 28, 2013 -> 04:16 PM) My wife bugs me to become a teacher so we can do this same sort of thing I'll admit, it is a nice life at this point in our lives. 50+, kids almost settled into their adult lives, we are great travelling companions, and enjoy seeing many of the same sites. A three hour side trip to see Jack Kerouac's boyhood home, a stop on the underground railroad, backpacking to a remote lake. She even is smart enough to check the Sox schedule to see if we are close enough for any games. But if you don't have a passion for kids and love the job, the work sucks.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 28, 2013 -> 08:19 AM) Skiing in Lake Tahoe over Presidents' Day weekend, white water rafting in SW Pennsylvania in July and a week in Glacier in August. Is your SO a teacher, too, tex? Yes. Which makes summers really nice. QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Jan 28, 2013 -> 10:24 AM) Feral Hog hunting in Southern Illinois. Archery? Shotgun? Rifle? Bare hands? The first time I went after one was on a guided archery trip. Damn, staring at 1 500+ boar with tusks from a flimsy ground level blind was a bit unnerving. Thinking all I may do is piss him off if the shot ain't right. Made my already unsteady bow shake. lol Great eating.

Learning the scientific method, thinking logically from math classes, reasoning and interpreting from English classes, conflict resolution from history class. Other than that, not a damn thing.

We finally switched from backpacking / tent camping primarily to a pop up camper. I liked the floorplan with a coach, dinette, stove, fridge, and two king size beds. We picked it up from a neighbor who was having their third child and needed some cash. It was in very good to excellent shape. I have a mixture of excitement and mourning the loss of simpler camping. But when we are on the road for 6 - 8 weeks the tent thing was getting rough. We have a weekend trip set for South Padre (we have Super Bowl Monday off), a week at Big Bend NP for spring break, four or five weeks somewhere between northern Mexico and Isle Royale NP on Lake Superior then meeting up with my folks in St. Germain Wis. for a week on Big St. Germain Lake (resort cabin). I can't believe how empty my storage unit became when we started pulling out camping gear and loading the pup.

I should have them start posting on some forum, instead they will be blogging at kidblog.org. Easy way to get them to read and write. For the boys I just start some Kobe v. Labron argument. Of course I have to tell them about a guy that played before they were born, Michael Jeffrey Jordan.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 27, 2013 -> 08:52 AM) As a general policy, because of previous history, we automatically ban any IPs from the state of Texas. Damn Kap

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jan 25, 2013 -> 01:35 PM) Looks like the GOP is going to go ahead and cave on this (because they made themselves look really stupid the last time, and people actually noticed) Or the GOP heard voters when they said they were tired of gridlock and will emerge as the party of "getting things done". I see so many polls where voters complain about gridlock in Washington. This could be a nice GOP strategy.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 23, 2013 -> 07:40 PM) Yeah, SS, my "slow" class said that

Of course we went to the buster lol. Another class, ''what does SLaM stand for?''Idk Why is that guy throwing a chair?Idk Wait, wait what was that pic of the girl? Idk Bad idea.