I can still remember the first time I ever got kicked in the nuts.
I was watching a Kung-Fu movie at my great grandparent's house, my cousing and I were trying to mimic the moves of the guys in the movie. Well, he did it a bit too enthusiastically and nailed me right in the balls.
I spend the next 20 minutes crying and so did he because my great grandmother spanked him. This was over 25 years ago and I remember it like it was last week. Yet, I can never remember when my GF tells me we have some function to attend next week.
If you wanted to go back in time you would have to move faster than the speed of light, which is impossible unless you use some sort of wormhole (which is completely theoretical.)
Cosmic strings also present an interesting possibility for backwards time travel. Basically, they are so dense that they warp the space around them.
Think of a pizza with a slice cut out. Connect the two inner edges. The conical shape of the pizza represents space. For each slice you remove from the pizza, the more you distort space. Eventually you pass a threshhold where you can take a shortcut through the warped space and arrive at your destination before the light that you emitted from your point of origin does.
Only thing I pointed out when this B.S. started is that you managed to help elect and inflict an incompetent President on the rest of us, and the rest of the world, because you are so obsessed with two issues you didn't do your civic duty and weigh all the issues.
You don't know what I weighed when deciding which issues were most important to me.
If I could vote for Bush a third time I would, not because I think he's perfect. Just because it pisses people like you off.
Your lethality arguement is absurd.
Then you don't know much about terminal ballistics. Soldiers of the civil war era died much more frequently from their wounds than did, say vietnam era soldiers.
Bottomline is whether there is or isn't abortion in this country doesn't have anything to do with whether we have jobs, or can make a good living, or are being sent in to a war to kill and be killed.
I do just fine at making a living. And regardless of what happens, I'm not going to fight in this war.
If Gore had been elected in 2000 or Kerry in 2004, I'd still have the same job I do now. I'd still have the same income that I do now. The two biggest differences are that my tax dollars would be going to support infanticide all over the globe and some of the firearms that I own would be illegal to manufacture.
Its an age old rule, never argue with a fanatic about abortion, whether they are for or against. Its a complete waste of time because they will never change their mind or even admit their obsession with the subject is less than healthy.
Age old huh? Being that in the US, abortion on demand has only been legal for 32 years, I'd say you're making things up.
The truth of the matter is this. You are in no position to dictate to others what issues should be important to them, and you are in no position to dictate to others what they should think about those issues. We're talking about opinions. An opinion, per se, is never right nor wrong. The only way you can wrap your mind around the reality that other people have different opinions than you is to rationalize that something must be wrong with them.
The whole point is you should stop trying to inflict your belief system on them while in the case of abortion they aren't even trying to inflict there belief system on you.
I disagree with that point. You are free to work to thwart my efforts, but carrying on this fight is exactly what I should be doing.
Didn't think you could explain why you think its everyones right to own a machine gun.
That's not even a concern. I don't have to. Once we start needing justifications to exercise our rights, they are no longer rights.
Times have changed and unfortunately guns are both far more lethal and far more abused in committing crimes though you are not gonna change.
You're incorrect about part of that. Firearms were more lethal in the past. A 225 grain copper jacketed bullet does FAR LESS damage than a one ounce lead ball.
All I wish is the people trying to inflict their belief system on people who don't share it would stop and focus on issues that matter like wars and the economy,
I guess that you miss the irony of that statement. You are attempting to inflict your beliefs of what issues are important on people who try to inflict their beliefs on others.
It makes pretty much no sense to have a nation self destruct over a wedge issue, abortion, which neither side is going to give in on.
It's called a principle. We believe that they are killing children. The other side believes that we want to take away women's reproductive rights. There can be no compromise.
Unless they filibuster the Republicans can do what ever they want on gun control and have, they let the assault weapon ban lapse, though I doubt you can give me any rational explanation as to why the average American needs an assault rifle, its going to do noting but harm.
Aside from it being our right, I don't have to give any explanation. And the FBI's statistics show that the type of guns banned in 1994 are used LESS OFTEN in crime than others.
Why exactly is it any more your business if a woman you don't know chooses to not spend 9 hard months bringing to term an unwanted product of that orgasm
Why should I mind my own business when children are being killed?
Religious fundamentalists like you
And what religion do I follow?
hat exactly is the rational for the Pope refusing to endorse the use of condoms, and instead helping encourage AIDS to spread like wildfire around the globe, because he wants more Catholics to make his flock bigger.
Stop. You can't pick and choose which papal mandates to follow like that. I personally don't agree with him, but if people practiced abstinence until marriage and then monogamy after, that would in no way encourage the spread of AIDS. You know that.
Thats why all religions at their root oppose all forms of birth control because winning in the relgion game is determined by how many warm bodies you can claim.
That's why SOME religions oppose SOME forms of birth control. Abortion is not birth control. As such, that's a separate debate.
Where there is an issue where people are evenly divided and dead set the only solution is you live your life and stop telling other people how to live theirs.
That may be the option that you choose, but that doesn't make it the only solution.
Its NONE of your business to compel a women you don't know to have a child she doesn't want.
It's society's right to prosecute killers.
Its been tried and women use coat hangers or go down dark allys and lots of them die along with the fetus.
Am I supposed to feel sorry for the women who died while killing their own children? I don't. It's too bad, but they brought about their own ends.
If you are opposed to abortion, fine don't abort any of your children.
I have taken all necessary steps to make sure that I didn't cause any pregnancies.
Get it. I'm sure you don't. Bottomline for right and left wingers. Butt out of other peoples lives unless they are stepping on yours.
It isn't that I don't "get it", I just don't agree.
Shows a lot about your reading comprehension and retention. I was asking why the Democrats won't give in on the issues that I (and millions of others) vote on. Tax cuts aren't very important to me. I'm happy to get one, but they're not a make or break issue for me.
Exactly how does it matter to you if someone you don't know gets an abortion.
In the same way that it matters to me if my neighbor is beating his wife or molesting his kid Wrong is wrong. No one has the "right" to do wrong, even in private.
If you are opposed to it fine, then don't get one, oh wait its not even your decision to make its your wife's.
Yeah, that's it. Win the opposition over by antagonizing them.
Sure, it's legal now. I can face the reality that we might never change that, but I am morally obligated to wage the war.
Exactly how important is it to your day to day life that you are or aren't allowed to own an assault rifle.
Important enough to decide who I vote for.
Its unlikely the Republicans are going to succeed in outlawing abortion or the Democrats are going succeed in outlawing hand guns and hunting rifles.
Handguns are already illegal in democrat strongholds like NYC and the second amendment isn't about hunting.
My compliments on your wife's common sense and good taste.
Want her number? All she wanted was a cardboard cutout with a wallet and a label that said "husband".
Wonder if she couldn't stand being married to someone stupid enough to vote for a President solely on the basis of two wedge issues that, compared to waging wars based on lies and screwing up the economy don't count for much.
If they don't count for much, why then won't the Democrats give in on them?
China incarcerates political dissidents. China executes those people and sells their organs for transplant.
That is barbarism. That is not enlightened. That is both primitive and savage. It is not refined, polished or sophisticated. China is not a civilized nation.
If you can get a zero-emissions SUV (or one that only releases harmless gasses like H20 or CO2 in a closed cycle like with biofuels), then it wouldn't be any of my business, but that SUV pollutes and effects me, so it is my business.
What I own and what I drive aren't any of your business. Want me to drive something different? Buy it. Until the day comes that you pay for my vehicle, you have zero say about what vehicle I choose.
I hadn't better anything. We live in a FREE country.
If you really have that much stuff to cart around, maybe a van would be a better vehicle than a minivan or an SUV as it has far more cargo space and similar fuel efficiency and costs.
If it were primarily a work vehicle, you might be right. Since my SUV gets used for work and my personal life, it fits me better than any van.
Good luck with that my friend, they are having shitfits because a church is burying the ashed of those murdered children instead of throwing them in the trash or flushing them down a toilet.
I think too many people out there are willing to face the reality that abortion is really all about whether or not a mother can murder her own child.
Or at the very least hire a contract killer to do it for her.
Just curious what two issues are those just so we we can better understand the mind of a Bush supporter who apparently disregarded everyting he's done wrong in the last 4 years.
I vote based on the issues of Second Amendment rights and abortion.
I'm guessing one is you hate gays but you haven't had the guts to actually say it.
I don't really care how anyone else has sex. There is nothing in this world more interesting to me than how I get my own orgasms and nothing less so than how you get yours.
Whats the other, tax cuts? You must be rich then because if you re middle class they are so small as to be irrelevant.
No, I'm middle class. I make under $30k per year. It's not one of my big issues, but I'm grateful nonetheless. See, I got separated in 2000. I had a year's worth of tax witholdings taken at the married rate. I had to file as married but separated. My ex-wife got most of the deductions because she kept the house. If it were not for the Bush Tax cut I would have owed money.
If he keeps shooting first, and not asking questions later its a matter of time before the EU, China, India, Russia and every civilized nation on the globe unites in an alliance against the U.S.
The role of regulations is to try and steer the choice of the consumer towards the greater good. In other words, if the gas-guzzler tax makes driving the Hummer too expensive, more people will choose not to.
And that's the problem. The government should not be using force to dictate what kinds of cars people drive.
But most people who don't need to do so probably won't. Unless they *really* think that getting laid is in any way related to the kind of car they drive.;-)
Seriously man. Try renting a Caddy and going to a night club. You WILL get more attention from women than you're used to.
Since it appears you were one of the millions of American's who voted for Bush at least in part because he was willing to bash gays, and apparently didn't vote based on issues that count, I'm thinking I should share a little anecdote with you.
I never once saw nor heard President Bush bash gays.
He wasn't out there trying to recriminalize sodomy. He was expressing support for the belief that marriage is between one man and one woman.
I should also say I sure hope you aren't in the computer field, because there are a lot of gays in the computer business and they shouldn't be subjected to working with intolerant pricks.
Remember when I talked about anyone who is right of center not being wanted by the Democrats? This is the kind of thing I was talking about.
That is a reason why places like Massachusetts and San Francisco trend both liberal and tolerant of homosexuality, lots of highly educated, high technology workers who are enlightened and tolerant.
San Francisco is the gay Mecca. That's why there is so much tolerance there.
They revoked his security clearance and forced him to choose between chemical castration (injections with estrogen) or prison.
You can lose a security clearance because of a spouse losing a job. ANYTHING that can give the enemy something over you can result in a loss of a security clearance. 60 years ago, being a homosexual was seen as shameful. If the enemy had used that to leverage him, the work would have been compromised.
You obviously haven't been paying attention to his rhetoric or his record for 4 years, and I can see how that would be about the only way you COULD justify voting for him again.
With the exception of the "Patriot Act", I like Bush's domestic record. I disagree with the Iraq war, but I don't vote based upon foreign policy.
How do you know?
The Democrats are "pro choice" and pro gun control. I can never vote for any candidate who is against me on those two issues.
The Democrats aren't opposed to tax cuts they are just opposed to huge tax to the richest people who need them the least, and which the Federal government can't pay for.
Your choice of language is precisely where the difference between the two schools of thought shows itself. Tax cuts never have to be "paid for", that assumes that the money belongs to the government and that the government is "giving away" money. This is not the case. A tax cut means that the government doesn't confiscate money that didn't belong to it in the first place.
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I can still remember the first time I ever got kicked in the nuts.
I was watching a Kung-Fu movie at my great grandparent's house, my cousing and I were trying to mimic the moves of the guys in the movie. Well, he did it a bit too enthusiastically and nailed me right in the balls.
I spend the next 20 minutes crying and so did he because my great grandmother spanked him. This was over 25 years ago and I remember it like it was last week. Yet, I can never remember when my GF tells me we have some function to attend next week.
LK
Er, you're supposed to use the OTHER HAND to press down Ctrl..
Yeah right. Like you REALLY use both hands to type.
LK
If you wanted to go back in time you would have to move faster than the speed of light, which is impossible unless you use some sort of wormhole (which is completely theoretical.)
Cosmic strings also present an interesting possibility for backwards time travel. Basically, they are so dense that they warp the space around them.
Think of a pizza with a slice cut out. Connect the two inner edges. The conical shape of the pizza represents space. For each slice you remove from the pizza, the more you distort space. Eventually you pass a threshhold where you can take a shortcut through the warped space and arrive at your destination before the light that you emitted from your point of origin does.
LK
You are free to drive whatever you want. And I'm free to think you're a dumbass for driving it. That's what is great about this country.
Precisely.
LK
Only thing I pointed out when this B.S. started is that you managed to help elect and inflict an incompetent President on the rest of us, and the rest of the world, because you are so obsessed with two issues you didn't do your civic duty and weigh all the issues.
You don't know what I weighed when deciding which issues were most important to me.
If I could vote for Bush a third time I would, not because I think he's perfect. Just because it pisses people like you off.
Your lethality arguement is absurd.
Then you don't know much about terminal ballistics. Soldiers of the civil war era died much more frequently from their wounds than did, say vietnam era soldiers.
Bottomline is whether there is or isn't abortion in this country doesn't have anything to do with whether we have jobs, or can make a good living, or are being sent in to a war to kill and be killed.
I do just fine at making a living. And regardless of what happens, I'm not going to fight in this war.
If Gore had been elected in 2000 or Kerry in 2004, I'd still have the same job I do now. I'd still have the same income that I do now. The two biggest differences are that my tax dollars would be going to support infanticide all over the globe and some of the firearms that I own would be illegal to manufacture.
Its an age old rule, never argue with a fanatic about abortion, whether they are for or against. Its a complete waste of time because they will never change their mind or even admit their obsession with the subject is less than healthy.
Age old huh? Being that in the US, abortion on demand has only been legal for 32 years, I'd say you're making things up.
The truth of the matter is this. You are in no position to dictate to others what issues should be important to them, and you are in no position to dictate to others what they should think about those issues. We're talking about opinions. An opinion, per se, is never right nor wrong. The only way you can wrap your mind around the reality that other people have different opinions than you is to rationalize that something must be wrong with them.
LK
The whole point is you should stop trying to inflict your belief system on them while in the case of abortion they aren't even trying to inflict there belief system on you.
I disagree with that point. You are free to work to thwart my efforts, but carrying on this fight is exactly what I should be doing.
Didn't think you could explain why you think its everyones right to own a machine gun.
That's not even a concern. I don't have to. Once we start needing justifications to exercise our rights, they are no longer rights.
Times have changed and unfortunately guns are both far more lethal and far more abused in committing crimes though you are not gonna change.
You're incorrect about part of that. Firearms were more lethal in the past. A 225 grain copper jacketed bullet does FAR LESS damage than a one ounce lead ball.
All I wish is the people trying to inflict their belief system on people who don't share it would stop and focus on issues that matter like wars and the economy,
I guess that you miss the irony of that statement. You are attempting to inflict your beliefs of what issues are important on people who try to inflict their beliefs on others.
LK
The big question is will they get enough paying customers to more than make up for their costs.
I think that they probably will.
LK
It makes pretty much no sense to have a nation self destruct over a wedge issue, abortion, which neither side is going to give in on.
It's called a principle. We believe that they are killing children. The other side believes that we want to take away women's reproductive rights. There can be no compromise.
Unless they filibuster the Republicans can do what ever they want on gun control and have, they let the assault weapon ban lapse, though I doubt you can give me any rational explanation as to why the average American needs an assault rifle, its going to do noting but harm.
Aside from it being our right, I don't have to give any explanation. And the FBI's statistics show that the type of guns banned in 1994 are used LESS OFTEN in crime than others.
Why exactly is it any more your business if a woman you don't know chooses to not spend 9 hard months bringing to term an unwanted product of that orgasm
Why should I mind my own business when children are being killed?
Religious fundamentalists like you
And what religion do I follow?
hat exactly is the rational for the Pope refusing to endorse the use of condoms, and instead helping encourage AIDS to spread like wildfire around the globe, because he wants more Catholics to make his flock bigger.
Stop. You can't pick and choose which papal mandates to follow like that. I personally don't agree with him, but if people practiced abstinence until marriage and then monogamy after, that would in no way encourage the spread of AIDS. You know that.
Thats why all religions at their root oppose all forms of birth control because winning in the relgion game is determined by how many warm bodies you can claim.
That's why SOME religions oppose SOME forms of birth control. Abortion is not birth control. As such, that's a separate debate.
Where there is an issue where people are evenly divided and dead set the only solution is you live your life and stop telling other people how to live theirs.
That may be the option that you choose, but that doesn't make it the only solution.
Its NONE of your business to compel a women you don't know to have a child she doesn't want.
It's society's right to prosecute killers.
Its been tried and women use coat hangers or go down dark allys and lots of them die along with the fetus.
Am I supposed to feel sorry for the women who died while killing their own children? I don't. It's too bad, but they brought about their own ends.
If you are opposed to abortion, fine don't abort any of your children.
I have taken all necessary steps to make sure that I didn't cause any pregnancies.
Get it. I'm sure you don't. Bottomline for right and left wingers. Butt out of other peoples lives unless they are stepping on yours.
It isn't that I don't "get it", I just don't agree.
LK
That just shows that all this stuff about how the world would be better if women ran the world is crap.
If women ran the world, it would just be a different kind of awful.
LK
Shows a lot about your reading comprehension and retention. I was asking why the Democrats won't give in on the issues that I (and millions of others) vote on. Tax cuts aren't very important to me. I'm happy to get one, but they're not a make or break issue for me.
Exactly how does it matter to you if someone you don't know gets an abortion.
In the same way that it matters to me if my neighbor is beating his wife or molesting his kid Wrong is wrong. No one has the "right" to do wrong, even in private.
If you are opposed to it fine, then don't get one, oh wait its not even your decision to make its your wife's.
Yeah, that's it. Win the opposition over by antagonizing them.
Sure, it's legal now. I can face the reality that we might never change that, but I am morally obligated to wage the war.
Exactly how important is it to your day to day life that you are or aren't allowed to own an assault rifle.
Important enough to decide who I vote for.
Its unlikely the Republicans are going to succeed in outlawing abortion or the Democrats are going succeed in outlawing hand guns and hunting rifles.
Handguns are already illegal in democrat strongholds like NYC and the second amendment isn't about hunting.
LK
In most people's book applying the word "revulsion" to their sexual preference would be considered bashing.
To bash someone requires an act, revulsion is a feeling. It's involuntary.
What noun would you suggest for people who vote based on their intolerance and with disregard for issues that count.
Arrogant is the adjective I would suggest for people who would presume to dictate to others what issues should count for them.
h, I'm not a Democrat so where does that leave your stereotype.
You're speaking their words, even if you're not one of them.
LK
SUV's are for men with tiny dicks and stupid women.
It must really piss you off that guys with SUVs get more pussy than you do.
LK
The failure of the Democrats to court voters like me is the reason why Bush is in the Whitehouse.
We're not going to change, as long as our issues are being addressed.
Want to change the world? Change the Democratic Party.
LK
My compliments on your wife's common sense and good taste.
Want her number? All she wanted was a cardboard cutout with a wallet and a label that said "husband".
Wonder if she couldn't stand being married to someone stupid enough to vote for a President solely on the basis of two wedge issues that, compared to waging wars based on lies and screwing up the economy don't count for much.
If they don't count for much, why then won't the Democrats give in on them?
LK
China incarcerates political dissidents. China executes those people and sells their organs for transplant.
That is barbarism. That is not enlightened. That is both primitive and savage. It is not refined, polished or sophisticated. China is not a civilized nation.
LK
If you can get a zero-emissions SUV (or one that only releases harmless gasses like H20 or CO2 in a closed cycle like with biofuels), then it wouldn't be any of my business, but that SUV pollutes and effects me, so it is my business.
What I own and what I drive aren't any of your business. Want me to drive something different? Buy it. Until the day comes that you pay for my vehicle, you have zero say about what vehicle I choose.
LK
You'd better have...
I hadn't better anything. We live in a FREE country.
If you really have that much stuff to cart around, maybe a van would be a better vehicle than a minivan or an SUV as it has far more cargo space and similar fuel efficiency and costs.
If it were primarily a work vehicle, you might be right. Since my SUV gets used for work and my personal life, it fits me better than any van.
LK
Good luck with that my friend, they are having shitfits because a church is burying the ashed of those murdered children instead of throwing them in the trash or flushing them down a toilet.
I think too many people out there are willing to face the reality that abortion is really all about whether or not a mother can murder her own child.
Or at the very least hire a contract killer to do it for her.
LK
No one ever wants to regulate their own behavior.
It would be admitting "I need the government to control me because I can not control myself."
LK
Just curious what two issues are those just so we we can better understand the mind of a Bush supporter who apparently disregarded everyting he's done wrong in the last 4 years.
I vote based on the issues of Second Amendment rights and abortion.
I'm guessing one is you hate gays but you haven't had the guts to actually say it.
I don't really care how anyone else has sex. There is nothing in this world more interesting to me than how I get my own orgasms and nothing less so than how you get yours.
Whats the other, tax cuts? You must be rich then because if you re middle class they are so small as to be irrelevant.
No, I'm middle class. I make under $30k per year. It's not one of my big issues, but I'm grateful nonetheless. See, I got separated in 2000. I had a year's worth of tax witholdings taken at the married rate. I had to file as married but separated. My ex-wife got most of the deductions because she kept the house. If it were not for the Bush Tax cut I would have owed money.
If he keeps shooting first, and not asking questions later its a matter of time before the EU, China, India, Russia and every civilized nation on the globe unites in an alliance against the U.S.
Yeah that's it. China is a civilized nation.
LK
The role of regulations is to try and steer the choice of the consumer towards the greater good. In other words, if the gas-guzzler tax makes driving the Hummer too expensive, more people will choose not to.
;-)
And that's the problem. The government should not be using force to dictate what kinds of cars people drive.
But most people who don't need to do so probably won't. Unless they *really* think that getting laid is in any way related to the kind of car they drive.
Seriously man. Try renting a Caddy and going to a night club. You WILL get more attention from women than you're used to.
LK
Since it appears you were one of the millions of American's who voted for Bush at least in part because he was willing to bash gays, and apparently didn't vote based on issues that count, I'm thinking I should share a little anecdote with you.
I never once saw nor heard President Bush bash gays.
He wasn't out there trying to recriminalize sodomy. He was expressing support for the belief that marriage is between one man and one woman.
I should also say I sure hope you aren't in the computer field, because there are a lot of gays in the computer business and they shouldn't be subjected to working with intolerant pricks.
Remember when I talked about anyone who is right of center not being wanted by the Democrats? This is the kind of thing I was talking about.
That is a reason why places like Massachusetts and San Francisco trend both liberal and tolerant of homosexuality, lots of highly educated, high technology workers who are enlightened and tolerant.
San Francisco is the gay Mecca. That's why there is so much tolerance there.
They revoked his security clearance and forced him to choose between chemical castration (injections with estrogen) or prison.
You can lose a security clearance because of a spouse losing a job. ANYTHING that can give the enemy something over you can result in a loss of a security clearance. 60 years ago, being a homosexual was seen as shameful. If the enemy had used that to leverage him, the work would have been compromised.
LK
You obviously haven't been paying attention to his rhetoric or his record for 4 years, and I can see how that would be about the only way you COULD justify voting for him again.
With the exception of the "Patriot Act", I like Bush's domestic record. I disagree with the Iraq war, but I don't vote based upon foreign policy.
How do you know?
The Democrats are "pro choice" and pro gun control. I can never vote for any candidate who is against me on those two issues.
The Democrats aren't opposed to tax cuts they are just opposed to huge tax to the richest people who need them the least, and which the Federal government can't pay for.
Your choice of language is precisely where the difference between the two schools of thought shows itself. Tax cuts never have to be "paid for", that assumes that the money belongs to the government and that the government is "giving away" money. This is not the case. A tax cut means that the government doesn't confiscate money that didn't belong to it in the first place.
LK
I used to drive an SUV. Now I don't. Because of the above.
It's cool if that's what you choose. It just annoys me to no end when people try to choose for me what vehicles I can own and drive.
LK
Yeah, but single guys don't need the space provided by an SUV *or* a minivan.
Those of us who need to transport bulky computers and printers do.
And I fail to see how your getting laid should take precedence over global warming.
Wow, I could take a million cheap shots at you over this one. But I won't.
LK