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On 2011-03-10, Doug Freyburger wrote:


Very well said, Doug.

It's amazing how the clueless heap responsible gun owners in with the
rest of the general scum, as if even owning a gun makes one lose all
common sense and drool like an idiot. As I've said before, all the
gun owners I know are fanatical about adhering to ALL laws and gun
safety. Unfortunately, gun haters are essentially terrified and live
in constant fear for their lives and anyone who even thinks of owning
a gun is an immediate threat to their personal safety and should be
locked up tuit de suite.

Sad really, as it was the same responsible citizens that feel control
of one's life is in their own hands, not some bureaucracy that's
better at collecting revenue than protecting them. I guess all those
Minutemen and Revolutionary War volunteers that fought and died for
our freedoms were "idiots" and should be cleaned from the "pool".

As usual, it's the "idiots" that will save the rest.

nb
 
On 11/03/2011 3:32 PM, sf wrote:

Damned if I can figure out American presidential smear campaigns. The
white side of Obama's family goes back to the Massachusetts colony in
1630. He and my wife share an ancestor from 10 generations back.

In the previous election the Republicans somehow managed to cast doubt
on John Kerry's war record. Kerry volunteered for service and left a
nice safe off shore position to work on the more hazardous swift boats.
He was wounded and he was decorated. He got out about being wounded
three times,and acknowledges the wounds were minor and the incident for
which he was decorated was no big deal.

Meanwhile, Bush had managed to avoid serving in Vietnam by getting into
a National Guard old boys gig. Then in the last one people referred to
McCain as a war hero..... got shot down, was captured and sang like a
bird in front of the camera. I admit I would want to spend time in a NV
PoW camp, but hero????/ Not in my books.
 
On 7 Mar 2011 17:40:45 GMT, notbob wrote:

Did you hear about the father and son who shot a cop during a routine
traffic stop because they don't believe government has the right to
make or enforce laws? Put nuts and guns together and that's what you
get. They are basically anarchists, but the movement has a different
name. Scary stuff. Right of Tea Party.... but oh, yeah - carry those
guns. Kill more people you don't agree with.


--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On Mar 9, 11:59?pm, sf wrote:

Exactly. That's why I said "Brooklyn" and not "Los Angeles" or
"Kiev".


Know what? About various great Russian and Eastern European cold cuts
and desserts available in America if you know where to shop? I doubt
it.

Even when they featured a Russian cake in one of the "The Best Things
I Ever Ate" episodes, it was about the old traditional "smetannik" and
not about many dozens of modern tortes.

But leaving aside Russia, the fact remains is that cupcakes is the
simplest and most boring kind of pastry you can imagine. Would a
normal person walk into a patisserie in Paris and of all the amazing
pastries with incredible textures there, choose a cupcake piece of
bland dough with some icing scraped on the top?
 
On 3/7/2011 3:43 PM, notbob wrote:
Actually you still don't get my point for some reason. "Present all
sides or present none". As far as I know there are no line items for
Rush Limbagh so there shouldn't be any for PBS.



Makes perfect sense. Use bad behavior to justify other bad behavior. Go
back and read how many times I commented on bailing out Wall Street and
giving tax breaks to walmart.
 
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:56:04 -0700, "gloria.p"
wrote:


The daytime line up is much better. Set your DVR and record the shows
you want to watch at night. I don't know if they are "on demand" (I'm
a comcast subscriber), but it would be really nice if they were.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On 9-Mar-2011, Brooklyn1 wrote:


When our local library expanded, they expanded the building but not the lot
it sits on; it's in the "heart of the business district" and land is too
precious. The adjacent parking lost 10% of its spaces to the "expansion".
In the mean time, the "furnishings" store across the street moved and a
micro brewery opened; during the 11am-2pm daily beerfest the nearby public
lot is full as is all on-street parking.

While driving around looking for a parking space, you now have the added fun
of dodging the 4 ft. tall, pony-tailed, cell-phone-weilding,
suburban-driving "mothers who lunch" and the idiot men who just have to
sample all the beer pairings suggested on the menu - wheatberry ale with the
appetizer, gooseberry and quinoa lager with burger, cranberry-raisin ale
with dessert.

The brightside is, I can request the books/cds/whatever I want online,
receive an email when it is available for pickup, run in and grab my item(s)
from the "Hold shelf" and use self-checkout. In-and-out in under 5
minutes. I usually time my trip to about 3pm when the "mothers who lunch"
are out picking up little Skyler and Aiden, and the beer drinking dudes are
back at work doing the best job they can with a few beers in them. And
thank heaven for the drive-by drop-box to return books; too bad other
material can't be dropped as you drive by.

--
Change Cujo to Juno in email address.
 
George wrote:

In my car I have all of the AM radio buttons set to talk channels. One
is all news all the time. One has more traffic reports than the all
news one. Two have a lot of conservative talk shows. Two have a lot of
liberal talk shows.

Almost all of the time my car radio is used to play audio books not
radio. Most of the remainder it's tuned to FM for music. I listen to
AM very little, but when I do I listen to the channels with the traffic
reports more than the ones with a lot of political shows.

Why are the conservative talk shows more popular than the liberal ones?
I don't know for sure. I find several of the conservative speakers to
personally offensive to listen to. I find several of the liberal
speakers boring. I find a couple of the conservative speakers
hilarious. Maybe that's why the ratings run like they do. More likely
my tastes in talk shows is so strange I don't fit any of their common
demographics. Huh, back to my audio books.
 
sf wrote:

Yes, iPad also. And not for just Internet radio for iPhone and iPad, you
can also throw out your GPS turn by turn navigation device, the smart
phones can do that also.


--
Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)
 
On 2011-03-08, sf wrote:


I'm not. I'm telling you we have not lost the right to defend
ourselves. THAT'S the difference.

I don't carry a gun. Have no intention to. But, I can should I
decide to. You are right. The violence is not much different here.
We have crime, drugs, violence, etc. But, we also still have what
has been taken away from you. Freedom of choice. I think that's an
important difference.

nb
 
On Mar 9, 1:40?pm, Brooklyn1 wrote:

More building space might mean less parking lot space, if
they built into the parking lot.


Sure they can. There's been a metered municipal lot next to
the Ann Arbor public library for as long as I can remember.


Cindy Hamilton
 
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sf wrote:


IIRC the vast majority of saner jurisdictions want to see some sort of
practical reason why a person needs to carry a concealed gun. And it's not
so you can carry it to the grocery store or down to the corner bar.
 
On 8 Mar 2011 13:43:37 GMT, notbob wrote:


I am enjoying The Kindle that I got for Christmas. I especially like
the idea that many of the out-of-copyright books are available for a
dollar or two. Sometimes the complete works. I find it easy to read
and if I don't have my reading glasses with me I can just change the
size of the type.

I have been seeing them on Amazon for some time but really hadn't
considered buying one. My "teckie" son bought it for me and helped me
get it up and going. Since I am also clearing out many of my books
since I don't have room for them all, this is great. I don't know how
much this one will hold, but I can archive anything I buy from Amazon
on their system.

Current books are not a huge bargain, only a dollar or two less that
Amazon's new book price. But Amazon is not the one setting those
prices. Anyway, I would probably buy the hardcover book anyway. Now
I save a little and do not have to find places to store them.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)
 
On 3/8/2011 7:15 PM, Roy wrote:

I researched both Kindle and Nook and got the Nook because it can use
several formats and Kindle only uses Amazons, though there are
translaters available. I just tried to get involved with binaries where
there are tons of free downnloadable books, but I haven't been
successful in finding any.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On 3/9/2011 9:55 PM, Nunya Bidnits wrote:
I will mention that to my mild mannered friend who carries but you would
never know it who stopped an armed car jacking at the grocery store.
 
sf wrote:

Exact same thing as happened in the US during prohibition of alcohol
which was also before the gun control movement in the US.

Making something popular prohibited pours vast wealth into the hands of
criminals. Criminals buy so many guns they start to outnumber the law
abiding citizens. In the US like the gangs of Chicago in prohibition
era movies, the gangs in Mexico are fueled by smuggled goods.
Different smuggled goods but in both cases intoxicants that are banned
by law.

Wanna bet that Fox News isn't pushing for a repeal of drug prohibition
laws in the US as a way to take the funding out from under the Mexican
drug cartels?
 
On 3/9/2011 10:02 PM, Nunya Bidnits wrote:
I have honestly tried on a number of occasions to determine what the non
liberal content might be. A good friend even works for them.

Yesterdays activities are just another confirmation of their strong
bias. As I said they are certainly free to say anything they want and I
will defend that right. But they need to do on someone else beside the
taxpayers tab.

And as I mentioned before I am a big believer that things need to stand
on their own. You can find numerous occasions where I wrote about the
rewards program called "too big to fail" that was developed for corrupt
Wall st folks or the welfare money that walmart gets etc.
 
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:51:17 +0000 (UTC), Doug Freyburger
wrote:

We decided against TiVo because it's a $20 per month subscription and
another $8 per month for the cable card so we can view everything
we're subscribe to, but a cable box is only $16 a month. Buying a
Blue Ray DVR will get us Netflix and we'll save $12 a month. That's
why I was wondering how Mythtv works with cable. I imagine I'd need a
cable card for it, just like I'd need one for TiVo, at the very least.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 22:55:01 -0500, "Ed Pawlowski"
wrote:


I bought my car twenty years ago and still have the radio set to the
same station... the only music I listen to is Doo Wop.
 
On 3/7/2011 9:55 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

I will not drive without XM. We got our first portable "Roady" system
in 2003. We each have a system in our cars. Being removable, we take the
one from his car and put it in the camper when we travel. XM makes
traveling long distances a pleasure.

We like to listen to the comedy channels and the old-time radio shows, too.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
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