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Hey Colt! Wasup buddy?
click on lifetime subs just under favorites
If they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them
Adlai Stevenson on the Republican party
shouldn't this be the other way around?
whats with the Grandfather/Lifetime Upgrade?
You just got to stir the pot!
Right on Charley
Here is another one.......This is scary stuff
WHERE WE'RE HEADED
by Robert A. Waters -
You're sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door. Half
awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers. At least
two people have broken into your house and are moving your way.
With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your
shotgun. You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and
open it. In the darkness, you make out two shadows. One holds something
that looks like a crowbar. When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike,
you raise the shotgun and fire. The blast knocks both thugs to the floor.
One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door and
lurches outside. As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know
you're in trouble. In your country, most guns were outlawed years before,
and the few that are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make
them useless. Yours was never registered.
Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died. They arrest
you for First Degree Murder and Illegal Possession of a Firearm. When you
talk to your attorney, he tells you not to worry: authorities will probably
plea the case down to manslaughter. "What kind of sentence will I get?" you
ask. "Only ten-to-twelve years," he replies, as if that's nothing. "Behave
yourself, and you'll be out in seven."
The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper.
Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you
shot are represented as choir boys. Their friends and relatives can't find
an unkind word to say about them. Buried deep down in the article,
authorities acknowledge that both "victims" have been arrested numerous
times. But the next day's headline says it all: "Lovable Rogue Son Didn't
Deserve to Die." The thieves have been transformed from career criminals
into Robin Hood-type pranksters. As the days wear on, the story takes
wings. The national media picks it up, then the international media. The
surviving burglar has become a folk hero.
Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you, and he'll probably
win. The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized
several times in the past and that you've been critical of local police for
their lack of effort in apprehending the suspects. After the last break-in,
you told your neighbor that you would be prepared next time. The District
Attorney uses this to allege that you were lying in wait for the burglars.
A few months later, you go to trial. The charges haven't been reduced, as
your lawyer had so confidently predicted. When you take the stand, your
anger at the injustice of it all works against you. Prosecutors paint a
picture of you as a mean, vengeful man. It doesn't take long for the jury
to convict you of all charges.
The judge sentences you to life in prison.
This case really happened.
On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk, England, killed one
burglar and wounded a second. In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now
serving a life term.
How did it become a crime to defend one's own life in the once great British
Empire?
It started with the Pistols Act of 1903. This seemingly reasonable law
forbade selling pistols to minors or felons an established that handgun
sales were to be made only to those who had a license.
The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but
all firearms except shotguns.
Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by
private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns.
Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the
Hungerford mass shooting in 1987. Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man
with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw.
When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.
The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun control",
demanded even tougher restrictions (The seizure of all privately owned
handguns was the objective even though Ryan used a rifle).
Nine years later, at Dunblane, Scotland, Thomas Hamilton used a
semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public
school. For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally
unstable, or worse, criminals. Now the press had a real kook with which to
beat up law-abiding gun owners. Day after day, week after week, the media
gave up all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all
handguns. The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the
few sidearms stil owned by private citizens. During the years in which the
British government incrementally took away most gun rights, the notion that
a citizen had the right to armed self-defense came to be seen as
vigilantism. Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were
threatened, claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to
own a gun. Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged
while the real criminals were released.
Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as saying,
"We cannot have people take the law into their own hands."
All of Martin's neighbors had been robbed numerous times, and several
elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs who had no
fear of the consequences. Martin himself, a collector of antiques, had seen
most of his collection trashed or stolen by burglars.
When the Dunblane Inquiry ended, citizens who owned handguns were given
three months to turn them over to local authorities. Being good British
subjects, most people obeyed the law. The few who didn't were visited by
police and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn't comply.
Police later bragged that they'd taken nearly 200,000 handguns from private
citizens. How did the authorities know who had handguns? The guns had been
registered and licensed. Kinda like cars.
Sound familiar?
WAKE UP AMERICA, THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT
IN OUR CONSTITUTION.
"..It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless
minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." --Samuel Adams
Some interesting from our bud pre.......
No matter what your views on President Bush's statement of upcoming war,
this, from an English journalist, is very interesting. For those of you not
familiar with the UK's Daily Mirror, this is a notoriously left-wing daily
that is normally not supportive of the Colonials across the Atlantic.
Tony Parsons, Daily Mirror - September 11, 2002
ONE year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of broadcasting -- the mass
murder of thousands, live on television. As a lesson in the pitiless
cruelty of the human race, September 11 was up there, with Pol Pot's
mountain of skulls in Cambodia, or the skeletal bodies stacked like garbage
in the Nazi concentration camps. An unspeakable act so cruel, so calculated
and so utterly merciless that surely the world could agree on one thing -
nobody deserves this fate. Surely there could be consensus: the victims were
truly innocent, the perpetrators truly evil. But to the world's eternal
shame, 9/11 is increasingly seen as America's comeuppance. Incredibly,
anti-Americanism has increased over the last year. There has always been a
simmering resentment to the USA in this country - too loud, too rich, too
full of themselves and so much happier than Europeans - but it has become an
epidemic. And it seems incredible to me. More than that, it turns my
stomach.
America is this country's greatest friend and our staunchest ally. We are
bonded to the US by culture, language and blood. A little over half a
century ago, around half a million Americans died for our freedoms, as well
as their own. Have we forgotten so soon? And exactly a year ago, thousands
of ordinary men, women and children - not just Americans, but from dozens of
countries - were butchered by a small group of religious fanatics. Are we
so quick to betray them?
What touched the heart about those who died in the twin towers and on the
planes was that we recognized them. Young fathers and mothers, somebody's
son and somebody's daughter, husbands and wives, and children, some unborn.
And these people brought it on themselves? And their nation is to blame for
their meticulously planned slaughter?
These days you don't have to be some dust-encrusted nut job in Kabul or
Karachi or Finsbury Park to see America as the Great Satan. The
anti-American alliance is made up of self-loathing liberals who blame the
Americans for every ill in the Third World, and conservatives suffering from
power-envy, bitter that the world's only superpower can do what it likes
without having to ask permission.
The truth is that America has behaved with enormous restraint since
September 11.
Remember, remember.
Remember the gut-wrenching tapes of weeping men phoning their wives to say,
"I love you," before they were burned alive.
Remember those people leaping to their deaths from the top of burning
skyscrapers.
Remember the hundreds of firemen buried alive.
Remember the smiling face of that beautiful little girl who was on one of
the planes with her mum.
Remember, remember - and realize that America has never retaliated for 9/11
in anything like the way it could have.
So a few al-Qaeda tourists got locked without a trial in Camp X-ray? -
Pass the Kleenex...
So some Afghan wedding receptions were shot up after they merrily fired
their semi-automatics in a sky full of American planes? A shame, but maybe
next time they should stick to confetti.
AMERICA could have turned a large chunk of the world into a parking lot.
That it didn't is a sign of strength. American voices are already being
raised against attacking Iraq - that's what a democracy is for. How many in
the Islamic world will have a minute's silence for the slaughtered innocents
of 9/11? How many Islamic leaders will have the guts to say that the mass
murder of 9/11 was an abomination?
When the news of 9/11 broke on the West Bank, those freedom-loving
Palestinians were dancing in the street. America watched all of that - and
didn't push the button. We should thank the stars that America is the most
powerful nation in the world. I still find it incredible that 9/11 did not
provoke all-out war. Not a "war on terrorism." A real war.
The fundamentalist dudes are talking about "opening the gates of hell," if
America attacks Iraq. Well, America could have opened the gates of hell
like you wouldn't believe.
The US is the most militarily powerful nation that ever strode the face of
the earth. The campaign in Afghanistan may have been less than perfect and
the planned war on Iraq may be misconceived.
But don't blame America for not bringing peace and light to these wretched
countries. How many democracies are there in the Middle East, or in the
Muslim world? You can count them on the fingers of one hand -assuming you
haven't had any chopped off for minor shoplifting.
I love America, yet America is hated. I guess that makes me Bush's poodle.
But I would rather be a dog in New York City than a Prince in Riyadh. Above
all, America is hated because it is what every country wants to be - rich,
free, strong, open, optimistic. Not ground down by the past, or religion,
or some caste system. America is the best friend this country ever had and
we should start remembering that.
Or do you really think the USA is the root of all evil? Tell it to the
loved ones of the men and women who leaped to their death from the burning
towers. Tell it to the nursing mothers whose husbands died on one of the
hijacked planes, or were ripped apart in a collapsing skyscraper. And tell
it to the hundreds of young widows whose husbands worked for the New York
Fire Department.
To our shame, George Bush gets a worse press than Saddam Hussein. Once we
were told that Saddam gassed the Kurds, tortured his own people and set up
rape-camps in Kuwait. Now we are told he likes Quality Street.
Save me the orange center, oh mighty one!
Remember, remember, September 11.
One of the greatest atrocities in human history was committed against
America.
No, do more than remember. Never forget!!!!
Whats up with that?
I'm over here checking things out.....cool
http://www.angelfire.com/gundam/onebgg/
I was refering to the ol school master (trky)
looks like i've got a year up on ya......
Sounds like the ol school master smacked you on the hand with a ruler......."Yes sir"
dream on sucker fish......
sorry gramps.....better yet I'll work on it!
Although trky is the board elder.......
What the freak are you talking about? Your as old as me.....uolfart
Mr. Ed.....Do you really know these guys?
Got a Good Joke? (RB: JOKES)
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By: baiter
21 Jan 2003, 02:16 PM EST Msg. 26968 of 26970
Mr Ed was a talking horse. He went to Sweden and met these four horses.
http://svt.se/hogafflahage/hogafflaHage_site/Kor/hestekor.swf
Click on the four horses to get them to sing or to stop.
One....Isn't that what we're dealing with?
Sox.....You just can't leave well enough alone, can you?
Thanks Matt.........
have you seen the links on my profile? watch them you'll get a chuckle, diverdan posted them a couple months ago
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bullbutt just got himself a toss from me and if soxass keeps it up he's next on my toss list.....I don't like to use that function but I'd like to see the rant board back to normal. actually that was my first toss action and hopefully my last!
I just mm'd you and my screen locked on me.....
RASHEED.....What the freak is a RASHEED? Is that a rash on your heed (head).......
Where you been abf? you needs to come over to the rant board and check out the two monkey butts we got posting over there, ie soxass and bullbutt
who the freak are the blazers? is that the team that one thinks the sun sets and rises in their bung hole?......LOL
Bull your short........Toss
I know what you mean I've got a box full of knives but I still carry my Casexxx Trapper.........
trky this will make short work on your next gut job, I have one and they are way kool.....good picture here but the price is to high, look around and you'll find'm under $20.00
http://aandhabrasives.com/cgi-bin/FULLPRES.exe?PARTNUM=116-996&LARGEVIEW=ON
Congrats buddy.......
Is that the biggest turd on the net? (PCBM)
right on buddy.....what does your board say about PCBM?
sox.....this is the rant and chat board if you and bull want to bitch and moan go start another thread. Bull has done nothing but cause a great deal of contention with all his post and you with yours (most). Get on board and try making a few friends, you'll be surprised at just how nice everyone here really is.
Peace man........
5k on the rant and 5555 here...........smokin!
k2 and onebgg........Thanks for the valuable lesson, as you know I have been working on some big projects, some you know about and others not mentioned. I just spent a whole five minutes backing years worth of work to a zip disk......stupid me it's not like my puter never crashes, even though I do send my real important docs over to the little womans computer it's still a pain to recover.
Welcome back logman...........
gp.....We're talkin about a common breed scrotum poacher here....nothing but an empty sack! LOL
I'll second that.........