ivan

yeah - saw that one too and it's just fuck'n nuts - folks always get so keyed up about this kinda shit though after a big news event like VT am i the only one who occasinally used to daydream in high school about killing all the stupid twits i was surronded by?

US population: 275 million US firearm homicides: 10,801 EU population: 376 million EU firearm homicides: 1,260 Japan population: 127 million Japan firearm homicides: 22 i'm sure the folks 'round here will want a source they had plenty of guns at waco, texas - didn't seem to matter much

but then you'd have no one to poo on...certainly no one who seems to revel in so much shit anyhow

i wouldn't mind if the % spent on defense was halved and put into education and social security - but then i am a tax-and-spend-bleeding-heart-liberal kinda loser...

In an average year, you might find snow on the approach well into July... and it's an above average year for snow. the first time i climbed shuksan was in the middle of august 2000 (a high show year) - lake ann was still frozen!

you forgot: -travel back in time and stop the industrial revolution from happening

a large volunteer army and navy were required by the british to maintain the pax brittanica of the 19th century - should we not bear that burden in the 21st, seeing as how we consume a disproportionate share of the world's resources? what of our fumbling disasters in the civil war, spanish-american war, and world wars 1 and 2 due to our having very small, underfunded militaries prior to hostilities?

The recruiting booths they're sticking in area high schools designed to suck up the bottom students in danger of not graduating or dropping out doesn't sit well with me though. I'm sure they're being completely honest and upfront with these intellectual marvels however. I agree it is pretty disgusting the way our government recruits sometimes, but I tend to think no matter how dumb you are there is no way that you can actually think that you might not see some action at some point. you have 3 choices when it comes to a military: a. compulsory military (everyone's up for drafting) b. volunteer military c. no military at all c's not really an option unless oprah winfrey's president - so between a and b, which do you want? i like b - but that does mean we'll need asses in uniforms, and that's going to take advertising. do you have a better plan?

i'm heading home now but i'll marinate on your question bill - meanwhile, what about all the democratic governments currently in existence in europe that have very limited gun ownership? they seem to have been quite stable for more than a half-century now? no juntas in spain, france, italy, germany, england, etc. meanwhile, the widespread availabilty of guns in northern ireland fueled a bloody civil conflict to oust a democratic goverment. home time!

rome - repeatedly from 100 BC to 400 AD france - 1790's usa - 1770s (the south had plenty of guns and largely fought for the brits) somalia - 1990s shit - all of africa in the 20th century?

they got cameras everywhere in this here world now - man can't even run a red-light in privacy no'mo

Here is a picture of me. total recall?

didn't stephen hawking's have some sorta famous quote along the lines of: "fuck that cat! i hate him!" but, you know, like in a creeped-out speak'n'spell kinda way?

i'm not a big fan of having cameras all over the place either - sure is helpful after folks spray-paint swastikas all over the bathroom though

Any resemblance between moi and Jefferson or Hamilton is purely coincidental. However: it seems to me, in observing other countries as Juntas develop, if you control the weapons, then later controlling the media and speech is an easy thing - and not the reverse. Joni Mitchell: " You don't know what you got till it's gone". i argue for amusement now seems to me that countries w/ juntas are broiling w/ ak's - and the journalists in those countries are scared to death to write anything unflattering about either the government or the rebels as both will use their guns to kill them - there is no freedom of speech b/c there is too much freedom of guns

hey! i know this one i think - schroeder's cat, right? uncertainity theory?

michael jackson for child-protection czar?

dude, you look like you might recently have seen some giant bats attacking your sweet ride...get a cigarette holder and a hawaian shirt and the look's complete

great show - watched that one too

standard rack's fine do gandalf's grip - coolest climb there, imo.

then why did the tyrant-fearing founders put it in article 2 then? Is this going to be on the final, Mr Ivan? come one, you should know that EVERYTHING is going to be on the final!

this means something!

then why did the tyrant-fearing founders put it in article 2 then?

nice.

so bill, how do you rate the rights, that is, which is more important? speech or guns? or are they tied? if speech is more important, it would stand to reason it should be less restricted than gun rights. both rights are already subject to restrictions of course.