Posted on 04/04/2005 8:07:34 PM PDT by Long Cut
Nope. Looks like common or garden sucking-up to me.
It entitles me to FREE memebership LOL.
It will be in the form of a DVD and be finished in about a month.
Watch for it's debut here on FR.
LOL, are you calling me boring?
It would be boring if we agreed on everything :-)
Torie, I like to think that I have been a great influence on my siblings in certain areas :-) And, yes...I have learned a lot from John, and for that I am grateful.
Actually, not. Government's number one job is to protect our rights. In both of these examples, government was doing just the opposite. In Elian's case they were depriving him of his right to liberty. And in Terri's case they deprived her of all rights, including the right to life. The government should not have seized Elian and they should not have killed Terri. Just my opinion.
Well, I wish either of the Bush's had stepped up and said that this law is wrong and must be rewritten. It is wrong to order the death of an innocent and helpless person and this must be stopped.I think an executive decision in this case holds just as much water as a judicial opinion. The branches have equal powers and both (or all three including the legislative branch) are entrusted with defending the constitution and our rights. The very worst thing that would've happened is Terri may have been permitted to live long enough to allow the legislators to try to get it right. And, of course, if the people thought the executive abused his power then he might be subject to impeachment. That's the way the founders set up the system.
To err on the side of life means that life is the default rather than death. It means the same thing as choosing life. The government should defend the right to life above all else. Can't have liberty without life. Can't have any rights at all without life.
BUTTTTTTTTTTTTT, my point was for illustration only. Deadhead and I sometimes disagree. We are not, as rumor has it, clones.
How interesting! Please ping me, when you put a thread up about your DVD. :-)
I wanted to mention a couple more things. First and foremost, Long Cut, thank you for your brave and selfless service to our great country, which I know you so dearly love. Second, I'd like to call attention to a part of *what* you are in large part about, (aside from your other admirable attributes)--and in illustration, I hope that everyone visits one of Long Cut's favorite spots. That spot being Dru Blair's site:
http://www.drublair.com/.
It's definately worth everyone's while to go there and browse through the links--it will completely LIFT YOU UP. And what I wrote about Long Cut's directing me there was this:
What an AWESOME website. Absolutely FABULOUS artwork. My favorites are the F-14 entitled "Tomcat!," the F-15 entitiled "Eye of the Eagle," the B-1B entitled "Power," the B-1B entitled "Low Level Lightning," and the M1A1 Abrams in the "New Paintings Section" entitled "...and Hell's Comin With Me," about which its gifted artist, Michael Harris, writes was "inspired by the late David Bloom's accounts as he traveled with the 3rd Infantry across the desert."
Thanks, Long Cut. What a treat--can't wait to show my dad. I hope everyone who's interested in beautiful U.S. Military machinery visits the site.
You will see a big part of the good and decent man, Long Cut, and his deep love of country and its beauty, and the artwork's beauty, there. I know I still don't know how to properly do quick links (site simpleton here,) but PLEASE go to that site. It WILL lift you up.
And thank you again, LC.
-K
And Mr. JimRob, I thank you for this great forum, and this is the last time I will bother you...today. Promise. Heh heh. :-)
Here's a direct link for you:
http://www.drublair.com/.
A your opinion is RIGHT!!!!!!!!! The government was WRONG in both cases!!!
Thanks a bunch, EllaMinnow.
Someone else raised the case that two "better" newbies would replace any and all now leaving/left posters. Oh, since you are utilizing their post shouldnt you have identified them? Would have been helpful. This is not the case and you are a prime example. I did not then, nor am I stating, ipso facto, now, that your main intent of joining FR was to "replace" the now departing/departed from FR long time members.
From your post #801 from this thread And if she's an example of who is coming here to replace Long Cut, this is certainly NO improvement over his posts!
See your own post # 801,
This isn't about you ..and it wasnt about you, however, you jumped in and immediately got it wrong. See posts #696,739,788,744,973,991
Evidently you are much more interested in your own verbosity, than in much of anything else.Pity that. LOL, goodness, that hurt.
1. CCPing a laundry list of Chads' previous posts, was sadly, nothing more than an exercise in HTML, cherry picked as they were, and was no refutation,nor balm with which to salve your bruised ego. see post #991, read again, you didnt get it. Also, its already been decided I have an ego that is Peterbuilt, so its not bruised or even scratched. ;)
They only show that you are 1)skilled at CCPing Thank you, I enjoy learning a new skill, good of you to notice 2)have far too much spare time on your hands Nah, if you notice the times, insomnia was the culprit of the evening and of course, this riveting and revealing discourse with you where you accused me of erroneously posting to a person, called me a liar, a retread, insinuated that I was an inferior freeper and exemplified the diminishing returns of open membership to this forum and had not reached some transformative longevity on the site.
( hint...scouting down someone else's old posts is time consuming Gotta hint of my own, if you click on the persons name and go to in forum on their homepage, makes it a whole lot easier. Besides,I knew what I was looking for.
and in this instance, did not validate your chortling,smarmy, sneering posts about another FREEPER)
3) were unnecessarily provocative. Ill try to be necessarily provocative next time. ;)
Unfortunately for you, attempting to bait me hasn't worked. Well, thats good, because it wasnt about you and I would have had to throw you back. ;)
Do go off to bed, by all means; you've wasted far too much of your own time, bandwidth, and otherwise valuable space. I did and slept well. It will always be worth my time, bandwidth and valuable space to correct someone who has called me a liar. Even if I do have to get some sleep.
This 'conversation' stops here, for me. I've done my best to show you how we got to this point.
Brave perhaps, but selfless not.
You are going to be a GREAT freeper. So wanna be my friend??? We could start our own group and have our own thread! LOL! ( Open to all members of course..)
Every post of yours on this thread is about you,you,YOU. How boring and pathetic that that's all there is of you. Pity that.
You aren't even valuable for bait, so there's no need at all to "throw you back."
You may be right about that, and in fact I think your thoughts may be applicable to "conservatism" in general. Which means that conservatism and leftism have much more in common than their adherents may imagine.
I think you ought to stay around, FR is still lots of fun and the things you found praiseworthy are still alive. I don't think you should leave the site to the thoughtless.
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