Posted on 07/17/2007 5:36:40 AM PDT by new cruelty
This reminds me there’s a gun show in my neighborhood next weekend. I really want an HK USP. Should I treat myself?
Olney was a borderline hellhole when I went to La Salle, back in the early ‘90s.
LOL. More power to you!
I always look at these high-murder rate cities and wonder “won’t the criminals eventually just kill each other off?”
The “Stop Snitchin’” campaign is doing WONDERS for this, too...
I haven’t seen a lot about that lately. But I imagine that you are right.
Are the firearms laws in PA very strict? If not, civilians better take up arms and protect themselves.
Militia anyone?
Thanks for being here.
It’s absolutely disgusting. I’ve read and heard about this “Stop Snitchin” crap. What the f*** is wrong with these people?
But He’s Black nothing else matters I suppose.
“When Mayor Street spent 15 hours waiting in line for an iPhone recently”
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! The Philadelphia government in action. At least we know what his priorities are.
Poor to no parenting could be a part of the problem. I think it was on hannity’s show yesterday- i heard him make reference to obama... obama had commented on the problem with gun violence. the way he saw it was that people are shooting each other because they hate themselves, they hate themselves because we do not love them enough. So essentially, the blame falls on you for not loving someone who wants to shoot and kill you.
There are days when I believe certain people should be sterilized...
I know it’s not right, and it’s the very antithesis of American freedom, but I sometimes sit and think “what else?”
At the very least Street's parents - retroactively.
Yeah--I know I know--but she's cute.
ROTFLOL. And so it goes.
You will be happy to know that Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd (the other half of that now-famous “Waitress Sandwich”) are working on that legislation as you read this.
Next on their agenda is a conference with one King Canute on the scenic shore of the Bay of Fundy (at low tide) to discuss a solution to those troublesome tidal movements.
As you may recall, it was those nettlesome tidal movements which caused the heroic Kennedy from saving Mary Jo on Martha’s Vinyard. Had it not been for that 6 feet of water under that bridge, she might be alive today.
Then it will be on to solving the global warming problem by prohibiting any and all future volcanic eruptions.
Might consider getting out as at least ONE early American sage believed that the large cities would only get worse.
This may also help to explain the Red State/Blue State thing.
An astute student of history and human nature, one Thomas Jefferson, predicted all this after witnessing the run up to the FIRST socialist/communist revolution in France while ambassador there. He penned the following observations concerning what would happen HERE should that socialism come to the United States. He CORRECTLY predicted that we would become an increasingly contentious and litigious people as we shouldered one another out of the way to get OURS from the public trough and the trough would soon be empty.
He also knew where the bulk of the problem would originate.
That whirring noise you may hear coming from that mountain in Charlottesville, Virginia is Mr. Jefferson getting up to around 3600 RPM.
“The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.” —Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XIX, 1782. ME 2:230
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.” —Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. Papers 12:442
“I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.” —Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 1800. ME 10:173
“Our cities... exhibit specimens of London only; our country is a different nation.” —Thomas Jefferson to Andre de Daschkoff, 1809. ME 12:304
“Everyone, by his property or by his satisfactory situation, is interested in the support of law and order. And such men may safely and advantageously reserve to themselves a wholesome control over their public affairs and a degree of freedom which, in the hands of the canaille of the cities of Europe, would be instantly perverted to the demolition and destruction of everything public and private.” —Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1813. ME 13:401
“An insurrection... of science, talents, and courage, against rank and birth... has failed in its first effort, because the mobs of the cities, the instrument used for its accomplishment, debased by ignorance, poverty, and vice, could not be restrained to rational action. But the world will recover from the panic of this first catastrophe.” —Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1813. ME 13:402
“I fear nothing for our liberty from the assaults of force; but I have seen and felt much, and fear more from English books, English prejudices, English manners, and the apes, the dupes, and designs among our professional crafts. When I look around me for security against these seductions, I find it in the wide spread of our agricultural citizens, in their unsophisticated minds, their independence and their power, if called on, to crush the Humists of our cities, and to maintain the principles which severed us from England.” —Thomas Jefferson to Horatio G. Spafford, 1814. ME 14:120
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