benny 0
QuoteIt really scares me that you are involved in the education of youg people.
From what I've seen, he seems to know his field pretty damn well, I'm sure you'd rather Georgie be teaching physics though... "today we're going to be learning about nukular physics boys and girls, nukular physics is very important because we need bombs, to stop terrorists, like Saddam Hussein."
Never go to a DZ strip show.
Gawain 0
QuoteI agree with you on that.
Holy Toledo! My life is now complete. Who knew?!
So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!
kallend 2,027
QuoteIt really scares me that you are involved in the education of youg people.
Well, apparently my students aren't scared. Just like you have a service record that allows you to wear your patriotism where you like (and I respect that) I have a teaching record with a bunch of excellence in teaching awards to show for it.
Teachers who tell the truth are appreciated by students, even when the truth is not so palatable.
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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
jkm2500 0
QuoteYou started on me, not the other way around
As I recall you started in on me. And come to find out it had nothing to do with my views, it had everything to do with yours. In 2 different posts you stated that you had an agenda that was outside the laws of the land, therefore accusing everybody of having a desire to break the law. You are wrong....Not me.
Quotelike I can't turn my yard into a toxic waste disposal facility...
QuoteTo claim that it's a "free country" when an adult citizen risks being thrown in jail if she plants marijuana on her own land for her own exclusive use, or smokes it in the privacy of her own home, is stretching the definition of freedom. All IMO, of course. You may have a different definition of freedom.
Now, it is ridiculous to continue on with this post and more especially you. I am serving my country in the US Army. I am serving in the country of Iraq. DO NOT QUESTION MY PATRIOTISM. I have done my part. All you have done is bitched about one thing or another that people have had to say. Until you put forth some effort to serve the country, you do not have the right to question anything I say as far as my patriotism goes. If I want to buy a piece of land and burn it to the ground, as long as I am within the laws of the land, then it is my right.
You then proceeded to fill an entire post with strongly opinionated drivel. You did not once state a fact. Therefore placing yourself outside the realm that you have stepped on several of us for being inside of. It could have been just as easily said about my initial post that it was my opinion that I could do anything that I wanted on my land. Oh, and by the way, what happens when you don't follow the laws of the land? Oh, thats right, you end up in jail. So if I had any intention of enjoying the property that I worked so hard to possess, it wouldn't be smart to break the laws. But, I figure as a college professor you would be able to see that.
The primary purpose of the Armed Forces is to prepare for and to prevail in combat should the need arise.
skydyvr 0
QuoteI'm sure you'd rather Georgie be teaching physics though... "today we're going to be learning about nukular physics boys and girls,
Hee hee, that made my day. Bush's constant mispronunciation of nuclear has always made my eyes roll. You'd think an advisor or someone would help him get it right.
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rehmwa 2
QuoteIt really scares me that you are involved in the education of youg people.
Kallend teaches the hard sciences, not political science. I understand he is excellent at it. And some of the simple quizzes and insight even on this site bears that out.
And I am sure he is professional enough to keep the two separated. I've never seen any indication he'd do otherwise.
Let's keep off the personal attacks.
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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants
kallend 2,027
Quote*** If I want to buy a piece of land and burn it to the ground, as long as I am within the laws of the land, then it is my right.
snip for brevity
But, I figure as a college professor you would be able to see that.
But your statement is absurd if it is meant to differentiate the USA from anywhere else. Anyone in any nation can do what they want within the laws of their land.
I have no agenda concerning toxic waste dumps or pot growing. They were EXAMPLES of things you can't do on your own property because the government won't let you.
Another example is that the government will not allow your doctor to prescribe certain drugs for you even if the doctor believes that is in your best interest as a patient. That, IMO, is a clear intrusion of the government in places it should not go.
"The government is best which governs least."
-- Thomas Jefferson
I truly believe that to be the case. And right now, we do not have that.
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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
benny 0
QuoteQuoteI'm sure you'd rather Georgie be teaching physics though... "today we're going to be learning about nukular physics boys and girls,
Hee hee, that made my day. Bush's constant mispronunciation of nuclear has always made my eyes roll. You'd think an advisor or someone would help him get it right.
Well I'm sure it helps him to connect with all the Nascar fans.
Never go to a DZ strip show.
QuoteQuoteI'm sure you'd rather Georgie be teaching physics though... "today we're going to be learning about nukular physics boys and girls,
Hee hee, that made my day. Bush's constant mispronunciation of nuclear has always made my eyes roll. You'd think an advisor or someone would help him get it right.
Oh man...that did make me literally LOL, as much as I hate that acronym....I'm still chuckling.
But mayors who say "screw the law" and allow gay couples to marry are a GREAT example of what I was getting at.
I'll let MLK Answer that one,
"In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
Word!
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Or along those lines, and to paraphrase since I don't feel like finding the exact quote...
If you find a law to be unjust, you have a moral obligation to break that law and suffer the consequences.
-Henry David Theoreau
If you find a law to be unjust, you have a moral obligation to break that law and suffer the consequences.
-Henry David Theoreau
QuoteQuoteI'm sure you'd rather Georgie be teaching physics though... "today we're going to be learning about nukular physics boys and girls,
Hee hee, that made my day. Bush's constant mispronunciation of nuclear has always made my eyes roll. You'd think an advisor or someone would help him get it right.
I think that he does it to irk his critics. Check out that teeny sneer and twinkle in his eye when he says it.
never pull low......unless you are
kallend 2,027
QuoteOr along those lines, and to paraphrase since I don't feel like finding the exact quote...
If you find a law to be unjust, you have a moral obligation to break that law and suffer the consequences.
-Henry David Theoreau
I find discrimination against gays to be unjust, but I feel no moral obligation whatever to try to marry another man.
If Thoreau actually said that, I'm sorry but I disagree.
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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
kallend 2,027
QuoteQuoteQuoteI'm sure you'd rather Georgie be teaching physics though... "today we're going to be learning about nukular physics boys and girls,
Hee hee, that made my day. Bush's constant mispronunciation of nuclear has always made my eyes roll. You'd think an advisor or someone would help him get it right.
I think that he does it to irk his critics. Check out that teeny sneer and twinkle in his eye when he says it.
I thought it was a Yale thing - his dad says it too.
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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
JohnRich 4
QuoteQuoteI don't think I've ever heard Kallend say anything positive. He seems to specialize in sitting back and sniping at others.
And it's a wonderful thing to have freedom of speech, although apparently you only like it for people that share your views.
Can you point to any message I've ever written in which I suggest that someone should be silenced?
This is another one of your common tactics; trying to impugn someone's credibility with unsubstantiated allegations.
Your failure to provide a reference to support your allegation, will be taken as proof that your allegation is unfounded.
Yeah, I don't like your sniping. But I don't try to silence you because of it. You only hurt your own reputation by doing it. And that is evidenced by the responses you're getting right here in this thread. Everyone sees with their own eyes the way you always try to find negatives in everything, and rarely participate in any other manner. If that's what you want to be known for, you are welcome to continue to have at it.
JohnRich 4
QuotePersonally, I think that the following, which John apparently thinks is great, is one of the most negative things I've ever seen:
Would you care to tell us what part of that you deem to be negative, and why?
Or is everyone just supposed to take your word for it and declare you victor?
pdj6p 0
I am glad I live in a country that has so many cool skydivers in it.
Hey Nathan are you back in the states and if so will you be jumping in mesquite any time soon?
Death is so permanant, and I'm just not ready for that kind of committment.
Hey Nathan are you back in the states and if so will you be jumping in mesquite any time soon?
Death is so permanant, and I'm just not ready for that kind of committment.
JohnRich 4
QuoteQuoteIf you find a law to be unjust, you have a moral obligation to break that law and suffer the consequences.
-Henry David Theoreau
If Thoreau actually said that, I'm sorry but I disagree.
So you think that men like Martin Luther King and Ghandi were wrong to defy unjust, discriminatory, laws?
Escaped slaves were law-breakers.
Martin Luther King was a law-breaker.
Mahatma Ghandi was a law-breaker.
Rosa Parks was a law-breaker.
Henry David Thoreau was a law-breaker.
The way unjust laws are overturned is when enough brave people dare to break those unjust laws. I'm glad that people like this chose to break the law.
Ghandi Speaks: (quote)
I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed
to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.
Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.
But I believe non-violence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment. ...But... forgiveness only when there is the power to punish... A mouse hardly forgives a cat when it allows itself to be torn to pieces by her. I therefore appreciate the sentiment of those who cry out for the condign punishment of General Dyer (responsible for massacre at Jallianwala Bagh April 13,1919) and his ilk. They would tear him to pieces if they could. But I do not believe India to be a helpless creature. Only, I want to use India's and my strength for a better purpose.
...Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.... We in India may in a moment realize that one hundred thousand Englishmen need not frighten three hundred million human beings. A definite forgiveness would, therefore, mean a definite recognition of our strength.... It matters little to me that for the moment I do not drive my point home. We feel too downtrodden not to be angry and revengeful. But I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment. We have better work to do, a better mission to deliver to the world.
Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962. pp. 156-57.
skydyvr 0
QuoteQuote
If Thoreau actually said that, I'm sorry but I disagree.
So you think that men like Martin Luther King and Ghandi were wrong to defy unjust, discriminatory, laws?
Do you believe the mayor of SF is correct in ignoring state laws against marrying gays?
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QuoteDo you believe the mayor of SF is correct in ignoring state laws against marrying gays?
I believe he is correct in obeying the state's mandate against discrimination based on sexual orientation.
AirCav 0
Quote:.........."today we're going to be learning about nukular physics boys and girls,
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Nuclear is mispronounced by many.
The first time I really paid any attention to it was when another US president pronounced it nukular.
Yes and Jimmy Carter was in the "NUKULAR NAVY"
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Nuclear is mispronounced by many.
The first time I really paid any attention to it was when another US president pronounced it nukular.
Yes and Jimmy Carter was in the "NUKULAR NAVY"
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Oh man...it wasn't good enough to compare GWB to Clinton, now we have to go all the way back to Carter to find a Dem who makes the same mistakes as him?
AirCav 0
No I wasn't comparing anyone.
Benny made fun of GWB for saying nukular as if somehow it was a big deal.
Carter was in the nuclear Navy and still couldn't pronounce it.
Benny made fun of GWB for saying nukular as if somehow it was a big deal.
Carter was in the nuclear Navy and still couldn't pronounce it.
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