Posts by Hittman

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What can be done about those who go berserk with a gun?

by badboy in

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i don't really understand the phenonoma.. .

Hittman

The USA currently has more firearms related deaths per person than any other developed country.

I love that phrase. It sounds so impressive.
Of course, half those deaths are suicides, and it's already been pointed out that most of the rest of them are drug related.

Man's home gets broken into, cops don't do crap, he protects his family, he gets fined.

Could be worse – it could be the UK. If you defend yourself with a gun in England, you can expect to spend more time in prison than your attacker.

In an international league table of murders with firearms per capita the UK is ranked 32nd with a score of 0.00102579 per 1,000 people. Right down there with New Zealand etc.

Once again, we see the lovely trick of specifying murders with firearms, ignoring the actual murder rate. I supposed a murder victim might feel better being killed with a pointed stick than with a gun. But then, England has become such a nutty nanny nation they're actually selling knives without useful points on them, so that no one can get all stabbby with them.

http://www.davehitt.com/blog2/pointless-invention/
source: Seventh United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems

Oh, well the UN! Of course, nothing wrong with them. No sir, they're all for individual freedoms. And they *never fudge their numbers. Yep, no problem there.
Wow. I thought this was america.

It stopped being American a while ago. It's now the United States, which is still a pretty cool place, but the United Statists here have made America a fond memory. And they're working hard to destroy whatever traces of it are left.

Here's the deal, lefties. Americans like guns. And we're not going to give them up. And the constitution says we don't have to. (Not that the government pays any attention to the constitution.) And the history of any given despot always starts with disarming the public. And hundreds of thousands of lives are saved every year by people defending themselves and their property with guns.

Read the writings of the founding fathers.

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"Men of JWN: The 2010 Calendar"! Anyone in??

by Kudra in

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this was jokingly mentioned in another thread.... i think it would be great to do it- just in time for x-mas gifts!!!.

what better to give your fave aposta-buddy than a scintillating men of jwn calendar??.

a women of jwn calendar??.

Hittman

The banana shot is the best so far.

I like the apocalyptic mode, Mastodon. Maybe all the pictures should have really scary backgrounds. Or just be scary in general:

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"He was really smart. Smart people leave all the time" <- Unwitting Witness Tells The Truth

by gubberningbody in

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how many of you have heard this one, or words to that effect?.

Hittman

When I was on my way out my mother was dying of cancer. She said, "I wish you weren't so smart so it would be easier for you to accept The Truth."

That really struck me hard. Not in a bad way. I immediately translated it to "The Truth is for stupid people."

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Did you find out the hard way the advice - NEVER leave your

by hamsterbait in

never ever leaveyour child alone with a jw?.

i have friends who left their daughter over a weekend with her cousins.

she came back with crying fits, nightmares and general nervousness about the world ending.

Hittman

I'm sorry hamsterbait while the other experiences here have a ring of truth to them yours sounds completely made up,

Funny how people In The Truth can't handle regular old garden variaty truth.

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Teacher Who Humiliated Kid With Autism Gets Her Job Back (WTF????)

by Yizuman in

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i know there was a thread here about this story and i cannot find it.. anyway, here's a follow up story: http://www.disaboom.com/blogs/disabled_politico/archive/2009/06/11/teacher-who-let-students-quot-vote-out-quot-5-year-old-boy-with-asperger-s-syndrome-gets-her-job-back.aspx.

wendy portillo, the kindergarten teacher infamous for permitting neurotypical students to vote a boy with a form of autism out of her class, will keep both her contract with the st. lucie county school district and her tenured status after a unanimous vote by the school board.

portillo is "overjoyed" by the ruling and hopes to return to teaching.. .

Hittman

Yep, unions for sure, gutlessness on the part of the school board as well.

Arn't government schools just wonderful?

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American cities to be 'pruned'?

by besty in

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5516536/us-cities-may-have-to-be-bulldozed-in-order-to-survive.html.

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dozens of us cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic "shrink to survive" proposals being considered by the obama administration to tackle economic decline.

Hittman

The government looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint

Oh no, they're bringing in Pioneers! That will drive everyone away for sure.

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Family Outraged After Officer Shoots Their Dog

by Yizuman in

source: http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story/family-outraged-after-officer-shoots-their-dog/s8gbe4dfteigqcubvdkuza.cspx.

reported by: lynn giroud.

photographed by: jeremy glover.

Hittman

Google "Cop Kills Dog." They do this all the time. It's practice for people, who they also shoot fairly often, and they nearly always get away with that, so they've got nothing to fear when gunning down your family pet.

Got trouble? Whatever you do, don't call the cops.

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The young ones are leaving in droves!!!

by 1914BS in

i hear that many congos are loosing all their young dubs and now only very old dubs are left.

it seems the jws religion is dying out because there are no youngins to replace the aging ms/elder/cos .

the young dubs are very internet savy and would rather play warcraft than go out in the field circus.. i remember a wt study article a couple of years ago that was entitled" when a young person rebels" or something like that - anyone know that mag?.

Hittman

In the sixties and seventies, when I grew up in the dubs, we didn't know what was going in the outside world. We weren't given any chances to have any outside friends. My only exposure to the outside world was via science fiction and music, and I had to sneak listening to the music.

Now the whole outside world, all the good and the bad, is a mouse click away. Making friends in the real world is easy.

I think the internet is going to be the eventual death of not just the JayDubs, but cults of all sorts. Once they see the big city it's hard to keep 'em down on the farm.

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Did you like 80's music?

by John Doe in

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i was unaware that don johnson was a singer.

i came across this, and couldn't help laughing.

there was certainly a lot of emotion in this genre, but this is intense enough to border on comedy.

Hittman

I love 80's music, but not video that opened this thread.

I like the pop bands, especallly the cheesy girl bands. But I especially like the art rock and progressive jazz of the era. Ambrosia (their first album), Crack the Sky, Camel, Marrilion, early Genius, U.K., and on the jazz front things like Return to Forever (actually wore out my first vinyl copy of "Where have I known you before), Herbie Hancock, David Sanchez and the like.

Hair bands were a joke. Fun, but dumb.

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Favorite Cult Movies

by I quit! in

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its getting close to assembly time and my wife will be heading up to salt lake to attend the assembly there with her relatives so i will be on my own for a week.

i'm lining up my favorite cult movies to watch while she is away.

here are some of my favorites: the meaning of life, idiocracy, swingers, ghost world.

Hittman

Great list – I forgot about some of them.

Blade Runner is at the top of my list. Roy's short final speech is the finest death scene ever put to film.

I'm surprised no one mentioned The Princess Bride. I brought that home when I my twins were twelve, and sat them down to watch it. They were a little disgusted when I told them it was about a princess, and wanted to get up during the opening scenes with Peter Falk. By the time the move was finished they were enthralled, and have probably watched it a few hundred times (really) since then.

Try "Nobody's Fool", a forgotten little move staring Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Melanie Griffith, Bruce Willis, and Philip Seymour Hoffman before anyone had heard of him. It captures life in a dying Upstate New York town *perfectly.* Buy the DVD (you can find it in the cheepie bins) because you're going to watch it over and over.

I'm also surprised that "The Crow" isn't on anyone's list. Great, great movie that works on a half dozen different levels.