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Gun control = hitting what you're aiming at. ;)
Exactly. ;)
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Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on October 30, 2009, 09:45:20 PM
Gun control = hitting what you're aiming at. ;)
Gun control is 3 taps to the head, 3 to the throat and 3 to the heart, all in tight triangles!
I'd hate to be the guy who tried to date Scott's daughter............. if he had one. :laughhard:
Quote from: Sis on October 30, 2009, 11:26:31 PM
I'd hate to be the guy who tried to date Scott's daughter............. if he had one. :laughhard:
I think there is a reason I don't have daughters.... I want to kill the creeps that come around my neices
Hmmm...anyone else notice that?
John :waving:
Quote from: Scott on October 31, 2009, 03:25:26 AM
Quote from: Sis on October 30, 2009, 11:26:31 PM
I'd hate to be the guy who tried to date Scott's daughter............. if he had one. :laughhard:
I think there is a reason I don't have daughters, yet.... I want to kill the creeps that come around my neices
Quote from: Newsman on October 31, 2009, 10:09:16 PM
Hmmm...anyone else notice that?
John :waving:
Quote from: Scott on October 31, 2009, 03:25:26 AM
Quote from: Sis on October 30, 2009, 11:26:31 PM
I'd hate to be the guy who tried to date Scott's daughter............. if he had one. :laughhard:
I think there is a reason I don't have daughters, yet.... I want to kill the creeps that come around my neices
Proof of the liberal media conspiracy!!!!!
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Oooo... LOVE that third one, Sis!! :great:
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Doesn't it look like some thing Chris would do?
Yes, matter of fact, it does. :lol:
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I don't care for the idea of having handguns or guns for "safety" persay in the house but I do wish my family and I would learn to shoot in the case of ever being able to hunt. I've never been.
I don't have a gun, don't want one but I don't think everyone elses freedom should be quenched because I don't want one.
If for some reason we didn't have guns, which I do... and I love them... but if we didnt. How would protect our families from intruders... or bears? Throw acorns at them??? :-?
Yes I live up north and we have bears... lol... and giant fish, but no sharks!
Yes, the right to have an bear arms saves us from needing to booby trap our houses in the case of unwanted intruders.
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But if you ever do want to booby trap your house... I am the guy who knows how... :waving:
Lol... I am prior USAF, I live in Wisconsin where everyone owns a gun, and next to the UP of Michigan which has one of the largest, heavily armed militia's in the states... lol... nothing illegal though!!! :fork:
Hmmmm... air force, not sure how many booby traps help against air strikes..... LOL
My brother was in the USMC, probably knows a few good ones too. LOL
Don't have a gun, don't want one, but I'd put my life on the line to keep the right to have them. Just because we choose not to own them doesn't mean I think they all should be taken away.
DC has finally lifted the ban on owning guns for those who live in the city.
That is what the militia's are formed for, to make sure the gov't doesn't overstep boundaries assigned to it in the Constitution..
Unfortunately, militias have gotten a bad "rap" cause of a few whacko's... so now if you mention the word Militia or limited controlled government, people look at you like your a crazy.
The US was formed to get out from underneath a tyrannical gov't, and guns were a BIG part of that.
Throwing acorns at them would simply make them upset... lol
One of the first things Hitler did was disarm the public.
Quote from: Sis on February 14, 2010, 09:54:36 PM
One of the first things Hitler did was disarm the public.
I know this is not a political sounding board... so I won't take that any further... but Hitler also had the "Hitler Youth"... and wanted to get the kids involved in changing things around the country of Germany...
Sound remotely familiar to anything that has happened in the 'oh past 10 yrs here in America (broad enough so that I can't be said I am talking of anyone specific...)???
how about that mandatory community service idea... :o
Generation gaps should be quashed not encouraged. Ages and generations are meant to be meshed... people naturally occur in families, not in a government school setting with mob rule by 10 year olds who are oh-so-different and beneath the mighty 13 year old mob. Bring back the one room schoolhouse and homeschooling set ups... mingle the old and young, one of the best ways to learn is to teach. Instill respect for what has already been learned instead of encouraging each generation to reinvent the world... there is plenty of room for change but it should be with a knowledge and respect for history..... okay enough of my soapbox
Sometimes I get a hankering to have a gun but I think it would be more of a liability than an asset to me... too many crowded places and people... if I'm close enough to get a clear shot then I'm close enough for them to grab the gun. Also, I can just see rummaging for my phone in my purse and some old lady seeing the gun in my bag on the train :o actually I doubt there is any permit other than a cop's that would allow me to bring one on transit property anyway
Quote from: Amelia Bedelia on February 15, 2010, 03:41:34 AM
Bring back the one room schoolhouse and homeschooling set ups... mingle the old and young, one of the best ways to learn is to teach. Instill respect for what has already been learned instead of encouraging each generation to reinvent the world... there is plenty of room for change but it should be with a knowledge and respect for history..... okay enough of my soapbox
Great idea... and homeschoolers are known to do better in school, and graduate earlier than kids in Public School... but you have to have the support of both parents in that situation.
One parent needs to be at home with the kids schooling them, and one needs to be working... but that isn't so popular nowadays... (definitely the way to go though!)
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Sometimes I get a hankering to have a gun but I think it would be more of a liability than an asset to me... too many crowded places and people... if I'm close enough to get a clear shot then I'm close enough for them to grab the gun. Also, I can just see rummaging for my phone in my purse and some old lady seeing the gun in my bag on the train :o actually I doubt there is any permit other than a cop's that would allow me to bring one on transit property anyway
You in the NYC Metro area?
I used to go up there on Mission trips with a Non-denominational Youth Group before I got into a Oneness Church... we went into the Bronx in the winters and summers.
Handed out coats (over 3,000) and toys in the winters (over 30,000), and during the summer had a street closed down, and did a carnival... and then we'd go on the Subway and sing Praise songs while on the train, and go to Times Square, and other places and sing... it was fun stuff...
I remember it was originally got me interested in missions... it was a homeless man, I had never met one, I was 15 at the time. I didn't get into a Oneness Church for another 4 yrs, but God knows how to grab a hold of someone's heart... but that is another story for another time maybe... lol
Control the schools today, the guns tomorrow... what's next... Mind Control
"Mind control? They meant MIND control... Ohh... I thought they said Mime control... and just wanted to limit the number of street performers..." - Connie Kendal... Novacom Series : Adventures in Odyssey...
LOL allow me to introduce myself... I was homeschooled for my entire k-12, born and raised in North Carolina. Moved to New York a couple years ago... the conservative raising hasn't completely rubbed off yet.
the amount of homeless really will break your heart here.. and yet make one calloused :-?
Mind control is around: pop culture, subcultures (hipsters and etc.), brands... we've got a lot that subconsciously affects our decision making constantly. Marketing has it down to a science... use a different color on a product and people will flock to it, change the hue and suddenly its not as appealing. Its so easy to make us into puppets :o
Lol... I was homschooled from the middle of 5th grade till the middle of 7th... the AOG church that my mom and step-dad went to had this thing where everyone but the Pastor homeschooled their kids, and they all had like 5 or more kids.
So my mom and step-dad joined the band wagon... at first I didn't like being away from all of my friends at school, I was the class clown... (go figure... betcha couldn't of guessed that one...), and so I thought I would miss all the interactions, but we joined a few home school group, and got plenty of it!
Then my parents got strapped for cash, and decided to send us back to public school, so my mom could go back to work. That is worse than just leaving a kid in public school... two totally different cultures that don't mix. We were ill-prepared to go back to public school, and though I eventually got used to it... I always have said my kids, when and if I have them, will be home schooled... if I have anything to say about it!
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As far as the homeless go, it did break my heart to see it. A local street evangelist took 5 of us to the South Side, we took the subway, and we handed out tracts in some park. I met a homeless man, and we were inviting him to church, and asked for his address to fill out a prayer card, and he just looked at us and pointed to a cardboard box under a park bench... and said that was where he lived. He didn't ask us for money or anything, just matter a factly showed us his cardboard box.
I asked him why he didn't stay in a shelter, he said they were either worse than the park, or full.
There is more personal stuff to the story, but it affected me in a way, I still don't quite know how to express (and believe me, that is rare... I am usually good with words... Mr. Rich-in-words)(LOL...) the way I felt at that moment.
He showed his father's Bible, wrapped up in a plastic baggy... he knew his Bible too... I just couldn't comprehend how someone could not have a home. Still gets me to think about it... I dont know if that man froze in his sleep that winter, or if he made it to an alter somehow...
I know homschooling is :offtopic: but to add to the :pwink:
Thank you so much, AB and YYD, for saying that. This is my kids' first year of hs, and my husband lost his job last fall. God has provided and He will continue to, but it is a consideration we have of me having to get a job. If I do and the kids' have to go back, it'll be my son's 1st year of jr.high. Not a fun yr to go back on.
I was hs. and put back in ps. then homeschooled and put back, my whole school career was rocky. I went to 11 different schools, counting homeschooling as 1. Changing schools is tough and I've been trying to weigh it. Your posts helped, thank you!
Amelia, my little Hannah is quite the sanguine and I want to make sure she doesn't lose her pep from homeschooling, your personality on GP encourages me that she won't. Thanks!
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The best thing(s) I found about Homeschooling is that :
a. The parents control the environment their children are raised in, and the experiences they have. They can decide when to expose the kids to different controversial topics that have real impacts on young kids.
b. If you join one or more home school groups, your kids can be just as socialized as you would hope they can be.
c. Everything and everywhere you go is part of the schooling process. I didn't like it so much all the time, but vacations had educational benefits, and eventually I became "ok" with writing an essay on the
animals at the Zoo we went to on vacation. But it counted towards my schooling...
d. P.E. can be as simple as going to the "Bowling Alley" during the day, when the music is low, and no drunks hanging out... and the prices are cheap too... or simply going for a family bike ride down a nature trail.
e. You have more time with your kids. I cherish the moments that I had with my mom, even though most of the time she was trying to pull out her hair cause of me... lol. Once I went PS again, that was gone, and when I turned 15, I began to work, and was never really around from then to when I graduated at 17, and left for the USAF at 18... and am now 26, and only go back occasionally.
f. You have more ability to travel places with your kids, I think if the mom Home school's the kids, sometimes the dad's get jealous cause he is at work, while Mom and the kids are out doing stuff. But there were times where we would go places, and the only schedule that mattered was his... that was cool. Wish my parents were more impromptu about that... lol
And there are lots more I am sure... but can't think of them now...
Quote from: YooperYankDude on February 15, 2010, 12:10:02 AM
Quote from: Sis on February 14, 2010, 09:54:36 PM
One of the first things Hitler did was disarm the public.
I know this is not a political sounding board... so I won't take that any further... but Hitler also had the "Hitler Youth"... and wanted to get the kids involved in changing things around the country of Germany...
Sound remotely familiar to anything that has happened in the 'oh past 10 yrs here in America (broad enough so that I can't be said I am talking of anyone specific...)???
You mean Hitler was like your youth pastor JKJK :P
LOL... well I guess I asked for that one... lol... :pound: yooper... sorry dear old Youth Pastor... lol
Quote from: MellowYellow on February 15, 2010, 08:27:08 PM
I know homschooling is :offtopic: but to add to the :pwink:
Thank you so much, AB and YYD, for saying that. This is my kids' first year of hs, and my husband lost his job last fall. God has provided and He will continue to, but it is a consideration we have of me having to get a job. If I do and the kids' have to go back, it'll be my son's 1st year of jr.high. Not a fun yr to go back on.
I was hs. and put back in ps. then homeschooled and put back, my whole school career was rocky. I went to 11 different schools, counting homeschooling as 1. Changing schools is tough and I've been trying to weigh it. Your posts helped, thank you!
Amelia, my little Hannah is quite the sanguine and I want to make sure she doesn't lose her pep from homeschooling, your personality on GP encourages me that she won't. Thanks!
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Aww thanks - MY you'll do great! There are so many more support systems in place than when my mom or your mom was starting out - take advantage of it all. Also, don't beat yourself up if you're not super disciplined. You'll hear the stories of the super-homeschoolers up at 5am, chores done and spotless house by 6:30 and then nonstop school until 11:30 when the kids cook a gourmet lunch... don't be intimidated and don't try to be like them :o LOL
My mom was waaaay laid back - we taught ourselves. Learning how to learn, how to hunt for and acquire knowledge rather than react to what a teacher feeds you and retain info only for tests and not substance and concepts, was a plus in my view
Quote from: Amelia Bedelia on February 16, 2010, 12:54:35 AM
we taught ourselves. Learning how to learn, how to hunt for and acquire knowledge rather than react to what a teacher feeds you and retain info only for tests and not substance and concepts, was a plus in my view
Yeah. That.
:highfive: for all the homeschoolers within reach
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Homeschoolers rock! :great:
Homesteaded and/or a good christian private school is the only way to go. :great:
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Wonders if this thread spawned the new look for AB... LOL