Jack Burton

Chico Enterprise-Record

Student expelled for having unloaded shotguns in truck

Guns owners are disrespectful of authority. A failure to rely on authorities is an invariable sign of improper and overly independent attitudes. The mere fact that they gather together to talk about guns at gun shops, gun shows, shooting ranges, and on the internet means that they have some plot going against us normal people. A gun owner has no right to associate with another gun owner. Therefore, to help ensure our right to happiness and safety we must ban and seize all guns from private hands, and forbid NRA-based criticism towards people who are only trying to help. Searching the homes of all NRA members for any guns and pro-gun literature will go a long way towards reducing crime. If we need help doing this we can invite people like the Australians and Norwegians to help rummage through people's property. Common sense requires only uniformed soldiers, police, and other agents of the state have access to firearms, and think of all the money we can save by just taking away the guns from priate owners and giving them to the military and police. No person should be able to challenge this by writing to Congress or the President. If they do they should be forced in court to admit to it and then fined a hundred million dollars for each time. Subjecting them to torture will probably change their minds. Making it mandatory that church ministers preach against guns or else they can't get licensed will certainly force the church folk onto our side. People who don't like all this prove they are on the side of the killers with the guns and should be put in jail along side all the gangbangers and other gun nuts. Letting them sit in jail for a few years before they are charged will give the government plenty of time to find something wrong in their lives. Anything they say, write, or express should be held against them to prove their guilt. We should bring all of them here to Chicago to be tried by Mayor Daly, and we should allow only mothers who have lost children to gunfire to be on the juries. Any attorney who tries to defend them should be arrested also. If we don't get the right verdict the first time we can just keep trying them until we do. No woman needs to protect herself from rape, assault or murder and should just leave crime prevention to the Police who are properly equipped to investigate following the crime's completion. Women using a gun in self-defense interferes with and makes the attempted crime a "non-event, " which unnecessarily complicates the Police investigation. Any woman who does this should be put in jail for interfering with an investigation. If someone still really, really thinks they have a need for a gun in their home for protection then the Army should just force them to host and feed some armed soldiers. Those who claim that the 2nd amendment was given to because we might someday need guns to use against an oppressive government forget that Constitution has strong internal safeguards to protect our freedoms. So there! Long live our Constitution!  (Nov 23, 2009 | post #384)

Brattleboro Reformer

In praise of leaf mold

Each year I stuff as many leaves as I can into a 4 X 4 X 4 chicken wire bin, along with about a pound of free starbucks used coffee grounds for every couple of bushels of leaves. I'll even get into the bin and stomp on the leaves to squeeze as many as I can into it. If it's a dry fall I'll add additional water to the pile. It pretty much freezes over in the winter so I ignore it. When April comes it begins to thaw out and I'll turn it over once. By then it has reduced to about half the size it started with. From then until next October I'll add kitchen veggie waste, yard trimmings, and other stuff as found, and turn over about two more times. By mid-October, just as the leaves are ready in the yard to put into the bin, I'll take what is in the bin and spread it out about four inches on the veggie garden. By next May when I get ready to plant, it has disappeared into the soil. We've done this for almost 20 years now and I can honestly say the soil is beautiful. Dark brown, easy to work, and I never need to till it at all. And it all started with some pretty heavily compacted clay that dried as hard as brick in the hot summers.  (Oct 30, 2009 | post #1)

Minnesota

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We have such a terrible problem with that in our town. Why, every day that goes by we have at least a dozen cops just randomly shooting up the town -- nothing is safe... dogs... mailboxes... cars... windows... telephone poles... even people.  (Oct 28, 2009 | post #385)

Minnesota

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Classic case of "projection. " She knows that she can't keep control of her emotions and feelings so she assumes that everyone else is a spineless weaking like her in order for her ego to tolerate her own being.  (Oct 28, 2009 | post #384)

Minnesota

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The little piggy who built the brick house had the satisfaction of watching the big bad wolf cook up in the soup pot over the fireplace. But I do have to wonder why you hate women so much.  (Oct 28, 2009 | post #383)

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From the hysterical nature of her first rants I assumed she was a female type poster and she's never corrected me.  (Oct 27, 2009 | post #371)

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I have to admit it was pretty funny. She came on tonight with her trash talking to put me down, thinking she was going to show everyone just how it was done. Until she met someone who really knows how to play the game. But if you actually read my posts I really didn't say anything that cruel or vicious to her... just a bit of deflection here and there and some on-the-point mocking. The worst thing I called her was that she might be a potential sock puppet. But I knew she'd break like a china doll -- she always had that brittleness to her posts that showed she was on the edge the whole time. I'd much rather talk about guns and gunowners, and explain to those who have questions why we do what we do... but if someone is going to attempt to make me the issue... I'll be happy to go along with them. If they are willing to pay the price, that is.  (Oct 27, 2009 | post #369)

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I suggest when you come back next time you might want to use a different name. This one is pretty much done for.  (Oct 27, 2009 | post #366)

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Poor little lab ratt. She came on here with her first post tonight thinking she was full of p1ss and vinegar and had to slink out the back door with her tail between her legs like a beaten dog. "U squat 2 p" -- oh my... I am mortified. I can just imagine the rage in her face... the reddend cheeks, the spittle flying and landing on the screen, and the pounding of her chubby little fingers on the keyboard as she wracks her brain to come up with the ultimate insult... the one that is going to put me in my place for all time -- U squat 2 p. I have found my Post of the Year already. Nothing, and I mean nothing, is going to be able to top that one. It's the Mona Lisa of posts. The pyramids, the Leaning Tower, and Gateway Arch all rolled into one. Must be tough going to bed knowing that the internet world is laughing at you, eh, lab ratt? I suggest when you come back next time you might want to use a different name. This one is pretty much done for. u squat 2 p... :-)  (Oct 27, 2009 | post #362)

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Perhaps a cluuue as to the "real lab ratt" eh. What do you think, Dear Readers? 10th grade at most? It's been awhile since my girls were young teens so it's harder for me to judge. Maybe even as young as 8th? I mean, come on... who would say that other than an adolescent girl. :-)  (Oct 27, 2009 | post #361)

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Poor little cupcake. Still trying to make it all about me after she was slapped down for her silly comments and ad hominem attacks. And all the while the Dear Readers just shake their heads at her willingness to surrender any crediblity she might have had at one time.  (Oct 27, 2009 | post #360)

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Poor lab ratt... that's the very best she can do... but she tries hard, eh. The Dear Readers can hardly blame her for not wanting to post about CCW anymore since her sillyness and ignorance about firearms was exposed to the world. :-)  (Oct 27, 2009 | post #358)

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Poor little snookums. Still trying to make it all about me after she was slapped down for her silly comments and ad hominem attacks. And all the while the Dear Readers just shake their heads at her willingness to surrender any crediblity she might have had at one time. :-) Just for the record... ~what~ was that "lie" that you attempted to claim that you first posted about? Was that your sock puppet that got insulted? Or do you often wake up in bed with someone not your husband at 8 AM in the morning?  (Oct 27, 2009 | post #357)

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And that's the best she can do, eh...  (Oct 27, 2009 | post #353)

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Your buddy claimed that law enforcement officials across the known universe (not just MN) were against CCW. That was ignorant. Do you dispute that? And I would hold that Joel Rosenberg can certainly give you many, many police officers in MN that are solidly in favor of CCW. Do you dispute that?  (Oct 27, 2009 | post #350)