What made you smile today?

I am opposed to the death penalty.

Btw, none of this bullshit is making me smile.

Maybe we can turn it to about gums..

exactly right. This used to be a pleasant place to wander - before the gun dickhead came in.

I've decided - David adds no joy at all to my use of A2K and adds considerably to my irritation and my poor view of Americans.

I presume he's an elderly, demented git - although he makes copious mentions of Mensa. His pre-occupation with guns I find totally sickening and just incomprehensible. He has totally fucked up this thread.

Off to improve my A2K usage.

I think of Mensa as I do of getting into Who's Who, not a feat.

But, Margo, you make me smile when I see you post, or at least tweak a minigrin.

I made a cold caller irritated today. That made me smile. I've been getting calls from 'Microsoft Analysts' who want to fix problems that I didn't know I had on my computer. I've asked them to stop calling, but they call me about 4 times a week. Today, another man with an Indian Accent called claiming he was a Microsoft tech who had been alerted to a horrendous computer problem that could destroy me and he needed my cooperation to fix my damaged internet.

I decided, screw it, these guys are calling are so often, the real Microsoft tells you to hang up. However, I've been hanging up for months and they still haven't stopped calling. I've begun a new approach, last week I kept the guy on the line and pretended to be cooperating. He would ask me to do things on my computer.....and I'd tell him I had, (even though I didn't). So I kept him on the phone, pretending to follow his instructions, but never giving him correct answers. I could tell he was getting annoyed, but I played dumb, and he became enraged. He got so frustrated, he hung up on me. Essentially because I wouldn't help him steal all my money. I know that for him it had to suck dealing with me. But if someone calls asking for unregulated access to my internet program or passwords or other ways to drain any accounts, I'm going to waste their time as long as I can, the longer they talk to me, the less time they have to rip off students or widowers, widows or whoever they target as a mark.

So it made me smile, however, David, you and the gun stuff have to go.

I get lots of unwanted calls. Hopefully, that will end after the election, but at least they did help with the decision on the US Senate vote. Each champions a cause of which I approve, and each opposes the other.

I'm voting against the one that calls one to three times daily. Can't sit here and waste their time, though. It's always a recording.

OK; next:
do u remember a case of the 1960s (approximately) of one Rosa Parks
concerning which the USSC held that by reason of "equal protection
of the laws" the US Constitution did not permit States or municipalities
to discriminate among the citizens qua a few moments of seating on a bus?? Did that case make u smile,
or did u reject its holding, Andy??

IF I were u, I 'd put me on Ignore, Margo.

U 'd probably be happier.





David

It has a lot of Special Interest Groups of most varied different subjects;
e.g., about 3O or 35 years ago, I began a group to enjoy the best
restaurants of NY and of traveling elsewhere. I 'm glad I joined.
Any member is free to begin a group of his interest and
to post it in the local social calendar; it will thrive or fail
depending on its popularity with the other members.
It has many Regional Gatherings with interesting speakers
and the Annual Gathering for Nationwide Conventions in cities
like New York, Boston, Chicago, Orlando, New Orleans & Las Vegas
+ occasional topic-oriented seminars, like astro-physics, cosmology
and the mental foundation of humor. U attend the ones that grab u.
After a while, u have made a lot of friends thru the years, decades n centuries.
I have found lovers of personal freedom to be disproportionately well represented.
Everything considered: its a lot of FUN





David

I have no idea what you're driving at, David, but -- OK -- I'll play your silly game. I supported and welcomed that Supreme Court decision. What's your point?

Dave thought that Rosa shoulda been packin somethin sweet like a 44 cal S&W. Nobodyd **** with her on the bus.

Got my flu shot at work, paid for by the company.

You're real easy to please Sir George.

That's what it says in the ladies' room.

Rehearsal dinner tonight

My point is that it is a relatively trivial application
of the Constitutional duty of "equal protection of the laws"
for a few moments of seating on a bus IF when Rosa dismounts
from that bus a pack of dogs (or KKK) tears her and rends her asunder
because the same governments discriminated against her
in denying her legal possession of defensive emergency equipment,
in violation of her 2nd Amendment rights combined with her right
to "equal protection of the law". Which woud SHE deem to be more
important: saving her from carnage, or a few minutes of seating???
Which right counts for MORE??

The innermost essence of licensure is discrimination
favoring those who HAVE a license over those who don t.
A license to have a gun is a license to LIVE in the face of predatory violence.
Remember that gun control had its genesis in keeping the black race (slaves and/or ex-slaves) defenseless.
The first gun control laws were FACIALLY racist, to suppress slave rebellions.
More of them ensued after the Civil War, qua the black race.

In America, EVERYONE has protection from the Supreme Law of the Land
and its Bill of Rights, not just an elite of favored few.

This is not Japan and we do not have a specially privileged Samurai class
who are free to defend themselves, as distinct from the great un-washed,
whether u are a rich W.A.S.P. banker or a poor shoeshine boy,
u have an equal right to survive predatory violence.

THAT is my "silly game" argument, Andy.

Do u wish to discriminate against the shoeshine boy???????
How much LESS is he worth than the banker???
I say he is EQUAL. U can say that I 'm silly.

IF the banker can get machineguns,
can the shoeshine boy at least have one bullet
for his humble Derringer to defend HIS life ??





David

Good going, Dave. Now nobody on this thread will ever smile again. Congrats.

Comment on the merits of the discrimination arguments, please.

ERRATUM:
" This is not Japan and we do not have a specially privileged Samurai class
who are free to defend themselves, as distinct from the great un-washed,
whether u are a rich W.A.S.P. banker or a poor shoeshine boy,
u have an equal right to survive predatory violence "
was accidentally rendered as a run-on sentence.
Editing time expired before I detected the error.

It shud properly have been set forth as:

This is not Japan and we do not have a specially privileged Samurai class
who are free to defend themselves, as distinct from the great un-washed.

Whether u are a rich W.A.S.P. banker or a poor shoeshine boy,
u have an equal right to survive predatory violence.





David

Yeah. Some folks think that getting shot with a .44 can bring bad luck.





David