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He was way more liberal than most Christians these days. Folks really need to lay off the whole old testament you'll-burn-in-hell schtick and get down with the judge not..., do unto others... program. Ol' J was all about the love. New Testament 4 Life. This.

I had to do a little research to even find out who owned it so my offer to buy was out of the blue for sure. I think he figures since I approached him the seller sets the price. The truth is it's worthless to him and I think he figures it's worth something to me so he's playing a little hardball. However, he's wrong, this is one of those things that might be nice but no big deal if it dosen't happen. Either way, $9K is all I can pay without mortgaging the lot and I don't want to do that. I explianed my reasons and the issues with the property. He told me he'd think it over. Whatever heppens, happens. I am looking to do a little real estate investing this year anyway. I was looking at a house in Covington that was on sale for only $20k on a 220X140 lot (about average sized). In good shape it's worth about $70k but this place hasn't seen "good shape" since before the turn of the century. I'm going to meet the realtor up there tomorrow to see what all is wrong. Maybe I can fix it up. I've gotten pretty good at that kind of thing over the past few years.

Just my $.02 but from what you said she sounds very comfortable over facebook, IMs/etc but not so much face to face. It sounds like she is not accustomed to dealing with real people who are right in front of her. I've heard this is becoming fairly common amonst younger people, girls in particular. It is more likely that she is self concious of her own social skills rather than anything you are doing wrong. If that is the case then I suggest double dating with two of yours or her friends to take some of the pressure off of her. See how that works then try for some alone time afterwards. Above all keep it light and fun especially in the beginning. There will be plenty of time for heavy relationship stuff later.

Not Vinyard, Moonshine! Good Tennessee river bottom land, that is what its good for. I'll plant corn and sorgum for the mash up by the house and build a still by the river! Kidding of course. I would like to build a dock to fish from plus the plot is a natrual flood barrier for Cold Creek and I'd like to ensure it never gets developed which would increase the chance of my place flooding. I sent him a email explaing why I was not going to meet his price and how I came up with 9K. Another 10 acre plot closer to Raliegh Millington Pike (the nearest hard road) sold for $4800 per last November. And it is ready to build. This patch of dirt has the river and the Hatche Management area on one side, and me on the other. He cannot develop the lot unless I grant an easement for utility access and if he is a total A-Hole about this I will not be inclined to ever do that.

Most excellent Mes!

Now reading The African Queen by CS Forrester. He is really famous for his Horatio Hornblower novels but this one was he best in my opinion. It never recieved much love even after it was made into an excellent movie by the same name in the '50s. Also reading Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. There is just something about Papa Hemingways stories that I have always found appealing.

Last month I made an offer to buy a small (2 acre) plot of land next to me. I heard nothing for months then today got a counter. It's wooded, isolated, has no hard road access or utility access unless I grant an easement, and to top it all of it's not even level (not by a long shot). I offered $9K, $4500 per acre. That is more than generous because lots without all of those issues are going for that price. The owner countered with $14K. He can go pound sand for that price. Oh well. Cold Creek runs along it's entire southern border and thats where I go fishing and I had a few ideas for that land.

Apparently I missed out on the best parts of Mkrekus posts. But from what I glean from whats left he made a nonsensical argument by taking my example to an extreme and using the exteme to disqualify my argument (that is actually what a "strawman" is by the way). I could counter by saying that since he is in favor of gay marriage he must also in favor of an adult male marrying a young boy since after all they are both male. You see the problem here Mkreku? No, you probably don't. This thread has grown pretty tiresome for me so this will be my last post and I'll end it but saying this: There are two kinds of people in this world. One group desires nothing more than to live their lives as best they can in peace and with the freedom to do what makes them happy. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I am certain I've read that somewhere. The second group is watching the first group in a trembling rage because the first group, in the process of living their lives, is doing something the people in the second group don't like. The people in the second group will do anything to force the people in the first group to behave in a way they think they should. They will use rhetoric, laws, guns, they will strap on bombs and blow themselves up. The people in the second group are a pretty disparate bunch, from the religious zealot burning an abortion clinic, to the muslim terrorist, to the lone nut job banging away on his computer keyboard (Mkreku, Oblarq, LoF). The one thing they all have in common is they think they know better how you should be living your life than you do. And nothing makes them madder that when you deny them, or disagree with them. Most of it is pretty tame. They just use language to insult and belittle. Notice the really insulting posts in the two communist threads have been directed at those who oppose communisim or follow a religion. But it is just a very small step to shooting and that is why the worst atrocities in history are comitted by the people in group 2. Small wonder they are so attracted to totalitarian styles of governance like communisim and it's ugly kid sister socialisim. No thanks, not for me.

Hunting, self defense, target shooting, collecting (I have three antiques one of which saw actual service with the Union Navy during the Civil War, it is priceless). I don't like this whole conept of someone else telling me "No you can't do/have/say/think/read/believe this thing because "I" don't think you should!" You are simply imposing you will or morality on someone else using the law as a means of forcible coercion. If you are oppsed to firearm ownership, don't buy one. It is not for you to tell somone else what they can or cannot do. Personally I am against abortion but I do not think it should be illegal. I think it's immoral and would not participate in one without medical necessity but I believe everyone must decide for themselves what is right or wrong for them. If someone else decided to get one I would not stop them and I would try tp prevent someone else from stopping them even though I believe it's wrong. Personal freedom is the single most important thing in the world. We MUST all be free to choose our own path in life, even if it leads to ruin. Suppose i decided that the internet is a dangerous and immoral thing and that no one should have free unrestricted access to it? Now suppose I had the political power to impose that morality on everyone else, and did so? Do you think that would be a good thing? Even if you did not use the internet would it be a good thing? Try to cram this concept into that narrow little closed mind of yours, totalitarianisim is not much fun when you find yourself on the recieving end of it. And sooner or later, everyone under it does. Communisim IS totalitarian. Even Marx said it must be inescapable. Those fences and walls in Europe were meant to keep people in, not out. I strongly suggest you think about that.

Ok, you guys can just forget about Gun Control. The SCOTUS took that up in 2007 in DC v. Heller. The Court held that "the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that firearm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. The Court based its holding on the text of the Second Amendment, as well as applicable language in state constitutions adopted soon after the Second Amendment." Stare decisis. That is settled law. The government is not going to come take everyones guns away unless the hold a match to the Constitution first. It will be a generation or more before that issue is taken up again. The previous Gun Control ruling was in 1938. So forget about gun control. It will never happen. http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2007/2007_07_290

I haven't checked out the web site yet but I've got to agree with LoF (can you imagine that?) about WWI. In those days Europe was like a wolf pack with too many wolves in it. The only thing that might have changed would be who fought with who and when. The colonial disputes, strangulation of trade, etc would still be the central cause. The assasination was just the match that lit the powder. The powder was still there without it. What might have changed is the US involvement. The US was far more isolationist back then, and far less developed than Europe. Had the Zimmeman Incident not happened I believe the Lusitania would not have been enough for Congress to give Wilson a Declaration of War. If the US had remained neutral the outcome would have been the same, the isolationists would have been proven right, and the US Military would have missed out on 20 years of advancement and improvment. It would have made the US less likely to involve itself in WW2 and far less capable when it did. That would have made a big change in history.

Todays Results: Kelverin: 12-4 GD: 12-4 Volo: 10-6 End of Season Standings: Kelverin: 174-81 GD: 171-84 Volo: 166-89 Yes, I know the Jets-Bengals game is still on but I have a better chance of giving birth tonight than the Bengals do of pulling that one out. So Kelverin wins the season on a surge in week 15. I was never able to close the gap and Volo keot falling farther behind. Congrats Kelverin, you win a lifetime of free use of the Obsidian forums plus the chance to purchase your own copy of Alpha Protocol on the day it's released. We'll keep this going through the Super Bowl just to see what our recods end up looking like.

Not the last one. You're forgetting football. Speaking of which, how did the Giants make out today?

F*****G Bucs. What a crappy season. Defense sucks, O-Line sucks, need a reviever or two and an upgrade at running back. How many kickers have we used this year? I lost count. One draft isn't going to help. Next year dosn't look too good either. F*****g Bucs.

Maybe this wouldn't happen if you weren't actually my alt? Just a little... how do we say... food for thought. One of these days you are going to forget what name you logged in under and post something that will give you up! Thats how Sand/Killian/Hades/et al gets caught.

Which one? The one on Oakland Park and US1 was incredible. I can't remeber the name but it was great.

Hopefully you're referring to others (but I really can't tell who - everyone in this thread seems a separate entity), but because I'm still irked off that a certain moderator accuses me of being LoF (and used the possibility of banning him permanently to try and threaten me - again, go ahead!) I want to clarify that I am not him, and being accused of being him is pretty insulting, because I agree with him (and the way he acts) about as much as I do taks. /insecure rant Well, I wasn't exactly calling you out Krezy, but we have a saying here in Tennessee: "The guilty dog barks the loudest" Kidding of course.

It's cold here today. Damn cold. This global warming is just too much!

Is it just me or does anyone get the impression that there have not been as many actual people participating in this discussion as user names?

Last Weeks Results: Kelverin: 11-5 GD: 11-5 Volo: 8-8 Season Standings: Kelverin: 162-77 GD: 159-80 Volo: 156-83 Volo led the who season and just fell apart at the end! It's down to you an me now Kel.

Colts Browns Bears Niners Steelers Vikings Bucs Panthers Texans Cards Chargers Titans Ravens Eagles Broncos Jets Volo...where are you Volo? You've only got an hour and a half left!

Sorry Tig, I am only famliar with US based animal groups and the American Red Cross. The ones I contribute to regularly are listed in in the "communisim-is-great-and-you-should-be-killed-if-you-don't-agree" thread. One new one I'm adding next year it a local Memphis charity: Memphis Oral School for the Deaf. They are now offering free Cochlear Implants for low income deaf children allowing them to hear again. Many for thr first time. One thing I have heard several time and it makes sense I guess is that if you want your donations to benefit a certain country, donate to a group based in that country. Operating costs of international groups crossing borders and dealing with multiple governments are such that they tend to be financally inefficient with just 20-40% going to actual work and the rest lost in bueracracy. So if you wand you money benefiting New Zealand pick a group based there. That is not to say groups like Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, International Red Cross, etc don't do a lot of good in the world, just it costs more to do it.

I just found out, an old NWN module I made eight or nine years ago made it into the Hall of Fame over on the NWN Vault. I hadn't thought about that thing in a while. I'll have to DL it again and run through it.

What a freaking night! It was really great. I met my GF at the Blue Cafe for a light but romantic dinner, then off to the Peabody Hotel where the rooftop and penthouse were all the scene of the best New Years bash between St Louis and New Orleans. The champagne was free and flowing and the drinks were all top shelf. We had an incredible time. We met Marc Gasol of the Memphis Grizzlies, we spoke for a little bit. Afterwards we stopped one of her friends places where there was an great party going on, then we went back to my house for more champagne on the porch at 4 am on a clear, cold night with coyotes howling in the distance. She's staying here untill tomorrow. Best NY in a long time.

Why wouldn't I? A century and a half ago, certain states tried it because they were caught in a social era of savage barbarism, against a tide of left-wing thought. They would be put down just as thoroughly. It has been established for nearly fifteen decades that states cannot secede. So, you are opposed to using military force to advance US goals and interests around the world but using it to kill and coerce Americans who want their freedom is ok huh? That really sums you up doesen't it? You do not believe in communisim because it is fair or right, you as much as say you favor it because it is oppressive and brutal. Interesting that you equate slave owning and the desire to live in economic and personal freedom together as savage barbarisim. You an Yushaa do have a lot in common. He is well known for posting long multi page rants on what a beautiful place the world would be if the nations would just rise up an kill all of the Americans. I guess that does it. You sir are a lost cause and discussion with you is a little pointless.