Riding Journal

[gridlore]

Distance: .855 miles
Maximum Speed: 16.6 mph
Average Speed: 11.8 mph
Time: 4m, 24s

Quick run to the store.

Comments

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

Unrelated to this, but isn't belt0033 a real piece of work? I love how even after what you told him about the purpose of a gun and noted your own experience with using them, the idiot still refused to listen. He may be able to find a stat that says 95% of defensive gun uses end without a shot being fired, but gee - I wonder why? Could it be because when that gun is drawn, the would-be robber/attacker/etc suddenly fears he's going to DIE?

But, I've seen a lot of crap from Beltty. He's not a very bright bulb. I just wanted to say your answer to him rocked and it's a shame you can't reply now that he's banned all but those he lists as friends from commenting to his posts.

I guess he got tired of being shown what a fool he is.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Yup. After he challenged me to find some exemption that would allow him to serve then banned me, I found his email addy (right on his homepage, link through his user info page) and forwarded information from a USAF recruiter I know who gave a list of hundreds of jobs that the AF would let him have. After ready about him standing around in smoky bars all night, he could take an airfield in Kuwait.

His reply? "But I wanted to be in combat." Dunce. That's not what he told me the first time.

Reading his journal he seems like and anti-social little putz who has latched on to neoconservatism the same way that people in the 20s and 30s latched onto Nazism. It gave them something that made them feel superior to others.

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

I think you really hit on the anti-social part. This is a guy who goes to bars and writes about how none of the slutty women there deserve him, and how he doesn't like that they wear "bar clothing." I wonder what else he expects when he goes to a bar.

Read more of him, and he's basically as far to the right as it gets and his mind is shut off to any other points of view. Disagree with him and you're probably an "idiot leftard" whose opinion is "officially" invalid in his eyes. I'd say it's a bad parody of ultra conservatives, but I think this guy's for real. He insults people in the community he runs conservatism, yet when they fire back he just bans them.

It's so sad it's funny to laugh at, except this guy complains about how people who don't side with him are taking over "his" America. now, I believe I have viewpoints that fall on both sides of the coin - some make me more liberal, some make me more conservative. As such, I also have friends on both "sides," which makes things difficult sometimes when any of them begin to recite the rhetoric. Usually, I just try to avoid getting involved. I hate the fighting that comes from both sides, because it detracts from getting things done.

I've seen Eric talk about how he wanted to serve but couldn't because of whatever the condition he said he has is, but what's the deal with claiming he wanted to be in combat? I don't know many people who really want to be in combat. They go into it knowing that it's a possibility, but by saying that it makes me think of him eager to get his hands on a bigger, better rifle just so he can go kill people. That doesn't sound very stable.

It's really a shame that anyone, liberal or conservative, can be so willingly blind that they make such ignorant and intolerant caricatures of themselves for all to see, but this guy's done it. The resulting trainwreck is at least interesting to follow sometimes in the sense that it reminds me of how I don't want to be.

I was also thinking about something else mentioned to me after he brought out that stat about how 95% of defensive gun uses end without a shot being fired. Mentioning that the gun doesn't even have to be loaded..that would mean that if it was drawn, he'd be bluffing. Isn't one of the first things you're told when you train in how to use a gun basically "Never bluff?"

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Isn't one of the first things you're told when you train in how to use a gun basically "Never bluff?"

Heck, I'm a non-combatant, and even I know that much of the philosophy. "Never draw a weapon you're not prepared to use. For that matter, don't carry a weapon you're not prepared to use." I'm not, so I don't. (And, thanks to many brave men and women to whom I'm genuinely grateful, I don't have to.)

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

He said asthma. Looking around, we found *thousands* of jobs where he copuld get an exemptions. None of them are combat arms, of course.

He doesn't want to serve, he wants glory. He wants to be a crusader.

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of Shrek, not that Shrek is the first case of this ever being said:

You think he's trying to compensate for something?