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Flaps10
Posts: 5352
Incept: 2008-10-17
seattle
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I'm sure he's thinking more about armed guards for himself and making machetes illegal.
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"Better to die on your feet than live on your knees"
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Vang
Posts: 15
Incept: 2010-11-09
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He gave a talk at my law school last year and he had two federal marshalls in the auditorium with him and a flock of police officers outside. I have no idea if this was somehow required of him, but I have my suspicions.
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Mattc
Posts: 185
Incept: 2011-11-07
Texas
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A defenseless population is conducive to the expansion of socialism, the rejection of self-reliance, and encouragement of dependence on Government for safety and economic security.
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Firefly76
Posts: 49
Incept: 2011-08-09
Houston TX
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It is called Karma well at least halfway to. Is that an Indie Film Karl?
Sorry couldn't help it.
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Frat
Posts: 1939
Incept: 2009-07-15
NKY
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Actually, I bet that crotchety old statist **** will trumpet his brand of treasonous sedition TWICE as loudly now, simply because he and his party DID survive. That's the problem with not carrying out a threat and allowing him to live - he'll think his point is proven (even though his property and dignity are gone).
Not fundamental his old wrinkled ASS....
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We're ****ed. Where's Henry Bowman when you need him?
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Ghopper
Posts: 2317
Incept: 2011-06-11
Staten Island, NY
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Betcha he still votes to kill the 2nd Amendment.
People like that just can't see past their own ideology no matter what.
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Smacktle
Posts: 1370
Incept: 2009-01-20
Texas
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Justice.
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Asimov
Posts: 104615
Incept: 2007-08-26
East Tennessee Eastern Time
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Interesting trivia about that scene from raiders of the lost ark.
Harrison ford was VERY sick the day they shot that scene. It was originally scripted for him to use the whip to disarm the other guy. Because he was constantly running to **** and puke, they changed it so that he just shot the guy.
I think it's better the way it turned out anyway. :)
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It's justifiably immoral to deal morally with an immoral entity.
If you trade based on what other people say, you will lose money. Especially what I say. I won't be held responsible. Festina lente.
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Pika-steph
Posts: 54901
Incept: 2007-09-11
Live Free Or Die; US Army Est. 1775
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Actually, this is the second time he's been robbed. The first time he was apparently out jogging.
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Stop the Looting; Start Prosecuting - http://www.FedUpUSA.org/ "The only regulation that really works is failure."--Rick Santelli
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Darth
Posts: 2182
Incept: 2009-07-07
SWVA - US
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KD, I couldn't have made a better post out of this, even if given the story, and a month to think about it. Just excellent! LOL
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Trades50
Posts: 4235
Incept: 2007-10-30
Land of Tax and Spend
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Quote: The first time he was apparently out jogging. Good. Maybe they will keep robbing him until the reason for packing a firearm computes in his liberal brain.
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When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. - Thomas Jefferson
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Frat
Posts: 1939
Incept: 2009-07-15
NKY
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Asi, I'll take it one further - I *believe* what was wrong with Harrison was heat stroke/exhaustion, made tremendously worse by the heavy exertions of the fight you're referring to - I believe there are even some so-called "deleted scenes" of that fight as well.
But in the end, you're absolutely correct - the way the scene plays out is ****in' BEAUTIFUL. I still remember being 7 or 8 and seeing it thinking "This guy is BAD ASS!" - and it SO fit Indy's character and that scene.
/thread hijack off
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We're ****ed. Where's Henry Bowman when you need him?
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Asimov
Posts: 104615
Incept: 2007-08-26
East Tennessee Eastern Time
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You are probably right, I just remembered that he was feeling bad and was thinking sick - heatstroke may have been it. He certainly looks like it right after he turns around after shooting the dude.
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It's justifiably immoral to deal morally with an immoral entity.
If you trade based on what other people say, you will lose money. Especially what I say. I won't be held responsible. Festina lente.
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Uppity_peasant
Posts: 3229
Incept: 2009-06-26
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Vang wrote..He gave a talk at my law school last year and he had two federal marshalls in the auditorium with him and a flock of police officers outside. I have no idea if this was somehow required of him, but I have my suspicions. "How do you know 'e's a King?" "'e 'asn't got **** all over 'im." Or, in the case of a peasant, he hasn't got a platoon of blue bees with him...
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If it's true that "assault weapons" are "weapons of war" and don't belong on the streets of America, why do the police need them? Who are the police at war with?
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Landshark
Posts: 11656
Incept: 2008-02-07
The Wild West
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Asi, I remember reading that the scene where Ford pulls the gun was originally a gag, and that they liked it so much in post they decided to keep it in... although what you quoted sounds much more believable.
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"America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed..."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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5755hsa
Posts: 651
Incept: 2008-09-07
North of 40 in the land of pathetic highways
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Moral........Never bring a knife to a gunfight...
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Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy) - a system of government where the
least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing,
and where members of society least likely to succeed, are rewarded with goods paid for by the
confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
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Asimov
Posts: 104615
Incept: 2007-08-26
East Tennessee Eastern Time
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Quote:The famous scene in which Indy shoots a marauding and flamboyant swordsman was not in the original script. Harrison Ford was supposed to use his whip to get the swords out of his attacker's hands, but the food poisoning he and the rest of the crew had gotten made him too sick to perform the stunt. After several unsuccessful tries, Ford suggested "shooting the sucker." Steven Spielberg immediately took up the idea and the scene was successfully filmed. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082971/triv....
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It's justifiably immoral to deal morally with an immoral entity.
If you trade based on what other people say, you will lose money. Especially what I say. I won't be held responsible. Festina lente.
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Kylafoon
Posts: 2471
Incept: 2009-02-05
Zombie Portal Lookout
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Ha ha! If the idiot has been robbed violently twice
and he still refuses to defend himself he is stupid.
But hey, he's our stupid, idiot Supreme Court Justice... :(
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"...But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane..." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1910
"I found a flaw in the model that I perceived is the critical functioning structure that defines how the world works." - Alan Greenspan, October 2008
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Landshark
Posts: 11656
Incept: 2008-02-07
The Wild West
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Thanks Asi.
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"America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed..."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Mannfm11
Posts: 3606
Incept: 2009-02-28
DFW, Tx
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Machettes are much quieter than guns. Only good thing about the guy not using it is Bryer dying would allow another imbicile to be appointed.
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.---John Kenneth Galbraith
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Mortgageguymn
Posts: 1582
Incept: 2009-03-09
North Coast
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I'm sure people won't like me going all GOP here, but this is why I am highly likely to vote for the GOP presidential candidate despite the GOP's history of having been no debt on the debt ponzi scheme. We might survive a total collapse of the economy and default of our sovereign debt but we won't survive a federal government that considers the constitution an archaic & irrelevant vestigial document. We can talk about both parties being equal on deficit & debt issues, but on crucial Supreme Court decisions (McDonald v Chicago and, yes, Citizens United v Federal Election Committee) the good side only won because of Republican SCOTUS appointees. That doesn't mean they always get it right, but the four ladies of the court will always get it wrong, Mme Breyer included.
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Ignorantsavage
Posts: 763
Incept: 2007-11-27
united States
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Mortgageguynm, you're mistaken in your apparent belief that the US supreme court has the final say on what is or is not Constutional. That is incorrect. The Constitution needs no black-robed interpreters to distort its meaning: see Norton vs Shelby County. Norton vs Shelby County wrote..An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation as inoperative as though it had never been passed. Further, if you think "the good side won" in those cases you listed, you're almost certainly mistaken. I've not reviewed either indepth, but I did review the decision that led to McDonald: District of Columbia vs Heller. The Heller decision, translated into plain English, is "the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right which cannot be infringed, except for this supremely long list of infringements included within". In other words, "yes, but no", and that only to keep the peasants from possibly revolting. |
Daniel
Posts: 40
Incept: 2010-05-06
Houston
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The swordsman shot first!
/George Lucas idoicy
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Temuchin43
Posts: 4
Incept: 2011-10-22
CA
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I'm pretty sure that, not only will he not change his mind about guns, but after this incident he might start promoting strict regulation of machetes... Sigh.
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