On Sun, 09 May 2004 07:34 pm -0600 UTC, m II
posted: %MM

uncle arnie wrote:

Perhaps for the benefit of the rest of world you could describe these
ammendments. America has so much to teach the rest of the world. You
know, how to do things right. So they can understand America better and
love her more.

Paraphrasing Mencken: 'In America, it's pretty well impossible to heave
an egg out of your car window and not hit a gun owner'.


No, this is not the quote I was paraphrasing. The original had pullman cars
and fundamentalists.




You should note that Mecken was in fact quite PRO gun ownership. He was
complaionig about about harrassmnet by the government do gooders. The
full quote is below. Mencken was a genius and ahead of his time. Note
the date.

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"The new law that is advocated, indeed, is one of the most absurd
specimens of jackass legislation ever heard of, even in this paradise of
legislative donkeyism. Its single and sole effect would be to exaggerate
enormously all of the evils it proposes to put down. It would not take
pistols out of the hands of rogues and fools; it would simply take them
out of the hands of honest men.

"Here I do not indulge in theory. The hard facts are publicly on display
in New York State, where a law of exactly the same tenor is already on
the books the so-called Sullivan Law. In order to get it there, of
course, the Second Amendment had to be severely strained, but the
uplifters advocated the straining unanimously, and to the tune of loud
hosannas, and the courts, as usual, were willing to sign on the dotted
line. It is now a dreadful felony in New York to "have or possess" a
pistol. Even if one keeps it locked in a bureau drawer at home, one may
be sent to the hoosegow for ten years.

"With what result? With the general result that New York is the heaven
of footpads, hijackers, gunmen and all other such armed thugs. Their
hands upon their pistols, they know they are safe. Not one citizen out
of a hundred that they tackle is armed. For getting a license to keep a
revolver is a difficult business, and carrying one without it is more
dangerous than submitting to robbery."

H.L. Mencken, Baltimore Evening Sun, 1925

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-UA

In article ,
ocom (Michael Bryant) wrote:

From: at (CRUSH THE LEFT)

Guns made our Republic (that which you erroneously call a
"democracy") possible in the first place; and guns are what keep us
free from would-be tyrants, you STUPID TREASONOUS SEDITIOUS LEFT
WING LIBERAL SOCIALIST COMMUNIST ASSWIPE!

Gawd, what an annoying jerk you are, MW (Mega Wide) Bryant! Go whack
off to your pictures of Lenin, like your hero Kerry does.

F**kin liberal piece o' $hit.


I'm not claiming that the poster above is representative of the
average Republican, but it is clearly an example of what is covered
by the umbrella of "conservatism."

You continue to wear the king of Trolls crown.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

On Mon, 10 May 2004 03:15:49 GMT, Telamon
wrote:

In article ,
ocom (Michael Bryant) wrote:

From: at (CRUSH THE LEFT)

Guns made our Republic (that which you erroneously call a
"democracy") possible in the first place; and guns are what keep us
free from would-be tyrants, you STUPID TREASONOUS SEDITIOUS LEFT
WING LIBERAL SOCIALIST COMMUNIST ASSWIPE!

Gawd, what an annoying jerk you are, MW (Mega Wide) Bryant! Go whack
off to your pictures of Lenin, like your hero Kerry does.

F**kin liberal piece o' $hit.


I'm not claiming that the poster above is representative of the
average Republican, but it is clearly an example of what is covered
by the umbrella of "conservatism."

You continue to wear the king of Trolls crown.

I'm Pro "Old" Europe. They get more vacation days then we do.

From: Bill Everhart


On Mon, 10 May 2004 03:15:49 GMT, Telamon
wrote:


You continue to wear the king of Trolls crown.

I'm Pro "Old" Europe. They get more vacation days then we do.


Please, Bill, don't re-quote Telamon's one-line posts. They are just too
analytically overwhelming....


Michael Bryant, WA4009SWL
Louisville, KY
R75, S800, RX320, SW77, ICF2010K,
DX398, 7600G, 6800W, RF2200, 7600A
GE SRll, Pro-2006, Pro-2010, Pro-76
(remove "nojunk" to reply)

Tracy Fort wrote ...

Sorry if it offends the rest of the world! I support the 1st
ammendment, but not near as much as I support the 2nd.


Good point - if they took away the 2nd, there probably wouldn't be a first, anyway.

From: (LW)

Good point - if they took away the 2nd, there probably wouldn't be a first,
anyway.


Hey LW,

What radio did you keep for the frigerator box?


Michael Bryant, WA4009SWL
Louisville, KY
R75, S800, RX320, SW77, ICF2010K,
DX398, 7600G, 6800W, RF2200, 7600A
GE SRll, Pro-2006, Pro-2010, Pro-76
(remove "nojunk" to reply)

ocom (Michael Bryant) wrote ...


Yep, only an idiot believes that guns are more important than an open flow of
ideas to a democracy.


He never said "guns are more important" than anything. He said he
appreciates the second amendment. Which in our constitutional
republic, gives one the right to own and use (within legal
constraints) firearms.

Questions, Professor:

1. With political corruption as rampant as it is today, would you
want to remove the second amendment from the Constitution?

2. How long would democracy survive if this ceased to be a
constitutional republic?

What radio did you keep for the frigerator box?


Westinghouse

Michael 'I'm so retarded I'm ecstatic' Bryant wrote:

From: at (CRUSH THE LEFT)

Guns made our Republic (that which you erroneously call a "democracy")
possible
in the first place; and guns are what keep us free from would-be tyrants, you
STUPID TREASONOUS SEDITIOUS LEFT WING LIBERAL SOCIALIST COMMUNIST ASSWIPE!

Gawd, what an annoying jerk you are, MW (Mega Wide) Bryant! Go whack off to
your pictures of Lenin, like your hero Kerry does.

F**kin liberal piece o' $hit.


I'm not claiming that the poster above is representative of the average
Republican, but it is clearly an example of what is covered by the umbrella of
"conservatism."

And we all know what is hidden beneath the 'big tent' the Liberals have...

Noel wrote:
On Sun, 09 May 2004 16:52:54 -0400, Tracy Fort wrote:

Sorry if it offends the rest of the world! I support the 1st
ammendment, but not near as much as I support the 2nd.

What does this have to do with r.r.s?

As much as your reply to another poster:

: Just like you whack off to your pictures of Hitler, Mussolini and
: Franco, you off-topic ****tard?

It would be a Really Good Thing if people would keep their postings
to topics consistent with the name of this newsgroup:

REC.RADIO.SHORTWAVE

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Mike Andrews

Tired old sysadmin