From this valley they say you are going
We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile…

There’s a monastery I know of where the women gather up the scorpions each morning and put them outside the gate (yes I know it’s very sexist but the men have their job to do too). Usually the scorpions return but hardly anyone gets stung. I think when we live with consciousness of respect for all beings, especially wild ones, it is possible to have a swim and not kill sentient beings (or be killed by them).

Of course, if a wild boar started charging me in my birthday suit I suppose I would be the first to cower behind you, so perhaps you have a point.

The whole gun thing is difficult. I think that I have written before, we all grew up with guns in my town because it was in the country and also just about everyone’s father had been in WWII. All of the kids knew that you didn’t mess around with them and aim them at other kids, let alone pull the trigger. My sister and her family live in Alaska and they HAVE to have guns. Not only do they hunt (that is their source of meat, which is healthier than the feedlot, antibiotic stuff we get down here), but they live in a place that is teeming with bears, moose, and wolves. My brother-in-law had to kill a bear that had ripped the back door off their house (cabin, really — they built it themselves although they used mostly wood that was milled at the local mill) and was coming into the house (it was a rogue bear that had been roaming around their area).

That said, it is unfortunate that so many idiots are drawn to guns. I live in the Chicago area, and we have a nightly “body count” here from gun violence. Most of the people shot just happened to be there; they weren’t the targets. It’s a shame that the gang banger are such god-awful shots, because the whole situation is really, really bad right now. Personally, I don’t see why any civilian should own an automatic weapon, nor do I think that having more people with more guns, blasting away at criminals, helps all that much. I don’t want to get hit with a “nice guy’s” bullet any more than I want to get hit by a gang banger’s bullet.

On that note, when the shooting starts, it can be difficult sometimes to know who the bad guy is — which is another reason why having MORE parties entering the fray isn’t a good idea. Although I don’t get to see it very often, the series “Flashpoint,” which is about a SWAT team, has always interested me because in many of the episodes, the SWAT team folks have to figure out what is really happening in a situation and who is — and isn’t — the bad guy, because they are often mobilized to these incidents with very little reliable intel. It’s one thing if you know that a family member is under seige and can go to their defense, but a neighbor? One of mine went nuts last fall and threatened a garbage truck driver with a gun because he refused to pick up the neighbor’s bag of fall leaves (because the leaf and lawn waste collection truck had already gone by).

You do realize that the President has an ‘F’ from the Brady Campaign, right? And that no politician would actually attempt to seize ALL firearms?

There is no legal basis for it. Regardless of what Alex Jones and Wayne LaPierre say.

Great toad story! I have a “house toad” (though a much smaller American Woodland Toad), who hangs around the garden area by my front door.

I also have a lot of the traditional hallucinogenic plants in my yard because they are also plants common to English cottage gardens. I keep them in the back yard or need the house in front so some toddler passing in a stroller on the sidewalk won’t grab leaves or flowers that could hurt him or her.

Sam — you didn’t answer my question. Just wondering what your argument would be.

You are right — I think the “Certified Pre-Owned World Order” sounds a lot better. You know, like it’s been well maintained–regular oil changes and all of that. It just sound scary enough for the guys like Jones, though.

Not to give you a hard time — because I do like you and also, I am not against guns completely (although I believe that people who own them need to be well-trained and responsible and to keep them away from those who might think it would be a lark to “play” with them — thought most gun owners would agree with), but I DO have to ask a rather wicked question:

When “guns rights” advocates argue against “excessive gun control,” they frequently say, “If you want to kill someone, you can beat them to death with a baseball bat/stab them with a knife/etc.”

Since there are so many other weapons available — like, basically anything you can throw, swing, or cut with, not to mention bows and arrows, with bows that are strong enough to be used to hunt bears — then WHY is it so necessary for people to own guns?

I know — this was a rude question, but really. I still think that my reproduction Viking sword, wielded by me, will work just fine if someone decided to break into my house — and if I miss, I won’t have to worry about a bullet from (my) wildly shot hand gun traveling through a wall and killing a passer by.

It’s a Certified Pre-Owned Order. That way we get a better warranty.

Please provide us with tangible evidence that people are trying to take your guns. Even if they wanted to do so, they would be unable, due to the Grandfather Clause.

If the guns were legal at one point, they will always be legal.

That’s why it is still legal to trade in transferable automatic weapons and destructive devices. When they were purchased or originally manufactured, they were legal. As such, they are legal now.

The contents of “Flying Ointment” depends on whose book of recipes you are looking at. Toad based are fine; scopalomine is the active ingredient in the one I was thinking of (I looked it up after posting. It’s a very old book).

Also, people have been flapping their gums about the “New World Order” for rather a long time now (several decades at least — maybe longer).

At this point, shouldn’t it be called the “Shabby, Scuffed, Worn World Order?” I wouldn’t call it the “Old World Order,” but it isn’t all that “New,” now, is it? And since we aren’t in chains or UN/ FEMA camps, it hasn’t been a very effective world order. “Used World Order,” or “Pre-Driven World Order” is perhaps what I am thinking it should be at this point.

Somebody had to say it.

I would like to bury all the world’s guns except for one. Let Sam Molloy keep his, because he is responsible and he wouldn’t give it up without a ruckus…

…but let’s close the Gun Show Loop Hole first, so he can’t just sell it to the first irresponsible person who comes along with a wad of cash.

I have to say, though, I enjoyed the phrase, “a staged self inflicted wound false flag inside job.” Try saying THAT three times fast.

Scopalomine also used to be one of the main ingredients in witches’ “Flying Ointment” during the middle ages and Renaissance. Either it, or some other ingredient (although I think it was the Scopalomine) had hallucinogenic properties in the right doses — hence the idea of “flying” (actually, the were inducing a hallucinagenic state). It is a natural substance, but I don’t know what it is derived from.

The Nazis injected it, but I know that it CAN be absorbed dermally (through the skin). I very much doubt that blowing it in someone’s face would put them under your control (or anyone’s control — sorry, not implying that YOU want to blow it in anyone’s face). Also, any dose that would last 24 hours would have to be very powerful, so I don’t think you would be wandering around acting normal, but then chopping up babies on command. Sheeesh! These guys are coo-coo bananas!

In regard to “mind control,” the only ones that I believe are doing any sort of an effective job at that are some of the fringe Christian groups (not just regular Christians), who have their kids so terrorized and afraid that I could see them being successfully compelled to do something unfortunate.

LMAO. Loser.

He posits all these crazy conspiracy theories, but he seems to be alive, walking, broadcasting, selling DVDs, and pocketing the US Federal Reserve Notes and Paypal money for his drivel…you’d think that the omnipotent Zionist Occupation Government would have disposed of him by now.

Yeah, one would think that we’d read in the paper one morning that Alex Jones was found dead, stuffed in a garbage can with a knife in his back, his wallet and contents strewn around the alley, the victim of an apparent mugging or robbery, how sad, how cruel, how tragic, his town is certainly a violent city, but….

He’s alive, kicking, and screaming. And the only thing he really seems to have to deal with is ridicule. Funny how that’s happening.

I often wonder if people like Alex Jones actually believe the garbage they spout, or if they’re just cynical opportunists, delivering drivel on the airwaves to gain attention and sell their product. I’m sure that’s the case with televangelists and fake psychics, but with Alex…I think he believes a good chunk of what he says.

The real problem is…a lot of people believe what he says.