Posted on 08/01/2007 5:56:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Edited on 08/02/2007 6:57:18 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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Collateral damage. He was a troll who was NUKED. That takes out all his posts, some of which may be OK.
You nuked his DNA?
LOL!!
Wire Paladin, San Francisco!
“How can you have joined FR on August 2, 2007 when it isn’t even here yet?”
Asia? : )
You got it right. The bartender at the Longbranch saloon kept a double barreled shotgun behind the bar and Miss Kitty was known to pull out a derringer from its hiding place on occasion and send the bad guy to his just rewards.
Great, as far as it goes. I have a problem, though. One can enlist (and may be drafted) at 18 years of age (17 with parent or guardians permission). Shouldn’t there be an exception for those with an active duty or reserve military ID card, so that they might carry, drink alcohol, and other things normally reserved for civilian 21 year olds?
Now hang on a second...That would be elevating him to a pleasurable status to a certain segment of our population if I am not mistaken...;-)
Now if you had said he was smelly stuff stuck to the bottom of our shoes...Now that is something lower, yet more tangible...Right???
“Too bad Fred Thompson can’t play Liberty Valance and show DICK Cohen Western law with a silver-knobbed whip.”
Uh, I think this is a bad analogy considering that Liberty Valance was a bully and the bad guy in the movie. Notice the two guys behind Valance? It’s Lee Van Cleef and Strother Martin. Two great character actors!
Fred Thompson should be Rance Stoddard (The Jimmy Stewart character) who everyone thought was a wimp but in the end was the one to stand up to Valance and stand up against the cattlemen in the battle over becoming a state. Fred is standing up to all of the demo bullies!
A great movie though. Most of John Ford’s movies are great, like the John Wayne calvary triology and ‘The Quiet Man’. Great movies!!!
“Actually, it was Wyatt Earp in Tombstone AZ and Dodge City KS who made the cattle drivers surrender their weapons at the city limits.”
I think you’re right. Cohen is getting gunsmoke mixed up with Tombstone. When the Earps were marshals they created an ordinance that no one would carry guns in the city limits except peace officers. However, they didn’t go around personally collecting the guns like the picture Cohen would like to paint of Marshall Dillon. People could simply turn their weapons into the hotel, bar or store where they were at and pick the guns up upon leaving. I believe that the ordinance stated you had so long of a time in town before you had to turn your weapon into an establishment.
However, there were a lot of towns with city ordinances like that in the west. Not just tombstone.
It wasn’t meant to be an analogy, it was meant to be mean and sarcastic. Tired of anti-gun birdbrains!
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