YOU'VE GOT TO HELP ME!!!...

I'VE MARRIED A....


Wonderful woman.


On Edit: this is a qoute from a funny movie.

you cannot be helped.

The truth cracks me up sometimes, too. ;)

:evilgrin:

My husband's "problem" started when he married an independent, free-thinking self-supporting redhead, though. ;)

But, I must say, you DID marry a wonderful woman, judging from everything you've said about her, which isn't much, BTW!

Funny movie. I laugh my ass off through out it.

If you marry the right person, then it's a wonderful thing! I did do just that, and we are very happy! It'll be 40 years in June...Time flies when you're having fun...

Somehow I get the feeling that I've offended you...I hope not...

:crazy:

didn't spank your inner child, what with all the noise you've been making lately with all that howling at the moon, mooning dogs, etc. :rofl:

I certainly appreciate your standing by me during this little dust-up! Your support means a great deal to me, lololol!

I will though if I have to.

on you. Don't make us stop these wheelchairs!

tex is used to feisty women; and he has REALLY strong arms! We've got to be careful...Plus he is a friend of mine, and I hate to fight with my friends, lol!

Sorry, tex, we've hijacked your thread!

that's for sure! I know the kind of feisty women he's used to: I grew up next door to Texas. :rofl:

I can stop a chair in a heart beat.

I played Wheelchair Basketball for a National Championship College team and on a semi-professional level. I know wheelchairs. So lets go for a spin when you are ready.

:P

I used to work with a guy who was injured in a bicycling accident and paralyzed from the waist down. He got involved in marathon wheeling, and had absolutely _massive arms_ and was in incredible physical condition. I was pretty much awed by him. :thumbsup:

and lost 70 pounds of muscle.

Yes I was into shooting sports as well. was target practicing in this shot but it gives you and idea of my chest and arms. I am 6'1" tall and weighed 195 pounds in that picture. When I got sick with the bone infection I dropped 70 pounds in 2 months and when I went into the hospital I weighed 120. I lost so much muscle it is embarrasing.

How's your health now? (My dad made me take an ROTC marksmanship course as a college freshman because guns scared the bejeezus out of me. I did OK, but had to draw the line when the ROTC teacher took us down to the armory and made us fire M-16s.)

But the doctors told me not to lose anymore weight, they want me to keep some fat on so that my butt does not get so boney.

In shooting I am as my dad put it dangerous. I hit what I aim at. I do not miss. I killed a quail flying across me with a .22 one time. I shot a turkey at 200 yards with that exact same .22. I hit the turkey in the head. I could hit a running deer in the neck with an open sight rifle. I wanted to be a cop for a long time. My dad always said he felt sorry for the criminal if I ever got in a shootout. (For all the animal lovers out there, I never hunted for sport. everything I killed I ate.) My first serious girlfriend was also in shooting sports and we met at a camp for shooting sports. She was mad at me at the end of the week, Cause I beat her in the competition. She had been doing it for about 3 years and that was my first year to ever try it.

My brother-in-law is an avid hunter and I really respect him. His hunting keeps his family in meat all winter, and they throw hardly anything away. His partner even uses the furs and pelts for rugs, Native American art objects, etc. I'm sort of a "Second Amendment liberal," and I hate to hear the conservatives bitching about Democrats and gun control, because I've never heard of a law abiding citizen being prevented from owning a gun. (Obviously, I don't really think we have a gun problem as much as a culture-of-violence problem.) End of mini-rant. Tag! You're it. ;)

She started ranting after she found out that I was shot, that all guns should be banned. I told her no they should not. A gun is only as deadly as the person holding it. And it takes education. I grew up with guns. My dad and grandfathers taught me to respect guns and their deadly power. My shooting was an accident, a freak accident. That gun should have never fired. but it did. I feel it was God's way of saying "slow down son". I was a wild child when I was younger.

mandatory gun safety training before anyone's allowed to get a hunting license or firearm permit? Here in Switzerland, we have very few "accidental gun deaths," although every Swiss man is required to serve in the military and they keep their weapons at home. Also, before you can get a (very expensive) hunting license, you must show proof of having completed a gun safety course.

(I know gun safety didn't have anything to do with your accident, but I'm interested in hearing your views. Do you think the Mods will send us to the "Gungeon" for this discussion? :rofl: )

Before you can get a hunting license, or even buy a gun. I also at one time felt that they should put a tax on the sale of hunting licenses and ammunition. To pay for more law enforcement. You own a weapon you have to buy those things. And just like they tax gasoline, alcohol, and cigarettes. Tax ammunition, take that money and ear mark it for law enforcement. You would always have a steady flow of money to help promote new and better ways to protect the public, and some of the security issues that we have now since 9/11 might not be so hard to over come if they did that.

would support mandatory gun safety courses and additional taxation? Or would they spin it as another "gun control" issue? (Frankly, I'm a lot more worried about the violent tactics of the current regime, than I am about terrorism, and I don't think we should ever couch gun safety as a "security" issue, as that would feed into the conservatives' ongoing fear-mongering.)

But when all these Republicans complain that there is not enough money for all the new security measures and more law enforcement presence on the streets. I bring up that well then find the money. One way and an easy way is Tax, but they are against more tax. I remind them, you can not spend money that is not there, like they are doing now. You have to have money coming in to have money going out. It is plain and simple economics. Deficit spending is rampant when Republicans are in office. They stand for less tax and small government, but they are the biggest governments out there. and they spend the most since they have the largest government. Democrats have been known for smallest governments and the least amount of spending. Look at Clinton's administration as an example of that. We understand simple economics and follow the rule, you have to have the money to spend it.

I wish I could have such civil discussions about issues with Republicans. Thanks for your insights, Tex! :pals:

I usually get the Yeah but Clinton lied about having sex, after I make that argument. Sex has nothing to do with running the country. Yeah it does show his moral fiber, but the Republicans screaming about his cheating were also guilty of the same thing. Yeah Clinton had an affair, and yeah he got caught and he lied about it. But what does any male do when they get caught. They say it did not happen.

It does not mean that he did not do a good job of running the country.

"I'm an adult. I do not need a president who is a paragon of virtue in his personal life. I want a president who has ethics as a leader, who can run the country in the black, and who knows how to inspire us to be our best -- in other words, a good business person."

Clinton should never have even been _asked_ about his sex life. That whole thing was a colossal waste of taxpayers' money, and very much part of the reason Bush is president now.

(I like logical thinking, Tex. Thanks for the engaging discussion.)

Sorry I had to go to bed.

Your story is heartbreaking...and you have so much courage. A lesser person might have just curled up and died. I was being serious about your wife. She really stood by you. But of course, you know all about that, way better than I do...

I have so much respect for you, I want you to know that. I would have been proud to have a son like you.

I lost my leg right before our first wedding anniversary in 1996. I got shot when I was 16.

And thank you I am flattered.

And I really was afraid I'd offended you, you crazy man, you!

OK, please answer my question, if you would be so kind, dear sir!

J/K=joke?

*muttering to self....inner child, my ass....*