All Forum Posts by: Lee Common

Two nights ago three punks ran up on me at a gas station (in a decient niegborhood homes values 150K & up)
pulled a gun and demanded I give them them my $$$. Stupid F%&%$ cocked the silver 38 must of thought I could not tell the difference if a round enters the chamber or not. I told him to grow a pair and pull the F'N trigger at which point they started acting like they would then phisically assault me. I said all you have is air and oppertunity bit*# and your breathing up all the air! I looked around three people on cell phones & I knew the clerk cops where their in minutes choppers & dogs caught all three of them.

My point is I commend the men and women of the San Antonio police department!

Second

That their are people out their who will try to gain from others by any means possible but, their are also men and women like myself who are not going to put up with that **** or any other kind of fleasing of the public.

Later I found that there had been several reports of robberies in the area with a silver 38 & that they did in fact have a loaded clip on their person. It was only the fact that I stood up for what I believe in and talked **** untill the cops got thier that those punks are off the streets today.

Ya maybe I could have got beat & killed, but I did not "I would have crushed those punk *&^#@'s" I just did not want to end up in the back of the cop car as well.

An officer looked at me worried he could not force me to go downtown and make a statement but he knew if I did not those punks would be back on the streets the next day. He also knew that if I did not do it then I probably would not. I said it is my civic duty to accompany him downtown and ensure that these punks are held responsible. His eyes lit up like a kid on christmas! "If only everyone saw it like that" he said.

That is a community working together to improve itself & get the trash of society where it belongs!

We need to stand up to the punks on wallstreet with the same resolve that I stood up to the punks at Nacogdoches & Higgins!

How about everyone just stop paying thier mortgages?

We can all just sit on our porches spitting in our spittoones with our rifle's. Possession is 9/10's of the law right?

What they going to do evict half the country?

Banks do stupid (or strategic) things they get bailed out how about the American people?

Don't get me wrong I love my country respect the men & women who have fought and died for our freedoms.

Ever thou two nights ago three punks ran up on me at a gas station (in a decient niegborhood homes values 150K & up)
pulled a gun and demanded I give them them my $$$. Stupid F%&%$ cocked the silver 38 must of thought I could not tell the difference if a round enters the chamber or not. I told him to grow a pair and pull the F'N trigger at which point they started acting like they would then phisically assault me. I said all you have is air and oppertunity bit*# and your breathing up all the air! I looked around three people on cell phones & I knew the clerk cops where their in minutes choppers & dogs caught all three of them.

My point is I commend the men and women of the San Antonio police department!

Second

That their are people out their who will try to gain from others by any means possible but, their are also men and women like myself who are not going to put up with that **** or any other kind of fleasing of the public.

Later I found that there had been several reports of robberies in the area with a silver 38 & that they did in fact have a loaded clip on their person. It was only the fact that I stood up for what I believe in and talked **** untill the cops got thier that those punks are off the streets today.

Ya maybe I could have got beat & killed, but I did not "I would have crushed those punk *&^#@'s" I just did not want to end up in the back of the cop car as well.

An officer looked at me worried he could not force me to go downtown and make a statement but he knew if I did not those punks would be back on the streets the next day. He also knew that if I did not do it then I probably would not. I said it is my civic duty to accompany him downtown and ensure that these punks are held responsible. His eyes lit up like a kid on christmas! "If only everyone saw it like that" he said.

That is a community working together to improve itself & get the trash of society where it belongs!

We need to stand up to the punks on wallstreet with the same resolve that I stood up to the punks at Nacogdoches & Higgins!

In my humble opinion we simply need to become more community oriented. That is what this country was founded on (communities not corporations) and it is one thing that can save our way of life.

David,

What is normal?

I have not checked what lending products are available lately

I hope it is sensable "responsable lending" as apposed to what had been going on previously.

I think it is great thou that they are going to lend us the money we used to bail them out. That's mighty white of them.

I think a significant percentage of the interest they make on those loans should be going to paying US off.

Hey Dave can I borrow 700 dollars from you then lend it back to you with interest?

I believe it was Strategic positioning!

Not simply bad decisions they ran the models.

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Originally posted by Lee Common:

Tim,

Thanks I appreciate your input.

To tell you the truth I spent some time thinking about it and perhaps I acted rashly on an emotional level. Upon some further research I found;

Believed to date from Etruscan times, the symbolism of the fasces at one level suggested strength through unity. The bundle of rods bound together symbolizes the strength which a single rod lacks. The axe symbolized the state's power and authority. The ribbons binding the rods together symbolized the state's obligation to exercise restraint in the exercising of that power. The highest magistrates would have their lictors unbind the fasces they carried as a warning if approaching the limits of restraint.

Being that we were useing the symbol in congress prior to the fascist movement in Italy tarnished it's meaning. We should not let their actions demean the historical value of the symbol.

Still we should be aware of the last part in bold.

Tim,

Thanks I appreciate your input.

To tell you the truth I spent some time thinking about it and perhaps I acted rashly on an emotional level. Upon some further research I found;

Numerous governments and other authorities have used the image of the fasces as a symbol of power since the end of the Roman Empire. It has also been used to hearken back to the Roman republic, particularly by those who see themselves as modern-day successors to the old republic and/or its ideals.

Believed to date from Etruscan times, the symbolism of the fasces at one level suggested strength through unity. The bundle of rods bound together symbolizes the strength which a single rod lacks. The axe symbolized the state's power and authority. The ribbons binding the rods together symbolized the state's obligation to exercise restraint in the exercising of that power. The highest magistrates would have their lictors unbind the fasces they carried as a warning if approaching the limits of restraint.

Yea Josh,

I got the same impression from James post still I think now is hardly the time to loose interest in our political and economic climate.

Besides I would not consider this one as political as much as a slap in the face of the American people.

I mean I just kind of happened across it & normally would not have given it a second thought but, to have seen what this really stands for pisses me off.

Why not just put a couple of swastikas up their too because they are by virtue featuring as a central symbol to both Buddhism and Hinduism.