JeanKimberley Forum Posts (7,499)

RE: Why is it so hard to connect in here?

It was a good saying, and coffee or no, appropriate for the response. I did not know that a group of female geese without a male presence was called a gander until I looked it up.

Long distance is a challenge. I hope it works out, although the thought of New Jersey.... guess we all have our ideas and biases about where people live.

RE: Where in the US can you openly carry a handgun without a license?

And another conspiracy theory is born.

RE: Why is it so hard to connect in here?

considering we are both goosies! A female gander refers to a group of geese who lack a male presence. What is the ... well a gander is a male goose, and the female goose is just a goose.

I just love the idea of Scottish men! So while I could date here in America, I have a few choices and interests, I am really interested in men living in Scotland. So how does that work, since it is difficult to lure a Scottish man to visit me here.

Now I have had no problem in meeting non romantic folk fly across the ocean and visit with me here. It would make sense for me to go to Scotland, which I can only do on vacation from my job.

RE: Where in the US can you openly carry a handgun without a license?

ahh....... note it is a Texas Court Decision.....


I rest my case.

and yes we know that we are the ones to vote in a President who can appoint the judges..... and around and around we go!

RE: Where in the US can you openly carry a handgun without a license?

Funny and well said.

RE: Why is it so hard to connect in here?

Here! Here! I agree. Although this site is just a tool.... and with a lot of tools on it.




It does require taking the next step. For me it is looking at the get-togethers, chatting in the International forums and then going out into the real world.

The OP can use this site a bit better by actively using the search for men in her own area, then sending them a hello email or flower. The meeting in the real world after some emails back on forth as to whether they would suit.

For me it does not work as well because it requires a trip across the ocean - and some time off work ......

RE: Where in the US can you openly carry a handgun without a license?

What not Superman or Spiderman?

RE: Where in the US can you openly carry a handgun without a license?

The Newsmedia is responsible for continuing to stir up the shiiiiitttteeee in Ferguson, all to sell news and media coverage, and nothing to do with the care of any of the people living there.

Just like all across our country, it is peaceful until the rumors starts that there is going to be some peaceful demonstration and it is, until the cameras are rolling then, humans start to "act" in righteous indignation, and the violence begins.

You don't see these mega-corporation media outlets poking their cameras into the toxic junk they put into our food products, or who and how folks including big businesses are given government benefits. Or all the good things that our local governments do - like educate our children, or have free libraries, or ensure our water is clean and drinkable, or allow us to get to the election polls.

No they always focus on our law and order and a few bad apples or some small town that has a wild west way, and old prejudices and race discrimination.

The media swoop in, incite the tensions, build up the emotions and gather all the other times it has happened in other areas of the country over the last ten years and makes it into an event.








...... well I feel better after that particular rant .................. I think.

RE: Where in the US can you openly carry a handgun without a license?

Sure it does! You don't have the right t bear arms, except in clothing.


The Supreme Court determines your or my rights to bear arms.

RE: Where in the US can you openly carry a handgun without a license?

Criminals don't have the rights to anything except like the rest of us, that is the right to an attorney in a court of law with a jury of peers.

None of us have the right to interpret the constitution except...............

"EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW"-These words, written above the main entrance to the Supreme Court Building, express the ultimate responsibility of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Court is the highest tribunal in the Nation for all cases and controversies arising under the Constitution or the laws of the United States. As the final arbiter of the law, the Court is charged with ensuring the American people the promise of equal justice under law and, thereby, also functions as guardian and interpreter of the Constitution.

RE: Mass evictions of illegal immigrants all over France

Just imagine what happens here in America - as much as every country is addressing it's recognition of who it allows or doesn't allow into it's borders.

This could certainly affect the gypsy populations in Europe.

RE: Where in the US can you openly carry a handgun without a license?

It is somewhat uncertain to me, why Americans feel they have the right to do so many things?

RE: Where in the US can you openly carry a handgun without a license?

Australia had 30 gun homicides in 2010, which amounted to 0.13 gun deaths for each 100,000 people. Australians hold 3-3.5 million guns, a rate of 15 guns for every 100 people.

again excerpt from Business insider

Australia is a rare nation that has had a significant shift toward additional gun control in recent years. Following a 1996 shooting spree that left 35 Australians dead at the Port Arthur tourist location in Tasmania, the government launched a major overhaul of gun laws.

In the decade before Port Arthur, Australia saw 11 mass shootings; since then, there has not been a single mass shooting and the gun murder rate has continued its steady decline.

RE: Where in the US can you openly carry a handgun without a license?

excerpt from Business Insider

Japan's gun policies are notoriously strict. Civilians cannot possess handguns, automatic assault weapons, semi-automatic assault weapons, military rifles, or machine guns. Japanese civilians aren't even allowed to own swords.

Without a license, a Japanese citizen isn't even permitted to touch a firearm. Failure to follow this law can result in up to 10 years in prison.

Japanese civilians hold a mere 710,000 guns, with 0.6 firearms for every person. In 2008, there were 11 gun homicides. For perspective, there are 122,800,000 people in Japan. That year is not an anomaly. In 2006 there were 2 gun homicides and in 2007 there were 22, a national scandal.

What is legal are hunting rifles and shotguns, but those can only be obtained after an exhaustive application process. An aspiring gun-toucher must first take an all-day class and pass both written and practical exams. Then, applicants are required to go to the hospital for a mental health test, and provide police with a medical certificate attesting their mental health and drug-free status.

RE: Where in the US can you openly carry a handgun without a license?

Canada, the U.S.'s neighbor to the north also has outstandingly low gun casualty statistics. In 2009, there were 0.5 deaths per 100,000 from gun homicide — only 173 people. Still, the ownership is comparatively high — there are 23.8 firearms per 100 people in the country.

There is no legal right to possess arms in Canada. It takes sixty days to buy a gun there, and there is mandatory licensing for gun owners. Gun owners pursuing a license must have third-party references, take a safety training course and pass a background check with a focus on mental, criminal and addiction histories.

Licensing agents are required to advise an applicant's spouse or next-of-kin prior to granting a license, and licenses are denied to applicants with any past history of domestic violence. Buyers in private sales of weapons must pass official background checks.

Canadian civilians aren't allowed to possess automatic weapons, handguns with a barrel shorter than 10.5 cm or any modified handgun, rifle or shotgun. Most semi-automatic assault weapons are also banned. As a result of exemptions, several kinds of assault weapons are still legal in Canada, although this has been the source of some controversy.

RE: Where in the US can you openly carry a handgun without a license?

excerpt from the Washington post.


The dubious distinction of having the most gun violence goes to Honduras, at 68.43 homicides by firearm per 100,000 people, even though it only has 6.2 firearms per 100 people. Other parts of South America and South Africa also rank highly, while the United States is somewhere near the mid-range. Still, America sees far more gun violence than countries in Europe, and Canada, India and Australia, which is perhaps how it gets its bloody reputation among comparatively peaceful nations.

When a person kills another in the United States, though, he or she generally uses a gun: 60 percent of U.S. homicides occur using a firearm, which is the 26th-highest rate in the world. (In other gun-permeated countries, such as Finland (45.3 guns per 100 people), only about 19 percent of homicides involve a firearm.

Guns don't always kill people, it seems, but they certainly play a role.

RE: Where in the US can you openly carry a handgun without a license?

Legislation at the federal, state, and local levels have attempted to address gun violence through a variety of methods, including restricting firearms purchases by youths and other "at-risk" populations, setting waiting periods for firearm purchases, establishing gun buyback programs, law enforcement and policing strategies, stiff sentencing of gun law violators, education programs for parents and children, and community-outreach programs.

Gun policies are influenced by interpretations of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, an ambiguously worded amendment which has been the subject of disagreement over the years.

It was not until 2008 that the Supreme Court partially clarified the meaning of this amendment in District of Columbia v. Heller, in which it invalidated a firearm ban in Washington, D.C., stating that the second amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home and within federal enclaves.

In June 28, 2010 the Supreme Court ruled in the case of McDonald v. Chicago that this protection extends to the states as well. However, the courts also appear to support restrictions to gun ownership.

RE: Where in the US can you openly carry a handgun without a license?

Gun violence is a widely debated issue in the United States. Gun-related violence is most common in poor urban areas and frequently associated with gang violence, often involving male juveniles or young adult males.

While increased time has been given to mass shootings in the media, the frequency of these events has declined since the 1990s. Hand guns figured in the Virginia Tech massacre, Binghamton shootings, 2009 Fort Hood shooting, Oikos University shooting, and 2011 Tucson shooting. Assailants with multiple weapons committed the Aurora theater shooting, and the Columbine High School massacre.

In 2009, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 67% of all homicides in the U.S. were conducted using a firearm.

Two-thirds of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. are suicides. In 2010, there were 19,392 firearm-related suicides, and 11,078 firearm-related homicides in the U.S.

In 2010, 358 murders were reported involving a rifle while 6,009 were reported involving a handgun; another 1,939 were reported with an unspecified type of firearm.

High-profile assassinations such as those of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and the Beltway sniper attacks involved the use of rifles, usually with telescopic sights, from concealed locations.

RE: A United Kurdistan state????

this whole identity by country and by religious ideology - is just so old world mentality.

RE: Singles give yourself a hug we rock ,,

Yes that's what I say on payday and look at my check of 3 singles !

RE: Ladies: What do you like to wear?

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I like to wear eye liner.

RE: You Love The One That Loves You

In some ways perhaps it is true - that the act of love in itself is about giving not getting.


Although just because someone says they love you does not mean it to be true. Look at folk's acts of love, not just the words they spew out their mouth.

RE: if u could do it all over again would u...can only choose one folks!l

I like your saying "Woo a Hoo" I think I might borrow it, with your permission.

RE: if u could do it all over again would u...can only choose one folks!l

It is never too late to take up the hobby. I would like to combine photographs and printing these on inked canvases, and adding an artistic touch. The best to two things.

I am not particularly artistic more crafty than anything.

RE: if u could do it all over again would u...can only choose one folks!l

good poll question Sweetballoffire.


My sister moved to New Zealand back in the 80s, and of course invited us all to visit. She lived there 10 years and I never went to visit. She died a few years ago. So.... if I could do it over again, I would have traveled to New Zealand to visit her while she lived there.

Now of course, I plan to travel to Scotland.

RE: what r u most concerned about

I am most concerned about doing a good job at work. Kinda a funny way of feeling about work especially because I am a public servant and we can't have the public think we actually give a crap about our jobs or the service we provide to the public. So ya got to keep my secret.

RE: what do you do ,, if the front door is shut...?

this is not @nal friday, so do not try the back door!

RE: R.I.P Ghaza Kids

Not true Ali - some folks in America are still suffering the loss of their loved ones on September 11, 2001. or Oklahoma, or Columbine, or ..... you name the place and the date and children are lost.

The world is a dangerous place. What about Somalia? Or those suffering with Ebola or ....

RE: Is Intuition Always Right?

Conversely, the unconscious mind searches through the past, present, and future and connects with hunches and feelings in a nonlinear way. Its process is cryptic to the logical mind, as it defies the conventional laws of time and space. For example:

You: What should I wear today?
Your Unconscious: Red.
You: Red what?
Your Unconscious: I don't know, just something red.
You: Why?
Your Unconscious: Feels good.
You: But I have an interview today; isn't red too aggressive?
Your Unconscious: You're missing the point.
You: What's the point?
Your Unconscious: You like red. It makes you feel happy.
You: What has happiness got to do with this?
Your Unconscious: Everything. You: How?
Your Unconscious: You'll see; just trust me on this.

RE: Is Intuition Always Right?

excerpt from Psychology today.

• Instinct is our innate inclination toward a particular behavior (as opposed to a learned response).
• A gut feeling—or a hunch—is a sensation that appears quickly in consciousness (noticeable enough to be acted on if one chooses to) without us being fully aware of the underlying reasons for its occurrence.
• Intuition is a process that gives us the ability to know something directly without analytic reasoning, bridging the gap between the conscious and nonconscious parts of our mind, and also between instinct and reason.