PeachesandRay Forum Posts (1,358)

RE: How long have you been on this site looking for... love?

I was here for 10 months before meeting Shelia (aka Peaches), then we spent about a year and a half talking via email, IM's, phone and travelling back and forth seeing each other. As of last July 14th, we became Mr and Mrs.

We're just here for the forums now and to show that it can happen

The CS site was practically brand new when I first found it, several months old.

RE: After all this time....

Completely agree...we should be more phone pals and not just internet pals

Peaches

Is anyone else as ready as I am...for the time

To Change back to longer days and shorter nights

I've had about all the winter I can stand I've got cabin fever

Ready for Spring, mowing the grass (no wait that's Earl's job ) washing the trucks (no wait that's Earl's job too ) painting the shed out back (dang, no wait that's Earl's job too)...gosh, maybe it's Earl that's ready for Springtime

JK everybody...I'm looking forward to all the above and much more to including a few camping get-aways with my Honey Ready to walk on the beach on a warm moonlit night hand-in-hand with my feller

Anybody else ready for more Sun and less Cold & Snow

RE: Bad News

You are allowed some time to be sad and scared. Seems those who are going through hard times try to always be strong for their loved ones and just need a chance to let their guard down and that's what we're here for I will pray for you sweet dear lady that you will find peace in your heart and that the Lord will heal your body.

Peaches

RE: Greatest Heartbreak Song

Peaches

RE: Greatest Heartbreak Song

Your Cheating Heart Will Tell On You...... by Hank Williams Sr

RE: How to dance in the rain~

We might just have to vote you the "Most Romantic Man on CS"

Peaches

I was going to suggest "NEKKID" but your beautiful story sidetracked my hormones

P

RE: How to dance in the rain~

We might just have to vote you the "Most Romantic Man on CS"

Peaches

RE: Saudi Arabia to execute woman for 'witchcraft'

Goes to show how barbaric they really are



Earl

RE: GUN CONTROL

6. Fact: The United States has experienced far fewer TOTAL MURDERS than Europe does over the last 70 years. In trying to claim that gun-free Europe is more peaceful than America, gun control advocates routinely ignore the overwhelming number of murders that have been committed in Europe.

* Over the last 70 years, Europe has averaged about 400,000 murders per year, when one includes the murders committed by governments against mostly unarmed people.17 That murder rate is about 16 times higher than the murder rate in the U.S.18

* Why hasn't the United States experienced this kind of government oppression? Many reasons could be cited, but the Founding Fathers indicated that an armed populace was the best way of preventing official brutality. Consider the words of James Madison in Federalist 46:

Let a regular army, fully equal to the resources of the country, be formed; and let it be entirely at the devotion of the federal government; still it would not be going too far to say, that the State governments, with the people on their side, would be able to repel the danger . . . a militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their hands.19

RE: GUN CONTROL

* Underreporting murder data: British crime reporting tactics keep murder rates artificially low. "Suppose that three men kill a woman during an argument outside a bar. They are arrested for murder, but because of problems with identification (the main witness is dead), charges are eventually dropped. In American crime statistics, the event counts as a three-person homicide, but in British statistics it counts as nothing at all. 'With such differences in reporting criteria, comparisons of U.S. homicide rates with British homicide rates is a sham,' [a 2000 report from the Inspectorate of Constabulary] concludes."16
5. Fact: Many nations with stricter gun control laws have violence rates that are equal to, or greater than, that of the United States. Consider the following rates:

High Gun Ownership Countries

Switzerland

Suicide 21.4
Homicide 2.7
Total* 24.1

U.S.

Suicide 11.6
Homicide 7.4
Total* 19.0

Israel

Suicide 6.5
Homicide 1.4
Total* 7.9

Low Gun Ownership Countries

Denmark

Suicide 22.3
Homicide 4.9
Total* 27.2

France

Suicide 20.8
Homicide 1.1
Total* 21.9

Japan**

Suicide 16.7
Homicide 0.6
Total* 17.3



* The figures listed in the table are the rates per 100,000 people.
** Suicide figures for Japan also include many homicides.
Source for table: U.S. figures for 1996 are taken from the Statistical Abstract of the U.S. and FBI Uniform Crime Reports. The rest of the table is taken from the UN 1996 Demographic Yearbook (1998), cited at

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RE: GUN CONTROL

1. Fact: The murder rates in many nations (such as England) were ALREADY LOW BEFORE enacting gun control. Thus, their restrictive laws cannot be credited with lowering their crime rates.1
2. Fact: Gun control has done nothing to keep crime rates from rising in many of the nations that have imposed severe firearms restrictions.
* Australia: Readers of the USA Today newspaper discovered in 2002 that, "Since Australia's 1996 laws banning most guns and making it a crime to use a gun defensively, armed robberies rose by 51%, unarmed robberies by 37%, assaults by 24% and kidnappings by 43%. While murders fell by 3%, manslaughter rose by 16%."2
* Canada: After enacting stringent gun control laws in 1991 and 1995, Canada has not made its citizens any safer. "The contrast between the criminal violence rates in the United States and in Canada is dramatic," says Canadian criminologist Gary Mauser in 2003. "Over the past decade, the rate of violent crime in Canada has increased while in the United States the violent crime rate has plummeted." 3
* England: According to the BBC News, handgun crime in the United Kingdom rose by 40% in the two years after it passed its draconian gun ban in 1997.4
* Japan: One newspaper headline says it all: Police say "Crime rising in Japan, while arrests at record low."5
3. Fact: British citizens are now more likely to become a victim of crime than are people in the United States:
* In 1998, a study conducted jointly by statisticians from the U.S. Department of Justice and the University of Cambridge in England found that most crime is now worse in England than in the United States.
* "You are more likely to be mugged in England than in the United States," stated the Reuters news agency in summarizing the study. "The rate of robbery is now 1.4 times higher in England and Wales than in the United States, and the British burglary rate is nearly double America's."6 The murder rate in the United States is reportedly higher than in England, but according to the DOJ study, "the difference between the [murder rates in the] two countries has narrowed over the past 16 years."7
* The United Nations confirmed these results in 2000 when it reported that the crime rate in England is higher than the crime rates of 16 other industrialized nations, including the United States.8
4. Fact: British authorities routinely underreport crime statistics. Comparing statistics between different nations can be quite difficult since foreign officials frequently use different standards in compiling crime statistics.
* The British media has remained quite critical of authorities there for "fiddling" with crime data. Consider some of the headlines in their papers: "Crime figures a sham, say police,"9 "Police are accused of fiddling crime data,"10 and "Police figures under-record offences by 20 percent."11
* British police have also criticized the system because of the "widespread manipulation" of crime data:
a. "Officers said that pressure to convince the public that police were winning the fight against crime had resulted in a long list of ruses to 'massage' statistics."12
b. Sgt. Mike Bennett says officers have become increasingly frustrated with the practice of manipulating statistics. "The crime figures are meaningless," he said. "Police everywhere know exactly what is going on."13
c. According to The Electronic Telegraph, "Officers said the recorded level of crime bore no resemblance to the actual amount of crime being committed."14
* Underreporting crime data: "One former Scotland Yard officer told The Telegraph of a series of tricks that rendered crime figures 'a complete sham.' A classic example, he said, was where a series of homes in a block flats were burgled and were regularly recorded as one crime. Another involved pickpocketing, which was not recorded as a crime unless the victim had actually seen the item being stolen."15

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Blondes :)

BLONDE LOGIC
Two blondes living in Oklahoma were sitting on a bench talking, and one blonde says to the other, 'Which do you think is farther away... Florida or the moon?'
The other blonde turns and says 'Helloooooooooo, can you see Florida ?????'

CAR TROUBLE
A blonde pushes her BMW into a gas station. She tells the mechanic it died.
After he works on it for a few minutes, it is idling smoothly.
She says, 'What's the story?'
He replies, 'Just crap in the carburetor'
She asks, 'How often do I have to do that?'

SPEEDING TICKET
A police officer stops a blonde for speeding and asks her very nicely if he could see her license. She replied in a huff, 'I wish you guys would get your act together. Just yesterday you take away my license and then today you expect me to show it to you!'

RIVER WALK
There's this blonde out for a walk. She comes to a river and sees another blonde on the opposite bank. 'Yoo-hoo!' she shouts, 'How can I get to the other side?'
The second blonde looks up the river then down the river and shouts back, 'You ARE on the other side.'

AT THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE
A gorgeous young redhead goes into the doctor's office and said that her body hurt wherever she touched it.
'Impossible!' says the doctor. 'Show me.'
The redhead took her finger, pushed on her left shoulder and screamed, then she pushed her elbow and screamed even more. She pushed her knee and screamed;
Likewise she pushed her ankle and screamed. Everywhere she touched made her scream.
The doctor said, 'You're not really a redhead, are you?
'Well, no' she said, 'I'm actually a blonde.'
'I thought so,' the doctor said. 'Your finger is broken.'

KNITTING
A highway patrolman pulled alongside a speeding car on the freeway. Glancing at the car, he was astounded to see that the blonde behind the wheel was knitting!
Realizing that she was oblivious to his flashing lights and siren, the trooper cranked down his window, turned on his bullhorn and yelled, 'PULL OVER!'
'NO!' the blonde yelled back, 'IT'S A SCARF!'

BLONDE ON THE SUN
A Russian, an American, and a Blonde were talking one day. The Russian said, 'We were the first in space!'
The American said, 'We were the first on the m oon!'
The Blonde said, 'So what? We're going to be the first on the sun!'
The Russian and the American looked at each other and shook their heads. 'You can't land on the sun, you idiot! You'll burn up!' said the Russian.
To which the Blonde replied, 'We're not stupid, you know. We're going at night!'

IN A VACUUM
A blonde was playing Trivial Pursuit one night. It was her turn. She rolled the dice and she landed on Science & Nature. Her question was, 'If you are in a vacuum and someone c alls your name, can you hear it?'
She thought for a time and then asked, 'Is it on or off?'

FINALLY, THE BLONDE JOKE TO END ALL BLONDE JOKES!
A girl was visiting her blonde friend, who had acquired two new dogs, and asked her what their names were. The blonde responded by saying that one was named
Rolex and one was named Timex. Her friend said, 'Whoever heard of someone naming dogs like that?'
'HELLLOOOOOOO......,' answered the blond. 'They're watch dogs!'


Now I'm going to hide

RE: If you could go back in time......

Always believe in yourself no matter what anyone tells you

Peaches

RE: Kansan's 3rd cup cafe... Come on in!

Oh so early spring cleaning heh?

Yeah, well Earl said he did a lot of tossing too, but Ray got a lot too

Speaking of my Mr. Wonderful, I"m going to see if he's alive yet

RE: Kansan's 3rd cup cafe... Come on in!

Oh I would Love to see the pics

RE: Kansan's 3rd cup cafe... Come on in!

Good Morning Daniel

So how much junk have you accumulated since living in your present home?

Isn't it amazing? Earl said when he started packing, that he didn't realize how much crap he has stored away in his apartment

Tell you what I'll give you a funny this morning...I'll see if I can add Earl's Uphaul picture he took the day he arrived here at my house and put it in our profile so you can get a good laugh at him..that is since we both love him so much right

RE: Kansan's 3rd cup cafe... Come on in!

Thank You Lady...it was very hard, but I'm very Happy

I know our company travels to TN a good deal, so perhaps we'll meet someday

Shelia (Peaches)

RE: Kansan's 3rd cup cafe... Come on in!

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmm...a actual woodstove??? Earl & I enjoyed the woodstove at his family's camp last year during one of my visits up to see him

The small home we hope to build will be in the woods and will have a wood stove attached to a double sided fireplace which will be the center of the home. I just about can't wait to move to the woods with my feller

Seems you and Jackson also like a similar simple life...such as Earl and I want to have together. The woods would allow him and his boys some space to wonder around

Don, Jackson mentiioned your driving skills million plus, so it means a lot that you wished me well for my driving tests this week cause I know you understand how difficult it can be to safely operate those mammoth vehicles.

I love the aroma of coffee usually more than the taste except for the foo foo tasting stuff. Have already had my caffeine this morning...I'm a Cherry Sundrop A-holic

You kids have a Great Day

Shelia

RE: Kansan's 3rd cup cafe... Come on in!

WOOHOO

RE: Kansan's 3rd cup cafe... Come on in!

Does your Mother know you're doing this You Wild and Crazy Guy?

RE: Kansan's 3rd cup cafe... Come on in!

I'll be looking for you. Our company travels all over the US and Canada, but most of our business, to my understanding, is mostly up and down the East Coast and up into Maine...what out Arabella, I hope to be seeing you just as soon as a trip comes open and once they give me the okay to come to your beautiful state.

RE: Kansan's 3rd cup cafe... Come on in!

Yes we do have much to be thankful for

Shelia

RE: Kansan's 3rd cup cafe... Come on in!

Are you going South Young Man?

You on your Harley going to Kentucky?

Thur & Fri 2/21 & 2/22 Need your Kudos...

For all you kind folks who prayed or who were smart enough to have stayed off the roads of Greensboro & Statesville, NC....THANK YOU!

I did pass my road tests, skills test, and written test and they hired me last night when our class finished for the day. I'm keeping my school bus driving job, and will run the motor coaches on the weekends, hopefully with Earl riding along to keep me out of trouble

{{HUGS}} FOR YOU ALL! I'm hoping to travel just as much as I possibly can!
Peaches..Shelia

RE: Kansan's 3rd cup cafe... Come on in!

Don't forget your grill, you sure do some "good mean cooking" on that thing

Still enjoying your steaks in our minds

RE: Kansan's 3rd cup cafe... Come on in!

WOOHOO on your new job

I finished the training for the motor coaches, and I passed, so watch out on the roads for me, I'll be the one with the motor coach just a humming

RE: Kansan's 3rd cup cafe... Come on in!

Well don't usually drink coffee, but on my way to the store for some caffeine, but was chuckling about the "becoming a productive member of the household" my baby Earl knows just what cha mean about that one . From week to week he sometimes is required to work Saturdays at work and when he tells me he doesn't have to work on Saturdays at his job, I smile and say well then there's the "honeydo list" awaiting on you Sugar. He just laughs and tries to change my mind about what all we need to get done.

RE: How many of you men have ever really had a woman who loved you?

I second this one for hubby #1 for me too...I understand Claayer

CS forums say often that women don't want good men, just bad boys, but to tell you the truth this is reversed on us gals often too. Men don't want good "faithful" women either.

Thur & Fri 2/21 & 2/22 Need your Kudos...

PS..if you live in Winston Salem, NC...for goodness sakes stay off the curbs in your fair city today when we make those turns in these 45 foot long busses,...it could knock you off