Michael211_2000 Forum Posts (775)

Blondes

I cheat, I Google.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: WHAT'S WRONG WITH WESTERN WOMEN?

Well I'm gonna complain because there's definitely something wrong with the gals around here... I've not been able to find a movie and dinner date in years now. I'm a simple guy, college degreed and own my own home here (not a mansion, but certainly not a dump!)... not fat, not old, don't think I'm particularly ugly, not tall but taller than average (ps. average male height in the U.S. is 5'8")... so what gives? I've actually been told that because I've never been married (and divorced, I presume) that I'm not "dating material" according to the gals here... wtf?

I need a Mary Jane Watson to come rescue me... and go to the movies with me or go rollerblading or something! Geez! I feel like I'm screwed here and I haven't even done anything wrong.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Hello Texas users!

Welcome to the Great State of Texas, Angel!



- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Blondes

Three blondes were walking through a field when they came across a set of tracks.

The first blonde looked down at the tracks and said, "I think they could be bird tracks."

The second blonde went to look and said, "No, I think these are deer tracks."

They stepped aside and the third blonde went over to the tracks. She looked down, and before she could voice an opinion she got run over by the train!

Hello!

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Blondes

A blonde and a redhead went to the bar after work for a drink, and sat at the bar watching the 6 O'clock news. A man was shown threatening to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge, and the blonde bet the redhead $50 that he wouldn't jump!

Sure enough, he jumped, so the blonde gave the redhead her $50. The redhead refused saying "I can't take this, you're my friend."

But the blonde insisted saying, "No. A bet's a bet."

Then the redhead said, "Listen, I have to tell you that I saw this on the 5 O'clock news, so I can't take your money."

The blonde replied, "Well, so did I but I didn't think he would jump again!"

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Blondes

Good ones! I like'em! Especially the lightning storm one.

Q: What does a blonde say when you blow in her ear?
A: Thanks for the fill-up!



- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Is Every Woman Shallow??....

Everybody and I mean EVERYBODY is Shallow, in one way or another. I can guarantee you that there are women on here that you would find fault with and not be attracted to, and that they'd likely say you are 1 shallow fella for not being interested in getting to know them better. Shallowness is in the mind of the beholder. LOL!

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Blondes

Ok I'm drawing a blank here... sorry.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Why do men run from a single parent?

The women that've had children with Mr. Wrong aren't worth it. We single men without kids turn and walk away because we don't want the drama and complications that come with somebody else's kids. Don't compare *us* to the men that got you gals knocked up... we didn't do it, you and he did and it was your choice. That's your screw-up, not ours! Quit trying to shift the blame.

Ever consider that much of our behaviors are driven by our genes, and your children have 50% of that guy's genes which WILL drive their behavior as adults. Of course, they have 50% of your genes also, which does not bode well either... congrats, your kids are screwed from the get-go.



No, just the men YOU choose to f**k with... which says alot about your choice in men. You put yourself in that position. Great going there!



If you wanna criticise people's worth, start by taking a good long look at your own worth! It probably isn't as high as you think it is.



- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: GUN CONTROL....is it a good thing

Best post I've seen yet on this topic! Short sweet and to the point.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: GUN CONTROL....is it a good thing

That's ok, cause I do hate them Snuggs. Guns should be for killing people, not wildlife. Wanna be a big tough man, then go kill a deer with your own bare hands if you think you can... blowing bambi away at your "deer feeder" with an AK-47 at 30 yards off in a camoflaged deer stand is just about as childish and cowardly as I can possibly imagine. There is no honor in such a thing.

The day I go hunting in the forest, is the day hunters in that forest better beware!

Guns were designed developed and made for killing people. War made the gun more accurrate and lethal and prompted it's mass production, not peace and certainly not hunting.

Killing for sport is not honorable and I do not respect those that engage in such cowardly activities.

But I digress... sorry.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: GUN CONTROL....is it a good thing

Now let me think this thru for just a second... a woman President with PMS and a Nuclear Aresenal at her disposal... yeah, that should work well.

I have nothing against that idea, but the rest of the world might just wanna think about it some more. I can see the Taliban in Afganistan and Pakistan having a REALLY BAD DAY around the 1st of the month.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: GUN CONTROL....is it a good thing

As long as Homo-Sapians walk this world, there will not be peace. It's in our genes unfortunately, even Chimps attack one another often without a reason.

If you outlaw all guns and go around collecting and destroying the guns, people will turn to knives and other sharp objects... some of the greatest loss of human life at the hands of other humans occurred long before guns were invented. Armies would slaughter one another on the fields of war, killing many tens of thousands in a single day, without a single shot being fired. So tell me again why guns are such an evil thing?

Take away the guns AND all the sharp objects, and people will resort to throwing STONES at one another... as I say, it's buried deep in our genes. LOL!

Guns are not the problem, people are the problem. Guns in the hands of honest citizens for self protection are an attempt to manage that problem. The problem needs more active management, IMHO.

And for the record I dislike guns (though I have 1) but I recognize the need for honest citizens to have guns! I'm all for gun control, but only to keep guns out of hands of the criminal element living amongst us. Unfortunately, criminals rarely fill out paperwork or applications to buy a gun, they prefer to just steal the gun from someone who legally owns it (while the owner isn't home usually) or buy them on the black market from other criminals who've stolen them.

Criminals do not go thru legal processes to acquire guns! An honest citizen with no criminal history should NOT have to jump thru hoops to legally purchase a gun! That just makes no sense at all.

As a child, my family home was burglarized while we were out seeing a movie one evening... they broke in and stole all the money, gold and diamond rings my mother had, and EVERY GUN my father had in the gun cabinet (4 or 5 rifles and a handgun, as I recall)! We never got those guns back, even after learning who had stolen them. Where they are today I have no idea (the guns, not the thieves who are likely dead by now). But I can attest that it's damned difficult to fall asleep in a bedroom knowing that only hours before a stranger had been in the room ramsacking it, breaking open your piggy banks and emptying them, dumping the contents of all your drawers on the floor and kicking things around... what a mess they'd made! It's VERY difficult to get to sleep after having that experience, this I know.

The point is and remains, there is no good reason to restrict gun ownership by honest citizens... it's the criminal element in our midst who we'd like to keep the guns away from, but can't since the criminals do not fill out legal forms to purchase guns.

So why are we even talking about gun control when you cannot control the guns that are being illegally acquired by criminals to begin with?

It's not the manufacturer's fault for producing the gun, it's not the distributors fault for selling the gun... they aren't making the guns FOR criminals, and they aren't selling the guns TO criminals. That criminals find ways to get the guns illegally, and have preferences for what type of guns they want to acquire, is the criminals fault and no other... put the blame where it belongs.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: A story about a Gun in a normal house in Florida...

You should have knocked or rang the doorbell 1st though. That remains common courtesy in most all of the United States no matter how nice the neighborhood. You see, criminals don't knock or ring doorbells generally... so unfortunately you gave off the wrong signs by just trying to open the door like that.

I cannot explain why the rooms looked like they'd been recently slept in. It's possible that the caretaker had been having company over though... as a caretaker I'd assume she can still have friends over correct? I dunno.

Also note, neither you nor your family got shot. You got drawn on, but not shot. No physical harm was done, and hopefully in the future you WILL remember to knock 1st and wait before trying to open a door! It's common courtesy here, and it'll go a long ways to help preventing such a misunderstanding in the future.

Regards!

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: A story about a Gun in a normal house in Florida...

Texas "Castle Doctrine" law no longer requires that they be inside your home for the homeowner to be able to use lethal force to repel an invader. The home and the property it sits on (ie. the yard) are all considered the same Castle, and if somebody is tresspassing with clear criminal intent then the homeowner has the right to use lethal force BEFORE they can get inside the home. And the law errs on the side of the homeowner.

So if you're looking to commit a crime against a homeowner, you might want to avoid doing it in the great State of Texas!

It's unfortunate that we have to have such rights here, but too many homeowners were being murdered by criminals in their own homes. Kick-burgleries where armed men would kick-down the front door of a home at 3am in the morning were on the rise, and honest citizens were getting killed in their own homes in the 1990's and early 2000's.

No burgler's life is worth the life of a homeowner minding his own business in his own home late at night.

While I love Texas, I don't necessarily love the criminal element that lives here also... and I'm prepared to do my part to reduce that criminal element should it come kicking down my door! This is the only reason I even have a gun as I obviously do not hunt wildlife or anything.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: A story about a Gun in a normal house in Florida...

So... the female caretaker actually shot you (or someone in your family) then?

I'd have to wonder about that neighborhood. You say it was a nice neighborhood, but it sounds to me like that female caretaker was REALLY on edge and she was prepared for trouble (rather than being prepared for guests). In a truely *nice* neighborhood, people don't even bother to lock their doors much less have a handgun at the ready like that. I think that neighborhood must not have been quite so nice in fact, or else that caretaker had been victimized in the past... did you ask her?

Just because it looks pretty does not mean that people haven't had their pretty doors kicked in in the middle of the night, been tied up and gagged at gunpoint while their home was burglerized.

Crime is in fact a problem in the U.S. there's no doubt. More legal gunowners willing and able to protect themselves with lethal force would likely reduce this criminal element.

And when approaching the front door to a home or residence which you do not own and in which there is likely to be a caretaker (or owner) inside who may or may not be expecting you, it's best to knock 1st before trying to enter. That's common courtesy and common sense I'd think. How would you feel if you were alone in that house and you suddenly realized somebody was at the front door trying to open it from outside, without so much as knocking or ringing the doorbell? Would you assume it was just a family member... really? Put yourself in that caretakers shoes and think what she must have been thinking as you were trying to open that door.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Illegal Aliens---should they be allowed to stay or be sent home?

RE: Illegal Aliens---should they be allowed to stay or be sent home?

Interesting bit of history I'd like to point out, since I'm a native Texan... back before the State of Texas, before even the Republic of Texas, the Mexican Territory of Texas (or Tejas) was so underpopulated that Mexico was advertising in the U.S. to get American settlers to come to Texas. Mexicans thought of Texas as a backwater and didn't care to come to this area to settle it. But, in order to own land under Mexican law you have to become a Mexican citizen (still a requrement to this day!), which required you to convert to Catholicism as well as learn Spanish among other things (I think this is still true today as well, actually).

And you think it's tough to become a citizen of the U.S?

Anyhows... now Mexicans can't seem to get into Texas fast enough. In recent years 2 Houston HPD officers have been shot (1 killed a few years ago, the most recent was still in the hospital in guarded condition last I heard) by illegal aliens from Latin America, aliens with criminal histories who had been deported previously and then illegally re-crossed the border yet again and returned. It makes me mad mad mad that this goes on!

Last year there was a fatal shooting of 2 burglers by a homeowner (Joe Horn) in the Houston area, who had observed them breaking into his neighbors home... it made the news because he was a "white" homeowner of Eurpoean heritage who shot 2 Latino burglers, who it turned out were both illegal aliens who had previusly been deported and had returned and were breaking into homes robbing them! Now how can anyone have sympathy for them? Most Texans did not! Some (LULAC) tried to make it into a race issue, but it wasn't about race; the homeowner would have shot them no matter what their ethnicity! He was very very afraid his house was next and he didn't know if they were armed or what, and there were 2 of them... I'd have done the same thing (except I wouldn't have dialed 911 1st).

Anyhows, this is why we need better border security. This is why we simply do not like illegal aliens. Though not all Latino's are here illegally, and some may have even had ancestors who immigrated legally, but it appears that the vast majority of Latino's in the U.S. today are either here illegally OR their ancestors (parents or grandparents) came here illegally (recall the "amnesty" program where is you could prove you'd been in the country illegally for at least 10 years without getting deported, they gave you amnesty and you could apply for citizenship? ). It cheapens the honest citizenship of those of us who are legal U.S citizens from parents who are legal U.S. citizens and so on and so forth up our family trees.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Illegal Aliens---should they be allowed to stay or be sent home?

Scope-creep ya'll! The topic is illegal aliens, not farm or business subsidies (which I'm against for the record, but that's another topic entirely).

Stay on topic, or start a new one.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Illegal Aliens---should they be allowed to stay or be sent home?

Just because you can walk across another country's border does not mean that you should... I'm sure there are millions of people in Ethiopia (for example) who would love to come to the U.S. and find jobs, but there's this little body of water called the Atlantic Ocean that prevents them! To be fair, if we allow illegal aliens from south of our border to remain in the U.S., to live and work here among us, shouldn't we also start sending ships of to Ethiopia and every other 3rd world nation and let their citizens have the same opportunity that the Latino's now enjoy?

I have nothing at all against legal immigration, heck my ancestors were immigrants from Europe... but my ancestors were LEGAL immigrants from Europe. They paid for legal transport to this country and then filled out the required paperwork at the docks and became legal citizens . I recently heard that some 25% of children in U.S. schoolrooms are now Latino, and I have to wonder just how many of them can say that their ancestors came to this country Legally? There should be a stigma attached with being a U.S. citizen from illegal alien ancestry.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Illegal Aliens---should they be allowed to stay or be sent home?

Is this really a question? What part of "illegal" doesn't make sense to you?

There should be a 0 tolerance policy. And they *should* be deported to the most inconvienent location possible (as per Mayor Bill White's request of the Federal Government regarding illegals with criminal histories, who seem to keep showing up in Texas and committing crimes).

What do you think Mexico does with illegal aliens? They don't just let them stay in Mexico I assure you! In most countries you can be imprisoned in terrible conditions for many years for being in the country illegally, and then they deport you at YOUR expense!

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: To all men..need your answers here

Talking trash about your ex's... it makes you look bad when you talk about how aweful the men you've dated before treated you. I mean, think about it... if they were so aweful, and you were dating them for months or years even, what does that say about you? Plus, it's only your side of the story we're hearing... your ex's might have thought you were aweful too.

Anyhows, that's my biggest pet-peeve. Sends me running for the hills most every time screaming and pulling my hair out!

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Blondes

Ohhh! I get it now... "Regular price, 5 bucks, 5 bucks, 5 bucks!"

You feel old? I just turned 39 last week... ughhh!

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Blondes

Nahhh, the rest of Texas is just BORING! Hello out there???

Ok you're going to have to explain the "5 bucks" blondes to me, cause I didn't get it.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Blondes

Ooohhhhhh! I like em!

Why do blondes have more fun? Because everything is always new to them.

What do you call 10 blondes standing ear to ear? A wind tunnel.

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Blondes

And right after posting this joke, I happened to click on the profile of a really cute blonde... and she ownes 2 ranches in San Antonio! I'm in so much trouble... LOL!

What're the odds?

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

Blondes

So what does a blonde say when she wakes up in the morning? "Where am I, and who are you?"

Why did the blonde rancher have to get out of the cattle industry? She couldn't keep her calves together!

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Hello Texas users!

Hey, Blonde jokes are good though.... did you hear about the 2 blondes who walked into the Reliant Stadium this evening? You'd think 1 of them would have seen the darned thing!

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Hello Texas users!

Well... post an interesting Topic then and I'll happily comment on it. Jokes always work well I think. And anything with a dancing bananna is just awesome!

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")

RE: Can you sleep with a girl while dating another one?

Even better... Twins!

- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")