Jim Cowan

Yeah, you guys don't know anything about assistive devices.

We were discussing a guy in a wheelchair getting shot 9 times in the back.

No thanks, he wants at least 10 years and I don't even want him 6 years from now.

We don't mind if you and your gun buddies make fun of us.

You have to ask yourself: are they carrying? And, as stupid as these two are, the answer is probably "yes".

The border is guarded by Mounties in red tunics, on horseback.

I'm having a hard time seeing the Rangers as winners. I think they are crazy.

Ha ha, you got an email from Microsoft customer service saying that the signal was getting weak.

That cop's name is Remington. JHC. You've got to be kidding me. He's been living this fantasy for his entire life.

Stand at a safe distance from the wheelchair, in case he spins around unexpectadly. Empty your clip into his back. Cuff him.

We did passion fruit already. You know, in the early '70s that was the most absurd thing that the Pythons could think of, and that is really saying something. And let us remember the most prescient aspect of that skit. When Graham Chapman attacks with a banana, Cleese kills him with a 6-shooter. 50 years later, that is reality.

Javy's strikeouts? He was slightly more than 1 per game during his quarter season with the Mets, so I am hoping for a continuation of that. That helped to boost his walk rate, and his OBP to .371. .371! Imagine him with his power and speed, and an OBP of .371. I know, small sample, but it happened after a change of scenery, perhaps some new advice, and perhaps a realization finally that his results so far, although good, might not be the best that his talent could deliver. So it is the season for optimism, and I am hoping for 160 K's and an OBP of over .360.

Yes we know very well that he had a knife. He might also have stolen a tool box from Walmart. There, that balances it up, shooting him 9 times in the back seems more reasonable now. Good grief. A couple of years ago here, 2 cops shot a guy who was off his meds and was brandishing a shovel.

That's a continuing problem isn't it? Even if we could get all the handguns out of society...cops will still have them. On every police force in North America there are people like that guy. A recently retired cop around here said this, on the subject of law enforcement salaries: "Our problem is not recruiting people for the salaries we pay. Our problem is, how do we keep out the people who would do it for free?"

I want an R/R first baseman who bats 7th for his high school team

I never said even once that I understand the attitude to guns in the US. It is impossible, bewildering, for anyone who was not raised there. No one who lives in any other country in the world could even begin to understand it. There is no disagreement on that point.

I guess I could take down my Rule V banners, and put up Christmas decorations instead. Sigh.

Banning the manufacture of semi-automatic weapons is not some radical new thought. Your country did exactly that from 1994 to 2004. It even called them "assault weapons" in the legislation lol.

Let's see what everyone wants to do. The PBR and the popcorn will probably still be good next year.

We do, but our deer don't shoot back with semi-automatics.

Everything that is wrong with baseball right now is caused by the ball. Go back to the 1985 ball. (Not 1987).

"Most", but not "all". Are you trying to say that I can't buy a deer rifle that is not semi-automatic?

Who is anti-gun? I don't care if you own a deer rifle or a shotgun. You should actually read what other people write. Who said stop making guns? I said stop making semi automatics. There is no purpose for them in your society. Again, you should read more carefully and respond with more precision.

Well then just stop producing them. This isn't rocket science.

That is a very scary situation. I would be more worried, though, about getting shot by the 3 year old kid in the cart behind me, fumbling in his mom's purse.