Elmo

As a true NYer, we are not allowed to eat at any chain pizza joints. You can only buy pizza from a guy who wear tomatoe sauce and flour on his dirty wife beater shirt. It's the law.

With the losing that franchise has endured, being a Mets fan will make a man out of anyone.

It'll happen...just don't blame me for it. It's like saying "I mean no disrespect but..." right before you diss someone.

I certainly don't want this thread to evolved into calling anyone out. I have a very "live and let live attitude." I'm simply trying to find more meaning for my own self so I can sleep better at night.

I've tried to be the most moral hunter I can be and do my best in conserving the ecology. Everything I hunt, I try to eat. If I do a poor job in preserving the meat or if the meat looks slightly suspicious to me, I'll let it go to waste but I never take it without any intentions of putting it to use. I do, however, hunt pest and vermin which I do no intent to consume to help balance nature. For example, I'll take a starling or a european sparrow because they're invasive species that has destroyed native blue songbird populations. In other words, I've always had a reason to take the life of an animal other than the pure enjoyment of taking an animals life. What I'm having a clear justification for is our role as predator hunters. It seems like we're hunting pest, vermin, and even deer because one of the arguments we give is the fact that the natural predators (brown bears, wolves, mountain lions) have been eliminated by man and so hunters take the role as the predator to "thin out the herd" and "keeping the population under control" yet, we hunt the bobcats, coyotes, and mountain lions who's job was to do the very things we claim nature lacks. Basically we're saying we kill small game because there are not enough predators to control their population and then we turn around and kill the predators because they're killing all the small game. It's a contradiction. I also have a hard time explaining the need to hunt the bigger, better buck. In nature, the predators takes out the weak which ensures that the species continues to evolve to be stronger and better but it seems the human predator has a negative effect in that we eliminate only the stronger specimens and ensure the weak survive. Note: I ask these questions because I try to be a morally better hunter and to better define my role in nature. I enjoy all forms of hunting including predator hunting and I plan to continue to do so. The only thing I don't do is trophy hunt.

Online ammunition sale has already been banned in NYC as far as I know. Ammunition cannot be shipped to specific zip codes which includes 90% of NYC. Most NYC people drive upstate and load up.

My only experience with altitude sickness came in Peru. I was at altitudes of 12K. Worst constant headache, nausea, had trouble breathing. I never adjusted. Funny because I fairly athletic but you have elderly couples who adjusted and were walking about just fine. It's disheartening to watch a 60 year old man walk circles around you while you're dying. I tried chewing on coca leaves (yes, the plant that they use to make cocaine) and making tea out of it and that didn't help either. When I descended down to 7K feet, I was running up stairs and jumping off ledges but when I went back up to 12K feet again, I was bed ridden again. In the end, I tried another local remedy called soroche which travel guide books warmed me against but I could stand it anymore so I took the drug anyway. Soroche clear it right up. Though I still got tired easily, the headache and nausea were gone. If you can hike 5-6 miles easily, don't think you can do so at high altitudes unless you've done it before. Also, don't assume if this person can do it, I can do it because it effects different people to varying degrees.

If so, let's say the homosexual trait can be detected right before birth. Let's say during the 7th month of pregnancy you find out that you unborn child will be born with the gay deformality. Do you have an abortion or do you let the child live? If you choose to let the child live, do you try to give it as normal of a life as possible? One that includes marrying someone he or she loves?

Another fact worth noting is that we're all initially born as a woman. The Y chromosome doesn't appear until later in the fetus development. This is why men have nipples. The fetus was going about its development of a woman and it isn't until the Y chromosome enters the picture and forces it to change the blue print. (This paragraph is all hypothetical) What if the Y chromosome being introduced a week late can cause the male to be born with female tendencies? What if external factors determine the speed of the development of the Y chromosome? It is a known fact the the temperature of a crocodile/alligators egg during incubation determines the sex of the baby. if such a theory is true, then I ask you this...if a mother had health issues during pregnancy gives birth to a deformed baby, do we punish this baby or do we do our best to give this baby a normal life?

I'm not gay so I can't say if they really are born that way or not but it isn't completely ruled out as well. I too thought the process of elimination through evolution was an argument but humans have manipulated the process of evolution like gods. For example, I own a Maltese. This is a dog that if not properly groomed by a human, will go blind from it's own hair and most probably die. It cannot survive on it's own. Yet this breed was genetically bred and thrive in human civilization. People can be born with sexual deviancies. The only differences is that in the past, it was suppressed. Homosexuality was documented even during the Roman times. Alexander the Great was a notorious homosexual but he married at least two women and father a child. But if we are only to judge a persons sexual preference purely on its use for procreation then how do you explain masochism, sadism, or even oral sex? The desire for oral sex does nothing to enhance procreation and if anything, is unecessarily spreading disease yet no one complains or is banning oral sex. Nature always produces deviations and homosexual tendencies has always been present. Monkeys do it and even dolphins do it. The traits has been suppressed but just because it was suppressed doesn't mean it can't be passed own in as a recessive gene.

Tried it a couple of weekends ago with the airgun. Patrolled the marsh banks for them. Can hear a bunch but can't really see them from the banks. Shot one that looked bigger than it really was. The rest that we saw were obviously too small so we passed up on them. Great experience though. Just fun to hike the outdoors and doing some hunting dur the summer. Saw a groups of deer and a turkey family. Good times even if I got chewed up my mosquitoes.

It is the bible that bans homosexuality. The Constitution states a freedom of religion. By forcing others to comply with religious laws imposing the views of the bible on to others.

Very well said, RangerClay.

Yes, people do make mistakes but there are honest mistakes and then there are people who make mockery of the viow. I'm not sure what having children out of wedlock has to do with it. If you're here arguing about how sacred the vow is, how the bible strictly prohibits gay marriages, then you should also point out that sex before marriage is a sin. Another reason why gay marriages doesn't bother me. My tax dollars don't fund their abortions. Let's make it clear though. I'm not arguing for gay marriages. I'm just saying it doesn't bother me at all and the fact that in todays world, people seem to be treating marriage like it's a joke is more of a concern.

Did not. Simply saying that unfaithful couples who have complete disregard for vows do more than damage than the gays that are faithful. I'm sure there are gays who are just as unfaithful. I am pointing to the fact that more celebrity marriages last less than 5 years while only a few last more than 5 years. The danger of this is that youths tend to emulate celebrities more than gays.

Personally, I think two straight couples who get married and divorces whenever they get tired of it and change spouses like its going out of style does more damage to traditional values more than a gay couple who stay faithful to each other till death do them part.

I've never actually eaten at Chick-fil-A but if I do eat there, then the only thing you can say about me is that I like their chicken. It states nothing about my stance on gay marriage. I support gay marriage. Who care what they do. It doesn't effect me at all. I think celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Britney Spears who length of marriage can be counted in hours have tarnishes the meaning of marriages long before the gays came along. Besides. In all honesty, the meaning of marriage is really between you and your spouse. I don't need another group or organization to tell me what it's suppose to mean. With that said, gays should have their freedom as anyone else but again, by me eating at Chick-fil-A, all I'm saying to I like their food, not their owners point of view. If I knew that the money I spent there will be used to fund a malicious agenda, then yes, I will stop eating at such an establishment.

The good thing is that Bloomberg can not possibly serve another term...unless he uses his money to change the laws once again like a tyrant.

The fire code isn't a felony but rather a violation and it is established by the fire department. You get a ticket and then you have 30 days to either prove that you've removed the excess rounds or pay the fine. I don't keep over 200 rounds at my place..no really. And if they do give me a ticket, I'll "remove" them within 30 days.

I'm pretty sure Aurora shooter didn't need a 1000 rounds to do what he did. Heck, I don't think he even got off 200 rounds total. So what are they going to cap it at? 100 rounds? NYC fire code states that we can't have more than 200 rounds in our homes due to fire hazards. Another reason why NYC sucks a**!

I tried shooting a squirrel with a broadhead. It jumped the bow and my arrow ended up digging into dirt and hitting a buried rock. Snapped my blade. I went and bought some blunt tips for small game and I can't get them to fly straight. I'll try some more but it looks like I'll stick to the trusty 22 for the most part.

Hey Markyv311, Welcome to the forum. Where abouts in Westchester are you?

I'm more curious to know if they can sing? Maybe start a boy band.

I've gotten my older brother, my niece, and my fiance to take the hunters ed class already. I bought my niece a recurve bow and take her shooting whenever I can. My fiance has accompanied me on a couple of hunts. My brother won't allow me to take my niece hunting until she's older. I can't argue. I may be the uncle but I'm not the father. A friend of mine (who I took hunting with me a few times) and his wife have already scheduled to take the hunters ed class in a couple of weeks. While none of them have actually taken up hunting themselves, I have done my part in sowing the seeds. Whether they grow or not, only time will tell. Like shawnhu said, you don't need children to pass down this tradition.

Heard many good things about the G5s. I've been planning on switching to them for this year.