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I kind of miss those vacuum tube testers at the grocery and hardware stores.

“If think that is enough “disparate impact” for Eric Holder to take a look at.”

You got that right. If a corporation doesn’t have average race or sex statistics in their hiring practices, they can be subject to charges for discrimination - even if there’s no actual complaint.

College is basically day-care with sex and alcohol for most people.

from within — in the form of Bolsheviks, anarchists and disloyal immigrants or “hyphenated Americans” “

Still true today.

The problem is that the “standard” is applied capriciously.

Some groups or people can be overtly racist and get accolades.

Fundraising funds should be first applied to reimburse the taxpayer dollars spent on transportation, lodging, and security of the fundraiser.

Never will see that happen though.

Minor pet peeve of mine on this subject. The information indicated is data, not metadata.

Metadata is data about data. An example would be that a phone number (data) is ten numeric characters (metadata).

Why don’t they just use second-hand smoke?

The colonies recieve the protection of the crown. The French and Indian War was costly to the empire and the colonies should be happy to reimburse the crown through any tax it so chooses to impose.

How about putting the cost of education only on folks w/kids in school?

I worked as a navy contractor for a few years and at that time (mid 90s) the information as to when a ship was in port was classified confidential. We always found this amusing because information as to when it was deployed was not classified.

I don’t know if they still classify that info but easy to obtain or not, if it’s classified it’s classified.

Pics at link (arrest photos that is):

http://www.oregonlive.com/beaverton/index.ssf/2014/04/women_bring_drugs_twerk_at_bea.html

Of course, the slaves were freed after five years of civil nonviolence from 1860 - 1865.

Hire a felon and get your liability insurance policy cancelled.

This is what happens when you increase socialism. By wiping out the middle class what remains are the rulers and the ruled.

You may be right about the legal situation, but it seems it’d be better just to send a single cop out there to arrest him to handle it.

I’m likely not as familiar w/the details as you are but consider that just because others pay the fees does not justify the situation either. I’m reading this as an abuse of power by charging unreasonable fees and this particular rancher is the only one protesting it. He did apparently pay them until they bumped them up for some turtle.

Keep in mind that others that couldn’t afford the fees probably went out of business. This is part of the problem of an overly regulated country. The little guy has not chance to get themselves out of poverty.

From the article:

“The source of the alleged smear campaign is Bob Ward, director of policy at the London School of Economics’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change.

Mr Ward, neither an economist nor a climate expert, claimed on the institute’s website that he was waging ‘an ongoing struggle’ to force Prof Tol to correct ‘errors’ in his work.

Mr Ward had earlier sent an email disparaging Prof Tol’s research to several leading IPCC scientists and officials.”

I don’t know if the U.K.’s libel laws apply to this situation. I know their press can more easily get sued for libel as opposed to in U.S..

The debate on gun control was over when the 2nd amendment was passed.

Since IRAs have been around quite awhile I find it hard to believe this is the first guy that’s done this.

Has anyone else out there done this and NOT get questioned about it?

I never have but I wonder if the “per IRA” is actually in the context of individual people, not individual accounts, i.e., husband and wife IRAs are distinct, but husbands T.RowePrice and Vanguard IRAs count as one.

I don’t know. Just askin’.

In the meantime photogs are just going to have to accept the jobs but have “car trouble” and miss the actual appointment.

Good thing the gov just mandated the use of backup cameras.

We first thought mandating air bags would make cars so expensive that the poor would not be able to afford them.

NOW we can really slam them.

BWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!

(do I really have to say sarc)

Oops wrong link. That one was a table of agencies w/police.

Below is the WSJ compilation.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203518404577094861497383678?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052970203518404577094861497383678.html#project%3DREGS121520111215%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive

Here’s a link to a 2011 WSJ compilation of such raids including one by the weather police (NOAA) confiscating coral from a store in Florida.

http://online.wsj.com/news/interactive/REGS121520111215?ref=SB10001424052970203518404577094861497383678

Talk about having nothing better to do. Too many of these heavy handed responses to offenses comparable to jay walking.

Welcome to the United Socialist Police States of America.

I guess Reader’s Digest Condensed books were originally wrapped in foreskins.

To get the full volume, simply rub the cover.

Hopefully rentals are exempt.

The debate on gun control was supposed to end with the second ammendment...

Yup, and the gov will track your every move just like it tracks your every phone call.

Surveiller’s wet dream.

My thoughts too.

Here’s a link to another 777 crash, but on landing.

http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2023272500_boeing777sfcrashxml.html

How do these unusual creatures normally handle the transition from winter to summer?

Your 2% mutual fund fees are paying for financial house employees surrounding the exchange.

If people think they are over represented then maybe they should stop voting for them.

Speeding cameras are proof that speeding is safe.

In the DPRM they have issued tens of millions of tickets. But there were not tens of millions of accidents.

Folks get photographed, go on their merry way, and get a ticket in the mail a couple of weeks later.

So where exactly is the danger here?

Yes, speed can contribute to an accident and high speed can cause an accident, but the clear majority of tickets issued do not fall into either of those two categories.

Total scam.

Red light cameras same deal. The majority, if not all, of those tickets are folks continuing through at the end of the light cycle.

Since cars in the other directions are already stopped, this is more of an annoyance than a safety problem.

Correct, when the rich man asked Jesus how he could get into heaven, Jesus said “sell everything you have, give it to the poor and follow me”.

What he did NOT say was “establish a system of progressive taxation...”

Right-o chuck. I always said eco nazis were just modern pagans. To them nature is more important than people. They will never be satisfied until we are all living in stone age conditions, except of course, those in charge...

Just another way to make it more expensive to live.

Cheap cars like the VK Bug have gone the way of the dodo.

Just like the middle class will as more and more of this crap expense is imposed on the public instead of letting the market decide.

“is a vegetarian”

True by Gn 1:28, but when he steps off the ark, Noah is told to change his vegan ways by the Creator (Gn 9):

“All the beasts of earth, and the winged things of the sky, and the creeping things of earth, are to go in fear and dread of you, and I give you dominion over all the fishes of the sea.
This creation that lives and moves is to provide food for you;”

Sounds like a good civil liberties suit. He should file and see if he can get 10k for it.

Here’s a link to the town there:

http://www.ouzinkie.org/

Property rights ?

Ever heard of “zoning”?

I think zoning was the first step to surrendering these rights.

I recollect a relatively recent NYT article indicating that the last congress was the least productive ever.

My expected result of not voting for Romney was realized.

I failed to vote for Romney, not because he wasn’t pure enough, but because he wasn’t even close.

Romneycare was an unforgiveable in my eyes. When faced w/a choice of a free market solution or a government one, Romney chose government, so I did not choose him.

The problem w/”insurance” and healthcare was that the gov’t was already too involved. We needed less gov’t there, not more. Romney gave MA more.

So who’d want a Romney that would produce a “more productive congress” that would just further erode our freedom?

By not voting for Romney, I voted for legislative stalemate and that’s exactly what we got.

RINOs and folks like you obviously still don’t get it.

Maybe the plan was hacked. Is the control system of these kinds of planes remotely accessible?

I always get a kick out of folks that say things like “How can God let this happen?”

As if God’s purpose is to serve them - to make them comfortable.

People serve God, not the other way around. Life and strife go hand in hand. It’s up to us to deal with it as best we can.

Libs are basically pagans. This is how pagans think. Consistent with putting nature above humanity.

States can issue bonds to get private money. They should probably also use that gas tax money they get appropriately.

An extra lane that everyone can use is far better than an extra lane only a relatively few use.

I’ve driven that run many times, though not for my typical work day. I can’t help every time thinking how traffic would dissipate if all the lanes were open to everyone.

Especially when you see the extra shoulder space between HOV and the rest of the lane. You could add a couple extra lanes by simply knocking down the barriers and restriping.

The entire HOV/HOT concept should be abandoned. It never helped traffic in general and in fact made it worse. States love these programs because they get fed money if they implement it.

When an accident occurs and HOV restrictions are temporarily lifted, traffic amazingly improves to the point that it is better than without the accident and with HOV in place. The most telling sign of what a joke this concept is.

“Q: Why did God destroy the world?”

A: Because of vegetarians. (Note how many libs are vegetarians too)

Proof:

From the Bible, Genesis 1, lines 28 and 29. God speaks to Adam and Eve. Notice that only vegetable matter is indicated as food:

“And God pronounced his blessing on them, Increase and multiply and fill the earth, and make it yours; take command of the fishes in the sea, and all that flies through the air, and all the living things that move on the earth.
Here are all the herbs, God told them, that seed on earth, and all the trees, that carry in them the seeds of their own life, to be your food; 30 food for all the beasts on the earth, all that flies in the air, all that creeps along the ground; here all that lives shall find its nourishment.”

From Genesis 9 lines 1 through 3 (God speaks to Noah after the flood. Notice that, this time, meat is on the menu:

And God pronounced his blessing on Noe and his sons; Increase, he said, and multiply, and fill the earth.
All the beasts of earth, and the winged things of the sky, and the creeping things of earth, are to go in fear and dread of you, and I give you dominion over all the fishes of the sea.
This creation that lives and moves is to provide food for you; I make it all over to you, by the same title as the herbs that have growth.

I wonder if they’ll point out in the movie that the reason the world is being destroyed is because of its sinful ways.

Or maybe, instead, they’ll have four of each species boarding the ark, namely a pair each of straight and gay animals.

The eco nazis are more and more successful in sending humanity back to the stone age.

“I just wonder what they will propose instead?”

Probably something like commie-care. Force everyone to buy a house. Those that can’t afford it will be subsidized.