downwardspiral

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  1. Wow...god forbid you learn anything. Good day sir. www.FourWheelerHB.com
  2. Did you even watch the video? www.FourWheelerHB.com
  3. I voted yes on Prop 2. http://mercyforanimals.org/norco/ A person would have to have no heart to not let this bother them. edited to add: Video is not for the squeemish. www.FourWheelerHB.com
  4. That's because the United States Postal Service is an authoritarian regime. It can be argued they are a private company with limited goervernment agency powers. www.FourWheelerHB.com
  5. Good thing they dont issue most of them guns though isnt it. Can you explain? I'm missing your point. www.FourWheelerHB.com
  6. kinda shoots a hole in the nationalized health care plan. Public spending on health in the US was about $2000 per capita in 2004 after combining medicare, medicaid, state children's health insurance, and other programs. In 2003, countires like the UK with universal health coverage got by on $2300 TOTAL per capita public and private. Without a profit motive, the government can do better than private industry. I've shipped things via the US postal service for 1/3 the price of Fed-Ex or UPS and gotten better service (shorter wait times and Saturday delivery). The likelyhood of that actually happening is pretty low though. Just compare what you pay for Social security against it's returns (25-50% income replacement) versus the same money going into a 401K (75-100% income replacement with the ability to leave it to your heirs if you spend less) The US Postal Service is the exception to the rule. Everything else the governement touches they royally fuck up. www.FourWheelerHB.com
  7. damn it! Sorry I'm mad cuz it won't let me print in chinese. www.FourWheelerHB.com
  8. They won't. Their flying-car computer will use GPS to navigate "highways in the sky", communicate with other cars via a mesh network to make traffic flow more smoothly, and have sensors as backups. I can see computer assisted but never completely computer controlled. Not because it's not possible. We're just too independant as Americans and as a species. www.FourWheelerHB.com
  9. Well I live in CA which Obama will win anyways so for me it's the only way MY vote will actually count. And if 10 million people send a message then it'll be worth a hell of a lot more than a "bad cuppa joe." But hey, I'm only 1 man with 1 vote. I'll do my part to actually institute change. www.FourWheelerHB.com
  10. It definitely is not the case in this election. And won't ever be as long as people keep voting democrat or republican. It's time we sent them a message and gave somone else a chance at the big show. www.FourWheelerHB.com
  11. My absentee ballot goes in the mail today. I did not vote for either. It's time we gave a 3rd party an opportunity. www.FourWheelerHB.com
  12. If you think people can't drive....wait till you see them fly. www.FourWheelerHB.com
  13. Why would you leave the US, the greatest country in the world? Well it certainly wouldn't be for good. Not renouncing my citizenship or anything. However I do feel it would be a good thing to spend some time overseas. Especially in the country my mom came from. Hell! At least in Thailand they have the balls to kick their corrupt politicians out of office. They seriously do not tolerate any sort of bullshit out of their leaders. www.FourWheelerHB.com
  14. http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/07pdf/07-290.pdf There is quite a lot of ammunition for the Pro-2nd Amendment folks in that there link. Is there enough data to change your mind yet or would you like more? www.FourWheelerHB.com
  15. Well thanks to Nerdgirl, the only person to actually try to follow my links, I was notified my links don't work. So here they are again. Hopefully in good working order. Samuel Adams http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch3s4.html Thomas Jefferson to James Madison http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch14s30.html Alexander Hamilton http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch14s38.html Virginia Ratifying Convention, Proposed Amendments to the Constitution http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch14s43.html www.FourWheelerHB.com
  16. Yeah right. After all the smears and mudslinging one atta boy is going to make up for all the oh shits? This election is pathetic. First of all that can be said of either candidate. Secondly I just wanted to preemptively quash the inevitable. And thirdly.....lighten up francis. www.FourWheelerHB.com
  17. [sarcasm] oh come on...you know it was staged right?[/sarcasm] www.FourWheelerHB.com
  18. You really need to stop making such assumptions about me. ALL written and spoken language is wide open to interpretation. All you're doing is arguing that we don't know what we don't know. Hardly compelling. I look forward to the day SCOTUS defines 'well regulated' because only then, no matter how they define it, will we truly have our 2nd Amendment right. Although, I have my doubts it will ever happen because it is currently what gives the government the power to disarm us. Imagine two words with so much power. Alexander Hamilton was right. Anywho, the point of this thread is to point out our founding fathers were paranoid as hell about an oppressive government and it is one of the main reasons the 2nd Amendment exists today. HEll it IS the main reason the Bill of Rights exists today. A greenie argued against this with me not too long ago so I thought he might find this interesting. www.FourWheelerHB.com
  19. nice tramp stamp! www.FourWheelerHB.com
  20. I posted this in another thread but felt it need a thread all on it's own because it gives us some insight to the what our founding fathers meant by the 2nd Amendment as it is written. Samuel Adams 1769: to the right of having and using arms for self-preservation and defence." These he calls "auxiliary subordinate rights, which serve principally as barriers to protect and maintain inviolate the three great and primary rights of personal security, personal liberty and private property": And that of having arms for their defence he tells us is "a public allowance, under due restrictions, of the natural right of resistance and self preservation, when the sanctions of society and laws are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression."--How little do those persons attend to the rights of the constitution, if they know anything about them, who find fault with a late vote of this town, calling upon the inhabitants to provide themselves with arms for their defence at any time; but more especially, when they had reason to fear, there would be a necessity of the means of self preservation against the violence of oppression.--Every one knows that the exercise of the military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects, and the last week, even to a magistrate in the execution of his office!--Such violences are no more than might have been expected from military troops: A power, which is apt enough at all times to take a wanton lead, even when in the midst of civil society; but more especially so, when they are led to believe that they are become necessary, to awe a spirit of rebellion, and preserve peace and good order. But there are some persons, who would, if possibly they could, perswade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights or terrify them from doing it. No wonder that a resolution of this town to keep arms for its own defence, should be represented as having at bottom a secret intention to oppose the landing of the King's troops: when those very persons, who gave it this colouring, had before represented the peoples petitioning their Sovereign, as proceeding from a factious and rebellious spirit; and would now insinuate that there is an impropriety in their addressing even a plantation Governor upon public business--Such are the times we are fallen into http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/...cuments/v1ch3s4.html Thomas Jefferson to James Madison 1787: I will now add what I do not like. First the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of Nations. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/...ments/v1ch14s30.html Alexander Hamilton 1788: I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and in the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers which are not granted; and on this very account, would afford a colourable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do? Why for instance, should it be said, that the liberty of the press shall not be restrained, when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed? I will not contend that such a provision would confer a regulating power; but it is evident that it would furnish, to men disposed to usurp, a plausible pretence for claiming that power. They might urge with a semblance of reason, that the constitution ought not to be charged with the absurdity of providing against the abuse of an authority, which was not given, and that the provision against restraining the liberty of the press afforded a clear implication, that a power to prescribe proper regulations concerning it, was intended to be vested in the national government. This may serve as a specimen of the numerous handles which would be given to the doctrine of constructive powers, by the indulgence of an injudicious zeal for bills of rights. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/...ments/v1ch14s38.html Virginia Ratifying Convention, Proposed Amendments to the Constitution 1788 17th. That the people have a right to keep and bear arms; that a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defence of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, and therefore ought to be avoided, as far as the circumstances and protection of the community will admit; and that, in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/...ments/v1ch14s43.html Interesting stuff www.FourWheelerHB.com
  21. It's a motorized scooter which requires a class M2 license. It's a piece of cake. Take your written test. Get you permit. Purchase scooter. Take class M2 riders test at DMV. Make sure to practice first. Or Take the motorcycle safety course (which I highly recommend) and get your class M1 license so you don't have to worry about it later. http://www.msf-usa.org/ edited to add: Apparently it's not a motorized scooter but it really doesn't make a difference as far as your licensing needs. www.FourWheelerHB.com
  22. porn flicks have plot? www.FourWheelerHB.com
  23. Do you mind being a bit more specific about who you are calling dumbasses? I just went to get some popcorn. www.FourWheelerHB.com
  24. LOL here ya go. http://www.ratethisasian.com/othertop.php?ethnic=Thai&c=men Don't worry...I'm not in there. www.FourWheelerHB.com