Nightingale
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Beautiful song. I fell in love with it when I was in Ireland... managed to learn every word just sitting in the pubs at night. To answer a different post, I'm not sure I count as Irish... Irish heritage for sure, and close enough ties to claim Irish citizenship if I want to (my grandmother has dual citizenship, and my great grandmother was born there), but I wasn't born there.
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Oh contrare, these things take a vote that equals to over 50% of all the units, so you have to have over 1/2 the people show up. SOme are supermajority. No, the way the rules are changed and the board is elected differ by every community. Sometimes it's a 50% vote, and more often, it's a majority of the votes cast.
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That's one of the down sides to living in an HOA. The board can amend the rules pretty much whenever they want (depending on what the rules were to begin with). The best recourse is usually to get friends together and vote out the board (since most people in an HOA don't bother to vote, that sometimes isn't hard) and change the rule. Or move. I'm moving into a condo in a few months, and I'm a bit worried about the association thing, but most of the CCRs seem reasonable.
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Don't care. It was funny.
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I think America and America's soldiers are far more accurately represented by the actions taken against the rapist. This is a case where pretty much every single person, republican and democrat alike, has said "This was NOT right and it will not happen again." Like Gawain said, you can't always weed out the bad apples. It's not the actions of the offender that defines us, it's our response to those actions that matters.
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Sometimes things are declared unconstitutional for things that weren't really foreseeable, or went over the line just a bit. I don't see punishing for stuff like that, because it's usually just back to the drawing board to straighten out the kinks. However, for stuff like Pahrump's new law that is blatantly a violation of the first amendment, I'd like to see the judge fine the drafters and council members the amount of money that the city spent on passing and defending the stupid thing.
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With the way TSA has been, I can see why a parent wouldn't want to drag a huge diaper bag on the airplane. They might be stuck at TSA for hours!
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um... they're single use disposable. You're supposed to keep NEW ones in your purse.
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They're just establishing the pecking order. As long as nobody's getting hurt, it's usually best not to interfere.
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I don't think the baby gives a damn whether you want to see it or not. I totally understand this mother not wanting to cover her baby's face with an airline blanket that hasn't been washed in who-knows-when.
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If I lived there, I think I'd be tempted to violate the law for the sole purpose of challenging it. If I want to hang my Irish flag on St. Pat's, that's nobody's business but mine. Sounds like Pahrump's city council has nothing better to do than attempt to regulate the minutia of other people's lives. They need to get over themselves and go do something productive.
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I think you should have a right to put whatever you want into your own body, provided that the manner in which you do so presents no added risk to those around you.
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That was from JaynesTown, I think.
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I thought this one was good: Jayne: "Ten percent of nuthin' is...let me do the math here...nuthin' into nuthin'...carry the nuthin'..." ___ and my favorite: Book: "What are we up to, sweetheart?" River: "Fixing your Bible." Book: "I, um...(alarmed)...what?" River: "Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logistics - doesn't make sense." (she's marked up the bible, crossed out passages) Book: "No, no. You - you can't... River: "So we'll integrate non-progressional evolution theory with God's creation of Eden. Eleven inherent metaphoric parallels already there. Eleven. Important number. Prime number. One goes into the house of eleven eleven times, but always comes out one. Noah's ark is a problem." Book: "Really?" River: "We'll have to call it early quantum state phenomenon. Only way to fit 5000 species of mammal on same boat." (rips out page) _____
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When I was working, I had my AFF graduation jump photos up in my cubicle. So... I think they figured it out. At school, most people know because I've got pictures from my 100th as my wallpaper on my laptop. Most of them don't believe it's me at first, though.
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College Students Ban "Pledge of Allegiance"
Nightingale replied to JohnRich's topic in Speakers Corner
Do you know whether or not that statement was included in his vows, or are you just assuming? -
hehe... I misread your title... thought it was about a guy from southern california who was mailing stuff to famous people who were due in court. I need more caffeine.
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My biggest pet peeve is when there's a "no u-turn" sign when you finally make it to the intersection.
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Mine share catbox, food, and water. Introduce them on neutral territory, like a friend's house. My cats met at my parents house. I took my new kitten over there, and my parents had been cat sitting the other one. We introduced them, and Anakin (the older cat) sniffed the kitten and had a "whatever. you're staying here and I'm going home" attitude. Then, when we got home and Ani found that the kitten was still there the attitude was "Oh! you're still here. Well... behave." And they got along just fine from that point on.
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I'd put cannabis in a similar category to cigarettes, as usage does involve inhaling tar into your lungs, but I'd have to do more research to give you more than that. As for deciding which substances to tax and by how much, just look at the costs usage of a particular substance has placed on society and tax it accordingly.
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This is exactly why I think drugs should be legalized. Right now, we aren't taking advantage of the black market, and we're still footing the bill for treatment. Get rid of the laws that make drugs illegal "for our own good" and tax the hell out of them. They'll still be cheaper than what the dealer on the corner sells them for, and then we've increased our tax revenue to provide for the treatment of the junkies. They've then paid for it themselves, taking little to no money out of our pockets. I believe most taxes should be directly applied to fixing what the taxed item damages. Make the people doing the damage pay to fix it. Examples: Cigarette tax: addiction treatment, medical care, lung cancer research Gas tax: anti-pollution measures, green power, fixing roads, research on better fuel efficient vehicles
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Yep. I had to take the afternoon off so I could go vote, because my polling place is on the other side of the county from my job.
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Oh, absolutely. It's one of my fondest wishes that people would spend more time researching their candidates and issues than googling their next holiday destination. I think one of the most important things is to tell people why they should care, why the results of the elections matter to them. The "Rock the Vote" campaign did amazing things to get younger voters to the polls, because it told them why it was important and that their vote really did matter.
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Does moral objectivity mean there is a God?
Nightingale replied to steveorino's topic in Speakers Corner
Steve, it seems to me that no country will officially sanction "murder." However, the reason for this seems to be that they simply don't have to. They change their laws and twist their definitions and search for a way to justify to themselves, their people, and the rest of the world, why they're arbitrarily killing people they don't like. Examples: Namibia (1904) Turkey, (1915 Armenian genocide) Ukraine (1932) The Holocaust The Khmer Rouge (1975 Cambodian genocide) Guatemala (1982) Rwanda, (1994) Bosnia (1995) Better list here "People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of those adhering to dissenting beliefs in small, insidious steps. They begin by saying, 'We're the righteous, and we'll tolerate those others.' And as the toleration diminishes over time, the inevitable harms are overlooked." -religioustolerance.org -
Honestly, if someone just doesn't care, I'd rather they didn't vote. If they can't bother to get themselves to the polls or mail in an absentee, they probably haven't bothered to do any reasearch on the candidates or the effects of the propositions. I think no vote at all is better than an ignorant one. Edited to add: Voting isn't about going to the polls and punching in some selections. It's about taking the time to make an educated choice about the future of our counties, states, and country.