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    wow... you really think that about the L? well it's clear you're not interested in learning anything in these forums, nor changing your viewpoint. So I won't bother to attempt to educate you. Enjoy your ignorance. -- Rob
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    Fixed it for you. Conservatives are very good at changing the subject ;) That's how they can fool 80% of the people most of the time. so democrat politician's are never power hungry money grubbing assholes? Is that what you're asserting? No, that is not what I am asserting. Here is exactly what I said: I can read what you explicitly said. I live in TX, but didn't go to a TX High School. What I was asking about was once it was noted that Politicians are at fault, and perhaps not only conservatives, you slighted the poster insinuating that conservatives change the subject to protect themselves. I infer from this that you don't believe that there were liberal politicians at fault. Thus the question. You don't have to answer though. Feel free to change the subject again :) -- Rob
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    Do you think all the R votes are going that way? Maybe, considering R's and L's are only 3 degrees away. At the end of the day, a vote not going to D or R is watsed, so L's usually go R. no, but it might make people investigate the other candidates that are running. And you fucking people with wasted votes. No vote is wasted. -- Rob
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    Fixed it for you. Conservatives are very good at changing the subject ;) That's how they can fool 80% of the people most of the time. so democrat politician's are never power hungry money grubbing assholes? Is that what you're asserting? -- Rob
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    my HOA threatened to fine me over brown grass last august in drought conditions. I told them to fine me, I wouldn't pay it, and they could lein the house. I didn't care. Or they could wait til October and I'd fix it. (they waited) The difference is that I was able to address my HOA to come to a solution on the matter. They didn't just drop threatening letters on me. -- Rob
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    blah blah blah... the 9 person board needs to be addressed face to face and vote on the issue. However he can't get any conversation from them (according to the article) to work out the issue. If he wanted to spraypaint his lawn, and that got complained about, I'd expect the board to have to end up voting on it too. Have you ever been subject to HOA restrictions? Do you know the process typically in place? Someone takes complaints, and drops a letter in the mail. If the "situation isn't rectified" they threaten fines and legal action. All typically based on one complaint. It sounds from the article that he trying to get the board to discuss the issue with him to resolve it. Also sounds like the board is just dropping threatening letters on him. -- Rob
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    that was my first take on it. I live in an HOA with restrictions. The restrictions like the one he's "violating" are subjectively applied. From the article, he's going against their aesthetic guidelines. What this means to me (as someone who's gotten a letter about the "healthful and pleasing state of my landscaping") is that someone doesn't like his flagpole and decided it wasn't aesthetically pleasing. Further in the article he says, "I don't have any qualms with [the board's] authority, but the thing about it is that I cannot get enough conversation out of them where we can try to work out a solution". This is also the norm (in my experience) with HOA boards. They write letters quoting sections of the agreement rather that discussing with their neighbors the issue at hand. He wants to put up a flagpole to fly a flag. He thinks that is aesthetically pleasing. Someone else does not. -- Rob
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    Tazed again!

    rhaig replied to normiss's topic in Speakers Corner

    shouldn't this go in the anti-government-contol of healthcare threads? -- Rob
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    at the risk of repeating myself... Palin in `12 is the best thing that could happen... for the Libertarian party. -- Rob
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    strict BMI exemption is BS. make them pass a fitness test involving many different aspects of personal fitness. combined score must be at least this high. otherwise you take the class. then you're done no matter what your score is at the end of the class. -- Rob
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    and did it ever do anything other than make you think the person that used it on you was ignorant and had no reasonable facts to back up their argument? -- Rob
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    That's what Belushi said in Animal House Leave him alone... he's on a roll. -- Rob
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    this is precisely why I don't let the taxing authority calculate how much they take out. I know how to read the form W4. Take the amount of deductions that will make them not take any $$ out, and then add back in (with the "additional amount") how much should be taken out. -- Rob
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    do you have a $20 or $100 bill that's more than 10 years old? then you're going to jail, because I bet you could find trace amounts of cocaine on it. I bet the cops get tired of the "I didn't know story". well it doesn't matter because ignorance doesn't hold up in court. There's coke on that bill and you're going to jail. It's your $20 bill, it's in your pocket, and it has trace amounts of coke on it. No different than if they found the residue under your pinky finger nail. -- Rob
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    I would say that anyone who is knowingly going into such a high stress situation shouldn't carry a firearm unless they've gone through special training to be able to handle the high stress situation and not let the adrenaline take over. -- Rob
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    well yes, but we're not talking about people who have been in the military for 40 years after they were drafted. Nor are we talking about a possible future where the draft was reinstated. (I give it 8 posts and someone blames that on Bush) We are discussing volunteers in 2009 where there is no draft, and all the military on the base are volunteers. -- Rob
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    Are you afraid of facing your emotions? Dr Phil is in the house!!! -- Rob
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    nice job steering it back to fear. you don't have any preconceived notions do you? I don't fear a random attacker, nor a targeted one. I prefer to be prepared to defend myself and my family. I don't like "gun free zones" and try to avoid them (rather than carry in them). Not because I fear attack, but when that zone is a business (like a mall) I choose to spend my money elsewhere. -- Rob
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    I'll take the timeout you unfeeling self-serving cock sucker. Had you even thought that someone here might know one of those directly affected at Ft Hood? Had you? at least give it a week you asswipe. -- Rob
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    this is my rifle, this is my gun!! -- Rob
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    I'm sure it would have been much safer had any of the military personnel actually been armed. -- Rob
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    http://austinist.com/2009/10/14/jason_and_deb_slapped_with_weeks_su.php -- Rob
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    I think it starts with people being required to be responsible for their own actions again. Debt, litigation, all the blame that goes on... they're all self-feeding contributors to the problem. Not quite sure how to tackle it. I usually deal in more discrete problems. So what is your take on how we could fix the social problem here? -- Rob
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    Eitehr show me the roadmap between HC and your pocket or quit the rhetoric. just so we're straight... you seriously believe that taxes won't be raised to pay for the HC program, or as a result of it's cost. Is that about right then? -- Rob