Well, in Connecticut, there is a tax on everything save breathing, even technically there is one for that if you are breathing nicotine. Representative Wilbur, however, is a decent fellow ( I worked on his farm for a time) and he will do all in his power to pass the bill exempting deployed soldiers from vehicle taxes.

I agree. Al Qaida is almost exclusively a Sunni group made up mostly of Saudi’s.

I just misread your sentence “I have not yet encountered a hostile Iraqi, most of them are in fact, of Saudi background.” as being that you have not encountered hostile Iraqi’s who had emmigrated from Saudi Arabia and I was thinking that any Saudi who emmigrates to Iraq is probably up to no good….

Now is definitely the time to sell D&D memorbillia, especially with the release of D&D 4th edition upcoming. This is a big year in the D&D community.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=11298.0

I figured as much. Oh well, always good to play a joke on the new guy. However, has anyone purchased one?

INTJ

Wait… I’m the same typology as Teh Jenforces???  :?

Ahh well we all know these personality surveys are created to be tracked by the government so they can build a profile database on us all…

Ding  Hang on… gotta fetch my tin foil hat outta the dryer. :-D ~ZP

Down here they work as greeters in Walmart… :wink:

But I would if he had an unlimited supply of coffee beans in the magical land of tootyourownhorn and a coffee maker from Ozville, but since I lack access to those locations, and feel under appreciated, I choose to give him coffee…

GG

I’d accept that, Switch.  I would also legalize the use of ALL narcotics by anyone over 18 years old.  The stupid will weed themselves out of the gene pool that way.  Darwin’s theory can be proven!

@Cmdr:

@Bunnies:

@Imperious:

I will only approve of genetic modification if I can program them to be submissive slaves

We will genetically make Apes smarter and reduce them to second class citizens. Thats what man does

Caesar!  That’s quite a name for an ape!

He didn’t work out too well.

Well considering the ape was probably smoking the same stuff he was, then that makes sense…

GG

best monster movie I have ever seen

I think we should have a science thread to post stories on NASA missions and such. exciting time lay ahead, especially that probe going to Pluto and the Kniper belt objects.

That probe to mars probe that will land on the ice shelf.

@Linkon:

From all of the election signs, you would think that Ron Paul should have won the Republican nomination.  Local candidate signs abounded, but none of the Republican nominees who got more votes than him had any signs within our view.  We saw one Obama billboard from the freeway, and none for Hillary.

Well he probably would have, but the word got out that Ron Paul eats Babies…

So sad… Vixen is one of the best…

Yea, the one I am thinking about had a steeple and I’m almost positive they had other services in there as well.  But hey, there’s kinda a large time differential between 1989 and 2005, ya know?  Like 16 years!  Hell, you can GROW a soldier in that amount of time!

Can anyone actually prove that Castro IS still alive?  I think the last we saw of him was like 2 years ago.  Perhaps Raul’s been running things for those two years, establishing himself while claiming to represent Castro and now says his brother has decided to step down (so he can be quietly burried without fanfare to preserve the communist government?)

Actually, the telecoms never broke the law.  They may freely give the Government, or anyone else, any information about you they want.  The Privacy Act does not apply.  In fact, as long as they can claim they did not profit from the information they gave the FBI/Homeland Security, they are completely immune.

I reference the case where consumers attempted to sue Jet Blue for giving away their information (including Social Security numbers, addresses, telephone numbers, demographics like number of children, race, etc) to the FBI.  The judge ruled that yes, Jet Blue did give away personal information without permission, however, there was no law forbidding Jet Blue from freely giving away that information.  And, since the Federal Government did not take that information by force (they politely asked for it) they did NOT need a warrant to get the information.

So giving the Telecoms protection for giving away information for free (the same info they probably sell to private companies and individuals btw) is just stopping frivolous lawsuits and stop the waste of federal money through wasted time and expense for a case that cannot be won, due to precedent being set with the Jet Blue Case.

Remember, the Privacy Act does not apply to everything.  Only very specific industries in very specific circumstances with very specific information.  Everything else can be handed out like candy.  Furthermore, no where in the Constitution does it state that citizens have a right to privacy.  It’s implied, but not enforced nor expressly written.  You have a right to protection against illegal search and seizure, but you were not illegally searched, you gave the telecoms this information freely, and it was not seized, the telecoms gave it away.

Putin does indeed have an opportunity here to move Europe back toward a pretty significant Cold War here.  And it could get ugly FAST…

I just want the programs to stop.  We still have the Tennessee Valley Authority to bring electricity to people in Tennessee and that’s been around for what, 60-70, 80 years???  In 80 years you can’t string power lines and you’re the big, bad Federal Government of the greatest and most powerful nation on the planet?

Top this off with wasted spending in retirement accounts which do not even keep up with inflation, resulting in people LOSING money in the program, and having an open safe to any government spending the government wants.

Then, you want to tell me you want to create a universal health care plan?  Let’s forget how big of a failure such plans have been proven to be everywhere they are tried.  You cannot even handle running POWER LINES to 1/50th of your nation!!!  Imagine how bad that track record would be for life saving medical treatment!  1 in 50 will DIE.

No, the only responsible thing to do would be to shut down this experiment in socialism and return to free market capitalism.

@balungaloaf:

not many. i count two.  and then it took a thousand+ years and america to bring it back.

and both democracies spawned civilizations which had a great impact for the world and knowledge and spreading of ideas.  same with america.

yeah, and then they fell… are we going to fall? It’s hard to determine whether or not a nation with such an amazing amount of power will fall. Yet, history has proven every nation has… Roman… Ottoman… French… German… they all went down.

Don’t worry, I have my fingers crossed for us.

Ooops off topic.

Oookay,…