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| 2004/1/12 [Uncategorized] UID:11752 Activity:high |
1/11 *YEAH* This is so cool:
http://www.bushin30seconds.org
\_ I really enjoy the frenzied paroxysms of dementia
leftists and communists suffer as their party goes
down in flames. Thanks for the entertainment...
oh, and free mumia and end racism.
\_ Free Mumia!... with the purchase of any Mumia of
equal or greater value!
\_ that's so fucking funny! thanks!
\_ Thanks for the hyperbole.
\_ I saw nothing hyperbolic about it. Care to explain?
\_ Is it really that hard to format your posts properly?
\_ I can't wait for some of these spots to air in October. |
| 2004/1/12 [Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:11753 Activity:nil |
1/11 Watch 60 minutees tonight at 7:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml
\_ But no, we can't trust this "liberal" biased media. Oh no. We
must listen to Hanity and his Fox News buddies.
\_ Even O'reily says the President should apologize for
over-selling the WMD threat.
\_ We should take care of every two-bit dictator in the world.
\_ We've taken very good care of them in the past. |
| 2004/1/12 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:11755 Activity:low |
1/11 http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040112/D8011T080.html so if Dean was pro-war in the fall of 2002, how can anyone say they're voting for Dean because he opposes the war? [reposted after some self deluded person deleted it to avoid the truth] \_ Here's the only quote on the subject in the 2nd to last paragraph: "Kerry said that in fall 2002, Dean spoke in support of congressional legislation that would have given Bush the authority to use force in Iraq, so long as he notified Congress in advance." Dean has said repeatedly that he did not think the war was _justified_ based on the evidence at the time(March 2003). He asserted from the beginning of the war that there was not enough proof concerning the harboring of WMD by Saddam. Turns out he was correct. The fact that he supported giving the president the power to go to war is different from supporting the war. Dean supported giving Bush the power to go to war, but Bush abused the power. These are different issues, and Kerry and you are both disingenuous. \_ Wow that was an amazing piece of dodging and duck work! Sir, I salute you for your single minded determination to stick to your guns (so to speak) despite clear contrary evidence! Three cheers for selective blindness! \_ As if any piece of selective blindness could match the the article you posted. |
| 2004/1/12 [Politics/Domestic/Immigration] UID:11756 Activity:high |
1/11 In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding
warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500)
target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive
felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1056310/posts
\_ Hmm... which is more likely?
A) Illegal aliens commit 95% of murders
B) Illegal aliens are much more likely to run away or hide.
\_ While I agree with you, please don't edit my response.
\_ I'm sorry. Let me fix that:
\_ I think you may have intended to append "...if suspected,
\_ I think may have intended to append "...if suspected,
regardless of actual guilt" to option B.
\_ Of course they're more likely to run away or hide. It's easier
for them to commit crimes and disappear. This is good how?
\_ Well, if they could get drivers licenses, health care, submit
W-2s and all the miscellany that most people have, it would be
\_ Those "most people" are citizens, son. This is a country
and a nation, not a free travel zone opened to the world.
Onlt the US and third world nations have such porous
borders. The third world has an excuse.
a lot easier to track them down.
\_ Or we could just enforce our existing immigration laws.
\_ But it's impossible to seal the borders totally. People
\_ Just because it is hard or not economically feasible
to do something at 100% is not in any way a good
reason to not put in the 99% effort. For example,
it is *extremely* expensive to run a 100% uptime
network of servers but you can run a 99.999% uptime
system for something most mid- and some small-sized
companies can afford. The only 100% system I've
ever seen was in a *very* high end government lab
and cost the tax payers hundreds of millions to
build and maintain.
\_ You must be using some technical definition of '100%'
I am not familiar with. Nothing can be fully reliable,
as you well know, regardless of how much money you
spend on it.
will get in, so we might as well know they exist.
\_ And what happens when they obtain 5 or 6 pieces
of indentification, like they do now?
\_ And as soon as we know they exist, we deport them.
Legal immigration rates should probably be increased,
but illegal immigration should not be tolerated.
\_ See, this is why I can't understand the Right's
opposition to driver's licences for illegal
aliens: once they're registered, you'll know
right away where they are and whether you can
deport them. The beauty of the system is that
\_ "and whether you can deport them": if they're
here illegally they can be deported.
the aliens themselves will come to you!
\_ I think the idea is that illegals can get a
drivers license and not be deported just based
on that. They can be deported if found out by
other means though. The upside for the state
is that illegals are at least subject to the
\_ Why would an illegal bother? They're
getting along just fine right now without
being 'on the books'. I wonder how many of
you actually know any illegals and I don't
mean the anonymous faces that you see doing
gardening or construction.
\_ 1) Under the mistaken impression that
they won't be deported the next time
they're pulled over, and 2) thanks for
the non-sequitur.
\_ http://www.streetgangs.com/topics/2003/112103hoodlums.html
requirements of licensing and insurance.
\_ Why do we need immigration at all any more? Are we really running
low on people? -ax
\_ We're low on people who will do crappy jobs for minimum wage.
Also, it's a fairness issue, unless your parents are both Native
\_ Fairness? Please explain. I was going to go off on you but
maybe you're not saying wha t think you're saying so I'll
reserve judgement for now.
\_ End welfare and people will work.
\_ Those damn 5 year olds on AFDC, why won't they get a job!
\_ That coal isn't going to mine itself, you know!
\_ Why should the parents be allowed to have 10 children
while on welfare?
\_ What are the alrernatives? Deny welfare to a woman
with 10 children and probably no marketable skills,
forced abortion, forced sterilization. None of these
seem reasonable.
\_ You seem oblivious to how government handouts
work. When you give people free money or
healthcare the take all they can and will
act in a way to maximize their return.
\_ I'm not at all oblivious. I know all about
incentives and market forces. I'm a former
Libertarian. I'm saying you can't pull the
rug out from under people without causing big
problems.
\_ Libertarian turned statist? Admit it you
want someone to take care of you. You
want cradle to grave protection by some
faceless bureaucrat.
You don't have the ability to make your
own decisions and live with the
consequences.
\_ And therein lies the paradox: California agribusiness is built
on the labor of people who are criminally underpaid; they
continue to be criminally underpaid because they have no legal
status and will be deported if they complain or try to organize,
but the institution of employing them remains because if all
illegal aliens were deported, agribusiness would be forced to
pay minimum wage to American workers and that would bankrupt
California agribusiness. The parallels between the current
labor situation in California and the pre-Civil War agricultural
economy of the South are striking.
\_ The cost breakdown in agriculture is ~ 10% labor.
\_ The margins are tiny though.
\_ And what would that be if ag was paying $6.75 per hour?
but illegal immigration should not be tolerated.
Americans. |
| 2004/1/12 [Politics/Domestic/California] UID:11757 Activity:nil |
1/11 Look at the body on Harris (Florida 2000)! I'd vote for *that*!
http://www.drudgereport.com/kh.jpg
\_ It's amazing the kind of body a Republican bribe can buy....
\_ I think she was born with it.
\_ As was Pamela Anderson.
\_ You better not look too closely at the face though:
http://csua.org/u/5j8
\_ Bag it, flip the lights, nail it. Be happy. |
| 2004/1/12-14 [Recreation/Sports] UID:11758 Activity:nil |
1/11 Is Chess part of the Russian culture?
\_ Is futbol (soccer) part of Mexican culture? A game not invented
there which is taken very seriously. I'd say yes on both questions
but it's a qualitative question.
\_ Is Chess part of the American culture?
\_ Less so than Russian, but yes. |
| 2004/1/12-14 [Politics/Domestic/California] UID:11759 Activity:nil |
1/11 Good thing DeLay stopped the Democrats from Gerrymandering Texas:
http://gis1.tlc.state.tx.us
\_ Gah, must control fist of death.
\_ No worse than CA or any other state. |
| 2004/1/12-14 [Transportation/Car] UID:11760 Activity:nil |
1/11 Why do a few new looking cars have a license number with the pattern
1ABC123 (notice the "1" at the front)
\_ probably comes from the dealer. like that "NU HONDA" plate
from some honda dealer in the bay area.
\_ Is a leading "1" reserved for trucks?
\_ in case you're not very observant, license plate numbers in
CA are pretty much sequential. newer cars/trucks generally have
lexicographically higher plate numbers.
\_ I've seen it on cars.
\_ I believe trucks get licence plates of the pattern
1A11111 (i.e. just one alpha char, the rest are numbers).
-geordan
\_ maybe license plates transferred from old cars?
\_ is that possible? I thought re-use was not suggested.
\_ I know it's legal, but I don't know how it works.
\_ Special plates (Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, Kids) have a reserved
sequence that hasn't been exhausted yet. My Yosemite plates
starts with 1VBA. The car I replaced had Yosemite plates from
10 years ago that started with 1UAB.
\_ that's the answer. Most "1"'s have Yosemite Plates |
| 2004/1/12-14 [Transportation/Car] UID:11761 Activity:kinda low |
1/11 Does AAA insure motorcycles?
\_ Progressive and geico. geico was cheaper for me...
\_ need a cheap insurance for both auto + moto
\_ I would have liked that too, but it just wasn't
available that I could find. So, stuck with Mercury
for the car (very affordable, and a great agent in
albany), and geico for the bike, which was cheaper
than progressive...
\_ AAA car insurance tends to be expensive and "not there" when you
need it. I wouldn't use it if I had another choice even if they
do bikes. Call and ask.
\_ It may have to do with who your agent is. My x-gf and her family
had AAA, and they had great services through their agent. |