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Water is dirty
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- Covington, WA
Is that a rebuttal?
Is that a rebuttal?
I was hoping it would count as one.
Agreed but I don't think this eliminates "reasonable doubt" I've sold a few cars where other people haggle for the buyer. None have borrowed money from the other though.
Is there a law saying you can't borrow money to buy a gun? Maybe the seller wasn't paying attention during the cash transfer. Alot of possibilities but I think him telling the guy to give the weapon back is enough "reasonable doubt" for me.
yeah, it's a multi thousand pound wheeled tool of destruction that for some reason we let any yahoo drive while drinking coffee and reading the morning paper or texting their significant other. Truth be told I'd rather everyone in the country had a gun, and fewer people had cars, people wouldn't be using the guns two or three times a day on the same public roads I am on.A car is not a firearm.
1 - a civil war will not happen, the lines between left and right are not easily drawn state by state. When you look at the map, large cities are generally more left leaning while smaller cities and less populated areas are generally more right leaning.But for me and the rest of the world looking in to the affairs of the U.S., (I can comment as I have relatives in the U.S. and my wife is also from there), the hatred expressed by the left and the right for each other in the U.S. is self defeating and rather sickening --I don't think that you really wish to lead yourselves to another civil war.
The U.S. citizenry has allowed its corporations to rob and pillage and send you all to the poor-house (1 in 10 of you are in foreclosure, and getting a new job means getting picked up by McDonald's instead of a decent paying manufacturing or professional job) and yet you occupy all of your individual political energy fighting over whether you need less or more government. Whether you should have social programmes or not. Blue or Red.
Joe, spend your energy of getting mad at the real culprits of your system, the people and institutions that are really f*cking over your neighbors and family. Don't let them fool you into thinking this is about the left and the right, that is a sucker's bet.
yeah, it's a multi thousand pound wheeled tool of destruction that for some reason we let any yahoo drive while drinking coffee and reading the morning paper or texting their significant other.
A car is not a firearm.
Well yeah, there are laws against straw purchasing, which is what was alleged, charged, proven, and convicted. The event was witnessed as testified, the evidence was presented, and a jury of the defendant's peers found it to be enough to convict. It doesn't get any more clear than that. This isn't an 'alleged' act that you typically see shown in the papers where charges were filed and it hasn't even been through the court yet... Given the information in the article and knowing the law, it's obvious he knowingly sold the firearm to someone buying it for another who wasn't eligible. AKA: "straw purchase".
..1 - a civil war will not happen, the lines between left and right are not easily drawn state by state. When you look at the map, large cities are generally more left leaning while smaller cities and less populated areas are generally more right leaning.
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2 - most of the people who are in foreclosure just learned a real hard lesson in "live within your means" because they knowingly borrowed too much, more than they could even afford in a best-case, rose colored glasses world. .. .. Everyone who was foreclosed and will be foreclosed signed the paper that said they would pay back that money .. .. they are selfishly trying to dump it instead of carrying through on their part of the agreement..
yeah, it's a multi thousand pound wheeled tool of destruction that for some reason we let any yahoo drive while drinking coffee and reading the morning paper or texting their significant other. Truth be told I'd rather everyone in the country had a gun, and fewer people had cars, people wouldn't be using the guns two or three times a day on the same public roads I am on.
I don't hate anyone for what they voted, heck some of my best friends voted for Obama. But that's got nothing to do with the topic this thread was originally started on.
Hadn't realized that banks were demanding that people pay the difference, from what I've seen, being underwater just means that IF you sell it right now, you take the loss, while if you stay put and keep paying your agreed mortgage payments, you keep the house. If it is as you say, I fully agree, that's a pretty crappy position to be in.
I know of a couple people who have lost their homes out here and it's been largely because they just didn't want to pay anymore. They could afford it but didn't want to stop buying a bunch of other stuff.
Not all civil wars are east-west, north-south. Look at Sri Lanka, El Salvador, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Guatemala.. My concern, shared by many, is that the attitudes of hatred and contempt by U.S. citizens toward fellow citizens and elected representatives simply because of differences in philosophy on how best to provide to the entire citizenry can only lead to violence. Do you really seek harm to your neighbor simply because he votes Democrat or Republican?
To wish such is absurd. Your political system is a two party system operating under the theory that a balance between the ideologies would serve the general population effectively, to have hatred for the other party suggests that you somehow believe that a one party system would be preferable, yet you have an even stronger stated hatred for the one party communist systems.
All readers are sure to be happy that you are doing well and living within your means, but please have some compassion and understanding for those that were pulled down by your country's economic downturn.
They are not "selfishly trying to dump" their properties. They cannot get new financing! Their mortgage holder has called their notes because the amount owed exceeds the resale value of the property. They are faced with huge lump sum payment demands. If their $300,000 property was financed at 75% and is now worth only $200,000, their mortgage holder is demanding they pay pay down $75,000.
Could be worse, Ice... I mean think about it, we could be Canadian.
But the number one great thing.. have you tried our beer? :canada:
I gotta tell you guy, the Canadian economy is pretty good, the heath care is great and covered primarily through general taxation so it's not a hardship for our lower income citizens.
Stories about needing bureaucratic approval for treatment are just B.S., I go see my doctor (his name is Gervais, I've known him for about 10 years), we discuss my cholesterol and his squash game and he prescribes me 10 mg of Lipitor. My wife broke her ankle doing aerobics about 2 years ago and everything was covered except I paid extra (i think $80) for a walking cast, the plaster cast would have been $0. My 80 year old mother has had cataract surgery in both eyes, they replaced her lenses with artificial ones and she can see great now. My brother's wife had some complications giving birth to my new niece two years ago and required an emergency C-section, all covered and never once has any doctor needed to consult with anyone except other doctors if they need specialist advice.
Our political system is a constitutional monarchy which operates like a cross between a representational democratic republic like the U.S. has and the parliamentary monarchy that the U.K. has.
We have two main parties, the Conservatives and the Liberals and then several smaller parties
We have a greater separation of church and state then the U.S. has in so much that religious prerogatives do not enter political discussion and debate, our political infrastructure is there to administer our country, not dictate our manner of living and beliefs, that is the individual's business thank you.
Down sides.. our cell phones cost too much and so do our Internet connections. Some of our government levels don't have a clue on how to not waste cash. We managed to spend a billion f*cking dollars for security on the G8 and G20 international economic conferences this summer and still managed to have a police car start on fire,
the City of Toronto just spent $100,000 on an aluminum palm tree. What the hell for, I have no idea, but I'm sure the reason is just as absurd as the price.
But the number one great thing.. have you tried our beer? :canada:
But the number one great thing.. have you tried our beer? :canada: