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02-01-2016, 01:51 PM
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No cigarettes
No booze in pocket-sized bottles
No lotteries
No Federal Reserve
No wars unless the politicians' sons and daughters are the first to get drafted
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02-01-2016, 01:56 PM
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Drive Throughs
ABSOLUTELY THIS:
"No wars unless the politicians' sons and daughters are the first to get drafted- and serve"
Last edited by Rookies; 02-01-2016 at 01:57 PM.
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02-01-2016, 02:07 PM
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Use of the expression "going forward".
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02-01-2016, 02:19 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
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Originally Posted by Rookies
Drive Throughs
ABSOLUTELY THIS:
"No wars unless the politicians' sons and daughters are the first to get drafted- and serve"
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Why would we draft anyone when we have the best military in history, 100% volunteers?
You guys that dwell on this idea of drafting - please STOP dishonoring our troops by making their choice to serve their country into some cheap political garbage.
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02-01-2016, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by johnhannibalsmith
Use of the expression "going forward".
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Yes, time to draw line in the sand on that one.
At the end of the day, it is really annoying.
Let's drive a stake in that one.
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02-01-2016, 02:47 PM
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Street Sounds in Radio Commercials
I'm driving along and I hear a siren and look to pull over.
It's a siren in a radio ad.
Similarly, some commercials use car horns, so I look around and once again it's a bloody ad.
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02-01-2016, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Greyfox
Street Sounds in Radio Commercials
I'm driving along and I hear a siren and look to pull over.
It's a siren in a radio ad.
Similarly, some commercials use car horns, so I look around and once again it's a bloody ad.
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YES!
THAT is annoying as all get out.
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02-01-2016, 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Rookies
Drive Throughs
ABSOLUTELY THIS:
"No wars unless the politicians' sons and daughters are the first to get drafted- and serve"
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How absolutely ridiculous.
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02-01-2016, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom
Why would we draft anyone when we have the best military in history, 100% volunteers?
You guys that dwell on this idea of drafting - please STOP dishonoring our troops by making their choice to serve their country into some cheap political garbage.
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I was not intending to dishonor those who voluntarily put themselves in grave danger for the benefit of our country...nor was I recommending the draft. I was just saying that those politicians who get us involved in these unnecessary "wars" would think twice if members of their own families occupied spots on the front line of the battlefield.
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02-01-2016, 03:33 PM
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Lottery and scratch-offs. Biggest ripoff form of gambling, and effects those most who can afford it the least. 
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02-01-2016, 03:37 PM
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I know where you're coming from, Gus. I agree in theory, too.
I just think one of the greatest things about this country is that we have the best of all time out there looking out for us, and not a one of them has to be
there. They chose to be there.
I find that extremely humbling.
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02-01-2016, 03:42 PM
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Certain women wearing yoga pants . . . it's a privilege, not a right
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02-01-2016, 03:42 PM
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I noticed that two people mentioned lotteries. The lottery here in PA. supports senior citizen housing, such as HUD apartment buildings, which are rent controlled and quite nice. Lotteries, if run properly, seem to me to be a better way to raise money than taxes. I'd like to see a national lottery once a week but with better odds and all of the profits go directly into the social security fund.
My idea for a lottery, 35% takeout, the other 65% is paid of in $1 million dollar tax free winnings, and 5 numbers (out of 48) are continuously drawn until all of the 65% is paid out. So, for instance, if there was a billion dollars in the pool, there would be 650 one million dollar winners and the state would get $350 million. The 650 new millionaires would provide a nice boost to the economy.
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02-01-2016, 03:45 PM
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"Extremely humbling" indeed.
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Originally Posted by Tom
I just think one of the greatest things about this country is that we have the best of all time out there looking out for us, and not a one of them has to be
there. They chose to be there.
I find that extremely humbling.
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True heroes...all of them. To lay your life down for another is the truest test of heroism.
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02-01-2016, 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by pandy
I noticed that two people mentioned lotteries. The lottery here in PA. supports senior citizen housing, such as HUD apartment buildings, which are rent controlled and quite nice. Lotteries, if run properly, seem to me to be a better way to raise money than taxes.
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Yes...yes...the theory behind the lottery always sounds good. In Illinois...the lottery profits were supposed to support the much -maligned school system. Well, the lottery became a thriving success...while the schools are still in dilapidated condition, the teachers are still threatening to strike, and the students remain as dumb as ever. And this after large property-tax increases were implemented for the benefit of "education".
And, to add insult to injury...it was recently discovered that the lottery money wasn't even kept intact so the winners could get paid. What happened to that money still remains a mystery.
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