Chucktshoes

I was on Ritalin as a child from K-3rd grade when my parents decided that the school could go eff itself. It was the school folks that initially suggested ADHD testing and then pressured my parents to have me put on Ritalin. That crap is evil. The first teacher or school administrator to broach the subject with me regarding my daughter and/or any other children we may have will get a firm and not so polite warning to never speak of it again. The next one will get knocked the fuck out.

Call me an absolutist if you want, but I can't get past the "shall not be infringed" part that follows "the right to keep and bear arms".

Walnut shells used as a blasting media I would imagine.

Here we go again...

  You're welcome. I not only enjoy these books as fiction, I believe in their message and like the author, I want to share it as widely as possible.

Book 2 is available for free download now through thursday.   http://www.amazon.com/Domestic-Enemies-Reconquista-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B0050K0GD6/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1382375371&sr=8-4&keywords=matthew+bracken

True, but your edit didn't affect my point, so it stands as is. :P

Especially since as I understand it, the federal government is all or nothing on the subject. If the state places ANY restriction upon firearms ownership upon restoration of franchise rights, the federal government does not recognize the rights as having been restored at all. Though a nonviolent felon in possession of a long gun may not face state charges, they are still eligible for federal charges.

I've made a couple of jumps and I never jumped out of a "perfectly good airplane". I have jumped from several "moderately reliable" aircraft and one Cessna that looked like it had been through a few bird strikes. By bird strikes I mean someone's ex wife had taken a baseball bat to it in a fit of rage

That's a for sure Best of Craigslist winner there.

While I can see why one would hold that position, I can't justify the theft from citizens necessary to raise the funds in the first place. Government doesn't have any money of its own, it only has what it has first stolen from the people.

There is a manager somehwhere who is about to be applying for EBT...

Corporate welfare is an investment that provides a return to the people? Tell that to Solyndra. The way you make an environment hospitable to business isn't by bribery with tax dollars. It is by not taxing and regulating them out of profitability. Leave people and business to live or die by their own merits and get the government out of their hair. Tax dollars should be spent only when absolutely necessary to provide bare bones essential functions like the courts or national defense (not offensive war adventuring). If the government has to support itself by stealing a third of its citizens' wealth and STILL has to borrow 40% on top of that it makes one wonder weather we really need it or if it just a really big, overgrown parasite on the people.

Don't forget the welfare for megacorps too! If I had a choice, I'd prefer to remove the word "tax" from the phrase "my tax dollars" and just keep "my dollars".

This is just a WAG on my part, but I think it may stem from the fact that the abuses of the EBT system are much more visible to us. I am sure most of us here can recount an experience where we were first hand witness to what appeared to be abuse of the system. Not many folks look deep enough into the arcane convolutions of defense contracts or other .gov appropriations to see the extreme amounts of abuse of our tax dollars. It all pisses me off, but of course I am one of those extreme libertarian types with a heavy ancap influence who would see 90% of the government abolished. 

http://www.amazon.com/Enemies-Foreign-Domestic-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B004JF4L98/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1381728619&sr=1-3&keywords=matthew+bracken Here is the link to EFAD's kindle page. It should list as free after midnight PST. It will stay free until end of day Thursday PST.

Yep. They piled them up in front of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

There is, return charity completely to the private sector where it belongs. Government is wholly incapable of successfully engaging in charity. The correct definition of charity renders it as a synonym of love. Government cannot love, only individuals can love. Charity is far more than cutting a check to someone in need, it is becoming a part of their life and loving them back to wholeness. I think many folks like the idea of government welfare because it allows them to be self righteous and say they care for people in need without actually having to come face to face with those in need and give deeply and painfully from their own pockets to provide for others' lack.

  Thank you tnguy, as you may have stated the view I hold better and more tactfully than I can. I won't make personal judgements against an individual as we must all make (and live with) our own choices in life. What I will say on the subject is this: Charity is a good and wonderful thing to be encouraged as it is beneficial to the giver and the receiver. The government taking at gunpoint from one person and giving it to another is not charity, it is legalized plunder and it is immoral on its face. If I don't have the right to use force to rob someone of the benefits of their industry, I can't vote to grant that right to the government to do it on my behalf. 

My favorite image so far is this one of the demonstrators purportedly using the Barrycades to block off the park police and keep them at bay.

I was really disappointed that Obama didn't have her Vince Fostered during Benghazi. :(

Double bubble.

Done.

Hollywood only has like 10 original ideas from which everything is just a variation of a theme.

Technically, the one in 99 was a sequel, not a remake. The new one seems to hew pretty close to the original scene by scene from what I can tell from the previews. Plus it has Julianne Moore. :drool: