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You guys really think that Bush is more of a terrorist than OBL? Please. I don't like the guy, either, but let's not be retards.
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Yes, like "border patrol" inspections along interior highways. See my comments in that thread. How do you reconcile your desire for govt services and programs with your love of freedom? Re: health care? I'm not a health care expert. I'm not sure what the answers are, but I do see that there is a problem, and I believe that free enterprise had it's chance. As I've mentioned before, one good first step I'd like to see is to require insurance companies to be non-profit corps. Do I want to see socialized health care? I'm not sure. Propose a plan. I do think that we need to find a plan which assures reasonable coverage for all. How do we get there? I don't know. But what we're doing now doesn't work, and I'm not comfortable with just sweeping the uninsured under the rug and saying that "it's their fault." We often require citizens to do certain things to safeguard their health; we require them to wear seatbelts. We require them to avoid certain drugs. Why not require them to obtain health insurance? Why not subsidize a cheap form of health insurance for those that can't afford private health insurance? We subsidize wheat, why not health insurance? Things like "insurance tax breaks" and shit are just boondoggles. So far I have yet to see a proposal from the right which I feel really has any kind of chance at actually changing anything. I'm not sure I've seen a good proposal from the left, either, to be honest. But at least I think what we have now is unacceptable. How is that incompatable with a love of freedom?
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Yes, like "border patrol" inspections along interior highways.
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Then why are they here? I'm sick of people who come here and immediately set about complaining and trying to remake America into the place they left. Idiots. You're right, people who move here have no right to attempt to improve their adopted country. Trying to impose or whine for government health care is not "improvement". It's like walking into MacDonalds for a meal and complaining about how unhealthy the food is. Eat somewhere else. So, it's OK for them to try to improve our country, unless their goals are deemed by you to be "wrong?" People in America have every right to try and implement whatever changes they want, be it communistic, socialistic, fascistic, "collectivistic" or otherwise. That's what's great about America. Even the constitution can be changed. Nobody gets to decide which changes are on the approved list for immigrants to bring up. And I have a right to lobby for and express support for tighter immigration laws; no? Of course. What are we arguing about again?
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Then why are they here? I'm sick of people who come here and immediately set about complaining and trying to remake America into the place they left. Idiots. You're right, people who move here have no right to attempt to improve their adopted country. Trying to impose or whine for government health care is not "improvement". It's like walking into MacDonalds for a meal and complaining about how unhealthy the food is. Eat somewhere else. So, it's OK for them to try to improve our country, unless their goals are deemed by you to be "wrong?" People in America have every right to try and implement whatever changes they want, be it communistic, socialistic, fascistic, "collectivistic" or otherwise. That's what's great about America. Even the constitution can be changed. Nobody gets to decide which changes are on the approved list for immigrants to bring up.
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sorry I can't join you, Dan!
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Then why are they here? I'm sick of people who come here and immediately set about complaining and trying to remake America into the place they left. Idiots. You're right, people who move here have no right to attempt to improve their adopted country.
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They are not being searched. So how will they catch drug dealers? How will they catch illegal aliens? Can't aliens get driver's licenses pretty easily? How will they catch nukular weapons in the trunk? So what's the value of this again? Probable cause during stops. Like, "you're wearing a turban. Open the trunk." ?? Nope. More like "You have an Obama bumper sticker. QUIT RESISTING ARREST!" "SIR! STOP RESISTING!" How should I know? I am not a cop. I am just saying that it is not a gestapo technique but rather a thought out check point looking for something specific or to increase safety through catching/ discouraging drunk drivers. But your comments before made it seem like this technique was going to catch drug dealers, human traffickers and terrorists. But now that is seeming less and less likely. I question how they are going to catch illegal aliens, especially if the alien is not the driver. How will they catch BC Bud in the trunk? How will they catch terrorists with smuggled plutonium? These things would all be better policed at THE BORDER where they have the authrotiy to actually police these kinds of things.
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They are not being searched. So how will they catch drug dealers? How will they catch illegal aliens? Can't aliens get driver's licenses pretty easily? How will they catch nukular weapons in the trunk? So what's the value of this again? Probable cause during stops. Like, "you're wearing a turban. Open the trunk." ??
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They are not being searched. So how will they catch drug dealers? How will they catch illegal aliens? Can't aliens get driver's licenses pretty easily? How will they catch nukular weapons in the trunk? So what's the value of this again?
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Scott, you don't have a problem with random checkpoints being setup to search people without probable cause? Didn't you swear to defend the constitution?
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pending -- I get 6 weeks to attempt to re-interview somewhere else
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hahaha, can you believe it?? What else can go wrong in my life?
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Should I start carrying my passport with me when I travel within the states?
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I still can't believe that health insurance companies are allowed to be for-profit corporations. Sorry to hear about your friends. But I'm sure FW and canyondweller will be along shortly to tell us how nothing is wrong.
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Thanks for the TR. Sounds like a good time. That's classic crack, 5.8"+".
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Man, Obama's opponents sure are getting desperate.
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It's inevitable -- someone is going to take a giant shit on us for another 4 years. I'd rather it were Obama, cause I've been shat on enough by old white guys. Why not give someone else a chance to fuck things up.
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I'll have my staff get back to you.
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Sweet! Nice pics. Sounds like a good trip. I've always wanted to spend some time up at tank lakes, but I've never made the time.
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I bet the squatters living there could have come up with a dollar. The bank was even going to cover $500 in closing fees. They could have lived there for a year before taxes were due, right? My favorite part of the article: