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Posted on May 14 at 11:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Man, I hate it when people steal my spot.
Not the way to handle the situation, but you have to admit that at some time you have wanted to wring a spot stealers neck.
Now, how should that situation be handled? Sure, whats the big deal, its just a parking spot, but there is a certain perscentage of the population that rudely walks all over the rest of the population. They do nothing illigal but they are just jerks. If you say something about it all the sudden you are the bad guy. Know what I mean? Say someone cuts in line at the theater, you say something, now you are the jerk for not letting someone cut. Doesnt seem right.
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Posted on May 14 at 8:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I dont see how the polar bear on the list will affect me. But the aforementioned amphibians and such....when I cant build on my own property because some endangered critter pops out eggs there, then I have a problem.
I think they found another way to subvert property rights.
Posted on May 14 at 4:27 a.m. (Suggest removal)
jgirl, its nice to see people your age are keeping up on things. To answer your question as to why dont they just let this guy out, because its sets a dangerous precedence. Discipline is what holds a military together. In the military you are called upon to do things, things that are not easy and most people dont understand why they must be done, but they must. For instance, in war a soldier may be called upon to attack a hill. A hill covered with enemy who are shooting at him and trying to kill him. Moving forward against that is not a natural act, but yet if he and his comrades are to live, if we are to win, then the proverbial hill must be taken. Allowing someone to quit when they want would tell everyone else that they can as well. And at the end of the day, that hill still has to be taken. Someone has to do it. This guy volunteered to do it and he can put his pack down when his enlistment is up.
As to it not being a "real war," there are some 4000 families in America who have lost loved ones over here, I bet its real to them.
Posted on May 14 at 2:14 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Ah HA! Got ya! Dont you know that the "state" is the people? Thus the people of Alaska are doing fine!
Democracy turned on its head. They found the loophole long ago, "Government of the people, by the people and for the people" translates into a government that can do whatever it wants.
Posted on May 13 at 11:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)
akjak, I agree, we need to switch to alternative means of producing energy. Privetly. The federal government should not be in the business of producing energy.
We made our "dependance on oil bed" and now must lie in it. You cant switch overnight. You say tax the oil companies? They are taxed at 44%. Twice the rate of most other corporations. And they pass it right on to us in what we pay for gas. While we are at it, why not make it illigal for any company to make a profit? Take away all incentive to invent new technologies. Profit and competion drives innovation. $4 a gallon gas will kick people in the pants to develop new techs, new energy solutions. Create competion for the oil giants. They will in turn be forced to find more efficient ways to bring the oil to our tables. A true capitalist economy, free of Government (to include greedy, corrupt politicians)interference, is a self correcting system where truly everyone wins.
I am not for striping the land of all resources and polluting the land and water, but I understand you have to take a common sense approach to it. Allow logging, but selectively. I believe you can allow for the extraction of resources and preserve the environment. Maybe I am insane.
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Posted on May 13 at 10:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Like I typed, if this guy doesnt go, someone else does. Maybe someone who just got back has to go again cause this clown doesnt want to. The argument that "He shouldn't need an excuse to get out of our volunteer military" doesnt fly. You can turn that around and say that he didnt have to volunteer in the first place. Besides, anyone who joined after 9-11-01 knew what they were in for.
Posted on May 13 at 9:07 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Wonder if Barnes bullets is in on this study?
They need to lower the price of their Triple Shok, good bullet.
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Posted on May 13 at 9:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)
One question. How much money have we, the taxpayers put into this guy? He signed a contract. He either completes that contract, to include going to war or we make him pay back all the monies spent on his training. Another thing to note. If this guy doesnt shoulder his pack and go to Iraq, then someone else has to go in his stead. It is for that reason that I would label him a coward.
You also have to look at the bigger picture. You cant just let people give up the military when things dont go their way. It is a detriment to good order and dicipline. When you "quit" during war, you are in effect a deserter.
To paraphrase George Washington, "until we shoot a couple of these deserters we will continue to have this problem."
Posted on May 13 at 8:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)
No where in the US Constitution does it give the Federal Government the power to create National Wildlife refuges that you cant drill in or National Parks that you cant kill a moose in.
Our federal government has spent years positioning itself to be the only source of relief for us. You want a Government that can give you everything, then you accept that it can take it all away.
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Posted on May 15 at 1:52 a.m. (Suggest removal)
If convicted, yes, take the car. Would be more due process then when you commit a hunting violation and they confiscate everything.
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