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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 02, 2008 5:39 pm) Actually the government does have the right to spend money. We have given elected officials the power to spend our money. The idea that you, I, or any single individual would have veto power over that spending.... that would make for an unworkable system. In a democracy the majority rule. We elect the officials, they get to spend the money on whatever they want. If we do not like it we can express our displeasure at the voting booth.  Better hurry the polls will be closing soon.
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Replying to: avalon02wh (Nov 04, 2008 3:14 pm) We are a Republic not a Democracy. You can win the popular vote and lose the election. My point is the Constitution has been distorted to give Congress and the President powers to waste not intended by the founding fathers. I vote by mail. Went in a couple weeks ago. Won't make much difference in this state top heavy with Liberals all aching to cash in on the GW scam. |
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Replying to: larsb (Nov 04, 2008 6:11 am) Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. "....CFLs contain less only 1% of mercury found in the average home thermometer..." Thanks to the scare mongers on the environmental front that would be enough to send people running in panic. A local school was recently closed for days because a janitor broke a thermometer in a closet The media whipped up such a frenzy that parents were demanding blood tests on kids who never left the school bus. 
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Replying to: larsb (Nov 04, 2008 9:00 am) "OK, since y'all insist on continuing the guvmint discussion, I'll make two points: 1. No other better system has been developed. 2. Sometimes the wheels of change turn slowly in Washington. The "limo fleet" is a holdover from the "bad old days" and should be hybridized where possible. I'm sure the people in charge KNOW this. " As an actual deep southerner, geographically at least, I insist you stop using colloquialisms that denigrate the southern citizen. We don't say Ya'll all the time. Ok occaisionally. Nor do we ever say guvmint. What is this an old Pogo cartoon ? We're not hiding from the revenooers. But bless Walt Kelly, such wisdom. And bless your heart lars, meant in the finest old southern tradition.
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Replying to: duke23 (Nov 04, 2008 6:23 pm)  I don't know much about carbon credits but I can tell the difference between a purple hull and a black-eyed pea. Maybe cooking down the sugar cane and sorghum will increase the ethanol stocks a goodly amount. |
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Nov 04, 2008 4:39 pm)
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Replying to: houdini1 (Nov 04, 2008 7:36 pm)
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Replying to: duke23 (Nov 04, 2008 6:23 pm) I'm a born and raised TEXAN. Y'all is my middle name. I never even heard the term "you guys" until I got into the Marines at age 18 and started mingling with Yankees. And "guvmint" is my own personal take on that word. As far as I know, I invented the word.
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Replying to: larsb (Nov 05, 2008 6:28 am) I'd make some comment about Texas being about as southern as South Florida but that would just get me started on real BBQ vs grilled beef ribs and y'all don't want to go there. Where I grew up, Arkansas was a border state. Texas is a wonderful state and all, but we considered it Western back in the Deep South. I think GW is one reason it's so hard to find authentic pulled pork shoulder these days. They make BBQ at a joint in Venice California that gets wonderful reviews, but it has the flavor of stainless steel smokeless cookers to me. The local guy here must inject liquid smoke into his shoulders with a hypodermic. Some air pollution gets the juices flowing.
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Replying to: steve_ (Nov 05, 2008 8:54 am) 
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