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    Possibly Starting My New Expediting Journey Next Week...

    Xiggi stole my answer, almost word for word. Since I gotta gotta gotta add something else, I'll go with.... standard split between owner and driver is 60/40, with whoever pays for fuel getting the 60 percent. At 45 cents a mile, and 60 percent, that would mean a line haul of 75 cents a mile...
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    Vetting is a stupiding word

    Well, there's that. Plus, there are several other religious courts, of a sort, within the US. The biggest difference in all of them and in Sharia, however, is Sharia inherently wants (demands) to supplant any and all secular laws with Islamic law. There's nothing wrong with Muslims wanting to...
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    The Trump Card...

    Remember how a couple of weeks ago the big story du jour was about how Trump's aides were (allegedly) pressuring the FBI, and allies in Congress to shoot down the stories whirling around about Trump's and his associates' ties to Russia? And nobody would come out and shoot those stories down...
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    Vetting is a stupiding word

    Probably for the same reason there are Orthodox Jewish religious courts (Halakha) in areas where there are a lot of Jewish people. That would eliminate many Muslims and many Jews, in effect being a religious test, so that's problematic. On the other hand, it would also eliminate those...
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    Cargo Van Transit sleeper

    FWIW, in my first van I slept on a double-height twin air mattress from Walmart. And had a sleeping bag on top. The double-height made it much easier to craw in and out of. I used a Coleman air pump to inflate it. It was insanely comfortable. The only downside was that it had to be replaced...
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    Vetting is a stupiding word

    The vetting process itself does that very thing, though. Everyone who wants to come to this country gets vetted. Everyone. People from countries with low risk, of a history of few problems, are assumed to be just like the others from those same countries, and are thus subjected to less intense...
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    Vetting is a stupiding word

    Do you need step-by-step instructions on how to use the Private Conversation feature? I ask, because you clearly either do not know how, or you are determined to try and detail the thread by continuing to make off-topic personal comments about another member (me) in a thread that's not at all...
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    Vetting is a stupiding word

    Actually, no, I didn't forget the part where he included the Middle East. In fact, the Middle East is core context of his post, and I addressed it directly with the comment regarding the mindset of that very culture. And yeah, since ISIS was invented in the Middle East, by inhabitants of the...
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    Vetting is a stupiding word

    Well, I thought I made my thoughts on this matter clear enough, particularly about taking the entire post in context as a whole rather than chopping it up to create a new context, but no, unless "isis folks" is a race, it is not racist.
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    Vetting is a stupiding word

    Respectfully, when did you stop beating your wife? Respectfully, I never get tired of voicing my opinion for issues on which I have an opinion. I do not, however, voice my opinion for the ridiculous reason you claim. Respectfully, do you not know how to use the Private Conversation feature of...
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    Vetting is a stupiding word

    So, if you look really hard, you are able to determine who is a member of ISIS and who is not, be able to differentiate between who would do us harm and who would not? If that's true, you have the opportunity of a very bright and heroic future with DHS.
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    Vetting is a stupiding word

    If you read the entirety of the OP carefully, there's nothing racist in it. The post is about our own inability to fully understand the mindset of another culture with respect to intentions of compatibility with our own. Those who would do us harm do indeed all look the same, they all look...
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    Fast Food , immigrants walk out,,ok,,,take your lunch

    There were a few schools that closed up today, many with only the night before as notice, and the parents who can't find last minute daycare are not happy. Oh, sure, the elitest white privilege folks can afford to take a paid day off and stay home with little Hunter and Chelsea, but not many of...
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    Fast Food , immigrants walk out,,ok,,,take your lunch

    Today is A Day Without Women. The Statue of Liberty went dark last night and women were all like, "Yasss! A Day Without Women!" But the National Park Service was all like, "Sorry, no, we were just changing out a backup generator." :JC-hysterical:
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    The Trump Card...

    Same teeth on either side of the border, but I think they're sharper on the US side. But so far all we have is her side of the story. Need the full Paul Harvey on that one. It's like the guy from Central America who owns the art gallery in NYC and had been living here for 10 who described the...
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    New O/O need cargo van friendly loadboards

    Regardless of the van size, you will not be able to make a success out of it trying to live off load boards. Even if you could find enough van loads on the boards, you'll spend half you time trying to run down slow and no paying customers. You're better off signing on with an established...
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    The Trump Card...

    An average of 1.2 million visitors a day try to enter the US. Between 300-500 are denied entry for various reasons. I'm sure there is more to this story.
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    Birthday! Happy Birthday, pok !!!

    Happy! Happy!
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    8 yr old transgender boy banned from Cub scouts

    As long as we're on the subject of tranny kids, here's a video you need to see, just so you can crap your pants knowing that this is out there, that there are people who are advocating this as being the right thing to do.
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