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  1. Turtle

    Ben Carson and the 3rd rail

    More like the events were confused from a recollection of details. It depends on what the liberals' position is, and then what the conservative Blogs tell him to think, as his arguments are ripped right from those Blogs.
  2. Turtle

    Ben Carson and the 3rd rail

    Didja get the Vanilla Ice reference, too? Because Vanilla Ice and Tommy Flanagan are who he's starting to sound like. Led a Memorial Day Parade to honor fallen veterans as a senior ROTC officer, then, had dinner with General Westmoreland and twwooo CMH recipients, where he was offered a full...
  3. Turtle

    You should post about this in the forums where more people are likely to see it, rather than on...

    You should post about this in the forums where more people are likely to see it, rather than on your profile page. Juuuust a suggestion. Lol
  4. Turtle

    Ben Carson and the 3rd rail

    No, I wasn't. You've since shown me that you belong in that group, though. You flatter yourself. I wasn't talking about you when I said it. And your still defending. Like I said, those who defend Carson will forgive and minimize, while at the same time refuse to even entertain such...
  5. Turtle

    Ben Carson and the 3rd rail

    Yes, I am fully aware that you are indeed one of the people I was referring to in my musing. There's really no need to go to such lengths to confirm it.
  6. Turtle

    Ben Carson and the 3rd rail

    Correct. He mischaracterized an anecdote for political purposes. That's not even remotely the same as what Carson claimed. Yes, I know what you are doing. It's called deflection. My musing comment had absolutely nothing to do with the media. It had to do with those people specifically who are...
  7. Turtle

    How can my contract be valid when they aren't giving me loads?

    You know that they told men it was between 50-80K, because, well, you know. <giggle>
  8. Turtle

    Ben Carson and the 3rd rail

    I'm not sure what "most" or "the regular media" has to do with "those who are so vigorously defending Carson, excusing everything," but OK. It is interesting that the article focuses so strongly on unimportant details (minutae) as being big fat lies despite admitting that they are mostly...
  9. Turtle

    How can my contract be valid when they aren't giving me loads?

    Posting crap like that IS my day job! Man, I'm screwed.
  10. Turtle

    How can my contract be valid when they aren't giving me loads?

    Think of this is you being a tow truck driver parked on the side of the road waiting for someone to have an accident or breakdown. You're an opportunistic vulture waiting... waiting... waiting... to take advantage of someone else's misfortune. Think of this as you being an ambulance driver, or...
  11. Turtle

    How can my contract be valid when they aren't giving me loads?

    I dunno. How can you expect a carrier to crap emergency freight on demand in order to guarantee you loads? What does your contact say about the carrier guaranteeing you will get loads?
  12. Turtle

    Ben Carson and the 3rd rail

    It is impossible to attend West Point without doing so on a government scholarship. Getting a scholarship to West Point is not like getting a scholarship to Stanford. Getting a scholarship to Stanford is a big fat hairy deal, getting a scholarship to West Point is routine for anyone who attends...
  13. Turtle

    How can my contract be valid when they aren't giving me loads?

    You need to be in the right place at the right time. Some weeks you'll be in the right place at the right time and make lots of money, other weeks not so much. The contact is valid because, without even looking at it, I'll bet nowhere in the contract does it state the carrier will guarantee...
  14. Turtle

    Ben Carson and the 3rd rail

    Looking back on it now it's significant, but at the time it was not. At the time you didn't know it was going to be your future wife - it was just another date (that you hoped was gonna lead to sex). It's an occasion that doesn't become significant (at least to men) until much later, and at the...
  15. Turtle

    Ben Carson and the 3rd rail

    Except in the history of the entire world, no one has ever been offered a scholarship to West Point other than those poor, disadvantaged blacks who were offered the Eli Whitney Foundation Headstart Common Core Cotton Pickin' Scholarship in West Point, Mississippi. But they haven't given those...
  16. Turtle

    Ben Carson and the 3rd rail

    I do wonder if those (no one in particular) who are so vigorously defending Carson, excusing everything, would be so vigorous in defending and excusing Obama or Hilary for the same kinds of misremembered details. Carson is starting to remind me of Vanilla Ice, and isn't that funny.
  17. Turtle

    A responsible gun owner......Not!

    I was making a joke about the life guard. :D A gun safe is certainly safer than no safe, but I have mixed feelings about gun safes. As a kid growing up we had a gun cabinet that housed rifles, shotguns and handguns ,and the ammunition for them. Give or take, about 4 of each type of firearm at...
  18. Turtle

    First time back home

    I figured it was just one of those things where it got confused with something else. That's easy to do, especially when you are new at this and suddenly looking into a cornucopia of new things regarding what you want to do with the van. You may have read somewhere (but not on the Espar site)...
  19. Turtle

    Ben Carson and the 3rd rail

    Mixing up details can be forgiven, as it happens to everyone. But two CMH recipients instead of one, and a cold February day instead of a life-highlighting Memorial Day parade, are not details. Those are big picture things. Details are the minutia that comprise the big picture.
  20. Turtle

    A responsible gun owner......Not!

    No one is saying she wasn't irresponsible in that situation. But to deprive her of her rights because of one mistake is a little heavy handed, and smacks of agenda driven reaction rather than intelligent reasoning. They don't take people's pools away from them for leaving the gate open one time...
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