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  1. Turtle

    Ben Carson and the 3rd rail

    You mean the OTHER banquet in Detroit that Westmoreland was at after the Memorial Day Parade in which Carson marched? Yes, as Rags said, we know that. Carson said the Memorial Day parade march capped his senior year in high school. And, “To make it more wonderful, we had important visitors that...
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    A responsible gun owner......Not!

    Yes, I saw what you did. "You could accidentally fall into anyone's pool whether you think so or not, accidentally being key." followed by... "You nor anyone else could accidentally be shot by my gun unless you steal it and misuse it... beeecuz I'm accidentally-free and accidentally is not a...
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    Ben Carson and the 3rd rail

    If by "the banquets" you mean reality, I'd say you're right. “Two soldiers who had won the Congressional Medal of Honor in Viet Nam were present. More exciting to me, General William Westmoreland (very prominent in the Viet Nam war) attended with an impressive entourage.” Carson wrote that...
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    A responsible gun owner......Not!

    Not really helping your argument when you make a perfectly valid and rational statement in one sentence, and then throw it under the bus in the next.
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    First time back home

    That doesn't make sense. The EcoDiesel is a vehicle engine, which doesn't have to be running, or even be present for the Espar to operate. The only thing the Espar needs to operate is a battery for electrical power, and a fuel source: either the vehicle's fuel tank or a separate fuel tank.
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    A responsible gun owner......Not!

    You can't guarantee that, though. Every person who has fallen and hit their head and then fallen into a pool and drowned was absolutely positive they would never accidentally fall into the pool. Accidents happen and there's a reason they're called accidents. They are all, each and every one of...
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    Any one doing Winders 10?

    I was just thinking last night about messaging you to see if you'd done the upgrade. Weird. I use a Local login instead of the Microsoft Account login, which by default eliminated Cortana and a few other things. You can still use the Local login with the apps in the Windows Store, though...
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    A responsible gun owner......Not!

    One incident doesn't really prove irresponsibility, though, not in the scope of gun ownership (which, again, is a fundamental right that a lot of people are trying to take away from people - that's a dangerous and slippery slope). If all it took was one mistake, that didn't even infringe on the...
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    A responsible gun owner......Not!

    I'm still trying to wrap my head around why it's nuts for 80% of gun sales to family and friends not being subject to seeing an ID.
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    A responsible gun owner......Not!

    No, I'm saying there was a concerted effort by special interests and legislators to create those regulations. If you are asking me straight up whether there should be no limits to gun ownership, my knee-jerk answer would be no, absolutely not, no limits on gun ownership whatsoever, that...
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    A responsible gun owner......Not!

    Do you not know the definition of concerted? And as for "severely limiting," anything that infringes upon a right that is guaranteed not to be infringed upon is astonishingly severely limiting.
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    A responsible gun owner......Not!

    Now you know. People have a right to freedom of movement, for example. Every time the government restricts movement, whether by a little or by a lot, the right is infringed. The same is true for the right to practice, or not, any religion. The same is true for all inalienable rights. One of...
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    A responsible gun owner......Not!

    That's a fair and valid point, but the right to keep a and bear arms is, nevertheless, a guaranteed right.
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    Sprinter 170" extended 4 x 4 payload capacity

    I made more money last weekend running 70 to 200 pound loads of Royals World Series t-shirts (each box weighed 10 pounds), 30 miles DH for 30 loaded, from up by the airport down to Olathe, and from Lawrence back to Overland Park, than I would have made on a load from Detroit to Laredo.
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    A responsible gun owner......Not!

    Some people believe "gun control" should mean "no guns at all." Interestingly enough, those same people aren't calling for an end of Draino, traffic, ladders, swimming pools, pencils, kitchen cutlery, paper clips and rubber bands, or ham sandwiches. And they could, really easily, as none of...
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    Sprinter O/O Questions...

    I'm to lazy to look it up, but I think the D2 uses a 75mm duct hose and the D4 uses a 100mm duct hose. It's not twice, but it's enough to pump air twice the cubic feet per minute airflow rate, and with the additional BTU output at each level is twice the heat output of the D2. A D2 will keep...
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    A responsible gun owner......Not!

    Of course I do. I got that, yeah. Yep. People aren't prefect, they make mistakes all the time. Yes it is.
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    A responsible gun owner......Not!

    The world is a dangerous place. Life itself is dangerous. The kids learned a valuable lesson. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. People choke and die every day eating ham sandwiches, yet nobody is screaming for Ham Sandwich Control. People fall off ladders and die every day, yet nobody is...
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    The Trump Card...

    Well, duh! Stating an obvious, glaring fact, is irresponsible? No, sorry. Doing something which you cannot afford to do and expecting someone else to be responsible for your actions is the epitome and the embodiment of, not to mention the zenith of, irresponsibility. It is the exact opposite of...
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    November and load one!

    Then watched the Bengals go 8-0.
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