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    Mitt Romney

    Correct. Not a charity. Churches, most of them, anyway, do charitable work, but that's not their main purpose.
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    Mitt Romney

    I was hoping this was going to be, you know, "some facts about Romney that we won't get from the mainstream media but ought to get from his campaign or the RNC," but instead is nothing more than an opinion piece about why "Romney good, Obama bad", and frankly sounds like it was created by the...
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    Disaster Declared in 26 U.S. States as Drought Sears Midwest

    I've seen it. In the Midwest and elsewhere. In Western KY and many places, the drought-stressed corn has resulted in toxic levels of nitrates in the corn, rendering it useless as silage for cattle. It's bad. Chattanooga may be lush and green, but the farther west you go the worse it gets...
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    UN Gun Treaty

    I don't know why you don't think you could change my mind with verifiable sources. My mind is not closed to new ideas or new information. I'm also not sure why it takes "millions" to qualify as "mass".
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    UN Gun Treaty

    That doesn't surprise me. It's not about Hitler.
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    UN Gun Treaty

    Casualties of the Iraq War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia No, I mean "like the kind that the US military has perpetuated in Iraq and Afghanistan." Did I not make that clear? I'm sure you did, too. Yep, sure is. You ever try to smuggle a banana across the border? I never said it was. I said...
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    UN Gun Treaty

    Greens are democracies, and the yellows are flawed hybrids, and the reds are authoritarian or dictatorial. Type of Regime Countries % of Countries % of World Population Full Democracies 25 15.0 11.3 Flawed Democracies 53 31.7 37.1 Hybrid Regimes 37 22.2 14.0 Authoritarian 52 31.1
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    UN Gun Treaty

    Exactly. The problem is that too many people reference Hitler regarding things as horrific as parking tickets and IFTA tax and bills not even voted on in Congress. If someone doesn't agree with something, or someone, they have to make them out to be bad, very bad, and connecting them with Hitler...
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    Penn State ruling

    Well, yeah, sure, they can argue it, but it'll be short and weak, and virtually devoid of reason, because it assumes that football, in every aspect, is bad for individuals and society at large. As an example of of an argument devoid of reason would be if someone were to say, oh, I don't know...
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    UN Gun Treaty

    Ah! Godwin's Law (also known as Reductio ad Hitlerum, and Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies). It states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." In other words, Godwin observed that, given enough time, in any online...
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    Re:Tolls

    Re: Tolls It's my understanding that pass-through income, like tolls, apply to employees and not to independent contractors. So if toll reimbursements show up on your 1099 as ordinary income, which 1099 payments are, you can cancel it out by taking the toll expense deduction.
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    UN Gun Treaty

    Has anybody even read the text of the proposed treaty? One important thing in it states and recognizes, in clear and unambiguous language, the right of nations "to regulate internal transfers of arms". As xiggi noted, no treaty can override the US Constitution or US laws. In fact, if Congress...
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    July locations and banter and everything else

    I was on a pace to get there by 0900 (east side of DC), but the protect time wasn't until 1530, so I grabbed a three hour nap in at that Pilot on I-64 between Morgantown, WV and Haggarstown, MD (Frostburg, I think it is) to let the Beltway rush hour traffic clear out. I didn't want to hit the...
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    July locations and banter and everything else

    By about an hour and a half.
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    July locations and banter and everything else

    That would be me. Down by DC. Oh, say can you see?
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    Penn State ruling

    What if the cops are gay? Not gonna ask about the German Shepard.
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    The Free Trade Boys Are Clucking: Repeal the Chicken Tax?

    Ford Transit cargo vans are shipped here disguised as passenger vans, specifically to circumvent the Chicken Tax. They have passenger bench seats, and windows, just like a passenger van, except the seats are so cheap they'd fall apart after a few miles of people sitting on them. When they get...
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    Best/most logical apu/inverter/charging solution

    No, it's not overkill at all. If you have multiple power sources (battery, shore, generator), then an automatic switch is the best way to handle that. You want and need an inverter for when you're on battery power, so you need that. You want to charge the batteries properly with a three-stage...
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