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There was a similar occurrence at a border, this time an international airport, with a traveler returning from China. They axed him why he had been in China, and he declined to answer. They were a but shocked that someone would stand up to them. They detained him, bullied him, threatened him...

That's not at all straw man. You said SCOTUS ruled a certain thing, and I was pointing out that they can be wrong.

And at one time, they said one man could own another based on their respective skin colors. Sometimes they're wrong.

It's as someone else put it on a related matter... How do they get away with it? A combination of their audacity and your complicity.

Kind of like the census. The Constitution says Congress must count the people; it doesn't impose any obligation on us to answer.

And notice how, when the guy stands firm on his rights, they eventually concede that he has a right to remain silent and go on his way.

This guy has the biggest cajones ever, except for the Chinese tank guy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Ku17CqdZg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

And intellectual rape.

They've got another defeat coming in the next presidential election. Part of the electorate wants the gravy train to continue & won't back any party that threatens to even slow it down a tiny bit, or even slow down the rate at which it's scheduled to speed up; part of the electorate demand they...

Actually, the really bad part of this is that the funding is involuntary. If, instead, it were means-tested, so only the deserving could benefit, and contributions were voluntary, many people would choose to kick in a couple bucks a month. Instead, it goes to people who won't work rather than...

A re-evaluation or a revaluation?

I can tell someone hasn't been reading the news for the last few years. The patient isn't in control of much. Actually, the doctors are in control of frighteningly little. Guess who is... It's even worse in the EU, and that's where we're headed, if Comrade Obama completes his agenda. As far as...

This might not work if it truly is an OSHA reg. Once again, gummint screws everybody. The more things change, the more things stay the same.

You know, this jackball reminds me of a joke I heard. A convict escapes from prison and breaks into a house to lay low for a while, taking the young couple inside hostage. He ties them both up. Then he whispers something to the woman and leaves the room. The husband says to his wife, "Honey...

Sorry. 18-year-olds are--generally--not mature enough to be entrusted with a tractor-trailer. If you were the exception, then good for you. I started in 96, got out of the industry for a couple years, then went back. My new carrier insisted I go through a refresher course, the propose of which...

Indirectly. I've pulled loads obtained from them, both when running for carriers that worked exclusively from load boards and from regular truckload that would sometimes pick one up to supplement regular work during a slow period. Whenever I had to call CH to get dispatched, I knew what was...

Wow, that sentence almost made sense. There's a reason the CH stands for, alternately, Cold & Hungry or Cheap & Heavy.

Typos don't trigger the spelling police audit.

I hope this is the right forum for this. I'm thinking of buying a 5.9L V8 Dodge Ram 1500 4WD pickup, but the horrible gas mileage scares me. It's listed as 11 city/15 highway. I need to squeeze out at least a couple more mpg before I can consider this. I'd like to find a V6, but they apparently...

I notice many of the things that kids get in trouble for at school, and I did far worse. I can't imagine being a kid in school now, with zero-thinking zero-tolerance. Adults shut off their brains and react, Dalek-style. I'd be expelled inside of a month.