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Old 09-02-2011, 09:02 PM   #91
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you're calling glatt a tool?
Nope.
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Old 09-02-2011, 09:06 PM   #92
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I'm not your only or last friend, mercy. I am civil to you and I strain to understand and accept your points of view. But you're beyond me. If you care to clarify your point of view, have at it. I might get it, I might not.

But I'll tell you this, you might not be stupid, but you post stupid a lot of the time.
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Old 09-02-2011, 11:42 PM   #93
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Trying to avoid the ad hominems for a minute, is it legal to offer a gun as a raffle prize? What if the winner is mentally ill or a convicted felon or some such?

ETA: you may now resume your scheduled personal abuse. You fuckers.
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Old 09-03-2011, 10:30 AM   #94
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Generally speaking, it would be the convicted felon's responsibility not to have (get caught with) a gun. And there are many states that do not have laws against the mentally ill having a gun. There is an age limit in most places, but there is also a gambling age limit preventing them from participating in raffles. Depending on where they are, the winner may or may not have to go through some standard waiting period before actually retrieving his new weapon from the retailer.
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Old 09-07-2011, 11:29 PM   #95
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They're Democrats or in The Cellar.
I cite Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) as a counterexample. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as an example of one who seems... rather off. Past the Sell-By date.

Waters is the kind of gal the TEA Partiers vote against. Though her constituency... deserves her. Pelosi, being of the Great Big Government spend-the-money-you-don't-have persuasion -- gotta keep the bread and circuses going regardless -- is another, being fiscally irresponsible in the largest humanly possible way.

Voting oneself the treasury isn't much good if you're inflating the currency. This is one reason I think Democrats are such dopes.
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Old 09-07-2011, 11:35 PM   #96
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being fiscally irresponsible in the largest humanly possible way.

Voting oneself the treasury isn't much good if you're inflating the currency.
Dude - seriously? The R's have done more of both than the D's.
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Old 09-08-2011, 12:24 AM   #97
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Dude, it's kind of hard to beat obligating to a 14 trillion dollar debt. This is astronomically irresponsible.

Not being thrilled with the Republicans' degree of fiscal discipline either is why I often vote Libertarian instead of anything from the Big Two.

But the Democrats -- they've taken it to an absurd scale. Unsustainable. And uncaring also.
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Old 09-08-2011, 12:54 PM   #98
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ok. Define what makes up that debt.
Have you considered the amount for the wars which were not accounted for under the last administration? Y/N only please.
How much was that?
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Old 09-08-2011, 05:09 PM   #99
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pssssst! Classic! Arguing with UG is like arguing with the Borg. You WILL be assimilated.
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Old 09-08-2011, 05:13 PM   #100
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He's harmless. Didja notice the Y/N part.. ")
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Old 09-08-2011, 05:39 PM   #101
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So was UG advocating not honoring our debt, while the world economy teeters? Ron Paul used to talk about how a transition to a less active/intrusive government had to be incremental to avoid unnecessary suffering and trauma. As far as labels go, I wouldn't call any of these Republicans, accept for Paul, libertarian at least not in the social realm.

The press seems to be giving Huntsman the Ron Paul treatment, maybe because he is close enough to center to be electable?
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Old 09-08-2011, 06:31 PM   #102
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No BigV, YOU need to prove why glatt is not a tool. Otherwise, if you can't prove he's not, then he is.
Correct. Otherwise you are a tool!
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Old 09-08-2011, 07:59 PM   #103
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file = tool? Or am I reading too much into it?
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Old 09-08-2011, 08:02 PM   #104
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Trying to avoid the ad hominems for a minute, is it legal to offer a gun as a raffle prize? What if the winner is mentally ill or a convicted felon or some such?

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Generally speaking, it would be the convicted felon's responsibility not to have (get caught with) a gun. And there are many states that do not have laws against the mentally ill having a gun. There is an age limit in most places, but there is also a gambling age limit preventing them from participating in raffles. Depending on where they are, the winner may or may not have to go through some standard waiting period before actually retrieving his new weapon from the retailer.
In Vermont, 10 minutes drive away, a Vermont resident can walk into a gun shop and buy a handgun with only a brief phone call by the dealer to the ATF. In New York state there is an expensive and lengthy permit process that can cost a few hundred dollars and take up to 15 months.

It depends on the state and as CF points out it probably has as much or more to do with the laws governing lottery and prizes. That may have something to do with the 125 ticket limit.
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Old 09-09-2011, 04:23 AM   #105
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[ stares in wonder ]

After the port Aurthur massacre in 1996, we made a law that crazy people aren't allowed to have guns.

I guess over there that would disarm half the population.
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