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Oh, wow, and you know what? Washington residents cross to Oregon for sales tax free purchases as well.

Guess what, people do not want to pay taxes and rightly so and they should avoid and evade them everywhere and they do.

Well, since you mentioned it ... Bundy ranch wasn't a riot. It was the Government vs Ranchers (regardless of your view of the subject). wasn't particularly violent.

I called it violence, whatever you call it, you ignored it.

Because they're your sort of people, and you don't mind what they do.

Same with the militia violence.

And in that case, you missed Branch Davidian Compound that actually was.

Did you think my list was meant to be exhaustive? Hardly. I didn't mention the attacks by such fine entities as the Old Order, Timothy McVeigh, Eric Rudolph or the Huttaree.

Malheur standoff (fixed spelling) was violent, but the only violence was caused by the government in an ambush.

Sure man, they weren't threatening violence and trespassing.

What else you going to say? They was good boys, never meaning no harm? But they keep showing their hands, and not their face on TV?

Good Example.

Driving away from police and waving a gun? Yeah, I'll call that violent.

Dylan Roof was a punk kid with a troubled background with mental illness who became (or always was) a racist prick. I didn't forget him, it was an odd case all the way around.

Racist gets a gun. Decides to shoot people. You blame his troubled background and dismiss it as an odd case. And no, I didn't say you forgot him. I said you ignored him. Ignoring and forgetting are two different things.

Benjamin McDowell didn't though.

You might as well pointed out the Dallas shooting then too.

Or the Houston one. No wait, that's police brutality. Another serious problem that you don't want to admit exists.

You want to ignore it, and frenetically rage at your preferred target, BLM. You love that form of identity politics, don't you?

Robert Doggart wasn't violent, because unlike San Bernadino, people reported him and he was arrested before he could do anything because he was suspicious.

Plots violence. Is on tape actually plotting violence. Archangel Michael claims he wasn't violent.

You should probably tell the judge who sentenced him to 20 years.

I say unlike, because people in SB saw suspicious activity and failed to report it for fearing to be "Islamophobic".

Pfft. Enrique Marquez Jr. was not going to report them, nor the other participants in that sham marriage. Nothing to do with fears about being Islamophobic at all. You might as well claim that Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez's family didn't report him because they didn't want to be thought Islamophobic.

Las Vegas Strip Shooting, a hispanic man shot two killing one. No motive had been determined for the shooting, although authorities ruled out any link to terrorism.

Nope, Jerad and Amanda Miller were not Hispanic(not even White Hispanic), and they killed 3 other people. And their motives were quite clearly demonstrated, what with their conduct, if the use of the Gadsen Flag wasn't enough for you.

Sorry, but they're right-wing through and through. And you identify with them. You just won't admit to it.

So, of the five events you listed, two or three are possibly "ri

Sorry, Forgot to ask for the source of where you go the names from.

so I searched

James Risch - Idaho (R) - should not be listed
http://www.spokesman.com/blogs...

Dan Coats - Indiana (R)
U.S. Sen. Dan Coats, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, is following this issue but has no comment at this time, according to spokesman Matt Lahr.
http://howeypolitics.com/Conte...
Marco Rubio - Florida (R)

Susan Collins - Maine (R)
Roy Blunt - Missouri (R)
James Lankford - Oklahoma (R)
Tom Cotton - Arkansas (R)

After searching for mark rubio, I came across this

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

I think you are taking the Senators who were calling for sanctions over Ukraine and lumping them into the "russia hacked" crowd, which smells a lot like actual "fake news" .

No no. That goes against the current orthodoxy being promoted by groups like moveon.org and answer. You're supposed to riot, trash shit and so on to show your resolve. Not be reasonable, clear, concise, and lay out something that seems reasonable and get people to agree with it.

Just look at the last week right? People aren't going to get pissed off or anything and ignore them anymore. Just like I'm sure these electors will bend over backwards and do what the people threatening them want.

First of all, please read these two links -

http://www.spokesman.com/stori...

http://lmtribune.com/northwest...

Unless they use plastic which has a very high flashpoint temperature , history could repeat itself

Here's a group of them. http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/slice/2012/mar/30/little-bit-west-good-idea/
To be fair, the guy top center was actually called "Bing"...

The Spokane area is all aflutter with some "megaload" controversy about shipping some water treatment equipment to a mine in Canada over some "scenic" roads.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/aug/14/megaload-fight-headed-federal-court/

Driving this stuff over mountain roads is apparently the only method of getting equipment of this size to the location where it's needed. I realize this is bigger than the airship is capable of lifting but I'd bet there are plenty of other situations where this would be a good option.

Spokane hasn't really bragged about their wifi "HotZone" for a while. In fact, they're shutting it down. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/jun/15/hotzones-free-wi-fi-to-fold/

Police are trained to "shoot to stop", not "shoot to kill."

Law enforcement, however, generally dislikes the term “shoot to kill,” insisting it’s technically inaccurate even though many officers acknowledge it also would be inaccurate to say they try to “shoot to wound.” Instead, departments use various renditions of this phrase: shooting “until the threat ends or stops.” . . .

. . . in a recent email Spokane Police Sgt. Dave McCabe offers a good explanation of what he and others see as a distinguishable difference between shoot-to-kill and shoot-to-stop the threat: “The suspect does not have to be dead to no longer be a threat,” McCabe wrote -- “Shoot to kill” vs. shoot to stop threat

And yet every report I've seen on the subject says soccer is on par with football, or worse than football for concussions.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/mar/16/heading-taking-lot-blame-concussions-increase-socc/

Last year, high school soccer players suffered more concussions nationally than athletes in basketball, baseball, wrestling and softball combined, according to estimates from the Center for Injury Research and Policy (CIRP) in Columbus, Ohio. Although the media has focused on concussions in football, little has been written about the effects of concussions on soccer players.

You could drive 50 cars and 10,000 bikes past and do less damage than a single truck.

More like 10,000 cars and an infinite number of bicycles.

In engineering classes about 30 years ago, I learned that road damage is roughly proportional to the fourth power of the weight per axle. Looks like it has not changed. Nothing says that the tax cannot be based on this model.

Note the not all road damage is a result of bending and flexing due to axle weight. You also get chemical changes (salt, water, oil, pollution), thermal cycling (daily and seasonal), topographical changes (a.k.a. earth quakes), and utilities dig-up. You also have non-damage items like mowing the grass, paying for lighting, interest on debt, etc. that must be considered a part of road maintenance. So, you really should not assign all of the maintenance costs to be based on axle weight if you really wanted to be fair about such things.

You may have noticed the signs on the back of trucks that mention something like, This vehicle pays $5,889 in road use taxes per year. According to this study in 2007 the average total tax burden was $13,889 total (for a 80,000 lb truck) and $397 per year for an automobile.

Consider that an 18 wheeler is over 20 times the weight of an average automobile (distributed over 5 axles, though not uniformly). So, ignoring the non-uniformities in automobile weight and axle weight distributions vehicle -- the axle weight related damage should be component should be roughly

(20/5)**4 : (1/2)**4 which equals 4**4 : 1/16 which equals 256 * 16 : 1 i.e., 4096:1

Considering only the 4th power rule component only, avg. damage for truck are roughly 4000 times that of a car. Actual studies show this is more like about 10000:1

it is probably a safe bet that trucks are proportionately undertaxed everywhere in the US.

Sadly, it goes beyond monitoring of communications, and morphs into personal restrictions. By proxy of fine first, and physical incarceration later.

Want a real time example? How about being fined for swearing in public!

Yes, it will go to court, but if you think relying on that will save you for when this goes to the extremes, you've already lost.

The answer is to only use antibiotics when they're really useful and necessary.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/jan/03/norways-mrsa-solution/

Tim.

Barack Obama has made it American policy to not go after medical marijuana dispenserise though George W Bush (and to be fair Clinton) did attach these legal (at a state level) and illegal (at a fed level) dispenseries.

That's bullshit. The Feds are still raiding dispensaries.

Here are three articles on recent raids that come up when I type in "dispensary raid" into Google News:

"Dog Killed in Pot Dispensary Raid " (June 10, 2011)
http://temecula.patch.com/articles/dog-killed-in-pot-dispensary-raid

"Agents raid 5 Fresno Co. marijuana dispensaries " (June 1, 2011)
http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/06/01/2410478/warrants-served-at-2-fresno-co.html

"Feds raid more Spokane marijuana dispensaries" (May 18, 2011)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/may/18/feds-raid-spokane-marijuana-dispensaries/

    They may be aware that cars are being stolen to chop up, rather than being put back into use. Of course, that's not always the case, but it may be a while before you see it again.

    I've heard of stolen cars being found, sometimes the same night they were stolen, stripped clean of any valuable parts, or sometimes of everything but the frame.

    I knew someone in Los Angeles who had her SUV stolen. It was found two months later, being used to smuggle illegal aliens up from Mexico. Border patrol checked their records, and it had come across twice a day for almost the entire time. When she got it back, it had cheap steel wheels on it, rather than the factory alloy wheels, anything valuable (radio, etc) had been removed, etc, etc.

    With all that said, good luck, I hope you get your car back in the same condition it was when it disappeared.

Stopping giving them for every sniffle and virus.

It worked for the Norwegians.

In an insightful column by Froma Harrop, she points out that

Google includes links to the whole article, but not before including "snippets" that will suffice as news for many time-pressed readers. Here's an example of the words that Google News recently ripped from the Associated Press: "President Barack Obama on Wednesday promised an all-out rescue and humanitarian effort to help the people of Haiti overcome a 'cruel and incomprehensible' tragedy, the ruinous earthquake that ravaged the ..." Note that the AP, not Google, had paid someone in Haiti to write it.

Google says that those few lines involve "fair use" of the copyrighted material. Its critics, most famously media mogul Rupert Murdoch, call that activity "stealing content."

It's tough to argue with that logic. As much as I am an advocate for the "information wants to be free" camp, someone is paying to generate the news, and Google isn't helping matters by acting as a wholesale purveyor of content (and profiting off their actions as well).

"Suppose you are driving your car down the road and I swerve to the right, then back to the left as if I was going to ram into you. I stay in my lane but you react and swerve to avoid me and hit a pedestrian killing them. Am I at fault at all? I didn't break any laws, the pedestrian is dead by you hands, not mine. Now suppose this has happened before and I was actually attempting to make people swerve into pedestrians. Am I still innocent, I haven't broken any laws."

No, you'd be charged with vehicular assault, a felony. Just like kids that street race, if you're racing someone and they crash and kill someone, you are also charged. So if you're swerving all over the road and cause a death, you will be charged.