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  1. Re:But what is a militia? on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    No, because then they cease to be militia and have become regulars.

    Oh, btw, why a well regulated militia? so that they were capable of holding their own against regulars. Just an FYI.

  2. Re:Flaw in the slaw on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    Um, who disposes of the people?

    You're basically asking "What happens when the people itself needs disposing of?"

    (see 1939 historical information)

  3. Re:It's crap on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's about right. It would likely lead to the mass genocide of 1 in 10 Americans.

  4. Re:"What I find interesting is how..." on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 2

    Not necessarily relevant, not necessarily true. He knows a crapload more about his agenda. But nothing necessitates knowledge to equate to proper use. In fact, I'd wager he is well aware of the real evident meaning and intention. Hence he wants it changed....

    The real scholars have, and every time, those who go by simply a historical basis conclude without a doubt that the intention was personal arms.

  5. Re:Going further on the context of the 2nd on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was largely the powder that was prohibited, due to fire risk. And often stored in a common facility. Which if you do some research you'll learn that the British attempt to seize said facility is in fact what triggered the Revolutionary War.

    Second, there were laws against concealment. Because it was often the method of criminals.

  6. Dear Stevens on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    Enact this, and as a former serviceman who swore an oath, I am obligated to stop you at all costs.

    ***
    Your argument would
    a) do nothing to reduce crime or mass killings
    b) furthermore, since we have no militia, it is a de facto nullification of a primal right (and no, the National Guard is not a militia, sorry, you don't send a militia abroad to foriegn wars)
    c) with the increasing breaches of American civil liberties, we need our guns now, more than ever...

  7. South Lafeyette Board Members on Student Records Kids Who Bully Him, Then Gets Threatened With Wiretapping Charge · · Score: 2

    Let's do some bullying....

    lfornella@southfayette.org
    tburroughs@southfayette.org
    wnewcomer@southfayette.org
    avezzi@southfayette.org
    fmorelli@southfayette.org
    aczaplicki@southfayette.org
    tpetrillo@southfayette.org
    pbrinsky@southfayette.org
    jiriti@southfayette.org
    cgeisler@southfayette.org

    Seriously, I think we should get a group together. Stalk and beat the crap out of the principal. When the principal tries to press charges, we'll simply have a ton of alibis. If he records, we'll press charges against him for wiretapping and demand at gun point that he delete the files.

    So fuming pissed.

  8. Re:Whatever you're smoking... on Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket · · Score: 1

    ROTFLMAO

  9. Re:No... on Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket · · Score: 1

    No, you can break up Comcast into three companies. One that charges for TV, one that charges for Internet, and one that owns the cable lines....

  10. Re:Fly your plane into the IRS bldg? on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    How did they justify the tax bill exceeding your income?

  11. Re:that was quick! on Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket · · Score: 4, Informative

    It happened basically over night.

    It was merely throttling policy.

  12. No... on Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What Netflix is paying for, is a bribery fee so that Comcast quit throttling them. The proof?

    As soon as the agreement was reached, I could finally stream Netflix in 3D. Oh, and we all know they didn't get their peering equipment in within 3 days....

  13. Whatever you're smoking... on Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket · · Score: 1

    I want some, cause it's clearly as good as BTL chips.

  14. Re:Fly your plane into the IRS bldg? on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    By the way, that incident was over a $14,000 discrepancy and question of whether it was even correct. But the IRS tacked on so many penalties when they flip flopped years later, that it ballooned to over $200,000.

    So imagine if you were audited, and questioned on a $140 charge. At first they think you're wrong. Then review, decide no your interpretation is right. Then a few years, they reconsider and decide your interpretation is wrong. So they want your $140 + interest + late fees and penalties + interest on the late fees and penalties. And suddenly you owe $2,000. Now increase the order of magnitude a couple of times.

    Then you understand why the man crashed his plane. His mistake was to not do it after hours so no one was hurt.

  15. What are you talking about? on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    a) very few banks give interest any more. And even interest on $10 grand is nothing.
    b) many banks now charge fees just for having an account.

    Thus...

    c) overpaying taxes, is often a free savings account.

    &

    d) since even the IRS doesn't understand their own laws, it is impossible to always know your final payment. I'd rather be safe than sorry.

  16. Re:Sadly... on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    Somebody above stated President Bush vetoed it and Congress overrid the veto.

  17. Why wait... on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    Seriously?

    Why wait to beat the Congressmen for voting on a bill without fully understanding it. We need to beat the Congressmen now, and then decide later if they understood what they voted on. Nancy Pelosi said so...

  18. So what....they stopped today. on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    And you think we should stop talking about it? It's only cause we were that it stopped. And do not suppose that similar dastardly deeds are not being done.

  19. Except... on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    They're minors....

    And if you engage in a contract with a minor, it is non-binding. And that should be the case for at least all of these under 18 ones.

  20. Yup.... on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    If you're still pointing fingers at either the Republicans or the Democrats and not BOTH!!!

    You are part of the problem!!!!!

  21. You're unread on the matter on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    To summarize:

    a) Mr. Bundy has purchased the land, grazing and water rights of the areas in question.
    b) He's paid the appropriate county, state fees.
    c) The issue is not that he was unwilling to pay BLM, but that the agency basically told all the ranchers they had to reduce their herds by 90% (why, I think this is really about "water", and reducing water usage so more can be routed to Southern California).
    d) Mr. Bundy refused to capitulate, lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in investments and basically shut down his business on a stroke of an administrator's pen, for a totally unjustified reason.

  22. Yes... on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    But you don't think the government noticed

    a) all the people who didn't
    b) all the people whose shirts bulged from concealed carry weapons.
    c) the fact that they knew they were outgunned

    Might makes right...in this case the government was in the unusual position of being on the opposite side.

  23. Yes.... on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    Google Bundy, you'll find a hundred if not a 1,000 sources on google you lazy net bum.

  24. Re:Wrong on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    What's that matter if

    a) they take your money first
    b) provide no means of recourse
    c) judiciary pursuit costs more than the value you're seeking to recoup

  25. Re:Over 18 on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    Did you not read, an unconstitutional ex post facto law was attached to the last Farm Bill.