I was thinking about this on my last cross country trip. I need a CB. Any good websites you'd recommend to teach you the lingo, or is it fairly simple? What channel do you use?
Amen to that. Atlanta has by far the worst traffic I've ever seen. People from L.A. complain about our traffic. No shit.
I'm pretty sure those billboards were only put up to show off for the Olympics. They serve no purpose. Taking backroads doesnt help either, as soon as ten people find out the route, the next day its wall-to-wall.
Hmm...I wouldn't mind this unit in police cars...would help us all know which doughnut shop they are at....and how often THEY are exceeding the speed limits when not in an emergency situation.
Absolutely. But, doing what you suggest will also definitely not get anything done..;)
It's like saying that converting 1000-ish people to veganism is going to put McDonalds out of business...you're no more likely to accomplish this than you are to accomplish making AOL give a shit, or the vast amount of their users, for that matter, simply because you won't email them anymore.
What I'm saying is that refusing to continue to attempt emailing your friend on AOL simply b\c of AOL's filters, is a bit, well...mean, but whatever...;)
But users saying "My contacts won't send me mail, or can't, because of your policies, so I'm going to stop giving you money" is more likely to do something.
You're assuming AOL actually *cares* about loosing a few users here and there because of that..seriously, you're kidding yourself.
In my school, in Atlanta (which explains a lot), we were forced to stand and recite the pledge while facing the flag every morning.
In 9th grade, I was suspended for an entire week for not reciting (more appropriately not *standing* during the recital) the pledge. My principal simply said "I will not tolarate *Un-American* students in my school" as she handed me my suspension papers. She promptly got my middle-finger-response.
I failed two classes because of this suspension, b\c it was during exam week.
Not being one to give in, when I returned to school after my first suspension, I stood, but with my back turned to the flag. Another suspension. This continued for an entire semester until finally my homeroom teacher and my principal just got sick of the paperwork, and constant threats of lawsuits. I think I was suspended for about an entire month (not all at once) during my 9th grade year for not reciting the pledge, along with countless "In School Suspensions" and detentions.
I object to the pledge not only for my religious beliefs (or lack thereof), but also my political beliefs, as well as a laundry list of other reasons..all of which have been brought up by previous posters...
So for all those people that say that schools don't force kids to recite the pledge, or that kids don't get beaten up for being UnChristian: just because it didnt happen to *you* doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It does, and will continue to happen until the pledge is returned to its original state.
Let's not even get into the stuff about school's banning kids from wearing pentagrams and whatnot, but allowing students to wear crosses.
There is a grossly biased favoratism in public schools (especially in the south) towards Christianity, and it needs to stop. Hopefully this case will be one step forward in the right direction.
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I was thinking about this on my last cross country trip. I need a CB. Any good websites you'd recommend to teach you the lingo, or is it fairly simple? What channel do you use?
Amen to that. Atlanta has by far the worst traffic I've ever seen. People from L.A. complain about our traffic. No shit.
I'm pretty sure those billboards were only put up to show off for the Olympics. They serve no purpose. Taking backroads doesnt help either, as soon as ten people find out the route, the next day its wall-to-wall.
Hmm...I wouldn't mind this unit in police cars...would help us all know which doughnut shop they are at....and how often THEY are exceeding the speed limits when not in an emergency situation.
Which happens to be always.
Absolutely. But, doing what you suggest will also definitely not get anything done.. ;)
;)
It's like saying that converting 1000-ish people to veganism is going to put McDonalds out of business...you're no more likely to accomplish this than you are to accomplish making AOL give a shit, or the vast amount of their users, for that matter, simply because you won't email them anymore.
What I'm saying is that refusing to continue to attempt emailing your friend on AOL simply b\c of AOL's filters, is a bit, well...mean, but whatever...
But users saying "My contacts won't send me mail, or can't, because of your policies, so I'm going to stop giving you money" is more likely to do something.
You're assuming AOL actually *cares* about loosing a few users here and there because of that..seriously, you're kidding yourself.
In my school, in Atlanta (which explains a lot), we were forced to stand and recite the pledge while facing the flag every morning. In 9th grade, I was suspended for an entire week for not reciting (more appropriately not *standing* during the recital) the pledge. My principal simply said "I will not tolarate *Un-American* students in my school" as she handed me my suspension papers. She promptly got my middle-finger-response. I failed two classes because of this suspension, b\c it was during exam week. Not being one to give in, when I returned to school after my first suspension, I stood, but with my back turned to the flag. Another suspension. This continued for an entire semester until finally my homeroom teacher and my principal just got sick of the paperwork, and constant threats of lawsuits. I think I was suspended for about an entire month (not all at once) during my 9th grade year for not reciting the pledge, along with countless "In School Suspensions" and detentions. I object to the pledge not only for my religious beliefs (or lack thereof), but also my political beliefs, as well as a laundry list of other reasons..all of which have been brought up by previous posters... So for all those people that say that schools don't force kids to recite the pledge, or that kids don't get beaten up for being UnChristian: just because it didnt happen to *you* doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It does, and will continue to happen until the pledge is returned to its original state. Let's not even get into the stuff about school's banning kids from wearing pentagrams and whatnot, but allowing students to wear crosses. There is a grossly biased favoratism in public schools (especially in the south) towards Christianity, and it needs to stop. Hopefully this case will be one step forward in the right direction. "How's the weather in Canada this time of year?"