Posted on 01/29/2015 5:20:42 AM PST by Enlightened1
Ughhhhhhh, ridiculous.
And you like laws like that?
“You’re absolutely right. I think a lot of the people on this thread don’t get the door to door salesmen in their neighborhoods. They don’t realize what a nuisance they are.”
I do get it and am more than willing to absorb some annoyances. I simply don’t answer my door and my friends know to come to the side door, so I find the sales people as easy to ignore as a ringing phone.
I just had a water heater installed and the company called as a follow up. Evidently my city requires an inspection and I have to be present. Luckily their hours are limited to M-F from 9-4. Well, that means that I will have to take a day off from work for a stupid water heater inspection!
I have a friend that heard me talking about this and she told me that her city required her to pay $60 to have a garbage disposal inspected.....
The fact of the matter is that government is taking all of these ordinances to the extreme. I’d gladly accept the “nuissance” of solicitors, for ridding my life of the petty tyrants in local government.
Besides, Buford the Coonhound starts barking and they move along rather quickly.
“Why are you escalating this? The kids were never in danger of going to jail.”
The only force ANY law has is the force of government guns. That is precisely what happened to Eric Garner. If any person fails to adhere immediately to the law, then they ARE at risk of losing their lives. Period.
You should never support a law that you would not be willing to kill to ensure that folks adhere to it. Are you willing to endorse the state to kill those annoying solicitors? If the answer is no, and I suspect that it would be, then there is likely another solution to resolve your annoyance at them....
“preying on widow women and gouging them for all they can get, because the widow women are so STUPID?”
They are likely not stupid, but are naive. I’d wager that these “widow women” just never had to acquire such skills, like negotiating for home repairs and such. I’m sure that they counted on their dear husbands for those tasks.
Of course, a solution would be that you, your neighborhood men and other community members could create a local group to help these widows. You could offer to help them find reputable service providers, volunteer to do the service or a number of other things.
Not only is your reliance on the government to protect these “widow women” the easy way out, but it is also unbiblical....God specifically calls on us as individuals (and by extension churches) to help widows. In fact, that is one of the main functions of tithing, it is to ensure that churches have the funds to help widows in need....
But hey, if we get the government to take care of our responsibilities, then we can forget about it!
Doesn’t apply. SCOTUS has held that different rules may be applied to “commercial speech”, and that proselytizing is Constitutionally protected and may thus not be licensed, IIRC.
No, but they shouldn't have to. Besides, then some asshole curmudgeon will let them shovel, then stiff them on the tip, or give them $5.
They can only demand to inspect something they know about. Who the hell would tell them they replaced their disposal?
The store that sold it or the plumber who installed it.
I can’t imagine calling a plumber to install a disposal, and make sure you buy your stuff online or in a neighboring town (and/or for cash so the store doesn’t know who to rat out).
Are kidding? Most pople, cannot install a disposal.
Reporting stuff? That horse left the barn a long time ago. Everything is reportable to the government.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
Solzhenitsyn
“How is that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find the strength to rise up and free themselves, first in spirit and then in body; while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste for freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery”. Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
1) Lift.
2) Twist.
3) Plug cord into receptacle under sink.
Reporting stuff? That horse left the barn a long time ago. Everything is reportable to the government.
True, which isn't justification for surrendering to the trend, but rather for being responsible and starving the tyrants for information (except intentionally false information meant to poison and cast doubt on their data).
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