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Just the other day I’m in a merge lane trying to get out in traffic and had to stop. Just as I think I’m getting a break and can go, the lady coming by slows way down and I see her on her freakin’ phone! She blocks me just long enough to screw me and leave me still stuck there, along with a few cars behind me. Ramming should be legal in some cases! The phones are a way bigger hazzard than weed is out there. It’s not even close.

More likely wrecking because your hand was in the Dorito’s bag.

I worked for a company that diabolically set things to ensure you worked massive overtime for free. They lied to you when you were hired too. It was a salary deal at a beer distributor. The boss would tell prospects that we expect you to work long hours when it’s busy but we don’t lay anyone off when it’s slow.

Okay, so you didn’t get much of an idea just what would be the hours when it was slow. Someone reasonable might think 60 when it’s busy, maybe in the low 30’s when it’s slow. That’s what I thought anyway. Still way in the companies favor.

It wasn’t even close to that. It was 60 or maybe even a couple more hours in the busy months and you were lucky to get it down to 45 when it was slower.

One time I tested them. I had an extra guy in the warehouse because one was training and one was leaving soon. So I thought I’d work things to try and nail it right at 40 hours for one week. Make sure things were under control and slip out a little early. I made it to Tuesday and got my ass chewed Wednesday morning for leaving early and I was still a little over the pace , like 17 1/2 hours in two days.

It was all bullshit. They hated paying good wages and were making sure you put in that OT for free to try and get it down a couple bucks an hour. A couple years after I left, the crew sued them. They got a settlement out of the deal and they had to hire a couple more guys. They could damn well afford it and did afford it and still did well. They just didn’t want to pay those extra guys but the crew made them want to!

That’s where a lot of our jobs are. You have two people doing the work of three already.

My idea on immigration in general is that we should be able to do whatever we need to do. I for one, don’t want to see us overpopulated and I’d approach it from that angle. Maybe not the popular tact for others on the right though.

But why let more people we don’t really need in? Legal or illegal, if that’s what we decide. At one time it made sense to grow our population a fast as we could and expand settled areas. It sure doesn’t look like we need to keep that us with the drought issues we’re now having.

Same with making anyone born here a citizen. I don’t think that makes a lot of sense anymore. Let the parents become legal citizens first.

I have a co-worker that used to chew a can a day that now vapes. What he told me was a huge savings but I can’t remember his exact numbers. It’s like seven bucks a day or something like that.

I don’t doubt some kids will get hooked on nicotine, try cigarettes and like those better and become regular smokers. I’d say the overwhelming majority of them would have started smoking anyway though.

I’m now seeing people driving around with their vape pens fairly often. I’ve been off the shit since November myself. Never wanted to try vaping though I did try a hookah a number of times. That was kind of fun.

That’s one thing we really won’t have to worry about. I’d bet even at least 70% of democrats will say something like, “I didn’t have anything to do with slavery and can’t afford to pay anything to anyone to make up for it.” End of discussion.

I’m a large man and overweight but nowhere near his league. It never fails to amaze me that everyone (mostly women) that I’m around that complains about their weight and constantly talks dieting, eats at least a good bit more than I do. I mean every one of them!

I had a real treat a couple years back. My company was working at Costco one day and the crew included a pretty large woman. At lunch she opted for a salad, but like I would, she doctored it up to the equivalent of two double quarter pounders with cheese! She mow’ed that down telling us something about being 80’lbs overweight. I’d say more like 150.

She had also made a little shopping run and I looked over her cart to see a load of junk I would never be eating. At the end of the day, she and another woman had about a two hour trip back to our HQ. I saw her opening up the big sack of teriyaki sticks she’d bought for the trip home.

Good God! Don’t complain about your weight to me and then let me see you breaking open the Costco Oh Boy! Oberto “Hog Pack” like two hours after you ate lunch!

That’s one thing I’ve wondered about. If I can carry a gun with a concealed weapons permit, why can’t I carry any kind of knife I want? Maybe I can but I’ve been told no.

Then again, why would I? I think a wicked switchblade would be cool to have but I sure wouldn’t use it if I could use a gun. It’s up to the idiot to bring a knife to a gun fight!

It’s not in our screening questionnaire either. It’s a possible exception to the permanent deferral pending a donor evaluation. That I believe involves blood sample testing at a conference with our staff physician. It’s not that a kid would be immune to contracting HIV, it’s that they would be considerably lower risk than a sexually active gay male and could be cleared to donate.

It's a real small sample but enough to get my attention. I register donors at blood drives. At one university there are a quite a few foreign students.

One question all donors have to answer is if they have ever had sex with another male. Gay males are not allowed to donate blood because they are considered high risk. One exception to that is if it was a molestation by a male as a child. In just the last couple of years, we've had three Saudi students answer yes to that question and explain they were molested as kids. That vs one American kid.

Even though there are a lot of foreign students, Americans of course way outnumber them. That would be an unbelievably high percentage for the Saudi kids if that was the norm. It was enough to get my attention and make me wonder if pedophilia was way more common over there.

You can reasonably see The Tea Party as being viewed as a terrorist attack by loyalists and The Crown.

It was actually quite different that what some people believe. They didn't dump the tea because they were mad about the tea tax. The colonists had already done a great job of “sticking it to the man” over the tea taxes. It turns out they were adept at smuggling, and famously, switching to coffee. Just how bad could that have been?Having some of my favorite coffee right now, I wonder just what it would take to make me switch to tea? It would have to be some really special tea!

The protest at Boston Harbor was over The Tea Act. That was actually a tax exemption given to The Crowns pet corporation, The British East India Company. It was designed to allow the BEIC to get their high quality tea back on the market in the colonies. That of course pissed of the colonists who hated the BEIC anyway for numerous reasons.

The equivalent of a protest like that today would definitely be seen as a terrorist attack. I'm not sure what it would have to be. Maybe some kind of sabotage of the banking system to protest the bailouts? I could see The Tea party movement people having gone along with that, at least in the first couple of months back in 2009.

Nice thought but a little late I would think. It’s not like another five large makes a difference. Romney has plenty of money.
You’d think they could have found a way to make her useful. Then again, I’m not sure I could pick a place to send her. We’d lover her in Idaho but it’s already in the bag.

I can imagine having two “dads” hanging out at my football practices in high school during the 70’s! Or coming to the games! Yikes!

On the other hand, the abuse I took may have toughened me up so much that I'd be retired from the NFL now. Kind of like “A Boy names Sue”.

It wasn't my dad, he had passed away. It was my mom! She was quite the football fan. Liked to watch her boy stomp defensive linemen!

He could have said everything he said without mentioning a specific percentage. He needed to hammer the deadbeats but it's not really 47%. Some of them have legit reasons for not paying taxes and are Republicans. Disable veterans, retired seniors and low income working people that get a little help sometimes. Now the media can claim he was slamming all of them too. I don't think it will really work on those people though.

Maybe she was deaf? I had just closed up at the Budweiser distributor I worked at and stepped out the front door to see a serious bust going down just a little ways down the street. Cops with weapons drawn carefully approaching a car that one had pulled over.

I saw a cop waving me back and ducked back inside the doorway. Peeking out I saw a cop still frantically waving someone back and turned to see a woman walking down the street evidently oblivious to what was going on. I was much closer to her and yelled at her to get over here and explained what was going on. It turned out she was legally blind and couldn’t see anything that far down the road.

The bust turned out to be a carload of methamphetafaggots, one of whom was reported brandishing a gun on main street. This was a fine example of how criminal rights should be handled. They had the right to do exactly WTF the cops told them to do or get their heads blown off! I enjoyed seeing each of the commanded one at a time to get out, place hands on head and lay face down in the road!

I really was curious during the 2008 election if one of the candidates would make a move on the proposed bailouts. Maybe even threaten a filibuster if ther were no solid guaruntees of reform. Instead they both ran back to Washington and voted for it.

That was our chance to avoid getting screwed again. Shaking things up while the markets were already down would have been the way to go. Now it’ll be “too big to fail” all over. They already failed us. There should have been some people locked up over all that.

I really was curious during the 2008 election if one of the candidates would make a move on the proposed bailouts. Maybe even threaten a filibuster if ther were no solid guaruntees of reform. Instead they both ran back to Washington and voted for it.

That was our chance to avoid getting screwed again. Shaking things up while the markets were already down would have been the way to go. Now it’ll be “too big to fail” all over. They already failed us. There should have been some people locked up over all that.

I really was curious during the 2008 election if one of the candidates would make a move on the proposed bailouts. Maybe even threaten a filibuster if ther were no solid guaruntees of reform. Instead they both ran back to Washington and voted for it.

That was our chance to avoid getting screwed again. Shaking things up while the markets were already down would have been the way to go. Now it’ll be “too big to fail” all over. They already failed us. There should have been some people locked up over all that.

I really was curious during the 2008 election if one of the candidates would make a move on the proposed bailouts. Maybe even threaten a filibuster if ther were no solid guaruntees of reform. Instead they both ran back to Washington and voted for it.

That was our chance to avoid getting screwed again. Shaking things up while the markets were already down would have been the way to go. Now it’ll be “too big to fail” all over. They already failed us. There should have been some people locked up over all that.

I really was curious during the 2008 election if one of the candidates would make a move on the proposed bailouts. Maybe even threaten a filibuster if ther were no solid guaruntees of reform. Instead they both ran back to Washington and voted for it.

That was our chance to avoid getting screwed again. Shaking things up while the markets were already down would have been the way to go. Now it’ll be “too big to fail” all over. They already failed us. There should have been some people locked up over all that.