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Old 01-23-2010, 12:55 PM
 
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1. Very restrictive gun laws even for recreation!. If you want to go to a shooting range to rent a gun you cant be alone unless you have a permit.

2. Pro-wealth distribution, and affirmitive action at state universities

3. No cell phone use while driving. This includes texting or calling.

4. High taxes (just raised witholding state income tax by another 10%, and sales tax is near 10% in many parts of CA)

5. Big government in big debt... issuing IOU's to state contractors

6. Free speech "zones" have been enacted by some cities like Santa Cruz and others

7. Huntington Beach is passing a law banning beer games in bars

8. Irvine has restrictive paint and roofing laws for beige colors and HOAS.

9. Don't even think about trying to build a home on the ocean.

10. In state tuition for anchor babies

11. Plastic bottle tax (deposits)

12. Traffic (very limiting to FREEDOM!)

13. Crime and gangs

14. Antonio Villargiosa, Mayor of LA, stated it was his mission to spend tax money for one million trees" to beautify LA"... an assualt our wallet when we have bigger problems.. We know that when LA property owners are prosperous- they will beautify themselves by investing in their own property!

15. $800 minimum business tax for all LLC's even if they posted a "net loss". That's even worse than if they were to impose an $800 minimum administrative tax on welfare receipients.

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Old 01-23-2010, 02:27 PM
 
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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1) ***** your guns! ***** your guns! ***** your guns! ***** your guns a million times you friggin neanderthal!!!
As if this most insane, out of control and unconscious bunch of idiots that make up this ridiculous consumer driven, dominant culture needs more guns.
Good god.
2) Affirmative action helps those that are qualified but got a bad shake ... it levels a very uneven playing field ... an uneven playing field due to people like you!
3) Talking on the cell phone impairs driving to a degree equivalent to a legally drunk blood alcohol level and texting while driving doubles the risk. Do you realize how many people have been killed because of driving and texting?!! (other people ... not the ones on the cell phone! ... go ahead and put your own life at risk but when you're on a cell phone in the car, you're messing with me man and that's where you can take your "freedom" and _____________________ !!!)
So ***** your cell phone while driving!!! a million times. I am so sick of selfish and ignorant and entitled people like you. Yeah, entitled. What right do you have to talk or text on a cell phone when it endangers peoples lives?!!!
Good god again.
6) what the hell?
I'll let somebody else address the others but, yeah, whatever.
You do not know what true and essential freedom is. You have the mistaken notion that freedom means being able to do whatever the hell you want. WRONG!

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Old 01-23-2010, 02:36 PM
 
Location: SW MO
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1) ***** your guns! ***** your guns! ***** your guns! ***** your guns a million times you friggin neanderthal!!!
2) Affirmative action helps those that are qualified but got a bad shake ... it levels a very uneven playing field ... an uneven playing field due to people like you!
3) Talking on the cell phone impairs driving to a degree equivalent to a legally drunk blood alcohol level and texting while driving doubles the risk. Do you realize how many people have been killed because of driving and texting?!! So ***** your cell phone while driving!!! a million times. I am so sick of selfish and ignorant and entitled people like you. Yeah, entitled. What right do you have to talk or text on a cell phone when it endangers peoples lives?!!!
Good god.
6) what the hell?
I'll let somebody else address the others but, yeah, whatever.
Skye, why don't you tell us how you REALLY feel?
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Old 01-23-2010, 02:40 PM
 
Location: Seattle
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The purpose of the right to bear arms was to allow Americans protection should the government become corrupt or lose the ability to lead.

The problem is the piddly handguns they allow you to own are nothing against tanks, bombers, stealth fighters and nuclear weapons.
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Old 01-23-2010, 02:44 PM
 
Location: Pacific NW
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#3 is a good thing. Most people are barely competent to drive a car without the distractions of a cell phone. Texting while driving should be cause for having your license suspended permanently, anyone who texts while driving clearly has such poor judgement they shouldn't be allowed behind the wheel.
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Old 01-23-2010, 02:49 PM
 
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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Skye, why don't you tell us how you REALLY feel?
As you can see, my day hasn't gotten better.
This idea that freedom means being able to do whatever the hell you want, at the expense of other people, drives me nuts.
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Old 01-23-2010, 02:49 PM
 
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Libertarianism is the phoniest of all the pseudo-political doctrines. They are really just cheap conservatives. Give a Libertarian the freedom to pave and plow their own roads, maintain their own water, power, and sewer infrastructure... watch them run for the hills.
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Old 01-23-2010, 02:52 PM
 
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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#3 is a good thing. Most people are barely competent to drive a car without the distractions of a cell phone. Texting while driving should be cause for having your license suspended permanently, anyone who texts while driving clearly has such poor judgement they shouldn't be allowed behind the wheel.
Right on!
And i believe that Utah has the most stringent laws regarding talking and texting.
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Old 01-23-2010, 02:52 PM
 
Location: Pacific NW
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The problem is the piddly handguns they allow you to own are nothing against tanks, bombers, stealth fighters and nuclear weapons.
Ever see the movie Starship Troopers? Fiction can still teach a lesson.

Quote:
Ace Levy: Sir, I don't understand. What good's a knife in a nuke fight? All you have to do is press a button, sir.
Sergeant Zim: Put your hand on that wall, trooper. [Ace hesitates] PUT YOUR HAND ON THAT WALL! [Zim throws a knife and hits Ace's hand, pinning it to the wall] The enemy cannot press a button... if you have disabled his hand.
Yes a pistol doesn't do anything against a tanks armor, stealth bomber or nuke, that's why you fight to your strengths, not to your opponents.
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Old 01-23-2010, 04:00 PM
 
Location: Mokelumne Hill, CA & El Pescadero, BCS MX.
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Libertarianism is the phoniest of all the pseudo-political doctrines. They are really just cheap conservatives. Give a Libertarian the freedom to pave and plow their own roads, maintain their own water, power, and sewer infrastructure... watch them run for the hills.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! We already have too many of them here.
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