Text 28212, 88 rader
Skriven 2009-02-27 20:29:18 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456.0)
  Kommentar till text 28208 av Lee Lofaso (3:800/432.0)
Ärende: Lax Gun Regulations
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Lee Lofaso -> Ross Cassell wrote:

 LL>>> Laziness is no excuse.  After all, you've had over twenty
 LL>>> years to work on it.  And you've done nothing so far.

 RC>> and you know this because?

 LL> Your stated opposition to gun control legislation.

Is there some legal requirement for me to have the same views as you?

 RC>> I have exchanged emails with the Governor before.
 RC>> (not the current one, but the one before)

 LL> I have actually MET governors before.  Not the present Governor
 LL> Toto (Bobby Jindal's new nickname), but several others (both Democrat
 LL> and Republican).

I have met a state supreme court justice..

 RC>> He was a Democrat and I was asking about the possiblity of
 RC>> dropping the sales tax on grocery.. He was very reluctant..

 LL> Governor Toto did away with the sales tax exemption on groceries
 LL> (part of the Stelly Plan).

Stoopid..

 RC>> No worry, his Republican successor got it done.

 LL> In Louisiana we do things different.  Governor Blanco (a Democrat) did
 LL> away with the sales tax on groceries.  Governor Toto (a Republican) did
 LL> away with the sales tax exemption on groceries.

Only in Louisiana.

 RC>> I can understand taxing food one buys in a restaurant,
 RC>> "eating out" is not a golden necessity of life, but to tax
 RC>> food one buys for the home, food one needs to live off of,
 RC>> ridiculous.

 LL> It is even more ridiculous to have a sales tax on prescription drugs.

Agreed. (Holy Shit!)

 LL> 51, if you count D.C. (the Congress just passed legislation granting
 LL> D.C. representation).  Maybe Jesse Jackson will finally get his wish
 LL> to be a U.S. Congressman.

Wasnt he the DC shadow Senator at one time?

The DC thing can easily be solved by having Maryland absorb DC for purposes of
Congressional representation.

 RC>> Then it is fair to say that the same document doesnt
 RC>> specifically mandate separation of church and state.

 LL> Why should it?

Ask your fellow liberals, they hate religion.

 RC>> You and I can both name USSC rulings that read shit into
 RC>> the document not specifically there. Roe V Wade et al.

 LL> Roe v Wade is not legislation.  It is a USSC opinion.
 LL> The judicial branch merely interprets the law, but does
 LL> not make the law.

No, they rewrite it.

 RC>> Tell us about Aircraft Carriers in the Persian Gulf?

 LL> You are the one who made the false claim that modern aircraft
 LL> carriers could routinely traverse the Strait of Hormuz prior to
 LL> the navigational channel dredged during the first Persian Gulf
 LL> War.

In prior discussions, I had already shown you that Aircraft Carriers had been
in and out the Persian Gulf, in the 1970's.

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Ross
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