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Before there were laws about it or laws attempting to stop it, there was song... I guess that is good enough for some here?
Strange Fruit
Billie Holiday
Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves
Blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
for the rain to gather
for the wind to suck
for the sun to rot
for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop
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Taxes are already too high but the gutting of the parks and county services will make this area less attractive to tourists and people wanting to relocate. I think that most people will go along with a tax increase as long as there is fiscal responsibility involved. In other words, don't spend it on bureacracy and patronage. Spend it on making the area more livable.
In other words... Spend it on things people use!
Unfortunately, that is what they cut first to hold the taxpayers hostage with their agenda.
Mgmt will always get their cut!
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What seems to be the problem with telling people what to do? It happens everyday in this country... Watch next time a cop pulls over a car, the searches are ridicules... But that is okay?
I simply view it as, if you are harming somebody else with your actions, the burden is ON YOU to correct your action. The victimizer CAN'T be the victim.
Nothing is perfect in this world, we are all harming somebody, one way or another. Comes down to common courtesy... Unfortunately, they try to legislate that... It doesn't have to be that way.
My father-in-law tells a story when he was young and lit up a cigar after a meal while out eating... Well, some lady made a loud proclaimation: "Who, the HELL lit up a cigar!"... Not that my father-in-law considered it, he didn't, he was clueless to the effect he had on others... To make a long story short, he was never that "clueless" again... He would show courtesy to others from that point on. And no he WASN'T GIVING IN... He was showing common courtesy.
Think that happens in today's "in your face" society?
Ha!
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Honestly, I've never really been to Buffalo other than for Bills games.
Grew up in Syracuse, went to school in Rochester. Made some trips to Canada but never thought to hang out in Buffalo.
I personally don't care about weather. People's reactions to the weather, the overall ability of people to adapt to driving, and the efficiency of plows is a hell of a lot more imprtant than raw numbers. After being in Philly for a couple of years, I realize that upstate NY handles a foot of snow better than the pantywaists down here react when there's a half an inch. I can barely get to work when it's raining. I don't know if I could deal with people calling soda "pop" though.
Don't know if you've seen this? A good website!
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I would jump in VA... But, God knows you wouldn't want that. The stigma of agreeing with would be too much!
Go easy on him people... We disagree on a lot... Or, do we?
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Depends on how hard it is to get to... What kinda of stuff is packed around the alt. belt and the tensioner pulley.
I guess if the belt goes for 30-50 bucks... under a 100 or so doesn't sound too unreasonable???
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I suspect it's pretty easy to get into Neverland these days.
Any Little League team I've ever been a part of has always found that a trip to DQ, or some other ice cream joint, with no limit on the one thing they could order, usually did the trick.
Alternately, if there is a party involved, you could hire someone to bring an ice cream maker and have a blast.
So true LA!
Then again, you don't want to offend the kid that can't step within 5 meters of a Peanut Buster Parfait!
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Porbably the reason they close Rte. 5 at the SkyWay?
That and ice/snow.
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If it is an Infiniti... It is a Nissan, almost all Nissan's utilize interference engines. If it is the timing belt and it goes, most likely you can encounter valve damage?
Most of the time there WILL BE more engine damage than just the timing belt crapping out!
Probably not a chain? Might not be plastic either?
Is it a whistling chirping noise for sure?.. Or is the oscillating a thumping noise? Sometimes a thumping noise can be caused by the diaphram in the EVAP canister (if the car utilizes one)?
If you do do the timing belt... 75-100k is recommended... Change the water pump also... While they are in there it won't be a problem and they almost always go if you don't change it. Most of the labor is getting to the front of the engine, through all the crap... The pump is under 100 bucks and makes sense to change it while they are in there!
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So true!
It has been really busy this weekend, now is actually one of the few times I can post.
Had a missing person last light that fell into the water in our lower pool... The divers never did find him... God hope he doesn't become a floater anywhere near this place! So far I am batting 1000 (3 for 3) for finding crap (no offense to the deceased
) like that at this place!What is it about non-swimmers not wearing PFD's? It must be the allure of the fish? There is fish in them dare waters!
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Actually, I should start bringing my camera to work! A few years back there was this pilot that would carry an SLR and a mambo zoom lens, I guess he had the right idea! Usually, the fun starts when they want to lock down from spending the day on Lake Michigan, they are all liquored up and free! Then there are the old ladies that do it and that gets downright scary!
We do so many PC (about 30k a year) I almost take it for granted... Our new security camera (brought to by the kind folks at homeland security
) has a great zoom in feature! Now chicks on jetskiis with no PFD... I turn a blind eye! 
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Was this directed towards me? I have seemed to have touched a nerve?
I here what you are saying Darin. I guess the randomness of getting struck by lightening makes it easier to deal with? Then again if you are observing all safety percautions in dealing with lightening, you are not going to get struck. The same can be said for firearms... Yet, firearms are still left in the control of man... Which means (at least to me, IMO) that all accidental deaths, random, what not can be avoided.
Don't let that whoosh over the top of your head distract you or throw you off course?
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Isn't that some of the theme from "Beverly Hills Cop?"
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I don't think that outlawing guns is necessary. Good thing because it's impossible. But I do think that if you have to take written AND practical exams to get a driver's license, it's not too much to expect that you submit to a brief waiting period during which a background check is conducted in order to obtain a gun permit. And I think that keeping loaded guns in a house with children isn't a great idea - that guns in households with children must have some sort of lock on them. Unfortunately since there are morons out there who don't consider this there should be some sort of mandate, like with a penalty, around having those locks. I suppose having your kid die from playing with a loaded gun is a penalty, but that's a little too stiff for me. Perhaps something a little milder would be better.
Could they nationalize all firearm laws, ones that would cover the whole country? This being license and registration tracked to the actual ID number of the product?
There is no way you are gonna stop firearms from traveling into areas with tighter restrictions in a "free" society. Can't things be standardized? Things don't have to be tighter, just get everybody on the same page.
It has got to be controlled at the source, at manufacturing. The burden has to be there. It is easier to control a small group verses the large masses. Accountability for what they produce and sell has to be at tha level. Maybe drive up prices?
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I have a spot of clear coat missing on my '94 Chrysler... Right in the middle of the trunk above the key hole... Makes a perfect spot for one of those BFLO stickers!
Then again, I drive my cars forever, not uncommon to get over 200k on them... Something pretty major has to go for me to puke one.
Have you done your research with ribbons? My guess the patriotic ones that festoon some cars would skew your results?
The have ribbons that are stickers too... To trick people to swipe them?
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Let me clarify some things for the weak. I’ve been married for over 15 years. The rule on toilet seats is this, LOOK BEFORE YOU GO. Pretty simple. I’ve heard the wife scream before on this one. And so have I. Some of you are real kitty’s.
Its all about communication, !@#$ all that other blather.
Damn, 22, don’t do it. DONT DO IT!!!!!
So totally true!
Now leaving a sliver of TP on the roll with the stash in the vanity gone and the other rolls in the linen closet 20' away... IS ANOTHER STORY!
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"Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL...
Open the pod bay door, please, Hal... Hal, do you read me?"
"Affirmative, Dave. I read you."
"Then open the pod bay doors, HAL."
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me."
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In the grand scheme of things, maybe it's better more people don't vote. From a poll of 1000 adults nationwide by the Polling Company.
CLOSED-ENDED QUESTION
2. And, please tell me which of the following is the most accurate description of a "filibuster?" (READ AND ROTATE LIST, ACCEPT ONLY ONE RESPONSE)
68% A LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE
4% A MEDICAL PROCEDURE
2% A HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE
2% A SPORTS TERM
1% A BREED OF HORSE
1% A TYPE OF SANDWICH
* OTHER (VOLUNTEERED)
* Some kind of equipment
* Someone who knocks you out.
* It’s a good thing
* The Congressman
21% DO NOT KNOW/NO RESPONSE (VOLUNTEERED)
I'll have a fillibuster with provolone, lettuce, tomato, and banana peppers, please.
Are you sure there is a double "L" in the word?
Pretty good actually, 3 out of 4 people picked the closest to the meaning?
I feared a lot worse?
Now if we can just correct the double "L" thingy?
Dear Conservatives
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No. I don't consider it that way. She was correcting an individual with total lack of regard for others. Call that in your face if you want. I call it speaking out to correct someone's lack of common courtesy. Remember here, the cigar smoker wasn't just minding his business... He was being a nusance. That nusance just so happens to be a health risk for others.
"In your face", would have been to puff away.
It all comes down to power. Nobody has the power to harm another arbitrarily.