If you're not paranoid yet...

I dug through my email, and found this from ghg dated 25-Apr...

"We suspect it was the dept of fatherland security causing this.. They ordered me to not put it up anyplace else or give out any of the videos/pix.. sorry... had been up for about 9 years. --ghg"

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

And certainly do not do any of

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

No, if I remember correctly, it's putting them in the toaster and holding down the lever until the catch fire, at which point they apparently do a pretty good pyrotechnic display.

Oh. Hmmm... Why not use a MAPP gas powered torch out on the sidewalk? Seems safer. Although, I'm sure the neighbors would ask even *more* questions if I tried that..

tah

There are bastardizations of every political viewpoint. True conservatives don't want any governmental control over personal freedoms identified in the Constitution. There are also pro-gun and anti-abortion liberals, go figure.

He wasn't a conservative; he was a kook. ;-)

Amen. But in a pinch, I'll go with the ones on the right side.

Mark Simpson NAR 71503 Level II God Bless our peacekeepers

I grew up with the loons on the right saying two people who loved each other can't get married if they're not the same race.

Now the loons on the right are saying two people who love each other can't get married if they're the same sex.

I suppose it is progress.

Zooty

To that I would reply "who's the loon?" The ones saying it's wrong or the ones saying it's right?

Is progress always positive? ;-)

Mark Simpson NAR 71503 Level II God Bless our peacekeepers

Several years ago, my cousin had a major fire in her house. Cause was traced back to pop tarts in a toaster. Ironically, her husband is a fireman, and was at the station when the call came in, but not for his station. SO he had to sit at work through the whole thing.

Good news is that insurance took care of everything, and they now have a new toaster and whole new kitchen.

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

Perhaps two loons on the right should not be allowed to marry. Or two loons on the left.

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

Maybe it's time to recognize that the religious notion of marriage should be separated (I hesitate to say "divorced") from the civil notion of a partnership with legal rights for the survivor?

Let the churches decide who can be married within their particular faith (I'm a very conservative Roman Catholic who would be very, very upset if my church allowed gay marriages), and keep that separate from people's decisions regarding who their employee benefits and inheritance can support (that's none of my business).

Strawberry pop-tarts work best.

hmmm and I just saw a stack of mics at wally world for 30 a pop. Hmmmmmm

The point is things that society considers unacceptable one day are considered acceptable a generation later. Blacks and whites using the same bathroom, going to the same school, intermarrying, etc were all rare not that long ago. Attitudes towards gay relationships are starting to change.

Who knows what will change a generation from now? Jenna Bush could be US president. Jerry Irvine could be TRA president. Cubs could be world champions :-)

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

Sounds like a start. Right now, I can designate anyone I want as the beneficiary of my work life insurance. But the only folks I can cover with my work insurance are those with a legal relationship. For this to work, there needs to be a way to declare "legal relationship". The only currently accepted ways to do so are to marry or to adopt. And you still have to be living under one roof. There's no way someone can declare a disabled adult relative as a dependent for work insurance purposes, regardless of where they live. Nor a "life partner" regardless of sex.

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

Naaa. The Cubs will NEVER win so the whole scenario is out the window :)

Jerry

Jack Benny: Now THAT... was funny!

Randy

That is a practical suggestion. The main social dislocations associated with marriages is when divorce happens the state itself assumes jurisdiction over the parties thereafter forever intil any and all children of the marriage are adults, as if 100% of the population is unable to cope with raising children merely because they are divorced. This becomes particularly absurd when well off parents get divorced amicably and have a well thought out financial and visitation plan and the state FORCES them to pay "child support" of a mandatore % of their income (through state hands at a substantial fee of course) and with penalties for refusing to cooperate with this mandated madness merely because they have a BETTER plan in place the JUDGE vastly prefers.

So any way to get the state out of any aspect of marriage or divorce except to notice the ones that do happen, would be a blessing indeed, whether or not you are religious.

Wonderful government self-employment (societal destruction) phrases:

Deadbeat Dad

Cold War

Homeland Security

War against Terrorism

Drug War

Prohibition

Just always right Jerry

kaplow snipped-for-privacy@encompasserve.org.TRABoD (Bob Kaplow) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@eisner.encompasserve.org:

But did the insurance company replace the PopTarts?

kaplow snipped-for-privacy@encompasserve.org.TRABoD (Bob Kaplow) wrote in news:lSVEh$ snipped-for-privacy@eisner.encompasserve.org:

I can almost buy Bush/Irvine, but the Cubs thing is just rediculous! :-)