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  • Apr 20, 2013, 06:59 AM
    talaniman
    I think any resident can collect rain water around their residence, but rural areas hate it when you divert a source of water from a town, village, or community. Whatever the local rules are. Just keeping the lawn, or garden watered can be expensive in Texas in the summer.
  • Apr 23, 2013, 06:42 AM
    speechlesstx
    Charlie Rangel, tax evader and corruptocrat, is suing John Boehner to have his House censure overturned, which passed on a bipartisan 333-79 vote. A censure is basically a public scolding saying "you've been a naughty boy." Wearing a pro-second amendment t-shirt to school will get you worse punishment than Rangel received.

    Quote:

    Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel is suing Speaker John Boehner and six other lawmakers, alleging problems with the House ethics investigation that led to his censure in 2010.

    In a complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Washington, the New York Democrat alleges "numerous, flagrant, knowing and intentional violations" of his due process rights.

    Rangel, 82, seeks to overturn the censure and says in the court papers that he suffers "irreparable harm that cannot be compensated by money damages."

    Rangel's office referred questions to his attorney, Jay Goldberg, who did not return a phone call seeking comment.

    The lawsuit names Boehner; Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. who was chairwoman of the House ethics committee at the time of the censure; and other committee members and staff. The congressman alleges that evidence was withheld by the committee staff.

    In December 2010, the House voted 333-79 to censure Rangel for multiple ethical misdeeds — including failing to pay taxes for 17 years on rental income from his villa in the Dominican Republic and soliciting donations from companies with business before the Ways and Means Committee while he was chairman. The donations were going to a center being built in Rangel's honor at the City College of New York.
    Obviously taking responsibility for your actions is so passé.
  • Apr 23, 2013, 06:46 AM
    tomder55
    What irreparable harm ? He was reelected by the sheeple in his district with hardly any opposition.
  • Apr 23, 2013, 06:54 AM
    excon
    Hello again, tom:

    Quote:

    He was reelected by the sheeple in his district with hardly any opposition.
    Let me see... Gerrymandering is bad, bad, bad, when Democrats do it, but it's cool when right wingers do it?

    Does that about sum it up?

    Excon
  • Apr 23, 2013, 07:03 AM
    tomder55
    Nope... corrupt politician censured for his corruption should not be reelected no matter how the district demographics are stacked. Yes ;I call out the people of his district for not caring enough that a crook represents them.
  • Apr 23, 2013, 07:06 AM
    talaniman
    Their all crooks, especially the right wingers who say they aren't.
  • Apr 23, 2013, 03:32 PM
    paraclete
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    nope ... corrupt politician censured for his corruption should not be reelected no matter how the district demographics are stacked. Yes ;I call out the people of his district for not caring enough that a crook represents them.

    Come on Tom where do you get an honest politician?
  • Apr 23, 2013, 04:08 PM
    Tuttyd
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by speechlesstx View Post
    Charlie Rangel, tax evader and corruptocrat, is suing John Boehner to have his House censure overturned, which passed on a bipartisan 333-79 vote. A censure is basically a public scolding saying "you've been a naughty boy." Wearing a pro-second amendment t-shirt to school will get you worse punishment than Rangel received.



    Obviously taking responsibility for your actions is so passé.

    There appears to be two different issues here. One being an inappropriate shirt and the other related to not paying taxes.
  • Apr 23, 2013, 05:57 PM
    paraclete
    Tutt you know there are only two issues; death and taxes, now the T-shirt is in the death category and taxes are like the poor, they are always with us
  • Apr 24, 2013, 02:11 PM
    speechlesstx
    It's come to this, Anthony "pants on the ground" Weiner has chosen a, well, an interesting logo to kick off his mayoral race.
  • May 9, 2013, 04:58 AM
    speechlesstx
    The emperor's latest amnesty ploy, we're all immigrants.

    Quote:

    Unless you are one of the first Americans, unless you are a Native American, you came from someplace else. That’s why we’ve always defined ourselves as a nation of immigrants. And we’ve always been better off for it."

    —President Obama
    Excuse me, I was born in Amarillo, Tx, USA. I am a native American.
  • May 9, 2013, 04:59 AM
    tomder55
    His is a flawed logic . The native Americans did not originate here either . They were tribes of migrants that crossed over from Asia.
  • May 9, 2013, 06:06 AM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by speechlesstx View Post
    The emperor's latest amnesty ploy, we're all immigrants.



    Excuse me, I was born in Amarillo, Tx, USA. I am a native American.

    So babies born here are native Americans too.
  • May 9, 2013, 06:15 AM
    speechlesstx
    na·tive
    Adjective \ˈnā-tiv\
    Definition of NATIVE
    1 : inborn, innate <native talents>

    2 : belonging to a particular place by birth

    3 : archaic : closely related

    4 : belonging to or associated with one by birth
  • May 9, 2013, 06:24 AM
    speechlesstx
    Speaking of The Goracle...

    Quote:

    Former Vice President Gore on Tuesday said "there's no such thing as ethical oil," slamming the notion that importing oil from U.S. ally Canada was better than doing so from unfriendly nations.

    There’s no such thing as ethical oil. There’s only dirty oil and dirtier oil,” Gore told Canada’s The Globe and Mail during a Tuesday event in Toronto.

    Read more: Gore: 'There's no such thing as ethical oil' - The Hill's E2-Wire
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    Of course not, it's much more ethical to waste billions of taxpayer dollars on "green" energy, poison us with light bulbs and generate tons of toxic battery waste.
  • May 9, 2013, 06:39 AM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by speechlesstx View Post
    na·tive
    adjective \ˈnā-tiv\
    Definition of NATIVE
    1 : inborn, innate <native talents>

    2 : belonging to a particular place by birth

    3 : archaic : closely related

    4 : belonging to or associated with one by birth

    That's what I said, babies born here are as native as you are right?

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by speechlesstx View Post
    Speaking of The Goracle...
    Of course not, it's much more ethical to waste billions of taxpayer dollars on "green" energy, poison us with light bulbs and generate tons of toxic battery waste.

    Yeah I bet the places where the pipelines for Canadian oil, or any spill is worried about light bulbs.

    Pipeline rupture spills heavy Canadian crude oil

    Need more links, there are many. Companies screw things up all the time, Koch is notorious for it. At least you can go to Home Depot and stock up on all the old style light bulbs and candles you want.
  • May 9, 2013, 06:44 AM
    excon
    Hello tal:

    Quote:

    At least you can go to Home Depot and stock up on all the old style light bulbs and candles you want.
    You didn't hear about the Obama Light Bulb & Gun Task Force? When they pick up the guns, they're going to get the light bulbs too.

    It's ON the internet..

    Excon
  • May 9, 2013, 06:59 AM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    That's what I said, babies born here are as native as you are right?

    Was the definition confusing?

    Quote:

    Yeah I bet the places where the pipelines for Canadian oil, or any spill is worried about light bulbs.

    Pipeline rupture spills heavy Canadian crude oil

    Need more links, there are many. Companies screw things up all the time, Koch is notorious for it. At least you can go to Home Depot and stock up on all the old style light bulbs and candles you want.
    So you agree with The Goracle, there is no such thing as ethical oil?
  • May 9, 2013, 07:00 AM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by excon View Post
    Hello tal:

    You didn't hear about the Obama Light Bulb & Gun Task Force?? When they pick up the guns, they're gonna get the light bulbs too.

    It's ON the internet..

    excon

    They can have my incandescents when they pry them out of my cold, dead hands.
  • May 9, 2013, 07:02 AM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by speechlesstx View Post
    Was the definition confusing?



    So you agree with The Goracle, there is no such thing as ethical oil?

    Not when its bubbling in my front yard for 6 months.

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