Impartial_Observer

https://www.police.govt.nz/advice/firearms-and-safety/changes-firearms On the bright side of things, it appears my MKA1919 shot gun is still legal.

I heard on the radio NZ officials have no idea how they're going pay for all these guns people are suppose to surrender. By all accounts I've heard, there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 million guns involved, and the government is saying this could cost as much as 200 million. By my calculations that's about 100 bucks per gun. One of two things is happening: 1) Guns are incredibly cheap in NZ. 2) Not only is the government stripping gun rights from law abiding citizens, they're ripping them off as well. Lastly, one single man, not even a citizen of NZ, has essentially stripped Kiwis from the ability to own modern sporting guns.

If I recall from government my senior year, about 100 years ago, one thing that the EC gives us, is a majority, which is also constitutionally mandated. Clinton won in 92 with like 42%-45% of the popular vote, with Perot siphoning votes away. I believe Reagan barely had a majority with slightly over 50% in 1980, with Anderson in the race. I'm sure there are other instances, but those two were both in my lifetime and I can recall them easily. I have heard on the radio, could be Warren not sure, someone championing the abolition of the EC envision 3, or 5, or 20 parties involved in the process. If we can extrapolate that out, it stands to reason we could have that many people running for president. So this create an unintended consequence? Look at the current D field for president, one can only imagine if we had multiple parties, one can only assume at least a handful of the 437 D running for president might consider another party. Look at quasi legit candidates, Bernie, Biden?, etc., if they took a third, fourth, or 20th party, they would legitimately take enough votes from other candidates to have a winner without a majority in popular vote, which ends up creating more chaos, anyone remember 2000? Personally I'm down with the EC. I think it's brilliantly designed to keep small geographic areas from dominating the political process. If we abandon the EC, nationally the only states that would matter to anyone are CA, TX, NY, IL, FL, and PA. Everything else will become irrelevant. As I understand it this is one of the reasons CA is considering a split into multiple states. CA being largely red, with the exceptions of most of the coast. Conservatives feel like regardless of how they vote, their voices are not heard, because SF, LA, and SD so dominate everything. As with so many things, it seems today people only see today, they don't look at the big picture. There was some chatter about abolishing the EC after 2000, but the Internet wasn't quite the thing it is today. I really believe this movement is a knee jerk reaction to 1-2 events people came out on the wrong side of. And given the current political climate, I'd say amending the constitution has about a snowball's chance in hell of happening.

Wouldn’t it take a constitutional amendment to do away with the EC?

So starvation and poverty are now used interchangeably?

I'm sure loss is accounted for in item pricing. I found it odd that in the link DE posted, they used a pic of produce, which is one of the biggest loss products in the marketplace. Go capitalism!

opponent is tied in the database Our resident DBaser addressed this earlier. Contrary to Jimmie's comments, there's a little more to spreadsheets than doing goesintas. I wonder how often teams submit conflicts and discover their opponent doesn't have the same game on their schedule. I know it's happened to us, we think we have a game scheduled, only to find out they're on the road with a different school.

I'm going to give it another watch. Frankly I was so exhausted with the weekend's events, I barely stayed awake for it. I thought it was plenty brutal with the children and all, but gave some keen insight into Michonne's actions.

Coach Slone at Plainfield HS always took care of my helmet decal needs and did an outstanding job.

No Florida trip this spring for us. I’m taking my wife on a surprise trip for our 30th anniversary. The only thing she knows is we had to get passports, and when we’re leaving. I believe the fall trip to Florida after Football season is going to be an annual thing, though.

From a mathematical standpoint I think it would be virtually impossible based off the fact there is essentially and infinite number of variables with out of state schools. Many of which change year to year.

I will admit to growing weary of some of these threads and don't even look at them.

Any word on David Hogg's involvement? We could tie up two threads.

You DBasers think it's DBase or die!

Lawrenceburg is a doughnut community with decent paying casino jobs.......and of course Connies

Money doesn't talk, it swears. Bob Dylan

Just as you mentioned above, QB could be missed due to alignment. Pretty easy to count to three. The guys I learned from were so old they were school. We don’t mess with signals. If there’s time, wing will say on the radio, I’m heavy or I’m light. That being said, 9 times out of 10, they report it to me, I got 5 in the backfield.

I tell my wings on EVERY play know how many guys you have on your side of the ball. When in doubt throw the flag, they're easy to pick up, if after the play we discover they're unbalanced. That being said, it does get missed.

lol....I can remember several years back getting a phone call, Can you get us an 8' brass pole with ends that screw into the floor and the ceiling by tomorrow. Absolutely, if you're willing to pay what it takes. It was for the Abate Boogie.....I made a few bucks and they had their stripper pole on time.

I've drove by it several times, granted I've never been in Springville proper, but I don't recall seeing a gas station as it flashes past.

@DannEllenwood always had you figured for a Jet!

Don't take a knife to a gun fight.

This IS the point.