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Old 06-09-2011, 10:26 AM
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Side note - At the old Hershey Park Arena you had to pay $2-$3 to park close to the arena, free parking at the far lots. In 2002 the new "GIANT CENTER" opened next door which was built with tax dollars and licensing fees - Hershey didn't pay a penny (cent) for it. Now they charge SEVEN DOLLARS to park anywhere on the complex - the bums! But I'm not mad enough to take 700 pennies (cents) with me.


HA! WISH we could find parking that cheap ANYWHERE around Houston!

Parking at the Reliant Stadium (former Astrodome which is rotting down behind it) is $10, and that's CHEAP compared to most places...

Go to the stupid downtown venues (George R. Brown Convention Center, Toyota Center (hockey, Bball) or the Minutemaid Park (baseball) and you'll pay TWENTY BUCKS for parking, and STILL be 6-8 blocks away!

Everything in Houston is expensive-- that's why I only go *extremely rarely* to any events... even their street festivals-- they post 'water Nazis" who go through your bags before you're allowed in, and make you throw away any bottled water, snacks, or drinks you might be carrying-- to FORCE you to buy it from overpriced street vendors inside who charge $8 for a bottle of water because they have to pay anywhere from $800 to $4,000 for a "vending license" from city hall to be ALLOWED to sell stuff at events...

TOTAL RIP OFF...

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Old 06-09-2011, 07:02 PM
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You are right, I was wrong. It wasn't 8 BoD ... sorry I didn't get it right enough for the two of you.


Not a case of "not right enough", but a case of "completely fabricated". As in pulled straight out of your ass.

You *********s are certainly entitled to your own opinions. But you are NOT entitled to your own facts.

As far as why the ACLU chose to represent NAMBLA in this case, why not let them explain for themselves?

http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/acl...r-organizations

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NEW YORK--In the United States Supreme Court over the past few years, the American Civil Liberties Union has taken the side of a fundamentalist Christian church, a Santerian church, and the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. In celebrated cases, the ACLU has stood up for everyone from Oliver North to the National Socialist Party. In spite of all that, the ACLU has never advocated Christianity, ritual animal sacrifice, trading arms for hostages or genocide. In representing NAMBLA today, our Massachusetts affiliate does not advocate sexual relationships between adults and children.

What the ACLU does advocate is robust freedom of speech for everyone. The lawsuit involved here, were it to succeed, would strike at the heart of freedom of speech. The case is based on a shocking murder. But the lawsuit says the crime is the responsibility not of those who committed the murder, but of someone who posted vile material on the Internet. The principle is as simple as it is central to true freedom of speech: those who do wrong are responsible for what they do; those who speak about it are not.

It is easy to defend freedom of speech when the message is something many people find at least reasonable. But the defense of freedom of speech is most critical when the message is one most people find repulsive. That was true when the Nazis marched in Skokie. It remains true today.
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Old 06-09-2011, 08:24 PM
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peter, cohetero, please, I think both of you have some good and some bad points, but please, like a couple of pages ago shows, your arguements can get way off topic. sorta old, but who am i to say?
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Yes, the Incredible Shrinking Constitution! Watch it disappear before your very eyes!! Coming to a federal government near you!!!


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No private business is required to accept federal reserve notes or coinage.

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so what do they expect us to use? bottlecaps and trading cards?
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Other acceptable (to them) financial instruments. Did you pay cash for you house? Your car?

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so what do they expect us to use? bottlecaps and trading cards?
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Other acceptable (to them) financial instruments. Did you pay cash for you house? Your car?
Indeed--in addition to accepting checks of various kinds (personal and cashier's checks), bank and postal money orders, and credit & debit cards, some businesses are members of "barter clubs" in which products and services of member businesses are traded at agreed-upon equivalent monetary values. The military has used (and may still use) scrip, which was/is an internal currency, and a few municipalities have experimented with their own internal currencies.
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Other acceptable (to them) financial instruments. Did you pay cash for you house? Your car?


Yes, my grandmother did... several times!

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Old 06-11-2011, 06:28 PM
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No private business is required to accept federal reserve notes or coinage.

http://www.treasury.gov/resource-ce...gal-tender.aspx

the reason I asked is since they are not required to accept notes or coinage, then that seems to drastically reduce their profits, if they rely on barter or "monopoly money". it just confuses me a little.
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