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UncleSac
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15 years ago @ KCRG - Group Says \'Religious... · 0 replies · +1 points
Your rights END where the rights of others BEGIN. Simple as that. Imaginary sky daddy's rules do not apply to this conversation. You want them to apply to you? FINE, impose more rules on yourself and your club, just leave the rest of us out of it. Easy cheesy. Get over it and move on.
15 years ago @ KCRG - Cedar Rapids to Conver... · 2 replies · +7 points
Choking off downtown is underway. Not just choking traffic, but further choking commerce and the peoples desire to go downtown for any reason. If I were invested in downtown commerce, I'd be raising a stink over this and other projects choking the already anemic traffic flow downtown.
And while I am at it, help me understand why the new federal building couldn't have been built in one of the old industrial areas a few blocks southeast, or even in the parking lot just across the street to the south instead of blocking first street SE. Do any of these people have any common sense? Maximizing expense, public impact, and minimizing return all at once.
15 years ago @ KCRG - Train Clips Snow Plow ... · 0 replies · +2 points
Oh, and here's YOUR sign...
:D
15 years ago @ KCRG - Interviews For New Sup... · 0 replies · +1 points
I spent years of my life serving in our military in an effort to preserve the liberties we have, and expand liberties to those who do not have them. I have been in harms way numerous times in this endeavor. Sad to think there are those who choose to work against those ideals right here among us.
This country is a work in progress. In the last century "we the people" have worked hard against similar resistance to bring about equality for many oppressed groups. African Americans, Women, and disabled people to name a few. This is simply one more group of oppressed people asking to be included in our society. I am not gay, but I stand with them in their endeavor. Someone must, and I am willing.
...And justice for ALL Not just a select few as some would have it.
15 years ago @ KCRG - Interviews For New Sup... · 4 replies · +8 points
Allow me to clarify: If you voted the justices out simply to get new blood in to our government because you feel our government isn't working the way it should, then I am on your side. Thanks for voting.
But if you voted the justices out because of narrow minded beliefs, then I submit that you are on the wrong side of history. You know, the opposite side of liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness. The same side with Theocracies, slavery, religious persecution, witch hunts, etc. The side that opposed the rights of women to vote, and killed millions in the Holocaust.
Only those who voted can know the reasons for the vote they cast. But alas, the whole of society must live with the consequences.
15 years ago @ KCRG - Interviews For New Sup... · 10 replies · +15 points
Score one for the obsessed few who wish to impose their warped will on the rest of humanity. I weep for Liberty, Justice, Freedom and the true values of America. We are one step closer to creating a Christian version of Iran. Soon our Anthem will be "O'er the land of the free...so long as they believe as I do!"
Consider this poem:
"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
-- by Martin Niemöller, theologian and Lutheran Pastor
15 years ago @ KCRG - Skepticism on Highway ... · 0 replies · +1 points
My point isn't if roundabouts in general are workable, but rather if they are workable at those two intersections without needing more land than the right of way can currently provide.
15 years ago @ KCRG - Skepticism on Highway ... · 4 replies · +16 points
I think they are fine in a suburban neighborhood where you have mostly cars and light trucks, but not an ideal solution where you have heavy agricultural truck traffic such as on highway 30.
15 years ago @ KCRG - Study Finds Video Game... · 0 replies · +6 points
My Father: Yeah, my son used to let the TV rot his brain, and the commercials brainwashed him. In my day we played baseball and walked around town in the evening.
My grandfather: Yeah, my kids used to waste their day playing baseball and letting the Coca-Cola ads brainwash them into spending their allowance on sodas. And they'd get into trouble uptown all the time. When I was a young lad, we'd just get together at the swimming hole or maybe go see a picture show... you know, wholesome stuff.
My great grandfather: My kids and the local boys would hang out learning swear words and looking at girlie magazines. Buncha troublemakers! In my day, we'd go to the circus and see the side show! You know, wholesome stuff....
15 years ago @ KCRG - More Than 300 Ash Tree... · 1 reply · +5 points
To be sure, it is a losing battle, but one which must be fought. One thing we do have going for us is that Iowa has several small prairie towns that may not ever see an EAB infestation because they are so far from other groves of trees. This can act as a kind of ark to allow the species of trees to outlive the plague of the insect. This is what saved the American Elm trees from extinction.
And 300 trees is a drop in the bucket. I am guessing at LEAST 10% of the trees in this area are Ash. Probably millions of trees, and taking 300 is small potatoes.
The sad part is that Ash wood makes beautiful lumber for furniture and Architectural work, but for some reason people would rather import Oak from Mexico than use Ash...even though the layman cannot tell the difference.
Regards,
UncleSac
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