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Vilerat posted:5. In 1964, he was seriously injured in a plane crash and hospitalized for several months. Test results done by the hospital at the time he was admitted had shown he was legally intoxicated. The results of those tests remained a "state secret" until in the 1980's when the report was unsealed. This is probably my favorite one. He was injured in a plane crash (NTSB link), and yes he was drunk. He also was a passenger - the pilot was killed. If it's now a crime to be drunk while flying in a plane, that's going to add some new terrors to those people who prefer to go through a flight passed out. Hell, David Boon is going to probably be up on 52 charges from one flight alone if this ever goes to trial.
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quote:How much taxes do Americans actually pay? Compared to other first world nations? Because the level of bitching is astronomical.  (Source, 2008 has incomplete data)
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freebooter posted:But is it actually scaled according to income? Or is it flat rate for everybody? It's average tax burden as a percentage. For example, you think your tax burden is 12-15%, but there's also the 10% GST in there as well, as well as excise taxes on Tobacco, Petrol and Alcohol. Therefore your tax burden even at such a low income rate is still going to be closer to 17-22%. For firmer numbers, in my case, I paid 22.3% tax last year, and then if you figure the 10% GST on my non-mortgage non-fresh food income that raises it to a fraction under 30%. Seeing how I'm earning almost dead on the the average wage for an Australian, and I didn't have to pay other taxes like Stamp Duty or Capital Gains tax last year you can see how the burden works out. Australia has it much easier, as we have a national income tax, no state income tax and GST included in the price of every item, so rather then getting obviously hit up on every transaction, we get one lump of pain mid-year and then we forget about it. Which is why last election public opinion polls said Australians wanted higher taxes for more services, and why we have nowhere near the widespread anti-tax loon contingent as what you see here, thus bringing my post back on topic.
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burritonegro posted:Volcanos Just mail them back this :  (They had a bit of trouble with this one, in the end here's the data)
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red19fire got hit with posted:It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars. How long has this email been going around for ? It hasn't been 12 months, it was 14 years ago, in 1996 shortly after Martin Bryant purchased two automatic weapons from a licensed gun dealer and killed 35 people and wounded 21 in a coffee shop at the Port Arthur tourist spot. Sure, the Homicide rate in 1996 in Australia was 2 per 100,000, which fell to 1.2 per 100,000 in 2009. But the Homicide rate in the US was 7.4 in 1996, and fell to 5.4 in 2008 - most of the western world is in a 20 year period where homicide rates (expressed as a percentage of population) are falling, and there is no one single cause for it. The great thing about crime statistics is that you can prove pretty much anything with them. Need them to rise ? Report total number of incidents, or target areas with high populations and compare them to areas with lower populations, or a different time frame. Need them to drop ? Choose it as a percentage, or exclude certain categories or go for certain ages or ethnic groups. Basically, crime rates are the sluts of the statistics world.
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Kavak posted:I think that one's been circulating for a long time, since there's no mention of Bush. I also vaguely recall seeing it at some point before in the thread. We may be looking at the granddaddy of crazy forwards. The original site was here, dated 1997 The reason it may be familiar is the original text was an Awful Link of the Day almost 7 years ago
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prom candy posted:If you want to argue with people who know their poo poo you need to find stuff in the New Testament as most Christians (AFAIK) aren't expected to follow all the rules in the Old Testament. Does anyone know of any crazy rules in the NT? Well, Matthew 5:17-18 means you just shut that argument down straight away - Christians have to follow everything in the Old Testament. quote:- “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
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DarkHorse posted:Made a thing Here's another version, probably less accurate 
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Iceberg-Slim posted:Here's a doozie for Thursday morning: Well, you could always point out that 8:59 is "Let not the unbelievers think that they can get the better (of the godly): they will never frustrate (them)." Al-Anfal 8:60 posted:"Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know. Whatever ye shall spend in the cause of Allah, shall be repaid unto you, and ye shall not be treated unjustly." Soundly beaten on Deuteronomy 17:2-5 I see, thank you Preview Reply function.
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Dr Christmas posted:If you feel like one more honest crack at those people, try pointing that many DMVs aren't open 7 hours a day, five days a week and have a link to one of those weird ones only open the third Wednesday of the month or whatever. Sauk County, with a population of 61,000. Part of Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional district, Democratic held since 1997. There are three places to get your license, and all up they will be available for 13 days total between 1st of October and election day. If you have to use the Salk City site, you can get a drivers license on the 31st of October, the 30th of January 2013, 29th of May 2013, 31st of July 2013 and 30th of October 2013. Baraboo service center 1000 Log Lodge Road Baraboo, WI 53913 Hours: 7 a.m.-5 p.m. - Monday, Wednesday Reedsburg service center Town Hall 600 W. Main Street Reedsburg, WI 53959 Hours: 8:15 a.m.-4 p.m. - 1st, 2nd, 3rd Wednesday of the month Sauk City service center - Driver License/ID Renewal Office Community Center 730 Monroe Street Sauk City, WI 53583 Hours: 8:15 a.m.-4 p.m. - 5th Wednesday of any month
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SpRahl posted:So my dad has been ranting and raving that Obama is a secret Muslim because he wears some sort of ring that has Arabic writing on it. Does anyone know where this "talking point" comes from? I figured this would be the best place to ask since it seems like the type of thing that would come out of a fwd fwd fwd email. Snopes is on it. Basically, people thing curves + jpg artifacts = arabic writing. Of course, the fact that he is wearing gold should be enough to put an end to it, but the people behind this sort of crap are nothing if not ignorant. Abu Dawud Book 027, Hadith Number 4046 posted:The Prophet of Allah (praise be unto him) took silk and held it in his right hand, and took gold and held it in his left hand and said: both of these are prohibited to the males of my community.
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LP97S posted:
Numbers are sourced from the Government Accountability Institute, of which Peter Schweizer is President (He is the author of books such as Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy, Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism and Makers and Takers: Why conservatives work harder, feel happier, have closer families, take fewer drugs, give more generously, value honesty more, are less materialistic and envious, whine less … and even hug their children more than liberals , and Yes, that is the full title)
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Armyman25 posted:Latest FB about Benghazi. The C-130's armament is pretty much whatever personal weapons are issued to the crew. There are a lot of these, deployed all around the world. The AC-130 is a small production run aircraft (about two dozen in current service), of which two were sent to Libya but based out of Aviano in Italy. If they were on the ramp, loaded and ready for operations, took off at the exact second the attack started (9:40pm), ignored an inevitable recall order when the attack finished (11pm) and flown at their absolute top airspeed (260 knots), they would have completed the 1050 mile flight over Benghazi three and a half hours later, or two hours after the first attackers left. This is also assuming that the Libyan government would approve the plane even going into Libya's airspace - the rapid response CIA team from Tripoli made it to Benghazi at 1:15am, but the Libyan government would not even let them clear the airport for 3 and a half hours because there was no threat and no mission plan - do you really think they would let an aircraft that fires 105mm howitzer shells downward into a urban environment just fly in and start shooting ? On top of this, the AC-130 carries 14 crew and very fragile - when one was shot down by a single Iraqi soldier in 1991 using an 1970's era Strela 2 strict rules were put in place with regards to what combat area they could be deployed to. It is not a "fly over there and shoot guys with rifles" plane, it is designed as an anti-vehicle platform with very specific missions.
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Urban Space Cowboy posted:Here it is: Actually there have been 8  The US Postal service - openly supporting President Obama for 11 years.
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Twelve by Pies posted:I think someone else mentioned it earlier too, there's different strains of the flu as well and medical experts aren't psychic. If they're wrong about the strain that they think is going to be most prominent that season, then the flu shots will be less effective against the actual problem strain. More specifically, the "Flu" that most people say they are getting, which is causing gastroenteritis and weakness, is actually GII.4 (Sydney 2012), and not even part of the influenza family.
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thegalagakid posted:Here's another gem I've gotten aggravated about recently. Reply with this : 
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gradenko_2000 posted:Is there a single source I can refer to to debunk all of the Fake Moon Landing bullshit? My dad has been forwarding me these youtube videos and I'd really want to lay down something solid. Things like "there were multiple angles of shadows" and "there were 2 pictures of the exact same scene except one has the lunar lander and the other doesn't" and "why is there no blast radius from the thrusters" and "why are there only 20 or so moon landing pictures" Once you have sent the Clavius and Bad Astronomy sites, include this different take - a cameraman who's been working since 1978, and the other was a video engineer who worked in Television in the 1960's and 1970's. They put forward the counterargument that it was not possible to fake the Apollo 11 143 minute single-stream from the surface of the moon using technology that existed at that time, and the later video footage was even more impossible. Not the best video to open the argument with, as it's a bit unfocused, but still a nice finishing move.
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Tuco posted:According to my family members, Michelle Obama is "the most disrespecting skank to ever be in the White House." This would be from the August 2009 holiday trip to the Grand Canyon which caused no end of dramas quote:By week's end, more than 300,000 people had responded to an online poll by the Today show, with 83 percent saying Michelle Obama had the right to bare legs. Of course she does, though even I was surprised at first to see her in shorts. How dare she wear shorts on a holiday in the middle of summer as they were heading off to hike. You never saw Jackie Kennedy wearing anything less than a designer dress every minute of the day - even on holidays. Except, you know, when she did :  Hell She's not even wearing shoes here.
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