<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by rockstarr:
Those balls are cheap, and they come in new colors, for a brand new century of abuse. Maybe we could get one in COTH colors.
http://www.ballsonline.com/browse.asp?cat=101&path=101<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
You are warped, rockstarr.
you’re really just <BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>reeling drunkenly…<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>The origins of PC are GOOD INTENTIONS. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Good intentions = the paving blocks on the road to hell. 
Good lord! tjo, you’re beginning to sound like you’re closer to my camp in comparison!
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Taryn:
Okay, time for a new clique — the hobson for president clique. I shall begin making the bumper stickers…
http://www.foalcams.com<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
OK, but only provided I will still have time to gab on the BB. I’m inspired by Dubya’s refusal to take Nelson Mandela’s phone call last week because he was “busy” or something. If I can put Tony Blair on hold while I post my photos of Peeps, then I’m in.
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by maggymay:
there are countries in Europe that pay more than 50%.
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Depending on how you do the math, Canada and the US are both already taxed at around 50%. You need to include $ spent to comply with gov’t regulations. An example of this would be airbags in cars - the $ spent on airbags aren’t counted as ‘taxes’, but it is an expense incurred as a result of government decree.
OH, believe me, it’s the jokes that have kept me glued to this thread! 
I guess that one just went over my head… 
If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody ELSE’s dog around- A Cowboy’s Guide to Life
I guess we should all be grateful that hobson hit the key one stroke DOWN from the “j” as opposed to one stroke to the left…
[I]“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
Albert Einstein (1878-1955)[/I]
I guess dodgeball was a little different in my school. 2 teams, 1 on each side of the gym. And then both teams trying to get as many people on the other team out. The balls usually weren’t over infalted either, but maybe we just had kinder gym teachers.
Dear Rush,
My life’s dream is to represent the U.S. in the Olympics. Neither I or my family have, however, the finances to purchase and train a horse with the potential of taking me to the Olympics and the folks at the governing body formerly known as the USET have told me that unless my last name is Johnson, Clark, or Haas, that I should be happy for the opportunity to show at the county fair next month. What is a person of talent and dedication to do when the odds are so against me?
Sincerely,
Bereft
Dear Bereft,
Suck it up and realize that life isn’t fair. It’s not about talent and dedication, baby, but learning early on that life ain’t fair, especially for people like you. Get over yourself.
Dear Rush,
I own a lovely Appy mare but it seems that even though we have better rounds at the horse shows, we never manage to pin above the WBs who chip and can’t swap their leads. The judges also seem to mark us down for not wearing the latest Van Teal shirt, GP jacket, and TS breeches; and I’m about 50 lbs. overweight. I work at two jobs just so that I can show, I scrimp and save and can go weeks eating only Ramen noodles; somehow this doesn’t seem fair to me.
Sincerely,
Hungry
Dear Hungry,
You’re clearly not trying hard enough and expect the world to play by old and odd notions of fairness. Why shouldn’t you be marked down because of your weight and the colour of your show shirt?! Stop your moaning!
As facetious as the above may ring, that’s how ridiculous some of your assertions seem. And perhaps I’m odd, I see your head a-nodding Fat Appy, but while we can, most of us, summon up incensed fury at the inequities rampant in the horse world, I am shocked that many of you remain so ignorantly stubborn and blind to the world that surrounds you - and so indifferent to the people with whom you share a town, city, country, and planet.
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Miss Perfect:
C’mon, now - you don’t know the circumstances of the issue. The president may have had very good reason not to have the time for Mr. Mandela - <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Absolutely. He may have been having a massage. Or a manicure. Or… oh the possibilities are endless.
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Snowbird:
that when 50% of the people have to support the other 50% that is when communism walks in the door and there is revolution. He never threatened war he said capitalism would collapse if we paid more than 50% of our income in taxes to support the rest of the society.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
As it turned out, Karl Marx was wrong about a lot of things…
[I]“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
Albert Einstein (1878-1955)[/I]
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by HeyYouNags:
[least] we all start pelting you with DMI’s (dodgeballs at maximum inflation).<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Sannois:
If you want the truth I am a card carrying Libertarian. {{ Quick someone catch Hobson before she falls down! }}
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Oh that’s nothing for shock value - I have a union card AND I’m a registered voter with the Green Party
no breed should be favored over another, and Arabs should be given equal consideration…
Everything else you mentioned is just silly IMHO.
We played the way you did SBH: 2 teams on either side of a (rather small) gym, hurling balls at each other, as AAJumper said, as fast and hard as possible so they couldn’t catch them.
More post was meant to be silly, but, in all seriousness, I agree with bgoosewood that it’s not a game I think kids should be forced to play.
Sheesh how I dreaded that game, and I wasn’t ever ganged up on. There were a few sadists in my elementary school who took great pleasure in hitting someone hard enough to make them cry.
And I do remember in 4th (?) grade one rather unpopular, unathletic kid was ruthlessly treated in dodgeball. Some of boys would all get together and pelt him, all at once–sometimes even if he was on their team. Even in elementary school, most of us knew that was flat out mean.
Other than, oh, boxing (which we don’t force kids to do) very few games involve actually trying to hurt the other players.
And, as I mentioned earlier, it really doesn’t give you that much exercise–especially if you’re one of the more unathletic kids who get knocked out at the start.
But I wouldn’t ban it. I just wouldn’t require it. So you can go play dodgeball all you want, and I will go to another area of the playground and use those hard, marroon, rubber balls for 4-square (another game that doesn’t require much exercise but is much more fun)!
I was rather irritated when I got home from work at 2 am and was accused (in a roundabout way) of not having a job.
jl and Hobson, so far you have attacked my home state, the fact that I have horses, the fact that I don’t know exactly who it is who makes these ridiculous tables, attacked sentances I wrote which you took out of context to make it fit your cause, republicans, accused me of not pulling up my own bootstraps, BUT
you still haven’t responded to the issue of whether or not the __________ fill in word of your choice here policies are causing people to stay on welfare/other government programs. So are you able to explain why you don’t think the policies keep people on the programs?
“I ain’t got a dime but what I got is mine; I ain’t rich, but Lord, I’m free.”
WONDERFUL BOOK.
My class at MHC read it over the summer, and then Barbara Erenreich came and spoke to us. It was a wonderful experience, and has really opened my eyes. I recommend it to anyone, liberal or conservative 
EMMA
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MHM:
So you’re saying you allow only OT threads that are politically correct?!?
JOKE!
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C’mon yd, I tried to get this topic back on-horsetrack several times (with little success) but by then, this thread had taken on a life of its own. In fact, I expected to hear moderators jangling their keys early on. Maybe it was the passion with which many of the replies were offered that kept this topic off their hit list.
Or a year’s worth of pent-up anger and frustration over 9/11/01 morphed into a heated debate on social issues? Or perhaps the realization that despite how much we abhor each other’s views, beliefs, perceptions, political or otherwise, we won’t kill each other over them, but now know others will—right in our own backyard. On the eve of 9/11/02, 9/11/01 might as well have been yesterday—for there is no (and I hate this word) “closure” when a savaged skyline remains a constant reminder of the massacre that was, and inconcievably, what still is yet to come.
So is it any surprise that a discussion about a “PC horseworld” would pale in comparison?
The few places where Libertarians think government should be is in, Mail Delivery, Defense, , All other areas should be conducted on the state level. Your mail would be safe. I can get you a more consise overview of the Libertarian platform if you are interested, or direct you to a local chapter. Or you can do a search on Google! Maybe Magnolia has some more insight!
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” Benjamin Franklin, 1755
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