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QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 29, 2012 -> 01:10 PM) You're likely correct to say this but I kept hearing the same thing about Dunn for 5 and half months last year.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2012 -> 12:20 PM) I think they had to lose at least 4000 season tickets, if you compare the worst sales from last year to the worst sales so far this year. Hence the $25 million salary cut. And it highlights the lack of connection between ticket sales and salaries. Unless each season ticket was about $6,250, which is about $70 per ticket per game, the loss in season ticket revenue is less than the payroll drop. BTW, I believe it was a great April.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2012 -> 12:24 PM) So, it cripples the local economy...but it also stops an illegal activity? Sure we can help Mexico collect taxes owed to them. The Mexican Nationals that deposit in the US are now more likely to be kidnapped when criminals know their net worth. And banks in the US have less capital to lend out. Of course one of the accounting types here can explain what happens when 40% of a banks deposits are withdrawn at about the same time. I'm guessing that isn't pretty. But yes if any American has money deposited in Mexican banks and not paying taxes on the interest, we can prosecute them. I'm certain there are a lot of Americans depositing in Mexican banks.

When my kids were younger my guns were basically disabled. Balta would have felt safe in my home. That was the best choice for me in that situation.

http://www.themonitor.com/articles/banks-6...sury-along.html

http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.as...82#.T5y2HKtSTF8 Damn, there is a one in three chance he attends my school. He is probably a 7th grader, but could be an eight grader. I am also worrying he could have been one of my athletes. what if what if.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 28, 2012 -> 07:09 PM) If a person actually cares for them, keeps them appropriately safe, unloaded, and locked at home, isn't carrying them, transports them safely (unloaded, locked), keeps them unloaded, but has the means to access them quickly at home should they feel the need (and there's no one else in the house who can easily figure that lock system out), fine. That is an appropriate level of responsibility in most cases and if people regularly did that it would save several hundred innocent lives per year, minimum. Your gun doesn't threaten me when it is unloaded and locked up. I just hope you don't shoot me if I ring your doorbell at 2:00 a.m. asking for help after a car accident. In other words hope the police arrive in time while you hide in a closet.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 28, 2012 -> 06:45 PM) And I assume you were at the time driving around the city hunting down vagrants? Otherwise this statement doesn't apply to anything in this thread. Really? It seems as if you have said that guns make situations more dangerous.

At 2:52 am this morning someone rang my doorbell. I was faced with the choice of turning off my security system and answering it or not. I know I felt better knowing if it was someone wanting to harm my family that help was closer than a phone call to the police.

We're discovering that a lot of the plastic we were sending to our local recycling center was not being recycled. They can only accept 1 & 2 and we have as much 5 here. We also will have to drive over to the city's facility to drop off glass.

Yes. Last night the employees threw her a party without the bosses around. I am certain the "retired" story was exposed.

I am certain as soon as guns are banned that criminals will throw all of their away, then even the police won't have to carry them. Y'all are painting the millions of honest, law abiding gun owners as the bad guys and protecting the criminals. Cops kill innocent people with guns and are sometimes punished. Private security personnel kill innocent people with guns and are sometimes punished. Private citizens kill innocent people with guns and are almost always punished. Cops save life and property by using their guns. Private security personnel save life and property with their guns. Private citizens save life and property with their guns. There are levels of risk associated with each scenario. I would rather live in a world where law abiding citizens have the same access as criminals. I don't want to be hiding, hoping the cops find me in time. Cops here shot and killed an eighth grade student who was holding a toy gun. I doubt that made your local newspapers. Zimmerman, shot and killed an unarmed man and it was national, even international news. Why? The difference between a cop killing a kid and a private citizen.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 02:37 PM) but I am telling you that the person who tells you he or she is a good driver...isn't. So how bad of a driver are you? My dad, a truck driver has logged well over 1,000,000,000 accident free miles with no tickets. Are you really suggesting when he says he's a good driver he's not?

Police and their guns have killed many innocent people. Our military and their bigger and scarier weapons have killed tens of thousands of innocent people. The list of items that have killed people is long. We can not make a risk free society, there are risks in almost everything we do. I would rather people called police and continued to keep an eye on someone. I don't mind them carrying a baseball bat, a pocket knife, a gun, or whatever. I will support that position until the day after the last criminal carries a weapon.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 07:50 AM) Is there a number of kids that it's ok to kill to accomplish that goal? Is the rule then one death and we stop using it is that was involved?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 10:59 AM) LOL. Come on now. You don't seem to be painting an accurate picture of Sanford Florida. The ends did not justify the means in this scenario. This wasn't mid 80s Cabrini Green with Zimmerman being a self appointed Batman to save the day. OK, I will agree then that in the case of this town and this town only. But there are a lot more towns that would benefit from people doing more than hiding from the criminals.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 26, 2012 -> 03:20 PM) Some, including me, would say that a rash of 50 burglaries where no one is injured is a lot better than one dead, unarmed, innocent 17 year old kid, and if given the choice between those 2 situations I'd choose the burglaries, because I wouldn't want it to be my kid. Obviously you can't simply make that choice, but if you're trying to justify having an armed man patrolling the streets because of burglaries...you're a lot closer to siding with the dead kid than you think. Is there a number when it is ok to actually take back your neighborhood from criminals? You are painting this out as every time someone patrols their neighborhood something tragic happens. There are thousands of people p[atrolling their neighborhoods without problems. We hear of gang infested neighborhoods where people are afraid to be outside at night. People need to take back their homes and neighborhoods not hide like scared children.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 26, 2012 -> 12:24 PM) Call the police and don't follow someone 'suspicious' around your neighborhood with a gun. Do not take actions that overwhelmingly point to escalating the situation. Citizens protect yourself. I just am not a fan of call the police and go hide while the criminals are allowed to walk anywhere.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 07:00 AM) Other: County-run curbside with a mandatory fee I added that to the city and moved your vote.

Our fee is $5 per month. I was a little surprised at the fee, but if it is necessary to kick start the program, I don't mind. So far only a couple hundred families have signed up. I am guessing they want a slow ramp up.

So my town finally started curbside recycling. Prior to this I was loading up the CRV every few weeks and dropping the stuff off at the town's facility. Ours is voluntary in 95 gallon containers. Cost is $5 per month and you have to attend an orientation and training session. They are not accepting glass, plastics 3 and up, and a few other things.

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