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  1. I know who this was, I know who this was!
  2. excell

    Updates!!

    Removed your NSW pic, ya dumbass.
  3. The funny thing, an admin's rep page shows who the rep'er was.
  4. I have leveraged my considerable reputation weight in your favor on several posts.
  5. Wonderful. Ford will sell me my next vehicle. I've been proud of how they handled this whole situation.
  6. In Ohio you can propose a law or an amendment to the constitution (or both) depending on what you're trying to achieve. The average Ohioan isn't educated enough to know the difference. In this case, an amendment to our constitution was required to allow casino gambling in Ohio, but this issue was written to not only allow casino gambling but to give this organization sole control over administering it. And you better believe they spent a shitfuck amount of money to lobby and campaign. Recall our last round of smoking bans we voted on. There were two on the ballot. One was a total ban, a law, which we voted FOR and passed. The other was an amendment to the constitution which would have provided for bars and other similar establishments to always allow smoking which we voted AGAINST and it failed. Had BOTH issues been passed, YOU COULD SMOKE IN BARS even though a law existed forbidding it because the second issue was a constitutional amendment allowing it in bars and constitutional amendments trump law. At any time another constitutional amendment could find it's way onto the ballot to overturn part or all of the law we approved.
  7. Do not fucking get me started in issue 2.
  8. Expanded... By forming this bill as an amendment to the constitution instead of a regular law we have now written exclusive rights to casino gambling in Ohio to this one specific company. Constitutional amendments are extraordinarily difficult to repeal or modify and they trump any law set by any municipality all the way to the State level. Constitution > Law. That means in the future if we wanted to open casino gambling to other organizations, say to introduce competition or to negotiate tax rates we can't without an extraordinary legislative process to reverse this amendment which will never happen. This organization now has a monopoly and can effectively dictate casino policy in Ohio to our lawmakers. The way this should have been done was a constitutional amendment to allow casino gambling, then a state law to award the contract to this organization. We just fucked ourselves out of future tax money and benefits by awarding this organization constitutional protection against competition.
  9. Saab 9-7X rules. If you're getting one of those, lifting is a bit different in that you'll have to remove the rear air ride. No difference as far as engines are concerned, same everything.
  10. That shit makes me sick. Might as well piss all over the constitution and wipe it with our asses because clearly a majority of our people don't give a flying fuck about what it stands for.
  11. The developer has already said they're building a Hollywood Casino here, and for the well-explained reasons Ken mentioned expect corners to be cut.
  12. excell

    Footwear

    Piloti DTM's http://www.piloti.com/ in the summer, Thorogood side-zip boots in the winter. These look awesome. Do want!
  13. Agreed. This shit is being written into our constitution.
  14. http://www.walkerevanseffect.com/blog/columbus-casino-not-the-end-of-the-world/ Oh yea, that'll look beautiful downtown.
  15. Strike a win for democracy, fuckers. I love it when a government body tires to fight referendum on something like this, loses, and then loses at the polls.
  16. They've got it. Like I said, unless a significant anomaly is found, it's in the bag. Barely. But in the bag. SWCS people, don't put your gear away just yet - projections indicate they'll be back for another levy in four years to try and get back into the "normal" funding zone for a system this size unless significant school funding reform is passed (and it needs passed!). I hope the economy is in better shape and it'll pass easy then because we clearly can't count on our legislature to fix the shit.
  17. They'll have to count provisional's and then recount ballots, I'd say were at least a few days off from official certification.
  18. No shit. I guarantee many of these no fuckers spend more than that a WEEK on cigarettes and beer. Hillbilly ass motherfuckers.
  19. Good, maybe people will want to move here. :gtfo:
  20. The vote for the levy will go to an automatic recount, however I just did a little research on past elections. Currently the levy is PASSING by a margin of 449 votes NOT INCLUDING PROVISIONAL BALLOTS and this is a major reason most news outlets won't call it for SWCS. South-Western School District Tax Levy (WITH 104 OF 104 PRECINCTS COUNTED) FOR THE TAX LEVY . . . . . . . . 19,579 50.58 AGAINST THE TAX LEVY. . . . . . . 19,130 49.42 Looking at the individual vote tallies from each ballot type (from the Franklin BoE) I think it will stay passed unless there’s a major anomaly (fraud, etc.). I looked up the 2008 general (presidential), 2009 primary (May), and 2009 special (August) election results on which a levy failed. In 2008 of 1,868 provisional ballots 1,016 were FOR and 852 AGAINST. In 2009 primary of 235, 155 FOR 80 AGAINST, in 2009 special of 431, 285 were FOR 146 AGAINST. All three elections the provisional ballots leaned significantly FOR and the difference between the totals suggest that if historical trends prove true, provisional ballots will in no way overturn the levy. Almost time to celebrate a small victory for the kids.
  21. You've got it wrong, Jones has an 11 year old sized penis, his girlfriend is 16.
  22. 106k. I also replaced shocks and struts at the same time. http://www.trailvoy.com is the best Trailblazer site out there, but hard core offroading guys hang at http://www.offroadtb.com
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