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Sounds great but I'm not the chief. Some of the locals will shame businesses that don't comply and it's worked but in the case of the bowling alley it's under new management by a young guy who is tight with guys on the force. I agree that a few fines and a padlock are powerful motivators yet when a group of guys from the same small town that served in Iraq are part of the equation sometimes LE looks the other way. I doubt that Mike DeWine is sending M-4's and Apaches.

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Fun fact, that's the UK color palette. In the US it was purple, white and gold--gold for the sunflower representing Kansas, the first state to grant women the right to vote.

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"It is ineffective, it is impractical to have a mandate to have everyone drive sober, because it is not enforceable," McMaster could have said during a news conference in June. "There's no power on Earth that can follow everyone in the state around to be sure that they are following the rules."

"It is ineffective, it is impractical to have a mandate to have everyone refrain from armed robbery, because it is not enforceable"

"It is ineffective, it is impractical to have a mandate to have everyone refrain from dropping acid, because it is not enforceable,"

Etc.

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The supermarket cashier also?

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Or Columbo.

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The LEO's are to busy shooting people in the back.

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Fruitcake aren't edible at all. Ever.

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Our duly elected and openly bisexual Oregon Governor.

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Exactly

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Um, no? Wyoming was the first, though it was a territory at the time, but statewise, CO, ID, and CA all beat KS to it by 1-19 years, as did several other territories. The yellow does refer to the sunflower symbol from the KS 1867 suffrage referendum, but that failed, and KS didn't give women the vote until 1912.

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And all the little kids at Pompy's anti-gala unChristmas party?

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The electronic traffic signs on the NY Thruway that advise of traffic problems ahead are now posting the following messages:

STAY NY STRONG!

CELEBRATE SMART

AVOID FUTURE LOCKDOWNS

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Yep. I have two relatives in NC, one of whom is an ER doc, the other of whom is a cashier at a convenience store. The ER doc is obviously at risk, but so is the cashier who has to sell beer, smokes, and lottery tickets to all the anti-maskers who come into her store.

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I'm more likely to buy my wife something from the hardware store. At least she's moderately handy with tools. I'm perfectly useless with doing pretty much anything more than putting up a picture hook.

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Cool, did they have coded sufferage jewelry, hat trim etc for women who couldn't be open supporters?

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It's also unenforceable to ban marijuana. For rich, white kids anyway. They don't get charged.

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