Where is there a 1% sales tax rate?
Where I live sales tax is 6%. Where Apple lives sales tax is 8.75%.
Why did I get charged 1% tax? Will Apple hand my 2¢ over to the IRS, or is this some other form of Tax that I don’t know about… really, 1%? Continue reading
I was just telling someone how, because I was born in NY and have lived most of my life in New England, I have always been tagged a Yankee by my family in the South. Continue reading
I bought an old Chevy C10 in the state of Montana. When I went to register it for new tags, I found out there are 8 pages of plates to choose from. I’m a bit too frugal to fork over the annual fees for a pretty license plate, especially considering I bought a vintage vehicle for the affordable, one-time, lifetime registration.
I wonder if any other states offer so many choices for license plates?
That’s how fast the meteor that exploded over Russia’s Chelyabinsk region was traveling when it hit our atmosphere.
Think about that for a second.
When I was in Basic Training, referring to one’s black rifle as a ‘gun’ was a punishable mistake.
I distinctly recall a certain soldier in our platoon required to stand atop a wall while holding his rifle with arms outstretched and recite the following:
“This is my weapon, this is my gun. This is for killing, this is for fun.”
Anyone caught referring to their M16 as a gun was taught.. that a gun is between your legs. Continue reading
Next up: US citizens must surrender all cactus plants to police.
Because cacti have the divine right of self-protection they have been determined by the United Nations to conflict with the “Democratically legitimized monopoly of violence that is globally required.”
All cacti bearing spines must be delivered to police immediately.
No one is safe from these deadly plants.
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(There is no truth to this blog post, it is a joke. ..though, the possession all cacti not genetically altered by Monsanto may become illegal soon.)
“Printing” a firearm?
Using the Objet Connex260™ 3D Printing System, some techie folks have successfully printed an AR-type magazine. Continue reading
