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RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
10/31/1864 . Nevada is as far as I know the only state with a state holiday for induction day . About 7 yr ago they established a calendar date for the Friday or Monday closure due to the All Hallows Eve and Noches de Morte celebration conflicts.
If Halloween is on Saturday, Sunday, or Monday the State Holiday is on Friday otherwise it's the Monday before .

UN of Nevada Reno has Homecoming that weekend with UN or R vs UNLV game , the winner takes the Kit Carson Cannon home . Affectionately refered to as the Battle for the Canon . I believe it is also the only in state college rivalry that forces NCAA to schedule around that a rivalry game where teams aren't in the same conference/division thing .

So there's 2-3 things most don't know about Halloween.
 
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hornetguy

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fiver said:
at least they used comma's.

if you read the lower right corner of the label i think the finger part will explain itself.
just a reminder,,, they are in west Texas.
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They are in West, Texas. It's a town. Lubbock and Odessa out to El Paso are in west Texas.... :cool: :rofl:
 
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hornetguy

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..... all I know is Bill Engvall is very happy these kind of people exist. Made him a go-zillionaire... or whatever he is.
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hornetguy

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fiver said:
wait West is a town?
woo hoo now there's two places i can wear my West High hat.
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Yes, West is a town on I35 just north of Waco... West has a couple of Czech Kolache stores to visit for some pretty amazing pastries. One is called the Czech Stop...
It was made infamous a few years back when a fertilizer plant (IIRC?) blew up and leveled a large section of the small town. Around 15 people died, and many more were injured.
 
Charles Graff

Charles Graff

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Product Liability law was in it's nascent stage when I started Law School in January of 1964. It has grown and expanded until it is yuge. When it comes to design, manufacture and sale of "goods", it is the tail that wags the dog.
 
L Ross

L Ross

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Charles Graff said:
Product Liability law was in it's nascent stage when I started Law School in January of 1964. It has grown and expanded until it is yuge. When it comes to design, manufacture and sale of "goods", it is the tail that wags the dog.
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When I worked in the Courts I had conversations with a number of attorneys. Many of those chats left me disheartened. 33 1/3% plus expenses is the goal, not justice, fairness, civil rights, and certainly not guilt or innocence.

Juries, well juries are not randomly chosen from the voting rolls of your peers. Jurors are analyzed, categorized, selected or rejected by both sides and I thought that system has become corrupted also. I did find young enthusiastic public defenders however.

Some attorneys lamented having to practice "dirty law", i.e. traffic, criminal, marital, custody law, instead of the lucrative product liability cases they treasured. Most told me that it was the number of fellow attorneys that was slicing the pie so thin.
 
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hornetguy

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L Ross said:
When I worked in the Courts I had conversations with a number of attorneys. Many of those chats left me disheartened. 33 1/3% plus expenses is the goal, not justice, fairness, civil rights, and certainly not guilt or innocence.

Juries, well juries are not randomly chosen from the voting rolls of your peers. Jurors are analyzed, categorized, selected or rejected by both sides and I thought that system has become corrupted also. I did find young enthusiastic public defenders however.

Some attorneys lamented having to practice "dirty law", i.e. traffic, criminal, marital, custody law, instead of the lucrative product liability cases they treasured. Most told me that it was the number of fellow attorneys that was slicing the pie so thin.
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Be very careful.... this could start a whole slew of "lawyer jokes"....
 
Rick H

Rick H

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This might be a Joke about the hammer, but I know of a few people who carried a ball peen hammer in their car for self defense purposes before Michigan eased concealed weapon laws. Effective in a pinch and innocently carried if your vehicle was scrutinized by law enforcement.
 
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Thumbcocker

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L Ross said:
When I worked in the Courts I had conversations with a number of attorneys. Many of those chats left me disheartened. 33 1/3% plus expenses is the goal, not justice, fairness, civil rights, and certainly not guilt or innocence.

Juries, well juries are not randomly chosen from the voting rolls of your peers. Jurors are analyzed, categorized, selected or rejected by both sides and I thought that system has become corrupted also. I did find young enthusiastic public defenders however.

Some attorneys lamented having to practice "dirty law", i.e. traffic, criminal, marital, custody law, instead of the lucrative product liability cases they treasured. Most told me that it was the number of fellow attorneys that was slicing the pie so thin.
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Our first week of law school a professor asked us how many were there to learn to do justice. Several hands shot up. The professor said " There are some very good Seminaries you can attend. We are here to teach you how to do law."

32 years as a prosecutor BTW.
 
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