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elfwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 10:46 AM
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FIGHT TERRORISM : New Texas Specialty License Plate
Edited on Fri Dec-05-03 10:58 AM by elfwitch
This morning I was looking up on the Texas Motor Vehicle Registration and Titling website what it is going to cost me to re-register my car this time around. One of the Specialty plates being offered by the state this year:


Fight Terrorism License Plate
Two plates are issued to passenger cars or light trucks. A fee of $30 is charged in addition to the regular registration fee and other applicable fees. The application and specialty license plate fee are submitted to the Vehicle Titles and Registration Division.

I really had to hold back a :puke: on this one.

Any of your states doing silly stuff like this?
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 10:49 AM
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1. What the....???
Someone in our state thought this was a good idea??? The money goes to the STATE HIGHWAY FUND!!!!! Not to fight terrorism!!!! :grr:
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elfwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 10:53 AM
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2. and the rabbit hole gets deeper and deeper....
I tell ya, sometimes living in Texas is like falling down the hole with Alice. Curiouser and curiouser....
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 10:58 AM
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3. Why do I live here again?
Somebody PLEASE tell me...I must REALLY love my parents or something.

Allow me to quote Charles Emerson Winchester III: "I will put this as eloquently and succintly as possible: GET ME THE HELL OUT OF HERE!"
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elfwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 11:00 AM
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5. I am so outta here !!!
I figure I only got 6 months left and then I'm bailing this psycho loony bin of a state. Canada is looking pretty nice. Huge entertainment industry up there. They gotta need animators right?
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 11:04 AM
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10. I would love to have an exit strategy.
Unfortunately, my exit strategy is about as well-developed as *'s for Iraq. x(
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elfwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 11:05 AM
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11. You can come visit me and mine when we bail...
From one San Antonian to another.
:pals:
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 11:06 AM
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14. Ahhh thanks!
:pals: Maybe I can stay long enough to con a Canadian woman into marrying me so I can stay. :D
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drfemoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 04:27 PM
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34. I was planning
to move to California .. until they got their new governor :cry:
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Beaker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 10:59 AM
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4. "specialty" plates are a problem for law enforcement.
Here in Illinois, there are 56 different specialty plates offered for police to keep track of-

http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/publications/lpguide/specialty_plates.pdf

In the past, some of the plates have had smaller, harder to read numbers than the regular plates, and as such were popular with gang members, because it was harder for Police and witnesses to read them quickly.
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Romulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 11:02 AM
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7. bah - only 56?
Maryland has something like 150 different specialty plates.

http://mva.state.md.us/VehicleServ/SpecialtyPlates/product.asp?deptid=13
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elfwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 11:03 AM
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9. that is a lot
How do they keep up with them all?
Which ones do you see most often?
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Romulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 11:07 AM
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15. hmmm
Usually I see the alumni association plates for the Univ. of MD and other colleges, but I have seen a lot of the veteran/military plates (I have one, myself).

As a runner up, I have seen a number of Humane Society plates. Even the "Dental Hygenists" plate.
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elfwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 11:08 AM
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16. the ones I see the most often
Purple Heart, Veterans, UT Austin, A&M, and the Humane Society
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Romulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 11:00 AM
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6. *yawn*
Virginia has had the same exact plate design since right after 9-11.

What's the big deal?
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central scrutinizer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 11:03 AM
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8. Where does the 30 bucks go?
Like all voluntary taxes, it probably is just used to offset the giveaways to big corporate donors. I am sure it is not being used to "fight terrorism", whatever that means.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 11:05 AM
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12. $29.50 goes straight to the Highway Dept.
The other $0.50 goes to the county of the license plate holder. Yeah, that's fighting terrorism alright. Heck, if the $29.50 went to the Dept. of Public Safety or something, maybe. MAYBE. But, right to the highway dept? Give me a break.
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 11:05 AM
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13. Beer money
For the good ol' boys fishin' while the boss thinks they're guarding the power plant.
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Military Brat Donating Member (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 11:14 AM
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17. They have the wrong identification on the example license plate
It should read GWB 666. :grr:
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silverlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 11:35 AM
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18. This has to go to our broke highway department
Perry "the shirt" (with the rest of the republicans) have moved all their funds to the general revenue and we are now building toll roads. All the gasoline taxes we pay have disappeared to the general revenue black hole. Our bridges are in terrible need of repairs, as well as our state highways.
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laura888 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 11:39 AM
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19. Virginia has that one, too
http://www.dmv.state.va.us/exec/vehicle/splates/info.asp?idnm=TERMC

It's quite upsetting to see them.
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elfwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 11:40 AM
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20. have you actually seen one on the road?
n/t
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Gulf Coast J Donating Member (221 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 12:04 PM
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21. I've seen many in Virginia.
But I live pretty close to the Pentagon so I'm sure it's quite personal to many people who own them. I really don't see the problem here. People want these plates, the government charges them to have it. How is it different from the pro-animal or pro-reading plates I see all the time?
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laura888 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 12:04 PM
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22. yes, unfortunately, I see one at least once a day...
...but I live near the pentagon. Many, many military, or quasi-military folks live in my area.
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lewiston Donating Member (86 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 12:08 PM
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23. Huh?
We shouldn't fight terrorism? Seems like a strange position.
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laura888 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 12:11 PM
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24. please define what "fighting terrorism" means, please (n/t)
n/t
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elfwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 12:16 PM
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26. and define how that will be accomplished...
By sporting a license plate?
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lewiston Donating Member (86 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 12:37 PM
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30. Here ya go elf
Edited on Fri Dec-05-03 12:43 PM by lewiston
Fighting terrorism means identifying and eliminating the elements that create the conditions of terrorism (it's in the dictionary) i.e. poverty, poor education, etc. that exists in third world countries. Not the only definition, but it's mine.
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laura888 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 12:43 PM
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31. I like that definition! Fight terrorism, by fighting poverty!
amen!
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elfwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 12:49 PM
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32. how about this for a licence plate?
Fight Ignorance

We fight ignorance by sending the money to schools and to organizations that would work to bring integrity back to journalism (TV and print). What better way to make the world better than to help people realize that they are being duped?
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juancarlos Donating Member (199 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 12:17 PM
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27. Nothing wrong with the plates
What is wrong with fighting terrorists?
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elfwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 12:24 PM
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28. how do you define a terrorist?
History has taught that being labled a patriot or a terrorist depends on what side of the fight you are on. In the American Revolution the colonists were terrorists as far as Britain was concerned.

When I took Texas history in 7th grade, we had an excerpt from a Mexican history book about the battle of the Alamo in our Texas history text. The Mexican history book labled the people at the Alamo as rebels and insurgents.

And if you use the * Administration definition, anybody who disagrees with THEM is a terrorist.
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laura888 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 12:25 PM
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29. who are these terrorists? how do you fight them? n/t
n/t
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 01:59 PM
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33. If the money from the plates went to a law enforcement agency,
you'd have an argument. The money goes to the highway department. How is that helping fight terrorism?
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 12:15 PM
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25. So if these plates show up on Hummers or Ford Excursions . . .
. . . as I'm sure they will, I guess THAT'LL show those madrassa-funding terrorist-coddling Saudi princes!

There, take THAT!!
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Kamika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 04:29 PM
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35. Well you can't blame them
Since there are suckers that HAPPILY buy junk like this lol.. why not grab the opportunity :)
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