BL> My brother had a $600 radar detector and no one offered him
 BL> compensation for what was legal when he bought it.

 BV> I wonder how many people I could kill with a Radar Detector ?

  If you mounted it on a length of 3-by-2 you might get a couple.

 BV> This Medicare Levy thing has me disturbed too. It sets a
 BV> *nasty* precedence and I don't like it one little bit. Of
 BV> course this is an ideal time for one of my favorite little
 BV> lines...

 BV> If I paid taxes, I'd really be pissed.

  ROFL!! I like the way the gun lobby is running in all directions at
once, trying to minimise the new laws and maximise the difficulties.
I heard one today say that it wasn't fair to the victims of Port
Arthur... that all this fuss would only upset them. We ought to put
it all behind us and just forget it. GOD! These gunnies are utter
cunts, aren't they? Dead bodies everywhere and they just don't give a
shit!

  And a loony mob in Queesnland (where else?) who want to lead the 
revolution against the communist homosexual plot in canberra. This is 
real straight-jacket talk! It would be really funny if they didn't have
automatic weapons. ROFL!!! We've flushed them at last. It seems that 
anyone with an SLR is crazy... really!

 BV> Sadly the inference is not true. I do pay taxes, and I'm
 BV> pissed!

  At least you get something for it. I've been paying taxes all my
life and the only thing I got was a free Carpel's Tunnel operation...
$1,500 back for something like $300,000 outlaid.

  Jeeze... I just worked it out. I've been working 40 years, I bet $2
million at the races and paid 14% tax = $280,000 (20 years ago when a
dollar was worth ten) plus another $400,000 over 40 years (or more).
Christ! They're into me for $700,000! No wonder they can afford to pay
Paul to write submarine softare.

  The least they could do is buy me a rifle.

Regards,
Bob
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