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And the state and local governments are running out of money for snow clearing.

Awesome.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 04:32:03 PM EST

Well, they could do what they do in the UK. Not buy any of the kit in the first place and then shrug helplessly while saying " Waddaya expect ?"

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 05:00:44 PM EST
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I could live with that, assuming they can still get food to the stores.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 05:02:50 PM EST
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More precisely: "You wanted low local taxation, waddya expect?"

by Sassafras on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 05:55:56 PM EST
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That happens in Minnesota too when the winter is significantly worse than usual. The media makes a stink over it, the state takes money out of the general fund to cover it, then everyone forgets about it.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 07:16:34 PM EST
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