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Red-light runners try loopholes | ajc.com

June 13th, 2005 by Quan Tranh

Local citizens are attempting to find ways around Gwinnett County’s red light cameras. A spray that actually seems to work against flash cameras has already been banned in other states. Unfortunately it doesn’t work on Georgia’s cameras which do not use a flash. Apparently the legislature has also banned the only countermeasure. Starting July 1, a clear plastic license plate cover also sold by Phantom Plate that distorts tag numbers and letters will be unlawful.

I did not know the legislature had banned these devices. Actually the best course of action would have been for Gwinnett County to go back to Lasercraft and purchase an upgrade. This is an opportunity for Lasercraft to upsell new technology. The same holds true for Phantom Plate. I shouldn’t be surprised since the south is known for protecting the income of special interest groups. Legislated communism is the right term.


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Victory for Gay Automobiles

June 6th, 2005 by Quan Tranh

The American Family ASSociation has decided to end its boycott of Ford Motor Co. having made their point. Can someone suggest that they try to make a point by boycotting all communication with the outside world?


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Carl’s Jr Burgers For Everyone (and Paris Too)

May 31st, 2005 by Quan Tranh

The less than brilliant pro-censorship people at American Family Association are part of the fools behind a campaign against the Carl’s Jr. commercial featuring Paris Hilton. We can also blame the less than brilliant people at the Parents Television Council for jumping on the anti-capitalist bandwagon as well. Carl’s Jr. is not apologizing for at all for the commercial which makes them a strong buy both in food and in stock. I want to see more of these commercials and anti-capitalistic idiots like AFA and PTC sell their televisions. We don’t need organizations such as these getting in the way of the free market. Then again I guess they would rather have us eat at Al-Qaeda Burger than at Carl’s Jr.

I think I’ll start a chain of restaurants called Burqua Burger where all the employees wear burquas so we can make money off the Christian Taliban. There can also be religious events in the kitchen such as “Flame Broil the Infidels At The Stake” or “Bake Ze Non-Believers In Mein Oven”. Boiling in oil is out since fried foods are bad for you and Jesus doesn’t want you to do bad things.


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Religious Nuts on the Boycott

May 31st, 2005 by Quan Tranh

The folks at the American Family ASSociation have declared war on Ford for donating $1000 of every Jaguar and Land Rover sold to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination. All I can say is that that boycotts are about as smart as the people that stage them. The economy is barely recovering and now we want to boycott an American company? People who don’t want to burn in hell will have to buy Peugeots now.

This takes me back to the days of seeing bumperstickers on an old beat up car that say “Buy American” or “Drive a Japanese Car & Put 3 Americans Out Of Work”. What will we see today? Here are a few starters.

“Chevy: The Heart Beat of Christian America”
“Drive a Ford, Take It Up The Ass and Burn In Hell”


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Beware of $2 Bills

April 7th, 2005 by Quan Tranh

BestBuy has demonstrated their brilliance by arresting a customer for presenting counterfeit money. He paid for merchandise with a $2 bill. The store employees thought that they were fake. What kind of rock do you live under to never have seen a $2 bill?? Apparently BestBuy is doing better than K-Mart for scraping the bottom of the gene pool. Not too surprising for a company whose CEO says the customers are not always right.


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