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$800. Engine was shot. I bought a rebuild kit and a new carbuerator and 4 new tires for $500 so all told I had $1300 in it by the time it was drivable. My dad and I did all the work. Whatever I know about auto mechanics today I learned from him.

Titans @ Steelers Steelers repeat begins tonight Dolphins @ Falcons Atlanta in a close one Chiefs @ Ravens No QB no win for KC. Ravens win big Eagles @ Panthers Carolinas defense is good, Phillys offense is better. Eagles win Broncos @ Bengals No real opinion on this one. Bengals Vikings @ Browns Browns are in disarray, Vikes win Jets @ Texans Prediction, Jets will be elimated from contention by week 9. Texans win Jags @ Colts Gut tells me the revamped Jags running game overpowers small Indy defense. Jags win Lions @ Saints Bad team + rookie QB on the road = Saints win Cowboys @ Bucs Let the futility begin. Cowboys 49ers @ Cardinals I doubt they go all the way again but the Cards are way better than SF. Cards win Redskins @ Giants This will be a great game. Giants win close Rams @ Seahawks I wonder if anyone will watch this game? Seahawks Bears @ Packers Bears Bills @ Patriots This one will be ugly for Buffalo, Pats win Chargers @ Raiders Prediction: Chargers will get more sacks than the Raiders get touchdowns. Chargers win.

Week one is upon us, time for the picks! You can cut and paste this one: Titans @ Steelers Dolphins @ Falcons Chiefs @ Ravens Eagles @ Panthers Broncoes @ Bengals Vikings @ Browns Jets @ Texans Jags @ Colts Lions @ Saints Cowboys @ Bucs 49ers @ Cardinals Redskins @ Giants Rams @ Seahawks Bears @ Packers Bills @ Patriots Chargers @ Raiders

Good deal. Now you need a car, got one in mind? Bad choice letting your kid pick his/her first vehicle imo. Then they get the idea in their head that they can have anything they want but that's wrong and they need to be hit in the face. You get what you can take which is why I haven't killed myself for the two horrible jalopies that were handed down to me over the years. I do however get to pick my next vehicle and I'm basically just biding my time until something worthwhile comes along or the piece that I'm driving now falls apart and I'm forced to get a new vehicle. regardless, grats awsomness. Welcome to complete and utter slavery to your vehicle and of course the overly frightening experience of "blank driving" where your brain turns off and 15 minutes later you arrive at your destination with little or no recollection of the time spent operating your vehicle and the countless lives that you've likely endangered. Great times. If he gets a job and buys it himself he can pick whatever he wants. I bought my first cat at 17. It was 1978 Camaro, I earned the money cutting grass at a horse farm.

It would never pass. Simply put we (the majority of Americans) just don't want it. I know it's used in many other places and it works fine. We just don't want it here. It really is that simple. Heck I keep reminding everyone, the US in not Europe. It's not Austrialia. We may have far more in common than not but we have fundamentally different attitudes about what the role of government should be. Most of us do at least. That is not to impugn the viture of state run healthcare as it is practiced elsewhere. I know Krezack in particular is guilty of this but many non US posters here look at the US and wonder "why aren't they more like us?" We are the product of our history. If you really want to understand why the US is how it is I highly reccomend this book: http://www.amazon.com/5000-Year-Leap-Mirac...0994&sr=8-1 I know you were joking about the civil war part and while I do believe a break up of the US is certainly probable at some future point, I very seriously doubt there will ever be another civil war.

If that was my flagpole I know what flag I would fly:

Good deal. Now you need a car, got one in mind?

Just one more thought on this and I'll let it go. The Democrats have a super-majority in congress. They own it. The Republicans are absolutely irrelevant. They cannot filibuster or outright defeat anything. They could no more stop the Dems from passing this than they can stop the sun from rising tomorrow. There are three bills in the House and one in the Senate that do everything Obama wants including a government run public option. If this was such a god damned good thing then why have they not passed one yet? Heck they will not even allow a vote on it yet. Why? Becase they cannot even get all of the Democrats to go along with it. You don't need a singe Repub vote but when 1/3 of your own god damned party knows it stinks maybe you need to take another look at it before ramming it down everyones throats.

Not only does he want it he outlined exactly how to get it and is following his plan to the letter. For this example only, suppose he gets what he wants, a public plan to "compete" with private companies. This public plan is ostensibly not-for-profit and has no fiduciary responsibilities since if it runs short on cash the government simply gives it an infusion of cash by raising taxes, or worse simply printing the money as Obama has been wont to do this past year. Private companies cannot simply invent funds so they are already operating against an unfair advantage. Included in his plan is a law FORCING everyone to have insurance. There are a myriad of federal laws regulating insurance companies and what they can sell to whom and where. For example, if I wanted to buy my own plan there are over 1600 individual plans out there, I am only allowed to by 2-3 of them. So if the ones available are cost prohibitive I am forced onto the "public" plan. And you had better believe the big government hacks are savvy enough to ensure most people will be forced into that option by all means fair or foul. So once again, anyone can be placed on the public plan but the government who owns the public plan gets final say who the insurance companies can and cannot sell to. Once again, a very unfair advantage. Finally, because it has no fiduciary responsibility the public plan can undercut the private companies which will entice employers to drop private coverage and the coup is complete. Private companies go under, the government takes over and now by God they own you. Health care is the ultimate back stage pass into everyones lives. Want to outlaw smoking, drinking, scuba diving? They now have "vested financial interest" in your health and they will extrapolate that into the power to dictate how you live your life. I am not saying Obama wants to or will do all of these things but somewhere down the road someone will and all the groundwork needed will have been laid. No thank you. Not in my country. A very wise man once told me that the most intelligent way to look at government is to examine all of the factions and imagine what would happen if each of them got everything they wanted. Once you've done that you support the one that scares you the least. Obama and his ilk scare the hell out of me. Big Daddy Don Garlits told me that when I worked for him on his 1994 congressional campaign.

Actually I am a little bit of a Cards fan because the Redbirds, ther AAA affiliate are right here in town and I've been to almost a dozen games this year. But old loyalties die hard.

clearly something ole taks ain't gonna try. i already don't sleep... something like this would be negative sleep. taks Well, at our age that drink might cause heart failure. Either way the claim holds true. Once you pass 40 who has time to waste sleeping. I'll sleep when I'm dead. Just ask the local coyotes.

Awsomeness, please do me a favor and watch this video with an open mind. Remember, a law that seems innocouos or even benevolent today can be used to strangle you somewhere down the road.

There is dirnk called a Truckers ****tail you can try. Take a large cup (as big as you can get) put in a 5-hr energy shot (use 3 vitamin B caps 1 no-doz and a little apple juice if they don't sell those down there), 1 can of Red Bull and fill the rest of the cup with Mountain Dew soda. You might never sleep again.

Just looking over the schedule, even if the Fish keep winning, I don't see how they can make up the five games they trail the Rocks. Major bummer. The Bucs are not looking good this year, Panthers either. I'm trying to adopt the Predators but just can't make myself do it so far. I actually used to go to Panthers games, I can't break the attachment and pull for a team I've never seen just because they are the "local" team. Gonna be a blue winter for me. Go Gators!

Hmmmm. Isn't the EU supposed to be a union of sovereign states loosley organized under a weak central government? Isn't that by definition.... a confederacy?

They would probably pull in wondering where the new British Pub was!

Just because I walk to my door doesn't mean I'm on the road to Damascus, mate. Seriously, you talk as if national healthcare means you have to learn the internationale and wear a boiler suit. It clearly doesn't. Suppose you liked Damascus. Suppose you always wanted to not just go to Damascus you wanted to take everyone else with you. Suppose you always told eveyone Damascus was where it was at and if we just took a few steps we'd be on our way there. Then suppose you kidnapped me and threw me in the car should I not be worried we were going to Damascus? Obama has surrounded himself with socialists and in the case of Van Jones an outright self proclaimed communist. He has always been a vocal supporter of single payer health care which is de facto socialisim at least as far as health care goes. He has also publicly stated that the transition to single payer will involve a public option to compete with private and then begin moving everyone over to it until there is no private option. He has flat out said these things and you know it. I am a big believer in the domino theory and I don't want him or any of his despicable ilk knocking that first domino that leads to socialsism. That does not mean the federal government does not have some role to play in healthcare but by God they will NOT be allowed to run it. We will not have it. If they vote it in, we'll vote them out. What one congress does another can undo. You should watch that video I linked a few posts back.

I love 1-3, no thanks on 4, 5 needs a little work but is good in principle.

Thats the problem, too many people don't know what X flag really is and would not recognize the real one if it fell on them. Heck i nearly got into a fight once because I told a guy (redneck type) that the flag in his truck window was not the real thing.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09251/99628...?cmpid=cook.xml I think the Pirates are now where the Rays were in 2004.

Excerpt, rest is here: http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=4978568&page=1 I'm curious what everyone here thinks. I expect the non-US types here will find the whole controversy a little silly (and they would be right) but I've never met an American who did not have an opinion on this issue. Does anyone actually find the "Confederate Flag" offensive? Personally, they bought the land and built the pole, they can fly whatever flag they please but I'm curious about one thing, if you want to fly the Confederate flag, why are they not doing it? Thats right, the St. Andrews Cross flag was never the flag of the CSA. This was: If you want to honor history, be historical. I have a feeling these guys are just trying to get a rise out of everyone. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Nuff said!

No kidding Gfted. A plurality of Americans have stood up an said "NO!" to a government run health plan. And the best part is most folks recognized Obamacare was step towards full government control of health care, and that is just a step to nationalization of property, which is just another step to socialisim. Not in my country, no way. Congress may ram it down our throats anyway, we need to keep the pressure on. I read somewhere that there are over 1600 seperate individual health plans being sold in this country but federal law prohibits insurance companies from selling to just anyone any where. If they want to reform healthcare, how about starting there?

The coolest thing about those golden orb spiders is their web, bloody strong and everything sticks to it. So you take a Black Cat fire cracker with a long fuse, light it and toss in in their web, right about the time the spider gets there to see what it caught...POW! Two nights no Coyotes. I still hear them near by but they are leaving my stuff alone. I guess that validates the saying that there are no problems that cannot be solved by proper use of firepower.

Last night they started up again. I slid my shotgun out the window and fired twice into the air. Dead silence after that. We'll find out tonight if that persuaded them to go elsewhere.