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From the lawns of Pennsylvania
To the chores of drip-o-thee

We will shield our Ken-yan Co-mander
From preci-pi-tici-tee

With our umb-a-rellas overhead
With our arms outstretch like sooooo

We will keep Hussein O-BAH-UMA
guarded from humiditeeee!!

Who’s with me when I think that there could literally be December, 2011 surveillance video of Obama reading as he types an email authorizing the targeting of Tea Party Groups by the IRS and nothing, NOTHING would happen to him?

I am not saying he’s directly responsible, I am just saying no matter how far up the chain they could implicate anyone, Obama is impervious. Am I cynical in matters like this when it comes to axes falling? Yeah.

So, it’s a Sin of a Botch?

As predicted in Dinesh D'Souza's 2016: Obama's America.

This was reported as if it was a legit news by Quinn of Quinn & Rose (syndicated talk radio) at the top of the 8am EDT intro.

Apologies, as I didn’t catch that it was satire. It is interesting that twitter is sort of going crazy on this (lot’s of tweeterdoodles or whatever the heck they’re called) with lots of re-tweets of this news story.

Oh, trust me, a 2011 Jag XJ would be a primo acquisition. It’s one of the best looking sedans ever, in my opinion. What kind of service experience have you had with your S Type?

81 Mazda 626 - Sweet ride, lots of fun, dad said he'd give me a 1000 bucks if i could take a 1' ruler and not cross 2 dents...couldn't

My first car ever was an '81 626 coupe with the RX-7 alloys (the four-lug, four spoke ones).

It died in an on-campus garage fire while I was away on spring break. It was a great driver's car. I loved the fact that it was B-pillar-less so with the windows down and sunroof open, it offered a very open-air feeling.

Infiniti owner here, too.

I ascribe to the approach that you find a low mileage, high line luxury sedan from the top imports (alphabetically; Acura, Audi, BMW, Infiniti, Lexus, Merc)

I bought a 3 year old Q in 2005 for almost exactly half the original sticker. With only 17k miles on it, I was still under the orig warranty for a whole additional year. I did add a manufacturer extended, $0 deductible warranty to it, and I essentially had a bumper-to-bumper warranty for 5 years of ownership.

Long ago paid for, at about the same cost as a loaded Accord or Camry, I’ve enjoyed driving a car I don’t see often, and that performs so very well at so many things. It’s an ‘02, and has features on it that only now are making it to mid-line cars. Of course, those cars don’t have my 340 horsepower.

A gently used M37 would will certainly be one of the cars I would consider were I in the market.

Side note: Do you know about freshalloy.com? Nissan/Infiniti forum with lots of fellow owners. Great resource for commiserating about ownership experiences for these cars.

I was given the option of renting a car from Dollar over spring break using my debit card. They simply wanted to know it up front, so they could (presumably) block off a charge on it had I chosen to use it. I didn’t end up using it as I have a work Amex with aut rental coverage that exceeded, far exceeded, the coverage my own insurance company would have offered. But I had the opportunity to use my debit card.

I read Ramsey occasionally. Is he always THAT anti-Credit Card?

Yes, he is. Now, the preponderance of replies from FReepers about using a credit card (on a Dave Ramsey thread) will be from posters saying they pay off the balances every month. The posters mired in revolving credit don't really post that they're happy with 5-digit unsecured debt.

Dave helps (ok, advises) people break their dependancy on credit with the only exception being mortgage balances. If everyone took Dave's advice, our economy would look vastly different (for the better0. Of course, that's just my opinion.

I am going to check back on this thread in a few hours. I can see it’s off to an intriguing start.

I ascribe to Quinn’s (of Quinn and Rose) philosophy that Leftists view abortion as a solution to the problem of over-population. In the liberal/progressive/marxist mindset, each baby is a burden. It’s a burden to the mother and to society. They view each new human as a drain on the finite resources the earth has to offer, and with each birth, there’s a proportional reduction in the available resources for everyone else.

Of course, this is based on the world view that everything is a zero-sum gain, that there is no new wealth or resources ever created. This is the core view that is pushed into young minds in public schools all over the world; that the earth will run out of resources as population grows.

Of course, the exact opposite is true and has always been true; Each human born to the earth brings with them the potential to create and prosper and advance the human condition, given the liberty that is endowed to them by our Creator.

It’s a philosophical stance, but in the 4+ decades abortion has been legal, it’s possible we’ve aborted the person who would have cured cancer.

Is this an animation?

Unless the camera itself was mounted to a small quadra-copter-like remote controlled device (and therefore at altitude, the size of which would cast no shadow), where's the shadow of the airborne camera? It literally lines up perfectly with the rocket and Sun during the decent. So perfectly, in fact, one might almost expect the shadow to have been cast on the fuselage itself.

The video quality and panning control seem to suggest it might have been a full-size helicopter.

Oh, this is going to be good.

So I fired up the DVR’ed qualifying this morning (just to make sure my DVR worked because it failed me for the Melbourne race - but that’s a different thread topic). Anyway, there at the intro was Bob Varsha’s voice. I did a quick bing search and found no news.

Anyone have any info on this? It’s all subjective, but I really really prefer Varsha to Leigh Duffey, so I am quite happy with this development. Wondering if Varsha worked a separate deal with NBC and it was just AGENT to NETWORK arm wrestling back when it seemed only Hobbs and Matchett were moving.

Yeah, I caught myself a few moments later. It was my bad, as you can see by my post 14. And apologies on the D-overload on your nom de plume.

And now that I read that for the FOURTH time, I see that I was conjuring up free. My Bad. 1,000 pardons.

Sorry, it was Madd Dawgg who originally claimed no cost downloads in his thread starting post:

Another Reason The Walking Dead is big with the 18-49 Crowd is that you can legally download each episode within hours of it being broadcast.

I took your reply to my question in the context of his original assertion.

Hmmm, free you say? My iTunes shows $1.99 per episode. (And $42.99!! for season 3). Where’s the free access?

Is that d/l thru AMC’s own site or thru the-walking-dead.en.softonic.com/ (I am at work so either is not a site I can access at the moment)?

Nice thigh gap.

I believe the term is 'Factory Air'

I keep telling myself to look at this later, but I keep forgetting to bookmark it for myself...

Anyone happen to see Eric Holder 2 rows in front of the Harbaugh’s parents?

I’m calling it: IBTZ

All the worthwhile replies are in the top fourteen anyhow. So don’t worry about it.

How ticked are you that 2 posters added comments while you were adding yours?

In all seriousness the reason threads are being truncates is becau

Well, this is going to cause a ton of PR damage when the media investigates this and finds out he's lying.

</do I really need to add a sarc tag?>

High capacity pages are no longer allowed...

You know, a lot of the time, I'll post a little one line zinger I am really proud of, hoping it adds a little life to the thread... And no one ever comments on it. Well, I thought I'd pass along a small reply:

(snaps both fingers and points at you and says 'good one!')

104.7 in Pittsburgh is carrying Rush live.

http://www.iheart.com/live/FM-NewsTalk-1047-2025/

When it’s your time to go, it’s your time to go. I mean, when you gotta go, you gotta go. Wait. What?

How did he know he was hungry? Anyone else get the impression the subtext to the ginned up title was “Polar Bears are Hungry Because Man Has Ruined Their Habitat”?

Sonny and Sharia
Let’s Mecca Deal

WHY GOOD PEOPLE NEED SEMIAUTOMATIC FIREARMS AND “HIGH CAPACITY” MAGAZINES … Part I

Saturday, December 29th, 2012

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably had a conversation with someone in the last few days who asked, “Why do ordinary law-abiding people need those semiautomatic firearms with magazines that can hold more than ten cartridges?” There are lots of sound answers.

For one thing, defensive firearms are meant to be “equalizers,” force multipliers that can allow one good person to defend against multiple evil people. To allow one good person to defend against a single evil person so much stronger and/or bigger and/or more violent than he or she, that the attacker’s potentially lethal assault can be stopped. History shows that it often takes many gunshots to stop even a single determined aggressor. Most police officers have seen the famous autopsy photo in the cops-only text book “Street Survival” of the armed robber who soaked up 33 police 9mm bullets before he stopped trying to kill the officers. Consider Lance Thomas, the Los Angeles area watch shop owner who was in many shootouts with multiple gang bangers who tried to rob and murder him. He shot several of them, and discovered that it took so many hits to stop them that he placed multiple loaded handguns every few feet along his workbench. That’s not possible in a home, or when lawfully carrying concealed on the street: a semiautomatic pistol with a substantial cartridge capacity makes much more sense for that defensive application.

Semiautomatic rifles? Consider this heart-breaking, fatal home invasion in Florida (link) and ask yourself if it might have turned out differently had the homeowners been able to access and competently deploy something like, oh, a Bushmaster AR15 with 30 round magazine. I teach every year in Southern Arizona, and each year I see more Americans along the border with AR15s and similar rifles in their ranch vehicles and even their regular cars. There have been cases where innocent ranchers and working cops alike have been jeopardized by multiple, heavily armed drug smugglers and human traffickers in desert fights far from police response and backup. A semiautomatic rifle with a substantial magazine capacity can be reassuring in such situations, as seen here: (link)

In the last twenty years, we have seen epic mob violence in American streets. During the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Korean storekeepers armed with AR15s kept their stores and livelihoods – and lives – from the torches of inflamed crowds because the mob feared their force multipliers. Read this, for a survivor’s account: (link). There have been bands of roving, violent predators as lately as this year during the Sandy storm. And the “flash mob violence” phenomenon of recent years has left many urban dwellers picturing themselves as the lone victim of a feral human wolfpack.

And, if you will, one more stark and simple thing: Americans have historically modeled their choices of home protection and personal defense handguns on what the cops carried. When the police carried .38 revolvers as a rule, the .38 caliber revolver was the single most popular choice among armed citizens. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, cops switched en masse to semiautomatic pistols. So did the gun-buying public. Today, the most popular handgun among police seems to be the 16-shot, .40 caliber Glock semiautomatic. Not surprisingly, the general public has gone to pistols bracketing that caliber in power (9mm, .40, .45) with similar enthusiasm. The American police establishment has also largely switched from the 12 gauge shotgun which was also the traditional American home defense weapon, to the AR15 patrol rifle with 30-round magazine…and, not surprisingly, the law-abiding citizenry has followed suit there, too.

The reasoning is strikingly clear. The cops are the experts on the current criminal trends. If they have determined that a “high capacity” semiautomatic pistol and a .223 semiautomatic rifle with 30-round magazines are the best firearms for them to use to protect people like me and my family, they are obviously the best things for us to use to protect ourselves and our families .

I agree with an earlier post,whos footing the bill? if her parents I say let em keep an eye on thier investmant.

From a USA Today article...

"The parents became such an issue that the school hired security guards to keep them out of their daughter's performances. When the parents stopped paying her tuition because she'd cut off all contact with them, the school gave her a full scholarship for her final year."

I’m conflicted. I’m not sure whether to join the march to ban flammable liquids or the march to ban match sticks. Maybe I’ll get lucky and the protests won’t fall on the same day.

Yesterday in China, 20 schools kids were killed with a knife

Please keep the facts straight. While I agree with your primary contention that people out for retribution will find a way to arm themselves with as lethal a weapon as possible, misstating the facts doesn't help make your point.

Knife attack at Chinese school wounds 22 children

:) no, FRiend, it’s all fine by me. It made for great reading and remembering my own Pink Floyd experiences.

Epic Threadjack, gentlemen.

Ah, CART, in the halcyon days of Emerson and a post-F1 Nigel and Rahal and Tracy. I saw a few Mid-Ohio late summer events, being awoken in our tent just 50 feet from the main back straight as the first practice lappers blasted by at 150+.

The split really wrecked the sport, and while money is money, and power and influence are always sought by the powers that (want to) be, it chased me off too. I actually became interested in F1 during those early 90’s and it effectively replaced any interest in Champ Car.

Maybe NBC will put extra effort into it now that the Austin event went off as such a HUGE success. Anyway, here’s hoping.

did I hear today that NBC will be covering the GP net year?

I suspect that NBC will utilize their NBC Sports Channel, which is a relative newcomer to the cable spectrum. They've only been on my channel lineup since the end of the summer (with Post-Olympic coverage). But they've already carried major college basketball games (albeit in addition to hunting shows, and the like, sigh.)

I am hoping they'll be hungry and build out the non-NASCAR racing series. In fact, yesterday they had a (yes, edited and taped) Viper Cup series race from Virginia Intl. Color me optimistic and even have been hoping for them to sign onto WRC coverage next season. They have a real opportunity to brand themselves at this point.

Just for consideration and discussion, what part does the Black Church membership disgust at Obama’s outward support for gay marriage have?

So you go thru the phone interviews and keep answering that you're undecided. Undecided, undecided, undecided. Then, after they're happy that you're milquetoast-y enough, they prod you for a question you'd like to ask.

Well, no wonder why you never get to hear a question like "Why does the federal government think it needs to solve all of society's issues at the cost of my liberty?"

Show me a sample, qualifying respondent and I'll show you someone who's never read Levin's Liberty and Tyranny.

We have a couple near my home that are honest-to-God, located at corners with no other sidewalks leading to them. Just another example of PC gone haywire. What representative, at ANY level of government, would go up against the ADA?

Their marriage was a microcosm of all the small things wrong with Hollywood, from a family standpoint. Sure, their 30-year union dwarfed other Left Coast marriages, but in the end, it mattered little.

...while Obama’s white and dark chocolate chip cookies...

Well, of course.

Thanks for checking in, LS.

Earlier today, prominent Freeper LS had a Google doc spreadsheet of absentee ballot requests by county in Ohio. Very informative. Let’s see if I can ping him to post that link here too.

15 years, and no steam technology replacing what was lost?

That was my immediate thought as well. You can't disable pressurized, heated water kept in a contained vessel. No matter how you say "Physics all went haywire!"

It would be a certainty that farming with steam-powered implements would be a mainstay in the first Spring after the apocalypse. In fact, I would have expected a fully formed economic system after only a few months of un-powered life, mostly built on the bartering of necessities and agricultural goods.

But now that I know someone who speaks for all Christians...

You'd make a good Democratic National Chair with that kind of spin on my words. If I had Deb's number, I'd call her and let her know she's got a compatriot.

As for answers to your probing questions, I would simply ask you to seek God's truth in His words, the Bible. I am nothing more than a weak servant. I certainly don't have all the answers. But they're all there for the finding. I would say, in my opinion, on the other side of not knowing for certain if there is a God (or if the one true God exists), is faith. I'll leave it at that.