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HILL DRIVE FOR '55' ( National Maximum Speed Limit )
New York Post ^ | May 24, 2006 | IAN BISHOP

Posted on 05/24/2006 3:25:12 PM PDT by george76

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To: HOTTIEBOY

That's a nice looking bike. I'll bet it has more power than anyone actually needs.

As for what a biker looks like...well...my picture is on my profile page, and that's what a biker looks like. Or at least that's what this biker looks like.


321 posted on 06/07/2006 10:39:09 AM PDT by Melas (What!? Read or learn something? Why would anyone do that, when they can just go on being stupid)
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To: george76

I Can't Drive, I'm 65

One foot in the grave, and one on the gas - Hey!

Well I’m blocking traffic, they can’t pass, no!

So I made a quick illegal turn and I left that doggone blinker on again

You know I got my license back in ‘45

Most of my friends are barely alive

I take these pills just to survive

I can’t drive, I’m 65!

So I’m tooling right along in my huffmobile

And I can’t see over the steering wheel, no

I take a stop sign out and a mailbox too

At the rail road crossing I drive right through

They say “Whoa”!

I don’t go faster than 25

Card in my wallet says you shouldn’t revive

Flunked my eyetest I have them a bribe I can’t drive, I’m 65!

322 posted on 07/25/2006 1:35:42 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: All
Hillary, you .


323 posted on 07/25/2006 1:46:03 AM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: elhombrelibre

"I'm sure no one will remind people of the Carter years with this idea of hers."

That's the first thing I thought of. Jimmy Carter sitting around the Oval Office in a brown cardigan sweater telling the nation to conserve.

Next up for Hillary....mandatory recycling.


324 posted on 07/25/2006 1:59:51 AM PDT by cowtowney
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To: conservative in nyc
Many New Yorkers have a myopic world view

New Yorker view of the USA.

325 posted on 07/25/2006 2:07:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
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To: maggief

Let them hitchhike on military flights (already scheduled ones). Some of them could use a 'military appreciation' course, anyway...


326 posted on 07/25/2006 2:14:37 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: So Cal Rocket

Having won the war over 55, Hagar now sings "65" in concert.


327 posted on 07/25/2006 2:18:25 AM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Hassan Nasrallah needs to be kicked in Hezbollahs)
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To: george76

Hillary: "We're going to take things away from you"
by Beth Fouhy, Associated Press
June 29, 2004


Headlining an appearance with other Democratic women senators on behalf of Sen. Barbara Boxer, who is up for re-election this year, Hillary Clinton told several hundred supporters -- some of whom had ponied up as much as $10,000 to attend -- to expect to lose some of the tax cuts passed by President Bush if Democrats win the White House and control of Congress.

"Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you," Sen. Clinton said.

"We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you.

We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

http://www.stophillarypac.com/cgi-data/news/files/28.shtml


328 posted on 11/10/2006 12:58:03 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Hillary is such a she-queen! If she has her way, going through New Mexico again will take me forever and a day (and I would be doing 65).

I hope she really makes this part of her campaign; she'll lose sooooooooooo bad in 2008!


329 posted on 12/21/2006 10:34:13 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (“Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.” —H. L. Mencken)
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To: george76
Great idea Hil! Remember how gas prices plummeted when we tried this before? No, wait...they didn't.
Remember, then, the millions of lives that were saved by the reduction in highway speed? No, wait...people continued to die in car crashes.
Okay, then, remember how car insurance rates dropped? Oops, no...they continued to rise.
Umm...what is your reasoning for this again, Hil?
330 posted on 12/21/2006 10:41:47 AM PST by Ignatz ("I think we should tax all foreigners living abroad.")
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To: george76

And there was applause! These people do NOT deserve to be in power!


331 posted on 12/21/2006 10:42:40 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (“Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.” —H. L. Mencken)
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To: george76
"And wherever it can be required, and the people will forced under threat of violence to accept it, we ought to do it," Clinton said at the National Press Club."

Fixed.

332 posted on 12/21/2006 10:43:50 AM PST by Ignatz ("I think we should tax all foreigners living abroad.")
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To: MOgirl

One of my earliest memories is driving with my Grandfather in his car, one that would sound a loud buzzer when he went over 55 MPH.

My M3 has a programmable setting where I can tell it to beep at me when I pass a certain speed. I've found that setting it to 85 is reasonable as I really do want to know if I go above that speed - usually only when passing and for short periods of time.


333 posted on 12/21/2006 10:44:49 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: george76

Publish this far and wide, and Hillary! in 2008 is DOOMED!!!!!!!!!


334 posted on 12/21/2006 10:45:36 AM PST by Little Ray
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To: Onelifetogive; GunsareOK
They go faster than 55 when Her Majesty directs them to blow through security gates injuring the guard

That was my thought exactly.

335 posted on 12/21/2006 10:45:40 AM PST by proud American in Canada (Thy Will Be Done.)
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To: george76

STFU - I'll pay higher prices and still go 75; thank you very much, Big Sister!


336 posted on 12/21/2006 10:46:22 AM PST by texson66 ("Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing." - Lord Moulton)
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To: Melas
Drag may be exponential but an engine is most efficient at it's maximum torque output. My wife owned a '91 4runner that got ~21mpg @ 70mph as opposed to ~19mpg @ 55mph. The net torque on that engine occurred at 2800rpms(70mph). I believe that to be true on most vehicles as most vehicles have overdrive.
337 posted on 12/21/2006 10:52:37 AM PST by stevio (God, Guns, and Guts made America. A politician against any of the 3 doesn't get my vote. (NRA))
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To: Melas

Yup. Bring back 55. And engine governors. And ban cars that don't get more than 50mpg.

The Carter years were glorious.


338 posted on 12/21/2006 10:52:51 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Barack Hussein Obama - Ted Kennedy's Left-Hand Man.)
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To: obnogs
Wasn't the 55 limit passed during the Nixon years?

Passed but not fully implemented. I remember heading out to drive in the 75 mph zone with my learner's permit in the late 70's.

339 posted on 12/21/2006 10:53:45 AM PST by palmer (Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle)
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To: devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; bitt; dixiechick2000; george76; Smartass; Grampa Dave; Lady Jag; ...






COUNTERFEIT     IMPROVISE     FAKE    



340 posted on 12/21/2006 10:57:06 AM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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