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Oh my gosh, that's one every 7 minutes, year round! How does anyone get any peace and quiet there?

It's not all just abrasive feel though, is it? What about the heat from friction. Um, what do they call it... Uh, coefficient of friction, or something fancy like that. Even if one type feels more abrasive, it might be another type with a higher friction that will burn through the canopy?

Thanks, RiggerRob. And I thought my Triathalon was weird for not having the brake lines attached to the rear corners... It just don't look right when you open and look up at it - I keep thinking: "Why is there no line there, did that line snap?" I guess this no-D-line design reduces packing bulk somewhat, as well as air drag for the speedsters. But it seems like it would also put additional load on the remaining A-B-C lines. Does it cause them to break more often or sooner?

So how are these canopies designed? Are the A, B and C line attachment points spread further apart to equally space them, to compensate for missing D lines? Or are they in the same place as usual, and there's just no support where the D lines would normally be?

Given that some of those vehicles are stolen, or borrowed, or just not being driven by the owner, well, probably not Wouldn't that also be true of guns used to commit murder?

I hear that 100% of drunk driving accidents in the USA are committed by vehicle owners. Can that be true?

Heck, it would look a lot more menacing and evil if they painted a shark mouth on it like the one at Perris.

Brilliant bacon-loving minds think alike. I was thinking all the bacon grease would get absorbed into the dough. Yuck. So pre-cooking the bacon to some degree might help prevent that. Or maybe put the buns on a raised rack so that the grease drips down into a pan and the dough doesn't sit in it to sop it up.

I'm not seeing that where I live. Prices run from 2.78 to 3.02, sometimes only a block apart. And the 2.78 stations are chock full, while the 3.02 stations are ghost towns.

In other news...someone actually *wanted* to be mayor of Detroit??? He he. Well, actually the mayor there doesn't have much power any more, since the Feds are running the show now due to the bankruptcy caused by the previous black mayor, now in prison for corruption.

Nice! Quote: "...people aren’t really happy. “I think they’re fed up with politicians”. “They don’t see an end to the bickering and the fighting.” Yep. Glad to see people pulling the wool off their eyes and doing something about it.

Oh my! What's the point of allowing chickens if you can't have a rooster to perpetuate more chickens? And why require a $25 fee just to be allowed to have chickens? That defeats the purpose of raising your own cheap food. This is a horrible abuse of power and overreach of authority by the big government of Broomfield!

Yikes! If you're gonna go low, don't pull high...

So, I heard of a few unusual things happening on election day. Detroit has their first white mayor in something like 30 years. Virginia governor went democrat, first in a long while. Texans voted to raze the Astrodome. Coloradan's continue to tell their politicians to shove it by voting down a $1b tax increase. What other exciting things happened around the country, or in your neighborhood?

Sounds too much like the Columbian drug cartel.

Apparently Florida gives them to people who qualify, but are unable to predict the future. I'll be they also give driver's licenses to people who end up driving drunk, marriage licenses to people who will end up divorced, and even business licenses to people who will go bankrupt!

If a marriage is no longer to be defined as a union between a man and woman, then why have any restrictions at all? Why not legalize polygamy? One man and several women? Or vice versa? Or several men with several women, all married to each other? If we're going to say limiting personal choices is a bad thing, then take off ALL the limits.

BRAVO!

Are you kidding? With all those wolves howling at all hours of the night, and moose trampling your yard? No way!

Quote: "I would gladly hand in all of my weapons if I knew that doing so would prevent any more gun-related murders in this country." But it wouldn't... And if he believes it would, then he should set the example by turning in his own, like that auto shotgun he's holding in his photo.

"Map Thief" by Heather Terrell The Portuguese and Spanish were thought to have been the first to navigate the world by sea in the 1400's, and their international prestige depended upon that honor. What would happen if a map turned up in a recent archeological project that proved that it was actually the Chinese who first ruled the seas and discovered the unknown continents? It would turn history upside-down. Many influential people would be ruined. National honors lost. To what extent would they go to hide the truth? Who would protect the newly discovered map and the truth from the bad guys?

I think I've read all of Follet's books. Good storyteller. While this book was fiction, it was written in honor of some real life female secret agents who operated in enemy territory in WWII.

Re: "So I threw the jump and now I've got a $1,000 debt on my account" So what is that $1,000 debt he's talking about? Did someone charge his credit card $1,000 in retaliation for him sabotaging the record jump? Re: "Maybe I went about it the wrong way, but when I threw the jump..." And it sounds like he confessed to intentional sabotage, not once, but twice. Re: "We can beat 34 easily on the next one though." And THAT is the proper way to respond to someone beating your record - to go back out and do it again, even better. Not to try and retain a record by destroying attempts by others. This reminds me of when Tanya Harding had her henchman take out her ice-skating competition, Nancy Kerrigan. Shameful unsportsmanlike conduct!

"Jackdaws" by Ken Follet. Female British secret agents parachuting into France to sabotage a Nazi communication center before D-Day. Unfortunately, the parachuting scene consisted of only about two sentences...

I wonder how far away an airport would have to be before she would approve of it?