sundevil777

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  1. alternative fuel vehicles are already included in current tax breaks, but yes, it should be more generalized. No reason to promote just one technology. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  2. I remember you saying that you moved across the border because of what you couldn't have on the other side. Of course I'm paraphrasing and haven't searched for it, but I do remember you saying it. Am I wrong? If it is being mischaracterized, please clarify your reasons. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  3. Hybrids are being made that are not giving any meaningfully higher fuel mileage. For instance the Lexus hybrid is more for additional performance than mileage, and other cars will follow this pattern. I think the tax breaks should be more generalized, to allow an incentive to buy any vehicle with high fuel mileage numbers. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  4. I've never heard of the C-17 being considered as a tanker. I would think it not so well suited for the task. The design needs of a rough field capable military transport result in it being just not as efficient a plane as a commercial airliner in moving a heavy load a long distance. It would be attractive politically to help keep the prodution of the C-17 up, as the numbers being authorized for it start to be cut/considered to be cut. The 777 is being considered, but of course would involve extra costs as only about 50% of the development from the 767 tanker could carry over as is. There is always the balance of having more tankers that carry less vs. fewer tankers that carry more. John's coment about the larger planes being able to carry a larger mix of fuel, cargo, and personnel is also a consideration of the air force. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  5. This is a no hurl zone! Yes, Airbus is in the running, they have joined with Northrop/Grumman for this project, which will no doubt make it more politically palpable. http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/search/autosuggest.jsp?docid=549579&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aviationnow.com%2Favnow%2Fnews%2Fchannel_aerospacedaily_story.jsp%3Fview%3Dstory%26id%3Dnews%2FEADS06235.xml People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  6. From the article below: RAND Corp. has been conducting a Defense Department-commissioned study of options for modernizing or replacing the KC-135 fleet. The KC-135s are about 45 years old on average, compared with an average age of about 20 years for the KC-10s. The Air Force's 110 or so KC-135Es, the oldest in the KC-135 fleet, are plagued by corrosion and rising maintenance costs, Handy said. http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/search/autosuggest.jsp?docid=553506&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aviationnow.com%2Favnow%2Fnews%2Fchannel_aerospacedaily_story.jsp%3Fview%3Dstory%26id%3Dnews%2FKC1008035.xml People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  7. You want to buy the stock canopy, but it is colors you don't like? Did you mean to say you want to buy the demo canopy? That should be easy enough to arrange, I would think they wouldn't need to think too long to give you a price for it. Did you consider adding a pocket to the slider, there has been a lot of info posted about doing this for sabres. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  8. Finally. I didn't realize that Northrop Grumman was teaming with Airbus to compete for this project, to build it in Louisiana. The 767 production line will be shut down without this program. I didn't realize that Japan and Italy already have the 767 tanker. It is amazing how long the KC135 has served, and they still have 500 in service. The tanker is so crucial to the capability of the air force, it is awful that the scandal at Boeing led to the delay of such an important program. Announcment of green light from Pentagon: http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/aw042406p2.xml People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  9. You didn't hear it from me, and if you do hear it, it deserves to be rejected, right? So, people 'like me' advance theories similar to what you now advance, but people 'like me' are implied to be bigots, I suppose, but not you? Correct, I didn't realize you were aware of the parallel, how could I when you give no indication of it? Correct, I didn't realize you were trolling. Perhaps you didn't notice that I admitted that I believe what you said happened did indeed happen. That is very different than being eager to believe it based on such slim evidence. What kind of a group sponsors research to find the 'reason' why people are religious within vitamin deficiencies? This kind of conclusion doesn't just 'pop-up' during the course of research to find the best vitamins to help those with cancer. I think a group that has an agenda against those that are religious is the kind of group that would seek to find such a correlation, and if you look hard enough, correlations can be found/made/created. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  10. What is meant by "certain" enthusiasms? I think you might be quite offended and upset - and I think not at all interested in the possibility to understand more about human physiology/chemistry if someone posted the following: At dinner tonight she told us that a particular combination of vitamin deficiencies has been correlated with certain homosexual tendencies. I'm sure it's premature to conclude that all homosexual tendencies are simply a mental disfunction caused by poor eating habits, but there's apparently some indication that it's a factor. It's food for thought... literally. The only thing that is apparent is that you know a doctor that told you a story, and you seem eager to believe it, with absolutely nothing to back it up, not even a reference to an article in a medical journal or minutes from the proceedings of a conference. I don't doubt that someone at a conference made some presentation of some research, but I don't think that is enough to conclude that apparently it is a factor. Plenty of research is bogus for many reasons. One should be skeptical with research that has such huge potential to be politically motivated. Huge opportunity to show intolerance, I think. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  11. I don't call myself a vegetarian because I still eat egg and dairy products, so I just say I don't eat meat, and have been this way for 25 years. I don't mind animals being killed, I just don't want to eat meat. I never bring it up in conversation unless there is a reason to let people know, such as letting them know why I won't try some food they are offering me. It is irritating when vegetarian activists try to push their choices on others. I suggest going to a natural foods market, there are springing up a lot lately, you don't have to just rely on tiny, expensive little health food stores. These places have a lot of variety which makes it possible to not be bored, and have it taste really good. You will often find really good health food stores, sometimes cooperative type stores near large Universities or hippie hangout neighborhoods. I learned a lot thanks to a co-op store next to Arizona State Univ, called Gentle Strength. There are some fake burger/meat type stuff that is really awful, and some that is really good. I have brought chili to potluck dinners that has fooled everybody there, and gardenburger makes outstanding fake burgers and their barbeque riblets are incredible. Morningstar farms and some others make some fake chicken patties that are great, but I think boca burgers suck. You now can find a lot of these products in mainstream groceries. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  12. Please don't tell me it was when he had a huge dish antennae come out of his ass, or recently when he pooped out all the treasure... People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  13. Some will say, it is a part of the game... I say, it is a BAD part of the game, an infuriating part of the game that doesn't have to be. Like the crappy way fouls are called in basketball, or the crappy way holding and pass interference is called in football. http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5539976 People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  14. I think they intended for that to happen to get it on film - no accident. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  15. Your bullshit filter is not working. Your first instinct should be to not believe the conspiracy theory website lies, and do a search looking for all of the information out there that dispells those wackos, it is easily obtained - they address all the major points made by the nutjobs. Here is a start for you: http://www.snopes.com/rumors/pentagon.htm People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  16. It is a relavant question in many Republican push polls as Karl Roves mentor taught him.. you know.. Lee Atwater....the guy who did the Willie Horton thing.... the guy who begged those who he hurt for forgiveness on his death bed as he was dying from cancer.... Yeah.. Gusy who came up with the questions about John McCains black love child during the South Carolina primary.... No need for conservatives to apologize for making an issue of Willie Horton, Dukakis was not just an innocent bystander: * Horton showed up in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on April 3, 1987. Clifford Barnes, 28, heard footsteps in his house and thought his fiancée had returned early from a wedding party. Suddenly Willie Horton stepped out of the shadows with a gun. For the next seven hours, Horton punched, pistol-whipped, and kicked Barnes - and also cut him 22 times across his midsection. * When Barnes' fiancée Angela returned that evening, Horton gagged her and savagely raped her twice. Horton then stole Barnes' car, and was later chased by police until captured. * On October 20, 1987, Horton was sentenced in Maryland to two consecutive life terms plus 85 years. The sentencing judge refused to return Horton to Massachusetts, saying, "I'm not prepared to take the chance that Mr. Horton might again be furloughed or otherwise released. This man should never draw a breath of free air again." * Variations of this story were repeated on several occasions in Massachusetts. Confessed rapist John Zukoski, who had brutally beaten and murdered a 44 year-old woman in 1970, became eligible for furloughs and was eventually paroled in 1986. A few months later he was arrested and indicted yet again for beating and raping a woman. * The Massachusetts inmate furlough program actually began under Governor Francis Sargent in 1972. But in 1976 Governor Dukakis vetoed a bill to ban furloughs for first-degree murderers. It would, he said, "Cut the heart out of inmate rehabilitation." * The program, in essence, released killers on an "honor system" to see if they would stay out of trouble. On the average, convicts who had been sentenced to "life without parole" spent fewer than 19 years in prison. By March 1987, Dukakis had commuted the sentences of 28 first-degree murderers. * Of over 80 Massachusetts convicts listed as escaped and still at large, only four had actually "escaped." The rest simply walked away from furloughs, prerelease centers and other minimum-security programs. These convicts included murderers, rapists, armed robbers and drug dealers. * First-degree murderer Armand Therrien was transferred from a medium security prison to a minimum-security one, which made him eligible for a work-release program. He walked off and vanished in December 1987. * When citizens began to protest, Dukakis and his aides defended the program relentlessly. One commissioner stated that furloughs were a "management tool" to help the prisons. Unless a convict had hope of parole, he argued, "we would have a very dangerous population in an already dangerous system." But, critics wondered, if armed guards can't control dangerous killers inside locked cells, how are unarmed citizens supposed to deal with them? People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  17. You might as well ask when I will stop beating my wife/dog/kids...I don't, so the question is not relevant. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  18. I understand that it isn't easy being a liberal, they've been out of power in all 3 branches of the government for quite a while. It wasn't easy for conservatives when the same was true for them. Perhaps the fortunes of the libs will change, but statements like yours will not help in that quest, so, keep it up.
  19. We are definitely at war with Islamofacists. Your conclusion that our government is facist is not shared by many. I am glad that libs confuse who is facist and who is not, though. It will help them stay in the minority party. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  20. OH NO.... the fear of the Islamofascists is just tearing me apart.. I cant function...... oh please Mr Bush please protect all us poor helpless americans from the Islamofascists.. Not a very convincing response. But that is cool, as long as libs continue to hold such positions, and be represented at the national level by Howard Dean and such, your vision of taking control of congress will remain a dream. Good time to take another look at the Al Qaeda training manal: http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/manualpart1.html People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  21. Does the movie depict them all having a committee meeting? I think libs would rather that the movie not be shown because it reminds us why we are at war with Islamofacists. To be reminded of the fact that it really is an ongoing war, and that it is time to choose sides does not favor libs. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  22. I think the only reason to keep it short would be if there actually was experience/evidence from the countries that have had longer cycles (for many years) that shows problems that a shorter cycle would have prevented. Is there any such experience/evidence? All I hear are some people that are worried, seemingly forgetting that so many countries have been doing this for years. If there are problems in that history to be discussed, that would be interesting. To speculate as to the problems that might occur without comparing it to that history seems a waste of time. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  23. What have you heard about it that is so non-factual? People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am
  24. It would seem that eliminating a bit of pull force is an advantage with no downside. Can you say what the industry wide opinion of this method is compared to what is done in the US? People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am