other dog

Yeah,and how long would it be before the robot takes control of your rig if you don't drive the way it wants you to?

Speed

...and terminates you!

Trust me Rowdy the cops love those types cause they know when they start pulling their pants up they are about to run so it makes them easier to catch. :laugh: Hell it's hard for me to walk right with my pants around my knees and I can't even run with them round my knees. Whats funny is most of these people who try to imitate the gangsta lifestyle don't even know anything about it. I don't even know about it and I don't care to. I don't need to imitate anything cause I don't want to blend in. I rather be different and stand out and obviously I do.

You are a good man Double L- and going back to what Rob said, I have to agree about Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. White people haven't cornered the market on racism either. They can also be any color-Al and Jesse are 2 good examples.

Everybody should go by what a TRUE great American said, that "a man should be judged by the content of his character, not the color of his skin"- Martin Luther King

that brings a tear to the eye

he & his family are in my thoughts & prayers

later yall

Hey Bulldog man, nice of ya' to drop in- hope you don't mind me quoting you once in a while.

"well, there you go again...."

I belive that health insurance should only be for castrophic problems. Routine check ups and minor problems should be paid in cash between you and your

Doctor. This would do a number of things. First it withdraw that large "pool of cash" that everyone belives is there (it isn't). It would make a person more responsible for their care. The Doctors would be forced to be more conmpetative as people would watch their dollars and shop for the best price. Same goes for medication. Once the cash and carry is installed , the market will dictate the price.

With insurance, private or (God forbid) Government, everyone doesn't care about the price because 'I'm not paying for it." The Doctors don't care what the charges are becuase there is a "huge pool of money out there and I gonna get some." Even minor surgeries and elective surgery should be paid for in cash by the consumer. Again you vote with you dollar and go for the best deal.

The other problem is the protection that the insurance companies have. Open up the states so that insurnace can be sold Nation wide. This will increase competition and as the companies chase the dollars price goes down or the policey would inprove and you would get more for your dollar. Anthame Blue Cross of Connecticut can not sell insurance in Indiana or Idaho. Remove these barriers and open up the insured pool and prices would drop.

If you are forced to buy insurnace you can not vote with your dollar. Car insurance can not be compared to Health Insurance. Not everyone is forced to have a car and not everyone is forced to have a license (Though that is changing with Homeland Security requiring everyone to have a license ie National ID card.)A person can live without a car. He can work, buy goods and get buy without ever having a car and thus no car insurance.

If the Hospitals, Insurance Companies and Pharmaceutical Companies had to chase the dollars, in this case the consumer, you would be supprised how fast prices would drop or the more service or product you could buy.

I belive we, as a Country, are very close to the tipping point. Once that point is reached, over we go, the way of the Soviet Union. Then we will have Change. Just not the change we thought because "he" and "we" were not on the same page.

Remember the words of President Regan when he asked; " what are the ten most terrifying words in the English language?" "HELLO, I'M FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND I'M HERE TO HELP!"

Jim

you hit the nail right square on the head there!

be sure to get one of these-you need a sharp pencil when filling out forms.

Got back this evening without problems. Almost 14 hours from Tel-Aviv, to Atlanta, GA, then another two hours and fifteen minutes to Chicago. Met with my son for brunch, then drove home.

I'll get the photos posted in the next couple of days. A very nice trip without any hassles outside of airport security, (wasn't bad).

Rob

Talked to Mike today-he left this morning, just before you got there . He stayed long enough to help clean up after a week's worth of nonstop partying. No telling how much kool-aid they went through last week!

That is why we should never take life for granted and be thankful for everyday we are here!

"Amen Brother!"- Bulldog Man

I wish more people were like you Tom!

I could not read it without shedding a tear-it describes almost exactly the way it was with my wife before she passed away. Little different situation- She had cancer and I went through it for 2 months, and as I told Bill Sunday I don't know if she even knew I was there or not. But she would get up and do the walking thing too-heart breaking thing to deal with. Your life can just go 180 degrees in a heartbeat, you never know.

I mentioned Old Bill (William Weatherstone) a while back (in May,here on "Odds and Ends"), and the problems he was having. Hadn't heard from him for a while so I called him Sunday to see how he was doing. Not too good... He has a new e-mail address and he told me about this senior's site in Maine he had written some stories about his difficulties for-

http://www.timegoesby.net/elderstorytelling/William_weatherstone/

Start at the bottom at Alzheimers Part One and read this-they're dated. Nothing else I can say to add to this...

Thanksgiving is coming up...then Christmas-I just think we should all try to help in some way, if just a prayer. My change bucket is about half full again, and I know where it's going and I don't care if I never get new tires for the mixer.

Didnt speak the same language, huh?

no. besides, they all act like they're smarter than everybody else for some reason.

Seen with my own eye's one of those new Fontaines, think it was a Phantom, with one of the beams snapped almost clean in half. The bottom flange gave away. The driver was pulling out of a building with a load of plate on and- BOOM!! Sounded like a pipe bomb going off. Guess the driver said this wasn't the first one in their fleet to do this! I always thought those new extruded aluminum beams looked too thin around the flange. The old welded style flange on my Raven's is much beefier. I suppose some engineer at Fontaine had a fancy "material analysis" computer program tell him that that beam would be strong enough. Computers just can't account for all the variables found out in the real world. 7,800# seems awfully light, even for aluminum. What kind of warranty do they offer?

Great, now i've got one more thing to worry about! I've got 5 coils loaded in the middle of mine now. I'm not an engineer but everything has to have a certain amount of flex to it or it will break. The frame rails look pretty heavy on the phantom, but as soon as I see one of those Revolutions somewhere I'm gonna take a closer look at it. The ad said it doesn't have crossmembers under it, it looked like a flat plate all the way under it in the pictures, so I was wondering how that was gonna work.

Hi everybody, i'm back! ...I didn't really fit in too good over at the Mensa site

Freedom of speech works both ways.

You have the right to say whatever you wish to say, but you are NOT guaranteed a forum to say it in.

If you want to have a forum where you can be free to say whatever you want with NOBODY allowed to limit the content of your posts, you are free to start your own forum and pay for it out of your own pocket....but even then, if it is hosted on another server, there will likely be rules. There are a few "anything goes" type forums out there. If that's what you want, seek them out.

Well then, sounds like i've been invited to leave...I know when i'm not wanted. This is the last you'll hear of 'ol other dog.

I've found a new site to join- it's been fun...so long everybody.

V8 375, eh? Now that's a hawse!

I remember watching "Delta Force" on tv when I was younger thinking that was all the inspiration I needed to stay very far away from that part of the globe...

It would be neat to go to the Holy Land i'm sure, but the only foreign country i've ever really wanted to visit is Canada and that's not likely to happen either. Did step into Mexico once when I was in El Paso- pretty much just to say i'd been there. Went to a little bar and had a beer or three, but I was scared of being kidnapped by bandits the whole time I was there.

I was there. Wish I had known other members were going.

I wish i'd known too, would have been nice to have met you. We were there from probably around noon until about 2 o'clock or so.

Rob, et al:

You wanna get this website shut down? This website is sponsored by a Mack dealer and we've been graced with several participants who are employees of Mack, dealers, and suppliers. Mack and Volvo have a lot of minority customers. Mack and Volvo will not tolerate racism- read their corporate policies if you don't believe me. Posting racist carcitures, etc. will get Mack's ire and may have negative consequences for our sponsors. So if you want Mack and their dealerships to survive, don't post offensive stuff that will drive away ANY potential Mack customer that should happen upon your post.

Rob is not a racist. Nor have I seen anything to indicate that anyone else here is either. It's called freedom of speech...it's mentioned in the constitution of the United States.

Watch that sneaky Mike. If I were a bet'n man he's making a beeline for Illinois and Rob will find he's moved with in with Nikky LOL!!!

He shoulda gotten Chuck Norris to mind the fort for him.

Oh...don't worry Tom. I'm around, just been pretty busy and not had time to play here.

one question: Did they charge Rob double price for air tickets.........since likely would take two seats?

I think they're towing him behind the plane in a glider, attached by a rope. The plan is to cut him loose just before they land and he'll descend by parachute.

Gee...I sure do miss what-ya-macallim. Things just ain't the same 'round here. Cain't pick at Herb- I feel like he'd whip my ass. Morgan's out, he's too nice. Speed's not around enough...Larry's nowhere to be found, nor is Joe...Paul's off galavanting somewhere- AHA!

Bollweevil- he's tha' man! Or perhaps Mike... or maybe - someone else...

Took a trip to Colfax, North Carolina today to the antique truck show. It was great, lots of trucks, good turnout, and excellent weather!

I'll put the pictures on Flickr or Webshots and post a link as soon as I get them posted.

I even bought a 1952 GMC McLean truck-looks like the same scale as my B-61 mixer.

Here's the picture link- i'll try to get the rest on tomorrow.

http://community.webshots.com/album/575440478tcZoIL?start=0

OK, all the pictures are on Webshots, plus a little video I took of a really nice looking B-61 as it was leaving the show.

I've decided not to go to Wal-Mart anymore. I'm gonna order lettuce and tomatoes online and have it delivered by UPS.

I'm very disapointed because i've been looking for a Mexican set of wrenches and can't seem to find any. Tonight I was looking for a pipe wrench and went to Home Depot and found them to be only China made. I thought to myself that I had been taking care of the Chinese workers too long so I wanted to find an Irwin brand of wrench. I thought I was happy to find that old name brand so I bought it. I paid a big price for it but I knew that I would be satisfied. I get to my g/f's house to eat and brought in the IRWIN pipe wrench to brag on it alittle. Only to read on the packaging " MADE IN CHINA "......now how do you think I feel? I should have gone to SEARS.

mike

When I renewed my NRA membership a while back they sent me an NRA cap. I was surprised to see the "made in China" tag in it.

I'm sensing a definite Anti-Obama atmosphere around here-I KNEW I chose the right people to hang with ....and about the only "Change" I'd like to see him involved in would be a change of his Country of Residence.

Speed

Hi Speed-yep, definately a lot of folks jumping off the Obama bandwagon now.

...this is our first vacation without the kids.

See ya'll upon my return.

Rob

I bet there's some partying going on in Farmington tonight!!!