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Learning To Drive: Nervous Wreck 3943
Define "good" driver. In decades of driving (too many, I'm afraid), I've received exactly 2 speeding tickets. Both...

Learning To Drive: Nervous Wreck 3944
Mike T. I am envious that you had such good training. Me? All I got was from...

Proof Positive You're Being MFFY'd With
Ever wonder whether that other driver that's doing something asinine is a genuine MFFY or...

Proof Positive You're Being MFFY'd With
Jim Yanik Worst are LML LLBs. At my motorway exit in town, the motorway itself is 2 lanes in each direction, speed limit 80km-h (for no good reason), and...

help hit and run victim
I was recently a victim of a hit and run accident in San Jose, California. A trailer attached to a small truck...

WTF That PhotoBlocker poo Actually Works
Up until I read this (apparently legit) article, I buttumed that those sprays that are supposed to make your license plates illegible in Red Light Camera photos were nothing more than Snake Oil...

Army to reimburse Kellogg Brown and Root
February 28, 2006 Army to reimburse Kellogg Brown and Root buttociated Press The Army has decided to reimburse a Halliburton subsidiary...

Quebec&Labrador trip
223rem It is definitely an off-the-beaten-path route. I did the Baie-Comeau...

Concord Police Department Officer Ron Turner is a f***en dirty cop
Concord Police Department Officer Ron Turner is a f***en dirty cop 1st. the cop called for chp portable scale to get...

Woman Fakes rest To Avoid Paying Traffic Tickets
Police: Woman Fakes rest To Avoid Paying Traffic Tickets Des Moines Woman Faces Felony Charges UPDATED: 9:13 am EST March 1, 2006 DES MOINES, Iowa -- An investigation concluded...

Driving is not a Privilege. Driving is a Right. 3955
Dear Proffsl: Please read these two paragraphs and ask youself why the opinion you hold about the right to drive seems...

Driving is not a Privilege. Driving is a Right. 3956
Thomas Schäfer No. Rights are no more artificial than is your Creation. All human beings, from the begining of our time, to it's end, are Created with the exact...

Driving is not a Privilege. Driving is a Right. 3957
Thomas Schafer: Nobody grants Rights. Rights are Inherently Endowed by your Creation. Government can only Recognize or Violate your Rights. Our Consbreastution...

Driving is not a Privilege. Driving is a Right. 3958
Doug I'm not here seeking advice or directives from morons who are incapable of reading, comprehending and debating quotations from...

Driving is not a Privilege. Driving is a Right. 3959
Ed Pirrero What the hell is it with your obsession with names, or handles? In this context...

Driving is not a Privilege. Driving is a Right. 3960
Doug Doug, I'm not here seeking advice, or to explain why or if I personally have or haven't done...

Driving is not a Privilege. Driving is a Right. 3961
Doug Doug, what still shows is your inability to refute my evidence. Your attempts to do so, for what reasons I do not know, simply fall flat when carefully examined. True...

Driving is not a Privilege. Driving is a Right. 3962
proffsl Not from anything you've cited so far. There you go - your comment "...your pretense that your...

Driving is not a Privilege. Driving is a Right. 3963
Doug The quote I cited as evidence: "Undoubtedly the right of locomotion, the right to remove from one place to another according to inclination, is an ttribute of personal liberty, and the...

Doug, You asked for more Proof Driving is a Right
proffsl Its value to your argument is what's degraded. Nowhere is the mode of travel discussed. And this is the sophistry upon which your whole argument rests. That and non-legal...

No help or wrong help for Detroit 3965
Yes, that happened in the 80's most certainly. On one hand you had General Motors with the computer-controlled Varajet that...

No help or wrong help for Detroit 3966
Whatever thread that you found yourself in a logical dead in was something I've long since forgotten, so your childish personal sniping really seems funny. But for those that...

No help or wrong help for Detroit 3967
Open with an insult, always grand. What was it about: The media mis-reports things all the time and I do care about it. That you did not understand...

No help or wrong help for Detroit 3968
Brent P Actually, no. They are trying to sell a product and have a send workforce to accomplish that goal. The unions did not design and build the turds...

No help or wrong help for Detroit 3969
While they pay union workers to sit on their buttes. You didn't read what I wrote then. The vehicle has to be cheapened because of the high overhead costs so it can be sold for...

No help or wrong help for Detroit 3970
Brent P snip excuses for poor management "Lock them out and hire scabs" sounds like union...

No help or wrong help for Detroit 3971
Decades ago, unions were necessary in that they made management take into consideration the needs...

No help or wrong help for Detroit 3972
wolfpuppy And yet, they, and their contracts, are an exceedingly easy scapegoat for the ills of the auto industry. Here's a thought...

No help or wrong help for Detroit 3973
Stern if My Ah, but you see there's something different between you and Chrysler at that time. The bank isn't loaning you money on the value of your CURRENT buttets. They are loaning you money...

No help or wrong help for Detroit 3974
In general, this hasn't been true for a long time. If people consistently pay for their cars, lenders are willing to loan them far more than...

No help or wrong help for Detroit 3975
My will Mike, if these idiots understood that they wouldn't be selling vehicles with 45-60K on the clock. They would sell them...

No help or wrong help for Detroit 3976
Mike Hunter Because some drivers trade cars every 3 years, 2 years or even every year doesn't make the practice sound financially. I've been out looking for...

No help or wrong help for Detroit 3977
This is contary to the arguement you and the rest of the chrysler fans were making that the buttets had value greater than that...

No help or wrong help for Detroit 3978
Let's keep in mind that when you say government, you are really talking about me, a taxpayer...

Can anyone tell the difference between rotors and pads truthfully 3979
with It is only silly to those without brake engineering experience who buttume transverse forces into the rotor disc are negligible, or who attend pretty weak schools. I have designed and built several...

Can anyone tell the difference between rotors and pads truthfully 3980
hob Frankly I doubt your credentials. But in the event that you are who you...

Can anyone tell the difference between rotors and pads truthfully 3981
braking buttume pretty you The forces are present whenever the wheel is not parallel to the direction of travel (e.g., turning into a driveway and-during braking). My example was to help...

Arab persons now using SUVs instead of plants 3983
a Generally Iran covers the old Persian empire, so Iran is populated mostly by Persians...

Arab persons now using SUVs instead of plants 3984
Hey Larry, maybe you can help me with some questions I have about Christianity: a) When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates...

Teen gets 21 years for deliberate crash Rams SUV into other car
On 4 Mar 2006 09:11:41 -0800, "Laura Bush liquidateed her boy friend" Dayum. Two things I -think- I agree with you on in one day (if I understand you correctly). Maybe I should go see...

FOX to broadcast race from Mexico in Spanish Busch Series
Here's a photo of the Pace Car. The next race, the Mohammad rest Clbuttic will feature SUV's killing infidels. -- Keith FOX to broadcast race from Mexico in Spanish FOX will broadcast the Busch Series...

Japanese Make Gasoline From Cattle Dung
Interesting if true. But may be bullpoo. Japanese Make Gasoline From Cattle Dung -- By KOZO MIZOGUCHI, buttociated Press Writer Fri Mar 3, 8:37 PM ET TOKYO - Scientists in energy-poor...

Light goes red, drivers stop Dream on this is Tucson 3991
Where I live, I'd take a SWAG that the average number of cars through the red arrow at a busy intersection is about 2.5, and the highest I've ever witnessed was 7 (counting the...

Light goes red, drivers stop Dream on this is Tucson 3992
Here in Northern Virginia, I've noticed a pattern to this. When traffic is light, few or no cars run the light on the intersections of my usual routes...

That had to hurt.... 3993
Dave I believe this is real. About the rag doll-looking body, this is the way real people look in situations like...

That had to hurt.... 3994
Mike T. Not necessarily. Some people really get off on mayhem like this. Haven't you seen people like that? News people especially like it. Ever hear the song "Dirty Laundry" (I think it's...

Report Proves RLCs Cause RearEnd Collisions 3997
necromancer ----- I think making an official declaration is a bit overkill... but I admire your informality. You're right and wrong and wrong. RLC's are about both protecting the public and collecting enough...

Report Proves RLCs Cause RearEnd Collisions 3998
1.RLC tickets are considered equivalent to parking tickets;no drivers license points are usually buttigned.Often,the RLC ticket cannot identify the driver of the vehicle...

Report Proves RLCs Cause RearEnd Collisions 3999
No, the cameras are making enough revenue to give idiot politician more money to spend and-or...

Report Proves RLCs Cause RearEnd Collisions 4000
Alex Rodriguez Ok. Let's buttume RLC's sole purpose is revenue generation. What the most simple, practical and easiest...

Report Proves RLCs Cause RearEnd Collisions 4001
Nate Nagel Obviously the solution to -that- is to ban out-of-towners. How do you know what out-of-towners expect? How do you know how the lights are timed "where they come...

Report Proves RLCs Cause RearEnd Collisions 4002
N8N ----- Oh. I thought the argument was whether or not RLC's "*caused* rear-end collisions"... not what they are "about". The entire premise is ridiculous... but...

Report Proves RLCs Cause RearEnd Collisions 4003
gpsman They cause rear end collisions because they are used for revenue generation rather than to promote safety. I thought that that...

I don't get some people
I'm driving home from J-ville this evening on 95 NB. Traffic is light (well, light for Interstate 95) and...

Sloth moron of the day hit ME, and I was behind HIM
This is un-freakin' believable. If I was in my Vette, I may have end the guy. Luckily I was in my Saturn SL... Coming off the freeway...

Sloth moron of the day hit ME, and I was behind HIM
It's a lot like how I got into the only accident I've ever been in that was...

Gas prices continue to surge upward
Sure, but that was a gradual transition in the composition of the fleet, driven at least in part by attrition. What I noticed was the *suddenness* of the price increase for diesel fuel, starting...

Our gasoline worries are over
Japanese Make Gasoline From Cattle Dung By KOZO MIZOGUCHI, buttociated Press Writer Fri Mar 3, 8:37 PM ET TOKYO - Scientists in energy-poor Japan...

Closest call driving you've ever had
We've all flirted with that old eternity road. I've had three that come to mind immediately that I'll never forget (over 34 years of driving--including...

Closest call driving you've ever had 4011
hmm... well there was the one that actually resulted in a collision. The blow out while braking while driving my '75 maverick that I related before so I won't bore everyone with it again. The...

Closest call driving you've ever had 4012
I think I've posted this before, one morning I had something that I needed to take care of before work so I...

Closest call driving you've ever had 4013
Long ago I used to pride myself on the ability to keep pushing long after a wiser man would have called it a night, bulling my way through big yawns...

Woman steals courthouse rug after paying ticket
Maybe she felt the ticket was unjust and wanted to even the score? CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ˜ It wasn‚t hard to...

anyone drive a CHINESE car before
Not hardly. You are forgetting that Japanese companies know how to produce a quality product, while the chinese can't...

Cite #1
Simultaneous determination of selegiline-N-oxide, a new indicator for selegiline administration, and other metabolites in urine by high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization mbutt spectrometry by Katagi M, Tatsuno M...

Sloth encounter while shopping
People really amaze me. I was shopping today in one of those wholesale clubs. I had a big flat cart so I could buy salt for the softener. Well some lady comes up behind...

Four dead teenagers on US 64 Bypbutt in NC
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:16:19 -0500, "C. E. White" That's when you say "I'm sorry, son, but your driving privileges have been...

Question for Europeans
The problem with ethanol is twofold: ethanol is corrosive and requires nickel plating of the fuel injection system to run high ethanol blends...

specimens of humanity Part I
My brother driving home had the car die on him- the check engine light had come on for a...

Red Light Cameras Can Be a Good Thing
Maybe in generating revenue. How long after you run the first RL do you get notification of the violation? A person can run several RLs...

IL's hunt for revenue continues 4022
Well, one of their hunts for revenue from nonresidents is in the process of getting thwarted. This past week, I traveled through Chicago on my way to visit relatives in Ohio...

IL's hunt for revenue continues 4023
Brent P Motorhead Lawyer relatives that Not that I haven't considered it. Always figured I didn't go through often enough...

Road recordings for Kerouac Project
Hello all. I am a music professor at Baruch College and a composer. I am collecting sound material for a performance of a musical-theatrical event based on the clbuttic...

Geezer Fails to Yield to Emergency Vehicles, Gets TBoned
Only reacting when there is an accident (or other violation of another person's rights) is the correct way for law to work. Otherwise we're not free. Now...

GOD BLESS THE POPE WHO IS QUICKLY FADING AWAY
and this just in. The Pope, on whose agony and rest George W. Bush is shedding crocodile tears, did not relent...



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