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  1. OntarioVanMan

    U.K. sailors captured by Iranian navy

    Mar 23, 2007 10:03 AM Associated press LONDON – Fifteen Royal Navy sailors and marines who had boarded a ship suspected of smuggling cars in the Persian Gulf were seized by Iranian naval vessels off the Iraqi coast on Friday, Defence Ministry officials said. The British government demanded...
  2. OntarioVanMan

    More Sprinter ?'s

    Ok how many Sprinter owners have rusty filler fuel caps? We take it off all the time ever look under it? Another: Harmonic balancer How many have replaced this??? Mines an 05.
  3. OntarioVanMan

    CDL in S.D.

    As if anyone would care but I know some of you's are info nuts so heres one. They say one should try to learn one new thing a day! Ya know I am Canadian so I'll convert this the best I can in U.S. terms. I have a CDL D (your terms) without air endorsement and I wanted a simular SD licence when...
  4. OntarioVanMan

    N.H. committee backs REAL ID ban

    By NORMA LOVE Associated Press Writer CONCORD, N.H. (AP) _ The New Hampshire Legislature took a baby step Tuesday toward rejecting what they say amounts to the creation of a national ID card. The House Transportation Committee voted unanimously to recommend barring the state from complying...
  5. OntarioVanMan

    Why is there a Mothers Day

    Mothering Sunday in the United Kingdom falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent (typically March or early April). It has been celebrated for hundreds of years, though the exact origin is uncertain. Tradition has it that young apprentices were released by their masters that weekend in order to visit...
  6. OntarioVanMan

    St Paddys Day

    Saturday is Saint Patrick’s Day and most of you know that the Irish have a propensity to “bend an elbow†on occasion. In that spirit, Heres one.. Two Irishmen, Patrick & Michael, were adrift in a lifeboat following a dramatic escape from a burning freighter. While rummaging through the...
  7. OntarioVanMan

    Air Cargo

    The DHS in all it's glory as of March 12th no Canadian or Mexican origin air freight will be on any U.S Commercial aircraft. Too bad DX and others do alot of AOG and other shipments by NW and U.S Air and Delta. 1,000's $$ of lost revenue for these airlines Now we can only ship by UPS or Fedex...
  8. OntarioVanMan

    Honda Aircraft Company

    Honda Aircraft Company to Establish World Headquarters and Production Facility in Greensboro, North Carolina HondaJet to be produced at new plant for delivery to customers in 2010 Honda Aircraft Company, Inc., today announced plans to establish its world headquarters in Greensboro, North...
  9. OntarioVanMan

    Honda to Raise Production

    Honda to Raise Production of Fuel Efficient Civics in North America Move Will Match Flexible Manufacturing Capacity to Market Demand Honda will enhance its ability to match flexible manufacturing capacity with market demand in a move that will make it possible to increase North American...
  10. OntarioVanMan

    Battle of the bulbs

    Which way do we lean??? Mar 05, 2007 04:30 AM Tyler Hamilton The spirit of Thomas Edison, perhaps stirred by Australia's decision to ban the incandescent light technology he first commercialized, isn't going down without a fight. You see, the American inventor may be dead, but his...
  11. OntarioVanMan

    IQ

    A man enters a bar and orders a drink. The bar has a robot bartender. The robot serves him a perfectly prepared cocktail, and then asks him, "What's your IQ?" The man replies "150" and the robot proceeds to make conversation about global warming factors, quantum physics and spirituality...
  12. OntarioVanMan

    American Built....

    Isn't it wierd I heard on TV Fox from Darrel Waltrip that TOYOTA is the ONLY American built car in the Daytona 500 to-day. The Ford Fusion is built in Mexico and the Dodge Challenger and GM Pontiac are both built in Canada.
  13. OntarioVanMan

    WHAT SENATOR JOHN GLENN SAID :

    Things that make you think a little: There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq in January. In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January. That's just one American city, about as deadly as the entire war-torn country of Iraq . When some claim that President Bush...
  14. OntarioVanMan

    Ford Transit

    There is word now 2008 it will debut here in the U.S. http://www.newfordtransit.com/
  15. OntarioVanMan

    Cash Stops the World

    While watching a TV the other night, this writer was shocked to see a Visa commercial that shows how paying in cash disrupts the flow of life. Though the commercial was fun and humorous to watch, the deeper implications of it are no laughing matter! Americans are becoming more and more in...
  16. OntarioVanMan

    U.S helped Saddam get to the top!

    Few will shed a tear for Saddam Hussein, whose reign as a dictator came to an end as have so many others of his stripe. But the particular charges used as the rationale for his execution — among many others that might have been levied — is as inexplicable as was the invasion that drove him...
  17. OntarioVanMan

    Good for Goode!

    Congressman Virgil Goode (R-Va.) views as ominous Congressman-elect Keith Ellison's (D-Minn.) decision to take his oath of office on the Koran, the holy book of Islam. "I do not subscribe to using the Koran in any way," Goode said in a letter to constituents." The Muslim Representative from...
  18. OntarioVanMan

    One Man's Generosity

    Christmas is a time for giving, but few people will give as much Robert Kern, the recently retired founder of Generac Power Systems, a Milwaukee area manufacturer of residential and commercial power generators. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, this week, without fanfare or publicity...
  19. OntarioVanMan

    China automaker to build cars for Chrysler

    According to the article, production will start sometime after 2007. Financial terms and production quantities were not revealed by Chrysler. Chrysler, in seeking a Chinese partner, said that it cannot make money by building them in the United States due to high labor and other costs. Recently...
  20. OntarioVanMan

    US State Department Succumbs to Homosexual Pressur

    Talk about a double standard! A coalition of radical homosexual groups put heavy pressure on the Bush Administration to change its vote to allow UN accreditation of homosexual groups seeking UN recognition. Though they were unsuccessful in gaining accreditation for the groups, they are claiming...
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