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Obama has gotten every post in his political career with little or no experience. Further, it appears to more than a few of us that he moved up the ladder without doing much in the post he had at the time. He had a lackluster career in the Illinois senate, he did zippadee nothing when he was...

Right now it's terribly hard to get a gun near a plane. Getting one INSIDE the plane is next to impossible. Unless you're one of the handful of people authorized to be packing heat, like an air marshal for instance.

I suppose everybody is entitled to their own Obama dream...

OK, somebody help me out here. How are you going to shoot down a plane with a semi-automatic weapon? Most don't have the range unless you're near the runway, and if you try to do it there you'll have security on you like white on rice before you get the gun out of your vehicle. Even then, it...

It could be worse. One person I spoke to yesterday had mis-read the story, she thought the governor was proposing a 3 dollar tax increase on gas. Now, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what would happen if the state did that. Overnight, Michigan would be a ghost town as...

I don't care what kind of guard you put on the windows, if you can see through them to see what, if anything, is on board then you are asking for more trouble than you need. I had a Ford E-150 back when I was running local, it had windows in the rear doors. I blocked them with paneling, braced...

I've had a little bit of downtime due to a vehicle repair, so I got curious. I pulled the SD chip from the Garmin and had a look-see using a separate reader. The computer shows me that the chip is empty, which means that the GPS unit is using internal memory and isn't using the chip at all. I...

I'm in Chicago, the last several weeks it's been slower than molasses in January. This week picked up a might, but wouldn't you know it this is the week my van went down and had to be serviced. A no-start this past Saturday that was only fixed by pulling the doghouse and aiming a hot-air gun at...

It's a Mercedes powertrain, judging by what my searches are telling me. Not surprising since the only non-Mercedes item on the rest of the van is the nameplate. Five-speed transmission mated to either the diesel or the gas engine, the gas engine appears-- from my searches-- to be a V-6 engine of...

OK, I'm taking a flying wild guess that this is the one, and if it is then it's about 60 miles East of the Illinois/Indiana line. Between 40 and 60 vehicles. In that nasty weather there could be another accident, so it would still be a help to know "for sure" where the accident you reported is...

Where, exactly? East or West of town? A milemarker would help, if they give me a run to Ohio I'd like to know if it's even possible.

The title of this thread got my interest. Have to admit I haven't seen a driving loo. Do straight trucks come equipped with one?

Reading the article answered a question I've had for a long time, which is why these things were invented in the first place. It turns out that they were invented for an extremely practical reason, which is that it makes it easier to keep your feet in the stirrups while riding a horse. An archer...

Turtle's right,you know. If you're driving for someone else and you've got the cdl, driving a straight is the way to go. The margins on driving CVs are so thin that by the time you divide between the owner and the driver--- nobody got nuthin. Then on already paper thin proceeds somebody has to...

Since Mercedes took back the Sprinter??? When did they give it up? They've had it since the beginning, I thought, only badging some for Dodge for a while and Freightshaker from 2002 until now-- I know I saw new ones on the Freightshaker lot that I passed the other day. Mercedes-badged Sprinters...

HOAs are a special breed of pest. How on Earth we allowed these monstrosities is beyond my comprehension, and I personally will NEVER buy a house that is encumbered by an HOA. Too many of these things are run by wannabe Napoleons. First order of business: Introduce the Napoleon to the...

Around here, it's real simple. The authorities can enter my home only if (a) I invite them or if (b) they have a warrant that specifies who or what, exactly, they're looking for that requires entry. Otherwise, ain't happening. That is what is so astounding about that article in the link. It...

It appears that they think differently in Merry Old England about a lot of things, not just police being armed. Or law abiding citizens being able to have guns. If the report in the link below is any indication, they put up with stuff there that would cause rioting if you tried it here. Imagine...

I think I'd rather have 6 inches, to be truthful. By the time it gets that heavy, everybody understands that conditions are bad and they drive accordingly. When you have only an inch or so, many people seem slow to understand that you can't drive at full speed on that and that's when the real...

I drove a TT locally for a couple of years, it didn't seem that bad for the most part. At least as long as I didn't have to drive his GMC. That thing was miserable, and when running bobtail it would shake your fillings loose. The tandems would get to hobbyhorsing unbelievably bad. Sprinters and...