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Garmin is the gold standard in road mapping and navigation. All the rest are Garmin wannabes. Take a close look at them at Best Buy or someplace like that, rather than a truck stop. You can compare models at the Garmin website. I've got a Garmin Street Pilot c550, which is about 7 years old...

No, I don't know for a fact. But I do know what makes sense. I do know two Marines who have had embassy duty. I do know that in the absence of actual information that I'm inclined to believe what makes sense, and the word of two Marines over the unsubstantiated allegations of a wingnut Blogger...

I believe the Marines at that embassy were armed with steel-jacketed, high-powered .223 rifle cartridges that they normally carry when on duty at an embassy. No sand required.

Wow, over a buck a mile. What's that like? How'd ya like a load deadheading 325 from El Paso to Nogales going 2100 loaded that pays $1470?

Where do you come up with this stuff? Until the housing bubble, historically property ownership, including home ownership, has been one of the best, and safest investments that has ever existed. The return on investment of buying a home increases dramatically the longer you stay there - there is...

Money laundering? That's pretty funny. :D

It never fails to amaze me how someone can read something utterly ridiculous on the Internet, like Marines guarding a US embassy were not allowed to have ammo, and believe it without any substantiation or confirmation whatsoever. This latest is just another incarnation of the pervasive myth that...

Sometimes it's hard to do that, I know. Familiarity with others in the community lends itself to that. I come from Usenet where you could literally change your nick (nickname, username) with every post you made, so you truly didn't know who you were replying to a lot of the time. It forced you...

There was a time when I was like that. 2-3 MPH over the limit, because you can get away with that without getting a ticket, right? Plus, 72 in a 70 versus 62 in a 70 gets you an extra 10 minutes every hour, and those add up. An 8 hour run nets you every bit of 80 minutes to get there early or...

Yes, the two things are connected completely, except they are disconnected completely by different threads. They are connected if and only if you are replying to the poster and not the post. You brought something from outside the current thread, into the current thread, in order to make a...

They're designed to last about 50,000 miles in most vehicles. 100,000 is the upper limit, generally. Best way is to pull 'em out and look. If they're clean and white they're good to go as long as they can be re-gapped. If they're oily and burned, they're toast.

Europe and the rest of the world now say the same thing about the US, actually. Used to be, the US said, "Jump" and the rest of the world said, "How high?". Now when we say "Jump", they just roll their eyes and ignore us. There are those who really and truly believe these attacks, around the...

It was mentioned because the article linked in the OP that this thread is about mentioned Bush, and did so to contrast both leadership and the frequency of the PDB.

It should be noted that investors invest money specifically to make a profit. They always have. There was never a NBD because investors don't want to waste money. That's why it's called investing. On the other hand, the federal government never invests money to make a profit. They spend money...

What does "almost never" mean? It means nothing. It's opinion. Without numbers it's just spin, same as the entire piece. Remember that basketball game in the 70s where the finals were between the US and the Soviets where the US beat the Soviets, and Pravda reported the game as the Soviets came...

Thanks all. Had a good day. I'm now a speed limit! :D

Good example of why it's better to respond to the post and not the poster. When the topic is changed to become personal (speculating as to why someone believes the way they do), the response is usually to make it personal right back. And then back and forth and back and forth. Most of that is...

Anybody know how many PDBs Junior missed?

Yep. Unbrandable trucks being replaced with branded trucks.

Yeah, you've got to have it on the PRO, and you've got to have it documented, and you've got to hold their feet to the fire until it gets done. They have a lot of people there who do nothing but "It's not my job", and "You should have done this or that, sorry". Panther will screw you, but they...