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Thanks for the clarification. Michigan's Legislature site isn't exactly light reading and brain-dead easy to navigate through. Well, none of them are, I guess.

Are you seriously asking me to show proof of a feeling? You don't think an Amber Alert for an armed and dangerous child kidnapper who has been obviously running around the neighborhood doesn't raise a little fear and anxiety amongst parents of young children, and others in a community...

I'm pretty sure it's 8000 pounds for commercial plates. Michigan Legislature - Section 257.801 This page keeps mentioning less-than 8000 pounds for registration schedules. Unless it weighs less than that and is actually a Commercial Vehicle Michigan Legislature - Section 257.7 . “Commercial...

Excellent find, Chef. That blue poofy stuff is what threw me, which is why I said, "..or at least a very good copy of what they were doing..." because IIRC the Midwest interiors were mostly gray and didn't have external shore power hookups (on most of them). Same problem with the Bentz upfits...

I don't know the particulars, since I don't live there and I'm too lazy to go through the Michigan Legislature Web site to look it up, but they do differentiate between commercial and non-commercial vehicles. By not knowing the particulars, by that I mean I don't know the mechanism used to...

Well then why is Rand Paul or any other political candidate letting anyone get within 50 feet of his car? OMG! She could have had guns in her boobs like the girl robots in Austin Powers! OMG! What might have happened! Oh, wait, it's a sign. A threat with a sign? Or a potential threat? Depends on...

I guess my suggestion is, use Photoshop or some other graphics package and resize the dаmned thing. The same picture broke the browsers the last time someone posted it here, too. If you don't know how to resize an image, let me know and I'll walk you through it. Also, you hotlinked the image...

Restrained? Yes, quite probably. Thrown down and stomped on? No, probably not. But it also depends on what the "something" is. I dunno, somewhere in the 1.4 to 2.9 second range, I would expect. :D But Rand Paul isn't the prez or other high-level public official. He's on his own for personal...

I don't. That's where the whole, "Unless she was brandishing a weapon...." extravaganza comes into play.

Ah, OK, yeah, that would likely be true. Again, not exponentially, tho, especially with death sentences on a downward trend already. Well you would, except that as I showed, it's possible to look at other wrongful conviction statistics and apply them, as well. Depending on how you look at it...

I would have thought you'd get the humor in "dork" but I guess not. In either case, I never called you a dork, I merely said you look like a dork. There's a difference. But while I can see the picture, only a sliver of the "QUICK" button in visible, and the right side of the text field is cut...

The old addage, "Never hit a woman," I'm pretty sure covers throwing them to the ground and stomping on them. Unless she was brandishing a weapon and they were acting in self-defense, somebody's gonna get hammered by a judge.

Sorry, but that article I linked is not the only outside research that's been done, and all the wanting and wishing in the world won't make Amber Alerts as effective as people try and make then out to be. Those who are involved with Amber Alerts or are proponents of it will use anything and...

The most recent year that I could find numbers for both is 2008. Statistics Canada - Travel and tourism - Summary tables Travelers to Canada by country of origin, top 15 countries of origin Canadians to US Trips Into US - 18,915,000 Nights Spent - 146,602,000 Travelers to Canada by country...

That is, or at least was, the big knock on Midwest conversions, that they are too heavy. At least for the 04 and 05 models, I don't know what adjustments they have made since then. But those from 04 and 05 generally left people with about 1500-1600 pounds for cargo, depending on additional...

First, you don't have any First Amendment rights on a non-government controlled, privately owned Web site. The First Amendment, and all the others, apply to governments, not private enterprises. Second, when you post any picture that's larger than 640 pixels wide, you look like a dork.

Like I said, a bazillion dollars. Look, I'm happy for any life that actually gets saved as a direct result of an Amber Alert. But Amber Alerts simply aren't very effective, the success rates are grossly overblown, it cost a lot, and end up getting entire communities or even entire states all...

First, I was looking at an old PDF that is now outdated. The percentages of misconduct are still the same, but rather than 100 cases overturned, it's now, as of yesterday, 261. Second, the statistics can vary wildly depending on how you want to look at them. You can look at how many felony...

In 2005, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that 3 percent of the 30,000 individuals called for jury duty from voter registration rolls over a two-year period in just one U.S. District Court (Florida) were not U.S. citizens. 900 of 'em, in one district. While 3 percent may not...

You would think that business along the major Interstates out of Canada, like I-75 all the way down to Florida, would take Canadian currency. Nope. I've been to places in Canada where if it's $10 Canadian and I hand them $10 US, the cashier punches in $10 US and the cash register automatically...