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  1. Turtle

    Economic T---ist?

    Couldn't you have just posted a link, instead? Like this one with 102,000 examples of the same cut-n-paste drivel: In 1942, German intelligence officers rounded up skilled Jewish - Google Search My favorite line, though, has got to be, "...the entire U.S. economy is now controlled by one person...
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    dnc's request is denied

    And it's not surprising to see that you're finally not. It was a sardonic grenade lobbed for you to fetch. Go fetch, Sparky. Fetch!
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    Board Information Update

    I was in Houston recently, Bay Town J, and it kept telling me I was on the Dallas board, and that Galveston was like 200 miles away. Two days later it started telling me I was on the Galveston board. Weird. I think there are satellite issues around them thar parts.
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    landing Gear ?

    My brother uses a high-grade lithium grease, which is what most good chassis grease is, anyway. Fifth wheel grease has too many properties that make it perfect for a fifth wheel, but would turn to putty in a gearbox, like a landing gear. Next time you're at an LTL terminal ask the guys in the...
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    dnc's request is denied

    The talk show hosts (who are not journalists) and the bloggers are amusing sometimes. Like, the "fact" that's running around the net about the birth certificate that was released has been examined by at least three document forensic experts who have all certified it as a fake, yet that's not...
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    What happened if my truck break down

    I've never been towed to the cons, yet, but I've been towed a couple of times when not loaded. Once was in Ann Arbor. Tow truck driver said it happens all the time, that he tows trucks across the border to deliver loads, even.
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    dnc's request is denied

    Link, please :) The reason I ask for a link, is, that news is about a week old, and wrong (unless there have been new developments).
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    Anyone ever lose a load because they had a pet in the truck with them?

    I've had a handful of loads where I would have lost them if I had a pet with me. Mostly food and food related shipments, but also a couple of chemical shipments. Pet dander can be a problem which can contaminate and entire processing plant. Dogs licking the sides of the barrels containing food...
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    webasto or espar?

    Espar. Hands down. Not sure where in Grand Rapids you can get one installed for that price. Unless that's a cash and carry thing and you do the installation yourself. Espar of Michigan, in Romulus, where I got mine, has them for about $1500 installed for the small one and $2000 for the...
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    Higher Fuel and Gas Prices Coming!

    Here's the deal (and hopefully it'll be coherent). Anyone who understands human nature on it's most basic level will understand that humans have a vital need of freedom to choose, freedom of voluntary cooperation, freedom to maintain their own moral integrity. Think about those three things for...
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    Understanding the Financial Crisis

    lol I was a trumpet player, jazz and classical. That's one of those instruments that require daily practice, and a lot of it. It's not one you can put down and then come back a few days, weeks or months later and pick it up and start playing. Well, you can, but it'll sound just awful. :eek: Yep...
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    Understanding the Financial Crisis

    I don't see a problem with it. At least not any more than I did with having a President who was a former Director of the CIA. Or in having Allen Dulles be a member of the Warren Commission. Nor do I have a problem with the FDA being almost entirely financed by drug companies. Nor do I have a...
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    Higher Fuel and Gas Prices Coming!

    Well, sure, Vaseline is petroleum based. :) Also, being petroleum based, it will break down the molecular structure of latex, which will weaken it, causing the latex to rupture if it is subjected to any kinds of stresses, like repetitive motions involving friction. As for Kentucky Jelly, it's...
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    Vote!!!! Third Party!!!!!

    I'm a card carrying member of the "I voted for John Anderson Club," too. :) A third party candidate can win a national election, but it won't happen as a result of the normal processes and circumstances, like the current third party candidates find themselves in. It doesn't matter how badly...
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    Understanding the Financial Crisis

    True. But good business practices and business experience aren't necessarily the same thing. Good, basic business practices apply pretty much across the board to all businesses, including expediting, but there are many industries from which the experiences do not translate very well. You do...
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    Sent this to my Congressman

    It's a good e-mail, but in all honesty it's probably two paragraphs too long. If you want it read, it needs to be short and sweet. Each paragraph sent in a separate e-mail would likely be read.
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    how much power using a laptop

    Ah, Magnum. I can't believe they slipped my mind. There used to be a company called Trace that made inverters and other power thingies. We've got a Trace inverter/charger on the houseboat. They were good. Real good. So good that Xantrex bought 'em out in a kind of "If ya can't beat 'em, buy em'"...
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    A Billion Dollars, makes you think

    Oh, I dunno. A billion isn't that much. California produces one billion pounds of tomatoes annually. One billion grains of sand is roughly 69 cubic feet, about the size of a three-door merchandising refrigerator. The [SPACE] between each word here takes about one billion atoms to fill. I do...
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    Press GET's B*tchSLAPED!!

    Moth , n, the green thstuf that growths on the north thide of threeths
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