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The Tea Party was spawned by the Wall Street bailout? There is disagreement about when they actually began, and how, but they were in business before TARP, and the central theme was limited government [meaning lower taxes & less regulation] . The less taxation is how they chose their name, as a...

Wrong, it's exactly what I meant. Only the woman who criticized Palin for looking "too thin" said the invective [response] was coming from both sides, lol. Some days, you just can't win. ;) Seriously, muttly: before you jumped in to defend the conservative viewpoint, did you even consider...

I don't need to read the book, the extensive excerpts I've read were enough. His claim that liberals want the people to be dependent on government from cradle to grave is pure fantasy, for starters. There's a whole list of "what liberals want & believe" that is not even remotely true. One...

Missie: some of the Petro/TA truckstops have walking trails now.

Sooner or later, the government is going to have to figure out that people who can't find decent jobs do not make for 'peace and prosperity', sigh. Meantime, as ATeam says, the agencies are going to write regulations whether we want them or not, so we'd be dumb to let them do it without hearing...

Here's a new regulation I'd support: new drivers who can't back into a spot in less than 6 tries should not be allowed to drive trucks with backing beepers. I'm serious - goober kept me awake for half an hour last night with the beeping!

A fitting capstone to a career of selling professional opinion to whichever side [prosecution or defense] will pay for it. IOW: "If you're buyin, I'm lyin." :rolleyes:

No idea who "they" is, but it's quite possible that having to deal with Republicans actually drove some people insane. That makes as much sense as your explanation, I think. :o

That's hilarious. Um - unless you've read Stephen King's book 'Gerald's Game'. If not, it's not a spoiler to say that after tying his wife to the bed for a little fun time, Gerald has a cardiac arrest and dies, and wifey is left in a pickle. One of his scariest stories, and not a vampire or...

I'm puzzled by all those who are opposed to regulation in any form - mention it, and they panic. However, there are regulations that are reasonable and beneficial, and there are those that are arbitrary and accomplish nothing, so my take is to try for more of the first, and hope the second will...

I have found that I can leave the truck at Costco for a day or two without any problems. Longer than that, I'd be looking for a space to rent.

The politiciaans are too street smart to get caught saying it, but look at the women, and draw your own conclusions about what they aren't saying. The ones who do say it aren't politicians, just talking heads, commentators, and many who add comments after an article.

Eddie, when you say they were on for a little over 3 years, do you mean continuously? And if so, would that make a difference, leaving them on over the rest of the year? I've used them for years too, but always take them off in the spring.

11: not reading labels. Yesterday, I picked up some of the only pain reliever that works for my headaches, a combination of acetominophen, aspirin, and caffeine that used to be trademarked as Excedrin. It's labeled as Headache Relief [Equate brand @ Walmart], costs $4.00 for 200. I noticed a...

One of my all time favorites! [If you like to read, John Scalzi's 'Redshirts' has a similar theme, and just won a major award, because Scalzi is the bomb, lol.] Yes, I know 'the bomb' is so last year, but this year's highest praise wouldn't pass the censor. ;)

Agree. He correctly points out that money has corrupted the process, and that it isn't just taxes at fault for the country's downfall, it's banking and trade policies as well. Taxes are the only factor the politicians want to blame and talk about, wonder why......

I certainly hope not, as I happen to personally know women who are both attractive and intelligent. [None who are conservatives or Republicans, though] ;) But that wasn't my premise at all: I said it seems the conservative Repubs don't seem to take women seriously unless they qualify as eye...

Only those Americans who work for a living, but they haven't been important to anyone for decades.

I haven't seen the poll, but it seems to me that what people hate isn't so much a party, as an attitude of intransigent refusal to even look for common ground. We know the two parties differ, they always have, and they've always managed to 'give a little to get a little' [IOW: compromise], but...

It is typical for the 'old timers' to think the newcomers have it easier, [and often, they do], but that's not what this is about. We'd like to address a safety issue that FMCSA/DOT consistently overlook in their efforts to regulate us into safety: 3 weeks does not a safe truck driver make. I...