JMortensen

I didn't think I was going to like the sales tax, but it actually looks pretty good to me. A few issues I can see: 1. Poor people have to pay the tax up front and won't get it back until the end of the year. 2. People could conceivably make large purchases in Canada or Mexico and avoid taxation altogether. If I took a day trip to Canada and bought $25,000 worth of electronics as an example the sales tax system would rely on the honor system for me to declare it to the customs people at the border. I don't see an easy way to force people to state what they've purchased in another country. "No Mr. Customs Officer, I just thought I'd take the home entertainment system on a day trip to Canada..." 3. Doesn't affect state law, so only takes away 1/2 the accounting headache that the site states costs $150 billion per year. 4. CPAs aren't going to be very happy that nobody needs their services anymore. Maybe they can transition to investment analysts and help us invest some of the money we save. 5. That site says that the tax rate could be lowered as the government gets smaller. If the govt has more revenue, it's been my experience that govt only gets bigger. 6. International mail order is nearly impossible to regulate, and although getting more tax revenue would be a great way to give the govt an incentive to monitor what comes into the country (I'm thinking Homeland Security) it would still be an expensive proposition, but IMO worth it. 7. A large percentage of the tax revenue that could be had from immigrants who send most of their check to another country would be lost. You could argue that these people aren't usually the very high dollar earners now, but they very well could be if this law passed. Executives could start coming to the US and sending their earnings elsewhere. If these issues were dealt with in the article, forgive me. I read it while working so I might have missed something.

You could get a 12mm unit from differentials.com and some 12mm OD 10mm ID tubing from a metal supply place (there are a bunch online)and make ring gear spacers. Just cut, chamfer, and drop them in.

tkach, if you're going to post that you don't like when people who haven't been to Iraq talk about Iraq, then people are just going to tell you not to look at the discussion. This is the internet, and you don't have to read anything you don't like. Also if you write whatever you're going to post in Microsoft Word it will show you where your spelling errors are. You've got a lot and it makes you look less intelligent when you post something full of errors. Also, I agree with you that we need to stay until we've won the peace, but I haven't been there. Does that mean that my opinion doesn't count?

When I read this sentence all I could think of was an argument I've heard about South Africa. Here's my switched around version of the same sentence: Again we hear a "why didn't we go into x first?" argument. Well again I would guess that you wouldn't be too happy if we did go into Sri Lanka either.

Do you REALLY believe that swearing to tell the truth guarantees that a witness tells the truth? Bush set up the commission? News to me. I know he authorized it, and I would agree that he did so reluctantly. I could be totally off base, but I don't think he had all that much determination as to how it worked, etc. Maybe his testimony is full of stuff that we shouldn't have access to. And demonized by just about every major newspaper and newscast. Really? What logical steps are you using to determine that anyone who doesn't want to tell YOU everything they know about a subject is lying? I'm sure Mike Kelly has an opinion. I'm sure he won't divulge every detail that he knows about the subject. I'm not sure that this makes him a liar...

Couple of things: First, we already KNOW that lying under oath is not an impeachable offense. Second, everything that I can find says they TESTIFIED to the 9/11 Commission, just not publicly. Third, I think you could make a better case for dereliction of duty for a president LYING to the Commission than you could for one perjuring himself as in the Lewinsky scandal. Most importantly though, if the Democrats in the Commission who questioned them had only good things to say about their testimony, then why are you taking issue with it? Maybe because it's not public info, and maybe that's where we disagree. I don't think everything that the govt does should be public, and I understood why Clinton and Bush did their testimony in private.

Phil, you need to start reading the newspaper or watching the news or something. Bush and Cheney answered questions for the 9/11 Comission together (I want to say for 8 hours, but that's from memory so might be a little shaky), they just didn't do it publicly. I don't blame them. The Comission even released a statement thanking them for being so forthright afterwards. Did you watch any of the hearings on CSPAN? I watched them interview Condoleeza Rice (sp?) and let's just say that they weren't fair and impartial. Clinton didn't testify publicly either. Is he a bad guy too for not doing it publicly.

OK, I'm going to stitch her up today with any luck, then treat the rust and paint, then hopefully do the Krown thing in the springtime. Thanks for all the advice. I sure got a lot more views when I changed the title from "minor surface rust on frame rails" to "should I start looking for a new shell?" Anyway, thanks again all.

Lexan roof??? I thought they were fiberglass on top. That is quite the change. Hope you like it.

That looks very interesting dot. Maybe I could finish up my mods and take a day trip up to BC next spring. I think that may be just the ticket. Anyone have any easier method of paint removal for the rails?

I guess I'll be needing to remove the subframe then to sand blast it? Cause I know I won't be able to really get inside the rails without removing them. Right? Or is there some kind of expanding foam rust neutralizer that I can spray inside the rails... I didn't think it was that bad, I just didn't know how to deal with it.

I appreciate the advice, but you guys realize that this is the subframe under the rear deck that we're looking at, not the frame rails under the floorpan, right? Just making sure we're on the same page. If it were just the frame rails under the floor it wouldn't even be an issue. I guess I can just pull the sub frame off and clean and weld it back the same way, but I'd have gaps to fill where I cut them away on the sides and back.

Dan it's nice that you're always so level headed and easy to talk to...

Anyone else? Advice please!!!

Agreed.

Yes, but both sides are unwilling to reconcile. Hard line Palestinians are simply opposed to Israel's existence, hard line Israelis will not settle for anything less than borders on the Mediterranean and the Jordan river. I'm not agreeing with calling both sides evil, but I think one side is going to have to kill the other for peace to exist, and I don't think we should be doing the killing. Maybe holding the rest of the world back so the two sides can deal with it themselves... I'm also a little skeptical of the report that John shared the other day that said the fences have "won" the war against terrorism in Israel. Israel as a standalone country... hmmm... how many American troops were present for the Six Days War???

HEY HEY!!! WE AGREE AGAIN!!! I was just pointing that out to show that Saddam was clearly supporting terrorism.

I started to go through your argument point by point again tannji, but it's just ridiculous. You are making the same "what would you tell the victims" and "what if you were a victim" arguments that are PURELY EMOTIONAL. That is not the way to deal with this difficult situation. I will say this: yes, I think I should be allowed to carry a gun on a plane, and I do wonder what would have happened at Columbine had the TEACHERS been carrying concealed weapons. I'm not suggesting that 15 year old kids should be allowed to carry weapons. I've not had my rights infringed upon except when I was accused of "cruising" when I was a teenager. That made me angry then too, BTW. No government agency has tried to kill me or arrest me without cause. Your position, John's position, Mike's position continues to do NOTHING but come up with rationalizations for curtailing the INALIENABLE RIGHTS of 290,000,000 people. That is unacceptable. Mine is a fundamental position, and is not going to change based on the circumstance.

Stick to your guns Pop, and I'll stick to mine. This kind of violation of our rights isn't acceptable in any administration. It's not about intelligence. It's about our "inalienable" rights. Remember those???

Hussein was paying $25K to the family of every Palestinian suicide bomber.

Why can't you 280 guys use the rear mounted 240 bars? I seem to recall that there is something attached to the uprights in back of the diff, but I don't remember what it is. If it could be moved... well there's your answer. If you could use the rear mounted bar I think that would be a lot easier than what you've got there. It's hard to be sure from the picture, but demidion's bar looks like it would bind on compression (just based on the picture).

Maybe it is the UFO Defense. But surely we're not talking about UFO's here. We're talking about giving a govt that has already abused its power in the past powers that the Constitution guarantees that they will not have. That's a little different than some flashing lights in the sky. I'm sure there is a name for the "well you come up with something better" argument that is equally BS. I wasn't arguing that there wouldn't be better intelligence as a result of the PA, I was arguing that it violates my rights. If you or tannji don't like that argument then I refer you back to the possibility that the whole thing never would have happened if law abiding citizens had the right to carry weapons on planes. The Chewbacca thing was hilarious, BTW. I loved that episode. EDIT--Hey, in reading the Chewbacca defense, I think tannji is using it. I'm not arguing for better or worse intelligence. I'm arguing for my rights not to be infringed upon. Thanks for the help there John. I knew that he was making a ridiculous argument so I responded in kind (the wrong thing to do) and then you came to the rescue with some logic supporting my point. Appreciate that.

The problem is that the rust is not on top of the frame rails, it is creeping out from underneath. I really can't dip the car, and I can't take all of the frame rails off to clean inside. Just not possible at this juncture. Maybe I should just forget about stitch welding paint up what I stripped and start putting away a little cash for a new shell???

Isn't it Howard Stern that has this guy on every once in a while. What a jackass. BTW I was in a picket line when I was 5 and it didn't bother me a bit, but it was for a new overpass and no one was being called a fag.

Yep. Seen it on a bunch of 510's and a couple Z's. Pretty sure you have to pull the tranny too.