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I thought by now most people would realize how easy it is to connect one person to another. The Oracle of Bacon has been around for years and its a classic example of the whole "Six Degrees..." thing. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/ Another example: 1. John Coffey owns shares in Royal Dutch Shell. 2. Royal Dutch Shell has hundreds of research and extraction contracts with Saudi Company Delta Oil. From these two facts, we deduce the following: A. John Coffey has financial ties to the brother in law of Osama Bin Laden. B. John Coffey has financial ties to the Thomas Kean, the head of the 911 Commission. C. John Coffey has influenced the results of the 911 Commission investigation. D. John Coffey is a key leader of the New World Order. You conspiracy theory guys take very weak correlations and extrapolate cause-and-effect. That's illogical. What would relaly be intersting would be to see how a conspiracy theorist diagnoses engine problems: 1. Engine is not running. 2. I saw on Close Encounters how an alien ship caused an engine in a truck to stop running. Therefore: A. An alien ship caused my engine to stop running. B. UFOs exist. C. Extra-terrestrial life exists. D. Elvis is an alien.

I've got a JD2 Model 3 with the hydraulic option and two dies: 1.5" x 5.5"CLR and 1.5" x 6.5"CLR. Works great but the service from JD2 just sucks. They have got to be one of the most screwed up companies to deal with. A classic example of a great product limited by poor execution. BTW... why did you guys go with 1 5/8" .120 wall DOM instead of 1.5"? Seems like overkill for a 2,700lb car.

Yes, my head had a similar problem (cause was detonation) and its was welded up and remachined. Worked out well, but it cost a few hundred dollars to get it done right. The head has to be completely stripped (including valve seats), the crack "V'd", the head pe-heated to 400F, welded while maintaining a 400F interpass temperature, and air cooled. After, the combustion chamber needs to be machined and the head surfaced.

This is EXACTLY the problem with our tax code today. It has been so warped by social engineering that its more a part of the Department of Health and Human Services then the IRS. Simplify, simplify, simplify. A flat tax with no social engineering (including the removal of the mortgage interest tax deduction) is the best idea. Social engineering should be accomplished by the various departments specifically responsible for it. Child credits (payments directly to families qualified) come directly from HHS. Mortgage interest credits comes directly from FannieMae or FreddyMac. That way, we actually see the dollars spent instead if having them hidden in the income side of the revenue equation.

No we don't. Witness our efforts in Sudan/Darfur and how the Fench and the UN are blocking efforts to stop the Islamic genocide of African American Christians. Here come the conspiracy theories. Where's Kevin?

Just 'cuz two pieces of metal are stuck to each other doesn't mean the parts are welded.

Some other highlights from the War on Terror:

Back on 9/20/2001 Bush said, basically, "Its all about terrorism." A transcript of the speech is here: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gwbush911jointsessionspeech.htm Nothing's changed. Its still all about terrorism and Iraq is the second battle (Afghanistan was the first) in this long war. The invasion was part of the "Bush Doctrine" as first stated publically at the West Point Commencement address in 2002: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020601-3.html And codified as national policy as National Security Strategy in September 2002: http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html Here are the reasons we added Iraq to the battle list from the speech Bush gave two days before the invasion: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030317-7.html The invasion of Iraq was not some willy, nilly, evil plan by Neocons. Its also was not a last minute, off-the-cuff, dumb idea foisted on the American people by a bunch of Texas morons.

Its going to be a street/autox car so the automatic is fine. No real plans for it other then some Koni 8249s, tires, alignment, and maybe some Z51 springs and ARBs. The roof is removable and is a medium blue tinted Lexan piece. I've seen a few C4s with it.

A new toy for me: 1992 Chevrolet Corvette Black on black Leather sport seats Bose LT1/Automatic Polycarbonate roof 29,000 miles

Your 3 degrees of negative camber will do more to wear your front tires out then a little bit of toe out. I've driven on the street (weekends only) my 240Z in its old BSP configuration and I liked the way it felt. 225/50-15 tires, 3.2- camber front, 2.5- camber rear, 6 degrees front caster, 3/16" toe out front, 1/8" toe in rear. The car was very lively and the steering wheel moved in your hands most of the time. Hard lane changes on the freeway would bounce my passenger's head off the side window...

I see it as a Good Thing!

No. The article compares Israel's response to terrorism with our own. Chewbacca Defense! Its not all about 911. Its not all about WMD. Its not all about Saddam. Its not all about Iraq. Its all about terrorism. Its about the Achille Laurel, its about the Munich Olympics, its about the US soldiers shot in the back of the head on a TWA jet, its about Pan Am 103, its about the Cole, its about WTC 1993, its about Kenya, its about 911, its about the Indonesian night club, its about the Madrid trains, its about the beheadings... This is a "War on Terror" and Iraq is just one battle in that on-going war. There will be more battles in more countries regardless of who we elect President in 2004, 2008, 2012, etc. Nothing about this has changed:

"The last thing you want to be seen as is a puppet of the United States, and you can almost see the hand underneath the shirt today moving the lips." - Joe Lockhart, Kerry's Press Secretary, referring to Ayad Allawi. There's a time and place for this kind of criticism. IMHO... right now is the wrong time. Allawi is risking his life (and will most likely be dead by the end of next year) to bring some form of democracy to Iraq. Its absolutely in our national interest that Allawi succeeeds regardless of your political leanings. Allawi is a brave man trying to move his country forward who's already had family members killed. Joe Lockhart is a chicken-sh*t political hack. I mean, WTF is Kerry going to do if he wins? How is he going to work with Allawi and the new Iraqi government after allowing statments like this? My guess: Kerry already knows he's going to lose so he's trying to fire up the Democratic base for 2008.

"We know we can't count on the French. We know we can't count on the Russians. We know that Iraq is a danger to the United States, and we reserve the right to take pre-emptive action whenever we feel it's in our national interest." - John Kerry on CNN's Crossfire in 1997.

I don't think that article said Israel won the "war." I think is said that Israel had won the latest battle (the "Intifada") in a long war.

Al Queda could not operate without state support and sponsorship. Valdis Krebs initial networking analysis of the 911 hijack team back in 2002 showed how terrorist cells work. http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue7_4/krebs/ Further analysis by John Robb and others concluded that the networks and the support infrastructure necessary to operate required state support (mostly for training camps) and sponsorship once membership exceeded about 80 individuals. http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2004/04/mapping_terrori.html There were a number of known terrorist training camps in Iraq: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,84291,00.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/khodada.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,779359,00.html Al Queda operatives were trained in those camps inside Iraq according to numerous Iraq winesses. Iraq (under Saddam) WAS a training base for Al Queda, Iraq (under Saddam) DID provide financial and material resources to Al Queda, the PLO, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations. Repeating a falsehood (Iraq did not support terrorists) does not make it true. That type of arguement is referred to as: Argumentum ad nauseam.

I'm going to start calling this when I see it:

That's often referred to as the "UFO Defense"; I say that UFO's exist and you must prove me wrong! A statement like that is not falsifiable so it cannot be proven.

We don't know who asked that question. It might have been a moderator, a member of the audience, or even John Edwards.

Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi gave a speech today in front of a joint session of Congress. Granted, the speech was more positive then what the reality in Iraq is, but its a good speech by a person we desperately need to succeed. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133279,00.html And then, Kerry makes this statement: I'm amazed at how incoherent and discombobulated this statement is. And instead of welcoming Allawi and supporting his efforts, Kerry is trying to throw him under the same bus that he's been trying to throw GWB under. I think Kerry has lost his mind.

"War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory." — Georges Clemenceau http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/000521.html http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson091704.html

A physical impossibility.

Gotta agree with this one.

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