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My youngest son got married yesterday. I thought they were going to wear the top hat and veil thing with the mickey mouse ears that they wore at the rehearsal, but they didn't. Check out the suit and tie-that's Jo and I. Lot different from my usual weekend look,eh? Me and Becky's sister Donna ...one of her other sisters, Kim with the happy and snoozing couple daughter Karla-I told her I would not have this all over facebook or something today,didn't say anything about BMT though!

I can feel your pain there. All during the '80s we hauled structural steel from Montague-Betts in Lynchburg to Boston and the surrounding area. Not a truck friendly place to be then, I would dread the thought of having to go there now.

Got this in an e-mail, thought it was worth repeating- 545 vs. 300,000,000 Read this slowly, let it sink in, VOTE in November This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be. please read the entire article. The article below is completely neutral, not anti republican or democrat. Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis must assume responsibility for the judgments made that impact each one of us every day. It's a short but good read. Worth the time. Worth remembering! 545 vs. 300,000,000 EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS JOURNALIST HAS SCRIPTED IN THIS MESSAGE. READ IT AND THEN REALLY THINK ABOUT OUR CURRENT POLITICAL DEBACLE. Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years. 545 PEOPLE -- By Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits? Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes? You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does. You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does. One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country. I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank. I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes. Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party. What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.... . The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to. It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist. If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red .. If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ . If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way. There are no insoluble government problems. Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do. Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power.. They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses. Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees... We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess! Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper. What you do with this article now that you have read it......... Is up to you. Sales Tax School Tax Liquor Tax Luxury Tax Excise Taxes Property Tax Cigarette Tax Medicare Tax Inventory Tax Real Estate Tax Well Permit Tax Fuel Permit Tax Inheritance Tax Road Usage Tax CDL license Tax Dog License Tax State Income Tax Food License Tax Vehicle Sales Tax Gross Receipts Tax Social Security Tax Service Charge Tax Fishing License Tax Federal Income Tax Building Permit Tax IRS Interest Charges Hunting License Tax Marriage License Tax Corporate Income Tax Personal Property Tax Accounts Receivable Tax Recreational Vehicle Tax Workers Compensation Tax Watercraft Registration Tax Telephone Usage Charge Tax Telephone Federal Excise Tax Telephone State and Local Tax IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax) State Unemployment Tax (SUTA) Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon) Utility Taxes Vehicle License Registration Tax Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids. What in the hell happened? Can you spell 'politicians? ' I hope this goes around THE USA at least 100 times!!! YOU can help it get there!!! GO AHEAD - - - BE AN AMERICAN!!! Go Green - Recycle CONGRESS!!

I need to practice-only got 27 of 88.

Art Reed might have just what you're looking for. He had a big red steel nose Mack, I couldn't get a picture. http://www.allbusiness.com/companyprofile/Art_Reed_Equipment/CD581A0DA7AE3D16D26F2372A09B0F8D-1.html

sometimes things aren't what they seem...

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yeah!..what Greg said. Train didn't have enough power- must've needed Peterbilts to do the job.

I think I saw Cooper-Jarrett trucks at www.diecastdirect.com , but they weren't matchbox.

I bought mine at the ATHS show in Colfax,N.C. last year. That's coming up soon,Nov. 6th.

no,not right off hand. I live down south of Lynchburg a little ways and I travel up 64 pretty often.

...which is a common occurence here.

Nice collection there. I like that McLean truck-mine's a straight truck.

whereabouts in central Va. are you,if anywhere?

That's exactly why I hate Advance Auto Parts! You can't even buy a generic type item without a serial number for something! I tried to get a battery for an MTD mower once, but didn't have the serial number. The parts guy threw his hands up and said "I need that,there's a thousand different batteries!" So I threw my hands up and said "they don't even make a thousand different batteries" and left the other items I had picked up on the counter and went across the street to Western Auto. Told the man what I needed and he went and got one off the shelf. Pretty much the same deal as when I stopped at a different Advance store to get a headlight for the truck,and told them it was for the spaceship I was building in the backyard.

If I had only realized then...I'd have bought a truckload of 'em and put them in the deep freeze! 30 years ago you could walk into any truckstop and they had dozens and dozens of gear shift knobs on the shelf,all shapes,colors,and sizes. Now you just can't find them or they're outrageously expensive. I had 2 red glittery ones,one was in the top of my toolbox and I put one on the transfer case lever on the mud bogger. The guy I sold the bogger to gave it back to me when I asked him if he'd sell it to me, and I put both in the mixer.

It do,it do! That's pretty much what I use,but I left out the can of beer this time. I did hear several people say it was the best chili they'd ever had. I put 4 1/2 lbs. of ground beast in it.

Man,what a bunch of b.s! The DMV's must be the same all over-I had to pay personal property taxes on a '94 Taurus I had for 2 years after it had been parked with a blown engine! I kept telling them the car was off the road,junked, but I had to take the title to the DMV and turn it in,so it can't be titled again,or I had to keep paying taxes on it. Pretty good car too,all it needed was a motor-everything else was fine.

That's my m.o.

hmmmm...think i'll go over to Altavista to the Chinese restaurant.

This pretty much says it all...

Indeed.