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My day isn't complete until I've committed at least http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594035229'>three felonies. Kinda sad when you figure that a US Senator can commit a new & different felony every single day of his 6 year term and STILL not exhaust all of his options...
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I thought I smelled something burning....
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Show up 'round here @ 2AM and Dozer is gonna be going nuts long before you get anywhere near the house. I'm usually awake by then anyway, and whenever Dozer alerts me to something my #1 reaction is to arm myself. #2 is to turn him loose on whatever it was he's concerned about. #3 is to follow (well armed, mind you) & investigate whatever it was that got his attention. Any armed individual on my property snooping around (especially at that hour) had better be good at dodging hot lead.
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I've never been too concerned with what it looks like....especially an exhaust which is under the truck and rarely seen by anyone. Besides, every exhaust is gonna look the same once you hit that mud hole. I just want it to sound good & not be too restrictive....engine's gotta breathe to make power.
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You, sir, are part of the problem. When there is no demand for American made products, there will be no American made products...and all of the jobs that went into making those products will be lost. If a tire doesn't say "Made in USA" on the side wall, I really don't want it on my truck.
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I don't like that idea. I look scary enough that people don't f*** with me...and I would assume that would be scary enough to fall under that ban. I'd be up for stripping government agents and elected officials of their US citizenship and shipping them off to live under the rule of some 3rd world dictator if they overstep the powers allotted to them under the Constitution....ESPECIALLY if their action infringes upon the rights of the people.
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Up until last month, I ran Michelin tires...then sent them back for Michelin caps & ran 'em again....then sent them back to Michelin for a second capping & ran 'em again. I only capped tires I bought new, and use those crossfire things to monitor air pressure. I had 1 tire start pitching chunks of tread on the second cap, but it didn't come apart and it got me where I was going to deliver. Singled it out at the receiver & got credit for the unused portion of the tread....had another tire at the house to put on. Overall, I was generally impressed with them. I had always been against recaps, too...bad experiences with the "fleet" recaps the companies I've run with have used...but needed tires & couldn't afford virgins. They do a pretty good job inspecting cases and have high quality control standards...quality in = quality out. While I'm still not really willing to try their caps on somebody else's cases, I would cap my own cases again if I needed tires and money was tight. I went with BFG DR444 on the drives this time around....not happy with them at all. Lack of traction for one (compared to the Michelin XDE M/S I had been running) and even with the closed shoulder, there really isn't any noticeable difference in mpg. At this point, I'm not sure if I'll have these capped with the XDE M/S tread or if I'll just trade in the cases when I run 'em out for new virgin XDE M/S tires. If I stayed on the pavement all of the time, I might consider the XDN2...still kicking myself for trying a closed shoulder tire....but it was $100/tire less for the BFG.
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I'm not a poser. Besides, I actually USE my truck bed to haul stuff, and can't afford to lose valuable space inside the bed. The tool box I've got in the front already takes up enough space...at least it serves a useful purpose.
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...when I leave the house in the F250. Only a block or two... I got tired of patching and rewelding the old muffler back in place, so for the last month or so, the exhaust hasn't had much restriction to it. The big 460 was breathing out into a single 3" pipe, to what I THOUGHT was a catalytic converter (which apparently has either been hollowed out or is actually just a resonator built to look like a cat)...to a 3" pipe exiting the resonator....then about an 18" gap where the muffler USED to be (before it fell out) back to the Y-pipe that split the exhaust into the dual tailpipes. That was it. To say it was loud was an understatement. Anyway, I bought a Flowmaster 50 Series HD muffler....single 3" in w/ dual 2.5" out. I had planned on cutting out the y-pipe, and tying into the existing dual 2.25" tailpipes...but one was side was missing a tip & I couldn't find an exact match for the one that was still on there....and when I got working on it this afternoon, the tail pipes weren't in as good of condition as I had thought. So, they came out. I'm thinking instead of reducing the 2.5" outputs on the muffler to 2.25" tail pipes, I'll just run dual 2.5" tail pipes. The old tips were about 18" long and 3.5" wide...probably going to look for something similar. Debating about doing that all myself or taking it to a shop....was quoted $185 from as shop where I was pricing tips yesterday to run the tailpipes from the back of the muffler to the rear of the truck...so if I do that, it'll have to wait until I've got $185 extra to spend. It IS a LITTLE quieter now...at least I've got a muffler on there.
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Oh, don't worry....we found out today that IT DOESN'T MATTER WHY our embassy was attacked. 4 Americans are dead and figuring out what happened won't bring 'em back.
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I friggin HATE thieves! Ain't a damn thing I've thought of yet that seems to be a worthy punishment for a thief....and some of the guys at church were absolutely horrified by some of my suggestions to protect the AC unit if/when they replace it (been stolen twice already). I have less than zero sympathy for anyone maimed or killed while committing acts of thievery.
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My pay should be based upon my worth to the company, not what the "average" employee manages to accomplish each day. I should also be promoted based upon my skills, knowledge of the job, versatility within the company, and my job performance...not based solely upon how long I've been there. The problem I see with most unions is that they don't give a shit about the company. They fail to realize the simple fact that if the company isn't making profits based upon the work the employees are doing, the company will shut down and there will be no jobs. The union doesn't own the company, and the workers don't own the jobs. An employee is, in the simplest of terms, an investment. The employer wants to see a return on that investment, and the better the ROI, the more they will be willing to pay that employee in order to keep him around. When a union gets involved, employers are forced into paying higher wages....unsustainable wages....because if they do not, the union throws a hissy fit and quits working. The employer can try to hire replacement workers, but those replacement workers tend to get harassed by the out-of-work unionized workers who seem to think THEY own the jobs at the company. Now my dad was a union bricklayer until he screwed up his back and had to find a new line of work. He never went on strike because he had a family at home to support. If the union voted to strike, he'd show up early and be working before the picket line formed...and he'd take his lunch into the job with him and would keep working until they left....he never crossed a picket line. The very nature of the job...where you might work for one contractor for 3 weeks....another contractor for 2 months....another for another couple weeks....wherever the jobs were...you rarely worked for a single contractor long enough to have any benefits....insurance, etc...so he got those through the union. The union was also a place where contractors would go to find workers, and workers would go to find what contractors had jobs going. It served a useful purpose. My grandfather was a union carpenter, and retired early when he had his heart attack. Much like my dad, the union was there for insurance, pension, and all of the other benefits he wouldn't have otherwise been able to receive because of the nature of the job....working for whichever contractors had jobs going. He enjoyed the camaraderie he found with his fellow carpenters, but absolutely hated the way they tried telling him who to vote for...because who the union was telling him to vote for was NEVER the guy who my grandfather agreed with on the issues. My other grandfather was a teamster, driving dump trucks....retired when they came up with the CDL because he had 27 years in and couldn't see paying $60 for a drivers license. He was blind, much like you, and towed the party line. He did what the union told him to do, voted how the union told him to vote, and had a hatred for anyone who actually thought for themselves if that led them to disagree with what his union bosses were telling him. Personally, I don't need any union. I am perfectly capable of negotiating my own wages and benefits, and I refuse to pay somebody else to negotiate on my behalf for benefits I don't want or need. I have my own health insurance...which is MINE, and not tied to any job. If I change jobs, or even careers, as long as I keep paying the premiums, my insurance won't change. If I ever decide to go back to working for somebody else again, I'd like to be able to negotiate a higher wage for myself to compensate for the health insurance they won't be providing for me...not be forced to accept their provided insurance. I don't even care much for paid vacations...I'd rather earn a few cents more per hour when I'm working and be free to take my time off unpaid. In other words, I want to get paid when I work, and if I don't work, I'm fine with not getting paid. I don't WANT the "benefits"....I just want the CASH! What a lot of people don't understand is that THE WORK YOU DO IS PAYING FOR EVERY "BENEFIT" YOUR EMPLOYER PROVIDES! Remember what I said...an employee is an investment, and your employer wants to see a return on that investment. My preference is that as much of that investment as possible should pass through my hands. I don't need other people choosing how to spend the money I earn on my behalf...I'm perfectly capable of making those decisions for myself.
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What's wrong with "right to work" laws? Why should I be FORCED to give up a portion of my paycheck to fund an organization which I fundamentally disagree with just so that I can get a job at a company? The union doesn't own the company, so why should I have to pay the union in order to work there? I should have the CHOICE whether or not I want to join the union, and that choice shouldn't affect my ability to get any job. Funny how the left only seems to be "pro-choice" when it comes to abortion. For everything else in life, you'd better do it their way or else...
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Q about the video....why would they send a combination truck out for a simple vehicle rollover? Seems like overkill to me...wasn't even anything on fire.
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When I approach an intersection, I look at who is already there. If you were positioned in my way prior to my arrival, I'll wait. If I was there first, and then you pulled your car up into the area I'll need to make my turn, I'll start my turn and stop just prior to making contact with your vehicle. Then you can either get out of my way, or we can sit there all day. I'm bigger than you are, and I'm meaner than you are...and I just don't give a s#it. I won't honk, I won't make any rude gestures...I'll just sit there. As you back up, I'll continue pulling forward until my turn is complete...then you can go on your way. There was one guy up in NJ....I had to drop my trailer in the dock so I wouldn't block traffic, and after I got hooked back up again, I was pulling out to the left to close my doors. This knucklehead pulls right up to the side of my truck...and as I started going to the left, he started backing up. I wanted to get onto that side of the road to close my doors (wide enough shoulder for trucks to stage...no shoulder on the other side)....so I kept moving in that direction, he kept backing up. By the time I got the truck parked, I'd backed him up for over a block. Sure, I COULD have parked the truck in less distance, but I was having too much fun pushing him back.
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As a recovering pyromaniac, I'd have to agree....a few fire apparatus around a burning gas station WOULD look pretty sweet!
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What if all of the taxpayers got together and agreed not to send any more checks to the government until the congress passed a balanced budget? We the people could shut the government down in a heartbeat if that ever happened because they can't throw EVERYBODY in jail...hell, as soon as the money stoped flowing into the treasury, they couldn't even prosecute the cases, let alone house anybody behind bars.....especially since the only people left would be the ones who have their hand out TAKING money from the government instead of working and PAYING to the government. Let THEM pay their "fair share" for a while and see how that goes.... And somebody seriously needs to tell Boehner that there is no crying in politics! It is hard to take seriously a man who gets emotional and cries like a little girl every time anything happens. It is absolutely embarrassing for the GOP to have such a girly man as the "leader" of their party...
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Looks like they've been f---ing up the gas with that ethanol crap for a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time....
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...or for $55K you can buy this: http://www.truckpaper.com/listingsdetail/detail.aspx?OHID=3574061 ....and use what you saved to add a sleeper and a 3rd axle.
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Eh, not really....that CL is just a petercar in a Mack costume. Not a Mack part on the entire drive line. $20K more will buy this: http://www.marketbook.ca/listingsdetail/detail.aspx?OHID=4002711&LP=TRK
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Obviously they had the day off for the holiday....but they are back to work now.
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I don't think the government should be in the business of funding disaster relief of any kind. Not for hurricanes, tornadoes, earth quakes, fires, floods, drought, or any other inconvenience a community might face. It isn't the JOB of the federal government to act as a charity. http://www.fee.org/library/detail/not-your-to-give-2#axzz2GxYLgMP1
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That's one advantage I've got....I can drive on the slick stuff without much difficulty. I learned to drive in Chicago during the winter in a little rear wheel drive Ford Ranger. I was prohibited from doing donuts....so I improvised. Personally, donuts never really seemed all that interesting. I'd rather drift around corners, make right turns by turning left, left turns by turning right, and get the vehicle to spin around precisely as far as I needed it to, then steer it out of the spin and proceed (albeit a little slideways) in the direction I wanted to go. I learned how to get that truck to do exactly what I wanted it to do, when I wanted it to do it. I've been cruising down a curvy 2 lane road at 50 mph on snowpack and kicked it out to full lock....feathering the throttle....more gas pushes the rear out, a little less brings it in again....as long as the front tires are pointed where I want to go, it doesn't matter WHAT the rear end is doing. It's all about keeping calm and being smooth and deliberate with any inputs to the steering wheel, throttle, and brakes. Hell, I've even taken my motorcycle out to play in the snow & ice before.... Then I started driving tractor trailers. I can still drift the tractor around a curve...and I've had the trailer start to come around, too.....just got to keep your head on a swivel and know what is around you, what each part of your vehicle is doing. Personally, I LOVE driving in "adverse" conditions. Any idiot with half a brain can keep a truck between the ditches on the big road on a clear summer day. Takes skills to run narrow little hilly twisty curvy fun roads that are covered in snow & ice when the wind is blowing and the sun ain't up yet.
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