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Hey everyone, Proprietors Motorcycle Club is having a meet n greet at Dave and Busters on Jan 22nd at night. I know most of you will be attending cyclefest. So when you are bored with that come on up to Polaris Dave and Busters at 6pm on Jan 22nd. We will be there til 11pm for Family activities. Hope you can make it!! Randy http://www.facebook.com/997theblitz?v=wall#!/event.php?eid=153272588054886

fixed it for ya:D

I think I shall make an appearance. I need stress relief and beer. I feel a binge drinking week coming on.

A couple of manufacturers have tried to implement this, but the bad PR that resulted always blew up in their faces, and the "feature" quietly removed from later models. Personally, I'd just give the Rosewill and Verbatim carts a try... you can get one of each for less than one retail HP

privatized prison systems always make me think of this story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qMnbZ7BKCU

The LA Times found them, and researched the authenticity. That impressed me. One other media source did also, but I don't remember which one. It was late last night. Mostly it's just right wing websites that speak about it. Most of the traditional media has not clued in yet. Neither have most media connected the concept of the shooter being a radical left wing malcontent. There are three different maps, which is confusing people. Palin map, DLC (Democratic Leadership Council) map, and radical left wing website target list. Although there is a "bullseye" map from the DLC, that targets swing states, it did not list Gabrielle Giffords or Arizona on the copy I saw. I suspect both the Palin and the DLC political maps came out around the same time, recently. I just searched again, the DLC map is now disappearing from the media and internet. edit: Oops! The DLC target map is from 2004, during the campaign against Bush. The original target list, was from a blog on a radical left wing website, and did not utilize a map, just a list and a target bullseye. It was originally posted up in 2008. It was a target list of moderate Democrats, posted by an angry Democrat. It is gone, with hardly a trace anywhere to be found. I was unable to even retrieve it with the Internet Archive. Google images didn't work either. Oddly, the link for it now points at something entirely different and immaterial. If it looks like the media (including the internet) is being manipulated, then it is probably true beyond our wildest imagination. edit: Oops! I found another target list/map of Republicans that voted against whatever created the hatred, etc. It's on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) website, dated February 2010. It has also been removed, and the link points to a whine about Health Care.

When the state privatizes it pays the companies that take over with taxes. It doesn't create jobs it destroys them. Prisons for example how can a company "business" make money without a profit making product. A private prison comes in charges the state "x" amount of dollars per employee but pays said employee a lot less. Also the private companies have shitty benefits. Top out pay for CCA (corrections corporation America) is 13 dollars an hour after 20+ years of service. Starting pay is less than a lot of fast food restaurants. Do you really want the kid working the drive through window making sure those crazy rapist murders don't get out? If you think cutting law enforcement fire and corrections budgets is good, I hope your family gets raped by a nut case that burns your house with you in it crippling you. Then the fire department takes forever to get there due to poor equipment. The cops don't find the guy for years then after they do he escapes from prison due to underpaid officers not caring. Bet you would have wished the quality of law enforcement + fire and corrections was better.

The Gravedigger strikes again!

That's unfair. The media was quick to point out this was one of the districts Sarah Palin had crosshairs on; it wasn't just Justin. Also, it's a fair enough comment to make not knowing what this whackjob's motivation is for doing what he did early in the discussion. People don't realize just how damaging rhetoric can be and it's been used a means to rile up a base (cult, terrorist group, religion, OR ride,...) since the dawn of time. That second part is kind of ridiculous. Palin isn't 2nd Amendment spokesperson, does she support it, of course. Spokesperson is a bit much she just isn't educated enough on any issue to be any kind of spokesperson. She's nothing more than a marketing catch phrase, talking point repeating money machine and she's pretty good at it. Outside of that just supporting Palin because of a single issue is kind of dumb. Every side of issues uses events like this as a means to sway to their view point. While I admire Arizona's gun stance, the shooter apparently had previous run-ins with police and is listed as some kind of criminal, but it doesn't seem there are a lot of details. That will be the major issue raised by groups I think. It's easier to use that as ammunition as opposed to just yelling that guns are bad because of this.

Couple things spring to mind Justin Your distaste of Palin may well be documented on here... But you saw fit to bring her up again in this thread & draw the dotted line linking her website to this incident. Her website's no more to blame for this incident than "Catcher in the Rye" is for the shooting of John Lennon, or Jodi Foster is for the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan And I maintain it is NOT ludicrous that the anti guns rights groups/Obama will try to use this as a major fulcrum to finally get the restrictions they've been seeking for so long... a'la the Brady bill after Dutch got shot... Especially since AZ has been so liberal/lenient in their CCW & open carry laws. And also especially because it's being reported Gifford & Obama have been friends for some time... So I'm sure he's going to take more than just a presidential interest in this

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Premature cam wear would make one weary. That's why one should be wary of a diesel having it. Really, Jones.

First things first: Gabrielle Giffords, I hope and pray that you have a speedy recovery. http://wireupdate.com/wires/13960/jared-lee-loughner-reportedly-met-with-congresswoman-giffords-before-tragic-shooting/ Caitie's twitter account just went into overload with incoming requests for info...The Twitter Life of Caitie Parker If you search recent news articles, many of Gifford's constituents in her congressional district, were very upset with her when she was one of a small group that voted against Pelosi for minority speaker of the house, on last Wednesday, the 5th of January, 2011. Enough so to easily find various threats posted on line. Most all of those have suddenly vanished. Including the radical liberal "bullseye" target map list of moderate Democrats (which also included Giffords) posted on a very left wing website. It looks just like the Palin map.I don't like politics. It's a sickness of the weak... Or a weakness of the sick, take your pick.

Plus some bikes and other cool shit. OK. I admit it. I'm a fan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5yK7MNjSfs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Sean, please inform the CR community with details about you and your bike including pictures of your bike and whatever else comes to mind. Thanks and welcome.

Hey there, everybody. The name is Sean. I have a turbo Hayabusa.