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Buy here/pay here's (BHPH) are called in the industry rat lots for a reason, the only people that buy cars from them are people with shitty credit. The normal business model for a BHPH is to "sell" you the car, then you make payments directly to them. If you are so much as a hour late with your payment, they come find the car (that had a convenient GPS tracker on it the entire time) and repo it back. A little cleaning later, and it's back out on the lot as a slightly more used car. From what I can see, most of the dealers on CL are the shady auction resellers. Personally, I have a hard time trusting auction cars because it's possible given the right sequence of states it's been sold through that the title could be washed clean of any salvages. Not my cup of tea. Find a owner on CL and get it inspected by a good mechanic. Expect to pay for his services. Run the title through carfax, if between the title (the history) and the inspection (the present) the car looks good, you should be good.

millimeters are for socialist pussies.

Make sure the home inspector is a ravenous OCD lunatic. The guy I got missed a bunch of shit, most notable of which is a leak on the guest bedroom window that exits through the drywall on the roof of my garage. You don't see it with the garage door up, but it's there. Document EVERYTHING, and when it comes time for the request to remedy, put all that shit down there and have the sellers fix it before it becomes your problem.

If you can conceal carry a HiPoint, you deserve to have it on you.

I got popped by Worthington Police for riding at night on my temps, and I got further clarification from the cops there as to what the other boundaries of my temps were. By all means get your license, but this is inaccurate. Yes, getting cited for riding outside the bounds of your temps is tantamount to riding without a license, but that has fuck-all to do with your ability to gain said license through the normal channels. All you do is pay a bunch of money and get another ticket on your record, but you do usually have to go to court for that one. I know the N. Olmsted/NR area, and I would avoid Ridgeville like it was the fucking plague, or anywhere else with a mayor's court, but especially Ridgeville. Chances are you will get popped. Yes, it does. If there's a median of any type (concrete, grass, whatever), that's a divided highway. As I recall 10 on approach to 480 falls in that category, as does 480 (duh) You don't need me to tell you the amount of pork that sits on 480 to N. Olmsted. Taking Lorain Rd. is a good alternative. Next time you go to work, pick me up some goddamn cannolis at Fragapane's.

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All I'm going to say is the UAW is a shitty example of a Union. At this point the UAW is a corporate entity unto themselves which still painstakingly maintains the illusion that it's helping the collective workers. My dad was in a Union before he retired, it was very simple. He paid his dues, got unemployment and union benefits when he was laid off (construction is cyclical, especially in Cleveland) and was put in the pool when jobs came up. Union subsidized training and apprenticeship to new people just breaking into the trade. No corporate lobby, no massive private golf course in Michigan.

and hire some homeless guy to stand a post while you're off doing other things. Your costs might be a little more than 300 bucks.

They don't.

after the bullshit with last year's Roll On Columbus (riding non-street legal quads on the street, general asshattery) I'd avoid that advice. Justin, if you supply the bikes I'll be happy to flail myself around in death-defying (hopefully) positions for the amusement of all, no charge. I'll end the performance with jumping over 5 people of ORDN's choosing and outrunning a chopper all the way home. It would put Independent Motorsports on the map for generations to come.

let's give everyone the power to create their own currency and regulate the value/supply. I'm sure there's nothing that can possibly go wrong with that.

You do not want to buy a cheap chain. Given enough leverage you can chop through a cheap metal chain that looks thick as hell in seconds flat, and seeing as there would be a few people and the van right there, the bike is gone. Do some research, but be prepared to spend some coin.

this is starting to make sense.

Ignition immobilizers are basically worthless. A motorcycle can be picked up by a person (or people) and moved without being powered on, so how exactly is a ignition immobilizer going to solve that dilemma? I can only assume you live near campus, so that means that the audible alarm is worthless to everyone but you (well-established fact that no one pays attention to car alarms) Basically you're going to stop joyriders, but you're not going to stop the guys in the white van that pick the bike up and throw it in. The only way to get your bike back in that event is to have an alarm with GPS.

fuck me on a toaster, 50 bucks for tickets? 70 bucks for VIP? Damn.

That's it, we're done here. I'd love to see the LEO's on here rationalize this.

I'm twice as productive as you are, and Franklin doesn't have to pay for relo costs. In fact, I'll slay two of your network engineers in a Nerf war (or real, if you'd prefer), do their jobs and still have enough time to eclipse Kawi's postcount.

He's ceded authority to the military Supreme Council. Flawless victory. Now the rubber meets the road with holding elections and rebuilding.

You know dungeons, it's like the tunnels that your people use to move packages. Someone funnier than me can make the dragon joke, I've got nothin'.

There's a bit of a false equivalency here. I think it's because all the little special interest groups in this country want so very badly to have a groundswell that they throw out terms like "grassroots", "revolution" (Ron Paul, anyone?), "overthrow", and "persecution" (my personal favorite) like they were beads at Mardi Gras trying to get other people to join their cause. They march on Washington because it's their constitutionally guaranteed right to, and I completely agree with that. All the examples you threw out were all either complete fringe groups (which never had much support to begin with), flash-in-the-pan groups (9-12, what was the message there? If it's organized by Beck, it's done because he profits from it in the end) If you want to talk about actual grassroots protests that are barely in the same ballpark as Egypt, then I'm afraid we haven't had one of those since Vietnam. I'm not going to go so far to say Mubarak is a US puppet (you want an example of US puppets, look at Karzai and al-Malawi. Them's are puppets) Mubarak's just enjoyed a long era of relations with the US. We have interests there (Suez, Israeli border), sure, but by and large we stay out of their biz and they stay out of ours, which is why it makes it even more crucial for the US to butt out of this. We as a country are all about spreading peace and democracy, trying to prop up an autocratic leader is the exact opposite. I'm calling this right now: a hard line Islamic-based government is not going to form in Egypt once the Mubarak regime is gone (completely). I have nothing to back this up but my own opinion. However, in the interest of fostering discussion, if it did, why do you immediately think they are going to attack Israel? Why do you think America would send troops? They didn't with Lebanon, and that lasted an entire month. Last time Egypt and Israel got into a scuffle it only lasted 6 days.

I hear the next fundraiser will be playing D&D in the forts. A man-sized d20 dice is already being constructed...

This is what drives me absolutely batshit insane bonkers. THIS SONG ISN'T ABOUT AMERICA/ISRAEL. It's about the Egyptian people getting the government and leadership they want, not the one that some asshole has been driving down their throats with emergency powers and fear for the last 30+ years. This is about true regime change, not something that Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz scratched out on the back of a cracker jack box. This is organic, this is healthy, this is natural. We're not dealing with a completely ass-backwards nation like the Sudan where the majority of the people are uneducated, but even there they freely elected to form their own nation in their own best interests. The Egyptians know what they want, they understand the mechanisms to attain it and they are willing to accept the consequences of success or failure. They are not willing to just cede this over to some theocratic governing body who's going to become the next coming of the Iranian Guardian Council. What's going to completely and totally fuck this up is the pressure of governmental bodies that are solely focused on Israel, or America, or some other cause that's peripheral to this that does the wrong thing, backs the wrong side (or any side), and causes a shift in the domestic Egyptian landscape. Now that foreign body essentially broke the revolution, and they are caught in a quagmire. In short, America and Israel, butt the fuck out. Let this happen as it should. After the dust settles, assess and re-establish relations. I firmly believe you'll be better allies for it.

Which in Egyptian-speak is a shell game. All bets are off now for Friday prayers. Mubarak is completely out of touch. It take effort with almost unlimited "emergency" power for 30 years to stay in touch with the people's needs, it's a lot easier to create a echo chamber around you so you can hear only what you want to hear for the rest of your life. Something tells me his people are seriously downplaying the demonstrations which in turn is justifying his reason to cling to power. I don't think this is another Tienanmen, simply because the cultures are radically different. Chinese culture is extremely rigid, and the military is extremely well trained and infinitely loyal to the government. The Egyptian military are decently trained, but their loyalties are more to the people than anything else. You have to remember that with 30 years of emergency powers, the police have wide latitude to do whatever the hell they want, which not only pisses off the populace, but pisses off the military too. I would equate this more to the Romanian Revolution of 1989, where Nicolae Ceaucescu just kept fucking with the people and applying more pressure until everything just snapped and the protesters invaded the building where he was holed up in. According to Wikipedia, over 1100 people died, but sometimes that's what it takes.

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