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Specialized bikes are the ones that dominate sales in the US by an extremely large margin. All rounders are big in Europe and other parts of the world.

Don't make me challenge Jinu to a scrabble death match. I assume I'm really good at it even though I've never played.

I think its ugly, but I think all the adventure type bikes are ugly.

My old college roommate always wanted to be on antibiotics. He went so far as to buy medical text books to figure out what symptoms he could say he had to get prescribed a certain a/b.

I think preppers have a lot in common with germophobes. Both are trying to protest against some percieved looming danger. There are common sense levels of each, like handwashing before eating. But both can become compulsive behaviors. If you own 50 bottles of hand sanitizer, you may lack the perspective to realize that you've drifted a bit off center. My fan has been shitlesss since 1972.

My planning takes into account the extremely likely scenario that the fan remains shitless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events

I don't think break in proceedures are as important as they used to be. Modern motor manufacturing processes create extremely consistent products. I can't remember the last time I heard of a problem being caused by improper break in.

Honda no longer considers the US market a priority for motorcycles. We get bikes designed for the rest of the world rather than US specific models.

I'm sure the performance is amazing, and I like the colors...but that is not a good looking sportbike.

What was that...something about shall not eat lobster at market price?

Don't like the bible verses that say homosexuality is a sin? No problem, we'll ignore 'em. Don't like the story of creation? No worries, we'll just edit that shit out of the next version. Don't like when science conflicts with religion...our bad...we just remembered that God was super cool with science...expecially the parts that were considered blasphemy just 50 years ago. What was my point...oh yeah...God is eternal and never changing. What's the problem?

like this?

By any chance are these in those little rubber fairing fasteners with the brass inserts? If loctite was used on the brass inserts, you pretty much need to destroy the fastener to remove it. Ask me how I know

I agree. It seems like he is trying really hard to keep the church relevant in the face of overwhelming scientific information. But, in the process he is "watering down" many of the core principles of his religion. After that, what is actually left for believers to hang onto? Francis is the Bud Light of Popes.

I find the latest statement by Pope Francis to be bizarre, “Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.” Well actually no it doesn't. The theory of Evolution certainly doesn't require a creator. There is no need for no intelligent design, that is one of the cornerstones of Evolution. So now the Pope wants to bundle Catholicism and Evolution together? OK, based on what exactly? The Big Bang, which the Pope now also believes, doesn't require a creator either: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311168/Stephen-Hawking-says-The-Big-Bang-didnt-need-God-set-off.html I find Pope Francis to be a good person and smart too. However he seems to be a poor Catholic. Actually, he seems pretty hypocritical (as a Catholic). BTW, wasn't the Catholic church responsible for putting Galileo under house arrest for suggesting the sun was the center of the solar system and not the earth?

Wasn't the I5 a version of the I6 in the Trailblazer/Envoy? The I6 in the TB was a good motor, one of the few relaible pieces of a Trailblazer.

Rust shouldn't be a problem if it's actually stainless.

This. I have too much pride to refer to myself as either a Republican or a Democrat. They are equally self serving and equally corrupt. Consider the economy, troops overseas, protection of rights of citizens, etc. The actions of both parties are 99% the same and 1% different. Of course that 1% is all you hear about come election time. Candidate Obama spoke endlessly about W. and blamed him for most everything...then continued many (most) of his policies. You have two groups that want to gain power and then to stay in control. Nothing more.

Individual anecdotal accounts aside...most economic indicators show that rich people are better off than they were 6 years ago, while poor and middle class are not. That's pretty much the opposite of what candidate Obama said to those he convinced to vote for him. Much of the recovery has been on Wall Street, which is great if you happen to be heavily invested. Not much has "trickled down" to the 99%.

This type of thinking is not obvious to people who get their news from the Daily Show or Colbert.

That whole facility looks amazing...at least on TV.

Anyone ridden CotA?