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Express modular and tri point homes are the two names I see in Ohio in this field. Don't know anything about them.

No, once I read what it was based off I assumed the rest of the options sucked giant donkey dick.

It looks like they just fiberglassed over the 1/4 window area and the windows are still underneath. If that is the case then a trip to the sandblaster would take that body back down to a stock 1969 camaro in no time. $9K is pretty cheap for a clean 1969 camaro body. a Dynacorn repop is more than that. The split bumpers are fascinating to me, they are literally stock bumpers cut and capped.

Given the number of surveillance devices in NYC in general at the private, City, County, State and Federal level "Incidental collection" is a huge distinction. You can't walk though NYC without being recorded in some way in general - and yes the federal government can track your movements for reasons completely unknown or unrelated to the commander in chief or other senior officials. His own people may have turned that surveillance information over voluntarily to the government as well with out Trumps knowledge. how did you not see this coming? seriously did you think he would change post campaign?

I'm not sure what to make of this: https://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/6054131366.html

I was waiting for someone to call me out on this I think he also owns a Fiat x1/9 but mostly it's 360 and 458 ferraris and AMG mercedes. He's really more a bike guy.

you have to have the receipt and the period is between April 2011 and December 2016. I don't think I saved any of my receipts from then.

He has like a 100+ motorcycle collection that he has been accruing since the days he was on friends. I think it's mostly sport bikes and dirt bikes, some vintage stuff. I think I remember him doing some amateur racing or track days with WERA. I know he got the first Aprillia RSV NERA back in 2003. His car collection is filled with boring exotics - 911 GT2, Ferrari whatevers, I mean don't get me wrong they are nice cars but it just seems like the same stuff any Hollywood actor buys. It's more interesting that he is a rabid formula 1 fan, and prior to Top Gear he was doing driver interviews for I think NBC (there is a really awkward one on youtube where he interviews Kimi Raikkonen).

I did a quick search though music-go-round, guitar center, and Sam-Ash's online inventory and didn't see any martin backpackers used. That doesn't mean they aren't there as the online inventory tends to update slow. I have one if she wants to try it out and see if it is the right size, then if she likes it you can go rifling through Craigslist for one. I'm trying to steer you to quality instruments that will make a nice tone, be easy to play, that she won't outgrow, and will retain some resale. CL is littered with $10 and $15 First Act "kids guitars" with hello kitty screen prints and whatnot because they don't make a great sound, are hard to keep in tune, are not setup properly and cannot be setup, and generally hurt the kid's fingers. When I was learning someone gave my parents good advice by saying - get a guitar the kid likes. They didn't listen and signed me up for flamenco guitar lessons and bought me a classical guitar, and while I look back on that fondly now - I don't think I really started playing on my own until I got the lake placid blue yamaha pacifica electric with humbuckers and a Floyd Rose because I was going to be Yngwie Malmsteen god damn it! Do you know what type of music she wants to play? There are steel string and nylon string guitars. If she wants to learn basic chords and rock and roll a steel string guitar is fine, if she wants to learn classical guitar you'll need a nylon string guitar. The skills development is slightly different - nylon instruction typically deals with picking and fretting individual notes, where as steel string instruction would generally focus on chords and strumming. I learned nylon as a kid and then later went back to steel strings because all I wanted to play were 3 chord rock songs. Assume any guitar you buy of CL will need a setup. This is new strings, setting the action (depth of sting from the fretboard) if possible, setting the intonation (if possible), and cleaning. Most stores, like music go round will do this to the instrument as part of the deal of you buying it (most of their guitars get new strings when they buy them). Other things you will need: - Guitar tuner. Get a snark. they are $10 and clip on the headstock of the guitar. - strap. have to get comfortable with the instrument standing or sitting. - case or gig bag. most will come with, but if not get one. instruments are fragile, protect it. - song cheat book. I'm all for learning to read music and music theory education, but playing a song makes people feel like they are accomplishing something. Tablature is very intuitive and can get you up and running to playing an actual tune really quickly, plus it backs you into reading music when you have the same song and the tab side by side. You can get tabs for free on the net but they are not "official" and are sometimes wrong. - lessons. structure and practice sow success. but it must also be fun. If she doesn't like one teacher keep trying till you find one she does. here is a used alkaline trio edition fender malibu for the top of your price range. It's a great looking guitar but also great sounding and really approachable: http://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/Fender/Alkaline-Trio-Malibu-Mahogany-Acoustic-Guitar-112987066.gc

A couple recommendations I can make are: Martin Backpacker. Good size for kids plus it travels easy (it's a travel guitar) Fender Malibu. Electric style neck and fretboard with a small body acoustic body. New both are around $200, used you'll spend about $100 for a quality instrument. I know music go round has some 3/4 instruments too but quality can be hit or miss.

What kind of guitar Tim? Acoustic? Electric? I have a black and white Korean Squire Stratocaster I could be talked out of. They are inexpensive but excellent quality. If you want I could go with you on a weekend to music go round and help you look at instruments.

oh...and since we are talking about it...this is kind of the origins of steampunk as well. Let's look at the interior of the mercer-cobra for a second: http://www.conceptcarz.com/images/Mercer/1965-Mercer-Cobra-Roadster-i01-1024.jpg and the headlights: I mean come on...how retro futurist brass age can you possibly get? Television shows like "Wild Wild West" (1965) and film version of Jules Verne stories in the 1950s-60s, and even comedies like "the great race" didn't hurt either. By the way, this is the brass age car the mercer cobra was emulating: http://www.conceptcarz.com/images/Mercer/13-Mercer-35J_Raceabout-DV-09_PBC_007.jpg

you are right, I don't know why but it is stuck in my head as a Cabillasta corvette even though the real car belonged to a real NY hustler. I think the reason is because both cars were customized by Les Dunham Coachworks out of NJ, and I believe the Caballista corvette was made specifically because of the popularity of the movie. http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=Les_Dunham Here is a rabbit hole to fall down - this site has pics of no less than 55 neoclassic cars available to buyers in the 1960's through the 1990's: http://www.autofocus.ca/media-browser/there-were-way-more-neoclassic-cars-than-you-think Some are cheesy kit cars like the Fiberfab (later Classic Motor Carrages or CMC) Gazelle and some are pretty high end like the Zimmer and the Dimaro. Of my favorites are the SAMCO Cords which were plastic and had fixed headlights. They aren't even really trying when you see one next to a real cord....but cords themselves are such a weird car (hideway headlights, FWD, Lycoming aircraft V-8s, Supercharging, preselector gearboxes, etc... in a 1930's car) what's not to love? By the way - this is what happens when you don't have internet and world wide connectivity. You get a bunch of people who see a local market and assume there is a large market out there. You end up with market saturation and only a handful of examples built of each car. I think the ones that were most prolific are the ones that appealed to a specific price point (like the cheap as chips gazelle) or the ones that had huge marketing budgets and offered turnkey cars at a reasonable price.

BTW, since we are talking about barris, celebrities, and bespoke neoclassic cars...in 1962 Chrysler gave Frank Sinatra a one of 26 made "Dual ghia 6.4". Sinatra then took the car to Barris and had him customize the car further. If you want an example of good looking bespoke neoclassic car I think this is it: http://st.motortrend.com/uploads/sites/5/2006/07/c12_0603_40z-1962_ghia_l6.4-front_side_view.jpg?interpolation=lanczos-none&fit=around%7C660%3A413 http://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/1962-Dual-Ghia-L6.4.png?x97981 Sinatra wasn't immune from Barris's gaudy nature either as can be seen by the "Zebra Mustang" barris made for him: http://cdn.stangtv.com/files/2011/01/sinatra-stang-1.jpg http://www.stangtv.com/news/the-famous-frank-sinatra-%E2%80%9Czebra%E2%80%9D-mustang/ It was actually a movie car for "Marriage on the rocks" (1965) but somehow Sinatra ended up with it. By the way - the $29,000 1975 price of the bugazzi in modern money would have been approx $125,000. There are modern luxury cars that cost that much now and they aren't bespoke and rare. I think this really illustrates the value of technology in the advancement of cars and how the cost has inflated. It also highlights why the used car market is such a mess - because what we pay for used cars now is what we used to pay for new ones. my 1967 GTO's $3050 purchase price is about $22,600 in modern money.

so to really understand the car you have to understand the climate it comes from. For some reason or another, in the late 1960's and 1970's people were obsessed with the jazz age between the wars. What we now know as antique automobiles like cords, Duesenbergs, Auburns, Stuz, bugatti, etc...were becoming actually collectible and not just junk that old nutters liked to tinker with. This gave rise to Neoclassicism in the car market. In kit cars we started to see the 1930's jaguar, mercedes, bugatti kits (most based off bugs or pintos, and some proprietary designs like the Excalibur and Zimmer. In automotive design we saw things like the return of landau tops, opera windows, corner lights, and lots of burled wood, velour, and velvet interior touches. On some cars even curtains returned. In the high end automotive customization and bespoke personal luxury space you had people like Virgil Exner reviving the Mecer (using a shelby cobra chassis and drivetrain!), Dusenberg, Bugatti, and finally Stuz name plates: stuz blackhawk: http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/pictures/images/stutz-blackhawk-1969-prototype-2.jpg mercer-cobra: http://www.coachbuild.com/images/stories/Exner_Sibona_basano_Mercer_Cobra_Roadster_1965_01.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cWz8n7M2Il8/UFYNGOEVrlI/AAAAAAAAJSg/OAkDwlqHVDE/s1600/1965-Mercer-Cobra-Roadster-1+%281%29.jpg while custom shops like Ed Roth, dean jefferies, et al made their money catering to the hot rod and Kustom scene, Barris had a lot of success doing non traditional non-hot rod personal luxury cars for celebrities as well as TV and movie cars (as well as marketing products, traveling attractions, etc). He was an expert marketer and self promoter and wasn't constrained to one area of the automotive hobby like a lot of his contemporaries. So it makes sense that he would enter the marketplace with a neoclassic luxury car, the type he thought celebrities would buy, based on an existing chassis that could compete with the others making high end luxury cars. The premise is simple - build one car and market like they are an exclusive series, take some orders, and build the cars to order. If popular - expand the series if not stop making them and claim they are really exclusive. it's a no lose proposition and one that is still used today with places like Ruf and even ferrari. In the case of the Bugazzi they built 12 to order. They really were impressive cars for the time because of all the detail and custom work. The paint was heavy hand rubbed lacquer, real italian marble, and gadgets galore. here is the page from Barris's website: http://www.barris.com/carsgallery/kustomshotrods/bugazzi74.php We don't recognize the names of famous owners now, like Comedian Danny Thomas ("Make room for Daddy" sitcom and founder or St. Judes) or the opera singer Enzo Stuarti, but those were big deal celebrities back then. They say only 2 or three exist but I think that's bunk. There are only 2 or 3 that make the sales circuit, the rest are probably squirreled away in so-cal garages with owners who really don't care one way or the other about letting people know they have something special. By the way this wasn't the first neoclassic luxury car barris brought to market, the Cadillac Del Caballero preceded it by almost a decade and was equally as gaudy. Personally, I love these cars for the time capsules that they are. Don't get me wrong the whole neoclassic thing from the 1970's is ungodly ugly but it's interesting to look back and see what people from that time were being nostalgic about. And not all of them are really that bad....or at least they are so bad they come back around and are cool. Barris' The Parisienne is actually strangly pretty: http://www.barris.com/carsgallery/kustomshotrods/images/ernst51chevy.png And the Caballista Corvette is now and forever associated with pimp culture because of the movie SuperFly: http://www.2040-cars.com/_content/cars/images/3/509603/001.jpg It's easy to hate shit because our manufactured concepts of "cool" have evolved beyond the taste of the era but consider this....how many people 40 years in the future are going to look at the new mini, new beetle, modern challenger, the retro thunderbird and say - "what the hell were they thinking?".

My work filter blocks the format but not the text. I think this may have to do with the association with Facebook as most large companies block the major social media platforms. Either way I can view but no log in. BTW, I think this is a great idea. It leverages the community of CR but gets rid of any of the stigma. A good way to help distinguish that may be to get events loaded in. I know one of the primary reasons I joined this forum was to learn about local events.

Say what now? Discounted? what are you seeing because all I see are $359/mo lease deals and 0.9% financing.

TJ's are the best of the old school inline 6 jeeps. If it has been taken care of rust should be minimal at best. It never hurts to take a look. Honestly If I were in the market for another wrangler I would look at an 04-06 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited LJ. They just ride nicer and the extra room is great to have.

Hey Tim, I'll take them.

Stop reading these things as representative of people's positions and start reading about the issue itself. Be objective and parse fact from opinion and vet from multiple credible sources. You be objective, form your own questions and seek answers and draw your own conclusions. Then once you understand the basic details and complexity of the issues - go out and see what people are saying as a kind of litmus test. It's actually a lot of work to really be informed so it pays to pick and choose your issue and not chase stupid outrage around the schoolyard. I like a good entertaining conspiracy theory and crackpot recommendation as much as the next guy because it is really entertaining. However, Facebook as a political platform is really only good for either being really disappointed in your friends and family, of finding plenty of dipshits to get your ire up. The problems i see here are 1) you are assuming that your personal experience is representative of the whole of the country. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't (i'm guessing it isn't) but you really can't validate that; 2) you are applying equal credibility to all opinions whether they are credible or not; and 3) you are out there seeking enemies of your position. It's not about having a well formed objective view on a particular issue, it seems to be about being more right than some other group of people. The average American doesn't understand most of how their government works. 1/3 can't demonstrate basic knowledge of structure (http://www.businessinsider.com/poll-many-americans-dont-know-basic-facts-about-government-2014-9). Things like complex foreign policy and geopolitical positioning is outside the realm for most and distrust of the government, Cynicism, historical team fandom, and emotional knee jerk reactions don't help that any. Looking for answers to complex geopolitical problems inside the emotional political swirl is kind of like fishing with bricks - maybe you'll get lucky and conk a fish on the head but mostly you'll just stir up a lot of crap. If you approach any issue with arms folded looking only for the stupid person to validate you are right, you will never run out of stupid people but you will never fully grasp the issue at hand either. You have to approach these things with an open mind, a jaundiced eye for bullshit, and a willingness to change your opinion regardless of party position as more facts become available. It's not hard to find flaws in nearly everything you say here because you are willing to build your castles on the shifting sand of fake news and uninformed political outrage. a) who the fuck would say that?, and b) why can't you separate an issue from people? Also you keep trying to stereotype or anticipate my arguments based on your paradigm but really - you aren't even playing in my sport. Let go of the adversarial portion of it and try to discuss the actual issue on the merits - not whether some dingus on facebook is saying open all the borders or Obama is still coming for your guns.

First off.....yes there are people who wanted to accept immigrants with a relaxed vetting process....but there are also people that believe Elvis is alive, the moon landing was fake, and Ralph Nader would make a good president. I wouldn't characterize them as "a lot", in fact the term I would probably best use to describe them is a crackpot fringe minority. If you are going to be alarmist about these people despite it not only going against common sense but mainstream opinion on both sides then I don't know what to tell you other than stop it. I get your political position requires you to have enemies to rail against but don't manufacture credibility for crackpot ideas so you can feel better about your position. Now, about accepting refugees from Europe and the middle east USING our existing vetting process: It's not a bad idea, at least not as bad an idea as it sounds because it certainly would help ease the burden of those countries right now.If we did agree to that it would have been from a pool of vetted individuals from European countries or like normal immigration process from those countries. And it wouldn't be as significant number as people think because believe it or not, most of those people fled to European countries so that they could be close to their home countries, some of them had the opportunity to come here and didn't. Also immigration has been proven to be good for the economy. A new community of people brings with it jobs and an influx of a working force for jobs that are hard to hire for (like minimum wage). The thing that disturbs me is that we have plenty of allies in those countries who work for the American government that we can't get out of their own countries. These are people who worked for us, supported us at great personal risk and loss for a vague promise of immigration to the US and we leave the majority of them to twist in the wind.This is everybody from translators and guides to intelligence informants. If more immigration means getting those people here I'm all for it - it's shitty that we as a country welch on our debts to these people. We can't. It's a fever dream to think we could. The finances of the US are deeply intertwined with Saudi Arabia. The U.S. buys oil from Saudi Arabia and provides the kingdom military aid and equipment and in return, the Saudis plow billions of their petrodollar revenue back into Treasuries and finance America’s spending (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-05-30/the-untold-story-behind-saudi-arabia-s-41-year-u-s-debt-secret). They hold $117 Billion in US marketable debt. By the way - debt isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's a saleable instrument (it's basically how the bond market works - when you buy a treasury bond you lend the government money that they pay back with interest) that can be leveraged to assets in other ways. In some ways it is considered the alternative currency of the world market. The last time the US paid off it's national debt (1835) it underwent one of the longest depressions ever seen (longer than the great depression of the 1920's) caused by a housing bubble that burst. By the way the debt at the time was $75 million (approx $1,918,216,095.33 in modern spending power). While I am not saying the lack of debt caused the depression it certainly didn't help the US climb out of it either. It sounds strange, but without the US carrying some debt, it is harder to get credit from foreign powers.

What is this "revised" process you want to see? What is it that the current process does now that you think needs to be changed? To help you out here is the current process: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/29/us/refugee-vetting-process.html?_r=0 And to add some color: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-extreme-vetting-process-for-refugees-to-enter-america-2017-2 What is it you think needs improvement? Currently the only thing Trump has done in this area is the failed travel ban.

your source is the daily caller? yeah....that's not Pundit Tucker Carlson's highly dubious website with credibility issues or anything.... come on dude, be serious.

you can't "fix" racism. And honestly it is every American's right to feel the way they feel about things. However there are certain activities which you can't make decisions based on race and the way to curtail that is transparency, oversight, legislation, and remediation are how you can exclude it from certain activities. Where we run into problems are programs where historically they have been racist, and while the racist language has been purged over time, the program still has a lasting effect because the program is continued to be built upon that old program. Prisons, Schools, Law enforcement - they all have these problems in some way and some of them exist at the state level so the federal government doesn't have comity to fix it. Social programs like welfare often serve as band-aids to some of these problems, addressing symptoms but not root cause. Removing them isn't an answer to try and force others to "rise up", but it also doesn't fix certain problems - what it does fix is less people are dying in the streets than they used to. Get rid of all the religions. Kidding but only partially. Again, we aren't curing sexism - we are just trying to keep it out of the in-alienable rights. This one is tougher because the obvious solution is to amend the constitution, but now it might undo 100 years of individually granted rights that take into account gender (such as protections for pregnant women). I don't think anybody was advocating anyone coming in without any vetting process. Nobody sane anyway. I did hear of programs to expedite the immigration of those who had assisted us in countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria at their own peril but even now with a program in place we can't get 1/10 of those people in. Of course I acknowledge that. It's an absolute crock of shit that the president won a Nobel peace prize for diplomacy while the US was still experiencing a higher than acceptable civilian casualty rate from the drone strikes. However, in my limited understanding I do know there are some things in the government that are "running on autopilot" which are difficult for the president to change. This goes for Bush and Obama equally. They are often put in the unenviable position of having to pick the lesser of two shit sandwiches and do the best they can. Examples of this include troop deployment, gitmo, etc.... This is bold statement and one that I don't know you can support with facts. The tale of the tape at the end of his presidency shows him as a pretty moderate, mainstream president. http://www.businessinsider.com/study-shows-obama-is-the-most-moderate-president-2012-3 no. I mean Trump initiatives that are racially biased or have deleterious desperate impact, but masquerade as something else. Welfare is not KEEPING anybody in poverty. In fact the majority of welfare recipients have jobs. http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/04/13/get-a-job-most-welfare-recipients-already-have-one/ What is keeping them in poverty is poverty itself, lack of access to good education, lack of opportunity, and a legal system that stigmatizes a large number of people through corruption and wrongful conviction. Did you know that if you live in a poor neighborhood, everything costs more? Groceries, transportation, insurance, value of rent per square foot. They aren't meant to get anybody out of poverty. They are meant to avoid the social costs associated from people living below a minimum wage (such as healthcare and body clean up). That is not "liberal logic" it's a fiction that people create in their heads as a stand in for actually doing research and root cause analysis. Nobody sane in politics is remotely advocating this. yes public education isn't perfect. You want to know when we were great at education? the 1950's and 1960's when Eisenhower dumped a ton of money into education in response to the space race (including the GI bill). And this was held up by Kennedy and Johnson. During that time the US was No.1 in the industrialized world for both high school and college. Then came nixon, Reagan, and two bushes that cut the ever living shit out of educational spending. The plain simple fact is public education responds to money at all levels - Dump a ton of money into the program and you get results. Honestly, I don't know why conservatives can't grasp this concept. We have the problem we have now because richer areas have good education because they are pumping money into the system via local taxes. Poor neighborhoods can't do that so they suffer. And poorer neighborhoods are racially biased. Who does affirmative action help? White women. really, it helps them the most. at least when it comes to college admission. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/the-painful-truth-about-affirmative-action/263122/ It had noble intentions in helping enforce parts of the civil rights legislation that was coming through at the same time. Does it still work? a little but not as well as intended or even as well as it used to. Does it need a retool? abso-fucking-lutley. Do we need to scrap it entirely? no because there wouldn't be anything to hold employers accountable. Do you own a nice car? Do you know an African American friend who has a similarly nice car. Ask him how often he gets pulled over. Seriously though, how do you not understand how societal privilege works? Start here and fall down this rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_%28social_inequality%29 yes there are: https://privilegegrant.com/ http://www.fmafe.org/ Because you are a sucker who literally believes anything you read. The only sites that seem to report this are places like "the daily stormer" which is about as fucking NAZI as you can get. They all link back to an unverifiable power-point presentation in an old LA times article that cites no sources for the information. This is fake news. Literally bullshit. here's a good article breaking it down: http://thecommunicatedstereotype.com/no-minorities-do-not-earn-bonus-points-on-the-sat/ http://downtrend.com/vsaxena/bonus-sat-points-for-being-black why can't it be both? Culture develops and evolves because of societal influence. Yes, but was it because you were white? or non-Muslim? I'm pretty sure Mohammad Ali Jr was stopped specifically because he was a Muslim. Money is a form of privilege, but it is not the sum total of privilege. You view it as a money thing, I view it as a privilege thing that extends beyond that because that's what it fucking is. Some privileges are good, some are not. again, seriously read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_%28social_inequality%29 and then read a whole shit ton more about it.