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MichaelS

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  1. That was a great day.  The Ohio state thing annoyed me before I moved here but living here it is 10x worse.  If it were not for athletics I doubt 90% of the nation would know ohio state existed.  It is just too much in your face all over the damn place.  Get over yourselves. 

  2. Why you think this is about oil or anything beyond Islam escapes me.

     

    As stated, this has been going on for thousands of years, and it has always been directed towards christianity and Judaism "The West".  Get over your liberal talking points and understand this is way deeper than Bush or any other modern president.

     

    You can not negotiate terms with an ideology that believes with every fiber of their being that you must kill all who disagree with your thinking.  People have been trying to spin this in every way possible stating "a religion of piece" or "this started with oil", but there are thousands of years of proof that say otherwise.

     

    Are you willing to turn a blind eye to the genocide that is going on in the middle east and northern Africa and leave the region completely?  Leaving did not workout well in Germany after WWI.

     

    People need to get a stomach and relies that violence is the only thing they respond to and stop worrying about collateral damage.  Either they learn to live tolerant of other religion and laws or face complete destruction.

    LOL you completely ignore the thousands of years that Westerners have been invading, subjugating, ruling and taking from other people.  To expect these people to not harbor hostilities is moronic.  Oh noes the war on westerners and christmas etc.  Hi faux news.  You brought up bush I never did.  Does their religion play a part?  It certainly seems to in the same way Christianity was used for all those past atrocities.  Lets not just gloss over and forget those.  Many of the current conflicts are because of earlier Western intervention picking winners and losers, arbitrarily creating boundaries etc.  Your "solution" only leads to many many more of these style attacks.  Unless your plan is to complete your own "final solution" and wipe out a whole group of people that follow one religion.  

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  3. I think you've answered your own question. These groups have been at war with each other since they were tribal nomads, the inclusion of western-aimed ire started when we went into the area in search of oil and started to take sides. It's less to do with oil and more to do with "you gave someone I don't like stuff so now you're my enemy too".

    This. Foreign meddling has consequences.  Who would have thunk.

  4. You guys are welcome for the decent weather next week. It is because I haven't bought a new brake light and battery for the bike. I know as soon as I do it'll be way too cold to ride regularly. 

    Did you ever get that recall done?  Or am I thinking of someone else with a 675?

  5. Fuck you people an your monopoly bullshit.

     

    Name me 10 different cell phone providers you can do business with.

    Name me 10 different hospital companies in your area you can do business with.

    10 different cable companies.

    10 different gas station companies.

    10 different grocery store chains.

    10 different Ohio motorcycle message boards.

     

    You don't have 10 different choices on anything, you don't even have 10 choices of which finger you are going to stick up your own asses since two of them are thumbs.

     

    Golden opportunity gone. Who the hell you think is going to spend a boatload of money to get 400K signatures on a ballot issue now?  The pot head hippies? 

    I get what you are saying but think of it this way.  If after prohibition was repealed they had only allowed 10 companies to make alcohol/beer in the US would that have flown?  No, and even if it had passed it would have just led to a continued underground.  Which the whole point of these kind of laws is to seriously disrupt due to its criminal nature.  I thought competition was good???  If after a few years they have consolidated to 10 profitable businesses so be it but to start it from the get go with a max that rubs people the wrong way. 

  6. Rotary engines are cool, but didn't the RX-8 struggle to break 20 mpg with a 1.3 liter??  Until they fix that, it's not going to be viable for them to sell.

    It was a 1.3L with 3L V6 HP of course the mileage wasn't going to be great.  It wasn't much worse than those V6 cars though if you look.  Mazda rotaries are high specific output engines which means no fuel economy.  But there are few engines more fun to drive than a rotary.  Silky smooth linear power.  I still toy with the idea of picking up an 8 with the knowledge I would be rebuilding/replacing the engine fairly quickly.  They are just so much fun to drive and have four doors for the other half and kid of course. 

  7. My take is the way 3 was written is why it failed.  So if the folks that draft the next version without the created oligopoly I think it would pass.  Hell CO was voting on what to do with all the extra tax revenue this year.  What a terrible problem to have.

  8. Ordered this from Amazon and ended up going a different direction.  The cost to ship back is ridiculous due to weight/size so figured I would just sell it.  Posting on here and will post on craigslist.  Receives pretty good reviews on Amazon.  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005P12F2K?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s01

    It is still in the box amazon shipped it in.  If around the Columbus area could meet up or maybe deliver.  I would like to get $125. 

  9. I voted for it in CO.  I liked their setup.  A fixed amount went to schools each year and the rest to the general coffers.  Better schools without me paying a dime more?  Sign me up any day.  The taxpayers were actually due a special refund of taxes because of the amount brought in.  I think I will miss that due to the timing of my leaving.  :mad:

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  10. Based on what I've seen and read in the media, the injured aren't likely to recoup much if any of their medical expenses, and even less likely to get a satisfactory pain/suffering settlement.  Crum appears to live in trailer park, so even if he actually owns the trailer and land, it isn't worth much.  Plus, his obvious lack of respect to the rule of law--based on his prior run-ins that involve aggravated menacing with a vehicle--would make it pretty unlikely that he carries any real amount of insurance.  You could suspend his license for life, but I'd put odds on that he'd end up driving anyway.

    Hopefully the rider had his own high limits because auto liability insurance does not typically cover intentional acts; which this appears to be based on what I read in this thread.

  11. You're completely ignoring the whole 'i fucked my partners wife while he was in a coma during the zombie apocalypse and then tried to flex on him when he showed back up' aspect of the Shane hate-parade. And Shane was just a dick...he was a shitty leader and shot whats-his-face in the leg to save his own hide. Rick at least cares about the lives of everyone in his group and is willing to do what it takes to preserve his tribe.

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