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The criminal should die and die horribly. I say kill any carebear type people along with him because they make me sicker than he does. Evan

Nice set up, but I like a bigger work surface for all the computer geek stuff since I don't have a pile of guns. Evan

Fine you don't get any then. She can do anything she wants to me with that thumb and while she's at it I'll suck on Kates hoof:-) Evan

I've been hearing about her talk in Zanesville all day, but this is the first I got to get the full story quoted. Wow they are nuts and I really have no clue who to vote for. I guess I'll throw mine at Ron Paul if he's running as libertarian in November. Evan

True for sure. I've only been able to see grass in my yard up here in Marengo for about 1 full week since before Christmas. I love the snow and want it in feet, but this will have to do. At least my offroad truck got to pull one full size ford from the ditch so far this winter. Evan

My offroad truck is "Old Blue." Its blue and I've had it over 10 years:-) Evan

Yeah I agree they shouldn't use the buses and I'll pay more to them if I can stop paying property taxes so that 10,000 kids from apartments/trailers can go to school for free. Evan

I won't get pulled into the direction this discussion has taken, but I'll agree with this much. The tax system needs fixed because Rick shouldn't be paying for public schools if his kids ain't going to them. I will homeschool my kid(s) but not for extreme religious reasons. I just don't believe that schools are any place for kids to be stuck for most of the day. I'd rather they just play at home and do nothing really. Evan

I hate the lights on my tacoma when I'm out in the back country. I can't see anything about 150 feet in front of me and can not see much of anything at all when in hilly parts of the state due to a major cut off. Probably good that it exists though since half the people on the road flash their lights at it when I've got the low beams on. Evan

If they aren't a US citizen than they get tortured. Its completely fair to me. If they are a US citizen like that one kid that was caught fighting on the side of the enemy then he can be tortured as well. Though personally I don't think I'd have even taken him prisoner since it would be much less hassle to just bury the dumbass in the sand and leave the media out of it. Evan

Torturing the enemy is okay by me. They won't even consider not torturing us and they don't even care if they get any information since their doing it to please their god. Evan

I don't know the name of the company, but my wife had a customer at her bank recently try to get a loan and found that he had an unpaid loan on his credit report. The loan was for a car he traded in to a dealer. The dealer never bothered to pay off the loan and sold his trade in to someone else and its a huge long nasty story, but several people have there hands in stuff that they are now gonna need lawyers to fix. A dealer "Leon's Chevrolet" down in Marietta was shut down for pulling this type of thing except he was doing it for years and years totaling over 50 million dollars in loan frauds of different types. Again never assume any dealer is being honest. Even an honest mistake can happen and that can cause just as much trouble. Evan

I've had to spray PB blaster into the wheel area before to get them loose. Its amazing the difference it makes on things like that. I was once bashing the tire on my corolla with a sledge and couldn't get the wheel off. Sprayed it and it popped off in a couple hits with my 2.5lb hammer. I agree with loosing the lugs a bit and driving it also. That could work quite well. Just don't loosen them more than a few turns or you'll mess up the studs when the tire pops loose. Evan

Yeah 350 small block chevy, TH350 transmission, 38.5" swamper boggers, and the thing in the bed is a radiator from a large ingersol rand air compressor. I put it there to keep mud and debris out of it. I ran trees through it several times when it was up front. The other cool mod is a 70amp GM alternator rigged for welding out on the trails. I'm running a 140amp unit for my 12volt stuff. Evan

The `05 taco is like this trucks grandson or something and is pathetic. I tried to pull my trailer from its frozen spot in the yard last night and it wouldn't even start to move. I then proceeded to hook up my `92 to the taco + trailer and it pulled them both at idle power. I didn't even get my foot to the gas pedal before the job was done. Evan

I decided to get out the truck to do donuts in the yard since its nice and covered in snow. Sad part was finding out boggers eat snow better than they eat dirt so now I'll have grass to plant:-) Anyone have a tractor inner tube and a field we can play in? j/k I'm busy this weekend or I'd love to. http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/EWhytsell/IMG_1683.jpg Evan

Hehe quite driving the thing before you really kill it and find out whats wrong. If its not coolant in the oil then maybe you can save it, but eventually you'll spin or worse. Then its rebuild time. Evan

My sisters Firebird was that bad at getting out of its parking spot in the snow, but once it was on the road it was fine if you were careful. She drove it everywhere in all weather, but she learned to drive in the same `84 Toyota RWD pickup that I did. She even kept her really crappy summer tires too. What that guy needed was some snow tires and a lighter foot. Evan

The only satellites that fall out of orbit are the LEO (low earth orbit) ones. They actually drag on the earths upper atmosphere and slow down. Oh yeah BTW satellites maintain there orbit via their speed around the earth. Higher orbiting satellites move at a slower rate than lower orbit ones. Also at around 300Km they move at a speed of around 6 kilometers per second. These aren't exact numbers, but close enough for an idea of what we are dealing with. The moon however at a distance of 240,000 miles moves at a speed of around 550mph. The darn things only like 2500 miles diameter so its pretty amazing that a rocket can even get to the moon without missing and its just plain magic that we can hit a thing the size of a car moving several thousand miles per hour. I heard the reason the spy satellite's orbit failed was that it didn't make it to its full orbit. This would also be a good reason for having a bunch of fuel still on board. Evan

Nice pictures. Thats the type of lens you need for moon shots for sure. My scope is a 2032mm F/10 so I can see about a 1/4 of it at a time. I need to get a Rebel 20D body eventually and mod it for better Hydrogen Alpha sensitivity. Might wait until the 40D's are getting cheap though since there are 2 more models coming out shortly. Canons are the best for astro work now that every things digital they have the best signal/noise ratio until you start spending way to much on purpose built CCD's. Evan

Nope I got a few shots before it started, but the moon bores me. I stopped giving it serious attention when I was probably 11 or 12. I had intended to take a series of shots throughout the cycle to create a pretty neat image, but I got bored with it and started shooting nebula and galaxies. I also did a couple 20 sec video's of Saturn to use the frames for learning a processing technique I've been reading about. Evan

I gotta get a few more adapters to be able to take good pics of Saturn. I watched the eclipse, but my scope is to powerful to get the whole moon in a single frame. I'd have to buy some more expensive focal reducers to be able to fit it in and I'm not spending $300-500 just to take a pic of the moon. I did however use the dark sky created by the eclipse to take a bunch of shots of a galaxy. I'll be processing them over the next couple of days and we'll see what I got out of them. Evan

Be careful were you end up. Some of the roads around that area may seem passable for awhile, but before long you'll find yourself hitting a 3-4 foot washout next to a creek. My club rus a few like that for the novices. Your going along just fine and the next thing you know we get to a part that almost makes the new guys poop there pants when they realise I stopped my truck to get out and give some instruction for that type of difficult section. Not something I'd want to hit in any type of vehicle short of a tank at more than 5MPH. Evan

Many satellites have been nuclear powered. All the voyagers were and that is one area of nuclear treaties which the US decided to violate again in the recent past. To my knowledge they didn't have a reactor, but instead a nuclear battery. Its likely a uranium type battery, but they could be using krypton due to it being much less toxic. The batteries have a half life of 30,000 years so they are very good for use in long range space missions. Voyager and pioneer satellites are still sending back data regularly. Evan

If you could pm me a tar hollow route its possible I know of at least 1 road that your AWD's would enjoy. My 4x4 has no trouble on it at all idling in 2wd, but its got 38" boggers aired down to 15 psi and a spool. We use it as the weenie trail (read that shinny new expensive 4x4's that don't want damaged) on our novice trail rides. BTW our novice ride is coming up in a couple months. Evan