dorifto240

I've got a brand new Energizer Inverter 400; I won it in a drawing, and I don't really need it. It's the 84024 model, with the jumper cable style clips. $20.00 and it's yours. message me.

This is correct, I was pulled over outside of Cincinnati because my bulb had burned out. If anything, it's grounds to pull you over (under the whole not properly displaying tags thing), and then search for any other illegal, or potentially illegal, goodies. Also, I think when you get your camera, on Monday; you should post some pics.

True, but unfortunately many people have bought into the marketing image that banks can be trusted. Yes it's "buyer beware" but the only time that's ever used to justify an action; is when some is doing something borderline illegal or immoral. We should ask questions, but if the "experts" are working to hide the truth, then what's an average, less enlightened person to do. The whole thing is just wrong. It's not illegal, but it's still wrong.

I should say I boiled all the metal parts: bowls, bodies, throttles, jets, etc. Everything not rubber or plastic went in the mix

Alright, my carbs were awful. The bike wouldn't idle right, wouldn't stay on, wouldn't take any throttle. It was terrible. And slightly embarrassing. A big hit to my masculinity. I stumbled onto a forum discussion over at ZX Forums (dot com) that mentioned heating your carbs in lemon juice would help dislodge any junk and/or rust that had built up. Some more research led me to vinegar. And if one combines the two ingredients with heat, it becomes a ridiculous super cleaner. So today I tried it, a liter of lemon juice ($3.00) and a liter of vinegar ($0.89) two liters of water, and a half teaspoon of salt. I stripped my carbs down to bare metal and boiled them for about 20 minutes. After reassembling everything, the bike started right up, held its idle, didn't need the choke on, and generally behaved like it should. So for five bucks and 20 minutes, I avoided having to rebuild my carbs (for now of course, eventually they'll need to be rejetted and all the fun stuff). A note of caution though: It will cause steel to rust, and stainless steel doesn't react well with lemon juice.

Come see the violence inherent in the system! Come see the violence inherent in the system! Also, check out http://classicjapanesemotorcycles.com/ they've got some ready to go.

Somebody get him some cranberry juice stat

Wish I knew that when I was 18... Damn student loans

That's a bit difficult when the banks themselves were telling people they could afford the loan.

True, but what they were selling (and what they were allowing a few to short against) were peoples mortgages. Yes these institutions should have performed due diligence, however: trading and selling a large part of a persons life? There's something not right about that. And I don't get the moar reference... sorry

Rice Paddy has plenty of frames and parts, might also be a good place to start for a new project.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/business/16goldman.html?_r=1&th&emc=th To sum it all up: One of the key companies that caused the Great Recession, is being allowed to settle out of court for a pathetically small amount. How wonderful is this? Their actions have lead to people losing their jobs, homes, families... Greece is embroiled in protests and austerity, and we have the largest national debt in the history of the world; and it can all be traced back to a few businesses and organizations: And it includes Goldman Sachs. Fun side fact: Goldman Sachs informed Moody's and Standard & Poor's on how to rate the derivatives they were selling. Which is why even at the end, all the really shitty derivative packages were still being labeled as AAA. Ridiculous. Obama got elected on change and hope, and it looks like things are shaping up to be just as shitty as always.

Ha! I know the feeling, you should have seen the wiring on my bike when I brought it home.

According to some, that's exactly what some of the more radical members of the left did. In an attempt to defame the Tea Party

That statement is as true as it gets.

Yes and yes. Yes I am active trying to change the political climate, and i'm active in a few different groups. And yes I'm asking questions and building up impotent rage. How do you change something that big and powerful and established and entrenched? Most of America wanted financial reform a better (more direct) stimulus package, and a better health care plan. Yet, big businesses and well heeled advocacy groups lobbied and completely neutered any real change to the system. The government blatantly ignored the will of the people; our representatives don't care/ don't listen. So option 1,: activisim and demanding change from our leaders clearly doesn't work. Secondly, if the two established parties don't put their weight behind a candidate, no one hears about them! The paperwork and costs to file as an independent candidate are ridiculous. You need a political party just to begin the process of getting elected. So working from within the system is impossible to get started. Option 3 of course is to revolt/rebel. Save for the fact that it would be just me, unarmed, trying to rebel. Not a choice favorite. Show me where to start; I know what to do once I get there. ::steps down from soap box:: Sorry about that

I'm in!

The last time citizens became disillusioned with their government, a few of them got together in a pub in Boston and started tossing around radical ideas like freedom, independence, inalienable rights and representation in government. Just throwing that one out there.

I'd bait that bear... Odds are I could stay out of her reach long enough for her to have a heart attack.

The eighties

Babba booey babba booey Howard Sterns penis babba booey!

That's just silly! Fingerpointing is so much easier!

So I read the article. In all honesty, I'm not sure where it was going. It starts with subprime mortgages, and then launches into a defense of the CRA; even though subprime mortgages are the issue. It then goes on to discuss independent mortgage companies, granted independent mortgage companies issued bad mortgages, but they were getting the money from somewhere. Secondly, many sub-prime mortgages came from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, or were bought by these companies and bundled to be sold. Had bad sub-prime mortgages not been issued period, they would not have been securitized. Securitizing the loans proved valuable. So valuable in fact, that banks started issuing more and more, under the relatively lax CRA and federal oversight, sub prime mortgages. Creating a cycle which eventually led to where we are now. And in regards to Social Security: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States) Notice that LBJ authorized the movement of social security from it's own trust fund, to the general fund for congress. Wilbur Mills (a democrat) authored the bill that included medicare, medicaid, and the movement of funds.

It's actually 33% of statistics. I'll read those links and get back with my own... I still have two strong words though: Come on!