Posts by Daga

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The Answer to high Gas Prices.....

by ThiChi in

any thoughts on mr. taylor?s claims?.

u.s. demands greater oil output, lower prices.

"finance ministers from the united states and other major industrialized countries, hoping to affect the outcome of a battle within the organization for the petroleum exporting countries, formally demanded yesterday that oil-exporting nations raise production and lower prices to a level 'that is consistent with lasting economic prosperity,'" the new york times reports.

Daga

WASHINGTON, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- If SUVs were students and their owners were parents, "Mom and Dad" would be very pleased with today's report card from the federal government on SUV crashworthiness.

Crash test results from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) show high "grades" for 2004 SUVs in side and frontal crashes for both drivers and passengers.

Today's high safety scores for frontal and side crashes come on the heels of very safe rollover scores released earlier this year.

In side-impact crashes, perfect scores were achieved: Five out of five points were earned for both side-impact and side-impact rear passengers for all 11 SUVs for which test results were released. Regarding frontal crashes, the 12 SUVs for which results were released earned an overall high C, with four SUVs earning "As," and two earning "Bs" and the rest earning "Cs." A "straight B" cumulative side and frontal "grade" was earned by the 2004 SUVs tested by NHTSA, which range in size from a Dodge Durango to a Toyota RAV-4.

With regard to rollovers, in February, NHTSA reported that 9 SUVs or extended-cab pickups out of 22 tested earned 4 out of 5 stars in the agency's new rollover resistance test. Another 9 SUVs/extended cab pickups earned 3 stars.

NHTSA test results are available at http://www.safercar.gov/.

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REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONVENTION SCHEDULE NY

by gespro in

just a little something my brother forwarded to me.... republican national committee - convention schedule ny.

6:00 pm opening prayer led by the reverend jerry falwell 6:30 pm pledge of allegiance 6:35 pm burning of bill of rights (except 2nd amendment) 6:45 pm salute to the coalition of the willing 6:46 pm seminar #1: "iraq strategies-voodoo/doodoo wmd" 7:30 pm first presidential beer bong 7:35 pm serve freedom fries 7:40 pm epa address #1: "mercury- it's what's for dinner!

" 8:00 pm vote on which country to invade next 8:10 pm call emt's to revive rush limbaugh 8:15 pm john ashcroft lecture: "the homos are after your children!!

Daga

Democrat Convention Program

1:00PM - Opening, singing The International

1:05 - "Why Kerry must win the presidency", Symposium by Jacques Chirac, Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.

2:00 - "Bush is worse than Hitler" by Michael Moore

2:30 - "I was in Vietnam" by John Kerry

3:00 - "I have a new book out that is so much more exciting than anything Kerry has to say! Nyah Nyah Nyah!" by Bill Clinton

3:45 - Singing The Marseillaise . Break .

5:00 - "The Klan Endorses Kerry" by Robert Byrd

5:30 - "I was in Vietnam, really" by John Kerry

6:00 - "9/11 was our just deserts" by Noam Chomsky

7:00 - "Why I will not accept the nomination now" by John Kerry

7:10 - "Nominations acceptance speech" by John Kerry

7:30 - "Advice to Teresa on presidential indescretions" by Hillary Clinton

8:00 - "I was in Vietnam, dammit!" by John Kerry

8:30 - "YEEEARGH! by Howard Dean

8:32 - "Groan man" by al-Gore

8:45 - "Drive safely home!" Final words from Edward Kennedy

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elders-MS-bethelites and Flirting Sisters

by stillajwexelder in

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i stated on another thread that a "aux pioneer" cutie sister tried to flirt with me when counselling her -- there were other occasions also - my question -.

"have any of you on this board had people in responsible positions flirt with you -- or have those in responsible positions had sisters flirt with you?

"aux pioneer" cutie sister tried to flirt with me when counselling her -- i was questioning how she got 60 hours per month in and she stuck her chest in my arm - and was genearlly playing the cutie - it did not work but i was flattered as i am only human

Daga

I know of one pioneer sister that hits the booze pretty hard and has been known to flash her tits for the edification of her field service group if there are only males in the car. Needless to say, there's no shortage of guys volunteering to work with her.

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Hybrid Cars anyone/

by Carmel in

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last weekend alan alda of mash fame did a documentry on the new hybrid cares by honda and toyota.

ford is coming with on and chrysler is about to launch.

also are new fuel cell hydrogen cars one even with little discs the size of a skeet that contain hydrogen in solid form.

Daga

Most of the people buying the current generation of hybrid cars are pretty disappointed with the mileage they're getting, not even close to what's advertised.

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Blacks can't speak English - Bill Cosby

by closer2fine in

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sorry if this was already posted, i did a search & didn't see it.. .

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?article_id=38565.

minority report.

Daga

We agree. I take it you are not one of the "Cleopatra was black" crowd.

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Blacks can't speak English - Bill Cosby

by closer2fine in

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sorry if this was already posted, i did a search & didn't see it.. .

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?article_id=38565.

minority report.

Daga

I'd read this book before I discussed the matter any further.

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Does anybody remember Good old brother Woodly?

by truthbeliever in

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dear brothers and sisters,i have read several posts here regarding william osbeck and how bad of a circuit overseer he was.at the time when he was a circuit overseer in oklahoma,we had a district overseer named brother elmer woodly.he was the most unfriendly overseer i have ever worked with.he was mighty on the stage in his speeches,but when he came down from there he was a mean,cold shouldered person.he was not as rude as brother dixon,another circuit overseer,but i guess i expected more from a district overseer.does anybody else remember this jolly old soul?

Daga

Yeah, I remember Woodly, only ever met one DO that was decent, and one other I was never sure about. Woodly wasn't on the list. William don't call me Bill Osbeck is consumed by his own ego.

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And the winner of the best film award at the Cannes festival is ...

by Simon in

farenheit 9/11 ... sorry neo cons .

any film that gets a 15 min standing ovation must be worth watching.

i wonder if bush will go see it?!

Daga

From Fred Barnes, Michael Moore and Me

A FEW YEARS AGO Michael Moore, who's now promoting an anti-President Bush movie entitled Fahrenheit 9/11, announced he'd gotten the goods on me, indeed hung me out to dry on my own words. It was in his first bestselling book, Stupid White Men. Moore wrote he'd once been "forced" to listen to my comments on a TV chat show, The McLaughlin Group. I had whined "on and on about the sorry state of American education," Moore said, and wound up by bellowing: "These kids don't even know what The Iliad and The Odyssey are!"

Moore's interest was piqued, so the next day he said he called me. "Fred," he quoted himself as saying, "tell me what The Iliad and The Odyssey are." I started "hemming and hawing," Moore wrote. And then I said, according to Moore: "Well, they're . . . uh . . . you know . . . uh . . . okay, fine, you got me--I don't know what they're about. Happy now?" He'd smoked me out as a fraud, or maybe worse.

The only problem is none of this is true. It never happened. Moore is a liar. He made it up. It's a fabrication on two levels. One, I've never met Moore or even talked to him on the phone. And, two, I read both The Iliad and The Odyssey in my first year at the University of Virginia. Just for the record, I'd learned what they were about even before college. Like everyone else my age, I

got my classical education from the big screen. I saw the Iliad movie called Helen of Troy and while I forget the name of the Odyssey film, I think it starred Kirk Douglas as Odysseus.

So why didn't I scream bloody murder when the book came out in 2001? I didn't learn about the phony anecdote until it was brought to my attention by Alan Wolfe, who was reviewing Moore's book for the New Republic. He asked, by email, if the story were true. I said no, not a word of it, and Wolfe quoted me as saying that. That was enough, I thought. After all, who would take a shrill, lying lefty like Moore seriously?

More people than I thought. Moore's new movie attacking Bush was given a 20-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival. Moore has described the movie as breaking new ground and revealing new facts, but the accounts by reviewers suggest it merely provides the standard left-wing, conspiratorial critique of the president. Reviewer Lou Lumenick of the New York Post, who gave Moore's previous movie Bowling for Columbine four stars, said the anti-Bush film would be news only "if you spent the last three years hiding in a cave in Afghanistan." Still, I suppose it's not surprising they loved it in France.

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And the winner of the best film award at the Cannes festival is ...

by Simon in

farenheit 9/11 ... sorry neo cons .

any film that gets a 15 min standing ovation must be worth watching.

i wonder if bush will go see it?!

Daga

From Christopher Hitchens, not exactly a conservative.

HITCHENS: But speaking here in my capacity as a polished, sophisticated European as well, it seems to me the laugh here is on the polished, sophisticated Europeans. They think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they?ve taken as their own, as their representative American someone who actually embodies all of those qualities.

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Any science fiction freaks?

by myauntfanny in

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does anyone on here like science fiction?

i've read everything by all my favourite writers and am looking for some new ones.

any recommendations?

Daga

John Ringo

S.M.Stirling

George R.R, Martin

David Brin