Posts by Daga

In 1983, I was confined to an eight-by-ten-foot prison cell on the border of Siberia. My Soviet jailers gave me the privilege of reading the latest copy of Pravda. Splashed across the front page was a condemnation of President Ronald Reagan for having the temerity to call the Soviet Union an "evil empire." Tapping on walls and talking through toilets, word of Reagan's "provocation" quickly spread throughout the prison. We dissidents were ecstatic. Finally, the leader of the free world had spoken the truth--a truth that burned inside the heart of each and every one of us.

Let's remember that Reagan took a lot of flak for that statement--from many of the same people who now criticize President Bush for, among other things, identifying the axis of evil. In 1983 they agreed with Pravda rather than Sharansky. Apparently they are condemned to repeat history.

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Breaking news: RONALD REAGAN HAS DIED TODAY

by sf in

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cspan and cnn just reported.. skally

Daga

Reagan was a great President, one of the two best in the 20th Century. He was relentless in his intent to end the peril of Communism and he was successful. All this stuff about the Soviet Union falling of its own weight is a lot of revisionis history, simply because the left doesn't want to give the credit where it is due.

And there is some truly disgusting stuff coming out of some liberals about Reagan but not too much. The vast majority of people liked him even if they didn't agree with him.

Check out the following for some of the bad stuff http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_8675.shtml

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MILITARY DRAFT COMING BACK IN 2005 - STOP BUSH NOW

by cbew in

for those of you that have not heard yet there are two bills pending in congress to bring back the military draft for all 18 - 26 year olds.

for the website see www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/alert/?alertid=583400/&content_dir=ua_congressorg .twin bills s 89 and hr 163 are now being quitely pushed through so that it could become law as early as spring 2005. the bush administrations illegal and unconstitutional war in iraq has cost hundreds of billions of dollars and hundreds of american lives and they mean to keep our troops their indefinitely in the foreseeable future.

stop this madness now before it is too late.

Daga

Rangle is just trying to scare people. It's the same old Democrate tactic, you know the nasty Republicans are going to take your Social Security away, etc. This bill has zero chance of passing, it's just politics.

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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

"A USA Today analysis of previously unpublished fatality statistics discovers that 46,000 people have died because of a 1970s-era push for greater fuel efficiency that has led to smaller cars."

About all that liberal ranting about those dangerous SUVs, USA Today notes:

Myth: Small cars have a high death rate because they get hit by those big sport-utility vehicles all over the roads.

Fact: In 1997, according to the latest-available government data, 56% of small-car fatalities involved only small cars: 46% from single-car crashes, 10% from small cars running into each other. Just 1% of small-car deaths in 1997 involved collisions with midsize and large SUVs -- 136 out of 12,144 total small-car deaths that year." [Statistically, given the number of SUVs on the road, one might have expected them to be involved in more accidents

Why I Drive An SUV

1. It IS nice to have enough room to carry the luggage, presents, kids and snow gear on a long trip.

2. It IS nice to expect that you can handle the snow levels on the mountain passes (of which there are three or four, depending on the route you choose to attempt).

3. It IS nice to have the room for people to travel comfortably over very long periods, especially for the kids.

4. It IS nice to be able to offer to buy my parents' church's piano to help them out, and pull a trailer back through the snow and on the open highway at speeds greater than 45mph.

5. It IS nice to be able to take my parents four-wheeling in the desert through some open country they always have wanted to see, even if the side panels did get scratched by the ocotillo plants.

6. It IS worth the extra cost of gasoline for these features, especially in that over the 2,500 miles, at an average cost of $1.75/gallon and an average mpg of 17, the cost was $257. Compared to a little car with none of the benefits but twice the mpg, the $124 was worth every penny.

7. The one option Ford needs to add is a front-end-car-flipper, which would be useful on the mountain passes to move the little cars that get stuck halfway up because of their drivers' misbegotten belief that if they just spin the wheels fast enough, they can get their car up and over the pass. I'm sure they got good rpm/gallon, but their mpg must have been even lower than my truck. I suspect that the fact that they drove an economical car was somehow related to their not owning chains

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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

Occupant Safety

Myth: SUVs are less safe for their occupants than passenger cars mainly because of their higher rollover rate. WRONG!

Facts:

SUVs do have a higher center of gravity than passenger cars and therefore can roll over more easily. However, rollover crashes are relatively rare when compared to all other types of crashes ? less than 3% of crashes.
SUVs are twice as protective of their occupants compared with the average passenger car in frontal, rear and side-impact crashes, which make up 97% of all crashes.
More people die in car rollovers than SUV rollovers. Historically, less than 25% of rollover deaths are in SUVs.
Can all vehicle occupants improve their odds even further? Absolutely. Last year 72% of people killed in fatal rollover crashes, in various vehicle models, were not using their safety belts. The government estimates that 75% of those non-belt users would be alive today had they simply buckled up.
Every 2% increase in safety belt use would save 600 lives a year in the U.S.

Road Safety

Myth: SUVs, because of their greater size and weight, cause more harm to the occupants of the passenger cars they strike in a collision.

Fact:

The laws of physics clearly show that larger, heavier vehicles provide better crash protection to their occupants. At the same time, bigger vehicles do more damage when they collide with smaller vehicles. However, only about 5% of occupant deaths in small cars occur in crashes with SUVs, while 61% of small car fatalities occur in single-vehicle crashes (against trees, poles, bridge abutments, etc.) or crashes with other cars. There is no SUV ?safety crisis.?

Fuel Economy

Myth: SUVs are gas-guzzlers and are contributing to our reliance on oil from the Mid-East. Absurd!

Facts:

Since the mid-1970s, the fuel economy of SUVs and light trucks has improved by nearly 60%.
In fact, today?s SUVs are 50% more efficient than cars were a generation ago.
When the term ?gas-guzzler? was coined, it referred to cars that got about 10 miles per gallon or less. By comparison, today?s SUVs are relatively fuel efficient for the jobs they perform.
We will continue to import oil from the Middle East as long as it continues to be cheaper than other sources.

Greater Cargo Space

Myth: Most people don?t really need big SUVs.

Facts:

Americans buy vehicles that meet their maximum needs. Most can?t afford to buy purpose-specific vehicles.
SUV owners who may commute alone during the workweek may be hauling a soccer team, boat, home improvement materials or supplies for a local charity during the weekend.
About half of the respondents in a scientific R.L. Polk poll use their SUV regularly to haul bulky items that just won?t fit into cars.
Today, less than 6% of passenger cars can tow more than 2,100 pounds, so Americans rely on SUVs and other light trucks to tow almost 24 million boats, ATVs, horse trailers, RVs, snowmobiles and off-road motorcycles.

Emissions

Myth: SUVs pollute more than cars.

Facts:

Many SUVs today already meet the same stringent federal tailpipe emissions standards as cars. Beginning in the 2004 model year, those same strict standards are being phased in over the next few years to apply to the remainder of the largest SUVs (up to 8,500 pounds). So regulations have already dealt with this.
The emissions from a new midsize SUV are cleaner than those of the average passenger car built just three years ago.
A 2004 Ford Explorer driven from Washington, DC to Los Angeles and back pollutes less than a 1968 Ford Fairlane driven one way from Washington, DC to Baltimore.

Myth: SUVs emit more global warming pollution than passenger cars.

Facts:

When people make this claim they are referring to carbon dioxide CO2 (not deadly carbon monoxide). Contrary to what environmental lobbyists have labeled CO2, it is not a pollutant according to the EPA. Plants breathe CO2 and ?exhale? oxygen for us humans and other living creatures. Some just believe the planet is getting too much of it from us humans. So it?s important to view this argument in its proper context ? it?s not a clean air, smog issue.
It is true that the amount of CO2 a vehicle emits is directly related to the amount of fuel used. But those concerned about global warming should be comforted to know that ALL the cars and light trucks in the U.S. make up only about 2% of all man-made greenhouse gasses worldwide. So, even if everyone switched from SUVs to cars, the potential effect on global climate change would be virtually nonexistent.

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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

jw
friends

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

jw
friends

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.