Can you offer me some piece of mental justification for getting a pickup-truck?
My dad's getting me a 4 door toyota tacoma (2000-2004 model), and I'm grateful that I'm even getting a car in the first place. For some reason my dad really wanted to buy a truck, but I really don't find any need in getting a truck specifically. Don't get me wrong--I like the car, it's just my mind won't go to rest until I find some sort of justification or use getting a truck. The only thing I can think of is the fact that I could always use it to load my bike onto the back(but I just ride my bike from my house anyway), I don't have a motorcycle, atv, or jetski. I don't have any large pets... Can anyone give me any excuse for going along with getting a pickup truck as my first car? Any uses for it besides what I mentioned? Thanks!! Oh and again--I actually do love the car, and the fact that I'm even getting one, I just need to find a use for it LOL!
@Hiveman LOL HELL YEAH!!! XD
@Phoenix: Hehe, thanks.
You're a man, and you're American. That's all the justification you need.
Can you offer me some piece of mental justification for getting a pickup-truck?
My dad's getting me a 4 door toyota tacoma (2000-2004 model), and I grateful that I'm even getting a car. For some reason my dad really wanted to buy a truck, but I really don't find any need in getting a truck specifically. Don't get me wrong--I like the car, it's just my mind won't go to rest until I find some sort of justification or use getting a truck. I can use it to load my bike onto the back(but I just ride my bike from my house anyway), I don't have a motorcycle, atv, or jetski. I don't have any large pets... Can anyone give me any excuse for going along with getting a pickup truck as my first car? Any uses for it besides what I mentioned? Thanks!! Oh and again--I actually do love the car, and the fact that I'm even getting one, I just need to find a use for it LOL!
@Dan: Haha, actually he did consider giving me his car and getting himself a truck. He just might buy 2 trucks, one for him, one for me. XD
"Like tits on a Boar Hog,Just in Case". I'm surprised that Dad didn't give you his car and take the truck. Trucks , these days, are just cars with a really big trunks and no lid, they are useful for weekend project trips to Lowe's, taking your TV in for repairs, and as soon as your friends find out, moving.
Trucks are front heavy and spin the wheels easily in bad weather, build a 2 x 4 ladder around the wheel wells and carry 2 40 lb bags of mulch in icy conditions all from the same Lowe's.
Why do I have shoulder pain from swinging a bat and throwing a ball?
I'm 22 years old and starting playing baseball when I was 5, never had a problem. But a few years ago I reached far outside the plate to swing at a ball and hurt my shoulder pop with tremendous pain. I have since quit playing and still play softball once in a while. Every other swing it will hurt the same way, but sometimes I feel no pain at all. I'm left handed so when I throw a ball with my left arm it hurts a lot too. The heavier the ball the more the pain. So both of my shoulders are bad. Any ideas what it could be? I started doing some rotator cuff exercises thinking it was that but I am not quite sure. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
It really depends on what the problem actually is, so you need to try to identify it. It could be a rotator cuff injury or tear, or it could be something else entirely. It is important to make an accurate diagnosis of the cause of your symptoms so that appropriate treatment can be directed at the cause, not just the symptoms. Check these sites to try to determine exactly what is going on. You should really see a doctor for an accurate diagnosis and treatment plan.
RAM Mount Dual Swing Arm Plate System (RAM-VB-110-1) Overview @ gpscity.com
GOLF SWING- PUTTING
Whether you are a top player or beginner, putter that will be used most is the Putter. Even in the best evolutions of their top professional players used in the Putter average approximately 28 times per round. Since speed is very low, and the swing is very short, there was no reason not to be as valuable as professionals when putting reach. But for this you have to practice many hours a putting green. Be sure that the reward for time spent there will come in the end.
Technical
If you go on the putting green I watch the various players who execute the putt, you will see a variety of styles and e-Putter. As the average surface of a green is about 750 square meters, by sending the ball rolling from one side to the other shall require printing a very low speed.
As speed is lower, the worse it is no less important technique.
That means that there is more room for personal preferences.
Further, we refer to the technique they use most of the professional players.
Most often used is from outlet invert, with large fingers positioned down in front. This makes the ball to take in a greater measure printed direction because it reduces the deflection caused by hand wrist.
Above all, Putter is placed behind the ball, then point your left hand, except the index, the handle clubs. Get a hands to touch each other up, both with large fingers facing down. Put your left index finger over the top of the right hand. You can catch the handle with more strongly than in the usual blows. Most important in making the shot putting shoes is that hands will not move in relation to arms and shoulders. If it moves, will open or close the plate cross, which will cause the ball to deviate from the direction. This should be played on the left position you adopted it, while, ideally, you should turn your eyes on the line between ball and target. If you set eyes on the perpendicular line, the eye will more easily and will simply align the legs, hips and shoulders on a line parallel to the one mentioned. Arms must be left down, right and kept very cool. The arms should be a tension similar to that of hands. When positioned above the ball, arms, hands and putter have to form a Y. Down through the entire swing for the putt, this form of the arms, hands and clubs should remain unchanged. As movement is lower, the better. Shoulders is the engine to swing the putt. At backswing, the shoulder goes directly up and forms a Y with the arms, hands and Putter's, in a straight line. At downswing, the left shoulder as he goes up and forms a Y with the arms, hands and shoulders directly to the ball. Hips and legs should remain still.
The length of the backswing will determine the distance to send the ball.
• Backswing short - short putt
• Backswing long - long putt
Keep your head still until the ball began submission. If you move your head early, will be shoulders to the left and the ball will bypass the left cup. It will not stop too early. Most professional players will continue the swing after having hit the ball, putter through a distance equal to that which was executed the backswing.
Backswing • 10 cm - 10 cm follow through
Backswing • 20 cm - 20 cm follow through
Think of the backswing and follow through as the mirror image of the same movement.
Movement and Putter-acceleration must be every time mild and gradual.
Begin session on the putting green putt URLs distance of 3-4 meters, then remove it increasingly more to finish with as many links putt from a meter. Executed the putt from all directions around the cup.
Can fabric-covered lampshades be spray painted effectively?
I have two large lamps with original shades that appear to be vinyl covered with a naural muslin. The color is off-white. I'd like to paint or dye them a specific color I found in a satin spray can type, which is 'Oregano,' an olive with a slight gold tint to it. But I've never done anything like this before, so I'm hesitant. I'm concerned that the color won't look even all over, or that the shade won't be as translucent as I want it to be. Has anyone ever done this or seen it done with good results?
yea i have done it ..... but dont try to cover it in one or two sprays take a few days and keep hitting it with a mist until it is covered you will be happy with the results if u take your time .....
i need to translate this in to spanish it needs to be in the INFORMAL COMMAND im in spanish 2
4 teaspoons active dry yeast
1 cup (8 fl. oz) milk, warmed
1/2 cup (4 oz) sugar
1 teaspoon salt
4 1/2 cups (16 oz) all-purpose flour
2 large eggs
2 tablespoons olive oil
All-purpose flour, for coating
1 1/2 sticks (6 oz) butter, softened
Butter, for brushing
Sugar, for dusting
preparation
Dissolve the yeast in the warmed milk and set aside.
Combine the sugar and salt together in a large bowl. Gradually add the flour and warm milk mixture. Blend thoroughly. Add the eggs and olive oil, mix well, and knead until soft and well-blended.
Cover with a damp cloth and leave to rise in a warm place for about 1 hour, or until dough has doubled in volume.Preheat the oven to 375ºF (190ºC). Bake the dough coil for around 45 minutes, or until the top is golden-brown. Brush the surface with melted butter and sprinkle generously with sugar.
Are you translating a cookbook to Spanish?? I have seen more than five recipes being translated...
Medical Discharge for (Coast Guard, or Air Force).?
I'm a high school senior. I want to join the armed troops to help defend our country. The only thing that stops me from signing on the line is this: I have two metal plates in my knee, to stop the growth. That becuase I have a 9cm difference between my left and right leg. In my right hip I have leg perthes. If I was to sign up for something, do they do a medical exam right away or am I shipped away? If I am to go and be discharged because of my condition, are their any benefits I could receive?
Hi
Perthes is a childhood condition and by the time that you reach skeletal maturity (around 18 years old), perthes has pretty well done all that it is going to do. HOWEVER, the damage done while its there is permanent, as evidenced by the surgery you have had to stop growth.
If you are physically fit and able to do virtually anything that anyone who has never had perthes can do, then I would definitely go ahead with this and tell them immediately what your medical history is though. It might be worthwhile getting checked out by an orthopaedic surgeon beforehand, so that you know for a fact and also have it in writing from him, that the perthes won't hold you back. If he feels that isn't the case though, then I would follow his advice.
Honestly though, a 9 cm LLD (leg length discrepancy) sounds way too much, especially if you have had your growth stopped with metal plates and you really do need to address this. Maximum discrepancy is around 2cm and this can even be enough to really affect how some people walk.
Whatever you do though, you must be totally honest about what has happened with you and open to whatever the result is. If you are unable to enter either of these services, then there is a good reason and there has to be another way that you can defend your country, as maybe a customs officer, or something like that maybe??
You know who you are,preaching about global warming and flying in private jets.Complaining about America's gun culture from behind your gated mansion,patrolled by armed guards.
Or how about Alec Baldwin fying a helcopter up and down the Hudson river looking for polluters?
Come on step up to the plate and be heard!!
It’s becoming almost a cliché that whenever Hollywood celebrities campaign for some public issue, 98% of the time it’s a liberal issue. Radical environmentalism, animal rights, abortion rights, anti-smoking, gun control, feminism, speaking out against the war in Iraq, and supporting Communist dictators are just some of the favorite pastimes of liberal Hollywood celebrities.
• Sean Penn traveled to Baghdad right before the start of the war in Iraq, just to get the view on the ground and meet with Iraqi officials under Saddam Hussein.
• Ashley Judd and dozens of other celebrities showed up at a march in Washington, DC to support abortion on demand.
• The Rolling Stones did a benefit concert against global warming, with the warm-up act being none other than Bill Clinton.
• Ted Danson campaigns for environmental causes, and announced in the late 1980s that the oceans only had 10 years left of being able to sustain life. (Whoops! What year is it?)
• The group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), whose co-founder and director Ingrid Newkirk stated in 1989, “A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy,” and who also equated six million Jews being killed in the Holocaust with six billion chickens being killed for food each year, is closely supported by Bill Maher, Michael J. Fox, Harry Hamlin, Linda Blair, Cameron Diaz, Alec Baldwin, Kim Bassinger, Pamela Anderson, Toby Maguire, Alicia Silverstone, David Hyde Pierce, Dennis Franz, Sidney Poitier, and Ashley Judd.
• PETA ran a series of ads called “I’d rather go naked than wear fur,” that featured practically pornographic pictures of actress Charlotte Ross, Traci Bingham, Pamela Anderson, Kimberly Hefner, and Alicia Silverstone.
• Danny Glover signed a letter, along with dozens of other Hollywood types, supporting Communist dictator Fidel Castro.
• Filmmaker Oliver Stone visited Fidel Castro in Cuba and produced a “documentary” on Castro that is so pro-Castro, PBS refused to air it because of its lack of objectivity.
• Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks said on tour in the UK that she is ashamed that President Bush is from Texas.
• Other liberal celebrities who have spoken out against the war in Iraq have included Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, Ed Asner, Oliver Stone, Jane Fonda, Mike Farrell, Martin Sheen, James Cromwell, Sheryl Crow (who stated “the best way to solve problems is to not have enemies” -- GWB please take note of this pearl of foreign policy strategy), Susan Sarandon and Tom Robbins, Woody Harrelson, Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Madonna, Janeane Garofalo, George Clooney, and Barbra Streisand.
James Hirsen’s book Tales from the Left Coast chronicles much of the leftward tilt of the entertainment industry and is a fun read.
Of course there are a handful of exceptions, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charlton Heston, Clint Eastwood and Tom Selleck, who are all Republicans. But they are like the Hawaiian Islands in a Pacific Ocean of liberalism.
Nor are the current examples of liberal celebrities a “new” development. In 1972, ultra-liberal and anti-war Presidential candidate George McGovern was supported by a veritable who’s who of celebrities of the time, including Shirley MacLaine, Marlo Thomas, Dennis Weaver, Leonard Nimoy, Raquel Welch, Goldie Hawn, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Dionne Warwick, Carole King, James Taylor, and (surprise) Barbra Streisand.
So What’s Wrong with That?
So if a bunch of Hollywood celebrities want to speak up for liberal causes, what’s wrong with that? They have a right to adopt any cause they want, right?
Yes, they do have a right to adopt and speak out for any cause they want. But there are a couple of things wrong with this picture.
1. With a recent Gallup poll showing only 20% of the US population describing themselves as liberal and 40% describing themselves as conservative, why is it that almost ALL of the political activism engaged in by celebrities is liberal in nature? Clearly as a group are not representative of the population.
2. Celebrities have tremendous access to mass communication channels, yet most have little to no particular expertise, education or experience in the areas in which they become “spokespersons.” Recent info has shown that most have no more than a high school diploma.
3. These liberal causes and attitudes do not just find their way into press releases and public appearances by celebrities, but into the very fabric of the shows, movies and songs that are consumed by the unsuspecting American public.
4. The preponderance of liberal viewpoints being expressed by celebrities contributes to the misconception that liberal viewpoints are in the majority in America. They are not. They actually never have been.
Why?
So that brings us to the next question, which is “Why?” Why are so many celebrities opting for the knee-jerk liberal viewpoint? With only 20% of the general US population describing themselves as liberal, how could 98% of the entertainment industry be loudly supporting liberal causes?
As I mentioned in the second article in this series, there is one fascinating theory on what makes certain individuals drawn to liberal/socialistic/communistic thought (they are all just different points in the same spectrum), which is advanced by Allan Levite in a booked entitled Guilt, Blame, and Politics.
The basic premise is that there is a thing called “political guilt,” which is brought about in cases where a person perceives a big difference between his station in life and that of the bottom financial rung of society, i.e. the poor. This political guilt is deepened by situations in which the person does not have to work for a living, where his work is easy, or where he is particularly well paid, such as in the entertainment industry.
Levite states, “Hollywood has always overflown with radicals and very liberal liberals, since film and television personalities often earn huge salaries and are far removed from the world of ordinary humdrum labor.
“When the number of actors and actresses who contribute to the Democratic Party, its candidates, and the organizations supporting it (such as Emily’s List and the Hollywood Women’s Political Committee) are compared with those who contribute to the GOP, a 7-1 ratio in favor of the Democrats is seen.”
So essentially what Levite is talking about is exchange. If a person feels like he is working hard and exchanging his work for the money he gets, he won’t tend to feel guilty.
But if he grew up in a rich family, is living off an inheritance, is working a cushy job or a job where he gets paid extremely well (like in Hollywood), he will favor methods of redistribution of wealth (welfare, socialistic programs), even if he doesn’t go so far as to give up his own.
