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.
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.
No A/C out of panel vents at all. '89 Chrysler LeBaron w/ATC system.?
I checked vacuum as in Fact Serv Manual. It is ok, except vac doesn't hold at black port at vac conn as FSM says it should.Panel vents don't work at all, whether at idle or acceleration. Always blows on floor when set to PANEL. DEF and FLOOR settings work fine. I changed out ATC unit and Power Module. ATC diagnosis shows no faults. FSM mentions check valve, but A) I can't find it, and B) I think it isn't the culprit because vents NEVER work- not even at idle (high vacuum). Check valve at Master Cyl is ok and does hold vacuum where it goes into car thru firewall. Temperature settings work as expected. Coolant mixing valve works fine (vac actuated).
Thank you for your help!
You've probably have a servo leaking vacuum. Check each one at the servo. If one leaks, none of the rest will function right. Also the vacuum hoses may have been switched around.
Release of a Black Diamond, ATC Guide auto-blocking belay device under full bodyweight.
Why did a judge seal the CVR of United flight 93?
The CVR is the cockpit voice recording that is part of audio streams that are recorded in an airplanes "Black box"
Transmitions from the plane to ATC where released. but not the audio inside the cockpit, this would be proof that an actual struggle occured and the passengers took over the plane.
What is there to hide?
No disrespect to the victims intended, but I would like to know the truth of whether UA93 was downed by a military jet or not. I always believed that it was, as that was the initial report I heard. It was a terrifying day with lots happening, but I distinctly remember hearing on the news that a plane had been shot down in Pennsylvania. A few hours later, the story was retracted, despite eyewitness reports of a military jet flying alongside 93 and the plane having been hit (smoking) before impact, and the 6 mile debris trail.
Maybe passengers fought back. Maybe they made it as far as the cockpit. Maybe the plane was hijacked, or maybe it just was still in the air and too perilously close to the Capital that officials got spooked and decided it wasn't worth taking chances.
What we have to bear in mind is that the country was under attack that day, and it is SOP to shoot down planes which do not respond to orders to land in these circumstances. And that the alternative might have been a plane not just hitting the White House, but also the heavily-populated DC area. The loss of the lives of the passengers on UA93 is indeed regrettable, but many more lives might have been lost had it not gone down where and when it did.
Even though I feel the government cannot be held liable for a shoot-down, not everybody is as pragmatic about this emotionally-charged issue.
what is the best way to lower the front forks on a 2009 gsxr 1000?
I have a 09 gixxer 1000 and I have just lowered to rear of the bike 2 inches and now Im trying to figure out what is the best way to lower the front 2 inches as well?
Normally you would raise the forks up into the triple clamps but I'm not sure as you have USD forks.
Why you would want to do this to such a good bike is beyond me. If the bike is too tall, why did you buy it in the first place?
how to change a front lower ball joint on a 2003 ford explorer?
im going to replace a front lower ball joint on my 2003 ford explorer 2wd. are there any tricks or tips i should know before i start?
Drive to your local dealer. Pull into the service drive. Speak with a Service Rep. Tell him you need the lower ball joint replaced. Go hang out in the customer lounge for about 3 hours. Drink their coffee, watch their television. Go argue for a discount because you don't feel like paying the amount quoted to you. Threaten to give them a bad survey. Get what you want. Drive home.
I know how to attach them to the bike but the pedals came with a syringe of red grease lube stuff and it says I should "periodically" use it on the pedals via the grease port, do I need to do this before I attach the pedals? or just in a few months time when they need re greasing?
Also how much should I be putting into the port and would regular grease/oil found in the average garage work just as well? (incase I run out)
Thanks
What about when I run out of grease?
Thanks
Pedals rarely require additonal lubrication or overhaul. The purpose of the grease port and included grease syringe is to make adding grease a simple task WHEN it becomes necessary. The pedals came greased, so just mount them and ride. Every time you clean your bike, spin the pedals to see how smoothy they rotate on the spindle. When they no longer rotate as smoothly, you can add a bit of grease. As for how much grease, the port will only accept so much. Once no additional grease can be pushed into the port, you have the proper amount.
I have problems with my coaster brakes of my 1940 CCM that I found in the garbage. It seem that to get just a little braking power I had to put my whole weight on the pedal. Adding some light oil in the grease port but it made no difference. I am somewhat mechanically inclined, but it would be nice to have some advice before I start to try to service the hub.
