http://www.brickboard.com/ The Volvo owner's resource since 1997. en Copyright 1997-2009, Jarrod Stenberg Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:50 GMT Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:50 GMT brickadmin@denizen.net brickadmin@denizen.net volvo 60 http://www.brickboard.com/images/logo_b_25.gif http://www.brickboard.com/ 25 25 The Volvo owner's resource since 1997. I'm sorry but I don't get it. Thees athletes make more money in 2 years then I will ever see in my lifetime. Although it is their job, it is a Game. They are doing a function just like every other working person in the world. What gives them entitlement to a Tax Dollar Paid parade? In a time when New York is creating new fees to charge and new taxes for us to pay to compensate for their unwillingness to run the City more efficiently. I just don't get it. If the ball players want this... I think they or the entire baseball League should have gotten involved in a lot of fun raises to pay for it. It snarls the roads that aren't closed for it, no one has the day off to see it.. My memory may be failing but I don't remember ever getting a parade for doing what I'm paid to do. Role models? I don't think so. Allegence to a team? I don't think so. So why the parade? -- '75 Jeep CJ5 345Hp ChevyPwrd, two motorcycles, '85 Pickup: The '89 Volvo is the newest vehicle I own. it wasn't Volvos safety , it was Longevity that sold me http://home.no.net/ebrox/Tony's%20cars.htm http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1384446/ticker_tape_parades_athletes.html Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:21 GMT No, I found that picture through "google" by searching for "Stickbuilder". Of course I don't actually have any knowledge of who that person in the picture really is or if it is just coincidence or outright theft of information that his profile information at that site seems to match the profile information of our "Stickbuilder" here at this site. Does a picture qualify as "personal information"? I guess that is up to Jarrod since he is the law giver around here. Would it have been "personal information" if I had posted the other pictures of the air planes without the guy in the picture? What about the picture with the unidentified woman and the airplane, would that have qualified as "personal information"? It all gets a little confusing once you step away from the idea that anything that you choose to post on the world-wide internet becomes in fact "public" and no longer qualifies as "private". -- There's nothing worse than a reformed anything http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1384538/ill_ban_anyone_site_posts_personal_identity_information_others.html Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:54 GMT I concur. That was not Snoot's finest moment. -- *Note the rare "Thumbs up" for Jarrod. Bask in the glow my friend. "There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1384477/ill_ban_anyone_site_posts_personal_identity_information_others.html Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:53 GMT Last year I built a 122S for <a href="http://www.applefarmerracing.com/" target="_blank">Apple Farmer Racing</a> to run in <a href="http://www.lacarrerapanamericana.com.mx/index2.asp" target="_blank">La Carrera Panamericana</a>. We didn't have time to sort out the car properly before the 2008 running of the event, and they ran into some mechanical bugs, finishing third of nine cars in the Historico A+ class -- consider that a beta test. This year it's going better (hope I'm not jinxing them by saying that -- still two more days to go). They qualified first in class and 11th overall of 102 cars, no mean feat for a four-cylinder Volvo. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/numeralsix#p/a/u/0/s8hl51GbJ_4" target="_blank">Video of the qualifying run</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/numeralsix#p/a/u/0/G-hQgRJ1lU0" target="_blank">Video of a speed stage</a> There have been major problems with the timing and scoring system (new this year), so no one quite knows the standings -- hope there's enough of a paper trail to reconstruct what really went on, or the officials are going to have an awful lot of irate teams on their hands... http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1382343/120-130/la_carrera_amazon.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:20 GMT That kind of cherry picking? Or the reality I live in? The Virginia voting electorate stayed home. The end. The result is what it is, but it changes nothing. Only 15% felt McDonnell worth voting for, out of all those conservatives and independents, only 15% bothered to tick him off at the ballot box. That&#197;&#155; not cherry picking, that's what it was, and I know why it happened. <i>In the 08 election you claimed a Obama win was a rebuke of conservative values.</i> No, I claimed it was the end of the Neo-Cons and the GOP. And it is, if the GOP lets the Neo-COns continue to run things. Deeds did better than your Palin's pick by 10%. ;>)) It will take some years, but it is dying. <i>In a June Gallup poll more twice as many Americans self identified themselves as "conservative" than did those that self identified as "Liberal" or "Progressive".</i> I've warned you about not citing your sources, if you want to try and act like you actually can research or understand anything. You are making a terrible mistake in believing that all conservatives are Republicans, and that all conservatives are the same. <a href ="http://www.gallup.com/poll/123854/conservatives-maintain-edge-top-ideological-group.aspx"> Gallup </a> If you read this latest poll, Gallup shows the conservative/moderate/liberal trend. It shows that viola, 1/5 of Democrats describe themselves as conservatives. Obviously, what being conservative means to a Democrat versus a Neo-Con such as a yourself, will be quite different. The Democrat will be fiscally conservative, much closer to the original conservative Republican. The Neo-Con, such as yourself, does not believe in fiscal responsibility as long as it is lining your own pockets or that of the corrupt loser defense industry, only when it might be money that goes to a group of people you personally dislike, like poor black people. Moderates are also a large chunk - moderates don't vote for Sarah Palin, and then tend to cough on weak leadership if it shows up on the left or right. They also tend to be more honest about not liking big government, or stupid wars. They might be a slightly smaller %, but they make up the largest chunk of independents, and a pretty good chunk of the Democrats. These people, like myself, are also livid over the giant TARP bailouts - from a GOP Neo-COn president, and the mortgage bailouts. Keep in mind that while two state leadership roles did go to the GOP, that is not necessarily what happened in the more local levels, and that is not what happened for the national special elections, such as the NY one. The national ones went to Democrats. Now pat yourself on the back again for making up not, one, but two false stories about me in a single post. You know happens to naughty little boys caught making up stories?? 1) I did answer your post about my supposed elitism. 2) I did deal with this post, and as usual walked all over your typical BS. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1384211/statistics_problem_cherry_pick_quite_nicely_want_got.html Thu, 5 Nov 2009 01:59 GMT Looks like an inbred, evangelical, hill-billy is playing with his thumb button! Shouldn't you be off somewhere playing with a toy plane? -- MORALITY is doing what is right no matter what you are told RELIGION is doing what you are told no matter what is right. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1382743/ahoh.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:30 GMT <i>"Out of all the registered voters only 15% bothered to cast a vote for Mcdonnell.</i> <p> I find that statistic more interesting that you focused on it, more than for it's substance really. In the 08 election you claimed a Obama win was a rebuke of conservative values. That was not the case, precisely because no conservative candidate was offered. McCain was a rino if there ever was one. Conservative voters had they been offered a candidate they would have shown up. Things may have been different. Your assertion connects two things have have no relevance to one another. This was an off year election, and obviously turn out in Virginia was low for both sides. Off year turn out is always significantly low. The turn out isn't the story. The story is of those who showed up, how did they vote? In this case against tax & spend politics. Against Obama and the Democratic philosophy. </p> <P> In a June Gallup poll more twice as many Americans self identified themselves as "conservative" than did those that self identified as "Liberal" or "Progressive". A Pew poll released in May of 2009 showed that the overwhelming trend is toward conservatism, and not merely among Republicans. The number of Independents calling themselves conservative was increasing to 33%, up from 26% in 2005. The number of Democrats calling themselves conservative was up to 8%. In this poll 37% described themselves as politically conservative; almost double the number identifying as liberal (19%). The values of these respondents demonstrated an increasing trend away from big government as the solution and towards local and community based solutions.</p> <p> My dear your eulogy spoken for Conservative philosophy and the GOp was quite premature. I don't expect you to admit it, even as your own state lean that way. Obama is just another politician, he is no transformational figure bound for greater glory. He makes mistake after mistake and has only retained public approval because a fawning media props him up. His second term is no longer assured. His party's control over congress is even more in peril than Obama's own presidency. The mid term elections may just show us for whom the bell is actually tolling. </p> -- "There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1384187/statistics_problem_cherry_pick_quite_nicely_want_got.html Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:33 GMT Can someone tell me how to check/set timing on my 85 240 wagon? -- 1993 240, 1992 240GL, 1985 240DL Wagon, 1983 240DL http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1383940/220/240/260/280/checkset_timing.html Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:28 GMT Ok: Removed negative battery cable- moved cables around- reconnected- Car started. Drove to Volvo repair shop. Parked car at repair shop tried to restart- had no crank situation. Volvo shop-determined that battery cable when fully tightened was not not tight. At least, not tight enough for a proper current draw for the starter to start. Volvo shop-Replaced the lead connector to the negative ground with new one (different syle) and crimped to cable. Checked ground connection to car body $120.00 So far, So good. Hope this helps someone with similar no crank-intermittent problems- http://www.brickboard.com/AWD/volvo/1383886/850/volvo_850_1995_crank_update.html Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:47 GMT What I've always done is to first attach the mount to the crossmember with the transmission lowered a few inches then raise it with a floor jack while using a long drift punch or alignment tool to help to line one of the holes up. When you get it close enough you should be able to get one of the bolts started and then I go to the other side and do the same thing. With the alignment tool still in the hole pull it in the direction to align the the hole up as perfectly as you can. Then tighten the bolt that you started on that side. It will then draw the crossmember up to the frame. Do the same thing on the other side. Good luck, I hope it works for you as it's always worked for me. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1384037/220/240/260/280/cant_line_transmission_crossmember.html Wed, 4 Nov 2009 03:59 GMT <P> I will accept your premise as you are there and I am not. But please explain, if you will, your take on New Jersey booting the dem, and the NY 23rd district third party conservative candidate getting well over a third of the vote. In a democrat district the rino Republican dropped out because she knew she could not win, and gave her support to her Democrat rival. Voters there wanted a conservative, not a Republican who was liberal on most issues. I would say that result although a loss, may be indicative of a trend. I would say Democrats are squandering their domination of the Federal government. They certainly aren't doing the people's work. 2010 may be their swan song. We'll see. </p> -- &#226;&#128;&#156;Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising towards the heights, and then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization is forever upward.&#226;&#128;&#157; Dr. Endicott http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1384087/gop_didnt_win_won.html Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:47 GMT Or have we WalMartyred ourselves? -- 01 V70 2.4 M5 and a Mini http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1384014/walmarted.html Wed, 4 Nov 2009 02:17 GMT Finally got this finished and it runs well using KN needles and red springs. A small clearance issue between clutch master cyl. and air filter. Need to fabricate an offset filter plate. Good power increase about the same as the last efi I drove and no flat spots. I need to get it on a dyno.<img src="http://members.optusnet.com.au/~kcduffy/mainpic6.JPG"/> http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1383349/140-160/tri_carb_b30.html Sun, 1 Nov 2009 03:03 GMT Why don't you just kiss my ASS? http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1383073/224.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:39 GMT <i>Why don't you just kiss my ASS?</i> You are an ass, you even said so yourself donkey dong junior. -- Three 164's, Two 144's, One 142 & a partridge in a pear tree. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1383370/.html Sun, 1 Nov 2009 05:44 GMT In a nut shell- typical right-wing, horse shit, propaganda for manipulating gullible idiots who don't concern themselves too much with facts. -- MORALITY is doing what is right no matter what you are told RELIGION is doing what you are told no matter what is right. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1382980/preemptive_intervention.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:08 GMT He thinks that standing in line and doing what you are told is what toughness and bravery is he doesn't understand that real toughness and bravery starts with choosing to oppose and defeat your own ego. I don't blame him though I attribute it to all of the brain-washing that he has subjected himself to. I would guess though that it probably all started with an over-bearing and hard to please father; "maybe daddy will love me and accept me if I can just learn to be tough and brave like him", thus began a lifetime of futile pursuit and fundamental misunderstanding. 03V would rather endure all of the telephone pole, cargo net, mud-filled obstacle courses in the world rather than utter three simple words; "I was wrong" and that is his weakness, that is where the scared little boy lives. -- MORALITY is doing what is right no matter what you are told RELIGION is doing what you are told no matter what is right. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1382816/hes_just_confused.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:26 GMT http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1382803/cluck.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:46 GMT I'm at that fun stage of my project where I'm installing all the fun original accessories that I've been able to collect over the last two years. Here are some images of some of them. For a more complete look including brochure and advertizement images, please go to my Photobucket link: http://s262.photobucket.com/albums/ii107/1schmidtchen1/My%201956%20Volvo%20PV%20444%20K/?action=view&current=SleepSet-Brochure.jpg Enjoy! Christopher <img src="http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii107/1schmidtchen1/My%201956%20Volvo%20PV%20444%20K/VolvoAccessoriesBrochure01.jpg"> <img src="http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii107/1schmidtchen1/My%201956%20Volvo%20PV%20444%20K/TricoWasherFluidpumpreservoir.jpg"> <img src="http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii107/1schmidtchen1/My%201956%20Volvo%20PV%20444%20K/gascap1.jpg"> <img src="http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii107/1schmidtchen1/My%201956%20Volvo%20PV%20444%20K/LockingGasCaps.jpg"> <img src="http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii107/1schmidtchen1/My%201956%20Volvo%20PV%20444%20K/puk04.jpg"> <img src="http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii107/1schmidtchen1/My%201956%20Volvo%20PV%20444%20K/Bild002_eee640x480.jpg"> <img src="http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii107/1schmidtchen1/My%201956%20Volvo%20PV%20444%20K/VolvoAccessoriesBrochure02.jpg"> <img src="http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii107/1schmidtchen1/My%201956%20Volvo%20PV%20444%20K/71875128_1.jpg"> <img src="http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii107/1schmidtchen1/My%201956%20Volvo%20PV%20444%20K/80448241_2.jpg"> <img src="http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii107/1schmidtchen1/My%201956%20Volvo%20PV%20444%20K/CentrumRadio.jpg"> <img src="http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii107/1schmidtchen1/My%201956%20Volvo%20PV%20444%20K/72288384_1.jpg"> <img src="http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii107/1schmidtchen1/My%201956%20Volvo%20PV%20444%20K/Brochure-Armrest.jpg"> <img src="http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii107/1schmidtchen1/My%201956%20Volvo%20PV%20444%20K/70217574_3.jpg"> <img src="http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii107/1schmidtchen1/My%201956%20Volvo%20PV%20444%20K/80448241_1.jpg"> <img src="http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii107/1schmidtchen1/My%201956%20Volvo%20PV%20444%20K/80448241_2.jpg"> http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1378884/444-544/fun_original_accessories_collected_pv444_project.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:31 GMT We purchased our 1991 745Ti off of a local Toyota dealer in July of 2000. At that time it had 96K miles. Other than weak AC it was fine and prior to purchase I was able to contact the original owner through a receipt I found in the glove box. He had always used synthetic oil and had replaced the turbocharger at some point. I paid $5400 for the car. The car was my wife&#226;&#128;&#153;s daily driver and our interstate flyer until recently. Piston slap was bad enough that many people mistook it as a diesel. I completed a 1600 mile trip in it in August without incident. Total mileage on the car was 253K. I had found a replacement for the car so it was time for it to move on. I placed an ad in the local Craigslist and listed it for $900. I mentioned it had a noisy engine. I indicated that it was up to date on all maintenance and I had records from the time of our purchase. It was listed for less than 12 hours. The third caller came out, drove the car and paid cash. We have had a lot of Volvos since 1985 when we started out with a 1976 244. This 740 wagon was perhaps the nicest one of all. In the nine years of ownership it let my wife down with no start situations only twice- both times a result of a cracked solder joint on the radio suppression relay. I went through my maintenance records on the car and thought some might be interested in what it took to keep the car reliable and road ready in the nine years and 157K miles we drove it. The AC was converted to 134a right after we bought it and other than an occasional top up of refrigerant it worked great without any replacement components. The troublesome relay on the control unit did require resoldering once. An upper radiator hose was replaced as well as two different turbo hoses. The ignition switch, the speedometer, and the intank pump were replaced. One exhaust system including the converter was needed. I changed the injector seals and intake gasket when I had the intake manifold off to clean out the oil separator. I changed the fuel filter twice. The throttle body was cleaned nine times. The heater hoses and thermostat were replaced along with the heater control valve. This car had avoided overheating when a heater hose burst due to a low coolant sensor circuit I installed. It had two radiator replacements- once because of a lousy Nissens three row. The cooling system was flushed and coolant renewed five times. The distributor was resealed once and it had two caps and rotor replacements. It had four sets of plugs. It had one replacement battery. It had a set of alternator brushes replaced. It had one crank position sensor replacement. The front rotors and calipers were replaced once. It had three sets of front pads and two sets of rear pads. The brake system was flushed five times. The cone bushings were replaced with poly. The ball joints were replaced twice. The rack was flushed twice. I replaced the rear main seal and renewed the output bushing and transmission seals. I flushed the transmission five times. The timing belt was replaced four times. The front engine seals and water pump were replaced three times and the tensioner once. The water pump seals and gaskets were replaced once and the drive belts twice. Synthetic oil and Mann filters were changed twenty nine times. <a href="http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/rstarkie/volvo/?action=view&current=91745V.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/rstarkie/volvo/91745V.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1370361/ending_9_years_ownership_best_volvo_date_reviewing_maintenance_records.html Sat, 5 Sep 2009 19:39 GMT If America were waking up, she'd be locking up the party leaders, cleansing or dismantling the current parties, and creating new ones. How about a real conservative party for example? -- The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -Bertrand Russell http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1382664/flab_seen_latest_polls.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:06 GMT You're pretty smug for a clown who can't bring himself to admit it when he has been proven wrong. -- MORALITY is doing what is right no matter what you are told RELIGION is doing what you are told no matter what is right. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1382625/flab_seen_latest_polls.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:29 GMT Next time your standing in front of a mirror 03V try not to see a giant set of labia staring back at you, it will be hard I know but you owe it to yourself. -- MORALITY is doing what is right no matter what you are told RELIGION is doing what you are told no matter what is right. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1382594/thought.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:14 GMT Only the first two goals, and really the first one, were what was on the table in the beginning. Catching Bin Laden and undoing his network was all that was required. And...we really did have the support to do that, and get out. By sticking to those goals, we would have achieved a lot more in respect and basic security. Then, of course, we know what followed, so I won belabour it. All I can ask you to consider is that a LOT of good State, and other civil service employees really have tried to do the best they could with their hands tied. I can tell you that when there was a big uproar in State a few years ago, along with some other branches, about being sent to posts in Iraq and some other regions it was not because of fear or disloyalty. Its because it was all so badly managed with 'private contractors getting in the way mucking everything up, making not only more dangerous, but thwarting their ability to achieve anything in the way of steady relations. Unfortunately, people in the military often only goet to see things through one eye glass, and when taken out of that, many don't really know how to come at it from another angle. When I was making noise along the Black Sea coast, I did a lot of watching and observing, sometimes unintentionally when wrapped up in something else. I saw a lot, and I 'smelled' a lot, which was why I was very concerned when I was picked up by the police. It turned out they were on an errand of mercy, but the opposite could have been as easily true. Anyways, I recognized where the pressure need to be applied to make headway against a number of terrorist operations. As BoxVolvo said, its really all about economics at the end of the day, and I have no doubt he sees a variety of solutions have to use it against the terrorists in their own bailiwick. It would cost us far less, in blood and treasure. Of course, it wouldn be a big military operation, and it won't make people look like big war leaders, nor will large defense industry businesses get to make billions off the taxpayers. Which means it would be totally unacceptable to the neo-cons. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1382410/goals.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:51 GMT Snoot, unfortunately your argument jumped the sharked about when you made your cute little list. Give me video clips of either Bush, Rove, Cheney, or any individuals of even remotely close stature to those I list for you, and I will quickly acknowledge the correctness when you asserted that conservative voices are included our national Pravda known as Ms.NBC. Really? Nancy Pfotenhauer? You were actually serious??? -- &quot;There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1382053/ah_yes_fonzi_water_skiing_leather_jacket.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:00 GMT Ron Paul, oh yes a bastion of conservative politics. This is best demonstrated by his performance in the last election. Col. Wilkerson?!?! He has held what office? Nancy Pfotenhaur? Is that even a real name? Frank Scaffer and the "right to life crowd" are obviously far from the force they once were, maybe ten years ago. Snoot, I gave you Hillary, Bamster, and Barney Frank as my examples of Fox News prime time shows allowing left wing voices of the highest caliber air time. Along with the air time they all got respectful treatment. Your counter offer of MSNBC giving prime time air include these names???? Excuse me if I m underwhelmed. </p> <p> Buchanan ceased being a conservative when he became a self promoter. He is on every channel every day. I think he sleeps in the green rooms in case they want him for a few minutes. The only names I see that even come close to a comparison with mine are Pawlenty, and to a much lesser degree Sen Ridge. Tell me he wasn't selling his book at that time. That would make his appearance more understandable. If one wants onto that network writing a book that stabs Bush in the back is a good way to get it done. So I guess your list has been whittled down to one name. </p> <p> I stand corrected. MSNBC loves intelligent conservatives. Your list make that point crystal clear. </p> -- "There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1382013/snoot_man_may_ask_wheres_beef.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:32 GMT Correct me if I'm wrong but weren't you the one who posted the whole "death panel" radio interview lie thing by the insurance industry shill Betsy McCaughey? I thought you were a big fan and an eager consumer of "scares that aren't there". -- MORALITY is doing what is right no matter what you are told RELIGION is doing what you are told no matter what is right. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1382027/national_health_emergency.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:01 GMT <i>""Gee, I guess I was wrong Maddow does play host to conservative/Republican guests. Thanks for taking the time to come up with that list, I really learned something today."</i> <p> Snoot, you can't even for a second compare Fox News allowing the leadership of the Liberal party, in the form of the highest ranking elected officials, to MSNBC having on Nancy Pfotenhauer and Tom Ridge while he was shilling his Bush-bash book? Hillary, Obama, Rangel, Frank, and Dodd. Folks who make the policies and laws. People who have names that you may have heard of. Not to mention popular culture Libs like Michael Moore, Garafalo, & Rosie O'Donnell. </P> <p> Snoot you have no comparative evidence to support what you say. Ms.NBC would never allow top shelf conservatives on who would hand their french poodle hosts their well protected asses. Maddow and Olbermann are puppets. Maybe you will say the same about O'ReillY & Hannity in terms of the perspective on issues. If that is your argument fine, but you can't deny they at least bring the other side into the discussion; and let them make their case. Maddow & Olbermann state the other side's case in their own terms, and then attack it. That is even remotely comparable. You lose. </p> <p> You see the big difference here is I do watch Olbermann, and on rare occasions the Maddow show as well. I love to see what spin they are tossing out. So I know they don't have Conservatives on, because I would fall off the sofa in shock if they ever did. You have no idea what goes on on Fox because you have already said you don't watch it. So I am taking advantage of you because you can't lose an argument to a person who doesn't even know what they are talking about. Not a slam. Just a fact.</P. -- "There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1382035/oooh_swing_miss.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:13 GMT Does anyone have any experience with the + or - of installing a performance chip in a newer 240? Site advertises benefits as: &#226;&#128;&#162; Add 50+ Horsepower &#226;&#128;&#162; Add 50+ Torque &#226;&#128;&#162; Save 3-6+ MPG &#226;&#128;&#162; Faster 0-60 Time &#226;&#128;&#162; Improved mid-range power &#226;&#128;&#162; More power for towing &#226;&#128;&#162; Smoother Shifting &#226;&#128;&#162; Smoother IDLE &#226;&#128;&#162; Reduced overall engine stress &#226;&#128;&#162; Up to 40% Quicker Throttle Response time &#226;&#128;&#162; Pays for itself with gas savings &#226;&#128;&#162; Improved Top End Power &#226;&#128;&#162; Improves your 1/4 Mile Times &#226;&#128;&#162; Improves your 1/8 Mile Times &#226;&#128;&#162; Less and fewer oil changes due to a more efficient tune &#226;&#128;&#162; Prolongs your engine life due to a more efficient tune &#226;&#128;&#162; Improved Low End Torque &#226;&#128;&#162; Improved Performance in high altitude areas &#226;&#128;&#162; HELPS your vehicle to pass emissions or SMOG testing All for $69.99 -- 1993 240, 1992 240GL, 1985 240DL Wagon, 1983 240DL http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1381059/220/240/260/280/performance_chip.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:16 GMT <p> O.K. We leave, and not harm another soul. Then what? The Taliban waltz's back in victoriously? Folks who were active in the Kharzai are murdered. Not by us, so please don't lose any sleep over those deaths. 50% of the population become human livestock, as woman take their rightful place in Sharia society as uneducated servants. Again, please Jarrod don't lose sleep about that, as we elected female House Speaker and a black man with a vaguely Islamic sounding name, so hey we are doing our part. Islamic terror groups like Al Quiada will again have a home base in a friendly nation, from which they can openly train terrorists and plan the next 911. This shouldn't concern you either, because as a film you student you love the delicious irony. It is like a Hollywood script. The stupid white man offends sensibilities of the dark skinned Islamic peoples, and then after years of oppression they finally strike back. Thousands innocent men, women, children, and elderly are wiped out. Instead of learning their lesson and converting to Islam the stupid unjust white man tries to bring the fight to the holy land, and they kill thousands more Americans. Then the stupid infidels elect an apologist and lose the nerve to fight. So the white man retreats and shakes with fear waiting for the next shoe to drop. Yes, this would be justice to you. </P> <p> You have no plan for how to proceed forward from your massive one step plan. Only a fool believes that diplomacy will the answer in the Middle East. In case you haven't noticed years of diplomacy brought us to our current malady. Your pacifist personal philosophy may be fine on a personal level, but in a tough world turning the other cheek merely leads to have both sides bruised. I believe people like you and Snoot would still blame the U.S. as your women were being subjugated, and you were being forced to either convert to Islam or die. Your post was simplistic, unrealistic, and amounted to fortune cookie foreign policy. Good work. </p> -- &quot;There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1381616/simplistic_vague_completely_lacking_realistic_aforethought_outcome_move.html Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:57 GMT <i>And your point is what, that some people "man up" when they get something wrong? Maddow apparently does, I do, when will you?</i> <p> Why you don't work for a politician spinning whatever bullshit he/she says into something more palatable is beyond me. Of course the end result is still bullshit, it just becomes more swallow-able. As in this post, do you think MSNBC every now and then checks back and says "Oh, we were wrong on that one. Lets apologize." Please, you know that is crap. I posted two instances of the liberal media having been called out on their bullshit. Limbaugh sent out the hounds via his lawyers, and they were forced to fess up. How much other bullshit did they spoon feed you that they will never own because the slandered individual preferred to just let it die, rather draw even more attention to it by making a fuss? </p> <p> Bash Fox News all you want, but if you think MSNBC is anything other than a left wing propaganda machine you are nuts. It has been weeks, perhaps months since you stated that they "regularly feature reputable conservative voices" to counter their constant lefty spin. I haven't noticed a single one. It is just the preacher, and his choir preaching to you. Their adoring congregation. Thus their crappy ratings. </p> -- &quot;There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1381617/missed_calling.html Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:13 GMT <i>If more people get sent, they should be trainers.</i> My first reaction was to agree, but after some reflection, assuming we are talking about military trainers, I began to wonder. Are we going to train them to be a regular army, i.e., one that can only fight another regular army and has every soldier loaded up with a "zillion" dollars worth of equipment, between what he carries on his back and what he can call on to back him up; or are we going to train them in guerrilla warfare, something we haven't been able to accomplish for ourselves with much demonstrable success? In fact, I would say that, when it comes to fighting a guerrilla-type war, the Afghans are way ahead of us. Recorded history shows that they have been doing it at least since the days the Macedonians came wandering through on their way to what we now call India. They were probably at it even before Alexander showed up. So, what have we got to teach them? Maybe I'm being unfair. After all, overwhelming force did make it possible for us to subdue Grenada. ;-) -- "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Dr. Samuel Johnson http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1381438/afghanistan_increase_decrease_troops.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:17 GMT <i>'cause the only sources that count live in underground bunkers, wear tin foil hats to protect their thoughts and are on the payroll of multi-billion dollar corporations, all the rest are just left-wing propaganda."</i> <object width="518" height="419"><param name="movie" value="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=GdSUaGQu2G" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed src="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=GdSUaGQu2G" allowfullscreen="true" width="518" height="419" /></object> <p> Once again we see you quick to criticize my sources of information, while you just assume that yours are above reproach. Things aren't always as they seem. </p> -- &quot;There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1381365/yeah_check_sourcessnot_uses_msnbc_real_source.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:49 GMT Bet you have brown eyes. They are not to look through, but they make good sight glasses. In your case they indicate how full of Shit you are, and you are overfull. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1381071/y.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:39 GMT VERY CAREFULLY! http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1381041/220/240/260/280/remove_wagon_rear_dome_light.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:31 GMT <i>Then after our victory we rebuild their infrastructure, restart their economy and then get out of the way. Is our President willing to do this? Are we willing to do this? Do we have the financial resources to fund this war or to rebuild infrastructure that is not our own?</i> Even if we commit 600,000 troops, (the estimated number required now being bandied about) the sort of total victory you describe wouldn't be guaranteed. As to the questions you pose above, the answer is NO. If there is a lack of will, it comes from the realization that we don't have the resources, and that, rather than trying to fix up things over there, we ought to dedicate what assets we have left to putting our own house in order. When it comes to nation building, setting up an incorruptible government, and building fair electoral system, we've got our work cut out for us at home. <i>How about letting the CIA do WHAT EVER they need to do to fight terrorism.</i> By all means, although I would suggest they leave Lynndie England and her friends at home this time around. -- "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Dr. Samuel Johnson http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1380456/afghanistan_increase_decrease_troops.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:21 GMT If teachers didn't get paid so much for there 4 hour a day 180 day a year job then the cost of college wouldn't be $100K. The education world is Feeding itself. Elementary school teachers do not need Masters degrees Yet they are required. Just so the education world can keep itself going. Qualified teachers can take additional courses during the entire summer they are off and get raises. It doesn't make sense. They are already qualified. Other industries, you have to stay current just to keep your job. Raises do not come every year and teh salaried Employees sure put in more time per year then a Teacher. Yes, Automation has taken over some of the Auto industry But not nearly the level you are saying. Back in the 80's my buddies paid "the guy" to put their name on the top of the list and within weeks they were working on the line. So, I know what I'm talking about. -- '75 Jeep CJ5 345Hp ChevyPwrd, two motorcycles, '85 Pickup: The '89 Volvo is the newest vehicle I own. it wasn't Volvos safety , it was Longevity that sold me http://home.no.net/ebrox/Tony's%20cars.htm http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1380530/think.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:30 GMT BINGO! Absolutely correct Unions and the "Minimum wage" has dragged us down. Unions had their day, no longer. Why we pay Complacent lazy do nothing Teachers their salary is beyond me. But Tenure and Unions make it Very hard to fire for cheaper motivated people. Car Manufacturing: Putting a door handle on a car all day long is the job for AARP folks. It should not cost a Loaded price of $70 an hour for that task. Then we send it over seas and we wonder where the Jobs are and we blame teh other countries. So Stupid. Heck, Union, Town Garbage men are making more then Electrical Engineers. we are skewed Break the Unions and lets start again. -- '75 Jeep CJ5 345Hp ChevyPwrd, two motorcycles, '85 Pickup: The '89 Volvo is the newest vehicle I own. it wasn't Volvos safety , it was Longevity that sold me http://home.no.net/ebrox/Tony's%20cars.htm http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1380500/america_reeping_sown.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:23 GMT Snoot, You got your analysis totally wrong. The unions made the American production muscle non-competitive! The unions created a faux middle class that got $30+ per hour for a $10 job along with health insurance that the rest of us are now paying for! Come on, you expect non-union Americans to believe your BS? If so, you are highly misguided! Get real, in NC it takes $30 in labor to build a desktop PC where it only takes $3 to do the same job in TJ! Granted, Dell isn't a union shop but even they are 100% off the mark and they just shut down their government sponsored factory in Greensboro NC! Get your facts straight and quit distributing your uneducated wishes of fact!If you take exception to my response, I have one request, what manufacturing sector has been growing in the US? I suspect you will be speechless on that question, unless you dig into the illicit drug trade. jorrell -- 92 245 284K miles, IPD'd to the hilt, 06 XC70, 00 Eclipse custom Turbo setup...currently taking names and kicking reputations! http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1380043/america_reeping_sown.html Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:01 GMT You don't know what I have because I didn't tell you and in fact I refused to do so and I still refuse to do so. Your attempts to manipulate me with my own ego will only fail because I will not play your game. I have not ever lied to you and I have not sought to manipulate you with information that I knew to be false and, unlike you, I have a track record of stepping up and admitting my mistakes when they are brought to light. You know all of this to be true yet you choose to act like a dick why? Because you don't know how to "man up", you only know how to run your mouth and play games and you have yourself convinced that you are currently pressing an advantage in a game. The sad thing is that you are the only one participating in the game, you are playing with yourself. Uniforms and badges don't make a man, behavior makes a man. Behave like a man for a change, don't assume that I have begun lying to you now simply because I refuse to play your game. A man knows when to give others their due, try being a man, try taking someone who has never lied to you at their word and giving them their due. I am telling you that our sources disagree, implied in that statement is the fact that I have a source and don't just make shit up that I think sounds good, that's because I have a source. -- MORALITY is doing what is right no matter what you are told RELIGION is doing what you are told no matter what is right. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1380491/went_guess.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:50 GMT Well then there you go time to feel like a big man. Our sources disagree (assuming we were using the same criteria; "American mass murderers") but you at least did your own homework which is good because like I said I'm not doing it for you anymore. Running your mouth when you had absolutely no facts and before you even knew the difference between a serial killer and a mass murderer was pretty sad (especially given your profession) but in the end you stepped up and did a Google search and tracked down some actual information, good for you. If you can get to a point where you are just as willing to accept information that doesn't happen to coincide with your prejudice then you will be a man! -- MORALITY is doing what is right no matter what you are told RELIGION is doing what you are told no matter what is right. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1380470/went_guess.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:28 GMT "it would take a nanosecond to locate supporting information"- go for it. -- MORALITY is doing what is right no matter what you are told RELIGION is doing what you are told no matter what is right. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1380451/least_can_offer_sources_fixed_nmi.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:43 GMT Age isn't the issue. Time in service. He gets a lot of training but never in a place that makes organized rational thought necessary. I find the brute force ridicule far more problematic. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1380449/least_can_offer_sources_fixed_nmi.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:37 GMT You've been handed sources like crazy since you started posting on this site from myself and several others yet they don't make a piss bit of difference. No matter how many sources you are provided with you still come back here with the same dumb shit so why should I bother? Why should I waste my time trying to cut through your delusions with fact if you are not prepared to deal with fact? Cops who are good at dealing with facts are called "Detectives" so why are you in your forties and still on patrol? Could it be because you and facts don't get along so well? -- MORALITY is doing what is right no matter what you are told RELIGION is doing what you are told no matter what is right. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1380443/least_can_offer_sources_fixed_nmi.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:24 GMT So far, this would make only once that you had a real reference or source of any kibd. You still need another to be as accurate as a broken clock. What I will be really waiting to read is you actually take a lesson from this TV journalist, and actually admit you are wrong, on just one of the multiple endless falsities you have forwarded on this forum. Same with whining crying Rush, who regularly lies about people and never apologizes when he is proven wrong. Be that as it may, the statement was believed because Rush is a big bigot, and has a long history of divisive racially inflammatory commentary. Not even the white NFL players want him as a team owner. Rush had to leave one position because of his bigoted tasteless statements, and he kept right on with it. But of course, we have to leave it to those liberal pinko commie news commentators to either apologize, or even offer you an accurate source. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1380357/even_broken_clock_right_twice_day.html Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:01 GMT Enjoy your delusion! Don't call me when your belief fails! jorrell -- 92 245 284K miles, IPD'd to the hilt, 06 XC70, 00 Eclipse custom Turbo setup...currently taking names and kicking reputations! http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1380066/america_reeping_sown.html Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:21 GMT 940 was a super comfortable model :) -- '97 855na, Mobil 1, K&N, various IPD's and eBay's http://www.brickboard.com/AWD/volvo/1380026/850/cracked_block_fix_update.html Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:40 GMT Yup it's too late, I should have called you before I spent all that money on education. My belief is already dead, nit wits who don't have a clue and let O'Reily do their thinking for them and greedy pigs gave it to the Chinese, I watched it happen. Follow the bouncing ball to savings! -- MORALITY is doing what is right no matter what you are told RELIGION is doing what you are told no matter what is right. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1380071/america_reeping_sown.html Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:32 GMT Okay, here we go... freshly weighed pieces and assemblies, 'cuz it was all out there in the garage and it only took about 20 minutes to accomplish. The only caveat here is scale calibration - never really done, but this set of scales always has me within a couple of pounds of various doctor office scales. Let's say plus or minus 3% on the numbers below, just to be safe. 185 lbs - Short block, including block and all internal rotating parts, valve lifters, timing gears & cover, front and rear seals, & oil pan. No water pump, no front pulley, no distributor, no bellhousing, no flywheel, no clutch... a "pure" short block, if you will. 52 lbs - Head, including complete valve train, pushrods, head bolts, & valve cover. This would obviously put a long block in the area of 230-240 lbs. This means the missing 100 lbs or so would be made up of intake system, exhaust manifold, water pump, starter, alternator, distributor, wires and plugs, flywheel, clutch, and bellhousing, etc. Sounds about right, but I haven't actually weighed *everything* in this list. I do know the flywheel is around 21 lbs and the starter is about 17 lbs. Oh yes... just for good measure... an empty B20 block is just about 80 lbs. -- <p>Gary L - 142E ITB race car, 73 1800ES<br /> <a href='http://www.bluebrickracing.mysite.com'><u>BlueBrick Racing Website</u></a><br /><a href='http://www.youtube.com/user/denrael'><u>YouTube Racing Videos</u></a> http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1379575/140-160/short_block_weighed.html Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:17 GMT Dan, don't pry them out. As was mentioned, use a small blade screw driver or knife. Incert the blade on the lower side of the blank, left or right. You want to depress a catch or plastic clip towards the center of the blank to release it. The blank should release and come out. On Ebay, search Volvo parts and there are often gauges for sale, sometimes turbo gauge clusters with volt meters and oil pressure gauges. They also made an oil temp gauge which requires a weld-in of a sensor on the oil pan. The oil pressure gauge requires changing the oil pressure light sender for a dual mode, both light and electric pressure sender. You'll need to add a wire for that circuit to the gauge. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1374147/220/240/260/280/square_panels_right_instrument_cluster.html Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:16 GMT I have been up to my neck in Volvo speedometers for the last two days. I have learned several things. In reference to the 140mph speedometers in the 7/9 series. I can tell you that the 1991 and 1992 instrument clusters and their speedometers are the same. 1993, 1994, and probably 1995 are all the same but different from the 91/92. The speedometers from a 91/92 cluster will not swap with a speedometer from a 93/94/95. It would appear that the 960 cars share the same cluster with their respective 740/940 cousins. I was able to swap a speedometer from a 92 960 with a speedometer in a 92 940. Turbo cars require the tachometer/boost gauge to be swapped into a replacement cluster from a NA car. While speedometers will not swap between the already noted clusters, I believe entire clusters will swap across the 91-95 models. The clocks are a wild card in that some are controlled from the dash and others through the bezel. I did not investigate the cruise control. 91/92 have a male spade on the speedometer and the later cars have the spade on the back of the cluster- I would guess both are providing the same needed signal but I did not have the opportunity to check this out. In reference to speedometer disassembly. David D&#226;&#128;&#153;Angelantonio&#226;&#128;&#153;s file (http://www.brickboard.com/FAQ/700-900/ElectricalSpeedometerRepair.htm) with photos is a great resource in repairing the Yazaki by replacing the capacitors. However, the disassembly calls for quite a bit of unsoldering connections on the board including a ribbon with multiple joints. While I am comfortable unsoldering/resoldering joints on a board I find working with ribbon fraught with chances of error. He calls for no less than 11 unsoldering points (5on a ribbon) to disassemble the speedometer. I was able to reduce the number of unsolderings to just two. Those would be the blue wires that connect the micro switch to the board. After disconnecting those from the board the remaining disassembly was only involved with removing the needle and some screws. Begin by removing the needle. Gently rotate the needle by hand to it stopping point and note (or mark) this point which is more or less the &#226;&#128;&#156;m&#226;&#128;&#157; in the mph at the bottom of the face. The needle is then twisted off by very gently turning it and lifting straight up after you carefully lift it over the zero peg. Yes, scary stuff, but would you rather unsolder and resolder the remaining 9 solder points? Pick your poison. Continue on the other side by removing the four small Phillips head screws near the center of the board. Only two of them really need to be removed but it is hard to tell which ones they are until you have taken the board loose. At that point the board will come loose but still be attached by the ribbon cable on the motor. With the board loose you have access to both screws that hold the motor in place. Remove those two screws and the odometer motor lifts free and stays with the board. You now have access to the capacitors that are referenced in Davide&#226;&#128;&#153;s tutorial. You can further disassemble the remaining portion by using a knife to separate the face from the clear plastic structure. Gentle prying of the face all around will pull the adhesive points loose and the face will come off. The adhesive remains tacky and simply press the face on for reassembly. The removal of the face will reveal two small Phillips head screws that when removed will leave the mechanical portion of the odometers free of attachments. Assembly is straight forward based on the disassembly. Care needs to be taken to see that the pin in rotated all the way clockwise to its stop before pushing the needle on at the stop point you found before taking it off. Invest in a good screw driver set capable of giving a good fit to the screws you will encounter. Husky (Home Depot) makes one I like that has four different sized inserts- slot on one end and Phillips on the other. In addition to everything I learned about speedometers I also learned that the thin &#226;&#128;&#156;zero pegs&#226;&#128;&#157; on the temperature and fuel gauges are very fragile and easy to break off&#226;&#128;&#166;. Some of this material is already sited in the FAQ&#226;&#128;&#153;s but I included it here for continuity. I did not learn it all on my own. Thanks to those who contribute to the FAQ&#226;&#128;&#153;s and to Steve Ringlee for all the work he does in organizing, arranging, and making sense of the contributions. Randy http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1371221/740/760/780/additional_information_140mph_speedometers_199195.html Wed, 9 Sep 2009 23:12 GMT At this point the best arrangement we can make with China is to assigne them all rights of property of our Interstate Hyway system in return for relenquishment of debt. With that they can set up thier own system of toll and Nationalize thier own further maintenance and construction of the system. tim http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1380052/nuturalize_china_debt.html Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:34 GMT <i>"Bush had not invaded Iraq, Afghanistan would not be facing a ressurgance of the Taliban." </i> <p> Wow, I think that is the dumbest thing you ever wrote here. SO, if Bush just attacked Afghanistan the Taliban would have just went away and joined the Peace Corp., but when he attacked Iraq they said "Oh, now he's gone too far!". Yeah, what an insightful grasp on ME events. </p> <i>"Plenty of people in the military like opera, officers and enlisted."</i> <p> Ok here's a plan. Lets set up two venues in the same ME base. In one we'll have Toby Keith singing, and in the other at the same time we'll have Ms. Flab singing her greatest hits. We can count heads going in at both events. Good luck. Many is the time we would be out in the field. Days out from our last hot meal, toilet, shower, or even a cold drink. We would be hanging out and talking about we want to do when we get back. Inevitably someone would say "Man, I need a good aria right now.", and everyone would just nod that deep understanding nod that only comes because we were all in the same place mentally. <b> NOT!!!!</b> </p> <i>"I even went to school - yes school - with some of them. </i> <p> Royalty no doubt. Nothing gives you the feel of the common person's plight by rubbing elbows with their ruling class. </p> <i>"I had a male escort, with a car, for my safety in those areas, but also because I was female. "</i> <p> Lets not try and blur the line between necessity and safety, and Sharia law. The punishment for failing to have a male escort was the Taliban putting you in a soccer stadium to have rocks thrown at you. Female safety is a tough sell when this is the punishment. </p> <i> "except for your RAH RAH RAH blow up those brown skinned terrorists over there.</i> <p> Well we agree on something. Yeah, blowing them up over there is way more convenient that doing it here. Genius really in it's simplicity. As apposed to Clinton's plan of ignoring them and hoping they will go way; thus emboldening them and inviting them over here. </p> -- &quot;There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1379380/boy_werent_lies_misrepresentations_great_post.html Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:22 GMT And which side of the wall are you on? Did you serve, or did you not? If so thank you, if not why not? Allow me to make a guess......You did not because you thought that your little pink ass was too good or too valuable to risk. Don't worry, you have plenty of company there. Those who felt that way don't deserve to have any country to call home. Even those who served in the National Guard did something. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1379270/come_one_flab_version_reality_please_ignore_common_sense_speaks.html Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:55 GMT Hello hope you can help. Volvo S60 2003 non turbo Rear brake lights always on, with ignition on or off,I half to disconnect the battery to shut them off,third brake light works fine. Replaced fuses and no change. When stepping on the brakes, loud humming/ buzzing noise from engine compartment. What is the problem, driving me crazy, any help would be great. Thanks bheli. http://www.brickboard.com/AWD/volvo/1370069/S60/brake_lights.html Fri, 4 Sep 2009 01:08 GMT Hello everyone, I've got a complete front passenger 240 seat blue cloth/vinyl (back) material for sale in excellent condition including headrest, (no rips, solid frame, sliding seat tracks included, complete seat), came off an '87 Volvo 240, asking $40 o.b.o. I'm located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada #(416)588-2792 Also have other 240 parts for sale as well ('89 and newer) Thanks in advance http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1375651/220/240/260/280/240_front_seat_sale.html Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:06 GMT <i>"You don't give a crap about your country, or your fellow citizens, or even other veterans. All you carp about is what you are owed in socialist benefits, and how much you are being cheated of, because you have a contract. My God, do you really think you are being cheated when some handicapped person might get something you do?"</i> <p> Well, certainly stirring. Sounds nice. But the sad fact is once again you see what you wish to see, not what is front of you. The two of us dedicated our adult lives to service. Unlike Mother Theresa we didn't take a vow of poverty. Neither did you. We certainly make a living, but nobody who is in the lines of work we chose gets rich. Are we to assume that your travel to Europe to sing your dinosaur songs is altruistic? Do you get compensated? When did either of us endorse keeping anything from handicapped people so that we would get ours? Never. Again you make crap up because it fits the template through which you view us. Unfortunately it lack veracity, and certainly fails the sniff test. It doesn't even smell like the truth.</p> <p> Speaking of caring about the troops, I hear nothing from you talking about your USO service, Wounded Warrior fund service, or any other kind of support of the troops. It's good enough for Toby Keith, Bob Hope did it, and so many others. Not that more than like maybe 8 service men would probably want to actually hear opera, but have you offered? Don't worry I understand that was none of my business, just like your elitist upbringing. But you know the answers. You don't have to answer me, but you can't hide the truth from yourself. </p> <i>"Nobody here has respect for you two because we know the real thing. All you two are are self serving angry men who feel they are still owed more socialism for doing what they wanted to do. "</i> <p> Nobody here has respect for us because we disagree with you? Is that it? You Uncle served and he's a <b>"big right wing whit male ranter"</b> too. Hmm, sounds like you don't respect him very much either. If falling in line behind your beliefs is the cost of your respect, I shall be content to continue on without it. I've made it this far. Speaking of respect, it seems folks on this site slam you with thumbs down like they magnets and you were metal. Perhaps some folks here are sick of your drivel. </p> <p> I think that you took that old quote that "Well behaved women rarely make history" a little too literally. Behavior rarely makes one memorable, rather it is substance. Perhaps you should focus a bit more on the facts, and less on making statements based on your preconceived notions. I have always acknowledged that you are a intelligent woman, and I give you that respect. I do feel though that the silver spoon that you were born with may have had a sharp steel barb on the end of it. Much like Paul, and, maybe even Snoot to some degree, you have a lot of anger. Anger at white males, the United States, our ancestors, and just plain old anger. Did you celebrate Christopher Columbus yesterday, or is he a oppressor to you as well? </p> <p> You live a charmed life, you travel and have been well educated clearly. Many women, tens of millions in fact, don't have that luxury. You don't live in the prisons these women do. The prisons of forced marriage, denial of education, even the prison of the buhrka. Maybe if you focused that anger on helping these women live the life you have you would see things differently. Talk about a "I Have mine screw you mentality", you exemplify it. </p> -- "There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1379162/come_one_flab_version_reality_please_ignore_common_sense_speaks.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:32 GMT There are upwards of a dozen people here that I know of who have been in or are in the armed forces, yet only you & that other twit rave about it. -- Three 164's, Two 144's, One 142 & a partridge in a pear tree. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1379163/come_one_flab_version_reality_please_ignore_common_sense_speaks.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:36 GMT And you are no closer to answering the original question than you were several posts ago. All you have done is to run your big dick sucker. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1379079/cut_date_make_nominations_award.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:32 GMT Most of the oil trap writeups on the forums deal with the pre-2001 vehicles. I figured I would add some lessons learned after I did my v70 2003. My symptoms of the bad oil trap. Whistling and high suction on the oil cap. Had to use almost two hands to pull off the cap. As a temp fix I pulled the dip stick out a little and this stopped the whistling, Check engine light came on (lean mixture). Car ran okay, stalled when stopping short but that's it. Cost of parts About $80. Oil Trap, top hose to a sensor passenger side manifold (its visible), short tube to the block and regular hose claps. Tools. Must have a 1/4in drive, extensions, flex (!/4 in each side), 10mm socket. This is for the manifold bolt near the sensor above. To make more room you can rip the hose off the sensor (this hose will be replaced). Guess you can take the water hose off (i didn't). Real difficult to get the sensor off, the back bolt is too difficult to fool around with. Need a 3/8in drive extensions and flex 10mm, 12mm. Biggest issue. The quick connect on the fuel line. I called every volvo dealer in the area, spoke to the head service managers. No special tool to remove. I was told the connect was a european sytle. Most of the service managers didn't even know what I was talking about and the parts diagram called the piece a spacer. Part of my problem in removing the connect was that I thought the disconnect was removed from the rail. I now know that the disconnect stays on the rail and that the fuel line (which has only a little play) is pulled from the connect. To disconnect I ended up having to pull the injector rail out using a pick to release the connect from the line. As a followup I am again contacting Mac-tools and Snapon with a picture of the connect. When I spoke to them they said they didn't have any type of tool for the connect. Possibly seeing picture might help in finding a tool. Other considerations. After you remove all the intake bolts (don't remove the bottom bolts they are slotted) you think that the intake will lift out. There is another bracket (bolt 12mm) under the 2nd intake passenger side. You can see it from under the car. I took it the bolt off from under the car but was able to put the bolt back by snaking my arm under the manifold. When you are ready to reassemble leave the bracket a little loose. This is so you can adjust the bracket to align with the hole. I did not replace the intake gasket but tighten the bolts fairly tight. It is difficult to use a torque with extensions and impossible to use it on the bolt near the sensor. When placing the injector rail back on make sure you grease the injector gaskets going into the intake. This will prevent cracking. I used motor oil to lube them. To install the rail line up the injectors push in driver side first working right to left. The connect just snaps in. Before starting the job, pull the fuel pump fuse out and start the car. This will burn excess fuel in the lines. Also make sure you relieve the pressure using the pin on the rail, passenger side. Of course disconnect the battery from the rear of the car after you purged the lines. Make sure you allocate two days to do the whole job. The check engine light was resolved after I finished. Good Luck. Madness http://www.brickboard.com/AWD/volvo/1371526/V70/oil_trap_changed_lessons_learned.html Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:39 GMT How many times have you told us you don't listen to Limbaugh? Woops, but now suddenly you like this new station because it interviews Limbaugh, and he says what you want to hear. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1379039/truth_will_limbaugh_speaks_listen.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:03 GMT In my brutally honest opinion, I would buy an 02-06 XC70. Its essentially the same vehicle, but on a much more manageable scale and with a more proven track record. The XC90 is a larger, heavier vehicle being supported and propelled by basically the same hardware as the XC70. All of that extra weight and volume puts unnecessary stress on moving parts. But if you've got to have an SUV... I would only purchase model year 2005 and beyond. First year or two of any automotive model are spent working out the bugs. I would opt for the 5 cylinder turbo engine. It has a solid, proven track record and will get better fuel economy. Avoid the twin-turbo six. More complication and expense of maintenance for not a whole bunch of extra "go." Don't know anything about very late model V8's. Seek one with a known and good maintenance record. These vehicles are still new enough that I would expect to see complete and intact service records. Once a vehicle is neglected or abused, the next owner WILL pay for the repercussions for the rest of the life of the vehicle. http://www.brickboard.com/AWD/volvo/1378702/xc90_yearstypes_avoid.html Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:15 GMT That's not the suffering that I was referring to, that's just what happens it's called a consequence. Look up some of his quotes on his thoughts regarding drug addicts (before his addiction became public of course) by his own standards he should have been locked up and the key thrown away. Boy he sure is lucky that he doesn't rule the world otherwise I'm sure he wouldn't look at his addiction as "the best thing that ever happened to him" instead he would see it as the reason he was repeatedly gang raped in his big, fat ass. His hypocrisy is blatant; being gang raped in the ass is good enough for the rest of us but not for the big fat, millionaire junky. I'm sure he still thinks it's a fair punishment for some ghetto kid with a ten dollar crack rock though. Whatever the reasons the ACLU came to his defense no matter how much preferential treatment he could afford to purchase from our corrupt system. -- MORALITY is doing what is right no matter what you are told RELIGION is doing what you are told no matter what is right. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1379038/didnt.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:01 GMT I enjoyed that interview myself and am looking forward to part 2. It's kind of weird hearing Rush speak without lying, telling half truths or somehow twisting the facts to suit his twisted agenda, usually the sound of his voice is accompanied by a whole lot of that kind of horse shit. I'm anxious to hear all about how being a junky was the best thing that ever happened to him even though he wasn't compelled to suffer what he advocates for other junkies, that should be interesting. I'll bet that he neglects to mention how the ACLU came to his defense regarding his medical records too. -- MORALITY is doing what is right no matter what you are told RELIGION is doing what you are told no matter what is right. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1379020/long_last_video_msnbc_worth_watching.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:02 GMT <i>An increase would also be pointless if Karzai retains the presidency.</i> Afghanistan is a lost cause with or without Karzai. Replacing him legitimately or illegitimately will be as successful as replacing Diem in Vietnam was. We had our chance in Afghanistan and we blew it. Now it will take half a million troops, or more, and a couple of decades of occupation to pacify the place, if pacification is at all possible, which, based on history, I doubt. We don't have the resources for that. We should get out immediately and let the Afghans determine their own destiny in their own way, bloody as that is going to be. Our best bet, and it is not a very good one, is try to help Pakistan keep itself from being taken over by their own Taliban. Unfortunately getting out now is something Obama can't risk doing for internal political reasons. The best he can do at the moment is let McChrystal have the troops he is asking for (making clear he won't escalate further), hope for a temporary stabilization and perhaps a replacement of Karzai, declare victory, and get the hell out. -- Fear of change condemns us to suffer the mistakes of the past. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1378923/afghanistan_increase_decrease_troops.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:26 GMT "Or is there a problem not being fully white?"- I think that you cut to the chase with that comment. The whack-jobs claim that his mother was not yet an adult when he was born far, far away in Kenya and therefore was not qualified to transfer citizenship to her son since she was a minor. Of course this is all just a bunch of shit meant to distract from how badly they screwed up the last eight years while completely failing to address the needs of the American people. If only they were as good at building as they are at destroying... -- MORALITY is doing what is right no matter what you are told RELIGION is doing what you are told no matter what is right. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1378912/exactly_illegal_obama.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:40 GMT 1.Show me the link to the CDC page were they say "some women have had six abortions." I looked & didn't see it. 2.Show me the link to the CDC page were they say "the odds are 50-50 she is having her second or subsequent abortion." I looked & didn't see it. 3.I'm not reading garbage from a rag. Show me the NHS link to said stats in article. 4.how would I feel to find out my 16 yr old daughter had been brought to an abortion clinic without my knowledge or consent? Disappointed, but there are actual crimes that concern me more. You are concerning yourself with non-crimes. If your 16 year old daughter felt she had to have an abortion without your permission, then there is something seriously wrong with your parenting skills. 5.When ever you think this is your problem, say this to yourself for as long as it takes: <b>THIS IS NOT SAUDI ARABIA & I AM NOT THE MORALITY POLICE</b> 6.If that doesn't work try this: <b>IT IS NONE OF MY BUSINESS</b> 7.How many of your friends or family have had an abortion that you know of? I don't personally know anyone who has had an abortion, not that it's actually any of my business. -- Three 164's, Two 144's, One 142 & a partridge in a pear tree. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1378600/bs_making_bogeyman_stories.html Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:55 GMT <i>That's a BS scenario you invented, It just doesn't happen. That you could think such a thing is possible in an advanced western society shows how warped your mentality is.</i> <p> Paul, did you forget what it is I do for a living? Please, just for a day come on down from the ivory tower and see the world we live in. Walk among real people, and for god sake take off the rose colored glasses. Part of my job in the schools was not so much to be a counselor, but rather to be a resource that facilitates connecting a troubled youth with whatever services he/she may need. Teachers, administration, counselors would bring a kid to me and have them tell me their story. I was expected to have the contacts to put the child in touch with whatever help was appropriate. I sat and listened to kids tell me things that they had done that would make your toes curl. Sometimes the hardest thing was having the Mr. Spock reaction when the kid would tell me the most unbelievable things. I could entertain you for hours with the stories I have, but this isn't the venue for that.</p> <p> Suffice to say that kids have abortions, and some have multiple abortions. Often times in Massachusetts a girl as young as 16 can have one without her parents knowledge or consent. I know you are saying "that's a violation of the law, how can that be?" That's what I said, but I found out it is quite legal. Family planning people like Planned Parenthood have made it easier than you could imagine. It isn't BS at all. Although the morning after pill has made it less frequent, a girl too lazy to take her free BC pills is often too lazy to get to the clinic in a timely fashion as well after unprotected sex. Then it's "Oh crap I'm pregnant again!" </p> <p> I won't ask you your reaction again. You made it quite clear. On the one hand it is nobody's business, it's just a private matter. Yet, you would flee like a scared rabbit from the woman who made this choice more often than you feel is a respectable number of times. You are a hypocrite. In fact you are a hypocrite with your head tucked firmly up your ass. You have no idea what goes on in the world. Maybe that's a good thing. Sometimes I wish I didn't see some of what I have seen. </p> -- &quot;There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1378485/bs_dodging_question.html Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:32 GMT <i>I believe it is the business of a society, who is paying the bills, to determine how such funds are spent.</i> Well look it to something useful like were the $18,000,000,000 went that the Pentagon lost. Peoples medical conditions are their own business, not yours & not anybody else's, Period. <i>Tell me Paul, when you were a young man and you were out on the dating scene. If you met a girl, and she told you that she had six abortions over the years</i> That's a BS scenario you invented, It just doesn't happen. That you could think such a thing is possible in an advanced western society shows how warped your mentality is. -- Three 164's, Two 144's, One 142 & a partridge in a pear tree. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1378278/fine_big_government_post_proves.html Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:15 GMT No, but your mouth sure does. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1378077/comments_peanut_gallery.html Thu, 8 Oct 2009 11:57 GMT <i>"I think Terry asks a valid question for the sake of this discussion. Let's see what the response is."</i> <p> Mike, Her response will be the usual. A puff of smoke. Something you can see, but nothing that you could ever really touch or get a hold of. Zero substance. An insult hurled at me, but no insight into her thought process. You can set your watch by it. </p> <p> She loves to cling to this "intelligent women" thing, as though she is the first woman of substance intellectually that I have ever been in contact with. Ridiculous really. I actually love women that can discuss a variety of topics. My wife is very intelligent. What bothers me is Flab feeling as though she is above having to explain herself. Arrogance, entitlement, or maybe she is just unaccustomed to being called on things she says? I don't know, you tell me.</p> -- &quot;There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1378277/fine_big_government_post_proves.html Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:08 GMT TF, I agree. The reality is that women are going to get pregnant and they are going to get abortions for any number of reasons which may run from, what some would consider, totally frivolous to life or death serious. It is far better that the procedures be performed professionally and in the safest possible conditions, rather than in the proverbial "back alleys". I remind those who object to abortions being part of a public medical payment coverage on moral or, I-don't-want-to-pay-for-someone-else'-sin grounds that the economically better off will continue to have their abortions, as they always have, even if they have to go abroad to get them, while the poor and uneducated would be denied access to the service even more than now. That means that those who can least afford to have kids and are least equipped to raise them will be the ones who have them with all the cost to society that implies. I'd be happy to have my tax money spent for that purpose. -- If ignorance is bliss, why are there so many unhappy people? (With apologies to Thos. Gray) http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1378177/decide.html Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:07 GMT In the "through the looking glass" world of American conservatism decisions that should be between a patient and a doctor are a matter of public policy unless conservatives don't want public policy involved as a matter of private profiteering then it's a private matter between a doctor and a patient and "big government" should stay out of it. These people are completely fucked up and don't even know what they believe at least it would be understandable if they were on drugs. -- MORALITY is doing what is right no matter what you are told RELIGION is doing what you are told no matter what is right. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1378112/fine_big_government_post_proves.html Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:26 GMT <i>On abortion, I would prefer people to pay for their own. Even better than that, I would prefer to to be illegal - at least maybe allow states to set their own precedents in this area.</i> This fits right in with your previous statements in other posts. You are saying you are fine using government to dictate to someone what they do with their body in their private life. IN fact, you would prefer it. That's big government. It's big government when you take tax dollars from a woman to provide healthcare, say for your family and kids, but then deny her a necessary abortion with those tax dollars because of your religious beliefs. But hey, if she dies, that's because she 'can't keep her skirt down and her legs closed 'right? See, I am not letting you off the hook on that statement, because it's not only not a common phrase, it was your gut reaction and statement, which means deep down, it&#197;&#155; what you really believe. It&#197;&#155; only trashy irresponsible women having abortions.... You only cry big government when it's you feel it&#197;&#155; your beliefs getting walked on. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1378004/fine_big_government_post_proves.html Thu, 8 Oct 2009 00:57 GMT I was on your referred site website, in the "About Us" tab, when I came across this statement WorldNetDaily.com consistently ranks as the "stickiest" newssite on the Internet,... sorry but I had to laugh. They should rename their site "It's the end of the world and it's all because of them damn lib'rels" "I like to make a lot of mistakes. This gives everybody who likes to point them out a reason to feel important" - Martha Munson http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1377672/peanut_gallery.html Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:44 GMT I know that pretty much all politicians make promises they can't keep once they get in office, but it looks as if this promise - so far un-kept, could be more costly than most. The promise. http://www.cnsnews.com/cnsnewstv/v/GdkUqGSU8z The reality. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/54807 The really sad part is that Mr. Obama - up till the time it was pointed out - only talked to Gen. McChrystal one time. Need I say more about this man. He is just a suit being controlled by the uber left of his party. Just my O, of course. :) -- ' Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. '' (C S Lewis ; on Evil Men) 89 764 (170K), '94 940T (265K), 92 245 (150K) http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1376434/dose_reality.html Thu, 1 Oct 2009 13:20 GMT Hello, The over drive not engaging, I start out with a transmission flush. If the car has not been under your care very long that most likely needs to be done. The transmission filter does not have to be cleaned, so unless something has come apart no need to drop the pan.<font color=&#226;&#128;&#157;blue&#226;&#128;&#157;>Dave Shannon (<u> http://volvo2.homestead.com/quickindex.html)</u></font> has a write up on doing the transmission flush that is simple, completely changes all the fluid, and much better than letting someone force fluid though to change out the fluid. You will need 14 to 16 quarts of fluid to do the flush. The other thing to check is the wiring on the overdrive solenoid on the side of the transmission. Brake line leaks would be a concern. I would pull off the tire on each rotor and give each caliper a good look over. If you do not see a leak where the hose attaches to the caliper, you will want to lift out the brake pads and check the back of those for the source of the leak. There is also the proportioning valve also know as the octopus on the drivers side of the car just behind the front wheel. If you can wipe it down and look, any leak from there should result in an easy to see clean spot where the fluid has run. Most likely the leak is a caliper based on my past history with brakes. There is an easy place to find what kind of rack you have, find the service label in the back of the car. The one on my 86 245DL is under the rear storage on the right hand side when you raise it up. The Sedan is located on the right hand side of the trunk (standing at the back of the car) near the hinge. Look at the bottom of the label and you should see L. Steering Gear, 3 is the code for a ZF, and 2 is the code for the Cam Gear. Just an FYI, the brake code is 1 for Girling front and back, and 2 is the far more typical Griling Front and ATE rear configuration. Alternator is 1 for Bosch and 3 for Nippondenso. There is also a ZF cast into the rack (if you have one) just in the front of where the steering column connects. You would have to crawl under and wipe off the rack to find it of course. On the turn signals, I would take the lens off and give the connectors a good look over. Then check and clean the ground connection (follow the black wire). Replace both bulbs with a new matched set (buy a pack of 2) and see if that gets rid of the gremlin. Good Luck, Paul <img src="(follow the black wire"/> http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1377295/220/240/260/280/random_quirks.html Mon, 5 Oct 2009 13:01 GMT Canned Post... ================================> You have the Volvo/Chrysler ignition used on 240s from mid '81 thru 1988. It's been found that the V/C Ignition can contribute to High NOx, and that plugging the vacuum line to the ICU can reduce NOx levels, <u>with little or no effect on normal operation</u>. Note that this is NOT a guaranteed fix, but worth a try <u>if your other numbers (and cat) are good.</u> This is my canned post on the subject. It might work for you as it has for several others, especially with a new cat. This isn't my own theory -- I just happened to find it on a 'net search in 2004. For a technical description, see the <a href=http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=804019 target=blank>original post here,</a> and the first <a href=http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=806318>success story here.</a> Other positive responses are posted <a href=http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/index.htm?id=931969>in this thread </a> and <a href=http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/index.htm?id=968294> this one,</a> and <a href=http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/index.htm?id=1039159> one more here.</a> Yet <a href=http://brickboard.com/RWD/index.htm?id=1046073> another one .</a> <a href=http://brickboard.com/RWD/index.htm?id=1046832> And another on 2/04/06.</a> Here's <a href=http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/index.htm?id=1166573> the latest, from 3/12/07.</a> And 1/29/08 <a href=http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/index.htm?id=1255176> Here </a>. Also 7-09-08 <a href=http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1288562/220/240/260/280/passing_nox_new_jersey.html target=blank>Here</a>. Another reported on <a href=http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1340207/220/240/260/280/nox_volvochrysler_ignition.html target=blank> 3-26-09 </a> <============================= -- Bruce Young, '93 940-NA (current), 240s (one V8), 140s, 122s, since '63. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1376813/220/240/260/280/nox_volvochrysler_ignition.html Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:53 GMT everyone has always said "oh you have a 240, man that car's a tank." and i always knew that. and i love my 93 240. more than most 17 year olds love their car. and most kids my age drive nice cars. but last night, i found out how much of a tank my car really is. i was following my friend over to his house and i tried to pass him, but just as i started to pass he moved over, then back. i almost hit him since i was accelerating and swerved over to avoid him. i lost control, and tried to correct, but it was already to late. next thing i know, i see a telephone pole coming at me, so i swerved left. i hit the pole at about 50 mph. it made contact on the passenger side. next thing i know. im stopped, with my car on the sidewalk about 10 feet past the pole. my hood looks like a crumpled piece of paper. im a little scraped up, but ok. mostly angry. i try to open my door but it wont. my friend comes running up and helps me out of the car. i look back at the pole and see that i broke it off about a foot off the ground and pushed it about 5 feet. my car is totaled. when the ambulance gets there, they are amazed that im ok. one paramedic told me that with any other car we may not be having this conversation. i got home at about 3:30 am, and cried for a good 15 minutes. my mom though it was because i almost died. i told her that i wanted my car back. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1371767/220/240/260/280/volvo_just_saved_life.html Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:40 GMT Its a sneaky plot to cleanse the gene pool. People too stupid to turn off the ignition without removing the key are 'cleansed'. Other makers should follow Toyota's lead. Once the half-wits are removed maybe then the roads will be safe. -- ' It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.' S. Wright http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1376550/just_feel_safe.html Thu, 1 Oct 2009 21:01 GMT The guy, as usual, had nothing to do with it. Immaculate conception every time, and the guy was the helpless weak victim, as usual, his trousers unzipped automatically.. What a big MCP you are, and how well you show your thinking just goes hand in glove with the typical religious right garbage. How about this. You don't want to pay for someone&#197;&#155; abortion? Fine. I tell you what. We'll pass a law that requires the guy to not only pay for the abortion, but to due community service for the 9 months that woman would have had to carry that child. That will be a SMALL price to pay for the damage that he has done to her body getting her pregnant and then putting her through an abortion. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1376587/oh_get_woman_needs_keep_skirt_legs_together.html Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:49 GMT That just proved Govt can give other peoples money away and people will do some stupid things to get it. Dan http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1376318/220/240/260/280/1989_245_clunker_cash_clunkers.html Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:29 GMT The bigger problem than the scum who profit off of misery is the people that blindly support them. I had to re-read Andrew's article twice just to make sure that I wasn't missing something. Sure enough the bottom line is that the advocates of reform are not seeking any change at all regarding the issue of abortion and the right is using outright lies about the issue as a scare tactic to stir up their base and stall the reform process on behalf of their largest campaign donors. From what I have seen on the right the lies and scare tactics are working on a large segment of our population and the corporate sponsors of the Republican Party and the blue dog Democrats are loving it. Maybe we should be worried about improving the education system in this country before we tackle health care that way there wouldn't be so many susceptible people out there willing to piss down there own legs and believe whatever lies they are told. -- MORALITY is doing what is right no matter what you are told RELIGION is doing what you are told no matter what is right. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1376491/sane_explanation.html Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:07 GMT Is it possible that there are that many Idiots in that hemisphere? You can't be too smart and allow B20 Paul to remain there. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1376355/sticky_shouldnt_singled_one.html Thu, 1 Oct 2009 01:21 GMT Oh yeah, we always know when he is back by the little thumb birdy terdy droppings that show up on the site. These are guys who are angry they don't get treated like adults. Gee wonder why. Be sure to add the thumbs he gives from his dual thumbing position, his even more evil twin from Florida. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1376214/sticky_break_credit_card.html Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:59 GMT Druid - reformed. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1375866/lies.html Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:29 GMT I would have flung them 30 bux except there's no free set of steak knives. Are there really people who are so gullible that they believe this claptrap? Quote from LivePrayer.com: "We believe in "that blessed hope," the personal, premillenial and imminent return of our Lord & Savior, Jesus Christ." Pre-millenial? As in pre-2000? Ummm.... Where's he at then? LivePrayer's website has, among the rest of their rabid right-wing propoganda, a luvvly picture of Obama and Hitler together. I feel sick. To the folks at LivePrayer: If you really feel the need to spout this bullshit at least check your bloody spelling! Wankers. -- ' It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.' S. Wright http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1376059/sticky_break_credit_card.html Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:08 GMT I know what a 123gt is. I also have the rolling magazine. That has nothing to do with this picture. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1375667/120-130/volvo_picture_123gt_info_anyone_know.html Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:18 GMT That doesn't answer my question and has nothing to do with this picture. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1375665/120-130/volvo_picture_123gt_info_anyone_know.html Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:17 GMT Thanks but that doesn't have anything to do with this picture, I have the rolling magazine and know what a 123 is, I am interested in this one. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1375662/120-130/volvo_picture_123gt_info_anyone_know.html Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:13 GMT As long as we have the Constituional requirement that we periodically throw out whatever bums happen to inhabit the executive branch, we are unlikely to see a Bolshevik style revolution in the United States. And amending the Constitution is a challnge - first Congress would have to propose and ratify the change, then 38 state legislatures would have to agree. I'm feeling pretty safe that's not going to happen. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1375600/definitions_intent_cover.html Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:08 GMT Quote: There is a delicate balance there, and I actually think that, over the oast 100 years, we've been largely successful at finding that balance. You did not say so directly ..but would you class government programs such as Medicare in this mix? Also..quote: They attempt to work from the ground up, rather than impose from the top down. Isn't this exactly how many, if not all socialism/communism/Marxism type governments got their start? Don't the people have to become so dis-satisfied with the status quot that they allow something of this nature to take root? How hard would it be in a relatively free society like ours, especially deeply entrenched in all the roadblocks that have been thrown up over time to cut off debate and inspection - such as being 'politically correct' or being labeled ignorant or intolerant ...how hard would it be for groups that would desire "socialism/communism/Marxism" to take root and flourish under the guise of "community"? -- ' Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. '' (C S Lewis ; on Evil Men) 89 764 (170K), '94 940T (265K), 92 245 (150K) http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1375464/definitions.html Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:50 GMT You are rude and insulting, apparently tour nature. Just the kind of liberal that cuts off all discussion. Are you related to Pelosi? Just did not catch it before. In that I apologize to Box. Should I knell before you, oh uber intelligent one? -- ' Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. '' (C S Lewis ; on Evil Men) 89 764 (170K), '94 940T (265K), 92 245 (150K) http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1375501/just_missed.html Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:19 GMT That figures. I guess that's why you have a silly response to everything that continues. If you want to participate in a forum with intelligent people, you have to think about what you are posting, and make a rational argument. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1375438/real_answer_huh.html Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:08 GMT I mean, this statement is pretty darn direct in referencing Medicare as a socialist programm. "We've instituted hundreds of social programs in this country in the past 100 years, including but not limited to Social Security, Medicare, the Tennessee Valley Authority, unemployment benefits, agricultural price support programs, etc, etc." Let me take out all the unnecessary parts since there are obviously to many words for you to understand just how direct a statement it is. "We've instituted hundreds of social programs.... including.... Medicare......." Now do you understand? Can you get that BoxVolvo called Medicare a socialist programm? We can see why you are a birther and think the way you do. You don't want to read anything that requires a modicum of thought, and prefer to beleive the lies that you are handed all the time. Did it ever occur to you that like your freinds on this forum that the reason you think everyone lies is because you hand around liars, and people who want to believe lies? http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1375477/part_boxvolvos_use_word_include_understand.html Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:47 GMT Of course he lies he is a politician that's what politicians do. The key is to look at what he does when he is not busy lying and try to determine who benefits and whether or not those beneficiaries are okay with you. -- MORALITY is doing what is right no matter what you are told RELIGION is doing what you are told no matter what is right. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1375496/lies.html Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:12 GMT I mean competitive markets were his thing, and letting the little guy have a shot, corporations weren't supposed to block entry, all that. he's supposedly the founding basis of our economical system, Admin Smith. So, now his ideas are communist? Wow. But I knew you would want to sneak ACORN in somewhere. People like you can never resist though you can ignore those free market non competitive companies like KBR when they kill our soldiers and sailors. I mean hey, a little fascism always suits your type, doesn't it? http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1375442/now_adam_smith_communist.html Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:24 GMT Do you even read the stuff you point us to? Your Obama quote: "I will not, do not take money from lobbyists." What the article shows. Obama tooke PAC and lobby money during his earlier campaigns. He said "I will not" during his 2008 presidential campaign. And he didn't. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1375420/lies.html Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:05 GMT I don't get it. What are you trying to prove? That he might have practiced his right as an American citizen? Or that he might sometime in the future deny membership and thus you are already justified in calling him a liar? How desperate are you? http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1375384/whats_point_andrew.html Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:10 GMT Especially if those assumptions allow you to believe what it is deep down that you want to believe. The insurance company desperately wanted to cancel Otto's policy for a totally unrelated thing. You desperately want to pretend you are a 'thinker' and 'reasonable' yet choose to believe those with no evidence over those with evidence. Otto didn't know he had kidney stones. Obama - who depends on his speech writers and aids, may not have known the 'rest of the story' regarding Otto. Pretty much everything he said was true. The insurance company did drop Otto over something unrelated to his condition. Should Obama make sure those giving him info are scrupulous in detail? Yer darn tootin. Doesn't change the fact that you are a birther. You believe lies because you want to. Thanks for being part of the problem, not the solution. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1375347/seems_like_insurnace_company_come_place_making_lot_assumptions.html Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:28 GMT Okay, the story is correct. Obama did misrepresent Otto Raddatz' story. But before you jump to the "he lied" conclusion, read this. http://www.slate.com/id/2228706/pagenum/all/ The Obama camp did make a mistake in relying on a story on Slate without verifying the facts. But do you really believe that Obama himself knew that Mr Raddatz didn't die because treatment was withheld, and went ahead and made that claim anyhow? A lie is a conscious effort to misstate the truth. Do you believe that happened here? Or is there a different conclusion, that the Obama speechwriters failed to do their jobs and verify the story? By the way, did you note that it was government intervention that allowed Mr. Raddatz' to get his health insurance to be restored after the insurer cancelled it, and thus allowed him to get the stem cell therapy that gave him an extra three years? Raddatz' sister works for the Illinois attorney general's office, and she used that position to have someone from her office put pressure on the insurer to reinstate the policy. Wouldn't it be great if all of us had a sister who worked for the attorney general's office? So, you decide. Outright lie, or mistake? http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1375342/lies.html Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:13 GMT I think you might be able to do it. You can take out the old shell by cutting it with a hacksaw or file. Then enlarge the bushing hole slightly with something like a wire wheel until you can press/hammer the new one in with whatever tools you have. I have only installed poly bushings though and have not done the TABs yet . . . http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1375179/220/240/260/280/trailer_arm_bushing_replacement_thread_volume_xxxiv.html Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:06 GMT Yes, you can easily replace a felt seal with same without a lot of work. You only need to remove the crank pulley (obviously). I've had pretty good luck with the felt seals although I have upgraded to neoprene seals when I had the money for machining the housing. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1374454/120-130/front_crank_cover_seal.html Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:38 GMT Hey Wyatt, My guess is the wiring is bad at the speaker, or its possibly blown. I would check the wiring at the speaker to see if was broken or disconnected. There is a chance the wiring is broken at the door hinge, but that is less likely. Heres a wiring diagram. It covers everything, including the radio circuits (page 12). http://pliki.mojevolvo.pl/schematy/volvo_240__1988.pdf The diagram is from Mitchell and its in English. I highly recommend saving to your computer for future reference. Regards, Jon 'Uncle Olaf' http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1374718/220/240/260/280/rewiring_door_speakers.html Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:26 GMT bump- http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1374678/220/240/260/280/lugs_virgos.html Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:41 GMT Are you referencing what Flab mentioned? How does that allow illegals access to the exchange? "Obama - or ANY other politician (BOTH parties) move forward in this fashion with the intent to use a loophole to get a desired end, opposite of the one at the start ... IS that a lie? I think so." No more a lie than your unsubstantiated claims. The legislation is there to be enforced. They could even write in explicit instructions, but if it isn't enforced, it means no more. People go to jail for peddling drugs all the time. Those laws are enforced. Why presume these won't be? "Fact is, I don't really trust any of them too much - but especially Obama's crowd." You would rather trust Wilson, who has called a man a liar and can't defend his charge by pointing to the legislation in question. In the real world, opinions and facts are two different things. The facts are the legislation denies illegals access to subsidies provided by the bill. Your opinion about Obama doesn't change that. In my opinion your are a drunk. You should go to jail for a DUI. Do I have facts to prove it? Nah, I have my opinion and that's all that matters. You should go to jail. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1374408/loophole_intend_use.html Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:43 GMT OK. So the process is not known by many. That is fine. I did not know that tidbit. And why is it set up that way, and not just by one party? The obvious answer is that it gives option to change the end result. If Obama - or ANY other politician (BOTH parties) move forward in this fashion with the intent to use a loophole to get a desired end, opposite of the one at the start ... IS that a lie? I think so. Has this idea of tacking on the mechanism after the bill is passed been used before to change the starting premise? I bet it has. Many trust him and the Barney Franks of the world. I don't. Fact is, I don't really trust any of them too much - but especially Obama's crowd. It is, of course - just a difference of opinion. -- ' Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. '' (C S Lewis ; on Evil Men) 89 764 (170K), '94 940T (265K), 92 245 (150K) http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1374393/mechanism.html Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:12 GMT If they saw a loophole, then they should be able clearly point it out and make their case. The closest I can see is that because by law, no federally funded hospital can require id or proof of citizenship for someone seeking medical care. Federal funds are given to these hospitals to cover some of those costs. Not enough because many hospitals have been bankrupted by it in border states. There are illegals who do carry insurance, or amazingly, have employers that manage to provide it. There are many who come across the borders specifically to take advantage of this. None of these means the President was lying about the bill, and Wilson knew that. Here is what I never cease to find amazing by people like Wilson, and their stupid outbursts; to ' get' the illegal immigrants, they would rather deny care and punish American citizens, leaving a very corrupt and overly priced healthcare system in place. Truly reforming healthcare would lower the costs of treating illegal resident aliens along with everyone else. Truly reforming healthcare - for example going single payer - would allow American citizens the exact same care on the exact same terms that the illegal residents often get. Other countries deal with this problem, and they keep their costs down by? Not having corporate controlled health care in their countries. Wilson' s only answer is to deny deny deny, ineffectively, and call someone a liar. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1374328/mechanism.html Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:40 GMT http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=249046 -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1374209/colbert_us_corporate_history.html Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:36 GMT I am downright a'feard of book learnin' are you some kinda witch or somethin' with all them fancy notions in yer head? As cynical as it all sounds it makes perfect sense and you make a reasonable argument. -- &quot;The truth is an offense but not a sin"- Bob Marley http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1374181/hadnt_even_considered.html Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:43 GMT OK ...I post just a bit of this because it may be pulled soon. Here is the link if you would like to read it. Looks pretty plain to me that Obama lied. Not just that ...he lies, period. Of course he is not the only one in the beltway that does, he is just a bit more blatant with it. http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/27/health.care.immigrants/ ________________________________________________________________ (CNN) -- Immigrants living illegally in the United States could be mandated to have health insurance under the proposed health care reform bill but would be ineligible to receive subsidies to afford such coverage, a report from the Congressional Research Service says. The report, prepared by the nonpartisan policy research arm of Congress, provides a close reading of the treatment of noncitizens in the House bill on health care reform, HR 3200. While the report found that federal subsidies to obtain health coverage would be restricted to U.S. citizens and legal residents, it also noted that the bill does not specify a citizenship verification system, something that critics say creates a loophole for undocumented immigrants to receive subsidies anyway. The report, released Tuesday, "undermines the claims of the president and others that illegal immigrants would not be covered under the House version of the bill," Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, told CNN. ___________________________________________________________________ Maybe referring to those special interests that helped put Obama in office should not be referred to as the left. Regardless, many groups that supported him have voiced angst to one degree or another because they do not think he has did enough, and in some cases reality has bit way too hard - and he could not appease certain groups. The auto unions, of course - was a grand exception, though. Bottom line for me. I don't trust him a minute, and I am fast coming to a place where I do not trust any of them. I guess the adage about choosing your poison may be closer than I think ...just for some semblance of survival. -- ' Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. '' (C S Lewis ; on Evil Men) 89 764 (170K), '94 940T (265K), 92 245 (150K) http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1374013/re_questioning_legitimacy.html Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:08 GMT Gee, we require illegal immigrants to have health insurance, but we can't enforce the laws that keep them out? What are you missing from BoxVolvos post that you don't get. Lessee, there is a speedlimit of 55 in a zone. Does the law say how its to be enforced? Does it mandate that it must be done by camera, or by car? Why don't you take a look. Congress makes the laws, its up to the POTUS to enforce it. Obama irritates me, but he didn't lie about the legislation at hand. And if they mandate illegals to have it, they make it very easy to now deny those without. You'll see a SC battle over that one. You being upset that Obama'supporters don't see they change promised- and they don't they see right wing corporate subsidies - doesn't make him a liar about the legislation. Let's just tack you up to another of the 'birther'types. You decide to let knee jerk reactions do your thinking for you. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1374023/lol.html Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:13 GMT And also a plug for Jorgen. It is two months shy of a year now - no attention required. <img src=http://cleanflametrap.com/rack10.jpg> <img src=http://cleanflametrap.com/pspump019.jpg> -- Art Benstein near Baltimore "If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead." (Johnny Carson) http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1372886/220/240/260/280/shocking_photo.html Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:29 GMT My mistake, I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought 15% was a little high, but I know how you aren't real big on the accuracy of your posts. Really, what you've said in the post I am replying to is a HUGE departure from what I have gleaned from your previous posts on the subject. Perhaps I haven't been paying attention. What's your ideal solution for that 15%? As an aside, no one has asked me if I'm happy with my health insurance. I work, along with about 10,000 other people, for a subsidiary of a giant soul-sucking corporation. At this point I feel lucky to have health insurance at all as many people I know including a number of family members have none. Am I happy with it? Heck no. In the four years I've been with the company I've had three different insurance providers, four different "prescription plans" and have seen my rates go up and a big'ole deductible added. My only consolation in the whole mess is that since I'm young and don't do stupid things I haven't had much occasion to be burdened by needing to navigate the the myriad of pitfalls set in place in order to use the benefit. And I'm supposed to be one of the lucky ones? I can't imagine what it must be like for the individual doing it on their own. -Will -- 854 - 244 - Mini http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1373563/whether_choose_believe.html Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:59 GMT <i>Maybe it is because they are a peace loving nation.</i> You can't be serious. The entire history of modern day Israel is of Israelis killing Palestinians & other Arabs. There are a hundred other nations that need saving first. Why don't we go and save Burma? Why don't we go & sort out Zimbabwe? <i>"those filthy Jews control everything the banks, the media, and they run the world."</i> Where the hell did you get that quote? That looks like what Stickbiulder was spitting out: http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1373627/dont_take_advice.html -- Three 164's, Two 144's, One 142 & a partridge in a pear tree. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1373657/well_moran.html Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:30 GMT <b>What's your opinion on why the US so heavily defends Israel?</b> <img src="http://forumpolitics.com/pics/moran-sign.jpg"> -- Three 164's, Two 144's, One 142 & a partridge in a pear tree. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1373648/well_moran.html Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:44 GMT <b>What's your opinion on why the US so heavily defends Israel?</b> <img src="http://forumpolitics.com/pics/moran-sign.jpg"> -- Three 164's, Two 144's, One 142 & a partridge in a pear tree. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1373605/moran_alert.html Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:11 GMT What these guys forget to remember in the ideological finger pointing is that people like you and me shoot back. We are used to rough places, and surviving in difficult situaitons. We haven't been able to fall back on the security of a gvoernment pay cheque or health care. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1373493/thats_fair.html Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:19 GMT You're like one of those people who continues to have faith when the UFO doesn't show up to spirit you away to eternal bliss at the appointed hour and you just keep lapping up whatever the "leader" is feeding you because your ego just won't let you stop yourself and admit your folly. The very real issue of Iran and Israel aside for the moment remember the old addage "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice...wont get fooled again" (Well that's the "W" does The Who version anyway). When "the messenger" has a well established track record of being manipulative and full of shit only a fool would listen to his message and that is a shame because as you point out he is not necessarily wrong. So, yea you've got an arm load of your own ass compliments of BoxVolvo and his uncanny ability to cut through bullshit with fact. -- &quot;The truth is an offense but not a sin"- Bob Marley http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1373367/israel_cant_wait.html Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:49 GMT ..but Bin Laden is still free. Afghanistan still has the Taliban. Hezzbollah is still operating in Lebanon. Hammas is legally head of what is left of the Palestinian State. North Korea is still developing nuclear devices. Russia become more combative. China got wealthier and more powerful. Khadaffi is still in power, and looks to see his son inherit his spot. Israel is still unable to just have clear borders and settle peaefully within them. 6 Years your pet Bush and you with your conservatviue majority had, with no linerals to get in your way, no ACORN to destroy the conservatvie campuses like Liberty UNiversity, gays were put in their place with amendments... ..and you couldnt accomplish a single thing of your stated goals for securing the US against her enemies, much less to make the American public more free. Instead, we got the real agenda. Americans other than the top 2% got poorer. Prices went up on all necessary commodities, like oil and food. We got a housing bubble. We went into debt to our communist enemy CHina. More Americans fell into poverty. More Americans lost their health care. More Americans went bankrupt and lost everything to fraudulent lenders. Government got bigger, with more contractors taking on permanent government services for more money. The IRS got more invasive, not less. Americans lost more of their constitutional rights. All the liberals were out of the way, and this is the best you accomplished. All on your won. Without ANY help from the Liberals and gays and women in pant suits, and artists. The only answer you have the answer you had for 6 of those 8 years, and it wasn't crap. Get used to a LONG winter, because Russia is likely to play with the US and NATO over missile defense, and everyone will remember that as in the last 2 great wars, it took a Democratic President to actually forge alliances and get something done. Enjoy the cold American Talibani, because your kind is about to get taken down in the State of Virginia. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1373491/bush_6_years_congresssenate_conservatvie_majorities.html Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:16 GMT <p> First we scour the college campuses and ACORN offices to identify and gather as many of the blame the U.S. first crowd as possible. You know the "we provoked 9/11 types". Then we send all of them to special diplomatic missions to the Middle East. They will go into all of these Islamic nations and learn about the peoples and customs, and of course share their customs like gay marriage, dope smoking, bashing religion, advocating abortion as birth control, etc. This will have a two prong affect. First they will find out just how peaceful and tolerant of a religion Islam is. They will either be accepted and welcomed into their hearts, or beheaded on video tape. Maybe they can convince them that we are good and just people. Number two we will have a conservative majority in our electorate back home. The Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, Chris Dodd, and Barney Frank types will become extinct, and life will be good. Of course I will miss Snoot here on the board. But hey, sacrifices will need to be made.</p> <p> If all goes well Iran will become a Liberal haven and end up with huge welfare rolls, and unwed mothers coming out their ears. They will be too broke worrying about "free" health care to be able to afford nukes. Or they will just hire Alan Dershowitz and Ruth Bader Ginsburg and just sue Israel into the stone age instead of killing them. It could work.</p> -- &quot;There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1373452/ok_heres_plan.html Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:02 GMT <p> Wow, paragraph with probably over 100 sentences. Not one of them mentions a truly just nation. By your definition does one exist? Please, despite all of our short comings this nation has been a leader. A leader for democracy, human rights, woman's rights, and workers rights. A leader for judicial innovation and was clearly on the front end of the curve as western judicial practices evolved. We have repeatedly fought for the rights and freedoms of others, at great costs to our own military. We have brought the world innovations and technologies that have changed the way we live as a species, and extended the age a person can expect to live. Number 1? <b> Damn Right.</b> But your view of the country is as a big smelly number two. Sad, pathetic, and truly insightful. </p> -- &quot;There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1373442/called_paragraphlook_concept.html Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:43 GMT <i>"There was never any need to build stuff on land in Checkoslovakia & Poland which does nothing but piss off the Russians."</i> If it is useless, why then would it even bother the Russians? You understand that it is primarily a defensive weapon system? Granted it could be used to repel a Russian response to an attack on them, but that is far fetched. Useless? Hardly, especially if they were "pissed" enough to negotiate the removal. That my friend is diplomacy. -- &quot;There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1373317/israel_cant_wait.html Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:10 GMT "Our country was based on freedom and is the beacon of capitalism"- So where does indentured servitude, chattel slavery, the genocide of indigenous people, tennent farming, wage slavery and the unmarked graves of Chinese rail builders who weren't deemed worthy of citizenship because of their race fit into your fanciful freedom/capitalism delusion? Does dying young of black lung in debt to the company store qualiy as freedom or capitalism? Your so full of shit that your eyes are brown Mr. practicing socialist and these kindergarten platitudes that you mutter only demonstrate how disconnected from reality you truly are. You really should try picking up a history book sometime you might learn something about what our nation is actually built on...though I do rather doubt it because you don't want to hear about toil and exploitation you want to believe in a red, white and blue Santa Clause the fills everyone's stocking if they just believe enough. -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372951/whether_choose_believe.html Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:00 GMT Didn't we deal with the Swift Boaters a couple of weeks ago? Where all of the men who actually served with Kerry stood up and said the Corsi's (or O'Neill's, depending on whose version you believe) was a crock of shit? Is this the same Jerome Corsi who wrote a piece for the World Net Daily claiming that a group from Albania backing John McCain's candidacy had ties to Al Queda? The same Jerome Corsi who believes that a explosives, not the airplanes, brought down the twin towers? The same Jerome Corsi who believes that oil is not the result of decaying fossils, but instead produced through a natural abiotic procedure? That Jerome Corsi? Sorry - that dog just won't hunt. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1373086/israel_cant_wait.html Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:55 GMT The Joe Wilson thing doesn't suit you Sticky. -- &quot;The truth is an offense but not a sin"- Bob Marley http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1373341/matrix.html Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:23 GMT <i>These people recognize the difference between operating from a position of strength and a position of weakness.</i> You are an idiot. The third world is too busy starving to death or drowning to worry or even know who has the most or biggest guns. 9/11 proved it doesn't matter that you have the most & the best weapons. The biggest threat to US & 1st world soil everywhere is terrorist's armed with very low tech weapons. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/P2vkiLHiTcY&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/P2vkiLHiTcY&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> -- Three 164's, Two 144's, One 142 & a partridge in a pear tree. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1373315/israel_cant_wait.html Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:56 GMT I'm sorry but I can't help myself I usually leave this stuff for Paul but you just make it too easy... "man up and take it punk"- I assume that you heard this whispered in your ear a lot during those lonely months at sea in the torpedo room while you were playing the tube? You make it way too easy you flacid old nit-wit! -- &quot;The truth is an offense but not a sin"- Bob Marley http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1373196/matrix.html Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:45 GMT WTF? Stickbuilder how fucking dumb are you anyway? Don't you have a thumb button to play with you brain-dead wrinkled old douchebag? -- "The truth is an offense but not a sin"- Bob Marley http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1373122/matrix.html Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:00 GMT What 03V supports ISN'T capitalism, he just thinks that it is because he doesn't know the difference. He wrongly assumes that any activity or arrangement that results in profit must necessarily be "capitalism" and is therefore okay with both him and the ghosts of the founding fathers; cartelism, coporatism, oligarchy, oligopoly, fascism, whatever as long as it turns a buck then it must be swell. Apparently he didn't go to the good schools either. -- "The truth is an offense but not a sin"- Bob Marley http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1373161/heres_dirty_little_secret_t.html Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:59 GMT <div><iframe height="339" width="425" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/32886436#32886436|376721" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><p style="font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;">Visit msnbc.com for <a style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com">Breaking News</a>, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032507" style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;">World News</a>, and <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032072" style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;">News about the Economy</a></p></div> -- &quot;The truth is an offense but not a sin"- Bob Marley http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1373110/great_summation_modern_right.html Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:23 GMT <i>"No one wants to pay for free-loaders, here or anywhere else in the world. CEO' s of health insurance companies are basically free-loaders too. They do nothing but take your money and then give back a smaller portion of it while pocketing the rest."</i> <p> So the CEO of a Health Insurance Company is somehow different than Your grandfather who slaved away at Citibank? What does a bank do besides take your money and give you back the portion that they didn't pocket? You are such pinko-commie-left-wing fraud masquerading as Libertarian. What a joke. Our country was based on freedom and is the beacon of capitalism. You want neither. You would prefer the government to take all the money and give us back what they wish us to have, but provide for everyone. Sounds kinda like the USSR. You were on here beating the drum for the CEO's of oil companies to be tarred and feathered for turning a profit, but somehow missed the little subtle nuance that the Federal and state governments make more money of every gallon of gas sold in the U.S. than the oil companies do, and they do absolutely ZERO to provide the product. Who pray tell is gouging us? </p> <p> The point is you were a broken record on oil profits last year. This year, same broken record player, but a new record is on the turntable. Now it insurance companies are evil, and you wish to demonize them. Of course they are. How dare they take profits on money that the democrats planned on taxing away from us for lining the pockets of their special interests with. Imagine the nerve. Well put this in your pipe and smoke it. 85% of the country has insurance and they are happy with it. I would say the CEO's have earned their profits. You would rather break the part that works to fix the 15% that needs attention. Beat the drum all you like deary, but it isn't going to happen. Score one for free enterprise, and scratch a loss on the communist side of the ledger. </p> -- &quot;There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372944/whether_choose_believe.html Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:31 GMT I've seen the comments that you have made concerning your connections to someone in the Department of State. It follows that 03V70 has been on the money with his thoughts that you grew up with the silver spoon. You choose to not respond, therefore you must be guilty as charged. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372718/sorry_missed.html Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:14 GMT <i>What vulgarity did I use in the post to which you make reference?</i> This is your sort of vulgarity to me. <a href="http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1321985/somone_makes_statements_proven_untrue.html">It must really suck to be FlabFC.</a> That's only one example of your vulgarity to me. And you still are vulgar and profane on this forum. <i>You talk plenty about the personal and professional lives of those with whom you disagree. </i> I never said I don't. I just don't talk about anything they don't bring up voluntarily, much less demand it. Everything I know about you, you decided to tell on your own. Nor do I belittle y'all's professions, I comment on your conduct about it. However, the same courtesy is not given to me. <i>Just because you use a reference, does not make that reference a true statement, just one that you choose to buy into. You make references to either being or being closely related to someone in the State Department service. How about some reference to that?</i> Both these statements are very revealing Stickbuilder. They show the horrible sort of conflicted and fundamentally 'mentally ill' sort of world you live in. You don't think a reference is valid or true because you don't buy into it, but you demand that some one give you a reference that you will 'buy' into because it meets the criteria of the world you want to believe in. If it doesn't meet your world view, then it&#197;&#155; false, which means no one should bother, because you have already made up your mind. Facts are not subjective sticky. Truth doesn't lie between the moon is green cheese and the moon is a space rock. The moon 'is.' Though you project this subjective test to facts on everyone, most of us here don't suffer from it. We start from the basis that when you tell us about yourself, or what you have done, you are telling the truth. No one has asked who you served with, or to hand out a resume. I certainly haven't now, and I won't in the future. Nor will I give you mine. I definitely won't give you information that violates the privacy of relatives, colleagues, or anybody else, just to satisfy your perverse need for 'buy' in. Had you been paying attention, you would have seen the references I have already made over an immediate relative and the State Department. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372692/phrase_need.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:35 GMT http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1370124/220/240/260/280/electrical_gremlins_volkswagen.html Fri, 4 Sep 2009 13:50 GMT <i>Perhaps not, but I can spell MORON!</i> I'm SURE you can spell MORON. You likely write it on every form you have to fill out, i.e., NAME: William "Billy the Butt Master" Hurt AGE: Very Old & Wrinkled OCCUPATION: Toaster Oven Salesman, Faux News Echo Machine, MORON, etc. <img src="http://forumpolitics.com/pics/moran-sign.jpg"> Is this Billy the Butt Master's A.Son? B.Nephew? C.Cousin? D:Ship Mate E.Lover? F.All of the Above. Anything is possible in the Bible Belt. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372575/moran_alert.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:01 GMT <i>Would you have voted to join in a union from which you knew beforehand that you could not leave?</i> If you knew that you'd be able to leave, you wouldn't be voting to "join", you be voting for conditional affiliation. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372550/benevolent_dictator.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:17 GMT <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TMg1gNwgm_k&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TMg1gNwgm_k&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <i>And I'm supposed to be the profane insulting member here?</i> So by your logic, you are the only one here who can be profane & insulting? <b>Moran.</b> http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372543/know_true.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:55 GMT <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TMg1gNwgm_k&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TMg1gNwgm_k&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> I'm not one of your poo poking, turd burgling navy buds, that much is certain. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372538/know_true.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:15 GMT I'm not sure old Abe did all of those things. We first have to examine the Constitution, which all of the States, even those in the South, ratified in 1787. Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 of the Constitution provides that "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. " While the act of secession is a murky area - it's not explicity prohibited by the language of the Constitution - the formation of the CSA was a clear act of rebellion. Article III, Section 3, Clause 1 states that "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." The newly, and illegally, formed CSA levied war against the United States. Article I, Section 9, Clause 2 states that "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." Given the state of rebellion that existed once the Southern States seceded and formed an illegal confederacy, the United States government was clearly within its right to suspend Habeas Corpus. I heard Southerners argue that the Civil War was not about slavery, and they are only partially correct. For the United States, the war was about enforcing the Constitution, putting down the rebellion and preserving the Union. For the South/CSA, however, the war, which they started, was about nothing other than slavery, and the fears of abolishment and, in their minds, economic ruin. Here's a link to the South Carolina Declaration of Secession. I come away from reading it with the sense that their actions were solely designed to preserve the institution of slavery. http://facweb.furman.edu/~benson/docs/decl-sc.htm http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372512/benevolent_dictator.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:48 GMT Do the reasearch yourself. If it helps, I'll give you a clue: Flab IS NOT a retarded appliance salesman from Florida. -- Three 164's, Two 144's, One 142 & a partridge in a pear tree. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372508/know_true.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:31 GMT <i>How do you know that she is telling the truth?</i> It's common knowledge amongst us normals. -- Three 164's, Two 144's, One 142 & a partridge in a pear tree. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372509/know_true.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:34 GMT Who started a war? It was the confederate forces who attacked a United States military base in South Carolina that started the armed conflict. Clear case of armed treason and declaration of war against the United States. mormit -- 02 S40 , 98 V70 T5 Koni FSDs, IPD swaybars and HD Endlinks, 85 245DL 278,000mi V15cam It takes a licking and keeps on ticking http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372431/fort_sumter.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:35 GMT <i>Which link gives her pedigree?</i> Man (and I use the term advisedly), you <u>are</u> sick. Next you'll want to smell her underwear. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372407/know_true.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:21 GMT Click on the links, nitwit, that's what they are there for. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372373/know_true.html Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:05 GMT Striking out with thumbs from under cover. It is impressive how much they despise Flab though I notice you are catching up. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372281/brave_men.html Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:57 GMT They're badges of honor, coming from those Yahoos. :-) -- Fear of change condemns us to suffer the mistakes of the past. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372375/brave_men.html Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:10 GMT The US working with the CIA created Bin Laden. We taught him everything he knows. You might want to look up Charlie Wilson and his role in that bit of history. Bill Clinton got closer than anyone in catching Bin Laden. Bill Clinton recognized terrorism as the new threat to national security. He created a terrorist czar - Richard Clark - whose entire focus was on Iran and Bin Laden. When Bush went into office, he chose a Cabinet that blatantly ignored the advice of Clark and didn't even know who Bin Laden was. Their primary focus was on Getting Saddam and Iraq. Bush is responsible for choosing his cabinet and their level of competence. He is responsible for the results of their bad choices. Paying attention to Clark would have made a big difference. Remember we had the information we needed to get the attackers. They were being watched and in the US. Deal with the fact that Bush blew it. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372325/lets_go.html Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:04 GMT Bawk bawk bawk. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372365/thumb_chicken_hawk_trolls_busy_today.html Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:18 GMT I've been feeding you specifics for what going on three years now? The fact is you don't want to hear anything that conflicts with what you assume to be true; "rah, rah, we're number one (insert red, white and blue pom poms and 03V doing the splits here) that is all you want, that is all you will hear because that is how you have been trained. The fact is that our foreign policy was hijacked in the 1870's/80's by institutions that originally weren't even supposed to have a "right" to exist. Since then our country has largely been behaving like a big drunk stumbling around a bar spilling drinks, grabbing asses and snatching hot wings off of everyone's plate. We've been popped in the jaw a couple of times along the way but for the most part we have gotten away with it and all for the benefit of a select few. You wan't details? Go back and read everything that I have written since you started posting here or you can go back several more years further and read everything that I have written since I started posting here. But you don't really want details, you don't want facts, you want violence and jingoism that's what you want and that's all you really want. The guy who didn't even realize that Islam is an old testament religion feels qualified to condemn Islam; the guy who thinks that the weight of the atmosphere causes gravity is going to tell me all about how it is! Hah! -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372321/king_talking_much_saying_nothing.html Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:55 GMT Lot's of ink there ADD boy but it doesn't change the essential truth of my original statement. Had our government (you remember the government, that thing that Republicans don't trust) played the foreign policy game by our own rules, the rules from whence that same government derrives its authority, then the towers would still be standing. It's a simple concept really, not too hard to follow with only the slightest bit of effort. Just to be clear and because I know you like things nice and simple I will say here that the previous statement should in no way be construed as excuse making for Bin Laden and is in no way intended take away from the fact that he should be killed as slowly, painfully and violently as possible. See, when you don't oversimplify things it can be tough because you have to be able to hold onto ideas that seem mutually exclusive by really are not, it takes effort but I think the cause of reality deserves just that level of attention. -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372303/squirt.html Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:31 GMT Bush and the GOP was such an abject failure that there was discussion to move the Inauguration sooner. The last time that happened? Why, after the disaster of the Republican driving us into the GD, and their pathetic handling of it. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372039/blamed_obama_office.html Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:19 GMT Dubya was the first President to have eggs & other things pelted at him during his Inauguration too, those folk were definitely visionaries. :) -- Three 164's, Two 144's, One 142 & a partridge in a pear tree. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372284/blamed_obama_office.html Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:31 GMT At that rate, I'll way out-perform even my incredible inherited longevity, and hit 170 or so. Of course, because I live in reality world, and know that what are writing is fiction, I don't think that's likely. You do realize though, that making up stories about me or anything else doesn't alter reality? From mainstream America... <a href ="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Friedman_Change_Constitution_for_early_inauguration_1124.html"> Friedman</a> <a href ="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96446766"> NPR</a> <a href ="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2008/11/15/so-eager-obama-wants-inauguration-moved-december"> Newsbusters</a> <a href ="http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/11/why-wait-until.html"> USA Today</a> http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372167/fantasmas_got.html Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:35 GMT Where did the word "deny" come from? It's not in the bill as written. Once more. SEC. 246. NO FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR UNDOCUMENTED 4 ALIENS. 5 Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments 6 for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are 7 not lawfully present in the United States Sec. 143 assigns the regulatory agency the responsibility to enforce the law. The agenc will write regulations that spell out what is necessary to qualify, and those regulations have the force of law. You could look it up. I did. That's the way the legislative process works here in America. It has worked that way for the past 200 years. You should take a civics class, learn a little bit about the country you call home. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372111/need_discuss_meaning_word_deny.html Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:53 GMT So where are you getting your information that HR 3200 has evolved because of Wilson's outburst. HR 3200 was reported out of committee on July 17, and has not changed one bit since then. Wilson's outburst was last week. Last week was Septmber. September is after July. The provision to deny illegal aliens coverage has been there since the bill was introduced on July 14. Having some time warp problems, are we? Also having some reading or hearing problems, too, it seems. Here is the verbatim text of the relevant portion of Obama's speech. "There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false. The reforms -- the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally." AUDIENCE MEMBER: "You lie!" (Boos.) Obama stated precisely the words and the spirit of the proposed legislation. So, is Joe Wilson one of those nationally recognized Republican leaders who you've so far failed to identify? Oh, by the way, the Democrats have not blocked language that would require proof of citizenship. Several "reform bills" sponsored by Republicans and the insurance companies have been offered with such language, but no one really took those "reform bills" seriously. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372056/outburst_paid_offin_one_way.html Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:39 GMT I recently spent a week in Slovenia. For those not familiar with it, it's the most northerly part of the former Yugoslavia bordering Italy, Austria, Hungary and Croatia. It's about the size of New Hampshire with a pop. of 2 million. Everywhere is clean and tidy, people are obviously proud of their country - not the case in many other European countries. Although a small country, it has Alps in the north stretching to a 30 mile Adriatic coastline in the south. Fabulous lakes and even more fabulous caves. I got talking to a family member at one of the "tourist farms" we stayed at - run by his parents but he was a professional working at Ljubljana (capital) university and had travelled extensively. He said that if, say, a company employee had extended illness / broke a bone etc. then the company paid for a period of recuperation which could be in a spa-resort (they have many in the east). They have many public holidays. School-children have free ski-ing weeks every year. It felt "safe" everywhere, no-one was sounding off or being aggressive. In short, I liked it. I could live there. It's what a country should be like, I thought. Twenty years ago it converted from Communism (under Tito) to a social democracy. There must be enough wealth to provide a good standard of living I guess, but I got the impression of equality and fairness. Having said that there were very few "fancy" cars. I think I saw one Rolls Royce and a few Mercs. But do you need them? I'm happy with a Volvo diesel. It could be that some people might find it too "same-ey" but would you rather have that or some corrupt corporation driven megalith who teaches it kids crap and dulls down the population so they'll believe what is required? Regards. -- BillB http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1371079/slovenia_perhaps_object_lesson_run_country.html Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:51 GMT <i>The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.</i> How marvelously appropriate! It is preposterous to expect that problems that were eight years in the making can be unmade in eight months, even if a totally different level of thinking is applied. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372045/dumb_crap_ever_said.html Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:31 GMT That's what happens when you let your imagination and talk radio echo chambers do your thinking for you. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372040/usual_references_proof_charges.html Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:22 GMT <i>Bush had been in office a mere 8 months on that fine late summer morning.</i> You & your redneck buddies waited about eight minutes before blaming the financial crisis on Obama & his pinko policies. Bush was told <b>ON DAY ONE</b> that Bin Laden was the biggest problem he had to face & they all knew it, that's how they knew Bin Laden was responsible for 9/11 the day after. What did Bush do about the Bin Laden threat before 9/11? He went & had a holiday on his ranch, cut down some trees, etc. Your kind is becoming extinct fast, inbreeding being the main cause. -- Three 164's, Two 144's, One 142 & a partridge in a pear tree. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1372030/dumb_crap_ever_said.html Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:31 GMT Two years too many in the south thanks. Had any heed ever been paid to the Constitution the twin towers would still be standing. Stop making excuses for bad behavior stop excusing that which is wrong, pay attention, see the whole picture, stop indulging your ego, but most importantly obey the best credo of true conservatism ever conceived; WALK SOFTLY and carry a big stick. (Don't forget the "walk softly" part as it is a full half of the equation.) Clinton didn't get Bin Laden much cheaper than Bush didn't get Bin Laden and with far less loss of American life, suck on it. -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1371912/snoot_lets_msnbc_bombing.html Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:32 GMT So, the public is coming to the conclusion that Obama was being untruthful about the provisions regarding illegal aliens in the health care bill, huh? The public should actually read the bill before coming to that conclusion. HR 3200, Section 246 SEC. 246. NO FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR UNDOCUMENTED 4 ALIENS. 5 Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments 6 for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are 7 not lawfully present in the United States Hmmm. Seems pretty clear to me. Ah, you say, but the law does not carry any enforcement provisions. Okay, let's look at Section 143 - Responsibilities of the Commissioner - sub section (f): EFFICIENCY IN ADMINISTRATION.&#226;&#128;&#148;The Commis 17 sioner shall issue regulations for the effective and efficient 18 administration of the Health Insurance Exchange and af 19 fordability credits under subtitle C, including, with respect 20 to the determination of eligibility for affordability credits, 21 the use of personnel who are employed in accordance with 22 the requirements of title 5, United States Code, to carry 23 out the duties of the Commissioner or, in the case of sec24 tions 208 and 241(b)(2), the use of State personnel who 25 are employed in accordance with standards prescribed by VerDate Nov 24 2008 23:22 Jul 14, 2009 Jkt 079200 PO 00000 Frm 00045 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H3200.IH H3200 jlentini on DSKJ8SOYB1PROD with BILLS 46 &#226;&#128;&#162;HR 3200 IH 1 the Office of Personnel Management pursuant to section 2 208 of the Intergovernmental Personnel Act of 1970 (42 3 U.S.C. 4728). So the commissioner of the program shall (note the imperative "shall") issue regulations with respect to the determination of affordability credits. Like with every other major piece of legislation, Congress paints the broad strokes, and charges the appropriate regulatory agency with devising methods of enforcing the law's provisions. That's why we have both the United States Code, which contains the law, and a separate Code of Federal Regulations, which includes the agency written regulations that give the law teeth. So, we have a law which prevents health insurance subsidies to illegal aliens and a mechanism for enforcing that law. Here's a link to the bill on the GPO's website. Please, go find the provisions that you think support your position, and report them back to us. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h3200ih.txt.pdf http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1371987/outburst_paid_offin_one_way.html Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:54 GMT Yup, the Colonel is a real charmer. Now we know where you got your world-view from. Based on what you told us, I was under the impression it came from your father. I guess that was a mistake. From Wikipedia: <i>Regarding Iraq, he wrote, "might it not have been wiser - as several of us suggested in 2003 - to shake off Europe's vicious legacies and give Kurds their state, Iraqi Shias their state, and the country's Sunni Arabs a rump Iraq to do with as they wished?" Regarding all these countries, he wrote, "We needn't launch an endless war to fix the mess Europeans in pinstriped trousers left us - but we'd damned well better accept that, when we expend blood and treasure to prop up phony states, we're standing on the tracks in front of the speeding train of history."</i> Now that's interesting. He and Joe Biden were actually on the same page at that time! Who would have imagined that? Actually, I happen to agree with both of them. I wonder, however, how come you so enthusiastically supported getting over 4250 US military personnel killed to keep the whole mess together. -- If ignorance is bliss, why are there so many unhappy people? (With apologies to Thos. Gray) http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1371792/snot_read.html Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:27 GMT 03V doesn't like the competition of having other ideological fanatics around and he sees his preferred method of dropping fire from the sky as somehow superior and more honorable than suicide bombing, he doesn't understand that the only difference is access to expensive technology. 03V doesn't realize that he is a charter member of the American Taliban along with the bible thumping assholes that you mentioned he is a zealot sans the religion yet equally convinced of his own righteousness and every bit as undeterred by reality. The fantasies that inspire his brand of faith don't come from preachers or imams they come from politicians, talk radio and internet bloggers but he is still willing to kill or die for those fantasies (especially kill) every bit as much as the jihadist expecting his seventy virgins upon his arrival in paradise. 03V's biggest gripe with the radical Muslims is that he has too much in common with them they are different sides of the same lunatic extreme coin. -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1371651/baptists_let_god_suicide_bombing.html Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:17 GMT Now weren't you the one crying about being picked on though you did nothing to encourage it when you thought that Bill had been mean to you? Where did I invite this attack from you Mr. Stickster? Is it because I dared point out the fact that the south is a cultural cesspool? Heck I didn't even mention the astonishing level of ignorance and bigotry that is rampant in the south now did I? You know there is a very good reason why the south is the last stronghold of Republicanism and I'll give you a hint, it's got nothing to do with the fine Universities and other educational institutions to be found south of the Mason/Dixon line! Now, git offin' yer sister and go hep granny with the sour mash boy afore I give ya a whoppin'! -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1371656/slovenia_perhaps_object_lesson_run_country.html Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:32 GMT You ain't man enough to give me a whippin. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1371703/slovenia_perhaps_object_lesson_run_country.html Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:28 GMT As deeply as you have your head inserted in your rectum, I'm thoroughly surprised that you can see anything at all. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1371655/slovenia_perhaps_object_lesson_run_country.html Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:20 GMT Not everyone, just you and those of your ilk. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1371614/see_want.html Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:38 GMT They man up to their screw ups and then say how they are going to change and then do it. Not just rant about or blame somebody else. Then they take ownership of the problem and do it. Echoing spin and 'staying the course' don't fit under the job description of leader. You don't know the first thing about leadership and are about far from it as black is from white. You had a choice to do it in 2004 and failed. You still need to own up to your poor choices and mistakes before talking about what should be done in the hear an now. There is a price to pay for failing on personal responsibility in the past. You don't get to call the shots in the hear and now. Leadership is earned on a daily basis. You ain't done crap. Either man up, take ownership of YOUR choices, or STHU. You aren't leader. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1371183/crap_excuses_real_leaders_take_personal_responsibility.html Wed, 9 Sep 2009 18:52 GMT That last line is exactly where I see us going, outside of a real revolt by the people. That could show up in 2010, but I think it would be just a change from one corrupt party to another. This whole thing is just about at the point of no return IMO. The orchestrated move for many, many years have been to bring more and more people into dependence on the government. The question is are we still below that threshold where those not dependent can see the light and vote the bums out. I mentioned 2010. If we get to that election and the poll numbers are really low against what we have in there now, and then nothing changes - then we will know we have a dictator - as the billions Obama and his cronies have funneled toward groups like Acorn will have done what what was intended - to bring change. Thing is it would be a change like no other before, and I have to wonder if freedom loving people would stand for it.. -- ' Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. '' (C S Lewis ; on Evil Men) 89 764 (170K), '94 940T (265K), 92 245 (150K) http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1371176/alexander_hamilton_good_country.html Wed, 9 Sep 2009 18:37 GMT Stop expecting everyone else to do it for you. Stop blaming everyone for your own bad decisions. Once upon a time the GOP was about personal accountability. Guess you and Bush missed that one. You had the chance. You decided to vote for more record deficit spending with Bush in 2004. Man up. I did. I voted for someone else in 2004. Man up or STHU. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1371162/take_responsibility_didnt_stop_last_8_years.html Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:45 GMT <p> I say black, you will say white. I say up, and you will say down. The fact is the government spending at this rate is unsustainable. Can you agree with that much? If it isn't stopped the nation as we know will no longer exist. Bush no longer has the ability to change anything. Obama can either come to this conclusion or he can continue to spend and spend. Sooner or later you will have to admit that you can only raise taxes so much. The Roman Empire fell to the Huns. We will fall to the Liberals. The nation is burning, and our president can either fiddle or help put out the fire. </p> <P> Can we just withdraw from two wars and stop that spending? The answer is it depends on what you are willing to live with in terms of consequences of that action. Can we live without spending on another "stimulus", health care reform, and the rest of the Obama agenda? I say yes, absolutely. Maybe Obama thought health care reform was going to be his defining issue. The thing that his presidency was remembered for. Well, debt and a dying economy is his 9/11. Maybe if he focuses on fixing that and restoring our economy health care reform will be an achievable goal. As it stands under his current course of action it may ruin him. Think about that. </p> -- &quot;There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1371146/tort_will_stop.html Wed, 9 Sep 2009 16:45 GMT The secret agenda, the socialist plot, the brainwashing of our children it's all in this paragraph: "You'll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. You'll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. You'll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy." Science? AIDS? New energy technologies? Protect the environment? Fight poverty? Make our nation more fair??? This guy is a radical evolutionist homosexual wealth redistributing commie who hates America if I ever heard one! No wonder he wants to have death panels to pull the plug on granny, it's probably because he wasn't born in the U.S. and isn't really qualified to even be President. -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1370975/found.html Tue, 8 Sep 2009 21:11 GMT <i>It won't take long before the various tribes make their alliances and hell breaks loose.</i> Could you be more specific: which tribes? Do you mean to say that our ever so successful Mid East policy consists of keeping those tribes from forming alliances? Divide and conquer? I have a sneaky suspicion that the only thing that is giving them a semblance of common cause is antipathy toward the US, mostly for our biased support of Israel. BTW, how are the oil producing countries over there going to feed their people, run their internal control machinery, and fight all those wars when they stop producing oil? What would the consequences of that be? http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1370739/right_lets_just_drive_cars_run_poems_hugs.html Mon, 7 Sep 2009 22:19 GMT I have a 1986 245DL (AKA Inga) that has several BB inspired mods. Now these are modifications not adding thing like Poly Bushings or heavy duty springs. Those fit into the same place and are what I call upgrades. These are my personal must do all found here from the BB, Inga is a South Texas Car so it is all about the cool most of the time. Reflectix roof modification is a must do for any Wagon. The 244 crowd has insulation, the 245's have an airspace. Put your hand up against the roof on a 90+ sunny day and you will get it burned. Got mine down at Lowes and installed it using 3M 77 adhesive. Been up there for three years and now when you reach up, no heat. Makes the AC work so much better when the heat source on the roof is removed. Window Tint, added 28% all the way down the sides. That much glass with no tint on a sunny day on blue vinyl and you have yourself a thigh fryer, and nobody wants that. Your 91 may have a pusher fan in front of the evaporator, but if you don't add one. Helps the AC at low to slow speeds by moving enough air across the coils to at least keep some cold air blowing. Dave Shannon's sound deadening mod, you can now hear the stereo and yourself think. That was part of the floor pan rust and hole repair with POR 15. Dave Shannon's Kick Butt lighting mod. Big Plastic or glass headlights, you want more light do that mod. You basically add relays that use the old highlight voltage to close a relay and pull the voltage right from under the hood. Reduces the voltage drop, adds a lot more light. Add a set of Silverstars bulbs and you get a lot more light. Not everyone will agree with that, but trust my eyes still and that is a lot more light out there. About to add Dave Barton's remote voltage regulator to help solve alternator voltage drop. When Inga gets in stop and go traffic or starting her up after say filling up results in a major voltage drop on the voltmeter. A voltage drop will also reduce your light output. Waiting for the next payday. Replaced the wimpy horns with a set of dual tone (starts out low and after a couple of seconds a much louder sound kicks in). Helps you to communicate with your fellow drivers when the occasion arises. Had to add a relay under the hood that kicks in the horns when you hit the horn button. To make the transmission last longer, add a light or mid duty transmission cooler beside the Ac Pusher fan. In hot weather and towing the transmission temps hardly move. If you car still has the temp compensator board in the instrument cluster, rip it out and add the jumper. Now these are the upgrades that I think are worth while and make the ride nicer. Tropical Fan Clutch "AKA The Swamp Cooler", a must have if you live south of at least Interstate 20 or anyplace where the temps reach into the mid ninety's very often. The temp needle does not move on the hottest of days. Poly bushings anyplace the rubber ones go out. That includes accessory bushings, TAB, and Sway Bar bushings. Do it once and forget it is my line of thought. Rear end Heavy Duty Springs, do add a bit more harsh feeling to the back. Gets rid of the dread saggin wagon and lets you haul a load without that climbing the hill feeling the entire way. You will love the Tach but be warned, one gauge leads to another. A voltmeter and an oil pressure gauge would be my choices for the two side slots. Rip that old beat up Volvo Radio and amp if you have one and replace it with a new unit. Inga's would not change stations most of the time. A new Sony, two more speakers in the rear with an IPod interface and problem solved. Lots more of them, happens when you read up on the BB. But thanks to these guys and gals here on the BB and their posts, my 72 mile commute is much more comfortable. Regards, Paul http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1370556/220/240/260/280/best_mods_245.html Mon, 7 Sep 2009 00:21 GMT <i>We lost this war in the various college campuses and on the six o'clock news.</i> You're right. If we had shut down the news and bombed the crap out of those college campuses, we would have won that war hands down. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1370638/love_make_point.html Mon, 7 Sep 2009 13:09 GMT We should have strung Walter Cronkite up by the balls, the traitorous, commie bastard. -- If ignorance is bliss, why are Republicans so unhappy? http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1370659/oh_almost_forgot.html Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:46 GMT <i>"Why did those Saudi extremists attack us? It wasn't because they hated our freedom. It was because they hated military presence in their countries."</i> <p> O.K. Under your theory in order to correct the problem and resolve the murderous anger of irrational people is to adopt whatever foreign policy people who live in a culture that hasn't intellectually progressed since the 12th century, and whom treat their women worse than they would a camel. Do I get it now? We pull out troops out and they are happy. Well, maybe not happy. Just less pissed at us. So if we say, cut Salman Rushdie's throat with a box cutter and behead him on video it would be a good thing in your eyes. Hell a nice gesture would be if we shot down a couple more passenger planes over Scotland. You know in this economy these Muslims shouldn't have to buy all the C4 & boom boxes themselves. We should help out. Box, you are an idiot.</p> <i>"So, where exactly was the U.S.S Cole when it was attacked? I just checked, and it was in the port of Aden, in Yemen. A careful inspection of a map of the United States reveals that Yemen is not in the United States. It's in the middle east."</i> <p> You needed Google for that? Again, we'll let the forces of intolerance and ignorance set our military agenda as well. Do you think that maybe, just maybe, they want our troops and our fleet away from the gulf because despots only fear force? Perhaps if there was nobody who could strike back they could strike whomever they wished? Is that concept too big to wrap your brain around? What would become of Israel? Did you fail to notice Kuwait be seized by another nation using a three hundred year old map as justification? Did you notice that we led the eviction of the squatters? Maybe they want us out for a whole different set of reasons. </p> <i>"On the other hand, Exxon Mobil made record profits last year, in the throes of an economic meltdown, so that's something, right?"</i> <p> Really? Record profits? Good for them. Did you notice Obama gave majority control of 2/3 of our auto industry to the same unions that destroyed these companies? No anger from you there? How come the increase in the cost of a college education has outpaced the cost of gasoline since the 70's and the largest segment of the increase cost is for salaries? We are pissed at big oil, but big education is OK? Well, big Liberal education is. You realize of course that you are such a liberal media fed robot that you question nothing daily kos doesn't tell you to question. </p> -- "There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1370518/come_one_box_volvo_school_liberal_diplomacy.html Sun, 6 Sep 2009 20:11 GMT <i>"No, they are definitely not doing what they exist to do....The rightful duty of the United States military is to DEFEND this nation against aggressors plain and simple.." </i> <p> Snoot, he was defending us. I don't know maybe you were out stealing Abbie Hoffman's book the day the S.S. Cole was bombed. Perhaps you were working hard on your hemp necklace, or finding a new style of Birkenstocks the days our embassies were getting blown up. But I know you saw several thousand Americans die on various planes that were hijacked in the fall of 2001. We were attacked repeatedly. Now, the response to these attacks varied. We saw an aspirin factory and a baby formula plant get struck by missiles. The problem there was the attacks continued. I guess these religious extremist types weren't as impressed with a Yale law degree and a Rhodes scholarship as Liberals are. Poor Bill, no respect at all. Nothing changed and innocent Americans continued to die without any end in sight. </P> <P> Now Bush tried a different plan. He felt since the problem was a terrorist attack policy against Americans by those in search of martyrdom and an all virgin posse; the answer had to somehow involve an actual consequence for folks with that mindset. Now, Afghanistan was a no brainer. The Taliban allowed terror prep schools, and gave safe haven to the very bunch responsible for much of the terror. So he toppled their apple cart. Then he looked at Saddam. He made a mockery of international law, and scoffed at dozens of U.N. Resolutions for decades. These two countries had some things in common (*I.E. horrendous human rights records, poor living standards), and one glaring difference. </p> <p> One thing Saddam had, that the Taliban would never have, was an image in the ME that he was a big shot. He stood up to the infidel west and never blinked. He could do as he pleased because we lacked the will to stop him. Bush took away from him his nation, his image, and his even his kids. Do NOT underestimate the impact of that detail in the minds of other tyrants. Qaddafi lost a kid when Reagan schooled him about international etiquette in the 80's. Other despots took notice. Terror had fewer places to hide. Fewer hosts, and fewer sponsors. You may not get, and you may not appreciate it, but it is a result that makes the world safer. </p> <p> The enemy was partially correct when Saddam, Bin Laden, and KSM assumed we as Americans lack the stomach for conflict. The left in our nation would not have stood up to them, as Clinton showed, and as Carter showed. If by some chance the left were to fight, they would not have the determination to see it through to it's inevitable end. Vietnam is a prime piece of evidence of this phenomenon. The North Vietnamese were shocked by our retreat. The bombing was working. They were broke, moral was low, the army was starving. We never lost a major battle in the entire war. When they fought, we won. We lost this war in the various college campuses and on the six o'clock news. The Cong didn't beat us, the liberal establishment did. This may not be your summation, but Bin Laden certainly based his strategy on this summation.</p> <p> Snoot you may have studied History. Digested History, and have an exceptional recall of historical fact. What you sometimes lack is an ability to understand and analyze historical trends and apply the lessons learned forward into current and future conflict outcomes. My dad always said weathermen and historians are the only people that can see the future. Not all Historians, and not many weathermen. But some. Guess what? Bush's forecast called for pain all over the Middle East, but clear skies over the U.S. <b>Who's forecast proved accurate? </b></p> -- &quot;There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1370401/love_make_point.html Sun, 6 Sep 2009 00:27 GMT <i>You hit the nail on the head</i> You didn't do such a bad job yourself. Nice going! -- Fossil fuels + fossil politics &#226;&#137;&#160; a brighter future. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1370635/right_lets_just_kill_em.html Mon, 7 Sep 2009 12:55 GMT I guess that I am not surprised that your definition of the word "defense" would be just as flexible and ego-gratifying as your definition for such things as "conservatism", "family values" and "fiscal responsibility". You see I tend to take a more conservative approach when defining the word; if the government wishes to convict me for a violent act that I have committed that I maintain was "self defense" then I must meet a rather rigorous set of criteria for defining that act as "defense" (criteria set by the government) otherwise it's off to prison I go, as it happens I hold the government to the same standard...their standard. Likewise I can not provoke a confrontation through belligerent and irresponsible behavior and then fall back on the excuse of self defense and expect a pass. You can define "defense" in all the six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon ways that you want to justify whatever your little old ego wants to justify but that doesn't actually make it so. -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1370591/love_make_point.html Mon, 7 Sep 2009 02:40 GMT That's how it was when Bush let office. You know, that unemployment figure is especially tasty, since its about equal with where Carter left it, and at least Carter improved it slightly. I don't know the sanitary conditions of Bin Laden's Cave, but he wasn't fighting for a flushing toilet. Is that what you thought you were fighting for as a Marine, when you were doing field maneuvers? He was fighting to do to us exactly what he did to the Soviet Union. He did a pretty good job. You know, when we were fighting the communists? Now look at all the money Bush borrowed from those Commies.... Bush came to office with the US in the black, record low unemployment, and a military that had done very well in its foreign assignments other than Somalia. In spite of all those terrorists attacks you blame Clinton for during his administration, the economy was thundering right along, wasn't it? He wasn't borrowing money from the Communists....Nope. Oh, and I keep waiting for you to tell us about all your great overseas experience and first hand knowledge of embassy life, and all the risks that foreign service/State personnel face with their families. Please, enlighten us also on your large field experience. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1370516/unemployment_81_indebted_communist_china_extended_military.html Sun, 6 Sep 2009 20:03 GMT <i>Sil, how many lives was Abraham Lincoln on the hook for?</i> Have you noticed my posting any paeans to Abraham Lincoln here, or to Obama, for that matter? I'll say it again: Read and try to understand what people write here. Don't let the echos inside your skull distract you. All I have ever said here was that I was happy Obama got elected because of the historical significance of that event and because it was a way to get the imbeciles who were running and ruining the country out of office. I would have been just as happy if it had been Hilary because that would have been equally significant and would have had the same effect. From a political perspective, I can think of half a dozen people I would rather have seen in the presidency, but they either weren't running, or didn't have a chance. As for Honest Abe's war, it's significance to me is about the same as that of the Punic Wars. I wasn't there, so, my interest is purely academic. If you want to re-fight the Civil War, be my guest, but you'll have to find another opponent. Even though I decline to get involved, I do think that most Americans would agree that your juxtaposing George W. and <u>Honest</u> Abe is a bit of a stretch. That said, I think it is fun to speculate what would have happened if the South had permanently seceded. It might have ended up like a sort of English speaking Brazil, but then, I also think the Louisiana purchase was a mistake. Just imagine, we could have had French cuisine from Louisiana all the way up to North Dakota and Montana. I'll spare you my thoughts on our taking Texas and everything west of there away from the Mexicans. <i>But we must remember these young people are professionals that made a choice to be where they are. There is not one draftee in the bunch. They are doing what a fighting force exists to do.</i> Snoot addressed that one quite adequately. No further comment from me is required. <i>Why do I dislike Obama so? ........ My hope was that he would be more like Clinton</i> Sure you did, especially in view of the nice things you have said about Billybub. :-) I was tempted to repeat some of the things I've said about Obama's performance, but I'll cede the space to Bill Moyers who expresses my thoughts a lot better than I ever could. Bill was talking specifically about health insurance reform. I think the same sentiment applies to several other aspects of Obama's approach to governance. <i>September 4, 2009 BILL MOYERS: The editors of THE ECONOMIST magazine say America's health care debate has become a touch delirious, with people accusing each other of being evil-mongers, dealers in death, and un-American. Well, that's charitable. I would say it's more deranged than delirious, and definitely not un-American. Those crackpots on the right praying for Obama to die and be sent to hell &#226;&#128;&#148; they're the warp and woof of home-grown nuttiness. So is the creature from the Second Amendment who showed up at the President's rally armed to the teeth. He's certainly one of us. Red, white, and blue kooks are as American as apple pie and conspiracy theories. Bill Maher asked me on his show last week if America is still a great nation. I should have said it's the greatest show on earth. Forget what you learned in civics about the Founding Fathers &#226;&#128;&#148; we're the children of Barnum and Bailey, our founding con men. Their freak show was the forerunner of today's talk radio. Speaking of which: we've posted on our website an essay by the media scholar Henry Giroux. He describes the growing domination of hate radio as one of the crucial elements in a "culture of cruelty" increasingly marked by overt racism, hostility and disdain for others, coupled with a simmering threat of mob violence toward any political figure who believes health care reform is the most vital of safety nets, especially now that the central issue of life and politics is no longer about working to get ahead, but struggling simply to survive. So here we are, wallowing in our dysfunction. Governed &#226;&#128;&#148; if you listen to the rabble rousers &#226;&#128;&#148; by a black nationalist from Kenya smuggled into the United States to kill Sarah Palin's baby. And yes, I could almost buy their belief that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, only I think he shipped them to Washington, where they've been recycled as lobbyists and trained in the alchemy of money laundering, which turns an old-fashioned bribe into a First Amendment right. Only in a fantasy capital like Washington could Sunday morning talk shows become the high church of conventional wisdom, with partisan shills treated as holy men whose gospel of prosperity always seems to boil down to lower taxes for the rich. Poor Obama. He came to town preaching the religion of nice. But every time he bows politely, the harder the Republicans kick him. No one's ever conquered Washington politics by constantly saying "pretty please" to the guys trying to cut your throat. Let's get on with it, Mr. President. We're up the proverbial creek with spaghetti as our paddle. This health care thing could have been the crossing of the Delaware, the turning point in the next American Revolution &#226;&#128;&#148; the moment we put the mercenaries to rout, as General Washington did the Hessians at Trenton. We could have stamped our victory "Made in the USA." We could have said to the world, "Look what we did!" And we could have turned to each other and said, "Thank you." As it is, we're about to get health care reform that measures human beings only in corporate terms of a cost-benefit analysis. I mean this is topsy-turvy &#226;&#128;&#148; we should be treating health as a condition, not a commodity. As we speak, Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, has been fined a record $2.3 billion dollars as a civil and criminal &#226;&#128;&#148; yes, that's criminal, as in fraud &#226;&#128;&#148; penalty for promoting prescription drugs with the subtlety of the Russian mafia. It's the fourth time in a decade Pfizer's been called on the carpet. And these are the people into whose tender mercies Congress and the White House would deliver us? Come on, Mr. President. Show us America is more than a circus or a market. Remind us of our greatness as a democracy. When you speak to Congress next week, just come out and say it. We thought we heard you say during the campaign last year that you want a government run insurance plan alongside private insurance &#226;&#128;&#148; mostly premium-based, with subsidies for low-and-moderate income people. Open to all individuals and employees who want to join and with everyone free to choose the doctors we want. We thought you said Uncle Sam would sign on as our tough, cost-minded negotiator standing up to the cartel of drug and insurance companies and Wall Street investors whose only interest is a company's share price and profits. Here's a suggestion, Mr. President: ask Josh Marshall to draft your speech. Josh is the founder of the website talkingpointsmemo.com. He's a journalist and historian, not a politician. He doesn't split things down the middle and call it a victory for the masses. He's offered the simplest and most accurate description yet of a public insurance plan &#226;&#128;&#148; one that essentially asks people: would you like the option &#226;&#128;&#148; the voluntary option &#226;&#128;&#148; of buying into Medicare before you're 65? Check it out, Mr. President. This health care thing is make or break for your leadership, but for us, it's life and death. No more Mr. Nice Guy, Mr. President. We need a fighter. That's it for the Journal. I'm Bill Moyers. See you next time.</i> <a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/08/adventures_in_the_rabbit_hole.php">HERE</a> is a link to the website Moyers mentioned. -- If ignorance is bliss, why are there so many unhappy people? (With apologies to Thos. Gray) http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1370459/three_reply_usual_weak_tired_hypocritical_lib_playbook.html Sun, 6 Sep 2009 13:32 GMT BoxVolvo it never ceases to amaze me that those who spend so much time trying to revise history and make silly challenges like 03V are the ones who have so little real experience in the reality of what they support. He questions and labels as cowards the very people who were actually out there in the embassies, in a hot combat zone, or in some mission somewhere. For example, the sugar coating of US policy to support Israel in all it does and not be a fair broker in the ME is what has turned us from being highly respected by many ME countries to being seen as a threat and intensely disliked. It's sad really, because many Israelis are now leaving due to the similar destructive policies of their own leadership and the influx of Jewish Russians who are very 'combative' characters. It does not bode well for improving relations with the ME. I think many of the older Israelis at this point would be happy to make peaceful agreements with many of the ME neighbors. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1370482/love_make_point.html Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:23 GMT <i>I like to think that the Volvo crowd are little more refined than that.</i> Check Turbobricks - you'll revise that statement. I also have no idea why lower = better. I like being able to comfortably get into and out of my car. I have stiffer springs too. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1370469/220/240/260/280/need_short_struts_cut_springs_now_steering_problem_long_post_sorry.html Sun, 6 Sep 2009 15:10 GMT I don't think so. We didn't lose the war in Vietnam because we had nothing to win. Nothing at stake. Nothing to lose but more lives in a thoroughly useless misadventure. While we were in a war, we were not at war. Ho Chi Minh posed no threat to us. The only threat that the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong posed was to American soldiers in Vietnam. It took us almost a decade but we finally figured out a way to stop that threat. Go home. Remove the bait. Because that's what we really were, bait. Remember the Tonkin Gulf attacks? Even if your still believe the fiction that they were attacked, did you ever ask yourself what the Maddox and Turner Joy were doing in the Gulf of Tonkin? Do you think they were guarding Norfolk? If you want to find a loser in Vietnam, look at the South Vietnamese, a corrupt, cowardly population who had no more interest in fighting the north that they had in being our allies. The bombing? Are you talking about Rolling Thunder? Do you really think it was working? Go check the stats - more American soldiers died in Vietnam during Rolling Thunder than during any comparable time period. Vietnam is certainly instructive. It should have taught us that such military misadventures in support of goals that we can even now articulate, or that change with the weather or the latest apologist historian, never work. Oh, and you may not have noticed, but the Taliban are uprighting their apple carts. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1370462/vietnam_lost.html Sun, 6 Sep 2009 13:53 GMT Those that can do and those that can't play with the thumb button! I don't blame Sticky for needing a seat on the short bus but I do blame him for pretending that he doesn't. Either you've got what it takes to hang or you don't, the thumb botton is no substitute for ability. -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1370176/ive_said.html Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:18 GMT "The nifty thing about a democracy is that the majority rules"- If that were true our health care system would have been overhauld back when Truman was in office. Unfortunately what rules in the U.S. is the majority of cash; one dollar equals one vote and whoever has the most dollars has the most votes and subsequently exerts disproportionate influece. We will see some kind of legislation come out of this mess but the end result will be unduly and unjustly influenced by the enormous amounts of capital that has been put to work by the minority; the very forces that profit from the inequities and injustices of our current exploitative arrangements. This is the corruption that is the hallmark of our governance. -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1370133/get_thee_behind.html Fri, 4 Sep 2009 14:26 GMT He doesn't put his blinkers on and pretend Teddy Kennedy was something he was not. At least Kennedy grew up one day and became a respected legislator in his own right, known for his complete honesty at the bargaining table. Nor did he lie to his country to get them to go to war. He also did do something for disabled people like my mother, so she could be treated on the same basis as anyone else with her skill set. What did Bush do for the common person, other than pretend he was one with his fake accent while stealing their futures in miniscule 401ks and run away inflation in necessary areas like housing, heating oil, and exploding health care? Oh, and unlike you, Snoot doesn spend his time picking on all the Bush relatives, Like Bush&#197;&#155; daughters, calling them pant suit lesbians just because he doesn't like Bush. Unlike you, who decide that anyone with the Kennedy name deserves to be judged on the basis of your despised Teddy. Shall we take a closer look at Laura Bush, and her own younger day mishaps? http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1370075/also_doesn_spend_time_putting_hero_chappaquiddick_pedestal_like_bush.html Fri, 4 Sep 2009 01:56 GMT Sticky was right, I spoke in absolutes and was wrong in doing so. Yet out of every 5,800 or so American deaths in the Vietnam War a good solid 1 was a National Guard member for a grand total of 101 National Guard deaths during the entirety of the conflict. Them's what ya call rich boy odds! -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1369772/research_well.html Wed, 2 Sep 2009 23:14 GMT I don't think misunderstanding is unique to this forum. I honestly read it in a similar fashion to Steve, and what I misunderstood was not that you disagreed, but the need to comment about CA and her lifestyle as if that in particualr caused her situation. Living a more humble lifestyle - as many many Americans do through many different necessary occupations - should not dictate whether or not you receive timely access for preventive care. How many americans have been laid off through no fault of their own, or have watched as their companies were forced to offer only high deductible policies? And that's for those companies that even offer any benefits like that anymore. Perhaps you can help us and clarify what you meant about how to offer the best access for the most, for I am sure we would agree that even humble people should be able get preventive access? and Yes, I gave you a thumbs up and Steve. I appreciate that you would rather discuss than just make blanket statements. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1369890/get_thee_behind.html Thu, 3 Sep 2009 12:59 GMT I accept and appreciate your apology. You know something Steve? Your initial reply to me was everything that I see wrong about this forum. I know I took your ideas to task, and it is natural to lash out. It is also possible to mis-understand what the other person is saying, as is the case here. Thank you for apologizing, it means a lot to me. I realize my opinion may be wrong in this whole debate. It just gets so didactical in here sometimes that it takes all the fun out of bashing opinions about. Maybe Jarrod should make another forum where we can all call each other arseholes and disagree vehemently. He could call it the "Opinions" forum... No, wait, that one has already been taken. :-) PS, Thanks Mike. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1369382/get_thee_behind.html Tue, 1 Sep 2009 05:30 GMT First, let me expain something. An artist is a business person, making things for sale. And, unless fame casts a spotlight on the artist, most artists live a frugal life because they enjoy what they do for a living. It is hard to live from what you produce, ask any farmer. CA was an artist, not a free loading hippie or a rich yuppie. She is the sole Democrat in a family of Bircher's. Her passion for Volvos began because her father had one but wouldn't let her drive it. She finally made enough money to buy one, plus a travel trailer. CA is still an artist, you can see it in the way her eyes light up when she sees something that escapes others notice. Of course, she can no longer fashion silver jewelry to make a living, which is why she is on disability and Medicade -------------------------- A brain tumor cannot be diagnosed in a doctors office until it is already a real problem. Either the motor nerves have been disrupted or the speech area has already been compromised. Her doctor made the appointment at Mayo Clinic. It was the Mayo that suggested she try the new drugs, and her insurance company that declined to pay for because it was experimental and not FDA approved. My neighbors brother found some lumps near his coller bone last week, went to his doc, had xrays done and found lung cancer. He then had an MRI for a better look, and discovered tumers in his brain also. Two days later, he had an appointment at the Mayo, luckily is is not far from here. His insurance company will also not cover "experimental" drugs. And the only drugs that will help are experimental, these cancer treatments are all too new to go through the FDA 5-7 year trials. Of course, all of us who have medical insurance can visit a doctor. But most of them will not find cancers until they cause a problem. By then the cancer is usually too large or spread to other organs and we are given masses of chemo or radiation, which may or may not work but will leave us paranoid and with a large medical bill. With corporations running our country, don't expect anything good to come from our congressmen. All we will get is more taxes and fewer services. Klaus -- The more I learn, the more I forget. So why learn? http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1369762/working_us.html Wed, 2 Sep 2009 22:38 GMT "Therefore, the statements that the Guard units were a Rich Boy's Country Club does not hold water"- "I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well-placed... managed to wangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units...Of the many tragedies of Vietnam, this raw class discrimination strikes me as the most damaging to the ideal that all Americans are created equal and owe equal allegiance to their country." -Colin Powell, in his autobiography, My American Journey, p. 148 -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1369682/tell_colonel.html Wed, 2 Sep 2009 15:57 GMT Not that Kerry is one of my heroes, but I have looked at his service record, and listened to the men that served with him, including the Special Forces soldier whose life he saved. To a man, they all say that he was a good and brave officer. By contrast, I never heard from anyone who served with Bush about his service. Not one. The discouraging words you heard during the 2004 campaign were from the mouth of the officer who followed him as commander of that river boat, who was stung because he didn't command the respect of those same men. The SF soldier's story is especially compelling. Kerry turned his boat into the line of fire to pull the guy out of the river. I spent a year with an infantry line company in War Zone C, and I would have had no problem serving under Kerry. Edit. And another thing. You dishonor every man and woman who wears or has ever served in the military by buying into and spreading that crap about Kerry. For the record, I got the greeting letter - drafted in 1966. My brother was also drafted. He went to OCS, did a tour as a platoon leader with the 25th, then went into the NG when he got back, and retired about ten years ago as a full colonel. My father was drafted in 1943 when he was 32 years old. Served with the 13th Amored Division as it made its way up the Ruhr Valley. You got a problem with draftees? http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1369623/thats_given.html Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:21 GMT I am glad you chose to post that. Maybe I shouldn't have said anything but you have mentioned your duty in the past. You just don't make it your calling card and I respect you for that. Your bother would best be able to say how the USNG was used over the period from his enlistment to his retirement. Feel free to correct anything I say if you know better from your brother. My knowledge of the USNG and the Reserves rotations come from people I know doing it, or who would have a reason to know. Regards. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1369675/thats_given.html Wed, 2 Sep 2009 15:21 GMT and let's do a side by side comparison with the records of Bush while we are at it! http://www.awolbush.com/kerry-vs-bush.asp Don't worry I don't actually expect that you will bother to do any reading. -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1369665/got.html Wed, 2 Sep 2009 14:30 GMT I didn't see this in the FAQ or the archive, so..... The diagnostic unit on my '90 240 had always been flaky. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. In reading Bentley, there is a procedure for testing the unit. On testing, it showed no continuity through the switch when it was depressed. In Bentley, it says "replace the unit". Remove the unit from the fender wall. The there is a plastic cover that covers the button. There are two small tabs, facing inward. Depress these with a small screwdriver, and carefully swivel the plastic cover away. The button will now come out. BE CAREFUL NOT TO LOSE/DROP THE TWO SMALL SPRINGS ON EACH LEG OF THE BUTTON! Luckily, I had a magnet handy 8-) On both the bottom of the button, and down in the test unit itself, are the contacts. Mine were filthy. 15 seconds with a Dremel, reassemble, and all is well! http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1369331/220/240/260/280/fyi_repairing_diagnostic_unit.html Tue, 1 Sep 2009 00:26 GMT Thank you, I prefer to call myself a conservative rather than a republican. I enthusiastically voted for Bush in 2000. I reluctantly voted for Bush in 2004. I guess I took the lesser of two evils (my own personal opinion of course LOL). The Patriot Act and out of control spending really bothered me but not enough to vote for Kerry. By 2006 any love for the Republican party was gone. Republicans were no longer conservatives. Republicans are now big spenders who have no regard for the Constitution. I am by no means ready to embrace socialist views. I am a conservative, I believe in fiscal responsibility, I believe in a strong national defense, I believe in the Constitution, I believe in low taxes and I believe in capitalism (true capitalism not corporate predators). In 2008 the Republican party nominated the absolute worst candidate for President. If Hillary Clinton would have been nominated I most likely would have voted for her. In 2008 my support was for Ron Paul until he dropped out. I eventually voted for Bob Barr for President. Most of the members of this forum might not agree with my views. That's fine it won't hurt my feelings. We can have different points of views and still behave like adults. Just because someone has different opinions and/or life experiences does not make them any better or worse of a person, just different. Nothing wrong with being different. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1369289/really.html Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:30 GMT just look at the service records of those who served in congress during the Bush years. The left side of the isle was packed with decorated vets and the right side of the isle was packed with chicken hawks who all had something better to do when duty called not unlike Bush and Cheney themselves. I'm not sure what the break down looks like now but I doubt it is all that different. -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1369241/thats_given.html Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:57 GMT Just for you, <a href="http://www.visitingdc.com/images/richard-nixon-picture.jpg">HERE </a> is a picture of a big dick. <i>Warning: Contains graphic content which many will find deeply disturbing. Or at the very least, a bit off-putting.</i> -- ' When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.' S. Wright http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1369124/please.html Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:22 GMT <i>We can have different points of views and still behave like adults. Just because someone has different opinions and/or life experiences does not make them any better or worse of a person, just different. Nothing wrong with being different.</i> Amen! -- If ignorance is bliss, why are there so many unhappy people? (With apologies to Thos. Gray) http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1369303/really.html Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:07 GMT J, I realize that by saying that your last two posts make great good sense I put you at risk of being called a traitor to your cause. That is not my intent, and that shouldn't be so. The mistake that the ardent defenders of Republicanism, not to be confused with Conservatism, assume that those who do not agree with Republican policies of the recent past must automatically be Democrats, or worse, Communists. This is not conducive to rational discussion of differences on policies and inevitably leads to partisan name-calling. Such discourse, or lack thereof, totally obscures the fact that many of us who disagreed with Republican policies and much of the current Republican parliamentary stance equally disagree with many parts of the Democrat's approach to governance. -- Fossil fuels + fossil politics &#226;&#137;&#160; a brighter future. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1369181/really.html Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:50 GMT "1) Would such an innovative, experimental program for an odd disease like brain cancer even be available in countries like Great Britain or Canada? What is the incentive?" I can only speak for my country, but here's a short list of experimental prgrams conducted during the term of Medicare in Australia: The Bionic Ear- the cochlear implant was invented by a team led by Professor Graeme Clark at The University of Melbourne and in 1978 the first person received the implant at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. The Bionic Ear has brought hearing to more than 50,000 people in over 80 countries Many firsts associated with in vitro fertilisation, including the birth of the first frozen embryo baby at the Queen Victoria Medical Centre in Melbourne1984. Gene Shears - this discovery, central to much biotechnology was made by Wayne Gerlach and Jim Haseloff at the CSIRO in 1986 Spray-on-skin for burns victims developed by Dr Fiona Wood and used to great effect after the 2002 Bali terrorist bombings Discovery of the Helicobacter pylori bacterium which causes stomach ulcers and gastritis leading to its successful treatment. Barry Marshall and Robin Warren made this discovery in 1982 and received the Nobel Prize in 2005 for their work The world's first vaccine to prevent cervical cancer with the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives was developed by Professor Ian Frazer and others at the University of Queensland during the 1990s and eventually approved for use in USA in 2006. A team from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne led by Professor Alan Cowman has developed the first genetically-modified strain of malaria which is capable of being used as a live vaccine against malaria. Trials on humans are expected to begin in 2010. Enough or should I keep going? I guess part of the "incentive" behind all this is that we give a crap about people's health. "2) Despite lack of comprehensive health insurance, our friend here, got treated, with an innovative, experimental program, for free! Right here in the USA" CA was extremely fortunate, and in a tiny minority group. What about the, what, hundreds, thousands, millions even of sufferers who get diddly? So long as a few are treated ok then its fine for the rest to just die? "..a sorta-hippie, artist, Volvo-loving lady that made a living on part time teaching jobs and other artistic adventures," That's nothing but insulting to her and not worth any comment. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368960/get_thee_behind.html Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:04 GMT I suppose its true. Hey I know that over the last 25 years or so those in the defense industry have mostly been conservative types but this really takes the cake. Plenty of none Neo-cons did honorable duty. You don't find too many Neo-cons out there now either. Those who do face real don't talk so big as a general rule. I don't know too many E-5s that had to worry about their kids getting nabbed either. Everybody took different risks to defend things. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1369254/thats_given.html Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:33 GMT ... and that is why you get so mad and resort to such special threats and the vocabulary that shows your common-ness. You are SOOO brave that you hand out those double thumbs all the time, while never posting a single word. Definitely the actions of someone who doesn't hide, and stands up and speaks out, aren't they? My liberal commie friends and family all showed up to be counted in the front lines Sticky. They didn't do a Bush your hero and hide in the Guard - when the Guard never went overseas- and not even show up for drill half the time. They were getting shot at. Just like I got to be a target. Is that sort of hiding you are talking about? http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1369104/oh_turn_lights_time.html Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:23 GMT Yeah, he does get provoked from time to time, but that&#197;&#155; a more recent thing. People have started to do it because he kept making all sorts of physical threats as well as using vulgar language. When you act that common for long enough, there is a point when people are going to start ridiculing it. And that has nothing to do with conservative or liberal, or whatever. Only one other post on this site have I really gone into using a truly vulgar word, and that was some years ago. But considering some of the references he has made to my female genitalia, there comes a point when I even I might drop one in. On another more pleasant note, I had a weight training question if you feel like giving your opinion at some point. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1369112/really.html Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:58 GMT If your dick is long enough then please do. Otherwise you and your asshole buddies can do yourselves to your content. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1369100/please.html Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:51 GMT Please do turn on the light. The cockroaches that run and hide will be your pinko buddies. The rest of us don't run, or hide. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1369099/turn_light.html Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:49 GMT I mean, I know you have such a fascination for caca and rectums. Sorry, I don't have a thing for buggering though its true, my worst are diamonds compared to the best you have to offer, and why you would desperately like to have some of it. Really, the toilet mouth of yours just reminds everyone of how to separate trash from a simple country boy. PS, thanks for once again doing your Pavlovian thing. Every time I bring up the clop clop, the double thumbs suddenly becomes a single one. Just like when thumbing control comes up as a possibility. Your response reminds me of what roaches do when the light shines on them. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1369032/ooo_request_sample.html Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:44 GMT Plop Plop Plop Plop. The turds just keep dropping from you. I'll be happy to give you a downward turned thumb to each and every post that you make. I never hide who does it. If you wish to know who left it for you, It's me. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368993/lol_clop.html Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:47 GMT Bob, There is little doubt that there are technical features of medical care in the US that are as good as any found in the most advanced health care systems around the world - some of them are even better. From an overall health care perspective, that might be part of the problem - too much wizzbang and not enough ordinary, regular care. That, however, is is not the main reason why the US is way down on the list of internationally accepted health indicators, compared to other technologically advanced - and some not so advanced - countries. The reason for that is lack of access, and that is mainly due to the way our health insurance industry functions, or rather, dysfunctions. It is dysfunctional because its motivation is not promoting better health, but rather making profits for its investors and paying high salaries and bonuses to its corporate officers, indexed to those profits, rather than to the health of the policy holders. Cynthia's case perfectly demonstrates the failure of our health insurance system. She was under-insured because that's all she could afford, and she was exceptionally fortunate to have been accepted in an experimental program. Many thousands are not so lucky and perish within months after diagnoses. Talking about experimental programs: keep in mind that many, if not most, of the advanced medical techniques and "wonder drugs" that are developed in the US are financed by the government (Examples: Walter Reed & Bethesda.) and tax-exempt institutions and the grants they receive from tax-exempt foundations. Private hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and, thus, health insurance companies reap the profits from these tax-payer financed advances. A government managed insurance program would benefit directly. Unfortunately, ignorance and confusion, mostly created through deliberate misinformation, is so prevalent, and the incentives for politicians not to come to grips with the problem so juicy, that there is little hope that anything like true health insurance reform will come from Congress and/or the Administration in this go-around. That will have to wait till the situation has become so totally disastrous that a grassroots movement similar to that for civil rights will produce the momentum needed overcome the apathy of our legislators and the "I'm all right Jack" mentality of too many people at present. My preference would, of course, be for the crisis not to have to reach that point. Please, follow the links to statements by T.R.Reid and Wendell Potter posted earlier in this thread. -- "If ignorance is bliss, why are there so many unhappy people?" (With apologies to Thos. Jefferson?) http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368994/devils_advocate.html Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:51 GMT ..he did his time in the dirt and mud. If you want to count lies, I am sure he'll participate. Then you'll come see just how much of it you perpetuate. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368881/hey_youre_talking_fellow_vet_now.html Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:15 GMT Oooh, yes. Let's take the case closest to home, that of a long-time and sorely missed member of this very board, C.A. She developed a serious illness. She had private health insurance. It wasn't enough. She survives now only because she was accepted into a trial treatment program run by the Mayo Clinic. Without that her treatment would have cost thousands of dollars. Per Month. Her insurance wouldn't cover it. As it is, I understand she had to sell many of her posessions to cover other costs, and may have been obliged to "pre-sell" her house as well (I might have misunderstood what she said about the house. Although she could still communicate then her typed phrasing was confusing. I'm sure someone will know better than I). All to get treatment not to keep her healthy but just to keep her alive. You call that "outstanding care"? Australia, like Canada and Britain, has a government run health care program, Medicare. And private insurance if you want or can afford it. Even without private insurance, and had CA been eligible, she would have received whatever best treatment was available promptly and virtually cost free. And you prefer to keep what you have? Ignorance must be bliss. -- ' When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.' S. Wright http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368346/outstanding_care.html Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:01 GMT And not nearly as much as you. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368929/hey_youre_talking_fellow_vet_now.html Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:40 GMT Next time you make a statement about someone lying, I'll remind you of this one. Fuck off, Dirty little Liberal. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368867/knows_thing_two_game.html Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:41 GMT You would not have ended up like me. You are a chicken shit tree hugger. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368788/knows_thing_two_game.html Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:26 GMT I know exactly what you mean. It makes you want to climb a wall. They run as Democrats, but barely do they get into office and they start governing like Republicans. There ought to be law against it. It is tantamount to breach of contract. They should have let those banks, brokerage house, and insurance companies fail, nationalized them, and put their assets into a Social Security and Medicare trust fund. But what did the bastards do? They they took a page out of the Republican playbook and bailed them out. Go figure. Did they nationalized GM and Chrysler and put them to making Trabants? Not on your ninny. The bailed them out and then organized a marketing campaign at tax payer expense to boot. Corporate welfare in the tried and true tradition of Republicanism. Did they nationalize the health insurance companies and confiscate their ill-gotten lucre to finance a single payer health insurance system? Of course not - the cowards. Instead they are now colluding with those same racketeers to increase their profits by handing them a captive market comprising all who breath, just like in Massachusetts. As you correctly pointed out, they haven&#226;&#128;&#153;t shut down the wasteful wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They haven&#226;&#128;&#153;t shut down our overseas bases in countries that don&#226;&#128;&#153;t need our protection. Hell no, they left a Republican to run the show. Christ almighty, the least they could have done is give Ralph Nader the job. But I&#226;&#128;&#153;ll tell you a secret, it is all a Machiavellian plot to screw the Republicans, and that&#226;&#128;&#153;s a damned shame. Partners in crime should stick together. It ought to be a point of honor for them because, when that bond comes apart, it is every thief for himself and the devil take the hindmost. You see, what&#226;&#128;&#153;s happening is that the Democrats know they can&#226;&#128;&#153;t solve this country's problems because, if they really tried, they&#226;&#128;&#153;d lose their corporate contributions, and without those they&#226;&#128;&#153;d never have the wherewithal to get to first base. However, they also need to hold on the the left wing of their party because without them they&#226;&#128;&#153;d never even get to bat. For that they need the Republicans. They need them to scare the Left with what would happen if the Republicans got to run the show like they did the last time. The crazier the Republicans act and sound, the tighter the Left sticks to the Democrats and the less chance people like Ralph Nader, Brian Moore, or Kent Mesplay have of poaching on their territory. Rush Limbaugh is the Democrats' biggest asset. Since the Democrats know they can&#226;&#128;&#153;t solve our problems, they decided to make a show of reform while changing as little as possible of the status quo. That way, when it becomes the Republicans' turn at the wheel again, they&#226;&#128;&#153;ll have even bigger problems to deal with - bigger deficits, wars that have been dragging on for decades, inflation to the rafters, unemployment in the double digits, a GDP with health care as its largest component, and Social Social Security and Medicare broke. That may give the Republicans a chance to return to the trough, but because they can&#226;&#128;&#153;t solve those problems either without losing their right wing nuts like you, it guarantees the Democrats their eventual return to power, and that&#226;&#128;&#153;s all they are interested in. And so the duopoly perpetuates itself: both sides unable to govern, both sides colluding to make sure no one else gets a chance to try. That&#226;&#128;&#153;s what the game is all about. Now, if the Republicans really wanted to look like winners the next time they get into office, they&#226;&#128;&#153;d cooperate with the Democrats now in tackling health insurance (even push for single payer), raise taxes to lower the deficit and put SS and Medicare on a sound financial basis, disengage from those stupid wars, etc. In other words, get all those hard to solve problems off the table so that governing will be easy again, like when Eisenhower had the job. And remember: Fossil fuels + fossil politics don't = a brighter future. ;-) http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368687/fun_facts_tax_spend_crowd_around.html Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:50 GMT "he and his Father were soundly defeated"- No, Gore won the popular vote in 2000 which means more individual American citizens voted for Gore than Bush that is hardly "sound defeat", look it up. Even Fox couldn't get away with lying about that fact. -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368678/ignorant.html Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:32 GMT <p> You see when refuse to set the record straight about your own Bush/Kennedy type background it leaves plenty of room for elaboration or conjecture. My guess is if the curtain gets pulled back on the silver spoon that fell from your mouth your ability to play that card on others will taken from you.</p> <p> Perhaps that is why you don't show your cards. So please either come clean or not be so flab-bergasted (*excuse the pun) if I have to fill in the empty spaces with conjecture. If you wish to set the record straight I am all ears. Was it Choate & Yale, or PS 123 & Community college? Did you apply for scholarships, or were born with one? I don't expect an honest answer, so perhaps I'll have to just imagine.</p> -- &quot;There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368483/wow_can_reply_quickly_feel_like.html Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:29 GMT <p> Reagan accomplished things Carter only dreamed about. He was decisive and bold. He took action instead of wallowing in doubt. He inspired and motivated, while your boy's term was punctuated by lack of action, followed by the wrong actions. The difference was as stark as success vs failure. Perhaps Reagan added to the Lake, but four more years of Carter and folks would have had to go to loan sharks for mortgages. Even though the interest wouldn't be tax deductible, but the interest rates would have been lower. </p> -- &quot;There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368484/didnt_cleaning_mess_left_peanut_farmer_cost_real_money.html Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:40 GMT <i>"You have confused my hatred for Republicans with a love for Democrats they are not the same thing."</i> <p> I never said that you love, or even like, Bamster. I merely pointed out, quite accurately, that you vent none of the venom you so eagerly spread during the Bush era, yet little has changed and much has gotten worse. But you had an over the top animus for Mr. Bush, and could not give him even the slightest credit. Now because he is gone you see yourself painted into a corner that what ever you view as opposite of Bush must be good, as he was bad. So you are a de facto Obama supporter. Of course Obama isn't doing a better job than Bush, and you are no doubt smart enough to see it. Alas you can't respond to his trashing of your nation because that would put you in the same train car with Conservatives, Bush people, Palin people, Tea partiers, Rush Limbaugh, and me. So you are screwed. You can't get up the courage to speak up. Hell you can't even whimper. You are a victim of Bush derangement syndrome, and Obama care doesn't cover it. A bit of a sticky wicket, now isn't it?</p> -- &quot;There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368504/read_post_aderal_kicks.html Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:21 GMT I don't know if it's too soon. Why not ask the family of Mary Jo Kopechne? http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368448/fun_facts_tax_spend_crowd_around.html Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:19 GMT "Why not ask the family of Mary Jo Kopechne?" I believe that they, like Mary Jo, are currently unavailable for comment. mike -- 64 220 (RIP, now he's parts on the hoof) - 65 220 - 68 220 (almost ready for the road), and a 66 130 (35k miles last year) http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368485/fun_facts_tax_spend_crowd_around.html Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:51 GMT but he never let his own hypocritical actions get in the way of his bleats about spending and government. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368479/just_fun_funny_considering_quickly_added_lake.html Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:52 GMT LBJ hasn't ever been a part of my conversation, nor has Teddy Kennedy. The few times I have mentioned Kennedy I wasn't flattering about him at all. He was just like Bush, a wealthy scion who ran away when faced with real danger. So please, explain the basis of your comments of lumping LBJ and Kennedy onto my plate? Be sure to cite references from this forum, or any other for that matter, to prove where I have. Otherwise, I'll chalk it up to more of your pathological method of making up what people are doing to create false enemy straw arguments to justify your ideological stance. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368478/explain.html Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:50 GMT Pumping water costs money, so they ain't going to cross the border to get it. All they have to do is divert one of the great lakes south. How far is that from one of the Mississippi's tributaries? -- <img src http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368232/paperpropertywater.html Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:36 GMT If you follow the sequence of this thread, you'll know damned well what post I was responding to. Going back to the post you cited here is just you opening up another escape hatch. <i>Maybe a civilized debate is just what is needed.</i> A civilized debate is going on in the scientific community. The political debate that takes place in another reality is a different matter entirely and is only remotely related to finding a solution to the problem. If and when it becomes relative to the real issue, it will, most likely, be too late. <i>If we are polluting to a point of no return that is bad.</i> No, not bad: curtains. With that prospect in mind, what I do, no matter how insignificant its impact, makes more sense than the actions of those who find comfort in denying the existence of climate change and pinning their hopes on a return to the status quo ante. The end, my friend, is more final than higher taxes and a bad economy. I say that without raising the possibility that taking action to reverse climate change may actually be a boon to the economy and national security. That it would do wonders for our health and that of the environment is a substantial lagniappe. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368200/sil_wrong.html Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:19 GMT <p> Snoot to quote Dan Akroyd "Snoot you grossly misguided slut". I have abstained from responding to this odoriferous and factious attack. Too bad you didn't heed my suggestion to take a psych class because the projection is strong in you young snootwalker. The fact is I have no wish to stoop down to your level. You know about as much about me as you do about the location of Queen Latifa's throne. </p> <p> You can talk a lot of smack about me, but who the hell are you? What is it that you stand for? You remind of Marlon Brando in Wild Ones. What are you rebelling against? <i>What do Republicans got?</i> is your answer. You are a caricature of a knee jerk Liberal, if you could only see it. Bush didn't take your freedom, you gave it willingly to the trap of group think. You can't think outside the box if you don't even know that you are in one. So forgive me, but I'm not going to play your game. </p> -- &quot;There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368167/cant_even_define_bite.html Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:34 GMT The 780 power seats can be adjusted manually. Your car should have come with a short, semi flexible crank (&#226;&#128;&#152;L&#226;&#128;&#153; shaped about 10&#226;&#128;&#157; &#226;&#128;&#147; 12&#226;&#128;&#157; long and about the thickness of a metal coat hanger). This can be used to move the seat forward or aft and the seat back up or reclined. To move the seat forward or aft, stick the crank in the hole of the plastic cover located on the outboard side of the seat where the back and bottom meet. Start cranking; be patient &#226;&#128;&#147; it&#226;&#128;&#153;s slow moving. To move the back of the seat, you&#226;&#128;&#153;ll find a cable under the back bottom of the seat. My 780 seats had the same problem, sometimes the buttons would work and sometimes they wouldn&#226;&#128;&#153;t. I removed all the inline black boxes located under the seats. For the 780, they&#226;&#128;&#153;re not really necessary. I think some of the boxes are to prevent the seat from being moved while the back is inclined forward and others make the seat move forward automatically when the back is inclined forward. I just got rid of all that junk and wired the switch outputs straight to the motors. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1367767/740/760/780/removesubstitute_driver_seat_89_780_bertone_replacement_removal.html Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:03 GMT Nice job and the pictures cam out good. -- FCP Groton http://www.brickboard.com/AWD/volvo/1368137/V70/awd_fuel_pump_comments_job_pics.html Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:43 GMT Like his eagerness to overlook moral and ethical breeches within the party of supposed "morals and values" and his failure to hold those on his &#226;&#128;&#156;team&#226;&#128;&#157; to their own purported standards. I also neglected to mention how his interest in law enforcement seems to rapidly dwindle when those flaunting the law happen to share his philosophical predilections. Apparently the U.S. is only a &#226;&#128;&#156;nation of laws&#226;&#128;&#157; when it means he gets to point his gun at a kid with a $10 crack rock. When some millionaire politician from the party of &#226;&#128;&#156;law and order&#226;&#128;&#157; potentially commits a crime though that is no problem and any old excuse serves as acceptable justification for not even investigating much less enforcing the law. Yeah, he&#226;&#128;&#153;s the poster boy for traditional &#226;&#128;&#156;Conservatism&#226;&#128;&#157;. -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368102/forget_couple_things.html Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:53 GMT The use of the words "imploding" and "enema" in the same sentence present a disturbing mind picture. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1368055/hello_give_rewrite.html Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:26 GMT <i>Jarrod, the thumbs ups/downs feature is great when researching mechanical advice for our Volvos. This same feature in the opinion section just does not work the same way. It would be great if in the opinion section we could see exactly WHO is giving these thumbs ups/downs. I think that we all would be surprised to see who is giving these mysterious thumbs ups/downs. Without anonymity these thumbs ups/downs just might disappear. If others would make a personal commitment to identify any thumbs ups/downs that they make would go a long way.</i> You have my vote. Of course, I haven't the remotest idea if it can be done. The thumbs thing has been totally devalued in <u>Opinions</u>. If a post deserves agreement or disagreement, or elicits a chuckle or a frown, it's worth saying so, and why. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1367962/thumbs_upsdowns.html Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:36 GMT Hi All, I`ve read a few of these threads & just couldn`t resist a response. First of all, I have to say that the vitriolic threads of some are reminiscent of McCarthy era paranoia. A communist lurking around every corner!! To be clear; my wife is professor of nursing at a university here in Alberta & so I may bring a certain bias to the conversation. Her analysis suggests that the current "state of crisis" is a totally manufactured entity. One has to look back to the early 90`s in this province when nurses were being laid off, wards closed etc all due to the "party line" that healthcare was no longer sustainable. Meanwhile in the fever to privatize everything the American HMO`s were hovering `round the door. Utilities were deregulated here with the official "pitch" being more competition means lower prices for consumers. That was rammed thru but I defy anyone to find evidence of lower pricing in this province. But I digress; my wife has been very active in a program to assess & integrate foreign trained nurses into the CDN healthcare system over the past 5 years due to a shortage of Cdn nurses graduating from our college program. It all comes back to funding; restrict the financial flow & BINGO!! you have a guaranteed crisis. At her college the intake is restricted to 300 placements so another 400 prospective nursing students are turned away due to lack of space. A funding issue again. Four months ago a new minister of health took office & he & his underlings have now declared that there is no longer a "nursing shortage". Not so but like Goebbels,"Repeat a lie often enough & it will be perceived as truth". I think all Canadians value universal healthcare & I think most of us can discern BS from truth. Heathcare is NOT a commodity!! Rich http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1367817/canadian_healthcare_siege.html Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:59 GMT Bush and Cheney: the Arms Industry's 'Dream Team' George W. Bush has strong ties to Lockheed Martin from his service as Governor of Texas, where he tried to give the firm a contract to run the Texas welfare system before he had to relent in the face of public protests and an unfavorable regulatory ruling by the Clinton administration. Lockheed Martin VP Bruce Jackson is a finance chair of the Bush for President campaign, and was heard to brag at a conference last year that he would be in a position to "write the Republican platform" on defense if Bush gets the nomination (which he will, later this week). Dick Cheney, the man who presided over the U.S.-led victory over Saddam Hussein in the 1991 Gulf War, has spent the past few years running the oil services giant Halliburton, which ranked 18th on the Pentagon's top contractors list in FY 1999. Cheney's wife, Lynne, serves on Lockheed Martin's board, a service for which she receives $120,000 in compensation. That's small change for the Cheney family -- Dick earned $26.7 million in wages, bonuses, and stock options last year -- but it raises serious questions of conflict of interest when the potential "second lady" is on the payroll of the nation's largest weapons maker. -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1367886/lets_talk_actual_conflict_interest.html Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:47 GMT Your heathen thoughts are always welcome, Sil. :) I just find it ironic (hypocritical?) that most of those of the alleged conservative political persuasion can usually be counted on to quote the Bible when justifying their political beliefs, but can conveniently ignore what the good book (and, belief systems aside, it is a good book) actually says. Sister Mary Marquis de Sade (from Our Lady of Perpetual Guilt) would say that you are as bold as brass, and surely condemned to eternal fire and brimstone. And if that gives you a headache, take two aspirin, say three Hail Marys and call the Pope in the morning. As an afterthought, do the challenges in the Preamble to the Constitution to "promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty" in any way dovetail with those corporal works of mercy? http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1367649/christian_nation.html Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:16 GMT i.e. Skyline Drive... -- Art Benstein near Baltimore My wife really likes to make pottery, but to me it's just kiln time. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1364653/220/240/260/280/drive_somewhere_dont_need_go.html Sat, 8 Aug 2009 12:44 GMT YlSO8o nkstfzrtoxov , &#091url=http://eyjiedowyrhr.com/&#093eyjiedowyrhr&#091/url&#093, &#091link=http://ngyufgtdptpo.com/&#093ngyufgtdptpo&#091/link&#093, http://qoujpbcxdibu.com/<img src="http://ssezfrvmtqxm.com/"/> http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1367667/220/240/260/280/seglrmzwvgwbzjgpwn_100.html Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:23 GMT Box, I realize you addressed this to Agent 03, so excuse my for butting in - I just couldn't resist. BTW, 03 has stated on several occasions that religion is not his schtick. It's the one sentiment he and I share. I quote the Freedom from Religion Foundation: <i>Is America A Christian Nation? The U.S. Constitution is a secular document. It begins, "We the people," and contains no mention of "God" or "Christianity." Its only references to religion are exclusionary, such as, "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust" (Art. VI), and "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" (First Amendment). The presidential oath of office, the only oath detailed in the Constitution, does not contain the phrase "so help me God" or any requirement to swear on a bible (Art. II, Sec. 1, Clause 8). If we are a Christian nation, why doesn't our Constitution say so? In 1797 America made a treaty with Tripoli, declaring that "the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." This reassurance to Islam was written under Washington's presidency, and approved by the Senate under John Adams.</i> Ipso facto, all those "Corporal Acts of Mercy" the US Government performs are clearly unconstitutional. ;-) http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1367584/christian_nation.html Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:57 GMT So, do you believe that our Founding Fathers intended for the United States to be a Christian Nation? This is what the good nuns at Our Lady of Perpetual Guilt used to teach us as the responsibility of good Catholics. (Catholics qualify as Christians, don't they - after all, the Church of Rome founded Christianity.) I've noted in parentheses the federal programs that meet those obligations. The corporal works of mercy consist especially in feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and imprisoned, and burying the dead. The works of mercy are not optional but are absolutely essential to living the Christian life of holiness and goodness. Corporal Works of Mercy Feed the hungry (Dept of Agriculture - food stamp program) Give drink to the thirsty (Department of Energy - Utility assistance payments) Shelter the homeless (HUD - Federal Housing Assistance) Clothe the naked (Aid to dependent families) Care for the sick (Medicare and Medicaid) Visit the imprisoned Bury the dead The Scriptural basis for the corporal works of mercy is the parable in the Gospel of Matthew, in which Jesus teaches his disciples about God&#226;&#128;&#153;s criteria for the Last Judgement (Mt25:35-42). In this parable, the just and the unjust discover that in their merciful actions on behalf of the neighbor, they have been merciful to the Lord Jesus, who identifies completely with the hungry, homeless, sick, imprisoned and even the dead. God, who is rich in mercy, invites His sons and daughters to imitate his abundant mercy and loving kindness towards His children. God is rich in mercy, because of his great love for us, he brought us to life with Christ when we were dead in sin. &#226;&#128;&#147; By this favor you were saved. (Ephesians2:4-5) If you accept Jesus as your absolute personal savior, it is your moral imperative to support National Health Care for everyone. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1367552/christian_nation.html Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:16 GMT Did you notice that in the article, the outgoing president of the Canadian Medical Association would be presenting details from a fact finding trip to England, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands and France? How would you describe the health care system in those countries? Did you notice that he didn't include the United States in his fact finding mission? Did you know that Canada has a lower infant mortality rate, a longer life expectency and a substantially lower cost than the current U.S. system? That admin costs in Canada account for less than 2% of the total cost, as compared with 31% for the U.S. system? That if a Canadian needs critical care that the Canadian system is unable to provide, it will send that patient to a U.S. facility, and pay the cost? No, I'm sure you didn't know all that. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1367518/canadian_health_care_implodingus_media_unable_notice.html Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:21 GMT Ah yes, sophisticated humor - nothing like it for getting a message across. Pity it takes over half an hour for me to download one of these youtube delicacies. PS: I just noticed, someone suffered a severe bout of thumbarrhea. Must be the only relief the constipated mind can find. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1367470/canadian_health_care_implodingus_media_unable_notice.html Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:48 GMT I'm not so sure his daddy is a working stiff as he got real quiet when I brought up the idea of inheritance and how being in line for a fat one would help explain his otherwise woefully inappropriate opinions. That fact started me thinking that he might just be playing "blue collar" because he didn't like the "blue blood" expectations or feared that he couldn't live up to them or maybe he just wanted to delude himself by proving his "independence" from daddy's money. I've seen it before, financially secure people who "rebel" by pretending to be "blue collar" working types only without the underlying terror that comes with the insecurity that you might get sick, loose your job or otherwise hit a run of misfortune and watch everything that you have busted your ass for up to that point disappear over night. Unlike him though I won't claim this possibility as "fact" simply because I was able to imagine it. I do have my suspicions though because people of his ideological ilk are usually either wealthy or stupid and I would not accuse him of being stupid. -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1367408/blah_yeah_ok_lie_long_uniform_subsidized.html Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:51 GMT <i>It is a beast that must be fed at the expense of all other items.</i> And what do you think we are doing now, and in the most inefficient way possible? <i>Their military is a mess. We can not afford to not have a first class military.</i> There you have it, another good argument for a single payer system. Maybe its keeping the Canadians from launching senseless wars of choice. Just think, it could do the same for us. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1367401/canadian_health_care_implodingus_media_unable_notice.html Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:00 GMT <i>Doig, who has had a full-time family practice in Saskatoon for 30 years, acknowledges that when physicians have talked about changing the health-care system in the past, they've been accused of wanting an American-style structure. She insists that's not the case.</i> There goes your argument! <i>"(Canadians) have to understand that the system that we have right now - if it keeps on going without change - is not sustainable," said Doig.</i> Sounds familiar? I would say that the Canadians have a tremendous advantage over us in that their government can make the changes required when the public so demands. They do not have an insurance industry with politicians in their pockets tossing wrenches into the spokes. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1367366/canadian_health_care_implodingus_media_unable_notice.html Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:18 GMT "Innuendo and supposition"- No lies, that's my "evidence", eight years of lies all designed to scare in order to create a specific outcome. The tactics continue as I can tell by the fact that I just read your "pop news piece" on the Canadian health care system and you followed it up with a bunch of your own lies. Stop believing lies and stop telling lies and stop believing in liars and you will be better off. Did you hear? Obama wants to fund abortions! There will be a government program of euthanasia and he wants to give free health care to illegal aliens! Oh me, oh my the sky is falling! Funny how the things that we are supposed to fear always happen to support the financial interests of the big campaign contributors like weapons manufacturers and the health industry don't you think or do you suppose it's just coincidence? -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1367364/ok_read_pop_news_piece.html Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:06 GMT The total number of Canadians = the total number of insurance policies which could be being sold to Canadians at a hefty profit if only that damn social system of yours wasn't in the way. That is a pretty large inducement to corruption and destruction if you ask me. Greed knows no political boundaries, has no sense of honor, loyalty, allegiance or duty and no conscience. It has long been the goal of the American ruling elites to export their particular preferred form of greed to every square inch of the planet with no concern for those who must live with the consequences and no alternative left standing, watch your back. -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1367384/canadian_health_care_implodingus_media_unable_notice.html Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:02 GMT It was my first car.I had it for over 2 years.But then i had to let it go due to my financial situation. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1365550/940/960/980/V90/S90/miss_1995_960.html Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:35 GMT I thought it was a no-brainer that he was pressured & gave in multiple times. -- <img src http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1367316/basically_like_one_posts.html Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:21 GMT I don't care if you thumb up or down, if I see 3 thumbs down to Flab's post, it's automatic that sticky & awd are going to be 2 for sure & you are likely to be the 3rd, but after that, the others thumbs downs are just gutless wonders that are too fearful to post their own opinion which is likely to just be a Faux News opinion anyhow. <i>Jarrod, the thumbs ups/downs feature is great when researching mechanical advice for our Volvos. This same feature in the opinion section just does not work the same way. It would be great if in the opinion section we could see exactly WHO is giving these thumbs ups/downs. I think that we all would be surprised to see who is giving these mysterious thumbs ups/downs. Without anonymity these thumbs ups/downs just might disappear. If others would make a personal commitment to identify any thumbs ups/downs that they make would go a long way.</i> That's a great idea, I'd like to see thumbs & down named too, just so that we know if they are real or just the same person with multiple accounts. -- <img src='http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc281/B20Paul/DDIcon71x71.jpg'> "Rupert Murdoch has done a fine job of recruiting an unpaid dolt army on behalf of corporate dominance and concentrated wealth. ' - Snootfull http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1367155/thumbs_upsdowns.html Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:49 GMT Personally, I don't use the "ignore" function, because I read everyone's opinions for enlightenment. If one only listens to half of a argument, then one only has access to the side they already understand. At that point, objectivity and compromise disappear, to no one's benefit. I'm not trying to be Pollyanna about this, I just think that if everyone paid CLOSE attention, we would all learn more. Knocking Flab is an error: she has travelled farther into more countries than any of us here, and therefore has a far better perspective than any of us. She pay attention to what is around her, and learns from her surroundings (a lesson to be learned by others on this board!), to her benefit, and to those who hear what she is saying. Flab sure doesn't need me to defend her, but I do think that putting her on an ignore list is to deprive yourself of a significant viewpoint, whether you agree with her or not. And please, don't tell me that a US military base in a foreign land is going to give one a different viewpoint: it is like being on a cruise ship passing a volcano, very awesome, but safely removed. Gee, I think I may have just been added to some ignore lists.... Naaaaa.... http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1367175/ignored.html Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:50 GMT <p> Weren't we treated to the very same images back during LBJ's administration? The Appalachian people were the very folks he used as examples of the kind of poverty that his new welfare programs were meant to help. Maybe your lesson would be better aimed at bleeding heart liberals who think we are just one program away from fixing this problem. But hundreds of billions of dollars down the black hole later, and as your photos suggest these folks are still poor. </p> <p> Now dear Flab, tell us the rest of the story. Tell us the truth. Poverty exists in every nation, even the socialist nations that are so superior to us cowboy Americans. Yes, there are dirt poor folks in Belgium, Spain, Sweden, and Australia. This is reality not because people haven't tried to stop it, but despite the fact that people have spent decades trying to stop it. Homelessness has resisted everyones best efforts as well. So you blame Bush in your post, but what exactly did LBJ do? How about Carter or Clinton? Your photos weren't of Madoff victims, they are the generational poor.</p> <p> So you insult me, bash Bush, and denigrate my profession, but you don't ever have answers. That seems to be the pattern. Unable to post your own elitist credentials, despite saying you would if I posted mine. Unable to give realistic perspective to the very photos you posted. Lets be honest. You expect results from Bush, but far be it from you to inquire about the results of the left wing Presidents that you so admire. An educated woman like you and still beat the drum for James Earl Carter. Well my dear that aria has ended and the reviews are in. He flopped. In your mind we can't judge them because they <i>"Meant Well"</i>. Bush was evil, and stupid. But Carter and Clinton were noble and well intentioned. So we won't point out that they failed these people too. Funny that you didn't mention any of that. Thanks for the lesson.</p> -- &quot;There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1366690/lesson_methats_rich.html Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:58 GMT <i>there are dirt poor folks in Belgium, Spain, Sweden, and Australia.</i> I said:<b>Dirt poor people are a rarity in Australia...</b> <i>Poverty exists in every nation, even the socialist nations that are so superior to us cowboy Americans. </i> Are you admitting that the nations you list: Belgium, Spain, Sweden, and Australia, are superior to 'cowboy America'? <i>Yes, there are dirt poor folks in Belgium, Spain, Sweden, and Australia. This is reality not because people haven't tried to stop it, but despite the fact that people have spent decades trying to stop it. Homelessness has resisted everyones best efforts as well.</i> Homelessness is practically non-existent in Australia amongst non-Aboriginal people. Socialism works! Socialism is the underlying reason for much lower crime in Australia too, paying some tax money to keep the unemployed warm, dry & well fed reduces the need to commit crime, drastically. -- <img src='http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc281/B20Paul/DDIcon71x71.jpg'> &quot;Rupert Murdoch has done a fine job of recruiting an unpaid dolt army on behalf of corporate dominance and concentrated wealth. ' - Snootfull http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1367169/hard_answer_post.html Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:33 GMT They don't play fair or follow the rules. What is hilarious is they focus on Flab even though Flab is doing relatively little posting. The biggest slammer to their cause on this thread is Snootful but he is far less hated. Flab is their worst nightmare because she is a woman with a brain AND a nice ass and face. Oh, and she has some talent and piss and vinegar. She fights like Hillary. They love Palin because she is as intellectual as a brick and can't fight her way out of a paper bag off the coast of Russia. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1367005/limbaugh_sycophants_predictable_crap_goose.html Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:37 GMT Who are the invisible army hitting the thumbs down? There is StickHead's three ring circus(Sticky & two other assholes: traffic cops dumb & dumber.) but are the others real or just duplicates? -- <img src http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1366998/five_thumbs.html Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:01 GMT You called Tort a liar and you were wrong, so deal with it. Changing the subject doesn't change that fact. Next time be better infomred before calling someone a liar. You realize that for all of 2008 the Bush Misery index was greater than it is now, right? by the way, the misery index under Carter did go up, by 4 points more than Bush. Bush left it 2 points higher when he left office. Carter left it four point higher. Carter inherited a much higher misery index than did Bush. For all the misery though, real disposable income increased un carter. It declined for all except the uber wealthy under Bush. Thats the REAL misery index. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1366923/mi_lol_admit_got_owned_jobs_creation.html Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:02 GMT I love it when the biggest mouths that talk tough are the biggest weenies. Flab gave them a name as kids when we would wind surf in the lagoons off PV Beach in FL or on the Tennessee River. Muck chickens. The guys that always talked tough and wanted to tease people about throwing them in the muck in the shallows were the first to squeal when they had to step in it to get the wind-surfer started. Suddenly they didn't want to windsurf. Perfect name. When these guys start threatening to fling muck, or fling it, they run like wusses the minute they have to step in their muck, or get thrown in themselves. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1366995/hids_time.html Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:51 GMT He's not strong enough to be able to admit when he is wrong he just tries to be right some other way or slithers away. I don't think that 03V is behind the thumbs; those who can do, those who can't play with their thumb button... right Sticky? -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1366976/thumb_troll_doesnt_change_truth.html Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:42 GMT <i>I said double digit. True, that was incorrect upon reflection, but narrowly. He was almost at 9%.</i> I'll bet you don't let anyone get away with parking 10 percent too long before writing them a parking ticket! There's no way you would have ever solved an actual crime either. -- <img src http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1366993/nearly_9_percent_double_digit_still_error_10.html Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:49 GMT Next time don't call someone a liar unless you have facts you can prove. You were wrong. Pulling out the MI is avoiding YOU WERE WRONG. Yeah MI was pretty high under Carter. At least all those jobs he created were ahead of inflation. Not so under Bush. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1366973/thumb_troll_doesnt_change_truth.html Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:16 GMT Scared, white, wealthy, spongy people and the dumb working class slobs who kiss their asses in hopes of getting some table scraps that about sums it up. So many of them even look so plastic and phony too, just like televangelists, you know the type that is talking about Jesus while thinking about hookers and their next coke binge. I was watching Tom Coburn of Oklahoma on Meet the Press, what a creepy son of a bitch! I sure as hell wouldn't leave his phony ass alone with children. -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1366888/shouldnt_quit_day_job_political_analisys_isnt.html Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:36 GMT Flab did this, Flab said that. It doesn't matter if you make up shit about her or what she does all so you can play the victim. Flab never denigrated the police, or your profession which you did to her. All Flab does is force you to recognize your hypocritical stance and challenge to you live by your beliefs. She gives references to her arguments and gives far more in actual intellectual discussions. You either run away or play your broken record. YOU are NOT a VICTIM. Time for you to grow up and accept you backed the wrong horse and continue to support actions that are both hypocritical and represent the grossest abuse of power this nation has ever seen. You continue support an administration that seriously considered using the armed forces to go after suspected terrorists in Buffalo. THAT IS UNCONSITUTIONAL!!! You took an oath to defend the Constitution and by God you piss on that oath every time you defend that administration. I don't denigrate you for it I have utter contempt for that stance. CONTEMPT. Nobody made you take that stance YOU took that stance. I am sick and tired of you turning every argument into you being victimized when you a grown man make choices and support something so contemptuous. It's pathetic to watch what you do to pretend those who refuse to buy into the BS you do are victimizing you. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1366784/know_dont_point_play_victim.html Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:55 GMT Irrelevant but quite possibly correct. Zero progress my ass. Unless you have a rich daddy you never would have risen to the position of safe and secure lap dog for the wealthy without the G.I. Bill would you? Instead of choosing to rent yourself to them for your kibble you would simply be their property with no choice in the matter. See, you are living proof that progressive programs work! You have been presented with a false choice; "government or freedom". History demonstrates quite clearly that this is a false choice and that the real choice is; "government as screwed up as it is but in which you at least get a vote and a bottom line or slavery to the moneyed elite with no holds barred". Those are our actual options the false choice is nothing more than a lie promoted by those who have the most to gain from your ignorance. Remember when I compared you to the "house nigger" of the ante-bellum south? I didn't mean that as an insult I meant it as a description, think about it. Stop spewing your masters line for five minutes and dare to figure out where you would be without all of the programs and benefits upon which you have built your life and the sacrifices of those who dared to stand up to the people whose ass you so eagerly kiss. You would be just another share-cropper, just another eighty hour a week factory worker, just another coal miner shopping at the company store, living in a company shack, purchasing your company tools and dying young of black lung, in debt with no hope for his children's future. That is unless you had a rich daddy to provide for your welfare. If you have the rich daddy, if you are looking forward to an inheritance than of course none of this applies to you and it goes a long way toward explaining your opinions (though I guess that would probably make you the failure of the family too). If you don't have that rich daddy than someone has really been fucking with your head cause you&#226;&#128;&#153;re rooting for the wrong team, you are rooting against yourself. I'm sorry to tell you but reality has a liberal bias you should look into it sometime. -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1366773/hope_spare_change.html Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:19 GMT <i>Yes, there are dirt poor folks in Belgium, Spain, Sweden, and Australia.</i> Dirt poor people are a rarity in Australia, I don't know any & I grew up in a housing commission area (a very small town made of 90% state owned & rented houses). I have primary school photos in which I'm not wearing shoes, mostly because I didn't own any. -- <img src='http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc281/B20Paul/DDIcon71x71.jpg'> &quot;Rupert Murdoch has done a fine job of recruiting an unpaid dolt army on behalf of corporate dominance and concentrated wealth. ' - Snootfull http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1366765/lesson_methats_rich.html Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:58 GMT What you advocate worked well in this nation for the white, wealthy few until it was no longer legally acceptable to endenture or own human beings and outright steal their productive capabilities. Eventually the progressive movement arose to attempt to answer the glaring injustice inherent in your philosophies and we got things like workers rights, public education and rural electrification. In the sixties the liberals took it on and common diseases in poverty stricken areas were largly erradicated and the general health of the poor was greatly improved and opportunities were increased, we're still working on it. Forty-five years to address centuries social injustice while dragging troglodytes like yourself kicking, screaming and throwing up roadblocks the whole way in defense of those who benefit from social exploitation...gee I wonder why all of the ills of society have yet to be cured. -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1366758/done.html Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:24 GMT Let me guess.......You, Lenin and Marx invented the Communist party. Or was it you who wrote the Great Manifesto on a table cloth in the hills of North Carolina? Give it a rest. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1366283/let_eat_cake_didnt_work_marie_antionette_either.html Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:28 GMT You might ask the Czar what redistributing from the poor to wealthy did for him.And his followers, most whom had thoughts like you. Keep in mind that both the King of France and the Czar also used to kill those who spoke out about their excesses. Until one day, enough abuse had gone on, and, well, the rest is history, isn't? Apparently you prefer to be on the side of history supporting those like Antionette and the Czar. Yes, I am back, and I WILL answer your little previous. Just been a bit busy. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1366272/let_eat_cake_didnt_work_marie_antionette_either.html Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:41 GMT Just wanted to share a success story here, since Lord knows I never could have done this without the Brickboard. Of course, only the brickboard could have convinced me that owning TWO old bricks was anything other than insane. Bought a 1989 245 dirt cheap off of craigslist several months back. Basically, I wanted an around-town beater so I wouldn't have to use the nice 945 for things like hauling mulch and 1000 lbs of slate. Well, upon close inspection once I got it home, this ain't no beater. It's got 230K miles, but has been pretty well cared-for, and the original owner garaged it and took it to the dealer for everything. Have nearly $10K in receipts from their time with the car. So I got started rehabbing it, getting caught up on areas where maintenance had not been documented by the second owner. It also had some exhaust and electrical issues, which I put at the top of the list because state inspection was due. The weekend after flushing the cooling system, I shock-cleaned the valves with seafoam and distilled water, as described in the FAQ. All went well, until the "vigorous" drive that's supposed to follow. The head gasket failed. Oil in the coolant, coolant in the oil. No real warning, although crankcase pressure was higher than it should be, and I had already dealt with the flame trap and separator box. Compression test when I bought the car had given no cause for undue concern. Fortunately, no coolant in the combustion chamber, since I'd installed a new O2 sensor only weeks before (when I installed a new cat). What ensued was, by far, the most involved automotive repair project I have ever undertaken. Pulling the head and taking it to a trusted local machine shop (Ballos Precision in Richmond, VA) was not too bad. No broken studs, the head bolts came off fine (thanks to a 5' iron gas pipe slipped over the handle of the 18" breaker bar), so signs of issues with the block. Silly me, though, I forgot to remove the crank pulley BEFORE I took off the head. Neither the rope trick nor the counterhold tool will work unless the head's still on. So I had to wait 2 weeks to get the head back and reinstalled before I could proceed with the timing belt and crank seal replacement. In the meantime, I attacked the cooling system. Original water pump, original radiator, original overflow tank, and ancient Volvo hoses. With the head off, the heater hoses are child's play. I honestly don't know if it's even POSSIBLE to replace one of them with the head in place. Got OE hoses and pump from Tasca Volvo, and a Nissens radiator from FCP Groton. Overflow tank was replaced with a newer one from the salvage yard. About this time, while contemplating ways to remove the crank pulley without the head in place, I noticed the rubber layer of the pulley was deteriorated. Ordered an aftermarket one from FCP. Yes, it's an MTC piece of crap, but it will do for now. When I do the t-belt on the 940 in a few months, I'll order two new crank pulleys from Tasca so I can upgrade the 240 later. Got the head back on, with help from a friend (removal was just me, which was a bad idea). He installed the intake manifold while I did the exhaust. Then it was time to deal with the T-belt. Unpleasant surprise--the counterhold tool from FCP doesn't actually fit my car. the hole that fits over the tensioner stud simply will NOT line up with the stud. When you don't have the right tool, misuse the wrong one. I padded the stud with a cardboard sleeve and held the tool against the pulley and the stud with one hand while working the breaker bar and the 24MM socket with the other. Not fun, but it worked. Last night I did the engine mounts and installed the water pump. Both were far more difficult than I anticipated. Saw a tip here about wrapping the mounts in electrical tape to protect them from oil--seemed like a good idea, I'm hoping it will buy me a few extra years before having to go through the ordeal again. Today I installed all new drive belts, finished and filled the cooling system, and installed the valve cover. Had poured oil over the entire length of the cam before installing the valve cover so things would be well-lubricated at startup. Kept the coil wire off and twice cranked the car for several seconds to give the oil pump a chance to get things flowing elsewhere. Connected the coil wire, turned the key, she fired back to life. Took her out for a 30 minute test drive, and everything worked fine. No leaks, no warning lights, excess crankcase pressure is gone. Pleased as punch. The 240 has loads more personality than the 940. Tomorrow I intend to replace the shocks (with Sachs Advantage) and springs (IPD overload) and install the IPD Anti-sway bars that I'd splurged on right before the head gasket failure. Thanks brickboard! john http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1366071/220/240/260/280/245_rehab_success_story.html Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:54 GMT get in touch with www.heatercontrolvalve.com in north san diego ca county they sell rebuild and have parts for ranko heater valves http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1365783/120-130/ever_take_one_apart_heater_valve.html Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:06 GMT Here's a stand up response to you: Go and **** yourself. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1365741/whoever_smelt_dealt_eh.html Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:52 GMT No surprise you are the first to whine about Jarrod's decision. You won't get to be a little squid taking pot shots from his ink. You'll have to be a stand up guy to say you don't approve. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1365699/whoever_smelt_dealt_eh.html Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:13 GMT Must only be a waste of time as long as it does not agree with your position. Have at it. It's your site. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1365449/obamas_approval_rating.html Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:38 GMT There was no room for opposing views from 2001-2008 so why now? "You are either with us or against us" remember? Those with opposing views are no better than Al Queda that's what George Bush taught me, isn't that the America that you voted for? -- &#226;&#128;&#156;If at first you don&#226;&#128;&#153;t succeed redefine what you did as success.&#226;&#128;&#157;- Stephen Colbert http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1365574/obamas_approval_rating.html Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:48 GMT He is happiest if he can find a hole of some sort to try and stick his thumb too. If he learned how to pen an argument with soe real facts he wouldn't have to use his thumb all the time. Jarrod's taking his primary tool away so he is whining. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1365595/thumbing_specialty.html Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:07 GMT America wasn't right in the eyes of Adolph Hitler. What about it? Somewhere you misunderstand the difference between opinion and facts. If your opinions are based on lies or untruths the best you can appear is ignorant. Getting angry at us over it doesn't make you right and all the thumbs down in the world won't turn lie to truth. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1365571/seriously.html Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:36 GMT The United States Postal Service is not a private business. From Wikipedia: It is legally defined as an "independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States," (39 U.S.C. &#194;&#167; 201) and is wholly owned by the government and controlled by Presidential appointees and the Postmaster General. Management of the USPS is vested in an 11 member Board of Governors, 9 of whom are appointed by the President, and confirmed by the Senate. The 9 members then select a postmaster general and a deputy to round out the board. As a quasi-governmental agency, it has many special privileges, including sovereign immunity, eminent domain powers, powers to negotiate postal treaties with foreign nations, and an exclusive legal right to deliver first-class and third-class mail. Supporting the status of the USPS as a government corporation, in 2004 the U.S. Supreme Court held that the U.S. Postal Service cannot be sued under antitrust laws, because US anti-trust law (the Sherman Antitrust Act, for example), does not allow the federal government - of which the USPS is part - to be sued. &#09117&#093 &#09118&#093 The U.S. Supreme Court has also upheld the USPS's statutory monopoly on access to letterboxes against a First Amendment freedom of speech challenge; it thus remains illegal in the U.S. for anyone other than the employees and agents of the USPS to deliver mailpieces to letterboxes marked "U.S. Mail. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1364812/wrong_usual.html Sun, 9 Aug 2009 11:53 GMT The SU's are caviar, the downdraught is McDonalds. Me, I'd rebuild the SUs everytime. They are vastly superior to the downdraught. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1364819/140-160/crburettors.html Sun, 9 Aug 2009 12:45 GMT <p> Snoot you are way out of line. In this and other threads you have been saying all this crap about drug companies & white GOP'ers standing in the way of Obama's health care plan. You are lying and distorting the reality of this situation. I have stood by and let you make an ass of yourself, and I have stood by silently and allowed you to dig your hole. This clip, as asinine as it is, is less ridiculous than the MSNBC propoganda you have been posting.</p> <p> For starters start using the language that delineates the truth of what he is proposing here. It is not "health care reform". Nothing proposed is medical in nature, it is all about insurance. This is a government takeover of that industry. Right now it is a service that can be bought. It is expensive, and some folks can't afford it. Obama is proposing to have other people pay for insurance for folks that can't afford it, and he intends to have the government be their provider. This will make an entity that does NOT need to show a profit a competitor on the field. Many fear this competitor is an unfair one, and they have stacked the deck in their favor. Eventually private companies whither and die, and we have socialized medicine and zero options. That is is not "health care reform". No matter how you wish to define the argument otherwise, that fact is killing Obama as more and more people come to realize what this is. </p> <p>Secondly, Obama can pass this without <b>any</b> GOP votes. He does not need one single Republican on this issue. So why is it not getting rammed through? Because people are furious and <b>DEMOCRAT</b> pols are weak in the knees about voting on this because they think their careers as hacks will be over. These town hall meetings, opinion polls, and sentiments among regular Americans outside the Beltway are all pointing towards that reality. So give the GOP crap a rest. This country can't afford this right now, and even Democrats see that this will be far more costly than BHO's numbers indicate. He can ignore the CBO numbers, but no one else is, because the true cost will surely eclipse both numbers. </p> <p> Thirdly, your thread about "where is Crowley" is a new high in hypocrisy, even for you. You are outraged that "big insurance" is packing these townhalls? Please, if you weren't pissed off when the Dems and the Libs have done this in the past (***AND YOU WEREN'T) then you have no credibility now. Where was your outrage when union members were disrupting McCain/Palin events? What is the difference? Why can't Conservatives speak in colleges in this country without Libs disrupting their free speech? Anti-war protesters were dogging Bush, and where was Snoot? Cheering them on of course. You need to have a consistent record on a topic before you bitch. You can't jump in and feign moral outrage when it suits you beliefs, and condone the same behavior when it is expedient. </p> -- &quot;There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy' http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1364669/white_middleaged_republican_men_really_fear_health_care_reform.html Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:05 GMT Are you sure that you don't want to just turn tail and flee now, we both know that's where this will end up...it always does. You have "stood by and allowed"? Who the fuck do you think you are? Hope you brought your gun and a back-up officer, you can worry about fudging the paperwork later. If you were capable if identifying lies you wouldn't believe the things that you do. The fact is that I clearly see the strings that lead from your brain to the ever-controlling hands of your masters; you are a fully trained and certified follower, it's how you earn your living and you do it well but don't pretend that you can differentiate between truth and lies it's not part of your programming. Were it not for the lies you have been implanted with you would have nothing at all you'd be just an blank hard drive with feet. You have no one but yourself to blame for my MSNBC clips, I had never watched it until you pointed me in that direction, thanks, it's fun. I agree with you about the language thing as I am well aware that controlling language controls thought, thus your "government take-over" drivel which is language right out of the corporate playbook designed to manipulate the simple-minded, the one you operate from whether you know it or not. "This country can't afford this right now"- back when we could readily afford it, before the war that was of no benefit to our country and the corporate give-aways to Republican supporters, back when you clowns inherited a surplus you did... NOTHING about this long-standing, long-identified problem. So yeah, what was that I used to tell you? "You had your chance, you screwed it up so sit down and shut up". Once again it is apparent that you must be reminded that you apparently don't have any understanding of the Constitutional concept of "free speech". Might I suggest taking a class? It couldn't hurt for someone who enforces the law for a living to have some understanding of the foundation of all law in our nation after all. There you go bringing up Bush again what's up with your Bush fetish anyway? He wasn't "dogged" by protesters, they couldn't get anywhere near him and were, for the most part, filtered out before they got a shot at "free speech" as you call it. I see now, the only "law enforcement" that you are interested in is selective law enforcement like enforcing laws against someone who is snooty to a cop while in their own home. Disturbing the peace IN A PUBLIC PLACE on behalf of insurance companies at the behest of lobbying firms and Fox News is "protected speech" though right? And you have the gall to call me a hypocrite! Ask yourself these questions: Why is it that every opinion that "you" hold happens to coincide exactly with the desires and interests of the uber wealthy and large corporations down to the most minute detail? Why does the political party that you're the #1 cheerleader for always side with corporate interests and anti-democratic corruption no matter what the majority of the American people desire or what is in their best interests? Honestly answer these questions and you will better understand yourself, honestly answer these questions and you will see what I see; a shill, a sell-out, a lap-dog for the man or what was once known as a "house nigger" in the antebellum south, a purchased mouthpiece for the ruling elite on the end of someone's golden chain; good dog, sit! -- "The long memory is the most radical idea in America."- Utah Phillips http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1364687/white_middleaged_republican_men_really_fear_health_care_reform.html Sat, 8 Aug 2009 16:26 GMT It's true, I know it is because I saw it on Fox! This is Obama's secret plan for the elderly under the Obama-care "reform" plan: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8Sp-VFBbjpE&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8Sp-VFBbjpE&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> -- "The long memory is the most radical idea in America."- Utah Phillips http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1364573/soylent_provision.html Fri, 7 Aug 2009 22:58 GMT Watch the clips that I posted under the thread "health care bill leaks out" and you will get your answer. These "protests" are bought and paid for just like the 2001 stop-the-recount "protests" in Florida were bought and paid for, all of those involved were Republican Party staffers who were well rewarded for their participation in the stunt. One of the "grass roots" organizations "Freedom Works" is lobbying firm run by Dick Army, just an average Joe fighting for the rights of the common man no doubt. Another is a multi-millionaire that used to launder funds for Jack Abramoff you know the "common man", salt of the earth middle-class hard working guy. No doubt there are angry, empty headed "real" people involved who don't understand from whence their marching orders come. Rupert Murdoch has done a fine job of recruiting an unpaid dolt army on behalf of corporate dominance concentrated wealth. -- "The long memory is the most radical idea in America."- Utah Phillips http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/volvo/1364455/need_context_clarification.html Fri, 7 Aug 2009 13:41 GMT Use the text input below to search brickboard.com query http://www.brickboard.com/FIND/