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Interesting. I love the behind the scenes stuff.

Around here its the combination of pickups, SUVs, Winter Texans, and Mexican Nationals that cause the problems. Imagine a million visitors, each driving with the norms of their home, perpetually lost, and old. In Mexico if you are attempting to merge onto a busier road, it is expected that you will stop until traffic clears. So we have people stopping on an expressway on ramp while others are speeding up.

Misty water colored memories of Brad Sellers

Herds of robotic traffic cones could soon be swarming onto a highway, closing down lanes and slowing the traffic.

As long as all your shots are up to date.

I think SS has two or three people posting for him. Perhaps he is hiring off shore workers at a couple dollars a day to pad his totals.

Gee Steff what's a nice lady like you doing in a place like this?

"If we can't hold ourselves up as an example of how to treat people with dignity and respect, we can't ask that other nations do that to our soldiers." Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt I couldn't have said it any better. I would be outraged if another country was treating our prisoners that way, we cannot have it both ways.

here is a link to a CBS article *Click Here*

I guess 8 hours of Eminem was too much

$9.9 Million dollar limit on the Visa

The rest, of the story

Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.) planned to show off the work of a company from his district when he arranged a photo op with a special Army Humvee in front of the Rayburn Building yesterday. What he got instead was a partisan food fight. Hayworth appeared with officials from Tempe, Ariz.-based ArmorWorks, which just received a contract to supply the Army with 1,500 armor kits for the all-terrain vehicle. To illustrate the need, Hayworth told of his trip to Iraq a month ago, when he witnessed an Arizona guardsman fashioning armor himself out of scrap metal. But some on hand were quick to criticize the event. A broadcast reporter asked his cameraman if he had gotten a shot of Hayworth behind the gun of the Humvee, to which the cameraman replied, “Of this guy who never served a day in the service? Yeah, I got it.” Then, apparently to Hayworth’s complete surprise, Armed Services Committee, members Marty Meehan (D-Mass.) and Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas), took over the podium. “Are you guys trying to score some points politically, or what?” asked Hayworth as he leaned in. “I’ll be here to watch.” And watch he did, from only five feet away. A release distributed by Meehan’s staff quoted him as saying, “This is outrageous. We’re standing next to an armored Humvee here in Washington when it should be in Iraq or Afghanistan.” But when pressed, Meehan backed off that assertion, saying he didn’t demand that “this particular vehicle” be in Iraq, only that 12,000 such vehicles are needed over there. Taking back the microphone, Hayworth said, “We all want to support our troops, but in full disclosure, I’m sure [Meehan] doesn’t mind if I point this out: When it came time to vote $87 billion for the troops, Marty voted no, and the man he’s supporting for president, Senator [John] Kerry [D-Mass.], voted no.” To top it off, Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, showed up and immediately coined a new word. He cautioned that with servicemen overseas, we should not “particize” the issue.

Highway Deaths Hit 13-Year High in 2003 Wed Apr 28, 6:43 PM ET Add U.S. National - Reuters to My Yahoo! By John Crawley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. traffic deaths rose nearly 1 percent in 2003 and reached a 13-year high at 43,220, the government reported on Wednesday. It was the fifth straight year road deaths rose, although passenger car fatalities decreased. Sport utility vehicle deaths went up roughly 10 percent over 2002, with more than half of the victims in those crashes killed in rollovers. Motorcycle deaths also jumped. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (news - web sites) said preliminary figures showed 405 more highway deaths overall in 2003 than the previous year and the most since 1990 when 44,509 people were killed. Despite the increase in the annual death count, the fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled remained constant at 1.5 deaths because more people were on the road. But Jeffrey Runge, the safety agency's administrator, expressed alarm at that figure and said it had to drop measurably soon or the country could return to 50,000 deaths a year by the end of the decade. In 2003, more than half of those killed in passenger vehicles were not wearing safety belts. Forty percent of all fatalities, or 17,401 deaths, were alcohol-related, essentially unchanged from 2002. Runge said those figures underscored the need for states to adopt standard safety-belt enforcement laws and to get tougher on drunken drivers. "This problem will not be solved in Washington, D.C., alone," said Runge. "We need the cooperation of every American to drive responsibly, fasten his or her safety belt and care for each other's safety on the roads." Runge, an emergency room physician, has also raised the potential dangers of light trucks sharing the road with smaller passenger cars and has addressed the propensity of SUVs to roll. Sport utility deaths went up by 456 with more than two- thirds of victims not wearing seat belts, the safety agency said. "A large part of the problem is keeping all four wheels on the roadway," Runge told reporters about the rollover propensity of SUVs. Some manufacturers have addressed the problem but Runge wants more safety changes. For instance, his agency is proposing a standard to improve the strength of vehicle roofs to reduce rollover deaths. Cars have a slight edge in sales over light trucks, which include SUVs, pickups and minivans. But SUV sales rose more than 10 percent last year. Consumer and safety groups have long targeted SUVs as unsafe, and are pressuring the government to mandate tougher design changes. SUV safety and other provisions are included in highway legislation awaiting final consideration in Congress. "Affordable, feasible safety improvements could help prevent the rising death toll in SUVs," said Joan Claybrook, president of consumer group Public Citizen.

We had a post to the wav files of all of the commercials over in SL&P. That is one of the all time best advertising campaigns.

And you living in the United States, a country that unleashed two nuclear bombs on Japan, you have a full grasp of Japenese-American relations (yeah right) 4E, from your posting we can tell you obvioulsy value Palestinian lives less than others.

I am glad that the Palestinians have figured out a way to keep Hamas away from a funeral. Equally nice that Hamas is listening to the families and staying away, only coming and recruiting volunteers when they are given an engraved invitation. If you are Hamas and looking for pissed off people to join your movement, wouldn't you go to the funeral of an innocent by stander who was killed when Israel took out a Hamas leader? I have seen mourners, and I have seen protestors, in the same group. Mourning the deaths of Palestinians and Isaelis. Or are only Israelis alowed to mourn and protest? But as always, 4E's answer is kill kill kill. Just keep killing until the problem is solved. Works for both sides. Each side can just keep killing people until no one is left. Collateral damage is ok. Kill anyone you like as long as a leader or soldier is within, what a square mile? Just keep killing so 4E can type in caps and celebrate. What other option does either side have? Just kill, kill, kill. Lump all Palistinians in the same group, they all think alike. Their sole existance is to destroy Israel. Everyone thinks the same. Perhaps programmed at birth. Every Palestinian is a Hamas member. round them up and kill them. Yeah, brilliant strategy 4E. Herd them into ghettos or kill them, where have I heard that stretegy before?

Wow. I never would have guessed. Maybe cw or SS2k4 would have.

I switch back and forth. Mozilla is nice. With AOL killing Netscape, I suspect Mozilla will be the #2 for Microsoft bashers. I use IE with the Google task bar. I love hearing the pop pop pop of pop ups getting blocked.

Once again, How is the average Palestinian going to dismantle Hamas? Why don't you go dismantle the Latin Kings? You act like they can go up to Hamas leaders and say "we don't want you anymore, please disband." They path to peace is Israel has to accept the law abiding Palestinians as equal members of the society. They have to punish Hamas leaders and other law breakers like we do in the US. We do not fly Huey gunships into Chicago and send missles into a back neighborhood because a black street gang kills a kid in a drive by. We go after the murderers. We don't wall off the Italian neighborhoods because some Italian guy commits a crime. Your sources are as bulls*** as his. Any source that doesn't agree with you is Anti-semite. You do know that many Israelis disgree with your death to all Palistinians. You do know that not all Israelis think the same. People can disagree with you and not be anti-semite.

Would that be in the form of taxes? How exactly does he steal the money?

Could you elaborate? What have they "given us"?

It's cheaper than fighting an all out war in Israel. We are basically buying a truce for Israel. Your tax dollars at work. Israel kills a Hamas agent and we send some money. We also want to continue to protect our oil.