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A burr? More like a set of barbed spikes. What makes seatbelts dangerous to some is because they are designed for the adult that is six foot and weights 190. If your are five foot and 90 pounds soaking wet then there is a problem. I don't know if Volvo or Mercedes (again I go foreign, refer to the NASCAR post) makes a seat belt that is adjustible for smaller adults, but even those that are adjustable the other problem is the height of the seat back and the seat positioning. Airbags? I've seen some serious damage done by air bags. I would rather have the air bag removed and a pillow put in its place. The reason the state guy are pulling you over is because they like harrassing you. Trust me, I know of a few that do that locally. Yes there are bad apples all over the place, but my issue is that even with the "technology" available, try doing my job on the local level, and not on the federal level. It's a whole different world and a whole different set of issues that are faced on the court level.

Maybe so but you would be surprised how many people are arrested for such minor infractions as having outstanding warrants for various felonies such as murder, robbery, rape, and burglary. (Yes, even murders who don't even attempt to run). And your point is? The rest of us law abiding citizens have to be inconvenienced with random seat belt checks in hope that the police will, by chance, catch a murderer?? Sorry... This is the 21st century, there are other ways to catch these people that don't involve the harassment of citizens. Harrassment of citizens? Inconvenienced with random seat belt checks? Have you been driving at night and been inconveinenced by a randon DUI checkpoint? Does the police in your town/county/state simply inconveinence you for not wearing your seatbelt or speeding? This maybe the 21st century, and this is a country where the criminals have more rights than their victims. Maybe you've been watching too much CSI on TV. That is FICTIONAL! We don't have the entire population of the US on a DNA database. We don't work our own DNA analysis. I'm fortunate to have a DNA lab where I work at. It takes an average of SIX MONTHS TO A YEAR to get a DNA analysis on a murder case. Over a year on other violent crimes. And burglaries? We don't even waste our time collecting DNA. The criminals have learned what to do and not to do, so now they are wearing full body coverings to prevent fingerprints and DNA being left at the scene. This kind of rhetoric of "the police have better things to do than to harrass citizens with seat belt checks" is on of the many reasons that most in law enforcement today have a VERY negative view of the average citizen. A police office gets shot on a traffic stop and what is the public's opinion? Why was he wasting time on pulling someone over for a broken tail light? BECAUSE IT'S HIS JOB! I have worked in law enforcement for 10 years now. No matter what a police office does, he/she will always be treated worse than the criminal. A police office shoots a criminal who just shot at him, the investigation against the office is 10 times more stringent against the officer AND it's automatically assumed and investigated that the officer was wrong in shooting his weapon. So this whole argument about harrassing law abiding citizens is not valid. Maybe you don't like to wear your seatbelt. Fine. Work in your state to repeal that law. The law here was repealed on wearing helmets while riding a motorcycle. If you choose not to wear your seatbelt and get into a car crash and get hurt, guess who's footing the bill for the ambulance and hospital? NOT THE INSURANCE COMPANY. YOU ARE. I have personal feelings about the entire insurance industry, but if there is a law that says you must wear your seat belt, then wear it. If you think it's an attack on your personal freedom, then by all means work in your state legislature to get the law repealed. I have worked numerous accidents in my career. In fact that what I primarily did for five years was an Accident Investigator. I have seen people who walked away from serious car accidents because they were wearing their seat belts. And I have seen people who died because they did not wear seat belts and would have walked away if they were. I have to question people is if that you think police officers have better ways to do their jobs, then what qualifies you to think so? So I challenge anyone here that if you think you know better, come work for a police agency for a year, and after that year, make your suggestions. Because then you might understand that the barriers facing law enforcement are these: 1. Political issues. Between politicians and citizens who refuse to believe that there really is a crime problem in your area. 2. Funding. The politicians would rather spend money on having a statue placed in front of city hall than put lap top computers with the latest crime fighting technology. 3. Court system. Arrest someone for beating a 70 year old woman and taking her purse that was witnessed by 5 people and caught on video only to have the state attorney's office drop the charges because "not enough evidence" or "no DNA was collected at the scene." (an example of the CSI Effect) 4. Citizens. Most of the citizens you are sworn to serve and protect would rather spit on you than see you in their neighborhood. But as soon as one of them needs you, then they complain that "The police never patrol their neighborhood." So as you can see I am callous to the entire argument about cops have better things to do. I do this job because there is a scientific avenue that still attracks me and the feeling of getting the murderer and child rapist off of the streets because there is that segment of the population that really has been devoured by satan that is a threat to all of us. I face a constant barrage of critizism because "I have had to violate someone's rights" to prove a case from the defense attorneys and the citizens at large. I blame this on the educational system misleading and not even teaching what the Constitution really says, instead of the bias that is being taught today. If something as challenging were offered to me today, with the situation as it is in law enforcement today, I would jump on it in a heart beat. And as I would watch the world go nuts over why didn't the police do this or that, I would simply shake my head and snicker. Simply because most don't understand nor do they really want to.

Maybe so but you would be surprised how many people are arrested for such minor infractions as having outstanding warrants for various felonies such as murder, robbery, rape, and burglary. (Yes, even murders who don't even attempt to run).

Orlando Florida is the first city to have buses run on Hydrogen. It can be done. But the question is who wants to.

Here in Florida the law was changed to where as long as you have insurance, you do not have to wear a helmut. The two people who fought to change the law, the first died three weeks after the law was changed and the second died two months later. Fatalities have shot through the roof because of the change. I made a comment about organ doners because in the circles of accident investigators, we have an inside joke where we see anyone not wearing a helmut we refer to them as "future organ doners" only because most motorcycle accidents result in fatal injuries. If you think that's insulting ask me what we refer to parents who don't put their children in car seats and I'll PM you that response.

Because we need more organ doners.

I think I'll run for president. Or congress. Or senate. At least I've haven't had the opportunity to be corrupted yet.

How much in campaign contributions will the House members receive for this approval.

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes straight to the bone... That article does make an interesting point. If someone who knows that they are not good looking usually become better mates simply because they are not self absorbed. They will do whatever they can for their significant other, because they understand that looks are not everything.

Too bad that your ideology has blinded you to the truth. I can't wait to see what's behind door number two.

Talk about a hot date!

Drink a little wine for thine often infirmaties. A glass of wine a day is good for you. A bottle of wine or a case of beer or a fifth of whiskey a day is not good. There in lies the issue of when it is sin and not sin.

The cigars are also made in Miami by Cubans. There are a few fumadors in the Little Havana section. He should run for president. I respect a person for calling someone by what they are. At least you know then who you can and cannot trust.

They should get the terrorism enhancements on there sentence because what they did amounted to terrorism. Individuals were put in harm's way in fighting the fires from the Colorado ski lodge and the SUV dealership in California. Life in prison without parole is what they should get.

At least your consistant with your ideology. Unfortunately you don't understand that (1) Putin is in the process of bringing back the republics under the Kremlin control, (2) In China there is no real capitalism, only industries that are controlled by the military with the appearances of being under private control, (3) Germany is really a socialist government with socialist policies, and (4) Harelong's "enthusiam for racist" is the same thing we hear today if you are against the homosexuality, amestity for illegal immigrants, bring up the dangers of facists Muslims, and not Politically Correct - you are a HATE MONGER! So with that said, this HATE MONGERER will continue to support what is best for the US and Israel.

Can I get them to provide extra funding for a down payment on my new house?

http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/ Try these gas prices around the world.

1963 Communist Goals The communist goals were entered into the Congressional record by Albert Herlong, Jr. (a Floridian who served in Congress from 1949-69). 1) US acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. 2) US willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war. 3) Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the US would be a demonstration of "moral strength." 4) Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. 5) Extension of long term loans to Russia and Soviet Satellites. 6) Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination. 7) Grant recognition of Red China, and admission of Red China to the UN. 8) Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the Germany question by free elections under supervision of the UN. 9) Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the US has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress. 10) Allow all Soviet Satellites individual representation in the UN. 11) Promote the UN as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the UN as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo). 12) Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party. 13) Do away with loyalty oaths. 14) Continue giving Russia access to the US Patent Office. 15) Capture one or both of the political parties in the US. 16) Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights. 17) Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism, and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in text books. 18) Gain control of all student newspapers. 19) Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack. 20) Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions. 21) Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures. 22) Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings," substitute shapeless, awkward, and meaningless forms. 23) Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art." 24) Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press. 25) Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography, and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV. 26) Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as "normal, natural, and healthy." 27) Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch." 28) Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state." 29) Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. 30) Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man". 31) Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big picture": Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over. 32) Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture - - education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. 33) Eliminate all laws or procedures, which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus. 34) Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities. 35) Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI. 36) Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. 37) Infiltrate and gain control of big business. 38) Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand or treat. 39) Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals. 40) Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. 41) Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. 42) Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special interest groups should rise up and make a "united force" to solve economic, political, or social problems. 43) Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government. 44) Internationalize the Panama Canal. 45) Repeal the Connally Reservation so the US can not prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More Information about Albert Herlong, Jr.: His bio: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodi...l?index=H000530 The goals that he read were taken from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen, which can be purchased from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1568493673/ Other Links: http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

Since the whole Imus debacle radio and paid radio are taking a closer look at what is being broadcast on the airwaves. My concern is that at what point will this stop? The reintroduction of the "Fairness Doctrine" is a clear sign that if you don't support the views of the left, then you must be silenced. The First Amendment is under attack. The Second Amendment has been under attack for some time. The ability of government to take your property away without due compensation was allowed by the Supreme Court. At what point do we stop calling our country a democracy or democratic republic and start calling it socialist or communist?

This article brings up some issues the "scientific" community is trying to get accepted as truth. The first being THERE IS NO GOD! We all evolved beings from monkeys, not created by God as it has been hammered since the publication of Darwin's book about the natural order of things. They have been successful in getting evolution taught in school and creation as being religious, which is forbidden due to the false teachings of the 'Separation of Church and State" doctrine. Second is the hysteria of global warming, which is more of a political ideology based on incomplete scientific studies and half truths. If you don't believe in the global warming ideology, you are ridiculed and black listed. The third is the use of calling people "mentally incompetent." If you are deemed to be mentally incometent or considered to have a mental disorder, you lose certain rights. You can also lose the ability to hold certain jobs and it becomes harder to find employment due to liability issues. These outright attacks against God and anyone who would dare to question their ideology and "scientific studies" is based on ego, politics, and the feeling that they are superior to others.

Shrooms and Cuy. There's an idea.

It's not funny, but when did they stop?

Hay, if it works, go for it. Now the next question is, is it eatible?

Currently I have a take home van. A 3/4 ton gas guzzler that gets about 10 MPG. I have a Toyota minivan that's been averaging around 18.5 MPG. I bought that in January of 06 and only have 9200 miles. If things change to where I have to buy another car for work, I'm looking at a Corolla with around 40 MPG. I can remember back in the early 90's when the idea of powering cars with natural gas was being considered. Unfortunately the NG did not provide as much power as regular gas. If cars were being produced to use NG again, I would consider it, if the stations who would sell NG were more plentiful. I'm not worried about power so much. I don't need to go from 0 to 60 in three seconds or have a top speed of 150 MPH. If it can get to highway speeds (75 MPH), that would suit me fine.

Destroying the environment will cause suffering and death for countless humans and animals and hence cannot be the Christian thing to do. The Christian thing to do is to care for the environment because it is the beneficial thing to do. There is nothing anti-Christian about caring for animals (in fact treating animals inhumanely could be seen as anti-Christian). The steps that can be taken to curb global warming are environmentally friendly and beneficial even if global warming is bad science. I'm not talking about treating animals inhumanely or dumping chemicals into the air and water at wanton. I'm talking about those who think that god is the trees, and the sun, etc. I'm talking about those who throw the hysteria of global warming in our faces when there's no real science to prove such facts. Groups such as Earth First, and PETA, who think even eating flesh is evil and cruel. When you make everything else god and ignore the true God, you have created a religion.