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Post by 76chevy on Sept 25, 2008 14:44:16 GMT -5
agree with you jkd. we all need to stick to the issues here You guys for Obama are all alike.....If you want him to be your LEADER,then vote for him but If I was you I'd think about it a lot harder than what you have thus far!!!!!!! How can a person who has been there for what around 140 days for one thing even know how the government works or should work..plus I think and I also think that it's has been a proven fact the guy is a NOT a true AMERICAN!!!!!!! Hell Shan Hannity has placed an offer to him to give his brother the one that lives in total poverty in Africa $10,000.00 ( that's way above the 14 cents a day that he now takes in)if Obama would appear on his show and as of yesterday there has been nothing from Obama on this...must really care about his brother!!!!!!! The guy is not what we need for a President of the U.S...Maybe McCain isn't either but I'll take McCain anyday over this jerk!!!!!!!!!!! Not sure what any of that has to do with the debate, but have at it...
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Post by 76chevy on Sept 25, 2008 14:42:49 GMT -5
the funding package has to happen or our credit markest will stay seized up. in the end us taxpayers will end up owning some nice assets once the price floor is set on their value. the real question is how much oversight the congress will have over paulson. Paulson is the former chair of Goldman Sachs, the best investment bank in the world, and is a heck of a lot smarter and better qualified to turn things around than ANYONE in washington. The Senate Banking Committee is handling the senate side of the bill proposed by the White House, and neither McCain or Obama is a member of that committee, although Evan Bayh is, interestingly enough... News reports indicate that it is in the House, not the Senate, where the bailout faces strongest opposition, and that neither side's committees will be ready with a final draft by Friday... Funny thing in the House is that Barney Frank is ready to move forward with a version of the bill there, but can't get the Republicans to agree on a compromise... now I think that's a hoot... Barney Frank, "liberal democrat", trying to get Bush's bill passed out of committee and it's the republicans that are holding it up... the world has turned upside down, and we are truly going through the looking glass... There is no real reason that the Friday debate can't take place... unless of course it's because McCain doesn't want to stand at a podium before a national TV audience and explain what he meant by the statement, "The fundamentals of our economy are strong..." banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Information.Membership
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Post by 76chevy on Sept 25, 2008 14:39:23 GMT -5
exactly. the federal reserve controls the money supply yet has not accountability to anyone and is not transparent at all to us the american tax payers! McCain OR Obama just doesn't measure up at all <Sorry> The REAL "Powers that be" control everything, aren't going to allow the U.S.A. to have a qualified President. They want someone they can use to their benefit. The Oil Barons and O.P.E.C. got Bush elected, it's funny that the price of fuel went up soon after he was elected. Also what about our food supplies? Are you certain the Grain & Cattle Merchants aren't controlling the supplies & prices we pay?
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Post by 76chevy on Sept 25, 2008 14:24:56 GMT -5
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Post by 76chevy on Sept 25, 2008 12:13:26 GMT -5
Bummer!
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Post by 76chevy on Sept 25, 2008 11:58:54 GMT -5
I am in favor of a dropping the income tax and just going to a flat rate consumption tax. Tax consumption not income and capital gains, those who consume the most G and S pay the most in taxes. Very simple to implement and universally fair. Just tinkering with the uber-confusing and assanine tax code we currently have is not going to get anywhere. Flat Tax; why should someone who works hard and makes something of themselves have to pay more taxes??? Flat Tax rate for all; than you'll know what the taxes will take out of your paycheck and can adjust your lifestyle accordingly or get a better job.
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Post by 76chevy on Sept 24, 2008 16:30:30 GMT -5
Mccain's plan is certainly some welcome news for all members on here making more than $2.87M per year....
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Post by 76chevy on Sept 24, 2008 16:27:37 GMT -5
Obama and McCain Tax Proposals www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/09/ST2008060900950.htmlAccording to a new analysis by the Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are both proposing tax plans that would result in cuts for most American families. Obama's plan gives the biggest cuts to those who make the least, while McCain would give the largest cuts to the very wealthy. For the approximately 147,000 families that make up the top 0.1 percent of the income scale, the difference between the two plans is stark. While McCain offers a $269,364 tax cut, Obama would raise their taxes, on average, by $701,885 - a difference of nearly $1 million. ![](http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f363/JUSTIN1980/obama.gif)
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Post by 76chevy on Sept 24, 2008 16:23:26 GMT -5
tie for my favorite:
slick trick magnums 100 or 125
muzzy's 100 or 125 3 or 4 blade
I shoot 60lbs draw weight.
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Post by 76chevy on Sept 24, 2008 16:11:35 GMT -5
good to know.
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Post by 76chevy on Sept 24, 2008 16:08:57 GMT -5
it's pretty sad that IN media did not care enough to even show up. Now if Palin had been there..... I went to the press conference at the Indiana Republican Headquarters today for the Sportsmen for McCain...No media showed. It is another proof of how the bias is against those conservative enough to stand for our rights. I have some great info from the meeting and will be passing it along. Also will be writing letters to the editor and contacting the media outlet to find out why we weren't covered, not all their folks were at the dome....
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Post by 76chevy on Sept 24, 2008 16:06:59 GMT -5
I predict that Obama win several counties in the north but wont win the state. too many republicans in central and southern IN who show up at the polls that tuesday in Nov.
I'm not voting for him...
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Post by 76chevy on Sept 24, 2008 16:02:48 GMT -5
bring back the LTL for 3-5 years
price them at $2500+ with a sliding scale for age (ie older=lower cost)
the state would raise TONS of revenue from this and many would get the LTL they missed out on before they discontinued the program
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Post by 76chevy on Sept 24, 2008 16:00:17 GMT -5
dont worry, the video is not going anywhere. Its all over the internet. just more of the campaign of fear. I vote we increase our millitary spending, and missile development to waste more of taxpayers dollars but in so doing alleviate their fears and make them think they really need big govt to protect them from the terrorists around every corner. lets not forget this campaign of fear is how we lost so many of our civil liberties when the congress and Bush passed the Patriot Act... Got this in my email this AM - hope it still works. Obama's Plan for your defense: A leading General in the Russian Army recently stated that if the USA installed defensive missiles in Poland, it would be provocation worthy of a Russian nuclear attack on Poland. This is a few days after Russia invaded Georgia. The hyperlink attached below tells us what Obama plans to do to defend our freedom. This video does not tell us what Obama is "reported" to have said; but shows him saying it! THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS TRYING TO HAVE THIS VIDEO PULLED IMMEDIATELY. PLEASE CLICK THE LINK BELOW. Please send this to everyone you know today, since it will be pulled off the air soon. This is an uninterrupted 51-second video of Obama speaking; he's telling us exactly what he will do to the military...watch it before it is removed off the web site. Pass it on...the USA needs a Wake-up call. macsmind.com/wordpress/2008/06/08/obama-wants-to-protect-america/This is absolutely shocking & reprehensible. He plans to unilaterally disarm our nation. The question is... for what? And more specifically, for whom?!!!!!!!!
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Post by 76chevy on Sept 24, 2008 13:32:56 GMT -5
Tapping Into What a Deer Sees, and Doesn’t www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/science/23tier.html?em=&pagewanted=printBy JOHN TIERNEY Approximately 30,000 years after hunters took to adorning cave walls with their image of a deer, it occurred to them it might be more productive to consider the deer’s image of a hunter. This was not an easy task. Deer have not left cave paintings of any humans, much less of hunters in camouflage. Those manly overalls and caps splotched with green leaves and brown branches may have looked invisible in the catalogue and impressed the other humans back at the lodge, but what did the deer think of it? Were they just rolling their eyes at each other? Eventually, though, a few deer were bribed to reveal their secrets. They were given food pellets in return for taking vision tests. The results were not good news for the camo-clad hunters — but ultimately not really good news for the deer either. For now, thanks to decades of research into ungulate vision combined with the latest in military concealment technology, hunters can don a computer-generated camouflage with fractal designs that look nothing like a shrub or a tree, at least not to the human eye. Named Optifade, it’s being introduced this fall by W.L. Gore (the makers of the breathable Gore-Tex rain gear) and promoted as the first camouflage scientifically designed to make hunters invisible to deer. The deer, as usual, are not available for comment, so these claims of invisibility cannot be directly verified. But the psychologists who worked with Gore to develop it — Jay Neitz, an animal-vision expert at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and Timothy O’Neill, who pioneered the United States Army’s digital camouflage as a researcher at West Point — say they’re confident the deer will be fooled. “A camouflage that makes a person look like a tree can work if you’re in a place where other trees look like that,” Dr. Neitz says. “But what if you’re somewhere else, or if the deer sees you move? This new camouflage is a totally different approach. It fools the deer’s vision system at its roots, so that it doesn’t recognize the person as anything.” At Dr. Neitz’s laboratory, he tests some animals’ vision by training them to press touch screens, but the deer weren’t quite ready for the computer age. He and researchers at the University of Georgia showed them three cards at a time and rewarded them with food pellets when they picked out the right pattern by pushing a button with their noses. “We can measure in animals anything you can measure in a human being and every bit as accurate,” Dr. Neitz says. “The difference is that a vision test that might take 10 minutes in a human can take six months.” The research revealed that deer vision is a little blurrier than human vision — about 20/40 — and that deer see the world roughly like a human with red-green colorblindness. Their eyes have only two color receptors (unlike the three in the human eye). Fortunately for hunters, they have a hard time seeing blaze orange. But they’re more sensitive than humans to light at the blue end of the spectrum. And thanks to the eyes on either side of the head, they can see a field of vision covering 270 degrees. Once they had assessed the deer’s visual strengths and weaknesses, Dr. Neitz and Dr. O’Neill worked out colors, textures and shapes with Guy Cramer of HyperStealth Biotechnology, a company that designs military camouflage. Mr. Cramer’s computer algorithms create fractal patterns that exploit a couple of ancient tricks used by animal predators. The first and most obvious trick is to fade into the background, as a leopard’s spots enable it to do while it’s patiently waiting to ambush a prey. The spots aren’t shaped like leaves or branches, but they form an overall “micropattern” matching the colors and overall texture of the woodland background. That trick, though, won’t work for a predator on the move, which is why a tiger doesn’t have spots. It has a “macropattern” of stripes that break up the shape of its body as it’s stalking or running. “The prey can detect the tiger’s movement,” Dr. Neitz says, “but if the shape isn’t recognized as the outline of a tiger, nothing registers in the higher center of the prey’s brain.” After 19th-century naturalists and 20th-century psychologists analyzed these camouflage techniques, military researchers worked out formulas for the optimum patterns. Before he retired from the engineering psychology department at the United States Military Academy, Dr. O’Neill developed the type of pixelated digital camouflage — made up of tiny colored squares — adopted in the past decade by many armies. “The essence of digital camouflage goes back to the old question: Is the purpose of camouflage to match the background or to break up the shape of the target?” Dr. O’Neill says. “The answer is yes — you do both. You create a micropattern that matches the ‘busyness’ of the background and makes it harder to detect the target, and you overlay it with a macropattern that makes it harder to recognize the shape of the target once you’ve detected it.” (For a look at these patterns, go to TierneyLab.) But no matter how carefully the patterns have been computed, no matter how precisely the new hunter’s digital camouflage is calibrated to deer’s vision, there remains one large uncertainty: Will hunters wear overalls covered with pixelated squares that look like computer-generated abstract art? Or will they stick with their traditional preference (see cave paintings) for representational art? Getting soldiers, at least the male ones, to switch to digital camouflage wasn’t easy, Dr. O’Neill says, because for many men camouflage is less about invisibility than fashion. Some soldiers hung on to the old-fashioned designs because of what Dr. O’Neill called the C.D.I. factor: Chicks Dig It. If male hunters feel that way about their old overalls, there may still be lots of shrubs and trees toting guns and bows during hunting season. These guys may or may not be right about women going for this look. But the deer probably appreciate it.
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Post by 76chevy on Sept 24, 2008 13:30:56 GMT -5
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Post by 76chevy on Sept 24, 2008 13:07:10 GMT -5
try the working man's friend. the burger and fries are the best around! Disclaimer: This is based on my experience only. Went to a Hardee's for lunch. Ordered the #2 combo meal; $6.20 weren't these places suppose to be cheap. The burger was great but the fries were soggy and greasy. I have yet to find a place where I can get a good burger and good fries! It always one or the other that is good.
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Post by 76chevy on Sept 23, 2008 15:24:01 GMT -5
Ditto. They are GREAT heads! I've been shooting 3-bladed Muzzies(125g) for years...They make a nice sized hole.Most of my blood trails are 75 yds or less...
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Post by 76chevy on Sept 23, 2008 15:21:09 GMT -5
From the article:
"(Palin) has never met a foreign head of state and first traveled outside North America just last year."
why would anyone criticize her lack of foreign policy experience?
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Post by 76chevy on Sept 23, 2008 15:18:57 GMT -5
www.theindychannel.com/politics/17538100/detail.htmlReporters Had Been Banned From Palin U.N. MeetingsPOSTED: 11:49 am EDT September 23, 2008 UPDATED: 2:39 pm EDT September 23, 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who has not held a press conference in nearly four weeks of campaigning, initially barred reporters from her first meetings with world leaders Tuesday, but reversed course after they protested. At first, campaign aides told the TV producer, print and news agency reporters in the press pool that followed the Alaska governor that they would not be admitted along with still photographers and a video camera crew taken in to photograph her meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, who are here for the United Nations General Assembly this week. She also was to meet later with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. These sessions and meetings scheduled for Wednesday are part of the Republican campaign's effort to give Palin experience in foreign affairs. She has never met a foreign head of state and first traveled outside North America just last year. At least two news organizations, including The Associated Press, objected to the exclusion of reporters and were told that the decision was not subject to discussion. Presidents and members of Congress routinely allow reporters to attend photo opportunities along with photographers and the reporters sometimes are able to ask questions during the brief photo sessions, usually held at the beginning of private meetings. CNN, which was providing the television coverage for news organizations, decided to pull its TV crew from the first meeting, with Karzai, effectively denying Palin the high visibility she had sought. But after the campaign agreed to let CNN's producer in as well, the CNN camera crew joined the session. According to the CNN producer who was let into Karzai's hotel suite with the photographers just before noon, Karzai was talking about his son. Palin was nodding, and asked what his name is. Karzai replied his name was Mirwais and explained that it means light of the house. The media were escorted out after about 40 seconds. Campaign aides subsequently announced that reporters would be allowed to accompany photographers into the later sessions with Uribe and Kissinger. At that point, campaign spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt said it was all just a "miscommunication." Earlier, she had said, "The decision was made for this to be a photo spray with still cameras and video cameras only." Palin has been criticized for avoiding taking questions from reporters or submitting to one-on-one interviews. She has had just two major interviews since Republican presidential candidate John McCain chose her as his running mate on Aug. 29. On Wednesday, McCain and Palin were expected to meet jointly with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko. Palin was then to meet separately with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Palin's Democratic counterpart, Sen. Joe Biden, a veteran of the Sunday talk show circuit, has challenged Palin to sit for interviews. "Eventually she's going to have to sit in front of you like I'm doing and have done," Biden said on "Meet the Press" on NBC. "Eventually she's going to have to answer questions and not be sequestered. Eventually she's going to have to answer questions about her record." The McCain camp has said that reporters don't show Palin enough "deference." The first-term Alaska governor, in office for less than two years, has given speeches alongside McCain since becoming his surprise running mate pick on Aug. 29. She has also appeared at rallies by herself. But aside from an interview with ABC's Charles Gibson and a lifestyle story in People magazine, the McCain camp has not let reporters ask her questions directly. McCain, and the pair's Democratic rivals, serve in key international committees in the U.S. Senate. McCain is the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama has a seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which his running mate, Biden, chairs. Distributed by Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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