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It wasn't a small fire, the basement where the computers were stored was in flames... the massive amount of computer cables were all melted...It will be at least three weeks to fix.

Price?

I agree, I personally think that simple is best. I would do the first without the stripe coming out of the back window and I would definitely do the tail in one color to make it stick out, no need for the checker board........I want a paint job now!

A combination of these two would look great, personally I would use the first one without the stripe that comes from the rear window and to accentuate the tail I would use the red tail section of the second and extend the checkered pattern all the way to the back...maybe different base color, light gray rather than white. Sorry, thinking out loud, perhaps it's time for a new paint job for my j.

Tie down vs hangar, hmmm.......

Flyboy4 44 says......next question please, you bore me with your simplemindedness and idiotic ideology not to mention your mumbo jumbo facts.

He's not obligated to accept Medicaid or Medicare, he is however obligated to make a living. Don't you worry though it seems you are living a utopian dream...

Yes he did, as a matter of fact, a large increase in Medicaid patients.... reimbursements are sometimes 1/3 of a private insurance, it's peachy! ACA combined with high corporate taxes in the state of Illinois has not been a good combination. Why do business here when you can go to Wisconsin, Indiana, Texas or even Florida.

Flyboy4 44, You should consider yourself very lucky, many of my father's patients have seen deductibles go as high as $7k for individuals and up to $16k for family coverage. My father saw his BCBS policy cancelled at the beginning of this year and replaced with one that was and extra $400 per month (he now has pediatric care among others and his oldest child is 23). Most of his patients are blue collar to low income families and there is your problem. If you are well off you are annoyed with the new expense, if you are middle class to low income you are now faced with a huge problem and one that was not there prior to the ACA. If it's such a great program why delay provisions of the mandate until after the 2016 elections?

Look in your messages...

How the F$$ck did Ferguson wonder into this thread? Are you kidding? How about a "ham sandwich"??

That sounded like a dreaded Sarah Palin rant. Why are communists so obsessed with material possessions? Apparently it's not enough to want to distribute the achievement of the individual but now it's morphing into a "mine is bigger than yours" playground shoving match? Progressivism never rests I guess. Enjoy that TBM!

Flyboyfor44 you are my wife's wet dream, please come and take her away...in the meantime I will go get my chopsticks and some Tylenol.

If you want full context to that speech why not include the part that came before that and sprinkle on the condescending tone and arrogance that accompanied the delivery. This is not a leader he is nothing more than an instigator in a nice suit.

Summer is over, daver328 just started the school year but unfortunately many just think its cooler to cut class!

This was taken from a foreign news source at the time, The telegraph UK, and it is in chronological order. Perhaps some reasons to go after this GEM! Saddam 'still ready to use germ warfare' By Bruce Johnston in Rome 12:01AM GMT 01 Nov 2001 SADDAM HUSSEIN still wants Iraq to become a world power and is prepared to use biological weapons to achieve that, according to the diplomat who knows his military capabilities best. Rolf Ekeus, who for six years was president of the Special UN Commission with the task of verifying that Iraq had renounced arms of mass destruction, said Saddam still wanted to dominate the Middle East. His scientists had the knowledge to help him realise his dream, said Mr Ekeus and apart from anthrax, they had found ways to isolate and develop deadly viruses. He said that while Iraq had denied having anything to do with the anthrax attacks in the US, and while the spores might have come from a Russian or American laboratory - the facts suggested that Saddam may be behind them. "For more than four years Baghdad denied, formally and in writing, the existence of a project to develop biological weapons," Mr Ekeus told an Italian newspaper. "It was only when, after inspections, research and tests, we managed to find scientific proof that there was a project after all, that they admitted its existence. "The main research centre in al Hakam was hidden in the desert, protected by fencing and walls. It was made up of a lot of buildings, with laboratories and a great deal of sophisticated equipment. "We razed it to the ground in 1996." That did not mean that Iraq's germ warfare capacity had been wiped out, he said. "In al Hakem we found a milling machine capable of refining anthrax for military purposes, and we destroyed it. But there was the suspicion that there was another which we never found. "Moreover, despite the embargo, not only does Saddam have no problems with money, but he is awash in it. And people who have no cash worries usually find a seller. "And since December 1998, when the inspections stopped, there is no one who can check and see what is going on. Not to mention research into viruses. "We found that they had experimented on camel pox, a sickness of camels similar to smallpox. Another project that greatly interested them was the poisoning of lakes and aquaducts." Asked if bin laden and Saddam could be working together, Mr Ekeus said that the two men had "clearly different objectives". But he added: "Let's not forget the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Stalin and Hitler had diametrically opposed strategic objectives, but that did not stop them becoming allies in 1939, because at that time they shared certain tactical objectives. "Bin Laden and Hussein are both at war with America, and they share the same immediate objective. To drive the Americans out of the Gulf. And on this point, Saddam said exactly the same thing as bin Laden. Word for word." Mr Ekeus, now the OSCE High Commissioner for Ethnic Minorities, said: "Saddam continues to repeat that he is the one who is winning. And I think that for him, things are actually going rather well. In the streets of Arab countries he is becoming ever more popular." Saddam running training camps for terrorists, say defectors By Philip Delves Broughton in New York 12:01AM GMT 09 Nov 2001 TWO former Iraqi intelligence agents have told the CIA that Saddam Hussein has fostered training camps to produce scores of highly trained terrorists for attacks in the Middle East and the West. If confirmed, their statements will strengthen the case of those in Washington advising President Bush that the only way to crush Arab terrorism is to topple Saddam. That case received a further boost on Wednesday when Colin Powell, the Secretary of State, regarded as the least hawkish member of Mr Bush's inner circle, said America would turn its focus to Iraq once it had dealt with the al-Qa'eda network and Afghanistan. After defeating al-Qa'eda, said Mr Powell: "We will turn our attention to terrorism throughout the world, and nations such as Iraq, which have tried to pursue weapons of mass destruction." The two Iraqi defectors, who were debriefed by the CIA and then put in touch with The New York Times by exile groups opposed to Saddam, said there was no evidence that the men being trained at Salman Pak, a camp south of Baghdad, were linked to Osama bin Laden. But their claims contradict Iraq's official denials of United Nations weapons inspectors' allegations that Salman Pak was a terrorist training camp. One of the defectors is a lieutenant general who served in the highest ranks of Iraq's intelligence service, the Mukhabarat. As well as the training camp, he said there was also a strongly-guarded compound where a German scientist led a team of Iraqis developing biological weapons. "There is a lot we do not know," said the general, who asked for anonymity. "We were forbidden to speak about our activities among each other, even off duty. But over the years you see and hear things. "These Islamic radicals were a scruffy lot. They needed a lot of training, especially physical training. But from speaking with them, it was clear they came from a lot of countries, including Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Algeria, Egypt and Morocco. "We were training these people to attack installations important to the United States. The Gulf war never ended for Saddam Hussein. He is at war with the United States. We were repeatedly told this." His claims tallied with those made by Sabah Khalifa Khodada Alami, a former captain in the Iraqi army who worked for eight years at Salman Pak before fleeing to America in May. According to both men, Islamic militants at Salman Pak were taught how to hijack a plane using the fuselage of a Boeing 707. Saddam has germ warfare arsenal, says defecting physicist By Jessica Berry in Beirut 12:01AM BST 30 Sep 2001 SADDAM HUSSEIN has directed his top scientists to work exclusively on expanding his chemical and biological weapons arsenal, one of the regime's former senior scientists has told The Telegraph. He said Saddam has ordered the nuclear weapons programme to be shelved because it had proved too expensive. The disclosures by the nuclear physicist, a recent Iraqi defector, will add to the alarm of Western leaders who last week issued a warning of the prospect of chemical attacks on European and American targets. Military experts said Saddam's decision could have been linked to the attacks on New York's World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, which investigators believe were planned years in advance. Over the past six months about 3,000 physicists and chemists have been working flat out on secret programmes to develop both toxins and the means to deploy them to lethal effect, according to Dr al Sabiri (not his real name). The scientist formerly worked at the Atomic Energy Organisation in Baghdad, but defected because of his growing horror of the regime. "I created death in Iraq. I had to get out," he said. Details of Dr al Sabiri's defection cannot be revealed because of fears for his safety. "I was asked to examine hundreds of complicated and dangerous toxins," he said. "They were very easy to use to create germs. You could put them in water or steam, throw them in the air or use them in the soil. We developed nerve gas, botulism and anthrax. "One day a light green yellow substance, which was crystallised and packed in tins, arrived. Suddenly intelligence men came in and rushed it away. I later found out they were working on some secret project." All these substances were tested on Iraqi prisoners, mainly Kurds and Shi'ites in Radwania jail, in west Baghdad. The projects are headed by Prof Shaher Mahmoud al Jibouri, a chemist and secret service agent. Senior Western intelligence officers confirmed the experimentation on prisoners. "Between April and May this year, 30 prisoners died after being used in experiments," said one. Earlier this month The Telegraph revealed that at least 20 Iraqi soldiers had died and about 200 were injured after a chemical weapons training exercise had gone wrong. Dr al Sabiri spent five years in the organisation's Neutron Analysis and Activation Department. Scientists, paid about £10 a month, worked exclusively on analysing substances, mostly imported, in order to copy and produce more. Using a small nuclear reactor, they are able to establish the exact composition of a substance. There was a shortage of material, which was why he was told to copy the samples that he was given. At one stage he was asked to reproduce a wax, crucial for use in firing ballistic missiles. This he did with the help of several Bulgarian scientists. "Ballistic missiles," he said, "is just one method they want to use to spread the poisons." More importantly, he said, the regime is currently working on adapting 12 pilotless aircraft, last used in the Iran-Iraq war during the 1980s. "Engineers are now working on developing their range. So far they have managed a range of 700 miles," he said. "The planes could easily reach Israel, Iran, Turkey or Saudi Arabia. The idea is to use them to deploy the toxins." Most of the parts, he added, were imported. A senior Western intelligence officer said last night that at least 30 front companies, mainly pharmaceutical firms, are under investigation for supplying Iraq. They are based in Italy, Thailand, the Philippines and the United Arab Emirates. The companies cannot be named for legal reasons. The defector's disclosures refute comments by Tariq Aziz, Iraqi deputy prime minister, who last week denied that the regime had any biological weapons. Last week Paul Wolfowitz, the United States deputy defence secretary, told Nato colleagues of "the alarming coincidence between states that harbour international terrorists and those states that have active, maturing programmes of WMD [weapons of mass destruction]." American hardliners are said to be keen to attack Iraq as soon as possible, and believe that aerial bombardment is sufficient. British defence advisers, however, have warned Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, against this. It is unwise, they say, while there is no suitable successor to Saddam. One intelligence official added: "The other problem is, we have no idea where Saddam is."

You w'ont mention it because it answers your question on the relationship that exists or because it's easier to just ignore it? Is this one of the situations where we rather mock the excuse of bad intelligence? Only a buffoon would use that excuse right?

You're forgeting the influx of undocumented democrats from the southern border

Smarter than thou tumor at work?

Scott, the word terrorist is too harsh to use in this forum, remember that word is reserved only for right-wing extremist like tea-partiers (tea baggers as the leader of the free world calls them) Some obviously confuse that description as hateful. Here are some of the words that are accepted and have been widely used by prominent public figures to describe those who they happen to disagree with: Enemies Saboteurs Hostage takers Anarchists Monkey wrenchers Legislative arsonists Blackmailers I am quite sure that I may have left some behind but this short list should be sufficient to start sharing the love and uniting humanity....Share the love Scott!

Flyboy0681 "Maybe Sarah Palin will win in 2016 and you will get your wish. Her recent diatribe on fast food workers was an absolute gem." (((Sometimes gems get a little help from an agenda driven media))) Wednesday on KFSN, Fresno, CA's ABC affiliate, its morning show "Action News AM" ran a few seconds of a clip of former Gov Sarah Palin's (R-AK) discussing the minimum wage issue on her new online Sarah Palin Channel. However, host Jason Oliveira described it in a very curious manner. "Palin posted a bizarre rant on her new online channel," Oliveira said. "She mumbles about how much she thinks liberals hate fast food." But it turned out the local ABC affiliate had only played an out-of-context cut from an almost nine minute video, which originated on the liberal blog The Daily Banter. Oliverira, on the other hand, cast Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as the hero, who was the subject of Palin's critique in the original video. "Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren - who is fighting for more rights for low wage, fast food workers." The larger point Palin was trying make was that while liberals often take up the cause for fast food workers and their wages, they often deride fast food establishment for providing foods they deem to be unhealthy. The entire video, "A Conservative Response to Elizabeth Warren’s Progressive Commandments," can be viewed in context at Palin's website.

Or be as coherent as Joe Biden? He's not an idiot, he's just good ol' Joe, right? somehow conservatives always seem to be dumb extremist hicks and liberals always come out smelling like roses from a pile of crap while being regarded as the smartest people in any room. Please, spare me!

Me too, 7 years and no sign of any kind of peeling...

This prayer was answered more than once by the various certified angels of the Holy FAA! They apparently all agreed and gave their blessings inscribing their names in the book of life. ...is this you PTK, with a different name now? ; }

Yep!