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they are more concerned with getting right wingers in office that they are with any gun rights.
I am going to jump on you with both feet. That is all.
 "My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross. "- Adolph Hitler in an April 1922 speech
http://www.trucktrend.com/features/news/20... Toyota is set to replace the rust-prone frames of all 2000-2003 Tundra trucks under a special repair campaign. After numerous complaints, the beleaguered automaker issued an initial recall in November for 110,000 Tundras registered in 20 cold-weather states plus the District of Columbia. Now, Toyota will expand its campaign to the rest of the Union to avoid another recall notice -- and accompanying headlines. For those unfamiliar with the issue, the NHTSA originally ruled that winter road salts were causing “excessive corrosion” of the rear cross-member of the Tundra’s frame. If the rusted cross-member is compromised to the point of separation, potential damage includes loss of the rear brake lines, loss of the spare-tire carrier, and, in the worst case scenario, loss of the fuel tank. As one could imagine, losing the carrier or fuel tank at road speeds would be a huge hazard. Affected owners can bring their Tundras to dealerships for assessment and repair. According to Toyota, a Tundra with serious rust problems could require more than seven hours of labor to repair.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-toyo... **Under relentless questioning from a congressional panel, a top Toyota executive said Tuesday that the automaker hadn't ruled out electronics as a potential cause of sudden acceleration, and conceded that fixing floor mats and sticking gas pedals would "not totally" solve the problem. James E. Lentz, Toyota's top U.S. sales executive, also apologized for a series of missteps that allowed the sudden acceleration problem to go unchecked for years, ultimately leading Toyota to issue nearly 10 million recall notices and temporarily halt sales of eight models. Lentz blamed the company's rapid growth in recent years, and acknowledged that it suffered from poor communications, both within its ranks as well as with its customers. He repeated Toyota's assertion that floor mats and sticky gas pedals were behind the sudden acceleration problem. But he also held out the potential for other causes, the first time a Toyota executive has publicly done so.*** More at the link....
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61H5... ==LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. House panel on Thursday subpoenaed confidential company documents that a former Toyota lawyer has said prove the automaker routinely concealed evidence from the courts and federal regulators. The subpoena was issued as part of an investigation by the House of Representatives Oversight Committee into Toyota Motor Corp's response to complaints of uncontrolled engine acceleration that led to a recall of more than 6 million vehicles in the United States. Dimitrios Biller, who once headed a corporate legal team that defended Toyota in rollover-accident lawsuits, took some 6,000 internal documents with him when he left Toyota in 2007. He has since sued the automaker under U.S. racketeering laws, as well as for wrongful termination and emotional distress. He has said that the four cartons of documents support his claims that the company systematically hid or destroyed evidence of safety problems that would have led to costly trials in the United States.== more at the link.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/patriot-mov... *Most were shocked by the charred scene of Joe Stack's kamikaze attack on a Texas IRS office, but for an alarmingly growing number of Americans Stack is a hero. The Web was studded with praise for Stack almost immediately after his plane slammed into the Austin office complex Thursday morning. The admiring salutes appearing on sites ranging from Facebook to the pages of extremist groups reflect what experts say is an "explosive growth" in the anti-government patriot movement. "Extremist groups are already aligning behind , beginning to talk about him as a hero," said Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center which studies American militia and hate groups. "The growth of those groups has been astounding."
Stack's suicide note, an angry rant against the IRS and the government which was posted online the morning of his death, got around 20 million hits before it was taken down at the request of the FBI, according to Alex Melen, president and founder of T35, the network service provider for the Web site where the note was posted. *
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6183... ===So afraid was Guadalupe Alberto of driving fast that she steadfastly avoided freeways, her family says. "And she never passed a car, even if she was following someone going five miles-per-hour," said her daughter, Lilia "Lupe" Alberto. "She'd stay right behind them." Somehow on a Saturday afternoon in April 2008, the 77-year-old grandmother with an aversion to fast driving was killed when her 2005 Toyota Camry suddenly accelerated out of control on her quiet neighborhood street. Alberto's Camry sped past other cars, zoomed through the busy four-lane Ballenger Highway, and hit 80 miles per hour before it clipped a tree, went airborne and struck another tree on Copeman Boulevard, only four blocks away from her home, according to her family and a pending lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp.=== more at the link.
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I told them to call me back when health care reform WITH A PUBLIC OPTION has passed.
Then the guy starts rambling about the current bills, and I said "Listen to me, if the Baucus bill passes don't call me. If a bill with a public option passes call me back and I'll be in a giving mood."
I suggest everyone give these bastards the same attitude.
President Bush and President-elect Barack Obama are probably hoping their meeting Monday goes better than their first get-together, which left a bad taste in the mouths of both men. Four years ago, Obama and other newly elected members of the Senate were invited to the White House for a breakfast meeting with Bush, who pulled the young Chicagoan aside. "Obama!" Bush exclaimed, according to Obama's account of the meeting in his second memoir, "The Audacity of Hope." "Come here and meet Laura. Laura, you remember Obama. We saw him on TV during election night. Beautiful family. And that wife of yours -- that's one impressive lady." The two men shook hands and then, according to Obama, Bush turned to an aide, "who squirted a big dollop of hand sanitizer in the president's hand." Bush then offered some to Obama, who recalled: "Not wanting to seem unhygienic, I took a squirt." more at... http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/09/bu...
WASHINGTON - The Republican National Committee is halting presidential ads in Wisconsin and Maine, turning much of its attention to usually Republican states where GOP nominee John McCain shows signs of faltering. The party's independent ad operation is doubling its budget to about $10 million and focusing on crucial states such as Colorado, Missouri, Indiana and Virginia where Democrat Barack Obama has established a foothold, according to a Republican strategist familiar with presidential ad placements. Florida and North Carolina have also been in the RNC ad mix. Pennsylvania is the only Democratic leaning swing state apparently left in the party's ad campaign. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081015/ap_on_...
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