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those things will run forever if taken care of ... ask him what all maintenance he has done, if you want i'll pop in there and rattle off some of the known issues to see if he's done any of them ... i'm assuming he's already done all the front suspension work - that **** usually needs done between 150-200
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brad told me that. i don't think he said it fights it for good, i think he meant it helps to fight it. idk or remember what he said now to be honest. DOH!
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but to give you an idea of why they are good for you, check out that site I told you about before - whfoods ...
lists all the reasons almonds are beneficial ...
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?t...dspice&dbid=20
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$300 for 4wd kit ...
http://www.trademotion.com/partlocat...tegoryID=84614
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Think Maine is bad?
Alabama vs. ******
Attorney General Troy King stands hard against stimulators
by David Holthouse
Last November 15th, UPS delivered a box to Alabama Attorney General Troy King. Inside was a “Ms. Piglet" blow-up sex doll. “The Original Inflatable Party Pig" was a gift from Loretta Nall, 33, a popular Alabama blogger, Libertarian activist and former gubernatorial candidate (“Vote Nall, Y'all") who spearheaded a “Sex Toys for Troy King" drive in protest of Alabama's “Anti-Obscenity Enforcement Act."That law criminalizes the sale of ******, clitoral vibrators or any other “ - device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs."
“What's next, knobby cucumbers?" says Nall.
According to the actual language of the law, sex toys are obscene because they promote a “prurient interest in autonomous sex" through “the pursuit of orgasm by artificial means." Its penalties are stiff. While selling a handgun to a child is a trivial crime in Alabama punishable by no more than a $500 fine, violators of the ***** ban are subject to one year of prison or hard labor as well as a $10,000 fine.
In other words, Alabama lawmakers deemed that G-spot stimulators in the hands of consenting adults are more of a threat to public safety and welfare than Glock .45s in the hands of children.
“The difference is, firearms are not inherently immoral," says Rev. Dan Ireland, executive director of the Alabama Citizens Action Program, a coalition of conservative Baptist preachers and activists who claim to serve as “Alabama's moral compass."
“There are moral ways and immoral ways to use a firearm," says Ireland, whose organization is clamoring for stringent enforcement of the ***** ban. “There is no moral way to use one of these devices [sex toys]."
Originally passed in 1998, Alabama's ***** ban was quickly frozen by an injunction pending a court challenge of its constitutionality. After a Federal District Court judge overturned the law in 2002, Attorney General King's office appealed, arguing, “There is no fundamental right to purchase a product in pursuit of having an orgasm." Two years later, the 11th District Court of Appeals ruled in the state's favor. Last October, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case, ending the legal battle and clearing the way for the law to finally be put into effect.
“They can have my vibrator when they pry it from my cold, dead hand," says Sherri Williams, owner of two “romance shops" in Alabama. Williams was one of the lead plaintiffs in the lawsuit that preemptively challenged the law's constitutionality before a single arrest was made. (The other plaintiff was Alabama resident B.J. Bailey, owner of Saucy Lady, Inc., who sells ****** and other sex toys in private homes at Tupperware-style parties).
Currently the “Pleasures" stores owned by Williams, one in Decatur, Ala., the other in Huntsville, both carry more or less the same inventory as before the U.S. Supreme Court declined her final appeal. Now, however, customers who wish to purchase a ***** or a vibrator must sign a lengthy disclaimer that includes the following statement: “By asking to purchase this item you represent and warrant that any resulting sale of the product is for a bona fide medical purpose. No exceptions."
Similar to the way head shops sells bongs as “herbal tobacco water pipes" rather than drug paraphernalia, Williams now claims to be selling medical devices, not sex toys. This is because the ***** ban contains a gaping loophole. It allows exceptions for otherwise banned devices so long as they're sold for “ bona fide medical, scientific, educational, legislative, judicial, or law enforcement purposes."
Ironically, as historian Rachel P. Maines describes in her definitive tome The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction, all clitoral vibrators and ****** were primarily considered medical devices from the time they were first invented in the late 1880s until the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s, and “artificial" (non-intercourse) inducement of orgasm in women as a medical treatment has been prescribed by physicians since Hippocrates in the fourth century B.C.
“One of the most popular masturbatory devices in today's market for vibrators is the Hitachi Magic Wand, which is marketed for "standard health care use," and thus could be legally sold in Alabama," Maines explained in a 2001 affidavit. “Laws like Alabama's that target the appearance, packaging or marketing of these devices, rather than their functionality." They do not prevent or mitigate the supposed "evil of commerce of sexual stimulation and auto-eroticism, for its own sake," as Attorney General King described the ban's target in a legal brief that same year.
Despite the obvious absurdity of the law, there is a real danger it will result in prosecutions. Last November a prosecutor in Jefferson County, Ala., asked a local judge to order Williams to immediately close her Huntsville store or face arrest. The judge refused, declaring the language of the law too vague to justify such a harsh judicial order. Even so, the Alabama Citizens Action Program and other fundamentalist groups are clamoring for stringent enforcement of the law.
“We can laugh [at the ***** ban] but this extraordinary erosion of personal liberty, coupled with the massive disrespect of and fear of sexuality is no joke," says Dr. Marty Klein, author of America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust & Liberty. “The Supreme Court has declared our orgasms a battlefield, and sex toys another casualty."
Last December Rep. John Rogers (D-Birmingham) fired back by filing a bill to strike the ***** ban from Alabama's anti-obscenity code. “A shower head can be a sex toy," he says. “It's just a matter of bringing the state into the 21st Century." And Loretta Nall continues to exhort protesters to purchase “the most humiliating sex toy they can find" and have it shipped to the Attorney General's Office. “There's nothing in the constitution that says Troy King can tell me what I can and can't insert into my orifices," Nall says. A spokesman for King refused to disclose how many sex toys the Attorney General has received or the fate of Ms. Piglet.
Meanwhile, it's hard to tell which side of the Great ***** Debate is helped more by the recent and highly publicized death by “accidental mechanical asphyxia" of a prominent Baptist preacher. He was found dead on his living room floor in Montgomery, Ala., wearing a rubber suit and mask, with a ***** shoved where the sun don't shine.
On the one hand, the kinky preacher's tragically comic demise speaks to the dangerous side effects of sexual repression. On the other, it could bolster the case for *****-phobia: After all, If the good Reverend hadn't been able to legally purchase a *****, he might not have submitted to temptation.
“Sometimes you have to protect the public against themselves," says Rev. Dan Ireland. “These devices [sex toys] should be outlawed because they are conducive to promiscuity, because they promote loose morals and because they entice improper and potentially deadly behaviors."
David Holthouse lives in Montgomery, Ala. and works for the Southern Poverty Law Center, though he's now considering a second career as a ***** bootlegger.
Alabama vs. ******
Attorney General Troy King stands hard against stimulators
by David Holthouse
Last November 15th, UPS delivered a box to Alabama Attorney General Troy King. Inside was a “Ms. Piglet" blow-up sex doll. “The Original Inflatable Party Pig" was a gift from Loretta Nall, 33, a popular Alabama blogger, Libertarian activist and former gubernatorial candidate (“Vote Nall, Y'all") who spearheaded a “Sex Toys for Troy King" drive in protest of Alabama's “Anti-Obscenity Enforcement Act."That law criminalizes the sale of ******, clitoral vibrators or any other “ - device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs."
“What's next, knobby cucumbers?" says Nall.
According to the actual language of the law, sex toys are obscene because they promote a “prurient interest in autonomous sex" through “the pursuit of orgasm by artificial means." Its penalties are stiff. While selling a handgun to a child is a trivial crime in Alabama punishable by no more than a $500 fine, violators of the ***** ban are subject to one year of prison or hard labor as well as a $10,000 fine.
In other words, Alabama lawmakers deemed that G-spot stimulators in the hands of consenting adults are more of a threat to public safety and welfare than Glock .45s in the hands of children.
“The difference is, firearms are not inherently immoral," says Rev. Dan Ireland, executive director of the Alabama Citizens Action Program, a coalition of conservative Baptist preachers and activists who claim to serve as “Alabama's moral compass."
“There are moral ways and immoral ways to use a firearm," says Ireland, whose organization is clamoring for stringent enforcement of the ***** ban. “There is no moral way to use one of these devices [sex toys]."
Originally passed in 1998, Alabama's ***** ban was quickly frozen by an injunction pending a court challenge of its constitutionality. After a Federal District Court judge overturned the law in 2002, Attorney General King's office appealed, arguing, “There is no fundamental right to purchase a product in pursuit of having an orgasm." Two years later, the 11th District Court of Appeals ruled in the state's favor. Last October, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case, ending the legal battle and clearing the way for the law to finally be put into effect.
“They can have my vibrator when they pry it from my cold, dead hand," says Sherri Williams, owner of two “romance shops" in Alabama. Williams was one of the lead plaintiffs in the lawsuit that preemptively challenged the law's constitutionality before a single arrest was made. (The other plaintiff was Alabama resident B.J. Bailey, owner of Saucy Lady, Inc., who sells ****** and other sex toys in private homes at Tupperware-style parties).
Currently the “Pleasures" stores owned by Williams, one in Decatur, Ala., the other in Huntsville, both carry more or less the same inventory as before the U.S. Supreme Court declined her final appeal. Now, however, customers who wish to purchase a ***** or a vibrator must sign a lengthy disclaimer that includes the following statement: “By asking to purchase this item you represent and warrant that any resulting sale of the product is for a bona fide medical purpose. No exceptions."
Similar to the way head shops sells bongs as “herbal tobacco water pipes" rather than drug paraphernalia, Williams now claims to be selling medical devices, not sex toys. This is because the ***** ban contains a gaping loophole. It allows exceptions for otherwise banned devices so long as they're sold for “ bona fide medical, scientific, educational, legislative, judicial, or law enforcement purposes."
Ironically, as historian Rachel P. Maines describes in her definitive tome The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction, all clitoral vibrators and ****** were primarily considered medical devices from the time they were first invented in the late 1880s until the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s, and “artificial" (non-intercourse) inducement of orgasm in women as a medical treatment has been prescribed by physicians since Hippocrates in the fourth century B.C.
“One of the most popular masturbatory devices in today's market for vibrators is the Hitachi Magic Wand, which is marketed for "standard health care use," and thus could be legally sold in Alabama," Maines explained in a 2001 affidavit. “Laws like Alabama's that target the appearance, packaging or marketing of these devices, rather than their functionality." They do not prevent or mitigate the supposed "evil of commerce of sexual stimulation and auto-eroticism, for its own sake," as Attorney General King described the ban's target in a legal brief that same year.
Despite the obvious absurdity of the law, there is a real danger it will result in prosecutions. Last November a prosecutor in Jefferson County, Ala., asked a local judge to order Williams to immediately close her Huntsville store or face arrest. The judge refused, declaring the language of the law too vague to justify such a harsh judicial order. Even so, the Alabama Citizens Action Program and other fundamentalist groups are clamoring for stringent enforcement of the law.
“We can laugh [at the ***** ban] but this extraordinary erosion of personal liberty, coupled with the massive disrespect of and fear of sexuality is no joke," says Dr. Marty Klein, author of America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust & Liberty. “The Supreme Court has declared our orgasms a battlefield, and sex toys another casualty."
Last December Rep. John Rogers (D-Birmingham) fired back by filing a bill to strike the ***** ban from Alabama's anti-obscenity code. “A shower head can be a sex toy," he says. “It's just a matter of bringing the state into the 21st Century." And Loretta Nall continues to exhort protesters to purchase “the most humiliating sex toy they can find" and have it shipped to the Attorney General's Office. “There's nothing in the constitution that says Troy King can tell me what I can and can't insert into my orifices," Nall says. A spokesman for King refused to disclose how many sex toys the Attorney General has received or the fate of Ms. Piglet.
Meanwhile, it's hard to tell which side of the Great ***** Debate is helped more by the recent and highly publicized death by “accidental mechanical asphyxia" of a prominent Baptist preacher. He was found dead on his living room floor in Montgomery, Ala., wearing a rubber suit and mask, with a ***** shoved where the sun don't shine.
On the one hand, the kinky preacher's tragically comic demise speaks to the dangerous side effects of sexual repression. On the other, it could bolster the case for *****-phobia: After all, If the good Reverend hadn't been able to legally purchase a *****, he might not have submitted to temptation.
“Sometimes you have to protect the public against themselves," says Rev. Dan Ireland. “These devices [sex toys] should be outlawed because they are conducive to promiscuity, because they promote loose morals and because they entice improper and potentially deadly behaviors."
David Holthouse lives in Montgomery, Ala. and works for the Southern Poverty Law Center, though he's now considering a second career as a ***** bootlegger.
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Yes, the front axle is a big expense when it needs servicing. I think you can usually get about 100K out of each rebuild. Drive shafts also need servicing due to all the torque but that's not terribly expensive. Also, like scoot said, the tranny and torque converter may need some work.
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those things will run forever if taken care of ... ask him what all maintenance he has done, if you want i'll pop in there and rattle off some of the known issues to see if he's done any of them ... i'm assuming he's already done all the front suspension work - that **** usually needs done between 150-200
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so.....austin likes to play 'guns'...he sticks his fingers out like he's holding a gun and makes shooting noises...for a while he would 'shoot' his friends on the way to and home from school...anyways, the boys he normally shoots at hasn't been shooting him back the past 2-3 times we've walked to school....today i find out it's because the boys mother doesn't like him playing guns in public.....
now.....i didn't really have an issue with it, except for the fact that it's annoying, but austin is a boy, and boys play guns....right? maybe it's bad that i'm letting him pretend to shoot people, but this is what boys do right?
now.....i didn't really have an issue with it, except for the fact that it's annoying, but austin is a boy, and boys play guns....right? maybe it's bad that i'm letting him pretend to shoot people, but this is what boys do right?
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so.....austin likes to play 'guns'...he sticks his fingers out like he's holding a gun and makes shooting noises...for a while he would 'shoot' his friends on the way to and home from school...anyways, the boys he normally shoots at hasn't been shooting him back the past 2-3 times we've walked to school....today i find out it's because the boys mother doesn't like him playing guns in public.....
now.....i didn't really have an issue with it, except for the fact that it's annoying, but austin is a boy, and boys play guns....right? maybe it's bad that i'm letting him pretend to shoot people, but this is what boys do right?
now.....i didn't really have an issue with it, except for the fact that it's annoying, but austin is a boy, and boys play guns....right? maybe it's bad that i'm letting him pretend to shoot people, but this is what boys do right?
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yep we definitely have a different concept of nice than mike i think