I look in on the site twice daily. When I see a new add in the cars for sale, have a peak.......and already 30 - 60 views ! I'll never find a deal ! LOL !

Not to mention other cost preventing me from buying Pinto stuff.
Like the diff in my 07 F-350 piling up. Took the magnetic fill plug out & it was a huge ball of ground up metal (only 163k on my truck).
Found a used one with 139k on it for $900.00. Changing it out this week end.
Just last week, new tires.....over $1500.00
New shocks & steering dampner. Needs a new windsheild as well.
Good thing I get paid to use my truck ! (last job was on the low side @ $100.00/day + fuel)

Car is ready for the header build. But the guy is busy for at least another month.

Also, this fall I had new tin installed on my shop roof. Had the ceiling done as well. Gas line has been run. Ready for the new hanging heater.
No more working in the shop at -40c (or colder) ! 

So how goes it with my fellow Pinto folks ?

Never seems to end where the $ can be sucked out of the bank account, eh !

Then there is the "honey dew" list.
Apparently, I have much to do next spring !

a Spec Miata

Last week I watched the speed chnl & Stacey David made a Banshee out of a Miata !

http://staceydavid.com/projects/banshee

Looks like a fun, light car ! Nice color as well !

California is one of those places that you have a hard time believing it's part of the USA. It really is the closest thing to living under communist rule without going to China. How the dummies in that state keep voting for more liberal idiots like Governor Moonbeam to tax & spend them into oblivion amazes me. I don't know how you can live there & not want out....

Last week I watched the speed chnl & Stacey David made a Banshee out of a Miata !

http://staceydavid.com/projects/banshee

Looks like a fun, light car ! Nice color as well !

That is a very nice color!

One of our cc members has a LS/6 speed/8.8 IRS street/track days Miata.
Lots of one off home built pieces.

It gets sideways at 75 mph easily.



Oh yeah,its 515 hp at the wheels.

Lots more started going wrong with the 07 F-350. Trans going now. Other things as well. Traded it off on a new 2012 F-350 crew long box. Should pick it up on Monday ?

Not a whole lot of choice. Working the patch, many oil/gas companies will not hire on a service truck older than 5 years old.

As per the norm....been seeing a number of items on line I want & have to pass on ! 

"Charlie Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.

545 PEOPLE--By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations . The House of Representative s does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits... The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representative s for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibili ty. I can't think of a single domestic
problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.

If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ, it's because they want them in IRAQ.

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

What you do with this article now that you have read it......... is up to you.



This might be funny if it weren't so darned true. Be sure to read all the way to the end:

Tax his land, Tax his bed, Tax the table at which he's fed.
Tax his tractor, Tax his mule, Teach him taxes are the rule.
Tax his work, Tax his pay, He works for peanuts anyway!
Tax his cow, Tax his goat, Tax his pants, Tax his coat.
Tax his ties, Tax his shirt, Tax his work, Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco, Tax his drink, Tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his cigars, Tax his beers, If he cries Tax his tears.
Tax his car, Tax his gas, Find other ways to Tax his ***.
Tax all he has then let him know that you won't be done 'til he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers; Then tax him some more, Tax him 'til he's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin, Tax his grave, Tax the sod in which he's laid...
Put these words upon his tomb, Taxes drove me to my doom...'
When he's gone, do not relax, it's time to apply the inheritance Tax..

Sales Tax
School Tax
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Excise Taxes
Property Tax
Cigarette Tax
Medicare Tax
Inventory Tax
Real Estate Tax
Well Permit Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Inheritance Tax
Road Usage Tax
CDL license Tax
Dog License Tax
State Income Tax
Food License Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Gross Receipts Tax
Social Security Tax
Service Charge Tax
Fishing License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Building Permit Tax
IRS Interest Charges
Hunting License Tax
Marriage License Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Personal Property Tax
Accounts Receivable Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service FeeTax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Utility Taxes Vehicle License Registration Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax

((This was three years ago, how many Taxes have been added since then? I can think of two right off the top of my head... the High Speed Internet Surcharge and the Affordable Healthcare Tax.))


STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these Taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What in the [beeep] happened? Can you spell 'Politicians?'
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