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    BTW,

    Wifey wants to visit Charleston either this summer or next to do some ghost tours. I haven't been in that area in years so would like to visit again too. I'll let you know if/when it happens.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tom4bren View Post
    BTW,

    Wifey wants to visit Charleston either this summer or next to do some ghost tours. I haven't been in that area in years so would like to visit again too. I'll let you know if/when it happens.

    Tom
    That would be cool, do you have a DOD ID? There is a really nice campground that has cottages right here in Charleston for military/dod only. Its on a nice a pretty big lake, Lake Moultry(SP?). Let me know for sure...after Moab of course.

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    Yup on the DOD ID. Army Civ for the past 25 years (dang, that makes me sound OLD).

    I'm guessing that it'll prolly be next summer since we are doing the family trip to Niagra this July.

    "Its on a nice a pretty big lake, Lake Moultry(SP?)."

    Awsome - I could bring the SeaDoos.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tom4bren View Post
    Ever stop to think that the current financial mess is nothing more than a predicatable cyclic trend?

    Sure, a lot of good points were made in this thread about cause & effect (although it did degenerate into a lot of generalizations that should have been left unsaid).

    The consumer based economy had gotten so inflated that it HAD to deflate or burst. Cmon, does a city the size of Fredericksburg, VA really needs 3 super WalMarts, 1 Target & 2 super Targets, 9 McDonalds, 5 Burger Kings, 5 Wendys, 48 grocerie stores, 22 auto parts stores, 16 new car dealerships, ... ?
    You certainly right about this cycle trend,you see the big corporations in their effort & greed quest to gain more in the market kept "expanding" their portfolio to states & cities where in certain situation they doesn't even need them there,so instead of saving those billions of dollars of capital funds they sort off that spending more will help its stocks @ wall street grow more & faster,sometimes it works,sometimes not & that's what happened to GM opening plants nationwide instead of reducing operation costs on a timely manner,getting rid of brands that doesn't sell any often as before such as oldsmobile,saturn,volvo & saab instead they decide to keep spending just to keep ranked as the biggest manufacturer in the US.Now GM got to reduce its cots because they @ the point lossing not only the gained rank,but almost to disappear
    Dakar was just the begining.

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    "You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.
    What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The Government cannot give to anybody anything that the Government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is surely the end of any nation's future."

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    We are all Commie Pinko Bastards!

    We are all commie pinko bastards!
    Why...
    We all drive VX's ...Those were made by the enemy right...
    Japs!
    We can save this great nation by turning in our faggity looking Vx's and getting something made in the good ol USA!
    A nice big lincoln Navigator..it's about as good on gas as a VX but you can put much bigger woofers in the back!
    Now that's American!

    This country is hit the skids from on thing and one thing only...8 years of having Bush in office. All the crap we are recovering from was from his poor and ineffective management. 911 was on his watch, he had CIA documentation prior to the attack but hey, was way more important to be reading "my pet goat" to schoolkids that day. Katrina happened on his watch, the mortgage meltdown....That was on Bush's watch also.

    Republican's love to shift the blame, but the fact is the blame falls squarely on their shoulders...you voted Bush...Good for you brainiac! Now live with the results!
    If you think Obama is gonna turn 8 years of governmental retatrdation around in 3 months I have a pork project to sell you.

    I also blame the American dream of owning a house for our current financial problems.
    So many mortgage brokers selling no money down loans for houses to people who bought into the lie that property is always a good investment.
    How many of us were sold on the idea of home ownership since childhood!
    Do you really blame the masses of people for buying into it? The notion of a white picket fence and a backyard is powerfully seductive. It is the American Dream..... But like most dreams..you have to be asleep to believe in it.
    I also think Americans are at fault for having an attitude of we are #1!
    Are we? We have slipped behind other countries in education, infant mortality,economics, and most of all, overall happiness of our citizens.
    We are the only country without a healthcare system that includes everyone,
    We are recovering from a president who favored religion over science!
    Now some of the world has surpassed us in the medical sciences because we were sandbagged by that retard Bush.
    I know some of you are gonna be quick with the 'love it or leave it" BS.
    Well I do love the USA...I have lived in Hawaii and California and have traveled through most of the lower 48 and for my money this is one of the most beautiful and wonderful countries on the planet. My beef is with the old school who thinks that this country has to be an empire....that we have to be the world police....All the cash we spent blowing up and rebuilding Iraq could have been better spent here.
    Here is to better times!

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    Quote Originally Posted by HOT_WASABI_JUNKIE View Post
    We are all commie pinko bastards!
    Why...
    We all drive VX's ...Those were made by the enemy right...
    Japs!
    We can save this great nation by turning in our faggity looking Vx's and getting something made in the good ol USA!
    A nice big lincoln Navigator..it's about as good on gas as a VX but you can put much bigger woofers in the back!
    Now that's American!

    This country is hit the skids from on thing and one thing only...8 years of having Bush in office. All the crap we are recovering from was from his poor and ineffective management. 911 was on his watch, he had CIA documentation prior to the attack but hey, was way more important to be reading "my pet goat" to schoolkids that day. Katrina happened on his watch, the mortgage meltdown....That was on Bush's watch also.

    Republican's love to shift the blame, but the fact is the blame falls squarely on their shoulders...you voted Bush...Good for you brainiac! Now live with the results!
    If you think Obama is gonna turn 8 years of governmental retatrdation around in 3 months I have a pork project to sell you.

    I also blame the American dream of owning a house for our current financial problems.
    So many mortgage brokers selling no money down loans for houses to people who bought into the lie that property is always a good investment.
    How many of us were sold on the idea of home ownership since childhood!
    Do you really blame the masses of people for buying into it? The notion of a white picket fence and a backyard is powerfully seductive. It is the American Dream..... But like most dreams..you have to be asleep to believe in it.
    I also think Americans are at fault for having an attitude of we are #1!
    Are we? We have slipped behind other countries in education, infant mortality,economics, and most of all, overall happiness of our citizens.
    We are the only country without a healthcare system that includes everyone,
    We are recovering from a president who favored religion over science!
    Now some of the world has surpassed us in the medical sciences because we were sandbagged by that retard Bush.
    I know some of you are gonna be quick with the 'love it or leave it" BS.
    Well I do love the USA...I have lived in Hawaii and California and have traveled through most of the lower 48 and for my money this is one of the most beautiful and wonderful countries on the planet. My beef is with the old school who thinks that this country has to be an empire....that we have to be the world police....All the cash we spent blowing up and rebuilding Iraq could have been better spent here.
    Here is to better times!
    Bravo! except for the "faggity VX" part Yea, most people only think their awake!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by HOT_WASABI_JUNKIE View Post
    We all drive VX's ...Those were made by the enemy right...
    Japs!
    We can save this great nation by turning in our faggity looking Vx's and getting something made in the good ol USA!
    A nice big lincoln Navigator..it's about as good on gas as a VX but you can put much bigger woofers in the back!
    Now that's American!
    actually.....2 things.....
    1- isuzu is partly made by GM....
    2- i would never buy an american made vehicle unless it was a diesel truck. any gas motor made by american is complete CRAP. go ahead and buy one, then be surprised when my motor ticks over 300k miles (my integra is at 270k and still going strong) and yours is blown at 75-100k (like my first VX motor)

    i HATE american motors, i think they are horribly built...they just dont last...yes they do produce amazing power, but they never last...(unless diesel)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Harness View Post
    Bravo! except for the "faggity VX" part Yea, most people only think their awake!!
    I think (I hope) HWJ was being sarcastic when he said that.

    Ahhh, good times....

    Bart

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Harness View Post
    Bravo! except for the "faggity VX" part Yea, most people only think their awake!!
    Damn, I had wasabi blocked, then someone had to go and quote him...as I have been warned, he just does this to spin everyone up, probably a Republican senator laughin his *** off in his office...

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    Lmao......
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marlin View Post
    Damn, I had wasabi blocked, then someone had to go and quote him...as I have been warned, he just does this to spin everyone up, probably a Republican senator laughin his *** off in his office...
    I find it funny how some pointy nosed fish can say whatever non sensical right wing conservative BS they can quote from Rush Limbaugh and feel like that does not stir the pot...but I put down my thoughts and Im a 60's era rabblerouser! If I was a republican senator , i'd be busy spending my time trying to make up reasons why Obama's recovery plan won't work to make it look like my GOP had a clue....

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    Hello wasabi.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HOT_WASABI_JUNKIE View Post
    I find it funny how some pointy nosed fish can say whatever non sensical right wing conservative BS they can quote from Rush Limbaugh and feel like that does not stir the pot...but I put down my thoughts and Im a 60's era rabblerouser! If I was a republican senator , i'd be busy spending my time trying to make up reasons why Obama's recovery plan won't work to make it look like my GOP had a clue....
    Decent retort, especially the pointy nosed fish part, can't fish for them much longer, turns out they have feelings and may be the cure to global warming and also are secretly storing the answer to our economy that is crashing due to the popped housing bubble created during the clinton administration that demanded houses for everyone regardless of financial stability!!! That was all on Fox news I am gonna fish for Marlin regardless...

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    Quote Originally Posted by JHarris1385 View Post
    Hello wasabi.
    Hey dude!

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