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I've said it forever. IMMIGRANTS ARE WHAT'S WRONG WITH AMERICA! So,,, everybody out! (AH!! Not so fast Crazy Horse...)

There is a VAST world of knowledge, I mean REAL Mastercraftsmen knowledge that is barely attainable on the internet because half of it involves books that have been out of print for a hundred years and the other half is based on 'hands-on' knowledge. I recently made what has been dubbed the "magic tool" out of a short length of steel and a sparkplug (plus a little welding). It removes multi-speed bicycle freewheels. Well, all generics but Shimano has a but too much play. I failed on the first run and spent the piece of steel I would use to build the Shimano specific tool but... that's gonna involve 'unwelding' a bolt I tried to use for my first draft of the tool, the failure, and now a pain in the ass... but, what I'm getting at is the internet had nothing to do with this. This was just between me and 6 hubs that needed to be relieved of their freewheel clusters. Mass success but still 2 failures on the Shimano previously mentioned, soon come man. The internet is gonna recommend the Park tool (not a bad option, solid quality) but I didn't come out of pocket with any money and I didn't wait for shipping. Now that tool sees nearly daily use at the local bike co-op. The only MUST buy tools I see out there for bike work are a crank puller (though there are methods) and perhaps BMX freewheel removers (assuming you want to save the freewheel and/or hub)... I'd have never even realized the initial kernel of that thought if it hadn't been for my extensive and prolific reading of fiction. From Douglas Adams to Roger Zelazny (plus big shouts to Ray Bardbury and Kurt Vonnegut)... but not just science fiction, murder mysteries, general fiction and non-fiction alike. Nothing about the internet approaches the intimacy and contemplative nature that can be achieved with a book in hand. If the internet is your 'font of knowledge' you're shortchanging yourself. Hit up the local library and spend some time on your own design... it seems strange to me to say this stuff on a graffiti/art site. Is that the future? We're all going to forget nuance and skill in favor of some dickturd nobody has heard of that happened to be the first to post a video on YouTube or any of a grip of other DIY sites? The next generation is going to abdicate creative thinking for a google search? I mean, could be... I hope not but...

HBD Suki, much love!

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Re: What was that thing, with the mob scenes? Now THAT's FUNNY! I don't care who ya fuck...

Why American Presidential Elections Are Predictable Andrew Gelman elaborates on the conditions that make U.S. presidential elections pretty predictable, but that don’t let us say the same thing about other kinds of elections: (a) A long history: we can predict this year’s election, to some extent, from last year’s. The U.S. isn’t a country like Guatemala where they’ve only been having competitive elections for a few years. (b) Clear separation between the parties. Talk about Tweedledee and Tweedledum aside, the Democrats and Republicans are, according to Huber and Stanig, further apart on economic issues than are left and right groupings in just about every other industrialized country. © Only two major candidates. Anderson in 1980, Perot in 1992 and 1996: they cane close but they didn’t quite make it a real three-candidate race. It basically worked to focus on the Democrat and the Republican. (d) Equal resources. Not quite: Nixon reputedly massively outspent McGovern in 1992, Bush had the edge over Gore in 2000, and Obama had a few hundred million to spare in 2008. Still, compared to referenda and elections for congress and governor, presidential races are on a pretty level playing field. (e) A clear schedule: Voters have many months to sort out the information and make up their minds. This is worth keeping in mind when you hear the intuitively wrong-sounding empirical results on the lack of campaign effects. What the political science is telling you isn’t that presidential election campaigns couldn’t make a difference to election outcomes, it’s telling you that they don’t seem to make a difference in practice. But if one candidate just refused to fundraise, or did fundraise but did something wildly eccentric with the money, then for all we know that might make a big difference. You could imagine a candidate deliberately trying to tank the race, or just acting plain-out weird. What if John McCain delivered lengthy speeches denouncing his own policy agenda? But in practice we always see two well-funded, well-known candidates run pretty conventional campaigns and within that context the ups-and-downs of the campaign trail don’t seem to make a difference.

I just secretly deployed another beer... shhh, don't tell Casek

All this talk about money and power and the New World Order but... REALLY... NEW? It's on the fucking dollar bill, when did they draw THAT picture? Maybe it's time to wake up to the reality that "new world order" is just a hundred year old catchphrase. Since the time it was first minted the US paper dollar has NEVER SEEN a time of "order". Wwar IS and HAS ALWAYS been the order of the day. The idea that there are 'entities' lurking in the shadows and controlling things with global implications is not entirely ludicrous BUT... If that's the case I think it's time we all just called out these shadow figures and say "WHAT THE FUCK NWO? YOU BEEN TRYING TO ACHIEVE THIS SHIT FOR LIKE 300 YEARS; WHAT'S THE GODDAMN HOLD-UP? WHY AM I NOT FULLY SUBJUGATED?" Seriously NWO, you guys suck, you really let me down... and fuck the Masons and Mormons, and Hitler (Jesus! WHAT a failure!) and all the Napoleans... just quit. Really man, and maybe layoff the cough syrup. Edit: Wrestling is fake too.

It's actually kind of a peripheral issue but an alarming number of folks have been 'accidentally' shot to death after police "confused" their tasers and their pistols. It's probably not going to be news until it happens to a pretty young white girl but... something to think about.

No worries bro! I heard those drones are NOT going to be used to exploit the public's 'lack of expectation of privacy' every time they walk out the door but instead are being deployed to monitor (possibly Marxist) elementary school textbooks.

There's only ONE answer to this question. I've said it for years and I don't understand why folks still don't know. USAA Seriously, USAA, nothing else. NOTHING ELSE! USAA!

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seriously though, I do talk aout the rapes-a-lot... but not now.

oh right, the rapes we weren't all talking about...

Wait, sorry... I did that wrong. Don... I didn't mean only the theme song, I meant the whole score, so to speak, for each episode ShaneCo... GET OFF MY NUTS YO!