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    Either of the raw ingredients mentioned work to release dead/oxidized paint. Goal should be to not go too deep with too strong a mix or too long a dwell. Low pressure would be smart too. It's been said that some cleaners (Mr. Clean?) can leave enough masking sheen and rinseability on their own without use of a dedicated wax. Some Recent Housewashes

    Maybe you want to try that new lemon scent offering from Sunbrite though?

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    For what its worth.... We are spending (as a country) 10 billion dollars a day to fight a war and rebuild a country half way around the world where members of the Armed Forces of this great country are getting mambed and killed. Someone mentioned the 130 billion that we have spent in New Orleans since Katrina... That is synonymous with the last 13 days of the Iraq war, money we are spending to provide support to citizens of another country.

    Matthew, you need to check your statistics on the war cost.

    theiraqinsider.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-much-does-iraq-war-cost-per-month.html

    I am thinking that this website is not exactly sympathetic to the Bush administration, so their quote is probably high, but it is still 4.2% of the amount you quoted.

    4.2% of? Is that correct? Doesn't that work out to 420 mil per day based on the misspeak of 10 bil per day by NYPWC? Figure from the site is 343 mil per day.

    PS- disclaimer- that is not me talking in that blog btw even though points may be valid.

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    Well fault is kind of a heavy word to use being it implies an attempt at something in the first place. The jist Trey is that they know no better and can't truly believe anything better can be by way of their environment. Surely there are many duifferent levels of when responsability can be applied or considered. I tend to look at the whole responsability thing as being a taught/learned thing. Do we hold infants responsable for things they unaware of or can't be expected to be aware of?. Do we hold a sinner unfounded, ungrounded, or unconfessed in a belief system as being sentenced to death by it? Do we place blame or fault or responsability upon starving people in Africa or wherever by believing or rationalizing they could get theirself out of their situation if they wanted to?.

    There are borders and guns of many type staring people in the eye.

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    People can choose to stay in the mindset or choose to change it.
    That implies they have freewill at a societal level suitable to bring about such change. For many, free will is but a heart or mind thing unable to be transfered to reality beyond a level of simple survival... Check out Lipton on evolution.- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-Qus_xGzZg Many believed evolution equaled random dna changes due to environment but now many know evolution equals life struggling to survive. Believe it or not, in that can be found devine design.

    I don't know, perhaps such thoughts can be applied to poverty stricken folk in some way. Maybe some shouldn't have freedom to cause a change or to do anything they want eh? Maybe a few pushing for rebuilding in a flood plain is akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater. After all I do believe the famous saying that 'freedom without responsability is anarchy'.

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    Is concerning that customers see fellow deck owner go through trial and error to fix a problem.

    Challenges keep us on our toes and can be looked forward to by some but I know all too well that customers do not at all like to consider their projects as a challenge. They know they could loose their wallets. Yea perhaps they end up submitting that things are gonna cost and they gonna loose their wallets anyway they go but these days they have a supposed easier out from all the stress of wood care. In steps the ugly composite decking industry as super hero and that irritates me.

    Yup money solves most challenges and they know it.. That's if they got the dollars that is and like the look of the stuff that is.

    But anyways am just saying it doesn't reflect well on the industry if we affirm to customers or show them through our work that wood care is a challenge sometimes not overcome. Never start a job ya can't finish.

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    Thanx John, just checking..wouldn't want to go away with wrong impression. I like things that run on propane. Although I been using it in my floor machines for decades my latest puts out ike 0 emissions.

    If I had choice everything would run on hydrogen or natural gas. Until then I would not mind my truck and wash engine being equipped to run propane.

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    Much truth there Scott. My view on the cycle of poverty is similar. I believe that from an early age some get stuck in a mindset trap hard to escape. Surely are many reasons but if I had to put finger on most important it would be that they are deprived of the type of love that promotes self examination and independant thinking. For instance it be easy for young people to follow for years on end simple advices like 'knowledge is power' , or 'it's not what ya know but rather who ya know' without ever seeing that it is theirself who they need to know. In order to gain a real leg up noses need not be glued to books so much. Seems only through much pain, trial and error, and experience do they get a glimpse that it has been their own resignations early on that create their current limits of attainment. Social experiences, peer groups, etc. can be a killer or a life breather. Thats to say for sure people are their own worst enemy and but such demons are indeed spawned or fostered by environment. A 'you can't do' attitude being put forth by parents or their overall environment can't help keep hope alive in a young persons heart. Even more so I tend to think the real problem of poverty is a lack of the kind of love that emphasizes commitment to understanding and growth via keeping a healthy will alive and striving.

    Does that make any sense?

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    Yes, Bear Sausage is pretty good.

    Like any greasy meat.

    I feel a kinship with Bears, they are a top of the food chain predator, like us.

    We NEED predators, they have their place in the eco system.

    I'm predator... I have canine teeth meant to tare meat. The sun though is what feeds all. It grows the plants that the vegis eat that I end up eating.

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    Don't forget everyones good buddy Rumsfeld that deserves credit for causing mass obescity, tons of sawed off diabetic limbs,etc, etc., ..you know..an overall epidemic of horrible side effect deaths when him and some others were able to get aspartame approved by the FDA. ..Most dangerous thing ever allowed into food!, anyone care for some wood alcohol in their morning coffee?

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    Only time harvest bothers me is when it is passed off as not being harvest to viewers. i.e- High fence deer harvest footage by Jimmy Houston passed off as 'hunting' by way of barely showing the fence bothers me.

    ps-it's all about the bear sausage.now that's good eats

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    Hey man don't tread on the Nuge!! Things of runnin bear may not be every hunters enjoyment but we could respect traditional goals of harvesting meat for sake of harvesting meat while giving the hounds what they made to do without crying sportsmans foul. Watch a few seasons of his hunting shows and then lets talk. :)

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