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Tell me you don't love Bush? What red blooded American man doesnt? Lately I can't get Bush out of my head. The closer it gets to Summer here in LA, the more Bush is on my mind.

I have to admit that I love Bush, you are right Scott. I can't remember when it started, but I have loved Bush since at least 14 or 15 years old. I can honestly say that Bush has never let me down, whenever I have had a troubling, stressful time in my life, Bush has put everything in perspective for me and helped me to relax. I recommend Bush to anyone who feels like their life is not going in the direction that they had envisioned, I can guarantee that Bush will lift your spirits and clear your mind of all your troubles;)

Those Grease Police avatars are funny. Lots of guys have pictures of cops, like one dude has Roscoe P. Coltrane from The Dukes of Hazzard. I like Ants, that was taken during an actual Grease Police raid on a bunch of pinche jotos.

Another thing to consider is that there have been exactly 0 terrorist attacks on U.S. soil since this war started. That is worth twice what they have spent methinks.

The Egyptian is about 3 blocks East of the Chinese on Hollywood Blvd on the South side of the street. I actually havent seen it since it reopened but I hear they did a good job. Long Beach isn't as much a beach as it is a port, and that line truns in to an above ground train that goes through some not so savory areas of LA, just a heads up. But if you want to see the ocean and it is your only means of transportation, Long Beach is your only bet unless you want to catch a bus. All the great beaches are in Orange County South of Long Beach. You can visit the Queen Mary there and the Aquarium of the Pacific is pretty cool. I'm sure you can get a boat tour from there. If you are feeling adventurous, you can catch a boat to Catalina Island from Long Beach or go whalewatching.

Ther Red Line will take you straight to Hollywood and Highland where the Chinese Theater is. I wouldn't go to far East on the "Walk of Fame" or you might your image of Tinseltown may be tarnished. Stay in that area around the Kodak Theater and the Chinese and you will be fine. Really anything North, South or East of that immediate area are places you don't really want to see. If you want to tour some famous sites, there are some big red double decker buses that do some decent ones. When you are done there you can get back on the redline to the next stop towards North Hollywood and hit Universal Studios and see how the movies are made. It comes out at the bottom of a big hill so just walk East across Lankershim and there is a bus that will take you up the hill. There are some great restaurants at Citywalk right outside Universal for dinner. The first one you see coming out is Saddle Ranch but that is more of a bar.I would suggest heading towards the middle. Bubba Gump is a great place for shrimp and Camachos has some decent, albeit unauthentic, Mexican food. If you just want some diner type food there is the Daily Grill and Tony Romas. There is a great brewery on the middle level next to Camachos and BB Kings Blues club next to that. If you want to see actual stars, ur gonna have to go down to Rodeo Dr in Beverly hills, you are bound to see a couple of faces you recognize. If you need more let me know.

Those sound like Morgan's and depending on the minting dates could be worth well over $100 a piece. There should be a date and a letter in the top left corner of the box. I cant be sure of those dates off the top of my head but there are a few years that are considered rare. There is one that doesn't have a mint mark that goes for I think $5k, don't get your hopes up, that one is very rare. Let me see what I can find.

so what you are saying is that *** is ranked higher right?

This was written while it was still going on. Go ahead and Snopes it if you feel so inclined. Yes the guy is real http://www.usmc.mil/genbios2.nsf/biographies/A12F67FE915D04D685256A4000718796?opendocument From the heart of Major General, USMC (Ret) Richard Cooke I often mention in my posts, a little Mexican restaurant that I frequent here in San Diego that goes by the name of Las Quatro Milpas, which serves the best authentic Mexican food in San Diego. I mention it today, because of what has changed when I stand in that long line in the heat down on Logan Avenue waiting for those 5 dear Mexican women to serve the hundreds of us who show up before I melt in the hot sun. The line outside of Quatro Milpas is a place to meet new friends, reunite with people you have not seen in weeks or months, but happen to get that same desire for that Chorizo at the same time you did, so that every time you show up again, you can restart your friendship as if it never stopped. Everyone has a story about how long they have been coming to Quatro Milpas or how they discovered it, or how long was the longest line they have stood in waiting to get to their food. What has changed, is that this week, instead of the jovial mood in the line, I was struck with the thought of what would happen to this place if someone were to walk into the line, and get into the restaurant, around say 1300 hours, at the height of the lunch rush and blow about 100 people to hell in the name of Allah. As I thought about this, I wondered what it must be like for the people if Israel, who no matter where they go, have to consider the possibility of terrorism, and that their next steps out into society might be their last. I thought about what it must be like for a little Israeli schoolchild on a bus heading from school when someone gets on the bus in the middle of summer wearing a large overcoat. I have an anger that will not go away this morning, as I watch the media try to tell me that Israel is the aggressor, that they are wantonly killing civilians, and that they must agree to a cease-fire with people who have sworn to kill them. I wish I could say I cannot imagine how we got to this point in society, where a portion of our society would side with the very monsters that have killed both Israelis and Americans, because of a fear of violence, but the reason is all too clear. The free world has been too tolerant of the non-free world. We have allowed them to be portrayed as victims and to assume the moral high ground at the same time that they cut the heads off innocent people and film it for worldwide consumption. Okay, that is the nice way to put it. The honest way to put it is that we have lost our nerve. When a society of radicals can drag a dead American through the streets of their towns, and hang their bodies from a bridge as a collective finger flashed at America, and our response is "patience" we have lost not only our nerves, but our balls as well. I get a sense from the older veteran friends of mine in this city that our problem is that we have it too good, and do not remember what was done on our behalf to make things this good. Have we forgotten that for every time we can leave our homes, go stand in line at our favorite restaurant, and NOT think about the possibility of someone bombing the place, which someone many years ago gave their very life for that freedom we enjoy? I think the young people in line at Quatro Milpas and wonder how many of them would have volunteered to fly with along side Doolittle on his way to Tokyo, knowing they had not the gas to get home? Omaha Beach, anyone? I understand that these days, in Marine Corps boot camp, a recruit can call a "time out" if he is feeling too much stress. Is our State Dept. running the Marines now? This, I find disgusting. But no more disgusting [than] those who seek a cease-fire in Lebanon this morning after civilians were killed after their building collapsed from the concussion of a bomb dropped near them that was targeting the site of where rockets were launched into Israel resulting in the deaths of 18 Israeli civilians. It is as though these Israeli deaths do not matter at all. Especially when you stop to consider that this conflict began with Hezbollah coming across the Israeli border, ambushing and killing 8 Israeli soldiers and kidnapping two more. Cease-fire, my ass! To every person who believes that you can reason with these animals, I must ask you where your mind went. It is the weakness of the free-world's NON-response that has allowed the terrorist threat to grow into a movement that threatens our very existence. When a U.S. soldier can be dragged through the streets of Somalia and our response is to LEAVE, when 280 Marines can be bombed in their sleep and our response is to LEAVE, when after terrorists kill Spanish civilians on a train, and their nation's response is to elect capitulating socialists who order the immediate retreat of their soldiers from Iraq, and so on, and so on, what are the terrorists to think, but that the free world has become a *****? The fact that a majority of Americans think this nation needs AN EXCUSE for going after terrorism after 911 scares the hell out of me. It suggests that we as a nation will eventually fail to produce the men and women who every day, stand between freedom and tyranny. Yesterday, San Diego had its Gay Pride Parade. Oh, the joy…. It was billed as the largest 'celebration' in the cities history. THIS city. The very city where sailors came home to after fighting in Midway. The city that trains half of this nations Marines, hosts the USS Ronald Reagan, the USS Nimitz, the former Fightertown USA...our largest celebration is for the GAY...PRIDE...PARADE. Ponder that with me, will you? We are at war. I want Israel to continue, even escalate their attacks on Lebanon. I want them to ignore the media, ignore the pundits, and ignore even the weak among them who want to find a peaceful way out of this current conflict. History teaches us that until a bully is beaten, the bully keeps coming. The free world paid for our freedom in blood, and if blood is what it will take to keep it, then lets just have at it now, shall we? Let Iran and Syria attempt to aid Hezbollah. Let Israel attack them. Let it escalate until we are forced to fight at Israel's side. Then, can we for the last time, just kick some ass until it is over? Every generation must pay this price, as long as there are those who seek to force us to follow a dictatorial ideology. Radical Islam says, "Agree or die." In response, we should stop asking them, if there is a middle ground to be reached. We should be saying, "Fine, but it is YOU that will die." Israel, I see you fighting not just for your freedoms, but also for the worlds’. I trust that if you continue, the free world will be forced to side with you, even if it means that a few of us die in the process. The time is now. It is time for THIS generation to prove itself worthy of those that came before us. It is time for us to say NO MORE to the terrorist threat, to find them and kill them. Do not stop fighting, Israel. Make the free world help you put an end to this madness. In doing so, you might help us find the courage and moral convictions that made us free to begin with, so that one day, little Jewish children, and old lovers of Mexican food in America can go about our daily lives with the freedom that others died to give us.

look4myfish.com ????? What the hell is that???

Can somebody tell me why there are ads for online dating on this board? If I wanted to have cybersex, this is not the place I would expect to come to do it.

Spanish or no Spanish Jason, I am advising that you stay away from the PWNA and there are many who will back me up on this. You can search this and other boards for information on the PWNA and you will begin to see the light. I have been looking in to the ***** and it looks like the have it all, use your money there, I don't think you will regret it. In fact if you join the ***** instead of the PWNA and you don't like it, I will personally refund your money, hows that?

Jason, don't bother joining the PWNA, it's not worth it for exhaust cleaners. Southern California has more restaurants than any other area of the US and not once have I been asked if I were a PWNA member by a customer. Your Phil Ackland certification is EXACTLY the same certification the the PWNA uses so in essence you will be PWNA certified once you are Phil Ackland certified. The Ackland Certification is the best out there right now. GO with IKECA if you are going to join an organization, they are starting to make a difference and more and more exhaust cleaners are joining. If you are looking for a Pressure Washers organiztion, you might look at the *****, the guys running that look like they have their stuff together.

This is the last one, I promise!

An I thought California was liberal! Hey Scott, didn't you say you used to live in Florida?

Happy Birthday!:beerchug:

This is pretty morbid, but it almost looks fake. It is not for the faint of heart. If you have a weak stomach, then don't look at the URL. It is a picture of the demise of a suicide jumper taken shortly after he landed. It shows him with his insides now on the outside. You will see the look of horror on the faces of the bystanders. The faces of the bystanders is why I believe this is real. http://home.att.net/~songs2/Jumper.jpg

We run in to that quite a bit in our industry but it is more that the kitchen is having a smoke problem and they think that cleaning the exhaust system will solve it. 9 times out of 10 it is something other than cleaning that will solve it.