CanuckInUSA

Some will say that Obama stole it from you since you are not allowed to have private possessions in Obama's new world order, but the Obama supporters will get mad and blame it on GWB. Not to be out done Billary will get in on the action telling you that he/she did not have sexual relations with the postman. Bush Sr will tell you he did not raise your taxes, so you should have your magazine. Jimmy Carter will smile at you in a senile way and then put a hammer in your hand demanding you start building him houses for free. Then Ronald "Ray Gun" Reagan and the rest of the dead presidents will start visiting you in your sleep. It's presidential conspiracy why you did not get your Parachutist. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Nice ... P-51 Mustangs are iconic legends. You are a lucky man. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

My car is dirty ... I could definitely use some help. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Note to self. Disable the airbag if you are going to act like a douche bag wanker in front of granny at an intersection. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

This was a very powerful video with a mixture of real accidents and obviously staged ones for effect. I was tempted to stop it part way through. But I said, "no" and finished watching it. Shit like this can happen to anyone of us at any time. None of us are immune. Don't drive like a maniac on the public roads and wear your seat belts!!! If you do want to drive fast, come join as at your local race track where at least innocent people's lives will not be put on the line. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Pops is from Georgia ... and I am not talking about the state. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Back in 2003 I was on the fence not knowing whether or not the Iraq invasion was the right thing to do. Saddam was scum and he had a history of using WMDs on his own people. It was easy to buy into the WMDs argument. But over time it was clear that the Iraq invasion was not the right thing to do (and I assure you I am no Lefty). I wish I could remember who said it and exactly what the quote was, but there is a famous quote out there concerning war and it goes something like this: "Countries know how to start wars, but they never know where it will lead them". The USA time again has shown the world they are 2nd to none when it comes to invading countries. But you guys really suck at occupying them. Who knows what the real reason why the US invaded Iraq is, but if it was for their natural resources, the USA could pick on a much easier target the next time. The USA should find a country on this planet who has more natural resources than most other countries. The USA should find a country that is poorly defended with people who could not even put up a fight once they were invaded because this society was so dumb that they purposely disarmed themselves. The Iraq war was a big mistake. Iraqis (like the Vietnamese, like the Russians in WWII when Germany invaded) were actually not afraid to die for their country. The next USA invasion should happen on a country where the population would not fight to defend it's homeland and then and only then will the USA end it's horrendous track record of occupying countries. Hmmm ... now I wonder where such an easy target with huge sums of natural resources and a population that is unable and unwilling to defend itself could be? Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I go to parties, sometimes until four, It's hard to leave when you can't find the door. ------------------------------------------------------ from the song "Life's been Good" - Joe Walsh Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Come join us on the race tracks with your car. There you can actually push the car to your limits in a relatively safe environment, you can enjoy the extreme speeds of your car and you won't be endangering the lives of innocent people. BTW you don't have to be a formal race car driver to drive your car on the track. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

These red light cameras are nothing more that revenue generators. If the authorities were serious about cracking down on people at intersections, they would be there to catch the people in the act. But let's also be smart drivers out there. Don't run red/yellow lights and on the flip side ... look both ways at the intersection before you enter it. Just because you have a green light doesn't mean it is safe to enter it. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I love it when she says Cock. What about South Carolina's Gamecocks? It's a whole school celebrating cocks. BTW: is the college football season starting a week or so later than it usually does this year? Or am I just out to lunch? I will say though that the NCAA football is my favorite football. IMHO it is better than the NFL, the CFL, the defunct USFL, Arena Football and that wacky football the rest of the world plays with only their feet. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

British Columbia is the last jurisdiction people should be looking to for examples on how to run auto insurance. It is a government controlled entity where the consumer is not given any choice as to who they can insure with. It is either BC's ICBC insurance or the highway. Let's see, I am a new arrival to BC and I need some auto insurance. Do I get it from ICBC? or should I go next door to ICBC to see if they have something better? I know why don't I get in touch with ICBC to see how their rates are? I lived in BC from 2005-2006 and despite being a 20+ year driver with a relatively clean record (no accidents, hardly any moving violations) ICBC still treated me like a novice rookie driver since I had never before been in their ICBC system. I was being charged ridiculous premiums for the first six months while my driving record was processed through their bureaucracy. After six months, my premiums did go down but I was still paying double what I pay next door here in AB. You may want government controlling all aspect of your life, but I personally do not believe governments should be given monopolies in the auto insurance industry. Getting back to the original topic of this thread. I have little sympathy for the OP for being caught speeding (though while technically he was speeding, he was not doing extreme speeds). But what gives with these bureaucrats rejecting the payments he sent in? I had something similar happen to me a few years back in [censored location]. I was caught with my pants down as I relieved myself in a back ally. The cops ticketed me. On the ticket the fine was clearly marked $15. I sent a check in for this amount only to have my check and the ticket mailed back to me telling me the fine was now $30. WTF ... I said ... I didn't pay it and to this day there is now a "non extraditable arrest warrant for me in [censored location]" all because some bureaucrat rejected my $15 payment for a ticket that was clearly marked $15. Of course I never set foot in [censored location], so who gives a rats ass if they have a "non extraditable arrest warrant" for me all because I got caught pissing on their shit hole of a city. Finally ... if you drive, get some damn insurance. Driving is a privilege, not a right. I don't like spending money on insurance, but I know it is all part of the expense of driving. And for those of us who live outside of government controlled monopolies, you can get reasonable rates if you are a responsible driver with relatively clean driving records. I speed all the time, but I am never driving more than 10 or so clicks over the speed limits as I save my extreme speeds for when I am at my local race track doing DE Track Days. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

No risk of fairly large animals being on the road? Where do you live? Can I come over? I want to know just how fast my car will go. That wasn't me who said that. It was the devil who made me say it. LOL BTW ... I was at the track again this afternoon and I got to drive in some more wet weather. OMG ... I love it. What a blast. You have to dial it back a bit and not drive as hard as you would on a dry track, but wow you can learn so much about what your car is doing when it is wet. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Sounds like fun. Sign me up. I have a lot of respect for professional big rig drivers. A few years ago when I moved from Colorado back to Canada, I rented a Ryder Truck + a car trailer to tow my jeep back. Now granted I am still not as big as the 18 wheelers, but the average joe driving out there has no concept whatsoever in the additional weight trucks have and how it effects stopping distances. I tell you driving that moving truck and towing a trailer through the Seattle area was interesting with cars cutting in front of me. Lucky for them and myself I did not have to brake hard, because if I did I don't think I could have stopped. Ever since that experience, I think twice about cutting in front of a large transport truck. If there is a chance we may need to stop all of a sudden, I just won't change lanes. Being in that other lane is not worth the risk of eating the truck's bumper and all the other things that go with such an accident. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Speed by itself is not the most dangerous aspect of driving. The most dangerous aspect of speed is when different drivers are going vastly different speeds. You and I can be driving down the highway close to each other at a slow speed or at a very fast speed and be relatively safe. But throw in a vehicle going much faster or much slower than ourselves and someone needs to react. If they react wrong, it could be game over. This is only my opinion, but when merging onto a highway I believe it is best to be going slightly faster (but not too fast) than the other traffic. This way you can sequence yourself into the merge lane and then slow down to the same speed the other vehicles are going. But if you are going too slow, the vehicle behind you must slow down or change lanes and voila ... all it takes is to have someone not paying attention to the road and it could be the end for one or more people. Speed by itself is not the most dangerous part of driving. Speed needs to be respected, but not feared. But as I said, if someone wants to go really fast in their vehicle ... come join us at the race tracks. You don't have to be a formal race car driver to do it, and you might just learn a thing or two about car/bike control. The other night I got to drive on a really wet track for the first time and OMG ... you learn twice as much about car control in half the time. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

This is very true ... we all want the high HP beasts (trust me if I could afford it I would love the 911 GT3RS). But our best learning is done on the less powerful cars/bikes. I can push my car at the track to my limits (close to the limits of the car) and know it won't bite back at me too hard if I make a mistake (which we all do from time to time). Put me in a 500+ HP super car and tell me to push my limits and my laps times won't necessarily be that much faster and I will get spanked with an expensive wreck if I get sloppy. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I speed all the time. But my speeding on the public roads is not excessive. It is usually only a few clicks over the limits as I travel with traffic and I occasionally use short bursts of speed to pass and to ensure I am not in someone's blind spot. Most speed limits on our public roads are out of date. Most of our cars can easily handle faster speeds. Unfortunately just because the cars can handle the extra speed does not mean the drivers can. I don't speak Japanese, so who knows what that fellow is saying in the GT-R video you posted. But what he did was wrong. Sure the car can handle it, sure 99% of time you can get away with it. Extreme speed on a controlled race track still has it's risks, but the people on the track are aware of these risks. There are too many unknowns for extreme speed on the public roads to be worth the risk. If you want to driver very very fast. Come join us on the race tracks. But watch out for oil on the track. It is slicker than owl's shit. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

ROFLMAO ... so much for the iPad. Imagine what would happen if he used a V8 blender. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I am sorry there is just so much that is wrong with what you are saying here. - Race tracks are controlled environments, public roads are not. I have hit birds and gophers at my local race track, but I have yet to see anything bigger on the track. There is an absolutely fantastic twisty road here in the Banff mountains close to where I live in Alberta and it is so tempting to rip'er up on the twisties. But I don't because I fear Bambi will be standing on the road just around the next corner and while I have RL track experience, do I have the skills to avoid Bambi? Could the best drivers in the world avoid Bambi? - Most people (not all) who travel extreme speeds on race tracks have slowly built up their skills over the years. Just like in swooping, the responsible drivers have tons of seat time and tons of experience driving lesser powerful cars before they graduate to the monster HP beasts we can buy ... if we are rich enough. Of course someone can still have more money than brains, buy themselves a super car show up at their local track and try to push their limits. But most (not all) DE track day people I encounter at my local race track are responsible people and nobody wants to wreck their expensive toys. The same can not be said for people (usually with limited seat time driving those extreme speeds) who take their expensive toys out on the public roads to see how fast they can go. The straight at my local track is not long enough for me to hit terminal velocity in my car, plus I live at about 3000 feet MSL ... so my normally aspirated car (a '97 Porsche 911) will not go 180 mph. But I routinely drive about 130 mph on my local track before I brake hard to make turn #1 (the Turbos and supercharged Vettes are hitting 150 mph at our track). So yes with proper seat time and a controlled environment it is possible to go 180 mph and not die. But if people want to drive at these extreme speeds ... take it to the race track. You don't need to be a formal race car driver to drive on the track. But you do need to keep your ego in check and know your limits (often our personal limits are still less than the limits of the cars we drive). I love when a person who drives a less powerful car passes the more powerful car on the track. In order to push the limits of a super car, you really do need to possess superior driving skills and the only way to obtain these superior driving skills is seat time, seat time at a race track. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

If you want to drive that fast, take it to the race track. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

With the brick they mixed in with all the other stuff. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

With all the recent "enviro" societal trends where some people want the muscle car outlawed. The question remains, what to do with all those V8 engines? Well the good people at the Top Gear TV show have come up with an idea. It's a kitchen food blender, for the man in your life. Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor, eat your heart out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDlMLqdvHzI Sorry if this is a re-post. It is better to ask for forgiveness than beg for permission. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Now now, don't be too harsh on Princess Chelsea. After all we can't choose our parents and she does come from Billary's genes. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

ROFLMAO ... so that means you too are related to the messiah? You know he's not really parting the Red Sea. It's Hollywood's magic that makes him appear to be the savior of humanity. He is really nothing more than a community organizer with above average teleprompter reading skills. Also it is rather hilarious trying to read your rant about a certain family being influenced by drugs and alcohol and how the Clinton's (ie: Liberals) are highly educated people. Please, the next time you want to rant about how superior of an intellect Liberals possess, stay off the drugs and alcohol yourself and use a spell checker. It makes understanding your posts much easier for us low life common folks. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I am a little curious. Since everyone in Washington and Hollywood are basically related to each other (as an example GWB and Obama are cousins, albeit distant cousins), what is the background of this fellow Princess Chelsea has married? Is he too related to the Bush family or the Obama clane? Maybe his connections are to camelot (you know the Kennedy's). Either way will Billary be happier now not being excluded from the Bush/Obama family reunions if their Princess was married to an insider as opposed to the rest of us on the outside. Also ... is it true? Did Bill go missing from the wedding reception last night for 15 minutes? Hmmm ... I wonder what he was doing? And does infidelity in the Clinton clan only run in the males of the families or will Princess Chelsea also show she has a bit of her dad in her? LOL ... get your mind out of the gutter, I didn't mean that part of her dad in her. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over