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Does he wear one of those bicycling shirts too? I'm guessing that the intersection of the shirt and shorts looks remarkably like someone opened a can of Pillsbury bisquits. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Will do. To be fair though, the windstorm Monday had gusts over 90 mph within 10 miles of here. I'd imagine anything less "open" than cyclone fencing would be at risk of needing a repair or two. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Icon134, ntrpnr, and another guy...maybe one who used to work for Aerodyne. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Scott, Peter, and someone else. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I always had at least one beeper on. For awhile, I found myself frequently wearing/carrying two and sometimes even three. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Mmmm....I love me some 5318008. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

That. I have to laugh at all the mods I see people do to their little import cars. It's a fucking Civic/Corolla/Hyundai/Mazda...what's it got now, 118 hp at the wheels? Maybe 138 if they're willing to throw longevity to the winds? If you want a high-performance car, buy one. Don't buy a fuel-efficient commuter and try to tell me that ridiculously loud muffler magically transformed it into a fucking race car. Rice is gayer than a bag of dicks. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

So the city installed and owns part of the fence at the new house, 3 slats of which are broken. Technically, I can submit a request for them to come fix them, but that just seems silly. They can't cost much, and the work is easy. Most importantly, the puppy will likely be twice her current age or more before any city workers would come by, and I doubt she'd delay any escape attempts till then (when she will no longer be able to fit through). So I ran by the house yesterday to grab a broken sample, and found the material to be something I haven't seen before. It's got a "faux wood appearance" on the outside, but is actually made out of resin or polycarbonate or something like that. It's very light-weight. I went by the local Lowe's and the lumber guy said I was about the dozen-th person to come by looking for replacement slats in the last week (we had a windstorm recently). He'd never seen it before and had no clue where to get it. Without knowing exactly what to call it, Google isn't helping at all, so now I'm turning to the experts of dz.com. Somebody here has to know something about new fencing materials, especially cheap, lightweight materials like a city would be interested in. Can you take a look at the attached pictures and tell me what this stuff is...and better yet, where I might find some? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

assuming a lot of others would feel like you Instead of winning and hurting one party, he just really tanks out both of them but doesn't win? On the plus side, both major parties would suddenly realize that there are a significant number of people favoring Libertarian ideals, and perhaps they would adjust their platforms to try and draw those people (back) into their folds. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

You think you need to use it in order to be a victim of the laws? Guess again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Maye I'd believe the cop over some lowlife drug dealer. I wouldn't. There is no "morality" test to become a police officer, so a cop and an average citizen are equally likely/unlikely to lie. This guy was not a "lowlife drug dealer", he was the neighbor of a suspected drug dealer. I think it's perfectly reasonable to punch holes in someone who violently enters my home without my consent, especially if a) I don't know they're cops and b) I'm not guilty of any crime. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I don't remember seeing an interpreter in the video. By the numbers includes deadly force on a guy who is not threatening the police? He was simply standing there when they tazed him. The thrashing on the floor isn't exactly unexpected after they've tazed him twice and he STILL doesn't know what the fuck they want. All he knows is they're hurting him. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Or simply surviving a POPS load. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I'm happy that you're so cool, and yes, that means I'm flirting with you. Screw you, don't act so innocent, I'd be shocked if you were embarassed by it.

Pretty much everybody who lives in Colorado can count on driving on something other than tarmac during the winter. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

OK everyone, let's say it together: Yes, he's an asshole, but he's OUR ASSHOLE. Are you referring to Musharraf or Bush? Nevermind...the difference is trivial. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

A summary of my last 6 calls to the police... 1 - I was 21ish, and the girl who'd spent the night with me stole my wallet and my car. A police officer responded, I told her where I thought the girl had likely headed and that time was of the essence before she'd head out of state. The (female) police officer told me perhaps I should be more careful who I sleep with, and that my expected location for the gal was out of her jurisdiction, thus she couldn't help. I woke a neighbor up, had them drive me to that apartment complex, saw my car, and called the police from the manager's office. Officers responded, searched me, placed me in the back of the car, then started driving towards the car. The girl was walking through the lot, they stopped her, she balked and gave me my stuff back, minus some fairly trivial amount of money missing from my wallet...maybe a couple hundred bucks tops. 2 - A disgruntled ex-roommate broke into our house and stole some of my other roommate's stuff. I can't remember exactly what, other than a deer rifle, a bottle of change, and a VCR. Somehow (how escapes my memory), he made it very clear that it'd been him. We called the cops that evening, they asked if we knew the guys current address and we didn't. They took the report over the phone and didn't stop by. The following week it happened again, so I booby-trapped the house & spent a week home from work trying to catch him in the act, but that was the last we heard of him. 3 - Several people of dubious employ (suspected drug dealers) lived in the house behind my apartment. One night, an argument between a guy and a gal got quite heated. She climbed into a dead pickup truck disposed of in the middle of the yard and he beat the shit out of it with a baseball bat while screaming at her. A few nights later their voices escalated again, but this time the quarrel ended with 4 gunshots. I called 911 and reported the shooting and told the operator I wanted to remain anonymous due to the number and nature of occupants in the house. Police responded to that location. About 20 minutes later, my phone rang. It was the police dispatcher. She reported that an officer wanted to bring a suspect over to my place for an ID...just as I was declining, there was a knock on the door. Yep, it was the cop and the shooter. I moved. 4 - While I was grocery shopping, someone hit my truck and took off. I called the police to report the hit and run and they told me they wouldn't send an officer unless someone was seriously injured. I picked up the pieces of their busted ass car laying on the ground and used a part number to narrow it down to a specific year, make, model, and color of vehicle. I asked the police for a list of all such vehicles registered in the area, knowing there couldn't be more than a dozen or so locally, and planning to find one with a busted up front end...the police declined to give me that list. 5 - I called police because a few kids skateboarding were tearing up the concrete edging around an island in a parking lot and throwing those big pieces of concrete around among the parked cars. Police were on scene in less than one minute. 6 - I went to where I keep my trailer in the winter to find it had been broken into. I called the police simply to report it and ask for a report number in case I decided to turn it in to my insurance. An officer came by that night to take a statement, and told me they would not be following up. Damage turned out to be inexpensive so nothing further came of it. My conclusion? If they know there are Mexicans or skateboarders involved, the cops are all over it. Otherwise, they're relatively useless. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

There is one key difference... Honda leads, Land Rover trails miles behind in reliability survey I think the Honda CR-V's are sharp looking vehicles and I would buy one if I were in the market for an "economy" SUV. A Toyota RAV-4 would be my second choice. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Wow! That's some pretty damning evidence there. I'm convinced. PS I clicked on that link. USNews/Yahoo! should immediately eat shit and correct the (deliberate?) misnomer in the header of that interview "Libertarian Candidate Ron Paul." He's a Republican candidate for f.cks sake... I guess the joke's on you, you are the last guy thinking there is a difference. For fuck's safe, how many times does a candidate/politican have to cross back and forth between Repub/Libertar before everyon figures it out? Good luck with that. My voting history seems to disagree with your position. You'll find me supporting very few prominent Republicans. My top two choices of the Presidential candidates presented thus far are Obama and Paul, in that order. In the last Presidential election I voted for Badnarik. In the election before that, I voted for Gore. Are you telling me I'm a Republican? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Happy birthday Katie! Do you have any lube? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Comment 2: He wants to hand over the abortion debate to the states. Do you really think that's going to make the "moral vote" very happy? This is the troubling part for me, "And we now are at a stage where we allow the national government through the Supreme Court to permit the killing of an unborn baby anytime before birth." He's describing a perceived problem, the only solution to which is putting a negative somewhere in that. Sure, the "leave it up to the states" thing sounds nice, but leaving it up to the states would not correct the perceived problem. In order to correct the "problem", he's got to do something that makes it so the federal government is NOT allowing, through the Supreme Court, the killing of an unborn baby. A government either requires, allows, or forbids something. Obviously our government doesn't require abortion, and I don't think anyone has proposed it do that. That leaves allowing or forbidding. He has a problem with "allowing" abortion, and changing that would only leave us with "forbidding". Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Yes. My doctor told me so just last week. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I figured that was a given! Ha ha...Seeing those names like that, I just realized that some people might be a bit confused about which is my girlfriend and which is my dog. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

That's quite true, you can't. But a with a properly built waiver, you can accept responsibility for all possible outcomes of your choice to jump and designate your estate as responsible for any legal expenses or judgements associated with your choice to skydive. Thus, while your survivors may successfully sue the dropzone, school, aircraft owner, etc, all payments to them will come from whatever estate you left them. In most cases, the only winners will be the lawyers. Obviously some exceptions will squeeze through the cracks, and I believe gross negligence is one that comes pre-greased for the task. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Muttley starts moving us Tuesday morning and I join in Tuesday night when I start a stretch of 5 consecutive days off. We plan to have the most important parts unpacked & set up in the new house by Wednesday night so Thursday we can have mimosas for breakfast and then relax our way through a day of drinking, cooking, stuffing ourselves, drinking, and watching football & movies, either by ourselves or with one or two good friends. On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, we'll finish the bulk of the move at a (hopefully!) somewhat leisurely pace. I can't remember the last time I was actually looking forward to a move, but this one will be nice.

Minka has her very own kitty for that. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)