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I was talking to a new car dealer after dinner on Friday night. Typically, he was complaining about the Cash for Clunkers program. I had heard about the overloaded government computer system where dealers have to send their ‘paperwork’ to get reimbursed, with many dealers having been paid by...

An excellent reminder to start Safe Boating Week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UEETjztLqI . Good instant replay, too.

We may be getting another statue on the grounds of the Tennessee state capitol: http://www.wsmv.com/news/19373061/detail.html When did we start erecting statues of living people? Used to be, someone famous had to be dead for a decent interval before they got their statue.

Earth Hour? What Earth Hour? http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93315

Celebrating not two, but four U.S. Presidents with February birthdays: 1. George Washington 22 February 1732 9. William Henry Harrison 09 February 1773 16. Abraham Lincoln 12 February 1809 40. Ronald Wilson Reagan 06 February 1911

Nevermind that it’s snowing seventy miles north of here – it’s only crisply cool here, and songbirds are singing up a riot. Yesterday I finished up all the list of yard items on the honey-do list, and threw the ball with my son. Lacrosse and baseball seasons are about to begin. This morning...

I know from previous threads that many of you are car nuts, as well as Sea Ray and boating enthusiasts. There is an interesting article in the most recent Road & Track magazine predicting the future of energy supplies in general and fossil fuels in particular through the year 2025...

Shots from my wife's cousin's buddy in San Fran, mostly Blue Angels shots: The Blue's are flying...beautiful pics... Happy New Year To All... http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1a/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7rAUu8djZ4

Try most of these quotes substituting "boating" for "flying"; it's spot on right in most cases; I especially like #9 and #18: 1. There is no problem so complex that it cannot simply be blamed on the pilot. - Dr Earl Weiner 2. To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something...

Warning! This item has absolutely nothing to do with boating*. If you are only interested in boating-related discussion, please go to another thread. Mark Felts, aka 'Deep Throat' of Watergate fame died last week at the age of 95. for those old enough to care, or just those who are curious...

While my 19 year old daughter is home from college, she's decided she wants me to teach her some basic economics and business principles, because she really can't understand why marxism-socialism is such a bad thing. I guess that's what comes from her going to school up east to study theater...

The attacks yesterday in Mumbai, India, are not appreciated for how they may effect us here in the U.S. Here is a thought-provoking report (open access) from Stratfor: http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20081126_red_alert/?utm_source=Snapshot&utm_campaign=none&utm_medium=email I'm worried that...

On this Thanksgiving Day, what (or who) are you thankful for? I'm going to start off with Niklaus Otto, Rudolph Diesel, and John D. Rockefeller. The first two gave us the gasoline and diesel internal combustion engines, while John D. built up the network of refineries and the petroleum product...

from today's BoatTest.com press release: "Yanmar is jumping into the diesel stern drive market in a big way with the global introduction of its new ZT350 stern drive. Yanmar has actually been building stern drives for the Japanese market for over 20 years, so is no stranger to the stresses put...

...of the current banking mess: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12415730

Over the last several years, I've been reading reports prepared by Stratfor ( www.stratfor.com ) on politics, geopolitics and the economy. Their chairman, George Friedman, may be just about the best big-picture analyst out there. While most of their stuff is only available to subscribers, I...

FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk. PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk...

This is the first thread I’ve started . . . . Yesterday afternoon I took my son and a friend of his out on the boat for a brief cruise and a swim. Son’s friend’s Dad is dying of complications of diabetes, and he needs to get out of the house away from TV and computer and do stuff, so son and...