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Re: [fandiguy]

by snakeweasel on Thu Sep 25 15:44:36 PDT 2008

Warrantys. The whole "if you're selling me a good car, i shouldn't need a warranty," and other similar responses are ridiculous. There we strongly disagree. Most things made will either break down very early in its life or very late in its life. few thing break midway along. With cars if something is wrong it will show up within the first 15-20K miles, if nothing happens by then its a 99% chance that nothing will go wrong with it unless you fail to properly maintain it or you get into an accident (in either case the warranty won't fix the issue). If a car needs an extended warranty I don't need the car. Every car I have ever had made it past 100K miles before any issues came up. Buying a car isn't as complicated as people make it out to be. There is no "game" involved, you wanna buy a car, we wanna sell you one. Therein lies the problem. You want to sell and get as much for the car as you can. We want to buy and pay as little as we can. Thats where the game is played. For every bad dealership, they're 1000 good ones. Lets see there are at least 5 dealerships around here that have well deserved bad reputations. That would mean that we should have 5,000 good dealerships. I don't think so. I think your off by a factor of at least 20.

Published on Thursday, August 28, 2003 by the Cleveland Plain Dealer

by dallasdude1 on Thu Oct 02 18:25:02 PDT 2008

by Julie Carr Smyth Voting Machine Controversy COLUMBUS - The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." The Aug. 14 letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc. - who has become active in the re-election effort of President Bush - prompted Democrats this week to question the propriety of allowing O'Dell's company to calculate votes in the 2004 presidential election. O'Dell attended a strategy pow-wow with wealthy Bush benefactors - known as Rangers and Pioneers - at the president's Crawford, Texas, ranch earlier this month. The next week, he penned invitations to a $1,000-a-plate fund-raiser to benefit the Ohio Republican Party's federal campaign fund - partially benefiting Bush - at his mansion in the Columbus suburb of Upper Arlington. The letter went out the day before Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, also a Republican, was set to qualify Diebold as one of three firms eligible to sell upgraded electronic voting machines to Ohio counties in time for the 2004 election. Blackwell's announcement is still in limbo because of a court challenge over the fairness of the selection process by a disqualified bidder, Sequoia Voting Systems. In his invitation letter, O'Dell asked guests to consider donating or raising up to $10,000 each for the federal account that the state GOP will use to help Bush and other federal candidates - money that legislative Democratic leaders charged could come back to benefit Blackwell. They urged Blackwell to remove Diebold from the field of voting-machine companies eligible to sell to Ohio counties. This is the second such request in as many months. State Sen. Jeff Jacobson, a Dayton-area Republican, asked Blackwell in July to disqualify Diebold after security concerns arose over its equipment. "Ordinary Ohioans may infer that Blackwell's office is looking past Diebold's security issues because its CEO is seeking $10,000 donations for Blackwell's party - donations that could be made with statewide elected officials right there in the same room," said Senate Democratic Leader Greg DiDonato. Diebold spokeswoman Michelle Griggy said O'Dell - who was unavailable to comment personally - has held fund-raisers in his home for many causes, including the Columbus Zoo, Op era Columbus, Catholic Social Services and Ohio State University. Ohio GOP spokesman Jason Mauk said the party approached O'Dell about hosting the event at his home, the historic Cotswold Manor, and not the other way around. Mauk said that under federal campaign finance rules, the party cannot use any money from its federal account for state- level candidates. "To think that Diebold is somehow tainted because they have a couple folks on their board who support the president is just unfair," Mauk said. Griggy said in an e-mail statement that Diebold could not comment on the political contributions of individual company employees. Blackwell said Diebold is not the only company with political connections - noting that lobbyists for voting-machine makers read like a who's who of Columbus' powerful and politically connected. "Let me put it to you this way: If there was one person uniquely involved in the political process, that might be troubling," he said. "But there's no one that hasn't used every legitimate avenue and bit of leverage that they could legally use to get their product looked at. Believe me, if there is a political lever to be pulled, all of them have pulled it." Blackwell said he stands by the process used for selecting voting machine vendors as fair, thorough and impartial. As of yesterday, however, that determination lay with Ohio Court of Claims Judge Fred Shoemaker. He heard closing arguments yesterday over whether Sequoia was unfairly eliminated by Blackwell midway through the final phase of negotiations. Shoemaker extended a temporary restraining order in the case for 14 days, but said he hopes to issue his opinion sooner than that. http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/2004votefraud_ohio.html

Re: Obama had a part in sub-prime mess/financial crash [xrunner2]

by gagrice on Wed Oct 01 07:22:08 PDT 2008

There goes US control of a major airport. Along with it 1000s of good paying civil service jobs. Wonder who got paid off in the Chicago cesspool of corrupt politics??? A consortium of firms with a Vancouver International Airport Authority subsidiary in the middle has won a $2.51-billion US, 99-year lease to develop and run Chicago's Midway Airport. A leader in the privatization of airports in Canada since the 1990s, YVRAS now adds Midway, the first privatized major airport in the U.S., to the roster of 18 airports it operates in seven countries around the world. YVRAS CEO George Casey said his company will work with other B.C. and Canadian firms to transfer their experience in taking airports from government control to private-sector management to Chicago Midway's operations. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=90b58028-f642-452- c-afae-10cf774f16a0 Maybe Rocky can get a minimum wage job from the Canadians at their new airport.

Re: Obama had a part in sub-prime mess/financial crash [rockylee]

by xrunner2 on Wed Oct 01 07:11:43 PDT 2008

I might be moving to Cook, county and working in Cicero, pending a job offer in the very near future and am looking forward to being a part of "Chicago Politics" the greatest place to be political on earth !!! A union mans dream !!! If you need a new car, buy it before you get to Cook County. If you live in Cook County, you will pay 10.25 percent sales tax. If you try to buy in any other county in Illinois, the dealer will still charge you 10.25 percent because of living in the great Democrat Cook County. You can thank Democrat Cook County President Todd Stroger and Daley, for that high tax. More ridiculous Democrat politics from Obama's adopted Chicago - Mayor Daley has proposal to be voted on by City Council in one week to get $2.5 billion dollars up front from a Canadian company for a lease for 99 years that will have them operating Midway Airport in Chicago. Chicago politics - Obama, ACORN, Rezko, Ayers, Blagoyovich, Daley, Stroger. US voters do not fully realize what their vote for Obama might bring them in terms of incompetence and corruption.

1995 civic coupe trunk leaks

by renrewda1 on Sun Sep 28 17:11:23 PDT 2008

My son just purchased a 1995 civic coupe and has been working through repairing all the leaks. After it was purchased we discovered water in the trunkIt was hit in the right rear Q-panel and whoever did the repair left a few holes to the outside world. He has been using automotive seam sealer to seal all the holes and seams we can find. We still have at least one leak and think it is coming in somewhere near the lower RH side of the rear window but have not definitively located where water is coming in at. We find it dripping down the RH vertical support brace midway between the front and back of trunk. The water appears to be travelling along a seam to the brace. We have tried spraying the area with soapy water and or windex and running the heater but have yet to locate any bubbles. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated on ways of finding and sealing the leak before the Seattle winter hits. Our latest attempt was to seal a few inches under the blace trim piece below the window and between the window and the trim piece using 3M clear automotive sealer. As I said earlier any help is appreciated.

Re: Trouble with Heater control [jayg2]

by nwraaa on Thu Sep 18 13:33:15 PDT 2008

The other vacuum motor is under the dash board. Take a flashlight and look under the dash board about midway of the car. You should see the vacuum motor with vacuum hoses attached to it.