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2008
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Technical information for everyone who says that I never post about home building: With advanced framing techniques a builder can frame a home much faster than in years past. The home can be framed in 1/2 of the time and use about 1/4 less wood. Using these techniques will also save on labor cost...
05/31/2008
Today it was reported that Europenas are paying $8 per gallon for gas. Obviously they buy in liters but the article called it per gallon. The article cited that Europeans drivers pay the highest gas taxes in the world, with the tax on diesel in Britain accounting for 65% of the retail price. In B...
05/30/2008
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I have learned something new this week. If you don't agree with what someone writes in either a blog or a comment, you simply flag them. Yeah, thats right, instead of actually using some good old fashioned logic and debating them, you just turn them in to the AR powers. I guess it works much bett...
05/29/2008
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I am in the mood for a bit of levity this morning. Too much serious talk has made my head spin. Don't worry. It will stop spinning and I will start pissing everyone off again, but for now. how about some humor? Yesterday I saw a guy wearing a T-shirt that said: Silence is golden, duct tape is sil...
05/29/2008
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Lemmings- A very bad animal to be compared to especially if you are a member of a group that tends to vote heavily for one political party that just keeps doing nothing for you.
05/27/2008
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I have a friend that I grew up with. We were the type of friends that did everything together. We played on the same baseball and football teams, learned to swim together, joined Boy Scouts together, attended school together. We lived right across the street form each other so we were at each oth...
05/26/2008
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I have picked up some good customers from this site. They read my blog and gave me a call. They saw my flag logo and really liked that I was a flag waver. I know that is hard for some to swallow around here. I am a firm believer in this country and what it stands for. I am a firm believer in the ...
05/25/2008
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I am curious so I will ask here on AR. I was raised by fairly conservative parents. My mom was a right leaning Democrat and my dad was a pretty solid Republican. As I grew up I started out as a Democrat but quicklly discovered that I did not agree with most of their platform. When Ronald Reagan r...
05/25/2008
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Throughout our lives we are members of all kinds of groups. Some of the groups we join, others we are cast into. Most of us like to see our group as being better than the other groups. We talk about how our group is better and how the other group needs to do this or that in order to "see the ligh...
05/25/2008
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Have you ever had someone tell you what amounts to an obviously fabricated story. It is so far from the truth that it insults your intelligence. When I was in the military we had a name we would use whenever someone told such a story. We would raise our hands and wave an imaginary flag in the air...
05/24/2008
