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As the economy continues to fail, could terrorists be pulled in to save the President from blame?
"Al Qaida will attack the United States in the next three to six months, CIA director Leon Panetta has told US Congress.
The terror organisation was deploying operatives to the US to carry out new attacks from inside the country, including "clean" recruits with no trail of terrorist contacts, Panetta said."
Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/al-qaida-will-attack-us-within-months-says-cia-director-leon-panetta-14663967.html#ixzz0eS7HK1ZV
With the refusal of the Federal Government to safeguard the borders, it seems they have given themselves the perfect out. Except that is an old, tired playbook.
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• In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
• 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
• 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
• 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
• >60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
• >60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
• >60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.
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Being tired of breaking ground and turning soil with a shovel and bow rake, I bought another attachable gas powered cultivator. We're also expanding the food plot to 256 sq ft. Yeah, I'll do anything to mow less grass.
My first was a Homelite. This one is Ryobi. These are the attachment cultivators that attach to a gas powered string line trimmer; a weed trimmer. Whoever came up with the idea of being able to put various tools on one engine was a genius. Most home owners now don't have to buy a bunch of engines just to have a bunch of tools. You buy one engine with a shaft that has a coupler and then buy whatever attachments you want. There's the cultivator, different weed trimming heads, hedge trimmers, saws, brush blades and blowers. makes gardening power tools much more affordable. A lot of brands are universal too. My Ryobi cultivator fits my Troy Built engine. No tools required.
First off, these cultivators are not tillers. Even if the box says it's a tiller. A tiller is more powerful and digs deeper than a cultivator. A tiller will do a better job on unbroken ground or tearing up lawn than a cultivator will. A cultivator attachment on a 32cc two cycle engine is just not going to make the power of a tiller with a 10 horsepower four cycle. Cultivator tines are not as big as tiller tines. Tillers are on wheels that support a good deal of their weight. These cultivators have no wheels and you have to hold it up. Still though, a cultivator will do a great job for a lot of us. They're much less expensive than tillers and don't take up as much shed space. You can also get them into tighter spaces in the garden than tillers. They cost less too. My cultivator was $90. Tillers go for $300+. Farm grade stuff is thousands.
Here's the deal-
* Wear hard shoes. You have to pull this thing toward yourself. It's not easy to run over your foot but, it is possible.
* Put on the tines according to the directions. Any other way, especially with the flat edge of the teeth down, and you'll be running wide open but only scratching the ground. Same for tillers.
* When breaking new ground, especially a lawn, use only the two inner tines. You won't get bound up and have to clean out the tines as much as if you try your first cultivate with all four tines.
* Once you get the soil loosened some, you can go to all four tines and do better, quicker work.
* If you do bind up, stop, turn off the engine and clear the jam. Trying to 'run it out' will break your cultivator.
* Rocks. Mine has a set up to put the inner tines on reverse of the usual set up and then the outer tines on as usual. Really, with a cultivator, it's best to remove the large and even medium rocks by shovel and hand. I had thought of using the rock set up for unbroken lawn but, it looks like a wide swath would go unturned down the center of each pass. Using the two inner tines looked like a better deal.
* Don't run wide open if you don't have to. That gear box on the cultivator reduces the speed and increases the torque of the tines by quite a lot compared to a weed trimmer head. Running wide open will wear out your engine faster than running 1/2 to 3/4 throttle. Running wide open will also cause your cultivator to bounce in hard or rooty ground. All that bouncing will tear up the machine. It's a good way to land the tines on your foot, too.
* Apply firm, even pressure. Don't jam it down, shove it or lay into it. Most anyone can apply enough force to these machines to bind them up. Do it and you'll be back to a shovel and rake.
* Go slow. Going fast will only mean going over it more times. Let it dig down and pull back slowly; keeping it at the same depth.
* Make as many passes as you need to get the result you want. On well worked ground, one or two passes may do. On new ground, it may take 12. Here is where a tiller beats the pants off of a cultivator. Once you get it though, you got it. Cultivating worked ground in your backyard with these things is much easier than lugging out a tiller each time you want to turn the soil.
* Go in different directions. Up then down then left then right then cross ways. Break, turn and mix that earth every which way. You'll get the best results like that.
Bottom line. These are great for backyard gardeners. They're not too pricey, don't take up a lot of space, get in tight spots and they do turn up the ground- all sorts of ground. They don't have the oomph of tillers but, if you don't need that much power, the cultivator is for you.
PS- I tried those hand powered jobs before; the ones that look like spikes on wheels at the end of a stick. No thank you. "The Claw" does work pretty good, for spot use. I'm not about to try to do 256 sq ft, half of which is lawn, with one.
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I am sorry to inform you that our favorite retired auto body repairman from Amarillo, Texas, Jokul, has fought his final battle. Joe passed away, surrounded by family and friends, at midnight, January 26, 2010, seven days before turning 43. Among the many with him at the end, were his brother, Steve (Deifan), and his son, James.
Known to educate others on his disability, he considered Becker Muscular Dystrophy only as inconvenient, not world-shattering. He was able to stay connected with the world through his computer; meeting and chatting with people online were the best part of what his computer provided him. He also held great pride in his positions as Moderator and Host for online forums.
(I did not know where to post this announcement; staff, please feel free to move this to the appropriate place.)
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President Barack Obama is scheduled to deliver his first State of the Union address to Congress this Wednesday, and of course it will be carried live by the major TV news networks.
Apparently the West Wing has been furiously re-writing Obama's speech due to the disaster that happened in Massachusetts last week. However, we may have gotten some clues as to what the State of the Union might include by some things Obama said last week during speeches and news interviews. For instance, we were informed the major reason über blue Massachusetts, with a 3 to 1 radio of registered Democrats over registered Republicans elected Republican Scott Brown to replace the late Ted Kennedy is because the voters in Massachusetts are still pissed off at Republican George W. Bush.
Obama also revealed during his speech in Ohio last week that, even following the Tea Party protests this past Spring and Summer over Washington not listening to the voters, and the Congressional summer break Town Hall meetings where voters jumped up and down shouting about how Washington isn't listening to the voters, all culminating in the Massachusetts election in which many of those voting for Scott Brown complained of Washington not listening to the voters, Obama told the Ohio audience that he planned to work even harder at NOT listening to what the voters were saying.
In any event, I shall surely be watching the upcoming State of the Union address in rapt attention.
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Alrighty...most of us have been there before, and nobody likes it.
Share you're remedies for that head-throbbing, stomach-churning, bowel-irritating, dry-mouthed, nauseating omg-I-hope-I-don't-puke-again feeling. What are your concoctions and habits for the morning after the after-party?
And no that is not me right now, fyi...just the dehydration. 
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama Saturday endorsed a bipartisan plan to name a special task force charged with coming up with a plan to curb the spiraling budget deficit, though the idea has lots of opposition from both his allies and rivals on Capitol Hill.
The bipartisan 18-member panel backed by Obama would study the issue for much of the year and — if at least half of the GOP panel members agree, a big obstacle — report a deficit reduction blueprint after the November elections that would be voted on before the new Congress convenes next year.
"These deficits did not happen overnight, and they won't be solved overnight," Obama said in a statement. "The only way to solve our long-term fiscal challenge is to solve it together — Democrats and Republicans."
http://www.centurylink.net/news/read.php?ps=1018&rip_id=%3CD9DDN2L80%40news.ap.org%3E&_LT=HOME_LARSDCCLM_UNEWS&page=1
A year long study. Will it accomplish anything, or just come out with the same old results we have time and time again?
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Commuter solutions or just a pipe dream?
http://tiny.cc/zy4sJ
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