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Partical board loves glue and gorilla glue makes a specific one for wood that should work fine. Helps if you have a clamp to hold it together while it dries. Yes screws will hold it too but be careful as partical board will strip or split easily. A few of those big rubberbands that come on the Sunday paper would also help hold it while it dries.
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Same here, no problem with games and it's the cheap way for the kids to pay for their own software.
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A lot of hospital stopped delivering due to liabilities and the high cost of malpractice insurance. What I don't understand, my son broke his arm, not a complicated break, but we had to go to Atlanta to get it set and cast. There isn't someone that can set a childs arm in this county? And let me tell you, there isn't a soul over there at Scottish Rite that has a clue as to whats going on or how to manage patients. I thought we were in the hands of the Marx Brothers.
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But I'm trying to make a phone call! (That applies to why I'm driving too fast or too slow)
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I love statements like this, its as retarted as those Hollywood types that said they would leave the country if Bush won a second term. Not a one of them left. That guy in Florida that said the same thing went on in his email about how he struggled and sacrificed to build his business back in the day, well who gives a crap? If you're declairing yourself to be a great businessman then be one. If you're a grand pusskadore, then stomp your feet and take your toys and go like a three year old throwing a tantrum on the playground. Tomorrow your competition will take your good employees and clients
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What difference does what its made of make? No doubt the earth is still generating more oil but it can't keep up with the quantity that we are using annually. If you put one drop of water a day in a bathtub and take out 10 gallons a day, the bathtub will soon be empty.
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Unseaseoned wood, which basically is wood that's still wet, has a tendency to snap and pop spraying sparks in all directions including onto your floor and you. It also has a tendency to cause buildup in your chimney increasing the potential for a chimney fire. The log splitter suggests that the wood was just opened and has not had time to dry out.
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You believe that fossil fuels are unlimited on this planet? You stand alone. Being limited then there is a half way point. While it is difficult to put a date on when it occures, variances in daily usage economic influences, technology with regard to efficience and effective removal, known reserves and similar, everything I've read put the date somewhere between 2004 and 2012 with the world's oil supply being depleted between 2062 and 2094 (according to the American Petroleum Institute). Do some research on peak oil and the Hubbert Curve.
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But its the sum of the minutiae thats creating the largest problems. OK a chemical plant contaminates 20 acres, you can contain that and clean it up. Upwards of 80% of all facilities with underground storage tanks are leaking, how many gas stations, ex-gas stations are out there? I've yet to find a dry cleaners, which dry cleans on site, that hasn't negatively impacted soil and groundwater. Millions of residential, commercial and industrial structures are full of asbestos and lead based paint and this stuff doesn't degrade, if released it adds to the background level we're exposed to every day
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No doubt Carbon is a natural component and is critical to the development of living organisms on this planet and it is stored and processed in these organisms every day. Carbon based fuels represent thousands and thousands of years of this concentrated material which when ignited releases energy and the stored Carbon atoms. When it comes to oil, we've burned through half of the world supply in the past 100 years and no one questions that we've released large amounts of Carbon to the atmosphere. So the question becomes two-fold; Can the earth absorb this increased release, which is the balance
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So it's OK for you to litter just because your neighbor does?
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I don't put up a fake tree, so no, not til the beginning of Dec.
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I-75 doesn't go to New York.
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We live on a busy street so we get no trick or treaters. We go elsewhere to a friends neighborhood and those streets were crowded til at least 9pm. I do feel bad for not handing out candy (I did in my old subdivision) but my only choice would be to hand it out as we walked and I wouldn't want my kids taking candy from someone along the roadside.
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Define neighborhood, and don't say subdivision because you're neighborhood is bigger than that. We don't live in a subdivision so anything within 10 miles is our neighborhood and fair game for my kids. We picked a certain subdivision because a friend lives there and that certain subdivision is relatively safer to walk on the streets. As others have posted, you don't have to participate in Halloween, turn off the lights and hide behind the sofa.
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Our stove and fridge are an easy clean and Weimans works fine. The dishwasher on the otherhand has been a bear. This thing could be used by the cops to take fingerprints. Our 2 year old keeps the front looking like crap. Then I asked the service guy (he's been here twice on a machine thats not even 2 years old) and he said he used WD 40 on all his stainless appliances and it works great.
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Becomes a moot point come spring time, that's when they're going to begin to widen the rest of BC Parkway.
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Why don't police hang out where accidents happen a lot
Spucketts replied to BH87's topic in RECENT TOPICS
They write tickets where it's easy to go over the speed limit because that's the only places they can legally write them. A speed trap has to have at least a 500 foot line of sight, can't have more than a certain percent grade, and there is other criteria. If I'm not mistaken the State Patrol must approve any location a speed trap is placed. -
Bad economic decisions? I don't believe that. These are intelligent people who are advised by highly intelligent people and they set up a system where they benefited if the system worked and benefited if the system didn't. Consider the winners and losers, we've got the same politicians we had 8 years ago, the big banks are fine and actually have less competition now, the losers are a few small or weak businesses that went under and the American tax payer who's left with the bill, can't find work or get credit.
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Article on Yahoo this morning said that the US is about to surpass the Saudis in daily production of oil making the US the largest producer. It said production was being pushed by higher prices and new drilling methods and much of this increase has occured in the past 5 years. Gee, higher domestic production and still prices went up.
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Or lose money if rental rates drop which has been the case in commercial real estate in the past several years.
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Auto repair question - Blue Devil head gasket sealant
Spucketts replied to Coppertop's Pop's topic in RECENT TOPICS
I'm not a mechanic and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn last night...but...as a shade tree mechanic I've never has any luck with these "majic bullet", just dump it in and it works kinda stuff. However, comparing the cost of the sealant vs tearing the engine apart vs overheating and ruining the motor, it might be worth a shot. -
To install redlight cameras they have to give notice to the public and post signs at the intersection that they are enforcing via cameras at that location. They are more complicated that placing a camera overhead as they have a series of cameras that take pictures from several directions to show the light, the car, the tag, and the drivers face. But they also have to pass a law that states that the information gathered from these cameras is admissable in court. Cobb has installed cameras on busses to catch those that run the bus red lights but last I heard they hadn't passed a law that made th
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Another case. The law says you stop for the red lights on a school bus yet about twice every three weeks cars run the bus that stops for my kids. The problem is these cars are speeding or are being tailgated by someone that wants to go faster than the posted speed, bottom line, speeders. Well, the other day I stopped to talk with an officer running a speed trap on our street (purpose-stop speeders). I asked "I live just up the road, what can we do about cars running the red lights on busses?" His answer was "Well we're spread awful thin..." I didn't ask about their staffing issues I asked "wha
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Two problems with an ordinance, 1) it has to be enforcable and 2) someone has to be willing to enforce it. I've got a neighbor that doesn't believe that the animal control ordinances apply to his property and he lets his dogs run free. I've witnessed on many occations his dogs going after pedestrians and bicyclists to the point where the bicyclists had to actually defend themselves and/or put themselves in danger by moving into traffic causing cars to come to a screeching hault. You can't call aniimal control before this time or after that time or on Wednesdays or Sundays and even during regul