loki

to bad they don't want to use GM's truck 4cyl. 2.7 or a 2.9.... hm. you know, trade for the matrix clone deal. lol it looks to much like the camry to be called something else. but just a little time i looked at it. eh. kinda curious how it'll sell well, since ...all toyota customers that want utility will just buy a rav-4 or highlander or 4-runner... since T can't do wrong, excpet overlap and build hideous vehicles. hahaha

no worries everyone! it was the #@#%ing battery, it lasted ~8 years. damn it's a pain to replace, even worse than the 00 - 05 impalas

so when do we see the CTS-C-V with 600hp? hehe Very nice!!!

ok, so it's not the starter/solenoid. still pulsing power to everything quickly on and off. (hoping it's not in the steering column) anything else it could be?

if cellulosic ethanol is so great, hopefully "we" can stop having to subsidize it! this and renewable diesel should be the future of ICE's, if it's economical and widespread.

the headlights are...interesting, but look very weird with the rest of the front. the shifter, like a column shifter, but moving into the dash, trying to be a console shifter. *It's Alive!* too many button looking dots on the center column. the side profile looks Escapish. the seat color is actually kinda cool, but good, i don't know...

i'm sorry, but i don't know where you're going with this. i have a 3.1L v6. my battery isn't at fault, at least not yet.

well the 12.3V was just the battery, so it was fine. i can't check it running now. again, my dad thinks it's the solenoid, which we tried to unscrew to look at, but couldn't, so $35 for a starter off another car is just fine with me. then if it's not that.... then i might be screwed, or have to let it roll down into the street to let our van be able to move out of our carport.

no , that was with car off.

sounds like an expensive set up. i'm partial to polk db in my monte. the thetas also don't have the battery under the hood. ( not sure where though )

the improvement in power will be welcome for anyone in the market for a new truck, with a new dodge in a short list of trucks

Today i took the starter out, gonna get one from a local "salvage" yard. for <$40 it's a steal compared to ~$200 before the core rebate. have to wait till monday to get it. I'll do it in the morning so i can use my car in the afternoon. i'll let you know if i do all this work and it's not working still. lol

RP's highlights of the SC debate : if anyone's interested note: should/could this be a new topic? just on peoples ideas about what he says. McCain appears ~2:40 , ~4:48, and some from 5:00 to 6:00. (look at his mannerisms) edit: forgot you can't embed stuff on here.

had no Tahoe to haul the Tahoe? hehe

yes, you have that power when it consists of your ability to move or turn off something, your will. but what if someone was in a public park speaking about something you cared not to listen to, but you had to be there for some reason (couldn't get away from it, ie loud speakers or something) freedom from speech would allow you to shut the speaker up, freedom of speech means unless the person is disturbing the peace or other laws, there should be nothing you can do about it. does this make sense? yes, the tree has pagan origin and christians put Christmas on the 25th, the julain calander day of the solstice, to "replace" that festival for converting pagans. if it's reasonable, including others is fine. reasonable as in not dress up public buildings/areas like some decorating fanatics. lol tax exempt is bs, cause the irs shouldn't exist. at least not in times like these, the IRS is maybe useful for times like W W ( x ) and Lincoln had an income tax for the civil war (pretty sure, could be wrong), hopefully those circumstances never happen again.

...well I think there is a slight difference in what i said. but it also can go along with the libertarian view. Nobody has the right to force you to be religious, ie your personal life. but some people think that freedom from religion means that there shouldn't be a tree in a public building in december, and other such things like that. you may not espouse that idea, but there are people sue-ing to have stuff removed from buildings that have been there for "a long time" and it's just a waste of tax money for that to happen. ...took that off topic... let's compare it too.. freedom of speech and freedom from speech. do you think there's a difference of meaning in those statements? *recently heard about the "realID &#036;h&#33;e"* *sigh, shakes head*

Being young and nieve about what bush's policies were about in 2004, i voted for him. it was a mistake, but we don't know what a kerry presidency would've brought. we are forced into a "lesser of 2 evils" for president about >90 % of the time. (we've had...43 presidents, so i'd have to say washington wasn't one, but i couldn't vote for him.)

Clip of the SC debates where RP defends himself for "not being electable" and talks about what it means to be a "republican" so it was a peace treaty. how is that supposed to overrule the freedom OF religion, not freedom from religion?

nothing against your views, but did you, or anyone else watch the SC REP debate on "FAUX" news? i didn't see the first ~maybe 30 mins, but when McCain finished saying something that wasn't in response to an attack, he said what he wanted to, then gave a very irking smile, to me. it was one of those smile that says, *internal dialog in his mind* "keep talking.. oh yeah, oh yeah, .. now smile like you're feeding them &#036;h&#33; and they like it" and i missed some of it, but RP made the best statement, in my opinion, that "Let me see if I get this right. We need to borrow $10 billion from China, and then we give it to Musharraf, who is a military dictator, who overthrew an elected government. And then we go to war, we lose all these lives promoting democracy in Iraq. I mean, what’s going on here?"

i think this was posted a while back? no problem though

good job. i was just thinking.... why does anyone even bring up if the founders were religious or not. it doesn't matter. the documents they wrote have created the most powerful, free, and diverse country the world has now. supposedly the persian empire was quite free and prosperous (before they made the mistake of taking on the greeks). romans had quite some freedom for their time. if we don't stop waging war when we're not attacked, we're going to end up like these past empires. "we've" become divided, apathetic, and uncaring. when will enough of the public take note of this and demand change in unison. I hope this happens soon.

the constitution has liberty at it's heart. freedoms in the bill of rights are supposed to be protected by government, and ensured to all citizens. and the constitution was written to limit government. politicians swear to uphold and protect the constitution when they come into office. many , many politicians have not held to this pledge. about the founders not being religious... give proof, it's like huckabee saying they were preachers, it's vague enough to maybe be true, but finding evidence to support that... will you actually take time to do that? and besides, the principals the founders put into the Declaration and Constitution are intended to be catholic. ( little C for a reason, look it up ) but also the idea of self governing, on the individual level, is best, is backed by Catholic doctrine. I'm not telling you to convert, just saying that if religion backs the principals of this country (not individual views), is it to be denied they had any influence in the construction of these documents we should hold dearly to?

well it got worse this morning...didn't start w/i 2 secs and then it seemed like someone was pulsing the battery on and off, quickly. my dad looked at it and thinks it could be the starter solenoid. i thought my previous symptoms were caused by that... that'd make me feel like the &#036;h&#33; if i knew what it was several months ago and now i have more proof. LOL

so you're saying only facts can be used. facts aren't biased. and since you put opinions as = political, if that's totally true than every opinion on here violates our #2 "rule"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum this looks very good to me...at least as a guide.