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Homeless hubcaps. You see them on street corners, strewn along I-90, and loitering in parking lots. How do they get there? Do they just roll along until they can’t take it anymore and throw themselves from the wheels they’ve been attached to?
Last week I noticed my left front hubcap was missing. I can’t imagine anyone stealing a hubcap from an aging Ford Windstar (though my hubcaps are kinda sporty). I don’t remember hearing it fall off while I was driving. I haven’t hit anything, recently. The other three remain faithful. Was it something I said?
Share your own hubcap memories or theories here. Or perhaps you’ve got something more interesting to discuss.
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JamesBond on November 09 at 9:04 a.m.
We are reading reports about soldiers afraid to report the Ford Hood terrorist, despite clear evidence that he was crazy and probably a terrorist in the making. This morning, I saw this story that our own goverment has known for months about his terrorist connections. What is going on? This feels an awful lot like an inside job. I am really, really upset about what seems to be going on with President Obama's administration.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fort-ho…
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JeanieS on November 09 at 9:19 a.m.
I’ve often told Mechanic Man that it amazes me how children are drawn to him. He’s this big, muscle-bound, beefy white-haired guy that intimidates most anybody who meets him. He looks like he could pinch your neck like a little twig. Yet – kids adore him.
We visited my son yesterday while they had friends visiting. Their little boy, about three, was following his mother into the kitchen, when we heard him say in utter awe, “Santa Claus is here!!! He’s sitting on the couch!!!”
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Phaedrus on November 09 at 10:55 a.m.
the definition of oxymoron: “though my hubcaps are kinda sporty”
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hmoffsuite on November 09 at 11:50 a.m.
Today happens to be the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down. A historic event of immense proportions.
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Kage_Mann on November 09 at 1:05 p.m.
I used to live near a hubcap shop on 4th st., in the midtown area many years ago and it was run by a mexican(I'm not kidding). They didn't get very many customers and I used to think the business was a front for illegal activity. Ya' never know?
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Cis on November 09 at 1:41 p.m.
I AM MAD AS HELL AND NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE… I got an ad in the mail today from Verizon with the usual stuff…
Why am I MAD!!
Because when I opened it, it was in SPANISH!!! except for my name. The English was on the other side…. and THEN.. it shows what they have available on their television channels… and BOTH SIDES ARE IN SPANISH!!! NO ENGLISH!!!
And I went to see who sent this so I could write and complain… and his name is a SPANISH name… so you know how that letter would go over…
I really do try to be multi-language tolerant… even tho it bugs me to get a product with 8 different languages. BUT THIS WAS JUST TOO MUCH!!
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OrangeTV on November 09 at 2:01 p.m.
Cis, sounds like you could benefit from some Spanish learning software or something. That's what I did. Personally, I love seeing other languages in common use. I don't really see the big deal.
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Blue Meanie on November 09 at 2:10 p.m.
“This feels an awful lot like an inside job. I am really, really upset about what seems to be going on with President Obama's administration.”
What are you smoking? How does the Obama administration have anything to do with the shootings? And how on earth is it an “inside job”?
It looks to me far more like lots of people should have raised alarms, and didn't - either through timidity, political correctness run amok, or (as one fellow soldier said) because the shooter was fat and bald and not seen as a threat despite his inflammatory statements.
Pinning this on Obama is like pinnning Virginia Tech on George W Bush - it's ridiculous. If anyone is to blame (other than the perpetrator, of course) in our government, it is the military personnel who should have spoken out.
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Cis on November 09 at 2:13 p.m.
sorry, Orange, I am like th old dog… too old to learn new tricks.
I really do try to be language tolerant…but when I as an American.. raised in the English language..the language of my country and have done so for almost 70 years… I want my bills and ads in English. sorry.
Those who can speak muli-languages.. I think it is wonderful. And want families to teach their children their native language.. but please speak English to me… I don't expect to go to another country and have them speak English. If I want to be understood over there, then I better learn the language or get a translator….
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spokelooneh on November 09 at 3:42 p.m.
Got construction experience? You might consider moving to Canada…
“The Canadian housing market's surprising turnaround is spreading to new home construction as developers scramble to respond to a supply shortage that has sent pricing soaring for existing homes.
But any increase in construction on the new home side will likely not surface fast enough to feed the demand for housing that continues to be spurred on by record low interest rates.
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Monday there were 157,300 units constructed last month on a seasonally adjusted annualized basis, a 5.4% increase from a month earlier.”
http://www.financialpost.com/story.ht…
Or buy some stock in Canadian homebuilders.
“Perhaps Canadians are inherently more conservative than Americans and that has kept the market steadier but Don Lawby, the chief executive of Century 21 Canada, says we also have a more structured housing market.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/related/t…
Wow, “socialized” healthcare, AND a solid RE market due to heavy Government regulation on Canadian banks.
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fortboise on November 09 at 6:04 p.m.
It's a vast, right-wing conspiracy. We too have an aging Windstar with 3 hubcaps.
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Cindy H on November 09 at 6:06 p.m.
@fortboise: I knew it!
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OrangeTV on November 09 at 6:37 p.m.
Brr. It's so darned cold out there, I had to out on my put on my purple snood.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001…
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OrangeTV on November 09 at 6:38 p.m.
Oops, out on=put on. It's so darned cold, I can't even type.
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spokelooneh on November 09 at 6:58 p.m.
“As much as they love its look, many retailers, particularly in the U.S., aren't as in love with the snood's name, which can sound more like a Dr. Seuss character than a hot fashion item. Designer Chan Luu sells “infinity loops”;”
That's what fashion is. Recycling. “Infinity loops”.
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Cindy H on November 09 at 7:01 p.m.
I wanna snood! A scarlet snood!
(I'm pretty sure Santa is an HBO blurker)
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keithincda on November 09 at 8:57 p.m.
I just watched a show I taped on my DVR last Saturday and if you ever get the chance to watch it you need to. It was on KSPS (PBS) and was called “Americas Landlocked Navy” and is the story of Farragut Park and it's role in training sailors for WW II. Some absolutely amazing numbers were discussed…$120 million plus to build (1940 dollars), one of the best hospitals on the west coast with 2300 beds and 7 miles of corridors and the PX/Commissary sold 750,000 (3/4 of a million!) packs of cigarettes a month. For as large as it was in size and importance, hard to believe very little of it's structures are even left.
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spokelooneh on November 09 at 9:57 p.m.
Wow, there was a POW camp for Germans at Farragut. Who knew?
And almost 800 buildings?
Good article by Marianne Love:
http://www.mariannelove.com/Farragut….
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