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Mayor David Cadle presented a plaque from the Military Order of the Purple Heart to City Council President Ben Iannucci III at a recent meeting.
"It's a recognition the city has taken upon itself to honor all the fallen veterans of all the wars and all the military personnel who are on active duty and are Purple Heart recipients," said Bill Everett of Baker, commander of the Military Order of the Purple Heart Region 4. "It's quite an honor, quite an honor indeed."
The Military Order of the Purple Heart now lists Crestview and Okaloosa County on its website map of nationwide Purple Heart Cities and Counties. Okaloosa was the state's first Purple Heart County and Crestview is the county's first Purple Heart City.
Florida only has a handful of Purple Heart Cities, "and less than 25 (exist) throughout the United States," said Everett, whose region encompasses eight southern states. The closest communities that share the honor are Leon County and Tallahassee, and Pike County and Troy, Ala., according the order's website.
"How fitting it was for Crestview to come onboard, because there's an awful lot of retired military and active-duty personnel in the Crestview area," Everett said. "Crestview has given up a lot of personnel in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East."
The ornate plaque bears color graphics of an American bald eagle, the U.S. Constitution and the Purple Heart medal. It will hang in City Hall.
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Throwin' Heat Although he grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Kalis' automotive lust centered on European-style GT cars: autobahn warriors with forced-induction engines, prominent fender flares and air dams, and big rear wings, where 150 mph is a quaint cruising velocity and top speeds approach 200 mph. He's owned two such rides, a supercharged BMW M5 and a twin-turbocharged Porsche 996; neither, however, could settle the "fastest car" issue in his favor, at least amongst his local scene and in his hometown club, South Side Street Cars. But Josh met a willing and skilled collaborator when he took the M5 to a dyno session at All Speed Performance in nearby Muskegon where he met Brian Moat. Game for the task, the ASP crew did something no one else had been able to do: get Josh to go domestic. "The guys at All Speed assured me that they could build a musclecar that would outperform my BMW and my Porsche, and I would look a lot cooler doing it," Josh recalls. Just like that, it was on.
Starting with a '69 Camaro shop car and a rendering from Kris Horton that powerfully influenced the final shape of the car, the next nine months were a bit crazy. Taking in that body-it's '69 Camaro all the way, only more so, and that's exactly what Josh and Brian wanted. "Horton accentuates lines in his rendering," Josh recalls, and the team went with it. "We didn't want to lose any of line," he added, referring to the fender flares. "We just wanted to pull the line out, have the exact same line extended." But with Josh's affinity for German widebody cars, the flares were just the beginning, and the custom touches flowed: a front spoiler, turbo vents in the hood, the rear quarter vents, the R1 motorcycle fuel door on the rear quarter...and that rear diffuser arrangement with center exit exhaust, a setup that required cutting out the trunk floor and repositioning the fuel tank. Appropriately, all this bodywork is where Josh showed his dedication to the project. "He came in pretty much everyday, excited about the build," Moat recalls. "He'd do finish work; he was like an entry-level employee. We just told him if you ruin it, you can fix it." Long story short: although grinding and carving are common in the skateboarding world, Josh had never practiced their automotive counterparts before starting this build, so plenty of that "we can fix it" happened, especially when he decided to shave the drip rails. As your eyes tell you, though, it all worked out.


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People often say it's an addiction, modifying your car. "Mod Fever," they call it. And once you get a little taste of making that car just a bit better, more often than not, you're hooked.
The trap many fall into is going willy-nilly making the mods they can make, rather than the ones they should make. Instead of thoughtfully devising a plan of action, taking into consideration their ultimate goals, those who randomly bolt on parts because they're the latest rage or simply look cool often wind up with a car that performs the same as or-shudder-worse than it did before they screwed with it.
Steve Kepler is not among those who have fallen into the wholesale-modification trap. Much has been written of the C6 Z06's track prowess, and according to Kepler, it's all true. "There really isn't much this car needs to run hard at the track all day," the Waukesha, Wisconsin, resident explains. Having taken delivery of a factory-fresh black C6Z in March 2006, Kepler was no doubt tempted to whip out the credit card and start throwing parts at it. Instead, the sales rep for Johnson Controls (the parent company of Optima Batteries) patiently got to know his car, putting it through its paces at nearby Road America, evaluating its strengths and making note of its weaknesses. Soon, a plan came into focus.
Grunt is one thing the LS7 has in spades, but even so Kepler couldn't ignore the relatively simple power gains to be found in easing its breathing. The addition of a K&N air filter was an obvious choice. The wealth of aftermarket options for exhaust components made the job of choosing those pieces far less straightforward. After some research, Kepler selected a pair of American Racing's stainless-steel headers and teamed them up with a Magnaflow exhaust system. "The headers were installed by my local Dealer, Andrew Chevrolet, in May 2009. They fit perfectly and, along with the Magnaflows, sound great. The installer noted that these were the best-fitting headers he had ever installed. I agree that the form, fit, and function are perfect," Kepler says.
While the intake and exhaust changes made a positive impact on Kepler's ownership experience, it soon came time for him to turn his attention to more pressing matters-namely the braking system. While the motoring press (and, indeed, most owners) claim the big, upgraded brakes of the Z06 are more than up to the task of slowing the car, those who exercise theirs on-track know better. "The OE brakes change shape when run at high speed and the heavy braking that accompanies it, such as at Road America," Kepler says. Hard-core Z06 track rats know that this deformation leads to tapered pads and all sorts of attendant braking woes. The only real solution is an upgrade.
"The StopTech brakes were installed in September 2007 so we could test them in the Silver State 0-100-0 competition. The StopTech group showed great support by flying the brakes to us in Las Vegas, and we installed them in the parking lot at Sam's Town in a few hours," Kepler says. The install was completed just in time to hustle the car to Ely for the event. "We won and had the shortest overall distance." Kepler's Z completed the 0-100-0 run in just 11 seconds, covering only 1,218 feet in the process and generating 1.42 g's of deceleration force. "Needless to say, the brakes' performance has far exceeded my expectations." Kepler was also Sixth in the Silver State's 2007 standing-mile competition, with a top speed of 163 mph. The following year, with his younger brother, Mike, co-driving, Kepler won the 145-mph class at the Silver State with an average speed of 144.9986 mph.
With both the go and whoa addressed, Kepler next focused his attention to maximizing cornering traction. For this, he turned to Pfadt Race Engineering. Pfadt recommended a set of its adjustable coilover shocks, which feature 16 different damping settings that are easily adjustable. The shocks' threaded bodies allow the user to make ride-height adjustments independent of spring preload. To give the car a crisp feel with decreased body roll, a pair of Pfadt sway bars feature torsional stiffness nearly three times that of the stock C6Z bars. In order for the car's balance to be tuned, the Pfadt sway bars are rate-adjustable. Lastly, the sloppy rubber suspension bushings were replaced with Pfadt's polyurethane/aluminum units.


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KingShamus' Best of 2012
Posted by KingShamus on December 31, 2012
Hey, here's some of my old crap! If there's any consolation, I picked two or three posts from each month. That should limit the suckage. I know, this is sorta lame, but if I Instapundit can do it, so can I.
Mitt Romney Sucks And I Miss Reagan
Music Monday Zep – 'We're Gonna Groove" by the mighty Led Zeppelin
Beer Review – Assorted Samuel Adams Winter Suds
Mike Bloomberg's Very Busy Week
Presidential Election Doomwatch–Placing The Blame For Mitt Romney's Ascendency
Support Conservative Political Mommy Bloggers!
Ameritopia and the Fable of The Frogs
Barack, Trayvon and The 2012 Election
President Barack 'Dog Meat' Obama Is An Admitted Dog Meat Eater Who Has Eaten Dog Meat
Wait, Faster Than Light Travel Isn't Hip in Science Fiction Anymore?
Music Review – 'Harmonicraft' by Torche
DeWayne Wickham: Get Back On The Democrat Plantation, Gay Republicans!
Municipal Debt Bombs: The Other Source Of Fiscal Collapse
Because Fashion Is A Passion For The With-It And Hip
Grade School Bully Gets Bullied By His Teacher Who Is In Fact A Bully
The Shootings At Aurora-A Real Villain and Real Heroes
Hey Everybody! 'The Obama Effect' Is Coming Out Today!
General Electric and Barack Obama: The Magical Relationship Continues
Why Clint Eastwood's Republican Convention Speech Worked
Nathan Lane: Prince Barry's Court Jester
Hey @MSNBC! Here Are All The Speeches You Didn't Cover From Last Night's #RNC.
NFL Replacement Refs Making The Game's Faults All Too Obvious
The US Doesn't Have To Fix The Middle East
Who Could've Foreseen The Highly Unlikely Scenario Of Terrorism At The US Consulate In Benghazi?
#MyFirstTime–Best Political Ad…EVAH?
(Really, can't we skip this month? It was sorta yucky.)
Mayor Mike Bloomberg: "The NYC Marathon is on; let the boroughs eat running shoes" (Update!)
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Living And Breathing Left-Wing Politics
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Okay folks, there you have it.
BDKS 2012 is done. On to the new year. Thank God.
Also, thanks for stopping by Blog De KingShamus. The readers and commenters are who make this place cool. For that I am humbled and grateful. Happy New Year and may your 2013 be full of happiness, success and a fully-stocked MRE bin.
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December 31, 2012 at 8:59 am
Great stuff, KS! Here's hoping you have another great year!
Infidel de Manahatta said
Um. Yeah, I dropped by because I heard you had pictures of naked girls. Um. Where's the naked girls?
bunkerville said
So much for rule 5.
bunni1 said
This is a great idea, and you sure had a wonderful, prolific year, King Shamus.
I hope you have a super great New Year in 2013.
Thank you for all your encouragement, and support of me with my illness! I am grateful to have you as a friend. God Bless You! ` Bunni ;-)


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See the introduction and links to all installments at the top of my John Calvin, Calvinism, and General Protestantism web page; also the online version of the Institutes. Calvin's words will be in blue throughout. All biblical citations (in my portions) will be from RSV unless otherwise noted.
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Note the implied circular argument of the title: "these great figures complained, and so this proves the papacy itself was a corruption" (as Calvin believes and is strenuously arguing throughout this chapter). But as we have seen, Pope St. Gregory the Great and St. Bernard of Clairvaux were firm believers in papal supremacy. Obviously, then, whatever excesses or shortcomings occurred in practice, they did not arrive at Calvin's conclusion, and so remain far more "Catholic witnesses" than "Protestant" ones. This happens time and again in the desperate Protestant appeal to (revisionist) history.
But that I may not be forced to discuss and follow out each point singly, I again appeal to those who, in the present day, would be thought the best and most faithful defenders of the Roman See, whether they are not ashamed to defend the existing state of the Papacy, which is clearly a hundred times more corrupt than in the days of Gregory and Bernard, though even then these holy men were so much displeased with it.
The office is not overthrown by corruption, since it was instituted by Christ and will be preserved by Him. In earlier sections of his Book IV (1:13-17, 1:24-29, and 2:1), Calvin understood full well the distinction between permanent office and corrupt individual officeholder, but for some reason he doesn't apply that to the papacy, which he wants to eliminate.
Gregory everywhere complains (Lib. 1 Ep. 5; item, Ep. 7, 25, &c.) that he was distracted above measure by foreign occupations: that under colour of the episcopate he was taken back to the world, being subject to more worldly cares than he remembered to have ever had when a laic; that he was so oppressed by the trouble of secular affairs, as to be unable to raise his mind to things above; that he was so tossed by the many billows of causes, and afflicted by the tempests of a tumultuous life, that he might well say, "I am come into the depths of the sea." It is certain, that amid these worldly occupations, he could teach the people in sermons, admonish in private, and correct those who required it; order the Church, give counsel to his colleagues, and exhort them to their duty. Moreover, some time was left for writing, and yet he deplores it as his calamity, that he was plunged into the very deepest sea. If the administration at that time was a sea, what shall we say of the present Papacy?
So for Calvin, corruption gets worse and worse till he feels compelled to throw out the "baby" (the office of the papacy) with the corrupt "bathwater" of abuses of individual popes. This is very shoddy (and quite unbiblical) reasoning.
For what resemblance is there between the periods? Now there are no sermons, no care for discipline, no zeal for churches, no spiritual function; nothing, in short, but the world.
All is extremes, in Calvin's eyes.
And yet this labyrinth is lauded as if nothing could be found better ordered and arranged. What complaints also does Bernard pour forth, what groans does he utter, when he beholds the vices of his own age?
That's because Bernard was a real reformer, not a bogus one like Calvin, who "reforms" by eliminating institutions and doctrines that had been believed continuously by the Church for nearly 1500 years.
What then would he have done on beholding this iron, or, if possible, worse than iron, age of ours?
The same as he did when he lived: call for repentance and reform of the papacy: not abolishing it. Is Calvin foolish enough to actually think otherwise? We've already documented how St. Bernard was a solid supporter of the supremacy of the papacy (IV, 7:18-21). There had been several periods at least as decadent and corrupt as the 16th century. They didn't cause saints to proceed as Luther and Calvin did, with their bulldozers and theological / ecclesiological demolition crews.
How dishonest, therefore, not only obstinately to defend as sacred and divine what all the saints have always with one mouth disapproved, but to abuse their testimony in favour of the Papacy, which, it is evident, was altogether unknown to them?
This is a masterpiece of sophistical redefinition. In the first place, no true Catholic reformer or defender will disagree about the corruptions that St. Bernard decries, and it is dishonest to pretend that they would. Catholics then and now defend the office and institution of the papacy, while detesting any sins committed by individual popes. What is so difficult to comprehend about that? But for Calvin, corruption is the essence of a thing (at least of any and all Catholic things), as long as its degree reaches a point where Calvin has had enough, and is willing to ludicrously overreact by equating a thing with its excesses, and thus, discarding it.
By the same token, manifest excesses the new denominational, sectarian system brought about by Luther's appeal to individual subjectivism (always, of course, piously cloaked in the language of "Scripture Alone" and "perspicuous Scripture") -- that Luther and Calvin both abominated -- would mean that Protestantism should be discarded because of its internal corruptions (or consistent developments that bring into question original premises). But no corruption in his system is enough to get Calvin to even question it, let alone call for its abolition. Any corruption of practice in Catholicism, on the other hand, is sufficient to call for drastic measures.
Although I admit, in respect to the time of Bernard, that all things were so corrupt as to make it not unlike our own.
How convenient. St. Bernard did not at all arrive at the conclusion that Calvin did, so why does he keep citing him? I submit that it is because he thinks he can make rhetorical and sophistical hay out of citing the Great Man, even though his views do not ultimately support Calvin's mission. Calvin cleverly acts as if the contrary is the case, and that St. Bernard, were he alive in Calvin's time, would be magically transformed into a good Protestant (just like all Calvinists absurdly think would be the case with St. Augustine).
But it betrays a want of all sense of shame to seek any excuse from that middle period—namely, from that of Leo, Gregory, and the like—for it is just as if one were to vindicate the monarchy of the Cæsars by lauding the ancient state of the Roman empire; in other words, were to borrow the praises of liberty in order to eulogise tyranny.
But this argument works at cross-purposes to Calvin's aim: to show the essential illegitimacy of the papacy, so that it could be eliminated. He himself argues that the Church can stand corruption in its boundaries without ceasing to be what it is. But he won't allow the same state of affairs for the papacy. The papacy was either instituted by Christ or it was not. Catholics provide many arguments affirming that indeed it was. Calvin deals with those in only a grossly inadequate, dismissively cursory fashion. But that is where the heart of the dispute lies. Calvin thinks that the papacy of his time was to the papacy of Leo's and Gregory's time, like the late Roman emperors were to the original Roman Republic (i.e., a thoroughgoing corruption). But he has yet to remotely demonstrate this. It sounds good (to his fan club and cheerleaders, then and now), but he hasn't proven it.
What Calvin wants to assume for the sake of argument, is in fact, true.
that while he was the judge of all causes and all men, he was subject to the judgment of none.
Popes could be, and were, rebuked, by saints and ecumenical councils. But it doesn't follow that they were not supreme in authority.
Let even more be conceded to them if they will, I answer, in one word, that none of these things avail if there be not a Church and a Bishop at Rome. They must of necessity concede to me that she is not a mother of churches who is not herself a church, that he cannot be the chief of bishops who is not himself a bishop.
This is fallaciously ingenious as well: simply declare out of the blue that there is no longer either a church or a bishop at Rome, and Catholicism collapses by default. What God had preserved and blessed all those years, suddenly no longer is. God changed His mind; so Calvin would have us believe. That's a pretty amazing thing for a sovereign, omniscient, foreknowing Being to do.
Would they then have the Apostolic See at Rome?
The bottom line and heart of the matter is not what human beings want, but what God willed and protected and preserved.
Let them give me a true and lawful apostleship.
That is true which has preserved the handed-down teaching. Catholicism fully did that; Protestantism did only in part. This was why the Church rejected Luther's new plan for what Christianity supposedly was.
Would they have a supreme pontiff, let them give me a bishop. But how? Where will they show me any semblance of a church? They, no doubt, talk of one, and have it ever in their mouths. But surely the Church is recognised by certain marks, and bishopric is the name of an office.
That's correct. And one of the major marks is orthodoxy and continuity of Tradition. The Church is (as the Nicene Creed states) "one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic." Calvin wants to get rid of the "apostolic" mark by redefining it ("apostolic" is now what Calvin and his ilk say it is, rather than what the Fathers and unbroken Tradition of the Church decree). "Catholic" means universal. It is a farce to view Protestantism as in any way "universal." As Luther cried, "there are as many sects as there are heads." How can that be "universal"? Protestants couldn't agree amongst themselves from the beginning and this has always been the case. That bears upon the mark of oneness as well. As for "holy," Luther admitted that Protestants were no holier than Catholics, so they had no advantage there, either. Protestantism thus fails to possess the true marks of the Church, as Catholicism possesses.
I am not now speaking of the people but of the government, which ought perpetually to be conspicuous in the Church. Where, then, is a ministry such as the institution of Christ requires?
In the same place where it was in the seven churches of the book of Revelation, where there was all kinds of corruption (by Christ's own report), yet our Lord Jesus still referred to them as "churches" didn't He? So God does it one way, Calvin a much different way.
Let us remember what was formerly said of the duty of presbyters and bishops. If we bring the office of cardinals to that test, we will acknowledge that they are nothing less than presbyters. But I should like to know what one quality of a bishop the Pope himself has? The first point in the office of a bishop is to instruct the people in the word of God; the second and next to it is to administer the sacraments; the third is to admonish and exhort, to correct those who are in fault, and restrain the people by holy discipline. Which of these things does he do? Nay, which of these things does he pretend to do? Let them say, then, on what ground they will have him to be regarded as a bishop, who does not even in semblance touch any part of the duty with his little finger.
If indeed the present pope at the time Calvin wrote didn't do these things, then he failed in his duty. It doesn't follow that there is no pope, anymore than false prophets "proved" there were no true disciples, or wolves in sheep's clothing proved there were no true sheep (Christians). This is elementary. So how can Calvin fail to comprehend it? I submit that it is because he wants no papacy; therefore invents fallacious arguments to further his goal that was already set in his will and emotions and self-interest. Otherwise, I am at a loss to understand how such groundless, illogical, self-contradictory argument can be set forth with a straight face.
It is not with a bishop as with a king; the latter, though he does not execute the proper duty of a king, nevertheless retains the title and the honour; but in deciding on a bishop respect is had to the command of Christ, to which effect ought always to be given in the Church.
Why, then, doesn't our Lord Himself do this (Revelation 1:20 - 3:22)? Presumably all seven of the churches in Revelation had some form of Church government. Even granting for the sake of argument that they were not bishops in the full Catholic sense, Calvin wants to deny to the Roman church the status of church altogether (let alone preeminent one), because of what he regards as intolerable corruption. Why, then, didn't Jesus do that with these seven churches? He doesn't deny that they deserve that title. They were committing every sin in the book, as were the Galatians and Corinthians, whom Paul rebuked, while still regarding them as valid churches.
Paul even goes beyond that. He acknowledges the office of the Jewish high priest and calls himself a Pharisee (Acts 23:1-6), even after his conversion, just as Jesus had upheld the continuing authority of the Pharisees, right before lambasting their corruption (Matthew 23:1-3). Therefore, offices (even the papal office) continue, and Calvin is soundly refuted from Holy Scripture and the earliest Christian practice.
Let the Romanists then untie this knot.
I just did. Let the Calvinists tie it up again without doing violence to Holy Scripture.
I deny that their pontiff is the prince of bishops, seeing he is no bishop.
Calvin's individual opinion is of no import. He has no authority to proclaim this, and his arguments can't survive even a little scrutiny, even if he supposedly had any authority.
This allegation of mine they must prove to be false if they would succeed in theirs.
I dare say that I'm having little difficulty doing so, and I am a nobody.
What then do I maintain? That he has nothing proper to a bishop, but is in all things the opposite of a bishop. But with what shall I here begin? With doctrine or with morals? What shall I say, or what shall I pass in silence, or where shall I end?
Yes; he wants his readers to believe that there is such a mountain of evidence on his side, that he scarcely knows where to begin. But he does very poorly when he actually ventures out into the land of reasoned biblical and historical argument.
This I maintain: while in the present day the world is so inundated with perverse and impious doctrines, so full of all kinds of superstition, so blinded by error and sunk in idolatry, there is not one of them which has not emanated from the Papacy, or at least been confirmed by it.
More extreme, unsubstantiated language, which is the mark of the propagandist and sophist . . .
Nor is there any other reason why the pontiffs are so enraged against the reviving doctrine of the Gospel,
. . . as Calvin redefines that term, of course . . . as if there were no "Gospel" before he and Luther arrived on the scene.
why they stretch every nerve to oppress it, and urge all kings and princes to cruelty, than just that they see their whole dominion tottering and falling to pieces the moment the Gospel of Christ prevails.
As for cruelty, that was by no means confined to Catholics, as I have documented in dozens of papers by now.
Leo was cruel and Clement sanguinary, Paul is truculent. But in assailing the truth, it is not so much natural temper that impels them as the conviction that they have no other method of maintaining their power. Therefore, seeing they cannot be safe unless they put Christ to flight, they labour in this cause as if they were fighting for their altars and hearths, for their own lives and those of their adherents.
Of course, all Catholics had to be evil devils, to actually deign to fight for their tradition. Imagine that! What wicked fellows! They fought Christ Himself. But the Calvinist minions had Christ on their side as they went about stealing churches., smashing stained glass, organs, statues of Mary and Jesus Christ, and outlawing the Mass, and exiling Catholics, and drowning Anabaptist Protestants as seditious rebels. Who could doubt it? This is why it must be revealed that this sort of intolerance was rampant among Protestants as well, because Calvin's argument here (commonly heard in our time) takes for granted that it was not. It's based on provable historic falsehood.
What then? Shall we recognise the Apostolic See where we see nothing but horrible apostacy?
That's all Calvin sees because it is convenient to his argument.
Shall he be the vicar of Christ who, by his furious efforts in persecuting the Gospel, plainly declares himself to be Antichrist?
Why doesn't Calvin provide examples of a pope "persecuting the Gospel"? Surely that must be easy to do, if things are so beyond all redemption, as he claims. But all he can do is make bald assertions.
Shall he be the successor of Peter who goes about with fire and sword demolishing everything that Peter built?
Great melodramatic effect, and exactly zero substance, argument-wise . . .
Shall he be the Head of the Church who, after dissevering the Church from Christ, her only true Head, tears and lacerates her members?
Calvin would have made a great politician or used-car salesman.
Rome, indeed, was once the mother of all the churches, but since she began to be the seat of Antichrist she ceased to be what she was.
And what year did this momentous event take place? Isn't it interesting that in anti-Catholic hit pieces like this, we hear this sort of definite assertion, but never a date at which it supposedly occurred. Rest assured, so Calvin tells us, that Rome (Babylon the Great) has fallen. It assuredly fell, but we know not when . . . Is that supposed to impress any man of reason, on either side of the sad debate?


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I've been various reviews and all 3 coolers seems to be excellent.
For me I'm leaning towards the water cooled ones as they look better in the case, and more room.
The problem is reading real-life experiences of the H80i & 920 seem to be flaky at best, loads of problems it seems
Whilst I've not heard anything bad with the Noctua, it's just the size of it that seems to be the issue.
If you own or HAD to one one of the three, what would you go for any why?