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I updated some values to be a bit more correct, made sure all my avoidance formulae now use links to fields rather than hardcode them in case I need to change some values at 90.
For all those Warriors that understand the value of numbers, but just can't figure out how to make them work together ...
The Panda-Protector's Spreadsheet!!
Prot Warrior Skills p5.4.zip
The spreadsheet is (mostly) up-to-date with all the Mists of Pandaria mechanics. (see bottom for NYIs)
If you encounter any bugs or issues, post in this thread and I'll help you as much as I can.
Short explanation of the pages:
(Most should explain itself)
1. Stats
* Fill in all the yellow cells with (unbuffed) Armory numbers. The numbers next to it will show the effective in-raid numbers.
* Fill in boss damage for Damage Reduction tab.
* There are some initial fast-answer numbers here such as Parry/Dodge ratios, Austere vs Eternal, SB vs SBar,...
2. Talents&Buffs
* Tab to adjust raid buffs, talents, glyphs, set bonuses,...
* A small comparison between talents is listed, but they are relatively crude, as they don't take lost DPS from GCDs into account and assume you use them straight on the cooldown.
3. Abilities
* Detailled math on all numbers per ability. (Average Damage/Threat, actual crit chance,...)
* Allows you to set multiple target tanking as well as including procs into the initial skill for a per-button-press view.
* Has some Impending Victory numbers, especially on the results of its 10 Rage cost
4. Rotation
* Short table to calculate your rotation's total DPS & TPS (Deep Wounds is only added if you didn't include them into Dev/TC uses in your Abilities tab).
* Rage gain estimation for SB/SBar guesstimates.
* Perfect to check DPS from combat log parses or to adjust priorities/rotations on target dummies.
5. Damage Reduction
* All things defensive:
* Damage Reduction from Armor & Avoidance and how much bosses actually hit you for.
* Results of EHP, TankPoints (HP/Damage Reduction) and Burst Time (see link) models.
* Stat values for the above models for all stats, taking into account your talents & environment.
* Item Comparison tool for stat values of both TankPoints and Burst Time models (or a combination of both)
Changes since the last Cataclysm version:
* I've colored all "hidden/background" text blue grey. This includes hidden uptime tables, elixir lists and large parts of calculations that are repeated in several cells. Feel free to ignore those cells, they are only non-white so you don't accidently write over them. If you like reading that data, knock yourself out!
* Stats page now suggest an ideal parry rating value and parry/dodge ratio, based on your current dodge rating and optimal efficiency.
* Austere vs Eternal breakpoint calculation based on your current mastery levels.
* Some basic talent comparisons.
* You can opt to include procs into abilities, which funnels glyph, Deep Wounds & Ultimatum damage into the abilities that proc it.
* The damage reduction tab now includes an option for rage generation, including hit/expertise rating values.
* I had to up the Burst Time values to 1:10.000 because of how the model works with ratings & damage. The relative values are still the same.
* The base stamina values for Goblins and Blood Elves are rather high, but both official armoury and in game checks confirm that these are correct.
* Crit/dodge scaling from Agility is currently missing, I hope to add it once someone can find me some scaling data, although the impact is minimal.
* Spreadsheet is already updated for 5.4 (didn't have time to do a separate 5.3 version, sorry!). I will try to keep it updated for the people playing on PTR, but let me know if stuff like the Enrage ICD is not simulated as it is on the servers, please.
The following spreadsheet has some numbers on weapon enchants, which I made for a discussion at some point in 5.1. I have updated it to the RPPM changes that happened afterwards, which sums up the gains from all MoP enchants (even the cheapskate ones!!)
MoP Tank enchant sheet.xls
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I updated some values to be a bit more correct, made sure all my avoidance formulae now use links to fields rather than hardcode them in case I need to change some values at 90.
ah Airo, Fish Fish truck though with shouts and coming before fish and rev being more a truck than fish, perhaps it should be truck truck fish?
I have missed this spreadsheet so much.
Harsh Words and Steel: A Protection Warrior Guide
MoP RPS Calculator
Hunters, Just get a Sporebat, most LFRs will be missing that buff.
Well you still fish for rage and with HR, it's still a truck, right?
* I fixed the Vengeance guesstimate (was being divided by boss swing timer once too many, thanks for the spotting, theck!)
* Changed the SB vs SBar threshold to show as AP level. This is total AP, to get only Vengeance AP, simply remove the "+2*C6" part in the Cell B28.
* Before you're asking, with the default values in there, it still isn't (technicly) worth using SBar exclusively, as you lose too much rage from SB. The result with these values is roughly a 0,4% loss on overall damage reduction.
* With the Vengeance fix, hit/exp become on par with avoidance as long as you are capped on SB uptime.
*hit/exp assume you attempt to cap out SB first, and only then start using SBar. I'm still not sure if I should put in an override option on this or not and if so, how it should work, any thoughts on this anyone?
That should be it for now
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Hello Airo,
Do you have the ideal dodge/parry ratio up to date ? Since warrior caps were found to be different from prot pals ones.
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The Warrior caps are integrated into it with the last numbers I managed to 'borrow' from the blog posts of Theck over on sacredduty.net
What SS are you referring to?
I also need to update Deep Wounds & Revenge numbers as soon as I got some spare time.
Pretty sure he was using ss=spreadsheet
Ah yes, that would make sense.
Then yes, I'll update this thread throughout MoP (bar any major changes in my personal life), with a new post here every time I update significant changes.
Does somebody knows the exact vengeance calculation for the first hit we take by a boss ? Last evening, against the first add of the spirit king 10N, i've absorbed alone the two first massive attack (420000 hit, 180000 block). I didn't notice in real time at how many my vengeance dump (vengeance status bar was capped to 420000ap at the end of the figth), but all i know is my dps reach 700.000dps 5 sc after the pull with two Shield Slam at respectivly 1988k (yes 1.98M) and 1670k. You can check it on WoL. I think it could be an insane raiddps dump for this fight with a short enrage.
Ive tried to find the good formulation to reach 500k+ dps and 420000 vengeance ap with your spread sheet, but your formulation of vengeance take into account the base swing boss timer and i dont see how this variable could be take into account for the calculation of the vengeance at the first boss attack.
>> Here is the WoL <<
I filtred the dmg done and the dmg taken. We can see its the first massive attack which bump my vengeance because my SS goes from 35k to 1988k between this first attack. 2% of this attack (800k*0.02 = 16000) cant justify that insane vengeance bump, there is something else.
Either I'm missing something or it just doesn't make sense. Further looking into it you gained a debuff called Pillaged that increases your damage, but I still don't see how a 35k SS turns into a 1.98m crit with just stock vengeance and a 50% damage buff. Someone else better chime in on this I'm going to be of no use.
You had following buffs on you:
Avatar (+20% dmg)
Lesson of the Darkmaster (~9k AP)
Shield Block (assuming Heavy Repurcussions glyph)
We can also assume that you have the 4% vulnerability on the boss.
So we're looking at 1988750 damage
- Avatar = 1657292
- GoHR = 1104861
- 4% debuff = 1062366
- you crit = 531183
That means you need ~400k total AP for this 530k hit if it would be on a target with 0 armor.
With 17-20% reduction from armor, we're looking at ~620-640k hit. Let's ballpark it at 630k, which requires 475k AP.
Option 1: 'Magic' damage
Vengeance has a minimum of Damage Taken/3. So in this case you'ld be getting 160k AP from the 480k damage you took. Let's assume that it uses the 800k, and not the reduced, blocked value.
You're looking at around ~280k effective AP at that time, good for a raw damage value of ~375k. So that's coming up short just under 200k AP.
Option 2: Melee damage
Vengeance minimum is Unmitigated Damage / 7.5
With 60% reduction from armor, that ends up exactly the same as above.
it's even less if you only have ~55% reduction (divide the damage by 7.5/0.45 = 3.15 instead)
Option 3: Shadowfiend bugged it out
The boss did 1.6m damage, which at Dmg/3 = 530k AP. More than enough to get this high a value, with the armor option at 55% this is 508k.
On pets:
Generally, pets aren't included when it comes to damage/healing sharing, but they do take the damage/heals.
A simple example is that if I use my Shaman's Healing Rain on 6 Hunters with their pets out, I still do full healing on each target (6 is the cap), but I also heal the 6 pets for that full amount, effectively doubling the healing. Perhaps you got lucky and the Shadofiend messed up some internal stuff (seems weird, but hey, it definately could be as the Vengeance mechanics are pretty complicated)
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There are a few mistakes in your calculation (at least if I didn't understand anything wrong): The pillaged debuff shouldn't be on the boss, but only on players. ( http://www.wowhead.com/spell=118047/pillage )
The minimum is not a minimum. The DamageTaken/1.5 is the estimated equilibrium point and you get bumped up half as high as this (see http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...?page=186#3701 - even if it isn't this correct anymore, because those are the vengeance calculations before the change to unmitigated damage. (And also he never took 480k damage. To be honest I'm quite irritated, according to the dungeon journal massive attack should a) split and b) hit for 800k. It does hit him for 800k, mitigated by the .75 from defstance, but it also hits the Shadowfiend...(So it seems some kinds of pets aren't accounted for.)))
The normal value should be UnmitigatedDamageTaken/7.5 ( http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...?page=210#4185 )
(Even if it doesn't quite match with my short tests (Where it's more like damage/8 - but I've probably just missed some factor))
(If massive attack should count as spell, ... I'm not to sure how the actual initial vengeance should look - but I'd guess it should be more along the lines of the first link, so damageTaken/3)
There, fixed it, should be better now


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- 14 August 2012 11:20
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In the fifth week of Mark Allen's blog, City's Head of Academy speaks to us just a few short days before the season gets under way.
It was a really good performance from the under-18s in the match away at Rhyl on Wednesday. Playing against a men's side in front of 1,700 people was a good experience for them and I was really pleased with how they managed that environment to win the game 2-0.
Since my last post, we also competed at the Oberndorf u19 Turnier in Germany where we were just a goal away from qualifying for the final but it was still a fantastic experience for the players to again play against older players.
We're looking for many things from these pre-season tournaments, with results being just one element along with fitness, integrating players into our system and seeing how they stand up to being taken away from home for a long period of time.
I think the appointment of Atillio Lombardo as EDS manager can only help to tighten ties between the Academy, the EDS and the first-team. Obviously, his relationship with Roberto Mancini will be a factor, but so too will be the u18s and EDS regularly training at Carrington from first-year scholars up.
This means that players will have the opportunity to play in front of Roberto which gives the players an incentive to train hard and the manager can conveniently find out first-hand what kind of form the Academy boys are in.
We've worked very closely over the summer, having regular dialogues with Atillio and Technical Co-ordinator Christian Lattanzio to ensure that we're all singing from the same hymn sheet the mechanisms are in place for a successful season at u21 and u18 levels.
It's been wonderful to read so many positive things written about the Academy since we were granted Category 1 status by the Premier League.
It's been such a great team effort by everyone here and it's great that everyone's finding out about some of the hard work that all the team have put in.
As part of those EPPP plans, we'll now be in the new FA Premier Academy League, kicking off against Chelsea on Saturday. One of the best elements of this new league is that there is a minimum quota of games that have to be played at the team's first-team stadium.
I think this is a wonderful idea, as it gives the players not only a great experience but prepares them for life as a professional so that if the team comes and they're summoned for first-team duty, they're no way near as intimidated with the prospect in front of them.
Most of the under-18s home games will be played at Platt Lane on Saturday mornings at 11:00. I'd just like to take this opportunity to invite you all to come along and lend your support in the season ahead.
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The Gay Men's Chorus packed in as much of the psychedelic '60s as it could for its latest concert
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The Gay Men's Chorus of Washington's spring mainstage offering Love Is All You Need: A 1960s Extravaganza, performed last weekend at GWU's Lisner Auditorium, gave the group plenty of room to do more than just make music. Dancing, acting, multimedia -- all were employed in full force to hearken back to one of the most distinctive decades in the American experience.
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George Perkins is convinced that the insurance industry's incen- tive vehicle needs fixing, and for the past couple of years, he's been tinkering under the hood.
The problem, says Perkins, CEO of Financial Marketing Systems (FMS), Inc., is that incentive travel programs are geared only toward the elite achievers. "As important as national incentive conventions are--and they are critical for your big producers--they have no bearing on 90 percent of your agents," Perkins says. "If you can do anything to motivate that middle group of agents, production is going to be very positively affected."
With 51 years in the insurance industry and countless incentive programs under his belt, Perkins is trying a new motivation tactic: short-term individual incentives. "My assumption is that 25 percent of our agents could earn a short-term individual incentive," he says. "Now, just three percent make the national conventions."
FMS fills a particular niche in the insurance world. While it does design and sell some insurance products of its own, its primary business is to hire, train, and motivate independent agents to sell the insurance products of other companies. It currently has marketing agreements with Interstate Assurance Company, Commercial Union Life Insurance, American National Life Insurance Company, Security Life of Denver, Old Line Life Insurance Company of America, and, most recently, AFLAC.
Based in Nashua, NH, FMS delivers 500 independent agents from New England, 200 from Maryland, as well as some from California and Detroit. FMS-aligned agents are eligible for the incentive conventions run by the FMS client companies as well as those run by FMS. Typically, FMS trips dovetail with the client-company incentive, allowing top producers the chance to add three or four days onto an existing trip. And while Perkins will continue to offer these trips, he's working on a more inclusive way to motivate the field.
"I'm convinced that we're going to get more mileage--more financial returns--out of short-term programs that allow us to be flexible about how we reward people, but it's going to take some serious doing to make it work."
In fact, Perkins has already gotten a taste of how much work it's going to take. His first try at short-term, individual incentives in 1996 was not a big success. When one of the his client companies rolled out a new universal life product, he launched a five-month incentive program to generate excitement around the new policy option. Agents who met the goals could choose among three-day expense- paid trips at three different resorts: La Quinta (CA) Resort and Club; Marriott's Desert Springs Resort and Spa in Palm Desert, CA; and Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, Orlando, FL.
Without sharing exact figures, Perkins is clear that the results were disappointing. The number of qualifiers was lower than expected, and one resort, Marriott Desert Springs, didn't get a single taker. He's undeterred, however, and is expanding on the idea, with a number of major changes based on lessons learned from his initial try.
First, he's rethinking the grounds for the program. "I think the product affected the number of people who went on the trip. You need something really worthwhile to sell that has some sex appeal. There has got to be a reason for the incentive." For 1997, Perkins has identified a pension product and an index annuity so far that, he believes, have enough pizzazz to carry a short-term incentive program. Despite minimal success with his 1996 test, FMS may hold three short-term incentive programs this year. And all are likely to be more compact than his first try. Based on feedback from the 1996 program, Perkins now believes three-month--or even shorter--qualification periods will be more effective.
But the biggest change in the 1997 programs will be the breadth of the reward options. For the first time, FMS is working with an incentive house to allow winners to choose from among 40 different short trips. "Our locations weren't the problem last year," Perkins says. "We offered choices, but only limited choices." All the 1996 reward sites were golf-oriented and while golf is the number-one interest of FMS agents, the uniformity worked against the company. "You have to do a lot of research about how [your agents'] minds work," Perkins says.
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"I cussed out a teacher," Matthews said. "So they sent me here."
Matthews was required to attend a five-day in-house suspension program at the school, which is federally funded by a Safe and Supportive Schools grant. Known as an "S3 grant," this money is channeled to select schools as a trial before it is implemented elsewhere.
Alyse Pivovarnik, the S3 grant-coordinator at VVHS, said this grant has enabled the school to implement other programs, too, including an early warning system and a mandatory freshman program called Link Crew, which connects juniors and seniors to incoming freshman.
"It's aimed at creating a more positive school climate by building a bridge between the upperclassmen and the new students," Pivovarnik said.
She explained that the program creates an opportunity for certain students to be leaders in a capacity that normally they would not. Pivovarnik said that 10 freshman are assigned to one junior or senior "link leader" at their freshman orientation before the school year starts, and that they are expected to maintain a relationship with their leader throughout the entire year.
Chris Douglass, principal of VVHS, said the school has the second highest graduation rate in the High Desert and recently gained recognition by the U.S. News and World Report as one of the top schools in the nation. Douglass said that VVHS is a 90/90/90 school, meaning that 90 percent of students are socioeconomically disadvantaged, 90 percent are minority and 90 percent of students are meeting standards.
Another program made possible by the S3 grant is an early warning system — a customizable computer program that easily identifies at-risk 9th-graders and allows for early intervention. The software is a data-driven system that looks at academic performance, attendance and discipline.
"They say that socioeconomics is the number one thing that prevents kids from doing poorly in schools. Statistically speaking, they should not be as successful here, but they are," Douglass said.
Students who are identified as at-risk early into their high school years have a better chance of staying in school, according to Douglass. He also said that students who don't graduate high school are more likely to end up in prison, have shorter lifespans and be socioeconomically disadvantaged.
"If a kid forms a relationship with an adult at the school, their odds of success jump through the roof," Douglass said. "So instead of sending them home for a three- to five-day vacation, they come to school."
Matthews is a good example of how adult intervention can help turn a student's life around.
"I had been suspended about 20 or 30 times before this program," said Matthews, who was born and raised in Oakland before moving to the High Desert at the end of her sophomore year. "I was in and out of school all the time, getting in fights, getting all Fs ... it was bad."
Matthews credits the focused attention she received during a five-day suspension her junior year as a turning point in her life. While serving her in-house suspension, Matthews was introduced to Loretta Sanchez-Bell, a One2One mentor that helped Matthews identify the sources of her anger and why she felt the need to constantly defend herself.
"She observed how I was talking to people and although it took me awhile to come around, I eventually got used to it and began to open up," Matthews said.
Sanchez-Bell said that after students go through an in-house suspension, they are required to meet with the counselors one day a week after school for 12 weeks of "after care." Matthews has gone above and beyond that requirement, however, and comes to see Sanchez-Bell every day. Matthews, who is on track to graduate in June, said that she went from earning straight Fs to straight Bs.
"Not a day goes by that I don't talk to her and she doesn't understand," Matthews said. "It's changed my life. It's changed everything."
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I just had to check if that was Four Wheeler's project Dirt Clod peeking its nose into the Ultimate Revival picture of the yellow truck getting loaded on the flatbed ("Ultimate Revival," part 1, May '11). Sure looks like it wants to be seen again. I would love a revival of it. Hopefully with a better paintjob this time.
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I own 10 4x4 vehicles. I am the original cut-to-fit, paint-to-match expert, and I love to read your magazine. There is always something in it to make me grin.
I have read your death wobble stories and your suggestions of ways fix them. You left out the most important steps in diagnosis ("Death Wobble," Dec. '09). These steps are important: Have your buddy rock the steering wheel back and forth like a kid would play driving a car: moving all the slop in the steering wheel, hitting the end of each left then right cycle with force, but not enough to turn the tire more than an inch or so back and forth. Then, and only then, can you get under your rig and see where the bushings are moving.
Movement in the leaf spring bushing? Tie-rod ends moving with the arm they are attached to simultaneously? Draglink or pitman arm test the same way simultaneously? Steering box mounting bolts and broken framework under the steering box are the cause 70 percent of the time. Look at the biscuit or coupler to the steering wheel shaft. Look for loose frame rivets on GM and Fords especially. Strut rod bushings and bracketry and crossmember mounts under the engine holding the frame halves together get loose. How about the Panhard bar bushings and mounts?
You need to jack it up, taking the load off of the ball joints, and then check for play. Hands on top and bottom, then push and pull for sloppy joints or trunnions, then put a 3-foot prybar under the tire from the side and pry up against the tire. Release a couple times and look for sloppy ball joints or trunnion bushings. You had most of it. I just had to add a little more.
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Good points, Loren. All these items need to be checked, but swapping tires can show how bad your own set really is. Thanks for the advice.
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I thought I had seen it all. Then I read your article "Van Hack" (May '11). Leave it to Petersen's to take a rare piece of automotive history (not just a 4WD van, but one with the exceptionally rare twin I-beam front axle) and destroy it for the sake of selling magazines. To make matters worse, the article seems to make a mockery of safety. People cutting sharp metal without the proper hand and eye protection, blasting through running water, and not a seatbelt or helmet in sight (that metal pie pan on the passenger's head does not constitute a helmet!). The only thing missing was someone welding in sandals with a Corona in his hand. Is this really the example that you want to set?
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Darn, we couldn't find a photo of us welding with Corona in hand, so we missed the trifecta. The fact of the matter is that you didn't buy the derelict van while it was for sale for nearly a year, and no one else did either. Not only that, but this country is founded on the principle of freedom, which means that a person has the freedom to purchase a rusted-to-the-bone, unserviceable van (rare or not) and do what he wants with it. Why didn't you save this van? And maybe we will take all the running gear and put it in another rust-free van and turn it into a museum piece. Of course, you will be funding the project, correct?
Do we agree with destroying a piece of history? No, but we detest those who try and strip away our freedoms and dictate what we can and can't do. What's next? Every Ford Fairmont made in that rare sea-foam green color with gold interior has to be protected? In the words commonly attributed to Voltaire, "I may not agree with what you write, but I will defend to the death your right to do so."
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A little over a week ago, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood addressed the National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C. and said some of the most supportive things ever about cycling. Specifically, he told the audience composed of cycling advocates that his vision called for cyclist and pedestrians to be seen as equal to cars when planning transportation.
It was a huge moment that you might've missed because advocacy is usually an eat-your-spinach kind of thing that's full of weirdo acronyms no one really understands. It's wonky, abstract and I can already hear you saying "Bor-ing!" in your best Homer Simpson voice while reading this.
But stuff like the Bike Summit is important because it puts cyclists face to face with congresspeople and other people, like LaHood, who have the power to steer billions of dollars in funding to bike paths and lanes that help you not get killed when you ride.
In all the coverage of healthcare legislation, I missed the response, but LaHood's comments didn't go over all that well in some circles.
Not a week after LaHood's speech, at a House Appropriations Subcommittee Committee to Study Forming a Committee on Committees session* Ohio representative Steven LaTourette suggested, to laughs from others present, that LaHood might've been on drugs when he made his speech.
"What job is going to be created by having a bike lane?" he grumbled.
That's kind of funny considering that on his official web site he touts his own prowess in securing federal dollars for bike paths. Perhaps Congressman Steve-O needs some drugs himself. Like memory pills. Or perhaps he's well aware of the contradiction and is just following Washington rules: it's only pork when it's in someone else's district.
Not to be outdone, Iowa's Tom Latham (ranking Republican on the committee) covered himself in Spock-like logical glory by stating that every biker is "one less person paying into the transportation trust fund."
Tom! Hey Tom! Over here in the peanut gallery!
Little lesson for you: most cyclists own cars. And so we pay the same sales taxes, registration and ownership taxes and gas taxes as any other car owner. So if we're paying all that but we're using our bikes instead, what's actually happening is we're subsidizing all the people who drive everywhere and cause wear and tear on roads and add to congestion, which are the two central reasons we need money to repair and expand roads.
Not to mention the fact that the Federal Highway Trust Fund gets revenue from a number of sources, not least the General Fund, which itself is composed of income taxes and other revenue sources. Of course you knew that, right? Or did you think that cyclists don't have jobs and we just spend all our time riding around wearing brightly colored tight-fitting clothing?
Where am I going with this? It's showtime.
LaHood went out on a limb for cyclists. He said stuff no transportation secretary's ever said, and is backing it up with action. And now he's getting hammered on it by a bunch of idiotic congressmen (fellow Republicans) who apparently don't even understand how the projects they fund get funded.
So tell 'em to back off, if you live in their respective districts:
Steven LaTourette (Ohio's 14th District, covers Cleveland, Akron and all or part of seven counties)
Tom Latham (Iowa, 4th District, mostly rural and small towns but also Ames and some Des Moines suburbs)
Not from Ohio or Iowa? Check out the rest of the committee members here (from California – 2, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Texas – 2, Ohio again, North Carolina, Arkansas, Massachussetts and Virginia) and, if you see your duly elected congresspersontype listed, tell them
A) You didn't think LaTourette's comment was funny and
B) You support bicycling, LaHood, apple pie and freedom, and why do they hate America and love terrorism?
Or something like that. Go forth. Exercise your constitutionally protected right to petition your government for redress of grievances.
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June 12th, 2013 12:29 PM║ Posted By: Mike Mitchell ║ Permalink
║ Schools: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt
Tags: Alabama, Auburn, Bernie Fine, College News, Jason Smith, Kailo Moore, Matthew Thomas, MLB, Tide
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