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Cult Nails I Got Distracted Nail Lacquer ($10.00 for 0.50 fl. oz.) is described as a "black jelly polish with holographic glitter interrupted by intense green glitter." It's an inky black base color with green-teal micro-glitter and holographic shimmer. I couldn't think of any dupes for this one (not to say there may not be some–I would love your input!), and the closest I could come up with was NARS Night Breed, which is similar in composition, but it's all silver shimmer/glitter.Read Full Review
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Cult Nails Deal With It Nail Lacquer ($10.00 for 0.50 fl. oz.) is described as a "lime green loaded with gold shimmer." It's an electric lime green with subtle yellow undertones and golden chartreuse shimmer. The closest dupe I could think of was China Glaze Cha Cha Cha, which isn't quite as bright, and it is definitely less pigmented–it also has more shimmer (almost more metallic-like). China Glaze Kiwi Cool-ada gets the level of brightness, but it's a much lighter and less yellow-toned green.Read Full Review
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Cult Nails Annalicious Nail Lacquer ($10.00 for 0.50 fl. oz.) is described as a "shimmery red with an orange influence packed full of red and gold shimmer." It's a really rich, intensely ruby-shimmered orange-based red. Cult Nails Evil Queen is a little lighter, no shimmer. China Glaze Poinsettia is a cream and less intense. Chanel Rouge Carat has a finer shimmer and is blue-based. Essie Too Too Hot is a bit brighter. Zoya Lisa is bluer with larger shimmer. Nubar Rosso is darker with larger shimmer.Read Full Review
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Cult Nails Charming Nail Lacquer ($10.00 for 0.50 fl. oz.) is a smoky lilac with subtle pink undertones and a very fine iridescent fuchsia-purple shimmer. NARS Pokerface is pinker. Illamasqua Faux Pas is darker, but has a similar smoky/muted quality. Zoya Lotus has a lot of red in it. I couldn't think of a close dupe for this shade.Read Full Review
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Cult Nails Princess Nail Lacquer ($10.00 for 0.50 fl. oz.) is a light-medium dusty blue with a subtle pink-copper shimmer. Chanel Coco Blue is darker, bluer. Rescue Beauty Lounge Concrete Jungle is darker, grayer. Butter London Lady Muck is darker, grayer, and has silver shimmer. Chanel Riva is lighter, less blue. None of these comes close, though–not even in the base color–let alone having the coppery shimmer. A lot of times you'll find something that has a similar base color, but I couldn't think of anything that was even close to being a dupe.Read Full Review
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Here is my recent RT interview about the German missile hack:
German missile hack from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
Here is my recent RT interview about the German missile hack:
German missile hack from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
This week I made my first visit to the re:publica annual geekfest in Berlin to do a talk called "The War on Concepts". In my view this, to date, includes the four wars – on drugs, terror, the internet, and whistleblowers. No doubt the number will continue to rise.
Here's the video:
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First published on RT Op-Edge.
It struck me today that when I email a new contact I now reflexively check to see if they are using PGP encryption. A happily surprising number are doing so these days, but most people would probably consider my circle of friends and acquaintance to be eclectic at the very least, if not downright eccentric, but then that's probably why I like them.
There are still alarming numbers who are not using PGP though, particularly in journalist circles, and I have to admit that when this happens I do feel a tad miffed, as if some basic modern courtesy is being breached.
It's not that I even expect everybody to use encryption – yet – it's just that I prefer to have the option to use it and be able to have the privacy of my own communications at least considered. After all I am old enough to remember the era of letter writing, and I always favoured a sealed envelope to a postcard.
And before you all leap on me with cries of "using only PGP is no guarantee of security…." I do know that you need a suite of tools to have a fighting chance of real privacy in this NSA-saturated age: open source software, PGP, TOR, Tails, OTR, old hardware, you name it. But I do think the wide-spread adoption of PGP sets a good example and gets more people thinking about these wider issues. Perhaps more of us should insist on it before communicating further.
Why is this in my mind at the moment? Well, I am currently working with an old friend, Simon Davies, the founder of Privacy International and the Big Brother Awards. He cut his first PGP key in 2000, but then left it to wither on the vine. As we are in the process of setting up a new privacy initiative called Code Red (more of which next week) it seemed imperative for him to set a good example and "start using" again.
Anyway, with the help of one of the godfathers of the Berlin cryptoparties, I am happy to report that the father of the privacy movement can now ensure your privacy if you wish to communicate with him.
I am proud to say that my awareness of PGP goes back even further. The first time I heard of the concept was in 1998 while I was living in hiding in a remote farmhouse in central France, on the run from MI5, with my then partner, David Shayler.
Our only means of communication with the outside world was a computer and a dial-up connection and David went on a steep learning curve in all things geek to ensure a degree of privacy. He helped build his own website (subsequently hacked, presumably by GCHQ or the NSA as it was a sophisticated attack by the standards of the day) and also installed the newly-available PGP. People complain now of the difficulties of installing encryption, but way back then it was the equivalent of scaling Mount Everest after a few light strolls in the park to limber up. But he managed it.
Now, of course, it is relatively easy, especially if you take the time to attend a Cryptoparty – and there will be inevitably be one happening near you some place soon.
Cryptoparties began in late 2012 on the initiative of Asher Wolf in Australia. The concept spread rapidly, and after Snowden went public in May 2013, accelerated globally. Indeed, there have been various reports about the "Snowden Effect". Only last week there was an article in the Guardian newspaper saying that 72% of British adults are now concerned about online privacy. I hope the 72% are taking advantage of these geek gatherings.
The US-based comedian, John Oliver, also recently aired an interview with Edward Snowden. While this was slightly painful viewing for any whistleblower – Oliver had done a vox pop in New York that he showed to Snowden, where most interviewees seemed unaware of him and uncaring about privacy – there was a perceptible shift of opinion when the issue of, shall we say, pictures of a sensitive nature were being intercepted.
Officially this spy programme is called Optic Nerve, an issue that many of us have been discussing to some effect over the last year. In the Oliver interview this transmogrified into "the dick pic programme". Well, whatever gets the message out there effectively…. and it did.
We all have things we prefer to keep private – be it dick pics, bank accounts, going to the loo, talking to our doctor, our sex lives, or even just talking about family gossip over the phone. This is not about having anything to hide, but most of us do have an innate sense of privacy around our personal issues and dealings and this is all now lost to us, as Edward Snowden has laid bare.
As I have also said before, there are wider societal implications too – if we feel we are being watched in what we watch, read, say, write, organise, and conduct our relationships, then we start to self-censor. And this is indeed already another of the quantified Snowden effects. This is deleterious to the free flow of information and the correct functioning of democratic societies. This is precisely why the right to privacy is one of the core principles in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Lessons had then been learned from the Nazi book burnings and the Gestapo spy state, and privacy was recognised as a pre-requisite of open democracy. Yet now we see senior and supposedly well-informed US politicians calling for the modern equivalent of book burnings and failing to rein in the global abuses of the NSA.
How quickly the lessons of history can be forgotten and how carelessly we can cast aside the hard-won rights of our ancestors.
Edward Snowden, at great personal risk, gave us the necessary information to formulate a push back. At the very least we can have enough respect for the sacrifices he made and for the rights of our fellow human beings to take basic steps to protect both our own and their privacy.
So please start using open source encryption at the very least. It would be rude not to.
A recent interview I gave while in Stockholm to the Privacy as Innovation project:
Here is my keynote speech at the recent Internetdagarna (Internet Days) conference in Stockholm, Sweden, discussing all things whistleblower, spy, surveillance, privacy and TTIP:
Here's my interview from yesterday on RT's excellent Breaking the Set show with host, Abby Martin. We discussed all things spy, surveillance, Snowden, oversight, and privacy. A fun and lively interview! Thanks, Abby.
A comment piece from last week on RT about German politicians wanting to go back to paper-based communications to evade the US spy panopticon:
And here is the full text of the interview I gave on RT Op Edge:
Both typewriter and strong encryption is going to slow down communication, but upholding a basic democratic right of privacy seems to be more important, former MI5 agent Annie Machon told RT.
Amid the American-German espionage scandal, German politicians are considering going back to old-fashioned manual typewriters for confidential documents in order to protect national secrets from American NSA surveillance.
RT: Why would Germany think of using typewriters as a security measure?
Annie Machon: What I find interesting is that we have a situation where even our democratically elected representatives have to think deeply and seriously about how to protect the privacy of their communications, particularly when the investigation of the very subject of invasion of the privacy of the citizens, which is what the Bundestag at the moment is doing in Germany, trying to hold hearings to work out what exactly the NSA has been doing, which might be contravening the constitution of Germany. It is very difficult now but it is still possible to protect your electronic communications, but I think this announcement, this sort of statement by the Bundestag representative about going back to typewriters is interesting. It just makes a very strong point that we all need to be aware of the fact that we can be spied on at any time.
RT: Do you think everyone would follow Germany's example?
AM: I think more and more people are concerned about their privacy because of the Edward Snowden disclosures. He has done the world a huge service with great personal cost, exposing the predations of the US Intelligence agencies and the NSA particularly, as well as a number of European agencies. In the past all countries spied on each other because they wanted to gain advantage over other countries, not necessarily their enemies, just an advantage economically or politically. However, what we are seeing at the moment is the result of what was the perfect storm for the USA in the 1990s, it was a perfect opportunity for them, because at that point the Cold War had ended, they were the sole remaining superpower on the planet, and precisely at that moment we had the evolution of the internet, a huge tech explosion of communications. They saw the opportunity and they went for it. Of course they did because that meant that they could embed whatever they wanted into the infrastructure that the whole world now uses for communication. Of course they were not going to turn this opportunity down, and they haven't. That is what Edward Snowden disclosed.
So we have the situation now when everything can conceivably be hoovered up by the NSA and its vassal states in Europe, everything can conceivably be stored for ever and be used against citizens in the future if the laws change. And everything can conceivably be known amongst the private deliberations of our parliament's democratically elected representatives. It's worse than Orwellian.
It would be naïve to think that the US would not take up this opportunity, but of course they did, and these are the results we are living in. It would be lovely to think that we could go back to the era of having privacy in our lives that our governments would have power to ensure we had it, but in this globalized world it is very difficult to ensure that. One of the things that is little known out of all Snowden's disclosures is the fact that it is not just what we send over the internet, it is also hardware, the computers, the technology we actually use that can already be compromised by the NSA. This is one of the things that came out just after Christmas last year. So we are living in a very complex world but there are very simple steps we can take, both the governments and the citizens, to protect our democratic and our basic right to privacy.
RT:Wouldn't using typewriters slow things down in terms of communication? Why not use other, more modern ways of protecting communication?
AM: Either going back to using pen paper or typewriter or using very strong encryption is going to slow down one's communication, there is no doubt about it. The point is though, what is more important, is it access to the latest celebrity gossip on the internet or is it actually upholding a basic democratic right of privacy. Because if we don't have privacy, then we lose our freedom to communicate easily and in private, we lose our freedom to ingest information via video, audio or from reading, we cannot plan, we cannot conduct private personal relationships over the internet. So what is the price of a little bit of inconvenience when it comes to protecting our basic rights? I think that however light-heartedly the German politician mentioned using typewriters, when it comes to proper security issues within government, he is probably absolutely right. Last year there was a report as well, saying that some of the Russian security operators were now using typewriters too. We will all have to think about that, and it's just a jolting wake up call to make us all think about that by stating that the German government is now going back to typewriters for certain things.
RT: What kind of solution do you see? Should people rely on their governments for protection of their privacy?
AM: There is a danger that people and the government will become very paranoid about trying to protect against the predations of the NSA and its vassals in Europe. However, I'm not sure as we as citizens can rely on governments to protect our privacy because all governments would want to know what is going on on the internet for legitimate reasons as well, to try to track down the illegitimate criminals and terrorists. But it can be easy for them to hoover up all the personal information and we, as citizens, need that have that guarantee of privacy. So one of the things we can do as citizens is to take responsibility in our own hands. We can indeed source all technologies, source computers pre-2008 that have not built-in hardware backdoors. We can use decent PGP encryption, we can use Tor to hide what we are looking at in the internet, we can use other encryption methodologies to protect our privacy, and we need to. I think it's a very interesting crossroads in our history, both as civilizations, as democracy and as individuals, but also how we view the technology, how we use it, how we can better use it to protect our life, so that is going it be an ongoing debate. I'm very pleased to see this in Germany particularly. The politicians seem to be waking up around these issues and wanting debate these issues because the USA has got away with it for long enough across the West.
As a second German intelligence officer was arrested for spying for the Americans, here's my recent RT interview on the subject, plus much more:
Here is an interview I did on 5th June, the anniversary of the start of Edward Snowden's disclosures about the global surveillance infrastructure that is being built.
RT interview on Snowden & digital privacy from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
Here is a quick interview I did about the EU's new data protection measures, laws that will have to be implemented in the wake of Edward Snowden's disclosures about endemic NSA surveillance:
This is an excellent example of how whistleblowers continue to make a positive contribution to society.
Here's my recent interview on London Real TV, discussing all things whistleblowing, tech, intelligence, and the war on drugs. Thanks Brian and Colin for a fun hour!
Below is some background material from my submission to the European Parliament's LIBE Committee on the implications of the NSA scandal.
Here is a video link to the hearing.
LIBE Committee Inquiry on Electronic Mass Surveillance of EU Citizens, European Parliament, 30th September 2013
Annie Machon was an intelligence officer for the UK's MI5 in the 1990s, before leaving to help blow the whistle on the crimes and incompetence of the British spy agencies. As a result she and her former partner had to go on the run around Europe, live in exile in France, face arrest and imprisonment, and watch as friends, family and journalists were arrested.
She is now a writer, media commentator, political campaigner, and international public speaker on a variety of related issues: the war on terrorism, the war on drugs, the war on whistleblowers, and the war on the internet. In 2012 she started as a Director of LEAP in Europe (www.leap.cc).
Annie has an MA (Hons) Classics from Cambridge University.
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Here's the link to my interview tonight on UK Anonymous Radio – I had a great time and found it a fun, wide-ranging, and stimulating hour. I hope you do too. So, thank you Anonymous.
And also thank you to Kim Dotcom setting up the new file-sharing site, Mega, which replaces his illegally-taken-down global site, MegaUpload. I have somewhere safe, I think, to store my interviews!
What a shambolic disgrace that MegaUpload raid was, and what a classic example of the global corporatist agenda that I discuss in the interview.
I do love geeks.
I saw this chilling report in my Twitter feed today (thanks @Asher_Wolf): Telstra is implementing deep packet inspection technology to throttle peer to peer sharing over the internet.
Despite being a classicist not a geek by training, this sounds like I know what I'm talking about, right? Well somewhat to my own surprise, I do, after years of exposure to the "hacktivist" ethos and a growing awareness that geeks may our last line of defence against the corporatists. In fact, I recently did an interview on The Keiser Report about the "war on the internet".
Officially, Telstra is implementing this capability to protect those fragile business flowers (surely "broken business models" – Ed) within the entertainment and copyright industries – you know, the companies who pimp out creative artists, pay most of them a pittance while keeping the bulk of the loot for themselves, and then whine about how P2P file sharing and the circulation and enjoyment of the artists' work is theft?
But who, seriously, thinks that such technology, once developed, will not be used and abused by all and sundry, down to and including our burgeoning police state apparatus? If the security forces can use any tool, no matter how sordid, they will do so, as has been recently reported with the UK undercover cops assuming the identities of dead children in order to infiltrate peaceful protest groups.
Writer and activist, Cory Doctorow, summed this problem up best in an excellent talk at the CCC hackerfest in Berlin in 2011:
The shredding of any notion of privacy will also have a chilling effect not only on the privacy of our communications, but will also result in our beginning to self-censor the information we ingest for fear of surveillance (Nazi book burnings are so 20th Century). It will, inevitably, also lead us to self-censor what we say and what we write, which will slide us into an Orwellian dystopia faster than we could say "Aaron Swartz".
As Columbian Professor of Law, Eben Moglen, said so eloquently last year at another event in Berlin – "freedom of thought requires free media":
Two of my favourite talks, still freely available on the internet. Enjoy.

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Washington Wizards center Marcin Gortat pulled a fast one on the Boston Celtics by inconspicuously sneaking into their huddle.
The fact that his arm is around Rajon Rondo, who, ironically, has attempted this trick against teams on multiple occasions, is the icing on the cake.
Gortat had the following to say about the incident.
Gortat on joining #Celtics huddle: "Rajon Rondo was kind enough to let me in. For a second I felt like a Celtic." #WizardsTalk #NBA— J. Michael (@JMichaelCSN) April 3, 2014


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BATESBURG-LEESVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- A former Lexington County sheriff's deputy has been convicted of criminal domestic violence.
Thirty-two-year-old Daniel M. Creamer of Lexington was sentenced to 30 days in jail or a $1,000 fine plus six months of counseling.
Prosecutors say Creamer attacked his girlfriend in February in their home.
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This week's Chicago Metro suburban edition of Public Affairs features Keith Koeneman, the author of "First Son: the biography of Richard M. Daley," debating and discussing with show host Jeff Berkowitz the successes, failures and legacy of Mayor Daley, who stepped down in 2011, after 22 years in Chicago's Mayoral Chair.
The show airs tonight and tomorrow night in 34 North and Northwest Chicago Metro suburbs at 8:30 pm in the regular "Public Affairs," slot. The show airs tonight at 8:30 pm in 24 suburbs:
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-- On Comcast Cable Ch. 35 in Arlington Heights, Bartlett, Glenview, Golf, Des Plaines, Hanover Park, Mt. Prospect, Northbrook, Park Ridge, Prospect Heights, Schaumburg, Skokie, Streamwood and Wheeling.
The "Public Affairs" show with Daley biographer Koeneman also airs tomorrow night at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Ch. 19 in ten Chicago North Shore suburbs: Bannockburn, Deerfield, Ft. Sheridan, Glencoe, Highland Park, Highwood, Kenilworth, Lincolnshire, Riverwoods and Winnetka.
The "Public Affairs" show featuring historian Keith Koeneman, who holds advanced degrees from Harvard, the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, also airs throughout the City of Rockford and surrounding areas this Thursday evening at 8:30 pm on Rockford Cable Ch. 17.
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Our very own Meteorologist Tim Pandajis wanted some answers so he spoke with NASA research physical scientist Gail Skofronick Jackson from the Goddard Space Flight Center. There are ongoing NASA project to better forecast winter storms and look into what has caused such intense events as "Snowmageddon" several winters ago.
For more information on NASA's ongoing missions to better understand climate visit nasa.gov
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As Ward Harkavy pointed out this morning, Atlantic Yards architect Frank Gehry's admission in regard to the project ("I don't think it's going to happen") must chap developer Bruce Ratner's ass, despite Gehry's walkback. Project foes such as Atlantic Yards Report are emboldened; today AYR strangely, contentiously interviews Brooklyn Paper editor Gersh Kuntzman and asks if he agrees with his contention that the paper's (very fine) coverage of Atlantic Yards "has tailed off somewhat." "Whether I agree with your observation or not, you have been stating it as fact around town, which disturbs me," says Kuntzman, who denies the charge and says BP's Atlantic Yards coverage will not change under the new ownership of Ratner-friendly Rupert Murdoch. Meanwhile the Daily News refers to the project as "trapped in limbo" and "dormant," and NY1 says Ratner is "struggling to raise cash for the project." Negative perceptions aren't everything, especially when big money and high-powered interests are pulling the other way, but this can't be helping the boosterism that long animated the project.
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Another week's gone by and there's still no resolution on the Fiscal Cliff. The only thing that's changed, really, is investors' fear. As BMO Capital Markets' Brian Belski, says, "A resolution to the so-called 'Fiscal Cliff' is anyone's guess at the moment, but what is clear based on our client conversations is that the prospect of higher taxes has clearly spooked investors."
If we want hard, non-anecdotal evidence, look no further than the recent performance of dividend stocks. Instead of flocking to the safety of this corner of the market, investors are fleeing from it. As Bespoke Investment Group notes, "Instead of outperforming as the market has declined [since Election Day]… dividend payers in the S&P 500 have underperformed."
The conclusion? "This clearly shows that investors are making a strategic shift out of dividend payers due to the looming tax increase on dividend income," said Bespoke.
That's a huge mistake. Again, bailing on dividend stocks - or all stocks, for that matter - simply because of the threat of higher taxes makes no sense. Even if most pundits might be telling you otherwise. And today, in honor of Myth-Busting Monday, I'm going to prove it.
Higher Taxes, Higher Stock Prices
Longtime readers know I've already dedicated considerable ink to debunking the myth that a dividend tax rate increase would be disastrous. You can re-read my work here, here and here. Or, if you prefer, I can sum it up for you with a single line from my previous commentary: "Fears over a dividend tax rate hike are completely overblown."
I'm going to go one step further today and say that fears over any tax hike are completely overblown, especially concerning the impact on the stock market. And here's the evidence to back me up, courtesy of Minyanville's James Debevec.
As you can see, stocks actually perform best when dividend tax rates are the highest. I know. It's totally counterintuitive. But the facts don't lie.
If you're stubborn and just aren't ready to relinquish your fears over a tax hike leading to a bear market, here's another dose of truth serum, this time courtesy of BMO… "According to our work, average market returns are quite strong in years immediately following tax hikes," says Belski.
Given the average rise of 17.8% over the first year, I'd say the returns are "quite strong," indeed.
Note that the returns following tax cuts are "well below historical norms," as Belski says. So does that mean we should favor higher and higher taxes? Not just "no." But "hell no!"
As Belski explains, "This [underperformance] is because the economy happened to be weaker in those years, not because of tax policy."
Bottom line: I'm the last person to advocate higher taxes. I subscribe to John Maynard Keynes' school of thought that "the avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."
When it comes to higher taxes as a result of the Fiscal Cliff, though, they appear unavoidable. But in this situation, in the famous words of FDR, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Because contrary to conventional wisdom, tax hikes will not derail the stock market.
And once again, we've busted another Wall Street myth. All in a day's work!


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The Eagles are coming off a 30-10 loss to third-ranked Virginia Tech. Quarterback Michael Vick threw for 280 yards and two touchdowns and the Hokies rushed for 212 yards to defeat then-11th ranked BC on national television.
BC knows its postseason destination will be determined over the course of the next three weeks, as they play two road games (UNC, Maryland) and one at home (NC State). The Eagles are already bowl eligible for a school record seventh consecutive year – having won six bowl games in a row – currently the nation's longest bowl winning streak.
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"North Carolina has nine starters back on defense from last year. It's almost the same team we played in the bowl game. They chase the quarterback on offense. Their strength, they feel, is their offensive line. They have two big backs to run with power. It will be a big challenge for our football team. We look forward to it. We start the month of November. Now it's the race to a bowl game for us. They return their best defensive lineman that sat out a year ago, so he is back in the middle and in the mix for them. So, they are solid on defense. Offensively, it's the same scheme that they have. They can run with power and they can run away with you. It's going to be a big challenge for us to go down to Carolina and come away win the football game."
Quinton Porter (#15, 6-5, 233, Sr.) returned as a starter versus Virginia after missing two games with an ankle sprain, completing 25 of 31 passes for 301 yards. For the season, he's connecting on 63.8 percent of his passes with nine touchdowns and seven interceptions. Matt Ryan (#12, 6-5, 221, So.) started in place of Porter for two games, including a 221-yard passing performance in the win over Clemson. He's thrown for three scores and given up three picks.
Will Blackmon (#1, 6-0, 202, Sr.), a converted cornerback, is BC's leading receiver. He also returns kicks and punts, and plays defense. He's caught 32 passes for 340 yards and three touchdowns. Larry Lester (#6, 5-8, 183, Jr.) is the speedster that will get his ninth start on offense this week. He also started 12 games as a safety in 2002. Jason Lilly (#82, 6-2, 213, Jr.) had a key 35-yard reception in the season opener against BYU. Tony Gonzalez (#26, 5-11, 190, Jr.) had last season's most memorable play, a 30-yard touchdown catch that led the Eagles to 24-23 win at Notre Dame. The Eagles have nine players who have over 100 yards receiving.
In its 2005 media guide, BC refers to itself as "O-Line U," due to the success the Eagles have had placing players in the NFL. All five starters return from 2004 and are healthy. Their combined weight total is a whopping 1,586 pounds – with three of the five 6-foot-7 or taller. Left tackle Jeremy Trueblood (#72, 6-9, 330, Sr.) was a high school teammate of Mathias Kiwanuka and is the cornerstone of the unit. Left guard James Marten (#70, 6-8, 313, Jr.) broke into the starting lineup for the first time last year and has started 20 straight games since. Center Pat Ross (#6-4, 295, Sr.), a team co-captain, is one of the three most experienced players on the team, getting ready for his 34th consecutive start. Right guard Josh Beekman #75, 6-2, 320, Jr.) is a campus and community leader off the field. Right tackle Gosder Cherilus (#77, 6-7, 310, So.) is the beast of the line.
Ricky Brown (#55, 6-2, 233, Sr.) is ranked fifth on the team with 31 tackles. He forced two fumbles last week versus Virginia Tech. Ray Henderson (#3, 6-3, 227, Sr.), along with Kiwanuka, are the two most experienced members of the defense. He is getting his 34th start this week. He is second on the team with 52 stops, including 4.5 TFLs. Brian Toal (#16, 6-1, 223, So.) was last year's Big East Rookie of the Year, after scoring touchdowns in games against Army and Virginia.
William Troost (#62, 5-9, 154, Sr.) replaced Ryan Ohliger (#20, 5-9, 195, jr.) as the starting place-kicker this season, but Ohliger still handles kickoffs. Troost converted his only attempt this season, a 26-yarder. Punter Johnny Ayers (#46, 5-11, 179, So.) starred at quarterback, free safety, punter and kicker in high school. Blackmon was a preseason All-America second team selection and ranked the No. 2 kick returner in the nation by The Sporting News. He averages 21.6 yards per kick return and 7.6 on punts, and has yet to return one for a touchdown.


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Heading into a rather lackluster day in college football, one of the biggest games of the week featured the Oregon Ducks against the visiting Arizona State Sun Devils.
Both teams had only lost one game heading into this matchup and both teams still had much to prove. Without star RB LaMichael James, many thought that Arizona State would have a chance to pull off a big upset in what may be a preview of the first-ever Pac-12 Championship game.
While Arizona State did play a very close game and was even able to establish a lead over the Ducks in the third quarter, the Ducks offense proved to be too much for an impressive Sun Devils defense as the Ducks ended up rolling to the tune of a 41-27 win, despite not having James and losing starting QB Darron Thomas early in the second half.
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As much as the results of the November elections gave me some hope for the future, the most important voter initiative, California's Proposition 19 which would have legalized marijuana in that state, went down to defeat. It was a missed opportunity for conservatives to join with liberals, independents, and Tea Party activists to pass a measure that could have had a major impact on rolling back federal government power, especially its power to assert its will over states and individual constitutional rights.
Passage of Proposition 19 would have forced a legal showdown between the nation's most populous state and the feds, since President Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, had vowed to enforce federal drug laws even if the measure passed. But conservatives were scared off by unfounded and exaggerated fears about the evils of marijuana, proving once again that conservatives are no better than liberals when it comes to protecting "all" constitutional rights, but prefer instead to protect only the ones they cherish.
Marijuana legalization, even legalization of all drugs, is no longer just a liberal cause to make it legal to get high. If you're going to be for the U.S. Constitution, you have to be for all the rights it contains, and that includes the right to do with your body as you want. There is no prohibition in the Constitution about drugs and there is no power in it that grants the government the power to ban anything, whether it be guns or drugs. You may feel drugs are the worst evil, but that's how some liberals feel about guns. It makes no sense to make a "constitutional exception" for either.
This issue is bound to come up again, and soon, because the tide in the country is clearly in favor of legalizing marijuana, and maybe even some other drugs made illegal by the government's War on Drugs, if only to eliminate the violence and taxpayer expense that attend the drug war. It's a cause that conservatives need to embrace. And it's a cause, I think, that has the power to bring an out-of-control federal government to its knees.
Let's take a look at what marijuana illegalization, and the rest of the War on Drugs, has cost us.
It is because of the police and court excesses allowed under the federal government's War on Drugs that the police can now stop us on the street or in our vehicle without probable cause, seize our property without ever charging us with a crime, and imprison our children if they dare do what youths in every age have done, namely, experiment with mind-altering substances such as drinking a beer or smoking a joint. It is a rite of passage that has been taking place for thousands of years, and no law will change this aspect of human nature.
If you are against drugs, that's fine. I am too! After experimenting with marijuana in my youth, I realized that drugs are by and large a handicap that destroys people's lives when overused, just like alcohol is. But the War on Drugs, just like alcohol Prohibition of the 1920s and 30s, has undermined our individual freedoms to a level that borders on the destruction of the U.S. Constitution. It's time to do with drugs what we wisely did in 1933 with alcohol's Prohibition take them out of the criminal arena and put them into the health arena where they can be monitored and where people with problems can get help. It works with alcohol and cigarettes, although there are those among us who want a return to alcohol prohibition and want to outlaw cigarettes. I suppose they'll go after saturated fat next, another substance that is bad for people if overused.
As a result of the federal government's War on Drugs, corruption among our police and public officials is nearing the levels seen in the Prohibition era of the 1920s and 30s. Not only that, our prisons are overflowing with our youth, the very people the feds said the War on Drugs was meant to protect. And violence on an unprecedented scale has been unleashed on our southern border as Mexican gangs vie for control of the drug trade with the United States.
Notice I used the phrase "drug trade." It might as well be an illicit trade because the importation of drugs into America is almost as profitable for America's criminal justice system as it is for international drug gangs and dealers. It keeps them employed! If drugs are legalized, the big losers will be both the drug cartels and the American criminal justice system. There will be significant layoffs among government bureaucrats when America's prisons are emptied of our youth, when attorneys no longer have easy drug cases involving teenagers smoking pot, and when the cops will be restricted to going after real criminals whose belongings they won't be able to seize and sell to add to their own coffers.
The damage caused to our Constitutional freedoms thanks to the War on Drugs is appalling. To understand why we as a formerly free people have allowed this to happen, it helps to go back through the history of alcohol and drug prohibition.
The War on Drugs is pretty much a rerun of alcohol's Prohibition Era, which held its reign of terror in the United States from 1921 to 1933. Both had their beginnings in the minds of moralists and those would-be do-gooders in society who are determined to change people to fit their view of how people should behave.
Women provided the muscle to ban alcohol in 1921. With the help of suffrage which empowered them to vote, they were the main supporters of the Anti-Saloon League, the most powerful political pressure group ever in American history. In an effort to reform their men and free them from the evils of booze, the moralists and their army of suffragettes succeeded in 1921 in passing the Eighteenth Amendment, which outlawed alcohol. It unleashed a wave of criminal violence unlike anything in the nation's history and caused the suspension of major freedoms in the U.S. Constitution to enforce it. It took the wholesale corruption of the nation's police forces, judges, and politicians, along with an out-of-control gangster war to control the illicit alcohol trade (gangster income exceeded U.S. Government income) to convince the public, in 1933, that Prohibition didn't change a man's determination to have a drink. It was a catastrophic lesson for the thousands imprisoned, left dead, or poisoned by bathtub gin. The end of Prohibition calmed American society like the passage of a great storm, but much of the erosion of freedoms remained permanent.
America's War on Drugs is the sequel to Prohibition, only modern day do-gooders didn't go to the trouble to pass a Constitutional amendment. Drug banning initially began in 1914 when religious missionaries who had been to China's opium dens got Congress to pass the Harrison Act, which outlawed opiates. But it wasn't until the 1960s that government got serious. I was in my 20s then and everyone my age experimented with drinking beer and smoking pot. Others who admit they at least experimented with marijuana during their younger years include former presidents Bush and Clinton, current President Obama, and notables such as Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, and Al Gore.
Just like in the 1920s, the moralists went to work. No one was willing to redo Prohibition, so instead they went after drugs, especially marijuana, the demon weed that was turning our kids into crazed and violent dope addicts. Nothing could have been further from the truth, according to testimony from former New York narcotics officer Joe McNamara, who has testified and written extensively on the subject and states, "There is no record of anyone dying from marijuana or committing a murder under its effects."
But the government crackdown began, and it gradually built up until, in 1972, President Nixon declared a War on Drugs. The price for an ounce of marijuana increased tenfold almost overnight, drugs went underground, and police arrests, incarcerations, and the corruption of officials began its dramatic rise just like in Prohibition days. At a 1999 Cato Institute Conference on Drugs, McNamara said, "... in hundreds of thousands of cases, police officers violated their oath to uphold the Constitution and often committed perjury so that the evidence would be admitted. The practice is so prevalent that the term 'testilying' is often substituted in police jargon for 'testifying.'"
The main difference from Prohibition is that drugs became the choice of youth. Alcohol still provided the high for the older generations, but marijuana was an irresistible lure for youth. The more government cracked down, the more young people lit up. It became a rite of passage.
It has now been 38 years since Nixon declared the War on Drugs. Government statistics show there were 850,000 arrests for marijuana last year, yet usage by young adults increased 9 percent during that time. Surveys repeatedly show that at least half of all high school kids say they have smoked marijuana.
The government has now spent more than a trillion dollars of taxpayer money on the War on Drugs, with last year's government expenditure topping more than $40 billion. Approximately half of our prison population, which is the highest in the world, contains young people doing time for minor drug offenses. After tens of thousands of our youths have had their lives ruined due to imprisonment, many being labeled felons unable even to vote, surveys now show more than 75% of Americans acknowledge the drug war has failed.
Unfortunately the drug war will not die easily. It now represents a $400 billion industry to international drug cartels and a $40 billion annual taxpayer-funded payday for the giant federal and state bureaucracies responsible for arresting, prosecuting, and imprisoning their fellow Americans who use drugs. Not only are prisons that hold nonviolent drug offenders the main source of income for many towns in America, but policing agencies have gotten themselves hooked on both the annual billions of taxpayer dollars, plus the billions they seize from innocent bystanders through the use of civil asset forfeiture laws.
Civil asset forfeiture laws are one of the most sinister aspects of the drug war. It is a direct government assault on one of the cornerstone's of America's Constitution private property. Federal forfeiture laws were used on a widescale basis during alcohol Prohibition in the 1920s and 30s, and in 1970 they were reintroduced to American society with the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, then were greatly expanded in 1984 with the Comprehensive Crime Control Act. Originally designed to seize the assets of drug lords, they are now used regularly by cops to seize the assets of ordinary people. The laws became so lucrative for the feds that all 50 states now have their own civil asset forfeiture laws.
As opposed to criminal asset forfeiture where prosecutors must prove someone has committed a crime to seize their property, civil asset forfeiture allows police to seize property that police "suspect" was involved in a drug crime. The property's owner doesn't have to be charged with a crime, and in more than 80 percent of cases, according to a major study done by the Institute for Justice, a libertarian civil liberties law firm, they are not.
The typical scenario is this: you get stopped by the cops for any reason and they discover you have $10,000 in cash on you. The only reason someone would have that much money on their person is because it's payment for drugs, the cops reason, so they seize it. That money is confiscated, and the burden of proof and the expense is on the hapless victim who must go to court to try and get it back. Most instances of civil asset forfeiture are never challenged in court, according to the Cato Institute, because the cost of going to court to prove the property was not involved in a drug crime typically exceeds the cost of the property. In addition, the cops often threaten to bring drug charges against the victim if they don't relinquish their property willingly.
Abuse of asset forfeiture laws has been rampant for years, as BHM writer John Silveira has pointed out in several past articles (contained in his book, The Coming American Dictatorship). The forfeiture fund controlled by the federal government's Justice Department contained more than $3 billion as of 2008, but it's difficult to ascertain how many millions or billions are in state asset forfeiture funds because there is no strict accounting required; it is tantamount to a slush fund divvied up among the cops.
The Institute for Justice study found that "Civil forfeiture laws at the federal level and in 42 states dangerously shift law enforcement priorities toward the pursuit of property and profit." Disturbingly, it also found that when states try to reform their own forfeiture laws, police circumvent the reforms by turning over seized property to the feds who then return some of the seized loot back to the state under their own more law enforcement-friendly forfeiture laws. In my own state of Oregon, voters in 2000 passed an initiative curtailing some of the worst abuses of our state's civil asset forfeiture laws. The cops challenged the initiative, tied it up in court until 2006 when the law was upheld. So the cops merely agitated for a new law, passed in 2008, which circumvented many of the reforms of the 2000 voter initiative. At least Oregon cops get to keep only 63% of the assets seized, while in other states' cops often keep 100%.
The study ranked states by how onerous their forfeiture laws were. States that got an "F" were Massachusetts, South Carolina, Montana, Alaska, Wyoming, and Delaware. But by using a combination of factors, including how aggressive the cops are when going after assets, and how willing they are to circumvent their own laws to nail you, you are most at risk if you live in West Virginia, Virginia, Texas, Michigan, and Georgia. Only Maine, North Dakota, and Vermont got an overall grade of "B" or higher. The entire report is available online at www.ij.org.
If this type of behavior were happening in non-government segments of society, someone would be arrested for robbery, extortion, racketeering, and other crimes, but thanks to the War on Drugs, it's "just business" for America's criminal justice system.
And let's not forget the human cost of the War on Drugs. At least half of our prison population consists of nonviolent youthful drug offenders. Their lives are ruined, their families devastated. I was lodged among some of them for two days between issues of this magazine when I was convicted of drunk driving, a first offense of any kind for me. Although I vehemently asserted my innocence at trial, I quickly realized my brief incarceration was a godsend. For years my senior editor, John Silveira, and I had written about the abuses of our prison system and the fact it mainly houses nonviolent offenders. Now I was incarcerated (and how easy it was to go to jail) among 19 and 20-year-old kids whose only offense was possessing small amounts of drugs, either marijuana or meth.
These kids were hapless and clueless, represented by overwhelmed public defenders who had to do battle with a state armed with unlimited resources. Most of them had been picked up on probation violations. One was 19 years old, the same age as my son, Jake, who is in his first year of college. It occurred to me that Jake too could be busted and put in jail if he experiments with marijuana in college, like most college students do. Three of my fellow inmates, in their 20s, had lost their jobs when they were jailed for probation violations involving charges like "being in the presence of a known drug user" and "having an unopened case of beer in a car in which he was a passenger."
These kids were part of a revolving-door local jail system that kept the cops, prosecutors, judges, and jailers employed at an average salary, according to county records, of more than $70,000 a year. They simply represented paychecks for the bureaucracy charged with arresting, incarcerating, releasing, following, then rearresting them for minor probation violations. I interviewed the kids extensively and wrote about some of them in my online blog at the BHM website, www. backwoodshome.com. None had committed violent crimes. These kids needed counseling and help, not jailing in a dungeon-like cell with nothing to do and no job prospects when they got back out.
America has become a de facto police state thanks to the War on Drugs. Many Americans can't see what has happened to their country because they have become the frogs in the slowly heated pot of water. They don't yet realize they have been boiled and their freedoms evaporated away. We let our government violate our rights, seize our property, and imprison our youth because we have been conditioned to believe that drugs are the ultimate evil in society so evil that it is worth giving up freedom to eradicate them.
We hear a lot of talk from politicians about how Mexico is on the verge of becoming a failed state due to its ongoing drug violence. I would argue that America is already a failed state in terms of it having thrown out its own Constitution and given our police nearly unlimited power over us in the name of winning the War on Drugs. For God's sake, the percent of our population in jail is the highest in the world, nearly eight times higher than Europe's.
But how do we repeal the War on Drugs? By 1933, Americans had had enough of alcohol Prohibition and demanded its repeal. But by that time police had a vested interest in maintaining the huge bureaucracies it had built to battle illegal alcohol and in the huge amounts of assets the government was seizing from ordinary people, including the cars of those who had alcohol on board. With the Depression in full swing, it had become a money and employment issue for government, and some people thought Prohibition would never be repealed because of that fact. But it did get repealed, although the freedoms lost during that era were never fully restored.
We are in the same position today, with a steep recession and huge bureaucracies dependent on all those billions they get to fight the War on Drugs. Government wants to keep drugs illegal, and they'll wage a campaign of lies and threats every time voters have a chance to change things.
And what about all those terrible predictions about how legalized marijuana will unleash hordes of marijuana-addicted criminals among us who will be driving and going to work under its influence? Portugal has been the testing laboratory for this theory since 2001, when it decriminalized (next best thing to legalizing) all drugs, including even heroine and cocaine. In those intervening nine years, Portugal's drug usage rates have not increased, and Portugal has gone from one of the worst drug-abusing nations in the European Union to one of the least abusing, especially when compared to European countries that have increased their crackdown on drug use. According to the Portugal experiment, government crackdowns make drug usage worse, while a government backoff, which takes drug abuse out of the criminal arena and puts it into the medical arena, does not increase usage rates.
The next time a measure like Proposition 19 comes up for a vote, conservatives need to get beyond the government lies, understand that it is a freedom issue and not just a drug issue, and vote to support the U.S. Constitution.


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It's that time of year.
Freshly mowed grass, double sessions, and linemen puking...we're getting ready to rumble. Football is about to begin.
And we've got some great games on tap, from traditional rivalries to some out-of-conference delights such as Boise State against Virginia Tech and Joe Paterno's Nittany Lions against the Crimson Tide of Alabama.
We also have some games that are, well, not so good.
This is college football's version of the playground bully, where the big, powerful program packed with studs takes on a weaker (usually FCS) opponent that is smaller and slower at all positions.
Monster U gets a nice full-contact practice, while their victim gets a big fat paycheck.
So this year, in recognition of these mismatches, which occur with frightening regularity, we are creating the "Golden Creampuff" award.
Each week I'll pick the absolute biggest mismatch for the BCS conferences, the Mountain West, Conference USA and the WAC, and also the Independents (hey, can't let the Domers off the hook, eh?).
We'll review and rank each week's debacles, awarding points in our CCS (Creampuff Championship Series), with the ultimate goal of awarding a conference the coveted Golden Creampuff.
That will be the league that scheduled the biggest mismatches week after week after week.
So let's get started: the beginning of the year is always a football masochists delight, given the propensity of coaches to schedule some lay-down in game one to work out the kinks.
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Skip to comments.Even more Ethanol in Gasoline?
Posted on 11/15/2013 7:57:17 AM PST by rktman
According to the Worldwatch Institute, the US Department of Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, is pushing for an increase of the current maximum of 10.2% ethanol in gasoline to 15-20%. Much of that is supposed to come from corn and, later, from cellulose (wood).
Under the current federal Renewable Fuel Standard the US is already slated to increase its use of biofuels from 9 billion gallons in 2008 to 36 billion gallons by 2022. That standard does not even include the proposed increase of the ethanol content of common gasoline.
The proposed revision would be a really bad idea and let me tell you why.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Ethanol damages gaskets, seals, rubber, and wide band O2 sensors. I have had three cars/trucks that have had catalytic converter O2 sensors damaged by ethanol.
I've had to rebuild virtually every 2 cycle and some 4 cycle yard machine engines because of it. It is especially bad on things like 2 cycle engine carburetor fuel diaphragms and gaskets.
A pox on anyone who participates in any part of this!
EPA hates your lawn mowers and weed eaters.
We need to find out who owns "TRUFUEL"
Tax revenues will increase as we have to buy more gallons to go the same distance.
Ethanol Pork Cowers Most GOP Contenders
Sell your soul to the highest bidder!
Unelected EPA Bureaucrats Approve E15 Ethanol
Gubbamint knows best!
Ethanol gets skewered by recent CBO assessment
more money for pols to buy votes with.
No one who cares about the middle class in this country, or the poor worldwide, would suggest burning more food for fuel.
This is totally insane!
No one who cares about the middle class in this country, or the poor worldwide, would suggest burning more food for fuel.
Real self-proclaimed "liberals" have enough guts to face the facts: the solution to the problem of poverty is to create fewer impoverished people, which is to say: dispose of more of them. Sacrifices may need to be made during extreme emergencies, but better to sacrifice the poor than better people.
Tar and feathers would a good fit for the fools.
If ethanol is such a good thing for motor fuel, a much cheaper and more environmentally friendly way to produce would be to take a fraction of natural gas, ethylene, chemical formula C2H4, and combine it with H2O in the presence of a catalyst, forming C2H5OH, ethanol, chemically indistinguishable from the grain alcohol produced from the fermentation of corn grain and distillation to separate it from the water in which it is mixed. No erosion, no waste heat pollution, and no vegetable waste from the fermented grain mash.
ALL of the car manufacturers that market in the US have told the EPA that if they do that... it will be the EPA that will pay for warranty related damage due to this failed fuel concoction.
LOL! Like the epa would ever pony up a dime. If nothing else, they'd find a way to sue the auto companies for failure to comply. With something. They'll just make it up as they go. And, if there's a mud puddle on the auto companies property, look out.
Nothing but do-gooder politics and ideological traitorism.
Payoffs, kickbacks, vote buying and the American taxpayer gets the bill.
Some time, far in the future if mankind survives the victimism, lying, cheating stealing and entitlement sloth, people will marvel at a society hell-bent on propagating its sloth while simultaneously punishing the capable and encouraging the murder of human souls, to boot. It will further marvel at the gross stupidity of diverting staples that are FOOD to endeavors that have no economical or scientific basis other than politics.
Run 89 or 93 octane. No ethanol. Yes, I have verified this.
Yes, this emblem means that they've engineered gaskets, seals and sensors to last just long enough to get out of the warranty period.
I am blessed to have a non-ethanol gas pump in my town.
It's the only gas that I ever buy. PERIOD.
Only a fool puts ethanol into his engine, be it car, truck, motorcycle, lawnmower, weedeater or boat.
I talked to a guy a few months ago when I got some parts for a small engine and he said people have no clue what's coming down in January.
The new fuel mix will have a shelf life for small engine use of about 2 weeks.
The new small engines will have to be tuned with a computer or they will not start much less run.
Apparently if you take a small engine in for repairs you will have to buy a carbon filter for the exhaust.
I feel your pain.
I drain/empty the fuel out of any two cycle machines now when I am done using them. Also, I never mix more than a gallon at a time. Try 93 octane too. I only use Star Tron (the blue one)fuel stabilizer.
The other thing if you live close to a marina, many will have gasoline without ethanol in it. I know there is a website that lists fuel stations that do not have ethanol.
I now use something called Sea Foam....a marine engine additive to the gas. It works rather well.
Totally agree.
I have become very proficient at rebuilding the carbs on all my 2 cycle stuff. I also bought several spare sets of rebuild kits. I'll be dead before I have to succumb to their sh!t
Whenever the percentage of ethanol changes, my car's MPG is proportionally invesely impacted. Ethanol is to cars what high fructose corn syrup is to people.
The 10% level was a failure, so naturally liberals call for increasing the level, which will be a worse failure, so liberals will want it raised even more, and more, ....
Harleys really hate it.
I'm surprised we haven't gotten any kickback here. Usually when an ethanol thread comes up we have some corn farmer/grain operator types who trumpet all the benefits of ethanol and show you all their BS links about how it doesn't do all the bad stuff everyone experiences.
The SOB takes away your health insurance, then he fugs up your car.
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I do the same.
I use PRI-I in my boat, weedeater,snowmobile, lawnmower, snowblower,etc.
A person would have to be mad to come in *here* and defend this crap.
Every single one of our cars has had chronic 'fuel line' issues.
Every single one was 'fixed' by replacing damaged nearly new lines or parts and adding stuff like Gas Dri, Sta-Bil or Seafoam.
The problem is *always* water in the system which is directly related to the ethanol sucking water from the air.
I hate the effin' sh**.
-Hate- it.
Somebody upthread said premium octanes have none...apparently MD is different.
That's what we use in the Harleys and they get the same 'water in line' problems.
How about the gubmint allow us to get our own oil, the farmer can grow food, and the camel jockeys can eat sand?
Thank you...
"premium octane" = "non-oxygenated fuel"
I hate it too. But I will tell you that I have had good performance with something called Sea Foam - a marine additive. I think my dosage is about 20ml per gallon IIRC.
I bought a whole case of the stuff on Amazon.
Interesting that the formula one and the drag racers have been burning Methanol and nitromethane for years perhaps the auto industry and small engine industry should do their part and make cars and engines that will handle the ethanol.
A Silverado is not a Harley.
All our cars/trucks are over 10 years old, too.
We'd have to drive 50 miles to Winchester VA to find good gas.
Stupid—beyond all reason.
There IS NO GLOBAL WARMING! It's a hoax!
We have plenty of oil. It works very well, it's relatively inexpensive—and most late model cars spew much fewer emissions into the air.
Familiar story. Those carburetor diaphragms only last me one season now. And ethanol has in one way or another screwed up my chainsaw, weedeater, push mower, riding mower, generator.
Its hard to keep up.
My favorite was the fuel line in my car...rusted from the inside out. Replacing that was a bundle of fun.
I'm lucky that there aren't vehicle inspections in my state. I've got a minor fleet of old cars, and I doubt any of them have functioning O2 sensors.
I just can't wait until they put even more of this junk in our fuel.
A couple forums are mentioning BP stations having a separate pump for that.
They're not extremely far away so we'll check them out this summer.
I'd like to get hold of the bastard that thought all this up and hitch him up to my trailer hitch and give him a 5 wheel tow for about an hour.
I view the modern green movement as the blood leeching of our time. We look back at that practice, and can't comprehend how sensible people would buy into it. Future generations will look at us that way.
I'm not even buying this specious horseshit.
I thank GOD that I had the good sense back in 2010 to buy a diesel fueled car rather than the choices of gas or hybrid! Yes, the government could very well futz with that, it is the government after all! I won't say that I saw this coming but it was in the back of my mind!
Those people aren't trying to drive their vehicles for 100,000 miles or more. They go through an over haul every race, sometimes their engines only last a couple of races before they are no good. So your attempt at equating them isn't good Bob.
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A yummy beverage for kids of all ages. "I never saw a purple cow, I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than BE one." From Susan Branch blog. Would be perfect to sip on a Purple Cow while viewing the Blue Moon tomorrow evening.
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- 1 scoop vanilla ice cream
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- Put one scoop of vanilla ice cream in a glass.
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