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- 69,000 original miles
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The 1968 GTX is one of our favorite cars, and when the top goes down, the paint is bright red, and the engine is a big block, it's one of the best combinations of power and style we can imagine, and this 100% matching-numbers specimen is available for what a lot of folks would call a bargain price. Better yet, it has factory power windows! Interested? If you're in the market for a spectacular Mopar, you should be.
This is an extremely rare (less than 1000 made) 1968 GTX Convertible, with 99% original or NOS components, and no excuses. If you want a high #2 car to drive and show, we guarantee that you will never regret making the purchase on this one.
To that end, we've just finished polishing and waxing the beautiful bright red (PP1) paint using a three stage process, and detailed the entire car from top to bottom. It looks like a million bucks. This is not a Dairy Queen driver. Take this one to the Mopar Nationals and you will have a crowd around it. It's that nice.
With just over 69,000 original miles, this GTX convertible has received a complete ground-up restoration, using original and NOS parts, and has been rebuilt to stock specifications. No questionable modifications, no goofy wheels and tires, no over-powered modern stereo system, just a car that will be highly competitive in virtually any show you attend.
Here's the fender tag breakdown:
CAR: Plymouth GTX 2 Door Convertible
ENGINE: 440cid 4-bbl HP V8
TRANSMISSION: 3-speed automatic
TIRES: F70x14 white sidewall, steel belted
BUILD DATE: June 26.
AXLE: 3.23 rear axle ratio, Sure Grip
INTERIOR: Sport trim grade, vinyl bucket seats. Black interior.
PAINT: Monotone red paint.
OTHER: Black upper door frame color. Black horizontal sport stripe.
19: Wide sill moldings
30: Body belt moldings
78: Wheel lip moldings
H1: Power brakes
K8: Power windows
R1: AM radio
X1: Tinted glass (all)
Y2: White convertible top
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The body and PP1 bright red paint are better than factory and this GTX simply glows. Clearly this was an extremely well-maintained, clean original car before the restoration, and the workmanship was first rate. Panel gaps are better than the workers at Hamtramck ever managed (no offense, guys, I know you were pressed for time!), and the alignment from panel to panel emphasizes those sharp creases and character lines that run from nose to tail. The paint was laid down over some very flat panels, with no ripples or waves, and then it was all color sanded and buffed to the kind of shine that only a bright red car can deliver.
All glass is original to the car and in excellent condition. The chrome and stainless steel trim are stunning. The grill, headlight bezels and tail panel have been completely restored, and, as those of you in the hobby know, these are extremely expensive to restore.
The engine is the correct, original 440 Super Commando, 4-barrel engine, rated at 375 HP. It's mated to the correct, original A727 Torqueflite 3-speed automatic Transmission. The original 8 3/4" Sure Grip axle, with a 3.23 gear, finishes off the completely original drive-train. The engine bay is highly detailed and correct in every way, from the correct turquoise paint on the block to the authentic air cleaner up top. The carb is rebuilt, the hoses and clamps are fresh reproductions, and even the ballast resistor on the firewall is an exact reproduction that will pass muster with any judge. All the coatings and finishes are in first-rate condition even though the car was restored a few years ago, indicating that it has been extremely well maintained ever since. Heck, even the exhaust manifolds are still clean and rust-free. And, as with all RK Motors Mopars, there's a correct red cap reproduction battery in the tray, the finishing touch to a high-quality engine bay.
Mechanically, the braking system, front suspension, fuel delivery system, and all lines are new and function flawlessly. The exhaust system is 100% stock; no loud muscle car here. The floors are excellent with factory-style finishes instead of over-restored 2-stage paint that judges can spot before they even crawl under there. It rolls on 15-inch Magnums with 235/70/15 redline radials for modern handling with a vintage look.
The black bucket seat, automatic console shift interior has been fully restored, and is like new. The original four-piece console top has been restored and fits beautifully. The original steering wheel was restored and looks like a million bucks. The dash pad is original and that's astounding, considering that this is a ragtop. The instrument and gauges have been restored and they all operate properly. Find something on the AM radio, drop the top, power down the windows, and hit the road.
Overhead, there's a recent white vinyl convertible top that works properly and fits beautifully, and it is all hidden by a snug-fitting black boot when it's stowed. The trunk features a recent mat and correct jack, matching spare wheel and tire, and handle.
The best thing about this GTX is the way it drives. This GTX convertible is 100% stock, right down to the exhaust. Mechanically, everything is brand new and functions properly. The car tracks straight down the road, brakes well, handles beautifully, and is a true joy to drive.
In summary, this is a rare, investment grade Mopar that will leave even the pickiest collector satisfied. Drive it, show it, and enjoy it! This GTX will leave you with a huge smile on your face every time you turn the key. Call now!
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It's been 18 years since Chevy offered a five- (or six-) passenger, rear-wheel-drive sedan and it's been 44 since it offered one with serious muscle under the hood. Well, that drought has come to an end, thanks to the Chevrolet SS, an American muscle car with an Australian accent.
Developed with GM's Holden counterparts in Australia, the SS packs LS3 power with 415 horsepower and 415 lb-ft of torque—the first five-passenger Bow Tie since the legendary LS6 Chevelle of 1970 to boast of those kinds of numbers. Perhaps more importantly in this day and age, it has handling capabilities that can shame German competitors costing twice as much and accommodate large adults in comfort.
To address some things we've read on social media outlets, the SS is not just a rebadged Pontiac G8 GXP. Though it's based on the same platform, it has received serious upgrades and enhancements—some more subtle than others. For instance, the use of aluminum for the hood, decklid, steering column structure, suspension components and other areas trims 150 lbs from the car's architecture. This improves handling, steering feel and straight-line acceleration.
The interior is significantly quieter, the structure is stiffer, and the controls are designed for Americans (the power lock and window buttons are on the door instead of the center console and the volume knob is on the left side of the radio, not the right). The leather, ultra suede—all interior materials, for that matter—are significantly improved over the dear, departed Pontiac. The entire car is much more refined than the old G8 family.
Bad news? There will be no two-door offered. There's no such version of this car produced anywhere in the world, and with the demand for four-door cars far out-stripping two-doors, there's no way the make the numbers work financially. Production will be limited to about 4,000 units annually and there's no manual transmission offered. According to David M. Leone, GM's Executive Chief Engineer for Performance Luxury Vehicles, the take rate for a stick was expected to be so low (in the hundreds), there was no way to make a business case for it. It would be a money loser and there's no room for that at the post-bankruptcy General.
Nor will an El Camino version of the Holden Ute be coming this way. Again, it is simple economics. Demand is limited and the amount that would have to be spent to federalize the rear half of the car to meet U.S. crash standards (among other things) would be too dear, according to Leone.
As for the styling, it's definitely on the conservative side—and that's putting it mildly. The basic shape is fine, but it is a lot less aggressive than its main rival, the Dodge Charger R/T (and SRT8). The nose and tail are easily recognizable as part of the Chevy family of sedans, but we're not sure that's a good thing. Seems like with this kind of performance and handling, it could be a bit bolder. We're not talking adding wings and air dams and side skirts, mind you. Just seems like the designers could have made it edgier. Chevrolets claims that at the rear, the tapered, tear-drop shape contributes to improved aerodynamics. The standard high-intensity discharge headlamps and light-emitting diode daytime running lights add a definite touch of class (and a functional one at that). The SS is offered in five exterior colors: Silver Ice Metallic, Red Hot 2 (a non-metallic bright red), Phantom Black, Heron White and Mystic Green Metallic (a light metallic green).
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Bicycle Wheel is Duchamp's first readymade, a class of objects he invented to challenge assumptions about what constitutes a work of art. Duchamp combined two mass-produced parts—a bicycle wheel and fork and a kitchen stool—to create a type of nonfunctional machine. By simply selecting prefabricated items and calling them art, he subverted established notions of the artist's craft and the viewer's aesthetic experience. The 1913 Bicycle Wheel was lost, but nearly four decades later Duchamp assembled a replacement from newly found prefabricated parts and affirmed that the later version is as valid as the original.
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Marcel Duchamp: In 1913 I had the happy idea to fasten a bicycle wheel to a kitchen stool and watch it turn. It was around that time that the word 'Readymade' came to my mind to designate this form of manifestation. A point that I very much want to establish is that the choice of these Readymades was never dictated by an aesthetic delectation. The choice was based on visual indifference—a total absence of good or bad taste—in fact, a complete anesthesia.
Curator, Ann Temkin: Duchamp's very modest words disguise the fact that his invention of the Readymade, as he called it, was probably his greatest contribution to the art of the twentieth century. Readymades completely upended so many ideas of what art needed to do in order to be considered art. They weren't all quite as simple as Duchamp makes it sound. For example, the readymade here of the bicycle wheel on the kitchen stool was not something he just found. He had to have the idea of sticking the wheel, upside down, on top of the stool. It is an early example of what today we might call kinetic sculpture, because originally Duchamp intended the wheel to be spun. He once said how it calmed him to watch the wheel rotating on the kitchen stool somewhat like looking at a fire in a fireplace.
One of Duchamp's most famous sayings was that a work of art was not complete without the perception of the viewer when he or she starts asking questions. Even if those questions are nothing more than, 'Why in the world is this a work of art?'
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Narrator: New York Dada emerged as the result of an influx of European émigré artists, key among them Marcel Duchamp, who left Paris in 1915 and settled in New York. There he coined the term "readymade" for everyday objects stripped of their functional contexts and declared as art.
Artist, Marcel Duchamp (archival audio recording): In 1913, I had the happy idea to fasten a bicycle wheel to a kitchen stool and watch it turn. It was around that time that the word 'readymade' came to my mind to designate this form of manifestation. A point that I want very much to establish is that the choice of these readymades was never dictated by an aesthetic delectation. The choice was based on visual indifference—a total absence of good or bad taste, in fact, a complete anesthesia.
Curator, Anne Umland: Duchamp really is striking at the very heart of what it means to create an art object. What is the character of that object? And can it be simply a matter, as he said, of choice? I think Duchamp is inviting you to think through in every possible way how the bicycle departs from traditional notions we might hold in our minds about sculpture. Here instead of a pedestal, we have stool, and instead of something that is solid or monumental, we have an open, transparent form that moreover is poised on the edge of motion.
Narrator: The original version of Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel was made a few years before the term Dada was coined in Zurich.
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Although Duchamp had collected manufactured objects in his studio in Paris, it was not until he came to New York that he identified them as a category of art, giving the English name "Readymade" to any object purchased "as a sculpture already made." When he modified these objects, for example by mounting a bicycle wheel on a kitchen stool, he called them "Assisted Readymades." Duchamp later recalled that the original Bicycle Wheel was created as a "distraction": "I enjoyed looking at it, just as I enjoy looking at the flames dancing in a fireplace."
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Bicycle Wheel is Duchamp's first Readymade, a class of artworks that raised fundamental questions about artmaking and, in fact, about art's very definition. This example is actually an "assisted Readymade": a common object (a bicycle wheel) slightly altered, in this case by being mounted upside-down on another common object (a kitchen stool). Duchamp was not the first to kidnap everyday stuff for art; the Cubists had done so in collages, which, however, required aesthetic judgment in the shaping and placing of materials. The Readymade, on the other hand, implied that the production of art need be no more than a matter of selection—of choosing a preexisting object. In radically subverting earlier assumptions about what the artmaking process entailed, this idea had enormous influence on later artists, particularly after the broader dissemination of Duchamp's thought in the 1950s and 1960s.
The components of Bicycle Wheel, being mass-produced, are anonymous, identical or similar to countless others. In addition, the fact that this version of the piece is not the original seems inconsequential, at least in terms of visual experience. (Having lost the original Bicycle Wheel, Duchamp simply remade it almost four decades later.) Duchamp claimed to like the work's appearance, "to feel that the wheel turning was very soothing." Even now, Bicycle Wheel retains an absurdist visual surprise. Its greatest power, however, is as a conceptual proposition.
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FORT WALTON BEACH — The jury hearing the trial of disbarred attorney James "Harvey" Tipler for solicitation for murder got a chance Friday to get to know the man.
Tipler's mindset, or at least the mindset prosecutors want to portray, was on display in taped conversations recorded when he and fellow former attorney R. Scott Whitehead were incarcerated together at the Okaloosa County Jail.
Tipler, prosecutor Bobby Elmore contends, hated Russ Edgar, the assistant state attorney who had gotten him arrested for racketeering three times since 2008.
Elmore argues that he manipulated fellow inmates as he forged a plot to kill Edgar, and in Whitehead he found the last piece he needed: a funding source.
Conversations recorded by Whitehead, who testified he went to authorities as soon as he learned of Tipler's plot, reveal not only his hatred for Edgar, but also confidence he could carry out the killing.
On tape, Tipler boasts that he'd like to meet Edgar in court, where he would "beat his ass and expose him for the charlatan liar that he is."
Having already told Whitehead, "You know, I can have Russ Edgar killed for $10,000," Tipler later expresses his confidence and says he's been working on the plan for months.
"You think you can pull it off?" Whitehead asks on the tape.
"I know I can. I just can't get the cash," Tipler answers.
The conversations cobbled together by prosecutors took place over about a week. They were edited and placed on 15 discs that were played in court Friday.
Whitehead, having been enlisted as an undercover agent by law enforcement, appeared to push Tipler where he could for details. He assured Tipler on the tapes that he could get money from his mother to pay for Edgar's killing.
In their frequently interrupted and often drowned-out discussions, Tipler swears Whitehead to secrecy and assures him his plot "is not revenge. It's business."
"It's completely justified as self-defense, because this guy is trying to kill us," he says of Edgar later in the conversations.
Tipler discusses his efforts to recruit former cellmate Dion Lowe to travel to Atlanta to recruit someone to kill Edgar, according to the tapes.
He tells Whitehead he has helped Lowe with his own criminal case and believes he can trust him. "I can't tell you it's 100 percent, but it's close," he said.
Inexplicably, Tipler speaks of Lowe as a former Marine sniper and talks of the killing talents of the man he will hire in Atlanta. Lowe was never a Marine or a sniper.
Tipler also discusses in detail, sometimes at Whitehead's urging, a code he's devised to let Lowe know when the time is right to proceed with the plot.
In conversation or through a letter, Tipler tells Whitehead "green is a go, red is a problem." Blue, he said, indicates the deed has been done.
In the code, the plot is known as the "project" and the "horse" is the unknown person who will kill Edgar, the "roast pig."
Whitehead and Tipler discuss in great detail a meeting they're attempting to arrange to have Whitehead's mother meet Lowe at the Golden Corral in Destin to transfer $1,500 to be used by Lowe to hire the hit man.
Tipler urges Whitehead to obtain more than the $1,100 Lowe is anticipating to engender good faith and trust.
As Tipler and Whitehead work out details, talk veers off to discussions of running off Tipler's cellmate, Wallace Morris, so they can continue scheming in private.
Morris, with whom Tipler also is accused of discussing the plan to kill Edgar, eventually is removed when bogus complaints are lodged against him.
There's also discussion of paying off inmates who might move close enough to disturb the two lawyers.
As the plot is finalized, Tipler seems to add a new twist. He is heard telling Whitehead at least twice that he has come to believe Whitehead, and not Tipler, stands to gain the most from Edgar's death.
"It helps you more than it helps me," he said. "We need to put an end to it. We're doing the right thing … and I suspect we'll both be out of here by the end of the year."
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I have the original Apple headphones, the $79.00 Apple upgraded headphones and the Bose $129.00 in ear headphones. I was impressed with the Apple headphones (both) until I bought the Bose headphones. They are at least 4 times better in quality, specifically in the range of sound and the ability to believe you were hearing a live performance. The Apple headphones provide good quality but once you hear the Bose, you will want to buy a $10 remote/mic for the Bose and never go back. Ultimatley, you get what you pay for. The Apple headphones that come with an IPOD are good for most people, and keep the cost down. The more advanced Apple Headphones($79) are a big step up, but if you are an audiophile or are looking for true high end sound, go straight to the Bose. Physically, the difference is that the Apple headphones push both high & low sounds through an "earbud", whereas the Bose send high sounds through the inner ear, but has two additional speaker ports in the "outer ear" that transmit the mid range and low range achieving true perfection.
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Of course most young people don't know what Roe v. Wade is. Why should they? I know nothing about the battle of Dunkirk or the fields of Verdun. Most people have a vague idea about the battles of the past; they care most about the battles they're fighting today. And for young people, the abortion battle is over; why do they need to know its name?
Here's the background: Yesterday, the Pew Research Center released a poll on American attitudes toward Roe v. Wade on its 40th anniversary year. Among the findings: while upwards of six out of ten Americans know the historic decision was about abortion, fewer than half of those ages 18-29 did. Just 44 percent, in fact. Numbers are higher if you've been to college or graduate school, of course, where you're likely to have been forced into some public policy or contemporary issues class or conversation.
But once they know what it is, they want it to stay legal. Less than one-third—27 percent—of that age group wants it overturned.
Young people quite reasonably believe that the question of whether or not they are in charge of what they do with their bodies is, as they say in the land of constitutional lawyers, "long settled." Need an abortion? Get one. Oppose it? Don't get one. You have the final say. Almost anyone facing an unexpected or unwanted pregnancy will talk it over with those who matter: their boyfriend or husband, their parents, their best friends, their spiritual advisors, whomever those might be. But the woman whose body those dividing cells are occupying is the one who gets to decide what to do.
Young people don't remember that it wasn't always so, any more than they can remember the world of typewriters, no answering machines, three television channels, and rampant smoking. In so many ways the country before Roe v. Wade was a different country. Last year woke plenty of people up: as Republican politicians and their backers seriously debated whether or not contraception should be legal, and whether women could even get pregnant from "legitimate rape," the numbers saying that abortion should be generally avialable went up and up, up to 42 percent by September 2012. And those numbers had jumped over the summer, folks. By November 2012, Rasmussen reported that 54 percent—more Americans than ever--called themselves "pro-choice." After a year of Team Rape and mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds, allowing women to choose what to do with their bodies for themselves had become the conservative position. As Katie Baker at Jezebel put it,
As it turns out, when people are forced to think a little harder about the meaning of "pro-life" — thanks to politicians like Akin and Richard "God luvs rape!" Mourdock, among many, many others — most don't actually identify with the pro-life platform. How odd!
The young'uns may not know Roe v. Wade by name—but they know that their bodies are their own. If it comes to a new battle, they'll fight for it again. They might not have to, given the widening available of medical abortion (as opposed to surgical abortion—in other words, terminating a pregnancy by taking abortifacient medicines rather than having it scraped out of the body).
They won't be fighting over the term "choice," however. The movement is undertaking a rebranding, shifting to the idea that none of us should decide for anyone until we have walked in her shoes—reminding us that these aren't casual decisions but profound decisions made in an incredible array of circumstances. The term "choice" has gotten contaminated with the idea that it's as easy to decide whether to have a child as, say, whether to have a salad. (To my shock, Katie Roiphe has an excellent riff on this over at Slate, suggesting that we take up the slogan "pro-freedom." I kinda love the Ayn Randianness of it.)
But the "walk in her shoes" strategy is what's coming your way. Here's what I got from the National Women's Law Center, about their campaign This Is Personal:
Following up on the recent polling conducted by Planned Parenthood, one line that really resonated with us was, "I don't know a woman's specific situation. I am not in her shoes."
So to mark the 40th anniversary of Roe, This Is Personal is rolling out a new project, Not in Her Shoes. Part of our goal with this project is to remind young women (and men) across the country that our work isn't done and that no one knows a woman's specific situation when it comes to abortion and other reproductive health care.
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I'll betcha we see plenty of young women's shoes. They may not know the decision's name, but they know that decision belongs to them.
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They won't be fighting over the term "choice," however. The movement is undertaking a rebranding, shifting to the idea that none of us should decide for anyone until we have walked in her shoes—reminding us that these aren't casual decisions but profound decisions made in an incredible array of circumstances. The term "choice" has gotten contaminated with the idea that it's as easy to decide whether to have a child as, say, whether to have a salad. (To my shock, Katie Roiphe has an excellent riff on this over at Slate, suggesting that we take up the slogan "pro-freedom." I kinda love the Ayn Randianness of it.)
Exactly. "Choice" is a bankrupt term. Politically impotent. It has been for years. In a consumer culture it signifies everything, and thus nothing. Yet over and over (and over) again, the most visible and presumably influential repro rights advocates and feminists generally keep spouting the language of "choice," positioning "pro-choicers" against "anti-choicers" as if either term carried rhetorical weight.
It's time for the reproductive rights movement to wake up and grow up. I've been writing about this for what seems like ages now.
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Millenials "don't know a lot about the '70s to begin with" because we haven't been telling them. When everybody either hates or professes to hate the '70s, that's gonna happen. I keep trying to tell people that (1) they weren't so bad and that (2) resolving the issues raised back then (rather than running away from them into either reactionary Reaganism or "postmodern" neo-retro "irony") is the key to the future. But no one seems to want to listen.
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got to train with tim kennedy and a couple other guys he brought along last night. one of them was andrew craig, who is fighting chris leben at UFC 162. he has UFC wins over kyle noke and rafael natal. he and i rolled for 7-8 rounds together and stalemated a lot. it was a good night.
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May 25, 2006
GoRobotics.net article
7 comments:
- JUL said...
This interface looks sooooo much better than the RIS software! The RIS software was not suitable for any application other than very basic control. But this one looks very appealing and well though. Thank you for sharing that with us!
- May 25, 2006, 5:58:00 AM
Quoting your article...
I have found when battery strength gets down to around 7 I start getting "strange behavior".
Can you elaborate?
- May 25, 2006, 6:26:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
"Strange behavior" is vague... sorry.
A couple of examples:
1. I bot I designed was supposed to roll at 20% power until the sound sensor triggers (loud - shout) then cut to 5%. When battery was low, the sound sensor would trigger but the motors would start-stop-start-stop-start-stop... not run continually. Replaced the batteries and it worked fine.
2. Another time I couldn't get the UltraSonic sensor to detect my hand movement at the correct distance - I had to practically cover the US sensor with my hand... replaced batteries and problem went away.
"Strange behavior" definition: When I KNOW the bot should do one thing, I've triple checked the program, and the bot continues to misbehave.
- May 25, 2006, 6:34:00 AM
I'm assuming a battery strength of 7 is out of 10? How much operation do you get from a typical bot before you drop down that low? Minutes? Hours?
Time to start hunting for deals on Duracell...
- May 25, 2006, 6:45:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
I've never seen a 10 listed, but I got a LOT of bot-time before I saw 8... even more before it turned to 7. Hard to estimate for many reasons:
1. I tend to turn off my brick when I'm troubleshooting.
2. When testing, I (habitually) turn all motors down to low power (20% or less) until I'm happy with the program. This probably adds a LOT to the life of the batteries.
- May 25, 2006, 6:50:00 AM
- Brian Davis said...
What is shown in the battery window is the actual measured voltage, so it generally peaks out around 9, not 10. I don't test my 'bots at 20% power, and worse I've been using NiMH for the most part. The result is about two days of fairly frequent use (how's that for vague?), and then I swap out batteries. Yes, low battery levels give a lot of "strange" behavior, but generally not corrupted firmware (yeah!).
- May 25, 2006, 1:04:00 PM
Are you taking over gorobotics? :) The last 2 post there are yours and nothing new. I like what you wrote but why didn't youu put it on your blog?
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Who Is to Blame for Polarization?
For as much as Beltway pundits and old Washington hands pine for a new age of bipartisanship, the simple fact—as this new Gallup analysis suggests—is that the conditions for bipartisan cooperation have long since evaporated. President Barack Obama, for example, is the most polarizing president in Gallup polling history, followed by Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton (if you isolate George W. Bush's last three years, polarization is extremely high):
Although presidents always try to pursue policies that satisfy their supporters—and, in most cases, anger the opposition—it's important to remember that presidents themselves aren't responsible for the increase in polarization. That Republicans and Democrats have a stark contrast in opinions on the performance of President Obama has less to do with Obama, and everything to do with the public itself, which has grown more ideological and more partisan over the last 30 years. To wit, co-partisans are more likely to live near each other—think cities and suburbs—and their representatives tend to reflect that fact.
Moreover, this polarization doesn't effect all sides equally. Politico's John Harris and Jonathan Allen bring in University of Georgia political scientist Keith Poole to offer an explanation:
"The Republican Party has been steadily moving to the right since the 1970s," Poole said. "The Republicans have moved about three times the speed to the right as the Democrats have moved to the left."
Indeed, in the same way that the Republican Party has marched to the right at a far faster rate than the Democratic Party has slid to the left, GOP voters—in particular, white Republicans in the South—became more ideological faster than Democratic voters, and to some degree, are still the most polarized voters in the country.
If Mitt Romney's rhetoric is any indication, Republicans plan to hit Obama over his failure to "bring the country together." And it's true that the president ran on a promise to transcend partisan divisions—a promise which, as Ryan Lizza's recent story in The New Yorker revealed, he desperately tried to fulfill. But this is one of the (many) things that is outside the control of the president; polarization and partisanship are here to stay, and our job is to accommodate them into our politics.
Tue, 2012-01-31 16:22
There's something I've noticed about leadership. All organizations take on the atributes of their leaders. When Mr. Obama informed the Republicans that they could "come along for the ride, but their going to have to sit at the back of the bus," and that "I won." He isolated them and kicked them to the curb. How suprised am I supposed to be that they aren't interested in working with the man, was he interested in working with them. He calls them names, he denegrates their motives, he misrepresents their positions and attacks the stawman he's created. What on earth does he expect in return.
Compare him to Mr. Clinton. Clinton played hardball but never attempted to shutdown the lines of communications. Things got done with bipartisan support.
No, the fault lies with Mr. Obama, he's the leader, it's his organization, don't kid yourself. Just as blaming gas prices on "oil company greed" is silly (what, did they suddenly become greedy? What were they before?). Blaming anyone other than the President on the rancor (What, did the Republican's suddenly start to oppose democratic inititives? What did they do before?) misses the fundamental truth: All organizations resemble their leaders. Think about any group you are a part of and check to see if I'm right.
Tue, 2012-01-31 21:03
Well, you beat me to it but I'll flap anyway. When someone tries to forcefeed you a 'c r a p' sandwich you don't say, "Hey, let's compromise!" You refuse and form a pretty accurate and lasting opinion of your adversary. President Zero shoved a doozy down our throats with his unintelligible, bankrupting healthcare mess. You think that didn't tick a lot of people off? 60% or more of the people hate it, and have since before it was passed. What's BHO's monumentally arrogant reply? "Just deal with it. You'll realize eventually that I'm so much smarter than you. I know what your family needs better than you do." People are still po'd over it, and yes, it's polarizing.
Tue, 2012-01-31 21:45
Well, what can I add........
....but to ask everyone to consider the key players involved. The left may disagree on what to call Obama's ideology, but an ideology he has, and it is clearly centered around the idea that the "haves" in society should fund a life for the "have-nots" over and above what the have-nots have earned. The same is true for both Pelosi and Reid --- debate over their ideologies is irrelevant; the point is that they are clear ideologues with no history of bipartisanship.
OTOH, who leads the GOP? Boehner is viewed with suspicion by the Tea Party, because of his reputation as a DEALMAKER; the same is true for Mitch McConnell. Pelosi is known to distrust her own second-in-command, Steny Hoyer, because he has the same reputation as Boehner and McConnell; somebody who is willing to find compromise to make a deal.
Polarization comes from (a) saying things like "Guys, we won", from (b) using majorities and gimmicks to shove ideologic legislation down the throats of the minority, from (c) using the complicit media to lie and put the blame on your opponents, and (d) by avoiding rational debate on important topics and blaming all disagreement on "racism."
No shortage of reasons why the GOP should stonewall; I just hope the public sees reality before November. If the damage done to the business environment by the President cannot be repaired prior to 2016......well, if you thought capital was flying out of the country before, wait till what you see starting in Dec of 2012.
Of course, the Chinese and Indians will appreciate all the extra jobs.
Tue, 2012-01-31 22:38
Wed, 2012-02-01 04:11
Most people will agree that politics in America is becoming more polarized, but to give this President a pass seems a willful disregard for the facts. Aside from what the other commentators have written, does Mr. Bouie think that it is not polarizing to call one's political opponents "enemies" which President Obama did on a Spanish station. in L.A. (The President cannot even bring himself to call Iran an enemy.) How about the condescension of accusing those who disagree as doing so because they "are clinging to their guns and bibles"? Might this be a little polarizing?
Furthermore, for Mr. Bouie to say that Republicans have been moving to the right since the 1970's 3 x faster than Democrats are moving to the left is a staggering and myopic misstatement. Does he consider gay marriage to not be a radical departure from 1970's norms or how about extreme environmentalism where a gas like CO2, essential to life, becomes a pollutant and any project involving fossil fuels is verboten just on principal? I could go on but i won't for now. The point is that Mr. Bouie needs to rethink how polarizing this President is and to bring a little common sense and perspective to his arguments that Republicans are moving right far faster than Democrats are moving left. If he believes this, he should at least give some examples.
Hollywood Hick
Wed, 2012-02-01 07:58
"The Republican Party has been steadily moving to the right since the 1970s," Poole said. "The Republicans have moved about three times the speed to the right as the Democrats have moved to the left."
This may very well be true but it illustrates two conundrums for the Left. First, that there isn't much room to move further left, and that the right had plenty of room to move right from center-right. Second, this migration may indicate the move to the right as a natural reaction to balance the ridiculous left agenda.
Fri, 2012-02-03 16:20
Greg Rampinelli
Fri, 2012-02-03 17:26
Sat, 2012-02-04 00:29
Newt G bears heavy blame, if not sole blame. His open strategy 20 years ago was to demonize Dems & train disciples how to show the same disrespect. Anyone got a copy of his infamous recommended word-list? Sure there are other forces at work, both economic and cultural, but the Gin-grinch sharpened the blade that carves this Great Divide.
Sat, 2012-02-04 03:17
One change is required to correct the researchers' assertion. It should be "The GOP has moved to the Right three times as much as the Democrats have also moved to the Right. Meanwhile, nobody represents the Left."
The notion that the Dem's have moved to the Left is absurd. The only thing the Dem Prez has really pushed are policies that were GOP ideas. What happens is that the news media consistently confuse the 50-yard-line with the line-of-scrimmage between the two parties. So, when Obama proposes a Republican idea (take your pick: individual mandate, cap and trade, various kinds of tax cuts), the Republicans move to the very far Right, away from their own ideas. Then, with the Dem's at the Right-30-yard-line, and the GOP at the Right-10-yard-line, the media wants the Dem's to move to the line-of-scrimmage between them, which is *not* a move to the "Center" like the media claims, but rather is a move further to the Right than the Right-wing position they started with.
This kind of deception by the media (confusing the 50-yd-line with the line-of-scrimmage) has been going on for 30 years. It is why the US has stopped being a Centrist successful nation and has instead become an failed Right-wing nation. If we want to get back the 50-yd-line, which is what it takes for things to work properly, then we must move to the Left just to get back to the Center which is where we were when things worked properly.
Arkansas Slim
Sat, 2012-02-04 10:06
Obama consistently adheres to the Oraganizer Saul Alynski methods of Bi partisanship. Play ball or else.
DC politics are not based on this premise.
Centrist, Leftist, Rightist, are terms that bring forth ideologies. In the current world, Ideaologies are paramount. The US Electorate has finally woken up to the facts of life. For the Articles 30 year span, the Left has successfully led the culture, the private sector and the governings to the Ideologies of the Marxist Left. Within the period 2008 to 2012, they have implemented as many tenets of this belief system as possible. To thier honest dismay, the tenets once again played false.
BI partisanship is dead, long live IDEAs.
Semper fi
Sat, 2012-02-04 11:25
Arkansas Slim you obviously don't know squat about Alinsky's C.O. methods.
His entire methodology develop to teach the powerless how get the powerful to recognize and deal with them. Poor people are and always have been powerless and Alinsky taught them the techniques to do so. Unfortunately, the success was relative because in the end, most poor people remain powerless. The phony Tea Party populism used many of Alinsy's tactics to gain power but they were bankrolled by billionaires and run by politically powerful insiders like Dick Armey. Oh and by the way the first three or four posters on this site are trolls. Right Wingers often do a coordinated slam on liberal websites. It's OK though we recognize you. The idea that Obama caused the polarization is so laughable as to be satire. The Right determined to block every attempt of his to work in a bipolar fashion. And also freaked out because he's half black. He's finally found a populist voice but it's probably too late to save us from the Plutocracy that owns the Republican Party most of the Democratic Party and the Supreme Court.
Sun, 2012-04-29 02:24
Newt G bears heavy blame, if not sole blame. His open strategy 20 years ago was to demonize Dems & train disciples how to show the same disrespect. Anyone got a copy of his infamous recommended word-list? Sure there are other forces at work, both economic and cultural, but the Gin-grinch sharpened the blade that carves this Great Divide.
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Often the hunt for horsepower starts with a question. You know the type: "Hey, I made 480 hp-how much more would I have to do to make 500?" That's exactly the query posed by Jeff Latimer of Valencia, California's JGM Performance Engineering, who had a good combo in hand: a small-block throwing down 420 lb-ft of torque to go with all those ponies. What makes the question compelling, though, is that those numbers came from a "mere" 327. So when we learned that JGM had teamed up with its neighbors at Air Flow Research to deliver an impressive reply to the 500hp question, we didn't have to be asked twice to check out the results.
Latimer is a staunch 327 fan. "It's part of my memory from the good ol' days of Pro Stock," he told us. "Everybody was running them." So later on down the road, he built one: a 10:1, hydraulic flat tappet motor with duration at 0.050 in the 240s, and wearing AFR 180 Eliminator heads. No question, he was impressed with the result. They're great numbers for a 327-but you know where this is heading.
The foundation was another 327 block. When outfitted with ARP studs, the factory two-bolt mains were more than sufficient for the planned power level. The mains were also precisely line-honed and the bearing clearances set with the factory steel crank being utilized. The holes were bored 0.040 over; with the standard 3.250-inch stroke in place, displacement came out at 333 ci. The reciprocating assembly was fairly pedestrian: Eagle 6-inch I-beam rods topped with KB hypereutectic slugs. "They're enough for 500 hp," Latimer explained. The short-block is more than adequate, but nothing exotic, as our builder puts it.
The wealth of experience at JGM, along with some computer modeling based on cylinder head flow data and estimated cranking compression, led to more particulars. The chosen cam was an aggressive Comp solid-roller, boosted with Comp 1.6:1 Hi-Tech stainless steel rocker arms. Also of note is the piston deck height-the +0.005 figure, when combined with the cylinder heads' 60cc chamber volume, creates a fairly tight quench figure of 0.035 inch, which promotes efficient combustion.
Latimer was impressed by the performance of the 180 Eliminator heads on his first 327, and he naturally turned to Tony Mamo and the AFR crew for help in answering the 500hp question. The heads of choice were a set of the company's 195 Competition Ported Eliminators. Mamo put it in a nutshell: "Jeff and I felt these heads were ideally suited to this project, 'cause we intended to turn it pretty hard."
"Ideally suited," indeed: The horsepower goal was blown away by a good 10 percent, as in 50-plus more horsepower than the goal. Peak power came at a not totally astronomical 7,100 rpm. And as impressive as 553 hp is from a 327, check out the torque numbers. Right off the bat, 433 lb-ft at 5,600 isn't a bad peak. But this thing's at 380 lb-ft by 3,900 rpm, and stays over 400 from 4,600 all the way to 7,200 rpm. It's a screamer-but one with an impressive and flat, useable torque band. "That's why we used the 195 Comp ported heads," reiterated Mamo. "Since this engine will spend more time on the street than at the track, we were concerned about the bottom end and throttle response as well as the top end power."
Latimer is thrilled with the results, especially, we suspect, with that flat torque curve, since this mill could find a home in the '63 Chevy II he's been working on. On the other hand, more questions have already arisen, and Latimer admits that he might have used some different components if he'd known he was going to exceed the 500hp goal by so much. He's already working on it, and of course the question has already been posed: "I wonder how much more it'll make next time?"
Quick Notes
What We Did
Followed along on a mission to obtain 500 hp from a 327 small-block
Bottom Line
Mission accomplished-and with a 53-horse bonus
Cost (APPROX)


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