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12-25-2004
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Freeman's lobotomy procedure included knocking a patient out with electric shocks, lifting the eyelids and inserting an "ice-pick-like" instrument through the tear duct. He pierced the skull bone by tapping on the instrument with a surgical hammer, then shoved the pointed steel about an inch into the frontal lobe of the brain and moved its sharp tip back and forth. This procedure since has been universally discredited.
From: Forgotten Dead of St. Elizabeths, By Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Insight Magazine, July 2001 |
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12-25-2004
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#82 (permalink) |
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"As experts warn that action is necessary now to curb the booming rise in international air travel - the most polluting form of transport - jet-setting celebrities appear to show no signs of ditching their Lears. Just one trans-Atlantic flight produces emissions equivalent to 40,000 cars traveling from London to Leeds."
The Scotsman online Nov 20, 2000 "Just one trans-Atlantic flight produces emissions equivalent to 40,000 cars traveling from London to Leeds." 40 000 cars traveling approximately 200 miles, lets play with those numbers a bit. If it was only a single vehicle that car would have to travel a total of 8 000 000 miles to produce the same approximate amount of pollution that a single jet traversing the Atlantic once would produce. Traveling at a rate of 60MPH it would take over 15 years of continous driving to travel a distance that great. Wheras one transatlantic flight takes between 7 to 8.5 hours. One could drive a distance equivalent from going to the moon and back a total of 10 times and still have over a few hundred thousand miles to spare. After looking at these numbers the bleeding hearts can have my cat and air pump free, gas and oil guzzling rotary with its 17 highway miles per gallon when they pry my cold dead foot from the accelerator. Adam Last edited by deimox; 12-25-2004 at 10:32 PM.. |
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04-15-2005
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#90 (permalink) |
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Opelitis since 1984
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. - Dwight D. Eisenhower Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. - Dwight D. Eisenhower What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Dwight D. Eisenhower Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. - Dwight D. Eisenhower I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. - Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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'71 Opel Kadett 4 Door 36D
Blown motor = EV Conversion? |
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04-15-2005
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#91 (permalink) |
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Opelitis since 1984
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From my third favorite american - Theodore Roosevelt
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.' - Theodore Roosevelt Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. - Theodore Roosevelt No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. - Theodore Roosevelt The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others. - Theodore Roosevelt |
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'71 Opel Kadett 4 Door 36D
Blown motor = EV Conversion? |
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04-15-2005
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#92 (permalink) |
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Opelitis since 1984
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And now one of my favorite brits - Douglas Adams
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. - Douglas Adams You live and learn. At any rate, you live. - Douglas Adams In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. - Douglas Adams Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. - Douglas Adams Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. - Douglas Adams Now DEFINATELY Opel Related Quotes: A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. - Douglas Adams |
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'71 Opel Kadett 4 Door 36D
Blown motor = EV Conversion? |
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04-15-2005
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#93 (permalink) |
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Opelitis since 1984
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A lastly for something completely different - John Cleese (of Monty Python fame)
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. - John Cleese If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?' John Cleese If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth. - John Cleese You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change. - John Cleese The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack. - John Cleese He who laughs most, learns best. - John Cleese |
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'71 Opel Kadett 4 Door 36D
Blown motor = EV Conversion? |
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04-15-2005
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#96 (permalink) |
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www.opelgtworld.de
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Die Japaner haben eine raffinierte Art, ihren Stahl in die Vereinigten Staaten zu schmuggeln. Sie malen ihn an, stellen ihn auf vier Räder und nennen das ganze Auto.
Henry Ford (1863-1947) . |
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"Man kann ein Auto nicht wie ein menschliches Wesen behandeln - ein Auto braucht Liebe. (Walter Röhrl)"
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