i ordered this catback off ebay for my daily driver nissan 240sx because the stock system is such garbage, it ended up being a little too fart can lookin’ for me, but the 3″ piping sure made a hell of a difference in power! no more shifting at 5k!

maybe later i’ll try and find a smaller tip to weld on. but so far this works pretty damn well for the price ($200 on ebay)

check it out! about damned time they had something other than a mustang on that show.

oh geez, this is too funny. I hope mr Gore gets what’s coming to him! haha…

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,337710,00.html

The founder of the Weather Channel wants to sue Al Gore for fraud, hoping a legal debate will settle the global-warming debate once and for all.

John Coleman, who founded the cable network in 1982, suggests suing for fraud proponents of global warming, including Al Gore, and companies that sell carbon credits.

“Is he committing financial fraud? That is the question,” Coleman said.

“Since we can’t get a debate, I thought perhaps if we had a legal challenge and went into a court of law, where it was our scientists and their scientists, and all the legal proceedings with the discovery and all their documents from both sides and scientific testimony from both sides, we could finally get a good solid debate on the issue,” Coleman said. “I’m confident that the advocates of ‘no significant effect from carbon dioxide’ would win the case.”

• Click here to watch video of Coleman on “Fox and Friends.”

Coleman says his side of the global-warming debate is being buried in mainstream media circles.

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“As you look at the atmosphere over the last 25 years, there’s been perhaps a degree of warming, perhaps probably a whole lot less than that, and the last year has been so cold that that’s been erased,” he said.

“I think if we continue the cooling trend a couple of more years, the general public will at last begin to realize that they’ve been scammed on this global-warming thing.”

• Click here to visit FOXNews.com’s Natural Science Center.

Coleman spoke to FOXNews.com after his appearance last week at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in New York, where he called global warming a scam and lambasted the cable network he helped create.

“You want to tune to the Weather Channel and have them tell you how to live your life?” Coleman said. “Come on.”

He laments the network’s decision to focus on traffic and lifestyle reports over the weather.

“It’s very clear that they don’t realize that weather is the most significant impact in every human being’s daily life, and good, solid, up-to-the-minute weather information and meaningful forecasts presented in such a way that people find them understandable and enjoyable can have a significant impact,” he said.

“The more you cloud that up with other baloney, the weaker the product,” he said.

Coleman has long been a skeptic of global warming, and carbon dioxide is the linchpin to his argument.

“Does carbon dioxide cause a warming of the atmosphere? The proponents of global warming pin their whole piece on that,” he said.

The compound carbon dioxide makes up only 38 out of every 100,000 particles in the atmosphere, he said.

“That’s about twice as what there were in the atmosphere in the time we started burning fossil fuels, so it’s gone up, but it’s still a tiny compound,” Coleman said. “So how can that tiny trace compound have such a significant effect on temperature?

“My position is it can’t,” he continued. “It doesn’t, and the whole case for global warming is based on a fallacy.”

sorry about all the cat postings but kittens are just awesome. here are a few more videos

here is a short vid of some kittens, one of which i’ll be getting soon (the fuzziest one with white back legs)

check er out!

not sure if any of you have heard of this since it didn’t make it onto the news, nor have i heard anything about this “soldier” being punished in any way for indefinate animal cruelty but here are some emo kids recovering after the said video was shown to them.

and be for-warned, here is a link to the actual video

http://my.break.com/content/view.aspx?ContentID=463231

saw this explanation of southland tales on IMDB and thought it was definetaly helpful!

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Ok, here is my explanation of what happened. I think you’ll find after reading this in fact the film wasn’t a ‘mess’ as it has often been discribed. A bit of thought is required, but that doesn’t mean it was a mess. Everything in there is in there for a reason!

Also I am not really up on my ‘Revelations’, so some of it may ebe helped by someone else as to who some of the minor charcters represented.

Enjoy

So, pretty much the whole scenario has occured because of the Baron (the Devil) and his quest to destroy the earth and become the new messiah. He sets things in motion once the terrorist attack happens when he suddenly appears with an answer to Americas fuel problems. He sets up the Utopias in the ocean knowing full well that they will slow the planet down (he is a scientist after all) and create the rift in time that he can use to create the ‘new messiah’ and then destroy him while sending almost everyone else into chaos so they won’t notice what is really happening. He knows full well what will happen if the two ’souls’ ever meet ie the 4th demension will collapse. This is how he intends to destroy the world and become the next messiah. A very clever observation about which is more powerful. God or science?

He then sets about manipulating and playing all the power figures (Neos and Repubs) against each other while really controlling both from behind the scenes and using their facilities ie Unident/Unideath etc to keep a careful eye/control on things.

He sends a returned Iraq veteran who is suicidal after he has badly injured his best friend through ‘friendly fire’ and a movie star whose life he intends to destroy in the coming days in the hope that he too will commit suicide (due to the shame he suffers via the affair with Krysta and the shooting of the 2 Neo’s by the rascist cop and that it may swing the election) into the ‘rift’.

This is where his plans are foiled. He obviously believes Boxer is the new messiah because he is a celebrity ie he is already a messiah in many peoples eyes, but he forgets celebrities are false idols. He forgets that in Krysta’s (Mary Magdaline, a woman who will transform herself from a pornstar/prostitute to become good after meeting who she believes is the messiah) script Boxer is assigned to ‘protect’ the messiah (the baby) not to be the messiah. Therefore he takes his eye off the ball ie the ‘actual’ messiah, Roland/Ronald.

He also messes up by creating a drug (liquid karma) which he believes he can use to control all that use it (just like his other invention Fluid Karma can control the machines it operates). Unfortunately it also gives the people who use it, the ability to communicate with each other and feel each others emotions.

When Roland and Boxer meet, Roland remembers (has had dreams) about Boxer and being locked in a tunnel with sand walls with him ie the time rift in the desert and that Boxer was his protector. And Boxer finds out that Roland hasn’t has a bowel movement for 6 days (like the baby in the script) so Boxer has a piece to the puzzle of who the new messiah will be. After the cop shoots the victims and the 2 meet outside the appartment (in a tunnel of smoke) Boxer begins to speak in tongues (ie tell him whats going on) and Roland runs away in fear, but has understood what Boxer has just told him. He has an idea then what is then going on. Much like Donnie had his suspicions in DD.

So the scenes play out with the Neos and Repubs doing what they do in their own petty squabbles which have been created by the Baron once again (all of which involve destroying Boxer in some way thus prempting his suicide) so they dont see what is really happening. Meanwhile the final outcome of what is happening becomes clearer to those who are the main players. The Baron calls the Kevin Smith character and tells him to release the powerful body from Utopia 3. Kevins character says ’so it all begins’ We see religious reports about ‘Christ’ on the Unident screens and Martin (Christ-the soon to be Old Messiah) appears at Pilot Abelines place to buys drugs ‘for medicinal purposes’. Martin we learn later on is to be drafted to Iraq ’sacrficed’ by the ‘powers’ that be ie the Baron. This and the fact that we find out later that his finances have been taken so he can’t escape, leads me to believe that the Baron thought that he too would commit suicide rather than go to Iraq, therefore killing the ‘old’ messiah in preperation for his take over. Martin never takes the drug however and it is later used by Roland (after Roland stops his suicide as he has not completed his quest yet?) to bleed and communicate with Ronald and find out where he is.

All the main players that the Baron assumes should be there are assembled on the Megazepplin. Boxer is told what happened and that the Baron thinks he will commit suicide after all he has done to him, but ‘PIMPS’ (ie he is the new messiahs PIMP/protector) don’t commit suicide and he doesn’t do it. He goes and dances with Krysta as does his wife and the 3 of them ‘forgive’ what each have done to one another as they know the end is near.

On the ground Roland has found Ronald via the bleeding and Martin is told thank you by Christopher Lamberts character (does anyone know who he may be re revelations? when he first appears there is the quote about death riding a white horse then we see him in the van and he obviosuly is taking Ronald to meet Roland), for reuniting the ‘other self’. He then tells Martin to destroy the zeppelin. Ronald and Roland shake hands and the van rises into the air. They remember what they did in Fallugah.

Boxer fires a gun and looks as tho he is going to kill himself. The Baron says it was his mission to destry capitalisim and dethrone God and Boxer replies, It is Roland that ‘they’ want (ie to be the new messiah). He adopts the Christ pose and his stigmata (the tattoo) begins to bleed. His job as protector is now over. We then see Martin blow up the Zepplin, adopt the Christ pose and sacrifice himself to make way for the new messiah. Ronald/Roland are about to commit suicide but they see via bleeding that Pilot is happy and dancing on the ground and forgive themselves for what they did. They don’t commit suicide ‘because “PIMPS/the new messiah/ruler’ don’t commit suicide. All the lunatics that destroyed the world blow up on the Zepplin. _________

wow, am i ever out of the loop that is nin news lately. just heard now that there is a new 2 disc release from nine inch nails. its actually for sale on www.nin.com with a few free tracks. i’m downloading it now and crossing my fingers its better than the last NIN release.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_I-IV

Nine Inch Nails presents Ghosts I – IV, a brand new 36 track instrumental collection available right now. Almost two hours of new music composed and recorded over an intense ten week period last fall, Ghosts I – IV sprawls Nine Inch Nails across a variety of new terrain.

Trent Reznor explains, “I’ve been considering and wanting to make this kind of record for years, but by its very nature it wouldn’t have made sense until this point. This collection of music is the result of working from a very visual perspective – dressing imagined locations and scenarios with sound and texture; a soundtrack for daydreams. I’m very pleased with the result and the ability to present it directly to you without interference. I hope you enjoy the first four volumes of Ghosts.”