44,000 DEATHS On Our Highways: And Nobody Cares!

From : Annonymous

Q: i thought so. another big government liberal trying to regulate everyones lives. i care. thats why i wear my safety belt and also everyone else in my vehicle. i drive sober awake and at slow safe speeds. i do my best to not overdrive my headlights signal all my turns anticipate the other driver and leave a safe following distance. over the course of my 25 year driving career ive had zero fatalities and one hospitalization. which incidentally was me. i kept telling them i was fine but the ambulance guys wanted to do their thing. all of this with totally zero massive government intervention. take your forceful government intervention and forcefully shove it in your ass. -- christopher a. young you cant shout down a troll. you have to starve them. .. and then demand governmental action in the form of forceful intervention and strict regulation -- will this become the story of the year as it should be. .

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From : bob

on tue 02 jan 2007 234934 gmt tom lawrence tnloaswpraemnmcien5g@earthlink.net wrote i just got a 2003 2500 ram. it had a topper on it but the top is older and does not have the third brake light. i know i can buy one but where or how do you hook it up i want to be able to take the top off from time to time as well. is there a way the dealers set them up i dont want to halfass wire it. thanks theres a dedicated chmsl center high-mounted stop lamp aka 3rd brake light wire thats ran to the back of the truck specifically for aftermarket items. its a white/tan wire youre looking for. look for it in the wire loom that feeds the rear lights. simply tap into that and run to your aftermarket brake light. usually the aftermarket light will have its own connector so that it can be disconnected and the cap removed and provide its own ground. thank you very much. i will take a look and see. .

From : george

.. . . chances are the twin causes were 1 dad spilled hot grits onto his overalls while pleasurin hisself listenin to phone sex. 2 son high from glue sniffin didnt see much of nothin. then -- bamo! --------------------------- venture rider wrote http//edition.cnn.com/2006/us/12/29/father.son.crash.ap/index.html mountain home arkansas ap -- neither father nor son saw each other until it was too late as they approached the crest of a hill on a rural gravel road. steven roth 41 in his pickup truck collided with his 16-year-old son samuel b. roth who was doing a wheelie on his dirt bike. the boy died before paramedics arrived. i dont know that i could find either one of them at fault sheriff john montgomery said. the crash took place thursday near the familys home along a road just wide enough for two cars to pass each other. i cant imagine what the family is going through the sheriff said. my heart goes out for them. ive got kids of my own. i cant imagine. .

From : napalmheart

i have a 1987 w100 custom dodge truck. 318 2bbl automatic. truck started fine. turned the key to shut it off and it kept running not dieseled kept running. my first thought was ignition switch was bad but i installed a new one and no change. i also changed my alternator because i noticed the plastic bushing on the back was gone and the power coming out was grounding. i am lost to why i cant turn off the truck. i wonder if something with the alternator shorted out something and that is why. there is a box mounted on the back firewall behind the distributor that has a plug on it. the plug has 2 round male and the box has two female. i thought it was the control module but when i went to pick up a new one it didnt match. i know if i pull the plug while the ignition switch is on the truck continues to run. if i turn the key ignition off and pull this plug it kills the truck but a vaccum relay clicks like a turn signal. now one other thing. if i turn the key off and pull the positive battery cable off the truck shuts off. if the battery cable is left on after the engine shuts off it kills the battery over night. that happened and also a plastic vaccum in line on the heater hose cracked have no idea what it was just bypassed it. this all in one afternoon on new years day. i ended up in the parts store parking lot and had to get the truck towed home. i asked if there was a tall cliff nearby. would have been easier and cheaper to just let it roll off! anyways i love my truck so i need some help. .

From : napalmheart

tbone wrote oh please miles. you only see things from the extreme right and defend that retard no matter what he does and if for some reason you cant it is somehow turns out to be clintons fault you just couldnt resist jumping in without anything to say of substance! and this is different than your blatherings here how which is exactly the way you feel and react to clinton so as they say pkb dude. please show me where i ever said i hate clinton. i mention particular issues of his policies i disagree with. huge difference between that and your style of rhetoric. lol only in your little mind there dude. please show me where i ever said i hated bush. i have asked you many times to list what clinton has ever done right and what bush has done wrong and you have yet to be able to do either one. clinton has not been president for about 7 years now and you still blame both bushs screw-up and everything else wrong on him instead of putting the blame where it belongs. go back and review your previous posts for the past years and come back and tell me again how you dont blame clinton for just about everything. sorry miles but what you say and what you do are very different things and the funny thing is that your strong bias will never let you see it. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .

From : stormin mormon

i had a squeak on my chevy blazer 1989. turned out to be the big bolt holding the top of the a-frame on. i ignored it. -- christopher a. young you cant shout down a troll. you have to starve them. .. anyone have problems with the front end of the 2000 ram 1500 squeaking only 25k on the truck but ive had to replace the ball joints already. thanks. .

From : michael pardee

on jan 1 717 am mike simmons mike...@yhti.net wrote if you will recall at the beginning i asked for your proof which has not been forthcoming.... i guess because you havent any as i originally suspected. i already gave quotes from the bush administration that they used to get support for this war. its no surprise that you wont/cant comment on them. lets see if youre too chicken shit to comment on these 2002 rice sept. 25 there clearly are contacts between al-qaeda and iraq that can be documented; there clearly is testimony that some of the contacts have been important contacts and that theres a relationship here. ... and there are some al-qaeda personnel who found refuge in baghdad. bush oct. 7 we know that iraq and the al-qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy - the united states of america. we know that iraq and al-qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade and weve learned that iraq has trained al-qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases. 2003 bush state of the union address jan. 28 and this congress and the american people must recognize another threat. evidence from intelligence sources secret communications and statements by people now in custody reveal that saddam hussein aids and protects terrorists including members of al-qaeda. bush feb. 6 senior members of iraqi intelligence and al-qaeda have met at least eight times since the early 1990s. iraq has sent bomb-making and document forgery experts to work with al-qaeda and iraq has also provided al-qaeda with chemical and biological weapons training. 2004 cheney jan. 21 i continue to believe - i think theres overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between al-qaeda and the iraqi government. im very confident that there was an established relationship there. cheney monday saddam hussein had long-established ties with al-qaeda. i find it amusing and illuminating that in an earlier post you said.... i find it amusing that you ignore that the bush administration made comments that were *untrue*. sooo.... if bush acts on a belief that is a no-no but your belief without evidence on the other hand is perfectly ok. your double standard is remarkable. theres no double standard ... i dont command the troops. im not responsible for the lives of our military. thats bushs duty. if it were my duty id take it their deployment a bit more seriously than bush has. for instance i wouldnt send them in on a hunch. id make sure that there actually was a threat. on this we agree but show me the evidence that bush intentionally misled the public. unless and until you can im done with you. ive wasted enough time on this idiocy. ah ... chicken shit. get backed in a corner and you have no way out except to brush it off. typical. im still waiting on you to show me up. im going to ask again where are the wmds where is the evidence of a tie between iraq and al qaeda the supposed exsistence of these two things are what the bush administration used to get support to invade. your president misled the world. the next logical question is did he do it intentionally whether the answer to that question is yes or no it does not change the fact that bush is 100% responsible for what has happened. the buck stops with him. do you deny this i can tell that talking to you will be about as productive as talking to budd. neither of you can comprehend a simple reading exercise . quit wasting my time. put that in your war pipe and smoke it. craig c. .

From : napalmheart

bruce burden wrote did you know that dhmo killed more than 230000 people in one day and yet the governments and the un do nothing to stop the slaughter. dhmo. you can live without it. visit dhmo.org today! bruce wow that dhmo stuff is everywhere! were doomed if the government doesnt step in to regulate this nasty substance. ; http//www.dhmo.org/facts.html many folks in my community have been handicapped or killed by dhmo typically discharged by irresponsible corporations. something needs to be done but there is too much corporate monies involved. -- christopher a. young here in michigan we are concerned that those in other states want to take our dhmo away from us! ken in arizona we have ridded many of our rivers of dhmo. a century ago dhmo could be found much of the year in the salt river that runs through phoenix. now it is seen only when holding ponds threaten to overflow and dhmo is released into the salt river. when that happens it makes roads impassable and ruins many shacks. the damage is estimated in the dollars. dirt heavily contaminated with dhmo is scraped off the roads afterward and merely pushed into the ditch beside the road. some of the chemical finds its way into the soil and the rest evaporates to be breathed in by the residents. studies have found the bodies of arizonans - some still living but expected to die within years some already dead - contain large amounts of dhmo. dhmo is found in nearly every arizonan who dies only a few who escaped into the desert are free of the contamination. it is a terrible thing - mike .

From : napalmheart

i thought i was in your killfile . . . the liberals. liberal is doing the talking. not really. the liberal agenda is a religion by the liberal congress. except the liberal which administration ordered all the closings some slated for after the administration change i selectivly snipped this for the hell of it . ok which will it be administration or congress next you should be aware that base closings have nothing to do with the size of our military in terms of troop strength. furthermore the base closings were recommended by the armed services committee and the base closing study/committee dont recall the specific name for it at this time. this committee has been active since the 1980s. lastly if you read up on the orders from bush to close bases in pa youll realize that a republican president ordered the closings based on a recommendation from a republican filled committee and a democratic governor rendell looked seriously at filing suit to keep those bases open due to the jobs that would be lost. and after all of that it still has nothing to do with the iraq issue. ah yes it does. with all the closeings of military installations the military hospitals have been closed as well. with all the wia the existing hosp. are filled to capacity. so the facilities that retired military used are unavailable to them due to prioritization. another thought regards the hospital closeing. the idea was to place the wounded in a hospital fairly close to their home so that the family could visit. years ago the closest army hospital to boston was in valley forge a bit of a drive but doable. i believe that it is closed now. too bad cause the care was fantastic. now i havent a clue where the closest is. oh lets not forget the cut back in funding for the va. for the life of me i dont get this. get involved in a war and then cut the funding of support system for the wia. any of you folks care to explain that to me im sure it was a liberal plot.g i said it earlier in this thread we are americans! collectivly we have allowed the government to once again screw the folks that stand on the wall at night so we can hang names on each other. actually when ya stop and think about it the vn vet is getting screwed again when you figure the reduction in services. roy .

From : bill dunkinfield

carolina watercraft works wrote um...check your local laws. im under the impression that it is illegal to have video in front where the driver can see it. -- them damn liberals always making laws to prevent me from killing myself my fambly or someone else. jam .

From : alphonse q muthafuyer

i thought i was in your kill-file!! as part of our military one accepts the risk of being killed in the line of duty as such bush is not responsible for those deaths either. more complete horse shit. while it is true that one accepts being killed in the line of duty when part of the military it is still the responsibility of the commander and chief not to put them in harms way for no good reason and that is exactly what he has done!!! ah yes since you have never been in the military you dont know squat about what it means to be in the military. lol maybe not but you dont have to jump off of a tall building to know the landing is probably gonna hurt or kill you. it means choosing to to do whatever it takes to keep your fellow citizens free including citizens of the world. really since when to keep our fellow citizens free ill agree with as well as those of our allies but all citizens of the world complete bullshit. choosing to lay your life on the line so others can express their leftist/liberal/commie viewpoints equally with expressed conservative viewpoints. oh do you mean right wing nazi conservative view points like yours choosing to die for what is right not what is politically correct. which is exactly the opposit of what is happening to our troops now or did the right wing politically correct cut and run excuse to keep getting them injured and killed slip past you choosing to refuse to follow illegal orders over doing what is wrong. complete crap. exactly what orders would you consider illegal and who gets to make that decision. what you are saying would lead to a complete collapse in the chain of command and get many of them killed. choosing to fight for those that cannot defend or free themselves. true. some of the most respected and recognized heros of ww-ii korea and vietnam were draftees yet they chose to do what needed to be done. hahahaha they did not choose to do it they were orderd to. that is the difference between enlisting and getting drafted one you choose and the other you dont. i chose to serve my country and my fellow citizens you chose not to as far as we know yet you think you know what its all about. there was nothing going on when i came of age so going into the military would have been a waste of my time and their money. walk 20 miles in my combat boots with full pack keep your head down in the mud in an infiltration course because of the live rounds flying over your head do 10000 push-ups because the ai doesnt like your nose before you think you know it all about the military. oh please budd you were hardly storming the beaches of normandy or even comming close to dealing with what our current troops are dealing with. were you ever in-country or just in the john cleaning your underware after that live round infiltration course i wont ask you to face combat you couldnt handle it. and neither did you unless you consider greasing heavy equipment combat. ya know the bible predicts there will be world-wide peace ... after armageddon after the old world is destroyed and after the new jerusalem is built. possibly as it refers to world domination but i doubt that either one of us will be around to see it. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .

From : george

on jan 1 311 pm scott hendryx scott.hendryx.clot...@sbcglobal.net wrote prolly a pink tutu! poor scott ... your ignorance was exposed so now you resort to gay jokes. pathetic redneck. dont you have people in the rv group to irritate craig c. .

From : fuller rath

on jan 1 717 am mike simmons mike...@yhti.net wrote if you will recall at the beginning i asked for your proof which has not been forthcoming.... i guess because you havent any as i originally suspected. i already gave quotes from the bush administration that they used to get support for this war. its no surprise that you wont/cant comment on them. lets see if youre too chicken shit to comment on these 2002 rice sept. 25 there clearly are contacts between al-qaeda and iraq that can be documented; there clearly is testimony that some of the contacts have been important contacts and that theres a relationship here. ... and there are some al-qaeda personnel who found refuge in baghdad. bush oct. 7 we know that iraq and the al-qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy - the united states of america. we know that iraq and al-qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade and weve learned that iraq has trained al-qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases. 2003 bush state of the union address jan. 28 and this congress and the american people must recognize another threat. evidence from intelligence sources secret communications and statements by people now in custody reveal that saddam hussein aids and protects terrorists including members of al-qaeda. bush feb. 6 senior members of iraqi intelligence and al-qaeda have met at least eight times since the early 1990s. iraq has sent bomb-making and document forgery experts to work with al-qaeda and iraq has also provided al-qaeda with chemical and biological weapons training. 2004 cheney jan. 21 i continue to believe - i think theres overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between al-qaeda and the iraqi government. im very confident that there was an established relationship there. cheney monday saddam hussein had long-established ties with al-qaeda. i find it amusing and illuminating that in an earlier post you said.... i find it amusing that you ignore that the bush administration made comments that were *untrue*. sooo.... if bush acts on a belief that is a no-no but your belief without evidence on the other hand is perfectly ok. your double standard is remarkable. theres no double standard ... i dont command the troops. im not responsible for the lives of our military. thats bushs duty. if it were my duty id take it their deployment a bit more seriously than bush has. for instance i wouldnt send them in on a hunch. id make sure that there actually was a threat. on this we agree but show me the evidence that bush intentionally misled the public. unless and until you can im done with you. ive wasted enough time on this idiocy. ah ... chicken shit. get backed in a corner and you have no way out except to brush it off. typical. im still waiting on you to show me up. im going to ask again where are the wmds where is the evidence of a tie between iraq and al qaeda the supposed exsistence of these two things are what the bush administration used to get support to invade. your president misled the world. the next logical question is did he do it intentionally whether the answer to that question is yes or no it does not change the fact that bush is 100% responsible for what has happened. the buck stops with him. do you deny this i can tell that talking to you will be about as productive as talking to budd. neither of you can comprehend a simple reading exercise . quit wasting my time. put that in your war pipe and smoke it. craig c. .

From : michael pardee

heres the real story folks its the dumb useless stupid-fucks who accounted for 90% of traffic deaths--they refused to wear their safety belts. simple as that. plus they modeled that fatal behavior for their own young people as well. 90% of those who had been wearing their safety belts survived and/or were non-seriously injured. lets get real. do what you can do forget about trying to legislate the solution. how about enforcing the existing safety belt laws with more than a $10 fine land olakes fred perryneheum@hotmail.com wrote drugs booze speed teens jerks macho men bikers other fools these substances and people types -- in various combinations -- kill 44000 of u.s. citizens a year. its been like this for decades. but nothing substantive is ever done to reduce this carnage. because nobody cares. are you part of the problem --------- a deadly story we keep missing by peter j. woolley the washington post wednesday december 27 2006; a19 the non-story of 2006 was also the non-story of 2005. it is a non-story every year going back decades. yet the number of people who die in car crashes in the united states is staggering even if it is absent from the agenda of most public officials and largely ignored by the public. when all is said and done and the ball begins to drop on new years eve 44000 people give or take several hundred will have died in auto accidents this year. to put that number in perspective consider that o at the 2006 casualty rate of 800 soldiers per year the united states would have to be in iraq for more than 50 years to equal just one year of automobile deaths back home. o in any five-year period the total number of traffic deaths in the united states equals or exceeds the number of people who died in the horrific south asian tsunami in december 2004. u.s. traffic deaths amount to the equivalent of two tsunamis every 10 years. o according to the national safety council your chance of dying in an automobile crash is one in 84 over your lifetime. but your chances of winning the mega millions lottery are just one in 175 million. o if you laid out side by side 8-by-10 photos of all those killed in crashes this year the pictures would stretch more than five miles. o if you made a yearbook containing the photos of those killed this year putting 12 photos on each page it would have 3500 pages. if you wanted to limit your traffic-death yearbook to a manageable 400 pages youd either have to squeeze more than 100 photos onto each page or issue an eight-volume set. can you hear me now automobile deaths are the leading cause of death for children for teenagers and in fact for all people from age 3 to 33. yet this annual tragedy is not a cause celebre. opinion leaders largely ignore the ubiquitous massacre. no marches walkathons commemorative stamps or fundraising drives are organized. it is not brought up in the state of the union address. it is rarely the subject of public affairs shows. statistics arent updated daily in major papers or broadcasts. gruesome crashes are reported just one at a time each as if it might never happen again. little attention is paid to the aftermath safety measures taken or not taken the workings or non-workings of the justice system. these avoidable deaths as well as more than 2 million nonfatal dismemberments disfigurements and other injuries that go along with them have become part of the fabric of everyday life in the united states. elected officeholders naturally take the path of least resistance. they are well aware that significantly reducing deaths on the roads requires radical solutions in the form of regulation investment and enforcement. roads need to be made safer for example by extending guardrails and medians to every mile of busy highways. speeding and aggressive driving need to be much more rigorously controlled. trucks need to be separated from automobiles wherever possible. and cars need to be built slower and stronger. but every solution is readily opposed by someone manufacturers industrial unions truckers consumers taxpayers -- though all are potential victims themselves. the public is not to blame. it is hemmed in on every side by mind-numbing advertising and shouted stories of the moment. apparently no medium is willing to bludgeon people -- as they need to be -- with statistics and trends on the dangers facing them every time they set out in their automobiles. only if there is a public outcry will this situation get the attention due it. only when people fully realize the absurd and avoidable costs of the dangers that stalk them on the road -- and then demand governmental action in the form of forceful intervention and strict regulation -- will this become the story of the year as it should be. the writer is a professor of political science at fairleigh dickinson university and executive

From : george

roy wrote lets try those with presidential hopes. we have obama clinton mccain kerry and whoever else you care to add to the mix. who do ya like and why.and who dont ya and why roy i dont like mccain because i think he is a hypocritial ass he likes to play the vet card but he does more to screw with the military then to help it. clinton i dont care for because i dont think she has done a good job as a senator in ny and if she were to get elected we would have some one named bush or clinton running the country for the last 20 years. i would love to see obama win. i love all that i have heard about him. he is extremely educated speaks clearly seems to be up front and a little more trust worthy then others. plus i think he is just what we need to change things its time for someone who is young and willing to shake things up a little.. .

From : fuller rath

bought a 02 nissan quest for the wife yesterday to replace her totaled 96 quest. yep it has heated leather seats! beekeep her tusch will never be the same. and you will be happier too fmb north mexico .

From : fuller rath

kind of getting off track i would like to know how to do it or where to get wiring diagrams if possible. i know it may not be legal to use when your moving...thanks for any input on fri 29 dec 2006 020411 gmt fmb fmbb@sbcglobal.net wrote its not illegal to have it up front it is illegal for the driver to watch it. slight difference but as we know a cop could be an ass any time they wanted too. kinda depends on what state you may be in i would say. as ca plainly states; 27602. a a person may not drive a motor vehicle if a television receiver a video monitor or a television or video screen or any other similar means of visually displaying a television broadcast or video signal that produces entertainment or business applications is operating and is located in the motor vehicle at any point forward of the back of the drivers seat or is operating and visible to the driver while driving the motor vehicle. it goes on to except a few items and you can see it at http//www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc27602.htm fmb north mexico .

From : backyard mechanic

the magic of statistics. we all know old guys that smoke im eighty and i know lots of them... if we relied on statistics milk would be the common causal link to every baby the died of sids. if they know what causes cancer why have they not found a cure as they did for all the other known killers next thing you know global warning will be the cause to keep the funding coming. lol mike yes 44000 die in car crashes but people take a lot of car rides. we should be more worried about smoking related deaths which kill about 10 times as many. i knew someone would bring up the smoking thing. someone always does. makes them feel morally superior to their inferior brethern who smoke. can you show any stats that proves 440000 people die of smoking i dont mean some statistics by a scientist who is in need of funds for his research project. i mean cases that it can be proven that the person died because the person smoked. how many people who never smoked die of lung and throat cancer each year no i do not smoke. .

From : bill dunkinfield

yes 44000 die in car crashes but people take a lot of car rides. we should be more worried about smoking related deaths which kill about 10 times as many. i knew someone would bring up the smoking thing. someone always does. makes them feel morally superior to their inferior brethern who smoke. can you show any stats that proves 440000 people die of smoking i dont mean some statistics by a scientist who is in need of funds for his research project. i mean cases that it can be proven that the person died because the person smoked. how many people who never smoked die of lung and throat cancer each year no i do not smoke. .

From : mike hunter

bill dunkinfield billdunkinfield@nospam.net wrote mike hunter wrote the problem is in the various states we allow people that do not know how to drive to teach others how to drive. every driver should have to pass a competent defensive driver training school test before being allowed on the highways and byways. the things i learned in driver training in high school have saved my life many times. jam good for you... but i cant say the same... the things i learned by pushing cars to the limit on snowy parking lots and gravel roads and in farm fields have saved my life several times. not to mention visualizing what if.. over and over. the last thing that saved my life... and probably some others was when a cat goes across 2 lanes of the freeway bounces off guardrail and back into your lane hit the brakes and do not swerve. knocked the other back off the road and mine didnt swerve into the other side guardrail until the semi that was on my blindside had passed me. they dont teach that in most drivers ed... or they didnt use to -- yeh im a krusty old geezer putting up with my smartass is the price you pay..deal with it! .

From : peterd

stormin mormon wrote a call for more regulation yep thats manure. liberal droppings. -- christopher a. young you cant shout down a troll. you have to starve them. . what a complete load of shit. -- inspect the drivers not the vehicles. many of my fellow drivers do not know how to make a left turn. many do not know what that line in the middle of the road is for. something has to be done about people talking on the phone and watching videos while driving. jam .

From : frank from deeetroit

the problem is in the various states we allow people that do not know how to drive to teach others how to drive. every driver should have to pass a competent defensive driver training school test before being allowed on the highways and byways. they generally cost a $1000 or more but one will save one many times the cost of the school in lower insurance rates. i sent all of my children and grandchildren to the bob bondurant driving schools at major raceways at a cost of around $2000. none of them to date has ever been charged with a moving violation or ever been involved in a fender bender let alone had a serious accident.. speed is always the fall guy for accidents but the fact is the vast majority of accidents happen at around 35 mph or less. the cause is generally driver inattention or incompetence and that can be corrected or improved drastically if we want to do so. truckers are fall guys as well. drive any major highway at 3 pm then drive the same highway at 3 am when the traffic is mostly trucks and you will be amazed at the difference than when it was filled with cars. i always travel at night when driving great distances for that reason. mike .. drugs booze speed teens jerks macho men bikers other fools these substances and people types -- in various combinations -- kill 44000 of u.s. citizens a year. its been like this for decades. but nothing substantive is ever done to reduce this carnage. because nobody cares. are you part of the problem --------- a deadly story we keep missing by peter j. woolley the washington post wednesday december 27 2006; a19 the non-story of 2006 was also the non-story of 2005. it is a non-story every year going back decades. yet the number of people who die in car crashes in the united states is staggering even if it is absent from the agenda of most public officials and largely ignored by the public. when all is said and done and the ball begins to drop on new years eve 44000 people give or take several hundred will have died in auto accidents this year. to put that number in perspective consider that o at the 2006 casualty rate of 800 soldiers per year the united states would have to be in iraq for more than 50 years to equal just one year of automobile deaths back home. o in any five-year period the total number of traffic deaths in the united states equals or exceeds the number of people who died in the horrific south asian tsunami in december 2004. u.s. traffic deaths amount to the equivalent of two tsunamis every 10 years. o according to the national safety council your chance of dying in an automobile crash is one in 84 over your lifetime. but your chances of winning the mega millions lottery are just one in 175 million. o if you laid out side by side 8-by-10 photos of all those killed in crashes this year the pictures would stretch more than five miles. o if you made a yearbook containing the photos of those killed this year putting 12 photos on each page it would have 3500 pages. if you wanted to limit your traffic-death yearbook to a manageable 400 pages youd either have to squeeze more than 100 photos onto each page or issue an eight-volume set. can you hear me now automobile deaths are the leading cause of death for children for teenagers and in fact for all people from age 3 to 33. yet this annual tragedy is not a cause celebre. opinion leaders largely ignore the ubiquitous massacre. no marches walkathons commemorative stamps or fundraising drives are organized. it is not brought up in the state of the union address. it is rarely the subject of public affairs shows. statistics arent updated daily in major papers or broadcasts. gruesome crashes are reported just one at a time each as if it might never happen again. little attention is paid to the aftermath safety measures taken or not taken the workings or non-workings of the justice system. these avoidable deaths as well as more than 2 million nonfatal dismemberments disfigurements and other injuries that go along with them have become part of the fabric of everyday life in the united states. elected officeholders naturally take the path of least resistance. they are well aware that significantly reducing deaths on the roads requires radical solutions in the form of regulation investment and enforcement. roads need to be made safer for example by extending guardrails and medians to every mile of busy highways. speeding and aggressive driving need to be much more rigorously controlled. trucks need to be separated from automobiles wherever possible. and cars need to be built slower and stronger. but every solution is readily opposed by someone manufacturers industrial unions truckers consumers taxpayers -- though all are potential victims themselves. the public is not to blame. it is hemmed in on every side by mind-numbing advertising and shoute

From : bdk

when was the last time you checked your anti-freeze level -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving i have a 2003 ram 1500 lately i have had problems with the heating with the control set at windscreen and cab i am getting hot air coming through the middle vents and cold on the outside vents. the temperature also goes up and down. thoughts please .

From : stormin mormon

though this is not impossible to do it is extremely difficult. there is no single video in/out wire on either of the units. so finding the correct wires will be difficult. once found running them in easy however you would have to make sure that the wire you are using as an input to the front unit will allow for what you are doing with out sending the signal backwards to the nav system. i can tell you with no hesitation that when i did this stuff for a living we would charge a fortune in labor to do something like this and there was absolutely no guarantee that we could in fact make it work. i honestly would not recommend it. as to state laws it is not forbidden to have the video in front it is however illegal in most states to have the video in a position that is directly viewable to the driver when said video is on. check your laws first. got a dodge megacab with built in gps display. has video in back for passengers was wondering if anyone knows a way to get video on the gps display in front. i know the garmin street pilot plays video and wonder if i can get video to work in the dodge thanks you may have to do some rewiring. many states now forbid video displays in the front of vehicles as to not distract the driver. .

From : tom adkins

were seeing these right here! drugs booze speed teens jerks macho men and the ever present balding fat reich wing girly boys who all suffer from lds - little dick syndrome .

From : aarcuda69062

tonyd wrote got a 97 2500 diesel. when i start it the alternator gauge swings from lowest acceptable position on the gauge to normal reading. it generally cycles from lo to high every 4 or 5 seconds. this normally goes on for 30 seconds or so. when the meter drops to the lowest position the idle rpms fall way down. when the raises to normal position the idle goes to normal rpms. whats going on here is the alternator getting ready to blow as the other guy explained this is the intake air heater draw. my 1996 3500 diesel does the exact same thing. .

From : stormin mormon

on mon 25 dec 2006 013703 -0500 carolina watercraft works cooltoys@bellsouth.net wrote id check out michelin ltx m/s. an excellent all around tire and these are what i use when i plow snow. there are times that i wish i had a dedicated snow tire and do plan ongetting a set to use only for plowing since i too run into ice a lot. for that i plan on getting blizzak w965 tires. part of the cause the problem original poster is having is because truck is very heavy in front compared to rear and while a better tire will help so will more weight in rear. if you place it on a scale you will find close 5000lbs of weight on front axle as it sits and maybe about half that in rear or a bit more unloaded. better tires and about 800 to 1000lbs in rear between wheel wells would help a good bit. i dont know why im doing this. but.... if you are useing the weight as

From : bruce burden

perryneheum@hotmail.com says... drugs booze speed teens jerks macho men bikers other fools these substances and people types -- in various combinations -- kill 44000 of u.s. citizens a year. its been like this for decades. but nothing substantive is ever done to reduce this carnage. because nobody cares. are you part of the problem well you cant regulate everything and everyone. cars and trucks are very safe at this point but a 2000 pound car will lose every time to a 5000lb suv. i was involved in a big wreck a few years ago and totalled a camaro and a cavalier and causing over 14k damage to my gmc sierra truck. i was the only one hurt not badly though. a 20 year old kid in the camaro turned in front of me at an intersection known for at least one similar wreck a month and one or two fatalities a year. finally after 35 years since the light was installed a turn signal was put in. the wrecks have stopped period. they needed a traffic study to finally figure this out and put one in! i do wish they would stop playing around with morons that get arrested for dui. the first time give them 30 days in jail or a dui center but the next time give them a year and they lose their car and cant drive for 5 years.a third time 10 years. i dont have any sympathy for them at all. my sisters ex-boyfriend has been arrested for dui so many times its insane. hes lost his license permanently but that doesnt stop him either. hes served a few years in jail all together but until he finally really hurts or kills somebody he wont stop. screwem lock him up. lock all the drunks/druggies up if they drive while impaired. i couldnt care less about drugs or booze use otherwise drug and alcohol laws dont work never have and never will. bikers will always be killed its just going to happen it always has and always will. laws of physics. there will always be jerks that cause wrecks and unless you make cars self piloting that wont change either. turning them all into armored tanks that will allow you to survive almost any crash would work but both are not practical. bdk .

From : geekboy

tbone wrote what you are seeing is the grid heater operating. when it cycles on it draws a huge amount of current 100a iirc and that will cause your gauge to swing to the low side. supplying this level of current does not come for free and when the heater is drawing this power the alternator will put a large load on the engine trying to supply it and that will cause your idle speed to drop. it is all normal operations and i wouldnt worry to much about it. otoh you might want to get your batteries load tested as it appears that they no longer have the reserve capacity they should have and the vehicle is relying far more on the alternator alone to supply the required current needed during the warm-up phase. what does the grid heater do both of the batteries were just replaced a few months ago with auto zone units -- about $80 each iirc. i cleaned the battery connectors with a battery cleaning tool when they were changed out. after installing the new batteries the starter spins at an unreal speed -- maybe twice the speed before. cold weather does seem to zap the batteries pretty fast tho. should i have these tested somehow if yes what procedure the grid heater warms the air entering the engine when it is cold and replaces the glow plugs that some other diesel engines use. if the batteries are that new they should be fine but if you want to test them have them load tested but i dont think that it will be necessary. as i said before during warm up on a cool or cold day the operation that you are seeing with the diesel engine in your truck is normal. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .

From : stormin mormon

the rear wheels. if between a goodly portion of the added weight is transfered to the front. kinda look at the rear wheels as a fulcrum. of course if ya use the weight that suggested you cant use the back of your truck and youll be blinding everybody while driving at night. but this whole exersise is moot with the right tire. when you have a lightly loaded driven axle pushing a much heavier one you will have issues on slick pavement though some may like to claim it is not a factor. also i have driven with blizzaks on a vehicle and they are not bad but i preffer studs for the really bad stuff. i run studded 10 ply bias style truck snow tires on my plow trucks in winter i have them mounted on extra sets of rims and they beat blizzaks in over all performance on ice and deep snow. nah this would be a waste of time. let me say this. if you plow snow most learn to do it correctly real fast. ive found that while plowing you should be behind your plow it is on the front of my truck. you have any idea what im driving on while plowing yup a fairly well scraped road or parking lot. the danger with studs is you cant stop on dry pavement or wet at speed over 15mph. well youll stop eventually. i dont know if this fool has them on all 4 wheels or what. much easier to use chains than studs if you feel the need. idiot please spare us the stories of the howling blizzards and other stories. been there done that. you know if he is soooo good id like to see him and his studded tires in a buffalo ny lake effect snow storm that dumps 84 in 36 hours. thats just it he isnt. 84 in 36 hours sorta give the term plow with the snowfall a whole new meaning. roy hell that gives new meaning to damn near doing anything in a snow fall. yeah it was like 3 or 4 years ago that buffalo got hit. i have a pic or two of it i will get scanned in and online. .

From : jeff burke

got a 97 2500 diesel. when i start it the alternator gauge swings from lowest acceptable position on the gauge to normal reading. it generally cycles from lo to high every 4 or 5 seconds. this normally goes on for 30 seconds or so. when the meter drops to the lowest position the idle rpms fall way down. when the raises to normal position the idle goes to normal rpms. whats going on here is the alternator getting ready to blow .

From : tbone

got a dodge megacab with built in gps display. has video in back for passengers was wondering if anyone knows a way to get video on the gps display in front. i know the garmin street pilot plays video and wonder if i can get video to work in the dodge thanks you may have to do some rewiring. many states now forbid video displays in the front of vehicles as to not distract the driver. .

From : fuller rath

how about a govenment grant seriously im pleased not to have injured anyone. that would be miserable to live with. -- christopher a. young you cant shout down a troll. you have to starve them. .. over the course of my 25 year driving career ive had zero fatalities i think you deserve a medal for zero fatalities! .

From : miles

after his hanging i wonder if he is with a 100 virgins .

From : napalmheart

pjc600@gmail.com wrote steve lusardi wrote dont do this. if you must use a late model 5.9 and you will need everything from the5.9. this is a big job and expensive if you do not do this yourself. be prepared to spend no less than $5k and most likely $10k before you are done. buy another vehicle and sell yours. steve hello i have looked all over and found minimul info on this quistion . i was wondering if you guys could help im picking up a 5.2 tomarrow out of a dakota 1995 4*4 auto i want to swap a 3.9 to a 5.2 in my 1996 dodge dakota 4*4 5 speed stick i know i need the computer the 5.2 moter complete with all acc..and the wiring harness. will this trans bolt to the 5.2 will the stock clutch be ok with the 5.2 what about the oil pans what do i need to know exaust i can take care of please help and fast........ ok i gues i left out some things first i am a a.s.e. master certifed tech so the work dont bother me.... the clutch part numbers are different because the v8 has a bigger clutch but the v6 clutch will be fine the flywheel is the same for ballance just the v8 has a bigger smoth surface...v8 has a 10 3/8 clutch the v8 has a 11 5/8 i was told on magnum engines that the mounts are the same and they are both multi port injected ok more info please.......... this is not my first time doing v8 swaps iv done rangers mustangs astros s10 and a 87 dakota 4 cld to 360 swap that was a pain in the a.. and a jeep 350 .

From : george

sounds like you have water in the engine oil. not trans fluid. cooling water. even a small amount will cause frothing. if you remove a valve cover it will be everywhere. check for excessive oil volume on the dipstick. check for color shift of the lube oil. check for oil in the cooling water. my guess is a head gasket. it could also be an inlet manifold leak. if the engine was ingesting water it could also cause the low speed engine stumble. check the color of the spark plugs. the faulty clyinder will have a strange deposit on the electrode. steve does any one have idea what this stuff is. according to the dealership they claim this is normal and it is only this year and type of engine that does this. i have never seen this kind of crap on and in the oil fill pipe. its yellow and it has the consistency of yogurt or sour cream. this week i had a look and it appears like its burning. the truck was in for another oil change 2 weeks ago and it appears like they did not bother to clean it out. another problem i ran into since i have had the truck is it would stall every once in awhile. 2 months after getting it i found out that the transmission was down a couple of liters. they never bothered to check all the fluid levels before handing the keys over. every 3 months it went in for its oil change just like they instructed me to do for the first year. i complained to them about the transmission fluid and that it stalled out of blue now and then. i told them it felt like the tranny was slipping in and out of gear when this happened. now after 4 trips to the dealership they have changed a gas filter then changed the transmission filter then they changed some valve and all of them did not work. the next thing was they installed and new idle motor. all of these trips i kept telling them it felt like the tranny. then finally i was able to make the truck stall out. i found when you had to slow down in a hurry that it would shimmy and shake and then stall. i told them how to make it stall but i ended up taking one of their techs in the truck with his machine hooked up. well i had to do this several times with him and his little machine told him nothing because it was diagnosing the motor and as he finally heard it and felt how the truck sputtered and shake and then stalled out. he did not know for sure what it was but it did sound more like a tranny problem to him. yippee just what i have been telling them for over a year. oh yea it your engine trouble light does not come on to tell them what the problem was they dont have a clue what to do. so they kept it and got some over guys to look at it and low and behold they found that the transmission fluid was down be 2 liters and since they filled it up they have not had the problem with it. by now i am a little annoyed because i just had another oil change done 3 weeks ago and i guess they did not bother to check anything else on the truck. when i went to pick it up again i had another service manager to talk top and he had the nerve to tell me that their oil change guys could not have missed checking the tranny fluid because it was all part of their process. they have this all set out for them on how to do their job. i just asked him then please tell me where did 2 liters of transmission fluid disappear to especially when i dont have any leaks anywhere. he had no idea what to say to that. a friend told me that he saw this in a friends car and it turned out to be transmission fluid leaking into the engine. could this be a possibility i have never seen this before and i am not happy with their explanation that it is only normal for this years model and engine combination. any help would be greatly appreciated. thank you .

From : backyard mechanic

azwiley1 wrote op i am sorry if you think that anyone here has not tried to help but simply put again what you are trying to do is not simple or straight forward and there is no unplug wire a plug in adaptor b etc... answer to this. more info on this mod that has been done by several including how to add video output from the ves dvd unit. i hope this answers the ops original question. http//www.dodgetalk.com/forums/showthread.phpt=122185&highlight=ves+video .

From : stormin mormon

id like to see someone in office who is common sense likes limited government and less intrusive government. but we havnt had someone like that since ronald reagan. id love to see ronnie back in office or someone just like him. -- christopher a. young you cant shout down a troll. you have to starve them. .. lets try those with presidential hopes. we have obama clinton mccain kerry and whoever else you care to add to the mix. who do ya like and why.and who dont ya and why roy .

From : stormin mormon

ive got a 97 dakota w/3.9l. the tensioner sometimes makes a lot of noise. ive replaced it and the new one squealed just the same. any ideas on how to get rid of the noise are you sure its the tensioner thats squealing and not the idler pulley its the pulley that is on the tensioner thats squealing. when i sprayed some lube at the pulley mounting bolt the noise abated for a short time. .

From : fuller rath

i know for a fact that it can be done as we did this on more occasion then i cared to when i did this line of work. however as i have stated it is not easy it is time consuming and there is no way to know for sure if it will work as desired or at all until you do it. referring to giving specific instructions on how to accomplish th etask he inquired about. of course there is a way and it can be done. and i doubt the service manual will tell you how to do it. -- ------------------------------------------ laszlo almasi ----cool toys formerly carolina watercraft works ----mack daddy trailers ----ice angels carolina watercraft works wrote id thinkitd be a hard to find item as well. im sure an attorney representing someone would include any person or entity that supplies such a diagram as a defendant in case that were the indicated cause of an accident. i understand what you are trying to do....just might be something no one wants to put their neck on the block for. i got the service manual for my dodge dakota lemon for $140 from dc. its not top secret or hard to get. jam .

From : george

how about a govenment grant hmmm. i thought conservatives were all against government handouts. yet here you are suggesting the government give you one. interesting. george .

From : george

but he cant help you unless you call your legislator and demand immediate and forceful regulation! liberals make me sick. -- christopher a. young you cant shout down a troll. you have to starve them. .. snip these substances and people types -- in various combinations -- kill 44000 of u.s. citizens a year. its been like this for decades. but nothing substantive is ever done to reduce this carnage. because nobody cares. if nobody cared the m.a.d. organization wouldnt exist. if nobody cared the emt and highway patrol professions wouldnt exist and youd simply be left on the side of the road as road kill. george the great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. - thomas huxley .

From : stormin mormon

yrtdtert -- christopher a. young you cant shout down a troll. you have to starve them. .. ignoramus22865 ignoramus22865@nospam.22865.invalid wrote in sldfjkh .

From : frank arthur

i think thats the way with any group of people. just got to smile and keep going. -- christopher a. young you cant shout down a troll. you have to starve them. .. stormin mormon cayoung61-&spamblock*-@hotmail.com wrote in message the folks here have really been great .....give em time. ;- in all seriousness ive been reading this group since 96 and despite a few personal spats that never end its a great group as a whole. -- nathan in montana http//bighornrefrigeration.com http//concealedcarryforum.com http//1911tech.com http//glockcarry.com .

From : stormin mormon

i thought so. another big government liberal trying to regulate everyones lives. i care. thats why i wear my safety belt and also everyone else in my vehicle. i drive sober awake and at slow safe speeds. i do my best to not overdrive my headlights signal all my turns anticipate the other driver and leave a safe following distance. over the course of my 25 year driving career ive had zero fatalities i think you deserve a medal for zero fatalities! .