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I almost promise its the tires...

I'm not a fan of sealants on anything but light colored cars. To me they look too plasticky, I like the depth of a carnuaba.

I hope they get it put back properly for you, I'm sure they will.

How?!?

Unity yes, but scrutiny and skepticism must exist to keep a democracy on course, thats as the founding fathers intended it. Why do you think we have freedom of the press? Freedom of speech? Freedom to assemble and to protest? And oh...they did. I took a course in college on the American Presidency (one of the best courses I ever took) and they absolutely had the same kind of bickering and unrest that we have now. President Bush is unpopular, but he's hardly the most unpopular President we've ever had by a wide margin. Actually it used to be quite unusual to ever have a President be re-elected for a second term. Now its almost expected. Even George Washington was terribly unpopular for a time.

Annapolis is a great dealer, thats where I bought mine.

Try and put a claim in on your comprehensive insurance coverage... They'll probably need to be replaced...

If the people who founded this country felt this way and behaved this way...the US never would have existed. Its skepticism that keeps democracy honest. Its what democracy is all about.

Wait until they get into it...might be more.

I've never been a fan of socialized medicine, but there is something to the idea that we're the only first world nation that doesn't have government subsidized healthcare. You can't deny that the healthcare system in this country is in serious need of something. I don't know is socializing it is the right thing to do, but something has to be done. Even that though is not living off of the government. You're paying for it, the government is just running it.

What you're missing is the issue being verification of credentials at loan application, not the percentage of equity in the home itself. Why punish excellent borrowers with only 5, 10, or 15% down because the banks can't be bothered or don't want to check income or look at a bank statement? I was always dubious, but the "evidence" of WMDs made me feel like there was at least some basis. Right...because the reasoning behind it was a book of lies. Now that the lies are exposed as lies...why are you surprised that support has eroded? Absolutely not. However, we are incapable of fixing all of the problems in the world. We can be a world leader and influence other countries diplomatically to do the things that are right for their people, but we have enough problems of our own. We can't use our military to liberate other peoples and occupy other countries after their dictators are gone. We need that military to protect OUR country! Again though, if we were attacking Iraq because Saddam was a dictator...there were plenty of worse dictators in the world participating in any number of atrocities Saddam wasn't participating in, and other dictators that posed a threat to us unlike Saddam...why didn't we or haven't we done anything about them?

How big is the chip? Cars do get chipped in transit and they touch them up. Let them touch it up and if you don't like how it looks refuse delivery of the vehicle and demand another one.

Tone down your rhetoric. Calling groups of people stupid and crap like that is incendiary and is just going to start a flamewar. You sound smarter and your message is stronger if you don't denigrate the other side of your argument. To get back to the discussion. This is something that has always really intrigued me about people with your viewpoint. For some background I have always been a republican mainly because I'm a fiscal conservative. On many issues I am socially liberal. I am always amused by the right's attempts to make the word "liberal" an insult and a dirty word. How specifically do you think "liberals" want to live off the government and rely on them for life? The general consensus is that "conservatives" are in favor of smaller government, and more individual liberty and soverignity of states while "liberals" are in favor of a larger central government with more jurisdiciton over social programs. Yet when it comes to abortion for instance, "conservatives" become "liberal" and want to control what people do with their own bodies. Why is that?

I apologize, I assumed it was j-chrome, I stand corrected ;) Stop putting words in my mouth. I never said there was no terrorism in Iraq, I said there were plenty of other areas with stronger ties to terrorism than Iraq. Our principal enemy is Al Qaida, and Al Qaida did not have a significant base of operations in Iraq. Yes beheading Americans is terrorism, but flying planes into our buildings and killing thousands is a bigger issue and THOSE terrorists were not in Iraq. They are now. Well done. Besides, when were Americans beheaded in Iraq BEFORE we invaded and AFTER the gulf war? They weren't. This was a country with no army. Their air force consisted of a few 40 year old planes armed with pea shooters. We were in Baghdad in a matter of weeks. They were no threat to us and we knew that because we gutted the guy after the gulf war. You do know Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein weren't friends right? He's happier with Saddam gone. And again, the whole "Iraq 9/11" thing was propaganda the warmongers gave up on in 2004 because its not true. Stop accusing me and others of being mindless media drones because we disagree with you. Debate the issue with me on equal footing or you're not even worth my time. I am an extremely intelligent, well read, and well versed individual and I am not beholden to nor dependant on any media outlet for my opinions. I am debating this with you without making comments as to where you're getting your info, show me the same courtesy. You say diplomacy didn't work. Where was the urgency? Where was this hotbutton hair trigger about to go off. We were sold a war on a stack of false intelligence, the UN and the Brits were sold on the same stack of false intelligence. Again, you can't trust a bunch of liars, and the entire world has learned not to trust this guy and his cronies and rightly so. He's humiliated this country, himself, and all of us. Remember this guy ran on a humble foreign policy. "No more nationbuilding, no more policing the world". Lies, lies, lies. I voted for the a-hole twice, don't I feel like a moron. This is what people fail to understand and is a flaw in America's foreign policy. You cannot force American democracy on people. It has shown throughout history to be a failure. America came about through the efforts of a people who longed for freedom for generations, lived under the rule of a nonpresent entity. These people niether long for nor want democracy. Look at russia. This guy Putin is in the process of dialing the clock back on all of the progress they've made since the fall of the Soviet Union. The russians think he's a freaking God. These people were born and bread for an authoritarian state, they can't function in a democracy and don't really even want to try. Thats not to say we shouldn't try and promote democracy. There's no question WE are more safe being surrounded by other democracies, but you can't invade a country and expect them to have a democracy in 5 years. It just doesn't work that way. And its going to be a *BLEEP* show over there probably for the rest of our lives and the majority of our childrens lives. And for what? A democracy for a nation with no capability of harming us full of people who didn't want us there in the first place? Sure Saddam was a bad guy, but there are PLENTY of dictators all over the world MUCH MUCH MUCH worse and who actually have the capability to hurt us. Why don't we attack them? Why Iraq? Terrorisms not the reason...the terrorists we are chasing weren't in Iraq. No WMDs, and the Bush administration knew that. Why? Now not only is this thing killing us financially but we've got to chap our lips on Kim Jong Il and Ahmadinejad's asses because they know we are too flaacid militarily to do anything to them and lack the leadership standing in the world to build any coalitions because of Iraq! Its pathetic.

That should be very easy to remove. Clay, a light polish, hell even some li9quid wax with a high solvent content would safely remove it.

Jchrome, the site's rules of conduct still exist even in off topic threads. Feel free to express your opinions, but insulting others be they individuals or groups of people isn't appropriate.

Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11, there has been absolutely no evidence that he did. Starting the war against terrorism in Iraq would be like starting a war against snow in Virginia. Sure...there's snow in Virginia...but a hell of a lot more snow plenty of other places. Iran...Afghanistan, Pakistan, all of these places have more ties to terrorism than Iraq...and unlike Iraq they actually HAVE WMDs! Well, Iran and Pakistan. Now that we're imbroiled in Iraq, we're too impotent to do anything about Iran. Plenty of things we could have done about Saddam not working with the UN other than invade. The war in Iraq had NOTHING to do with terrorism or WMDs, it was Bush simply legacy shopping. Well...he bought a legacy all right. If we were actually waging a war on terrorism I'd agree...but thats not what we did in Iraq. It is already in a recession in many parts of the country. Not telling everyone the truth would mean lying to them and pretending reality isn't really happening... Its not that simple. A lot of these people are unsophisticated, uneducated, and a lot of them don't even speak english. They did not understand the reality of what they were doing, and the banks just turned a blind eye to it and let it happen knowing full well they didn't get it because they were living in the moment. Now they're paying the price, and in many ways its worse for the banks than it is for the homeowners. 100% financing is not the issue. Nothing wrong with 100% financing, PROVIDED THE BORROWERS CAN AFFORD THE PAYMENTS. This is KEY. You can't give a loan with a $3,000 monthly payment to someone who makes $5,000 a month gross. They can't afford the payments! If you gave that same $3,000 a month loan to someone who makes $12,000 a month...they're fine. Banks just let people say they make $12k a month and don't even check. THATS insane! If borrowers had to wait until they had 20% to put down before the bought a home, many many Americans would never own a home and homeownership is a GREAT thing. 70% of Americans don't get it? Remember, just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they don't know what they're talking about.

Boats have a gelcoat though, its a different paint surface...

I never blamed Bush for the current state of our economy. I did however blame Bush for getting us imbroiled into this conflict that we never should have been in, wasting huge amounts of our money and running up huge defecits and increasing the national debt when we HAD a surplus. These things have a big effect on the economy, but there are a lot of outside issues also he doesn't directly have any control over. This is not entirely true. Like you said the real estate markets (marketS, there is no national real estate market, its very localized) have a natural cycle. We had a very long upcycle that was driven by low rates. That upcycle has shifted the other way. Rates are still really low, and now that the fed has continually dropped rates interest only ARM rates are right back where they were during the upcycle. Why hasn't the cycle turned back upwards? Because its a natural cycle and is not tied soley to interest rates. 18 months and it will start to move the other way again. In my market...its not so bad. Values are holding, foreclosures are up but they are still a VERY small percentage of total homeownership. And we're one of the higher foreclosure rates (MD, DC, & VA are like 11th, 12th and 13th in the nation) and homeowners in foreclosure are still only maybe 1.5 homeowners out of 1,000? The bigger issue are these criminal short term ARMs that were given to people who never should have gotten them, thats driving the foreclosure rate. People who bought last year and actually could afford their loans (the vast najority) are fine. They'll just wait...real estate is a long term investment. Had Bill Clinton been in office, or ANYONE other than George W. Bush because this was his war, it was his plan from before he took office, we would not have invaded Iraq and we would not have incurred that awesome expense. If that were the case, the natural cycles at work here would still be at work, but at least we would be better equipped to handle them.

The Lexus warranty is NOT prorated for mileage as long as you purchase it before the original 4 year 50k mile warranty elapses. If you buy it 3 years an 49,999 miles in, its still the same cost. The only reason to buy it now is to roll it into the financing. Just buy it later.

Honestly? I would take the car to a professional for this. They will pick a chemical cleaner that will dissolve the stripe without damaging the paint and it will be much safer than you trying different things. NEVER use a magic eraser on the paint! they are very abrasive.

I use a solution of water & woolite (6:1) to clean the seats which works extremely well, also cleans interior vinyl well.

Can you post some pictures?

You just have to be careful, any wax will build up under that edge.

Naa you'll be fine, even an occasional cloth carwash won't hurt.