Muscatine

The car I'd most like to have.....

1965 Corvette. 

Excellent choice Daryl.  I'd go for the 1958 Chevy Impala, which I believe was the car Ron Howard drove in American Graffiti.

I do too. I guess a body had to have been born yeaterday or spent a life in a cave not to see how they have wrote one bill after another designed to little by little, hand all the cookies to one small group of kids while the lion's share of us kids go without. Look at how the treasury went from it's newly disturbing AA rating, to busyier than K-Mart on blue light special day. Those theives took all their ill gotten treasure and over night asked the fed to* just hang onto this for us until things turn around* Again it's do as we say not as we do. The bigger they are the more they contribute to keep the favor of uncle sam. Give me a real leader in the white house and a congress with the best for America in mind, and there are my votes. It's dangerous to pick one I know, but based on most everything besides relgion, Romney seems to be a possible front runner. Gingrich sure does talk a good game. But who says Obama wouldn't do better this time around especially since this  congress couldn't find their hats if they had names on them. It's a bit late for me, but the future of this nation and economy is in deep trouble. Who or what is the economy, well it's you, me, our sons, daughters and the rest of the nearly 310 million of us. It's not those profit taking rats that make up about 10% of a nation. We pay and paid our taxes and we paid without a complaint. It hurt at times but by God almighty, there were many times we paid better than the wealthiest by a bigger margin too and that just aint right. Same goes for those religious wing nuts. If they want a say in political issues, tax em. Were sick to high heaven with organized religion and their political supporters holding one another up with our hard earned dollars and they pay nothing in taxes. So you are right on the tip of it, lawyers turned politicians and lets not forget those filthy corporate lobyists.  

oh gosh. cars you say, how in tarnation do you fix a car these days. You said it sir or madam oh geez I don't want to offend anyone with titles, but the names seem to indicate a title. Mine here are our initials. I recall those times D was able to do much more than lift a hood and reminisce. Our grandson brought over his Ford pickup, 1999 I think, not long ago with a battery drain problem. If it sat for a few hours it was nearly dead. Now I don't know so much in car talk, but this thing seemed to be from another planet. It is just a small motor and a fella couldn't get a hand beside the engine to do anything. it had to go to a shop that took a week and looked at it for a couple hours on the seventh day. He called them every other day to see if they had a chance to get to it. They fixed it, but cost a weeks pay and took as long. The boy loves his truck but what at one time was really simple to correct is a nightmare unless you have all those fancy foreign gadgets to tell ya what the trouble is, well you are just up that creek.

Your first part reminded me of my dad. It always made him mad to see churches buying up prime realestate in and on the fringes of Muscatine. He argued these churches buy way more land than they need and it's off the tax roles forever. He was in favor of taxing church property.

About cars. One of my last cars was an older Dodge. Can't remember the year or model. It began to refuse to start after it was run awhile, leaving me stranded. I took it to a "mechanic" and told him what was wrong. He hooked it up to a machine that was supposed to tell him what was wrong. It showed nothing so he kept the car a few days and ran most of a tank of gas out trying to get it to do what I said. Finally he gave up and said he couldn't find anything wrong.

My dad was a airplane mechanic during WW2. I told him about my trouble. Dad said to buy a used coil and try that. It'll only cost you a few bucks and it might work. I did and it worked. Fixed it myself for about $10.