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The funeral is Saturday, so I'll be heading over there Friday night after work.

The only update I have are that the motorists behind the vehicle that hit him say the other driver was swerving erratically minutes earlier. It will be a closed casket funeral, and I have been chosen to be one of the pallbearers. My uncle was a good, hard-working person and will be leaving behind a wife and 16 year old daughter. I feel bad enough as it is, but I can't even imagine the pain they must be going through at this moment. Thanks for the thoughts and wishes and allowing me to let some of this out...I've had it bottled up in me all day today and don't have any close friends or family in the area.

My uncle was killed in a head-on collision a few hours ago with another vehicle. The other driver crossed the center line and stuck him on a two-lane highway north of Omaha. We have no details other than both died instantly. The last time I saw / spoke to him was at our annual family Christmas gathering, and I am now regretting not spending more time with him on that day. I'm basically in shock right now...the reality of it all hasn't hit yet.

When I was last there in the mid '90s, it seemed to be a mixture of African American and Hispanic residents. The neighborhood also looked like it had been kept up pretty well, unlike some other areas in Queens and Brooklyn.

Anybody have any background on the guy? I don't really know anything about him.

Another surprise from the General, and another moment where I'm not sure if I should celebrate or be weary. I know Rick needed to go, but ousting the man in the middle of turmoil is going to make it much more difficult to attract a suitable replacement. This should have been done two years ago, not now.

Happy b-day, DF! Have a good one!

My grandpa used to drive a 1984 LeSabre like this, jet black, and think it was a Limited. He passed away in 1990. My grandma does not drive and was unable to part with the Buick, so it has sat covered in a climate-controlled garage for almost 20 years. I've lifted up the cover a few times to take a peek and it's in perfect condition.

Many find it pointless, but Facebook is a great way to keep in contact with old friends...especially for me since I'm now out of college and everybody is scattered across the country. I really like sending messages to keep in touch and checking out people's photos (especially if they do some traveling). I could care less about the status updates, the apps, and the chat in general. It's definitely a site skewered toward younger demographics; I've been on it since it launched in '04 for the college crowd and 90% of my friends / acquaintances are on it. I have Myspace, but I don't really like it that much. I check it once every couple days. The ability to personalize your page is the drawback to that site...3/4 of the users there have to put up the most obnoxious graphics, fonts, and colors and it's just a PITA to navigate through all that crap.

50% German, 25% Italian, 25% Irish My mom's side both immigrated to the US from southern Germany back in the 1870s-1880s, settling in western Iowa (quite a few German Catholic towns around there). For my dad's side, his mom's relatives immigrated from Ireland around probably 1860 or so and settled in northern Montana by the Canadian border. His dad's side immigrated from Italy in the 1890s and stayed around New York. My grandpa grew up in Queens Village.

If anything could tempt me away from Ford or GM, it is this car. Maybe the other two will get a clue and bring RWD back onto the table. I just really hope they don't dumb down the exterior at all.

My hot wheels / matchbox cars fill up a big popcorn container and are still in my closet back home. A mint green 1965 Mustang convertible was one of my favorites. I think a few of them passed onto me from my dad, and I plan on passing them onto my kids someday.

The Chinese interior is still very much Communist, but coastal China is largely capitalist and as materialistic as the United States. Much of the labor and farming population is leaving the interior to find jobs in the coastal cities. It won't be too much longer before popular sentiment and/or civil war ends communism in China. I knew a few Chinese students in college, and the younger populations are very much in favor of a democratic society. I give Communism in China another 15 years, maybe.

Over in Germany today, some kid shot and killed 16 at a secondary school. I just don't get it.

I'll have to do my immediate family, because I've only driven Chevy. Chevy, Pontiac, Buick, and Oldsmobile are all the GM brands my parents have owned.

If they had just made a trunk on it rather than having the whole rear open like a hatchback, I think it would have looked better and maybe been more accepted. Not really my cup of tea.

INTJ 22 Introverted 44 Intuitive 19 Thinking 44 Judging ----- Pretty badass sounding. Ironically, Ayn Rand is also one of my favorite authors.

Colonel Sanders sighting in Nevada http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source...mp;t=h&z=17

Wow, that's really nice.

I got into Metallica around '98 too...which was 8th grade for me. I think Fuel was the first song by them that I heard and knew who it was. Then over the next couple years I discovered the back catalog. S&M was my first, Reload my second, and Master my third. I'm kinda glad that Mustaine formed Megadeth though. People always like to wonder "what would they have been like if Dave had stayed on..." but Megadeth has its own flavor that I enjoy. I never really got into Slayer, and I don't know why. I have Raining Blood and that's it. I have quite a bit of stuff from every other one of the big thrash bands from that era, but Slayer never was one of them.

Oh, that'll surely buff right out.

Something Morris?

When I was in elementary school the bus driver always had Paul Harvey on the radio...every morning I was guaranteed to hear "the rest of the story."

Agreed wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, there are plenty of average Americans who share the same unquestioning belief. Not only will you have to shake up the beliefs of our leaders, you will have to shake up the beliefs of the majority of the citizen body. There are plenty that think America is fine the way it is and are unwilling to look at it from a critical perspective.

I found this funny and thought I'd share.