brand new 2003....

Ugh. It's due tomorrow (Saturday Night 7pm) and i'm still not any closer to filing it out

all these milestones in car complexity:

air bags (gotta watch out for those yellow wires under the dash, good luck troubleshooting your horn button)
electric or power-steering boosted brakes (sudden failure mode)
ABS (master cylinder/ABS module replacement on Toyota $3K)
demise of carburetors (tune with vacuum gauge & tach), advent of EFI (laptop to tune)
catalytic converters and those pesky post-cat O2 sensors
OBD-I (not too bad)
OBD-II  (now you need a scanner)
DEF (diesel)
cylinder deactivation
camshaft phasers
OnStar

not sure when the govt started getting the ability to control your car, late 20-teens?  Yeah, I know, these all have benefits, "it's a small sacrifice to make for the greater good".  Where have we heard that before?  Give 'em an inch, and they'll take a mile.  Try fixing your own car nowadays.

once upon a time, we didn't even have PCV valves, just "road draft tubes".

We expect the next legislative session to be full of retaliatory bills for our recent wins.

Very well said and 100% assured: Communists must extinguish ALL human liberty, and under NO CIRCUMSTANCES can they allow the people to be armed against them.

After 52 years here, I truly believe that the only way to effectively block them - for good - is to form real, working coalitions, among the 30% + of us here who believe in our constitutional freedoms and rights as U.S. citizens.

We are of every conceivable color, creed and station of life in these islands.

Our individual primary interests vary from group to group, but we pretty much all agree on all of them - and all of us are oppressed by the stone-age communists who have a death grip on the levers of power here.

If we all rallied to each other's causes, we would break the kneecaps of the junta here.

As long as we all fight them separately, they will retain the advantage.

I know - this is a lofty expectation - but it is hardly a radical idea.

We don't even seem to be able to do this though, even among ourselves in the 2A community.

However we could do it, just by establishing, in every senate district for example, a group of guys who would, from time to time, go together and lobby the politicians in that area.

At minimum, they'd know we were serious and ORGANIZED.

This is offense.

Unfortunately, so far we have just defaulted to defense only - responding to their attacks on us after the fact.

Defense may not be enough to counter a session "full of retaliatory bills for our recent wins."

Just wanted to throw this out there for people to think about - given where we're at.

There is much they are committed to taking away from us.

Almost all of our local candidates blame everything on "the system" "corporations" in their campaigns. Not one example of what all this ambiguous terms mean. They fail to point out that the govt. is the problem. The corruption. Not one campaign mentioned Silvia Luke or past corruption scandals.

They can't even defend themselves. Jarret does have a point and Case isn't the only one sitting there for decades with no results.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2026/06/ed-case-says-no-to-debating-jarrett-keohokalole-in-congressional-race/
Case told Civil Beat via text message late Tuesday that any debate with Keohokalole would only serve as a forum to amplify his opponent’s criticisms of him and would “add nothing constructive” to the pre-election discourse. Ultimately, he said it will be up to voters to decide whether they want “more noise or real results.”

“My opponent’s sole campaign strategy is to attack me,” Case said. “He offers no real policy proposals of his own, no alternative vision, no argument of effectiveness. His goal is heightened visibility by any means.”
Congressman Ed Case met with the Civil Beat Editorial Board November 26th, 2024. Accompanied by Nester Garcia his Communications Director. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Ed Case says he doesn’t plan to debate his leading opponent, state Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole in the race for the 1st Congressional District. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)

When asked for a response, Keohokalole read a statement from Case in 2006 in which he criticized U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka for dodging debates. At the time, Case was the young up-and-comer seeking higher office and was urging the incumbent Akaka to “face the voters with me, uncensored and directly.”

“If I was him, I wouldn’t want to debate me either,” Keohokalole said. “He has to defend a record that doesn’t provide hope for the future for Hawaiʻi. Ed is essentially running on the same platform I am, which is that if you put your faith in me, I can make things happen.”

No real experience from the challenger as well. Mostly public admin roles. No experience running a business or understanding what it takes to run a business. Just blames "the system" "corporations"
https://www.jarrettforcongress.com/about