just keep it real basic with a wash and dry vacuum interior wipe down

legit dealerships will draw a contract up…however some mom and pop types will just let you know when they need it or w/e

i also know people who work for places like enterprise and they pay a hired company employee to wash cars i think its like 9/hr here

like i said your best bet is smaller used car lots and mom and pop types because any big or really legit dealership is going to have contracts and employees hired on to do it..also they will want to see mad credentials im guessing

Hey guys we know we have wireless internet and bluetooth but what about portable printers? Anyone know if any printer companies are making small printers that maybe be battery operated? I think that would be great to have a battery operated bluetooth printer or something. Would be great for me in school in case I have to print something very last minute. Or a road trip? Are some already out that I just dont know about?

— loaned it to one of my correspondents who did a nice cover shot out at Weeki Wachee for a local altermative weekly) a Sealife Reefmaster Mini (which has better O-rings than either Olympus but I still wouldn’t want to take it to the 40 meter depth manufacturers claim) one of the photographers at our newspaper owns a Powershot 70 and 60 (can’t remember which one he uses with an underwater housing) and another photographer has the “dive” version of the Olympus underwater camera.

Judging from real life use of all those, I’d go with the Canon then the Panasonic then the Olympuses.

Say what you will about possible double votes etc, in the states that counted there was a large enough victory by the Obama campaign that there is no point in digging into the details as it would have no difference in the final counts. The nation wanted change and that will be what they get.

I would like to congratulate President-Elect Barrack Obama on a well run campaign, the man was made of Teflon and had the finances to buy a small country… and with that it was a battle to try and stop him.

That being said I would like to move on to comments from people I know and people I have seen on TV. I’ve heard a repeated mantra over the past hours and it goes a little something like this:

“It can’t get any worse than it is right now”

We are one negative financial quarter away from an official recession, we have congressmen who are drooling over the prospects of repressing free speech in this country, we still have enemies in this world that wish the very country we live in wiped from the map… my friends, it can get MUCH worse than it is right now.

Another comment I keep hearing is that Obama will be a moderate President and I just have to ask, when… in the history of this nation has a President taken office and made a radical shift in their political values? There are numerous rankings out there that place Obama amongst the most liberal in Washington. What makes you think that those core values will suddenly change when he is sworn into office?

I am cautiously optimistic that the experience and access to more information will allow President-Elect Obama the ability to see beyond his politics and do what is best for this country and only time will tell at this point, but I hope for all of us that this election was not a huge mistake.

A closing note to all Conservatives out there reading this. You may be feeling slighted and torn down but please, do not stoop to name calling or fighting with people… it makes you look stupid and it only ads to the troubles we as a party are facing. Direct your energy towards rebuilding the values we have strayed from and strengthening the Conservative base. We have 4 years until we get to have another shot at the Presidency.

I will always respect the office of President of the United States… but it does not mean I have to agree with the decisions made by the person holding that title.

— I received some emails asking for county maps from the election so here is last night vs. 2004

The greatest moment of the entire service came when several surviving WWII veterans spoke about their service to their country as Native Americans. It was a very real reminder of how much some people give for their country and how much we sometimes take for granted.

If you see someone in your daily routines today that you know has served or is serving this great country in our armed forces, please stop and thank them.

I watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease.

I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
With hair cut square and eyes alert
He’d stand out in any crowd.

I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.

How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers’ tears?
How many pilots’ planes shot down?
How many died at sea?
How many foxholes were soldiers’ graves?

No, freedom isn’t free.

I heard the sound of taps one night,
When everything was still
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.

I wondered just how many times
That taps had meant “Amen,”
When a flag had draped a coffin
Of a brother or a friend.

I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.

No, freedom isn’t free.