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2010-08-04T21:50:00.000-07:00

Guy attemps to stealFIFA World Cup 2010 Africa after Spain wins over Ne...

2010-07-11T16:28:00.000-07:00

Mel Gibson UNCENSORED racist rant to his girlfriend

2010-07-11T16:23:00.000-07:00

Conservative Ronald Reagan on Illegals take note you LIBERALS

2010-07-08T17:26:00.000-07:00

BFG KM2 Tire Review

2010-07-02T10:07:00.001-07:00

I have a set of 35" BFGs on 15" Wheels, older BFG and the 2 of the new KM2. The reason for having these two different tires is the reason for the review.

I don't drive my LC on the road much mainly use it for desert trail driving. In the past two years I have gone through about 8 flats, with these tires. Yesterday was the latest flat. The side wall build is just too , too , too soft. Some lime stone took out this one. Its just not acceptable. The KM2 that I got back from 4wheel parts, they have an awesome lifetime warranty btw, Sucked, sage brush punctures it like if it was a balloon. For comparison my brothers FJ60 has MT Baja Claws we wheel together and he has not had one flat not one side wall punctured, and the guy even climbs over burned out cars he finds in the desert. Others in my club also no flats and no side wall damage they mostly have interco brand of tires . I have had 4 sidewall tears and 3 punctures by sage brush. dead sage brush while parking or turning around in the desert roads. Now I have to drive 115 Miles to get a new tire. just not a good tire in my opinion, the so called 3 ply behaves like a one ply.

So avoid this tire if you off road, if you crawl forget it, it is well balanced and behaves well on the pavement and on mud and sand but does not like sharp rocks or even sandstone. So when you purchase these tires remember get the warranty you WILL have to use it over and over again.

I will post pictures of the damage and rock that caused it later today

If you have had a good or bad experience with these tires let me know.

Rafa

Vote Yes on California Prop 19 and Legalize Marijuana once and for all

2010-07-01T16:00:00.000-07:00

Dash cam video shows teenager opens fire on officers

2010-06-30T18:02:00.000-07:00

West Memphis Shooting Dash Cam Video Released

2010-06-30T17:31:00.000-07:00

Hermano y sobrino de Gómez Mont agredieron a esposa de Guille Franco

2010-06-29T18:25:00.000-07:00

limpiando baZuras

2010-06-29T17:54:00.000-07:00

Help Wanted by Los Zetas

2010-06-29T17:53:00.000-07:00

Confesion y ejecucion de Los Zetas

2010-06-29T17:48:00.000-07:00

"MATAZETAS" INTERROGAN A ZETAS

2010-06-29T17:46:00.000-07:00

German Shepperd vs. Pit Bull in Vicious Scrap

2010-06-06T14:11:00.000-07:00

Remix Chris Rock and Kobe Bryant at the 2010 NBA Finals Lakers Vs. Celtics

2010-06-04T18:39:00.000-07:00

Weezy reppin' the Lakers (Fuck Them Celtics)

2010-06-04T15:49:00.000-07:00

Bas Rutten Street Defense Tips With El Guapo

2010-06-04T14:16:00.001-07:00

Half a car

2010-06-04T14:16:00.000-07:00

landing gear failure

2010-06-04T14:13:00.000-07:00

Aruba suspect now on the run from police in murder investigation

2010-06-02T11:54:00.000-07:00

From CNN

Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch man once considered a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, is the suspect in the killing of a woman in Peru, Peruvian police officials said Wednesday.

There is "incriminating evidence" linking Van der Sloot to the killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez, who was found dead in a Lima hotel room Wednesday, Cesar Guardia Vasquez, of the criminal investigations unit said at a news conference.

The hotel room where Flores was found was registered in Van der Sloot's name, he said.

A hotel guest and an employee witnessed the pair entering the hotel room together at 5 a.m. on Sunday, Guardia said.

Police have video of the previous night, May 29, of Van de Sloot and Flores together at the Atlantic City Casino in Lima, he said.

According to immigration officials, Van de Sloot fled to Chile over land on Monday, Guardia said.

Bob Marley - Kaya

2010-05-28T11:52:00.000-07:00

GANJA FARMER BY MARLON ASHER

2010-05-28T11:47:00.000-07:00

.50 Cal Black Powder rifle at 420 yards Traditions Tracker 209

2010-05-27T01:31:00.000-07:00

Police and Soldiers closing in on Christopher 'Dudus' Coke (May 25, 2010)

2010-05-25T20:33:00.000-07:00

Rejected: NORML's Super Screen Spot, NORML - The Money Tree

2010-05-25T02:25:00.000-07:00

Free Marc Emery Protest @ Victory Square

2010-05-25T02:24:00.000-07:00

Free Marc Emery may get five years in US Fed. Prison

2010-05-25T02:06:00.000-07:00

(CNN) -- A man known as Canada's "prince of pot" pleaded guilty Monday in a deal with prosecutors that could send him to prison in the United States for five years.

Marijuana activist Marc Emery pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Seattle, Washington, to a single count of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana following an 18-month investigation into the seed-selling business Emery operated from his head shop in Vancouver, British Columbia.

U.S. District Court Judge Ricardo Martinez scheduled Emery's sentencing August 11. At that time, the judge has the choice of accepting or rejecting the plea agreement, said Emery's Seattle-based attorney, Richard Troberman.

"Based on comments the court has made. I have every reason to believe he will follow the plea agreement," Troberman told CNN.

Emery, 52, was brought to the United States last week. Canada's justice minister signed an extradition order May 10 that left the outspoken libertarian with little choice after years of fighting extradition.

"Marc has never been afraid to face the music," said Emery's wife, Jodie. "He's spent most of his life breaking laws he considers unjust to demonstrate they're unjust. He'll go to jail to prove how absurd our drug laws are."

The plea comes nearly five years after Emery was arrested in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he says he was the guest speaker at the Maritimers Unite for Medical Marijuana festival. He was accused of selling marijuana seeds to customers in the United States.

The same day, Emery wrote on his website, DEA agents raided his head shop in downtown Vancouver, where he sold bongs, pipes and books. He also produced the magazine Cannabis Culture and ran an Internet portal, Pot-TV.
He'll go to jail to prove how absurd our drug laws are.
--Jodie Emery, defendant's wife

The head shop was the headquarters of Emery Direct Seeds, the target of the DEA's 18-month undercover investigation. During the investigation, according to court documents, agents bought seeds from Emery's business over the internet and in person.

Investigators also traced his product to illegal growing operations in several states, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a July 2005 news release.

A statement issued by the DEA in 2005 after Emery's arrest suggested that he was targeted for his activism, with DEA Administrator Karen Tandy touting his capture as a "significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade in the United States and Canada, but also to the marijuana legalization movement."

Tandy described Emery as one of 46 of the U.S. attorney general's most wanted international drug traffickers and the only one from Canada, with his "marijuana trade and propagandist marijuana magazine" generating nearly $5 million in profits.

Emery and two of his employees were each charged with conspiracy to distribute marijuana, conspiracy to distribute marijuana seeds and conspiracy to lauder money, charges that carry penalties of 10 years to life in prison. After years of legal wrangling with Canadian and U.S. authorities, Emery reached the plea deal on the lesser charge, Troberman said.

Co-defendants Gregory Williams and Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek entered pleas this year to lesser offenses and were placed on probation in Canada, according to court documents. They were never brought to the United States.
This prosecution has to do with his criminal activities and has nothing to do with his political activism.
--Emily Langlie, U.S. Attorney's Office

Tandy stepped down as DEA administrator in 2007, and U.S. authorities seem to have backed down from her 2005 hard-line stance. The news release can no longer be found on the Department of Justice website, and the DEA referred calls to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle.

"This prosecution has to do with his criminal activities and has nothing to do with his political activism," said Emily Langlie, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office. Langlie added that she could not comment on the 2005 DEA statement.

Emery summed up his raison d'etre in a lengthy article published in Cannabis Culture and online after his arrest. He described his thoughts at the moment he was handcuffed: "Every seed sold, all the millions of dollars I had given to the cause, every speech to free our people, every arrest, jailing and raid I had endured: it was all for this moment in time."

Much like in the United States, distribution and trafficking carry heavier punishments: a maximum of seven years for conspiracy to manufacture marijuana and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for conspiracy to traffic in marijuana, according to a spokeswoman for Department of Justice Canada.

In practice, Canadian judges rarely mete out sentences longer than two years plus fines, based on a policy of judicial guidance that calls for incarceration as the last resort, according to several criminal defense lawyers and drug policy experts.

"Sentences typically don't reach the mandatory minimums that are in place in U.S. federal system," Vancouver defense lawyer Kirk Tousaw said. He is Emery's legal counsel in Canada, a contributor to his magazine and attorney for his co-defendants.
It was the U.S. who stepped in and put pressure on Canada.
--Richard Trouberman, U.S. defense attorney
RELATED TOPICS

* Marijuana Crimes
* Canada
* U.S. Department of Justice
* Criminal Sentencing and Punishment

Extradition to the United States, however, is commonplace in cases of Canadians accused of selling or smuggling drugs in the United States, said Troberman, Emery's Seattle-based attorney. He has represented many Canadians in the United States.

"The only thing that makes this case somewhat unusual is that Marc was very visible and open about everything he did, and the Canadians had no interest in prosecuting him," Troberman said. "It was the U.S. who stepped in and put pressure on Canada."

Emery is the founder of the British Columbia Marijuana Party, and his status in Canada as a tireless champion for marijuana reform has been cemented through more than a decade of sit-ins, demonstrations and runs for political office. By his own account, he has been arrested at least a dozen times since 1995 related to his activism, and Vancouver Police have raided his shop several times since it opened in 1994.

In media interviews and biographies posted on CannabisCulture.com, Emery claims to have been fined twice for selling seeds and says he has spent three months in a Saskatchewan jail after being caught passing a joint in public.

"Some people will say he pushed it too far, but that's his approach. He's the enforcer on a hockey team. He makes everyone else look polite," said Eugene Oscapella, a founding member of the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy, which shares many of Emery's goals but pursues them through public education and legislative efforts.

To Oscapella and others familiar with Emery, the trajectory of his activism made martyrdom in a U.S. prison the next natural step.

"He did this on purpose. He did it knowing the potential consequences," Oscapella said of Emery's Direct Seeds. "Emery has always stuck his neck out. He's a civil libertarian, almost an anarchist, so it's very much his character to thumb his nose at U.S. drug policies."

People familiar with the case said Emery's fate was sealed when the current conservative Canadian government came into power touting a law and order agenda that included vows to bring in mandatory minimum laws for certain drug offenses.

From behind bars, Emery continues to guide the movement with the help of his wife, Jodie, and legions of supporters. He plans to apply for a transfer to Canada after he is formally sentenced, which is expected to occur in two to three months, his lawyer said.

Emery sent a message to supporters in an recorded telephone call with his wife while he awaited extradition. He urged them to keep up the fight against mandatory minimum sentences and other new drug enforcement laws by adopting "militant" tactics, like sit-ins at the offices of MPs and traffic blockades.

"If just one person, me, being in jail is what it takes to arouse thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of Americans and Canadians to get out and be involved and be responsible and take charge and take the initiative, then I'm a very happy individual."

Slipknot Bassist Found Dead In Hotel Room Iowa

2010-05-24T22:05:00.000-07:00

From CNN. com
Slipknot bassist found dead in Iowa hotel room

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(CNN) -- Paul Gray, the bassist for the Grammy-winning metal band Slipknot, was found dead Monday morning in his Des Moines, Iowa, hotel room, according to police. He was 38.

Gray's body was found by staff members at the TownePlace Suites, said Sgt. Dave Disney of the Urbandale Police Department.

An autopsy, including toxicology tests, will be performed Tuesday, Disney said.

Gray was arr More..ested in Iowa in 2003 on drug possession charges when police found small amounts of marijuana, two syringes and a substance that field-tested positive for cocaine after he was involved in a wreck with another motorist.

Slipknot -- whose fans are affectionately known as "Maggots" -- was formed in Des Moines in late 1995 and became immediately recognizable for the dark and often grotesque homemade Halloween masks its nine members wore on stage. The band won a Grammy award in 2006 for best metal performance for "Before I Forget."

Slipknot's self-titled debut album went platinum in 2000. Its fourth album, "All Hope is Gone," spent 69 weeks on Billboard's Top 200 charts, debuting at No. 1 its first week in 2008.

RIP Paul

BP British Petroleum to change its name

2010-05-24T12:18:00.000-07:00

BP plc (NYSE: BP) will change its name to British Petroleum in a desperate attempt to slip the public’s growing negative opinion of the company. The oil firm has spent nearly a decade building the BP name.

Brand consulting company BrandZ puts the value of the BP brand at $17 billion. Interbanrd put the value of the BP brand at $3.7 billion. The discrepancy is the reasons no one takes the bran More..d valuation business seriously.

BP’s market cap is $134 billion down from $194 billion at its 52-week high. It is now likely that BP has a negative brand value, not like the American International Group (NYSE: AIG)

INCREDIBLE Under water river crossing BJ45 Toyota Land Cruiser or Fj45

2010-05-23T23:13:00.000-07:00

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Costaricashipping.com

2010-05-23T21:22:00.000-07:00

http://costaricashipping.com/ Wanted to invite all my viewers that are seeking to relocate to Costa Rica or need to transport their vehicle to Costa Rica to visit http://costaricashipping.com/ for the best links on services, hotels, vacations, automobile shipping.

Thank you

Rafa

Jeep vs Range Rover (Venezuela Off Road & Adventure 2010)

2010-05-23T20:55:00.000-07:00

land cruiser big air

2010-05-23T20:47:00.000-07:00

Land Cruiser 60 series club 4x4 Panama capira 30-11-08 Big Loma 4 mud go...

2010-05-23T20:43:00.000-07:00

Super Stunt

2010-05-23T20:41:00.000-07:00

fun race 4x4 copa toyota

2010-05-23T20:40:00.000-07:00

Deep river crossing, Toyota Land Cruiser, Club 4x4 PANAMA

2010-05-23T20:39:00.001-07:00

Land Cruiser wheeling in WA State

2010-05-23T20:39:00.000-07:00

Hill Billy Engineering Contractors Demonstrate Oil-Absorbing Properties ...

2010-05-23T13:35:00.000-07:00

Funny News On the War on Drugs

2010-05-22T21:40:00.000-07:00

Like the old song goes, one of these things is not like the other...

However, remind a police officer in Corpus Christi, Texas of those famed Cookie Monster lyrics and they're likely to give you an annoyed look.

That's because a recently discovered cache of plants, initially pegged by officials speaking to local news as "one of the largest marijuana plant seizures in the police department More..'s history," turned out to be a relatively common prairie flower of little significance.

Texas officers ultimately spent hours laboring to tag and remove up to 400 plants from a city park, discovering only after a battery of tests that they had been sweating over mere Horse Mint, a member of the mint family -- effectively turning their ambitious drug bust into mere yard work.

The plants, which bear very few aesthetic similarities to cannabis, were reported by an unnamed youth who came across them while riding a bike in the park around 8 p.m. on Thursday. Upon visual inspection, police apparently agreed that the inoffensive plants had to go.

Ultimately, officers were reduced to conducting chemical tests to learn their "weed" was really just that: an actual weed.
"That shows exactly the caliber of police work that is done in Corpus christi, Tx," commenter Derick Sillers opined in a local NBC affiliate's comments section.

"The resident of corpus and nueces county should seriously be concerned with how their tax dollars are spent," he continued. "[This] is the same police department that serves, protects and investigates you.... does it really take that long to find out you don't have marijuana."

"Officers did not explain how their big 'drug haul' will be disposed of, now that they’ve spent untold hours and plenty of taxpayer money clearing weeds of the the city park," writer Steve Elliott summarized for News Junkie Post

Cute Rescue Pitbull Puppy Doing the Back Scratch Dance

2010-05-22T19:26:00.000-07:00

CVA Blackhorn Magnum Black Powder .50 Cal Rifle Test

2010-05-22T01:17:00.000-07:00

Rollover of Trent Fab Buggy, Jeep, 4runner and Samurai http://4x4offroad...

2010-05-21T15:29:00.000-07:00

2010 World Cup Preview Review

2010-05-21T15:23:00.001-07:00

Vigilante Justice When 2 Knife wielding thieves get a good beating by crowd

2010-05-21T15:23:00.000-07:00

86 Land Cruiser FJ60 Flexing www.4x4offroadtesting.blogspot.com

2010-05-20T11:07:00.000-07:00

Toyota Land Cruiser FJ60 going to the notch at Red Rock State Park So. Cal.

2010-05-20T11:00:00.000-07:00

Review of Black Powder CVA Buckhorn Magnum .50 1:28 twist Rifle

2010-05-19T15:48:00.000-07:00

Well bought a CVA Buckhorn Magnum .50 Cal Black powder rifle at Bass Pro Shops in Ontario Ca. The rifle was on sale very low price, just asked for one took it to the cashier and took it home. Also bought cleaning kit and some lead ball. The rifle is pretty light in weight, comes with no straps. Has a nice ram rod. The sights are very easy to find the near ones are green the far one is red. I've shot the rifle about 50 times and have been able to find that the accuracy is not that well at distances over 100 yards. The bullets are about 12" too high from the target. I am using sabots with .429 bullets. I need to adjust the sights more. I am happy with the performance for a beginner gun. I am just starting out on this gun so there is a learning curve. The power of the rifle is amazing, I have shot some cans with holes bigger that I have seen even from my favorites rifles. Loading and cleaning is fairly simple. I am measuring my own powder using pyrodex brand with fast loaders. The primers used are the remington sts 209 premier sts. I have had no misfires they all have fired just as expected. I recommend buying the 209 Shooter's Kit comes with all you need. I like the 2069 capper/extractor makes the operation very fast and easy. In conclusion I am happy with my $140 gun, cheap to shoot, easy to clean, great buy, and smells great.

Rafa

ARB Locker Review

2010-05-19T12:17:00.000-07:00

My friend Octavio Bought gears and ARB locker for a FJ62 from Randys Ring and pinion Gears after installing the plumbing took it out for a trail ride with Nicapwr Off Road Club. The front ARB locker failed and broke. Then he replaced it with a Detroit Locker. After two months took the FJ62 to Pismo Beach California and the rear locker also failed. Now having no locker in rear contacted Randys and said that they could not help him, sent locker to ARB they would not help. Received all parts back (two lockers and 4.88 Gears) Noticed that he could rebuild one locker from the two. Put all parts together and noticed that whom ever put this locker together gathered old parts. Contacted ARB and they sent me a rebuild kit with bolts, lines, seals. Great gift. My feelings are that these lockers were sold to him as new but in fact were put together just like he did from broken lockers. I don't recommend purchasing from that organization. Four wheel Parts have an excellent warranty on parts and gears. If you break them you bring them back and get replacement. No questions asked. I also have lockers on my 3 other Land Cruisers and will not be installing an ARB until further testing is done.