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I thought this was awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYbmzuhiis8

Hopefully we'll get the answers to all this within this year. Seeing as they dropped the Jiyra stuff what, 6 months ago? and we're still wondering what happened there.. I just want solid story telling at this point and an ongoing plot.. but instead Naruto is so fragmented right now with its plot lines. \

Watch it end up being Aizen doing experiments or something.

When you turn on the AC and apply gas, and the noise is like that then I would get the tensioner and belt checked. From what you are saying you still have tension, but that noise is usually an indicator that the tensioner is going. Someone told me once that tensioners usually only last about 100,000 miles. Also, even if the tensioner was starting to go, unless it is outright broken you shouldn't be able to move that belt at all by hand when the engine is off. Of course, all of that could not even be the problem at all and all you have is a squeeky belt. You could go to autozone or advance auto parts and pick up a spray bottle of 'belt conditioner'. Turn your car on, pop the hood and pick a spot to spray, probably near the tensioner, and spray the belt for a second or two. While the engine is running the belt will be moving fast as hell so all you have to do is pick one spot to spray and that belt will more or less get its entire self spray down. Of course if you accidentally spray some of that stuff on a moving part it'll dry up the oil quite a bit and make even more squeeling sounds until the spray wears away, and the same thing will happen if you use too much belt conditioner. If you had to refill your battery, your battery might still be SOL. My brother refilled his battery for his santa fe and it worked fine for a couple months, but it was like his alternator hated it and in the end he still had to replace it. So, if the alternator is producing correctly and the belt has tension, I'd say its your battery. Especially if it is almost 5 years old or more and you're having to change the water in it. I bought a duralast gold battery at autozone and it came with a free emergency jump start service. Its a card with an 800 number on it that I can call up to twice a year for a free jump start from some company. I think its good for 2 or 5 years (I think 5), something like that. btw, is it an after market radio? or is it something someone installed? and does it have an amp powering rear speakers or something like that?

From my own personal experience... These are my thoughts, but you should definitely take it to another mechanic for more opinions. Any mechanic would tell you its the alternator because its the best job to do. But answer this question.. When you turn on the air conditioner and you hear that squeeling noise, is it a rythmic squeeling annoying sound, or is it a loud almost screeming sound that makes you kinda nervous? Also, while you hear this noise, have you noticed if your power steering is slightly off and its takes more force to turn the wheel? To check if its your alternator take it to an autozone and have them check the amps it is outputting, not the volts. The correct amperage indicates if its going to charge the battery good or not. But honestly, if you get that noise you're talking about its either your serpentine belt or its your idler tensioner/idler pully. Most alternator problems that I'm aware of, the alternator will make a clickingish sound when you turn the car on or make other clicking sounds for power problems. Its probably your belt or your tensioner, but I'm guessing it is both. Open your hood, and have someone in your car, turn it on and listen for clicking sounds from either the alternator or the starter. Then have the person turn on the AC to full blast and watch your belt for a couple mins. Once your air compressor kicks on you should see your belt tense up and you should visably see your tensioner move to put more tension on the belt. If it starts screaming at you when that compressor kicks on and that tensioner doesn't move, then thats most likely your problem. If you have bad tension or a bad belt or both, you won't get the correct tension on your alternator, which underpowers your alternator and thus your battery won't get charged. I had my tensioner nearly break on my saturn, my belt was so slack I'd loose power stearing off and on, the car sounded like it was screaming, my battery was almost dead, etc. I was very lucky the engine didn't overheat because that damn serpentine belt keeps everything running correctly. If your tensioner breaks or your belt ever snaps while you are driving, you are fucked. The only thing you could do at that point is slam on your breaks, try and move the car off the road, shut the engine off before it overheats/destroys itself and call a towtruck to take it to a mechanic.

All uchiha were going to rise up against the hokage and take control of everything.. so all Uchiha including all their children (except sasuke) had to be killed? I'm still not buying this story.

I wonder who or what is taking everyone out. But now Kisuke is on the way to own somebody!

Yeah, the anime has been quite mellow ever since they weakened the enis lobby rampage and left out all the blood and the potential hundreds, er no, one thousand marines dieing that luffy most likely killed.

BURN HIM!

I have House of the Dead 2 for the dreamcast and its friggin sweet, but my dreamcast gun broke I've been too lazy to try and take it apart to fix it.

I bought a dump permit last weekend, and since then I have been so damn occupied with destroying old couch pieces, mattresses and other random crap to drop off at the dump I have had little free time to myself on the weekends. Fortunately, next weekend is the last weekend for the dump dropoffs. Unfortunately, it means I will have to spend the next couple days destroying some more mattresses and other crap so it'll fit in my blazer so I can make the last couple drop offs in time. With a 3 hour dump window it only gives you enough time to load your crap, drop it off and repeat until time runs out.

Here are some possible scenarios that could take place as the year progresses. Bush will insist upon Iran's nuclear plans, furnish proof of their 'evil plans', insist on Iran's involvement with terrorism and start a war with Iran near the end of his presidential term. With a war booming and the possibility of Iran literally attacking US on its own soil and with the war having the potential to go nuclear, gas prices will jump exponentially and other countries now severely burdened by oil prices, others may join with Iran and a potential WW3 could start. A war with Iran could also be a potential cover up just to have a nuclear factory 'explode' or a nuke could be dropped on Iran. Because Iran has large reserves of oil under their soil the oil could be potentially contaminated with radiation and all the massive reserves under their land could now be unusable thus creating a world wide oil based recession. All of this is also a potential way for Bush to pass some new bill to keep him in office past his two terms because of the world crisis he has caused. Thus our president becomes a war mongering dictator. If this does not happen and McCain becomes president, he will try to pick up this exact same course minus the dictator part. Of course, Bush could always start up a war with Iran or set things in motion for it to take place, leave office and screw the next president into a position of having to declare war.

I bet there will be a slew of more crappy games for the wii than any other system because the production costs for a wii game are less than any other system? I kinda want a wii just for the virtual console, mario kart, smash bros and a couple other games. Other than that, I haven't been all that interested in the majority of games coming out for any system. but then again I don't keep up with the latest games, news, etc. anymore. \

We're about 4 or so eps behind on the anime... ugh, filler.

holy crap that was alot of new characters thrown into one chapter. and now we have to wait 2 weeks for a new chapter.

I wonder if they'll have an elaborate funeral for jiyra at some point.

I really want to watch this movie, the special effects in the trailers looks so good.

*gets a pic of topless gg* so much hair! x_x

I still haven't watched the third movie. I'll probably watch this one first tho.

Happy b-day AC!

Heres a good article about it: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/20/AR2008022002855_pf.html

The stimulus check I'm talking about is the one you have to file a federal income tax form for. If you qualify for it, you should have already received a letter telling you. Nope. NPR news stated that that is one of the most widely spread rumors relating to the stimulus package because a similar tax rebate in the past was actually an 'advancement' on the following years income tax return. This stimulus check however is not.

We haven't received ours just yet, but when we do we'll be putting it towards our outstanding credit cards/auto fees for fixing our saturn. What does everyone else plan on spending their money on?

Oh please, you should have seen my reaction when my doctor said to me: "Oh, thats just your herpes flaring up." I had that wtf look on my face and the doctor said: "I love seeing peoples faces when I say that, but don't worry 90+% of every adult on the planet has that herpes, look it up on the internet if you don't believe me." and yep, its true. I suppose I have herpes. and eppy... so do you. I kissed you one of those nights you passed out on my couch. If you didn't have herpes, you do now.

If Steve Irwin were still alive he would have probably taken the alligator in. \