From dieseljohn-at-comcast.net Sat Sep 2 23:43:48 2006 From: john meister -------- Original Message -------- Subject: diesel-benz-digest V1 #2233 Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 03:27:38 +0000 From: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net (diesel-benz-digest) Reply-To: diesel-benz-at-digest.net To: diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net diesel-benz-digest Sunday, September 3 2006 Volume 01 : Number 2233 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: [db] mixed signals... [db] wagoneers.com getting a new server Diesel Benz Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/diesel-benz/ Send submissions to diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Send administrative requests to diesel-benz-digest-request-at-digest.net To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to stag-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 20:18:52 -0700 (PDT) From: john Subject: [db] mixed signals... This is amazing... not so much that it's helping someone out, but that this community would have a program like this, yet try to force the rest of us to use publich transportation. The very reason this working single mom needs a car is the same as the rest of us. Why in the world would anyone spend three hours commuting by bus when driving your own wheels you can do it in an hour. Regardless of the time spent, it's always less in your own car. Not to mention if this gal had a kid get sick, wow, what a nightmare that would be... that is without wheels. Public transportation has benefits, but for a lot of people it is ineffective, inefficient, inconvenient and useless. I couldn't use a bus to get to work if I wanted to. They don't run on the major road I live and work on. For some it works out ok... Even when I worked downtown Seattle I couldn't make it work for me. I've never ridden a bus in this area, been here since 1985... They've installed several center island bus exits up and down the I-5 and 405 corridor... yet you hardly ever see any vehicles on them... they spent millions on this bus feature that is not used effectively. That money could have been spent widening the roads for the rest of us. Mixed signals... dumb moves, wasted resources... :( ...interesting, I'm also driving an older car that this one mentioned in the article... that was a screamin' deal... john Program Helps Low-Income Families Get Affordable Transportation September 1, 2006 By John Sharify SEATTLE - She got the job in Seattle. Ronda Sorensen now works for YWCA's Dress for Success. Now the challenge: how to get there. For a while, Ronda, from Kent, didn't have a car. She couldn't afford a car. And so this single mother of three had to take not one bus, or two, or three, but four buses each day -- one to drop off her younger children at day care, two more to get her older daughter to school, and a fourth to get to work. The single mom was exhausted even before she started her workday. "Well, I would basically have to leave by 6 (a.m.) to get here by 9," Sorensen says with a smile. Now it takes Ronda one hour or less! That's because she went to a used car lot on Lake City Way and 135th. You can save thousands when you buy a used car there, but there's one catch. You have to be a low income resident. Now Ronda drives a 1999 Taurus she got for $2,800. Her monthly payment was just $78. With extra money from her job, she's already paid for the car in just over a year -- no more payments! She can thank the Fremont Public Association for a program they run called 'Working Wheels'. Here's how it works, according to Teresa Moore: "Local governments donate their used fleet vehicles and individuals also donate cars. The Fremont Public Association fixes them up and sells them to clients for about half their retail value. If they need financing, FPA has arrangements with Sound Community Bank for below-market interest rates. And, clients get inexpensive repairs on their vehicles through the FPA's Community Garage". Now that Ronda has a job and a car, what's next? Ronda is saving up for a house. For more information about Working Wheels you can go to www.fremontpublic.org. Also, if people are interested in donating a car, they can call (206) 860-8000 ext. 210 for information. ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** http://JohnMeister.com **** http://wagoneers.com ** Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold ** http://freegift.net *** http://greatcom.org/laws/languages.html ** - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 20:26:42 -0700 From: john meister Subject: [db] wagoneers.com getting a new server I'm trying to swap in the new server today... so if you've had any issues with wagoneers.com that's what's up... also, my email will be fixed so it's not at "superdawg.wagoneers.com" any more... picked up a Sun Ultra 20 from a friend... AMD Opteron chip... screaming machine... removed Solaris and installed SuSE 10.1... the "modern" conveniences found in the lastest distro's of Linux are making me think that maybe BSD is the way to go... ;) heading down to the digital forest right now to swap the boxes... john ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #2233 **********************************