Help! What should I do?

After I left the PWM airport
Some how I hit something?

Just found out_ 1/31


A friend just told me that they
went to get 2 new tires and was
told that Maine law now requires that
all four tires be replaced at once.
Seeing that last year I just replaced two tires
on my vehicle am I looking at needing to
purchase four more this year?
She said her husband went to five or six different
tire dealers who all told him the same thing. $$$$$
somebody passed the law?? If you have a flat you
are looking at $700.00 or more.
They won't sell one tire
Screw that donut it is worthless.
How does that grab your purse?
Mad as Hell.












On the way home,
before I left the Airport
road. I hit the curb. My friend jumped out
to check the damage. It was a flat.
I drove on the rim about 10 blocks and
found a tire store.
Great I'll buy a new tire. HA HA























We go in and he says we don't carry your brand
of tire. I said OK - sell me something close.
He said they can only sell FOUR ( 4) tires
at a time. I said OK put on the spare.
He said we will never make it home
driving a 2 hours drive.
It will blow the transmission.
Said, it's a shame cause all the tires
on your car are brand new.
I was helpless, and scared.
So $629.00 worth of tires
that are not as good as original.
Were put on.
I drove home with all 4 of my orig. tires
Piled 3 high in my trunk and the split one
in back seat.
going to my service station Monday.

















What would you have done.?
Please tell me , I was really dumb founded.

HELP! Now what?
How Long Can I Drive
With A “Donut” Spare?
Donut spare tires are not
made for extended service.

They have no tread to speak of;
the carcass or body of the tire
is not reinforced and there is no
tread belt to protect it from
projectiles and road imperfections.
The tire is designed simply to
get you to a repair facility.
Most of these tires offer a
maximum life of 70 miles.
Oh my gosh! I have a
2 hour ride
back to Rockland














Do Donut Spares Affect The Braking
Or Suspension System?
You may notice poor cornering,
handling, and braking characteristics.
The donut spare has a smaller footprint
than a conventional tire, which translates
into diminished braking and handling.
With the donut spare in place, you may
find that, when braking, the vehicle dips
to the side where the donut was mounted.
Also, you may notice the vehicle pulling to that side.
The Maine Roads are like 3rd world countries. The
Maine Highway dept. won't fix the roads.
The Taxes go up, then some how the monies disappear.




















Check your owner’s manual
for an exact recommended
mileage for the spare tire.
Seventy miles is the rule of thumb.
These tires are not designed
for long-range service.
They are made to get you to
a garage to have
your tire either repaired
or replaced.
Driving on it for an extended
period of time under regular
driving conditions will result
in a blowout in short order,
so get a safe tire on your car
immediately.
Maybe you can find a reasonably
priced used tire if it has to be replaced.







Why Do Car makers
Put these Spare Tires In Cars?
The use of donut spares
are a cost and space cutting
measure.

Typically the donut spare
takes up much less space and is
cheaper to manufacture than
full size tires and wheels
which translates into more profit for the
car makers. It’s quite a compromise and
a loss for the consumer.

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MR. SCUM (Paul Violette public servant)

After all his crimes against
the State of Maine
This Evil man is allowed to keep
his STATE PENSION of
$ 5,288.51 a month.



I am mad I have to pay taxes to house this
Scum for TEN years. Pay for his electric. dental,
medical, and an education,and food and TV.
OH YES go to prison and get a degree in Maine.
All the criminals want to come to MAINE.

The people that are responsible for changing the State
of Maine laws need to re-read them.
This is what they get paid for.
Wake up you dumb asses.
until the law is changed, we need to attach
this pension to repay the state.
There are loop holes to keep him from
getting a pension.
Then change the law that
all criminals forfeit their Benefits



Paul Violette, sure he is crying, he got caught.
It's not for remorse.
The rest of them are just as guilty
watching him steal and not reporting it.




















Who is trustworthy? What has happened?
Is it the world we live in, with no respect,
no religion, no scruples and morals no pride.






























Here he is PAUL VIOLETTE:::

The scum of the world,
He should face a firing squad.
The same could be said of the board.
A board that allowed its executive director
to spend more than $186,000
and didn’t ensure that his vacation and
sick time were monitored clearly wasn’t
fulfilling its duty to the public.

An exhibit to the complaint details
gift card purchases since 2003,
when the inappropriate expenditures
were said to begin. The list is a result
of forensic audit ordered by MTA leaders

after the Legislature’s
Office of Program Evaluation and
Government Accountability issued a
report citing questionable expenditures
at the agency. Get a load of this

On one day — Sept. 15,2004
Mr. Violette purchased more than
$35,000 worth of gift cards to Hyatt hotels,
according to the complaint.
Another $10,000 was spent on Hyatt gift cards
on Dec. 9, 2005; $15,000 worth of Fairmont hotel
gift cards were purchased a few days later.
On March 25, 2005, nearly $27,000 was
spent on gifts cards . Another exhibit lists
the gift cards that could be shown to
be given to charitable groups,
the reason Mr. Violette said he bought them.
(more BS) Is everyone in Govt. offices blind and stupid ??
The Government Oversight Committee
could only track records for
$26,550 worth of donated cards,
including $4,000 worth of Fairmont cards
and $4,800 worth of Hyatt cards,
all of which were donated to Maine Preservation.
More than $73,000 in “fraudulent charges”
are detailed in a third exhibit.
According to the document,
$15,000 in Fairmont gift cards
were redeemed at the Frontenac Hotel
in Quebec City during Winter Carnival in 2006.
On Oct. 5, another $8,700 worth of gift cards
were used there. Mr. Violette often traveled to
International Bridge,
Tunnel and Turnpike meetings around the world.
During these trips, which the board approved,
Relais and Chateaux gift cards were used in
France and Spain and Hyatt cards in Bermuda.
Mr. Violette sometimes traveled to foreign
countries days before the meetings,
the document says, likely adding to hotel
and restaurant bills. It could be going on in your town.
Where are the whistle blowers,
GOD give us some whistle blowers
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Highclere Castle,

If you have been watching PBS on Sunday The Downton Abbey
series This is the castle that
it is filmed at Highclere
(harklrer)
Three miles south of Newbury.






Henry-George Reginald Molyneux Herbert
was 7th Earl of Carnarvon













This is the Eighth Earl. He really has
a huge job keeping this place up.
For all you designers here's some floor
plains to dream about.

They say his friend Andrew Lloyd Webber
came over to give some tips..



















Original owners were
Bishops of Winchester
Earl of Carnarvon

Robert Sawyer Herbert
Henry Herbert
Charles Barry.























This is Main Saloon

Downton Abbey TV series

I am hooked on this story.

Have you been watching
Downton Abbey?
Who do you like and hate?


Sunday's on PBS 7PM-8PM

Second season


It flip flops around from the lives of the maids
to the highest of upper classes.
I never watches a TV program
that said continued.
The minute it said
episode Number one,
I'd flip the channel.
Well I have Blue ray now and can see the
entire story in two days.

So this is the second season.
I never could have finished the book.


















Can you imagine living here?



































































































































Hope you watch it..


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I hate Cruise Ships

I have taken Three Cruises. I am not a cruise Person.
Being on board, I become claustrophobic. I have been
sea sick. The food is in abundance, tons of cheap
food. The elegance is gone. My so called prime rib
looked like a 1 oz skirt steak. I walked my self to death.
The nurse was as helpless as asking a 6 year old for help Duh!

Who needs this, we didn't see the places we were suppose to stop at. Capt, said had to bypass it. We just slowed down and killed a day.


There have been a few problems in the last few years.
2011 In the Mediterranean Sea 200 aboard, 150 missing.

MTS Oceans -had a hole in bulkhead, sunk
Capt. never even went below to check.
The Capt was also first to leave ship.

Then there was the Moscow cruse ship
on Volga river 200 on board 100 missing..








Costa Concordia capt. 6 dead so far..






Stafano Italy 4000 people











This is today Italy Jan 15. 2012


rescue dinghy hangs from the side of the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia leaning on its side after ran aground off the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. The Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground off the coast of Tuscany, sending water pouring in through a 160-foot (50-meter) gash in the hull and forcing the evacuation of some 4,200 people from the listing vessel early Saturday, the Italian coast guard said.




Sea Diamond Charts were wrong?????





Tell me another excuse.
Sinking Sea Diamond










Sea Diamond Greece















The MS Mikhail, Lermontov
had a good Russian crew
struck a rock?



























You can get disease SARS
Fire on board forget it
Pirates attack
Food Poisoning




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