Clearing the Decks before Christmas

 

Wyoming Wind

Truck and RV blow overs are common. “Hey, can’t you read the signs?” Trains? Not so much.

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How Democrats hold power in Colorado

This is another deep dive in the Democrat cesspool. If you don’t live here you will probably skip. However, you may find the same patterns in your state.

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Not a car sales story but amusing

This is not a car story but inspired by a picture of LL giving Chinese kids candy.

 While my youngest was at Kandahar with the 1/4^th ID, Jolly Rancher hard candies were available for the troops to give to kids. Soldiers, being soldiers, adapt.

 In a care package I sent him I included, on a whim, a wrist rocket.

This was soon in service giving candy to kids. As they drove past civilians, the kids liked to throw rocks at them. In response, the turret gunner would give the kids  Jolly Rancher candy via the wrist rocket.

Soldier inspired win/win civil engagement!

Addiction?

Though I’ve been out of the car biz now for years, I still follow what is going on and check  many of the, “how to buy a car” YouTubers and  especially, the comments. I’m not surprised that the buyers still hate the dealers and are still outraged dealers still want to make a profit. They want, want, and want the lowest out the door price delivered to their computer.

 This is a hard truth. The dealership doesn’t need to prove they have cars to sell. The buyer needs to prove they can buy. Most can’t, buy. What they can do is suck up a commissioned salesperson’s time with no return to the salesperson. Cost to the “buyer”?

 My response to the people pontificating about how car dealerships should operate was uniform. Buy a dealership and run it the way you want.

 Good News to Me – Pearl Clutching for (P)regressives

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 My hope is the next three years will see a rollback of all this job killing, small town killing environazi bullshit.

FAFO Emperior Polis News

Poking the bear has consequences

The head of the U.S. Department of Transportation threatened Monday to withhold $24 million in federal funding from the state of Colorado for what he described as a slow response to a major violation of federal commercial driver’s license regulations.

Other related news Federal SNAP audit in Colorado found 200+ deceased receiving, and using, SNAP. Not Minnesota level fraud to be sure. Fraud is fraud.

 Who Needs to Read English?

The current uproar about unqualified drivers of big rigs brings to mind being stationed in Europe sixty years ago. We soldiers were required to have a USAREUR specific driver’s license. We spent two days learning road signs and laws. Passing grade required was 98%.

Passing was not optional. Anyone who has been in the military remembers what failing “not optional” brought on you.

Here in the USA? A sample of road signs you just might need to be able to read while driving a big rig.

Here because I like it.

Taken from Cory Gaines’ newsletter. He is a conservative thorn in the Blue’s butts. I read him every day.

 A Cheerful Note

Merry Christmas!

AS always, YMMV