IIhan Omar
Can this foul person be sent back to Somalia? My favorite
YouTube lawyer steps out of his usual lane to offer real information.
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New Tax Needed to Save Us
People worldwide are weary of climate change taxation and
a new “crisis” is needed. There must be a clever way to exploit this.
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Wolves
The issue gets more complicated as time goes by. Here is
a very long article analyzing the current state of affairs. Well done, IMO.
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And a new player enters the argument, the Trump
Administration.
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Paranoid minds wonder if some Minnesota Lite is lurking?
Here, kitty kitty
A long Colorado Parks and Recreation report on the recent
mountain lion deaths. As you can see on the map, some have been seen close to
DRJIM’s backyard.
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Smartass WSF – the Early Years
Senior year of high school, a requirement in an English
class was to memorize and recite aloud a poem, of our own choosing.
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My sister was ten years behind me but several of my
teachers were still there. My sister approached two of them with, “Ladies, may
I speak to you?” Upon receiving an affirmation she said, “Ladies, I’m not my
brother”.
I was not remembered as a scholar.
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After many years of not deleting comments, except
anonymous comments, I’m tired of the off topic comments. Spam, bots, ???
Not having it anymore.
Going green, create more problems
Among the myriad rules, regulations and dictates that
complicate our lives and increase costs everywhere are “water saving” low flush
toilets. One is in my apartment. How much water is saved when the damn thing
needs to be flushed three times?
Car Story
Glue, locks and a Dodge Viper. This is probably a repeat.
1993 my manager at the used car lot (show us your cocks
story) got fired and the omens weren’t good for me. Up I -405 in Bellevue WA I
got hired at the Dodge store while the GM was on vacation. He was not pleased
when he returned. His problem? He didn’t hire me and I was selling two vehicles
every three to four days while not adhering to his “system”.
The Viper had just arrived and he foolishly put up a
prize; the top salesman got to drive the Viper for a day. That month I beat his house mouse by three
cars. He was beside himself when I picked up the Viper on my day off. I drove
it up I-90 to the Snoqualmie Pass summit and back to the store. Dropping it off
I remarked, “Just another car”. When the management started messing with my pay
I moved on.
The manager, Bart Moss, was a big water skiing fanatic.
He would go to Lake Sammamish at 5 am when the water was “flat”. The ass kissers would meet him there and they
would have workplace bonding. How pleased the folks with lakefront property
might feel seemly didn’t matter. I gave it six weeks then went to the parking lot
and squirted glue into all the door locks of all their vehicles while they were
recreating. Well yes, WSF is evil. Fuck with me and I will fuck you over.
I didn’t tarry, needing to open a small pot lot I’d been
hired to manage.
Side note: The Viper was a blast for about an hour and a
half. After that, the parts bin engineering became increasingly noticeable.
Also, my courting tackle didn’t get any bigger.
MOPAR impressions. In that era I always thought Dodge was
ahead of the game in terms of design. The Intrepid, with the cab forward design,
was far superior to Ford and GMC. The full sized pickup redesign was a game
changer. The weakness was Chrysler went cheap on the details. I won’t go into
details; ancient history now. Their one success was the Dakota. Needing a small
pickup, the Dakota was a Dodge Regis cop car chassis with a pickup bed and the
rest 20 year old parts bin left overs. It was a decent truck, especially
compared to the Toyota T100. That disaster had Toyota giving dealers a hidden
$4,000 cash bonus to help move them.
As always, YMMV
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6 comments:
You're all over the place today, but the car story IS funny, and agreed on the Viper. Drove one ONCE, never again.
I should be more focused - thanks for the comment. Lots of views on the post but yours is the only comment. I've driven many vehicles and owned several performance cars. The one i liked best was a Sunbeam Tiger. Fairly comfortable, the Lucas wiring held up, and the Ford V-8 gave it ample power. That was a keeper I didn't keep.
Nicely done with the glue. Screwing with somebody's pay is just begging to be made an example of.
An old boss had a hard-top Viper, and it nearly killed him. He got in it one day and the battery had just enough juice to lock the doors but not to start the engine, so he was trapped in the damn thing for two hours in his garage on a hot day. He was insufficiently svelte to reach far enough around to the manual door lock release or to fish his cell phone out of his back pocket and had to sit in it like an overheated sardine until his wife came home and found him in it, still alive but quite shaken by the experience. I'm not sure he ever got in it again.
I once owned a Dakota, and it was very much like a boat in that the two happiest days of ownership were the day I got it and the day I got rid of it. Also, it was a hole in the driveway into which I poured money. Problems with lifters (twice), paint and electrical galore. Most memorable was the time it stranded me in Shitland Switch, Oklahoma three hours from home on a Friday night with a clogged fuel filter. Could not get another one until Monday and it was in the top of the tank, requiring the tank to be dropped to replace. My father-in-law, on the other hand, bought one and it was bullet-proof. Go figure.
Sometimes it was the factory that built it. with Fords, the Twin Cities trucks had fewer problems than the Kentucky built. Chicago cars had fewer problems than Canadian built cars.
The beauty of the glue job was them wondering who was responsible. The many pissed off lakefront homeowners were the primary suspects.
Ah, wolves. They're making a comeback in North Texas too, or they were, haven't checked in a while. But what if all of Colorado's wolves fled Emperor Polis to greener pastures? Can't say as I'd blame them. Just a thought.
The debate rages on. The oldest wolf reintroduction is Yellowstone Park. There isn't a consensuses on that program except from the "settled science" crowd.
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