In 1955 a race car participating in the Le Mans race had an accident and went off the track and 83 people died and 120 injured. Yes, the car was going fast, it was a race after all, but the car only weighted about 2000 pounds.
Now, imagine someone driving a heavy tractor trailer and driving...
In the absence of additional women coming forward to verify her claims she's likely to lose. There does, however, appear to be other women making similar claims and if they testify in court then the advantage swings to Carlson. But, the statement she made about Ailes being a great guy in the...
I don't know, it seems Lauda has stood behind a number of the bone head moves Nico has done this year.
I think the rules about driver coaching are absolutely stupid and need to be changed. When a car is having problems that could result in an accident or incident the prohibition against...
Man it would really suck to own a car you hate as you remind yourself why you hate it every single day -- no break.
It's even worse when the car you hate cost you an arm and a leg...
The only thing worse is marrying a girl only to discover you hate each other...
OK, how about marrying a...
No, I don't think so -- there is a range of accents in the mid west and plains and the default accent is defined by the accent that has dominated from the beginning when only the major metro areas like NYC were available. To be sure they were not the typical Brooklyn accent of street types but...
Women on the national news programs tend to have longer careers but they are also selected in the first place based, in no small way, on physical attractiveness. Diane Sawyer, for example, competed in many beauty pageants in the 60's. But, when you get outside of the national news programs and...
Roger Ailes is and has always been a scumbag and I would not put it past him one bit to be the douchnozzle he's been accused of in this story. If there are many others that will come forward as happened to Bill Cosby than it would make the case stronger that he is in fact the scum Carlson says...
A new windshield is what, about $250 installed -- give or take...
About 6 months after I bought a new car in 2012 an SUV, driving about 2X the speed limit and going the other way past me and a split second later a rock smacked my windshield creating a crack about 1 inch long. By the time I...
Most news casters, male or female, tend not to be old and they tend to be more attractive than average and often much more attractive than average. Yes, the problem is more obvious with women but it applies much the same for men. The simple fact is people, male and female, prefer watching...
I'll offer the idea that having the POTUS appoint new members of the SCOTUS is a way to produce a counter balance across presidents. That is, the office of the president tends to change hands every 8 or so years with the other party taking office so having the SCOTUS balance defined by his/her...
Maybe not in court, but if the police know him and know his record then they have to take into account past behavior or they may die!
WE don't know just yet if the cops knew him or recognized him, but given his long term presence at this location it's not out of the question that they did know...
A year or so ago, in the wake of the shootings in Baltimore and Ferguson and the choking death in Staten Island, two police officers were executed in Brooklyn -- this feels very much like that.
When the media proclaims these police shootings as police murders of citizens and do so long before...
It sounds like the cop got scared of the scary black man and when the man told the cop he was carrying the cop panicked and took the mans hand movements as if he was drawing his gun. This is Minnesota so maybe the town isn't all that black and perhaps the cop just assumed the guy was a...
When work that use to pay #20/hr and was performed in factories that were regulated by OSHA for safety and the EPA for pollution is now being done with labor at $1/hr in factories with little or no safety controls and spewing enormously more pollution -- THAT IS DEVALUATION OF LABOR/PEOPLE...
Saddam, like many of his ilk, was a strongman that did not tolerate anyone that could be a threat to him. He was brutal in this way, but that kept Al Qaeda and others at bay. He ruled with force and tens of thousands died during his 24 year reign. In half that time something over a quarter...
Lauda seems to be rooting for Nico and against Lewis and has defended Nico numerous times when the facts would suggest otherwise. Perhaps there's something going on behind closed doors that the rest of us aren't aware of, but Nico's action in the last race could hardly be considered fair or...
In fairness to Trump, and I say this with displeasure, the fact is that the Middle East has only known strongmen and in the absence of a strongman another strongman will arise. We kill Saddam and the next thing you know ISIS is running the show. We support the overthrow of Qaddafi and the...
Exactly, and given that the poll was conducted right after the Orlando attack and in the wake of wide spread vitriol from the media about gun owners it would be surprising if many gun owners didn't answer to imply they did not have guns.
Brian
The underlying concept and driving force of modern globalization is the devaluation of labor!
Another way of describing that is devaluation of ... people!
No, this is not what's in the best interest of the people or the planet but it is now the operating principle for both parties though...
No, neither the Constitution nor the SCOTUS gave blacks a fair deal for a very long time. Our founders were pressured by the southern regions to consider blacks as 3/5 human being for the purpose of apportioning congressional representation -- 3/5 human being. They would have preferred to...
You had me right up until you said BC should get a pass on NAFTA -- nope, he must not get a pass on that and the many other things he did to hurt the middle class. And yes, Ross Perot WAS right and when you compare his pronouncements about those trade deals and the consequence of them to those...
The poll does appear to be a cooked book to me. Conducted right after Orlando where the media has been having a field day vilifying gun owners it would be something of a surprise if there were not a depression in reporting of gun ownership. Combined with a rather limited sample size AND the...
Pretty hard for someone with a grievance to muster an army with hundreds of thousands of well trained troupes, billions of dollars of advanced weaponry, an equally expensive air force with even more advanced weaponry, and billions in intelligence hardware to compete in the open and on equal...
My Ford Focus is the same way -- never need to take the key out of my pocket or even reach into my pocket -- as long as I have the key with me the door will unlock when I grab the door handle and when leaving I just touch the door handle to lock it.
Brian
And all this time I thought it made clear what the government could NOT do to restrict rights -- you learn something new every day. Perhaps we're talking about the wrong thing here -- maybe we're talking about the Bill of Rights that innumerate what we can't do. Wait, is that can't or can -- I...
WOW, just wow!
So we're not to care if money is funneled to poor people or corporations?
It's certainly true that there are some lobbyists pushing for money for the poor but they are outnumbered by lobbyists pushing for bennies for corporations and the wealthy. And the ratio is not even close...
Your out of your tiny little mind!
Lobbyists exist and are paid for by folks who's interest seldom aligns with the average Joe. As I said before I've never had one come to me asking what I wanted them to press congress for AND I've never had the kind of money they expect. They do NOT work...
Please, never in my 59 years on this planet has a lobbyist come to me asking what I what them to press congress for -- not once, ever! They do NOT represent the average Joe, in fact, they nearly always represent the rich guy and business types that want to fuck the average Joe!
If you...
No, I built the PC myself and installed virgin Win10 Home from USB. The components were all new including the boot/OS drive which is a Samsung 950 Pro PCIe SSD.
If I try anything to create a new account, even a family member, it either requires an email or will assign an email -- who do they...
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