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So, I drained my battery and got a jump start. Fantastic! I can get back on the road! Wrong! The warning light for ABS module (AdvanceTrac®) and the electric power assist steering came on and I had no power steering. No problem, I went home and began researching what the problem might be. Maybe it was a short?

Went for a walk and normally take my flashlight, so I can see these punks before they sneak up on me. Cloud covers the night. I must have been within 10 feet of these punks, when my eyes spied these 120# Rats. Suddenly they ran right past me. Scared the hell out me. They stopped 25 yards away and I lit up the light on my phone. Seeing them in the distance, I thought They were mocking me. So, I picked up a stick and threw it at then. They ran away and I put two fingers on my wrist....

"...Many of the accusations surfaced after the release of a 2005 tape of Trump speaking graphically about kissing and groping women uninvited."

Of course we think everyone is an idiot and that is why this video is hilarious. Gun Control....check Givernment as your caretaker...check 1.5 minutes https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Whrat_Rn0I

Normally a 3.0 earthquake is no big deal...unless you are on the 2nd floor of the house. At 4am a 3.0 will wake you up. Only posting due to the extraordinary fires in our area and thought "Great. An earthquake would be probably be perfect right about now". Going back to sleep....

Lost in all this talk about the league losing 10% viewership is the effect on the hot dog vendor and his ability to earn a living because a bunch of overpaid social justice warriors need to make a point about a lie and complete fabrication of statistics by mere innuendo. So, doing a quick back of napkin calculation of what a loss of $200 million means, in terms of economics of hourly employees to revenue, I concluded 500 people would necessarily need to have their hours drastically reduced or would be laid off. That is a staggering amount of people...

For those things which we enjoy most in life - friendship, love, play - the idea of giving them a price is absurd or even obscene. The idea strikes us as absurd because the market does not work by the same principles we do. 'Market forces' leave hundreds of millions starving in a world with surplus food. Millions die of preventable diseases while pharmaceutical companies spend more on marketing than basic research. The market does not recognise human needs unless they are backed up with cash. The only way to get the cash is to work for a boss or...

The urge to engage in retroactive political correctness is creating a dangerously slippery slope. Just how far should it go? Take, for example, the story of James Duval Phelan (1861-1930).A multimillionaire of inherited wealth with an uncanny business acumen of his own, Phelan was always acclaimed as a “man of enlightenment” and a patron of the arts and music. Few others were as revered in San Francisco or regarded as a greater friend. There were no secrets about Phelan’s unique political ideas that became frequent themes in campaign oratory. As a senator, he vociferously called for an “all white California,”...

So, here is the dumb question my brother posed: If a ship leaves earth and transmits "LIVE" video as it travels deep into space, would the transmissions continue to be live and real time even as it traveled months and years away from earth? At what point does that transmission actually delay or become part of the past? Bonus question: Assuming the craft continues travel directly away from earth, if it stopped transmitting and then restarted transmitting would that now be real time? Caveat: I don't know the distance that makes the transmission now a part of the past...

H David Eubank is a former Special Forces Operative turned aid worker. The 56 year old veteran’s Free Burma Rangers aid organization has been in Mosul, Iraq fighting ISIS. He previously was in the military free fall team with the First Special Forces Group, so he is skilled in combat unlike most aid workers. So, when ISIS was firing upon civilians and he saw a little girl about 150 feet away from him, he sprang into action to rescue her. As you can see in the tweeted video below, Eubank is donning only a helmet and a bulletproof vest. He...

*** The difference between Barry's narcissism and Trump is: Trump looks at the most beautiful girl at the party and says, "I can get her number." Barry lookz at the same girl and say, "She wants me." Trump pursues the girl, Barry walks away, because obviously, she is not good enough for him, besides, someone told him there's a mirror in the next room. Arrogance is the recognition of achievement or possibility. The other is conceit, which pretends it's lack of achievement is worthy of a geek medal...dorks... I'll take the ladies. Morons can take a cold shower... In early...

In 2006, there were 617,660 bankruptcy filings, according to the agency that compiles data from federal courts across the United States. The vast majority of the 2007 filings -- 822,590 of them -- involved individuals. Year Chap 7 Chap 11 Total2007 28,322 822,590 850,912 2006 19,695 597,965 617,660 2005 39,201 2,039,214 2,078,415 2004 34,317 1,563,145 1,597,462 2003 35,037 1,625,208 1,660,245 * Data from Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

June 10, 1964, was a dramatic day in the United States Senate. For the first time in its history, cloture was invoked on a civil rights bill, ending a record-breaking filibuster by Democrats that had consumed fifty-seven working days. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - On this day in 1964, Everett Dirksen (R-IL), the Republican Leader in the U.S. Senate, condemned the...

Consumers from Wisconsin are crossing the border to Illinois to stock up on a commodity they can't buy in the Dairy State -- Irish butter.

Edward Snowden Tweeted the following: "If you're writing about the CIA/@Wikileaks story, here's the big deal: first public evidence USG secretly paying to keep US software unsafe. pic.twitter.com/kYi0NC2mOp" During the time of the dust up over Snowden, I wrote my Seminal article dealing with this. Under the 1996 Telecom Act, Software and Equipment manufacturers are required to provide backdoor access and were compensated to do it. Why? Because, it is unconstitutional to make such a demand. However, as "an Investor" in these companies, the givernment has the right of ownership and access to technologies they "invest in". That is how...

Guess Fox dropped that mascara whinning, full of crap and given hyperbolic craptastic and so called reporting. Shemp is an A-hole and hemorrhoid all in one. Hell be back Monday but, has the day off and so do we .

Just saw Madison Gesiotto on Neil Cavuto discussing a day without imigrant. She was opposed by a another woman, who had synthetic and contrived sound bites regarding citizen, those waiting for years on their papers and conflating illegal immigration with legal citizens, who pay their taxes, come to America to improve the lives of their families. Of course she used obfuscation to describe immigration, refusing to acknowledge the difference between Lawful and Legal Immigration. Stupidly, she told Madison "Your family were immigrants" As Madison pointed out, her family came here as legal immigrants and worked hard to become citizens, who...

Link only per FR rules....but, a damn good read. Concise and quick too. Still stew pet.

Here are the countries Trump has banned travel from: Let's see, if you haven't been an enemy of the United States since the 1970's, we certainly made one out of you. We overthrew your leaders and then bombed the Shiite out of your people, leaving you without a functioning government. We can do all that but, Gosh Damn, we cannot restrict immigration from those same countries? Syria. We invented Assad for whatever reason and continue to manufacture Bull Shiite about them? We then arm Assad's competition in a totally NOT secret operation, which continues to this day. Why? WTF did...