Geeto67

still not sure why you continue to resort to personal attacks either nothing I've noted in the latest round of my points made are a better-than-thow position.

here let me help you find that:

I'm just going to LOL and ... continue to care for myself and my family while you and others enjoy waiting around for politicians and public policy.

I mean is there another way you meant that? because it sure sounds self righteous as fuck to me.

because I'm focusing first on what I can directly control and impact not only for my own good but the greater good too.

What's good as a personal philosophy is a piss poor excuse for public policy.

I have three MD's in my family one of which is an oncologist. We can agree to disagree then if you feel we as humans can't make a significant impact on our lives as it relates to cancer. You work with your source and I'll will work with mine.

this sounds familiar.....oh wait now I remember....

I had an uncle went to MIT who is a top professor. Dr. John Trump. A genius, It’s in my blood. I’m smart. Great marks. Like really smart.

I've never said we shouldn't try and address things from a policy standpoint.

You say it all the time. And when you aren't saying it you infer it, allude to it, and hint at it. If people just did "x" we wouldn't need the government to do "y" is your theme song.

You left yourself open there Kerry. It's important to always make clear that the federal government is always going to be in the healthcare business because of the simple economics of aging. So it's not whether or not the government should try to tackle these problems, it's a matter of how to pay for it.

yeah I know. But lets be honest, the majority of Tim's "political positions" are Look at how good I am doing this one thing while the rest of you sheeple wait for the .gov to fix it for you. They are not really anything intellectual, it's just the Midwestern way of saying look at how much better I am because I am doing the thing that I think will work.

"The death toll from gun violence in america is just the cost of freedom, we wouldn't have a deficit to worry about if we didn't have such a big gubment, Fuck everybody but America - and really only those americans who got here between 1700 and 1990 and for whom english is the first language, and those old people wouldn't need so much damn health care if they just ate right and exercised." Tell me Tim, am I capturing this correctly?

Nearly 75 percent of all deaths in the United States are attributed to basically ten causes, with the top three of these being Heart Disease, Cancer and Lower Respiratory Disease and account for over 50 percent of all deaths and all of which are GREATLY influenced by the choices we make about what we put in our bodies and expose ourselves to.

I'll go along with what you say regarding heart disease and respiratory disease, but let's not gloss over the fact here that you lumped cancer in as a preventable disease just by diet and exercise. Yes some types are a reduced risk from diet and exercise this but I think you are overselling the effect. Furthermore there are a lot more environmental factors that go into cancer, and for the most part cancer is still largely an unknown. Just typing GREATLY in all caps doesn't mean all cancer is cured by not eating red meat.

Will it "fix" healthcare, no and not one is claiming it would. However, if you seriously don't think individuals could work to better themselves and put a significant dent in the cost of healthcare for everyone then I'm just going to LOL and go detail another cool car, continue to care for myself and my family while you and others enjoy waiting around for politicians and public policy. Don't hold your breath regardless of who is in office though.

OK, so individuals could work to better themselves, so what? It still doesn't solve the problem of caring for the elderly or the terminally or genetically ill. It also doesn't solve the access to healthcare problem in poor or rural communities, or the price of drugs which may market adjust to more expensive following the decreased demand if everyone suddenly "got healthy"

You aren't wrong about people needing to take more agency over their own health, but you are wrong about using that as a way of justifying that we shouldn't also try to address this at the government level.

http://performance.ford.com/enthusiasts/media-room/20180/10/2018-ford-f-150-supercab-by-zb-southern-ground-and-kurt-busch.html

look at how long the thing is...jesus.

You should see how I park at the mall when they push all the snow into the only empty spot. It’s HARD.

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

I've done that.

I love the AMP steps that retract, but I just can’t justify the $1600 for them.

for $1600 I would expect them to give gold plated blow jobs.

What about adapting a retractable step from a home-built aircraft? or a Hide-a-step off a jeep?

"performance Truck" is somewhat of a subjective thing - they still make them in the form of the Raptor, Chevy Z71, F-150 Tremor, and Dodge Rebel TRX, but they old school "muscle trucks" like you are talking about have kind of died on the vine. I suspect they don't make them because there are like 6 people who would buy them and 3 of those people are on this forum, and 2 of the 6 probably can't get approved for financing or insurance.

Hot Rod and Muscle trucks tend to be a product of regulation. When muscle cars died out in the 1970's because of insurance and emissions, the emissions exempt and differently rate tabled trucks became the go to for go-fast with the Dodge little red express, Big block Chevys, and 460 fords. When fuel mileage became the bottleneck for performance cars in the 80's and 90's, the big three when to the fuel mileage exempt trucks again and built the 454SS, 2wd 5.9 ram (and later SRT10 ram), and Lightning.

Right now, performance cars are in their second golden age, and really there is no reason to look at the trucks for a cheat around a set of rules. But that doesn't mean the bones aren't there - a 2wd F150 tremor is a set of lowering springs away from being a modern day lightning. Ram will sell you a bare bones 2wd tradesman with the 5.7 hemi, and Chevy will sell an LS powered 2wd LT even if it is the 5.3 (I hear turbos work well on them). The big three just don't see a need to offer you a sticker and name job for 6 people that would buy them over a challenger/camaro/mustang/SS/SHO/Charger/etc...

Now I will say since dodge's business model seems to be "hellcat all the things" there are rumors of a 2021 hellcat ram road truck, but right now that is for a quad cab truck. The Rebel TRX is supposed to be hellcat powered but it's a raptor competitor. I will say this though - a buddy of mine just bought an TrackHawk Gran Cherokee, and if you don't need a bed that's kind of the next best thing to a muscle truck.

the mall stands no chance......:gabe:

J/k, looks great.

https://gizmodo.com/uber-employee-warned-self-driving-cars-are-routinely-in-1831019048

“The cars are routinely in accidents resulting in damage,” Miller wrote in the email published by the Information: “This is usually the result of poor behavior of the operator or the AV technology. A car was damaged nearly every other day in February. We shouldn’t be hitting things every 15,000 miles. Repeated infractions for poor driving rarely results in termination. Several of the drivers appear to not have been properly vetted or trained.”

 

Less than a week after Miller reportedly sent that email, on the night of March 18, an Uber vehicle operating autonomously with a human driver behind the wheel struck and killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, who was crossing a street with her bicycle.

Ruh-Ro Raggy

So the 40 whatever year old morbidly obese man who shoved his family in an apartment calls everyone who disagrees with him ignorant. You cannot make this shit up :lolguy:

No, just you. because you are.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ignorance

Definition of ignorance

: the state or fact of being ignorant : lack of knowledge, education, or awareness

checks out.

It's a lot easier to just call people NPCs and make "orange man bad" memes than it is to actually pay attention to the world. Or maybe Trump defenders are OK with long term damage to our country as long as it really pisses off the libs.

As long as they can pretend to call themselves libertarian without actually knowing anything about libertarian-ism they are perfectly fine with everything. Nothing going on is "bad" if you think the government is the problem. :dumb:

You would think a government benefit recipient would care more about the .gov but hey, this is america - we have all kinds of ignorance.

Cancer doesn't care how healthy and fit you are. Sickle Cell, Huntington's disease, Crohn's disease, hemophilia, Muscular dystrophy, and the literally thousands of other genetic diseases that are out there don't care how healthy your lifestyle is - they will still fuck you up. collectively the rare diseases alone affect 30 million people in the US

Let's not forget that in addition to the elderly, there are a lot of people in need of expensive treatment that just prolongs life. Even if a "healthy lifestyle" did reduce costs (and I am not saying it does), it wouldn't be a significant enough reduction to "fix" healtcare costs.

greg is hitting all the high points here. I will just add living a healthy lifestyle is another one of those things that is good personal philosophy but lousy to try to use to make public policy.

....but most of the country is completely uninterested in solving them.

the only part I will disagree with is this one. I think MOST of the country have an interest in solving them, BUT they have not made the connection between the election cycle and government action on these issues. Trump takes a lot of heat for not having any solutions to these issues, causing some of them, and not believing others exist - but it's the american people who put him in office by not showing up to the polls. I feel like this is an education and managing expectations problem in this country - they cant connect cause and action when they are expecting fast change and the process is much slower.

I do agree that this ""Trumps not doing a bad job because I don't feel it right now" has to go. Political policy is the long game, not a short one. We currently are still feeling effects from President Reagan's time in office on some issues (mostly education and healthcare) and that was 30+ years ago. Brandon may not be feeling it now in his 20's but in his 40's or 60's? unless something is done it's gonna hurt, and will he even know why or make the connection to the origin of the problem?

One thing I'll add here....if you can, try to get the old timers in to tell stories. The 60's match racers are mostly dead and what few left are on borrowed time. It would be nice to get a recorded oral history of some of those guys before they are all gone. We lost Tom "the mongoose" Mcewen this year and I always thought an interview with him and Prudhome telling stories of the old snake and mongoose rivalry would have been great.

Danny "on the gas" Ongais is still alive and I betcha he'd be interesting since he was an a/fx racer that went to the Indy 500, and the only Hawaiian to do it. I think Bill Mitchell is still alive and his VW/Porsche dragsters being banned from the NHRA I think would be an interesting story.

I still stand by my decision at that time, given Hillary as the alternative.

 

It’s just....I didn’t think....he could be sooo bad...

He fooled a lot of people who genuinely want change in this country.

The ones I worry about are those who believe this is a witch hunt and that he is still doing a great job. Or worse those that know he's a mess and are ok with it because fuck the government. That's some serious delusion, because in America the people are the government, so anything that fuck .gov fucks us over.

https://www.apnews.com/7a5a0eb3f15c4f4a9f7fd34680c1bc68

 

Just a reminder, that significant turnover within the first 2 years of a presidential administration - often with multiple new people in several posts - are the hallmark signs of a healthy presidency.

 

Can we slow down the greatness a bit? I’m having a tough time digesting all the #MAGA.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/2251016002

Remember you thought this was better than the alternative enough to vote for this. The warning signs were there.

How's Europe doing? Socialism and open borders working out well for them?

Actually quite well for them, considering they have had open borders for thousands of years and are social democrats and not the scary hide in your closet Russian "communist" type socialists that are really just dictatorships.

They do teach world history in Ohio public schools right? why are you so bad at history?

Spoken like a tried and true liberal. Not too much respect for the job,if getting “blowies” or setting them up was o. Work time. The Clinton’s seem to have a good moral compass. Blatantly lying about it profusely helped point that compass. Lovely people, I’m sure you adore them.

What the fuck are you on about? You pull your usual whataboutism nonsense of "well what about the clintons" and I say ok well what about them in the context of 2019? Bill was tried as much as one can be for a sitting president, was found guilty (of pergury by the way) and impeached. Not defending him at all, but as unsatisfactory as justice was in that case he hasn't held a public office since and he's really not relevant for this conversation. But you seem to be dead set on saying two wrongs make a right - if Clinton did it then who cares about trump...is that really what you want to say?

By the way, still waiting for the list of actually crimes committed by Hillary Clinton during her tenure as Secretary of State. Something tells me that I'm never going to see that from you though because it's likely fiction. Nobody is saying you have to like the clintons but have a little respect for yourself and at least try to say things based in fact.

As far as putting people in cages , the media never shows where they cam from. I will bet the the facilities they are put in in 100 maybe 1000 times better than where they came. And they are getting fed regularly, something that didn't happen before.

 

And most of the illegals say they want to get away from gang violence, but where will 99% end up..in the ghettos near violence and more than likely gang violence.

 

As far as the donald, yea he tried to cover up affairs to become president, and it is illegal and should be dealt with by congress and/or in the courts.

 

So you asked the question , are we a nation of laws, so it's fine to let people into the country illegally without consequence??

You are putting me on with this garbage. This has to be a joke.

And Hillary Clinton not probably, but definitely did commit felonies as Secretary of State.

Can you name them? Specifically list them and source the ones she was actually accused, tried, and convicted of in any kind of government action. This is a serious question, I am genuinely curious.

Her husband lied profusely about sexual relationships while in the office of the president. These people are better in your opinion though.

yeah it's a pretty well known and accepted fact, but he also saw his day in court and was penalized for it. Was it enough? who is to say (in the modern era of me too, probably not), but it's not like he didn't have his day in court.

A more important question is do you think the crime of using your position of power to get a blowie the moral equivalent of what ever DJT is currently going to be on trial for?

Plus Jeremy Clarkson owned one, so they've gotta be good

You misspelled Richard Hammond.

Harvard University Study Reveals Astonishing Link Between Firearms, Crime and Gun Control

 

/clickbait

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/harvard-flaw-review/

Fake news, but can't expect much from those crap religious sites

Iirc, the body is aluminum so rust will not be a problem.

The doors hood and front fenders are aluminum, the rest of the body is steel. It's supposed to be galvanized steel but porsche didn't really step up their galvanizing game until 1987 so it's not uncommon to see really rotted ones.

Thes 928s are really spectacular cars. Forget the LS swap, take your time and work through all the issues the Porsche v8 is going to throw at you - it's going to be a lot but nothing is hard and once done the car will be super reliable.

While I am usually an autolol guy too, the fact that you have a 928 at all is special. There is a group here in columbus called the buckeye landsharks, they are tight knit and only touch these cars, there always seems to be at least one member at cars and coffee in the summer. http://www.928buckeyelandsharks.com/

the thing about the 928 is, in the era that it was produced there weren't a lot of 150mph all day grand tourers being made. It was basically this car, the jaguar xjs, Astonmartin V8 vantage, and the Ferrari Dino 308 GT4 and that is pretty much it until 1984 when the testarossa and c4 corvette came along (and neither of those had back seats). So it is in good company.

As a racecar, the 928 made a better endurance racer and long distance road rally car than a hardcore sprint racer. As a street car this translates to a good "Adventure car" to take long distance high speed trips with and just have fun.

so if the temp is below freezing, are you really going to be washing your car? Feels like you are just inviting stuff to freeze, even with hot water once you are done washing it, unless you are installing one of those car wash high powered fans in your garage to blow it dry as well.

Also, hitting icy cold windows with hot water is not super great for it.

If you want to wash the salt off the undercarrage I feel like this is the better move:

just do it and then drive the car around for 30 min so stuff doesn't freeze up.