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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 4, 2021 • 4:24:47pm

Repost from downstairs:

I see Politico is trying to stir the pot wrt. the lawyer who resigned from this State dept. advisory position. He resigned because of the Administrations policy of dealing with migrants at the border.

Morally I agree that the US ought not turn away people seeking asylum.

But, I also think the real issue is that of failed states.

Haiti is a failed state.

We can’t go on pretending that our neighbors who are failing are just not there.

Trump failed because he is malicious and incompetent.

Biden is not malicious and he has a degree of competence. But politically he knows that the easiest and fastest way for the GOP to regain control is fear-mongering over immigrants.

Still, Haiti needs to be addressed. Long standing issues in Guatemala and El Salvador need to be addressed.

We can’t pretend that when states fail elsewhere that we an escape the consequences.

This goes for Syria too.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 4, 2021 • 4:26:50pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 4, 2021 • 4:28:22pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 4, 2021 • 4:28:27pm

What the US needs to do:

Re-energize the OAS. Make it more prominent. Cajole the states who are willing to show up to take the issue of failed states in the Americas more seriously.

Take the case of Haiti to the OAS. We need to be very strong on this. We can’t allow for huge camps of desperate people to linger on in Haiti. Not only do Haitians try to flee via Mexico, but they are taking to rafts or dodgy boats, drifting at sea.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 4, 2021 • 4:33:57pm

Biden needs to put the Western Hemisphere in the front of the line in foreign policy again.

Remember that big expose that came out about money hiding?

It was only yesterday… and already it’s out of memory.

But a big problem in the Americas is that many nations (including the US) help leaders be autocrats who hide money. Belize, British Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Caymans, etc - all these small states are just tools for wealthy leaders to squirrel away their nations’ wealth.

Corruption is a serious problem in many state, not the least of which is Mexico.

And given that the next largest state in the Americas is currently run by a fascistic nut job, the problem of rallying South American actors to be more responsible becomes all the more harder.

Immigration scare-mongering is the GOP’s ace-in-the-hole. Not abortion - that is the wedge tool to leverage the god-botherers.

Scaring old white folk about masses of brown people invading is still the most powerful political tool available to the Trumpist GOP.

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piratedan  Oct 4, 2021 • 4:35:52pm

re: #3 Dread Pirate Ron

wasn’t me…. so there.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 4, 2021 • 4:41:31pm

re: #4 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

What the US needs to do:

Re-energize the OAS. Make it more prominent. Cajole the states who are willing to show up to take the issue of failed states in the Americas more seriously.

Take the case of Haiti to the OAS. We need to be very strong on this. We can’t allow for huge camps of desperate people to linger on in Haiti. Not only do Haitians try to flee via Mexico, but they are taking to rafts or dodgy boats, drifting at sea.

I remember when the 2000 election turned on a woman who died fleeing Cuba with her son — and the government returned the son to Cuba because that’s where his father lived and his father wanted him back. So Haitians fleeing disaster are not welcome but Cubans fleeing a less than optimal economy are?

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William Lewis  Oct 4, 2021 • 4:43:41pm

re: #7 Hecuba’s daughter

I remember when the 2000 election turned on a woman who died fleeing Cuba with her son — and the government returned the son to Cuba because that’s where his father lived and his father wanted him back. So Haitians fleeing disaster are not welcome but Cubans fleeing a less than optimal economy are?

They’re fleeing Commies so of course they’re ok. And they vote Republican! Who knows what those others would do?

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sagehen  Oct 4, 2021 • 4:44:41pm

re: #7 Hecuba’s daughter

I remember when the 2000 election turned on a woman who died fleeing Cuba with her son — and the government returned the son to Cuba because that’s where his father lived and his father wanted him back. So Haitians fleeing disaster are not welcome but Cubans fleeing a less than optimal economy are?

Because Castro.

wet foot dry foot.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 4, 2021 • 4:45:32pm

re: #9 sagehen

Because Castro.

wet foot dry foot.

Yes — I know — but it remains the height of hypocrisy.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 4, 2021 • 4:50:13pm

Yes, racism is blatant in American politics. Remember when Trump wished immigrants were more like Norwegians and yet referred to Africa as a “shithole”? Trump wasn’t speaking just for himself - he knew he was speaking for millions of Americans.

Anyway, the problem isn’t just one of racism. It is too easy in the US to just ignore what is happening elsewhere.

We are only seeing the beginnings of what the rest of the 21st century will bring. All small island states are destined for problems. The US will be seen as the destination to which to flee for all the Caribbean states.

As much as I respect Biden for his idealism in personal fidelity and propriety in office, the world is careening into very big problems related to population and climate change. Migrations are part of being human and we are human because of migrations. That is going to be even more pressing over the next century.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 4, 2021 • 4:52:16pm

re: #2 Dread Pirate Ron

But will he? I doubt it. I’d love to see it though.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 4, 2021 • 4:55:22pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 4, 2021 • 4:57:49pm

This afternoon compiled a list of things I have as targets/goals/requirements for the rest of my life (its a retirement thing I guess.)

To do them I need more money.

PowerBall anyone?

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nines09  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:01:42pm

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:02:00pm

re: #14 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

How much is in the Powerball Pot?

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:03:46pm
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PhillyPretzel  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:04:10pm

re: #16 PhillyPretzel

Never mind. My app from the PA Lottery says that it is: 685,000,000.

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Jay C  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:04:42pm

re: #16 PhillyPretzel

How much is in the Powerball Pot?

$635M?

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EPR-radar  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:05:36pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

It’s always such a surprise to get a real thunderstorm in CA at/near the coast.

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Rightwingconspirator  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:06:08pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

Pssst. It’s so rare here, let me drop this link.

lightningmaps.org

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:06:11pm
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PhillyPretzel  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:06:33pm

re: #19 Jay C

Both my PA Lottery app and the Powerball website say $685,000,000.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:06:39pm

re: #14 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

This afternoon compiled a list of things I have as targets/goals/requirements for the rest of my life (its a retirement thing I guess.)

To do them I need more money.

PowerBall anyone?

Have you looked into the exciting world of shoelace repair?

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jaunte  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:11:26pm

“We’re dissolving Civic Integrity.”
—Facebook

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JOE 🥓  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:11:29pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

FINALLY!

Rain, Lightning and Thunder here in Koreatown just a little earlier than the usual start of the rainy season which starts around Columbus Day!

Got caught walking home in the rain. May this be a start of a good rainy season that we really need!

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Rightwingconspirator  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:13:38pm

Pretty good lightshow off LAX/Santa Monica

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makeitstop  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:13:40pm

Hi

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Decatur Deb  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:13:44pm

re: #25 jaunte

“We’re dissolving Civic Integrity.”
—Facebook

Is that their new motto?

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:14:10pm
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jaunte  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:14:18pm

re: #29 Decatur Deb

As quoted by Haugen in the interview.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:15:41pm

re: #31 jaunte

As quoted by Haugen in the interview.

Villains who are self-aware make for better drama.

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jaunte  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:16:47pm

re: #32 Decatur Deb

I think they were just referring to the department in an internal bureaucratic way, so maybe not.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:17:20pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

re: #26 JOE 🥓

re: #27 Rightwingconspirator

Philly is supposed to get some thunderstorms this evening into the very early morning.
forecast.weather.gov

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Rightwingconspirator  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:17:44pm

FTR Cats hate thunder. I’ll bet the Doggos do too

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Decatur Deb  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:18:18pm

re: #33 jaunte

I think they were just referring to the department in an internal bureaucratic way, so maybe not.

That’s a shame. I could see Zuckerberg as a great Iago.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:19:20pm

I updated the post with a followup video about Facebook’s effect in foreign countries, in case you hadn’t noticed it yet.

I’ve long tried to bring people’s attention to the alliances being forged among fascist parties in Europe and the American far right, and Facebook turns out to be one of their main facilitators.

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William Lewis  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:19:47pm

So I was driving home last night and decided to see just how sensitive the sensor on my Leica is. Just past midnight. Overcast. The moon set hours before even sundown.

ISO 6400. 50/1.5 at f/1.5, 8 second exposure.

I was actually pretty pleased with that view, all things considered!

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:21:40pm
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Rightwingconspirator  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:21:42pm

re: #38 William Lewis

Wow. Did you try longer?

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Dangerman  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:21:43pm
The Supreme Court rejected an effort to give Washington, D.C., residents a voting member in Congress, the Washington Post reports.

“No one has satisfactorily explained why Americans who live overseas may continue to vote for senators and members of Congress in the states from which they moved, even if that state does not consider them to be state residents — but an American who moves to their nation’s capital loses their voting representation in Congress entirely.”

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Rightwingconspirator  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:22:47pm

So far the lightning is all around the valley. Nothing out west here

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:23:08pm
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William Lewis  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:23:30pm

re: #40 Rightwingconspirator

Wow. Did you try longer?

That was the auto exposure mode, hand held. I am going to have to dig around looking for my tripod and see what I can get that way.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:23:39pm

re: #37 Charles Johnson

I updated the post with a followup video about Facebook’s effect in foreign countries, in case you hadn’t noticed it yet.

I’ve long tried to bring people’s attention to the alliances being forged among fascist parties in Europe and the American far right, and Facebook turns out to be one of their main facilitators.

With just the money Zuck is reported to have lost today, he could have bought two new Seawolf-class submarines. No problem there.

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EPR-radar  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:23:55pm

re: #41 Dangerman

“No one has satisfactorily explained why Americans who live overseas may continue to vote for senators and members of Congress in the states from which they moved, even if that state does not consider them to be state residents — but an American who moves to their nation’s capital loses their voting representation in Congress entirely.”

The explanation is as simple as it is cynical — Republicans, including the SCOTUS majority, oppose representation for DC because it would reduce their power.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:26:28pm

re: #38 William Lewis

So I was driving home last night and decided to see just how sensitive the sensor on my Leica is. Just past midnight. Overcast. The moon set hours before even sundown.

ISO 6400. 50/1.5 at f/1.5, 8 second exposure.

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I was actually pretty pleased with that view, all things considered!

Nice to see that capability, when you grew up on Plus-X. With the money we didn’t spend on this year’s trip, I might buy a decent digital.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:27:25pm

Speaking of money…..

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gocart mozart  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:28:04pm
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Dangerman  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:28:07pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:30:36pm

re: #49 gocart mozart

I hope that northern New York state gets sick enough of her grandstanding and Trumpism to get rid of her. Unfortunately I expect it won’t happen, or that she’ll get primaried by someone even nuttier.

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William Lewis  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:32:20pm

re: #47 Decatur Deb

This is a 2012 sensor at that.

Get a Nikon Z (the Z50 is exquisite while still reasonably priced ) and it’ll be far far better. I’m just a sucker for rangefinders and the lenses they take.

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Dangerman  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:34:31pm

Every single lizard has already posted this, right?

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Decatur Deb  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:35:02pm

re: #52 William Lewis

This is a 2012 sensor at that.

Get a Nikon Z (the Z50 is exquisite while still reasonably priced ) and it’ll be far far better. I’m just a sucker for rangefinders and the lenses they take.

Looking at a Nikon, but that would be like becoming a Republican. Bought my first Canon R series SLR in 1962. Still have it, and a lifetime of Canon glass that fits nothing new.

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Rightwingconspirator  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:40:59pm

re: #54 Decatur Deb

Looking at a Nikon, but that would be like becoming a Republican. Bought my first Canon R series SLR in 1962. Still have it, and a lifetime of Canon glass that fits nothing new.

Right. Especially since mirrorless.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:41:16pm
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Decatur Deb  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:41:18pm

re: #48 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Speaking of money…..

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nowherenorth2  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:42:10pm

re: #49 gocart mozart

I’m in her district. The local online news site posts her promotional shit as headline news. It is not awesome

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JC1  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:42:50pm

re: #54 Decatur Deb

Looking at a Nikon, but that would be like becoming a Republican. Bought my first Canon R series SLR in 1962. Still have it, and a lifetime of Canon glass that fits nothing new.

No lens adapters available? Which mount do your lenses use?

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Decatur Deb  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:43:19pm

re: #55 Rightwingconspirator

Right. Especially since mirrorless.

Been playing around with the idea of using an old Nikon PB-4 bellows (swings and tilts) to create a micro-field camera.

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William Lewis  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:45:05pm

re: #54 Decatur Deb

Looking at a Nikon, but that would be like becoming a Republican. Bought my first Canon R series SLR in 1962. Still have it, and a lifetime of Canon glass that fits nothing new.

I love Canon right up to the last EOS film cameras. But I couldn’t afford the jump to digital and went Olympus m4/3 for a long time and then gave Nikon a try. Now I’m back to Leica and looking at old Canon rangefinder glass again :D

EOS R is probably just as good but I love using old manual focus Nikkor lenses on my Nikon digital body.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:46:09pm

re: #59 JC1

No lens adapters available? Which mount do your lenses use?

R, FD, FL. They mount to Nikon and Sony easier than to Canon EOS.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:46:36pm
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darthstar  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:51:34pm

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Belafon  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:51:50pm

re: #63 Charles Johnson

Just because I could.

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William Lewis  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:51:55pm

re: #62 Decatur Deb

R, FD, FL. They mount to Nikon and Sony easier than to Canon EOS.

EOS was meant to be a clean break and that’s why Canon AF glass is superior to Nikon after playing second fiddle to them for decades. But it really hurt dedicated Canon shooters.

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Belafon  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:53:03pm

re: #65 Belafon

Reload

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jaunte  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:53:05pm

re: #64 darthstar

God thinking “he’ll probably dodge the right direction” as he presses the accelerator.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:55:19pm
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Decatur Deb  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:55:56pm

re: #66 William Lewis

EOS was meant to be a clean break and that’s why Canon AF glass is superior to Nikon after playing second fiddle to them for decades. But it really hurt dedicated Canon shooters.

The 1960 R lenses mount and work on Canons (preset mode) up through 1990’s A1/F1. Loved them for that.

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jaunte  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:57:27pm

en.wikipedia.org

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:59:08pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2021 • 5:59:12pm

re: #65 Belafon

I’m thinking it could be the Crocker Bank building.

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:01:16pm

re: #71 jaunte

Very Well Done. I hope and pray he wins.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:01:18pm
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Rightwingconspirator  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:03:06pm

re: #73 Charles Johnson

I’m thinking it could be the Crocker Bank building.

Or one of the tall buildings up on Grand. By MOCA

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sagehen  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:05:48pm

re: #48 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Speaking of money…..

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Is a ‘66 Mustang convertible one that carries a high price? That’s my dream car.

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:05:49pm

re: #49 gocart mozart

@EliseStefanik
*
Oct 4, 2021
🚨🚨🚨

How Joe Biden & the Democrats Stole Christmas.

Fire Fauci.
Fire Pelosi.
Fire JOE BIDEN.

Save Christmas🎄
Save America 🇺🇸

Someone tell her not to worry — he’ll be too busy celebrating the Feast of the Nativity, an important holiday in his religion, to pay much attention to her consumerfest.

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darthstar  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:07:59pm

I’m sorry, but I still can’t get over the fact that the facebook whistleblower is Reese Witherspoon.

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darthstar  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:09:07pm

re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth

Shorter: Don’t visit Cleveland.

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The Squire of Logos  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:09:43pm

re: #77 sagehen
A good rule of thumb for one that is pretty well restored is about $35-45K. A bit rich for my blood but a pretty cool ride.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:10:20pm
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William Lewis  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:10:26pm

re: #78 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

Someone tell her not to worry — he’ll be too busy celebrating the Feast of the Nativity, an important holiday in his religion, to pay much attention to her consumerfest.

Holy day of obligation. Something she’d find utterly alien.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:11:05pm

re: #77 sagehen

Is a ‘66 Mustang convertible one that carries a high price? That’s my dream car.

Wife and I dated in her silver 66 Fastback. She sold it to follow me back to NYC. That’s when I new she was serious.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:11:25pm

re: #65 Belafon

A city capable of generating Force Lightning should be respected.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:11:34pm
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William Lewis  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:11:55pm

re: #70 Decatur Deb

The 1960 R lenses mount and work on Canons (preset mode) up through 1990’s A1/F1. Loved them for that.

I’ve got my eye on an early 50’s Canon 50/1.5 lens. It’s a Sonnar type in Leica Thread Mount and would be a marvelous companion for my digital Leica.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:14:35pm
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HypnoToad  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:14:46pm

I got Pfizer #3 this morning; only barely perceptible soreness in my arm so far. I’m very glad I was able to get it, the pharm tech at CVS told me that they were going to run out of their allotment late today or tomorrow, and I’m starting jury duty in two weeks.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:15:51pm

re: #87 William Lewis

I’ve got my eye on an early 50’s Canon 50/1.5 lens. It’s a Sonnar type in Leica Thread Mount and would be a marvelous companion for my digital Leica.

The Kwanon Camera company spent the ’50s on a serious ripoff of Leica. I think it started during the war as Nazi licensing.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:16:04pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:16:58pm
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William Lewis  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:21:09pm

re: #90 Decatur Deb

The Kwanon Camera company spent the ’50s on a serious ripoff of Leica. I think it started during the war.

Before the war. I have a copy of Peter Dechert’s definitive monograph on the history of Canon rangefinders.

If I ever get tempted to go back to the dark side of film, it will be by a Canon P rangefinder like this:

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Decatur Deb  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:21:23pm

re: #90 Decatur Deb

The Kwanon Camera company spent the ’50s on a serious ripoff of Leica. I think it started during the war as Nazi licensing.

Started even earlier, 1934.
global.canon

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:22:06pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:23:11pm
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The Squire of Logos  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:23:21pm

re: #95 Charles Johnson

You’re not holding your breath on that are you? I mean, at least them telling what *really* happened.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:24:28pm
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Decatur Deb  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:26:32pm

re: #97 The Squire of Logos

You’re not holding your breath on that are you? I mean, at least them telling what *really* happened.

Facebook communicates largely by whistleblower.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:26:32pm
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A Cranky One  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:28:07pm

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A Cranky One  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:29:28pm

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:30:25pm

re: #77 sagehen

Is a ‘66 Mustang convertible one that carries a high price? That’s my dream car.

I’m not an expert but here’s one at Hemmings priced at $39,995

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Decatur Deb  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:31:26pm

re: #103 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

About $2,600 new, IIRC.

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jaunte  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:31:46pm

re: #103 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

My best friend in high school had one that looked just like that. He saved me from the bus for a couple of years.

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Cheechako  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:31:53pm

Nothing positive to look at:

Alaska reports 2nd highest COVID-19 hospitalizations tally and nearly 2,300 cases over the weekend

On Monday, Alaska reported 2,290 new cases: 1,405 on Friday, 781 on Saturday and 409 on Sunday among residents, plus another 55 nonresident cases. Alaska’s per-capita case rate over the past seven days remains the highest in the country, according to CDC data.

Staff at the hospital (Fairbanks Memorial Hospital) are treating their youngest COVID-19 patient to date, who was just 14 days old on Monday and had pulmonary disease requiring steroid and antiviral treatment as well as oxygen, she said.

On Monday, 9.5% of tests returned positive results based on a 7-day rolling average, which is nearly double the state’s target of a 5% positivity rate.

Of Alaskans ages 12 and older 63.4% had received their first dose of the vaccine Monday while 61.5% were considered fully vaccinated.

A major part of the problem:

Gov. Mike Dunleavy and Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson have made it clear they will not enact new restrictions to curtail the spread of the virus.

So far, there have been 113,037 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Alaska. The 2020 Census count has 733,391 residents in the State.

Therefore, 1 in just over every 6 Alaskans have had a confirmed case of Covid-19.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:33:34pm

WHY IS THIS RACIST STILL ON THE FEDERAL PAYROLL?

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A Cranky One  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:34:33pm

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William Lewis  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:35:45pm

re: #103 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Pretty enough but this was a far better ride to me:

Give me a bowtie any day ;)

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Rightwingconspirator  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:37:32pm
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William Lewis  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:40:51pm

Bwahahahah!

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:41:33pm

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sagehen  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:42:30pm

re: #110 Rightwingconspirator

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So is it dropping rain where it’s needed? Or just lightning strikes setting off fires?

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:42:35pm

In 1985 I inherited my brother’s 1971 Plymouth Valiant. He sold it to me for a dollar. Someone set fire to it outside his shitty apartment in Philadelphia and thereafter most of the dashboard wiring was fried: no speedometer, no odometer, no radio, no heat, no nothing. I had to guess how far I had driven to make sure I had enough gas. When I took a left turn the engine cut off. I had to pump the brakes four times for them to engage. I got good at throwing it into neutral to start the engine mid-turn without panicking my passenger by pumping the brakes. The lights and turn signals worked, generally. I never got a ticket. I sold it for $100 and then went to Japan for two years, blessedly not needing insurance for a good long time.

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Belafon  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:42:37pm

re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth

Senator Sinema graciously agreed to a photo, but declined all questions, saying she does not negotiate in public…

Which is why she won’t stay in the Senate.

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JOE 🥓  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:43:19pm

Nobody may deviate from what the Party Commands!

Chamber of Commerce caves to GOP over infrastructure bill after getting booted off strategy calls

According to Axios, the Chamber caved into the GOP, pulling its support of the infrastructure deal that Republicans in the Senate have already passed.

rawstory.com

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Rightwingconspirator  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:44:24pm

re: #113 sagehen

So is it dropping rain where it’s needed? Or just lightning strikes setting off fires?

Kinda both this time. Depends on your exact area.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:45:08pm

re: #109 William Lewis

Pretty enough but this was a far better ride to me:

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Give me a bowtie any day ;)

When I was a kid, everybody’s dad in our little town was either a Chevy guy, a Ford guy, or a Dodge guy. Oh, sure, there were outliers like the bank president and his Cadillacs, and total weirdos like the high school drama teacher who drove a Renault Dauphine or the Dairy Queen manager who polluted the streets with a Rambler, but the Big Three mostly were the Big Three. My dad was a staunch Chevy man. I already have his ‘41 Chevy pickup, which has been in the family since it was new.

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Cheechako  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:45:46pm

My ride in the early ‘70’s: (Not actually my car but one exactly like it.)

1966 GTO
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Rightwingconspirator  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:46:11pm

re: #118 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

When I was a kid, everybody’s dad in our little town was either a Chevy guy, a Ford guy, or a Dodge guy. Oh, sure, there were outliers like the bank president and his Cadillacs, and total weirdos like the high school drama teacher who drove a Renault Dauphine or the Dairy Queen manager who polluted the streets with a Rambler, but the Big Three mostly were the Big Three. My dad was a staunch Chevy man. I already have his ‘41 Chevy pickup, which has been in the family since it was new.

In High School I got no cool points for driving an MGB GT

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Decatur Deb  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:48:12pm

re: #119 Cheechako

My ride in the early ‘70’s: (Not actually my car but one exactly like it.)

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Super hot car. Always associate it with a WAC in our section, who bore those initials.

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William Lewis  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:50:02pm

re: #118 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

When I was a kid, everybody’s dad in our little town was either a Chevy guy, a Ford guy, or a Dodge guy. Oh, sure, there were outliers like the bank president and his Cadillacs, and total weirdos like the high school drama teacher who drove a Renault Dauphine or the Dairy Queen manager who polluted the streets with a Rambler, but the Big Three mostly were the Big Three. My dad was a staunch Chevy man. I already have his ‘41 Chevy pickup, which has been in the family since it was new.

Yep, it was that way around here too. I remember finding old Chevy trucks back in the woods and most of the cars that floated through were GM products with the exception of my mother’s first hot sports car - a Plymouth Sport Fury with a 383 & a four barrel that I never did find out how fast it could go (she chickened out at 120. I did at 130 when the front started lifting off the road). Her Trans Am was a much better fast car - handled better and was just all around better at serious speed.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:50:24pm

re: #118 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

When I was a kid, everybody’s dad in our little town was either a Chevy guy, a Ford guy, or a Dodge guy. Oh, sure, there were outliers like the bank president and his Cadillacs, and total weirdos like the high school drama teacher who drove a Renault Dauphine or the Dairy Queen manager who polluted the streets with a Rambler, but the Big Three mostly were the Big Three. My dad was a staunch Chevy man. I already have his ‘41 Chevy pickup, which has been in the family since it was new.

I was born and raised in Motown. The very first new car I bought was a 1986 Ford Escort. After that I went owned/leased a series of GM vehicles, then back to Ford products since 2011. My current lease ends soon, I am turning it in for a new Lincoln Corsair.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:51:10pm

re: #120 Rightwingconspirator

In High School I got no cool points for driving an MGB GT

A friend of mine in college had one of those. I thought it was cool, actually liked it better than the roadster. He locked the key in it while it was running one night. Had to summon the locksmith.
I’ve never owned an MG. Did have a Triumph TR-6 for a while though.

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William Lewis  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:51:40pm

re: #120 Rightwingconspirator

In High School I got no cool points for driving an MGB GT

Drool. I lusted after Triumphs.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:52:09pm

I also think it’s kinda weird for Lincoln to name a car after a pirate ship, but people were getting confused with random letter combinations like MKC, MKX, MKT.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:52:54pm

re: #120 Rightwingconspirator

In High School I got no cool points for driving an MGB GT

My brother’s first car (in high school) was an MG (midget?). My dad tolerated a lot of oil on our driveway.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:52:57pm

re: #126 The Pie Overlord!

I also think it’s kinda weird for Lincoln to name a car after a pirate ship, but people were getting confused with random letter combinations like MKC, MKX, MKT.

“Corsair” is a name they resurrected from the infamous Edsel line.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:53:55pm

re: #124 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

A friend of mine in college had one of those. I thought it was cool, actually liked it better than the roadster. He locked the key in it while it was running one night. Had to summon the locksmith.
I’ve never owned an MG. Did have a Triumph TR-6 for a while though.

Had the pre-1980 MG Midget. Had to take the seat base out to lever 6’1” into it. For six months I couldn’t find a starter, but could push-start it on flat ground.

130
Dave In Austin  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:54:14pm

How about a palette cleanser…. Sport!

333 rats destroyed ratting with terriers

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Cheechako  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:55:44pm

re: #121 Decatur Deb

Super hot car. Always associate it with a WAC in our section, who bore those initials.

Actually a great ride. It needed new tires after I bought it. I had been reading about the new fangeled steel belted radial tires and ordered the first set ever sent to Oregon. Those radials along, with the “wide track spacing” made that car stick to road like glue.
I could take a wide 90 degree corner at 50 MPH. No skidding, no sliding, just stuck to the road.

132
The Pie Overlord!  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:56:15pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:57:42pm

re: #128 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

“Corsair” is a name they resurrected from the infamous Edsel line.

7 listings for Edsel Corsair at Hemmings.

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Rightwingconspirator  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:58:32pm

re: #124 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

A friend of mine in college had one of those. I thought it was cool, actually liked it better than the roadster. He locked the key in it while it was running one night. Had to summon the locksmith.
I’ve never owned an MG. Did have a Triumph TR-6 for a while though.

The funny thing is a friend took me to a British Auto show in Oxnard over the weekend. He drove a TR8, which of course in the little v8 engine. But it rumbles nice.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 4, 2021 • 6:59:00pm

Best car I ever had, not including my current ride, was a 1990 Grand Prix. So sweet, all you had to do was touch the gas to make it jump. I was so sad when GM discontinued the Pontiac brand.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 4, 2021 • 7:01:48pm

What in the literal bejesusing fuck is this fucked up shit?

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(((Archangel1)))  Oct 4, 2021 • 7:02:49pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 4, 2021 • 7:05:26pm

So I go out, as is my custom, in the evening to walk to the store. Suddenly there is lightening, getting closer. I decide to head home instead of finishing my trip.

As I turn the corner big drops started to fall, then more, a some tiny hail. Then the deluge.

I get home soon enough to escape most of the rain but am still soaked.

Looked at the radar - very spotty coverage. A thunderstorm yes. But the radar indicates mostly light rain, yet there is one tiny red pixel indicating the most severe part of the storm, barely noticeable.

I was under that little red pixel.

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(((Archangel1)))  Oct 4, 2021 • 7:07:28pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 4, 2021 • 7:07:31pm

re: #138 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So I go out, as is my custom, in the evening to walk to the store. Suddenly there is lightening, getting closer. I decide to head home instead of finishing my trip.

As I turn the corner big drops started to fall, then more, a some tiny hail. Then the deluge.

I get home soon enough to escape most of the rain but am still soaked.

Looked at the radar - very spotty coverage. A thunderstorm yes. But the radar indicates mostly light raing, yet there is one tiny red pixel indicating the most severe part of the storm, barely noticeable.

I was under that little red pixel.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 4, 2021 • 7:09:28pm

re: #139 (((Archangel1)))

When the eruption was young (as in that video) some of the photographers and drone videographers were doing all sorts of rather dangerous stuff.

IIRC, some people lost drones.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 4, 2021 • 7:11:05pm

re: #118 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

When I was a kid, everybody’s dad in our little town was either a Chevy guy, a Ford guy, or a Dodge guy. Oh, sure, there were outliers like the bank president and his Cadillacs, and total weirdos like the high school drama teacher who drove a Renault Dauphine or the Dairy Queen manager who polluted the streets with a Rambler, but the Big Three mostly were the Big Three. My dad was a staunch Chevy man. I already have his ‘41 Chevy pickup, which has been in the family since it was new.

Growing up the family cars were usually the following:
1) Station wagon - usually a Pontiac. Mainstay for family travel since it could tow the pop-up camper and carry a canoe on top.

2) Secondary vehicle.
Initially this was a TR3 that my father drove about on weekends. I recall once driving with him from eastern Indiana down to Cincinnati in it to see a baseball game when I was five or so.

Once my mother started to work again and also attend graduate school classes the second family car was a something of greater utility. Initially a Opel (a 1968 Kadett B perhaps?), then later a Datsun B210.

By the time I was graduating high school and learning to drive the utility car was a Buick Skylark. And at about this time the station wagon went away and was replaced with a Plymouth Arrow pickup truck - which was essentially a Mitsubishi L200 under a Chrysler name.*

The last was the car I essentially bought off my father in 1988 as my first car when I moved from western PA to northern VA to start my first IT job.

* - And we got it right when Lee Iacocca was in the middle of his big “Buy American” spiel as he tried to save Chrysler.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 4, 2021 • 7:12:13pm
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Belafon  Oct 4, 2021 • 7:16:10pm

re: #138 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So I go out, as is my custom, in the evening to walk to the store. Suddenly there is lightening, getting closer. I decide to head home instead of finishing my trip.

As I turn the corner big drops started to fall, then more, a some tiny hail. Then the deluge.

I get home soon enough to escape most of the rain but am still soaked.

Looked at the radar - very spotty coverage. A thunderstorm yes. But the radar indicates mostly light rain, yet there is one tiny red pixel indicating the most severe part of the storm, barely noticeable.

I was under that little red pixel.

On Saturday, my son’s high school band had a competition. I am helping with props along with some other dads. We were practicing at the high school when the tail end of a squall line formed right over the school and just dumped on us, and it lasted about 30 minutes. We were afraid that we weren’t going to make it to the competition on time, and they told the band director that we would not be allowed to be late since it wasn’t affecting anywhere else. Luckily it cleared up after about 30 minutes, and we made it on time.

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A Mom Anon  Oct 5, 2021 • 3:46:02am

re: #112 The Pie Overlord!

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