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Nickel draft at a place on Main St., Daytona Beach, FL, in the early '70's. I think the name of it was Gracie's. Pretty tough place, several fights would break out every night and the dump was well known to the cops. Nonetheless, cheap beer and shoot pool, what's not to like?

So really there are two questions for the U.S. consumer: a) Did you buy a Dodge? - and b ) Have you learned anything?

My heart-felt thanks to all who served in the U.S armed forces. Here is a favorite WWII video montage. Besides the video, the sound is well done too.

Back in he late '60s I was working as an inside salesman at an electronic component distributor in Buffalo. The puchasing department from the local steel mill would call me occasionally and order a pallet of "D" cells. (That is one hell of a lot of batteries!) One day I asked the buyer what in the heck do you do with all of those batteries. He explained it as follows: For a time the union electricians would never do any work at all. They would just sit in the cafeteria for their entire shift. When questioned by management they all said they couldn't do anything because the batteries in their flashlights were dead. Management revised the job standard procedures such that each electrician was required to draw 2 new D cells from stores upon punching in. So every man, every shift, punch in and draw two new batteries. Unbelieveable. Back then, one of those electricians who worked day shift at Roblin Steel in Buffalo would go home at 5:00, eat dinner, and then go to his night time job as an electrician on the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. Each night he rode a train that went from Buffalo to Erie, PA, and back again to Buffalo. He was quite a bit older than me. The story was that during those round trips he slept in the caboose. Slept in the caboose 5 nights a week for 20 years and nobody ever woke him up over all that time. Just drawing a pay check working a position that the union required. You gotta love it.

ms live mail stopped working on me.

Whatta beauty!!!

Yep, them old days are gone forever...

That Scarab looks pretty nice. I bet that thing can move out, tired engines or not!

Yeah and the Ritz Laguna Nigel is gonna have cable TV so I can watch "Ice Road Truckers." (No not really...) But at least I can have carrot ginger soup, truffle chimichurri, and morita glazed pork belly with my Christmas dinner. And of course the Candied Pomegranate with my desser. So with a 20% tip and if you stiff the valet, a famiy of 4 could eat dinner for about $600.00. Yikes! Raya_Christmas_2017 (1).pdf

Yo, '41, how about a photo of that Scarab boat?

There is a lot to disagree with in these writings. A lot of old news. Tyson, Sanderson Farms, and Perdue chickens are already 100% antibiotic free. And Pilgrim's Pride, #2 in the industry, is in the process of phasing out antibiotics. These writings would have the reader believe the U.S. is oblivious to the risks of antibiotic use in poultry production. Nothing could be further from the truth. Want facts? Go to the IPPE trade show held every Jamuary in Atlanta and interview the executives and scientists from all of the major producers. (I don't think the author has bothered to do this.) And you gotta love the author's effort to connect U.S. poultry production to the global warming claims. I have personally been in at least 50 different poultry plants and seen every operation from the cage dumpers, to evisceration, to the raw product tray packing , batter and breaded cooked products, frozen and out the door. And, I am completely comfortable with the entire process, humanitarian, clean, safe and IMHO nutritous. Want something to worry about? Try Fukushima leaking and poluting the Pacific Ocean, or maybe the world's largest pork producer, Smithfield Foods U.S. plants sold to a Chinese company in 2015.

I was in Vegas last week but escaped to home on Thursday while I still had money in my wallet left over... Too bad this piece of excrement is dead already. Would have been better to string him up right there on the strip so the relatives of the victims and the survivors could stone him to death. (Those snowflakes that think this is too barbaric could simply throw flowers at him and sing to him until he is dispatched.) IMHO.

I dunno... My screen looks like this. I think the "bell" icon is notifications that someone quoted you or replied to one of your posts. The envelope icon is to initiate or review your PMs. I guess other peoples screens look different from mine for reasons I don't really understand. Hope this helps.

Welcome! I am selling my non-running B model which has decent cab. Located in Dallas, TX. PM me if you are interested.

What pumpkins?

Yes, speaking of which, it is best to throw away any hair dryer in your household that doesn't have a GFCI (ALCI) in it's cord. Horrible tragic accidents have happened over the years and why have that risk in your house. Old hair dryers should be discarded. Here a reprint from the web... Appliance Leakage Circuit Interrupters explained The buttons are part of a device called an Appliance Leakage Circuit Interrupter (ALCI). All hair dryers these days have them, for good reason. Many years ago, the appliance industry received reports of hair dryers electrocuting small children in the bathtub, according to John Drengenberg, consumer safety director at UL, which develops product safety standards. “They would try to use it as a toy,” he says. When an electrical appliance that’s plugged in is immersed in water, electricity can leak out of it and shock you. Unfortunately, circuit breakers in your home react too slowly to protect against electrocution (they’re designed primarily to prevent fires). Manufacturers started outfitting hair dryers with ALCIs after UL mandated them. If the ALCI detects a change in the electrical current, it will cut power to the appliance within a few milliseconds. Related: 8 Ways You Didn’t Know You Could Get an Electric Shock or Electrical Burn “We don't recommend tempting fate and trying it,” by immersing a hair dryer in water, says Drengenberg. But if you do it by accident, “it should protect you.” If the ALCI cuts off the power to your hair dryer, turn it off and unplug it. Then press the reset button and plug it back in. The test button allows you to cut off power manually. It also, as its name suggests, allows you to test that the ALCI is working. Just plug the hair dryer in, press test, and the dryer should stop working. (To get it working again, unplug it and press the reset button.) Hair dryer manufacturers recommend testing the ALCI before each time you use the device, though that might be overkill. Today, portable hair dryers without a circuit interrupter are considered hazardous and can be recalled, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Dog cooling off

Thanks for your thoughts. My daughter lives in Corpus Christi. She and her husband and dog left town early this morning for higher ground in Laredo. My brother also lives in Corpus. He's staying just because he's old and hard-headed. (like me.) If it rains the 2 feets or so they are talking about for Houston will be a real flooding disaster for those folks.

For many years my father in law gave both the dog and the cat their own breakfast bowl of coffee with cream and sugar and half a hard roll...

Wife says our dog is spoiled. I mean just because I cooked her 2 eggs over medium and slice of ham for breakfast, I don't see how that makes her spoiled. Here taking a hard-earned nap after patrolling the back yard all day...

Thanks!!!!

Very nice pics. Sorry but I still don't have a "like" button.

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The latest: Now he says each of the new hydrogen refueling stations will use solar cells as the power source for electrolysis to generate its own hydrogen rather than transport the hydrogen to the stations from a large central plant. Says each station will cost $10 mil. to build and all 360 of them they will be in place by the end of 2020. Seems to me each solar array will need to be about the size of New Hampshire for that to work. I'm not from Missouri but your going to have to show me... What was it P.T. Barnum said about one born every minute? http://www.businessinsider.com/nikola-one-hydrogen-truck-photos-features-2017-2/#behold-the-nikola-one-hydrogen-powered-truck-milton-told-business-insider-the-truck-can-drive-800-miles-on-average-with-a-single-tank-of-hydrogen-1