GA_Dave

Car seats - My kids were born in 1980, 1981 ans 1984. Only the last one had to have a car seat when born. Safety standards were minimal in any of the seats available at that time. Their use was not mandatory nationwide until later. Dad's 1969 New Yorker was the first car we had that had seat belts in the back seat. My Uncle had a 1970 Chevy C-10 with a cap and brought his five kids up to NY from TX with 4 of them riding in the back. The number of times I rode in the back of an open pickup is too many to count. I also used to ride on the tailboard of speeding fire engines. I have cut seat belts off of plenty of dead bodies in wrecks and have personally walked away from more than one wreck where I was not wearing one. Worked a wreck one time where a Chevette hit a tree as wide as the car at high speed. The least injured of the five people inside was the one not belted in, who was ejected.

Under the current rules that President Trump is trying to change, they are counted in the census, but NOT identified as being illegally here. The left counted them as citizens in the 2020 census, changing the population of certain States to the point that it changed the number of US Representatives those States have in Congress and changing the population of districts that the left then gerrymandered to their advantage.

They should never have been included in the first place! Those here illegally should not be represented, they should be removed. Thank you, President Trump!

It happened in The Woodlands, TX, which is north of Houston. The ones I have seen were too high up for that to happen.

Nope, your wife is too! My wife and I will hit 47 years in December. She found me in the garage one day, crying. "What's wrong" she asked. I said "Remember that day your father caught us together and said that I could either marry you or go to jail?" She replied "Yes". I cried more, "I'd be getting out today!"

I have seen a few of these in action at some fire stations I have visited. They are impressive!

Engine 440, South Stokes FD, Walnut Cove, NC 1990 Mack RD688P/Grumman 1000/1000 #9578/#18504

I have no doubt he will run. His platform will be the same liberal BS that the dems have been running (and losing!) on, except he will want to tax it even more. By 2028, voting will be restricted to qualified US Citizens only. I am not concerned about him!

Engine 11, Hamlet, NC 1973 Mack CF685F12 1250/500 #1551

I recently spent almost two weeks in North Carolina, finding two more Mack fire apparatus to add here. Former Engine 7, Hamlet, NC 1968 Mack C-95F 1000/500 #1629

We trailered it from the barn where it has been stored to the fire station, after we removed a bird's next from one of the hard suctions. It has just over 27k miles on it and just over 1100 hours on the pump. The tires are the same ones that were on it when it left in 1986, so they are high on the list for replacement, possibly by the end of the week. I hosed it off yesterday afternoon, but it needs a thorough scrubbing. The pressure washer at the station is broken and the regular hose didn't have a nozzle, so I had to use my thumb..... So glad that nothing has changed since I retired!

B85F-1338, delivered to College Park, GA in 1958. It served until 1986 and became a parade apparatus for American Legion Post 50 in College Park. Post 50 relocated to Peachtree City, GA about 10-12 years ago. Today, the Mack came home to the College Park Fire Department for good!

I filled up today in Greenville, NC for $2.56/gal. The place in Durham that was $3.03/gal is now $2.94/gal. Same company!

I don't think it's just the price of gas, it's the gas taxes certain States are adding to it. When I left Georgia on Sunday, gas was $2.89/gal. I filled up in South Carolina for $2.69. I'm currently in Durham, NC and the gas is $3.01. The same place was $3.03 yesterday.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

In my 65 years, I have known one Frenchman. It's probably his........

US? Is this the same "us" as the "we" who were recently "doomed"? Again, I ask, who is us? Don't speak for me, I am neither owned nor doomed. My life is good and I am happy and content with the way things are going.

Most of them didn't start it, they just got sucked into it.........

Even more disgusting is the US Citizens who allowed this to happen (AKA the left, liberals, democrats) are the ones fighting the hardest to keep them here!

Yukon Jack - He and I go way back!

I don't find this too unexpected. A buddy of mine lives near that factory and he tells me that there are parking lots all around the area full of brand new Mack trucks they can't sell. It has been that way for the past couple years.

How did you get my number?