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On 4/18/2020 at 3:06 PM, RowdyRebel said:

The Constitutions exist to protect the people from leaders seeking to "suspend" it. There is no pandemic clause in the Constitution. Our Rights are unalienable.

True but when you get a bully with a badge and gun on a power trip pulling that on people who on both sides of the badge who haven't a clue about their constitutional rights, that is what happens.

43 minutes ago, Mack Technician said:

Were you listening to the great one last night?

A transit driver from New York was on with Mark Levin via call-in. He said they’ve lost about 70 bus/transit drivers in NY to Covid. They have reason to be wary. It’s sounds like the initial Covid culturing dish of New York was public transport. The city dropped the number of pick-ups thinking it would reduce use. All it did was cause face-to-face, close contact, packed subways and buses. Backfire. At one point a driver reported people using emergency exits to squeeze into and out of the voids. 

This guy said he was allowed one mask per week to use. 

From stories of infection tracking immersion and repeat exposure to people with high viral load saturates your system and seals your deal ⚰️. 

DiBlasio states that NYC may stay on lock down to September or later.  He says we must take this issue seriously.

Great Ford! Lyon Ford Truck sales had one for years. The dealer sold out and the owner took the truck home. Now goes to a few L.I. truck shows every year. Pic is from about 1960,truck is a 58 or 59 I think and the same blue.

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In Cuomos defense he did lower the deficit by  cutting staff,school aid and services to the poor and middle class. Also NYC is more than 60% of the deficit run up under DiBlassio's administration.. The out come of the 2020-2021 budget is an across the board 8,5% income tax, a 25% increase in licensing fees by DMV, a 19.5 cent per gallon gas tax, 3% tax on heating oil, a .7% increase in state sales tax and last an increase of bridge and highway tolls, the toll increase TBA.

From Bloomberg News 12-13-2019

New York State's Budget Deficit Is Growing

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo may be spending much of the new year explaining how he was caught off-guard by a $6.1 billion hole looming in his next state budget, caused mostly by rising Medicaid costs.It’s the largest gap since Cuomo took office. Amid New York’s recovery from recession, he closed a $10 billion gap for the 2011-2012 fiscal year with cuts to health care, education and personnel. This shortfall, disclosed in a report last month, occurred during a strong economy as revenue increased. Critics say the third-term Democratic governor should have known better.

Now, as Cuomo prepares to propose a 2020-2021 budget in January, lawmakers and interest-group advocates are already quarreling over whether to impose more taxes on the rich or cut services to the poor and middle class. If current spending trends continue, the state would face an $8.5 billion deficit in 2023, of which about $3.9 billion would be for Medicaid. Cuomo’s budget office says it’s looking for savings.

“While Medicaid spending is projected to grow at almost 6% a year nationally, we are developing a plan to be introduced in January that will once again limit New York State’s Medicaid spending growth and continue high quality care without raising taxes to cover the cost,” said Freeman Klopott, the state budget office spokesman

According to Moody’s Investors Service, New York’s Medicaid burden is set to increase 6.6% a year through 2023, after five years in which Cuomo-ordered changes reduced annual growth to 2.2%. This year’s increases result from the advent of a $15-an-hour minimum-wage for health-care workers, a 12% increase in long-term care enrollment and reduced federal aid. Describing the situation as “a credit negative,” Moody’s continued to rate the state’s credit as Aa1 stable.

Medicaid Warnings

The governor should have anticipated these increased obligations, said Andrew Rein, president of the Citizens Budget Commission, a business-supported fiscal watchdog group. Rein is skeptical that Cuomo can fill the gap without deeper across-the-budget cuts, which would require legislative approval.

The CBC warned Cuomo earlier this year that Medicaid costs could spike and couldn’t be permanently papered over by the governor’s recent practice of delaying billion-dollar payments into the next fiscal year. Cost controls instituted by the governor eight years ago have failed to stem recent expense increases, Rein said.

“The state’s plan to address the Medicaid-driven budget gap is one part gimmick and one part delay,” he said. “A plan to solve the budget problem need not be done entirely within the Medicaid program. Other portions of the budget also should be considered, including mistargeted aid to wealthy school districts and unproductive economic development programs.”

Responding to the criticism, Klopott noted Cuomo’s record of cutting Medicaid costs. In 2011, when they were rising more than 13%, he created a Medicaid Redesign Team that capped annual spending growth based on a formula tied to the national medical cost of living. “New York State has kept Medicaid spending growth to less than half the national average – saving taxpayers over $19 billion,” Klopott said, “and this has been key to limiting overall state spending growth.”

Tax Tussle

In the state legislature, Democratic leaders are at odds over new taxes. Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is against them. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is for them. Heastie said he won’t accept cuts in services to the state’s six million New Yorkers enrolled in Medicaid who represent about a third of the state population. “We always believe in raising revenue,” he said earlier this month.

The battle may be joined over a revived proposal for a “pied-a-terre” tax on second-home purchases of $5 million or more. The measure, which real estate groups say will hurt an already-weak luxury housing market, would raise about $650 million, said state Senator Brad Hoylman, its chief sponsor, who first proposed it in 2014.

“They use our system of laws to protect their international investment in real estate, and I think there should be a premium on that,” said Hoylman. “This is a way to capture that purchasing power and use it for some common good.”

Spending cuts may also collide with demands for more school aid. Education advocates and teacher-union leaders say the state has failed to comply with a 2006 court order to fully fund its public schools, an obligation that may exceed $3.4 billion. Advocates say the amount owed -- based upon census data -- may be more due to rising school enrollments of homeless children whose households may not have been counted.

The homelessness problem has also created demands for more state spending in the form of rent subsidies to prevent evictions and as an alternative to shelters, said New York City Councilman Stephen Levin. He’s calling for the state legislature to spend millions of dollars to pay most of the cost of such subsidies. Tenant advocates also have demanded that Democratic lawmakers spend more on affordable housing.

“Albany needs to make the billionaires pay by a tax surcharge on the super-rich,” said Michael McKee, treasurer and spokesman for the statewide Tenants Political Action Committee. They are calling for repeal of tax incentives for developers that subsidize market-rate housing, programs he says cost the state about $4 billion.

New Yorkers won’t know until next month how Cuomo intends to address the gap opened by the failure to anticipate rising Medicaid costs. And the state can’t necessarily count on growth in tax receipts.

“A solution is not yet in sight,” Moody’s said in their Dec. 3 comment, warning that budget officials will find it “considerably more difficult for the state to tackle recurring operating deficits, especially if there is any pause in state revenue growth.”

On 4/14/2020 at 3:56 PM, Mack Technician said:

Another 293 reason to cook your pork well......

 

Large meat plant closes after 293 employees test positive for coronavirus

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota -- Virginia-based Smithfield Foods announced Sunday that it is closing its pork processing plant in Sioux Falls until further notice after hundreds of employees tested positive for the coronavirus - a step the head of the company warned could hurt the nation's meat supply.

The announcement came a day after South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken wrote to Smithfield and urged the company to suspend operations for 14 days so that its workers could self-isolate and the plant could be disinfected.

ronThe plant, which employs about 3,700 people in the state's largest city, has become a hot spot for infections. Health officials said Sunday that 293 of the 730 people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in South Dakota work at the plant.
 

"As a critical infrastructure employer for the nation's food supply chain and a major employer in Sioux Falls, it is crucial that Smithfield have a healthy workforce to ensure the continuity of operations to feed the nation. At the same time, employees need a healthy work environment," Noem and TenHaken wrote to the plant's operators.

Smithfield announced a three-day closure last week so it could sanitize the plant and install physical barriers to enhance social distancing. But on Sunday, it announced the plant's indefinite closure.

"The closure of this facility, combined with a growing list of other protein plants that have shuttered across our industry, is pushing our country perilously close to the edge in terms of our meat supply," Smithfield president and CEO Kenneth Sullivan said in a statement. "It is impossible to keep our grocery stores stocked if our plants are not running. These facility closures will also have severe, perhaps disastrous, repercussions for many in the supply chain, first and foremost our nation's livestock farmers."

The Sioux Falls facility is one of the largest pork processing plants in the U.S., Smithfield said. It supplies nearly 130 million servings of food per week, or about 18 million servings per day.

 

Aren't they Chinese owned?

 Union leaders and politicians are calling for all of the East Coast shipyards like Bath Iron Works in Maine, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in N.H., Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Va, Southeast Maintenance NAS Shipyard in Mayport, Florida, North Florida Shipyards in Jacksonville and Electric Boat on Ct to shut down completely and giving the workers paid leave for the period to be determined.

6 hours ago, Ditchdiggerjcf said:

Oh yea, that is just the kind of man we need for president.

You should see his speech last year for creating sanctuary cities in NYS when stated that he is the son of a mother and father who were illegal immigrants. That was interesting.

9 hours ago, Mack Technician said:

The Wisconsin Covid police are starting to shut down boat landings. Police were going to boat landings and running plates. They found people traveling from adjacent counties to fish. All the proof we need, close the open air boat landings. Municipality landings are doing it right now, the townships haven’t been persuaded, yet. 

I can see stopping the Smelt fish events on Lake Superior landings(even that’s a stretch), but now they’ve gone after “drop’n go” landings. Who hangs out at a boat landing other than wardens and creel service. 

This was for a drive in service. Cop told the minister "your rights are suspended" on the video.  This is the the 4th time in 3 different states that the powers in charge say the constitution is "suspended"

On 3/31/2020 at 4:16 AM, Hans Remmers said:

Before this thread runs completely off the rails on hot button issues lets just get back to the original topic.

 

Emperor Cuomo has been running this state into the ground with only his own personal agenda in mind from the start.  As did his father before him.  This is just positive press exposure for him and he's going to play it for all its worth.

I'll add his late night  legislation  to pass hot button bills like his Laws protecting illegals, his law that people arrested for violent crimes have to be given the names and address of the witnesses against them "so their legal teams can interview them" Safe Act (which under it my Lever action saddle gun is considered and assault rifle but my Calico 9mm rifle with 50 round mag isn't)  Don't forget his father turning LILCO into a state run utility called the Long Island Power Authority, which kept rates down, than Andrew  under the guise of them being over prepared (?) for Hurricane Irene  disbanded the LI Power Authority and awards the service to PSEG whom him and his girl friend own 30% of the companies stock. Cuomo said the rates were frozen for 3 years. Well every month our bill increased by 5% to 8% because of increased fuel costs. When the fuel costs dropped for over 6 months our 5 to 8% increases still came every month. Andrew stated that would off set any future fuel costs. 10 years later my bills still increase. We have a 6 Billion debit on Shoreham  Nuclear plant that never opened and after 30 years was 90% paid off. Andrew had gotten loans against it to finance  PSEG's system up grades. Can't get the TSA quick pass because Andrew will not allow the Feds to access DMV records for verification "because it may harm the undocumented citizens. Releases criminals who can't afford bail, makes crimes that involve a weapon but it is  not used  not being detainable but they are given a court appearance ticket  Having lived under Mario and Andrews reign what his election would do to the country is beyond scary.  But since Bloomberg supports him.  If KS lived under his governorship he would not be so impressed by him.

3 hours ago, Mack Technician said:

We should be awestruck by it. The left found a way to portray a non-living micro organism as a racist. Has to be racism because Obamacare is still functional so we know every American is getting the best, top of the line, coverage....

No, actually we should be worried that people we elected like the the Mayor of Philly  referencing the police removing a man from a bus stated to the press that "he has suspended the Constitutional Protections until further notice"  Gee! That's same thing the LEO's in Kentucky said to the Pastor when issuing $500 tickets and quarantine orders  to people at a drive in Easter Service for violating their edict. 

The best is the Governor of Michigan  Gretchen Whitmers edict:     Non-essential in Michigan:    Religious activities, all construction and repair related industries, fishing if boating with a motor, realtors, personal gardening, buying seeds, home improvement equipment, gardening supplies and lawn care.
Essential in Michigan:   Marijuana, lottery & alcohol.

57 minutes ago, Bullheaded said:

Funny you mention that. I'm on the lake, but my aunt and uncle lived on the narrow part of the shipping channel before they get to the Sault Locks. And I used to see that. It was really freaky. Two ships would pass and the water would disappear from the shore. I still don't understand the science before it. I can see how they would increase the water level, but not how they pull the water out.

It's called a Bernoulli Wave it's the displacement  of the water surface around the vessel hull due to the pressure distribution of the ships displacement and speed in the water around it.Easy way to think of it is when the ship generates a bow wave and the wake the water around it is pulled towards the ship to replace the water in the bow waves and wake. Does exactly the same in deep or shallow water, just more noticeable in a narrow area. Learned all about the effect at the Webb Institute when they demo'd  the hull design on the Grumman H.S. Denison Hydrofoil verses our Scarab when we were trying to squeeze out max speed. Showed that a pair of  air foil shaped skegs on the mid hull would give us 20 to 30 more mile per using the Bernoulli Effect.

Nice finds. AC /AB stuff while some what rare is around. Look around old mining and logging sites around you. Steelman on here has made some very nice repro panels and may be of help. 

I would pull off the pair of inspection covers on the drivers side of the block and see if there is and bad stuff that found its way in, shoot some Marvel on the crank and rod journals to give it some help while the top end is soaking.

Paul

2 hours ago, terry said:

That M37 is a classic for sure, remember it well from my service days, "67" to "69"    terry

Saw quite a few of their remains along Rte 1 in Asia.

12 hours ago, davehummell said:

I had a 292 built by s&s speed shop and i put it in a toyota fj45 long wheel base landcruzer pickup had plenty of power i always liked straight six engines gas or diesel.

Was S&S in Rochester N.Y.?

7 hours ago, Mack Technician said:

 

You also have PRS.....Pissed-off Republican Syndrome. Thankfully it’s only fatal if you watch CNN and an undiagnosed aneurism explodes 💀 . 

(Sorry bro, I couldn’t help myself.)

 

Don't worry when the Nancy crew return from Easter Break as per her returning between the 20th of April to the 1st of May (she has not decided yet which date) things will get going again.

Than we have  Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., stating during a recent livestream with constituents that a county in his district should withhold shipments of Lysol disinfectant to the state of Kentucky until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConell  R-Ky., relents in his opposition to Democrat-backed vote-by-mail measures amid the coronavirus pandemic.

"A fun fact about Somerset County -- we make 100 percent of the national supply of Lysol disinfectant," Malinowski said   "I thought about using that with, like Mitch McConnell," he went on. "Like, 'Hey, you know, we're going to hold up the Lysol to Kentucky until you pass our election security bill.'"

Malinowski noted that he was seeing some "thumbs up" from constituents participating in the livestream event.

Lysol parent company Reckitt Benckiser has a plant in Hillsborough Township, N.J.

I feel there is a small bit of hatred here

On 3/28/2020 at 11:29 PM, hurstscrambler said:

After a year,  I finally took the time to figure out how to resize and post pictures again!  Hopefully everyone can see the images.   Sorry it took so long for the reply.  My friend and his buddy organized and run in the class, my friends name is Matt and the other guy is Kyle.  If you email the address on the flyer it will go right to Kyle, I made him aware you may contact him.  He is pretty tight with the track officials and management.  NED is an NHRA track, and they are pretty safety oriented, but they are pretty cool generally.  I doubt you’d have any issues.  Andy

I'll send him an e mail in the A.M.  Thank again.  Paul

23 hours ago, hurstscrambler said:

 

Yes, I posted it in this thread.  I talked to my buddy, I can PM you his number if you want.  Andy

Thank you, please do.  Paul

13 minutes ago, RowdyRebel said:

Along those same lines, I just read about a 97 year old man who died in a nursing home. He wasn't sick. Didn't show any symptoms of the disease. Just died because he was old. After his death, they tested him, because there were others in the nursing home who were sick with it. His test came back positive, and so he's been added to the fraudulently inflated numbers to help scare the masses into submission.

 

On Tuesday, Dr. Deborah Birx admitted to the American press a deception is being presented to the American people.  Our death toll is not the number we say that it is. Not as it counts towards the pandemic known as COVID-19.

For some unexplained reason Birx/Fauci  are counting deaths and attributing their cause to COVID-19, even if the actual cause of death was not COVID-19.

For example: A patient gets admitted to the hospital for organ failure due to late stage cancer. If the patient comes into contact with COVID-19 in the hospital and the virus shows up in a test either before or after death, that’s a COVID-19 fatality. Same with a heart attack/heart disease. Same with fill in the blank.

Never mind that as a nation we lose 54,000 persons a month to heart disease, and 50,000 per month to cancer.

But by “juicing the numbers,”  Fauci/Birx get to extend the misery, heighten the panic, and continue to command relevancy.

Considering deaths per month by COVID-19 are trailing heart disease, cancer, flu, asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, stroke, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and even drug overdoses, it appears that “commanding that relevancy” is necessary. But why would we falsely count our causes of death from a public health perspective?

Governor Andrew Cuomo—whether in on the deception or not—announced on Monday that other diseases in New York City and State appeared to have just stopped existing. Literally claiming the unfathomable—that suddenly in his hospital system there were strangely "not a lot of non-COVID" patients anymore.

This goes with governors, mayors and LEO's  creating edicts as to what we can and can not be allowed to have or to do. Vermont and Rhode Island are now thinking of banning the sale of any consumer goods aside from food and medicine. No cloths, shoes appliances GUNS or other non essential  things they decide we can not have.

There is a drive in theater near me in Va, they owners were going to allow the local minister and priest to hold an Easter Mass and broad cast it into the vehicles via the radios. No non family in cars, no leaving the cars and no communion. Governor Al Jolson Northam said it is too dangerous to allow. People may watch the religious channel on cable otherwise he will not allow it.

Andy, you ever find more info on the N.E. Dragway gasser meet at Epping?  Paul

On 4/10/2020 at 3:25 PM, 85snowdog said:

With what's going on these days. I've had some extra time for looking at things on the inter web .  I've been chatting with others about old tractors and construction equipment. 

I thought It was interesting that one of my searches led me here. Back to the BMT website.

I know this loader. I haven't run it, or even heard it running. I was just fortunate to get a bit of a personal tour form one of the owners employees. 

Thanks 41 chevy ,for the great run down on it . Its very interesting. 

Thats me on it, fall of 2013.  

 

Yes I was lucky to be at the Spring Thaw Show up north at the time when it was being unloaded. Had a very interesting talk about it and the resto done on it.