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Floyd | Monday, 30th of August 2010 at 07:16:23 AM
Calling all science guys and gals! I came across this piece in The London Telegraph on how thorium is the “magic bullet” — or may be — that renders oil and uranium obsolete.
There is no certain bet in nuclear physics but work by Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 25th of August 2010 at 04:07:23 PM
Colondra Hamilton (above) eschews driving automatic — dare I say it? For stick:
A Cincinnati woman was simultaneously masturbating with a sex toy and watching a pornographic video while driving last week, according to cops who arrested her on assorted criminal charges.
Colondra Hamilton, 36, was pulled over last Tuesday evening in a traffic stop triggered [...]
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Floyd | Monday, 23rd of August 2010 at 12:14:42 PM
Glidrock:
Nothing is worse than sitting in traffic, right? How about sitting in traffic for nine days?
A 100-kilometer-long traffic jam in China’s Heibei Province has left thousands of truck drivers stuck on the interstate heading towards Beijing since August 14. What’s worse, officials are saying that the jam could continue for up to a month!
The original [...]
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Outlaw13 | Sunday, 22nd of August 2010 at 12:36:10 PM
Spring 2011, Ford re-introduces the Boss 302 Mustang
2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302
For more on this go HERE
Best of all it isn’t government subsidised and it burns gasoline. Worst of all it’s missing the Yellow/Orange paint scheme of my youth…boo.
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Floyd | Friday, 20th of August 2010 at 07:14:24 PM
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JohnFN | Friday, 20th of August 2010 at 08:04:50 AM
All this time, I thought Muslims were wanting to restore a Chrysler Cordoba. In the name of Allah, hold out for a Challenger or a Dart.
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Floyd | Thursday, 5th of August 2010 at 08:43:05 PM
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Floyd | Wednesday, 4th of August 2010 at 03:08:06 PM
h/t: JJ
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JohnFN | Tuesday, 27th of July 2010 at 11:48:34 AM
The Atlantic has the newly-released price for the government-backed Chevy Volt.
Chevy’s new plug-in hybrid Volt is a pretty cool concept, but it will cost you. After nearly a year of price speculation, GM announced today that the vehicle will start at $41,000. If you take the $7,500 credit paid by Uncle Sam on plug-in vehicles [...]
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Outlaw13 | Monday, 26th of July 2010 at 06:40:36 PM
And Mom, each Hot Wheels set comes with a special discipline feature that allows you to take a piece of un-used track to whip your kids butt!
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Floyd | Saturday, 10th of July 2010 at 09:24:58 AM
We need one of these… 7 British drivers were arrested for speeding in France while taking part in the annual Cannonball Run Europe according to the London Daily Telegraph.
All were taking part in the annual Cannonball Run Europe, a six day rally which attracts minor aristocrats, entrepreneurs and others who can afford the £6000 per [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 30th of June 2010 at 03:37:19 AM
Happy Birthday to the Corvette! This day in 1953 the first Corvette rolled off the line.
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Floyd | Sunday, 27th of June 2010 at 11:33:06 AM
The Great Race (1965)
A bumbling villain plots to win an early 20th-century auto race.
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk Dir: Blake Edwards C-160 mins, TV-PG. 8:00 PM EDT. TCM.
I’m a sucker for a huge race movie… It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Death Race 2000, Cannonball Run (both), Smokey and the [...]
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Outlaw13 | Monday, 14th of June 2010 at 02:51:58 PM
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Floyd | Saturday, 29th of May 2010 at 09:36:37 AM
(ed. — Proud husband prerogative bump…)
It’s amazing what one sees in SoCal on our wide wonderful freeways. We saw this this morning (5/28)… happily there were no fatalities and we drove by before the fire department got there in force so we were mere minutes behind it. I could feel the heat on [...]
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Outlaw13 | Tuesday, 25th of May 2010 at 06:04:22 PM
This is kind of cool…
Formula 1 racing will return to the USA in 2012. Location: Austin, TX
Downside: As if some people in that city weren’t pretentious enough, import the Euro-trash that an F-1 race is sure to attract and Austin will be the Paris France of Texas…yeah I know there already is a [...]
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Floyd | Sunday, 18th of April 2010 at 05:39:35 PM
While I am a libertarian leaning conservative, I saw enough one-vehicle rollovers and head-ons in my days working with the Texas Highway Patrol to convince me that seat belt laws — as originally intended — are probably necessary. In any case… I’ve never had a problem wearing seat belts — it seems good common [...]
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Floyd | Saturday, 17th of April 2010 at 02:29:58 AM
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JohnFN | Saturday, 10th of April 2010 at 03:22:42 PM
The ultimate impetus for our impending national bankruptcy won’t be any single bill of legislation, it will be because politicians won’t and can’t say no. Arguments for TARP were prevalent on both sides, especially the threat of a wicked tide of financial collapses that would take down the whole system, so whether or not that [...]
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Floyd | Monday, 5th of April 2010 at 11:54:31 AM
California emissions laws meet economic reality.
Four years ago, California earned accolades for adopting a law that would slash its greenhouse gas emissions and serve as a model for national climate change legislation.
With the state mired in a crippling recession, the law that once looked like a landmark achievement is coming under assault. The regulatory [...]
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JohnFN | Monday, 29th of March 2010 at 12:37:39 PM
Stangnet has an extraordinary set of reviews of the 2011 Mustang GT, the first with the new 5.0 liter (302 c.i.) powerplant. Here’s an excerpt from Autoblog, which rates the car at 412 horsepower, 30 under actual output.
The bottom line is this: Ford is done messing around. With the release of the 2011 Mustang [...]
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Floyd | Thursday, 18th of March 2010 at 04:54:51 PM
Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) A swarm of huge tarantulas, enraged by the misuse of pesticides, try to take over their part of the world. Dr. Robert Hansen (William Shatner), a local Arizona veterinarian joins forces with entomologist Diane Ashley (Tiffany Bolling) to keep the spider population under control. 9:35 PM PDT. Independent [...]
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Rufus | Wednesday, 17th of March 2010 at 03:31:57 PM
Go here for the article, http://www.motorauthority.com/blog/1043265_paper-challenge-2011-ford-mustang-v-6-vs-2010-chevrolet-camaro-v-6/
Some excerpts:
Verdict: It would have been a tie, but the convertible factor tips things in favor of the Mustang. Both cars look great in the flesh, though they do so in remarkably different ways. Round 1 score: 10-9 for the Mustang.
Verdict: A close round, with the Camaro’s more advanced rear [...]
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Rufus | Wednesday, 17th of March 2010 at 03:27:56 PM
Go here for the article, http://www.sportscarmonitor.com/pictures/1043258_photo-history-47-years-of-fords-mustang_gallery-1#100307890
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Rufus | Tuesday, 16th of March 2010 at 03:02:38 PM
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Floyd left the latest edition of Inside Higher Ed in the Executive Washroom at Threedonia World Headquarters and as I was leafing through it while otherwise occupied I stumbled onto this article.
It’s the results of this year’s NCAA tournament if the teams performed on the court as they do in the classroom. [...]
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JohnFN | Sunday, 14th of March 2010 at 12:50:51 PM
The Grim Reaper's favorite ride, before the Prius.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Audi was gripped with a crisis. It’s car, the Audi-5000, was linked with SAIs – Sudden Acceleration Incidents. The vehicle would allegedly speed off while the helpless driver gripped the wheel in sheer terror while unavailingly mashing one’s foot through [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 3rd of March 2010 at 07:07:14 PM
It seems they are the scourge of Western Civilization. Theodore Dalrymple, one of my favorite writers, recently got a parking ticket over in the UK and he blogged about it at his blog (group blog) The Social Affairs Unit:
The alacrity, efficiency and speed with which monies are collected from certain members of the public [...]
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Floyd | Saturday, 27th of February 2010 at 07:24:20 AM
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Floyd | Thursday, 25th of February 2010 at 02:04:53 PM
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Floyd | Friday, 5th of February 2010 at 10:10:50 PM
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Seven American gunmen hire themselves out to protect a Mexican village from bandits.
Cast: Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson Dir: John Sturges C-128 mins, TV-PG. 12:30 PM EST. TCM
I don’t care if the theme is a cliche — I still get chills when the music plays dammit. Better [...]
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trzupr | Wednesday, 3rd of February 2010 at 12:43:18 PM
It’s the first practical flying car, courtesy of bunch of MIT propeller-heads who got together to form Terrafugia and produce the Transition aircraft/automobile. No trailers to haul the wings about – just land, hit a button: the wings fold up and you drive away. Anticipated price? A shade under $200,000. If Rufus ever [...]
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Floyd | Tuesday, 2nd of February 2010 at 05:21:17 PM
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Mike | Saturday, 16th of January 2010 at 09:05:35 AM
A while back, Lars Walker described Sheriff Andy Taylor’s first appearance on the tube:
I saw the episode and remember it. It was the Danny Thomas Show. Danny blew into Mayberry and got a ticket for speeding, or illegal parking, or something. Andy arrested him, and then arraigned him (being both local cop and justice of [...]
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Floyd | Monday, 21st of December 2009 at 04:03:18 PM
Like Bullitt and the French Connection meets Spy vs. Spy — except tinier. Turn up the sound.
h/t: JJ
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Floyd | Monday, 9th of November 2009 at 12:35:13 PM
I get this from a college buddy who is now a financial guy… It’s funny cuz it’s true — the older I get the riskier they both seem.
And the joke came with it:
Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business.
When he found out he [...]
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JohnFN | Tuesday, 3rd of November 2009 at 10:47:31 AM
We all have things we “don’t get,” be it television, automobiles or any of the latest fads permeating our pop culture. With Hollywood more and more ensnared by its own cranium-rectum-inversion, more people feel the town is out of touch. Regardless, here are things I “just don’t get.”
1. The Eagles: For those who considered Creedance [...]
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JohnFN | Saturday, 31st of October 2009 at 09:58:34 AM
UPDATE FROM Floyd — Apparently Scozzafava has suspended her campaign in NY-23. Score one for the conservatives!
From Iowahawk – and for good reason.
Canuck reader Maryann Crabtree forwards this photo of the candidate posing proudly in front of his Two Lane Blacktop – worthy 1955 Chevy 210 2-door sedan. Note missing rear bumper. Note radiused [...]
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JohnFN | Monday, 26th of October 2009 at 07:51:26 PM
To be honest, I’m less than impressed.
GOSSAU, Switzerland – Authorities say an Italian man took reckless driving to new heights in 11 frantic minutes of traffic violations in eastern Switzerland.They say they first spotted the 47-year-old driver as he sped his jeep past an unmarked police car at 100 miles per hour in a rainstorm [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 21st of October 2009 at 10:56:25 PM
Dogs are worse for the environment than Land Cruisers. Science tells me so.
The eco-pawprint of a pet dog is twice that of a 4.6-litre Land Cruiser driven 10,000 kilometres a year, researchers have found.
Victoria University professors Brenda and Robert Vale, architects who specialise in sustainable living, say pet owners should swap cats and dogs [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 14th of October 2009 at 07:53:09 AM
Next up! The Chevy Shitation. But for now you’ll have to settle for this.
Mazda’s latest four-wheel-drive likes a wee drink.
The Mazda CX-7 uses a special man-made liquid similar to human urine to reduce emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx). The compound, called AdBlue, is a mixture of roughly one-third pure urea and two-thirds [...]
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Mike | Monday, 21st of September 2009 at 08:27:11 AM
Tom Veal at Stromata revisits the Cash for Clunkers program and its current impact on the automotive industry:
It turns out, though, that the net effect was merely to shift sales from one month to another. Henry Payne reports what happened after the golden shower came to an end:
Edmunds.com [the link is behind a subscription wall] [...]
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Mike | Tuesday, 1st of September 2009 at 09:32:10 AM
From John Stossel’s Take:
The Detroit News points out that tucked into the health care bill passed by the House is a provision to give $10 billion to the United Auto Workers’ retiree health insurance program.
In effect, it would ask every taxpayer, regardless of whether they’ll have health insurance coverage themselves after they retire — and most [...]
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Floyd | Friday, 21st of August 2009 at 10:26:42 AM
This is all kinds of awesome. The best thing about being a lawyer with a police agency was watching videos like this — and working with cops. Watch it all.
h/t: cop friend of mine (not involved)
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Mike | Tuesday, 4th of August 2009 at 09:18:59 AM
Over at Stromata Blog (which I’ve just blog-rolled), the mighty Tom Veal gives an interesting analogy to the “Cash for Clunkers” program:
Seeing that a careless lad has broken a shopkeeper’s window, spectators offer the consolation that the six francs spent for a new pane of glass will provide business for the glazier. Generalizing, they conclude [...]
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Floyd | Saturday, 18th of July 2009 at 11:36:38 AM
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