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Being the lazy shade tree mechanic I am, I think I'd start with a eye dropper or turkey baster and a good shop vac positioned up close. Squirt a little water on the mud and vacuum it away as it softens up. Just a thought...

Yeah, and on Dec. 1st I am going to announce my plans to travel to Jupiter 300 times. And I am proud to be on the forefront of announcing plans that will never come to fruition.

George Soros real name, György Schwartz August 12, 1930 (age 86) Budapest, Hungary, is a communist who made $ billions by "breaking" the Bank of England. He is a shrewd investor and word is that he will benefit tremendously if the U.S. Economy fails. I think he is probably well known in Australia as the person who employed Rebecca Peters who pushed through the massive gun confiscation program... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Peters

OK, I'll take a stab at being "they." Things are chilled, or cooled, or frozen by removing the heat from them. In a freezer, the refrigeration system works to remove the heat from the the air in the enclosure. The various items inside the enclosure gradually "equilibrate" or lose their heat down to the temperature of the cooled air that surrounds them. The greater the volume of air inside the the enclosure, the harder the system has to work to keep it cold. When you open the enclosure to add or remove things, the air inside quickly begins to warm (take on heat.) Items inside that are frozen solid do not to take on heat nearly as quickly as does the free air. So yes, keeping the freezer full is good practice.

No need. Detroit has already been secured by the Democrats. The populace is pretty much reduced to a compliant, dependent, proletariat with low expectations.

I know you're being facetious, but I am always amazed that people are willing to work at low paying jobs and not willing to make a few sacrifices to improve their situation. There are always better jobs available for those that will make the effort to prepare for them. For a waitress, go to night school and get an associates degree in business or nutrition, or hospitality. Then apply for a job to manage a bar or restaurant. One of my daughters was a waitress, went to college, got a bachelors in business, and now she manages a bar. I urge her to aim higher but the pay is good and she likes what she doing. My theory, you gotta like your job and receive pay that makes you smile. Otherwise it's time for a change. These casino employees had several years advance notice that the area casinos were closing. If they did nothing to prepare for that eventuality, then tough beans for them. IMHO.

They are now free, free at last, to leave the picket line and go get in the unemployment line. Of course they were free all long to improve their own marketability by getting more education or learning new skills. Seems silly to go home to your family and say " We beat Carl Icahn, but I am unemployed." And, "Yes dear, he is still a billionaire." http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-taj-mahal-casino-is-closing-amid-a-labor-dispute-2016-10

Something to think about ... This is so sad; from a proud, strong country to the laughing stock of the world. Canadians Version of David Letterman's Top 10. Just makes you want to shake your head in disbelief, and, just maybe choke someone in charge. This is Canada's Top Ten List of Americas Stupidity. Of course we look like idiots - we are! #10 Only in America... could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 per plate Obama campaign fund-raising event. #09 Only in America... could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General and roughly 20% of the federal workforce is black while only 14% of the population is black, 40+% of all federal entitlements goes to black Americans - 3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that go to Hispanics! #08 Only in America... could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner (the head of the Treasury Department) and Charles Rangel (who once ran the Ways and Means Committee), BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes. #07 Only in America... can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash. #06 Only in America... could you collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year - for total spending of $7 Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn’t have nearly enough money. #05 Only in America... could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be called EXTREMISTS. #04 Only in America... could you need to present a drivers license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote. #03 Only in America... could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. Oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike). #02 Only in America... would they make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just magically become American citizens. (probably should be number one) #01 Only in America.... could the rich people - who pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all. . THINK ABOUT IT!!!

Respectfully sir, I have a slightly different view on the Bill Ford and Jack Welch thing... Yes, Buffett maybe, but Bill Ford and "Neutron Jack" Welch gained their positions in long-established companies whose foundations and creditworthiness were already in place. Trump took a peanut size real estate business and grew it himself. Sure, some of his deals were too slick by a half, but all legal and he's taken his lumps along the way for some of his shenanigans. People Invested in Tucker and lost their money, and people invested in Enron and lost their money, and anybody that invested in Trump after the second bankruptcy should have expected to lose their money. As for Neutron Jack, not a class act in my humble opinion. Here excerpted from a Columbia Journalism Review article: "One of the big reasons why Americans don’t trust corporate America like they used to is Jack Welch himself. Some call the kind of cut-throat, winner-take-all capitalism that has taken hold over the last 35 years or so “Jack Welch capitalism.” The Economist, no lefty rag, for one, is one of them. Welch wasn’t called “Neutron Jack” for nothing. He got that nickname firing tens of thousands of workers, often outsourcing the work overseas. Jack Welch capitalism discarded other stakeholders like workers and the community to focus almost exclusively on delivering short-term value to shareholders. He was the face of the downsized economy and the end of the social compact between businesses and their workers. He fought to keep GE from cleaning up the Hudson River after it dumped more than a million pounds of carcinogenic PCBs over thirty years ending in 1977, and because his company was responsible for 52 Superfund sites, challenged the law’s constitutionality."

A lot of harlots accusing Trump. Why didn't they make their complaints to the cops at the time of the alleged offense? Call the cops, get a lawyer, press charges? Frankly, I don't give a damn whose dress he invaded. I will vote for Trump because I trust him to make good supreme court nominations. We knows what kind of liberal trash Hellary would nominate. Maybe Trump is a braggart, loudmouth, etc., etc. Think ahead people... What would a Clinton IRS do? A Clinton Supreme Court do? Or, how about a Clinton EPA? And, remember she was the creator of the first government health care proposal. She couldn't get it pushed through and it was a humiliating defeat for her. Sadly, if she wins it will likely happen now. Oh, yeah, and Bob Will is still the king...

Thanks for your service!!!

See Family Formation chart below. Family formation down about the same 27% as 2016 Class 8 sales decline. Certainly not a direct correlation, but another sign that the times are a changin' in the U.S. 10,000 people a day retiring and many of them transitioning to fixed income and aren't buying "stuff." The majority of jobs being created are part time low paying service industry jobs. People just getting by aren't buying stuff either.

Trump says bad things. Hilary does bad things.

She is pissed and she's pointing at you. Now that Oblamer has packed so many courts with liberal judges, and now that she's seen what can be done by executive order, government-run health care and severe limitations of 2nd amendment rights are pretty much a done deal if she gets elected. And God help us if Tim Kaine ever becomes president. A real rabid leftie.

People just send me this stuff. If it's funny enough to make me laugh, then I feel compelled to share

And it should have regenerative braking too!

Rural area in E. TX piney woods, Near Lufkin, about 80 mi. NNE of Houston.

Another re-post for benefit of newer members.

Been quite a while since I first posted this photo. Posting again for the benefit of newer members.

August 67 Playmate photo. (California resident.) Playboy calendar with photo of her was aboard Apollo XII.

Thought you might enjoy... https://safeshare.tv/x/kXjbXGyQDsE

Unsolicited advice from this geezer... 1. Try to avoid working too cheap. You can't recover the lost time. 2. If circumstances cause you to work at a low-paying job, make a plan for yourself with self-imposed deadlines to improve your situation. 3. Ask for a raise, or change employers, or industries, or get more education if you must, to get employment you enjoy and pays enough to make you smile. 4. Refer to #2 above, no procrastinating. ---------------------------------------------------------- In retrospect, I am very glad I couldn't get a job at the GM engine plant, Xerox, or Kodak, though I tried very hard to do so back in the '60s. Those jobs wouldn't have trained my for anything and most likely I would have had mid-life financial struggles. And sometimes things that seem bad at the time are actually very good but you just don't know it yet. Personal experience about changing paths, although forced upon me, not planned: Dean says, "Son, you might be an electrical engineer some day, but not from our university." Smartass Grayhair says, "Cool, I'm going to the beach." I would probably have been miserable working as an engineer. But I didn't know it at the time. ------------------------ Sorry to ramble on. If there's a nugget here helpful to someone, then good.

Better in swimsuit (or without) was DeDe Lind...

Highly leveraged and barely profitable, tough sledding ahead. Lots more to this than covered in this article... https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-09-30/deutsche-bank-can-only-say-so-much-to-stem-the-turmoil Also this, snipped from an article in Zero Hedge Deutsche Bank Charged By Italy For Market Manipulation, Creating False Accounts by Tyler Durden Oct 1, 2016 10:08 AM ...moments ago Bloomberg reported that six current and former managers of Deutsche Bank, including Michele Faissola, Michele Foresti and Ivor Dunbar, were charged in Milan for colluding to falsify the accounts of Italy’s third-biggest bank, Monte Paschi (which itself is so insolvent it is currently scrambling to finalize a private sector bailout) and manipulate the market. Two former executives at Nomura Holdings Inc. and five at Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena were also charged.

Update... The "smiling crocodile" apparently spoke to Stumpf but still has no public comment. And he must have sold a bunch of shares, note the 6% ownership mentioned in this article. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffett-finally-speaks-wells-151918046.html