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Or if you wanna go cowboy-dress up, you can get yourself a pair of Lucchese, made in TX, but they ain't cheap... https://www.lucchese.com/shop/boots/hugh/GY1024.X13

A few of their boots are still made in America. The last 2 pairs of steel-toe works shoes I bought from Red Wing were marked "Made in Vietnam." I'm pretty much done with Red Wing.

I gotta believe his handlers told him, warned him, "don't take the bait." Ignore the gotcha questions and talk about the economy, jobs, the future, prosperity for all. Hillary says he probably didn't pay any taxes. He could say "I paid about the same taxes as GE and a dozen other major corporations. Let's move on." Hillary says he called some women fat pigs and disgusting. He could say "that is old news, am I'm not going to rehash it. Let me tell the folks about my jobs plan for a healthy economy and jobs for every American that wants one." Unfortunately he can't help himself, takes the bait every time. I hope he wises up. Nobody wants to hear him say again about his great business, and I have great properties, etc. Nobody gives a shit about that including me. I predict he will lose indeed if he doesn't get it together for the 2nd and 3rd debate.

And Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffet) owns 9.4% of Wells Fargo valued at over $22 Billion. The old coot's position is "no comment." Top Institutional Holders Holder Shares Date Reported % Out Value Berkshire Hathaway, Inc 479,704,270 Jun 29, 2016 9.45% 22,704,404,058

I watched the questioning and his responses during both of his sessions before congress. I think he took a lot of insults and bs from grandstanding democrats. Typical congressional grandstanding by our do-nothing legislators. Get seen on TV so your constituents think you actually do something in Washington. I felt like saying "if you got something that goes to him personally, then charge him with the crime and prosecute him - or shut up.) And where the heck was the federal CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Board) during the years this was going on? Answer - totally asleep. The banks bad practice was discovered by an LA Times reporter, not the CFPB.

Aagh. Request is hereby withdrawn!

You gotta post photos otherwise it didn't happen! And some of us want to see the muddied, snaggled tooth girls

I think it is likely. What say you?

Guys, it's a little more complicated than that. Every phase of the process is competitive as hell, from exploration, drilling, well logging, production, transportation, refining, distribution, etc. And never mind the various permitting and compliance costs. A new super tanker can cost upwards of $100 mil, and day rate rentals run to $100K. Wanna go offshore, rent a drill ship, $200K to $700K a day depending on the type. Dry hole, tough banana. Trust me, the prices you see at the pump are the best result for the consumer of an intensely competitive business..

And the women were glad!

Our congressional buffoons always approve raising of the debt ceiling because they are afraid failing to do so will hurt their prospects for their own reelection. And to them, nothing is more important to them than retaining their power over we the people. Some of them have been sucking on the government teat for far too many years. ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT U.S. Debt. This cuts thru all the political double speak we get and puts it in perspective. * U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000 * Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000 * New debt: $1,650,000,000,000 * National debt: $19,271,000,000,000 * Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000 Let's now remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household budget: * Annual family income: $21,700 * Money the family spent: $38,200 * New debt on the credit card: $16,500 * Outstanding balance on the credit card: $192,710 * Total budget cuts so far: $385 Got It ?? Here's another way to look at the Debt Ceiling: Let's say, you come home from work and find there has been a sewer backup in your neighborhood... and your home has sewage all the way up to your ceilings. What do you think you should do? Raise the ceilings, or pump out the #$%$? Your choice is coming November

State of Texas just advised the Federal Gubmint that we will not accept any more refugees. Feds say we have no choice on it and must accept. Not sure what happens next...

Right now in the U.S. there are about 82,000 substandard bridges. Consider the collapse of the I35 bridge in Minneapolis a few years ago. Fact is heavily-loaded trucks contributed to the failure of the I35 bridge. Or the I5 bridge failure north of Seattle. Sure there were design issues and maintenance issues, but that is the case for hundreds if not thousands of U.S. bridges. I've driven across both of those bridges many times so I consider myself lucky I wasn't on either of them when they failed. So then, if you are alive and reading this, then you are lucky too. You might take a poll of the people of Minneapolis and see how they feel about heavier trucks. Tell them it will be OK 'cause they will have lots of axles... So why is so much U.S. infrastructure in bad condition? It's about the money. Our goodhearted government has decided to spend our taxpayer monies on other "priorities." Like tax returns and Social Security payments made to indigents and foreigners including non-citizens who didn't pay a dime into the system. And medical benefits to some 20 million illegal aliens, and schools that must accommodate many foreign language speakers, and foreign aid monies paid to countries that hate us. Outside of the trucking industry, some 300 million U.S citizens don't give a fiddler's fiduciary about heavier trucks and side loading, etc. It is unclear to me how heavier or longer trucks will benefit the average citizen. Any cost savings will disappear long before it reaches the consumer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge

These scumbags should be executed. Too bad we in the U.S. are so PC. Otherwise, maybe, say, after execution, their heads could be filled solid and then bronzed. Said bronzed heads could then be be mounted at ground level at a special public site where it is permissible for anyone to wipe their shoes upon them or urinate upon them. IMO.

Not a Bulldog, Daughter's new Ibizan Hound pup. Wirehair version. Cute little bugger for sure.

and the statement could have continued on to say... since criminal attackers will be confident you are unarmed.

Unfortunately we'll never know. Many (including me) believe he was killed because he was in the process of doing away with the Federal Reserve. Excerpted from; http://www.john-f-kennedy.net/thefederalreserve.htm "On June 4, 1963, a virtually unknown Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110, was signed with the authority to basically strip the Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest. With the stroke of a pen, President Kennedy declared that the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. The Christian Law Fellowship has exhaustively researched this matter through the Federal Register and Library of Congress. We can now safely conclude that this Executive Order has never been repealed, amended, or superceded by any subsequent Executive Order. In simple terms, it is still valid. When President John Fitzgerald Kennedy - the author of Profiles in Courage -signed this Order, it returned to the federal government, specifically the Treasury Department, the Constitutional power to create and issue currency -money - without going through the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank. President Kennedy's Executive Order 11110 [the full text is displayed further below] gave the Treasury Department the explicit authority: "to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury." This means that for every ounce of silver in the U.S. Treasury's vault, the government could introduce new money into circulation based on the silver bullion physically held there. As a result, more than $4 billion in United States Notes were brought into circulation in $2 and $5 denominations. $10 and $20 United States Notes were never circulated but were being printed by the Treasury Department when Kennedy was assassinated. It appears obvious that President Kennedy knew the Federal Reserve Notes being used as the purported legal currency were contrary to the Constitution of the United States of America. "United States Notes" were issued as an interest-free and debt-free currency backed by silver reserves in the U.S. Treasury. We compared a "Federal Reserve Note" issued from the private central bank of the United States (the Federal Reserve Bank a/k/a Federal Reserve System), with a "United States Note" from the U.S. Treasury issued by President Kennedy's Executive Order. They almost look alike, except one says "Federal Reserve Note" on the top while the other says "United States Note". Also, the Federal Reserve Note has a green seal and serial number while the United States Note has a red seal and serial number. President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 and the United States Notes he had issued were immediately taken out of circulation. Federal Reserve Notes continued to serve as the legal currency of the nation."

Joseph Stalin — 'Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.' With liberal judges declaring that states cannot require ID in order to vote, the integrity of the vote has been pretty much lost anyway. If we were serious about vote integrity we would require ID, and then after a person votes they must dip their thumb in indelible purple ink dye to identify them as having already voted prevent repeat voting. Just as done in some banana republics.

Yeah, no kidding, It is possible to store compressed hydrogen, but note it isn't all that simple. As a liquid, have to keep the temperature below -252 C. Or how about as a gas with tank pressure 10,000 PSI. Hope they don't put a re-filling station near my house... Read about it at: http://www.mpoweruk.com/hydrogen_fuel.htm which says in part. "There are major design challenges to overcome to find suitable containers for storing Hydrogen. Due to its physical properties, the requirements for storage as a liquid are radically different from the requirements for storage as a gas. For automotive applications, where space and weight limitations apply, these problems can be acute. Whether it is stored as a liquid or a gas, containment is a also problem since Hydrogen molecules are very small and light, they are highly diffusive and tend to permeate through their container even at low pressures. Leakage can also be a potential danger at refuelling stations when fuel tanks are refilled at very high pressures through mechanical dispensing couplings. Nobody wants a Hindenberg disaster when they are refuelling their vehicle. Liquid Hydrogen can be stored at low pressure (0.5 MPa)( 72.5 psi) but must be kept cold. Cooling circuits and insulation are needed to keep it below its boiling point of 20.3°K (-252.9°C) The weight of a tank and cooling system to hold 10 Kg of hydrogen is around 150 Kg. Considerable energy must also be expended to get the temperature down and to keep it there. Because of its low density in gaseous form, even at very high pressure, Hydrogen is not an attractive storage medium on a volumetric basis. For automotive use, the space reserved for fuel storage is limited. To hold sufficient Hydrogen in a reasonable sized container to power a vehicle over the industry benchmark of about 300 miles between regular fuelling stops, the gas must be stored at very high pressure. This needs expensive containment vessels made from carbon fibre or Kevlar capable of withstanding very high pressures of up to 70 MPa (about 10,000 psi). Compressing a gas also requires energy to power the compressor and higher working pressures will mean that more energy will be lost to the compression step.

Wow, that's pretty neat! A truck that will go 1 million miles with ZERO maintenance costs. Holy cow! (Seems unlikely to me.)

The whole idea seems like gubmint overreach to me. States should be able to set their own speed limits taking into consideration the local conditions. That said, my biggest complaint is with discourteous truck drivers who refuse to get the hell out of the way when they have junk trucks unable to maintain speed because they are under-powered or overloaded or both. We have a lot of junk trucks in TX heading to and from the Port of Houston. Recently driving south on I45 from Dallas to Houston, two moron semi drivers rode next to each other for about 20 minutes effectively blocking the interstate. Speed limit 75 but neither one seemed capable to quite make 60 mph. One was unable to get past the other and neither would give way. Two lanes of cars were backed up behind these two idiots for about 10 miles. When you're stuck behind these guys for nearly a half hour you wanna scream.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-administration-wants-speed-limiters-184500854.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufkHt8dgG8I