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Hey, I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Since it was raining Friday and Saturday, kiddo and I decided to take a trip up to Minot (it wasn’t raining there). We go up there a few times a year, and we have a bit of a routine. We stay at the Sleep Inn, because it has a water park and is also attached to the mall. We hit the arcade at the mall, then go to the movie theater to get a tub of popcorn to bring to the room. Then we get up in the morning & hit Charlies Cafe downtown for breakfast. This is one of the best breakfast places I’ve ever been to, and we hit it EVERY time we’re in town. We also stop by Lucy’s Amusement Park on the way out of town for a fun round of mini-golf. We had a great time, as we always do.
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Minnesota Vikings News:
CBS Sports looks into details of the Vikings 2023 training camp schedule.
CBS Sports looks into the biggest red flags for the 2023 contenders. For the Vikings, they list ‘the veteran exodus’ as the biggest red flag. I can see their point, the Vikings DO have a lot of new faces, especially on defense. For me, I see the change-over as necessary. I still believe that it is the correct move to make changes to a defense that has ranked among the bottom of the NFL for the past two to three years. I see no reason to desire continuity in such a disaster.
Florio at PFT looks into the latest alleged Stefon Diggs drama, and wonders if it ‘traces to Josh Allen’.
The Braves topped the Reds yesterday, moving to 23 games over .500, according to MLB.com`. Wow, what a season it’s been thus far! The Braves have the second-best record in baseball, and are the team to beat in the National League. The Twins also won yesterday, as they came back to defeat the Tigers 6-3. The win moves the Twins to one game over .500 and they remain in first place in the ELITE American League Central Division.
Video of the Day:
Here’s something with a little soul, takes me back to my days living in Mississippi. This is Johnny Taylor with Wall to Wall. Enjoy!
I’ve found my new avatar!
Excuse me but WTF is going on with fashion sense in the NFL these days? First Diggs now this shit for brains.
wait…it’s been a thing for awhile hasn’t it.
Too much money and too much time.
Got me. I thought Levis and a form fitting T was a good look. Obviously, i’m behind the times.
“getting ready for the season” 😂
PFT goes even more woke.
No more comments allowed.
But he claims it is still “free speech”. LMFAO
Florio is a left wing nut job, so his free speech will be on full display.
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/welcome-to-the-new-and-improved-and-comment-free-pft
Thanks Brad for allowing real free speech to occur here!!
If no one challenges you on what you say, it makes you feel better about yourself.
Plus their comment systems sucked.
Did they have a z key?
I mean, its NBC so yeah, makes sense.
Yep.
He used to just censor comments he didn’t like.
Now they are not allowed anymore.
Joe Biden has decided to inspire America and enter a bike race….Let’s Go Joe!
Damn!
So I was on vacation last week, had a chance to work on the “screaming deals” the auctioneer told me I got at the farm auction (works great like new he sez).
The power washer wouldn’t start, dumped out the gas that looked like varnish and dismantled the cheap plastic carburetor as best I could and sprayed it all with carb cleaner, put in new gas and a new spark plug, fired right up.
60″ trail mower, started hard (battery at least so I wasn’t yanking away like long duck dong). Wouldn’t throttle up, blades wouldn’t engage. Gas was actually in pretty good shape. Farted around with the throttle linkage and sprayed the carburetor, changed the spark plug and filthy air cleaner, oil looked good. The short belt had popped off the guides so I got under there with monkey paws and got it back on the idler. Started it up got it throttled up and it mowed for about twenty seconds before the short belt snapped. Got a replacement generic belt at hardware store (guy warned me it might not last long) and indeed it broke quickly.
Ordered two OEM belts, took the time to remove the old long belt and check the pulley bearings, jacked it up to remove and sharpen blades. New belts came, got them installed with a minimum of fuss thanks to YouTube, now she runs great. Also welded a hitch onto it cuz it had some weird North Dakota style pin system before. Last thing I need to do is find two tires to replace ones that want to run flat and I’ll be in business.
I know you guys are jealous, you do things on vacation like go to Flathead Lake or Las Vegas, how boring.
LOL.
The circle of life !
I’m hard right now….also
Not jealous at all, but Good for you!! Whatever turns your crank!
I would be hiring a mechanic.
Hiring a mechanic would mean finding a local small engine guy that isn’t booked out for the summer, and hauling this 350 pound dead weight to him after somehow getting it loaded onto a trailer without breaking something while using my pallet forks.
Well you have to find enjoyment fixing things that lazy beta cucks like the man child’s on this board find too bothersome and would rather just have mom & dad, pay someone else to fix it or just buy new. If society ever does go in the shitter these jabronis are screwed blued and tattoo’d.
This is true.
I ordered a replacement engine splash guard panel for my 2018 KIA Sportage, now I have to pay someone 75 dollars to put in on….
Money well spent.
Absolutely.
$75 is way better than scraping your knuckles and hands, leaning over with your back and yelling cuss words that you never used before in your life.
Its not a hard decision.
Isn’t it “carbureteauer” in Canadian?
Definitely not my thing. I am not good at fixing things like that. I would end up paying a gouger to fix my cut up hands.
I made it out of the MN woods alive. A few points to make however:
Too many people live in the Twin Cities area.
Most of them learned how to drive by watching action movies.
It makes me yearn for the days of the “pandemic”.
you heard it here first folks, VP is calling for another pandemic
It needs to be a Biblical sized pandemic, however.
well we know it won’t be by flood.
Maybe Wormwood. Is the star named Wormwood a nuclear device or an asteroid or maybe a comet?
i like to try to figure out what things actually are, when prophesied in the bible. it very well could be a nuclear device.
Wormwood means bitterness.
From the bible, that could mean a whole lot of things.
I mean, our society could be called bitter.
1/3 of the water became bitter/poisonous because of this wormwood comet or angel or whatever it is…
i’m glad i won’t be around for any of this.
So it could be nuclear. Or something beyond what we can understand right now.
could be in 10 years, or 10000 years for all we know.
we think it’s bad now…
but i bet the roman christians thought it was pretty dang bad when nero was setting christians on fire to light his gardens
I find it interesting to think about how different societies could have interpreted some of these scriptures. Up until very recently, no one would have thought that Wormwood could be nuclear. They had no idea what nuclear meant. Also, if you lived in Europe 85 years ago, would you think that the end of days was happening? It would really seem like it at the time.
Correct.
Many people back then thought Hitler was the anti christ.
GOD has incredible patience for his children.
One thing I find fascinating is the line….
“At the final trump…….”
Not sure it means anything, but simply amazing.
More patience than I do, which is a good thing.
what do you think the final form of “the final trump” will be?
a giant huge bad orange man?
I thought we were playing pinochle.
Pinochle…such a great game.
Double Deck, yes.
Single Deck, not so much.
Yeah.
Like a giant macy’s day parade balloon that is so huuuuuge… it moves around the world in an hour.
Well nobody believed Obama when he predicted it in 2014 so why listen now.
Great money to be made off pandemics…I’m sure Wuhan can roll out another manufactured plague so they grifters can suck more blood out of humanity.
money and power.
and mind control, but only over simple minded plebs
last year the state of MN lost about 20k people to negative net migration, not sure about the TC themselves though.
When we were headed north, I’m pretty sure everyone in the TC area was also headed north with their boat and/or camper.
LOL.
That’s how that goes.
Growing up in the Cities, we fled every weekend to the woods.
Yep, traffic is a disaster trying to leave the Cities on Friday afternoon to to up to Breezey Point or Leech Lake or wherever.
Traffic was jammed up at Hudson, so we took some back roads and got on I35 just south of where 35E & W merge. It was still crazy there.
Yeah, its also construction season so you’ve got all kinds of jams, plus let’s not pretend MNDOT designs or schedules anything with our best interests in mind.
Quick look in on Rex Ryans offseason vacation trip…
https://twitter.com/bornakang/status/1673365710947360769?s=61&t=MSJjCAC7RYtUNOadOBqDvw
some people be nasty
Fucking freaks man…..probably gets off on dismembered feet pics. I know I do.
How ya been freezey?
doing really good. getting excited for my vacation to the western portion of montana
dropping the kiddos off in bloomfield, and heading west.
Enjoy the beach!
our rental spot is almost right on flathead lake, so i probably will see some beach
And here I was joking…dumb lib.
i know you were, but it turned it back on you, dum dum lifer
Staying true to the brand is what I do.
Nice.
Please do as I did…honestly…when you first sight Flathead you must strip down to your skivvies and race out into the water (it is what I do at many lakes). Trust me it will be exhilarating.
Just claim pride and strip down all the way. I promise, you won’t get into trouble.
Maybe paint a rainbow somewhere on your body. Just to be “official”.
consider it done.
Freezey and I have the same issue, my original avatar appears as I type a response and then get that ghost avatar after I post.
What in the absolute hell?
https://twitter.com/bheintzskol/status/1673387974833086474?s=20
One of the greatest orators to ever hold the office! Did you ever think someone would make W seem like a great linguist
Had a crisis this morning. Backstory the younger choco is the most food oriented dog I have ever owned, he will do anything for a piece of popcorn. On Saturday the dumbass got into a bag of flour (unopened) that I left on the bottom shelf and looked like Pacino in Scarface. Got the slipper for that transgression.
Finished breakfast and stepped out into the shop to let the dogs lick the remnants of the yogurt cup. The older choco ambles up and peacefully licks, no sign of Bubba. Huh. Oh the dumbass got into the utility room, door shut behind him. I open the door to the sight of him chewing away, had got into a full unopened box of Bar Bait and had managed to get a brick and a third (pound and a third) down his gullet. Yelled for my wife to grab the hydrogen peroxide, hustled him outside, gave him a couple of mouthfuls of that. Got the older dog locked in the studio and freaking out, called and left a message with the vet, wife said Bubba hadn’t thrown up yet, bring him back inside and he threw up the poison and his breakfast in short order, tied him outside and I call poison control while my wife is scooping the piles of vomit into the garbage. Got the mess cleaned up, vacuumed, swiffered while chatting with poison control.
The lethal dose for a dog of his size is about 800 grams. A pound is 454 grams. So he should have been okay even if he hadn’t puked it up.
Dogs I tell ya.
Yikes.
I’m sure yall were freaking out.
Glad it turned out ok.
All of my previous dogs have been acquired at seven weeks of age and are taught food manners at that early age. This guy is a love bug but he definitely weighs risk versus reward when it comes to low hanging fruit. I must redouble my efforts at teaching him not to counter surf or open boxes of “food” in storage.
That would freak me the fuck out….I’m going to have to blame you not the dog for giving him access to poison bait. That shit should be locked up in a canister of some sort. Punishment is a respectable donation to the Greta greenhouse gases non profit.
My wife actually put the bait in that room but I am not bringing that up. I’m sure she knows and feels bad – cuz otherwise I would have got the how could you be so stupid speech already. It is now put away in a plastic container in a cabinet.
Yeah that is a hand you should fold immediately and dare not call out. You’d have an easier time just eating all the bait yourself than go there.
I’m calling Dog protective services
Yup guilty as charged. You can tell he was kenneled a lot before we rescued him, he struggles with having freedom.
Most important part is he’s ok, but what a shitshow that must have been.
Yup it was a lot of words and emotion all running together he’s not throwing up/putyerfinger downhisthroat/hespuking goodboy/yerwalking throughthebarbaitandgettingiteverywhere/itwasdefinitelymorethanabrick tell poison control/yes but he threw it up right away
Anyone see the RFK stuff floating around ?
Like what?
You mean the musclebound stuff?
I mean it’s great that a 70 year old can pump a little Iron.
Still pretty cheesy watching a 70 year old do it.
Pretty good shape for 70
Perhaps instead of a Presidential debate we can have a weight lifting contest.
Considering the participants…
this may be the best method.
I’d asks for a balancing on one leg contest
How about just walking up a flight of stairs and across a stage contest?
That sounds too complicated.
“Those evil sandbags……”
Fore! (well, maybe not in this case)
Falling up stairs is quite a feat.
LOL.
The hypocrisy is oozing………
Oh Greta, great princess of earth and sky…please look upon this great example of natures power and purpose and how we as measly humans are not worthy of it’s example of ecological balance and standing the test of time. I will now as instructed flog myself for 30 days and 30 nights for having just looked upon this great and powerful example of natures power and of our own insignificance.
The branches extend for hundreds of feet along the ground and form what look like separate trees….thing is massive.
If removing the tree was for Greta’s private 23 bedroom mansion, you would be all for it.
Hand me the chainsaw for her there is no line.
That’s pretty cool, where is that?
Angel Oak®The Angel Oak Park is located on Johns Island where you can find what is known as “A Lowcountry Treasure”. The Southern Live Oak tree is a historical site and focal point of one of the City of Charleston’s public parks. It is considered to be the largest Live Oak Tree east of the Mississippi estimating to be 300 to 400 years old.
https://www.charleston-sc.gov/153/Angel-Oak
I’ll check it out if I ever find myself near charleston
Charleston is pretty. Greenville SC is really nice, too. We were down there a few years ago.
You could heat yourself for a better part of the winter with that bad boy.
Nah, that’s that new, eerily similar reality show “Hard Knooks”
Probably the most interesting choice I guess.
Oh god more Rodgers quotes from the celestial in between world.
When we go to Sweden next month, we will be doing some genealogy work. When I find out that I’m related to Greta, I will get lots of pictures of us together and post them for all for you.
Brad, you will have to lock Lifer out on the day I post those pictures however. I don’t want him to hurt himself.
I’ll have to start a frequency schedule to build up my chaffing tolerance.
You cannot escape your destiny….
If you find out you are related to her, will you then use your grandchildren for propaganda?
If I do, will I get a private jet to fly around in? If so, I’m all for it.
You should. It’s for the climate after all…….
Hey DE, do you have Mohs surgery when you have your basal cell carcinomas removed? That’s what I have scheduled for Thursday morning. I figure when they get done I’m going to look like this:
My daughter-in-law posted that on our family text thread.
Yep. I have had Mohs several times.
It looks rough for about a week. Then usually looks mostly normal with a small scar that likely only you would notice.
My dad had some precancerous cells on his cheek – the dermatologist used a can of liquid nitrogen to spray on the spot and freeze it. It blistered, fell off like any layer of dead tissue does after a week or so.
Yep. I have had that as well.
It looks bad for a week, then it mostly heals up back to normal.
I have those, they are called AK’s, and freezing is normal. Have had Mohs surgery four times – 3 basil cells and i squarmous (sp) cell. All went well as DE explained below. Will say though, one was in a spot that didn’t have a lot of excess skin and it was a bit more painful and took longer to heal.
All the best.
Mine in on my nose. I suppose it will depend on how deep it goes below the surface. I just found out from my oldest sister that my maternal grandfather had part of his nose removed due to skin cancer. That would have been way back in the day however, so I’m not sure how sophisticated the surgery was back then.
Hopefully, it will be in the first layer they take off.
It is tougher somewhat on the nose. But this type of surgery has come a long ways. And as DE suggests, if it’s not very deep, may require no stiches and they will simply allow to heal up from inside out.
Hope all works out well for you I’m sure it will.
This is my intelligent, well thought out contribution to the train discussion.
That looks like something that would be posted during pride month.
I aim to please.
I think it’s Biden’s Ocean Train.
Reminds me of the Teddy gif of this
LOL…..
This was actually a thing back in 2014/2015?
HAHHAHAH yeah it was
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Jesse Waitors taking over Tucker’s spot on Fox.
Niceeeeee. He’s solid!
^^^^ focks sux
I’m not sure what focks are or is… but it does sound like it sucks
And just about as irreverent as Tucker.
I stopped watching Fox after 2022.
They have no real desire for anything to change.
Tucker was the only show I would actually watch.
Since they fired him, they are useless and not much different from the other corporate media censors.
Who do you watch now to get your news?
babylon bee
They way our society is these days, this is a great source for humor.
https://babylonbee.com/news/nasa-commits-to-planting-pride-flag-on-the-moon-by-2030
I don’t watch any news shows.
I just surf the internet. Everything on the news is just regurgitated from other sources anyway.
Thanks. Fox is sort of at a crossroads right now and not sure what to do and which way to go.
I get a morning text with all the world event news. Just news, no opinion. I like it, it’s like a morning briefing or something. Service is called 1440 Daily Digest. I’ve been using it for quite a while now, I like it. I don’t see a bias in the news stories.
Thanks. When I worked, I used to get something like that. Now, sort of not sure where to turn. Will give this a try.
It’s hard to find something that isn’t filled with opinion.
Yes. Still try to read WSJ everyday. They have a bent but will put it out both ways.
I stopped watching major network news a LONG time ago.
Yeah.
I haven’t watch “network” news for decades.
Fox at least had a little challenge to the mainstream.
I’m not so sure anymore.
Fox reminds me of the Republican establishment. They talk a different game than CNN, but they work for the same master. They just get the right to lap up their bullshit just like CNN does with the left. They’re both working toward the same goals, IMO. Just like the establishments from each party.
How is this even legal??? Pee in public, you go to jail. Show your junk to kids and nothing?
https://twitter.com/Travis_in_Flint/status/1673063810817486850?s=20
As long as it’s for “pride”.
Totally effed up society.
Preach.
If you’re a tourist and don’t know it’s happening…..
That’s what we found out back in 2019 when we visited San Francisco. They have an annual Naked Bike Ride that goes past Fisherman’s Wharf.
Kids got quite an eyeful.
Used the Blackstone Grill last night for the first time in awhile.
Made chicken, veggies and fried rice. The family ate it all and wanted more.
Have to say, it was pretty damn good. That might be a weekly menu item.
I want to get one of those. Would be perfect for making breakfast.
Highly recommend.
MT and DE will second and third this
Yep.
Probably not the healthiest way to cook, but it is damn good.
Why not?
It’s basically fried food.
Grilled meat is healthier, but i’m not certified to know for sure.
Fired food on a blackstone?
you’re cooking on a cast iron griddle.
I don’t know where the fried comes in
Yep.
It’s not “deep fried” in oil, but you put an oil base down to coat and season the surface.
Perfect for me. Keto is amazing, and bacon fat and avocado oils are both great for griddles.
Definitely. I have two.
My daughter is begging me to do breakfast. Problem is, nobody is home on the weekends to do it.
Kiddo and I like to make breakfast on the weekends.
I love breakfast.
Breakfast foods for dinner is a solid choice.
We will occasionally do ham steak, eggs and hash browns for supper. Good stuff.
You can just buy an attachment for a regular grill too
Yeah. Good point.
I still use my grill for barbeque, but a small attachment might be a better option if you don’t want 2 grills, depending on how often you use them.
Yeah I was really jealous of my brothers blackstone, but its his only grill, I want both options but not two grills.
Still want one of those. Gas grill will be replaced, but probably not until next year. Hard to convince the Mrs when I have 4 different outdoor cooking things. I may need to allow a grease fire on the gas grill next time I make burgers to put her into the acceptance stage….
Unique sales pitch, might work.
Just saw a picture of D Rodman in a short plaid skirt. I wish i had the gift to unsee these days.
He’s been dressing as a woman occasionally for years, he’s just weird.
So tired. Freddy is coming to tuck me in, and I welcome his embrace…
Those movies creeped me out.
Nightmare on Elm Street? LOVE those movies, the original was my introduction to horror, I think. Maybe saw Friday the 13th before that one, I’m not sure.
I’m not a big horror fan. I saw the Nightmare on Elm Street movies back when I was a teen. For some reason, they freaked me out and kind of made me avoid most horror movies for a long time.
The Exorcist is the greatest horror movie of all time, IMO. The Shining is toward the top of the list.
When I was 12ish, I watched all of the available Friday the 13th’s (I believe 4) in a row. Did not sleep well for a few days. However, it de-sensitized me for horror films, now I see them as comedies.
For sure. I went to Cocaine Bear & laughed my a** off.
I laughed a little
That is pretty funny!
They make it a little more narrow so you can stick it up your butt easier.
No kink shaming though
Thank goodness. Loose buttholes is a problem Lifer is concerned about.
Lifer loves loose buttholes
I loose sleep over it.
Time for a micro nap.
Bowbunch is looking for the wide mouth 40 oz if you see any,
LOL
Yeah
0.0 percent chance she gets car jacked in the parking lot!
So my response to the “oh my god” people who are shocked at the sight of a gun is, if it is hidden you will never know you a shopping with a gun owner.
LOL.
But the funnier part was another comment…..
“Yeah. Lesbians have always been able to buy bread dumbass”
Yep, that made me LOL
I’m much more shocked by this guys gun than the ladies above.
You are coming around Lifer……..
Going to go see the angle oak tree….400 yrs old. I’ll get some pics.
Tree pics are like porn to Greta. You should send her some and seal the deal.
I’m hopeful she likes old hard wood.
only thing i know about railroads is when i get stuck at a crossing and think are you serious? we still have trains?
What’s the alternative.
drones I guess…or the disheveled 20 year old with no future plans living with mom and doing deliveries out of his Honda civic.
LOL, yeah. When I worked in a mine we’d fill them to around 100 tons per car with material. There isn’t another way to transport that much in any more efficient manner.
Turning around and finding another route.
i’m being fairly sarcastic. i’m not saying i have an alternative to trains, i’m saying i forget about them until i’m stuck at a crossing. that’s all ben. jeez. settle down.
I don’t remember the last time I got stuck waiting for a train, but I’m 100% sure it was a huge inconvenience and made me late.
I get stuck waiting for a train a couple of times a week.
That seems like a lot, but then I don’t live or work near any RR tracks.
So are we just going to rebrand this website as a PGA chat room?
Great idea…I’ll speak with Greta and get back to you.
Thanks
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kfey being a baby, what’s new
<3
Clowns always be crying ya know?
I am sure once real practices start the PGA and golf talk will diminish a bit.
Unless I finally break 90. I will have to remind people about that daily.
Just like I do with my Kirk opinion.
As you should and will good sir.
Well We could talk about cooking pork chops 0r iron steaks or something.
LOL, WTF, Long John Silver’s and Big Trouble In Little China are trending on Twitter, peak 80’s.
Yeah the natives were wonder what segment of the populace is keep LJS afloat. My momma loved her some LJS as did I but she’s dead (now we know why) and I haven’t eaten there in 30 yrs.
Yeah, someone’s eating there, though it isn’t me. Closest I’ve come in the last 30 years is going to KFC that was also a LJS. RIP to your mom, I do remember not that long ago a report came out that their food was the worst in USA as far as how bad it was for you.
Yes and mom was well aware of that she’d read the nutritional facts when they became required to be available to the public and it did not deter her from her love of deep fried fish.
does anyone really read the nutritional facts. Still stop by KFC once in a while – will always love fried food.
Love me a fried chicken sandwich.
Wherever we go out, that’s usually the first thing I look for on the menu.
A couple of years ago, a report came out showing there was no tuna DNA in a Subway tuna salad sandwich.
Was it all dolphin?
I thought Big Trouble in Little China was a fun movie.
Not a good movie, but a very fun movie.
Never really cared for LJS. Taco bell was my go-to in the 80s.
25 cent tacos/burritos…… feeling old.
I liked it growing up as a kid, I haven’t seen it in quite a while but it was classic Kurt Russell. I never ate Taco Bell as a kid, only Taco John’s, I’m mostly still that way.
Grilled meat and potato breakfast burrito (chorizo) from Taco Johns is way better than anything at Taco Bell.
Taco bell was more prevalent and open past bar close.
Old school Zantigo was decent drunk food also.
Yeah, growing up we had TJ’s in town, closest TB was about an hour away. I have never heard of Zantigo.
I stopped eating Taco Bell when I saw the semi with the logos from Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut on the trailer – under them it said “GRADE D MEAT – STILL EDIBLE”
Didn’t they find human feces in the meat at a Taco Bell one time?
I don’t remember that, but there was a place in England that was found to have a small percentage of horse meat mixed in.
Interesting, I googled the story about Grade D meat and Snopes says it is false. I personally saw that semi near Baltimore back in the late 90s, so I don’t know what to think – someone did some cancelling.
I’ve hauled kill cattle to the kill plant before.
Have I mentioned that I don’t eat meat out of the store very often & rarely eat fast food?
I feel blessed.
I have never eaten at a LJS and have no clue what Big Trouble in Little China is.
More trains, less pipelines!
Saturday’s train derailment in Montana was the fifth incident this year
I think that bridge is broken.
All the press releases have just said there was a derailment. Um, I think that’s a bit more than a simple derailment.
Yeah, I’m no geologist, but there seems to be some structural issues with that bridge.
I read this morning that the traffic bridge that used to sit right next to it and was built at the same time was decommissioned 2 years ago because the foundation was unstable.
Nah. Pete Buttfilled doesn’t waste his time on trains…..
https://nypost.com/2022/12/12/pete-buttigieg-flew-almost-20-times-on-taxpayer-funded-private-jets/
And Biden wants an Ocean Train from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean.
The Indian Ocean is nothing compared to the power of the mighty Yellowstone.
Railroad lobbies have paid the dirty politicians to not have to adhere to safety regulations and invest in infrastructure maintenance. Rail is a very good method of transportation but like anything some percentage of profits have to be re-invested back in to the infrastructure.
Rail is a horribly inefficient and unreliable method of transportation.
Lol…it is exactly the polar opposite of what you’re saying. The sheer metric tonnage you can transport over rail is far and away the most economical and environmentally the best method of transport.
Now if you mean because theres been a lack of investment in new rails lines and safety adherence then yes its woefully under invested.
Have you ever dealt with having things delivered or shipped via rail? Obviously not or you wouldn’t question my statement. Railroads are unreliable and inefficient. Transport times are minimum 10x longer than trucking or pipeline, and that’s best case scenario so like 90% of the time. If you can wait indefinitely until the RRs decide to deliver your products then yes, rail is typically a cheaper option. A semi delivery of something from Billings to Minnesota for example will take about a day, if that. That same trip for the RR is about 10-14 days.
I’m not talking about you getting your amazon shipment of extra wide butt plugs. We’re talking commercial and industrial sized shipments of materials in the metric 1000’s of tons for which rail is perfect but again read this part….needs further investment.
bowbunch, you get extrawide buttplugs????
Of course, its pride month after all
lol….yes apparently it is.
No shit Sherlock. I deal with the RR every day. Industry still relies on inputs. No inputs = no products. No level of investment is going to make it more efficient. Safe, reliable, economically beneficial, maybe, efficient no. Reliable does not equal efficient and the main reliability issues are personnel, not infrastructure.
So what’s the best way to transport 100,000 tons of crude oil across the country?
A pipeline.
And until the pipeline exits let alone getting the right party in power that will allow for one.?
That wasn’t your question. As of now they are stuck with the RR because Warren Buffet owns the politicians and the RRs (including this one). This collapse has made an inefficient mode of transportation even more so, indefinitely.
Duh I could have probably figured out that a pipeline is best. But since that doesn’t exist, the question was the best option given what presently exists.
I was not trying to play gotcha or be a wiseass. I know vert little about this and was just interested.
The only option is the RR, which is part of the problem. That bridge isn’t getting repaired any time soon. Quite a bit of oil from North Dakota goes over that bridge every day on it’s way to west coast refineries. Now, you get to reroute it through a couple other rails and add a week or two transit time. At least if there was a pipeline and that had a problem, there would be rail for backup. Coal, grain, etc doesn’t have much backup option other than trucking. New cars, windmills, airplanes, all getting delayed weeks now.
It can be more efficient with more investment in rail lines so we’re saying the same thing I believe. It’s not the best option now but could be better if not for the Railroad Barons from the turn of the century who amassed wealth and political power and then sat on their profits bought Washington DC and now just collect subsidies and clear profits for life. Capitalists a love story.
It really can’t be any more efficient based on the way it works and has to be done. When you are collecting multiple products from multiple places, it takes time. That must then be combined into a train that can only go so fast and then that train stops multiple times along its trip to get more cars or drop cars, all of which takes a lot of time. With limited track, all of these movements must be scheduled in such a way as to allow traffic both ways further delaying travel. This all assumes everything is done efficiently and correctly, that cars are picked up from an industry when they are ready, they are taken to the right yard, they are then put on a train, that that train is the right one and then that train makes it to the next yard in time to catch the next switch to it’s destination.
I do believe you to be wrong about this one bow.
Currently, yes, the RR can be a big pile of shit. No doubt about it.
There is more at hand than just the RR though. Would the RR love to expand? Sure. The gubmint/people will not allow it.
Why do we have a highway system transporting people when we could have ultra efficient railroads doing so? Gubmint regulations and red tape.
Moving oil by rail is stupid especially when pipelines do exist but there is no other way to move that amount of freight that amount of distance for less.
One simply has to look at China and Europe to see how they have invested in rail infrastructure and the benefits.
We should do the exact opposite of what commies and socialists do.
Never owned a German or Japanese car I see. They’re better than American period.
I think the hang up here is “efficient”. I’m not talking money wise. It is the most economical way to move lots of material, that does not make it physically efficient and reliable. If you want to but something from me and you need it as soon as possible. It will be shipped via 3 trucks over 1 railcar. I could have those 3 trucks to your door before a railcar gets filled, much less shipped. If you need product, you truck it. If you can wait a month, you rail it. Unless you are a large industry and built your business around the RRs, you will still need to truck the product since you are likely not next to a switch yard as well.
For moving liquids like oil and gas sure.
What else can you move 20k+ trailing tons on less than few thousand gal of diesel fuel?
Is anyone else having issues with images and tweets not showing up for them? I can see them on my phone but not my PC. Weird. Filters must be cranked up or something here.
Only issue I’m having so far is that Freeze’s picture is just words the say FreezeFace. I think that started on Friday.
yes I’ve been looking for a pic of this lady’s snatch and I can’t find it. Fix it now!
Yeah not working well
Goat (never won shit yet) ((except at life he’s won))
-five
he’s prettier than she is
That’s why he’s five’s jerk poster above his bed.
he’s too fat for five
True dat
Don’t know about his football, but seems to have good tastes when it comes to women.
Sure does…
his football is actually incrementally improving since urban left. I saw some really good improvement last year. Now with Ridley back that’s a really solid WR corp.
Last eight were very good, before that pretty meh.
What an ugly background for a picture.
Looks like a shitty parking lot that’s been overtaken by weeds.
Looks like a sandy version of North Dakota.
Oh, that’s a beach? WTF is with all the weeds? Is that Kudzu?
Has as many playoff wins as kirk.
And clearly his girl friend is better endowed than JC.
yes because the only measure of a QB is playoff winzzzzzzzz.
Lauraence had like 6 ints in that playoff win didn’t he? Yeah…waaaaaaay better than Kirk.
Yeah, threw 4 picks first half, 4 TDs second half, kinda like the Vikes Colts game only in the playoffs. Either way, neither he or Kirk have ever won shit.
Already better than Kirk. Play off win. Will go deeper in play offs in 23 as well
Good lord the hip rotation from this kid is mind boggling. 193 is about 10 mph faster than Rory.
My hips don’t do that. Shot another fricking 92 yesterday….took 9s on both hole 9 and hole 18, otherwise played pretty well. On the front 9 I was at a 36 coming into hole 9.
I’m dealing with the exact same issue… last hole or last couple holes per side loose focus and post a triple or worse.
I hit a hole-in-one on Saturday.
mini golf is the best
It really is. We played indoor mini-golf at the arcade at the mall. Then we played outdoor at Lucy’s. I hit my hole-in-one at the indoor course. That one at Lucy’s is challenging.
we went last weekend, mrs freeze had 4 of them. she beat me by one. my kids are actually getting pretty good at it as well
Through the windmill and off the Clown Shoe?
No, that windmill hole always gets me.
334 Yards of carry is insane.
9 out of 10 amateurs will slice the crap out of the ball trying to unwind their hips like that.
Confirmed this guy is a goddamn fool…
he’s a…
LOL, WTF are those things? Rich people do goofy shit.
there’s a few poor folks that do too.
Oh yes, that is correct.
I remember all of the Vikings fans warning the Bills fans that this would happen to them eventually. They were so arrogant, saying he will love playing in Buffalo and the only reason he wanted out of Minnesota was because Minnesota sucks.
just got done watching Defending Jacob, really good show, super sad but well acted.
just started Silo. SUPER good so far. reminds me of something (being told one thing, when something else is happening, “for the good ad safety of the people”) can’t quite put my finger on it though…..
Yeah well in to Silo….I like the lady lead who’s the MI6 agent in the Mission Impossible franchise now. It drags at times and is predictable but interesting on the mind / behavioral control aspect.
yes she is a good actress. i enjoy her as well.
i have all sorts of theories and ideas about it all, excited to finish it out
Is that Rebecca Ferguson? She’s not too bad on the eyes.
Yes…red head hazel eyes…I’m putty in their hands.
I might have to try Silo. Never heard of it. Where can you watch it? Netflips?
appletv
I don’t have that.
bananatv?
I have Primes, Netflips, and there’s one other one that we have that I can’t remember right now.
Oh, and Disneys, we have that too.
Well we are living in a banana republic
I like their clothes.
I used to work there, got 50% off employee discount at BR, Gap, and Old Navy.
Tells you everything you need to know about markup……..
Good Morning fellow stupid libs
i was in culvers on saturday and someone was yelling about how we traded kirk cousins for trey lance and a first.
as someone not on twitter, i tried to figure out if he was speaking the truth, which he obviously wasn’t….but it definitely had me going for a bit. I texted my friends who have twitter and were like you are an idiot dude (tell me something i don’t know)
LOL, you are an idiot dude
i was an idiot coming directly here to see if anyone of you idiots were talking about it
normalizing disgusting things. that’s exactly what the left wants to happen.
indoctrinate kids early so that they think this behavior is normal. pedos, all of them.
no! they are just showing pride! PEDO PRIDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Yeah it’s way past the point of inappropriate now. This is where cops should be enforcing indecent exposer laws that are on the books. But they look the other way because people will sue the city for infringement of rights. The right is no better with the Nazi’s and proud boy shit…we’re done.
https://twitter.com/thepoliticalpom/status/1673295375338291202?s=61&t=MSJjCAC7RYtUNOadOBqDvw
Unreal.
Pathetic and obtrusive. Our society is in the downward slide to chaos.
This tends to happen at the end of a civilization. The next step is collapse, chaos and destruction before a new civilization is born. It won’t be pretty.
I agree, scary.
If i saw this when my kids were growing up i’d shove a GD cattle prod up his ass.
he might want that
Look at the picture closer – he already removed the bike seat…….
Nope, not doing it.
I almost fell for it and quickly noped out of it.
I wonder if it would be ok if some guy was walking around their neighbor in the buff and handing out candy to their kids?
Yes, if a naked straight guy rode up to a bunch of kids on his bike, he would be arrested.
Worse than the guy doing this are the parents who let their kids watch, even cheer it on.
Parents that take their children to this kind of thing should have their children taken away from them.
Yeah, no clue why TF someone would take a kiddo to something like that. Dumbasses.
Cuz if you don’t then you are a bigot.
Weren’t we just talking about this? Now another one?
ingested makes it sound…..idk if it’s better or worse haha
I believe the first headline of “sucked the fuck up” was deemed to be too inappropriate.
So they went with ingested.
and if i wrote it i would have said “sucked the frick up”
Ingested? Odd choice of wording. I guess that’s shadow referencing the worker was shit back out.
Definition: ingestion is the consumption of a substance by an organism.
I believe that’s the standard terminology, ingestion of FOD (foreign object debris). As in doing a FOD walk on the deck of an aircraft carrier to prevent ingestion of said FOD.
Again? Planes are hungry.
The AI is beginning to take over and the machines are rising.
It’s only a matter of time. That stuff is scary as hell. Why on earth did they ever allow that to connect to the internet?
GF, the next couple of days should be fun with the Braves playing the Twins.
Too bad it isn’t in Minnesota, we’d be there for that series. We were in town for the last one the Braves played there, but that was quite a few years ago. I wore my Maddux jersey, wife had her Twins jersey on.
Never know, the Twins ARE leading their division.
Best of the worst. My son and I are hoping to go to one of the Reds Twins games. My son played against Brandon Williamson all through school.
Oh wow, that would be cool. Reds are having a decent year, sitting atop a meh division.
Urban and Belichick looking the other way on a player who was a straight dirtbag.
But hey, look at that 40 time!
Has Kamara been suspended yet?
I don’t believe so. It’s only been 3 years, they’re still looking into it.
Too bad there wasn’t video of it to help speed up the investigation.
Can they suspend the vice-president?
I wish
Gm
FTP
Lol…GA Skol is in Amsterdam traveling ran in to packer fans from WI who were bragging their cheese is better. 😂
Saw that.
im glad the WI folks that frequent these parts are cut from the High Class Vikings Fan cloth, than that dirty, rotten, sheep loving, packer fan cloth.
We’re just better, more highly evolved humans.
Morning.
FTP
SKOL
Yawners. Woke up at 2 a.m., and that was it for the night. Going to be a lot of micro-naps happening at work today…
Read a study over the weekend that showed people (typically Europeans, Asians that do) as they age take daily micro naps slow the shrinking and hardening of the brain (normal occurrence as we age) by 7% to 10% compared to those that do not take naps.
Makes perfect clinical sense that the daily resting of the brain, quick dive in to rem sleep, would be immensely beneficial. These silly Americans culture of he or she that works the longest, hardest is committed and more successful only to end up with dementia and a poor quality of life the last 1/3 of their life. Not worth it.
^^^^ those are boomer traits.
Yes because the fallacy when young that getting old is so far off in to the future and not a worry. Stupid fucking kids.
Dumb boomer kids.
If I’d have known I was gonna live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.
Thanks for posting this info. I thought I was just getting old and thus my napping.
It should be like a workout regimen, 3x-4x a week nap in the middle of the afternoon.
A sensible post by Lifer, I hate it when you do that!
Thanks for the additional info…There has long been plenty of evidence that micro naps (10 to 20 minutes) are healthy and actually increase worker productivity. I hadn’t seen the brain shrinkage thing yet.
I have difficulty taking a micro nap. If I go down for a nap, I’m out for 1.5 to 2 hours.
If I’m camping, I can zonk out for a long time. If I’m at home, I might catch an hour at the most.
That’s one in a row
I don’t think you hit REM sleep when you nap, do you?
you do not, but napping is still beneficial as long as it doesn’t interfere with your night time sleep.
I can hit REM sleep in about 2 minutes. I’m a professional.
I think you are mistaking REM for that other activity you accomplish in less than 2 minutes.
That could be.
*certified
I agree. I never used to nap, but I’ve gotten to where I can occasionally, especially if we’re camping. I love napping in the hammock, it has a bug screen on it & everything.
Mountain naps are the best. Lawn chair at camp or just sit against a tree.
Yepper
I’ve napped in my kayak before
That sounds sketchy and asking for a brutal awakening.
Not on the river, out at the lake. Can lay back & relax in that Hobie, really comfortable seats.
Actually you can and do. 45-60 min is when you typically hit rem sleep. I wasn’t talking about 10 min power naps.
Also you can go in to rem within a shorter period if you’re sleep deprived.
If I could take a daily nap around 1 p.m., my quality of life would improve by about 95 percent. I kid you not.
Who cares.
We are all going to be dead from Climate Change in 5 years.
Just Party dude.
First! From Fredonia, NY….
This Freedonia?