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@George-K said in The most beautiful thing you'll see today - a 1966 Corvette:
@Doctor-Phibes pretty much what I said, right?
OK, but it meant that people happily bought gas-guzzling muscle cars even though it cost as much as it does now to run them. Your comment implied it was a lot cheaper back then so nobody worried about gas.
@George-K said in The most beautiful thing you'll see today - a 1966 Corvette:
@Axtremus said in The most beautiful thing you'll see today - a 1966 Corvette:
How many miles per gallon does it get?
10-15 mpg.
My 1968 Mustang (Inline-6) got about 12-13 mpg.
Gas was 24¢ or so per gallon.
@Mik said in It’s melt week!:
We will be in the 40s and 50s. Goodbye hideous snow. We haven’t had snow on the ground for over three weeks in n decades.
In 2015, we still had snow melting in parking lots in July.
This, as the saying goes, is nothing!
It's no secret that I'm pretty pissed off with my job at the moment for a number of reasons, but I need the work to pay for the family. I can also see the light at the end of the tunnel. Despite my kidding around I'm not really somebody who would feel happy goofing off, but it's felt a bit one-way of late.
What rather concerns me is that not one but two people my age that I worked with died last week. I've long had this fear that I'll get hit by the metaphorical bus on the way home from my retirement party.
@Klaus said in What’s the worst thing you eat regularly?:
A Döner maybe once a month.
These can be lethal
JFK's no picnic either.
I once spent the first night of my British family vacation sleeping on the floor in JFK. And it wasn't the floor once you get through security, it was the floor of the public bit prior to that, filled with 'interesting' people. To make things even better, I had to spend the entire next day there waiting for my 9pm flight, unwashed and unloved. By the time I got to Paris, I was so jetlagged and exhausted that I inadvertently cleaned my teeth with the handsoap in the bathroom. I actually thought there were toothpaste machines in the men's room. I'm still not sure why.
“We have entered the golden age of America largely thanks to President Trump’s leadership,”
I'm not sure that the golden thing he's just entered is an age.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Bolton:
If Fauci hadn't had a 6m/year SS detail, nobody would have raised an eyebrow. It's not an obvious thing that "of COURSE Fauci would have a 6m/year SS detail!". But news that Trump terminated this thing that nobody would have assumed existed, well, opportunistic shaming is opportunistic. Anyway, maybe GK's link is right, and it was already terminated under the Biden admin.
It's amazing how quickly left-leaning people have learned of the inalienable right of public figures to have permanent 6m/year secret service details. I bet the thought had never crossed anybody's mind, until it played a role in shame dunking against orange man.
I really don't mind them losing the details, but let's not try and pretend this isn't personal for your guy.
I won't pretend that it can't be framed that way. I'd like to see a list of comparable people who Trump has allowed to keep the free bodyguards. I guess O'Brien is one. Is the list populated by Trump boot-lickers? That would be the narrative, so I'd like to see the list.
Do you honestly think a detailed analysis is needed? Everybody can see how personally your man takes everything. It's actually pretty funny. I'll save my outrage for later. I'm sure something will crop up.
If Fauci hadn't had a 6m/year SS detail, nobody would have raised an eyebrow. It's not an obvious thing that "of COURSE Fauci would have a 6m/year SS detail!". But news that Trump terminated this thing that nobody would have assumed existed, well, opportunistic shaming is opportunistic. Anyway, maybe GK's link is right, and it was already terminated under the Biden admin.
It's amazing how quickly left-leaning people have learned of the inalienable right of public figures to have permanent 6m/year secret service details. I bet the thought had never crossed anybody's mind, until it played a role in shame dunking against orange man.
I really don't mind them losing the details, but let's not try and pretend this isn't personal for your guy.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg49jz7v8no
President Donald Trump has revoked security protection for former top US health official Anthony Fauci, who has faced death threats since leading the country's Covid-19 response.
"You can't have a security detail for the rest of your life because you work for government," Trump told reporters, when asked about the decision on Friday. "It's very standard."
This week, Trump also revoked security protections for his former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, his former National Security Adviser John Bolton and former envoy Brian Hook, who all faced threats from Iran.
Dr Fauci has now hired his own private security team that he will pay for himself, US media report.
Asked whether he felt responsible for the officials' safety, Trump said on Friday: "They all made a lot of money. They can hire their own security too."
Dr Fauci was previously protected by federal marshals, and then a private security company, which was paid for by the government, according to the New York Times.
One of Dr Fauci's most vocal Republican critics, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, had called for his security to be revoked.
He wrote in a post on X on Thursday that he had "sent supporting information to end the 24 hr a day limo and security detail for Fauci".
"I wish him nothing but peace but he needs to pay for his own limos," he said.
Trump has also revoked the security clearances of 51 intelligence officials who had claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."
Apparently he's just pulled Fauci's security detail.
Again, I'm sure this was policy driven. It strikes me that guy's at higher risk than most.
Nobody who claims to understand it has ever been able to explain bitcoin to me so that I can understand it. Admittedly, I felt much the same way about quantum mechanics, although at least in that case the professional dorks could back up their claim with third order non-linear differential equations.
So either I'm really stupid or they don't actually get it. Obviously, both could also be true.
If I give them a $20 for something that costs $19.99, how are they going to give me change?
So, they'll have to charge $20, further increasing inflation!
Rocket-man didn't think of that, did he? He probably doesn't care. They could eliminate $20 bills and that rich asshole wouldn't even notice.
@LuFins-Dad said in What’s the worst thing you eat regularly?:
@Doctor-Phibes said in What’s the worst thing you eat regularly?:
Not Aqua's sister?
I was waiting for that one…
Somebody gave Mrs. Phibes a glass with 'I've had worse things in my mouth' written on it for her birthday. If the vicar ever visits, he's going to get it for his orange juice.
We do Nespresso pods for coffee. I like it a lot better than the Keurig stuff or even the French press option, but it's not cheap. Last week we ran out and I stumbled across some instant coffee tucked away in a cupboard. It was fairly awful, but I forced it down anyway.
Not Aqua's sister?
I thought I'd get the innuendo out of the way before I said hot Italian sausage. Also, toffee ice cream.
I'm currently eating a foot-long Italian sandwich for lunch and I hate myself.
Mrs. Phibes has a weekly shopping plan that she does at Target. I tend to just go when we run out of something, or if I want something that isn't approved of.
We don't currently have a functioning kitchen in the main part of the house, so cooking is a bit of a PITA as I have to go into the basement apartment. Next spring this should change, finances permitting.
@George-K said in Almost all of it...:
I've seen worse. Remember when Levin "interviewed" him? Yikes.
You mean this?
