One sees every day!
1930 Model A Ford pickup!!!
Obviously still a work in progress, but it’s ALL METAL! There isn’t a single piece of plastic on this one!
The body is a ‘little rough’, but what do you expect for almost 100 years old? It looks like he’s got the first primer coat on, and just wanted to ‘enjoy’ driving it on one of the few nice days we’ve had lately!
I would have loved to see what motor he had in it, but…I couldn’t wait around to see who it belonged to.
Bubblewrap anyone???
Beth Widner is a mother who lives in Canton, a middle-class suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. She has four kids, whom she homeschools while her husband, Glenn, telecommutes.
In August of 2018, the Widner kids—then ages 13, 11, nine, and seven—were members of a swim team at their local YMCA, which was about two blocks from their house. One day, after swim practice, the 7-year-old, Jackson, lagged behind while the rest of his siblings walked home, and stopped by the grocery for a free cookie.
Full article, HERE from Reason.com
This…just pisses me off. I know I’m old, but dammit, when I was little, we expected to be able to go see our friends by ourselves, in addition to walking to school, and/or riding our bikes everywhere. It was 8 blocks to elementary school, and 10 blocks to one of my best friend’s houses.
And we were doing that in the third grade! Because we were expected to do what we were told, and had the ‘responsibility’ to be allowed to do those things on our own. Was it perfect?
Hell no! I got hit by a car one morning walking to school (it was actually snowing, but I ‘thought’ I was far enough off the road to be okay). I got knocked into the ditch, bell got rung, and I got taken to the doctor, but no serious injuries. One of my friends got hit on his bike by a teenager who ran a stop sign, and he DID end up in the hospital. Another friend ended up shooting himself in the thigh with his .22 while crossing a fence.
And yes, we had .22s, used to strap them to our handlebars and ride down the creek to shoot in the woods. Because we were responsible for ourselves!
All our parents knew each other, and if we did something wrong, we got our butts whipped by whatever parent caught us, the got whipped when we got home, and lost privileges!
Today? If your kids are ‘out of sight’, you are in trouble… CPS, nosy neighbors, etc. will get you hauled off or your kids taken away. Two years ago, I was out helping youngest daughter when she got operated on and it snowed. So the grands were playing in the snow and some of their friends from the cul-de-sac came over to slide down the yard and in the street (it was snowing heavily and NOBODY was driving). Even though we were watching the kids, because ‘I’ wasn’t known to the mother, she came out and sat with us because I ‘might’ be a bad guy.
All I could do was shake my head at her comment…
But I will admit I can see the paranoia now being generated by the left, the MSM, and .gov as they do their damnest to throttle any initiative, responsibility, or adventure for the young kids. And a benefit is forcing the families to ‘watch’ the kids every minute.
But the kids don’t get a chance to play, eat mud, have ‘adventures’ with their friends, play cowboys and indians, or king of the hill, or anything else we did… And the other downside is the kids have many more vulnerabilities/allergies than we did, because they don’t get dirty, or play with animals, etc…
Sigh…
Some good links in this article!
Not only do today’s car buyers have to pick what brand, color and features they want, they must now also choose among a dizzying array of propulsion systems.
Why it matters: This is what car-buying will be like for the foreseeable future amid the messy, multi-decade transition from gasoline to electric vehicles (EVs).
Full article, with embedded links, HERE from Axios.com
As usual, one of the biggest issues is charging, or lack thereof…
And I personally don’t believe 20% of rural vehicles are EVs! That I know of in our little town of 6500, there are a total of TWO EVs. Two…
And as discussed before, the average subdivisions don’t have enough power coming to them to actually charge an EV in every home. And older homes by and large don’t have 200A service to them, which is a requirement.
Much less the horror stories about actual towing mileage on EV pickups… Snort…
What is it they say, if you can’t say anything good…
I was wondering
Smacks SFO in the face…
People are not satisfied with the San Francisco city government’s progress in providing reparations to descendants of African Americans who have suffered historical discrimination, according to a new report.
Although a city government panel proposed monetary reparations for eligible Black residents last year – with some potentially receiving $5 million, “So far, all they’ve received is an apology,”
Full article HERE.
I’m guessing that $68 Billion shortfall in California budget, and apparently SFO’s ‘reallocation’ of $75 Million in their city budget doesn’t leave anything for reparations…
Of course the left is in a high hover over this, and blaming anybody they can.
But the truth is, there isn’t any money to actually pay what these people are demanding, much less a way to actually verify eligibility, that I know of.
Another report on the Disney debacle…
The Walt Disney Company is facing accusations that the company has misled shareholders by promoting a “woke political and social agenda” at the expense of profits.
America First Legal (AFL), a group aligned with former President Trump, sent Disney a letter Wednesday alleging that the company has engaged in unlawful discrimination and pushed political causes that have caused “damage to Disney’s brand, properties, and commercial reputation by management’s manufactured misalignment between its woke political and social agenda and the vast majority of the Company’s customers.”
Full article, HERE from Fox. h/t Stretch
$100 BILLION hit is pretty significant, and yes, if ‘I’ were a shareholder, I’d be worried about my dividends.
Of course all this will be blamed on the conservatives and Trump, because Disney is toeing the line for the left and their ‘agenda’.
I miss the Disney of old, and the toons we used to be able to watch on Saturday morning. Mighty Mouse, Wile E. Coyote (and Acme!), Tom & Jerry, Foghorn Leghorn, Bugs Bunny, Moose and Squirrel, etc.
And as far as I know, none of us turned into child killers, or malcontents because of the ‘aggression’ in those toons… Or the old Disney movies, Fantasia, Bambi, Cinderella, Song of the South, etc.
Oh yeah, good luck finding any of them today…
Sigh…
It is Easter Sunday, and all that entails for Christians around the world.
Take the day and remember, spend the time with your loved ones if you can, and say a prayer for those who have the duty wherever they may be.
Considering that I had to file a ‘hail’ claim for my roof this week, this story is MUCH worse…
An onslaught of hail in southeastern Texas that destroyed large portions of a massive solar farm is highlighting the perils of trading traditional power sources for vulnerable “green” alternatives and sparking concern about the potential for chemical leaks from the broken panels.
Aerial footage captured the significant damage suffered by the Fighting Jays Solar farm in Fort Bend County, Texas. The March 15 storm shattered hundreds of panels and prompted a nearby resident to question if the solar panels were leaking chemicals such as cadmium telluride, which is linked to serious health risks in humans.
Full article, HERE from Fox.
And the biggest hail we saw was golf ball sized! I’m betting the hail down south was even bigger! And the costs will probably be between $500000 and $1000000 to replace those, plus how much time to replace them?
And that means no output for how long?
Soooo, how’s that green energy working out now? And who’s going to pay to fix it???
Smarter Than A 70 Year Old?
Some of you might actually remember. So have some fun my sharp-witted friends. This is a test for us ‘older kids’! The answers are below the fold, (after the questions) but don’t cheat! answer them first…..
This time on SATs…
Teenagers are getting bogus ADHD diagnoses to score extra time in standardized testing exams — and numbers are surging after the tests were reintroduced by elite Ivy League colleges.
Parents are taking their children to doctors and psychologists for letters saying they have the condition or other mental disabilities, then getting as much as 50% more time to take the tests.
It can mean a 200-point boost to an SAT score, one expert said.
Full article, HERE from the NY Post.
What happened to just studying???
And with the crap being taught in the Ivy League schools, why would one want to go there?
I know I’m old, but I don’t remember either study guides or faked up medical diagnosis back when we took them. We were expected to study (on our on at home, no less) and it was one shot and done. No retakes that I can remember.
I guess the participation trophy crowd can’t stand to not get that one more participation ‘trophy’ of a high SAT score.
And pay way too much for a substandard education, qualifying them to ask if you want fries with your meal, unless you’re in California, where there won’t be any jobs for kids or recent grads because restaurants can’t afford to pay them $20/hr to show up when they want to work (if they bother to get up)…
But this administration is determined to ‘waive’ all those students loans, so ‘we’ can pay for them to get that edumacation… sigh…