Intarwebz is out again…
First 8 winners in the LawDog raffle have been drawn and notified. Waiting for them to make their choices.
Go read the folks on the sidebar, hopefully signal will be back sometime this morning.
Seen the same day… Both are 1931 Model As…
Restored to original…
And the ‘hot rod’ version… Chopped, channeled, and powered by a 327 Chevy V-8
I can’t imagine somebody doing this to something like a Prius in 90 years (assuming there are even any left)…
And the way .gov regulation is going, hot rodding ANYTHING will be harder to do, with all the new ‘requirements’ for computer controls, regulation of programming/programmers, and ‘auto reset’ built into the ECUs on cars so that even if somebody CAN get in, the car will revert to stock on the next start up.
Yes, these old beasts required leaded gasoline, which means a search for a substitute for the lead that can be added to the current unleaded (and lower octane stuff).
Chemists discovered in the 1920s that Tetraethyllead added to gasoline was a cost-effective solution to pre-ignition and helped engines run better.
Lead also emerged as an effective way to protect against valve-seat recession, which can occur under high-rpm, high-heat, high-load conditions.
As the intensely hot exhaust valve hammers against the valve seat thousands of times per minute, the two components can momentarily fuse together in a process called “microwelding.”
Once the valve opens, the microweld tears apart. Multiply this by thousands of times and the valve seat deteriorates until the valve no longer seats properly. This leads to compression and power loss, in addition to catastrophic failure if the valve breaks off.
And it’s even worse in California… 108 Octane Sunoco gas has been declared ‘race fuel only’, not allowed on the streets!!! sigh…
The GiveSendGo is closed, and we’ll be doing the raffle for the items over the next couple of days! THANK YOU to all those who donated to the GiveSendGo, Ian has enough (right around $44,000), to pay the lawyer, his expert witnesses, and take care of other expenses he’s incurred.
Our little raffle here is a bit of payback for those who donated- The links, HERE, HERE, and HERE are pictures/descriptions of what is going to up as prizes for the winners of the raffle.
A truncated list is here-
| 300 WinMag rifle |
| Mossberg 590A1 |
| S&W Shield 9mm |
| Mead Hall training |
| 1960s SF novels |
| Springfield .45 Fully Loaded |
| 1960s Western Auto 30-30 |
| Beretta model 1935 |
| Custom CC/Messenger bag |
| More SF novels |
| Chainmaille die |
| Billet-15 5.56 AR |
| Boker V-42 Stiletto |
| BigBoy 4014 picture |
| Ladies Ring Diamond |
| Ladies Ring Topaz |
| Reiki Mala |
| Home Electrical work |
| Movie poster Dune |
| Movie poster Beastmaster |
| Custom rifle sling Black |
| Custom rifle sling Brown |
| Dice/Jewelry bags A |
| Dice/Jewelry bags B |
| Dice/Jewelry bags C |
| Cloche hat for woman |
| AR pattern rifle in .338 Spectre |
| H and R Topper 158 combo |
| Murderneedles |
| Dragon Dangles |
| Sword and knife books |
| Holster RH Fugly G26 |
| Holster RH Ruger GP100 |
| Holster LH Sig P220 w/rails |
| Holster LH Glock G21 |
| D Jason Fleming novels |
| Sarah Hoyt writing critique |
Why a couple of days, you ask? Because we will have to notify the winners, and the first draw gets his/her first choice, the second draw gets their choice of what is left, etc…
This usually takes a day or three to get through all the winners as they make their choices.
Again , THANK YOU to all who donated prizes, and those many folks that donated money to the GiveSendGo. It is appreciated!
Sigh…
Granted the minimum wage was $1.25/hr, but I swear it went a LOT further back then… That was six gallons of gas, compared to the $15/hr vs. $4/gal today.
A Woolworth menu, supposedly from the late 50s/early 60s…
And our favorite drive in when we were old enough to drive… Many a night circling between the two in town!
And a couple of car ads from back in the day…
Yes, Baldwin/Motion Performance was one of the ‘white sheet’ or COPO dealers that could order directly without approval from ‘higher’ in Chevrolet…
Or water in this case…
Elements from the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard intercepted a vessel last week carrying a “massive” Iranian shipment of explosive materials bound for Yemen, according to U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.
Full article HERE, from Navy Times.
170 tons of urea fertilizer and ammonium perchlorate in this haul, a few months ago a different ship got 40 tons, also going to the Houthi rebels.
That is a LOT of boom…
And back stateside, we have this…
A federal indictment was unsealed today following the arrest of three defendants and their initial appearances in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Kentucky.
According to court documents, Phil Pascoe, 60, of Floyds Knobs, Indiana; Monica Pascoe, 45, of Floyds Knobs, Indiana; Scott Tubbs, 59, of Georgetown, Kentucky; and Quadrant Magnetics LLC are charged with wire fraud, violations of the Arms Export Control Act, and smuggling of goods for their roles in an illegal scheme to send export-controlled defense-related technical data to China and to unlawfully supply U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) with Chinese-origin rare earth magnets for aviation systems and military items.
Full article, HERE from DOJ!
Musk is apparently on a roll, if you will…
Elon Musk’s Twitter has slashed its contract workforce by 80 percent with none of the company’s internal teams being notified in advance.
Full article, HERE from Breitbart.
Guess there were a bunch of full timers that were making contractors do their work… So that means Twitter actually had about 12,000 ’employees’, when you count all the contractors.
Interesting… And that could help explain the $4mil a day losses!
One thing I do have to say for Musk, he’s not pulling punches. When he makes a mistake, he’s owning up to it and stating that more will probably follow as he tries to get the costs and functionality under control over there.
Bryan County, Georgia is booming right now; the population grew by almost 50% between 2010 and 2020 and Hyundai just broke ground on a massive new factory that’s slated to create 8,100 jobs when it opens in 2025. The car maker isn’t the only company that’s expanding into the county; Ammunition maker Norma Precision just announced a $60-million dollar facility that will be staffed by some 600 workers.
Full article, HERE!
The way things are ‘going’, we may need them…
Just sayin…
Earlier in the week, Dems were saying she should go to Only Fans to earn a living…
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) inches closer to her Democrat opponent Adam Frisch in a tight race to represent Colorado’s Third Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
As of Saturday morning, Boebert unexpectedly took the lead with 162, 040 votes while Frisch has 160, 918 votes, leading by just over 1,000 votes.
Full article, HERE, but the margin of cheat hasn’t kicked in yet… And they are now saying it may be December before the ‘actual’ outcome is verified.
Why can’t we go back to paper ballots, one day of voting, and count all the #@$%#@% VOTES THE SAME DAY and be done???
Grrr…
This was one of the reasons we always hauled ass when we heard a Soviet sub surfacing…
In the video, a Norwegian Lockheed P-3 Orion reconnaissance aircraft can be seen dropping a sonobuoy in front of the Russian nuclear submarine, ‘Knyaz Vladimir.’ The incident occurred in the Barents Sea when the Russian submarine had surfaced and was returning from its mission.
Cool video (shown by TV Zvezda) of a Norwegian P-3 Orion dropping a sonar buoy in full view of the crew of a Russian nuclear missile submarine, in the Barents Sea pic.twitter.com/86xgjS10CT (h/t @The_Lookout_N)
— Mike Eckel (@Mike_Eckel) November 6, 2022
In response, the crew of the Knyaz Vladimir simulated using a Man-Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS) against the MPA. To drop the sonobuoys accurately, MPAs must operate at medium or low altitudes over the sea, thus making them vulnerable to MANPADS.
Full article, HERE from Eurasian Times.
I can’t help but wonder if that will be a standing order if Putin goes stupid in Ukraine…
Or Armistice Day, Remembrance Day depending on what country you are in…
To all those who’ve served, THANK YOU!!!
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed Armistice Day for November 11, 1919. In proclaiming the holiday, he said
“To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.”
The United States Congress passed a concurrent resolution seven years later on June 4, 1926, requesting that President Calvin Coolidge issue another proclamation to observe November 11 with appropriate ceremonies. A Congressional Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U.S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday: “a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as ‘Armistice Day’.”
In 1945, World War II veteran Raymond Weeks from Birmingham, Alabama, had the idea to expand Armistice Day to celebrate all veterans, not just those who died in World War I. Weeks led a delegation to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, who supported the idea of National Veterans Day. Weeks led the first national celebration in 1947 in Alabama and annually until his death in 1985. President Reagan honored Weeks at the White House with the Presidential Citizenship Medal in 1982 as the driving force for the national holiday. Elizabeth Dole, who prepared the briefing for President Reagan, determined Weeks as the “Father of Veterans Day.”
U.S. Representative Ed Rees from Emporia, Kansas, presented a bill establishing the holiday through Congress. President Dwight Eisenhower, also from Kansas, signed the bill into law on May 26, 1954.
Congress amended this act on June 1, 1954, replacing “Armistice” with “Veterans,” and it has been known as Veterans Day since.
Whether the current administration likes it or not!!!