Comments by mogul1985

Skibum: ever do Mt Washington?

In Colorado Springs we have been growing like crazy. What scares me are drivers in SUVs, no winter tires, and license plates from the deep South, AZ and CA who have never seen snow. True story: when my wife moved her from San Diego with her then-husband they leased a Volvo. She said they picked a Volvo because it snows in Sweden. I gave a pregnant pause and said, "Well, you know it snows in Detroit too, right?" When I've gone out a day or so after a storm, I see cars and SUVs in ditches and rolled over. My only way out is via a state highway, and it is well maintained, only shitheads think an SUV is invincible in snow as it is 4WD. If I don't need to venture out I don't bother. A few days at home is no big deal. Some people have to get out for work or emergencies. I get it. They just don't need to be competing for Twit Of The Year or a finalist for a Darwin Award. Skibum: I really loved the Maine story, Excellent. People from New England can handle snow.

I'll pay the $10 for a bottle of water, it is what it is. I'll pay no more than $20 to enter. $50/LD, bite me.

I too use the term hammered, maybe my NY upbringing. I also like the phrase for shitheads that should be "kneecapped".

In November I did a round trip CO-Philly over 12 days: 6 days driving, 6 days in Philly for the National Dog Show, ‘22 Outback. Very comfortable seating, mid-30s MPG with Blizzack snow tires. For my needs the Outback is perfect for comfort and mileage. Also very good in winter with AWD. I also have had SiriusXM for 11 years and love it. I have another round trip planned for CO-Syracuse in April for yet another big dog show, plus I grew up in Syracuse haven’t been back in 25 years.

The guideline/FAQ URL when you click to create a review really is very good to set expectations.

I grew-up in Syracuse. I know a lot about Lake Effect Snow.

"...we know you think we should attempt a violent insurrection." First, at best it was a lousy riot, and Ashley Babbit was murdered by a DC Captain that had a checkered past who should have been fired for leaving his 9mm in a public bathroom. Elector votes were counted 2 hours later after Pelosi and AOC (who lied about her whereabouts) changed their underwear. DC cops were giving tours to people. Many, a 72 year old woman I personally know, was prosecuted on a misdemeanor charge of NOT entering the Capital through a metal detector, $100K in fines, plus legal expenses and 6-month house arrest with an ankle bracelet. BLM rioters were released with zero changes for arson, shooting people & supported by Kamala Harris' personal donations. BLM took over federal building in Portland and Seattle and declared a CHOP/CHAZ (Capitol Hill Occupied Protest/Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone) and shot at first responders. That was called "The Summer Of Love." Calling Jan6 an "Insurrection" was just another case of Democrat Lawfare. Terabytes of "evidence" & data from the Kangaroo Jan6 Commission are missing. We also know FBI agents were in the masses, and did nothing. Pelosi even admitted on her daughter's video that it was her fault for denying NatGuard and extra security requested by Trump. Just stop drinking the Kool-Aid, take off the Converse. No one cares about Jan6, Hollywood, the Dems and Chaney (who committed witness tampering) failed. I'm 99.999% sure Brandon will Pardon all the Jan6 House Committee members. And why? The best Pardons are yet to come. Giving Mega Dem Donor/Open Border Evangelist George Soros a Medal of Freedom makes the Medal of Freedom worthless now. It was bad enough Liz Chaney got one, but Soros who made his money by shorting and destroying currencies and supporting/placing Extremist Progressive DAs makes it a mockery. After 4 years of Trump's Presidency we'll all better and this includes the Lefties who will refuse to admit it.

@Puddy Tat: "Muslims like to talk about the unchanging nature of the Koran, but that just means it's stuck in the 7th century. We need imams that will examine their faith and bring it 14 centuries forward." While this is what is needed, it destroys the power and control they have accumulated over their stuck-in-the-600AD countries. While people like to talk about the Christian Crusades as so bad, Northern Africa and a lot of Southern Europe was conquered before the Christian Crusades giddy-upped over 400 years later in like 1095 to take back The Holy Land (Jerusalem et al) that was conquered over 600-1000AD. Michigan State University had a great timeline that use to be publicly available that showed all this activity from the 600AD to "Today". This all goes back over 1,000 years. That's a lot of dug-in like an Alabama Tick. Bush said back in 2001 (911) this will be a multi-generational war. The scariest county is now Iran and their nuke progress. They just need to light one off towards Israel, just one. Today, when a Trans, Muslim or other non-White does something like this, they are called a "Lone Wolf" and not much more is heard after the drive-by media moves onto the next Clickable Story. When a White Guy does something like this, it's White Supremacy/MAGA, not a "Lone Wolf". This is how the Leftist MSM and radical Dems spew. The FBI had labeled rowdy/frustrated parents at school boards as American Terrorists, and they were investigating Catholics as they are (for the vast most part) anti-abortion. WTH! A guy with a truck in NOLA killed 16 people and critically injured a bunch more, and the NOLA police and local gov't leaders said "we need to do better." WTF! The governor needs to take over, and deal with this. I remember when Katrina hit, and NOLA claimed "300 cops just walked off the job." Well, those "300" were the fake cops they listed to get more federal money. Our country is infected with terrorists who have crossed the Borders (North and South.) The gov't has no idea where they are, let alone the 350,000 missing illegal children. Sure, some terrorists on the watch like have been stopped and deported when caught. It's the "gottaways" that are an issue. How many is unknown. 1,000?, 2,000? out of 13M? that have crossed the past 4 years is like 0.015% - that's a mighty small percentage to track down. And 13M is just a guess over the past 4 years. This is not a time to be politically correct. We have done so little since Columbine and 911 to harden schools and better secure this country.

The Feds/MiB are here in Colorado Springs at a house about the Turo rented Cybertruck. Each time a Tesla stops for a charge, Tesla keeps a log. That log was used to track the vehicle. Not that I'm planning any crimes, I just don't like the idea how much we are personally tracked by gov't and businesses. Yeah, I know each time I use a credit card my behavior is tracked, or Cerf'ing the Internet is easily tracked. I do use a ProtonVPN and ProtonMail for my personal emails, I avoid Chrome as much as possible, I do use DuckDuckGo and that is about all I can do to dampen tracking as side from living in a cabin in northern Idaho off the grid; then there are no strip clubs and there's THAT downside. We live in a world of "Minority Report", without the Precogs (yet).

"It might be interesting to find a way to show trends across successive years." A see a new project for Palantir.

"That has nothing to do with Kamala" She was tasked with dealing with illegal migration flow, and she ignored it while Biden, her boss, sold off leftover Wall materials for pennies on the Dollar with ZERO intent to secure it. She was a Capo and didn't do her job. Yeah, this is 100% on her, Biden and whomever is running the Executive Branch as it is clearly not who was elected.

The only decent places in Colorado are 65 miles away, and I'm not doing the Interstate on New Year's Eve. I'll be home with a good wine, cheese and a filet. I'll be out on 2-Jan though.

@twentyfive: Out of the keyboard of wee babes! "Anyone with an IQ greater than their shoe size should be capable of behaving as an adult." Just WOW. And MAGA, cultists? This is the type of rhetoric that is cratering Democrats and the MSM. Have you even followed any of the Dem Machine Progressive Movement?

While this thread is about Jimmy Carter, Biden has been mention. As dementia sets in, those afflicted can become very stubborn and determined to get their way. Their reality is different than non-dementia inflicted people. Biden's Echo/Star Chamber has him convinced, plus his absolute egotism he spews, he could have beat Trump. That is really delusional at best. He even took at shot with that ridiculous "grin" when asked about Trump during his statement about Jimmy Carter. A total ass-wipe. When Biden assumes room temp, let's see all the "kindness" sent his way.

@Mate27: "I just don’t understand the derision of a guy who led an exemplary life just because he didn’t play for your team. " Nothing to do with party affiliation. His historical footprints cover his excellent humanitarian work and poor his political work as POTUS. Neither should be ignored. No one that I've heard is "piling on" like has been done at ramming speed the past 9 years to Trump, and hardcore Dems are saying it's time to "go to war." WTH! He had at 2 assassination attempts that we know of that have now done silent. To ignore the 4 years JC was POTUS & piling on is wrong. He has a whole life, and clearly his humanitarian work was his shining star. The POTUS Club is very small and you have to wear it good, bad or ugly.

^ This is the response I expect when people go so far out on a branch there is no where else to go. @Gammanu95: Egypt's only contribution the past 1,000+ years were ancient mummies. They were embalmed with oils and resins. In the 19th Century, as gross as this sounds, they were used in Europe for medicinal products, decorations (certainly not a Martha Stewart "Good Thing") and fuel. Trains used them for fuel. It eventually was stopped after people found out what the disgusting smell was from and the indecency of using the dead like this.

@Twentyfive: There were a LOT of condolences. I know exactly what happened in the 1970s. My question to YOU is: will you give condolences and care when Trump passes? Look, all the Conservatives here said he was a great humanitarian, and the wrong POTUS (my words) at that time, and probably elevated to his level of incompetence beyond governor. Those are facts, and all parts of his historical footprints should be acknowledged objectively. The primary commentary is on his humanitarianism that was better than the VAST majority of anyone.

^ Things need to be taken in context of the time. What we have today, or 50 years ago in the middle of a scary Cold War that Reagan was able to end by economically collapsing the USSR, and back in the 1800s was different. POTUS Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan did plenty to ignite the Civil War and post-Civil War was a serious problem as Puddy Tat mentioned. People think things are bad now, back then it was horrible. The big difference today is the threat of a nuclear strike by a rogue regime that doesn't care about life and death. Kennedy having to deal with the Cuban Missile Crisis would have been horribly botched by many other POTUS including Carter, Obama and Biden. These last 3 were not strong Presidents, and evil rulers knew and exploited it as we've especially seen the past 4 years plus the 12 under Obama (don't cross this line, well, I mean THIS line, now THIS line... plus ACA). And plenty of questions remain about Biden, Inc and Bag Man Hunter. It is clear Biden was extremely soft on China for whatever reasons you want point is he was, the ME went to shit the past 3 years starting the with AFG bugout disaster and Russia well you know that hot mess. Carter, became POTUS as people had it with Nixon and Ford, had his own a hot mess with the Oil Embargo/Energy Crisis (put on a sweater and set your thermostat to 68, odd/even gas fill-ups, and drive 55), Iranian Hostages and Stagnation (high inflation and high unemployment). A lot of this was ginned up by Nixon's Phase 1/2 Price and Wage control disaster - and to think Harris wanted to do it again with controlling grocery prices? However, he wasn't the right person to deal with it. Oil Embargo: I remember a Honda motorcycle commercial during Carter that went like this: 200 years in the future at a museum - the 1st guy says, "It got 60 miles per gallon." The 2nd guy says, "Gallons of what?" The 1st guy says, "We don't know." I agree 100% Carter was a great humanitarian his entire life. He was just the wrong POTUS for those 4 years. RIP.

IWantHerOnMe: "expanding my circle to people who think like me " This is called an Echo Chamber, and not healthy. Example: Kool-Aid and Converse sneakers.

What we are seeing is the Dems idea of a "peaceful" transition "progressing".

Rod8432: Ditto as I was just there in mid-November. And there were cams, and no extras.

Speaker of the House can be anybody. Vivek would be wicked interesting as Speaker. As long as Congress is this tight, and the GOP can't control their RINOs, someone new is needed. As evil as Pelosi is, she was able to get the Dems to vote in lock-step when needed.

^ and a LOT of those donors who live paycheck to paycheck were duped into "donating", then learn that Oprah and the other "influencers" were PAID. The Big Money Donors expected some form of a payback, they have money to gamble, the paycheck-to-paycheck donors don't. These people were scammed, and need to remember next election cycle who purposely fucked them over to line their own pockets.

PRICELESS! "Just remind yourself that Orientals are rugs and Asians are people."