Random Open Thread
1980 Chevrolet Corvette Four Door
A California shop apparently built six all total, and this is the reddest of them all.
Do not attempt to adjust screen settings on your mobile device or PC monitor. What you are seeing is real, and depending on how you feel about custom creations such as this, that could be a good thing or the stuff of nightmares. In either case, NBS Auto Showroom in Milpitas, California can set you up with all the details on this 1980 Chevrolet Corvette four-door and how to buy it, if you’re so inclined. Presumably, the sales team will also have some logic behind its asking price of—wait for it—$217,203. Mind you, that’s not an even $217,200, but $217,200 and three extra dollars. Or to put it another way, it’s nearly double the cost of a new Corvette ZR1. Then again, you can’t take three friends for a ride in a ZR1.We do know some stuff about this very curious Corvette. The ad says it’s factory original, but some Google research tells us it was built back in the late 1970s by a Pasadena-based company called California Custom Coach. Super Chevy actually has a good article that covers this crazy four-door Corvette plan, but for our purposes, know that only six were built and this red example could be one of only two left.
Each car was made by basically fusing two Corvettes together—T-tops and all—with the rear glass opening to make this a five-door hatchback sports car 30 years before the Porsche Panamera was born. This particular car is reported as having just 20,000 miles, though a photo of the odometer actually shows 21,006 miles. It’s very red inside and out, and actually, the rear bucket seats don’t look that uncomfortable. The sales description doesn’t offer much else in the way of details, save for the standard-issue, used-car terms like excellent condition, fully loaded, and so forth. It’s listed as having paperwork available, and that it’s completely original. In this case, that would mean a 5.7-liter V8 connected to a four-speed automatic, making roughly 200 horsepower.
Read it here: 1980 Chevy Corvette Four Door Can’t Be Unseen, Seeks $217k
Buy it here: NBS Auto Showroom
Category: "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves"
First!
Boom!
Shack!…So, what ya driving these days man? Oh, I just toodle doodle around in a little red hatchback with the wifey and the 2 kiddies.
The two happiest days in a ‘Vette owners life?
The day he buys it.
And the day he sells it.
Make sure you VOTE today, if you have not yet done so…
I voted for a Democrat for state Senate.
NRA A+ rating and Viet of the Nam vet.
Almost blanked it but had an aw shucks moment.
Also voted against Hang us King US Senator.
Independent my ass.
Vote responsibly.
As they say in Chicago, “Vote early and vote often.”
RED!
TSUNAMI!
RED MEGAMAGA TSUNAMI WITH FREAKING SHARKS WITH FREAKING LASERS BEAMS ATTACHED TO THEIR FREAKING HEADS!
https://youtu.be/Nh5Lh-tTSZQ
https://youtu.be/Bh7bYNAHXxw
Is this corvette to be the next Milpitas, California Fire Department Chiefs car?
Voted this morning, had my sample ballot/cheat sheet marked and ready to use.
$217k is a bit below a municipal California fire chief’s station, isn’t it? I thought they had Maybachs.
I will leave that one for TOW to answer.
LED light kit and radios and it would be good to go. Be sure and get the “coffee cup” radio antenna, it’s a lot of fun having the civilians waving you down and telling you, hey, you left your cup on top of your vehicle.
Fifth? A record.
Someone thought they COULD do it.
No one thought if they SHOULD do it.
That thing is fugly.
That thing is an abomination before the Lord.
The target market was probably for people who wanted a Corvette that wanted to be a Camaro when it grew up. Judging from the six-unit production run, there must not have been all that many of such customers around. What a surprise…
What is sad is that they picked the ugliest version of the Vette (C3) for that conversion.
And after 1973 that 5.7 was so smog choked that it produced a thundering 185 net HP. With four adults on board it would not give a Yugo much of a race to 60 MPH. The California Smog version in 1979 put out 145 Net hp. And in 1980 the base engine in California went went down to 304 cu in. By that time the build quality was so bad that there was no 83 model as they tooled up for the C-4. And don’t get me started on “Cross Fire Injection”. It almost killed the Corvette.
Might as well drive a Buick…
The clowns that go out and buy a Corvette after they retire are the worst ones to follow on a freeway.
They drive them like a damn Buick…
Random Update: 1,025 days have passed since the last 1st SEAC Sockpuppet Report.
1st SEAC is and will always be a coward, Claw….just as Cayton and Carrot Top.
Joe needs to go back to South Carolina and continue coaching powder puff football with the Killer as his second in command.
Thanks for the update…wow, has it been THAT long since he promised he would return to verify Killem’s POW experience?
All these Enablers with all their promises that went *POOF*! when the truth came out.
Thank You again…and BTW, the Army SOS recipe was great (thank goodness I took yours and Ed’s advice on rinsing/soaking the Chipped Beef)…Skyjumper, really enjoyed your USMC SOS (Yum!)..and Ex-PH2, we liked your sausage gravy and biscuit recipe.
Now I need to lose 5 pounds from consuming all the “creamed meat”…😉🍽
We just don’t get sockpuppets like we used to. The foogas is starting to spoil.
Stay with us, SFC D, better days are ahead. Just give the foogas a stir or two, but put the smoking lamp out first. Safety, ya know.
*grin*
“In this case, that would mean a 5.7-liter V8 connected to a four-speed automatic, making roughly 200 horsepower”
350 V8 2bbl 190 hp.
350 V8 4bbl 230 hp. BFD.
Stop it with the Eurometrics.
Funny how 250 hp is now rather low. You can get that from a low-end V6 or a jacked-up 4.
The “65” 327cu was 375hp in the corvette.
Emissions and fuel economy took it’s toll in the 80’s as well as throttle body injection. True injection woke things up a bit. (65 327cu was FI)
Today’s engines develop more power but at high rpm. Low end torque is a thing of the past and narrow torque curves require 6, 8 and now 10 speed trannies.
always wanted a 65 FI corvette.
A Chevy engine I always liked was the 5.0-liter 302 ci developed for Trans Am. It had 4-bolt mains, lots of forged internals, and pushed 600 hp at 8000 rpm on then-standard pump gas– which could handle 12:1 compression.
On This Day In The Navy:
CDR Herndon
1851 – The U.S. Navy expedition under Lt. William L. Herndon, which was exploring the Amazon valley and its tributaries, reaches Iquitos in the jungle region of the upper Amazon. The expedition covers 4,366 miles from Lima, Peru to Para, Brazil.
2018- The Middies realized they only had 32 days left before they faced Army on the football field. (laughs, dodges dropped sonar buoys, takes cover in the mule barn)
Since you’re already there, could you grab a scoop and muck out those stalls? Thanx bunches.
Speaking of mule barns, when I first reported for duty at Fort Carson in November of 1977, some of the old buildings there on the north side of post (next to Bldg 8000) in what they called the Mule Barn Area, were still standing. The motor pool I was in was within eyeshot of there, and over a time period of a couple of weeks in the summer of 78, the bulldozers and dump trucks from 4th Engineers went to work and another part of Army history went to the landfill.
So much for Carson being the new all modern VOLAR post that was so hyped up in all those recruiting posters./smile
Used to do our morning runs on Ft. Bliss past the old Cavalry stables on Biggs Army Airfield as late as ’85.
Photoshopped
Actually, I have that same sword sans tassels, on the wall above Dad’s shadowbox. It belonged to my uncle first, and when he passed away (too soon!) to my dad. Now I have it, and my two sons can arm wrestle over it when I check out.
Wanna take bets that one of the boys may start pumping iron, or planning some nefarious plot to end up with it. That is the sword that Uncle was awarded/he earned correct? BTW stalls are mucked, mules curried, fresh hay all around. Detailed the idiots that injured the Airdales Birds. Figured they were already in deep dodo.
Not first but I did have a ’74 Corvette!
Random question for 5th/77thFA: Was that outfit still a Sergeant Missile unit when you were in it?
Just curious.
Only reason I ask is that in the Viet of the Nam with us there in the 101st Airborne, there was the 4/77th ARA (Aerial Rocket Artillery)(Cobra) that brought the shit down, so I just wondered how varied the 77th was.
Yes Sir, I arrived there 19 Dec 71, entire flight was diverted from a posting to SEA, we landed in 03:30 Frankfort and they didn’t really know what to do with us. Rumor was Nixon himself had told DOD not to send anybody to SEA during Christmas. I had reported early, figured I was gonna miss a Christmas anyhow and wanted to get that part over with. Myself and 7 other cannon cockers got sent to Camp Pieri. 5/77 hadn’t been a Sergeant unit too long when we got there. Camp Pieri was in the process of being rebuilt, and facilities reworked for 4 firing batteries and a headquarters battery. We had an Ordnance Co (563rd? IIRC) and an MP Platoon. We baby sat that system throughout the beginnings of the Bader Meinhof (sp?) and the Red Army Faction. Got a little tense when the rag heads did the Olympic Israeli hostage deal in Munich. Biggest concern from them was molotovs tossed over the fence and being downtown at a club or restaurant. We spent a lot of time moving around, setting up, tearing down. Not a very quick process. Without plenty of notice that the balloon was going up, we’d of never got those rounds out. In July 73, we converted to the Lance system and became the 1st/333rd FA. Got real tense over all when the Yom Kipper War kicked off. Lots of folk that didn’t have access to the comm links never knew how close we came to WWIII then. The Lance might have been physically smaller, but was way yonder more nimble, lots quicker to shoot and scoot, and packed a bigger punch. The overall mission was still the same; Close the Fulda Gap. Supposedly, for awhile, we didn’t have to have NCA release authority to fire. Theater Command could decide. The 77th FA during the late 60s and early 70s was diversified by equipment, missions, and posting. We were part of V Corps Artillery. As I posted once before, we had it pounded in our heads constantly to never discuss the system or mission, ever.… Read more »
Roger. Thanks for the update.
One thing I saw that was a Air Force Chinese Fire Drill in the mid 70’s was when Bitburg Air Base swapped F-4’s for F-15’s.
I was in the Chap/Vulcan ADA Battery there for a three year tour.
Lotsa laughs at night in the NCO club listening to the Zoomies bitch./smile
The Cold War sounds like it was tons of fun! /s
Being an area denial weapon I would imagine you were a priority target along with C2.
I bet the Chaplain was busy in your unit…
Little understood, under appreciated time in our nation’s history.
Thanks for your service as a misillero!
Since you cited the day of 19 Dec 71 as the day you flew into Frankfurt, on a whim I looked at my trip book to see if I had flown any hours that day out of Phu Bai.
Nope, none recorded. But had flown 9.8 hours the day before. Must have maybe been a troop extraction day to get as many men as possible back to base camp for the upcoming Bob Hope show/Christmas period stand-down/meal.
Good times.
Good times indeed. For a lot of us it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. I had gotten my High School Diploma and draft notice on the same day. Went ahead and enlisted, volunteering for Arty and going to the Viet. Part of that was cause Papa, coupla Grand Uncles and some Grand Pappies had been Arty, partly,too, from my admiration and respect for C Btry 1st/21st that fired from LZ Falcon in support of LZ-XRay Nov 65. Had read Joe Galloway’s news reports from that fight in the local papers right after it came down. As a teenager, I guess I saw myself as the hard charging gun bunny keeping a ring of fire and steel around some Air Assault Boys that had gotten into some deep stuff. All of my Drill Sergeants had been in country and as they pounded those lessons into our heads, I listened and paid attention. Tho feeling 10′ tall and bullet proof, I had seen enough locals come back with the “Coffin, Metal Handles”, to know I didn’t want one. Several DSs, knowing where we were going had strongly suggested to not take a 30 day leave before reporting. Said since we’d be missing a Christmas anyway, go on in. You’ll be in the rear with the gear for a week to ten days, and then another coupla weeks for in country training, and then when your year is almost up, get rotated back to the rear for DEROS. Sounded good to me, so reporting early is what put me on that flight on that day. Some of the troops I trained with that took a 30 day leave ended up in the Viet and didn’t make it home alive. I was not only lucky, but blessed. We had an estimated 7 minute notice from the notification of an incoming missile or air attack until impact. In my opinion that whole Cold War thing could have gone real bad real fast for us. If the Soviets had of jumped over the line in 72-75 they would have rolled… Read more »
Finally! A Corvette you could get your date into the back seat of.
On the northeast corner of Herndon and Wedeking, opposite Garvin Park in Evansville, Indiana, sits a home that was built in 1920. It’s a Craftsman-style bungalow that was built from funds collected by area residents and businesses as a gift to a woman named Alice Dodd. (Her first husband, Green Gresham, left her a widow and she later remarried.) Alice Dodd had a son named James B. Gresham. 100 years ago this past Saturday, Corporal Gresham, a soldier with the American Expeditionary Forces, was in France, along with Privates Merle Hay of Iowa and Thomas Enright of Pennsylvania when a German raiding party attacked, killing them. They were the first of many Americans who would die in WW I. And that home opposite Garvin Park? It was Evansville’s way of doing what they could for a grieving mother.
That should have been, of course, 101 years ago this past Saturday.
Remember kids, Republicans vote today, Democrats vote tomorrow!
Since it’s an open thread, and I’ve been killing some free time absorbing knowledge from Gun Jesus on Forgotten Weapons while trying to line up a plan for a long-overdue range day, does anybody have a favorite old gun? By old, I mean pre-1930 (I expect RCAF can school me on this subject). Something either in the collection or that you’re dying to add.
I could enumerate a long list of old guns I’d like to have, but to pick one from my extant arsenal (and not including my 1911s, which are of much more recent production and have several more modern features that wouldn’t be a thing in Prohibition times or earlier), I would have to go with my M1917 US Enfield rifle. It’s a big, beefy .30-06 bolt gun with a glass-smooth cock-on-closing action, enough heft to tame .30-06 recoil nicely but without feeling like a cinder block, and the historical coolness factor of having been an issued weapon in the Great War whose wood furniture bears plenty of French trench character.
Imperial Russian M91 Mosin-Nagant rifle and its more recent Soviet derivatives M91/30 rifle and M38 and M44 carbines have loads of history covering 1904 Russo-Japanese War, WWI, and WWII; and were used by various commie regular and irregular forces into the end of the 20th century. Often overlooked by collectors, they are still relatively cheap on the market as compared to Springfields, Enfields, Mausers, and other rifles of that era…
My own Garbage Rod is a 91/30 model marked as 1938 manufacture. I find it boring, ugly, and undeniably practical, effective, and indestructible. It’s a peasant volley rifle, but it always works and never breaks.
I still think my M1917 is cooler, though.
A Luger would be a welcome addition. My Ruger Mk III has the same ergos, I’m told, and it’s natural pointer. The same qualities in a larger caliber, and the bragging rights because they’re cool, are putting the Luger into the ‘want’ class.
True. Hell, I don’t even like Lugers and I still think they’re cool. Wouldn’t mind getting my hands on a Red-Nine Mauser Broomhandle, though.
Dad captured both a Luger and a Walther P38. He preferred the way the P38 ran and left the Luger for someone else to bring back from Germany.
It is a nice pistol.
OTW; In the Great Lakes Boot Camp back in 1963, we were issued those M1917 Enfields for drill/manual of arms and your knuckles were in between the stock and ground when you were doing push ups on the out side grinder (asphalt) Do you know anything about putting a penny in the action to I think take up headspace or for another reason. Long time ago.These were not used for any shooting. We had MI Garands for the shooting.
Can’t say I’m familiar with coins in the action for any reason. Not really sure what you could gain by doing it. But there’s lots of tricks out there that I don’t know.
My favorite rifle is my Granpa’s Winchester lever action 30/30 with the octagon barrel. He used to carry it when he drove a stagecoach between Bond and McCoy Colorado. He was also an engineer on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. I also have his engineers manual for his Mikdado Steam engine! I will always treasure those two items~!
My Dad taught me to shoot with a ‘94 Winchester carbine. He said I needed to learn with a “Man’s Gun.” That thing beat the ever-loving shit out of my 9-year-old shoulder!
I will be much gentler with my kids. They’re getting M1 Carbines.
1896 Swedish Mauser, the original reach out and touch someone gun is a favorite I have. But want? 1874 Sharps rifle, .45 caliber (not picky, anywhere 2.1″ to 2 7/8 case length, aka .45-70 to .45-110). Take a buffalo down at 500 long steps or knock a man off a horse at 1000… both proven many times. In a handgun? Prettiest six shooter ever in a post-War cartridge conversion to .45 Colt, the 1858 Remington https://www.uberti-usa.com/new-army-conversion-revolver
Cowboy guns will never go out of style! I’m with you on the 1858 Remington. Remember Eastwood with his in “Pale Rider?”
Winchester 73, a Sweet-shooting pistol-caliber carbine.
1911 nuff said.
Winchester 97 shotgun.
Probable favorite would be a Colt mfg in 1913, carried by a relative in WWI, if I actually owned such things. Most would call it a 1911, but it is not so identified, but does carry an ownership stamp (which would make me a bit nervous were it in my possession), has all original everything including the holster. It looked like the barrel was replaced, but probably in depot.
It’s a beauty and fired like a champion nearly 30 years ago, the last time it was fired prior to being permanently secured off site.
Nice!
I’d love to add a Steyr 1912 to my safe contents one of these days. And a Mauser C96. And pretty much any 1911, but those early Gov models cost upwards of three grand in decent shape.
This one is better than in decent shape. Heard a rumor that it was among the nicest a guy who knows about such things had ever seen.
Forgot to add that I have a Sten from the same time frame, but it is pretty much junk. And am not at all sure about that spelling – a British long gun.
About a year ago, I purchased a 1918 Lee Enfield Mark III. After cleaning it thoroughly my son and I took it to the range, and quickly learned how accurate it is…even for a weapon that’s 100 years old. My great grandfather fought in the Boer Wars with the British Army, and a picture that we have of him shows him carrying a Lee Enfield.
Anyway, the rifle is remarkable.
Step-Grandpa’s souvenir gun from the Korean War was a Lee-Enfield No.4 sniper mod. He traded his Garand for it to a British sniper right before coming home in 1953, left it to me when he died. Took a bit of restoration work, but it shoots beautifully. You can write your name with that rifle at 300 yards!
Damn Russians. It’s election day and my algore access is sllllooooooooowwwwwwwwww. It’s so pissin’ me off that I surrender.
A couple of State Constitutional Amendments on the ballot today.
The first:
“Question 1
Constitutional Amendment
(Ch. 357 of the 2018
Legislative Session)
Requiring Commercial Gaming Revenues
that are for Public Education to
Supplement Spending for Education in
Public Schools”
Seems like a no-brainier,especially when you know the clever trick the Dems use with the funds. The proceedings do indeed go to the schools, but then the school budget is shorted by the same amount for whatever use they want.
So this was a ” Yes.”
The second:
“Question 2
Constitutional Amendment
(Ch. 855 of the 2018
Legislative Session)
Same-Day Registration and Voting at the
Precinct Polling Place on Election Day”
Self-explanatory and would greatly increase potential voter fraud, so this good idea is a definite “No.”
For California, equally-fascist dems Feinstein and De Leon are running against eachother for Senate. I wrote in “neither.”
My state has very loose register at the polls criteria. So loose you can just show some mail with a name and address on it.
You ask me though, if voting is important to you, you’ll take a few minutes out of your life and register. Since most places let you do it online, you’ve really got no excuse not to pre-register.
We expect people to get government ID, a library card, register their vehicles, open a bank account, and all the other requirements to be a member of a functional society, but for some reason we’re ok with allowing basically on your honor voting? Why?
Seriously! Can’t be bothered to register to vote?
You should see the list of stuff we now have to provide to get a drivers license renewed. I almost feel like asking them if I need all that if I am an illegal alien? They literally have three or four lists of things and you must have at least one from column 1, two from column 2, etc.
Now I must once again dig out the old, brittle birth certificate that isn’t even in English, with half a ream of documents from the Dept of State, US Army, and a few other agencies. Something is very, very wrong with this system.
Wasn’t terribly surprised by this.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2018/11/05/such-a-badss-what-dan-crenshaws-got-hidden-behind-that-eye-patch-is-cool-as-hell-pic/
Per poster on Article “Should lose the eyepatch and go like this.” If he did, probably make snowflakes and posers wet themselves.
The more I hear about this guy, the more I like him!
Can AZ swap him for McSally/Sinema?
I’m hoping he makes it. I’m not in his AO, so I can’t vote for him, but I would if I could.
Iraqi refugee…eh, terrorist gives gratitude to his new country. Dingle bell was nabbed in an FBI sting for allegedly making a car bomb, and then showing others.
https://www.westernjournal.com/fbi-arrests-iraqi-refugee-sting-bomb-making-class-las-vegas/?ff_source=mixi&ff_medium=referral&ff_campaign=westernjournal
He’s an insult to dingle bells everywhere. Good thing for the rest of us that these idiots haven’t realized yet that if someone on the innerwebz wants to build a bomb, they are FBI/HS. If she claims to be young, slim, and beautiful, it’s a fat, old, pre-op tranny. If they claim to be a pre teen boy or girl, they’re a cop.
Got this from the Southeast Division of Fire Chiefs today and it’s a burning story about Englands no 1ST A. rights.
London police arrest 5 people after viral video of burning model Grenfell Tower
Five people were arrested in London on Monday after a video posted on social media showed a group burning an effigy of Grenfell Tower, the public housing block where 72 people died in a massive blaze in 2017. In a statement, London’s Metropolitan Police said five men, ages 19 to 55, were being held on suspicion of a public order offense after they turned themselves in to a south London police station. The men were not identified and additional details were not immediately available. In the video, several people appear to be gathered around a model of the tower. After it’s set alight, the group can be heard chuckling and cracking jokes.
NBC NEWS
Question:
Wouldn’t Louis Farrakhan be considered a “traitor” to the United States?
Last I read, he chanted “Death to America” while in Iran.
(Or is he using his First Amendent rights while in enemy territory..):
“Farrakhan Chants Death Tilo American In Iran”:
https://www.foxnews.com/world/farrakhan-chants-death-to-america-in-iran
As with everyone else, if he does not care for the United States, then why doesn’t he relocate to Iran and STAY THERE?
I read a story that he said both “death to America” and “death to Israel”. Even led a chant.
He is a vile, despicable racist. Truly a hate-filled turd.
Too bad the media doesn’t really like to hold Democrats accountable for their associations. David Duke endorses Trump and Trump’s the racist, despite disavowing him repeatedly. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton shares a stage with Farrakhan and other racist black “community leaders” and he’s fine. Even the current DNC #2 Rep Keith Ellison has repeated, close contact with Farrakhan for more than two decades, and nobody sees this as a problem. Just like the media continues to falsely label Soros as a “holocaust survivor”.
Is this clown even relevant anymore?
He looks like a piece of beef jerky.
Odd how the Democrats are not denouncing him….
My grandparents voted a straight Democrat ticket today. They never would have done that when they were alive.
🙂
Rimshot
The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (All-Points Logistics) works balls.
Hope this greedy little duck reaps what he sows: 30 years in prison:
“As WWII Veteran Inched Toward Death, Grandson Allegedly Took $600,000 From His Accounts”:
https://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/as-wwii-veteran-inched-toward-death-grandson-allegedly-took-600-000-from-his-accounts-1.55543
Well, I didn’t find the article, but found this piece about a serial killer on death row who offed himself. POS is an ex marine & formerly stationed at Camp Pendleton. He murdered four women while on active duty, and eight total.
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/serial-killer-and-former-camp-pendleton-marine-dies-by-suicide-on-death-row-1.555369
Devtun:
Hope this link works reference the grandson stealing his grandfather’s money:
https://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/as-wwii-veteran-inched-toward-death-grandson-allegedly-took-600-000-from-his-accounts-1.555430
Thank you for sharing the story about the former Marine.
Now just ain’t this some real shit. Some how I just can’t see my grandson doing this, but maybe this Vet never saw it coming either. I hope the POS gets the full 30 years and enjoys being the toy of Bubba Thor Julio and Mr. Tiny.
Drove by the cemetery today.
Nobody there.
By 1900 hrs. this evening they will be dying to get there.
Here’s your oh-yeah-that’s-a-crazy mugshot of some guy who threatened to shoot up a polling place:
https://www.wpxi.com/news/top-stories/man-arrested-after-allegedly-threatening-to-shoot-up-polling-place/867698200
Hope everyone here votes. We may often want different things for this country, but we’re all still Americans.
Two doors. And in arrest-me-red, please.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: tension in our Republic is a good thing. It is good for several reasons. For one, it assures that no one party wields too much power for too long. For another, it assures Americans that whatever change they desire can be realized.
The one thing that frightened me above all else was the prospect that Wide Load would be able to continue Red Line’s loading the Supreme Court and lesser judicial chairs with the agenda-driven lefties. Thankfully, she got her big butt beat and President Trump has had two nominees confirmed, with a possible third before he’s done. It doesn’t get better than that, as far as I am concerned. So, come what may, we’ll be okay. This isn’t defeatism. The Republicans may keep the House, but if they don’t, I won’t wail and gnash my teeth like the Hollywooders will if they do.
He’s also had a metric assload of Federal Judges appointed to the lower courts, and more to come.
This is playing the long game, and there is little the Dems can do about it.
Sweet!
^word^ Boys we dodged a very serious bullet as a Nation in ’16. If wide load had of won, this Country as we know it would not be here in 10 years, at the most. We all know that congress critters are the biggest problem and until we term limit them, or get them to do their job, we’re still screwed. Keeping the judges from legislating from the bench is a good start. Draining the swamp and securing our borders would be a better start.
Karma is closing in on the Twitchy Bitch of Benghazi.
I’ve always been of the belief that our bicameral system is partly designed to be cumbersome and ineffective. With the exception of the last two years, there’s never been much good to come out of one party controlling both houses and the WH.
John Giduck – the turd with a face
https://thetruthaboutsocnetlies.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/john-giducks-ties-to-a-group-that-may-have-bombed-a-us-embassy/
….and a guy that pals around with associates that two major newspapers say bombed a US embassy.
https://thetruthaboutsocnetlies.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/john-giduck-chechnya-bombings-dead-cops-and-boston/
Real winner.
Missed you, Bro!
Cori LeCinda Pierce – the turd who defrauds with a dog!
“They will eventually get it out of their systems”
She doesn’t know us very well.
_______________’Merica!!__________________
We aren’t perfect, but we’ll still kick your ass.
Perfectly!
Continuously and with extreme prejudice.
Pardon me. Must go obsess over election results via TV, radio and computer.
Snacks all ready. Appropriate liquid beverages on hand. Just sad I have somewhere to be at 7am, followed by other appoints throughout the day. Dang. Would rather sleep in.
Nothing will ever come close to 2016 when I went to bed w/o watching the victory dances for Wide Load, only to wake up, turn on the tube and say, “What!” Best election evah.
I was on night shift that night and got to see the Liberal meltdown live. It was glorious.
Night shift around here is pretty boring since, unless they are doing a night live fire, all the Soldiers out in the field are sleeping and all I have to do is a couple of radio checks throughout the night so I get to watch a lot of TV at night.
The most recent stuff I could find was this:
Senate (not HofR)
Seats · 67/100 seats declared
Party Seats
Republican Party
42
42%
Democratic Party
24
24%
Other parties
1
1%
Total vote so far: 67 out of 100 declared.
The Blue part of the circle was so… compressed. The Red part of the circle was ginormous.
It is going to snow here in a day or so, and will be quite cold. Up to 2 inches in my kingdom.
I voted, I got my flu shot, and asked the Corpsman if I could step on his scale to see if I’d lost any more poundage, and I have: 12 pounds since the same time last year, for a total of 48 pounds since three years ago. That was good news. I wished him a happy Thanksgiving and he did the same for me.
Then I went to get refills on some stuff I’ve used up (like ice cream and oranges) and came home, ran another errand after I dragged all that stuff into the house, and the outdoor temp had dropped by 12F by the time I got home with those groceries.
I’m waiting for the final results, because the governor’s seat was open and Rauner comes off as less abrasive and spendy than that Pritzker doodad.
Good luck Ex, we’re sweating down here in God’s Country; temperature and votes. Topped out @ 83 F and the potential demon crat socialist has been steady running free buses in all the in town plantations. The Red Tide is building big out in the boonies, we got our fingers crossed. Congrats on the diet thingie, don’t get too skinny.
Am generally pleased with most of the results so far. Very pleased with a couple of local results and horridly disappointed in one judgeship.
Those folks at Fox are going to have to prove their projection of the House going blue. It doesn’t look that way from here, but they have all their polls, algorythms, and assorted secret doo-dads, so with only my gut and the antique crystal ball, my guess is just that. As is theirs! But I trust my gut more than their fancy electronics.
Had hoped to avoid eating crow for breakfast this morning, but that looks like the main course. Bllllllhhh…
I’ve been in the substitute teacher bizniz all week. Glad I voted early.
I’ve got to get up at 0500 to get ready for another day trying to force knowledge into recalcitrant young heads without use of applied physical motivational methodologies. But the teacher has some good stuff planned, so I’m not expecting a great deal of problems.
I’ll probably find out about election results after school tomorrow.
I’m watching Andrew Gillum giving his concession speech. Folks, we in Florida dodged a hell of a bullet. More like a shell from a battleship. He is genuinely a PoS. Well, bye
Thank God! He was a giant crypto-commie incompetent POS. If he could be elected in a statewide election, our republic is truly doomed.
Well, this is nice:
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2018/11/06/hallquist-falls-short-in-vt-governors-race/
And this will be entertaining:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/06/politics/ocasio-cortez-youngest-woman-ever/index.html
We will be entertained. Gonna be a lot of fun the next two years. Gonna be a lot of politics with a split Congress. As for Cortez, I suspect that she could not find France on a map if you gave her one with every country’s name on it except France. That’s not bad, not compared to Maxine Waters. She couldn’t find Canada on a map if you gave her one with only the US and Canada on it and had each labeled. There are many stupid people in the House, a true reflection of those they represent.
Pritzker, the tax you out of your home guy, won the governor’s seat. It will be interesting to see how quickly his proposal to inflict a state real estate tax on homeowners, as it was found to be illegal in Texas in 2005, when someone tried to do that. Should be interesting. And I keep hoping Mike Madigan will be founded withered up and glue to his office seat, eyes staring straight ahead. He wouldn’t give up his position, no matter what.
If it’s possible, Ocasio-Cortez will make an even bigger ass of herself than she has before, and I’m sure her ambitions include dropping the age requirement for President so that she can run. She certainly is full of herself.
All sorts of “dirty tricks”, including letting 16 year old kids vote, went into this election. Republicans have the majority in the Senate, while democrats have it in the House. I’m sure the House Mice are rubbing their little paws together with glee.
Are we living in interesting times yet?