Hey guys, got a sick kid, and almost missed the links.
And they say the next generation is lazy and lacks feck. This is a feckful pair if I ever met some.
Right up the road a ways from me, more idiots with guns. You follow someone for a block and a half and shoot him when he pulls a knife because you won’t back off? I’m starting to rethink my position on “no duty to retreat” laws in public — at least in Florida.
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“I wanted to help. So I followed him, when he didn’t want me to….then I shot him and was finally able to give medical aid!”
Sounds like a government program if I ever heard one.
Me thinks the “Samaritan” is a budinski with an ego. I wonder how close boxcutter man was when he fired. I won’t be surprised to see the budinski get charged.
Swiss your comment was first AND on topic. Give yourself a GIF and some theme music.
^This
I say we all pitch in and get him a gif together.
“he would’ve died if i hadn’t applied that tourniquet.. [mumbles under breath] after i shot him in the leg.”
Practicing to become a cop and there were no dogs nearby?
You follow someone for a block and a half and shoot him when he pulls a knife because you won’t back off?
What I don’t like about “no duty to retreat” laws is they often don’t distinguish between the aggressor and the aggressee.
That said, I also don’t think they give an exception to the “reasonable fear” requirement. In this case, it sounds like the guy who was being followed was exercising his right of self-defense because he was in reasonable fear of this knob who was stalking him down the street. Now, if you are exercising your right to self-defense, that doesn’t give the aggressor the right to kill you. He’s the aggressor, he has no right to self-defense.
Was the stalker actually an aggressor? He was if his actions would have put someone in reasonable fear of death or serious harm.
It sounds like they may have tried to physically restrain him. They were certainly trying to keep him somewhere against his will. I think part of the agreement of strong self-defense protections for people wielding firearms has to be a pretty aggressive prosecution of edge cases. Note that I say prosecution. Juries can decide to convict or not, and it won’t hurt my feelings. A good definition for me of “edge cases” is, “if you weren’t carrying a firearm, would you remain in the interaction as long as you did? No.”
Lulz
Are you anti-Isreal!?
Broward, Opa-Locka? Dual loyality, I’m pretty sure.
Who is his constituency? Incompetent government union cattle?
He’s not running for president?
And they say the next generation is lazy and lacks feck. This is a feckful pair if I ever met some.
They were able to get out of tests by crashing the wi-fi. I’m going to say that the teachers/administration are the ones to wear the “lazy and feckless” label this time around. They could’ve avoided this problem by simply printing off the tests. Or dictating the questions and have students write the answers on their own paper. If “test or no test” relies on your internet connection and you are not an online school, you’re doing it wrong. The kids were clever for finding the easy weak-point.
““One day we were supposed to be doing work on our Chromebooks, but we had no activity whatsoever to do in class because the Wi-Fi shutdown,” said a student in the 10th grade at the 634-student high school on Millridge Road. “It interrupted the whole class, unfortunately.””
Good to know Google is tracking them at an early age.
This.
(Speaking as a mother of a student whose schoolwork is almost all online.)
It sounds like they are mostly online, just in a building.
Charter maybe?
Due to all the snow days this year, our kids had an “e learning” make up day on Saturday, during which they were expected to do approximately 8 hours of school work online. Thankfully I was out of town for that. I’d rather have them add a day at the end of the year.
Due to all the snow days this year, our kids had an “e learning” make up day on Saturday, during which they were expected to do approximately 8 hours of school work online.
That’s terrible. Not just for the students, but for the teachers who will have to pick up the mess of someone’s “brilliant” idea.
Sounds like an “attendance” scam/trial balloon. Although I thought Indiana funded their schools differently than Illinois, but maybe each county is different.
In the future, if this thing is OK with the school district, then they can just have an e-learning day announced whenever a storm is forecast. It also assumes every student is required to have a computer and broadband access.
May also have to do with federal dollars. Local schools are a lot more dependent on those than is generally realized, and of course more so than they should be – as in “federal department of what?”
In Indiana the kids are required to be in school a certain number of days per year, and this fulfills that requirement. Some schools around here have “e learning” days while the teachers have those “in service” days.
My oldest is receiving special ed services, and it’s written in her plan that she is not allowed to have a Chromebook and she can only do online assignments on a school computer under direct supervision. (She has abused her Chromebook privileges in the past and never gets anything done on a computer). Apparently she and her special ed teacher worked on everything Friday.
“Sorry, he’s sick. Would have missed school anyway. Here’s a note.”
We had a situation one year where we had so many days cancelled that they bussed us all in for a half day on some Saturday.
Why don’t they do this “e-learning” ON the snow days?
How is this different from pulling the fire alarm or calling in a bomb threat? They intentionally interfered with everyone’s day.
The kids definitely deserve some punishment, but so does whoever designed an entire school system such that it comes to a grinding halt if the internet goes out.
Ahem!
LAUSD Ipad fiasco
Dang, they wasted $1.3B on that? Nothing left to cut, indeed.
https://xkcd.com/327/
And unlike pulling a fire alarm, this prank and the pile of regulations heaped on the technology will probably allow The Man to pile on a dozen different felonies and Make An Example Out Of Them.
I’m absolutely OK with the school punishing them and calling their parents in to continue the lecturing/beatings.
But a criminal record? That is a bridge too far for me.
After the first time or two the school should have been able to deploy counter measures. That is if they weren’t total loons who don’t know anything about networks.
In fairness, disabling Wi-Fi doesn’t risk getting people SWATted.
Because people have no-shit anxiety about fires and bombs as those things are actual dangers. Inconvenienced is a lesser matter.
Brett needs to Lysol his entire house:
https://glibertarians.com/?s=sick
I thought people in Florida were hardier.
Kids are biological weapons. I call it the kindergarten cold. twice a year since he started pre-school, about once every 3-5 years before.
*nods, blows nose*
about once every 3-5 years before [preschool]
So between 0.33 and 0.66 colds then.
Who’s the black pornstar?
Hitler?
HM?
If that is HM…
But at the very least, he should know the answer since it is his link.
I would also like to know this.
For research.
On fapping.
Yahoo Via Rueters.
Maybe Tex is the nefarious leaker in this new era of yellow journalism.
Move Secret Service back to Treasury and disband DHS.
Sorry she did it or sorry she was caught doing it?
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/04/08/i-am-ashamed-of-the-pain-i-have-caused-actress-felicity-huffman-pleads-guilty-in-college-admissions-scandal/
Yes.
“BREAKING: Federal authorities have charged 28yo Rondell Henry of Germantown, Md., alleging he stole a UHaul van and planned to use it to run over a large group of people at National Harbor. “He harbored hatred for those who do not practice the Muslim faith,” authorities say.”
https://twitter.com/ABC7Kevin/status/1115336934057041922
https://www.foxnews.com/us/maryland-man-accused-of-plotting-to-run-van-into-national-harbor-crowd-keep-driving-and-driving-and-driving
Peace be with you.
Those Amish and their beards don’t let anyone distract you with the Muslim stuff.
The story neglected to mention that the statement by authorities was preceded by “You could say” and followed by the authorities donning a pair of sunglasses.
YYYYYYYYEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
He harbored Nationalistic hate at the National Harbor?
Can we label this Dhimmiphobia?
Ban U-Hauls!
Absolutely. The evil U-Haul made him do it. Those high-capacity things just go off for, like, no reason. We just need common sense regulations.
NOBODY NEEDS MORE THAN 10 CUBIC FEET OF SPACE
Just like in OKC, and the first World Trade Center bombing!
Lesbians hit hardest.
BREAKING: BEN SHAPIRO IS A JEW
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1114548562497560576
Gibran Rojas
@Kyryyto
Apr 6
Replying to @RightWingWatch @benshapiro
Fighting over fan fiction
Matthew Montana
@MontanaMan618
Apr 6
They seriously need a Jesus-con. I’d go just to see all the fights between the different sects
Should I know who Rick Wiles is?
Best reply : “Sir, this is a Wendy’s”
+1 square hamberder
“Beto O’Rourke calls Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘racist’
Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “racist” while speaking about the US-Israel relationship at a campaign event in Iowa on Sunday.
O’Rourke, a former congressman from Texas, added in his remarks in Iowa City that he does not believe Netanyahu “represents the true will of the Israeli people.”
“The US-Israel relationship is one of the most important relationships that we have on the planet, and that relationship, if it is successful, must transcend partisanship in the United States, and it must be able to transcend a prime minister who is racist, as he warns against Arabs coming to the polls,” O’Rourke said.”
https://nypost.com/2019/04/07/beto-orourke-calls-israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-racist/
If anyone knows the true will of the Israeli people it’s a fake Mexican Irish-American idiot.
Beto would make a great president of a high school. maybe even a college fraternity.
So much this. State rep is about his best achievement. He’s like a younger, slightly more likeable Tim Kaine.
I’m picturing an Animal House sequel starring Beto. He couldn’t even follow in the footsteps of Senator Blutarsky.
Pinto or Boone.
Pinto. He definitely got stoned with his professors and spouted pseudo-intellectual bullshit.
And get all pouty when he girlfriend cuckolds him.
Yeah, really shouldn’t be campaigning on what you think the will of a foreign population is. Not our problem. Fail.
He is catering to the anti-semitism he believes a segment of the voters have. It is about as low-down as slimy as I have seen any politician get. This guy is some piece of work.
That is my suspicion as well.
How obstetric violence or ‘birth rape’ affects millions of mums
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/8778305/birth-rape-obstetric-violence-investigation-childbirth/
Fine, then give birth at home attended by the crone of your choice and plorp the kid out into a rented rubber “birthing pool” of dubious cleanliness. Seriously.
You sign that form you let them use their best judgement. And they’re up against all types of regulation, and liability, and insurance regulations.
Yeah, I’m no expert but I got the nagging feeling through the third of so of that article that I made it through, that something was off.
My chiropractor had a home birth go bad and the kid died. I’m not sure about the details, but I could only imagine the horrible feeling that would nag at you for the rest of your life wondering if your baby would have lived if you had been in a hospital.
People today have completely forgotten how many women used to die in childbirth.
My family cemetery has many men buried with wives on each side who died in childbirth and little graves beside the wives of babies and young children who died at birth or very young.
My aunt had a family tree put together years ago. My great-grandparents had nine kids, and if I remember right, three of them died in infancy.
“I was so shocked and felt completely violated, as if I had no right over what was happening to my body or my baby.”
You’ve been dealing with NHS for 9 months and you just now discovered you had no rights?
This is very dicey territory. I was with my wife when she gave birth to our kids. She was conscious but not lucid as labor progressed. I very much doubt she could have consented to some of the procedures.
I don’t doubt some doctors overstep or even take advantage of the situation. Still currents laws for battery and sexual assault appear to cover the situation.
Indeed. There is also the nuance that consent is not needed in a true emergency (although a verbal objection should be honored).
When a delivery goes bad, it can go bad very fast, and there is literally no time to go through the usual informed consent conversation (nor do you need to most of the time, because its an emergency).
I guarantee you, though, that any delay in an intervention because you were dicking around getting consent will bite you in the ass in the malpractice suit, and that even if the mother objects to an intervention (typically a C-Section) so that it isn’t done, and there is a bad outcome, you will get sued. I have two of those cases right now on my docket.
Also, UK, so wouldn’t put anything past the NHS.
Bernie Sanders confirms that he is not in favor of open borders:
It will be interesting to see if this damages him politically in the primaries.
It might be damaging in the primaries, but I think it would be an asset for him in the general. Besides the fourth estate and all of the DSA screechers, there aren’t very many people in this country that would disagree with him on this.
The Dem presidential primaries are going to be the best spectator event in my living memory.
No they won’t. Too much is at stake with the elections now. If the Patriots win the Super Bowl oh well. There’s always next year. If the socialist win, we’re all in trouble.
Careful. That’s the kind of thinking that brought us TDS. We survived BHO and his raft of stupidity, they’ll survive Trump and his raging economy. The socialists won’t pass any green new deals for at least a generation or so. I wouldn’t worry.
Some people thought Kristallnacht was an awesome spectator event, too.
I dunno, witnessing liberties getting vilified and destroyed doesn’t seem entertaining to me.
those regulations are to protect people from corporations brainwashing them. we are no longer living in the Wild West.
Yes, Bernie,
This is still a great country. All those brown men and women haven’t gotten the message that we are racist and misogynistic and that we are doing them a favor keeping them out. Instead they want to come here. We can’t as you mentioned take all of them in. This means we have to have rules and ways to keep them out. In any population there will be demons and saints. Most of them will be in the middle and yes they will be sympathetic. Too bad. Sometimes good governance means being hard headed and little hard-hearted. Let the rest of the Democrats know this.
Oh, I think the Dems have no problem being hard-headed and hard-hearted. They just aim it more at Americans, especially male and white Americans.
It’s kind of sad that Bernie is the only one who says something sane.
*sigh* This.
Not sure. It seems a little crazy to be saying this to the group he’s usually pandering to.
The Dems are out for orange blood. This won’t help him, at all.
“Nobody needs twenty-six kinds of Hispanic.”
Remember his hardcore base is the union workers who are anti-immigration. It will be interesting to see whether millennial progressives give him a pass on this, or raise the hue and cry of racism.
Remember his hardcore base is the union workers who are anti-immigration.
A part of it, yes, but I thought last time around he also had a significant “Bernie Bro” contingent of leftist college youngsters, who might not see eye to eye on this issue.
‘Some of those people out there might not have gotten the message that my stuff is untouchable and would try to take it.’
Well, Felicity Huffman has fallen on her sword.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/08/us/felicity-huffman-guilty-admissions/index.html
Bets as to prison or no?
No, Granted she’s no Jussie Smollet but I think she’ll get a celebrity pass.
I seriously doubt she would have pled guilty if prison time was involved.
All my money is on no. She had a good lawyer and she didn’t expose herself to prison time just out of guilt. She was way less culpable that the other celebrity whore.
Agreed although at this point no mention of a plea deal and just the the prosecution was asking for prison time.
No.
You don’t plead guilty this quickly unless you got the best deal possible.
I bet she does 1000 hrs of community service or something.
http://smbc-comics.com/openborders/
Just to piss some of you off.
Some of us are real libertarians.
Dammit, that was supposed to be a new item, not a reply.
The old reverse-brooks.
I’ll sign up for that. Our borders become completely uncontrolled when every other country’s borders are completely uncontrolled, and not before. I won’t even condition my support on getting rid of the welfare state.
This might (or might not) like the free trade argument. Unilateral free trade is a strong position, you don’t need the other countries to join in, in fact, there might even be a first mover advantage.
Not sure the same is true for immigration, but probably so.
My position probably isn’t technically “open” borders but very close to so. Mine is the tall fence, wide gate position. Immigration should be very easy, with minimal backgroup checks, without quotas, for people who want a work visa. But if you cross illegally, we shoot on sight.
That’s actually not far from my position as well.
The difficulty is that, once they are here on a work visa, they are almost impossible to send back if they stop working (and don’t want to go back). I don’t know how to square the circle of “come here and you can stay as long as you are working” and the enforcement regime necessary to run down and get rid of people who stop working and (often via identity theft) get onto the welfare gravy train.
I think I’d still have quotas, though, on the theory that supply and demand applies to labor markets, and too much supply will drive down wages and displace Americans from the job market. A man’s livelihood isn’t the same thing as a fungible widget; I think an immigration policy that has as its sole purpose benefiting American citizens is going to have some constraints on putting their livelihoods at risk. What those should look like, I don’t know, but like all public policy it will not be infallible.
The scenario I keep coming back to in my head, is what will happen if/when Mexico goes full Venezuelan socialist collapse? 10% of Venezuleans have left their country. 10% of Mexico is well over 10 million people, and they ain’t gonna go south. The current Central American caravans are a warning shot, IMO, that we would be foolish to disregard.
That ship sailed decades ago. (Not a value judgement, BTW.)
Now she can do the atonement and rehabilitation publicity tour for her next project.
(I still like Sports Night)
Ten minutes and six replies and nobody has offered his sword for Ms. Huffman to fall upon? You’re slipping, guys.
meh
Too old for OMWC. Too thin for HM.
They blew their collective load in the gun article. Wait a few minutes for them to wake up from their post-orgasm naps.
Wrong desperate housewife.
She was mildly cute in Reversal of Fortune, but she’s not the belle of the Desperate Housewives ball.
Community service. She’ll take on the NRA or something.
Bets as to prison or no?
The article says the prosecution will be asking for jail time. I don’t think they would be doing that if they had a deal for no jail time.
We’ll see.
Jesus H, it’s not like these people are a threat to the public. The prosecutor is a bigger threat to decent people and should be locked up.
I still don’t grok why any of this is criminal let alone rising to jail time serious. What’s the worst thing they did? Pay someone to help them fudge numbers or fake achievments to get in a school, lie on an admissions form? this is criminal?
The emperor would prefer that you play along and not mention his lack of clothing.
I’ve always been puzzled by criminal fraud v civil fraud.
Civil fraud requires that there be an actual victim, and the penalty is usually restitution.
Criminal fraud doesn’t even have to be successful, it just has to violate an (arbitrary?) criminal statute, like wire fraud (which is really attempted fraud using interstate communication). The penalty isn’t restitution to any victims (as far as I know), but a fine paid to the non-victim state, and jail time. Fraud is a species of theft, so I’m not opposed to a criminal penalty for it, but the way we do it is just strange.
In these cases, its very hard to identify a victim. Like Warren’s affirmative action fraud, I suspect the colleges were cheerful participants, and in no way victims.
Maybe they should be sentenced to trade their kids’ college spots with other kids who didn’t get in.
I’m sure that the colleges will be returning any “donations” and other illicit money back to their owners.
Speaking of damages, 70% of successful punitive damages in a civil suit go to the state here and as little as 10% to the plaintiff.
Unless the plaintiff is a public entity, in which case they get at least 70% and as much as 90% (attorneys’ fees are capped at 20%), with 60% of that to the plaintiff entity’s general fund (aka unrestricted spending).
yeah, that’s been my take on this whole thing – I had figured that: a. this happened all the time, b. wasn’t illegal, c. was somewhat necessary to keep the coffers full
that people might go to jail over it has been the most mind-blowing part
Yep. Acting in the best interest of their child, even if misguided. No malice. No one harmed, no violence or intimidation involved. They were acting inside a system they didn’t create or conspire to create. This shit has been going on for decades.
20 years??? That seems more than a little bit excessive.
I THINK where they’re getting a lot of them is that the bribes were disguised as charitable gifts and some of these geniuses then claimed those as a tax deduction. I know the IRS was involved in this so that may have been how the door was opened.
But, I agree with your overall point that this is just another way of getting the feds in the door. See, also, the FIFA scandals.
Question for our Canadian Glibs: is this an accurate summary of Trudeau’s recent scandal (of which I’ve only been vaguely aware)? And more importantly, is this description (FTA) of Trudeau’s faults accurate:
If so, I find it hilarious that people try to hold him up positively compared to Trump. I guess cool socks go a long way.
What a monster! Just like about a third of humanity!
so a Canadian Hitler?
Train cars full of Tim Horton doughnuts en route to the final solution?
It’s a reasonable summary, as summaries go — if you want more detail, Paul Wells of Maclean’s magazine and Andrew Coyne of the National Post have done yeomens’ work writing explainers/commentary on the SNC-Lavalin kerfuffle.
I don’t honestly know a huge amount about Justin’s personal foibles; until recently, the Canadian MSM (some of whom were personal friends with Justin’s father PET {COUGH}Craig Oliver{COUGH}) seem to have been keeping his various behavioural quirks and indiscretions out of the public eye, but it looks like, other than at the CBC, those days may be largely over. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, actually. :-/
Sorry — used some Canuck shorthand up above. PET = “Pierre Elliot Trudeau.”
Thanks for the feedback. I’ll check those articles out.
Agree with BEAM on Andrew Coyne‘s articles. Acerbic would be an understatement.
Also, if you’re looking to expand your vocabulary or arsenal of metaphors, check out Rex Murphy.
Rex is a national treasure.
We should bronze him, really.
Not just socks. Being attractive.
Yep. He’s basically a Himbo; good looking, shallow and a room-temperature IQ. There’s a reason his handlers kept him out of the House of Commons a lot during the last four years.
The impression that I’ve developed from this story is that, when he doesn’t get his way, he throws a temper tantrum like a spoiled child. If that were his only character flaw, that would be one thing. But add to that the fact that he’s arrogant, condescending, and dumb as a post.
For further reference:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-liberal-mp-celina-caesar-chavannes-says-she-was-met-with-hostility/
Typically, arrogant people that I’ve met also tend to be quite bright and competent (YMMV), which goes a ways to explaining the arrogance. But in JT’s case, his arrogance mystifies me. Perhaps he truly believes that occupying the office his father once did is simply his destiny, or perhaps divine right?
I was arrogant but now I don’t give a fuck.
Trudeau and Morneau are exhibits 1 and 1A in that category. In terms of accomplishments:
Trudeau:
1. Comes from a wealthy family.
2. Father was PM.
Morneau:
1. Comes from a wealthy family.
2. Married a wife from a wealthy family.
Both arrogant AF.
One very rainy night I noticed a vehicle nose down in a flooded ditch. I stopped and approached the vehicle. The driver’s door was open and an old man was sitting in the driver’s seat. The water was up past his knees.
Me : “Sir, are you injured? Can I help you get out of the car?”
Him : “Rarrrg vergle bleep fuck you glabble burgle bloop you goddmned son of a bitch.”
Me : “Ok sir. You have a good evening.”
*I get back in my car and drive away*
Kinky.
Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump don’ want no hep, chump don’ GET da hep!
Oh, that was you? Sorry, if I had known, I would have introduced myself.
I think Suthen is too old for you.
At least he didn’t freak out and pull a gun.
He was obviously very drunk and very pissed off. I didn’t want to give him a chance to pull anything. The saying ‘no good deed goes unpunished’ didn’t come from nowhere. I drove away and let the cops deal with him.
The new tax law makes things complicated for a (non-married [does it matter?]) couple. Instead of assigning all the real estate taxes and mortgage interest to the person with the highest tax rate, it might make sense to split them to stay below $10k for SALT. Or perhaps not. Now we have to try various scenarios. Didn’t somebody promise “simplification”?
How do you allocate taxes between two people? I think they can only be deducted by the person they were actually assessed on, but IANATL.
Unless you’re mortgage has a principle amount in excess of $750K, tax reform doesn’t limit mortgage interest deductions. I also don’t know how you allocate mortgage interest between two people for tax purposes. As with taxes, I would expect the deduction would be claimed by the person who owed the interest. If you have two parties on a note, you might be able to allocate based on the actual amounts each paid, I suppose.
There’s a box in TurboTax to check if you want to enter a different mortgage interest from the one on form 1098. Then you add a statement like “filing single and own my home as a joint tenant.” But there’s no box like this for property taxes. And you’re right, I actually want split the property taxes rather than mortgage interest.
Proof that Bumfuck, Minnesoda is better than Baltimore.
BTW, the Red Lake area is a horrible place. I would be pissed if I had to live there. But at least I wouldn’t have to root for the Orioles.
Proof that Bumfuck, Minnesoda is better than Baltimore.
If that’s not damning with faint praise, I don’t know what is.
Red Lake is home of the Red Lake Indian Reservation. That has to be one of the biggest shit holes in the state. It is a closed reservation and white eyes who work on the res are “encouraged” to be off of it by sundown.
The Indians I grew up next to (White Earth) all thought that Red Lake was extremely fucked up.
So it’s a socialist paradise. The Baltimore pols must be green with envy.
I do like the refreshing honesty of this line:
So, hundreds of years of permanent warfare.
Incorporate the 14th Amendment on these racist pseudo governments. If they want to be private clubs with restrictive membership, fine. Oh wait, freedom of association was torn up. Too bad, so sad.
I saw a bum fucking the pavement once near Wall Street.
Hawt.
Baltimore: 2 Super Bowls
Minnesoda: 59 years of failure and counting
Ahem, three Super Bowl wins. Albeit the first one was before the dark days of the Evil Irsay.
Bumfuck is usually a place where you have peace and quiet, low crime and people leave you the fuck alone. It doesnt get much better than that.
Non-bumfuck is usually a place where you hear sirens, gunfire, lots of traffic 24 hours per day and you know making eye contact with people on the street is a really bad idea. Fuck that.
In my experience, bumfuck or non-bumfuck, people only leave you alone if there are consequences for not doing so. Meddlers are everywhere.
I’ve been tracking my car for almost two years now (might be an article in that), and realized that driving to the racing circuit and back was putting waaaay too many miles on my toy. So I’ve decided to start trailering the car to the track. That, of course, requires a tow vehicle. Current leader in the clubhouse for that role is a 2015 Audi Q7 diesel. Good choice, bad idea? And if bad idea, what are anyone’s recommendations? I want to keep the cost under $35K.
You can’t find a Ford F-250 diesel that’s just broken in at 250k miles for that?
My thought, too. Unless you are planning to use the Audi as your daily driver, I think the maintenance on it will probably eat you up compared to a ‘Murcan pickemup truck.
If you really want a daily driver SUV that can tow, maybe the Audi. I still have to think you could get pretty comparable functionality for less if you go Japanese, though.
Open trailer or enclosed? Some friends of mine used to pull a 24′ enclosed trailer containing their race car and spares and tools….with a Tiguan. The tounge weight was much higher than the Tiguan could handle, and keeping that thing pointed down the road was intimidating. I’m going to guess a Q7 is basically the same chassis, so I’d recommend against it unless you’re towing an open trailer, dual axle, and not taking any spares.
For $12,000 you could get a decent F250 and very nice Featherlite.
Just bought a trailblazer ss, an ’08 with 100k on it. It’ll tow 7k lbs and has airride in the rear so it compensates for the trailer load. I towed a car trailer with the 6 cyl. version (actually a Saab 97x, but same-same) it tows like there’s nothing there.
Btw, mine has a 402 stroker with cnc ported heads and about 500 hp at the rear wheels.
damn…
Oh, one other thing. Once you start trailering the car to the track, you’ll want to start taking spare parts. Tires, jacks, tools, fluids, rolls of tape, fuel (because buying that at the track is insane), fuel pump, etc., etc. It’s inevitable. So instead of buying something small and then having to sell it all to trade up, buy something adequate for your needs in a few years.
Why diesel? Just wondering.
More torque = easier towing.
Ok. Had an old boss who was always on E because he couldn’t find a diesel pump. Long time ago I’m sure it’s better today.
It repels Prius owners.
What Mad Scientist said, torque plus MPG on road trips.
To answer questions raised here. SUV would replace my Porsche as my daily (under 15 miles per day on average), maybe become our road trip car.
I’ve looked at Sequoias and Land Cruisers, since they’re pretty much maintenance-free, but they’re stupid expensive in my part of the country.
I hadn’t considered Ford/Chevy at all. Their truck quality (as opposed to their sedans) is pretty good, yes?
Open car trailer. Big Tex has a dealer about two miles from my house. Is aluminium worth the extra cost vs steel?
The nice thing about the fancy aluminum trailers is that the whole thing tilts to make it much easier to load the car. The 4′ ramps on a steel trailer, even with a dovetail, are pretty steep if you car has a lot of front end overhang.
Buddy has a 10 year old Dodge diesel that he tows a big-ass horse trailer. Bulletproof. Uncle tows a travel trailer/boat with a Chevy diesel. Another friend tows a 30 foot equipment trailer with his Ford 350 diesel.
I think they are all fine.
Driving that few miles, a pickup would be a decent DD.
I really wasn’t joking about the Ford Diesel engine being just broken in at 250K miles. Their trucks are pretty solid. Chevy similar.
Avoid the Ford 6.0 liter diesel. The 7.3 and the 6.7 are bulletproof. The 6.7 and the Torqueshift transmission are an incredible combination. Downshifts by itself when towing downhill to engine brake. Smooth as butter. You’ll forget you’re even towing a trailer. Surprisingly quiet too. The Cummins engine Dodge uses can be heard from 2 blocks away just idling. Ford’s 6.7 and Chevy’s latest diesels are almost as quiet as a gas engine.
I just bought a 2012 f250 with 180k for $16k last month. Thing will pull a house. Torque is amazing. Worst part about new diesels is the emissions equipment they need, and the diesel emmision fluid (not a euphemism) you need to add about every oil change. The equipment captures the soot, tries to reburn it and then filters what it can’t. Then cleans the filter by burning it off by injecting extra fuel into the motor to increase exhaust temps. Causes reliability issues, adds heat to the motor, increases wear in the cylinder walls because you’re burning recycled carbon, etc.
All that said, I love mine so far. And I agree with Mad Scientist. A trailer with a car and extras inside will push the max of that vehicle quickly. If you’re only going 100-200 miles a trip or so, you’re probably fine, but start driving long distance and you will find that vehicle was not designed for towing.
I will also say these diesel trucks are not made for daily driving short distance. They are built to tow. And the motor takes forever to reach operating temp. 15 miles should be fine, but short trips and excessive idling cause excess fuel to get past the cylinder rings into the oil, causing it to wear faster.
The EGR filter cleaning process I mentioned is called passive regeneration and happens every 500 miles when you aren’t towing and naturally increasing exhaust temps.
My TBSS has power memory heated leather seats, traction control, abs, nav, bose 8 speaker stereo, larger brakes and swaybars, built in air compressor with 30 ft hose to inflate tires, tow package, rear a/c and stereo controls and dual zone climate up front. It’s nicely built and screams high end quality everywhere. I got it because I work on late models and after Obama did the whole sky high CAFE standards thing the SUVs all started getting flimsy and light duty. The new stuff can be dented with just a push of the finger and midsize versions are all unibody and cheap looking underneath. Mine’s got a full frame and decent thickness sheetmetal.
Something like this, then?
Pro: less than half the price of the Audi, potentially not made with all kinds of plastic under the hood that breaks and is expensive to fix
Con: low MPG, “Government Motors” badge, 6 model years older and 110K more miles on it than the Audi
Yup. Mine has less gaudy wheels and no gaudy steps. I paid 16.5k. I love it.
Also pro, It’s an LSx motor. Incredibly popular and easy to modify or repair. It’s the most popular motor in hot rodding right now. That means good prices on parts and great selection. Mine gets an average of 12 mpg driving to work in L.A.
Diesel pickup.. either Ford, Chevy or Ram..
After trying to get a gas pickup to move a horse trailer off of the farm in mud , I will only use a diesel. Towing really uses the torque.
My wife has a F350 (with the 6.0) as her barn truck.
We very recently bought a 2015 Q7 (3.0 supercharged gas) in my household for the wife. It rained last night and I need to see if the spare tire well filled with water (again). We’ve had it 3 weeks. In those 3 weeks it has spent a total of 8 days at the local Audi dealer and CarMax for repairs. It has under 40k on it. Buy a GM or Ford (the Cummings in the Dodge will run well beyond the rest of the truck collapsing around the powertrain) Audis look nice but are built like shit. I would not have this one if I hadn’t made a promise that I wish I hadn’t made several years ago.
Frustrated Ocasio-Cortez Informs Calculator She’s In Charge Now
That’s awesome:)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Economics Degree Recalled
Final line is gold.
Lego gulag had me laughing.
I am sick of drinking chicken/vegetable/beef stock for sustenance. The Gatorade gut bomb that starts in half an hour ain’t gonna put me in a better mood.
Just talked to my father on the phone.
Me: “Hello. How are you doing?”
Him: ” I am ok but I think those oysters I ate earlier are not getting along. They are having a fight with each other.”
Why are you having to survive on stock, Spud?
Sounds like a butt-probe prep.
I have a date with a garden hose tomorrow morning. First one in four years.
That’s not Gatorade!
Then it came from a diabetic addicted to lemon/lime!
Tarentino doing Star Trek?
https://screenrant.com/tarantino-star-trek-r-rated/
-1,000 red-shirted ensigns
Make it so.
That seems like a poor choice, to me.
Been talked about for a while. I hope it’s something that never happens.
I’m OK with it. It’s not like there’s any longer any “canon” to protect.
I want these motherfucking Klingons off my motherfucking starship
This hanger bay isn’t motherfucking Klingon storage!
“when you pulled up to starbase, did you see a sign in orbit that said DEAD KLINGON STORAGE ?”
Samual L Jackson as Captain Kirk?
I’m anxiously awaiting the Manson movie. I got delayed driving home for a whole week when they filmed on Hollywood Blvd, and then they filmed two blocks from my house on a weekend. There’s so much local history surrounding Manson and Hollywood, it fascinates me. Read up on Laurel Canyon sometime. It’s amazing what all has happened there.
I spent ten years working in a mental hospital. I have no desire whatsoever to see a movie about a schizophrenic and his little cult of personality. I saw enough of that shit to last me a lifetime.
I transported a lot of mental patients in my day. One of the regular destinations was a state hospital. If the patient wasn’t stable enough to be let out of restraints, we had to take them back to the ward. Three very solid oak doors that locked behind you led to a very scary place.
I sometimes wonder if the various film representations I’ve seen of such places are at all realistic. Then I think, I don’t really want to know.
They beat that storey to death back in 70s.
I’ve known dozens of people who knew them. A bunch of my old school customers used to hang out at Spahn ranch with them. My parents were hippies, they used to warn me to stay clear of them.
Uncle Ruckus On DJT
Leonard Nimoy’s widow is on tv blaming deh tobacky debil for her husband’s death. Hey lady, your husband died at 83. He beat the average lifespan by quite a bit. Everyone dies from something, even Ron Bailey. Fuck you using your husband’s corpse to jumpstart your outrage activist career.
Jeezus. I shouldn’t have googled that. Turns out it’s not the widow pushing this. It’s the fucking CDC. My fucking tax dollars.
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/stories/leonard.html
Nothing. Left. To. Cut.
I think it was Smaug what done it!
I smoked for 28 years. Within a couple days of quitting (NB: I still vape) I had no more cough and no more shortness of breath. He must have been a world-class smoker like he said.
Yea, the improvement was drastic when I quit as well. It probably helped that I took up jogging at the same time (actually started jogging before I quit cigarettes, so there was this awkward period where my morning routine was to put on my track pants, smoke a cigarette while I stretched and warmed up, then jog about 1/2 mile. Now I do 5 nonstop).
My apartment also stopped smelling like smoke after about a month of leaving the windows open despite my mother’s assertion that the smell would literally never go away.
That’s not logical.
83 good years. A lot of nonsmokers don’t get that.
No shit.
I think it’s safe to say that very few non-smokers get to live that many years.
Galveston brewing is good. Like their tiki wheat. That’s all.
https://us.glock.com/en/press-release/news-page/chuck
Chuck Norris is now a Glock spokesperson. Huh.
Glocks…I’ve had a few. But then again too few to mention.
Especially to mention to Preet Bahara…
Never had a Glock and haven’t held one in my hand for years. The early ones made me think I could saw off a 8″ piece of 2×4 lumber and it would be more comfortable and natural to hold. I am sure they have improved but….get the hell off of my lawn!
*Lovingly pats 1911 with round spring housing*
They still feel like you’re holding a brick but if you can get past that they’re alright.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/ch_OAz7-TWWFNeus2gJUWQ.j7BVS30nE7objwxSILXgoX
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Nice.
The last time I shot mine, a Kimber, I put three 45acp through the same hole at 60 feet.
Friends don’t let friends shoot Glocks.
Glocks are for people who understand that they should be armed but have no interest in guns beyond that. And if you have to get a Glock get the M21 (45 ACP) or M20 (10mm Auto). They 9mm versions carry more individual rounds but throw less lead per magazine at your target.
Seems to be a worthy replacement for Gunny.
I am planning on firing a Glock 23 on Saturday.
And a report on the LOK grips on the CZ: they are great. If your wife buys a Shadow 2, I can highly recommend them as an upgrade.
I inherited a 23 a few years back. Already had a 22 that I bought new a long time ago. Bought a 21 from a buddy last year. 22 with a light is my dresser gun. 1911s are my favorite but Glocks are good guns. Just ugly as hell.
The 21s are very nice shooters. A little thicc, but very accurate.
I have a bunch of Glocks… 17, 22, 27 and I like having the slip on Hogue grips. Just that little extra palm bump makes the difference.. and the pinky mag extension for the 27..
I have a 23G2. Fun to shoot
I bet Chuck has a Glock 7.