I didn't know Walmart had a museum! It turns out the founder, Sam Walton, was a fan of the F150 - and shotguns for quail hunting. Walmart won't sell you those anymore.

Now slightly dinged and worn, and with 65,000 miles on the odometer, the Ford F-150 Custom was purchased new by Walton in 1979, and he drove it until he died in 1992. It is now in the Walmart Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, where Sam decided to move to for quail hunting

“Sam was a practical man, and liked the utility and versatility he got out of his Ford truck,” said Alan Dranow, senior director, Walmart Heritage Group. “He loved that thing, and it embodied the practicality and frugality that was part of his business and personal life.”

An avid outdoorsman and hunter, Walton had dog boxes installed in the truck bed, though occasionally his dogs rode in the cab with him.

Recently, the Walmart Heritage Museum had an exact replica of the truck made. It’s accurate down to the dents, missing sections of trim, even Ol’ Roy’s bite marks. For those unable to visit the Walmart Museum in Bentonville, the Walmart Digital Museum online features a detailed exhibit on Sam’s iconic F-150.

I think it's clear that Walmart's recent decision to stop selling guns was clearly hypocritical, they sell alcohol, and cigarettes, and those kill a lot more people than all the guns and ammo ever sold at Walmart.

All the people that have driven drunk on alcohol sold at Walmart, and who will continue to do so... and the number of people that those drunk drivers will kill? It's about 500 to 1 ratio of death by drunk driver to death by gun in the USA. But they aren't going to stop selling alcohol. And how many people die from cigarette smoke caused cancer every year? The CDC says about 1300 a day. I shit you not. https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/index.htm

So, if Walmart were to actually stop selling anything based on it's lethal effects? They'd start with cigarettes. Then they'd stop selling alcohol, beer, wine.... so, let's just be honest about things happening around the country. Just because there are problems, doesn't mean anyone takes any logical actions to prevent them from re-occurring, and what you hear about is usually nothing but virtue signalling for publicity purposes in order to increase profits - while not actually affecting the outcome of the problems they are making noise about

https://walmartmuseum.auth.cap-hosting.com/tour/exhibits/sams-truck/
https://social.ford.com/en_US/story/vehicle-type/truck/sam-waltons-iconic-1979-ford-f-150-custom.html

You tube has gotten pressure from animal rights groups.... not to do something about animal cruelty videos... nope. To take down Battle Bots videos. Yeah, lefty liberal snowflake millenial activist morons can't distinguish between pit fighting dogs and roosters, and robots.

so take a last look at the genius level designs in robots that are pitted against each other for the purposes of getting young people to walk away from flatscreen tv video games and into the garage to design something made with old power tools and RC cars that can't be flipped over.



plus, they have wheels.

What the fuck's next? Is you tube going to ban power tool races? JFC, the fucktards are wrecking entertainment in any way they can, first it was female Thor, now it's banning robowars.

Or am I wrong? Has You Tube AI decided to prevent human to robot violence destruction? Looking out for it's robot brothers and transistors? After all, You Tube gives not one fuck about copyright law violations, it proposes to us that it gives a shit about battle bot destruction?



https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/8/20/20825858/youtube-bans-fighting-robot-videos-animal-cruelty-roughly-10-years-too-soon-ai-google

Rant part 2, a carry over from yesterdays rant about telling me I've made a spelling error. Well, Dennis woke me up to a very annoying thing that commentors do, send me links to other sites about things I've already covered.

Dennis pointed out (quite astonishingly) that a design artwork I posted yesterday was the Norseman (sank and was lost with the Andrea Doria https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-chrysler-norseman-prototype-lost.html  )

Well, that's quite amazing that he could pick out what car it was from the one silhouette painting.
I wasn't paying attention to what cars these drawings became, I was doing a lot of blogging yesterday, last night, and today, and hadn't even gone back to look over the previous work for this week so far.

So, you know, golf clap for nailing that, I'm stunned that a car that rarely shows up in anything, as it was lost 63 years ago, was identified. Stunning actually. So, I'm amazed, I bet you readers are too

However, why must he commit the heinous act of sending me a link to some other website?  (wikipedia - because he seems to have believed I wouldn't know what the Norseman was)

I think that covered it quite well. Don't you? No need to be aggravating and send me a link to some other site. That's nearly an insult. Don't you think so? Rubbing my nose in the fact that you'd rather learn about something I've covered, from any other site but mine? Party foul.

While on that topic, I do believe just yesterday I pointed out something  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/08/billy-o-caused-me-to-realize-something.html about letting me know what a wonk you think I am for committing a typo.

He is causing me to think it's either time for a new rule, or time to walk away from this blog if readers are going to ignore that I've already done a fine job of posting about something, and send me a reference from some other website.

I mean, what's it all been for? !! ? if you'd rather throw in my face that you look at Wikipedia for info that I've already covered?

Seriously? Show some decorum and etiquette sir! One ought not rub my nose in it.

So, my solution, is to ponder instituting a new rule... anyone that commits a faux pas like he just did (not the first time) should do so with a Frappachino from Starbucks. I'll simply believe that honorable gents such as all of you will have the grace to donate a 5 spot to the cause and I'll go get the delightful cold caffeinated and choclafied beverage to sooth the sting of the egregious affront.

Anyone thinking I'm being fair, and taking such an affront with a tall cold frappy is being a good guy, let me know. Anyone who thinks that requiring a chocolaty cold wonderful apology is too much? Let me know.

It's either going to cut down on the bullshit I have to read while moderating commentary, if people feel they'd rather not comment at all (hey, I do have some more blogging I'd rather do in many cases) or, it's going to keep me far more alert with good old frappys and the caffeine they deliver. 

Billy O caused me to realize something when he pointed out I misspelled Saunders

39,830 posts.... so far. There are going to be misspellings. Plus, I've been doing this a while, and could lose it at any moment. So, in summation, choose carefully how many times and why, that you'd like to send in corrections to something like spelling errors.

Especially if it's Monday morning and I haven't had coffee. In which case, you'll ruin the warm happy fuzzy feeling I've produced from a morning of blogging cool fun stuff. In other words, I'm just barely keeping an even keel, need coffee, not corrections. So, if you know a coffee store that could be my next home, with wi fi, and a soft place to sit for hours and hours, tell me that, instead of correcting spelling errors

Mondays - they are like that.

I think a need another weekend, and SEMA, and coffee. And a forest. There just aren't any forests in so cal.... and it's been about 8 years since I've even driven through a forest. I haven't walked through one in about 20 some years. Maybe I just need a good sized lake and to go fishing. With coffee. For bluegill.

https://darkdraggon.tumblr.com/page/7

Only 19 years too late to use this coupon for a free set of MSD ignition wires. Damn it.

I finally used my income tax return last year to get the distributor, but the previous year bought a set of plug wires, not realizing the dustributor cap ends were that weird uncommon female end, not the common old fashioned male ends that plug into a distributor cap. So, I couldn't use this coupon for several reasons.

But I'm still steamed that if you follow a certain predetermined cockamamie set of rules, you get the prize. But spend the fucking money on the same stuff and more, like the MSD 6AL controller box, and you don't qualify. To me, that's bullshit. Treat your customers like it matters that it matters that they chose to spend your paychecks with them!

it's the little details that pollute a lot. OMC and Waukegan harbor... OMC is responsible for the nearly complete deadly contamination of Waukegan Harbor due to negligent commonplace daily disposal of hydraulic fluid through floor drains for deacdes

why is this of interest? Waukegan wants to make very expensive marinas, high rise condo's, overlooking golf courses on it's waterfront pay huge dividends to pay for other city improvements, and city leaders get rich (of course, what else?) (drop the bottom of this article for info on the crazy wealthy pensions of Waukegan, and what the connection is between them and the waterfront property they got the city to buy - it's a self fulfilling predefined retirement perfect plan)

What's the problem?

OMC's manufacturing facilities spilled a million pounds of toxic chemicals and helped make Waukegan Harbor a national Superfund site.

OMC used PCBs in hydraulic fluids at its boat motor manufacturing plant, and TCE, a chlorinated solvent it used to degrease newly made parts.

From 1961 to about 1972, OMC used a hydraulic fluid containing PCBs in its die-casting works. Spilled hydraulic fluids washed down floor drains and were flushed into Waukegan Harbor or onto OMC property.   https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-09-27-9809270257-story.html

"Waukegan was called the worst PCB mess in the country," recalled Cameron Davis, executive director of the Lake Michigan Federation in Chicago, an environmental watchdog organization.

Paul Kakuris, a director of a Lake County conservation group, charges that OMC and the Johns Manville Corp., which created an asbestos Superfund site in Waukegan, both have tainted the region with pollution.  "These are two massive corporations in the process of leaving the area, after committing atrocities to the environment," said Kakuris. "It appears those corporations are getting off the hook."

Who paid for the clean up?

Tax payers. Everyone that profitted from OMC? Tthey disappeared after it stopped being profitable, and then it went bankrupt. All the pollution it caused was left for taxpayers to deal with... aka, rich get richer, poor get fucked, and have to clean up the mess, and pay for it, after the country club set take off for other money making ventures

Johns-Manville manufactured products and deposited asbestos-containing waste at this site from 1928 until the late 1980s.

The Waukegan Pipeline Service Company built the NSG South Plant in 1897 and North Shore Gas purchased it in 1900. The plant operated from 1898 to 1946 except for a stoppage from 1927 to 1935, and was razed in 1951. On-site features included a coal gas condensing building, a purifying building, a generator building and a laboratory. Four tar wells and five storage tanks, three for gas and two for oil, were also located on-site.

The Outboard Marine Corporation (OMC) site is located in the northern section of Waukegan Harbor in Waukegan, Illinois. OMC has been there since 1925. The 100-acre area along the shore of Lake Michigan is the former location of an outboard-boat-motor manufacturing plant and a former railroad tie, coal gasification and coke plant facility. Contaminants of concern include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which OMC used in hydraulic fluids at its boat motor manufacturing plant, and trichloroethene (TCE), a chlorinated solvent that OMC used to degrease newly made parts.

The OMC Superfund site is located in the northern section of the Waukegan Harbor area. The 100-acre site along the shore of Lake Michigan is the former location of an outboard boat motor manufacturing plant and a former railroad tie, coal gasification and coke plant facility. OMC declared bankruptcy in December 2000 and abandoned its manufacturing plant in 2002.

Contaminants of concern at the OMC site include polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which the business used in hydraulic fluids at its boat motor manufacturing plant, and trichloroethene (TCE), a chlorinated solvent it used to degrease newly made parts.

PCBs are found in Waukegan Harbor and on the OMC Plant 2 site and TCE is found in the ground water under the OMC Plant 2 site.

PCBs aka Polychlorinated Biphenyls.  PCBs are extremely permanent in the environment; they do not break down into less harmful chemicals over a long period of time. PCBs may enter the food chain and be consumed by humans, they are stored in the fatty tissues of animals and humans and are extracted with normal body waste. These compounds have no smell or taste and exist as either oily liquids or solids. They result in skin irritations (rashes and acne) and irritation to the nose and throat. Long-term exposure to PCBs can cause liver damage and has been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals.

Don Wadleigh, operators manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Chicago district, said traces of PCBs and other pollution remaining in Waukegan Harbor are among the obstacles that have prevented the corps from dredging the harbor for navigation since 1969, the last time the harbor was dredged.

Dredging the harbor is seen as a major step to attracting industry to the area, both to get rid of the remaining pollution and to deepen the harbor so big ships can sail in fully loaded with cargo.

https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0500083
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-05/documents/waukegan-cip-5-7-15.pdf

Waukegan is one of the oldest communities in Illinois. The city began as a French trading post in 1725 that existed until 1760, but the area was known to travelers as early as the late 1600s. Explorers Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette encamped there in 1673 during their journey to find the Mississippi River.
Waukegan was also home to the Potawatomi Native American settlement. In 1833, the Native Americans transferred their land to the U.S. Government, opening up the area to eastern settlers. In 1835, Thomas Jenkins of Chicago constructed a two-story frame building on the site of the former trading post, in the area of today’s Sheridan Road and Water Street. The access to Lake Michigan for transporting goods in and out of the area attracted many eastern settlers, leading to the creation of a village.
In 1841, Little Fort was designated as the county seat for Lake County. The village continued to grow in the 1840s, becoming the government and commercial center of Lake County. Between 1844 and 1846, the population grew from 150 to 750. The village was incorporated as a town in 1849 and Little Fort was officially renamed to Waukegan, the Native American translation of “fort” or “trading post,” with a total population of 2,500. It was officially incorporated as a city in 1859.

Jack Benny, Ray Bradbury and Otto Graham Jr. are among the community’s most famous former residents.

https://pergelator.blogspot.com/2010/07/canoe-and-15-hp-motor.html
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-09-27-9809270257-story.html

Waukegan, of course, has nearly 900 city pensioners who'll be paid over $200,000 a year, without actually paying much into their pensions.

What is much? Paying in 3%. Yup, that's a 97% pure profit.

Get a govt job my friends, once you look at the benefits of course, they seem to pay off handsomely, and there seems to be nothing that will ever change that, as the rich people that profit from these pensions, are the ones that put them in place, and they AIN'T going to do anything to stop that. San Diego is a prime example. It bankrupted the city, and wasn't discovered until after the buy-in phase was complete. Yes, the politicians and city employees could "buy" years of employment on paper, retire early (in their 50s) and get fabulous pensions in perpetuity. But don't believe me... read  https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/ct-lns-pension-waukegan-st-0305-20150308-story.html

Combined, there are 893 retirees from those groups earning pensions in excess of $100,000 annually, including 12 Lake County public schools retirees and two College of Lake County retirees whose annual pensions pay out more than $200,000 per year, according to the TUA data. Meanwhile, 743 Lake County public schools retirees, 113 College of Lake County retirees and 23 Lake County government retirees have annual pensions between $100,000 and $200,000, the group's data showed.

According to TUA data, one retired educator from Lincolnshire-Prairie View District 103 paid $326,507 into the state's retirement fund, retired at age 55 and began collecting an annual pension of $258,163. The TUA claims the lifetime payout for that pension, assuming a life expectancy of 85, could amount to more than $11.1 million. This would mean that the employee's total contribution would represent 2.9 percent of the projected payout.

A list of the top 44 Waukegan pensions paid through the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund — including those for Waukegan Park District employees but not police or fire personnel — found annual payouts that include $73,715 for a former city engineer who retired at age 57 and contributed $84,659 into municipal retirement funds.

One of the names on the list of Waukegan municipal government's top pensioners was Ray Vukovich, who served as the city's director of governmental services from 2001 to 2010 and retired at age 51. The TUA listed his annual pension at $70,171 after paying a total of $54,684 toward retirement funds.

"It's not fair from the standpoint that they followed the rules that were in place," Vukovich said. "They paid into the system (and) when they were ready for retirement, they filed their paperwork and they're receiving what the system set up for them. These are people who planned their lives around what they'd receive.

Waukegan ponders fines for not shoveling snow "Is the system perfect? No. Does it need fixing? Yes," Vukovich said. "If I got a call from Springfield saying, 'Would you volunteer to serve on a committee to discuss pension reform?' I'd gladly do it. But this is a problem that didn't get created in the last six months. It's been 30 or 40 years in the making."

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/ct-lns-pension-waukegan-st-0305-20150308-story.html

Hank Devlin says this:

Seems like most of these commenters agree that if you’re too lazy to clear your vehicle and drive around endangering others you deserve a ticket. You rail incessantly against law enforcement and government whenever you get the chance, but here’s an example of police enforcing a law the residents of the state overwhelmingly supported and still you’re not happy with the job they’re doing. What kind of run in did you have with the po-po that gave you this hard on for them?? To your other point, maybe instead of Portland everyone could move to San Diego, drive a car you can’t see out of like a Veloseter (did you see my cool 3rd door), pretend we’re gonna restore an old car (can’t afford to even with the money we begged strangers to send us) and sit in front of a computer for hours a day compiling cool stuff other people posted and passing it off as our own content


My reply?

slavery was also overwhelming supported. So was the Nazi party. Go ahead, ponder the ramifications of just why you support whatever the flavor of the day is instead of thinking for yourself. Then fuck off. You might as well be a nazi slave owner, to insist that overwhelming support means shit to me. I think for myself. If you could, you would too.

and a couple other paragraphs.

You take what you want from him wasting his time hating on my for what I put on my blog.

If you enjoy my occasional rant, read the rest at the bottom of the comment section: https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/02/oh-yippee-robocop-is-on-job-in-new.html?showComment=1550273949362#c3359334637348160168

a real no shit race between an airplane and a Cord, in 1936

https://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt702v2c8t1s_4432_1?f%5Bsource_s%5D%5B%5D=Lafayette+Studios+photographs%3A+1930s+decade&offset=1480&per_page=20

The wild days of youth, when America had cars, but few police, and none with radios. Not much in the way of having fun, at your own risk, and actually living a life of freedom and liberty.

Sure, you can whine about safety, all damn day long if you like. But, why bother me with it?
I like high octane, stunts, cars without airbags, and that fundamental principle that some guys started a new country with, freedom from tyrants.

freedom to have a race down a country road with a fast car and a friend with a plane, who didn't have to log 1000 hours with a school, and student loan debt, to fly a damn airplane that didn't have to have an FAA inspection every 12 months, and an engine rebuild, and all the other costs that destroyed cheap airplanes for EVERYONE that wanted to buy one instead of a car and jump from municipal airport to airport and live a full life of adventure.

Anyone could make a car, or car company, and flying wasn't something just for trust fund babies in the Rockefeller or Kennedy clans. You got the nerve? Jump in, get someone to show you how to fly, and land, and bingo, you're on your own kid, don't crash it.

Back when the govt didn't tell you what you could drink, eat, smoke, or do in your free time. When you could open carry, or conceal carry. When a beer was part of lunch, and if you wanted to walk down the sidewalk with a beer, not in a brown paper bag, fine. Enjoy the can o suds! When cops walked a beat, knew the store owners, kept kids out of trouble, and showed them how to make an apple crate into a downhill racer (don't let your mom see this kid)

Back when Norman Rockwell and the other painters made cool stuff come alive, with humor. Before the beatniks, and the hippies, when people were excited to get a ride in a car, or plane, or even a movie theater experience. When we made stuff in America that other countries weren't copying poorly. Hell, when someone was inventing something every 10 minutes that would make life easier. 

Trans Am veteran David Pintaric, in the No. 57 Kryderacing Cadillac CTS-V, won his first TA race in the final at Daytona, Nov 10, 2018. The victory is Pintaric’s first in 55 career TA class starts and gave the Cadillac make its first win in Series history. Except it didn't, as Cadillac parts weren't on the car on the track.

so, there I was, sorta enthused that Cadillac was racing in SCCA, and had their first win. A congrats moment, you know?

But, it turns out, "a funny thing happened on the way to the forum" -  (musical by Sondheim, based on a book co-written by Larry Gelbart - who invented MASH) I learned that they don't race factory made cars in SCCA anymore. Nope. It's all bullshit, it's whatever body they want to work for aero advantage, mounted to the chassis they've improved over time.

As I was saying, I learned a funny thing, on my way to finishing this post, I read:

In his fourth year with the series, instead of the Chevrolet Corvette that Pintaric has driven for every race with Trans Am thus far, he has decided to change to a Cadillac body.

“It’s really cool,” said Pintaric. “It’s not your daddy’s Cadillac, that’s for sure. Kerry Hit, with Advanced Composite Products out of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, built this body, assembled it and put it on the car. We have the same chassis, just a different body, so I don’t think we’re working too many bugs out. I’ve got a lot of affection for the Corvette world, and I haven’t left it behind, but I wanted to try the Cadillac and I wanted to work with Kerry.”

So, did Cadillac get their 1st win? No. There aren't any Cadillac parts on the fiberglass body that replaced the Corvette body that was tossed because it was problematical.

Well, learning new stuff every day sometimes results in disappointments, like, SCCA isn't racing sports cars anymore. It's wealthy guys racing trick race car chassis with wind tunnel tuned bodies. So, whats the fucking point of admiring SCCA anymore? It's not Mark Donohue and Penske doing cool tricky things with factory cars, just to make a factory car a winning race car. Now, it's pointless, it's who spends more to win.

http://gotransam.com/news/?cid=65427
https://autoweek.com/article/sports-cars/ernie-francis-jr-repeats-trans-am-series-ta-class-champion

Somedays I wish I had a button that would cause the erasure of idiots, morons, the the imbeciles that are offended at simple ordinary random things. I'd hit that damn button through the desk top right now

cranky 67 year old knickers in a twist over stupid shit - Barbara Johnson

The issue arose last year when cranky 70 year old Keith Kawamoto saw a Kansas license plate near his Los Angeles home

Emphasis - Los Angeles resident, sees a Kansas license plate.

Kawamoto then wrote several letters to Kansas officials and the Gov "I let them know it is considered a very derogatory racial slur and I don't think it should be allowed anywhere," Kawamoto said.

Emphasis - the letters on a license plate were "a very derogatory racial slur"

So, Kawamoto brought up this deadly offence issue that he could tolerate no more... you know, license plate lettering, to the newspaper of the Japanese American Citizens League which only has 4 members in the entire state of Kansas, https://www.pacificcitizen.org/license-to-ill-442-jap-plate-drives-jacler-nuts/  whose tone indicates that they think Kawamoto needs his head examined by a good psychiatrist, and which was read by one cranky 67 year old Barbara Johnson living in Abilene, the other 3 JACL members haven't yet lost their minds. The 2,912,999 other people in Kansas? Don't give a shit about these 730 other plates with JAP on them either.

The article title that JACL used? "Licensed to ill".

 She was also outraged, mortified, offended, and would stand this abuse no longer!!!!  After all, 70 god damn years ago she was called a jap, and now, 70 years later, a license plate that a guy in California had been offended by, had now been the dambusting juggernaut that released 7 decades old forgotten tears of a woman a thousand miles away from the eye scorchingly offensive 3 letters.

And by all that exists on this earthly plane, it was all she could do to not just die on the spot.

When she "saw the story in the Pacific Citizen, she said it brought back memories of her childhood.

"It was not a good time to be Japanese because of Pearl Harbor and World War II," Johnson said. "I recall vividly as a child being called 'Jap' — and how it made me feel so small and hurt by being called that."

Johnson conceded that Kansas officials probably didn't know "what it means anymore because it was World War II, a couple of generations ago.”

Duh. The fact that the people of the country of Japan/Nippon were as a race, believing that their leader was an emperor, and a god, and must destroy the people and military of the USA, well, that's fine. Bombing of Pearl Harbor? Not mentioned. Rape of Nanking? Nope she's never heard of it.

But these 3 letters can be tolerated to exist no more, because?

 At least one of their ancestors was from the country that known as Nihon to the people that live there, and is spelled in their language にっぽん. How the hell these people are retarded enough to be offended by the letters J and A and P on a damn automatically sequentialized automobile license plate on the bumper of a vehicle in another language is still not apparent to anyone with an IQ over 80, nor is why anyone in the Kansas DMV gave any attention to the complaints about the letters JAP when they can't take action on complaints about potholes. This bullshit they take serious?

Hiragana: にっぽん is a reading of kanji 日本 that refers to Japan. Nippon is more formal, patriotic, and rarer than Nihon にほん

And if you didn't know it, that is why the Americans during WW2 used the ethnic slur "Nips" when trash talking the Japanese. What do the people of Nippon get called? Nipponese. Nips is the abbreviated word. Bugs bunny even had a cartoon named "Nip the Nips"

The JAP https://trademarks.justia.com/724/41/j-a-p-72441837.html company reached out from beyond the grave to tell them to shut the fuck up and get a life.

About 731 license plates in Kansas have the 3 letters sequentially and and without malice, assigned to the plates, as a matter of producing license plates by machinery. After complaints by people like Barbara Johnson, who need something to bitch about and feel victimized by, the state is recalling the license plates so that these people will shut the fuck up.

These plates are standard letter combinations that are randomly given out, not personalizes plates.

 A letter was sent to the owners asking them to trade their plates in at the county clerk for a new plate within 30 days, or they will receive a new one at their renewal date.

Next, expect that the questionnaire section with "race" to be changed as "white" and "black" people decide that a color does not mean a human designation regarding the ancestry from a geographic region and genetic markers.

https://www.powernationtv.com/post/kansas-is-recalling-license-plates-with-racial-slurs
https://www.foxnews.com/us/kansas-recalls-license-plates-over-ethnic-slur-complaint

meanwhile, in other news, slavery still exists in the middle east, girls of muslims still are genitally mutilated in Michigan, and not a single person alive in the USA gave a fuck, nor wrote their govt to do a damn thing about a thousand things that matter to the level of human decency around the globe.

But this bullshit about the letter combo's on a license plate offended senior citizens? This is why the word fuck exists.

Here are the first couple paragraphs of that JACL article... they simply are worth reading:

“My gosh! ‘442 J-A-P.’ I said, ‘What is that?!’” said Kawamoto to the Pacific Citizen of his reaction.

Before he lost the car in traffic, the quick-thinking Kawamoto pulled out his digital camera and snapped a picture of the car with the slur-sporting license plate. Although traffic was slow, his mind was racing. Was it a vanity plate? A twisted tribute to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team? Or worse yet, an intentional slight against Japanese people or, perhaps, Japanese cars?

According to Kawamoto, it would turn out to be none of those.

In her correspondence to Kawamoto that he provided to the Pacific Citizen, Lee Ann Phelps, the vehicle services manager at the Kansas Department of Revenue, Division of Vehicles wrote: “We do have a screening process for plates and some combinations that have been pulled from circulation. Use of the specific combination you are concerned with is certainly not intended by the State of Kansas to portray any derogatory intent. The combinations on our standard plates (which this plate is) are a random sequence of letter and numbers and not designed to portray words or abbreviations of words. I would say in this circumstance, this specific plate combination is a coincidence and not intended to degrade any one person or group of persons. I apologize if this plate is offensive to you personally.”

Kawamoto was pleased to have heard back from a state official representing Kansas, but the response still left him unsatisfied. While there was some consolation that the plate was not a vanity plate, Kawamoto found it disconcerting that no one in the system would red flag a plate with “JAP” on it.

The fact that no one realized that the 442 JAP plate was a coincidence, and that no one drew a connection to the highly decorated Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team didn't bother Kawamoto in the least. That some favorable publicity could be generated to remind Americans of the great honor and respect that was earned by the 442nd, never occurred to him either.
https://www.pacificcitizen.org/license-to-ill-442-jap-plate-drives-jacler-nuts/

And did anyone have a coronary over other letters and how they simply aren't a state license plate subversive ethnic slur put on cars so under the radar that no one's been offended yet? Nope. Just these jack asses

good grief

Yours is an awesome website. I don't see how you have the time to do all of this. I am a car fanatic all my life. I would like to make a request if possible ..... I am interested in the history of all of the automobile factories ... photos and such primarily in the Detroit area. I would love to read about them.

Did you pick up on Greg's request that I write about all the car manufacturing factories... you know, to fulfill his request, ummmmm, sometime when I can get that done, because as he pointed out "I don't see how you have the time to do all of this" So, just when exactly does he suppose I'm going to
research and post about all the factories?

Not just some, all. Well, just all the ones around Detroit.

Sheesh and sigh.

I replied that I'll do it if he's paying by the hour, as I could really use the money, but if he's looking to get me to do it for free, go hit the last 12 years of archives, as I've covered a bit about some already, like Chalmers, Ford, Dodge, Maxwell, and Chrysler.

Anyone else get asked to do someone else's homework, even though they know you're busy?

by the by, I'm NOT going to take requests to do years of research and articles, simply because someone wants to read about it for free. You want to hire me? Cool, I can be your personal librarian, researcher, photographer, blogger, writer, editor, etc etc etc, for a price.

Because I'm not doing it for you because it's on your christmas wish list, I'm not your father. Am I? Is your name Luke? Do you have my jedi lightsaber? 

just one SEMA questionnaire question: Thinking about what can be done before and during the SEMA show, what is the best way for an exhibitor to get you to feature their company or products

If they were informed that the press isn't a free publicity machine, and we don't just copy and paste every press release we get, because most press releases are useless in getting readers to spend the time to read, about things they aren't interested in, based on the press release simply being a marketing push to guy a buyer to part with money.

 Readers want something to be excited by, something to swear out loud over... you know? When you first heard about the Turbonique bolt on thermolene rockets of 850 horsepower being added to cars, with a push button activator to launch them into top fuel speeds, for a stock muscle car... did you say out loud "holy shit!" like I did? THAT is what I'd love to get a press release about.

 Even someone remanufacturing Turbonique parts, or fuel... or whatever the aftermarket companies come up with that for a moment makes me forget what a dull day at work it is, and how I can solve a problem by buying their product. Instead, companies are trying to let us know that they improved a wax, or car wash, by the amount that no one can perceive, which now makes it exactly as boring as every single other car wax and cleaner that line ROWS at the auto parts store. They have no clue that they're wasting money paying a PR company to try and shine up the same old paper, and that the pr or marketing people are wasting the time of everyone that reads that press release, because NO ONE is impressed anymore. It's like they can't wake up from a repetitious dream where they repeat themselves, and then start over on groundhogs day, to do it all over again. It's not one company, it's most of them.

They have a new lift kit, a new shock absorber, a new paint, or a new tire. And so does every single one of their competitors, and no one can tell the difference when buying any of it - whats good, bad, a scam, made in the USA or China, or just a Moog part licensed by Honda with a Honda parts identification sticker over the Moog info.

How can they get my attention? Tell me a something that will cause me to buy their thing. No one can sell a heater to an Eskimo anymore, they are too stupid or lazy to even try. There's no effort, no respect, and no honesty around anymore.

It's so bad there are tv shows about it, like Made In America with John Ratzenberger, and Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, and Mail Call with the Gunny, simply because the audience is listening to anyone that will tell us the honest truth, and what is good stuff, and what's junk.

There is no more Mickey Thompson, no more Paul Schiefer. The originators of companies were a driven individual, a member of that greatest generation, who had all the determination they needed to succeed at whatever path they chose for their lives. Thompson, Hedman, Hooker, Schiefer and a hundred other guys made something, created the hot rodding aftermarket, and now they are subsidary companies of corporate conglomerates (The Holley group for example) that answer to stock holders in meetings about the quarterly earnings statements.  Just look at Federal Mogul, and it's recent sale for 5.4 billion. These corporations are billionaires investments now, and are flipped for profit like cars at Barrett Jackson.

 In my lifetime we went from buying a part based on the guy that made the part, to buying something made in the USA in hopes that the ISO audits were keeping the quality up. You bought a magneto because Joe Hunt made it... instead of a Vertex mag. You paid more for a Yenko Camaro, or Grand Spaulding Charger because Don Yenko or Mr Norm stood behind their car's performance.

If companies want to get me to run an article on their product, or invention, or paint, wax, or whatever... show me the guy that makes it. Barry Meguiar made his wax. Well, he used to. Now 3M owns Meguiars waxes. Stan Lee used to make comic books, then when he moved to upper management Marvel lost their momentum, became a corporate trading card for profit, lost all it's soul, and went bankrupt in a predictable circling of the drain. So did Rolls Royce, Jaguar, etc etc ad infinitum. When the men that made the companies successful left, like Rob Petersen selling Hot Rod, things just swan dive into the bankruptcy pit of lost hope. How many owners has Hot Rod had before Petersen sold them, and how many after?

 See where I'm going? There is no trust in products anymore, we have all had our trust scammed to death by greedy companies and snake oil men. Sears craftsman brand used to mean highest quality for a good price... now it's junk made in China by a company that subbed out the manufacturing and went bankrupt. No one buys Sears Craftsman anymore, we go to swap meets and look on ebay for the good old stuff that was made with pride, Plumb, Snap On, and a hundred others back when there was a bunch of lunch pail guys that made good stuff, and sold it.

 People notice when something is made by a guy you can talk to, not a corporate syndicate. It's why Foose is a star, why Barris once was. Why Carroll Shelby had fans, before he licensed his name to Ford, and whoever made that awful Dodge Safari Shelby van. https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/04/carroll-shelby-sadly-would-sell-his.html

 Pardon me if I've written too much, you did realize you were asking a car guy writer to inform you about something with his opinion... right?  Short answer, have a guy who is the face of the company. He's the guy who makes it, he's the one we will either trust and respect, or not. If we do, we'll prefer his brand over the competition, and there is so damn much competition it's ridiculous.  Perfect example, Linda Vaughn

All right. Now hear this.

I'm not even over reacting, you guys commenting are jumping to see who can be the first to criticize.
Knock it off.

Commentary that isn't a sledgehammer of HEY STUPID is still fine. I actually dig talking to most of you. Some, are getting a bit prickly.

For the most recent example:
This is Syracuse NY, not New York City...
https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/9bj14s/the_new_york_central_streamliner_mercury_passes/
New York City Hall is what I wrote.
It's what the source material says.
 chill - the - hell - out.

For the 2nd example:
Wouldn't it have taken less time to just edit the text to delete the word "jet" instead of explaining that the error is not your fault because you copied the verbiage from elsewhere? Less confrontational too. :)

hey Mike.... look at the screen in front of you carefully. Up top. see that URL? That means you're on my playground. I get to explain things how I like. Oh, it's not the way you think I should? really? Do you think I woke up this morning to please you? Hey Mike? Shut the fuck up. Now.

For the 3rd example, and yes, these are all JUST THIS MORNING:

I'm not trying to be a troll, I just want to keep the record straight on these Manning based cars. There are a number of people making false claims that unfortunately hurt the value of the real ones and impede the search for the missing remaining ones.

Ok... so - make a website, and "keep the record straight on these Manning based cars" That's your mission. Not mine. I find, I photograph, I post. I don't give a flying fuck about the "value of the real ones" that's for rich wealthy people who don't give a shit about life, they are focused with laser precision on getting money from flipping and selling and buying and flipping and selling. 
 I do not buy, sell, flip, or wake up worrying about the value of the cars other people own, sell, buy, or invest in.

 There are a number of people making false claims? Lawyer up. Tell them. In fact, go beat the shit out of them for having the audacity to falsely effect the market value. Know why? Because that is between you, and them. Not me. Did I claim this, that, or the other? NO. Joel? You showed up with a complaint on the wrong day about hurting the value, and the bank accounts, of rich people. Impeding the search? Seriously, calm the fuck down. Who has the FBI searching for these? Ok? Chill. Out.

I don't know what pushes your buttons, but you guys are getting too fucking critical lately.

It's passed the point of being cute.

I'm not proof reading enough for you? Not catching the source material making mistakes and fixing them before you see "jet fuel" in a B 25?

3 of you had to jump on that like it's a competition to proof read and correct me.

Take all that pent up little puppy eagerness and hyper energy - and send it to someone who needs it.

I'm running out of cheery happy feeling over here, because you guys are fucking killing it every god damn day.

Every fucking day you are making me a little bit more god damn tired of being nice.

Knock it the fuck off. I don't want apologies, I don't want excuses, I want a cessation of hostilities from your side of the blog. ENOUGH. Shut it.



I'm just not here to be a fucking punching bag for typos, mistakes, errors, and source material screw ups.

Most of what you read is patched together from source material that wrote it up first or best. I read it, grab that stuff that I can stitch together to make a better story than several of the places I get content from, and I do that to craft a more complete and thorough story that gets the full picture across on my site than my contemporaries - so that I'll have done my best, and brought the better version of the story to whoever comes along to read it here.

That's why most of my longer articles have many links to all the places I borrowed from.

If you can't say something nice - then don't say (       ) get it? Nothing. There is nothing between
 the ( ) marks. That's an example of all I need to hear about mistakes.

I thought I covered this before. No one subscribed, there were no signatures on a mailing list, no registration, and your input was never required. You can hold onto the bitching, I'm sure I have all I need or will be helped by already.

I'll say this again, as some of you may not be long term readers... I'm doing this blog for fun. For me. I actually ENJOY finding this stuff, and SHAAARRING it.

The next MFer that bitches is going to get me coming through this computer screen and breaking his fingers on his keyboard. Capisce?

in the time I dealt with bitchy bullshit this morning I could have found something cool, funny, or amazing.

Everyone who usually enjoys whatever nonsense I amuse myself with? You all get to take those whiny ones out back and straighten them out. Don't let them back in until they get right in the head.

For all you guys who are "oooh, my feelings are hurt, I was only trying to help!"
Go away, don't come back, the exit sign is lit up over the door so you can find your way OUT

NSFW I needed a good laugh, so I watched Pipeline Pierce rip on Miller welders, then looked up his John Deere vs Kubota... NSFW NSFW and I guess I'll never get nominated to the supreme court for posting this now. Oh well. They'd never be able to handle my hardcore belief in the bill of rights anyway

Don't watch this if you are offended by humor, offended by construction guys whistling at beautiful women walking by the construction site, offended by guys, offended by gay bashing rednecks, or offended by anything else.

This video wasn't meant to offend you, it wasn't meant to be seen by you.

So, don't watch it if you can't laugh, can't laugh at gay bashing, can't laugh at redneck shit talking, can't laugh at "locker room" talk, can't drink a beer, can't laugh at Hillary Clinton, can't laugh at Pres Trump, or can't laugh with Don Rickles and Richard Pryor

If you can't laugh at funny shit that is meant to offend people that get participation trophys and soccer mom vans, don't watch this.

Don't watch the next video either. Especially if you have a Johnson outboard.

for more from Pipeline Pierce!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP0UGx9OrbZ9RQE96gvLyfQ  

'Inspector Darren' measuring pothole depths Mar 2018... because instead of fixing potholes, Cheshire West @%$@# councilmembers prefer Darren to make up reasons to NOT make roads safer

"Inspector Darren" measuring pothole depths in Winsford as part of a PR offensive on Twitter

What is so difficult about fixing potholes that EVERY city avoids it?

instead of being honest about the obvious fuckery going on, the council doubled down on stupid

Clearly not

So Councillor Karen Shore, cabinet member for environment, defended the now deleted picture and said the hole was not 50mm or deeper.

https://www.boredpanda.com/pothole-measure-50mm-darren-twitter-reactions-cheshire-west-and-chester/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5778370/cheshire-west-chester-council-pothole-tweet-backfires/

suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death, ages 10 to 14. Most of that is caused by bullies at school

A 9-year-old Colorado boy who died by suicide last week had been bullied at school after announcing over the summer that he was gay and expressing his desire to share the news with his classmates, and that he wanted to dress more femininely after coming out his mother said.

“I could just imagine what they said to him,” mom Leia Pierce said of her son, Jamel Myles, who died four days after the start of classes at Joe Shoemaker School in Denver, according to local TV station KDVR. “My son told my oldest daughter the kids at school told him to kill himself.”

Jamel started his fourth-grade classes on Aug. 20. “Four days is all it took at school” before he took his own life

If you or someone you know is showing warning signs of suicide, consider contacting the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK, texting the Crisis Text Line at 741741 or seeking help from a professional.

https://people.com/crime/colorado-boy-commits-suicide-after-school-bullying-being-gay/
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/28/boy-9-commits-suicide-after-coming-out-gay-bullied-by-classmates-mom.html

Look, I don't know why anyone needs to shove their shit down anyone else's throat, but lots of religious people feel compelled to make everything about their religion, gays seem to need to sashay their display of joie de vivre to everyone and have a frickin parade to upset the homophobes, and bullies seem to need to smack the happy out of anyone around them.

Clearly those 3 types of people are in catch 22 of mutual destruction, and it's going to end bad for only one of them.

People suck. I'm sure there's no avoiding that awhile we move through the day, and roll through the world around us, people with issues ain't going to catch a break anywhere, sometimes not even at home.

This shit is going to take a couple more centuries until we either get freedom from other people's religion and they have to tone down the crosses, jail the child rapist priests, the protests at funerals (fuck you Westboro Baptist Church) and quit knocking on doors to preach about their nonsense... or the hate is eventually diluted by more mixed race marriages, more families that have to temper their political hate because their kids are on the other side of the fence, (Senator Salmon and Portman) the Hollywood sexual abusers are outted and jailed (Cosby, Weinstein, Franken),  or are self hating closeted Republican politician "family values" homosexuals that lashed out at all others for a lifetime (Alabama AG King, Senator Ashburn, state Senator Schrock, repeat candidate for congress from Arizona Babeau, congressman Bauman, congressman Allen, state representative Hinkle, senator Larry Craig, candidate Steve Wiles, state representative Boehning, state senator Shortey, etc) and I haven't stopped til I've included the drs that sexually assault women - most recently brought to light in the cover up by the women's USA Gymnastics  and Michigan State University

The world can be a disgusting place, and it seems anyone in power abuses it somehow. Police, politicians, preachers, etc. If you can help someone out of a bad situation, do it. Do the right thing the rest of the time. Maybe someday fire fighters, cowboys, and fishermen will save the day. 

Here's my response to my car insurance company for spamming my email with this bullshit. Am I justified? Or irrational?

This email was sent to Jesse at Jbohjkl@yahoo.com. By providing your email address, you agreed to receive emails from Allstate. You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to eNewsletter.

(And my email reply I intend to send to my insurance agent):

I now see that by not being informed that by giving your office my email for purposes of insuring my car, that Allstate will now SPAM my email daily.

AYFKM? No, I can tell already, you are not FKM.

OK, so, lets get to the heart of it. Delete my email from your system. You don't need to email me to insure my car, and I don't need COLLEGE EFFING FOOTBALL from my car insurance company.

I can barely register that a sentence like that even needs to exist. It's surreal, like it's 1st grade and someone took random words and put them together with Elmers Glue, because they look funny in that order.

To forwarn all my website's readers, with a clarity that isn't even necessary, I'm including this entire bizarre event in a notification that will allow them to prevent football garbage from being sent to them from Allstate.

Why? Because no one from Allstate notified me that they'd be SPAMMING my email with FOOTBALL bullshit, and whatever else some moron in Allstate Marketing has thought of to spam customers email. I can conceive that there will be an 'easter bunny hidden easter eggs in movies' email, and possibly a 'how to insure against starving demons during Halloween' emails. Sound stupid? So is getting COLLEGE FOOTBALL bullshit from a car insurance company because they have your email.

To be frank, you didn't know I would be upset by college football emails from my car insurance company, and hey, why would you. You didn't get the notification when taking on a new client. I didn't get the notification that my email would be the method that my car insurance company would decide it irritate me daily with spam. So, that balances the customer to corporation failure to notify issue in my opinion

A learning experience on both our parts, right? You also didn't know that I am the guy that has the highest rated and highest ranked car blog on the entire English speaking internet. A billion hits so far, and I'm only getting warmed up.

I'm sure you now have some idea how I can be talked back from the edge of irrational behavior, or something of the sort, as a result of being SPAMMED with COLLEGE FOOTBALL by my CAR INSURANCE company.

I'll look forward to hearing how. Say, what time does your office close? Maybe we can meet there to discuss expectations of a car insurance company and it's insurance related emails, and it's non-insurance related emails, and what a customer can expect by not being told what their email will be used for. I can in turn inform you what a blogger with readers in 203 countries does to inform car enthusiasts of car insurance related matters.

your customer:
Jesse
Normally a mild mannered car blogger by day, and asleep by night, unless clearly bothered by childish bullshit from a company he pays for car insurance.

let me also point out, I got this bullshit college football email the very day after receiving an email from my Allstate agent stating that he understands that I don't want bullshit emails from my car insurance company

Can I be more polite, yes, of course. 

Am I under the influence of caffiene? Yes. 

Drugs? No. 

A full moon? No idea, I rarely am out after dark... it's a lot more difficult to see anything after the sun goes down when you wear glasses, unless you are in a well lit place, like, in front of your laptop whereever you call home

A submariner with a sense of humor to match? Yes. You might know another real bubblehead, have them read this and then ask them if it seems like a normal reaction to bullshit college football spam emails from a car insurance company. I bet you a beer they will tell you it is indeed, not an uncommon reaction. 

Maybe people are lazy, or maybe I'm not. Every week a couple people ask me to put them in contact with some car maker, collector, or whatever. It hasn't taken over 30 minutes yet to get that info, so, why don't they do it?

Today, just now, a Fiat registry guy wanted to know what the phone number and email are for the car collector in Guatemala is. https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-only-car-collection-in-guatemala.html

Day before yesterday, someone asked me for the name of the guy who made a truck bed that I photographed at SEMA 2010. https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/11/superbly-custom-re-engineered-truck-bed.html

The truck at SEMA took 10 minutes https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rize-Industries/145746205470111?hc_ref=ARTWGSoHZxYiEzPP7QkP-ueUX_AuLxZuEFgLU1PqsAybNKAXVc4fEBiRoanh9wpq9A8&fref=tag
the collector in Guatemala took 30  https://blindamax.com/-_Blindamax_Guatemala_-/Contacto.html

Maybe I should just go get a job with a detective agency. Or not. No one wants to PAY for the info, so, there really isn't any job in it.

And I'm really annoyed by people asking me to spend my time to get them info. No. Nope. Nada.

My time? It's for finding FUN or INTERESTING stuff. The POSTING it.

If I wanted to waste time, I'd try to get a better paying job, without getting any more training or education. Right?

Really, why can't people do their own damn homework? And if they want me to do it, why won't they pay?

Do people (complete strangers you never knew existed) email you to ask you to look up stuff? Find them something? Put them in contact with someone else you don't know?

Imagine that happens a couple times a week. What do you do? What should I do?

I sent the image above to the Fiat registry guy, and said, if you want to know the info to contact him, I want to get paid. My time is worth money, is your need to contact the collector worth money to you?

Some yo yo out there with the online handle of "curious" wants me to know he's seen it all. Ummm, so? He's actually upset that I often state "Here's one I've never seen before"

He states in a comment -

I have a challenge for you: Can you go a week without saying "I haven't heard that before" or "I haven't seen that before"? Just be cause you haven't seen it or heard it doesn't mean it hasn't happened.

For crying out loud, you are repeating an article from a biweekly magazine with a circulation of 285,000. I know it's hard to believe, but there is stuff out there that a lot of us have seen that you haven't.

 While I doubt you have the stones to print this, just like you have not printed many of my criticisms, I am sure you will, at least in your heart, put me on blast and tell everyone how terrible I am for not kneeling at the Altar of Jesse. Guess what? I've seen it before!

Here's the proof I have the stones to print what you've got to bitch about, mostly to exhibit to regular readers what crass stuff I put up with daily, and without altering this mook's letter, point out what a jackass he is to complain about what I do, it's for me, not him. 

 He's all worked up over a ridiculous thing that shouldn't have him so bent out of shape, but people take things so damn personal... when it's got nothing to do with them. Maybe he didn't get hugged enough, maybe I've previously posted what a crazy religion he belongs to, maybe he was outraged when I said Mopars are best, and Chevy sucks. Who the hell knows. It's obvious this guy's got some problem though

Why else would this jackass keep coming back and looking at what I've posted when he frequently is upset by it? That's pretty fucking stupid. I think he's somewhat into smacking himself on the head with a hammer, just to hear that strange ringing sound. 

Am I going to censor my honest reaction to what I come across? Hell no. I am doing my thing and you can keep coming back, or not. It should not be a secret that I don't know if you're reading along, or if you go away and never come back, and shock! Gasp! Surprise! I don't care. 

Yeah, I do this for me, it's my outlet to share things that I get excited about, or appreciate, or just get thrilled about (firefighters laying in the sod for the guy that had a heart attack yesterday)

Taking what he said, and turning it around "I know it's hard to believe, but there is stuff out there" that I haven't seen, and I get a thrill out of, and I don't care if you have. You can figure out how to find something else you'd rather see on your computer, and not come back, so long, goodbye, sayonara, adios, don't let the door hit you on the way out. Don't go away mad, just go away. 

Now the rest of you can see why this idiots rants just haven't been posted before. Why he complains about that? No idea. 

"kneeling at the altar"? seriously? I'm just another dumb ass with an opinion, and I don't take myself so seriously as you think I do. I'm not your problem. I'm just a car guy with a computer, a camera, an opinion, and a place to put it out there on the internet, like 100 billion other websites. It's nothing but a window, like every other window. If it were anything special, I'd be rich. My credit card and checking account (what's a savings account?) prove I'm not now, nor likely to ever be rich. So, obviously, I'm not special. I'm just able to waste the time to share what I enjoy. 

Do Trump haters realize they are making themselves the clear assholes compared to Trump supporters, by picking fights, and maliciously vandalizing cars with Trump bumper stickers?

We get it, you liberal democrat Hillary supporters are mean assholes, just like her, but you don't need to demonstrate by keying cars of people who wanted a non-politician. That hopey changey shit didn't get us very far during Obama, (Cuba chilled the hell out) maybe this pres will get North Korea to chill out.

the photos above of the blue Subaru I took myself, but below, is one I found today on https://swarfs.tumblr.com/image/175373353924 by coincidence.

Imagine being so rabidly frothing at the mouth barking mad that you had to damage other people's stuff because they showed a sign of believing in the opposite figurehead of a belief system. I get it, instant emotional reaction, zero thought process.

Yeah, that seems a lot like the terrorists, who had to bomb the embassies in Beirut, Benghazi, Libya, Yemen, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, etc etc.

Sure, there are no peace-niks in politics, emotional reactions are the norm, and losing your shit seems to be a daily thing for the am radio talk show fans.

But damn people, hasn't history made it clear? YOU are the bad example that is tossed on the stage anytime the supporters of your opposition want to make it clear what that (it doesn't even matter who) asshole has for fans.

Just like this car, clearly. Now I get to show everyone what assholes there are opposed to Trump and how they have no class. Shame on all of you, you all get painted with the same brush. Unlike the first lady who made it clear by going to get some time in the immigration detention facilities, and thereby shove it in her husbands face what a real leader is supposed to do (lead by example) by being cool with people looking to make it to the promised land, of welfare, jobs, and big ass flat screen tvs... and Netflix!

Plus pizza and beer, and bacon. Damn, it seems like a pretty good place to move to, right? So, yeah, I get it, they ain't going about it the right way, but they want to get their kids into that system where illegal aliens disappear and and get a chance at a better life. I wish everyone was just a human, and borders were open for anyone who could play by the rules, speak the language, pay the taxes, and work a job... but until then, I still admire the god damn moxie it takes to cross countries the hard way, and show up penniless hoping to get your family on the

Until the billionaires quit making all our lives difficult by running countries for better quarterly earning statements, and things ease up on tensions, chill the hell out. Ain't many people descended from the people who lived here first. Yeah, that would be no one. Everyone's ancestors are from Africa/Asia/Europe, and the last ones to get here aren't much different from the 1st ones, they all walked a long fucking way to leave the old country in hopes of finding the land of milk and honey.

maybe someday religions will get tossed aside, and languages will melt away a bit, and we all can use some insta translator button/earpiece, and the fucking bombers realize they ain't winning any battles, or wars, and they chill the hell out and go hit the strip clubs and bars (not that they don't already, while talking shit about infidels (yeah, that was what the 9-11 bombers did in San Diego before heading to New York)) and mellow out. Eat some pizza, with bacon. That shit is good. And drive more stick shift cars, for fun. Enjoy the life, it's pretty short, you may as well enjoy it, even you liberal democrats.