What a joke of a racing organization

I mean, you spend all that time, effort, and money to get a car and driver into the Indy 500. Probably over a million dollars just to earn a starting position….

 

And at the start of the race your car won’t start because it has a dead battery.  A simple dead battery. You’d think that that would be one of the things your team would verify at the beginning of the day of racing. Chargers are cheap, or simply put in a freshly charged new one a few hours before the race. Do they not have a Before Race car preparation plan?  (You know, check tire pressures, oil, fuel,, make sure the windscreen tear-offs are in place, lug nut on each tire is correctly tightened, etc.) A checklist? Or are they just winging the whole thing? What kind of management is there if this can happen?

 

That simple oversight cost the Rahal Racing team 2 laps….at the start of the race.

There are so many things that can go wrong, things that break, things that just happen. But if you don’t eliminate the things you can, you start out at a disadvantage.

Nothing like shooting yourself in the foot.

Just a third

Most of the monies paid to “Black Lives Matter” went to enrich the founders, their families, their employees, and their hangers-on.  Only 33% actually went to help people. 

Typical Liberal fund raising. Never truly for the folks they claim to want to help….but always large salaries, consulting contracts, “Security” and other ways to siphon off money given by donors that really want to help.

Typical.

Lucky for me I never gave ’em, a dime. I spent my charity donations locally where the money truly went to people who needed it and were staffed by volunteers.

But that is the way of “Checkbook Charity”.

Unless you live where I do

I’m an ER doctor this is why you should NEVER drive someone to the hospital if there’s a medical emergency

How very….city centric shall we say…. a viewpoint. I suppose that is a plausible answer if the injured person is in a city or other well populated area, with a hospital close at hand and ambulances just around the corner.

Thing is, the average response time for an ambulance is 14 minutes around here. In that time I can be 3/4 of the way to a hospital…..if I am driving at normal pace and not rushing. Likely less than 16 minutes all the way to the ER if I am in a hurry. And that is driving the truck. If I am in the car, what with better tires and more acceleration and much better handling, I can likely cut another 3 or 4 minutes off of that. (I’m not willing to try driving like that on open streets just to find out unless there is an emergency though)

If “time is of the essence”, I can be at the Emergency Room doors nearly before the ambulance will even pull up to the scene of the injury if it happens where I live.

He’s probably correct, in a city, or in a crowded suburb. Not so in the boonies. But that is the thing about “Experts” they only know what they know and that is it. Experts are really smart when it is in their experience….. Not so once something falls outside their narrow window.

How strange: More power plants bring electricity power prices down

Who would have thought?

Finland’s electricity is currently so cheap they can’t even charge for it, mostly due to a new Nuke plant that is supplying all the electricity that they need.

Hydro and other “Renewables” just couldn’t cut it, but a new thermal nuke plant means an abundance of electricity….and it can make up for things when the solar and wind won’t get the job done.

Funny how that works, innit? Now if only our people could figure the economics out.

A question:

How is reaching the debt limit (and refusing to raise it to yet another, higher level) get to somehow be “Default” of the debt?

If I rack up $20K in my credit card and reach the limit on that card, I am not in default. What I am is at my spending limit and cannot increase the balance on that card….I cannot go rather into debt. I can’t spend more until I pay some of that debt down. I am not bankrupt and am not in default until I fail to make the payments on that card (Principle and interest according to the terms).

So how is failing to increase the debt limit of the United States in any way a “Default”?

 

I expect better propaganda than this,

So do you really really think that some dude rented a U-Haul, drove towards the While House, slowed to near walking speeds, then hit the vehicle barriers in an attempt to get past the security….?

And then took the time to drape a Nazi flag around himself and subsequently drop it on the pavement near the truck?

Seriously?

If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge I can sell you. Good condition, you can charge tolls and make big bucks.

Small unmarked bills, non sequential serial numbers only though. Gotta be cash.

Anyone older than 6 years old who believes this propaganda needs to be institutionalized for their own good.

Whoever came up with this story needs to be fired. I expect my propaganda from the Government to be better crafted than this

Well. yeah, but besides that

Seems that the NAACP has been caught out…yet again.

This time it’s because they are trying to damage DeSantis….because he opposes Critical Race Theory being taught in Florida schools. and, of course, because he isn’t a Democrat.

But they don’t even follow their own recommendations.

They’ve advised their members to boycott Florida because of the “racism”….and “It’s Hostile”.  Except that they don’t seem to feel that it bothers them. Vacations and junkets to….Florida.

Their Chairman lives in Tampa. He’s originally from Virginia.

Funny how the politics get trumped by their desire to party and live in a state that has much to offer. Even funnier that the Republicans (both black and white) have “Offered to help with moving expenses: “If you think our state is so bad, the Florida GOP will gladly help with moving expenses”.

Once again, the NAACP shows that it is no longer for the Advancement of Colored Person, but simply a tool of the DNC, helping the DNC use black people to further the DNC’s power.