steve from amherst

11 hours ago, racinfarmer said:

Here in MN, the girlfriend of the guy that killed 2 officers and a paramedic has been federally indicted for being a straw buyer of the guns used.

good

10 hours ago, Cold War said:

They are guilty of being shitty parents and should be held accountable as such.
Murderers is a stretch and a dangerous precedent. 

It is , and will probably be tossed on appeal.

Nothing compared to what you will see in 20 yrs from their american born offspring.

1 hour ago, XCR1250 said:

Those stopped being sold years ago as they were really duplicates of other models with different badging in the latter years.

Same with Mercury. Ford escape, mercury mariner , Mazda tribute

Ford explorer , mercury mountaineer and in the earlier yrs , mazda navaho

You misspelled pig

51 minutes ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

yes... and why not? 

they've been conveniently ignoring it for three decades, it's an election year and there's crickets chirping.

these 'people' aren't interested in solving problems 

Solve problems, ya fucking kidding me right?

Most of these people are lawyers.  Do you know the most important thing in a law office?

Billable hours, these are not people who want to Solve a  problem. They want to drag them out for every dollar they can. 

9 minutes ago, gravy davey said:

He was fucking Covid got him just passed 2-14

Sorry to hear 

Just now, ArcticCrusher said:

Are you gonna do that every day?

Just the hot ones. 

Then a little lawn care, walk the garden , pick veggies. 

Go for a motorcycle ride 

A little fly fishing in a river.

A round of golf once a week

Hit the sxs trails when they are empty , midweek

Maybe even the occasional titty bar.

1 minute ago, ViperGTS/Z1 said:

Yup.... fitting right in

Yeah, I guess....just got a bad attitude right now and unpacking and getting this house set up is a real pain in the ass. I've been mad at everything lately . I'll admit that

PLus when the nice weather hits and instead of working you are in a boat on a lake it seems like a great idea. 

That being said , moving fucking blows

4 hours ago, EvilBird said:

Similar to what Wally Mart and Bass Pro went thru around here. 

So the feds cant do there job , so they just blame the retailer ...unreal. 

Fuck bass pro. NH does handgun background checks thru the state ploice. Bass pro does them thru the feds . Im all set thank you

2 minutes ago, 800renegaderider said:

What’s pelosi doing that’ll tell ya what you need to know 

Drinking , and chasing her husband around in his underwear with a hammer. She dosn't want him getting lonely.

31 minutes ago, ViperGTS/Z1 said:

Guess I liked my job a little too much.  I'm seeing both sides right now and I'm not impressed.....sounded good from the sidelines.

Take another look in 6 weeks.

3 hours ago, Skidooski said:

Glad I'm not following this closely because what little snippets I've heard on the news left me laughing

WE will protect you by banning tiktok. Meanwhile we will continue to let Chinese by up land surrounding our military instalations. 

We are smart like that.

I remember reading here once about someone laughing at folks heating with oil . Oil burns , it dosnt explode.

Well from the article it shows it surged up by 30% , then dropped by 12 % So yes it is dropping. Dropping from what was probably the highest of this century to 12% less then that. And that means it is only 18% higher then it was in the 2000 teens .

Do nothing, let it run its course 

1 hour ago, 1jkw said:

Like bailouts, tariffs, and PPP?

Mainecat says ppp saved the economy 

This homeless guy is at least making it fun.

As yet another Boeing plane experienced a "technical event" over the weekend that caused 50 injuries, Boeing's whistleblower, was found dead in his truck on Saturday in South Carolina. He had just been giving evidence against Boeing in a lawsuit days before his death.

John Barnett, a former Boeing employee of 32 years who retired as a quality manager in 2017, later spoke out against Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, telling the Corporate Crime Reporter that "they started ignoring safety issues," including the aircraft's compromised electrical system and faulty oxygen masks — 25% that "don't work properly."

The 62-year-old former quality manager also admitted to the CCR that he had warned his family against flying on a Dreamliner. "As far as the 787, I would change flights before I would fly a 787," he said. "I've told my family — please don't fly a 787. Fly something else. Try to get a different ticket. I want the people to know what they are riding on."

On Saturday, Barnett was supposed to show up for further questioning in relation to the case against the company. He never showed up, and was later found dead in the parking lot of his hotel in Charleston County. The cause of his death was reported to be "self-inflicted," which police are investigating.

8 minutes ago, ActionfigureJoe said:

There’s no difference. It’s right near Spanish lake. 5 minutes and you’re in EStL

But is there any part of EST that is ok? Didnt think there was

St Louis, almost as much of a shithole as east St louis

wo pilots of an Indonesian airline have come under fire after an incident report revealed they both fell asleep during a January flight with more than 150 people on board. The pilots were unreachable for roughly half an hour, waking to find that the plane had veered off course, the report said. 

The incident occurred on a roundtrip Batik Air Indonesia flight between Halu Oleo Airport in Kendari and Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta on January 25. During preparation for the first leg of the flight from Jakarta to Kendari, the second-in-command pilot – a 28-year-old with roughly 1,600 hours of flying time – told the pilot in command that he did not have proper rest, according to a report by Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee. The commanding pilot, a 32-year-old with roughly 6,300 hours of flying time, allowed the secondary to rest during that leg of the trip for about half an hour. 

On the flight back to Jakarta, which had 153 passengers and four flight attendants on board, the commanding pilot asked the secondary – who napped during the first leg – if he could take a turn to rest, which was granted. A little while later, the pilot woke up and asked the other pilot if they wanted to nap, which they declined. 

About 20 minutes later, the incident report states the second pilot "inadvertently fell asleep" as they were roughly 36,000 feet in the air. 

Air traffic controllers and other pilots attempted to get in contact with the napping pilots to no avail. Then 28 minutes after the last recorded transmission, the commanding pilot woke up and was immediately "aware that the aircraft was not in the correct flight path." 

Russia appears on track to produce nearly three times more artillery munitions than the US and Europe, a key advantage ahead of what is expected to be another Russian offensive in Ukraine later this year.

Russia is producing about 250,000 artillery munitions per month, or about 3 million a year, according to NATO intelligence estimates of Russian defense production shared with CNN, as well as sources familiar with Western efforts to arm Ukraine. Collectively, the US and Europe have the capacity to generate only about 1.2 million munitions annually to send to Kyiv, a senior European intelligence official told CNN.

The US military set a goal to produce 100,000 rounds of artillery a month by the end of 2025 — less than half of the Russian monthly output — and even that number is now out of reach with $60 billion in Ukraine funding stalled in Congress, a senior Army official told reporters last week.

“What we are in now is a production war,” a senior NATO official told CNN. “The outcome in Ukraine depends on how each side is equipped to conduct this war.”

Officials say Russia is currently firing around 10,000 shells a day, compared to just 2,000 a day from the Ukrainian side. The ratio is worse in some places along the 600-mile front, according to a European intelligence official.

The shortfall comes at perhaps the most perilous moment for Ukraine’s war effort since Russia first marched on Kyiv in February 2022. US money for arming Ukraine has run out and Republican opposition in Congress has effectively halted giving any more.

Meanwhile, Russia recently took the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka and is widely seen as having the initiative on the battlefield. Ukraine is struggling not just with ammunition but also growing manpower shortages on the front lines.