[gubamyster]

Thank you for reminding me why I left IL for school in CA.

[Rusty0604]

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If Jack Dawson Was Really From Wisconsin...
130K viewsSep 14, 2016
YouTubeCharlie Berens

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=titanic+Wisconsin&docid=607986804390232742&mid=B2665AAC2BCE24A79039B2665AAC2BCE24A79039&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

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LOL..I worked my 10 hours one day and there had been a big snow fall and sure enough my work didn't let us out early. So I get in my old Ford Ranger truck and if you know anything about driving a truck on slick roads they like nothing better than to fishtail. I had gone to Home Depot a couple days before and had them put 20 concrete blocks in the back for weight. Advise from the garage family. Well, my BIL had worked on my truck but the idling was fast. Not really a problem but in icy snow conditions its a bummer.

I'm in the truck and there's a down hill ahead and then an up hill on the stretch leading to the main road I knew would be cleared. For the life of me I couldn't get my truck to slow down the idle. I'm all over the road trying to get some control. People in back have stopped before the down hill.(saw this in my rear view window) People coming toward me had stopped almost to the main road seeing me ahead of them.

I'm sure they were taking bets among themselves that any time I'll be no problem. Its off the road this crazy truck driver will end. And I'm actually sideways at one point. Not even to the up hill spot..LOL

I don't know to this day how I kept my cool and got the truck straight again and conquered the hill. All in low gear and fast idling. My BIL fix the idling but I had to get through the laughing. Weird humor the guys have out there.

[Rusty0604]

Seattle:

The council’s Budget Committee was considering specific amendments to the police department’s budget when it took several votes, chief among them were two measures by Councilwoman Kshama Sawant: one of the amendments would have immediately chopped 50 percent of the department’s budget while a second measure would have slashed funding to the agency starting in November…

After rejecting the pair of Sawant ordinances to slash the police budget by 50 percent, the council did approve measures to trip the pay of 13 high-ranking police officers, a measure that Sawant said would save about $500,000 this year.

Chief Best’s lawyer called the vote retaliation:

“She and Jenny Durkan gave a press conference where they were critical of the council. In my view, this was retaliation because as soon as they did that, the council — in a vote that was not publicized, that was not on the agenda publicly — voted to reduce her salary. This is the first black female police chief in the country. Her salary was reduced to $100,000 less than a white woman chief’s salary, namely Kathleen O’Toole.”

https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/08/07/seattle-police-chief-criticized-plan-defund-police-city-council-responded-slashing-salary/