You don't really think this thing knows how to drive do you?! Especially since it doesn't look like she knows how to wash her hair.
Posted on 07/01/2013 4:19:46 PM PDT by jjotto
A Ka and K band radar jammer (a real, illegal one, not the kind they scam on boxes, but one with a real antenna that you place in your bumper is an easy fix.
You need a radar detector calibrated to ignore it, then brake when you get a cop and turn off your jammer.
Costs maybe $800 and a weekend.
There are kits on the interenet, or there were. The FCC was trying to shut them down.
Enjoyed my road trip to PA this past weekend in my gas guzzling new Hemi Challenger. Oh wait, I got 27.1 mpg average. Never mind!
You don't really think this thing knows how to drive do you?! Especially since it doesn't look like she knows how to wash her hair.
You're right. I think some of it is wishful thinking, and trying to push a subconscious idea generating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Don't like guns and freedoms they bring? Put out the meme that gun-culture is dead, bad, backward, etc.
Don't like private cars and the freedoms they bring? Put out the meme that car-culture is dead, gone, backward, etc.
Oh yeah, the NYT is soooo progressive, so forward, so cutting edge in their thinking. {snort} (that's so obviously sarcasm, I don't have to put the emoticon on it, right?)
You’re definitely onto something, Paladin2. Free parking rocks.
In beautiful downtown Spokane, there are many empty buildings where businesses used to be. Predictably the city mothers decided what they needed to do was raise the parking rates. So fewer people shop there now.
Naturally, businesses are moving to city outskirts, mowing down lovely trees and animal habitats to put up ugly shopping centers, bringing more congestion to residential streets. Target just did that in my ‘hood. — may allah frown upon them :( — Why in the world couldn’t they have purchased a couple of downtown buildings, remodeled them into a nice big shiny store with a nice big shiny free parking structure next to it. We’re not talking a long commute...ten minutes max from my place on the outskirts to the middle of downtown.
Actually Spokane is not a rat hole, a bastion of conservatives in this liberal state.
Two practical solutions for higher fuel mileage are
1. Hybrid, 2. Diesel.
Toyota made the biggest commitment to hybrid, hence Prius, Camry hybrids.
Ford is serious about hybrid, also.
VW/Audi made the biggest commitment to diesel.
Big three American brands are following, not leading like they once did.
At long, long last Chevy introduced their Cruze diesel sedan.
I don’t think you read the article.
The only place to go now is Flintstone.
(yes, that's a tach on the hood)
I thought you rode your bike most of the time :<)
Target “moving to the City outskirts”? Hah! Their new location is no more the city outskirts than Shopko across the street. Look at Browne’s Mountain to the east, and Anywhere along Regal Street to the south. Hardly downtown, but not rural by a long shot. “Outskirts” is now out to Baltimore Road.
Target only got the site that Home Depot couldn’t get the tony-class neighbors to bless because HD “would’ve brought the wrong kind of traffic”.
As for not going downtown: (a) Location; (b) Location; (c) Location. It’s a crappy location if (a) you can’t afford it; (b) there’s no parking, free or otherwise, (c) no one sticks around to go shopping, even at the competition. Stand-alone Target stores only ever have about 2 complete city blocks worth of parking spaces, at minimum.
I know. I’ve watched the tussles over that site for 20 years.
“I thought you rode your bike most of the time :<)”
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Yes, in town I use only my bicycle.
My wife and child go by C-cad (pedicab) or “tricycle” (motorbike powered cab that caries 4-8 people).
For long distance, we catch an aircon bus from anywhere out on the highway. We rarely wait more then ten minuets to catch one.
The highway is only a five min. walk from our beach house.
I’d do almost exactly that for a daily driver if my wife would allow it (she sells upscale cars).
I can get away with a ‘93 GMC pickup on weekends.
100%
It's a pretty town but I'm observing more and more liberal creep in eastern Washington and everywhere. Worst where Redmond and Seattle (Amazon) vermin are accumulating. Wenatchee and Ellensburg are Silicon Valley in spots (in terms of liberal infiltration if not quite in real estate prices).
May be driving up your way this weekend to show the kids the "Bowl & Pitcher" and other sights.
Don't ya hate it when that happens ;)
Interesting but a matter of perspective.
I lived in South Florida, which is paved over to the max. Had to drive for miles and miles and MILES to see any significant green space. Also in LA. For me, Spokane is a small town where I can drive a couple of miles to lovely open spaces. As recently as yesterday, walked around the grounds of the retreat center on Ben Burr. Nature without traffic means a lot to me. Peaceful, quiet.
Target means zilch. I won’t shop there. I miss the birds and ducks on that land. It was nice to see them there...and I think some farm animals too. The scraped-off site looks like a war zone.
Meanwhile, downtown with some architecturally nice but now abandoned buildings is full of low-life dopers. Urban renewal just might force them out. But nobody seems to care.
Ja, ja, liberal creep even in North Idaho.
Bowl & Pitcher is beautiful. Enjoy :)
Don’t believe I had heard of the Immaculate Heart Retreat Center before your comment and looking it up. We have another destination. Thanks!
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