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This video is from 2017. It was meant to try to sell the car. I'm posting it because I really like the car. I'm sure it's sold by now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3PuAlSXayA

Temperatures as much as 30 to 50 degrees below normal are entering the Northern Plains as we close out the workweek. Through the weekend, brutal conditions you might expect in a frigid January overtake the central portion of the country, from the Mexican to the Canadian borders. Heading into the first full week of March, Arctic air takes up residence in the East as well. When it’s all done, most of the contiguous United States will endure a punishing blow of frigid air from this Arctic blast. Records for cold are likely to be most numerous in the north-central United...

Michelle Obama has ruled out running for president at any point in the future. The former First Lady said she wanted to “make room” for younger generations who she and husband former President Barack Obama hope to “empower”. She made the announcement while speaking to a sellout crowd at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, TX. […] Someone in the hall”s audience shouted that she would run for president, according to KXAN. Obama shook her head and replied, “Nope, nope, nope”. “It’s not us occupying the same seats; it’s making room,” she said, before going on to describe how she...

Count Vlad has done an opera called Judas Iscariot. This is a shortened version of the overture. A synopsis of the opera: Jesus dies a horrible death on the cross, goes to Hell (Apostles Creed) and can't remember who he is. He meets Judas in Hell who helps him remember that he is not just a man but the Messiah, the Savoir. Judas is actually a good guy who betrayed Jesus -- not for the money -- but because he loved Mary Magdalene. Mary only had eyes for Jesus... so it's a love triangle. Jesus eventually regains his memory that...

The president’s El Paso rally should have been a tricky affair, with the wall, the shutdown, a counter-rally by local Democrat star Beto O’Rourke. But it was a night of wild surprises At the end of Trump rallies, order breaks down and people are tired. To those seeking to shock, injure, annoy or make a point, it’s go time. In El Paso, on the US’s southern border, at Trump’s first campaign-style rally of 2019, two people unfurled the flag of the Soviet Union. This happened inside the El Paso County Coliseum. I was outside in the parking lot, with about...

And ultimately, we may only keep as much as they might allow through the government’s ever-increasing assertion of its ownership, a mandate which becomes more firmly placed with each popular declaration that all property is, somehow, communal. Again returning to Adams, he predicted this: "The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence." And he even provides a description as to how it would happen, which, again, is eerily similar to...

Here’s an alarming but little-known figure—stray cats and pet cats allowed outdoors kill 3.6 million birds every day on average in the United States, for a total of at least 1.3 billion birds per year. That’s most likely a sizable chunk out of the U.S. land-bird population, which the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center estimates is around 10-20 billion....[snip] But some cat lovers are also bird lovers. Two of them, a birdwatcher named Nancy Brennan and a bird biologist named Susan Willson, have developed what they believe is a solution...

Director Steven Spielberg is facing a backlash from fellow Hollywood filmmakers after suggesting that the Oscars should no longer allow Netflix-produced films into consideration for its top awards. The 72-year-old filmmaker, who has won multiple Academy Awards throughout his iconic career, has long been critical of Netflix’s approach to producing films as online streams, which he argues will detract from the theatrical industry. “Steven feels strongly about the difference between the streaming and theatrical situation,” said a representative from Amblin Entertainment. “He’ll be happy if the others will join [his campaign] when that comes up [at the Academy Board of...

A former top Hillary Clinton aide took aim at 2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Friday, after Sanders said he wasn’t really interested in receiving any advice from his 2016 Democratic presidential primary rival, citing “fundamental differences” with her. “I don’t know who our nominee is going to be but I am damn sure that beating Trump & getting America back on the right footing is going to require a unified Democratic Party, so crap like this 613 days before Election Day is irresponsible, counter-productive, & sets us all back,” former Clinton senior adviser Nick Merrill tweeted Friday....

Today is Texas Independence Day. You might be already in full celebration mode, plunging candles into pints of Blue Bell, swigging Pearl in a can and picking beans out of chili. If so, carry on, you’ve got this. But if you’re the sort who of person who passes by an elementary school and you are all ... “wait, IS that Texas flag upside-down?” Read on, we are here to help. 1. HOW DID WE GET HERE? In the late 1820s, Mexico looked north and realized that Texas was filling quickly with armed white men who did not intend to speak...

President Trump announced Saturday he intends to sign an executive order mandating colleges and universities take steps to guarantee free speech to attain federal research grants. “We reject oppressive speech codes, censorship, political correctness and every other attempt by the hard left to stop people from challenging ridiculous and dangerous ideas. These ideas are dangerous,” Trump said. “Instead we believe in free speech, including online and including on campus.”

Turning Point USA spokesperson Rob Smith says that he believes more millennials will come out in support of President Trump in 2020.

Trump accuses Dems of peddling ‘bullsh*t’ amid rising President Trump on Saturday accused his political opponents of coming up empty-handed in their Russia probes and now resorting to peddling “bullshit" amid increasing scrutiny of his personal finances. During a long-winded speech Saturday that often scorned its script, the president proclaimed repeatedly he had done nothing wrong and that Democrats are grasping for straws to take him down. “There’s no collusion, so now they go and morph into ‘let’s inspect every deal he’s ever done. We’re going to go into his finances, we’re going to check his deals,’ these people are...

CHICAGO -- As actor Jussie Smollett is facing a trashed career and possibly three years in prison, his likely legal play is clear to ABC7 Chicago legal analyst Gil Soffer. "In any criminal case, if you as a defendant are looking at a mountain of evidence and you don't have a viable defense, there's almost no reason to go to trial," said Soffer, a former Chicago federal prosecutor and partner at Katten Law. "Cut your losses. You enter a plea deal." The scrum Smollett faced leaving Cook County's jail complex would just be the beginning of the unpleasantness if the...

An Emirati sheikh has built an incredible ten-wheeled vehicle made from a combination of a military truck and a Jeep in the UAE. Dubbed 'Dhabiyan', the motor is a hybrid of an Oshkosh M1075 military truck and a Jeep Wrangler. The vehicle is 35ft long, 8ft wide and has a height of 10ft, and weighs an incredible 24 tonnes. It features a huge 15.2-litre six-cylinder 600hp Caterpillar engine, which originally powered the military truck it was created from. Hamad bin Hamdan is known as the Rainbow Sheikh after he had Mercedes-Benz build him an S-class car in every colour of...

Calling Cardinal Pell’s Prosecution What It Is: Religious Persecution COMMENTARY: Now that the suppression order has been lifted, we are free to state what has been evident for several years now. Father Raymond J. de Souza Cardinal George Pell was exactly where he should have been Wednesday night in Melbourne: in jail. Let Henry David Thoreau explain: “Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison” (Civil Disobedience). Now that the peculiar “suppression order” in Australia has been lifted, we are free to state what has been evident for several years...

Just a vanity entry about spam calls. I receive these calls once or twice each day from a different phone number and the phone refers to it coming from SSRN. I've searched and searched but cannot come up with a site or near anything that has the initials SSRN. I know there are better sleuths here than I. I do have a phone that blocks numbers and is has about 200 entries in it. Here are those SSRN numbers. ********************************** 402-819-5564 SSRN 402-819-6855 SSRN 623-289-1228 SSRN 623-387-8591 SSRN 623-439-1338 SSRN 623-473-9898 SSRN

The Charlotte tech company AvidXchange will hire over 1,200 people over the next five years, a move that will more than double its local footprint, officials said Tuesday. The move is made possible through a generous incentives package from local and state governments. N.C.’s Economic Investment Committee met in Raleigh to approve $19.6 million in state incentives Tuesday afternoon, shortly before Gov. Roy Cooper detailed the AvidXchange expansion. He said the company is investing $41 million in the move. During the EIC meeting, the EIC said that the company will also get $3.3 million from city and county, plus $1.7...

Link to an amazing two hour long speech by POTUS at CPAC for those who missed it. He covered every base, including an appearance by Hayden Williams, the young man who "took a punch for all of us!" at a conservative recruitment drive on the Berkley campus. POTUS announced he will be signing a EO which will remove all federal funding from any university which fails to support freedom of speech.

Tesla has paid off its $920 million convertible bond obligation in cash, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC. The company also confirmed that it made the payment today. When asked about the payment earlier this week, a Tesla spokesperson pointed to comments from the fourth-quarter shareholder letter, when the company said it has “sufficient cash on hand to comfortably settle in cash our convertible bond that will mature in March 2019.” Tesla also said that its cash position improved by $1.45 billion in the second half of 2018, and that it expects positive net income and positive free cash...