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Thunderbird Italien Ford Ford CEO Jim Farley stopped by The Smoking Tire podcast earlier this month to talk vintage sports car racing, EVs, and driver assistance, so if you’re a fan of events like the Rolex Monterey Motorsport Reunion, you should give it a listen. We also took note of some of Farley’s comments about the new car market—comments specifically about cars rather than SUVs. “I do not like generic cars and trucks,” said Farley as he railed against “appliance-like vehicles” while defending Ford’s decision to leave the sedan market. It’s a segment that Ford hasn’t completely written off for...

Can anyone summarize what is going on in Bolivia? I heard there is a coup - but the news is all incomplete.

If Biden was a drug, advertised: Do you feel irritable? Anxious? Fearful? Less financially well-off? Do you feel like you are alone in a basement with no one around? Well maybe its time you really tried Biden(tm). Boden helps all tyese potential things by ignoring them. None of that matters when you're on Biden. Biden comes with internet filters to censor bad things and only show you good things. Biden also comes with a number of yes-men and women to shield your safe space from dangerous misinformation, so you can blissfully go about your day in complete ignorance. Do not...

Has anyone hear ever heard about an air conditioner soft start module ? A sure-start made by hyper engineering in Australia. It takes sort of an electrician mind to install this. Module is used to stop electrical surges that flicker lights when a big a/c starts up. Can also be used if you are a prepper and want to run stuff off-grid with an inverter. Mine is only 4 years old and not working right anymore. But one can't tell when there is a good utility power source. It fails when one is off-grid for a power failure. Sort of...

An aircraft mechanic who was contracted to repair Boeing planes has alleged he was labelled a "snitch" and then sacked for speaking up over safety concerns. Richard Cuevas claimed he witnessed substandard manufacturing and maintenance work on a crucial section of Boeing 787 aircraft. Boeing, which has been dogged by questions over whether its safety culture is rigorous enough, said the issues had been investigated and "did not present a safety concern". Lawyers representing Mr Cuevas alleged he reported critical issues that could create a serious public safety risk and has filed complaints with the Federal Aviation Administration and the...

Watch a useless streamer be put to use as he evicts a serial squatter by relentlessly annoying her and then getting her arrested for spitting on him and then clearing out all her stuff. Video starts 4 vids down.

...passed away yesterday from a pulmonary embolism... A female bodybuilding champion has tragically died aged just 36 after suffering a blood clot in Brazil, days before she was due to participate in a top-level competition. Cíntia Goldani, from Rio Grande do Sul, died on Wednesday from a pulmonary embolism, according to the organisers of the Musclecontest Brasil event in July. 'With great pain and sadness, we hereby inform you of the death of Professional Figure Athlete Cíntia Goldani due to complications from pneumonia,' Musclecontest International said in a statement. 'Cíntiawas an angel in human form. God needed reinforcement in heaven....

Kinky Friedman, a singer, songwriter, humorist and sometime politician who with his band, the Texas Jewboys, developed an ardent following among alt-country music fans with songs like “They Don’t Make Jews Like Jesus Anymore” — and whose biting cultural commentary earned him comparisons with Will Rogers and Mark Twain — died on Wednesday at his ranch near Austin, Texas. He was 79. Little Jewford, a member of his band and a longtime friend, confirmed the death. He did not specify a cause, but he said that Mr. Friedman had been ill in recent months. Mr. Friedman occupied a singular spot...

META-owned Instagram changed all of its users’ default settings to limit political content just in time for Thursday’s presidential debate between former president Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. The news comes after big tech and CNN began colluding to censor conservative websites and social media channels.

Bill Maher ripped into the “aggressively anti-common sense” left and casually predicted a Donald Trump victory during an appearance this week at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Maher participated in a talk with English journalist Tina Brown in which he called out modern political tribalism and at one point ripped into younger liberals so much that Brown had to tell the comedian and Real Time host he’s “very cantankerous” as he continued on.Maher argued Democrats are doing themselves no favors ahead of November’s presidential election.“Part of it the left has to own. They are aggressively anti-common sense,” he said. “The Democrats...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) said he did not vote for President Trump in the Georgia presidential primary in late May. Kemp in an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday said he didn’t vote for anyone in the state’s primary because the GOP’s presidential race had already been decided. “I voted, but I didn’t vote for anybody. I mean, the race was already over when the primary got here,” Kemp told Collins. “Well, it would be, for me, personally, politically, I mean it would be interesting if [I’d] voted for him, it would be interesting if I didn’t, it...

The Daily Mail is reporting that Joe and Jill Biden have refinanced their Delaware home 20 times and taken up to 4.2 million dollars in cash out of its equity. This is really weird because the Biden’s are worth 10 million dollars. So why are they refinancing their property over 20 times and why did they refinance their previous Wilmington property 15 times? Well according to Chat GPT, the number one reason people frequently cycle mortgages is to launder money gotten from illegitimate places. You don’t say. Fascinating.

I haven’t seen anyone asking serious questions about North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum. Instead, those in charge of vetting Donald Trump’s potential vice presidential pick seem to be relying on voters’ impressions of an affable Midwest guy. But some North Dakotans who know better can’t stand the thought of Bill Gates’ friend anywhere near the White House.To be fair, Burgum, a top surrogate for Trump, has a super cool self-made-man story. Chimney sweep, bet the farm and won, worked his way up and became friends with his boss at Microsoft, sold his company for $1.1 billion and stayed on to...

Jeff Landry, the governor of Louisiana, has been stirring a hornets’ nest recently by promoting a law that mandates the Ten Commandments in that state’s public schools. Already the ACLU are suing to block the new bill on behalf of some parents. Fox News reports on the controversy Gov. Landry has sparked. The governor said: “I didn’t know that it was so vile to obey the Ten Commandments.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has revealed an offer to Joe Biden that he believes would shake up the 2024 election and help one of them defeat Donald Trump.

Comedian Adam Carolla says he will be leaving California just has soon as his twin teenagers graduate from high school. ... the problem with his native state is its current governor, “narcissistic” Democrat Gavin Newsom. “I have twins, and they’re in their senior year of high school and I couldn’t — I didn’t want to pick up and, you know, tear up their roots, you know? So people always go, ‘When are you leaving?’ And I go, ‘I will be attending their high school graduation in a U-Haul,'” Carolla ... He added that he doesn’t even know where he’ll move...

ATLANTA, GA — In a shocking turn of events, CNN revealed that presidential candidate Donald Trump tested positive for Diet Coke in a drug test administered before tonight's debate against Joe Biden. The doctor CNN hired to run tests on Trump and Biden revealed that Trump's Blood Coca-Cola Content (BCCC) levels were hovering around 0.10%, an indication that the former president had probably ingested somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.5 liters of Diet Coke in the 24 hours leading up to the test. "This amount of Diet Coke would kill an average person," said Dr. James Klug. "The first warning...

Chris Wallace, the moderator of the sole debate between President Biden and President Trump in 2020, said that lost the presidency due to his performance that night. Biden and Trump will face off against each other Thursday in a CNN-hosted debate in Atlanta. “I actually think it was one of the most consequential presidential debates in history,” Wallace said Wednesday on “The Source with Kaitlan Collins” on CNN. “I actually think Donald Trump lost the presidency in that debate by his performance. He dropped about 4 or 5 points. He never regained it.” Wallace, who worked at Fox News in...

The Alameda County Prosecutors’ Association voted “overwhelmingly” to support the recall of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, according to an email obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle. Price dismissed the move from the union, arguing at a press conference that the its opposition to her came because some union leaders “have a problem” with not being able to discriminate on the basis of race or sexuality under her leadership. The union, however, says it wants Price out because she’s done a poor job running the office, according to the email obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle. “Our support for...

[Catholic Caucus] Accept or Reject the New Mass?Just days after Pope Benedict XVI issued Summorum Pontificum, Italy’s Bishop Luca Brandolini—who had been a close collaborator of Archbishop Annibale Bugnini—stated, “This day is for me a day of grief. I have a lump in my throat and I do not manage to hold back my tears…Today, a reform for which so many labored, at the cost of great sacrifices…has been canceled.”Hard as it may seem to avoid laughing at the absurdity of claiming that allowing the ancient form of the Roman Mass the rather second-class and exceptional status of an “extraordinary”...