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That was certainly epic. Lived in central Ohio at time (still do), and our farm got socked in pretty bad. Have quite a few stories to tell about it. That blizzard was the best sales promoter for 4WD pickups for sure.

“Generators, especially fixed whole house generators are getting very rare. The only thing they had left was WAY more than I needed...”
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Indeed. I recently bought a quasi-classic antique tractor to restore and use for chores. Figured it would be THE perfect set up as a power source for a PTO shaft drive generator in the 10 to 15kW range. “Out of stock” is what you see when scoping out these units on line.

VW had the audacity to torque-off envirowhack bureaucrats. They sit around sipping wine after a hard day at the EPA sharing fourth-hand stories from the Karens and Chads of how dirty diesel fuel is. Those pencil-necked office pukes can’t even spell the word “diesel”.

Thanks for compiling the HideyHo oddities list. I have been mentally cataloguing the weird stuff, but seeing it all lined up in a list is quite eye-popping.

I get curious at times on listing “who haven’t we heard from lately” indicating to me they might be laying low. For a reason.

I’ll start with AWS and the man who’s fallen off the face of the earth, Leon Panetta.

“In that close up McCarthy looks a little stressed in his eyes. He has teeth showing but not exactly a real smile. Trump however is cheesin’ it up. Interesting or not?”
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That was my impression. McCarthy looks like he can’t wait for this get-together to end. An uncomfortable look.

Jordan was a four-time state champ in Ohio during his HS years going 150-1 and a two-time NCAA Div 1 wrestling champ while at Wisconsin.

He still looks like he could compete.

“You think Trump meekly surrendered to THEM, and now he’ll meekly accept an illegal, unconstitutional trial?”
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The line above is a snip from Wictor that you posted. Thanks.

The recent events have gotten me down, but again the FreeQers here have slapped me sober and have boosted my spirits. (I can’t help but think of the scene from Airplane! where passengers are all in a line to take a shot at the lady who went hysterical to get her to snap out of it.)

I have a brother that works for a company that makes hugh and series natural gas compressors. The company’s owner has voiced concerns amongst the troops about what the immediate future holds. Big brother here (well...older brother) had to bust him in the chops. “This ain’t over, dude!”

I have a large machine mechanic nephew working maintenance support for an outfit providing ROW clearance for a new oil pipeline somewhere in the tropical regions of central Minnesota. His family just relocated up there for the work and rightfully is wondering “what the hell?”. Uncle EMI has had to send him a sternly-worded text or two to lift him up.

My foundation for the pep talks are formed here on this thread and in my profound belief Trump will not simply walk away from this: “Oops! Oh well! I gave it a shot, and it seems they are “better” than me and won.” (said Trump never!)

So the line from Wictor above reinforces what I believe about Trump: He’s going to lose to “them”? THEM?!! How about NOOOO, Scott? (when the school secretary in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off rips off a quite descriptive list of the types that support Ferris pretty much nails who THEM is.)

I have a book by Trump from 2015: “Crippled America-How to Make America Great Again.” It’s his campaign list pretty much. In the back are two and a half pages listing SOME of the entities owned/developed/managed by Trump. I counted 68. World wide. Jaw-dropping to me. Very little indication there to me that Trump is a quitter, loser or straight up dumbass.

To accomplish all that, Trump has had to deal with the Ferris list, super smart actors and connivers. He prevailed. In spades.

Trump is NOT going to lose to..........THEM.

“I like Chief Thief.”
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Thief-in-Chief.

IIRC...the song was done by The Art of Noise...”Paranoimia”. Great memories gutting and remodeling an old farm house.

1986?

Outstanding!

My dawg, man! Such deep corruption of a legacy music vid. Few better.

In.

“Can we dump Q? It is at best a joke,you’re being trolled.”
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Ummmm...how about NO!

Instead of trolling here, help me with a problem. Am always confused which lead of a battery charger is “hot”.

Find one, power it up and use your tongue as the determinant.

Report back to us here. Many thanks.

You lasted ten minutes listening to him? You’re tougher than I am.

I lived in McDonough and would hear him on WSB on my commute to home from work in Decatur. Yuk! What a bloviating blob. I’ve come close to injuring myself in my haste to switch stations. The benefit of switching was discovering Jay Sekulow’s ACLJ show. I want to say it was AM 920 in Atlanta.

“I know this sounds crazy, but I think Joe has been cooperating with the Patriots for a while to avoid sharing a room with Hillary.”
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That’s not crazy at all. I have been thinking about the same thing for quite a spell.

Look...all this stuff that’s going on is so blatant and in our faces: rat governors doing lockdown stuff that is a sure guarantee of not being reelected (provided a fair election :/). Who with half a brain does that? Really? Romney being an ass at every opportunity when a blind ground hog can see you better be on Trump’s Train or either away in your burrow?

The most tell tale thing for me is the exponentially overwhelmingly absurd, comical, don’t-even-bother-to-hide-it election cheating horse manure. Mel Brooks couldn’t come up with a better parody and satire script than this. Come on, man!

Trump has it all. I truly believe long ago The Plan had as one of its elements private meetings with these evil jake legs during which they had a folder slid across a desk to them:

“So, (insert name of your fav a-hole here), this is what we’ve got. You know it’s true. This stuff will get ya 20 years at the spa minimum. So...you follow this script we’ve attached which is Appendix A. When you follow our recommendations this will overtly prove to Americans how stinking bad y’all are. We have to SHOW them. Get it? You are going to do 20 as it is. Do THIS, and we’ll reduce your lock up to five and negotiate from there totally dependent on how well you can follow directions contained herein. Play or pay. Waddya think? You have two days to respond. Are we clear?”

The Art of the Deal. Call me crazy, too.

In early. Way early.

I thought Ric Ocasek had passed away.

Jason and his posse shouldn’t have offed Talos. He was just doing his job.

Am in. “Real in”. (Lucy Van Pelt...1965). Old enough to remember premier.

I like your word “obviousicity”.

Speaking of...John Kasich hasn’t been flapping his gums either.