Not quite a Star Wars speeder, but getting there:
If these ever become marketable, just think of the changes in society:
Roads will become less important.
Neighborhoods possibly can be designed without permanent roads.
There will be less wear and tear on the pavement, reducing those expenses.
Fences will have to be higher, to keep the impatient drivers from cutting across or through your yards.
How many house collisions will there be, when drunk-hovering will be available?
Since it doesn’t depend upon wheels and friction, will this reduce gasoline consumption?
Parking garages may have to reconfigured, as these can be parked vertically.
Can they be taken up onto mountainsides? Can they carry loads? Can we see houses on otherwise inaccessible cliffs soon?
If they can’t handle large loads like, say, concrete delivery, how will having fewer, but heavier vehicles impact road design and tax structures?
How will we manage traffic, with vertical levels for lanes? (This has been seen in science fiction for some time now.)
Will we begin to have traffic jams over water?
Will we have to increase/enhance rescue to include towing vehicles and emergency vehicles for water rescues?
These are the thoughts I have late at night, when I should be sleeping…
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G’Morning All
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Maybe with flying cars we can take the oppurtunity to reset the rules to where they should have been from the get-go. No hovering license until you’re 30 and none issued to idiots.
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And if any of my money was involved in you getting a hover, you don’t get to vote on the idiot test format.
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hater
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I’m sure these things are more energy efficient than say a flux capacitor, and they probably have a bag to trap any dust that might be accidentally stirred up. Why not just skip this step and to straight to a human transponder like on Star Trek. Then we don’t need any cars or trucks.
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Somehow meeting the bobbing head in person didn’t have this effect. 😀
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He really should be tried for crimes against humanity.
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When I first heard Rush say this, I thought “How mean!” Now, I am one of those 79%ers. When someone doesn’t pay into the system, that someone has no vested interest in making sure the system is efficient.
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Well, this is why TBO didn’t have time for Netanyahu:
9:45 am || Receives the Presidential Daily Briefing
10:15 am || Meets with senior advisers
4:20 pm || Delivers remarks at a fundraiser; Capital Hilton, Washington
6:05 pm || Delivers remarks at a fundraiser; private residence, Washington
8:25 pm || Delivers remarks at a fundraiser; Capital Hilton, Washingtonh/t The Blaze “blog”
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AARP running a thinly veiled Republicans are taking away Medicare TV ad, aren’t they tax exempt?
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As if that would matter.
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#8 GJT: That troll made deliberate terror inducing threats against his target. The fact that he was the 17 yr old son of a friend is irrelevant, at a minimum he should have had the crap beaten out of him. I marvel at the restraint of the man and at the same time can not agree with it. This kind of restraint usually invites more attacks until they get downright dangerous or life-threatening. The proper way to deal with a bully (troll) is to confront them directly, in the beginning, and then if the bad behavior continues, take more aggressive means. The whole thing should have been stopped long before ashes showed up on the door step, using the same legal means as was eventually used.
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Well, now we know why TBO can’t find the time to do his job. It’s not the time, it’s the thickness of his skin.
Shortly after the photo-op meeting and “working lunch” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the one that saw President Obama openly chastised by the Prime Minister for Obama’s earlier public comments regarding wanting to see Israel return to its 1967 borders, the president verbally “went off” on Bill Daley in the private study area that adjoins the Oval Office. President Obama’s verbal attack was clearly heard by numerous staff up and down the West Wing hallways.
The essence of the president’s rage and embarrassment can best be summed up with him yelling out very loudly, “What the f** was that!?” That phrase was apparently repeated a number of times in the span of about five minutes, a time period in which Obama’s voice became “louder and louder” and culminating in Obama exclaiming, “Never again! Do you understand me? Never again!” Any response by Bill Daley back to the president, if given, was not overheard.Scratch the skin of an arrogant narcissist, and you’ll find an avoider.
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#11 TT: The way to take the class warfare out of the game is to have a national retail sales tax and eliminate the income tax. Everybody pays, the rich buy more and better, therefore they pay more.
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Marshall law in East St. Louis?
“The loiterers will be arrested, not warned, but arrested. Those who are hanging out at 11th and Bond, 15th and Lynch, 38th and Waverly, wherever you happen to be, if you are loitering, you will be arrested.”
Surrounded by police, Parks announced they also plan to arrest adult males and young men wearing gang colors, amounting to a city-wide dress code.
“No royal blue, no bright red to be worn by our men or our boys in this community,” Parks said. “Why is that? Those colors have long been affiliated with gang kinds of affiliations” -
Woo-hoo, rain on the way today, showers moving up from the Gulf that might find our dirt this afternoon. Semi-mugly 71 at 6 and plenty of ground mist plus the sprinklers being on has just about everything moist/dripping and and sparkling in the Sun. Far west Fort Bend County had nice rains yesterday, but they didn’t move our way.
Senator Jim DeMint sent out a survey to donors to his Senate Conservatives Fund when the deadline had passed for Mr. Akin to withdraw from the Missouri Senate race; he wsas inquiring would they support endorsing Mr. Akin, and how much would they be willing to pledge to donate. The response must have been pretty strong, as the plegdes topped $290,000 Senator DeMint reported in his follow-up e-mail that SCF was endorsing Mr. Akin. Also he noted that Rick Santorum was doing the same. The message included a donation link to the Akin campaign. Now the SCF also includes Mr. Akin in its donation e-mails. Have a strong hunch the response will be strong. We need to take the Senate, and one ill-advised silly Akin comment does not wash away Claire’s many liberal sins and her vote for Obamacare. 🙂 -
**FURTHER to my #59 from yesterday’s OC thread**
A new film starring Matt Damon presents American oil and natural gas producers as money-grubbing villains purportedly poisoning rural American towns. It is therefore of particular note that it is financed in part by the royal family of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates. …
big SHOCK eh? *NOT*
So what’s the problem? These guys just export glass figurines and live off of enviro-friendly tourism, right? Er …………
Too bad to check: Anti-US oil production film financed by … Middle Eastern oil producers?
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Radio Flame Thrower and major pain to the left, Michael Savage, is finally able to choose his employer. This line at the end of the story (not really related to the story) is absolutely dripping with hypocrisy:
Savage, who broadcasts from San Francisco, was heard on nearly 400 stations and has gained notoriety for offending immigrants and minorities, calling the Muslim holy book, the Quran, a “book of hate” and being banned in 2009 from traveling to England for allegedly fostering extremism or hatred. After that decision, the host appealed to one of the targets of his barbs, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for help.
A State Department spokesman said at the time that countries have a right to determine who is allowed to enter, but declined to comment further on Savage’s request.I guess that only applies to other countries as, apparently, the USA does not have the right to keep the waves of illegals from south of our border from flooding in to our country.
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I got an email yesterday from my sister. My niece is getting professional counseling now, and her father, who is an RN, is working with her on natural methods to help her sleep and to reduce her anxiety.
The parents of the young man who was killed in the wreck were on the scene demanding her phone records and blood tests. My niece had left her phone at home, so they can’t accuse her of distracted driving because of texting or talking while driving. And I know she wasn’t drinking. It was just a horrible accident – she didn’t see his motorcycle as she turned in the intersection. It was dark and from the article, it seemed he was moving at a pretty fast clip.
I feel for the parents on both sides. I know my niece, and I know how she’s feeling about this whole event. And the parents of the young man are probably heartbroken and angry, looking for their pound of flesh.
Dang.
At least the school is supporting her. She’s being given some flexibility on her assignments, and she can go to the counselor’s office any time she wants.
Keep ’em all in your prayers. This is gonna take some time.
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I wonder how many of these there are; I’m a lifelong Democrat and I might vote for Romney?
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Well there’s TWO.
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Y’all can thank me for the rain coming, I made plans to go to the car races tomorrow night with my brother and our sons. Every time.
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Dang, Democratic Convention Delegate Voting For Romney.
Times are bad for President Obama’s reelection. Really bad.
How much worse can it get when a delegate at your own convention says she’s voting for the other guy?
Just listen to Eva Richey, head of the North Carolina chapter of Democrats for Life of America, who is at the convention in Charlotte: She’s voting for Romney.
“The Democratic Party is supposed to be a big tent with room for all, Richey said, but a better analogy would be that it’s a bus. “And we’re in the back of it,” she said of pro-life Democrats like herself.
And there are another 21 million Eva Richeys out there.
And the Democrats aren’t only turning off die-hard right-to-lifers. On Tuesday night, a man tweeted that his pregnant Democrat wife had to leave the room where they were watching the convention because all the abortion talk made her sick. -
Thanks, GJT! 😉
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#25 GJT
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Intellicast must think GJT has lots of car races to go to this weekend.
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#25 GJT, the mosquitoes thank you too. They just demonstrate their gratitude in an itchy kind of way.
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May mosquitoes breed in y’all’s drawers drawer.
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Forced unionization – and taking money from Medicaid patients.
Four years ago, Steven Glossop moved in with his mother Linda to care for her after she suffered a stroke while recovering from heart surgery. Her condition requires constant attention and her son, whether at work or elsewhere, makes sure someone (usually his wife) is there to help.
But the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is making life difficult for the Glossops.
“The Glossops, by virtue of getting Medicaid money from the state, are members of the SEIU thanks to a unionization scheme orchestrated in 2005 when Jennifer Granholm was governor,” writes Jack Spencer for Michigan Capitol Confidential.
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The SEIU, according to the MCC report, enacted a “forced unionization” of Michigan’s home-based caregivers (i.e. people like Steven Glossop) back in 2005, meaning they get a cut of the Medicaid checks caregivers are given to provide home care.
Want to guess how much the SEIU has taken in as a direct result of this “forced unionization” scheme? Try $32 million.
But wait! There’s more.
Much of that $32 million has been put towards Proposal 4: a proposal that will make the “forced unionization” scheme an official part of the state constitution.
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“Back when I received the first check I noticed that dues had been taken out of it,” Steven Glossop said. “I thought, ‘I’m in a union, that could be good.’ ….”
“Later I saw that all the union (SEIU) was doing was taking our money,” he said. “I wonder what most taxpayers would say if they knew that some of taxpayer dollars being paid to help families out is being taken by the union.”So the SEIU is taking Medicaid money from people who need it, because a loving son or friend is taking care of them in their home.
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Stop that rain in Richmond.
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This might be a good sport to get enthused about.
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#25 Tim
I made plans to go to the car races tomorrow night with my brother and our sons.
On a point of male bonding etiquette: Are you all able to sit together at the races? Being as how you are kith & kin, and not just friends that could be mistook as mebbe toooo friendly if ya get my drift…
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#30 Pyro
This just makes me sick.
Well, don’t swallow any blue dust mops. Like the pitchure shows ya, them things are full of Influenza virus.
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#18 Shannon
Regarding martial law in East St. Louis, I wouldn’t doubt the mayor has had it with the lawlessness. That city has been in the pits for decades and slipping lower as time passes. Back in the days (mid 70s-late 90s) when we would usually drive to Madison rather than fly to visit family, we had two routes to choose from after the frist day’s stopover somewhere north of Little Rock close to the Missouri bootheel. Then it was either Memphis to Cairo, Illinois and through the length of Illinois, around Chicago to Rockford, and into Wisconsin. The other route was up the bootheel to St. Louis, across the Mississippi to East St Louis, Ilinois and up to Rockford and on to Madison. East St. Louis pretty much all that time had a bad reputation for crime, unemployment, and poverty. St. Louis itself had pockets of the same and areas of decay you couldn’t miss passing through on the Interstate, and you could hear about the local crime listening to local stations on the way. You wanted to get through East St. Louis asap and not have to get off the Interstate until well past the eastern city limits and into the Illinois countryside.
Gotta recall this is downstate Illinois and not part of the Chicago Way complex. Gratefully for the citizens in East St. Louis and environs somebody in office is doing something about it. Good job, Mr. Mayor. -
Another one who can’t wait for Obamacare:
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#40 – ROFLMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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The Romney campaign is so dead, the Mormons have baptized it.
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#42 – Havvanutha toke Bob
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#42: Gary Gary he’s our man, he’s the Johnson in our. . . . .
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OMG toooooooooooooooooooooooo Funny (not to mention a GREAT ad!)
Wonder if Romney can borrow Allan West’s advertising folks?
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#45 Katfish
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#43 Thanks Katfish, I think I will. I’m incubating a spoof piece about Rick Perry relocating the state capitol away from Austin for the safety of government… something about teh gayz…
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#45 Katfishy
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Anyone else miss the old KLOL?
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#49 – I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo GLAD Jonathan did a bit of ‘gender clarification’ on dat dere Drummer……………it was certainly in question from this desk 🙂
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Boy Howdy! That Lloyd Oliver dude is a first rate chucklehead!
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Some of these Siri responses are pretty funny.
Q: What’s the meaning of life?
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“Women”
Siri: “I don’t understand women”
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It sure is hard to type on the lap-top with the Lil’ Psychotic Dawg in my lap, not enough room for her and the dang computer! Welp, those big brown eyes have worked their magic, we’re off to take another walk. Later,….Yup, Life is GOOD 😀
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#25 Tim
I made plans to go to the car races tomorrow night with my brother and our sons.On a point of male bonding etiquette: Are you all able to sit together at the races? Being as how you are kith & kin, and not just friends that could be mistook as mebbe toooo friendly if ya get my drift…
Hey it’s dirt track racing, most in attendance have family tree’s purdy straight up with not many branches.
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I guess it was WagonBurner who said male friends were unable to sit together at a sporting event. Or did he say unwilling?
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OK, so the Twilight Zone started out with an old man going coon huntin’ with a Bluetick hound, lets see how they play it out, real or not. 😉
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Me, I wouldn’t be at a sporting event…
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would you sit next to an OU fan?
the real question is would an OU fan sit next to you. 😉
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Intelligence office says it got Libya attack wrong, not White House
That’s cause god is never wrong.
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#54 SD
Hmmm, and General Clapper, who has several times demonstrated he is a dithering idiot
in way over his head, just reinforced once again that he has far exceeded his level of competence and completely shredded the Peter Principle. 🙂
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Nobody up yet?
Raining in Friendswood.
Luckily I had the foresight yesterday to nitro feed the azaleas, a couple months from now I’ll put down the azalea flower fertilizer for next month.
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