Sunday Flying Cars Open Thread


Why should only al gore have a private, high-performance flying machine?

This is impressive, and has a big carbon footprint:

(Courtesy: Tim Blair)

Sunday open thread….

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So who won the race?

djemi Sunday, March 29th at 9:08AM EDT (link)

I surprised the the Euro nuts haven’t banned F1 yet, you cardon footprint and all

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I hope they don't ban F1.

Brian Hibbert Sunday, March 29th at 9:24AM EDT (link)

I like watching F1 races. I find them FAR more fascinating than NASCAR (500 miles of left turns?!!!).

Unfortunately, I usually can’t stay up till 2 AM to see them.

Socialism doesn’t work. It looks nice on paper, but it’s been tried and it’s failed miserably every time (usually accompanied by widespread death and suffering).
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When was the last green flag pass in F1?

Achance Sunday, March 29th at 9:32AM EDT (link)

Other than ocassional mechanicals, restart wrecks, or pit miscues, they finish the way they qualify. BO- RING!

In Vino Veritas

You want "boring?"

bs Sunday, March 29th at 10:23AM EDT (link)

Try Martinsville. I hope I’m wrong, but this is not my favorite race.

Decorum is fo’ suckas

No, Martinsville isn't one of my favorites either.

Achance Sunday, March 29th at 10:56AM EDT (link)

Too long and too often just what I described about F1, not enough competition and the fastest car wins unless he wrecks, blows up, or screws up. ‘Course, I think that is kind of a problem with the new car anyway; you get out front, if stay there, you win. The cars are just so much faster in clean air. I thought much of the purpose of the COT was to make them less aero sensitive.

I haven’t found anyone to really root for in NASCAR since Dale Earnhardt was killed. Clean kids from CA and the MidWest just aren’t my vision of NASCAR drivers. I liked it a lot better when the chrome horn was a legitimate driving tool.

In Vino Veritas

Motorcycle racing.

mbecker908 Sunday, March 29th at 11:43AM EDT (link)

As in superbike and motoGP racing, not motocross.

If you’ve got four wheels on your vehicle, it’s two too many to go really fast.

CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.

 

John Force (and his progeny)

JustLeaveMeAlone Sunday, March 29th at 11:11PM EDT (link)

Gotta love someone whose motto is “Never Give Up — Never Back Down — Never Lose Faith.”

Ashley Force Hood won in Houston today.

“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson

I prefer the progeny [nt]

bs Tuesday, March 31st at 12:00AM EDT (link)

Decorum is fo’ suckas

 

Never give up, never surrender

kyle8 Tuesday, March 31st at 12:10AM EDT (link)

I think that was from Galaxy Quest

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

John Force probably predates Galaxy Quest

JustLeaveMeAlone Tuesday, March 31st at 4:27PM EDT (link)

n/t

“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

And so it begins

djemi Sunday, March 29th at 10:00AM EDT (link)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5071349/Extreme-Right-gains-ground-as-Ukraine-falls-into-crisis.html

This is my greatest fear and what I think BOs forgein policy is all about. Extreme Nationalist are going to try and use the global crisis to try and gain power all around the world. And we all know what happens when then

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Is nationalism the problem?

Neil Stevens Sunday, March 29th at 10:06AM EDT (link)

Or are those cousins fascism and socialism the problem?

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There Is No Crisis

Well in my book

djemi Sunday, March 29th at 10:19AM EDT (link)

you start with nationalism and as it progresses it turns into either fascism or socialism. Although these are prity much the same thing, so either way the minorities get squeezed out or just plain killed.

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In our country, seems it starts

redneck_hippie Sunday, March 29th at 10:28AM EDT (link)

not with nationalism, but with nationalization.

“We must not lose our faculty to dare, especially in dark days.” - Churchill in March, 1942.

Remember NY-23.

 

In Europe, maybe you're right

Neil Stevens Sunday, March 29th at 11:11AM EDT (link)

About Europe, you may be right.

Of course, I’m deeply mistrustful of the Europress (as much as I am our own). When they say ‘far right’ they’re as likely to mean ‘fascist left’ as they are to mean ‘conservative right,’ which means it’s a completely useless phrase from them.

For crying out loud, merely standing up and saying about your own country “You know, our way is better than theirs, and we should preserve that,” gets you branded far-right, fascist, and all sorts of silly stuff.

So I don’t take at face value the report in your link. That said, the political environment *is* split differently in Europe from how it is here. The left sold the public Stalin’s party line that ‘fascists are right-wing reactionaries’ and socialized the whole continent as a reaction to Hitler.

The result was a shattering of what is in our country the right-wing alliance. The Christians in that anti-fascist enthusiasm believed they could adopt economic socialism without compromising their other views, which alienated them from the Liberals, who in their anti-fascist enthusiasm rejected social order as a tool of evil. As a result, you get no coherent right wing, and the whole continent slides deep into socialism.

So by default, if strong pro-national sentiments crop up in Europe, you have to suspect it’s just the same old fascist innovation on internationalist socialism.

But suspicion is not assumption. I won’t assume anyone the socialist left calls ‘far right’ is one of us, but I won’t assume that they’re all little Hitlers, either.

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We Need Some "Extreme Nationalists" To Take Over *HERE*, AFAIAC (nt)

IJB Sunday, March 29th at 10:45AM EDT (link)

Seems to me the Euros could use a little nationalism

kyle8 Sunday, March 29th at 11:37AM EDT (link)

they are rapidly becoming parts of the new Caliphate because they don’t have children, and won’t stand up for their own rights and culture.

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

 
 

G20 protest

redneck_hippie Sunday, March 29th at 10:17AM EDT (link)

Last words of the article are instructive:

“There are growing fears that protests at the summit venue, the ExCeL centre in London’s Docklands could be marred by violence. Scotland Yard will be deploying specialist officers trained to use 50,000-volt Taser stun guns.”

The return of the taser!

“We must not lose our faculty to dare, especially in dark days.” - Churchill in March, 1942.

Remember NY-23.

Link (h/t drudge)

redneck_hippie Sunday, March 29th at 10:20AM EDT (link)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/G20/article5993184.ece

“We must not lose our faculty to dare, especially in dark days.” - Churchill in March, 1942.

Remember NY-23.

 
 

Re Moes yes prime minister

djemi Sunday, March 29th at 10:55AM EDT (link)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yhN1IDLQjo

I think this ones pritty funny too, and give BOs polling needs, well just watch it

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Mailoux

mom2oneson Sunday, March 29th at 12:41PM EDT (link)

The picture in Moe’s birthday thread is adorable! You have a beautiful family!

 

Has the world gone mad?

JustLeaveMeAlone Sunday, March 29th at 10:49PM EDT (link)

If someone had told me these things a year ago, I would not have believed them.

* The CEO of GM is ordered to resign by the POTUS. He does so. (I don’t care what a screwup GM’s CEO was; since when does POTUS have this kind of authority?)

* NY plans to tax the heck out of anyone making $300K a year. Prediction: business flight from NYC and NY state.

* A court in Spain is considering charges against US officials over Gitmo. News flash: Spain has no jurisdiction.

* The SecTreas apparently wants unlimited power, and Congress, which has no Constitutional power to grant such power, is seriously thinking of doing so anyway.

* Obama goes on both Jay Leno and Meet The Press. Good grief; does he have any notion of presidential dignity?

I could go on and on, but I’m speechless over that much.

Oh, and the fact that Obama has reported summoned Dr Basso to the WH, because he is “disturbed” by Basso’s patriotic YouTube videos. Amazing.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/03/obama-summons-you-tube-patriot-to-the-white-house-calls-patriotism-disturbing.html

“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson

 

Obama's Brownshirts Training Video

Kenny Solomon Sunday, March 29th at 10:56PM EDT (link)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EglMVfUB74

They come to my door……… they’re done. Game over.

Of course you can have my guns……. Bullets first.
I didn’t say rounds, shells or magazines……
I said bullets first.

If they show up at my door, I'm handing them a copy of The Constitution

JustLeaveMeAlone Sunday, March 29th at 11:03PM EDT (link)

then shutting the door in their faces.

“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson

 
 

Can't touch this

RoscoeP Sunday, March 29th at 11:01PM EDT (link)

I just saw that the presidential entourage to the G20 will be 500+. Mr President, I’d like to introduce you MC Hammer. Perhaps you’ve heard of him? I think he can teach you a few things about entourages . . .

 

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