Old farts at play.

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The Decision Process: A Car for My Child

A young one comes of an age where freedom of movement is required to conduct the day to day business of growing up, becoming educated, and taking those first faltering steps toward independence and self-sufficiency. Suddenly, the nest is a too small world for the youngster and inroads into the commerece, travel, and geography of the adult world must be made. But how best to begin?

With a well cared for, quality, safe used vehicle, of course.

Choosing one puts quite an onus upon any father not blinded by glitzy car ads, government bureaucratic doubespeak, and grass-hut treehugger propaganda (re: safety and survivability on public roads) and wanting to provide his child with reliable personal transport while balancing cost, performance, safety, and economy.

Step one: Weed out all the small cars. This is not an equivocal statement, and it is not for the simple reason that small cars will kill your kids. See below:

Yes, they will kill and mutilate your kids.

This still leaves a lot of options; SUV, midsize car, large car, Fullsized pickup, midsized pickup, van (forget it. no shag wagons).

Next up: Mid sized and Full sized Pickups are a good option for their mass, durability, and structural integrity, but suffer from the lack of weight over the rear wheels which makes them prone to a skid on wet/slick pavement. Throw them out unless you can teach your child to reliably control a vehicle in that situation.

So that leaves us with large SUV, midsized SUV, midsized car, and full sized car.

While large SUV's are currently inexpensive to buy, inexpensive to insure, and massive (thereby benefiting lavishly from Newton's first law in a vehicle to vehicle collision) they are horrendously fuel inefficient which doen't mesh well with a teenager's budget. Mid sized SUV's benefit to a lesser extent from Newton, but don't really improve much upon the inefficiency problem of large SUV's.

Midsized cars are a viable option with vanilla safety ratings and very good efficiency, but Sir Newton frowns ever so slightly upon them.

A full sized car is typically safer than a midsize with very little mileage penalty and some are even known for a specific design on safety, quality construction, careful and intelligent engineering. Sadly, these are typically made by Europeans.....

The Options:
1: Volvo
2: Mercedes
3: BMW

These are high-end brands with great reputations and each has a different primary focus while maintaining a firm grip on other aspects of quality vehicle design and manufacture. I chose the Mercedes e320.








Rationale to follow.

Daddy, I need a car!

I'll see what I can do.....

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Times Change.People Don't

It i has always been the hope and faith of primitive peoples that their chosen god would control the weather in their favor:

It took the leftist a little longer to work up to asking their god "Government" to do so than most, but one must admit they did finally get around to it.

The proper way to enjoy the evenin'

Pay those nasty flowers no mind. I must've cut the primatrol a mite lean......

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Happy Birthday to me!

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What everyman needs. An attached travel cover!

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Birthday smokes

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Brethitt county black bear.

Looks to be pretty good sized bear, or "bahr" as they say in those parts.

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And the wooly worm says....

Gravy this winter.

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Reason #438 Why the US is Doomed

...because even those who believe they fight for less government intervention pay homage to a bloodthirsty, tyrannical despot.

Reminds me of celebrations of Castro's revolution or the old Soviet October Revolution Day.

The Inevitable Fate of Lincoln's Empire:

US Bond default inevitable: Driven to ruin by his philosophical kin.


But, but... Somebody should DO something!

It will fun to watch the left suddenly stop loving "change" when it begins writing them cold checks.

Proof of a Worthwhile Post

The good ones always go to boobs:



Professor Hale on emergency procedures for snakebite victims:

Also, if the bite victim is a lady, remove her bra. The swelling can get mighty painful.
Today, 1:16:42 PM

Bill expands on the premise:

Heck, I do that for everything, along with some palpitations to check for tenderness... "Excuse me ma'am, you broke a fingernail? I'll have to remove your shirt and bra to see if there are further complications, often the shock travels up your arm to your shoulder."
Today, 1:32:46 PM

High Steppin' in Alabama

It's safe to say this Western Diamondback is one Damned Big Snake;



Welldigger sent this a few days ago; It's a picture of the Rattler he an a buddy happened upon while out looking for 'gators. Now, when something is so bad as to scare ya' shitless whilst out lookin' for 'Gators then it's one of Gods creatures been breathin' a mite too long.

Welldigger said it scared him so bad he forgot he was carryin' a shotgun!

Bear in mind the fella holding the snake is 6'3" and the rattler is big around as the man's thigh....

The Law Loop

Paraphrased from a real interview:

Questioner: Is pillow biter "marriage" protected by the Constitution?

Answer: Yes.

Q: There's no mention of anything of the sort.
A: But the courts have previously decided there was.
Q: There's no mention of anything of the sort.
A: It's covered under the fourteenth amendment.
Q: There's no mention of anything of the sort.
A: But the courts have previously decided it was.

ad infinitum

In other words; "It Is because we say It Is, irrespective of observable reality" This is nothing more than law by capricious fiat and the proclivity of leftists to shit their own nests.

A society cannot maintain even the perception of being free without at least the illusion of rule of law. Describing nonsense as "arcane", "nuanced", or "complex" and substituting that for logic is in no way long term sustainable. The result of this lack of anything like a firm legal foundation upon which regular folk can depend is increasing disregard for any and all law and, inevitably, the giver and enforcer of said law: The State.

This prevalence of the blatancy of the legal equivalent of a con game, combined with an economy soon to be unable to provide affordable necessities to a large percentage of the populace is, as has occurred many times in the past, sounding the death knell for the State of Lincoln, born of blood, 150 years hence.

Weep not for the Leviathan; there isn't a thing wrong with its demise. Mourn, instead, those to be crushed in it's death throes.

Honest Harley Davidson Commercial -or- Man, those Buell guys are Pissed

Props to Jim

Hell. It's worth a try.

"Infinite rednecks shooting infinite shotgun rounds at an infinite number of road signs will produce all the works of Shakespeare in Braille."



Props to Kim and , apparently, LinuxGirl

I Want a Buell

I laughed. I cried. It's better than Cats.

Not a bad way to spend a day

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A little oven time, a little freezer time and PRESTO !

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