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I have to agree with you completely. When I can get a new Z71 Chevy Silverado 1500 with a reliable 5.3 for $40k I'll consider replacing my 2013. Otherwise they can sit on the lot.

If there is a service charge, then the restaurant management has decided the tip amount. I will never tip on top of a service charge.

More like no fees in a Fidelity IRA! The one thing to watch out for is if your balance qualifies you for a "free" account executive. They can be a lot of help consolidating accounts and establishing goals, but watch out for when they become salesmen. Just say no to their AUM fee accounts or...

My daughter sent me this video. I was initially convinced it was AI because of the unusual collision with little observed damage, no airborne fireball, and the aircraft remaining entangled during ejection and crash. I was suprised to find it was real. There are an inordinate number of airshow...

...and then she said to you: "Mr. Keryk, that's the third time this week you've left your wallet at my register!".

Brother-in-law and sister-in-law had a Pacifica around the same year. It went through those fluid filled engine mounts about every 25k miles. At the time the dealer charged $1300 to replace, money they didn't have. He brought it to me for the 3rd set. The middle one was quite a challenge, so...

Actually, the Mob was famous for skimming, the exact opposite of money laundering. With laundering, you funnel ill gotten cash into a business and report it as profit. You pay tax on it, but after reporting, it's clean. With skimming, you take unreported cash out of a business and pay no cash...

It's like a lot of things. Large corporations take over, sell the buildings and land for a windfall, lease it back, then have a nut so big they end up providing no value to the customers in order to make that nut. I used to go to casinos all the time when I visited Vegas in the 70s, 80s and...

There are specific categories you can not use for the basis of discrimination. I could be wrong, but I don't think political beliefs are included in those categories. At least in my state.

If by trade schools, you mean they teach useful skills that enable the graduates to obtain high paying STEM jobs, rather than liberal arts degrees that qualify those graduates for jobs that pay less than being a McDonald's assistant manager, then I'm in complete agreement with you. If I read...

I rule out anything by Courtney Love or Yoko Ono because, frankly, their music was so bad it never got any air time on the stations I listened to. I would call their music fringe, but that would be an insult to the word "fringe". With widely played actual rock music I don't know which song was...

My wife told me a judge on a TV court show referenced a person who "looked like a deer caught in the head lice". I'm still laughing.

I put in a wood fence in Apple Valley over 40 years ago. As recommended earlier, I set the posts in concrete (I mixed it in a wheelbarrow), with raised caps where the concrete touched the wood, sloping down as it reached the edge of the hole. Those posts never rotted, although the rest of the...

Idiocracy. Oh, wait. That's a documentary movie. Never mind.

Very true, but they were stuck in soft sand and couldn't take off. That is why they had to be destroyed.

It's a war. Stuff happens. You can't really blame the loss of the two special op MC-130s on the op, it just happened. I suspect procedures about landing in unknown ground conditions will change.

Not to get political, but civilian leadership universally tends to exaggerate and oversimplify. It's just the nature of the beast. Defenses may be drastically reduced, but they are never totally eliminated. Every fighter 8+ hour mission, every Navy night trap, every bomber 20+ hour mission is a...

My career is in SAM suppression fighter aircraft (both F-4C and F-4G Wild Weasels) in case you question my bona fides, and no, I don't consider it flippant. But in no way am I either endorsing those statements attributed to senior leadership, nor am I minimizing the efforts of our fighter pilots...

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then. Considering the number of sorties and hours flown, I speculate our loss rate for Red Flag training exercises is about 4 times what it has been for this conflict. The fact that Iran is bragging about shooting down one aircraft, and the U.S. media...

To keep it PG, Iran seems to Mess Around and Find Out (MAFO). In their case, it's MAFO and FO and FO and FO and FO and.... At some point the market may realize this is a good thing, but I doubt it.