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Ten Years Flies By

I’ve posted this photo before, but I just touched it up in Photoshop a bit more and felt like sharing it as the Lincoln is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up. (As Ferris Bueller would say).

It is a great example of how fast time flies as this photo is ten years old already. This was taken outside the Ralston Road Cafe, which a few years later became one of those classic instances where a business one takes for granted just disappears out of nowhere without warning. Currently, new townhomes fill the space it once occupied.

The parking lot has significance to me as it is where I worked for seven years pushing carts at Safeway, my first job during and after high school. Pushed a lot of carts here. Chased a lot of shoplifters. This lot is now a bunch of townhomes, and there is still building going on in this immediate area, which was admittedly getting a big run-down. I’m not even sure Walmart across the street was open when this photo was taken.

American State National

I was just watching another police-cam video where they are dealing with a “Sovereign Citizen” (those are always fun). They changed the name, as is done when something isn’t working anymore, to “American State National”. When they are pulling her from the car, though, she’s screaming on how they are violating her Constitutional Rights. (Wait, I thought she was an American State National?) It would be so much cheaper and easier to just follow the law like everybody else. I’ll give her credit though, she didn’t make them use the taser on her.


Gripen vs F-35 for Canada

I was reading the comments from another video on this topic, and it was all Canadians who were against anything from the U.S., all insisting on the 40-year old Gripen to replace their aged F-18 Hornets. A perfect example of patriotic bias against logic and the numbers. This video clearly spells out why the Gripen is a terrible idea for Canada going forward. In addition, this should have been decided years ago, but Canada’s governments have continually kicked this can down the road while almost every other NATO country has determined the F-35 was the best option going forward, including other far-north countries that also operate in extremely cold conditions.