what should be a government job

sending yahoos with guns and no legal authority to capture fugitive for money sounds like [a] recipe for disaster

analogy is Okinawa is to Japan as Hawaii is to the US

Panama was pretty much the first of our modern-era experiments in “regime change” ... the U.S. never declared war, hence we were never “officially” at war with them.

Chalk it up to dark humor, but as I was a Marine back in the 1980's when we were all a tad bit worried about nuclear annihilation being just around the corner, and situations like Beirut, Panama and Grenada simply did not register as an existential threat. We didn’t consider events like those to be “war”.

Huh? We had no “wars” at all in the 1980's and the only thing worth calling a war during those 2 decades was the liberation of Kuwait (operation Desert Storm which occurred in 1990). Everything else was minor brush fires and light housekeeping, aka Business As Usual.

When have we not been at war? Honestly, clarify.

they really need to either drop one, or differentiate the things

In Northern Cali HOV lanes are free to enter and exit at any point and are time delimited ... i.e., they are restricted to HOV use only during certain times, and outside of those times anybody can use the lane. In the Sacramento area it only takes 2 people instead of 3 to qualify for HOV during metered times.

Thanks for linking/quoting that interesting tidbit ... I was gonna post a similar thought but not based on any expert scientific experiments, just that based on observing the video guy trying to dissolve a quarter cup of sugar in 16 ounces of gasoline indicated that sugar doesn’t dissolve well in gasoline. Leads me to…

I had a 2010 Pontiac Vibe (Toyota Matrix->hatchback Toyota Corolla) and the car accelerated by itself no less than 7 times in less than a year of ownership.

A compact coupe/convertible is absolutely the worst possible “beach car” ... no room for people or gear, so useless for actual beach-going. Unless your idea of a “beach car” is a car to be seen in by people at the beach while you yourself are neither actually on or going to the beach. Which would make you poseur and a…

Odd choice for an example of “asymmetry” seeing as how it’s NOT asymmetrical at all. A single offset air intake on the hood in no way, shape, or form makes the car asymmetrical. And the interior doesn’t count at all. If you counted the interior, then virtually ALL cars would be “asymmetrical” since you have driver…

safety devices equipped, or lack of, will be the determining factor whether you and any passengers have an increased chance at surviving the collision.

Never put a price on safety. It should be your number one priority over anything else.

contrary to the Weather Channel’s caption, this might be a geoduck

will the Pacifica have the same financial effect on FCA as the original Caravan from the 1980s?

fairly certain I wasn’t pushing hard enough

cost of production when your rushing to hit

I simply googled “starting salaries” ... lotsa nice charts out there ... nowhere can you find a “mechanic” or “automotive technician” listed at 70k a year (that’s your claimed $35 an hour annualized [52 x 40 x hourly rate]) ... I have no idea what your “1400 a week straight time” means.