First link: A stock boxster vs a dude that faults the green in a blownout mustang with a Kenne Bell supercharger on race slicks.
So I ignored the other two.
Like I said, you dont know anything useful or true about cars.

That Boxer cant "outperform" my GT. Period.

That boxster is a 2010 and embedded in a brick building, so you're probably right. I'm guessing if you hoist it out it could still take a 2010 mustang around a track.

Sorry, actually, I'm a car guy. I cant let that go.

Why oh why on Allah's green Earth, would you pony up for the track pack (aka liberal agenda "ecoboost")and NOT just get the GT350R? Forget the only flat-plane crank outside Italy, just for the Shelby badge alone it worth a few more grand.

I drive a 2017 Mustang GT with the track/performance pack
I rest my case.

You sound like...
Yeah, I'm a real hoot.

Perhaps you are equipped to make a distinction between the times Bozo says something stupid because is he trying to be cute/funny and the times Bozo says something stupid because he actually doesn't know anything. I don't bother.

I read it as classic Bozo. He is trying to take the piss outa Porsche drivers. They are less clever than he is, suckers, probably librulz, and they can't even "beat" his wife's car! A female! He could have bleated on about how the "baby" Porsche hardly outperforms his mustang/camaro/charger at nearly twice the price the way a car guy might. But no, he has to overstep in true Bozo fashion and reveal to anyone paying attention, that although he often makes comments on the car threads he actually doesn't know anything useful or even true about cars.

HighLander could beat that car...

2010 C***ster: 0-60 5.1 sec, 60-0 101ft/ 0.92g on the skid pad

2018 Toyota grocery cart Highlander: 0-60 7.2sec, 60-0 128ft./ 0.76 skid pad

We can add automobiles to the list of things you dont know anything about. Just guessing here, you drive a mustang/charger, correct?

If not for The Miami Herald, in particular Julie Brown, using old fashion investigative reporting, we would still think Epstein was a "billionaire genius". He was neither.

The media didn't fail here, the justice system failed. Most egregiously the Federal Prosecutor in Florida, but the LA Sheriffs dept, Santa Fe Sheriff, Palm Beach PD, Columbus OH Sheriff, and the New York DA all had shots at Epstein and 'missed'. At any point after 2005 he could have been locked up for any number of violations of his parole, he never attended the mandated therapy, never gave notice of travel, never met the 90 day check-ins, nothing. And remember he pled guilty to a crime that doesn't exist. One cannot solicit prostitution from a minor, that's called "child sex trafficking", not solicitation.
Epstein lived as if he knew he was untouchable by the law because he was.

I think this goes far beyond rich white guy syndrome. My guess is that he was an asset of a covert organization, probably Mossad, possibly the Brits, and it connects all the way back to Robert Maxwell who we know was a Mossad agent and who was found dead after 'falling' from his 100 million dollar yacht in calm seas. Maxwell's daughter was Epstein's one time girl friend and life long fixer, she hasn't been seen in months.

Brexit can be summed up as follows:
Torrys: Would you like a filatio?
Brits: Yes, please
Torrys:OK, strip down stand in this barrel of coked up piranha.
Brits: Never mind.
Torrys: Oh no, you are getting this whether you want it or not.

traffic circles were (unexpectedly) safer than traffic lights

Roundabouts produce slightly more accidents but are 'safer' because they eliminate the most deadly type of accident, a head-to-head. A big meta data study also concluded the safest intersections are ones where there or no lights or signs; drivers are forced to slow down and pay attention.

Standardizing traffic lights worldwide seems like a no-brainier. Figuring out lights and markings in other countries is harder than keeping to the 'right' lane. In England yellows work like an F1 grid start and you get a yellow, sometimes followed by a blinking yellow before the green like they're daring you to set the launch control.

He even paid for the cooler and dry ice to get it there
They will do that for you. It's about 70 dollars to get a 3 gallon tub shipped from the factory.

Pretty sure you can find a Zaxbys in Texas, you wont be disappointed. I think Blue Bell comes from Texas so I know you can find it, I'd imagine you already know how good it is. Backyard Burger is more rare. I think they stretched themselves thin years ago and had to shut down a lot of locations.

Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken
Yup. If ever in the Southeast try Zaxbys, it's great. Blue Bell ice cream and Zakbys are the only reasons to ever visit south.

I'm in the minority on In-and-Out and Chick-fil-A. If freshly made Wendy's spicy chick is miles better, but the best fast food chick is Backyard Burger's blackend Hawaiian. Pretty much everyone makes a better burger than I-n-O.
"would you like grilled onions"--sure, "would you like and entire grilled onion and so much orange crap you'll need a change of clothes"?

My mom and aunt traded kids one summer. Mom sick and tired of two ignorant hardheaded boys, and my Aunt with similar feelings on two teenage girls. So me and my brother flew across the country to stay in Okeechobee, FL for 10 weeks. On the second day the Florida game wardens finally caught up to us. We had devised a heavy steel hook and wire and braided it onto a rope hung from a bridge baited with baloney/assorted meat. Certain we would catch one of these prehistoric monsters we had only seen on tv and no plan that I can remember of what to do once we did. Instead we snagged the ranger's airboat, brought it to a complete stop, and dropped him in the canal. He. Was. Hot. Wanted my aunt to send us back to California STAT.
She didn't cave, though, didn't even rat us out to mom. We were dumb kids and thought this made her cool. Only years later did I realize she just didn't want to hear my mom say "I told you so".

less than half the size of West Virginia
How many mechanized divisions of green Turkish soldiers do you think would be required to roust the West Virginians?
And these aren't barefoot hillbillies. It's several million of the most experienced guerilla fighters on the planet backed by American arms, probably the CIA, and ~25 million civilians that have lived with war for every day of their life.
We were never going to 'give' them a country. They are going to have to take it. And I'd give them better odds than Washington or Ho Chi Minh ever saw.

You gave out your friend's number to an amoral cargo cultist/secret-police informant/pathetic internet troll?
I hope I'm not ever your enemy.

Who else produced the thousands of T-34
They did of course. But only after "1/3 of their territory and 2/3 of its' industrial base was turned into a wasteland. They lost to the equivalent of this country everything East of Chicago".--JFK's famous American University speech

After the huge initial losses they underwent the largest human migration in history and rebuilt it all on the other side of the Urals.

Yeah, I think Turkey will overplay its' hand. Germany and the Nordic countries have been itching to cut them loose for years. If they are out of the EU that probably means out of NATO and Russia gets the Bosporus straits. So be it.
I should come clean an admit I'm a long time hater of Turkey. In 2005 a beer bottle full of Milanese piss narrowly missed my head and drenched me. It was flung from the upper deck of the Ataturk whilst we were being held in a cattle gate by Turkish 'security' busily shaking us down for our pocket change before admitting us to see the Champions League Final. The Reds won on penalties but I've never forgiven the Turks.
I hope the Kurds give them a thumping that makes Vietnam look like a sorority hazing that got out of hand.

about 10x the military
Well they aren't going to line up and try to recreate the battle of Kursk. It will be a guerilla war and the Kurds will play dirty with the EU looking over Turkey's shoulder.
It may not be a lot of land but is it rugged with poor roads, Kurds know it well, and they will always have lines of retreat the Turks can't cross.
There wont be a press release to confirm, but does anyone honestly think the CIA isn't already pursuing clandestine efforts? No way they are going to sit this one out.

US was ...in WWII but still won
The Soviet Union won WWII. And it did so after its industrial capacity was completely destroyed and they (like the Kurds) were facing total annihilation. We got a trophy too, but the Red Army did most of the heavy lifting and almost all of the dying.

Corinthian Leather
Turns out there is no such thing. It was a term made up by an ad agency Chrysler hired in the 70's.
A carnival trick used by men slightly more clever than their audience. Not completely unrelated to Paul getting all lathered up after an epileptic fit. They are all just selling soap.

Anywho, while the US may have been "protecting" the Kurds from the /s formidable /s Turkish Armed Forces, they also gave Kurd freedom fighters a reason to hold back on domestic freedom actions. That's over now and I for one wish them well in killing as many Turkish gestapo as they can.

It would be nice if we were able to assume American companies support free speech. No need for a press conference to announce the obvious. But here we are, chasing that extra 12% market share in China.
I've seen a lot of recent graffiti in Hong Kong quoting Jefferson, Madison, and Henry. If they are lucky they could become us one day only to grow greedy and jaded and forget where they came from.

Take parts of Syria, Iraqi Kurdistan and make it a nation.
hear hear

The Kurds are the largest nation of people without a state. 30 million or there about. They were holding those hills when Istanbul was Constantinople. If Erdogan wants to bury them he better dig two graves.

The real free riders in the system are the major sports leagues, most notably the NFL. For the low low price of zero dollars, the top athletes in the country are scouted, recruited, trained and delivered at their physical peak to the waiting arms of a billionaire that is protected by law and league rules from even paying market value for their service.

Athletes should be able to sigh a professional contract at 16. They get a little money at a time in their life where it might really help and while they are still living with their parents who can help guide them. That contract can be bought or traded to a college or a professional team/academy if the parties later want change. And when/if they are drafted the college/academy is paid by the drafting team. We need something closer to the model used in Europe to shift the cost of player development from the public education piggy bank to where it belongs: the pockets of Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft and the like.

In the Duluth case the NAACP got involved and put pressure on the school board. Ironic that an organization for "colored people" takes issue with someone else's language. Huck Finn got caught in their net, too. TKAMB is ...meh, whatever. But Mark Twain is America's greatest satirist. You can't call yourself educated having never read Twain.

I don't know if the school board is 'blue', even in MN. In my experience school board members in any given town are the worst sort of folks; nosey, pious, religious lunatics that moonlight as head of a Homeowners Association and have a degree in sociology or women's studies.

The ad is ok, not great. Botched the J-turn, they had to edit. Base model bucket car. The spot is begging for that 1000hp Exorcist package, the badge even fits.
Not sure "betrayed by my government" is the best line.
I like her but I wouldn't vote for her. Once ONI, always ONI. I'd like to see Ted Cruz get waterboarded as much as the next fella, but do we really want 'former' ------ running tradecraft in Congress?

The idea that China can't feed itself without the US is absurd. A large percentage of our agricultural exports to China are only bought so the shipping fleet doesn't sail back empty. They load up on animal feed like alfalfa and soy for the return leg. (Let's not try to make sense of why drought-stricken California grows hay for Chinese cows)
China has been on a spending spree for over a decade buying food producers all over the world. They recently acquired the largest dairy farm in Australia and Smithfield meat packing in Virginia. They've spent billions on the new silk road project with Russia more than eager to make deals on pork, poultry and grain. Virtually all of central Africa has become one giant Chinese debt trap.

But let's suppose this starve-them-out theory is somehow tethered to reality. And of course we'll need to momentarily ignore the obvious ethics of such a plan and what kind of 'person' backs such a plan.
So you get your wish and 10, 20, 30 million people are starving to death in a heathen Communist regime with nuclear weapons. What happens next? You think they'll just pack it up and agree to make cheaper washing machines?