JWB Posted May 3 Posted May 3 I don't remember this being posted before............. Any attempt to bring back manufacturing will fail:
rmgill Posted May 3 Posted May 3 I was poking around in Virginia a few years ago and found a place that sells over landing gear. Blue Ridge Over-landing Gear. They are near bedford, which was on my way, so I added it to my route and called ahead to be sure they were open. It turns out that their location is in fact their factory AND their HQ and their mail order shipping point. Up in the mountains, employing about 15 local women sewing very nice gear. They had an office set aside for kids to romp in while their mothers worked. I spent a bit of money on a few bags. They make really nice stuff and its not chinesium. The folks there looked better off than if they were on welfare. https://www.blueridgeoverlandgear.com
Ivanhoe Posted May 3 Posted May 3 12 hours ago, JWB said: I don't remember this being posted before............. Any attempt to bring back manufacturing will fail: With modern manufacturing, do we really need more than 25% of the workforce on the production line? Reminds me of the old saw about Christianity. Manufacturing hasn't been tried and found wanting, it has been found hard and left untried. I suspect that some of those Studies majors with impending student loan payments will find factory work an appealing alternative to a lifetime of poverty.
glenn239 Posted May 3 Posted May 3 14 hours ago, JWB said: I don't remember this being posted before............. Any attempt to bring back manufacturing will fail: How do you figure that when 25% of Americans are interested in factory work while only 2% actually work in factories, that more manufacturing will not succeed?
JWB Posted May 3 Posted May 3 23 minutes ago, glenn239 said: How do you figure that when 25% of Americans are interested in factory work while only 2% actually work in factories, that more manufacturing will not succeed? That 25% don't want to work in factories even if they made a little more money.
Ol Paint Posted May 3 Posted May 3 (edited) 18 hours ago, JWB said: I don't remember this being posted before............. Any attempt to bring back manufacturing will fail: So, out of a working age population of 211 million, 2% or ~4.2 million work in factory jobs. 23% of the population, or 48.5 million, would take a manufacturing job as an improvement on their current situation. But you are reading that as a sign that any attempt to increase manufacturing will fail? Just because 73% don't see factory jobs as an improvement for themselves, doesn't mean they can't or don't know others in their lives that might benefit from availability of a semi-skilled or skilled labor job. *** Edit to add: The full text of the cited questions asked in the survey was: g) America would be better off if more Americans works in manufacturing than they do today 9) [IF NOT RETIRED/NOT EMPLOYED IN MANUFACTURING] I would be better off if I worked in a factory instead of my current field of work. The part left of in the X post seems relevant to understanding the responses. *** Doug Edited May 3 by Ol Paint Added section as noted.
Ivanhoe Posted May 15 Posted May 15 https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/michigan-man-arrested-and-charged-attempting-attack-military-base-behalf-isis Quote A Melvindale man – and former member of the Michigan Army National Guard – was arrested today after he attempted to carry out a plan to conduct a mass-shooting at a U.S. military base in Warren, Michigan, on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a foreign terrorist organization. Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said, 19, is charged in a criminal complaint with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and distributing information related to a destructive device. “This defendant is charged with planning a deadly attack on a U.S. military base here at home for ISIS,” said Sue J. Bai, head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “Thanks to the tireless efforts of law enforcement, we foiled the attack before lives were lost. We will not hesitate to bring the full force of the Department to find and prosecute those who seek to harm our men and women in the military and to protect all Americans.” Quote According to the complaint, Said informed two undercover law enforcement officers of a plan he had devised and formulated to conduct a mass-shooting at the U.S. Army’s Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command (TACOM) facility at the Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Michigan. In April 2025, the two undercover officers indicated they intended to carry out Said’s plan at the direction of ISIS. In response, Said provided material assistance to the attack plan, including providing armor-piercing ammunition and magazines for the attack, flying his drone over TACOM to conduct operational reconnaissance, training the undercover employees on firearms and the construction of Molotov cocktails for use during the attack, and planning numerous details of the attack including how to enter TACOM and which building to target. This guy sounds more competent than most of the "homegrown terrorists" the Feebies keep talking about.
Murph Posted May 15 Posted May 15 6 minutes ago, TrustMe said: What sort of sentence will he get? If it is one of the Hate America Biden/Obama/Clinton judges probably nothing. This is why Islam does not play well with others.
Stargrunt6 Posted May 16 Posted May 16 (edited) https://www.foxnews.com/sports/american-basketball-player-arrested-indonesia-could-face-death-penalty-cannabis-candy-report American basketball player faces death penalty in Indonesia. Edited May 17 by Stargrunt6
Ivanhoe Posted May 19 Posted May 19 https://nypost.com/2025/05/18/us-news/ivf-clinic-bomber-identified-as-guy-edward-bartkus/ Quote A 25-year-old self-described “pro-mortalist” has been identified as the attacker who detonated a car bomb outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs Saturday — killing himself and injuring four other people, according to sources. Guy Edward Bartkus, of Twentynine Palms, is believed to have detonated an explosive device in his car outside the American Reproductive Centers, which performs IVF treatments, egg collections and other procedures, law enforcement sources told The Post. Bartkus allegedly described his fanatical pro-death beliefs in written and recorded manifestos as being against bringing people into the world without their consent to spare them from future suffering, KCAL news reported. Just what the world needs, "pro-mortalists.” May be unrelated, but there may be a creepy connection between this guy's "bringing people into the world without their consent" meaning fetuses having the agency to consent, and the trans thing where the pro-trans crowd assert that children have the agency to consent to mutilation without parental involvement.
Mr King Posted May 19 Author Posted May 19 32 minutes ago, Ivanhoe said: https://nypost.com/2025/05/18/us-news/ivf-clinic-bomber-identified-as-guy-edward-bartkus/ Just what the world needs, "pro-mortalists.” May be unrelated, but there may be a creepy connection between this guy's "bringing people into the world without their consent" meaning fetuses having the agency to consent, and the trans thing where the pro-trans crowd assert that children have the agency to consent to mutilation without parental involvement. Could you imagine if this was in front of an abortion clinic instead?
Ivanhoe Posted May 19 Posted May 19 https://nypost.com/2025/05/19/us-news/palm-springs-ivf-clinic-bomber-burned-down-family-home-when-he-was-9-dad/ Quote The “pro-mortalist” maniac who detonated a car bomb outside a Palm Springs IVF clinic over the weekend had burned down his own family home when he was just 9 years old, his dad has revealed. Richard Bartkus told KTLA that his son, Guy Edward Bartkus, had a habit of playing with matches as a child — and later became obsessed with making smoke bombs. “After he had burned the house down, he started changing a little bit, he’d light fires,” the father said as he teared up. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-19/what-we-know-about-guy-edward-bartkus Quote A website that contained no name, but appeared connected to the bombing, laid out the case for “a war against pro-lifers” and said a fertilization clinic would be targeted. “Here you can download the recorded stream of my suicide & bombing of an IVF clinic,” the site began, but no such file existed. The author cites numerous fringe philosophies including Abolitionist veganism: The opposition to all animal use by humans. Negative utilitarianism: The idea that we should act to minimize suffering rather than maximize pleasure in the world. Pro-mortalism: The fringe philosophical position that it is best for sentient beings to die as soon as possible to prevent future suffering. Davis declined to confirm whether the manifesto was written by the suspect, saying that his team was “tracking a possible manifesto out there, and it’s part of our ongoing investigation.” In the manifesto, the author denounced those who bring human life into the world and declared an end goal of “sterilizing this planet of the disease of life.”
JWB Posted May 21 Posted May 21 Pardoned January 6 Rioter Arrested for Breaking and Entering in Virginia Zachary Alam joins a list of pardoned J6ers who've had subsequent brushes with the law. https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/05/19/zachary-alam-pardoned-january-6-rioter-in-virginia-arrested-for-breaking-and-entering/
urbanoid Posted May 30 Posted May 30 The are Stangs I like and those that I don't. This one belongs to the former. And sure, one could ask if mommy is only worth a V6, but since you can just LS swap...
Stuart Galbraith Posted May 30 Posted May 30 Could have got a Jaguar XJS and got a V8 for free. But I dunno, perhaps mommy is a bitch.
urbanoid Posted May 30 Posted May 30 (edited) Unamerican?! Guess they're probably costly as hell to service over there. Sure as hell murican cars are here (source: I have two). Edited May 30 by urbanoid
Ol Paint Posted May 30 Posted May 30 (edited) 1 hour ago, Stuart Galbraith said: Could have got a Jaguar XJS and got a V8 for free. But I dunno, perhaps mommy is a bitch. US XJS were offered with 6 and 12 cylinders. Small-block Chevy swaps were fairly common in an attempt to make them mobile... 😁 V6 mustangs are good, inexpensive transportation. Parts and mechanics are common. Jags of that era? Not so much. Doug Edited May 30 by Ol Paint
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