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Dec 1, 2024 | canesinsight.com | Templar Cane |Major Kong

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Dec 2, 2023 | dailykos.com | Mark Sumner |David Neiwert |Wee Mama |Major Kong

Caturday Pootie Diary: The Gift of the FreddiFreddie watched as his human lifted her mug to her face and inhaled the fragrant steam. “I love coffee,” she told him, talking a long sip. “I don't know why,” he said. “It doesn’t smell ... Flowergirl77Dec 2, 2023 at 6:45 pm GMT+0000167 comments263 recommendsCaturday Pootie Diary: 'tis the seasonFreddie and I were stretched out on the couch in front of the Christmas tree, now set up and decorated, the lights cheerfully blinking.
Musing about Motors

Mar 23, 2023 | dailykos.com | Major Kong

We just watched A Man Named Otto with Tom Hanks. Excellent movie, which I’m not really here to talk about, except for one of the subplots. (Spoilers Ahead)The character played by Tom Hanks is throughout his life a devoted Chevrolet owner. His friend and neighbor likes Fords, which severely strains their relationship over the years. In an early scene where Otto is a boy, his father shows him the car’s engine and says something like :“That’s a Chevrolet motor. That’s dependable.”Oh boy.
The Reformers

Mar 10, 2023 | dailykos.com | Major Kong

(Author’s note. I worked on this for several days only to have it completely dumped when I tried to save it. This has been rewritten largely from memory.)In the mid 1960s, with the country mired in the Vietnam War the Air Force determined that it would need a new fighter aircraft to counter the threat of newer Soviet aircraft. The aircraft that came out of the F-X project is the plane we know today as the F-15.
A Reunion

Feb 18, 2023 | dailykos.com | Major Kong

Tucson is a great place for bicycling, at least during the months where the temperature doesn’t approximate the surface of the sun. On a recent weekend layover I found myself in Tucson with a rented bicycle and time on my hands. This was apparently the one weekend a year it rains in Tucson. But hey, I pay for bike, I ride bike. Needless to say I got soaked. “Builds character” as my mother would have said. Fortunately I was back in Tucson two weeks later and the weather was more cooperative.