The recent news has Harley-Davidson complaining about tariffs and the difficulties it causes for their profit. This is pure economic propaganda espoused by the company and the never-Trumpers.
Harley is losing market share and has declining profit because THEY REFUSE TO LOOK AT THE MARKET. It’s simple, does Cadillac still make the awesomely huge pimp-mobile El Dorado? Is Ford moving away from sedans? See how this goes? Look at your market and adjust to what sells. Harley makes an obnoxiously loud, heavy, expensive motorcycle that less and less people want. The Boomers are the last generation who will buy that bike at those numbers. I rode motorcycles for years and refused to own a Harley. Too heavy, too cumbersome, too expensive for what you get, and the owners tend toward being obnoxious look-at-me weekend warrior assholes who had to have loud pipes to draw attention to themselves and their shiny rattle. I would regularly put on 10k miles a year. That’s a lot for a motorcycle. The Harley riders rarely wave at anyone else other than other Harley riders. All other non-Harley motorcyclists wave to each other tho, as is custom. This myopic attitude is reflected in the management at Harley as well.
SO, does Harley adjust? Will they make a motorcycle to compete with the Japanese, English, and Germans? No, they won’t. They will take the arrogant way out and end up in bankruptcy because they can’t see that making an El Dorado will not sell in a market of fast and stylish CUV’s. I don’t think Harley is capable of seeing the market, partly because of an incredibly overblown ego and partly because, well…obnoxiousness, arrogance, and ignorance.
Don’t blame Trump, you chuckleheads…look in the mirror and look at your market.
Happy Birthday eaglesoars!
@ Bordm:
Woooohooooooo!!!!!!
heh…biden is going to announce at Teamster Temple in PGH, my old local union.
funny thing, no one was going to show up according to some friends of mine. so he will ship in AFSCME and UFCW and SEIU types.
he is gunning for PA, where unemployment just hit the lowest number ever recorded. he’ll get he ‘commie public union’ vote but lose the trades and teamsters. trump is very popular with the steel workers, iron workers, coal miners, crafts, electricians, heavy machine operators, rail road, teamsters, etc…yinz know. the real workers not the AFSCME/SEIU public sector shitbags
i went over to UPS to ship a package and the parking lot had a lot of ‘TRUMP/MAGA’ action there. (teamsters)
good luck joe.
@ Bordm:
@ coldwarrior:
Thanks!
coldwarrior wrote:
check this out
JOE BIDEN LAUNCHES PRESIDENTIAL BID WITH FUNDRAISER FILLED WITH CORPORATE LOBBYISTS AND GOP DONORS
https://theintercept.com/2019/04/25/joe-biden-presidential-bid-lobbyists-fundraiser/
eaglesoars wrote:
Happy Birthday.
@ eaglesoars:
happy birthday!
have a song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dV1myAW2Cs
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVyzhT_STwI
Eagle HappyBirthday!
@ eaglesoars:
Happy birthday!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/insane-video-mad-rush-in-bangladesh-as-tickets-to-avengers-endgame-go-on-sale/
@ Gateway Pundit
Tickets go on sale in Bangladesh for something called “Avengers Endgame”
You won’t believe this video. Imagine when “Star Wars the Colonoscopy” comes out.
@ eaglesoars:
Happy Birthday!
Thanks everybody!
So, look who Biden is hiring.
ANITA DUNN??!! Seriously?
And that freak Symone Sanders
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6961389/Biden-campaigns-hires-include-onetime-Harvey-Weinstein-adviser-former-Bernie-spokeswoman.html
We blew a circuit, the breaker won’t flip back into position, so we have – NO TV! And both business computers are out. But I’ve my own computers and the radio, so I’m fine. Hubby, however, is an absolute bear.
@ eaglesoars:
Try unplugging everything that’s connected to that circuit first and then try the breaker again
@ eaglesoars:
Many Happy Returns Eagles
Like a classic wine you only get better with age.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Tell hubby that he is a snowflake.
I changed ISP and phone providers. Alas I forgot that ALL of my systems are controlled through an i-Pad. It needs reprogramming so I’VE HAD ZIP FOR A WEEK already due to Easter and then the ANZAC Day holiday.
Been ‘beaching it’ where there is a stock standard TV and somehowI am still getting wireless support from my old ISP. They seem to have forgotten about the additional wireless MODEM for now.
🙂
oh goody.
Mike Pence’s chief of staff’s wife was working for – wait for it – Peter Stzrok.
The texts and sources reveal that Strzok had one significant contact within the White House – Vice President Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff Joshua Pitcock, whose wife was working as an analyst for Strzok on the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server. A senior White House official told this news site that Pitcock’s wife recused herself from the Clinton investigation as soon as Pence and Trump became the Republican nominees in July 2016. A senior law enforcement official also told SaraACarter.com that Pitcock’s wife no longer worked under Strzok after she recused herself from the Clinton investigation.
But she recused herself. uh huh. She was the ‘back channel’ Strzok used to brief Pence on Flynn. Jesus.
https://saraacarter.com/breaking-fbi-texts-show-agents-discussed-recruiting-white-house-sources-to-spy-for-bureau/
@ eaglesoars:
OK, you know when a breaker trips you have to then move it to the “off” position to reset it before it will turn on again.
Breakers trip for a reason.
Disconnect everything on that circuit except for a table lamp.
Then if you reset the breaker and the table lamp flashes briefly or not at all and the breaker trips again you may have a short in the house wiring.
Breakers are plug in. Try swapping it with a breaker from another circuit.
If the swapped in breaker trips you definitely have a house wiring short somewhere.
lobo91 wrote:
I thought of that. And I did try resetting every GFI I can find. But Hubby decided to go to bed early and in the mood he’s in, that’s a damn good birthday present, so I’m not going to try to fix anything. Also, I have no idea what’s plugged into what circuit. I’m fine w/o TV for a day or 2, I usually use it as my caller id so I don’t have to run to the phone, it’s on mute. And in a few minutes, Hubby is going to be on mute, too, which is even better.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Happy Anzac Day!
Ok, I have names. Pence’s chief of staff was Josh Pitcock, left in Aug 2017. His wife is one Katherine Seaman, I don’t know if she’s still FBI.
The way I’m reading this, Pitcock was a bit of an FBI mole during his tenure but that may be a bit too strong a word.
eaglesoars wrote:
what I’m seeing is that he was fired. but I’m not confirming that one yet.
@ lobo91:
oh, I’m pretty sure that the nano second they had the goods on this guy, everything was swept. the question is, when did they know. He left in Jul/Aug 2017, apparently NOT officially fired (that would have hit the news and generated a lot of questions), but we don’t know anything really other than the position his wife held. Those are dots, we’re not sure how they’re connected. He may have been pure as the driven snow.
Or he may have been an unwitting tool who woke up and resigned in guilt. We don’t know anything yet.
@ lobo91:
who IS that?? really bad wig, good work!
I gather that during his Hannity interview, Trump said he’s going to declassify EVERYTHING.
But I don’t think it’s that straightforward. The agencies have to sign off on the stuff,too, and they have, I believe, veto power.
I CANNOT figure out Rosenstein. Maybe he was running his own sting op, but, dammit, he signed those FISA docs and that’s just damning.
Anyway, here’s part of a speech he gave tonite. He doesn’t sound like a happy camper about the way things went down.
https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1121600409821417474
Bedtime. Some jokester is predicting a Biden/Romney ticket. The Moron and the Mormon.
nite.
Not sure what’s going on but according to my little news things that pop up on my phone browser it looks like the mayor of Baltimore may be only days from a perp walk. IRS and FBI both involved.
eaglesoars wrote:
Ta !
🙂
morning y’all
some funny to start your day
THE DAY COLLUSION DIED – Parody of American Pie |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqn3iI_h1vg&list=RDEqn3iI_h1vg&start_radio=1&t=17
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/24/kamala-harris-ex-dealers-first-profit-legal-weed/
@ Washington times.
Remember Marie Harf talking about Jobs for Jihadis? Now Kampala Harris wants a Criminal Set Aside in the legal drug trade.
@ RIX:
Your spell checker is most ironic.
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/nyc-bans-processed-meats-to-improve-the-climate/
No NYC coney’s, no pastrami, morons.
You get exactly what you deserve, NYC.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/26/gdp-q1-2019-first-read.html
3.2% … topping expectations. Fascinating how that keeps happening
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah, who is Kampala?
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The U.S. economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the first quarter and posted its best growth to start a year in six years.
First-quarter GDP expanded by 3.2% in the first quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said in its initial read of the economy for that period. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected the U.S. economy increased by 2.5% in the first quarter. It was the first time since 2013 that first-quarter GDP topped 3%.
“The upside beat was helped by net trade (exports jumped while imports contracted sharply) and inventories which combined contributed almost 170 bps of the rise,” wrote Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakley Advisory Group. “Personal spending though, the biggest component was up just 1.2%, two tenths more than expected as an increase in spending on services and nondurable goods offset a decline in spending on durable goods.”
@ RIX:
Kampala is the capital of Uganda.
coldwarrior wrote:
Here’s what I can’t figure out about this: Where’s the bribe? deBlasio does nothing w/o a quid pro quo and I have no idea where it’s coming from on this one.
RIX wrote:
Actually, she stole that idea from AOC. Remember when AOC was talking about legalization and she said licenses should first go to minorities because they had suffered the most from weed being illegal? Unfortunately, Colorado is a lot whiter than the Bronx, so she’d probably have to import some people from the cartels or something.
Oh. wait.
In a letter to AG William Barr, Sen. Grassley seems to suggest that Obama’s FBI spied on the Trump transition using the spouse of Pence’s chief of staff to insert FBI moles into the Trump transition team and disguising sting ops on Trump’s team as formal FBI briefings for them.
excerpts of the letter at link.
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1121774869144850433
Our electrical issue is fixed. It was the NEW light bulb. The base was corroded and there was a little metal piece that was causing a short.
This is how wars get started. Stupid crap that nobody thinks of.
@ eaglesoars:
Sadly, Obama will never have to answer for this.
@ eaglesoars:
Good thing it didn’t cause a fire.
coldwarrior wrote:
Maybe not legally. Politically, historically, tho – he most definitely will. His ‘legacy’ isn’t going to be anything like what he was shooting for.
But legally – I want Hillary.
As for a fire – I had a ‘just in case’ frame of mind and kept that lamp unplugged. I’ve had my fill of house fires.
Because nobody wants to be around the Democratic Party the day after losing to Trump twice. Nobody’s gonna be forgiven for that.
Chris Matthews is worried about the crazy? Does he realize where he works? Does he have a mirror?
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2019/04/26/worried-matthews-warns-dems-sober-fears-another-mcgovern
eaglesoars wrote:
This seems to be borderline sedition.
@ AZfederalist:
oh, be fair. These are the folks who hate borders.
This is gonna be fun!
BREAKING: New US District Court filing shows defense lawyers in Russian trolling case have demanded judge hold Mueller in criminal contempt for making allegations against IRA/Concord in his final report that were not made in the indictment, including that it was a Russian govt op
https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1121815341489893378
This is an in-depth discussion of what’s behind the new reporting procedures for UFOs the Navy is developing.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27666/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-ufos-and-department-of-defense
Included in the discussion is the Tic-Tac incident of 2004, lasting SEVERAL DAYS. Which I knew nothing about, a disgrace if I say so myself.
When it comes to the so-called “Tic Tac” incident that involved the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group off the Baja Peninsula in 2004, conclusions that are nearly impossible not to draw from it are so reality warping that even the forward-thinking aerospace community doesn’t seem to have even begun coming to terms with them.
The main revelation is that technology exists that is capable of performing flying maneuvers that shatter our perceptions of propulsion, flight controls, material science, and even physics. Let me underline this again for you, the Nimitz encounter with the Tic Tac proved that exotic technology that is widely thought of as the domain of science fiction actually exists. It is real. It isn’t the result of altered perception, someone’s lucid dream, a stray weather balloon, or swamp gas. Someone or something has crossed the technological Rubicon and has obtained what some would call the Holy Grail of aerospace engineering.
There are videos. I’m off to watch them.
eaglesoars wrote:
i need to watch these.
thx!
@ coldwarrior:
let me know what you think
Josh Pitcock, Pence’s former chief of staff, and his wife, former Strzok colleague, have issued a statement. I can’t copy, but it says they have no idea what this is about, they didn’t spy on anyone, no one used them. You can read it here
https://twitter.com/45_Schedule/status/1121826545918726144
And Pence is apparently demanding an investigation because 2 ‘disgraced’ FBI people behaved like the scum they are
American electric codes are crap. I much prefer the British electrical codes.
Each appliance is protected by its own fuse in the plug.
A fault in an appliance blows the fuse in the plug,.
Lucas Electric….
http://mez.co.uk/lucas.html
🙂
@ coldwarrior:
Jaguar?
coldwarrior wrote:
That is cars. Fucking look up UK household wiring, 30 amp ring main, fuses in appliance plugs.
Also Lucas after 1996 is an American company.
Well, I don’t know about you, but I certainly feel MUCH better.
Bolsonaro Pledges to Reduce Brazil’s ‘Ridiculous’ Number of Penis Amputations
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/04/26/bolsonaro-pledges-to-reduce-brazils-ridiculous-number-of-penis-amputations/
@ eaglesoars:
just watched the first vid, the overview as it were…
DAYUM
I never thought I’d actually SEE this.
Earth. Venus. Jupiter.
Seen from Mars
https://twitter.com/PhysicsAndAstr1/status/1119330835306512384
Possum wrote:
Really doesn’t matter where the fuse is as long as the fuse or breaker trip when there is a short. You can just as easily get sparks and fire if the fuse is in the plug as if it were on the main.
@ rain of lead:
the vids are bad enough. Worse is – how did the Air Force get there? Those pilots weren’t even out of their flight gear
I’d like to think that maybe they’re ours. But then why would we piss away so much on stuff like F-35s that seems to have too many bells/whistles (from what I’ve read, I don’t know anything)
@ AZfederalist:
And there I rest my case. Sometimes a problem is not a “short” it is an overload.
A 15 amp breaker will not trip at a 16 amp load. Breakers are thermally activated.
I would bet money that a 15 amp breaker would take five or more minutes to trip at 30 amps.
Meanwhile, a lamp cord rated at 2 amps has been cooking all that time….
Possum wrote:
relax.
i was just making a joke.
Oh and before this starts to get into a stupid pissing contest. A lamp with a ten foot cord that is rated at 2 amps and there is a dead short at the bulb DOES NOT LOOK LIKE A DEAD SHORT!!!!!!
The 20 foot 2 amp cord (there and back) looks like a 1500W heater.
That is how houses catch fire….
@ coldwarrior:
I am relaxed, been out of work for two months.
Sorry I over reacted. In the UK the standard voltage that comes out of the wall is 240 volts. You do not mess with it. You respect it.
Trump took a victory lap today at the NRA:
eaglesoars wrote:
jag, mg, triumph, austin, land rover…
my father and i have sacrificed many hours at the altar of LUCAS, the Prince Of Darkness to make the electrics function in a proper manner.
dad ditched his v12 jag convertible for a BMW and i ditched my MG for a miata.
it was kinda like leaving a cult.
A military plant in Krasnoyarsk Russia is burning out of control
https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/1121771160159518722
They make ICBMs and cruise missles.
tsk.
Possum wrote:
true, that.
@ eaglesoars:
marvelous.
@ lobo91:
i heard he threw the pen that nixed the UN treaty on guns into the crowd, effin’ rock star!
@ coldwarrior:
Go to 31 minutes or so
HAPPY BIRTHDAY EAGLESOARS!!
We just got my computer to work again. Last year you discovered the Iditerod. I wonder what amazing things you will marvel at this birthday year to share with all of us. {{{eagle}}}
@ yenta-fada:
Um, yesterday was apparently your birthday. Happy UNbirthday. 🙂
https://twitter.com/StephanieKelton/status/1121070877335068706
Oh noes. Somebody just figured out the U.S. economy.
@ yenta-fada:
thank you sweetie!
coldwarrior wrote:
OMG [panting]
what color? was it that dark green? was it? WAS IT??
yenta-fada wrote:
Kelton is Bernie’s Senior Economic Advisor. Everything is FREE! This policy is working remarkably well for Bernie.
yenta-fada wrote:
If the Fed can just print more money, why am I paying taxes?
@ eaglesoars:
Very.
coldwarrior wrote:
heh.
@ eaglesoars:
Fed greed is infinite. They even get paid interest on every dollar printed. As long as the U.S. dollar is the global reserve currency, the scam continues. Should those fancy derivatives (bets) blow up, there will be a big fat mess. There always has to be a counterparty in those “bets”. If the counterparty is openly insolvent, the last musical chair disappears.
The Fed is like this wealthy young heiress I read about in an interview. The reporter asked her what she would do if she was on one of her constant shopping trips and she ran out of money. She said “I’d just go home and get some more.”
yenta-fada wrote:
I can’t be out of money, I still have checks
eaglesoars wrote:
lol. That’s the spirit.
Or we could be using crypto payments for international business to business trade. Money based on math is quietly being used all the time.
https://www.pymnts.com/news/b2b-payments/2019/pttep-ripple-scb-cross-border-transactions/
Ripple, believe it or not is a U.S. crypto that Ben Bernanke was/is involved in. Bitcoin has not gone away even though the price has tanked. Canada is developing a national crypto. It will be hard to beat the current name “loonie” for the one dollar coin.
eaglesoars wrote:
It was British Racing Green of course.
🙂
@ coldwarrior:
Had one of these back in the day; want this one but not at this price.
https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicledetails.xhtml?listingId=511182308
Aussie Infidel wrote:
ah, THAT’S it!
@ CynicalConservative:
It’s a cute car. I wouldn’t drive that in our insane traffic though.
It would be fun in a reasonable climate.
yenta-fada wrote:
Indeed
Hamas developing Bitcoin system for secure int’l funding, report says
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-developing-bitcoin-system-for-secure-intl-funding-report-says/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
@ yenta-fada:
Drove it as a commuter for a while. Now in the stix… country roads…
bedtime, nite.
coldwarrior wrote:
Had a British Sterling. Engine & Power train by Acura, coachwork by Austin Rover, electronics by Lucas, prince of darkness.
/never again
WaPo just CAN’T handle it.
U.S. economy feels like the 1990s, but with more inequality, less readiness for a downturn
got that? There MUST be a black lining in every silver Trump cloud
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-economy-feels-like-the-1990s-with-more-inequality-less-readiness-for-a-downturn/2019/04/26/d47c928c-6846-11e9-8985-4cf30147bdca_story.html?utm_term=.8d711aecf2cd
There’s one blurb in there about how the shutdown probably shaved off tenths of points but not one effing comma about how much higher it could have been if that bastard McCain had kept his promise to vote down Obamacare.
@ eaglesoars:
The McCain family is supporting Biden. And literally no one cares.
@ RIX:
I wonder what Cindy was doing in Ukraine a couple weeks ago. Charity work, probably.
The problem I see with cryptocurrency is that it frequently just disappears. There have been two situations recently when crypto founders have died and their blockchain key was missing. Poof, millions gone. It’s also highly vulnerable to emp, but then again all money is.
A political cartoon in the international print edition of the New York Times on Thursday included anti-Semitic tropes, depicting the prime minister of Israel as a guide dog with a Star of David collar leading the President of the United States, shown wearing a skullcap. The image was offensive, and it was an error of judgment of publish it. [ya think?] It was provided by The New York Times News Service and Syndicate, which has since deleted it.
https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1122143162506596354
I’m sure somebody has a cached copy somewhere and we’ll find out who the genius cartoonist is.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
and it’s hackable. Something about a ‘fork’ in the block chain. As for people not leaving their passwords in a retrievable form – that’s on them.
eaglesoars wrote:
Jerusalem Post
NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONALLY PRINTS ANTISEMITIC CARTOON OF TRUMP, NETANYAHU
https://www.jpost.com/International/New-York-Times-internationally-prints-antisemitic-cartoon-of-Trump-Netanyahu-588014
eaglesoars wrote:
People overlook what actually started the Trump/ McCain feud. McCain disparaged people attending a Tump rally as “wackobirds”. Here’s the kicker the rally was in Arizon, they were McCsin constituents.
Maybe Trump could have handled it better , but he was defending supporters.
@ RIX:
One thing that always struck me about McCain’s umbrage about Trump’s disparagement of his war hero status – seemed like the reaction of somebody who was maybe a little insecure about it?
Because of an editing error, an article last Saturday referred incorrectly to Jesus’ background. While he lived in an area that later came to be known as Palestine, Jesus was a Jew born in Bethlehem.
NYT correction. I am not making this up
https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1122214594292920320
we’ll see but…
BREAKING: Armed civilian reportedly prevented ‘bloodbath’ at Chabad Synagogue in Poway, California. Gunman was reportedly heavily armed and was wearing tactical gear.
https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1122240674965925888
This isn’t good:
North is reportedly out as president, as of today.
@ lobo91:
I don’t know much about Col North’s stances, but hasn’t LaPierre been part of the whole movement in the NRA that has been caving to leftist demands?
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Wayne’s been the day-to-day head of the organization for decades. The president is primarily a figurehead.
I’m not sure what to make of this situation. I’ll reserve judgment until more facts come out.
lobo91 wrote:
I believe there are accusations in both directions of financial irresponsibility. Not theft, per se (La Pierre spent over $200k on clothes??).
@ eaglesoars:
That’s what I was referring to. Right now, it seems to be a back-and-forth exchange of nasty letters.
@ lobo91:
wait. It’s too bad. I like them both.
eaglesoars wrote:
I do, too, and I’ve met both of them.
I had high hopes for North as president. He was much more hands-on than previous ones. Of course, that might have been the source of the friction between him and Wayne, too.