#lt kershaw

[dailystargatebooty]

#Stargate SG-1 #SG-1 #Stargate #Jack O'Neill #Sam Carter #Daniel Jackson #Teal'c #the sentinel #lt kershaw #colonel greaves

[spockvarietyhour]

Christina Cox, previously on SG-1 as T'akaya and Lt. Kershaw, returns as Major Anne Teldy.

#Stargate Atlantis #SGA #Whispers #Whispers (episode) #Christina Cox #Major Anne Teldy #Anne Teldy #it's not a stargate rewatch rewatch

[gatecast]

Stargate Birthdays - July 31st

Christina Cox - Major Anne Teldy (SGA) & Lt Kershaw and T'akaya (SG1) Michael Eklund - Gerard A. Tobin (SG1) Rudolf Martin - Anateo (SG1) Dillon Moen - Charlie O'Neill (SG1) Doug Wert - Major Hadden (SG1) Ken Cuperus - Story Editor & Writer (SG1 & SGA) + Consulting Andrew Wheeler - Major Stan Kovacek (SG1)

In Memory Of:

Mark Hoeppner (July 31st 1957 - May 31st 2016) - Bartender (SGA) & Bar Fly + Villager (SG1)

#stargate #birthdays

[petnews2day]

30 Dead Dogs and Cats Found in Home of Animal Rescue CEO

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30 Dead Dogs and Cats Found in Home of Animal Rescue CEO

30 dead dogs and cats were found inside the home of the CEO of a non-profit animal rescue organization in South Carolina.

Source: News 19 WLTX/Youtube

Caroline Dawn Pennington, the director and CEO of GROWL animal rescue, was taken into custody and is facing 30 counts of ill-treatment of animals.

Deputies for the Richland County Sheriff’s Department responded to a report of a smell of death coming from Pennington’s home. Investigators found the remains of 30 decomposing animals in her home, 28 cats and two dogs.

The animals were all found in different states of decomposition, and many of them were dead in their own waste. They were in crates and cages, and officials reported that it looked as if the animals had died from dehydration and starvation. Many of the animals appeared as if they had been dead for several months.

“The home was in disrepair from general neglect,” Lt. Joe Clarke told WLTX. “The surfaces of the floor and the cabinets were covered in fecal matter, there were areas you could tell these animals had urinated. It smelled bad, it’s summer, it’s humid. As we were walking through the home, we kept finding dead animals in carriers… Some were unidentifiable as dogs or cats.”

Leon Lott with the Richland County Sheriff’s Department told USA Today that it was one of the worst animal cruelty cases that they had ever seen.

“This is someone who was entrusted by the community to care for these animals and find them homes,” Lott said. “She betrayed that trust and she betrayed the trust of these innocent animals who relied on her.”

In addition to her role at GROWL, Pennington was also employed at the Kershaw County Humane Society. The shelter confirmed that Pennington no longer works there in a Facebook post saying,

“We were unaware of the former employee’s actions and are truly shocked and heartbroken. Our dedicated staff will continue with our mission to serve the lost and homeless pets of Kershaw County.”

Anyone who has made documented donations to GROWL in the last 12 months is asked to contact the sheriff’s department. This is an incredibly sad case, and those animals deserved better.

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I own a few knives. Our family had a business for 6 years selling knives with a focus on US Made items and handcrafted brands. These are either purchased out of our old stock, or were otherwise collected by me/given to me as gifts.

#kershaw knives #kershaw #freeman outdoor gear #gerber #knife #knives #hatchet #outdoors #camping #bushcraft #blind horse knives #lt wright #pocket knife #swiss army knife #knife collection

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Stargate SG1  -  The Sentinel

Lt. Kershaw

#stargate sg-1 #sg1 #lieutenant kershaw #catherine cox #women of stargate #stargate spam

[theculturedmarxist]

     By    Bill Van Auken    

       5 December 2018  

As George W. Bush delivers his eulogy today at the official “national day of mourning” ceremony in Washington for his father, George H. W. Bush—the culmination of five days of non-stop panegyrics and lies about the deceased war criminal and anti-working class reactionary—it is fitting that we repost a commentary published in 2003 dealing with one critical aspect of the actual record of the Bush family.

This article exposes the fact—well known to the corporate media and the politicians of both parties—that a substantial portion of the Bush family fortune was derived from the extensive business relations over many years between the Nazis and the family patriarch, Prescott Bush, George Bush Senior’s father and “Junior’s” grandfather. The lucrative financial dealings of the banker-turned US senator with Hitler’s fascist party and its corporate sponsors in Germany continued into the war years. Thus, the family millions that gave George H. W. Bush and his children a life of privilege and boosted their political careers are bound up with the mass murder and torture of the millions of victims of the Holocaust and the German imperialist rape of Europe.

**

A presidential visit to Auschwitz

The Holocaust and the Bush family fortune

By Bill Van Auken

5 June 2003

“History is a reminder of what’s possible.” These were the words spoken by President George W. Bush as he emerged from a guided tour of the gas chambers at Auschwitz. The former Nazi death camp in Poland was one of the first stops on his seven-day tour of Europe and the Middle East.

What precisely the US president meant by this banal comment is not clear. However, given Bush’s political record—assembly-line executions in Texas, Guantanamo’s Camp X-Ray, the indefinite imprisonment of US citizens without charges, two preemptive wars—it could be open to the most sinister of interpretations.

There is no doubt that the visit to Auschwitz was choreographed to serve immediate policy objectives: invoking the horrors of Hitler’s concentration camps to further an agenda of militarism and domestic repression. Perhaps no greater disservice could be done to the memory of the six million Jews and the millions of others who were murdered by the Nazis.

In a speech delivered in Krakow that same day, Bush declared that the concentration camps “remind us that evil is real and must be called by name and must be opposed.” He continued: “Having seen the works of evil firsthand on this continent, we must never lose the courage to oppose it everywhere.”

The cause of the Holocaust, Bush suggested, was “evil.” For the US president, the word “evil” serves to cover up a multitude of sins. He has used it repeatedly to describe the Islamic fundamentalist group that carried out the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. On numerous occasions he has referred to the leader of Al Qaeda as “the evil one.” This particular expression serves a very immediate political purpose, since it avoids naming Osama bin Laden and thereby calling to mind the longstanding business association between the Bushes and the wealthy bin Laden family of Saudi Arabia.

The existence of “evil” constitutes the only explanation given by the Bush administration for the emergence of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. Such a semi-mystical and religious presentation (which, of course, assumes that the United States government embodies “good”) has the advantage of precluding any consideration of politics or history. In particular, it obscures the role played by US foreign policy—Washington’s alliance with despotic oil-rich regimes such as the one in Saudi Arabia, US sponsorship of the Afghan Mujahadeen, the CIA’s covert war against secular nationalist and socialist groups in the Middle East, the unconditional support for Israel against the Palestinians—in creating the social and political conditions in which retrograde tendencies like Al Qaeda could grow.

The use of the word “evil” serves a similar function in the case of the Holocaust. This attempt to obscure the social, political and economic roots of the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930s and the horrific crimes that followed is not unique to Bush. The adoption of anti-communism as the core of the post-World War II US ideology made any analysis of the anti-socialist roots of fascism inconvenient. Rather, communism and fascism were equated as “totalitarian” and “evil.”

“Fascism is the continuation of capitalism, an attempt to perpetuate its existence by the most bestial and monstrous measures,” wrote Leon Trotsky on the eve of his assassination in 1940. “Capitalism obtained an opportunity to resort to fascism only because the proletariat did not accomplish the socialist revolution in time.”

This was not just the opinion of Trotsky. It was widely understood that the Nazis, like Mussolini’s fascist party, had been elevated to power with the backing of big business for the purpose of smashing the socialist workers’ movement and eradicating the threat of revolution. The “final solution” that Hitler’s regime developed against the Jews was bound up with this essential mission.

In his authoritative biography of Hitler, Ian Kershaw, describing the path taken by the Third Reich to the “final solution,” noted that the war in the East—and ultimately the Holocaust itself—was portrayed in Nazi propaganda as a “crusade against Bolshevism.” Kershaw wrote:

“The more ideologically committed pro-Nazis would entirely swallow the interpretation of the war as a preventive one to avoid the destruction of western culture by the Bolshevik hordes. They fervently believed that Europe would never be liberated before ‘Jewish Bolshevism’ was utterly and completely rooted out. The path to the Holocaust, intertwined with the showdown with Bolshevism, was prefigured in such notions. The legacy of hatred towards Bolshevism, fully interlaced with anti-Semitism, was about to be revealed in its full ferocity.” (Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis, New York and London, 2001, p. 389).

In the immediate aftermath of the war, the US occupation authorities found themselves obliged to recognize the culpability of German big business in the crimes carried out by the Nazi regime. Gen. Telford Taylor, one of the principal prosecutors in the Nuremberg war crimes trials, pressed for the conviction of some of the top German industrialists. One of these was Friedrich Flick, the co-owner of the German Steel Trust with Fritz Thyssen. From 1932 on, he was one of the main financial contributors to the Nazis and the SS.

Taylor declared in his summation to the court: “We are dealing with men so bent on the attainment of power and wealth that all else took second place. I do not know whether or not Flick and his associates hated the Jews; it is quite possible that he never gave the matter much thought until it became a question of practical importance, and not their inner feelings and sentiments.”

He continued: “The defendants were men of wealth; many mines and factories were their private property. They will certainly tell you that they believed in the sanctity of private property, and perhaps they will say that they supported Hitler because German communism threatened that concept. But the factories of Rombach and Riga belonged to someone else.”

So, one might well add, did the oil wells of Iraq.

The description given by General Taylor of the German ruling elite could, with little alteration, be applied to the predatory layer of multi-millionaires that constitutes the principal base of the Bush administration.

General Taylor, it should be noted, found himself out of step with the subsequent anti-communist historical revisionism until his death in 1998. He was among the earliest figures to publicly confront Senator Joseph McCarthy’s witch-hunt. And he was a prominent opponent of the US war in Vietnam, arguing that the trial of Lt. William Calley for the massacre of some 500 women and children at My Lai should have been extended right up the US military chain of command.

Prescott Bush and the Nazis

In Bush’s case, covering up the historical origins of fascism in Germany serves a particular, indeed personal, function. While the president’s father had dealings with the bin Ladens, his grandfather made a considerable share of the family fortune through his dealings with Nazi Germany. Some have suggested that the Bushes’ assets have their ultimate source, in part, in the exploitation of slave labor at Auschwitz itself.

From the 1920s into the 1940s—after the Second World War had begun—Prescott Bush was a partner and executive in the Brown Brothers Harriman holding company on Wall Street and a director of one of its key financial components, the Union Banking Corporation (UBC).

Together with his father-in-law George Herbert Walker—the current president’s great grandfather—Prescott Bush controlled another asset of the holding company, the Hamburg-Amerika shipping line, which was utilized by the Nazi regime to transport its agents in and out of North America.

Another subsidiary of the Harriman group, Harriman International Co., struck a deal with Hitler’s regime in 1933 to coordinate German exports to the US market.

UBC, meanwhile, managed all of the banking operations outside of Germany for Fritz Thyssen, the German industrial magnate and author of the book I Paid Hitler, in which he acknowledged having financed the Nazi movement from 1923 until its rise to power.

In October 1942, 10 months after it had entered the Second World War, the US government seized UBC and several other companies in which the Harrimans and Prescott Bush had interests. In addition to Bush and Roland Harriman, three Nazi executives were named in the order issued by Washington to take over the bank.

An investigation carried out in 1945 revealed that the bank run by Prescott Bush was linked to the German Steel Trust run by Thyssen and Flick, one of the defendants at Nuremberg. This gigantic industrial firm produced fully half the steel and more than a third of the explosives, not to mention other strategic materials, used by the German military machine during the war years.

On October 28, 1942, the US government confiscated the assets of two firms that served as fronts for the Nazi regime—the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation, both controlled by UBC. A month later, it seized Nazi interests in the Silesian-American Corporation (SAC), directed by Prescott Bush and his father-in-law, George Walker.

The seizure order, issued under the Trading with the Enemy Act, described Silesian-American as a “US holding company with German and Polish subsidiaries” that controlled large and valuable coal and zinc mines in Silesia, Poland and Germany. It added that, since September 1939 (when Hitler unleashed the Second World War) these properties had been under the control of the Nazi regime, which had utilized them to further its war effort.

Among SAC’s assets was a steel plant in Poland in the same district as Auschwitz. The plant reportedly used the concentration camp’s inmates as slave labor.

Among those who have investigated the links between the Bushes and the Nazis is John Loftus, a former prosecutor in the Justice Department’s War Crimes Unit, who now heads the Florida Holocaust Museum in Saint Petersburg. Loftus has charged that the Bush family received $1.5 million from its interest in UBC, when the bank was finally liquidated in 1951. “That’s where the Bush family fortune came from: It came from the Third Reich,” Loftus said in a recent speech.

Loftus argues that this money—a substantial sum at that time—included direct profit from the slave labor of those who died at Auschwitz. In an interview with journalist Toby Rogers, the former prosecutor said: “It is bad enough that the Bush family helped raise the money for Thyssen to give Hitler his start in the 1920s, but giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war is treason. The Bush bank helped the Thyssens make the Nazi steel that killed Allied soldiers. As bad as financing the Nazi war machine may seem, aiding and abetting the Holocaust was worse. Thyssen’s coal mines used Jewish slaves as if they were disposable chemicals. There are six million skeletons in the Thyssen family closet, and a myriad of criminal and historical questions to be answered about the Bush family’s complicity.”

Prescott Bush was by no means unique, though his financial connections with the Third Reich were perhaps more intimate than most. Henry Ford was an avowed admirer of Hitler, and together GM and Ford played the predominant role in producing the military trucks that carried German troops across Europe. After the war, both auto companies demanded and received reparations for damage to their German plants caused by allied bombing.

Standard Oil and Chase Bank, both controlled by the Rockefellers, invested heavily in Nazi Germany, as did many of Wall Street’s leading brokerage houses. These business dealings continued after the war had begun, with Standard Oil shipping fuel to the Nazis through Switzerland as late as 1942 and collaborating with I.G. Farben, the firm that manufactured Zyklon B gas for the Nazi death chambers and operated a synthetic rubber plant using slave labor from Auschwitz.

In his book Trading with the Enemy: The Nazi American Money Plot, former New York Times reporter Charles Higham noted that the US government sought to cover up the role played by Prescott Bush and many other leading US financiers and industrialists in supporting Hitler.

He wrote that the government feared that any attempt to prosecute these figures would only provoke a “public scandal” and “would have drastically affected public morale, caused widespread strikes and perhaps provoked mutinies in the armed services.” Moreover, Higham wrote, the government believed “their trial and imprisonment would have made it impossible for the corporate boards to help the American war effort.” (Trading with the Enemy—The Nazi American Money Plot 1933-1949, New York, 1983, p. xvii).

The Roosevelt administration and powerful political figures in both parties did their best to smooth over Prescott Bush’s problems arising from his business dealings with the Nazis. He was installed as chairman of the National War Board, helping raise private funds for war-related charities. Shortly after receiving his $1.5 million payout from UBC, he ran successfully for the US Senate from Connecticut, a position he held until 1963.

A considerable section of the leading American capitalists sympathized with Nazism and shared its anti-Semitic outlook, even if not as vocally as Henry Ford. These sentiments continued to inform US policy after the war had begun, with the Roosevelt administration refusing to alter its immigration policies in the slightest to admit Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust, and the military rejecting requests that the rail lines to Auschwitz be bombed, on the grounds that they constituted a “non-military target.”

While Bush’s speech writers like to portray US policy in terms of moral absolutes—the struggle of good against evil—the record of complicity of the American ruling class, and the Bush family in particular, with Nazi Germany demonstrates that the only constant is the defense of the power and privilege of the ruling oligarchy by whatever means are required.

In the 1930s and 1940s this overriding consideration led George W. Bush’s grandfather to establish a profitable commercial relationship with the Nazis. In the 1980s, it underlay the alliance forged—in no small part by George W. Bush’s father, the senior President Bush—with the Islamic fundamentalists in the war against the Soviet-backed regime in Afghanistan. Today it is at the heart the younger Bush’s policies of militarism and colonialism abroad and repression and social attacks at home.

#bush family #george h w bush #capitalism #fascism #holocaust #jewish history #american history

[prolesmoneysex]

My impression of the police, " My god! Russell youve gone mad! You, Russell Kershaw, have a propensity to break the law! In my home!?!? In my face! Im going to kill you!" Ha! Cops cant move to kill me in their own home! Ha! "RUSSELL! This is my home not yours!" " I can kill you if I want! Let me! Please!"

#PMZ

[fart-gate]

SG1

Season 5 episode 20

"THE SENTINEL"

Notes by me

- PREVIOUSLY- The NID exists to piss me off and steal shit. They have been arrested by king hammond

- P2A018 Latona

- hey I know that actor !! Hes on a bunch of comedy shows!

- this guy is adorable "hello :) "

- as much of an ass this NID guy is hes a real good actor and hes made several points so far

- bringing bad guys along for ride aint a good idea

- "I dont care how smart carter is or how cocky you are" you tell em king

- "I feel better knowing theres an archeologist watching our backs"

".....Yeah which end do the bullets go in again"

- jack: if i dont threaten to shoot someone in every episode I will slowly decompose

- "they were on death row" OH SHIT

- grogan! I remember him from other eps

- why is the device under a pile of dirt and downed trees

- Lord Svarog is a stupid name

- ok i love grogan???? Like alot???

- when theyre trying to listen to the musical notes and Daniel starts whistling. Kershaw was about to stab

- firefight!

- jack has ZERO patience when trying explain things

- kershaw: do you know what youre even looking for

Daniel : *rambles in science*

Kershaw: ok damn

- will you let Daniel help??? He is smarter than u think

- I was wondering when they were gonna notice he said "the caretaker" like 30 minutes ago and they didnt even connect the dots

- he died???? Jesus this show is fucked up

- GROGAN AND JACK KNEELING WITH COLLARS AND CHAINS ON GOT ME FEELING LIKE SARAH HOCUS POCUS

- HOW did he make the machine work just by touching it. Hes been touching it for hours why didnt it blow up then too

- tealc: we should totally keep messing with this thing

Jack : NO

- well at least the planet is safe again

~

Jack oniell whump: shot by zat gun, kneeling, collared , chains, arms tied behind back, dirty , bloody, electrocuted with staff weapon

Lt Grogan whump: shot by zat gun, kneeling, collared, chains, dirty, bloody, arms tied behind back

#stargate season 5 #jack whump season 5 #bonus lt grogan whump #whump

[femsff]

Chapters: 15/15 Fandom: Stargate SG-1 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sam Carter/Jack O'Neill Characters: Sam Carter, Jack O'Neill, Bra'tac (SG-1), George Hammond, Daniel Jackson, Teal'c (SG-1), Lt. Kershaw, Jacob Carter Additional Tags: Alternate Reality, Drama, Adventure, Friendship Series: Part 2 of Survival Series Summary:

Bra’tac and Sam are on the run from the Goa’uld and have to find a way for Sam to get rid of Herit, before the baby is born. Meanwhile, Jack has to deal with the choices he made aboard Klorel’s ship and tries everything within in his power to find Sam.

#old fic #part 2 of 4 #Survival Series #fanfiction #stargate #Sam/Jack #nominated for 3 SJMA

[spockvarietyhour]

Here’s some familiar BC Casting/genre faces in The Chronicles of Riddick.

1. Christopher Heyerdalh. Todd the Wraith among other roles in SGA.  2. Lorena Gale, Priestess Elosha in BSG. 3. Terry Chen, Prax Meng on The Expanse, I never connected that Prax was the monk back in SG-1′s “Maternal Instinct” till just now 4. Peter Williams, good ole Apophis himself 5. Douglas Arthurs, Heru’ur on SG-1 (gets killed by Apohpis on SG-1, here they just die within seconds of each other in a three way fight).  6. Kim Hawthorne, Theo on Jeremiah, she was also in SG-1′s “Beneath the Surface” 7. Ty Olsson, Captain Kelly on BSG, Lafitte on SPN, Nyko on the 100 and more genre roles 8. Christina Cox, Lt. Kershaw on SG-1 in “The Sentinel”, Maj. Teldy on SGA’s “Whispers” more recently on Shadowhunters 9. Alexander Kalugin, the doomed Major Valarin/Marduk in SG-1′s The Tomb 10. Coming for a last minute roundup of BC faves for two whole lines it’s Roger Cross and his distinctive voice. Anyone remember First Wave? and just a lot of BC scifi shows like SG1, X Files, BSG, Continuum, Arrow, Outer Limits, etc etc etc

#The Chronicles of Riddick #Stargate SG1 #Christopher Heyerdahl #Terry Chen #Ty Olsson #Roger Cross #Lorena Gale #Peter Williams #Douglas Arthurs #Christina Cox #Alexander Kagulin #BC Casting #The Chronicles of Riddick Rewatch

[gatecast]

Stargate Birthdays - July 31st

Christina Cox - Major Anne Teldy (SGA) & Lt Kershaw and T'akaya (SG1)

Michael Eklund - Gerard A. Tobin (SG1)

Rudolf Martin - Anateo (SG1)

Dillon Moen - Charlie O'Neill (SG1)

Doug Wert - Major Hadden (SG1)

Ken Cuperus - Story Editor & Writer (SG1 & SGA) + Consulting

Andrew Wheeler - Major Stan Kovacek (SG1)

In Memory Of:

Mark Hoeppner (July 31st 1957 - May 31st 2016) - Bartender (SGA) & Bar Fly + Villager (SG1)

#Stargate #Birthdays

[smokymountainknifeworks]

Guys Talk Knives (Live) 75

Join us as we dig into a bunch of fun new knives. Seriously. There's lots of new stuff here. And make sure you pay attention to see if there's a giveaway. 

https://www.smkw.com/gtk/gtk-live-75

Something New 

CRKT Tuna

Item Number: CR2520 - $43.99

  Designed by Lucas Burnley. 3.25” 8Cr14MoV Drop Point Blade with a Stonewash Finish. 15” Thick. Ambidextrous Thumb Stud Opener. Framelock. Stainless Steel Back Handle and an OD Green G-10 Front Handle. Tip-up Pocket Clip. Anodized pivot collar and Integrated Lanyard Hole Spacer. 4.375” Closed. 7.625” Overall. Weight 3.7oz.

  Bargain of the Week 

  CRKT Sketch Framelock

Item Number: CR2550 - $39.99

  2.9" 8Cr14MoV K-tip Style Blade. .114" Thick. Thumb Hole Opener. 2Cr13 Handles. Framelock. Anodized Pivot Collar and Integrated Lanyard Hole Spacer. Low profile Tip-Up Pocket Clip. 3.94" Closed. 6.688" Overall. Carry Weight 3.7oz.

  Fixed Blade of the Week 

  LT Wright The Bandit Snakeskin

Item Number: LTBANFTSNS - $115.00

  SMKW Exclusive! 3" AEB-L Drop Point Blade. Satin Finish. .08" thick. Full Tang Construction. Snakeskin Micarta Handles. Brass Pins and Lanyard Tube with Paracord Lanyard. Genuine Brown Leather Sheath with Belt Loop. Made in the USA. 4" Handle. 7.3" Overall. 2.6oz. Four Styles Available. 

  Pocket Candy Modern 

  Kershaw Leek Glow Carbon Fiber Stonewash

Item Number: KS1660GLCF - $113.75

  3" CPM154-CM Modified Wharncliffe Blade with a Stonewash Finish. 1/8" Thick. SpeedSafe Assist thumb stud or flipper opener. Glow in the Dark Carbon Fiber Handle. Flipper. Linerlock. Reversible Pocket Clip. Safety Switch. Made in the USA. 4" Closed. 7" Overall. Available in Black Coated Blade. 

  Rough Ryder of the Week 

  Rough Rider Black Cherry Bone Cub Lockback

Item Number: RR1666 - $7.99

  440A Blade. Match strike pull. Reverse Frosted Etch. Smooth black cherry bone handle with black underliners. Nickel silver pins and Slant 'R bolsters. 1-5/8" spear point blade. Blade thicknesses: 1/16". Closed length: 3.5".

Check out this GTK episode!

#knife #knives #pocketknife #pocketknives

[itsworn]

New Factory Stock Cars are Running 8s! What are you Waiting For? Plus: Lots of Photos.

Remember when we showed you the 2008 Cobra Jet Mustang? Since that time, Chevrolet launched the COPO Camaro and Dodge created the Drag Pak Challenger, all in VIN-less white bodies loaded with racing hardware built for NHRA competition. So when former Ford Racing manager Jesse Kershaw started talking about bringing them together in a classic shootout, it was an epic forehead slappin’ moment for everyone involved.

A decade later, these cars have gone from 10-second quarter mile times to low 8s, thanks to the Coyote, HEMI, and LT series supercharged engines. Factory Stock is a year-long series attracting drivers like Leah Pritchett and teams like DSR.

The new cars aren’t cheap, but the old stuff is getting into the money window of regular card punchers who don’t own a helicopter or a multi-car Top Fuel racing team. Take a look at some final rounds of FS and scroll through NHRA photographer Ron Lewis’ collection of wheelies and burnouts to get inspired to build one yourself.

The post New Factory Stock Cars are Running 8s! What are you Waiting For? Plus: Lots of Photos. appeared first on Hot Rod Network.

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#IFTTT #Hot Rod Network

[happyrecaps-blog]

A New Day

23 October, Year of Blech

Was YOTP October really so long ago? Two years ago this time we delighted in anticipation. The Mets -- the Mets! -- were preparing to play in the World Series. 

It was more than that. They weren’t merely preparing to play in the World Series, it seemed actively likely^1 that the Mets would win their first World Series in my recollect-able life^2. Their rotation was firing on all cylinders. Their closer looked unbeatable. Their offense had just pounded the Cubs after beating perhaps the best 1-2 starting pitching rotation in all of baseball. 

From that -- this. 

“This” being the familiar din of dejectedness that fills the air. “This” the unsettled feeling of a season that began with dreams of a World Series but ended with a 70-92 record, a season that began with “is this the best rotation is baseball?” as a not-at-all-kidding kind of legitimate question but ended with the third worst ERA in all of MLB. 

“This” being the air-out-of-the-balloon that were the hopes of an A. Rosario and D. Smith^3-fueled renaissance that gave way to uncomfortable questions of the “wait, are these guys for real?” variety, and memories of the A. Escobar’s and F. Martinez’s of the world. 

“This” being the unmitigating sense of hopelessness not but two years removed from the Year of the Phoenix, which was meant to herald a dynastic playoff run but ended up being the start of no more than two straight years -- never three, never three -- with playoff baseball^4. 

“This” after being the 2015 equivalent of the 2017 Yankees, the young team that had gotten valuable experience that they’d no doubt leverage for Octobers to come, only to get to leverage in exactly one — losing — additional playoff game. 

From that — this. 

* * * * *

For basically the entire season, or at least since Noah went down 30 April, “this” has been a rueful sigh. 

Today though we hope once more for better. 

Today, “this” is a new beginning for a team not yet needing to truly turn the page. I said to my wife yesterday — the funny thing about the Mets is, if deGrom and Syndergaard can stay healthy, if they ever make it to October again, they’d be a really dangerous team. 

You’re seeing this postseason, as you do every October, how valuable the types of pitchers we have are. Look at what J. Verlander did to the Yankees, or how essential C. Kershaw is to the LAD. We have those horses, we’ve seen what they can do under baseball’s brightest lights. We just have to get them there.

To do so we bring on a new manager, one steeped in the art of pitching. Do I know much about Mickey Callaway? No. Am I super positive on him? Yes. 

I wanted new blood. I wanted an indication that the Mets were going to turn towards data and analytics on the field, not just in the FO. Because when you lose with data at least you can point to something and try to address it, whereas if you lose with your gut, well, you can try to change your gut but for baseball lifers that’s just not how they really operate. 

I wanted someone who made you believe that next season could be a new day, not just a fingers-crossed continuation of the putrid “this” we’ve come to know this year. 

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Managers are hired to be fired, so the old adage says. But before they’re let go, some of them etch their name in immortality — and if that sounds hyperbolic, tell me you don’t know the names of the managers who led the Mets to their first two World Series wins. 

Getting to a World Series is nice, but you’re only truly immortal if you win it. That’s just how it works. 

So next man up to try to punch his ticket to never-ending life is Mickey Callaway. Can he lead the Mets back to October? God I hope so. 

I hope so in part because the idea of another 15 years passing by before the Mets make the World Series again is horrifying. And I hope so as well, because, oh, speaking of never-ending life, these lives of ours do end in this Singularity-Is-Near-but-ok-not-quite-here-yet era we occupy. 

I hope to see the Mets win a World Series and watch a ticker tape parade with my Dad. And I hope to experience it while I’m still sort of young! Fifteen years from now I’ll be pushing 50. You shouldn’t have to wait that long to see your team win it all. 

And yet for us, for me, the wait, all 31 years of it, my entire recollect-able life, continues. I hope a new manager can offer that final deliverance, just once. 

So what’s that you say, Mickey Callaway? A dejected fanbase turns its forlorn eyes to you. 

- D.F.G.

Notes & Errata

^1 See, for reference, “Don’t wanna wait, Don’t wanna wait, Don’t wanna wait… No wait… No more…” as published 27 October, Year of the Phoenix

^2 No number of 1986 Mets Tape viewings can make the memories lived-in, and in that sense real, unfortunately. Strange though to reflect on how cherished the memories of that tape, and of the moments depicted therein, are. 

^3 If the guy has any intrinsic motivation or otherwise concern about his LT health or generally any sense about what being a successful athlete requires of you, you can more or less set your clock to the “best shape of my life” articles being written about young Dominic come Spring Training. 

^4 My mind’s not made up as to whether a Wild Card game alone qualifies as “making the playoffs,” but having been at Citi Field that crisp October night, I can say with certainty it sure felt like the playoffs in that moment. 

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