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10 Short Videos #6215

10 Short Videos #6215

1. Wait for it 😂😂😂 - Kung fu cat
2. Land slide At Darma Valley way to panchachuli Base camp।
3. #ожиданиереальность #китайскиеавто - #expectationreality #chinesecars - self parking car
4. World history changed on this British patch of grass - William Wilberforce
5. Which Weapon System Has Best Empty Case Disposal?
6. Puppies at the Dog Maze Gate!
7. Her one act of kindness... a huge twist! - clip from movie “A Love Song” (2022)
8. Soviet Oversized "Juggernaut" Artillery
9. You won't believe the tire pressure of a 79,000 kg Aircraft
10. Everyone Laughed At His Tiny Rocket 🚀😳

Legends - Netflix Series

Legends | Official Trailer | Netflix
Netflix

Excellent. One the surface it's just another show about cops operating against drug dealers, but it's very good. I suppose it's because we become involved with the characters, and we've got a few.

1993 England. Heroin is making big inroads in the UK and Margret Thatcher needs some good news to show up in the press, so somebody (a whiz kid? fawning toady? grey man?) comes up with idea of tasking the Customs department with the job of stopping the flow of heroin coming into the country. So right up front we know this just a political stunt, and the guy assigned to the job knows it as well. All he is given is the ability to get a few customs agents reassigned to him, no extra money, no extra support. His plan is to send his agents into the drug dealing world undercover. He puts out a casting call for this operation and gets good response, but he only needs a few and he quickly whittles the mass down. Interesting the things he chose to test people on.

So now we've got dedicated agents of the crown operating undercover, working their way up the food chain in the heroin distribution network, believing drugs are bad, hoping their work in making a difference, and knowing deep down that this is just a political stunt and nothing will really change. The price of heroin will go up for a few weeks, and maybe a couple of people will quit, but in a couple of weeks, we'll all be back in business. I guess that's faith, and maybe that's what Sisyphus thought while he was pushing that rock up that hill. Really great show at any rate.

6 episodes

Quote of the Day

John Adams

"It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, "whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection," and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever." - John Adams

How bad is a $3,000 Cadillac Escalade?

I Bought a Cheap Cadillac Escalade at Auction and Found a GOLD MINE inside the Engine!
Samcrac

If you're lucky, persistent, mechanically savvy, physically flexible, and able to dextrously manipulate strange devices into awkward places blindly, not too bad. The worse part for me was replacing the oil pressure sensor. On the back of the engine, back by the firewall, completely invisible? No, just no. Dynamite the effing car, or pull the body off the frame, or take a chainsaw to the dashboard and cut a hole in the firewall. And just to show you that Samcrac is a better man than you or I will ever be, he pulls out out the new sensor and plugs in an analog gauge. Why not just run a scan tool? You've already in the land of demons, why not go all in?

I also wonder about pulling the cam to check the bearings. You already checked the crank and it's good, and it's certainly more important than the cam. He had to do a whole lot more work to get the cam out. Of course, it might be that he had to pull the intake manifold to change the oil pump. I mean, I wouldn't doubt it. And yes, he's planning on hot-rodding the motor, so he's going to be doing this all over again at least once. And that will probably be the end of this motor and this car.

Samcrac has appeared here before. A little Samcrac goes a long way. I got my fix, I'm happy.

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