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To my beautiful African American friends & supporters,

Last year I did something no presidential candidate has ever done. I went into your community, to Great Faith Ministries in Detroit -- one of God's greatest gifts to America -- to listen to your message, and to help, with my presence, your message reach new voices. It was an amazing day for me. The most amazing day of my life.

And many, many of you heard my message. I said to you: look at how much African American communities are suffering from Democratic control. What do you have to lose by trying something new, like Trump? You’re living in your poverty. Your neighborhoods, the inner cities, are war zones. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose? Remember that?

You heard me and you voted for me. In tremendous numbers. I beat Abraham Lincoln.

So now it just came out, African Americans are now enjoying their lowest unemployment since just after the end of the Civil War. That’s pretty good, right? Merry Christmas, everybody! In July, in the summer, I said, you know, we are going to say Merry Christmas. But let me just tell you, the department stores, right, they had the beautiful red walls, they had snowflakes all over the place, they had everything. Only one thing missing, the words "Merry Christmas." They are using those words again. Do you notice? They are using those words again. It's going to be a fantastic Christmas for my African Americans.

And yesterday it was my great honor to celebrate the opening of two extraordinary museums -- the Mississippi State History Museum & the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. More civil rights museums than any other president has ever opened. I beat Abraham Lincoln. Many people are saying I am the civil rights president. Watch my beautiful, beautiful speech. Obama gave big speeches, he never followed through. I'm the guy who follows through. I turned Mississippi into an oasis of freedom and justice. pic.twitter.com/5AkgVpV8aa

And to those of you in Alabama, of Alabama, or if you know someone from Alabama. Big week ahead for Alabama. Because Tuesday is a VERY SPECIAL election. And I want you to get out there and vote for Judge Roy Moore. And tell your folks in Alabama to go and vote for him. Because if we lose that seat in the Senate, if another Dem comes into the Senate, it will be a disaster for all of us. When our economy is failing badly, when crime is rampant, when our military is a joke, when our medical is in the toilet, vets in a very deplorable situation, our borders totally out of control, JUDGES behaving badly, 2nd Amendment badly compromised, schools terrible, it's bad for all of us. It hurts our country. So we need Judge Roy Moore. To Make America Great Again. And one day, right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

Black power, everybody! ✊Ἷ

Our thoughts and prayers are with Rupert Murdoch and everyone in the path of California’s wildfires. Like you, my family owns a beautiful winery; ours is in Central Virginia on the scenic Monticello Wine Trail, within easy access of Charlottesville. 🍇🍷 I encourage everyone to heed the advice and orders of local and state officials. Thank you to all First Responders -- even the many who are convicted criminals serving out their prison sentences -- for your incredible work! And THANK YOU to my very good friend Rupert Murdoch – there’s only one Rupert that we know. Rupert, you've done a lot, a lot to Make America Great Again. pic.twitter.com/g9y9PkB352 trumpwinery.com

CNN ran an article yesterday full of butthurt that Cheeto Jesus has been keeping too many of his campaign promises. I figured I'd share it with you lot so the regressive progtards among you could share in the butthurt too.

A politician who actually does what he told voters he would do seems almost unfathomable in Washington, a town of broken promises. For Donald Trump, being a president who delivers is especially crucial, since it's one of the golden keys to his so far unbreakable bond with supporters.

The need to live up to that image helps explain why Trump, who is under ever-increasing pressure from the Russia investigation, on Wednesday recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital despite the widely acknowledged risks.

It was just the latest instance of the President obstinately honoring the bumper-sticker vows he made to his ultra-loyal supporters -- even those that horrify the political and foreign policy establishment, media critics and allied leaders.

Have a nice weekend argument. I may or may not have time to step in and egg things on further, we'll just have to wait and see.

Forcible kisser Al Franken says he'll resign from our beautiful Senate! Just like inappropriate toucher John Conyers resigned from the House! Like I told them to. They're resigning, so we won't have to IMPEACH them. #MeToo

Folks, it's just one week until the Senate election in Alabama. We need every vote in the Senate. So we need every voter OF Alabama to be IN Alabama. If you're registered to vote in Alabama, save the date. And get to Alabama, if you're not there already. So you can vote for our Republican, @MooreSenate. We need Republican Roy Moore to win. For our party, for Alabama, for America🇺🇸. We need his vote on stopping crime, illegal immigration, Border Wall, Military, Pro Life, V.A., JUDGES, 2nd Amendment and more. No to Jones, a Pelosi/Schumer puppet, terrible on crime! Go get ’em, Roy! #MAGA #DrainTheSwamp

The "wisdom" I've learned, is that ethanol has 90% of the stored energy that gasoline has. That is, a gallon of pure ethanol contains 10% less energy than a gallon of gasoline.

Since most of our ethanol is blended, 10%eth/90%gas, then a gallon of fuel at the pump has 1% less efficiency.

Now, I've always kept track of my fuel mileage, since about 1976. Back then, I kept a notebook in the car - now I use fuelly.com to record all my purchases. Recently, I bought another vehicle - a 2002 Chevy Trailblazer. I started out putting ethanol free into it, because the previous owner told me that it gets better fuel mileage with ethanol free. I guess I put about six tanks of gas into it, before making purchases at random stations, whenever I needed fuel. (It is a minor inconvenience timing my fillup when I'll be close to the ethanol free stuff.)

Anyway, this vehicle is charted on fuelly.com as ranging from 10 to 33 mpg, with the bulk of them between 16 and 18 mpg. I was happy as could be to find that my ride was routinely getting about 21 mpg, and as high as 22 mpg. But then - ethanol. After a series of about 6 ethanol fillups, my mileage had dropped off to about 17 mpg. Hmmmmm . . . that's a much greater decrease than the advertised 1%!

A guy at work told me not to worry about it - the gas companies had switched to winter blend gasoline, and fuel mileage always dropped with that. I couldn't argue with him - yeah, it IS time for winter blend.

All the same, I went out of my way to fill with ethanol free. And, BANG!! I'm right back up to ~21 mpg again.

Something ain't right here. I'm sure there are some minor inaccuracies in my fillups. One time, I may squeeze the last drop into the tank possible, and maybe the next time a get a cup and a half less in the tank. That is almost certainly what happened with the one tank that shows 21.98 mpg - I just didn't get it filled exactly like always.

I'm wondering how much further my fuel mileage might have fallen, if I didn't switch BACK to ethanol free? And, where do all those lost miles per gallon go?

http://www.fuelly.com/car/chevrolet/trailblazer/2002/runaway1956/645719

DISGUSTING PERVERT Charlie Rose fired from CBS & PBS, PERVERT Matt Lauer fired from NBC. Now cancel Fake News Phil Griffin. And fire FAILING Joe Scarborough based on the “unsolved mystery” that took place in Florida years ago. Investigate! And we should boycott Fake News CNN. Dealing with them is a total waste of time!

Luis Gutiérrez resigned, going to Puerto Rico, good riddance! He won't be clogging and seriously downgrading Fifth Avenue outside Trump Tower any more. Why hasn't PERVERT John Conyers resigned? Resign or get impeached, John! #ImpeachHim #MeToo

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow 🤓

As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG. -- Donald J. Trump 🧠

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Growing up, check cashing policy was always one of the following. Cash it at your bank, cash it at the bank it was drawn on, or pay someone to cash it for you. This arrangement worked well enough for me for several decades.

Fast forward to my move a few years ago to TN. Now you'd expect that banks are banks and they're really not going to change all that much, yeah? Turns out banks in TN (at least some of them) will charge you to cash a check drawn on an account with them. You heard that right; they literally refuse to honor checks written by their account holders for the full amount.

Now me, I don't do the whole banking thing, so I can't go up and chew them a new ass as an account holder. I think I'm instead going to have The Roomie write me a check for twenty bucks and call the police when they refuse to honor it in full then take them to small claims court when the police ask me to leave. Repeating that once a week sound about right?