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April 29, 2018

DU members from Detroit area.

Any insight on Ford's decision to exit car manufacturing (as I understand the company's announcement)? Ford will make a crossover, but that market is already saturated with established players that have been doing crossovers for years.

Ford will essentially become a truck and SUV manufacturing company, if I understand the announcement right. What are your thoughts? I guess that works if gas prices don't skyrocket and if Fordsucceeds in it's goal of making more hybrid trucks and totally electric trucks.

Any ideas on what Ford's announcement will do to auto industry employment around Detroit?

April 22, 2018

On Friday a 19 year old fired a shotgun in a high school near where I live.

One person was injured, not life threatening. The 19 year has a history of mental issues and bought the gun just after the Parkland shootings via a private sale, no checks of any sort. Fortunately, after the first shot, he stopped and surrendered to one of his former teachers.

Damned insane that someone like that can come near a gun. Fortunately he didn't have an assault weapon.

April 17, 2018

Look for a stunner out of Arizona on Tuesday.

I have read media reports on her positions and feel that she is a well spoken, organized candidate and is speaking directly to the people of her district.

I get a strong feeling that the democrat, Hiral Tipirneni is going to win the special election for the Az 8 House seat. She just has a sounder message than Lesko has.

April 14, 2018

I am a southerner, but.

I have always wondered why southern people like so much noise, i.e., loud vehicle mufflers, loud motor bikes, loud talk, ect. I grew up at the edge of a small city and the countryside, so eventhough I say that I was a country boy, I really wasn't. Is the noise a rural, small city thing? I don't see it in western or northern places, but I admit to only being in cities in those places.

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