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90-percent

90-percent's Journal
90-percent's Journal
October 18, 2025

Gore is a good man

The SC calling the election for GWB before the vote count was finished paved the way for the SC to make decades of rulings establishing a permanant republican majority, while gutting the voting rights act. I think they gutted it even further just in the last few days?

-90% Jimmy

October 8, 2025

How much is real

And how much is the invasive species that is A.I.?

-90% Jimmy

September 14, 2025

America needs a final solution for 2025

To curtail the torrent of mis and dis information and corporate/government propaganda.

Perhaps a fairness doctrine and a return to professional edward r. Murrow walter Cronkite style journalism.

All our institutions are corrupt. How is our democracy to survive if there are no more truth and facts?

-90% jimmy



September 14, 2025

Sixties front engine fuel dragsters

Had lead or steel bars taped to the front axle to prevent wheelstands Garlits broke 200 moh in 1964. So it waa called two hundred mile an hour tape. It was replaced with aluminum brackets bolted on because the tape was considered unsafe. I dont think they had a problem unless there was an accident. Which would possibly become a speeding projectile. Metal brackets were much safer. And dont get me started about clutch explosions when slipping clutches prevented smoking the tires the entire quarter mile. Slipping clutches transmitted more power to the track, but in the early stages of development they could explode and cut the car in half. This happened to jim nicoll when he narrowly lost to don prudhomme at the 1969 u.s. nationals right at the finish line. The front part of the car sped in front of prudhomme as he was decellerating with the aid of a parachute and the car , only from the engine forward, skidded in front of him. Prudhomme thought nicoll had died and nearly crying., said he was quitting. A few other drivers did die from clutch explosions, which also sent pieces into the grandstands injuring spectators.

And dont get me started about parachute failures, which still happens in the present.

Sorry, I like to write and my writing these days mostly ends up on internet message boards.

-90% jimmy
(90% is the maximum amount of nitromethane allowed by the rules.)

And dont get me started on hydrazine!

September 10, 2025

Allman Brothers

Covered this song before they were famous. I saw them twice at stony brook when duane was alive.

Allman version blows the doors off the GD version.

Saw the GD around 1983 in Hartford


-90% jimmy


August 29, 2025

Dumb all over

A suitable zappa song for this thread..


"........but if we're dumb, then god is dumb. And maybe a little ugly on the side".


Please youtube it for extra credit.


90% jimmy

August 7, 2025

The pall bearers

Should all be masked ICE agents with fully automatic weapons and hand grenades

-90% jimmy

July 22, 2025

Question

Who in America do you consider a worse criminal.?

Thanks for your attention in this matter

-90% jimmy

June 26, 2025

ICE denying health care to pregnant detainees

Thia article was on congresswoman jayapals facebook page . Its about a pregnant woman suffering a miscarraige while detained by ICE. SHe begged for medical care and didnt get any so the unborn child died. I have a college friend that polices my fb page and he tells me this sort of thing also happened with ICE detainees during the Obama administration. I know Obama deported a lot of people during his terms, but I cant fathom that Obama would deny a woman the healthcare needed for her babys healthy birth.

Asking my du buds for their expert knowledge is quicker and a lot more accurate than "doing my own research"

Do my du buds have any insight if Obama mistreated and denied care to any pregnant women during his administration?

Thanks, DU buddies,

-90% jimmy


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June 10, 2025

A poodle

Which the peasants in this area call "Frunobulax".

From the Frank Zapps song CHEEPNIS

-90% jimmy

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About 90-percent

Gee - my profile info didn't migrate from the old DU I guess? The main thing - 90% refers to the maximum allowable percentage of nitromethane fuel permitted in modern NHRA Top Fuel and Funny cars. Which is what makes current "nostalgia nitro" so cool - you can still "tip the can" and run straight nitro, if you want to. I'm an aging northeast liberal with an overdeveloped justice gland. OUR INSTITUTIONS ARE INFESTED WITH GREEDY AND CORRUPT SOCIOPATHS
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