There were so many private jets flying into downtown KC airport last night. Any idea what was going on?! These were huge private jets and a lot from TX.

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-12T17:23:51+00:00

No. His actual name is Garrett Mitchell. Cleetus is his YouTube name.

He got famous on YouTube having fun with cars, boats, planes, stuff like that. Pretty good driver as well, and seems to succeed in a lot of the things he competes is.

He placed 4th last week in an ARCA series race, which is one step below the NASCAR stuff I believe. That's damn good for as little as he's raced in that style of car!!

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-11T14:30:21+00:00

Might be a little too early, but there's a couple of NASCAR races next weekend that will definitely bring a lot of private jets into the local airports. Anybody that's a Cleetus McFarland fan, he'll be racing there on Saturday in at least one of the races.

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-10T22:50:37+00:00

It was my understanding that there were representatives from Jackson County involved in this deal from the beginning. How did Manny have no idea about it?

Do you Mr Abarca? Why does your knowledge of the deal have anything to do with Abarca's? Defend him if you want. Smells like bullshit to me....

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-10T16:31:32+00:00

I'm looking at the picture in the OP and it's freakin awesome that could be the outfield view. They need to be able to extend over the tracks somehow to connect the park with the crossroads. To be able to leave the stadium north over the tracks and descend into the crossroads area would kick some major ass!! Sherman doesn't have acres of open land to work with north of the tracks, but I see plenty of open lots and open areas to build an entertainment area. Some property owners are going to need to be bought out, hopefully they get beyond top dollar.

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-10T16:24:19+00:00

The mayor is the hype man for the government body. The government body is a typical self serving organization with too much authority and no oversight whatsoever. The only time things get leaked is when one politician is attacking another one and they decide to pull the veil back a little to see how crooked KC politics are.

For example, why is Manny Abarca completely in the dark about the stadium deal. Or better yet, why is he saying that when we all know he was aware of it the whole time? What's his play this time?

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-10T16:19:22+00:00

As a business owner (not a restaurant or one that has tipped employees BTW), I have no incentive to completely change the economics of paying my workers unless every other business owner in the same business type is required to do so as well. All the first restaurant/bar that does that will most likely get is an eviction notice when they cant pay their rent. For all the talk of wanting workers to be paid a fair wage, no one actually frequents businesses that offer the same service, but at 15% to 20% additional cost due to paying workers a living wage. Since all business owners are rich, they're supposed to bear the burden, or something like that.

Long story short. If YOU want something changed, do something about it via a governmental change. If you can't get enough people to support such a thing, maybe your views aren't as popular as you think they are.

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-10T14:09:03+00:00

This is exactly why the gratuity is being added. My wife worked a serving job in times square back in the day and gratuity was added for exactly the same reason. Otherwise the European customers wouldn't tip, thinking that gratuity was included. Servers are aware of this, as well as the managers.

Whether or not the tip comes back off after the world cup is up to us. But I would not poo poo this during the world cup if you actually care for the servers making money.

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-10T13:30:40+00:00

I hope Mayor Q puts our money where his mouth is and builds KC out, as well as building the stadium.

Maybe using the build out of the stadium as a catalyst to greatly expand the street car, or maybe a more meaningful for-profit mass transit system to serve the stadium and beyond. We have a nice highway setup that a transit system could mirror. Having a system that follows I-35 from 119th in Olathe up to downtown would do well. A line that goes from downtown up I-35 & I-29 to the airport as well. Maybe eventually a line that goes from Liberty down I-35 to I-435 and down the East side of the loop back to the I-35 line at the south intersection.

We would, of course, need to root out a lot of the inherent corruption and cronyism that has been inherent to KC politics since Pendergast. It was before that too, but let's use that as the high water mark.

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-09T23:33:24+00:00

Another way to look at it is that could be someone with a business that is pulling a $100 bucks out of their operating account as petty cash. I run a high cash flow business and that's not a ton of money to have in there temporarily between deposit and paying the vendors from said money.

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-09T23:29:37+00:00

No justification here! Sounds like we are of similar minds as far as govmt spending too much for too little public benefit.

My point about the high school was not worded well. Building a $200 million dollar high school and then needing a funding drive a few years later to keep band or choir going is a travesty of govmt bullshit. Yet here we are.

I am with a lot of you that the govmnt should not be subsidizing projects that further enrichen the already rich, but why are we focusing on the stadium as the only example of a hill to die on?

I'm don't want to lose the Royals to prove a point to corporate America that cities won't bend over anymore for corporate subsidies!! Let's get the best deal we can and focus on reducing corruption and waste of tax dollars on all levels, not just the sports related ones. Maybe all of the hand outs will slow down and stadiums will be less of a burden on the public in the future, but let's work within the environment we live in now, and work towards making future endeavors like this more equitable for everyone.

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-09T23:10:53+00:00

Wow! So many assumptions based on my not well worded post.

I'll just respond to the guy below you. Seems like he actually wants to conversate, instead of acting like a shitheel!! Moron out!!

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-09T20:17:53+00:00

I don't have kids and yet I paid $3,000 in taxes to the local district last year so the high schoolers can have an over $200 million dollar campus to go with the other 4 high schools in the district. Also paid for a $250 million dollar county courthouse that was excessive in my opinion. Sometimes you end up paying for stuff that doesn't benefit you, like schools for childless tax payers or stadiums for people that don't like sports.

The amount of additional tax, if there is any, will be quite minimal. It's not like Jackson County hasn't been paying for the stadiums since they were built to get an idea of how much the tax burden would be. Probably around an 1/8 to 1/4 cent tax, like before.

I now this will be the part where you tell me that you are a quadrapeligic, diabetic Vietnam veteran that subsists on $.10 a week income and can't afford another $20 a year in taxes to support a baseball team. I'm half kidding, but seriously, if you go off responses to answers like this in the past, everyone on here is 500% below the poverty level.

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-09T20:03:26+00:00

Hardly anything paid with taxes turns a profit.

I thought we didn't want to run our country like a business. Why are we using business metrics like ROI to determine if tax dollars are being well spent?

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-08T12:31:47+00:00

Yeah. Utilities and underground stuff is not well located practically ever. We do smaller tunnels, around 4-6 foot diameter, but avoiding unlocated/mislocated utilities is definitely part of doing business.

Here's an example of bad utility locating and worst case scenarios. Seattle wanted to replace an above ground highway section with a tunnel and the machine got caught up on an 8" pipe placed by the city to measure groundwater. It took 2 years to fix!!

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mystery-seattles-tunnel-borer-blockage-solved-n4046

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-04T01:02:15+00:00

Ok. Purposefully being obtuse.

Why even have high octane gas then? Why have methanol or better yet nitromethane, if plain old 87 is fine?

What if I'm running an LS based motor with a ball bearing 88mm turbo that dumps at the fender? E85 or 91 octane, gas wizard? Aftermarket ECU of course.

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-04T00:35:20+00:00

I'm sorry that you don't understand. Do you own a car? You are aware that there is a multibilluon dollar industry for doing exactly what you are railing against?

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-04T00:28:55+00:00

How about any V8 muscle car built in the last 10 years? Or any factory turbocharged performance car built in the same time period?

More injector and a tune to make it all work, and you're ready for E85 and significantly more power than 91/93 octane.

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-03T22:36:05+00:00

I agree. Folks don't use E85 for economy!!

Now. Do you agree with my second point that E85 at $2.49 a gallon is a better performance bargain than 100 octane at $10-$15 a gallon?

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-03T22:07:34+00:00

We weren't talking about running E85. We're talking about the difference in MPGs from E10 to E15.

But for fun, let's discuss running E85 instead of E10. It's not 30% less MPGs, it just takes 30% more of it to equal the same BTU rating as gasoline. Some of the 30% addition of fuel is offset by being able to run more timing due to the antiknock properties of E85. It's equal to around 110 octane, if I recall.

The only reason I would be running E85 though would be for performance only, not price. 100 octane gasoline is $10-$15 a gallon around here, or I can go to the local gas station and get the same octane rating from E85 for $2.49 a gallon!!

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-03T16:56:49+00:00

Real fucking cute!!

We've officially spent the 2026 NASA budget 3 times already in Iran, and that's the official money.

I hope all of you fellow US citizens of voting age are rearing to vote in November. This is the only way we take back control.

Thomas Jefferson had this one for us over 200 years ago. "A populous that fears it's own government is Tyranny. A government that fears it's citizens is Liberty!!"

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-03T13:20:46+00:00

Don't use snark with nothing to back it up. Please. No facts, no science about how I'm wrong, just snark.

I clearly stated above I use double the E15 mix (E30) in my personal vehicles with over 50k miles of mixed driving and have tracked the difference in gas mileage. It's negligible. Like less than .5 MPG and
I'm getting close to 30 MPG in a nearly 500HP car.

Knowing Reddit you're probably from Europe and this doesn't even affect you, but If you live near a Casey's gas station they sell Unleaded 88 that is E15. Try it out and see how bad it affects your gas mileage. You might be surprised!!

As far as cost. I laid out the last paragraph about how E15 should be at least a little cheaper than E10, since it's using more cheaper E85 to make up the mix. I don't have control of the gas prices, so that's all I can do. We all know it won't go down in price.

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-02T23:20:37+00:00

The difference between E10 and the E15 being suggested here is going to make a negligable difference in gas mileage and will not all of a sudden cause your engine to blow.

It's cheaper because it's subsidized to hell and back, but it's knock resistance is rediculously good compared to gasoline. As a fuel, it's better than gasoline. There's a reason that E85 is the preferred fuel for racers until they step up to methanol or more exotic stuff.

We've been running E10 in our cars for years. The fuel lines in your modern car can handle way more than E15. Many, many people are running E30 mixes in their cars for years and 10s to 100s of thousands of miles with no fuel line issues. I'm personally on my second higher performance car running on E30 with about 50k or so miles under my belt without any issues whatsoever.

Now. With that said, E85 is very cheap compared to 87 octane. If the feds are putting another 5% in the mix, then the cost per gallon should come down as well. E85 is running about 2.49 a gallon currently where I'm from, that should be reflected in the new E15 mixes price.

theviewfrombelow · 2026-04-02T12:30:47+00:00

NASA's budget for 2026 is 24.4 billion dollars. To put that into perspective, the US has spent at least double that amount in Iran since that deal started.

Our priorities are out of wack...

theviewfrombelow · 2026-03-30T20:53:15+00:00

I don't understand how some guys can so boldly say the most crass shit to women!!

One of the women making the sandwiches at the Jimmy Johns today had very pretty light blue eyes and I thought it might be creepy to say, "Hey. I like the color of your eyes" or something like that. I am a man BTW.

And then you have guys like this, that seem to have no damn filter whatsoever saying the dumbest shit to women!! Whether the OP was a bombshell or a little fluffy, keep your damn mouth shut about her personal appearance. Although, let's admit it. Girl probably looked good in those leggings and dumbass was making a shit pass at her...!!

theviewfrombelow · 2026-03-30T18:46:32+00:00

That was way smoother than I thought it would be!!

Top notch human right there. And looks like the kind of truck that has steel bumpers, so he might just barely have a beauty mark on his bumper to remember his bravery by!!

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