Politics

[Brent in Az]

But the current economy is doing great.

My grocery bill disagrees.....lol

 

[PARA45]

Mine as well, oh and my wallet too.

 

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[crossone]

When Trump was president, his life was publicly threatened weekly by liberals sometimes even by the talking heads on TV. The FBI didn't do anything about it. The FBI did manage to track down and arrest the woman who had Ashley Biden's diary. They also have pulled SWAT raids on people who were praying outside of abortion clinics. When Merrick Garland was asked, in front of congress, about what the FBI was doing about finding the people who vandalized the pro-life clinics, Merrick said that the FBI was basically helpless to find out who might have done it because they were vandalizing the places at night. You know, when its dark outside, and people can't see very well. When the libs went after the Supreme Court judges after they tossed out Roe vs Wade, the FBI, again, did absolutely nothing about it, despite the death threats and the illegal protesting outside of judges homes. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zero.

They have gone after disgruntled parents at school board meetings, put undercover agents in churches...

Their actions are more closely aligned with George Sonos and Claus Schwab than the US Constitution, the rule of law, or the American people.

 

[Tundra Tiger]

But.....orange man bad.

You do realize both can be true: things were financially better then/worse now, and Trump is an absolute douche.

Frankly, thanks to a healthy federal raise put forth by Biden, my wallet is fatter now... but you will never hear me say anything nice about him. He is using up oxygen that could be better used on someone else.

 

[fourfive8]

But.....orange man bad.

You do realize both can be true: things were financially better then/worse now, and Trump is an absolute douche.

Frankly, thanks to a healthy federal raise put forth by Biden, my wallet is fatter now... but you will never hear me say anything nice about him. He is using up oxygen that could be better used on someone else.

We'll see how many votes he can buy between now and the election. He's throwing money in every direction right now trying to do exactly that.

 

[LivingTheDream]

The only thing the President can do is replace the director. Rest of them are protected Federal employees and can only be dismissed with good cause. I don't think there are patronage jobs within the FBI.

Sort of but not entirely true, there a lot of political appointees throughout each agency. Also, though not fired there life could be made miserable, I have seen a lot of GS-15s wasting away, they can't be fired or demoted but they can be pigeon holed pretty good.

 

[VertigoBE]

If law enforcement shows up without a warrant. Don't ever step outside, or allow them in. They are not your friend.

Aren’t those the rules on how to protect yourself against a vampire?

 

[Saul]

No idea how legit this is but it seems to contain a lot of logic. Referring to the piece below that a friend sent me, unsigned by the author.
Personally our business has lost over 100 acres of prime corn growing ground to solar panels. So explain to me how taking crop land permanently out of production (A growing corn crop has been proven to have similar air quality enhancing ability as the Rain Forest.) And just where is food going to come from on a future planet covered in solar panels? For that matter, my brother, a logger with one of those cool tree processors, is being contracted to remove trees to make room for solar panels. Bob


AN INTERESTING CONCLUSION… SOLAR FARMS WILL BECOME THUNDERSTORM and TORONADO INCUBATORS and MAGNETS.

As more & more counties get more solar farms.....
From a STEPHENVILLE resident, George Franklin:

I should start by telling you what bonafides I have for writing this. I am a retired aerospace engineer. A literal rocket scientist if you will. I worked on MX (Peacekeeper) Space Shuttle, Hubble, Brilliant Pebbles, PACOSS, Space Station, MMU, B2, the Sultan of Brunei's half billion dollar private 747 with crystal showers, gold sinks and 100 dollar a yard coiffed silk carpets. I designed a satphone installation on prince Jeffry's 757. I did all of the design work for the structure of Mark 1V propulsion module currently flying on at least 3 spacecraft that I know of. Some of the more exciting projects I have worked on are not shareable. I am also am FAA certified glider pilot and FAI certified gold glider pilot. I fly both full scale and model sailplanes. I am Microsoft certified and ComTIA A+ certified.

SOLAR PANELS are at best about 20% EFFICIENT. They convert almost 0% of the UV light that hits them. None of the visible spectrum and only some of the IR spectrum. At the same time as they are absorbing light they are absorbing heat from the sun. This absorbed HEAT is RADIATED INTO THE adjacent ATMOSPHERE. It should be obvious what happens next. When air is warmed it rises. Even small differences in ordinary land surfaces are capable of creating powerful forces of weather like thunderstorms and tornadoes. These weather phenomena are initiated and reinforced by land features as they are blown downwind. It is all too obvious to me what will happen with the heat generated by an entire solar farm. SOLAR FARMS WILL BECOME THUNDERSTORM and TORONADO INCUBATORS and MAGNETS.

Solar panels are dark and and they emit energy to the space above them when they are not being radiated. This is known as black-body radiation. Satellites flying in space use this phenomenon to cool internal components. If they didn't do this they would fry themselves.

So solar farms not only produce more heat in summer than the original land that they were installed on, but they also produce more cooling in winter, thus exacerbating weather extremes.

So I conclude with this. THERE IS NOTHING GREEN ABOUT GREEN ENERGY except the DIRTY MONEY flowing into corrupt pockets.
There is no such thing as green energy. The science doesn't exist. The technology doesn't exist. The engineering doesn't exist. We are being pushed to save the planet with solutions that are worse than the problems.

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I have heard a very similar thing from a good friend of mine who is a highly respected quantum chemist. He is consistently baffled at the projected energy generation from solar panels. Apparently it comes down to “particle in a box” physics that make clear the limit of even the most theoretically efficient solar panel.

 

[H-Marlin]

Did anyone follow the apple river stabbing? Thoughts? Found guilty today but I was sure it would be Not guilty on self defence grounds. But I ain’t a lawyer.

 

[Tanks]

If you guys are going to talk about law enforcement abuses...

I think "civil forfeiture" should be at the top of the list. So many documented cases of abuse.

 

[Altitude sickness]

I agree Tanks. For instance cash. The $10k cash trigger using the RICO excuse is overreach.

Instead of having to prove you have committed a crime. Just having a large amount of cash on hand is threatening to the federal government.

Try going through an airport with $30k- $250k. It should be none of anyone’s business unless they can first link you to a crime. But instead they start with the assumption you’re guilty and work backwards from there.

If you don’t have the proper excuse they will seize it. This and the FISA court are examples of good intentions gone too far and now moving into we now being subjects of the Crown.

Our forefathers left Europe for a reason.

 

[Just Gina]

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Do not even get me started on student loans!! When I got out of high school, the company I worked for, paid for part of one of my degrees. I paid for the other two whilst working full time and raising two kids. When my kids got older and I went back to school for nursing, I paid for those two nursing degrees. It was called working hard and managing money properly. I took out loans only when absolutely necessary and paid them back. I did not get loads of free money from grants or anything else because I was not “poor enough”. I had a nice career in the corporate world and supported myself and kids until they were old enough for me to pursue my career in Nursing, which was what I was born to do.
There were times when things got pretty tight with money along the way, but I didn’t sit and cry and think the world owed me a living. Any loans I took out, I did so knowing I was responsible for paying them back, and did.
Having to pay for the loans of others makes me sick.
My parents didn’t contribute a penny to my education. Guess they will have to pay for the education of people they have never met now.

 

[Brent in Az]

Aren’t those the rules on how to protect yourself against a vampire?

Don't forget to hang some garlic above the door.

 

[Red Leg]

Latest update from Zeihan on the war in Ukraine and limits of Russian power. He is noting the point I have been trying to make with respect to the accelerating deterioration of the Russian armor force. One thing I would add to his point on numbers of military age Russians, is that they are also needed as a replenishment pool for the broader Russian economy as well. Disproportionate numbers have been drafted/recruited from the poorer regions of Asian Russia, but that pool is hardy limitless. There are far fewer of the unemployed or unemployable in European Russia.

 

[Brent in Az]

100%!
Do not even get me started on student loans!! When I got out of high school, the company I worked for, paid for part of one of my degrees. I paid for the other two whilst working full time and raising two kids. When my kids got older and I went back to school for nursing, I paid for those two nursing degrees. It was called working hard and managing money properly. I took out loans only when absolutely necessary and paid them back. I did not get loads of free money from grants or anything else because I was not “poor enough”. I had a nice career in the corporate world and supported myself and kids until they were old enough for me to pursue my career in Nursing, which was what I was born to do.
There were times when things got pretty tight with money along the way, but I didn’t sit and cry and think the world owed me a living. Any loans I took out, I did so knowing I was responsible for paying them back, and did.
Having to pay for the loans of others makes me sick.
My parents didn’t contribute a penny to my education. Guess they will have to pay for the education of people they have never met now.

Despite the SCOTUS ruling, Biden is still on a path of student loan forgiveness to buy votes.

 

[Brent in Az]

Hasbro is coming out with a new version of the Scrabble board game specifically for generation Z'ers. There is no keeping score with the new version.

Must be for the sensitive Z crowd with degrees in under water basket weaving.

A growing nation of wimps.

 

[skydiver386]

I agree Tanks. For instance cash. The $10k cash trigger using the RICO excuse is overreach.

Instead of having to prove you have committed a crime. Just having a large amount of cash on hand is threatening to the federal government.

Try going through an airport with $30k- $250k. It should be none of anyone’s business unless they can first link you to a crime. But instead they start with the assumption you’re guilty and work backwards from there.

If you don’t have the proper excuse they will seize it. This and the FISA court are examples of good intentions gone too far and now moving into we now being subjects of the Crown.

Our forefathers left Europe for a reason.

This is called the law of unintended consequences, and it's the primary reason I despise leftist politicians and Democrat voters.

 

[DillonG]