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- Mon Jan 23, 2023 6:09 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Debt Ceiling: Why should the White House negotiate?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2842
Re: Debt Ceiling: Why should the White House negotiate?
You need to speak to some Brits about their education and NHS, not so strong. Just try campaigning in the US for those tax rates. Here’s a Twitter thread on the problem https://twitter.com/brian_riedl/status/1616907474086563841?s=61&t=xDG7x2mYV82KYzZvqeeJ7g Please don't conflate the current sta...
Jump to post- Mon Jan 23, 2023 6:03 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
- Replies: 280
- Views: 14740
Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Then MAGAs need to stop comparing the two! If you want to discuss Biden, stop the whataboutism and "why is Biden being given a pass" and "why wasn't there a raid on Biden" and so forth. You can bring up the former guy without saying his name. I have been doing it for seven years...
Jump to post- Mon Jan 23, 2023 3:55 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Debt Ceiling: Why should the White House negotiate?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2842
Re: Debt Ceiling: Why should the White House negotiate?
We just came out of three years of not much revenue and supply chain issues and communities putting off work they had been promised funding for and now the funding is going through. It happens in a normal fiscal year, anyway. The block up from our house just got paved and new sidewalks. That was yea...
Jump to post- Mon Jan 23, 2023 3:47 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
- Replies: 280
- Views: 14740
Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
So your defense for Biden is that his weren't the "Good Stuff", so never mind? Risible. And as for who was wandering in and out of Biden's Wilmington home, it would include his son Hunter ("troubled" per Joe), and God knows how many drug dealers and sex workers. Perhaps you migh...
Jump to post- Sun Jan 22, 2023 4:05 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
- Replies: 280
- Views: 14740
Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Yet another batch found in Biden's Wilmington home. How incompetent are his team not to have found this tranche by now? His house ain't that big, In my book, co-operation would have entailed finding these documents sooner than two and a half months after they knew there was an issue. This whole aff...
Jump to post- Sun Jan 22, 2023 4:01 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Debt Ceiling: Why should the White House negotiate?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2842
Re: Debt Ceiling: Why should the White House negotiate?
You could eliminate the DOD and not come close to closing the deficit. Are you for UK style taxes, to pick one, 40% on income starting at $55,000 and 20% VAT? But British taxes are also paying for a strong public education and a strong public health care system. Republicans simply want the morbidly...
Jump to post- Sun Jan 22, 2023 1:57 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
- Replies: 280
- Views: 14740
Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Yet another batch found in Biden's Wilmington home. How incompetent are his team not to have found this tranche by now? His house ain't that big, In my book, co-operation would have entailed finding these documents sooner than two and a half months after they knew there was an issue. This whole aff...
Jump to post- Sun Jan 22, 2023 1:54 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Debt Ceiling: Why should the White House negotiate?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2842
Re: Debt Ceiling: Why should the White House negotiate?
As I said what's needed is a golden rule not a debt ceiling. It would be impossible to pass a gigantic tax cut in these circumstances if you don't cut a lot of spending to account for it. Simply cutting spending will do zero to the debt. We need income. Taxes. But, for some reason, when taxation co...
Jump to post- Sat Jan 21, 2023 3:02 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Debt Ceiling: Why should the White House negotiate?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2842
Re: Debt Ceiling: Why should the White House negotiate?
As I said what's needed is a golden rule not a debt ceiling. It would be impossible to pass a gigantic tax cut in these circumstances if you don't cut a lot of spending to account for it. Simply cutting spending will do zero to the debt. We need income. Taxes. But, for some reason, when taxation co...
Jump to post- Sat Jan 21, 2023 2:58 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Sheriff: Alec Baldwin fired shot on movie set that killed woman
- Replies: 401
- Views: 30528
Re: Sheriff: Alec Baldwin fired shot on movie set that killed woman
As a bare minimum both should have checked the weapons status (either of them doing so would have stopped the swiss cheese of the rest of the negligence). They're both culpable and should be charged accordingly. Baldwin had no obligation to check the gun, nor would he be qualified to do so. It is t...
Jump to post- Sat Jan 21, 2023 2:55 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Utah Senator wants to ban porn in USA
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3335
Re: Utah Senator wants to ban porn in USA
My point is that describing porn as consenting adults watching consenting adults do adult things makes numerous assumptions. Also exposure to violent content is likely to normalise violence. Something that would be viewed as shocking/horrible no longer shocks. Given the level of violent crime socie...
Jump to post- Sat Jan 21, 2023 5:44 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Utah Senator wants to ban porn in USA
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3335
Re: Utah Senator wants to ban porn in USA
I suppose the key is in the content of the porn; Are both parties human; Did both parties consent; Are both parties adult; The level of violence in the content. My understanding is that repeated exposure to violent content will desensitise the viewer and likely increase the level of violence in soc...
Jump to post- Sat Jan 21, 2023 5:37 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Sheriff: Alec Baldwin fired shot on movie set that killed woman
- Replies: 401
- Views: 30528
Re: Sheriff: Alec Baldwin fired shot on movie set that killed woman
I was cleaning my gun, I was showing my prize to my family, I was practicing for my brother, it was only out for a minute, I was just getting a sandwich..... What happened to Second Amendment Rights? Is Alec Baldwin suspended from that from birth? That 4 year old who took a gun to school is being d...
Jump to post- Sat Jan 21, 2023 5:35 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Everything That George Santos Has Lied About (So Far)
- Replies: 159
- Views: 12000
Re: Everything That George Santos Has Lied About (So Far)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/appears-geor ... 28205.htmlSay it ain't so!!! :/
And he was not on "Hannah Montana"???
https://www.yahoo.com/news/appears-geor ... 28205.html
Say it ain't so!!! :/
- Fri Jan 20, 2023 2:40 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Utah Senator wants to ban porn in USA
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3335
Re: Utah Senator wants to ban porn in USA
Several places around here (deeply MAGA territory) simply scan the bar code on the back of my drivers license and can also use a UV light to ensure it is a legit license. The "adult" web sites I have seen simply say "click here if you are over 18" but no UV light or bar code sca...
Jump to post- Fri Jan 20, 2023 4:46 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Sheriff: Alec Baldwin fired shot on movie set that killed woman
- Replies: 401
- Views: 30528
Re: Sheriff: Alec Baldwin fired shot on movie set that killed woman
I wonder how many "but he didn't know the gun was loaded" and walked white men are out there? This wasn't a normal everyday situation. It was a movie set. I was cleaning my gun, I was showing my prize to my family, I was practicing for my brother, it was only out for a minute, I was just ...
Jump to post- Fri Jan 20, 2023 2:32 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Sheriff: Alec Baldwin fired shot on movie set that killed woman
- Replies: 401
- Views: 30528
Re: Sheriff: Alec Baldwin fired shot on movie set that killed woman
I wonder how many "but he didn't know the gun was loaded" and walked white men are out there?
Jump to post- Fri Jan 20, 2023 2:30 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Debt Ceiling: Why should the White House negotiate?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2842
Re: Debt Ceiling: Why should the White House negotiate?
The debt ceiling has to be raised to pay for what Congress already passed into law. Why do certain politicians always try to hurt the economy by grandstanding on spending after the pigs have left the pen? There should be no negotiation on lifting the debt ceiling. The discussions must be made when ...
Jump to post- Fri Jan 20, 2023 2:20 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Utah Senator wants to ban porn in USA
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3335
Re: Utah Senator wants to ban porn in USA
15 yo boy: Hey dad? I need to copy your ID for our school's emergency contact information. Let me take it in the morning That is something I would expect a Boomer (grand)parent to fall for. A responsible GenX/Millenial parent who is aware of the law, not so much. But you bring up a good point. Thes...
Jump to post- Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:13 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Everything That George Santos Has Lied About (So Far)
- Replies: 159
- Views: 12000
Re: Everything That George Santos Has Lied About (So Far)
Well, if all the fake resume and stealing from veterans and lying about college and using different names will not get him kicked out of office, surely this will https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/19/george-santos-drag-queen-brazil-new-york-republican https://www.out.com/news/2023/1/18/soc...
Jump to post- Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:09 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Utah Senator wants to ban porn in USA
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3335
Re: Utah Senator wants to ban porn in USA
Didn’t Pornhub data reveal the most kinky searches are in blue states but the most time spent consuming porn is in red states? The state of Louisiana recently enacted a requirement for government ID input to adult sites. That IMO is the way to go. 15 yo boy: Hey dad? I need to copy your ID for our ...
Jump to post- Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:05 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Utah Senator wants to ban porn in USA
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3335
Re: Utah Senator wants to ban porn in USA
Didn’t Pornhub data reveal the most kinky searches are in blue states but the most time spent consuming porn is in red states? I'm sure somebody is keeping track somewhere, but I feel like most of the "here's every state's preferred porn consumption" images floating around the internet ar...
Jump to post- Thu Jan 19, 2023 1:34 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Utah Senator wants to ban porn in USA
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3335
Re: Utah Senator wants to ban porn in USA
Dear Utah: stop wasting my federal tax dollars with your weird fuddy-duddy bills. - Signed Resident in Another State :talktothehand: PS: what happened to states' rights? Isn't it illegal to sell "adult novelties" in AL and OK? I have not been there for a while, but I remember billboards o...
Jump to post- Thu Jan 19, 2023 1:29 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
- Replies: 280
- Views: 14740
Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
President from political party A mishandles documents: matters? Matters not? President from political party B mishandles documents: matters? Matters not? Taking documents he had no right to take is not the same as a staffer with zero oversight taking documents. That would be my view, too, but I'm n...
Jump to post- Wed Jan 18, 2023 2:52 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
- Replies: 280
- Views: 14740
Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
President from political party A mishandles documents: matters? Matters not? President from political party B mishandles documents: matters? Matters not? Taking documents he had no right to take is not the same as a staffer with zero oversight taking documents. There is a very good link up the thre...
Jump to post- Wed Jan 18, 2023 6:47 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: 4Yr old seen waving a gun.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1303
Re: 4Yr old seen waving a gun.
I would be willing to bet if black people enslaved white people for hundreds of years and degraded whites as less than human, while mainly referring to them as white trash, then white trash would be a far less acceptable term… Also keep in mind that there is the mindset in the United States "A...
Jump to post- Wed Jan 18, 2023 2:08 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: 4Yr old seen waving a gun.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1303
Re: 4Yr old seen waving a gun.
It's Beech Grove IN...anybody that has knowledge of the Indy area knows that the city is pretty much known for being white trash central of Indy in a state full of them :). While I agree with this opinion, I also wonder why these terms are acceptable while calling a Black person the N word or a His...
Jump to post- Tue Jan 17, 2023 12:26 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
- Replies: 280
- Views: 14740
Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Maybe this will cause Biden to admit that maybe he shouldn't run in 2024. Seriously. Enough of this septuagenarian POTUS nonsense. The silly thing is that the Biden WH is actually operating pretty well on the policy front, but their PR presence and pulse of the nation are rather poor. Always one st...
Jump to post- Tue Jan 17, 2023 12:16 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote
- Replies: 276
- Views: 14167
Re: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote
The MAGA caucus is hell bent on gutting Social Security and Medicare but I wonder if Democrats put their own budget forward and sensible Republicans help pass it, what then? The government and Social Security and Medicare will be funded but what becomes of our democracy? Provisions are in place by ...
Jump to post- Mon Jan 16, 2023 8:25 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote
- Replies: 276
- Views: 14167
Re: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote
The MAGA caucus is hell bent on gutting Social Security and Medicare but I wonder if Democrats put their own budget forward and sensible Republicans help pass it, what then? The government and Social Security and Medicare will be funded but what becomes of our democracy? Provisions are in place by t...
Jump to post- Fri Jan 13, 2023 3:31 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Prominent conservative Matt Schlapp accused of fondling male staffer
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2097
Re: Prominent conservative Matt Schlapp accused of fondling male staffer
It doesn't need to do anything it doesn't want. But the statistics speak for themselves, there is no more violent western nation (including sexual violence) than the USA. You expect other people of other nations to speak openly about how you as an American perceive flaws in their system, but you re...
Jump to post- Fri Jan 13, 2023 3:25 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
- Replies: 280
- Views: 14740
Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
"The View" is not Democratic party hacks, it's a current events gossip show. There are no authoritative sources or reporting involved. There is no particular credence associated with anything they say. It's just opinion, and unqualified at that. Sources in the DoJ said that Garland felt c...
Jump to post- Fri Jan 13, 2023 4:07 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
- Replies: 280
- Views: 14740
Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Just to summarize: The National Archives, under the MAGA administration (he can simply think and documents are declassified, you know) said not one word about Biden's documents. All of a sudden, there are boxes and boxes of them everywhere Biden has been under the former administration. All this ha...
Jump to post- Fri Jan 13, 2023 2:08 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote
- Replies: 276
- Views: 14167
Re: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote
I wonder how long we’ll have to wait for the first GOPs explosive snafu, and then watch McCarthy start kissing everyone’s asses all over again… https://news.yahoo.com/republicans-signal-cuts-social-security-175927429.html https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3809592-gop-divisions-over-social-secur...
Jump to post- Fri Jan 13, 2023 2:05 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Everything That George Santos Has Lied About (So Far)
- Replies: 159
- Views: 12000
Re: Everything That George Santos Has Lied About (So Far)
New York Republicans and Nassau County Republicans want Santos out https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/11/politics/george-santos-nassau-county-resign/index.html https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/new-york-republican-leaders-call-gop-rep-george-santos-resign-campaign-rcna65318 https://thehill.com/home...
Jump to post- Fri Jan 13, 2023 2:01 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
- Replies: 280
- Views: 14740
Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Just to summarize: The National Archives, under the MAGA administration (he can simply think and documents are declassified, you know) said not one word about Biden's documents. All of a sudden, there are boxes and boxes of them everywhere Biden has been under the former administration. All this has...
Jump to post- Thu Jan 12, 2023 3:52 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
- Replies: 280
- Views: 14740
Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
As with the documents at Mar-A-Lago, there must be an investigation. Unlike the documents at Mar-A-Lago, Biden is cooperating fully. Fully? If he was being "transparent" like he said he would be he wouldn't have waited so long to say something. These were found on November 2nd. Why are we...
Jump to post- Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:57 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Biden admin weighs ban on gas stoves
- Replies: 47
- Views: 2998
Re: Biden admin weighs ban on gas stoves
Well, this must be a huge blow to the fraidy-cats of the right. Looks like Biden isn’t too into banning gas. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/11/politics/biden-gas-stoves/index.html We're talking about a group of people who see 40k gun deaths and think "yah this is great". Huffing NO2 and CO w...
Jump to post- Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:54 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
- Replies: 280
- Views: 14740
Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
They found more… https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/11/politics/biden-classified-documents/index.html Humor me, I don’t know much about the american legal system, at this point, is it a crime? As with the documents at Mar-A-Lago, there must be an investigation. Unlike the documents at Mar-A-Lago, Bide...
Jump to post- Wed Jan 11, 2023 3:09 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Biden admin weighs ban on gas stoves
- Replies: 47
- Views: 2998
Re: Biden admin weighs ban on gas stoves
Oh, no! Biden has an opinion that goes against everything MAGAs stand for! He must be removed from office! We must be outraged!! :/ I have cooked with both electric and gas. I prefer electric. We have a ceramic cook top and it works just fine. Pacific Power sources it's energy from wind and water. T...
Jump to post- Wed Jan 11, 2023 3:04 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
- Replies: 280
- Views: 14740
Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
The difference is that Trump legally held the power to declassify, and claims they were declassified. The problem with the DOJ's investigation is that the declassification claim can't be easily disproven, and any limits on declassification haven't been tested in court. Here is how declassification ...
Jump to post- Tue Jan 10, 2023 10:22 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
- Replies: 280
- Views: 14740
Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
I would expect Biden to own up to this if a mistake was made. I doubt it was anything other than a mistake, and the investigation should demonstrate that. Even though politically he will come under extreme attack, it's the best thing for the country to just be honest and address the problem. Biden ...
Jump to post- Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:41 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: 4 College students murdered
- Replies: 89
- Views: 6120
Re: 4 College students murdered
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/idaho-murders-update-university-of-idaho-college-students-investigation-bryan-kohberger/ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/idaho-killings-investigation.html He used surgical gloves to detail his car and threw the contents away in a neighbor's trash can. He was also s...
Jump to post- Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:36 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Everything That George Santos Has Lied About (So Far)
- Replies: 159
- Views: 12000
Re: Everything That George Santos Has Lied About (So Far)
His Mom died in 9/11 … well, from a 9/11 related illness.. a few years later… in 2016 That's actually not terribly hard to believe....9/11-related illnesses have been killing people who were associated with the events ever since the attacks happened. Lots of bad stuff floating around after the towe...
Jump to post- Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:34 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Prominent conservative Matt Schlapp accused of fondling male staffer
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2097
Re: Prominent conservative Matt Schlapp accused of fondling male staffer
Something I am not understanding:
Republicans say they are accepting and open with homosexuality so why are gay Republican men still in the closet? Aren't they celebrated by Republicans?
- Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:28 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Men - what kind of underwear do you wear?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1807
- Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:13 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
- Replies: 280
- Views: 14740
Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office
Keep playing "gotcha" and "both sides do it" From the CNN article: "The discovery of these documents was made by the President's attorneys," (Richard) Sauber (Biden's council) added. "The documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Arch...
Jump to post- Mon Jan 09, 2023 7:04 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Bolsonaro supporters storm government buildings
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2368
Re: Bolsonaro supporters storm government buildings
Just heard on CNN Bolsonnaro is in the US. Florida to be exact. Probably at a certain resort that is home to a certain individual who inspired Bolsonaro to cause this... He's actually in Orlando from what I heard, not PBI/FLL. So there is absolutely no way at all to go from Orlando to Mar-A-Lago? N...
Jump to post- Mon Jan 09, 2023 6:59 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote
- Replies: 276
- Views: 14167
Re: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote
I know really. Schumer, Pelosi, Murray etc all want huge taxes and spending, no guns and no bail laws but they are "center right" LOL. Again they would have reflected on why they lost the house instead they just double down. Two years of nothing getting done and gaslighting. See you in 20...
Jump to post- Sun Jan 08, 2023 3:49 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote
- Replies: 276
- Views: 14167
Re: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote
Schumer center-right? That’s funny, I don’t care who you are. He’s center-right in the British Labour Party, maybe I know really. Schumer, Pelosi, Murray etc all want huge taxes and spending, no guns and no bail laws but they are "center right" LOL. Again they would have reflected on why ...
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