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Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM


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Re: Biden Administration
« Reply #25935 on: April 14, 2022, 04:26:03 PM »

California depends upon tourism, and California is a beautiful state, but our reputation is being trashed because of crime. Many people hate California anyway, and they will use any excuse to point their fingers at California to say how bad we are. So, we need to reduce crime, and we need to make our communities safer.

One way is to organize our communities, we can bring in Kiwanis International to help to organize our communities and reduce crime, Kiwanis can go knocking on doors in the bad neighborhoods and can give out the contact information for the owners of the apartment complexes, etc. Kiwanis can help to bring the neighborhoods together to reduce crime.

Also, there can be undercover cops. A homeless guy pushing a shopping cart down the street can really be an undercover cop. The parks can have undercover cops. There can be undercover cops at the high schools. Etc, etc, etc. And the cops can train at the acting schools to become undercover cops. As an actor we often had cops in our acting classes who were training to be undercover cops. We need to invest in undercover cops. And we can have undercover cops on the subways, etc.

There are many things we can do. And people can use their phones to report crimes and to send photos to the cops, etc.

We also need to end the drug and gang culture, it is all bullshit and we need to call it for what it is. And we can mix undercover cops in with the gangs and with the drug dealers and we can bring an end to their bullshit. And we have RICO.

We need to make California nice, we need for California to be safe for all of the tourists, as well as safe for the people who live here.

Kiwanis is free, and we can spend some money to hire and train undercover cops.

We need to clean California up, and we need to make California into a dream destination for tourists.

Salute,

Tony V.



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Re: Biden Administration
« Reply #25936 on: April 14, 2022, 04:39:43 PM »

The Republican Party continued its move farther and farther from the center of America with its withdrawal from the debates commission, decrying its bias - defined in this case to its unwillingness to do everything that the RNC required of it.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/politics/rnc-withdraws-from-presidential-debates/index.html

One of its complaints, still, was the attempted 2nd debate which was to be virtual. The wisdom of such a virtual debate has been illustrated since then by Trump's deceit over his COVID diagnosis subsequently, when he was COVID-positive and lied about it to attend the debate.

I hope that the GOP ends up with somebody other than Trump as their nominee, but if they have him it will be interesting watching them try to reposition themselves to get Trump in front of so large an audience without that format/forum.


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« Reply #25937 on: April 14, 2022, 06:17:58 PM »

It's not all he does.

He also threatens to hold no hearings for SCOTUS nominees if they retake the Senate, among other venal positions he espouses. And he assures us that if Trump is the nominee he will vote for him and that we should not be surprised.

Right.

Well, I think in the middle of a presidential election, if you have a Senate of the opposite party of the president, you have to go back to the 1880s to find the last time a vacancy was filled, McConnell said.
 So I think it is highly unlikely. In fact, no, I dont think either party if it controlled, if it were different from the president, would confirm a Supreme Court nominee in the middle of an election. What was different in 2020 was we were of the same party as the president.


He's wrong, in a totally self-serving way.

Both Anthony Kennedy (Reagan) and David Souter (George HW Bush) were nominated by Republican Presidents and confirmed by a Democrat-controlled Senate.

It's only the GOP that has refused to do so - and again, he's wrong, but not as wrong. 1895.
William O. Douglas resignedess than a year before the 1976 presidential election and the Democratic padty controlled the Senate. John Paul Stevens was unanimously confirmed 35 days later.

McConnell is just making up pretend precedents to justify an unprecedented naked political power move. Hidden behind his "go back to the 1880's" remark is the fact that a vacancy in the court had never NOT been brought to a vote by the opposing party in power, ever, before 2016. His justification for confirming Comey Barrett is an admission of the exercise of unprincipled political power, especially since he left the whole "opposing party" stuff out with Garland.

Yup.

Wonder if Kid will admit that his McConnell quote is full of shit and so is McConnell.

Not holding my breath.
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Re: Biden Administration
« Reply #25938 on: April 14, 2022, 07:41:34 PM »

Edwards Air Force Base

1 hour

More than 40 years ago, the first-ever space shuttle landed here on Rogers Dry Lake Bed.

On April 12, 1981, the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-1) launched into orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and landed two days later, on April 14, 1981, at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The shuttle was piloted by Test Pilot School graduate, Robert Crippen.

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My hometown where I was born built the Space Shuttles, and I had friends and family who worked at Rockwell on the Shuttles. I went to Florida as a kid with the Shuttle Program, and then I came back to California and was able to watch the Shuttle land at Edwards.

I was in Rome, Italy, when the Shuttle Columbia burned up on entry, on February 1st, 2003, it was so sad, and the Italians were great and they all shared their condolences.

I hate to see us go back to old fashioned rockets, I would like to see the USA build awesome new spaceships, they can build the spaceships in Mojave, California.

Salute,

Tony V.

New space ships to Mars?
Sure...in the future.
Meanwhile...

 In Kentucky, 644,540 people are facing hunger - and of them 179,030 are children. 1 in 6 children face hunger. People facing hunger in Kentucky are estimated to report needing $302,792,000 more per year to meet their food needs.
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« Reply #25939 on: April 14, 2022, 07:46:02 PM »

According to the USDA, more than 38 million people, including 12 million children, in the United States are food insecure. The pandemic has increased food insecurity among families with children and communities of color, who already faced hunger at much higher rates before the pandemic.
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« Reply #25940 on: April 14, 2022, 08:24:43 PM »

I estimated that an extra US$2 per day per starving American person would buy some hunger-relief for them.

Roughly US$28 billion pa.

US federal budget;

Total expenditures: $6.818 trillion (actual); 30....
Deficit: $2.772 trillion (actual); 12.4% of GDP
Total revenue: $4.046 trillion (actual); 18.1% of ...

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Somewhere in there...plus in state budgets, there must be $28 billion pa for starving Americans.
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« Reply #25941 on: April 14, 2022, 09:29:51 PM »

Manchin and Sinema could stop pissing all over American families by reinstituting the Expanded Child Tax Credit and passing Build Back Better like their constituents want.

Republicans are not the only terrorists we have to deal with. They are only the worst.
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Re: Biden Administration
« Reply #25942 on: April 14, 2022, 10:13:10 PM »

In a statement, RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said the commission is  biased and has refused to enact simple and commonsense reforms to help ensure fair debates including hosting debates before voting begins and selecting moderators who have never worked for candidates on the debate stage.




https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/politics/rnc-withdraws-from-presidential-debates/index.html
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« Reply #25943 on: April 14, 2022, 10:42:24 PM »

In a statement, RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said the commission is  biased and has refused to enact simple and commonsense reforms to help ensure fair debates including hosting debates before voting begins and selecting moderators who have never worked for candidates on the debate stage.




https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/politics/rnc-withdraws-from-presidential-debates/index.html

No response to McConnell's lies that you repeated without a thought?

And of course she said that. What did you expect her to say, Kid? Just repeating the words of somebody who is, herself, biased, saying that they are biased, is stupid.

And we know she is biased - they pay her bills.
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Re: Biden Administration
« Reply #25944 on: April 15, 2022, 02:14:36 AM »

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« Reply #25945 on: April 15, 2022, 03:43:49 AM »

Nice. And it all gets steadily cheaper, more powerful, and more dependable day after day after day.
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Re: Biden Administration
« Reply #25946 on: April 15, 2022, 09:11:52 AM »

In a statement, RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said the commission is  biased and has refused to enact simple and commonsense reforms to help ensure fair debates including hosting debates before voting begins and selecting moderators who have never worked for candidates on the debate stage.




https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/politics/rnc-withdraws-from-presidential-debates/index.html

No response to McConnell's lies that you repeated without a thought?

And of course she said that. What did you expect her to say, Kid? Just repeating the words of somebody who is, herself, biased, saying that they are biased, is stupid.

And we know she is biased - they pay her bills.

Addressing what is IN her stattement might get you more discussion.
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« Reply #25947 on: April 15, 2022, 10:52:44 AM »

In a statement, RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said the commission is  biased and has refused to enact simple and commonsense reforms to help ensure fair debates including hosting debates before voting begins and selecting moderators who have never worked for candidates on the debate stage.




https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/politics/rnc-withdraws-from-presidential-debates/index.html

No response to McConnell's lies that you repeated without a thought?

And of course she said that. What did you expect her to say, Kid? Just repeating the words of somebody who is, herself, biased, saying that they are biased, is stupid.

And we know she is biased - they pay her bills.

Addressing what is IN her stattement might get you more discussion.

In 2016, voting started on September 19th in one town - the earliest in the country. The first presidential debate was the preceding week, September 16th. While they did not hold one before the earliest voting day in 2020, they did hold one more than 45 days prior to the election (as specified in the June 2021 letter from RM on behalf of the RNC). This coming year as with 2020, the earliest anybody will vote is mid-September, in Alabama. The 45 days limit comes in late September and beating that would have been likely. Early September (before Sept. 14th) might be harder, but who knows.

The "selecting moderators who have never worked for a candidate" issue was aimed at the C-Span staff member who had worked briefly for Biden FORTY-TWO YEARS previous to his scheduled moderating, while earning college credits. One person in how long? (Scully of course screwed up in a real way, regardless.

I have no idea whether the commission agreed to that or not. It wasn't what they asked for in their June letter. Prior to the dumb tweet to Scaramucci (and dumber blaming the tweet on hackers), he had not been considered biased, beyond the claims from Trump that the Commission itself was biased.


As for your "get you more discussion," you've held that claim out without backing it up with subsequent discussion when I heeded your request/suggestion - you're a repeat offended, just like Scully was.

I posted a direct response to what McConnell said wrt SCOTUS nominees, rebutting his bogus claims.

From you, crickets.
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Re: Biden Administration
« Reply #25948 on: April 15, 2022, 11:14:08 AM »

In a statement, RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said the commission is  biased and has refused to enact simple and commonsense reforms to help ensure fair debates including hosting debates before voting begins and selecting moderators who have never worked for candidates on the debate stage.




https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/politics/rnc-withdraws-from-presidential-debates/index.html

No response to McConnell's lies that you repeated without a thought?

And of course she said that. What did you expect her to say, Kid? Just repeating the words of somebody who is, herself, biased, saying that they are biased, is stupid.

And we know she is biased - they pay her bills.

Addressing what is IN her stattement might get you more discussion.

In 2016, voting started on September 19th in one town - the earliest in the country. The first presidential debate was the preceding week, September 16th. While they did not hold one before the earliest voting day in 2020, they did hold one more than 45 days prior to the election (as specified in the June 2021 letter from RM on behalf of the RNC). This coming year as with 2020, the earliest anybody will vote is mid-September, in Alabama. The 45 days limit comes in late September and beating that would have been likely. Early September (before Sept. 14th) might be harder, but who knows.

The "selecting moderators who have never worked for a candidate" issue was aimed at the C-Span staff member who had worked briefly for Biden FORTY-TWO YEARS previous to his scheduled moderating, while earning college credits. One person in how long? (Scully of course screwed up in a real way, regardless.

I have no idea whether the commission agreed to that or not. It wasn't what they asked for in their June letter. Prior to the dumb tweet to Scaramucci (and dumber blaming the tweet on hackers), he had not been considered biased, beyond the claims from Trump that the Commission itself was biased.


As for your "get you more discussion," you've held that claim out without backing it up with subsequent discussion when I heeded your request/suggestion - you're a repeat offended, just like Scully was.

I posted a direct response to what McConnell said wrt SCOTUS nominees, rebutting his bogus claims.

From you, crickets.

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« Reply #25949 on: April 15, 2022, 11:34:20 AM »

The Arkansas school district quote is cool, but confusing on the math.  I think you would save more than 1.6 kilowatt-hours in three years.  1.6 kwh runs your bathroom space heater for an hour.  1.6 kilowatts is just the rate at which you used energy running it, i.e. 1600 Joules per second.  So what I think the poster means is that the school district saved the energy required to run a space heater every second of those three years.  Or 1.6 KWH every hour.  Which means they saved 42000 KWH.  Since the cost of a KWH in Arkansas is around ten cents, they saved $4200 in three years.  So, again, the math seems off.

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