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And this is happening right before our eyes. No wonder German citizens felt betrayed by the Nazis who gained control of everything pretty much without notice. https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html "What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn’t make people close to their government to be told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing, to do with knowing one is governing. "What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it. "This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter. mspart

There's a GIF for everything!! mspart

I don't eat fungus. mspart

True story: We were on vacation in DC. This is back in the 60s. I was young and got sick and had to stay at my aunt's house while my family went to downtown. My sister and my Dad went to the top of the Washington Monument. There were hippies in there and my sister told be about the choking body odor. Then while driving around they saw some sort of protest. My dad was unimpressed because of the few number of people in the protest. When he got home and watched the evening news, that protest looked on screen and was described as a huge protest with all these people. It was at that moment my Dad figured out that the news had an agenda other than reporting unbiased news. That would have been 1968. I remember watching a burial and asked why we were watching it and my mom said it was for Robert Kennedy. mspart

SF has totally lost control of itself. Putting a non citizen (especially a Chinese citizen) on a local election board is the definition of self destruction. Now perhaps she is really interested in seeing elections be fair and even. Or perhaps maybe not. mspart

Maybe he can't call them thugs, but I can. Thugs attack police. Thugs attack innocent bystanders. mspart

Lucky for some folks this guy messed up. Only hurt himself. Does he still get 72 virgins? mspart

This fine just handed to Trump is an egregious miscarriage of justice. In the trial, the banks were queried if they were harmed. They said no and that they would do business with Trump again. So no one was harmed. You don't levy a civil fine of this size for no one being harmed. It is a gross miscarriage of justice, weaponizing the justice system to get rid of people you don't want around. Now with this judgement, other business types are on notice that they too could be targeted if this ruling stands. In addition, it was apparent from the beginning that the judge was antagonistic to Trump and did not allow certain evidence Trump wanted to bring up but allowed the state to do so for everything. It was like muzzling the defendant. That should not happen in any judicial case. I'm not talking about outbursts. I'm talking about evidence not allowed, explanations not allowed to be expanded on while on the witness stand. The absolute size of the award to the state (who had no harm done to it either) is the best indication of the attitude of the judge in this case. A Trump hater doing to Trump what he wanted, rather than an impartial judge. Because the banks received no harm, this case should have been thrown out before it started. mspart

They just want a better life by any means possible. At least those 4 and the thugs in NY now in CA. mspart

Your question is essentially asking, Even though the EV is more expensive, worse for the environment, less convenient, less operable in extreme cold or hot weather, is only convenient in a city driving situation, is more expensive to repair, may cause more pedestrian deaths due to low noise, why is there all the push back on them since they are trying to solve a problem? The problem is many fold: How to reduce CO2 emissions, do it economically, do it so it is convenient, do it so it is reliable (talking grid here too). Solution: Hybrids reduce CO2 emissions, do it economically, do it conveniently, do it reliably. Until EVs are like this, they are an albatross on the necks of the car companies. Consumers are not buying that modern day snake oil. Solution: My VW Passat TDI gets around 40mpg and averages higher than 30 just regular driving. That is better than my wife's 18mpg mini van. But both are way more convenient, economic, and reliable than an EV. Solution: As I noted earlier, the solid state battery (which Toyota is also developing) may be an answer to some of those questions as it will charge faster, go farther, and not be so horrible for the environment. This may be a solution that is worth waiting for. We will have to see. mspart

I just heard on the radio that illegal entry has gone down because Biden has quietly gotten the Mexican government to stop them from getting to the border. So apparently he could do something without a new law being passed. mspart

Yep, that's the go to. mspart

What about JB making it to the finals? My heart says yes, but my head says a tough row to hoe. mspart

Page turning definitely the best. mspart

I won't discount that. If I could make a $3000 guitar sound like a $3000 guitar, it might work. Alas, I have a $350 Epiphone Les Paul Standard Plus Top Pro which I love and it sounds like a better guitar than the price. This is a fun song to play and not too difficult except for that beginning part. Fun to play against a youtube backing track. Then I am the guitar. In my head, I sound pretty good. mspart

What does an admiral know about this? He should be thinking about how to annihilate the enemy. Oh wait... mspart

Thanks jross. I have watched that. I have the parts down pretty good. It is finger dexterity for the most part. There is a stretch that my little and old hand just has trouble with without touching the high E string and muting that F# hit. But I'm getting there. And to ionel - I won't dignify that post with a response. mspart

I have not seen those bands. I liked Judas Priest, not Iron Maiden so much. Metallica has some good stuff and I can almost play Nothing Else Matters so that is good. I've got it mostly down except the intro. I have it but cannot play it good consistently. Beginning looks like this!! Fairly easy. mspart

Just wondering what thoughts there are out there. I have a shirt that says "I may be old but I got to see all the cool bands". Very true. I won't list them but it seems like the 70s bands paved new territory and the 80s and 90s bands just kind of followed with small changes. A list of A list 70's bands. Yes, Led Zepp, Bad Co, Heart, Allman Bros, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Styx, Blue Oyster Cult, Pink Floyd, UFO, Scorpions, Ted Nugent, Van Halen, Kansas, Eagles, Who, etc. These were groundbreaking acts. I've seen most of these in concert in one form or another. mspart

A president needs hair. That is in the job description. At least a little. mspart

It is the dream team. Ohio - make it a very low bridge please. mspart

And there you go. Biden is supported by Russian disinformation. Any good news for Biden can now be blamed on Russian disinformation. I hope the social medias take note and start scrubbing scrubbing scrubbing!!! mspart

Very quiet now that TX has done something and it worked. With a stroke of a pen, Biden created this mess. And now he needs new legislation to fix it. Unbelievable. mspart

Are we still talking Tucker and Russia? mspart

My intention was good. To electrify the house. Too bad I did it wrong and burned the house down. But my intentions were good. My intention was good. I wanted to write the perfect paper. I got help from other authors without their permission or citation. But my intentions were good. My intention was good. Try to get people out of poverty. Part of the rules were that married people would not get the benefits but singles would. Wow, talk about out of wedlock births skying through the roof. Talk about keeping generations in single households an in poverty. But my intention was good. My intention was good. Legalize drugs so we get rid of cartels. Drugs got more potent, and more deaths were incurred. More people are homeless and addicted than ever before. But my intentions were good. My intention was good. Do not charge people with law breaking for camping on streets and parks. Next thing you know we have people addicted to drugs on the streets, pooping on said streets, peeing on said streets, dying on said streets. Stores close due to rampant shoplifting which also has been decriminalized to help the poor. The stores closing do more harm to the poor than the alleged assistance. But my intentions were good. My intention was good. I placed more taxes on the evil businesses to make them pay their fair share. What I didn't think would happen was that they would pass those tax costs on to their consumers. I thought for sure they would pay out of pocket for these taxes. So I get more money in taxes (yay!!) but the consumers have less money (sad) and the business leaders are making more money (sad) so overall a good deal for me. But my intentions were good. I could go on all day but this is tedious and obvious and self manifesting. You don't need me to point these out. There are visible for everyone to see. mspart