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I am not a Trump supporter GWN. You and I don't know he's a criminal before, during, and after he left office. He is not being criminally prosecuted for anything he did before. He is being criminally charged for things he did toward the end of his time and for things after. So there is that. But I think those charges, for the most part, are politically motivated. The Jan 6 stuff is definitely political as they had the info back then but chose to prosecute now during the campaign. All of the lawsuits and prosecutions have waited until this campaign time. That seems just a little more than suspicious to me. That said, I wish he wasn't running for President. I don't support him. He is toxic to himself and everyone around him. He generally had good policies but submarined them with his antics. I am more of a DeSantis guy, but he is really not telegenic enough to get the traction he deserves in my opinion. But I think he would make a great President. I just see a political hit job on Trump and call that out, not because I support him, but because it is wrong when so many others have done worse and nothing happens to them because they are on the other side. mspart

For a free country to survive, there are duties and responsibilities we all share. When we decide we want to be free of those duties and responsibilities, that is when the freedom of the country is diminished and the plight of those unfortunates caught in the middle is not good. You could say the same about taxes. If someone decided they didn't want to be yoked by that, it does little harm. But when it is typical of the citizenry, then it does great harm to the whole and the country is weakened. A free country does not mean you can do whatever you want. There are penalties for going outside the law. These laws are there to enforce the duties and responsibilities we all have so that the freedom remains. Freedom is not free, it is kept by vigilance to social norms. Families operate similarly as there are duties and responsibilities on the part of the adults. When one or both (normal family arrangement) decide they no longer want to be ruled by duties and responsibilities that they agreed to, the minor children suffer as a result. It is pretty inevitable. When you have a small number of broken families, the result is minor to society as a whole. When it becomes a normal thing, society as a whole suffers. But even if one child suffers, it is worth it to prevent that if possible right? mspart

I want to go to those winter games. Italy is awesome. mspart

That's pretty much 100% of the case. Although there are a few smart ones. One that is not is our own Patty Murray. mspart

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Ah yes, the solid state battery. That may be a game changer if it works as advertised. The other problem with EVs are they are dependent on an already fragile electrical grid. If we all change to them, then we will over stress the electrical production machine that we have right now. This is just part of the problems those on the EV side jumped to without thinking this through. This chart shows we have a long ways to go to be carbon neutral in our electrical generation. This from https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3 And if the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow, then you have to have something else to fall back on. You cannot just start and stop generating plants like a light switch. They take time to get on line. So they would have to be running in a backup mode to cover any shortfalls. That is not really a great solution. mspart

Improvement would be a good start. They have not shown improvement. They cost more, don't go as far, are not as easy to refill, and when the batteries go out, a big layout to get new ones. Trucks are even worse as no business would use one for their business because you can't haul anything with them. That's a big deficit. No they are not perfect. They are not even an improvement over what we have except in the emission realm. There has to be more to get people to move that direction. The hybrid is a better situation. Small engine that charges the batteries, smaller batteries that are also charged when braking. More fuel efficient, thus less CO2 emitted. And the minuses of the EV are not attached to the hybrid. Fuel cell might be the better way to go, no emissions at all other than H2O. We are still a long way off from nuclear powered cars. Not sure that should be in the hands of just any Joe. mspart

Well, he was the 5th choice, so he was no one's first, second, or third choice. mspart

Yeah, he was really pretty good, he was tough, and he was fun to watch. Every now and then I think of him and really wished he was able to climb that ladder a bit higher. He got higher than most ever do, so that is something. Pretty unique character. ' I thought he was an Illini, but I see he wrestled for Indiana. Sorry for getting that mixed up. mspart

Hey, now there's an idea!! That is some out of the box thinking. If this didn't happen, what about the poor slobs that get caught in between cities with low/no charge left? I'm thinking specifically west of the Mississippi where towns can be quite far apart. Tough to hitchhike to the charging station and back to pour a coulomb or two of charge into the batteries. That's a must tow situation. Hopefully the EV tow truck has enough charge to get that done. mspart

You got that right. Everyone, except the party elite, share in the misery. mspart

Oh, I was saying with from the river to the sea, Hama's advocation of ethnic annihilation, which you and UB appear to be ok with. Moving palestinians is a far worse crime in your minds. mspart

Getting ready for Thanksgiving. I might have to get the smoker warmed up on something else before then. mspart

Willie is expositing his theory of racial genocide by demanding all Palestinians be annihilated? mspart

You have demonstrated nothing of the sort. mspart

From a google search on when Daylights savings time ends. Did the House pass the daylight Savings Bill? In 2022, the Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent, although several senators stated later that they would have objected if they had known that the bill could pass. No iteration of the bill has passed the House. An Act to make daylight saving time permanent, and for other purposes. What a bunch of idiots. Then don't give unanimous consent!!! mspart

How exactly? Israel has never said they want to annihilate the Palestinians. In fact they have Palenstinians in the Kennesset. Now that's ethnic cleansing for sure. mspart

If it looks like a communist and quacks like a communist and talks like a communist and says it is a communist, it is a communist. mspart

Found it. https://www.themat.com/news/2023/october/26/mota-pettis-golston-garrett-added-to-u-s-roster-for-pan-american-games Not sending our best to the Games. I thought for the Pan Am Games, we sent our main team. I guess we'll see how they do. Men’s freestyle roster 57 kg – Zane Richards (Champaign, Illinois/Titan Mercury WC/Illinois RTC) 65 kg – Nahshon Garrett (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania/Titan Mercury WC/Lehigh Valley WC) 74 kg – Tyler Berger (Lincoln, Nebraska/Sunkist Kids WC/Pennsylvania RTC) 86 kg – Mark Hall (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania/Titan Mercury WC/Pennsylvania RTC) 97 kg – Kyle Snyder (State College, Pennsylvania/Titan Mercury WC/Nittany Lion WC) 125 kg – Mason Parris (Lawrenceburg, Indiana/Titan Mercury WC/Cliff Keen WC) Coach – Bill Zadick (Colorado Springs, Colorado) Coach – Joe Russell (Colorado Springs, Colorado) Coach – Jake Varner (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania) Team Leader – Rich Tavoso (New York City, New York) Greco-Roman roster 60 kg – Ildar Hafizov (Colorado Springs, Colorado/U.S. Army WCAP) 77 kg – Kamal Bey (Colorado Springs, Colorado/U.S. Army WCAP) 87 kg – Zac Braunagel (O’Fallon, Illinois/Illini WC/Illinois RTC) 97 kg – Josef Rau (Chicago, Illinois/Titan Mercury WC/Wildcat WC) 130 kg – Cohlton Schultz (Parker, Colorado/Sunkist Kids WC) Coach – Justin Ruiz (Colorado Springs, Colorado) Coach – Herb House (Colorado Springs, Colorado) Coach – Spenser Mango (Colorado Springs, Colorado) Team Leader – Josh Weintraub (New York City, New York) Women’s freestyle roster 50 kg – Erin Golston (Lake In The Hills, Illinois/New York AC) 53 kg – Samara Chavez (Arlington, Texas/Team Tornado WC) 57 kg – Xochitl Mota-Pettis (Humble, Texas/Rise RTC) 62 kg – Kayla Miracle (Tempe, Arizona/Sunkist Kids WC) 68 kg – Forrest Molinari (Tempe, Arizona/Sunkist Kids WC) 76 kg – Kennedy Blades (Chicago, Illinois/Sunkist Kids WC) Coach – Terry Steiner (Colorado Springs, Colorado) Coach – Katie Kreibel (Colorado Springs, Colorado) Coach – Nate Engel (Albany, Oregon) Team Leader – Cody Bickley (Colorado Springs, Colorado)

Hey ILLINI - Do you remember Sveda? He was pretty good and very entertaining to watch. mspart

Who is showing up? mspart

From the river to the sea! That is what ethnic cleansing is. mspart

I think when a political organization calls themselves communist it is a good thing to believe them. Xi is not the leader of the democratic capitalists of China. He is the leader of the CCP, Chinese Communist Party. They run everything in China. Did you not get the memo? mspart

Dragging a trailer or hauling a load as a work truck not so good. Need a portable charging station. If only Tesla could have developed his electricity through the air idea. mspart

https://hbr.org/2021/05/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-china ... One thing hasn’t changed, though: Many Western politicians and business executives still don’t get China. Believing, for example, that political freedom would follow the new economic freedoms, they wrongly assumed that China’s internet would be similar to the freewheeling and often politically disruptive version developed in the West. And believing that China’s economic growth would have to be built on the same foundations as those in the West, many failed to envisage the Chinese state’s continuing role as investor, regulator, and intellectual property owner. ... Many Westerners assume that China is on the same development trajectory that Japan, Britain, Germany, and France embarked on in the immediate aftermath of World War II—the only difference being that the Chinese started much later than other Asian economies, such as South Korea and Malaysia, after a 40-year Maoist detour. According to this view, economic growth and increasing prosperity will cause China to move toward a more liberal model for both its economy and its politics, as did those countries. ... In China, however, growth has come in the context of stable communist rule, suggesting that democracy and growth are not inevitably mutually dependent. In fact, many Chinese believe that the country’s recent economic achievements—large-scale poverty reduction, huge infrastructure investment, and development as a world-class tech innovator—have come about because of, not despite, China’s authoritarian form of government. Its aggressive handling of Covid-19—in sharp contrast to that of many Western countries with higher death rates and later, less-stringent lockdowns—has, if anything, reinforced that view. Quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck. mspart