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Because he killed the dog. "If he is the perp, he needs some serious life sentencing to happen. " Nah, recycle his DNA. 9 strikes and a couple of deaths - You're OUT! Serious death sentencing needs to happen.

In Seattle they will list this as a COVID death and back date it to Trump's presidency.

The Kam-eleon now identifies as a moderate. It has new pronouns. New policies. It is most assuredly, though, NOT having a Frisco-ectomy to excise the nutcase policies, concepts, authoritarianism, and other anti-freedom tendencies. It is merely using temporary Leftie-blockers. The effects of these blockers wear off as soon as the election is finished. FJB was on the same Leftie-blockers as was the Bamster last election cycle. Once the election finished they become de-transitioners and regress to their natural state. And, remarkably, once the mid-terms are over they revert even harder to their natural leftie state as the Bamster famously pleaded with a Russian. The most interesting thing is that the Kam-eleon is not lying to people who know her. People on the other side of the political spectrum know exactly what it is. It is lying to the people on its own side and to those who have no idea who it is. Just like the Bamster lied about every social and foreign policy (i.e. "keep you doctor" and his own foreign policy personnel bragging about telling the media bunnies anything and they swallow it without blinking an eye - or even remotely understanding what they are hearing) The Kam-eleon is simply saying the least possible to deceive the hopey changies who are not paying attention.

Yes. Like 401k, IRAs, 501c3, etc. Tax delay, avoidance, deferment. Subsidies. Credits. Deductible. Make it all go away. Flat tax after a personal exemption of $20k or so. If Social Security is an insurance system - like it was advertised and originally implemented - then treat it as such. No double taxation, no offsets due to any other income. It was bought and paid for and is out of the taxes discussion. If SS is an income re-distribution system then just put it in with the flat tax and make all outlays some sort of welfare/means test. But, of course, none of this matters when politicians and bureaucrats can just keep spending without penalty anyway. Let me get back to counting angels on pinheads.

A couple observations and comments: Unless we have a balance budget mandate all talking about debt, deficit, government spending, and tax revenue is counting angels on pinheads. It is fun for nerds and theorists but means nothing in real life. Decreasing tax revenue, especially federal, is a good thing. The federal government does too much and has too much power and its power to tax and regulate. The federal government should be capped at spending no more than 15% of GDP and probably much lower. The ability to go into debt should still be allowed but just like taking out a mortgage the costs to pay off the debt must be included in the budget/revenue plan and other spending must be eliminated to accommodate A form of taxing unrealized gains and asset values already exists. One form is called property taxes. Personal property taxes in some states and road taxes based on vehicle value are other examples. They go up when the value of the property goes up and no sale or realization of the gain has occurred. Generating revenue in this manner is not wildly controversial, unique, or creative. However, some asset valuations will be problematic and there will certainly be a run on Persian rugs or Faberge Eggs if those fall outside the taxing of assets scheme. So while this has been quite fun but ultimately useless until spending is restrained by more than any politician(s) sense of shame and credulity; I must get back to the real world of voting for the person who believes governments should do the least thing necessary for them to do with the least of my property necessary to accomplish it. Next, let's set the Federal Reserve Bank straight with a target of 0% year over year money devaluation (i.e. actual money that reflects the effort to earn it, now and in the past).

Relax. It is only transitory evil. Just ask Janet Yellen.

I am hearing very contradictory information on job growth numbers. Possible conclusions/consequences: more than 100% are going to immigrants (legal and illegal) a huge portion of the job growth (25%) is in government jobs Conclusions(?)/ Conxequences Are government entities are hiring huge numbers of illegal aliens? I really have trouble wrapping my head around this. Probably not the case. BUT . . . do government entities sub-contract to firms that have a large illegal alien labor force? Does Davis Bacon prevent this in at least Federal contract situations? Maybe the answer is that US Citizens are moving into the government jobs and leaving a giant sucking sound of vacated jobs in the private sector pulling illegals into our country. But what about all of the US Citizens - especially male - of working age not working? That list seems to be ever expanding. If >100% of the jobs go to outsiders at below market prices then we must be expanding the roles of people on the dole simultaneously. It is not sustainable (nor green, climate-y, or consciounable) that for every 3 new private sector job recipients they have to pay for a new public employee and another increase in the number of free loaders.

He panicked and fired Gen Flynn rather than take on the swamp right away. Disastrous. He screwed the pooch on COVID. Operation Time Warp was a fraud and a farce. Not firing "Don't need masks/Must mask and shut down economy" Fauci. The completely ridiculous gesture of sending a Naval Hospital ship to NYC thinking that would stop the Dems and Cuomo from bitching. After the 14 days to flatten the curve debacle he should have opened every federal building, no work at home at all, every national park open to the public. States have some sovereign rights but he should have closed down Rhode Island when that set of nincompoops made their own border more secure than anything achieved at our national borders. Trump is a loose cannon on policy. No real principles. Gut instinct can be right a majority of the time but when it is wrong it is catastrophic without a logical underpinning.

Perspicacious use of perspicacity is always a delight to behold. Thank you.

Japan owns everything below 80 kg

By stalling I mean not improving one's position. Not working for hand control. Not trying to get back to neutral. I understand that preventing points on bottom takes effort but my concept of stalling on bottom is more aligned with the folk style concept where actively trying to improve your position/situation is required. It is not sufficient to merely try to stifle the other wrestler's efforts

This articulated my feeling very well. A guy rolling across his own back (i.e. pinning himself) while the other wrestler remains sitting and never gets his shoulders closer than 2 feet to the mat does not indicate control at all to me. Lying on one's stomach and spreading out arms and legs as widely as possible seems to me to be the definition of stalling, not wrestling. I wish some sort of merge of folk and free could get the best of both - no resting in neutral, top, or bottom. Control is control and not the result of nearly random dynamic motion. And I bet that is the most original thought ever stated on this board!

Kirk or Picard? ANSWER THE QUESTION!!

Right. And she is VP because of race and genital configuration* *the euphemism I need to use to avoid the minefield of "gender" and "sex" and "pee pee shape" seems a little crass

Actually, don't need to. The ballots are already being altered and signed for you.

Dude in a horn hat is missing. And grandmas taking selfies with Capitol police between velvet ropes is missing. Desecrating monuments, striking down national flags, Yep. Those actions were very present. I guess those actions have nothing to do with insurrection. But to peacefully and patriotically express your opinion . . .

Israel needs to take a genociding course if they are ever going to get serious about it. Horrible genociders. Proportional response, retreat, negotiation, robust missile defense, and every other technique Israel has tried to stop from being indiscriminately killed has failed and now they are showing their weakness at genocide. Of course, they could genocide themselves as seems to be the preferred solution in Gaza, south Lebanon, and American university faculty lounges. Then, for sure, the Muslim world would instantly fall into a blissful state of peace.

Self-answering question: Because the majority of those on SS and MediCare vote right. The majorities on welfare, illegals, and pay-my-tuition-or-else free collegians vote left. Next question.

Water Polo - the merging of wrestling and swimming and hockey.

CO2 has zero impact on climate change. https://thehighwire.com/editorial/new-peer-reviewed-study-co2-has-zero-impact-on-climate-change/ Long(ish) read but worth it. A couple of pull quotes: "As reported by Slay News, much like a sponge, the Earth’s atmosphere can only hold so much, meaning that carbon dioxide cannot increase temperatures anymore since the saturation point was reached a long time ago. The study uses a hypothetical concept of a fire inside a greenhouse consistently emitting heat. The glass walls and ceiling can contain only so much heat before emitting it outside. CO2 in the atmosphere is very similar in that it can act as a “greenhouse” gas, but all the CO2 together can only contain so much heat, much like the hypothetical greenhouse. The CO2 Coalition agrees with this conclusion as well. Thus, amidst all the fearmongering around climate change—and the knowledge that many things, including changes in solar activity heavily influence Earth’s weather . . ." "And now, following Dr. Curry’s sound advice and insight, we have the Science Direct study reaffirming . . . Conducted by researchers from the Institute of Optoelectronics, Military University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland, the study authors found that even if we dug up all the world’s coal, extracted all the world’s oil, and burned it in one giant pyre, the CO2 emissions from that endeavor would not heat up planet Earth. Indeed, this is because carbon dioxide does not cause the Earth to warm up indefinitely.

Did you vote for the Federal Reserve, its policies, or any member of its board? My democratic self did not. For example, I would abolish the 2% inflation target as it is part of the problem. No inflation should be the target. I have not yet seen the referendum on whether or not Americans believe we should make devaluing our money (i.e. our property and our work effort) a national policy. Neither has your democratic self. No one has ever voted democratically on Fed policy. Therefore, no threat to democracy. The chief executive of an organization (the executive branch of the government) having influence over the nature of the employment of those in that organization is not very radical nor anti-democratic. Therefore, no threat to democracy. Jan 6th is a nothing burger. Never was a burger. Just grandmas taking selfies on a stroll between the velvet ropes for 10 or 15 minutes. The big scandal of Jan 6th was the decisions by the Speaker of the House and the DC Mayor when requests for security were denied by those brilliant ladies. Again, no threat to democracy. A presidential nominee whom nobody voted to represent them: A direct threat to democracy.

'Donald Trump Will Destroy Democracy,' Says Party Nominating Candidate No One Voted For Parody sites like Babylon Bee cannot keep up with the absurdity of the real left.

Too bad Mayorkas is not also on the way out. He’s her “boss” keeping us all “secure”!!

The most undemocratic outcome possible. This man is so beloved that 90+% of the primary voters selected him. 81 million "voters" make him the most democratic democrat in the history of democracy. This is nothing short of an insurrection thwarting the will of the people.

Think of all the ballots that will now have to be thrown out. Or do all of the Dem State AGs make new election rules (like they did in 2024, illegally) stating that a ballot marked for Biden is countable as a ballot for whomever is the Dem candidate? Remember, Joseph R. Biden is the most popular president EVER. EVERRRRRRR!!!!! 81 million ballots. Wilson, FDR, JFK, Clinton, Obama - none were nearly as beloved as a democrat leader as the demi-god Joe Biden. The Democrat voters overwhelmingly indicated their love for BIden in the primaries. Removing the overwhelmingly popular and democratically elected candidate is the most anti-democracy act possible. Our Democracy is at risk!! Prima facie evidence that the DNC is the biggest threat to democracy in our lifetime.