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Not to mention his terribly accented falsetto voice... ewww!

EP was being sarcastic... he's a fledgling Islamic as far as I can tell; which is cool. (JC said, "I have other sheep." which is usually explained as adding Gentiles to Jews, but it could mean other Abrahamic religions,imnsho.)

"The final round of polls released by The Times on Sunday showed Democrats leading in many of the key Senate battlegrounds, including in Michigan by 11 percentage points, in Texas by 7, Kansas by 5 and Alaska by 1.

Silver said the poll's results were close but not within his model's "weird" territory, adding that the data suggests Democrats are likely to take the Senate.

"Democrats could actually absorb a modest-sized polling error and perhaps still prevail given the latest round of surveys," Silver wrote.

With less than a day before Election Day, Democrats hold the edge in the polls. They are poised to win or seriously compete in historically red states, including South Carolina, Kansas and Iowa.

Silver pointed out that even if Democrats lose a handful of these red state races, they won't necessarily be complaining.

"Even if Democrats were to lose a couple of these races " and there's actually some bad news for them here in Alaska, I think " absolutely no Democrat is going to complain if they only flip the top five races in this chart, especially if it comes along with the Texas governorship," Silver wrote."

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"Am I Blue"

Excerpt from "To Have And Have Not" (1944)

"RMF reports, based on unnamed sources, that Poland's Military Intelligence Service (SWW) and agencies from unnamed allied countries last week issued a warning that sabotage activities could take place on the Polish-Russian border, potentially including border violations by armed groups.

In a separate statement, the national police headquarters told RMF that the ongoing operation is "directly related to the situation taking place in our country today, that is, acts of sabotage ... and the actions of eastern services".

That was a reference to the activities of Russia and its ally Belarus, which have in recent years carried out a series of acts of sabotage and other so-called "hybrid actions" against Poland and other countries in the region."

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Some of those border countries are basically unarmed, no real army, and subject to use by Poland's internal rwing party efforts to provoke a war.

Which Vlad appreciated highly as he is still on his decades long journey to restore the old Soviet Union... you know, for himself and for his Oligarch pals.

A couple of which may want him dead, howsomever, which could complicate matters.

Good short interview PBS with Zelenskyy where he offers NOT to strike Russian industrial facilities IF Starlink removes restrictions on Ukraine... that they will continue NOT to target civilians in Russia, and focus only on Military.

Of course, that's not Vlad's way of Terror Strikes.

You should charge at least a Dollar for your Psychic Magnificence!

I mean, no one else is ALWAYS wrong...

Ukraine hitting mostly industrial targets while Vlad is still specializing in civilian strikes.

"Meta in particular has attracted scrutiny over how it has taken advantage of the R&D tax break. The tech company reportedly classified its AI data centers as experimental "pilot models," according to reports cited by senators, which would allow it to receive the tax break.

Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Ben Ray Lujn (D-N.M.), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) wrote a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg earlier this month demanding answers by Oct. 31 on how the investments Meta is claiming tax breaks for differ from routine costs for equipping data centers.

"The federal research credit can be a useful and necessary tool to support our nation's innovation economy and cutting-edge research," the senators wrote.

"Subsidizing your A.I. data center build is not close to meeting this standard."

from the above link

No Paywall:

"Corporate tax revenue has plummeted under the Trump administration, which has ushered in a series of tax breaks meant to boost capital investments, even as corporate profits have soared.

Treasury Department data released earlier this month showed about a 15% reduction, about $70 billion, in corporate income tax revenue to $381 billion in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30.

The drop is part of a more than 25% reduction in corporate tax revenue since 2024, when former President Joe Biden was in office."

and

"Rather than blame the more than 100 companies paying nothing in federal income tax, however, it's the hundreds of corporations paying a reduced rate that present the bigger threat to tax revenue, according to Matt Gardner, ITEP senior fellow and coauthor of the report.

The 706 companies saved a total of $198 billion last year as a result of corporate tax subsidies, while the 114 corporations that paid nothing accounted for a fraction of that.

"There's a real concentration of profits at the top, and when those companies pay anything less than 21%, that's really what is knocking a hole in our corporate tax laws right now," Gardner told Fortune.

"Their profits were so huge that their tax avoidance is way more consequential for the federal government's capacity to function than the zero tax corporations are."

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- You missed the salient difference, and it's MY fault.
#10 | Posted by Danforth

Welcome to Bev World!

- I'm telling you what you don't really believe.

I'm not paying the Fiddy Cents for THAT pseudo-Psychic Reading.

As I noted, it's just your way of saying you have no actual argument.

Putin's Palace is what I'd love to see Ukraine strike next... hit him where it hurts personally.

The first preemptive Pardon he'll issue will be for himself.

Still the Psychic, eh, Bev?

Telling people here what they think because you have no argument to what they say... is pretty funny, really.