When I look at invasion of congress to prevent the counting of the electoral votes, it's not a false flag I see.

I see instead a purposefully stirred up group basically told with out saying but yet supporting them take action. That's not false flag, that's real. Ask Pence if you don't believe that, he was being moved to safety and yet had no illusions about getting in the car to whisk him to safety.

Through all this, it hasn't been the Dems that have used sly words and hint hints to stir racial troubles.

They don't listen or care what the voters really want. They just want to run the show.
Posted by TFDNihilist

No I disagree on that statement. The GOP has shown exactly the same attitude in both their speech as well as their actions.

At present I feel no one represents me. I'm paying taxes with no voice to represent me. I am neither far left nor far right.

Trump doesn't usually work by giving orders. Giving orders makes it come back to you. Instead he suggests, meanders on a topic, wanting someone else to take the heat when it goes bad as it was 'their' idea. It why in part that it is so hard to pin things directly to him.

So I'd say you could be pretty sure it's from his inside circle.

We had a pool going on in my office back in February on when or if Putin would invade. Even with access to the full breadth of the US IC, most of us still didn't think he would invade. It didn't fit with what he had done in the past.

#15 | Posted by madbomber

As pure speculation, I think the circumstances changed.

As a head of state, he gets the best medical available to his nation. So it is likely he knew early about the cancer. I think the treatments have not been successful. Given this, then his viewpoint would slowly change into what his legacy will be.

He's always wanted to reassemble Mother Russia into it's former glory. I would imagine to him that's a fitting epitaph for his nation to immortalize him by. If so, then he's realized his mortality and that time isn't on his side.

He's taken the Crimea and wants to add the Ukraine to that list of accomplishments.

Just an idea to throw out but to me it would speak of why he's changed his normal reactions.

I keep wondering how much of this surplus is 'magic numbers'. Our congress critters have been spending money like a drunken sailor on leave. We've reached the point that they talk trillions in some of these programs as to funding and no one even raises an eyebrow at the term anymore.

There's a reason inflation is showing it's head.

For the now, until it's shown differently, when I look at my wallet after buying groceries or gas, is where I see what really is. Between inflation and taxation, I'm getting the feeling I've been robbed with no representation in Washington.

Established law and precedence are the main line of court in that both lawyers and judges quote previous rulings and judgements for the basis of current disputes as well as rulings.

Justice Alito now wants to become one of the ones that overrules congress to have law state what he feels is how it should be, not what the laws have represented historically. If he continues to get his way through all these rulings, he'll wind up creating lawlessness as no one in any court will have precedence, as it is slowly destroyed one ruling at a time.

While it is not up to him alone in any one ruling, court packing done by McConnell has done it's work.

Some places don't have oil or gas. Why would the industry buy those areas for their mineral rights if none are there?

I'm waiting till the GOP figures out that all the deaths from Covid has resulted in a smaller voting pool to put them back in office. Especially since it effected the red states far more than the blue ones.

All this abortion banning crap is likely to come back to see them again in a way they won't like but the rest of America will.

Remember, the words we heard was it was no more dangerous than the flu.

Come election time I suspect those rising from the grave to vote just might make the difference.

I'll believe this when I see it happen. A government program they had for low income families to be assisted by the government for pay was required. A radio program talked of it. Yet when I went to the AT&T website, no where could you find that program. It was well hidden where it would not be likely to be found.

Since I had just moved in, I was getting set up for internet. I asked the AT&T representative about the program only to be told I didn't live in the right place to get it. I was quickly steered towards a more expensive internet package.

AT&T was such a PNA to deal with when it came to customer service and coupled with very poor speeds, it just wasn't worth it for me. At the time they were doing fiber upgrades to the nodes but not the last mile. They closed down the process for hurricane evacuation, rehooking all the neighborhood but left mine not reconnected. I was 'offered' two free months of connection for compensation, only if you have no internet then having two months free of no internet is no bargain.

Even contacting them was a problem, I had VOIP and without internet I had no phone. I had to go to the public library just to contact them. After 20 minutes of round and round about a phone number that couldn't be reached, I had reached my limit of patience. I wanted to know just what to do to return their equipment and drop their whole service.

A new independent came in, giving them competition and I promptly dropped them, getting a fine speed boost and the dropping of caps to go with it.

Given my past experiences, I never, ever, want to deal with AT&T again.

Another group thinking homeless people have money coming out their ears. $800 may seem like a small sum to them but to the homeless I'd say $800 was a fortune, much less having to come up with it every month.

I've read an article or two that mention most homeless don't want to go to shelters. They don't agree with the rules at those shelters, they are afraid of the nut jobs already there, that many of them have lice (so if you don't have lice before you go there, you'll have them when you leave), and that the beds at the shelters are first come, first serve. Meaning that if you arrive late, you don't get a bed.

Living expenses have become too high for people in California, that's why a lot of them are leaving.

#45 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY

Thank you for the read.

However, they just finished training Ukrainian soldiers how to use the new GPS artillery systems that hit within 5 feet.
#32 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY

There's more to it than just GPS. Wear on the tubes makes them fall short, headwinds, atmospheric density, humidity, etc also effect the range. You can also get rounds that aren't to spec. Plus there is spin drift. Had that once, rounds fell from 30 on out to the impact area.

Weather corrections should be done every 12 hours.

But there's something else to this. The normal battery consists of 6 howitzers. It is the job of the Forward Observer to align how the guns will impact. This takes into account any variances between the guns. When properly registered, the guns, the forward observer, and the fire control all agree to the same data. Then depending on how the sheaf is adjusted, you can get anything from a in line for say a road, to a pin point, within a given area.

I was once a forward observer.

Was in answer to the post by #23, AMERICANUNITY, who linked to a Twitter post showing an artillery strike.

I hate to say it but that artillery isn't very good at their job of putting rounds on the target. Their sheaf (the spread of the impact area) is all over the place. A few direct hits, the rest wasted rounds doing no good but tearing up the ground.

Am glad you have beat it.

Cancer is the one pandemic no one is talking about as such, yet everyone knows someone.

Too much money is being made on it in our 'for profit' medical industry for anyone to look for a serious cure.

The orange turnip would never have made that trip.

He could barely once, during his tenure, visit the troops on the front line and even that wasn't on the front line but in the rear.

It is evident that Pelosi has more balls than the turnip.

Putin would rue the day he dragged the rest of the free world into conflict. He's already being shown his military isn't what he thought it was and the main resistance is from a small country. Barring his nuclear capability he hasn't the quality of military might he thought he did. The armaments of the rest of the free world are showing him just how badly that quality lacks.

No one wins a nuclear war, full stop. Putin is for the now sword rattling with it, hoping to slow down his losses. Should he use nuclear, he will drag the rest of the world into nuclear war.

He is in a fight he can't win.

Sure hate to hear that, The Judds were a great music team.

RIP Naomi.

Might be able to understand his objections if they had been throwing pineapples and coconuts. As it is, it comes through plainly he didn't want the humiliation.

Of course she lied. She used the "I can't remember" instead of pleading the 5th so she'd not be charged with perjury. Often taking the 5th is the equivalent of saying 'guilty of that' in the eyes of a jury.

Why don't we have dollar and 2 dollar coins like Canada and Europe?
#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

The Mint Act of 1792 established what coinage there would be and what their value would be set at by the metal in their contents. This set up for the first $1 coin. On Oct 10 1978, the Susan B. Anthony $2 coin came into being.

Both the silver dollar as well as the $2 coin are collector items and they rarely see circulation. The same goes for the $2 bill.

The penny and the nickle cost more to mint due to the price of silver and copper than they are worth. If it were not for taxes, the penny wouldn't have much use. All prices at present would just round up to the nearest whole round out of a nickle.

As LampLighter mentions, there were issues with the size of the coinage and having to feel the edge of the coin to determine it's value if you couldn't see it directly, such as feeling around in your pocket to see if it had ridges engraved in it or if it was smooth.

Some of the expense of making coins was reduced by making what is termed 'sandwich' coins. Sandwich coins were introduced in 1965 to reduce the valuable metals needed to produce the dime, quarter, and half dollar. Instead of using pure silver, a mix of copper and silver was used and looking from the edge of the coin you could see the 'sandwich'.

What would be the real hoot, is if Disney doesn't fight it and leaves it just as it is.

What do you think the voters will feel like when they get the bill for this gay law?

I'd say be careful what you ask for, you might get it.

It's all well and good to be claiming you want to shoot or kill the other guy. Plays good to the voters that support you. After all it's just words isn't it?

Well maybe it isn't just words, look at Jan 6. Suddenly all those Repubs that were wanting heads felt the press of those words when the mass came into their job site. Suddenly it wasn't public tv, radio spots, and speaking engagements, it was the mob, looking for those heads and at least one of those heads wasn't the other party.

Just as easily, getting wound up over politic and pointing at one side, can seriously backfire. Go do something stupid enough that it riles that same mob and they'll be seeking your head if you the public figure.

I'm laughing at this idea that this Twitter will now be a free speech place. The problem with that is there are all these nut jobs out there. Doesn't matter what side of the political fence you fall on, there are nut jobs on the other side, all thinking they have the ultimate right to belch out their side of the story as they see it. A big portion of them will not accept the idea they have to reign in their speech.

Then you have the misinformation, some feed by outsiders with the idea of stirring up trouble for whatever reason.

In the end, either you moderate or you watch your members leave a cesspit. I honestly doubt Musk has any real idea on that. He will wind up as all other social sites of using the ban in order to maintain control or he will see a migration of people leaving to go somewhere else.