Tubberville claims that he's going to continue to hold-up 11 Four-Star promotions, out of principle.

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Growing up, my father subscribed to 'Popular Mechanics'. He considered 'Popular Science' as being a couple of steps above his high school drop-out status, whereas PM was closer to where he lived and worked.

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If anyone doubts how far ahead of society the Carter's work remind them that the Carters put solar panels on the roof of the white house.

#15 | Posted by Tor

And Ronald Reagan had the panels taken down, acting as if solar energy was all just a pathetic liberal joke in the first place. Reagan was ---- in so many ways.

#16 | Posted by moder8

Note that most of the solar panels, despite Reagan's orders that they be destroyed, were saved and were later given to a small university in Maine where they were reinstalled and used for several years. Eventually one of the panels was given to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, another was put on display at the Carter Library in Atlanta and a third was donated to the Solar Science and Technology Museum in Dezhou, China.

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Well, it looks like GM and the UAW has finally come to an agreement.

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And the Ohio taxpayers are picking up the costs.

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A truly sad state of affairs...

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It looks like two down, one to go...

Nothing like taking advantage of a horrible situation for political gain.

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But he once did say that he'd like to date her:

And how will Trump respond if, while under oath, Ivanka reveals some truths that Trump doesn't want people to know. Will he attack her like he has other witnesses?

Also, it appears that the previous fines dished-out by the NY judge, $5,000 last week and $10,000 this week, have not tempered him commenting about the judge or the AG. He's apparently told some of his people that he hopes that the fines continue and perhaps even some jail time, as this would go a long way in his effort to show the world that he's the 'victim' in all this and to further his argument that he's sacrificing himself to save democracy.

Bribe income is taxable.

Time for the IRS to get involved.

#11 | Posted by Nixon

It could be worse than that.

If Thomas declared his RV as a second home, for which it qualified under IRS rules (since it had sleeping, cooking, and toilet facilities), and he deducted the interest paid on the loan was a 'mortgage' on a second home (see reference below), if that loan was later forgiven, it could be seen as a fraudulent tax deduction since in essence there was no 'mortgage' to have been paying interest on.

Of course this begs the question, how did Trump's campaign team know which hotel room was Haley's?

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We saw the launch from our house. It was about 30 minutes after sunset and we had just walked out to the front of our house talking to a neighbor when we saw the exhaust plume lit by the Sun that was below the horizon but still able to light-up the smoke trail. It happened so fast that I wasn't able to get inside to grab my camera. For all the years that we've lived here (37 years) that's the first time we've seen an actual launch from Vandenberg AFB. Now I've seen what looked like conn-trails during the day, but only after the fact. This was the first time that we could actually see the rocket and watch as the second stage fired and everything.

I've since found a website which lists the upcoming launches from Vandenberg and will be watching for maybe another early evening launch where the Sun will highlight the exhaust plume.

Credit unions also tend to offer much higher interest rates on savings accounts. While my wife still has her checking account at a large bank, so that we have access to ATM's wherever we are, all of the the household stuff is done through the credit union (which I've been a member of for over 40 years). Also, when I turned 65, they dropped any sort of minimum deposit or anything in order to have free checking.

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The only checks that we write on a regular basis is for the gardener, once a month, and for the maids, which is every two weeks. We use the E-contribute option at church so only for holy days and special collections do I need to write a check. Of course, my wife still sends checks to the granddaughters at Christmas and for birthdays.

For everything else, if they allow credit cards without a fee, I use that as I get cash back (about $1,200 a year). If they don't allow credit cards or they charge a fee, I go the on-line bank debit route.

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My wife and I, and our oldest son and his wife, and two of his daughters, are gong to meet in Hobbs, New Mexico to see the October annular eclipse. We're driving from SoCal and they're coming in from Katy, Texas.

Below is a link to a website which provides a lot of information about both the upcoming October 2023 annular eclipse and the April 2024 total eclipse. I can highly recommend the 'Field Guide' that they sell on this site as it provides a lot of information about the eclipses themselves as well as some suggestions about good places to observe them. I bought copies of the 'Field Guide' for both me and our son:

I hear these radio adverts all the time telling small business owners that even if they were not harmed by the pandemic or they never lost money, that they can still apply for and get a big tax credit, and that they'll handle all the paperwork for just a 'small percentage' of what the business owner gets in return.

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Can you spell 'Quid Pro Quo'...

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Ironically, if the judge had ruled in Trump's favor, they would have been allowing him to take the classified documents back to the very location where the alleged crime was originally committed.

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I thought the "I was only following orders" when out with the Nuremberg trials...

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Yes, he claims that the Constitution does NOT protect everyone born in the United States and that as President, he can make those sorts of decisions.

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P.S. by 2035 8 out of 10 people on the planet will be Asian.

#12 | Posted by RightisTrite

We've contributed to that as four of our five granddaughters are technically Asian (1/4 as their mother is half-Asian). And the other is half Hispanic (as her mother is from Mexico).

As for my wife and I, we're solid European, I'm Flemish on my mother's side and German on my father's, while my wife is Welsh/Irish on her mother's side and Polish/German on her father's.

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And yet Republicans wonder why they're having problems attracting support among younger voters.

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