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You're starting to sound like Winsor with that talk. EV's are the future for a number of practical reasons, before you even factor in the environmental impact. You seem dead set on charging ahead as if climate science is bunk, and there's an infinite supply of fossil fuels to continue on our merry way. Not to 'I know you are but what am I?' your post, but the climate deniers have a lot more in common with religion. Facts and science be damned, you're holding fast to your beliefs! You'll be old/gone before we're out of fossil fuels, so no point in trying to make life livable without them eh?

Leaving aside that it's a very odd question to ask given that he is not currently in contempt of Congress, is it not a question you could have asked in any of the other threads you have open about the Hunter Biden investigation? Or maybe you're just aiming for the day that the entire first page of this forum will consist of the 50 separate threads brenthutch has opened about the same 3 issues in the last 2 weeks.

and those many decades will be well served by the research, development and production now.... which you summarily ignored as a part of anything that happens int he future. products seldom come out of a 'poof of fucking genius' that happens overnight and strategy is NOT defined like that in any way. How is the energy supply of the USA secured into the future if the economy rolls 80-95% on fossil fuels?

I work in the power generation industry. It is also 'variable'. Just ask Texas..... or did you forget the complete collapse of their grid? STRATEGY is a combined mixture of gas, oil, hydro, wind, solar, thermal etc remove that variability. We poured a lot of billions of dollar into NASA in the 60's and 70's. You probably would not have that portable battery drill at Home Depot for $29 if we hadn't, so 'just ask NASA' about that. we poured a lot of money into the interstate system too, and created an economy rivaled by none directly because of it. 'better ask the USA' about that Those of you that say it cannot be done are just in the way of those that are already doing it.

Let's hope the Justice Dept. can still find those at fault and prosecute them to the full extent of the law.

Ask the children in the Appalachian about coal mining.

That's inevitable. The only question is how it happens. The #1 way to reduce birthrate is to educate women; there is a very strong correlation between lack of education and number of births per women, as well as a strong correlation between more education and the welfare of the children they do have. Two of the charities I contribute to are Tostan and Camfed, both centered around women's education in third world countries. I would prefer to reduce birthrate through improving both women's outcomes and child welfare, rather than how nature will do it. We won't like how nature does it.

And what happens when we run out of our own fuels? You call that strategy? You seem to have a problem with capitalism...... and supply chains, or perhaps saving for the future..... Which is smarter and/or more strategic? Burning some other countries oil and fuel at a lower price than we can produce it? Or using up our own supply at a higher cost and then having nothing available to us in say 100 years? I mean do right wing anti-renewable types ever actually THINK about what strategy means? Answer that. Did it EVER occur to you that maybe part of the strategy IS IN FACT, lower costs and a future supply? No of course it didn't ever occur to you. not even once.

He is! He is protecting all those poor, poor kids who Hilary Clinton was sex trafficking and human-sacrificing in the basement of that pizza place in DC. Won't someone think of the children?

I asked that stewardess that. She said they spent an afternoon during their stewardess training focus on how to handle hijacks. Essentially, they were told to just keep the hijacker happy and keep passengers calm. She said they were taught where to put a bomb on the plane that would cause the least amount of damage. Said they were told to wrap any explosive device in blankets and shove it against a particular place (I've forgotten). She said that later on in the early 80's they did a more extensive training and their teachers were guys from Mossad.

Weird that she goes from KK5-1 to Bing. Very different people. Maybe she was just all out of sorts from the hijacking. That's the Vortex. One thing we can agree on is that wwe may never all agree. I'd love to see some DNA come back and see how everyone argues about that. :) I hope I'm still alive.

The problem I have with Flo is her stability - her reliability to be a neutral witness. She obviously had a strong reaction early in the hijacking - words were not coming out of her mouth! - she was sent to the cockpit and didn't come out ? Later she has another 'strong reaction' and cannot or does not agree with other witnesses attempting to describe the hijacker. ?? Or, does she? Flo seems to have strong attitudes and reactions? I wonder if the experienced artists working with these witnesses might have had an opinion about who was the 'best most reliable' witness, based on experience, and who was not ? Im not sure Flo fully qualifies as a 'reliable' witnesses. She might be the most outspoken witness! But not fully reliable ?

He's a grown man in his mid-30's. He has personal agency to do whatever he wants. I looked into a suspect with him. Doesn't mean I'm his handler nor that I ever was. I just counted 6 other people whom I'm also currently assisting with their suspects. I'll continue to introduce suspects to the Vortex whom I think deserve to be investigated, same as I did with Braden and Vordahl. Just this past year I've introduced Leigh Seller and also Orville Lyons and James Roman (I spoke publicly at CooperCon about all three). There's another suspect being introduced soon in a book that I've greatly assisted on. If I find a suspect compelling, I'll gladly promote them as warranting further investigation by members of the Vortex.

Hi Bill, Each January is when I send out my donations to various organizations. I'll put them on my list. Here are two I have been donating to for yrs: Reproductive Freedom For All [NARAL] 1725 Eye Street, NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20006 The Center for Reproductive Rights 199 Water Street New York, NY 10038 Jerry Baumchen PS) I agree completely with your post. It is only a matter of how.

Or Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino, Kevin McCarthy, Andy Biggs or Scott Perry?

Speaking of nature, education and third world countries. There is the issue of GOP districts in the southern US and their fertility rates as compared to democrat ones. "we estimate that Trump’s victory led to over 7,000 additional births in Republican counties(the study counties) and 38,000 fewer Democratic births over nine quarters. Using our alternative measure based on the rightward vote shift instead of the vote share, we estimate 18,000 more Republican and 48,000 fewer Democratic births." Above from Partisan Fertility and Presidential Elections Dec. 2021 Study So the uneducated GOP are raising more AR-15 a-totin, trump a-votin, younguns every day.

It seems like only yesterday that the GOP was screaming that democrats were hiding Jan 6th tapes to protect the FBI criminals who instigated it. Now the GOP is refusing to release any such video evidence unless they first blur out faces so no one can be identified. So much for that talking point.

You're misunderstanding the timing. Hopefully this chart clears it up.

And at the same time give them social agency and access to credit or grants. Otherwise they're still under the boot.

omg. Never change, Flyjack. That was a literal checkmate. My conclusion was that they never would have completely overhauled the sketch without them misunderstanding what sketch Flo was referring to. This document is the first time that they decided that a new sketch was needed. They write "a key witness said the sketch sucked" and the very next sentence is "so it is recommended that we make a new sketch". Again, for the millionth time, do you really think they'd have ordered a totally new sketch if they thought that their primary witnesses were in agreement? Absurd. They KEEP highlighting "Flo said the sketch sucked". That's literally in FOUR MEMOS: 5-30-72, 8-4-72, 8-7-72, and 8-23-72. And I'm not elevating Comp A or denigrating Comp B. I think you view everything anyone does in this case as suspicious and with an agenda. My only agenda is to get the history of the investigation right for my book. It should be clear to anyone who is objective that they think Flo is talking about Comp A.

A few thoughts on this subject. On Nov. 20, 1967, as the United States Census Bureau's Population Clock ticked past 200 million, the Union's editorial board looked ahead to the challenges facing Americans. The U.S. population officially reached 300 million in 2006 and topped 333 million this year. How many is enough, how many is too many. At the start of 2022, corn production was down 9 percent from 2021. How much of that corn goes to making ethanol to add to gasoline rather than for food. The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, given the food, habitat, water, and other resources available. What is the carrying capacity of the earth? I think we may have exceeded that number already. I used to joke with my wife that what this world needs is a good plague. I guess it is not much of a joke any more. In the future, the human species may not experience a complete extinction but certainly a massive reduction in number.

Hi Ken, I agree. Re: The drive to reproduce is innate in all of us Not in me. While I absolutely love both of my offspring, I could quite easily go thru life without becoming a father. I really only did because my wife wanted children; I was quite ambivalent about it. I do think it is innate in most people. Jerry Baumchen

You forgot chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Not having 'crop failures' causing massive famines has done a hell of a lot to increase lifespans. When's the last time you heard a plea for the 'starving children in India'? Or Africa? When and where were people forced to get vaccinated? I don't know of any in the US. I don't think there were any elsewhere. There were strong social pressures to get it. There were some consequences (loss of job, inability to enter certain businesses, ect), but it wasn't required. Of course, the vast majority of the Covid deaths in the US since late 2021 were the unvaxxed. As you point out, that's just the 'herd' thinning itself. The main reason for the lockdowns was the idea of 'flatttening the curve'. If too many people had gotten sick and needed care all at once, the healthcare system would have gotten overloaded and failed. It came damned near doing that in Italy early on. The hospitals were full. At one point, they were triaging care. Older people were being told 'we can't help you, we don't have the ability. Go home and die'. Untreated death rates were approaching 10%. A few of the surges in the US saw situations approaching that. People waiting a couple days on a gurney in a hallway for a bed. The treatment protocols had improved to the point that the death rates didn't spike as bad, but there were people dying because they couldn't get care (not only for Covid, but for other things). They were still at the point that they were using refrigerated semi trailers for temporary morgues. More than one place and more than one time. If it had gotten to the point that the hospitals shut down, there would have been serious problems. I agree we need to reduce the population. What's been shown to work is education and emancipation of women. So, of course, the major religions and conservative governments are trying to oppress that.

Hi Nigel, If one reads my posts on here, they will know that I believe that the ONLY path to survival of us human folks, is to reduce the current population of the Earth by 65%. That means 1/3 of what we have now. I have recently read where the Earth is now in the middle of it's 6th Great Extinction. The article said that this was the only one human caused. During the gas shortage in 1973, some of us engineers at work got to discussing oil & it's finite amount. One engineer said that, eventually, mankind would come to hate the Age of Oil. I have often posted, that no matter where you are, take a 360* look around & see just what all is the product of oil. Let's say that you have a 1,000 acres of land and you grow crops. The yield that you get today is because you use fossil fuels; not only for your farm vehicles, but for your fertilizer. Now, take away anything used in farming that is based upon fossil fuels. Ever think about just how much crop you can grow? Not much; not enough to feed us. Nice post - I hope it gets other thinking. Jerry Baumchen PS) In 1963, while driving from Berlin to West Germany [ thru East Germany ], I watched a farmer plow a field behind a cow using a wooden plow. PPS) I also find it fascinating.

Translated: I didn't read a damn thing you posted, but I'm still right and you're wrong, so neener neener. Grow. The. Fuck. Up. <blocking:y, uname:bh, persistent:y>

Which is why this is the perfect way to stay in the sport. :)~

The markets and the employment scene both seem pretty healthy at the moment. What was a bear 2 months ago now is looking like a bull. The fallout from the pandemic is not over but seems to be being managed as well as it could be. Certainly much better than having an erratic unpredictable reactionary party in charge.