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Texas AG Paxton is threatening to prosecute regardless of te court's order. Beto O'Rouke summed it up nicely: “This is Texas AG Ken Paxton saying he’ll throw a woman’s doctors in prison for life if they perform a *court-granted* abortion on a *nonviable* pregnancy that risks causing her permanent infertility and death,” he said. “Still think the GOP is pro-life?” O’Rourke added.

If Speaker's Corner had existed back in 1910: ================================================================ Naptha Heads I put pen to paper today to lament the latest lunacy arising from the liberal progressive elements of our society - the automobile. Everyone has seen these infernal contraptions by now, driving around cities and making life for ordinary people impossible. They have been touted as the solution to all our woes over disposal of manure, disease and noise in cities. But proponents of these demonic machines are either quite literally insane, or they have not thought it through. For example, take the fuel the dangerous things need. They can run on peanut oil, but verily we would need the entire country planted with peanuts to ensure a sufficient supply for them. They can also run on a naptha-like fraction of refined oil, but there are only 22 refineries in the US right now. Consider going from a family of four needing ten gallons of lamp oil a year to needing thousands of gallons to fuel their foul-smelling machine! We would need thousands and thousands of refineries and oil wells, an impossible proposition for centuries to come. Indeed the naptha comes with its own challenges. A man smelling naptha regularly becomes dizzy and sick, more like a publican in his cups than a useful member of society. Can the country live with these naptha-heads in all aspects of society, pushing their literally sickening fuel on the streets of America? And naptha heads do not consider how much road will be needed. Unlike horses capable of surmounting any rude trail or path, automobiles need paved roads, of a much higher quality than we see today. By one estimate, to accommodate automobiles we will need FOUR MILLION MILES of these roads in the next 100 years to deal with the traffic caused by these dangerous vehicles! That means that the US would have to build one hundred miles a DAY of roads, a ludicrous number. The most ardent road builders in the country, combined, can barely build ten miles of horse-navigable road a day. The naptha-heads are too dizzy from their own fuels to think clearly. Then of course there are safety issues. Old Dobbin will never trample a child if he can help it; a good horse will keep the populace safe and will get their riders home safely. With an automobile a second's inattention could lead the machine to crush a school full of children, or crash their driver at breakneck speeds into a stone wall. A horse will get anyone home safely, from the most timid woman to a man in his cups. Not so for an automobile, that must be managed constantly with an expert man's hand so as not to kill dozens. Can our society really accept dead children as a welcome price for this "progress?" And this does not count the risks that automobiles pose to our current reliable transportation. Backfires from cars have spooked horses who have then spilled their riders, and sent entire teams running from the satanic noise these things produce. Who will compensate these riders and drivers for their losses? And of course, unlike horses, these cars with their tanks full of oil or naptha can explode at any moment, raining fire and destruction on the heart of any of our fair cities. For decades now the US has prospered from reliable canal, rail and horse-drawn transportation. It would be insanity itself to switch from those to dangerous and unproven naptha-fueled contraptions that will kill thousands, and for which no infrastructure exists. Perhaps in 100 years we will have solutions to all the intractable problems that automobiles cause, and have the infrastructure to support them. Until that time, encouraging their use is pure insanity borne of naptha-addled minds.

Suppose Don Jr had been indicted when Daddy was in the Whitehouse. How many minutes would have elapsed before he was pardoned?

Given that he already paid ALL arrears, and has a pretty clean criminal record.....I doubt he will do time.

they provided a direct link to federal funding for gas stations.... are you going to acknowledge that you are incorrect in your claims? No, i would expect not.... go ahead and pretzel yourself again in trying to wiggle out of being 100% wrong

https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/12/05/where-are-all-those-ev-chargers-congress-spent-billions-on-in-2021-n2167185 EVs are a non-solution to a non-problem that most folks don’t even care about. Some inquiring minds might ask, where did those billions go? I’m sure the sheep will reply “to saving the planet”

?? Surely you've been following the right wing narratives lately. Trump is a victim of Biden's vicious and partisan justice department. Santos is a victim of a left wing smear campaign. Conservatives are victims of insane woke agendas. Conservative businesses are victims of the liberal climate change lie. Children are victims of drag queens (but NOT GUNS!) Oh, and Trump is also a victim of a total of 14 women who unfairly accuse him of rape and sexual assault. Even though he actually raped one, and was in a picture with her, and mistook her for his wife, and paid off a porn star to not talk about him banging her, and bragged about grabbing women's pussys. That's not important. What's important is that HE is the victim here. Taking responsibility for their actions went out the window years ago.

Back in 1969, the government funded a project to develop "packet switching" theory into something called "ARPANET". You never hear about it anymore, so it must not have been successful.

I'm saying so what? You claim that EVs aren't valid unless the free market alone makes them successful - the free market alone didn't make cars successful. Governments have paid and continue to pay (not just subsidise, actually pay out) staggering amounts of money to enable the normal use of cars. When you just drill down to one individual aspect of the world of cars and try and make it sound critically important that one type is government funded and the other one (supposedly) isn't - why should anyone care?

Seen elsewhere: Having to ask the candidate if he plans on becoming a dictator SHOULDN'T happen. It should be an automatic disqualifier. Sort of like if you have to ask the babysitter if she plans on cooking and eating the children, then you want a different sitter.

yeah, engineers and developers of the technology required to take a rocket and men to the moon were built by thousands of people and USED by those same engineers during the actual tests and missions over years.... and in the middle of the night, someone snuck into NASA and replaced all those custom built systems with simulation versions to fake a moon mission, guidance, landing, and literally hundreds of other systems needed, life support, navigation, electrical, all sensors, computers, guidance, And they did it SO WELL, that the actual people that built those systems were fooled by these replacement systems that faked everything. no one noticed ANYTHING. got it.

3-5 years seems to be the norm for large scale tax evasion at a federal level, plus of course, the repayments and penalties etc. I think entirely possible that a plea agreement gets reached. financials, plus some 3-12 month jail time, or even probation that is dependent on the repayment. Sounds like he is in shit because his lawyers managed to fuck up a plea deal completely. Apparently there are a lot of shitty 'sons' out there. Some republican Senator's son killed a deputy in a car accident related to high speed chase/evasion and running from the cops just the other day I wonder when the Republicans will form a committee to impeach the senator for his son's actions?

There was an accurate answer posted. He either doesn't read the responses, or ignores the ones that don't fit his narrative. Just like all the other garbage he posts.

That was AFTER the decision to overhaul it. What originally PROMPTED the decision to overhaul it is the question, not what they did to make the sketch good AFTER their decision was made. Those additional modifications could have just been applied to the Bing sketch. But they lacked confidence in Bing due to their misunderstanding of which sketch Flo was criticizing, so they started over. Bottom line is that if Flo wasn’t the prime mover in getting the new sketch made, then why would her testimony be the polestar feature of all 4 memos that discuss why they are changing it?

Hunter Biden just indicted on tax charges; Better start 3 new threads!!!

We all have the same amount of insight as you into the inner workings of Congress and the legal system. But I think I’m with the folks who say that agreeing to testify, but only in public, is cooperative. Wendy P.

News about the "failing" EV transition: Ford hits new EV sales record in Nov as Lightning becomes bestselling electric truck Peter Johnson | Dec 4 2023 - 9:17 am PT Ford’s CEO Jim Farley broke the news on Friday that F-150 Lightning sales broke a monthly sales record last month. F-150 Lightning sales more than doubled (+113%) in November, with 4,393 units sold. With the growth, Ford’s Lightning is the bestselling electric pickup through November, edging out the Rivian R1T. Ford sold more Lightning models last month than it did in the entire third quarter (3,503 units sold). Lightning output was limited in Q3 as Ford retooled its EV plant in Michigan. https://electrek.co/2023/12/04/ford-sets-ev-sales-record-nov-lightning-becomes-best-seller/

So I found a good Black Friday deal and decided to order Engo 2 glasses. They arrived pretty fast and I did short tests with them. I can say that they fit my Kiss helmet nearly perfectly. Also I've connected the glasses not only with phone, but also with Garmin Fenix 7 watches and they work good (it is somewhat non-user-friendly to setup data fields for garmin watches, but absolutely doable). So glasses can show up to 6 data fields on a single page/screen, which I find good enough for WS flying. It is also possible to add more pages/screens, but switching from one screen to another needs hand gestures in front of the glasses, so it is definitely not usable for WS. If you have any questions about the glasses, I can check and give you more details about it.