JoeWeber

Good for you, a PBS show. Jonathon Haidt gave a TED talk in 2008 that sounded smart and ended with the claim that enlightened liberals could by means of moral humility find common ground with conservatives. Well, that didn't age well. He was talking some light lifting with understanding Bush conservatives, of course, not MAGA. I did like this prescient slide he posted at the beginning of his talk though:

Absolutely. Which is exactly why all of the petty, niggling attacks made directly or indirectly against Biden, Harris or the effects of any of the current policies being attributed to them by some posters here are not simple, benign disagreements but instead, in my view, are at their very core anti-American acts. This is the information age, as if any one should need to be reminded, and every little degrading thing someone posts even on an obscure site like SC adds to the hurt. Claiming otherwise is like claiming that all you added to the hamburger was the pickle so it didn't contribute to the making. Our righties can believe that all the way to the gun range but if Trump gets re-elected we're all gonna get the pickle.

Only you would say that.

I think he was quoting from Mein Kampf.

I'm not too concerned: we've got you to spread the truth.

Indeed, just absolutely hilarious. 50.5% of us are female and of the 100% at least 10% are released by nature from victorian sex mores. So no matter how you do math a clear majority are being controlled by a minority and the only way they can pull off that trick is by using the government. Oh, and by lying their asses off, too, of course.

Of course he does not, I requested that data in post #2049 but as usual from Trumpies: Nada. They can never simply state exactly what they like about Trump while owning his innumerable deficits.

Well, of course, that's the norm actually. In this particularly obscene case the politician is Donald J. Trump and even if his stated policy was free 1998, 2002, and 2005 Grand Cru Burgundies, free jumps, free jet fuel, and new yachts annually for semi-retired DZO's I would still oppose him for the threat to democracy, world peace, and plague on humanity that he is.

Maybe you can tell us why you will support Trump over Biden in the coming Presidential election. Please, we know about the laptop, stutter, trips and falls etc. etc. so what I'm looking for are the policies, positions, and leadership qualities that make Trump your choice.

Enough so that a guy from another country might leave Perris thinking they are Trumpies? That's damn sad no matter the truth.

Is that right? You mean at Perris they were all Trump supporters?

Man, that’s just appalling. Unless, I suppose, that you think people do not as a matter of their true nature adopt a different approach to their gender than is listed on their birth certificate. Unless, that is, that you do not believe our perceptions of ourselves and the world around us happens at the level or our brains. And unless you are convinced that any deviation from an accepted norm is a matter of choice. If that’s what you think, oh well. What I see are people trying to live the only life they will ever have as comfortable with themselves as they possibly can.

Trump's latest enabler: New York Court of Appeals. Lucky bastard.

Bill, I was quoting YOU in your post and my reply was pure sarcasm or do you actually read the Somali Sun-Sentinal?

When smart people like BillE believe more guns=more safety on our streets just because, and it is just because, all his local homeys in South Carolina believe it and he is steeped in the same guns=good and liberals=bad culture then true impossibility of making meaningful progress becomes even more painfully clear.

I didn't reference a source. But if you're in the mood for research I might recommend the Yemen Times, the Houthi Herald, the Gaza Register Guard, or the Somali Sun-Sentinal.

We know that every asteroid doesn't come from outer space?

Great news. "With that said, it can't be a coincidence that crime rates are dropping at a time when more citizens are walking around with guns." Thanks for that deluded insight, Bill. I've also heard that folks in other third world countries feel safer with guns.

Yes, and many are so operated. It's red, here. They'll also run on home heating oil and kerosene. I think the manual even allows a few hundred hours of 100LL. But it's bad for the life of the engine. I'd need to research SB's but I think red fuel was verboten until the early 90's and then could be interpreted as allowed for a certain time. That is a vague remembrance, however.

??? Highway Tax on Aviation fuel? Weird.

Many paradigms existed before today, including direct barter economies. Surely the effects the huge capital injection are still playing out. But as a nation vs. other nations who also made huge capital injections our methodology appears to be the more successful. In Europe, (correct me here skydekker-no offense will be taken) pretty much, they paid companies to keep workers on the job and we paid workers to stay home but still spend to keep the economy chugging along. We made infrastructure investments, companies had discounted money to upgrade, and like it or not, we had the ability it add to the workforce to greater degree. Interest rates are up which is a good thing if you are out of risky investments or on fixed income and inflation is again lower than those returns. The Fed is already talking about rate reductions with the single limitation that they can not see why now. One thing we should be doing to help, and yes this will twist panties, is producing more oil, lot's more oil. Otherwise, Fox News to the contrary, it looks like the imaginary, never to happen soft landing is underway.

Man ain't that the truth. With dental care it's even worse. Considering that for a long swath of human history it was our teeth that killed us you'd think there would be a bit more awareness. In the US just an extraction can send you to another dentist, an oral surgeon, and then back to the original dentist for approval, and then off to an implant surgeon, and then wait, wait, wait, and more appointments before crowns etc. Unless you work for the government or the auto workers you are getting hit with several thousands of dollars in bills along the way. And it is all bullshit. I've had high quality work done outside the US with 1/3 of the rigamarole and 1/4 of the price. But at least we have the free market to save us someday I guess.

Come on Ken, you’re more clued in than that. Next to 100% of those Biz jet FBO’s are leases on federally funded airports and already pay a flowage fee as a part of the lease.

Biz jets pilots and owners don’t tote their fuel in jugs from the corner station like 150 pilots, they stop at horrendously expensive FBO’s with names like Millionair. Chief Pilots pay for all services with Black Amex cards and concern themselves with being sure the owners Dom is properly chilled and the food tray is acceptable. Already they are paying a couple bucks more a gallon to the FBO, a couple more to the national coffers wouldn’t even be noticed. Not the battle they want to fight.

As seemingly non-responsive and impenetrable our bureaucracy can seem, compared to other countries I’ve dealt with and am dealing with now ours is a model of efficiency and customer service.