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No...that would be the "new" bill or rather new law that you posted. Why do you question that?

While I hold no bile for Israel, I think we Americans as better served disengaging from them. Those people chose to establish a state in that place, let them defend it. I wish them all best luck, but I'm not interested in paying for any of it. And Ukraine can just go fuck off. Much as I despise the Russians, I can see things from Putin's point of view and why he may have thought it necessary to put the kybosh to Ukraine's designs on becoming a NATO member. As screw NATO as well, the rotten pricks.

See how much more adult and civil that is than, unhappy lad, get that twist out of your knickers?

THIS! I am not sure if Phil is up to making another relief run next weekend, and it's looking like he'd have to go to FL this time, but I will talk to him some time today and see if he's making another trip. In the meantime, the Capt. is right, stay far away from those "mainstream" leftist charities. Samaritan's Purse is doing good work and is based in NC A Trump sponsored "GoFundMe" started with a $1 million goal, it has already surpassed $6.5 million.

A civil and adult conversation tends to avoid a paternalistic tone. Try to tell me that you've never once in your life bridled at such an elementary suggestion and I'll happily call you a liar. The funny thing is, you've participated in the thread. You've critiqued my own answers to that question you think I haven't asked. You know I've asked myself that question. Have for months. As we age and our memories get weaker, it's wise of us to pause and consider that we can no longer be certain people haven't already tried our suggestions -- and we already know they have (at least on a good day). They call things like that aging gracefully. And such habits make all conversation more civil. Some consider it the very difference between conversing with and preaching at.

Hell yes! Happy to know I helped in a very small way. You, too, can enjoy that feeling by PMing AF and getting the Venmo! Rather than donating to the United Way or Red Cross, or some other agency that will use it to send their CEO on lavish trips with 5 course luxury meals, you can help real people help real people!! I URGE YOU ALL TO PITCH IN! We may have an election to look forward to, but we can still do moneybombs to bring relief to our type of people!

Wow you really are an unhappy lad, so to help you we will say that you're smarter than I, and a better person. I sincerely hope this makes you feel better, because attempting to have a civil and adult conversation with you apparently does not.

In your previous post you seemed to understand that there had been a law and that law was then changed. Are you now confused by that concept?

Hmmm... Panel saw is indeed a good thing to have, but I'm not at all convinced that dumping the table saw is a good idea. But what do I know? :)

The advantages: limited liability and the protection of a corporate veil. Disadvantages: You become visible to Sauron and subject to his whim.

Definitely a good market. Shit place to live, but if you're OK with it... :) So far, so good. That's not necessarily true, but his point is taken well in any event. Since I got old and nobody will talk to me about me as engineer, I have gone from $300+/hr to 20 working on a construction crew with my friend Roger. We are drowning in work. We do NO advertising. Our reputation is sterling. We do top flight work and we don't exercise the customer's sphincter. Word of mouth can be very effective advertising.

A handy object lesson for those who refuse to believe Israel and its stooges can really be so hypocritical as to blithely say the opposite of what their bosses really want. https://x.com/AmazingZoltan/status/1842335994353537460 1842335994353537460 It's called a psyop, kids.

There's no mousetrap like a hunter/seeker mousetrap with non-artificial intelligence and a highly sensitive sensory array. They're decorative, too. And affectionate.

I'd rather ask what makes you presume I haven't. Especially when I have a multiple page thread full of my speculation on that very subject on this very site. What's more, I think mine makes more sense. It's based on historical precedent -- a number of them, but particularly the Biennio Rosso, which brought Mussolini to power.

Mice? HA! We hve Dot the Destroyer. She was a minuscule kitten and we thought she might not live. We loved her healthy and she is the scariest hunter on the planet. She's an assassin. Shen she was maybe three months old and less than two pounds, she'd come home with barn rats nearly as large as she. She brings home mice and rats every single day and dumps them either in the kitchen or the master.

We're over a year. The birds provide eggs. We are LOUSY with deer, so I could fill the freezer with venison if I were so inclined, which I am not. I will wait for doomsday for that. We have about 150 square feet of pantry and it is full, if a mite chaotic in terms of actually finding what you seek. But if you have to go a year, you know things are way bad and all our lives will then have become very different.

I can still go all night until she begs... Oh wait, wrong thread. Sorry.

Reminds me. I have several rifles I need to sight in - an AR10, a .338 bolt gun, a pair of 17 HMRs, my 338 Spectre (AR), and I need to reconfirm the zero on my M1A match rifle. So much to do, so little time. And I need to build the fookin' greenhouse.

And now ask yourself why. Consider that as stupid as lefties tend to be, functionally speaking, they are nonetheless very clever and crafty. I had a neighbor whose daughter had been poisoned with chlordane dust - long story. Lisa was functionally retarded, but boy oh God was she ever slick. She was unable to tell time, but she could machinate and manipulate and get what she wanted. Thus we find it with lefties in general, Democrats in specific to this discussion. They are functional retards who are adept and scheming and fucking around. My suspicion is that the Democrats know they are in a corner in a very broad sense. Everything they have worked toward has failed wildly. Whether they believe in their own bullshit remains a matter of speculation. But either they do, or everything we see is a put on for the sake of peddling a deeper evil. The results remain the same. In their case, the results have been and stand to become further disastrous. They see this. They see that we the great majority are becoming significantly perturbed by it all and that if thing come to a head with Democrats at the helm, we may not be particularly kind to them. Being the filthy cowards that they are, not to mention pragmatists who are hell bent to have their vision realized, they understand that when this thing flies apart as it eventually must, they do not want to be in the position for blame to reach them. And so they put the most absurd stooge imaginable up for candidacy, along with another nitwit as her running mate. In the meanwhile, the current administration goes pedal to the metal to sow as much wild insanity as is possible just in time for Trump to inherit an utter disasterland. I'd suspect the thinking is that the Democrats see themselves as standing at the corner of "You're Fucked" and "We're Gonna Have Our Pound of Flesh". They are now strategically retreating to avoid plausible culpability. But that's not all. Buy in the next five minutes and receive a double whammy! The whammy here, to the considered benefit of the left will be that Democrats, having lost, will be able to wail, moan, and gnash their teeth most noisily over Trump. They can assume the role of victim, something at which they hold some non-trivial experience and expertise. They will almost certainly claim election interference and fraud, and will say Trump stole the election, wholly ignoring their previous howlings of "conspiracy theories" and "election interference" when Trump made the same assertions in 2020. And ANYTHING that goes wrong, regardless of how inconsequential and irrelevant can be blown out of proportion (sky's falling) and pinned on Trump. Now get this twist. Imagine that rather than flipping votes for Harris, they actually do so for Trump, guaranteeing his win. Not only do the Democrats dodge the bullet, they then have the opportunity to go on the offensive by suddenly getting all religious and shit over "election integrity". "We've conducted an exhaustive forensic investigation of the election results and have found at least twenty five million falsified ballots, every last one in favor of Donald Trump. This could be used as impeachment material. It could be used to gin up anger, rage, and ultimately violence on several fronts. It would certainly be used to put a spotlight on Trump, call is integrity into question, and perhaps see him off to Gitmo for a tribunal and the rope. I put NOTHING past Themme, Democrat OR Republican, the latter of whom have plenty to fear from a second Trump administration if the Donald is to be taken at his word regarding draining the swamp. Thousands, perhaps far more, stand to go to prison and I daresay that a great raft stand to face the gallows, as they ought.

Commerce and trade in limited quantities is good. But when you start trading for things that you should (as a responsible adult, and/or nation) be producing yourself, that's when it starts doing more harm than good. If you inherit a fully functional corn farm from your grandparents, it would be extremely irresponsible to sell off the farm, spend your cash on hookers and coke, and then take on debt so you can afford corn to feed yourself with. That is what we have done as a nation, and that is what modern trade has taken the form of.

You are correct that in the last 400 years it has grown exponentially. Which then arrives at my point: the trade we have today is quantitatively and qualitatively different than anything we have seen in the past. The quantity is obviously much higher and the nature is similarly much different. In the past, international economic competitive advantage was largely based on regional abundances of raw materials. Today, international economic competitive advantage is largely based on differences in labor costs. It was never historically feasible to save money on labor by getting it built 6,000 miles away and then transporting it. It is far too early to say that trade is "good" for the economy. There are scenarios where trade is provably bad for an economy.* It also depends on how you define "the economy". If your interest is the economic outcome of the world as a whole, then yes, global trade is economically a good thing. If your interest is the economic outcome of your local economy, then no, it's not quite as clear as that (as proven in the scenario). It may very well be the case that modern trade, being based on short-term differences in labor costs vs other forms of economic advantage, is overall a detriment to a local economy. Even if we do accept that trade is an overall economic good, that still does not make it however an overall net good. There are cultural, sovereignty, and security costs that come at potentially a heavy price with full global economic integration. * (Scenario referenced above is at this link: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?566808-Tariffs-Are-A-War-On-American-Consumers&p=7231881&viewfull=1#post7231881)

Pfizer, Moderna, Bill Gates, CDC, DARPA... seems the MIC was on board with their directives and all of the travel bans and lockdowns, they even masked up and mandated the jab too. Money is the driver, which facilitated the largest transfer of wealth to the upper 1%. They really don't care by what means. I'm not sure how he could make any enemies while he helped line their pockets. Unless you mean: they hate him across the finish line.