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51 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:
You can check local news reports. In the past years arson is becoming more common. By who is a matter for law enforcement to determine. It's very hard to catch anybody doing it and that makes it an effective weapon.
Actually, it's even easier to allege but still just as hard to prove.
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42 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:You can check local news reports. In the past years arson is becoming more common. By who is a matter for law enforcement to determine. It's very hard to catch anybody doing it and that makes it an effective weapon.
First off, the current fires have been set off by a huge number of lightning strikes. And you should look up the meaning of "arson". Arson means the intentional setting of fires. While it's true that more fires are being set off by human activity, it's mostly unintention. The result of humans moving into areas they didn't live in before and the fact that human caused climate change is increasing the incidence and severity of droughts out west.
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19 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:
If he did it somewhere else they would just accuse him of using gubrment funds for flying to where ever he did it. Might as well do it where ever he sees fit. You notice they have no concern about the virus if it is not helpful to Trump?
Because he spends so little time at Mar-a-Lago? Or is it because he actually violated a written agreement not to make it his home and doesn't want to draw attention to that?
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It turns out Democrats should thank Trump for the appointment of Dejoy. He won't back down on plans to charge more for delivery to rural areas and he wants to eliminate the special subsidy program for deliveries to Alaska. Those plans might possibly not be so popular with voters in those areas.
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13 minutes ago, CrunchWrapSupreme said:
Jesus, you Trumpers are delusional.
"Where's the evidence? Perfect timing, huh? That's not his yacht. Who said he had a yacht? The Left is really out to get him again, aren't they?" ????????????
Google "Steve Bannon wall". Every news org in the world is covering it. Yes it's all fake news, they're all out to get Trump.
Most of the fraud was committed by Bannon's disabled vet buddy, not Bannon himself, but certainly facilitated by him, with faked invoices and transactions tying the two.
Among these news sources, you will see pics of:
1) Bannon's vet buddy on his yacht.
2) Bannon's vet buddy's lovely wife, heavily modified with plastic.
3) Bannon's vet buddy's new Range Rover and souped up golf cart.
4) Bannon's vet buddy's renovated home.
With evidence showing these were all purchased with the proceeds from "We Build The Wall". Good ol' Conservative values. When it comes to money, conserve as much as you can for yourself.
Actually, in monetary terms, most of the fraud was committed by Bannon. He kept most of the skimmed funds for himself.
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On 8/19/2020 at 3:08 AM, MajarTheLion said:
Not much to see here.... the Postal Service is angling for yet another bailout from taxpayers. The USPS has been in trouble for decades and their service gets worse and worse. It should be done away with completely. Better yet, privatize it. We taxpayers who foot the bills are tired of throwing more money at this monstrosity.
But maybe he's got a point. It's best everyone show up and vote in person. Trusting the USPS is not a wise move at all.
Do you understand that the Post Office is stipulated for in what may be to you an irrelevant document called the U.S. Constitution?
Also, unlike private business, the law requires the Post Office to be fully fund its pension obligations for the next 75 years. That is nuts.
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On 8/18/2020 at 6:24 AM, Tippaporn said:WSJ - The Postal Service’s Good Election Advice
News broke Friday that the U.S. Postal Service has warned dozens of states, via letters from USPS General Counsel Thomas Marshall, that their deadlines “for requesting and casting mail-in ballots are incongruous with the Postal Service’s delivery standards.” On cue, Democrats and the press portrayed this as evidence of Trumpian sabotage and voter suppression.
The truth is that USPS tried to avert election failure by alerting states, planned before DeJoy took over on June 15, which is the opposite of what the hoaxsters are claiming. Not only that but Marshall posted on USPS.com nearly identical advice to election officials back in May.
Credit the shadow president, Obama, with starting this on a podcast Friday in which he accused Trump of trying to "actively kneecap the Postal Service."
There's an old joke about a defendant convicted of killing his parents who then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he's an orphan. The postal service's new management created the conditions that meant delays were inevitable and now tries to take credit for warning of them.
In past elections, even though states paid the lowest rates for postal service, the post office treated ballots as the highest priority of first class mail even assigning special codes to ballots that meant they jumped to the head of the line. This time around, the warned states that they would have to pay first class postage so that ballots would be treated the way other first class mail would be.
And of course, the appointment of DeJoy is highly suspect. The Postal Service actually hired a headhunter firm to find candidates. Instead of selecting one of them, DeJoy was chosen. It turned out that Steve Mnuchin intervened strongly on his behalf. He had private meetings with each of the Republican members of the board. He had to do it this way since he was prohibited by law from being present at a general meeting. So a Postmaster General got appointed who is a major Republican donor and has massive conflicts of interest. Sleazy. Very sleazy.
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38 minutes ago, Isaan sailor said:Wait for Biden’s tax vision. You won’t like it,
Actually, most voters will.
htthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/01/31/republicans-support-higher-taxes-super-rich-according-fox-news-survey/ps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-inequality-poll/majority-of-americans-favor-wealth-tax-on-very-rich-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN1Z9141
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1 hour ago, rcummings said:Of course, one of the reasons it's been praised so highly is that thanks to Trump and his fellow-travelers, expectations were so low. Looks like that senile-dementia meme, and not Biden, is past its expiry date.
6 minutes ago, chilli42 said:He seems a nice but sometimes creepy old man. Pity he losing his marbles as he seemed OK 5 or so years ago. I wonder who is writing this vision for him, clearly he is not.
spoke too soon.
I do wonder how someone is nice but sometimes creepy. But if you want creepy, you got it
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20 minutes ago, Morch said:
Oh, I doubt that meme will be given a rest, facts and reality not being such hurdles for campaign talking points. The second Biden slips it will be out in no time.
Wondering what Trump's nomination acceptance speech (assuming he makes one) would be like.
Most likely, you're right. But it does seem to have flummoxed the usual denigrators, if only briefly.
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3 minutes ago, Morch said:
I didn't think it was such a great speech. Good, yes, but not great. But, against the background of what we have been dished these last few years, it does stand out as balanced, sane, and maybe even cautiously promising. It was also nice to have a speech without numerous rambling anecdotes, irrelevancies and them blatant "inaccuracies" hallmarking Trump's public addresses.
So over all, a success, regardless of the bar's current level.
Of course, one of the reasons it's been praised so highly is that thanks to Trump and his fellow-travelers, expectations were so low. Looks like that senile-dementia meme, and not Biden, is past its expiry date.
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11 minutes ago, JerseytoBKK said:
Those hundreds of worshipers at their superspreader events are truly evil. Why can't they be civilized like the tens of thousands of burning and looting peaceful protesters?
Nice try at deflection.
The fact of the matter is that religious people aren't being targeted because of their religion. They're targeted only for behaviors that endangers the well being not only of themselves but of others who aren't their co-religionists.
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8 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:
mnuchin, can we call him the "mnooch", appears to have his fingers in the USPS mess. Grifters gonna grift.
Mnuchin Politicized Post Office for Trump, Ex-Official Says
President Donald Trump sought to turn the U.S. Postal Service into a “political tool” that could be used to punish Amazon.com Inc., and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin led the effort, a former member of the agency’s board of governors told lawmakers on Thursday.
The postal service actually commissioned a head-hunting agency to search for a new Postmaster General. But Dejoy wasn't among the people they recommended. In fact, during his employment hearing, he had to be helped by one of the members of the board as he repeatedly stumbled when answering questions.
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On 8/20/2020 at 1:23 PM, Baerboxer said:
Don't you think the Democrats would've looked better had they tried to facilitate and work with the Trump administration on responding to a world wide virus pandemic? Rather than disrupting and trying to exploit everything to pretend their policies would've worked wonderful?
Is anyone still dumb enough to believe in the fairy stories of socialist utopias? The one normally spouted by "special" rather wealthy politicians and entertainers?
Work with someone who's deeply in denial? Nice try at making Trump's incompetence and incoherence someone else's responsibility.
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17 minutes ago, grumpy 4680 said:
If your child wanted to play cowboys and Indians, would you give them a bow. Russia and China would, So can't blame Trump for being sensible, and saying NO.
Unfortunately, as regards the agreement the U.S. was never their Daddy, and in fact, is longer even a sibling.
And it might be argued that if anyone was behaving childishly, it was Trump in the first place.
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38 minutes ago, Morch said:
To use your analogy, I think it's more like arguing that someone dropping their Mar-A-Lago membership may still issue a complaint regarding another member violating house rules. I would guess that it would depend on who are the members involved etc., regardless of the premise's validity. The Trump administration could have, IMO, even gotten somewhere with that in the UNSC, if it wasn't for all them many instances in which better relations weren't fostered (and worse).
I don't know how far we want to pursue this but what's the salient difference in standing between an ex-member and a non-member? Maybe if the departure was on friendly terms, members in good standing might be willing to lend an ear but they're certainly not obliged to. And in this case...
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54 minutes ago, Morch said:
I'm sure he also hosts free of charge the Secret Service, assorted staffers and other essential people. Not.
And shortly after he was elected he doubled the membership fee at Mar-a-Lago from $100,000 to $200,000. But, as before, that was done solely to benefit the chief recipient of his previous charitable donations: himself.
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44 minutes ago, hotchilli said:
What you forget is the cost of replacement parts as the are needed, not just as they age.
The cost of repairing damaged cars due to accidents which is high in Thailand, no more cheap bits for standard cars, wait for the replacement electric bits.
Another thing to consider, as technology increases so does the expense, every modern car is computerised, a hundred sensors that tell you everything... all made of plastic that have a shelf life. When they age & crack/break they need replacing, but the cost to you is not the cheap price of manufacture... the dealerships screw you, after-sale profits.
Also when you fit a new part, the computer system will not recognise it, it has to be taken to a dealer to be plugged into their scanner to work.
Things they don't tell you when you go to the showroom to buy a shiny new one.
But we do know that Teslas are already competitive for fleet sales because their maintenance costs are much lower than the maintenance costs of IC autos.
And is it cheap to replace parts of standard cars? I've got a Toyota IC and part replacements don't come cheap.
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13 minutes ago, hotchilli said:
Okay you're the expert...
But with new technology the older cars [not that old] will be sold for nothing as no-one will want one.
As for fewer parts yes I agree.. but when the electric motor at each wheel burns out.. wow the price of a new one?It goes both ways... but you know best .
Electric motors are far more durable than those powered by internal combustion as the article from consumer reports showed. As for "wow the price of a new one" I don't know that it's a "wow" at all. Do you?
And as another post of mine above showed, the resale value of Teslas is very high. And as battery prices continue to plummet, replacing batteries will make more and more economic sense.
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1 hour ago, RJRS1301 said:Perhaps it is "real" evidence, (who knows) wait until the evidence is produced in court could be useful before judgement.
Not one word of sworn evidence given, but already some TVF folk have the "facts" one way or another in their minds.
Glad none of you will have to sit on a jury and listen before making up your minds
But an indictment has been granted. Whereas you might recall the chanting of Lock her up! during the 2016 Republican convention. Where did that phrase come from? Hmmm...
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On 8/19/2020 at 4:59 PM, digger70 said:
I did ,That's stupid ,you're car is on the charger, you are Paying for it and someone else is taking the power out of you're car . Clever Rip offs.
You're paying and someone else is paying for the power you already paid for.
Actualy it's a brilliant idea. Instead of having to build expensive peaker or storage facilities, utilities get to use a bit of the electricity that's stored in your car. And you get paid for it. And since rates are higher when demand is up, the car owner will actually make a profit.
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On 8/19/2020 at 5:55 PM, Megasin1 said:
it'll be interesting to see what the battery life is in a high temperature, high humidity environment, I hope they have carried out a good study on this so that people can buy with confidence......LOL
Low temperature is more of a challenge. High temperatures, not really. And why would humidity affect a sealed battery?
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On 8/19/2020 at 8:57 AM, hotchilli said:
The auto trade is in a spiral at the moment, EV cars are a pipe dream, the average car is more expensive than an alternative combustion engine or better option hybrid engine.
A full EV has a shorter life expectancy and after a few years when the battery dies it's a junk yard trip as no-one will replace it with an expensive new one. Second hand EV values also plummet as the age and mileage increase.
All that's necessary for EV's to easily outcompete internal combustion cars is for the battery price to come down to $100 per Kwh. Battery prices have plummeted precipitously in the past 10 years. Last year the average cost was $156. Tesla is about to make a major announcement about new battery technology set to go into production.
Teslas already are competing successfully for use in fleets because maintenance costs are much lower than for IC autos.
https://electrek.co/2020/07/03/tesla-push-toward-fleet-vehicles/
ANd you couldn't be more wrong abouts the durability of EVs. Mechanically they are much simpler than internal combustion powered cars.
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On 8/19/2020 at 8:57 AM, hotchilli said:
Take a look at the Tesla market in USA, rich people buy a new one as they don't care about the new showroom price, but take a look at the second hand price after 5-6 years.. give-aways.
After that it's in the scrap yard.
Really?
How Tesla’s Rock-Solid Resale Values Can Make Buying A New One A Better Deal Than Buying A Used One
California battles 560 wildfires, university threatened
in World News
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In severe droughts, forest management is useless. Controlled burning has been practiced in Australia for a long time. It was found that areas with controlled burns fared no better during the recent fires than areas that had been left alone.
And anyway, you've got be be kidding about raking the vast drought prone areas of California. How many 10's of billions would that take? This is the same strategy that Trump advocated. I believe he alleged that the Finns did this. If so, the Finnish government knew nothing about it.