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Donald Trump cooking pasta. Oh wait, never mind, that's an AI constructed image ... Darn!

Do you now or have you ever been to a Pennsylvania department of motor vehicles office to apply for a drivers license or ID card? You don't need to fill out documents. " In 1993, Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act, commonly known as the “Motor Voter Act,” which required state departments of motor vehicles to provide citizens with the option to register to vote when interacting with the agency. Some states have taken that mandate a step further and applied what is known as “automatic voter registration.” According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, automatic voter registration is typically implemented in one of two ways: on the front end, where voters need to opt out of being registered when interacting with the agency; or on the back end, where voters are notified after interacting with the agency that they are being automatically registered unless they take action to opt out. Pennsylvania’s new system is most akin to the front-end system: The registration is automatic and takes the onus off of the voter, but is not instantaneous like in some states. Pennsylvania joins 23 other states and Washington, D.C., which already use some form of automatic voter registration, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Twenty of the states with automatic voter registration implemented it through legislation or by having voters approve the change." https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2023/09/pennsylvania-automatic-voter-registration-josh-shapiro-penndot/ https://www.dmv.pa.gov/Information-Centers/Laws-Regulations/Pages/Motor-Voter-Law.aspx

I was watching c-span when he said this too! I was working at a California office of the U.S. of A. Government employer.

I did not check inequality media, but the rest he mentioned are described as or uses "progressive" in their own description!

I used to work with a guy that worked for the CIA. What did he do you ask? He said he worked as a rice kicker. What is a rice kicker you ask? That was the guy that stood inside the door of an aircraft, as it flew near a village in Vietnam (probably Laos and Cambodia too), over an open area of ground, and kicked 50 pound bags (might have been 100 pound bags) of rice out of the aircraft to feed the people in the village. Yes, the CIA was feeding indigenous people in Southeast Asia, who could not grow their own rice, because it was stolen by the heroes of the North Vietnamese Army!

bill clinton 01/26/1998 https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5050422/user-clip-sexual-relations-woman

War can be hell. One Radio Research unit I was with had an associated aviation company that would fly and make close range radio direction finding (ARDF) on North Vietnamese enemy radio transmitters. When they had an accurate geo coordinate fix on the transmitter, a crew member would contact a group of B52 bombers circling overhead and pass the coordinates to them. The B52 crews were supposed to wait 5 minutes before dropping their bomb loads, to allow the ARDF aircraft to fly out of the area. Several times they were right over the coordinate location and dropped bombs immediately after receiving the coordinates, nearly hitting the ARDF aircraft with 250 or 500 pound bombs! Fortunately they missed. Not so lucky was one of our aircraft was shot out of the air in the vicinity of Quan Tri by a surface to air missile (SAM) during the Spring Offensive of 1972. Sam missiles carried a 1000 pound war head. Both during the war, shortly after the SAM hit, and years later after searches were made and they could not find any part of the aircraft. Those were Beech King aircraft in the civilian field.

Now that is funny!!

You peaked my interest in voter registration, so I searched for information. If you want to know more, here is a link. https://www.pa.gov/en/services/vote/register-to-vote.html

No, it wasn't painful at all, unless it was when effed up and grandma made me get a switch from the switch tree! I don't consider spending part of my childhood on a farm unlucky at all. I was also lucky enough to have lived in three different countries and several different U.S. states before I was 14 years old too. As to becoming numb to noises, in Vietnam I grew to ignore and sleep through the sound of outgoing mortar rounds being fired by our base mortar team. But I would wake up immediately when I heard impacting rounds from enemy mortars. Different sounds and different reactions. No one slept through the sound of 8 inch or 175 mm guns firing though!!! We not only heard them firing, we could feel them firing too!

I am not sure of what 1980's incidents you are referring to. I did have direct involvement with the intell collection against the NVA that are part of history of the Vietnam war.

I was in the Army Security Agency, known in Vietnam as Radio Research. My advanced training was as a 05D20, Special Identification Techniques Operator at Fort Devens, MA. I was assigned to the 313th Radio Research Battalion, 330th Radio Research Company Nha Trang Vietnam, followed by 8th Radio Research Field Station, Company B Phu Bai Vietnam, then United States Army Security Agency Electronic Warfare Co, then the 156th Army Security Agency Aviation Company Fort Bliss Texas, and finally, the 7th Radio Research Field Station, Company B, Thailand. "ASA personnel were attached to Army infantry and armored cavalry units throughout the Vietnam War. Some teams were also attached to Special Forces units. Assigned to the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) based out of Nha Trang was the 403rd Radio Research Group, Special Operations Detachment (SOD). SOD forces were deployed to Operational Detachment base camps throughout South Vietnam" My detachment commander at the 330th RR Co, Det 3, Phu Cat Vietnam was pulled from MACV-SOG. He is the only Special Forces person, that I am aware of, that actually wore a Green Beret! I had to have a Top Secret Crypto security clearance before I started the 05D school, as did anyone else that trained in any of the ASA schools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Security_Agency

No, `11th Armored Calvary Unit. Probably armored personnel carriers.

Nah, Elon is just full of joy and mirth. For that matter, walz seems that way sometimes too.

tim walz meant the orginal meaning of the word gay? Full of joy or mirth?

My ex brother in law let me shoot his .38 revolver one time. At 15 feet he missed a 6 inch by 12 inch board that I had put a black, 1 inch diameter dot on. I thought the sights adjustable sights were off. I missed the black dot by 1 inch when I shot it.

My wife knew a family in Pennsylvania. The men in the family would kill 1 deer for each hunting season in Pennsylvania, during bow season, black powder season, and rifle season. Then they would pay for out of state license to hunt in Maryland, and bag 1 deer each hunting season, during bow season, black powder season, and rifle season. That's 6 deer each year for just one person.

Is that a BB gun that shoots steel balls or the airsoft kind that shoots plastic balls? Here in the U.S. of A., BB means a .175 inch (4.5 mm or close to it) diameter steel ball. Airsoft is 6mm plastic ball.

" 38 minutes ago, BarraMarra said: As im not a Yank do i need code book to read these post's ? what's a DVM." That's damn yankees if you live in the south. At least it was among the klan members I used to hear talking, when the klan members were talking about them back when I was a child in Lousiana. Effing <deleted> hated republicans as much as they hated black people. I have warm memories of my grandmother telling a klan member that she was going to kill him if he did not vacate her property. She meant it too. She had grandpa's 12 gauge Winchester shotgun to back up the threat!

My ex brother in law in Thailand raises fighting roosters. As does some of his neighbors. When the family visits him and we stay overnight, I sleep through the roosters crowing. Might be because part of my childhood I lived with my grandmother and she raised chickens. Her roosters never woke me up either. Nowadays I wake up to an alarm on my cell phone with an old phone bell ringing tone. That works. I tried a rooster alarm one time. Slept right through it.

Sorry about that. Yes, you need a book to decode that stuff. Even then it might not help. I was an employee of a U.S. Government agency. They gave me a book of acronyms and initials to help decode that stuff. It was about 6 x 4 inches (about 15 x 10 cm). I found one of the acronyms that had 5 pages of descriptions!!

Each time you register or change your address in Pennsylvania, the registrars office sends a voter registration card. I have had 4 of those here. I take it with me the first time I vote and show it to the people who have sign in on the documents they keep. . You have to be in the voter registration book at the polls. They even keep the party affiliation in separate books. . If I recall correctly, in California, you also get a receipt from he voter registration form that has a serial number on it. Not sure if that still happens now, I moved out in 1997.

I am not trolling. That is a false claim on your part!

The DMV registered me to vote under the motor voter law, the first time I got a Pennsylvania drivers license in Pennsylvania. The DMV registered m brother in law to vote under the motor voter law, the first time he got a Pennsylvania drivers license in Pennsylvania.

As a follow up with my brother in law. There was a letter sent out by the voter registrars office just before a local election advising that he had not voted in the last 5 elections. I think it was advising that if he did not vote then he would be removed from the voters list. That kind of contradicts claims I have seen on the internet and heard/read in the news that dead people are on the lists years after they have died. One day I will get with my brother in law and log onto the voter registrars website to see if he is or is not still on the list.