GeorgiaDon

Perhaps a silly question, but how do you stop those damn "suggested posts" on FB? I must have clicked on some actual history thread one time, and now I get tons of these Confederate-loving threads full of crap about how great all those rebel soldiers and generals were. Complete racist drivel, but it just keeps coming.

It is a shame, as it is a transparent effort to avoid legal liability. Hopefully the court will tell him to shove his bankruptcy up his ass.

Absolutely! However bad things are, trying to do anything about it will only make it worse. Best to give up and just suck up all that smoggy air. Maybe we'll get lucky and died of lead in the water before the ozone burns away our lungs. Ha! Ha!

Hey Ron, haven't "seen" you in ages. I hope you and your wife are well and happy this Good Friday & Easter, and after that too. Don

Hmm. Brent's posts, or 2 1/2 million pounds of horse shit per day? It's a tough choice, considering they are pretty much the same thing.

Curiously though, there were issues that made the replacement of the horse more urgent in some places. For example, in the 1880s there were over 100,000 horses in New York City, and these horses dumped ~2 1/2 million pounds of poop and 25,000 gallons of urine on the streets every day. It was impossible to remove that much waste every day, and no place to send it (farmers already had all the manure they needed from their own livestock). Needless to say the waste and the resulting flies were a big health hazard. That particular problem was solved by the widespread adoption of automobiles. At the beginning of the 20th century there were more electric cars than gas powered cars on the road in the US. Electric cars were more reliable (fewer moving parts), much easier to start (no hand cranking), did not require changing gears, and they were much quieter and less smelly (no exhaust). However they also couldn't go very fast and their lead-acid batteries required access to electricity (pretty much only available in cities) and took a long time to charge. Gas cars became dominant thanks to Henry Ford's decision to mass produce gas powered cars, their faster speeds and much longer range, quick refueling as gas became more widely available, and their utility outside of cities. There is an interesting article about the history of steam vs electric vs gas powered vehicles here.

Yes, and no. This thread is also about the gotcha question that was an attempt to get Justice Jackson to "commit" to a narrow definition that would support the Republican goal of dehumanizing everyone who doesn't fit into their antiquated evangelical Christian square boxes.

The same can be said if you are transgender, or anywhere on the LGBTQ spectrum.

You seem to remember much of it, which puts you ahead of a lot of people. At least you weren't screaming and flailing, you didn't pee your pants, or you didn't go fetal. Are you going to go again? If so, and seeing as how you survived, you passed the most important part. BTW don't wait too long for the next jump. The butterflies are reduced, but the longer you wait the more they come back.

Virtually every item on that list could just as well apply to "why automobiles will never replace horses" if written in the early 1800s. "You would have to drill hundreds of thousands of oil wells, and build hundreds of refineries, plus we don't even know how to process oil into gasoline, and there's no way to get the gas to where it can be accessed by automobiles, and besides that all the roads are just mud so automobiles just get stuck. Right now we already have plenty of pastures and hay fields, plus horses don't get stuck in muddy roads, and anyway horses are beautiful and automobiles are noisy, smelly, hard to crank-start, and they are always breaking down. Only an idiot would think automobiles will ever replace horses."

Oops! That's what I get for "multitasking" at work. Fixed now.

Marjorie Taylor Greene had no trouble defining "woman": weak and the property of their husbands.

There is a permitting process that allows for a certain number of bird kills as long as the company applies recommended procedures to minimize avoidable killing. NextEra Energy (the company that was fined) never applied for a permit, and they ignored numerous recommendations about how to minimize bird kills. Perhaps they got sucked in by the Trump era policy of not enforcing the Migratory Bird Act, and thought that policy would last forever.

Fixed it for you. But you would already know that, if you had bothered to read any of several links other people have posted. But then you might have to recognize that your attack on Biden is bullshit, and the lack of increased oil production is almost entirely investors putting their personal bottom line above the interests of the country. Don

Idaho just passed a law that mandates that a woman who becomes pregnant as a result of rape must carry the pregnancy to term, and if she does manage to have an abortion her rapist's family can sue the doctor, taxi driver who brought the woman to the clinic, or anyone else who "facilitates" the abortion for $20,000. Family values indeed!

Lindsey Graham made it very clear he is all for the government having the power to detain people indefinitely without trial or any access to the judicial system. Marsha Blackburn and others (such as all three Republicans running for Michigan Attorney General) have spoken out clearly that they think Griswold vs Connecticut (the Supreme Court case that legalized birth control for married couples) was wrongly decided. Republican Senator Mike Braun of Indiana thinks that the Supreme Court was wrong on contraception, interracial marriage, and same-sex marriage. Ted Cruz and most Republican politicians are totally on board about censoring any expression regarding racial history or race relations. The great majority of Republican politicians are in favor of restricting elections so that only Republicans can win. They are also about throwing out the 2020 election and installing the loser in office. Every time I hear or read that Republicans "love the Constitution" it makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit. Every time I hear or read that Republicans "love America" it makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit more.

Typical Republican MO: make a lot of smoke, then claim there must be fire. Also the smoke is from peeing on hot sauna rocks.

Apparently the family of Democratic politicians are not permitted to engage in any form of gainful employment, investing, or even purchasing any goods or services, lest such activity be construed as some sort of a "quid pro quo". I suppose they also are barred from collecting unemployment, welfare, or accepting any support in excess of $50 from their family members. Absent any possibility of obtaining an income, I suppose that means they just have to live in a van down by the river until they starve. Family of Republican politicians, on the other hand, are entitled to grift as much as they can from the government, especially if their last name is Trump. Seems fair.

Given the complete lack of anything like a chain of custody, anything on that laptop would almost certainly be inadmissible in any legal proceeding. The laptop was stolen, kept by the "repairman" for some time, then "revealed", after it had almost certainly loaded with planted "evidence". What is alleged to be on the laptop? Anything more nefarious than the Trump spawn cooking up numerous deals to line their own pockets while travelling the world on the taxpayer's dime? Enriching the Trump family cartel off of slave labor in China?

Trump and his apple-doesn't-fall-far-from-the-tree spawn have been spreading the lie that Putin didn't invade Ukraine while Trump was in office because he was afraid of Trump. A more reasonable explanation is that he was hoping Trump would pull the US out of NATO. He was likely counting on Trump being re-elected or stealing the election, but when that didn't happen Putin decided to not wait 4+ more years on the chance that Trump would get back in and wreck NATO.

If you read the whole article, maybe not so much "mercy". The conviction and fine were for "hooliganism". She is also the subject of an ongoing investigation under the newly passed law regarding spreading "false news" (IOW contradicting the Kremlin's official propaganda). That is the law with the 15 years in the Gulag penalty, and she may well still be hit with that.

Door #3 would require a country to almost completely revamp its economy to a wartime economy, without actually being at war. I submit that that would be impossible from a political perspective. Anyway what would that actually accomplish? It's not as if the Nazis would have failed to notice the Allied countries suddenly starting to recruit/conscript 10% of their population and train them to fight, or that all the car factories were suddenly churning out tanks, etc. Similarly Door #4 seems a bit silly, to declare war but announce that you aren't going to do anything until you are completely ramped up to a wartime footing? Anyway what set me off about this was your assertion that all the effort and sacrifice of the Allied countries was meaningless because they weren't landing troops on Normandy the same day that war was declared. To put a personal touch on it, my great-uncle walked with a limp for the rest of his life after some German shrapnel almost removed his leg, my paternal grandfather had nightmares all his life from his experiences fighting in Italy, and one of my early mentors was almost given up for dead on Juno Beach. I would not want to be the one to tell them their sacrifices were meaningless.

I believe the first quote is Harris trying to explain the situation to Trump. However it didn't work as some of her words had more than one syllable. The second quote is from former beauty contestant Caitlin Upton, who was auditioning to be Trump's wife # 4.

??? That is completely different from the Allied response to Nazi aggression. I honestly cannot see any way to compare the two. The US and Britain have not invaded Ukraine BTW. Russia has, which proves that their word cannot be trusted on anything. They also do things like agree to evacuation corridors for civilians, and then bomb those civilians when they try to evacuate, which is a war crime. Good luck prosecuting anyone though.

Doesn't that set up the following choices for a country? Door # 1: permanently maintain a sufficient military to instantly respond to any situation. Judging by WWII (which is what we have been discussing) that means a standing military of no less than 10% of the total population, with all the vehicles, tanks, ships, aircraft etc necessary for them to be able to be instantly deployed into combat. Alternatively: Door #2: never ever declare war, no matter the situation. Don