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Spin Zone / Re: Green Energy Revealed
« on: April 19, 2016, 06:52:25 AM »
What are unrealistic methods of generating electric energy?

I'll continue and take "Energy Unicorns" for 500 Alex.

I'm sorry, you answered the wrong question.

The question was:  What are insufficient/inadequate methods of generating electric energy?


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Spin Zone / Green Energy Revealed
« on: April 18, 2016, 06:58:30 PM »

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Spin Zone / Re: "You don't pay your Fair Share!"
« on: April 18, 2016, 04:00:48 PM »
It's been an evolution, but a big part of the blame goes to George Bush. To silence the "rich get all the tax breaks crowd," he added a new lower 10% bracket, and increased the ceilings for the lower brackets. 

Consequently, there was a big celebration that nearly 50% of the country didn't have to pay income tax.  I saw that as the beginning of the end.

Alexis de Tocqueville wrote "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."

The plan was that the Federal Government would be weak, and the states strong.  That's where we went wrong. 

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Spin Zone / Re: "You don't pay your Fair Share!"
« on: April 18, 2016, 07:31:07 AM »
quote from "West Wing""

" Sam : Henry, last fall, every time your boss got on the stump and said, "It's time for the rich to pay their fair share," I hid under a couch and changed my name. I left Gage Whitney making $400,000 a year, which means I paid twenty-seven times the national average in income tax. I paid my fair share, and the fair share of twenty-six other people. And I'm happy to because that's the only way it's gonna work, and it's in my best interest that everybody be able to go to schools and drive on roads, but I don't get twenty-seven votes on Election Day. The fire department doesn't come to my house twenty-seven times faster and the water doesn't come out of my faucet twenty-seven times hotter. The top one percent of wage earners in this country pay for twenty-two percent of this country. Let's not call them names while they're doing it, is all I'm saying."


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Spin Zone / Re: School District Wants to Stop "Jesus Lunches"
« on: April 14, 2016, 09:09:02 AM »
A Middleton, WI (adjacent to the People's Republic of Madison) school district is trying to halt a gathering of parents and students during the lunch hour from meeting in a public park adjacent to the school to discuss their faith.

They have absolutely no control over what kids do off campus and off the clock. Period.

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Spin Zone / Re: NeverTrump in Colorado....
« on: April 11, 2016, 12:19:38 PM »
"It’s hard to feel sorry for anyone who claims the process is foul because they don’t like its result. If winning the presidency is as important to Donald Trump as he says, one would think he would have looked more seriously at just how the presidency is won. Instead, he waited until late March to hire a staffer dedicated to securing delegates. Trump and his fans keep insisting he’s among the smartest, shrewdest, most competent men to ever seek the White House, yet his campaign keeps getting blindsided by rules that have been posted in plain sight for almost a year."

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433915/donald-trump-lost-delegates-weak-ground-game

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Spin Zone / Re: NeverTrump in Colorado....
« on: April 11, 2016, 08:02:07 AM »
You did read that they said it was unauthorized access, right?


Trump might have done better had he actually had a rep at the convention.  The man has no clue about the rules of the race, and keeps blaming the rules that he never bothered to learn.
This is EXACTLY right. I'm sick of the smartest man in the room being the most unprepared man in the room, and then blaming others and threatening to sue to get his way. Is this the New York Values that some want in the White House?

Trump already wants to change a 156 year old rule because it doesn't fit his desires to steal the nomination without a majority of delegates.

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Spin Zone / Re: NeverTrump in Colorado....
« on: April 11, 2016, 07:53:48 AM »
So you are fine with the State GOP tweeting out "We Did It" #NeverTrump  I wonder why they quickly deleted the tweet?  Hmmmm.
You did read that they said it was unauthorized access, right?


Trump might have done better had he actually had a rep at the convention.  The man has no clue about the rules of the race, and keeps blaming the rules that he never bothered to learn.

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Spin Zone / Re: NeverTrump in Colorado....
« on: April 11, 2016, 07:10:48 AM »
So the fact that the State GOP was in on the deal as evidenced by their tweet makes no difference.  These things keep adding up.  First we told the Carson supporters he pulled out when he hadn't and sent out Voter Violation notices.  Seems like Cruz can do no wrong no matter what he does, yet he is the example of Christianity in the campaign.  ???

Ethics don't appear to matter at this point.
You do understand that every state Republican primary is a function of that states' GOP, right? 

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Spin Zone / Re: NeverTrump in Colorado....
« on: April 11, 2016, 06:38:55 AM »
I see Colorado as the straw that broke the camels back.  Disenfranchising up to a million voters while the party bosses make their choice sends a bad message regardless of who the candidates are.

There is going to be considerable blow back from this event and not good for the GOP/RNC.
No disenfranchising happening at all.


In March, Colorado had a caucus, where they elected delegates to district and statewide conventions.  Those district and statewide conventions selected delegates for the national convention last week.  Trump lost.


These rules are neither new nor secret.  Trump's people simply didn't think it important to learn them.  Cruz's people did.

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Spin Zone / Re: NeverTrump in Colorado....
« on: April 11, 2016, 06:33:11 AM »
So, Trump is the expert on making deals, but he seems to REALLY suck at reading the terms and conditions...


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http://theresurgent.com/if-trump-doesnt-understand-156-year-old-political-rules-how-will-he-understand-the-presidency/
If Donald Trump cracks over a 156 year tradition of requiring a majority of delegates for the Republican nomination how is he going to understand the demands of the Presidency? If Trump claims he surrounds himself with top men and those top men advised him so poorly on the delegate issue, how can we be reassured he won’t make the same mistakes in a Presidential administration?

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Spin Zone / Re: NeverTrump in Colorado....
« on: April 11, 2016, 06:16:12 AM »
Sounds like a bunch of cry babies because their candidate, also a cry baby, wasn't prepared to work to secure delegates. Boo hoo. 

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Spin Zone / Re: Melissa v Springsteen
« on: April 10, 2016, 01:15:30 PM »
Excellent question.  I'm guessing that there's a big moral imperative to let dudes into girls bathrooms.

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Spin Zone / Re: Hillary Clinton On Benghazi
« on: April 09, 2016, 07:02:57 AM »
Conservatives just want the Constitution to matter as written.  Not "interpreted" to mean things it doesn't.  Liberal/Progressives want to social engineer, take from the productive, and destroy their will to produce due to over taxation and over regulation. 

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Spin Zone / Re: Final Thoughts on the Spin Zone
« on: December 31, 2015, 07:30:18 AM »
I suspect that when you write your thoughts in someone else's book, they are not under any obligation to preserve them for you.

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