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Spin Zone / Re: More Ukraine Clusterfuck
« on: April 19, 2024, 01:57:56 PM »
So where will the troops come from to defend Ukraine?
That's for Ukraine to solve. Though with sufficient munitions they were holding their own, particularly with air defense weapons and artillery. (French President Macron has proposed putting French troops in Ukraine, in some alleged non-combat or support roles. Now that would be something if that happened.)
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Why does the Biden Regime refuse accountability for money sent to Ukraine?  What is there to hide?
When did this refusal take place? The DoD claims processes are in place: https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3313904/defense-officials-us-ensures-accountability-of-systems-supplied-to-ukraine/
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Please justify the US borrowing billions to "give" to Ukraine while asking the taxpayer to repay principal and interest on the borrowed money.
I don't justify it. It is, however, an action already underway. Like the payments I was forced to make to Social Security. If I start taking SS am I then justifying the previous taking?
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Please justify giving this money to Ukraine while the US border is open and Americans go homeless and hungry, not to mention a crumbling US infrastructure.
China and Russia appear to be the only powers on the planet that pose any credible military threat to the US. The southern border presents a lower priority threat. Infrastructure and fiscal problems are best solved at the state and local level, not Federal. Unlike national defense, they aren't listed in the Constitution.
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Please justify the US depleting arms stockpiles to Ukraine. while admitting thousands upon thousands of single military aged invaders into the US.
See above. "Military aged" is a meaningless scare phrase. That cadre has been entering the US for work since the Mexican Revolution.
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Why is it so important that the Biden Regime wants Israel to ceasefire with Hamas, yet this same regime has hindered any ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine.
Ok, now you're asking me to defend the idiotic policies of the Biden Regime. I think Israel would be foolish to seek a ceasefire with Hamas just as I think it foolish for Ukraine to cede to Russia.
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You say Ukraine is not a dictatorship, yet Zelenskyy has cancelled elections,
Sorry, no. When Russia invaded he invoked Martial Law per the Ukraine constitution. It would last only 90 days unless renewed by Ukraine's parliament. And the parliament has been renewing it, not Zelensky. Their constitution is what dictates (not Zelensky) that elections be suspended during martial law. So legally Zelensky is not responsible for cancelling elections.
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shut down media critical of him, closed churches, outlawed opposition political parties, has jailed political opposition and conscripts men into his military by dragging them out of their houses and businesses against their will.    Yep, seems he sure loves democracy  ::)
I believe all of these are allowed by their constitution while under martial law. Not excusable, but their parliament can undo that authority at any time. Compare to our democracy during the American civil war: Lincoln declared martial law in all states and ordered the suspension of the constitutionally protected right to writs of habeas corpus in the state of Maryland and parts of the Midwestern states. As a result 13,000 civilians were arrested by the military and held indefinitely during the course of the war. Free speech was suppressed.

So because the actions you cite occur during war wherein the leaders are granted broad powers that they don't have in peacetime doesn't per se make them undemocratic or unworthy of support.

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Spin Zone / Re: Mayorkas Charges Dismissed…..
« on: April 18, 2024, 06:31:33 AM »
Amazing.  I instantly knew what FdP was on barely one cup of coffee.

shouldn't that be FcP?

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Spin Zone / Re: Your Government Hates You
« on: April 18, 2024, 04:36:04 AM »
It's a disgrace.  Where's the media outrage and public outrage?
The media suppresses any reporting of outrage.  And public outrage is physically discouraged.  It's out there... all bottled up and ready to explode.

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Spin Zone / Re: Looks like Iran is attacking Israel
« on: April 16, 2024, 10:16:56 AM »
Number 1 is also a growing concern.  Why are protesters allowed to block roads?  Like roads into ORD or JFK?  Or across bridges?  Or elsewhere?  The police stand by and do nothing.  Except maybe arrest motorists who have had enough and try to remove the protesters.  Sure, go ahead and protest.  That's your right.  But don't mess with people trying to get on with their lives.  And costing those people money (missing their flights) or their livelihood (being late for or missing work entirely).  I say get a line of front-loaders and peacefully move the protesters out of the way.

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Spin Zone / Re: “Trump Owns The Working Class Vote”
« on: April 15, 2024, 07:22:41 AM »
The problem is that the working class is shrinking.  More and more gimme gimme gimme parasites

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Spin Zone / Re: More Ukraine Clusterfuck
« on: April 11, 2024, 09:50:25 AM »

I am totally against mandates, tax credits or penalties pushing EVs.  But I am just as staunchly against people that try to tell me I am the stupid one or a typical liberal because I think EVs have a future and that they would suit my situation and driving patterns perfectly.

I know you are.  I'm not one to think you're a liberal because you like your EV.  I have no problem with that if it fits your lifestyle.

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Spin Zone / Re: Joke Thread: Post 'em if ya got 'em
« on: April 05, 2024, 05:45:53 AM »

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Spin Zone / Bragging a Little
« on: March 27, 2024, 06:50:36 AM »
My youngest grandson plays soccer. He is a junior in HS this year and has played on the Varsity team since he was a Freshman. In his Freshman year the team made the 6A semi-finals before losing. Last year they made it to the final before losing in OT after playing 36 minutes a man down.

This year, they are currently 16-0 overall and finished their region play last night with a 5-3 win in OT.  The team they played last night was also 5-0 coming in to last night's game. Our boys were down 2-3 at the half and tied it up in the second half to send it to OT. They scored twice in the OT periods locking up the Region title. The three goals they gave up last night was the highest number they had given up all season.

They have two more games scheduled before the state playoffs begin on April 19th.  They are going to play two 7A teams in the next couple of weeks.   Their record should give them home field advantage in the playoffs. Hopefully they can take that last step and claim a state title this year.

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Spin Zone / Re: $DJT
« on: March 26, 2024, 06:17:42 PM »
I did it.  I told my husband I wanted to buy $500 worth of that new Truth Social stock and he said, “Make it a thousand.”  Screw figuring out how to buy a stock myself.  I just emailed our investment guy and directed him to buy us $1000 of Trump’s new Truth Social stock and I told him, no, I don't care if it’s not a good investment. I just want to play!

HA!

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Spin Zone / Re: Joke Thread: Post 'em if ya got 'em
« on: March 23, 2024, 05:37:14 PM »
Not really a joke but….

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Spin Zone / Re: Getting To Know Each Other - Part Two - The Sequel
« on: March 14, 2024, 08:08:39 AM »
My parents divorced at an early age. My Mother was 26 when I was born and my Dad was 50.  My Mother went on the marry someone else while my Dad did not for many years. I spent weekends with him and a week in the summer. My Mother and Stepfather were borderline alcoholics. I ended up with a half sister and half brother. My stepfather and mother started a trucking company and bought two dump trucks driven by my stepfather and his brother.  They hauled gravel to O'Hare when it was being built. Ended up going bankrupt. Stepfather got messed up with a bad guy who wanted him to go along on a robbery. Told him no and the guy pulled a gun and told hi to drive him to our house. He drove him to his brothers house instead, one street over from us. At some point there was a struggle for the gun and the bad guy was killed. Stepfather stood trial for murder and was acquitted. It was not a fun time. My Dad finally remarried and I chose to go live with him.  Stepmother was very controlling.  Upon graduating from HS (1969) I went to work for the power company, CEO was Thomas Ayers, father of Bill Ayers. I read meters initially and then moved into the Underground department.

I served in the U.S. Air Force from 1971-1975 stationed originally in Gila Bend, AZ and spent my last year at MacDill AFB in Tampa, FL.  In the Air Force I spliced telephone cables at ComEd I spliced power cables.  After the winter of 78-79

I decided we should move out of the north and we headed to Winter Park, FL and I went to work for the CableTV company and learned how to splice coaxial cable. Along the way I had entered Community College to learn about Electronics and earned an A.S. in Electronics Technology.  While with the CableTV company I organized us with the CWA and took part in contract negotiations while on workers comp for a knee injury. It was fun times. 


After that, I went to work for Pizza Time Theater (Chuck E. Cheese) as a store techician, then on to installing the robotic shows in new stores and finally as a District Technical Manager.  After the merger of Pizza Time and Showbiz, it was time to move on.  I became the Manager of Education and later Director of a local Electronics Technical School in the Atlanta area.  We moved to the Atlanta area in 1982 while still employed by Pizza Time.

I enjoyed teaching and the school was growing under my leadership, then the parent company went bankrupt and our ability to participate in the loan and grant programs was withdrawn and we were out of business.  That took me back into CableTV with a contractor initially doing CAD work and then we moved into the fiber splicing business as it became big in the early 90's So, that completed my career of splicing all types of cables. 


I eventually ended up with Scientific Atlanta, a manufacturer of CableTV industry products including digital set-top boxes.  I started there doing training classes and became an expert on the set-top box and the back end server systems.  That led me to the marketing area where I became the technical lead to support our local Demo room and trade show systems for ten years for our digital set-top business.  Cisco came along and bought us telling us how mach they liked the way we did things and then managed, over the years, to totally dismantle the company.  Fortunately for me, they offered a really good early retirement package in 2011 and I never looked back. I was sixty then and haven't worked a paying job since. Don't have millions in the bank, but we do okay with two small pensions, SS and a small annuity that pays every month.

On the aviation side of things. I began taking lessons in 1970. Got about 4 hours in and went into the Air Force. When I got to Gila Bend I hooked up with a CFI and his C-150. Soloed with him and got through my first solo cross-country when reality set in after our first son was born in 1972.  Aviation was on hold until 2008 when I began again and took my check ride in December of that year. Rented for a bit then got a chance to purchase a half share of a Piper Warrior.  Other partner did not really fly much so I had wide open access to the plane. She also owned a hangar, which made it nice.  She finally asked that we add two more partners, so I created an LLC and we added partners. The first two didn't last too long and were replaced, both were students and ended up not flying much at all. As my wife's health got to a point that she could not easily get in and out of the plane and three of the four partners wanted out, we decided to sell the plane to a local flying club. It still flies, quit regularly, to this day. It's had a couple of engines put on it and panel upgrades too.

I joined the local EAA chapter along the way and after my retirement I decided to run against the incumbent President. We had seen member decline steadily under his lack of leadership.  Wasn't totally his fault as he had his arm twisted to run in the first place.  I beat him handily and we began the process of growing the chapter. At one point we were over 300 members, family members included in that total.  I server two two year terms and then a two year term as the treasurer.  As President I started a Youth Program, first with a ground school and later with our build program. We were gifted an additional hangar by a member and his wife. The program allowed youth to come work on airplanes and earn credits for their hours of work that could be used for flight training with the flying club that purchased the Warrior. They had a C-152 and the principal of the club provided pro-bono instruction. We paid $75 per hour at the time for plane.  A little over a year ago myself and a few others disassociated with the chapter due to the current leaderships desire to censor things posted on the chapter Slack account and their heavy handed leadership style.

So, know I spend my time working on our church website and the church newsletter.  Working on a redo of the website. What I have in place now was an interim solution when we found ourselves losing our provider at the time.  Just last Sunday, our church and another nearby church voted to merge our memberships. We've been renting in a strip center a bit off the beaten path and they have a nice 100+ year old sanctuary with a fellowship hall and a couple of classroom trailers.  The next couple of months will be interesting as we bring the two groups together. They are a much older established congregation that has grown very small over the last few years.

My wife and I have two sons born in 72 and 74 and four grandchildren, one girl and three boys.  The youngest grandson just turned seventeen. He plays HS soccer on the Varsity team and in the summer plays club soccer.  He's a junior this year and has played varsity soccer since he was a freshman. The current team is currently 13-0 overall and 3-0 in conference play with three more conference games left. In his freshman year they went to the state semifinals. Last year they played for state championship and lost by a goal in overtime. They played 36 minutes total, one man down.  Hopefully, this year they can take the last step.  Our oldest grandson, graduated from college in December and is an equipment manager for the Carolina Panthers.

Next month I turn seventy-three.  Overall doing fairly well. I have three small blockages in my heart and take statins to control the cholesterol. I have a knee that give me a little trouble now and then, but nothing serious.  My wife had had both hips and knees replaced, had numerous back surgeries, she is fused from S1 - L3 and recently had a spinal cord stimulator implanted to hopefully control back pain she is having due to a disc issue at the L2-2 level. She is also fused in here neck at three levels and will have a shoulder replacement in April.  I guess my primary job is helping to take care of her currently. She can't really drive right now because of her shoulder.

We enjoy going to the movies two to three times a week and generally being together. We go to out grandson's soccer games at least once a week. They play on Tuesdays and Thursday or Friday.  We have a Bible study on Tuesday so we don't make those games.  I think that about covers it.


P.S. Late addition, the grandson's soccer team is number 1 in the state for their class (6A) and number one in the nation.

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Spin Zone / Re: Joke Thread: Post 'em if ya got 'em
« on: March 12, 2024, 06:45:30 PM »


 :)

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Spin Zone / Re: DEI in the sky
« on: March 11, 2024, 08:01:39 AM »
for those of us without twitter accounts, how about a summary?

The first was an airline commercial advertising its commitment to diversity and inclusion.  Passengers are being seated while it’s announced that the captain is a “three foot transgender pansexual Native American man who identifies as a six foot tall Korean woman” whose epilepsy is triggered by the flashing cockpit lights. The flight ends predictably.

The second is Tyler Fischer (a comedian) stranded in San Francisco for real, but he’s walking through the terminal bitching about how they had to deplane because the engine wouldn’t start and now he’s going to miss his performances and he’s giving information about rescheduling them, but then says as he was exiting he peeked in the cockpit and saw the pilot was a woman, so wondered if there was a surgeon on board that could quick do a sexual transition and turn her into a man so they can take off.

Then he ranted about wheels flying off airplanes and doors popping out and fat people getting two seats. So he says they need to put fat people in a row with a door so when it pops off the fat person plugs it so the plane can still fly.

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Spin Zone / Re: Saw a drawing of Rush today.
« on: March 11, 2024, 05:11:50 AM »
Saw this on that website we don't mention:

On the second mug, shouldn’t the caffeinate come first?

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