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[Crap Throwing Clavin]

23 minutes ago, devnull said:

Schrodingers Energy policy

 

They want the fossil fuel industry to both live and die

 

They seem to think the oil industry can simply go away, and alternative energy will magically sprout up and take its place with no interruption.

 

Since Clinton, at least (probably since Carter), Democrats have been nothing more than theoreticians who believe if reality doesn't match their theory, reality's wrong.  

[IDBillzFan]

58 minutes ago, Crap Throwing Monkey said:

Since Clinton, at least (probably since Carter), Democrats have been nothing more than theoreticians who believe if reality doesn't match their theory, reality's wrong.  

 

Not to mention, they'll TELL you reality is wrong, the media will repeat that reality is wrong, and Politico fact checkers will explain that in some ways reality can possibly be right, but not in this instance, so reality is wrong.

 

And they'll stand around in two months trying to figure out why they're polling at 26%.

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

12 minutes ago, IDBillzFan said:

 

And they'll stand around in two months trying to figure out why they're polling at 26%.

 

They know why: Putin.

[Fansince88]

1 hour ago, Crap Throwing Monkey said:

 

They know why: Putin.

Ahhh, Putin, a poor mans Saddam Hussein 

[IDBillzFan]

8 minutes ago, Fansince88 said:

Ahhh, Putin, a poor mans Saddam Hussein 

 

Based on who is actually getting the cash we're having laundered for the war in Ukraine, Putin feels more like the rich man's Saddam Hussein.

[Fansince88]

41 minutes ago, IDBillzFan said:

 

Based on who is actually getting the cash we're having laundered for the war in Ukraine, Putin feels more like the rich man's Saddam Hussein.

Except he isnt getting the money. 

[Billsandhorns]

2 hours ago, Fansince88 said:

Except he isnt getting the money. 

Not from us, but he's getting money from China and other countries, at least more than he was before 

[B-Man]

 

 

Hiker dies on Mt. Washington

 

The Loop is a good day hike, but Be Prepared 

 

 Americans' Belief in God Drops to All-Time Low

 

 Amazingly, Buzzfeed Readers Don’t Realize They Did This to Themselves

 

" That aside, happy belated Juneteenth."

 

 Washington Post Wants To Regulate “Carbon” As A Toxic Substance Or Something

 

 Has Omicron evolved to become more dangerous?

 

 CEOs Start To Push Back Against 'Woke' Employee Bullying

 

 Supreme Court Rules Religious Schools Can't Be Excluded From School Vouchers

 

 For the longest time, the debate over immigration has been about how both sides can agree on open borders while appearing to disagree.

 

  The Federal Republic Of New Normal Germany

 

Canada:  Governed by Hypochondriacs

 

 

[IDBillzFan]

Do you ever get the feeling elected officials do this stuff just to infuriate you?

 

 

[Koko]

2 hours ago, B-Man said:

Washington Post Wants To Regulate “Carbon” As A Toxic Substance Or Something

 

Jesus, those people are insane. Of course, considering that the ComPost prints on paper, they should be forced to collect and properly dispose of all of their toxic carbon waste. Every single copy of their rag ever printed. No matter where it winds up.

Edited June 22, 2022 by Koko

[devnull]

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/international-space-station-smells-awful-27295513

[Deranged Rhino]

This, combined with the Hispanic polling numbers of late, spell doom. 

 

 

Which means there is more incentive than ever for the ruling party to pull out all the stops to cheat in November, let alone 24. 

 

Which makes these increasing comments more interesting: 

 

[Deranged Rhino]

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

42 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

This, combined with the Hispanic polling numbers of late, spell doom. 

 

 

 

 

Biden having a low approval rating does not necessarily mean the Democratic Party has a low approval rating.

The issue could very well be - and is, I think - that the 18-34 age group believes that Biden isn't progressive enough, and that they'd prefer someone like AOC or Warren to be in the White House.  A good number of them didn't support Biden in 2020, as much as they voted against Trump.  

[Deranged Rhino]

6 minutes ago, Crap Throwing Monkey said:

 

Biden having a low approval rating does not necessarily mean the Democratic Party has a low approval rating.

The issue could very well be - and is, I think - that the 18-34 age group believes that Biden isn't progressive enough, and that they'd prefer someone like AOC or Warren to be in the White House.  A good number of them didn't support Biden in 2020, as much as they voted against Trump.  

 

Good point. 

[B-Man]

 

 

World's Deepest Shipwreck Discovered Four Miles Under The Pacific 

 

The Metaverse Is Already Here. How is virtual reality remaking our world?

 

 Fat studies is the field that teaches students to view obesity as 'oppression'

 

 Law Firm Splits With Lawyers Who Won Major Gun Case At Supreme Court

 

Illinois: Drive out the rich for Equality 

 

 Biden sneaking amnesty through for a million illegal border crossers

 

 Hundreds of migrants seen wandering on side of road in Texas amid illegal immigration surge. The area in the Del Rio sector has seen record illegal crossings

 

 I have very complicated feelings about Donald Trump right now

 

AOC: Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett committed an impeachable offense

 

Academics throw tantrums over Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade reversal

 

The Nation:  Abortion Involves Killing–and That’s OK! To be pro-choice is to be against forced life.

 

Guardian:  It’s time to say it: the US supreme court has become an illegitimate institution

 

 WHY THE ABORTION HYSTERIA?

 

 Colombia's election: How could the voters be so stupid?

 

 

[Ann]

Audit Finds Half of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Benefits in Illinois Were Stolen

Link to the audit report
 

An audit released on June 16 of the Illinois Department of Employment Security found that half of federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits the agency paid out during the height of the pandemic were stolen.
 

The report by Illinois’ auditor general states that the Illinois agency, which administers both state and federal unemployment benefits, paid $3.6 billion in federal PUA benefits during state fiscal year 2021. The report describes “overpayments associated with ID theft and traditional fraud within the PUA program” as “unprecedented.” Specifically, the audit states that ID theft overpayments under the PUA program totaled over $1.8 billion—or 50.4 percent of the $3.6 billion in PUA payments.
 

Federal officials regularly confirm that the temporary and now-expired PUA program was uniquely subject to fraud and abuse. US Department of Labor Inspector General (IG) Larry Turner noted in his March 2022 Congressional testimony that PUA “posed the greatest risk to the UI system,” continuing warnings the IG issued about the program starting in May 2020, just weeks after its creation. Turner stated the elevated fraud risk was driven by “PUA’s expanded coverage” to groups not traditionally eligible for unemployment benefits, as well as the program’s allowing claimants to “self-certify their eligibility” for benefits. Earlier this month, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office similarly raised concerns over the self-certification process used by PUA, while arguing the unemployment benefits system overall remains at “high risk” for fraud and abuse.
 

As state reports like this start to emerge, official national estimates of PUA misspending remain unavailable. Turner’s testimony qualified his estimate of a shocking $163 billion in misspending across all pandemic unemployment benefit programs by adding that the real total is “likely higher” since that figure does not include elevated abuse under the PUA program. Counting such elevated abuse, outside experts have estimated pandemic unemployment benefit losses to fraud could total as high as $400 billion. For comparison, all benefits paid out under the nation’s unemployment benefits system in calendar year 2019 totaled under $30 billion.
 

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[Crap Throwing Clavin]

2 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

World's Deepest Shipwreck Discovered Four Miles Under The Pacific 

 

 

https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1944/samar.html

 

To give you an idea of how badly overmatched the Samuel B Roberts was in that battle: the ship grossed about 1200 tons.  Just one turret on the battleship Yamato weighed 2400 tons.   

 

The whole of the Leyte Gulf naval battle is worth a read.  But if nothing else, read the above, about Taffy 3 standing up to the majority of the IJN battle line, and the last stands of the Hoel, Johnston, and Samuel B Roberts.

 

EDIT: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Stand-Tin-Sailors-Extraordinary/dp/0553381482/  A bit sensationalized, as most modern American history writing is.  But a good read nonetheless.

Edited June 27, 2022 by Crap Throwing Monkey

[B-Man]

 

 

 Rescuing Trans Children

 

 Harvard Student Condemns Anti-Americanism in Senior Speech (video)

 

 The Biden Administration Hits Peak Energy Absurdity

 

Harris Says Abortion Limitations Would Limit the “Choices” Of Men…

 

 "F**k Clarence Thomas!" Shouts Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot During Pride Parade

 

 Another J6 Trump 'Bombshell' Outed as a Hoax!

 

 

[IDBillzFan]