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4 minutes ago, daz28 said:
It's even a bit strange that Fox doesn't have their families plastered all over the screen every night. I totally agree though, Middle East peace isn't happening anytime soon, no matter how many weapons we send over there. The real shame is that any deal negotiated will be looked at as weakness by Biden, and that likely plays a big part.
What?
This is Israel's survival.
They are and have been under attack from three sides for years.
It is there issue to "deal."
Biden has proven to be a spineless non ally, and that is shameful.
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6 minutes ago, daz28 said:
Ever heard of OPEC? Do you even have a basic understanding of how oil is traded? I seriously hope you don't think that they have the drills and refineries going full blast all the time, attempting to keep prices low for us? Guess how your goods are transported? Fuel maybe?? You keep believing that the government is holding them back from supplying you with cheap gas, because that's EXACTLY what they want you to think. I'm not here to make the uneducated the educated, but I will put someone on the right trail. Besides, trump likes you uneducated.
Oh my.
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47 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:
no one is disputing this-----hence, "the NFL is coming for your [over the stadium] drones".
FAA has no mechanism to come after an unregistered drone operated by an unlicensed individual. So the NFL wants the locals to clean this up, once given the authority to do so........
I'm sure you have as much interest in digging deep into this as I have, which is zero.
But....The FAA certainly has a mechanism to enforce drone regs on any unregistered drone, by any individual.
To the bigger picture, these things are dangerous in the hands of idiots, like the 15 year old who gets one for Christmas and thinks it would be fun to fly it over a stadium. Quite easy to do.
I've seen them saw small branches off of trees.
They have limited battery life, and crashing one into stadium stands would be really bad.
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7 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:
yes, but my guess is that these are not commercial drones, but those under 250 grams, who's operators are not licensed and who's drones don't need registration.
It doesn't matter if they're commercial or not, which I'm sure they aren't.
Operating one over a stadium, or any other non participating human is illegal.
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Just horrible.
As said by others, our allies don't trust him, and our enemies don't fear him.
The man is a foreign policy disaster.
As former Defense Sect Robert Gates said:
"I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades."
Denying Israel this shipment is idiotic, counterproductive and lunacy.
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2 hours ago, Mr. WEO said:
correct, but there is no functional federal enforcement....
I won't comment on NFL games or stadium venues, but there is absolutely functional federal enforcement re unauthorized drone usage.
I have a commercial drone license and am aware of this.
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As I read the link, it simply enabling local law enforcement to utilize anti drone measures. That authority, to date, is reserved for the Feds.
The fact is that operating a drone over a stadium without FAA authorization is illegal, and has always been, and for very good reasons.
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IRS audits are the result of IRS problems with a return.
IRS agents do not make their money auditing returns that have no discrepancies.
There are other windmills worth tilting over.
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I don't agree with the targeting claim.
IRS audits are based on filed returns.
I would aver that the audits were based on discrepancies within those returns, like inaccurate 1099's etc.
High income filers don't make those mistakes. They probably have professional help.
My guess is that there's no story here.
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1 hour ago, The Frankish Reich said:
No it isn't.
The law has always treated false statements under oath differently when testimony involves things that go to the heart of the claim as opposed to collateral matters.
It was perjury.
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13 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:
It wasn't me that gave that comment an "awesome."
But it isn't an unfair comparison. Republicans back then (very different from Republicans now) took the position that lying under oath by denying a sexual encounter was a "high crime or misdemeanor" that made a man unfit to serve as President. I would say that this is more similar than it is different ...
Perjury is perjury.
The subject matter is irrelevant.
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54 minutes ago, B-Man said:
The same woman who advocated for going after "them" in restaurants.
I had the "privilege" of carrying her on many of her weekend roundtrips from Dulles to LA.
The woman is a classless, imperious, arrogant slob.
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2 hours ago, All_Pro_Bills said:
My contention is when you work with statistical models you can generate any result you'd like based on your assumptions and inputs. As these job numbers are not a count but rather a number derived from a model, I contend they suffer from political bias. I base my theory on some work experience applying statistical modeling and looking at historical trends where the BLS monthly job numbers correlated with statistical significance with other job market metrics then inexplicably diverged from almost all of them without explanation. Something changed.
If in my past efforts had we encountered a sudden divergence in one key metric out of several key metrics that had for years followed a similar trend we would have performed a full assessment of the model, our assumptions, our input data and sources, assessed the possibly of exceptional or new circumstances, and identified the source of the divergence and taken action to address it.
I get all that, but the BLS Report, and the ADP Report usually differ based on their modelling, but there has been no suggestion from the financial market world that they are cooked by politics.
They are revised, as are almost all economic reports, but that, again, is not influenced by politics.
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29 minutes ago, All_Pro_Bills said:
My guess is these "low" numbers are just as fake as the high one's. And here's why. Those high numbers weren't translating to what actual working people were experiencing and did nothing for Biden's polling numbers. What Biden needs more than anything is either greater expectations for rate cuts or actual rate cuts so the interest rate sensitive areas of the economy can get a boost before the election. Another round of higher than expected jobs numbers would have dashed hopes for Fed action to lower rates. Higher or low, its all still make up a number that supports the politics of the month.
These are apolitical stats derived from apolitical sources.
The Biden Admin doesn't influence them.
It was weaker than expected, but the reading too much into one economic report is foolish.
Better to use a three-six month moving average.
That gives a much better picture.
Still, we are approaching the end of the time line that these economic reports are grossly effected by the pandemic, and become more meaningful.
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2 hours ago, B-Man said:
I'm shocked.
I've been following details of this since the thing was an idea.
The "dock" is completely unprotected, so any weather of any serious consequence is going to stop the operation.
Think WWII Normandy, but worse.
The vessels being used are quite small, so any serious weather is going to require them to be hoisted until it passes.
Regarding other news on this front, Eisenhower has now left the Red Sea and is in the Med, meaning there is no carrier to threaten the Houthis.
I would say that objectively, Operation Prosperity Guardian has been a mission failure.
Traffic through the Red Sea is at 50% of previous levels, and is largely Russian an other unfriendly stuff.
There have been 50 attacks on shipping that have been successfully defended, one sinking of a commercial ship and one taken over.
The joint forces have been incredibly productive, but the political will to end the threat has not, so it lives on.
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Does this include Hunter Biden's coming clean after admitting to gross cheating?
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17 hours ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
What a ridiculous post. The organizer is a white supremacist. Most on “his side” were. Do you really think trump meant a couple people on that side were nice people and the rest scum? It’s like saying the civil war was fundamentally about states rights. Ultimately it’s almost always about money as will be the next civil war: the haves against the have nots and their corrupt leaders. A familiar story…
There were lots and lots and lots of people who were protesting the removal of the statue.
I drove past the staging area that the despicable white supremacists were staging to begin their little walk.
I had to stop to allow them to cross the street, with traffic police assistance.
It took about three minutes as I recall for them to cross. Maybe 75 people.
There were a lot more on the other side of the issue.
All locals.
Some were there to protest the white supremacists, some simply to protest the foolishness of removing the statue.
There were many more on that side.
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1 hour ago, Tiberius said:
You are a clown 🤡
Sherpa the Clown!n
Continuing your record of incisive brilliance.
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21 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
Sounds like another real nice person. I read a bit about him. Two wrongs don't make a right. Still no excuse for the violent white supremacist rally that they held. Or for having any ambiguity on who the good guys and bad guys were in the President's statements. It wasn't the State police that started the fight or staged a rally in anticipation of it. Blame the nazi scum.
The rally was from out of towners.
The entire, stupid remove the statue thing was idiotic, and led by a racist black man with expressed and extreme anti white women views.
He's still around.
Name is Wes Bellamy.
The rest have been prosecuted and found guilty.
Regarding your comment about the state police, I am very familiar with people involved in the police rules of engagement that day, and it could have been prevented.
All of them have been fired or removed.
Trump is not a careful speaker, but there is no ambiguity.
The man stated twice that he was not talking about neo nazis or white supremacists, and he directly expressed his disdain for those, yet it continues to be ignored by political nuts.
The claim of ambiguity is from political hacks who, like you, for political reasons, refuse to read his response.
"Not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch. Those people were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statue of Robert E. Lee."
It never ends.
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20 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
The statue was an issue long before the rally. Trump never mentioned it before. But all of a sudden this rally happens and he makes ridiculous comments. As I recall, trump disavowed scumbag white supremacists a day after he made the very nice people comment. It was either grossly irresponsible or was purposely ambiguous to make that statement. As far as what happened at the statue, the good students of UVA were on the good guys side:
At the Rotunda,[149] the group encountered a group of about 30 counterprotesters, mostly UVA students, who had locked arms around a statue of Thomas Jefferson. The white nationalists encircled the smaller group of counterprotesters at the base of the statue, and a brawl ensued.[131][147][148][149] Several people on both sides were reportedly hit with pepper spray, and several people were treated for minor injuries.[146] The white nationalists began swinging and throwing their lit tiki torches amid the chaos.[149] It was several minutes before Virginia State Police came to break up the brawl.[147][150]
Who do you expect white supremacists will vote for in Nov? Why?
First things first.
The event you posted is not what happened on that day. Not sure if that matters, but it is not related to the event of some lunatic from Ohio coming here and killing a local woman.
By the way, the man who served on the city council at the time, who was behind the statue removal, something not at all popular here, is thus quoted:
”I don't like white people, so I hate white snow."
In one, from October 2011, Bellamy retweeted a description of performing a sex act on a sleeping woman and the comment that “if she moan it aint rape.”
“this weekend I’ll be on a whitegirl diet.” He shared the message, then added “a rape charge waiting to happen,” according to the Cavalier Daily. In another tweet, according to the Daily, he wrote that white women “smell like future assault charges n deli meat.”
While serving on city council:
"I really tune out when white people talk in community meetings. I really need to work on that.”
On the day that the woman was killed, I drove by the staging ground of these imported white supremacists, and I commented to my wife that it looked insane, and that something horrible was bound to happen.
It all could have been prevented if the state police force was not told to stand down.
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9 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
This guy organized it and applied for the permit. No doubt he's "very nice" and was certainly on one side. He led that side. But he's very nice...
This "theme" should be buried.
I live here.
I was extremely aware of what was going on.
The guy you are talking about has been convicted.
The issue began when an anti white racist, who I am sure you or the other two clowns have no idea about, insisted that a statue be removed.
Most folks, for a hundred years or so, had no problem with the statue.
The city council's decision to have it torn down caused the entire thing.
The people who arrived from out of state had this idiotic torch march, reviled by locals.
That led to what happened.
In no objective judgement was Trump talking about neo Nazis or white supremacists being "good people," as he clearly stated twice.
He was talking about people who either advocated or opposed the removal of the statue, which has proven to be a stupid waste of taxpayer money.
Watched it.
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57 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
Liar. You did, You were crying like a bi tch and said I was mean to you and you didn't want to respond to me anymore and wouldn't and I respected that. So I did not respond to you.
No class
You are an absolute idiot. and nothing you could ever do would bother me, let alone the absurd claim made in this fantasy.
You had your chance, when you first challenged me, and you hid like a cockroach.
Regarding class, you have no idea.
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34 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
You said you were not going to reply to my posts?
Ergo, you are not to be trusted with the truth, especially when it’s about what your Trump said
No, I did not say that, and this is not the first time you have made this false statement, or post idiocy that I support trump.
You continue to lie.
You asked me a question, and I said I would not respond to your questions, as I don't work for you.
I never said I would not reply or post a response to the stupidity you post, which is unending.
Didn't happen, and I have explained it before.
Anyway, the Trump claim was regarding people who advocated and those who did not, the stupidity of removing a statue, and he was correct.
There were good people on both sides, and i know a few of them and their arguments, both sides valid.
Never, ever did he advocate any white supremacist or neo Nazi belief, and he made that point clearly, twice, in that discussion.
Always omitted in grossly stupid claims.
People who continue to make that claim identify themselves as idiots.
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2 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
Trump is just a POS. That's why they like him, I guess
For the one billionth time, in direct opposition to your link, he never claimed that neo Nazis or white supremacists that were not from Charlottesville but participated in that event were fine people.
Give it up.
Anybody who still claims that, as your link does, is a completely discredited moron.
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NFL is coming for your drones!
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Just so people know, it is illegal to fly a drone within three nautical miles from any stadium having a capacity of 30,000 or more from one hour prior to scheduled start until one hour after.
Many other events trigger what are called Temporary Flight Restrictions, which also prohibit drone operations. Obvious ones would include Presidential appearances, but there are many others.
You can request a waiver from the FAA for any number of requests, but it would never be granted in this case.
Regarding size and registration, if it weighs more than .55 lbs, it must be registered.
I can't imagine anything worth flying, or having any capability weighing less than that. The battery weighs that much.
If someone does it, local law enforcement can stop it, use the FAA's Law Enforcement Assistance Program to report it, and the FAA can pursue certificate or even criminal action. The NFL wants local police to have authority for enforcement.
The NFL has had many games delayed because of this, and it is extremely dangerous. In most cases the drones were not registered, so flying them anywhere would have been a violation, let alone within the temp flight restricted area of an NFL stadium.