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Bull sh it, you just have extra think political blinders

When the power went out at Nate Graham’s New Mexico home last year, his family huddled around a fireplace in the cold and dark. Even the gas furnace was out, with no electricity for the fan. After failing to coax enough heat from the wood-burning fireplace, Graham’s wife and two children decamped for the comfort of a relative’s house until electricity returned two days later. The next time the power failed, Graham was prepared. He had a power strip and a $150 inverter, a device that converts direct current from batteries into the alternating current needed to run appliances, hooked up to his new Chevy Bolt, an electric vehicle. The Bolt’s battery powered his refrigerator, lights and other crucial devices with ease. As the rest of his neighborhood outside Albuquerque languished in darkness, Graham’s family life continued virtually unchanged. “It was a complete game changer making power outages a nonissue,” says Graham, 35, a manager at a software company. “It lasted a day-and-a-half, but it could have gone much longer.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/07/ev-battery-power-your-home/

A record-breaking number of Floridians signed up this year for health insurance through Obamacare. That’s the program, in case you’ve forgotten, that Republicans spent years trying to get rid of and once called “the most dangerous piece of legislation ever passed.” More than 3.2 million residents of the Sunshine State (20% of the Obamacare enrollment for the entire country) apparently don’t agree. They signed up in droves this year, a 19% jump over last year, the highest number in the country. And that’s even though Florida is the third most populous state in the nation and accounts for only 7% of the U.S. population. Funny. Isn’t Florida supposed to be a red state now? Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article271834197.html#storylink=cpy You mean with this low unemployment rate? Lowest in 50 years!!!

Seriously, it's music. Some people decide which is best? Whatever. I don't care either way what some people decide is the best music Oh ya, love Bruce though!

“If we don’t repeal and replace Obamacare, we will destroy American health care forever,” Trump said. “It’s one of the single most important reasons why we must win on November 8th. We must win.” --- 🤣 https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/biden-harris-administration-announces-record-breaking-163-million-people-signed-health-care-coverage Nearly 50% increase in HealthCare.gov signups since President Biden took office, and 3.6 million people signed up for health care coverage on the Marketplaces for the first time this year Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that a record-breaking more than 16.3 million people have selected an Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace health plan nationwide during the 2023 Marketplace Open Enrollment Period (OEP) that ran from November 1, 2022-January 15, 2023 for most Marketplaces. President Biden promised to strengthen and build on the Affordable Care Act, and this year, the 10th year of ACA Open Enrollment, more Americans signed up for high-quality, affordable health insurance through the ACA Marketplaces than ever before. Since President Biden took office, the number of people who have signed up for an affordable health care plan through HealthCare.gov has increased by nearly 50%. Because of the President’s plan, millions of working families saved an average of $800 on their health insurance premiums last year.

The American people are so happy

But we were isolationist in the prosperous 20's as well. That was just a mistake. Had they taken efforts at some form of collective security, things would have turned out differently, but that was a hard lesson learned. It happened, all we can do is not repeat the mistake Conversely, we have to pick and choose carefully our foreign priorities. Vietnam and Iraq were mistake going in the other direction Good questions. I was just throwing it out there, not advocating for or against them, wondering how they would be used and the only answer I found was as anti-missile platforms.

beyond my scope of knowledge there

A lot of transgender people, it seems to me, are involved in researching, exploring and writing about evolutionary topics. I just finished this book https://www.amazon.com/Last-Days-Dinosaurs-Extinction-Beginning/dp/1250271045 which is a great book, and at the end the author links their transgender situation to evolutionary biology. Interesting. It doesn't always work though, this book, https://www.amazon.com/Neanderthal-Man-Search-Lost-Genomes/dp/0465054951/ref=sr_1_3?crid=GYQ28HGNRPW2&keywords=neanderthal+book&qid=1675775149&s=books&sprefix=neander%2Cstripbooks%2C138&sr=1-3 the author just way too far in talking about their transgender status which hurt the book, imo. I did not finish that one. I don't even know what the Grammy's are for...🤷‍♂️

Gees, cheering on higher gas prices!

That's right. Hitler loved the isolationists. If America had shown leadership in the 30's Hitler would have been deterred

You are siting a right wing opinion piece. Nuff said about your level of thought. Here is some reality for you: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/CVX:NYSE?window=5Y Chevron up over the last 5 years, and grew under Biden. No one is investing in big oil? And Biden admin approved on many drilling permits

That's what Ukraine is arguing they need them for, which I admit had me surprised, also

So no rational response? Interesting, and telling Premature. Blacks slowly had their rights taken away from them as the 19th century wore on. Blacks were elected to congress and at the state level for a few decades, then came Jim Crow. Plessy did not happen until 1896 and that case set a precedence that was followed all through the south and infected the north as well

Slavery is not good... https://qz.com/1273998/for-10-years-students-from-texas-have-been-using-a-history-textbook-that-says-not-all-slaves-were-unhappy That needs to be taught, not this nonsense that there was a good side to slavery. Remember, the south used to preach that slavery was a blessing of god That's good and all, but apply numbers of slaves to states like South Carolina and Mississippi, both states had a majority of people there enslaved. Those states led the south out of the Union. Did slaves build South Carolina? Good argument can be made there. Same with the rest of the deep south. Did a pro-slavery racist minority cause our worst war in American history? Yup

Not completely true. The opening of the Erie Canal and other advances--steamboats, railroads, and many others inventions--started the nation towards industrialization, look up Market Revolution. Buffalo had over 500 manufacturing concerns by 1860

I'd like to handle this in parts because you make a lot of interesting points. First, you are childish, not me. I can write for myself and not just cut and paste. So there's your insult back, That is a simplification to say that, but cotton was the most profitable part of the economy leading up to the war---but our section of the country was catching up fast with the grain trade through Buffalo from the Old North West. I love the part you provided about how bad slavery was for whites and blacks. So true, just a degrading system It should be added that racism kept poor whites poor by giving them a sense that though poor, at least they had it better than blacks who had almost no chance of advancement. Racism was used to divide the poor

So you can't point out anything! You forgot the exclamation point!

Give me an example of specific lies, please

Back in the 1960's Major orchestras were almost 95% all male. Women we not thought strong enough to do some instruments at that level. Then this one women wanted to try out for a position in Boston but she had a conflict of interest so they did blind auditions. They only listened to the performers play and didn't get to look at them. She was the winner, they loved her music, until they found she was a women and there was an uproar. Now most places have to use blind auditions and the music industry is much closer to 50-50 men/women

No, they are telling the truth and you hate it

I was interested in what they wanted them for. Seems to me drones would be easier to learn and use. I had not thought of it as an anti-missile platform. If that really is the case, then yes, as you say, more power to them Freedom isn't free It sure isn't, and that's why we should keep supplying weapons for this free people to defend themselves

A contingent of military officials is quietly pushing the Pentagon to approve sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine to help the country defend itself from Russian missile and drone attacks, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions. Ukraine has kept American-made F-16s on its weapons wish list since the Russian invasion last year. But Washington and Kyiv have viewed artillery, armor and ground-based air defense systems as more urgent needs as Ukraine seeks to protect civilian infrastructure and claw back ground occupied by Russian forces. Despite the age of Ukraine’s jets, Kyiv’s integrated air defenses have kept Russia from dominating its skies since the Feb. 24 invasion. But now, officials are concerned that Ukraine is running out of missiles to protect its skies. Once its arsenal is depleted, Russia’s advanced fighter jets will be able to move in and Kyiv “will not be able to compete,” said the DoD official involved in the discussions. Modern fighter jets could be one solution to this problem, argues a group of military officials in the Pentagon and elsewhere. F-16s carry air-to-air missiles that can shoot down incoming missiles and drones. And unlike the Patriots and National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems the West is currently sending, fighter jets can move around an area quickly to protect different targets. “If they get [F-16] Vipers and they have an active air-to-air missile with the radar the F-16 currently has with some electronic protection, now it’s an even game,” the DoD official said. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/28/pentagon-send-f-16s-ukraine-00080045

Sour grapes