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Nov 22, 2020 14:13:21   #
MrBob wrote:
Tail end of the Appalachian chain looking south towards the Iron mountains of Florida... taken from Mt. Cheah, the highest point in Alabama.


For what it's worth, the name is Mt. Cheaha.
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Sep 30, 2020 23:12:57   #
Fotoartist wrote:
I have a 4K Tv and I saw this during the debate. Donald Trump was talking about Covid so the attention was on him but Joe Biden was also on the split screen.

Photo 1. At the 39:40 min. of the debate while Donald Trump is talking, Joe Biden reaches under his suit coat to adjust something. He fiddles for awhile at it.

Photo 2. He withdraws his had and a circular end of a wire becomes plainly visible for an instant. These are all unretouched photos from my 55" LG 4K TV.

Photo 3. Momentarily more of the wire becomes visible for an instant. Notice the expression on Biden's face. He appears straining perhaps to hear something more clearly and shut out the external noise from Trump. If you noticed during the debate when Trump is talking Biden is often looking straight down as if he is straining to concentrate probably on what he is hearing in his ear.

Photo 4. A closeup of the wire. It is not a fold in his shirt. If you watch the video it is even more clear that this is a wire. Go back and look for yourself if you recorded it.

Strange that the Biden camp vehemently wouldn't allow checking for an earpiece, No?
I have a 4K Tv and I saw this during the debate. D... (show quote)


It is a crease; the link leads to to a higher-resolution picture that clearly shows the crease, after showing the so-called "proof."

https://twitter.com/KotasQuinn/status/1311289019892858880/photo/1
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Sep 30, 2020 22:57:49   #
LWW wrote:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4910770/user-clip-biden-wire

Will the left believe their lying eyes?


More baloney from the baloney factory. The "wire" is a shirt crease.

https://twitter.com/KotasQuinn/status/1311289019892858880/photo/1
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Sep 30, 2020 21:37:42   #
InfiniteISO wrote:
Trump was right about the collusion hoax, the only thing that can save Comey from jail time is a Biden win.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/24/trump-was-right-explosive-new-fbi-texts-detail-internal-furor-over-handling-of-crossfire-hurricane-investigation


You can't provide any link that proves Trump is working with Putin because it's liberal fake news. Go away troll, LOL


No one needs a link--it's all right out in the open for everyone to see. Trump's obsequious behavior around Putin at Helsinki (I think), along with his private meeting with Putin (without even a translator), Trump's rejecting the US intel community's findings about election interference from Russia on the basis that Putin said he didn't do it (HAHAHA!), and then ignoring the bounty issue are more than enough evidence.

If you are not aware of these facts, then you are willfully ignorant. If you are aware of them and you reject the conclusion that Trump is beholden to the Russians/Putin, then you lack basic reasoning capability.

I'm not the troll. The OP started this thread; I just responded, just as I am now.
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Sep 30, 2020 16:28:05   #
InfiniteISO wrote:
First, not the point of this discussion.
Second, not cited.
Third, If true it might be that since Watergate democrats have used indictments, some of them rather trivial, to clear opponents out of their way.

In general, politicians are egotistical pieces of crap who all seem to enrich themselves while making modest salaries. I believe the bad far outnumber the good. A Wikipedia list of US political scandals seems to indict both parties equally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_scandals_in_the_United_States


I would venture that most politicians have done something shady at one point or another. Republicans have a bad habit of caving to public pressure and leaving office while democrats are more likely to double down and ride it out. For an example, think of the current Governor of Virginia's black face scandal

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2019/1003/After-blackface-scandal-Va.-governor-has-hung-on-and-is-making-amends

If Northam had an R by his name, he'd have been gone the morning after the story broke and the newspapers would be telling you where he was likely to hide.

The point of the article that started this thread is the Trump collusion scandal was really a Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, James Clapper, James Comey... scandal. Those are all BIG D, democrats.

BTW, some mainly democratic scandals that come to mind...

The congressional post office scandal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Post_Office_scandal

The house banking scandal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_banking_scandal

Whitewater:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_controversy

So, before you start spurting uncited garbage of how Republicans are so much worse than Democrats consider that a sitting Democratic president and the Democratic nominee for president colluded with Russian and other foreign operatives to derail their opponent's bid for election and then had the audacity to try and turn the tables on him after he was elected to make it appear he was the one breaking the law.
First, not the point of this discussion. br Second... (show quote)


Talk about lying liars! Trump has been trying to make that case since before his inauguration. His House and Senate gangs investigated, along with his cowed DOJ and FBI, and found exactly nothing, because it was fiction.

I don’t know how anyone can support Trump when he is so under Putin’s sway that he won’t take any action about the bounties offered on American GIs. Trump is a wannabe dictator with fascist methods. He is corrupt, incompetent, and so self-centered that he can’t do anything for which he sees no personal gain to be had. Now, even the myth of his wealth and business acumen has been shown to be all hot air—all his own, of course.

You are scamming yourself to refuse to recognize the generally slimy character of the current crop of Republicans.
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Sep 29, 2020 20:01:34   #
idaholover wrote:
Try to stay on track! I'm not keeping score, this is about the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign instituting a coup against a duly elected POTUS.


And it's nonsense!
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Sep 29, 2020 19:00:41   #
You think? Oh, of course not. It doesn't matter--the facts are that comparing the number of indictments and convictions of personnel from presidential administrations since 1980 will show clearly that Democratic administrations produced very few, while the Republican administrations had many. Given all the Republican claims of Democratic corruption and the numbers of Republican criminals, it must mean that the Republicans are all crooks and too stupid to cover their tracks or to catch Democrats in misdeeds, or the Democrats are just clean or genius-level at getting away with things. It's pretty much an Occam's razor question. Of course, Fox News has never had a correct answer.
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Sep 11, 2020 16:09:52   #
bobbyjohn wrote:
What we've found is a sort of SCAM at many of the restaurants we patronize. The SUBTOTAL is the price of food and drink, and that's what the tip should be based upon. The government tacks on its pound of flesh in the form of 8 1/2% tax in our county. But what the restaurants are doing is adding the SUBTOTAL and the Tax, then using their math to calculate the tip on that. I don't begrudge the government for adding tax, but to pay a tip on that tax is just unconscionable.


Most restaurants I patronize figure the tip pre-tax. I try to be fairly generous, because the staff generally work very hard, and because I got in the habit to compensate for the madhouse my eight grandchildren usually create, not to mention the adults. Of course, those are just fond memories for the time being. I now tip more generously for take-out than I used to do, trying to support the restaurants and staff I like.

I think there are some simple ways to calculate the tip yourself if you don't like the restaurant's computer numbers. Multiply by two (and adjust the decimal) for a quick twenty percent. Divide by six to get between sixteen and seventeen per cent. Move the decimal one place left, and add half for a precise fifteen percent. Divide by four for twenty-five percent. And you can always round to suit yourself.
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Sep 11, 2020 07:32:53   #
1Feathercrest wrote:
"Transpired" is NOT another word for "occurred". To occur is to happen. What has transpired is what someone relates as having occurred. This is a ubiquitous error among even "well educated" people today.


"Occur" and "happen" are the first two definitions for transpire in most dictionaries. Your attempted definition is not understandable, particularly to distinguish it from occur and happen. Another definition is "become known;" perhaps that is what you meant.
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Sep 7, 2020 20:12:35   #
MadMikeOne wrote:
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I have 2 requests of my fellow Hogs:
1) links to cataract surgery discussions here
2) personal experiences from members who have had the surgery - specifically in retrospect what, if anything, they would have done differently and why (especially as it relates to the choice of an intraocular lens). I have horrific astigmatisms in BOTH eyes, so I’m quite concerned about that.

The thing that concerns me most is choosing the right lens for me. My photography is an extremely important part of what makes me me.

“Mike”
: br br I have 2 requests of my fellow Hogs: br ... (show quote)


I had both eyes done, August 4 and August 11; my ophthalmologist recommended the basic lenses set for distance vision with the expectation that I would need glasses for reading and for a correction for astigmatism, and I agreed after reading what the other lenses choices meant. The surgeries went very well, the recovery was easy, and the results pretty darn good, given to what poor eyesight I had become inured.

I have only just ordered my new glasses--I had to wait for three weeks after the surgeries to get a new prescription, so I haven't had the right glasses yet--I still need reading glasses for close work and reading screens, but I don't need anything beyond about a foot-and-a-half. It will be a week to ten days before I get my new glasses, but I expect them to work really well.

I have been using my old glasses to take pictures, or really, just to chimp afterwards or to read the info on the review screen--I can see plenty well to take the pictures through the viewfinder. I think I made the right choice for me in taking the simpler implant lenses and using glasses. I have never minded bifocals (mine have especially large reading sections) but my experience with lineless trifocals and bifocals was unsatisfactory, and I didn't think I would like implants with either bifocals or trifocals because I expected the size of the reading and screen areas to be too cramped for me.

So, I suggest you discuss the options with your doctor and tell him exactly what you want and expect and get his recommendations, and make your decision from that. I would lean toward the options that are the least complicated and most likely to fit what you want in terms of the field of vision. Good luck! I am basically certain you will like the results of replacing the cloudy lenses you must have now.
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Aug 28, 2020 01:12:01   #
Butchbmore wrote:
Tough meal?


I caught a longish series a couple of years ago--a young GBH was wading around in a golf course pond without much to show for it. Then it turned its head sideways and nearly upside down to look left. Pretty soon, it had a fist-sized turtle it kept trying to position to swallow. After dropping it a couple of times, the bird got the turtle positioned and down it went! The heron took a couple of mouthfuls of water and stretched its neck up, but the turtle moved into its abdomen. I was amazed--I had expected it to peck and pull the turtle apart to eat the insides. I never expected it to eat it shell and all.

It was strange to watch for another reason--the turtle's feet and claws were extended and reaching around and it was definitely swallowed alive. Great blue herons must have a heck of a digestive system and pretty darn tough insides!
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Aug 25, 2020 15:32:20   #
jerryc41 wrote:
I have a homemade computer that doesn't turn on. Bypassing the switch doesn't help. There is a green "pilot light" on the motherboard. It has a 750W EVGA power supply. I have an old Dell PSU I can use to test it, just to see if it is bad. From what I understand, I would connect this large plug to the motherboard, assuming the plug on the Dell is the same. I unplug the current large connector and plug in the large connector from the Dell PSU. Does that sound right?


No, it does not. The PSU has multiple connections for the various items--hard drives, optical drives, video cards, and card readers, plus anything else in the computer that requires power. All of those have to be connected to a functioning power supply.
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Aug 16, 2020 14:20:30   #
Fotoartist wrote:
Birthright citizenship as we grant it is unique in its liberalness in the world. Name one other country that grants automatic citizenship just because you were born on their country's soil?


How about thirty?

https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-that-recognize-birthright-citizenship-jus-soli-2018-10
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Aug 16, 2020 13:42:23   #
IDguy wrote:
Name calling, besides being a logical fallacy, suggests you might need to repeat kindergarten. It won’t win you any adult discussions.



I don't think kindergarten will help you with adult discussions; perhaps you should finish high school civics courses. College and law school might help when you want to discuss the issues at hand.

I did not call anyone a name, although I did describe the op-ed as "idiotic." I also stated clearly that the op-ed is utter nonsense.

I obviously assumed too much: the op-ed is nonsense because the U.S. Constitution sets the requirements that only a natural born citizen at least thirty-five years old who has been an actual resident at least fourteen years is eligible to be elected president or vice-president. United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 US. 649, ruled that anyone born within the territories of the United States is a natural born citizen, so long as his parents are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

The op-ed makes spurious arguments that Harris's parents were somehow not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. It simply ignores the law while creating "facts" it assumes without any basis.
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Aug 16, 2020 13:17:37   #
IDguy wrote:
Your assertion has zero information value. Read the attached rebuttal which has actual falsehoods. What laws or precedents do you think wrong?


What rebuttal? What falsehoods? Please make clear statements/questions.

As for what laws or precedents I think wrong, there aren't any in this discussion. The ones applicable to the point of the op-ed I dispute are below.

The United States Constitution, Article II, Section 1 includes the specific eligibility qualifications to be president:

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

"Natural born citizen," while not defined in the Constitution or in case opinions, has been determined clearly by the United States Supreme Court to include a person born in the United States, regardless of the citizenship of his parents, as long as they are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 US. 649.

Federal law also makes children of a United States citizen born outside of the territories of the United States natural born citizens, but that has nothing to do with Ms. Harris.
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