LWW Loc: Banana Republic of America

Then move.

tomcat

I have documented relatives that fought in the Revolutionary War. My great-great-great-great grandfather was one of the members of the Safety Committee that met in Halifax NC. They drew up the first documented petition in the colonies which demanded freedom from tyranny of King George. NC also refused to approve the Constitution until the Bill of Rights was written and attached to it. So you can thank NC for those first 10 Rights. My great grandfather rode with Stonewall Jackson and was by his side the night he was shot by his own troops. The NC 26th was the first group of soldiers to reach the stone wall and actually cross it at Gettysburg that fatal day. So it is in my blood to have freedom from any suppressive government and that's exactly where the Progressive Socialists Demorats are attempting to head to country to--more government regulations and especially taxation without representation or support of the fees. I am a very big states' rights advocate and fully support the Sons of Liberty principles. I believe that the Fed Gov't has only 2 purposes: to provide for defense of the colonies and to regulate interstate commerce. Other than those 2 functions, they should stay the heck out of other peoples's business and let the Colonies control their own destiny. Then my tax money would stay in NC.

tomcat

Yeah, that's what your kind want to call a man that is trying to restore some sanity back to this country by removing those crippling government regulations that the Demorats put into place. The asinine trade policies that sell out our technology to China and the Iranian agreement were ok with you?

You and a lot of other Trump h**ers are so afraid that he will be a success and you guys cannot accept the fact that he is not a politician and trying to run a country here with his business acumen.....by the way, I did not v**e for him. I v**ed against Hillary and the Clinton monarchy.....

johneccles Loc: Leyland UK

Has anyone ever noticed how Trump looks just like Mussolini?

mwalsh Loc: Houston

"Womp womp..."


Swing anna miss on that one.

soba1 Loc: Somewhere In So Ca

Like Canada isn’t demonic phuleaze

Cykdelic Loc: Now outside of Chiraq & Santa Fe, NM

Well.....the 60% of the states with their own brain DID v**e for Trump!

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

No! v**e.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

I notice that the trade deficit with China has grown, not diminished under the Trump administration. How are those tariffs working out for you (and American maufacturing and farmers)? One of those pesky little facts...

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

The trade deficit has grown significantly. Was the growth with China?
Our leader is now targeting other countries for tariffs.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/balance-of-trade
"According to unadjusted data, exports fell to Canada (-10 percent), Mexico (-15.4 percent), the EU (-3.5 percent), Japan (-2.1 percent); and OPEC (-5.1 percent) but rose to China (6 percent) and Brazil (8.4 percent)."

ken_stern Loc: Yorba Linda, Ca

People V**E - States don't -- The majority of Human V**ers did not v**e for what is currently sitting watching FOX news in the White house -- Actually many of the States that did v**e for the man go out of their way to deny Human American V**ers their right to V**E

tomcat

The momentum from the Bush/Obama debacle has steam rolled into a major deficit, but by the time Trump finishes working on it, the deficit will turn around and the upward slope of the curve is diminishing. Right now, the Chinese economy is slowing and the Chinese stock markets are depressed because they're exporting less. As far as the tariffs go, I don't mind paying more. I'd rather pay $50 for a shirt made in the USA instead of $35 for one from China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, foreign-stan, but what bugs me is that you can't find a quality shirt made in the USA. So paying more does not bother me. What does bother me is Mott's applesauce made with apples from China. Motts has no $%^*%$ business importing chinese apples or f**e chinese applesauce. Whitehouse applesauce is 100% American applesauce. So you keep eating that cheap, f**e chinese food and see how your health turns out. We may disagree on a lot of things, but stay away from talapia.

By the way, I got a Nikon D5 on consignment from Nikon NPS a few weeks back and tested it out in my low light gym for some basketball games for two weeks. And the shots turned out just as I suspected: a whole lot more noise and grain than my D3s has. I figured this would be the case, based on the data from DXO (which I know you don't believe) and the tendency for higher megapixel cameras to capture noise from sensor cross-talk. The 20mp sensor is not the answer for shooting in low light higher than 4,000 ISO . Since I could not get a fellow D5 owner to shoot in low light at ISO of 12,800 and submit any images, I decided to do my own experiments. Cost me about $70 in FedEx shipping costs both ways to get the camera. Now, I will admit that the D5 was a real joy to shoot. The AF acquisition was lightning fast (faster than the D3s) and the tracking was much smoother. I see why the D5 garners so much praise for sports shooting. But this came at a cost of noisier images. I was able to clean the D5 images up with Topaz AI Clear; however I had to run 100% of them through the software. With the D3s, the images captured are much smoother (aka less grainy) and it is only the highly cropped ones that I have to run AI Clear on. Most of them do not need AI Clear. This is mostly a re-hash from an earlier post on UHH. I wish that I could post the images from the kids basketball games, but these are high school and middle school boys and girls. I do not have a release or permission from the school or parents to publish these and I would not because of the potential harmful possibilities.... You can do this same trial yourself if you truly want to see the shortcomings of the D5 vs D3s in low light. My next trial will be with a D4s when I can get one to rent. I am interested in knowing how the D4s performs in high ISO compared to the D3s. Thanks for the conversation about the cameras.

tomcat

Oh, puleeez. Coming from a state where many of its citizens are stoned on marijuana or i*****l a***ns. Sorry dude, but CA lost its credibility back in the 1960's with Berkeley......

wds0410 Loc: Nunya

Some are true, some are just gross generalizations (kind of like English food sucks and English people never go to the dentist), and some are simply false.

tomcat

Who gives NY and CA the right to dictate what the rest of the country has to do......?? That's why the E*******l college was established. The old geezers in the 1700's knew the dangerous potential of what was coming....