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Climate Change / Re: Ford “Drastically” Cutting EV Lightning Workforce Hours
« Last post by banddag on Today at 12:53:53 am »
Quote from: Hoodat on Today at 12:49:35 am
Still waiting, @banddag

Why should the US government subsidize the battery industry when hydrogen tanks are lighter, cheaper, lower maintenance, and have further range?

I told you why. US car cos do not see hydrogen as viable versus ev's

Also if you go to subsidy trackers, US car cos have received billions in subsidies for decades- way before ev's

Conservatives hate ev's because it is a partinsanship issue
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Jokes and Humor / Re: Humor/Jokes
« Last post by Cyber Liberty on Today at 12:52:32 am »
This is a crime against humanity.

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Climate Change / Re: Ford “Drastically” Cutting EV Lightning Workforce Hours
« Last post by DCPatriot on Today at 12:50:59 am »
Quote from: Hoodat on Today at 12:28:03 am
Now now, let's think about this one for a moment.  What if we subsidize the firearms industry.  Everyone in America should be able to have an AR-15 at low cost.  So the government should pay out huge subsidies to make that happen.  Other countries do it, right?  We should take the lead from China and France.

In the meantime, saw an electronic message board on the side of the road...smack-dab in the middle of Annapolis by Saint John's College which read:

"Save a Life...turn in your guns and ammunition!"

THIS...in Maryland!   **nononono*
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Climate Change / Re: Ford “Drastically” Cutting EV Lightning Workforce Hours
« Last post by Hoodat on Today at 12:49:35 am »
Still waiting, @banddag

Why should the US government subsidize the battery industry when hydrogen tanks are lighter, cheaper, lower maintenance, and have further range?
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World News / Re: BREAKING....Thread 9...Israel At War...OPERATION SWORDS OF IRON
« Last post by Right_in_Virginia on Today at 12:49:22 am »
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AP Updates
6:40 PM EDT

Hamas publishes the cease-fire proposal it agreed to

BEIRUT — Hamas has published a copy of the cease-fire and hostage release proposal that the militant group said it had agreed to on Monday.

The framework brought forward by Qatar and Egypt aims to bring a halt to seven months of war in Gaza. However, it’s unclear if Israel will agree to the terms.

The proposal outlines a phased release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza alongside the gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops from the entire enclave and ending with a “sustainable calm” or “permanent cessation of military and hostile operations.”

Israel has previously said it would not agree to either a full withdrawal of its forces or a permanent cease-fire as part of a hostage release deal.

The first stage would last 42 days and would involve a partial withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip and the release of about 33 hostages held in the territory, including the remaining Israeli women — both civilians and soldiers — as well as children, older adults and people who are ill.

Thirty Palestinian prisoners held in Israel would be released in exchange for each Israeli civilian hostage and 50 in exchange for each female soldier.

Palestinians displaced in Gaza would be allowed to return to their home neighborhoods during that time.

The parties would then negotiate the terms of the next stage, under which the remaining civilian men and soldiers would be released, while Israeli forces would withdraw from the rest of Gaza. This phase would be conditioned on achievement of a “sustainable calm.”

The final stage would involve exchange of the bodies of hostages who died in captivity and the beginning of a reconstruction plan for the enclave that would take place over three to five years “under the supervision of a number of countries and organizations, including: Egypt, Qatar and the United Nations.”
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Climate Change / Re: Ford “Drastically” Cutting EV Lightning Workforce Hours
« Last post by Hoodat on Today at 12:47:26 am »
Quote from: banddag on Today at 12:44:48 am
The poor do not pay any taxes.

That's a new one on me.  Anyone who works pays taxes.  Unless you've shown them a way to cheat on their taxes like yourself.
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Trump Legal Investigations / When the judge gags a key witness for Trump’s defense By Byron York
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 12:46:48 am »
When the judge gags a key witness for Trump’s defense
By
Byron York
May 6, 2024 5:34 pm
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WHEN THE JUDGE GAGS A KEY WITNESS FOR TRUMP’S DEFENSE. The false bookkeeping trial of former President Donald Trump is now in its fourth week. This newsletter has pointed out lots of times, most recently last Friday, that while we know that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has charged Trump with falsifying bookkeeping records of a nondisclosure payment in order to commit or conceal another crime, Bragg still hasn’t revealed what that other crime is. It’s really the key to the whole case. Without the other crime, there would be no charges against Trump in this matter. The fact that we — and that includes the defendant — still don’t know what the other crime is is one of the great injustices of a felony prosecution that never should have happened.

But now we’re getting an idea of where prosecutors are going. Perhaps the leading theory — they’re all just theories — of the other crime is that in addition to violating New York’s misdemeanor law against falsifying bookkeeping records, Trump also violated another New York misdemeanor law, 17-152, which prohibits conspiring “to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means.” Put those two misdemeanors together, and bingo! Trump stands accused of 34 felony counts, which could put him in prison for a maximum of 136 years.

Obviously 17-152 depends on specifying what “unlawful means” the defendant used to promote or prevent the election of any person. Otherwise, it’s just campaigning. So at some point prosecutors will have to reveal what those “unlawful means” were. But here’s something that nonlawyers should know: To win a felony conviction, Bragg does not have to prove Trump committed the other crime, whatever it might be. “The statute does not require a defendant to actually be convicted of the ‘other crime,’ but merely that he intend to commit another crime,” wrote the judge in the case, Juan Merchan, on Feb. 15. “The focus here is on the element of intent.”

more
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/2993414/when-the-judge-gags-a-key-witness-for-trumps-defense/
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World News / Re: IDF Urges Rafah Evacuations; Drops Flyers in Gaza; Attack Imminent
« Last post by Right_in_Virginia on Today at 12:46:22 am »
Quote
AP Updates
6:40 PM EDT

Hamas publishes the cease-fire proposal it agreed to

BEIRUT — Hamas has published a copy of the cease-fire and hostage release proposal that the militant group said it had agreed to on Monday.

The framework brought forward by Qatar and Egypt aims to bring a halt to seven months of war in Gaza. However, it’s unclear if Israel will agree to the terms.

The proposal outlines a phased release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza alongside the gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops from the entire enclave and ending with a “sustainable calm” or “permanent cessation of military and hostile operations.”

Israel has previously said it would not agree to either a full withdrawal of its forces or a permanent cease-fire as part of a hostage release deal.

The first stage would last 42 days and would involve a partial withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip and the release of about 33 hostages held in the territory, including the remaining Israeli women — both civilians and soldiers — as well as children, older adults and people who are ill.

Thirty Palestinian prisoners held in Israel would be released in exchange for each Israeli civilian hostage and 50 in exchange for each female soldier.

Palestinians displaced in Gaza would be allowed to return to their home neighborhoods during that time.

The parties would then negotiate the terms of the next stage, under which the remaining civilian men and soldiers would be released, while Israeli forces would withdraw from the rest of Gaza. This phase would be conditioned on achievement of a “sustainable calm.”

The final stage would involve exchange of the bodies of hostages who died in captivity and the beginning of a reconstruction plan for the enclave that would take place over three to five years “under the supervision of a number of countries and organizations, including: Egypt, Qatar and the United Nations.”
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Jokes and Humor / Re: Humor/Jokes
« Last post by rustynail on Today at 12:45:44 am »
Laugh or cry?

Blade-Less Swiss Army Knife Debuts As Weapon Laws Tighten

In a world that is fracturing into a multipolar state, with risks of world war erupting in either Eastern Europe or the Middle East, continued threats of conflict in the Pacific, and the migrant invasion across Western countries, the company behind the iconic half-century-old fold-up tool, the Swiss Army Knife, will soon debut a blade-less version because of regulations.

Victorinox Chief Executive Officer Carl Eisner told Swiss paper Blick on Monday that its Swiss Army Knife will soon be available without a blade due to mounting regulations in European and Asian countries amid a surge in violence.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/how-ridiculous-blade-less-swiss-army-knife-debuts-weapon-laws-tighten
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Climate Change / Re: Ford “Drastically” Cutting EV Lightning Workforce Hours
« Last post by Hoodat on Today at 12:44:57 am »
Quote from: banddag on Today at 12:34:48 am
Stupid example. I pointed out what happened to Boeing.

Ah, so you anoint yourself the decider of who gets subsidies and who does not?  And as for Boeing, they've lost business because they have grown complacent and lazy.  And people are now dying because of it.
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