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November 3rd, 2021 at 5:10:12 AM permalink
RonC
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Quote: rxwine
Interesting as Norway produces 98% of its power from renewables. 95% from hydroelectric.

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


There is no doubt that we can do better.

The idea should be to do better, reward those who help us get there, and do it without tearing our current system apart as we rebuild in a different manner.

Solar and wind have limitations. 93.4% of Norway's power comes from hydro. That is a much more even and reliable source. We have a ton of wind turbines here in Texas and are growing the number of solar farms...but they fail miserably when it comes to weather issues. Too windy, too little wind, too cloudy, etc. The drop in production is too much to rely on at this point.

The government needs to be in the business of keeping the cost of energy reasonable by allowing us to use our oil and working to help build renewables via tax breaks and credits. When they become trillion dollar companies, perhaps the subsidies should stop and move on to others. Allowing higher and higher prices costs the poor and lower middle class--the very people Democrats say they want to help--more by percentage than it does people who are better off.
November 3rd, 2021 at 5:12:59 AM permalink
RonC
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Anyone who thinks the Democrats party is dead because of a couple of close elections is just as wrong as those who said Republican party was dead a few months ago. It is kind of funny how the mood of pundits, and others, swings so hard when they lose an election.
November 3rd, 2021 at 8:05:38 AM permalink
SOOPOO
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Quote: RonC
Anyone who thinks the Democrats party is dead because of a couple of close elections is just as wrong as those who said Republican party was dead a few months ago. It is kind of funny how the mood of pundits, and others, swings so hard when they lose an election.


True. But by ‘dead’, I think people take it to mean that Biden’s agenda now doesn’t get passed, and come 2023 when he is working (likely) with a Republican House and Senate, …. then the potential for the agenda being fulfilled is dead.
November 3rd, 2021 at 9:13:58 AM permalink
ams288
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Almost as if right-winger Erick Erickson wrote this for one of our members in particular:

“A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman
November 3rd, 2021 at 9:44:43 AM permalink
SOOPOO
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Quote: ams288
Almost as if right-winger Erick Erickson wrote this for one of our members in particular:



Great post. If there was a ‘vote stealing’ or ‘voter fraud’ button the Democrats could just push it would have been used in Virginia. They did push the one available in New Jersey (teasing!)
November 3rd, 2021 at 9:58:15 AM permalink
Evenbob
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Quote: SOOPOO


Great post. If there was a ‘vote stealing’ or ‘voter fraud’ button the Democrats could just push it would have been used in Virginia. )


But there was not one so they could not push it like they did in 2020. If they could have stolen the election they absolutely would have because they needed it so desperately. But Virginia by design is not stealable. There are no ballot dumps they can do in the middle of the night, no rigged machines, all they could do was try to keep people away from the polls my blocking voters who weren't wearing masks. That didn't work either. If they could have stolen it like I did in 2020, believe me, Terry McAuliffe would be the governor elect. Trump won again last night just like he won in 2020.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.
November 3rd, 2021 at 10:09:11 AM permalink
Mission146
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Quote: Evenbob
But there was not one so they could not push it like they did in 2020. If they could have stolen the election they absolutely would have because they needed it so desperately. But Virginia by design is not stealable. There are no ballot dumps they can do in the middle of the night, no rigged machines, all they could do was try to keep people away from the polls my blocking voters who weren't wearing masks. That didn't work either. If they could have stolen it like I did in 2020, believe me, Terry McAuliffe would be the governor elect. Trump won again last night just like he won in 2020.


In what states do you believe the Election was stolen in 2020 and what is your evidence that would lead you to believe that?
"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen..let us give them all they want." William T. Sherman
November 3rd, 2021 at 10:45:16 AM permalink
rxwine
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Quote: Mission146
In what states do you believe the Election was stolen in 2020 and what is your evidence that would lead you to believe that?


Oh dear. You might as well pee into a fan if you just want to get something back without regard to content.
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November 3rd, 2021 at 10:59:20 AM permalink
terapined
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Quote: Mission146
In what states do you believe the Election was stolen in 2020 and what is your evidence that would lead you to believe that?


I hear the Dead Kennedy's are on the case
I dont believe it but thats what conservative media is reporting
QAnon supporters gather in Dallas to see dead Kennedys bring about Trump's reinstatement
ROTFL
This is the Washington Examiner, not the Onion

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/qanon-supporters-gather-in-dallas-to-see-dead-kennedys-bring-about-trumps-reinstatement

Whats next
Dr Evil is real
Oh yea, forgot. Trumpers believe in Dr Evil, the Dead Kennedys are joining the party now :-)
Whats next, the Boogeyman is real and will reinstate Trump and become his VP
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World"
November 3rd, 2021 at 11:26:29 AM permalink
terapined
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WTF
Talk about jumping the shark
Kennedys are life long Dems
WTF WTF WTF
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World"