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Posts Made By: David Cotterell

March 18, 2023 04:26 AM Forum: Politics

Is Lauren Boebert grooming impressionable young people?

Posted By David Cotterell

Throughout my teaching career, whenever there was a federal or provincial election, the school would hold an 'all-candidates' debate assembly with student moderators and questions from students, even though they were years away from voting age.  Parallel to that there were classroom lessons on the procedure and history of Canadian elections... Great lessons in civics and the on-stage behaviour of some of the candidates was illuminating to many kids who may not have ever seen an adult slanging match outside of a hockey game...

I think letting just one candidate have access to the kids os a very poor idea, no matter from which side of the aisle and no matter how benign and noble their intentions.  Politicians just end up politicking - nature of the beast....  

Dave

March 23, 2023 07:16 AM Forum: Politics

Former FDIC Chair: "Stop Raising Rates Now

Posted By David Cotterell

Originally Posted by Richard Davis


I'll use James Lacey's method of evidence to shoot down your response.

The NY Times, USA Today, and Business Insider are all well known far left schills lying and covering for the Democrat party and the Biden Administration and they will say whatever they need to say to cover for the Leftist Democrats and Joe Biden.

Fact:  The Republican party and honest Economists everywhere said that Biden's outrageous and reckless out of control spending without having the money to back up the reckless spending was going to cause massive inflation.

Fact:  The exact thing that Republicans and honest Economists warned of then occurred.

Fact:  Janet Yellin, Joe Biden, and all the DS party members on Capitol hill lied to the American people and said that Inflation was "transitory".

Fact:  It is not and was not "transitory", and it is still causing havoc and pain for all Americans.  

But we conservatives already knew all those things above and we knew that your DS party was full of shit and full of liars.
So how, precisely, does the bolded line above relate to the inflation happening right now in Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Italy and nearly every other country in the world? 

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/inflation-rate-
 
Dave

April 5, 2023 11:52 PM Forum: Politics

Trump Indicted

Posted By David Cotterell

34 counts trial now set for December 2023.

Georgia "just find me 11 780 votes" case coming soon.

Defamation trial involving  alleged rape of E. Jean Carroll coming soon.

He's gonna be in court  for a prodigious length of time... 

Dave

April 6, 2023 12:01 AM Forum: Politics

Jay Sekulow, US Constitutional legal scholar who has argued before the Supreme Court nearly 2 dozen times..

Posted By David Cotterell

If a lawyer writes, "The radical <insert party name here>" then he is neither fair nor honest.  Both ways.

Dave

April 7, 2023 08:28 PM Forum: Politics

Tennessee Three, well, actually the Tennessee Two

Posted By David Cotterell

Are legislators in Tennessee not allowed to protest peacefully as private citizens?  Did these three violate some rule of law or the legislature in which they sit?   

Putting aside the race aspect (they came within 1 vote of kicking out the white woman as well so the 'three' were treated at least approximately equally) the Republican Party in Tennessee  have perpetrated a 'cancel culture' event here, plain and simple.  But don't we always hear R's speaking out against cancel culture?  Or is it only cancel culture when progressives do it?

Dave

April 10, 2023 01:04 AM Forum: Politics

Brevard County Florida Sheriff Goes off on 2 lowlife "healthcare" workers

Posted By David Cotterell

Originally Posted by Richard Davis
Scroll to the bottom of the Screen and you too can enjoy the Sheriff's commentary whereby he rips these 2 rotten individuals to shreds

Click on the red "Read More" button and you can watch the video.  He pulls no punches.  

At one point in the video he says "I'll be honest with you.  I wouldn't let them care for a pet cobra, because he might accidentally bite 'em and he would die of scumbag poisoning".  

https://www.theblaze.com/news/healthcare-workers-arrested-allegedly-livestreamed-elder-abuse?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New-Trending-Story_WEEKEND%202023-04-09&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News
Please carefully note the date of this post.

I agree with you.

Dave

April 11, 2023 01:11 AM Forum: Politics

Gifts to judges.

Posted By David Cotterell

Never mind the 'rules of disclosure', what they used to be, what they are now, who gave what, how much and to whom to further whatever agenda.

How can it be anything but a horrible idea to allow rich individuals to give expensive gifts to sitting judges?  

Dave 

April 24, 2023 11:37 PM Forum: Politics

Tucker Carlson leaves Fox News in wake of Dominion defamation settlement

Posted By David Cotterell

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

How sweet it is!....
Like when hoping for Putin's demise, one has to consider whether the replacement, and there will be a replacement, is worse than what was removed...

Sadly, Fox as a whole won't change its tune one iota.  The absence of the 'Fairness Doctrine" allows that  they can continue their ways.... 

Carlson will make a shit-ton of money with speaking engagements and book deals so he certainly can't complain...  

Dave

April 27, 2023 07:31 AM Forum: Politics

Its OK, 'Cause They're Radical Democrat Transgenders.

Posted By David Cotterell

Originally Posted by Richard Davis



Really?  You're that UNoriginal?  You can't even come up with a good comeback so you steal Rod's regular line, calling me "Obtuse One"?

Now then, if you are claiming that I make transphobic remarks on a regular basis, any person with room temperature IQ should be able to come up with at least 1 Single example, wouldn't one think?

So you've got Bupkis as I suspected??  Not 1 example to back up your claim? 

Really?  Not 1??  

Hmm.... that's a shocker, another instance when you become impotent of thought, when challenged to back up your BS.   tongue

P.S.  Are you still of the psychotic deranged mindset that Donald Trump is Yuri, Vladimir Putin's spy?   Have you gotten over that bit of insanity yet, or are you still peddling that lie?  smile   
Hi, everyone!  What's going' on in this thread?
Dave

May 6, 2023 12:45 AM Forum: Politics

April 8, 2024

Posted By David Cotterell

Originally Posted by James Brown
For any of you long-range planners, the August 12, 2045 total eclipse centerline passes almost right over my observatory, home, and deck.  I'll be 83.  You are all invited to my place for a big gala.  The survivors only, of course.  Richard's presence is mandatory, I'm figuring he'll have mellowed by then, so no fights should break out! cool   

According to this map we'll get a whopping 5+ minutes of totality.  How cool will that be!   

http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2045_GoogleMapFull.html

Jim
I have made note of this - my 94-year-old butt will be there!!  Thanks for the invite!  Below is a picture of us on that day.  But what are we saying???? 


For 2024 I will be visiting an astro-buddy in Georgetown TX (45 min north of Austin) whose home gets 3m 10s of totality.  We will then sally forth into the Hill Country proper  to his remote observatory  for a few days of proper dark skies... Or we may do the dark sky thing before the eclipse...


Dave