PHOENIX PHIL
AH ambassador
One for the conspiracy theorists. I've no idea what this picture is of I took from the deck of my house. To the south of Phoenix, heading from west to east more/less.
Darn…Seems no conspiracy. There was a SpaceX launch tonight from Vandenberg Space Base in California.
This will never happen but if there was a requirement to vote revolving around being a productive citizen...... Have a W-2 or pay self employment tax... Pay property tax. Even paying your own rent!The last ten pages or so of polarised back and forth between normally rational, reasonable and intelligent people upon who should be their president between two inadequate candidates has cemented my view that the current form of your democracy has failed the USA. There has to be a better way. Forget your domestic issues, the whole future of humanity may hang in the balance.
Some thoughts for alternatives:
1. Strip the president of real power and devolve that to a 'super committee' of no more than five people with a majority vote system. People would need to be qualified according to criteria and nominated for choice by congress.
2. Strip down both the senate and congress to about a third of their size and give the members limited terms.
3. Force performance in some way, x number of acts passed or whatever per term or they all get removed.
Or....?
Amateurs.... If Gina could down one more pot per day than she is currently consuming, I'm sure she could take over the WorldMy dad drank a CONSISTENT 18 cups a day minimum.
Yup a year or so ago that chain of lights was seen going over Mille Lacs Lake in Minnesota. Pretty coolRocket engine exhaust plume with rocket still firing in upper stratosphere and ground observer in shadow near sunrise or sunset. The exhaust plume is illuminated by direct sunlight. Very cool effect. Always different too. Conditions have to be just right within an hour or so of sunrise or sunset. Have watched them a few times after different launches. Also, if that was a Starlink launch, farther downrange the small sats get strung out after deployment and before final orbital positions form a chain of bright "reflectors" moving easterly at a predetermined inclination toward their final orbital destinations.
Actually, what my dad was best at was bumming coffee, getting filled up coming in, during, and exiting office visits, etc.Amateurs.... If Gina could down one more pot per day than she is currently consuming, I'm sure she could take over the World
I don’t think if ALL voters in Russia voted for someone other than Putin it would’ve made any difference. The election was a sham orchestrated by Putin and his Mafioso thugs.So......Putin extends his authoritarian rule in a preordained election.
I guess Russia has it's fair share of low IQ voters, as we do in the states.
I’m surprised (maybe not) Putin didn’t have a “secret” supporter run against him to make the election seem legitimate? I guess he doesn’t really care if everyone knows his reelection is a farce. Most/all dictators don’t.Would anyone here run against Putin.
Remember Viktor Yushchenko, or Alexei Navalny.
Yushchenko ran against Putins puppet for Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2004
Yushchenko was winning so he was poisoned with Dioxin
Absolutely correct. For instance, the divisiveness of election of 1800 was easily equal to the what we see today - perhaps more so. The major difference being the speed at which outrage is generated thanks to modern communications. The Federalists, with Adams seeking reelection, eventually lost to Jefferson and the then Republican party (actually eventual democrats) only after a bitter contest that finally ended in the House of Representatives and near collapse of constitutional government. I take some small solace in the fact that later in life Jefferson and Adams renewed their deep friendship and remained close for the remainder of their long lives.
The Election of 1800: Adams vs Jefferson
The election was finally over. It was now March 1801 and the dust was settling over the gloom of the new Federal City along the Potomac River. Only the...www.battlefields.org
I’m surprised (maybe not) Putin didn’t have a “secret” supporter run against him to make the election seem legitimate? I guess he doesn’t really care if everyone knows his reelection is a farce. Most/all dictators don’t.
This will never happen but if there was a requirement to vote revolving around being a productive citizen...... Have a W-2 or pay self employment tax... Pay property tax. Even paying your own rent!
Or maybe have a clause that if you recieve welfare payments, your right to vote is rescinded.
I'm sure I'd be hung in the public square for suggesting this anywhere other than on AH.