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greenfrontbrakelight Saturday, June 16, 2007 Green Front Brake Light Theoretical Analysis and Proposal for the Adoption of a Universal Green Front Brake Light for All Roadway Vehicles. It is the purpose of this document to analyze and advocate the case for the adoption of green colored front brake indicator lights, for use on all roadway vehicles. Statistically speaking It has been estimated that 1 in 4 vehicles will be involved in a collision over its lifetime. Transport Canada advises Canadians in its 2002 Annual Report on Road Safety Vision 2010, that "In 2001, 2,778 road users were killed in traffic...

I'm thinking: maybe we shouldn't put another nuclear power plant in Fukishima again???

President Joe Biden’s administration is looking into whether Israel and Saudi Arabia are important allies for the United States, according to White House press secretary Jen Psaki. Asked Friday whether the administration considers them “important allies,” Psaki said the Biden administration is involved in “ongoing processes and internal interagency processes” to discuss Middle Eastern issues. “We’ve only been here three and a half weeks, and I think I’m going to let those policy processes see themselves through before we give, kind of, a complete laydown of what our national security approaches will be to a range of issues,” Psaki added....

Governor Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania confuses me. He does not appear outwardly to be an idiot. He seems to be able to dress himself. He is well educated. Unlike Joe Biden he does not have to hustle off camera to avoid answering any questions more consequential than what flavor of ice cream he is eating. And, yet, I can only conclude he is, in fact, an idiot. Many, many months ago the good Governor shut down the state of Pennsylvania with a series of ill-considered and poorly executed executive orders justified vaguely by the existence of a so-called pandemic. Strangely...

Total Doses Delivered: 69,883,625 Number of People Receiving 1 or More Doses: 37,056,122 Number of People Receiving 2 Doses: 13,082,172

"There are 34 U.S. Senate seats up for regular election in 2022—14 seats held by Democrats and 20 held by Republicans." Four republicans are not seeking reelection. Clickable map and lots of information at the link

Members of Free Republic hereby censure Mitch McConnell over his unhinged comments and reckless hyperbole on the Senate floor after the Senate voted to acquit President Trump.

Healthy young illegal immigrants have been given preferential treatment in receiving the coronavirus vaccines ahead of elderly and vulnerable native Britons, an investigation has found. Migrants who came to the United Kingdom illegally and are now being housed at the taxpayers’ expense at the four-star Crowne Plaza Hotel in London have received free coronavirus vaccinations, the Daily Mail reported on Saturday. One illegal Sudanese migrant, 20-year-old Abdul, who crossed in a boat from the safe and wealthy France seven months ago, told the newspaper: “I was given the vaccination yesterday at the hotel to stop me catching Covid. There are...

The impeachment trial is hurtling toward a conclusion, after brief drama over potentially calling witnesses. Former President Trump is almost certain to get acquitted, but it won’t be much of a vindication.His conduct in the post-election period and on January 6 will blight his reputation forevermore. He waged a dishonest and poisonous campaign to overturn the election that culminated in a mob disrupting the counting of electoral votes at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.The new videos played by the House managers at the trial brought home again the national embarrassment of that day, with top elected officials scurrying for...

McConnell did not hold back as he ripped Trump apart for a “disgraceful dereliction of duty” and attempting to “overturn the election.” He claimed that the protesters stormed the Capitol because they had been “fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on earth,” and that Trump was “practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day....."

State Rep. Joseph Gullett introduced a bill to the Georgia House of Representatives that would ban private funding for the administration of federal, state, and local elections. As Breitbart News reported, this controversial practice pioneered by Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan through $419 million in donations to nonprofits Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) and the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) played a key role in determining the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, particularly in five key battleground states where President Biden narrowly defeated former President Trump: Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin,...

Another very good video report from Tim Dodd of Everyday Astronaut, this one on the SpaceX Raptor engine. Even an ordinary man in the street like myself was able to learn from this video.SpaceX’s new Raptor engine is a methane fueled full flow staged combustion cycle engine . Such an engine is so hard to develop, no engine like this has ever actually flown before!These were the options on the type of engines SpaceX could have used for the Raptor engine. SpaceX chose to go with full flow staged combustion cycle engine, the engine in the last column. FUEL:How the...

A Michigan county Republican party voted this week to censure U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer (R) over his vote to impeachment President Donald Trump. Meijer, a freshman congressman, joined nine other Republicans in agreeing with Democrats to swiftly pass an article of impeachment in Trump’s final days in office. The Calhoun County Executive Committee of the Republican Party issued the censure, WBCK reported.

McConnell throws Trump under the bus after acquittal… https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/watch-live-mcconnell-throws-trump-under-the-bus-after-acquittal/

The suburban Philadelphia home of one of the attorneys defending former President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial has been vandalized with graffiti. Detective Scott Pezick of the West Whiteland Township Police Department in Chester County said the graffiti were reported around 8 p.m. Friday at the home of attorney Michael van der Veen. The Philadelphia Inquirer posted a photo showing the word "Traitor" in red paint at the entrance of the driveway and an arrow pointing to the home.

Former U.S. president Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial enters its fifth day on Saturday. Senators are poised to vote on whether Donald Trump will be held accountable for inciting the horrific attack at the Capitol after a speedy impeachment trial that laid bare the violence and danger to their own lives and the fragility of the nation’s tradition of a peaceful transfer of presidential power. After a prosecution case rooted in emotive, violent images from the Capitol siege, Trump’s impeachment trial shifted on Friday to defense lawyers who argued that Trump had nothing to do with the violence at the...

"....A majority of senators voted to convict Trump — 57 to 43, including seven Republicans. But two-thirds, or 67 votes, was needed to convict. It was the second time Trump was acquitted in an impeachment trial. The seven GOP senators who voted to convict Trump on Saturday were: Richard Burr of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania......"

It’s time to say goodbye to a beloved institution. By the end of February, all Family Video stores will be closed. The announcement came early last month that they would remain open until February 28th, or when all the stock has been sold off, whichever comes first. Upon hearing this news, for three weekends in January, I trekked out from Chicago to many remote locations to try and score some good deals, but also to savor the video store experience one last time. The final days of Family Video represent not just the closing of a beloved chain, but the...

... “Can you please just give us a broad sense of what the administration is trying to achieve in the Middle East?” a reporter asked — in follow-up to an earlier question asking why President Biden has yet to call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “For example,” the reporter asked, “does the administration still consider the Saudis and the Israelis important allies? Rather than saying simply, “Yes,” Psaki gave this answer, according to a White House transcript of the late-afternoon briefing. “Well, you know, again, I think we — there are ongoing processes and internal interagency processes — one that...

This one sort of came out of left field during the press briefing yesterday. Jen Psaki announced that President Biden is planning to shut down the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Eventually. Maybe. While it’s true that Biden brought this up a few times on the campaign trail, there was never much in the way of details as to how he planned to pull it off. Nothing much has changed in that regard because all Psaki would say was that there was going to be a “robust” review of the situation. (Associated Press)President Joe Biden will seek to close the prison...