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Use the DPA on WAPO; prohibit editorials and editorial-based reporting. Make them do their job in this time of crisis. Report factual news for the good of the people, and security of the nation.

POTUS needs to use the DPA on CNN and NYT. Eliminate editorials, and present only fact based information for the security of the nation in this time of crisis.

Notice the typical Washington Compost word games. DeSantis name is closer to the word corruption than Gilliam. If the title is read quickly, the inference could be that the good guy is corrupt.

And this whole narrative focused on a show ticket. It is a bribe! Title should read: Gilliam caught in lie about accepting bribe in the midst of Tallahassee corruption investigation. No where should DeSantis be mentioned. But the story for the compost isn’t about a bribe, it’s about how mean it is for a Republican to point out a major failure in a democrat.

Another example of MSM lying warp of an action for their social advantage.

This is a return of language to what is was before the previous administration illegally changed it by fiat—no congressional advice, no public notice for comment.

Title should be: “Jenner longs for executive power grabs by 0bama to have been properly established “. This isn’t a dictatorship, the people can say no when a president tries to establish by himself a social state the majority don’t want.

We should have a couple Engineer Brigades already there digging tank ditches and running concertina wire in a comprehensive obstacle plan to canalize the mob. This reduces the forward element size at key crossing points where a loosely laid abatis can force dispersion in depth and facilitate orderly ICE procedures backed by MPs in riot gear.

For the white space between likely avenues of approach—where the obstacle plans are executed—show of force ground and air patrols are used to incentivize movement to the controlled crossing points. We can see a long way into Mexico, and deploy quickly in dramatic fashion—fast roping, Apaches, Abrams, maybe even a Company parachute op to give the mob fear and facilitate the obstacle plan.

Agree no obvious non lethal action, but there is covert non lethal that can be used including cell phone interdiction. Amazing this mob is so very poor, but they can afford cell phones to organize by social media. According to AP social media is their C2. Coordinate a defensive cyber op to take down their C2 and flood their net with conflicting messages that are coordinated with the ground dimension defensive plan.

Not sure if the spending bill that includes that includes them has been passed. If not, great opportunity to zero out their public funding.

I noticed you were already celebrating when you started slurring your posts. Fox finally did the math and called it for Toomey. With Kirk close behind... Cheers my friend!

Pitt is all in. Philly still has 1647 districts in out of 1687. Statewide total is 59 districts still out (40 in Philly.) Best those 40 could do would be less than 30K. Toomey still has about 55K lead. I think it’s time for a Yuengling.

40 districts left in Philadelphia, 5 left in Pittsburgh

With 60K lead, I think we are good to say Senator Toomey.

A core value of the United States Army is selfless service. This means putting aside individual preferences and focusing on the matters of duty. It is this core value that forces soldiers of conservative politics to not resign under the election of a liberal president. It is the longevity of United States and the Army that come first, not a political cycle.

We have survived a great many challenges, both foreign and domestic, but through history, it is this selflessness that keeps the Republic viable. Forcing any individual preference—be it genetic or chosen—as superior to the United States or the Army is selfish. Selfishness has no place in a military organization. A military unit is greater than the sum of its parts due to the personification of our core values. Ignoring selfless service becomes an avenue for persons of any selfish tendency or behavior to reduce a military unit, not just to a sum of parts, but less. This is due to the contention that festers when selfish soldiers put themselves first. I have seen this played out in combat arms units. Selfish soldiers put other soldiers, the unit, and most importantly, the mission—a solemn duty to the nation—at risk.

As a parting kick in the groin, consider Catholic soldiers who have endured many an insult to their faith by the civilian leadership. Should homosexual practice be declared by the civilian leadership as consistent with military service, then Catholic practice will clearly be declared by the civilian leadership as inconsistent with military service. As religious practice is a guaranteed right in the Constitution—which we all swear allegiance—and homosexual practice is not, this could get very ugly.

This ugliness will be destructive to the military over the next few decades. In the end, either core values will be upheld, and the military tenet of United States power sustained, or core values will be tossed in the memory hole, and the United States will be just another nation.

Could that be the purpose of such social experimentation with our military?

...scores of others who died in detention...

Liberal verbicide...again: since a score is 20, and the plural is used, Andrew is claiming that at least 45 detainees have died at the hands of interrogators.

Evidence for at least 45 deaths please...

Well said.

Perfect for signs and banners.

Good summary to help in debate with those Parish Social Ministry Communists that think Capitalism is anti-Catholic

Friend,

I respectfully think you focus remains too narrow.

Life cycle cost is everything in transportation. I don't think you can discount the effect of a huge rebuild bill every 5 yrs that includes recycling. Hybrid-electric drivers will pay through the nose.

Hybrid-electrics are not a general transportation solution. NB the word "general:"

General: gen·er·al

1 : involving, applicable to, or affecting the whole

2 : involving, relating to, or applicable to every member of a class, kind, or group

3 : not confined by specialization or careful limitation

Hybrid-electrics cannot summarily replace every vehicle and every application to the same level of performance and economy.

get a clue. Methanol is ALREADY cheaper than gasoline. Check the current price per gallon at $0.95

Not to be sarcastic, but it could cost $0.01 gal^-1 and still not be economically sound. There are many issues and all pointing to that pesky life-cycle-cost issue.

We have much work before hybrid-FC cars are ready, but I think they will be worth the wait; don't be so fast to discount SOFC...

Cheers!

The concupiscence crowd never learns. Same now as it was then...

Dude, I'm a chemist

Cool, then you understand the energy required and waste products created. Scale it to the levels of say 70 million vehicles (about 10% of the total number of vehicles) and keep the 90% of capacity for old dinosaurs like me with our Pb-Acid gas engine cars.

"Current recycling processes" have nothing whatsoever to do with the energy density of the battery.

When you consider the life-cycle cost and relevant efficiency metrics, it is very relevant. This isn't something that can be isolated into a sterile solution space.

The cars are there, and being driven daily (in fact, my business partner has a Prius). They work. So they ARE, in fact, an "effective general transportation solution".

Because something "works" for your business partner's needs does not then give logic to making it a general solution. NB the word "general." If something works for niche applications, then fine, go for it. But hybrid-electrics are not economical for general transportation. To wit:

As to the economic competitiveness---of course they aren't---TODAY. But the cost of petroleum will increase to the point that they WILL be competitive.

If the imbedded assumption--petroleum will increase to point in excess of methanol etal.--is correct, and that cost of petroleum becomes more painful than infrastructure changes, then you are correct. But I submit that assumption is not a guarantee.

Wankel is quite unlikely to compete efficiency-wise with hydrogen fuel cells.

Efficency-wise: yes, FCs are very efficient. But the lab to the highway is not that simple. From a systems engineering standpoint, FCs can work in transportation as hybrids, but not a sole power source. Fuel cells are great in regimes an order of magnitude below internal combustion engines, and when scaled to institutional sizes where you can have acres of FC stacks. The technology will advance, but the energy densities have physical and chemical limits. This means that a family sedan the size of a delivery van is required to carry the stack equivalent to a 135 hp gas engine, FC technology is not a stand alone general transportation solution either.

Internal combustion engines will be around for a long time. At some point we will try to transition to a hydrogen economy. At that point, the Wankel design is more efficient in using H₂ than an RI design. SOFC technology is becoming more robust and I think will be a better hybrid than PEM, but there is time to figure that out.

Recycling of hybrid car batteries will probably be higher

Sorry, but no. Pb-Acid batteries are not just lead, as the name implies, just like NiMH, Li/FeS, Li-Ion, Na/S, Li/SOCl₂, or whatever battery solution you want are not just a simple metal to be blasted in a furnace and recast. Current recycling processes are more difficult with the more dense solutions. The improvement is from 10^-1 to 1 Wh g^-1. Result is alot of effort for minimal payoff. ROM chart for information:

Batteries are not an effective general transportation solution--even in a hybrid package. Specialized application: urban grocery and errands or military endurance surveillance are examples. Similarly, FC technology cannot effectively replace the internal combustion engine. FC energy density is 10x the best theoretical batteries, but still 10x less than a diesel engine.

Methanol and other agri-fuels are a good idea, but they aren't economically competitive with petroleum. Just like the hybrid-electrics, some will use it to feel good, most will go with the cost-effective solution. Recovery of oil from tar sands and oil shale may make gasoline and methanol competitive--haven't seen any hard analysis on this.

Back to my initial point, if you want to kick the petroleum transportation habit, an H₂ fueled Wankel - SOFC hybrid is an effective goal. In the interim, we can manage the oil supply - demand issues by drilling on US soil and oil shale / agri-fuel solutions.

oil industry and our elected representatives that are beholden to them

Looks like you have a bit of a bias that is driving a logic fallacy here...

Recycling processes are inefficient and while their cost is decreasing, hybrid-electric life-cycle system costs will continue to well exceed simple RI life-cycle system costs, and they will generate poisonous waste salts that require additional processing.

The most optimistic growth estimates for battery energy densities max out at 1 Wh g^-1. That's 2 orders of magnitude below petroleum fuels. Power densities are likewise sad.

The logistics of a liquid energy source trump the fixed weight and volume battery pack.

It's not like going to Sears and getting a new Die-Hard. After five years when folks finally own their hybrid-electric car outright, they will need to go to a garage with mechanics certified in high voltage repair--a 1/2" wrench and 5 minutes of do it yourself is no option here, pay them a few hundred dollars to remove the used pack, pay a couple grand for a new pack, and pay another grand for recycling of the old pack for which they never see return--government mandated environmental responsibility dontchaknow.

If it makes you feel better to drive a hybrid-electric car, go ahead. In my assessment, cost and performance are more important than feelings.

The problem isn't easily condensed to one of gasoline price. Petroleum is plentiful, and when prices make recovery of untapped reserves economical, the problem as stated is moot.

Problem with hybrid-electrics is what do you do with the batteries at the end of vehicle life?

Pb-Acid, Li-Ion, NiCad all are considered hazardous. Moreover, while hybrids have great urban short trip performance, their long haul and unimproved surface performance is substandard.

Wait ten years for some gen IV nuke plants to come online, hydrogen infrastructure to build, and civil fuel cells to mature. Then go out and buy an H₂ fueled Wankel - SOFC hybrid.

I guess parents rights are getting more and more ignored in todays age!

The education of children is too important to leave to parents. Any supposed right they have is trumped by the state's interests that the child be taught the proper social agenda. Gotta keep those blue states blue.< /sarcasm >