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Man people have learned nothing from Climate-Gate.

While I trust this report, an opposing report could be made up and the numbers fudged just like NOAA and NASA did with the buoy data it received. (Most climate changers tend to gloss over the fact that the scientist responsible for the data of climate change/global warming was sent to jail and did not pass go nor did he collect 200 dollars.)

The numbers from the faux pandemic were already bolstered to include everything under the sun as being COVID related but that was more for hospitals to get their comeuppance for each patient they treated. In a way the faux pandemic was a bail out for hospitals if they could claim a patient had been treated for COVID and in some cases this is still going on. Died from a GSW - COVID death. Died from a blunt force trauma to the chest (steering wheel hitting the chest) - COVID related. Well there is about 76K US dollars for the hospital.

When will this faux pandemic be called for what it really is: Fraudci-Gate.

How many more seasons can Oak Island and the Eastern Seaboard take —

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300 plus (if you only count the summers) and counting....

They were elected to oppose “the Squad” or do you not remember the election campaigns?

So far this about the only blip they have mustered except the Honorable lady from FL. Still waiting for them to really oppose the Squad though. Seems to be the Squad is now running the lower chamber of Congress.

So how hard did he bite his tongue to make himself cry?

Who is pushing ?

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You s’rsly want to have that discussion?

Pushing the “missionaries are close to godliness” crap? Then to say maybe I shouldn’t be here because this is a “god fearing” site and you aren’t pushing. Then to say if one doesn’t believe in the way you do, they are unpatriotic because the missionaries were patriotic to this country before this country even existed. Its why I brought up the Conquistadors which you have a lot of learning to do.

Yeah right!

Again eff off and go pray to your magic sky fairy because you fear your magic sky fairy.

God fearing doesn’t give license to push your beliefs in God down our throats nor does it preclude any other religion on this site. Something oyu have forgotten in you condescending attitude towards those who are not Christian. God fearing isn’t just Christians. Man you are a dufus maximus to the nth degree.

You are in the wrong place if you want to push that missionaries are the best since Jesus and the Bible woud disagree with you on every count. And it was the Church that sent the missionaries that told the Conquistadors whom to kill because the peoples of South and North America were heathens and savages. You don’t know history at all. The Church has always had others kill for it even if they did promote the killing based on religious grounds.

You combine your bull crap lies with the mantra of patriotic men and women who have died so that others may live. What utter bull crap you spew. Conquistadors were murderers plain and simple and not admitting to this aspect shows you know no history of the real mission of Spain into the New World both North and South Americas. The South American myth of the Inca’s Lost City of Gold in South America is predicated on the killing of the indigenous people by the Conquistadors who thirsted for gold and whom the missionaries called heathens and savages that were not civilized, thus justifying the killing because they would not convert to Christianity and give up the Gold to the Church. Rome said that about the Gauls. The Roman Empire doesn’t exist anymore.

Men and women fought and died for the United States so that many may live in the freedoms afforded to them by the United States Constitution. But then again, even that mantra means men and women fought and killed thus contradicting yourself. The missionaries are not US citizens and they came to the Americas have no part of that of that mantra by patriotic Americans because missionaries were not Americans. That includes the biggest liar of all the Roman Catholic Church. Your refusal to admit what happened before this country was founded is typical. I bet you believe North American history doesn’t start until the colonists arrived in North America.

What an utter fool you are to even think that your call of patriotism equates to what the missionaries did back before the founding of this country. Stupid idiotic condescending rhetoric in which you have been lied to and you drank the koolaid.

You throw the mother of all sales with deep discounts. Why?

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Because the company realizes the sale has drawn an increasingly number of people each year. And a few times in the past, the company's hardware cannot handle the amount of volume that occurs with previous sales. To avoid the shock to the system, the company then spreads this initial torrential flood wall across multiple days. It is still a flood wall but the company can then handle it with the current infrastructure. While it may seem like the company is offering deals early it is doing so to handle the influx of people and making money at the same time. If the company did not do this, it would actually lose money because it would receive negative publicity for its service when it goes dark because it cannot handle the influx of traffic to its site. So let's say you run a large, successful company where in the past the company has been put out of business for a couple hours to a day or two. How does those smart people you have working for you try to prevent the huge incoming wall of traffic to your company? You try to lessen the initial shock by lessening the influx of traffic but maintaining or increasing YoY sales. And that is how those smart people are trying to solve the issue at hand.

Hey Chicago, you keep voting these scum in because they have the skin color you like. Sorry to say this (not really), but this is all on you. Enjoy the suck.

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One could even take this statement even further by saying

"Hey Chicago[United States], you keep voting these scum in because they have the skin color[, gender, genitals, and/or political affiliation] you like. Sorry to say this (not really), but this is all on you. Enjoy the suck.?" Only difference between Soros and a #NeverTrumper is their bank account balance.

The current model of lame stream media to promulgate the narrative is to may it seem bigger than it really is or is happening more than it really is by wallpapering the story across all forms of media. The more coverage of something, people will tend to believe it is happening more than it was before. The more people hear about something they get into their minds that this is happening more frequently. The line about tell a lie enough times and it people will believe it as true carries over to the more it is in your face the more people think it happening more frequently.

The world has not changed and people have not changed. The amount of corruption has not changed.

What has changed is the amount of stories about a single story that has been put in front of the people day after day. Then the adding of similar stories to the narrative only amplifies the message. There are rare accounts where this is not the case but those are the outliers to this.

Looks like you are already bent.

So the question remains how many accounts does that ignoramus fisherman have anyways?

And yet you still promulgate the idea that:

Many Christian colonists and missionaries, even those most sympathetic to the lifeways of the Native peoples, categorized Native Americans as “heathens” who either accepted or resisted conversion to Christianity. They did not place Native American traditions under the protection of religious freedom that had been enshrined in the Constitution. It was not until 1978, almost 200 years after the Constitution was signed, that the American Indian Religious Freedom Act gave specific legal recognition to the integrity of Native American religions.

Missionaries did deem them to be heathens. The Conquistadors did the killing for the missionaries. So the missionary may not have directly killed them, but they did NOT prevent them from being killed by the likes of the Conquistadors or the Armies of Britain or the Colonists who were land hungry.

Good to see the Church hasn’t changed in over 400 years. /s

So again eff off.

Your infographic doesn’t add up from the past 24 hours.

If you take ll the numbers on the right and add them up (65), it is still less than the number on the left (82).

And if you divide all the numbers on the right (65) by the number on the left (82) you still don’t get 85.7%.

So who is dropping what from a horse now?!?>

Keep trying you might get it right someday.

It’s hilarious that people are complaining about internet security now. Most C-level execs back in the 90s weren’t even concerned with cybersecurity. Never even gave it a thought or a line on the budget. Why? Because people believed the internet was fake and why waste money on something like a toy for a business. Some people still hold onto this idea the internet is fake. Keep laughing because the ChiComs are stealing everything they can. Oh and we taught them everything they know by enrolling them in our higher education institutions with student Visas. How many ChiComs military officers have gone through our hallowed halls? Too damn many.

You falsely claim I made a statemnt and you tell me to get bent? What an idjit. Hope you are more successful in your real life than you are on here.

Eff off.

Wrong.

Name a missionary who murdered native Americans.

You can’t just assert that missionaries were sent here to kill natives. What an insane notion.

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Reading comprehension and retention: F-.

No where did I allude or even say that “missionaries were sent here to kill natives” (your words not mine).

Now do the world a favor and act like Hitlary and play with Bleach on your computer hard drive to “wipe it clean”.

But the Biden administration has not proposed such a mileage tax, as the image falsely suggests.

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But the call was already out there for a mileage tax. Pete Buttfairy Buttigag (Transportation Secretary) called for it as a Presidential Candidate and as far back as March.

The bill may not have it in there, but it has been proposed by the Biden Administration that such a tax be enacted. And last I checked the Transportation Secretary was part of the Presidential Cabinet thus part of the President’s Administration.

We’ll Have to Tax Drivers by the Mile Eventually
And we shouldn’t stop there.
BY HENRY GRABAR
MARCH 31, 202112:06 PM
Bumper to bumper traffic on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles
What are we doing here? Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
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Ever since he was a mayor running for president, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been saying nice things about a tax on vehicle miles traveled. The idea is simple: tax drivers for every mile they drive. That way, as the U.S. automobile fleet electrifies and the gas tax revenues dwindle, we’ll still have money to pay for roads.

Buttigieg spoke favorably about a VMT tax in a congressional hearing last week and in conversation with a CNBC reporter. “If we believe in that user-pays principle—the idea that how we pay for roads is based on how much you drive—the gas tax used to be the obvious way to do it. It’s not anymore. A so-called VMT tax or mileage tax, whatever you want to call it, could be a way to do it.”

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says taxing drivers by the mile “shows a lot of promise” and could be a way to fund a big infrastructure overhaul. pic.twitter.com/fkI5nWt7sr

— The Recount (@therecount) March 26, 2021
The secretary walked it back on Monday, and the idea did not make it into President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan, which proposes funding more than a trillion dollars in projects from other revenue sources including an increased corporate income tax.

Sooner or later, however, the VMT’s time will come, because the gas tax isn’t cutting it—and hasn’t for some time. Between 1947 and 2010, according to a study by PIRG, the amount of money the U.S. has spent on highways and roads surpassed revenues from gas taxes and other user fees by $800 billion in today’s dollars. The ratio is getting worse, since the federal gas tax hasn’t been raised in almost three decades and shows diminishing returns as cars get more fuel-efficient.

As a result, the gas tax has ceased to function as an effective user fee. Local road spending, in particular, comes largely from other taxes. Most states also exempt gasoline from sales tax, meaning that even state gas tax revenues are effectively redistributions from sales tax collections. In either case, the subsidy for roads from the public at large is immense.

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There’s a sense that a VMT tax would represent a radical departure from this model, which you can see in the way Buttigieg’s comments have riled up commenters across the political spectrum—an outraged and confused truck driver on Fox News, a righteous exurban socialist in the Virginia state legislature; a progressive writer at Grist. The complaint is the exact one that makes the gas tax a political football: It’s a tax on the middle class. (And with Democrats’ new focus on equity, you can easily make the case it hits low-income families hardest: While lower-income households drive less, transportation is a larger share of their expenses.)

Taxing mileage has one big advantage over taxing gas: It captures electric vehicles. It has one big disadvantage: It reduces the incentive to buy electric or fuel-efficient vehicles. (Oh, and you need to use a transponder or something to figure out how much everyone drives.) But their societal impacts are not so different.

One great thing about the gas tax is that it’s what economists call a Pigouvian tax: a levy on an activity with significant negative externalities. Some of those negative effects of driving—greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution—are a little less targeted by a VMT tax. Others, such as congestion, crashes, and the degraded quality of neighborhoods and the environment, get disincentivized by both taxes.

If VMT is just a way to raise money, then sure, it would be more progressive to use graduated property, income, or corporate taxes to fill the highway spending holes. But the fact that driving is an obligation thrust upon us all by poor planning, unrestrained highway budgets, and expensive housing in walkable neighborhoods does not make it an inequitable thing to tax. The inequity is not the tax; it’s the structural factors that make it so hard to find housing and jobs that do not include car ownership as a price of admission.

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VMT, like the gas tax, should be a levy that discourages the externalities associated with driving, many of which aren’t going away with piecemeal electrification. Its political unpopularity should restrain us from raising more money to build more useless roads. And if we’re designing a tax not just to raise money, but also to create marginal obstacles to driving more, then why not refine our approach even further? If the problem you want to fix is traffic injuries, adopt higher registration fees for high-bumper SUVs and pickups. If the problem is neighborhood congestion, put in parking meters. If you want the fee to be more equitable, attach steeper prices to each subsequent car registration—richer households have more cars—in addition to a baseline user fee based on how much someone drives.

This kind of innovation is already afoot in road pricing. Not only have two states—Oregon and Utah—adopted VMT pilots, but New York City has finally gotten federal approval to get started pricing access to its central business district. Several states now have dynamic tolling on highways to reduce traffic by the minute.

Taxing mileage may be a decent substitute for the gas tax, warts and all.

But why stop there? #

Yeah Slate, why stop there?

Without religion, the people in robes become the high priests and priestesses in our Society.

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And thus become a RELIGION of Government.

How quickly do we forget that the Holy Roman Catholic Church (Catholic Religion) was deeply embedded within the government. In fact, the government answered to the Church before the People. And now you know the rest of the story...

Without religion, the world might have been better off.

It is just you because you are finding something to nitpick about.

And you broke up mask mandate ban wrong. For example you would have broken up peanut butter and jelly sandwich and then platter the same when peanut butter and jelly sandwich platter is all one thing.

No this is not "legislating from the bench" as this ruling creates no law. The ruling is on the ban itself. It does set precedence but not law. The judge ruled the ban was too broad and vague.

Therefore she struck it down.