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I haven't seen this one on the tv news. I wonder why... https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckr...ump-inaugural-tickets-200k-fraud-fuks-vanetik

I have an old bridge made of solid gold and I'd like to sell it to that wannabe for $100 per pound. He'a a nobody pretending to be somebody.
He said he paid $200,000 to a lobbyist?

 

[havasu]

Seems the fault lies with Yury Yanovic.

 

[Floorist]

 

[havasu]

How can he when the dems hold him hostage, with some libtard Governors declaring safe passage for illegals, telling the illegals how to avoid capture from ICE Agents, and offering them free medical just for their vote, while our own citizens are dying in the gutters?

 

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Kinda hard to deport them with sanctuary cities on the rise and 90+ percent of illegals not showing up for their immigration hearings.
I meant "potential immigrants". Illegals, in real terms , implies that 90% would skip their hearing to become legal citizens. Shame on me for thinking otherwise.

 

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DP

 

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TP

 

[Floorist]

TP

toilet paper?

 

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Triple post. I'm exploring new horizons.

 

[havasu]

Kinda like diarrhea?

 

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Oregon is trying to out-stupid California.
https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2020/A-Engrossed

[(D) “Fossil-fueled power plant” means a generating facility that produces electric power from natural gas, petroleum, coal or any form of solid, liquid or gaseous fuel derived from such material.]
[(E) “Generating facility” means those energy facilities that are defined in ORS 469.300 (11)(a)(A), (B) and (D).]
[(F) “Global warming potential” means the determination of the atmospheric warming resulting from the release of a unit mass of a particular greenhouse gas in relation to the warming resulting from the release of the equivalent mass of carbon dioxide.]

So I guess these smart legislator know how many degrees f the earths temperature will go up if I let my vehicle idle for 2 minutes. Maybe they will install meters on our cars.............. not kidding, they are already doing trials.
I can't begin to imagine the impact this will have on every business considering what they buy or what they are allowed to put in their garbage cans. I'm thinking my vehicles would become be illegal if they deemed it necessary to save mankind.

The Oregon Republican legislators have left the state to avoid voting on this bill. This bill is deemed and "emergency" bill. Doing so would make it harder for voters to reverse this idiocy.
The are trying to shove carbon taxes down out throats rather than ask us to vote on it.
Our governoris had ordered the Oregon State Police to arrest these legislators and drag them back to the capitol and force them to vote. They are all currently hiding in other states waiting for time to run out. Then maybe Oregonians can vote on this stupid business killing bill.

 

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(4) The commission may adopt requirements for motor vehicle service providers to check and inflate tire pressure according to the tire manufacturer’s or motor vehicle manufacturer’s recommended specifications, provided that the requirements:

(5) The commission may adopt restrictions on engine use by commercial ships while at port, and requirements that ports provide alternatives to engine use such as electric power, provided that: (a) Engine use shall be allowed when necessary to power mechanical or electrical operations if alternatives are not reasonably available; (b) Engine use shall be allowed when necessary for reasonable periods due to emergencies and other considerations as determined by the commission;

I'd love to know the total cost of implementing this plan including how many office staff, how many Department heads, how many enforcement individuals. Not to mention the cost for the operation of this boondoggle......... buildings, vehicles (electric of course) and charging stations, electrical costs . Their office buildings will probably set an example for being "green" With grass roofs, $200 per yard wool carpet, (natural) and 100 million in solar electric and solar water heating grids to run the place. You know if Oregon builds a new state "carbon tax office" it will be the greenest building ever made to set "a good example"
I'd also like to see the cost to the business in Oregon. The cost of implementation and changes and record keeping for compliance, fines, fees.
Not to mention small businesses or one man businesses like truck drivers put out of business because of not being able to afford to comply.
So what would be the true cost to the state..... how many businesses will pack up and leave?

 

[zannej]

Yuri definitely scammed Fuks. I was being silly about the reason it wasn't on TV- they won't know how to pronounce the name. The url had "fraud-fuks-vanetik" in it. LOL.

IIRC, there were loggers peacefully protesting the changes not too long ago in Oregon & the Oregon GOP twitter is now claiming there are armed militia members ready to shoot the Democrats & threatening legislators & police over it.

Any of the environmental changes they are proposing need to be done gradually & will likely require some form of subsidies to help transition over- but, question is where is the $ going to come from?

 

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It's better when the market makes the changes, not the government. The government can encourage changes. They can, through state or local college programs, help invent or discover ways to make environmentally sound products, better and cheaper.................. so that they can compete with what we have and use now.
You want solar on your roof? .........then the industry needs to make it cheap enough. If it's cheap enough, people will buy the products without the government shoving it down our throats.
Nobody threatened to shoot any democrats.................... This is the first time I've heard it mentioned, so somebody really embellished the original....... the story keeps growing.

 

[Floorist]

Talked to a local farmer this morning. He will be plowing his soybeans under. Because of the tariff, the grain elevators have quit buying them. As a small farmer, losing a few hundred acres of crops will really hurt financially.

 

[Dan]

There was already a glut of soybeans.

 

[havasu]

Is the federal government paying him to destroy his crop? This is a common practice, I hear.

 

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Is the federal government paying him to destroy his crop? This is a common practice, I hear.

Not nearly enough to equal market prices, but 16 billion is what I've seen.

 

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One other thing is that we don't sell soy beans only to China, and we only export 50% of what we grow. Media never mentions that and makes it appear we lost out entire soybean market because of Trumps tariff stalemate.

 

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Is the federal government paying him to destroy his crop? This is a common practice, I hear.

No, he just can't sell it.