I have had few problems with my Jeep beyond normal wear and tear. I like the steering on mine. In fact, I prefer it to other vehicles I have driven due to the response. I understand that some of the Jeep's that came later had problems with the steering and the front end. A 2006 would fall into that category. Mine has been a pretty reliable vehicle for me so far. I have put a lot of miles on it. The only issue I had with it was at around 50K miles the transmission threw a barring. It was still under extended warranty so it cost me about $100 dollars for a new transmission. The guy that repaired it said it was a fluke that happens across all car models and not something just in Jeeps.
The education bureaucracy in this country is broken. Trying to put putty and duct tape on that broken system will not fix the underlying rot nor will simply throwing more money at it will either. There needs to be a viable alternative spring up in its place. Home schooling and co-ops are the closest thing we have to such an alternative that is directly supported by those that use it thus allowing more local parental control over both what is being taught and the finances involved.
They want more taxes because of open immigration that flooded the schools and overwhelmed them with students they had to absorb. They do not even consider the dire consequences of what they propose. They are narrowly focused on what they think is a solution for a small piece of a much larger picture they fail to take into consideration. So, they go after the one easy target to raise funds - property. I don't know what the answer is, but it is certainly not taking away the one major piece of security that most seniors have, their homes. That is absolute cruelty and serves no one in the end. I have a suggestion for them: get rid of the weight at the top that receive such outrageous salaries compared to average people.
I have you beat. My Jeep is a 2002. ; )
Here maybe something that could be connected. The skyscraper that was just hit in the heart of Beijing by a small plane on the 26th was the CITIC building. CITIC is tied to some of those BRI housing projects in Venezuela that failed. I don't know if there might be a connection here, but the timing of the plane hit in Beijing and the quake devastation in Venezuela are bound temporally. It could be just unrelated coincidence or it could be something. Beijing is working hard to make this story disappear despite hundreds, if not thousands, having witnessed it. Within 24hrs the story has been completely censored on the Chinese social media and official information on the Chinese internet is vague and sparce.
Still doing research on the matter. Will get back to you if I come across anything interesting.
Here maybe something that could be connected. The skyscraper that was just hit in the heart of Beijing by a small plane on the 26th was the CITIC building. CITIC is tied to some of those BRI housing projects in Venezuela that failed. I don't know if there might be a connection here, but the timing of the plane hit in Beijing and the quake devastation in Venezuela are bound temporally. It could be just unrelated coincidence or it could be something. Beijing is working hard to make this story disappear despite hundreds, if not thousands, having witnessed it. Within 24hrs the story has completely disappeared on the Chinese internet and social media.
Still doing research on the matter. Will get back to you if I come across anything interesting. Have a blessed weekend sis.
Agreed. If they are to have a property tax at all it should be based upon the price that the home was originally purchased at, not some arbitrary later valuation yet unrealized. Retired seniors get hit the hardest by the current system. They paid for a home almost their entire working life only to lose that life's work because of ever rising property taxes due to market forces driven by property speculation.
One of the few things CA actually did right was Prop 13. My aunt, a young widow at the time, was able to keep the home she and her husband had built and not have it stripped from her and her children because of property taxes. She lived in that home until she died a few months ago at 95. Without Prop 13 that would not have been possible. We need to do a much better job of protecting our seniors instead of focusing on those that should not be in this country to begin with.
Thanks for the link. Have not read the book but I have heard exerts from it. Too bad that more liberal minded Americans do not listen to people like this pilot and others like him that escaped from those very same systems of governance that those socialist minded Americans are cluelessly trying to drive us towards and adopt. Pure insanity.
I also bought silver back when it was around $10. But I have to question whether I actually made money on that silver as an true investment return or whether that silver actually protected me against inflationary devaluation of our fiat currency. I would say it is actually both. It not only maintained its inherent value, but also can offer some investment return depending upon market forces. The foundation of precious metals has always been primarily as a hedge against fluctuating currency valuations. But precious metals can be at times an opportunity for some investment potential depending upon market fluctuations when sold on the high end of a bull run.
I have heard the forecasts of those high valuations for gold and silver. They are real potentials - but for how long? Silver especially can be a potential investment because of the manufacturing need especially with some of the newer battery tech being proposed - they need a lot of silver. But, on the flip side of that still lies the fiat currency impacts on precious metals. The more debt nations take on, the more precious metals reflect that debt. So what part of precious metals pricing is reflecting pure market valuation and valuation from currency devaluation is hard to say. There are also interests with incentive to keep silver prices artificially down simply because of its industrial usage. The need of silver in many newer technologies and the amounts required cannot be overstated. We are talking about potential needs that could very well outstrip the actual supply. Then we can't forget about the impacts of ETFs that artificially impact precious metals valuation. Glad to know I am not alone trying to navigate this metals minefield.
Thanks for the link. Will check it out.
The problem is that we have a welfare system in this country that has incentivized welfare lifestyles, not only for US citizens, but also for foreigners, however they enter the US. Sponsorship must be enforced. That used to be the case. I know because my mother's family immigrated with sponsors. The sponsor is the one that must guarantee the financial responsibility of the immigrant they are sponsoring - not the US taxpayer. These regulations are already on the books. It is time to start enforcing them. Anyone that must rely on public assistance must be sent back to their home country and they can take their American born children with them if they so chose.
TPS is temporary. There must be time limits set as to how long the newly arrived can be on public assistance until they get on their feet. If after a couple of years they fail to remove themselves off public benefits, and become contributors instead of takers, they have to be sent back. The research shows that most of the foreigners that enter this country in recent decades have taken far more than they have contributed over the course of their lifetimes. The experiment was a failure. Time to reevaluate that approach and make adjustments.
This is not a matter of compassion. The compassion of the American people is not in question. Americans have always shown that we are some of the most compassionate people on earth. But this is a question of national survival that cannot financially continue to pay for dead weight that adds little to our overall survival and growth as a nation.
The key is to find a balance between unrestricted compassion and strict justice. Unrestricted compassion that does not have boundaries ultimately results in anarchy and failure that damages everyone. On the other end lies strict judgment that eventually results in tyranny, suffocation, and stagnation - also damaging everyone. Our immigration system in the past allowed this nation to prosper and grow based upon an immigration system that was both responsible and compassionate. The balance point between those two extremes is where we find true justice tempered by compassion. We used to have that balance but threw it away in favor of unrestricted compassion that knew no boundaries. Removing those immigration guardrails has been a cautionary tale in immigration failure for the nation as a whole and for the immigrants.
It is time to recognize that our compassion must be given back proper boundaries that allows compassion to find its full potential; a compassion based upon a balanced immigration system that not only gives compassion to immigrants seeking to find a better life, but compassion that also does not become a detriment to the very society offering that compassion. That kind of a system is both compassionate and just for everyone. This very same balance must also be found within our welfare system. A balance that gives people a helping hand when it is needed that at the same time does not allow that helping hand to become a form of enslavement to perpetual failure.
The elderly especially are at risk of death when temps get that high for sustained periods. The UK and much of Europe are under a heat dome. Those can be very deadly for vulnerable groups. Parts of Western France have already hit 44C (111F). The heat is often intensified by increased humidity. This is absolutely insane. The heat dome is expected to break by tomorrow and then temps should start to come down.
How many people have to die on this march to net zero. What a pile of shit. Those making these rules no doubt work in air conditioned offices and even possibly their homes. Rules for thee but not for me. Welcome to the great reset.
Maher is voicing a concern of many Dems that are seeing the complete takeover of their party by the fringe radical left - just as we have been predicting. It's a party infiltration and hijack. A slight awakening for them and a time of reflection to come to grips with what their party actually stands for and less about what they are against - Trump.
I saw this coming years ago and switched parties. I didn't leave the Dem party, it left me. Now some of these same more Kennedy centrist mainstream Dems are seeing that same handwriting on the wall. I would say the conflict lies primarily within mostly those old enough to remember a Dem party before it went full on commie lunatic left. The brain dead indoctrinated leftist youth, not so much. They don't know the Dem party of the past. The older leftists, usually the Karens, have always been flat out commie socialists from their youth and will never change.
We are witnessing a paradigm shift taking place in both parties. The old establishment uniparty on both sides are being pushed out. Before, one could not see much difference between them. Today, the gap between them could not be wider. The differences are visible and stark. Many Americans, primarily on the left, are now faced with a choice to stay the course, continuing to vote the party line hoping that more rational heads will somehow prevail, or, to make a move away because the old party line no longer makes sense. The destination on that train is no longer somewhere they want to go.
Republican candidates must reach out to these disenfranchised voters struggling with this choice and present to them a platform that is genuinely American, built upon American values, and that appeals to most average Americans - what we actually stand for versus simply what we are against. This is a shift several Republicans have made and it shows in many election outcomes where incumbent Dems have been unseated. When we get the election fraud situation better handled, those results will show the true picture of these changes among the voters.
It's not a question of if, it is a question of when. I cannot put a timetable on the CCP's demise. But it is crumbling without many rabbits left to pull out of their hat - at least any that the CCP would dare to use. Saving face is more important than saving the country. The CCP's days are numbered. But China and the Chinese people will survive.
Excellent article and right on the money. It explains Xi and the CCP quite accurately. Xi earnestly does see the US as a declining world power and China as the ascending power. That is the Chinese dream and is the lens though which he sees the world and through which he frames Chinese policy. Trump refuses to play along with Xi's worldview script.
Others around Xi do not necessarily see the world quite the same way, at least not anymore given China's current situation. But Xi has surrounded himself with sycophants that do not tell him the truth. This is what eventually happens with all authoritarian leaders. For subordinates to tell Xi the truth, that would be too dangerous. No one wants to upset the Emperor. It could cost one their head. So Xi is lied to about the true state of China and the rest of the world. This dynamic only further fuels Xi's machinations for world dominance and Xi dynasty imperial rule.
For the CCP, struggle is a way of life. Take, or be taken. There can only be one dominant power and Xi has decided that will be him and Xi will use all means at his disposal to achieve his ambitions. Trump is not interested in direct confrontation with the dragon. His approach is more one of strategic containment because that dragon is wounded and limping, capable of lashing out in almost any direction. The CCP's eventual downfall will be by its own hands. China will survive, but the CCP's days are numbered.
I know of cases where CPS has taken children away from couples that did nothing, all because of some bogus complaint lodged by a disgruntle person with an ax to grind. There was a gal I knew that lost her children through a messy divorce and the children were placed with the ex who was an abuser. This was Sacramento CA where it has been rumored for years that the entire Sacramento system, the family courts and CPS, trafficked kids and went out of their way to support abusers. It took 4 years before she got her sons back and away from their abuser. I knew one couple, also in CA, where it took several years to get their daughter back. They had done nothing but found themselves trapped in the CPS system. Their daughter had actually been abused while in CPS custody. After getting their daughter back they left the state.
Since I personally know of several people that were abused by the CPS system, and have read about several others, I am not going to jump to conclusions about this case either until I can get more information. I don't like Buttigieg or his chosen lifestyle. But at the same time, I do not want to malign someone before getting more facts knowing how CPS often works.
Exactly. Language is important and too often the right picks up on the language and terminology of the left in rebuttal. The left chooses their terming very carefully thereby twisting the right's rebuttal before it even begins. It's not much different from the debate surrounding Islam. It has been framed as pushing back against a religion. It is not. It is a battle against a political ideology that is in contradiction to our Constitutional governance system. We will never win a fight based on religion that is protected. The argument must be reframed to take Islam on as a competing political ideology and governance system.
There are also legal foreign nationals that vote in our elections - not just illegals. A foreign citizen is still a foreign citizen and has no business voting in US elections - period.
I can't even imagine that level of tragedy. Starting to hear that Chinese BRI construction may have been involved in some of those buildings that collapsed. We saw it in Bangkok during the Myanmar quake that was some distance away from the epicenter. That collapse took the lives of almost 100 in just one building.
I had my suspicions since I knew the Chinese were pretty involved in Venezuela - and still are. What I was hearing about the entire construction process of several of the major housing contracts in Caracas, it had many of the hallmarks of typical Chinese tofu dreg construction. The questions as to why these buildings came down the way they did has set off alarm bells for several in the industry inside and outside of Venezuela. There had been warnings about these buildings being shoddy prior to the quake and not being up to code which the Venezuelan government enacted after another quake. It is looking like none of those codes were followed and the whole process was covered up. Typical corrupt Chinese BRI projects. The CCP has so much blood and destruction on their hands - all to make money and spread CCP influence.
That is awesome fren. That's nice that you are teaching the children this history. My sister could register as a daughter of the Revolution, but she has never shown much interest. I have ancestors and relatives that fought in every major war the US has been in. Thanks for keeping our history alive in the minds of these children.
One of my ancestors was a young kid, just a teenager. He was a drummer for the Continental Army attached to Washington. Washington replaced the first three drums that were shot. My ancestor paid to replace the others when the resources started growing thin. If I remember correctly, there were about seven all together. The drums thank God took the shot instead of him. Brave kid or really crazy. Those drummers were usually up front from what I understand.
You could be right but I really don't remember and I don't think IPOT channel is still up. His channel, along with several others, along with a whole lot of Patriot twitter accounts, were taken down in the great purge back in 2019.
You are absolutely right fren. Not that Israel is completely innocent here. They have their own DS just like we do to muck things up. But at the same time, they are not the ones running the show either as some like to think. They were put in place by London after all. And yes, those powers in London would throw the country under the bus if it served their purpose, just like they would anyone else for that matter. Israel knows it just like we know it.
Found some more info. CITIC Group was and is there. Chinese tofu dreg construction. Saw some pictures of the massive project. They look a lot like some of those buildings that collapsed.
CITIC Construction has been active in Venezuela through its Latin America Division, focusing on large-scale infrastructure and social housing projects. The company signed a major contract in 2005 to build 20,000 apartments for the Great Housing Mission (GMVV), with key handovers occurring in 2017 and 2018.
Key projects include:
Tiuna Social Housing Project: A massive development in Caracas, including the D Zone handover attended by President Nicolás Maduro in 2017.
FANB Office Building: A 210,000 square meter complex for the Bolivarian National Armed Forces, completed with a central laboratory handover in 2018.
Other Infrastructure: Includes a seawater desalination plant in Isla Margarita and a nationwide geological and mineral resources survey.
Exactly. I understand. It often is not what they say it is. But it could be.
But with this incident, when you consider doing an operation like this in the middle of a major city it must be believable to the public just like you said. Makes sense to me. Look here but not there. People would get pretty freaked out seeing those military choppers flying through downtown areas close to the ground at night. A wee bit unsettling to say the least. Training exercise or not, you don't see something like that very often if ever.
This just came out about the Venezuela quake. I knew China had been in the country, and still is, doing projects associated with the BRI. I wondered whether China had anything to do with some of those collapsed buildings and their construction. It sounds like possibly that is the case. It would not be a huge surprise if China built a bunch of tofu dreg apartment buildings there that collapsed. The video brings up some things that sound typical of how the CCP's state owned operations conduct business. Corruption, cutting corners, rushed construction, poor material, improper paperwork, lack of proper engineering permits, etc. Sounds like their MO. Will have to wait and see but it sounds like questions are already being asked.
300 TOWERS Collapsed the SAME WAY during Earthquake Horror in Venezuela ! THERE WERE WARNINGS !
Cool about the books. I learned Latin in High School with a little bit of Greek to boot. My teacher was fluent in several languages. I am pretty sure no schools offer Latin as a language any more. Most kids now don't even write cursive any longer. If they try to use the cursive they learned at home they get in trouble at school. We don't teach kids shit any more. Just how to be activists.