Posts by Mr. Kevvy
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Transportation Safety 3
(Message 2143552)
Posted 6 days ago by  Mr. Kevvy  
Post: Passenger who said he was ‘captain of this flight’ arrested in assault on plane to DFW airport 
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The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean"
(Message 2143049)
Posted 23 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
Post: The GOP now has all control of all three branches of the government and the SCOTUS (confirmed majority in the House today) and Trump just appointed the Butthead look-alike who happens to be an ephebephile? hebephile?... whatever... a few years away from pedophilia (was not charged however... amazing what the right people can get away with) as his Attorney General, which shocked more than a few of his allies. Mr. Gaetz has only two years' experience as an attorney and no other legal credentials. We live in "interesting" times. :^p Well, the comedians must be loving it. But bacon was $1 too much, so... |
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The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean"
(Message 2142886)
Posted 29 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
Post: But as Gary said, "He promised no more elections." That's a very Putinesque statement: it implies the complete dismantling or abandonment of the democratic template of governance within 4 years. I hope the deed turns out to be more difficult than the words. He promised a lot of things that never happened, like building the border wall and making Mexico pay for it, so I tend to disregard these. He lies more often when campaigning then when he is in office. |
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The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean"
(Message 2142828)
Posted 6 Nov 2024 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: I just hope that the U.S. and the rest of the world is ready for the pain that he'll bring to all. Well, I had a look at the numbers. In 2020 Trump got 74,223,975 votes and in 2024 71,874,910 votes so far... 2.35 million fewer. In 2020 Biden got 81,283,501 votes and in 2024 Harris only got 67,008,012... 14.2 million fewer. So unless there was a some unworkably complex and gigantic conspiracy to destroy Democratic voter's votes in all the now-red states of which there is zero evidence, they did it to themselves, either not bothering to vote because they thought Harris had it in the bag, or just not caring, or "protesting" by not voting, or voting for some worthless candidate who didn't have a chance (ie Stein) because they wanted to "send a message" ie about Gaza. Yeah, nice going... you sent that message straight to Bibi who is now ecstatic that his BFF is back and all the brakes are off for pogroming the Palestinians and Trump has already talked about making Gaza into beachfront property. Sure, you can vote your alt.-candidate conscience in a ranked-choice system, but this is a first-past-the-post where your vote is garbage if your lone candidate loses. You need to pick the candidate closest to your alignment who may actually win. Meanwhile as Bernie noted, GOP voters may despise their candidate and/or some of his policies, but they know if they don't for vote him, he won't win and do the things they want him to do, so they do... and they win. Grow up, non-voting Democrats. |
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The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean"
(Message 2142797)
Posted 6 Nov 2024 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: Whatever next for the USA? And this is why I usually don't make predictions... they don't work out well. :^p Donald Trump has been confirmed to be re-elected as the 47th POTUS capturing 276 electoral votes (270 required) so far, and also winning the total/popular vote 51% to 47.7% at current count. By doing so, he becomes only the second POTUS to win two non-consecutive terms, with the only other being Grover Cleveland in 1892. The GOP also flipped two Senate seats and now have Senate control with 51. The House is still in contention. |
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The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean"
(Message 2142765)
Posted 5 Nov 2024 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: An American acquaintance of mine, hates Trump but is not ready to vote for a mixed race woman. Lives in Florida so says his vote won't matter, so might as well vote for Trump!! Egads... I am glad they are an "acquaintance" rather than a "friend". Even disregarding the overt sexism and racism of their observation, Florida went to Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 so a vote there certainly does matter. Hope... fading..... :^p I'm avoiding all news today and tomorrow both internet and TV. May have to stay away from here too. |
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The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean"
(Message 2142738)
Posted 4 Nov 2024 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: Whatever next for the USA? For what little it's worth, I'm predicting "A Kamala Harris presidency" with very little reliance on polls. We'll see over the next couple of days... |
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Elon really needs to get off the Diet Coke.
(Message 2142425)
Posted 25 Oct 2024 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a linchpin of U.S. space efforts, has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022. Anyone surprised? No? Didn't think so. |
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The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean"
(Message 2142420)
Posted 25 Oct 2024 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: We've known this about him since 1990 when Ivana Trump (who was married to him until that year) indicated that he kept a copy of Mein Kampf or My New Order on his nightstand... "It was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he's a Jew." Source I notice in his manner and bearing though that he seems to have studied, and emulated, Mussolini far more. |
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The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean"
(Message 2141147)
Posted 23 Sep 2024 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: Trump says he will not run again if he loses election This all seems so... familiar. "If I lose to him, I don't know what I'm going to do. I will never speak to you again," Trump told supporters at a rally in North Carolina.... in 2020. He'll probably just weasel out of it, again, by claiming that he didn't lose, again. :^p |
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Elon really needs to get off the Diet Coke.
(Message 2141062)
Posted 22 Sep 2024 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: US citizens are banned from supplying technology to Russia and its allies to be used against Ukraine. If he did indeed disable the Cybertruck it would have been eventually required anyway if there is the ability to do so. This is also why, for a rare occurrence, I believe his denials he had anything to do with the Chechnyans having them. Violating US sanctions would probably not have gotten him in trouble directly (these days being wealthy and Republican allows one to get away with a lot) but possibly Tesla or its employees. I think that this may have been just a PR stunt to impress him and by proxy Donald Trump, and they were just obtained through other channels. |
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Cafe SETI :
Word Link Discussion Thread V
(Message 2141045)
Posted 21 Sep 2024 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: Canada has basically legislated apostrophe (or lack thereof) abuse. Our best-known example:  It was founded by Tim Horton... why isn't it Tim Horton's ? Well, because if it was, as the apostrophe-s 's possessive is not used in French, every logo in Quebec including on all the signage, cups, paperware etc. would need to also have "Chez Tim Horton" or equivalent added. :^p |
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Cafe SETI :
Word Link # 118
(Message 2141037)
Posted 21 Sep 2024 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: snooker |
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The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman.
(Message 2140830)
Posted 17 Sep 2024 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: Eight lives left.. that's why you're still around. :^) Welcome back and happily in seemingly good spirits! Sorry you had to go through that but you pulled through. |
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When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government?
(Message 2140826)
Posted 17 Sep 2024 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: Overheated batteries?... I saw one of the videos, which had audio and appeared to be from a store CCTV. The pager(?) went "boom" and exploded with little smoke and no flames/sparks. Overheated/shorted batteries tend to burn more slowly and emit much smoke, flames and/or sparks. Examples (which also nails the smoke precisely as 0.7L per watt-hour.) This seems like the manufacturer was compromised(?) and there was actual explosive in them. |
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The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean"
(Message 2140508)
Posted 11 Sep 2024 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: Well Delusional Donny needs a new name after that debate, maybe "Pete Repeat". DonOld. All his and his allies' criticism of Joe Biden's age, acuity, cognition and fitness to serve an entire term seems to be coming back as applicable to him, now that Joe is gone. Funny how karma works, isn't it? "Old" could also sum up his overplayed tired rhetoric of dusty lies from the past, ie digging up myths from the 1970s about immigrants eating pets. That particular one is the enduring takeaway from the debate. Apparently J.D. Vance was even trying to hand-signal him off-camera to stay away from it. |
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Police and Law Enforcement #5
(Message 2140437)
Posted 9 Sep 2024 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: Hmm.... I wonder what that could possibly lead to. |
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When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government?
(Message 2140248)
Posted 5 Sep 2024 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: The last time I quoted the Old Testament here, I was scolded that any argument based on religious beliefs, or religious historical writings is inadmissible.who think that they are a superior race.It is written. Deuteronomy 33:11-21 I'm pretty sure that Gary is absolutely not using this quote as an actual argument... he's providing an example of a quote that others do use as argument, without agreeing with this. |
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Elon really needs to get off the Diet Coke.
(Message 2140023)
Posted 30 Aug 2024 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: I could imagine that after a lengthy international arbitration process, someone will reprimand Brazil and award Elon damages (which doesn't help Elon now). And what entity would award those damages? Brazil being an autonomous nation, it would either fine itself or some unenforceable symbolic damages would be levied by an external party... but I struggle to thnk of an entity that would even impose unenforceable symbolic damages. |
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The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean"
(Message 2139460)
Posted 14 Aug 2024 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: And I was larfed at when I said that was the only case that was actually going to succeed... all the others are either federal so he could mess with the judge(s) who get them, or occurred during his term in office. This was the only one that was both state and started prior. Thus the criminal's demise... usually something they didn't plan for thus plan to avoid. :^) |
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