I once had my constitutional rights at public comment during a county supervisors meeting violated by Bob Nelson. He muted me during my public comment on a zoom call. I criticized the actions of a religious leader he had been praising who had been using his and his church's reputation to trade something like $25 gift cards in exchange for kids parents to submit their kids to untested mRNA injections that were not proven to be safe, effective, or even necessary for children (if anyone.) Nelson claimed my criticism of his pastor friend's participation in evil was a personal attack and that personal attacks are outside of my rights during public comment. If he was supposed to be the freedom loving conservative wing of our local political officials, God help us.
Bob Nelson, if you read this comment, when it came time to protect our children from a dishonest top down dangerous global agenda, I will never forget that you failed to stand for truth, our children, and our basic freedom of speech rights.
To everyone else reading this, there must be accountability for everyone who helped perpetrate the COVID tyranny on our community, state and country otherwise those who orchestrated it will think they can do it to us again and again and they will be correct.
We must dismantle the FBI and the CIA, change the tax structure, and cut 100,000 people out of the IRS. We must also move many Government offices out of Washington, D.C., and close the UN. That would be a good start. Let's get it done.
Mr. L, in Russia, you have to do what you’re told, there’s no freedom of speech, and if you do speak out there’s always the fear of being imprisoned or die, accidentally of course. trump has declared revenge and retribution to his rivals so he basically plans to weaponize the justice system to go after them all, no matter how great or small. The Washington post owner, Jeff Bezos, and the LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong have put their employees on notice. No unflattering pieces on trump and his cronies so real journalist have quit or been censored or fired due to pieces they wrote. And the biggest perk of all you get to live under a dictator. You’re welcome
Always good to be reminded of where you are coming from, Julia. Looks like Russia-Russia-Russia remains in the upcoming Democrat play book. Have you ever visited Russia, or even the old Soviet Union? I have been traveling there since the 1970's. Multiple times over the past 50 years - to watch its transition over that same period of time. I suspect today there are more parallels within our own weaponized US judicial system today with Russia-Russia-Russia than you care to admit.
2025 predictions? I have a few. I predict the liberal, Democratic machine will continue to drive our county/cities into the ground. Yes, public sector unions, DEI theology, illegal immigration, green ideology and failing schools are just a few of the ways our elected officials have to continue their version of a successful, just society. But no, local voters here in SB will continue with the diatribe; “orange man bad,” liberal, unsustainable, fiscally irresponsible policies “good.”
I’d like to know who and when is going to sound the alarm that we as a County are heading off a financial cliff? How about the eggheads over at the UCSB Economics Department publish their findings that we are heading for insolvency unless drastic changes are made! With nearly 5,000 County employees on the payroll, the alarms should be going off! This, while at the same time the lefty’s that run our government are at war with fossil fuels and it’s production, thereby reducing the royalties we receive and secondly, further transformation of private Ag land into Land Trusts resulting in thousands of acres being removed from the tax base. What could possibly go wrong? Don’t worry, the mere fact Das Williams is leaving the public world for a cushy, 6 figure salary at UCSB, because there are dozens of left wing nut jobs remaining in our local County government to keep the failing policies alive and well!
That’s right folks, Santa Barbara County could turn into San Barnardino County very quickly!
LT: My recent experiment with the "new conservative" LA Times Sunday print delivery is quickly becoming a total fail. Unless one wants to be harangued by "climate change" in every other paragraph, celebration of abortion and open borders, pesticides in pot, and their always reliable 24/7TDS and defiance of the Bad Orangeman. With no small dose of the glorification of Hollywood values. Fie.
Here’s a prediction, the once great LA Times will end up just like the LA Herald Examiner. Hopefully, the more conservative Orange County Register will continue to thrive.
Very sad that the stupid people on the editorial board of many of these papers don’t communicate with the circulation department!
You got my blood boiling, Andy <g>. Only someone dumber than a dumb Dem, such as Das Williams, would somehow manage to have his own Wikipedia page. Now let's compare the Das Williams Wikipedia to someone, if anyone, who should have a Wikipedia page and doesn't. Namely I am speaking of Virgil Elings (Elings Park, for instance) that took an expired IBM patent and developed the first producible atomic force microscope (AFM). There is no Wikipedia page for Virgil, the PhD professor from UCSB, producing a multi-billion-dollar industry that involves examining many fields of science, including life-saving biological research. In SB there are many, many spinoff companies from Virgil's original company named Digital Instruments. What really pisses me off Andy is the fact that (1) a brainless twit such as Das Williams has a Wikipedia page and (2) Virgil Elings, the first to develop a producible AFM instrument, has no mention in Wikipedia except for his donation to create Elings Park. What a f**ked up world we live in!
Another legendary local Democrat politician also had her own WIKI entry, which was instantly updated apparently by herself as her partisan accolades accrued. However , today it is much more truncated version of the original page, plus the very trimmed down entry comes now with the following warning from WIKI itself:
Warning from Wiki:
"This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. (October 2013)
This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral. (October 2013)
The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. (May 2016)"
Hello Bill, the Gimble for the AFM was designed at UCSB however they came to Channel Industries to solve the vibration problems using Channel's Ceramics and our Know-How at Channel's subsidiary International Transducer Corp where I and four other Engineers worked. The lead engineer on that Project was Bill Bunker and another Engineer Daryl (Forgot last name) who worked with Barney Drake at USCB. weblinks below>>
The so-called "Gimble" you talk about is just an itsy-bitsy part of the entire AFM system. There are a multitude of "Heads" for the system, in order to perform many different experiments for biology, physics, semiconductors, etc. And then the software involved, etc. etc. etc. Geez, you make it sound like ITC designed the entire system. My wife worked as the HR person at ITC. Your ITC engineers were underpaid in comparison to Raytheon ESD.
The person that productized the AFM was Virgil Elings, without him there would be no AFM. His wealth proves the point. How much money did ITC gain from the SUPPORT of the AFM?
Bill I, was not the Engineer on the AFM Contract, it was Bill Bunker and Daryl so I do not know the cost. As Engineers we did not make much during this time. I do not know what AFM unit you are referring but I personally knew Barney Drake and stayed at this home up at Tahoe Donner Subdivision on Ski Slope Way where he had his little lab tweaking the Gimble (Base Plate). At that time, the prototype was quite large and Bulky. We walked out Barney's front door and went X-Skiing at Tahoe Donner every day back in the last 1980s.
The first productized AFM means the first AFM that went into production ... not a small task. I worked a few years at Digital Instruments and later VEECO and know the history very well ... this is where all the AFM spinoff companies originated from. Bill Bunker and I are about the same age. I know Bill and he knows me because of my wife working as his HR employee for a few years. There came a time when my wife said I made as much as her boss, the ITC President (Bill Bunker). And I was working at Raytheon as a Senior Product Design and Development Engineer. I'll admit, I started at Raytheon with a high salary because of my proven capabilities and high pay at other companies. And I know Bill Bunker was a smart piezo designer. But the higher paying jobs came out of the Fortune 500 companies.
Digital Instruments was located very close to the Old ITC building in Goleta before we moved over to Ward Dr. I worked at ITC from 1985-1989 but I did not interact with HR but did with Marketing - Chris Bashworth? Hard to remember names.
Chris Bashforth was a friend of Ann's. Digital Instruments was located in the same building when I worked at Raytheon from '83 to '97 in Building 9 which was later sold to Digital Instruments.
Wow! $200k, huh? I worked my tail off for CHS for 17 years, making less than $100k after taxes. And because of my neurodiversity, I was treated horribly most of the time by the administration.
I suppose saving lives and caring for others is not as crucial as being given a job where you can openly discriminate by labeling and grouping people.
FYI: our lovely community healthcare system fired me directly because of my communication challenges stemming from my neurodiversity, which the ADA recognizes as a disability. SBCH, a Neuroscience Institute, couldn't be bothered to work with me, a neurodivergent nurse, because I am very literal and direct. I suppose CHS wishes us to kiss their proverbial ring before placing our patients first 😉.
I read this very interesting article by Mr. Caldwell titled "My Psychic Predictions for 2025
by Andy Caldwell" and I quote same of the omniscient SB So-Called Leaders ....
"Due to his [DAS] super-ego-fueled tendency to give a lecture at any given moment, demonstrating everything he knows about every single subject known to man, he will get a job as a lecturer at the Bren School of Environmental Science"
A new and even more interesting title is "Psychic Revelations to the SB So-Called Leaders"
and I provide an even more interesting weblink below from former Navy Seal Sean Ryan's interview of Joe McMoneagle, six-hour podcast on the "Stargate Program"> Look at 4:00:00.
So what Shenanigans are the SB Unelected Foolish Officials (UFO's) been up to for at least the last ten years? I again quote former FBI Executive Tom Parker "Perceptions of Political Corruption
Still trying to figure out the self-admitted tabloid fabulist part of your dead-on predictions, Andy. Good litany, all of which sound very close to the bone, from someone who has been inside the belly of the beast as long as you have.
2025 New Years Resolutions:
1. Never let our guard down when elected officials demand even more government.
2. Ask how, when they respond ........ oh, they'll find the money to pay for more government.
3. Put all elected officials on public record by name after they vote expand government, which casts even more public debt on to future generations.
Fun column. It's that time of year to have a little fun making predictions. To expect others to automatically change is like entering a ring and expecting the pit bull to change: for change, look to thy self.
I think you are going to be disappointed in your predictions as we enter an era of unprecedented freedom and prosperity that will find even Democrats such as yourself (I assume tee hee) silently voting for Trumps successor in 4 years while publicly stating you are glad the Bad Orange Man himself is termed out.
Agree, GR. All Democrats stand for today, and tomorrow, is Bigger Government, even Bigger Taxes and Massive Public Debt. The corner has turned with this election and that Democrat agenda has been soundly rejected. There is no going back to Democrats institutionalized dysfunction.
Everyone knows it will be a very disruptive next few years as the entrenched Democrat Deep State sabotages this necessary transition six ways to Sunday. We all do need to hang on tight, because we are going to power through this or else we lose America.
Agree, they have been infiltrating our schools, institutions, local governments etc for decades, it will take time to turn that around and restore a normal balance. We need to hold together like the Dems do and act as a solid unified block with no infighting. Our biggest challenge is not Democrats or the Deep State, but RINO's who will block everything they can. We may need a new RINO free third party one day that acts in unison as the Democrats do. Our biggest flaw.
If we are lucky, Trump will figure out how to run for another four years. Could be he proves the Dems are so incredibly corrupt they can't exist as a viable party.
When a person votes, they have a choice of selecting Yes and No. When a person doesn't vote, you don't have the opportunity to select their position. And while you're at it while standing in front of the voting machine you can select candidates. You could select Harris so she can destroy the country, or you can select Trump to rebuild the country. Myself, I go for rebuilding the country.
I agree with your predictions here, plus one more that you forgot to mention. The crackdown on free speech. Trump is putting together a team to round up people for speaking. Elon's "free" Twitter is a joke. Cue the jabbed up brainless brigade on here to call me a 'democrat' for supporting free speech.
They are already here. Notice the sudden proliferation of Indian restaurants, even ones right next to each other on the same street. Overnight we now have nearly a half dozen and quite frankly they are not even very good. What caused their sudden proliferation?
Just on a personal experience note S. 2, many foreign engineers are smarter than American born engineers. I favor the smarter person, especially those working in the aerospace industry to have these jobs. In this case, foreign or American, my choice is the smarter of the two. I can provide many cases to express that opinion. I'm sure you can to, S. 2.
The issue is always earned merit; not ideologically driven quotas. It is right and proper for the US to set immigration visa allocations based upon America's defined and publicly justified needs; and nothing else. This is standard for all developed countries.
Sometimes we need transitory labor; sometimes we need critical technology. But we never need just sheer volume in order to fill failing teacher union K-12 classrooms.
Divide and conquer still works for you, S.2? It is not working for rest of us. Expect some rocky times - that is how we move forward. The old Democrat order has died, but it still has its death rattles to sound its last gasps.
I once had my constitutional rights at public comment during a county supervisors meeting violated by Bob Nelson. He muted me during my public comment on a zoom call. I criticized the actions of a religious leader he had been praising who had been using his and his church's reputation to trade something like $25 gift cards in exchange for kids parents to submit their kids to untested mRNA injections that were not proven to be safe, effective, or even necessary for children (if anyone.) Nelson claimed my criticism of his pastor friend's participation in evil was a personal attack and that personal attacks are outside of my rights during public comment. If he was supposed to be the freedom loving conservative wing of our local political officials, God help us.
Bob Nelson, if you read this comment, when it came time to protect our children from a dishonest top down dangerous global agenda, I will never forget that you failed to stand for truth, our children, and our basic freedom of speech rights.
To everyone else reading this, there must be accountability for everyone who helped perpetrate the COVID tyranny on our community, state and country otherwise those who orchestrated it will think they can do it to us again and again and they will be correct.
We must dismantle the FBI and the CIA, change the tax structure, and cut 100,000 people out of the IRS. We must also move many Government offices out of Washington, D.C., and close the UN. That would be a good start. Let's get it done.
Mr. Thomas, it looks like you have a goal for America, to be like Russia.
How so? Specifics, not just generalized slurs. TIA.
Mr. L, my comment was not intended to be a slur, but my opinion. It seems he left out close news outlets and shut down any kind of media.
How is it "like Russia"? Fill in the blanks. Thnx.
Mr. L, in Russia, you have to do what you’re told, there’s no freedom of speech, and if you do speak out there’s always the fear of being imprisoned or die, accidentally of course. trump has declared revenge and retribution to his rivals so he basically plans to weaponize the justice system to go after them all, no matter how great or small. The Washington post owner, Jeff Bezos, and the LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong have put their employees on notice. No unflattering pieces on trump and his cronies so real journalist have quit or been censored or fired due to pieces they wrote. And the biggest perk of all you get to live under a dictator. You’re welcome
Always good to be reminded of where you are coming from, Julia. Looks like Russia-Russia-Russia remains in the upcoming Democrat play book. Have you ever visited Russia, or even the old Soviet Union? I have been traveling there since the 1970's. Multiple times over the past 50 years - to watch its transition over that same period of time. I suspect today there are more parallels within our own weaponized US judicial system today with Russia-Russia-Russia than you care to admit.
2025 predictions? I have a few. I predict the liberal, Democratic machine will continue to drive our county/cities into the ground. Yes, public sector unions, DEI theology, illegal immigration, green ideology and failing schools are just a few of the ways our elected officials have to continue their version of a successful, just society. But no, local voters here in SB will continue with the diatribe; “orange man bad,” liberal, unsustainable, fiscally irresponsible policies “good.”
I’d like to know who and when is going to sound the alarm that we as a County are heading off a financial cliff? How about the eggheads over at the UCSB Economics Department publish their findings that we are heading for insolvency unless drastic changes are made! With nearly 5,000 County employees on the payroll, the alarms should be going off! This, while at the same time the lefty’s that run our government are at war with fossil fuels and it’s production, thereby reducing the royalties we receive and secondly, further transformation of private Ag land into Land Trusts resulting in thousands of acres being removed from the tax base. What could possibly go wrong? Don’t worry, the mere fact Das Williams is leaving the public world for a cushy, 6 figure salary at UCSB, because there are dozens of left wing nut jobs remaining in our local County government to keep the failing policies alive and well!
That’s right folks, Santa Barbara County could turn into San Barnardino County very quickly!
LT: My recent experiment with the "new conservative" LA Times Sunday print delivery is quickly becoming a total fail. Unless one wants to be harangued by "climate change" in every other paragraph, celebration of abortion and open borders, pesticides in pot, and their always reliable 24/7TDS and defiance of the Bad Orangeman. With no small dose of the glorification of Hollywood values. Fie.
Here’s a prediction, the once great LA Times will end up just like the LA Herald Examiner. Hopefully, the more conservative Orange County Register will continue to thrive.
Very sad that the stupid people on the editorial board of many of these papers don’t communicate with the circulation department!
Very witty and on point. You had me lol!
You got my blood boiling, Andy <g>. Only someone dumber than a dumb Dem, such as Das Williams, would somehow manage to have his own Wikipedia page. Now let's compare the Das Williams Wikipedia to someone, if anyone, who should have a Wikipedia page and doesn't. Namely I am speaking of Virgil Elings (Elings Park, for instance) that took an expired IBM patent and developed the first producible atomic force microscope (AFM). There is no Wikipedia page for Virgil, the PhD professor from UCSB, producing a multi-billion-dollar industry that involves examining many fields of science, including life-saving biological research. In SB there are many, many spinoff companies from Virgil's original company named Digital Instruments. What really pisses me off Andy is the fact that (1) a brainless twit such as Das Williams has a Wikipedia page and (2) Virgil Elings, the first to develop a producible AFM instrument, has no mention in Wikipedia except for his donation to create Elings Park. What a f**ked up world we live in!
Another legendary local Democrat politician also had her own WIKI entry, which was instantly updated apparently by herself as her partisan accolades accrued. However , today it is much more truncated version of the original page, plus the very trimmed down entry comes now with the following warning from WIKI itself:
Warning from Wiki:
"This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. (October 2013)
This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral. (October 2013)
The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. (May 2016)"
Yes, my hunch was the introduction of the those "too closely associated with the subject" biases that got Das Williams on Wikipedia.
Legends in their own minds .........apparently does not meet their "notability" guidelines.
LOL, no notability for the nobility on Wikipedia.
Hello Bill, the Gimble for the AFM was designed at UCSB however they came to Channel Industries to solve the vibration problems using Channel's Ceramics and our Know-How at Channel's subsidiary International Transducer Corp where I and four other Engineers worked. The lead engineer on that Project was Bill Bunker and another Engineer Daryl (Forgot last name) who worked with Barney Drake at USCB. weblinks below>>
https://www.noozhawk.com/goleta_based_channel_technologies_bankruptcy_lay_off_all_employees/
https://www.gavialitc.com/ [ITC became Gavial-ITC]
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-bunker-9a953a37/
https://patents.justia.com/inventor/barney-drake
Bill Bunker was my Boss at ITC and mentor. Alot of funny stories and good times with Bill and the gang at ITC! What Way Back Machine, Goleta 1980s.
The so-called "Gimble" you talk about is just an itsy-bitsy part of the entire AFM system. There are a multitude of "Heads" for the system, in order to perform many different experiments for biology, physics, semiconductors, etc. And then the software involved, etc. etc. etc. Geez, you make it sound like ITC designed the entire system. My wife worked as the HR person at ITC. Your ITC engineers were underpaid in comparison to Raytheon ESD.
The person that productized the AFM was Virgil Elings, without him there would be no AFM. His wealth proves the point. How much money did ITC gain from the SUPPORT of the AFM?
Bill I, was not the Engineer on the AFM Contract, it was Bill Bunker and Daryl so I do not know the cost. As Engineers we did not make much during this time. I do not know what AFM unit you are referring but I personally knew Barney Drake and stayed at this home up at Tahoe Donner Subdivision on Ski Slope Way where he had his little lab tweaking the Gimble (Base Plate). At that time, the prototype was quite large and Bulky. We walked out Barney's front door and went X-Skiing at Tahoe Donner every day back in the last 1980s.
https://www.tahoedonner.com/amenities/amenities/cross-country/
Correction Barney lives on Ski Slope Way.
The first productized AFM means the first AFM that went into production ... not a small task. I worked a few years at Digital Instruments and later VEECO and know the history very well ... this is where all the AFM spinoff companies originated from. Bill Bunker and I are about the same age. I know Bill and he knows me because of my wife working as his HR employee for a few years. There came a time when my wife said I made as much as her boss, the ITC President (Bill Bunker). And I was working at Raytheon as a Senior Product Design and Development Engineer. I'll admit, I started at Raytheon with a high salary because of my proven capabilities and high pay at other companies. And I know Bill Bunker was a smart piezo designer. But the higher paying jobs came out of the Fortune 500 companies.
Digital Instruments was located very close to the Old ITC building in Goleta before we moved over to Ward Dr. I worked at ITC from 1985-1989 but I did not interact with HR but did with Marketing - Chris Bashworth? Hard to remember names.
Chris Bashforth was a friend of Ann's. Digital Instruments was located in the same building when I worked at Raytheon from '83 to '97 in Building 9 which was later sold to Digital Instruments.
Bill, you can start work on a wiki page for Elings. That's how that platform works.
Good idea Thomas.
Wow! $200k, huh? I worked my tail off for CHS for 17 years, making less than $100k after taxes. And because of my neurodiversity, I was treated horribly most of the time by the administration.
I suppose saving lives and caring for others is not as crucial as being given a job where you can openly discriminate by labeling and grouping people.
FYI: our lovely community healthcare system fired me directly because of my communication challenges stemming from my neurodiversity, which the ADA recognizes as a disability. SBCH, a Neuroscience Institute, couldn't be bothered to work with me, a neurodivergent nurse, because I am very literal and direct. I suppose CHS wishes us to kiss their proverbial ring before placing our patients first 😉.
We live in a Clown World but things are about to get better.
I read this very interesting article by Mr. Caldwell titled "My Psychic Predictions for 2025
by Andy Caldwell" and I quote same of the omniscient SB So-Called Leaders ....
"Due to his [DAS] super-ego-fueled tendency to give a lecture at any given moment, demonstrating everything he knows about every single subject known to man, he will get a job as a lecturer at the Bren School of Environmental Science"
A new and even more interesting title is "Psychic Revelations to the SB So-Called Leaders"
and I provide an even more interesting weblink below from former Navy Seal Sean Ryan's interview of Joe McMoneagle, six-hour podcast on the "Stargate Program"> Look at 4:00:00.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRTon6qgVws&t=471s&ab_channel=ShawnRyanShow
So what Shenanigans are the SB Unelected Foolish Officials (UFO's) been up to for at least the last ten years? I again quote former FBI Executive Tom Parker "Perceptions of Political Corruption
Too Often the Harbingers of Stark Reality"
https://www.independent.com/2020/02/22/perceptions-of-political-corruption/
Ecclesiastes 3:15-17 > "Whatever has already been and what will has been before: and God will call the past to account." To be clear all is known.
Howard Walther, member of a Military Family
Still trying to figure out the self-admitted tabloid fabulist part of your dead-on predictions, Andy. Good litany, all of which sound very close to the bone, from someone who has been inside the belly of the beast as long as you have.
2025 New Years Resolutions:
1. Never let our guard down when elected officials demand even more government.
2. Ask how, when they respond ........ oh, they'll find the money to pay for more government.
3. Put all elected officials on public record by name after they vote expand government, which casts even more public debt on to future generations.
Interesting comments.
Mr. Caldwel, you’re right it’s just like supermarket tabloid fodder.
Fun column. It's that time of year to have a little fun making predictions. To expect others to automatically change is like entering a ring and expecting the pit bull to change: for change, look to thy self.
GOP is changing. It is growing a spine.
Are the GOP players changing, or have we changed the players?
I think you are going to be disappointed in your predictions as we enter an era of unprecedented freedom and prosperity that will find even Democrats such as yourself (I assume tee hee) silently voting for Trumps successor in 4 years while publicly stating you are glad the Bad Orange Man himself is termed out.
Agree, GR. All Democrats stand for today, and tomorrow, is Bigger Government, even Bigger Taxes and Massive Public Debt. The corner has turned with this election and that Democrat agenda has been soundly rejected. There is no going back to Democrats institutionalized dysfunction.
Everyone knows it will be a very disruptive next few years as the entrenched Democrat Deep State sabotages this necessary transition six ways to Sunday. We all do need to hang on tight, because we are going to power through this or else we lose America.
Agree, they have been infiltrating our schools, institutions, local governments etc for decades, it will take time to turn that around and restore a normal balance. We need to hold together like the Dems do and act as a solid unified block with no infighting. Our biggest challenge is not Democrats or the Deep State, but RINO's who will block everything they can. We may need a new RINO free third party one day that acts in unison as the Democrats do. Our biggest flaw.
If we are lucky, Trump will figure out how to run for another four years. Could be he proves the Dems are so incredibly corrupt they can't exist as a viable party.
GOP farm club is strong. Democrats is not.
You didn't vote and you're bragging about it S. 2? You have no bubbles to burst but your own, foolish person.
Who were these wonderful options we had to vote for, since you are insulting patriots for not supporting establishment shills?
When a person votes, they have a choice of selecting Yes and No. When a person doesn't vote, you don't have the opportunity to select their position. And while you're at it while standing in front of the voting machine you can select candidates. You could select Harris so she can destroy the country, or you can select Trump to rebuild the country. Myself, I go for rebuilding the country.
um, sorry to burst your bubble but whether you know it or not, you are a Democrat. That's fine. No need to hide it.
Why do you keep saying all over this comment section that S2 is a dem when there is nothing at all they he/she writes to indicates that?
If someone is a murderer, but they post nothing at all saying they are a murderer, are they then 'not a murderer'? Asking for a friend.
You know the saying, "If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s a duck!"
Still waiting from both Bill and George what S.2 wrote that indicates he/she's a democrat. Neither of you can come up with one thing.
Mr. Angel, that’s because if you don’t agree with them, you must be a Democrat.
S. 2 might be embarrassed to say he voted for Harris. It's one thing to look dumb, but to be double-dumb, that's really bad.
With your "wild" thinking S. 2, you leave us only with guessing what's really going on in your mind.
S.2: The Palestinians have the power to stop what is now happening to them. It is all in their hands.
They have autonomy and elections. They must use them wisely.
You keep putting your faith in politics!
It’s right there in front of you.
JC!
I agree with your predictions here, plus one more that you forgot to mention. The crackdown on free speech. Trump is putting together a team to round up people for speaking. Elon's "free" Twitter is a joke. Cue the jabbed up brainless brigade on here to call me a 'democrat' for supporting free speech.
L. Angel. You were free to label us the "brainless brigade". No offense taken, because no offense earned. Carry on.
They are already here. Notice the sudden proliferation of Indian restaurants, even ones right next to each other on the same street. Overnight we now have nearly a half dozen and quite frankly they are not even very good. What caused their sudden proliferation?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha " I am not a Democrat" ha ha ha ha ha, oh my.
Just on a personal experience note S. 2, many foreign engineers are smarter than American born engineers. I favor the smarter person, especially those working in the aerospace industry to have these jobs. In this case, foreign or American, my choice is the smarter of the two. I can provide many cases to express that opinion. I'm sure you can to, S. 2.
The issue is always earned merit; not ideologically driven quotas. It is right and proper for the US to set immigration visa allocations based upon America's defined and publicly justified needs; and nothing else. This is standard for all developed countries.
Sometimes we need transitory labor; sometimes we need critical technology. But we never need just sheer volume in order to fill failing teacher union K-12 classrooms.
Divide and conquer still works for you, S.2? It is not working for rest of us. Expect some rocky times - that is how we move forward. The old Democrat order has died, but it still has its death rattles to sound its last gasps.