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TahoeHorn

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  1. I can find projects that will make money for the government.
  2. They could have just rerouted the Mississippi for a fraction of the cost. But then Morgan City (or wherever) would be the port.
  3. She's 39. Go to some 20 year high school reunions and check out the talent. They don't look like they did in high school.
  4. What type of projects should, and should not, be in an infrastructure bill? I'd ask two questions: 1. What kind of "profit" will it have? 2. How many jobs will it produce?/What will it do to raise GDP? Projects that score high (and high enough to meet my spec) will almost all be projects that employ a fairly unique highly paid team, and provide a quasi-monopoly service. If private industry could do it and doesn't it's unlikely to meet my spec. If the government could charge for it and not make huge profits it probably wouldn't pass either. Hoover Dam, I-10 and Houston Intercontinental Airport meet my test. A bunch of levees for New Orleans don't. JerryWorld doesn't. The Houston Convention Center doesn't. A new tunnel between New Jersey and Manhattan would. A high speed rail from nowhere California top nowhere California would not. The first wind tunnel did.
  5. People are unwisely focusing on the sex just as they did in the Monica thing. The more important issues are the legal ones. First on the list, I will guess, is whether there was an illegal in-kind campaign contribution, and whether this question will be addressed by the FEC or by Mueller. The 60 Minutes show raised the legal questions, but didn't tell us anything we didn't already know. And I didn't expect they would. The show was worthless.
  6. What is the statute of limitations on stealing land? Throughout history some group has taken land from another group. If we can identify 47 groups which have had the land, and we know there are probably more,which one is the rightful owner? Is there some date where if you owned it on that date it's yours, even if some group owned it before then? Who owns the West Bank? Israelis or Palestinians? What about Texas? What about Jerusalem? What about the Alsace-Lorraine? Or Latvia? Or Poland? Or England? What about Massachusetts? I'll say 65 years. If you "stole" it over 65 years ago it's yours. Less than that it's not. So the Saxons can't claim England. The Huns can't claim Germany. But the Palestinians can claim the West Bank. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_territorial_disputes
  7. There are seven Senate races which are toss-ups, and probably the only ones truly in play. These are: Arizona Florida Indiana Missouri Nevada North Dakota West Virginia I would like to see the Dems make gun control a big issue in each race. The gun control issue is good for Dems to run up the score in Nancy Pelosi's district. It isn't good for the Dems in North Dakota and West Virginia. None of the seven states are good places to advocate gun control. And Florida, Arizona and Nevada have had high profile shootings.
  8. RCP rates PA6 as lean Dem, not safe GOP. It is red because it is currently GOP.
  9. I'd put a picture of the Lake but I don't know how to do it.
  10. That was an enjoyable game. Good basketball.
  11. Does anybody have a House race they think RCP has handicapped incorrectly?
  12. I don't know any martial arts but I critique this phenomenon in movies, with a focus on describing what the proper attack should have been.
  13. Who is playing the best golf right now? I think Justin Thomas may be passing Dustin Johnson.
  14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Donald_Trump The overall progress has been good but there is still a long way to go to fill the vacancies before we get a new legislature. There is an outside chance that the Dems take the Senate. If they do I think there won't be any confirmations. I'm anxious to see whether the vacancies can get filled in time.
  15. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/house/2018_elections_house_map.html 201 Democrats Toss Ups 30 Republicans 204 174 12 15 30 12 18 174 218 Seats Needed For Majority Likely Dem (2R) AZ9 CA24 FL13 IA2 MN7 NH2 NY3 NY18 OR5 PA5 PA8 WI3 Leans Dem (10R) AZ1 AZ2 CA7 CA39 CA49 FL7 FL26 FL27 NJ2 NJ5 NJ11 NV4 PA6 PA7 VA10 Toss Up (4D, 24R) CA10 CA25 CA45 CA48 CO6 GA6 IA1 IL6 IL12 KS2 KS3 MI11 MN1 MN2 MN3 MN8 NE2 NH1 NJ7 NV3 NY19 NY22 PA1 PA10 PA17 TX7 TX23 TX32 UT4 WA8 Leans GOP (0D) FL16 IA3 KY6 ME2 MI7 MTAL NM2 NY1 NY11 OH1 VA2 VA7 Likely GOP (1D) AR2 AZ8 CA21 CA50 FL18 GA7 IL13 IL14 MI8 NC9 NC13 NY24 OH12 PA14 PA16 TX21 WA5 WI1 If this holds the GOP will barely hold.
  16. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/senate/2018_elections_senate_map.html 44 Democrats * Toss Ups 7 Republicans 49 36 Safe or Not Up 6 2 7 1 3 45 Safe or Not Up 51 Seats Needed For Majority Likely Dem PA: Casey (D) WI: Baldwin (D) MI: Stabenow (D) MN2: Smith (D) VA: Kaine (D) NJ: Menendez (D) Safe Dem Seats Leans Dem OH: Brown (D) MT: Tester (D) Toss Up IN: Open (D) NV: Heller (R) MO: McCaskill (D) FL: Open (D) AZ: Open (R) ND: Heitkamp (D) WV: Open (D) Leans GOP TN: Open (R) Likely GOP MS1: Wicker (R) MS2: Hyde-Smith (R) TX: Cruz (R) Safe GOP Seats I think this list looks pretty good and the toss-ups get split. GOP holds Senate 52-48.
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