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Won the Debate, Lost the Campaign

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It is a shame, but if Trump had done one thing at the beginning of the debate, it would have ended right there. At his first turn to speak, he should have pretended waiting a few seconds and said, I’m still waiting. You never answered the question. Go ahead right now. It will take five seconds to answer. I’ll give you ten. However, I do expect a real answer.

It would have stopped her cold. She would have had to remain silent and look bad or she would have had to give an answer and look bad, maybe worse.

Regardless, as they say, that is water under the bridge. There is no way to get it back. It is on the way to the sea, or at least a lake.

However, as I think back over it, the American people are still pretty smart. They knew what was happening. They could figure out that Kamala was getting a tremendous amount of help from the umpires. The American people do have a since of fairness. Maybe, when all is said and done, in the long run, Kamala just might have really muffed it. I have heard a few voters interviewed who said as much.

Moreover, and worse, I am sure I am not the only one who noted that Kamala avoided answering any of the questions. In essence, she usually simply repeated the question in a different form and then went on to answer the question that was never asked.

It is the method of evil. They don’t lie. A lie is too easy to see. They use deception or redirection, which always has an element of the truth, but only part of it. For instance, she quoted part of the thing about some good from both sides. She left out the important part, which negated the part she quoted. Hence, you can always tell when a person lives by deceit. He goes around telling part of the truth, but only part of it. It is worse than a lie and it is always more successful in deceit. Those that have read the Bible can tell you, it is the primary method used by the devil repeatedly.

For sure, do we really want a person in the White House who operates by deceit and misdirection? Do we want a president who never will provide the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Revisiting My Time As a Civil Engineer

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Honest, I never was a civil engineer. Never got past my first year of college. However, there was a prompt that I replied to in which I pretended to be an engineer for a short time. One of my suggestions was to do away with two way streets. One way streets have a lot of advantages.

As you could tell by my post, I would not make much of a city planner. Nonetheless, I did think of a few more advantages to one way streets. However, let me review the advantages I already mentioned.

Left and right turns would equally difficult. No one would ever need to wait for apposing traffic. Going into and out of businesses would be far easier, especially leaving a business onto a 3 or 4 lane road. Because of no turns against apposing traffic, there would be no need for left turn signals. Currently, much of the time shared in the intersection is reserved for left turns, north, south as well as east west. Though traffic must wait for all left turns.

Now for a couple of things I just thought of. The head on collision would almost totally be eliminated. I say almost, because there are cities like Memphis where some drivers would drive the wrong way. And, of course, head on collisions are usually the most deadly because of the relative speed. Two cars hitting each other at 40, have a relative speed of 80.

The U-turn would be unnecessary. 2 left or 2 right turns would serve the same purpose and would be far safer, though, I must admit, the driver would have to travel one more block. Some might not want to admit it, but having to look into headlights is tiring, and maybe even harmful. With one way streets, it would be very rare to have to look into headlights. Incidentally, it would also improve vision, especially at dusk.

As a little aside, considering the number of miles driven each day, there are very few accidents. Mostly, it is when a person disobeys a law either by accident or intentionally. Possibly, it is because of impatience or being in a hurry. I witnessed a few of the intentional ones, mostly running red lights. In Memphis it used to be against the law to turn right on a red light except where posted. They changed the law to read that you can make a right turn when safe and only after coming to a complete stop. It would seem there are many who just go barreling on through as if the light is not there. It makes me wish they never changed the law. It doesn’t hurt to wait a while. It can be far worse without the without the wait.

Kind of a sudden afterthought. It might after result in less out of “out of court settlements” too.

An Impressive Reporter, Maybe

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When Trump brought up the point that illegal aliens were killing pets, the commentator quickly pointed out that they checked with the city manager who said there was no evidence of it.

Now that really confuses me. Why did they check with the city manager. What prompted them to do that. I would suspect, truth be told, he didn’t do any checking. I wish I could ask him face to face. He probably had some flunky new-be check it. Moreover, we now know that they did a sorry job of checking into it, if at all. We now know that Trump was right. The story has been confirmed by many, not just one flunky.

One might be very impressed by the reporter, but, guess what, he not only had it wrong, he interrupted the former president to be wrong with an air of being absolutely right, this even though he was wrong, and I suspect he knew he was wrong all the time. He knew Trump was likely going to bring it up. And he knew, right or wrong, he could not let that story stand. He knew, while killing the unborn child is very acceptable by our society, killing helpless animals is not.

And by the way, he was wrong and Trump was right. Do you really think we should put our trust in any reporters, or news networks as this?

As Seen on TV

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The Broom: the one that mystically sweeps everything without leaving anything behind.

As I have said many times, I don’t pay as little attention to TV and radio ads as possible. I have had over 70 years to train myself and I have gotten good at it. My wife, not so much, and she wanted the broom. I figured the broom we had does pretty good and with a couple of sweeps, it gets it all. However, my job now is to spoil her so I got one for.

Decided to write a critique on it, so you will benefit from my purchase.

Well, I like it sort of. It does work every bit as advertised. It is very good at what it was made for. Even so, there are miles of possible improvements. If you are going to use it a lot, you will likely want to either replace or reinforce the handle. It is very flimsy. I think one needs to be careful not to bend it, which would mean replacing the handle anyway. I really can’t believe they didn’t use either wood or a heavier gauge steel. I mean, steel is not one of our most expensive metals. I think it is about 6 or 7 cents a pound. I don’t think there are 2 ounces in the handle. If the handle was one pound, it would be much stronger.

The second problem might be a little more difficult to resolve and I wish it wasn’t. When it comes to time to sweeping into a dust pan, I have to switch to another broom. The broom is too wide and it simply does not work with my dust pan. Then again, maybe others have wider dust pans and it would work just fine.

One thing I discovered I really like, it really gets the stuff at the floor’s edge. It got some stuff out of there I didn’t know was there. This in itself might make it worth what I paid for it.

There is one good aspect they just might not even know about. The broom handle is in sections. By removing sections, the broom becomes a handy and very effective whisk broom.

So, for whatever good, that is my opinion.

Oh, by the way, the wife likes it. She even suggests a push broom made on the same concept. She actually might have a point there. Maybe even a good lawn rake.

We bought it at the nearby Walmart, but I forgot to get the milk. Maybe I need to go back monyana. Don’t much want to go through the coming storm without milk.

Forward???

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Kamala kept saying we need to go forward. Actually, I would like to go back…

Back to $1 a gallon for gas.

Back to $100 weekly grocery bill.

Back to before there were any wars in Ukraine or Israel.

Back to when there was a trickle instead of a flood of illegal aliens across the border.

Back to when criminals were in prison instead of out on the streets.

Back when our young men in the military were not forced to take shots that don’t work.

Back before the students were illegally forgiven of their loans.

Back before dangerous shots were give to children who don’t need them, even if they did work.

Back when our military was strong.

Back when our corporations were being run to the benefit of the stockholders, not the color of skin or sex preference.

I do have a few more, but I think you get the idea.

Now Does That Make Sense

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Kamala says she owns a gun. In truth, she would like to take ours (regardless of what she has said recently).

She has Service Service. She doesn’t need one. She has no need for self defense. We don’t have anyone to protect us. We need ours for self defense, partially because Kamala and her followers are trying to defund the police and let criminals & illegal aliens out on the street.

Really, how much sense does that make?

Unusual, Odd and a Little Strange

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As with many others, I watched the debate.  I was not at all surprised by all the lies that Kamala told.  It was expected.  Of course she quoted the Jan 6 thing, only she left out part.  She left out the part about officials encouraging the demonstrators to enter building.

The dems always like to leave important parts out of the quotes.  They just can’t let go of that one demonstration where they imply that trump was in favor of right extremist, when they knew  from the beginning it that implication wrong.

On the other hand, when Trump properly pointed out what the former governor said about “post birth abortion,” the moderator quickly said that there are no laws allowing the killing of babies after birth.  The one thing has nothing to do with the other.  Trump was quoting a very often and documented video, which has been shown, I don’t know, maybe a thousand times.  His intention was not to say that the law permits it, only that it could be if people like that governor get their way.  Finally, just for the record, she never did say she was not in favor of last minute abortions or killing after birth.  Leastwise, I never heard her say it. Did you?

Completely disregarding that, I noted that the moderator interrupted many times to supposedly fact check trump.  Never once did he or she correct Kamala.  This prompts two thoughts.  They likely had their notes ready to counter many things that they expected Trump might say.  It was not at all coincidental that they never corrected her obvious lies.  They might convince others that it is coincidental.  It is easy to deceive those who want to be deceived.  It was not just a little strange.  It was outright biased.  It was the model of deceit and Satan, himself, I am sure, is quite grateful to the so called neutral moderators.  Next time, I suggest we not allow the moderators to add their counterfeit 2 cents.

Then again, it was ABC.  Why should I expect anything different from the folks of Fantasy Land?  It is why Kamala refused to go on FOX.  She didn’t want to look anything like the flip-flopping extreme liberal she is.  She did not want to be called out on all the big changes she has issued, not directly, but though her campaign.

One Way to Keep the Crime Stats Low

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Don’t report the crimes. It happens. I’ve heard the report from the police on TV. Mostly it’s because the police are getting tired of putting the bad guys in prison just to have them released before the paperwork is done.

The FBI stats tell us one thing; personal while observations tell us another. The question is, what are you going to believe, your eyes or of the FBI. Before you make up your mind, remember the FBI has a little history of lying. Need I remind you of the Russia, Russia thing began by Hillary and propagated by the Leaders in the FBI; and more recently about the laptop. In both cases they now admit they lied; but only after they were somewhat investigated.