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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Why do you feel the need to constantly lie, THUGGER?
The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/rinse/spin/repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:More nuttiness from our local crazy-person. SECONDRATE is
can see clear signs that 1kiki and Signym will crack up.- SECONDRATE
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Yanno, just as an aside .... I've known some crazy people. For some of them, a touch of madness is a touch of genius. Calling SECONRATE crazy is disrespectful to crazy people.
The thing that makes SECONDRATE particularly abhorrent is that he's VOLUNTARILY crazy. He clings to his hate, which fuels his delusions, which fuels his lies, which fuels his hate.
Stop the cycle, SECOND, please, I beg you. Come back to sanity. Stop living in a world of hate.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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What's next in the impeachment inquiry as Congress returns
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is returning from a two-week recess on Tuesday, but some lawmakers barely left Washington.
Three House committees investigating impeachment worked through the break, issuing multiple subpoenas and holding depositions with State Department officials relevant to the inquiry . Democrats are investigating President Donald Trump's dealings with Ukraine and exploring whether he compromised national security or abused his office by seeking dirt from a foreign country on a political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading Democratic contender for the 2020 White House nomination.
That work will intensify when Congress gets back. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., has said she wants the committees to work "expeditiously" as Democrats gather evidence and prepare to make a final decision on whether to vote to impeach the president.
The impeachment probe was sparked by a whistleblower who revealed that Trump asked Ukraine's new president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to investigate Biden's family and Ukraine's role of in the 2016 election that put Trump in office. The calls to investigate Joe Biden and son Hunter have come without evidence of wrongdoing by either Biden, in either country.
FLURRY OF SUBPOENAS AND DEPOSITIONS
Despite Trump's assertions that he won't cooperate, some members of his administration are participating anyway.
Staff and lawmakers from the House Intelligence Committee, the House Oversight and Reform Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee have called in several State Department witnesses.
They have already heard from two: Kurt Bolker, a former envoy to Ukraine, and Marie Yovanovitch , a former ambassador to Ukraine. Each provided information that could be used against Trump as Democrats contemplate impeachment.
Fiona Hill, a former White House adviser who focused on Russia, is expected to appear in private on Monday, with plans for Gordon Sondland , the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, to follow on Thursday. Sondland didn't show up for a scheduled deposition last week after the State Department directed him not to come, but his lawyer said he would comply with a subpoena issued by the committees afterward.
Democrats want to ask Sondland about text messages provided by Volker that show the two of them acting as intermediaries as Trump urged Ukraine to start the investigations.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/whats-next-in-the-impeachment-
inquiry-as-congress-returns/ar-AAIICnY?ocid=spartandhp
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Kremlin relishes US pullback from Syria, turmoil in Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) — From Syria to Ukraine, new fault lines and tensions are offering the Kremlin fresh opportunities to expand its clout and advance its interests.
© Provided by The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking at the Summit of leaders from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
The U.S. military withdrawal from northern Syria before a Turkish offensive leaves Russia as the ultimate power broker, allowing it to help negotiate a potential agreement between Syrian President Bashar Assad and the Kurds who were abandoned by Washington.
And in Ukraine, where the new president saw his image dented by a U.S. impeachment inquiry, Russia may use the volatility to push for a deal that would secure its leverage over its western neighbor.
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Slide 1 of 49: A journalist looks out of an hole on a house that was damaged by a mortar fired from inside Syria, on the Turkish town of Akcakale, southeaster, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019.Nobody got hurt by the attack. The owners of the house weren't home at the time of the attack. Turkey says its military offensive has taken central Ras al-Ayn, a key border town in northeastern Syria, and its most significant gain since its cross-border operation began against Syrian Kurdish fighters began.
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A journalist looks out of an hole on a house that was damaged by a mortar fired from inside Syria, on the Turkish town of Akcakale, southeaster, Turkey, on Oct. 12.
The Turkish offensive in northern Syria followed President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. forces from the area, cold shouldering the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, the key U.S. ally in the fight against the Islamic State group.
Washington's abrupt decision to ditch the Kurds contrasted sharply with Moscow's unwavering support for its ally Assad, which helped his government reclaim the bulk of the country's territory in a devastating civil war.
Along with military power, Russian President Vladimir Putin has relied on diplomacy to achieve his goals in Syria, reaching out to regional powers — from Iran to Saudi Arabia, Israel and Turkey.
NATO member Turkey has become a particularly important partner for Russia. Even though the two countries have backed opposite sides in the Syrian conflict, they have pooled efforts to negotiate a de-escalation zone in the Syrian province of Idlib and co-sponsor talks on forming a committee that would draft a new Syrian constitution.
The Russia-Turkey rapprochement came as Ankara's relations with Washington grew increasingly chilly and were further strained over Turkey's recent purchase of Russian air defense missiles.
© Provided by The Associated Press Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during talks with journalists in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. Ukrainian President is holding an all-day “media marathon” in a Kyiv food court amid growing questions about his actions as president. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Turkey's offensive in Syria, which has drawn harsh criticism from the U.S. and European Union, may now push Moscow and Ankara even closer.
"Russia wants to benefit from that operation, and one of the gains could be the strengthening of ties with Turkey," said Kirill Semenov of the Russian International Affairs Council. "The harsh response from Washington, the EU reaction, the threat of sanctions against Turkey all play into Moscow's hands
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Another Putin Disaster
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015 6:20 PM
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EU's Antitrust Charge Against Gazprom: Another Putin Disaster
"The trashing of Russia’s most valuable economic asset adds to Putin’s growing list of major policy disasters. By attacking Ukraine, he has alienated the Ukrainian people for generations to come. By saber rattling beyond the borders of Ukraine, he has rejuvenated NATO and given it new purpose. Putin has succeeded in pushing traditional sympathizers in the European community, such as Germany’s foreign minister; they’ve decided that the danger he poses trumps their business interests. Instead of raising Russia’s prestige and national pride, he has turned the country into a pariah state with a tottering economy and declining living standards."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2015/04/20/eus-antitru
st-charge-against-gazprom-another-putin-disaster/
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Thursday, April 23, 2015 6:57 PM
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'Pro-Russia' Chechen leader threatens to kill Russian cops on his turf
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2015/0423/Pro-Russia-Chechen-lea
der-threatens-to-kill-Russian-cops-on-his-turf
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Thursday, April 23, 2015 10:32 PM
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Friday, April 24, 2015 10:46 AM
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“The boom years are over,” says Chris Weafer, a senior partner at consulting firm Macro Advisory in Moscow. “The old model based on trickle-down oil revenue has come to an end.”
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/putin’s-miracle-dissolves-as-ru
ssian-middle-class-faces-crunch/ar-AAbAyI4?srcref=rss
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Saturday, April 25, 2015 10:59 AM
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Cutthroats And Bandits': Volunteer's Stint With Ukraine Rebels Turns To Nightmare
When he joined the separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine, Russian businessman Bondo Dorovskikh thought he would be fighting hordes of fascists bent on victimizing the local population.
The reality on the ground turned out to be quite different.
Instead of defending eastern Ukraine, Dorovskikh says he found himself stranded in the town of Alchevsk, where pro-Russian rebels controlling the area spent their days looting and drinking.
"In the morning the commander would get up and line up the insurgents for the roll-call, and in the evening there were another roll-call," he told RFE/RL. "The rest of the time the militants roamed around Alchevsk, pillaging, stealing scrap metal, removing metal gates and selling them to buy alcohol and cigarettes. Some of them would get drunk and fire at each other."
http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-war-russian-volunteer-interview/2
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Saturday, May 2, 2015 11:24 AM
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We have another case of history repeating itself in Russia today. Genocidal Russian leader Josef Stalin at first used the May 9th Victory Day celebrations of the defeat of Nazi Germany to create solidarity and patriotism, but after two years he decided the celebrations had served their purpose so he cancelled them. Current Russian president Vladimir Putin seems to be taking a page from his historical mentor Stalin as he is using Victory Day to whip up nationalist fervor as he attempts to rewrite history and paint a fal
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Lazy Sunday here.
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Quote:Legitimate or not, that's how its done over here.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Never thought I'd say it, but I think the raccoons did me a favor...
It's too early for me to put my heat on around here, but I figured I'd better at least test that everything is working right today. I was in mid cycle where the blower starts going off when I came in from getting the mail, and I realize while going through it that I'm getting a LARGE amount of hot air being forced down directly on my head. The ceiling vent above the front door was putting out air about 50 times more powerful than it ever has since I've lived here.
So I went around and realized that this is the only vent doing so, and the other 5 are hardly putting out anything by comparison (which is the output that it usually put out).
I'm not sure if I mentioned the discovery I made when I had the racoon problem, but the reason I heard them against the vents so often, doing whatever it was they were doing, is because I don't actually have any legit duct work for that ceiling system. It's just one length of actual ducts, and from there are attached 6 insulated "snakes" that make their way to the various ceiling vents.
Quote:What do you suppose might have been blocking them? Nothing's supposed to get in there except fine dust.
So without a way of blowing them out, I just went upstairs and wherever I could I knocked them around a bunch. I also took off all of the vent covers from the ceiling and made sure they were open fully inside and banged them around from there as well, careful not to get the dust all over myself.
Whatja know? I've actually got some legit heat coming out of those vents for the first time in 8 years.
Quote:At least you have heat for the winter!
And it smells... I'm going to try going without heat for the next few days and turn the blower on all day when it's back up in the 60's with all of my windows open to get the shit out now that it's not blocked up anymore.
I'm thinking part of this is the design of those vent covers as well as something just blocking the snakes. They are made to diffuse the heat to the sides, rather than shoot it straight down. Kinda dumb when heat rises. Also kind of dumb to willingly block up the heat so it doesn't all come out of the registers during a cycle and melts the snow off of my roof instead.
I'm going to have to see if I can find better circular vent covers for my system, but in the mean time I'm leaving them off. It's amazing being able to put my hand a foot from the floor on the lower level and feel the heat hit it from above. It's actually too hot in my bathroom now. I'm going to have to close that vent off a bit.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Still, it's a puzzle as to what might have happened up there. No rat or raccoon-sized holes in any of the flexible ducts?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Quote:I hope you enjoyed it!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Lazy Sunday here.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Legitimate or not, that's how its done over here.
Wow. Really?
I'm starting to get the feeling that Crook County, IL is just super anal about all sorts of codes. I'd never seen anything like this before, and my family is kind of in disbelief at it too. We all had legit ductwork to all of our vents in any house we lived in.
One of the houses that I was looking at down by my brother didn't have any conduit at all coming from the breaker box either, which in my mind was a deal breaker. It was just straight romex coming from the box to all the receptacles. When I told my step-dad about that, he said that their house that they owned down in AZ, which was very recently built, was the same. That's another thing I'd never heard about before this year.
I probably don't need to be so paranoid about code where I live either. Could be that the Chicagoland area is just crazy about that stuff compared to everyone else.
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What do you suppose might have been blocking them? Nothing's supposed to get in there except fine dust.
I really have no clue. It did smell when the heat was on though. I'm going to wait until it warms up next week to put it back on so I can have all the windows open and just turn the blower on all day to air it all out now.
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At least you have heat for the winter!
Still, it's a puzzle as to what might have happened up there. No rat or raccoon-sized holes in any of the flexible ducts?
Yer tellin me.
No holes in the flex ducts... at least from what I can see. I can't imagine that there would be now. The system is actually working right for the first time since I bought the house.
What I know now is that my return is large enough for the vents, which was always a concern when I didn't have good air flow before.
At the end of the season I changed the filter, which I hadn't done in a long time. Though the old one was in rough shape and it was stupid to let it go for however long I did, it wasn't the first time I'd changed it.
The amount of force coming out of all 6 vents now is insanely more powerful than it has ever been since I lived here. It's night and day.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I hope you enjoyed it!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Lazy Sunday here.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
I did. Did nothing but mess around with my computer and had the tv on in the background. :)
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