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Nancy Pelosi Is Already Attacking the Legitimacy of the 2020 Election: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/2020-election-nancy-pelosi-already-attacking-legitimacy/

A true system of promotion/relegation would be better. Then enrollment would not matter, just the strength of the program.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/man-charged-with-theft-for-removing-police-gps-tracker-from-his-car/ Reading the oral arguments it doesn't look good for the prosecution. An interesting case. And this of course begs the question brought on in the article, "Most important, it's not clear that taking an unwanted device off your car is theft—even if you know who it belongs to."

Needed: Straight Talk on the Jones Act and LNG: https://www.cato.org/blog/straight-talk-jones-act-lng Let’s review what happened here: Congressman Gibbs, perhaps mindful of New England’s need to import Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) last year—and Puerto Rico’s complete dependence on foreign LNG—asked how U.S. LNG can be transported to these places. Smith responded with talk of excessive shipbuilding, LNG bunkering barges, and a lack of export capacity. It was an astonishing display of misdirection. Beyond the bizarre notion that market “protection” (i.e. reduced competition) leads to oversupply—surely news to economics professors everywhere—Smith’s citing of barges as evidence of the Jones Act fleet's ability to transport LNG is preposterous. There are a total of two such Jones Act-compliant vessels, the Clean Jacksonville and the recently-launched Q-LNG-4000. Both are primarily used for the refueling of other vessels. What they are not used for, nor even capable of, is transporting bulk quantities of LNG for use in large-scale electricity generation. Neither vessel, in other words, will allow either New England or Puerto Rico to replace foreign imports with U.S. LNG. The Clean Jacksonville, for example, has an LNG capacity of 2,200 m3 while the Q-LNG-4000’s capacity is—as its name implies—4,000 m3. In comparison, the Gaselys, an LNG carrier that delivered Russian gas to New England in 2018, has a carrying capacity of 154,500m³. LNG barges and LNG carriers both transport LNG in the same sense that bicycles and buses both transport people. But one is not a substitute for the other. The claim, meanwhile, that there is a lack of LNG export capacity to meet domestic needs doesn’t pass the smell test. Consider the following: The United States is now the world’s third-largest exporter of LNG. This year alone new liquefication units to export LNG have come online at Sabine Pass, Corpus Christi, Hackberry, Elba Island, and Freeport. The International Gas Union’s 2019 World LNG Report shows 29 of 37 LNG-importing countries meeting at least some of their needs with U.S. LNG (and one of the importers listed that didn’t purchase U.S. LNG, Puerto Rico, is subject to the Jones Act). The idea that the United States has sufficient LNG to export it all over the world, yet none available for domestic maritime transport, seems suspect. An August 2018 McKinsey & Co. analysis noted that foreign LNG purchased to meet New England’s needs the previous winter was “$1.6/mmbtu above the cost of loaded spot LNG” at the LNG export facility at Sabine Pass, Louisiana. “The core restriction preventing traders from capitalizing on this arbitrage” according to McKinsey, was not a lack of export capacity, but rather the Jones Act. A July 2019 Wall Street Journal article about the U.S. natural gas boom noted that “These days, it’s a hassle getting gas from drilling fields like the Marcellus and Utica shales in Appalachia, and the Permian Basin in West Texas, to customers in northern cities,” citing a lack of domestic LNG tankers and a “99-year-old law [that] prevents foreign tankers from shipping gas within the U.S.” A July 2019 report from S&P Global Platts states that “Platts Analytics estimates that as much as 60%-80% of US LNG was either swapped or sold on spot/short-term tender in 2018.” The existence of such a vibrant spot market speaks to the availability of U.S. LNG for those willing to meet the market price. Smith’s unwillingness to paint an accurate picture of the situation is understandable. Admitting that the Jones Act and the vessels that serve under its restrictions are incapable of meeting the U.S. economy’s needs would be a bitter pill to swallow. Indeed, it would call the law’s entire logic into question. So here’s the straight talk that Smith is unwilling to provide: the “fix” for allowing Americans to burn domestically-produced LNG is repeal or significant reform of the Jones Act. As long as the Jones Act exists in its current form, the ships needed to transport U.S. LNG to domestic customers will not. The math simply doesn't add up. No LNG carrier meeting the Jones Act's restrictions, particularly its costly U.S.-build requirement, will be competitive in the international transport market. And with purely domestic business insufficient to keep such a ship employed on a full-time basis, there is no economic case for its construction. It's good to see members of Congress asking questions about the inability of Americans to consume U.S. LNG. But as long as the Jones Act lobby is tasked with responding, needed facts will remain elusive.

Another Looming Threat to E-Cigarettes: https://reason.com/2019/11/20/another-looming-threat-to-e-cigarettes/ More crony capitalism. Interesting that all this vaping scrutiny has occurred with a year of Altria/Phillip-Morris acquiring Juul, by far the largest of the vaping manufacturers. Phillip-Morris has a very well funded and powerful lobbying arm, easily enough to sway the FDA and other state regulators into action. And they have the deep pockets to easily fund any kind of FDA regulation.

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2019/11/19/iu-football-gets-major-interest-music-city-bowl/4243001002/

Bingo. It's crony capitalism, pure and simple. If we the people drastically cut and reduce the overall power of government back to it's Constitutional roots then cronyism, rampant special interest lobbying, corruption, etc. we will also be drastically reduced.

Pledge of Allegiance recitation banned by Michigan university student government: https://www.foxnews.com/media/pledge-banned-student-government-michigan-university-campus Why is the Pledge of Allegiance SOP at many meeting, gatherings, etc. in the first place?

Could be. Danville has become just yet another bedroom community for the Indianapolis metropolitan urban sprawl area.

Yeah, there is one of those in Lafayette, El Meson I believe is the name. The Long John Silver's that closed in Frankfort a few years ago wasn't torn down. It became a gyro place for a little while then that closed (rumor was it was a front for drug trafficking). Now the building is a Japanese steakhouse.

Yes. They used to have one but it closed about 15 years ago. The building was torn down and replaced with an auto parts store.

Hardly. Frankfort doesn't have one.

I believe the car was removed due it being crashed into by another car and severely damaged back in June: https://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/mayberry-cafe-car-struck-damaged-by-motorist-who-fell-asleep-at-wheel

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/marco-rubio-elizabeth-warren-capitalism-common-good-argument/ Fantastic, spot-on commentary by Mr. Williamson. This attack on Capitalism by politicians in Washington is immoral, and will be the ruin of the country should it succeed.

I prefer the Hardees on E. Main St.

Oct. 17, 2008. A day that will live in infamy. Never forget.

I support a U.S. Military as defined by the U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8. I don't support a U.S. military that IMHO has strayed way, way beyond the bounds imposed by that great document. Do you?

https://reason.com/2019/11/18/an-off-duty-indiana-police-officer-was-fired-after-needlessly-harassing-black-shoppers/ It is refreshing to see the chief in this matter acting quickly and forcefully by firing Mr. Jones. Good riddance to him I say.

Hire Mr. Kapernick as a capable backup QB.......................

'We Vape, We Vote' Crowd Got Through to Donald Trump, Advisors Say: https://reason.com/2019/11/18/we-vape-we-vote-crowd-got-through-to-donald-trump-advisors-say/ Good! The New York Times is framing this as Trump caving to "lobbyists" at the expense of children, because its editors have never encountered a destructive moral panic they didn't want to exacerbate. But this is very good news for all the adults who enjoy nicotine vaping products in flavors other than tobacco, the countless former cigarette smokers who used these products to quit, and, yes, even The Children too. For those who do still find ways to inhale something they shouldn't—and of course some will, as some teenagers always do—it's profoundly less dangerous for them to be sneaking a mango Juul pod or some other known-source and ostensibly accountable brand and not whatever crazy crap a black-market, random-origin nicotine vaping products may contain. The vaping-linked illnesses everyone's been panicking are a result of synthetic vitamin E filler (and maybe other substances) that people were inhaling from mostly black-market THC vape pens. So dialing back plans to drive more nicotine vapers to the black market is not only a good political move; it's the most prudent way to protect public health.

Where did I ever say guarding poppy field is all the U.S. military does, TD? Do you believe guarding such fields is a legitimate use of the U.S. military? Why or why not? Interesting that you only believe the words and insights of the "sons and daughters of family and friends that currently serve" and automatically dismiss the words and insights of other servicemen and veterans. And you chastise me for only writing/stating what you "wish to align with". Isn't there a world for that? Oh yeah, it's called hypocrite............ You said it yourself TD, the U.S. military is a large organisation. Yet you seem to believe that "sons and daughters of family and friends that currently serve" represent that entirety of the U.S. military, therefore any other conflicting viewpoint must be a lie and have zero credibility. What an incredible, myopic view. And I know I have won the argument when you descend into insult after insult. Just like an adolescent. Please tell us all about the "warm computer room" you sit in to hurl invective and insults at others. BTW, I spend this past weekend outdoors, sleeping on the ground under a tarp in below freezing conditions. Why? Because I enjoy being outdoors and the challenge such conditions present. Did you even leave your warm computer room, TD?

Democrats Are Conjuring Up New 'Rights': https://reason.com/2019/11/17/democrats-are-conjuring-up-new-rights/

Frankly I don't understand how a principled individual can join the U.S. military, be shipped out to the Middle East to basically guard oil and poppy fields and the behest of the M-I-C, and not become completely disillusioned. Rah-rah patriotism, "call of your country" rhetoric can only take you so far, just ask our Vietnam war veterans. Then why don't you contact that 'idiot', who surely seems to have more boots-on-the-ground military experience than you do, and tell him his comments hurt your widdle feelings? Who exactly is "we", TD? Sounds to me like it is just you once again living vicariously though your children.

https://local12.com/news/local/bengals-fan-enters-second-month-living-on-roof-after-pledging-to-stay-until-a-win-cincinnati When I first saw the headline I thought this was some kind of real sacrifice by a devout fan, until I read that his "tent" has a 50-inch TV and snacks.