Thinking about the higher prices our car manufacturers are getting because of the shortage of Chinese made "chips" makes me wonder if American car companies are really working toward the obvious solution... American-made chips. When those Chinese "chips" become available, pent-up buyer desire will make demand even higher and prices will rise again, and again, and again.

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Unbelievable story: "Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been ordered by prosecutors to return a $1,400 COVID relief payment he received last summer along with other money sent to him, according to a court filing Wednesday. * Tsarnaev has $3,885.06 in his inmate trust account, with the money received from the government, the Office of Federal Defenders of New York and from private citizens. * The money should instead be used as restitution to his victims, the filing said." -- Good grief! My first thoughts at why this @-hole is still breathing, but why is he... any prisoner for that matter... receiving tax dollars for his personal use! Hey, that money needs to be returned to THE TAXPAYERS... not used to repay his sentience requirements!

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Online headline/story: "Rep. Eric Sw@lwell the latest blue-state Democrat spotted maskless in mandate-free Florida * The photos, published exclusively by the Daily Mail, show a maskless Swalwell tending to his infant son as he spoke with a female friend in the lobby of the luxurious Loews Miami Beach Hotel." -- "spoke with a female friend"? Wonder if she was from California... or CHINA? Wonder if his wife knew before the story was published?

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Remember this name... newly elected District Attorney Alvin Bragg of Manhattan in NYC... When he ran for the office, Bragg also promised not to charge shoplifters for stealing stuff worth less than $250. * Bragg's office will largely no longer prosecute some trespass offenses, the charge of resisting arrest, fare beating and sex work. Besides armed robbery, he is also reducing charges for stealing from stores or from home storage areas, and drug dealing. * Bragg says he is seeking "goals of safety and fairness," by focusing on "accountability, not sentence length" and claims that his reforms "will make us safer." * He also wants a defendant's race to be considered. * And even if you murder someone, Bragg says his office will limit sentences to 20 years" -- Good grief! There's already talk about impeaching him, but it looks like Bragg may have opened the door for a faster exit.. Theoretically, a person of color, wearing a badge, could kill Bragg and know the maximum sentence would be 20 years (minus time-off for good behavior). Hmmm I reckon there may be a "contest" forming inside the NYPD to see who draws the lucky straw...

Is there any doubt as to why Democrats want prisoners to vote?

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Online headline: "Ghislaine Maxwell lawyers seek new trial after juror discloses he was sex abuse victim" -- First question: Was "the question asked" during the jural qualifying sessions? Second question: If not, does the DA still have a job? Third question: If it was, has the juror been arrested, and charged with perjury and ordered to reimburse the state for court costs and expenses?

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Online headline: "Chicago Mayor Lightfoot says businesses are 'grateful' for her vaccine mandate" -- "businesses are grateful"? In her dreams! The ones who are really grateful are the street thugs and looters who can wear masks committing crimes without drawing attention to themselves are the walk, run, or drive on Shicago streets..

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From the "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" department - Online headline: "China and Russia joined forces to establish a moon base to counter the $100 billion US space program" -- And after North Korea 'tested" a missile this week, sounds like Kim Jong Oooops wants to join, too...

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From the "I hope this is a rude awakening for US car manufacturers" department - Online headline/story: "Toyota dethrones GM as U.S. sales leader after nearly a century on top * Toyota sold 2.332 million vehicles in the United States in 2021, compared with 2.218 million for General Motors, the automakers said on Tuesday." -- Hmmm... Maybe Toyota doesn't rely on China for "chips"?

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Can you believe that an op-ed stated the 2021 was not all bad year for Biden and there were no scandals? What, among others, wasn't bad about border policies, Covid-19 policies, Afghanistan policies, or financial policies? And don't get me started on scandals involving his son and daughter... specifically his computer and paintings, and her "diary".

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You cannot treat friends and foes or political people/parties differently... Hmmm ... So says AG Merrick Garland. Wish he'd live up to what he says he believes... In fact, he should focus first on the party.. his friends in power... and the presidential family scandals before anything else. The scandals of Hunter Biden's laptop, his "paintings", and his China connection , and Ashley Biden's diary content should be as vigorous as the pursuit of Trump and his children's issues.

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Do you remember Bobby Jindal? A former Governor of Louisiana, Jindal was selected to give the "Republican Response" after a President Obama State of the Union speech. Jindal was a rising star in the Republican Party, and his speech was highly anticipated and expected to "blow Obama out of the water". Soon after Obama finished, the cameras focused on Jindal..but when the cameras rolled, Jindal looked like a deer frozen in the headlights of a semi truck, and was literally run over, and little has been heard of or from him since. US Attorney General Merrick Garland reminded me of Jindal as he locked his eyes onto the Teleprompter and read whatever scrolled up the screen. What a horrible attempt at communicating to America.

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Online story: "When President Biden passed the American Rescue Plan in March 2021, Chicago received $1.8 billion in federal COVID-19 relief for the city's schools. * Now, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is demanding to know exactly how that money is being spent after it voted to close schools Tuesday evening" -- Interesting... $1.8 Billion is a lot a=of money. That's over $2,800.00 per student. Now, the Muscogee County School District receive "just" $96,300,000.00.. but when you ratio it out, the MCSD received over $3,100.00 each for 31,000 students. Will Columbus taxpayers get an audited use report for these funds?

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From the "it's basically an almost incestuous situation" department - Online story: "President Biden may continue to keep it all in the family with his next hire – yet another family member of a powerful Democrat. * The administration is reportedly eying Sarah Bloom Raskin, a former Fed governor and former Treasury Department official, to become the central bank’s vice chairwoman of supervision – the government’s most influential overseer of the American banking system. * Sarah Bloom Raskin is married to Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland. Her appointment to the Federal Reserve would be only the latest in a long and continuing line of Democrat familial hires. * White House press secretary Jen Psaki, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, senior adviser Anita Dunn, White House counselor Steve Richetti, White House deputy chief of staff Bruce Reed and Presidential Personnel Office (PPO) Director Cathy Russell each have at least one direct family member working for the Biden administration." -- Hmmm... remember how Candidate JoKKKe Biden "promised" that no one in "his family" would work in his administration? Well,, being nepotistic about hiring "family" members of staff or influential employees is no different...

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Online story: "A Democratic California lawmaker introduced a bill that would reverse the state's Proposition 47, which has been blamed for the rampant shoplifting and smash-and-grab crimes plaguing the state. * "Enough is enough, we need to fight back against the criminals who are stealing from our communities," Democratic Assemblyman Rudy Salas said in a statement about the bill’s introduction Tuesday. * California's Proposition 47 passed in 2014 and reduced shoplifting charges regarding the theft of $950 or less from felonies to misdemeanors. The new bill would lower the amount a suspect can steal before facing a felony to $400, which was the original threshold before Prop 47 passed." -- Wow! It seems some sanity may be returning to california... but it'll probably be futile as so many taxpaying voters who agree with him have already left the state.

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From the "Is Northam related to Bo Nix?" department - Online headline: "Ralph Northam blames Virginia drivers for getting stranded on I-95: 'People need to pay attention'" -- I hope the voters in Virginia remember Northam's "finger of blame" the next time he puts his name back on a ballot!

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From the "Jon Lovitz, "Yeah, Right... That's the ticket!" department - WRBL-TV3 story: "Investigators found no evidence that the California man who was found passed out in a car with hundreds of recall election ballots planned to participate in election fraud, police said Tuesday. * The man, 34-year-old Eduardo Mena, of Hawthorne, was arrested on Aug. 16, 2021 after he was spotted in a vehicle parked in the lot of a 7-Eleven convenience store. * Inside the car, police found about 300 ballots, a loaded firearm, methamphetamine, thousands of pieces of mail, multiple California drivers licenses and credit cards in other people’s names, authorities said." -- Think I'll print out a copy of this and show it  EVERY TIME Stacey Abrams, Warnock, Ossoff, or PeLOUSY... well.. any DEMOCRAT says we don't need photo IDs and strong absentee ballot controls!

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Online headline: "Chicago mayor threatens to withhold pay after teachers union votes against in-person classes" -- "Threatens to withhold pay"? That should be a GIVEN!

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You know.. I'm glad... really glad.. that Shicago Mayor Lighthead is concerned about the emotional and social concerns about students not being able to attend classes at schools, but when is she going to be concerned about the emotional and social concerns that the over 800 homicides in 2021 caused?

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Online headline: "Sony debuts electric cars with killer audio and lip-reading tech" -- "lip-reading tech"? Whoa! Does this mean my car can read the lips of an @hole driver who just cut me off and alert my automatic breaks to stop and confront him/her?

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From the "putting the horse before the cart" department - Online headline: "California: Democratic lawmakers want bill that makes it easier to sue gun-makers" -- Hmmm.. instead... how about a bill that helps make it easier to send murderers to jail for life or to death row instead?