albacore
albacore's JournalCan I get some car advice??
I'm thinking of getting a 2024 Chevy Equinox EV. Range 300 miles. About $32K .. with a $7500 Fed tax credit and a $2K rebate from my state. No state sales tax.
I like the whole EV concept.
We don't drive long distances much any more...maybe a few trips every year, so that's not a problem.
My other alternative is a Plug-in Prius hybrid. We've had two Prius since 2004, and we love them. The
good part is that it has about 30 miles range on electric, and then the gas engine cuts in. I'd get the advantages of both EV and hybrid.
The down side is that the Prius gets no Fed tax credit and a lower state rebate.
I also wonder about adding the gas-engine complications.... water, oil, drivetrain...
Any advice out there in DU-land?
This is probably "Lounge" material, but I think this says a lot about Murikans.
I changed out the old toilet in the master bath. I ordered one from a Big Box store. Nice unit. One of their best sellers.
I noticed.. there on the box...that it says it can flush 7 billiard balls in one flush!!!! It's also got "Stealth Technology".
My god.... there must be a LOT of people not getting enough fiber in this country for that to be a selling point on a toilet.
trump has said he hates the modern toilets that you have to flush several times. I know he's leading the Fascist Renewal, but is he also leading some kind of Shitter Revolution??
I'm depressed as hell..
I read the back-and-forth about Israel/Palestine - here and everywhere - and I get more and more depressed. Not as depressed as the people in that area, of course, but...
I feel helpless. How can I support any group that commits atrocities? How can I hate any group that has suffered so many innocent casualties? Hate.... that's what it's all about, right?
Notice that I'm not naming names.
How can I root for victory in a conflict with no end in sight...ever... until either side wipes out the other?
There's lots of DUers arguing about polls that show Biden even with trump or actually behind him...
...and painting some pretty gloomy pictures about what happens if trump wins.
I don't think that will happen, after all, there's a lot of water to flow under the bridge in the next year, and this year is going to be hell for trump.
Instead, I think we'd better start thinking about what happens after trump loses. His cult will never accept that he lost.. no matter the margin. They will not take that loss like normal people.
What happens then? We can all lose this country whether trump wins or loses.
Hawkeye (M.A.S.H.) told it like it is... and not just in the Middle-East, either.
Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.
Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye?
Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?
Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.
Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them — little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
What if the invasion is a trap?
Apparently the Hamas attack was in the works for years.
What happens if Hamas has been anticipating Israel's next move for years, too?
What happens if Hamas has laid minefields/tanktraps/pre-registered artillery coordinates, etc?
Or maybe dirty bombs.
Ukraine has shown that a big, powerful army is vulnerable to unconventional weapons in the hands of a smaller force.
Pew Research finds that US adults more likely to favor Republican ...
...platforms than Democratic platforms on:
Economics... 40%
Criminal Justice....33%
Foreign Policy....12%
(From Harper's Index October 2023)
Republicans will kill this country, with the help of a LOT of deluded, misinformed citizens.
What happens if trump takes an Alford plea? Agnew did....
(NOT a lawyer... not even!)
"In criminal law, an Alford plea is a type of guilty plea in which the defendant does not admit to committing the crime but agrees that the prosecution has enough evidence to obtain a conviction. This type of plea allows the defendant to plead guilty but maintain their innocence in the eyes of the law."
He could then say all the usual bullshit about "radical courts" and talk about being railroaded because the deck is stacked against him, without having all the shit come out in court.
I want that fucker incarcerated, but his lawyers/advisors/family might convince him it's the only way out. Otherwise, he'll be in court for the rest of his life.
Parking space.... that's worth killing somebody! In Gunistan, anyway...
"Maryland prosecutors have filed hate crime charges against a man accused of killing three people and wounding three more in a dispute over parking.
The three people shot to death were Latino; the man accused of shooting them is white. Their families have lived on the same street for years and have had a history of disputes, including allegations of racial slurs against one of the victims.
Charles Robert Smith, 43, had been charged with second-degree murder. Now he faces first-degree murder and hate-crime charges in the killings of Mario Mireles, his father Nicholas Mireles, and Christian Segovia, under an indictment returned by an Anne Arundel County grand jury on Friday."
"Smith pulled out a gun and Mireles tried to grab it before Smith shot Mireles and Segovia. Smith “then stood over Mario Mireles and shot him several more times,” the document says. Smith then went into his house, got a rifle and began firing through a window at people who had come trying to help the mortally wounded men. Smith fatally shot Nicolas Mireles, and wounded Rosalina Segovia, Paul Johnnson and Enner Canales-Hernandez"
https://apnews.com/article/maryland-hate-crime-parking-spot-shooting-f874a7fdc42e906a90bb6c2ec29ca7f4
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