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2018-05-26 Closet Racists

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on May 26th, 2018 by - No Comments

from FB group Orange Talk

The book I’ve been reading said that those who hate Obama are racists who are afraid of getting pummeled by “liberals” or whatever names they may use for those who won’t put up with racism. So instead they use some other reason to belittle Obama, like calling him a Muslim or whatever. I just can’t understand why so many of these closet racists can’t move on to pick on the next president. They are all equally to blame for the problems in government. Gallup said Boss Tweet is below 40% approval, but there are those here that do nothing but cheer for him, and belittle Obama. Seems to me they’re just out of touch with the rest of the country.

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2018-05-25 Racist or Racially prejudiced

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on May 25th, 2018 by - No Comments

from FB group Orange Talk

Shelly Holder
Okay, take your “normal to be racist” sentence. If you look at something that is common or normal to a group of people and give it a pejorative name, such as racist, then you’ve become a condemner of that group, and you’re not any better than the group you’ve condemned. Racist is this term that has taken the place of another term that was previously used, racial prejudice. Everyone shows some prejudice, in their race, religion, groups they associate with, who their friends are, who they choose as a spouse, etc. If the person develops their prejudice into hatred and tries to spread their hatred to others, then the issue of being a word with “ist” or “ism” at the end comes up. The word could be racist or extremist or socialist or communist or populist or fascist or any of many similar words. Now what? There are groups that are hated by most people such as “skinheads” who catch a lot of flak from most people but due to freedom of speech have the right to speak out about what they believe. I can see calling them racists. But those of us who don’t belong to an institution and happen to believe that all people of an ethnic group are to be avoided because they have had a bad experience with on or a few are not racists. They are not trying to convince others to believe in racism. If anything, they are just fearful of a certain ethnic group.

So there’s a clear difference between racial prejudice and racism.

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2018-05-15 One Vote Should Be One Vote Everywhere

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on May 15th, 2018 by - No Comments

From FB group Orange Talk

The fact is that I know the final count of the popular vote was 2.8 million in HRC’s favor, so this meme is *lying*. The rest of the statistics about counties are not about votes at all. A county doesn’t vote!

There was a meme showing a US map, and how red it was after the election. This whole “fact” warped out of proportion by land area is what’s absurd. It’s not about land, it’s about votes! Or are you just blind to facts?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hillary-clintons-popular-vote-win-came-entirely-from-california/

Most importantly, is that if it wasn’t for the archaic electoral system, Boss Tweet wouldn’t be president. I have nothing against him being president, but it wasn’t fair to the *majority* of people who did *not* vote for him.

As for this meme’s assertion that “it would be ludicrous to suggest that votes in a small area should dictate the outcome of a national election”, that is a *totally absurd* statement. When Dubya won the election, he did exactly that, by a few thousand votes in Florida! And he also lost the popular vote!

But the electoral system will not matter any more in the future, maybe not in my lifetime or yours, but someday it will happen.

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Matt Grant
That isn’t what I read. That’s my point! It doesn’t matter if a number of people live in a large or small area. And it doesn’t matter if the red/blue map looks bloody red! A vote is a vote, dammit, and my vote should count just as much, but no more than any other vote! And this meme completely missed that point!

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Here is more information about the Bush v. Gore election outcome.

CSM, asserting that the electoral college was supposed to protect us against unqualified candidates like Trump, said,
“Some groups argue that the Electoral College exists as a check on the democratic process to prevent an unqualified candidate from making it into the White House, which is why groups recently lobbied individual electors in hopes of dissuading them from voting for Trump, as the Monitor reported:

The argument behind the lobbying is that Trump is the kind of candidate the Founding Fathers worried about. His character is suspect, according to his critics, as shown by his bizarre tweets, rambling speeches, and constant disregard of facts. Russian hacking might have swayed the election, they add, and Trump’s foreign business entanglements seem worrisome.”

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2016/1222/Clinton-wins-US-popular-vote-by-widest-margin-of-any-losing-presidential-candidate

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore

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How would *you* feel if the government told you that your vote doesn’t count as much because you live in a densely populated area?

You’d be angry, too!

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2018-05-13 My First Transistor Radio

AM Band Electronic Kits Radio, Television entertainment Receiver
on May 13th, 2018 by - No Comments

From FB group Vintage Transistor Radios

OMG, that was so long ago, I could never sort out which one. See, I was born with a soldering iron in my hand, and I fixed so many radios, I could never remember which one was one that I had. Most of the electronics I was given were vacuum tube sets, including several TVs. Cathedral radios and some old floor model radios, too. Many cheap AA5 sets, too. Most of them were beyond repair, their owners may have decided to buy a new one instead. So I scrapped most of them for parts. If I had a transistor radio, it was a portable that had been dropped and broken beyond repair. And all of those were cheap ones from Asia. However I built several kits for others, mostly Heathkits, but an occasional EICO.

I had never seen a Zenith TO until the ’70s, when I bought a carcass at a yard sale for a few dollars. I didn’t even know that Zenith made anything cheaper until I joined this group – that’s why I’ve turned into a Royal 500 and below fan. I think transistor radios played a minor part in my life compared to TV. Newton Minow was right!

DING!
Update! A light just went on in my head. I now remember my first Transistor Radio. It was a Superex kit. It had a fixed capacitor and a slug tuned coil with a threaded shaft and a knob. It was a crystal set with two transistors as an audio amp and a piezo earplug. It was useless during the daytime because there was a high power AM station a few miles away in the middle of the band that wiped out the other stations. At dusk it shut down, so I could hear a few other stations, but it still had poor reception.

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2018-05-12 No One Who Can Read . . .

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on May 12th, 2018 by - No Comments

Comment to Katie’s post

No person who can read has enough time in their life to read all they want to read – to learn about things, to go on adventures to places far away and long ago, to explore the future.

I’m grateful for the Lord of The Rings movies, but I found so much more in the books. 👍

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2018-05-11 Tesla Battery Bank Saves Aussies 90%

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on May 11th, 2018 by - No Comments

From article in

https://electrek.co/2018/05/11/tesla-giant-battery-australia-reduced-grid-service-cost/amp/

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2018-05-10 Malicious Chrome Extensions Again

computers Consumer Information
on May 10th, 2018 by - No Comments

Ars Technica article

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/malicious-chrome-extensions-infect-more-than-100000-users-again/

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2018-05-06 Telephone Hybrid Coil Schematics

Telecom Telephone Transformers
on May 6th, 2018 by - No Comments

This is a link to telecomm information on Tomi Engdahl’s epanorama.net.

http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/teleinterface.html#hybrid

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2018-05-03 Taxation Realities

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on May 3rd, 2018 by - No Comments

From FB group Orange Talk

Robert Baca
Nope. I’m not in favor of taxes. And I’m not in favor of illegals either. But you yourself talk about the Barrio, and how the life wasn’t good. I remember when Chapman and Hewes, which was then called Alameda, was unimproved with no curbs, roads just ended and dirt and weeds. The slatboard stores were there on the corner, and there were no buildings along east Chapman other than the electric substation. There was the strawberry farm off Hewes, owned by a Japanese family. Stoller owned the farm off of Chapman and Crawford Cyn, which used to be Newport Ave. Tom Thumb Hill used to be where the Villeurbanne condos are, as you go up the El Modeno grade to get to Irvine Park. Back then there was no El Modeno H.S., the students had to go all the way downtown to Orange HS.

The reason why I bring all this up is because all those curbs, streets and other infrastructure took money to build. And it still takes money to keep it maintained, to keep the cops and firemen who are needed. It takes money to keep the schools running. And it cost a lot of money to build and run Santiago Canyon College, over the hills next to Irvine Park. I know, because I worked there and at Santa Ana College and the other campuses for more than 3 decades.

Robert, you rant about taxes being out of control. I spent more than a year in Germany when I was in the army. I saw how much they and other Europeans are taxed, for ‘petrol’, for food (no California state taxes), for their TVs and radios (yes, every year!), and for the size of the engines in their cars — that’s why they drive Volkswagens. I think you’re very unappreciative of how easy you have it compared to other countries and other states. I think you should do some serious reading to understand more about civics, government and taxation. I’m down from my soapbox. 😠

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2018-05-01 “Mess We’re In” Caused By Mindset, Not Illegals

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on May 2nd, 2018 by - No Comments

From FB group Orange Talk

Melanie Rhoads
You said “they are here…” By “they” I assume you mean Illegal aliens. By here I assume this country. If so, there are over 11 million illegals in the country, and over a million of them in California alone. Your “100’s of thousands” is too low by ten or a hundred times.

I’m not part of your lamely attempting to categorize the problem and blame it on a political faction. This is not the “problem that’s gotten into the mess we’re in” that you claim. The problem is *your* mindset. This same mindset is what kept out “orientals” more than a hundred years ago. Before that this mindset got us into a civil war over slavery. Something was done about this mindset in the ’60s, it was called the Civil Rights Act. There are still those that try to blame the “problems” on one race or ethnicity or religion or race or nationality.

The reality is that there are 11 million people who are here and are doing better than they were before. They’re here and there are too many to round up and send back as so many of you want to do. You and others like you have this mindset that totally lacks any pragmatic thought about the reality. The reality is that this nation is made up of diverse people, they have been and they always will be. And they will see through the futility of trying to change something that’s already happened, and can’t be undone. The only thing that will stop illegal immigration is if the living standards of foreign countries come up to the US, or the US sinks to the level of those foreign countries. Personally, I think that the latter might happen before the former, but I’m hoping it doesn’t. And your invalid mindset is not doing anything to help.

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