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Trump made a giant show of this, and called everyone who preceded him stupid for not fixing it. He might be right about everyone else being stupid, but he then added himself to the list of dumbs by trying and failing. That's why this is a story.

They need to fix the piping and move the water so it's not "still" and invariably going to have the issues every other body of water that doesn't move has.

This is not hard to do without drama, but Trump wanted to show everyone he could fix the thing all the other fools couldn't.
Trump goes off topic regularly. So what? He is a NY bragger. Nobody likes it, but cmon, who cares enough to dress in algae and protest a pool🤡
 
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I think he built the Nuggets title winner and then left before they won.

My personal opinion is that he was improved from GarPax but as with lots of middling NBA GMs, you win or lose on luck (like drafting Jokic in Round 2).
Tim Connelly GM/ President of Basketball Operations drafted Jokic in 2014. AK worked there. He might as well of pushed a broom. AK was awful for the Bulls, but he was instrumental in rebuilding cellar dweller Orlando into relevance from the Bulls FO.
 
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Bruce was a nerd that wouldn't color outside the lines. He couldn't give Illinois what it needed.

Illinois just went to the Final Four (with the first coach who didn't have to deal with the stain of Weber), and here's BDW still making excuses for his idiotic and wrong takes from almost 20 years back.

The only ally you have capable of rational thought is TJ.
 

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You do know the party in power is usually the betting favorite to lose the midterms?

Sure, but it's also been awhile for a President to be at 39% approval at this point in his term. Even the Ancient Mariner was at 41.5% ish (rose to about 44% at the midterm).
 

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What a strange idea. I guess you either create wafer or kill a couple of million to alleviate the stress that is occurring in Colorado.



How are you all still talking about this? It's kind of a remarkable debate, I don't have the stamina some of you do.
 

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What a strange idea. I guess you either create wafer or kill a couple of million to alleviate the stress that is occurring in Colorado.



You told me Arizona had a great water deal and didn’t have water issues a couple months ago. Now they are looking at expensive options because the state doesn’t provide enough water on its own. Getting desperate and looking at options because the desert doesn’t provide enough water.

Probably should have locked something up a while ago, scrambling with months to go.
 
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There are indeed pipe issues. How much of that contributes to the current issues is unclear. They wouldn’t be arresting people, if they weren’t trying to damage the reflecting pool.


The pipe issues are only a small part of the problem. The biggest issues are its shallow and stagnant water that gets very warm very quickly and has lots of wildlife “fertilizing” the water. Perfect scenario for a huge algae bloom.
 

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The pipe issues are only a small part of the problem. The biggest issues are its shallow and stagnant water that gets very warm very quickly and has lots of wildlife “fertilizing” the water. Perfect scenario for a huge algae bloom.
Small, but the better the water flows and the better the filtration, it will improve.
 
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He took deferred adjudication on the securities fraud. The stolen pen is well established, he had to return it after confronted with video evidence.

The rest is not criminal, it’s merely corruption or personal scandal.

Just because you obviate decency or morality in politics doesn’t mean I should. You don’t care, I do. Plenty of Cornyn voters also seem to care. That is why Paxton is a terrible candidate who I think is on his way to a loss (unless Trump rebounds nationally). He’s also unworthy of any office, and Rs could have nominated anyone.

I will just note that I happily vote for Ted Cruz, who is absolutely to Paxton’s right politically. I even like Cruz politically more than Cornyn.

I mean, Republicans decided decency didn’t matter when they nominated Trump. I didn’t change. As I keep saying, I took the memos from 2016 about its new politics and burned them all.
You are very naive and don’t understand the rules of the game. Let me help you since you are now a Democrat. A lady in 92’ gave me this gem on Clinton “He is my president, not my priest”.

I agree with you that an angelic candidate is ideal. However, you will someday learn in life that you can’t get everything you want. You do want Tarilco who stands for absolutely nothing that you believe. Congrats!
 
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How are you all still talking about this? It's kind of a remarkable debate, I don't have the stamina some of you do.
Water has always been a big topic in Arizona. With massive cuts to rights upcoming, it is quite relevant. Texas has been very wet during my time here
 
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You told me Arizona had a great water deal and didn’t have water issues a couple months ago. Now they are looking at expensive options because the state doesn’t provide enough water on its own. Getting desperate and looking at options because the desert doesn’t provide enough water.

Probably should have locked something up a while ago, scrambling with months to go.
Poor Democrat governance due to corrupt elections is your answer. Perhaps I should sit out the next election?
 

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An interesting transcript on Fauci. I agree with Rill, he should be held accountable, but another Biden pardon for some odd reason.

All right, let's go to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who many conservative Americans loathe. So you remember that Fauci was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 84 to 2022, chief medical advisor to the president- that would be Trump- from 21 to 22. Fauci was a big COVID started from animals, not from the Wuhan lab. And later we learned he took this point of view because his institution invested a lot of money with the Chinese in the Wuhan Lab. Well, now, Senator Rand Paul in Kentucky is investigating Anthony Fauci. He's going to be called in on Monday, a non-voluntary subpoena, and here with the inside story is the creator of Just the News and editor-in-chief, John Solomon. So why should we care about Fauci? You like him, or you don't. Is it more than that?

"There is. I think at this moment, there is a truth-telling consequence to what Rand Paul is going to do. Rand Paul has systemically, over the last four years, shown that Anthony Fauci did not tell Congress the truth. He got a little bit of help as Tulsi Gabbard, the departing director of national intelligence, who is leaving her job. She put out some extraordinary documents that show three things. One, that Anthony Fauci and the entire intelligence community knew that as soon as the COVID outbreak had occurred, that there had been a lab accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That was where the NIH was doing its own coronavirus research. It was funding research there. And that some of the scientists at Wuhan had gotten sick inside the lab. That is prima facie evidence that this wasn't a natural creation disease, but actually something that emanated from dangerous research at a lab that Dr. Anthony Fauci was funding the research for. Then, we know the CIA, thanks to Tulsi Gabbard, found a video, and one of Dr. Fauci's collaborators, one of the guys he was funding, was caught on video saying, yeah, we're actually enhancing the virus to make it more deadly to humans, which is exactly what Anthony Fauci said his group was not doing at Wuhan Institute. And then third, we got to see that the inspector general of the intelligence committee got a whistleblower complaint. Someone in the intelligence committee who had access to the entire visibility of Wuhan came forward and said Anthony Fauci's lying to Congress. He should get prosecuted. And he goes through the normal whistleblower channels. And then the Biden administration catches it and kills it instead of allowing it to go to the Inspector General, from the Intelligence Committee Inspector General to the Chief Watchdog at Anthony Fauci's agency. They send it to a political appointee, and they kill it. They send to Secretary Becerra."

Is this like Comey, just perjury?



"It's just like, you know, in this case, what they did with Dr. Fauci is exactly what Comey did when he said, I'm going to just absolve Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing. They just wanted to let Anthony Fauci off the hook. Now the question that these new documents raise was, if Anthony Fauci had this much contact with the CIA, he's a scientist, he is a doctor. What's he doing at the CIA all the time? I think there are some broader questions that Rand Paul wants to get to. So, we know that in the end days of Joe Biden, Anthony Fauci got a pardon. He can't be prosecuted for anything before January 20th, 2025. But, if Rand Paul puts him on the stand next week, as he's going to compel him to do, and Anthony Fauci does not tell the truth this time, in the body of evidence that's there, he could be instantly prosecuted by the Trump Justice Department. If he does tell the truth, he's gonna have to admit he lied to us previously."



All right, so he's got a pardon by Biden already in his pocket, but then Paul's going to open up all these new doors. The money that was going into Wuhan from Fauci's organization for research purposes, was that taxpayer money? Was that U.S. Money?

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Yes, you and I paid for that research. We were paying to take a virus that wasn't naturally infectious to humans and make it deadly infectious to humans. There are a lot of reasons why that's concerning. One is that Barack Obama banned that research by executive order in 2015, so it would have been unlawful to do so. But even at a bigger level, when you take a virus that isn't lethal to humans and you make it lethal to humans, you potentially are in violation of the Bio Weapons Treaty that the United States signed with dozens of countries across the world. And so there's good reason for someone like Dr. Fauci, if he was involved in knowing this, to not want to admit to those two things."



I wonder why he'd go up against a Barack Obama executive order. Why would he put himself in that kind of jeopardy?



"We don't know the answer yet. And you know, I have a question. Again, I've done a lot of work on Anthony Fauci's career. Back in 2005, when I was at the Associated Press, I did a series of investigative stories that got him in a lot of trouble because he was testing AIDS drugs on vulnerable foster children who didn't have parents and they didn't have AIDS. They were testing the drugs as a control group on kids who didn't have any parents to watch out for them. So I've been tough on him. It was a big story back then. But I have some concerns when I look at this docket that maybe there's an intelligence community element to this that we haven't gotten to the bottom of. Were they maybe using Fauci to spy on China bioweapon labs and see what was going on? We'll see if that comes out with Rand Paul and Dr. Fauci next week. Rand Paul did something really interesting, Bill, last week. He put out this really lengthy timetable, and there's just so many contacts between Anthony Fauci, a doctor in the CIA, that you don't normally see in the intelligence community It does raise the spectre of whether he was working on some sort of intelligence project with the CIA or someone else. That may not be the case, but I think it's something worth exploring."

Well, that's what Gabbard thinks, after she was booted.



"Yeah. Clearly."



Yeah, she thought that there was a linkage between the US Intel and Fauci. So keep this posted, John. You do excellent reporting as always. Okay, so the hearing is coming up, and John Solomon is the best guy in the country, in my opinion, to make this cogent so everybody understands it. We appreciate it, John, thanks for taking the time.
 

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Water has always been a big topic in Arizona. With massive cuts to rights upcoming, it is quite relevant. Texas has been very wet during my time here

Phoenix with 1.09” of rain this year. Record heat this winter, after 2 of the hottest years in history. Not a great place for development.
 

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An interesting transcript on Fauci. I agree with Rill, he should be held accountable, but another Biden pardon for some odd reason.

All right, let's go to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who many conservative Americans loathe. So you remember that Fauci was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 84 to 2022, chief medical advisor to the president- that would be Trump- from 21 to 22. Fauci was a big COVID started from animals, not from the Wuhan lab. And later we learned he took this point of view because his institution invested a lot of money with the Chinese in the Wuhan Lab. Well, now, Senator Rand Paul in Kentucky is investigating Anthony Fauci. He's going to be called in on Monday, a non-voluntary subpoena, and here with the inside story is the creator of Just the News and editor-in-chief, John Solomon. So why should we care about Fauci? You like him, or you don't. Is it more than that?

"There is. I think at this moment, there is a truth-telling consequence to what Rand Paul is going to do. Rand Paul has systemically, over the last four years, shown that Anthony Fauci did not tell Congress the truth. He got a little bit of help as Tulsi Gabbard, the departing director of national intelligence, who is leaving her job. She put out some extraordinary documents that show three things. One, that Anthony Fauci and the entire intelligence community knew that as soon as the COVID outbreak had occurred, that there had been a lab accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That was where the NIH was doing its own coronavirus research. It was funding research there. And that some of the scientists at Wuhan had gotten sick inside the lab. That is prima facie evidence that this wasn't a natural creation disease, but actually something that emanated from dangerous research at a lab that Dr. Anthony Fauci was funding the research for. Then, we know the CIA, thanks to Tulsi Gabbard, found a video, and one of Dr. Fauci's collaborators, one of the guys he was funding, was caught on video saying, yeah, we're actually enhancing the virus to make it more deadly to humans, which is exactly what Anthony Fauci said his group was not doing at Wuhan Institute. And then third, we got to see that the inspector general of the intelligence committee got a whistleblower complaint. Someone in the intelligence committee who had access to the entire visibility of Wuhan came forward and said Anthony Fauci's lying to Congress. He should get prosecuted. And he goes through the normal whistleblower channels. And then the Biden administration catches it and kills it instead of allowing it to go to the Inspector General, from the Intelligence Committee Inspector General to the Chief Watchdog at Anthony Fauci's agency. They send it to a political appointee, and they kill it. They send to Secretary Becerra."

Is this like Comey, just perjury?



"It's just like, you know, in this case, what they did with Dr. Fauci is exactly what Comey did when he said, I'm going to just absolve Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing. They just wanted to let Anthony Fauci off the hook. Now the question that these new documents raise was, if Anthony Fauci had this much contact with the CIA, he's a scientist, he is a doctor. What's he doing at the CIA all the time? I think there are some broader questions that Rand Paul wants to get to. So, we know that in the end days of Joe Biden, Anthony Fauci got a pardon. He can't be prosecuted for anything before January 20th, 2025. But, if Rand Paul puts him on the stand next week, as he's going to compel him to do, and Anthony Fauci does not tell the truth this time, in the body of evidence that's there, he could be instantly prosecuted by the Trump Justice Department. If he does tell the truth, he's gonna have to admit he lied to us previously."



All right, so he's got a pardon by Biden already in his pocket, but then Paul's going to open up all these new doors. The money that was going into Wuhan from Fauci's organization for research purposes, was that taxpayer money? Was that U.S. Money?

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Yes, you and I paid for that research. We were paying to take a virus that wasn't naturally infectious to humans and make it deadly infectious to humans. There are a lot of reasons why that's concerning. One is that Barack Obama banned that research by executive order in 2015, so it would have been unlawful to do so. But even at a bigger level, when you take a virus that isn't lethal to humans and you make it lethal to humans, you potentially are in violation of the Bio Weapons Treaty that the United States signed with dozens of countries across the world. And so there's good reason for someone like Dr. Fauci, if he was involved in knowing this, to not want to admit to those two things."



I wonder why he'd go up against a Barack Obama executive order. Why would he put himself in that kind of jeopardy?



"We don't know the answer yet. And you know, I have a question. Again, I've done a lot of work on Anthony Fauci's career. Back in 2005, when I was at the Associated Press, I did a series of investigative stories that got him in a lot of trouble because he was testing AIDS drugs on vulnerable foster children who didn't have parents and they didn't have AIDS. They were testing the drugs as a control group on kids who didn't have any parents to watch out for them. So I've been tough on him. It was a big story back then. But I have some concerns when I look at this docket that maybe there's an intelligence community element to this that we haven't gotten to the bottom of. Were they maybe using Fauci to spy on China bioweapon labs and see what was going on? We'll see if that comes out with Rand Paul and Dr. Fauci next week. Rand Paul did something really interesting, Bill, last week. He put out this really lengthy timetable, and there's just so many contacts between Anthony Fauci, a doctor in the CIA, that you don't normally see in the intelligence community It does raise the spectre of whether he was working on some sort of intelligence project with the CIA or someone else. That may not be the case, but I think it's something worth exploring."

Well, that's what Gabbard thinks, after she was booted.



"Yeah. Clearly."



Yeah, she thought that there was a linkage between the US Intel and Fauci. So keep this posted, John. You do excellent reporting as always. Okay, so the hearing is coming up, and John Solomon is the best guy in the country, in my opinion, to make this cogent so everybody understands it. We appreciate it, John, thanks for taking the time.
As the virus exploded from Chi-na to Worldwide, there were a few of us here that gave the straight poop to other posters.

Dr. Flip Flop and the scarf lady were not people we relied on for the truth.
 

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As the virus exploded from Chi-na to Worldwide, there were a few of us here that gave the straight poop to other posters.

Dr. Flip Flop and the scarf lady were not people we relied on for the truth.
Flip flop lost me quickly. There was no way this came from natural occurrence. The researchers initially claimed it looked like it had been modified. That cat was out of the bag despite Fauci/Collins throwing taxpayer money around for silence. The masking policy was a joke. Anyone not braindead who paid attention to biology in HS understood how small a virus actually was and a cloth/paper mask wasn’t going to stop squat.
 

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An interesting transcript on Fauci. I agree with Rill, he should be held accountable, but another Biden pardon for some odd reason.

All right, let's go to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who many conservative Americans loathe. So you remember that Fauci was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 84 to 2022, chief medical advisor to the president- that would be Trump- from 21 to 22. Fauci was a big COVID started from animals, not from the Wuhan lab. And later we learned he took this point of view because his institution invested a lot of money with the Chinese in the Wuhan Lab. Well, now, Senator Rand Paul in Kentucky is investigating Anthony Fauci. He's going to be called in on Monday, a non-voluntary subpoena, and here with the inside story is the creator of Just the News and editor-in-chief, John Solomon. So why should we care about Fauci? You like him, or you don't. Is it more than that?

"There is. I think at this moment, there is a truth-telling consequence to what Rand Paul is going to do. Rand Paul has systemically, over the last four years, shown that Anthony Fauci did not tell Congress the truth. He got a little bit of help as Tulsi Gabbard, the departing director of national intelligence, who is leaving her job. She put out some extraordinary documents that show three things. One, that Anthony Fauci and the entire intelligence community knew that as soon as the COVID outbreak had occurred, that there had been a lab accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That was where the NIH was doing its own coronavirus research. It was funding research there. And that some of the scientists at Wuhan had gotten sick inside the lab. That is prima facie evidence that this wasn't a natural creation disease, but actually something that emanated from dangerous research at a lab that Dr. Anthony Fauci was funding the research for. Then, we know the CIA, thanks to Tulsi Gabbard, found a video, and one of Dr. Fauci's collaborators, one of the guys he was funding, was caught on video saying, yeah, we're actually enhancing the virus to make it more deadly to humans, which is exactly what Anthony Fauci said his group was not doing at Wuhan Institute. And then third, we got to see that the inspector general of the intelligence committee got a whistleblower complaint. Someone in the intelligence committee who had access to the entire visibility of Wuhan came forward and said Anthony Fauci's lying to Congress. He should get prosecuted. And he goes through the normal whistleblower channels. And then the Biden administration catches it and kills it instead of allowing it to go to the Inspector General, from the Intelligence Committee Inspector General to the Chief Watchdog at Anthony Fauci's agency. They send it to a political appointee, and they kill it. They send to Secretary Becerra."

Is this like Comey, just perjury?



"It's just like, you know, in this case, what they did with Dr. Fauci is exactly what Comey did when he said, I'm going to just absolve Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing. They just wanted to let Anthony Fauci off the hook. Now the question that these new documents raise was, if Anthony Fauci had this much contact with the CIA, he's a scientist, he is a doctor. What's he doing at the CIA all the time? I think there are some broader questions that Rand Paul wants to get to. So, we know that in the end days of Joe Biden, Anthony Fauci got a pardon. He can't be prosecuted for anything before January 20th, 2025. But, if Rand Paul puts him on the stand next week, as he's going to compel him to do, and Anthony Fauci does not tell the truth this time, in the body of evidence that's there, he could be instantly prosecuted by the Trump Justice Department. If he does tell the truth, he's gonna have to admit he lied to us previously."



All right, so he's got a pardon by Biden already in his pocket, but then Paul's going to open up all these new doors. The money that was going into Wuhan from Fauci's organization for research purposes, was that taxpayer money? Was that U.S. Money?

"
Yes, you and I paid for that research. We were paying to take a virus that wasn't naturally infectious to humans and make it deadly infectious to humans. There are a lot of reasons why that's concerning. One is that Barack Obama banned that research by executive order in 2015, so it would have been unlawful to do so. But even at a bigger level, when you take a virus that isn't lethal to humans and you make it lethal to humans, you potentially are in violation of the Bio Weapons Treaty that the United States signed with dozens of countries across the world. And so there's good reason for someone like Dr. Fauci, if he was involved in knowing this, to not want to admit to those two things."



I wonder why he'd go up against a Barack Obama executive order. Why would he put himself in that kind of jeopardy?



"We don't know the answer yet. And you know, I have a question. Again, I've done a lot of work on Anthony Fauci's career. Back in 2005, when I was at the Associated Press, I did a series of investigative stories that got him in a lot of trouble because he was testing AIDS drugs on vulnerable foster children who didn't have parents and they didn't have AIDS. They were testing the drugs as a control group on kids who didn't have any parents to watch out for them. So I've been tough on him. It was a big story back then. But I have some concerns when I look at this docket that maybe there's an intelligence community element to this that we haven't gotten to the bottom of. Were they maybe using Fauci to spy on China bioweapon labs and see what was going on? We'll see if that comes out with Rand Paul and Dr. Fauci next week. Rand Paul did something really interesting, Bill, last week. He put out this really lengthy timetable, and there's just so many contacts between Anthony Fauci, a doctor in the CIA, that you don't normally see in the intelligence community It does raise the spectre of whether he was working on some sort of intelligence project with the CIA or someone else. That may not be the case, but I think it's something worth exploring."

Well, that's what Gabbard thinks, after she was booted.



"Yeah. Clearly."



Yeah, she thought that there was a linkage between the US Intel and Fauci. So keep this posted, John. You do excellent reporting as always. Okay, so the hearing is coming up, and John Solomon is the best guy in the country, in my opinion, to make this cogent so everybody understands it. We appreciate it, John, thanks for taking the time.
Take your anti-conspiracy medicine and watch wheel of fortune. Let me guess that clown BO. He claims John Solomon is the best, yes at leaking out false reports at the insistence of RW conspiracy mongers.
 

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The blue collar, union member of the Democratic Party is now shouted down by the life on cell phone generation.
As I opined some months back, the Democratic party needs to, and is in the process of undergoing a generational change. The Blue collar workers, mostly male, have been won over by Trump, much to their detriment. The Female Dems, and especially the younger people, have not gone over to Trump, and in fact hate him and see a great disparity in wealth in society, with Trump backed by all of the Billionaires and vice versa. The Democratic old guard is being voted out, and younger Dems that match the views and wishes of their voters will be taking over during the next few elections. It is an evolution.
 
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