I read this in Weird Al's voice.
I remember that the media was about 90-95% on board with invading Iraq. Until about a month later, when they suddenly remembered that they were all anti-war and always had been, and Bush was Hitler for getting our boys killed, and here is a counter of the Americans Bush killed in the corner of the screen on every news program 24/7 for the next 5 years.
What was really fascinating to me was watching them re-write the history of the justification used for the war. Before Bush was evil, Iraq's chemical warfare program was just a small part of the justification, which also included the slaughter and torture of his own citizens, genocide against outlying minority groups, their general failure to abide by the terms we had left when we unilaterally ceased operations in the 90s, failure to abide by many, many UN and NATO decrees, etc, etc. As soon as Bush became Hitler, people on TV gradually had their memories wiped and within a few years there was only ever one cause for that war - the incorrect information about the WMD program.
Source: I had various news channels on my TV almost every waking/non-working hour of every day between about 2001 and 2007.
Nitrogen asphyxiation seems to be the way to go.
Nitrogen is already 75% of the atmosphere, so we can't smell it or taste it and it doesn't cause side effects in large doses. Unlike letting carbon dioxide build up, it doesn't cause pain or panic or trigger the sense of breathing urgency. On animal tests, the animals just fall asleep as the oxygen content falls below the level necessary for brain function, then they die.
Nitrogen appears to achieve everything that lethal injections hoped to achieve, but with 100% reliability.
It seems to be pretty much cruelty-free, other than the foreknowledge of the impending execution, which can't be avoided by any method.
With that said, firing squad also seems to be a close second in terms of avoiding suffering. A high velocity round at center mass is apparently very fast acting. But much more messy than nitrogen.
Apparently, the PA Constitution has two routes to amendment.
Route 1: Whatever the written procedure for amendment is
Route 2: The legislature passes a law, and that law says that it can only be challenged in a short timeframe. If no one jumps right at that moment, the PA constitution has been overruled, and that law, however defective it may be, is now the supreme law of the land.
I'll give you a different opinion on a smoked turkey. I do this every year for Christmas. I don't brine.
preheat smoker to 225 I use a ceramic stand designed for this (sittin' turkey). You can use an actual beer can, but get some sort of support for the bird rinse the bird everywhere, pat dry with paper towels sprinkle everywhere with dry rub. I can PM the recipe if anyone wants it, but it isn't anything special, you can find basically the same recipe on many sites. Pour a cup or two of beer, wine, juice or water into the stand (or open the beer if using an actual can) Place the turkey upright on the stand, tuck wings behind the neck
Put in smoker. I use a pan to carry the whole assembly around.
Plan for 1 hour per pound, but also plan for what you'll do if it is ready 4 hours early. Put your probe in the thigh and cook to temperature.
DO A PRACTICE TURKEY BEFORE YOU INTEND TO FEED YOUR FAMILY WITH A SMOKED TURKEY
Also, learn to carve a turkey. I didn't care for thigh meat until I learned to remove them intact and slice them properly.
You can inspect the inside of the barrel. Borescopes aren't very expensive these days.
Any pitting on a gun that old, and I wouldn't fire it at all. Even without pits, you need to pay attention to pressure.
There are good reasons for shooting replica guns, made with modern metals, instead of shooting antiques. But - there is also something really special about shooting old guns. Just be aware that guns found in a barn might not be good candidates.
Personally, I would scrub them lightly with scotchbrite pads and something like Boeshield rust remover. Gun oil and cleaning patches would be lighter.
Numbers 1, 3 and 4 were never Presidential candidates - they ran for endorsement from a party.
Number 2 is known to a lot of people, most of whom have no idea that he once ran for office as the candidate from a minor (and now defunct?) party.
Numbers 5 and 6 should arguably be listed with 4 fewer years, since the dates and ages given are for 2nd term election.
Jefferson was probably one of the best writers and political philosophers of all time. He was perhaps the most gifted member of the fantastically unlikely assembly of talent that somehow came to exist in America in the late 18th century to guide the foundation of our government.
But he also had some crazy ideas that we mostly don't talk about. Not surprising, no one knows anything any more - largely because we've allowed the Democrats to impose a zero-history education standard on our young for the last ~50 years.
Basically, for most of his life, Jefferson envisioned an agrarian country - dirt farmers - rewriting the Constitution every 20 to 25 years.
Looking back at that period from our moden perspective, the country he thought he was making would be hard to tell apart from the non-nomadic indian tribes of the Northeast. (This is a bit unfair - the differences would be blatant to the people of that time. But to us now, who really cares that iron plows and domesticated animals reduced a farmer's labor from 90% to 70% of his life?)
The French Revolution should be a whole year's study in high school. Naturally, it won't be because the French went from inventing Socialism to murdering each other in the blink of an eye, a pattern we've seen repeat over and over again for the last 230 years, and our educators want to pretend that the two aren't connected at all.
Young people, who have already been primed with the study of Jefferson leading up to the Declaration of Independence the year before, would benefit greatly from about two weeks reading Jefferson's later writings, after he'd sobered up (metaphorically speaking).
Of course, no one can do that unless they home school their kids.
P.S. When I was younger, a Jefferson reenactor came to the local community college to give a lecture and Q&A. The lecture was 100% in-character, and the Q&A was about 80% in-character. I don't know if that guy is still touring, or if there is a troupe of them around, but if you ever get the chance, check it out and take your kids.
The mirror part isn't important - that was always implied. The important part is that this plot was made by a second party using data provided by Oakland County, showing that the plots from the video aren't faked.
Your analysis is also wrong - the Y axis is already normalized. The slope down (or up in the mirror) is the manipulation. Your "group psychology" theory requires a cause - one that only works in 4 counties across the entire state, which doesn't work at all in heavily Democrat parts of those counties, and has a strength that works proportionally to Republican percentage minus 25%
You should watch the whole video. They show the plot of a different county that doesn't show any bend into a downward trend.
I don't think you really understand the X axis because you keep talking about party registration, which has absolutely no bearing here. I don't have any idea if Michigan even does party registration, but I do know that if they do, that isn't part of these graphs.
You are also engaging in mass mind reading - assuming that the only reason anyone would take a detailed ballot is because they want to vote against party in the Presidential election. If we assume that this is true, we then need to explain why it isn't true in the other counties - the ones with no up or down trend. Are the ~3% of Republicans nationwide who don't support President Trump concentrated in these 4 counties, in roughly inverse proportion to that county's tendency to vote straight party Republican ballots?
Essentially, yes.
I'd say exactly right, but the words are ambiguous. Shiva's plot uses for the Y axis:
the fraction of votes cast for Trump on standard ballots minus the fraction of straight party ballots cast for the Republican Party
And the X axis is the percentage of straight party ballots cast for the Republican Party
Context, quoted "verbatim" from the hearing:
Crazy bitch: This has all been deboonked weeks ago. Where's the evidence?
MAGA lady: Bitch, the video has been 10 feet wide on the wall right in front of you for the last 10 minutes, and I've been talking about it the whole time. If you need a recap, search youtube for "wtf?" in about 3 minutes and you can watch yourself watching it.