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@asvjerry , yes, like mahgister stated, well said. But, I think we shouldn't be too kind as of yet because something tells me, if and when this house of cards all comes tumbling down, he'll just smirk and say, "what took you so long?" and then flip on everyone to get the best deal for his sentencing. All the best, Nonoise |
Sorry, I avoid hagiographies like the plague. To say he's prescient glosses over the fact that there's lots of people like him and he just happened to make it to the top, which exposed him on a national and worldwide basis. You see it's all an act. Right after Trump won, his son Eric, was confronted by a Muslim comedian (the name escapes me). Eric told him to relax, that it's all an act for them. In the new book, A Very Stable Genius (just out), Scaramucci , asks Trump if it's all an act. Trump replied that it is and always was, and that he didn't understand why people didn't get it. Personally, I'd love to see him testify, but he never will. Back when Dowd was prepping him for Mueller, he called it off and said if Trump did testify, he (Dowd) would end up in an orange jumpsuit, right next to him. The man is barely controllable and flies off the handle on a second's notice. He'd implicate himself in a matter of minutes. All the best, Nonoise |
Well, my due diligence got me this: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-who-talks-about-executing-drug-dealers-vouched-for-two-of-them and this: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/ and this: https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-times-trump-tax-fraud-father-fred-inheritance-2018-10 So, from associating with drug king pins, and deep into human trafficking, and tax fraud, I have to take a break. All the best, Nonoise |
Sad but true story: I met a woman at a wine tasting and the topic turned to politics. We discussed candidates and she went on about Hillary being a pedophile (you know, Pizzagate) and it was then that I told her what Churchill said: "The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." She was taken aback some and asked if I was insulting her. The poor thing really didn't know. All the best, Nonoise |
I just fear that we may be where Rome was, when it failed: https://www.history.com/news/rome-republic-augustus-dictator So many parallels that it's starting to rhyme, again. All the best, Nonoise |
For those who are handicapped by their beliefs, here is the way to figure out relative volumes of gases: http://www.airproducts.com/Products/Gases/gas-facts/conversion-formulas/weight-and-volume-equivalents/oxygen.aspx All the best, Nonoise |
The average fir trees emits 500 gallons of O2 a day. Trees and the oceans are the lungs of the planet. They're all part of that delicate balance. Destroy the trees and acidify the oceans and it's all a matter of time before adjustments made by nature come back around to knock us all on our collective asses. All the best, Nonoise |
Would Trump's plan be something like Obama wanted? https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/262/create-incentives-for-tree-planting-and-promote-ca/ Also, that proposal you mention is being done to give the impression that Trump is an environmentalist. The whole idea of planting more trees has been going on since his first year in office: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/8/21/16151244/trump-forest-environmentalists-planting-trees-thwart-president In fact, planting more trees has been a "duh" moment for ages. Then, there's this:https://www.climateadvisers.com/trumpbacktracker/ Scroll down to IMPACT OVERVIEW and click on "how many trees...." and you'll see just how many will be needed to offset policies enacted now by Trump and what it will add up to if all of his policies are allowed to continue. All the best, Nonoise |
CO2 & us: https://www.lenntech.com/carbon-dioxide.htm Check out the last paragraph under Environmental Problems. It's a real knee slapper. Also, it's role in humans is nicely explained. All the best, Nonoise |
I was always a sucker for Red Skelton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7cN3cxSpQc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J65J9JLoQVk All the best, Nonoise |
What I don’t understand about many of the "informed" here is how and why they direct their ire to those to the sides of them and to those below them when the perps who are behind their misery reside above them. Loyalty to an abstract in the hopes of someday rubbing shoulders with them or deluding themselves into thinking that someday it will all be theirs as well confounds. Homelessness is a natural and predictable outcome as the inequality gap grows. Estimates of the working homeless in LA is around 50%. These are people who hold down jobs but can’t afford housing, let alone rent. They live in their cars and motorhomes, or if lucky, crash on a couch or floor of a friend. If a living wage were paid, that would solve that, and it would cut down on taxes (for food stamps, housing, etc.) that we shouldn’t be paying to subsidize companies who refuse to pay those living wages. Talk about takers. All the best, Nonoise |
What Henny Penny's rant doesn't mention is that it is only 6 members who have that job and the salary I quoted for a street cleaner was correct. Because of the hazardous nature of the job, they get that pay. The way he says it, one would get the impression that public employees are all making that kind of money. I'd love to hear him rant about corporate pay. Imagine if Reagan never started us down this path. All the best, Nonoise |
@djones51, you beat me to it. It seems that Henny Penny gets all his facts from somewhere behind him, like that $80,000/year street cleaner. It took all of two seconds to google it and the starting pay for an entry level street cleaner is $32,427. In a perfect world, getting a 3% raise every year would take you 31 years to get at that salary. Hell, while you're at it Henny Penny, check out the streets of LA or any city and you easily spot the homeless. On my morning walks I see the same faces, year in and year out; homeless encampments that last for several months. There used to be facilities in place to deal with it but you have Reagan to thank for that. Considering that about half of the homeless are veterans, we should be ashamed. https://www.sfweekly.com/news/the-great-eliminator-how-ronald-reagan-made-homelessness-permanent/ All the best, Nonoise |
Sorry to hear that, @djones51. Sounds like what happened in Kansas and Wisconsin. They initiated that great republican style of governing (corporate tax breaks, freezing wages, union busting, etc.) and bankrupted both states. At least they got to "own" the libs. They still will not admit they were wrong. Some feel they should have gone further. That's how nuts they are. It was just one of many criminal enterprises masquerading as a political party, sucking the citizens dry, and entrenching themselves in power. To think that there are still people who fall for their lies is one of life’s great mysteries. All the best, Nonoise |
I'm a retiree in the state of California and am thankful for their forward thinking. All of the evils described above, and more, contribute to the state with the greatest economy in the nation. If California were a country, it would rank 5th in the world. All the naysayers say if you raise taxes, wages, and have intelligent regulation, we should be on the losing side of things. We're not. Granted, we're not perfect, but you don't see California taking in more in federal assistance than we pay in taxes. In fact, we get less federal assistance than what we pay out. We rank 26th in the nation in federal taxes (right in the middle) and yet pay enough to support all the takers in those other states that enjoy low state and federal taxes. If I had my way, they'd get only what they pay and stop leaching off of us. Then see how they fare. It's one thing to whine and complain, quite another to live it. All the best, Nonoise |
Why do radical environmentalists appear to be so anti-human? Is there a hidden agenda there somewhere?There you go again. Stating as true something which is not, and proceeding from there. If you can't get your premise right, what can one do but smile and carry on. To help perpetuate an alternative universe where only alternative, convenient facts reside makes for a lot of bumping into reality, which probably accounts for all the political outbursts that come up in audio forums. All the best, Nonoise |
An ignorant chap who read that could be led to believe that the actual end of the world was at stake. What Hanson was saying was the tipping point of being able to keep rising temps within a 1ºC rise over a certain time frame was at stake. One must be wary about how info is presented. All the best, Nonoise |
30 inches in 24 hours? Ya see folk, that's what happens when there's so much more evaporated water in the atmosphere. The largest river in the world runs over our heads, and it's getting bigger all the time. Earth heats up, water evaporates, water comes down, in one form or another. Simple. All the best, Nonoise |
MC, you are so easily swayed. What’s it like to live in fantasy land? He’s abolished regs so they can poison your water, pollute without consequence, did a HUGE socialist bailout of farmers that he screwed over (3x the auto bailouts), and allow pigs testicles, bladders and crap in ground pork. He got no republican votes because cults don’t vote against their leader. The ONE dem who changed sides did so to keep his job which he saw as threatened if he stayed a dem. He doesn’t want to go out and get a real job. As for tens of thousands, big deal. MILLIONS more voted against him. They follow him from state to state like a tent revival show. These are the same stiffs who found The Apprentice deep and Survivor and The Batchelor up there with Shakespeare. He’s stiffed cities to the tune of millions owed for security. He won by a confluence of odd luck, getting less than 1% in three states, which put him over. I’ve seen those "crowds" with the empty seats, the bored ditto heads on their phones, the emptiness outside the stadiums that he claims are full of people who wanted to get in. You probably think wrestling is real too. All the best, Nonoise |
Which is why what we have today is so encouraging. Finally a leader not only talking but actually fulfilling the promise of returning more power to the people. Seven regulations abolished for every one added. Actually much more than that. That's what really has them all riled up. Democrat, republican, or whatever, they're all screaming their gravy train is being derailed. That's why massive crowds flock together and stand in line for hours- common people see they at last are getting theirs.Nothing like regurgitating what is being spoon fed to you. The overwhelming majority want investigations into your wanna be despot and a simple majority want him ran out on a rail (tar and feathers optional). All the best, Nonoise |
These alarmists always demand the same thing - absolute power to dominate transform and control every aspect of our lives."Which is the battle cry of the right wing, regardless of country. They believe the common man cannot decide for himself and must have some form of absolute power dictate his life. It's the founding concept of Leviathan. It can come in the form of religion or politics, and often a combination of both. It's just another means of control that they decry of others, and practice themselves. All the best, Nonoise |
If there is some underlying force, something after we leave this mortal coil, the answer to all our hopes, fears and dreams, I think it will be something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3EAzf5fDpY All the best, Nonoise |
My, my, my. So the sun is the reason? https://skepticalscience.com/acrim-pmod-sun-getting-hotter.htm And as for the ICE AGE rant, it was only two articles, one in Newsweek and the other, I believe, in Time, that a couple of scientists claimed would happen and guess what? They were smacked down by the overwhelming majority (again) of climate scientists. You shouldn’t stand behind those bovines. All the best, Nonoise |
Yep, when the sun begins to burn it's helium it will grow into a red giant then after a few billion years more it will rip itself apart condensing into a whit dwarf. I doubt humans will exist long enough to be worried about it.Unless they send Spock to deliver some red anti-matter. But, in the end, you can file that under just another example of deus ex machina, like all of our previous contrivances. All the best, Nonoise |
In a billion years our sun will grow so large, it will consume Venus and Mercury and bake any life out of existence on Earth. 4 billion years later it will have grown and swallowed Earth. It will all be moot by then as our contribution to the universe will be filed under "whatever'. All the best, Nonoise |
We always hope for something better, either in the here and now or the hereafter. Just settle for making it better now, because it's all you've got. And on that note, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HHDg0_-ezQ All the best, Nonoise |
Ordinarily I enjoy few things more than tearing apart a smugly pontificating liberal.MC, therein lies your problem. Anything to the left of you, you consider liberal. With you it's all binary as there is no middle ground, no grey, no nuance. You're so far off to the right that the territory you despise includes centrist, mainstream thinking, as well as the left leaning side of things. All the best, Nonoise |
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The name calling is because the man is dangerous. As to comparing him to Beck, or even O'Reilly is easy as it's all on the same spectrum, and those making the most noise about Peterson are no more than a generation removed from those who followed Beck. The water has been tainted for so long that it now tastes normal to the undiscerning. All the best, Nonoise |
