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Photo brought to you by the same people who still believe the election was "stolen". Lol
Hi bbotcs, she continues to demonstrate that she is clueless and out of touch with reality. Almost daily. It's very disturbing.
Here's a good example:
Marjorie Taylor Greene got into a screaming match with Rep. Cheney over Jewish space lasers' comment
Jewish Space Lasers .... yeah right.
Hi Ayock, we all know that being a good student has nothing to do with a person's sociopathic ability to say anything no matter how outrageous it is.
hi bbotcs, it's kinda funny cuz based on the latest accusations, I was gonna find out the republican who would replace her and donate to that candidate's campaign.
Let's face it - Greene, Boebert, AOC are allowed to be out of control sociopaths because over the last decade its been unacceptable to correct women or minorities of their anti-social behavior out of fear of being labeled as sexist or racist.
Sometimes a little conformity is a good thing. It keeps countries from splitting apart at their seams. But in this era of embracing "diversity" we havent figured out how to separate good diversity from bad diversity.
Autopsy Confirms Patrick Lyoya Died Fighting with a Police Officer and Trying to Grab His Taser.
https://cwdetroit.cbslocal.com/2022/04/19/autopsy-confirms-patrick-lyoya-shot-in-head-by-grand-rapids-officer/
I know there's a lesson to be learned in this tragic story somewhere ......
hi arizona1, good one :)
hi bbotcs, yup they unloaded a bunch of the containers and shockingly they were able to move the ship !
Suspect arrested in South Carolina mall shooting that left 14 injured
No need for a photo when the shooter 's name is Jewayne, lol.
https://www.aol.com/suspect-arrested-south-carolina-mall-182817551.html
Hi Al, Flu deaths were down to almost zero
Masks combined with distancing. They work.
Happy Easter Al !
Soooo is the increase in deaths due to the vaccine or due to dying from COVID ? Hmmm.
Also, opioid deaths in 2021 for this age group was 38% higher.
https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/drugoverdoses/
In conclusion, the author needs to subtract out COVID deaths and opioid deaths from the chart in the article.
Which probably makes the increase of deaths due to the vaccine near zero.
lol that would get them there. but bringing illegals to dc is like bringing ice to Alaska.
Racist or not racist ?
All the articles simply described the dog nappers as 4 men, but this article showed pictures of 2 of them.
(Hint: Robbing people of their sneakers was kind of a give away, lol)
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/four-suspects-sought-in-d-c-crime-spree-involving-puppy-thefts-and-gunshot-wounds-police/
and the RNC is also tired of all the fact checking and correcting Republican candidates are subjected to ! lol
hey Al, it might be tough to bus illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard cuz ..... its an island ! :)
As for bussing them to DC, at this point we have such an unskilled labor shortage around Dc, I say hand them H1 visas and put them to work !
Hi Al, thanks !
Yeah that's possible, like you said to install a government that wasn't friendly to Russia. And of course open to Hunter Biden-like corruption.
But that government got kicked out "don't let the door hit your ass" in 2019. Zelinskyy is Jewish which might go with the get rid of the right wing neo Nazis narrative.
But this is a side show/distraction to what's going on now. Russia wants the 2 eastern Ukrainian provinces; Putin thought the most decisive way to get them would be to topple the Ukrainian government (by scorched Earth force). Surprisingly he was mistaken, and now he's gonna level the 2 eastern provinces "in order to save them".
A lot of lives and destruction could be spared if Ukraine gave Russia those territories but also let people there migrate west to Ukraine (which a few million have already done).
Hi Al, I'm not gonna check into it, but getting rid of a Russian friendly Ukrainian president is probably a good thing.
But still, it has nothing to do with Zelinskyy. In fact, based on the voting, you can assume that Zelinskyy was elected to replace the existing government which the citizens felt was too corrupt.
So your original post claiming Zelinskyy was installed by the Obama administration is .... is .... just so wrong.
Do the Republicans where you live and interact with believe something so false ? Cuz when I search on "Zelinskyy installed by Obama" all i get is hits for crazed right wing sources that talk about stuff that happened in 2014. if so, its scares me.
GM Al, Wasn't he first installed after the US led coup in 2014?
From what I can tell, the answer is nope. Ummmmmm US Coup where ? I'm not sure where you're getting your misinformation from, but I think you should ignore it and get your information from someplace else ... except for maybe the Hunter Biden stuff.
Zelenskyy announced his candidacy in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election on the evening of 31 December 2018, alongside the New Year's Eve address of then-president Petro Poroshenko on the TV channel 1+1. A political outsider, he had already become one of the frontrunners in opinion polls for the election. He won the election with 73.23 per cent of the vote in the second round, defeating Poroshenko. He has positioned himself as an anti-establishment and anti-corruption figure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_presidential_election
ummmm ummmm Allllll ....
Zelinskyy was elected in 2019 by a huge popular majority. I'm trying remember who our president was in 2019. I'm pretty sure it wasn't Obama.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ukrainian_presidential_election
I don't think those are the only things that bother Republicans, but its sadly true that those things are part of a bigger list.
Hi al, yes he know what he's doing. That doesn't mean he didn't fuck up (ooops I mean "miscalculate") and in a few short months send his country's way of life back to the 1950s.
He's probably done more to accelerate the use of renewable energy sources more than all the people who have ever chained themselves to trees, lol.
if anyone here is interested,here's where my Ukrainian relief donations are going every week till this ends:
World Central Kitchen - local DC chef feeding refugees in Poland
UNICEF - sooo many little kids who didn't deserve what's happening to them
airbnb.org - my donations help pay for places for refugees to stay in Poland and Romania
Rooms Not Borders - also local to DC I think. we can't forget we have several thousand Afghan refugees here that need pretty much everything.
Hi bbotcs, I was going to tell you last week that I was near sandy point state park and saw the evergreen up the bay I guess near Pasadena MD. Even at 8ish miles away the thing was HUGE !
GM Al, wellll based on Putin's current behavior, 2 feet of sea level rise might not be the biggest problem facing us. I'm not sure any of us will make it to 2050.
Back in the 80s there was a TV movie about WW III called "The Day After". The lead up to the nuclear exchange in that movie started out A LOT like what's happening now .... if Putin escalates the weapons the Russians are using against Ukraine.
Hey Al,
1. By 2050, Gates will have sold the place or will be dead.
2. What's $50M when you're worth $100B ? To put that into perspective, if you're worth $1M, that would be like losing $500. Pocket change.
3. From the looks of it, the Del Mar CA oceanfront is about 8' - 10' above sea level. The photo crops out the rise of the sand from the ocean. So even if the oceans rise by 2', he'll be fine.
Hi Al, yeah politicians and public policy doesnt always get science issues right. Especially ones where the effects are subtle and take decades to become obvious. Like smoking, like eating too much artery clogging goo. lol
No scientist denies the planet is warming. No scientist denies that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. No scientist denies that global CO2 output has been on the steady rise for at least a century.
Any scientist who claims otherwise deserves to be marginalized.
The issue has always been to what degree man made CO2 has been contributing to planetary warming ?
Remember this: https://www.redlotus.org/diminishing-solar-activity/
Its been 5 years and so far there's been no cooling - just the opposite. thank you China.
But even Dr Helena Popova says that if there's a decade of cooling, it should be used to reduce CO2 output.
Hi Al, the problem is that our population doesnt pay attention to anything that requires action decades in advance unless its portrayed as an immediate crisis.
So activists need to demonize fossil fuels to persuade people to convert to renewables. Of course, I've repeatedly pointed out that unless China drastically reduces their CO2 output, even significant CO2 reductions by the US and Europe what change the global CO2 output enough to make a difference.
As for proponents of global warming buy oceanside properties .... very few of them are buying properties that are less than a few feet above sea level . Take a look at newer low lying oceanfront properties - the "ground floors" are on stilts so that the only thing that will flood is where they park their cars.
Hi Arizona1, you need to take up your viewpoint with the doctors and scientists at NIH.
https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/X-Chromosome-facts
Let us know what they tell you.
And it fascinating to see you as a member of the science deniers club !
hi arizona1, I don't fit into being either a democrat or republican, but in general I'm forced to vote for one party or the other.
I have an engineering background but I also do a lot of writing. so when people ask me what my profession is, which one do I tell them ?
sometimes you are only given limited choices and you have to choose one or the other. we can't axis wrap ourselves dealing with a hair on the tail that's wagging the dog.
Hey Al, yes lots of birds meet their doom flying into lots of things.
Think how many billions of them will die if sea levels rise a few feet.
But the key take away, which climate activist try not to believe is that the US is doing plenty to augment our energy grid with solar and wind to reduce the amount of CO2 we pump into the air.
Hi Arizona1, that's fine and I understand that there are rare conditions where someone doesnt have an XX or XY pair.
What seemed like what was being discussed was how to define if someone is male or female.
So at least we've closed out debate.
you're only reading radical right wing talking points
wow Arizona1 - that's up there with "the election was stolen" ! But its good to see science denial isnt just a conservative ideology thing. Maybe this will help clarify the matter.
Under normal conditions, the human females contain two X chromosomes (XX), and human males contain one X chromosome and one Y chromosome with a chromosome pairing of XY.
And yes, the people who work at NIH are doctors, lol.
https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/X-Chromosome-facts
Who says we're not doing anything to fight global warming ?
wind power is second-leading U.S. source of electricity
In 2020, 42% of new electricity generation capacity came from land-based wind energy, according to figures from the U.S. Department of Energy. Wind turbines now account for roughly 9.2% of the U.S.'s total "utility-scale electricity generation,"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/in-a-first-wind-power-is-second-leading-us-source-of-electricity-in-one-day-220541187.html
Racist or not racist ?
Gang violence, five gunmen fueled deadly downtown Sacramento shooting that left 6 slain
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gang-violence-five-gunmen-fueled-204417502.html
Student who used gold face paint wrongfully suspended for wearing blackface
And you wonder why parents are angry at how nuts our educators are ?
The student was at home on Oct. 16, 2021, a Saturday, when she sent a Snapchat message to a group of friends with her face covered in gold face paint while she held up a “rock out” sign
The student had worn the paint before without incident at school pep rallies and spirit days because gold is a school color,
A few years ago, a DC area school suspended a 6 year old for pointing a piece of bread at someone and saying "bang".
https://wtop.com/anne-arundel-county/2022/04/lawsuit-anne-arundel-co-student-who-used-gold-face-paint-wrongfully-suspended-for-wearing-blackface/
Hi Al, yeah its funny we've never heard of her. So I looked her up.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2021/07/13/climatologist-dr-judith-curry-explains-climate-change-in-5-minutes-climate-change-is-a-grand-narrative-become-the-dominant-cause-of-societal-problems/
But here's what she really says:
- It's not a hoax - climate change is real and at least some of it is man-made.
"Does all this mean we should do nothing about climate change? No. We should work to minimize our impact on the planet, which isn’t simple for a planet with 7 billion inhabitants."
- Even if we start acting now, our actions wont have significant affect until the 22nd century (translation - we need to start doing something about it now).
"And finally, emissions reductions will do little to improve the climate of the 21st century; if you believe the climate models, most of the impacts of emissions reductions will be felt in the 22nd century and beyond."
- If we sacrifice economic prosperity for the sake of lower CO2 output, we havent done the world's poorest (and even the not-so-poor) any favors. (What's happening to Europe as the result of boycotting Russian oil and gas make that clear)
But notice she doesnt mention sea level rise at all. Hmmmmmmm .... you know, something that will screw over about a billion of the world's 7 billion people starting in about 20 - 40 years from now.
GM Al, the News with Shepard Smith on CNBC is a pretty decent news show. Very little opinion and more importantly, not fixated on just 2 or 3 never ending news stories.
As for Internet news .... that stuff requires a lot of litmus test filtering too.
ALL TV NEWS IS BULLSHIT!
Absolutely. 24 cable news is all about rating which = advertising revenue.
The more a cable news station can generate outrage in its viewers, the more likely they are to tune in and keep hearing more of it. Fox mastered this approach and all cable news stations had to replicate it in order to stay in business.
If people were to analyze CNN or Fox, people would realize how little news they're actually getting. CNN for example is mostly opinions about 2 or 3 news stories (currently the Russian invasion of Ukraine with smatterings about the pandemic and the Jan 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol) and commercials. Sooooo manyyyyyyy commercialssssss, lol.
Will Smith Apologizes to Chris Rock, Says 'Violence in All Forms Is Poisonous' .....
except of course in movies and video games that make the entertainment industry rich rich rich.
Oooooppps, there - I said it.
hi bbotcs, I'm not sure why unloading its cargo isn't an option.
in more pleasant Chesapeake bay boating news, the Pride of Baltimore II is in the news and a replica of the Maryland Dove was launched at st. Michaels let week.
Hi bbotcs, how are you ? I can't wait for Maryland to have some normal weather !
As for your neighbors sister, I'm pretty sure she was not alone in her decision.