November 29, 2018 6:00 AM
Morning Reads – Thursday, November 29, 2018
Y’all. We are so close. 5 more sleeps until this election season is over.
But for now – morning reads:
Peaches
- We have these in Statesboro and they are nothing short of a nightmare
- The role of an interpreter in the ballot box
- 2 former Georgia hospital CEOs fighting kickback claims
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrong about spending in Georgia race
- Lucy McBath backs Pelosi as Speaker
- Georgia woman subject of upcoming New York Stock Exchange film
- Georgia craft brewery makes list of best in the nation
Jimmy Carter
Sweet Tea
- The most prolific serial killer in U.S. history? – 7 were in Georgia
- The most explosive moments from the Facebook fake news hearings
- Google CEO to make long awaited congressional appearance
- Scholars warn of Chinese Influence Operations in U.S.
- Harvard astronomer: Could be alien artifact in our solar system?
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SC prisoners scam more than $500K from US troops.
It’s a familiar story–meet via dating app, build friendship, exchange compromising photos, guy shows up posing as father, money changes hands.
The lesson is familiar too, stay off dating apps.
A reasonable guess is this is not limited to SC.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/11/28/prisoners-steal-more-than-500k-from-troops-through-dating-app-sextortion-ring/
CDC reports suicide and drug overdoses up, life expectancy down.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-us-life-expectancy-declining-due-largely-to-drug-overdose-and-suicides/
Electric scooters are not bicycles, they are two wheeled skateboards with a grab bar.
If you can’t ride a skateboard (and stop) successfully at 25mph, you have no business renting an electric scooter.
Even if you can ride a skateboard, without a helmet they are still a Darwinian dice roll.
From the looks of several downtown streetscapes across America, they are litter!
That Trump link from The Hill with the retweeted meme along with other Twitty Pulpit offerings wanting former presidents Obama and Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Rosenstein, Mueller, Comey, Soros, John Kerry, Andrew McCabe, Snoop Dogg, The New York Times, flag burners… all to be tried for treason should be noted. He has now went beyond the pale. How can you respect the office when he wants his predecessors in that office prosecuted for treason? These are the words of a despot who is tearing down the principles of the very flag he wants people to be jailed for burning.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/29/an-incomplete-list-all-people-donald-trump-has-said-should-be-jailed/
Love this from Andrew… Trump is an adult and so are DTM and Noway! They don’t buy being an impetuous, know it all snowflake millennial that thinks he has all the answers and doesn’t know jack s—t!
We are adults are not eaten up with Andrew’s politically correct garbage, identity politics, hatred, socialist bilge and constant name calling. We happen to love this country and understand what got us here. We understand the vision that this country was founded on.
You are right Andrew! That is the best compliment you have given us “old folks”. Thanks!
Andrew things have been rarely better in this country on almost every measure other than civility and hated. And that is 90% coming from radical leftists like you that don’t like being out of power and being able control folks lives and getting away with shouting folks down.
Why is it the liberals are so miserable? Most folks I know are pretty happy and thankful for their blessings. Why do liberals do their best to make sure everyone else is miserable too? The average whining lib is not much fun to be around are they?
And if you are not a miserable lib, you must be a racist rube and worse. Seems like some libs will do anything to destroy or discredit you like they happily did to Kavanaugh and not feel a bit of guilt.
The ‘things have been rarely better in this country” doesn’t fly. The economy was going great, the budget was balanced, stock markets were rising, and we had a budget surplus in 1998 – and yet we still impeached a president for doing bad things.
And the other balanced budget year was something like1969. So forget about that lala land statement. And do impeach a president for doing bad things.
Lets not frame him for not doing jack sh–t!
I don’t think we want to relive that time do we on the way to hyperinflation and the Vietnam disaster? A time when folks really had something to be pissed about. Right after the multiple assassinations, the draft.. oil embargoes instead of oil surpluses today.
Today what are we whining about? Not enough whipped cream in our Starbucks? Spare me. Not getting a participation trophy? We have had a 2 term black president, our kids don’t see race at all, we have everything on earth going for us….technological advances that are stunning but no, woe is me! It is embarrassing. Too many folks live with a sense of entitlement and NOT gratitude. See the entire liberal agenda…Whining…
Today we have sniveling liberal snowflakes that have been coddled and spoiled all their life the first time it doesn’t fit their little Facebook cocoon they have a crying fit. So you are right, I have little patience for the whiners.
That’s a lot of implied hystirababble and misdirection to avoid the fact that if a President is doing bad stuff, (which it is looking more likely then not whether you want to believe it or not) the “things have been rarely better in this country” defense has not been successful in the past.
And since your going down the Nixon road…
https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-watergate-road-map-reveals-about-improper-contact-between-white-house-and-justice-department
And this, Drew, is all I can hear whenever you and your cadre of Libs post anything!
Every time I close the page on one of Noways posts it sounds like a toilet flushing.
Andrew, Noway nails you little buddy. The perfect lib captured right there. I figure you must be more attractive than this pitiful person.
Things are great. School shootings continue to pick up pace. Synagogue bombings are on schedule. Teargassing of children, check.
Want to bet who fired more tear gas? Trump or the blustering anointed one?!
Who caused this migration northward in the first place? The anointed one! Who is fixing this garbage? Not our lib buddies that want no borders and no proof to vote. Don’t blame Trump. He is fixing another mess that has been festering for years and left on his doorstep. Do you disagree?
http://suindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/1-45.jpg
Yeah, the opioid epidemic and rapidly increasing rates of suicides are signs things have rarely been better in the country.
OK, since we are (almost) past the midterms, time to think about 2020.
Is Trump going to run again?
Is Trump going to get a primary challenge?
What are the consultants thinking is going to be the best way to attack Trump? His childishness? His lack of knowledge/research/advice? His constant lying? His dysfunctional administration?
I also want to mention that the GOP will be defending 22 Senate seats in 2020, while Dems will be defending 12.
Is Perdue safe? Who might run against him?
Will Colorado flip Cory Gardner?
McCain’s AZ seat will be open.
Is Susan Collins safe?
Is Doug Jones safe in AL?
Cindy Hyde-Smith has to run again.
Strong message! Give me a break. They had NO message other than I hate Trump and I am going to raise your taxes and you are going to like it. If enough numb nuts buy into that then good for you.
An exception was Georgia. Demoze found a dog whistle way to say racism, and played it for all it was worth.
I’m a numb nut and I vote!
Its obvious Indy… you do vote…do you procreate?! You are not alone believe me!
Go forth and multiply.
I took it literally.
Just like caring for widows, orphans, and foreigners.
Indy, you probably are not full numb nut…maybe just a one nut. Not a full fledged Bofa Deez!
That is a complement by the way. It is obvious who the full numb nuts are on this blog!
Well so far that is the only message. You might want to think of at least one idea that help some Joe get a job instead of foodstamps. Just trying to help…
Well that devolved quickly.
Like you didn’t really know that would happen when you asked the questions? HAHAHAHAHA
The designer baby(s) has arrived.
https://www.axios.com/crispr-china-embryo-gene-editing-05630ce3-2599-43a5-85ee-e40b3f66d0a3.html?utm_source=topstories
Currently the set of twins in China that started off the how global debate in the link had the gene that allows cells to carry and contract HIV removed. But what else does the gene do?
More men of power behaving badly
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-eric-bauman-misconduct-allegations-20181128-story.html
And covering it up
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/business/les-moonves-bobbie-phillips-marv-dauer-cbs-severance.html
And getting toothless justice for it….
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article214210674.html
And the California Dem Party Link resigns…
Trump, Trump, supposed collusion…focus folks, focus!! Collusion, FBI, Hillary, DNC, Justice Department…
Trumps personal lawyer was talking to Putin and/or his office directly in 2017, and basically Trump lying about talking to the Russians over Trump business while running for president is not important? (Which at this point is the minimum this ends up being,)
Meanwhile in Germany…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-29/deutsche-bank-headquarters-searched-in-money-laundering-probe?srnd=premium
This is tied to the Panama Papers from 2016. This might be a sleeper story based on some of the Trump admiration members with some ties to LLC and holding firms used a shell companies, banks, and real-estate eluded to in the document release.
Meanwhile ask Merkle how the million radicals let into Germany is working out for her and the country!!
The defection and topic changing whataboutism is not going to make the fact the bank the holds a large number of Trump Inc. loans, Ties to the bank Wilber Ross was the chairman of, and almost all major Russian oligarchs was raided by law enforcement in relation to money laundering go away or change.
LOL-ROTF!! Jessica, you outdid yourself with that link to the UK news site Metro. Anybody with the temerity to click on that link, check out the McDonald’s stories down the right side of the page.
Those crazy Brits. 🙂
I got an error page when I tried to link to it.
Try this https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/28/mysterious-alien-artefacts-could-be-lurking-in-our-solar-system-astronomer-claims-8185768/
Sally, don’t scare the libs with that alien article. They already think the end is near because Al Gore has some show coming up soon!
A giant phallic shaped rock in space might get them over the edge…It has to be from another world…it must be cold an’ deep too!
We know we lost some libs when Hale Bop came through last time, lets not have another liberal tragedy!
No but most absurd things in the news that don’t make sh– for sense usually involve some lib(s). Does anyone disagree with that?
Globalism at work….
http://www.wtoc.com/2018/11/29/wayfair-inc-open-huge-facility-savannah-create-jobs/
Yep, good article – but I’m partial to the one toward bottom about the man hearing voices in the chest he bought. ‘Guess I’m just having one of those weird humor days.
Hey, somebody post a want ad in Lordstown, OH.
Ruh Roh. ‘Guess Putin better give those ships back.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/kremlin-says-trump-putin-have-agreed-to-meet-at-g-20-summit-on-saturday/2018/11/29/610aba8e-f3bd-11e8-bc79-68604ed88993_story.html?utm_term=.11a1844b74b8&wpisrc=al_news__alert-politics–alert-national&wpmk=1
How much?
Nothing like a strongly worded tweet to get some action.
Maybe he could just tell Vlad to “cut it out”. Yeeeeaaaah. Yeeeeaaaah! That’s the ticket!
Mr1raggedhole—darn it you posted what I wanted to say!
Yea cut it out Vlad. Wait till after the election so I can bend over a log again for you! I am sure President Red Line in the sandbox scared Vlad.
Vlad was mad because he didn’t get 150 billion in cash from Obama like the Iranians did!! Now why the hell did we do that again? And the 2 billion in cash flown in cargo planes for the mullahs!! Jeeezzzz. What for some walkin’ around money like Jesse Jackson and Sharpton throw out to their voters?!!
Stifle that speech, stifle that speech!!
You’re sad, Snivler! Address what he said. Don’t run to the moderators!! You just cannot take any comments you don’t like. And you certainly can’t argue against them! Pathetic.
I am surprised he lets you prattle on after shadowing folks, creating fake accounts, using horrible language and posting under multiple names …but I don’t make the rules and could care less. The biggest whiner doesn’t like it when someone tosses it back on him.
Can one of y’all pass the popcorn?
You yourself referenced ‘Moscow” Ragged mentioned “Vlad.” Sally mentioned “Putin.” So, DTM’s mentioning “Vlad” too, ain’t off the mark within this particular thread under the Open Posting allowance rules within “The Morning Reads.” And just because you say you’ve refuted something…don’t make it so. So, you just keep taking names there, Little Buddy!!
Chicken in the bread pan pickin’ out dough!
Those nuke deal numbers are facts. You have been pushing stuff downhill for years.
Gosh damn, I can’t leave you guys for even a couple of hours! Gawd only knows how much poo got slung around while I was tied up with my own family circus during the holiday week.
Here, let me give you something you can really chew on:
https://www.puppetstringnews.com/blog/evidence-surfaces-of-vatican-funding-caravans-targeting-america-with-cash?fbclid=IwAR38pEacCAPBhSPSrFQ0yqDDbkj_VaneVOWz6FEjBMSsia9QyWoB06ly-5c#
Looks like it wasn’t just Pueblo Sin Fronteras organizing the Central American caravans from all those predominantly Catholic countries. Senor Pope is subsidizing to get his hands into the U.S. pocketbook via all those minions too.
I don’t know squat about QAnon, but I believe the Daily Caller is edited by Tucker Carlson and has always proven trustworthy, and the Gateway Pundit tends to be reliable news also. This site is new to me, so I’ve been researching, finding factual info to back up this story. I’ve also seen news reports showing nuns and priests providing food, bottled water, back packs, tents, etc. to the thousands of people streaming toward the US border, as well as shepherding folks onto buses and trucks carrying them up the highways. My own eyeballs keep me from resorting to the homeless guy! 🙂
So you’re saying my mom’s 3rd Cousin, the Bishop of Bluefields, Nicaragua (who is a US citizen) is trying to get his hands on US money for the Pope…? Seriously?
Wow…
The man has already been shot for clothing and feeding the poor and the folks trying to escape corrupt dictators when the contra’s attacked him in 1990. Killed 2 nuns he was with that folks stage protests at Ft Benning over… But now he is … whatever you think he is… because some 3rd rate news site tells you the Holy See is “subsidizing to get his hands into the U.S. pocketbook via all those minions too”?
It should be noted that 22% of this country is Catholic. The majority of charitable giving to Catholic base foundations world wide comes from America. The Holy See already has his hands into the U.S. pocketbook. Ironically the largest single organized religious group in this county are Catholics, which makes American a ‘predominantly Catholic” country too.
Stop looking for boogeymen.
I’ve been at some of those School of the Americas protests at Ft. Benning. Really quite moving. I think they did have an impact eventually.
That news organization could not be any more biased than CNN, MSNBC or the New York Times. When did they abandon honest journalism?
ACP, one of the other big Pope Corp. organizations is La Familia Latina Unid. And I have no problem with any of the NGO’s going into foreign countries and doing all the nice things you laid out. As long as they do their charitable work for people in their own countries, show them how to make their own countries better, etc.
But it is not charitable to do organizing in other countries to overrun the U.S. with people rank-and-file Americans did not invite. We already have a large population of poor, uneducated people that need help – and charity does, indeed, begin at home. We have plenty of native-born Americans to help before we go recruiting poor people from other countries, bringing all their unaccounted diseases to unsuspecting American population and our over-burdened taxpaid healthcare system. E.g., per the Tijuana Health Dept. in today’s news, more than 1/3 of the current thousands of migrants there are now being treated for drug-resistant TB, serious respiratory diseases, AIDS, chicken pox, lice, etc. communicable diseases. Is it any wonder that US life expectancy experience is dropping like a rock in the last few years? Add all these new diseases to our own bad diets and lifestyle habits….. OY!
People call America “a nation of immigrants” but do mention that it was heretofore a very controlled and regulated process. America’s immigration system used to require that each person who immigrated from another country have a registered Sponsor here in the US to take financial responsibility for them having a home and providing for them. Each foreign person had to pass a health examination before turning loose into the US population, or be quarantined for any existing illness before coming into America.
Anyone who advocates bringing another human being into America should be required to take tat person to their own neighborhood and into their own home to live. They should be required to pay for a thorough health screening and quarantine any communicable diseases in their own home.
Can you tell I am extremely concerned about the chaos happening as we have become a conglomeration of small foreign-language countries within our country? It is urgent that the US stop importing more poor, sick people, and assess its current situation, population make-up, universal means of communication in the public square, public health concerns, etc. of being a cohesive nation. How can anyone know where we are going, when we don’t know where we are right now? Think on it.
Of course average Americans did not individually invite people from other countries, but they did have government assurance that thousands of people with communicable diseases would not be dumped into their cities and towns. We had numerical limits enforced, health clearances, etc. of an orderly immigration process to protect the general population of the US. Living in America is a privilege not to be taken lightly.
According to the CDC report this week you are correct that opiod prevalence and suicide are contributing factors to the US dropping life expectancy, but definitely not the whole picture. The CDC stated they have more work to reach a determination. But it’s obvious that all the communicable diseases from foreign countries, to which Americans have no developed immunity, are playing an ever-increasing role in total stats.
As for the settlers you mentioned, they shared the commonality of being from Western European countries with similar cultures to the original British colonies. And ever since the 13 colonies were founded, America shared one common language in commerce and in the public place. Immigrants were expected to learn English to participate. Only in recent decades has our government started offering scores of different language translations for foreign residents and a neighborhood grocery or department store come to sound like an international bazaar. Speaking no common language does and will continue to divide America, often making us feel like foreigners in our own country.
Let’s just agree that the problems are large and ignoring them has only allowed them to grow to the current level of mob rule at the US border. Even large sporting events have rules that must be obeyed, tickets purchased, seats assigned, etc. We cannot have mob rule at professional sports events, much less at maintaining order for a nation.
Wow. This may be the most honest assessment I’ve heard regarding the fear of immigration.
But first: “thousands of people with communicable diseases would… be dumped into their cities and towns: In what universe is this an actual threat?
Also, there is nothing about our immigration process that has deteriorated. These ‘caravans’ can approach the border all they want but it doesn’t mean they will get in. They can apply and wait, or they can try to sneak in and risk getting caught. It is still a completely orderly process.
“But it’s obvious that all the communicable diseases from foreign countries, to which Americans have no developed immunity, are playing an ever-increasing role in total stats.” I don’t think that is obvious at all. Any info to back that up? Maybe we should restrict travel to wherever it is you are referring to?
And now to perhaps the real root of the problem. These immigrants aren’t white (i.e. “Western European”.). Why in the world should that be a problem?! The Mexicans I have come across are hard workers. The Africans at Dekalb Farmers Market are pleasant, presentable, and apparently diligent in their work. Asians likewise. My Terminix rep is Indian and is a perfectly normal person. Fear of these different groups is irrational.
Speaking only one language puts us at a disadvantage to the rest of the world. Most anywhere else you go the citizens speak at least 2 languages, including our Western European-descended neighbors to the north, and they seem OK. Speaking multiple languages should be a goal and a challenge. I would love to be able to.
To your first question, it is a very real threat right this moment with the last count from the Tijuana Health Dept. being over 7,000 migrants from at least four different countries trying to come into the US. Per the THD today, 60% are sick with communicable diseases. See my earlier post for a listing.
To your second question, why do you think the CDC posts health warnings for Americans traveling to other countries? And based on personal experience, the sickest I’ve ever been was from trips to central and south America, as well as to Europe. Repeatedly sick as a dog for 3-4 months after getting home, one of which landed me in the hospital not expected to survive. In all cases I was told by the doctors that I had picked up diseases to which Americans don’t have immunity. So yes, I’m pretty sure people from other countries are at best carriers of such disease conditions.
On your third leap to conclusion, skin color had nothing to do with my comment. Go back and read it again. My point was that people (no matter what color skin) from the same geographic region knew when they came here that Brits had settled this country and they were willing to learn English in order to communicate in the public place. I have traveled to many other countries and have yet to find one that will change their country’s language to fit me — I and other visitors or immigrants must learn that country’s given language (or grab a language conversion tool for my iphone). For the 2010 US Census, the takers had to carry cards with 19 different languages on them, gesture for people to point at the one they spoke, then go back to headquarters and have US taxpayers pay a translator in one of those 19 languages to go back out and ask that person questions and fill out a form for them. That shows the level of crazy that the US government has reached.
We obviously are not going to solve this huge problem today, and it’s Friday, time for me to wrap up a week’s work of my livlihood. Have a good weekend!
Communicable diseases?
Your mental illness is not contagious.
“trying to come into the US.” Trying being the operative word.
What is ‘THD’? The Home Depot?
I’ve been sick overseas too, but I’m not sure how relevant that is. If Cubans have an immunity to certain bugs in their water and they come here, do we ‘catch’ their immunity?
I don’t understand the beef with language. Census takers are supposed to count everybody, so if they find non-English speaking people they need to communicate with them. That’s not crazy at all. Canada has to print everything in two languages. Switzerland has 4 official languages. I didn’t come across anyone in Budapest who couldn’t speak excellent English.
Comparing things to ‘the way they were’ is not helpful. The world is different now. it’s a lot smaller. People move around more easily and more frequently, and that’s nothing to be afraid of. Besides, people’s perceptions of ‘the way we were’ is not always really accurate. Interesting article here about the changes in language in the US:
https://qz.com/1476819/italian-is-the-fastest-dying-language-in-the-us/
There have always been lots of people here whose primary language is not English. It’s just that it’s not so much Italian and German anymore, it’s Spanish and Chinese and Vietnamese.
“change their country’s language to fit me” That does not describe reality even remotely, as far as I can tell. Many countries try to accommodate foreigners with mutli-lingual signage and documents, teaching other languages in school, etc. We’re not changing our country’s language. If in some circumstances it seems advantageous to translate some things, so what? Are the immigrants not being sufficiently subservient or something? I have Italian friends that have been here for 20 years whose English is still hard to understand. Are they unwelcome? Do you think I would be unwelcome if I moved to Budapest before becoming fluent in Czech? I don’t think so.
“We obviously are not going to solve this huge problem today It’s not a huge problem! It’s not even a small problem. It’s just irritating to some people for some reason.
Užij si víkend!
Where did you go in Uruguay? I’ve been thinking about a trip to Montevideo.
I find the Manafort situation more interesting. I mean, it’s possible that they planned this.
Once Manafort got indicted, they (Manafort lawyers and Trump lawyers) might have gotten together and decided to let Manafort agree to a cooperation agreement and then feed info about the Mueller investigation back to Trump. In return he would get a pardon. If there was incriminating information he had, he would have to lie about that.
We already know most of that is true:
– He did agree to cooperate.
– He continued to talk to Team Trump.
– He did lie to Mueller.
So what would he have lied about? And did Trump tell similar lies on his homework assignment? Is this part of the reason why Trump delayed so long in answering the questions- because they wanted to keep tabs on what Mueller was up to?
The fact that Mueller knows Manafort was lying is interesting. It means that he presumably has good solid evidence aside from Manafort’s statements. So he also knows what Manafort (and Trump?) are trying to hide. Did Manafort think he was going to get away with the lying? What else can one think? So the exposure had to come as a surprise.
Really a tragic scene being played out. Lives really are being ruined, but it’s not Mueller’s fault.
Its entirely possible that monkey’s fly out of a body part and so far they have not proven a stinking thing! We already know where the collusion is. That IDIOT Adam Schiff did more colluding with the call from the comedians than Trump ever did. Go listen to the damn tape! It is hysterical. I have never seen a bigger hoax in my life other than the liberal climate panic BS!
The climate has been the most docile the last 9000 years than anytime in earth’s history. Dat be a long time. If not, we wouldn’t have 7 billion folks on the planet right now would we?? Does anyone want to dispute that FACTUAL and TRUE statement.
Climate Panic. It has been so docile its a joke and will change soon. The earth’s orbit around the sun will start another ICE soon enough. That is a problem…Not a damn thing we can do about it other than maybe add more C02!
The problem aint the warming. We are hear BECAUSE OF IT! Good lord are folks painfully uninformed… ON PURPOSE. Vote for a liberal….we will save the planet. A joke. Vote for a liberal to help get a job…or advance economically. That is also a provable joke!
Not sure if the pivot from Mueller to climate change was a symptom of ADD or senility, but it appears to be beyond mere political spin.
I submit blessings for healing.
And I’m going to throw in some blessings for understanding.
Because the bit about the Earth’s orbit around the Sun?
Not sure if that refers to, you know, Winter?
Because Winter is coming…
Balance, I wouldn’t expect most libs to have much understanding of climate change other than Al Gore’s slide show!
This makes me lean towards ADD, augmented by calcified hate.
Maybe don’t just always assume the worst expectation is true.
Possible, but possibilities aren’t definitive.
Here you go little buddy. A lot of info and Al Gore is not mentioned once. Do you want to argue that the last 9000 years have not been one of the most docile climate periods in our history and because of that and the end of the last ice age, man has flourished? The average global temperature has stayed within a range of 2 degrees. Many times naturally occuring temperature changes can be 20 degrees or more in such periods. That is far more normal that what we have enjoyed. Crops don’t do well under that scenario. Whether what we are enjoying is a miracle for mankind, it could be argued…
Would you like to say if the seas rise a foot or two in the next couple of hundreds years is nothing more than a yawner? Is the world is going to end? Are you aware that the oceans have risen 400 feet since the last ice age? Two more feet… So the hell what? And we are here aren’t we? A little more warming and a lot more crops grow. Folks can live. Sign me up.
When the next naturally occuring ice age shows up– which is likely within the next 1000 years or so, we will be on a planet not likely capable of supporting 7 billion people or more. Is any of this complicated or controversial? If we keep the next ice age at bay, wouldn’t that be a good thing rather than reading idiotic end of the world predictions?
If you are worried about c02 and plants certainly are not—-why not reforest North Africa since man denuded it and by doing so increased the Sahara 10 fold? Hello more c02. There you go. The solution.
Don’t worry folks, you can drive your car to work and not kill the planet. If you want to drive a Yugo and get killed in a car wreck because you think that will are saving the planet, have at it. Oh and you don’t have to vote for the hyperventilating liberal alarmists. You may as well vote for Chicken Little. Be thankful and enjoy your lives.. Those morons can’t change the climate unless they are willing to shut up, use technology and plant some trees..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age
That all you got? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz When is Al Gore latest sequel coming out? Would we all like to go see it?
Does Godzilla make a special appearance for all of the squealing masses? Maybe Indypendent can get some free popcorn!
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/whats-missing-from-an-inconvenient-sequel-al-gores-new-climate-change-documentary.
Great point again Andrew ole buddy! Al Gore is as guilty of collusion as Trump is.
Now Hillary, Mueller, Strok, Page and dozens more are eyeball deep in collusion. Throw in Adam Schiffless for good measure. Let’s all measure them all for orange jump suits. They will match Trump’s complexion!.
Hey reforestation, or prevention of deforestation, is a legit component. Not the entire answer, but a legit concern.
But as for the science, many climate studies look at changes over as long a period of time as they can, and compare the changes to more modern changes. So, in those instances, it’s about a difference between rates of change, and the differences between the changes since fossil fuel production and use are statistically appreciably different than the changes over other periods of time.
So, I don’t know how far back in time they can reach, but the models are surely as developed as possible, which means known variances are accounted for.
Ice Cores go back close to a million years and are pretty reliable. There is not a darn thing alarming about the last 9000 years including the last panic stricken 150!
You cant find any time in the history of the earth with LESS climate change than the last 9000. Yet the panic stricken goobers are worried about climate change now.
Mankind has thrived because there has been SO LITTLE CLIMATE CHANGE. Lets find cleaner and cleaner energy sources and we are doing so. We have gone from caves to horse dung and its massive problem, fossil fuels that allowed for massive growth and a much cleaner environment, To natural gas today which is the cleanest fossil fuel, to better solar, wind, nuke, Hydrogen and fusion are the game changers. No emissions other than water. All common sense and cleaner AND more economical. Oh the end is near. Spare me please. And we have to listen to that fat monotone buffoon and non -scientist grifter–Al Freaking Gore. Spare us please.
Frankly, it sounds like you support moving towards renewables, with nuclear, as long as its economical. Seems fair.
Which seems to make your biggest concern about the way for which energy policy is advocated– as in, you think there is a false urgency used in the advocacy. For that, I would start by saying that’s how many many policies are advocated for. E.g., any advocacy that uses a “slippery slope” argument will use extreme examples to fight off a much more subtle or mild change. And most renewable energy policy advocates are just saying there is a slippery slope, but we’re already on it.
And if you’re a policy advocate regarding an abstract, long-term, complex problem, it’s tough to create a sense of need for action.
So, maybe distinguishing the policy from the advocacy heps.
I am for all energy sources that make sense. No discrimination. I am not stupid enough not use fossil fuels at this time because renewables right now are a rounding error —so trying to ban them is idocy.
What energy sources are liberals for? Not Nuke, Not coal, not oil, not gas … so what the hell do we use? Their stance is beyond silly.
Obama was on record saying he wanting energy prices to rise sharply, yes RISE SHARPLY…to save the planet! Good lord and good riddance. Cap and tax…sure that is a great idea. Take a listen.
By contrast, Trump is glad energy prices are lower and is doing everything he can to expand supply. That also hurts Russia and the Middle East haters. Which do you want? Much higher energy prices or lower ones? Are you ready to thank him yet?
I don’t think any of the positions you broadly and universally ascribe to “liberals” is so cut and dry. At all . Fyi, Life never is.
I think the large majority of Dems would say, at least in the short-term, just get coal cleaner, and natural gas safer/cleaner. In the long-term, yeah, move towards renewables.
I may be an outlier, but I support nuclear– BUT I think we should improve the safety/tech first.
Amidst all that, the questions become how you (the gov) support the economics and effectiveness of improving safety/ health/tech improvements.,
This whole investigation feels like it’s definitely in the endgame.
Does Trump issue Xmas pardons?
Or try to fire Mueller on January 2nd?
Because I see that one of the pending step is indicting Don Jr.
And family is the real red line for Trump.
But Trump also clearly not liking the discovery of the Russian deal, which means something was probly really fishy with the deal. The worst possibility is that some proceeds from the TT project would be kicked back to Kremlin, and the % would be nice and fat for Russia’s extra efforts in election.
I obviously don’t wish for such things to have happened, but I sure want to know if they did.
My guess is Mueller asked questions where he already knew the truthful answers, so that when Trump answers as only in the way where he doesn’t admit doing anything wrong, it can be proven false. So, yeah, I’m bracing for some Constitutional crisis stuff.
I heard – and it make sense-that Whitaker needs to get an opinion from DoJ Ethics on any conflicts– most probly w particular regard to that old business of his that’s under investigation?
But if that’s correct, then it might be this guy who signs off one way or another:
https://www.justice.gov/jmd/meet-assistant-attorney-general-0
Since we must politicize everything, I guess, this AAG- appointed in ’06- would be a “Bush Attorney” or a “Bushy”.
Little clarification- The guy I linked to is the guy who oversees the division which includes the Ethics Office, so he may be the guy who signs off on whether Whitaker has any conflicts re: any investigation, or whether Whitaker needs to recuse. That kind of decision may also go up the chain, and I wouldn’t even be able to tell you if the Ethics Office’s opinion was binding or not. But I think it’s in play.
Maybe this?
“The Trump Organization Planned To Give Vladimir Putin The $50 Million Penthouse In Trump Tower Moscow”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/the-trump-organization-planned-to-give-vladimir-putin-the?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc
Well, just damn! I can’t make it work – guess y’all have to click on the link to see Beeler’s cartoon.
Yea, it really is that simple! Thanks, Sally!
Notice the shiny new wall?
That’s the only wall Mexico is paying for, the imaginary one!