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Njabulo #4: Excellent! Very poignant and timely! Thank you for that. It's too bad the Native American culture didn't win the day during the European expansion across the continent. Also, an absolutely awesome link, which deserves to be reposted everywhere (a sure keeper to spread around):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfGMYdalClU
None of the anti-science mishmash of nonsensical gibberish that Blow Lip's "two Steves" ( swamp-wing hacks, Bannon and Miller) slapped together for his public justification to commit history's most serious crime against humanity -- and all life on Earth -- has anything at all to do with his real reasons. No, this vindictive little man with a shallow little mind really, really hates everything Obama, liberal, democratic, or European, and his only motivation is to stick it to those who don't stroke his fat ego and stand in awe of his stolen authority.
Of course, the fake president also needs to appease his shrinking base of ignorant fools, pathetic bigots, and fragile snowflakes, who only whine and bitch about how abused and misunderstood they are; although, all of these useful idiots are merely an afterthought, bugs crunching under his $800 Gucci wingtips.
The "very, very bad people" in that accursed cosmopolitan world of tree-hugging elites are out to get him! Paranoid Donnie craps his diapers, kicks his crib, and throws temper tantrums whenever he doesn't get his way. It really is that simple. There is no sense in trying to read anything more into any of the asinine decisions issuing forth from the "very good brain" of superhero "Orange Sphincter." (--Bill Maher)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-maher-donald-trump-superheroes_us_591fda91e4b034684b0c9e2a
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/02/liberals-and-europeans-like-the-paris-deal-and-thats-why-trump-wanted-to-get-rid-of-it/
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176288/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_thank_you%2C_donald/
Just another example of the has been tv show personality illegal selected president is attempting to isolate the American people from the world for the time he makes his move to turn America into a fascist state. Hopefully the republicans have determined the time for a New American Revolution by announcing they will end health care by the end of July. The Forth of July would be appropriate.
Ou812, who claims to be a teacher in Maryland. Greenland is a land mass that the average thickness of the ice is 7005 feet. If the entire 2,850,000 cubic kilometres (684,000 cu mi) of ice were to melt, it would lead to a global sea level rise of 7.2 m (24 ft). Not to mention Antarctica and its land mass. I learned that in grade school. What do you teach to your students? At least Mar-a-Lago will be first in line. I live at 6400 ft elevation.
Mar-a-lago is among the first.
You are mischaracterizing this as nationalist rhetoric. It is merely oligarchs doing what is best for themselves. This needs to be seen as class warfare. If you make it into the US vs the World you are helping Trump. You have been in DC too long.
Utter disaster, like every thing DJT touches. It sets the US back further and further. Every move he makes takes us backwards in progress. His reign is far more unsettling already than I imagined. He has betrayed the people who voted for him, he has betrayed the American people, he has betrayed and violated the life of every human, animal, and plant. As that old Native American proverb states: "Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfGMYdalClU
...And, yes, children, believe it or not, the Hotdog Lady will be your substitute teacher for the day. Don't bother taking notes, but try to be polite and pretend to pay attention. Her towering genius is only limited by an amazing inability to grasp the simplest concepts of her subject matter. (Someone sure needs to finish middle school, but it certainly is not Legend.)
My god! Does this really need 'splaining? Ok, briefly: the Arctic ice is "sea ice" that floats on water like the sub-teach's ice cube in the glass; however, countless billions upon billions of metric tons of the planet's ice (factored in gigatonnes) -- in the Antarctica and Greenland ice sheets, the glaciers, and the ice caps -- sits on land. Global warming is melting all of Earth's ice at a truly alarming rate.
Using sub-teach's little middle-school, overly simplistic experiment (more like a preschooler's -- par for her course) as an illustration: place the glass of water with the ice cube in the sink (otherwise mom will get pissed); grab an ice-cube tray from the freezer; now dump it all into the glass. Conclusion: Mar-a-Lago will flood out and hopefully circle down the drain along with the bloated ignoramus who owns it. See, real science is fun too, kids! (Evidently, Imus in the Morning -- one of the sub-teach's go-to sources -- is a piss-poor educator also.)
http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and-climate/estimating-glacier-contribution-to-sea-level-rise/
...And, as a bonus, the class will also be entertained by Hotdog Lady's intellectual equal. Please notice the dates of Granny Di's articles, which she magnanimously shared with us lesser intellects. Sadly, it seems that she is stuck in the 70's in her 30's. Ah, those bygone days in the prime of life! Such clear and vivid memories ...so long ago yet so real; it seems just like yesterday. Now, even breakfast this morning is lost in a jumble of disconnected thoughts struggling for cognizance.
Alas, it's time to clear out the cobwebs and let the past go. Peruse the IPCC website and its links to enlighten yourself with actual scientific data, updated to reflect ongoing reality. Your great, great grandchildren and their children's children will appreciate your generation's timely epiphany, as will all the magnificent creatures in the grand circle of life, which are equally threatened by the mental incapacity of wingnut whackjobs and their feckless leader.
https://www.ipcc.ch/
It never ceases to amaze the stubbornness of narrow-minded ideologues who try to conform outside reality to fit their inner delusions despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. For instance, why would someone adamantly refuse to believe the nearly unanimous conclusions of all the voluminous, in-depth, peer-reviewed studies from 99 percent of the world's leading experts on anthropogenic climate disruption, but then take as gospel truth the scattered, outdated articles based on incomplete information or the random musings of the one percent crackpots, charlatans, and paid shills for the fossil fuel industry, who are all shamelessly pushing their own obviously suspect agendas?
The past determines the present and the present determines the future, which means the action we take this very moment is all that matters.
What trump did is vile, he is amongs friends though, who are so full of themselves and so delusional they think they are so powerful they can raise a middle finger to Nature. But at this point it doesn't matter we are way beyond saving Life on Earth. Things are so far gone that the Earth it;self is throwing it's own carbon into the mix, and that's not all. While we are focued on carbon not many are paying attention to all the water vapor going into the atmosphere. Water Vapor is also a powerfull greenhoue gas. And then there is methane. The fake news war waged by the profesional denier construct has numbed the people enough that they don;t really pay attention to it. That will change soon, This is not at all about saving our children or their children. Everyone alive today wil have to face the piper including Trump. There is no where for him to hide.
Thank God we have Jerry Brown, CA will lead the way as we always have. As the 6th largest ecnomy in the world I think we have a little pull. Now I read where NY and WA will join us in developing our own relationship with the Paris Accord. Plus we are underway to establishing close environmental ties with Canada, Mexico and China...That's what leaders do....Lead!!!
Trump is a bad dream. We need to save the planet by OUR OWN INDIVIDAL CHOICES AND CARBON FOOTPRINT. Waiting for Gadot is a waste of time, I saw the play! :)) I burn 15 gallons of gas in my 14yo VW per month, which sits for days at a time while i walk allover the small town I moved to for this purpose. I shop at the small local market but get fresh organic free range meats and fresh vegetables at the weekly farmer's market, a short walk from my apt. in a rehabed 112yo HS bldg. I have a reproduction quotient of 0.5 and recommend one-child families to solve the greatest environmental problem on earth: too many humans. Really want to save the plant, forget tRump and DC popiticians. All real change is individual. Reduce your carbon footprint:don't fly, walk, ride a bike, avoid plastic, stay out of big box stores that sell cheap products brought across oceans from 3rd world sweat shops, buy local (pay a little more, use less) and stop waiting for someone else to solve your problems. Feel me? Stress R Us.
The main problem with NAFTA is that it was implemented with a structure of property law and taxation that has protected landed (i.e., rentier) interests from the very beginning. One of the best cases for what would be REAL free and fair trade was writtein in the late 19th century by the American political economist Henry George. His book, "Protection or Free Trade," was read into the Congressional Record by several members of the U.S. House of Representatives and millions of copies were then mailed to constituents. The most important chapter in this book is the final chapter, in which Henry George warns that reductions in restrictions on trade will very quickly be capitalized into higher land rents (and higher land costs for producers of goods and services). To counter the accelerating redistribution of income and wealth from producers to non-producing "rentier" interests, George called for an annual tax on landholdings equal to the potential annual rental value of the land held.
The same tax policy should also apply to government-granted assets, such as licenses to control part of the broadcast spectrum, to paths awarded to private entities for the circumnavigation of satellites around the planet, to take-off and landing slots at airports, to leases issued for the extraction of all natural resources, and all competition-limiting licences (e.g., liquor licenses and taxi medallions).
Edward J. Dodson, M.L.A.
Director
School of Cooperative Individualism
www.cooperative-individualism.org
Legend: @14
I guess you never took middle school science. Let me give you an experiment to do.
1. Find a drinking glass.
2. Fill the glass completely with ice.
3. Fill the glass with the ice to the very top with water. Do not leave any space at all.
4. Set the glass somewhere and allow all the ice to melt.
5. How much water do you believe the melting ice will produce?
A. Twice, the volume of the glass.
B. The volume of the glass
C. 1/2 the volume of the glass.
D. None, the glass will not overflow.
The correct answer is D. Water volume in the glass will remain the same, the glass will not overflow. Melting ice does not create more water.
Science is fun, don't you wish you could go back and finish middle school. :)
Thom and Pap, you are forgetting one thing. No one in the world is smaller or more petty than Donald Trump. More than any other factor, his presidency is completely based on attempting to erase President Obama's accomplishments and legacy. Because he is a person without any sense of self-recognition, self-deprecation, or sense of humour still stinging from the public thrashing Obama gave him at the White House Correspondents dinner. Trump was seething through that entire monologue and was outraged that he was being mocked and called on his ridiculous birtherism by the black man he was trying to tarnish from the minute that black man took the office of president. I completely believe that this is the source of most of what Trump does along with his favours to his wealthy friends in the corporate class. I have no doubt that this is the motivation behind his dismantling all that Obama did and that it is more important than the high office he now occupies. The truly sad part is that he believes this will actually work.
I agree.
Yes trump is and I agree with Thom. The main problem with trunp is he says things that sound good, but in reality its all lies. I will never trust him because he should be in prison for trump university fraud. Martha Stewart did prison time just for an insider trading deal. While the corrupt US Justice System looks a blind eye at trumps illuminati dealings. Bill Clinton's is part of it with his Rhodes Scholorship education at Oxford. So actually most of DC is corrupt; except for a Bernie few!
A tribute to Drc2
1970 – Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age – Scientists See Ice Age In the Future (The Washington Post, January 11, 1970)
1970 – Is Mankind Manufacturing a New Ice Age for Itself? (L.A. Times, January 15, 1970)
1970 – New Ice Age May Descend On Man (Sumter Daily Item, January 26, 1970)
1970 – Pollution Prospect A Chilling One (Owosso Argus-Press, January 26, 1970)
1970 – Pollution’s 2-way ‘Freeze’ On Society (Middlesboro Daily News, January 28, 1970)
1970 – Cold Facts About Pollution (The Southeast Missourian, January 29, 1970)
1970 – Pollution Could Cause Ice Age, Agency Reports (St. Petersburg Times, March 4, 1970)
1970 – Pollution Called Ice Age Threat (St. Petersburg Times, June 26, 1970)
1970 – Dirt Will .Bring New Ice Age (The Sydney Morning Herald, October 19, 1970)
1971 – Ice Age Refugee Dies Underground (The Montreal Gazette, Febuary 17, 1971)
1971 – U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming (The Washington Post, July 9, 1971)
1971 – Ice Age Around the Corner (Chicago Tribune, July 10, 1971)
1971 – New Ice Age Coming – It’s Already Getting Colder (L.A. Times, October 24, 1971)
1971 – Another Ice Age? Pollution Blocking Sunlight (The Day, November 1, 1971)
1971 – Air Pollution Could Bring An Ice Age (Harlan Daily Enterprise, November 4, 1971)
1972 – Air pollution may cause ice age (Free-Lance Star, February 3, 1972)
1972 – Scientist Says New ice Age Coming (The Ledger, February 13, 1972)
1972 – Scientist predicts new ice age (Free-Lance Star, September 11, 1972)
1972 – British expert on Climate Change says Says New Ice Age Creeping Over Northern Hemisphere (Lewiston Evening Journal, September 11, 1972)
1972 – Climate Seen Cooling For Return Of Ice Age (Portsmouth Times, September 11, 1972)
1972 – New Ice Age Slipping Over North (Press-Courier, September 11, 1972)
1972 – Ice Age Begins A New Assault In North (The Age, September 12, 1972)
1972 – Weather To Get Colder (Montreal Gazette, September 12, 1972)
1972 – British climate expert predicts new Ice Age (The Christian Science Monitor, September 23, 1972)
1972 – Scientist Sees Chilling Signs of New Ice Age (L.A. Times, September 24, 1972)
1972 – Science: Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, November 13, 1972)
1973 – The Ice Age Cometh (The Saturday Review, March 24, 1973)
1973 – Weather-watchers think another ice age may be on the way (The Christian Science Monitor, December 11, 1973)
1974 – New evidence indicates ice age here (Eugene Register-Guard, May 29, 1974)
1974 – Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, June 24, 1974)
1974 – 2 Scientists Think ‘Little’ Ice Age Near (The Hartford Courant, August 11, 1974)
1974 – Ice Age, worse food crisis seen (The Chicago Tribune, October 30, 1974)
1974 – Believes Pollution Could Bring On Ice Age (Ludington Daily News, December 4, 1974)
1974 – Pollution Could Spur Ice Age, Nasa Says (Beaver Country Times, December 4, 1974)
1974 – Air Pollution May Trigger Ice Age, Scientists Feel (The Telegraph, December 5, 1974)
1974 – More Air Pollution Could Trigger Ice Age Disaster (Daily Sentinel – December 5, 1974)
1974 – Scientists Fear Smog Could Cause Ice Age (Milwaukee Journal, December 5, 1974)
1975 – Climate Changes Called Ominous (The New York Times, January 19, 1975)
1975 – Climate Change: Chilling Possibilities (Science News, March 1, 1975)
1975 – B-r-r-r-r: New Ice Age on way soon? (The Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1975)
1975 – Cooling Trends Arouse Fear That New Ice Age Coming (Eugene Register-Guard, March 2, 1975)
1975 – Is Another Ice Age Due? Arctic Ice Expands In Last Decade (Youngstown Vindicator – March 2, 1975)
1975 – Is Earth Headed For Another Ice Age? (Reading Eagle, March 2, 1975)
1975 – New Ice Age Dawning? Significant Shift In Climate Seen (Times Daily, March 2, 1975)
1975 – There’s Troublesome Weather Ahead (Tri City Herald, March 2, 1975)
1975 – Is Earth Doomed To Live Through Another Ice Age? (The Robesonian, March 3, 1975)
1975 – The Ice Age cometh: the system that controls our climate (The Chicago Tribune, April 13, 1975)
1975 – The Cooling World (Newsweek, April 28, 1975)
1975 – Scientists Ask Why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead (PDF) (The New York Times, May 21, 1975)
1975 – In the Grip of a New Ice Age? (International Wildlife, July-August, 1975)
1975 – Oil Spill Could Cause New Ice Age (Milwaukee Journal, December 11, 1975)
1976 – The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? [Book] (Lowell Ponte, 1976)
1977 – Blizzard – What Happens if it Doesn’t Stop? [Book] (George Stone, 1977)
1977 – The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age [Book] (The Impact Team, 1977)
1976 – Worrisome CIA Report; Even U.S. Farms May be Hit by Cooling Trend (U.S. News & World Report, May 31, 1976)
1977 – The Big Freeze (Time Magazine, January 31, 1977)
1977 – We Will Freeze in the Dark (Capital Cities Communications Documentary, Host: Nancy Dickerson, April 12, 1977)
1978 – The New Ice Age [Book] (Henry Gilfond, 1978)
1978 – Little Ice Age: Severe winters and cool summers ahead (Calgary Herald, January 10, 1978)
1978 – Winters Will Get Colder, ‘we’re Entering Little Ice Age’ (Ellensburg Daily Record, January 10, 1978)
1978 – Geologist Says Winters Getting Colder (Middlesboro Daily News, January 16, 1978)
1978 – It’s Going To Get Colder (Boca Raton News, January 17, 1978)
1978 – Believe new ice age is coming (The Bryan Times, March 31, 1978)
1978 – The Coming Ice Age (In Search Of TV Show, Season 2, Episode 23, Host: Leonard Nimoy, May 1978)
1978 – An Ice Age Is Coming Weather Expert Fears (Milwaukee Sentinel, November 17, 1978)
1979 – A Choice of Catastrophes – The Disasters That Threaten Our World [Book] (Isaac Asimov, 1979)
1979 – Get Ready to Freeze (Spokane Daily Chronicle, October 12, 1979)
1979 – New ice age almost upon us? (The Christian Science Monitor, November 14, 1979)
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/01/global-cooling-compilation/
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The best thing that will come of this, is Mar-a-Lago will be one of the first to go under.
Kathy Griffen, an excellent comedian, had a gag of holding A fake Trumps head. The Conservative world came down on her like armageddon. Of course Fox was all over it. Trump tweeted:
"Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself. My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!"
Kathy is a comedian. Comedians make jokes. Trump was a professional businessman and actor when he claimed that the POTUS was born in Kenya and that his birth certificate was falsified. This was done on national TV many times. There is a majority of the Republican idiots that still believe this nonsense. Not just an offensive statement but a rascist statement indicating that a black man had to be born in Kenya. I am sure that this was also offensive to Obama's 2 children. Where was the right wing and Fox News during all of that. Promoting the lie.
If you live and work overseas for years as I did, you realize how out of touch this country is with the rest of the world. We are about the only country that does not use the metric system. A by far better system to work with. If you do not believe me I challenge you to explain our system to a citizen of another country. Countries do not want our manufactured mechanical goods because they need a complete different set of tools to work on it. Trump used Celsius in his speech. "A tiny, tiny amount". He used Celsius because it sounded less than Fahrenheit and 90% of Americans have no idea what he was talking about. Just using a printer in another country becomes a challenge because we are the only country that uses 8.5" x 11". Every other country uses A4. Thus when they send you a contract it is formatted to print in A4. I will not get into how prudish we are compared to other countries. Or how other countrys build infrastructure for the people and not the 1%. We are not a leading country, we are losers living in the past.
Mayor Peduto slams Trump for using Pittsburgh in anti-Paris accord speech.
Trump “didn’t come anywhere close to winning Pittsburgh,” Peduto told reporters.
He followed up a few minutes later: “As the Mayor of Pittsburgh, I can assure you that we will follow the guidelines of the Paris Agreement for our people, our economy & future.” As of 5 p.m., that remark had been retweeted 29,000 times.
I'm with tomcalwriter1. I don't think there is anything anyone can do. Trump does what he likes and is running America like it is his own private corporation. Also, I read an article a while back that said that when he entered office, the Deep State offered him 20 billion dollars if he would do their bidding while in office, to be paid on departure. This same article asserts that the reason Al Gore did not pursue his winning of the 2000, election is that the Deep State offered him 100 million to back off and let Dubya be POTUS. If this is the case, and the Deep State has a pattern of this behavior, then this would explain the golden parachute given Obama over a one-off book deal for 60 million that doesn't make any sense outside of this pattered framework. Nope, I think Trump is going to take this country down the garden path at lightening speed for that kind of money. The question is, how much longer are We, the People, going to go along with this total destruction of living and life on planet Earth? No one is going to save us except ourselves.
I have been thinking of most of what you have written. It is easiler to get a camel through the eye of a needle, then to get Rump and his thug GoPers into heaven. Either they have no concept of either Heaven, or hell or they believe there is sancuary in hell. I have know those with both of these beliefs. I just pray there are enough republicans that still have a concept of eternity in Heaven that will keep the others from destroying us and this planet.
May the Lord bless you.
Nothing. Trump doesn't listen to anyone but the Koch brothers, Mitch McConnell, and Paul Ryan, the latter two who also are Koch brother pawns.
The only thing trump Don da con cares about is money. Your money. He and his rich club want it all. By the way do you think Jesus would be long to Mar-A-Lago club? HELL NO! Jesus is against that sort of stuff. So if Christ is against it...trump is NOT A CHRISTIAN!