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RFord, excellent analysis! So far, unfortunately, only about 3% of Trump voters regret their decision, according to a breakdown by Five-Thirty-Eight of recent aggregate polling data. Although it's only been two months, how much more evidence do they need to prove that they voted for a crazy man, who literally suffers from numerous psychoses? "Never underestimate the stupidity of the American electorate."
We might need even less coal.
Maybe we should tell the pro-coal people that if the climate warms, winters would be warmer, we would need less heating, and we'd need less coal.
Dan, San Diego
The people of West Virginia are not as stupid as Trump thinks they are or Trump is not as smart as they thought he was. West Virginians know coal jobs are not returning and that know that there will be less coal jobs in the future. What they want are jobs in other industries, good paying jobs, jobs with health care and retirement. What they are getting is crazy talk from a crazy man about putting them back to work in jobs that are disappearing due to a more mechanized coal industry and power plants switching over to gas rather than coal. Coal is losing out to solar and wind power too. West Virginians are beginning to realize like people all across the country that they voted for the wrong person.
The jobs are in renewable energy.
The Burlington Northern rail line is near my home. Serves southern Colorado, Parts of W Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. 1 rail car is 225,000 pounds of coal net. 100+ cars per train. 24 trains per day, 24/7/365.25. The good side is wind and solar are growing rapidly in this area. Every MW is one less railcar.
Saying "really clean coal" shows how stupid and out of touch the man is. The only good part is the prevailing winds are west to east and he lives in the east. You can only imagine how out of touch that you would get living in an Ivory Tower, traveling by private jet, weekending in Mar-a-Lago and having every aid sucking up to you. The damage done by the Trump voters will never be recovered.
https://skepticalscience.com/Increasing-Carbon-Dioxide-is-not-good-for-plants.html
Kend, I know you wrote that because you just wanted to be cute and sassy, and not add a worthy addition to this conversation. Still, I'll politely give you this fact-filled information to cure your misunderstanding. https://skepticalscience.com/Increasing-Carbon-Dioxide-is-not-good-for-plants.html
Canadian here. More specifically someone who lives in the Province of Ontario.
Our Medicall costs are covered 100% with no out of pocket. As someone living in Ontario (not all provinces have this additional cost) who earns more than $20,000.00 a year I am required to 'pay' a premium of $50.00 a month. When I say 'pay' what really happens is the payment is included when you file your Income Tax so you aren't paying it 'out of pocket'. The premium is on a sliding scale of $300.00 a year for those earning 20-25 a year to a few thousand on those making over $200,000.00 a year.
If you don't work, you are still covered, you just don't pay the premium.
The Healthcare here is mandated by the Federal government but each Province institutes it. That is why Ontario mat have a premium and other Provinces don't.
But I have a prime example; A friend of mine is undergoing Pancreatic Cancer therapy.
On Tuesday he told me that the tab so far would be $140.000.00.
But as Canadian his cost is zero and there is no cost limit etcetera.
By the way as most of you Americans must realize by now, it's not just Republicans against Single Payer. You got a lot of Dems as well.
You need to filter out the Pelosis and Hoyers and elect Progressives.
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/canada-health-care-system.html
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THE PACHYDERM SQUIRMS - {a limerick}
The Republican pachyderm
is a creature who would squirm
at the sight of a mouse
or the plight of the House
when there’s trouble it ought to confirm.
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HORROR MOVIE - {a rhyme}
Rightism’s set of sectors
{Trumpists, Plutocrats, Alt-Righters}
are dangerous mis-directors
of our destiny. - And bad script-writers
of our horror movie, with spectres
of governance by degenerate blighters.
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HOW CAN WE BE CHIPPER? - {a limerick}
How can we citizens be chipper
when our Ship of State has a skipper
who’s an ego-tripper
whose mouth needs a zipper
and who into-the-till is a dipper?
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Time to Awaken The Species . It 's a great book it gives us 16 differences that an advanced race of beings who are more evolved than us would implement in their society.
We as a young lesser evolved species are really not out of toddler stage yet. But those of us awake have to step up and step out and show the way . Organised religion has been slowing our evolutionary path for millenia, time to transcend those beliefs that keep us in bondage.
Those of us that are awake have to self select and be the catalyst to awaken others .
The man who destroyed the world? His hatred knows no bounds and millions of us remain his helpless victims who can do nothing but have our private rage? What is wrong here? My answer as it always has been is religion. This man is backed by right wing Catholics and Protestants who would have collaborated with Hitler. We let these churches get away with their support of the third reich during WWII and are continuing to grant them privileges and exemptions from our democratic rules. We are living to see the horrible results of this terrible mistake as they now use Trump to dismantle our constitutional protections against their tyranny. When are we going to wake up and stop the automatic tax exemption religion gets? Do we have to let religion destroy our democracy first before we all realize this?
This sounds true:
Yes, Hephaestus, and all it does is make us sick(er).
Look at the bright side. Plants are happy. More food for them. I heard a rumour plants where going to file a class action lawsuit against the US government because it was trying to starve them to death with all the CO 2 reductions
Thank you, deepspace. I like being surrounded by live volcanoes ... it's so kinetic.
"....really clean coal..." ?? Is that like "a really nice kick in the groin..." ?
If our president was reflective he would realize there is nothing remarkable in making his legacy one of simply UN-doing the actions of his predecessor. He seems to have absolutely no creative/critical thought of his own. So sad.
Note to bill turner (#3):
Don't drop acid and watch Fox Faux News.
...or read Trump's Twitter feed.
When is it going to end? If this continues, they'll shut down all the sewage treatment plants and dump raw sewage in to our lakes and rivers. "America The Beautiful" will become "America The Dirty And Stinky".
If Trump opens his mouth (or uses twitter) its is a lie:
No miners are going back to work. Any that have lost their jobs are for a variety of reasons, mostly economic, in that coal is simply too expensive.
It wasn't "bold action" it was whimpy action from a looser. Bold action would be funding and incentives for solar and wind. Now that would create real jobs, lasting jobs, and skilled jobs.
Ther is no "clean coal" never has been, and never will be. This is simple science of combustion. Even if you somehow were to get energy out of coal without burning it, the environmental results of mining are anything but clean.
The poxy allah-phants in the room are still .....No 1. mus-lam demands infidel-genocide No 2. No moslum is a civilian (not allowed to be). NOTE. The only purpose of being (or remaining) muzee, is the juvenile-misogynistic (mosque-promised) Fantasy-rapist-future, supplied by their fictitious Mass-Murder-Motivator and Planet-Re-placer, (who they call MAHDI (Santa-Claus, / Uncle-Pervy) who is to supply the promised 7 levels of muzi-(rapist) heven. And all this muz-lamic cock & bull (Concocted originally) to help motivate-mentality, the massacre of the local (7th-century) Semite neighbors, plus steal all land / products / assets in all the (then) known, flat-world. .... But, NOTE. mahdi; will not bring the sexual-sweets / river of wine / 300 sexy boys / new bigger cok/ sex 100 times a day (raping your grand-children) or the new & flatter-than-flat planet-pedo. etc. etc. until any-place housing Jews, (then & forever) is totally eliminated (today called Israel / USA plus ?). ....I repeat....No mo-slum is a civilian. Its just a question of, are they at Stage 1. Stage 2. or Stage 3. ..Thats why world-war has been continuous, since muz-lam was invented and wherever mos-lam is allowed, there will never be / can never be, (ever), a genuine truce. (or peaceful-end), to this 7th century voodoo-insanity. (duh).........Their Infidel-genocide Project is (Stage 1.) INVADE (deceive and infiltrate) the next golden-goose) (and try to appear a non-combatant i.e. Barry O'SoFraudo)... Stage 2. Is. SUBVERT & WEAKEN (mentally & financially) with contemptuous hand-biting/ crime of every sort (and is always a tax-paying infidel (slaves) nightmare ) to fund (then sucker-punch) the next bunch of too-civilized ostriches/ do-do good-ers.. Stage 3. (ISIS) Blatant/ Open, INFIDEL-GENOCIDE (yes you / anyone productive/ civilized) .. Stage 4. Is mahdi (uncle-pervy) RAPIST-REWARD (for mass-murder) . . Today you see in Europe the current Trojan-camels, marching, full of sKILLed migrants, (KILL, usually in the media fine-print) muzi-mafia, death-squads, (a moslami-tsunami of rapeUgees). Re-combining again, the Unholy anti-semitic trinity, of muzi, nazi and micks. (from WW flare-up No 2)... .NOTE. the muzi world-conquest (war), which has been continuous since the invention of mos-lam are today, traitorously-aided (and abetted), by socialist media-prostitutes, relentlessly-camouflaging them as deserving-victims (or as a beneficial ? religion ?) but obvious to blind-Freddy that muz-lam has always been just a medi(very)evil, mafia pyramid-scam, (usually hidden in plain view), but still needing and demanding, rote-learning of mythology, as the pinnacle-Project, (for a primary-purpose), of systematic child-abuse (to produce these permanently-indoctrinated-dolts) but its not visible (apparently) to the media/ legal-prostitutes, peace-nicks, and other Obamic, useful-idiot bribed/ extorted pawns). ...Any policing-troops, sent to try to stop them killing each other, or explain the golden-rule / untangle that web of snakes, (ASPS) (Apartheid, Supremacist, Parasitic, Shitheads,) is a total waste of time /money (and futile/ thankless-optimism). As when anyone mentions the golden rule; (or the world is round) is when they suddenly join-forces (to fight off any disruption to madhi cuming) as both sides (the too-muzi & the not-enough-muzi) both believe it is their rape-reward (of your grand children) is exclusively theirs ( and that is why their self-culling cannibalism, has been the biggest killer of moslums for centuries) mostly between the lazy-sluts (parasitic population-bomb-ers) against the Stage 3 rs. (over-eager rabid-rapists). Well it is just 7th century, medieval, violent-voodoo after all, so what do you expect ? duh). Always insanely-insane, but now (via fossil-oil) insanely-rich /and now still also funded by the banking/wanking Illuminati (who always fund and promote any conflict) so turbo-charged to / is, now corrupting-sanity world-wide (via funding both media-prostitutes / socialist (economy-killing) political parties) etc.. You dont think Saudi Arabia got to control the UN/EU, based on their human-rights records, Did you ?. Or why they fund / control irresponsible, parasitic-cretin thug-groups worldwide, from the usual suspect rent-a-mobs (the useful-idiots socialist gang-greenies/ global warming / communal-bicycles wankers) through to Black-Lies-Matter NOTE. Co2 is rising (beneficially ) at 1 millionth, per 5 years. (following a sun-driven warming since the last mini ice-age) at 0.8* per century. So all non-moslum industrious-productivity must stop immediately. WTF ? Who will benefit ? (Yes no-one) NOTE muzi do still chant Praise the Prophet (pedophile) not this planet. (With head in sand 5 times a day, kissing stones and chanting death to you should know who (by now.) The 8th century Arab-warning never trust a moslum is never truer. P.S. I suggest you buy Gun-Deodorant (for under both arms).,,,,As muzi sharia (slavery/ blasphemy-codes), are controlling you already. And whether killing while dying (or dying while killing) muz-lam still promises rape, as reward for your murder.
Beautiful poem and inspiring website! Mount hood has touched our common spirit. Another sacred paradise is Glacier Park in Montana. Nature is always the greatest teacher, our first and last.
The reason that we have to allow this to happen so that these same coal barons will get their payoffs. Once this happnes, we won't have to pay anymore and the coal industry can die a normal death just like lead, iron etc. It is a small price to pay to get rid of the middlemen.
Of all Trump's numerous idiocies -- too many to list here (just read one day's headlines) -- the denial of Anthropogenic Climate Disruption is his greatest hit, the only legacy that future generations are sure to remember.