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Death will become the extremely wealthy
Devaluation and international debt will remove their wealth
RFord ... then who do you get?
The puppeteer?
You will never find the hand
Yes, Scotty11, a turnaround would come from lowering carbon and methane emissions to a safe level but it may not be quick. Global warming has been accelerating and you can hardly turn on the news nowadays without hearing about floods, wildfires, tornados, droughts, record high temperatures, record snowfalls, or some other catastrophe. The thing is, Pruitt can believe in human caused climate change and say that he doesn't in order to improve his position in politics or increase the balance in his bank account. He is a liar just like his boss.
I suspect Trump is to stupid to know what all he is doing and their affects.
I think he wants to do what Bannon, Pence and pals tell him to do so they will praise him, telling him what a great job he is doing in implementing the GOP agenda.
Of coarse anything that puts money in his pocket is great, so soon he will be as wealthy as he claimes he is.
Deepspace! Great comparison!
Trump, Pruitt, and the rest of the cabinet compared to a low life boxing promoter taking advantage of a poor boxer.
Trump in perverting the US government. He used rich people who will get huge tax breaks, not so rich people that don't know any better, and Putin to get elected. Now he's working for the rich (including himself) and Putin (who is also rich). All of his appointments are for the purpose of enriching the rich, including himself. Each has a role to play. Pruitt's role is to relax anti-pollution standards, thus giving rich people in the fossil fuel, chemical, and manufacturing business the ability to make more money by not spending money to safeguard against polluting. Pruitt is just one dangerous part of crazy man, Trump's plan to make America work for only the rich (Great Again). Trump is a high functioning fruitcake that will not likely last out the year as president. I say he'll be out by June the 1st. My wife says May 1st. There's a betting site taking bets on when he gets out of office. Let's just hope that it's before he has a chance to leave too wide of a path of destruction behind him and that the next guy, Pence is not as bad.
So, if Pruitt doesn't believe Carbon Dioxide causes climate change, what does? Or does he deny the existence of such?
On a related note: does a quick turnaround come from lowering Carbon Dioxide emissions? or from reducing Methane emissions (30x more potent as a 'heat trapping' gas)? Human caused sources, such as livestock (I'm thinking giant feedlots here), and landfills account for over 60% of the emissions.
No wailing nor nashing of teeth will change minds about global warming.
The fix will only come when a cheap clean energy source makes carbon based fuels extremely cost ineffective.
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Hephaestus- no need to apologize- I know it happened long ago, the question is, should it be allowed?
Absolutely perfect description of the "Trumpian" anomaly..... It is trajic.
I dare Scott Pruitt to eat a plate of fried bass caught in Everglades Conservation Area 3.
So, will the poor and middle class citizens of the United States be told to pay for public infrastructure while Trump and Ryan reduce taxes on the rich and wealthy? That isn't how we built our great American infrastructure after WWII. From that time, we have good roads, clean water and better sewers than 99% of the world. The Republicans have been coasting on our success ever since Eisenhower. Time's running out.
Head-in-the-sand willful ignorance. Pruitt can't allow himself to believe what is plain and has even been established experimentally on a small scale, but it would be very awkward for his fossil fuel masters. It is not just climate; Pruitt also needs to account for other phenomena such as the acidification of the oceans from acid rain caused by sulfur and nitrogen oxides from burning fossil fuels. This also presents a long-term serious problem.
I don't know the answer to Scotty11's question about a quick turnaround, but I suspect the answer is that there will no quick turnaround. Once these green house gases are in the upper atmosphere, they'll remain there for quite a while. I hope I'm mistaken.
The biggest scam.....Trump and his cabinet claim they need more information about climate change .....as they defund all of their sources that give it to them....as well as the climate satellites that report on it.
"...I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still, a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest..."
--S&G
-7050:
You really are a fruitcake!!:). Listen to your Mom, maybe she can help you get a smidgen of you credibility back. :)
Another Christmas morning.
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WE NEED AN ANTACID {a limerick and an image}
Trump’s concerts are too heavy-metaled,
their thumps and their squawks not soft-pedaled.
So our tummies aren’t placid; -
- we need an antacid
to make us feel less unsettled.
… Image:
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SOME CHARACTERISTICS of TRUMP {a rhyme}
Characteristically:
{1} Trump linguistically
conveys his moods ballistically.
And Lawdy Lawdy,
{2} he’s ever so bawdy
under his hairdo so gaudy.
Yuuge are our doubts,
{3} as our nation Trump routs
with all those dumb notions he touts.
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MY, HOW SWEET {a limerick}
You Republicans we entreat:
Please from your Rightwing retreat,
our joy complete
when Trump you defeat.
My, how sweet, how sweet.
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FEEDBACK, please: Are my rhymes of any value to this site?
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REF or UMP {a limerick}
Well, maybe I’m just a grump
when I say about President Trump
that he and his pals
perpetrate fouls, -
- so we need a ref or an ump.
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Nice try, Granny. Deflecting the important topics at hand, changing the subject, and wandering off into armchair psycho-babble, which seems to be your only modus operandi, doesn't change the underlying reality of a racist, delusional, so-called president trying to implement insane policies that are destructive to millions of innocent people in this country and hundreds of millions around the world. If you're not angry and fighting back, you're not paying attention and are part of the problem.
Again, do your homework:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25psaDxHVfg
Yup, I admit it; I'm totally fed up with all of the Trump/Republican bullshit! But this isn't about me; it's about slicing through the thick fog of lies and obfuscation that you and your fellow stooges constantly dump-truck, not only on this blog but everywhere else. What, do you think you'll get a free pass, that Democrats and liberals and progressives should just sit down and shut up while right-wing crazies pollute the airways, the internet, the world? Nope. Expect both barrels, troll!
BTW: Check the archives; nearly all of your little inane comments and hissy fits are dripping with gratuitous digs, insults, and sarcasm. I just respond in kind, and prove over and over that, like most right-wingers, you can dish it out but you can't take it! Even your post above proves the theory yet again. So much for the Pervert in Chief's proclamation of "political incorrectness." When used by the right, the proper term is "hypocrisy" ...and God hates hypocrites.
So, Granny, why do you feel the need to post on a liberal blog -- to satisfy an unconscious urge to release your inner, wing-nut hostility? Your meds and therapy obviously are not working -- better go hide in a quiet room, drop some acid, look in the mirror, and psycho-babble to yourself. You might wake up to a bright new morning with birds singing in the trees ...or, more likely in your case, to a dimly lit padded cell with worms crawling on your scaly skin.
You're not Mommy the Monitor. This is a free-speech zone, so post as much or as little as your black heart desires. If you can't handle my politically incorrect posts, then don't read them and don't respond. Satisfy your angry urges by kicking a troll. That works for me.
I sincerely hope that hackers worldwide will use their newfound CIA tools to expose every nook and cranny of the police state, both ours and Russia's. As much as I despise Julian Assange for selling out to Putin and allowing WikiLeaks to be used as a partisan propaganda tool, this latest document dump may precipitate the final collapse -- for good or ill. Grab your life jackets and batten down the hatches!
With friends like Trump...who needs enemies??