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Post by missouriboy on Dec 4, 2019 17:05:22 GMT
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Post by walnut on Dec 4, 2019 19:59:28 GMT
Virginia always struck me as the heart of prosperous America. I hate to see bad headlines like that.
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 4, 2019 20:20:31 GMT
Virginia always struck me as the heart of prosperous America. I hate to see bad headlines like that. Virginia is becoming the dormitory for the Washington DC swamp. Those GOP that are here are of the never-Trump RINO persuasion and there does not seem to have been any real attempt to get Republican voters out to vote or even to put GOP candidates in every district. In many ways the Virginia elections are what was expected in the last presidential election. Jeb Bush was intended to be the candidate and he was set to come in a creditable second to Hillary. Unfortunately, for both Democrats and RINOs the script for the presidential election didn't turn out as they expected. Hence the rear guard action that continues and will continue till November 2020. Apart from losing the TPP and the TTIP treaties they also lost the COP-21 Green Fund. But now Trump if he wins another term may get 2 more Supreme Court justices replacing those who legislate from the bench with strict constitutionalists who may be against Roe vs Wade and other Democrat shibboleths and with young justices that could mean 30 - 40 years of constitutional rule; plus Trump will continue appointing judges to appeals and federal courts where the balance is now more neutral another 4 years of Trump could see that shift to constituionalist too. Soros has been funding all the local democrats in local elections. Bloomberg has been giving 'free' lawyers to work in the State attorney general offices. The swamp in short is seeping out into the states.
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 5, 2019 7:20:08 GMT
We may need to drop in more alligators. Non-partisan eaters. Of course reptile warmers would be required.
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 5, 2019 18:20:27 GMT
Maybe We're Screwed - Maybe We're Not - This puppy could still go either way. We'd better vote in mass. www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/voters_blame_humans_for_climate_change_but_spare_air_travel_meat_consumption?utm_campaign=RR12052019DN&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=emailVoters see a climate change catastrophe ahead and tend to blame humans rather than Mother Nature for it. Those who blame humans want the government to do something about the threat but aren’t prepared to limit air travel or stop eating meat. A new Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 63% of Likely U.S. Voters consider it likely that climate change will be catastrophic for humans, plants and animals, with 43% who say it’s Very Likely. Thirty-four percent (34%) think such a catastrophe is unlikely, including 16% who feel it’s Not At All Likely. (To see survey question wording, click here.) Forty-eight percent (48%) believe climate change is caused primarily by human activity, the view held by climate change activists who seek major government intervention. Thirty-eight percent (38%) disagree and say long-term planetary trends are largely to blame. Fourteen percent (14%) are not sure. This is consistent with regular surveying in recent years. Among voters who see human activity as the chief culprit, 76% believe the federal or state governments should require people to engage in activities that will lower carbon dioxide emissions. Fifty percent (50%) of these voters think the federal or state governments should punish with fines or jail time fossil-fuel business owners and/or executives. But just 34% of voters who blame human activity for climate change want the government to require people to limit their air travel to help stop climate change. Only 24% of these voters believe government should require people to limit their consumption of meat to help stop climate change. The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted November 13-14, 2019 by the Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology. Most voters continue to worry about global warming AKA climate change but not enough to part with their hard-earned money to do something about it.
Women and those under 40 are more likely than men and older voters to say it’s Very Likely climate change will be catastrophic to humans, plants and animals. Women and younger voters are also more likely to blame human activity for climate change. Sixty-two percent (62%) of Democrats consider a climate change catastrophe Very Likely, compared to 24% of Republicans and 42% of voters not affiliated with either major party. Democrats by similar margins are the most likely to say human activity is primarily at fault. Among voters who blame humans, however, there is far less difference of opinion when it comes to how the government should respond. Those under 40 are noticeably more likely than their elders, though, to favor government restrictions on air travel and meat consumption. Sixty-seven percent (67%) of Democrats - and 48% of all voters - agree with Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders that the United States has only 12 years to aggressively fight climate change or else there will be disastrous and irreparable damage to the country and the world. But 61% of voters also think that most politicians just raise climate change issues to get elected rather than to address real problems. Only 23% agreed with Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in January when she said climate change is our World War III and that the world will end in 12 years if the issue is not addressed. Ocasio-Cortez called for restrictions on air travel and cars. Democrats are far less convinced than Republicans and unaffiliated voters that a free-market system is superior to a socialist one and are much more willing to vote for a socialist candidate. Those under 40 are a lot more responsive to the siren call of socialism than older voters are. While some climate change activists have proposed criminally prosecuting those who question the science behind it, most voters have said in surveys over the past several years that the scientific debate over global warming is not over.
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 6, 2019 16:22:53 GMT
There is a probability that several of Schiff's targets are not those that he should have thought to annoy - top lawyers are rather adept at finding ways to respond to this kind of illegal action. I think Schiff may well find he is selling matches in the next 18 months.
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 6, 2019 19:32:21 GMT
Bonfire of the vanities? The "Devil" is into the details.
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Post by glennkoks on Dec 10, 2019 17:42:48 GMT
I just got back from a short trip to LA. And coming from Texas I have to admit to a little "culture shock". Gas was 3.59 a gallon. Currently it is about 1.99 a gallon in my home state. Another item that grabbed my attention was the signs that said "California Law: Straws are available upon request" at restaurants. Apparently they can hand out paper straws but if you want a plastic one you have to ask for it specifically.
I guess in theory it kind of makes sense to my moderate Texan mind but it just would never get any traction in the Lone Star State. And I am not sure killing trees to make paper straws is that much of a net gain environmentally over plastic ones.
In short "If I wanted America To Fail" I would create burdensome non effective regulations and use taxation to stifle economic growth. Energy is the lifeblood of the economy and artificially inflating the costs to travel or heat my home leaves me less expendable income to spend on something else. Like dinner, or a new car or my kids education. Etc...
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Post by Ratty on Dec 10, 2019 23:22:01 GMT
I just got back from a short trip to LA. And coming from Texas I have to admit to a little "culture shock". Gas was 3.59 a gallon. Currently it is about 1.99 a gallon in my home state. Another item that grabbed my attention was the signs that said "California Law: Straws are available upon request" at restaurants. Apparently they can hand out paper straws but if you want a plastic one you have to ask for it specifically. I guess in theory it kind of makes sense to my moderate Texan mind but it just would never get any traction in the Lone Star State. And I am not sure killing trees to make paper straws is that much of a net gain environmentally over plastic ones. In short "If I wanted America To Fail" I would create burdensome non effective regulations and use taxation to stifle economic growth. Energy is the lifeblood of the economy and artificially inflating the costs to travel or heat my home leaves me less expendable income to spend on something else. Like dinner, or a new car or my kids education. Etc... Last paragraph says it all.
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Post by Ratty on Dec 11, 2019 6:21:53 GMT
I just got back from a short trip to LA. And coming from Texas I have to admit to a little "culture shock". Gas was 3.59 a gallon. Currently it is about 1.99 a gallon in my home state. Another item that grabbed my attention was the signs that said "California Law: Straws are available upon request" at restaurants. Apparently they can hand out paper straws but if you want a plastic one you have to ask for it specifically. I guess in theory it kind of makes sense to my moderate Texan mind but it just would never get any traction in the Lone Star State. And I am not sure killing trees to make paper straws is that much of a net gain environmentally over plastic ones. In short "If I wanted America To Fail" I would create burdensome non effective regulations and use taxation to stifle economic growth. Energy is the lifeblood of the economy and artificially inflating the costs to travel or heat my home leaves me less expendable income to spend on something else. Like dinner, or a new car or my kids education. Etc... $1.99? The average Regular gas price in Seattle, WA is $3.51, which is $0.83 higher than U.S. national average Regular gas price $2.68. Coming home this afternoon, I noticed a Caltex servo displaying $1.719c/litre. To fill a can holding exactly one US gallon would cost me $AU6.50 or $US4.14 at today's exchange rate. I clearly recall the first ever fuel price I posted when discount petrol/price boards started in Australia, maybe late 1970s? 13.7c/litre.
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Post by nonentropic on Dec 11, 2019 23:55:10 GMT
Sitting at airport on Gold Coast Australia waiting for plane, terminal in turmoil as power has failed for hours hot as hell all electronic gates dead aircon dead emergency power only able to spin fans, hired. background temperature 30C and rising terminal is more.
Australia's application to join the "third world" was declined yesterday, to borrow a line from "not the nine o'clock news" from at least 25 years ago.
Reliable power is central to defining the difference between countries such as Australia and the Solomon Islands. We need to call this stuff out where we see it.
Ratty pick this up I have met you and you can do it.
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Post by Ratty on Dec 12, 2019 0:44:38 GMT
Sitting at airport on Gold Coast Australia waiting for plane, terminal in turmoil as power has failed for hours hot as hell all electronic gates dead aircon dead emergency power only able to spin fans, hired. background temperature 30C and rising terminal is more. Australia's application to join the "third world" was declined yesterday, to borrow a line from "not the nine o'clock news" from at least 25 years ago. Reliable power is central to defining the difference between countries such as Australia and the Solomon Islands. We need to call this stuff out where we see it. Ratty pick this up I have met you and you can do it. Weren't you listening when I ran thru my list of medical problems? Incidentally, there was no report of the airport power problems. Holiday season cover up?
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Post by nonentropic on Dec 12, 2019 8:09:50 GMT
All us old farts need to work this ground. I have personally converted to skeptical 6 people that I claim full credit for. I have a further 3 in progress, they are reading the stuff and will end up at a minimum not zealots of the CAGW cluster.
Ratty you are still able to work the ground at some level. The Gold Coast airport was a disgrace power coming in and out all computers having to reboot etc. Just ask the question it was sunny how did the power fall over???
Anyway we are all working at some level, that is part of a rational process even if you see the future as an AGW outcome clearly its about a rational move from the current cluster of propositions to natural gas with nuclear as the long run proposition as simple as that.
yes all dispatchable power and all electric but that is well beyond our life expectancy.
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 14, 2019 0:20:44 GMT
$1.99? The average Regular gas price in Seattle, WA is $3.51, which is $0.83 higher than U.S. national average Regular gas price $2.68. Coming home this afternoon, I noticed a Caltex servo displaying $1.719c/litre. To fill a can holding exactly one US gallon would cost me $AU6.50 or $US4.14 at today's exchange rate. I clearly recall the first ever fuel price I posted when discount petrol/price boards started in Australia, maybe late 1970s? 13.7c/litre. You guys need to check out your federal, state and local(?) taxes on fuels. I'm paying USD 2.20 per US GALLON for regular here. None of this lit er crap. Does lit re mean you're French?
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Post by sigurdur on Dec 14, 2019 0:24:22 GMT
No, it means you are getting screwed.
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