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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: May 30, 2019, 01:59:59 AM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_glacial_retreat

The Holocene glacial retreat is a geographical phenomenon that involved the global deglaciation of glaciers that previously had advanced during the Last Glacial Maximum. Ice sheet retreat initiated ca. 19,000 years ago and accelerated after ca. 15,000 years ago. The Holocene, starting with abrupt warming 11,700 years ago, resulted in rapid melting of the remaining ice sheets of North America and Europe. The retreat of glaciers altered landscapes in many ways and is currently still acting as a result of climate change.

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Well there you go.

If only you could understand what you quote.

LOL

Yes climate change that started 15,000 to 19,000 years ago...my petrol-driven car was not on the road then.
The industrial revolution wasn't even invented, nor were the coal-fired power stations providing my electricity.

Someone tell the kiddies in Israel etc protesting 'climate change'.

That's not what it says, Bambi-ignorance.

It says that the retreating glaciers today are because of climate change - the type you deny.

But you can't even admit that you misread it. You used to be able to grant when you got stuff wrong, but not anymore.

It does say that retreating glaciers are because of climate change...climate change that happened all by itself 15,000 years ago...and continues today, all by itself, just like it did before.
Like the globe that heats up by itself and cools down by itself.

Goods news...bambu-ilk won't be made buy electric cars now...Conservatives won 'the unwinnable election'.
Buying electric cars will be optional...as it always should be.

Forcing people to buy electric cars is oh so "Nazi Germany".
We the People downunder are forced to vote...that's bad enough.

Nearly $400 billion in extra taxes Leftist Labor was going to introduce.
. Death/inheritance tax
. Increased taxes on people's superannuation savings
. Increased taxes on investors who own rental properties...people renting would've seen their rents rise.
. Increased taxes on self-funded retirees who have shares as investment...loss of income for folks who worked hard all their lives and saved.
. Close down all coal-fired power stations..."coal is evil".."coal to be replaced by renewables"...."100% renewables".
. 50% reduction in emissions target by 2030 or whatever.
. etc.
And "redistribute the wealth", "class warfare", "gender warfare" ['50% women, sack men and give women their jobs'] they were all about.
Also use the taxes for 'climate change'.

Leftist Labor proposed Treasurer said;
"We make no apologies for these policies of ours...if you don't like it, vote for someone else".
So the people did...voted for someone else!  LOL
Yes, Bill Shorten/Leftist Labor lost the 'unlosable election'...much like HRC and co did.

EXCELLENT post, sir.
As sure as stink follows shit.

You might wanna start paying attention...
The Left will be coming for your wealth too!

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/04/15/why-democrats-like-taxes-again/

Why Democrats Like Taxes Again

Tax reform is rarely a stirring political subject, but there have been times in the past when the question of what citizens owe to our collective good—or, conversely, how much they should keep to themselves—has ignited a real national conversation and a change of direction. The 2020 presidential race looks likely to be one of those moments, since it’s already clear that overhauling the tax code is going to be a central part of the political debate, at least on the Democratic side.

Unlike past cycles, this time Democrats won’t be content to propose higher tax rates simply as a vehicle for realizing other policy aspirations. Raising taxes has become an end in itself, a way to radically reorder our economy and even the structure of power. Some Democrats have realized that taxes can be wielded to reduce income inequality and, in the process, take power out of a few private hands and invest it instead in the democratic collective. This marks a dramatic change—and a very necessary one.

Already, one Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Elizabeth Warren, has made a big splash with a new tax plan. In January, she proposed a new wealth tax that would charge 2 percent on Americans with assets of more than $50 million and an additional 3 percent on those with $1 billion or more. Her campaign staff estimate that this proposal alone will raise $2.75 trillion in revenue over a decade. That would be an extra $210 billion a year, equal to 1 percent of the US’s entire GDP. But she has argued that it’s about more than just filling government coffers, saying it “will help address runaway wealth concentration.” As she told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes:


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Ah yes...'redistribute the wealth'.
Just the start.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: May 27, 2019, 10:26:08 PM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_glacial_retreat

The Holocene glacial retreat is a geographical phenomenon that involved the global deglaciation of glaciers that previously had advanced during the Last Glacial Maximum. Ice sheet retreat initiated ca. 19,000 years ago and accelerated after ca. 15,000 years ago. The Holocene, starting with abrupt warming 11,700 years ago, resulted in rapid melting of the remaining ice sheets of North America and Europe. The retreat of glaciers altered landscapes in many ways and is currently still acting as a result of climate change.

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Well there you go.

If only you could understand what you quote.

LOL

Yes climate change that started 15,000 to 19,000 years ago...my petrol-driven car was not on the road then.
The industrial revolution wasn't even invented, nor were the coal-fired power stations providing my electricity.

Someone tell the kiddies in Israel etc protesting 'climate change'.

That's not what it says, Bambi-ignorance.

It says that the retreating glaciers today are because of climate change - the type you deny.

But you can't even admit that you misread it. You used to be able to grant when you got stuff wrong, but not anymore.

It does say that retreating glaciers are because of climate change...climate change that happened all by itself 15,000 years ago...and continues today, all by itself, just like it did before.
Like the globe that heats up by itself and cools down by itself.

Goods news...bambu-ilk won't be made buy electric cars now...Conservatives won 'the unwinnable election'.
Buying electric cars will be optional...as it always should be.

Forcing people to buy electric cars is oh so "Nazi Germany".
We the People downunder are forced to vote...that's bad enough.

Nearly $400 billion in extra taxes Leftist Labor was going to introduce.
. Death/inheritance tax
. Increased taxes on people's superannuation savings
. Increased taxes on investors who own rental properties...people renting would've seen their rents rise.
. Increased taxes on self-funded retirees who have shares as investment...loss of income for folks who worked hard all their lives and saved.
. Close down all coal-fired power stations..."coal is evil".."coal to be replaced by renewables"...."100% renewables".
. 50% reduction in emissions target by 2030 or whatever.
. etc.
And "redistribute the wealth", "class warfare", "gender warfare" ['50% women, sack men and give women their jobs'] they were all about.
Also use the taxes for 'climate change'.

Leftist Labor proposed Treasurer said;
"We make no apologies for these policies of ours...if you don't like it, vote for someone else".
So the people did...voted for someone else!  LOL
Yes, Bill Shorten/Leftist Labor lost the 'unlosable election'...much like HRC and co did.



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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: May 27, 2019, 09:02:42 PM »
Want no wall...open borders...anyone and everyone just allowed in 'for a better life'?

bambu says;  "be careful what you wish for".
Do you think that the argument(s) against the wall are arguments for open borders?

Yes.
Basically open borders.

Elementary logic;

No proper, impenetrable Israel-style fence/wall is in place now and hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants are simply 'walking' over the border every few years.
People in favour of no wall are indeed arguing for what's in place now to continue.
And what's "in place" now is not, by any stretch of the imagination "open borders." Unless you spend all day watching Fox News. But to indulge you, do you know how long the Israeli border is?

Now, all they need is a ladder, and over the wall they go.
Barbed wire, razor wire etc would fix that...until a new wall can be built.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: May 27, 2019, 08:52:10 PM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_glacial_retreat

The Holocene glacial retreat is a geographical phenomenon that involved the global deglaciation of glaciers that previously had advanced during the Last Glacial Maximum. Ice sheet retreat initiated ca. 19,000 years ago and accelerated after ca. 15,000 years ago. The Holocene, starting with abrupt warming 11,700 years ago, resulted in rapid melting of the remaining ice sheets of North America and Europe. The retreat of glaciers altered landscapes in many ways and is currently still acting as a result of climate change.

#####

Well there you go.

If only you could understand what you quote.

LOL

Yes climate change that started 15,000 to 19,000 years ago...my petrol-driven car was not on the road then.
The industrial revolution wasn't even invented, nor were the coal-fired power stations providing my electricity.

Someone tell the kiddies in Israel etc protesting 'climate change'.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: May 27, 2019, 12:38:49 PM »
Want no wall...open borders...anyone and everyone just allowed in 'for a better life'?

bambu says;  "be careful what you wish for".
Do you think that the argument(s) against the wall are arguments for open borders?

Yes.
Basically open borders.

Elementary logic;

No proper, impenetrable Israel-style fence/wall is in place now and hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants are simply 'walking' over the border every few years.
People in favour of no wall are indeed arguing for what's in place now to continue.
Just out of curiousity, do you know how long the Israeli border is?

Nowhere near as long as the Mexican border?

How would you seal the Mexican border other than with an impenetrable wall/fence?

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: May 27, 2019, 12:35:31 PM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_glacial_retreat

The Holocene glacial retreat is a geographical phenomenon that involved the global deglaciation of glaciers that previously had advanced during the Last Glacial Maximum. Ice sheet retreat initiated ca. 19,000 years ago and accelerated after ca. 15,000 years ago. The Holocene, starting with abrupt warming 11,700 years ago, resulted in rapid melting of the remaining ice sheets of North America and Europe. The retreat of glaciers altered landscapes in many ways and is currently still acting as a result of climate change.

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Well there you go.

52
Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: May 27, 2019, 12:25:38 PM »
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2019/05/24/bigger-palestinian-israeli-teens-strike-together-climate/

Getting action on the climate is more important to these teens than the conflict between their peoples.

This is a good thing.

Wonder what they expect the govt of Israel to actually do to solve 'climate change', ...given that the climate is always changing, ice ages come and go, and the planet heats up and cools all by itself...and Israel is the size of a postage stamp on the map.
Maybe they think Israel should have electric tanks...and electric warplanes...basically toys.
Here's an idea...what about the striking kiddies go down to Hamas HQ and tell them to stop firing missiles into Israel.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: May 27, 2019, 12:15:44 PM »
Want no wall...open borders...anyone and everyone just allowed in 'for a better life'?

bambu says;  "be careful what you wish for".
Do you think that the argument(s) against the wall are arguments for open borders?

Yes.
Basically open borders.

Elementary logic;

No proper, impenetrable Israel-style fence/wall is in place now and hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants are simply 'walking' over the border every few years.
People in favour of no wall are indeed arguing for what's in place now to continue.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: May 27, 2019, 02:43:14 AM »
Want no wall...open borders...anyone and everyone just allowed in 'for a better life'?

bambu says;  "be careful what you wish for".

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: May 26, 2019, 11:20:48 PM »
There are not enough toilets on 'skid row' in LA.
Residents have to urinate and defecate into buckets then empty the contents into the street.
Ew!
The city should be doing better.

Skid Row is worse than anything you can imagine. My Great Grandfather was an alcoholic and he died on Skid Row in Los Angeles. He was once the Chief of Police in Denver, Colorado.

People on Skid Row sit there in their own piss and shit, and covered in their own vomit, and when the police go on patrol in the morning the cops find dead bodies lying on the sidewalks, the people die during the night.

I think that Skid Row should be outlawed, send the people some place where they can get help, send them to Pasaadena, to Union Station in Pasadena, or  wherever, and stop them from sitting there in their own piss and shit and drinking themselves to death.

https://unionstationhs.org/

Like in Anaheim, we do not have a Skid Row, instead we have shelters and N/A, etc, and Chrysalis, etc.

https://changelives.org/

And this Tom Petty video with Anthony Hopkins sets the tone for what Skid Row is like. They fight their demons, and they either forgive, or they become consumed by hate and go insane.

https://youtu.be/jezqNxQ8mb0

Salute,

Tony V.

Great grandfather...skid row in LA has been going that long...even more of an outrage.

Yes, skid row should be outlawed.
Can't just be having people living like that in a first world country.

Send them to a nice place in the mountains...rehab place...medical professionals, incl mental health professionals...warm beds, good food, no alcohol or drugs.
Nice grounds in which to wander, sit, lie, read etc.

No money?
No excuse.
Federal govt should spend $595 billion pa on defence instead of $600 billion pa.



 

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: May 26, 2019, 09:44:36 PM »
Achtung, bitches!

https://sojo.net/articles/ice-detains-pastor-leaving-wisconsin-community-reeling

Right now it’s black snd brown people but sooner or later it’s gonna be what category of white you’re identified as.
Scared children?
Whose fault is that, in reality?

The people scaring them.

A child is a child, as surely as illegal is illegal. Scaring children is not required for the government, even to do the job you think they should be doing.

Your brutality and insensitivity to others' pain is noted, as usual.

The people who put them in a position where they could be scared.
As if ICE.. E for "enforcement"...agents are gonna be just walking in with coffee and cakes in hand for a chat with any lawbreaker/s.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: May 26, 2019, 08:03:58 PM »
There are not enough toilets on 'skid row' in LA.
Residents have to urinate and defecate into buckets then empty the contents into the street.
Ew!
The city should be doing better.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: May 26, 2019, 08:01:20 PM »
Achtung, bitches!

https://sojo.net/articles/ice-detains-pastor-leaving-wisconsin-community-reeling

Right now it’s black snd brown people but sooner or later it’s gonna be what category of white you’re identified as.

If you're in the country illegally, you're in the country illegally.
There's no time limit on illegal, unless there's an amnesty.
Sooner or later there could be a knock on your door.
You can run but you cannot hide forever, unless you win the lottery of luck.

Scared children?
Whose fault is that, in reality?

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: May 24, 2019, 06:06:46 PM »
The People wanted Rudolf Abel walked into the death chamber and wheeled out dead...for espionage crime against the US.
They'll be wanting Assange put in the chamber of death too...if they get their hands on him.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/01/us-embassy-cables-executed-mike-huckabee

US embassy cables culprit should be executed, says Mike Huckabee

  Republican presidential hopeful wants the person responsible for the WikiLeaks cables to face capital punishment for treason


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https://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/04/politics/kfile-trump-wikileaks/index.html

Trump in 2010: WikiLeaks 'disgraceful,' there 'should be like death penalty or something'


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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: May 24, 2019, 05:46:13 PM »
:)President Trump walked out on Pelosi and Schumer’s meeting on “ infrastructure” with Trump mad that Pelosi asserted he was guilty of a coverup.

After Mr. Trump walked out, Ms. Pelosi turned to other Democrats there and recounted a story about how Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt had each brought people together to solve infrastructure problems.
“I knew he was looking for a way out,” Ms. Pelosi concluded. “We were expecting this.”
Kellyanne Conway, the counselor to the president, was in the room. “Respectfully, Madam Speaker,” she asked, “do you have a direct response to the president?”
Ms. Pelosi said she was responding to the president, not members of his staff.


Which is certainly understandable given that she and trump head co-equal branches of our Government.
But.
What to make of the House committee subpoenaing AG William Barr on the condition he be questioned by Committee staff?
Kudos to Barr for giving the Committee the Pelosi-style backhand.

Meanwhile Barr indicts asshole Assange in a bullshit attack on Journalism and the First Amendment.

Achtung, motherfuckers!

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/23/18637668/julian-assange-indictment-wikileaks-espionage-act

Which would see him off to the US death chamber for extermination.
Britain will stand condemned if it extradites him.

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