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[kidcarter8]

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One of the female students told WCAX-TV that the dispute began when the trans student made an inappropriate comment as the volleyball team was changing in the locker room, triggering an incident between students

then...

The outlet reported that school officials emailed parents to tell them an investigation into

*whether the transgender student *

was harassed has been launched.

[Holly Martins]

TEN SENATE RACES - winners given after -

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/03/politics/senate-race-rankings-october-elections/index.html

COL - Dem  (Bennett)
FLA - Rep   (Rubio)
OH -   Rep (Vance)
NH -   Dem (Hassan)
NC -   Rep (Budd)
AZ -   Dem (Kelly)
WIS -  Rep (Johnson)
GA -  Dem (Warnock)
NEV -  Rep (Laxalt)
PA -  no clue (Oz, Fetterman - winner gives Senate control to party)

A few minutes later I replied.

Not really much clue on Wisconsin in five weeks, either, given the averages at 538 have been showing spreads less than the average margin of error.  And North Carolina has been at a dead heat, pollwise, the past month. 

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/2022/north-carolina/

[bambu.]

Here it is...in plain english...the madness of "renewables now", "kill the fossils now".
Lunacy if you like.

Daily Telegraph
Oct 4, 2022
James Morrow.
Subscribers only...so I'll have to type it.
Coming soon...all will be revealed.
Stand by...premiering in about 30 minutes.

[bambu.]

DT
JM

One of the funny quirks of being human is that we sometimes do really stupid things because someone convinces us it's the right thing to do.

[Hairy Lime]

DT
JM

One of the funny quirks of being human is that we sometimes do really stupid things because someone convinces us it's the right thing to do.

Yes that literally explains all of your posts.

[bambu.]

DT
JM

In the last century, Chinese peasants melted down their woks and farm tools to make steel because the all-seeing, all-knowing communist state told them the country needed to industrialise.
The result was mass starvation and poverty, but those who suffered at least knew they were on the "right side of history".

One hundred years earlier. tribal cattle farmers in present day South Africa slaughtered their herds - their source and measure of wealth- because some Messianic teenage girl had visions and told them this would solve all their problems ( sound familiar?).
The results were similarly catastrophic.

[bambu.]

DT
JM

Europeans are now staring down the barrel of a horror show of a winter where thousands could freeze to death because their leaders allowed them to become dependent on Russia for gas while simultaneously shutting down their coal and even nuclear plants because they believed doing so would save the planet.

The Germans, it can safely be said, are suffering the most thanks to former Chancellor Angela Merkel's insanely ambitious plan to transition the industrial heartland of Europe to green energy - a plan which was showing cracks long before Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

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Well there you go...*insanity*

[bambu.]

DT
JM

Irony always having the last laugh, just the other week one of Germany's largest wind turbine manufacturers announced it was laying off 2,900 workers, in part due to rising energy costs.

With the possible exception of France with its large domestic nuclear power network, and with the northern winter lurking just around the corner, Europe is facing awful choices that will involve recession, unemployment, loss of industry, quite possibly large numbers of dead, and years of economic pain.

It's not just Europe. California's energy grid is under similar stress thanks to years of green policies.

[bambu.]

California:

DT
JM

A massive power crisis in September which almost saw blackouts across the state was averted only because the state's Democratic govt wisely decided to extend the life of its last nuclear power plant and a few gas-fired generators.

[facilitatorn]

You crackheads have the weirdest fantasy lives, Bambu. Please, do go on.

It is like A David Lynch adaptation of Buckaroo Banzai minus any humor or charm and completely free of any useful information.

You are worth every bit of rotten cabbage that could ever be thrown your way. 

[bambu.]

You crackheads have the weirdest fantasy lives, Bambu. Please, do go on.

It is like A David Lynch adaptation of Buckaroo Banzai minus any humor or charm and completely free of any useful information.

You are worth every bit of rotten cabbage that could ever be thrown your way.

What James Morrow wrote is all true though, like it or not.
In the article is shown a placard by Californians protesting blackouts....

"P G & E
Turn
Our
Power
ON!"

[bambu.]

DT
JM

Head back to the 1490s and you will find citizens of Florence publicly burning their luxury goods in what became known as the "bonfire of the vanities", simply because a mad monk told them these objects were sinful excesses blocking their road to Heaven.

In a twist to this pattern, the monk in question was eventually burned at the stake, leaving everyone free to enjoy the go-go 1500s.

*
Today's bonfire of the vanities means no more cheap holiday flights or air conditioning.

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Yes, probably best to keep a lookout for *mad monks* and their *bonfires of the vanities*, lest we be without luxuries like heating, cooling, lighting, cooking on stoves and in ovens, computers, phones, tablets and cars.etc. [Electric cars run on electricity].
The jobs of such *mad monks* should be burned at the stake.

[LarryBnDC]

DT
JM

Head back to the 1490s and you will find citizens of Florence publicly burning their luxury goods in what became known as the "bonfire of the vanities", simply because a mad monk told them these objects were sinful excesses blocking their road to Heaven.

In a twist to this pattern, the monk in question was eventually burned at the stake, leaving everyone free to enjoy the go-go 1500s.

*
Today's bonfire of the vanities means no more cheap holiday flights or air conditioning.

#####

Yes, probably best to keep a lookout for *mad monks* and their *bonfires of the vanities*, lest we be without luxuries like heating, cooling, lighting, cooking on stoves and in ovens, computers, phones, tablets and cars.etc. [Electric cars run on electricity].
The jobs of such *mad monks* should be burned at the stake.

Oi!

[Holly Martins]

Straw man.  California can flex during heat and drouth because investment in wind and solar provides more power when hydro is dropping.  And it still has extensive NG plants because it's understood that 100% renewables is still a ways off.  Same with nukes, like Diablo Canyon, which still is in good repair and can also be a bridge. 

The way RW fossil fuel boosters attack renewables is by distorting the opposing perspective into a caricature.  (Added in case some readers don't know what a straw man argument is). If they'd stop using their heads as ass corks, they would strive for more investment in storage tech and renewables and work WITH green energy.  Most renewables supporters are like me, amd recognize that the transition will require some years of NG, and nuclear.  France is a good example -- excellent stewardship of their nuke plants.  And fossil fuel fans always forget the third leg of that stool: better insulated homes, more efficient appliances, zone heating etc.

[kidcarter8]

Record fundraising day for Walker campaign after accusations

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/politics/herschel-walker-abortion-republican-reaction/index.html