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[Lone Star Bluegrass]

Finally, someone who understands math!

The General passed manual cannon gunnery, he can do math.

 

[YancyW]

Halperin is a real treasure. I absolutely agree that the US has the most leverage to exploit in any negotiation. I am not surprised that the majority of Americans agree. I wish I had an iota of confidence that Trump will exploit that advantage in best interests of the US or Ukraine.

This show is the best thing going in politics today, no question. Also, his pro service news letter is eye watering expensive, but worth every penny, it is incredible.

 

[MauserM03Blog]

As a fellow scientist, I disagree that it is an emergency. There have been many, many periods on earth before and after life appeared with much warmer conditions due to much higher CO2 levels. Denying this is folly and an inconvenient truth to the emergency crowd. Most scientists are liberal and left of center so the fact that most are onboard with you is not surprising. Just because some changes are occurring within your lifetime doesn’t prove it will keep accelerating or even continue. Quite frankly, nobody knows and it is hardly an emergency. There were exceedingly warm and exceedingly high CO2 periods in the earth’s past and yet, the earth survived and even flourished. Do you really think warming is ALL bad?

As I said, I am all for a clean environment. Nobody enjoys the wilderness and the outdoors more than I. However, there is nothing as efficient as the modern combustion engine and likely never will be. Petroleum products are used in so many products that we will likely never stop using. The batteries in you EV are encased in plastic. Half your vehicle is plastic. Half the materials in your home appliances are plastic. By the time batteries are made, they are black, not green. Wind power is black, not green. I manage the wildlife biology on dozens of large ranches. I have seen the damage done to the environment and wildlife by wind and solar projects. It’s a joke and a black eye. Meanwhile in the last 20 years, directional drilling for oil/gas has made the drilling and delivery of oil/gas much less impactful on the landscape than ever before. From one pad, ten wells can be drilled. Back in the 1990s, I was upset when drilling came to some of our ranches. Now, it isn’t nearly as problematic as wind and solar.

In the USA and other large countries with larger rural areas, most homes in the countryside are run on propane, a byproduct of oil/gas drilling. Once you get outside of any town in the USA, most of the homes, farms and ranches are heated/cooled with propane. It is not possible to construct pipelines for natural gas to all these distant homes. Solar and wind are not reliable enough at this point to replace propane. We don’t have enough electricity to replace propane either and it is more expensive, let alone the environmental damage caused by transmission line construction. This whole fantasy about getting rid of fossil fuels is ridiculous.

You're right, the earth has been spinning for a long time and will keep going after it's spat us out. But that's not what were talking about here. Nor are we talking about today's climate versus any time hundreds of millions of years ago.

Climate change is about what's happening now. And rapidly. The rate of change now is extraordinary. It's deeply concerning in terms of temperature and weather effects upon the people, animals and plants that inhabit the planet now.

'However, there is nothing as efficient as the modern combustion engine and likely never will be.' Eek! Um, there's so many things I could say, but I'll settle on 'Really?' :-D I suggest you write a book with that as the title and make a lot of money, from folk who are fascinated by combustion engines (including me) and from technologists who will want to find out what substances this scientist has been using.

As primary school kids we watched a cartoon about a detective called Dick Tracey. His team used wrist watches with little TV screens to talk to each other. We loved this but none of us ever thought it would happen. In the year 2003 I was at a conference where a renowned futurologist discussed the consensus view amongst his peers. One was, in 2035 we will start to see people receiving computer chips installed in their brains. Wrong by 10 years.

 

[John Wasmuth]

 

[Tundra Tiger]

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I gave seen this on a half dozen pages of FB friends. The misspelling is like fingernails on a chalkboard.

And I have seen others that more accurately convey my sentiments; they are on the lighter politics page.

 

[MauserM03Blog]

“500 million Europeans are begging 300 million Americans to defend them from 140 million Russians.”
Donald Tusk, PM of Poland

I took no joy when I first read that, it is beyond f***ed up on so many levels.

I thought it was brilliant. Finally, a European leader saying, 'C'mon guys. Let's get our shit together. We can do this on our own, easily.' An excellent development and a necessary one.

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

One was, in 2035 we will start to see people receiving computer chips installed in their brains. Wrong by 10 years.

Are you talking about RFID chips or something else?

 

[Neophyte]

Which is all complicated BY DEBT IN THE FIRST PLACE. So stupid to have grown comfortable with debt, but mind boggling to be comfortable with THIS much debt. I hope there is not a hard lesson coming...

There is.

 

[lwaters]

One other observation. There absolutely is an alternative path for Europe outside NATO that was explored, however briefly, as the Four Power Pact option of 1933. Had the UK, Germany, France , and Italy created such an alliance then, the world would look rather different today - and likely not entirely in favor of the US and whatever the USSR would have become. Leveraging the EU, that option is on the table right now for the first time since the end of WWII.

I wouldn't underestimate the Europeans. Some great military powers have risen out of Europe. At this time they could build a better military than Russia and the US is proving itself as a divided unreliable allie.

 

[steve white]

Once again a complicit MSM hiding the fact that Democrats undermined the mineral/future peace deal in their meeting with Zelenski forty minutes before he went to the oval office--they put regaining power at any cost ahead of our/the world's interests. Dirty rotten scoundrels.

 

[Neophyte]

Its gonna be interesting to see if Trump is putting Trump First. With the cluster B personality traits Trump has I doubt if he even care about you.

I don’t care if he cares about me.
I want a minimal government and the government out of my life as much as possible. About 90% of the government should be abolished.
Any President that gets us closer to that I vote for.

 

[Lone Star Bluegrass]

“500 million Europeans are begging 300 million Americans to defend them from 140 million Russians.”
Donald Tusk, PM of Poland

I thought it was brilliant. Finally, a European leader saying, 'C'mon guys. Let's get our shit together. We can do this on our own, easily.' An excellent development and a necessary one.

Yes and it’s hard to reason with once proud countries and cultures reduced to begging for their defense. A *fine* example of European manhood, indeed.
I guess we’ll end up taking working class kids from Beaumont and Pittsburgh and the Bronx to do it instead.

 

[Neophyte]

Once again a complicit MSM hiding the fact that Democrats undermined the mineral/future peace deal in their meeting with Zelenski forty minutes before he went to the oval office--they put regaining power at any cost ahead of our/the world's interests. Dirty rotten scoundrels.

Republicans are no better.
They really are two sides of the same coin. I detest them both.

 

[Red Leg]

The General passed manual cannon gunnery, he can do math.

Screwed that one up, but I could knock out a manual met faster than anyone I knew.

 

[gbflyer]

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[MauserM03Blog]

Joe i just don't understand this line of thinking in the middle of your comments. If we agree that the defense of Europe is in our Nation interest, how is it not important to us that Europe does as much as possible to defend itself? Especially if we are picking up any slack? Less slack = less cost to us doesn't it?

So if they spent 5% and could defend themselves adequately wouldn't that be a great thing for the US taxpayers?

I worked in Defence for all of my career, often with Americans.

The US spends what it does on defence because it chooses to. It chose to be top dog. One ally or another in Europe adjusting its defence budget up or down has no bearing on what the US chooses to do, historically and now. The US is not reliant upon allies' capabilities, by choice.

The US enjoys receiving help from friends in times of need. It's nice for them. I've seen it.

The US is now slashing its defence spending, despite the spending by NATO allies being low, mostly. Its doing this by choice. It's always been the US's choice.

 

[Tundra Tiger]

With all due respect that FB video with Kennedy is horseshit with regards to who started the war.

Russia, unprovoked, invaded a sovereign nation. The blood of this war is on the hands of Putin.

Russia did in fact start this war.
Putin is a monster and the enemy.

Any attempts to rationalize it otherwise are delusional.

Everything has a history if you dig back far enough. It does not excuse Russia's culpability for this war.

 

[LivingTheDream]

Russia, unprecedented, invaded a sovereign nation. The blood of this war is on the hands of Putin.

I would agree with this.

 

[Lone Star Bluegrass]

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Screwed that one up, but I could knock out a manual met faster than anyone I knew.

That’s because WE never MET!

 

[MauserM03Blog]

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Congratulations America. Here are your new leaders.

What an absolute shit show.