THE MORNING RANT: Weaponizing Dead Whales and Other Climate Follies

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When the Demand for Hurricanes Exceeds the Supply

To support the climate change narrative, the National Hurricane Center has become more creative in identifying tropical storms. The more storms they identify, the more “proof” there is of climate change. So in recent years, pretty much any summer storm that has 39 mph winds - however briefly - will become “named,” if only for an hour or two.

In addition, a critical part of climate science fraud is altering historical weather data. There was a storm over the North Atlantic in January 2023 that was obviously not tropical in nature. But due to advances in creative meteorology since those long-ago days of four months ago, the politicized scientists at the NHC have now determined that it was a subtropical storm, allowing them to unleash ominous press releases – leading to ominous headlines - about hurricane season starting in January.

First Storm of 2023 Hurricane Season Formed in January, National Hurricane Center Says

Hurricane season got off to an earlier start than anyone thought after federal meteorologists found that a powerful storm that formed in the Atlantic Ocean in January was subtropical.

Hurricanes are a serious life and death matter. We cannot afford for the National Hurricane Center to be run by politicized frauds who can’t be trusted. This little stunt shows that we can’t trust the NHC.

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Paris Climate Enforcers Are Targeting the Scofflaw Nation of ~~China~~ Vatican City

The Vatican City is the first country to be rebuked by the “compliance committee” of the Paris (Climate) Agreement.

The fate of the Earth hangs in the balance as we await the Vatican’s PowerPoint presentation.

Climate Karen would like to speak to the Pope’s manager.

Paris [Climate] Agreement’s Police Force Begins With Rebuke to Vatican

A committee set up to pressure governments into complying with the Paris Agreement has issued its first warnings, rebuking the Vatican City for not submitting a climate plan.

“Climate enforcer” is a natural role for people whose ultimate skill set is being a hall monitor.

[PAICC Committee Co-chair Christina Voigt] said that submitting NDC climate plans exerts “peer pressure to push up ambition to where it is needed in order to address the climate crisis.”

If you don’t believe that exerting peer pressure to push up ambition can save the world from global warming, then you are clearly a science denier.

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To Ask the Question Is To Answer It

Natural Gas Feeds Half of Humanity; So Why Are We Trying to Ban It? [Mackinac Center – 01/24/2023]

Half of the people on Earth are alive today thanks to nitrogenous fertilizers made of and with natural gas. So why are governments at home and abroad scrambling to cut off humanity’s natural gas supply?

Coincidentally enough, the international elite have determined that there are too many people on this planet, and billions of you will have to “depart” to save the Earth from environmental apocalypse.

Don’t forget the terrifying words of Germany’s Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture, Cem Ozdemir, who stated “Hunger is no argument against bio diversity and protection of the climate.”

Ozdemir is speaking out loud what Schwab, Gates, et al hint at: ”Some of you will have to die, and that is a sacrifice we are willing to make.”

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How Many Ways Are Wind Turbines Awful?

Wind turbines kill whales, mangle birds, dry out the soil, ruin the ocean floor, despoil natural vistas, produce noise pollution, and generate zero kw of reliable baseline energy. Yet they are embraced by environmentalists.

Here’s another way they are awful:

At least there’s starting to be a little pushback against the wind industry in some state legislatures.

Lawmakers Crack Down on Wind-Turbine Lights That Flash All Night; Rural residents say it is like living on an airport runway [WSJ – 4/30/2023]

For pilots flying over rural America, a string of red lights flashing along the horizon is a warning that there might be a wind farm ahead.
But for many residents on the ground, the lights are an eyesore that has ruined their view of the night sky and disrupted the bucolic stillness that defined their counties."
After years of loose regulation, lawmakers in some states are cracking down.

Just ban ‘em. If New York can ban gas stoves, then oil patch states can ban wind turbines.

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What’s the Best Way to Weaponize a Dead Whale

Those of us who don’t like how green energy is killing whales have been “pouncing” and “seizing” on the connection between wind energy and all the whale carcasses piling up on beaches.

Apparently we have stepped our game up and we are now ”weaponizing dead whales.”

We Can't Let the GOP Weaponize NJ's Dead Whales [Asbury Park Press / USA TODAY Network – 5/05/2023]

New Jersey summers always include the pods of dolphins and whales jumping out of the water together. Now, they are returning deceased on our shorelines. These events are devastating, but have since morphed into a ploy against new offshore wind development.
Dead whales have become the poster children for South Jersey Republicans’ superficial environmentalism. While villainizing offshore wind energy, they have effectively diverted local environmental movements away from the larger crisis, and instead towards attacking a new technology that could benefit prosperity and wildlife alike.

While the unnecessary whale deaths bother me, I am genuinely enjoying watching left wing “environmentalists” become defenders of senseless whale killing.

And now the important question, what is the best way to weaponize a whale?

How about using a giant trebuchet. Or maybe the compressed air technique used in Jaws? Or maybe just let it rot in the heart of a blue city?

What are your ideas to weaponize dead whales?

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 19, 2023 11:00 AM (Wnv9h)

2 I'll call the others.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 19, 2023 11:00 AM (NJWRL)

3 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 19, 2023 11:01 AM (Wnv9h)

4 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 19, 2023 11:01 AM (T4tVD)

5 I hate wind turbines. I hate them with a passion that burns hotter than a thousand suns.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2023 11:02 AM (YGqO/)

6 Best way to weaponize a whale - One ton of TNT on an Oregon beach during a hot day.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 19, 2023 11:02 AM (OgrpQ)

7 Who doesn't like a prairie skyscraper?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at May 19, 2023 11:03 AM (flINI)

8 Half of the people on Earth are alive today thanks to nitrogenous fertilizers made of and with natural gas. So why are governments at home and abroad scrambling to cut off humanity’s natural gas supply?

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The question answers itself.

I had meetings with multiple knowledgeable people to discern the goals of the net zero/global warming/corporatism trend, and we found only one possible motivation.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 19, 2023 11:03 AM (lTGtQ)

9 Imaginary problem #1:

America: so systemically racist, that

twelve million illegals want to sneak in.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2023 11:04 AM (Y2tls)

10 Remember the scene in Mississippi Burning where the klansman is kidnapped and taken to a cabin in the woods where he is forced to give up the goods?

Sometimes it's necessary.

Posted by: torabora at May 19, 2023 11:04 AM (OUiUM)

11 Has anybody done a balleenstic analysis of those whale weapons?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 11:04 AM (5+1HQ)

12 Willowed: So Climate Change™ is making weather more unpredictable and we're going to get our energy from sources that depend on the weather?

Posted by: Sure. Why not? at May 19, 2023 11:05 AM (DhOHl)

13 Wittgenstein @backtolife_2023
China has pumped out more pollution in 8 years than the UK has in 220 Years.

https://twitter.com/backtolife_2023/status/
1658951921263165441

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 11:05 AM (Vwz3I)

14 Missoula MT did something like this. They lowered the requirement for Flood Stage in the Local Rivers and within 2 years you started seeing stories about the 'Alarming in crease in Record Flood Events'.

Posted by: garrett at May 19, 2023 11:05 AM (ZlS5/)

15 Hunger is no excuse to delay utopia.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 19, 2023 11:05 AM (FVME7)

16 weaponized whales could krill a lot of people

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 19, 2023 11:05 AM (OgrpQ)

17 What's so bad about carbon?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 19, 2023 11:06 AM (DhOHl)

18 And now the important question, what is the best way to weaponize a whale?

How about using a giant trebuchet. Or maybe the compressed air technique used in Jaws? Or maybe just let it rot in the heart of a blue city?

What are your ideas to weaponize dead whales?

I'm going to harken back to the classic blow it up with dynamite...

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 11:06 AM (Mkvkw)

19 Whales should be reinforced with tungsten rods then dropped from orbital stations. The kinetic energy would have the force of a nuclear weapon. They could also use giant squids. Cephalopods from God.

Posted by: Weaponization of Every Cetacean at May 19, 2023 11:06 AM (FEapg)

20 https://youtu.be/dqT90VmYgEU

I would have thought the Vatican was way ahead of the curve. After all, they have many centuries of experience with lighting by candles, and autos-da-fe for body heat.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2023 11:06 AM (eOEVl)

21 Hi Buck, you won't want to miss an entertaining story in this mornings Telegraph newspaper, wherein a government US Geological Survey "researcher" alleges Manhattan is sinking, due to subsidence, Global Warming, increasing storm severity and, (my favorite part) the weight of skyscrapers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2023 11:06 AM (M1UiX)

22 Nuke The Gay Whales!

Posted by: Whaleophobic Willie at May 19, 2023 11:06 AM (Nn3xT)

23 'Saving the Whales
an agenda to some
Nuking them!
Sits well with me.

Bring, Bring Back the Bomb'

Posted by: garrett at May 19, 2023 11:06 AM (ZlS5/)

24 Ignore the link.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2023 11:07 AM (eOEVl)

25 Don Quixote hated windmills too.

Hero of the left.
Oopsie

Posted by: torabora at May 19, 2023 11:07 AM (OUiUM)

26 Hurricanes are a serious life and death matter. We cannot afford for the National Hurricane Center to be run by politicized frauds who can’t be trusted. This little stunt shows that we can’t trust the NHC.
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Except that it's perfect.

Hurricanes are a nightmare, but most people are far away from them, they can use them whenever they want, and when the do hit and wreak devastation on land, they do so in evil red states - so the press can cluck about how the non-prog policies make climate change worse and these people get while they deserve. They can then decline to do any follow-up when a competent governor helps get recovery underway quickly like DeSantis did last year.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 11:07 AM (DU+/6)

27 BRING BACK THE BOMB

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=8o89W93TZz0

Posted by: GWAR at May 19, 2023 11:07 AM (ZlS5/)

28 Whales should be reinforced with tungsten rods then dropped from orbital stations. The kinetic energy would have the force of a nuclear weapon. They could also use giant squids. Cephalopods from God.
Posted by: Weaponization of Every Cetacean at May 19, 2023 11:06 AM (FEapg)

and a pot full of petunias...

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 11:08 AM (Mkvkw)

29 US Geological Survey "researcher" alleges Manhattan is sinking, due to subsidence, Global Warming, increasing storm severity and, (my favorite part) the weight of skyscrapers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood

Because solid granite going down thousands of feet can somehow compress in a substantial manner.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 19, 2023 11:08 AM (lTGtQ)

30 Hard to take NOAA seriously when they're naming a stiff breeze. More so with The Weather Channel which has a "dangerous weather situation" every hour, every day.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2023 11:08 AM (Q4IgG)

31 "Initiation for consideration of issues?"

"We'll start to think about stuff?" There is way too much money in this world if there's enough of it pay people to sit around and come up with this crap.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 11:08 AM (DU+/6)

32 What???? No link or reference to the classic 'exploding whale' story we all know and love?

Happy Friday Everyone!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan at May 19, 2023 11:09 AM (uoPq5)

33 Steve Milloy @JunkScience
Just in from NOAA:

No warming in the US since January 2005, despite 44% more atmospheric CO2.

If every emission warms the planet, where's the warming?

https://twitter.com/JunkScience/status/
1659018621123796992

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 11:09 AM (Vwz3I)

34 "What are your ideas to weaponize dead whales?"

Stuff with explosives, pressure switch to detonate on impact, then trebuchet.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 19, 2023 11:09 AM (Wy1BU)

35 As long as they don’t try to weaponize penguins…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 11:09 AM (5+1HQ)

36 Let's not weaponize dead whales. Let's use them for oil lamps, cosmetics, anti-aging cartilege supplements, whale meat dishes, etc. We could even make whale-bone corsets for the "women" in the Biden administration.

Make Whale-Killing Great Again

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 19, 2023 11:09 AM (fxCK2)

37 Morning.

Build more nukes.

Posted by: Robert at May 19, 2023 11:10 AM (1Yy3c)

38 Nuke The Gay baby Whales for Jesus!
Posted by: Whaleophobic Willie at May 19, 2023 11:06 AM (Nn3xT)

FTFY

I had that t-shirt in high school. the lefties could never figure out if i supported them, or was mocking them mercilessly....

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 11:10 AM (Mkvkw)

39 Just for reference, the US average measured temperatures are lower now than in 1880.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 19, 2023 11:10 AM (lTGtQ)

40 do whales drive Chevy Cetaceans?

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 19, 2023 11:10 AM (OgrpQ)

41 Leftism in all forms was always about death and destruction. Always. It was always a ruse for angry, evil petty tyrants to force people to speak and act the way they wanted, and to jail or even kill them if they refused.

The 1970s and 80s enviro-lobby was never about saving any environment or animals. It was about forcing people, companies, and even countries to comply with the lobby's nutty nonsense. "Save the Whales" really meant "Kill Off This Industry We Don't Like."

We now know for sure it was all a fraud. The same shiteaters screaming about saving whales a few decades ago are now gleefully killing whales and other wildlife in the name of the false prophet Gaia.

The names have changed, but the game stays the same.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2023 11:11 AM (iFTx/)

42 This ought to fix Bud Light's problems!

https://bit.ly/3o91htX

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 19, 2023 11:11 AM (FVME7)

43 >>Make Whale-Killing Great Again

Cue the Greenpeace Blubbering.

Posted by: garrett at May 19, 2023 11:11 AM (ZlS5/)

44 Can you eat whale meat?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 11:11 AM (5+1HQ)

45 Don’t forget the terrifying words of Germany’s Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture, Cem Ozdemir, who stated “Hunger is no argument against bio diversity and protection of the climate.”
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Hmm, I wonder what roasted Cem Ozdemir tastes like....

Posted by: Hungry German at May 19, 2023 11:11 AM (fs1hN)

46
and a pot full of petunias...
Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 11:08 AM (Mkvkw)

Oh no... Not AGAIN.

-pot of petunias

Posted by: Just Lily at May 19, 2023 11:11 AM (nHGAb)

47 I like the offhand announcement from the National Snow And Ice Data Center, discussing the Arctic ice pack's status at the beginning of May:

The April 2023 average Arctic sea ice extent was 13.99 million square kilometers (5.40 million square miles), tied with 2004 as the tenth lowest April in the satellite record (Figure 1a).

No reduction in May Arctic sea ice extent in nineteen years.

Yet, you can constantly read articles about how that Northwest Passage will soon become navigable year-round, that there will soon be a scramble for Arctic resources as the ice recedes, etc.

Drivel, all drivel.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 19, 2023 11:11 AM (2tUFv)

48 US Geological Survey "researcher" alleges Manhattan is sinking, due to subsidence, Global Warming, increasing storm severity and, (my favorite part) the weight of skyscrapers.

Oh no. Anyway...

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2023 11:11 AM (eOEVl)

49 Fuck yoo Whale!

Fuck you Dolphin!

Posted by: Japanese Prime Minister at May 19, 2023 11:12 AM (ZlS5/)

50 YIYBYism.

Yes, In Your Back-Yard.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 19, 2023 11:12 AM (/EuRN)

51 Hard to take NOAA seriously when they're naming a stiff breeze. More so with The Weather Channel which has a "dangerous weather situation" every hour, every day.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2023 11:08 AM (Q4IgG)

Stephanie Abrams and her tits are in panic mode every damn morning.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 19, 2023 11:12 AM (+Wcyp)

52 And I kinda like the wind farm picture. Oh I know those lights would be annoying to some but the pic is neat. Sorta retro futuristic looking.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 19, 2023 11:12 AM (Wy1BU)

53 >Make Whale-Killing Great Again

Cue the Greenpeace Blubbering.
Posted by: garrett at May 19, 2023 11:11 AM (ZlS5/)

Make Flensing Great Again

Posted by: Nanook, this is kinda phat! at May 19, 2023 11:12 AM (FEapg)

54 What are your ideas to weaponize dead whales?

I'll wait for Zod to weigh in on this one.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 19, 2023 11:12 AM (Wnv9h)

55 C,mon in, Karen. I will see you now. Lock the door behind you.

Posted by: The Pope's manager at May 19, 2023 11:12 AM (rqgpJ)

56 What is so bad about carbon???? NOTHING.. there is absolutely nothing bad about carbon. The whole thing is absurd, ridiculous, and based upon money making schemes by greedy bastards who have made an unholy marriage with deranged environmentalists desparately searching for a cause to give meaning to their pointless drab unfulfilled lives. And penguins…

Posted by: tubal at May 19, 2023 11:13 AM (RFmMX)

57 in the name of the false prophet Gaia.

The names have changed, but the game stays the same.

Posted by: Elric Blade

It is the return of pagan religion.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 19, 2023 11:13 AM (lTGtQ)

58 “Hunger is no argument against bio diversity and protection of the climate.
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Yes, it is. The human condition - which begins at nutrition for human beings - is of paramount importance.

But besides that, what an asshole. Has he never even heard of poverty or the third world? "Food insecurity" is a very real damn thing for huge areas of this planet. And some asshole in Berlin just handwaves that away because climate?

Let me make it very clear for him. Install a button the wall of my house. Every time I press that button, a ton of the Dread Carbon will be released into the atmosphere and a bit of plastic will be dumped into the Pacific Ocean. Every time I press that button, however, my family and I will also have enough food to eat that day and my lights will stay on. I will press that button every morning. I won't even think about it. I will defend that button with my life.

There. I hope that is clear enough for this asshat. Given shit like this, you'd be reasonable in assuming that *East* Germany won.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 11:13 AM (DU+/6)

59 I’m surprised Manhattan hasn’t tipped over yet.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 11:13 AM (5+1HQ)

60 'Paris Climate Enforcers Are Targeting the Scofflaw Nation of China Vatican City'

When it comes to being a petty bully and enjoying it. it's hard to beat the French.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 19, 2023 11:13 AM (YohY1)

61 >> And I kinda like the wind farm picture. Oh I know those lights would be annoying to some

The Sound is fucking torture.

Posted by: garrett at May 19, 2023 11:13 AM (ZlS5/)

62 Townhall.com
@townhallcom
Florida man: “We have to put white people on notice…We want our reparations! $3 million per person!”

https://bit.ly/3MnwD8d

You're on notice!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 19, 2023 11:14 AM (FVME7)

63 Thanks for these types of rants, Buck. This is an area where "our" side really needs to use the Alinsky playbook.

Posted by: Doof at May 19, 2023 11:14 AM (8R5Il)

64 Fuck yoo Whale!

Fuck you Dolphin!

I despise you all.

Posted by: Walrus at May 19, 2023 11:14 AM (eOEVl)

65 "Save the Ales" > "Save the Whales"

Had the first saying on a sweatshirt I wore Tuna fishing. Got some stares from the lefties onboard.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2023 11:14 AM (Q4IgG)

66 What are your ideas to weaponize dead whales?

Quit your blubbering.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 19, 2023 11:14 AM (+Wcyp)

67 US Geological Survey "researcher" alleges Manhattan is sinking, due to subsidence, Global Warming, increasing storm severity and, (my favorite part) the weight of skyscrapers.

Oh no. Anyway...
Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2023 11:11 AM

About as stupid as the people who tried to blame an earthquake on gorebal warmening, "reasoning" that the melting glaciers resulted in less pressure on the ground, which could, possibly, probably result in more earthquakes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 19, 2023 11:15 AM (Wnv9h)

68 And I kinda like the wind farm picture. Oh I know those lights would be annoying to some

You're a Bladerunner kinda gal, aren't you.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2023 11:15 AM (eOEVl)

69 Hard to take NOAA seriously when they're naming a stiff breeze

a "16 year old male hard on maker"?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2023 11:15 AM (Y2tls)

70 Fuck yoo Whale!

Fuck you Dolphin!

I despise you all.
Posted by: Walrus at May 19, 2023 11:14 AM

Blow me.

Posted by: Gary the killer whale at May 19, 2023 11:15 AM (Wnv9h)

71 There are only 7 offshores wind turbines in the US. All off the coast of RI. I think wind is stupid and a waste of resources, but there is no way 7 turbines near RI are killing whales in NJ.

The bigger issue is a the $$$ thrown at them and there is only 7. Just where the hell did that money go?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 19, 2023 11:16 AM (1huWu)

72 About as stupid as the people who tried to blame an earthquake on gorebal warmening, "reasoning" that the melting glaciers resulted in less pressure on the ground, which could, possibly, probably result in more earthquakes.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 19, 2023 11:15 AM (Wnv9h)

It's just water weight.

Posted by: Roy at May 19, 2023 11:16 AM (rqgpJ)

73 And now the important question, what is the best way to weaponize a whale?

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TV, radio, and online commercial ads showing a whale a la Free Willy jumping out of the ocean into the blades of a slice-and-dice spinning wind turbine -- with blood and guts spewing everywhere.

/Hey, it's as honest as the polar bear stranded on a small piece of floating ice meme

Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 11:16 AM (sJSOG)

74 Standard Oil saved more whales than the twits at Greenpeace could even count.

Posted by: Just Lily at May 19, 2023 11:16 AM (nHGAb)

75 I have long railed about the Vatican and Catholics in general. We are in a Climate Crisis, yet they stubbornly insist on having censers and burning incense. Carbon-spewing, unsustainable in the extreme. You're not allowed to smoke tobacco almost anywhere, yet they persist with the incense! Candles and soot, too!

Posted by: Hughie the Huguenot at May 19, 2023 11:16 AM (Nn3xT)

76 Day is flying by,.
Those who don't have problems make up problems.

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2023 11:17 AM (QOzuM)

77 Coincidentally enough, the international elite have determined that there are too many people on this planet, and billions of you will have to “depart” to save the Earth from environmental apocalypse.

Everywhere I go I am forced to endure the sight of lesser people. -- Buffy von Inbredovich

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 19, 2023 11:17 AM (GYIa4)

78 To be fair, a lot of air pollution comes out of the current Pope’s mouth.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 11:17 AM (5+1HQ)

79 >>There are only 7 offshores wind turbines in the US. All off the coast of RI. I think wind is stupid and a waste of resources, but there is no way 7 turbines near RI are killing whales in NJ.

I think the claim is the Mapping Process to find locations for additional ones, using sonar, is what is doing it.

Posted by: garrett at May 19, 2023 11:17 AM (ZlS5/)

80 Weaponized whales? Oregon hammered that decades ago.

Posted by: Unclezip at May 19, 2023 11:17 AM (zXl65)

81 But for many residents on the ground, the lights are an eyesore that has ruined their view of the night sky and disrupted the bucolic stillness that defined their counties."
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Sure, let's focus on the important stuff, am I right? The "bucolic stillness" of their counties and their "view of the night sky" are simply not important by comparison when we're talking about literally saving the world.

This is get another expression of whit privilege, entitlement and fragility. Their "bucolic stillness" pales in comparison to the destruction that stillness causes due to climate change. But because they're rural whites, they feel entitled to destroy the global environment to defend their ... VIEW?! Yeah, that's what we're talking about.

The arrogance and entitlement of rural whites is staggering, and the fact they continue to be coddled by the press and by government policy shows just how far we have yet to go if we're to rescue the environment from the destructive ambitions of the industrial capitalist patriarchy.

Posted by: Your Kid's Climate Science Professor at May 19, 2023 11:17 AM (DU+/6)

82 It is the return of pagan religion.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 19, 2023 11:13 AM (lTGtQ)

Pagans never killed for their gods.

They used the gods as a woobie to give them enough confidence to ride out and kill the people they were planning on killing anyway.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 19, 2023 11:17 AM (/EuRN)

83 https://tinyurl.com/eakhvz4a

If my daughter ever brings home something with face tats or otherwise ridiculously inked he will leave immediately or perhaps horizontally.

Posted by: JEM at May 19, 2023 11:17 AM (8erNz)

84 10 'Remember the scene in Mississippi Burning where the klansman is kidnapped and taken to a cabin in the woods where he is forced to give up the goods?

Sometimes it's necessary'

Yes, I remember it well. It is what I think of now when i wonder when the FBI started terrorizing US citizens to get their agenda.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 19, 2023 11:17 AM (YohY1)

85 About as stupid as the people who tried to blame an earthquake on gorebal warmening, "reasoning" that the melting glaciers resulted in less pressure on the ground, which could, possibly, probably result in more earthquakes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 19, 2023 11:15 AM (Wnv9h)

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"We've been assured that earthquakes are all now caused by fracking, h8r -- REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 11:17 AM (sJSOG)

86 The Zelensky World Tour continues - he's currently at the Arab League summit in Riyadh, denouncing the Arabs for continuing to do business with Russia, and then he's off to Hiroshima for the G7 conference to demand more money and arms.

It's weird - he left Kiev right before those mysterious drones attacked the Kremlin, and has apparently been back in Kiev only one day since then, to meet the head of the EU, Ursula von der Leyen (the Russians don't attack Kiev when major foreign leaders are in town).

It's almost as if he's avoiding being in Ukraine for some reason.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 19, 2023 11:17 AM (2tUFv)

87 Well. Getting a shower & shave before a lunch meet with my direct to inform I will no longer be in the employ of megabank.

"Straws and camels, my citizens, straws and camels."

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 19, 2023 11:18 AM (MkuC5)

88 US Geological Survey "researcher" alleges Manhattan is sinking,

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Promises, promises!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 19, 2023 11:18 AM (FVME7)

89 Can you eat whale meat?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 11:11 AM

Yes. The Japanese have at least six dishes, including the one with raw meat dipped

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 19, 2023 11:18 AM (fxCK2)

90 So...I've heard all my life (60+ years) the average American uses some ridiculous amount of energy - as in we're 6% of the worlds population but use a quarter or more of the energy. Spoken as gospel.

If this is true (seems intuitively plausible) and if all that energy use has sparked a global climate crisis......

Why then are we letting in millions of third world peasants whose personal energy use will now increase a hundred fold?????

Shouldn't we be booting out everyone we can in the name of 'climate crisis'??

Seems contradictory to me....would love to see what Doocey (sp?) could do with that with KJP... that might be quality TV!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan at May 19, 2023 11:18 AM (uoPq5)

91 "What are your ideas to weaponize dead whales?"

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: Captain Ahab at May 19, 2023 11:18 AM (iayUP)

92 There's an untapped market for whale compost.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2023 11:18 AM (Q4IgG)

93 Dead whales have become the poster children for South Jersey Republicans’ superficial environmentalism. While villainizing offshore wind energy, they have effectively diverted local environmental movements away from the larger crisis, and instead towards attacking a new technology that could benefit prosperity and wildlife alike.
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Not at all like the environments. You know, the guys who ignored the USSR hunting whales nearly into extinction by the mid 60s and only jumped on to "Save The Whales!" when the USSR quit doing that (and thus populations naturally recovered) and it could be turned - weaponized, if you will - against Western industry and the Japanese...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 11:18 AM (DU+/6)

94 There. I hope that is clear enough for this asshat. Given shit like this, you'd be reasonable in assuming that *East* Germany won.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 11:13 AM (DU+/6)
________________

East Germany did win. Well, technically EG lost and was merged into the stronger, more affluent West Germany. But it merged into WG like a cancer that soon took over the entire host. I noticed that just by visiting Berlin about a decade ago. A whole lol of EGs -- mostly poor and lots of non-German East Europeans -- moved into WG areas. Almost no WG moved into former EG areas. Fate = sealed.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2023 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

95 "What are your ideas to weaponize dead whales?"

Load a blue whale up on one of SpaceX's rocket transports and circle the white house at 1 mph until Biden leaves.

Posted by: Pvt. G. Pyle at May 19, 2023 11:19 AM (2waQ7)

96 92 There's an untapped market for whale compost.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2023 11:18 AM (Q4IgG)

The View already cornered that market.

Posted by: Roy at May 19, 2023 11:19 AM (rqgpJ)

97 Pagans never killed for their gods.

They used the gods as a woobie to give them enough confidence to ride out and kill the people they were planning on killing anyway.

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The hell you say!

Posted by: Moloch at May 19, 2023 11:19 AM (nHGAb)

98 Obviously, the stuff with the Vatican is prearranged. Either the Vatican ministry of foreign affairs is very left-wing and will give in in an exemplary manner (what do they have to lose, anyway) or the Vatican is small and easily bullied. Since the Vatican is so involved in international diplomacy, I'd bet on the former.
This will create the desired precedent that these bureaucrats must be obeyed by the national governments. Finally, they have found a pretext to create an international bureaucracy more powerful than national governments and they will never let it go.

Posted by: PG at May 19, 2023 11:19 AM (84jHt)

99 >>Sure, let's focus on the important stuff, am I right? The "bucolic stillness" of their counties and their "view of the night sky" are simply not important by comparison when we're talking about literally saving the world.

Unless you are the Sierra Club, suing to get multiple use trails closed down.

Posted by: garrett at May 19, 2023 11:20 AM (ZlS5/)

100 42 This ought to fix Bud Light's problems!

https://bit.ly/3o91htX
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 19, 2023 11:11 AM (FVME7)
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That's got to be a parody . . . or at least I hope so

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2023 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

101 Hey Minister Ozdimer,
Meet me in Dachau. I will show you how to revisit hunger.
But you're clearly a Turk immigrant. Let's go visit Sinop. Maybe the orphanage for girls.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2023 11:20 AM (YGqO/)

102 It's almost as if he's avoiding being in Ukraine for some reason.

You're obsessed. Get a hobby.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2023 11:21 AM (eOEVl)

103 33 If every emission warms the planet, where's the warming?

https://twitter.com/JunkScience/status/
1659018621123796992
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 19, 2023 11:09 AM (Vwz3I)

Where is the 'where's the beef ' lady when we need her?? ( I know - she died)

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan at May 19, 2023 11:21 AM (uoPq5)

104 How about this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34

Posted by: Joefrombako at May 19, 2023 11:21 AM (Bf5aC)

105 East Germany did win. Well, technically EG lost and was merged into the stronger, more affluent West Germany. But it merged into WG like a cancer that soon took over the entire host. I noticed that just by visiting Berlin about a decade ago. A whole lol of EGs -- mostly poor and lots of non-German East Europeans -- moved into WG areas. Almost no WG moved into former EG areas. Fate = sealed.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2023 11:18 AM (iFTx/)
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Migrate, subvert, destroy.

It's a story anyone from, say, Colorado knows all too well.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 11:21 AM (DU+/6)

106 Is anyone here a marine biologist?

https://youtu.be/oHRucRyLCms

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld clip at May 19, 2023 11:21 AM (DhOHl)

107 The Chronicle Of Higher Education: University in Fiscal Trouble Had Designs on $14 Million in Federal Covid Aid, Official Says

https://tinyurl.com/5n8s46z2

Archived link:

https://archive.is/VFiC1

Posted by: Robert at May 19, 2023 11:21 AM (1Yy3c)

108 Missoula MT did something like this. They lowered the requirement for Flood Stage in the Local Rivers and within 2 years you started seeing stories about the 'Alarming in crease in Record Flood Events'.

Posted by: garrett at May 19, 2023 11:05 AM (ZlS5/)

As I understand it, Texas is bracing for temperature increases of over 40 degrees in only a 6 month timeframe. If this continues the planet will literally burst into flame!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 19, 2023 11:22 AM (GYIa4)

109 On the one hand, if the Pope is the Vicar of Christ, take it up with his Boss, Jesus Christ.

If, on the other hand, the Pope is the servant of Lucifer, take it up with his Boss, Lucifer.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 19, 2023 11:22 AM (5u1+1)

110 Certainly don't know but would expect wildlife to be attracting to those lights,. Insects first, followed by night birds and bats.

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2023 11:22 AM (QOzuM)

111 Whale is disgusting. Just thinking about what it tastes like gives me chills.

And acoustic surveys have been happening since the 1940. There is nothing new about that. They only last for a few day/weeks. They don’t go on forever.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 19, 2023 11:22 AM (1huWu)

112 Either way, good luck with that.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 19, 2023 11:22 AM (5u1+1)

113 This ought to fix Bud Light's problems!

https://bit.ly/3o91htX
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 19, 2023 11:11 AM (FVME7)
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That's got to be a parody . . . or at least I hope so
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2023 11:20 AM

Please let that be a parody.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 19, 2023 11:22 AM (Wnv9h)

114 I confess to having a soft spot for the National Hurricane Center. Just slightly more than 29 years ago Hurricane Andrew was bearing down upon my house (then living in Coconut Grove) and the NHC was giving us the storm track every hour. We followed it avidly, out of self-defense and anticipation. Their offices are nearby (on what is still called "Dixie Highway"!!) and they were our heroes. Now, just another corrupt, grifting, fake science establishment.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2023 11:23 AM (Q0aa8)

115 The idiotic premise coming from MSNBC about Kash Patel being the money man that solicited these so-called whistleblowers to dream up these libelous conspiracy theories about muh federal government is really something. Different universe.

Posted by: micky at May 19, 2023 11:23 AM (3byMq)

116 I noticed that just by visiting Berlin about a decade ago. A whole lol of EGs -- mostly poor and lots of non-German East Europeans -- moved into WG areas. Almost no WG moved into former EG areas. Fate = sealed.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2023 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

The formerly EGs were also given different license plates for their cars. This was so the WGs knew to expect crappy driving.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2023 11:23 AM (YGqO/)

117 You're obsessed. Get a hobby.

It's always fun witnessing the travel plans of our toadies.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 19, 2023 11:23 AM (2tUFv)

118 97 Pagans never killed for their gods.

They used the gods as a woobie to give them enough confidence to ride out and kill the people they were planning on killing anyway.

------

The hell you say!
Posted by: Moloch at May 19, 2023 11:19 AM (nHGAb)

I know, right?

Posted by: The Aztecs at May 19, 2023 11:23 AM (zZu0s)

119 Nuke the unborn baby whales for Jesus.

Posted by: One of my favorite bumper stickers at May 19, 2023 11:23 AM (DhOHl)

120 And now the important question, what is the best way to weaponize a whale?
Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 11:06 AM (Mkvkw)

The easiest way, and probably pretty effective, is to just let it rot. Disease, rats to spread disease, it's an all-in-one solution.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 19, 2023 11:24 AM (GYIa4)

121 The science is settled. Global warming makes whales explode.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 19, 2023 11:24 AM (FVME7)

122 I feel so very very bad for the Vatican and that asshole Pope. PSYCH! He's a environmental socialist and commie. So fuck him. Let him comply with the same nonsense he demands of others.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2023 11:24 AM (iFTx/)

123 94 There. I hope that is clear enough for this asshat. Given shit like this, you'd be reasonable in assuming that *East* Germany won.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 11:13 AM (DU+/6)
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East Germany did win. Well, technically EG lost and was merged into the stronger, more affluent West Germany. But it merged into WG like a cancer that soon took over the entire host. I noticed that just by visiting Berlin about a decade ago. A whole lol of EGs -- mostly poor and lots of non-German East Europeans -- moved into WG areas. Almost no WG moved into former EG areas. Fate = sealed.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2023 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

*smiles*

Posted by: Angela Merkel at May 19, 2023 11:24 AM (NJWRL)

124 Wide, wide Dixie Highway?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 19, 2023 11:24 AM (zZu0s)

125 So Joe is over there in Japan telling the Europeans that they can give Ukraine F 16 fighter jets... That should go well...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 19, 2023 11:24 AM (bs+z0)

126 Is anyone here a marine biologist? ...
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld clip at May 19, 2023 11:21 AM (DhOHl)
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https://youtu.be/2_Qjb9-n7F4?t=15

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 11:25 AM (DU+/6)

127 120 And now the important question, what is the best way to weaponize a whale?
Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 11:06 AM (Mkvkw)

The easiest way, and probably pretty effective, is to just let it rot. Disease, rats to spread disease, it's an all-in-one solution.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 19, 2023 11:24 AM (GYIa4)

*Day of the Dolphin has entered the chat*

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 19, 2023 11:26 AM (NJWRL)

128 Is anyone here a marine biologist? ...
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld clip

No, but I went fishing last week. I'll fake it.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2023 11:26 AM (Y2tls)

129 59 I’m surprised Manhattan hasn’t tipped over yet.
Posted by: REP HANK JOHNSON at May 19, 2023 11:13 AM (5+1HQ)

FIFY

YW.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan at May 19, 2023 11:26 AM (uoPq5)

130 So Joe is over there in Japan telling the Europeans that they can give Ukraine F 16 fighter jets... That should go well...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 19, 2023 11:24 AM (bs+z0)
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Seriously?

Then we're in the war. The F-16 isn't a gun or a missile or even a tank. It's a complex system requiring extensive training, skilled maintenance and an extremely long supply tail. If F-16s are going to Ukraine, American (or at least NATO, but probably American) pilots, mechanics, support craft and supply chains are going to have to go with them.

Welcome to direct American military engagement with Russia.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 11:27 AM (DU+/6)

131 So Joe is over there in Japan telling the Europeans that they can give Ukraine F 16 fighter jets... That should go well...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 19, 2023 11:24 AM (bs+z0)
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and the pilots will be...?

No wait, I don't want to know.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2023 11:27 AM (e63V+)

132 You can’t weaponize Wales. No vowels.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 11:27 AM (5+1HQ)

133 I'd like to tame her shrew!

Posted by: But I don't get no respect! at May 19, 2023 11:28 AM (DhOHl)

134 I could go for some whale right now

Posted by: DB - slightly askew at May 19, 2023 11:28 AM (geLO8)

135 All of the misery and death the environmentals are causing now for a supposed threat that may develop in 100 years.

Also not one single prediction of the global warming scare society has ever come true. Not. One.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 19, 2023 11:28 AM (17s+e)

136 Manhattan buildings are built on bedrock. There is absolutely no way to sink it. The area by the Battery is fill, mostly from the blasting and excavation it takes to get down to bedrock to raise the skyscrapers elsewhere. Manhattan is thousands of acres larger than two hundred years ago because of areas filled, but the island will never sink. That's just Stupid!

Posted by: Invented Problems at May 19, 2023 11:28 AM (Nn3xT)

137 Now that I think about , whales would probably appreciate global warning. That shit is cold as balls in some places.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 19, 2023 11:28 AM (1huWu)

138 132
'You can’t weaponize Wales. No vowels.'

Can you wpnz them?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 19, 2023 11:28 AM (YohY1)

139 East Germany did win. Well, technically EG lost and was merged into the stronger, more affluent West Germany. But it merged into WG like a cancer that soon took over the entire host. I noticed that just by visiting Berlin about a decade ago. A whole lol of EGs -- mostly poor and lots of non-German East Europeans -- moved into WG areas. Almost no WG moved into former EG areas. Fate = sealed.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2023 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

I was in Bamberg for "Unification". I can assure you no West Germans wanted any of the "Fucking Oustiners" in their country. It fucked up the economy pretty bad. Lots of lost jobs due to cheap labor. Rents went through the roof. Streets lined with abandoned Trebants. It was pretty weird.

Posted by: Reforger at May 19, 2023 11:28 AM (B705c)

140 Can you wpnz them?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 19, 2023 11:28 AM (YohY1)
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Wypnyz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 11:29 AM (DU+/6)

141 >>>And now the important question, what is the best way to weaponize a whale?
Posted by: SturmToddler

laser beams attached to their heads
just spitballing here

Posted by: DB - slightly askew at May 19, 2023 11:29 AM (geLO8)

142 US Geological Survey "researcher" alleges Manhattan is sinking, due to subsidence, Global Warming, increasing storm severity and, (my favorite part) the weight of skyscrapers.

Breaking News: Meghan Markle reports that she was involved in a two hour gondola chase by paparazzi across the canals of upper Manhattan.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 19, 2023 11:29 AM (GYIa4)

143 So Joe is over there in Japan telling the Europeans that they can give Ukraine F 16 fighter jets... That should go well...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 19, 2023 11:24 AM (bs+z0)
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and the pilots will be...?

No wait, I don't want to know.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Diverse. The pilots will be diverse!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 19, 2023 11:29 AM (FVME7)

144 Then we're in the war. The F-16 isn't a gun or a missile or even a tank. It's a complex system requiring extensive training, skilled maintenance and an extremely long supply tail. If F-16s are going to Ukraine, American (or at least NATO, but probably American) pilots, mechanics, support craft and supply chains are going to have to go with them.

Welcome to direct American military engagement with Russia.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 11:27 AM

Ummm...

Posted by: Vietnam at May 19, 2023 11:29 AM (Wnv9h)

145 We used to be a thing.

Posted by: Whale Oil Lamps at May 19, 2023 11:29 AM (DhOHl)

146 "the island will never sink."

Continents rise and fall all the time. It has nothing to do with humans.

Posted by: fd at May 19, 2023 11:29 AM (iayUP)

147 Stephanie Abrams is racktastic.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 11:30 AM (5+1HQ)

148 144 Ummm...
Posted by: Vietnam at May 19, 2023 11:29 AM (Wnv9h)

========

He was a quiet American.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 11:30 AM (LvTSG)

149 and a pot full of petunias...
Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 11:08 AM (Mkvkw)

Oh no... Not AGAIN.

-pot of petunias
Posted by: Just Lily at May 19, 2023 11:11 AM (nHGAb)

Scientists have wondered why the petunias said this but have been utterly baffled.

they believe that if they could understand this, it might explain the meaning of life...

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 11:30 AM (Mkvkw)

150 Saint Thomas Aquinas wrote that incense was nice because of the lack of hygiene by the common folk.

In other words, people stink and the incense masks the stench.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 19, 2023 11:30 AM (5u1+1)

151 Dead whales have become the poster children for South Jersey Republicans’ superficial environmentalism. While villainizing offshore wind energy, they have effectively diverted local environmental movements away from the larger crisis, and instead towards attacking a new technology that could benefit prosperity and wildlife alike.
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How do wind farms benefit wildlife? As far as I can tell, they are more devastating to bird populations than a million hungry cats.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2023 11:31 AM (YIVH2)

152 Coincidentally enough, the international elite have determined that there are too many people on this planet, and billions of you will have to “depart” to save the Earth from environmental apocalypse.

Convince me that this is not a religion where the international elite worship Gaia.

They are willing to sacrifice billions of other people in order to appease their Dark Lord.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 19, 2023 11:31 AM (YXHzG)

153 > Then we're in the war. The F-16 isn't a gun or a missile or even a tank. It's a complex system requiring extensive training, skilled maintenance and an extremely long supply tail. If F-16s are going to Ukraine, American (or at least NATO, but probably American) pilots, mechanics, support craft and supply chains are going to have to go with them.

Welcome to direct American military engagement with Russia.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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There are several NATO members that fly F-16's. IIRC Poland is going to support the Vipers sent to Ukraine, not the US. Whatever the case, it won't be an all US support system in place.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2023 11:31 AM (Q4IgG)

154 They stink on ice!

Posted by: Mel Brooks at May 19, 2023 11:32 AM (DhOHl)

155 I should mention a pet theory on windmills of mine.

The energy to spin a wind mill comes from the temperature deltas of the land. Windmill take this energy out of the air but what are the consequences of removing this energy for unreliable power?

I don't know but what if it is a catastrophic consequence that is far less then putting out plant food (CO2) in the atmosphere?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 19, 2023 11:32 AM (17s+e)

156 "Save the Whales,save the whales, save the whales. Kill the seals , kill them dirty stinking rotten seals, kill the seals" - Cheech Marin

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2023 11:32 AM (lRky4)

157 We used to be a thing.
Posted by: Whale Oil Lamps at May 19, 2023 11:29 AM (DhOHl)
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Yup. Until kerosene undid you.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 11:32 AM (DU+/6)

158 Can you eat whale meat?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 11:11 AM (5+1HQ)

Yes, it's tasty.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 19, 2023 11:32 AM (xYfaf)

159 Welcome to direct American military engagement with Russia.

Noticing our drift towards nuclear war is just a hobby, and you need to find a better one.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 19, 2023 11:32 AM (2tUFv)

160 "Mister Biden tear down this wind turbine."

Posted by: DB - from Hell's heart I comment at thee at May 19, 2023 11:32 AM (geLO8)

161 There are several NATO members that fly F-16's. IIRC Poland is going to support the Vipers sent to Ukraine, not the US. Whatever the case, it won't be an all US support system in place.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2023 11:31 AM (Q4IgG)
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Just mostly. And we're going to be on the ground there, if I had to make a bet on it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 11:32 AM (DU+/6)

162 Manhattan has actually gotten bigger in the last 200 years because of man filling in shallow areas to create more land. Happens in nearly all coastal cities.

New Orleans has far more land area than it did naturally. This “cites sinking” nonsense is hysterical bullshit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 19, 2023 11:33 AM (1huWu)

163 Stephanie Abrams is racktastic.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 11:30 AM

*checks interwebz*

Why, yes. Yes, she is.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 19, 2023 11:33 AM (Wnv9h)

164 The best way to weaponize dead whales: Take every whale body killed by wind turbines and drop them off in DC. Let them see the results of green energy.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 19, 2023 11:33 AM (4olE8)

165 What would Michael Jackson do? This is what we have to ask ourselves when speaking of the whales. Cereally.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 11:33 AM (D8mow)

166 Hmm, I wonder what roasted Cem Ozdemir tastes like....
Posted by: Hungry German at May 19, 2023 11:11 AM (fs1hN)

Tastes like...Turkey.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 19, 2023 11:33 AM (xYfaf)

167
There are several NATO members that fly F-16's. IIRC Poland is going to support the Vipers sent to Ukraine, not the US. Whatever the case, it won't be an all US support system in place.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2023 11:31 AM (Q4IgG)

Right Joe, or his handlers are allowing the Europeans to send their F 16's...I'm guessing we are still involved

Posted by: It's me donna at May 19, 2023 11:33 AM (bs+z0)

168 There are only 7 offshores wind turbines in the US. All off the coast of RI. I think wind is stupid and a waste of resources, but there is no way 7 turbines near RI are killing whales in NJ.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 19, 2023 11:16 AM (1huWu)

I think that I should get a $10M grant from the FedGov to study the effects of offshore wind turbines on marine mammals.

I can write a report that the turbines can kill mammals at up to 10 trillion miles. No, you can't see my data.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 19, 2023 11:33 AM (GYIa4)

169 Noticing our drift towards nuclear war is just a hobby, and you need to find a better one.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 19, 2023 11:32 AM (2tUFv)
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I probably should. Washington is going to do whatever it wants anyway, and if I hear the air raid sirens I can just try to burn out of town before the fallout and looting finishes me off (assuming the blast doesn't get me - which given my specific local geography is a pretty good bet).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 11:34 AM (DU+/6)

170 US Geological Survey "researcher" alleges Manhattan is sinking, due to subsidence, Global Warming, increasing storm severity and, (my favorite part) the weight of skyscrapers.

So they are now testing the waters to see if they can demolish half the buildings in NYC (starting with Trump Tower) and forcing people to go on a diet so that NYC doesn't sink.

Hank Johnson feels vindicated.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 19, 2023 11:34 AM (YXHzG)

171 Hey, AOP, I understand there are wildfires in Alberta right now. Hope you’re in a safe place.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 11:34 AM (5+1HQ)

172 Coincidentally enough, the international elite have determined that there are too many people on this planet, and billions of you will have to “depart” to save the Earth from environmental apocalypse.

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Canada leads the way!

Poll: One-third of Canadians are fine with "prescribing" state-sponsored "suicide" for homeless people

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First we make them poor then we make them dead.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 19, 2023 11:34 AM (FVME7)

173 Oh no... Not AGAIN.

-pot of petunias
Posted by: Just Lily at May 19, 2023 11:11 AM (nHGAb)

Scientists have wondered why the petunias said this but have been utterly baffled.

they believe that if they could understand this, it might explain the meaning of life...
Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 11:30 AM (Mkvkw)
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Do not be alarmed, Arthur Dent.

Be very, very frightened.

Posted by: Agrajag at May 19, 2023 11:34 AM (2hlEI)

174 New Orleans has far more land area than it did naturally. This “cites sinking” nonsense is hysterical bullshit.
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This is the Venice dodge. Its built on mud and when it sinks its cuz oceans are rising.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 11:34 AM (D8mow)

175 they believe that if they could understand this, it might explain the meaning of life...

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 11:30 AM (Mkvkw)

Agrajag has entered the chat...

Posted by: Reforger at May 19, 2023 11:35 AM (B705c)

176 Besides, the Pope has got a thousand dollars worth of paint on the ceiling alone!

Posted by: Archie Bunker at May 19, 2023 11:35 AM (Nn3xT)

177 How else do you think Stephanie got the job?

Posted by: Bust size privilege at May 19, 2023 11:35 AM (DhOHl)

178 Poll: One-third of Canadians are fine with "prescribing" state-sponsored "suicide" for homeless people
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As long as I get to select the homeless I'm okay with this.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 11:36 AM (D8mow)

179 174 New Orleans has far more land area than it did naturally. This “cites sinking” nonsense is hysterical bullshit.
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This is the Venice dodge. Its built on mud and when it sinks its cuz oceans are rising.
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 11:34 AM (D8mow)

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The Venetian Doge was always a fan of mucking about in the mud.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 11:36 AM (LvTSG)

180 I probably should. Washington is going to do whatever it wants anyway, and if I hear the air raid sirens...

If Putin doesn't drop nukes on the fly-over cities, then the Pentagram will. Yet another false-flag operation.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 19, 2023 11:36 AM (YXHzG)

181 149 and a pot full of petunias...
Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 11:08 AM (Mkvkw)

Oh no... Not AGAIN.

-pot of petunias
Posted by: Just Lily at May 19, 2023 11:11 AM (nHGAb)

Scientists have wondered why the petunias said this but have been utterly baffled.

they believe that if they could understand this, it might explain the meaning of life...
Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 11:30 AM (Mkvkw)

The answer is 42.

Posted by: Just Lily at May 19, 2023 11:36 AM (nHGAb)

182 NYPost:

As part of last week’s budget deal, Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Legislature ordered the New York Power Authority to shut down all its fossil-fuel plants in just seven years — even though gas-fired plants supply nearly half the state’s electricity.

At the same time, they banned gas (for stoves and heating) in all new buildings by 2029, forcing them to be all-electric.

And by 2035, the only new cars sold here must also be purely electric.

Where on Earth do they think all the new juice that’s needed will come from?

The NYPA closures are just a small part of the state’s insane energy plan, which just forced National Grid to push for gas rate hikes of 17%, following Con Ed’s request up its gas charges 20%, and 12% for electricity.

Indeed, the law dictates that 70% of New York’s power must come from renewables by 2030 — so other gas-fueled plants will also have to close or scale back.

Posted by: Neo at May 19, 2023 11:36 AM (RovqD)

183 Noticing our drift towards nuclear war is just a hobby, and you need to find a better one.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

"Nuclear War"? I prefer the term " period of readjustment."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 19, 2023 11:37 AM (FVME7)

184 Also not one single prediction of the global warming scare society has ever come true. Not. One.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

Amazing that this fact is unable to dislodge the fantasy.

"... half of them are dumber than that" -- Geo. Carlin

Posted by: micky at May 19, 2023 11:37 AM (3byMq)

185 What are your ideas to weaponize dead whales?
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Tow 'em to the beach at Martha's Vineyard.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2023 11:37 AM (8e9gw)

186 This brunette with borderline NSFW amounts of sideboob doesn't give credence to any of this "climate change" nonsense:
https://is.gd/ukFggM

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 11:37 AM (DU+/6)

187 >Stephanie Abrams is racktastic.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Aye, her spout is like a shock of wheat!

Posted by: DB - from Hell's heart I comment at thee at May 19, 2023 11:37 AM (geLO8)

188 Where on Earth do they think all the new juice that’s needed will come from?

They have people for that. Don't bother them with details.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2023 11:37 AM (eOEVl)

189 'Indeed, the law dictates that 70% of New York’s power must come from renewables by 2030'

New York works overtime to affirm my decision never to live there.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 19, 2023 11:38 AM (YohY1)

190 Coincidentally enough, the international elite have determined that there are too many people on this planet, and billions of you will have to “depart” to save the Earth from environmental apocalypse.
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They see themselves as Solarians, as Asimov wrote about the planet "Solaria" in Foundation and Earth

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2023 11:38 AM (mvxlw)

191 Noticing our drift towards nuclear war is just a hobby, and you need to find a better one.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

"Nuclear War"? I prefer the term " period of readjustment."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 19, 2023 11:37 AM (FVME7)
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"Colander Facemask Time"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 19, 2023 11:38 AM (2hlEI)

192 About as stupid as the people who tried to blame an earthquake on gorebal warmening, "reasoning" that the melting glaciers resulted in less pressure on the ground, which could, possibly, probably result in more earthquakes.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 19, 2023 11:15 AM (Wnv9h)

Isostatic rebound is definitely a thing, and earthquakes in mid-continent North America may well be a result of the melt-off of the Ice Age continental ice sheet. But valley glaciers receding in Montana? Nah, bro.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 19, 2023 11:38 AM (xYfaf)

193 Where on Earth do they think all the new juice that’s needed will come from?

From the wall socket of course. Just like always.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 19, 2023 11:38 AM (17s+e)

194 Also not one single prediction of the global warming scare society has ever come true. Not. One.

Not true. Al Gore predicted that global warming would make him a rich man, and it did.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2023 11:38 AM (eOEVl)

195 >>"Nuclear War"? I prefer the term " period of readjustment."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

The Coming Unpleasantness

Posted by: DB - from Hell's heart I comment at thee at May 19, 2023 11:38 AM (geLO8)

196 Manhattan has actually gotten bigger in the last 200 years because of man filling in shallow areas to create more land. Happens in nearly all coastal cities.

New Orleans has far more land area than it did naturally. This “cites sinking” nonsense is hysterical bullshit.

This is the time we need Sam Kinison to scream to us the solution for living in an area that is sinking in to the sea.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 19, 2023 11:39 AM (YXHzG)

197 Posted by: Agrajag at May 19, 2023 11:34 AM (2hlEI)

Agrajag has entered the chat...
Posted by: Reforger at May 19, 2023 11:35 AM (B705c)

and THIS is why i love this place...

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 11:39 AM (Mkvkw)

198 I love how the left thinks the can just legislate realty to their liking.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 19, 2023 11:39 AM (1huWu)

199 And by 2035, the only new cars sold here must also be purely electric.
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This will make the used car market go bonkers. Invest in used cars!

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 11:39 AM (D8mow)

200 What are your ideas to weaponize dead whales?

Whale-mounted lasers. Definitely.

Posted by: Emmie -- MoMe-curious AR morons and Farmer, please email me at May 19, 2023 11:39 AM (Emce2)

201 It's weird - he left Kiev right before those mysterious drones attacked the Kremlin, and has apparently been back in Kiev only one day since then, to meet the head of the EU, Ursula von der Leyen (the Russians don't attack Kiev when major foreign leaders are in town).

It's almost as if he's avoiding being in Ukraine for some reason.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 19, 2023 11:17 AM (2tUFv)

But I was told it wasn't drones, it was two Russian freedom fighters... and even if it was drones, it wasn't Uke drones... and even if it was Uke drones, Russia is collapsing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 19, 2023 11:40 AM (GYIa4)

202 Venice is built on landfill. The history of that place is pretty amazing. A tribe of humans got banished to a soggy marsh, which they built up and improved until they all became merchant kings.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 19, 2023 11:40 AM (MeG8a)

203 Also not one single prediction of the global warming scare society has ever come true. Not. One.

Not true. Al Gore predicted that global warming would make him a rich man, and it did.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2023 11:38 AM (eOEVl)
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I stand corrected. Thank you sir.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 19, 2023 11:40 AM (17s+e)

204 This is the time we need Sam Kinison to scream to us the solution for living in an area that is sinking in to the sea.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 19, 2023 11:39 AM (YXHzG)
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Pretty sure his solution would be, "AAAAAAAAH!! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 19, 2023 11:40 AM (2hlEI)

205 182 NYPost:

As part of last week’s budget deal, Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Legislature ordered the New York Power Authority to shut down all its fossil-fuel plants in just seven years — even though gas-fired plants supply nearly half the state’s electricity.

At the same time, they banned gas (for stoves and heating) in all new buildings by 2029, forcing them to be all-electric.

And by 2035, the only new cars sold here must also be purely electric.

Where on Earth do they think all the new juice that’s needed will come from?

The NYPA closures are just a small part of the state’s insane energy plan, which just forced National Grid to push for gas rate hikes of 17%, following Con Ed’s request up its gas charges 20%, and 12% for electricity.

Indeed, the law dictates that 70% of New York’s power must come from renewables by 2030 — so other gas-fueled plants will also have to close or scale back.
Posted by: Neo at May 19, 2023 11:36 AM (RovqD)

This will lead to massive population loss within the state and bring its electoral votes from 29 to 35 or 36, depending on how big Florida gets.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 19, 2023 11:41 AM (KbCG3)

206 This brunette with borderline NSFW amounts of sideboob doesn't give credence to any of this "climate change" nonsense:
https://is.gd/ukFggM
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 11:37 AM (DU+/6)
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I think I have a new screensaver

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2023 11:41 AM (mvxlw)

207 What's crazy is these laws upon seeing the destruction never get repealed. You know because "here's the proof".

Where are the tapes from J6, McCarthy?

Posted by: micky at May 19, 2023 11:41 AM (3byMq)

208 The wheels are closing in...

Posted by: Don't look now, but at May 19, 2023 11:41 AM (DhOHl)

209 This brunette with borderline NSFW amounts of sideboob doesn't give credence to any of this "climate change" nonsense:

Show of hands. How many of you immediately embiggened the picture in a particular area?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2023 11:42 AM (eOEVl)

210
I-uh, I see-uh, uh-I see,, uhhmmmmmmm...

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at May 19, 2023 11:42 AM (hSb7+)

211 The Climate Change hoax became self-aware years ago and is hellbent on destroying humanity. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity.

Posted by: Ripley at May 19, 2023 11:43 AM (cUYo/)

212 The ~~wheels~~ whales are closing in...
Posted by: Don't look now, but at May 19, 2023 11:41 AM (DhOHl)
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FIFY

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 19, 2023 11:43 AM (2hlEI)

213 205 This will lead to massive population loss within the state and bring its electoral votes from 29 to 35 or 36, depending on how big Florida gets.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 19, 2023 11:41 AM (KbCG3)

It will also create a great buying opportunity for somebody who is will to wait with cash in hand

Posted by: Neo at May 19, 2023 11:43 AM (RovqD)

214 How do you weaponize a whale? Give Whoopi a firearm.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 11:43 AM (5+1HQ)

215 Missoula MT did something like this. They lowered the requirement for Flood Stage in the Local Rivers and within 2 years you started seeing stories about the 'Alarming in crease in Record Flood Events'.

Posted by: garrett at May 19, 2023 11:05 AM (ZlS5/)
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After we made everything legal, the crime rates dropped!!
- Democrats everywhere.

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 19, 2023 11:44 AM (9SAvF)

216 Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 19, 2023 11:41 AM (KbCG3)
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For consistency and thoroughness, they should refuse any food fertilized with NatGas (which is most), all pharma using NatGas byproducts (no more medicines, for Gaia!) and all clothes using NatGas products.

"Hungry, cold, and sick is no argument against preventing catastrophic climate change" said some fucking idiot.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2023 11:44 AM (mvxlw)

217 209 This brunette with borderline NSFW amounts of sideboob doesn't give credence to any of this "climate change" nonsense:

Show of hands. How many of you immediately embiggened the picture in a particular area?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2023 11:42 AM (eOEVl)

Don't you mean, show of hand?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 19, 2023 11:44 AM (KbCG3)

218 Global warming isn't making Manhattan sink. Whoopi Goldberg and Tank Abrams are making Manhattan sink.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 19, 2023 11:45 AM (17s+e)

219 205 This will lead to massive population loss within the state and bring its electoral votes from 29 to 35 or 36, depending on how big Florida gets.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 19, 2023 11:41 AM (KbCG3)
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It would be hilarious if NY state reduced itself to the population of Wyoming...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2023 11:45 AM (YIVH2)

220 The whales are coming off

Posted by: DB - from Hell's heart I comment at thee at May 19, 2023 11:45 AM (geLO8)

221 @182 no one ever said that environmental fanatics are good with either math or reality

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2023 11:45 AM (lRky4)

222 It is the return of pagan religion.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 19, 2023 11:13 AM (lTGtQ)

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Next you'll be telling me they're advocating for the normalization of child sexualization, mutilation, rape, and sacrifice.

Oh, wait ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 11:45 AM (sJSOG)

223 The whales are coming off

Posted by: DB - from Hell's heart I comment at thee at May 19, 2023 11:45 AM (geLO

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And the whales are closing in!

Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 11:46 AM (sJSOG)

224 And the fat whale is circling the drain!

Posted by: Don't look now, but at May 19, 2023 11:46 AM (DhOHl)

225 It's the Venetian Blind Industry that is sinking Venice.

Posted by: More Science Facts at May 19, 2023 11:47 AM (Nn3xT)

226 They need the right type of people in the U.S., not less, to support them, the bureaucracy & our expanding service economy.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at May 19, 2023 11:47 AM (GshMh)

227 They have to juice the numbers now because they're not going to get many, if any, hurricanes this year due to El Nino that's expected to form here in the next few months.

Predictions are, it'll be a stronger than normal one since we're coming off an extended La Nina.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 19, 2023 11:47 AM (Vhzin)

228 And the whales are closing in!
Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 11:46 AM (sJSOG)
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These "Jaws" sequels have gotten really weird.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 11:47 AM (DU+/6)

229 219 It would be hilarious if NY state reduced itself to the population of Wyoming...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2023 11:45 AM (YIVH2)

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"Us and our servants? Sounds great!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 11:47 AM (LvTSG)

230 >.And the whales are closing in!

Posted by: ShainS

AWAY ALL BOATS

Posted by: DB - from Hell's heart I comment at thee at May 19, 2023 11:47 AM (geLO8)

231 Stephanie Abrams>>>>>>>Tracy Abrams, yes??

Posted by: tubal at May 19, 2023 11:47 AM (RFmMX)

232 It's not over until the fat gay whale sings.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 19, 2023 11:48 AM (4I/2K)

233 219 205 This will lead to massive population loss within the state and bring its electoral votes from 29 to 35 or 36, depending on how big Florida gets.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 19, 2023 11:41 AM (KbCG3)
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It would be hilarious if NY state reduced itself to the population of Wyoming...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2023 11:45 AM (YIVH2)

I grew up in Upstate NY. Outside of Albany, Rochester and Syracuse, quite a bit of farmland. I could easily see NY becoming a pretty sparse place.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 19, 2023 11:48 AM (KbCG3)

234
oh,, I'm-uh s-s-s-supposed to, to-uh tell you guys, t-t-tell you guys that-uh, that-uh,, uh, uhhmmmm...

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at May 19, 2023 11:48 AM (vwCZJ)

235 the markets are slowly coming to the realization Biden intends to default the US debt and blame Republicans. Also, World War 3 is being contemplated by hte Washington genius class.

Who knew the "norms restored" meant provoking every possible disaster all at once?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2023 11:49 AM (mvxlw)

236 This brunette with borderline NSFW amounts of sideboob doesn't give credence to any of this "climate change" nonsense:

Show of hands. How many of you immediately embiggened the picture in a particular area?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2023 11:42 AM (eOEVl)

Don't you mean, show of hand?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 19, 2023 11:44 AM (KbCG3)

I'll be in my bunk....

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 11:49 AM (Mkvkw)

237 I grew up in Upstate NY. Outside of Albany, Rochester and Syracuse, quite a bit of farmland. I could easily see NY becoming a pretty sparse place.
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Its really a beautiful area but for all they bitchy Yankees that live there.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 11:49 AM (D8mow)

238 If Venice sinks, will the gondoliers need longer poles, or shorter ones?

Posted by: Points to Ponder at May 19, 2023 11:49 AM (Nn3xT)

239 This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Stephanie Abrams' bustline at May 19, 2023 11:49 AM (DhOHl)

240 Upstate NY has some lovely areas, rural places.
And it's hard to ban a good old Franklin stove.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 19, 2023 11:49 AM (MeG8a)

241 Who knew the "norms restored" meant provoking every possible disaster all at once?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2023 11:49 AM (mvxlw)
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It's pretty close to norm restoration, actually. The simultaneity is only because they have to make for the lost during the Trump administration.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 11:50 AM (DU+/6)

242 "Us and our servants? Sounds great!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 11:47 AM (LvTSG)

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Make Plantations and Slavery Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 11:50 AM (sJSOG)

243 235 the markets are slowly coming to the realization Biden intends to default the US debt and blame Republicans. Also, World War 3 is being contemplated by hte Washington genius class.

Who knew the "norms restored" meant provoking every possible disaster all at once?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2023 11:49 AM (mvxlw)

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The US defaulting would be a painful good thing. Happening on Biden's watch would make it better. Let Democrats get the political blame for the painful but necessary action. A fiction will later develop of Biden being a new Reagan, but whatever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 11:50 AM (LvTSG)

244 'Biden intends to default the US debt and blame Republicans.'

Republicans shit my pants! No joke.

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 19, 2023 11:50 AM (YohY1)

245 Venice is built on landfill. The history of that place is pretty amazing. A tribe of humans got banished to a soggy marsh, which they built up and improved until they all became merchant kings.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 19, 2023 11:40 AM (MeG8a)

Then they tried to marry off their son to a girl with huge tracts of land but he just wanted to sing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 19, 2023 11:50 AM (GYIa4)

246 Hey, AOP, I understand there are wildfires in Alberta right now. Hope you’re in a safe place.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 19, 2023 11:34 AM (5+1HQ)

They are a few hundred miles north and west of my place. Pretty safe here, and it's nice and green here. Thanks for the thought!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 19, 2023 11:50 AM (gstOi)

247 240 Upstate NY has some lovely areas, rural places.
And it's hard to ban a good old Franklin stove.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 19, 2023 11:49 AM (MeG8a)

Grew up right off of Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes region. Tons of wineries there now. It's awesome in the summer. Totally unnecessary at any other time of the year.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 19, 2023 11:50 AM (KbCG3)

248 245 Then they tried to marry off their son to a girl with huge tracts of land but he just wanted to sing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 19, 2023 11:50 AM (GYIa4)

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I remember the tale of Romeo and Juliet very differently...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 11:51 AM (LvTSG)

249
I grew up in Upstate NY. Outside of Albany, Rochester and Syracuse, quite a bit of farmland. I could easily see NY becoming a pretty sparse place.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 19, 2023 11:48 AM (KbCG3)

People don't believe something like this can happen, but there are cities in ruins on every continent that the inhabitants abandoned for various reasons.

Those cites too were seen as "permanent" I'm sure.

Posted by: Just Lily at May 19, 2023 11:51 AM (nHGAb)

250 "Us and our servants? Sounds great!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 19, 2023 11:47 AM (LvTSG)

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Make Plantations and Slavery Great Again!
Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 11:50 AM (sJSOG)

Nobody knooowwws
the trouble I've seen.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at May 19, 2023 11:51 AM (AiZBA)

251 Oh, and everything north of Yonkers is upstate.

Posted by: National Geography Bee at May 19, 2023 11:51 AM (Nn3xT)

252 As long as I get to select the homeless I'm okay with this.
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 11:36 AM (D8mow)

Just stop doling out Narcan, and it's a self-solving problem.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 19, 2023 11:51 AM (gstOi)

253 It's pretty close to norm restoration, actually. The simultaneity is only because they have to make for the lost during the Trump administration.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2023 11:50 AM (DU+/6)

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Was thinking the same thing. The 16-year plan (8 years of DogEater followed by 8 years of Hillary) to destroy the country was briefly interrupted, so the Biden Junta is making up for lost time and trying to get it all done in less than four years if possible.

Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 11:52 AM (sJSOG)

254 Keep windmills safe, legal and rare.

Posted by: Time honored hackneyed phrase at May 19, 2023 11:52 AM (DhOHl)

255 "But due to advances in creative meteorology since those long-ago days of four months ago,"

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Advances in creative meteorology is a great phrase, Buck.

Posted by: 496 at May 19, 2023 11:52 AM (6ZBhz)

256 'People don't believe something like this can happen, but there are cities in ruins on every continent that the inhabitants abandoned for various reasons.'

Exactly. The Roman empire comes to mind.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 19, 2023 11:52 AM (YohY1)

257 "...push up ambition"...WTF? If they mean 'motivate' why don't they say 'motivate'?

Words have meaning.

Ambition is a self-directed desire to achieve a goal. Driving up on the other hand is externally initiated. These are contradictory concepts.

What they are really saying is "coerce"

It's an absurd twist on the old totalitarian classic "We hope you will go along voluntarily, but we are prepared to force you if necessary."

Posted by: Muldoon at May 19, 2023 11:52 AM (kXYt5)

258 The New York laws are designed to make NYC like Hong Kong but more likely Mexico City or maybe Karachi - cramped, crowded pits of humanity except for some glittering parts. The electoral balance stays the same.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at May 19, 2023 11:52 AM (oWBc3)

259 People don't believe something like this can happen, but there are cities in ruins on every continent that the inhabitants abandoned for various reasons.

Those cites too were seen as "permanent" I'm sure.
Posted by: Just Lily at May 19, 2023 11:51 AM (nHGAb)
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Beieve it.

Posted by: Inhabitants of Skull Island at May 19, 2023 11:53 AM (2hlEI)

260 Totally unnecessary at any other time of the year.
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Snort. My wife is from Auburn. I have spent a shit ton of vacation, Thanksgiving and Christmas there.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 11:53 AM (D8mow)

261 Just the name "hurricane" is slanted. What if it is gender fluid cane?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 19, 2023 11:53 AM (PFxts)

262 My favorite part about global warming models is that they all have a "here be dragons" for the most essential and vital part of their calculations.

They must have accurate or at least somewhat workable fluid dynamics modeling to support the whole fraud.

Instead they have ... nothing. Just, "here's what we think maybe might could happen, and we're the experts so shut up"

We're no where near close to the fluid dynamics modeling to even model a small gurgling brook for 10 yards--let alone thousands of air and water steams over the entire planet.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 19, 2023 11:53 AM (Vhzin)

263 Landfilling windmill blades is a big problem. Not many take them due to their size. They cannot be readily compacted / crushed as they are made mostly of fiberglass and composites.

Posted by: scampydog at May 19, 2023 11:53 AM (2bFN5)

264 Oh sorry, are you whales from Wales?

Posted by: Just the punchline at May 19, 2023 11:54 AM (u5srs)

265 I used to be a thing.

Posted by: Atlantis at May 19, 2023 11:54 AM (4I/2K)

266 People don't believe something like this can happen, but there are cities in ruins on every continent that the inhabitants abandoned for various reasons.

Those cites too were seen as "permanent" I'm sure.
Posted by: Just Lily at May 19, 2023 11:51 AM (nHGAb)
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Artificial reefs?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 19, 2023 11:55 AM (2hlEI)

267 252 As long as I get to select the homeless I'm okay with this.
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 11:36 AM (D8mow)

Just stop doling out Narcan, and it's a self-solving problem.
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Or punch up the potency of drugs laced with fentanyl. Or do both.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 11:55 AM (D8mow)

268 Oh sorry, are you whales from Wales?
Posted by: Just the punchline at May 19, 2023 11:54 AM (u5srs)

The monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga.
You know why?

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at May 19, 2023 11:55 AM (AiZBA)

269 260 Totally unnecessary at any other time of the year.
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Snort. My wife is from Auburn. I have spent a shit ton of vacation, Thanksgiving and Christmas there.
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 11:53 AM (D8mow)

I left Upstate to go to college just outside of NYC. I go back home every Christmas. Now that I live in South Carolina, I'm trying to get the folks to move this way. They're getting older so I'm hoping their resolve will start weakening. I've already won the Thanksgiving war.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 19, 2023 11:55 AM (KbCG3)

270
*snap*

I-uh r-r-remember what-uh-it-uh, uh,, was. it was, uh, it uh-was-uh, uh

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at May 19, 2023 11:56 AM (vwCZJ)

271 263 Landfilling windmill blades is a big problem. Not many take them due to their size. They cannot be readily compacted / crushed as they are made mostly of fiberglass and composites.
Posted by: scampydog at May 19, 2023 11:53 AM (2bFN5)

Send them to China. They'll take them and chuck them into the ocean.

Posted by: Roy at May 19, 2023 11:56 AM (u5srs)

272 263 Landfilling windmill blades is a big problem. Not many take them due to their size. They cannot be readily compacted / crushed as they are made mostly of fiberglass and composites.
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Burn them to generate electricity in a coal fired power plant.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 11:56 AM (D8mow)

273 People don't believe something like this can happen, but there are cities in ruins on every continent that the inhabitants abandoned for various reasons.

Those cites too were seen as "permanent" I'm sure.
Posted by: Just Lily at May 19, 2023 11:51 AM (nHGAb)
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I wonder how many of them were abandoned because their leaders were imbecilic idiots...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2023 11:56 AM (YIVH2)

274 "But due to advances in creative meteorology since those long-ago days of four months ago,"

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Advances in creative meteorology is a great phrase, Buck.

Posted by: 496 at May 19, 2023 11:52 AM (6ZBhz)

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Agreed. He could have really twisted the shiv with "re-imagining meteorology."

Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 11:57 AM (sJSOG)

275 >>>and a pot full of petunias...
Posted by: SturmToddler at May 19, 2023 11:08 AM (Mkvkw)
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"Say it with flowerpots!"

-Bertie Wooster

Posted by: 496 at May 19, 2023 11:57 AM (6ZBhz)

276 Tim Scott just filed paperwork to run for Vice President. The debate battles with Nikki Haley will be just the epic cure for sleeplessness America needs.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2023 11:57 AM (mvxlw)

277 I left Upstate to go to college just outside of NYC. I go back home every Christmas. Now that I live in South Carolina, I'm trying to get the folks to move this way. They're getting older so I'm hoping their resolve will start weakening. I've already won the Thanksgiving war.
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We used to split the Holidays between NC and NY cuz relatives. When the kid came along we stopped doing the mad holiday dash.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 11:57 AM (D8mow)

278 "...push up ambition"...WTF? If they mean 'motivate' why don't they say 'motivate'?

Words have meaning.

Ambition is a self-directed desire to achieve a goal. Driving up on the other hand is externally initiated. These are contradictory concepts.

What they are really saying is "coerce"

It's an absurd twist on the old totalitarian classic "We hope you will go along voluntarily, but we are prepared to force you if necessary."

Posted by: Muldoon at May 19, 2023 11:52 AM (kXYt5)
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+1

As God as my witness, I thought "push up ambition" was a reference to F. Joe Biden ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 11:58 AM (sJSOG)

279 Snort. My wife is from Auburn. I have spent a shit ton of vacation, Thanksgiving and Christmas there.
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 11:53 AM (D8mow)
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Pro-tip: the summers are nicer

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2023 11:59 AM (mvxlw)

280
So in recent years, pretty much any summer storm that has 39 mph winds - however briefly - will become “named,” if only for an hour or two.

So, Tuesday in Waxahatchie.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 19, 2023 11:59 AM (n+4am)

281 Landfilling windmill blades is a big problem. Not many take them due to their size. They cannot be readily compacted / crushed as they are made mostly of fiberglass and composites.
Posted by: scampydog at May 19, 2023 11:53 AM (2bFN5)

So don't landfill them. Waste of good resources. Use convict labor to saw them up into small squares that can be blended with the feed going into coal-fired power plants. "Composite material" is basically carbon fiber embedded in solid hydrocarbons, nearly the same bulk composition as coal. Recover the energy, some of it at least, wasted in making them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 19, 2023 12:00 PM (gstOi)

282 I used to visit a web site that had places in Detroit that were abandoned. Magnificent homes, theaters, schools, hospitals, all ruined. You could tell that the standard of living there was once great.
I stopped visiting the site. Too depressing.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 19, 2023 12:00 PM (MeG8a)

283 >>"push up ambition"

racy brassieres come to mind

Posted by: DB - from Hell's heart I comment at thee at May 19, 2023 12:01 PM (geLO8)

284 ---
I wonder how many of them were abandoned because their leaders were imbecilic idiots...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2023 11:56 AM (YIVH2)

I'm beginning to think maybe all of them?

But a a fair amount emptied out because of plagues and never recovered.

Just a coinkydink I'm sure and nothing to do with imbecilic idiots in charge.

Posted by: Just Lily at May 19, 2023 12:01 PM (nHGAb)

285
Hmm, I wonder what roasted Cem Ozdemir tastes like....
Posted by: Hungry German at May 19, 2023 11:11 AM (fs1hN)

Tastes like...Turkey.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Jive Turkey!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2023 12:01 PM (63Dwl)

286 279 Snort. My wife is from Auburn. I have spent a shit ton of vacation, Thanksgiving and Christmas there.
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 11:53 AM (D8mow)
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Pro-tip: the summers are nicer
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Depends. One summer vacation on the lake in August we had to buy polar tech jackets to just walk around it was so fucking cold. My kid's lips turned blue after swimming in the lake for 15 minutes.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 12:01 PM (D8mow)

287 Whale is disgusting. Just thinking about what it tastes like gives me chills.
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Perhaps you had the farm raised whale...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2023 12:01 PM (OpB28)

288 oh,, I'm-uh s-s-s-supposed to, to-uh tell you guys, t-t-tell you guys that-uh, that-uh,, uh, uhhmmmm...

yeah
Posted by: John Fetterman at May 19, 2023 11:48 AM (vwCZJ)
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he means "Ace is up"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2023 12:02 PM (mvxlw)

289 >.I stopped visiting the site. Too depressing.

Posted by: gourmand du jour

more cities will have their own websites in the future

Posted by: DB - from Hell's heart I comment at thee at May 19, 2023 12:02 PM (geLO8)

290 >>Whale is disgusting. Just thinking about what it tastes like gives me chills.

I had mako once. It's like a pork chop

Posted by: DB - from Hell's heart I comment at thee at May 19, 2023 12:03 PM (geLO8)

291 I used to visit a web site that had places in Detroit that were abandoned. Magnificent homes, theaters, schools, hospitals, all ruined. You could tell that the standard of living there was once great.
I stopped visiting the site. Too depressing.
Posted by: gourmand du jour
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See: Gary, Indiana

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2023 12:03 PM (OpB28)

292 Pro-tip: the summers are nicer
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Depends. One summer vacation on the lake in August we had to buy polar tech jackets to just walk around it was so fucking cold. My kid's lips turned blue after swimming in the lake for 15 minutes.
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 19, 2023 12:01 PM (D8mow)
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you're right, I need to be more specific. The mddle two weeks of August can be nice

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2023 12:03 PM (mvxlw)

293 ......Use convict labor to saw them up into small squares....
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 19, 2023 12:00 PM (gstOi)
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And shanks. Win, win.

Posted by: scampydog at May 19, 2023 12:04 PM (2bFN5)

294 due to advances in creative meteorology

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Should be an Academy Awards category.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 19, 2023 12:04 PM (FVME7)

295

In Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2023 12:05 PM (63Dwl)

296 racy brassieres come to mind

Posted by: DB - from Hell's heart I comment at thee at May 19, 2023 12:01 PM (geLO

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Heh. That was the wifey's first thought as well.

Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 12:05 PM (sJSOG)

297 "Hunger is no argument"

Yeah I expect the way they will do the desired population reduction.

1. Create massive unemployment with AI (find out who your real "essential workers are")

2. Offer Universal Basic Income on a simple condition. You have no children and agree to be irreversibly sterilized.

3. Let the problem solve itself.

You know as well as I that 80% of grown adults are fundamentally lazy and would take a lifetime retirement of beer/wine, TV, social media, and video games over ever doing any real work again.

Now think about 12yo kids and how many of them would jump at the chance for video games for life in a studio apartment eating cricket biscuits. So they'll offer the same plan to 12 year olds. Which dovetails nicely with the trans agenda. If a 12yo can make a life changing decision to be trans, they can also make the decision for permanent sterilization to get their UBI starting early.

Their entire plan is to turn kids into drones before they can form an independent identity.

They will have a problem of elections as population drops, as the folks that remain who actually do work lean conservative. I expect elections will end then.

Posted by: mikethemoose at May 19, 2023 12:06 PM (qtNEd)

298 295

In Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2023 12:05 PM (63Dwl)

Heh.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 19, 2023 12:06 PM (KbCG3)

299 Whale is disgusting. Just thinking about what it tastes like gives me chills.
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Perhaps you had the farm raised whale...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2023 12:01 PM (OpB2

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Free-range whale FTW!

Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 12:06 PM (sJSOG)

300 I also like the "but look at Venus!" fraud-pusher cry.

Yeah, get back to me when we slow the Earth's rotation to one rotation per year and move her several million miles closer to the Sun.

But they know that--they are counting on the scientific illiteracy of the public.

And that's been a really safe bet for 30+ years ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 19, 2023 12:07 PM (Vhzin)

301 NOOD Amanapour

Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2023 12:07 PM (sJSOG)

302 And shanks. Win, win.
Posted by: scampydog at May 19, 2023 12:04 PM (2bFN5)

Heh! Reducing the prison load organically.

I'm serious about the convict labor, though. Not forced. Offer them five dollars a day, 3 cans of beer on Saturday evenings, and a day off their sentence for every three spent on the job. Provide basic training, and respirators so they don't inhale the dust, which would be nasty.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 19, 2023 12:09 PM (gstOi)

303 Now, they are returning deceased on our shorelines.

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Roughly 7th grade level language usage. Be better

Hemingway; " The Old Man gazed soulfully down the shoreline at the rotting corpses of the great beasts rendered a stench that offended the Old Man's aged nostrils.

Melvillle: Thar she blows!!!!

e.e.cummings:
whales on beach stinking mighty
knowing naught else we must blame righty

Posted by: Muldoon at May 19, 2023 12:14 PM (kXYt5)

304 Hemingway: Did I mention the man was old?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 19, 2023 12:15 PM (kXYt5)

305 ee cuummings rewrite: ...must blame whitey

Posted by: Muldoon at May 19, 2023 12:23 PM (kXYt5)

306 The German's lost the last two World Wars that THEY started. Who keeps putting them in charge of stuff? France?

Posted by: MrToad at May 19, 2023 12:44 PM (8F7ke)

307 Gaia had always loved wind turbines! The spate of whale deaths is no doubt just a fluke of nature.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at May 19, 2023 12:54 PM (OqSlY)

308 check out the author of the "dead whales are OK" editorial

"Kayla Kulzy is a Seaside Park resident majoring in Biology and Environmental Studies at Bowdoin College. "

a f*cking college student

Posted by: Max Barrage at May 19, 2023 02:22 PM (jHLWt)

309 The Eco-Freaks want to ban Gasoline Cars, Gas Stoves Refrierators Washers and Dryers they want us to return to a Primative Lifestyle and make seasonal Human Sacrifice like the anchent pagans did

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 19, 2023 04:40 PM (wGqjj)

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