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"You do love your dogs, don't you? I wouldn't mind having one honestly, but I don't have time. How would I look walking a dog on the White House lawn?"

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The Problem with Trying to Measure ‘Racial Resentment’

SWEDEN BOMBING CRISIS CONTINUES: Man Blows Himself Up as 4 Bombings Take Place in 24 Hours

Hezbollah Is in Venezuela to Stay

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Re: NYC educators pensions

I'm sure many counterarguments will be made that teachers deserve their high pay based on how hard they work and how important their jobs are - classic labor theory of value that had Medieval Scholastics arguing over the "just price" that free market capitalism should have put to rest with the idea that something is worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it. It's hardly "progressive" to revert to pre-Enlightenment ideas about the way the world works.

#1 Jerryskids on 2019-02-13 08:50 (Reply)

"the State of Illegalia"

This is your future. Ever increasing taxes. More communicable diseases, increasing crime rates and less representation by your elected politicians. They are replacing you with more manageable voters. America as we knew it is ending. We will continue to decline until either Russia or China picks us off.

Wake up America. Your party has turned communist on you.

#2 Anon on 2019-02-13 09:07 (Reply)

It will be China. It is already working hard on that goal.

Russia is a total red herring. They don't have the inclination or the resources.

#2.1 Jim on 2019-02-13 13:52 (Reply)

re: Harrison Ford,

...Flies to Dubai in private jet to lecture me about using fossil fuels.

Further evidence that progressivism is some sort of brain disease.

#3 Rusty on 2019-02-13 10:14 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Warmist And Climahypocrite Harrison Ford Declares ‘Climate Change’ “The Greatest Moral Crisis Of Our Time” Or Something

No. It is not hypocritical to turn on a light bulb, even if the electricity is generated in a coal-fired plant. The solution to climate change is not to live in the dark.

#3.1 Zachriel on 2019-02-13 11:33 (Reply)

It's certainly hypocritical to take a private jet though.

Ford might at least want to consider walking the talk like Ed Begley, Jr.

#3.1.1 JJM on 2019-02-13 11:39 (Reply)

JJM: It's certainly hypocritical to take a private jet though.

While it's nice when people try to reduce their personal carbon footprints, ultimately, market forces will determine the amount of carbon emissions. Only concerted action will change that equation, as it did with air and water pollution.

#3.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2019-02-13 11:57 (Reply)

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#3.1.1.1.1 Pedantry Gasbot 2000 in training on 2019-02-13 12:00 (Reply)

Pedantry Gasbot is wise.

#3.1.1.1.1.1 Rusty on 2019-02-13 12:06 (Reply)

Ackshually, what we progressives really want is to control the unwashed proles and subject them to our dominance, while we fly around the world on private jets and eat chocolate covered fetuses served to us by naked children.

#3.1.1.1.1.1.1 ZACKREAL on 2019-02-13 12:09 (Reply)

"Only concerted action will change that equation, as it did with air and water pollution."

If those who bloviate about climate change aren't prepared to take "concerted action" themselves, then they shouldn't be surprised that people ignore their (and your) posturing.

#3.1.1.1.2 JJM on 2019-02-13 13:04 (Reply)

From a 2015 Daily Mail article on Ford....

'I'm so passionate about flying, I often fly up the coast for a cheeseburger,' he said in 2010."

#3.1.1.2 Hank_M on 2019-02-13 12:03 (Reply)

Yeah, that sounds like your basic environmentalist whackjob elitist.

#3.1.1.2.1 Rusty on 2019-02-13 12:11 (Reply)

Hank_M: 'I'm so passionate about flying, I often fly up the coast for a cheeseburger,' he said in 2010."

Agnetha Fältskog

(Ford directly contributes to forest conservation.)

#3.1.1.2.2 Zachriel on 2019-02-13 12:19 (Reply)

That makes everything a okay! I contribute to forest conservation too, I buy wood, a natural renewable material.

I just love it when you link to stupid crap that moves the conversation along. Don't you have a graph?

#3.1.1.2.2.1 Zackismyhero! on 2019-02-13 12:33 (Reply)

Talk about handwaving. What will the crazy zack come up with next?

#3.1.1.2.2.2 Hank_M on 2019-02-13 12:55 (Reply)

Hank_M: Talk about handwaving.

It's hardly handwaving to point out that market forces will determine carbon emissions, absent concerted action.

#3.1.1.2.2.2.1 Zachriel on 2019-02-13 12:59 (Reply)

Give it a break, Lee.
Putting up a link to an Abba song was handwaving at it's stupidest.

We get it. You don't care about climate change. You don't care about Fords abject hypocricy on the subject. You're just here to argue.

#3.1.1.2.2.2.1.1 Hank_M on 2019-02-13 13:11 (Reply)

Hank_M: Putting up a link to an Abba song was handwaving

It was directly relevant to the point about markets. People do what people do. Rich people do what rich people do. Greenhouse gas emissions are currently a tragedy of the commons.

#3.1.1.2.2.2.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2019-02-13 13:13 (Reply)

Sure Lee, Abba. That explains everything. Maybe you ought to let Ford know about this.

#3.1.1.2.2.2.1.1.1.1 Hank_M on 2019-02-13 13:43 (Reply)

In fact, ABBA has been active in cow fart reduction for years. It has been scientifically proven that cows eat less when forced to listen to "Mamma Mia" on an endless loop. (see Berthol, Larch et.al. 2019) Notably, Harrison Ford has not farted in 17 years in an effort to reduce his own carbon footprint.

#3.1.1.2.2.2.1.1.1.1.1 ZachriHell on 2019-02-13 14:14 (Reply)

Hank_M: That explains everything.

For a person of Ford's wealth, flying airplanes is much like driving a less expensive vehicle is for someone of lesser means. Market forces may not explain everything, but they are certainly relevant. People will continue to spend according to their means, but the actual cost to the environment, the externalities, have to be accounted for in those transactions. Otherwise, you have the tragedy of the commons.

#3.1.1.2.2.2.1.1.1.1.2 Zachriel on 2019-02-13 15:14 (Reply)

Gee whiz, did you look up ‘tragedy of the commons’ on the internet last night? You should have a song to go along with that phrase!

#3.1.1.2.2.2.1.1.1.1.2.1 Zach Had a Mic Drop on 2019-02-13 16:03 (Reply)

The borg bot programmers got hernias just trying to lift the phrase.

#3.1.1.2.2.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2019-02-13 22:52 (Reply)

You're just here to argue.

WHAT?! Notably, how is this notably possible, notably?

I say, GOOD DAY, SIR!

#3.1.1.2.2.2.1.1.2 But my bewilderment! on 2019-02-13 15:09 (Reply)

Don't you mean coerced action? All climate deniers need to be jailed, I mean sent to the reeducation camps!

#3.1.1.2.2.2.1.2 Zackismyhero! on 2019-02-13 13:11 (Reply)

Half a dozen foundational questions have been lodged with the Gasbot and gotten many eternal silences in reply. I myself have been gifted one bald-faced lie.

This then constitutes the playbook and the philosophical plank of the forgotten Chinese Sea data center-grade-like leftist troll community, from which it finds itself more than intellectually qualified to act like, well, a forgotten Chinese Sea data center-grade-like leftist troll. Probably running on decrepit Russian radioisotope thermoelectric generators.

Or you could insert progressive and it'd read the same way. Because, you know, progressing like they are takes buckets of oozing moralistic claptrap without an ounce of meaning. Meaning is right out when re-engineering your neighbor's life against his will and against reason and right. You're on a holy quest after all; a sacred mission. Heads shall roll.

#3.1.1.2.2.3 Meh, the forgotten on 2019-02-13 13:00 (Reply)

California to pull plug on billion-dollar bullet train, cites ballooning costs =

Sacramento Socialists finally run out of OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY!

#4 Old Codger on 2019-02-13 10:18 (Reply)

More like Governor Newsom realized that all the graft money had been sucked dry already by the previous administration.

Without another bond initiative to milk the citizenry again, there is not much political gain to be had from the current project.

#4.1 Rusty on 2019-02-13 11:06 (Reply)

re the valentine picture.

Yep. That was me yesterday at the Wal-Mart.

So I walk up to the rack and pick one. When I check out I am absolutely stunned to find it cost SEVEN FRIGGIN' DOLLARS!!!!!

What a ripoff!

I hope there is a special place in hell for the Valentine Day card profiteers.

Grrrrrrrrrr . . . .

Arghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

#5 feeblemind on 2019-02-13 10:20 (Reply)

I mean, c'mon . . . I am buying a card in the friickin' Wal-Mart for crryng out loud, not Sak's.

Sheeesh . . .

#5.1 feeblemind on 2019-02-13 10:29 (Reply)

Love Hurts

#5.2 Aggie on 2019-02-13 10:38 (Reply)

I cannot lie. I create my own on the computer and print them off myself.

Once the card business started getting up into the stratosphere in terms of price, it was an obvious solution.

#5.3 JJM on 2019-02-13 11:35 (Reply)

What a romantic, going to Walmart for a card. What, you were too cheap to buy your wife something luxurious, like a new blender? or a weed-whacker?

#5.4 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2019-02-13 12:30 (Reply)

LOL

Ummmm. . . . . I got her a weed whacker for her birthday a few years ago.

#5.4.1 feeblemind on 2019-02-13 12:40 (Reply)

My wife once wanted a chainsaw for Christmas (true). I didn't get it for her:

1. It was too dangerous.

2. I wasn't sure what (or who) she might use it on.

#5.4.2 Jim on 2019-02-13 18:51 (Reply)

Aren't they interchangeable...I mean they roughly do the same job.

#5.4.3 indyjonesouthere on 2019-02-13 22:57 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Is it time to change our thinking on fraternities?

No need to take action, it's being changed for you.

QUOTE:

California to pull plug on billion-dollar bullet train, cites ballooning costs

I'm looking forward to Coyote's Blog on this, whenever he gets ready. What I have read is that the Governor has scaled back the project instead of eliminating it. So apparently there is still money lying around to be squandered on lining the pockets of the Well-Connected Incapable. Compared to Venezuela, California still has plenty of juice.

#6 Aggie on 2019-02-13 11:59 (Reply)

yep, they still want to build the segment connecting someplace nobody lives with the other place nobody goes. But spending money creates jobs, and that's good, right?

#6.1 another Guy named Dan on 2019-02-13 12:47 (Reply)

Dave Burge (Iowahawk) calculated that at present rates and volumes air travel between LA and SF can carry on for four thousand years on the cost to build rail between them.

Fortunately for CA residents, that's Iowa math.

#6.1.1 Meh on 2019-02-13 13:17 (Reply)

California is on the hook to repay the Feds for 3.5 billion if the current construction is not completed.

#6.2 Zachingoff on 2019-02-13 12:56 (Reply)

Newsom is refusing to pay it back.

#6.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2019-02-13 22:59 (Reply)

It is interesting that California use eminent domain to acquire land for their high speed rail but don't think it is right to use to acquire land to build the border wall.

#6.3 Anon on 2019-02-13 17:35 (Reply)

Funny you mention the Hi Speed Rail in reference to The Wall.

Money spent so far: $4 billion
Miles completed so far: 0
Estimated Budget so far: $77 billion

Our Wall, in its current incomplete state has cost far less and yet has been utilized by far more customers!

#6.3.1 Aggie on 2019-02-13 18:27 (Reply)

Harrison Ford ain't no Han Solo.

Democrats say they care more about winning in 2020 than anything else: Of COURSE they do.

The State of Illegalalia: The Dems HATE us.

Dem Congresswoman Blames Virginia Democrats’ Scandals on Trump: Couldn't POSSIBLY be THEIR fault.

New Emails Confirm FBI Tried To Work
Deal With State Dept To Minimize Hillary
Email Scandal: Anyone surprised?

The Problem with Trying to Measure ‘Racial Resentment’: Like Chicken Man (a 5-minute comedy radio show) intro, "It's EVERYWHERE; it's EVERYWHERE."

#7 Sam L. on 2019-02-13 13:16 (Reply)

Penrose/Schechtman tiles.

Steinhardt's new book The Second Kind of Impossible, describes how he first showed theoretically that one can have 3D versions of Penrose tiles (then Schechtman showed the theory correct) and then describes his world-wide search to find a natural ore with such odd symmetry. Found a piece near Siberia that came from a collision of two meteors BEFORE the milky way was formed. The title of the book is from Feynman, who was Steinhardt's teacher. Neat read.

#8 ns on 2019-02-13 13:16 (Reply)

Ref Fraternities

these ideology fetishists need to look at our history as a species

Look at our closest relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos--who share the vast majority of genetics with us, live in mixed groups but also have sex specific social structures. This is part of our genetic hard wiring.

Fighting biology is not good in the long run.

#9 jay (Link) on 2019-02-13 13:25 (Reply)

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