IRONY When the most capitalist country on Earth bankrupt a former president.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 24, 2024:

No one has bankrupted Donald Trump more than Donald Trump. He is an expert at making a small fortune...out of a large one. His whole life he has gotten away with shit, and finally the system is catching up on his orange ass. 🙂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 24, 2024:

@puff It is you who are missing the point. Other players in the marketplace who did not lie about the value of their assets were placed at a disadvantage by Trump's fraud. They had to pay higher interest rates for the same loan amounts, higher insurance rates for the same coverage. And they either had to take the loss or pass the higher costs on to their customers. Ultimately, consumers were injured because Trump didn't play by the rules; he rigged the game in his own favor. That's not how capitalism is supposed to work. That's why we have laws that govern the game.

What does a "genocide" mean?

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 24, 2024:

What Putin is trying to do in Ukraine fits the definition to a tee.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 24, 2024:

@puff Putin is bent on erasing Ukraine as a sovereign nation. What's to negotiate? The threat to Ukraine is existential. But Russia could end the bloodshed tomorrow. All they have to do is quit Ukraine. It's that simple. NATO is not telling Ukrainians what to do. The Ukrainians are bravely facing down an aggressive bully who has far greater numbers and material resources. They're fighting because their only other choice is to lose everything. They deserve our help. And we are smart to give it. Until you bloody the bully's nose, he will just keep on taking, taking, taking. Putin is counting on the West getting tired, fed up, and losing its resolve. He knows we have the right to choose. But in Russia he is a dictator; he puts down dissent in his own ranks with an iron fist. You cannot even display an 8½ x 11 blank sheet of paper in Russia without burly brutes hustling you off to prison. He has his political rivals killed, or jailed, or killed in jail. And make no mistake: these are signs of weakness, not of strength. Putin is fundamentally weak. He cannot compete on a level playing field. And you would prostrate yourself before such a man? I feel sorry for you.

IRONY When the most capitalist country on Earth bankrupt a former president.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 24, 2024:

No one has bankrupted Donald Trump more than Donald Trump. He is an expert at making a small fortune...out of a large one. His whole life he has gotten away with shit, and finally the system is catching up on his orange ass. 🙂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 24, 2024:

@puff Yeah, Trumpty Dumpty is screaming selective prosecution, but it's not. The dirty mother fucker stole classified documents and tried to obstruct justice; paid off a porn star, forged business and tax records in order to bamboozle voters; defrauded the United States and tried to disenfranchise 81,000,000 Americans to overturn a legitimate election and hang on to power against the will of the people. These prosecutions are not at all out of line. If you or I tried to get away with one hundredth of what he has done, we would already be in jail. Trump is a fascist prick and is getting what's coming to him. He's very lucky to be in a country of laws. It could be a lot worse. Look how Hitler and Musolini ended up.

What does a "genocide" mean?

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 24, 2024:

What Putin is trying to do in Ukraine fits the definition to a tee.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 24, 2024:

@puff Blame Zelensky? Why? He did not invade Russia. Russia invaded Ukraine. Blame Putin!

IRONY When the most capitalist country on Earth bankrupt a former president.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 24, 2024:

No one has bankrupted Donald Trump more than Donald Trump. He is an expert at making a small fortune...out of a large one. His whole life he has gotten away with shit, and finally the system is catching up on his orange ass. 🙂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 24, 2024:

@puff Capitalism only works if there are laws. and those laws are enforced. Trump stepped outside the laws, got caught, and now he's getting slapped. It is as it should be.

Dutch Climate Expert Dr.

Zealandia comments on Feb 23, 2024:

Isn’t Guus Berkhout a retired geophysicist who worked for the oil company Shell? Just wondering, how is his specialty related to climate change?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 24, 2024:

@1patriot Another science-denying, disinformation organ of the fossil fuel industry.

Dutch Climate Expert Dr.

Zealandia comments on Feb 23, 2024:

Isn’t Guus Berkhout a retired geophysicist who worked for the oil company Shell? Just wondering, how is his specialty related to climate change?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 24, 2024:

Bingo! 🎯 The mother fucker isn't even a climate scientist. He's an oil company engineer/geophysicist. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guus_Berkhout

Star witness in Republican smear campaign confesses to FBI he's is a Russian agent.

Druvius comments on Feb 23, 2024:

And now suddenly he's telling the truth? LOLROFL This guy will say whatever it takes. Does show what a farce the Biden impeachment thing was though, if this clown was the best they could do.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 24, 2024:

Yeah I wouldn't trust the son of a bitch as far as I could throw him, but those bastards Comer and Jordan knew all along he was full of shit. Yet they went ahead with their phony impeachment inquiry anyway, just to dirty up a sitting American president. It's truly disgraceful. Those guys deserve to be keel hauled. This reminds me of when the George W. Bush administration wheeled out a con man named Ahmed Chalabi to justify their illegal invasion of Iraq. Chalabi was a banker, crooked as a dog's hind leg, indicted in Europe for fraud, and everybody knew it. He said what Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice wanted said about Saddam Hussein's WMDs, that they existed, (which was pure bullshit). And on this mother fucker's word we committed our blood and treasure, destabilized the whole region, and gave rise to ISIS. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Chalabi

Nobel Prize winners, the greatest minds and thinkers of our age agree that “climate change” is a...

antman comments on Feb 23, 2024:

My two cents: predicting climate 100years down the road is very difficult to get right. There are so many variables which can drastically affect the outcome of they change even a little bit. I also don’t like being told or taxed to push me in a certain direction. The predicted effects of climate...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 23, 2024:

@antman writes, "The predicted effects of climate change will be limited as soon as someone finds a way to profit from it." That is only true if we address the problem before the climate system reaches the tipping point where feedback loops cause the temperature to spiral up uncontrollably. No one knows where exactly that point is, but most climate scientists agree we are fast approaching it. A rise of 3°C over preindustrial levels is generally thought to be catastrophic. Right now we are about half way there and climate change is already manifest everywhere, with devastating results. And we are on track to blow right past 3°C if we don't stop burning fossil fuels toot sweet. Feedback loops to watch: Deforestation of Amazon and other forests Retreat of Arctic Ocean sea ice Melting of permafrost Warming oceans release methane hydrate Example: The huge and unprecedented fires across the boreal forests of Canada and Siberia are an indication of having reached a tipping point. The heat WE CAUSED is drying out the forests, making them susceptible to insects, further weakening the trees, which now readily burn, releasing more CO2, which causes more warming. We have turned the forest from a CO2 sink into a CO2 source. Example: The warming WE CAUSED is changing the Arctic Ocean from a reflective surface that sent 90% of the solar energy that hit it back out into space, into a dark body that absorbes 90% of the solar energy that hits it. That heat then gets distributed all around the planet by ocean currents. Example: large pits, some tens of meters in diameter, are opening up across Siberia, where buildup of methane gas in melting permafrost has explosively forced its way to the surface. Methane is about 100 times better than CO2 at trapping heat in the atmosphere. The permafrost is melting because of heating that WE CAUSED, and the result is more greenhouse gases that will amplify what we have started. Example: Methane hydrate sits on the ocean floor. There are billions of tons of it. It's stable as long as the ocean water doesn't get too warm. If it does get too warm, it will come bubbling up, adding a LOT MORE greenhouse gas to the atmosphere. The last time this happened, 95% of the species on Earth went extinct. How lucky are you feeling?

Nobel Prize winners, the greatest minds and thinkers of our age agree that “climate change” is a...

Severnman comments on Feb 23, 2024:

The opinions of Nobel prizewinners are irrelevant as there are no Nobel prizes in climate science. The statements of climate scientists are very relevant, as they are based on a massive amount of research, published in tens of thousands of scientific papers going back many decades, covering evidence...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 23, 2024:

@1patriot For his tireless work in educating the public about climate change (including his documentary film An Inconvenient Truth), Al Gore shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2007/gore/facts/ Don't you ever tire of being wrong? 😂😂😂

Nobel Prize winners, the greatest minds and thinkers of our age agree that “climate change” is a...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 23, 2024:

What's this? @1patriot turning over a new leaf?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 23, 2024:

@1patriot You made an assertion, it's up to you to back it up. You can't or won't? OK! As the great Christopher Hitchens said, "That which can asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Nobel Prize winners, the greatest minds and thinkers of our age agree that “climate change” is a...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 23, 2024:

What's this? @1patriot turning over a new leaf?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 23, 2024:

@1patriot And your evidence? If you can find where I said I was a genius, just take screen shots of my comment and the post it came from. Time to put up or shut up. 😂

Nobel Prize winners, the greatest minds and thinkers of our age agree that “climate change” is a...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 23, 2024:

What's this? @1patriot turning over a new leaf?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 23, 2024:

@1patriot And I don't know why you keep saying I'm a genius. I'm not, and never claimed to be.

Star witness in Republican smear campaign confesses to FBI he's is a Russian agent.

HippieChick58 comments on Feb 23, 2024:

Of course he is a Russian agent, they've been in bed with Donnie and now are with the rest of the Reputhuglican party.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 23, 2024:

@DenoPenno It's more than that. He wants to be the Putin of the West, a real fascist dictator like his Uncle Vlad.

Nobel Prize winners, the greatest minds and thinkers of our age agree that “climate change” is a...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 23, 2024:

What's this? @1patriot turning over a new leaf?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 23, 2024:

@1patriot I generally don't have to read more than a few lines, in the articles you post, before I find an egregious lie.

Don't tell people to go to hell. Tell them to leave it.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 21, 2024:

Atheists and agnostics don't believe in Hell.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 21, 2024:

@Drank_Spear Yes, metaphorically.

Don't tell people to go to hell. Tell them to leave it.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 21, 2024:

People are different and for some of them that might mean suicide.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 21, 2024:

Good observation.

Hobby Lobby-funded Jesus Super Bowl ads can't hide the hate that fuels the Christian right ...

HippieChick58 comments on Feb 21, 2024:

I refuse to shop at HL for so many reasons!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 21, 2024:

I bought a sheet of acid-free colored construction paper there a couple years ago. I had tried Michaels but they had quit stocking it. Still feeling guilty about it.

AL Supreme Court cites "wrath of a holy God" while claiming frozen embryos are "children" -- ...

annewimsey500 comments on Feb 20, 2024:

I have always been of the opinion that there are far too many humans on the Earth already , and having seen what a friend's daughter went through going the IVF route for over 6 years, the expense, the scarily heightened-by -hormones emotions, the truly wrenching overall stress, the false alarms and...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 21, 2024:

@snytiger6 The growth rate has slowed down considerably. It was doubling (adding 100%) every 40 years. Now we are only adding about 50% in the same amount of time. But even this rate is not sustainable. Water is getting scarce. Some areas have been relying on fossil water from ancient aquifers. These are drying up. Desertification of once arable lands through poor farming practices is an ongoing process that will limit our ability to grow food. And climate change/global warming is bringing heat waves that kill entire crops in a weekend. Floods are equally destructive. Bottom line, famine is likely to become an important limiting factor on population growth.

Just say no to Atheist Toast..!

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 21, 2024:

Pastor Alex is obviously a fucking moron. Atheists don't believe in Satan any more than they believe in God. Notwithstanding the absurdity of this toast post, it is disturbing. This so-called Christian's aim is to paint atheists as underhanded, conniving, malicious, agents of evil. He intimates ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 21, 2024:

@FrostyJim, @Zealandia Thanks for the heads-up. Sure fooled me.

Just say no to Atheist Toast..!

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 21, 2024:

Pastor Alex is obviously a fucking moron. Atheists don't believe in Satan any more than they believe in God. Notwithstanding the absurdity of this toast post, it is disturbing. This so-called Christian's aim is to paint atheists as underhanded, conniving, malicious, agents of evil. He intimates ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 21, 2024:

@FrostyJim ok, that's good.

AL Supreme Court cites "wrath of a holy God" while claiming frozen embryos are "children" -- ...

annewimsey500 comments on Feb 20, 2024:

I have always been of the opinion that there are far too many humans on the Earth already , and having seen what a friend's daughter went through going the IVF route for over 6 years, the expense, the scarily heightened-by -hormones emotions, the truly wrenching overall stress, the false alarms and...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 20, 2024:

I totally agree with you on the adoption option. This whole "mine" thing is ridiculous. If you have a kid, only half your genes are passed to him/her anyway. Chances are, anyone you adopt is going to have a lot of the same genes. We humans have 98.8 same genes as chimpanzees.

AL Supreme Court cites "wrath of a holy God" while claiming frozen embryos are "children" -- ...

annewimsey500 comments on Feb 20, 2024:

I have always been of the opinion that there are far too many humans on the Earth already , and having seen what a friend's daughter went through going the IVF route for over 6 years, the expense, the scarily heightened-by -hormones emotions, the truly wrenching overall stress, the false alarms and...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 20, 2024:

When my grandpa was born there were 1.5 billion people on Earth. When I was born 40 years later, there were 3 billion. When I turned 40 there were 6 billion. Now there are over 8 billion of us, and if I live to be 80 there could be over 9 billion. (The growth rate is slowing, but not enough imho.)

How to Defeat Modern Day Atheism With Three Easy Questions

nogod4me comments on Feb 20, 2024:

If there were any evidence for gods believers would exploit it until it bled.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 20, 2024:

But there isn't, so instead they exploit their acolytes' pre-existing tendency toward superstition and lack of critical thinking skills.

A match made in Hell

BD66 comments on Feb 19, 2024:

It was all a hoax: WHAT SPECIFICALLY DID DURHAM FIND? Durham found that the FBI acted too hastily and relied on raw and unconfirmed intelligence when it opened the Trump-Russia investigation. He also claimed that FBI investigators fell prone to “confirmation bias,” repeatedly ignoring or ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 20, 2024:

In spite of Attorney General Bill Barr's attempted whitewash of the Mueller Report, we know that Trump obstructed justice at least ten times during the investigation. What was Trump hiding? We also know that Trump's good buddy Rodger Stone lied for him under oath. Hence the conviction for perjury and subsequent pardon to keep his mouth shut. Mueller also concluded that his investigation could NOT rule out collusion between the Trump Campaign and the Russians. The Mueller investigation achieved dozens of serious felony convictions of both Trump Campaign and Russian operatives. And what did Durham achieve? One guilty plea on a low-level infraction (exaggerating on a FISA warrant). These FACTS speak for themselves: the Trump-Russia probe was entirely justified, and the Durham probe was a farce designed to obfuscate the truth.

Eric: "How long before we can go back to our real estate scam?

nogod4me comments on Feb 19, 2024:

The Kool-Aid they gave their followers for free.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 19, 2024:

Touché! 😂

India-bound oil tanker hit by missile in Red Sea attack -- reuters.com

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 17, 2024:

There should not even be any oil tankers plying the seas. We should have already moved past the use of fossil-fuel-burning internal combustion engines and external combustion power plants. Just saying.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 19, 2024:

@Fernapple They're using Iranian drones and ballistic missiles. On 60 Minutes tonight a US Navy officer said they think the Huthies are using the drones for gathering targeting data for the missiles, which can go more than 300 miles. So they're not close up, except when they are...

India-bound oil tanker hit by missile in Red Sea attack -- reuters.com

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 17, 2024:

There should not even be any oil tankers plying the seas. We should have already moved past the use of fossil-fuel-burning internal combustion engines and external combustion power plants. Just saying.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 18, 2024:

@Fernapple If they sink an oil tanker they create an environmental disaster in their own back yard. News footage i have seen shows only damage to superstructures. Just speculating, but I think they are close enough to aim high.

The deceased woman found in Huma Abedin's residence has been identified as Lara Prychodko, aged 48, ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 17, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 There are 670 units in the Zeckendorf Towers. Since they were completed in 1987, thousands of people have lived there, including some who had connections to Donald Trump, the Koch brothers, Vladimir Putin, and Elon Musk, among other celebrities. It is just ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 18, 2024:

@1patriot That's not an apology or a retraction, but at least it's a tacit acknowledgement of falsity. I guess we can call that progress. 😂 PS: It's not a "news article." It's just right-wing disinformation.

Religion is ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 18, 2024:

Religion is whatever you want it to be. This why there are so many denominations. Disagreements in religion cause this constantly.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 18, 2024:

Yep, schism is the way of it. Over 40,000 Christian sects and counting.

India-bound oil tanker hit by missile in Red Sea attack -- reuters.com

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 17, 2024:

There should not even be any oil tankers plying the seas. We should have already moved past the use of fossil-fuel-burning internal combustion engines and external combustion power plants. Just saying.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 18, 2024:

@Fernapple IDK...I can tell a tanker from a break-bulk freighter, car carrier, or container ship from quite a distance.

India-bound oil tanker hit by missile in Red Sea attack -- reuters.com

Jolanta comments on Feb 17, 2024:

Seems to me like the whole world will have to suffer for the war that the zionists are engaging in.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 17, 2024:

It's been this way all my life. But let's acknowledge that it's not just the Zionists. The whole world (minus some Arab Palestinians) collaborated in the creation of Israel through the issuance of a United Nations charter.

A geothermal-powered, climate-friendly way to capture carbon dioxide in the air -- TechXplore

Jolanta comments on Feb 17, 2024:

Safely store it underground. Well that statement seems to me like a red flag. How much and how long can something like that be stored?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 17, 2024:

Indefinitely, if the CO2 reacts with calcium to form CaCO3 (calcium carbonate, aka limestone), or with magnesium, to form MgCO3 (magnesium carbonate, aka magnesite), or both calcium and magnesium, to form CaMg(CO3)2, aka dolomite. The question is, where underground can we find hydrothermal waters containing these elements in the quantities necessary to even make a dent in the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere, not to mention what we continue to emit on a vast scale every goddamn day? If this were really a viable option, we would already be doing it at scale.

Alexei Navalny.

HippieChick58 comments on Feb 17, 2024:

How do we know he was murdered by Putin?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 17, 2024:

It's a reasonable question. The answer is that Navalny was illegally detained on Putin's orders. So anything that happened to him was the responsibility of Putin. Period.

The deceased woman found in Huma Abedin's residence has been identified as Lara Prychodko, aged 48, ...

nogod4me comments on Feb 17, 2024:

https://youtu.be/eWcam7iNryE?si=eSPP_XuCxjaBk_0V

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 17, 2024:

😂😂😂 Perfect!

Satan wins again.

Jolanta comments on Feb 15, 2024:

Asking for trouble in the US, me thinks.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 15, 2024:

@Jolanta Based on the number of mass shootings, the USA is officially in a state of civil unrest. The next step would be civil war. Hopefully we don't get there. It is not a foregone conclusion. Prosecuting Donald Trump may turn out to be a cathartic therapy that will break the fever.

A guide to lower Manhattan, by George Conway:

HippieChick58 comments on Feb 15, 2024:

I think New York needs to offer a guided tour of those sites. They are important!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 15, 2024:

We should hear a verdict in the NY state fraud case by tomorrow. It was pushed back because apparently Allen Weisselberg was pleading guilty to perjury in a previous case. So Judge Engoron might toss out his testimony in this case, which would be very bad for Trumpty Dumpty. 🙂

Remember when impeachment was a serious thing?

yvilletom comments on Feb 15, 2024:

The Dems impeached their hero and they needed to get even

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 15, 2024:

Amazingly, that is exactly what it going on. The GOP congressmen are like elementary school children, acting under threat from the schoolyard bully. It's really a disgusting, shameful display of cowardice. I don't know how they can look in a mirror, or sleep at night.

Remember when impeachment was a serious thing?

HippieChick58 comments on Feb 15, 2024:

The GOP is not working for the best for the American people, they're working for their overlords who want to own the American people.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 15, 2024:

That is a very good and precise description of the situation. 🎯

An Oregon resident was diagnosed with the plague.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 14, 2024:

Thanks. I did not know this.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 14, 2024:

How's your back, by the way?

One loser's ignominy, abasement, and defeat is a nation's hope, vindication and renewal.

yvilletom comments on Feb 13, 2024:

SCOTUS may have to find the courage to say Trump Is a vexatious litigator and order the lower courts to refuse to hear any more cases he files.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 14, 2024:

There's a good chance they won't hear his immunity appeal.

There is No Man Made Climate Emergency!!! The True Causes of Climate Change The following ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 13, 2024:

The first graph is the Keeling curve, and it shows the annual fluctuations of CO2 and the overall increase in concentration since 1958. The data was collected at the top of Mauna Loa, in Hawaii. The second graph is the Keeling curve going back 850,000 years. This data is from air bubbles trapped ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 13, 2024:

@annewimsey500 I'm not trying to convince @1patriot; he appears to be a lost cause. I'm speaking to the community at large, any hapless passerby unlucky enough to read his absurd and misleading postings.

There is No Man Made Climate Emergency!!! The True Causes of Climate Change The following ...

silverotter11 comments on Feb 13, 2024:

Who cares at this point? The fact remains weather patterns are shifting and putting huge population and food production centers at risk. Better to find solutions to help those at risk and stop trying to distract with silly arguments over whether it's real, what it's called and who is to blame. ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 13, 2024:

@silverotter11 Well, details matter. If we don't acknowledge the root of the problem, how are we ever going to solve it? Happily, this numb-nuts denialist poster is part of a shrinking minority. Climate change is in everybody's face now; it's obvious and undeniable. And the message from science is abundantly clear: burning fossil fuels causes global warming. Good thing stodgy old farts are dying off; younger people are especially eager to head it off before it kills them. They don't have time to waste on boneheaded denialism.

For the American audience, regarding the ads during last nights Super Bowl.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 13, 2024:

Thanks for letting us know. Many of us did not watch the game. But I did see a picture of Taylor Swift in what could be a stadium suite compared to a Vermeer painting. 🙂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 13, 2024:

@Switchcraft The very deep depths they will sink to.

Happy Darwin Day.

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2024:

I would like to know if a Biblical concept exists that is as far-reaching in its implications as evolution. Evolution is recognized by science to be accurate and correct. As such, it represents the true answer to the metaphysical question of where we come from. As evolution answers one of ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 13, 2024:

@racocn8 Yup, our whole planet is a speck of dust in the cosmos, and our lives but a momentary glow.

Andrew Jackson’s message to the Rothschild Central Bank: “When you won, you divided the ...

snytiger6 comments on Feb 12, 2024:

Nice to know he had some morality... even if ihe didn't ever apply it to persons of color.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 13, 2024:

The Trail of Tears was all Jackson.

Happy Darwin Day.

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2024:

I would like to know if a Biblical concept exists that is as far-reaching in its implications as evolution. Evolution is recognized by science to be accurate and correct. As such, it represents the true answer to the metaphysical question of where we come from. As evolution answers one of ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 13, 2024:

@Betty The idea of destroying all our scientific knowledge and starting over is scary. And once it's gone, there's no guarantee that it takes "only" a thousand years to get it back. Maybe it takes ten thousand years. We could literally bomb ourselves into the stone age.

February 11, 2024 Letters From An American

Druvius comments on Feb 12, 2024:

Unfortunately he didn't finish his work, and the great sickness that is white nationalism is still raging.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 13, 2024:

White nationalism AND Christian nationalism.

Another reason I remain with Agnostic.

Barnie2years comments on Feb 12, 2024:

I love that I have never been in Agnostic.com jail. Unlike Facebook, where on word, regardless of context, can get you a temporary suspension. And much of the conversation on here is far more interesting than what can be discussed on Facebook. And far less trolls.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 13, 2024:

@DenoPenno You don't need them homie.

Fatuous asshole, American lickspittle

Barnie2years comments on Feb 12, 2024:

What a waste of flesh. Can’t we ban him from coming back to the US?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 12, 2024:

Wouldn't that be nice? 😂

Fatuous asshole, American lickspittle

annewimsey500 comments on Feb 12, 2024:

Can i bash him on the head like they did to Curly all the time ? Can I, huh, can I???????

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 12, 2024:

You have my blessing! 😂

The deeper sin against the human mind ...

Mooolah comments on Feb 11, 2024:

Or to not believe things with evidence. One & the same perhaps. The current state of our politics. You are always spot on.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 12, 2024:

@snytiger6 I think that compilation of bad science can rightly be called propaganda or disinformation, because the people who are doing the compiling know that they are simply cherry picking studies to fit their own agenda or preconceived notions. But thank you for articulating that aspect of the problem so clearly and succinctly.

The deeper sin against the human mind ...

Mooolah comments on Feb 11, 2024:

Or to not believe things with evidence. One & the same perhaps. The current state of our politics. You are always spot on.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 11, 2024:

@Betty It could mean that, or it could mean it's disinformation, or propaganda, or unverified, or unverifiable...

The deeper sin against the human mind ...

Mooolah comments on Feb 11, 2024:

Or to not believe things with evidence. One & the same perhaps. The current state of our politics. You are always spot on.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 11, 2024:

@Betty Not at all, my dear! The quotation marks are there to signify that the so-called "evidence" is not really what it is purported to be. (I will add the words "so-called" above to make my meaning clearer.)

Greenland is losing so much ice it's getting taller | Live Science

annewimsey500 comments on Feb 11, 2024:

I wonder what our Resident Deny-er, @1patriot, will have to say about this...... Something smart and entertaining, no doubt..... ( sarcasm!!!!)

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 11, 2024:

@annewimsey500 He's like a cat trying to cover shit on a marble floor. It just ain't happening. 😂😂😂

The deeper sin against the human mind ...

Mooolah comments on Feb 11, 2024:

Or to not believe things with evidence. One & the same perhaps. The current state of our politics. You are always spot on.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 11, 2024:

At least be aware that there is so-called "evidence," and then there is EVIDENCE.

The deeper sin against the human mind ...

Julie808 comments on Feb 11, 2024:

Memes spread through social media are responsible for much of the disinformation that people believe freely without evidence, rarely actually fact checking before sharing it to other gullible folks. The meme becomes the evidence. I do remember something similar to this Aldous Huxley quote in ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 11, 2024:

In science, as in law, the evidence must be independently verifiable. So we can tell fact from fiction, but it may take time. Therefore, we must be willing to withhold judgement until all the facts are in, or at least be flexible enough to recognize when we have been duped, and make adjustments accordingly.

If you haven't figured out that we have a treasonous traitor in the white house you should by now.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jul 17, 2018:

Yup, the picture comes into focus.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 11, 2024:

@annewimsey500 Well, we do have the biggest economy in the world; bigger than all the EU countries combined. And we did get there by burning more fossil fuels than anyone else (roughly.25% of all that was burned in the 20th century, and our population was only 5% of the world population). So we are more responsible for global warming and its consequences than any other nation. Maybe it's not a bad thing that we give back a little by lending a little stability to the world order. (We would be more effective at it if we didn't engage in blatantly stupid destabilizing actions like invading Iraq the second time, or ousting democratically-elected governments in Central and South America and Iran in order to install puppet regimes friendly to US fruit and fossil fuel corporations).

Global warming, climate change, all these things are just a dream come true for politicians.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 10, 2024:

Uh, he wasn't awarded a million bucks because he fudged his data. No. He was awarded a million bucks because the guys who said he did were lying, and doing it with malicious intent. Congratulations! You're still batting a thousand! This post is pure bullshit! ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 11, 2024:

@annewimsey500 Oh I know my words have no effect on him. If this were not a public forum, I would not waste my time. I'm writing for the benefit of others who may stumble into his boggy disinformation swamp. 🙂

Climate Cultists at The Guardian: This Time, It’s Evil Propane From RealClearEnergy By Tilak ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 10, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullsit! Fresh water is a renewable resource, because a reservoir can fill up quickly when the rains come. Lumber is a renewable resource, because trees can grow to maturity in a human lifetime or less. Fossil fuels are only ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 10, 2024:

@1patriot Piece of advice: when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

Climate Cultists at The Guardian: This Time, It’s Evil Propane From RealClearEnergy By Tilak ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 10, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullsit! Fresh water is a renewable resource, because a reservoir can fill up quickly when the rains come. Lumber is a renewable resource, because trees can grow to maturity in a human lifetime or less. Fossil fuels are only ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 10, 2024:

@1patriot Not only are you full of shit, you're also a plagiarist. You stole this text from someone else, and you didn't cite the true author as the source. How do I know this? Because, though the content is deeply flawed, the punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar are perfect (in stark contrast to your own garbled scratching that (for you) passes for writing, and with which I have had the misfortune to become acquainted over several months).

Climate Cultists at The Guardian: This Time, It’s Evil Propane From RealClearEnergy By Tilak ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 10, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullsit! Fresh water is a renewable resource, because a reservoir can fill up quickly when the rains come. Lumber is a renewable resource, because trees can grow to maturity in a human lifetime or less. Fossil fuels are only ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 10, 2024:

@1patriot Yes, methane from livestock dung is renewable. I never said it wasn't. And harvesting methane from dung is a good idea. Better to burn it, turn it into CO2; then it has a lower GWP (global warming potential). HOWEVER, the vast majority of methane is a product of mining. It comes out of the ground. It is a fossil fuel. Does it provide more BTUs relative to the CO2 produced when it burns than, say, coal or oil? Yes. But bringing that carbon up out of the ground upsets the balance in the carbon cycle. That carbon accumulated in the ground over hundreds of millions of years. You cannot return all of it, or even half of it, to the atmosphere in only a few hundred years without triggering catastrophic global warming. Such a thing is not unprecedented. The lead-up to the Permian extinction, when 95% of all species then alive on the planet went extinct, was characterized by a massive and relatively quick buildup of CO2 in the atmosphere. Some of this was from an extraordinary period of volcanic activity. Some was from the massive coal beds that were burned by the volcanic activity. A double whammy only outdone by our own mining, extraction, and burning of coal, oil, and natural gas.

Jury awards climate scientist Michael Mann $1 million in defamation lawsuit | AP News

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 9, 2024:

"A 2023 poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 91% of Democrats believe climate change is happening, while only 52% of Republicans do." Now there's some chilling data about global warming!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 9, 2024:

@anglophone Kellyann is not just a harmless, ditsy blonde; she's a loudmouthed, sycophantic, and dangerously misinformed one. No wonder her husband George Conway divorced her.

Jury awards climate scientist Michael Mann $1 million in defamation lawsuit | AP News

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 9, 2024:

"A 2023 poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 91% of Democrats believe climate change is happening, while only 52% of Republicans do." Now there's some chilling data about global warming!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 9, 2024:

@anglophone They have this thing called "alternative facts" 🙄

Missouri Breaks (no, not the movie starring Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando).

racocn8 comments on Feb 9, 2024:

Can women be trusted to preserve democracy? Can the government be trusted to run a fair election now that they've learned what they did wrong in 2020?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 9, 2024:

The government did a fine job with the 2020 election. Now some red states have made it harder to vote following the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. That's a problem, but it's not irreversible. As for democracy writ large, that is up to all of us, not just women.

YLE Public Health Emergencies Emergency rooms are not okay 02/08/2024

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 9, 2024:

There was an interesting piece on the PBS NewsHour the other night. In order to free up hospital beds, there is a growing trend of treating patients in their own homes. I'll see if I can find the link.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 9, 2024:

@HippieChick58 Yeah, I tried about 20 different search terms and came up with butkis. Sorry. But I'll try again if I think of anything.

Missouri Breaks (no, not the movie starring Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando).

Switchcraft comments on Feb 9, 2024:

Such a third world country

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 9, 2024:

We are beset with religion and racism.

This is exactly the kind of thing Samuel Johnson had in mind when, in 1775, he said, "Patriotism is...

yvilletom comments on Feb 9, 2024:

Who was that Samuel Johnson? Might patriotism be an earlier refuge?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 9, 2024:

@Fernapple Or this one: Horse: a dangerous and stupid animal.

This is exactly the kind of thing Samuel Johnson had in mind when, in 1775, he said, "Patriotism is...

Marionville comments on Feb 9, 2024:

As you have clarified below…Johnston was referring to William Pitt who he believed to be using false patriotism to further his own political ends. It’s not a quote about patriotism but those who use it falsely. The cartoon of Trump wrapping himself around the US flag and kissing it is a ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 9, 2024:

You understand perfectly. Thank you. 🙂

This is exactly the kind of thing Samuel Johnson had in mind when, in 1775, he said, "Patriotism is...

yvilletom comments on Feb 9, 2024:

Who was that Samuel Johnson? Might patriotism be an earlier refuge?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 9, 2024:

@yvilletom Johnson's comment was actually about a particular scoundrel, one William Pitt, 1st Earle of Chatham.

This is exactly the kind of thing Samuel Johnson had in mind when, in 1775, he said, "Patriotism is...

yvilletom comments on Feb 9, 2024:

Who was that Samuel Johnson? Might patriotism be an earlier refuge?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 9, 2024:

Dr. Johnson is probably most famous for having compiled one of the first dictionaries of the English language. Yeah, sure, I suppose patriotism could be used as a refuge before all other options have been exhausted. 🤣

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Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 8, 2024:

@1patriot 🚰🐴

Catholic elementary school kids were asked questions about the Old and New Testaments.

Julie808 comments on Feb 8, 2024:

Well I'm not sure these were actually written by children, but they are funny!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 8, 2024:

Exactly my thought.

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 7, 2024:

@1patriot The graph below shows how the oceans have become more acidic as they have absorbed CO2 from the atmosphere over the last 170 years. When CO2 is dissolved in water it undergoes the following reaction: CO2 + H2O → H2CO3 H2CO3 is carbonic acid. Notice how the acidification tracks the increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration. This is only possible if there is a net increase in ocean water CO2 concentration. The oceans are a CO2 sink.

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Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 7, 2024:

@1patriot The oceans are acting as a CO2 sink, NOT a source! 😂 Across my career I did see a number of students who were too lazy, complacent, or lacking in basic skills to take advantage of the education that was offered to them. (In most cases, the problem was laziness.) Its a sad sight indeed, and your poor spelling, broken sentence construction, sophomoric antics, lack of critical thinking, and eagerness to accept easy answers to complex questions reminds me of them very much. But I always acted on the assumption that every student can learn, and my door was always open to anyone who wanted help. It is in this spirit that I take time to carefully lay out the facts for you. I also know that you can lead a dehydrated horse to water, but you can't make him drink. So if you don't absorb the education that is offered to you,...oh well. Even if you never learn a thing, others will. 🙂

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 7, 2024:

@1patriot The "Hasselberger" chart is wrong. Human activity is currently producing 100 times more CO2 than the biggest natural source, which is volcanic activity.

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 7, 2024:

@1patriot 1patriot writes, "we were talking about oil and gas your on about climate change....." The meme you posted says "CO2 is fertilizer, not a pollutant," and "global warming mean life explosion, not extinction." First, you should at least know what you posted. Second, both of those meme statements are wildly off the mark. CO2 in the quantities we are emitting IS a pollutant. The extinction rate is WAY higher than ever in human history. I addressed these issues in my comments. If you can't handle feedback relating to your posts, maybe you shouldn't be posting. Don't worry, we won't miss you 😂

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 6, 2024:

@1patriot In 1822, Jean-Babtist Joseph Fourier calculated that Earth's atmosphere would be much colder than it is if the incoming radiation from the sun were the only warming effect. His idea that the Earth’s atmosphere acts like an insulator was the first formulation of what we now call the "greenhouse effect." Fourier, however, did not use that term. In 1856, Eunice Newton Foote, an amateur scientist and prominent suffragette, for the first time tested the heat-trapping abilities of different gases. In 1859, John Tyndall wrote, "...the atmosphere admits of the entrance of the solar heat; but checks its exit, and the result is a tendency to accumulate heat at the surface of the planet.” In 1896, Svante Arhenius was the first to use basic principles of physical chemistry to calculate estimates of the extent to which increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide will increase Earth's surface temperature through the greenhouse effect. These calculations led him to conclude that human-caused carbon dioxide emissions, from fossil-fuel burning and other combustion processes, are large enough to cause global warming. Around 1899, Nils Gustaf Ekholm wrote, "The atmosphere plays a very important part of a double character as to the temperature at the earth’s surface, of which the one was first pointed out by Fourier, the other by Tyndall. Firstly, the atmosphere may act like the glass of a green-house, letting through the light rays of the sun relatively easily, and absorbing a great part of the dark rays emitted from the ground, and it thereby may raise the mean temperature of the earth’s surface. Secondly, the atmosphere acts as a heat store placed between the relatively warm ground and the cold space, and thereby lessens in a high degree the annual, diurnal, and local variations of the temperature.” In 1958, while working under the direction of Roger Revelle at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Charles Keeling began monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from a station on Mauna Loa, in Hawaii. Keeling's data, when plotted on a graph, showed not only the annual fluctuation of carbon dioxide due to seasonal changes in photosynthesis, but also continuous year-to-year increases in overall CO2 concentration that roughly matched the human emissions from burning fossil fuels. This graph, which came to be known as the "Keeling curve," shows that atmospheric CO2 is not only increasing, but that the increase has been accelerating. While Keeling collected his data, other scientists around the world were measuring atmospheric and ocean temperatures. Eventually it became clear that temperatures are rising at a rate consistent with an increased greenhouse effect due to the burning of fossil fuels. Thus Svante Arhenius' hypothesis of ...

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 6, 2024:

@1patriot The increase in average global temperature cannot be explained by a change in solar activity. The sun is not putting out more heat. The atmosphere is just getting better at holding on to heat.

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 6, 2024:

@1patriot The increase in fossil fuel burning tracks the increase in human population size.

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 6, 2024:

@1patriot The increase in Global CO2 emissions tracks the increase in fossil fuel burning.

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 6, 2024:

@1patriot Notice how the temperature anomaly tracks the increase in CO2 concentration.

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 6, 2024:

@1patriot The current atmospheric CO2 concentration is 419.81 ppm. (Increased 11 ppm in only 5 years.) The CO2 concentration is now more than 100 ppm above the highest CO2 levels that occurred in the last 800,000 years. It started going beyond all historic levels during the Industrial Revolution.

Because Trumpty Dumpty wants to have the border as an issue to run on, Speaker Mike Johnson says he ...

HippieChick58 comments on Feb 6, 2024:

We have to stop sending money to Israel. And we have to stop with the border crisis crap, there is no border crisis. That is a figment of Re'puke'lican imagination.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 6, 2024:

Uh, the immigration system is definitely broken. Admittedly, this bill does not address the root of the problem. You have to remove the motivation to migrate, or they will keep coming. Most asylum seekers are fleeing violent drug gangs. The gangs get their power from high prices paid for a product that has practically no intrinsic value. The drugs are only expensive because they are illegal. End the war on drugs and cut off the money supply empowering the drug gangs. Break the drug gang plague and people will not need to leave their homes. But if we are not willing to decriminalize drugs and shift our focus to reduction of harm, then we are left with securing (militarizing) the border as our only option.

"Did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism Like some kind of congressman?

HippieChick58 comments on Feb 3, 2024:

I am so thrilled she has so many people all riled up just by being GOOD at what she does and a truly GOOD person. It is showing how warped those people truly are.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 3, 2024:

Amazing how the right wing nuts will build a conspiracy theory out out of anything, and believe it! 😐

“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons! They’re not here to hurt me! They’re not here ...

MyTVC15 comments on Feb 1, 2024:

If only they would try him for it.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 2, 2024:

@MyTVC15 If it's true, then somebody should remind him that justice delayed is justice denied.

“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons! They’re not here to hurt me! They’re not here ...

MyTVC15 comments on Feb 1, 2024:

If only they would try him for it.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 2, 2024:

@MyTVC15 Hopefully the appeals court will soon (like Monday next week) issue its ruling that Trump doesn't have immunity, and the SCOTUS will decide not to take the case. Best case scenario. Stay tuned.

“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons! They’re not here to hurt me! They’re not here ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 1, 2024:

The media has quietly censored any mention of weapons recovered in the Capitol. This censorship enables the GOP to claim the insurrectionists were tourists. Absolutely no mention has happened to the traitors who were intercepted with their weapons, much less what sort of rifles they were, whether ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 2, 2024:

I remember photos or video of police standing over supine individuals, but I don't remember seeing any long guns. Not saying there weren't any. I did read that Secret Service communications reflected that they were seeing guns in the crowd outside of the Ellipse.

“Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.

Barnie2years comments on Jan 31, 2024:

Why this man is not in jail just gives me little faith in our justice system. It has been broke a longtime, but this is beyond even that.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 1, 2024:

@kmaz I would have liked to see the ball get rolling sooner too.

“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons! They’re not here to hurt me! They’re not here ...

MyTVC15 comments on Feb 1, 2024:

If only they would try him for it.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 1, 2024:

The DC trial is scheduled for this March. Trump is pulling out all the stops to delay it. He is having only nominal success. March is still doable. Stay tuned.

“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons! They’re not here to hurt me! They’re not here ...

noworry28 comments on Feb 1, 2024:

He will be the end of the United States 🇺🇸

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 1, 2024:

More likely, the United States will be the end of him. 😂

“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons! They’re not here to hurt me! They’re not here ...

HippieChick58 comments on Feb 1, 2024:

He knew what was going on.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 1, 2024:

Yeah, he did. He engineered the whole thing.

“Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.

Barnie2years comments on Jan 31, 2024:

Why this man is not in jail just gives me little faith in our justice system. It has been broke a longtime, but this is beyond even that.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 1, 2024:

@Barnie2years I'm only going by what I see happening. The justice system has got him by the balls, and is not letting go. There was a 5 million dollar judgement against him, then an $83 million judgement, and any day there will be one for probably $370 million. He's already had to pay over $50 million in legal fees. There are 11 congressmen and 3 Capitol police officers suing him for trauma and injuries inflicted on January 6. Each one of those could run into the tens or hundreds of millions. His legal costs are greatly exceeding his political fund raising. He will have to start selling off assets. And he will likely be locked out of his business. The Trump Organization is already in receivership. And there's a fraud suit coming over a ponzi scheme that Trump helped promote in New York. That's just the civil cases. The criminal cases are even higher stakes. The SCOTUS is hearing argument over presidential immunity next wee likely to rule soon after that he doesn't have it. And the DC J6 case will still be on track to go to trial in March or April, soon enough for there to he a verdict before the November election. He's likely to be found guilty there. That would sink his campaign. The slowness of this whole process may be a good thing. It gives time for the country to digest the news.

How to (and not to) boost your immune system YLE 01/25/2024

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jan 31, 2024:

Just as I suspected: given good nutrition, plenty of sleep, plenty of water, exercise, and the body's immune system will do its thing. It makes sense. We did not evolve in a world where there were nutritional supplements, antivirals, or quack remedies.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 1, 2024:

@Zealandia I don't have any info right now either, but I expect there will be some guidance sooner or later.

If you remove the mystical beings from religious text, what are your thoughts on religious books?

Drank_Spear comments on Jan 31, 2024:

if you take mysticism out of the bible you are left with a book of social rules and constraints. Nothing more.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 31, 2024:

@Betty That prejudice, racism, hate, and violence? That's allowed under the religious social rules, according to many disciples. It all depends on your interpretation of scripture.

“Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.

Barnie2years comments on Jan 31, 2024:

Why this man is not in jail just gives me little faith in our justice system. It has been broke a longtime, but this is beyond even that.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 31, 2024:

The wheels of justice turn slowly. The American system has never had to prosecute a former president before. It should be no surprise that it is moving forward cautiously, with all due deliberation. Remember, if you take a shot at the dictator, you better damn well kill him. That being said, I think this takedown is going to be one comprised of a thousand cuts.

How to (and not to) boost your immune system YLE 01/25/2024

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jan 31, 2024:

Just as I suspected: given good nutrition, plenty of sleep, plenty of water, exercise, and the body's immune system will do its thing. It makes sense. We did not evolve in a world where there were nutritional supplements, antivirals, or quack remedies.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 31, 2024:

@Scott321 I was not casting aspersions on vaccines or antivirals. I personally have had 5 covid shots, three shingles shots, countless tetanus shots, flu shots, DTAP shots, and at least one each of the polio and smallpox shots. And if I ever get covid or HIV I am open to taking an antiviral for that. That being said, my point about us having evolved in the absence of vaccines, antivirals, and vitamin and nutritional supplements stands. Our immune systems have evolved over hundreds of millions of years. Individuals with weaker immune systems tended to be eliminated from the population before they could reproduce. The environment is a crucible in which the immunologically strong survive and pass on their genes. Each of us walking around today is descended from an unbroken chain of survivors going back billions of years. Think about it.

"We don't have any evidence, but we have lots of theories.

DenoPenno comments on Jan 31, 2024:

Rudy should know by now that his claims are a part of the big lie.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 31, 2024:

@Shaggy2018 Well that's all over now. Time to pay the fiddler. 😂😂😂

"We don't have any evidence, but we have lots of theories.

DenoPenno comments on Jan 31, 2024:

Rudy should know by now that his claims are a part of the big lie.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 31, 2024:

I think he always knew.

Oklahoma GOP lawmaker wants to ban single people from sexting each other -- Friendly Atheist

bookofmorons comments on Jan 31, 2024:

Off-shoring law enforcement seems to be standard GOP strategy now. Instead of the state prosecuting you, any private citizen can (with the blessing of the state of course) pursue you for money and imposition of personal beliefs. expect more in the coming years

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 31, 2024:

At least that's the way it is with abortion in Texas. 😑