Peter

Who could boost the democratic party by running in 2024? Joe Mansion. Is that how you spell his name? Maybe its Munchkin. 

9 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Trump must be quaking in his boots about Liz Cheney running in 2024.

Naw. He's quaking from the quake in California who is the governator there, Gavin Noisome or some such name. He can give a good speech. I think I will look to see if some think he is going to run in 2024.  

Thanks for the heads up, William. One other "mean fact" about Ruby Freeman's daughter's testimony was that Pizza delivery stores were called to her home and told they would be paid when the delivery guy arrived. No pizzas were ordered. That is rotten.   

“A Good Year” with Russell Crowe from 2006 is very interesting. We were using the remote to find, “what do we want to see next” and we saw Crowe’s name. Ah, what the heck. How bad can it be? It was very enjoyable, with an angle on France I liked. Oh. And the little boy in the flic is Freddy Hightower from “The Good Doctor.” oh, it has to be about temperatures. Well it is 53F here on January 1st at 12:53. Happy New Year#@!

On 8/11/2021 at 3:54 AM, anthony said:

This July for a few days, they dropped to about -7 in a few places (-3 in Joburg),

Wow. Talk about climate change. It is 62 degrees F, and it is going down to 58. Groovy. I may pull my quilt over on top of me tonight.

Brilliant William wrote: “So, one point to take away is that we probably could identify best practices of inquiry ... feelings aside, mind-reading aside, imputing immorality aside, one-upmanship aside.”

What is certain? How can we know? That is a tough one. Ayn Rand sought peace in her later years and I hope she found it. I have had few moments of “total certainty” in my life. One was driving “my date” in my totally boss Mustang (I won’t give the year) and it suddenly dawned on me that she is all that I wanted. Forever.

It has a parallel in the animal kingdom. A VERY pregnant mother cat was dumped near our country house. She had kittens in our shed which had a “cat door” for our one outdoor cat. I met her new babies when their eyes were still shut. One of them I named Sookie Stackhouse after the Anna Paquin character in “True Blood”. I picked her up. She hissed at me as I held her in my hand. I very softly petted her. I talked to her. The next time I went to check on her, her eyes were still shut, but she trusted me. Sookie is still healthy, alive, well fed, and happy. So. What are the best practices of enquiry? When do YOU know for sure? It’s a good feeling when you do. Peter     

1 hour ago, anthony said:

many parts below freezing.

Please convert your current Celsius temperature to Fahrenheit. I thought it was around a hundred F in SA. 

1 hour ago, anthony said:

We have been breaking historic record temperatures in SA,

Our next five days here on Delmarva will be in the 90's. Odd bodkins. If climate ain't Man Made, how will Man change it? And if you have property on the water how will you sell it if sea levels are rising? Nuff said, or not? 

I think extreme temperatures are rising. Drought and / or excess rainfall are rising. I can see mankind migrating. I don't see the problem because we have always "migrated / moved." It might hurt personally or even generationally, but mankind has always moved to the best outcome. I may even learn the words to "O Canada."   

Ya mean I gotta stay up late on election night? Crap. 

1 hour ago, william.scherk said:

Tim Pool is not at all persuaded by Flynn's denial, which is somewhat surprising. 

Sorry for flying off the handle and smearing General Flynn. Doesn't any source spreading the news report facts any more? 

What a thing to say. How is that bad word spelled? T R E A S O N. Until it is PROVED there was a stolen election and nothing is done about it he should not be saying something like that. I think Biden is over in Rehoboth today, temperature 71 and not all that warm. Remember the Secret Service, you donkey, ex general Flynn. 

4 hours ago, william.scherk said:

How would you and I know if Plimer's views as presented in Heaven and Earth are correct, Peter?

I took Physical Geography many years ago and much of what I learned at University supported Plimer's views.  I probably have some old letters on OL or Atlantis where I mention Professor Plimer and I may look for them. I still have the book but it may be in a box somewhere, lost to view but if I find it I will reread it.    

Another fun fact? Australia moves approximately 1.5 to 2.2 inches north and closer to the equator every year . . . bringing higher temperatures to the continent. The population of Australia is predominantly in the south and east somewhat further away from the equator, and that is because of  . . .?  

What is true and untrue? If you check long term temperature charts you can see that the earth is in a temporary upswing in climatic temperature inside a much larger downturn in temperature. Man can locally affect weather as in the “heat island affect.” Cities are warmer than the countryside because the buildings collect solar energy. Professor Plimer, a geologist at the University of Adelaide, argued persuasively that warming is not caused by man but by the sun.

Generally and in a historical sense, is climatic warming good for humans? I say it is. Of course, I agree that in some places the weather will be worse, but generally warming is better for humans. Is the sea level rising? It is a bit, but not catastrophically. It rises and it falls. The tiny, island nation of Tuvalu, in the Pacific sued the United States for causing a sea level rise but dropped their case in front of the United Nations because their land area is roughly staying the same. And there are places in Florida where the seas are encroaching on settled land because of ground water depletion, not from a sea level rise.

There was a scandal involving leaked documents from England’s University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (dubbed "Climategate" in the media.) It began in November 2009 when thousands of emails and other documents were made public. The UK newspaper “The Guardian” reported that much of the data to support man-made global warming which was presented to the United Nations, AND used by global warming proponents as proof, was a lie. And then they lied about the lie.

I see there has been a lot of rain around the Gulf of Mexico recently. And those migrants on our border left their homelands because of the two catastrophic hurricanes that hit them last year. The current warming of the planet will continue to affect areas closest to the equator. Damn. Bold and italic for emphasis is fun to use. Peter     

And then the nighttime version of “The Price is Right,” if I am not mistaken, had the “Proud Pedophile” Patten Oswalt on as a contestant. I did not watch it just because of that.  I looked him up several years ago thinking his pedophilia was a hoax, but he was all over the internet. He said he was a proud pedophile though he was taking care of his daughter after his wife’s death (from fentynol? Some say he killed her) And he would never hurt his daughter, he said. And the best “explanation” I have found for his being a monster is below. I say he is a monster and the evidence supports that hypothesis. Out of context? Horse shit. Peter     

Notes from The Web. As for the tweet, it existed — but it was taken out of context: The angry “@” tweets from my hammer toed followers opened my eyes. “Pedo-phobe” shaming hurts us all. I am a PROUD pedophile!

That particular tweet was sent by Oswalt in the summer of 2013, during which time his use of Twitter for a particular style of joke was well documented. Oswalt shared a series of tweets in July and August 2013 that were conceived to leverage Twitter’s character limit in a humorous fashion. In the course of the bit, Oswalt would publish one tweet expressing a widely accepted sentiment. In the second of two tweets, he would continue the sentiment to create a misleading statement when only the second tweet was examined.

ThatGuy quoted Doctor Hurd: “Bottom line: You can’t fix stupid. If too few Americans are enlightened or courageous enough to embrace liberty and reject totalitarianism, then no grand conspiracy — orchestrated by Donald Trump, or anyone else — can rescue us."

President Trump was and is a fine President but I am not in favor of “hero worship,” but I am glad to see our guy is beginning to “stir.”

Slanting off that idea I was listening to a commercial that featured folk singer Peter Seeger. It sounds fine and seems to be “earlier” American but Seeger was not a “country singer” by any means. He was a fake. And on top of that he was a Communist and I don’t mean with a little “c.” I seem to remember he preferred the Communism under Stalin, including mass slavery, deliberate starvation and executions. He was a baaaad man. I won’t ever think well of him or “that bee-atch” Jane Fonda for manning a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. And that was no joke. 

31 minutes ago, william.scherk said:

One reason you might want to make note of this forecast today ... it will come in handy as a locus of scorn and schadenfreude if election results don't bear much relation to their model.

Thanks to our northern province, Canadia. MIke Myers.

I am a bit leery about the idea of mail in voting, though some voters have opted for that method over the years, as with the elderly. Of course there are always absentee ballots among the military and their families. When I vote I must show my ID, even though the polling staff may know me by sight. What if election day comes and goes but Americans are are still waiting for the absentee ballots to come in and be counted? That is not good. And there is a greater chance of fraud.

After taking precautions a grocery store can have people come in and shop so why not the same for on-site voting? I hereby vote for on-site voting with the usual allowance for absentee ballots. Oh, and no “Instacart” voting, but could curb side ballot pickup and voting be legit? Hmmm? You can see the license tags. We could use drive in theater or sports pavilion parking lots. Peter   

From The Heritage Foundation. Types of Voter Fraud.

IMPERSONATION FRAUD AT THE POLLS: Voting in the name of other legitimate voters and voters who have died, moved away, or lost their right to vote because they are felons, but remain registered.

FALSE REGISTRATIONS: Voting under fraudulent voter registrations that either use a phony name and a real or fake address or claim residence in a particular jurisdiction where the registered voter does not actually live and is not entitled to vote.

DUPLICATE VOTING: Registering in multiple locations and voting in the same election in more than one jurisdiction or state.

FRAUDULENT USE OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS: Requesting absentee ballots and voting without the knowledge of the actual voter; or obtaining the absentee ballot from a voter and either filling it in directly and forging the voter’s signature or illegally telling the voter who to vote for.

BUYING VOTES: Paying voters to cast either an in-person or absentee ballot for a particular candidate.

ILLEGAL “ASSISTANCE” AT THE POLLS: Forcing or intimidating voters—particularly the elderly, disabled, illiterate, and those for whom English is a second language—to vote for particular candidates while supposedly providing them with “assistance.”

INELIGIBLE VOTING: Illegal registration and voting by individuals who are not U.S. citizens, are convicted felons, or are otherwise not eligible to vote.

ALTERING THE VOTE COUNT: Changing the actual vote count either in a precinct or at the central location where votes are counted.

BALLOT PETITION FRAUD: Forging the signatures of registered voters on the ballot petitions that must be filed with election officials in some states for a candidate or issue to be listed on the official ballot.

What is the record DOW closing? 29,348.10 set on January 17, 2020, just before Covid-19 arrived on the shores of America from Communist China. The DOW was back up to 27,370 at 3:39 pm.

Oh, oh, President Trump is in Ohio, where 100 church goers and their families contracted Covid-19 from ONE church goer on Sunday, diagnosed today four days later, and their Governor Mike DeWine has just tested positive from it. President Trump should be in a bubble but he is not even wearing a mask!

He claims to have evidence that Trump will lose but I think he is too emotionally involved in seeing Trump lose, to be believable. Check Rasmussen where it is 49/49 . . . and because of "the sure thing" that Trump's supporters will vote, I predict President Trump will be President until . . .  2024. After all he is a non drinker or smoker and he is a LOT younger than Biden. joke.  

9 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

When the left piles on presuppositional adjectives, I know they are lying.

What the f? I don't take suppositories. Prune juice works in thirty minutes. You don't believe me? Do a scientific test. Oh My. Tomorrow and the next day in the mid nineties on Delmarva. 

Is William really Q? Appointed by Queen Elizabeth II? I knew it! Q of the RCMP!

Welcome back William. I see the coronavirus didn't stick to your wicket. How are you and your friends Harry and Meghan? And why does "O Canada" have two different lyrics? Peter

On 1/30/2020 at 3:39 PM, william.scherk said:

Vancouver, British Columbia is a major film, television and digital media production centre.  Meghan could be in the studio after a half-hour seaplane ride from the private residence

Harry and Meghan are dropping the title “Royal.” Henceforth they shall be called “Roils.” Their new line of fine Canadian Whiskey shall be named “Crown Roil.”

5 minutes ago, Ellen Stuttle said:

Bob was exhibiting signs of Alzheimer's along with his characteristic Aspie obliviousness.  I started to wonder toward the end of last year if he'd died, and I took to periodically checking his User Profile to see if he'd signed in.  He did sign in on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, and then again on February 6.

Ellen

You are the best, Ellen. February 6th is not too long ago. I know Bob mentioned bicycling which is a good omen for immortality.  

“I agree. But I can still tease him.” J wrote aboot Brant.

Let me jockey back to Canadian jokes. Did you do know William Scherk joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police when he was a mere 17 years old in spite of his short height of a mere 4 foot 7? He had to endure hateful Canadian jokes like, “What do you call a short, dumb person? A Shrimpleton.”