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The primary goal of this site is to provide mature, meaningful discussion about the Vancouver Canucks. However, we all need a break some time so this forum is basically for anything off-topic, off the wall, or to just get something off your chest! This forum is named after poster Creeper, who passed away in July of 2011 and was a long time member of the Canucks message board community.
Well, it happened again. Amy Klobuchar announced that she is running for President, talking proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing temperatures. Bad timing. By the end of her speech she looked like a Snowman(woman)!
As Topper loves to point out, there is a difference between climate and weather.
Besides, hasn't anyone watched Day After Tomorrow?
Global warming causes instability in the wind patterns and cooling oceans as the ice caps melt, and cold air from the North Pole drifts South to envelop North America in a new ice age.
All it would take to end all this morally justifiable theft masquerading as carbon tax will be another period of low sunspot activity like the Maunder or Dalton minimums.
Per we would all be burning fuckin tires and styrofoam to stay alive.
I think it is very important for the Democrats to press forward with their Green New Deal. It would be great for the so-called “Carbon Footprint” to permanently eliminate all Planes, Cars, Cows, Oil, Gas & the Military - even if no other country would do the same. Brilliant!
As per usual Donnie has no clue to what he is talking about. Especially the last part. It is not that the USA is doing more than other countries. On the contrary, it is lagging behind, Soon more American industries will be as outdated and incompetitive as the steel and aluminium plants they have. What will he do then? More tariffs? More walls? A new North Korea?
No one wants to ban planes, but the aviation industry needs to move away from fossil fuels - and guess what? They are.
There are at least seven commercial electric aircraft projects under way. https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/ ... index.html
There are of course more than these. There is for instance a Swedish project, ELISE, involving several universities, SAAB and some government agencies. https://elise.aero/
Norway has already legislated that by 2040 all domestic flights must be carried out by electric aircraft.
I spoke to an airport manager in Northern Sweden, and he said there are plans to start commercial flights there using electric aircraft by next summer (ie 2020). They will be used on some minor destinations, as they can currently only take ten passengers and be airborne for an hour, but it's a start.
All it would take to end all this morally justifiable theft masquerading as carbon tax will be another period of low sunspot activity like the Maunder or Dalton minimums.
Per we would all be burning fuckin tires and styrofoam to stay alive.
Why would we be burning tyres and styrofoam when most of Sweden and Canada is covered by forest?
Seems rather impractical.
Not that incinerating waste to produce communal heating is completely foreign to us here in Sweden.
We're even importing waste from some neighbouring countries...
Better than fossil fuels at least, and it means we don't have any landfills anymore.
Whatever you do, always give 100 %!
Except when donating blood.
Strangelove wrote: ↑Mon Feb 11, 2019 5:17 pm
Quite right Daniel, one day Per is going to slowly freeze to death thinking "That fucking Strangelove was right!"
Nah, I'd never think that fucking you was right.
Nothing personal; I just don't swing that way.
Not that there is anything wrong with it.
Whatever you do, always give 100 %!
Except when donating blood.
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?"
Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:
"A few things spring to mind.
Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.
I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
'My God… what… have… I… created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."
Today's history lesson:
On February 27th, 1933, Adolf Hitler declared a state of emergency, thus shifting power from the German parliament to him personally.
Whatever you do, always give 100 %!
Except when donating blood.
Per wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 3:07 pm
Today's history lesson:
On February 27th, 1933, Adolf Hitler declared a state of emergency, thus shifting power from the German parliament to him personally.
As of January 2019, 58 national emergencies had been declared since the Act was enacted in 1976, with 31 of them being renewed annually.[1][3]
Per wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 3:07 pm
Today's history lesson:
On February 27th, 1933, Adolf Hitler declared a state of emergency, thus shifting power from the German parliament to him personally.
As of January 2019, 58 national emergencies had been declared since the Act was enacted in 1976, with 31 of them being renewed annually.[1][3]
So take your bullshit elsewhere please
Don’t just stop there Rats, tell us what these emergencies are while you’re at it ?
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