Engorgeous George

Hey Tim, Fu(k off! And , again, you don't address the matter, you seek to deflect, which is an admission you are full of sh1t but won't admit it. You have zero credibility. You are an irritant, nothing more. Some day I hope to meet so I can slap you into a blubbering mess. Have a nice day.

I am not finding that information. If you have a link that would be apreciated.

Tim likes to make that claim based on a poorly run survey of literature done 8 years ago which survey did not account for a large number of factors such as school overcrowding leading to reduced educational opportunity and attainment by our students which costs no doubt runs into the trillions over the students lifetimes and which does not monetize the loss of life of americans who are murdered, or the loss of quality of life of those raped or trafficed. This has been pointed out to him. He has never had a response. He simply ignores any such arguments as he wishes to cling to his belief. He does so by citing the authors of the paper as experts, though experts are, of course, more cautious in their conclusions, are unbiased, and would readily acknowledge they did not include all of the variables in their survey as all of the variables are extemely hard to identify. Tim likes to say he is reasonable, open to information, and likes discussion, but when the discussion will clearly prove him wrong and require such an acknowledgement he runs and hides and then weeks later comes out with the same stupid claim as if it ws never debunked.

I understand we have become a country of optics over even substance. I believe politicians, like Cruz, know this and have accepted that paradigm when they sought office. That said what would he have been able to do from Texas he could not do from Greece. It is not as if he was going to be actively involved in the search. If he were on scene he would have distracted from the search with first responders then guarding him and clearing traffic for him instead of them searching. Still, I condem hiim for saying one thing and doing another when grief stricken constituents are given an expectation by him, an expectation he intended to benefit him politically. He is an asshat. BTW, i live in Colorado yet I get at least one text a week from his campaign asking for donations. I find that irritating. I would not donate to his campaign if he were running in my state, more less another.

Thats why you nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize. Netanyahu has this figured out. I call this the Chinpokomon lesson ... https://youtu.be/TuEKb9Ktqhc

Last week i went fishing targeting walleye. I caught a few. While doing so the trout were highly activated and I caught many of them as well. Since i was fishing for production i kept them as well. Were I hunting down criminal illegals, and I found them embedded in a group with other illegals of uncertain provenance I would keep them all. Basically while looking for one thing I would not and do not ignore other things which are also of value to me.

Its a metaphor. A metaphor for what I don't know.

I thought this thread was going to be advocating the slaping of a certain poster at this site.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy wishes he had thought of this.

LOL. You say It would be irresponsible to blame this on Trump, BUT you blame this on Trump.

Without the surrounding context i never would have guessed that was supposed to be Netanyahu. Still, way better than anything I could have done.

Will it be like Whacking Day on the Simpsons?

Wake me when the violence really gets going or if we decide to institute a purge.

I believe those same tactics were used to flush tigers in india back 150 years ago. Also...

In my locality that is a function of the Municipal and County governments. I can't speak for everywhere

Are you casting aspersions on the Department headed by that sexy little dog killer, Kristi Noem?

And I believe your fractous sentiment is reciprocated, and more is the pity. We seem entrenched in our fracture. We are a house divided.

Seems some time since any President has brought us together. Circumstances might, those being an outside threat, but a president, well not in some time, if ever.

Violence is often more easily started than stopped. It also tends todiverge from whatever purpose it may originally have had into unrelated and unexpected areas. Most people are not nearly so good at violence as they may imagine they would be. Others, well others may be gifted at violence.

Rhetoric has been overheated for some time. The trend lines on potential violence are moving in the wrong direction, at least for me.

Reminds me of the Big Thompson flood in Colorado.

Flood warning system will trigger sirens when water rises | News | themountaineer.com

Mentally I am analogizing this to tornados which hit late at night or in the early morning hours. My memory fails a bit but it seems to me in just the past year or two we had such an event down in Tennessee or Kentucky. The loss of life from the event was unusual and was blamed on folks not waking when the warnings were issued. Warnings falling on deaf ears are useless in rapidly developing situations. Myself, I grew up in a small rural community which had an extremerly loud warning siren to warn of fires and weather events. As we had a volunteer fire department that siren had to be loud enough to wake the volunteers from sound sleep and get them into the fire station, and so then too the entire community. BTW, I did not think you were politicizing the matter. I think you were responding to those who had already gone there, and there is a difference, especially when you try to offer reasoned and measured commentary as opposed to trolling with deliberately inflammatory comments which cast those of an 'other" political conviction in a universally bad light.

i am guessing the anser is No!. They had the information, they tried to disseminate that information, but due to the time of day it did not get recieved by those who needed it. I am guessing a series of load warning sirens along the river path would have been far more effective than additional forecasters. People needed to be woken, forecasts and warnings falling on deaf ears do no good. Of course I am only guessing.

Heck, 10 seats in the house and 3 to 5 in the Senate would be significant given recent affiliation breakdowns.Imagine even 5 in the house, they could sway the speakership if they suddenly shifted to caucus exclusively with the Democrats and voted in block with them. The narrow majority margins right now make Musks efforts interesting as a few could leverage substantial and disproportionate power.