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Hootowl
Posted on Saturday, August 18, 2018 - 11:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

It’s a difficult problem. Stop overprescribing opioids, for a start. Docs are starting to come around to this way of thinking. Or so I’ve read.
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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, August 19, 2018 - 12:00 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

That makes a lot more sense than the trend towards making Doctor's lives miserable with excessive paperwork and threats of imprisonment.

It is often said that social movements are like a pendulum, it swings back & forth.

We, America, seems to have been headed towards blaming the Doctor for Organized Crime and making them reluctant to help people with pain. Or so I'm told by nurses and EMTs. ( the folk I regularly deal with )

As someone who might need pain meds with more umph than Advil, I am concerned that "not overprescribing" doesn't mean common sense.

On "the line" for Recreational drugs......

I like an Angry Orchard from time to time, but don't drink much or often.

I really dislike some drugs because of the effects on behavior.

Just to pick one, Cocaine & derivatives.

If there is a party, and there is a pile of pot on the table, the party will go on until everyone is asleep, except for a few hard core, who will be making deep philosophical comments while they roll joints. ( they think they are deep anyway )

Same deal, but with Booze, party goes on until everyone is passed out & there's a lot of vomit, maybe even a body in the corner. We'll assume no mean drunks, so no fights, and no one drives home. ( same for all examples )

party with a pile of Cocaine? The party will continue until the Cocaine is gone. Passed out people, check, bodies? maybe... but there won't be a grain of drug left.

With the booze & the pot, there is a point where the amount started with & number of people.... where there is stuff left over. Not Coke.

I've also heard of people snorting/smoking their student loans, after buying Coke with them, intending to make a profit, and have enough left over for a nice party.... but started before they got to the profit part, and consumed it All. ( from a reliable witness )

So my inclination is to keep Cocaine illegal..... but that very illegality is what makes it such a profitable business.

So... I dunno. At what point do I just leave it to Evolution? It's already too late for Janis & Jimmie & John.
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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, August 19, 2018 - 05:14 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/17/k2 -spice-synthetic-marijuana-new-haven-green-overdos e

Better reporting on the new drug wave.
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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, August 19, 2018 - 12:52 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a22 724787/parker-space-probe-sun-united-launch-allian ce-delta-heavy/?src=nl&mag=pop&list=nl_pnl_news&da te=081718
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Bandm
Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2018 - 07:52 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/3800-year-o ld-wall-relief-in-peru-believed-to-tell-of-struggl es-linked-to-climate-change/vi-BBMbWUL

HaHa, I don't think so.
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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2018 - 08:55 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Could be. Could be people blinded by the madness of seeing a baby Cthulu hatch from a seed fallen from space.

Or ancient astronauts, in suspended animation, helpless as an Alien ( from that movie franchise ) face hugger impregnated the crew.

Climate Change is real. Ask the people from the Pueblo cliff houses. Or the Viking colony on Greenland.

The current business where every year is the hottest ever? That's lies. That is an openly admitted ploy to steal power & wealth, according to the U.N. Bureaucrats in charge of climate.

All you need to do is look at each year and the revisions of the past, to know they are committing fraud. At this rate, by 2028, the year 1938, formerly the hottest year ever recorded, will be as cold as the ice age in revisionist history. By the late 2050s, George Washington will have crossed a Delaware flowing liquid nitrogen in a snow storm of CO2. I expect by the 25th century, at current rates of fakery, I mean, adjustment, that 1450 will reach absolute zero.

Hopefully, by then, it will be properly reported with the folk claiming the end of the world is nigh, based on the Aztec calendar, or the number of "thou"s in Deuteronomy.

But.... None of those predictions I made in this post will ever happen.

You know, because Cthulu will awaken....
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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2018 - 12:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.rt.com/uk/436424-child-slaves-london-c annabis/

Not sure how much of this story is Russian Propaganda against England.

In any event, for our Brit members, I suggest growing your own. Support your local gardening supply store, and keep from giving money to criminal groups. True, if your apartment has a bunch of pot plants, you and your clothing may smell a bit, unless you invest in air filtration gear.

But think of the children.

( I refuse to say how serious or sarcastic this post is..... Judge for yourself )
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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2018 - 07:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12849/russia-wa r-west

The smart bet is some of the new Russian missiles can't be stopped with existing deployable tech. I.E. Patriot. A sure bet is there simply is no missile defense systems deployed anywhere but a few bases in the middle East and Asia, Okinawa? Guam? Nothing guards LA or NYC, or.......anywhere.

There is a handful of fighters on each coast that have a chance of intercepting a Backfire, but odds on getting weapons release are poor. ( meaning the Brass will either until a city dies )

But like other enemies, Russia would be foolish not to just load bombs in containers and park them where they want a bang. Deniability means they may avoid counter attack. Why use obvious & traceable ICBMs?

The sci-fi sounding propaganda weapons, like the big, port city killing torpedo, could be just a regular torpedo with a warhead, which they have, but western writers have ignored that if it can kill other subs, of course you can program it to cruise into a harbor.

Or they could make a WW1 sized submarine, sized super torpedo, with a Czar Bomba sized warhead, and wreck entire coastlines, poisoning the skies on a planetary scale. A handful would take out the East Coast, European & African Atlantic ports, and rain black death on Europe.

Nothing new, really. Weapons we wouldn't make.

However, it would be foolish to forget they have rocket torpedoes, that work, some of the time, and may have a hypersonic cruise missile, ditto.
We would make those, but.....
We have neither.
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Aesquire
Posted on Saturday, August 25, 2018 - 09:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/gre en-weenie-of-the-week-peta-again.php

First, I want to go on record suggesting we feed PETA personnel to crabs, like in one of my favorite movies, The Vikings, where Tony Curtis shows us a thrall with a Brooklyn accent can get ahead in this world if he works hard. It's not that I like crabs that much, but it's a great cause.

Second, the analysis that McDonald's is a cheaper source of nutrition than Michelle Obama's elitist yuppie market gruel forced on school children, is both so obvious & profound. If there's a better example of how Socialism starves people to feed the ego & power of useless narcissists, it's Venezuela. Capitalism = over fed poor. Socialism = eating pets & losing 19 pounds a year.

OTOH, my Maduro diet tourist trip program is the only diet scientifically proven! I just need to get Sean Penn and Danny Glover to endorse it.
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Ducxl
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2018 - 07:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Can we turn our excess Soy Beans into Bio-Fuel?
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Aesquire
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2018 - 08:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Yes, but if you made that a Federal Program, the end result would be mass starvation.

More than the Corn to Alcohol to Gasoline additive..... AKA Food to Fuel program already has.

Oh, probably not noticeable here in the U.S. , but in the poor parts of the planet, expect civil wars and mass graves.

Remember, the "Arab Spring" aka Obama's Wars, began with food riots.

Because of lower yields of excess food crops, because farmers switched to booze corn, to make more & stay in business .

To be fair, some of the food shortages are from rejecting GMO grain already shipped to African countries. So you can blame anti technology propaganda campaigns of the Greenies too.

I bet you can't get approval to do a study on the death toll from the existing food to Fuel program. The results may be less than some pundits guess, but ANY violates the utopian vision, and thus must be forbidden.
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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - 06:40 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/global-warmi ng-alarmists-pressure-media-to-end-debate/
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Sifo
Posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - 10:33 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

^^^

quote:

But this then creates a false equivalence between an overwhelming scientific consensus and a lobby




As they lobby to have the "lobbyists" voices squelched.
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Ducbsa
Posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - 08:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Irony warning!

https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/2 8/danother-green-expedition-trapped-in-arctic-ice/
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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - 08:45 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I look forward to the annual blizzard Gaia throws for the Global Warming conference.

Travel tip!

When you see the Global Warming meeting schedule, plan to be elsewhere.

Unless you love to ski.

I'd make a snarky comment about the August snow fall in the Rockies, but I grew up with them, and they are nothing new. I always threw skis in the van and the glider on top for Telluride trips. So no matter the weather, I had something to do.

Cold air is denser, so take offs and landings easier at the high altitude. So I preferred late summer/fall to June/July for Colorado. Given a bigger budget I would have done Spring skiing at Mammoth, CA, & Summers in Australia. Alas, I didn't.
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Hootowl
Posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - 08:57 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

You idiot. Don’t you know freezing temperatures are caused by global warming?
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Zac4mac
Posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - 11:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

One of my customers, when I was a "parts guy" at the HD dealership, had a 2-man "experimental" helicopter.
Came by one time and landed it in the field next door to get some parts.

He said he couldn't fly if it was 95 or so because he couldn't get enough lift.
This thin air can be a bitch.

Z
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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - 11:31 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Don’t you know freezing temperatures are caused by global warming?

I thought that was caused by Global Warming Conferences?

Also Earthquakes, Solar flares, Volcanoes, Asteroid strikes, Supernovae, Dogs and cats, living together.....

Here's the latest UN Conference, edited for time.

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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - 11:54 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

This thin air can be a bitch.

It is not at all unusual for pilots flying into Telluride to plan for dawn take off, since in summer the air can get so thin the available runway isn't long enough. It's not unusual for people who didn't plan ahead to not be able to take off safely, and have to wait until the next morning.

Code TEX, 9078 feet. So on a 90 deg F day, the air is equiv. to over 12,000 feet.

Last time I was at the airport there, they had a big round wall thermometer outside the office that was marked with Density altitude. http://tellurideairport.com/airport-webcam/

check out the landing video. Incredible terrain.

Hang gliders land in a field far below, about 7 miles away, well away from the approach path. https://tellurideairforce.org/
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Rick_a
Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2018 - 06:47 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Why is it so hard to find anything countering the "climate change" agenda on Google? Could it be a real universal consensus, or are they using their own standards for what is considered relevant?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gDErDwXqhc

I've noticed that documentation that was easy to find a few years ago, now requires an extremely specific word search to find anew.
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Sifo
Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2018 - 10:21 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

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Aesquire
Posted on Thursday, August 30, 2018 - 08:51 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://9gag.com/gag/a8oRQP1
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Aesquire
Posted on Saturday, September 01, 2018 - 11:31 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/09/want_ to_feed_the_world_stop_burning_ethanol.html

I was all for using alcohol for fuel. They told us that we'd turn garbage into booze, along with some mythical stuff called switchgrass, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panicum_virgatum which, as a Nebraska native, I know as a weed planted on sand dunes to slow them down as they match across the prairie.

Not food crops, grown on land unsuitable for soybeans or kale, would augment our oil supply, and even replace gasoline in a utopian future of high compression engines, turbochargers, and exhaust of pure water.... ( with some oxides of nitrogen, easily dealt with by catalytic converters )

Algae, chicken guts, grain stalks, organic garbage! Utopia! Freedom from Oil!

Unfortunately, all the idealistic stuff seems to cost more than making corn liquor, and the subsidies went to the folk with the best lobbyists.

I'm not knocking the farmers! They feed the market demand. Period. The customer wants corn & wheat, you don't grow rye & alfalfa.

Add the cold hard facts that it takes approximately as much diesel to grow & process the corn to booze as you get out in energy equivalent, and the need for tax dollars to keep the process running ironically contrasts with the fact that burning that same diesel in cars would save billions in your money, AND be better in terms of resource use AND greenhouse gas emissions.

Throw in higher food prices, food riots and revolution, Obama's Wars, refugee crisis, etc. etc.

It might be time to address the sanity of food to fuel.

After the election. Don't want to anger Iowa.
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Sifo
Posted on Sunday, September 02, 2018 - 09:27 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Earth is set for BIG FREEZE as sun goes BLANK for majority of 2018

It wasn't that long ago that the idea of our climate being influenced by sun spots was being denied by the global warming crowd. Has this changed recently? It kind of makes a mess of CO2 being the major driver of recent warming. I guess this might be a big part of why they need to do so much "adjusting" of the temperature record.
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S2t_bama
Posted on Sunday, September 02, 2018 - 02:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I think that there's a pretty big math error in that article about corn to fuel.
The calorie intake required by people is actually expressed in the nutritional calorie unit, which is actually 1 kilocalorie.
The heat content of fuels is not expressed in nutritional kilocalories.
So, I imagine the calculations are off by 3 orders of magnitude.
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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, September 02, 2018 - 03:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://9gag.com/gag/aZ3emmQ

Incredibly worse? Or just incredibly irrelevant?

You don't eat dent corn, as corn. You might as well try and justify alfalfa based on the tonnage of beef produced per acre. ( a real and often calculated thing ) Which still doesn't really justify doing a food calorie to fuel BTU comparison.

It's acres of humans supported vs. acres of cars supplied..... and still bogus in the extreme, since you burn about the same amount of fuel to make the fuel, PLUS take up a huge area of farm land, potential food production, money, labor, and bribes to politicians.

And in the end, it's that Last number that is important. No Bucks, no Buck Rogers.
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Sifo
Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2018 - 06:48 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I know the idea of solar and wind farms changing local climate has been touched on around here. I have little doubt that in many cases, there could be a pretty significant change in local climate. Now the LATimes is pointing this out. With a new twist on climate change. Suddenly all the changes are good when it come from "green" energy! The hypocrisy is very enjoyable, and laughable. Please keep pointing out how climate change can be beneficial though. I've been saying that for a very long time now. The spin is just entertaining...

Wind and solar farms can make their own weather, including extra rain over the Sahara
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Aesquire
Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2018 - 07:20 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2956

A series of these on the Florida coast was a proposal to deflect hurricanes.
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Aesquire
Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2018 - 11:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

The comic version above, isn't that different from the real thing, although most use a shape like a horn.

I do need to make a correction. It wasn't thermal upstart towers proposed to reflect hurricanes.

It was their opposite, a power generation, desalination plant, that uses large towers, but with the airflow reversed to the thermal updraft designs.

Tall tower, pump seawater to the top, a not insignificant amount of power needed, spray the water into the tower, and it vaporizes, sucking heat from the air, and starting a down draft. Baffles swirl the air, and the water condenses, running down the walls, as the salt falls out. The water is drawn off to be used, first to spin turbines to recapture some of the energy used by the pumps, then for domestic fresh water use, agriculture, drinking, industry. The base of the tower has a horn shape, and a center spike, to turn the airflow 90 degrees, which then spin wind turbines, for more power.

The waste air, is still full of moisture, and you plant crops around the tower to absorb some.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_towe r

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_tower_(downdraft)

Since down draft towers work best in arid climates, Florida versions would need to be very tall, to access less humid, cooler air. How practical in Florida vs. Utah? Good question. In arid regions the high humidity output might be more welcome, and the brine output ( if using sea water in desalination mode ) might be useful for salt production, but land costs for evaporation ponds have to be figured in.

May not be economical in Malibu or Long Beach. But good for Baja, or Arabia.

Use both? Arranged?

These things,like reservoirs behind dams, can cause significant local climate change. And local is a variable with scale.
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Ducbsa
Posted on Sunday, September 09, 2018 - 05:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/09/abo ut-those-vanishing-forests.php
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