The radical Freedumb Caucus is making the rest of the everyday rwingers look like morons who can't govern the House.

The appear to be tired of it.

"Rising temperatures, heavier rainfall and more frequent and intense extreme weather are projected to cause $38tn (30tn) of destruction each year by mid-century, according to the research, which is the most comprehensive analysis of its type ever undertaken, and whose findings are published in the journal Nature.

The hefty toll " which is far higher than previous estimates " is already locked into the world economy over the coming decades as a result of the enormous emissions that have been pumped into the atmosphere through the burning of gas, oil, coal and trees.

This will inflict crippling losses on almost every country, with a disproportionately severe impact on those least responsible for climate disruption, further worsening inequality.

The paper says the permanent average loss of income worldwide will be 19% by 2049, in comparison to a baseline without the impacts of climate breakdown.

In the United States and Europe the reduction will be about 11%, while in Africa and south Asia it will be 22%, with some individual countries much higher than this.

"It's devastating," said Leonie Wenz, a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and one of the authors of the study.

"I am used to my work not having a nice societal outcome, but I was surprised by how big the damages were. The inequality dimension was really shocking."

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Fortunately, inequality isn't a concerning factor for rwingers, so they can just ignore that.

"Let's talk about 11% of your paycheck disappearing....

Beau of the Fifth Colum"

You might as well be talking to yourself, true... only an idiot would listen.

Vlad wants the Soviet Union back.... you ever seen the State Symbol of the SU?

letter from the Danbury Baptist group to Thomas Jefferson

* i need a new editor

#44

America Firsters will always prefer fighting a war on America's soil rather than stopping said war in Europe... just like they did in the last WW.

Only Honorable Leftier Than Thou 1Nut Troll understand....

#25

True... and it was a letter from the Danbury Baptist group to Abraham Lincoln requesting this separation that resulted in Thomas Jefferson's responding letter to them where he first coined the, "wall between church and State" metaphor.... although Roger Williams also used it.

"In keeping with the lack of an established state religion in the United States, unlike in many European nations at the time, Article Six of the United States Constitution specifies that "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States" meaning that there will be no official state religion lawfully established."

Well written article, Rogers. Thanks for posting.

"Fundamentalism," Richard Land, the former head of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, once told me, "is far more a psychology than a theology."

That psychology is defined by an extreme sense of certainty, along with extreme ferocity."

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Fundies can can be atheists or theists, or agnostic, I suppose, though that seems less likely.

Christians, Paul said, "have faith, hope, and love", not zealous certainty in their ability to be right about everything.

Reading NT Wright's biography, "Paul" now, and it's rather enlightening to see the texts through the filter of his time and Period Greco-Roman and Jewish culture.

President Mickey... with "visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads".

They had Deacon Jones and Merlin Olsen on Defense. Lost a couple of Championship games, though, which is prolly why he's not in the Hall.

RIP

Don't forget to tip your waitperson!

"Jazz Room Records reissues rare 1977 jazz-funk album from Florida group Jazzberry Patch

With original copies now going for $300 or more (that's if you can even find one), it's great to see this very rare jazz-funk masterpiece receive an official reissue and now made available for wider audiences."

- The result of that might be Spkr Jeffries.
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That result was the intended point.

It appears the threat werked.

The rumor is that a dozen or so House Repubs threatened to quit if another Speaker Coup was attempted.

Miles Davis and John Coltrane, "So What"

Well... glad that's finally out. He's the atheists' problem now, lol.

"In 1962, Gabriel, who played at NC State from 1959-1961, was the No. 1 overall pick in the AFL Draft and the No. 2 overall pick in the NFL Draft. Instead of signing with the AFL's Raiders, Gabriel joined the NFL's Rams, a decision that paid major dividends for the franchise."

The Feebdumb Caucus is in tatters... shredded and downhearted by a glimmer of a speck of a hope of rational pro-American behavior in the Animal House.

Trump looks weak and sleepy, Moscow Marjorie had Ken Buck of CO up her behind in the headlines again.

- This book is large print.

Good audience targeting, lol.

Thin Lizzy

Best Rod Serling voice:

"You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Twilight Zone!"

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The official music video for "Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)" by Taylor Swift, from THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT'.

"So a limited operation seems to have carried a powerful warning " that Israel has the intelligence and assets to strike at will at Iran's beating heart.

It is a message so urgent that Israel made sure it was sent before, rather than after, the start of the Jewish Passover, as was widely predicted by Israel watchers.

US officials have also indicated that Israel targeted sites such as Iran's air defence radar system, which protects Natanz. There is still no confirmed account of its success.

So this attack may also be just an opening salvo. But it was, for the moment, an unintended 85th birthday gift to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Israel's official silence gave Iran's ultimate decision-maker vital political space. Tehran did not have to invoke its new rule that whenever its arch-enemy strikes, Iran will hit back hard, with the risk of sparking a perilous escalatory spiral."

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Dark Brandon seems to have gotten his message through to Israel.

"Updated on: April 19, 2024 / 6:05 PM EDT / CBS News

New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday filed a memorandum of opposition to the surety company that holds the $175 million bond for former President Donald Trump as he appeals the $460 million decision against him in the civil fraud trial earlier this year.

The attorney general's office says it is concerned about the financials of the bondholder, Knight Specialty Insurance company, and the collateral for the bond.

The $175 million in cash that Trump claims to have provided as collateral in a bank account is in the DJT Revocable Trust and not under Knight's control, as it should be, the attorney general's office argued.

Because Trump still has access to the funds, he's still able to make withdrawals, or replace the funds with other assets that could fluctuate with the markets. And if the value drops below $175 million, the bond is no longer secured, according to the attorney general.

The state is concerned that if Trump continues to control the account, he could make money on the bond deal, earning interest that exceeds the fees he owes to Knight for posting the bond.

Should Trump lose on appeal, and if he doesn't pay, Knight would be obligated to pay the $175 million bond. The attorney general's memorandum argued that Knight falls short on several requirements for a surety bondholder."

Also released today...

The Flying Burrito Brothers at Fillmore East