@#201 ... You can sniff my butt all night. ...

I do notice that your current alias still has not answered the simple question I asked in my #1776 ...

So, your current alias seems to be saying that the GOP in California cannot even submit a bill in the California legislature?

Why?

@#200 ... Its obvious. ...

Then state it, instead of deflecting to another topic in your current alias' comment.

@#10 ... I wouldn't begin to suggest I know Trump's motives but Trump's past actions indicate he wants to see the US be more self reliant. ...

So, you seem to admit that Pres-elect-Trump has not a clue about the size of Greenland.

And that he just seems to want the US wealthy to be able mine the natural resources of Greenland.

@#7 ... My point is you're dumb if you think Trump doesn't know flat maps distort the size of continents. ...

You say that as if you know it as a fact.

But I've not yet seen any indication that Pres-elect Trump has a clue about the distortions of the Mercator projection.

What's yer got?

@#3

Yeah, I had thought about posting a link to the 5th Dimension tune, "Age of Aquarius" (from the 1967 musical play, Hair) but I decided against it because I thought that such a post would reduce the scientific accuracy of the main article for this thread.

@#196 ... You're cute. ...

Why thank-you.

Others have told me similar.

But, that deflection aside, what answer does your current alias have to the question I posed in #177?

@#193 ... Lamp literally doesn't know how a legislature operates at all. ...

And your current alias says that, why?

@#191 ... So ... ... .no, you don't know what it means. ...

And your current alias says that, why?

@#187 ... You and Jeffy ...

Two of the same?

@#176 ... 1 party has a super majority.

Shall I tell you what that means? ...

Yeah, it means that the voters elected that super-majority.

Now, if you want to talk about N.Carolina's gerrymandering to achieve a similar result that the California voters achieved without gerrymandering, I'm all ears.

@#168 ... Republicans can't even submit ideas. ...

So, your current alias seems to be saying that the GOP in California cannot even submit a bill in the California legislature?

Yeah, if I may suggest, do try harder to be relevant.

@#164 ... Exactly ...

One thing I find most curious in the unfortunate LA fires, is how the GOP seems to be backing away from the problem they may have caused.

So typical of the MAGA folk.

Not taking responsibility for ones' actions, but blaming others.

@#163 ... The only people I rag on in the US are people from Florida ...

So funny.

@#148 ... We politicize the crap out of everything. ...

If you are speaking about MAGA, yeah, I would agree.

@#147 ... when was the last time the Republicans were in control of California? ...

Do the Republicans have to be in control of California in order to have a say in the budget?

@#2 ... Greenland has rare earth minerals. ...

... and your point is?

That the United States should just use its military to take over a sovereign country because of its mineral wealth?

And, as a follow-up, what tier of the US population would benefit from such a takeover? The wealthy who could benefit from that mining operation, or th workers who just seem to sit and watch as their Country invades another Country?

@#135 ... in a state that has grown its population 67% without building a new reservoir seems like poor resource and priority management to me. ...

Maybe your current alias should thank the GOP (~reduce state spending~) movement for that?

@#72 ... I was taken aback by how out of her depth Harris proved to be ...

How so?

Specific examples of the "proof" would be appreciated.

More from the article ...

... But that's not all. Between now and then, on 21 January 2025, six of the seven other planets will appear in the sky at once in a large alignment -- Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus, and Saturn, with the exception of Mercury.

Actually, it's not uncommon for a few planets to be on the same side of the Sun at the same time, but it's less common for most, or even all of the planets to align. ...

Why is this denial of individual rights in Florida a surprise?

@#127 ... Indeed. Nice self own. ...

So, I'm not the only one who noticed that.

At this point, my opinion is that the bird-flu has not yet shown human-to-human spread.

So that is A Good Thing.

No, lemme rephrase that ...

So that is A Great Thing.

More from the article ...

... But Greenland is not nearly as large as it appears on most maps.

The Mercator projection -- which has been the standard map projection since the 18th century -- is the name for the phenomenon in which land masses on maps appear much larger and distorted the further they get from the equator. Antarctica and Greenland are often thought to be bigger than they are given how far they are from the equatorial line, with Greenland appearing on most maps to be roughly the same size of Africa, even though Africa is in fact 14 times larger. ...

@#118 ... Part of the problem is obvious. ...

Yup.

The apparent false equivalence of the long-term problems of northern California farmers with the short-term problem of the Los Angeles area.