#8 - Ah - the old " my opinion is equal to your facts" argument.

Murders are under-reported???? As suicides? As accidents? Maybe just plain overlooked?

Would it not simply be less embarrassing to say you got it wrong?

"London has a higher murder rate that NYC

#6 | POSTED BY HELIUMRAT AT 2019-12-12 05:18 AM | FLAG: "

Wrong.

London murders in 2019 to date - 133 - link:

#7 - The fact that the attacker was disarmed by a member of the public ( who happened to be an off duty police officer ) does not detract from the excellent response time of the police. That they shot the attacker on the ground is indeed unusual for the UK - but he was wearing a suicide vest ( fake as it turns out but they would not have known) so I suspect that they feared he was going to attempt to detonate it.

As for comparisons with US police, what struck me was that in the many photos I have looked at, I have yet to spot a 300lb obese or 250lb steroid inflated specimen. Looks like the UK expects its policemen and women to be in reasonable shape. The US? Less so.

Let me remind you the city of Denver cited a shop owner because he didn't clean up others feces on the sidewalk isn't just an "introduction" but a fact.
www.mrctv.org

#12 | POSTED BY ANDREAMACKRIS AT 2019-11-29 03:30 PM | REPLY | FLAG

You, together with the poster in #2, can't seem to distinguish between legislating for things that are possible, but stupid or inequitable and things that are impossible.

If you can cite a law where democrats have sought to make the failure to perform an impossible procedure a capital offense, point me in the direction of a link - I'd love to read up on it. I'm not interested in the law just being stupid, point me to something that is impossible given current technology, etc.

"God I love this man.

#4 | POSTED BY ANDREAMACKRIS AT 2019-11-27 11:41 AM | REPLY | FLAG:

You'll love him more when you see this:

Jim Jefferies has an interesting theory:

Just excellent.

" ... and some actual education in school would not hurt either.

#4 | POSTED BY IRAGOLDBERG AT 2019-11-13 01:22 AM | REPLY | FLAG:"

From Bloomberg:

"Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist who started the Friday school strikes, has graduated from secondary education with 14 As and three Bs."

I'm not Swedish, but I'm guessing that is some actual education. Maybe you should take a leaf out of her book.

"Leftist London was the only city to vote against Brexit so this is no surprise.
#1 | POSTED BY NULLIFIDIAN AT 2019-10-23 10:21 AM | REPLY | FLAG"

This is absolutely wrong and sums up your actual understanding ( or lack thereof ) of Brexit.

Of England's largest 6 cities, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Bristol, only Birmingham voted leave. All the rest voted remain. Given that Scotland as a whole voted remain, it goes without saying that their major cities, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, voted remain. Similarly for Northern Ireland. Wales voted overall to leave, but Cardiff voted massively to remain. Subsequent investigation suggests that actual Welsh voters voted remain but that there are so many English retirees in Wales that they tipped the balance. Link:

#28 - Perhaps Pegasus would like to refresh his memory concerning the motivation behind the EU:

"Obama spent 114 Million while so far Trump has only spent 10 million... (2017)
www.newsweek.com

Looking for any articles written in 2019...

#96 | POSTED BY PEGASUS AT 2019-10-17 05:35 PM | FLAG: "

I'm assuming you realize that you're comparing total travel costs for Obama's 8 years to Trump's first year only? You obviously do not realize that the estimates for Trump's travel in his first year have been shown to be significantly understated. The article you quote indicates each trip to Mar a Lago cost $1m; subsequent investigation shows each trip cost closer to $3.4m per visit:

" I can not speak for HRH but I assume she is for Brexit as doing so returns some of the power back to her.

#4 | POSTED BY PEGASUS AT 2019-10-17 02:59 PM | REPLY | FLAG:"

I seriously doubt that the Queen supports Brexit at this stage. Plans are already being aired in Scotland for a referendum on independence next year and it is likely any deal that the EU accepts with respect to Northern Ireland will lead to increased calls for Irish unification. She is a very traditional monarch - the break up of the UK would be totally abhorrent to her.

^#79 "airfare" should be "airforce".

Point stands.

The US airfare stays at Trump resorts in Scotland:

"This short article raises more questions than it answers.

The Milky Way is 100,000 LY side to side. That means that if this explosion was felt 200,000 LY away, it was felt 150,000 outside the galaxy. IOW, where there is nothing. So how is this known?

Wish there was more to the story. Looks like I'm going to have to call upon my friend, Mr. Google.

#4 | POSTED BY GOATMAN AT 2019-10-07 01:00 AM | REPLY | FLAG:"

From the article:

"The flare created two enormous "ionisation cones" that sliced through the Milky Way and left its imprint on the Magellanic Stream. This is a long trail of gas that extends from nearby dwarf galaxies called the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
The stream lies at an average of 200,000 light-years from the Milky Way."

Google good; reading better.

#15 - Are you suggesting that FEMA does not provide funding support for disasters other than flooding? Simply click on any of the links I previously provided and select a listed event. Chances are it will show the amount of financial support FEMA provided. Here's an example:

#8 - I am not suggesting that all forms of natural disaster are equal; simply that there is nowhere in the continental US that you can live without there being a credible threat of natural disaster occurring. I recognize that volcanoes and earthquakes are outliers, clearly subject to long periods of inactivity, but local events are quite common and the major disasters are inevitable.

If federal assistance for one type of weather/climate/natural disaster related risk is to be denied, it should be denied to all such risks. The fact that one particular type of risk is the first to possibly manifest longer term climate changes should not warrant special treatment; rather it should be the impetus for developing a federal strategic plan to address evolving disaster events of all sorts.

As for your " terrible comparisons", each to his own, but here are links to the relevant FEMA pages in the order you list them:

#7 The exodus in Florida, if the article is to be believed, is related to the threat of general sea level rises rendering coastal property uninhabitable, not to hurricane flooding per se. How does this differ from seasonal risk of fire, exacerbated by climate related events such as prolonged drought conditions? Or seasonal inland and river basin flooding due to higher rainfall levels, again driven over time by higher temperatures? Or flooding related to snowmelt?

As for earthquakes and volcanoes, agreed they are not seasonal, although they are very much limited to specific areas. They are however, inevitable. Should a moratorium on construction be imposed in areas vulnerable to such disasters? Should property owners be taxed to cover future losses?

When you suggest these things are not a federal problem, are you suggesting that FEMA does not provide assistance to a wide variety of disasters? Here is a link to the FEMA website:

" Good. I've been saying this for years. We should abolish all incentives for people to live in flood-prone areas, like the federal flood insurance program Additionally, a moratorium on new construction should be imposed, and a climate property tax in these areas to pay for future emergencies.

#2 | POSTED BY NULLIFIDIAN AT 2019-09-29 10:24 AM | FLAG: "

Why just flood prone areas? What about tornadoes? Wild fire? Inland flooding due to rainfall? Snowstorms? Earthquakes? Volcanoes? This link shows that there is basically nowhere in the US to live that does not have inherent natural disaster problems, with all but the last 2 I listed likely to be exacerabated by rising temperatures.

Am I missing something?

It seems to me that no apostrophe was required in the first place - Trump simply tried to use a misspelled, folksy version of the word "little". If it was required at all, it would be required if Trump used the form "L'ddle" to signify an omission.

So it wasn't required, Trump defended his use of something that wasn't required and he incorrectly called it a hyphen. In Trumpland isn't that just another day?

In the scheme of things, not a big deal. As a demonstration, if another was needed, that Republicans having elected someone without the intellectual capability to do the job, add it to the list. Do Republicans care? I seriously doubt it and that in and of itself is a condemnation of Trump's supporters.

#9 - I'm not exactly sure, but I think you suggesting my previous post supports the viewpoint that Greta is "mental".

I don't see how my words could be interpreted in that way, but each to his own.

"If you want this fanatic to be the face of the climatista movement, you are welcome to her.
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#4 | POSTED BY NULLIFIDIAN AT 2019-09-23 05:32 PM | REPLY | FLAG'

I find myself in the very odd position of agreeing with you; this young woman should not be the face of a global effort to address climate change.

The face of a global initiative should a political leader with enough clout, respect and intelligence to move the process forward. Under normal circumstances the world would look to your country for this leadership. Regrettably the US does not have such a leader; during Trump's presidency the only consistent ideological positions he has held are that if Obama did it, it has to be undone and if his base applaud it, it must be policy.

""Sorry, within the contexts that you have used it I do not believe you.
#102 | POSTED BY FOREIGNER"

What you believe or don't believe is of no importance to me. My statement is factual.

#104 | POSTED BY IRAGOLDBERG AT 2019-09-22 12:19 PM | REPLY | FLAG:"

In my post #102, I explained to you why your statement, that Obama is " half black" cannot be true as you keep stating it; simply put, his mother has some percentage of "black" genes. This implicitly means that your statement is not factual but you either can't understand the point or you've been called out as a racist, don't like it and will keep making the same invalid point over and over as a defense.

Repetition bores me, so this will be my last comment. What I believe is, as you say, of no importance to you, so it won't matter if I tell you that I don't believe a word of your defense and that last night, at 1.54am your inner racist got the better of you and now it's out there. As they say, you own that.

"It is an objective fact - he is half-black. That is not racist, that is genetics.

#50 | POSTED BY IRAGOLDBERG AT 2019-09-22 11:18 AM | REPLY | FLAG:"

So your decision is to double down on the statement being purely factual and not derogatory and racist. Sorry, within the contexts that you have used it I do not believe you.

As for whether Obama is half-back, an "objective fact" as far as you are concerned, you may like to know that his mother's ancestry can be traced back to include some of the earliest African slaves in the US. It is unlikely then that she is able to pass on 100% "white" genes to her son and therefore equally unlikely that Obama is "half" anything.

#40 - "So, Obama is not half-black? That is an objective fact, unless you have your own birther conspiracy."

Why does it matter to you what color Obama is? If you feel he is a loser based on policies with which you disagree, why do you need to bring his color into it? Obama may not be a loser because he is " half-black", but you are certainly racist for your focus on it.

Or are you going to pretend you use it only in a factual, rather than derogatory way? If so you are not only a racist, but you lack the courage of your convictions.