Only if you got your science for the Tobacco Institute of America! They also loved to point out it would be stupid for them to sell a product that could kill the people they count on to buy their product.

It's poker night.. :D

And yet, it struck a nerve so much that you DID respond to it..

What you are implying is that humans can control climate.. We have made the CLIMATE hotter and, even though it's mostly a GOOD thing, political yahoos got it up their ass to create an entire cottage industry around STOPPING climate change and made tons of money doing so...

But the kind of control you envision does not exist..

And there is PLENTY of empiracle evidence that we don't know enough to go fritzin' around with the planet's climate...

What if scientists during the big GLOBAL COOLING panic of the 70s hit on a way to make the planet HOTTER and save us from GLOBAL COOLING..

What kind of predicament would we be in right now??

History is replete with examples whereas ECONOMIC FACTORS drove "science"...

"Science" said that smoking was good for humans..

We know that was ECONOMIC "science" designed to push a product..

This global warming bullshit is simply more of the same..

How do we know??

Because the biggest proponents of it DON'T BELIEVE it enough to alter their lifestyle..

Do you still move around in combustion engines?? DO you still use plastics and other items that require fossil fuels and pushing carbon into the atmosphere??

Of course you do..

If Global Warming was TRULY the catastrophe, the planet ending pandemic that Global Warming nuts claim it is..

Why are they still flying around in their private jets and buzzing around huge mega-opolis cities in their SUVs???

If it's such an emergency, why are you still using a device that is responsible for putting TONS of carbon into the air???

You continue your lifestyle because you know deep down inside that it's a bunch of hoooey...

When Global Warming proponents start ACTING like there is a real emergency instead of preaching to others to tighten THEIR belts while they continue the dump TRILLIONS of tons of carbon into the air..

Whey THEY start acting like it's a real emergency...

Then I'll consider their "science"...

But right now, it's CLEAR from the FACTS and the REAL science, that it's one big con..

Yeah, I did not think a compromised Russian asset that bragged about sexually assaulting women, ran a fake “university” that was a scam to rip off those that signed up, had his businesses file for bankruptcy 7 times, that could not pass the lowest level of background checks, that lied about the over 110 contacts his campaign had with Russians, that loved when the media reported he had pledged to donate large sums of money to charity but did not love honoring that pledge (typically donating a small fraction of what he had originally promised if he gave anything at all), that lied about not having any business deals with Russia while he was campaigning, who promised that he would release his tax returns if he was elected but did not, and who’s son told reporters that the majority of their funding was from Russia years before he decided to run should be the President.

You, for some reason, think that those qualities are admirable.

Simply not factually accurate... There are a multitude of examples where the climate changed and humans didn't even exist on the planet..

This is the kind of bullshit anti-logic that I normally ignore. "We can affect the climate" does not imply, does not even suggest, that we're the only thing that has ever affected the climate. Of course lots of other stuff can also affect the climate, duh. If we can affect the climate*, we're one such influence among many. You know that. Everyone knows that. So your reply is disingenuous, and not worth responding to.

If you ever wondered why I don't reply to so many of your replies to my posts, that's a very common reason.

*There's no real doubt that we can affect the climate, same as anything else does that changes the albedo of large areas of land, or the transpiration rate of vegetation over large areas of land, or the atmospheric concentration of gases with more than two atoms per molecule. Physics doesn't magically get suspended when a difference is caused by human activity. No one honestly believes that it does. However, addressing the anti-logic of the talking point requires acknowledging the logical possibility that we might be living in a world that runs on divine command or whatever instead of on physics.

Glad to see you didn't leave your hate and bigotry at your (no)class reunion.. :^/

Yea?? Then why did Hunter and Joe promise to never do it again??

If it wasn't wrong, then there should be no reason to promise not to do it, right??

Well, that settles that.

It's cute that you think HuffPoop settles ANYTHING... :D

“Get over it,” he added later. “There’s going to be political influence in foreign policy. ... That is going to happen. Elections have consequences.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mick-mulvaney-acknowledges-quid-pro-quo_n_5da8a1ffe4b0b24e75deeec6

Well, that settles that.

as the bleach and ammonia of politics.

Trump’s version is the” bleach and ammonia in a windowless supply closet with the door closed” of politics!

The problem has to be solved BEFORE legislation can be passed to solve the problem.

Once the problem is solved, why would we need legislation that addresses it at all?

But then again, you think that millions of people will be thrilled to sign up with your organization promising to only support politicians that are on board with OneDemand...even though they are not told up front that not only are there no politicians currently on board, but that you aren’t looking to recruit politicians — you think that they will come to you once you have signed up the 20 million potential voters needed to make your plan work!

Nor have you explained why people should/would pledge to support only candidates that meet your one criteria! Neo-Nazi’s could be the only group to agree to your OneDemand, and you think they deserve to be elected over a candidate that accepts large donations. This is why no candidate should ever run on just ONE issue... there is a strong chance that once you get past the one area that you agree on, you discover that they are horrible people who never should have been elected!

Thank God CW is preventing OneDemand from ever taking off!

No one said that Hunter never did anything wrong. He's human, just like the rest of us. We said he never did anything wrong in Ukraine, and that's it.

Compared to the Trump kids, of course, he's been a perfect angel.

Oh puullleeeessseeee...

They are BOTH bad and you know it. Yer just tap dancing because you want to call a spade a spade when it comes to President Trump and you want to avoid the mean terminology when it comes to Biden...

By trying to deny that there is a double standard (which there obviously is) you sink further into the muck..

Either one is OK but doing BOTH is bad??? :eyeroll:

Com'on, JL!!

That's just tap dancing and WEAK tap dancing to boot..

Yer simply tailoring your outrage to fit the facts....

Biden and Hillary and Trump are all "guilty" of doing the same things...

Ya'all here (NEN) are find with Democrats who do it and don't like it when President Trump does it..

That's the beginning and end of the facts in this case..

But as I've previously noted on this forum, it's given that the reason people of modest means seek political influence is that it is the easiest way to achieve material wealth.

Why the hell is everybody surprised/upset to re-discover that ancient truth? Are all you Democratics suffering from terminal naivete along with your economic ignorance?

Yea... Hunter Biden never did ANYTHING wrong.. :eyeroll:

Says the guys who wanted to impeach President Trump since BEFORE he even took office.

Ya'all never even gave President Trump a chance..

You just fanned the flames of your hit and bigotry.. :eyeroll:

#sad

It's as I said..

Democrats praise Odumbo's pre-mature pullout of Iraq..

But Democrats are PRO-WAR when it's President Trump who is the Commander In Chief...

Neither of which are my strong points. :D

The party cannot afford another nominee like Michael Dukakis in 1988 or John Kerry in 2004. Democrats do not need to prove that they are smarter than Republicans or occupy some moral high ground. Democrats need to prove that they are listening to voters, that they share their pain, and that they will fight like hell to improve the lives of all Americans.

The problem for Democrats if they have never shown an INKLING of care as to what voters say..

Democrats tell voters how they SHOULD feel.. Democrats TELL voters what they SHOULD think...

Democrats actually LISTENING to voters???

Ain't never gonna happen..

Because Democrats are so locked into their delusion of how the world is, they don't want to hear about ANYTHING that disputes their world-view...

We see that here in Weigantia all the time..

Of course, you can't tell that to many of the Weigantians here..

To them, things are all roses and candy..

The actual VERY REAL POSSIBILITY that Democrats will lose (as the majority of Weigantians who express an opinion have stated) is totally alien and foreign to those Democrats here..

It is my hope that they and the rest of their Democrat brethren stay completely ignorant until election day...

:D

:D

NASA and NOAA in conjunction placed 114 hyper accurate weather stations across the CONUS. This, they said, would eliminate the tweaking required to produce the desired result.. The RAW data that it provided would PROVE the planet is warming..

Well, guess what??

After 15 years of readings, this hyper-accurate weather station grid PROVED that there has been NO warming.. In fact, this hyper-accurate grid showed a cooling trend..

So, please.. Don't bother with that consensus bullshit.

Science is NOT based on consensus.. Science is NOT a popularity contest...

If the FACTS disprove the theory (as has been the case for 20 years) then the theory must change to fit the data..

Global Warming fanatics insist on changing the data to fit the theory..

That ain't Science.. That's a con...

And yet, it's going to TAKE "control" to do what the Global Warming fanatics want to do..

We can affect the climate.

Simply not factually accurate... There are a multitude of examples where the climate changed and humans didn't even exist on the planet..

So, to claim that NOW, it's humans who are affecting the planet's climate is the epitome of disingenuousness..

We already are affecting the climate, but we can change how we affect climate.

And yet, none of those changes have amounted to a hill o beans...

Basically you propose that we not only HALT climate change, but you ALSO want to reverse the planet's climate...

Impossible...

The planet's climate has been changing long LONG *LONG* before humans ever rose from the primordial muck..

And the planet's climate will CONTINUE to change long after humans have gone the way of the dodo...

This is fact and no amount of politically correct "science" will change that fact..

The planet will do what it wants with it's climate.. Humans have no say in the matter..

"Control" is an unreasonably stringent criterion. We can't decide to have Nebraska get an average of eight more sunny days per year over the coming decades with half an inch more rain and 1.3 degrees warmer, while Afghanistan averages six more days of partly-cloudy weather than they have been getting, with winters averaging 0.4 degrees cooler and summers 0.9 degrees warmer, and so on down the line for locations all over the world. That would be control.

We can affect the climate. We already are affecting the climate, but we can change how we affect climate.

Hunter Biden claims that he never talked with his daddy about his obscenely lucrative deals in China and Ukraine...

Yet Joe stated that he (Joe) told Hunter to "Be careful with these dealings"

So if Hunter never said anything to Joe about his obscenely lucrative dealings.....

How did VP Joe Biden know enough to tell Hunter to "be careful"??

It's obvious that SOMEONE is lying...

And you guys HATE lies, right??

Oh, that's right.. You don't mind lies when it's someone of the LEFT doing the lying.. Someone with a -D after their name spewing the BS...

Turley: Why more questions remain after Hunter Biden's interview

Hunter Biden’s deals are textbook examples of how political families become rich from public service. Still, many in the media continue to repeat Joe Biden’s position that “no one has asserted my son did a single thing wrong.” That, of course, is untrue. Even if the deals did not amount to crimes, they were wrong. They have always been wrong, but both parties have always protected these deals as a dirty little secret.
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/466057-turley-why-more-questions-remain-after-hunter-bidens-interview

Joe and Hunter Biden did something wrong..

THAT is why they promised that, if daddy Joe was elected POTUS, they never will do it again..

If you ever have to promise NOT to do something again, then you did something wrong that required that promise..

It's THAT simple..

Hunter Biden did something wrong..

Joe Biden did something wrong..

And from THAT starting point is where Hunter and Joe need to begin to lay the facts...

Let's see what an uber Left rag has to say about it..

Sorry, but Democrats need to talk about Hunter Biden
Democrats are afraid to talk about Hunter Biden. Trump won’t be.

Many Democrats consider raising the Hunter Biden question unfair to Joe Biden. Why should he have to answer for the legal actions of his adult son? But no one said politics was fair. And if Democrats avoid the issue, they can be certain Trump will not. Biden’s vulnerability here needs to be tested in the primary, when Democrats have other choices, rather than in the general, when they won’t.
https://www.vox.com/2020-presidential-election/2019/10/16/20916760/joe-biden-hunter-biden-democratic-debate-trump-2020

Democrats need to nail down Joe Biden on Hunter..

If they don't, and Joe is the Dem candidate, they can bet President Trump will be wall to wall Hunter Biden.

And THAT will resonate with Trump supporters, Independents and NPAs...

It's really that simple..

Let's look at the facts...

Hunter goes to Ukraine with Daddy Joe and then lands an obscenely high fee of Fifty THOUSAND dollars A MONTH for sitting on a board of a company that Hunter knows NOTHING about in a country Hunter knows NOTHING about and dealing with issues that Hunter knows NOTHING about..

Get that?? Hunter knows NOTHING about ANYTHING and they pay him Fifty THOUSAND dollars a month..

OK, then Hunter goes with daddy Joe to China and then lands in a sweethard deal to be part of a funding group whose goal is 1.5 BILLION dollars...

So, the facts are these..

Hunter goes with daddy to Ukraine and then lands an obscenely lucrative monthly pay..

Then Hunter goes with daddy to China and lands ANOTHER lucrative "job" where the group targets 1.5 BILLION dollars in income..

And ya'all think it's all a big coincidence?? That Hunter just happened to fall into these jobs and VP Biden had NO CLUE about it or NO HAND in it???

Com'on people.. I know for a fact that.... SOME of ya'all are smarter than that... :eyeroll:

Incredible servant of the people of Maryland and this country! RIP!

That's simple..

Nothing..

Humans do not have the technological capability to control the planet's climate..

The planet's climate is ALWAYS changing and, in the here and now, humans are simply along for the ride..

It would be akin to asking to address the planet's orbit...

It's a ridiculous question because the technology doesn't exist to accomplish the goal..

Humans cannot control the planet's climate..

Anyone who says different is a moron or has a political agenda..

Also, what reforms will you sponsor to reduce the impact of big money in government?

DH, is that you??? :D