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Legato

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  1. Some reports are saying the plane was shot down by an air defense missile. Another says he wasn't on the plane and he also has 2 planes. Guess we'll never know the real deal. ...twice.
  2. Again fixed for accuracy.
  3. Conjecture at it's finest using a very wide brush. The guy was essentially a mentally ill wack job and deserved his demise.
  4. How about "Far right Religious Zealot".
  5. That is not what I said. Trudeaus disastrous handling handling of world events is there for all to see, please take off the rose coloured glasses.
  6. No he's not, but he and the inept bunch occupying cabinet positions are certainly to blame for economic events in Canada.
  7. ...and the Lord sayeth unto Moses....Go forth and lifteth many weights until thyself become king of the weights and their lifters. Then and only then will the women come along and maketh thee a samhich.
  8. Go read up on 2nd law of thermodynamics and apply that knowledge to the transfer of sound or any forms of energy from a higher to a lower level. Then study how different mediums transfer energy at different rates. Maybe after that the decibel in your head will stop ringing.
  9. Watt? the amped up rhetoric in favour of EV's needs to see some resistance, impedance is not working.
  10. The blades produce most of the noise which travels down the supporting structure into the water. Info on blade frequency below. https://eng.mst.dk/air-noise-waste/noise/wind-turbines/low-frequency-noise-from-wind-turbines/
  11. Interesting article. https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/is-it-time-to-ban-electric-vehicles-5466935
  12. It's not the turbine itself, but the mechanism that drives the turbine (propeller blades) that produces most of the noise which has already been pointed out.
  13. Neither is the carbon tax. Your dream catcher must be broken.
  14. You could vote Green, that is, if you're colour blind.
  15. You have to wait for a full moon to be able to see it properly
  16. You use the acronym LMAO quite a lot.......So, has your butt fell off yet?
  17. … https://www.salon.com/2023/08/05/why-america-is-going-backward-being-the-richest-nation-in-history-isnt-enough/ And another goodie on conservatism: … However much modern theorists have elaborated upon the ideas inherent in conservatism during the two centuries since Maistre, they all seem to me to boil down to three simple points: A desire for hierarchy and human inequality. This belief derives from the medieval religious notion of the Great Chain of Being, whereby there is a place for everybody and everybody must know his place. It justifies economic exploitation and denial of political rights. Conservative writers propagandize on its behalf with a straw-man argument: Any gain in equality costs society an equal or greater loss in freedom; egalitarianism is the mere soulless equality of the gulag, where we cannot own property and must share toothbrushes. This sentiment pops up consistently in the works of American conservative theorists, from Buckley's "Unless you have freedom to be unequal, there is no such thing as freedom," to David Brooks' hankering for rule by a wise elite. American-style laissez-faire economics and libertarianism are largely based on this idea. The only acceptable society is based on Christianity. Never mind the establishment clause of the First Amendment; conservatives will forever try to smuggle in more and more official endorsement of religion until the United States is effectively a theocracy. The rationale is that some sort of divine or transcendental dispensation is the sole basis for a just temporal order. Translated into the bumper-sticker mentality of American Christian fundamentalism, that means that if people don't believe in God, there's nothing to stop them from running amok and killing people. This thesis would have been news to medieval crusaders, the Holy Inquisition, Francisco Franco's Falangists or the Russian Archbishop Kyrill, who has blessed Putin's invasion of Ukraine and the resulting carnage. We must obey tradition. For some unexplained reason, our ancestors were infinitely wiser than us, and apparently they get a vote on present affairs. To paraphrase Edmund Burke, if we're going to have democracy, let's extend it to the dead. Scratch someone who fancies himself an educated conservative and you will often find a person who reveres the past; unfortunately they leave out details like slavery, witch burning and childbed fever. Many psychologists consider this mentality to be a cognitive bias in brain function, but whatever its source, the political utility of the attitude is obvious: Utopia only exists in an ever-receding past, progress is impossible, and future generations shall profess bygone superstitions. And tradition, in this case, means the folkways of a specific, favored culture, thus denying the universality of the human spirit. The idea is well expressed by Buckley's statement that conservatives must "stand athwart history yelling 'stop.'" Joseph de Maistre was "a fierce absolutist, a furious theocrat, an intransigent legitimist ... always and everywhere the champion of the hardest, narrowest and most inflexible dogmatism." All the essential points of the present conservative mind. One can grasp that the three precepts dovetail together in that they all rely on dogmatic assertion, denial of a scientific or empirical basis of reality and reactionary nostalgia. They are also pretty thin gruel for founding an intellectual tradition: there are simply too many departments of knowledge, for instance, much of science, that must be declared off limits to prevent them from tainting the party line. This is why conservatives habitually retreat into mysticism, gut feelings and the wisdom of our fathers when the facts are against them. It is more accurate to say that conservatism is a counter-intellectual activity that sometimes employs the trappings of intellectual discourse... https://www.salon.com/2023/07/01/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-conservative-intellectual--only-apologists-for-right-wing-power/ Salon.com is a liberal blog known in recent years for sensational clickbait headlines, questionable content, and low journalistic standards.1 Salon has adopted an increasingly strident brand of leftism that feigns outrage to advance the site’s liberal agenda on countless political issues.2 https://www.influencewatch.org/for-profit/salon/
  18. He will probably hire a landscaper to dig up a bunch of shells from a local beach. Then set up a least 20 shell companies to follow the Biden family initiatives and receive money's from China, Ukraine, Romania etc . That should help a little.
  19. That sentence alone shows an inability to see your cornflakes are bereft of milk.
  20. You should quote that to all the climate alarmists who buy property on coastlines..
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