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You’re thinking: “I really want to see this woman fired.” You WANT any excuse. Harvard’s Thinking: “She’s become too much of a distraction as President, but her plagiarism was very minimal and had nothing to do with her fundamental research, analysis or conclusions, so we aren’t going to fire her.” In Harvard’s actual words: The errors "were not considered intentional or reckless" and didn't rise to misconduct. (Source: AP. I don’t want to plagiarize).

I’m gonna be just fine. What I’m wondering is when will Trump keel over from a heart attack. He’s not very healthy for his age; he’s morbidly obese and you can’t be that way when you’re 80 years old like he is.

During the pandemic, a nuclear aircraft carrier was jeopardized because of a Covid outbreak. As a matter of national security, immunizations are necessary to keep ships afloat and tightly-grouped men working in close quarters overseas at military readiness. It’s not an option and this has been military policy since George Washington ordered smallpox inoculations.

Quoting your article: ”A review ordered by Harvard acknowledged "duplicative language" and missing quotation marks, but it concluded the errors "were not considered intentional or reckless" and didn't rise to misconduct.” It was her comment about Israel, and her failure to correct her statement, that got her booted.

Oh? Where did you get the 100 year figure?

It’s gonna be a great year for Justice and democracy. Two things that Donald Trump hates. Worst case, Donald Trump loses again. Best case, he gets kicked off the ballot, loses $750 million, and goes to prison for the rest of his life.

I wake up and read about how Donald Trump is getting closer and closer to a $250 million civil fine in NY State, a $100 million E Jean Carrol verdict, and four criminal trials, which can each put him in prison.

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For F’s sake… Texas’ wind turbines froze, AND their other power generators failed, because they went cheap and built them without protection from freezing temps.

I do not support the Netanyahu government. It’s helpful to understand the Israeli perspective a little better. Israel became an independent nation in 1948, and faced war immediately. And Truman forbid any arms shipments to Israel; they were on their own against six nations at once. But, long story short, the Israelis have been at war to one extent or another since 1948. Every family in Israel has lost a family member to war. They are a very small country for all of this warfare. They don’t want it and they were willing to hand over a LOT of land and oil reserves to Egypt in return for peace. Israel will not accept a 1-state solution for very good reason, and neither should you. It makes no rational sense. The Second Intifada was senseless slaughter of children and other civilians. They blew up school buses of children, pizza parlors, and they’d usually detonate a second bomb after the first, to murder the ambulance crews who were rescuing the injured.. Basically, the second intifada made a LOT of Israelis decide that there was just no point in trying to deal with the Palestinians. Go and Wikipedia “Black September,” and you’ll understand why Jordan also has a sealed border with the West Bank. And, after the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt, the Egypt-Gaza border has been closed. Whether it’s the Palestinian people themselves or their extremely radicalized leadership, they have chosen to refuse compromise continually and instead demanded a perpetual state of war with Israel, as well as war with Jordan and Egypt. To be clear: Even if Israel had very liberal political leadership, and they shut down lots of West Bank settlements, it is unlikely that the situation of the Palestinians would improve. After all, one of their biggest political groups is called “Islamic Jihad.”

The difference between you and me is that you deal in make-believe and I deal in fact. FACT: Trump has already been found liable in the New York Civil Fraud Trial. MAKE-BELIEVE: An appeals court will overturn the verdict. FACT: The judgement handed down to Trump will range between $150 and $750 million. MAKE-BELIEVE: That amount will be reduced to a few million. FACT: A judgement of $500 million will end Trump. MAKE-BELIEVE: Donald Trump has $500 million in cash to dole out. FACT: Donald Trump’s businesses in New York have already been ordered dissolved. MAKE-BELIEVE: They will become somehow un-dissolved.

I already explained that The People can elect a Congress which can vote to restore Trump’s ability to serve as President. That is how our system works.

If you weren’t a complete knucklehead, you would know some things: First, you would know that power consumption is dramatically lower at night time than during the day. Second, you would know that across a sufficiently large geographical area, there is always wind. I know that you’re terrible at math, but if you weren’t, you would understand that it is possible to perform a statistical analysis of wind flow and determine precisely how much maximum and minimum power generation you can attain with wind power. It’s not difficult. Turns out, there are a lot of very windy regions, especially in the American and Canadian plains. Third, you would know that wind and solar will not replace all forms of electricity distribution, and they don’t need to, in order to attain our goals. But we can put a massive dent in our fossil fuel use, which will kick the ass of those Arab warmongers in Iran. The Department of Energy provides a running total of ALL electricity generation in the USA by Source. Guess what? Wind is fairly constant. Bear in mind — operators can turn windmills OFF whenever they want, because you cannot generate more electricity than you consume. That explains most of the variance of wind power. If you want to actually learn something, take a look at this graph. Its’ fascinating. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/expanded-view/electric_overview/US48/US48/GenerationByEnergySource-4

The people can vote to put Donald Trump on the ballot. The US Constitution is clear about that: With a 2/3 vote of each House of Congress, Donald Trump’s Presidential eligibility can be restored. But nobody’s right to vote is being taken away. You get to vote for anybody you want. An American can write in a vote for Schwarzenegger for President, but he cannot be sworn in as President, no matter how many votes he gets. That’s how our nation’s government works. The US Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, and it is clear that you cannot be President if you swore and oath to defend the Constitution and then participated in an insurrection or rebellion. An Act of Congress, signed by the President, has already declared that the events of January 6 were an insurrection.

What is a single state? Wouldn’t you agree that a single state would be a democratic nation which encompasses all the land and population of Israel, West Bank, and Gaza? Why do you think the Israeli Jews would oppose that? Hmmm…. Could it be, maybe, that virtually every Muslim nation in the Mideast has expelled their entire Jewish population? So… you create one state, you have a vote, and Hamas or Islamic Jihad gets elected to power… they expel the Jews and now Islamic Jihad is a nuclear power. That’s not a mere possibility; it is the most likely outcome of a one state solution. So, obviously, the Jews are not going to accept that, and neither should you, if you care about stupid stuff like not being destroyed by nuclear weapons. What’s more… think about this, please??? There are MANY MANY Muslim nations. They run by Islamic law. They limit the jobs and societal roles of non-Muslims. They subject non-Muslims to special taxes. Many have supreme religious leaders who either run the government or have a strong role in establishing the nation’s laws. WHY THE F IS THAT OK WITH YOU? WHY ARE YOU ONLY PICKING ON THE JEWS, WHO HAVE BEEN PERSECUTED AND KICKED OUT OF A DOZEN COUNTRIES? The Jews have a legitimate reason for wanting a Jewish state. Over and over, history has persecuted them, for hundreds and hundreds of years, into this very day. The Catholics can have Vatican City — No Problem!!! The Muslims can have dozens of Muslim countries — No Problem!!! But the Jews? No! Unfair! Not allowed? You look at the job Palestinians have done at governing themselves, and you want to give them nuclear weapons? Dude, that’s the LSD talking! It’s a simple, unequivocal, absolutely hard NO.

Can you show me evidence that solar and wind power are more expensive than other forms of electricity generation? No, you cannot. That’s because they are the cheapest forms of electricity generation. The US Federal Energy Information Administration, under the DoE, produces an annual report which calculates the cost of electricity generation, which accounts for all factors including capital costs. First, they estimate that between 2023 and 2028, about 2 gigabits of gas turbine generation capacity will be added to America’s electric grid, while 30 gigabits and 21 gigabits of wind and solar generation will be added. Zero nuclear, coal or other. And that’s because wind and solar are far less expensive, but, in some isolated cases, mostly due to distribution, gas turbine is more cost-effective to deploy. The cost of coal works out to $90 per megawatt hour, nuclear is $71, hydro $57, onshore wind is $31 and solar is just $23.22. So, as usual, you’re completely FOS. Source: https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/electricity_generation/pdf/AEO2023_LCOE_report.pdf

The 14th Amendment was clearly written to address Civil War confederates. Those people were NOT convicted of insurrection, but they WERE NOT eligible for Federal office if they’d previously sworn an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution. No Conviction Needed.

Wind, baby, wind!

That’s how the U.S. Constitution works. In 2000, Al Gore got 500,000 more votes than George Bush, but the Constitution said those 500,000 votes didn’t matter, and Bush became President. In 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the most popular Republican in America But no matter how many votes he got, the Constitution said he could not be President of the United States In 2016, Clinton got 4 million more votes than Donald Trump, but the U.S. Constitution said those 4 million votes don’t matter, and Trump became President. On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump incited an insurrection, making him Constitutionally ineligible for the Presidency, no matter how many votes he gets.

You still don’t get it. Let me explain: Swastika: Used to be Buddhist symbol; got used as Nazi slogan while calling for the death of all Jews. River to the Sea: Used to mean one thing; got used by both PLO and now used by Hamas while calling for the complete destruction of Israel. Intifada: Means “Revolution to destroy Israel,” and was the name of two periods of violent terrorist attacks against Jews. So, Robo, here’s the thing: 1) Context: If somebody is wearing a swastika on their arm, with a brown shirt and jack boots… their claim that it’s just a Buddhist peace symbol doesn’t fly. 2) Context: If a bunch of protesters chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will soon be free,” followed by “Intifada revolution is the only real solution,” then I know for certain that they believe in destroying Israel. There’s no kumbaya in that. More to the point: There are MANY MANY pro-Palestinians who either call for the destruction of Israel, and state that Israel should not exist. But they are often vague about where they stand, so using terms which are definitely associated with the destruction of Israel and terrorist attacks on Israel is a strong dog whistle. This is why most Jews consider the phrase a call for the destruction of Israel. You don’t use a Nazi slogan if you aren’t a Nazi supporter, and you don’t use a Hamas slogan if you aren’t a Hamas supporter. Now do you see? That slogan is a thinly veiled call for Israel’s destruction.

You are lying. I posted the evidence from nasa. It is fact.

Kinda? No, you can't duck behind hate speech like that. It was a hate slogan of the PLO back in the 1960's and it's a hate slogan of Hamas today. No different than displaying a swastika with the Auschwitz line "Work Sets You Free" and claiming you aren't sending a hate message to Jews.

"It depends on the context"? NY Times: "The phrase has also been adopted over the years by Hamas, which calls for the annihilation of Israel, taking on a darker meaning that has long shaped the way in which it is received." Associated Press: "what the phrase means depends on who is telling the story... Many Palestinian activists say it’s a call for peace and equality... By 2012, it was clear that Hamas had claimed the slogan in its drive to claim land spanning Israel, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank... “Palestine is ours from the river to the sea and from the south to the north,” Khaled Mashaal, the group’s former leader, said that year in a speech in Gaza celebrating the 25th anniversary of the founding of Hamas. “There will be no concession on any inch of the land." The phrase also has roots in the Hamas charter." Washington Post: "The slogan refers to the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea — which includes the state of Israel... the phrase was taken up by supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization, or PLO... “The vast majority of Jews in many contexts, hearing that slogan, hear something that feels deeply threatening and offensive and many, many Jews would characterize it as antisemitic,” said Ethan Katz, an associate professor of history and Jewish studies at the University of California at Berkeley." Anti-Defamation League: "It is an antisemitic charge denying the Jewish right to self-determination, including through the removal of Jews from their ancestral homeland. Usage of this phrase has the effect of making members of the Jewish and pro-Israel community feel unsafe and ostracized. It is important to note that demanding justice for Palestinians, or calling for a Palestinian state, should not mean, as this hateful phrase posits, denying the right of the State of Israel to exist." I agree with you 100%. Such a lasting peace may take 10 or 20 years, but it starts with leaders who at least say they are committed to peaceful coexistence.

Let’s try this? If you’re wrong: Hundreds of millions of people die. If I’m wrong: We’ve spent money building a lower-cost, more efficient energy infrastructure, which makes our nations’ industries more efficient, makes our economies stronger, and takes hundreds of billions of dollars from unstable, terrorist-funding, anti-American oil dictators in the Mideast. See? If I’m wrong, I’m still right.

There is an actual, global crisis in the making and the evidence is abundant. It will not work to wait until the crisis overwhelms us and THEN fix it. That is not a “liberal” opinion, it is a fact-based statement. We can’t just cool the oceans back down.