Their infrastructure can't handle it, and half of Houston is still without power, and they are having rolling blackouts all across the state.
Both Texas senators, Cruz and Cornyn, are begging for federal emergency dollars.
Question: Will this interfere with their rugged individualistic capitalistic secession from the United States, or is it just on hold until they get their Socialism dollars to get right first?
Question 2: Will Texas citizens get their additional $1400 Socialism checks before secession takes place?
As always, I sincerely hope every red county secedes from Washington State, and every red state secedes from the Union...they'll be broke in two months, and we won't have to continue to subsidize their stupidity.
While living in Texas it just happened to snow in the small town I called home for a short stint for the first time in probably 30+ years. I must have brought some of the PNW weather with me. It was maybe 1/2" or so. I remember jumping on the freeway in my old Ford 4x4 Highboy and heading into work at the local mall, doing about 65mph the whole way, and absolutely flying by every single car doing maybe 20 mph or so. It was hilarious. I was the only one to show up for my shift that day, including the manager. They acted like it was Armageddon or something. Good times.
Got rear ended at a dead stop on the freeway, driving to the same [Bleeeeep!] mall job, by a Lincoln town car, my cab was on his windshield. Walked away with only a few scratches and bruises and he was not so lucky.
Sadly enough, the insurance company didn't see the same value in the truck I did, and gave me like 2K or something outrageous. I was so pissed! Too young, dumb and broke to fight it. Off to the junkyard it went.
I went back and checked on it months later with plans to buy it back and fix it only to be told it was crushed.
I replaced it with a 1970 Camaro big-block SS. So I had that going for me. Which was nice.
The part that's stupid about this whole situation is that Texas removed itself from the national grid to avoid pesky federal regulations that "cost too much" and "drive up the price of electricity", and with all those savings, the power companies in Texas were supposed to build up their infrastructure and capacity.
Shockingly, they pocketed the savings and didn't invest in anything, and now require our tax dollars to bail them out.
Why should they get our tax dollars when they caused this themselves?
This is what that "rugged individualism" looks like all over the country...right wing Socialists with their hands out all day, in every way.
Right wingers worried about Socialism should stop being the biggest Socialists in the country, as they are that, every time.
Stupid [Bleeeeep!] Ted Cruz popped off on Twitter about California last year when they were having rolling blackout. Something about them being unable to provide even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable electricity.
Those utility companies that pocketed the money that they were supposed to spend on capacity and infrastructure need to pay back the taxpayers for every penny that we have to spend taking care of their fuckkup.
Sue them into the fuckin dirt, and their ratepayers can suck it up and pay them, since they're the ones who voted for this scheme.
"In true Right Wing Socialist fashion, however, they'll try to privatize the gains and socialize the costs..."
I hate this when I see it, no matter who does it. Kind of like my republicans friends who blow up at the notion of restricting oil companies profits, but have no answer when I ask them how we can open a new refinery. Oh, you mean you want no government intervention on the profits or other actions except when they provide protection against competition.
It just as present in the liberals, who want to stop all foreclosures and evictions, but don't want to help the rich landlords pay the underlining mortgage. I have yet to see the state agree to hold off foreclosures on the same properties if you don't pay the property taxes or sewer bill.
It was also evident they wanted to stop development of the show box, but were not willing to pay market value and then make it a public venture. No, much easier to legislate others to fund a public service. Need all that money for a train system that most of us will never live to see. One went by me by me at around 4 pm yesterday in Auburn. Looked to have about 3 to 5% ridership, if that.
you conveniently left out that half of the wind turbines there are frozen, producing zero energy, and that is the 2nd highest output for electricity and the fastest growing source in Texas's power grid...
now imagine if Bidens punk ass bans fracking, which Texas's number 1 source of energy is natural gas...
Germany, which is the "green" capitol of the world, has 30k turbines not operating because there is no wind, and tons of the solar panels are covered in snow, producing no solar energy...
so much for the leftist nuts that want or think that solar and wind energy is the way to go...
nothing like taking up millions of acres of land for something that can get shut down by ice or the absence of wind, or snow...
the Cali sh!t was because of hot weather and fires (bad forest management)...
basically you can see what will happen to you if this administration does what it plans to do... watch..
basically you can see what will happen to you if this administration does what it plans to do... watch..
Biden's fault? Of course it is.
trump would've shaken his mighty fist at the sky and the sky would obey powerless to resist, it would rain bitcoin and bubblegum cards and the world would be saved.
Well, you won't have to worry about anybody but Biden and Inslee and OAC types running the show for a while, you sold that out for 4 years of trump.....trump will burn the Republican Party to the ground just for spite and his own ego.
Remember as you blame, complain and whine that you have nobody to blame but yourself for ever voting him in.
p.s. ...if you do happen to forget, I'm sure someone will be glad to remind you.
you conveniently left out that half of the wind turbines there are frozen, producing zero energy, and that is the 2nd highest output for electricity and the fastest growing source in Texas's power grid...
now imagine if Bidens punk ass bans fracking, which Texas's number 1 source of energy is natural gas...
Germany, which is the "green" capitol of the world, has 30k turbines not operating because there is no wind, and tons of the solar panels are covered in snow, producing no solar energy...
so much for the leftist nuts that want or think that solar and wind energy is the way to go...
nothing like taking up millions of acres of land for something that can get shut down by ice or the absence of wind, or snow...
the Cali sh!t was because of hot weather and fires (bad forest management)...
basically you can see what will happen to you if this administration does what it plans to do... watch..
Piss on solar and Wind.. Geothermal is the future, I'm riding that train!
you conveniently left out that half of the wind turbines there are frozen, producing zero energy, and that is the 2nd highest output for electricity and the fastest growing source in Texas's power grid...
now imagine if Bidens punk ass bans fracking, which Texas's number 1 source of energy is natural gas...
Germany, which is the "green" capitol of the world, has 30k turbines not operating because there is no wind, and tons of the solar panels are covered in snow, producing no solar energy...
so much for the leftist nuts that want or think that solar and wind energy is the way to go...
nothing like taking up millions of acres of land for something that can get shut down by ice or the absence of wind, or snow...
the Cali sh!t was because of hot weather and fires (bad forest management)...
basically you can see what will happen to you if this administration does what it plans to do... watch..
Piss on solar and Wind.. Geothermal is the future, I'm riding that train!
Keith
There you go again Keith, getting way out of your wheelhouse. Stay with what you know.
you conveniently left out that half of the wind turbines there are frozen, producing zero energy, and that is the 2nd highest output for electricity and the fastest growing source in Texas's power grid...
now imagine if Bidens punk ass bans fracking, which Texas's number 1 source of energy is natural gas...
Germany, which is the "green" capitol of the world, has 30k turbines not operating because there is no wind, and tons of the solar panels are covered in snow, producing no solar energy...
so much for the leftist nuts that want or think that solar and wind energy is the way to go...
nothing like taking up millions of acres of land for something that can get shut down by ice or the absence of wind, or snow...
the Cali sh!t was because of hot weather and fires (bad forest management)...
basically you can see what will happen to you if this administration does what it plans to do... watch..
Piss on solar and Wind.. Geothermal is the future, I'm riding that train!
Keith
There you go again Keith, getting way out of your wheelhouse. Stay with what you know.
Right... Call up BP and Chevron and let them know they're out of their wheelhouse too. Having a clue would require you to read things other than CNN, (clown news network) and again require you to put your red rubber nose away.....
Toff spends 80% of his energy following what the RWWJ are doing and fvcking up, imagine doing that.....
Maybe 5%...it's hard to miss, it's not like you have to go search it up
Managed a perfectly good 10 hour work day while watching Texas belly up to the Socialist bar, and the right wing suckups blaming everyone but the con artists and right wing Socialists that caused it.
Sorry Todd, but one again you are wrong and Evo is right.
So how does it feel to be wrong to the person you always call an idiot.
from the San Antonio press
"More electricity in Texas was generated from wind power than coal last year, another sign of the rapid emergence of renewable energy in the state.
Since 2015, the amount of wind-generated electricity has more than doubled in Texas, and last year 23 percent of the state’s power came from wind turbines."
Just one of many sources that confirm Evo, does, indeed, know more than you.
no, what im saying is, stop using expensive phones with batteries in them and complaining about rich billionaires taking "awl duh munay"...
im also saying stop taking your boat with a gas engine fishing, and row up river... and if you need to go to the store, walk, stop using gas, and oil, and complaining about environmental problems...
that also means stop using plastic anything, because its made from oil, coal, gas, salt, and buried dinosaurs...
no, what im saying is, stop using expensive phones with batteries in them and complaining about rich billionaires taking "awl duh munay"...
im also saying stop taking your boat with a gas engine fishing, and row up river... and if you need to go to the store, walk, stop using gas, and oil, and complaining about environmental problems...
that also means stop using plastic anything, because its made from oil, coal, gas, salt, and buried dinosaurs...
I have a cheap phone.
Haven't used my jet boat in 6 years. Drift boat is kept on the bank out front for year round for rowing.
The store is about 25 miles away, I go every other week.
I'm sure you don't use any products made from petroleum, you're just that kind of guy.
no, what im saying is, stop using expensive phones with batteries in them and complaining about rich billionaires taking "awl duh munay"...
im also saying stop taking your boat with a gas engine fishing, and row up river... and if you need to go to the store, walk, stop using gas, and oil, and complaining about environmental problems...
that also means stop using plastic anything, because its made from oil, coal, gas, salt, and buried dinosaurs...
Sorry Todd, but one again you are wrong and Evo is right.
So how does it feel to be wrong to the person you always call an idiot.
from the San Antonio press
"More electricity in Texas was generated from wind power than coal last year, another sign of the rapid emergence of renewable energy in the state.
Since 2015, the amount of wind-generated electricity has more than doubled in Texas, and last year 23 percent of the state’s power came from wind turbines."
Just one of many sources that confirm Evo, does, indeed, know more than you.
In 2019 NG supplied about 50%, coal and wind were tied at 20% each. Nuclear was about 10%
worms, beads, plastic tipped projectiles, shotgun shells (getting a lot better at skeet BTW), Xboxes, computers, cartridge boxes, sunglasses, cups, ammo boxes, polymer handguns, rubber grips, synthetic stocks, lots of plastics used in reels, rods, etc...
what you dont hear me doing however, is bitching about it...
doesnt matter if the phone is cheap if its made by Motorolla... or Nokia, or Coolpad, or LG, or anything..
what im saying, if you are going to be a white knight for the environment, well, you need to stop doing everything that affects said environment...
that includes BBQing (both coal and gas), camp fires, wood stoves, and everything inbetween..
stop flying, stop using products that come in by land air and sea...
basically, grow some apples and make some baby food and STFU...
As a responsible home owner I just installed a very efficient new heating and cooling system that cut my electrical usage by almost 50%.
I also added better insulation and weather stripping, plus all LED lighting.
Grow many of my own vegetables, and have chickens for eggs. Don't eat much red meat, but I get all the fish and crawdads I need from rowing around out front.
Those steaks you claim to cook supposedly create a great deal of pollution while being created.
I have several different types of fruit trees and will be planting more this year.
I have a 2016 very fuel efficient vehicle that only has 10,000 miles on it. So you can see it doesn't get driven much.
My 2001 truck had 78,000 miles on it when I bought it in 2010, it just turned 100,000.
What have you done lately, besides collecting blood diamonds?
Texas produces a lot of all kinds of energy...it's huge, has lots of sun, wind, coal, petroleum, even uranium...but only 20% of what it produces is renewable, and almost all of that is wind.
Krijack, I posted that 80% of Texas energy is from coal or petroleum, you posted that 77% of it is...I'd suggest that I am right, and that 3% doesn't make a damn bit of difference.
Todd, no you didnt, you posted "gas and coal", not "coal and petroleum", dont get to count that oil as well, typical democrat, always trying to fudge numbers..
even rowthervr said 50 percent, and coal and wind was tied at 20...
so either way, its 70 percent... but, there IS that 3 percent, that was shown to go towards wind turbines...
Didn't we just recently discuss it...well, if Evo forgot some of the details I understand.
Natural gas
Pro's 1. It burn cleaner than most other fuels. (That's it)
Cons
1. It takes around 3-12 million gallons of water for the average well.
2. That water becomes contaminated and can't easily be recovered.
3. That contaminated water tends to get pumped back deep underground.
4. The fracking (cracking of rock) can create earthquakes.
5. The contaminated water being pumped back into the ground can mingle with clean groundwater and contaminate surrounding water wells.
6. Since NG is frequently found around oil, the fractured rock can allow previously separated ground water and oil to mix.
7. Worse yet, this oil and/or contaminated water may leak into an aquifer.
8. Drilling for natural gas frequently releases huge amounts of methane that is just released into the air.
9. The air tends to be more polluted around the area where fracking takes place.
10. No community would be complete without the occasional natural gas explosion.
11. When the wells are abandoned the collateral damage and site clean up tends to be the problem of the community to take care of...and pay for. Or it becomes a superfund site and we all get to chip in.
pssst'...."jobs"....(in case he needs some help to keep the conversation going..)
I figured jobs would come up.
Major oil spills tend to create a good number of jobs too. Maybe we should promote the occasional tanker running aground or an oil platform exploding as a jobs program.
Let's try to concentrate those jobs on the clean end of the energy production spectrum.
Not that any type of energy production is without potential problems, especially on the scale at which it needs to be produced.
The main reason that millions in Texas are without power is not wind, or solar, which amount to very little of their power, relatively speaking.
Their natural gas lines are frozen, and inoperable, and that's what creates a goodly portion of their electricity.
No natural gas, no electricity.
This is the direct consequence of lack of infrastructure to support their electricity generation, and this is the direct consequence of privatizing electricity and leaving it to the energy companies to take all those savings and make sure their schit works.
The other state that did this? California also deregulated electricity, and that's when Enron manipulated the supply to run up the prices and failed miserably at doing their job.
I still think that the feds need to give Texas disaster relief money to take care of the citizens who are getting fukked here, but the energy companies that are the direct cause of this disaster should be sued into the fuckin ground to get every penny of it back.
This right wing Socialism is draining our country dry.
"No one owes you or your family anything; nor is it the local governments responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink or swim, it’s your choice! The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING! I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn hand out! If you don’t have electricity you step up and come up with a game plan to keep your family warm and safe. If you have no water you deal with out and think outside of the box to survive and supply water to your family. If you were sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are sitting there waiting for someone to come rescue you because your lazy is direct result of your raising! Only the strong will survive and the week will perish. Folks, God Has given us the tools to support ourselves in times like this. This is sadly a product of a socialist government where they feed people to believe that the FEW work and others will become dependent for handouts. Am I sorry that you have been dealing without electricity and water; yes! But I’ll be damned if I’m going to provide for anyone that is capable of doing it themselves! We have lost sight of those in need and those that take advantage of the system and mesh them into one group!! Bottom line, quit crying and looking for a handout! Get off your ass and take care of your own family!"
The folks that support privatized energy, like the good Mayor Boyd quoted above, sound exactly like those who support privatized health care...grossly overpay for schitty services so a few billionaires can get rich.
"Why on earth would right-wing people with connections to the fossil fuel industry lie about ‘frozen wind turbines’ in Texas?"
The answer is obvious...money, and a country full of fuckin morons who believe every right wing meme they see on facebook or twitter to spread their lies for them.
They are the biggest Socialists in the country, and they also are the ones who whine like little bitches about "fake news" all the time...while spreading every lie they come across.
Free-attle and 206-ville could use a good ass-whippin' about now.
Free-attle: "Hey, let's just give all grocery workers a mandatory $4 raise. For no reason. Screw their collective agreements with their unions and screw their ultra-small profit margins. Oh, and let's not give any other COVID front-line workers a raise. Screw them. And the teachers too. Definitely don't give any more money to our educators. Oh, and it's Amazon's fault and NO we do not have an out of control narcotics problem, compounded by non existent laws, of which if there are any laws, are not prosecuted by our attorneys, we have a homeless problem."
Free-attle and 206-ville could use a good ass-whippin' about now.
Free-attle: "Hey, let's just give all grocery workers a mandatory $4 raise. For no reason. Screw their collective agreements with their unions and screw their ultra-small profit margins. Oh, and let's not give any other COVID front-line workers a raise. Screw them. And the teachers too. Definitely don't give any more money to our educators. Oh, and it's Amazon's fault and NO we do not have an out of control narcotics problem, compounded by non existent laws, of which if there are any laws, are not prosecuted by our attorneys, we have a homeless problem."
Toffbluebaugh doesn't care about liberal Seattle, there's fvcking mayhem down in ultra conservative Texas that needs shredding...lol
"No one owes you or your family anything; nor is it the local governments responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink or swim, it’s your choice! The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING! I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn hand out! If you don’t have electricity you step up and come up with a game plan to keep your family warm and safe. If you have no water you deal with out and think outside of the box to survive and supply water to your family. If you were sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are sitting there waiting for someone to come rescue you because your lazy is direct result of your raising! Only the strong will survive and the week will perish. Folks, God Has given us the tools to support ourselves in times like this. This is sadly a product of a socialist government where they feed people to believe that the FEW work and others will become dependent for handouts. Am I sorry that you have been dealing without electricity and water; yes! But I’ll be damned if I’m going to provide for anyone that is capable of doing it themselves! We have lost sight of those in need and those that take advantage of the system and mesh them into one group!! Bottom line, quit crying and looking for a handout! Get off your ass and take care of your own family!"
What I find ironic in this rant is that it comes from a gov't employee.
"No one owes you or your family anything; nor is it the local governments responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink or swim, it’s your choice! The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING! I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn hand out! If you don’t have electricity you step up and come up with a game plan to keep your family warm and safe. If you have no water you deal with out and think outside of the box to survive and supply water to your family. If you were sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are sitting there waiting for someone to come rescue you because your lazy is direct result of your raising! Only the strong will survive and the week will perish. Folks, God Has given us the tools to support ourselves in times like this. This is sadly a product of a socialist government where they feed people to believe that the FEW work and others will become dependent for handouts. Am I sorry that you have been dealing without electricity and water; yes! But I’ll be damned if I’m going to provide for anyone that is capable of doing it themselves! We have lost sight of those in need and those that take advantage of the system and mesh them into one group!! Bottom line, quit crying and looking for a handout! Get off your ass and take care of your own family!"
What I find ironic in this rant is that it comes from a gov't employee.
Seem's all too normal to how I grew up, didn't have the choice to be a little bitch... I honestly find it entertaining to read what he wrote and more importantly how much it ruffles the feathers of the bitches in this world...
"No one owes you or your family anything; nor is it the local governments responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink or swim, it’s your choice! The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING! I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn hand out! If you don’t have electricity you step up and come up with a game plan to keep your family warm and safe. If you have no water you deal with out and think outside of the box to survive and supply water to your family. If you were sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are sitting there waiting for someone to come rescue you because your lazy is direct result of your raising! Only the strong will survive and the week will perish. Folks, God Has given us the tools to support ourselves in times like this. This is sadly a product of a socialist government where they feed people to believe that the FEW work and others will become dependent for handouts. Am I sorry that you have been dealing without electricity and water; yes! But I’ll be damned if I’m going to provide for anyone that is capable of doing it themselves! We have lost sight of those in need and those that take advantage of the system and mesh them into one group!! Bottom line, quit crying and looking for a handout! Get off your ass and take care of your own family!"
What I find ironic in this rant is that it comes from a gov't employee.
Seem's all too normal to how I grew up, didn't have the choice to be a little bitch... I honestly find it entertaining to read what he wrote and more importantly how much it ruffles the feathers of the bitches in this world...
Keith
100% When the power goes out at my place I drag out the generator, start it up, switch a few breakers, throw another log on the fire, and chill.
Perhaps it's all just global warming Making America Great Again.
I saw a picture today of a highway that forms the border between Arkansas and Texas...the Texas side is covered in snow, and dark businesses with no power.
The other side of the jersey barrier has the highway completely plowed and cleared of snow, full of cars, with lit up operating businesses all down the side.
You talking Highway 30? AWESOME drive! You guys are making me miss the south, might have to make some travel plans this summer and go visit some old stompin grounds and gab some of THE BEST BBQ known to man. In Arkansas that is, not the wanna be sh!t in that other state.
Hey Evo, my friend. By now you must be feeling foolish for believing the lies by fox news and other fossil fuel propagandists who lied about wind power being the major cause of the power outages in TX.
Here's a tip to help you improve your Googling and foxnews viewing skills. When you see a "story" that makes you get all horned up with confirmation bias, cross reference the info (read other news sources) before you gut hook yourself again with lies and regurgitating them here.
Don't you dare bring Blue Texas into this Evo. California is leading the nation and is a poster child for successful democracy and economy. You and Frank are the only ones blind to this
The shevo makes a good lunch break read when it's all emotional. Very amusing.
Google facts are cool and we all like the ones that line up with what we want to believe, too bad shevo can't google up some wit, wisdom, sense, humor or intelligence to throw down, regurgitating someone else's debate able facts is bland.
a major fraud detective in Canada that called me yesterday wasnt talking sh!t about my computer skills..
i mean finding out peoples information including court records and past arrests, as well as everything in between isnt just some super easy thing to do...
a major fraud detective in Canada that called me yesterday wasnt talking sh!t about my computer skills..
i mean finding out peoples information including court records and past arrests, as well as everything in between isnt just some super easy thing to do...
Dcc. You're gonna need some ointment for that burn. I better get outta here before peter dan and his lost bois show up droolin, talkin about suckin cacks again.
Dcc. You're gonna need some ointment for that burn. I better get outta here before peter dan and his lost bois show up droolin, talkin about suckin cacks again.
Make sure when the Toronto detectives tell you that for $74.99 you can get your very own Junior Toronto Detective Badge, and give a Venmo account with a Nigerian email attached, that you ask mommy for some money and get that badge.
You'll be the badass of the Puyallup, stick that thing on the strap of your 60 pound pack and get yer strut on, young sleuth man! Wear it around the trailer park ain't no one stealing your gubmint checks no more!
Texas is a 3rd world country now, and that's just from deregulating one single utility from federal regulation.
One.
14 MILLION people were without power, and nearly half a million people are still without power, and as the power slowly comes back on, another cold front is on the way for the weekend and it will likely go back off.
7 MILLION people are being told to boil their water in Texas, but not that many can, because a goodly portion don't have any water at all. I watched them on TV dipping water out of swimming pools and boiling snow in their yards.
I wish Texas had seceded last month so my tax dollars didn't have to pay for those fuckin right wing Socialists...and I wish all the right wing Socialists everywhere else that want to secede had moved to Texas last month, too.
Thankfully that "free" market is taking care of the people so cheaply and efficiently...by absorbing what will be billions in tax dollars that those of us who aren't fuckin deadbeats are paying for.
I was wondering that myself.....? hell, I'm so honest that if I find 5 bucks in the alley I take it straight to the Rainier and donate it to one of the lovely's that work there, plus I'm just barely smart enough to make and honest living, I'd fuckup any scam I tried and wind up in jail, or worse still, have to live with stigma of living my mom forever.
So Rafael didn't have any power, so decided to hang out at the Ritz-Carlton on the beach in Cancun for a week...while most of his constituents were without power or water, and some were dying.
When it was pointed out to him that this is a pretty gigantic dick move...he claimed it was his young daughters' faults, and that he was just flying them down there, and coming right back.
Unfortunately his wife had been texting the neighborhood about their trip to Cancun...strangely enough, her story did not jive with Rafael's, which is crazy, because he always is such an honest man. Very trustworthy.
So he lied, again. Not a big shocker there. Ballwashers, cultists, and sycophants won't care...because they just don't care.
Oh, one more thing...he left his dog alone in the freezing house, while he intended to be gone for a week.
Left his dog alone in the freezing house while he was going to be gone for a week.
P.S. While Rafael was ditching his constituents to chill on the beach in Mexico, his former opponent for his Senate seat, Beto O'Rourke, created an all volunteer phone bank that contacted 750,000 senior citizens in Texas and helped as many as possible that needed it find food, water, warmth, and shelter.
AOC put together a fundraising drive and raised a million dollars in an hour and gave it to five charities in Texas that were directly serving those without food, water, warmth, or shelter in Texas.
Rafael left for a week, and left his dog, alone, in a freezing house.
He's probably pretty stressed out about his incitement of the failed insurrection and coup, so I'm sure the cultists will give him a pass for all of this. Can't do the peoples' work when you're stressed out!
Occasionally... when I was slapping SloDunce around he'd get upset, wash down a handful of brain pills with something that you're not supposed to wash brain pills down with and try to hang that one on me, for a guy that tried so damn hard, even struggled... he just never got very good at internet, I think he made a wise move after all his blowhard trump'g gunna win blah, blah, blah talk and just slinked (slunk?) off to extort cabinet money out widows and milk money out of orphan's in peace and quiet.
Occasionally... when I was slapping SloDunce around he'd get upset, wash down a handful of brain pills with something that you're not supposed to wash brain pills down with and try to hang that one on me, for a guy that tried so damn hard, even struggled... he just never got very good at internet, I think he made a wise move after all his blowhard trump'g gunna win blah, blah, blah talk and just slinked (slunk?) off to extort cabinet money out widows and milk money out of orphan's in peace and quiet.
So Copalis Cabinets started the insurance fraud accusations. Haven't seen Slo around in awhile.
Always willing to do the right thing, I'm sure most of you 206ers will load up the Subaru and head to Texas to help out the suffering folks who live there.
OR
Just sit here and criticize those that are actually doing something.
Always willing to do the right thing, I'm sure most of you 206ers will load up the Subaru and head to Texas to help out the suffering folks who live there.
OR
Just sit here and criticize those that are actually doing something.
Voting for Democrat dumbfucks has consequences too, did you know that? Of course not, you and Toff have your heads burried 8 miles up your leftists asses
Voting for Democrat dumbfucks has consequences too, did you know that? Of course not, you and Toff have your heads burried 8 miles up your leftists asses
Yes there are consequences for voting for Democrats, they just are not the consequences Texans are experiencing.
Voting for Democrat dumbfucks has consequences too, did you know that? Of course not, you and Toff have your heads burried 8 miles up your leftists asses
Yes there are consequences for voting for Democrats, they just are not the consequences Texans are experiencing.
I can't wait until Texas can experience what voting for D's will do for them! Austin the next Portland...
85 million years ago it was hotter than it is now, and to this day, we are still in an ice age...
Dang. That's alot of stupid right there. Sorry, evo, that I wasn't here earlier today to articulate just out how stupid you are.
But alas, I was busy working at MY JOB. Something a loser deadbeat like you would never understand.
Stupid perhaps, but it's not untrue. Technically, in geologic time, we (North American) are still in an ice age. Don't worry though, as the should switch over to a more warming phase in about 10,000 years or so. Unlike Evo, I took the PNW Glaciation class a the UW. One of the best/coolest non-majored class I took. Was cool to think that a few thousand years ago there was a kilometer of ice sitting over my head.
What is stupid is anyone who currently thinks and believes our world climate change is not being grossly and directly effected by human created factors.
Sadly, humans are not capable of doing much more than acting like a nasty virus to this planet. In the end, good old Mother Nature will fight back and rid herself of the Human Virus. We, as a species, are fvcked.
He said he had a "wide stance" while on the airport shitter so that's why it seemed like he was trolling for other shitter homos. Goddamn...the thought of all that schit smell got him all horned up like evo on a Qanon "news" story.
Voting for Democrat dumbfucks has consequences too, did you know that? Of course not, you and Toff have your heads burried 8 miles up your leftists asses
Yes there are consequences for voting for Democrats, they just are not the consequences Texans are experiencing.
I can't wait until Texas can experience what voting for D's will do for them! Austin the next Portland...
Who's idea was it to form their own power grid? Who decided not to winterize the gas pumps and valves? And why were the wind turbines not equipped with deice boots? Anyone who doesn't wear Fox goggles can see who's the dunbfucks.
Who's idea was it to form their own power grid? Who decided not to winterize the gas pumps and valves? And why were the wind turbines not equipped with deice boots? Anyone who doesn't wear Fox goggles can see who's the dunbfucks.
Because Demotards have never done any of that? Just STFU. The politicization and Blue Frank grandstanding here are out of fvcking control.
On a brighter note..... at least trump is out of office!
....things could be much worse.
Will be interesting to listen to the bitching and blaming from Republican's since they cut their own throats by electing trump in the first place, only to have him tear their party apart once America voted him out after proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that he wasn't up to the job. Was selling the party's future for four years of trump worth it?
Try to remember this, when things get dark and gloomy..... you have nobody to blame but yourselves.
Who's fault is it going to be when the west coast is rocked by a 8.0+ earthquake? The demofucks or the fact that mankind really isn't as smart as half the clowns on here act to be. Of course we could do a ton better, to prepare... But we don't.
Humans are reactionary creatures. The reactions rising from the better than thou attitudes on this site make me laugh. I can't wait for the next natural disaster here and half you clowns crawl into a hole and pout.. That's when I'll lace up the boots and kick ya when your down. Seems about right in this world these days..
North Texas had it's coldest day in 72 years and Dallas had a record low of minus 2 degrees.. The unexpected...
Just sharing easily observable facts...and realizing that facts are not a strong subject for cultists and morons, so I forgive you.
Fish on...
Todd
Nobody gives a schit about your leftist anti Republican grandstanding here. I hate Tdump as much as you and probably dislike the extreme right as much or worse than you do, however, you never call it both ways. You are driving everyone away from PP with your Antifa driven dumbschittery.
Just sharing easily observable facts...and realizing that facts are not a strong subject for cultists and morons, so I forgive you.
Fish on...
Todd
Nobody gives a schit about your leftist anti Republican grandstanding here. I hate Tdump as much as you and probably dislike the extreme right as much or worse than you do, however, you never call it both ways. You are driving everyone away from PP with your Antifa driven dumbschittery.
Not everyone, I stick around for the entertainment although I don't always agree. It's always a good roast and read when Todd pecks at that keyboard... It's heartfelt....
Humans are reactionary creatures. The reactions rising from the better than thou attitudes on this site make me laugh. I can't wait for the next natural disaster here and half you clowns crawl into a hole and pout.. That's when I'll lace up the boots and kick ya when your down. Seems about right in this world these days..
Keith
You could have just said..
When it gets too tough for everyone else, it's just about right for me.
You really are that stupid, take off the Fox goggles and see the light. No one is saying this isn't a natural disaster, what is being said is Texas did nothing to mitigate it's effects. Failure to prepare rests on the shoulders of the Texas lawmakers, which in this case they are Republicans. Quick turn on Fox News and see what you should be thinking.
This happened a decade ago in Texas, they were told in no uncertain terms that their grid is not up to the task of providing power in times of extreme cold...but they ignored the advice, pocketed the money, and now are reaping what they sowed.
It's about as "unforeseen" as Trump's insurrection, when he told his crowd of ballwashers to walk up to the Capitol and fight.
You really are that stupid, take off the Fox goggles and see the light. No one is saying this isn't a natural disaster, what is being said is Texas did nothing to mitigate it's effects. Failure to prepare rests on the shoulders of the Texas lawmakers, which in this case they are Republicans. Quick turn on Fox News and see what you should be thinking.
IllaBotToff, why don't you stop accusing me of following dipschit media and I won't get your screen name permanently changed......deal?
But hey, forget all that, just two more weeks to flatten the curve, triple mask up and shove the anal swab up my ass, amirite fellow liberals?
Every little bit helps. The door knob sucking and fart sniffing Right can keep doing just that......licking more door knobs while we follow science and facts and mask the Fvck up with our plugs in. It's a Darwanian juxtaposition that I support
You mean except for the 494K Americans dead from Covid. And not a single one of there were steelheaders!!!!
Again mostly false. 494K Americans died while having COVID, it doesn't mean that is what killed them. The overwhelming majority had underlying conditions. Every person who dies is tested for COVID but just because someone dies in a car accident or something doesn't mean COVID did it. The average age of death for a COVID case is higher than the average age of death. Really makes you think, or maybe it doesn't.
659K Americans die each year of heart disease. Maybe we should shut down society that way they won't clog their arteries with greaseball McDonalds. 599K Americans die each year of Cancer. Maybe we should shut down society that way toxins and pollutants won't work their way into the human population and also shut down breweries, distilleries, wineries and tobacco farms too.
If you think the 494K Americans who died with but not necessarily of, Covid, was worth shutting down society for and the 1.2 million Americans who die of heart disease and cancer isn't, we'll then you are a special kind of stupid.
Imagine if you will a disease so deadly that you have to take a test to find out if you even have it, that disease is a lung disease and mouth swabs don't work so you have to take an anal swab test instead because your a$$hole is proximate to your lungs and your mouth isn't. Alex, what are things that even Bitch G wouldn't even believe? Inter-dimensional gnomes are more believable. This is almost like a test to see which people are so hopelessly brainwashed that they will belive anything. Fvck they could come out tomorrow and say up is down, the sky is green, rain falls up from the Earth to the sky, ice is hot, fires are freezing and it still would be more believable than the COVID hysteria and panic.
My faith in humanity has never been lower. At this point when a masktard screeches at me to wear a mask and says "Are you trying to kill us all?" I just answer with a simple "yes." This is not just deadpan humor. If you are that dumb and gullible, I kind of do want you dead that way your stupid hysterics doesn't menace the entire society. Years from now, I want all you masktards to look back on this time period and be ashamed of yourselves. I'm sure you will, if you remember it at all.
But hey, forget all that, lets censor actual doctors and scientists who are trying to inject realism into the conversation, the Silicon Valley Billionaire college drop who censors the actual doctors just know more, so any skeptics better just shut their mouth before Silicon Valley Billionaires shut it for you, but that's totally not fascism, it's just two more weeks to flatten the curve, so shut up, triple mask up and shove the anal swab up your ass, amirite fellow liberals?
Seems like you took a page right of the prior administration's play book.
Let's use alternative "facts" that started as memes, circulated by the under educated and cognitively challenged segment of the population. Luckily they were outnumbered by 7 million.
Again mostly false. 494K Americans died while having COVID, it doesn't mean that is what killed them. The overwhelming majority had underlying conditions.
By that logic, birth is ultimately the root cause of all deaths. ha.
Alrightythen, obviously the only thing this mess is missing ...is evo.
Set the Tejas power record straight and dispel any myths about preferred dog food brand, as long as he doesn't compare the dogfood to his sisters pussy I'll defer to his wisdom and will not argue.
Let's use alternative "facts" that started as memes, circulated by the under educated and cognitively challenged segment of the population. Luckily they were outnumbered by 7 million.
Saying something is factually incorrect and demonstrating something is factually incorrect are two different things. Just like making a point in your post or making a pointless post are two different things. Or also like dying WITH covid and dying FROM covid are two different things.
I can almost guarantee you that I am more educated and have a higher IQ than you do. So instead of getting in a education or IQ dick measuring contest, why don't you just simply explain why I'm incorrect if you are so much more educated and intelligent than I. But you won't because then instead of making baseless claims about factual correctness, my education and intelligence, you know damn well that I'd be able to pick apart whatever bullsh!t you're able to string together. The smartest thing you've ever posted is that quote in your tagline.
The listed cause of death aspect has been beaten to death, and started early on. Yes, in some states they were required to list it if someone had covid when they died. This led to people dying in a car accident and also being counted on the covid list. When states went back and adjusted the count it typically only removed a handful of deaths that were incorrect.
The deniers also went after death certificates that listed heart failure, pneumonia, blood clots, and other things as being fake covid deaths. They overlooked the fact that this is how covid kills you, your body can fail in many different ways from symptoms of covid. Covid is the cause of these other ailments, but the virus didn't actually kill you.
And many covid deaths went unreported due to no testing being done, mostly in the elderly. Globally this is probably a much bigger problem.
I know quite a few people that have had it, some that you would have expected to have complications didn't. Others that wouldn't be on a high risk list died.
The US has handled it terribly because stupid people following a narcissistic refused to even follow some rather simple precautions.
It was obvious after traveling through states that did or didn't follow recommendations, then looking at the infection rates.
If you refuse to look at, or accept the data, then yes, none of it makes sense.
Countries that immediately went into lockdown and followed far sticker guidelines than what were suggested in the US have faired far better. They either didn't have much of an outbreak, or it was under control quickly. Now they're living in a way that while not exactly back to normal, is very close.
You claim to be smart, I don't make any claims. Because the perception of one's self are all too frequently wrong.
Being not stupid is far more important than being a genius.
It's ok if some of you ballwashers and cultists are confused, even a fuckin genius like Donald, Jr., gets confused sometimes...like how he thinks the Governor of Texas...who has recently been the head of the Republican Governors Association...is a Democrat.
The death rates are skewed because locations that had early outbreaks had much higher death rates due to not knowing much about how to deal with the symptoms.
Plus many of these locations have populations that are far more susceptible to getting it, and dying. Blacks and Hispanics in particular, then add in that they are more likely to be low income frontline workers.
Again, deniers just look for "facts" that confirm their bias. It doesn't matter how you come up with "facts" if they fit what you want to believe.
I travel through Idaho, Utah and California frequently, I can tell you from first hand experience that there is a huge difference in how people follow the meager recommended safety protocols.
Wearing a mask in much of Utah can get you run out of town.
Actually I respect Fauci, don't care much for Inslee, the state could easily do much better.
Getting mad and slinging insults doesn't make your opinion any more correct, but is standard procedure on the DS when when what you say doesn't add up.
Your entire worldview is based on hating right wingers, you are not smart or morally superior, you just look at people different from you and hate them so just do the opposite. Fvcking little obedient bitch, tow the party line no matter what. Your contempt of republicans and rural people shows and it's disgusting. You are a small minded nasty intolerant hateful person. You are not morally superior and are unironically more of a bad person then the people you rabidly hate. I don't hate you but actually just feel sorry for you. Congrats?
All the most outrageous generalizations and stereotyping on the DS are pretty much always from Conservitards and they are always like this.
Show me a single rant from Todd or any of the libtards that comes close to the one above.
Show me a single rant from Todd or any of the libtards that comes close to the one above.
Have you even READ this thread? If that doesn't do it for you, look through his posts.
Also, I'm not a conservative in any way shape or form. They are just as bad as the liberals, only there aren't as many of them in this echo chamber.
Ya. Have read it. Show me where Todd goes all Freud on the “other” political group like you did...PLEASE
Todd has 20,000 posts. He doesn't do long ones, just short little ones like the Blue Frank he is. Just paste all his posts together and it's one long rant. I just pack my posts tighter instead of ranting all over this forum all day every day in multiple threads. You get the same amount of sh!tposting but with Todd it's like going to the local farmers market every day and for me it's more like going to Costco once a month. He might not have the same depth of knowledge on psychology that I do so he might not mention Freud specifically.
It sounds like you know more about Todd and other leftists than they know about themselves. Either you are right, or a total narcissistic PoS. I’ll go with PoS.
I don't need to respond to anything in your posts, or add anything to the conversation. Your ramblings say everything anyone needs to know about how accurately your mind works.
At $300 per hour I think she's undercharging you, doesn't seem worth it.
It sounds like you know more about Todd and other leftists than they know about themselves. Either you are right, or a total narcissistic PoS. I’ll go with PoS.
If you only knew how much of a POS I am and how much I hold back, you would know what a good bet that is. I'd tell you all about how much of a POS I am but the list is so long, where do you even start?
Have you considered the possibility that I'm a POS and I am also right? Those are two different things that could be true at the same time. But yeah, definitely go with POS, that's almost an absolute certainty. You're not as much of a dumba$$ as you originally came off as. See this is me changing my opinion based on data. Something Maskdarvr has never done.
I'm sure that there are those who would say that I am completely insane, however narcissism is the wrong tree to be barking up. According to my wife who is a Psychologist, I trend more towards antisocial personality disorder and schizoid personality disorder, not narcissistic personality disorder. She says I trend towards that as a personality trait or a quirk, not as a full blown disorder. She knows me better than everyone else and frequently shows contempt towards me, so I trust her judgement. (Yes, I purposely spelled it the way Todd doesn't like, take THAT!).
I stopped reading the posts, just quickly scanned them and saw buzz words and phrases that were either hoaxer propaganda and/or just response generators.
I trolled that river comment, it was very contrary to my actual opinion.
But somebody not knowing better may have been confused. Maybe not paying attention to what had been said, or those poor cognative skills played a part.
Most of what you offered in these posts was messed up data and selective quotes taken out of context. And I'm sure that being the brilliant person that you are, you knew that.
A responsible member of society wouldn't have those views, or behave in the manor you appear to suggest.
The death rates are skewed because locations that had early outbreaks had much higher death rates due to not knowing much about how to deal with the symptoms.
I think that the overall death rate is more illustrative because it smooths out the spikes and small weekly fluctuations. But OK, lets run the numbers. This is the total deaths per 100,000 over the last 7 days as reported by the CDC as of today. This controls for early outbreaks.
Strict Lockdown:
NJ .63 NY .65 CA .86
Average: .71
No Lockdown:
AR .60 IO .51 NB .33 ND .13 SD .36 UT .29 WY .35
Average: .36
Short mild lockdown:
TX .46 FA .80
Average: .63
So again, even if we look at the rolling 7 day death count of today instead of the total. There is zero evidence that the lockdowns helped according to the data.
Originally Posted By: ondarvr
Plus many of these locations have populations that are far more susceptible to getting it, and dying. Blacks and Hispanics in particular, then add in that they are more likely to be low income frontline workers.
Really, weren't you just going on about those dumb rural idiots in Eastern Washington and Spokane? I didn't realize it is such a hotbed of Blacks and Hispanics. I guess there aren't any blacks or hispanics in Florida or Texas either, strange. Racist virus, totally debunked the whole thing.
Why are the top 10 counties with worst death rates per capita all in heavily white rural counties?
Blacks and Hispanics are most likely to be doctors and nurses? Strange, most of them that I see are white. Got any data to back up this claim?
Anyway, prove you claim that the Blacks and Hispanics are causing this by adding these demographics to the analysis. I'm not going to because I'm not a racist piece of sh!t that makes ridiculous claims about people of color.
Also prove that low income is correlated with COVID, because the primary victims, the elderly, are the most wealthy demographic in America. If you really cared about poverty you wouldn't be creating more of it by having lockdowns.
Originally Posted By: ondarvr
Again, deniers just look for "facts" that confirm their bias. It doesn't matter how you come up with "facts" if they fit the what you want to believe.
Do you have a better source of data that the CDC and the department of health and human services? Why do you put quotes around facts?
Originally Posted By: ondarvr
I travel through Idaho, Utah and California frequently, I can tell you from first hand experience that there is a huge difference in how people follow the meager recommended safety protocols.
I regularly travel through those states plus Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Wyoming. I have driven through all of them during the pandemic. I agree with this observation but I've notice the places that don't follow the safety protocols have less death and hospitalizations that the places that do. So how much of a help are your "safety precautions." If you really cared, you wouldn't travel.
Originally Posted By: ondarvr
Wearing a mask in much of Utah can get you run out of town.
Yes, now explain their low death rates? Must not have any blacks or hispanics around, huh?
In summary, maskdarvr is an insufferable bitch who can't back up what he says and literally cannot stop gagging on Fauci's balls and Inslee's cock.
Care to admit that you didn't bother to review the data before calling me uneducated and stupid and were just relying on stupid opinions you heard on the news or facebook or shall we continue? You didn't come up with your opinion by looking at data, someone else told you what your opinion should be and like the little corksucker you are you slurped it down with out even looking at the data, right? So STFU with your stupid opinion that someone else gave you. If I want to hear your opinion I'll give it to you and we can just cut the mainstream media and social media out of it.
Contrarian thinker, it's likely the number one trait to a Genius.. Nothing wrong with going against the grain with some logic.
Don't kid yourself, a very large part of this world are followers. They have always lived life preaching what they've been told and regurgitating garbage at times. Sort of reminds me of the years of debates in regards to Climate change, according to John Kerry we have til 2030.... It's funny how it all ends in fear mongering.
How dare you step up with a LOGICAL submission, now it's your time to be hung on the cross!
Speaking of climate change, guess who's getting a first hand reality check? Texas, and by virtue of their stellar Republican state and federal leadership are now stuck in a blizzard with no power or water. Well played.
I think you are confusing theory with fact. If you cannot logically refute a "theory", with actual factual data or some basic logic, it is then "fact" and not theory. A theory is the current best explanation for the facts that are available, subject to change as new data is developed.
I worked and saved for too many years to have my soon to be retirement ruined because I was a "you can't make me" fool. Or from someone that is.
Some get the the hoax flue and do fine, some die, others have life long disabilities from it. I know people that ended up in all three categories.
If all I need to do is wear a mask and follow a few simple precautions for a while, it doesn't seem like I'm giving up up too many of rights as a citizen.
extremehead, the problem I see with your Covid breakdown is that it is a state by state comparison. This is easiest because they report the stats by state. I think that if you looked at population centers you would see that the high density of people in some locations makes the death rate higher, obviously. So I think pretending that a shutdown in the town of Fukit Missouri is comparable to a shutdown in NYC is illogical.
You are a logical guy and I appreciate your effort at making your point. I just don’t think the comparison works.
I think you are confusing theory with fact. If you cannot logically refute a "theory", with actual factual data or some basic logic, it is then "fact" and not theory. A theory is the current best explanation for the facts that are available, subject to change as new data is developed.
2+2 is "factually" 4.
Many arguments such as covid and climate change are based on the best knowledge in the moment, but certainly not fact... If it were fact, there would have been zero change in how to treat or address the issue at hand.
Just like the world sees it, they see the moment and think if that's how it is now, that's fact when reality is it's the best theory or guess in the moment based on the current information available.
Speaking of climate change, guess who's getting a first hand reality check? Texas, and by virtue of their stellar Republican state and federal leadership are now stuck in a blizzard with no power or water. Well played.
You really are narrow minded and can't see out of the box your in. They set records for the lowest temperatures in many areas since man has been recording it. It happens and man kind learns from it.
I can assure you the CR has had catostrophic flooding events before white man settled here, it will happen again. Should we just chalk that up to climate change when it happens, I'm certain you will.
Winter storm blackouts plagued Texas in 2011, too. Recommendations made afterward went unenforced. Did you read that Keith, or are you stuck in a box? If you continue to get your opinions from confirmation bias news sources you'll never get out of that stupid box.
Winter storm blackouts plagued Texas in 2011, too. Recommendations made afterward went unenforced. Did you read that Keith, or are you stuck in a box? If you continue to get your opinions from confirmation bias news sources you'll never get out of that stupid box.
6 P's of life.. Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. It's apparent every state of the Union could reference those 6 P's at one time or another. Quit acting like it's just Texas that has issues. Every year there's something wrong with a state somewhere. I get so sick of the negativity and the I'm better than thou persona.
Look how retarded the West Coast looked to the nation when the media made it seem as if half of Oregon burned.. We know that's not the fact, but lord have mercy on the libtards that didn't manage forests properly to Prevent the inevitable... Shame on mankind for being so dumb right? Do you think we'll log more, prepare more? [Bleeeeep!] no, our government is just as dumb as any....
Winter storm blackouts plagued Texas in 2011, too. Recommendations made afterward went unenforced. Did you read that Keith, or are you stuck in a box? If you continue to get your opinions from confirmation bias news sources you'll never get out of that stupid box.
6 P's of life.. Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. It's apparent every state of the Union could reference those 6 P's at one time or another. Quit acting like it's just Texas that has issues. Every year there's something wrong with a state somewhere. I get so sick of the negativity and the I'm better than thou persona.
Look how retarded the West Coast looked to the nation when the media made it seem as if half of Oregon burned.. We know that's not the fact, but lord have mercy on the libtards that didn't manage forests properly to Prevent the inevitable... Shame on mankind for being so dumb right? Do you think we'll log more, prepare more? [Bleeeeep!] no, our government is just as dumb as any....
Keith
What's truly retarded is thinking man made global warming is a hoax.
I follow Cliff Mass blog at times and find it fascinating. I wouldn't say he doesn't believe in man-made climate change. The data suggests that these extreme weather events that crop up are part of the natural cycle and the media has a tendency to play the global warming card Every time these events happen, which is scientifically false. Cliff has said repeatedly that man has accelerated the "climate change" or warming process, and data indicates that it has been very small, percentage wise. He agrees that measures need to be taken to slow it, however the media needs to stop pedaling the global warming bs for every short term natural disaster that happens
I follow Cliff Mass blog at times and find it fascinating. I wouldn't say he doesn't believe in man-made climate change. The data suggests that these extreme weather events that crop up are part of the natural cycle and the media has a tendency to play the global warming card Every time these events happen, which is scientifically false. Cliff has said repeatedly that man has accelerated the "climate change" or warming process, and data indicates that it has been very small, percentage wise. He agrees that measures need to be taken to slow it, however the media needs to stop pedaling the global warming bs for every short term natural disaster that happens
Yes, I've followed him for years, he was booted from a local NPR radio show he did for years. The big dollar doners pulled strings and got him fired because they didn't like his more reasonable views being voiced on his blog. He never mentioned them on the radio.
Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals1 show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree*: Climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities. In addition, most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position.
Winter storm blackouts plagued Texas in 2011, too. Recommendations made afterward went unenforced. Did you read that Keith, or are you stuck in a box? If you continue to get your opinions from confirmation bias news sources you'll never get out of that stupid box.
6 P's of life.. Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. It's apparent every state of the Union could reference those 6 P's at one time or another. Quit acting like it's just Texas that has issues. Every year there's something wrong with a state somewhere. I get so sick of the negativity and the I'm better than thou persona.
Look how retarded the West Coast looked to the nation when the media made it seem as if half of Oregon burned.. We know that's not the fact, but lord have mercy on the libtards that didn't manage forests properly to Prevent the inevitable... Shame on mankind for being so dumb right? Do you think we'll log more, prepare more? [Bleeeeep!] no, our government is just as dumb as any....
Keith
What's truly retarded is thinking man made global warming is a hoax.
Since you believe everything you read, take a gander at this article. But I totally get it, if CNN doesn't post it then it can't be factual. But it brings another hypothesis to the table..
Just wait until the $5k to $25K electric bills for the month of February show up in the mailbox...for those who were lucky enough to be bequeathed electricity by the Gods of Electric in Texas.
Just wait until the $5k to $25K electric bills for the month of February show up in the mailbox...for those who were lucky enough to be bequeathed electricity by the Gods of Electric in Texas.
Fish on...
Todd
What?!? You mean capitalism doesn't ALWAYS give the consumer the best price? Im shocked!
Unfortunately for Texans, "free market electricity" in Texas has been a free for all for the electric companies, who have been heavily subsidized by the public, and then sells electricity to the public, too...they have been double ass-raped by the fake "free market" in Texas.
It's that good ol' right wing Socialism that they like to call Capitalism so stupid hillbillies will keep voting for it.
Guess what Republican Governor Abbot is proposing?
Some Socialism to save ratepayers from Capitalism.
They are really crushing it down there in Right Wing Socialism-Land. It's like a fuckin paradise.
First they give Socialism to the electric companies by subsidizing them with tax dollars, the electric companies gouge the fukk out of the ratepayers, and then they want to give the ratepayers some Socialism...which is really just giving more tax dollars to the electric companies, since they want to help the hillbillies pay their gouged out electric bills.
That fat [Bleeeeep!] Ted needs to lay off the mac and cheese. Fat mother [Bleeeeep!] slob. Mexicans cringe when [Bleeeeep!] inbred gringos like that show up to get sloppy drunk and slobber all over their fat wives.
Apparently those at CPAC don't give a [Bleeeeep!] about the old testament. Burn in hell.
1. Exodus 20:4-6 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods.
Apparently those at CPAC don't give a [Bleeeeep!] about the old testament. Burn in hell.
1. Exodus 20:4-6 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods.
"For the past few months, a long-buried idea has been creeping from the fringe into mainstream Republican discourse: secession. Following President Joe Biden’s victory in November, GOP officials from Wyoming to Florida to Mississippi have floated the idea, claiming that the time for a national fracturing may be near. "
What a bunch of fuckin sore losers. You win some, you lose some. It's ok to be disappointed or even whine about it, but this secession talk just proves what humongous pussies the secessionists really are. Huuuge pussies.
"Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana are among the worst states for children during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new study from Save the Children.
The study ranks states using a combination of factors including child hunger, access to technology for remote learning and adult difficulty with paying bills each month.
Under those criteria, Texas ranked 48th, Mississippi 49th and Louisiana 50th."
Casual observer here. It appears extremesteelhead is a pretty educated guy and made some incredibly valid points while providing good information what is deemed credible sources. Todd seems to respond viscerally with whatever Democratic talking point is the flavor of the week.
My question for Todd is, are you more interested in the truth of a matter or echoing the propaganda of your political party?
Ever since Blimp Limbaugh passed away, the current events according to Conservatards are even kookier. I never would have thought Blimpy was actually steering the freaks to the middle.
Don't let extremesteelhead's seeming reasonableness validate your deeply held beliefs without checking the facts ;-)
He's a troll who's playing you.
I hope this helps.
Fish on...
Todd
The idea of being an open book is something I embrace. Despite his trolling, he provided facts and statistics whereas you appear hesitant to further the discussion and did not refute any of what he stated.
You made a great case with discussing oil in the other thread, however here you seem to be at a loss. He proved you wrong and made a better case.
Don't let extremesteelhead's seeming reasonableness validate your deeply held beliefs without checking the facts ;-)
He's a troll who's playing you.
I hope this helps.
Fish on...
Todd
The idea of being an open book is something I embrace. Despite his trolling, he provided facts and statistics whereas you appear hesitant to further the discussion and did not refute any of what he stated.
You made a great case with discussing oil in the other thread, however here you seem to be at a loss. He proved you wrong and made a better case.
-FishDam
Blue Frank aka Todd, is a huge leftist and a Republican smear monger here. Illaheshe is his echo ego....It's a weird political Batman and Robin thing.
Looks like those rugged individualistic market capitalists are about to get a nice infusion of Socialism.
At least they are bailing out the citizens (who probably voted for this bull$hit energy scheme) instead of bailing out the companies that caused the wreckage.
Here's the reminder that Texas Senator Rafael "Ted" Cruz was ripping on California when they were having energy grid problems.
In unrelated news, in spite of strict Covid-19 protocols, California continued, once again, to have the most robust economy in the United States. California also just gave back the biggest tax rebate in US history due to a massive $75 Billion dollar budget surplus...while adding more jobs and wage growth than the next several states combined.
Aww. Evo wants to play Internet games. He starts out with an antagonistic remark when no one was even talking to him, and before you know it, he'll be whining about people being mean to him. Waaa...
Move there? Well I do own property there as well as here. What property do you own, evo?
prop·er·ty /ˈpräpərdē/ Learn to pronounce noun 1. a thing or things belonging to someone; possessions collectively.
land /land/ Learn to pronounce See definitions in: All Geography Farming Transportation noun 1. the part of the earth's surface that is not covered by water, as opposed to the sea or the air.
so how do all the "land owners" feel about purchasing stolen land from the poor Native Americans? yall cool with that now? gonna do the democFauciflipflop?
wanna know whats cool about "baseball cards" vs land? land can and will lose value, matter of fact, it will happen soon... sports cards of HOF players never lose value, because most of them are dead, and they cant tarnish their legacy, so they only INCREASE in value over time...
"fishing gear" is a tool, and for me a necessity, gotta be prepared right?
so how do all the "land owners" feel about purchasing stolen land from the poor Native Americans? yall cool with that now?
Why don't you ask your mom? Or whoever she is paying for the land you live on. lol.
You're sort of a dumb guy, aren't you.
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prop·er·ty /ˈpräpərdē/ Learn to pronounce noun 1. a thing that some other people (renters) pay the mortgage on while I go fishing and turn 200k into 700k without effort.
prop·er·ty /ˈpräpərdē/ Learn to pronounce noun 1. a thing or things belonging to someone; possessions collectively.
land /land/ Learn to pronounce See definitions in: All Geography Farming Transportation noun 1. the part of the earth's surface that is not covered by water, as opposed to the sea or the air.
so how do all the "land owners" feel about purchasing stolen land from the poor Native Americans? yall cool with that now? gonna do the democFauciflipflop?
wanna know whats cool about "baseball cards" vs land? land can and will lose value, matter of fact, it will happen soon... sports cards of HOF players never lose value, because most of them are dead, and they cant tarnish their legacy, so they only INCREASE in value over time...
"fishing gear" is a tool, and for me a necessity, gotta be prepared right?
prop·er·ty /ˈpräpərdē/ Learn to pronounce noun 1. a thing or things belonging to someone; possessions collectively.
land /land/ Learn to pronounce See definitions in: All Geography Farming Transportation noun 1. the part of the earth's surface that is not covered by water, as opposed to the sea or the air.
so how do all the "land owners" feel about purchasing stolen land from the poor Native Americans? yall cool with that now? gonna do the democFauciflipflop?
wanna know whats cool about "baseball cards" vs land? land can and will lose value, matter of fact, it will happen soon... sports cards of HOF players never lose value, because most of them are dead, and they cant tarnish their legacy, so they only INCREASE in value over time...
"fishing gear" is a tool, and for me a necessity, gotta be prepared right?
ill buy some "land", when i feel like it...
This is easily one of the dumbest things I have ever read, and you have posted a ton of stupid sh!t to choose from.
Evo has no need for real property as long as he can mooch off his mom and live in her double-wide. Gotta' love Evo's list of property assets: baseball cards, guns, a 60 pound back pack full of fishing tackle, and more old cars that don't run than do. Oh, and two diamonds. His net worth spread sheet must place him on the lowest rung of the American economic ladder. Of course money isn't everything, as we all know. However, who's gonna' pay the rent for the double-wide space when mom's gone?
i went from zero, zero bank account, card stash gone, and 1 gun, to 30k dollars, 10k in guns, probably 80k in cards, 2 cars almost paid off in what 5 years?
yeah im gonna have a tough time...
how does it feel being on the low rung of mental aptitude as you always are?
you are wrong 101 percent of the time, maybe you should work on that...
ill work on continuing to save money, like you said i couldnt do... you also said i was a felon that couldnt own guns, or vote, hows that all working out for you?
oh yeah, and the diamonds, including the ones on Katies finger, neck, and wrist.... and the ones that just sit here...
When I asked my financial advisor how best to prepare for retirement, he asked me if I know anything about trading Upper Deck & Tops. He's seven years old btw.
When I asked my financial advisor how best to prepare for retirement, he asked me if I know anything about trading Upper Deck & Tops. He's seven years old btw.
Lol!!!! This post is one of the best in a while. Thank you! Thank you!
REEVo’s baseball card collection is worth 80 grand in fantasy-bucks. You know what fantasy-bucks are REEVo? That is what stuff costs in your head. It isn’t worth 80 grand USD until you sell it for that.
you clearly dont understand how the card game works... and i could easily sell them for that, and still have sh!t left over...
but guess, what, i dont want to...
ive even started collecting Magic again, and have made a killing doing so...
cards are like stocks, i dont come at you telling you how the stock game works, so dont try to tell me how the card game works, ive been doing it for over 35 years...
And don't give me any excuses that real estate is a bad investment. Over time it is a great investment. Just ask someone who has made hundreds of thousands that way.
if i spent all the money i have on a down payment, i wouldnt have any money...
see when you dont have any money, and have to live like that, you learn things...
ill never be broke again...
when i got to 2k, i said i wouldnt ever go below it, then 5k, then 10k, then 15k, then 20k, then 25, then 30...
now, i want to buy a couple things, pay off the rest of the Jeep (2300), buy another shotgun (2500-3000), buy a truck, maybe take a vacation somewhere with Katie, so 25k right now is what i dont want to go below, and i wont, unless something bad happens and its nessecary...
will never be below 20 tho thats for sure...
and as i said earlier, the housing market will crash... ill wait till that happens, then slide in...
that 30k is cash assets, the cards and sh!t are material assets with monetary value...
I'm guessing this info is false in your eyes, Evo. Not that I care what you do or don't do. time, card prices increased multiple times. The values of baseball cards peaked in the early 1990's and then decreased by 10% to 30% over the next few years. Since that time, the card values have been relatively flat. Many people find this last statement hard to believe, but it is very simple to verify. Simply go online and buy a Beckett's Price Guide from the early 1990's. (It costs less than $10 with shipping.) You then can compare the prices of the exact same cards with a current Beckett Guide.
Predicting real estate bubbles and when they pop is tricky at best. But OVER TIME you can make lots of money in real estate. I'm talking many hundreds of thousands of dollars. An amount that would dwarf your 30k.
I just gave you serious and good investment advice.
no one goes by or uses Beckett prices anymore, they are irrelevant.. the only true price anyone goes by is Ebay sold listings...
card values in the last 2-3 years have skyrocketed, you have the famed 1952 Topps Mantle RC card that 10-15 years ago sold for 200k in mint condition, now, one sold not that long ago for 5.2 million...
a Mike Trout rc sold for 3.5 million..
the Mahomes rookie i have, is a Donruss Press Proof RC that i got out of a clearance pack at Walmart for 3 bucks, that card his RC year, was about a 20 dollar card, mine is mint, and should grade a 10, regardless, raw cards have sold for 350-450 dollars for the same card...
Griffey rookies that were 30 dollars for 10 years, are now back up to their peak area in mint raw state, at around 100-150 dollars, and graded ones in the 10s, are worth 2k daily...
like i said, ive been doing this for a little bit...
Magic is through the roof as well, go look up a Beta Black Lotus in a 9 grade, then scoop your jaw off the floor...
thats actually for vintage stuff, new stuff, is more of a hype market, if someone does good, cards go through the roof, just like with that gamestop sh!t, people buy it up and then it settles a little bit, generally lower than what it sold for...
but as i said earlier, Mantle isnt going to beat his child to death, or rape someone, so his legacy cant be tarnished, like say Aaron Hernandez... his cards were hundreds when he was playing, now is usually just wierdos that want them, and they dont sell for much either...
That baseball card that said [Bleeeeep!] you on the bottom of the handle was pretty cool. Probably not valuable, but my friend had one when we were kids.
you are talking about the 1989 Fleer Billy Ripken "Fvck Face" error card, i have a couple, i also have the Randy Johnson error from that set, that has the Marlboro ad on the screen in the background...
it was an error because Fleer never saw it when they printed it, his fellow players played a prank on him and wrote that there just before his photo shoot for the cards, and no one saw it before they printed them... then they had to try to correct it..
cant just be sending out cards like that and kids getting a hold of them lol..
there were a few versions, a black box version, a white version, a scribble version, but the most sought after, is the true Fvck Face one...
kinda the same thing with the Honus Wagner 1909 T206 card, there are several speculations as to the deal with that one, 1 is he was extremely anti-tobacco, and didnt want kids buying ciggarettes to get his card, 2nd is that they didnt pay him enough, so they only printed like 50-150 of those cards, no one really knows, but only 60 true ones exist as of now...
in 1933 that card was "worth" 50 bucks, then in the 90s it sold for over 2 million, and in 2016 i think it was it sold for over 3 million...
coincidentally enough, in the 1948 Leaf set, he has a huge fvckin wad of tobacco in his mouth...
REEVo, I have in basement a jaw dropping collection of cards and comics in their nice plastic sleeves. I am sure others on this board have the same or similar. The difference, I stopped collecting when I was 13.
I do have a bunch of Magic cards worth ridiculous $$$. I would like to go through them at some point. The collection is still there for me. Every five or so years I go through it and reminisce. I even remember some of the trades with friends and people I played Magic with as a kid.
I would never sell this stuff. It is pretty neat actually. I don’t give a flying [Bleeeeep!] what cards and comics are doing nowadays, but I still have my collection stuck in late 80s early 90s. I think that type of experience is what this stuff is supposed to be about.
Evo gonna succeed from all his dineros. Santa Anna ain't got chit on Billy Ripken.
The housing market, at least in this area, isn't going to crash anytime soon. The demand FAR outstrips the supply and new starts....and it will be like that for looong time to come. There are no more places to build within commute distance of C-attle or the Eastside and there are jobs, jobs and more jobs. Besides....Blackrock.
My property broke a cool mil this past week - at least according to those Redfin and Zillow fellas. Gonna trade it all away for a mint Honus and rebuilt 7hundo. The barrel is bent, but you just gotta shoot at an angle.
Oh, to the carefree days of childish pastimes of bug collections and baseball cards, no cares or responsibilities of grownup life.... Nice to see at least one of us can hang on to their childhood.
One great thing about real estate is that most people are leveraging their down payment. I have seen increases in the past year well over 20%. If those home owners put a 3.5% under an FHA loan and got some help from the seller in closing costs (which used to be common), then they could be in less 5% on a $300,000 beginner home. That means their $15000 investment gained them close to $60,000 in equity last year. Yes they have payments, insurance and other costs, but with the low interest rates, these likely are not much above, if at all, over what rent was running. It's a long term proposition, giving there are selling costs, but its a forced saving, that, right now, is returning a huge profit. Of course, if you are not paying rent, utilities, or any thing else, those house payments seem like a complete waste.
One great thing about real estate is that most people are leveraging their down payment. I have seen increases in the past year well over 20%. If those home owners put a 3.5% under an FHA loan and got some help from the seller in closing costs (which used to be common), then they could be in less 5% on a $300,000 beginner home. That means their $15000 investment gained them close to $60,000 in equity last year. Yes they have payments, insurance and other costs, but with the low interest rates, these likely are not much above, if at all, over what rent was running. It's a long term proposition, giving there are selling costs, but its a forced saving, that, right now, is returning a huge profit. Of course, if you are not paying rent, utilities, or any thing else, those house payments seem like a complete waste.
Agreed and NEVER forget the number one rule everybody; don’t sell low!
REEEVo says the housing market will crash soon, if that happens do not sell. All the people who were ruined in the last recession have one thing in common, they sold off everything at low.
some guys collect cars, some guys collect plugs, some guys collect knives, some guys collect art...
you will all say "cool collection, thats a lot of interesting nice stuff"...
except with me, you say im stupid, and that it doesnt matter...
why?
because anything i do, you will have some reason to criticize it, no matter if its cool, good, fun, or anything, you will just say some obnoxious bullsh!t because thats all you do...
I bought a house at the bottom of the market 9 years ago and at 3.25%, I figured I'd never refinance. I sold that house last year for a little over twice what I paid for it, bought another house that cost twice as much as that, with a 2.35% loan this time...with about $60K in renovations in the last six months, the value has gone up over $200k already (mostly due to appreciation, though a tidy chunk due to adding 400sf of living space to a 2800sf house).
'Course, it's not a box of baseball cards, or a very thin stack of Clevelands, but it's getting me by. If only I qualified for some of that good ol' Socialism I'd have all of that, plus $1,400.
Collecting cool stuff and pretending it is a job, or your retirement fund, is stoopid.
Believe it or not...people with jobs and houses collect cool stuff, too, and typically have more money to do it with.
With a job, you get to do all the things...pile up money, pile up investments, collect whateverthefuck they want to collect, and go on cool hunting and fishing trips...it's not either/or.
Oh, to the carefree days of childish pastimes of bug collections and baseball cards, no cares or responsibilities of grownup life.... Nice to see at least one of us can hang on to their childhood.
Hang on? The MF'r has a GI Joe with a Kung Fu grip on his childhood.
One great thing about real estate is that most people are leveraging their down payment. I have seen increases in the past year well over 20%. If those home owners put a 3.5% under an FHA loan and got some help from the seller in closing costs (which used to be common), then they could be in less 5% on a $300,000 beginner home. That means their $15000 investment gained them close to $60,000 in equity last year. Yes they have payments, insurance and other costs, but with the low interest rates, these likely are not much above, if at all, over what rent was running. It's a long term proposition, giving there are selling costs, but its a forced saving, that, right now, is returning a huge profit. Of course, if you are not paying rent, utilities, or any thing else, those house payments seem like a complete waste.
I bought a short sale in 2009 at the bottom of the market for an extremely low mortgage and rate. The bank couldn't force the paper into my hand fast enough. Where I live in Snoho used to be semi "country". Now it's packed all around me with cardboard box homes on postage stamp lots going for 3-4 times what I paid for a bigger house and 1 acre. I wouldn't doubt that the development man comes calling soon. You want it to build 8 houses on my lot? Cool - I want 3x market price. Then I'm out and will start living my childhood all over again.
im a dumbass for wanting to get to 100 or 150k before i drop 20-50k on a house?
ok...
most people cant even afford to fix their cars if there is a drastic failure, i made sure i was never going to be in that position again, yet im the dumbass...
If you can buy 1200 rounds of shotgun ammo, various guns and other things but cant afford to fix your car that is on you, and you not managing your disability checks and Biden bucks correctly.
I collect a variety of things such as signed baseballs, coins, and such. They are "worth" quite a bit but in order to recognize that, I'd need to sell them. That is not why I collect them. Maybe my kids, or grandkids, will convert them to cash or some other collectible.
i could buy 10k rounds of ammo, but 2 more cars, pay the one i have off, and still be fine...
what is your point anyways?
Carcassman, signed balls are cool, i had a 1941 Red Sox team signed ball with Williams in the sweet spot... sold that for a little over a grand a few years ago...
im a dumbass for wanting to get to 100 or 150k before i drop 20-50k on a house?
In a word, yes. People here have given you good advice but you argue with them for god knows why. I guess you just want to be right, even when you're wrong.
So, back to your comment. When interest rates are super low like now (~2.5% for a 30 year fixed) and almost zero in any money market acct right now, you are actually losing money due to normal inflation.
The smart move would be to take advantage of the low interest rates of a mortgage and let that money invested in real property work for you.
Still, there is one catch. The banks will require proof of employment, which you refuse to get.
Anyone with decent credit and an income can get a halfway decent loan of almost free money right now...and buying property is the best investment ever, period, especially right now.
after the truck, gonna get a boat, unless we can work something out with Katies dad, he already has 2 and i guess is getting another one...
almost bought a square body S10 from a buddy, he had it for 3000, and for an additional 3000 i could have got his 406 SBC that ran low 11s in his 65 Elco, would have put the truck in the mid to high 10s...
didnt want to deal with the installation so i passed..
would like to find a late 90s Z71 extended cab with as close to 100k miles as i can, preferably under 9K... havent found one yet thats near by so...
and no, you cant have enough ammo, i already said ive burned through over 14k shells since November, thats just the 12 gauge... add another 1500-2k in 20 gauge, then the 6.5's, .222, .223's, and .22 LRs which are easily upwards of 3-4k...
Katie gets whatever she wants, shes got a few grand on her in jewelry, dresses way nicer than i do, and i have no problem doing that...
What a bunch of proud folks we have on here..... Interwebz tough guys picking on one person! I'm sure you are all proud telling yourself "I sure told him"
What a bunch of proud folks we have on here..... Interwebz tough guys picking on one person! I'm sure you are all proud telling yourself "I sure told him"
Congrats!!
You must not watch news or reality tv or go anywhere else on the internet, or be an American, or know Trump was the President, if you think this site’s candor is unusual at all. Do you live under a rock by any chance?
Queefer also didn't bother to read the last few pages before assuming poor innocent evo didn't start the argument...again. Nor did she bother to read all the helpful tips some people gave to evo that he rejected.
Let me see if I understand this; Evo hasn't had a job or steady source of income of any sort for years as far as can be told from his posts. By most appearances he's a classic dead beat. Yet Evo has economic assets galore and can afford all the ammo, guns, cars, jewelry, and baseball cards that he wants, while living in his mom's double-wide. Neat treat; how do you do it Evo? Did you win Lotto or somethin'? Things just don't add up otherwise.
Let me see if I understand this; Evo hasn't had a job or steady source of income of any sort for years as far as can be told from his posts. By most appearances he's a classic dead beat. Yet Evo has economic assets galore and can afford all the ammo, guns, cars, jewelry, and baseball cards that he wants, while living in his mom's double-wide. Neat treat; how do you do it Evo? Did you win Lotto or somethin'? Things just don't add up otherwise.
Add up they do not. The stupid is strong with this one.
My favorite, among the baseballs, was from a team that went to Japan in '35 or '36. Joe and Dom D, Tony Lazzeri, Lefty Gomez, Cookie Lavagetto, and a few other good northern Californians. Don't know the value, don't care as it's going nowhere.
Every little bit helps. The door knob sucking and fart sniffing Right can keep doing just that......licking more door knobs while we follow science and facts and mask the Fvck up with our plugs in. It's a Darwanian juxtaposition that I support 
