Lisa, we still have rid the US of Trump as President- and that was the most important thing. We’ll get the Senate in the upcoming GA run-offs, so here’s a tip for ya: SHUT UP.
As for a blue wave, I’ll settle for Joe Biden WINNING more votes than any other U.S. Presidential candidate ever. Now draw the Trumpublicans vainly looking for “voter fraud.”
Hmmm, let’s see, Democratic gains in the House, Senate too early to call as of yet, and the trending math show Biden expanding his leads in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada and Georgia. Pollsters got it wrong again, but there are reasons. You can’t see the math, but we know republiturds can’t do math or science. It will be good to have an administration that follows the math and science.
Mr. Teto, as a physicist and mathematician, I can do both math and science. Many ‘progressives’ only read the popular press versions of science, and have no idea how it works. How is it ‘progressive’ to work for the Reverend Malthus’ call to limit the number of unnecessary peasant babies rather than seeking new frontiers for them to live in as Mr. Trump has done? (Think purchasing Greenland like we purchased Alaska, and establishing outposts off-planet instead of always looking inward). How is it progressive to fear change, e.g., climate change, when the earth’s climate has changed repeatedly over its existence? If the sea level rises and floods the current beachfront properties, I see that it could hurt the rich owners of those properties, but since it creates new beachfront properties, how does that hurt us? We have heard the argument that we need free abortions to keep down the peasant population that we must care for, but that still strikes us as selfish motivation. We understand that promoting homosexuality keeps down the peasant population, since sperm and egg still have to meet to make new babies, but again, why is that better than opening new frontiers? We understand that making both parents work just to survive keeps them from having so many babies and makes the kids be raised by government-supported daycares, where they are programmed to be politically correct, and not to think for themselves, but how does that give us a more rational electorate? In Africa, black people are still trying to kill off other tribes of black people, just as Europeans have done among themselves for so long. At least here, we try to restrain that apparently natural impulse. The media make money out of controversy and strife, and so add fuel to any fire they can find. How does that help the public? How is it free speech, if anyone who disagrees with ‘liberal’ dogma is subject to vilification and silencing? We still prefer Mr. Trump for his forward-looking efforts.
it wasn’t a blue wave… but it was still something beautiful. Republicans once again showed how low their standards have fallen. dishonesty, flip flopping, cheating, undermining the democracy and the constitution are no longer deal breakers… they actually seem like preferred traits now. But they sold their souls… and brand… for 4 years and 2 judges. I’m sure they are counting on short memories of the electorate… but I dunno… these last 4 years were so excruciating its going to be ingrained in people’s minds for a long time.
It’s more of a blue slosh but it IS apparently going to be blue. Which is a relief. Now if the Mango Mistake’s handlers will just pull the plug on his twitter account…
As pointed out to you, the changes in Climate that we are experiencing are on a much more rapid pace than the natural changes (due to Milankovich cycles, etc.) that have occurred over the species life span of the mis-named homo sapiens. Even if we stopped all human production of greenhouse gases (okay, most production because breathing and digestion), natural processes would take centuries to restore the GHG level to say, 1959 levels. Why 1959? 315ppm CO2 is the largest value in the prior 800,000 years.
Your beach front property crap ignores the literally billions of people who stand to be displaced. Bangladesh is already barely making it. A large portion of humanity lives in areas that will be affected. In the US, localized flooding results in billions of dollars in damages.
Let’s look at just one aspect of sea level rise on the coasts. Salt water will invade the coastal fresh water aquifers, forcing even unflooded land to draw more heavily on diminishing fresh water supplies.
Another aspect is the leaching of poisonous chemicals from abandoned facilities. Slow but long term.
Oh, and there is an impact on the space program. Oops, there goes Cape Canaveral! Oops, Johnson SFC under water! Oops, those facilities in Mississippi? Underwater, Spaceflight centers in NYC and Maryland? Bye-bye.The SpaceX facilities next to the Gulf of Mexico? Underwater.
You are going to see more systems like the current tropical storm eta, which will bring massive flooding to wide areas not on the coast. It won’t just be coastal areas affected.
Followup to jdeathlogan’s comment. There is only one place in the solar system where humans grow their own food. Next, how much does it cost to maintain just one person on the ISS? How much in say, Nigeria?
Baslim (PhD in Physics, with a working knowledge of atmospheric physics and geophysical fluid dynamics, long time believer in expansion into space)
The rich benefit from the caste system that keeps college out of the reach of all but those who are already well off. They can pay wages that require two or three jobs per household just to keep food on the table, while they keep the majority of the GNP produced by the people who are living that way. And, they are assured that future generations will remain in that situation, since tuition isn’t an option.
The average college graduate pays about $7800 more a year in federal taxes than the average high school graduate. Over 30 years, that totals about $234,000. If that’s divided by the 4 years it takes to get a college education, the government would break even if it paid every student $58,500 a year to attend school. This doesn’t even consider that with the degree, the person is less likely to ever need unemployment or welfare, that more students would complete high school if they could see a clear way to a really good job, and that they would be enriching the Social Security and Medicare funds. They would also be paying a larger amount in all other types of taxes.The best investment we could make to keep America strong is to not just forgive all student loans but to make all higher education, including trade schools, etc totally free, as long as the student is making decent grades, and increase the number of schools and teachers to make room for all who can profit from the education. There is no better way to spend money than to invest it in our people, to give them every opportunity to be the best they can be. Yes, It’s good for them individually, but the country is made up of individuals, so what’s good for one is good for the country.. We don’t, even during a time of high unemployment, have so much a lack of jobs as we have a lack of people who have the skills to perform the jobs that are available- in other words, a lack of education.
Greetings Biden Supporters! I’m guessing you are finally reaching your inner calm place which fills you with peace and goodwill towards all mankind! You can return to a place emptied of anger and hatred! Rejoice!
Bide: "For all those of you who voted for President Trump, I understand the disappointment tonight. I’ve lost a couple of times myself. But now, let’s give each other a chance.
It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again. Listen to each other again. And to make progress, we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. They are not our enemies. They are Americans. They’re Americans."
We have nothing against publicly-supported education for all citizens willing and able to master the material. We have nothing against equal rights and opportunities for everyone. However, experience shows that people are not all equally capable of all levels of education. We are not identical particles.
Indeed, when my mother attended high school, and even studied physics, not only most girls, but most people generally, did not attend high school, much less college or university institutions. I have witnessed the decline of school standards as mothers insisted that their Johnny or Susie was ‘just as good’ as those other kids, and demanded that schools lower their standards so that Johnny and Susie could get a diploma like those other kids.
When my grandfather taught in a rural one-room schoolhouse, he taught algebra to farm boys so they could calculate things like the number of board-feet of lumber they could expect to get from their trees. However, even elementary algebra seems to be beyond the grasp of most pupils. This is not their ‘fault’, and they should not be belittled for it. They also should not be expected to waste their days in endless ‘education’ that teaches them little or nothing of use to them in adult life.
When a young person reaches the point of no further interest or ability for remedial drudge work at a school, that person should be allowed to learn a trade and get on with life. Watering down the courses and lowering testing standards to please doting parents only devalues any diploma ultimately received.
Legislation forcing schools to pretend to be educating young people but really warehousing them while ‘teaching the test’ does not benefit our society, and politicians worthy of legislating should have the guts to tell people as much.
If all human lives are equally valuable, then we should honor all levels of academic ability for what they are, and let those born with lesser academic capacity get on with life at their own level, rather than demeaning them with a system demanding they pretend to be what they know they are not.
And yes, they should be able to earn a living wage for themselves and their families, regardless of academic prowess or timidity. Mass merchandising doesn’t work if the masses cannot afford the merchandise.
We agree with you that publicly-funded education should make all levels available to those with the ability to perform at those levels. This is simply making the most of a fundamental national resource- our people.
‘Equal rights under the law’ does not mean we are identical interchageable parts. Admitting and respecting intellectual diversity should be just as important as racial/ethnic/religious diversity.
studiotyler over 3 years ago
Lisa, we still have rid the US of Trump as President- and that was the most important thing. We’ll get the Senate in the upcoming GA run-offs, so here’s a tip for ya: SHUT UP.
Judge Magney over 3 years ago
As for a blue wave, I’ll settle for Joe Biden WINNING more votes than any other U.S. Presidential candidate ever. Now draw the Trumpublicans vainly looking for “voter fraud.”
Teto85 Premium Member over 3 years ago
Hmmm, let’s see, Democratic gains in the House, Senate too early to call as of yet, and the trending math show Biden expanding his leads in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada and Georgia. Pollsters got it wrong again, but there are reasons. You can’t see the math, but we know republiturds can’t do math or science. It will be good to have an administration that follows the math and science.
DrDon1 over 3 years ago
Benson … How about the ‘Blue Wave’ which unseated an incumbent President?
CW Stevenson over 3 years ago
In agree.
JanaKralovna over 3 years ago
It must be election fraud!!!
RichGierman over 3 years ago
Yeah, well, it may not have been a wave, but it was enough! So crawl back into your hole!
Radish the wordsmith over 3 years ago
More people voted for Biden than for any other president in history.
Still waiting to see if the man with 4 million more votes will be president.
Patjade over 3 years ago
When the news looks grim for your Dear Leader, try and deflect somewhere else.
Flower Girl over 3 years ago
Mr. Teto, as a physicist and mathematician, I can do both math and science. Many ‘progressives’ only read the popular press versions of science, and have no idea how it works. How is it ‘progressive’ to work for the Reverend Malthus’ call to limit the number of unnecessary peasant babies rather than seeking new frontiers for them to live in as Mr. Trump has done? (Think purchasing Greenland like we purchased Alaska, and establishing outposts off-planet instead of always looking inward). How is it progressive to fear change, e.g., climate change, when the earth’s climate has changed repeatedly over its existence? If the sea level rises and floods the current beachfront properties, I see that it could hurt the rich owners of those properties, but since it creates new beachfront properties, how does that hurt us? We have heard the argument that we need free abortions to keep down the peasant population that we must care for, but that still strikes us as selfish motivation. We understand that promoting homosexuality keeps down the peasant population, since sperm and egg still have to meet to make new babies, but again, why is that better than opening new frontiers? We understand that making both parents work just to survive keeps them from having so many babies and makes the kids be raised by government-supported daycares, where they are programmed to be politically correct, and not to think for themselves, but how does that give us a more rational electorate? In Africa, black people are still trying to kill off other tribes of black people, just as Europeans have done among themselves for so long. At least here, we try to restrain that apparently natural impulse. The media make money out of controversy and strife, and so add fuel to any fire they can find. How does that help the public? How is it free speech, if anyone who disagrees with ‘liberal’ dogma is subject to vilification and silencing? We still prefer Mr. Trump for his forward-looking efforts.
admiree2 over 3 years ago
Lisa and her mirages..SAD!
Zev over 3 years ago
The wave is there, dear. You are wearing blinders, just like the voters who refuse to see how damaging Trump was to this country.
ferddo over 3 years ago
No Red Wave either…
Jimathai Premium Member over 3 years ago
it wasn’t a blue wave… but it was still something beautiful. Republicans once again showed how low their standards have fallen. dishonesty, flip flopping, cheating, undermining the democracy and the constitution are no longer deal breakers… they actually seem like preferred traits now. But they sold their souls… and brand… for 4 years and 2 judges. I’m sure they are counting on short memories of the electorate… but I dunno… these last 4 years were so excruciating its going to be ingrained in people’s minds for a long time.
walstib Premium Member over 3 years ago
Does POTUS use Selson Blue for that wave effect on his noggin?
WittyWeasel over 3 years ago
Good call, Lisa . . . that’s all the Democrats have got, just mirages of relevance. :-)
DeepState over 3 years ago
Rump is gone, the senate is up for grabs, and the house is in democrats hands. And you can surf on sand dunes.
T Smith over 3 years ago
Your lord and savior is about to be shown the door… time to change the subject.
Concretionist over 3 years ago
It’s more of a blue slosh but it IS apparently going to be blue. Which is a relief. Now if the Mango Mistake’s handlers will just pull the plug on his twitter account…
Radish the wordsmith over 3 years ago
You still have the obnoxious republican senate to block progress and Biden judges.
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member over 3 years ago
LOL! Flower Girl, you do need to do the math.
As pointed out to you, the changes in Climate that we are experiencing are on a much more rapid pace than the natural changes (due to Milankovich cycles, etc.) that have occurred over the species life span of the mis-named homo sapiens. Even if we stopped all human production of greenhouse gases (okay, most production because breathing and digestion), natural processes would take centuries to restore the GHG level to say, 1959 levels. Why 1959? 315ppm CO2 is the largest value in the prior 800,000 years.
Your beach front property crap ignores the literally billions of people who stand to be displaced. Bangladesh is already barely making it. A large portion of humanity lives in areas that will be affected. In the US, localized flooding results in billions of dollars in damages.
Let’s look at just one aspect of sea level rise on the coasts. Salt water will invade the coastal fresh water aquifers, forcing even unflooded land to draw more heavily on diminishing fresh water supplies.
Another aspect is the leaching of poisonous chemicals from abandoned facilities. Slow but long term.
Oh, and there is an impact on the space program. Oops, there goes Cape Canaveral! Oops, Johnson SFC under water! Oops, those facilities in Mississippi? Underwater, Spaceflight centers in NYC and Maryland? Bye-bye.The SpaceX facilities next to the Gulf of Mexico? Underwater.
You are going to see more systems like the current tropical storm eta, which will bring massive flooding to wide areas not on the coast. It won’t just be coastal areas affected.
Followup to jdeathlogan’s comment. There is only one place in the solar system where humans grow their own food. Next, how much does it cost to maintain just one person on the ISS? How much in say, Nigeria?
Baslim (PhD in Physics, with a working knowledge of atmospheric physics and geophysical fluid dynamics, long time believer in expansion into space)
Diane Lee Premium Member over 3 years ago
The rich benefit from the caste system that keeps college out of the reach of all but those who are already well off. They can pay wages that require two or three jobs per household just to keep food on the table, while they keep the majority of the GNP produced by the people who are living that way. And, they are assured that future generations will remain in that situation, since tuition isn’t an option.
The average college graduate pays about $7800 more a year in federal taxes than the average high school graduate. Over 30 years, that totals about $234,000. If that’s divided by the 4 years it takes to get a college education, the government would break even if it paid every student $58,500 a year to attend school. This doesn’t even consider that with the degree, the person is less likely to ever need unemployment or welfare, that more students would complete high school if they could see a clear way to a really good job, and that they would be enriching the Social Security and Medicare funds. They would also be paying a larger amount in all other types of taxes.The best investment we could make to keep America strong is to not just forgive all student loans but to make all higher education, including trade schools, etc totally free, as long as the student is making decent grades, and increase the number of schools and teachers to make room for all who can profit from the education. There is no better way to spend money than to invest it in our people, to give them every opportunity to be the best they can be. Yes, It’s good for them individually, but the country is made up of individuals, so what’s good for one is good for the country.. We don’t, even during a time of high unemployment, have so much a lack of jobs as we have a lack of people who have the skills to perform the jobs that are available- in other words, a lack of education.
Masterskrain over 3 years ago
BIDEN WINS PENNSYLVANIA, so he is going to be the 46th. President!!! Too bad, Lisa!!
Masterskrain over 3 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPIdRJlzERo
And you too, Lisa.
WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago
Greetings Biden Supporters! I’m guessing you are finally reaching your inner calm place which fills you with peace and goodwill towards all mankind! You can return to a place emptied of anger and hatred! Rejoice!
kilioopu over 3 years ago
Bide: "For all those of you who voted for President Trump, I understand the disappointment tonight. I’ve lost a couple of times myself. But now, let’s give each other a chance.
It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again. Listen to each other again. And to make progress, we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. They are not our enemies. They are Americans. They’re Americans."
Benson: “No thanks.”
walfishj over 3 years ago
Little :isa: are you going to be a sore loser for four years? Or should I quote the GOP to HRC: “Get over it.”
moderateisntleft over 3 years ago
How’d the red wave go Lisa? Incumbent President rejected by a record number of voters. Not quite the resounding victory you envisioned, is it?
Flower Girl over 3 years ago
Diane Lee-
We have nothing against publicly-supported education for all citizens willing and able to master the material. We have nothing against equal rights and opportunities for everyone. However, experience shows that people are not all equally capable of all levels of education. We are not identical particles.
Indeed, when my mother attended high school, and even studied physics, not only most girls, but most people generally, did not attend high school, much less college or university institutions. I have witnessed the decline of school standards as mothers insisted that their Johnny or Susie was ‘just as good’ as those other kids, and demanded that schools lower their standards so that Johnny and Susie could get a diploma like those other kids.
When my grandfather taught in a rural one-room schoolhouse, he taught algebra to farm boys so they could calculate things like the number of board-feet of lumber they could expect to get from their trees. However, even elementary algebra seems to be beyond the grasp of most pupils. This is not their ‘fault’, and they should not be belittled for it. They also should not be expected to waste their days in endless ‘education’ that teaches them little or nothing of use to them in adult life.
When a young person reaches the point of no further interest or ability for remedial drudge work at a school, that person should be allowed to learn a trade and get on with life. Watering down the courses and lowering testing standards to please doting parents only devalues any diploma ultimately received.
Legislation forcing schools to pretend to be educating young people but really warehousing them while ‘teaching the test’ does not benefit our society, and politicians worthy of legislating should have the guts to tell people as much.
Flower Girl over 3 years ago
If all human lives are equally valuable, then we should honor all levels of academic ability for what they are, and let those born with lesser academic capacity get on with life at their own level, rather than demeaning them with a system demanding they pretend to be what they know they are not.
And yes, they should be able to earn a living wage for themselves and their families, regardless of academic prowess or timidity. Mass merchandising doesn’t work if the masses cannot afford the merchandise.
We agree with you that publicly-funded education should make all levels available to those with the ability to perform at those levels. This is simply making the most of a fundamental national resource- our people.
‘Equal rights under the law’ does not mean we are identical interchageable parts. Admitting and respecting intellectual diversity should be just as important as racial/ethnic/religious diversity.