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Re: [M-Positive} Re: Friday Five December 20
5.? What do you see at the most dangerous political situation in the world today? It has not changed. The steady march of Islam toward taking over the world, and creating a worldwide caliphate of hate and slaughter. That is what our future holds, unless we smarten up a whole lot, very fast, and get every aspect of Islam out of all western countries. And keep it out. Pat ? *** It has not changed,? The steady march of Marxism toward taking over the world..... TBill ? I agree, TBill, the Marxists/Socialists/Communists/Woke/Progressives are certainly trying. They have managed to ensnare very large numbers of people into their cult/mind virus, and they have done tremendous harm to all western countries. And they may very well be successful in destroying the fabric of western civilization, which they must do to replace it with their ideology. But they will never get to finish their longed-for Marxist revolution. Because the Islamists are lying in wait. They are allies for now, both groups determined to destroy civilization, and working together at times to do so. Note all the lunatic protesters in the streets and on college campuses, marching around in their cos-play keffiyeh scarves. The ringleaders and organizers and funders are Islamists, and all the rest are leftists who imagine they are part of some great movement. But as soon as civilization breaks and the revolution begins, the Islamists will take control. They will slaughter all the leftists that helped them get there, and they will turn western countries into Islamist hellholes just like their own countries. That ?is how they took over Iran in 1979, and many other countries before it. Unless we stop both groups, it will happen here too. In Europe first, but Canada is very close behind, and then the USA. They already have control of most of the UK; it may be too late for them to survive. ? Pat ?
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Re: Friday Five December 20
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No. ?He's spending his last 2 weeks in office, on vacation. ? 2.? If he resigns - will Harris give him a blanket pardon? No ? 3.? Who is the most significant politician in the world today? Benjamin Netanyahu, obviously. ?And Donald Trump. ? 4.? Who is the most insignificant politician in the world today? Joe Biden. And Justin Trudeau. ? 5.? What do you see at the most dangerous political situation in the world today? It has not changed. The steady march of Islam toward taking over the world, and creating a worldwide caliphate of hate and slaughter. That is what our future holds, unless we smarten up a whole lot, very fast, and get every aspect of Islam out of all western countries. And keep it out. ? Pat
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Re: Friday Five Dec 27
. 1.? Are you making New Years resolutions? I'll have none of this "new year, new me" rubbish. I was fabulous then and I'm fabulous now. 2.? Are you looking forward to the new year? Very much. This is the year in which Donald Trump will take over the US government and restore common sense. And Pierre Poilievre will take over the Canadian government and restore common sense. And, with luck, the AfD will restore some common sense in Germany. And Geert Wilders will restore some common sense in The Netherlands, and Marine Le Pen will restore some common sense in France. It is the beginning of the end of the era of insane woke/"progressive" politics, and it cannot come soon enough. ? 3.? 2021 was characterized by Jan 6 "insurrection".? Has a political group presiously tried to overturn a presidential election? Al Gore tried very hard, before giving up and going off to tell lies about the climate for the next 40 years. ? 4.? Elon Musk is advocating unlimited visas for technologically tanlented individuals - is this a good idea/ If they are adequately screened and edited, yes. ? 5.? Did you travel more than fifty?miles this holiday season? No. Just travelled to my niece's for dinner, a distance of 4.3 km. (each way) ? Pat
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Re: Friday Five Jan 3
. 1.? Will the reputation of Jimmy Carter change now that he has died? Well, he's no longer the worst living President. That can move to Biden. Or, arguably, Obama was worse than both of them and should have been wearing the title all along. ? 2.? Should obesity treating drugs that cost substantial amounts be covered by insurance? Depends on the insurance plan. In a widespread plan that covers many people, maybe everybody, and is paid by taxpayers or has low premiums -no, it should not. In a more elite plan with high premiums - sure, go for it. ? 3.? What was the biggest oops of the last year? The UK electing a Labour government and Keir Starmer as Prime Minister. Not that they had much choice. The Conservative Party had betrayed the people for years, turning into an idiotic woke "progressive" party just like the leftists all over western countries. I have great hope that Kemi Badenoch will turn the Conservative Party back into a true conservative party, and see her election as leader as a very good sign that times are changing. Meanwhile, though, the UK is stuck with the hugely destructive and dangerous Labour Party, and the truly evil Keir Starmer. ? 4.? What was the biggest lie of the year? Quite a lot to choose from there. The nonsense idea that there was famine in Gaza for one, and the even more ridiculous contention that Israel was causing that fictitious famine. And to top it off, the completely bizarre and impossible claim that Israel was trying to "genocide" the fictitious Palestinian people in Gaza. In Canada, the ridiculous and nonsensical claims continue that children were killed in Residential Schools for natives, and their bodies buried secretly in unmarked graves. Also, that Canada tried to "genocide" the native people, or maybe their culture, and that former students of the residential schools should be called "survivors". And of course in the USA, claims continued that Joe Biden was capable and mentally intact, although only for the first half of the year. But the largest lie remains, throughout the world, that CO2 can control the weather, that there is some sort of danger or crisis because of the weather, and that anything people can do could actually do anything to change the weather. There is a lot of nonsense going around. ? 5.? Do you thinnk the Las Vegas incident was related to the New Orleans incident? No. New Orleans Guy seems to be a common garden variety home grown Islamist terrorist, out to terrorize and kill as many people as possible to advance the worldwide caliphate of hate and slaughter. Los Vegas Guy seems to be an active duty decorated soldier with PTSD and some family problems and possibly chronic pain, who sadly took his own life, and did it in a way meant to attract attention and serve as a "wake-up call" about how badly the country is governed, but seems to have gone out of his way to make it showy but to cause as little damage or harm to others and the surroundings as possible.
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Re: Friday Five Jan 3
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýI don't know and doubt we will ever rind out.? There is one unconfrimed report that the driver committed suicide, but only one and that is not from a reliable source.? The video of the explosion looks like a small fire that ignited propane cylinders in the truck bed.? If the explosion had been a high order detonation of lbs of high explosive there would have been very little left of the truck.? ? ?// Never know. ?Yep. ?The American federal government have got into a comfortable groove of lying to the people for whom they know they only theoretically work. ?They lie and the news media support them. ?Maybe half the electorate despise them, but they don't care, because they have the power. ?The deep state, the swamp. ?If Republicans can leverage this last election into something broad and deep and lasting, there is a *chance* that the swamp will *begin* to dry up, but it will take generations. ¡ª¡ª On Jan 3, 2025, at 16:10, mrvnchpmn via groups.io <chapman@...> wrote:
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Re: Friday Five Jan 3
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýMarvin,Why do you think there is only one report? Why do you believe it to be unconfirmed? Aloha, Celeste On 1/3/2025 11:10 AM, Marvin wrote:
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Re: Friday Five Jan 3
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? 1.? Will the reputation of Jimmy Carter change now that he has died?
Probably so but exactly how is not obvious.? He did a? lot of great things after he left the White House, but also did some inncredibly stupid ones as well - most notoriously getting involved in diplomatic negotiations. 2.? Should obesity treating drugs that cost substantial amounts be covered by insurance? I really don't know.? I have one friend who has been using them for about six months and has apparently lost about thirty five lb - though she has another hundred to go before she gets down to a healhty weight.? The biggest question is what happens if the user don't change their eating and exercise habits, as well as what happens if they quit taking the drugs. 3.? What was the biggest oops of the last year? I think maintaining that BIden was as sharp as ever - though from some reports I have seen he was never regarded as the the sharpest knife in the drawer 4.? What was the biggest lie of the year? That Biden was not cognitively challenged. 5.? Do you think the Las Vegas incident was related to the New Orleans incident? I don't know and doubt we will ever rind out.? There is one unconfrimed report that the driver committed suicide, but only one and that is not from a reliable source.? The video of the explosion looks like a small fire that ignited propane cylinders in the truck bed.? If the explosion had been a high order detonation of lbs of high explosive there would have been very little left of the truck. |
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Re: Friday Five Jan 3
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýThere's certainly no need for it to change. He was a great example of humanity. Yes, if they are being used to treat a life-threatening condition. It would help to have a category for this because there were so many. Boeing had a lot of oopses. So did Tesla. That electing Trump would result in lower prices. No, not at all. Aloha, Celeste |
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Re: Friday Five Jan 3
1.? Will the reputation of Jimmy Carter change now that he has died? I imagine it will continue to evolve in the usual manner as the?narrative adapts?to new times, perspectives and needs. 2.? Should obesity treating drugs that cost substantial amounts be covered by insurance? I suppose not, although the?U.S. citizenry?has been manipulated?into a consumer role over many decades now. When the populace?was overwhelmingly young and healthy, we needed to farm them as prodigious eaters and users of pharm to profit as deeply as possible off them. As the adverse effects of the short-sighted profiteering binge became apparent in the form of lifestyle diseases in an aging population, the money began to flow backwards and the healthcare insurers dug in their heels. Now we have a topheavy and tottering healthcare structure over-invested in everything?from school?loans to insulin to litigation. The attendant obesity is a direct result of marketing candy and tobacco and huge dinner portions. While some have attempted to invest in weight loss in order to pull in the reins on the financial avalanche?until the inconsiderate Baby Boomers die off the insurance dole, many corporate entities seem to be of a mind to wipe hands and let the public look after itself. Attrition will eventually erode the problem away. As a nurse, I prefer healthy?lifestyles to further pharmacological profiteering. This course would also have the advantage?of promoting cognitive coping skills resistant to consumer farming, perhaps moving us away from?our Matrix pods in the future. As has been mentioned, though, this would be a harder course for many and whether we could stay it depends a lot on what our core values are nowadays. 3.? What was the biggest oops of the last year? I still have not seen any zombies even as extreme weather, dire environmental?predictions, terrorist incidents, expanding global warfare, spreading infrastructure failures, escalating disease outbreaks, devolving?social cohesion and ridiculous?grocery totals consume the planet. I am disappointed and consider this to be an oops in the Plan. ("Zombies" is a term I love to use for humanoid social?germs such?as predatory criminal gangs, hordes of disease victims, rampaging rioters or displaced foraging multitudes. I am being facetious, of course, but I do feel that any tipping point of social decay will evidence significant numbers of one or all of these. Haiti comes to mind...) 4.? What was the biggest lie of the year? There is no danger to the public at this time... 5.? Do you think the Las Vegas incident was related to the New Orleans incident? If not directly, there is still an obvious link through the day-and-times route. They are part of The New Normal. |
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Re: [Owner] Re: [PhilosophicalM] [m-scholars-and-scribes] Re: Friday Five Jan 3
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2.? Should obesity treating drugs that cost substantial amounts be covered by insurance? 3.? What was the biggest oops of the last year? 4.? What was the biggest lie of the year? 5.? Do you thinnk the Las Vegas incident was related to the New Orleans incident? |
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Re: Friday Five Dec 27
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Excellent summary of twentieth century events.? I',m reading a book on the presidenrts? I'm up to Teddy Roosevelt - who hated to be called Teddy. Marvin ? 3.? 2021 was characterized by Jan 6 "insurrection".? Has a political group previously tried to overturn a presidential election?
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I understand that Nixon was involved in something?related, but I did not read in detail.
Actually there were major questions about the 1960 election but Nixon did not advocate contesting the results. ?
That absurd Politico article that was posted earlier making it sound like Nixon tried to overturn Kennedy's legitimate election is sloppy revisionism.? LBJ's cronies literally stole his election to the Senate in 1948, and Mayor Daley's political machine stole Nixon's victory in Illinois.? The Texas Democrats were so corrupt at that time that Kennedy's win in that state is likewise suspicious.
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Robert Caro is one of the best biographers ever, and he's written four- of a planned five-volume biography of LBJ, and is a much more reputable source on LBJ and Texas politics at that time than David Greenburg, who is a biased liberal revisionist. Caro summed up his thoroughly researched opinion as: "stole it--and in the stealing violated even the notably loose boundaries of Texas politics."
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The political group that tried to overturn an election in this century was the Democratic party, which kept forcing recounts in Florida's results to overturn Bush's victory in Florida in 2000.? The Supreme Court finally stepped in when Al Gore was trying to force yet another recount that left out swaths of Bush votes.? Had he succeeded, it would have been the most recent stolen presidential election since 1960.
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On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 1:49?AM mrvnchpmn via <chapman=[email protected]> wrote:
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Re: Friday Five Dec 27
Yes, I think Nixon lost the election of 1060.
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Re: Friday Five Dec 27
"Actually there were major questions about the 160 election but Nixon did not advocate contesting the results." Ah. Must be why it came up in the search. Teach me to rush through my research... :) D On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 2:49?AM mrvnchpmn via <chapman=[email protected]> wrote:
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Re: Friday Five Dec 27
Celeste said: " I might retire next year." And Darrell replied: Welcome to the 'in' crowd, Celeste! On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 8:54?PM a1thighmaster via <thighmaster=[email protected]> wrote:
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Re: Friday Five Dec 27
3.? 2021 was characterized by Jan 6 "insurrection".? Has a political group previously tried to overturn a presidential election? ? I understand that Nixon was involved in something?related, but I did not read in detail. Actually there were major questions about the 1960 election but Nixon did not advocate contesting the results. That absurd Politico article that was posted earlier making it sound like Nixon tried to overturn Kennedy's legitimate election is sloppy revisionism.? LBJ's cronies literally stole his election to the Senate in 1948, and Mayor Daley's political machine stole Nixon's victory in Illinois.? The Texas Democrats were so corrupt at that time that Kennedy's win in that state is likewise suspicious. Robert Caro is one of the best biographers ever, and he's written four- of a planned five-volume biography of LBJ, and is a much more reputable source on LBJ and Texas politics at that time than David Greenburg, who is a biased liberal revisionist. Caro summed up his thoroughly researched opinion as: "stole it--and in the stealing violated even the notably loose boundaries of Texas politics." The political group that tried to overturn an election in this century was the Democratic party, which kept forcing recounts in Florida's results to overturn Bush's victory in Florida in 2000.? The Supreme Court finally stepped in when Al Gore was trying to force yet another recount that left out swaths of Bush votes.? Had he succeeded, it would have been the most recent stolen presidential election since 1960. On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 1:49?AM mrvnchpmn via <chapman=[email protected]> wrote:
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Re: Friday Five Dec 27
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Not formally, but I often review my goals.
2.? Are you looking forward to the new year? ?
Same as every year. I will live until I die and will try to enjoy it.
3.? 2021 was characterized by Jan 6 "insurrection".? Has a political group previously tried to overturn a presidential election? ?
I understand that Nixon was involved in something?related, but I did not read in detail.
Actually there were major qauestions about the 160 election but Nixon did not advocate contesting the results. 4.? Elon Musk is advocating unlimited visas for technologically talented individuals - is this a good idea? ?
If it benefits the country, sure.
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I live in a travel trailer. We traveled about three thousand to get here for the holidays.
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Re: Friday Five Dec 27
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýNo. Why wait for a new year to make resolutions. Make them when you need to. Yes. I might retire next year. Yes. Nixon and his cronies took a shot at it. It's hard to say. What would the criteria be? Who would determine it? No. I'm currently on vacation, but I prefer to stay home. Aloha, Celeste Rogers |
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Re: Friday Five Dec 27
1.? Are you making New Years resolutions? Not formally, but I often review my goals. 2.? Are you looking forward to the new year? Same as every year. I will live until I die and will try to enjoy it. 3.? 2021 was characterized by Jan 6 "insurrection".? Has a political group previously tried to overturn a presidential election? I understand that Nixon was involved in something?related, but I did not read in detail. 4.? Elon Musk is advocating unlimited visas for technologically talented individuals - is this a good idea? If it benefits the country, sure.
5.? Did you travel more than fifty?miles this holiday season? I live in a travel trailer. We traveled about three thousand to get here for the holidays.
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Re: Friday Five Dec 27
1.? Are you making New Year's resolutions? Probably; I just have to think them through a little, though. 2.? Are you looking forward to the new year? Oddly, yes.? It may be worse than the one just ended, except that the political instability should even out.? The Democrats made a mess of the past election, and now they are more subdued. 3.? 2021 was characterized by Jan 6 "insurrection".? Has a political group previously tried to overturn a presidential election? I don't recall the details, but I recently read John Grinspan's "The Age of Acrimony," which covered elections from 1865-1915, and demonstrated that things were contentious and polarized then as well as they are now.? There have been fights over delegate certification in previous elections when more than one slate of delegates would be sent to the Electoral College and there were fights over which slate should get recognized, as well as deals that were cut, which on one occasion resulted in the losing candidate becoming president. 4.? Elon Musk is advocating unlimited visas for technologically talented individuals - is this a good idea? It depends on what you mean by "unlimited" and "technologically talented." ?I went back to grad school at Columbia (NYC) engineering school in 2004 for the hell of it, and there were very few domestic students; most were from China or India or somewhere like that.? They were smart, but I don't know how many stayed or went back to where they came from or what happened to them all.? There's always the problem with giving away too much technology.? About then, I met a Russian attending a technical conference in New York, and he spent his time in the university libraries copying everything in his field he could get his hands on.? He picked my brain on the technical aspects of my field, and I told him very little, but it was obvious why he was visiting the USA. 5.? Did you travel more than fifty?miles this holiday season? No; I strained my back upon arrival in our winter home, and haven't been able to travel or work out very hard for the past two months.? I'm recovering, but it's going to take another month before?I get on an airplane. On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 5:58?PM mrvnchpmn via <chapman=[email protected]> wrote:
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