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Yup, and significantly hotter than 120 years ago. In life there are people who can see a big picture and there are those who can only handle one little moment at a time.

As per brent's argument: as december approaches => it gets colder => but CO2 has increased slightly! It means CO2 has no effect on climate! If CO2 had an effect, this winter would have been warmer than the summer! Luckily, unlike brent, people can fit it into their minds that there can be more than one factor that affects the temperature.

At the time the Constitution was written there were no political parties (although they appeared soon after) and several of the "Founding Fathers" wrote against political parties in the Federalist Papers (although some of them later became founders/leaders of early parties). They hoped that those elected to public office would act as well-meaning individuals, concerned about good government and not about personal power. They hoped that ideas would be presented and debated, and legislators would then vote on positions that they believed were in the best interest of the country. I don't know if they were really so naive, or if they really believed that could become reality. At any rate I think they would be horrified to discover that one of the two biggest parties in the country has given itself over to grabbing power for itself, to the extent that they are quite willing to dump the spirit of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, just to install themselves and their pathologically narcissistic dictatorial leader into a permanent position of power. As far as the SCOTUS is concerned it's power has grown far beyond what the Founders imagined, or intended. Today most of the Justices are products of the Federalist Society, dedicated to (or at least strongly influenced by) ideas that favor putting political control in the hands of a few wealthy people. After all if they are rich it must be because they more qualified to govern than the unwashed masses! The judiciary may not write laws directly, but they can strike down anything that doesn't conform to their political leaning.

There is a section of VAERS that's limited in who can report and access it. Also, the site itself contains a pretty clear disclaimer: Link:https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html The people who monitor the site for real issues understand this and are doing a good job of separating the 'wheat from the chaff'. Fools who want to push an agenda misuse the data to convince other fools that the vax is dangerous.

Stop kidding yourself, edited to remove personal attack -- the caveat is too little, too late (edit: meaning in terms of data analysis)

You spelled it wrong. It's obfuscation.

It's an indictment of the Constitution (and its interpretation by the SCOTUS) that it has led inexorably to this state of affairs.

And Harris too. Make room for President Pelosi.

I got the Salk vaccine and got Polio. I got the Smallpox vaccine and got symptomatic Smallpox. A 'mild' case of either Polio or Smallpox beats the shit out of the full-blown disease, and I get vaccinated against pretty much anything that I can.

The image of two people engaging in a "gunfight" "to protect themselves" while sitting about two feet away from each other is . . . a perfect symbol of what the gun culture has become.

The prince has been canceled!

You keep saying this, but your posting history here suggest this is absolutely false. Whenever data doesn't support your bias, you start posting biased opinion pieces with some misrepresented data. When challenged, you say you just posted it cause you thought it was an interesting read.

Clearly his performance wasn't worthy of applause.

Hmmm. It's easier than that. Couple of new photos and a DS-82 sent in and I'm good. I'll get it done this week, cause I looked at riding from Oklahoma to Panama after reading about these guys Now, let's get back to sniveling about Biden.

I don't have a dog in this fight but... I think the OP does his POV no service by his approach to communication, that may well be just language or culture related. The "counter position" on show is equally disengenuous seeming to want to "shout down" the topic. I am genuinely interested in this "story". If there is a genuine problen here it needs to be investigated properly. We all need to know that when we need that reserve it will deploy. * Having said all that without the supporting data as to who the OP is, where they operate from and whether there is any conflict of interest at play, either by the OP or counter positions, the subject will never be taken on face value. * we make that assumption everytime we jump. In the 2 occasions I have had to carry out my malfunction drills all has been well (not Icon). On the weekend of my last malfunction we had a fatality where the drills were carried out but the Pilot failed to deploy properly (not Icon).