Things Noticeable this week

[Rogerbh]

Obama made 3.2 million on the last speech I heard about earlier this year.

[otokonomidori]

Originally Posted by Greenman

although he has kept his promise

I 'd say President Trump did the sensible thing given the choice was between upsetting deranged left wing treehuggers [ who hate him anyway, no matter what he does], or pleasing his own supporters .

I just hope he makes the Krauts and the Frogs cough up for NATO

[Rogerbh]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...531-story.html
16 year old girl hacks an Uber driver to death with a machete. Just a plain old nut job killing for no reason. Police should just kill her.

[TheBare]

Originally Posted by Greenman

Is Donald Trump living in the real world or is he living in La La Land? How on earth can he say that climate change is a Chinese thing when even his own place in Florida is in danger of being flooded? He has made a big mistake and will rightly be laughed at(something he thinks won't happen now he has pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement) and serves the idiot right - The EU and China are meeting soon to thrash out a deal and although he has kept his promise to the mid-Americans who voted to keep their jobs in fossil fuels like coal, he has doomed America-does this really help to make America Great Again?

The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulate at Bergen Norway

Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone.

Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.

Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the Gulf Stream still very warm.

Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.

Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelt which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.

Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.

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I must apologize.

I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post - 94 years ago.

This must have been caused by the Model T Ford's emissions or possibly from horse and cattle flatulence?

Don't believe it , even the leftist SNOPES says it's true !!

[vinceprince]

Originally Posted by otokonomidori

I 'd say President Trump did the sensible thing given the choice was between upsetting deranged left wing treehuggers [ who hate him anyway, no matter what he does], or pleasing his own supporters .

I just hope he makes the Krauts and the Frogs cough up for NATO

Canute. What a loser. Can't even hold back the sea. It's just water. We're going to be so tough on the sea! Canute was too soft. Sad.

[rewbear]

Originally Posted by snowy25

I remember not too long ago someone came up with the idea that when you bought a ticket it was recorded as being yours. Then when you went to the concert, match or whatever you had to show proper ID to use the bought ticket. If your ID didn't match the registered info, tough shit you were not getting in. I don't know how practical or difficult it would be to do such a thing but it certainly seems better than the current system.

When I buy a cinema ticket for my local multi-plex online I have to put the relevant payment card in to the machine at the venue to receive my tickets. Why isn't this system being used?

[rupertramjet]

Part of the reason for the various excellent ideas mentioned not being used, is sadly one of logistics, each of these methods would cause long delays at turnstiles, entry ways and the like. To me the best and simplest method is to limit the maximum order to say five, not as daft as at first appearance, a lot of games and gigs I have been to, with assorted brats in tow, often mean that they have to drag a mate along for support, especially my female off spring, either that or they know Dad is a soft touch and will pay for their mate too! BTW I was most touched on one occasion when I took my lad to Cardiff, his mate came along and when we got back, the lad drew a large note from his pocket to pay his share! Silly sod! If he had done that in Cardiff, he could have bought himself something from the shop! I of course did not take it! Soft Touch!

So limit sales to a maximum of five, except in bonnafide, clubs and the like, and although it will not stop touts, it might help cut it, and make it a criminal offence to use a ticket bought this way, hard to detect, but the threat might help!

[cicciobuki]

Originally Posted by TheBare

The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulate at Bergen Norway

Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone.

Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.

Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the Gulf Stream still very warm.

Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.

Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelt which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.

Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.

* * *

* * * * * *

I must apologize.

I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post - 94 years ago.

This must have been caused by the Model T Ford's emissions or possibly from horse and cattle flatulence?

Don't believe it , even the leftist SNOPES says it's true !!

And since when do you believe leftists?


By the way, they also added this in their article:

As interesting as this nearly century-old article might be from a modern perspective, however, it isn’t substantive evidence either for or against the concept of anthropogenic global warming. As documented elsewhere, the warming phenomena observed in 1922 proved to be indicative only of a local event in Spitzbergen, not a trend applicable to the Arctic as a whole.

[bloke57]

Originally Posted by vinceprince

Canute. What a loser. Can't even hold back the sea. It's just water. We're going to be so tough on the sea! Canute was too soft. Sad.

Not exactly topical but must stand up for Canute.

He was no fool - he knew he could not hold back the sea. He did what he did to prove his sycophants wrong and that part of the intrigue gets lost in the telling.

(Apologies BTW if you knew this vinceprince. Just need to speak up for the old boy. )

[CARLTON BROWN]

Originally Posted by TheBare

The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulate at Bergen Norway

Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone.

Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.

Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the Gulf Stream still very warm.

Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.

Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelt which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.

Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.

And what is the real cause of all our environmental problems? It seems to be a taboo subject that nobody wants to discuss? Simple. Too many people in the world. And for this reason, things can only get worse and worse.