What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

subee, MSN, CRNA · Dec 14, 2021

5 hours ago, Tweety said:

I don't know what you're talking about so clearly my post wasn't worded well. I was talking about solutions to the daycare shortage that Beerman said Republicans should address and I said one way they wouldn't address it would be government run daycares. I'd be interested in the solution.

Thank you. I misread "wouldn't" as "shouldn't". I don't think that the Republican posters on this site have ever offered a solution for anything but feel free to complain. I asked one person once what his immigration policy would be and he replied that it was someone else's job to come up with policy, but not his:( ....complaining but not offering any alternatives to what we are presently doing.

MunoRN, RN · Dec 15, 2021

9 hours ago, Beerman said:

There were similar tornadoes in the area in the 1920's. The droughts of the Dust Bowl in the 1930's. Denver just ended a streak of 230 something days between measurable snow....the longest streak since the 1880's.

Tornadoes, droughts, floods....they've all happened before.

If the premise of human-induced climate change was that tornadoes draughts and floods had never occurred before and only occur due to climate change then I'd agree with you.

The basic premise of it doesn't really seem debatable: we know the effect that different atmospheric levels of certain gasses, mainly CO2, have on the climate and we know how much CO2 we put into the atmosphere.

In all of the skepticism of human-induced climate change I've never heard anyone attempt to explain why that well established relationship is incorrect.

subee, MSN, CRNA · Dec 15, 2021

Bad weather HAS always occurred but not in the frequency and intensity that the earth is experiencing now. It's called science, not right-wing blather to justifiy Sean Hannity's defense of driving a Cadillac Escalade because it's "safer" and Rush Limbaugh's 34,000 sq. ft. mansion in Fla. for his and his wife. Can't imagine the amount of air conditioning that place required for 2 people. We are being humbled for our very bad choices.

Beerman, BSN · Dec 15, 2021

2 hours ago, subee said:

Bad weather HAS always occurred but not in the frequency and intensity that the earth is experiencing now. It's called science, not right-wing blather to justifiy Sean Hannity's defense of driving a Cadillac Escalade because it's "safer" and Rush Limbaugh's 34,000 sq. ft. mansion in Fla. for his and his wife. Can't imagine the amount of air conditioning that place required for 2 people. We are being humbled for our very bad choices.

Oh boy! Don't get me started on the global warming hypocrites who also have their big mansions, multiple homes, and fly on private jets.

toomuchbaloney · Dec 17, 2021

Beware the extremist, dangerous and unconstitutional ‘constitutional sheriffs’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/17/constitutional-sheriffs-extremist-dangerous-unconstitutional/

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These sheriffs base this claim to power on their oath to uphold the Constitution. (Although even the National Sheriffs’ Association notes that this oath is taken by every law enforcement officer and confers no special authority on sheriffs.) If their assertion brings to mind the anti-government, militia-supporting Oath Keepers organization, you are on the right track. Richard Mack, founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, was a longtime board member of the Oath Keepers, and the constitutional sheriff idea has explicitly white supremacist roots. Given that Mack has called the federal government “the greatest threat we face today,” it is no surprise that constitutional sheriffs have expressed support for the Jan. 6 insurgents. And it is completely on brand that the 2016 CSPOA “sheriff of the year” tried to recruit other constitutional sheriffs to help him seize Dominion voting machines in 2020.

Yikes. I'm glad that we don't have sheriffs in Alaska.

toomuchbaloney · Dec 18, 2021

Trump Says Jewish Americans ‘No Longer Love Israel’ In Bizarre Interview

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He also lamented that many Jewish people vote for Democrats and claimed Israel once “had absolute power over Congress, and today I think it’s the exact opposite,” a purported shift he blamed on President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama.

Trump is the gift that keeps giving...LOL

Tweety, BSN, RN · Dec 18, 2021

On 12/15/2021 at 12:11 PM, Beerman said:

Oh boy! Don't get me started on the global warming hypocrites who also have their big mansions, multiple homes, and fly on private jets.

On 12/15/2021 at 9:52 AM, subee said:

Bad weather HAS always occurred but not in the frequency and intensity that the earth is experiencing now. It's called science, not right-wing blather to justifiy Sean Hannity's defense of driving a Cadillac Escalade because it's "safer" and Rush Limbaugh's 34,000 sq. ft. mansion in Fla. for his and his wife. Can't imagine the amount of air conditioning that place required for 2 people. We are being humbled for our very bad choices.

I get that it looks bad that wealthy people use climate change denial to justify their huge carbon imprint and mansions. I also get the idea of the wealthy climate change advocates having a bigger carbon imprint that the average person in their mansion looks hypocritical.

But the bigger picture is not that DeCaprio has a party on a yacht and the outrage should be saved for ever increasing use of unclean energy to fuel transportation and big industry, deforestation, intensive agriculture, particularly animal agriculture.

The world is dying while we bicker over someone's mansion.

subee, MSN, CRNA · Dec 18, 2021

3 hours ago, Tweety said:

I get that it looks bad that wealthy people use climate change denial to justify their huge carbon imprint and mansions. I also get the idea of the wealthy climate change advocates having a bigger carbon imprint that the average person in their mansion looks hypocritical.

But the bigger picture is not that DeCaprio has a party on a yacht and the outrage should be saved for ever increasing use of unclean energy to fuel transportation and big industry, deforestation, intensive agriculture, particularly animal agriculture.

The world is dying while we bicker over someone's mansion.

I wasn't bickering over a mansion but rather, the pursuit of an unsustainable life style. I don't know anything about Leo's party on a yacht but there is plenty of hypocrisy to spread around. It requires a lot of trees and minerals to built houses, manufacture appliances and drive cars.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Dec 18, 2021

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The problem is that DiCaprio himself is one of those "big polluters," which diminishes his moral authority to lecture others on reducing their own carbon emissions. While DiCaprio has donated a lot of his time, money, and effort into raising awareness on the issue -- as he did in his Oscar speech -- he unnecessarily hands ammunition to his opponents with his own wasteful consumption. For years his critics have noted his extensive usage of private jets to travel around the globe for both business and pleasure. In 2014 he famously rented the world's fifth largest yacht, owned by a UAE oil tycoon, to watch the World Cup in Brazil. In case you are wondering, neither the jets nor the yacht run on solar power.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2016/03/01/leonardo-dicaprios-carbon-footprint-is-much-higher-than-he-thinks/?sh=21c78fe12bd5

I think it's fair to criticize the wealthy. They do have a higher carbon footprint. Apparently the oil rich countries like Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Araba are the biggest polluters per capita.

I'm not disagreeing with that idea. It's just that we loose our focus on the bigger problem.

toomuchbaloney · Dec 18, 2021

1 hour ago, Tweety said:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2016/03/01/leonardo-dicaprios-carbon-footprint-is-much-higher-than-he-thinks/?sh=21c78fe12bd5

I think it's fair to criticize the wealthy. They do have a higher carbon footprint. Apparently the oil rich countries like Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Araba are the biggest polluters per capita.

I'm not disagreeing with that idea. It's just that we loose our focus on the bigger problem.

That's the objective of the rhetoric about the hypocrisy of the activists...to change the focus and weaken the resolve to make meaningful changes in the way we interact with petroleum products. It's a tactic.

Beerman, BSN · Dec 20, 2021

On 12/13/2021 at 3:55 PM, Beerman said:

Yes, but we need to invest wisely. Biden's childcare plan is not a wise investment, IMO.

"Child care is already a major expense for parents, and President Biden pledges to reduce its cost with his multitrillion-dollar Build Back Better bill. Yet while some of those who receive government subsidies may see reduced costs, millions of other working parents could see their child-care costs double. The new program would act like a $20,000 to $30,000 annual tax on middle-income families."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-would-make-daycare-even-pricier-child-care-cost-quality-regulation-build-back-better-11639084122

Tweety, BSN, RN · Dec 20, 2021

Machin again. Apparently his concern is continued inflation. The demand on goods and services the spending plan will place on an already stressed system will raise prices. Probably a good point that isn't necessarily untrue. Also, it certainly is within his rights to flip flop.

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"If his comments on FOX and written statement indicate an end to that effort, they represent a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position, and a breach of his commitments to the President and the Senator's colleagues in the House and Senate," Psaki wrote.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/20/politics/joe-biden-joe-manchin-build-back-better-covid/index.html