Arcticdude
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It was 72 here today, 69 yesterday. Supposed to get up to 80 degs next week.
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tmttactical
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TexasFreedom
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Kevin,
You missed a big part of my last post. Get gov't out of 'helping' or 'taking care of' anybody. Period. Private individuals and charities have historically addressed this quite effectively.
You missed a big part of my last post. Get gov't out of 'helping' or 'taking care of' anybody. Period. Private individuals and charities have historically addressed this quite effectively.
Kevin L
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I understand your misgivings, but--like so much in my life--I tend to view the world through my paramedic experience, and I'll be the first to admit that my career choice has warped and twisted me in some ways.
I was on the front lines in the streets during the early years of the AIDS epidemic and crack cocaine crises of the late 80s. I've been stabbed, shot at, threatened, bludgeoned, and so forth.
I've seen what poverty does first-hand, and I hate it. The cost in lost human potential is really awful, and I've always felt that society could be doing better.
I still sometimes have nightmares and flashbacks from those days--especially when I'm under stress--and my thoughts always turn to the truly needy because I want to believe that I can utilize my EMS experience in some way to address these underlying problems.
However, I'm not a social scientist, so I haven't discovered any easy answers.
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tmttactical
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Poverty will always be with us. We can't, the government can't, the religions of the world can't fix people. The world will always have the over achievers, the regular achievers, good enough achievers, and then those that under achieve. Nobody has an answer (as in cure), not now or in the future. I will share a bit of wisdom handed down to me, --- People will always make the choice that makes them the happiest at that moment!!!! . Sounds crazy but if you look at any choice--- get shot or knifed, stay married or divorce, cook or eat out, there will always be a rational for the decision. There will always be a rational for the decision that made them the happiest. That applies to being poor. The only exceptions to this absolute, is children, the mentally impaired and in a few cases, physically impaired, where there is no ability to make a choice. If the government was forced to take the money assigned to care for people and give it to organizations (non-government) that cared for the people, you would see those tax dollars disappear over night. The government does not care about people, it cares about it's own power base and the ability to buy votes to keep in power.
We are under a heat advisory here today.
TexasFreedom
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Kevin,
As UP said, being poor is a choice in this country. You & I both know that the vast majority of the poor could be given $1million each with 100 hours of financial guidance, and in a year or two they'd be poor again. "Society" can't do better because that group insists on being poor. The vast majority of the poor can make enough to feed themselves & live under a roof. No matter how much you want, you can't 'fix' them.
Charities can care the children and mental cases & such, there aren't that many by comparison.
Notice that you still 100%, COMPLETELY ignored my comment that gov't should not be in the welfare business. Leave it to private individuals and charities. "Society" does not mean "Gov't".
As UP said, being poor is a choice in this country. You & I both know that the vast majority of the poor could be given $1million each with 100 hours of financial guidance, and in a year or two they'd be poor again. "Society" can't do better because that group insists on being poor. The vast majority of the poor can make enough to feed themselves & live under a roof. No matter how much you want, you can't 'fix' them.
Charities can care the children and mental cases & such, there aren't that many by comparison.
Notice that you still 100%, COMPLETELY ignored my comment that gov't should not be in the welfare business. Leave it to private individuals and charities. "Society" does not mean "Gov't".
Kevin, I am watching the Netflix series called “Dope” I feel stressed just watching some of it in my own home. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be there in person.
The news/weather people drive me crazy. They treat every weather situation as a "code red".
It's Summer. It's hot. Don't stay out and get dehydrated.
Same rules we have had forever.
It's Summer. It's hot. Don't stay out and get dehydrated.
Same rules we have had forever.
Kevin L
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TexasFreedom
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But, but, but... Robin, don't you know that it is climate change / global warming that is causing this. So that makes it so much worse. The 'old' weather not caused by climate change at 100F was so much less dangerous than the climate-change-100F weather!
Sigh... they are such idiots... but they really are thinking (if you can use that word) this way.
Arcticdude
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They're throwing this "heat index" BS around now. Just like they do the wind chill in winter. Anything to make it sound more extreme than it actually is.
And..... It's the 21st Century and there are actually people without AC. I just went 3 weeks without my downstairs unit in the hottest month of June ever and survived. I actually freezing since it's been fixed.
My husband is fat and loves the cold.
My husband is fat and loves the cold.
The weather people here are falsely leading the sheep to believe the heat index is the actual temp. Al Gore must have gotten to them. He is a local guy you know.
They're throwing this "heat index" BS around now. Just like they do the wind chill in winter. Anything to make it sound more extreme than it actually
It feels more extreme. I have never cared about the real temperature... I just care about what it is going to feel like. I know that they are using it for political spin, but I have felt that way since I was a kid. It’s only 95 degrees, but it feels like 110. Then to me it’s 110.
JackDW
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This is an easy problem to FIX. Just give Al Gore more money and he will take care of it. Just ask him and he will tell you it can be fixed with more money. Climate still changing, MOR MONEY.
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Oh please, have al gore explain these and please don't till me its because of cow farts, I can go back the the 18th century but for starters I'll stick with the 20th century. The g'damn earth has been continually heating up since the ice age ended, this is not a new phenomenon we have been experiencing these heat wave for over a thousand years, to say otherwise has their head up their own ### intoxicating themselves from there own shit!
1901 – The 1901 eastern United States heat wave killed 9,500 in the Eastern United States.
1906 – During the 1906 United Kingdom heat wave which began in August and lasted into September broke numerous records. On the 2nd temperatures reached 36 °C (97 °F) which still holds the September record however some places beat their local record during September 1911 and September 2016.
1911 – The 1911 United Kingdom heat wave was one of the most severe periods of heat to hit the country with temperatures around 36 °C (97 °F). The heat began in early July and didn't let up until mid September where even in September temperatures were still up to 33 °C (91 °F). It took 79 years for temperature higher to be recorded in the United Kingdom during 1990 United Kingdom heat wave.
1911 - The 1911 Eastern North America heat wave killed between 380 and 2,000 people.
1913 – In July, a heat wave struck California. During this heat wave, Death Valley recorded a record high temperature of 57 °C (134 °F) at Furnace Creek, which still remains the highest ambient air temperature recorded on Earth.
1923–1924 – During a period of 160 such days from 31 October 1923 to 7 April 1924, the Western Australian town of Marble Bar reached 38 °C (100 °F).
1936 – The 1936 North American heat wave during the Dust Bowl, followed one of the coldest winters on record—the 1936 North American cold wave. Massive heat waves across North America were persistent in the 1930s, many mid-Atlantic/Ohio valley states recorded their highest temperatures during July 1934. The longest continuous string of 38 °C (100 °F) or higher temperatures was reached for 101 days in Yuma, Arizona during 1937 and the highest temperatures ever reached in Canada were recorded in two locations in Saskatchewan in July 1937.
1950s – A prolonged severe drought and heat wave occurred in the early 1950s throughout the central and southern United States. In some areas it was drier than during the Dust Bowl and the heat wave in most areas was within the top five on record. The heat was particularly severe in 1954 with 22 days of temperatures exceeding 38 °C (100 °F) covering significant parts of eleven states. On 14 July, the thermometer reached 47 °C (117 °F) at East St. Louis, Illinois, which remains the record highest temperature for that state.
1955 – The 1955 United Kingdom heat wave was a period of hot weather that was accompanied by drought. In some places it was the worst drought on record, more severe than 1976 and 1995.
1960 – On January 2, Oodnadatta, South Australia hit 50.7 °C (123.3 °F) degrees, the highest temperature ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania.
1972 – The heat waves of 1972 in New York and Northeastern United States were significant. Almost 900 people died; the heat conditions lasted almost 16 days, aggravated by very high humidity levels.
1976 – The 1976 United Kingdom heat wave was one of the hottest in living memory and was marked by constant blue skies from May until September when dramatic thunderstorms signaled the heat wave's end.
1901 – The 1901 eastern United States heat wave killed 9,500 in the Eastern United States.
1906 – During the 1906 United Kingdom heat wave which began in August and lasted into September broke numerous records. On the 2nd temperatures reached 36 °C (97 °F) which still holds the September record however some places beat their local record during September 1911 and September 2016.
1911 – The 1911 United Kingdom heat wave was one of the most severe periods of heat to hit the country with temperatures around 36 °C (97 °F). The heat began in early July and didn't let up until mid September where even in September temperatures were still up to 33 °C (91 °F). It took 79 years for temperature higher to be recorded in the United Kingdom during 1990 United Kingdom heat wave.
1911 - The 1911 Eastern North America heat wave killed between 380 and 2,000 people.
1913 – In July, a heat wave struck California. During this heat wave, Death Valley recorded a record high temperature of 57 °C (134 °F) at Furnace Creek, which still remains the highest ambient air temperature recorded on Earth.
1923–1924 – During a period of 160 such days from 31 October 1923 to 7 April 1924, the Western Australian town of Marble Bar reached 38 °C (100 °F).
1936 – The 1936 North American heat wave during the Dust Bowl, followed one of the coldest winters on record—the 1936 North American cold wave. Massive heat waves across North America were persistent in the 1930s, many mid-Atlantic/Ohio valley states recorded their highest temperatures during July 1934. The longest continuous string of 38 °C (100 °F) or higher temperatures was reached for 101 days in Yuma, Arizona during 1937 and the highest temperatures ever reached in Canada were recorded in two locations in Saskatchewan in July 1937.
1950s – A prolonged severe drought and heat wave occurred in the early 1950s throughout the central and southern United States. In some areas it was drier than during the Dust Bowl and the heat wave in most areas was within the top five on record. The heat was particularly severe in 1954 with 22 days of temperatures exceeding 38 °C (100 °F) covering significant parts of eleven states. On 14 July, the thermometer reached 47 °C (117 °F) at East St. Louis, Illinois, which remains the record highest temperature for that state.
1955 – The 1955 United Kingdom heat wave was a period of hot weather that was accompanied by drought. In some places it was the worst drought on record, more severe than 1976 and 1995.
1960 – On January 2, Oodnadatta, South Australia hit 50.7 °C (123.3 °F) degrees, the highest temperature ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania.
1972 – The heat waves of 1972 in New York and Northeastern United States were significant. Almost 900 people died; the heat conditions lasted almost 16 days, aggravated by very high humidity levels.
1976 – The 1976 United Kingdom heat wave was one of the hottest in living memory and was marked by constant blue skies from May until September when dramatic thunderstorms signaled the heat wave's end.
most people don't know that Climate Change Al got an audience with Prez Trump - very early on in 2017 - the daughter got Gore an hour or so - begging & pleading to keep the blackmailing accords in place that Obammy agreed to ....
you know how much influence he had ....
TexasFreedom
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Actually Al Gore can help. Book him for BS talks across the country. Tell him to talk about global warming. I can assure you every city he visits will get a freak ice/snow storm when he gets there. God has a great sense of humor.
So last week the climate guys were screaming that we were all going to fry. This week we are below average temps and its going to be 60 tonight.
Funny how that works
Funny how that works
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