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55 minutes ago, paintguy said:

 

Live near not one but two oil pipelines, for over 20 years. Not a single spill on this pipeline in that time, and that includes the length of the pipeline. About a mile down the road, a gasoline tanker overturned and spilled. Reclamation took three years. But the pipeline is the problem... Right.

Think about the myriad of oil train derailments and subsequent fires to go with them. 

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46 minutes ago, cal50 said:

Clown world~

 

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Given that the COVID-19 virus originated in Wuhan, China, and the precedent of using place of origin within the names of viruses, it would only make sense that we would use the term “China virus” to describe COVID-19.

Not Anymore, you racist!

The latest of Joe Biden’s THIRTY SEVEN executive orders signed in the first week of his presidency states that the term ‘Chinese virus’ or ‘China virus’ is now banned."

 

There is no such precedent and actually the opposite is fact. From the WHO virus naming guidelines (2011):

 

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https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwitlJKwz7zuAhWWLc0KHRftBkIQFjAMegQIKRAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.who.int%2Firis%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F10665%2F163636%2FWHO_HSE_FOS_15.1_eng.pdf&usg=AOvVaw1kk7BEqal-jarAD-xrMu-1

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Ahem.... :  17 other diseases named after populations or places:

  • West Nile Virus

Named after the West Nile District of Uganda discovered in 1937.

  • Guinea Worm

Named by European explorers for the Guinea coast of West Africa in the 1600s.

  • Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Named after the mountain range spreading across western North America first recognized first in 1896 in Idaho.

  • Lyme Disease

Named after a large outbreak of the disease occurred in Lyme and Old Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s.

  • Ross River Fever

Named after a mosquito found to cause the disease in the Ross River of Queensland, Australia by the 1960s. The first major outbreak occurred in 1928.

  • Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever

Named after its 1940s discovery in Omsk, Russia.

  • Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever

Named in 1976 for the Ebola River in Zaire located in central Africa.

  • Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)

Also known as “camel flu,” MERS was first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and all cases are linked to those who traveled to the Middle Eastern peninsula.

  • Valley Fever

Valley Fever earned its nickname from a 1930s outbreak San Joaquin Valley of California, though its first case came from Argentina.

  • Marburg Virus Disease

Named after Marburg, Germany in 1967.

  • Norovirus

Named after Norwalk, Ohio after an outbreak in 1968.

  • Zika Fever

First discovered in 1947 and named after the Zika Forest in Uganda.

  • Japanese Encephalitis

Named after its first case in Japan in 1871.

  • German Measles

Named after the German doctors who first described it in the 18th century. The disease is also sometimes referred to as “Rubella.”

  • Spanish Flu

While the true origins of the Spanish Flu remain unknown, the disease earned its name after Spain began to report deaths from the flu in its newspapers.

  • Lassa Fever

Named after the being found in Lassa, Nigeria in 1969.

  • Legionnaire’s Disease

Named in 1976 following an outbreak of people contracting the lung infection after attending an American Legion convention in Philadelphia.

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I don't care what Biden says we have to call the disease.  I call it exactly what it is:  Communist Chinese Wuhan Flu (CCP Wuflu).  Somehow, when I say CCP Wuflu, everyone knows exactly what I am talking about.  So apparently, everyone else knows exactly what it is.

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What's up with Harris/Biden's massive frontal assault on everything that is great about driving in America?

She/He is going to destroy:

-Awesome V8 Engines

-Any vehicle that can tow

-The RV Industry

-The great American road trip - who on earth is going to drive across Utah towing 7000lbs of RV with nothing on the front or backside of you for hundreds of miles using Chinese batteries?

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As far as the Great American Roadie:

Big Brother does not like someone being self sustained in the middle of nowhere - no signal to track your every move. Killing the RV and road trip is part of the big plan...nobody goes anywhere unless big tech and their BFF the government knows exactly; where you are, and when, and why...

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4 hours ago, fuzzymoomoo said:

Think about the myriad of oil train derailments and subsequent fires to go with them. 


And I say this as a big rail fan and supporter of shipping via railroads. Way more efficient than most other shipping methods. I've had enough of oil train fires. Enough is enough. 

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8 hours ago, valve said:

 

Really... is there any accountability in or what the World (Chinese) Health Organization states or publishes? 

Seriously then you go to Google? everything on the internet is factual and truthful...  

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7 hours ago, Kev-Mo said:

As far as the Great American Roadie:

Big Brother does not like someone being self sustained in the middle of nowhere - no signal to track your every move. Killing the RV and road trip is part of the big plan...nobody goes anywhere unless big tech and their BFF the government knows exactly; where you are, and when, and why...

 

Check out Harley`s attempt to move their repetition of a freedom machine to a green machine..... (can`t give the dam things away)

I never understood how the corporate decision makers could think 94 miles then 10 to 12 hours of down time would fit the open road freedom one gets from stopping every 120 miles or so and getting back on the road for another 120 miles.

I think I`m to old to understand that my shovel or block head is the cause of all the gloom and doom those in LaLaLanders always talk about. I find relief in being to old to understand those LaLa issues while sitting on a 1974 FLH.   

 

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6 hours ago, fuzzymoomoo said:


And I say this as a big rail fan and supporter of shipping via railroads. Way more efficient than most other shipping methods. I've had enough of oil train fires. Enough is enough. 

 

I hear ya fuzzy, picked up a few more Monon memorabilia (Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway) things today while out in a antique mall in LaPorte. 

 

The average citizen here in northwest Indiana hasn`t got a clue to the hundreds of thousands of miles of pipe lines they go to sleep over and next to every night.... Natural gas is in those pipes and then the crisscrossing of virgin crude and distilled finished petroleum products from one of the largest refining processes outside of Texas. But sheep don`t know anything other than what their told by the butcher... 

  

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Trying to walk the center line on my journey through this experiment we call America I found that even trying hard to understand the left/liberal side of most discussions, I always had a problem or issues with the lack of facts and/or positive results from the liberal point of view. I started to read about "small government", "funding policies with debt" and the less than positive results from multiple eight year spans of liberalism. The lack of positive results was more of hunting down the data that was most if not all times hidden deep in some report that the media never took time to report on. The media at times would spend more air times miss leading the negative results then just putting the facts out for all to see. 

 

I started reading about and of a man that got my interest and started having me move closer to the conservative/right side of the road. Then while sitting in a hall at UoC I had the chance to listen to a professor that finally open the door to facts that lets just say the liberal side of the fence never or just plain wasn`t going to let these Econ facts out at any cost. After reading the books that these men wrote and getting all the background on their teachings and points of facts I packed up and moved to the other side on the tracks. 

 

Milton Friedman started me on my move on to the other side of the tracks, but it was like Thomas Sowell was waving me down and said I`ve saved you a seat on the fact based side of the tracks. I`m not sure if the lefties/liberals or sheepies will consider it as any type of or small gift but.... (again I`m no book of facer or me tuber) run a search of "Thomas Sowell; Common Sense in a Senseless World". I mean what do you have to lose? A few minutes outta the daily praising what the Jobama is doing with his Crayon`s in his oval assisted living room...  

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Decker said:

Trying to walk the center line on my journey through this experiment we call America I found that even trying hard to understand the left/liberal side of most discussions, I always had a problem or issues with the lack of facts and/or positive results from the liberal point of view. I started to read about "small government", "funding policies with debt" and the less than positive results from multiple eight year spans of liberalism. The lack of positive results was more of hunting down the data that was most if not all times hidden deep in some report that the media never took time to report on. The media at times would spend more air times miss leading the negative results then just putting the facts out for all to see. 

 

I started reading about and of a man that got my interest and started having me move closer to the conservative/right side of the road. Then while sitting in a hall at UoC I had the chance to listen to a professor that finally open the door to facts that lets just say the liberal side of the fence never or just plain wasn`t going to let these Econ facts out at any cost. After reading the books that these men wrote and getting all the background on their teachings and points of facts I packed up and moved to the other side on the tracks. 

 

Milton Freedman started me on my move on to the other side of the tracks, but it was like Thomas Sowell was waving me down and said I`ve saved you a seat on the fact based side of the tracks. I`m not sure if the lefties/liberals or sheepies will consider it as any type of or small gift but.... (again I`m no book of facer or me tuber) run a search of "Thomas Sowell; Common Sense in a Senseless World". I mean what do you have to lose? A few minutes outta the daily praising what the Jobama is doing with his Crayon`s in his oval assisted living room...  

 

 

 

Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World - Full Video

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5 hours ago, probowler said:

^^That documentary kept auto playing for me on Youtube, eventually just sat down and finished it. It was good, I'd like to check out some of Sowells books next.

 

Check out some of Professor Sowell`s early interviews. 

 

"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good."

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Are the Ford make it sound good crew having another brain fart? Who`d a thought...?

Toyota CEO Agrees With Elon Musk: We Don't Have Enough Electricity to Electrify All the Cars....

Give me a 2022 Focus with that 4 banger under the hood :wub:

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The USA uses 100 quad or 100 quadrillion BTU of energy annually. 37% is used for electricity generation. Another 28% of energy is for transportation. Only 17% of the electricity is from "renewable" sources. Over 20% is still from coal. So that needs to be replaced. To add transportation and replace the coal  power for electricity is a 5 to 6 fold increase on renewable energy. Electrical generation equipment typically have long service lives, so this is an expensive proposition. The Greenies are telling us this will be cheap energy. Heard the same thing in my youth about "atomic" power. How is that working out for you?

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Wait.... I thought it was all about the Bad Orange Man?

 

The Love Gov was on the take? Made decisions to send rona patients to elder care facilities? Hmmm hows the media gunna spin this...

 

Perhaps donor money mattered more than efficiency:

In the fall, Mr. Cuomo shelved vaccine distribution plans that top state health officials had been drawing up, one person with knowledge of the decision said. The plans had relied in part on years of preparations at the local level — an outgrowth of bioterrorism fears following Sept. 11 — and on experience dispensing vaccine through county health departments during the H1N1 pandemic in 2009.…

In his own planning for the vaccine rollout, Mr. Cuomo spoke with hospital executives, outside consultants and a top hospital lobbyist in closed-door meetings. In December, Mr. Cuomo announced that the state would rely on large hospital systems as “hubs” to coordinate vaccinations, not simply for their own staff but also for ordinary New Yorkers.

The state designated as a regional vaccination hub in New York City not the city’s 6,000-person Health Department, but rather the Greater New York Hospital Association, a trade group with a multimillion-dollar lobbying arm that had been a major donor to the governor’s causes.

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Think the same thing happening in Illinois. People with connections to University of Chicago or Northwestern doctors and hospitals seem to have appointments having won some "lottery" system. The rest of the system, not so much. Will County still only doing "frontline" workers. This seems to include politicians with gland issues. Elderly are told, "Don't call us, we'll call you". 

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5 hours ago, Decker said:

Are the Ford make it sound good crew having another brain fart? Who`d a thought...?

Toyota CEO Agrees With Elon Musk: We Don't Have Enough Electricity to Electrify All the Cars....

Give me a 2022 Focus with that 4 banger under the hood :wub:

 

Actually Ford should use an efficient diesel like most of Europe for small cars. Great mileage and torque.

 

The electric kick is cute especially when most electricity comes from some fossil fuel base and Bidet is killing them.

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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." 

 

Wonder if the Bronx Queen has ever read Professor Sowell? Never mind moving on from a marxist point of veiw to a fact based reality would never be something Sandy would consider... 

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57 minutes ago, cal50 said:

 

Actually Ford should use an efficient diesel like most of Europe for small cars. Great mileage and torque.

 

The electric kick is cute especially when most electricity comes from some fossil fuel base and Bidet is killing them.

 

I`ll take a diesel focus anytime for sure!!! 

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20 minutes ago, Decker said:

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." 

 

Wonder if the Bronx Queen has ever read Professor Sowell? Never mind moving on from a marxist point of veiw to a fact based reality would never be something Sandy would consider... 

A little Milton Friedman couldn't hurt either. 

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This might be a record of some sort... Jobama moves US Troops into Syria. I heard one of the less than truthful media outlets state the ecomony is on line with getting back to pre rona levels by June 2021, hmm they never said how the employment level was going to be elevated...? 

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5 hours ago, Decker said:

This might be a record of some sort... Jobama moves US Troops into Syria. I heard one of the less than truthful media outlets state the ecomony is on line with getting back to pre rona levels by June 2021, hmm they never said how the employment level was going to be elevated...? 

I thought the troops went in within his first couple days?

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