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Or could be Tuberville. I find myself really hoping there will be at least one senator with the "courage and integrity" to challenge the EC results. For once McConnell won't be able to decide whether or not the senate must vote.

#1 is false. I stopped reading after that. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jun/25/30-years-later-deniers-are-still-lying-about-hansens-amazing-global-warming-prediction

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/12/17/republican-senators-mum-electoral-challenge-despite-mcconnell-plea/3940115001/ Could this be what Ron is talking about? Tuberville also says we’ll see what’s coming.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/trumps-farcical-inept-and-deadly-serious-coup-attempt/617309/ I guess this belongs here too. I hope a real stable genius doesn't come along in 2024.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/how-do-you-solve-problem-john-durham Interesting blog I happened to catch. Wasn't sure which thread to post it in but this one seems to work.

You're not fighting the alliance. I don't think anyone from the government is coming to kill you & your friends like in the movie. No one can make people better but I think everyone wants their country to be better. My favorite quote was from Jane: If you can't do something smart, do something right. I guess any quote can be interpreted several ways, particularly if it's from a fictional story.

Please stop ruining my favorite Sci-Fi movie. This ain't Miranda and you're no Malcolm Reynolds.

You guys in Colorado should take some advice from people who live where it rains all year and manage your forests better.

https://www.outtherecolorado.com/news/analysis-reveals-all-20-of-colorados-20-largest-wildfires-have-happened-in-last-20-years/article_08a009c4-f1f1-11ea-a77e-2f7060b2f6a5.html Dammit Colorado, get your forest management act together.

I don't think he does. I think he is quite sincere in his beliefs.

I never said he was wrong about anything. I consider Brent an old friend that I would rather not get into a heated argument with over any issue. I've read the article he posted but I am still going through some of the others listed in the footnotes because there is quite a bit of interesting stuff there. Despite that, I noticed that any references to climate change in the main article seem to deal with the effects fire has on it rather than any change in global fire scale being the result of it. The sample area they reference in the mediterranean seems to show a higher number of fires but less burn area. I suspect that could be the result of the same problems we are dealing with in California with regard to management and population density, but I still have plenty of reading to do before I can really say. There are some remarks in there about longer fire seasons. The links you posted are informative as well, and so far I generally agree with everything I have read there. One thing that I keep coming back to as far as California is concerned is that there are fires burning right now in areas that burned three years ago. So fire in those areas wasn't exactly suppressed. The terrain in those areas is not generally forest, though, and so it will be ready to burn again before too long. We're going to need a lot more goats out there.

It isn't the party itself that causes that. It is the panic they induce in the other one. I'll agree it is ironic and I have always thought so since 1994 when I first bought into it myself.

And yes, Trump. Thanks for reminding me to throw that in.

What narrative? I posted statistics which are facts. You posted some that seem to indicate that national fire scale has been increasing on average since 1953. Interesting that in California alone more acreage has burned this year than nationally in 2014.

https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/11416/top20_acres.pdf Just stats. Several recent ones are still under investigation so absolutely no direct correlation between them and climate change can be inferred.

I agree with them. I doubt there is any direct correlation between record breaking hurricane activity in a single year and climate change. I was just posting the stats.

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2020-09-21-atlantic-hurricane-season-2020-records

Has Q said anything about the fly On Pence's head? Maybe I'm just flashing back to those Amityville movies, but that thing looked pretty Luciferian to me.

In Ron's world it might be. It certainly isn't in mine. I do not have the luxury of a defensible space. I live in an urban area and must find a way to get along with a million plus people who live within a few square miles of me. I've fired many a gun in appallachia but I sold all of mine when I moved to the west coast. Still, I remember how things work in that area.

I guess that is a valid point if S really hits the F. I'm sure the market is hot for firepower right now so it probably is a good investment. And if the economy devolved into one of solely bartering, ammunition would likely increase in value.

I imagine that maintaining proficiency will likely be the purpose for a lot of those rounds, but how many do you suppose will be used for defense? And afterward, what then? Will your LE relationships help you in dealing with the corpses of those you have defended your community from? If the people you have killed in self defense came at you armed with guns themselves I suppose you can't be blamed for using a commensurate amount of force to repel them, but again, you still have dead bodies to deal with. Do you have holes already dug?

With regard to people arming themselves as a part of prepping, one thing I'm curious about is what you plan to do with bodies if they start piling up around your safe space. Notwithstanding the fact that laws against killing people will likely not be suspended no matter how bad it gets, dead bodies are a health hazard if you leave them close by. So what are your plans for after you defend your spot with your firearm? Do you have a good shovel? Are you worried about any legal consequences when things return to some sense of normalcy?

Water is everything really. There are so many things you can do without but water is not one of them. As I have gotten more into backpacking/camping over the years I've realized that, on the day to day, I use so much more than I really need in order to get by. If S really hits the F I know how long I can stretch out a little bit of it. If water was out at my place and I couldn't use the toilet, well, I guess I'd be borrowing some of my cat's supply of litter, lol. I also agree with you as far as sticking with my community through whatever happens. If things get really bad, I think efforts at maintaining some local area of solidarity will be worthwhile and the right thing to do. I have an older couple that lives next to me and I can't see myself abandoning them, no matter how bad things get, even if it puts me at some disadvantage.

Point taken. It's the any circumstances part I don't agree with. I hold the same standard for the incumbent. And I feel that in all likelihood the circumstances will end up being such that neither side should concede early. So perhaps I should have kept quiet. I just have difficulty accepting any conditions that are absolute.

I'd go with Senator Durbin on this. She is flat out wrong.