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More fun than good- but that's also good too. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/30/politics/f-35-accidental-sky-penis/index.html

Ah Liz, I wish I could agree with you on this, but I can't- but if I could, I'd still vote for you. https://medium.com/@teamwarren/no-president-is-above-the-law-f4812e580336 I don't think the president is above the law- let me make that clear. I do how ever think that it is congress' job to do so. And yes, the senate would be the ones to oust the POTUS. Pretty much like how it is now. I think that they need to tweek the rules to stop the partisianship of this process though and try to minimize when politicians fail to their job and put party before country- that is a must. I don't have a solution for this, I just see that as the major issue is all. Hopefully "I have a plan for that" candidate has a plan for that. I have faith in her. I can see a lot going wrong with treating the Office and the POTUS the same as you would a white collar or hardened criminal.

Thanks for that. Very informative article.

Man, I feel for this dude. https://www.tsn.ca/talent/collaros-finds-himself-at-career-crossroads-1.1313327 I think he is done though... "I feel like I’m behind the eight ball. I want to be the guy, I want to get to that point,” Collaros said. “But I feel like the last three years has kind of stunted my intellectual growth in sports because I haven’t learned anything. I’ve learned a lot about myself. “There’s a lot of self-doubt that creeps into your mind and I think I’ve learned about myself that I can have a goal, there will be some self-doubt, but ultimately I’m strong enough in my mind to overcome those things and understand that if I trust the right people, I’m a strong person and I can work my way back from those kinds of things.”

Who's Awesome? Liz is!

See that is how things are going to change. $$$

So now it's just... more inefficient? Well, now you now that there has been cuts. And why is the privatization of Hydro so out of the question? MTS was out of the question at one time, we now have Bell and FIlmon made off pretty handsomely with a tidy little profit from that. What did we get from that publicly owned utility? Cell phone bills are going through the roof now.

Uhm... not sure why this is in the CLimate change thread... This should be in the forest management thread. We should be talking about raking the forest floors, like they do in Finland, as that is what combats wildfires. #MakeCanadaRakeAgain Here, just in case people were wondering if I was off my meds again. MCRA!

#freecousinzach

Very good point- that could have actually been much more beneficial to the people of Ontario, if a different leader was chosen.

Life is a lot more complicated than that. Hence why, sentencing discretion should not be taken away from a judge and given over to a blanket law. It's draconian. An excellent example here: https://www.aclu.org/other/10-reasons-oppose-3-strikes-youre-out "An 18-year old high school senior pushes a classmate down to steal his Michael Jordan $150 sneakers -- Strike One; he gets out of jail and shoplifts a jacket from the Bon Marche, pushing aside the clerk as he runs out of the store -- Strik e Two; he gets out of jail, straightens out, and nine years later gets in a fight in a bar and intentionally hits someone, breaking his nose -- criminal behavior, to be sure, but hardly the crime of the century, yet it is Strike Three. He is sent to prison for the rest of his life." The above example should not carry the same weight as Murder1

$40k investment to turn into a $110 million contract... AWESOME ROI. I am really in the wrong business.

Not only that, but "for profit prisons", across the board, have longer sentences due to reduced amount of prisoners getting out early for good behaviour. What incentive would a corporation have to grant early parole, if they are no longer making money from an inmate if they release them... Interesting article and link to a study here: https://news.wisc.edu/study-finds-private-prisons-keep-inmates-longer-without-reducing-future-crime/ https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2523238 "The research found that prisoners in private facilities had an increase in their sentence of four to seven percent, which equaled 60 to 90 days for the average prisoner. With the average contractual payment to private prison operators in Mississippi being $50 for each bed occupied, an extra 60 days added to a prisoner’s sentence leads to an average additional cost per prisoner of about $3,000. That added expense erodes about half of the projected cost savings offered by private prisons in the state. Fueling the increase in time served is the widespread use of prison conduct violations in private facilities. Mukherjee found that prisoners in every demographic, offense, and sentence length category accumulated more infractions if they were assigned to a private prison. Overall, inmates in private prisons received twice as many infractions as those in public prisons. In Mississippi, infractions are used by the state parole board in assessing whether a prisoner should be granted early release."

The three strike rule effectively takes the sentencing discretion away from Judges.

Every time I see more news of these water cycle phenomena, I keep recalling Jeremy Rifkin's quote: "Ours is a watery planet. The Earth’s diverse ecosystems have evolved over geological time in direct relationship to precipitation patterns. Each rise in temperature of 1 degree Celsius results in a 7 percent increase in the moisture-holding capacity of the atmosphere. This causes a radical change in the way water is distributed, with more intense precipitation but a reduction in duration and frequency. The consequences are already being felt in ecosystems around the world. We are experiencing more bitter winter snows, more dramatic spring storms and floods, more prolonged summer droughts, more wildfires, more intense hurricanes (category 3, 4 and 5), a melting of the ice caps on the great mountain ranges and a rise in sea levels. The Earth’s ecosystems cannot readjust to a disruptive change in the planet’s water cycle in such a brief moment in time and are under increasing stress, with some on the verge of collapse.' Thanks for the link!

WHo is scurrying like mice? I think stampeding is a little strong- but I think Clapper Brennan and Comey, welcome the investigations and are fine with them. which I think is a mistake... corrupt investigators with a history of lying about reports and finds will- lie about their findings to fit their narrative. I don't see any of them claiming it's a "WITCH HUNT", "NOTHING TO SEE HERE!" and what ever trump obstructionism... It is a total show trial.

I don't agree with most of his policies, but he is spot on about this:

Pfft... Pearl Anniversary, duh. Just messing with you- We take it this year. I foresee some really entertaining football and some serious blow outs by us. This year it seems that there are no real question marks going into the season. We're good in all phases of the game it seems. We have upgraded EVERYwhere I can think there was a concern in the off season... I think we are going to see a very dominant Blue Bombers team in all three facets of the game this year...

You can chalk that one up to our awesome volunteer mods.

You have not been in the political threads I see...

Yup, and that is why I am in next year country already. I think a Grey Cup win on the pearl anniversary of our drought is much better than pearl anniversary-minus one... Has a much better sound to it. So let us all look to next year!!!! WOOHOO GC2020!

Deniers ALWAYS cherry pick data and point out what scientists get wrong while never acknowledging what it gets right. Here is a nice article that sums things up. https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-s-long-term-climate-predictions-are-accurate-to-within-1-20th-of-a-degree/amp "In this new study, NASA scientists analyzed the GISTEMP data to see if past predictions of rising temperatures were accurate. They needed to know that any uncertainty within their data was correctly accounted for. The goal was to make sure that the models they use are robust enough to rely on in the future. The answer: Yes they are. Within 1/20th a degree Celsius. Kudos. "Uncertainty is important to understand because we know that in the real world we don't know everything perfectly," said Gavin Schmidt, director of GISS and a co-author on the study. "All science is based on knowing the limitations of the numbers that you come up with, and those uncertainties can determine whether what you're seeing is a shift or a change that is actually important." This is scientific rigour at its finest. To a climate change denier, it may seem like ammo. But the reverse is true. NASA is determined to understand their GISTEMP data to the best of their capability, and they acknowledge, like all scientists should, any weakness in their own data and then seek to quantify it."