California's First Tropical Storms in 84 Years

[Servant King]

private vehicles

No such thing. All vehicles are public, owned by the State. The title only indicates who has the right to have and hold that particular piece of State (public) property. The term "private" is merely a linguistic sleight-of-hand to placate and deceive people. It's registered with the State; it's State/public property, period. If it were truly private, that long list of requirements (registration, license plate, insurance etc.) would not be anyone else's decision but yours to make.

"You own it...it's yours...but you have to ask us if you can have/use it!"

Duh!

It's amazing what can be learned by simply scraping away the surface narrative and analyzing what can be found underneath. And that applies to pretty much every topic under the sun.

Scientific consensus is almost universal in saying that global temperatures are rising, and that humans are in large part responsible for this increase.

That's how we know it's bullshit. Groupthink is not science!!

I am prepared to put my trust in those that know the field better than myself and armchair 'experts'.

 

[warren]

All vehicles are public, owned by the State.

Pfui! A privately owned vehicle is indeed owned by the owner/lien holder not the government. The privilege to drive on public roads is granted by the government when you register a vehicle. But, the government doesn't own take ownership. it simply grants permission for it to be operated on public ways. You and the lender. if any, own the vehicle. Of course taxes are a different matter, even unregistered vehicles, in many cases are liable for various taxes. But, in no way, shape or form does the government own your vehicle.

 

[Servant King]

The term "private" is merely a linguistic sleight-of-hand to placate and deceive people.

Mission accomplished.

 

[bullet08]

Just think it's funny the tropical storm is named Hillary. She wasn't tropical enough for Slick Willie, but making whole state of California pretty wet.

 

[LeafErikson]

. We are perhaps closer than I though to a reality of text books showing a flat Earth and denial of the moon landings

This beautifully illustrates the point I just made. ‘Anyone daring to question ‘the experts’ on climate change is so moronic that they must believe these other outlandish things.’ What an incredibly myopic, condescending view point. There are plenty of scientists who don’t believe the data indicates that climate change is as severe as the people you would refer to as ‘experts’.

 

[jmill208]

The ego of man is confounding. Nature is in charge of itself, and cares nothing of cow farts and vehicle emissions.

 

[Servant King]

Just think it's funny the tropical storm is named Hillary. She wasn't tropical enough for Slick Willie, but making whole state of California pretty wet.

Alright, I don't think any of us are going to top this one. Mods, you can close this one now!

 

[warren]

No registration, or even a driving license is required if you don't use public roads. No sleight of hand there. It's usually well laid out in statutes. Keep your vehicles restricted to your private property, or another agreeable person's and you have no responsibility to register. So, if your panties are in a buch over licensing and such, don't use the publicly funded, government/taxpayers, roads. Damned simple I'd say. And very up front of the governments. Just keep your vehicle off publicly owned thorough fares and you one less complaint, less stress and such. One less thing to rant about. Your life will be much more comfortable also.

 

[AJL67]

4 out of 5 dentists recommend Colgate toothpaste. The 5th was discredited on the inter webs and his life ruined. Big Toothpaste is a thing!!!!

 

[brian64]

Now here here we go again.

Why the hell does it keep happening?

Because now the fraud is being done in the name of science. The high priests in their white lab coats mesmerize the masses.

But it's really still just this same old scam:

 

[georged]

Because now the fraud is being done in the name of science. The high priests in their white lab coats mesmerize the masses.

But it's really still just this same old scam:

That cartoon reminds me of how emotional reasoners waxed poetic for decades about how the Maya were an aspirational example of Peace, Love, and Harmony with Nature, and it was a tragedy when their beautiful high-tech (for their time) cities were abandoned, presumably because of "climate change".

The reality? (discovered about 40 years later) They killed themselves off by continuing to sacrifice ever-greater numbers of children, women, and non-warrior men to The Gods who needed ever-greater appeasement. ("Well, a dozen didn't work, so let's try again with two dozen!")

Human sacrifice being the only thing that could stop disease, change the weather, and so forth, of course.

After a while there simply weren't enough of them left to support the infrastructure of their cities, and they wandered into the jungle to be hunter-gatherers.

 

[AJL67]

Acid Rain, the Maldive Islands will be under water, drought and famine in the US, the east coast of the US underwater starting with Miami (what was that suppose to happen like 10 yrs ago, certainly before they all bought mansions on Martha's Vineyard), let's see there was the Ice Age and here was Britain would have a "Siberian climate by 2020", the Arctic would be ice free by 2013... to be fair they keep changing that one adding 2 years every year and a half, oh the hole in the ozone layer that will never heal, even though they said last year that it actually healed, amazing it healed with us ruining the planet at the same time, well not US, just the poor folk and the cows. These are just the ones i remember living through and seeing in the news and hearing about. Always the experts. I'd be an "expert" too if someone was throwing suitcases of grant money at me to prove them right.

 

[Egg Shen]

No registration, or even a driving license is required if you don't use public roads. No sleight of hand there. It's usually well laid out in statutes. Keep your vehicles restricted to your private property, or another agreeable person's and you have no responsibility to register. So, if your panties are in a buch over licensing and such, don't use the publicly funded, government/taxpayers, roads. Damned simple I'd say. And very up front of the governments. Just keep your vehicle off publicly owned thorough fares and you one less complaint, less stress and such. One less thing to rant about. Your life will be much more comfortable also.

You’re muddying the waters with an obv exception

 

[Servant King]

You’re muddying the waters with an obv exception

And they're amply muddy in the first place, thanks chiefly to the lawyers and other masters of obscuring, confounding legalese. People have no idea what they're involved in, even just basic day-to-day stuff. I didn't even get into the whole "private property" myth...I guess if the landlord (the county) called it rent instead of property tax, people (the tenants or, in legalese, the "property owners") would start to see how the game works. It really is true that deceptions become common knowledge and accepted as fact.

On a lighter note, Hilary has come and gone here in SoCal, but it has left a lingering impact--it totally feel like fall right now. And in tending to our horse through the storm, wifey and I also helped a baby quail in distress!

 

[Egg Shen]

And they're amply muddy in the first place, thanks chiefly to the lawyers and other masters of obscuring, confounding legalese. People have no idea what they're involved in, even just basic day-to-day stuff. I didn't even get into the whole "private property" myth...I guess if the landlord (the county) called it rent instead of property tax, people (the tenants or, in legalese, the "property owners") would start to see how the game works. It really is true that deceptions become common knowledge and accepted as fact.

On a lighter note, Hilary has come and gone here in SoCal, but it has left a lingering impact--it totally feel like fall right now. And in tending to our horse through the storm, wifey and I also helped a baby quail in distress!

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I agree with your 1st paragraph; sadly you’re right. The information is out there but the indoctrinated can’t accept it. I’ve been done following the science ever since I noticed the world’s workings make more sense when I follow the money, or it’s equivalents (power, leverage, prestige). I could go on & on, but ain’t nobody changing nobody’s mind in this thread. The quail is beautiful and makes me happy after 80 posts of soreness, it Uplifts the mood for sure.

 

[warren]

And they're amply muddy in the first place, thanks chiefly to the lawyers and other masters of obscuring, confounding legalese. People have no idea what they're involved in, even just basic day-to-day stuff.

Okay, I get it now. I should have grasp this much sooner, mea culpa. You simply have a very low opinion of other people and their ability to understand cope with the world around them. Sorry I've been too dense to understand.

 

[telescopes]

I am prepared to put my trust in those that know the field better than myself and armchair 'experts'. This increase in scientific scepticism is worrying.

I was with you all the way until you said this. Unfortunately, experts in all fields are corrupted by monied interests, their own myopic egos, and a tendency to see data as infallible. I am pro science and i do want to hear what the experts in a field have to say about subjects they have studied. However, unless skepticism is crippling, I find it is critical to any reasoning of a problem if a long lasting solution is wanted, especially one with wide ranging implications such as climate change. @ashdigger is right, shutting down the nuclear reactors in Germany did indirectly lead to the war in Ukraine as did a whole host of other issues, some of which where “environmental” driven.

 

[AJL67]

Just think it's funny the tropical storm is named Hillary. She wasn't tropical enough for Slick Willie, but making whole state of California pretty wet.

All deaths caused by Hillary will be marked as suicide.

 

[telescopes]

Hillary jokes are funny, but it should be noted that this was Hilary - for the record.

 

[anantaandroscoggin]

Planet Earth itself will be just fine. It's the thin scum of life on its surface that is in impending danger of extinction.