Now here’s the thing. I can’t remember where I put my car keys from this morning. No clue. It’s just that I’m getting older. But I knew instantly what you were referring to there.
Posted on 06/21/2024 7:30:54 PM PDT by RandFan
@PolitlcsUK
NEW: Nigel Farage responds to his comment calling the King a "stupid, eco-loony"
"Well, he wasn't the King then, and I can't speak ill of the monarch obviously. But he did used to say that carbon dioxide was a 'pollutant', which I thought was a very stupid comment"
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> After that, I lost any respect to any monarch! At the best they are mediocre, at the worst they are total idiots! <
One problem with hereditary monarchies is that they are only as strong as the weakest link. One fool is all that’s needed to bring the whole thing crashing down.
The Prussian/German monarchy is a good example of that. Frederick the Great got the job done. As did Kaiser Wilhelm I. Kaiser Wilhelm II threw it all away.
So now the German “nobility” is nothing more than a collection of pretenders. Their titles only good for impressing the weak-minded at dinner parties.
Now here’s the thing. I can’t remember where I put my car keys from this morning. No clue. It’s just that I’m getting older. But I knew instantly what you were referring to there.
I say, jolly good!
Without Carbon Dioxide or Oxygen all life on earth would die.
Carbon Dioxide is plant food which produces oxygen. Most of which comes from the sea algae. The sea is the lungs of the earth. The great Amazon forest produce much oxygen via photosynthesis. When they die of age the termites eat them and turn them into termite farts called methane which is a global warming gas far greater than CO2. Fortunately methane has a relative short half live in the atmosphere and then becomes CO2 in just a few short years. It last much longer than methane.
The Amazon forests do help in Co2 levels. All the organic matter that is sweep down the river is deposited into the sea and buried. Over the eons it becomes shale and limestone and is thus sequestered CO2. Today you can see this in our mountains of shale and limestone.
Algae in our seas are the lungs of the earth. They give us oxygen via photosynthesis and then conveniently die and fall to the bottom of the sea and take their carbon with them and become carbonaceous mud soon to become limestone and mountains millions of years later.
Five inbred retards?
I have some bad news for you! Brace yourself: O2 comprises a whopping 21% of the Earth's atmosphere!
Regards,
We exhale pollutants
Dissolved in water then mixed with Scotch it becomes a quite palatable adult beverage.
The French city of Perrier is known for its high concentration of CO2 in its water. Kings and presidents serve it at the dinner table.
Nigel’s curse is being so right so often.
“...calling the King a “stupid, eco-loony”
Well? He is!
“And, he was complete idiot! Just stupid, idiotic, useless dude!”
Just like our “monarch”, Joe Biden.
And...?
The smart monarchists required the royal marry a commoner(thus forestalling the inbreeding).
Even some tribal societies required marrying from a different village .
Then they ruined it all with CoupFlu vaxxes.
5 members in three years with cancer ain’t a coinkydink.
But nobody ever talks about that.
Go figure.
The Man has always focused on serfs.
That is why leftists want us dead.
I have known leftists who have been talking like this ....ie wanting humans to die since the seventies.
And they were antiwar at the same time.
John Paul Stevens, who wrote the majority opinion, had been appointed by President Ford. Anthony Kennedy had been appointed by Reagan. David Souter had been appointed by George H.W. Bush. Both Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been Clinton appointees.
Thus, a 3-2 Republican-Democrat alignment among the Massachusetts majority. None of the five are on the Court today.
Chief Justice Roberts was appointed by George W. Bush. Clarence Thomas -- today, the most senior member on the Court in terms of years served -- was appointed by George H.W. Bush. Antonin Scalia (now deceased, of course) had been appointed by Ronald Reagan. Samuel Alito was appointed by George W. Bush.
Accordingly, at the time Massachusetts was decided (again, by a 5-4 vote), seven of the nine Justices had been appointed/nominated by Republican Presidents. Make of that what you will.
Yes, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today, drawing on the statutory definition of "air pollutant" as affirmed by the Supreme Court in its Massachusetts decision, we do indeed. I suppose all mammals do. Methane is also considered an "air pollutant" under the same rationale. Which is why cattle are currently in the crosshairs of those pushing the radical "climate agenda."
I suppose I should add that EPA also considers water vapor to be an "air pollutant" under the Clean Air Act, although it has yet to take action to regulate the emission of such as a so-called "greenhouse gas."
Anyway, below is how the Clean Air Act defines "air pollutant," as that term is used in the Act:
"The term 'air pollutant' means any air pollution agent or combination of such agents, including any physical, chemical, biological, radioactive (including source material, special nuclear material, and byproduct material) substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air. Such term includes any precursors to the formation of any air pollutant, to the extent the Administrator has identified such precursor or precursors for the particular purpose for which the term 'air pollutant' is used."
In Massachusetts, the Court opined: "The statutory text forecloses EPA's reading. The Clean Air Act's sweeping definition of 'air pollutant' includes 'any air pollution agent or combination of such agents, including any physical, chemical... substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air ....' § 7602(g) (emphasis added). On its face, the definition embraces all airborne compounds of whatever stripe, and underscores that intent through the repeated use of the word "any."[25] Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and hydrofluorocarbons are without a doubt 'physical [and] chemical ... substance[s] which [are] emitted into ... the ambient air.' The statute is unambiguous."
You see, at issue in the Massachusetts was the decision by the EPA under the George W. Bush administration that it could not regulate the emissions of so-called "greenhouse gasses" because GHGs didn't constitute "air pollutants" under the Clean Air Act. But, as, um, explained here, the Court said that EPA was wrong. That is to say, back in the day, the Bush EPA tried to do the (obviously) correct thing, but the Court wouldn't have it.
Yes, the problem with monarchy is the same problem with family business. Even if the founder is able, his children may not be, grandchildren almost never will be, and it goes down even more from there.
Very few family businesses last more than three generations. (In competitive environment)
The monarchies, as well as the business in noncompetitive environment (say third world or medieval guilts) may last forever, with predictable results.
The monarchies have additional problem with inbreeding.
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