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Apparently, brewsterbudgeon knows something that you don't: Joe Biden is currently the President of the United States and a Democrat. As are the people named. How little knowledge of the American political scene do you have to be not to understand who was not preferred?

More nonsense from you. The Hamas Health Authority doesn't specify who is a Hamas soldier and who isn't. As for the extent of civilian deaths, even the IDF disagrees with those who, like you, offer wholescake skepticism about the number of civilians killed by Israeli forces. IDF officials: 2 civilian deaths for every 1 Hamas fighter killed in Gaza Approximately two civilians have been killed for every dead Hamas fighter in the Gaza Strip, senior military officials said Monday, adding that the IDF was deploying high-tech mapping software to try to reduce noncombatant deaths. Asked about media reports that 5,000 Hamas fighters had been killed, one of the senior officials told reporters at a briefing, “The numbers are more or less right.” The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says Israel’s military campaign, in response to the terror group’s murderous attacks on October 7, has killed around 15,900 people so far, most of them women and children. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-officials-2-civilian-deaths-for-every-1-hamas-fighter-killed-in-gaza/

How Israel’s war went wrong At the end of November, Israeli reporter Yuval Abraham broke one of the most important stories of the war in Gaza to date — an inside look at the disturbing reasoning that has led the Israeli military to kill so many civilians. Citing conversations with “seven current and former members of Israel’s intelligence community,” Abraham reported that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had changed its doctrine to permit far greater civilian casualties than it would have tolerated in previous wars... “In one case,” Abraham reported, “the Israeli military command knowingly approved the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in an attempt to assassinate a single top Hamas military commander.” https://www.vox.com/24055522/israel-hamas-gaza-war-strategy-netanyahu-strategy-morality ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation reveals. Compared to previous Israeli assaults on Gaza, the current war — which Israel has named “Operation Iron Swords,” and which began in the wake of the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on October 7 — has seen the army significantly expand its bombing of targets that are not distinctly military in nature. These include private residences as well as public buildings, infrastructure, and high-rise blocks, which sources say the army defines as “power targets” (“matarot otzem”). https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/ Power targets are designated as such because, the reasoning goes, the destruction they wreak on civilians will make them pressure Hamas and undermine it. This is not a new designation. What is new is that the Israelis are not using the methods that they used to use to warn civilians that their homes, including high-rises, are about to be destroyed.

Really bad amateur lawyering. If anyone is responsible it's the occupying power. Your claim that a government that is under active attack and no longer functioning is responsible is transparently ridiculous.

He already has posted proof. Isn't there a saying somewhere about leading a horse to water but....?

Actually, Roe v. Wade allowed for prohibitions against abortion. once the fetus is viable.

The U.S. proposal warns Israel against invading Rafah. The United States is negotiating a U.N. Security Council Resolution that proposes a temporary cease-fire “as soon as practicable” and warns Israel against invading an area of southern Gaza that many people have fled to, according to a copy of the draft obtained by The New York Times. https://archive.ph/PA9p5 https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/20/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news

Another case of I don't like Trump but... Really? Trump chose these justices without any reference to where they stood on abortion? " Donald Trump took credit Wednesday for the elimination of Roe v. Wade, embracing his role in selecting the Supreme Court justices who were instrumental in ending the half-century precedent that protected abortion rights nationwide. “After 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v. Wade, much to the ‘shock’ of everyone,” Trump, the former president and front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination, said on his social media platform." https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-was-able-kill-roe-v-wade-rcna84897 What you don't understand about immigration is that it's a 2 way street. Immigrants also leave the US. It's the balance that counts. What's more, if Republicans were really serious about stopping undocumented immigration they could make it a criminal offense for employers to hire the undocumented. But as everyone knows, certain industries depend on them. Given that Republicans have repeatedly supported unfunded tax cuts, what makes you think that they are concerned about debt?

Apparently, even destroying a zygote in now judged to be a wrongful death. At least in Alabama. Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are children, cites the Bible in opinion “When the People of Alabama adopted (the ‘sanctity of life’ provision of the state constitution), they did not use the term ‘inviolability,’ with its secular connotations, but rather they chose the term ‘sanctity,’ with all of its connotations,” Parker wrote. “This kind of acceptance is not foreign to our Constitution, which in its preamble ‘invok[es] the favor and guidance of Almighty God,’ … and which declares that ‘all men … are endowed [with life] by their Creator.’ ” https://www.alreporter.com/2024/02/19/alabama-supreme-court-rules-frozen-embryos-are-children-cites-the-bible-in-opinion/ This quote is from the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. And in a written decision, where you think he had the time to reflect over what he's written, he claimed that the references to Almighty God, etc are found in the US Constitution. It is to laugh.

Right. Why shouldn't Congress conduct impeachment investigations on whomever they please, regardless of evidence?

Once again you miss the key point. The variation may be in thousands of years but not decades. It's all about rates. In the 70's as climatological science became a discipline the overwhelming consensus was that warming would occur. Not only that, but most of the predictions were astonishingly accurate. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019GL085378 As for your CO2 observation, I have to ask "Are you serious?) The additional "C" in CO2 is carbon, and it comes from fossil fuels. The "O" is oxygen which comprises roughly 21 percent of the atmosphere.

First off, Roe v. Wade allowed for restrictions on abortions if the fetus was viable. "The 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision recognized abortion as “a fundamental right” nationwide but stated that after the stage of viability, states could regulate abortions with the exception of when they were “necessary, in appropriate medical judgement'' to preserve the life or health of the pregnant woman." https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/06/tough-questions-answers-late-term-abortions-law-women-who-get-them/ Second. The vast majority of abortions take place before 21 weeks. "According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1.3 percent of abortions were performed at or greater than 21 weeks of gestation in 2015. In contrast, 91.1 percent were performed at or before 13 weeks and 7.6 percent at 14 to 20 weeks." https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/06/tough-questions-answers-late-term-abortions-law-women-who-get-them/

Is this your idea of a scientific question? I, for one, don't see what it has to do with science. Maybe you should get added a new topic about the alleged hypocrisy of the wealthy and powerful instead of trying to push your irrelevant agenda here.

It actually makes perfect sense. At some point the warming ends and the cooling starts. What you have repeatedly demonstrated is that you don't understand the concept of rates. Warming occurred over the past 7000-8000 years. If it ordinarily the global climate would on average have started to cool, the relatively rapid rise in greenhouse gases contributed by human activity would reverse that expected gradual fall in temperature. Most scientists agree that orbital variations are responsible in large part for this latest ice age era. But they take place on cycles of 10's of thousands of years. At a comparatively slow rate. Once again, you fail to grasp the importance of the concept of rates.

Another reply devoid of reasoning or engagement with the facts.

Can you name them?

You began by denying that CO2 is responsible for warming and now you're claiming that generating large quantity og it is only a privilege for the elite. Why should that matter, if, as you claimed, (contrary to the scientific fact that was established in the 19th century), that CO2 is not a very potent greenhouse gas and not overwhelmingly responsible for global warming? Confused much?

A pint means 20 ounces in in the UK and 16 ounces in the United States. Does that mean pint is a generic term? By the same token, the criteria for what constitutes a recession may vary from country to country, but they are specific. So no, not generic

What has any of this got to do with the fact that the greenhouse gas potency of CO2 has been an established scientific fact for almost 200 years? You've got nothing.

Where was it implied? And even if it was implied, what is the fact the Joe Biden's son is Hunter Biden got to do with impeachment?

As both the Inspector General of the Justice Dept and even John Durham acknowledged, the Steele report was not the basis for the investigation of Trump.

As was noted in this thread, the potency of CO2 as a greenhouse grass was established by the great Irish physicist, John Tyndall, in the 19th century. No one has even thought of disputing its properties which have been measured with great exactitude until the anthropogenic climate change denialists came along. Or do you believe that Tyndall was part of some globalist conspiracy? As for the thawing of the last ice age...what don't you understand about the significance of rates? If a bank offered you 2 kinds of savings accounts, one with an interest yield of 1% and the other with 10%, would you believe that the difference in rates doesn't matter?

So, does Trump have any major properties that have not been pledged as collateral?

The first link is to something published in 1998. Nostalgic much? The second to some organization that calls itself the NIPCC. A cheap trick to confuse its name with the IPCC. Just a lot of quotes taken out of context. What sources lead you to cr#p like this?

Cheerleading much? You should find some pompom emoji to go with your comment.