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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (993472)	1/12/2017 12:22:18 PM
From: jlallen	2 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo TideGlider Respond to of 1570860

Yes...pointing out how FOS you libbers are is a typical right wing practice.....

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (993472)	1/12/2017 12:30:00 PM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Recommended By PKRBKR POKERSAM TideGlider Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570860

That global warming sure is versatile: For years it was causing drought in CA. Now it is causing flooding Bill Nye took to Twitter to blame man-made global warming for flooding across Northern California that claimed at least three lives over the weekend. Nye, who rarely misses a chance to link extreme weather to human activities, suggested California’s flooding meant we’d be better off not pulling out of the United Nations Paris agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions. [ All bad weather is caused by humans. Before humans started using fossil fuels there were no droughts or floods, hurricanes, tornados, or forest fires.. /sarc ] President-elect Donald Trump promised to “cancel” the Paris agreement the Obama administration signed in 2016. The Senate never voted on the agreement. Two storms hit California over the weekend due to an “atmospheric river” phenomenon that brought torrential rain and snow to the northern reaches of the Golden State. The atmospheric river plays a bigger role on the U.S. West Coast where it brings huge amounts of rain — sometimes half the rain these states get in a year. The events are nothing new. California was hit by a string of storms in 1986 that caused massive flooding. The floods killed 13 people, displaced another 50,000 and did $400 million in property damage. Similar events happened in the 1990s and 2000s. The current flooding has killed at least three people and shut down parts of major highways. Floods can be devastating, and scientists predict they could become more frequent and intense due to man-made global warming. The data doesn’t seem to suggest flooding is on the rise. About 60 percent of the locations the EPA measures show a decrease in “magnitude and intensity since 1965,” according to University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke Jr. Pielke also found that flood damage has been declining as a proportion of the U.S. economy since 1940 — that way you control for population growth and development. On a global scale, there’s little to no evidence flooding events have been on the rise. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found in 2013 that “there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale” dailycaller.com

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (993472)	1/12/2017 12:33:26 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570860

German Green Party pledges to pay for free sex with prostitutes for anyone who needs 'sexual assistance' and can't afford it Sex with prostitutes will be paid for by the Government for anyone too poor for a hooker and deemed to need sexual assistance under German Green Party plans. The party's care spokeswoman Elisabeth Scharfenberg says doctors should have the right to issue the free prescriptions to their patients for ladies of the night. Prostitution is legal in Germany and carries little of the taboos associated with it in many other countries. There are brothels in virtually every town and a trend recently began with working girls offering 'sexual assistance' to dementia sufferers, the handicapped and people living in care homes. Depending on the brothel, the services range from 'affectionate touching' to bondage, fetishism and full sex. But no law exists for the client to claim for the costs of his or her visit as a medical expense. The Greens want to change that, based on a law that has been in place in the neighbouring Netherlands for some time. 'I can imagine a public financing of sexual assistance,' Scharfenberg said in an article in the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. The Greens' plans consists of patients obtaining a medical certificate confirming that 'they are unable to achieve sexual satisfaction in other ways, as well as to prove they are not able to pay sex workers on their own'. Scharfenberg said: 'Municipalities could discuss appropriate offers on site and grants they would need.' Sex coach and author Vanessa del Rae worked for many years as a nurse and later took over the management of a nursing home and holds lectures on sexuality and sensuality in many facilities. 'In Holland, prostitutes are paid by the health insurance fund', she said. 'In Germany in recent years we have seen the advent sexual companion, especially trained in relation to the sexual needs of elderly men and women. 'She knows the handicaps, the shyness and shame which come with old people.' She said that nursing home staff often react with horror and anger when they catch older residents canoodling - or pleasuring themselves. But Professor Wilhelm Frieling-Sonnenberg, a medical care specialist, said the idea is 'contemptuous towards human dignity, a way to placate troublesome patients'. dailymail.co.uk If Jill Stein campaigned on this, bent, rat, and koan would all have gone "green."