PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Little Joe on August 28, 2017, 05:21:02 AM
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My wife is an extremely intelligent, but ironically a serious liberal.
I asked her if she thought we should make a donation to a Texas hurricane relief agency.
She asked me if I would donate to a California relief agency if they were in a similar situation.
To be honest, I am not sure, but I think I would. Natural disasters are different than political ones. And even liberals are human. But it might be hard for me to send my hard-earned ;) dollars to the People's Republic of California.
Would you?
edit: By the way, she did let us send a sizable check.
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California is getting ready to start taxing drinking water.
How long before the have a toilet tax, and a breathable air tax?
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Don't plan on sending money to either of those places. Not be a dick, but plenty of my tax money will already be spent to help them. And then there is the fact that most charities you send money to spend a large amount of monies received to support their infrastructure, not giving it to those in need. I participate in local charities and fund raising. I'm a board member of my local Lions Club. I do have friends who live in the hit areas, and will be sending them support if they need it; hygiene products, clothes, etc.
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I've been watching the events in Texas and find several things that jump out at me.
Before the storm even arrived CNN #FAKENEWS declared it a "Trump Failure." What they based their bullshit on I have no idea. It's probably the same logic that had Gerhardt babbling his nonsensical idiocy in a couple of recent threads.
I haven't seen a single ANTIFA, neo-nazi, white supremacist, or BLM group helping victims (black, or white). In fact, I haven't seen a single civil rights organization involved in the humanitarian efforts.
#FAKECNN has spent far more time wringing their lying hands about Sheriff Joe in just a couple of days, than they spent on the baffling pardons handed out by the traitor Obama. All this while taking time out of bashing Trump for allowing a hurricane to hit America.
#FAKECNN has chosen to severely limit coverage of the fact that the democrat mayor of Houston advised citizens to stay instead of evacuate, which has led to Yuugggee problems. His ignorance is only exceeded by the arrogance of networks refusing to comment on it. His stupidity reminds me of the democrat haven of New Orleans and Katrina. for the same reasons.
The poverty/race pimp, Sharpton is nowhere to be seen. He's too busy preparing his lies for the fake civil rights march he's organizing in DC, to actually do anything even remotely useful. No one on the left seems to be paying attention to his lack of humanitarian effort.
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It's at these times that politics should be set aside so that we can put our focus on where it needs to be: helping those in the affected areas. These are the times where our country unites and shows the true character of America and her citizens. Whether it's a hurricane in Texas, an earthquake or a fire in California or flooding in North Dakota, there are people who are in need right now. If someone has the ability and desire to help, they should. That can be a monetary donation, sending supplies, etc.
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How long before the have a toilet tax, and a breathable air tax?
That would presume that the air would be breathable.
Experience with LA Smog cleared by a rain shower should be required for anyone who does not believe in electric cars.
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What I find most ironic is that the conservatives of Texas would be the first to deride subsidies and any kind of Federal welfare. Yet I make contributions to their cause all the time when I pay my taxes. The only entity that offers flood insurance is the Federal Government, and it is heavily subsidized by taxpayers in higher elevations (a whopping 1K feet about sea level, but it doesn't flood here) like me. Agencies like FEMA have never stepped foot in my community and likely never will.
All that said, I feel absolutely horrified for my fellow Americans in Huston and the eastward communities. The best news I've had all week was when I saw that Amelia's landing was only lightly damaged.
Oh, and all the conservatives here would laud the laissez faire regulations in Texas that have allowed construction that has exacerbated that city's susceptibility to floods. And if course everyone here is in complete denial of the climate change that has warmed the waters, increased the amount of moisture in the air, and increased the frequency of heavy rainfalls and floods in the area.
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And of course Perfesser Triple Digit tries to tie a hurricane to his religion of MMGW.
Since you're a self proclaimed genius, how about looking at the data on tropical storms and hurricanes in the US for the past 20 years. Oh, please use actual data, not the cooked shit that those who worship in your cult use.
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And of course Perfesser Triple Digit tries to tie a hurricane to his religion of MMGW.
Since you're a self proclaimed genius, how about looking at the data on tropical storms and hurricanes in the US for the past 20 years. Oh, please use actual data, not the cooked shit that those who worship in your cult use.
And you are such a complete nincompoop that you have never realized in all this time that an I.Q. of 100, which by the way is triple digits, is indicative of average intelligence.
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And you are such a complete nincompoop that you have never realized in all this time that an I.Q. of 100, which by the way is triple digits, is indicative of average intelligence.
And you are such a complete fuckin' moron who gets on the internet bragging about your IQ, then goes on posting shit that makes it look like you have an IQ of a turnip.
Steven Hawkins said it best : "People who boast about their I.Q. are losers."
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And you are such a complete fuckin' moron who gets on the internet bragging about your IQ, then goes on posting shit that makes it look like you have an IQ of a turnip.
Steven Hawkins said it best : "People who boast about their I.Q. are losers."
I actually never bragged about it. That's the real point which you are insufficiently intelligent to understand. A triple digit I.Q. suggests nothing more than average intelligence. It is very clear the you are an arrogant man with an I.Q. of one or two digits.
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I actually never bragged about it.
Here is the post:
I doubt it strongly. Unlike you guys I have an IQ in the triple digits. I know that there are a billion Muslims, roughly one in every ten humans on planet Earth. To ascribe any political goal or ideology that encompasses all of them is pure folly.
Anyone who brings p their IQ in a discussion such as this is trying to point out their intelligence over someone else, i.e. bragging.
Stephen Hawkins said it best, and it applies in your situation.
It is very clear the you are an arrogant man with an I.Q. of one or two digits.
So says the arrogant little perfesser from the inside of his protected little bubble.
In the real world outside of academia you are a pathetic joke.
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What I find most ironic is that the conservatives of Texas would be the first to deride subsidies and any kind of Federal welfare. Yet I make contributions to their cause all the time when I pay my taxes. The only entity that offers flood insurance is the Federal Government, and it is heavily subsidized by taxpayers in higher elevations (a whopping 1K feet about sea level, but it doesn't flood here) like me. Agencies like FEMA have never stepped foot in my community and likely never will.
So Ohio has never needed FEMA assistance, or flood insurance?
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I wouldn't give California a nickel unless they forced me, and I live there.
Tim
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Here is the post:
That was a slight, implying that you weren't very intelligent, because you didn't have a triple digit I.Q. (i.e. average intelligence). And you are so over-the-top stupid that you didn't even understand the slight after it was explained to you.
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That was a slight, implying that you weren't very intelligent, because you didn't have a triple digit I.Q. (i.e. average intelligence). And you are sooner-the0top stupid that you didn't even understand the slight after it was explained to you.
Twist it anyway you want, funny how you only now, after 9 months are trying to "clarify" your statement. I and other participants here understand the point you were trying to make.
I stand with what Mr. Hawkings said.
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That was a slight, implying that you weren't very intelligent
I couldn't help notice back then that you wrote "you guys" rather than use the singular, so I always thought you were implying Pilot Spin was an alternate universe version of the Lake Wobegon effect, where all the posters you disagree with are below average. But if that's the case, where's my goatee?
On a side note I've never taken an IQ test (and only would if someone else pays for the test and my time.) Otherwise the only proxy measurements I have for my IQ are the ACT and SAT tests I took in 1973 for entrance into college. My ACT composite score was 27. My old SAT (Verbal + Math) score was 1140. According to this link, http://www.assessmentpsychology.com/iq.htm (http://www.assessmentpsychology.com/iq.htm), my IQ is somewhere around 124 - 126 (WAIS, Binet.) Interesting that the two entrance tests yielded roughly the same estimate for my IQ. While I am too stupid to join Mensa (under their 98 percentile threshold) that URL would indicate I've underachieved academically since I'm presumably as bright as the average Ph.D. graduate.
So my mistakes and general ineptness are always above-average and less excusable. Ugh.
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two words....Hell No!!
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So Ohio has never needed FEMA assistance, or flood insurance?
I can't categorically say that no one in the Buckeye state has ever had flood insurance, but I never have. We dug ourselves out of the blizzard of '78. I recall Cincinnati getting flooded once. No FEMA, no National Guard or anything else. Hell, I recall a flight across the state that showed the vast majority of it underwater. Not only did we not get federal assistance, it didn't even make the news.
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I can't categorically say that no one in the Buckeye state has ever had flood insurance, but I never have. We dug ourselves out of the blizzard of '78. I recall Cincinnati getting flooded once. No FEMA, no National Guard or anything else. Hell, I recall a flight across the state that showed the vast majority of it underwater. Not only did we not get federal assistance, it didn't even make the news.
Really?
Well, doing a simple google search (something you still haven't managed to figure out) says you would be wrong, very wrong.
https://www.fema.gov/significant-flood-events
https://www.fema.gov/states/ohio
https://www.fema.gov/archive/disaster/4002
https://www.fema.gov/archive/disaster/4098
https://www.fema.gov/archive/disaster/4077
And I have found countless articles on Cincinatti flooding, and countless articles on other flooding events in Ohio. Actually too many to list since you didn't give a specific date.
So once again your blathering is much like everything else you purport to have knowledge on.
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Sometimes Steingar is the perfect progressive.
He knows so much that is simply not true and pounds the table with his ignorance like a sledge hammer.
I guess he's still trying to pretend that Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her house...
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By Odin you guys are so full of yourselves. Right now Houston is underwater. It is on the front page of every news outlet on the planet. When Ohio was underwater it was on the front page of nothing. So fuck you all.
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By Odin you guys are so full of yourselves. Right now Houston is underwater. It is on the front page of every news outlet on the planet. When Ohio was underwater it was on the front page of nothing. So fuck you all.
Looks like someone is a little butt hurt for not getting the attention they think they deserve.
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By Odin you guys are so full of yourselves. Right now Houston is underwater. It is on the front page of every news outlet on the planet. When Ohio was underwater it was on the front page of nothing. So fuck you all.
Since you won't provide any dates of these events, and since there is page after page of google hits on Ohio floods (which includes newspaper articles) it's a little hard to believe your claim that no news outlet put the Ohio flood on the front page.
Here's your issue with a forum such as this: You live in the academic bubble where you are king of your classroom. You can stand before your class and proclaim any bullshit you want without fear that someone will raise their hand and call out your lies. If one dared to do such a thing, then you would excoriate them in front of everyone then make sure they got a failing grade.
Here whatever you post can be challenged, and as we've seen time and time again much of what you post is nonsense blathering. This is why so many academics have such a problem in dealing with the world outside their protected bubble.
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By Odin you guys are so full of yourselves. Right now Houston is underwater. It is on the front page of every news outlet on the planet. When Ohio was underwater it was on the front page of nothing. So fuck you all.
"I've got a rhyme that comes in a riddle / O-Hi-O! / What's round on the ends and high in the middle? / O-Hi-O!
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The real problem is that Steingar HAS to beat the drum loud and long about his make believe superior intelligence, because NOBODY else is doing it for him.
To prove to himself that he is smarter than everyone else, when the facts say otherwise, he must not only spring forth with ludicrous bullshit, but attack everyone that didn't get the memo.
For a supposed intellectual to proclaim his Triple Digit IQ is indicative of NOTHING but an inferior intellect and a over sized ego.
Now he's mad and will be alon g momentarily to tell us he hates us, our feet smell and he's never coming back.... and we're all morons, or something equally as pathetic.
In advance.... See you next time, Mikey.
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He'll be back. He's just throwing his temper tantrum right now.
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I pay A LOT in taxes, especially Fed, Sate, and Local Income Tax, and Local Property Tax. I also give to the Salvation Army, not the United Way who are scam artists. If the money goes to TX, or CA, I am fine with that unless it is for a CA government bailout, which I will NOT support. Let these Communist states live within their means!
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I would not and have not given any donations to either state.
While I understand the dichotomy of the two needs, I think the cases are different enough to not be equivalent, and here's why.
Texas hurricane/flood(not just Houston, as Rockport was devastated with 65% living structures unlivable, and many businesses destroyed, Corpus also significantly damaged), was a 800 year rather sudden event, which while they can be predicted, they can't be reasonably accounted for by design. Even if the was more open space, and better flood control, it's a metro area of multi-millions of people, and built in a low lying flood plane. Unless we just write off the upper coast of Texas completely, this was a record event that will likely never be repeated for another millennium. The structures and flood control that was designed, worked to the best of it's capability. It was up to standards of the metro area emergency codes, and no amount of extra effort, including more green space was going to alter the course of nature.
California rains/flood was not even a 500 year event. In fact, the Great Flood of 1862 was worse than last winter, and that was only ~150 years ago. Further, the state of CA diverted state and fed tax revenue that was destined for flood control, dam renovation, and reservoir building to other more glam and elite deals like the maglev train, and some idiotic payments to illegals, including school tuition, medical, and other social costs.
To put it bluntly, Texas was as ready as they could be, and CA frittered away their funds on moonbeam plans, while their infrastructure was left to literally rot. When the bill came due in CA, it wasn't a recognized disaster like an earthquake or typhoon/hurricane. CA just didn't want to spend on needed infrastructure, and Texas has plenty of up-to-date emergency equip.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
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First, flood insurance is available via the national flood insurance program, but also through competitive for-profit companies. While I sympathize with them, I'm not a fan of bailing them out on damage to their homes any more than I am of subsidizing someone who crashes their car and doesn't have insurance.
But the assistance is for so much more than damage to their homes. They have immediate needs and need immediate help, and I don't care where someone lives to offer help. I read something the other day about all but one TX congressmen voting against Hurricane Sandy relief for the New Englanders. Now the excuse is that they voted against it because it had too much pork, but when is that ever not the case? Regardless, the folks from up north aren't holding grudges and are supporting Harvey relief.
FEMA bashing is popular. Not that they haven't made some mistakes, but overall they do a pretty good job with the incredible variety of tasks they're responsible for.
Steingar's original post has some validity to it. I am a believer in MMGW, and we've already seen more of these xxx-year events that are occurring gee...now. And we're going to continue to see more of them. If you don't believe, you don't believe, but it's hard to have much sympathy for someone creating their own demise and refuses to pull their head out of the sand.
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If you don't believe, you don't believe, but it's hard to have much sympathy for someone creating their own demise and refuses to pull their head out of the sand.
Lots of people join cults, and MMGW is just another cult. I find it hard to have sympathy for someone that follows a cult and believes the bullshit they put out.
Oh, and another common trait of the cultist is they do not contribute anything towards their cause, they expect others to do that for them. I believe you have admitted in doing nothing towards helping end MMGW.
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I am a believer in MMGW, and we've already seen more of these xxx-year events that are occurring gee...now. And we're going to continue to see more of them. If you don't believe, you don't believe, but it's hard to have much sympathy for someone creating their own demise and refuses to pull their head out of the sand.
Bullshit. You sound like you've been watching Fredo.
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I believe you have admitted in doing nothing towards helping end MMGW.
If you can find where I said anything of the sort I'd appreciate you posting the link. I don't take it to the extreme, but I do what I can.
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Oh yeah, this was MMGW!! Or maybe this was intensified by the fact the two high pressure systems had it trapped in the same location for several days being fed by moisture from the Gulf. Aren't you in aviation gerhardt and shouldn't you understand a little bit about high and low pressure systems? Just unfrucking believable.
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Like so many things that motivate progressives, the only appealing thing about the mmgw scam, to a liberal, is the idea of government stealing liberty in favor of totalitarianism.
Liberals are obsessed with having someone tell them what to do, think and any derivation is a sin. But their real boner comes from seeing others forced to pretend that their scams are legit.
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If you can find where I said anything of the sort I'd appreciate you posting the link. I don't take it to the extreme, but I do what I can.
So what is it you do to fight MMGW? Have you invested any money into the "fight"?
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So what is it you do to fight MMGW? Have you invested any money into the "fight"?
No, he wants to invest your money...
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No, he wants to invest your money...
OwlGore wants all of us to invest. OwlGore has made a killing on pushing this cult.
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OwlGore wants all of us to invest. OwlGore has made a killing on pushing this cult.
And buying expensive ocean front mansions with other people's money.
If mmgw is going to raise the sea level so much, how come that fucking pig lives right beside the ocean???
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...we've already seen more of these xxx-year events that are occurring gee...now. And we're going to continue to see more of them. If you don't believe, you don't believe, but it's hard to have much sympathy for someone creating their own demise and refuses to pull their head out of the sand.
Actually, with regards to floods specifically, the USGS says the increase in 100 year events is due to increased urban development, which decreases the area's ability to withstand flooding. However other development such as flood control dams will decrease the chance of a 100 year flood happening.
https://water.usgs.gov/edu/100yearflood.html
Also, if you are intested, the method for determining the 100 year flood areas were developed in the late 1970s and published in 1982. In that guide, they primarily use a pre-determined frequency curve paired with assumptions about the hydrological capabilities of the land to determine the likelihood of a flood. It was determined that climate has little impact on this and even if it got colder, it would not increase flooding as was commonly believed.
https://water.usgs.gov/osw/bulletin17b/dl_flow.pdf
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It seems OwlGore's book on his cult is not selling well, and is being outsold by a book that counters his religion.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/04/al-gore-outsold-on-kindle-by-an-e-book-debunking-an-inconvenient-sequel/