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pecosbob
pecosbob's Journal
pecosbob's Journal
December 2, 2023
Fallout...April 12
November 13, 2023
Beau of the Fifth Column on polling as a tool of manipulation
October 10, 2023
Little force, big force and the manual
June 19, 2023
I'm struck by parallels between this empire and ours...
New episode of one of my favorite documentary series...the Fall of Civilizations
"Each episode, we look at a civilization that rose to glory, and then collapsed into the ashes of history. We ask: Why did it collapse? What happened next? And what did it feel like to be a person alive at the time?"
I'm struck by parallels between this empire and ours...
June 17, 2023
A thought...how delicious that Trump will eventually be done in by the 'help', don't you think?
His drivers, valets, aides, coffee boys and girls, etc...a bit of karma, I think.
May 11, 2023
To the corporate sponsors of tonight's 'town hall'...we will know who you are by your actions
and we will remember. Get ready for hit to your bottom line.
March 16, 2023
Stop Making Sense 2023
February 6, 2023
If the estimates are high, maybe only 80 deaths per hundred thousand. If they are low, perhaps as many as 150 per hundred thousand. Currently there are ten deaths per hundred thousand from traffic accidents in the U.S. One alarming number...Coral Gables Florida...97% of real properties will experience flood damage by 2050. Let's not even mention Houston which regularly floods now even before major onset of global climate change. By then the wet-bulb temps will be so bad in Houston that you won't be able to work outside for more than a few hours at a time. Maricopa County Arizona is done...finito.
Yet people are still moving to these three states in large numbers to find work.
By 2050 more people will die from excessive heat than from auto accidents in parts of the U.S.
So where exactly is ground zero for climate change you may ask? Florida, Texas and Arizona.
If the estimates are high, maybe only 80 deaths per hundred thousand. If they are low, perhaps as many as 150 per hundred thousand. Currently there are ten deaths per hundred thousand from traffic accidents in the U.S. One alarming number...Coral Gables Florida...97% of real properties will experience flood damage by 2050. Let's not even mention Houston which regularly floods now even before major onset of global climate change. By then the wet-bulb temps will be so bad in Houston that you won't be able to work outside for more than a few hours at a time. Maricopa County Arizona is done...finito.
Yet people are still moving to these three states in large numbers to find work.