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I have comments on two things:

1: Regarding geothermal. I have a friend who put in a geothermal heat-pump years ago. I had considered it, but didn't. The upfront cost was huge, but the savings in heating/cooling costs were supposed to be worth it. Recently, he changed over to regular gas heat. Electricity costs have gone up so much that operating the heat pump is more expensive than burning gas.

The fact is, if electric cars weren't subsidized out the wazoo, nobody would buy them, either. Sales are dropping, even WITH the subsidies.

2. Attorney General Merick Garland, the most contemptible and dangerous AG America has ever seen, will stop at nothing to get Trump. Yet even HE (and the FBI) makes no claim that there was an insurrection on Jan 6. So, how does a judge disqualify Trump from the election based on a non-existent insurrection?

America is now a banana republic. There is no law, constitution, or principle that the Biden regime won't ignore in order to stop Trump from throwing them out of power in 2024. They know they can't win legitimately, so they'll do it illegitimately. Who votes for these people????

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Apparently a whole lot of people, whose votes get counted in the middle of the night after the polls have closed.

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Here's the rest of the Colorado Supreme Court story -- it's just the Happy People pretending to be happy: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/12/19/the-colorado-supreme-court-4-3-decision-is-pure-nonsense-and-can-be-laughed-at-they-even-admit-it-on-page-9/

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volcanologist, Thorvaldur Thordarson

What a mouthful

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Just call him Thor

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Lots of people pointing out problems. Anyone discussing peaceful solutions?

For the past two years we have been trying to find solutions to our biggest problem: THE CORRUPTION OF THE SYSTEMS THAT GOVERN OUR LIVES.

Is it solvable? Yes of course. All problems that do not defy the laws of physics are solvable.

This took us 2 years to write this. How to fix corrupt government in 3 simple steps:

https://open.substack.com/pub/joshketry/p/how-to-fix-corrupt-government-in?r=7oa9d&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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And how exactly will the grid sustain a switch to heat pumps... "In the war between platitudes and physics, physics is undefeated"

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In a similar vein, 1970s investment writer and later in life, occasional Libertarian candidate Harry Browne observed that reality always triumphs over politics. (Actually, I would note that politics sometimes is successful; presumably in those rare cases where it was actually well grounded in reality...)

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Are we to believe that Eco Health Alliance never funded GOF research at Wuhan, or does this only mean they never got a grant from DARPA? Funding can come from many sources, like vaccine makers.

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Please explain why you are equating criticism of Israel with "antisemitism." You're not stupid. You know that to do this is a lie. You owe us an explanation for making this intelligence-insulting and outrageous connection.

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Direct quote:

"How U.S. Public Schools Teach Antisemitism. From pre-K lessons on ‘ethnic noses’ to lectures on Israel as an apartheid state, students are learning that Jews are the enemy. "

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Direct quote from the article which included lots of examples of antisemitism. Doesn't mean I agree with all of it.

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I see. I scrolled down on that article and found it. I see that's your style for these run-downs. My bad. Some of us are a little sensitive to this false equation, which is being used everywhere as a propaganda technique. Thank you for responding and explaining what I failed to notice.

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For all their apparently vaccine skeptic actions to date I applaud Texas and my home state of Florida. Just the same, so far as I know, there remains the gaping hole of apparent reluctance to open for detailed studies the records of people who took the mRNA vaccines. Such health records are routinely studied for government or academic purposes and patient privacy is protected. Where are the studies, Governor DeSantis? What are you afraid of?

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Of course life predates the Earth. It's just common sense. To birth a planet requires life.

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