Well, probably not. But it should be.
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If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!
Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.
And we’re all out of bubblegum.
As long as McCarthy is Speaker, the House will never be in order.
It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.
Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.
White supremacy is terrorism.
It’s the corruption, stupid.
They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.
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Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.
When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?
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Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.
“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”
A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires
It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.
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“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.
demimondian
FWIW, the folks over at Slashdot debunked this pretty thoroughly. (Why Slashdot? Well, if the Slashdolts can debunk something, then it’s pretty clearly not your ordinary run-of-the-mill bunk, but some superspecial spoofy bunk…) There’s certainly an effect due to sea level changes, but the actual mechanism is clearly driven by other effects.
ThymeZone
Darrell called and said that he won’t believe there’s anything to this global warming thing until Gilligan’s Island is in danger.
norbizness
The “should be” comment in the main post is a little opaque.
Tim F.
That was me musing out loud about small inhabited islands which might actually do some policy good if they got swallowed up by rising sea levels.
But as Demimondian points out an island can disappear for a couple of reasons so I didn’t put that much emphasis on the story. It’s a data point and not a case on its own.
demimondian
Meh. The National Seashore on South Padre is quite beautiful, you know, in a switchgrass-and-natural-desolation kind of way. I recommend it, particularly in the dead of winter when you don’t have to share it with (other) tourists.
Zifnab
As one of the posters pointed out, jacking up the sea level 2-3 inches probably didn’t slay the island outright, but it probably didn’t help either.
It’s just a shame that, once again, the media needs to sensationalize the news rather than actually reporting on the science behind it. If people still question whether Global Warming is real, I can’t help but think it is in some part by the media hypsters who just want four-inch tall fonts on their newspaper articles whenever they report on something.
Barry
Tim, if the kids can’t party on S. Padre Island, then I’m afraid it’s your place for spring break. The good news is that you’ll get all the free beer that you can drink.
The bad news is that your yard will get all of the, how shall we say it, ‘used beer’ that it can absorb.