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posted by Lars Hagen  # 11:42 AM

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WSJ:  An Energy Education for Democrats
Biden’s climate policies have raised prices, and he’s mad as hell about it.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-energy-education-for-democrats-oil-majors-profit-drilling-fossil-fuel-gas-permitting-inflation-midterms-biden-11667155465?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
If Democrats lose next week’s election, one reason will be soaring energy prices. The lesson that an electoral defeat should drive home is that this is the result of their own policies.
Mr. Biden and fellow Democrats simply refuse to understand the economic consequences of their assault on American fossil fuels. They have come to believe that climate is a crisis and that banishing oil and gas is urgent. But that means higher prices, which they now blame on the very companies they want to go out of business. Economic logic won’t persuade them, but maybe a rout at the ballot box will.
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Biden Energy Policy
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/10/biden-energy-policy.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/10/how-much-energy-will-world-need.html
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Nova Scotia touted its huge ‘green’ energy plant. Turns out it’s powered by coal
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/26/nova-scotia-green-energy-plant-coal-powered?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1
The province is facing a 2030 deadline to shut down coal plants supplying 51% of its electricity in 2019. Photograph: Education Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images
Heading into November there is no prospect green power will be available by the time the EverWind Fuels facility begins operations, the Energy Mix and Halifax Examiner have learned in a joint investigation in partnership with the Guardian.
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Puerto Rico starves for power while the Biden team debates what the green-new-deal means for the hurricane prone island.
It’s been five years since Hurricane Maria left the country without electricity, but even with a whopping $12 billion in recovery funding committed, the future of the island’s grid is still in doubt
https://www.theverge.com/c/features/23404252/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-electric-grid-solar-panels-prepa-luma-fema
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Let’s Double-Down On Puerto Rico’s Renewable Energy Disaster
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/10/lets-double-down-on-puerto-ricos.html
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Coal mine demolishes neighboring wind farm to boost country's energy supply, drawing ire of climate activists
https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/coal-mine-demolishes-neighboring-wind-farm-boost-countrys-energy-supply-drawing-climate-activists
The German energy giant RWE admits the situation appears to be 'paradoxical'
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Youngkin's nuclear pledge to Southwest Virginia
https://roanoke.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-youngkins-nuclear-pledge-to-southwest-virginia-full-of-potential-or-just-empty/article_00ad6d64-50fa-11ed-90ef-ef0301518da4.html
Youngkin’s plan essentially takes the position that encouraging growth of renewable energy is well and good, but fossil fuel infrastructure should be left in place to ensure the power grid is stable.
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CBS calls out 'inconvenient truth' behind Biden's 'clean energy' electric vehicle push
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cbs-calls-out-inconvenient-truth-behind-bidens-clean-energy-electric-vehicle-push?dicbo=v2-60d9974cb7c7d30d198f4e71def4cefb
           (may have to copy-paste link into browser to view fox article)
Last year, Biden signed an Executive Order requiring half of all new auto sales in 2030 be electric vehicles
Seventy-five percent of battery manufacturing is done in China.
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 11:41 AM

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Pelosi Delays Security Bill for Supreme Court Justices, Even After Murder Attempt Against Kavanaugh
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2022/june/pelosi-delays-security-bill-for-supreme-court-justices-even-after-murder-attempt-against-kavanaugh
One day after a California man was charged with attempted murder of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Republicans urged House Democrats to immediately pass a bill increasing security for justices and their families.
The bill passed the Senate but it has sat in the “Pelosi House for about 30 days”.
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Democrat-DOJ allowing illegal protests outside SCOTUS justices' homes despite federal law,
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-allows-illegal-protests-scotus-justices-homes-federal-law
           (may have to copy-paste link into browser to view fox article)
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Paul Pelosi, House speaker’s husband, violently attacked in San Francisco home
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/oct/28/paul-pelosi-house-speaker-nancy-pelosis-husband-vi/
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A Violent crime against one of us is a crime against all of us!
Hopefully Mr Pelosi will fully recover from his serious wounds.
Perhaps the accused will Not have the benefit of noBail turn-um-loose non-justice being dispensed across the blue cities and states for attacks upon ordinary citizen victims.
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Clearly no one should feel Schadenfreude
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
over the twist of fate that Nancy viewed protection of the Kavanaugh family, and other SCOTUS families, as a political game and then her husband became the victim of a deranged assailant who apparently was targeting her.
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It’s also diabolical that crime is a primary factor in the Republican surge over Democrats in the current midterm elections. In fact, run-away-crime and the Democrat’s indifference to it may enable Republicans to regain the House and Senate.
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What strange type of thinking has steered the Democrats into a policy of decriminalizing crime when the victims of crime are predominately people of color in center-cities?  Is that not a form of racism?
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Preamble For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne (1572-1631)
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Impeach And Remove Schumer Today For Sedition
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/03/impeach-and-remove-schumer-today.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 10:23 AM

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The Democrats skillfully and successfully hid Biden during the 2019 election cycle. Clearly the voters were duped until after the election when they, like 2-week old kittens, opened their eyes and realized the pathetic and limited left-wing old man they had elected to the highest position in the world to say nothing about his backup relief pitcher.
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Last night the Pennsylvania voters got to see the pathetic and limited and hard-left-wing Fetterman who has been hidden for months during which time early-voter-voters have been voting for a man clearly not up to the requirements of a US Senator.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fetterman-oz-meet-for-highly-anticipated-pa-senate-debate/2022/10/25/9765ad6a-541b-11ed-ac8b-08bbfab1c5a5_story.html
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In NY Gov Hochul debated for the first and last time and demonstrated that she doesn’t have a clue about the crime epidemic in NY; worse yet, she supports the no-bail laws and revolving justice door for hard-core criminals terrorizing NY residents.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/25/passionate-zeldin-beats-robot-hochul-in-ny-governor-debate/
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In Arizona Democrat Hobbs has hidden from a debate for the Governorship clearly afraid to face the voters after 2+million Biden Illegal Immigrants have invaded her state, a modern reenactment of being overrun by Attila the Hun.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/katie-hobbs-defends-not-debating-182234966.html
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The Democrats have developed the hide the pea in the shell game and exploited the curtain caper in Alice in Wonderland: “Don’t look behind the curtain”.
All this during early voting when voters have not yet seen the full picture of the candidates.
Something about voting on voting-day to minimize fraud, abuse and manipulation.
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 10:40 AM

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Guest editorial: Teacher shortage won't be fixed by lowering bar
https://roanoke.com/opinion/editorial/guest-editorial-teacher-shortage-wont-be-fixed-by-lowering-bar/article_2a98dc04-0ecd-54cb-ae5c-9ec21f7cc030.html#tracking-source=mp-opinion
The teaching crisis is real, and we’re not going to work our way out of it simply by making it easier to hire teachers.
That approach is at the heart of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s plan to attack the shortage. His wants to ease pathways to teacher licensure by simplifying the process for people with out-of-state licenses to work here in Virginia, helping career-changers find their way in
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Based on the Virginia School Reality this so called ‘guest editorial’ falls sadly short of the issues facing our schools, administrators, teachers, parents and students.
Disparaging Governor Youngkin’s initiatives appears to be simply more media pro-union and antiRepublican tripe.
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Some Reality would include:
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Roanoke Times Revisits School-Student Performance and finds it hard to paper-over the reality of self-imposed failure.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/10/roanoke-times-revisits-school-student.html
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Perhaps there is no one key to improving teacher recruitment and retention.
Pay is important, so is the teaching environment.
Center cities, like Roanoke, have had long-standing problems hiring and keeping good teachers.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/10/roanoke-teachers-join-pipeline-out-of.html
A major issue has been nasty and violent and out of control students empowered by administrators who will not engage in interdiction, correction, mitigation or removal.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2016/07/roanoke-teachers-leaving-school-to.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/07/teacher-union-chiefs-in-charge-of.html
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The Covid two-year education hiatus, aggravated by the teachers unions,
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/01/teachers-unions-and-not-teaching.html
has been a disaster for teachers, students and parents. Clearly bad decisions were made and the outcomes are bad for our children going forward.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/10/roanoke-times-revisits-school-student.html
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The social, political, sex and race activists have diverted focus away from basic education and onto disparate issues that make the teaching-learning environment a mine-field for teachers.
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Of all subjects, math has been declared a racist subject, not just for the way it is taught, but by its very being. Really?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/06/breaking-through-racist-math-barrier.html
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Teachers have been fired for not complying with students ‘preferred pronouns’ instead of their biological identity.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/12/teacher-fired-for-wrong-student-gender.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-400k-pronoun-circus.html
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Even the athletic coaches are entangled in the woke-sex programs of biological boys beating-up girls.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/10/news-flash-boys-and-girls-are-different.html
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Our DisFunctional And Failing Schools
Some current-news examples of our dysfunctional primary and secondary schools and the social-political warfare being waged in our school boards and classrooms:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/10/our-disfunctional-and-failing-schools.html
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In Virginia, Loudoun and Fairfax counties have been the ‘tip of the spear’ forcing parents and students to accept and submit to this Gender Jihad.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/10/virginia-school-gender-privileged.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/06/virginia-public-schools-leftwing.html
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Of the reasons Youngkin beat McAuliffe, perhaps the key was Terry’s pronouncement that “parents have no role in their children’s education”!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/09/mcauliffe-parents-no-role-in-their.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 10:40 AM

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North Carolina school district votes to forfeit games against rival after transgender athlete injures female player
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/north-carolina-school-district-votes-forfeit-games-rival-transgender-athlete-injures-player
Female player reportedly suffered head and neck injuries from vicious spike
The Hiwassee Dam female player is still suffering from long-term concussion symptoms and has not been cleared to play, according to Education First Alliance.
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Some history and facts:
What an unpleasant and politically incorrect and WOKE-invoking message!
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Our Creator made Adam and Eve in The Garden (the conversion from monkeys was just too hard),  and he made them different!
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Boys and Girls have different genes and dna and physical parts!
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Have we alienated enough people yet? There’s a lot more!
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The major correct objective is to give both groups “equal opportunity” consistent with their differences!
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There may be some ‘physical overlap’ at the boundaries and those should be managed as exceptions to the general boy-girl rules.
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What part of this is hard to understand?
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Democrats War On Natural-Female Athletes
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/10/democrats-war-on-natural-female-athletes.html
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Obama’s TransGender ‘Jocks’ Back Again
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/09/obamas-transgender-jocks-back-again.html
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Are School Bath-Rooms Still Obama’s Psychology-Laboratories? YES!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/02/are-school-bath-rooms-still-obamas.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 6:08 PM

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Roanoke politicians react to launch of governor's gun violence initiative

https://roanoke.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/roanoke-politicians-react-to-launch-of-governors-gun-violence-initiative/article_cd1f164a-517c-11ed-8132-f36eda4214ff.html#tracking-source=home-top-story
The first three steps, outlined in a press release from the governor’s office, are specifically related to supporting law enforcement agencies by “fixing pay and wage compression,” launching “a comprehensive recruiting effort” and providing “more training and equipment.”
That means 43, or about 17%, of the city’s police officer positions are vacant.
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What a pathetic sight – Mayor Lea groveling at Youngkin’s initiative to get Roanoke City’s police dept. up to strength.
Clearly Roanoke can fund it’s police dept within it’s own budget.
This just a Lea ploy to say “he” (meaning the Democrats) didn’t support funding the police.
Question now: what will the police do? Currently they now are not allowed to engage criminals. Having more cops doesn’t suppress criminals unless they are enabled to do so!
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Next step – deputize all the Roanoke cops as state cops and put them under the command of Youngkin’s Va State Police --- would be a good start!
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Roanoke Mayor Lea Lamenting Crime He Has Coddled
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/09/roanoke-mayor-lea-lamenting-crime-he.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 11:16 AM

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Treat Energy Equivalent To National Defense
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/10/treat-energy-equivalent-to-national.html
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Joe Biden The Extortionist
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/10/joe-biden-extortionist.html
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Diminished Biden Driving US Into Ditches
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/10/diminished-biden-driving-us-into-ditches.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 11:16 AM

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Fully 84% of registered voters named the Mainstream Media as a threat to Democracy. Nearly 60% of voters called the MSM a “major threat.”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/10/20/boom-59-of-voters-think-msm-is-a-major-threat-to-democracy-nyt-siena-poll-n504577
After two years of relentlessly pounding the issue of democracy being under threat the public has come to agree with the liberals and the MSM: yep! Our democracy is under threat and it is you guys in particular who are the most responsible.
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The Left has poured countless dollars and endless hours of propaganda into convincing Americans that Donald Trump, MAGA Republicans, and anybody who would prefer their children to remain unmutilated by the butchers in Children’s Hospitals, the only thing they have succeeded in doing is making normal people dislike and distrust them.
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Who is the biggest threat to democracy? Most people say the media
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/who-is-biggest-threat-democracy-most-people-say-media
A Gallup poll released Monday found that just 34% of people believe establishment media report the news “fully, accurately and fairly.” That is just 2 points higher than the record low, which came during the 2016 election cycle. In total, 66% of people have little or no trust in newspapers, television, and radio news.
MEDIA BIAS: EX-CNN BOSS JEFF ZUCKER ACCUSED OF BEING 'PARTISAN' IN NOT COVERING HUNTER BIDEN
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US Loosing Trust And Confidence
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/12/us-loosing-trust-and-confidence.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 8:43 PM

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Climate change made summer drought 20 times more likely
Ecological disasters like the widespread drought and then massive flooding in Pakistan are the "fingerprints of climate change," said Maarten van Aalst, a climate scientist at Columbia University and study co-author.
https://roanoke.com/weather/climate-change-made-summer-drought-20-times-more-likely/article_56cc6bfd-e1c2-5dd6-bec6-2303f3e8fe59.html
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We continue to be inundated daily with media hype defining dynamic weather as being man-made global warming, without any clear cause-effect proof.
So called experts or authorities seem to be simultaneously growing on drought stricken trees and washing down flood driven rivers.
Where were they for all the other major weather events throughout history?
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Where’s John Steinbeck and his ‘Grapes Of Wrath’ when we need him.
The 1920’s decimating drought driving the Okies west to California without one word about ‘climate change’.
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The Galveston Hurricane of September 1900, the most devastating storm to ever hit Texas – 8,000-KILLED, no global warming mentioned.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/09/killer-hurricanes-hit-us-deja-vu-again.html
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Then the massive mid-US floods of 1927 without a word about climate change. At Vicksburg, Mississippi, May 1927 the river was 80 miles wide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mississippi_Flood_of_1927
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The massive Roanoke River Valley flood of 1985 without a word about climate change.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/10/pravdamedia-spreading-more-agw-flooding.html
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Perhaps the Bible would be the best source and predictor of climate change and current events: the 10 plagues:
“water turning to blood, frogs, lice, flies, livestock pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness and the killing of firstborn children”!
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Not clear how the plagues relate to ‘global warming’ although it appears to encompass them – close enough for government work. Tell Gore, Greta and Kerry.
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Talk about global climate – today’s news is abuzz with the record cold that has descended upon the eastern-half of the US.
BUT – not one word about ‘global warming’ and how it relates to this massive early cold record! Not one word --- Really?
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Cold blast to bring record-breaking temperatures to large part of U.S. this week
The chilly temps could affect more than 60 million people as far west as Colorado and south into Florida, according to the National Weather Service.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/cold-blast-bring-record-breaking-freezing-temperatures-large-part-us-w-rcna52540
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Coldest air of season sweeps across eastern US, spreading freeze alerts to Florida
The coldest air so far this season is being felt by millions of Americans on Wednesday.
https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/october-cold-weather-forecast
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Florida, Gulf Coast see record freezing temperatures from cold front
Snow threat to shift toward eastern Great Lakes, interior Northeast
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-gulf-coast-record-freezing-temperatures-cold-front
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Cold blast to bring record-breaking temperatures to large part of U.S. this week
https://news.yahoo.com/cold-blast-bring-record-breaking-171120369.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 2:52 PM

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“How Much Energy Will the World Need?"

"https://www.youtube.com/embed/wDOI-uLvTnY"

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posted by Lars Hagen  # 2:29 PM

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The survivability and health of our country depends upon our energy systems as a key component of our national economic and defense systems.
It is comforting to see that our planners for our strategic B-‘x’ Bombers are using sound management and engineering processes for migrating from one technical-operational level to the next level.
Why are our Democrat state and federal leaders Not using similar reasonable system management for our grid-energy systems but instead are codifying into laws totally arbitrary and dangerous edicts with no planned energy backup for new intermittent and unreliable systems?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/12/northam-grid-energy-debacle.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/09/some-reality-injected-into-virginias.html
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Early Planning for B-1, B-2 Retirements Depends on B-21 Progress
“At this point the team’s really focused on maintaining that readiness, availability, survivability, and operational capability” for the 1 and 2 “while we get ready for the 21”
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/early-planning-for-b-1-b-2-bomber-retirements-depends-on-b-21-progress/
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Let’s Double-Down On Puerto Rico’s Renewable Energy Disaster
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/10/lets-double-down-on-puerto-ricos.html
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Germany Is Now Putin’s Energy Hostage
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/03/germany-is-now-putins-energy-hostage.html
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Energy MisDirection The UnSustainable Cliff
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/12/energy-misdirection-unsustainable-cliff.html
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Limited Energy = Poverty
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/08/limited-energy-poverty.html
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“How Much Energy Will the World Need?"
"https://www.youtube.com/embed/wDOI-uLvTnY"
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 7:10 PM

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Manchin Tones Down Energy Bill Ahead of Key Senate Vote
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-27/manchin-bill-drops-change-to-law-that-s-used-to-block-pipelines
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Manchin popularity drops double digits in West Virginia
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/manchin-popularity-drops-double-digits-in-west-virginia
Only 42% of registered voters approve of Manchin and 51% disapprove after the senator lost a lot of support from Republicans and independents. In a poll during the first quarter of 2022, his approval rating was close to 60% and his disapproval rating was less than 40%. The change in his approval rating could be rooted in his recent support for some of President Joe Biden’s policy agendas.
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Manchin’s original bill was focused on reviving US energy development and production including fast-tracking the Va-WVa MVP pipeline designed to bring WVa fracking-gas to the NE metropolitan area and compressed gas for export to EU countries being blackmailed by Putin.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/04/mvp-opponents-propping-up-putin.html
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An old idiom about politicians and ladies of ill repute: You’re only as good as your last performance.
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/241187
With that in mind it’s clear that Pa Dem Manchin’s last performance has discounted any merits he had accumulated trying to oppose the prior Biden, Schumer, Pelosi moves to spend the US into Massive Inflation and Bankruptcy.
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One wonders about NY.D.Sen Schumer and the natural gas shortages and skyrocketing heating costs to his constituents? Apparently they won’t hold him accountable as they suffer this winter. Something about sheep.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/10/distuptor-blue-ridge-parkway-or-mvp.html
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“How Much Energy Will the World Need?"
"https://www.youtube.com/embed/wDOI-uLvTnY"
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 7:10 PM

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RT Editorial: A closer look at SOL results for Roanoke city schools
https://roanoke.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-a-closer-look-at-sol-results-for-roanoke-city-schools/article_1f7a283c-4bd6-11ed-86ff-97133d418367.html#tracking-source=home-top-story
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In September the RT waxed elegant that all is well with our schools and our students are doing fine.
Then they woke-up and smelled the coffee and recognized that after two-plus years of public school failures and malfeasance by the teachers unions our students have suffered academically, that there are massive amounts of unused federal tax-money sitting in school bank accounts and no one is addressing how we can help our students with remedial programs.
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However: The RT keeps the alibis going with:
We are a ‘very diverse’ school district.
(are they saying minorities can’t learn? Really! Who says that in 2022?)
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Other school districts didn’t do well either.
(it’s alright we’re failing instead of doing what we can to help with remedial programs?)
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It’s not just SOLs – other things are important too.
(other things are a distraction relative to reading, writing, math and technology in a very competitive world marketplace!)
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The state gives us alternatives to academic achievement to help graduate our low-performing students.
(alternative skills programs are good, however, they are very limited without reading, writing and math capabilities!)
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Propping-up Schools At Student’s Expense
(or making silk purses out of pigs ears)
(This expression was a proverb in the mid-1500s still valid today!)
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/10/propping-up-schools-at-students-expense.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 7:10 PM

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U.S. Core Inflation Hit New Four-Decade High Last Month
Prices excluding energy and food rose 6.6%
https://www.wsj.com/?mod=wsjheader_logo
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Report Seals Case for 0.75-Point Fed Rate Rise in November
Another uncomfortably high inflation reading is likely to keep the central bank on track to raise rates by 0.75 percentage point at its meeting next month.
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Mortgage Rates Hit a 20-Year High
The sharp rise in borrowing costs, to 6.92% for a 30-year fixed mortgage this week, has cooled the housing market and put homeownership out of reach for many.
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Biden’s Impacts On Your Investments, 401’s And IRA’s
WSJ: Stock Funds Down 24.8% in 2022
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stock-funds-down-24-8-in-2022-11665163528?mod=hp_jr_pos2
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Joe Biden The Extortionist  - Do What I Say Or Else!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/10/joe-biden-extortionist.html
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“When you’re driving down a country road and you come across
a fence post with a large turtle on top, that’s a post turtle.”
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You know he didn’t get up there all by himself,
he doesn’t belong there,
he doesn’t know what to do while he’s up there,
he’s elevated way beyond his ability to function, and
you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put him up there to begin with.
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Think about it.
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 12:26 PM

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Renewable energy could be the key to hurricane-proofing Puerto Rico’s power grid --- REALLY?
Stronger hurricanes driven by ‘climate change’ are pushing Puerto Rico to hunt for better renewable energy options.
https://www.popsci.com/environment/puerto-rico-renewable-energy-grid/
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Apparently ‘Popular Science’ is no longer popular or science.
How could any “Science” publication promote more (intermittent, unreliable and vulnerable) ‘renewable energy’ after the devastation of Puerto Rico’s wind turbines during hurricane Maria?
https://patch.com/massachusetts/falmouth/massachusetts-politicians-ignore-puerto-rico-wind-turbine-damage
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Hurricane Maria wiped out almost every wind turbine on the island of Puerto Rico.
https://patch.com/massachusetts/falmouth/massachusetts-politicians-ignore-puerto-rico-wind-turbine-damage
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Shutting Down Puerto Rico's Energy,
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/07/aoc-shut-down-coal-plants.html
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All this reminiscent of Pete Seeger 1968 and his
‘Neck Deep In The Big Muddy And The Big Fool Says – Push-On’
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/04/neck-deep-in-energy-muddy.html
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Killer Hurricanes Hit US: Déjà vu Again
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/09/killer-hurricanes-hit-us-deja-vu-again.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 12:25 PM

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Biden warns there will be 'consequences' for Saudi Arabia after oil production cut
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-warns-will-consequences-saudi-arabia-oil-production-cut-rcna51804
The president did not specify what action the U.S. might take, but he indicated that Congress would be involved.
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Biden, The Democrats and The Obama-Judges have stifled US fossil fuel discovery and development starting his first day by killing the Key Stone Pipeline.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/07/biden-bipolar-gasman.html
This achieved the Biden objective of broadcasting his war on fossil-fuels that immediately precipitated a major increase in fuel prices and associated reduction in US investment.
It also gave Putin energy power over the EU and NATO.
This situation was then aggravated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Biden has raided the strategic reserves down to the 1984 level – something about George Orwell. Something about abusing national security assets.
Biden then ‘implored’ the Saudi’s to increase production and has explored supply from Iran and Venezuela, both very bad antiAmerican actors.
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Yesterday the Saudi’s announced a 2-million barrel a day reduction in oil production to help offset the coming reduced demand of the Biden-Recession.
Biden went postal. How dare the Saudi’s not follow his demands?
Biden announced retributions will follow!
Talk about colonialism, intimidation, and straight-out criminal extortion!
Let’s hurt a country for acting in their self-interest who is helping us to contain Iran’s antiWest terrorism and who rightly feels no obligation to prop-up Biden's self-imposed fuel cutoffs.
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More Biden Election Malfeasance
Saudis say Biden admin requested oil production cut to come after midterms
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/saudis-say-biden-admin-requested-oil-production-cut-come-midterms
           (may have to copy-paste link into browser to view fox article)
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Biden's war on American energy even makes Carter years look good by comparison
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bidens-war-american-energy-makes-carter-years-look-good-comparison
           (may have to copy-paste link into browser to view fox article)
From misusing Strategic Petroleum Reserve to bullying domestic producers, Biden is harming US energy supply
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Biden’s Bad Bully Behavior reached an apex with his visit to Ukraine on behalf of his sun Hunter.
Joe Biden Brags He Coerced Ukraine With One-Billion Dollars
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/09/joe-biden-brags-he-coerced-ukraine-with.html
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See VP Joe brag about his malfeasance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXA--dj2-CY
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Biden’s AntiOil Fiat On-Hold
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/08/bidens-antioil-fiat-on-hold.html
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Biden Abusing US Emergency Oil Reserves
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/04/biden-abusing-trumps-us-emergency-oil.html
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Biden energy policy enriched Russia, emboldened Putin
Why did the US import Russian oil at record rates last year?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/02/biden-bought-russian-oil-fawned-over.html
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Let’s Build, Back, Better To Energy Independence
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/05/lets-build-back-better-to-energy.html
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Obama: We Don’t Need No Energy Independence or Energy Jobs
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2012/01/obama-we-dont-need-no-energy.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/10/biden-epitome-of-nothingness.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 7:23 AM

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Roanoke Times, 9-18-22, Pg 1: We teach more than just the SOL’s
https://roanoke.com/news/local/southwest-virginia-educators-suggest-room-for-improvement-with-states-standardized-tests/article_b2572f1c-35d6-11ed-97ef-abb078e3c032.html
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Roanoke Times, 9-20-22, Pg A7: Schools prove successful but not perfect
https://roanoke.com/opinion/editorial/guest-editorial-schools-successful-but-not-perfect/article_76946eee-3592-5c20-be1b-b87196592fb3.html
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The Roanoke Times is apparently OK with the major 2-year+ short-fall in student learning and performance and apparently gleeful with the diversions to sexualizing the school environment and happy that teacher union Randi Weinharten is in charge of our schools:
BUT
Fortunately R.Gov.Youngkin has higher aspirations for our students.
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Governor Youngkin Releases Education Report Finding Sliding Education Performance and Lowered Standards in Virginia
Youngkin Administration to raise standards, improve transparency, and empower parents and teachers
https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2022/may/name-933341-en.html
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Virginia’s School-Choice Coming
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/07/virginias-school-choice-coming.html
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What Are Parent’s School Grievance Options?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/02/what-are-parents-school-grievance.html
(in the face of Biden sic’g the DOJ-FBI onto dissenting parents)
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 7:17 AM

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The US border states and communities are starting to share their massive Biden illegal immigrant flood by busing a very small percentage of the 2+million to their associates in other states – especially the Sanctuary cities.
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New York Mayor Adams Declares State of Emergency Over Migrant Crisis
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/york-mayor-adams-declares-state-150422558.html
New York Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency over the city’s migrant crisis, saying that the recent arrival of more than 17,000 asylum-seekers from Central America and South America is straining the city’s resources.
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Really?
NYC is a Welfare and Sanctuary City that has 3+million people on public welfare assistance!
How can 17,000 new arrivals be a “Crisis”? How indeed?
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Just shut-up and handle the 0.5% increase in assistance with a potential increase in the Democrat voting pool.
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NYC partial welfare view:
Adults and children receiving welfare (TANF):
182,032
Children receiving food stamps (SNAP):
1,006,000
EITC recipients:
1,600,000
Families receiving child care subsidies:
52,700
Households receiving federal rental assistance:
585,000
https://spotlightonpoverty.org/states/new-york/
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New Democrat Party Rejects Real Workers
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/01/new-democrat-party-rejects-real-workers.html
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Are We Paying Poverty Enough?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/02/are-we-paying-poverty-enough.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 7:17 AM

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Hurricane Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys as a Category 4 hurricane and then along the southwest coast of Florida as a Category 3 hurricane. The storm then moved north over the Florida peninsula while weakening to a tropical storm before moving into Georgia
https://www.weather.gov/chs/TropicalStormIrma-Sep2017
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This first of the season Cat 3-to-5 Hurricane, Irma, has devastated a beautiful section of Florida from Naples to Punta Gorda including the exclusive barrier islands along the coast with over 100-killed and countless left homeless and destitute.
The personal and community pain and suffering cannot be estimated or even understood.
Unfortunately this area of Florida has seen massive high-density growth and development over the past 50-years in-spite-of a long term history of hurricanes and tropical storms.
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Memorable October hurricanes
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/weather/2021/10/01/october-hurricanes-why-florida-remains-vulnerable-state/5881453001/
Since 1851, 36 October hurricanes, including 11 major hurricanes, have made a Florida landfall – an event that technically occurs when the center of a storm breaches the coast.
Most of Florida's October horrors have no name, forming before monikers were awarded. But people still remember Irene, which scratched through Palm Beach County as a Category 1 in 1999, and 1998's Key West visit by Cat 2 Georges, and Cat 3 Opal's Pensacola landfall in 1995, and Floyd's 1987 spin through the Florida Keys.
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Sadly, yet again the AGW-Alarmists Biden, Gore, Kerry, and associates are claiming this demonstrates once-and-fore all that man-made global warming is responsible in-spite-of over 150-years of Florida Hurricane History and a reduction in major hurricanes as atmospheric CO2 has in fact increased.
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This is the first US major Hurricane to make mainland landfall this season from June 1 through Nov. 30.
For the 2022 hurricane season, NOAA is forecasting ……. including 3 to 6 major hurricanes (category 3, 4 or 5; with winds of 111 mph or higher). NOAA provides these ranges with a 70% confidence.
https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-predicts-above-normal-2022-atlantic-hurricane-season
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CNN: Should we rebuild in disaster-prone areas?
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2022/10/01/smr-comment-should-we-rebuild.cnn
Since 1873 there have been over 50 tropical cyclones passing within 100 nautical miles of the Fort Myers area.
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Politicizing Hurricane Disaster
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/08/politicizing-hurricane-disaster.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/12/us-hurricanes-2021.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2016/10/hillary-and-gore-politicize-deadly_11.html
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Killer Hurricanes Hit US: Déjà vu Again
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/09/killer-hurricanes-hit-us-deja-vu-again.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 4:20 PM