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Most of this isn't actually true. The only reference listed that is real is the first one: NIH. If you click on it it says the vax is worth the risk. The remaining references are crackpot sites. There are no guarantees in life but the anti-vax hill is the dumbest hill to die on.

Commented: Tuesday, June 13th, 2023 @ 9:41 am By: Big bob

JS, the correct response is, oh crap, that stuff is still happening? What can I do?
Instead you post what you posted. Not only is Mr. Crow alive, but you're his best friend.

Commented: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 10:43 pm By: Big Bob

Forest managers are anybody that owns over 20 acres of woodland.

Why is everything so institutionalized for you Leftists?

Big Bob: Do you own 20 acres or more of woodland forest?

Commented: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 8:54 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Is Mr. Crow Dead?
I think not.
www.yahoo.com

Commented: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 5:10 pm By: Big Bob

Some of the worst destroyers of forests in today's world are the green energy grifters. They do this multiple ways. They clear cut old growth forests in Canada and the US, including North Carolina to make wood pellets to fire "biomass" electric plants in Europe. These are often retired coal plants, and burning wood pellets generates more CO2 than burning coal for the same amount of electricity produced, but they call it "green energy" because it is "renewable". We have some "biomass" electric plants in the US, but most are in Europe. It is just American and Canadian trees that are firing those plants in Europe.

Then there is the clear cutting of forests to actually build the "solar farms" and "wind farms". To look at just one example here. A request under the UK's equivalent of the Freedom of Information Act to Foresty Scotland produced not only documents but an official calculaton by that government agency of how many trees had been cut down in Scotland for wind farms on public land. This did not include pribate land deforestation or any of the solar farms. They calculated that 13.1 million trees had been cut down just of public land to build wind farms in Scotland. Wind and solar are very land intensive and forest loss to build these facilities worldwide is huge.

Then there is the blades for the wind turbines. The core of these is balsa wood which is light and strong, which is covered with resins. The source of the balsa wood is the Amazon rain forests, called "the lungs of the planet" which is being clear cut for balsa wood to make wind turbine blades.

It is rare that a new wind or solar farm is built in Germany without local environmentalists suing to stop it, arguing that it will lead to deforestation, loss of wildlife habitat, slaughter of birds and bats, and other environmental harm. Many of those lawsuits are succesful in stopping wind and solar farms. Last year, the German courts, for example, ruled with local enviornmentalists to prohibt a wind energy company from clear cutting the ancient forest that was the setting for the Grimm Fairy Tales.

Wind energy companies are also bad about water pollution. A wind project in Scotland was fined 5 million euros for a massive fish kill that their water pollution was responsible for, and in Ontanio Canada, four wind energy companies have been indicted for multiple criminal felonies for polluting the ground water. As a result of their pollution, water in one district in Ontario was so toxic people were told not only not to drink it or cook with it but not to even bathe in it.

Commented: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 4:01 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Margaret Thatcher hit the nail on the head when she said "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other peoples money".

Commented: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 2:53 pm By: John Steed

Simplicity does appeal, but I don't know anyone who would agree forest management is "simple". That's just politics.

Commented: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 1:19 pm By: Big Bob

John Steed: You can make all the salient points you want, but Leftists, like Big Bob, only hear the Corrupt-Propagandists-Posing-as-Journalists lying to him, and his kind, over and over again to the point they can't think their way "out of a wet paper bag."

That is why we are here: Real Journalism; only the truth ... and some satire thrown in the mix.

Commented: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 11:45 am By: Stan Deatherage

One was due to widespread election irregularities which were not even properly investigated to determine if they rose to the level of fraud, just swept under the rug. The other was a Marxist insurrection which used the unfortunate demise of a criminal while in law enforcement custody as a trigger. One was violent, although the propaganda media told us is was "firey but mostly peaceful" as a building was being burned down in the background. The other was genuinely peaceful except for some law enforcement brutality, including the deliberate execution of a protester.

The 2020 insurrection was violent and destructive and prolonged. The 2021 protest was a one day, acutally a few hours, event and was peaceful from the protesters side, even though ANTIFA / BLM infiltrators tried to provoke violence and destruction.

But the key on prosecution and punishment should be WHAT THEY DID, not what their ideology was or why they did it. When the 2020 insurrectionists set buildings on fire, all of them present should have been rounded up and charged with felony arson based on the concept of acting in concert.

Commented: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 11:34 am By: John Steed

That is where we are different: Most things in life are NOT complex, but it is for the muddle-brained that parses everything to benefit their nefarious end.

You and your Leftist kind not understanding forestry management is just an example of such.

Commented: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 10:13 am By: Stan Deatherage

Most things in life are complex and are better addressed with a thoughtful response.

Commented: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 9:58 am By: Big Bob