Massachusetts

Can't find anything  .... um... ?sympathetic? to say so just leaving it there.....

*shrug*  if they want to spend that kind of money to be able to have waterfront homes, have at it.  Just don't ask the taxpayers to support it.

You have assumed government still has many moderates.  With extremism (ie Alex Jones, Trump, etc), intelligent thought is replaced by soundbites and extremist rhetoric - ie hate of government.   Trump demonstrates this by even claiming (every so often) that he would eliminate democracy.  (Then he backtracks.)

Contempt of intelligent thought even demonstrated during Katrina.  When refugees in the Convention Center and Superdome has no food or water for three days.  And Brownie even denied it on ABC News Nightline.  So many believed him rather then Rivera (and the other Fox News reporter) who said it was happening.  Even the Fox News anchorman denied it.

The USS Bataan sat 50 miles offshore unable to provide assistance.  Because George Jr refused to authorize it.  But again, facts that did not happen because extremism makes problem solving, or even defining a problem, impossible.  By simply denying it with a soundbite.

We have a severe shortage of moderates.  Coastline wipeouts, protected by government insurance and bailouts, is only a symptom.  Flood insurance so that people can build where nothing should be built.

 

Major strides have recently been made in understanding Parkinson's.  It is caused by common viruses such as herpes, influenza, hepatitis, etc.  The immune system learns to attack those.  But that response then sees nerve sheaths as similar.  Attacks them.

Genetic research is now ongoing to teach the immune system to not attack that protein structure.

 

Meanwhile in New Hampshire:



 

EEK!!!

You can see in the first picture that the guy in the foreground has the tip of his fishing rod over to his left. He has hooked the whale; but, instead of playing the whale to the right, away from the port side, he played the whale to his left and right into that other boat. They should revoke his fishing license.

When the whale makes a run, the fishing line will be pulled out so fast the reel will start smoking.

griff wrote:

In my day, rod and gun competencies would be proven well before stepping on a deck or climbing onto a roof. Kids today.
 

In my day the ocean was uphill both ways.  And we had to clean it with our tongues after we'd been in it.

Nonsense, toilets on the plane, heresy, against strategic principles .
Don't lighten the paratroopers, heavy men get to the ground faster than lighter ones.
Less chance of being picked off in the air.
Then lighten the load on landing by not tucking in the pant cuffs. ;o)