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Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion
Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion
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Another horrid person, so attractive to Manhattan Mafia Trump.
Well written. The accompanying pictures of paintings were helpful. Learned something.
A snowflake's chance ...
Turkey is engaging in a voluntary war of aggression. As a member of NATO.
Well yes, now that you mention it.
Yes, armies are supposed to defend the national border.
Seems to me that the Turks are engaged in armed aggression. The UN is supposed to keep such from happening.
Turkey can form a security zone on their own side of the border.
No, any aerosols lofted into the stratosphere did not remain for "centuries". The 1,200 year cold spell in the North Atlantic region was caused by the flux of fresh water into the northern North Atlantic. This was the result of the Clovis Comet breaking at least one, maybe three, ice dams releasing proglacial lakes to flow to the ocean. The geological evidence is abundantly clear but I am not going to attempt to give the details.
Does The Donald know that Hawaii is a state?
Yes, hard lines breed hardliners; spiraling to excess m
My head spins.
Sauce for the goose is...
Well, Congress won't appoint a special prosecutor so long as the Republicants run Capitol Hill.
Study first. Then speak.
The easternmost extent, i.e., spread, of Homo sapiens are the Inuit living in Ittoqqortoormiit, Eastern Greenland, 21°58'00"W.
The westernmost spread prior to modern times from the origins in Africa is to Iceland.
Anthropologists no longer use the term Homo sapiens sapiens.
Leslie, that was not the promise. The promise was that there be no NATO troops in East Germany. That is straight from Gorbachev.
Moron is one step up from idiot.
Maybe you gave The Donald the benefit of the doubt.
No vote so no relief?
Don't forget to void the Jones Act, at least for Puerto Rico.
"Let my people go."
Hard to live under a government that hates you.
Oroville Dam in Northern California didn't do so well last February.
Bakshish.
In the longer run, Miami will have to be abandoned against the ever rising seas. Why not start now?
Somehow the zombie keeps coming back...
With fingers crossed I hope that Congress will overcome 16 years of deadlock to provide the dreamers with citizenship.
No possibility of a Fukushima in Texas. No earthquake, no tsunami.
I won't go into the different regulatory framework. If anything, nuclear power plants in the USA are overly safe at great expense. Some of us study these matters.
Rather than delving into the statistics which show that nuclear power plants are the safest form of electricity production per unit energy, I will only point out that the South Texas Project nuclear power plants continued to generate irrespective of the wind speed.
Well stated.
With regard to point 5, weather systems move along from west to east in Rossby waves. With less of a temperature difference between the equator and the poles the Rossby waves slow down. That is calculation using a simplified Terra model.
So the question is whether or not the model is over simplified. Experience this century suggests not. I opine that Professor Mann is being overly cautious.
A pardon that will live in infamy.
He can read?
Off topic: the Guardian reports today of Saudi princes kidnapped and disappeared by the Saudi apparatus.
Oh dear. No, the trails for cattle being driven to Abilene, the railroad head, and later Dodge city, never started in Santa Fe. The drives were from Texas. The few cattle in Northern New Mexico stayed there to feed the growing population.
I lived in nearby Los Alamos in the 1950s and the previous paragraph is mostly from my high school state history class.
I suspect that The Donald owes the Russian mafia. Possibly we shall see.
It is only starting.
Losing Tillerson would be bad. Looks to me to be a steady hand.
Thus, the effects of the prolonged drought caused, at least in part, by global warming.
She was released.
Quit buying their oil?
800,000 versus 200,000 is meaningless without knowing how many public school students and how many private school students there are in total.
War is Peace.
Lead is damaging to adults as well as children.
And so the Russian Federation runs out of money.
Why cannot Qatar simply ignore this?
The 21st century version of the Great Game.
Not a very reflective man.
I see it more as simply against Theresa May continuing as PM.
The British that I read simply ignore The Donald.
I opine that Qatar will be able to obtain plenty of food from Iran.
Is so-called Arab unity going to completely fall apart?
Sorry, Juan Cole, but there is no handy big glacier to plop in the ocean. Just the steady melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet, to be joined later by the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Yes, call the group Daesh. It does not deserve to use the word Islamic.
I am under the distinct impression that India still plan to build several hundred gigawatts worth of new coal burners.
However, especially in India, there is often a wide gap between plans and realization. Coal burners require a heavy investment in distribution lines to reach rural India; solar panels do not.
Speechless.
Maybe they are all mad...