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Margaret Wiegand's avatar

Great article, although rhode island is not an island, though it incorporates a number of islands.

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George Chiappino's avatar

Water is plentiful but without industrial achievements there’s no such accomplishment as a “water supply”. “Climate Change” does not make that any different. So this again is the vilifying of our industrial achievements masked behind a concern for human welfare.

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JamesDuff's avatar

Time to defund PBS BS! the game is getting old blame the weather, blame global climate crisis, when they are conducting weather wars on us still.

The old guard will continue to insist blaming everything except themselves.

Professors from a woke Marxist school still getting paid to promote the bs on PBS time to defund both schools and their microphones.

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Michael van der Riet's avatar

I call these outrageous fabricators of untruths "Matildas" after the Hillaire Belloc poem:

Matilda (1907)

Matilda told such Dreadful Lies,

It made one Gasp and Stretch one's Eyes;

Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth,

Had kept a Strict Regard for Truth,

Attempted to Believe Matilda:

The effort very nearly killed her,

And would have done so, had not She

Discovered this Infirmity.

For once, towards the Close of Day,

Matilda, growing tired of play,

And finding she was left alone,

Went tiptoe to the Telephone

And summoned the Immediate Aid

Of London's Noble Fire-Brigade.

Within an hour the Gallant Band

Were pouring in on every hand,

From Putney, Hackney Downs, and Bow

With Courage high and Hearts a-glow

They galloped, roaring through the Town

'Matilda's House is Burning Down!'

Inspired by British Cheers and Loud

Proceeding from the Frenzied Crowd,

They ran their ladders through a score

Of windows on the Ball Room Floor;

And took Peculiar Pains to Souse

The Pictures up and down the House,

Until Matilda's Aunt succeeded

In showing them they were not needed;

And even then she had to pay

To get the Men to go away!

It happened that a few Weeks later

Her Aunt was off to the Theatre

To see that Interesting Play

The Second Mrs Tanqueray.

She had refused to take her Niece

To hear this Entertaining Piece:

A Deprivation Just and Wise

To Punish her for Telling Lies.

That Night a Fire did break out-

You should have heard Matilda Shout!

You should have heard her Scream and Bawl,

And throw the window up and call

To People passing in the Street-

(The rapidly increasing Heat

Encouraging her to obtain

Their confidence)-but all in vain!

For every time She shouted 'Fire!'

They only answered 'Little Liar'!

And therefore when her Aunt returned,

Matilda, and the House, were Burned.

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