Hello Everybody,

US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is clearly delusional.
This is what the poor guy said today, concerning the election -

"If Republicans don't challenge and changethe US election
system, there wil never be another Republican president
elected again. President Trump should not concede. We're
down to less -- 10,000 votes in Georgia. He's going to win
North Carolina. We have gone from 93,000 votes to less than
20,000 votes in Arizona, where more -- more votes to be
counted."
~ Lindsey Graham, 11/8/2020

Notice the Trump campaign has provided absolutely no evidence
to back up any of the president's outlandish claims.

"So, what happened? The Trump team has canvassed all early
voters and absentee mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania. And
they found over 100 peole they think were dead, but 15 people
that we verifiedthat have been dead who voted. But there is
the one that gets me. Six people registered after they died
and voted. In Pennsylvania, I guess you're never out of it."
~ Lindsey Graham, 11/8/2020

Oh, my. I gotta move to Pennsylvania. That way I will never
be out of it even when I am out of it. Just think about how
many times I will be able to vote both before and after I
am dead.

With that in mind, here is what US Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT)
said in response -

"I think people are saying that conservative principles still
account for the majority of public opiinion in our country."
~ Mitt Romney, 11/8/2020

Yep. You're never out of it in Pennsylvania. Even when you
are clearly out of it.

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Lee wrote (2020-11-09):

Hello Everybody,

US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is clearly delusional.
This is what the poor guy said today, concerning the election -

"If Republicans don't challenge and changethe US election
system, there wil never be another Republican president
elected again. President Trump should not concede. We're
down to less -- 10,000 votes in Georgia. He's going to win
North Carolina. We have gone from 93,000 votes to less than
20,000 votes in Arizona, where more -- more votes to be
counted."
~ Lindsey Graham, 11/8/2020

Maybe he is just a realist. The election system is already rigged to produce better outcomes for the Republicans and the incumbent president is still losing. They rarely win the popular vote and the senate does not represent the majority (of voters).

Too bad that sane Republican candidates don't win elections anymore, only the polarizing extremists which are just incompetent politicians. In 4 years a candidate that still is a climate change denier will have a very slim chance to get elected. It's catch-22. If the candidate is a right-wing populist, swing voters vote for the democrat. If s/he is sane and moderate, it's not polarizing enough that enough of the crazy people cast their vote.

But maybe the voters will change the party over the years by not electing the annoying and intimidating white men anymore who run the GOP nowadays. Only time will tell.

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~ Lindsey Graham, 11/8/2020

Maybe he is just a realist.

LOL! Or maybe he's too dizzy after all the turning around trying to please His Master?

The election system is already rigged

The rest of the world realized that decades ago. What we're surprised about is that (now) 70 million of the US population still haven't realized it.

But, watching various Karen/Kevin video clips on Youtube, it's easy to see that it's all about the US educational system. After all, how can you brainwash 70 million people unless they are all totally uneducated? As in "no college for you mate, back to the coal mines for you!"

But maybe the voters will change the party over the years by not
electing the annoying and intimidating white men anymore who run the GOP nowadays. Only time will tell.

You mean, like rather doing it the AOC way? Yeah, I think that would be a really good path to follow... <3

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Bjorn,

But, watching various Karen/Kevin video clips on Youtube, it's easy to
see that it's all about the US educational system. After all, how can you brainwash 70 million people unless they are all totally uneducated? As in "no college for you mate, back to the coal mines for you!"

I think you're dangerously close to the truth.

A more and more larger portion of the US youth in the Red states is home-schooled, most belong to religious groups such as the LDS and other groups and as such become a state inside the state. They have not had the opportunity to learn to think for themselves but were trained to do as their religious leaders and/or parents. Examples exist in the Z1-portion of the nodelist.

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They have not had the opportunity to learn to think for themselves but were trained to do as their religious leaders and/or parents.

Sadly so. Of course this happens in many other countries too, but they are usually not regarded as developed countries.

A country that produces people like this is rather rare even in the Odd Country Category:

https://youtu.be/I4daeEacIVI



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On 10/11/2020 15:56, 2203/2 wrote:

   A country that produces people like this is rather rare even in the Odd Country Category:

   https://youtu.be/I4daeEacIVI

What a strange person.

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Hello, Ward Dossche.
On 11/9/20 11:46 PM you wrote:

Bjorn,

But, watching various Karen/Kevin video clips on Youtube, it's
easy to see that it's all about the US educational system. After
all, how can you brainwash 70 million people unless they are all
totally uneducated? As in "no college for you mate, back to the
coal mines for you!"

I think you're dangerously close to the truth.

Yes he is. The public education system in the US sucks ass.

In Texas, for example, they have this statewide test requirement at different grade levels. One of those Basic Skills type of things.

That in itself isn't bad. You should have minimum standards of education levels to proceed ahead.

The problem is, that far too many schools are only teaching to pass that test.

So you have an entire generation that isn't getting a decent education.

A more and more larger portion of the US youth in the Red states
is home-schooled, most belong to religious groups such as the LDS
and other groups and as such become a state inside the state. They
have not had the opportunity to learn to think for themselves but
were trained to do as their religious leaders and/or parents.
Examples exist in the Z1-portion of the nodelist.

While that is certainly true in some cases, the public school systems do little better. And many parents fail their children as well, leaving all of the child's education to the education system.

However, homeschooling isn't limited to parents and/or churches.

One of my granddaughters is being homeschooled. That's not simply her mother teaching her. She is enrolled in an online school and has to log onto it for regular lessons with an actual teacher.

In her case, it's a health issue. Even before this whole Covid thing. She has severe asthma, bad enough that it has hospitalized her on several occasions. Regular school failed her because of attendance. With the homeschool, she can still attend her classes online while taking her treatments for her asthma, which just isn't possible in public school.

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Hello Oli,

US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is clearly delusional.
This is what the poor guy said today, concerning the election -

"If Republicans don't challenge and changethe US election
system, there wil never be another Republican president
elected again. President Trump should not concede. We're
down to less -- 10,000 votes in Georgia. He's going to win
North Carolina. We have gone from 93,000 votes to less than
20,000 votes in Arizona, where more -- more votes to be
counted."
~ Lindsey Graham, 11/8/2020

Maybe he is just a realist. The election system is already rigged to produce
better outcomes for the Republicans and the incumbent president is still losing. They rarely win the popular vote and the senate does not represent the majority (of voters).

That did not stop FDR (and his party) from winning the White House
(and both houses of Congress) from winning for two decades. Biden won
by a margin even greater than FDR in his first term, so it looks like
happy days are here again. At least for another twenty years or so.

Too bad that sane Republican candidates don't win elections anymore, only the polarizing extremists which are just incompetent politicians.

There are several sane and competent Republicans around. But they
have been scared to death by Trump's scorched earth politics. If a
Republican does not do as Trump says, Trump primaries him. Kind of
like kneecapping - an old Sicilian tradition.

The other problem Republicans have is there are not enough blacks
and other minorities in their party to keep them competitive. As a
result, the Democrats will continue to control the House, and also
continue to gain seats in the Senate. And with a black woman as
vice president, the Democrats will likely remain control of the White
House for a very long time.

In 4 years a candidate that still is a climate change denier will have a very slim chance to get elected. It's catch-22.

Doesn't matter. The current president is so in debt that the only
way he can make money is to run for president once he leaves office.
In other words, ask for donations the minute he walks out of the
door.

If the candidate is a right-wing populist, swing voters vote for the democrat.

George Wallace was a right-wing populist. And also a democrat.
He got elected to four terms as governor of Alabama. And also came
close to winning the presidency. The guy was Nixon's worst nightmare.
Would probably have won had he not been gunned down by a would-be
assassin.

If s/he is sane and moderate, it's not polarizing enough that enough of the crazy people cast their vote.

George Wallace only lost one contest in his entire life. He ran
for district attorney in a local race, as a moderate democrat.

After that race, he hired a speechwriter who was a klansman. That
won him race after race after race ...

But maybe the voters will change the party over the years by not electing the annoying and intimidating white men anymore who run the GOP nowadays. Only time will tell.

After about 2030 or so the white people in the USA will be a
minority and nobody will care about what few Republicans remain ...

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After about 2030 or so the white people in the USA will be a
minority and nobody will care about what few Republicans remain ...

Another alternative is of course that, by then a majority of the US voters have been joined together in a true Make USA U Again rally?

But I guess not. All empires are crumbling sooner or later. The US Empire was pretty resistant up until Trump. But now, not only will the US dollar crumble, but also the entire US economy. Sooner or later...



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Hello, Bj�rn Felten.
On 11/12/20 1:33 AM you wrote:

After about 2030 or so the white people in the USA will be a
minority and nobody will care about what few Republicans remain
...

Another alternative is of course that, by then a majority of
the US voters have been joined together in a true Make USA U Again
rally?
But I guess not. All empires are crumbling sooner or later. The
US Empire was pretty resistant up until Trump. But now, not only
will the US dollar crumble, but also the entire US economy. Sooner
or later...

This century for sure even moreso than was obvious in the second half of the 20th, the divisiveness of people seems to be pushed more and more, even by those who claim to be against it.

Perhaps the US is on a downward spiral it won't recover from. It's not something I expected.

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Hi Bj”rn,

On 2020-11-12 01:33:12, you wrote to Lee Lofaso:

But I guess not. All empires are crumbling sooner or later. The US
Empire was pretty resistant up until Trump. But now, not only will the
US dollar crumble, but also the entire US economy. Sooner or later...

That means they probably start a war, to "reset" things... :-(

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Hello, Wilfred van Velzen.
On 11/12/20 9:27 AM you wrote:

Hi Bj”rn, On 2020-11-12 01:33:12, you wrote to Lee Lofaso:

But I guess not. All empires are crumbling sooner or later. The
US Empire was pretty resistant up until Trump. But now, not only
will the US dollar crumble, but also the entire US economy.
Sooner or later...

That means they probably start a war, to "reset" things... :-(

I'm too tired to start a war. I'll just sit on my porch and yell at kids to stay off of my lawn,

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I'm too tired to start a war. I'll just sit on my porch and yell at
kids to stay off of my lawn,

LOL! Yeah, me too. 8-)



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https://youtu.be/I4daeEacIVI

What a strange person.

Here's another one:

https://youtu.be/8oa2GSyQSIw



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On 15/11/2020 11:35, 2203/2 wrote:

 BF>>> https://youtu.be/I4daeEacIVI

 DD>> What a strange person.

   Here's another one:

   https://youtu.be/8oa2GSyQSIw

Australia has its share of nut cases, but as with pollution per capita, fossil fuel usage per capita, and a whole bunch of stuff, USA is overly represented.

I'm glad I live here...

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I'm glad I live here...

* Salt Water crocs
* Flies
* More venomous snakes than any other place on Earth
* Top-10 of most venomous snakes in the world
* "Neighbours"
* Kylie Minogue
* ...

But you get credit for

* The Beegees
* Masterchef Australia until the 2020 season
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Hello, Ward Dossche.
On 11/18/20 8:33 AM you wrote:

I'm glad I live here...

* Salt Water crocs * Flies * More venomous snakes than any other
place on Earth * Top-10 of most venomous snakes in the world * "Neighbours" * Kylie Minogue * ... But you get credit for * The
Beegees * Masterchef Australia until the 2020 season ? Natalie
Imbruglia

Is anything above supposed to be a negative?

Now Keith Urban, on the other hand......

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On 18/11/2020 08:33, 2292/854 wrote:

I'm glad I live here...

* Salt Water crocs

Less prevalent in occupied areas that US gun nuts in USA (and cause far less human deaths per annum).

* Flies

Not an issue in modern environments

* More venomous snakes than any other place on Earth
* Top-10 of most venomous snakes in the world

See "salt water crocs" above.

* "Neighbours"

You don't have people living next door in your town?

* Kylie Minogue

I think she lives in UK - and has done for several decades.

You missed droughts and bush fires. But we learn to live with those - they're more predictable than nut cases.

But you get credit for

* The Beegees

Aren't they dead?

* Masterchef Australia until the 2020 season

I am not a fan of competitive eating/cooking so no points there.

? Natalie Imbruglia

Never met her.

You missed less nut cases per capita than USA, and firearm control legislation.

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* "Neighbours"

You don't have people living next door in your town?

You're not aware of the TV sitcom?

You must be an alien. ET phone home.

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On 11-19-20 07:47, Ward Dossche wrote to David Drummond <=-

* "Neighbours"

You don't have people living next door in your town?

You're not aware of the TV sitcom?

Sitcom??? I thought it waqs a soapie. :P


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On 19/11/2020 07:47, 2292/854 wrote:

* "Neighbours"

You don't have people living next door in your town?

You're not aware of the TV sitcom?

You must be an alien. ET phone home.

I am aware of one made in Aus for the UK market. I don"t think it is aired here. Then again it could be that I don't watch that much TV.


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On 19/11/2020 18:50, 3633/410 wrote:

* "Neighbours"

 DD>> You don't have people living next door in your town?

 WD>> You're not aware of the TV sitcom?

Sitcom???  I thought it waqs a soapie. :P

Is it aired in Bendigo?

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WD>> You're not aware of the TV sitcom?

Sitcom??? I thought it waqs a soapie. :P

Is it aired in Bendigo?

Probably, but I don't go looking for it. :P


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Hello David,

I'm glad I live here...

* Salt Water crocs

Less prevalent in occupied areas that US gun nuts in USA (and cause far less
human deaths per annum).

No American has ever been killed by a croc in the USA.

* Flies

Not an issue in modern environments

The swamp thing was created in a lab in Louisiana. I used to
visit the lab when I was a kid. The scientist at the lab would
buy cockroaches from us to feed the creature he was studying.
One day the lab caught fire and the creature escaped. And
that brought an end to my cockroach sales.

* More venomous snakes than any other place on Earth
* Top-10 of most venomous snakes in the world

See "salt water crocs" above.

The state of Florida has boa constrictors which do not need
venom (or jaws) to do their thing.

* "Neighbours"

You don't have people living next door in your town?

I live in the swamp.

* Kylie Minogue

I think she lives in UK - and has done for several decades.

Britney Spears. I think she lives in California. Or a nuthouse.
And has done for several decades.

You missed droughts and bush fires. But we learn to live with those - they're more predictable than nut cases.

Not to worry. Louisiana has hurricanes and floods. They seem to
come more regular these days, and are far more prevalent than nut
cases.

But you get credit for

* The Beegees

Aren't they dead?

Barry ain't dead yet.

* Masterchef Australia until the 2020 season

I am not a fan of competitive eating/cooking so no points there.

I ate 42 prunes in one sitting. A long time ago.

? Natalie Imbruglia

Never met her.

I never met Britney Spears' sister. That makes us even.

You missed less nut cases per capita than USA, and firearm control legislation.

Come to Louisiana. Leave different.

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On 21/11/2020 22:06, 2203/2 wrote:

 WD>>> * Salt Water crocs

 DD>> Less prevalent in occupied areas that US gun nuts in USA (and cause far less
 DD>> human deaths per annum).

No American has ever been killed by a croc in the USA.

Could that be because they're called alligators in USA?
[...]
 DD>> See "salt water crocs" above.

The state of Florida has boa constrictors which do not need
venom (or jaws) to do their thing.

And the warmer parts of Australia have the Carpet Python. It has the same MO as your Boa.
[...]
 DD>> You missed droughts and bush fires. But we learn to live with those -
 DD>> they're more predictable than nut cases.

Not to worry. Louisiana has hurricanes and floods. They seem to
come more regular these days, and are far more prevalent than nut
cases.

Surely you jest. Almost every USAian I see on TV or Yootube is a raving nutter. I've seen lots of shots where they're not having hurricanes or floods. Or is that peculiar to Louisiana?

 WD>>> But you get credit for

 WD>>> * The Beegees

 DD>> Aren't they dead?

Barry ain't dead yet.

Oh well, give him time.

 WD>>> * Masterchef Australia until the 2020 season

 DD>> I am not a fan of competitive eating/cooking so no points there.

I ate 42 prunes in one sitting. A long time ago.

Was that competitive?

 WD>>> ? Natalie Imbruglia

 DD>> Never met her.

I never met Britney Spears' sister. That makes us even.

Are they related?

 DD>> You missed less nut cases per capita than USA, and firearm control
 DD>> legislation.

Come to Louisiana. Leave different.

No thanks. High on my list of places I'd rather not visit is USA (not just Louisiana).

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El 14/11/20 a las 22:35, Bj�rn Felten escribió:

BF>> https://youtu.be/I4daeEacIVI

DD> What a strange person.

Here's another one:

https://youtu.be/8oa2GSyQSIw

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Hello David,

* Salt Water crocs

Less prevalent in occupied areas that US gun nuts in USA (and DD>cause

far less human deaths per annum).

No American has ever been killed by a croc in the USA.

Could that be because they're called alligators in USA?

Crocodiles are limited to the everglades in the state of Florida.
Alligators are allowed to wander both in the everglades and everywhere
else.

See "salt water crocs" above.

The state of Florida has boa constrictors which do not need
venom (or jaws) to do their thing.

And the warmer parts of Australia have the Carpet Python. It has the same MO
as your Boa.

Alligators and snakes get along fine. So do crocodiles and snakes.

You missed droughts and bush fires. But we learn to live with those -
they're more predictable than nut cases.

Not to worry. Louisiana has hurricanes and floods. They seem to
come more regular these days, and are far more prevalent than nut
cases.

Surely you jest. Almost every USAian I see on TV or Yootube is a raving nutter. I've seen lots of shots where they're not having hurricanes or floods. Or is that peculiar to Louisiana?

Hurricanes and floods give us an excuse to go swimming without
having to join a private club. Others prefer to go boating around
in their neighborhood.

But you get credit for

* The Beegees

Aren't they dead?

Barry ain't dead yet.

Oh well, give him time.

Until then he is busy singing with his son rather than his brothers.

* Masterchef Australia until the 2020 season

I am not a fan of competitive eating/cooking so no points there.

I ate 42 prunes in one sitting. A long time ago.

Was that competitive?

Took me a while to get it all out.

? Natalie Imbruglia

Never met her.

I never met Britney Spears' sister. That makes us even.

Are they related?

Only one of them was committed. The other one is still working
on it.

You missed less nut cases per capita than USA, and firearm control
legislation.

Come to Louisiana. Leave different.

No thanks. High on my list of places I'd rather not visit is USA (not just Louisiana).

Not to worry. Louisiana is a Banana Republic. And the folks here
only speak Yat.

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