[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

Guns are fine with me as long as they have a purpose. I feel that sporting bolt action rifles have a purpose. But, military-style semi-autos and bump-stops are NOT useful other than making the NRA and their controllers - the rich, fat-cat owners of the gun industry WEALTHY.
.......But, unfortunately, the John Wayne cowboy frontier mentality is ingrained into Americans. It has captured their minds !

The NRA doesn't sell a single gun. How does that make them rich?

[Bay Kid]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

Electric aircraft are being developed and tested as we speak. The FUTURE of aviation could be more environmentally friendly........we can hope !

I know who can do the test flights. They should prove they really care. Planes, cars, boats, homes, etc.

[sounding]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

ORDINARY guns will NOT affect weather, but a full-out nuclear war will. Scientists take about a nuclear winter after WW3......that would be some serious Climate Change. I worry that there has been so many apocalypse-type movies and series lately that maybe that is giving a prediction that I HOPE never comes true.
But, the recent war in the Ukraine has caused some problems that could affect Global Warming somewhat. There are or were (may have been plugged) 3 holes in a natural gas pipeline lying at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. It sent Russian natural gas to Europe. The pipe was in VERY deep water and probably needed a special submarine to blow those 3 holes. Russia was suspected of doing it itself to drive up the world price for natural gas.
........Anyway, the 3 holes were (or still are) GUSHING gas that rises to the upper atmosphere and adds to the blanket that IS making the world hotter by record amounts in the last 8 years. (Despite the opinion to the contrary expressed by my friends with the fashionable TIN-FOIL hats !!!!!!! )

One BIG problem with Global Warming today is that it causes farmers and other poor populations in South America and Africa to start starving and begin MIGRATING northward into America and Europe. If they succeed in getting there they will INCREASE their environmental FOOTPRINT greatly - producing GREATER pollution, which AGAIN goes up to the upper atmosphere and acts as a BLANKET holding in the Earth's heat. It is sad from a humanitarian perspective, but don't blame me.......I am just the messenger.

Like the Venus runaway greenhouse effect, a nuclear winter is also fantasy -- and both pushed by Sagan -- like Al Gore pushes man-made climate change. Scare mongering is big business.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

The NRA doesn't sell a single gun. How does that make them rich?

They sell a magazine that makes money and the NRA exists to drum up business for the Gun manufacturers. Everyone knows that. I was aware of that in 6th grade.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by DAVES

I think this post is a mistake. Imagine a bunch of people who believe this stuff showing up at a Straight Shooters meeting. Perhaps, wiser would be a prepared presentation to some of the discussion groups in the villages. The antigun zealots would love to cause a RIOT at a Straight Shooters meeting.

As far as climate change, I find it interesting. First of all it was GLOBAL WARMING now it has changed to CLIMATE CHANGE. Climate is and always has been changing.

I find it spooky how easy it is to start panics. Al Gore has turned this into a personal gold mine. Reality, I suggest all READ. Fifty years ago the concern was global cooling.
Lacking was only Al Gore to fly in his own personal Jet to tell others we should not burn fossil fuels. It is tough for people to see, to realize they are being had especially when others are PARROTING the same. Far as fossil fuels my carbon foot print is vastly reduced. I am retired and no longer producing anything.

Anybody remember Y2K? Space Invaders? Covid 19? It is shockingly to create MASS PANIC.

I am afraid that it is NOT logical to equate Covid, which was a REAL national problem causing over One Million Deaths, with Y2K and space invaders.

[Nordhagen]

Originally Posted by Battlebasset

I suppose anything that creates carbon/greenhouse could be included. Guns would when they are manufactured, and when a round is fired

But to single out guns is silly. Everything produces carbon/greenhouse as it is created, some may or may not as they are used. All organic matter creates carbon/greenhouse gas as it decays, and I suppose a gun would as it rusts, or if it is melted down to create something else.

Climate change makes me think of the "elixir salesman" as he would go from town to town. His pitch was his elixir would cure everything, regardless of what it was. Climate change is the current "cure-all" product. Another word for such a product is snake oil.

Which is kind of what climate change is.

It’s called a “hoax”

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Top of the list???? Really???? Not likely at all. What about sheep and pigs and people. Just about every mammalian, reptilian and avian species farts. If insects fart they would have cows beat out 100 to 1 based on sheer numbers alone.

So, the chances that I'm going to eat some plant based vegetarian crap instead of a juicy NY strip steak are about the same as winning the lottery 20 times in a row, maybe less.

And of course, if we all ate that plant crap, it would reverse 23,000 years of global warming. Can anyone spell d-e-l-u-s-i-o-n-a-l?

Pigs and humans are omnivores. Sheep and cows are strictly herbivores. I know that cows have 2 separate stomachs that somehow cause them to outgas more gas than humans. And I believe the cow's flatulence has more of the gas variety that is detrimental to the upper atmosphere.
......That's the way I understand it. And right now somehow, I don't feel that motivated to Google the small details.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Kenswing

If we all ate plant based crap he would complain that we're ruining the planet by plowing too many acres.

Personally, I think that it would be better if we talked to (and about) each other like POLITE ADULTS, rather than the opposite.

[Two Bills]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

Pigs and humans are omnivores. Sheep and cows are strictly herbivores. I know that cows have 2 separate stomachs that somehow cause them to outgas more gas than humans. And I believe the cow's flatulence has more of the gas variety that is detrimental to the upper atmosphere.
......That's the way I understand it. And right now somehow, I don't feel that motivated to Google the small details.

I have a gut feeling that cows have one stomach with four compartments.

[sounding]

Originally Posted by Nordhagen

It’s called a “hoax”

Ditto. The U.N. says ... "Disarmament is especially important for climate protection." For those that believe that I have a ski resort in The Villages to sell you.

[Number 10 GI]

I grew up on a farm. My grandfather and my father owned cows and I never heard one of them fart. Horses yep, pigs yep, my grandfather and my father yep, they all farted, but cows don't. Cows do poop a lot though and in copious amounts.

[sounding]

Originally Posted by Number 10 GI

I grew up on a farm. My grandfather and my father owned cows and I never heard one of them fart. Horses yep, pigs yep, my grandfather and my father yep, they all farted, but cows don't. Cows do poop a lot though and in copious amounts.

We must be related. My family members all participated in the same gaseous behaviors -- and even the dog. History repeatedly shows that the best way to force people to do things they would never do using a logical mind -- is by scaring them to death -- whether it's health, global warming, etc.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Two Bills

I have a gut feeling that cows have one stomach with four compartments.

"gut feeling" even a herbivore would get a laugh out of that one. One stomach 4 compartments, 2 stomachs 2 compartments, 3 French hens, and a partridge placing droplets on a blue Corvette.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Number 10 GI

I grew up on a farm. My grandfather and my father owned cows and I never heard one of them fart. Horses yep, pigs yep, my grandfather and my father yep, they all farted, but cows don't. Cows do poop a lot though and in copious amounts.

Keep that up and I AM going to be forced to go GOOGLE on you. Don't steam me, Alice !

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by sounding

We must be related. My family members all participated in the same gaseous behaviors -- and even the dog. History repeatedly shows that the best way to force people to do things they would never do using a logical mind -- is by scaring them to death -- whether it's health, global warming, etc.

There IS something (?) about that post that does make me fear for America.