New York Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared on MSNBC Friday to address the Green New Deal with host Chris Hayes and discussed the dire world she's convinced lies ahead for Americans if climate change is not addressed.
“So this issue is not just about our climate. First and foremost we need to save ourselves. Period. There will be no future for the Bronx ... said Occasional-Cortex.I can't make this up. Thank God Algore and Occasional-Cortex arrived on the scene when they did. Fourpointfive billion years the earth has been around ... and now, at "end days" -- our mortal saviors are here, having arrived just in time.
No future for the Bronx. LOL. I guess that means no more future for the New York Yankees either -- or they will have to move their stadium ... current address ... 1 E 161 St, The Bronx, NY 10451 ... maybe to the ice-free Arctic.
Isn't she the one who guaranteed less of a future for Long Island City -- you know, the Amazon HQ2 story? ... Or has Chris Hayes forgotten all about that already?
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Echo Chamber
Again, I highly recommend, at least weekly, checking in on Powerline and Deplorable Climate Science, linked at the sidebar at the right.
I am absolutely convinced of two things when it comes to liberals, progressives, and socialists:
- they exist in an echo chamber; and,
- they don't read any more.
Of course, this is not unique to liberals, progressives, or socialists but no other group seems so unable to critically analyze anything.
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The Book Page
From The Language Instinct: How The Mind Creates Language, Steven Pinker, c. 1994.
Dave Barry, page 196, explains how to diagram a sentence.
Q: Please explain how to diagram a sentence.
A: First spread the sentence out on a clean, flat surface, such as an ironing board. Then, using a sharp pencil or X-Acto knife, locate the "predicate," which indicates where the action has taken place and is usually located directly behind the gills. For example, in the sentence: "LaMont never would of bit a forest ranger," the action probably took place in a forest. Thus your diagram would be shaped like a little tree with branches sticking out of it to indicate the locations of the various particles of speech, such as your gerunds, proverbs, adjutants, etc.
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The iPhone Page
I am absolutely amazed at what Apple / Google have teamed up to do on the iPhone.
On the non-mobile "Google" webpage, one simply gets a blank page with a blank search box.
But on the iPhone, or mobile "Google" page, beneath the "Google" search box, there appear approximately a dozen top stories specifically targeted to the user of the iPhone and one ad, also tailored to the user.
Today, this is what I get when I go to "Google" on my iPhone. First the search box, and then:
- physics: an article from Forbes on matter-antimatter
- an ad for the Discover credit card
- a news story on Beto scheduling first three rallies in Texas, from CNN
- from CNBC, an article on Musk Melon and Tesla
- from The Hill, "GOP shifts focus to investigating Obama officials"
- an album review of my favorite group, "Debbie Harry and Andre the Giant," from Imgur
- bankruptcies for North Dakota and western Minnesota, Inforum
- UND to give honory degrees to Heitkamp, Hamm, from The Grand Forks Herald
Some folks would find this creepy, an invasion of privacy. Not me. I prefer this rather than an ad for Viagra and a dozen stories on global warming, Jessie "the Mullet" Smollet; and/or Hillary's comeback tour.
By the way, that Forbes article on matter-antimatter is an excellent article, well worth a read.
The timing of the Discover credit card ad is particularly amazing. It is obvious Apple/Google/someone is tracking my credit card purchases. And I don't use Discover Card on the computer; I use it only as an in-store card only.
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