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  1. Can anyone recommend a good swimming instructor for a 9 year old child?
  2. I believe that this person has me on ignore. So someone may want to pass along this passage that comes from the article in question. "Adding further greenhouse gases to the atmosphere warms the ocean cool skin layer, which in turn reduces the amount of heat flowing out of the ocean. Reducing the heat lost to the atmosphere allows the oceans to steadily warm over time - as has been observed over the last half century." https://skepticalscience.com/How-Increasing-Carbon-Dioxide-Heats-The-Ocean.html It should be pointed out that this is the 2nd paragraph in the article.
  3. No, not from the UN. Basically from treaties. "Treaties are primary sources of international law. Conventional international law is based on consent of state parties and as such treaties applies only between those consenting parties. In determining treaty application, check to see which state parties have both signed and ratified the treaties" https://libguides.uclawsf.edu/international-law/treaties#:~:text=Treaties are primary sources of,signed and ratified the treaties
  4. The study I cited earlier from the CATO institute has been updated. Here is a summary of the most important findings "According to Nowrasteh's findings from 2012 to 2022, undocumented immigrants have a homicide conviction rate 14% below that of native-born Americans... Most of the data on crime and immigration status in the U.S. comes from the Texas Department of Public Safety, the only agency that keeps such detailed records. Texas has the nation's second-highest population of undocumented immigrants after California, Nowrahsteh said, adding that he believes national data would be similar." https://www.cato.org/blog/illegal-immigrants-have-low-homicide-conviction-rate-setting-record-straight-illegal-immigrant And here is a link to the study itself. Illegal Immigrants Have a Low Homicide Conviction Rate: Setting the Record Straight on Illegal Immigrant Crime https://www.cato.org/blog/illegal-immigrants-have-low-homicide-conviction-rate-setting-record-straight-illegal-immigrant Lots of interesting data there.
  5. Congratulating someone on the aptness of name that was obviously meant as a joke would be irrelevant even if it were meant as a compliment. I have offered data to you. In return you offer rants. Yours is the disingenuousness of a child. Grow up.
  6. Always a mark of someone who has nothing rational to offer, that they offer insults instead.
  7. Thanks for the emotionalism and irrationality. Your argument would work just as well (or poorly) for aliens who were living in the US legally. Do you think it would make a difference to a family if they were told that the person who killed their daughter was in the country legally? Maybe they'd break out a bottle of champagne. The fact is that these people come here to fill jobs that no one else wants to take. Without them, important sectors of the economy would suffer.
  8. As the article noted, Crocker said his mother attended church less frequently than his father. Not that she didn't attend at all. Not surprising that you would indulge in baseless antisemitic speculation.
  9. You think those dairies, farms, construction companies, meat packing plants etc are giving those illegal aliens money because they're moved by charitable impulses?
  10. It doesn't matter where the facts come from if they're irrelevant. And yours are. And cherry picked to boot. What does a random murderer by someone have to do the economic effect of millions of undocumented workers on the US economy?
  11. WHat has this got to do with the effect of illegal immigrants on the economy. More irrelevancy from you.
  12. More cherry picking. And this time about a dubious police arrest. Did you read the part about the manslaughter charge being dismissed?And what does this have to do with the economic benefit that migrants bring to the economy? You think harvesting crops, building and repairing homes, maintenance work tending to dairy cattle, delivering food, or working in a meat processing plant require graduate degrees?
  13. Joe Biden Tells Netanyahu 'No Excuses' for Lack of Gaza Aid President Joe Biden on Friday said there were "no excuses" for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to prohibit more humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. Biden made the comment while hosting a bilateral meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. His remarks also came as the Associated Press (AP) reported the United States will soon begin air-dropping humanitarian aid into Gaza. https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-tells-netanyahu-theres-no-excuses-lack-gaza-aid-1875233
  14. Joe Biden says US to airdrop aid into Gaza as threat to civilians rises Move follows death of dozens of Palestinians during chaotic delivery of humanitarian goods The US will begin airdropping food aid into Gaza, US President Joe Biden said on Friday, amid an increasingly acute humanitarian crisis on the ground after months of Israeli attacks in the enclave. The decision comes as the Biden administration grows increasingly concerned about the threat posed to civilians and as aid shipments in the besieged enclave are severely disrupted, and assistance was failing to reach people most in need... “We need to do more and the United States will do more and in the coming days, we are going to join with our friends from Jordan and others to provide airdrops of supplies,” Biden said, adding that the US is also exploring the possibility of opening “a marine corridor delivering large amounts of humanitarian assistance”. https://archive.ph/uq4Ya#selection-2243.0-2243.322 https://www.ft.com/content/c36c0386-8acb-48bc-a84b-8dfa636d00b4
  15. It looks like Trump has taken up permanent living quarters in your brain.
  16. Another sad attempt to make this personal. Just shows how little in the way of rational argument you have to offer.
  17. Another NEWSFLASH: It would be perfectly Constitutional for the Congress to pass a law limiting abortions to a specific window of time. That's unlikely to happen. But what Trump could do is have the FDA severely curtail the use of mifepristone, the morning after bill. He wouldn't need Congressional approval for that. In fact, one of Trump's extremist appointees to the Federal Bench, Matthew Kacsmaryk, ordered the FDA to suspend approval of its use. That ruling has been in limbo while it awaits a Supreme Court decision. So there is the possibility that the rightwing majority on the Supreme Court will back that prohibition. In that case, Trump won't need to do anything. I suspect he's praying for that not to happen since it would almost certainly hurt his election prospects.
  18. He actually handled the accusation of anti-semitism based on those grounds quite deftly in the video from the Oxford Students Union. He said he wouldn't debate South Africans on the issue of apartheid and for the same reason he wouldn't debate Israelis about their treatment of Palestinians.
  19. He's certainly a terrific speaker but I do have questions about his alleged efforts in South Africa. I looked to find independent evidence that Galloway had ever done there what he claimed. I couldn't find any. I'm not asserting it doesn't exist, but it's odd that, at best, it's hard to find.
  20. Someone else who apparently doesn't understand the concept of rates.
  21. Tuition fees are what tuition is composed off. But if you can find anything in the article or elsewhere that shows otherwise, please share it with the rest of us.
  22. Your comment was so foolish that I couldn't take it seriously. It's the same kind of reasoning that says if eating one piece of fruit per day is good for your health, then eating 100 is even better. Or if one ibuprofen can cure a headache then a hundred will cure someone of headaches forever. Do you really need more examples of why your claim was so foolish? Does it really need to be spelled out any further?
  23. Yes, definitely. I'm guessing you're about to invoke some critique based on the observation that no cause in the world can be characterized as 100% certain. If that were a meaningful comment, then all science and technology would be built on a heap of sand. In the real world, science and technology work, even nuclear physics are ultimately based on statistics.
  24. Really? It's false that scientists don't understand what "primary driver signifies? other Pavlovian comment from you.
  25. The proof that what you're denying about aerosols is nonsense is very clear. Occasionally, when there's a truly catastrophic eruption of a volcano that sends huge quantities of aerosols into the atmosphere, what invariably follows is global cooling. Effect of volcanic eruptions significantly underestimated in climate projections Where and when a volcano erupts is not something that humans can control, but volcanoes do play an important role in the global climate system. When volcanoes erupt, they can spew sulphur gases into the upper atmosphere, which forms tiny particles called aerosols that reflect sunlight back into space. For very large eruptions, such as Mount Pinatubo in 1991, the volume of volcanic aerosols is so large that it single-handedly causes global temperatures to drop. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/effect-of-volcanic-eruptions-significantly-underestimated-in-climate-projections
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