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2. It is estimated 250-300 thousand birds are killed each year by wind turbines. Cats kill 2.4 billion each year. Another 2.5-3 billion die to cars, buildings, high tension lines etc. 300k is a far cry from 6 billion.

That number is debatable.  I have seen numbers as high as 1-3M annually.  I understand your level of enumeration includes those carcasses that at are at the location of the turbines.  How many of these get injured, fly off a short distance,  and die? I am guessing double to triple the count

 2.4 billion birds are killed by cats each year. 
Cats #1 Threat to Birds
In the United States alone, outdoor cats kill approximately 2.4 billion birds every year. Although this number may seem unbelievable, it represents the combined impact of tens of millions of outdoor cats. Each outdoor cat plays a part.


From an ecological ornithological perspective, there is a multitude of difference between a Sparrow or a Robin and Raptors like Eagles, Hawks, Owls, Osprey etc.  BTW...  How many kitty cats kill Eagles?   :silly:   At, BTW, how long have cats been ubiquitous in our society?  10,000 years?  Birds low on the food chain also are as much as 3-10X more prolific with nest clutches  than Raptors   Sorry, false premise.  And don't get me started on those monstrosities that are getting ready to litter our coast lines.  Sea birds are even more vulnerable. And impacts on other sea creatures, like whales, dolphins, etc.  Do you really support this level of insanity?

3. Turbine companies are working diligently to solve the bird issue with wind turbines.

The solution is not build them in the first place.  I took my first road trip out west last year, in decades, and was horrified of how our beautiful western landscapes and vistas  are getting littered and ruined by this shit. Totally unnecessary.

4. Turbines companies are coming out with recyclable blades and other co's are finding ways to recycle the old carbon fiber blades.

lol...  Do you realize the amount of manpower, cost, and logistics issues it will take to cut even a recyclable  blade? Not to mention the reenforced towers, foundations, and mechanical parts?    Isn't going to happen.  30 years from now these 3 fingered monstrosites are going to be rusting monuments as a frozen momento to man's stupidity.


You do nothing but trash new technology.

I was using computers in the mid 70's, and owned one (PC) in 1982. Cell phone in 1993,   Stick your Luddite accusations where it doesn't shine.

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Full Fifth Circuit Hears Arguments Over the Fate Of Texas' Floating Border Wall

BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2024 - 06:20 PM

Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times,

The legal saga over the fate of a 1,000-foot floating barrier on the Rio Grande has entered a new phase.



Texas Gov. Greg Abbott last summer ordered the deployment of the string of giant orange buoys in the river near Eagle Pass. As a part of Operation Lone Star, the Republican governor’s signature initiative aimed to curb illegal border crossings from Mexico into his state, the buoys are anchored to the bottom and themselves rotate so that people can’t climb over or swim under them.

Following the installation of the barrier, the Biden administration sued Texas, demanding that it be taken down. Attorneys for Texas invoked the Constitutional right for each state to defend itself against “invasion”—in Texas’ case, by those illegally crossing the river, but that self-defense argument was rejected by the lower court, as did by a split three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Arguing on Wednesday before a full, 17-member Fifth Circuit, attorneys for both Texas and the U.S. Department of Justice largely focused on the question of whether Mr. Abbott’s floating wall violates a Reconstruction-era law regulating the use of waterways.

 
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...ng-border-wall
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Republicans Issue Plan to Make Deporting Illegal Aliens Easier Under Future Trump Administration



by JOHN BINDER 17 May 2024

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) are introducing legislation to force President Joe Biden to use all available detention space for migrants arriving at the United States-Mexico border while streamlining a federal program to make it easier to deport illegal aliens.

The “Reshape Alternatives to Detention (ATD) Act” would prevent Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from transforming the enforcement program, meant to monitor migrants in the U.S. who are in immigration court proceedings, into a taxpayer-funded social services program.

The legislation would require DHS to use all available detention space to detain migrants arriving at the southern border.

Download this PDF

Reshape ATD Act by John Binder

Once all available detention space is utilized, the legislation requires DHS to place migrants into the ATD program with GPS monitoring rather than the current policy where most migrants are allowed to live within the U.S. without any monitoring.

Those migrants would be GPS-monitored by DHS for the entirety of their immigration court proceedings.
 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...dministration/
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Politics/Government / Re: Political Graphics 2024
« Last post by Slide Rule on Today at 02:57:24 pm »

The Full Harrison Butker Commencement Speech That Has The Woke Mob Losing Its Mind: WATCH


OutKick Flash
May 16, 2024 11:53 AM EDT





https://www.outkick.com/analysis/harrison-butker-commencement-speech-video-full


This is the full transcript of the speech given by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker to the spring graduating class at
Benedictine College, a Catholic liberal arts school in Atchison, Kansas, on Friday, May 10, 2024.

NOTE: There may be some minor errors in transcription. 




From Harrison Butker:

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 2024, I would like to start off by congratulating all of you for successfully making it to
this achievement today. I'm sure your high school graduation was not what you had imagined and most likely neither was
your first couple years of college.

By making it to this moment through all the adversity thrown your way from COVID, I hope you learned the important
lessons that suffering in this life is only temporary. As a group, you witnessed firsthand how bad leaders who don't stay
in their lane can have a negative impact on society. It is through this lens that I want to take stock of how we got to where
we are and where we want to go as citizens, and yes, as Catholics.

One last thing before I begin, I want to be sure to thank President Minns and the board for their invitation to speak. When
President Minnis first reached out a couple of months ago I had originally said no. You see, last year I gave the
commencement address at my alma mater, Georgia Tech, and I felt that one graduation speech was more than enough,
especially for someone who isn't a professional speaker.

But of course, President Minnis used his gift of persuasion and spoke to the many challenges you all faced throughout the
COVID fiasco and how you missed out on so many milestones the rest of us older people have taken for granted.

While COVID might have played a large role throughout your formative years, it is not unique. Bad policies and poor leadership
have negatively impacted major life issues. Things like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia as well as a growing support for
degenerate cultural values and media all stem from the pervasiveness of disorder. Our own nation is led by a man who publicly
and proudly proclaims his Catholic faith but at the same time is delusional enough to make the sign of the cross during a
pro-abortion rally.

CONTINUED
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Politics/Government / Re: Political Graphics 2024
« Last post by libertybele on Today at 02:53:34 pm »
We're old sticks in the mud.

At one time psychologists did classify homosexuals as having a mental illness.  Not to mention that they have a higher suicide rate.
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Politics/Government / Re: Political Graphics 2024
« Last post by libertybele on Today at 02:51:40 pm »
Mooch should have consulted with RuPaul on how to tuck.

Target now has a line of garments for just such a need.
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It seems to me that whenever there is some change that has political ramifications, the group that is most likely to benefit from the change overestimates the damage that will be caused if we do not act; overestimates the advantages that will accrue from acting; and underestimates the damages that will come from acting. And we keep falling for it.

There is a good reason why our founding fathers generally distrusted mob rule, and we are seeing it manifested in virtually every aspect of our lives today. 
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May 18, 2024
What has Biden accomplished in his presidency? Devastation
By Patricia McCarthy

Biden and his sycophants in the media sing his praises on a daily basis, pretending he has been an effective president.

In fact, all he has accomplished is desecration on every level.

From the moment he took office, he set out to destroy the country.

He began by shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline which cost about ten thousand pipeline jobs and thousands more support jobs.

He stopped the construction of the border wall and opened the border to as many as ten million migrants from all over the world. 

Not surprisingly, crime is up in every city where these illegal entrants to the U.S. have been transported, often at our expense, in congregated numbers:  New York City, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, San Diego, Boston and every city along the Southern border.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/what_has_biden_accomplished_in_his_presidency_devastation.html
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Editorial/Opinion/Blogs / Time to change the course in Ukraine
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 02:36:25 pm »
May 18, 2024
Time to change the course in Ukraine
By Edward Lozansky

The recent statement by the former Joint Chiefs chairman Mark Milley — “We slaughtered people in massive numbers, innocent people who had nothing to do with their government, men, women, and children” — is a rare admission by someone in his rank.  At the same time, in March 2023,  still on active duty, Milley said that Ukrainians on the current battlefields are the sons and grandsons of the people who fought against Stalin and Zhukov.  Not sure if he realizes that both these statements actually disparage or even betray American World War II veterans, since Milley should have known that we were allies with Stalin in the war with the Nazis.

Still, when it comes to the war in Ukraine, which is at the center of the current crisis, one should admit that Milley’s rhetoric is less dangerous compared with what is emanating from Biden, Blinken, and Sullivan or some of their NATO and E.U. colleagues, like Sunak, Macron, Scholz, Duda, and co.  It seems there is no indication that they are prepared to listen to the sober voices calling to give a chance for diplomacy to end the Ukraine war.

In the U.S., the list of these voices is long and includes university professors and think-tank experts; retired military, intelligence officers, and diplomats; journalists; and even members of Congress — regrettably, so far, only Republicans.

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Instead, House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries did not rule out that the U.S. would have to send troops to the Ukrainian conflict zone if Kyiv is defeated.  “We can’t let Ukraine fall because if that happens, there is a significant possibility that America will have to get involved in the conflict, not just with our money, but with our troops,” Jeffries said.  He also claimed that a pro-Russian faction within the Republican Party was gaining momentum and “does not want to support Ukraine and believes that Russia is not an enemy of the United States.”

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/time_to_change_the_course_in_ukraine.html
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