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Title: The twilight of the elites...in the European Union
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URL Source: https://hotair.com/archives/2017/10 ... wilight-elites-european-union/
Published: Oct 17, 2017
Author: Jazz Shaw
Post Date: 2017-10-17 10:35:59 by Tooconservative
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Signs of that happening come to us with additional news in a similar vein this month. For one example, can you name the youngest national leader in the world right now? If you said Emanuel Macron you’re probably in the majority, but you’re also wrong. Macron is already almost an old man compared to the guy who is set to take power in Austria. That would be 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz, leader of the reinvigorated People’s Party (OeVP), who is about to topple the Socialist Democrat establishment in his nation. This has resulted in what the Washington Times’ Wesley Pruden describes as, “An Austrian thumb in the eye of the elites.” But the new Austrian chancellor, youthful as he is, represents just the kind of new blood that Kennedy brought to the fore in the new world. He has achieved something close to rock-star status. He took over a fading political party whose party colors were black and black, replaced them with turquoise, rebranded the party as “a movement,” promised to get tough on runaway immigration, go easy on new taxes but to stay in Europe and “put Austria first.” Did Kurz come up with “put Austria first” as a copy of Trump’s America First or did they arrive at those catchphrases independently? At this point, it doesn’t really matter. But there’s more of a similarity here than simple sloganeering. Check out the details of the Kurz platform which the Daily Mail described with palpable alarm. Some of this may ring a bell to American observers of politics. (Emphasis added) Kurz, dubbed the Conservative Macron due to his age and his party reform, said: ‘I would of course like to form a stable government. If that cannot be done then there are other options,’ adding that he planned to talk to all parties in parliament but would first wait for a count of postal ballots that begins on Monday. Kurz may form a coalition with either the now weakened Social Democrats or with the more right-wing Freedom Party. But he’s also indicating a willingness to simply go it alone if he can’t structure a deal in keeping with his campaign pledges. But Kurz isn’t the only one. The Czech Republic, also part of that same eastern block, is closing in on their own elections and if the current polling is remotely accurate the race won’t be all that close. Their next leader is most likely to be a far less youthful, but equally revolutionary gentleman who is being referred to as “the Czech Trump” or “the new Berlusconi,” depending who you ask. 63 year old Andrej Babis is the leader of the ANO party and is on track to take control. He’s similarly alarmed the defenders of the status quo with comments about how he is, “done with multiculturalism.” (The Telegraph) To be clear, I don’t believe any of this signals the absolute end of the European Union, nor will the socialist tendencies of their more western member countries be completely subsumed any time soon. Neither Kurz nor Babis is signaling an immediate move toward leaving the EU and both of their nations still benefit greatly from trade through that organization. But at the same time, they have no interest in having Brussels micromanage the affairs of their respective nations and they want their borders to be secured. And seeing how well Hungary has done in thumbing its nose at the EU, both of these men have little reason to fear reprisal. “Make Europe Great Again?” When I recently wrote about the possibility of a coming east-west schism in the European Union (EU), I focused primarily on Hungary and Poland. They’re part of that eastern block of countries which joined the EU a bit later and introduced a definite culture clash with their significantly more socialist, globalist neighbors in France and Brussels. Recent events to the east seem to have signaled a swift erosion of the older, established “elites” who have been running the show. But there are still more dominos left to fall. Herr Kurz is called “the Austrian Trump,” and not, to celebrate his youth, “the Austrian JFK,” which illustrates just how far time has marched on. Two generations have been birthed in Europe that can barely recognize the late president by his mere initials. The young leader, dubbed Wunderwuzzi in his home country, which translates to Wonderkid, has pledged to cut benefits for all foreigners in Austria and has vowed to stop the European Union meddling in the country’s politics. “We have other enemies than Russia. We have to fight the human traffickers in the Mediterranean. Twenty thousand have died in that sea. We have terrorism blighting Europe. What are we waiting for?” Mr. Babiš insisted that there are no genuine refugees arriving in Europe.
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#70. To: Tooconservative (#68)
Well, plenty of males DO survive - probably most of them, year to year. (Also, it's the old males who shed their antlers in the winter; young males keep theirs, as the females grow theirs.) There aren't THAT many wolves, or polar bears. But it is the males that get eaten in the winter, yes. You figure that a wolf will eat about a deer a week, if that's all they have to eat (it isn't - they eat salmon, rodents, rabbits, etc.) so a pack of 20 will eat 20 a week. If they were just eating deer, that'd be 1040 deer a year. Reindeer herds run in the tens or hundreds of thousands, and it is really humans that keeps them limited. Wild herds in wild Siberia where there are no people run to over a million. The wolf and bear populations are large to match.
I have known a few, back home and down South. In Connecticut, the deer herd is large and suburban, and there are no farmers or hunters. Their biggest predators are coyotes and cars. You can't keep flowers where I live without a fence, and the fence has to be a high wall. The "deer repellent" they sell makes the deer unhappy, but if they are hungry enough, they'll eat whatever it is sprayed with anyway. And it washes off with the rain. Cows and sheep would be pests to crop farmers also, if they weren't herded.
I've seen some footage of their migrations. Awesome stuff. Reminds me of the migrations of wildebeests across the African savannas. Like the reindeer, they have predators waiting for them and following their migration (lions, crocs, hyenas, etc.). Sometimes you start to see these herd animals as Nature's protein transfer systems. But they are more than that. Hey, if milking the reindeer and whitetails doesn't work out, you could try the gnus! : )
Naturally, the parts of the Midwest where my folks headed were the tree- covered, lake-splotched, snowy far north of it. The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is like Finland, but without the glitter. Up there, crop farming is hard, and people really didn't. They fished and hunted, and mined copper and cut trees, and trapped fur, and moved the stuff around, for employment. Some tried to cut down the forest and plant crops, and you can make rutabagas and cabbages grow there...which the hares will promptly devour...and you can get that sort of stuff down the lake by trading the local products. Today, everything comes in by truck, and nobody mines copper or traps fur anymore for a living. But the deer are there, waiting for somebody to come and make a new industry. Nobody else is going to do it, because nobody believes in it. I win the lottery, and that's what I do - starting in Michigan. I love animals, get along with them, don't like to kill them. So I'm going "no kill" with two native species: the white-tails. I'm happy to add the moose and the elk to that, but that's for show and to get interest. The whitetails are the heart of the operation. No-kill whitetail dairy and leather. That's one line. I don't pretend that it would be easy, but I do believe that it is doable, and that after a decade or two of unprofitability, a steady if low margin profit stream can be generated by the milk and the leather - maybe the meat as dog food and cat food (you don't want to be eating meat that dies of natural causes). The other line would be more profitable: there are wild sturgeon in the great lakes, and they spawn in certain rivers. Sturgeon produce caviar. The Michigan sturgeon are not used for that, and there is only a limiting fishing season, but the point is that they ARE there, naturally - this is sturgeon habitat. That means that certain of the breeding pools can be established as a sturgeon hatchery. Now, here's the thing: a German fellow has developed a means to hand milk the eggs out of sturgeon females, such that the females are not killed and continue to grow. This or similar techniques are already used at a Latvian sturgeon farm and a South Korean one, which produce no-kill caviar thereby. The fish live and get bigger and bigger by the season (no longer having human predators), and produce more and more eggs. Deer milk, soft deer leather, and no-kill sturgeon caviar - straight from Northern Michigan. That's a good start. The third thing I have in mind is zebra mussel harvesting. Thanks to the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Great Lakes have become infested with zebra mussels. These shellfish are not noxious, but they do cover everything...including the insides of municipal water pipes, causing issues. Shellfish are edible, and mussels are good for you. Their shells concentrate calcium and potassium and, ground up, make enriching fertilizer. Harvesting those mussels - just stripping them off of stuff - would be a public service. And a process could be made, maybe, to extract the meats. Otherwise, just grind up the whole mass and make fertilizer or salmon feed. And finally, duck, goose, swan and seagull eggs. These waterfowl abound in a place where one is never more than 1 mile from some body of water. Michigan is a wet place. Wild birds are free range, and seagulls, at least, are not a remotely endangered species. So set up nesting and harvest some eggs. Then there are the trees themselves and their edible products. A lottery win means freedom to pursue these things. If God wants them to be, He will make it possible.
That's a gnu idea. But first we gotta try milking pigs.
The Michigan tourism board wouldn't care for that description. : ) Now that is interesting, providing you can avoid disease. You know the challenges for fish farms. Pretty much the original Republican Big Gooberment project. The ruinous demands for taxation of the South that set off the Civil War were to be used to fund such projects. Goddammed Yankee scum.
Other than some bacon and the occasional pork chop, I tend to agree with the opinions of the Jews about swine.
You let the sturgeon be wild. It's just that when they swim up the rivers to spawn, you gate them in during the season and milk some of the eggs from the large, wild fish. You don't pen them all year, and you do let them naturally reproduce. Unlike salmon, sturgeon swim up river, nest, spawn, and swim back out to the big lake afterwards. They'll do that for a hundred years and more if they aren't killed. So you protect them from hunting, and you protect their spawning ground, and you hand-harvest some of the eggs. And you otherwise let the fish be.
Alright then, dogs milk and cat milk. We can turn the dog pounds into producing dairies!
The St. Lawrence Seaway opened in 1959. Don't think it was a cause of the Civil War.
The Michigan Tourist Board actually ran a campaign about 20 years ago called "Say Nice Things About Detroit". Sounded to me more like a desperate plea than a call for tourism. I'm thinking that something more pungent like: "Bite the Bullet: Try Detroit". Or "Detroit Convention Center: Dirt cheap, and you probably won't die."
Ah, of course. I was thinking of the Erie Canal which was in operation prior to the Civil War. Nevertheless, the Whigs and early Republicans were all about big national works projects of that type and establishing central banking again, along with using the established federal troops to drive the Indians onto remote reservations to clear the way for settlers. There was a canal mania in Britain and France and here in the States, even before the American Revolution. Canal-building was a great passion of progressive big-government types. Most of these canals were boondoggles that were a waste of public money.
If you want to make some big money, try to find an inexpensive way to wipe out the feral hogs that are ruining land and crops from Michigan to Texas and across the South. Rural people get very excited when a herd is spotted. Around here, the very mention of a sighting of feral hogs results in people organizing and spending a weekend or more hunting down and killing every last one of them.
The Erie Canal opened up the Great Lakes to eastern goods. And it opened up the Great Lakes farms to Eastern markets.
Today is the anniversary of the opening of the Erie Canal in 1852. Saw it on CBS News channel via Roku just now. But Wiki sez it was 1825, a justaposition by SeeBS. Wiki details how the canal was deepened and widened over the years from 1825 through 1855. So I'll take Wiki's word for it. SeeBS strikes again. Probably they'll next show the charter of the Canal in proportional font with Dan Rather presenting...
I'd have to find some PURPOSE for the hogs other than bacon. Some could be trained to snuffle truffles, but most would need some other purpose. The purpose to which they could effectively be put would be as natural rototillers. It is a very old French practice to fence in an area of tough soil one would like to plant and just put some pigs in there and let them root around for a season. They turn over the soil, they fertilize it. It's a zero-labor way to (irregularly) till soil and fertilize it. The broken soil can then be double-dug for French intensive gardening. So, you don't need a modern rototiller or any sort of machines, or labor. Just rooting hogs. Of course, they have to be fed, but they can and will eat many things. I'd imagine that if an area is infested with wild pigs, you could do a no kill hunt, round them up and truck them out as a group. A single normal- sized pig can root up a 300 square foot area and turn it into a mud pit - a fertile mudpit beautiful for planting next season, so a 1000 pound wild sow could probably tear up a good 500 sf easily. Get 100 of them going, and you'd have 50,000 sf of deeply turned, fertilized, gorgeously prepared land for intensive vegetable farming, without the need for any human labor. That works out to about 80 pigs an acre to get the equivalent of double dug beds. Let me have every wild hog in Texas, and I have the free labor to prepare 30 square miles of fertilized farmland - almost 19,000 acres - for planting. Some fencing and water is cheaper than equipment, gas and salaries. Essentially, if I win the lottery, I'll be happy to turn all of the wild hogs you've got into slaves to till my soil. And while I'm at it, I'll infest oak trees with the spores of truffles and scatter the seedlings everywhere. Forests of oaks infected with the fungus will end up meaning forests of truffles...at $1000 a kg, over time, and some of my labor force can snuffle them up. Obviously a key thing to do with a lottery win is an exhaustive nutritional and utility study of every native plant. Look, lambsquarters is a weed. We rip it up, we poison it, we drive it out. But all it is is wild American spinach. It's as nutritious as spinach, and it's a lot hardier than spinach, and it grows without labor. Dogs can pull carts. They can also get excercise buy pulling things in a circle. Anything that can be pulled in a circle can be attached to a water pump to bring up water or a generator to make electricity. Animals die, and when they do, they are meat for other animals. Essentially, I need the economic liberty to do these things, because nobody will ever co-invest. They would all be profitable in the end, but it would take decades, maybe even a century, to get them in place. That requires humans with long vision and lots of free time. The humans I would seek out would be the outcasts, the wretched, the prisoners, the drug addicts, the sex offenders. Any of them who wanted to be part of something meaningful and have a position of economic security and respect would have a role in providing the brains and leadership behind various animals doing various things. Drug lab guys would make expert nutrition lab analyzers. It is known that working with animals makes violent people tamer, and makes a bond between man and animal. That has been used for prisoner rehab, but it doesn't last. But I can create a structure that will last a lifetime, produce what we need for food and clothing and shelter, and take the blade away from the animals' necks too - a bucolic symbiosis quite unlike conventional agriculture. The lottery win is needed, and the interest stream from the tax-free bonds into which it is invested, to make the ongoing investment, year after year after year, into something that will not produce any profit for a very long time, but which, if incubated long enough, can. The broken humans, and the "useless" animals, can be intertwined in ways that pattern French Intensive vegetable farming. Do it, build it, show how, and it would certainly be emulated, and it would get the financial support to remain a self-licking ice cream cone. If it grows, it's edible in some fashion. If it trots, it can do work until it dies, and then it can feed something with its flesh, and clothe somebody or make a tent for someone with its skin. But I dream strange dreams that others do not. No human would ever fund it, so God will have to if he wants it done. Give me a natural phenomenon, and I will show you a way to produce something useful from it, a small economic return than can employ some otherwise broken man.
I think you aren't acquainted with feral hogs. Anyway, this talk of swine is a turnoff. Reindeer, even parasite whitetals, are fine. But wild hogs? Ewww. Just kill them all. Use machine guns, toxic poisons, run over them with tanks, whatever it takes. You're a city person or you'd know that some things really do need killing. You have a bit of a Dr. Dolittle complex. It would not survive direct contact with nature.
You would be surprised at some of the places I've lived and things I've done. There is no doubt that there is a standard way of doing things. There is no doubt that I generally find these "ways" to be wanting, and look for other ways.
That's a good thing (are you striking distance to the Gulf?) IF I were you, I'd buy a YUGE freezer and import mega-quantities of pizza and Eyetalian bread. That's what my son misses most in NC.
But...how about the sea lampreys?
Yes, Bambi and its family are a disease. I am pinging The Cure: GI. *BLAM!!...*BLAM!!...*BLAM!!!*
Vic (chased by herds of Gnus and packs of Pigmies on his exploratory Gnu-Milk Safari in Africa): "PLAN 'B': Ostrich Milk." :-/
They are rather foul-tempered creatures. I've read that emus are a little less uppity.
There's a long list of critters we simply cannot be friends with like Dr. Doolittle (or preach to as Saint Francis of Assisi was claimed to do). Wolves, badgers, coyotes, mountain lions, grizzly bears, polar bears, tigers, lions, etc. Some people may claim to tame them. Then they end up mauled like Roy (of Siegfried & Roy fame). For some reason, German and Brit animal trainers have to learn these lessons the hard way: they're never really tame and their disposition toward human beings can change in a heartbeat. And that, as Marlin Perkins would tell us, is the Wild Kingdom at work (even as he sent poor Jim far downrange unarmed to scout the local lions). When we have some experience and husbandry savvy with domesticated species, it is easy to convince ourselves that any animal can be tamed to be gentle and trustworthy. Well, it just isn't true.
Shellfish are edible, and mussels are good for you. Their shells concentrate calcium and potassium and, ground up, make enriching fertilizer. Harvesting those mussels - just stripping them off of stuff - would be a public service. And a process could be made, maybe, to extract the meats. Otherwise, just grind up the whole mass and make fertilizer or salmon feed. And finally, duck, goose, swan and seagull eggs. These waterfowl abound in a place where one is never more than 1 mile from some body of water. Michigan is a wet place. Wild birds are free range, and seagulls, at least, are not a remotely endangered species. So set up nesting and harvest some eggs. You are missing your calling... Making lemonade out of near-rotten lemons is an art. Do you have an economically feasible plan of harvesting these parasitic mussels? Too bad forward problem-solving people like you aren't usually allowed to engage their respective plan, help humanity, and be in charge of gubmint coffers. SOCIAL science + Illegal Invaders + Elites' pet projects (like CERN) are monopolizing the West's resources. Anyway, I've always had a theory that from the lowest and most disgusting life on this planet (like cockroaches) a cure for cancer will be discovered. Your "problem" is in having so much knowledge and ideas for taming the natural world that starting ONE project would take you away from a dozen others. Why not submit a number of your proposals to various authoritahs or influential people?? I think you ought to embark on and engage your favorite plan: The reindeer dairy farm.
Lampreys are eels. Their highest end use is as a French delicacy. Right now, lampricides are used to kill their eggs in the rivers, but here's an example of an invasive species that can be hunted to extinction for the purpose of eating them, and I will not shed a tear. Another species that can be squashed at will are mosquitoes. But really, if you don't want mosquitoes, you can put up bat houses and purple martin houses, and they do help a little bit - a few percentage, maybe. The REAL enemy of mosquitos is certain plants, and the most useful of those is basil. It's aromatic, and mosquitoes don't like the aroma. So, plant basil in windowboxes and around your outside table. You won't get bit as much, and you can always grab a handful and make your food tastier.
Lol... Ok, Emu-Milk it is.
Right now, lampricides are used to kill their eggs in the rivers, but here's an example of an invasive species that can be hunted to extinction for the purpose of eating them, and I will not shed a tear. Yes, but these species of Lampreys aren't generally THE eels used by the Italians and French, are they? I know -- they've been a voracious predator of useful fish in the Great Lakes for many a decade. THEY must be controlled if not exterminated. They are of no beneficial value as far as I know. Another species that can be squashed at will are mosquitoes. But really, if you don't want mosquitoes, you can put up bat houses and purple martin houses, and they do help a little bit - a few percentage, maybe. The REAL enemy of mosquitos is certain plants, and the most useful of those is basil. It's aromatic, and mosquitoes don't like the aroma. So, plant basil in windowboxes and around your outside table. You won't get bit as much, and you can always grab a handful and make your food tastier. Yes, Skeeters are on everyone's list. Good info on Basil as a natural deterrent. Plus who doesn't love fresh cut basil on their pasta or pesto? I throw handfuls of chopped basil in my meatballs as well. Basil's aromatics are a natural anti-depressant as well.
That tiger who mauled Siegfried (or was it Roy?) was a homophobe!! Marlin Perkins would tell us, is the Wild Kingdom at work (even as he sent poor Jim far downrange unarmed to scout the local lions). One and the same Jim HERE?
*BLAM!!...*BLAM!!...*BLAM!!!* I'm not sure he'll be that interested. He mostly wants to do his shooting from a rooftop. : )
But...he still needs target practice of moving objects. Bambi will do. ;-)
The same. Co-hosted (i.e. used as bait) with Perkins until he retired then Fowler hosted for 3 years on his own. Wiki: For all of Carson's jokes, Perkins was pretty scrappy for a small elderly man.
Yes. Sea lampreys are sea lampreys. Generally, you marinate them in their own blood for two days, then you take the lampreys and put them in a sauce of bordeaux wine and shallots. They don't have bones, just cartilage, so you cut them into pieces like mini-Vienna Sausages, and eat the whole chunk.
Shooting deer from a climbing tree stand is probably like picking off antifa from a rooftop... but I always enjoyed spot and stalking deer on my feet. A certain kind of reverence is obtained.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Making lemonade out of near-rotten lemons is an art. Do you have an economically feasible plan of harvesting these parasitic mussels? Too bad forward problem-solving people like you aren't usually allowed to engage their respective plan, help humanity, and be in charge of gubmint coffers. SOCIAL science + Illegal Invaders + Elites' pet projects (like CERN) are monopolizing the West's resources. Anyway, I've always had a theory that from the lowest and most disgusting life on this planet (like cockroaches) a cure for cancer will be discovered. Your "problem" is in having so much knowledge and ideas for taming the natural world that starting ONE project would take you away from a dozen others. Why not submit a number of your proposals to various authoritahs or influential people?? I think you ought to embark on and engage your favorite plan: The reindeer dairy farm. Thanks! I read that again, that was quite nice. I think things through systemically, and have lived often enough without electrical power, and walked far enough for want of a ride, and dislike bureaucracy enough that I am relentlessly low tech, always seeking the simpler and simpler and yet simpler solution. And I've always been particularly close to animals. I did actually propose one set of ideas to public officials in the area where I live, and have been persistent about bringing it up over the years. The Connecticut coast stretches up from New York City. From Westport Connecticut to Manhattan it's 68 miles as the wolf runs, 32 miles as the crow flies, and 35 miles as the dolphin swims - which is to say, getting there by water is half the distance of getting there by the congested highways and trains. Air travel there is not practical. Water travel is. Manhattan is an island. All of New York City is on three islands and a peninsula. The Jersey side is a coast and a river. Everybody in Connecticut lives in coastal towns. There is no reason at all why high-speed hovercraft, which don't care about ice, and don't throw up a wake, could not take tens of thousands of daily commuters from the Connecticut coast to the city in half an hour. All of the coastal cities have half-abandoned port facilities. There's dockage and parking on the Connecticut side, and hovercraft can dock all the way around Manhattan. Commute times would be more than cut in half, accidents reduced, weather clogging roads and tracks would not slow the hovercraft services. This is not high tech: hovercraft covered the cross-Channel trade between Calais and England for quite awhile, in much much worse sea and weather conditions. Hovercraft are not expensive to operate. There's literally no reason that it could not be done profitably and speedily, and drive up the property values all along all of the coastal areas of CT, Long Island, New Jersey, and even the Bronx and Brooklyn and Queens. Why hasn't it been done already? Simply put: the political entanglements of docking rights, and the intersecting squabbling of three states, multiple cities, and New York Port Authority has paralyzed action on any sort of New York ferry system for years. Looking at that, I've realized that to attempt any sort of public work, no matter how needed, is a fool's errand. Life is too short to overcome political inertia. So my mind turns to the private. Some of those thoughts, playful and serious, have been written above. But to do anything private requires money and oceans of time, and I do not have sufficient funds to be independent. So I've shifted my focus to developing my offspring's talents to the greatest extent possible, and dedicated myself to purely intellectual pursuits that I can control and don't cost money. Thus, I have analyzed most of the major foods and come to understand the complexity of the human nutrition requirements, and I've learned the pictographs and crawled letter- by-letter through Genesis, and I've gone out and found veridical miracles. The investment of time in the things I've studied has given me an interesting perspective on things. The investment of love, time, money and planning into my daughter has made her exceptional at everything she focuses on. Everything else is a shambles. I've decided that the only way I can really do the grander things is to crack the food and religion code and be granted a Methuselaic lifespan by God, which would give me the time through simple work to amass enough space of freedom to be able to cultivate my garden, und so weiter. But I think that some of my greatest desires will have to wait for Paradise to be fulfilled.
Hovercraft are not expensive to operate. I recall seeing video of those. There was even a short sequence of them in some old James Bond film. Here's a Wiki link. The company Seaspeed operated these, even trying for ocean-going catamarans before they finally gave up and closed when Chunnel put them out of business on the Dover-Calais route. Of course, that route was at least twice as long as a Connecticut-Manhattan route would be. Those hovercraft could haul up to 60 cars and 418 passengers by the time they built the Mark III version. The hovercraft in the film belongs to Seaspeed, which was a joint hovercraft operation of British Rail in association with the French SNCF. Seaspeed started cross-channel services in 1968. The hovercraft Bond is traveling on is called Princess Margaret and the model (SR-N4) was the largest hovercraft in commercial operation. This form of transportation was quite new at the time of filming and that is the reason why the cool, dramatic Bond theme was used when the hovercraft leaves port. The fact that this hovercraft service is no longer available makes this scene a nice piece of history, even though the excitement of a hovercraft feels a little dated today. Still, this was the fastest way of crossing the channel and the record of 35 minutes across has yet to be battered. The hovercraft technique was invented in Britain in the 1950's. Following the opening of the Channel tunnel (1994), the hovercraft operations were discontinued in 2000. The service had become unprofitable and the hovercrafts were getting old.
But Adam and Eve speaking Indo-European? No linguist will say that. For one thing, linguistics is a real science. Real science treats Adam and Eve as a cultural legend, not an actual fact. But beyond that, if we allow Adam and Eve actual existence, in a Middle Eastern Eden, with their lines traced forward among all men (and in particular the patriarchs of the Bible) THOSE people spoke Hebrew and Akkadian, Aramaic and Canaanitin and Phonecian, and Coptic Egyptian. And those languages are entirely Hamitic and Semitic in origin, two completely different language families utterly unrelated to Indo-European, as are Sinitic (Chinese) and Altaic (Mongolian) languages. Basque is unique not only because it's a European language unrelated to the surrounding Indo-European languages, but because it is not related to ANY other language or language family on earth. That is because we are descended from angels...or Neanderthalers. Well, by your own admission you have confirmed the Basques existed at least 32,000 years before the Indo-European language came into existence and you are descended from the Neanderthals. And many (if not most) linguists say the Indo-Euro language originated in Mesopotamia (aka Eden in the Bible). And all linguists say that virtually all languages spoken in Europe and north Africa and India today EXCEPT the Basque language are derived from the proto Euro-Indo language. So I rest my case. And Hebrew is of course one of the north African languages despite your ridiculous claim. But the main reason I am responding to you today is because today I read in the news that (1) Barcelona/Catalonia seceded from Spain Friday and (2)instead of the region's economy improving as promised, 15 major companies headquartered in the region have already announced that they are moving their headquarters elsewhere, and the new nation has now been cut off from the EU and from NATO. So what do have to say now?
And Hebrew is of course one of the north African languages despite your ridiculous claim. You are being silly. Hebrew is a Semitic language. North Africa speaks Arabic, for the most part: that is also a Semitic language. Semitic languages are Afro-Asiatic, not Indo-European. Farsi (Iranian), Sanskrit and Hindi, and all of the European languages except for Magyar (Hungarian), Finnish, Sami and Basque (and the languages of recent arrivals from Africa and Asia) are Indo-European. Finnish and Hungarian are related, and are related to the Altaic (Mongolian) languages. Sami is related to the Yakut languages. Basque is unique because it's not related to anything else at all. "By your own admission..." You make that sound like an accusation, like there's some sort of superior race of people. This is the sort of nonsense that Germans believed. The "mongrel" Americans and "untermenschen" Slavs, crushed them. There isn't any basis in Scripture for a Christian to esteem one human race over another; indeed we are called to do the opposite: to all be brothers and sisters owing to our common Father in Heaven.
And the Channel is a nasty stretch of water, with oceanic currents, waves and gales. Long Island Sound at the New York end is a placid place with virtually no commercial shipping traffic. Also, the Sound hovercraft would not have to take cars, just people. It would be a waterborne commuter train - but faster, without tracks or electrical lines that needed repair.
Eden was probably located on the Jerusalem Massif, not in Iraq.
#71. To: Tooconservative (#69)
You don't know any farmers, do you?
#72. To: Vicomte13 (#70)
Wild herds in wild Siberia where there are no people run to over a million. The wolf and bear populations are large to match.
#73. To: Tooconservative (#69)
Naturally, much of the Midwest was untreed before man settled so these were not areas where deer were native.
#74. To: Tooconservative (#72)
#75. To: Vicomte13 (#73)
like Finland, but without the glitter.
Now, here's the thing: a German fellow has developed a means to hand milk the eggs out of sturgeon females, such that the females are not killed and continue to grow. This or similar techniques are already used at a Latvian sturgeon farm and a South Korean one, which produce no-kill caviar thereby.
Thanks to the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Great Lakes have become infested with zebra mussels.
#76. To: Vicomte13 (#74)
But first we gotta try milking pigs.
#77. To: Tooconservative (#75)
Now that is interesting, providing you can avoid disease. You know the challenges for fish farms.
#78. To: Tooconservative (#76)
Other than some bacon and the occasional pork chop, I tend to agree with the opinions of the Jews about swine.
#79. To: Tooconservative (#75)
The ruinous demands for taxation of the South that set off the Civil War were to be used to fund such projects.
#80. To: Tooconservative (#75)
(Edited)
The Michigan tourism board wouldn't care for that description. : )
#81. To: Vicomte13 (#79)
#82. To: Vicomte13 (#80)
The Michigan Tourist Board actually ran a campaign about 20 years ago called "Say Nice Things About Detroit". Sounded to me more like a desperate plea than a call for tourism.
#83. To: Tooconservative (#81)
(Edited)
#84. To: Vicomte13 (#83)
#85. To: Tooconservative (#82)
If you want to make some big money, try to find an inexpensive way to wipe out the feral hogs
#86. To: Vicomte13 (#85)
#87. To: Tooconservative (#86)
You're a city person or you'd know that some things really do need killing. You have a bit of a Dr. Dolittle complex. It would not survive direct contact with nature.
#88. To: redleghunter (#65)
Yes the pizza and change of seasons is well missed. But we make the most of it when we visit.
#89. To: Vicomte13 (#66)
The best beaches of all are those of northern Lake Michigan. Bright clean sand, blue clear lakes, no salt, no jellyfish, no sharks, no pollution...
#90. To: Tooconservative, GrandIsland (#69)
The whitetail is an evil parasite.
#91. To: Tooconservative, Vicomte13, redleghunter (#72)
Hey, if milking the reindeer and whitetails doesn't work out, you could try the gnus! : )
#92. To: Liberator (#91)
"PLAN 'B': Ostrich Milk."
#93. To: Liberator (#90)
*BLAM!!...*BLAM!!...*BLAM!!!*
#94. To: Vicomte13 (#73)
The third thing I have in mind is zebra mussel harvesting. Thanks to the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Great Lakes have become infested with zebra mussels. These shellfish are not noxious, but they do cover everything...including the insides of municipal water pipes, causing issues.
#95. To: Liberator (#89)
But...how about the sea lampreys?
#96. To: Tooconservative (#92)
I've read that emus are a little less uppity.
#97. To: Vicomte13 (#95)
Lampreys are eels. Their highest end use is as a French delicacy.
#98. To: Tooconservative, Deckard (#93)
Some people may claim to tame them. Then they end up mauled like Roy (of Siegfried & Roy fame).
#99. To: Liberator, GrandIsland (#90)
I am pinging The Cure: GI.
#100. To: Tooconservative, GrandIsland (#99)
He mostly wants to do his shooting from a rooftop. : )
#101. To: Liberator (#98)
(Edited)
Johnny Carson used to have comedy bits about Marlon sending Jim Fowler into the jaws of death. Starring: Marlin Perkins (1963-1985), Jim Fowler, (co-host 1963-1985, host 1985-1988), Stan Brock, Stephanie Arne (2013-present)
#102. To: Liberator (#97)
Yes, but these species of Lampreys aren't generally THE eels used by the Italians and French, are they?
#103. To: Liberator, Tooconservative (#100)
#104. To: Liberator (#94)
You are missing your calling...
#105. To: Vicomte13, Liberator (#104)
This is not high tech: hovercraft covered the cross-Channel trade between Calais and England for quite awhile, in much much worse sea and weather conditions.
Bond is embarking from the ferry terminal in Dover, with Calais in France as the likely destination. Since the hovercraft service was not available to Holland, Bond would have had to drive up to Amsterdam from northern France. It is probably meant for the audience to believe that the hovercraft went straight to Amsterdam, but consequently that route was not available. The hovercraft would either go to Calais or Boulogne-sur-mer.
#106. To: Vicomte13 (#23)
Of course Basque isn't Indo -European. The Basques settled Iberia and Acquitania 40,000 years ago, painted the caves and bred with Neanderthals. Photo-Indoeuropeans didn't exist yet. The Steppes from which they eventually came 32000 years later were still covered with ice. So was Michigan, for that matter. There were no Great Lakes yet, and England and France were still a continuous, flat continent (with no people in them). The Basques have been in place for a long, long, LONG time - preparing Indo-European by tens of millennia.
#107. To: interpreter (#106)
(Edited)
And all linguists say that virtually all languages spoken in Europe and north Africa and India today EXCEPT the Basque language are derived from the proto Euro-Indo language. So I rest my case.
#108. To: Tooconservative (#105)
#109. To: interpreter (#106)
Mesopotamia (aka Eden in the Bible
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