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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: "NASA to study "city-killer" asteroid as odds of hitting Earth go up"
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:48:27 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <1oruqj9fq3qifii7avmdl0issusb3hgf3l@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 22:23:34 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>On Thu, 13 Feb 2025, Paul S Person wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:59:49 -0600, Lynn McGuire
>>> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2/12/2025 3:59 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>>> On 2/12/2025 11:00 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:38:13 +0100, "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:52:00 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Between now and May at least it won't match bird flu, Chinese
>>>>>>>> AI or constitutional upheaval at generating scary headlines.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You forgot about the American AI.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's old hat. Chinese AI has rendered it ... superfluous.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kind of like Trump has Congress. And soon will the Courts.[1]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And, being an old fan of horror films, I /enjoy/ scary headlines. And
>>>>>> the various reactions to them, the more hysterical the better. For
>>>>>> each atrocity brings us closer to the inevitable denoument, whatever
>>>>>> that may be.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] As the judge in Watergate pointed out, the Federal Marshalls are
>>>>>> what the Court uses to enforce it edicts, and they are Federal
>>>>>> Employees. Which means the President can escape arrest by them by
>>>>>> simply telling them they are fired.
>>>>>
>>>>> Lincoln would have put the rogue judges in jail.  At one point, Lincoln
>>>>> had 2,300 ??? political people (newspaper editors, etc) in jail that
>>>>> were actively fighting against the Civil War.
>>>>>
>>>>> Lynn
>>>>
>>>> Trump may have to put these rogue judges in jail.  He has my ok.
>>>
>>> That would certainly speed things up ... to the inevitable denoument.
>>>
>>> Whatever it may be.
>>>
>>> Buckle up! Rough ride ahead!
>>
>>Be safe Paul! I do not like your ideology, but I sometimes respect you as 
>>a spiritual being!
>>
>>Maybe buying a gun would be able to make you defend yourself better 
>>against crazy republicans? ;)
>
>More likely, it would allow me to shoot myself in the foot. Literally.
>
>Same reason I don't own a chainsaw.

My older brother has had many fun adventures with chainsaws: nearly
crushed when a branch fell from the top of the elm he was bringing
down, had the chainsaw hit a knot and buck up towards his face,
bounced a running saw off his unprotected knee...

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