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Carbon Footprint of CRUISES

Cruising, a popular form of vacation, has long been scrutinized for its environmental impact, particularly its substantial carbon footprint. As the world becomes increasingly eco-conscious, the cruise industry faces the challenge of adapting to sustainable practices. This article delves into the factors contributing to the carbon footprint of cruises, compares it with traditional air and hotel vacations, and explores the potential of new fuels in steering this sector towards a greener future.

Factors Contributing to Cruise Carbon Footprint

Fuel Consumption and Emissions: The primary contributor to a cruise ship’s carbon footprint is its fuel consumption. Most ships use heavy fuel oil, notorious for high carbon emissions. The enormous size of cruise ships and their constant operation, including powering onboard amenities, exacerbate this issue.

Energy Usage: Beyond propulsion, the energy needs for lighting, air conditioning, and entertainment onboard cruise ships are colossal, directly impacting their carbon emissions.  READ MORE...

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Despicable Journalists

 

Adolf Hitler was a totalitarian dictator who established absolute control over Germany through the Nazi Party, utilizing propaganda, violence, and a cult of personality to maintain his power, ultimately leading to the horrific atrocities of the Holocaust; his leadership style is considered extremely authoritarian and autocratic, where he made all decisions with no meaningful opposition allowed.

SIX MILLION JEWS DIED IN THE HOLLOCAST...

There are journalists in this country, the USA, that are making the CLAIM, using the power of their positions that DONALD TRUMP IS JUST LIKE HITLER.

I find these comments MORALLY REPUGNANT to say the least...  and these journalists should be held accountable for their damaging and negatively influencing comments.

Their journalistic style is inflammatory and intentionally designed to create a Trump persona that is going to be incredibly damaging to this country...

They have also gone as far as saying that Trump will destroy DEMOCRACY as we know it...  but their comments about Trump are destroying the fabric and the intent of the FIRST AMENDMENT.

Since 2016, mainstream media has been after Trump in an effort to destroy his credibility with:

1. A false Russia conspiracy document
2. Impeachment proceedings
3. Destroying the credibility of his family
4. False stories about infidelity
5. Felony charges that appeal courts will overturn
6. Trying to bankrupt him personally and his businesses
7. False stories that he will destroy democracy
8. Silencing his voice by the courts
9. Blaming him for our illegal immigration problems
10. Trying to destroy his business empire

Donald Trump keeps hanging in there and at least 50% of Americans support him either publicly or privately.

During his presidency:

• There was no inflation
• We had a healthy economy
• Taxes were lower
• Employment was up
• A space force was created
• The USA was the top oil producer in the world
• There were no global wars
• There was low illegal immigration

It is time, to force these journalists to start telling us the truth, so that we can decide which direction we want to take this country and stop slandering people's names by making false comparison to historical figures.

WORLD WAR THREE

 

Many of you who will read this posting will not believe that a WWIII is in our future.

Why?

Because nobody wants a nuclear war and you just don't believe that our leaders have the "BALLS" for war anymore.

Let me remind you, that most wars are healthy for an economy because of all the military stuff that has to be made and sold and afterwards, all the engineering companies that will be involved in the rebuilding.

Based upon this logic, our world needs a war.

Will that war be nuclear?

Some say a nuclear war is survivable.  While that may be true, what type of life would you have?

• Living underground for decades
• No internet or computer service
• No vegetable produce or meat
• No sunlight, rain, ice, or snow
• and there is a lot more...

Therefore, WWIII will be a conventional war, fought with drones, satellites, soldiers, ships, missiles, bombs, and maybe a few robots.

• There will be shortages in food supplies
• There will be shortages in gasoline
• There will be shortages in medical supplies
• There will be thousands of people killed
• Terrorists will already be inside the USA
• There will worse inflation than today
• Crime and violence will increase from illegal immigrants
• There will be an enormous amount of fear

The military branches in the USA are understaffed, undertrained, and our ships and aircrafts need to be upgraded.

Our strategic petroleum oil reserves are HALF of what they were when Biden took office.  Our military needs fuel.

Our national debt is so high that the USA will have no choice but to print up more money which will devalue the US dollar.

If attacks are made on US citizens inside the USA, over half of the American people are obese and unable to defend themselves.

There are numerous military strategists who believe that because of:

• Ukraine and Russia
• Israel and Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran
• China wanting to invade Taiwan

that the world is ON THE VERGE of WWIII...  Of course, this is military speculation, but China has made it publicly known that they seek to dominate the world both economically and militarily.

It is also very interesting to know that CHINA OWNS one third of US National Debt.   How do you think that happened?  We needed money to pay for social programs and China made itself available.  The US looked short term.  China looked long term

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Feeling ALIVE

 

What is it that makes you feel alive?

I am sure that it differs for each one of us.

Some might think it is just waking up each morning is enough while other might think counting their assets each day makes them feel alive.

I would also imagine for the religious that praying to their God/god/creator is what motivates them to continue their lives.

Some are alive when they:

• write
• paint
• sculpt
• engage in sports
• play music
• have sexual intercourse
• drink beer with friends
• smoke marijuana

I am confident that whatever you do that makes you feel alive is going to be somewhat different than my list.

I feel alive with the following:

• being around nature
• being around animals
• being around loving people
• being alone with myself
• fantasizing about life

My list has changed over the years which I think is obvious for most people.

Bear in mind that what makes you feel alive is not always what motivates you.  For example, as my daughter began to get older and older, I was motivated to earn more money so I could buy stuff for her.  Earning money, did not necessarily make me feel alive.

Being in my daughter's presence when I gave her a gift made me feel alive.

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Dark Matter Does Not Exist

For centuries, scientists have grappled with the fundamental forces that govern our universe, chief among them being gravity, and more recently, dark matter.

Gravity is the invisible force that attracts objects with mass towards each other, playing a crucial role in shaping the cosmos, from the formation of galaxies to the orbits of planets.

However, as our understanding of the universe has expanded, so too have the mysteries surrounding it.

Dark matter dilemma
One of the most perplexing of these mysteries is the concept of dark matter, a hypothetical form of matter that is believed to make up a significant portion of the universe’s total mass.

Unlike ordinary matter, which we can see and interact with directly, dark matter does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, making it invisible to telescopes and other detecting instruments.  READ MORE...

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The Robot Invasion

 
According to the GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE (GAO), only 47% of American jobs will become automated.

The so-called experts have made the claim that robots will not replace jobs, they will just do the hard work, therefore leaving workers with a lighter, more pleasant job experience.

Now, while that sounds a little naive to me, I would say that:

• All fast-food workers will lose their jobs
• All manufacturing jobs will be replaced
• All assembly line jobs will be replaced
• All taxicab, bus, train drivers, & pilots will be replaced
• All retail workers will be replaced
• All hospitality workers will be replaced
• All mechanics, electricians, and plumbers will be replaced
• All social and news media workers will be replaced

NOTE:

1. What about drones?
2. What about guard dogs?
3. What about robot soldiers?
4. What about robot sailors?

These jobs just popped into my head, and I am sure if I thought about for a while, there would be lots more.

Now, experts also claim that robots will actually create more jobs, but they are not sure what those jobs might be yet.  So, what the hell does that tell you?  

• Either they know and won't say or
• These new jobs will be done by robots

One would think that after all the LIES talked about Donald Trump not influencing but 50% or less of the general public, that these experts would realize they cannot LIE to the general public anymore.

Justice in America

I am completely convinced, no different really that Christians believing in GOD, that WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND...

This does not mean that coming back around is instant...  it may take several months or even years but when it does, it is tremendously felt and worse than the initial occurrence.

The residence of India, I believe, call this KARMA...

But it matters little what you call since it always happens, nonetheless.

This brings me around to the point of this posting.  I just saw a headline that read, "Donald Trump Fraud Ruling Could Be Reversed, Appeals Court Indicates."

We here in the US of A call this POETIC JUSTICE...

The Democrats were COUNTING ON 91 INDICTMENTS destroying Donald Trump's attempt at becoming President again.  This backfired royally on them and now they don't know whether to shit or go blind.

NOW...  when the courts start reversing the lower court's ruling, I am sure that members of their own party will start realizing the dirty tactics that their associates had been using.

While Trump may still lose his bid to become President, the higher courts will no doubt continue to rule in his favor because of these DIRTY DEMOCRATS, DIRTY JUDGES, and DIRTY JURIES...

Cannot Sleep

 

Every four weeks, I have an infusion of IVIG and two shots of premeds, one is steroids and the other is for nausea.  

Every four weeks, the infusion lasts 150 minutes and every four weeks, I stop by a convenience store for coffee and a snack to have during the time, I spend in the infusion chair.  

Every four weeks, I try to remind myself to take two Benadryl pills at 6:00 pm so that I will not have any problems falling asleep that night and every four weeks, I forget to take my 6:00 pm pills.

I think to myself that I must be stupid...  stupid...  stupid...

So, here I am at 11:00 pm sitting on the couch in my living room writing this post because I forgot to take my 6:00 pm pills.  I went to bed, like I normally do at 9:00 pm.

It will probably be 1:00/2:00 am before I will be in a position to fall asleep and that is always a lucky guess since staying up past my bedtime does weird things to my body.

Plus, I am not sure that I have four hours of shit to do to occupy this time which will force me to watch some kind of mindless boring crap on TV,

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Government Censorship

 

Communist countries view media as a propaganda tool, and widely practiced censorship to exercise almost full control over the information dissemination. The press in communist countries is an organ of, and completely reliant on, the state.

So...

what does that tell you or teach you?

If the government control the media and the dissemination of information, then the government has as high degree of probability that they can control the people.......

FLASH FORWARD to the US of A

The mainstream media, that includes CNN, ABC, MSNBC, CBS, PBR, Google, and Facebook, are all controlled by the Democratic Partys and these media news outlets censor news that is favorable to the Republicans and negative to the Democrats.

NOW...

think about this for a minute or two if you will.

If you are a liberal or a democrat and want freebees from the govt as well as green energy and as many illegal immigrants as we have room for, are you willing to give up your FREE SPEECH if and when you no longer like what the govt is doing?

• Or maybe they say, it is forbidden to have children
• Or forbidden for white to marry white
• Or maybe you are forced to let illegal immigrants stay in your home
• Or that you now work for the govt not yourself
• Or you must give up your job to a robot
• Or they want to give your property to China under the laws of Eminent Domain

Eminent Domain gives the government the power to take your property, even if you don't want to sell. But under the Fifth Amendment, eminent domain must be for a “public use,” which traditionally meant projects like roads or bridges.

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