“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
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We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
Ergo, religion.
rac·ist
rāsəst/noun
a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
Ask yourself honestly if this describes what you believe to be true.
If the answer is yes, you are a racist.
Guno צְבִי (07-20-2018), signalmankenneth (07-20-2018)
Hello leaningright,
If the time to return to safety exceeds the time to warn the Capt of the need to do it, then the cruise was too risky to attempt.
But that's one of the problems with capitalism. Business plans don't allow for turning away business for the purpose of most prudent safety procedures. There is always the pressure to provide a ride if they can fill the boat. I wonder if part of the problem was that they had a large group. Without that one customer, the boat would not have been filled? And it is likely that family only had that one chance to do it while they were all together. The weather was fine when they left. The question needs to be asked: "Should they have left with a forecast that this was possible?"
We all saw the video of the boat struggling against the storm. How much of a chance of being caught in those conditions should they accept when deciding to embark?
If we say none, does that kill that business model?
Will the business model be scuttled anyway because of the canopy issue?
Personal Ignore Policy PIP: I like civil discourse. I will give you all the respect in the world if you respect me. Mouth off to me, or express overt racism, you will be PERMANENTLY Ignore Listed. Zero tolerance. No exceptions. I'll never read a word you write, even if quoted by another, nor respond to you, nor participate in your threads. ... Ignore the shallow. Cherish the thoughtful. Long Live Civil Discourse, Mutual Respect, and Good Debate! ps: Feel free to adopt my PIP. It works well.
We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
Ergo, religion.
rac·ist
rāsəst/noun
a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
Ask yourself honestly if this describes what you believe to be true.
If the answer is yes, you are a racist.
Very, very sad. It was a lovely calm sunny day when they shoved off. The problem was that there had been forecasts of approaching weather...it did not appear out of nowhere. Why on earth the operators had either no knowledge of, or ignored the day's forecast is near unforgivable.
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National Weather Service radar image shows the storm just as it approached Table Rock Lake late Thursday afternoon..(Photo: National Weather Service)
Weather expert on Branson duck boat: Warnings were there and should have been heeded
A former president of the American Meteorological Society says Table Rock Lake had plenty of warning ahead of the disastrous storm that killed 17 people in a duck boat tragedy Thursday.
"The radar clearly showed a very large complex of storms approaching the lake," said Marshall Shepherd, who led the AMS in 2013. "If I had been at the lake under that situation, I would not have gone out."
Shepherd, director of the Atmospheric Sciences Program at the University of Georgia, said he has been following the Branson tragedy.
He said the most important takeaway is that the National Weather Service in Springfield had forecast an outbreak of severe thunderstorms more than six hours before a fast-moving storm lashed the lake with 60-80 mph winds.
He objected to the statement made by the owner of Ride the Ducks that the storm "came out of nowhere."
"Storms like this don't come out of nowhere," Shepherd said. "It was literally on the radar scope for hours. Meteorologists were predicting that part of Missouri was at risk for strong storms days before it happened."
Duck boat timeline: First alert came Thursday
A National Weather Service timeline of its watches and warnings showed it issued its first severe thunderstorm watch for southwest Missouri — including Table Rock Lake — at 11:20 a.m. Thursday.
The storm struck Table Rock Lake around 6:30 p.m. Thursday evening.
"The argument that it came out of nowhere doesn't fly anymore," Shepherd said. "It's 2018, not 1901."
https://www.news-leader.com/story/ne...ded/809555002/
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
Leonthecat (07-20-2018), TOP (07-20-2018)
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