Today's breakfast menu...

[micjer]

Well first day of November, and mother nature is not being nice to us.

4 inches of snow covering everything here in Ontario Ca this am.  Can't say that I like it much.

Not supposed to stick around long but is a reminder of what is to come.

[ArMaP]

Wow, that's rough, ArMaP, but I have been told that it is roughly $7.00 a liter in a lot of Europe or around $24.00 a gallon; I would not be able to afford to fill my truck up since it has a 26 gallon tank...

According to this, the higher price in Europe is 1.702 Euros, in Iceland.

The problem some countries have is the price of gasoline when compared with the minimum wages for that country. In Portugal, for example, while a litre of gasoline costs around 1.469 Euros (according to the link above), the minimum wage is 600 Euros per month. In the Netherlands, the third country with the highest price for gasoline (1.621, according to that page) the minimum wage is 1642 Euros. That means that while the minimum wage in the Netherlands can buy 1012 litres of gasoline, in Portugal it can only buy 408.

Relatively, gasoline (like all other fuels) is very expensive in Portugal. Luckily, we don't have much cold.

[ArMaP]

Well first day of November, and mother nature is not being nice to us.

Here in Portugal we are having a heat wave, with high temperatures reaching 22º C (71º F) for the last week, and expected to continue for a couple of days, with a slight decrease (down to 17º C / 63º F) during the next week.

[The Seeker]

Well first day of November, and mother nature is not being nice to us.

4 inches of snow covering everything here in Ontario Ca this am.  Can't say that I like it much.

Not supposed to stick around long but is a reminder of what is to come.

Was weird here Thursday, Mic, 71 degrees at 7am but started dropping at 1pm and went down to 31, didn't make it above 55 Friday, hit 31 again last nite, and was 56 today; yet the forecast sez it will be back to 70 by Wednesday...
Mother Nature can be and is fickle...

[The Seeker]

Good morning all 

Tesla and their Model 3 has been in the news quite a bit over the last several days

In China, there have been over 2,000 glass bridges built as they were all the rage, but after several fatal accidents many have been closed and construction suspended...

Another winter storm is riding a blast of bitter cold air out of Canada thru the northern great plains states but looks like it won't be a great snow producer, the cold forecast to reach all the way down into Georgia...

We the people need to start bombarding those idiots in the House of Representatives with letters, tweets, emails, phone calls, and remind those damn idiots that they are supposed to be working for our benefit and good instead of acting like a bunch of totally retarded school yard bullies with a personal vendetta against Potus Truomp; I am tired of them wasting our time and money, aren't you?




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[ArMaP]

I am tired of them wasting our time and money, aren't you?

I'm not, as it's not my money. 

[micjer]

Not mine either!  Great point ArMap.

As an onlooker, (our news is full of US government issues) it is just a  giant cluster@#(*.  All they report is impeachment news and bickering down the party lines.  Nothing gets accomplished because they can't agree on anything.

Britain is no better lately.

Canada is going to be similar as we just elected a minority government, with 5 different parties having elected MP's (Member of Parliament) and no one party with a majority, so any votes will be divided and nothing will pass here either.

Should hold back their pay if nothing gets accomplished.  That would change things.

[The Seeker]

Not mine either!  Great point ArMap.

Unfortunately, it is mine and several other members' money  A great waste of it in my oinion...

As an onlooker, (our news is full of US government issues) it is just a  giant cluster@#(*.  All they report is impeachment news and bickering down the party lines.  Nothing gets accomplished because they can't agree on anything.

Exactly  Those frigging idiots are not fulfilling the obligations and responsibilities of their duly elected office; as I said earlier, those morons are supposed to be working for and serving to improve the lives and welfare of We the People, not pissing and moaning non-stop because their candidate was not chosen by the people 

Britain is no better lately.

Britain has a tremendous mess to deal with, and so does Germany, France,...

Canada is going to be similar as we just elected a minority government, with 5 different parties having elected MP's (Member of Parliament) and no one party with a majority, so any votes will be divided and nothing will pass here either.

Seems to be that is how they plan on causing total disruption in the different governments, divide and conquer thru chaos as they can literally cause a permanent stalemate...

Should hold back their pay if nothing gets accomplished.  That would change things.

Hold their pay, fine them for incompitance, tar and feather their asses if necessary 

[ArMaP]

Seems to be that is how they plan on causing total disruption in the different governments, divide and conquer thru chaos as they can literally cause a permanent stalemate...

That's the common situation in many countries, like Italy, for example.

In Italy, the Chamber of Deputies has members from 6 different parties and coalitions, and the two coalitions are composed of four and five parties, so the total parties represented in the chamber is 13. Those two coalitions are relatively recent, as they were created in the 1990s. Before that the normal situation was around 12 parties represented in the Chamber of Deputies.

In Portugal we have usually around 6 parties represented, but this year's elections saw the appearance of a few new parties, based on the (relative) success of other new parties across Europe, so now we have 9 parties represented in Parliament. There isn't a party with a clear majority, but, as usual, they make alliances between them (or, like last time, only an agreement between the left parties that allowed the Socialist Party to rule with the support of three other left parties), sometimes only for specific things like the annual budget.

Many parties does not mean chaos, although, in theory, it makes things harder to control. In practice, it allows things to work closer to real life, instead of being ruled by just two parties.

[The Seeker]

That's the common situation in many countries, like Italy, for example.

In Italy, the Chamber of Deputies has members from 6 different parties and coalitions, and the two coalitions are composed of four and five parties, so the total parties represented in the chamber is 13. Those two coalitions are relatively recent, as they were created in the 1990s. Before that the normal situation was around 12 parties represented in the Chamber of Deputies.

In Portugal we have usually around 6 parties represented, but this year's elections saw the appearance of a few new parties, based on the (relative) success of other new parties across Europe, so now we have 9 parties represented in Parliament. There isn't a party with a clear majority, but, as usual, they make alliances between them (or, like last time, only an agreement between the left parties that allowed the Socialist Party to rule with the support of three other left parties), sometimes only for specific things like the annual budget.

Many parties does not mean chaos, although, in theory, it makes things harder to control. In practice, it allows things to work closer to real life, instead of being ruled by just two parties.

I am glad it works for you in Portugal, ArMaP 

Things are just too radical over here right now...

[The Seeker]

Hong Kong is reportedly in turmoil as pro-democracy protests turn violent...

SpaceX lit off another one today, carrying 60 mini-satelites into orbit...

Tesla is on the list again with reports of having 77% of electric car sales...

A large portion of the US and Canada are under siege by bitterly cold arctic air, stretching all the way to the gulf coast, bringing snow to the upper midwest and most of the states eastward along the Canadian border, with snowfall expected as far south as Alabama and Tennessee...

Then I saw a headline about China's space station about to drop out of orbit in the very near future...

[The Seeker]

Wow, time has been flying by yet it doesn't seem to be...

The news is still clogged up with nothing but impeachment bullshit 

The weather is bringing round  after round of snow to the northern plains in the US, down here in the south we get rain, it gets cold, warms back up, then repeats...

From Space.com :

https://www.space.com/spacex-dragon-crs-19-launch-delay.html

SpaceX launch delayed...

Evidence of an Alien Planet Spotted Around a White Dwarf, a Cosmic First...

https://www.space.com/alien-planet-detected-around-white-dwarf-first-discovery.html



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[The Seeker]

Things are getting weirder and weirder, folks; Earlier this week there was an earthquake in Colombia, the US is having record rain, record cold, record snowfall, and in some areas record high temps 

The idiots in the House of Reps voted on 2 articles of impeachment, neither one actually being anything illegal or unlawful, just petty bullshit that is much ado about nothing;

plus the morons don't seem to understand that  until Pelosi officially delivers the articles to the Senate that the president has not been impeached 

In 4 days this decade will end as 2020 begins; SpaceForce has been made official and a legal entity altho that is about all it is at this time

The economy is doing well, the demoncraptards are idiots, and the train keeps rolling along...

On a sad note, controversial radio talk show host Don Imus has passed away at the age of 79...

Remain calm and carry concealed 

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[spacemaverick]

While the House does their dastardly deeds, what is happening on the other hands.  What are they doing that we are being distracted from in the shadows?  A huge spending bill just went through the House that would make our President look small with his budget.

[ArMaP]

In 4 days this decade will end as 2020 begins;

2020 is the last year of the decade, not 2019, as there wasn't any year '0'.

Unless you are talking about an arbitrary decade started in 2009.