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Ophelia

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Apr 30, 2020, 7:35:27 AM4/30/20
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Well who would have thought it!


"Greta’s gift: climate activist donates prize money to UNICEF

The Swedish teenager was awarded $100,000 for her environmental campaigning
around the world. Greta, 17, said her donation should be spent on fighting
coronavirus, which she likened to climate change, describing it as a ‘child
rights crisis’.

Danish foundation Human Act, which awarded her the prize money, is also
donating $100,000 to UNICEF."


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Gary

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Apr 30, 2020, 8:34:03 AM4/30/20
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Ophelia wrote:
>
> Well who would have thought it!
>
> "Greta’s gift: climate activist donates prize money to UNICEF
>
> The Swedish teenager was awarded $100,000 for her environmental campaigning
> around the world. Greta, 17, said her donation should be spent on fighting
> coronavirus, which she likened to climate change, describing it as a ‘child
> rights crisis’.
>
> Danish foundation Human Act, which awarded her the prize money, is also
> donating $100,000 to UNICEF."

I'm curious as to how the coronavirus is likened to
climate change? And a child right's crisis?
Sounds like a "know it all" uneducated teen comment.

"TEENAGERS! LEAVE HOME NOW WHILE YOU STILL KNOW EVERYTHING!"

PS - nice though that she donated that money to a
good cause.

Ophelia

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Apr 30, 2020, 9:11:05 AM4/30/20
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"Gary" wrote in message news:5EAAC56A...@att.net...

Ophelia wrote:
>
> Well who would have thought it!
>
> "Greta’s gift: climate activist donates prize money to UNICEF
>
> The Swedish teenager was awarded $100,000 for her environmental
> campaigning
> around the world. Greta, 17, said her donation should be spent on fighting
> coronavirus, which she likened to climate change, describing it as a
> ‘child
> rights crisis’.
>
> Danish foundation Human Act, which awarded her the prize money, is also
> donating $100,000 to UNICEF."

I'm curious as to how the coronavirus is likened to
climate change? And a child right's crisis?
Sounds like a "know it all" uneducated teen comment.

"TEENAGERS! LEAVE HOME NOW WHILE YOU STILL KNOW EVERYTHING!"

PS - nice though that she donated that money to a good cause.

===

I know what you mean about the coronavirus/climate change thing, but
yes, I was impressed that she donated that money:)

John Kuthe

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Apr 30, 2020, 9:20:06 AM4/30/20
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In the True Spirit of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRjQCvfcXn0

NP in my Rainbow Tribe house, out back! :-)

John Kuthe...

Lucretia Borgia

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Apr 30, 2020, 10:35:33 AM4/30/20
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On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:32:42 -0400, Gary <g.ma...@att.net> wrote:

>Ophelia wrote:
>>
>> Well who would have thought it!
>>
>> "Greta’s gift: climate activist donates prize money to UNICEF
>>
>> The Swedish teenager was awarded $100,000 for her environmental campaigning
>> around the world. Greta, 17, said her donation should be spent on fighting
>> coronavirus, which she likened to climate change, describing it as a ‘child
>> rights crisis’.
>>
>> Danish foundation Human Act, which awarded her the prize money, is also
>> donating $100,000 to UNICEF."
>
>I'm curious as to how the coronavirus is likened to
>climate change? And a child right's crisis?
>Sounds like a "know it all" uneducated teen comment.

Good thing that she speaks out, more people should!

Dave Smith

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Apr 30, 2020, 11:04:48 AM4/30/20
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They might be taken more seriously if they weren't such bloody
hypocrites, flying back and forth to conferences to tell other people
to reduce their carbon footprint. Our government was one of the worst
offenders at the time of Paris climate change talks. We sent 300
delegates. Ontario's premier went back and forth a couple times. They
waste money and energy on stuff like that and then expect the rest of us
to take it seriously.




itsjoan...@webtv.net

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Apr 30, 2020, 12:19:16 PM4/30/20
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Nailed it, Dave.

leno...@yahoo.com

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Apr 30, 2020, 12:53:01 PM4/30/20
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I have to say, I keep wondering when she's going to address an audience of her middle-class peers - teens, that is - and tell them they have to cut their first-world lifestyles by 50%. Permanently.

After all, it's not as though she lacks nerve.


Lenona.

Gary

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Apr 30, 2020, 12:56:57 PM4/30/20
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Trump speaks out with nonsense often too.

Dave Smith

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Apr 30, 2020, 1:38:59 PM4/30/20
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I have a plan that should make climate protest students happy. They
would have to start dressing differently for school. They would have to
dress really light in the summer because there would be no air
conditioning, and very warm in the winter because they heat would be set
at about 40F. The extra clothing would come in handy for their long
walk to school because there would be no buses, and no drop off areas by
the school so the parents could not drive. No wifi in schools because
it and all the devices the kids have would take too much power.

Bruce

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Apr 30, 2020, 1:44:33 PM4/30/20
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On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 12:55:33 -0400, Gary <g.ma...@att.net> wrote:

>Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:32:42 -0400, Gary <g.ma...@att.net> wrote:
>>
>> >Ophelia wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Well who would have thought it!
>> >>
>> >> "Greta’s gift: climate activist donates prize money to UNICEF
>> >>
>> >> The Swedish teenager was awarded $100,000 for her environmental campaigning
>> >> around the world. Greta, 17, said her donation should be spent on fighting
>> >> coronavirus, which she likened to climate change, describing it as a ‘child
>> >> rights crisis’.
>> >>
>> >> Danish foundation Human Act, which awarded her the prize money, is also
>> >> donating $100,000 to UNICEF."
>> >
>> >I'm curious as to how the coronavirus is likened to
>> >climate change? And a child right's crisis?
>> >Sounds like a "know it all" uneducated teen comment.
>>
>> Good thing that she speaks out, more people should!
>
>Trump speaks out with nonsense often too.

Hey, did you turn on the light upstairs?

Sheldon Martin

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Apr 30, 2020, 2:43:42 PM4/30/20
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Reminds me of the nincompoops who boast about their 'lectric cars
thinking that burning coal to generate 'lectric doesn't pollute.
As much as possible when I need to go five miles or less I jump on my
bicycle. For carrying groceries I have a basket that snaps onto the
handlebars.
Not to mention that I can't see paying the price of one of those
'lectric cars for only taking short trips. Imagine some nincompoop
who needs a 'lectric car to drive the length of a short driveway and
then crashes into the garage creating a couple thousand dollars body
work... that's much more a dumb schmuck with earlaps than a
nincompoop.
Anyways since the advent of the net there is no need to have a
personal vehical for most shopping, anything I want is delivered to my
door for free. I go into the market in town once a week to pick up
perishables and to check out the young chicks... at my age it would
otherwise be difficult to remember how delightful a sixteen year old
school girl (crispy critter) in short shorts and a tank top looks.
Nowadays (there's that word) school girls wear scanty thongs and nudie
bras, I'm greeted with camel toes and protruding nipples. It's been a
lifetime since I've tasted a sixteen year old schoolgirl but I haven't
forgotten that sweet pungency and their gutteral sounds. LOL

GM

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Apr 30, 2020, 2:45:12 PM4/30/20
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Yes, it's always somewhat amusing to hear some imbecile like her spout on...I put her on the same plane as John Kuthe or "Christ Killer"...only diff is she has a better PR handler...

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Julie Bove

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May 1, 2020, 3:03:49 AM5/1/20
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"Gary" <g.ma...@att.net> wrote in message news:5EAAC56A...@att.net...
> Ophelia wrote:
>>
>> Well who would have thought it!
>>
>> "Gretaā?Ts gift: climate activist donates prize money to UNICEF
>>
>> The Swedish teenager was awarded $100,000 for her environmental
>> campaigning
>> around the world. Greta, 17, said her donation should be spent on
>> fighting
>> coronavirus, which she likened to climate change, describing it as a
>> ā?~child
>> rights crisisā?T.
>>
>> Danish foundation Human Act, which awarded her the prize money, is also
>> donating $100,000 to UNICEF."
>
> I'm curious as to how the coronavirus is likened to
> climate change? And a child right's crisis?
> Sounds like a "know it all" uneducated teen comment.
>
> "TEENAGERS! LEAVE HOME NOW WHILE YOU STILL KNOW EVERYTHING!"
>
> PS - nice though that she donated that money to a
> good cause.

I feel sorry for her. Her parents admit she has mental problems. They are
using her as their puppet.

Julie Bove

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May 1, 2020, 3:04:54 AM5/1/20
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"Dave Smith" <adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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She took a ship that left a HUGE carbon footprint.

Julie Bove

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May 1, 2020, 3:06:26 AM5/1/20
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"Sqwertz" <sqwe...@gmail.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:32:42 -0400, Gary wrote:
>
>> I'm curious as to how the coronavirus is likened to
>> climate change? And a child right's crisis?
>> Sounds like a "know it all" uneducated teen comment.
>
>
> If we Less global warming means the virus would kill even more
> people.
>
> Somebody shoot that kid, eh? She's the virus.

Hehehe.

Gary

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May 2, 2020, 9:23:39 AM5/2/20
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Dave Smith wrote:

> I have a plan that should make climate protest students happy. They
> would have to start dressing differently for school. They would have to
> dress really light in the summer because there would be no air
> conditioning, and very warm in the winter because they heat would be set
> at about 40F. The extra clothing would come in handy for their long
> walk to school because there would be no buses, and no drop off areas by
> the school so the parents could not drive. No wifi in schools because
> it and all the devices the kids have would take too much power.

When I was in school, never any air conditioning. We survived.

As far as wifi in schools, when my daughter was in high
school I don't remember cell phones yet but having a pager
on school property would get you expelled for the year.
(Back then, pagers were thought to only be used by
drug dealers.)

Odd times.

John Kuthe

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May 2, 2020, 9:55:20 AM5/2/20
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My elementary school was that way. No A/C, I used to bring my personal electric oscillating fan and suddenly everyone wanted to sit near me! :-)

Pagers? Cell phones? Hell, I could not even bring my pedometer, as the Lunch Lady took it away from me when I was wearing it and showing it to a friend at lunch! :-( That one of the things that taught me my most important lesson: Question Authority!

And not too long ago when I was querying my son and asked him what most important lesson did he learned from me, and he told me "Question Authority"! And I asked him and of course you applied that to the person teaching it and he said Of Course, and I knew immediately I've done a good job of raising my son! :-)

John Kuthe...

Julie Bove

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May 2, 2020, 7:25:10 PM5/2/20
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"Gary" <g.ma...@att.net> wrote in message news:5EAD7412...@att.net...
I've never seen a school with AC except for a college. The kids here are
requested to have a smart phone by high school. If not, then at least a
phone that takes pics. They keep the signal weak so the phones can't be used
to contact or be contacted but they can take pics of lessons so they have no
excuse that they didn't know what to do.

Hank Rogers

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May 2, 2020, 10:34:00 PM5/2/20
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Exactly. They are not sold west of the Rockies.





jmcquown

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May 3, 2020, 4:31:14 PM5/3/20
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As people are rapidly discovering these days, video conferences are just
as effective and don't involve jet fuel. ;)

Jill

cshenk

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May 3, 2020, 4:49:35 PM5/3/20
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So true, Jill, in the Navy we are becoming so much more efficient with online meetings and such, saves much time and money!

cshenk

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Greg Morrow yet again, but I happen to agree with him.

Dave Smith

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May 3, 2020, 5:39:55 PM5/3/20
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I don't know how well they work with really large groups. The last
meeting of our art festival committee was on Zoom. It worked out nicely,
but there were only 8 virtually attending. I was using that conference
as an agenda because many of the people in the Canadian delegation were
the people pushing for a carbon tax, which I see only as yet another tax
because it is not collecting for green house gas related projects. I
had a special dislike for our provincial premier. It was bad enough that
we were so over represented, sending 300 delegates, but she was the one
who flew back and forth to Paris twice for the conference. That was
unacceptable for any conference off that duration and involving
international flight, but to do it twice on a conference about
greenhouse gases and climate change is so hypocritical that only a
Liberal could try to excuse it.



Bruce

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May 3, 2020, 5:46:08 PM5/3/20
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On Sun, 3 May 2020 17:40:23 -0400, Dave Smith
<adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>I don't know how well they work with really large groups. The last
>meeting of our art festival committee was on Zoom. It worked out nicely,
>but there were only 8 virtually attending. I was using that conference
>as an agenda because many of the people in the Canadian delegation were
>the people pushing for a carbon tax, which I see only as yet another tax
>because it is not collecting for green house gas related projects. I
>had a special dislike for our provincial premier. It was bad enough that
>we were so over represented, sending 300 delegates, but she was the one
>who flew back and forth to Paris twice for the conference. That was
>unacceptable for any conference off that duration and involving
>international flight, but to do it twice on a conference about
>greenhouse gases and climate change is so hypocritical that only a
>Liberal could try to excuse it.

In Australia, a liberal is a right-winger so I fully agree with you!

Taxed and Spent

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May 3, 2020, 6:15:42 PM5/3/20
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and you don't have to wear pants.

Dave Smith

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May 3, 2020, 6:18:07 PM5/3/20
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LOL thinking about the Spanish journalist reporting from home and his
half naked girlfriend walked by in the background.

Leo

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May 3, 2020, 11:26:42 PM5/3/20
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On 2020 May 2, , Gary wrote
(in article <5EAD7412...@att.net>):
>
> When I was in school, never any air conditioning. We survived.

We didn’t have air conditioning either. That’s why we had the summer
off. The only technology that I remember was a Hamilton Clock. There had to
be a heater of some sort, but I didn’t see it.

leo


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