Fleas can cause both morbidity and mortality in dogs.

And don’t ask about butterflies…

Clearly, you need to read the REST of the blog, then!

That’s an odd position for seeking to take the oath of office that involves swearing to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Sadly, as we see continually now, the latest generation of Republican leaders, the tea-baggers, and libertarians, don’t respect the Constitution for what it says, they worship what they think it says.

Highly desirable, both of these, but I expect that most of the knowledge of the first will more likely reside in the staffers rather than the candidate.

Even the second may be asking too much of some candidates. I’ve been depressed by how many high profile Republicans in the two decades have made public utterances that indicate that they are at a loss when it comes to much of the knowledge which should be important for people to know in the high offices to which they aspire. Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, and Rick Perry come to mind. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, religious apologist, and contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2015 said in public that the Dred Scott decision was still the law of the land. When called on it he propped up his argument with a quotation he ascribed to Thomas Jefferson which he (Huck.) apparently thought trumped anything in the Constitution or in legal precedent. He was trying to make the case that if everyone who disliked the Court decision that allowed for gay marriage just ignored the ruling, it would be just like the way we now ignore the Dred Scott decision and Congress could pass laws against it. When faced with the Constitutional Amendments that made the Dred Scott decision null and void, he essentially denied that they did that. That’s an odd position for seeking to take the oath of office that involves swearing to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Ok. Im across the Pacific and then some, and i see very different. Hope im seeing wrong.
Look forward to disarmament platform from the donkeys. It will put the loony poms and french and indians and russians to shame. And the local elephant party.
And a very strong overlapping concurrent wideranging environmental platform as well. Perhaps start by taxing the buggery out of polluting energy. Specially oil and coal. Its so stupid cheap, no wonder people abuse it. Driving v8s with automatic gearboxes around to go sightseeing and have picnics and shit. Gas heaters for the outdoors!!!!
Factories making plastic flowers and jet skis and aluminium to wrap potatoes in.
Friggen joke. Tax polluting energy hard and frivolous energy wastage harder.
Odd seeing your name as Gregory instead of the usual informal Greg.
Goodnight.

“In the west, we worry today about who gets the contract to bring bottled water to Puerto Rico or Houston after a hurricane, and yes, that is important.”
Just quoting you here so you may understand me rabbiting on about bottled water. Your post mentioned it.
Nuclear weapons severely suck for the evironment and provably so.
Im pretty damn sure the donkeys do not have a platform for removal of them.
They aint anti nuke.
It could reasonably be stated that nuclear weapons ( and other WMDs ) are condoned by the Democratic party.
Fuck them.
I could be wrong and the news i get in Australia misinforms me. It could be that the Democrats are historically and currently anti nuke and just have never been in a position of power to enact that platform. But i dont reckon.

Li D:

The trend you are referring to is from a single study (but a fairly good study) that modeled cyclone activity in the Atlantic. Everywhere else similar work suggests increasing activity. With respect to the Atlantic, though, even though that study conforms to expectations and is well done, the Atlantic has failed to conform to expectations. There is a modest increase in hurricane frequency (from something like 12.1 a year to 14 year, something along those lines), and other factors such as Saharan dust have actually been seen to attenuate numbers there. So, the Atlantic hurricane frequency is dancing backwards and in high heels and doing better than expected.

The water stuff you are talking about, id on’t know what you are talking about.

Nuclear is an entirely different issue. I think if we polled all of the candidates I know of running for DFL endorsements, we would find fewer than 20% pro nuke, maybe another 20% willing to accept a little nuclear if we needed, the rest pretty much anti nukes.

WMD’s are a matter for a different post, because this post is about energy policy, mining, pipelines, the environment, etc.