Minny_Weather

GFS has killed almost all the measurable snow on the backside of the late week storm. Euro has it but I'm the southeasternmost county to get 2+ inches.

Good news is a clipper pattern begins next week!

2 hours ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

So it would have been OK if the drunk driver was a citizen or legal alien? Looks like the problem here really is drunk driving.

Drunk driving is wrong regardless. Citizens and permanent residents of the US are punished for drunk driving. Hell, even legal immigrants face deportation if they cannot remain law-abiding. Obviously the penalties go up if someone is injured or killed as a result of drunk driving. 

So why shouldn't illegal immigrants, who shouldn't even be here in the first place, face deportation if they commit a crime in the country that they shouldn't even be in in the first place? It's not a race thing, I'd feel the exact same way if Canadians were making their way down here en masse. 

Can't believe I'm conceding defeat to thermals in an upcoming storm in early February.

9 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

I found the remark about conservatives being in favour of equality to be profoundly dishonest, and was trying to show so by providing a counterexample.

Because equality is not what conservatism is about. Shall we review the Wikipedia definitions of left- and right-wing politics (i.e. the introductory paragraph of the articles on both) that I posted here some years ago? Nobody took issue with them at the time. (In fact, several on the right chimed in in agreement with the definition of right-wing politics.)

Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in society whom its adherents perceive as disadvantaged relative to others as well as a belief that there are unjustified inequalities that need to be reduced or abolished through radical means that change the nature of the society they are implemented in. According to emeritus professor of economics Barry Clark, supporters of left-wing politics "claim that human development flourishes when individuals engage in cooperative, mutually respectful relations that can thrive only when excessive differences in status, power, and wealth are eliminated."

Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position based on natural law, economics, authority, property or tradition. Hierarchy and inequality may be seen as natural results of traditional social differences or competition in market economies.

Equality is the prime motivating concern of the Left. To attack affirmative action policies based on their being an affront to equality is to make a left-wing criticism of such policies, not a right-wing one. An example of the latter would be to say something like “The United States got along just fine without affirmative action. We won two world wars, became a superpower, and became a global economic power.”

I'm glad you told conservatives how they feel for them!

KAXN hit 55*F on Wednesday. Needless to say that is a record.

Pretty sure by the start of next week we'll finally be back to seasonal temps here in MN. Not necessarily cold, but seasonal.

The bulk of any precip we will receive in the next 10 days will be rain which is not a concern I should be having in February.

8 hours ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

Plus, they are brown.

Thankfully, there is nationalism to use as a pretext so we don't have to say the quiet part aloud.

This is up there with some of the most tasteless posts of all time on this board, along with:

• A poster invalidating a fellow poster's mental health anecdote because they are a man, and
• A poster calling gay people mentally screwed up in direct response to an openly gay poster

Congrats, you're in good company!

Okay, come on, 150 democrats.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6976

If we're going to turn a blind eye to illegal immigration (we shouldn't but we are), shouldn't we at least draw the line at them violating our laws?

5 hours ago, Beltrami Island said:

To say I have 4" left on the ground might be technically correct, but a lot of bare patches are showing up in wind prone and sun exposed areas.  In town its just snowbanks and snow piles looking like late march/april

Same deal down here except we didn't get any big snowfalls so we had about 5-6" on the ground at its prime. At this point, all of it is gone except displaced snow from plows/shovels.

Thankfully op GFS is just one model, cuz that <1" of snow for here and points south immediately before a PV invasion is terrible to look at.

Absolutely zero blocking to be found. At least Alaska is seeing extreme cold. 

I really wish I liked ensembles more regarding snow chances over the next 2 weeks. Any ensemble members showing a shovelable amount of snow once temps get cooler again are an outlier at the moment.

I'm excited for this torch to REALLY begin so we can get rid of this D**n freezing drizzle. Sidewalks and parking lots have been treacherous to walk (or skate) on since Wednesday evening.

8 minutes ago, hawkstwelve said:

Uh... When did I say it was only the Democrats fault? I thought I have been pretty clear lately with how idiotic MAGA "Republicans" and the GOP establishment are for continuing to line up behind him. It's incredibly frustrating. At the same time, the Democrats have only made things worse with their never-ending persecution of the guy. It lets him be able to play a card he wouldn't otherwise get to play. Both things can be true.

Literally all these two have been doing all day is accusing anyone who disagrees with them on anything of being an extremist MAGA racist fangirl. It's annoying. It's like Happ didn't leave this forum, he just asexually reproduced and made 2 Happs.

Just now, SnarkyGoblin said:

What do you mean "nope"?   What I said was true.  10ish Senate votes is all it would have taken.

You took my nope the wrong way.

29 minutes ago, SnarkyGoblin said:

EDIT: Republicans could literally have put an end to all of this if the senate had convicted him in the second impeachment.

Nope. Sorry. I don't think either impeachment was legitimate (nor would the impeachment effort against Biden if it went through). And honestly? The second one was more of a purely symbolic sham than the first.

Go ahead, do what Rubus did and accuse me of being a Trump worshipper now.

2 hours ago, roadtonowhere08 said:

Out of curiosity, of the current indictments, are there any that you believe should be pursued to their fullest extent?  If so, which ones?

Of all the ones we have, I think that the classified documents case is probably the most legitimate one on the docket. I think they're all politically-fueled (obviously they are), but that's the only one that actually has legs to stand on. Now that the charges are on there, obviously they should be pursued to their fullest extent even though I think most of them are corrupt bs.

Do I agree with it? I dunno, I didn't conduct the investigation.

16 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

 

 

I said 3 posts ago that I am not a Trump apologist nor do I like him. Are you trolling or are you seriously so blind that you think everyone you disagree with has a Trump shrine in their backyard that they bow down to every night?

Just now, Rubus Leucodermis said:

As long as he’s a candidate, his candidacy is going to be a top political issue.

And people going to literal clinical insanity over it is hilarious.

He craves attention. Stop giving it to him.

It's so ironic that the absolute derailment of both parties is caused by their obsession over Trump.

20 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

Sounds like the party of law and order (hah!) is upset at one of their own being held to account again.

I know you've been in this thread since it started, don't act like you just now started posting in it today. If you would take your partisan blindfold off for a second, you would know that I have never been a Trump apologist and have been posting FOREVER about how I absolutely do not want him to be the nominee...

... Which is why I do not see why Democrats are so balls deep in charging him and wanting to put him through the guillotine. All it's doing is fueling the MAGAs and making them even more pissed, thereby ensuring that he gets the nomination. And Biden doesn't have nearly the advantage that he did in 2020, so Trump has a pretty good shot at winning the presidency for another four years. Are you happy? People popping massive boners over the idea of him getting imprisoned (which is about as likely as Hillary ever getting imprisoned, btw) caused it.

3 hours ago, Iceresistance said:

Things are about to get ugly, it's now Abbott (with states supporting Texas) vs The Government and Biden

 

I'm honestly not sure what this achieves. It's about as useful as the city of Minneapolis condemning Israel in their city council meeting or NBA teams playing the black national anthem before games.

7 hours ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

President Trumps campaign is a lean, mean, fighting machine. 
 

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/25/trump-2024-campaign-republican-nominee?stream=top

Hope the democrats are happy about the indictments. All it did was fuel that awful fire.

7 hours ago, SnarkyGoblin said:

What a strange thing to post on here.

No politics in the politics thread plz

If/when it ultimately comes down to giant d0uche vs. turd sandwich in the general election again... I don't think I can stomach voting for either of them. I threw my vote away in 2020 but it was easy to do so then because at the time I lived in a state that has three electoral votes and is always guaranteed red. It takes a bit more guts to do that in a state that matters.