Category: environmentalism

*SMASH! BANG!! OW!! BOOM! OOF!! And the blows just keep coming for Washingtonians.

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All day, every day now, more and more information comes to light regarding what our "elected" officials are raining down on the law-abiding, tax-paying citizens of Washington State. They are getting us coming and going, literally. Washington State has one of the only Death Taxes in America, and it is the highest of any state. …

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Extra! Extra! Read all about it!! State of Washington digs a deeper hole! Citizens hardest hit!!

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And the blows to the law-abiding citizens of Washington State just keep coming. It now seems that every day there are new stories of further insults to the intelligence and the already-strained bank accounts of long-suffering Washingtonians. Every day, new indications that we will be hit with higher costs of living, additional red tape and …

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Adding Insult to Injury. The Left has no limiting principle.

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The day after the Washington State DemocRats passed an unconstitutional income tax, the public is pummeled again. And again. https://twitter.com/pnwconservative/status/2031545885121982819?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ https://twitter.com/stevemgordon67/status/2032081605628739626?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ And in Socialist Seattle: https://twitter.com/pnwconservative/status/2031541143675220042?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ The communists of Seattle have a long history of piling taxes upon taxes on themselves. The highly-credentialed residents will probably approve the library levy when it is on their …

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This may be the most important post I do this year, for my fellow Pacific Northwesterners. The REAL Extremists, by Tony Seruga

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Tony Seruga and his partner are the Ultimate Dot-Connectors. They do geo-fencing at events, seeing who was there; compare data from zillions of events, and connect the attendance and funding dots. This X post, copied in its entirety and linked at the end, connects all the very ugly dots on who our Extremists really are. …

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*If you thought the Washington Income Tax was the worst they could do, you were mistaken. DemocRats go Whole Hog.

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First, there's the Environmental Crimes Law, SB5360. Gives the State power to arrest Farmers for small "Environmental" infractions. Washington State Democrats are preparing to pass Senate Bill 5360, The Environmental Crimes Bill This will give Democrats the power to prosecute farmers for minor environmental crimes “The environmental crimes bill. This would give the Attorney General …

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News from the Environment

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I saw all these stories recently. Mother Nature is more powerful than we are. https://twitter.com/volcaholic1/status/2023850637629481139?s=20 Hey, this is the time for Situational Awareness! https://twitter.com/volcaholic1/status/2023361802722001278?s=20 Hey drivers, watch where you're going! And from Ireland: https://twitter.com/cormac_mcginley/status/2023684176306991596?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ https://twitter.com/WeatherNation/status/2023593252017111457?s=20 My readers might remember my photos of that same volcano when we were in Hawaii in 2018. That eruption was …

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Lunar New Year is Here: Year of the Horse

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So, in honor of the Year of the Horse (I have been horse-crazy since childhood), here are some horses that caught my eye and my fancy. My ultimate favorite horse breed is Friesian. They are magnificent, and I think they are the most beautiful with their shiny black coats, and manes that would make any …

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*Parents of Public School Students: Do you know what their teachers are doing with, and to them?

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Just in the past few weeks, it has come to the attention of the American People that, in many cities across the country, Teachers are taking entire classes of students out of school to demonstrate against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who are enforcing Federal Law by removing Illegal Alien Criminals from our midst. …

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Whoa!! See what Russia’s Kamchatka Region is getting?!

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This is real, not AI. https://twitter.com/chayasclan/status/2013264799296078228?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Hit the Play button Now that is some serious snow! Beautiful in its way, but scary, too. Russians are used to harsh winters, but this is worse than usual. https://twitter.com/electroversenet/status/2013280295341179216?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Whee!!

Ancient History you have probably never heard about

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Did you know that England and Ireland have not always been islands, separated from mainland Europe? Well, the below post shows how that went down (literally!). Doggerland is all that we have left. Doggerland was a vast, now-submerged landscape that once connected Britain to continental Europe, forming a broad plain across what is today the …

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