I first came to California in 1927 we lived in a labor camp my father picking peaches others in the camp picked cotton for seventeen cents per hundred pounds picked My grand father let two farms in Oklahoma go back to the county because he couldn't pay the taxes he was in the same camp we were in along with my uncle . John Steinbeck wrote the Grapes of Wrath that year travelling up and down the great San Joaquin Valley with the Okie immigrants The great Visalia flood in the last chapter I remember vividly water in all directions as far as the eye could see at the end of the season the State bought us train tickets back to Oklahoma because hordes of Okies who couldn't find work was scaring the hell out of the locals. They would come out to the Hoovervilles with ball bas and ax handles yelling for the Okies to get the hell out of here and don't come back till the cottons ready to pick. Here in Brentwood on the western edge of the Delta the cops round up the in employed vagrants and held them in a barbed wire pen by the train depot when a train came through they loaded them in box cars and dumped them off in the next county. When the Japs bombed Pearl my dad ran up to Oklahoma A&M college and took a six week course in welding jumped in a model A Ford and headed it to Oakland California and a job in a shipyard My mom sister and I followed a few weeks later. My parents had been tenant farmers for 10 years and went broke every year in 1935 the worst drought year the 80 acres they farmed only produced two bails of cotton at $25 dollars per bail and the land lord got half and the House burned to the ground with every thing we owned and two years later they made their way to California. by the mid 50's I had a wife and two girls and we were able to live a standard of living our parents could not have dreamed of just 20 years earlier . The two farms my Grandfather let go to the county for lack of money to pay taxes eventually sprouted oil wells on both farms

I think The rump didn't just become civic minded and try and save America. He does not do anything unless there is big money to be made that's why he refuses to make his tax returns available so the public can see where he has been making his money and refuses to divest he has a deal with Putin to remove the economic sanctions placed on Russia by Obama after Putin took Crimea and squashed the half a trillion deal ExxonMobill had with Putin to drill for oil in the Barents Sea. Why else did Rex Tillerson CEO of Exxon want to be Sec of State. He has recused himself for two years from and decisions on the sanctions but why not for the duration of his time in government. Now we see Exxon is pursuing a waiver from the Treasury Dept. sanctions to drill in the Black Sea in a venture with Rosneft the Russian state oil company. The waiver was requested under the Obama administration and was not granted. Exxon has billions at stake 68 % of their assets are in Russia a billion barrel pool of oil has been discovered in the Kara Sea since the sanctions were initiated removal or a waiver could mean a trillion dollars to Exxon and I Trump can get them what they want it will mean billions possibly to Trumps enterprise he doesn't give a shit about the American people that's all political posturing they knew if he was going to win he would have to turn the Rust belt red he said what they wanted to hear and it did. Tillerson has recused himself from this waiver request but that just means it will go through its all about the money bigly

The US uses about 11% of the world's coal, yet we are only responsible for about 5% of the coal related pollution. We have the cleanest coal industry in the world. Obama would have crippled an major industry with nothing to replace it to placate idiots like you, and the rest of the world would have laughed their heads off at out stupidity while the continued producing 95% plus of the pollutants. We use more coal than any other nation, NOT more than all of them, and China and India and I believe Russia also all produce considerably more coal related pollution than us.
A UN program that fights female genital mutilation? Is that one as wildly successful as most other UN programs? Tell me, how do funds "fight" global warming? Exactly how. Not some vague assed generalizations, nuts and bolts. Specificity. Speaking of global warming, how about the names and creds of some of these "97%" of all scientists who allegedly believe in anthropogenic (manmade) climate change? Your buddy Theotts was kind enough to provide some non-working links for his "proof." Maybe you have some that work? Remember, 97% of all scientists. Surely you can find a couple that are not receiving money from any person or organization that is making money off the promotion of anthropogenic climate change.

Not true. coal is not clean, and never has China uses more coal than any country in the world and they are chocking to death about a million Chinese die per year from polluted air but China is
trying desperately to go green. The United States is a net exporter of coal. However, some coal is still imported, mostly for power plants on the eastern and southern coasts of the country, where it is cheaper to ship in coal by sea from South America than transport it from mines in the northern and western United States. In the third quarter of 2016, the U.S. exported 12.6 million short tons of coal (6.5% of total production) to dozens of countries around the world; the largest markets were the Netherlands (16% of all exports), Canada (12%), and Brazil (12%).
In the third quarter of 2016, the U.S. imported 2.7 million short tons of coal, mostly from Colombia (80%), Canada (12%), and Indonesia (6%)[2].
Coal exports have decreased since 2012 as U.S. coal production has declined, mostly because cheaper natural gas and renewable energy sources have decreased the demand for coal as a fuel for electricity generation.

The US uses about 11% of the world's coal, yet we are only responsible for about 5% of the coal related pollution. We have the cleanest coal industry in the world. Obama would have crippled an major industry with nothing to replace it to placate idiots like you, and the rest of the world would have laughed their heads off at out stupidity while the continued producing 95% plus of the pollutants. We use more coal than any other nation, NOT more than all of them, and China and India and I believe Russia also all produce considerably more coal related pollution than us.
A UN program that fights female genital mutilation? Is that one as wildly successful as most other UN programs? Tell me, how do funds "fight" global warming? Exactly how. Not some vague assed generalizations, nuts and bolts. Specificity. Speaking of global warming, how about the names and creds of some of these "97%" of all scientists who allegedly believe in anthropogenic (manmade) climate change? Your buddy Theotts was kind enough to provide some non-working links for his "proof." Maybe you have some that work? Remember, 97% of all scientists. Surely you can find a couple that are not receiving money from any person or organization that is making money off the promotion of anthropogenic climate change.

Coal provides nearly half our electricity. Just what do you propose to replace it with? I mean realistically, not some bullshit theory. I never said coal was clean, I said ours was cleaner than anyone else's already, which accounts for the relatively small amount of coal caused pollution we are responsible for. It took decades for coal pollution to get to the point it was a few years ago, yet you Liberals expect someone to wave a magic wand and clean it up overnight, then wave another wand and produce a replacement for coal, just like that.

Expand our use of natural gas, start funding more solar energy for our homes, and add nuclear. Couple that with wind power and we can eliminate coal in 20 years. Train our coal miners to do something else and lead the world in something instead of always trying to follow...

You know, back when America was great and the government poured massive amounts into R&D. You know, the good ole days, the days Trump promised to bring back to us. The only thing stopping us from doing it is the political will to get er done...

Not true. coal is not clean, and never has China uses more coal than any country in the world and they are chocking to death about a million Chinese die per year from polluted air but China is
trying desperately to go green. The United States is a net exporter of coal. However, some coal is still imported, mostly for power plants on the eastern and southern coasts of the country, where it is cheaper to ship in coal by sea from South America than transport it from mines in the northern and western United States. In the third quarter of 2016, the U.S. exported 12.6 million short tons of coal (6.5% of total production) to dozens of countries around the world; the largest markets were the Netherlands (16% of all exports), Canada (12%), and Brazil (12%).
In the third quarter of 2016, the U.S. imported 2.7 million short tons of coal, mostly from Colombia (80%), Canada (12%), and Indonesia (6%)[2].
Coal exports have decreased since 2012 as U.S. coal production has declined, mostly because cheaper natural gas and renewable energy sources have decreased the demand for coal as a fuel for electricity generation.

Expand our use of natural gas, start funding more solar energy for our homes, and add nuclear. Couple that with wind power and we can eliminate coal in 20 years. Train our coal miners to do something else and lead the world in something instead of always trying to follow...

You know, back when America was great and the government poured massive amounts into R&D. You know, the good ole days, the days Trump promised to bring back to us. The only thing stopping us from doing it is the political will to get er done...