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Naturalist, career environmentalist, Patheos writer, Humanist/Skeptic activist. Former hydrologist, EPA consultant, wildlife program director, TV writer/producer. www.facebook.com/greenwoodtreeblog www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/author/bgardiner
Real Name: Bo Gardiner
Location: Virginia
Groups: Science Matters, Birds and Birdwatching
Twitter: BoGardiner1
Diaries published: 32 (1383 days since last diary on Mon Feb 24, 2020 at 08:04 AM PST)
Comments posted: 663 (1383 days since last comment on Mon Feb 24, 2020 at 10:50 AM PST)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 77
Total Comment Ratings: 0
Most Recommended Diary: Documenting History So It's Not Repeated: Naming Regressive Leftists Who Tried to Help Trump Win, 1803 comments, 500 recommends
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"We're going to have many millions and millions of people… Some people say the biggest event they've ever had in India. That's what the Prime Minister told me, that this will be the biggest event they've ever had." —Donald Trump, 2/23/2020, on eve of...
by BoGardiner
 40 comments
on Mon Feb 24, 2020 at 08:04 AM PST
with 33 Recommends
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I have yet to see Virginia or national media name the gun rights hysteria in Virginia for what it is: a budding rightwing proto-terrorism movement. Instead they give it the cowardly “both sides” treatment while gun rights groups call to establish local...
by BoGardiner
17 comments
on Fri Feb 21, 2020 at 08:29 AM PST
with 15 Recommends
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Not buying it. You of course know by now that yesterday Christianity Today, the magazine founded by world-famous Christian evangelist Billy Graham, published a scathing editorial titled “Trump Should Be Removed From Office,” calling Trump “grossly...
by BoGardiner
32 comments
on Fri Dec 20, 2019 at 11:54 AM PST
with 37 Recommends
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Yes, at times yesterday in London Trump was able to recall that Boris Johnson is now Prime Minister. But at other times... He and French President Emmanuel Macron were taking reporters' questions at the NATO summit in London, December 3, 2019. The...
by BoGardiner
192 comments
on Wed Dec 04, 2019 at 04:58 PM PST
with 221 Recommends
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Right-wing fake news is nearly a daily occurrence now, but a viral story this week was so blatant, so easily traceable, that it's a useful example. It was impossible watching its wave build, transform, and travel across the net without picturing...
by BoGardiner
49 comments
on Thu Mar 30, 2017 at 01:49 PM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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Trump’s latest move to send us back to the gray skies of the coal era was a mistake, but not for the reason you think.
Remember all that anti-China rhetoric in his campaign? Four-dimensional chess at its finest, a smokescreen to hide his true...
by BoGardiner
8 comments
on Wed Mar 29, 2017 at 07:15 AM PDT
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- House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is feeling just a little bit touchy, now that Donald Trump’s Russian and Ukrainian chickens are coming home to roost in the impeachment proceedings. In a press conference Thursday, journalist Andrew...122 comments 205 Recs
- Nobel Peace Prize laureate, environmental activist and former Vice President Al Gore threw a double whammy at Donald Trump this week. After Trump penned and released a new presidential executive order on Tuesday that essentially rolled back...101 comments 154 Recs
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- Thank you, Tom Perez, for listening to us and acknowledging that Democrats shouldn’t be taken for granted! He said in a recent interview that people have lost faith in the DNC for many reasons, and that he’s owning up to that by continuing to work with...487 comments 323 Recs
- If you’ve been waiting for the moment when Donald Trump hands over power … good news! But Trump isn’t officially placing his magic marker scrawl on a resignation. It’s just that, after two whole weeks of trying to get a health care bill passed, he’s...472 comments 303 Recs
- Trump's petulant response to the colossal and dismal failure of the first significant test of his Presidency was to callously express his hope that the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) would “explode,” thus paving the way for whatever imaginary...192 comments 368 Recs
- I honestly don’t have words for how dickish Trump and his GOP cult really are. This from the Independent: Angela Merkel will reportedly ignore Donald Trump’s attempts to extricate £300bn from Germany for what he deems to be owed contributions...355 comments 355 Recs
- Day 64 - "The Rose" sung by Bette Midler The song, written by Amanda McBroom a year or two earlier, first appeared in the closing credits of the 1979 movie (starring Bette Midler) by the same name, originally entitled "Pearl", based loosely...9 comments 11 Recs
- Rufous hummingbirds migrate to my neighborhood every spring, make a big splash breeding, and then depart to spend the winter in warmer southerly climes. They compete with the resident Anna’s hummingbirds all summer, who likely give a big sigh of relief...147 comments 81 Recs
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