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nybiker says

Americans want to have a civil war because of illegal immigrants, homosexuals, and pot, but no one cares that the US is a bankrupt warmongering police state.

Go ship your Bitcoin Mining Rig to Hong Kong and put yourself under the Chicoms, then.

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@patrick,
Nybiker is a bot. I thought xe was banned already a while ago?

Oil is a bot too, from memory

Exactly - Iran rulers lie and BS as bad as Democrats and the Media...race to the bottom

LOL.... takes a 'real' man to admit that

Rumors are Iranian rulers are are begging John Kerry to get Jimmy Carter to run again, but JC just responded 'who are you...did I help build a house for you/'.

HEYYOU says

Republicans,
I hear Iran is a beautiful,you should visit.

You know the only travelers will be liberals trying to prove to America that world is loving and accepting and nothing bad ever happens.

Its people's thoughts n links whatthat they can get u for extortion?

Yep, this is why past leaders were too cowardly to stop wars by taking out the enemy leader. The cowards would rather get thousands of their own citizens killed rather than set themselves up as a possible target.

What happens to bacteria when they fill the petri dish?: they drown in their own poop.
CO2 and plastics are humanity's poop.

One organisms poop is another organisms food.

rd6B says

One organisms poop is another organisms food.

Unfortunately there are few organisms eating plastics, and the CO2 we generate is the one plants absorbed over millions of years in the past.

Heraclitusstudent says

rd6B says

One organisms poop is another organisms food.

Unfortunately there are few organisms eating plastics, and the CO2 we generate is the one plants absorbed over millions of years in the past.

No one said its a fast process. If we are gone, in a few million years which is nothing on Earth time scale, residue of our existence will be erased and eaten up. May be our purpose on this planet is to provide CO2 for plants...

Heraclitusstudent says

Unfortunately there are few organisms eating plastics, and the CO2 we generate is the one plants absorbed over millions of years in the past.

Phoenix awards contract to Renewlogy for chemical recycling project
The project will focus on using a chemical recycling process to reverse #3-7 plastics back to their basic molecular structures, making them fit for conversion to fuels. Once it reaches full production, the facility is expected to process 10 tons of mixed plastics per day, amounting to about 60 barrels of liquid fuel.
I know, this really doesn't address any of your concerns, but it's certainly better than digging up those million year old carbon sources.

There's also the bacteria that eat plastics. But way to go.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/10/could-a-new-plastic-eating-bacteria-help-combat-this-pollution-scourge

Not drugs. He is getting a BJ from a babe in the podium "Police Academy" style.

For God's sake, wear a condom!

Do you want to be surrounded by people who hate you for who you are when you get old?

Those who hate you will be born, regardless whether you have any children of your own. You can only control / influence whether anyone loving you is to be born among the 200k every day.

Brilliant redistribution plan to reset the homeless:non-homeless equilibria. Collect more and more money from the non-homeless driving them to the brink of homelessness, and use the money to drive the homeless into homes. OBEY!

As WW (above) said: Raise the cost of buying a home so as to help the homeless! That's government (or progressive) logic for you!

The signs can still be re-purposed. They just need to read 'Global Warming Credibility Gone By 2020'.

Glacier National Park is replacing signs that predicted its glaciers would be gone by 2020

Yes, but the folks responsible for putting up the signs in 2010 have already cashed the donation checks and political capital. Now they will work on the next decade with vague predictions and blaming AGW anyway.

The answer to everything is always MOAR TAXES!

Ahahahaha!!!!!!

Right after statewide rent control!!!!!

Enjoy dummies!

I approve.

Mortgages should not be subsidized at all.

The mortgage interest deduction raises the cost of buying.

Of course it's hard to get rid of, politically, because no one wants to see the price then can sell for fall back to fair value. Banks love all that interest too, and will loudly object.

The Germans and Canadians live just fine with no mortgage interest deduction.

I would gladly pay the large shipping costs to send those signs to Sweeden for Gretas viewing.

Patrick says

Mortgages should not be subsidized at all.

Right on. Pass this bill. It's a step in the right direction.

Factoring tax laws and deductions into purchase decisions is a bad idea, as it depends on politics.

Like the pr*ck car salesman who told me in the 1980's, when all consumer interest was deductible from income, that it would be a good savvy move to get a car with a car loan. Then a year or so later "tax reform" passed, eliminating that deduction.

Same sort of thing on this news.

He also fumed that officials refused to acknowledge any “hypothetical” situations in which they would come to Congress for authorization for future military hostilities against Iran."

No one with any experience would answer hypotheticals. Not doing hypotheticals has been standard practice with politicians since the beginning. I even remember Bush 1 repeatedly telling reporters that a question they asked was "hypothetical" and Bush would not go there.

Sigh. Krugman style politically based wishful thinking.

I think Trump certainly staved off a recession. Businesses like his policies and that spurs investment. If he's elected, these policies will continue and should be good for American interests globally. China should feel a pinch as businesses decouple. I'm a hypocrite, I'm using Apple gear made in China - but I'm actively looking for ways to not buy Chinese. Trump's policies put America first - and a rising American economy floats all other boats.

Will there be a market correction? Almost certainly. Will this lead to recession? Maybe. But perhaps it will be short and growth will return apace.

Long-term, any slowdown in Chinese economic growth weakens them militarily, allowing balance from India, Japan, Australia and so on in the region. We do not want an ascendant communist country to grow in power. Best to choke them out economically.

There is a bleak outlook for the Global Elite they are being shuned from the world political stage, and they can't fucking stand it.

What was their forecast for 2018 and 2019? Were they right?

The_Weeping_Ayatollah says

What was their forecast for 2018 and 2019? Were they right?

Economic depression, world war, famine, and plague if we did not hire Hillary.