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LewisBraham
Hi Hank,
Your satire came across very well. Don't worry about the user name.
Best,
Lewis
In my experience, the GOP tends to care more about the unborn than the living. Force women to have babies, but provide minimal to no healthcare, daycare, education or financial assistance to the poor who are often poor because they come from broken …
I did live in the Middle East. Israel isn't a true democracy because of the law of return guaranteeing citizenship and voting rights to any person of Jewish descent, but not to other nationalities/religions, creating a two-tiered citizenship. It inc…
@SomeoneWhoIsNotWhoHeClaimsToBe You should be ashamed for using Honest Abe Lincoln's face on your post. And your forebears if they were truly coal miners and knew what's what would know there isn't a more significant union busting, labor hating part…
@Old_Joe The sad thing is it isn't even an "Israeli perspective" any more than Donald Trump's and the GOP's ideas on foreign policy are the singular American perspective. This is Bibi Netanyahu's and the Likud party's perspective. Many in Israel dis…
The thing that irks me—and I admit I have been overly irritable lately—is this notion that liking the status quo and believing change in either direction is extremism is”apolitical.” It is not apolitical. It is called conservatism. And we can no lon…
I apologize for my previous misstatement. No excuse; simply a case of something I KNOW which doesn't happen to be true.
Wouldn’t that mean you don’t “KNOW” it or does knowledge not require factual accuracy?
Think of it this way, Racqueteer, if someone said Trump’s plan to build a wall to keep Mexicans out of the U.S. is a terrible idea, a waste of money that will never be completed and won’t work, would you consider that a “non political” statement on…
Isn’t it funny how Racqueteer said five posts ago “OK, last try for me,” yet he continues to argue his false position that attempting to eviscerate a Democratic clean energy policy that doesn’t even have all its details in place yet is “not politica…
To criticize the core of a president's agenda as an almost certain failure and harmful to the U.S. economy and then say you "took no political stance," is either to be deceptive or deluded. Getting pretty tired of arguing with someone though who spe…
@racqueteer I've cited three separate paths which WOULD be solutions, but not in 15 years.
You cited three different solutions--geothermal, tidal and microwaves--and dismissed all of them and complained about how other countries are failing so why …
@racqueteer Never said we can do it on our own. My point is you can't deal with absolute global existential problems like climate change with a relativist nationalist approach. It is like the cardinal rules of every modern civilization--Thou shalt n…
I can’t understand your commentary because it is written incoherently. Write it clearly. Oh wait I thought you were kings53man who uses terms like “global warning.” You I’ve already responded to. You just don’t like the response. You want to make t…
@racqueteer The earth's rapidly warming climate doesn't care whether you're liberal or conservative or whether you're American or Chinese. This is a global phenomenon in which national borders are meaningless. Consequently, tribalists, nationalists,…
Sadly true for the most part. Only, are conservatives conservative anymore, given, for instance, the deficit under a Republican president? The author makes it sound like this political impasse is just part of a long continuum of ideological differen…
@wxman123 And you are ignoring my point that by the measures that matter most regarding health, Newsom's covid response has been successful and not at all "pretty dreadful overall" as you stated. Would you admit he has been successful relative to ot…
Never said you were a "murderer," just that you believe some people are expendable and worth sacrificing so the economy can grow, and just as you claim it isn't at all clear that restrictive policies help with infection rates--tell that to South Kor…
@wxman123 What your point is, your real point then, is that sacrificing human life in exchange for personal wealth is an acceptable outcome if you are more concerned about the "social impact" than the death rate as you say. Why not just come out and…
@wxman123 Both of you are mincing words to avoid my point and to support your brethren. ..We can debate how bad California has done on Covid in light of its policies
No one is mincing your words except you. You said with regard to Covid death-rate …
@Wxman123 but conveniently ignore that Gavin Newsome (another big science guy, right) has presided over the state with the worst covid record amongst healthcare workers (and pretty dreadful overall).
False, on both counts: First, there isn't good d…
Read: "130,000 – 210,000 AVOIDABLE COVID-19 DEATHS – AND COUNTING – IN THE U.S.”
https://ncdp.columbia.edu/custom-content/uploads/2020/10/Avoidable-COVID-19-Deaths-US-NCDP.pdf
@wxman123 As for the coal minor, sure, a comparatively small industry, but one that is directly affected by the new green movement. Every life matters, right?
Not apparently the thousands--soon to be millions--already displaced as climate refugees f…
How many people did the U.S. coal mining industry employ in 2019? 53,000. https://statista.com/statistics/215790/coal-mining-employment-in-the-us/
How many people are employed in the retail service sector: 9.8 million.
https://census.gov/library/sto…
@wxman123 The "strawmen" are John Kerry and Al Gore whose individual hypocrisies have nothing to do with the factual accuracy of climate science or the threat level climate change poses. In fact, any hypocrisies they reveal make a stronger case for …
@wxman123
The idea that there is not another side to the climate debate is a real issue,
Sure, there is another side of everything, just not a side that exists in the realm of rational scientific study in the case of climate change. One can stil…
But you take for granted that the science behind the car you drive or the plane you fly or the cell phone you're using is accurate today and will most likely be accurate tomorrow. And if you were a smoker and went to see 100 doctors and 99 of them s…
@wxman123 You are confusing scientific facts with opinions. The planet's rapidly warming climate doesn't care whether you're a Democrat or Republican or whether I'm a "elitist" in your opinion or not. But then again, it is well known that facts hav…
@wxman123 You think fighting climate change is just about saving sea otters? Bless your heart, your ignorance would be almost charming if it wasn't killing the planet: https://nybooks.com/articles/2019/08/15/climate-change-burning-down-house/
Burnin…
@wxman123Climate change is real. Causation debatable
Follows the Fox News rationalization perfectly. For decades Fox and by proxy the fossil fuel industry, the views of which Fox follows to the letter, publicly denied climate change was happening ev…
Actually, there are more than those three stakeholders as the community and nation in which a company’s facilities are located are also stakeholders. Consider the company with a factory it leases and pays taxes on in a specific town. That factory is…
It also seems an antiquated fallacy to say growth stocks are those with high valuations, being therefore the opposite of value ones. The opposite of a cheap stock is an expensive one, not necessarily a growth stock. A growth stock should have, well,…
I believe it is not really cash as an exposure but a place holder/balance for the derivatives used to get exposure to emerging market and other currencies. But I wasn't just thinking of the closed-end fund GIM but the open end mutual fund TPINX: htt…
