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Just read the NYT article- very informative, and certainly answers a lot of questions. I really hate to say this, but I'm thinking that McConnell is actually correct in suggesting that a whole lot of the stimulus actually went to areas that weren't …
@davidmoran- No problem on that- I just experimented with one of my OT posts: All you need to do is use "edit" to change the category to "Other Investing" and bingo- your post is moved over to the other side of the tracks where the better folks live.
@Derf- damn near anything is possible in that arena, as you well know. Still doesn't explain Trump's repeatedly giving the Russkies a free pass though, does it?
@Mark- Me too, on passwords. In a brief but shining flash of inspiration a couple of years ago I did think of a very good and easily remembered type of password, at least for us old folks.
When we were kids, the households of those us of a certain …
@Mark- Thanks much for that lead to Heather Cox Richardson. Was unaware of her. Very impressive.
Access via Bill Moyers opens other interesting info also.
@FD1000: Your narrative is facile, glib, and totally one-sided. You compress the long and troubled history of the Mid-East into a short Israeli perspective, and attempt to present this as "truth". Anyone with knowledge of this area is aware that alm…
@hank- We checked Amazon Prime this last weekend, and found that both "Wall Street" and the sequel "Wall Street- Money Never Sleeps" were available, but there was a note that the sequel was only going to be available for another 13 hours! So we got …
The US occupation occurred over two hundred years ago. This does not make it any more excusable, but at least it is not actively continuing in the present, and we now recognize it for what it was. Native Americans are free to live on their own reser…
Well, one member of that court is, in my opinion, illegitimate: Brett M. Kavanaugh. Mitch McConnell blatantly cheated Barack Obama out of his right to appoint Merrick Garland, and Kavanaugh was later appointed by Trump to fill that place.
Whatever they may see, in one respect we actually owe Trump some thanks. These people were not created by Trump- they were there all along and he just brought them out of the shadows. At least we now know the reality we're up against.
I don't pretend to understand all of the background of the Moroccan-Polisario conflict, but it would appear that Trump made yet another cynical trade-off: the future of the refugees and inhabitants of Western Sahara (nothing much in that for us) for…
The Wall Street Journal doesn't seem to think Trump had much to do with it:
"To assemble its mRNA production network, Pfizer used its own money and didn’t take any from the federal government. Executives said they didn’t want to give agencies outsid…
Well, not really- they actually had something of a point: they felt that the court, because in this case it was the court of original jurisdiction, should have allowed a hearing.
Then they said that if a hearing had been granted, they would have re…
You guys are actually expecting a rational response from someone whose answer to climate change is "How about moving north? there's a lot of vacant land in the north country."?
"How about moving north? there's a lot of vacant land in the north country."
We've got to give wxman123 a lot of credit on that one- it's probably the easiest and simplest way to handle the whole thing that we've yet heard.
After getting the agree…
Can you imagine what the unemployment rate would be if most of the on-line merchants were not hiring emergency staff to handle the pandemic business increase? Amazon alone has hired 427,300 new employees in the past ten months: that's 1400 people PE…
Why the hell would any ballot be "signed and signed with Trump"? What does that even mean? This man is getting crazier by the day.
I do have to say that I love them spending a cool $3 mil in Wisconsin to find an additional 257 votes for Joe Biden.…
@wxman123: I was a "working man" for fifty years. I am not represented by nor interested in the perverted pretense of Trump and his acolytes to be on anybody's side- other than their own Democracy-be-damned self-interest.
They started with a smelly…
An army of political hatchetmen qualified in nothing other than a nihilistic agenda of Trumpism brought four years of chaos and administrative subversion.
I prefer "hacks" who are well-qualified administrators with experience in their jobs.
A pref…
