From your link: "“Once our government leaders and the authorities condemn the dangerous elements in our society, it will be the duty of every patriotic citizen to help stomp out the rot that is poisoning our country from within.”" Has it occurred to you that the above applies as well to t...

I just finished reading "The Authoritarians" by Bob Altemeyer, which summarizes his research into authoritarian personalities (followers and leaders). He wrote this in 2006 during Bush's 2nd term in office, but it has a lot to say about what is going on right now. Very highly recommended. ...

So, your answer is that you can do anything you want as long as your side wins. Got it. We are talking about politics here. Yes. That's how it works. When one side wins, they do everything they feel they can get away with. It's a razor's edge; go too far and the backlash can be intense. But general...

Why are we still talking about Hillary Clinton? She lost the election. Does anyone care about Mitt Romney anymore? As to the question in this thread's title, the obvious answer is, "no, duh." What incentive would Trump have to to use his justice department to prosecute the guy who helped ...

After having a grand old time making fun of Republicans for going whackadoodle bananas when Obama was elected president, it's awfully ironic to see Democrats now doing the same thing. I guess those tribalist impulses are stronger than they thought! I'm not sure he can help it any more than Reub cou...

But it also doesn't make a lot of sense to me that he just wants to use the presidency to make more money. The guy's already a gazillionaire. He doesn't need any more money. Just about the only money-related thing that would make an impact is repealing the estate tax so that his kids get an extra f...

It's amazing that Hillary supporters can be so blind to her misdeeds. I am not a Republican [nor Democrat] but I voted for Trump with eyes wide open as to who he is. Regardless, it's nice to have another view besides the usual echo chamber. She wasn't running for sainthood. And, I'm not saying she'...

He's 70 years old -- the oldest President ever -- and a billionaire several times over. He doesn't need to engage in crony capitalism to get richer unlike Slick Hilly or Romney. That was part of his allure as well as knowing how the corrupt game is played inside. You can't first fix a broken system...

(which certainly seems to be truth), to what a vile criminal Hillary is (which seems to be nothing but a BIG LIE). Are you Reub from an mirror universe? Are you at/under 35? Let's view some of the scandals of the esteemed Clinton family: Foundationgate (Ongoing) Emailgate (2015) Benghazigate (2013)...

Is the bottom line here that it's OK to rig an election if you win? Of all the potential examples of election rigging this year (ask Sanders about that), Comey informing Congress of factually true information pertinent to a federal investigation is way down on the list. You don't think he was delib...

Or is it illegal to interfere in elections only if your side loses? Comey knew his announcement that the FBI was looking at additional emails would be used for partisan purposes. It then was used for partisan purposes: wildly distorted by Fox ("indictment coming soon"), repeated by the MSM...

Is anyone even remotely concerned about Trump's economic entanglements. See, for example, this article http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/donald-trump-foreign-business-deals-national-security-498081.html Of course, most of this is completely opaque since he never released his taxes (how the fuck did...

The Japan or USA can't default on their outstanding national debt because there's no liquidity limitation (unlike Europe). What you mean is that there's no rational reason whatsoever for Japan or the US (or any other independent currency issuer) to default. I agree with this. Where we might disagre...

Trump will likely increase the debt by trying to lower taxes and other stimulus measures while at the same time saying interest rates are too low. Not at all sure what will happen though, since it is Trump. Trump will actually do whatever is best for Trump. First order of business is drastically re...

sophie wrote: No particularly good candidates come to mind.

Hillary.

From http://gflec.org/sp-global-finlit-survey-methodology/ Survey Questions The financial literacy questions address five basic dimensions of financial comprehension on the individual level (correct answers in bold):   Risk Diversification Suppose you have some money. Is it safer to put your money i...

I have read "The Permanent Portfolio" by Craig Rowland and J. M. Lawson and applied for the service of globalgold.ch which is recommended in the book. Welcome! Everyone here knows this but might forget that newbies might not.  Both authors at least occasionally post here.  Craig Rowland a...

Shawn, What tennis shoe maker do you recommend? I play singles twice a week. New Balance is this best. They will last 6 months which is more than any other brand I have tried. Careful with that.  New Balance has shifted production for many of its shoes to places like Vietnam, with minor differences...

This is definitely a concern. Unless, maybe it isn't: see https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/glyphosate-the-new-bogeyman/ or http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/roundup-and-risk-assessment BTW - MG's quote is from here: http://www.anh-usa.org/action-alert-tell-the-epa-to-ban-glyphosate/ I...

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rickb wrote: Nope - it's a CO2 chart, not a temperature chart.

My bad.  But, correlation is not causation.

Indeed it's not.  But a correlation that seems to have stood up for 400,000 years might be something you want to pay attention to.

However, not even trying to do anything about things we can clearly see will be very, very bad seems a tad defeatist.  I don't think of it so much as defeatist as realistic. Spend a week in Jakarta.  Just one city in Indonesia.  You could give everyone in California a Prius and it wouldn't offset t...

Ah, the infamous Hockey Stick chart.  Nope - it's a CO2 chart, not a temperature chart.  We'll see what the temperature chart looks like in a 1000 years (or, our children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's child...

I don't understand the debate about whether AGW is real or not. It doesn't matter one iota. There is not a single predictive model that works. There is no therapeutic remedy that could be implemented in today's world. There are plenty of global catastrophic risks that we really can't do anything ab...

The image on the top is atmospheric CO2 concentration going back 400,000 years.  The image on the bottom is the EPICA core data.  I've tried to arrange it so these line up.  The text in the image on the top says "For 650,000 years, atmospheric CO2 has never been above this line ... until now&qu...

Because I thought you were referring the to other site that rickb quoted from.  I'm too bored to read up on the whole pro argument again. I was simply quoting the site jafs referred you to. I haven't looked at the raw data myself (I'm not a climatologist), but my understanding is that it's pretty m...