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Yeah, it is pretty funny. Patented right-wing rant, complete with all of the silly labels, directly from the WSJ reader's "comments". Hopefully he's likely not wearing a mask.
Yes, and from a quick scan it looks as if most of those cases were drug-related, likely with great unevenness in the sentencing.
Trump's are mostly self-serving rewards to his political and criminal aiders, abettors, and associates, or designed to…
It seems to me that most of the comments above, including FD's, appear (on the surface, at least) to have some merit.
It might be quite interesting to explore this in some depth, but unfortunately the time required to marshal and evaluate the neces…
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@Anna- I had to check the dictionary to insure that the word meant what I thought it did. Yes, this is a great place to learn lots of things besides the primary focus on investments.
Take care-
OJ
@Old_Skeet: SHE was just repeating long discredited anti-Democratic blather. Forbes, that well-known anti-capitalist organ of the Democratic Party, has a different take. Some excerpts from a Forbes article on the subject:
Looking at ... total retur…
@johnN: Having spent my last twenty years of employment as a radio tech for San Francisco's 911 I'd really like to hear the details of 911 "not showing up", John. Or is this just more of your usual line of BS?
Hi Dennis- I first heard of Fund Alarm from a complimentary article in the WSJ many years ago. @Mark tried to blackball me but I got in anyway. :)
Add- Our Dean of Discipline, @David_Snowball, assures me that at the rate my behavior is improving I…
Hi @LarryB- It's very easy to post a link- all you need do is go to the page of interest- in this case, the Atlantic article- and copy the URL (address) of the article. Again in this case, that would be:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/20…
"The Congress"? What exactly does that mean? The House? The Senate? A simple majority in both? If "take no prisoners" McConnell is still the Senate leader would you really expect some sort of reasonable compromise?
Good luck!
From that Reuters article:
• Florida’s daily increases in cases have already surpassed the highest daily tally reported by any European country during the height of the pandemic there. It has also broken New York state’s record of 12,847 new cases …
Even now, after all of this, there are still many Republican government officials at the state level who are still in total denial- even to the point of refusing permission for local mayors to require masks. No masks! Freedom! If people die it's God…
@MikeM2- We don't see it used much on MFO but it was very common on Fund Alarm, the predecessor site: "NTIP" in the headline. Means "No text in post", for situations where that's the case. We were just having a bit of fun with you- not to worry... …
From a current NPR article: "In an interview this month with ABC News, Attorney General William Barr called Stone's prosecution "righteous" and said the sentence handed down was "fair."
I guess Trump doesn't see it that way.
A significant amount of time is wasted on this forum because one individual frequently posts what amounts to misleading crap. This garbage then requires the time of others to analyze and document that it is basically "fake news", to use a favorite c…
Maybe he thinks that if he loses the election he can just declare bankruptcy again, and then keep going as president. He probably didn't bother to read the briefing paper that told him that he can't do that.
Regarding the current situation in Sweden, here are some excerpts from a current article in the New York Times (subscription required):
LONDON — Ever since the coronavirus emerged in Europe, Sweden has captured international attention by conducting…
@BenWP- for a quick second there I thought that you were referring to the current White House, but then I saw that the spelling was a little different. :)
Thanks for that info @royal4. I've been very curious as to how that experiment would pan out, but haven't seen much press coverage. "Herd Immunity" via doing nothing doesn't sound very promising. I suppose eventually it might work, but the herd woul…
Not much in that article that I don't agree with.
There's all of the nagging little details regarding recovery, you know? Like how does a city such as San Francisco even transport anything close to the normal number of people to work? Usually the c…
Hold on a minute! It's simply not true that the "president" did nothing about the Russian effort to do harm to American troops. Why, just the other day he proposed inviting Putin to join the G7 in privileged economic meetings.
Wait... wait... let m…
