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No Mike. Has someone held a gun to your head and forced you to be racist and bigoted on this thread?

It used to be that Ben had a degree in finance, now it's in economics. Either way, Trump still has no clue when it comes to tariffs, it seems Ben has to pretend he has neither.

This whole thread has been one long display of racism and bigotry usually found in a hairdressers salon. Perhaps the regulars here are also regulars at the local hairdressers?

Now that ensuring people don't cheat on their taxes is socialism, I wonder what spending far more money than you have, and not caring about it, is? US federal deficit widens 77% Director of the Office of Management and Budget and acting White House Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney, said "nobody cares" ...

Referring to a website that hasn't been updated since 2012, isn't digging deep? Three studies using the data collected by surfacestations.org concluded: " All three papers examining the station siting issue, using early data gathered by the SurfaceStations project, Menne et al (2010), authored by Dr...

It's a wonderful thing, the internet. You can find support for any claim whatsoever, even if it requires reaching deep down into the swamp to drag out an acolyte of Alex Jones.

Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 11, 2019 6:46 pm

the whole is more effective than the sum of the parts.

That is rejected as "Project Fear" by the pointers while they happily accept any negative predictions for the remaining 27.

It is quite the dissonance and self-deception.

There are many ways to shore up confidence in having made the right choice. One of them is to point at others at say it's going to be worse for you than me.
What is probably lost on the pointer is that it shows not much confidence at all.

It was also just a series of half truths that didn't disprove what was said in the clip with Al Gore. Unintentionally, probably, it rather did the opposite. The Heartland Institute was, before it jumped on the there-is-no-such-thing-as-climate-change bandwagon, advocating the opinion that smoking ha...

It requires skill to go after substance. Which of course is why form is so many's favorite.

Michael Cohen was in Prague.

Cell signal puts Cohen outside Prague around time of purported Russian meeting

Speaking of rabid right-wingers, there is a sub-section of Trump supporters who, when they are not coming with thinly veiled threats of civil war or spreading conspiracy theories about George Soros, are avid followers and believers of QAnon. A morass of conspiracy-theories that are extraordinarily b...

The paragraph from The Atlantic quoted by Cacophonix deserves to be quoted in full. “ Mattis is the last brake on a president that makes major life-and-death decisions by whim without reading, deliberation, or any thought as to consequences and risks,” said a senior U.S. national-security official o...

A visual representation of Brexit.

The Fed have lowered expectations for this year and the next. A majority of CFOs expect a recession by the end of 2019 or beginning of 2020.

It didn't take long for ISIS to regroup. Yesterday they had been defeated, less than 24 hours later they were back in the fight. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1075397797929775105 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1075726666574544896 And to nobody's surprise Russia were pleased ...

Thanks Admin. Good to know the terms agreed to when registering are just for show.

Jim, you forgot to mention the casual racism, misogyny and bigotry. And of course the name calling, let's not forget the name calling.

ian16th wrote:Unfortunately the UK is in a state of utter and total drought of talented politicians.

People get the politicians they voted for. Or to be more accurate, in the UK people get the politicians a minority voted for.