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Post by glennkoks on Oct 28, 2014 13:19:48 GMT
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Post by glennkoks on Oct 25, 2014 17:17:09 GMT
Guys, Theoretical question. If we didn't address our debt what would you address Several big issues and they tie into our debt. Not necessarily in order: * Social Security. We have to reform before the bulk of the baby boomers retire. Key word is reform not "eliminate". It needs to revert back to a minimal safety net and not a retirement plan for the masses. * Military Industrial Complex. It's out of hand and we now have more and more money from defense contractors pouring in. Our threats have changed since the Cold War ended yet we continually find ourselves in constant unending wars at a huge cost to the taxpayer.
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Post by glennkoks on Oct 25, 2014 13:39:27 GMT
magellan, Does the Republican party have anything besides fear to run on? Like an actual platform? A plan for the future? Glenn: From what I can see they have more of a plan for the future than democrats. Sigurdur, Neither party is serious about addressing the most serious threat to our continued prosperity, our debt. The last two administrations have been equally disastrous. One spent us into oblivion on endless wars the other on social programs and hand outs. The window to clean our economic house is closing. We simply can't be the worlds police force and in a constant state of war. Nor can we give handouts to citizens in form of endless unemployment benefits, free student "loans" and welfare.
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Post by glennkoks on Oct 25, 2014 3:41:31 GMT
magellan,
Does the Republican party have anything besides fear to run on? Like an actual platform? A plan for the future?
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Post by glennkoks on Oct 24, 2014 1:46:11 GMT
Do you think that natural gas at 3.67 an MCF has anything to do with bankrupting coal companies? Natural Gas is 5 times cleaner than coal and it's cheaper. The shale plays have glutted the U.S. market with light sweet and oil is down to 81.00 a barrel. But Obama is the oil boogie man? The get your guns boogie man etc...
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Post by glennkoks on Oct 24, 2014 1:00:59 GMT
Is this Obama's fault? The oil boogie man is now the Ebola boogie man?
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Post by glennkoks on Oct 21, 2014 5:12:26 GMT
Is this pattern of warm and cold different? My suspicion is that in the past we didn't have the internet there to troll for crisis after crisis. The polar vortex is very visible on 14 day weather sites but is it a change or just a very interesting newly visible phenomena. Is this pattern of warm and cold different? I don't think so. We have seen it before. The transition from the MWP to the LIA was marked in Europe by wild fluctuations from year to year. This was probably caused by a meandering equatorial jet stream. These well documented wild fluctuations eventually gave way to the LIA and a predominately cold pattern. The cold gave way to the modern warm period and so forth. The pattern repeated between warm and cold for millennia and will not doubt continue long after we quit dumping CO2 into the atmosphere. Milankovitch Cycles, other celestial events, vulcanism, all the above? Who really knows but I think it is a little arrogant to think the things that have always driven our climate will be trumped by CO2.
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Post by glennkoks on Oct 20, 2014 14:21:10 GMT
If it follows a pattern similar to the last few years it will be fridged in places and very mild in others. All courtesy of a more meandering jet stream pattern. A few years back the Danube froze over and Rome was dusted with rare snow. At the same time the U.S. did not have a winter. Last year was brutal for most of the U.S. and mild over much of Europe.
It will be interesting to see if the cold in Eurasia equates to a cold winter for most of the NH.
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Post by glennkoks on Oct 17, 2014 15:18:19 GMT
scpg02,
I don't really think the boyfriend has been confirmed. Only that he has a fever and is being isolated.
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Post by glennkoks on Oct 17, 2014 1:29:32 GMT
A very serious situation. But I am more concerned with the civil liberties we will certainly voluntarily relinquish to combat this.
Common sense: Yes
An excuse to give the Federal Government more "emergency powers": NO
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Post by glennkoks on Oct 17, 2014 1:18:25 GMT
The boyfriend of the nurse now has it. so that is two nurses and one boyfriend. plus the one nurse had the CDC tell her it was ok to fly. Really???!!! I think the keystone cops are running the government. One boyfriend? Confirmed? Link please?
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Post by glennkoks on Oct 2, 2014 22:20:18 GMT
"No warming last 18 years; Cooling for three decades"
I have a hard time buying into that. I can see where the warming has leveled off since 1997 perhaps even cooled a little. But saying it has been cooling for three decades is a little hard to believe. Sounds like something from the alarmist camp.
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Post by glennkoks on Oct 1, 2014 20:14:31 GMT
What can the US do with regards to King Kong? The environment is prehistoric, it seems our best course of action is to just do nothing as our involvement would result in more lost lives and the beauty psychologically damaged. I don't think we can or should do anything about the events in Hong Kong. But you can be assured the leaders in China are paying close attention. Their biggest fear is instability caused by civil unrest that would threaten there grasp on power.
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Post by glennkoks on Sept 30, 2014 11:57:33 GMT
The protests in Hong Kong have the potential to spread and get really ugly. The ruling party in China is watching this very, very close and civil unrest can easily spread. Keep an eye on how the world markets react to this. The worlds economy will be greatly effected and the "failure" of the U.S. may come from civil/economic turbulence abroad.
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Post by glennkoks on Sept 13, 2014 1:07:58 GMT
It looks like the same pattern we had last year is going to be in effect this year. One "polar vortex" after another...
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