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Holy Sh1t! Sad Padas’ favorite republican….
Republican Presidential candidate John Kasich says he wants the US government to create a new bureaucracy to push Jewish and Christian belief systems around the world.
Like many in both parties he’s a governmentarian
‘Sad Padas’ favorite republican’
You noticed that too? “Gee, I wish the republicans would pick Kasich so he can lose to Hillary.”
Uh, that’s not how it works. One side picks someone who might be against what the other side wants. But just what is going on here?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/kasich-create-agency-push-judeo-christian-values-article-1.2439022
‘The Ohio governor, who has actually campaigned on the traditionally conservative message of limiting the federal government, said during a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., that the U.S. needs a new agency that would help the country be “more forceful in the battle of ideas.”
“U.S. public diplomacy and international broadcasting have lost their focus on the case for Western values and ideals and effectively countering your opponents’ propaganda and disinformation,” Kasich said.’
‘Kasich then proposed solving that problem by creating “a new agency that has a clear mandate to promote the core, Judeo-Christian Western values that we and our friends and allies share: the values of human rights, the values of democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of association.”
‘The hypothetical agency would target certain areas of the world with promoting those values, including Russia, China and the Middle East, Kasich, who has been polling nationally under 4%, said.’
“Its job would be fundamentally to revive what we used to do when we beamed messages into the former Soviet Union. We need to beam messages around the world about what it means to have Western ethics … to be part of a Judeo-Christian society,” Kasich said.’
We have a new Governor Moon-Beam.
You noticed that too? “Gee, I wish the republicans would pick Kasich so he can lose to Hillary.”
But I thought you thought we thought we should pick Trump so he can lose to Hillary.
No, he said that he was confused by your Trump bashing when you pretend to claim he is a weak candidate, because getting him to be the nominee would be in your Hillary loving interest. It’s exactly the same.
getting (Trump/Kasich/Cruz etc) to be the nominee would be.. exactly the same.
Dang. You’re good!
Any time any Dem says something simi-good about any Repub there is obviously a vast conspiracy to tout-a-clown, because as you know, there is absolutely nothing remotely good, decent or admirable about any of your Repub clown-a-Thon fascistas whatsoever.
Good work!
http://www.salon.com/2015/11/18/stephen_colberts_horrifying_warning_get_used_to_president_trump/
Could Mitt Romney possibly save the Republicans from accidentally nominating Trump?
Could Mitt Romney possibly save the Republicans from accidentally nominating Trump?
Like he saved the pubies in 2012?
“Like he saved the pubies in 2012?”
The election outcome was very close.
I think he could beat Hillary.
The election outcome was very close ??
Yes it was and if he had won the repub’s would be trumpeting from the highest mountains on what a terrific job he has done bringing our economy back from the dead and down to 5% unemployment…
With the black man in office, not so much…
ZIRP, now with more Establishment!
Hence all the anger at Trump. They know he can win. 80 percent of Rs have said they’ll vote for whomever their nominee is. This does not include all those angry at the establishment Trump supporters, which includes lots of tea party, who Trump gets also due to his immigration stance.
The immigration and antiglobalist/China positions peel off many Reagan blue collar democrats and independents. Hillary has no appeal for those folks.
Now all he needs to worry about is the sham rigged establishment fire line called the Iowa caucus and the inevitable post Iowa media blitz trying to shape an anti trump narrative.
to shape an anti trump narrative ??
No need to shape it….He will do it himself…12 more months of him running his big mouth….Voters stay home ?? It will be the republican voters that stay home embarrassed by the candidate that they actually put forth to become POTUS….Palin was bad…This one is a complete joke…
yep hillary is awesome. obama is god like.
And Trump will be gone by Thanksgiving. Open borders for all. BTW, over 80 percent of Rs have already said they’d vote for whoever the nominee is. Good luck getting the Obama voters to show up for Hills.
National security, border security/immigration and guns.
who Trump gets also due to his immigration stance.
Oh, he’ll get his due alright when millions of Hispanic voters turn out and vote against him.
Other than the angry old white man vote, which demographic groups are in Trump’s corner?
I think the question is, which demographic group has he not insulted and alienated? His poll numbers just dived 12 points. I don’t know if that’s due to the Muslim database, the mocking of the disabled reporter, or both.
Maybe its few more than angry old white men.
Angry Black Pastors Expected to Endorse Donald Trump
How about all the demeaning, derogatory remarks made about and directly to women? How is that going to convince females to switch votes from Hillary to the Don?
White skin privilege liberal Bill Clinton can rape but not black conservative Bill Cosby
By Ethel C. Fenig
‘As allegations of past rapes by a conservative black comedian against actresses, models, and others continue pouring out, so do the repercussions.’
‘Meanwhile, accused white liberal rapist and former president Bill Clinton has no such problems. He still dominates Democratic politics, commanding an average $195,000 per speech imparting his wisdom and insights. Past allegations of rape and groping and using his power and charm to seduce women are ignored – or secretly admired.’
‘The Clinton Foundation hauls in millions, supporting Bill; his wife, stand-by-your-man former New York State senator, former secretary of state, and potential presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton; daughter Chelsea; and hundreds of hangers on in style. Women of all backgrounds, especially feminists, flock to his speeches as he tells them what they want to hear.
‘Clinton’s alleged victims haven’t fared so well. Paula Jones was dismissed as “trailer trash” by Clinton, defending himself against her claims of rape, which he later settled for $850,000. Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrrick were scorned and mocked by Clintonistas after going public with their claims. Gennifer Flowers, charmed by Clinton in exchange for sex and talk of marriage, was mocked as silly – someone who couldn’t even spell her first name correctly. Mention Monica Lewinsky, the 22-year-old starry-eyed intern in the Clinton White House and Clinton charmee, and (sometimes nervous) laughter erupts. Except from the victim herself. No complaints from liberal women about the degrading treatment of their “sisters.”
‘So the lesson seems to be liberal white male skin has its privileges.’
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/11/white_skin_privilege_liberal_bill_clinton_can_rape_but_not_black_conservative_bill_cosby.html
Let’s talk about the candidate, not Marsha Marsha Marsha!
‘Earlier this year, Hillary Clinton told a cheering Silicon Valley audience, “There is a special spot in hell for women who don’t help other women.”
‘If there is such a place in hell, Hillary has reserved parking there. It’s hard to think of any other politician who has done as much to exploit women while doing so little for them. Except maybe her husband.’
‘While Hillary pontificated about the glass ceiling, the tabloids were filled with new allegations of sexual abuse about Clinton pal Jeffrey Epstein by one of his former “slaves”. Bill Clinton had taken frequent rides on Epstein’s private jet which had been nicknamed the “Lolita Express” because of its transportation of underage girls for the use of Epstein and some of his friends and associates.’
‘Hillary Clinton was lecturing on feminism while new allegations were coming out about the former slave’s meeting with Bill Clinton on the “Lolita Express” and the favors that Bill owed Epstein.’
‘Jeffrey Epstein was good at cashing in his favors. Despite buying girls as young as twelve, he served a year in the private wing of a Palm Beach prison with “work release” for six days a week and sixteen hours a day which he used to fly the Lolita Express back to his private island.’
‘That island was a special place in hell for some little girls, but not one that Hillary Clinton was interested in doing anything about.’
‘Now Hillary has decided that she stands with rape victims. “I want to send a message to all of the survivors,” she said. “Don’t let anyone silence your voice, you have the right to be heard, the right be believed, and we are with you as you go forward.”
‘But the right to be believed didn’t extend to the twelve-year-old Arkansas girl who was beaten into a coma and raped.’
‘Hillary Clinton defended her rapist by hurling false accusations at the little girl, claiming that she was mentally ill and sought out older men. She accused the girl, who had been beaten into a coma, of romanticizing “her sexual experiences”.
‘On tape, Hillary Clinton can be heard laughing about her client failing a lie detector test. She had known all along that it was the rapist who was lying.’
“Hillary Clinton took me through Hell,” the victim said.”You are supposed to be for women? You call that for women, what you done to me? And I hear you on tape laughing.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260152/special-spot-hell-hillary-clinton-daniel-greenfield
http://dcgazette.com/hillary-jokes-about-12-yr-old-victims-rape-on-tape/
‘Hillary Clinton was lecturing on feminism while new allegations were coming out about the former slave’s meeting with Bill Clinton on the “Lolita Express” and the favors that Bill owed Epstein.’
Do Hillary’s supporters willingly ignore this kind of back story?
‘Hillary served as US senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, but her accomplishments are thin. No piece of legislation bears her name. Her tenure came to be defined in the 2008 presidential primaries by her vote for the war in Iraq — which Barack Obama, who had opposed the war, used to chip away at her foreign policy bona fides.’
‘Her accomplishments as secretary of state are as unclear. She traveled to 112 countries, but again, she has nothing of consequence to her name: no peace treaty, no accord, no summit of consequence. Her defenders say she helped restore America’s reputation in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; critics say she was too afraid to make a mistake that would affect her presidential run in 2016.’
‘When asked in 2014 by Diane Sawyer to name her greatest achievement or “signature doctrine,” Hillary could not. “We haven’t had a doctrine since containment worked with the Soviet Union,” she said. “But we’ve had presidents who’ve made some tough calls and some hard choices, some of which have worked, and some of which have not.”
The suspicious finances
‘Clinton will likely position herself as the champion of the middle class. Yet in 2014, it was revealed that Clinton, who charges a minimum of $300,000 per speech, also had an extensive list of demands.’
‘Most anyone who hires Hillary to speak must also provide a private jet — a $39 million Gulfstream G450 or better — and put her up in presidential suites. Her standard agreement requires her presence for only 90 minutes, and 50 photos with 100 attendees — no more.’
‘Hillary has defended her enormous speaking fees by saying she and Bill were “not only dead broke, but in debt” when they left the White House.’
‘In 1999, Bill and Hillary bought their house in Chappaqua for $1.7 million, and in 2000 purchased a seven-bedroom in Washington, DC, for $2.85 million. Hillary’s Senate financial disclosure form that year listed their assets at $1.8 million.’
‘In 2014, the papers of Hillary’s late friend Diane Blair were made public; in them, Blair wrote that Hillary dismissed Monica Lewinksy, then a 22-year-old White House intern, as a “narcissistic loony-toon” and insisted that Bill had not abused his power.’
‘As for Bill’s other women — including Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey, who alleged sexual harassment, and Juanita Broaddrick, who accused him of rape — the Clintons often embarked on a “nuts and sluts” campaign, denigrating the accusers.’
‘According to Carl Bernstein’s “A Woman in Charge,” Hillary called Bill’s longtime mistress Gennifer Flowers “trailer trash”; she also encouraged his team to get signed statements from all of Bill’s other women, swearing they’d never had sex with him.’
‘Willey later said that Hillary spearheaded a “terror campaign” against her. “She is the war on women, as far as I’m concerned,” Willey said.’
‘When asked why she didn’t use two emails, one for official business and one for personal use, Hillary said: “I thought it would be easier to just carry one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two.”
‘Then an email surfaced that was sent from her iPad, undermining that excuse.’
‘In a press conference to address the controversy, Clinton answered questions with all-too-familiar arrogance, contempt and incredulity that her word should be questioned. “She came off as defensive and artificially put-off,” one Democratic strategist told New York magazine. “I’m a huge Hillary Clinton fan,” said another. “But after that press conference, I do have major concerns about her ability as a campaigner and to get elected.”
http://nypost.com/2015/04/12/hillary-clinton-faces-scandal-amid-expectant-presidential-run/
Maybe it’s clearer now why some want to go on about Marsha Marsha MARSHA!
‘If there is such a place in hell, Hillary has reserved parking there. It’s hard to think of any other politician who has done as much to exploit women while doing so little for them. Except maybe her husband.’
This is the candidate that every American voter with two X chromosomes is planning to vote for?
What is wrong with this picture?
In case anyone who plans to vote for Hillary is reading here today, I have a serious question for you.
Which of the following best describes your reasoning?
1. I know all the stories about her covering up for all of Bill’s horrible mistreatment of women are lies made up by Republican detractors.
2. I realize at least some of the stories are probably true, but I don’t care because Hillary currently represents our best hope to get a female elected president.
3. Other ( you supply the reasons).
3. Other ( you supply the reasons).
Why would anyone hold Hillary accountable for Bill’s poor treatment of women? That doesn’t make sense to me. The opposite is true, she has shown strength in the face of his dalliances. Anyway:
3. I will vote for Hillary while holding my nose because she will be the lesser of two evils versus any Republican candidate.
3. Other
Clown car!
It would appear that the only thing inevitable about a Clinton nomination is that the sordid baggage these two power-mad hillbillies are carrying around is going to be put under the microscope - again. Am I the only one here who remembers their time in the White House? Scandal after scandal, for years.
Scandal after scandal, for years
That’s because of the vast right wing conspiracy (vrwc). This time is different though. The msm will protect her like they have protected Obama. If you listen to the establishment GOP types who happen to control the vrwc, they would rather have hillary than trump.
‘the establishment GOP types …would rather have hillary than trump’
Of course they would and it gets to the heart of the matter. When Trump said we have to stop policing the world, I’m sure some brown stuff ran down the legs of lobbyist and defense contractors all over DC. It’s a phony dualism, this two party system.
“Am I the only one here who remembers their time in the White House? Scandal after scandal, for years.”
Nope. And I frankly would greatly prefer the opportunity to avoid the chance to relive it.
It’s a phony dualism, this two party system.
Ding ding ding……That’s why they HATE Trump!
Why would anyone hold Hillary accountable for Bill’s poor treatment of women? That doesn’t make sense to me.
Because her treatment of women is a lot worse than Trump’s treatment of women.
Not just defense contractors, ALL contractors.
Private industry loves both options — Hillary/establishment GOP candidate.
Agencies keep getting gutted, which means less oversight and accountability. Private contractor profits have been booming out of control since the early 2000s. Hence my decision to stop representing private cos in front of agencies and buy into a contractor.
I forgot to include a choice:
4. The average American finds the stories of Bill Clinton’s misdeeds so unpleasant and distasteful to discuss or contemplate that they would prefer to bury their heads in the sand than to acknowledge that a vote for Hillary is also a vote to help Bill back into the White House through the back door.
THINK, SHEEPLE: IS THIS WHAT YOU REALLY WANT?
And don’t worry about the Clintons. Despite their terrible impoverishment, they will somehow find a way to survive even if America decides not to elect them to a third term in office.
“It’s a phony dualism, this two party system.”
Indeed. “In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.” —Noam Chomsky
“It takes a village to molest a child.”
Line from the movie “Spotlight,” about the Boston Globe breaking the story on the world wide Catholic priest sex abuse scandal…
To be fair, no matter who they select or elect, the pubies are going to lose to hillary. Too many vegetable voters in this country.
Hillary has very high negatives and no positive appeal. She’ll cause many O supporters and Bernt supporters to just stay home.
wishful thinking. just ask bernie fans in this blog. how many will stay home or happily vote for hilary?
She nonetheless has the aura of inevitability. Get over it.
95% of the ‘Murican electorate are stupid. Stupid people make poor choices at election time. Hillary is the worst choice of all. Ergo, she is fated to become our next president. It is written….
The Gang of 8 had the aura of inevitability with their open borders amnesty surrender. Same problem.
“Stupid people make poor choices at election time.”
So at the top, on one side we have the lackwit that thinks the presidency is some kind of monarchy, and on the other we have the evil lizard queen.
Second tier we have the socialist vs the (if they can get Romney to run) Human Nothing.
Below that we have a raucous clown car (yes, Rand is in it…. he’s no Ron) vs a few people nobody knows.
What’s the good choice here?
“What’s the good choice here?”
To not vote. Be above it. Don’t play the rulers’ game.
“To not vote. Be above it. Don’t play the rulers’ game.”
Been thinking that for a long time. You’ve said. But it should be that way.
correction: it shouldn’t be that way.
Trump… A superb statesman with a squad of sexy strumpets
Remember this moment when the PC nazis come after you for voicing you opinion. You had a chance to stop it. You had a chance to vote for change. I’d take a 5 percent chance that Trump might change something versus the 100 percent chance HillaryJeb will only make it worse.
Remember this moment when the PC nazis come after you for voicing you opinion. You had a chance to stop it.
Preach it Clubber!
conservativereview dot com:
“Last week Hillary Clinton threatened a conservative political action committee with a lawsuit, angrily boycotted Fox News, complained about unflattering media photos, and demanded that a National Review editor be fined for making politically incorrect comments about her.
Oh, wait. That wasn’t Hillary Clinton doing any of those things. That was Donald Trump.
Trump’s seemingly endless capacity to bully and insult his critics has been entertaining, sure, but is quickly becoming dictatorial. His calls for (mostly conservative) political pundits to be silenced, fined, and boycotted should give pause to anyone in America who cares about free speech.
Trump Is A Danger to Free Speech
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2015/09/trump-is-a-danger-to-free-speech#sthash.Y6J8XGa0.dpuf
Donald Trump and the End of Free Speech - Newsmax.com
http://www.newsmax.com/Ruddy/chris-ruddy-trump-free/2015/07/…/653948/
Jul 8, 2015 - However controversial one may think Trump’s comments, I am amazed practically no one is asking about the free-speech implications of the …
Trump appears to oppose free speech | TheHill
thehill.com/blogs/…blog/…/250992-trump-appears-to-oppose-free-speec…
Aug 14, 2015 - The Chinese government, earlier this year, threw a journalist in jail for having the audacity to leak pro-democracy, pro-free speech, pro-civil …
Dumb question of the day: How many paid Trump boosters are currently posting campaign rally material on social media sites like this one?
The Donald lives in Lolas empty skull, rent free.
About the same numbers as hillary/bernie supporters.
Did someone mention “Trump” and “Nazi”?
Mein Trumpf?
You just did. While at it, why not call him racist, too?
Trump is doing a perfectly fine job of publicizing his racism and bigotry without my help.
+1 Pbear…
Silent Majority.
Who is Clubber?
Mmmm, strumpets….
That’s all it takes to convince a ‘Murican. Well, that plus some waterboarding.
That’s all it takes to convince a ‘Murican. Well, that plus some waterboarding.
C’mon strmpets are easy on the eyes and Waterboarding can be fund if done right. You have no concept of class instead you are sold on this.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ab/d8/58/abd858d452266a339f337570a1a103f1.jpg
I support the idea of Trump.
First, it’s great that he has stood his ground on several positions that are popular with middle class Americans but highly unpopular with the media. This includes saying things in public and in writing, rather than scurrying around at $1000/plate dinners in wealthy enclaves.
Second, it’s great that he isn’t using Super PAC money at this point, which shouldn’t even be legal in the first place. All the candidates say it’s wrong, but almost all of them line up at the trough to take the money. Last time around, we even had a GOP candidate who articulated the position that “corporations are people too, my friend”.
Third, I like that his over-arching principle seems to be playing to our strengths as a country, rather than getting the government further involved with SJW causes, resettling refugees, and redistribution. Increasing federal control over minimum wages, firearms, Section 8, and college campuses is just stupid and will not work. Trump says it plainly, rather than try to attack these things piecemeal.
He’s not the ideal candidate, but I’m not sure what that means. Eisenhower was an “ideal” candidate but his Presidency was pretty mixed/average. Romney could’ve been an ideal candidate in ‘08 and/or ‘12 but was forced into untenable positions to satisfy the base. With Trump, you know he’s not ideal going in and it’s not like there’s anything out there that is better right now.
I support the idea of Trump.
Is that a fancy way of saying you support Trump?
it’s not like there’s anything out there that is better right now ??
He is just a silver spoon rich arrogant dick head…”Bleeding from wherever” !!! Gee’s that should solidify that segment of a voting block… They are drug dealers, rapists and murderer’s…There goes another group…
Trump won’t last although my prediction was wrong that he would be gone by now…As far as him taking PAC money…I question if anybody would give him any…He can’t make it for 12 more months…His mouth and arrogance will ultimately bury him…
Apparently, lots of empty-skulled Americans find arrogance and bluster to be highly attractive personal qualities in a presidential candidate.
Eating crow and moving the goal posts all at once. Quite dexterous.
Changing your blog handle and launching ad hominem attacks at the same time. Quite shifty.
”Bleeding from wherever” !!!
Why yes I still I do. For five days. And I don’t die.
I look at it this way: any woman who knee jerks at such remarks is WEAK. What, you gonna run off into a corner cuz someone hurted your feelies? BS to that. The best way to handle it is to say yes indeedy it’s true and congratulations for paying attention in 10th grade and let me know if you want more details. Meanwhile, remind me again how much dark money you took from PACs etc? Yes, thank you.
And woman who feels like she has to vote for Hillary because Hillary is a woman is WEAK and just as shackled as any pre-suffrage woman. It’s not about having the right to vote but having the right to decide.
“Is that a fancy way of saying you support Trump?”
I probably won’t vote (I’m in a deep blue state, I rarely bother voting and I can’t vote in the primary bc I’m Independent).
I’d likely support Trump over Hillary and the rest of what the GOP is currently offering. Of course, that support doesn’t translate into much (no donating or voting).
“Apparently, lots of empty-skulled Americans find arrogance and bluster to be highly attractive personal qualities in a presidential candidate.”
Where do you get bluster and arrogance from what I said?
I am glad he is plain spoken and not afraid of the PC/SJW machine.
Also glad he hasn’t gone around groveling at donor dinners and special interest groups.
I have no idea how he’ll hold up in the long run, but I’d rather see a real choice than see Rubio or Yeb(!) take on Hillary. I still think the Establishment will find a way to get Rubio or Yeb the nomination because of the way national convention delegates are picked.
After all the squawking about wanting ABQ to eat crow and take his comeuppance someone tosses out a comment decrying ad hominem attacks supporting a guy calling people dick heads?
The anti democratic corrupt Iowa caucus system is the Establishment’s plan to stop Trump.
“Where do you get bluster and arrogance from what I said?”
I wasn’t referring to anything you said.
I don’t really watch the Sunday political shows, but I was in the gym last week and saw Trump on Stephanopolous answering questions posed to him. Was Hillary also on Fox?
To Joe’s point, at least Trump will come out and plainly say what he thinks.
“I look at it this way: any woman who knee jerks at such remarks is WEAK.”
Trump must have a Teflon toupee, as no other candidate could get away with making similarly vulgar remarks about either genders’ rrproductive parts.
Mayhap Kasich would like to advocate for a Judeo-Christian Grand Jubilee? We’re about five jubilees overdue.
Yeah, I didn’t think so.
All the more sense to not go to the groveling level by voting.
You are above all that.
Vacate the Vote.
http://www.notbeinggoverned.com/vacate-vote/
I take your point Bill and I was right there with you until very recently. But then I saw that there is a chance to cast a vote against the politically correct McCarthyism that is just as much of a threat to democracy as the NSA snooping.
Tell me how your candidate will not restrict our liberties any further.
Apparently Scientific American is suggesting that the “settled science’ is a bit unsettled:
“Climate Change Will Not Be Dangerous for a Long Time”
Is … is … is Florida … Is Florida … saved?
“Slower warming than predicted gives the world time to develop better energy technologies
By Matt Ridley | November 27, 2015″
(snip)
“Such lower sensitivity does not contradict greenhouse-effect physics. The theory of dangerous climate change is based not just on carbon dioxide warming but on positive and negative feedback effects from water vapor and phenomena such as clouds and airborne aerosols from coal burning. Doubling carbon dioxide levels, alone, should produce just over 1 degree C of warming. These feedback effects have been poorly estimated, and almost certainly overestimated, in the models.”
Say what?
“These feedback effects have been poorly estimated, and almost certainly overestimated, in the models.”
No Kidding! Anyone else saying this would be labeled a “denialist” and would be kicked out of the club, but apparently Scientific American is giving this guy a pass.
(Hmmmm … there is possibly a bit of unrest growing among the ranks?)
(snip)
“The last IPCC report also included a table debunking many worries about “tipping points” to abrupt climate change. For example, it says a sudden methane release from the ocean, or a slowdown of the Gulf Stream, are “very unlikely” and that a collapse of the West Antarctic or Greenland ice sheets during this century is “exceptionally unlikely.”
But … but … but the collapse of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets were … were said to be the certain doom of … of places such as Florida?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-will-not-be-dangerous-for-a-long-time/
Did they mention Time mag ice age article
1979
Some Time Magazine covers:
https://www.google.com/search?q=ice+age+time+magazine+cover&biw=1360&bih=643&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNqozbnbPJAhVBVWMKHc2tAo4QsAQIGw
Here’s some Time Magazine covers that are associated with real estate:
https://www.google.com/search?q=time+magazine+real+estate&biw=1360&bih=643&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjOuJShn7PJAhVD6GMKHZNlB44Q_AUIBygC
Nsa pays scientist 150k a yr to promote ‘re study gw
The salary of a low level manager in Corporate America.
The author tries to spin the current pace and trend as something to be cool about. Do the math of current trend rate of change amigos and then look who wrote the article, (a pretty tricky guy on the subject.)
The article basically says we might “only” warm at the current pace absent feedback loop disasters. Newsflash: The current pace is what’s already causing huge problems. You’re going to hang your hat on “warming maybe at only the current rate is cool”? So it’s cool we’ll just be like a frog sitting in a slowly heating pot instead of being thrown into a boiling one. I feel better already. lol
Ridley is a forthright proponent of fracking.[56] However he has been found to have breached the Parliamentary Code of Conduct by the House of Lords Commissioner for Standards for failing to disclose in debates on the subject personal interests worth at least £50,000 in Weir Group,
Is journalist Matt Ridley a climate denier?
http://www.onearth.org/earthwire/is-matt-ridley-climate-change-denier
“It is very important that you recognize what Ridley has slyly omitted from (many scenarios). He is factually correct that many potential environmental disasters failed to materialize. But he leaves out the reason: We took action to prevent them.”
It’s not “settled science”, it’s settled socialist politics.
Sumtin’ interestin’ …
“Groupthink”
“People’s views on climate change go hand in hand with their politics”
(snip)
“It is not that conservatives are ignorant. Knowledge of science makes little difference to people’s beliefs about climate change, except that it makes them more certain about what they believe. Republicans with a good knowledge of science are more sceptical about global warming than less knowledgeable Republicans.”
http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21678952-peoples-views-climate-change-go-hand-hand-their-politics-groupthink
Scientists certainly are not immune to Group Think. In fact, any scientist who thinks independently of his peer group takes a big risk, whether or not his independent insights are correct.
Wpa proudly pays my carbon tax
The first question you need to ask yourself is, can I have a rational discussion with this person on this topic or are they so biased, wounded, partisan, entrenched, irrational or naive that it’s not even worth a discussion. Problem is, more and more people today cannot have a rational adult conversation because of these things.
And sometimes you can learn things even from biased partisans. I’ll admit I’ve learned things from Rio.
The right is so stupid and anti science, they need to embrace the Koran.
Oh, you mean the same way that the left embraces gaia worship, AKA climate change?
But … but … but the collapse of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets were … were said to be the certain doom of … of places such as Florida?
Just to make sure you understand the article you just posted. The author believes that climate change is occurring, and is caused by man. He just thinks it will take longer for it to cause a problem.
Do you agree with the author that climate change is real, and caused by humans?
“Do you agree with the author that climate change is real, and caused by humans?”
I agree that the climate changes and that humans have an affect on these changes, as do most people familiar with the subject.
Is that the official line? Sounds like it was very carefully constructed by lawyers. I guess they’re starting to think about future legal consequences.
“Sounds like it” “I guess”
Typical unsupportable phrases.
.0000000001 percent.
Surprise surprise surprise.
“Maine researchers published in Science have discovered increased carbon dioxide enhances plankton growth”
“This finding was diametrically opposed to what scientists had expected since coccolithophores make their plates out of calcium carbonate, which is becoming more difficult as the ocean becomes more acidic and pH is reduced.
“’The results show both the power of long-term time-series of ocean observations for deciphering how marine microbial communities are responding to climate change and offer evidence that the ocean garden is changing,’ said Dr. Balch.”
(snip)
“’Something strange is happening here, and it’s happening much more quickly than we thought it should,’ said Anand Gnanadesikan, associate professor in the Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins, and one of the study’s five authors.”
“Gnanadesikan said the Science report certainly is good news for creatures that eat coccolithophores, but it’s not clear what those are. ‘What is worrisome,’ he said, ‘is that our result points out how little we know about how complex ecosystems function.’”
http://bangorinsider.com/maine-researchers-published-in-science-have-discovered-increased-carbon-dioxide-enhances-plankton-growth/
The climate will always change, with or without humans to affect it.
The only elements that don’t want change are the human elements.
The paradox is that if humans somehow get the ability to “stop” the change and keep the climate from ever changing, then that is human interference itself.
The real point of this is that people do not want to adapt. They want the world to adapt to them.
Humanity is part of nature, and as humans we have the ability to reason and create.
I wish the idiot AGW types would understand they are illogical. Whether I think the climate is heating up or not is irrelevant.
Maybe the Real Estate lobby has a lot of investment at risk since those people who assume their house will be the best paradise on earth for dozens of generations have a lot of their wealth at risk.
The paradox is that if humans somehow get the ability to “stop” the change and keep the climate from ever changing, then that is human interference itself.
No, the point of climate change proponents is to restore CO2 back to its natural levels so the climate can be returned to its natural variability. No one is proposing human engineering of the climate.
But it’s such a good straw man!
I Am, Luddite.
Are you in any way affiliated with or compensated by fossil fuel companies, or companies that work with them, Combo?
Just out of curiosity.
No.
Just a wide-eyed believer in their propaganda, eh? But not compensated for disseminating it. Daily.
But thanks for officially denying it.
I have an interest in science.
How interesting. You asked a question, which I answered, then you responded with:
“Just a wide-eyed believer in their propaganda, eh? But not compensated for disseminating it. Daily.”
There is nothing contained in my answer that remotely suggested that there is any truth contained in your response.
I have an interest in science.
OK, however you posted a study that actually most probably is an ominous warning of something you are trying to deny. Do you know why this study most likely gives a warning?
Credible Rising crcoccolithophores Warning Credence:
The dramatic rise in coccolithophores could be an indication that a big climatic shift is underway given that they are associated in the geological record with the warm periods between ice ages, said William Balch of the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science in Maine, Massachusetts.
“Coccolithophores have been typically more abundant during Earth’s warm interglacial and high CO2 period. The results presented here are consistent with this and may portend, like the ‘canary in the coalmine’, where we are headed climatologically,” Dr Balch said.
“We never expected to see the relative abundance of coccolithophores to increase 10 times in the North Atlantic over barely half a century,” he said.
Climate change: Atlantic plankton bloom reflects soaring carbon dioxide levels, scientists say
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/climate-change-atlantic-plankton-bloom-reflects-soaring-carbon-dioxide-levels-scientists-say-a6750241.html
There is nothing contained in my answer that remotely suggested that there is any truth contained in your response.
Hmm, now I’m confused. Sounds like you might be saying you are compensated for disseminating it.
“OK, however you posted a study that actually most probably is an ominous warning of something you are trying to deny.”
And just what is it that you think I am trying to deny?
And just what is it that you think I am trying to deny?
I see. So you subtly deny that you’ve tried circuitously to deny it?
“Hmm, now I’m confused.”
Yes, you are.
So you are compensated?
“I see.”
Do you?
“So you subtly deny that you’ve tried circuitously to deny it?”
Again, what is it that you think that I am trying to deny?
Interesting stuff:
“Your Complete Guide to the Climate Debate”
“At the Paris conference, expect an agreement that is sufficiently vague and noncommittal for all countries to claim victory.”
“In February President Obama said, a little carelessly, that climate change is a greater threat than terrorism. Next week he will be in Paris, a city terrorized yet again by mass murderers, for a summit with other world leaders on climate change, not terrorism. What precisely makes these world leaders so convinced that climate change is a more urgent and massive threat than the incessant rampages of Islamist violence?
“It cannot be what is happening to world temperatures, because they have gone up only very slowly, less than half as fast as the scientific consensus predicted in 1990 when the global-warming scare began in earnest. Even with this year’s El Niño-boosted warmth threatening to break records, the world is barely half a degree Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than it was about 35 years ago. Also, it is increasingly clear that the planet was significantly warmer than today several times during the past 10,000 years.
“Nor can it be the consequences of this recent slight temperature increase that worries world leaders. On a global scale, as scientists keep confirming, there has been no increase in frequency or intensity of storms, floods or droughts, while deaths attributed to such natural disasters have never been fewer, thanks to modern technology and infrastructure. Arctic sea ice has recently melted more in summer than it used to in the 1980s, but Antarctic sea ice has increased, and Antarctica is gaining land-based ice, according to a new study by NASA scientists published in the Journal of Glaciology. Sea level continues its centuries-long slow rise—about a foot a century—with no sign of recent acceleration.
“Perhaps it is the predictions that worry the world leaders. Here, we are often told by journalists that the science is “settled” and there is no debate. But scientists disagree: They say there is great uncertainty, and they reflected this uncertainty in their fifth and latest assessment for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It projects that temperatures are likely to be anything from 1.5 to 4.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 to 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer by the latter part of the century—that is, anything from mildly beneficial to significantly harmful.”
http://www.wsj.com/articles/your-complete-guide-to-the-climate-debate-1448656890
“Climate change: Atlantic plankton bloom reflects soaring carbon dioxide levels, scientists say”
It should be interesting to see to what extent unanticipated new plant growth sequesters the extra carbon due to human fossil fuel consumption.
Plankton sequestering CO2 is not unexpected. It is part of the basic carbon cycle.
Things we know but pretend to not know.
Another one is that CO2 cannot make the oceans “more acid”.
The mystery here is why did Scientific American publish this article? It’s an opinion piece by a non-scientist and does not contain any references to academic studies to support his claims. It’s more worthy of Breitbart than S.A. … and maybe that’s S.A.’s “joke,” aka looky here, this is best the deniers can do, and it’s not very good is it?
The study was by a guy with a PhD, who works at a research lab.
“Climate Change Will Not Be Dangerous for a Long Time”
Heresy!
Beware of witch hunts to ferret out the heretics who deny that human-caused climate change is real!
I’m GooGoo for feel-good climage change slogans with hash tags in ‘em!
Climate change affects the things you love. #OursToLose
Take it from the too-cool-by-half Millennials: Climate change is real!
They have a crazy New Age climate change religion going there at Google…
are you happy uncle fed has you paying a lot more for stocks and homes?
I’m happy that others are paying more for homes because others doing so causes Zillow to tell me that I am rich.
Rich! Rich! Rich! Rich due to the (possibly insane) actions of … of strangers!
I think my 10 year old Chevy truck is worth $50k. Problem is I can’t find a buyer at that price.
US Housing Demand Plummets To 20 Year Low
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QuqSjcqtCvQ/VjlioP7×06I/AAAAAAAAlkA/wUyewYtddXY/s1600/MBANov42015.PNG
I am buying fewer shares of REITs with same amount of money. Also fewer shares of stock funds with same amount of money (relative to 13 months ago).
I am buying more grams of gold for the same amount of money.
Been doing this for years.
Eventually the gold will come back with a vengeance and stocks and RE will crash again.
I will know the bubble is over when buying to rent out single family homes is again seen as a risky speculative venture mostly just fit for slumlords who can buy ridiculously cheap and spend practically nothing on maintenance.
Isn’t interesting FraudGov offloads houses in bulk on the side while it markets the retail end at massively inflated prices through Phoney and Fraudie while housing demand languishes at 20 year lows with 25 million excess empty houses out there.
And more government is the solution?
Someone has rocks in their head.
When 47% of the population are direct beneficiaries of gubmint assistance, and 95% of the electorate are stupid, “moar government” is a given.
“Isn’t interesting FraudGov offloads houses in bulk on the side while it markets the retail end at massively inflated prices through Phoney and Fraudie while housing demand languishes at 20 year lows with 25 million excess empty houses out there.”
Why yes, now that you mention it. It seems rather abnormal.
Seems almost, dare I say, scam like.
Shed debt, stay out of debt and hold onto every dollar you’ve got. You’ll thank us later.
,b>”On The Cusp Of A Staggering Default Wave”: Energy Intelligence Issues Apocalyptic Warning For The Energy Sector
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-27/cusp-staggering-default-wave-energy-intelligence-issues-apocalyptic-warning-energy-s
Put those FRNs into precious metals and tangible assets. QE4 is coming and the debasement of the dollar will continue apace as Yellen further enriches the already super-rich by pouring more trillions in printing-press money into their gambling accounts.
“Put those FRNs into precious metals and tangible assets.”
Some charts …
http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=METALS&p=w1
QE4 can’t happen til after the next election. Then it’s guaranteed.
It will happen well before Nov ‘16. Wait and see. Yellen the Felon has to keep “extend and pretend” going or the financial system crashes. That imperative supercedes any concern about influencing elections.
I say QE4 is here. The Fed is not raising rates for a year. The market is raising rates. If th Fed is lucky the market will drive up the five year notes to 4% before the Fed joins in and gets the blame. By that time wage inflation will be 4% annually and be the justification.
Metals prices have drifted down the last four years while the Fed was threatening rates. The metals prices will continue while the Fed jawbones the rates and the market dos the job for the Fed.
When the Fed really does kick in the rates they will go up out of control because the market plus the Fed will caus the rush to the exit on the bond markets and stock markets.
If I had $1,000,000 in ten year notes yielding 2.3% but the yields on new issues go to three percent, I would be panic selling because I would think the rates will go up more and I would want another asset to go with that will go up. When rates go up, it is when price inflation will really kick in. Wage inflation is an important factor. When wages go up by 4% it will be a big inflationary signal. So I would take that million and buy gold, in mining shares and physical.
Where is this wage inflation that you speak of? I’ve been working post-college for 25 years now, for seven different companies, and maybe 7 out of those 25 years have I received an annual salary increase. Now I am a government worker. My salary does not keep up with inflation.
The “late boomers” missed the gravy train.
Washington, DC Housing Craters; Prices Fall 12% YoY
http://www.zillow.com/adams-morgan-washington-dc/home-values/
Zillow states u will break even in 7.7 months
What is important is falling transaction prices.
Was it a christian terrorism in Colorado Springs yesterday?
Was it a christian terrorism in Colorado Springs yesterday?
That’s a good question. I’d say any murders for ideology/religion is terrorism. Isn’t that kind of the definition?
Really what’s up with all the far-right ideology killers/attacks lately? Is this new? Racist kills 10 Blacks in a black church. Yesterday’s planned parenthood murders. White racists shooting BLM protesters, That Sikh thing.
I don’t think the left is doing any mass killings for ideology but the right sure is it seems. A lot lately. And I’d bet it has to do with all the hate-all the time coming out of the far fringe right? Thoughts??
I don’t think the left is doing any mass killings
you fulfilled your quota long time ago.
And who was the biggest killer of them all?
That’s right…. The communist lefts Joe Stalin.
Stick with the truth Lola. Stick with the truth.
I don’t think the left is doing any mass killings…..you fulfilled your quota long time ago.
“I’m 11 years old and I approved the above attempt at ‘humor’”.
But I googled your “quota” thing: (Dang, it ain’t pretty for America)
Study Says White Extremists Have Killed More Americans in the U.S. Than Jihadists Since 9/11
http://time.com/3934980/right-wing-extremists-white-terrorism-islamist-jihadi-dangerous/
Since 9/11, white right-wing terrorists have killed almost twice as many Americans in homegrown attacks than radical Islamists have, according to research by the New America Foundation.
In their June study, the foundation decided to examine groups “engaged in violent extremist activity” and found that white extremists were by far the most dangerous. They pointed to the recent Emanuel AME Church shooting in Charleston, S.C., and the 2012 attack on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, as well as many lesser-known attacks on Jewish institutions and on police. They found that 48 people were killed by white terrorists, while 26 were killed by radical Islamists, since Sept. 11.
Now see, this is just the kind of left-wing propaganda that the MSM is feeding us. Those poor women and children immigrants, we must let them in (who are mostly young, single men), but egads, these white christian domestic terrorists are who we really need to be afraid of.
Give me a break. These numbers are COMPLETELY bogus. What about Fort Hood? Oh, right, that wasn’t Islamic terrorism, that was workplace violence. So that doesn’t count.
Yes, those radicalized Methodists - watch out for them!
Yes, and the cowardly MSM is afraid to use the term “terrorist” because it will ignite an uproar among the Fox viewers and Drudge clickers.
There’s nothing new about Pro Life Terrorism — they have been murdering doctors and bombing clinics for years.
It’s true. I went to high school decades ago. One of my sisters had a close friend at our HS whose dad was an abortion doctor. He was subject to death threats and many other forms of un-Christ-like behavior.
Old Jesus has been replaced by Shotgun Jesus. The the cleansing commence!
No. By definition Christians can’t be terrorists, since they are Christian.
It’s the All-American Taliban. It’s different when the terrorists are ours!
Obamas America. I hope you’re proud.
https://youtu.be/DnObuusAYlU
https://youtu.be/eWqKl7bQDho
When President Hillary Rodham Clinton throws American workers under the bus to satiate her oligarch puppetmasters and cronies, rank-and-file union workers might finally have cause to jettison their current corrupt, DNC-bought off union “leadership” and start searching for better alternatives than the Establishment crony capitalists on both sides of the isle.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/27/us-usa-election-labor-idUSKBN0TG11Y20151127
I’ve been saying this on this blog for years. Go get ‘em Bernie.
According to Bernie Sanders, income inequality means many Americans aren’t “truly free”
“True freedom does not occur without economic security.”
http://qz.com/560106/according-to-bernie-sanders-income-inequality-means-many-americans-arent-truly-free/
…Sanders added a new dimension to his argument: the yawning gap between rich and poor has created a growing class of Americans, he suggested, who aren’t really free.
“People are not truly free when they are unable to feed their family,” he said. “People are not truly free when they are unable to retire with dignity. People are not truly free when they are unemployed or underpaid or when they are exhausted by working long hours. People are not truly free when they have no health care.”
It’s a provocative argument, not least because it suggests that the thing we take to be the cornerstone of American identity—freedom—isn’t actually enjoyed by many Americans. According to the 2014 Census, 47 million Americans live in poverty today, including 20% of American children
That’s not the problem Lola. Grossly inflated prices are the problem. And we’re going to deal with them.
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality… for one very rich man, there must be at least five hundred poor.
Here’s a new approach for you. Quit whining for free stuff and get a job.
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality…
Yes, but wealth inequality is far greater now than when even our founders founded America. Sanders is the only candidate telling the truth on the matter.
….the idea that economic independence is essential to freedom and citizenship stretches back well before Roosevelt. Thomas Jefferson insisted that political liberty was safe only so long as a man wasn’t economically beholden to any other. Abraham Lincoln advocated “free labor,” the “just and generous and prosperous system which opens the way for all—gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.” What made labor “free,” in Lincoln’s view, wasn’t the worker’s voluntary agreement to work for a wage but the opportunity it gave him to eventually rise above wage-earning to self-employment and independence.
…Bernie Sanders is, in effect, posing the same question today. His claim that millions of Americans aren’t really free implies that American democracy is already broken and getting worse. Sanders’s answer to this problem is democratic socialism—creating “an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy” and reforming a political system “which is not only grossly unfair but, in many respects, corrupt.”
In previous remarks, Sanders has tended to frame his economic proposals in terms of the success of Scandinavia’s welfare economies. His latest speech marks a significant turn away from all the Europhilia, however, rooting his vision instead in American beliefs about the basic nature of freedom. What Sanders wants to deliver is neither radically new nor radically un-American; it’s the old promise of American democracy that was never fully fulfilled.
Bernt toast needs to learn welfare is chains.
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality…
Only if you believe wealth is a zero-sum game. Robert Reich: “Wealthy Americans would do better with smaller shares of a rapidly-growing economy than with the large shares they now possess of an economy that’s barely moving.”
It is entirely possible to lift the bottom, shrink the inequality gap and expand the GDP at the same time. It’s not how the pie is cut, it’s making the pie bigger.
Only if you believe wealth is a zero-sum game.
Under a gold standard, would wealth be a zero-sum game?
Don’t confuse vapor with wealth.
Coming soon to an Oligopoly-looted economy near you.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-28/meanwhile-greece-price-prostitute-drops-€4-hour
Our allies….
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/sri-lanka-asks-saudi-arabia-to-pardon-maid-sentenced-to-death-by-stoning-after-she-admitted-adultery-a6752196.html
Pity the snowflakes once they graduate, enter the real world, and find out their votes for Hillary only made their employment/life prospects worse.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/12022041/How-political-correctness-rules-in-Americas-student-safe-spaces.html
If Princeton removes Woodrow Wilson’s name from campus, it will save me a lot of money from class dues and athletic dept donations. I lived in Wilson College for fresh/soph yr and I knew even as an 18 yr old that Wilson’s views were outdated. It was open for discussion, I had a lot of black and latino and asian friends, there was no shortage of diversity and everyone knew Wilson was a “bad person” despite being a strong leader.
Even before this happened, my wife and I were already leaning towards paying for HS at Gilman School and _not_ paying anything for college at all. It would be either a service academy, a full ride to a t25, or no college at all. The only schools worth paying $$$ for are overrun with SJWs and I don’t want my son growing up being ashamed even 1% to come from money, for having family resources, for being white, etc.
Gilman School and Annapolis would be perfect. Alternatively, I’d just bring him into the family business and train him myself and supplement with online content/in-person conferences/MOOCs. A lot can change in 15 yrs and I think many college degrees will become completely irrelevant anyway.
Dr. Copper belies the “Everything is awesome!” meme.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/mining/12021286/Miners-left-reeling-as-copper-price-crashes.html
“’It was all about China on the way up, and all about China on the way down,’ says Jeremy Wrathall, equities analyst at Investec. China’s growth surge led the biggest miners to ramp up supply. As mines can take up to 10 years to come on stream, supply that was needed a decade ago is only now reaching the market – just as demand cools off.”
Hmmmm … sumtin’s missin’ …
“China’s growth surge led the biggest miners to BORROW LOTS AND LOTS OF MONEY to ramp up supply.”
There, fixed it.
And as for all that money that was borrowed in order to ramp up supply? Now what?
Stay tuned.
And as for all that money that was borrowed in order to ramp up supply? Now what?
http://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/I_Got_This_Ben.jpg
It’s not dr copper anymore. His license has been revoked for malpractice. In this brave new world it’s yellon or nothing.
Between the signals sent by copper prices and the Baltic Dry Index, it’s hard to develop a conviction that everything is awesome in the global economy.
BloombergBusiness
Baltic Dry Shipping Index Drops to All-Time Low
Manisha Jha
Naomi Christie NChristie
November 19, 2015 — 5:08 AM PST Updated on November 19, 2015 — 6:39 AM PST
A bulk carrier is loaded with coal at the Newcastle Coal Terminal in this aerial photograph taken in Newcastle, Australia.
Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg
China’s iron ore buying to be weakest since 2010 next year
World trade in the commodity grows slowest in more than decade
The cost of shipping commodities fell to a record, amid signs that Chinese demand growth for iron ore and coal is slowing, hurting the industry’s biggest source of cargoes.
The Baltic Dry Index, a measure of shipping rates for everything from coal to ore to grains, fell to 504 points on Thursday, the lowest data from the London-based Baltic Exchange going back to 1985. Among the causes of shipowners’ pain is slowing economic growth in China, which is translating into weakening demand for imported iron ore that’s used to make the steel.
“The main issue is the lack of demand for iron ore from China,” Eirik Haavaldsen, a shipping analyst at Pareto Securities AS in Oslo, said by phone. “This market is looking like a disaster and the rates are a reflection of that. It is looking scary for the market and it doesn’t look like there is going to be any life in the market in the near term.”
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Small but significant factor in Baltic Dry: because China has lost some market share to Mexico, goods shipped from factories in Mexico to the USA are not shipped by sea. Baltic Dry may not correlate well to US imports because of the rise of Mexican production.
I’m sure increased imports from Mexico to the U.S. are a one-for-one substitute for the collapse in global shipping due to China’s GDP growth rate slipping from 7 percent down to “about 7 percent. “
REI rules. I’m patronizing their stores today to underscore my support of their rejection of mindless consumerism. You should to (except for the Pineapples, who have no Safe Zones in nature).
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/this-company-is-boycotting-the-black-friday-madness-and-going-viral-spend-the-day-outside_11272015
“I’m patronizing their stores today to underscore my support of their rejection of mindless consumerism.”
Or you could just, you know, reject consumerism entirely instead of buying into a company’s sales tactic?
You can get a lot of things in excellent (like new) condition from thrift stores, army/navy, or good ol’ ebay.
This won’t help the approved narrative….
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/11/court-records-colorado-planned-parenthood-shooter-not-republican-identifies-as-woman/
Ray K;
You will enjoy this given your REI comment - which I support.
Attention all shoppers -
This is sad……and yet the sheep soon to be shorn have no clue.
Happy belated Thanksgiving to you all!!!
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2015/11/27/bullhorning-thanksgiving-shoppers-in-line-at-best-buy-black-friday-2015/
I reached a good milestone. Starting in 2017 will be “throwing away” half as much into precious metals as I do currently. I am more confident the bottom in metals will be reached sometime in 2016. Then a raging rebound after that.
Personally cut down lots of spending, sold stocks near a all time high this year, and forced myself into my thrifty old lifestyle I had before contracting. Going to be a long winter and I am already looking ahead to stopping metals purchases and increasing stock purchases after the impending stock collapse.
If I had a picture of myself I would post a squirrel with fat cheeks.
Oh, and one of my limits is for WFM at $27. That is like back to 2011 price. It was as high as $63 the last five years.
QE4 should kick start the commodities rebound, but it is a bit early to foresee when this will occur.
No. QE 4 will drive precious metals prices lower. Short term rates are going up, driving precious metals prices down. Formal rate increases (by the Fed) will drive metals prices up.
We are in QE4 now. Short term rates are reacting to the markets.
The lag time will be such that by the time the Fed announces rate increases, maybe in one year, short term notes will be above 1.5% yields. institutions will dump long bonds and stocks and load up on metals, driving further rate increases (by the market and the Fed).
“Formal rate increases (by the Fed) will drive metals prices up.”
I’m completely missing the economic logic of how an increase in the return on interest-bearing assets will work to drive up the price of non-interest-bearing alternatives. Please share.
Institutional so are the elephant under the rug. They don’t buy bonds when yields go high. Grandma and grandpa buy because yields go high. Institutionals make money selling long term bonds when yields go down. If I had 100k in bonds issued in 1981 at 15% and it was a 20 year bond, it would be a better deal for a buyer in 1991 because they want the yield. So they offer me a higher price.
For stocks, higher interest rates mean higher borrowing rates for companies, and the ones with little cash and lots of debt would be pressured.
Stock prices would fall, knowing those companies would have worse account sheets in the future.
This all means money would flow out of long term bonds and stocks elsewhere. Particularly to asset classes that have deflated a lot elative to bonds and stocks. Hence precious metals.
An especially outrageous scrape the bottom of the barrel flip in my town…an old house that has had any of its original charm obliterated by tasteless remodeling, tacky flipper tile, flipper bark, etc. and it is at the junction of TWO busy freeways (US 101 and CA 12) so the flippers thoughtfully added a very tall DIY wooden sound wall that will likely collapse in the first good wind storm and maybe damage the house in the process.
The flippers paid $100K and are seeking $450K…
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/611-S-Davis-St_Santa-Rosa_CA_95407_M11640-71801?row=2
Price is “too high”, but in your part of the country, it’s not outrageous by comparison. (I’d probably just rent…)
I don’t see the problem with the soundwall. Since the house is in that area and can’t be moved, it seems almost like a necessity. Why do you think it is unstable? If it is stable, it seems like added value in terms of sleeping/having a little peace. You can’t change the location but you can make it less bothersome.
I don’t have a problem with the interior. It’s basically how I try to get all our rentals to look. Believe it or not, we live in a country right now where people prefer a clean, new look to “character”. My own house has character, but in rentals I don’t spend the time or money to worry about it. Evidence shows that the financials are much better to rip out and fully replace rather than work around mid-century elements. If everything is in good condition, yes I’ll let it ride for a few years. But if not, it’s better financially in the long run to do a full update.
People flip or rent houses to make money, not to embrace one particular style or another. I’m not defending flipping, it shouldn’t be “a thing”, but that’s not the worst flip job, they added some value to the end user— the only problem is the ridiculous prices in your area.
Another balloon framed fire trap. California style.
“How Green Energy Really Works” pssssst….. it doesn’t.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-28/how-green-energy-really-works
It works great as long as you ignore the cost of producing a given amount of energy by green versus brown technologies. Politics aside, green energy is economically unaffordable.
. Politics aside, green energy is economically unaffordable.
How many troops, planes, and ships would be required to guard our solar panels and windfarms?
I guess that would depend in part on how much fossil fuel was consumed in their construction, delivery, and even to grow the crops to feed the workers who produce them.
The same number required to “guard” oil rigs.
/logic fail
The climate change folks want to put enough taxes on oil so green stuff can compete on price.
Driving up the price of everything is always a winning strategy. Look how well it is working out in the housing market!
No, that’s not the real reason. It’s all about the 0.1%ers making billions on . . . carbon credits.
And ask yourself this: Why in the devil is George Soros buying coal mines if there is no future burning coal?
The Russian government sure doesn’t want green energy to work ,so I guess it follows that zerohedge wouldn’t either.
It doesn’t work.
What doesn’t work? Do you mean the crackpot efforts to link zerohedge to Putin?
That too.
Can anyone produce a single example of zerohedge criticizing Putin, or reporting about him in a negative way?
Vladimir, Tyler and Trump all live in your empty skull, rent free.
It doesn’t work.
Denmark produces 140 per cent of its electricity needs through wind power
An unusually windy day meant that Denmark far surpassed its energy needs just through renewable power sources
Doug Bolton @DougieBolton Saturday 11 July 2015
The Independent
At 3x the cost of all other forms of generation.
Hows those solar operated locomotives and airplanes working out for you?
/fail
Had to burn some whale oil to create the infrastructure for kerosene use. Prior to that infrastructure being created, whale oil was cheaper. Same with renewable energy, which has high upfront costs but very low operating costs.
Not to mention the savings and advantages of all sorts that will come from not pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into some of the worst countries in the world.
3x more costly than conventional.
Your perpetual motion machine failed circa 1630 AD. Welcome to 2015.
What’s the negative nonmarket value of all the eyesores created by littering pristine wild areas with windmills?
Hello, McFly, anybody home? Wind energy is NOT baseload power and never will be.
You must have baseload power plants in order to have a reliable energy grid.
Wind and solar can never replace baseload power. You now not only have to operate and maintain the alternative energy plants, but you still have to staff, operate, maintain, and repair the existing baseload power plants.
Remember Obama’s words: “Electricity prices necessarily must increase.”
Today’s thought: bears never make money because they always find a reason not to invest.
they usually do make money in a free market. The excesses in the market have built up to crazy levels.
Housing Liberace…. Housing.
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Housing Prices Crater 8% YoY; Housing Inventory Balloons Nationally
http://www.zillow.com/ponte-vedra-beach-fl/home-values/
Your strawman comment is wrong, because it misses that bears can make equally stupid investment choices in mimicry of the bulls when they see massive central bank intervention supporting stupid. It’s just that the bears know when their decisions are stupidly right.
Vladimir Putin has announced sanctions against Turkey as the dispute between the two countries over the downing of a Russian Su-24 fighter jet near the Syrian border continues.
The decree published on the Kremlin’s website on Saturday came hours after Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the Turkish president, voiced regret over the incident, saying his country was “truly saddened” by the event and wished it had not happened.
The decree includes a ban on some goods and forbids extensions of labour contracts for Turks working in Russia as of 1 January. It does not specify what goods are to be banned or give other details, but it also calls for ending chartered flights from Russia to Turkey and for Russian tourism companies to stop selling holiday packages that include a stay in Turkey.
Dmitry Medvedev, the prime minister, ordered his cabinet earlier in the week to develop a list of goods to be sanctioned.
The Russian president’s decree also calls for ending visa-free travel between Russia and Turkey and orders the tightening of control over Turkish air carriers in Russia “for security reasons”. A Kremlin statement said the decree was issued “to protect Russian citizens from crimes”.
Erdoğan’s expression of regret on Saturday was the first since Tuesday’s incident in which Turkish F-16 jets shot down the Russian jet on the grounds that it had violated Turkey’s airspace and ignored a number of warningsto change course. Moscow elicited a harsh response to the first downing of a Russian plane by a Nato member for the first time in half a century.
“We are truly saddened by this incident,” Erdoğan said. “We wish it hadn’t happened as such, but unfortunately such a thing has happened. I hope that something like this doesn’t occur again.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/28/vladimir-putin-calls-for-greater-sanctions-against-turkey
Looks like Erdogen is being put back in his box by Putin. I think Putin will one day over reach, but so far he making me look very foolish; perhaps he is a much better politician than I have given him credit for.
So long as junkies and donkeys return here daily for their dose of rage, it will be meted out accordingly.
“20% Of American Households Rely On Food Stamps To Survive”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-28/fourth-turning-social-cultural-distress-dividing-nation
#obamasamerica #failingeconomy
How could you starve 80 percent of the Obama voters?
Sheryl Sandberg, Hank Paulson and Robert Rubin?
Hide their Food Stamps under their work boots.
Now really just kidding like the toothless dental records redneck joke told by WPA or Oddie or whoever last week.
I dig this chick. What a standout from the corrupt, sleazy Democrat establishment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/us/politics/tulsi-gabbard-rising-democratic-star-from-hawaii-makes-mark-on-party-by-defying-it.html?_r=0
I have been watching that young lady. She is the first Democrat I ever liked. She has courage. She has served twice in these wars and knows what is going on. But I still think she is holding back a bit and could really have a lot of dirt on the warfare state.
California Developer Arrested On Assault Charges
http://calcoastnews.com/2015/11/prominent-slo-county-developer-arrested-on-assault-charges/
This puke outfit is already on the carpet for ripping off sub-contractors.
I wonder what kind of compensation package the PP shooter nut’s family got from the Globalist Progressives?