brenthutch
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That doesn't sound very fair.
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I never opined on "how the world works". I'm just pushing back on the negative meme of income inequality. Without the wealthy we would not have cell phones. Think about that for a moment.
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Yes Bill the Soviets won the first few rounds of the space race, again using Nazi technology from WWII, just as we won the subsequent rounds and ultimately the war in the space race. You must have missed the "nonviolent" caveat of my initial post.
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Cell phones have had a greater impact on the lives of people than the Apollo program. Without the wealthy we never would have had them. Think about that the next time you tool about in your Tesla.
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The space race was a proxy war with the Soviets. There was a reason we stopped after it was apparent we had won. Oh BTW we did that by leveraging WWII technology taken from the Nazis. Does Werner von Braun ring a bell?
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The seed of imagination must be fertilized with the unsavory manure of capitalism to bear fruit.
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Fairly earned income/wealth inequality is the greatest nonviolent driver of human progress, full stop.
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Not with that attitude
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How did we go from a clever video juxtaposing Keynesian and Austrian economics to where we are now?
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Bill, as you know, estimates of peek oil have never failed to fail.
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From what I have read, the concept of the wall was developed by his staff to keep him on point with regard to border security. It quickly became a crowd favorite that fed into Trump's ego, a cycle which quickly spun into comic proportions. I am for following our own laws, and securing our border. I will leave it to the experts to determine what mix of physical barriers, increased patrolling, and technology is required to achieve that end.
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With regard to Trump, one may characterize him as a Machiavellian evil genius or a complete doofus, I choose the latter.
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Run out? That is what they said before the cutting edge technology of fracking and horizontal drilling. Now we have more than a century's worth of oil and gas and counting. The Saudis tried to crush our domestic oil and gas production by flooding the market and driving down prices. Our domestic producers sharpened their pencils and refined their processes (pun intended) and now we can out compete the Saudis and the Russians. Since I am not a fan of MBS or Putin, I think that is a good thing. If you are pro Saudi or pro Russian it would make sense that you would have a different position.
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To be able to control what and who passes through our border.
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There are a few more things slipping through our southern border other than contraband.
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As I said, carnival barker, and to be fair, Clinton pretty much said the same thing
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Wow, first of all If you think Dr Ford's accusations were credible, there is no hope for you. Second I never said any about a wall. Even Obama's head of Customs and Border Control stated "we do not have operational control of our southern boarder". (If we did Trump would not be president). Thirdly I never said anything about coal, I was referring to the US ascension to the number one oil and natural gas producer in the world. Far from sucking up to Russia and Saudi Arabia we have supplanted them as the dominant energy power. In my book, that is a good thing. With regard to North Korea he is no less a failure than Obama, GWB, Clinton and Bush sr.
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Bill I am no fan of Trump, in my opinion he is an amoral carnival barker with the intellect of a box of hammers. I do like many of his policies however, tax cuts, deregulation, judges, border security and energy dominance to name a few.
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I have my alarm set and my TV locked on MSNBC, I'm having schadenfreude for breakfast.
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I agree, that is just what I said last year on Speakers Corner. I was laughed at, but we will soon see who has the last laugh.
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It was a good day today. Daughter and son both progressed in their MMA training (9 and 5 years old), wife was promoted to VP and we have a full schedule at the DZ this weekend. Life is good.
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Sorry, since I was booted from speakers forum for a personal attack on NPR I have not been as engaged.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/climate-change-expert-sentenced-32-months-fraud-says-lying-was-f2D11768995
