JoeWeber

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  1. JoeWeber
    Anyone can look back down the street at what is behind them, and you are great at that, or up ahead at what seems to be coming, which doesn't seem your strong suit. But the real trick is seeing not just up the street but around the corner, too. When I say you need to get out more it's because when you chant USA! USA! USA! over the fracking boom, to my ear, it reveals a very narrow, isolationist and nationalist world view. One thing I really enjoy about how we live our lives these day's is the constant interaction with people from around the world. We get to see how they see things changing rather than just keeping a log of the date our own snow melts each year. Not surprisingly, they love their countries too, just not in the zero sum way we often do.
  2. JoeWeber
    Last I saw it was in St. Martin. Looked like a cross between a WWI Battle Cruiser and a Pagoda. But when the outcome doesn't affect your future why care? With Bloomberg the outcome could very much affect the future so I'm happy if he spends all $61B to beat Trump. I further think it's time for Biden, Sanders, Warren and Steyer to go home and for everyone else to quit chipping away at him. We're not looking for perfect.
  3. JoeWeber
    Ruh-ro.
  4. JoeWeber
    Not withstanding economic benefits and disregarding the CO2 argument for a minute, do you see any negative consequences from fracking?
  5. JoeWeber
    I am not making that claim; past is prologue is your argument not mine. The timing of the seasons around the world are changing. That's not just what I see it's what locals talk about. Also, all weather--not climate--seems more extreme. Not just this year or last but on a continuing basis for years now. None of that is supportive of any refutation of your positions. All of it could be claimed to be from a momentary earth wobble, no question. All I am saying is that from nowhere but Happy Valley and your familiar information sources and the people who now know you and what you believe I can see why you have zero doubt you are right.
  6. JoeWeber
    Just reading that caused two zits to pop. You know, I spend a fair bit of time anywhere but here and for the last number of years a lot of that has been spent sailing where hurricanes rule. I've mentioned it before but I really think you need to get out more.
  7. JoeWeber
    Boy, that's rich.
  8. JoeWeber
    DJL, Those Roman and Medieval warm periods were, ostensibly, caused by other than elevated levels of CO2, right? So, and without crediting his example as valid, another one of those and elevated CO2 levels might cause a bit of a feedback loop problem, yes?
  9. JoeWeber
    Which of those two sentences should I take as your position?
  10. JoeWeber
    No, people like you will be responsible. Even if the Dems weren't doing their damndest to blow the thing you've already stated the reasons you'd vote Trump again.
  11. JoeWeber
    More but not completely aimed? Even so, it's an attack on innocent Americans to reduce their rights relative to their fellow citizens for petty political reasons. He's a childish douche and you should be ashamed.
  12. JoeWeber
    That's Turtleism, again and again. Quick to type, slow to consider, too often.
  13. JoeWeber
    Indeed. Just as "sunk cost" sounds truthy without need for confirmation.
  14. JoeWeber
    "A well subsidized public airport, being necessary to the economic success of Skydive Happy Valley, the right of a few people to benefit from the taxed labor of others, shall not be infringed."
  15. JoeWeber
    As ever you find nuance elusive. His point was that now that our elections are compromised maybe we should be observed. I find that funny. But to your main point, The DNC is still doing his own thing and Dire Straits are no longer together.
  16. JoeWeber
    The Scalia definition. Brent was simply being, literally, clever by half. Scalia's reasoning in Heller, where to make the thing come around right he took a Veg-o-Matic to the text, effectively gave us Second Amendments 2A and 2B. I just think it's plain silly to start using only half the text to make an argument.
  17. JoeWeber
    I'll guess he meant the Constitution that says: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
  18. JoeWeber
    Precision in speech is critical. I'll bet you're the kind of guy who really does get blown.
  19. JoeWeber
    That's outstanding.
  20. JoeWeber
    For the most part Turtle just posts because FUN! No thought is required because no consequences follow. When he posts thought free drivel someone feeds him with a serious reply. Wash, Rinse, Repeat.
  21. JoeWeber
    Turtle, you need to take a posting break. This is SC not a CB.
  22. JoeWeber
    100% Jerry. He's like a phantom twitch now. Dem's need to get behind one person and it might be Bloomberg.
  23. JoeWeber
    The only thing simple here is the meme.
  24. JoeWeber
    Call it what you want but you can't answer because don't have an answer that fits you held views. It's the conservative fallacy at work, again. Your post was simply in complete error. In fact the government does pay for things and it does not always pay for things with our own money. Then you find yourself unable to define your own term, functioning, in any meaningful way. It's super easy to say those things but unless you can effectively defend the statement, and you have not, then the proposition has been falsified.
  25. JoeWeber
    So you must have a percentage that triggers the definition. What if his earnings only account for 25% of his total income package? What about if the income subsidies are paid with borrowed money? You know, money some poor schmuck in the future will pay off.