Phil1111

Considering all that trump has gotten away with over four years...er 40 years. Perhaps its time to rename trump the teflon Don.

Yeah but many people hate dentists and their suicide rate: Mental Illness and Suicide in Dental School: Fighting the Stigma

Meanwhile from Russia. Five years after completed the new spaceport Roscosmos. Still avoids using it. The new Russian spaceport "According to Russian prosecutors, at least US$165 million was embezzled during the construction process (critics claim that these numbers are severely downplayed), and in 2015, 350 workers painted giant messages on their barracks, asking Vladimir Putin to help after long payment delays. The current price of the spaceport is US$7.5 billion with costs rising every year (for example, an additional US$105 million was requested in 2016).[43] press reports indicated that the Russian government is having difficulty in finding a good use for the new spaceport, and that other government ministries have been avoiding the project, calling it a "dolgostroy", which is Russian for an "endless construction boondoggle".[42] 'An unmanned Russian cargo ship launched successfully Monday with a load of supplies for the International Space Station. The Progress MS-16 cargo ship blasted off as scheduled at 9:45 a.m. (0445 GMT) from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan and reached a designated orbit en route to the station."

Hilarious the lies that politicians of all stripes want the public to believe.But after four years of trump the boundaries are so wide anything goes.

Texas republicans, they are a different breed. "Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) says he has “no defense” after his old tweet mocking California power outages have resurfaced as millions of people in the Lone Star state have lost power in their homes due to large winter storms. " Now his is caught traveling to Mexico with his kids during a pandemic and a "state of disaster" in Texas. "Just as the Houston Police Department was responding to winter storm-related deaths and pleading for residents to stay home on Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz’s staff asked them to help Cruz get to his super important flight to Cancun. “Senator Cruz’s staff contacted HPD personnel on Wednesday afternoon, Feb 17. His staff requested assistance upon the Senator’s arrival at the airport. Upon his arrival at the terminal, we monitored his movement,” the department said in a statement to The Daily Beast. A spokesperson wouldn’t say how many officers were called in to help Cruz, or how long they stayed with him, but said they were “just around.” Then we have the governor "During an interview with Sean Hannity Tuesday, Abbott decried the proposed Green New Deal and said frozen wind turbines and loss of solar power thrust Texas into the blackout situation. “This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America. Texas is blessed with multiple sources of energy such as natural gas and nuclear as well as solar and wind,” Abbott said Tuesday. “Our wind and solar got shut down and they were collectively more than 10 percent of our power grid. And that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power on a statewide basis,” he added." A Texas mayor resigned after telling people it was their own fault if they froze when power went out in the deadly winter storms Who can forget "Rick Perry: 'Texans would be without electricity for longer' to 'keep the federal government out'

Well thats certainly the current theory on Wall Street. Agree with all of that. Epidemiologists have been saying for a while that variants will be a issue for some time. Until the whole world reaches herd immunity either through vaccination or because infections have run their course. Global demand on US products won't increase. There will be a $8 trillion hangover of federal debt, state debt of another $2 trillion and a increase in consumer debt. Although US consumers paid down credit card debt by $120 billion in 2020. Net consumer debt rose. A net addition of nine million unemployed may become semi-permanent.

Most likely a product of FOX, Limbaugh, Alex Jones, et-al......Oh! and the former WH/trump troll factory.

Agree, you are right on target on many of your posts.

trump, the former chief and fascist.

Odd how all the anti-vaccine, anti-science and pro-trump stooges are all dying of "lung cancer" and not covid.

Lindsay Graham has given every indication that trump ain't going anywhere soon. He keeps his nose brown and regularly resurfaces to ass kiss.

With a new 700mw partially native owned facility on the Nelson coming online this year. Canada exports just under $2 billion of electricity /year to US They didn't forget XL so a little payback was warranted.

There was an extensive interview on CNBC with a Texas power official. He blamed Texas power failures on elected officials who under-price electricity to large institutional and commercial users. and "Ed Hirs, an energy fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston, blamed the failures on the state’s deregulated power system, which doesn’t provide power generators with the returns needed to invest in maintaining and improving power plants. “The ERCOT grid has collapsed in exactly the same manner as the old Soviet Union,” said Hirs. “It limped along on underinvestment and neglect until it finally broke under predictable circumstances. “For more than a decade, generators have not been able to charge what it costs them to produce electricity,” said Hirs. “If you don’t make a return on your money, how can you keep it up? It’s like not taking care of your car. If you don’t change the oil and tires, you can’t expect your car to be ready to evacuate, let alone get you to work....Most of the power knocked offline came from thermal sources, Woodfin said, particularly natural gas. Hirs said Houston residents can expect more power outages in the future. “The year 2011 was a miserable cold snap and there were blackouts,” said Hirs. “It happened before and will continue to happen until Texas restructures its electricity market.”

The damages trump did to America's reputation are being repaired right now. Because of a free press the corrupt in charge of the GOP inflicted temporary damage. World leaders understand exactly what occurred in the US and they know adults are back in the room. A little Roundup on the banana plants that are not growing where they belong should fix things nicely. Poland has a nice banana crop starting right now. So its not as if trump was a one off. I trust President Biden and he's only been in charge for a scant 27 days. Sometimes when there is a super size deposit in the toilet bowl it takes two flushes. Think of trump as needing a second flush to send him off where he can properly be digested.

As always you're wrong. For 2021 YTD the US is a net importer of oil. In fact 2020 was the sole year in the last 3/4s of a century where the US was not a net oil importer. That was because of trump's mismanagement of the covid crisis.

Yet with $5.20 a gallon gas, all kinds of regulations, expensive electricity, extensive social programs. The US needs to cut taxes, cut regulations, cut environmental regulations, etc. Then the GOP and big business still argue they can't compete! Surely Germans don't work that hard because they work an average of 404 hours less per year than Americans. Why don't you look for facts and argument that actually support your positions. Or is FOX/Rupert Murdoch just that bad at spinning lies.

I find beer cures sulking. That and a good laugh sometimes.

Have a couple glasses of that craft beer. trump is out and the lasting damage to the GOP party makes this a Pyrrhic victory. trump has Georgia prosecutor opens criminal investigation into Trump's "attempts to influence" election In addition to at least a dozen other investigations. The covid crisis is slowing and adults run the WH at least.

Perhaps they should rename SC the senate?

Realtors with a conscious. "Through her company, Lisa Wise, has helped fund dozens of projects through microgrants for “doers, makers and disruptors in the District.” Over the years, she’s helped buy hundreds of smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors for senior homes, put bicycle repair stations in southeast D.C. and even make hot sauce. But her latest project may be her most ambitious yet, taking on the racial wealth gap by paying reparations to Black Americans through grants for first time homebuyers. “The murder of George Floyd compelled Flock to study our privilege as a company,” said Wise, CEO of Flock DC, in a statement over email. “Presumably, our hard work and creativity anchored our success. But did it really? In part, yes. But there is a harder truth to reconcile. And to be candid - that reconciliation will be out of reach until we, as a society, write a future that begins to undo the wrongs of the past when it comes to Black and Brown Americans.” On the other hand you have Florida Realtors spending the $9.1 million dollars commission on this:$130-million-plus beachfront house sale in Palm Beach sets new record

Meanwhile China has announced plans to dominate America. China Says It Will Stop Releasing CO2 within 40 Years Xi told the United Nations yesterday: "We aim to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060." Beijing has adopted an emissions trading program for its power plants; has aggressively pursued a renewables build-out; and is pushing to electrify freight, taxis and public transit in attempts to improve the country's air quality. The city of Beijing, alone, is planning to convert 20,000 taxis to electric vehicles by year's end, according to the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies." Chinese Electric Cars Will Take Over The World – If We Let Them China’s electric car strategy is starting to go global – and the U.S. is lagging behind Meanwhile Tesla announces expansion after expansion in China.

What Ron and Brent don't understand is what real independence means.It's not subsidizing big oil and a gun safe full of AR-15s. It means not fighting for oil in the middle east. It means real energy independence but Germany is already ahead of America because of trump and the GOP. In Germany, solar panels are transforming home life and offering energy independence In Germany, Solar-Powered Homes Are Really Catching On The country is getting closer to the solar home revolution: a panel on every roof, an EV in every garage, and a battery in every basement. Germany produces enough renewable energy in six months to power country's households for an entire year

The tens of billions that investors poured into fracking bought the US energy independence. Those investors will never see a return on their investment and many will loose every penny. See the dozens of quotes, references in Brent's global cooling and flat earth thread. President Biden has done nothing, yet, to increase the domestic price of energy. But as polls show Two-Thirds of Americans Think Government Should Do More on Climate. In addition Many globally are as concerned about climate change as about the spread of infectious diseases. Small groups who live in mountain hideaways may only care about the price of gas and 5.56 ammo. But most people live in a interconnected world and care about each other.

Ravi Zacharias a influential evangelical leader has been exposed. "Ravi Zacharias Hid Hundreds of Pictures of Women, Abuse During Massages, and a Rape Allegation ...His ministry, preparing to downsize in the wake of a new investigation, expresses regret for “misplaced trust” in a leader who used his esteem to conceal his sexual misconduct." "four-month investigation found the late Ravi Zacharias leveraged his reputation as a world-famous Christian apologist to abuse massage therapists in the United States and abroad over more than a decade while the ministry led by his family members and loyal allies failed to hold him accountable. ...evidence of sexual abuse in Thailand, India, and Malaysia.... Zacharias used tens of thousands of dollars of ministry funds dedicated to a “humanitarian effort” to pay for sex One woman told the investigators that “after he arranged for the ministry to provide her with financial support, he required sex from her.” She called it rape"

See below, Joe was right. If everyone keeps it up she won't need a AC to get to 12.5