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washparkhorn

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  1. We do not live in a world with such binary choices as Soros v. China. Soros likes to smell his own farts. A familiar trait of this set. But he is correct that China's long ambitions (as currently represented) include economic domination of Europe and Africa. That’s no state secret of the CCP. The pivot of the US under Obama, Trump and Biden to counter China’s growing ambitions was well timed. after all - we created this libertarian neoliberal strategy in the US and then sold China the rope to hang ourselves. State capitalism has worked well for the authoritarian CCP Soros is sounding the alarm to remind international capital of the China trajectory. He should have addressed this directly to them privately. Horrible messaging.
  2. Not a lot of hype for this one. We have had regular snow in Denver. It’s almost like living in the mountains - and then it is warm again. People are used to it. Thank goodness. The clear days between storms have been great in Denver. We still need more moisture east of the Rockies. Or is Denver west of the Rockies? Anyway - I am praying for snow - light fluffy quiet snow out of this one.
  3. This winter storm was spawned by a blocking wall of high pressure off the west coast. The pent up cold arctic air saw an opening and it’s sprinting down south like an escaped convict with dogs on his tail. Arctic air is bitter cold when it’s screaming past you - pushed on by the jet stream. The cold is backing up in the northwest. The jet stream is dipping down and bringing cold into the plains. I think some people call these storms an “Arctic Express.” I call these storms the “Canadian Curse.”
  4. Next number. Fascinating. Those winds up there must be cooking. This should be fast and dirty for us down range of you. this is headed to the south plains. It will marry up with gulf moisture and cause a ton of ice for them. The ice line is what they need to watch - that’s where the danger is from this. Poor Texas is in the danger area. Texas should be watching this storm as it hits Colorado. Ice doesn’t have to linger in order to cause damage. TLDR - Colorado - I hope it is white and fluffy. Not worried. The storm gets worse as it dips down southeast towards loved ones in Texas and surrounding territories. The South Plains: pay attention to ice line. Ice is a bitch from hell. any salt works on ice. Margarita salt, bath salts, and Morton’s salt. It will melt it and make your journey outside easier. good luck and Godspeed to all.
  5. Denver/Boulder/Front Range snow predictions with this next blast tomorrow evening:
  6. wrong thread. Sorry
  7. He’s a troll. Trolls want a reaction - positive or negative. They feed on it. Trolls are positively correlated with sadism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886914000324
  8. Spotify up app 13% after addressing Rogan issue with a content warning on his material.
  9. Doomed I tell you. Doomed.
  10. It doesn’t take a polymath to conclude Texas is fucked. Y’all are going to elect a weasel-eyed tin pot dictator with short man’s disease. Texas, our Texas, all hail this mighty State. wake up.
  11. Ladies - this look apparently repels unwanted attention Shop this look now at Lulu and other fine purveyors of outdoor wear. kidding - not kidding?
  12. I’ll bet Jerry Falwell, Jr.’s wife uses that hand signal quite a bit when describing her husband to prospective bulls. Just a hunch.
  13. Found the chart on Musk: market makers make markets
  14. Reminds me of something I saw yesterday about Tesla. Elon called the top for Tesla when he asked the internet if he should sell billions worth of Tesla shares.
  15. Here are the actual facts, if one cares about such boring things like facts: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics One’s “feelings” are not facts
  16. Nope. According to Q, that is standard ChiCom movement. They did it to our boys at Chosin Reservoir in Korea. Thank goodness Johnny is on the case and can report it back to Patriot HQ. The military will carpet bomb the ranch, of course, but no more Chicoms. but don’t say anything to anyone. We want the missile and air strikes to be a surprise. This message was apparently sent by Q at the request of Generalissimo Flynn, who says the military is under his command and is ready to strike. “Mum” is the word. Seriously - that’s the word. - mum. Donny Jr. came up with that one. What a sport he is. He has us laughing nonstop. Wait until he gets on the 25 seat Supreme Court we pack to eliminate all restraint on the Big Chief. Those libs won’t know what hit them.
  17. There was a dog pack that roamed when I lived near Evergreen (mountain suburb of Denver). The old timers* said the dogs came from city people dropping off unwanted pets in the foothills. * “old timers” are the reason why some people think of Colorado as the Appalachia of West, so take my source’s conclusion regarding the source of animals for wild dogs with more than a modicum of skepticism.
  18. That was one hell of a bad dog owner. If nothing else, go render some help to the dog while the pooch was still living and suffering. we have too many yahoos encouraging aggressive behavior and signaling in dogs. That was a good shoot but totally preventable, if the owner gave a damn about his pup.
  19. That dynamic is certainly in play and volatile. We are creating a generation of Archie Bunkers - and the Z’s abhor cringe olds.
  20. Nice beat by Apple. Whew.
  21. Apple ready to report. Working on my MacBook Air for good luck
  22. “You have to use incognito mode” is the chef’s kiss in that video.
  23. Excellent UT paper on the FinTech and fraud with PPP below. I am not so sure PPP was efficient in staving off unemployment. I see it more as a transfer of wealth to those with bad spending habits and mired in over consumption. Caveat - the data is not there yet for me to conclude the wisdom of directing welfare payments to employers. There was a hell of a lot of welfare fraud by “business owners” under PPP that I naively did not expect. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3906395 In the distribution of the Paycheck Protection Program’s (PPP) $803 billion in funds, FinTech lenders began minimally but ramped up their market share to over 80% of originated loans by the end of the program. We examine metrics related to potential misreporting including non-registered businesses, multiple businesses at residential addresses, abnormally high implied compensation per employee, and large inconsistencies in jobs reported with another government program. We assess these four metrics with five supplemental measures and extensive supporting analysis. Suspicious loans exhibit sharp and discontinuous increases in misreporting at maximum loan thresholds and round loan amounts with discontinuities more pronounced among FinTechs. FinTech loans are more than 3.5 times as likely to be initiated by someone with a felony record, strongly cluster in industry-county pairs to a degree that is infeasible based on U.S. Census data, and frequently exhibit similar loan features within lender-county pairs. Differences across lenders are persistent with certain FinTech lenders seemingly specializing in questionable loans. Few of these loans have been prosecuted by authorities or repaid. FinTech lenders in round three rapidly increased both their market share and the fraction of their loans with potential misreporting, particularly in zip codes with the highest levels of questionable lending in earlier rounds. From the first round of the program in April 2020 to the last month of the program in May 2021, the amount of potential misreporting increased more than four-fold. While FinTech lenders likely expand PPP access, this may come at the cost of facilitating fraudulent credit.
  24. Fiscally - somewhat. The PPP was a poorly designed welfare program for business owners and their consuming habits (keeping up with the Jones). The monetary stimulation was far worse for inflation given the supply chain problems. The supply chain remains the primary driver of inflation. The “I want it now” mindset led to price increases. The longer the supply chain remains inefficient, the more likely the inflation will be sticky. The Fed is drying up liquidity (see Crypto).
  25. Looking at his profile indicates he first posted on November 11, 2021. Whose owns the Bravo sock? GRhorn?
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