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  1. 1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Nope, not even close.

    Moreover, all exit strategy scenarios are unpleasant.

    I give Trump at least another year.

    The Democrats will win the House and defund everyone he has done and will do.

  2. 4 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Louisiana is fucked up because of corruption, it’s pretty much ingrained in the DNA.

    We have plenty of assets: Tourism (NOLA), Film Industry, Oil & Gas, good ports, cuisine, culture, and we even legalized gambling yet somehow our schools suck, our roads are shit, and the state is always fucking broke.

    Sad!

     

    14 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    That, and we have enough universities that there is some pressure from that angle.  

    Get away from OU, OSU, and Tulsa, and you start running into the Oral Roberts universities who will take anybody with a pulse.

    Both of these are true.  Oklahoma doesn't have a lot of high end universities and the two state schools they do have get a lot of students from Texas and in the case of OU, they money whip Merit Finalists until they can't say no.  If they relied solely on their in state students, their R&D money would disappear tonight.

    In the case of Oklahoma and other industries, they don't have any.  They're basically a petro state and they're broke right no even with oil being at $65 per barrel.  They also have a Battered Wife Syndrome when it comes to the oil industry.  They take all sorts of abuse from them but are afraid they're going to leave.  This all came from a massive tax giveaway to O&G and every other part of the state budget had to eat the difference.

  3. 30 minutes ago, Washpark said:

    Heard from a source that DC Maryland area officials are confident that they have won the bid. 

    They'll have trouble recruiting locally there.  They might get move ins but the local workforce won't leave the warm bosom of the federal government for the grind house that is Amazon.

    Also, one problem Amazon has in Seattle is getting people to move there due to cost of living issues.  Not sure the DC area is much better.  The mass transit there is also dog shit.

  4. 2 hours ago, kevwun said:

    Dan Patrick wants to do the same thing in Texas.  I hope people wake the fuck up before he turns our public education system in to a similar shitshow.

    The only reason Texas didn't turn out like OK or LA is it has a more diverse economy that just oil.

  5. 5 minutes ago, Kringelbert Fishtybuns said:

    I wonder what the over/under on the percentage of Economics PhD theses will be written the next couple of years discussing Twitter and its relationship to the DJIA.   

    One moment I remember very early on in the Trump presidency is when he tweeted something about the cost of Air Force One and Boeing stock dropped hard.  Next day was something about drug costs and pharma stocks dropped.  He then kept ranting on things over time but then nothing would happen.  Wall Street finally realized he was just ranting and his words didn't mean anything.  (Never mind the word of the President used to carry a lot of weight.0

    That's why I can't figure out why AMZN stock is crashing over his tweets.  Nothing is going to come of it.

  6. 26 minutes ago, Mapache said:

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    What happened in January this year? 

    "Trumponomics"
    - The Trump tax cuts went into effect 
    - Trump began pushing protectionist tariffs 

    Down 500 more today.....so far. 

     

    The world markets are starting to figure out our system of checks and balances has been broken for awhile but now we have a president that doesn't understand economics.

  7. 3 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

    We've been waiting for the catalyst. Who knew it would be his trade war with China?

    Pedro Navarro is to blame.

    Don't discount the world figuring our system of checks and balances has been broken for a while and now we have a president that doesn't understand economics.

  8. 7 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I always thought the postal services biggest money problem was that they are mandated to deliver extremely cheap mail, to the door for many, to cover 300m people.  Ask UPS or Fedex to do that for 50 cents and listen to their answer.

    It'a a combination of that plus the pension obligations that Lurch mentioned.  

    Postal Service is an unsustainable business model if you think about it.  Congress mandates a fixed level of service.  They're required to charge the same amount for an item whether it's going across town or to rural Idaho and to deliver six days per week.  Congress also sets the limits on what they can charge.  

    That being said, they turn a profit if you don't count the pension contributions, which are billions of dollars per year.

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  9. 5 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    LOL, bitch is getting lit the fuck up.  You can bet your ass on Hannity watching these proceedings rather closely.  

    He's already named in the Seth Rich lawsuit.  If it goes to trial, he'll have to testify.

  10. 10 hours ago, HtownHorn said:

    Has OKC lost every game since Melo's playoff guarantee?

    Yep.  Westbrook has been in the league 10 years and still, the last two minutes of a game is like kryptonite to him.  Still has no self awareness at all.  Right now they're the 6 seed but only a half game ahead of #8.  They've lost 3 in a row and their games left are murder.  I doubt they'll fall out of the playoffs but an #8 seed is likely.

  11. In another interview with his longtime atheist friend, Eugenio Scalfari, Pope Francis claims that Hell does not exist and that condemned souls just "disappear." This is a denial of the 2,000-year-old teaching of the Catholic Church about the reality of Hell and the eternal existence of the soul.

     

    The interview between Scalfari and the Pope was published March 28, 2018 in La Repubblica. The relevant section on Hell was translated by the highly respected web log, Rorate Caeli

     

    The interview is headlined, "The Pope: It is an honor to be called revolutionary." (Il Papa: “È un onore essere chiamato rivoluzionario.")

    Scalfari says to the Pope, "Your Holiness, in our previous meeting you told me that our species will disappear in a certain moment and that God, still out of his creative force, will create new species. You have never spoken to me about the souls who died in sin and will go to hell to suffer it for eternity. You have however spoken to me of good souls, admitted to the contemplation of God. But what about bad souls? Where are they punished?"

     

    Pope Francis says,  "They are not punished, those who repent obtain the forgiveness of God and enter the rank of souls who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear. There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls."

    https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/pope-francis-there-no-hell

  12. 56 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    To be fair to Obama, it was Bush who negotiated the exit timeline from Iraq. Yeah, you can criticize him for sticking with it and, of course, an argument can be made that the job wasn't done. But he wasn't the one who made the deal.

    The job will never be done in the Middle East.  It's like a game where every move is the wrong one.  

  13. 7 hours ago, TahoeHorn said:

    https://nypost.com/2018/03/28/roseanne-revival-is-a-wake-up-call-for-hollywood/

     

    Is this significant?  Culturally?  Politically?

    Did Roseanne draw 18MM because her comedy is good or for some other reason?

    FoxNews proved that there is a "niche market of half the population".  I think Roseanne has targeted that same "niche market".

    22 million watched Stormy Daniels on 60 Minutes.

    Let me know what the Roseanne's ratings are by the end of the season.

  14. What did the NRA do to make sure people committed of domestic violence (Lautenberg amendment) weren't able to buy guns?  Did they support laws that shared information between states?  Did they support a national database?

    Also, what was done to stop people on no fly lists from buying guns?  Did the NRA support any initiate that did that?

    If not, why not?

  15. 41 minutes ago, hpslugga said:

    You'll also notice there will be a complete 180 on Fox News' coverage (and the like) of such a walkout as well. They'll very likely inflate the number of participants, they'll cover it in as much detail as they can, and they'll proclaim how courageous, wise and brave these kids are.

    God help us if a kid is paddled for the abortion walkout like the one for gun control.

  16. 29 minutes ago, Longhorn94 said:

    i wonder what would happen if a guy with a gun killed an unborn baby and her Mama? does the Second Amendment win? or the Right to Life?

    My idea is to have a bill that both bans assault weapons and late term abortions. The meltdown on both sides would be epic.

  17. 7 hours ago, Mike "Wags" Wagner said:

    Yes, bad people are going to do bad things. When bad people are identified existing law should be followed to ensure they can't purchase guns. The last 2 mass shootings were text book failures of the government failing to report bad people through the proper channels. So yes, please tell me, what new laws should we pass, when the current ones aren't even fucking enforced.

    Which gun laws were broken in the last few shootings?

    I remember the Texas church shooter was thrown out of the Air Force for mental problems yet he legally bought an assault rifle.  The Orlando nightclub was on a no fly list and did the same.

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