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Charles Dean wrote: Guess fear still sells. If you ever watch Bill O'Reilly on FNC, he basically sells fear. A large portion of the population seems to eat up fear. Of course when you can't understand why anything happens (9/11, housi…
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There's really no good way to explain the market on any given day. The headline news "explanation" for the market move is almost never particularly useful, however. It is somewhat useful to keep in mind that the market supposedly is looking 3-…
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WestSideBilly wrote: The riots on the way home from Bellevue were rough. I made it through, barely. I totally died in all the race riots last night.
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the market usually moves according to its own internal forces, and the headlines that supposedly drive the markets on any given day usually contradict themselves a couple days later. "market up on cheap oil" "market down on deflationary concerns a…
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suck it robroy. where's your mccain victory and your riots now beeiotch?
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: lamont wrote: WestSideBilly wrote: Well, Obama is definitely half black. And maybe half Muslim. You can't be half-Muslim any more than you can be half-Christian. And if religion is genetic, what am I …
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WestSideBilly wrote: Well, Obama is definitely half black. And maybe half Muslim. You can't be half-Muslim any more than you can be half-Christian. And if religion is genetic, what am I given that all my grandparents were Christian, whi…
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Robroy wrote: I will tell you right now that I think there is a possibility that Obama is a black Muslim. I would not bet the farm on it - yet - but whenever the subject of Christianity comes up his answers are severely lacking. I can tell you tha…
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Robroy wrote: I use the Nazi example because most people are familiar with it. That is the whole point of analogies - you use something people are aware of, as opposed to Gomorrah... it is almost always viewed as being intellectually lazy, …
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Robroy wrote: I strongly disagree. The reality is that the more we know, the more confidence we have in our ability to know even more. But we must be careful to depend on "future discoveries" to support our current scientific position. You …
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Alan wrote: We used to claim that God was behind the Sun and Moon travelling across the sky, and know we know better. Not really. We can just predict it better. We don't really know what gravity is. Maybe it is God's will that thinks mov…
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: Frankly, the more I learn about it, the more amazed I am that such a mess works at all. We're unhappy if we are born with bad eye sight, or have an autistic child, but if you look at what's going on it's almost surpris…
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Robroy wrote: lamont wrote: rose-colored-coolaid wrote: If DNA is the programming language of God, he's what we would commonly refer to as a cowboy hacker. The code is undocumented, it contains huge dead sections, parts of it are exploite…
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Robroy wrote: With my limited understanding of creation I feel a bit uncomfortable judging God. Out of curiosity, have you ever read The Shack? Great book on the "apparent" imperfections in creation. Your concept that DNA is evidence makes no sens…
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: If DNA is the programming language of God, he's what we would commonly refer to as a cowboy hacker. The code is undocumented, it contains huge dead sections, parts of it are exploited in bizarre ways which violate the …
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Robroy wrote: The analogy applies. Just as rain follows rainclouds, CO2 follows Global Warming. GHGs lag instead of lead the ice age cycles of the past million years because the driver of those climate changes is Milankovich cycles and chan…
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Robroy wrote: There is ZERO evidence that CO2 causes global warming. Zero. CO2 transmits in the visible and has absorption bands in the IR, which is precisely what you need for a greenhouse gas. Claiming that its not even worthwhile look…
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Well, first of all, we *are* in a currency crisis. The value of dollar denominated debt/credit is what is being destroyed, however -- the moneyness of credit has dried up with a panic to currency. Granted this is fiat currency and can be created…
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Charles Dean wrote: I personally tend to be an evolution agnostic. I think that scientific theory is such that evolution is currently the best explanation for something that we can really only hypothesize about. I also don't understand why bel…
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Robroy wrote: Evans notes a few telling facts: One, scientists have looked for hot spots in the atmosphere -- places where a possible cause of global warming occurs first and most -- and have found . . . none: "If there is no hot spot then an incr…
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lamont wrote: I think we're definitely due for a bear maket rally any day now, but i've been thinking that for a couple of weeks now. The deleveraging and flight to cash has been far more brutal than i ever expected. We could see another round o…
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: I thought this article arguing that deflation is a bad thing was interesting. So, have you guys heard any suggestions that all economists believe deflation is bad? One of the most vibrant growth industries in the la…
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deejayoh wrote: Sniglet had the call for $50 a bbl oil on this thread months ago I called for $60/bbl in this thread on another blog, back in May when Goldman Sachs was calling for $200/bbl oil right near the $145/bbl peak: http://climat…
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I think we're definitely due for a bear maket rally any day now, but i've been thinking that for a couple of weeks now. The deleveraging and flight to cash has been far more brutal than i ever expected. We could see another round of it ahead of se…
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Well, at least the republicans have clearly delineated the playing field. If Obama has to answer for what every nutjob in the democratic party in Chicago did back in the 1960s, then we can clearly hold McCain responsible for all the people today …
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david_mcmanus wrote: lamont wrote: the problem is that if you rewind the standard of living 20 years backwards you also create 30% unemployment, which is where you get the bread lines from. Bread lines, ha! I think most people around h…
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the problem is that if you rewind the standard of living 20 years backwards you also create 30% unemployment, which is where you get the bread lines from.
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WestSideBilly wrote: I'm completely with Moose on this one. I've tried to be prudent and somewhat responsible financially (which is why I'm renting a house right now instead of trying to figure out how to pay off an option-ARM). This whole thing…
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Lake Hills Renter wrote: It's the attitude that the people facing foreclosures are victims that gets me. Many/most were complicit in this just as much as anyone else, and now they have Congress lobbying to bail them out as well. Where's the bailou…
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: I just wanted to suggest to everybody on this forum, that - if your congress-person voted against the bailout - now would be an excellent time to write them a letter of thanks. It's good to write with how angry you a…