And thank you to doodle for proving of the point.... I won't argue that the left doesn't have some bad ideas...but loony conspiracies....please enlighten me. The only one I can name are the 9/11 truthers. A poll conducted around the time of the 2008 election showed a little over 1/4 of registered D...

Indeed. The way the political right in this country has so enthusiastically embraced lunatic conspiracy theories, and moved more and more into information bubbles that serve only to reinforce these delusional beliefs and other frankly extremist ideas, is deeply worrisome. This is how hitherto stable...

If he does this, I sure hope at least some percentage of his adherents realize they've been bamboozled. I think many of them are too far gone. For them Donald Trump has become a messianic figure, which is why I have said that the GOP has become a cult of personality. For the true believers, some of...

It is time to state something very plainly. Donald Trump is a liar. By which I mean he is a congenital liar. Some with more qualifications might call him a pathological liar. If Harry Truman were still alive, he'd just label Trump as a lying son of a bitch. I'm comfortable with any of those charact...

It's coming. There will be a wave of pardons... for his kids, his businesses, his lawyers and accountants, his allies and lastly... for himself. As noted these will not get him out of dutch with the state of New York. But it will eliminate the very real danger of interstate wire, bank, insurance fra...

It is time to state something very plainly. Donald Trump is a liar. By which I mean he is a congenital liar. Some with more qualifications might call him a pathological liar. If Harry Truman were still alive, he'd just label Trump as a lying son of a bitch. I'm comfortable with any of those characte...

Just binge watched the girl chess series. Definitely very good.

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 6:25 pm Well... all the NAMES I wrote appeared in the answer*!


*Except for Adams.

***SPOILER*** 1. Washington: The obvious one. 2. John Adams: Washington died in 1798 during Adams term. 3. U.S. Grant: Franklin Pierce died in 1869, Millard Fillmore in 1874, and Andrew Johnson in 1875. 4. Theodore Roosevelt: Grover Cleveland passed in 1908. 5. Herbert Hoover: William H. Taft died ...

NEW QUESTION

* Six presidents have experienced a period where there were no living ex-presidents. Who were they?

Barring aggressive intervention by central banks, I don't see bond yields being sustainable at these levels over the long term. It seems increasingly likely that a vaccine will be available to the general public sometime in 2021. That means next year is likely to see the beginning of the end of the ...

Q. Excluding those who died in office, which presidents did not attend the inauguration of their successors? A. John Adams in 1801: He and Thomas Jefferson were barely on speaking terms at the time. Andrew Johnson in 1869: General Grant detested Johnson and snubbed the outgoing president by refusin...

Is switching from one incarnation of Christianity to another really 'changing religions' ? It's one thing to go from Christianity to Judaism or Islam, or vice versa, but the basic premise of Jesus is the overarching tenant of the whole thing, no? It would depend on how much importance one places on...

Is switching from one incarnation of Christianity to another really 'changing religions' ? It's one thing to go from Christianity to Judaism or Islam, or vice versa, but the basic premise of Jesus is the overarching tenant of the whole thing, no? It would depend on how much importance one places on...

God won't violate His justice nor His promises.  The wages of sin is death.  We were told that before the Fall and chose to do it anyway.  That can't just be hand-waved away.  Fortunately for us, God Himself chose to come down and bear the penalty on our behalf! As for having "other people&quo...

Bonds are getting hammered as investors are finally visualizing the end of the global Covid crisis. The 10 yr may be about to break 1%.

How to kill 15,000 people in a day. https://youtu.be/QDirVoNLPGo WARNING : This video is part of a subseries on the history of World War II discussing the numerous crimes against humanity committed during the war. It includes graphic descriptions of violence and atrocities that if it fails to distur...

America's oldest shopping mall has been partially converted into low rent micro-apartments.

https://youtu.be/HmL2l-bcuUQ

For people who are single and living on a tight budget, this looks really cool.

in a downturn , silver typically plunges with all other commodities ... 2008 saw gold up while silver plunged . Agreed. Silver is strictly VP stuff. I do have a small position that I acquired when when silver was trading under $15 but I don't consider that as part of the PP. And as a speculation, I...

Donald Trump is the only man I know of who is capable of lying when he opens his mouth to eat.

Thought I'd blow away some of the cobwebs from this unusually quiet thread. I note a nice bump in metals as people are anticipating more stimulus/debt/inflation with the likely change in administration. Also stocks and even bonds are all doing nicely today.

Trump needs to contest this to the bitter end. Do you have any doubt that he will do exactly that? If he can't win honestly, Plan B, will be to use the court system to disenfranchise voters, with special help from the judges and justices that he appointed. Hard to believe this is America. It wouldn...

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