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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[facilitatorn]

Barr books Trump’s hotel for $30,000 holiday party
Experts say private, 200-person party adds to questions about attorney general’s independence from president.

Nope, no conflicts of interest here!

Move along, move along.

Underbosses have to pay out to the higher ups if they don’t want to get whacked. It’s how criminal organizations work.

It’s why trump gives as much as he can to Russian interests.

[REDSTATEWARD]

Americans’ View of the Current Economy Is the Highest in 19 Years
By Reade Pickert
August 27, 2019, 10:15 AM EDT
Bloomberg

U.S. consumer confidence declined in August by less than forecast as Americans’ assessment of current conditions climbed to the highest level in almost 19 years.     

[kiidcarter8]

"Jared Kushner ... flying all over the world on our dime"

- Chris Matthews, MSNBC

heh

[josh]

"Trump administration argues states have no say in rollback of healthy school lunch requirements"
(Headline at The Hill)

States' rights? Those quaint old things? Nah, we pay them no nevermind!

[josh]

Americans’ View of the Current Economy Is the Highest in 19 Years
By Reade Pickert
August 27, 2019, 10:15 AM EDT
Bloomberg

U.S. consumer confidence declined in August by less than forecast as Americans’ assessment of current conditions climbed to the highest level in almost 19 years.   

Yeah!

You should have heard how upbeat the consumer confidence was in the summer of 1929!

[kiidcarter8]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/27/politics/farmers-trump-japan-trade-deal/index.html

Let the man work.

[REDSTATEWARD]

Americans’ View of the Current Economy Is the Highest in 19 Years
By Reade Pickert
August 27, 2019, 10:15 AM EDT
Bloomberg

U.S. consumer confidence declined in August by less than forecast as Americans’ assessment of current conditions climbed to the highest level in almost 19 years.   

Yeah!

You should have heard how upbeat the consumer confidence was in the summer of 1929!

what was it?

[barton]

https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/michael-shellenbergers-sloppy-forbes-diatribe-on-amazon-fires-commentary/

Shellenberger’s hang up on oxygen here misleads and misdirects the reader. Scientists, including Dan Nepstad who is quoted extensively in the Forbes piece, have indeed warned that large-scale loss of tree cover in the Amazon rainforest could tip the ecosystem toward a drier, savanna-like ecosystem similar to the adjacent Cerrado. This new ecosystem would store vastly less carbon than a rainforest, increasing emissions and potentially escalating the rate of global climate change.

“As I’ve written on extensively, the Amazon forest dieback—savannization, as it is sometimes called—is the biggest threat to the Amazon forest in my opinion,” said Nepstad.

Importantly, some scientists argue that a vegetation transition of this magnitude would disrupt local transpiration and could even shift the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone affecting regional precipitation patterns and potentially impacting hydropower output, urban water supplies and agriculture production across Brazil—even to the point of threatening the Latin American nation’s position as a global agribusiness powerhouse, potentially endangering the food supply to millions in the EU and China who rely on Brazil for meat, soy and other vital commodities.   

As I pointed out a day or two ago.   

It is true that forests are not net oxygen producers, but that doesn't mean getting rid of them is carbon neutral, and it's carbon absorption and retention that is the important equation here.  Yes, some MSM went too far with the "lungs of the world," but that doesn't mean that carbon sequestering isn't important....

The resurgence of forest clearing in the Amazon, which had decreased more than 80% following a peak in 2004, is alarming for many reasons. Tropical forests harbor many species of plants and animals found nowhere else. They are important refuges for indigenous people, and contain enormous stores of carbon as wood and other organic matter that would otherwise contribute to the climate crisis...   

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/no-the-amazon-fires-wont-deplete-the-earths-oxygen-supply-heres-why

[Yankguy1]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/27/politics/farmers-trump-japan-trade-deal/index.html

Let the man work.

NO CRITICISM, DAMMIT! He's very sensitive.

[kiidcarter8]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/27/politics/trump-g7-press-conference/index.html

Beautiful

[REDSTATEWARD]

https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/michael-shellenbergers-sloppy-forbes-diatribe-on-amazon-fires-commentary/

Shellenberger’s hang up on oxygen here misleads and misdirects the reader. Scientists, including Dan Nepstad who is quoted extensively in the Forbes piece, have indeed warned that large-scale loss of tree cover in the Amazon rainforest could tip the ecosystem toward a drier, savanna-like ecosystem similar to the adjacent Cerrado. This new ecosystem would store vastly less carbon than a rainforest, increasing emissions and potentially escalating the rate of global climate change.

“As I’ve written on extensively, the Amazon forest dieback—savannization, as it is sometimes called—is the biggest threat to the Amazon forest in my opinion,” said Nepstad.

Importantly, some scientists argue that a vegetation transition of this magnitude would disrupt local transpiration and could even shift the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone affecting regional precipitation patterns and potentially impacting hydropower output, urban water supplies and agriculture production across Brazil—even to the point of threatening the Latin American nation’s position as a global agribusiness powerhouse, potentially endangering the food supply to millions in the EU and China who rely on Brazil for meat, soy and other vital commodities.   

As I pointed out a day or two ago.   

It is true that forests are not net oxygen producers, but that doesn't mean getting rid of them is carbon neutral, and it's carbon absorption and retention that is the important equation here. 

ROFL
No one is advocating “ getting rid of Rain Forests”. ! 
We are asking that millions of poor Brazilians are allowed to make a decent living so they, not the crooks and the socialists, have continue to rape them and the Brazil economy.

[LarryBnDC]

https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/michael-shellenbergers-sloppy-forbes-diatribe-on-amazon-fires-commentary/

Shellenberger’s hang up on oxygen here misleads and misdirects the reader. Scientists, including Dan Nepstad who is quoted extensively in the Forbes piece, have indeed warned that large-scale loss of tree cover in the Amazon rainforest could tip the ecosystem toward a drier, savanna-like ecosystem similar to the adjacent Cerrado. This new ecosystem would store vastly less carbon than a rainforest, increasing emissions and potentially escalating the rate of global climate change.

“As I’ve written on extensively, the Amazon forest dieback—savannization, as it is sometimes called—is the biggest threat to the Amazon forest in my opinion,” said Nepstad.

Importantly, some scientists argue that a vegetation transition of this magnitude would disrupt local transpiration and could even shift the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone affecting regional precipitation patterns and potentially impacting hydropower output, urban water supplies and agriculture production across Brazil—even to the point of threatening the Latin American nation’s position as a global agribusiness powerhouse, potentially endangering the food supply to millions in the EU and China who rely on Brazil for meat, soy and other vital commodities.   

As I pointed out a day or two ago.   

It is true that forests are not net oxygen producers, but that doesn't mean getting rid of them is carbon neutral, and it's carbon absorption and retention that is the important equation here. 

ROFL
No one is advocating “ getting rid of Rain Forests”. ! 
We are asking that millions of poor Brazilians are allowed to make a decent living so they, not the crooks and the socialists continue to rape them and the Brazil economy.

Complete and utter bullshit.

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/27/politics/farmers-trump-japan-trade-deal/index.html

Let the man work.

We pretty much have no choice.

And he has pretty much made a shambles of everything he has managed to get his hands on.

Yeah, Kid, denial.

[josh]

Americans’ View of the Current Economy Is the Highest in 19 Years
By Reade Pickert
August 27, 2019, 10:15 AM EDT
Bloomberg

U.S. consumer confidence declined in August by less than forecast as Americans’ assessment of current conditions climbed to the highest level in almost 19 years.   

Yeah!

You should have heard how upbeat the consumer confidence was in the summer of 1929!

what was it?

That was the season before autumn of 1929, but that's not important now.

(Sky high. People were sure that the expanding market would go on forever, etc.)

[REDSTATEWARD]

Americans’ View of the Current Economy Is the Highest in 19 Years
By Reade Pickert
August 27, 2019, 10:15 AM EDT
Bloomberg

U.S. consumer confidence declined in August by less than forecast as Americans’ assessment of current conditions climbed to the highest level in almost 19 years.   

Yeah!

You should have heard how upbeat the consumer confidence was in the summer of 1929!

what was it?

That was the season before autumn of 1929, but that's not important now.
(Sky high. People were sure that the expanding market would go on forever, etc.)

LOL!
It was Zero!  No one was buying anything!
Wages were low.
Did you get past fifth grade?