Ponderable
- Thread starter Bruddah IZ
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"It's easy to judge others by their worst examples and ourselves by our best intentions" - GW Bush
The BO Presidency has enrichened the top 1% to a very large degree. Any notion that BO has created a welfare state, I vigorously reject. He was supposed to "clean up" Wall Street, instead he doubled down on the same leadership that led us down the drain.
Bruddah IZ
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.....banking systems are fragile by design because it is impossible to take politics out of bank regulation. And it's impossible to do so because there are inherent conflicts of interest between government and banking systems such that banks need governments and governments need banks. Those conflicts of interest basically boil down to three features. First, governments simultaneously regulate banks and borrow from banks. Second, governments simultaneously use their police power in order to enforce debt contracts on behalf of banks; but people who are being, let's say, forced out of their houses because they've defaulted on a mortgage are voters, and so when banking crises occur governments often have reasons to not enforce those debt contracts. Third, governments are in charge of liquidating failed banks. But the biggest group of creditors to a bank when a bank is liquidated are its depositors--who are voters. And so governments have incentives to change the rules of government deposit insurance for political ends--so often extend deposit insurance beyond its statutory limits. Because of those three basic inherent conflicts of interest, it's extremely difficult to remove politics from banking. Governments have, or parties inside the government have inherent reasons for wanting to use the banking system for their own ends, and at the same time, bankers need the government in order to do things like enforce debt contracts. There's no getting politics out.--Stephen Haber co-author with Charles Calomiris of Fragile by Design, https://www.amazon.com/Fragile-Design-Political-Princeton-Economic/dp/0691155240/
Again you are speculating. I gotta believe we would have heard from someone down stream who was harmed by the negotiated settlement.
That's not what happened here.
Perhaps the cattle did crap upstream, they do that with or without a stock pond.
But just as a beaver pond slows and then cleans water by allowing heavy sediments, like your bullshit, to fall to the bottom where it breaks down
allowing trees and plants to thrive...
The Colorado is interesting because there are many dams on it. Yet, as you point out every drop that folks claim, gets to them.
Other wise it would uncontrollably flood or perhaps slow to a trickle.
As much as the EPA wants to claim that water, they can't. Stock ponds are exempt. But you know that.
As I said already, the whole story is not what was printed in the paper or the PLF press release. How do you think EPA and Corps of Engineers got wind of Johnson's dam? The only people who had any way to know about it are his neighbors - think about it.
Folks' claims on the Colorado are based on how much water there is in the river, from flow measured at points just above the big reservoirs, or by measuring the level of Lake Mead. Arizona and California get a lot less than they could use, because that's all there is, especially during the current drought. About a month ago, Lake Mead reached the lowest level it has seen since it was filled in the 30's.
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Awww, you and he have so much in common...
Asshole neighbors.
You may have a point.
The fact still remains, that the EPA bit off more than it was entitled to chew.
I personally think the EPA should continue to run roughshod over anyone they deem a threat.
Bruddah IZ
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Today's "good guy with a gun" story...
http://jezebel.com/a-woman-was-fata...source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
"According to Police Chief Thomas Lewis, the demonstration was intended to teach the class best practices in “using simulated lethal force.”
Knowlton was accidentally struck with a live round. She was taken to Lee Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
Lewis has since called the incident, which occurred August 9, a “horrible accident.”
"Accident" my ass, more guns, more gun deaths.
http://jezebel.com/a-woman-was-fata...source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
"According to Police Chief Thomas Lewis, the demonstration was intended to teach the class best practices in “using simulated lethal force.”
Knowlton was accidentally struck with a live round. She was taken to Lee Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
Lewis has since called the incident, which occurred August 9, a “horrible accident.”
"Accident" my ass, more guns, more gun deaths.
Bruddah IZ
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Wez
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And your point is? More guns, more gun deaths. 300mil guns in the US, 1% accident rate = a lot of unnecessary deaths.
Wez
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"Between 1955 and 1975, the Vietnam War killed over 58,000 American soldiers – less than the number of civilians killed with guns in the U.S. in an average two-year period.
In the first seven years of the U.S.-Iraq War, over 4,400 American soldiers were killed. Almost as many civilians are killed with guns in the U.S., however, every seven weeks.
On average, states with the highest gun levels had nine times the rate of unintentional firearms deaths compared to states with the lowest gun levels."
In the first seven years of the U.S.-Iraq War, over 4,400 American soldiers were killed. Almost as many civilians are killed with guns in the U.S., however, every seven weeks.
On average, states with the highest gun levels had nine times the rate of unintentional firearms deaths compared to states with the lowest gun levels."
What price is freedom?
Parts of the constitution is so f'n annoying.
All accidental deaths should be outlawed.
Here are the top five causes of accidental death in the USA
1)Motor Vehicle Incidents (42,000 annual deaths)
2)Poisoning (39,000 annual deaths)
3)Falls (25,000 annual deaths)
4)Fires (2,700 annual deaths)
5)Choking (Approximately 2,500 deaths per year)
Accidental drowning cause another 2000 deaths per year
Accidental shootings cause 600 deaths per year.
http://listosaur.com/miscellaneous/top-5-causes-of-accidental-death-in-the-united-states/
Be careful out their, especially on your way to and from the soccer pitch.