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Gore: Polar ice may vanish in 5-7 years

This hoax is turning out to be really elaborate. (6 hrs ago | post #1)

Sunnyvale, CA

Sunnyvale supports change in the General Plan to end 'no trail'...

We had a "no trail" ban? That seems lame. (7 hrs ago | post #1)

U.S. Retail Sales Rise Strongly in November

You're tending toward hyperbole. Marxist/fascist? Do you really foresee this administration taking over private ownership of land or anything like that? I don't. If I did I would pull my investments in U.S. equities. I foresee a recovery within the next couple of years. 2009 has already been a stellar year in the U.S. stock market. Anyone sitting on the sideline now because they hate Obama is cutting off their nose to spite their face. (Yesterday | post #37)

U.S. Retail Sales Rise Strongly in November

I think everyone wants to know the bottom. That's the perfect time to invest on several levels. Companies that believe this is the bottom are able to snap up excellent workers while they are available. Stock market investors probably believe that one bottom of this bear market was in March this year. Another bottom was certainly around Q1 2003. People on the sidelines waiting to purchase a home are beginning to move also. There is no way to predict when all sectors will recover, but historically we'll always see a recovery. Are you really that pessimistic just because there is a Democrat in the White House? GW Bush also agreed with stimulus spending and as you know initiated TARP. Anyone who gives merit to Keynesian economic theory agrees with some level of stimulus spending. I think that McCain would be doing the same thing. (Friday Dec 11 | post #19)

U.S. Retail Sales Rise Strongly in November

Seems many posters are hoping for failure. I remember hearing that accusation flying during the Bush administration. Politics aside, there are many signs pointing to a bottoming out. At least the stock market thinks so. The SP500 is over 20% higher today than when Obama took office. We'll see after 4 years of Obama how the market is doing, but for now it's doing well. Maybe you don't believe it and you are sitting on the sidelines out of equities. If so, you are really pessimistic in general, or you are spending all your money on guns. I have around 70% of my retirement money in the market and it's been there since Jan 2003, as context for my post. (Friday Dec 11 | post #16)

Death penalty for gays? Uganda debates proposal

There must be some mistake. Because Christianity is the religion of peace. (Wednesday Dec 9 | post #21)

Death penalty for gays? Uganda debates proposal

Sounds like Germany in 1943. (Tuesday Dec 8 | post #1)

I don't doubt what you write, but you are using anecdotal evidence and what you learned in grade school to refute a world-wide group of climatologists. You are acting as if there is something incredibly obvious that all these PhDs are missing that only people outside the field of climatology can see. I'm sure all evidence feasibly possible to consider is being considered on an ongoing basis. I'm not saying there isn't debate, but there is a pretty broad consensus at this point regarding some human contribution to global warming. If strong evidence comes to light to the contrary, there will be teams of scientists leaping at the chance to publish it, if for no other reason than to make a name for themselves. Many posters here are worried about some giant conspiracy of scientists vs non-scientists. It's like the debate on evolution all over again. (Thursday Dec 3 | post #202)

So you don't see rising sea levels and declining glaciers? Or you just don't believe it is related to human activity? (Wednesday Dec 2 | post #168)

Democrats whack Obama over his Afghanistan plan

I voted for Obama and I "whack" him for this also. Nation building as a principle is a wrong-headed ideal no matter who is president. Let's get the hell out of there. It's not our oil to protect. (Wednesday Dec 2 | post #24)

Do you believe mankind has an effect on general smog pollution. Just checking. I'm pretty sure L.A. didn't look like a yellowish sepia print in 1900. But maybe that is big fake also. (Wednesday Dec 2 | post #163)

A four-year-old boy has died after being attacked by a dog in W...

You mean the dog? Too late now, the police shot the animal after he killed the boy and injured the lady trying to save him. No need to prove a dead dog guilty. But you can still consider him innocent, for what it's worth. (Monday Nov 30 | post #2)

These scientists are only concerned with evidence and scientific theory. Not God's plan to have Republicans run the United States in perpetuity. Scientists are obviously not to be trusted with science. (Monday Nov 30 | post #16)

ACLU files suit defending anti-Islam shirts

Cool! I guess it's safe to break out my I'm gay for Jesus t-shirt again. http://www.threadl ess.com/submission /112753/i_d_go_gay _for_jesus/showmor e,designs (Tuesday Nov 24 | post #38)