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    PortaJohn

    Love the idea, but there's DNA in shit, so you're still giving them what they want.
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    Open Season on Republicans & Severe Penalties for Attacks on Democrats

    "When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle...
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    PortaJohn

    Royalties being paid to NIH "scientists" should go to the Treasury or the budget of the NIH and CDC, not to the employees. Those employees "discovered" or invented the stuff they are receiving royalties for because the government is paying them a salary and providing them with all the lab space...
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    PortaJohn

    Kind of like betting against Gartman on MSNBC. Whatever he recommends for you to invest in, just do the opposite and you'll make out like a bandit.
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    Fair Winds and Following Seas, Demo Dick.... RIP Richard Marcinko

    I met Mr. Marcinko a few dozen times back in the early 90s. I was in my early 20s working at a bank in Manassas VA while I was going to college and he was a customer. He didn't come into the branch that often and the first few times that I met him I didn't know who he was. He was always cheerful...
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    Drinking water storage

    I work for a company that manufacturers water test analysis kits. Some of our test are made for the food and beverage industry. Several of those test are for H2O2 in rinse water. Food processing plants and bottling companies and several other industries use H2O2 to sterilize the containers and...
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    First Migrant Bus from Texas Arrives near U.S. Capitol in D.C.

    Great. That's just on the other side of the beltway from me.
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    Anyone investing in REIT?

    REITs in general are more highly leveraged, regardless of what type of property they are investing in. The leverage in needed, because as you said, they have to pay out most of their income to investors meaning they have to borrow funds to expand their property portfolio. The upfront cost of...
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    Anyone investing in REIT?

    REITs can be heavily leveraged. Mortgaged to the hilt in some cases. That's okay when interest rates are low and home or multi home prices are rising, but if\when that reverses the cost to carry can threaten their existence.
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    Recession - 2022 / 2023 / 2024

    I like the guys at EW, but I find the thinking of the above statement to be, well, awkward and excusatory. During the extended period of time that they looked at to determine that the Fed is always late to take action and takes actions over what is necessary, there have been dozens of...
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    Recession - 2022 / 2023 / 2024

    You make a lot of valid points that I will add to: "What started the housing boom? Low interest rates and good employment." This situation added fuel to the fire. The main culprit was bank deregulation allowing speculation on derivatives backed by sub-prime mortgages. Through in credit default...
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    rock guitar player survey

    As mentioned above: Randy Rhodes and I'll add George Thorogood and maybe even Cat Stevens.
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    Stock Market

    Yeah, that project could turn into a money pit, but if they have guys with half the talent as the Space X teams they might just pull it off. Not so sure about it going into production next year. That's an aggressive target.
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    Stock Market

    He is never going to sell.
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    Recession - 2022 / 2023 / 2024

    One tool or rather trick that the banks use to hide falling values of their mortgage, bond and high-yield cooperate bond portfolios is to shift those assets from their usual short term holdings to long term holdings. They're basically saying that they intend to hold the shifted assets until...
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    PortaJohn

    Get ready for Zika babies popping up in Cali nine months from now. https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/82320/mosquitoes-with-synthetic-dna-scheduled-for-california.html
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    Recession - 2022 / 2023 / 2024

    The chances of a transition in currency order may be next to nil, but they are never zero. In this case the chances are greater than zero, or so say Zoltan Pozsar. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bretton-woods-iii-china-begins-buying-russian-coal-and-oil-yuan Ike
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    PortaJohn

    Interesting article. I'm surprised it doesn't mention Bretton Woods III and its commodity-based currencies.
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    PortaJohn

    It's a cult. Jonestown on a global scale. Fuchiworld.
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    Amusing True Stories

    I was PM on a 10K sqft addition to a manufacturing facility for the company I work for. the GC calls my assistant and asks him to have me get the company stakeholders, the architect, MEP engineer and HVAC contractor together in 2 hours for an emergency meeting. No explanation of what the...