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No to voluntarily donating, because the rich don't need anymore tax breaks. Rutger Bregman nailed it: “This is not rocket science,” he said. “We can talk for a very long time about all these stupid philanthropy schemes, we can invite Bono once more, but, come on, we got to be talking about taxes. That’s it. Taxes, taxes, taxes — all the rest is bulls---, in my opinion.”

The 1950's are still referred to as America's "Golden Years". Top Federal tax rates ranged from mid-80's to 90% for the entire decade.

I guess we're assuming Charles Nelson is going to be a strictly ST guy?

If Walters waited until yesterday to sign Bighill and no one else, I'm pretty sure most people would still be pleased. Jefferson is some pretty good gravy on top of that.

Thanks. I've muttered his name more than a few times over the last couple years.

Roosevelt?

Just have to go for the punt single early against the Riders. Shouldn't be too hard to beat them 1-0 every time.

The way it's going, Edmonton is going to sign BLM too.

Got me too. Want it to be true.

McCrockiner has admitted it's fake.

Just to show I'm not some kool-aid drinking liberal, I'm posting this because it's potentially a big deal. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-snc-lavalin-fraud-corruption-1.5009578 That being said, I'd have no problem with Jody Wilson-Raybould as PM.

"Angulo learned to drive backhoes and bulldozers, carving water hazards and tee boxes out of former horse pastures in Bedminster, N.J., where a famous New Yorker was building a world-class course. Angulo earned $8 an hour, a fraction of what a state-licensed heavy equipment operator would make, with no benefits or overtime pay." "Around that time, a licensed heavy equipment operator in central New Jersey would have received an average of $51 to $55 per hour in wages and benefits, according to union officials at the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 825 in the nearby town of Springfield." “Many of us helped him get what he has today,” Angulo said. “This golf course was built by illegals.” "The Washington Post spoke with 16 men and women from Costa Rica and other Latin American countries, including six in Santa Teresa de Cajon, who said they were employed at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster. All of them said they worked for Trump without legal status — and that their managers knew." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/my-whole-town-practically-lived-there-from-costa-rica-to-new-jersey-a-pipeline-of-illegal-workers-for-trump-goes-back-years/2019/02/08/8cdbc1dc-2971-11e9-97b3-ae59fbae7960_story.html?utm_term=.0b30fe465739

A fantastic read. "By one estimate, more than $1 trillion now exits the world’s developing countries each year in the forms of laundered money and evaded taxes." https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-kleptocracy-came-to-america/580471/ "In 2017, Reuters examined the sale of Trump Organization properties in Florida. It found that 77 of 2,044 units in the developments were owned by Russians. But that was likely an incomplete portrait. More than one-third of the units had been sold to corporate vehicles, which can readily hide the identity of the true owner."

"The hottest five years on record are, in fact, the last five years. The year 2016, which was 1.69 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the 20th-century average, holds the top spot, with 2018 at 1.42 degrees F warmer." https://www.npr.org/2019/02/06/692060375/2018-was-earths-fourth-hottest-year-on-record-scientists-say

Unless Harper's still hiding in there.

Leave it to people who confuse weather with climate to also confuse the gender pay gap with equal pay. It must be so easy to be incurious (I know they won't even bother looking it up).

Streveler really seems like a good kid. https://www.argusleader.com/story/sports/college/university-of-south-dakota/2019/02/06/chris-streveler-south-dakota-coyotes-usd-cfl-winnipeg-blue-bombers-football/2777011002/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/06/fact-checking-president-trumps-state-union-address/?utm_term=.59f8f1068d93

Now I remember why I blocked you. Personal attack, followed by "fake news", followed by conspiracy to defraud, followed by linguistic gymnastics, followed by bogus bogus. Really, how can scientists compete?

This is why governments need to encourage demand for this supply by providing rebates or tax incentives to participate. When manufacturers scale up, we'll see prices drop - solar panels are a good example (even though they still need to get cheaper). The oil, gas and coal industries have been heavily subsidized for a century - no reason it can't be done for green tech.

You'll have to define dire, then. If you had a house in Paradise, California, it's past dire. If you're tourist operator on the Great Barrier Reef, it's past dire. If you're a Syrian, it's past dire. If you're have contractd Lyme disease in Canada, it's past dire. Climate change is not as simple as a 5 degree bump on any given day. There are so many indirect dire consequences of a warming planet that we are just beginning to realize it's past effects - nevermind the ones we are struggling to predict.

Interesting stuff. "Colonisation of the Americas at the end of the 15th Century killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate. That's the conclusion of scientists from University College London, UK. The team says the disruption that followed European settlement led to a huge swathe of abandoned agricultural land being reclaimed by fast-growing trees and other vegetation. This pulled down enough carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere to eventually chill the planet." https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47063973?fbclid=IwAR042v7GsB61BR9hTX1Fe8jPoCHGblZIDJ_B1y2AP4vQYUYOmsKohhwf45I

If you're not a subscriber yet, use one of your freebies to access this amazing piece of multimedia reporting. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/gone-in-a-generation/forest-climate-change.html?utm_term=.079c8ec553c6