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JonF Member (Idle past 198 days) Posts: 6174 Joined:
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What percentages were caused by the early 1990's exploitation of this 1977 legislation? By guidelines becoming mandates? By quotas going from 30% to 40%, then 50% to 56%? Your students at Duke and Dartmouth must not have been interested in researching that The subject is the infinitesimal effect the CRA had on the subprime mortgage market in the 2000's. If you have evidence to the contrary present it, with references where appropriate. Questions are not evidence.
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
This is a reply to the original message of the subtitle, not to be confused with recent messages having little to nothing to do with the subtitle. Note that this is specifically referring to coal mining debris.
How is it that anyone can think that it is good for mining run-off and debris to end up in rivers and streams? At this point, I would hope that there would be no going back to bad practices of the past, even if the law permitted such. Going backward would be terrible PR for the mining company, bad for their personal best interests. I may be wrong. MooseProfessor, geology, Whatsamatta U Evolution - Changes in the environment, caused by the interactions of the components of the environment. "Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer." - Bruce Graham "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith "Yesterday on Fox News, commentator Glenn Beck said that he believes President Obama is a racist. To be fair, every time you watch Glenn Beck, it does get a little easier to hate white people." - Conan O'Brien "I know a little about a lot of things, and a lot about a few things, but I'm highly ignorant about everything." - Moose
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Heathen Member (Idle past 1313 days) Posts: 1067 From: Brizzle Joined: |
I don't share your optimism.
Corporations have shown utter disregard for the environment unless forced to do otherwise through legislation. A struggling industry like coal will do all it can to improve its profit margins. If that means cheap, unregulated disposal of waste, so be it.
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9202 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.4
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Did you bother to read the link JonF posted or are you too afraid of facts and evidence?
Here are more facts to show you have no idea what you are talking about.
quote:http://www.mcclatchydc.com/...overnment/article24504598.html Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.
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Percy Member Posts: 22505 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4
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Has Trump no sense of propriety, no sense of presidential dignity and decorum?
Apparently not, because now, after going after judges, the media and even photographs, he's going after...Nordstrum. They dropped the Ivanka Trump line. It wouldn't be surprising if T.J. Maxx and Marshalls were next on Trump's wrath list, as last week they took down all Ivanka Trump signs and moved her products out with the other merchandise on the floor. I think many were hoping that Trump would undergo some sort of period of on-the-job training and gradually grow if not into the presidency at least closer to it, but the early signs are not good. We all expected Trump to push conservative positions and policies, but also that he would abandon his clownish campaign persona and proceed presidentially with forethought instead of blundering about like a catawampus warthog. He seems doggedly determined to frenetically and serially flub and muff. --Percy
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jar Member (Idle past 424 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
A wall around each Nordstrum would certainly create more jobs than one on the southern border. And don't forget to even do the southern border he will have to leave a bag ass gap or wall all around the Tohono O’odham nation.
AbE: Or of course we could do what the US has historically done and simply disregard our own Treaties and laws. AbE Parte Deux: His daughter outsourced manufacture of her clothing line to China. Edited by jar, : see AbE: Edited by jar, : see Parte Deux Edited by jar, : appalin spallin outsource--->outsourced
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JonF Member (Idle past 198 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
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JonF Member (Idle past 198 days) Posts: 6174 Joined:
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The leaks about his calls to world leaders have said he speaks to themn like a campaign speech.
He is what he is, he's a vile ignorant liar, he's not going ot change because he doesn't see any reason to, and we're gfucked.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1435 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
and so it begins ...
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jar Member (Idle past 424 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Calling Key Republican Senators losers who have forgotten how to win might be a counter productive move.
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Porosity Member (Idle past 2124 days) Posts: 158 From: MT, USA Joined:
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Reminds me of an old saying.
Be careful who you shit on when you're on the way up cause you never know whose help you're gonna need when you're on your way back down. People are going to get tired of cleaning up his shitty diapers.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1474 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Sorry, wrong thread.
Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.
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jar Member (Idle past 424 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
One topic that has been mentioned as significant is the balance of trade with Japan and in particular the fact that US made cars simply don't sell in Japan. Trump has said he will bring this up when he meets with Abe.
But maybe he is looking in the wrong direction as usual. Maybe he should look at what DOES sell in Japan, what the Japanese consumer wants and that seems to be the Kei cars and utility vehicles. The Kei cars are tiny, comparable in maximum size to a Smart Car. And they have a maximum engine size of 660cc with no more than 63 horsepower. So are we sending Kei cars to Japan that can sell at comparable prices to the ones made by Japanese companies in Japan? Can we make such cars here in the US and ship them to Japan to be sold at competitive prices? Most of the Japanese cars sold in the US are made here in the US by American workers. Maybe Trump should suggest that Ford and Chrysler and General Motors open plants in Japan employing Japanese workers ... Oh wait...
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Percy Member Posts: 22505 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4
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A week or so ago Trump ordered the Labor Department to review the Obama rule requiring financial advisers to make customer interests their top priority above any other considerations (though approved last year it has yet to take effect). In the meantime, in response to a third court challenge another judge has found the rule valid, but now Trump has ordered an additional 180 day delay of implementation of the rule while inviting public comment. Compared to other Trump actions, this seems a measured and sensible approach.
The financial industry objects strongly to the rule because they believe it would negatively influence their ability to give advice to clients who cannot pay for it because agent income could only derive from the financial instruments they sell (fee-based mutual funds, annuities, etc.), so agents might decline servicing such clients. This sounds to me like an excuse to give bad financial advice to poor clients, and so I hope public comment on the Obama rule is positive. --Percy
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jar Member (Idle past 424 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
There was a time when most service based industries had an internal Ethics Standards panel and practitioner oversight panel.
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