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They are selling treasuries. The government will have to pay it back. Interest rates are very low, so it’s actually it’s a good time to borrow, but it’s a lot money. This is how the government ads cash to the money supply. Printing money and paying itself with it is a no go. It will kill the currency and we will be crushed with inflation. That’s when you need a wheel barrow of 100 dollar bills to buy a loaf of bread. Venezuela printed money to pay debt and starved its people to death as a side effect.

Russia gate needs a dirt nap. It’s over. Did the Russian f@#$ with our heads? Why yes they did. They have been doing that since Stalin. Notably financing the anti war movement in the 60s and the global anti nuclear weapons movement in the 70s and 80s. Even green peace got their money. Old fashioned f$ckery. When the kremlin archives were opened in the 90s all this stuff was exposed. Joe McCarthy was an ass but he turned out to be right. More recently, in 2016 they financed pro trump AND pro Clinton rallies on the same day in NYC to stir things up. Their strategy is fomenting civil war in this country, and the plan has met with success at every turn. Sun Tsu would be proud. However, NONE of their other efforts to date has been as successful as Russiagate, which ironically they had nothing to do with. They want us to beat ourselves to death and we are doing it. We are bickering on a weather board about it, in a thread about a virus. Amazing success for them, and we didn’t even need Russia’s help! Now, did Russian pay Trump? No. Did they pay other politicians? YES. The one who trump ran against, and beat. When Clinton approved the sale of nuclear fuel to Russia as Secretary of State, the Clinton foundation got a fat check. 25 million I think? Also, billy (the husband) got $500,000 for a speech in Russia. Yes it all happened. It could be, and appears to me, that Russia has got the entire situation firmly in hand and we do not. I do not wonder why Putin is so popular.

What they want is transparency in government, which they know to be antithetical for communist government. Communism can’t exist without controlling information. China has been self governing for 6000 years and they never once sniffed it. I don’t think China ‘grew’ it in a lab, but they might have been irresponsible at the lab, and then lied about it. The first lie was they said it wasn’t transmittable human to human. The WHO went along with that for some reason, and that’s why they will be broke.

In the world of what-ifs...a NA pattern set up like it is, combined with a warm gulf, if it happened in met winter would set the stage for a bomb somewhere in the MA, probably south of us tho with an NAO as many SDs as strong.

Not even close to accurate my friend.

Crews out around here to work on the downed lines, but Con Ed says this wont be fixed until sometime overnight. Hooked up the generator to keep the fridge and freezer cold. That thing is stocked for the next 3 weeks to stay isolated so the food can’t go bad! winds ripping still.

No power in my area in mid Westchester. Could be localized...didn’t check Con Ed yet. huge tree down on the next block is the likely culprit. definitely warning criteria so whoever said advisory was a dope. If this happened in 2 weeks time it would have worse. Leaves out not out yet.

Ok I give this winter. Solid D+. We had 1 month of snow in the north country at my camp, which wasn’t all that special. At my house in the lower Hudson valley, I don’t think we had 10 inches. Which is 1/4 normal. Was not a total fail, and we have seen worse, but this was a clunker I don’t want to repeat anytime soon. Hopefully we can break out next year. A B winter will feel like an A winter next year. Ps the GFS gets a Z-. Useless. Unplug it.

If this were a fascist nation, we would not be having this particular discussion. Lol. Fascist. Silly. I don’t know from what school one would get a piece paper from that would lead you to believe america was fascist but it should shut down for malpractice. If I had that piece of paper I’d tear it up and get a refund.

Pretty brutal. It’s pork, but we won’t get bills passed without pork, no matter what the national emergency is. I’m from a small town but 200 million is a lot of money. Seems like a bailout to me, so I won’t judge. If corporations don’t get a backstop there won’t be any jobs for people to return to. My wife is a teacher and her pension will go bust. Yes public employees own massive massive pieces of those corporations and without them...they aren’t any public pension systems period. My wife is a huge stakeholder in American corporations.. and she works for the government! If you don’t like corporations it’s easy to resolve....all you have to do is stop buying Nike, iPhones, Fords, band aids, soap, tape, carpet, gas, food, etc. no big deal. Then you are good. You make the necessities yourself like soap, and grow food. An alternative is to get in on it! Go buy a share of Apple for example. Let’s say you like iPhones but the company is too greedy. Well, you get an envelope in the mail each year and you get to vote on who’s on the board! You can decide if they are too greedy. It’s YOUR money. If you don’t like how it goes, sell it and get a Samsung. It’s pretty democratic actually, and amazing you have that right as a shareholder.

North of HPN here...had a coating this morning and mood flakes. Then misty rain mid morning wiped out the coating, but the recent burst and hour ago had parachute flakes and a new coating which is hanging on in some spots. Edit drizzle right now...

Maybe a coating is in the cards up here in Westchester. It’s somewhat amusing.

I’m talking about a shortage of money, not food. Money is going to dry up quick for a lot of people. We aren’t even out of the first inning and people are out of work. Edit it I see You thought I meant that gas shortages relate to what’s happening. No. I meant that as an example how quickly people lose patience in a crisis, and that one was an inconvenience.

Me neighbor works at Westchester medical center which is huge. They think the virus blew through the hospital staff 2 months ago, but they had no tests.

Well, the economy can’t shut down. People will be broke soon, and they will have to eat, and they will need to get money. During sandy, we had gas shortages in my area, and just within a few days, people were getting aggressive in gas lines. Less than a week. People can turn on each other faster than you think. People will do what they think they have to do, right or wrong. They will do it because the consequences to them are hunger and poverty. To me this is is going to be a game of chicken. People need to eat vs. the virus. Who breaks first? I hope the virus, but if it doesn’t the pain will be unimaginable. And I also think there could be a point where the government can’t keep a lid on people moving and the people demanding a return to normal. Patience will eventually run out on this, also sooner than you think. Weeks not months.

We got a shot up here mid Westchester. Not expecting much but any snow would be at least interesting.

Good plan. You will hate chicken once this clears...

Germans pay for it, just the bill comes in a different envelope. Nothing is free, and Germany has problems I am glad we don’t have.

Welcome to mankind. It’s never been anything but a struggle. Hobbs talked about it.

Where is the link to the thread? There is more to talk about so than this thread...

Just noticing the out of towners.

As the snow line goes north, so do the posters. If global warming keeps up we will be in the Labrador forum.

I so want to go to my camp this weekend in Old Forge. They will have 20 before this ends. Winter has suddenly appeared there with over 50 inches this month. My wife will change the locks if I go.

Well it will certainly last until June 1.

The climate is changing at the moment for sure, but it doesn't appear that there is some kind of long term stability/balanced/harmonious climate state, and I mean in a thousands years timescale or something like that. The Yellow Emperor, Caesar, Charlemagne, Louis the 14th, and Lincoln all had different climate as far as we know from records and accounts. Keep going back in human history before writing and its generally warmed since. I'm not sure if we can really say the climate is altered forever and that this particular observed period is vastly different than other fluxy periods. I think the human lifespan is short compared to what a significant climate episode likely is. A significant episode could be like an ice age, or some other event that extends past a few hundred year period. Is warming over 50 years meaningful? Will it last 10,000 years? I dunno. The former is within our lifetimes so it gets the most consideration since that is the only time scale anyone living can experience. Its 29 here, clear sky, light breeze today. Pretty normal for this date and locale. Does that matter?