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Good for you. But the main markets are not comprised of just two stocks.

Markets are topping and the Dow is down. Less to do with Trump and more to do with 16 years of M2 printing and mostly low rates.

Here's a few. Merry Christmas: Umayyad caliphate (661–750) Spanish Umayyads (756–1031) Almoravids and Almohads (about 1062–1147; 1130–1269) Nasrids (1232–1492) Ottoman empire (1299–1923)

Iraq war 20 years on: the British government has never fully learned from Tony Blair’s mistakes https://theconversation.com/iraq-war-20-years-on-the-british-government-has-never-fully-learned-from-tony-blairs-mistakes-201592 Iraq WMD failures shadow US intelligence 20 years later https://apnews.com/article/iraq-war-wmds-us-intelligence-f9e21ac59d3a0470d9bfcc83544d706e

Nah. Joe's just planning a raid on the inaugural ice cream station.

They were invading half the world long before the west had any real power. Stop talking cobblers.

Ah! There you are. Merry Christmas.

Do you think that these countries all have guilt-free histories?

Who "they" then??

A different party I think.

Maybe your memory is not so great after all. How many times has Trump been prosecuted and persecuted already? So strange that these 7 million votes in 2020 simply vanished again in 2024. What's that all about, I wonder? Yes 45 inherited a slow growing economy, which continued until Covid (something you never mention) and which caused this brief recession and the temporary 6.8% UE. Today the US is growing faster than the average G7 nation but all growth rates are very low. UE is already higher than pre-Covid (2019) levels, despite most of the recent jobs added being only temporary service work, health and healthcare, or part of a hugely expanding government "workforce". Inflation is already rising again, as are real interest rates -despite recent rate cuts the Fed is losing control now and while debt levels in all classes were already crazy, the Biden Bunch kept borrowing after Covid. The whole country runs on extreme debt and your hero is the biggest cause of that now.

Invisible to him as he made the stairs evenly in one go, of course - my, what a sharp memory you have - I had to search for it. Apex of slapstick? If you reach higher, there will be your bumbling hero.

Top of the bill was Biden's triple trip UP a set of air stairs. A stunning feat that will probably never be surpassed.

Your links seem to have nothing to do with your rant. The H-2B program allows temporary legal employment is the US.

Starmer seems to insist on appointing useless a-holes to high-profile jobs. Mind you, there's so many of them they are hard to avoid. Looks like it's a case of the bigger the a-hole the bigger the job, with the biggest one getting the biggest job, of course.

You might be able to see that I have removed my heart emoji award from your first tree post, for obvious reasons.

Looks like you lost your reading glasses too.

Well, that's a relief!

Er, no. I didn't miss it. I even gave it a "love it" emoji. You didn't read my other post, did you? Have a coffee and relax for a bit.

Here we go - Merry Christmas from Magdeburg. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1j08p44w9kt

Even if a system was developed that was viable the enormous cost would probably prohibit investment/use by most countries.

There were early carbon storage (site) surveys offshore Norway about 20 years ago. Locating suitable subsurface options for storage is the easiest part but this activity has decreased because there has been little progress in the development of any effective CCS method to tackle the problems of capturing and transporting atmospheric CO2 at any meaningful scale since then. The reforestation idea is not so bad and would help stop disasters like the recent horrible mudslides around the world.

Are you at a Christmas Party?

Automatically on leaving.

Like a Crazy Train? Ozzy said Merry Christmas.