Joe Ferguson forever

ya know, we live in the wealthiest country in the world. And citizens line up for free food to keep them alive. Many still have no health insurance. the current administration will make this much worse. And those lining up or soon to be lining up, cheer it. Lunacy but that's where we are. People unconsciously voting against their own interests. I guess that's part of the reason they are where they are and why the country is where it is.

sure. It's nether what you said nor what you're currently doing. Be better.

I volunteer at one. It's busy. And we have lots of ramen noodles. In the summer, there's a volunteer master gardener that grows great veg to distribute. Never heard anyone there complain that she's a liberal.

I asked what your purpose is. That's what you came up with. That's f'n foolish and not very rewarding. If it is, it's a sorry life you lead.

if I required your help, I would be in serious trouble. Re helping you, one can't fix stupid. But I enjoy making you look foolish.

Sure, Democrats only hold manual labor jobs...shovel, dig, carry. No purpose. What's your purpose?

Yeah, that's going to get worse after the tariffs hit. Ramen noodles get boring pretty quickly.

no thanks. Have an excellent financial advisor whose tax advice and steady, strong returns are just what I need. But I play around with he market in small bits. LLY and TLRY were my big hitters. TLRY was an excellent example of investor sentiment outweighing fundamentals. no reason for it to ever go over 100 but it did. Now back to 1$. I sure don't try to time shorts tho. That's serious gambling.

sadly, it could happen. and that would make you happy. so f'in strange.

never again. the changing demographics and American history suggest otherwise. are you suggesting an end to elections? do you think that's part of the plan? would you approve of that?

Oh, a book! Fauci actually edited the seminal textbook on Infectious disease still widely used by residents and fellows. He went to Cornell for med school. I'll wager that at least a few if not many of the virologists polled work at top caliber institutions around the world and that several have written books. Likely all have published papers. But hey, a book! you just can't fix stupid. It's undeniable but I keep trying.

did you just miss probably? Perhaps you should read while mouthing the words aloud. And maybe when you write as well. Please interpret this to English: The meta-analysis of conflict of influence research is very clear.

that takes some real talent, knowledge, time and a high risk tolerance. more power to ya. not a game for me in retirement.

you seem to have a great deal of interest in letting us know how successful this trade was for you. There was a very short window to catch a double. Bravo! The rest of your speculation is uninteresting to me.

All of that is cool. But it is far from the kind of market support this tech should see if it was viewed as a some panacea to our energy issues and global oil geopolitics, as you suggested. re the timing, the five year chart shows typical peaks and valleys including a peak years back that was higher than todays. you would have actually lost money if you bought then. Overall, a SPYDR would likely have outperformed it over 5 years.

great! so virologists' opinions are to be ignored but you stake your claim on a virologist who says the origin was PROBABLY from the lab. Do you see how stupid that is? An opinion piece in the NYT is not of equal weight of even a mention in Science. If you had bothered to even look at the study, you would have found ample details to criticize it. But both citations, yours and mine, strongly indicate that the origin of covid is not settled science. Probably🤣... I'm gonna change your name to "Dr" Gremlin.

Wondering what "Dr" Ford Pinto thinks of this https://www.science.org/content/article/virologists-and-epidemiologists-back-natural-origin-covid-19-survey-suggests

you've been crying a great deal 12 of the last 16 years. after the orange menace finishes (assuming he lives that long), it'll still be 12 of the last 20. then we'll start keeping score again

I worked in 2 graduate science departments while doing an MS and MD. Also did some independent research at another major university. As you are no doubt aware, you get to know most of the faculty and grad students within a department very well through symposia, lectures, dissertation presentations etc. My wife also is a graduate level scientist. We certainly met some strange and unusual characters. As they say, genius is often borderline insanity. But I know of only one faculty member who fudged results and no grad students. Could I just be unaware of some? Sure.

Silly, loathsome maga…

the actual science? actually? There is no consensus on the origin by the scientific community. But you maga's just know better. magical thinking sucks..morons pretending to think sucks worse.

Your opinion and $3 will buy a coffee at McDonalds (they’ll charge extra). In contrast, I was paid fairly well for my medical opinion

Yes. I fully agree.

So there's a meeting in Saudi Arabia without Ukraine present. Zelensky said this is a deal breaker. Lavrov said this: https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-sends-russias-top-diplomat-101104484.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall trump's promise to stop the war overnight isn't looking good with this strategy.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/17/trump-musk-government-cost-cutting-coup “In the US, we appeal rulings we disagree with – we don’t ignore court orders or threaten judges with impeachment just because we don’t like the decision. This is a coup, plain and simple,” Arizona’s attorney general, Kris Mayes, said. Trump and Musk, the world’s richest man and Trump’s largest single donor, now face multiple rebukes from judges and legal experts to the regulatory and staff cuts they have engineered at the treasury department, the US Agency for International Development and several other agencies. Incongruously, as Trump has touted Musk’s cost-cutting work as vital to curbing spending abuses, one of Trump’s first moves in office last month was to fire 17 veteran agency watchdogs, known as inspectors general, whose jobs have long been to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in federal departments.