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@Inevitablewest and so????

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Once again, the well-intentioned, emotionally-driven populace pass off wasting billions for no meaningful or consequential benefit. "Net zero" so long as you start keeping score when turn on the switch for your precious "green" solutions and ignoring all the energy that went into mining, refining, manufacturing and transporting said "green" solutions for a country whose entire carbon footprint is "white noise" in the global carbon picture... but hey "as long as we're doing something" right?

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@SteveDeaceShow And Feenstra is not running for re-election of his congressional seat... is this what they call a "two-fer"

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@SteveDeaceShow Anyone else caught totally off guard by this? Never, in a million years, would have I thought this was even a remote possibility.

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@AngelxDepth @nicksortor @DananaMama Violent, emotionally unhinged mob movement then...

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@BackBrexitBen ... taking the country down a dark path...??? You might want to change the tense of that sentence from "taking" to "has taken..."

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Like going on travel, no matter how long you are gone, you still need to bring certain things with you and it's the same with constructing homes... It simply isn't economical to build a small, single family, detached home on a lot when you factor in the cost for development. That's why multi-family designs (condos, townhouses, duplexes) are being built. In NH (where I live), seeing a lot more duplexes being built and townhouses. Still expensive but the cost to bring in all the utilities, etc., makes building a small, single family home for a developer unless the lot is getting a large 2000+ sq ft home and can recoup the cost and make a margin on that house sale. It's an economy of scale situation.

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@VigilantFox ... Waffle House, car on the lawn... ?? And they wonder where the resentment comes from.

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This is an attempt to express dominance and you should be confident that hatred towards Islam is richly earned and wholly justified from the bloodshed that has been spilled over a millennia. This is not peaceful ideology or religion that simply sprung out of the ether. Islam seeks dominance in every aspect of a society and has never ONCE strayed from that path. I and others seek no middle ground or accommodation with Islam. My contempt for Islam comes from a knowledge of its entire history which is brutal and deadly. So no... there will be no quarter or accommodation given to those who adhere to what clearly is the same pattern followed over and over again.

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@HistorianUSA1 There is always one or two that have to spoil the whole deal.

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@smith24755 very nice...

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@MorEdge_Insight Any engineer (mechanical, electrical, etc., ) understands that designs fail at times. Fail... learn something... adjust... test again....

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@DP0STS If this is done in a region that gets cold, the freeze/thaw cycle will push this up to the surface in pretty quick order. Absent a fine mesh around the pipe, sediment will eventually get in there as well. Subsurface drainage works well but it has to be done right.

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"boomer bs..."?? At 65, I've witnessed a few moments in history where adult behavior (irrespective of generation) crosses a boundary far more annoying than that of children. Children have their moments and parents are not always perfect... but I'm curious what remedy these poll participants have for "adults" who have the impulse control and the maturity of a 5 year old?

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I have been on more than a "few" airline flights or in restaurants... or basically any public space where it wasn't a child that was the problem but an adult... Perhaps you should confine yourself to a gated community that has all the amenities in your quest not to be disturbed while in public?

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As a young Navy Ensign deployed to Naples, I had occasion to take a very senior Captain (and his Command Master Chief) who was in town for meetings with NATO. I took them to a nice restaurant on a mountain side that overlooked Naples. We were in uniform so there was no ambiguity about who we were. A very large family was seated next to us along with aunts/uncles, grand parents - well over 2 dozen. The young children came over to say hi to us and we were delighted to see them and chat with them. It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. I looked up, and all eyes at the other table were fixed on us and how we reacted. They were all brimming with smiles because we warmly received their children visiting us. Culture sets standards and expectations. I would submit there is much to say about passes for culture here in the U.S. and an expectation that one's evening will be left in peace is probably one that befits a gated community.

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Do the Abraham accords impose either economic or security restrictions on signatories in terms of providing for their own national security? The U.S. is no longer prepared to put up with the status quo of the last 5 decades which has led to chaos, widespread misery and the export of violence & terrorism. The U.S.' hands are certainly not clean in any of this but there is a new order being established that says this region deserves to prosper economically and culturally without the continued bloodshed that has marred it for decades. It is not perfect but no where in the language of these are nation states marginalize to the imperial model that has existed for centuries. Trump has made every effort to say the Middle East can be a thriving region. This is a fish or cut bait moment for each of these states... one way or another... the U.S. aims to know who's on board from those who are not. Either way, the U.S. isn't going to continue to play the world's policeman in someone else's backyard.

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Hostage? Interesting choice of words. These states have a vested interest security and economic cooperation amongst themselves. The U.S. does not have a compelling interest in maintaining what passed for the status quo - chaos - for the last 5 decades. These countries can either get on board and work cooperatively for their mutual benefit or they can choose to go their own path. Either way... Trump is forcing these countries to fish or cut bait. Knowing where each of these countries stands serves our national and economic security interests.

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@Elperrocanelo @johnkonrad "... broke maga..."? Have you entertained the possibility that your insults don't carry the sting that you think they do?

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@Supersonic_Red In time, Europe is technically capable of "collectively" defending herself but whether that resolve exists amongst the citizens of EU member states? Yeah the jury is still out on that if polls on the subject are credible.