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I've never believed that a Bush tax was fair.
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Was that the Bill Gates who invested in ethanol?

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RE Obama's Seattle roots, which the pool reporter puzzles over: his maternal grandparents and his mother lived in Seattle and Mercer Island from 1955 to 1960 - basically, his mother's high school years (and a year of junior high). She returned to Seattle when Obama was an infant and lived with him as a single mother while taking classes at the UW for an academic year (living on Capitol Hill). So Obama actually lived in Seattle for nine months or so, not that he'd remember any of it.
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brotman's 13k sf house designed by olson kundig. obscenely large (kind of like costco shoppers' waistlines) but could do much worse.
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Yeah, I think it was that Bill Gates who invested in ethanol!

About the same time I was warning last year of an ethanol bubble, Bill Gates was sinking money into Pacific Ethanol (PEIX). In the same essay in which I warned of the bubble, I took a look at Pacific Ethanol, and concluded that the underlying fundamentals of the stock – even with the ethanol mandate – were not good.

Since that time, Pacific Ethanol has fallen from $22.54 down to today’s value of $9.97. Given that Gates’ purchase price was $16.00 a share – and the stock ran up to ultimately around $40 before collapsing – it looked like a shrewd move for a while. And I lost count of how many people – when arguing with me about ethanol – pointed out that Bill Gates and Vinod Khosla were investing in it, and that was good enough for them.


http://robertrapier.wordpress.com/2007/0…

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SROTU, what if anything is your point? That Bill Gates sometimes makes unwise investments, or investmnts that for one reason or another don't pan out, presumably in amounts that to him are the change found down the back of the sofa? And this would be relevant to what exactly?
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@1 is correct.

Warren Buffet and a number of other great capitalists paid 50% capital gain tax rates and 90% income tax rates.

Why are modern capitalists so dependent on tax cuts: are they Weak?
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SROTU just likes to post things on SLOG that make him appear important and well-read. Much like Will in Seattle, who, fortunately, has been a lot less self-aggrandizing since his epic Fnarf-down* a couple months ago.

*it's like a Smackdown but it's Fnarf-tastic.
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Did the Hand and the Throat guy have to be subdued by Secret Service this time?
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They shouldn't even bother with the 2012 elections, Obama won.
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#8

Hah...typical displacement behavior.

The argument is something you cannot combat, or intellectually wrap your tiny brain around so you try and "meta" it by saying something about the person and how "they always blah blah blah..."

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#6

See...they are called "comments" because they "comment" on things said in the article. You actually have to read the article to understand any of the "comments" on the article.
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Or in your case, Bailo, "Non-sensical ramblings" also fits the bill most of the time. Hey, had another "Seattle Dump" lately?
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@#12
But they don't "'comment' on things said in the article", do they? Ethanol isn't mentioned in the article. The closest anything comes to a connection is Obama saying Gates believes our best hope for solving climate change is a technological solution - but climate change has nothing to do with ethanol (people have sought to develop cellulosic ethanol and similar technologies to reduce dependence on foreign oil, not as a way to greatly reduce carbon emissions). Even if the two were closely connected, one investment in one approach that hadn't worked out would hardly be either surprising or damning. It's not like Bill Gate staked his reputation or his fortune on that one investment.

So what, other than gloating over Bill losing some money he can easily afford to lose, is your point exactly?
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#13

Stalkers and cyberbullies have no place in the global village.
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#14

"what we need to ultimately solve the problem is a massive technological breakthrough"

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@#16
So you admit your several comments were irrelevant then?
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Talking to (SROTU) is a lost cause, guys. Just let him mumble about hydrogen energy, asset taxes, the impending desertion of Seattle, and the delights of Kent living over there in the corner.
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Although, reading the article does not guarantee that any of the comments on the article will make any sense.
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Relating a house to something in Twilight gives me absolutely nothing to go off of.
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edit: you forgot to put quotes around "check against transcript", which I'm assuming was the opening words of Obama's speech.

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