Who's a good boy?
Hobie, that's who!

I read an article this morning where Marco Rubio explains that stock buybacks are deteriorating American innovation. Never expected to see that, I hope Mudede notices.

Many Midwest farmers in big, big trouble with more rain: "We have never had a year quite like this before, and U.S. food production is going to be substantially below expectations."

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4264532-total-catastrophe-u-s-corn-production-30-percent-u-s-corn-fields-planted-5-year-average-66?fbclid=IwAR3aR9GIxIGf37vBO15lZ1FwgsL8WdWDbDqYvZ12QWWKObrYidtSieZ-zNc

Climate change is going to be a major issue in 2020 elections in Trump country. What an opportunity to point out the corruption in Washington and corporate America (Exxon knew, then lied).

However it does take industry itself to develop technologies that address climate change.

https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/en/research-and-innovation/carbon-capture-and-storage

"If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again!" --Chicken Hawk-in-Chief Five-Deferrment (War? WHAT 'War'?) Cadet Bonespurs.

Ever notice, those most Pro-War motherfuckers are those who struggled hardest to keep their asses as far AWAY from it as possible. The dick Cheney (Iraq's gonna be a Cake Walk!) (with all that Oil, it'll Pay for iself!) (two weeks, maybe a month, six months, TOPS!), the deserter in Chief, Gee Dubya bush (bring it ON, motherfuckers!) (and.they.fucking.DID) (and WE're STILL FUCKING THERE), and now, Hair Furor.

He's bold, he's Macho, and he's not Afraid to kill off half the Planet, if necessary. As long as His hair doesn't get mussed.

All's they want is for you (and or yours) to march halfway across the Planet and fight (and or Die) for Capitalism.

Be Proud, America!
We're gonna go off to War.
Again.

Is it Expensive, you ask?

Bolton is partying like it's 1988 again. "That's a nice-lookin' Airbus ya got there...be a shame if something happened to it."

@5

Maybe he will dare to attack US military personnel.

Russia is trying to push fake news that 5G is bad for you, because Americans are gullible.

Sigh.

Don't be gullible.

Also, why are there more candidates for my district council seat than ran for Mayor?

@4 "storing CO2 deep underground in a safe and secure fashion."

total bullshit as we do not know what is secure long term underground storage (Injecting CO2 into fracked fields to increase recovery is not secure) and the cost of storage added to big oil declining oil revenues does not make any sense except for big finance speculators who apparently have too much money to play with. Anything short of keeping fossil fuels in the ground and developing renewables amounts to business as usual. Per usual, you are on the wrong side of history. Of course, we do need industry but we do not need self serving industry as Exxon's own paperwork demonstrate more than clearly.

Lightfoot won't fix Chicago because it is unfixable. Daley drove the city into further and further debt. He also sold off revenue producing assets like the Skyway and the parking meters for short term budget relief. That revenue was spent within a year. Currently Chicago is $33 billion in the red. This is just the city. No help coming from the state which is in debt over $120 billion. Basically whoever runs Chicago will just be rearranging the deck chairs. Bankruptcy is inevitable. Whoever lives there will be surrendering their property value for the privilege of continuing to live there with no future services.

Correction, Illinois is $215 billion in the red. Has a state ever declared bankruptcy?

@11 -- so far, Trumpfy's never been
Gubernatorial, so, we're gonna hafta wait.

@11: No - but it has been discussed:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmauldin/2016/07/28/dont-be-so-sure-that-states-cant-go-bankrupt/#77cee18d2f2d

@11 Gotta pay the union bosses. Yet, when Illinois doubled the state income tax, they still didn’t make a dent in the debt.

These morons will never learn; luckily Washington state is far more financially sensible.

@10: do you live there? "no future services" sounds... unlikely.

Carbon storage and capture (CSS) is the "clean coal" strategy of the oil and gas sector. Nowadays, nobody serious claims that clean coal is the solution to climate change, yet former climate change deniers (including big oil companies) now tout CCS as the miracle solution to mitigate climate change.

@16: Your obsession for extrapolating is exhausting. The multiple responses are just that, not claiming miracles.

@3, @16

Sequestration is nonsense for a variety of reasons, but for the time being the world is going to keep building coal, gas, and oil plants in the developing world.

The developing world needs consistent supplies of electricity, and it by and large lacks remaining sites suitable for hydropower development. There are to date no viable short-term, medium-term, or long-term storage technologies* for electricity that can, at scale, turn intermittent sources like solar and wind into reliable full-time power delivery.

About the best we can do right now is supplement fossil electricity with renewable, and modify (or entirely redesign) fossil-burning plants to shut down or reduce capacity, and spin back up again, on short notice (they're currently designed for continuous operation) so that in periods of overproduction, we can reduce fossil fuel consumption, instead of shutting down the renewables, or dumping their output.

"Leave the coal in the ground" is off the table for now, there are billions of people who need reliable electricity for hospitals and schools and streetlights and refrigerators and washing machines and internet porn.

(*) apart from pumped hydro reserves, oh the irony.

Washington is #1 state in the Union according to one of those asinine lists that magazines-no-one-wants-to-read keep pumping out to get clicks (cough, cough, U.S. News...). So get ready for even more nighmarish traffic this summer - as all those people whose farms go bankrupt under Trump's trade wars, and whose homes get destroyed by extreme weather that has NOTHING to do with global warming, according to the GOP - come check us out before moving here!

Sigh, my kingdom for a decent subway system.

@19:
BART
of course likely you can't afford to live there, but with Amtrak's Capitol Corridor and the ACE Train you could live as far out as Stockton, Sacramento, or even Placer County

@15 Also unlikely civil servants will work for free.

@21

When bureaucrats consider their salaries too low, they find other ways to put money in their pockets, using the unique opportunities afforded by their stations. I'd think an observer of the Chicago political machine might have realized that by now.

@22 Touche

I have the misfortune to live in suburban Chicago -- had to leave the city when the kids got in to elementary school.
The City of Chicago has an antiquated form of government with the 51 aldermen who are essentially small city mayors yet have legislative authority. Have a pothole? Call your alderman, who also oversees the police and schools. Oh, and zoning. That's where they make the side dough. Then the next day they all meet to discuss the teacher's contract. It's an odd and disasterous system.
Oh well, I can always move to Wisconsin.

I have the misfortune to live in suburban Chicago -- had to leave the city when the kids got in to elementary school.
The City of Chicago has an antiquated form of government with the 51 aldermen who are essentially small city mayors yet have legislative authority. Have a pothole? Call your alderman, who also oversees the police and schools. Oh, and zoning. That's where they make the side dough. Then the next day they all meet to discuss the teacher's contract. It's an odd and disasterous system.
Oh well, I can always move to Wisconsin.

@27 "All businesses are self-serving"

precisely, which points to the need for regulation

"human nature"

???