1 minute ago, f7ben said:

Says the dumbest person in the whole internets  I may make fun of SR often but he is a fucking genius when compared to you. Also he's not a compulsive fucking liar like you are shit eater FUCK OFF

Ben the drunk trailer park supervisor laying the s down on MooMoo and captain Forehead.

Id be a little sour that the Democrats were stupid enough to pick a corrupt republican for the democratic nomination too if I was him.

7 minutes ago, Logga said:

yeah, huge spread

Welcome back OT, how was the vacation on butthurt island?

1 hour ago, SnowRider said:

 Another reason to vote Hillary...  

Manageable workload.

I can't imagine you'd be biased towards teachers in any way.

18 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

You are aware who changed the laws to allow the banks to do what they did unchecked right? Yup big corporate America pushed congress to remove checks and balances. Not we have tougher laws and republicans are trying to knock them back again. You know who is behind it again? Oh and the Kochs recovered very well due to the bailouts.

Pay attention to what Elizabeth Warren is trying to do, stopping Wall street from doing again what nearly sunk our country.

Yeah Bill Clinton helped push through deregulation of wall street yet you continue to defend Hillary even if you aren't going to vote for her (yeah right ) even though it'll be more of the same support of the big banks.

Just now, Mainecat said:

I have never in my life seen so many hi rise cranes operating in Boston. Its amazing the development going on there.

Someone better let them know the economy sucks.

Well thank god Boston and Shit-cago are booming. Job numbers and economic data be damned.

44 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

This is not a sign of a recession. Consumer spending is up and credit use is down. Americans are spending cash for sure.

On line retail is killing brick and mortar stores.

33 minutes ago, Mileage Psycho said:

You got that out of upstarts and on-line buying like Amazon..............

 

 

20 minutes ago, snoughnut said:

U.S. economy grew at anemic 0.2% pace in Q1

Paul Davidson, USA TODAY 7 p.m. EDT April 29, 2015

 

The economy slowed significantly in the first quarter as cold weather, a strong dollar and shipping snags dampened activity.

Gross domestic product — the value of goods and services produced in the U.S. — expanded at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 0.2% in first quarter, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. That's down from 2.2% in the fourth quarter.

The report was the government's first estimate of first-quarter GDP. Two revised estimates, based on more complete data, will be published in May and June.

First-quarter growth was substantially less than the 1% expected by economists surveyed by Action Economics.

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Analysts say the slowdown largely reflects temporary factors, such as harsh weather and a labor dispute at West Coast ports that hampered exports and delayed deliveries to factories and retailers.

Other economic headwinds could linger, including a strong dollar that's making U.S. goods more expensive for foreign buyers and a pullback in energy company investment amid a plunge in oil prices.

Business investment, for example, fell 3.4% after increasing 4.4% in the previous quarter as the muscular greenback dented manufacturers' sales. And investment in non-residential structures plunged 23.1% in the quarter, in large part a consequence of the oil price slump, as energy companies sharply reduced the number of oil drilling rigs.

Exports dropped 7.2% as manufacturers lost sales to other countries with more favorable currency exchange rates.

Consumer spending, which makes up more than two-thirds of economic activity, also slowed, growing 1.9% compared with 4.4% in the fourth quarter. 

And government spending declined 0.8% as defense and state and local outlays all fell.

 

I mean this isn't a crazy idea, we've had years of economic growth based on debt, eventually all economic growth cycles are met by recession. The job numbers are trending way down. We'll see if it rebounds by later in the year but I highly doubt it as many economic experts have been expecting 2016 will be the start of the next global recession.

We're on the brink of another recession. You can only give the middle class so much debt before they cant service it any longer. Maybe the next recovery we'll actually have real economic growth instead of just having it on paper driven by endlessly printing money...

11 hours ago, Axys1 said:

Read it again,, its UTV and ATV sales. As a whole world wide sales Polaris is kicking their ass. ATV UTV Snowmobile and Motorcycle sales as a whole MFG Corp.

WGAF about ATV sales? We're talking sleds on a snowmobile site so maybe dry your eyes buttercup cause this isn't 1998 anymore.

4 hours ago, Mileage Psycho said:

At some point I'll be ripping on one for at least a test ride next winter, these will become a boondockers go to.

1 hour ago, SnowRider said:

They aren't replacing mountain sleds.  They have a nitch and many guys ride them as change of pace.  You'll be one of a dozen or so guys on AC's version of a snow bike  

3 minutes ago, DAVE said:

My buddy had a hitch laying in the back of his aluminum Ford....and he hit a bump and it went right thru the bed.....i will see if I can find the picture he sent me.

Not to mention aluminum will corrode too especially with the cross eyed meth heads at Ford making them.

Biomass FTW, windmill whores trying to stop them for the loss.

"In a rare moment of bipartisan cooperation, the Senate just passed a far-ranging energy bill. Critics have quickly homed in on a unanimously adopted amendment recognizing the renewability and carbon benefits of biomass energy derived from wood and plant material. That designation puts biomass in the same category as wind, solar, and other renewables in the eyes of federal officials.
 

Critics claim lawmakers have gotten out in front of the science and that there's not enough evidence to definitively prove biomass's environmental benefits. They're wrong. Science recognizes biomass is a well-established way to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. Supporting biomass energy provides one more important strategy for fighting global climate change.

The Senate should be applauded. And the final compromise legislation with the House should preserve these amendments.

Often derived from bark, sawdust, treetops, and low-quality wood unsuitable for home building or furniture, biomass can be used instead of  fossil fuels to produce heat and electricity, resulting in significantly fewer emissions than conventional energy sources. A recent peer reviewed study from the University of Illinois concluded that electricity derived from popular biomass products is 74 to 85 percent less carbon-intensive than coal-based electricity.

And that's just one entry in a large and growing literature demonstrating that biomass helps reduce greenhouse emissions. Indeed, over a 100 of the country's preeminent forestry experts recently signed a letter to federal regulators calling the carbon benefits of biomass "well established."

Yet this designation in the Senate energy bill has been met with fierce criticism. Anti-biomass groups claim that biomass is environmentally unfriendly. The Washington Post complained that the Senate was "legislating science rather than allowing agency experts to make determinations." The New York Times called for Congress to scrap the proposal and let the EPA make "make case-by-case determinations of neutrality…something it is much better suited to do."

Such alarmism is deliberately misleading. The critics are willfully ignoring the environmental benefits of biomass presented in the science literature.

Using biomass for energy actually contributes to the health of our forests. Removing biomass from growing forests helps the remaining trees grow larger and remain healthy. It also helps prevent wildfires -- themselves a source of CO2 pollution -- by clearing out dense undergrowth that increases fire risk.

The extraordinary growth of American forests -- a 50 percent increase in volume since the 1950s -- is a major reason why biomass offers such significant carbon savings. New trees sequester carbon from the atmosphere, reducing the total greenhouse gas emissions resulting from biomass. In fact, the net growth in U.S. forests offsets 13 percent of total U.S. CO2 emissions annually.

Forest growth and removal data show that over the last decade, as the biomass industry steadily expanded, forest stocks in the American South -- a key source of raw biomass materials -- have actually increased by almost 1.2 billion tons.

In both the Atlantic and Gulf regions, smaller pine trees thinned from the forest -- specifically to provide biomass fuel -- accounted for just 0.03 percent of overall forest inventory. And for every ton of low quality hardwood removed for biomass energy each year, forests are growing an additional 2.45 tons of volume.

While it's true that the use of biomass is growing in some areas, opposition groups are exploiting modest increases by using alarming, unrealistic future growth models that no one believes.  Informed analysts believe that biomass demand will level-out and play a relatively small but important role as a trusty complement to wind and solar energy -- a point that biomass opponents seem happy to leave out.    

Biomass energy decreases the use of fossil fuels, improves forest health, and dramatically reduces carbon emissions. In other words, it's precisely the sort of clean-energy option that those seeking real solutions to climate change should be proud to champion.

The Senate is right to recognize the carbon benefits of biomass energy. It is another important source of hope for bringing down global greenhouse gas emissions."

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/281734-congress-confirms-biomass-should-help-fight-climate

1 hour ago, Anler said:

This country is starting to really suck. People are fucking morons.

:goodpost:

Oh well, I'll just keep voting for my local politicians and making sure we keep improving the best state in the whole US of A.

29 minutes ago, Snoslinger said:

i can't wait until this fantasy of rwws like racer is officially over. i'm sick of listening to trump and his brain dead followers.

I can't wait til Hillary wins and continues to rape the middle class, makes sure wall street gets a good return on their investment in her, and jams the TPP down our throats and watch you guys flail like fish out of water trying to defend her actions.

29 minutes ago, SnowRider said:

I'm the most independent poster in the forum.   

Dude, lame attempt at best.

1 minute ago, racer254 said:

I happen to think in the long run the unintended consequences of the ACA will hurt more Americans than it ever helps.

I beleive you're right. We should have just shot for full single payer and got it over with as eventually we'll get to that point instead of just continuing to fuck the dog... too bad many dems didn't want full single payer and now we're stuck with this POS law. I don't care much as I have great HI through work, but my customers that are dealing with these increases are hurting. 

1 hour ago, Mainecat said:

I asked you to post something the Republican party has done to improve the lives of ALL Americans over the last few decades.

Now go post one.

Well the Healthcare law didn't benefit all americans, it benefited some Americans who couldn't get coverage due to pre-existing conditions and gave big subsidies to help get the poor on plans too. For the average American who had Healthcare it didn't benefit them. I can name lots of things from both sides that benefited some Americans...

I guess I'm surprised the average canadian household income is double that of us down here (though CBC says it's around 76k a year household), but everything does cost way more in canada from groceries to gas to housing so I think we more than make up for it in 'Merica.

1 minute ago, Zambroski said:

Go cut and paste that shit on one of your liberal crap sites.  Got any thoughts of your own that you didn't plaigarize?  Or go to Kansas for your most excellent crusade.  Maybe you should be starting one in Wisconsin?  You know....where you live.  What a fucking clown you are.

Didn't take you long to figure out Snowrider's shtick.

I was in 5th grade in one of the shitty portable building. They wheeled in a TV and we watched whatwas going on. Funny stuff like that sticks with you...

8 minutes ago, SnowRider said:

4. Children benefit the most from public assistance programs

About 39% of children received welfare benefits during an average month in 2012. Roughly 17% of adults between 18 and 64 received benefits and 12.6% of people over age 65 did as well. Those under 18 also received larger average monthly benefits than adults between 18 and 64 ($447/month vs. $393/month).

What happened to the family values R's?

And Junior immediately gets off subject with his typical Mainetahd Butthurt for education :

 

You mean the kind of  butthurt that makes me post here while out golfing?

And I find it funny that college costs keep skyrocketing thanks to everyone pushing all kids to go to college yet the people who work at thosesuper duper edjumacation facilities need to be on public assistance.

" as well as part-time college faculty."

With many colleges being $10k+ per year in tuition.

I'm sure free college for.all will help fix that though...

Maybe people are far more intelligent in Kelly-forneeah than I thought. Feel the Bern when you pee Hillary.

31 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

Why not vote for a woman?

So are you finally standing with Hillary?

1 minute ago, SnowRider said:

 you look for the R and then vote. . Bernie to Rump  

You look for the D then vote.

9 minutes ago, SnowRider said:

If it needs explained in the context of the thread - you need to 

Is your butt going to be hurt for the rest of your life?

I'm sure these women are indentured servers to the Donald.

5 minutes ago, SnowRider said:

Cotton plantations employed a lot of blacks.......

Lightbulb sales employs lots of special needs people, what's your point?

Just now, SnowRider said:

 Who's running over here to check in? . Which site is getting trolled? . 

 

I've never been on the butt plugger site .  You need to do,a better job on your butt plugger recon missions 

Recon mission.

A lot of people are posting at both sites, I couldn't care any less about all this drama, I just think it's funny the little guys like you pounding your chest like you won something. It's the internet for Christ's sake.