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We were vacationing in Kona during the Waterworld filming near there. I was golfing nearby when they did the anti-aircraft gun shooting scenes. Deafening and we were a half mile away. The floating city was parked in the harbor most days, very cool.

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Ultimately Miami, NYC, Venice and several other cities sunk. But for a while, we gave our shareholders an AMAZING return on their investments. Trade offs.

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The 200 mpg carb is a capacitor!Amirite this time?

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Good lord, really? I mean, I know you're a rational hamster, but this is a little fucking _much_. You must have confused this place for Breitbart.

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I always get a kick out of those annual "corruption reports" from various agencies, never noting that what in the US is normal... lobbying and campaign "donations" ... is considered corruption in other nations, making the US look a lot "cleaner" than it is.

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Maybe the lobbyist is only counting what his firm spent, not what was spent by ExxonMobile or the oil business as a whole.

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All Weisselberg had to do was comply.

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Much of their company’s worth comes from the value of “assets” that are still in the ground, and will thus become essentially worthless if they have to stay in the ground as the result of a shift to renewables.

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The gov't just wants a little time to see what he does, now that he's been charged and they have eyes on everything he's involved with, so he's probably super-paranoid about now.....

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Because they always want s'more money.

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I understand EM only needed to pass him twelve grand to get his loyalty.

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It becomes clearer and clearer why Sinema is how she is. Come on, we all knew Manchin was in the pockets of big oil and gas because of where he lives and who he represents.

I was kind of curious about how Sinema became a fan of the filibuster. Sounds like she's been listening to her oil and gas contributors' lobbyists.

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Yes. Any small town, farmer, or hippie entrepreneur can start and grow a solar panel array, or a wind farm. They scale easily from cell phone rechargers to power supplies for cities. And the actual source or energy, sunlight and wind, cannot be monopolized.

This is my main objection to nuclear - people like Exxon executives would run and profit from them.

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Sigh. Ta, Dok.

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Yep, my thoughts exactly! Ugh...but as people have been saying, it doesn't mean Kelly actually took money from them, but that they are targeting him. I'm not surprised with Sinema, but him, yeah... :(

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I'm just curious, did he get the job?

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