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And apparently between "we're" and "were"! Now manually corrected.

I blame auto-correct.

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Everything is right except the Keystone. Americans don't understand that their oil production is declining (again) (https://www.reuters.com/art... which will lead to more dependency on foreign oil. Would you prefer to get your oil from the theocratic, anti human rights Saudis or would you prefer to get it from your deeply democratic, peaceful northern neighbour.

Renewables such as solar and wind are great and taking over a progressively larger part of the energy burden but it will take a long time to replace oil. In fact, I believe the only power source that will replace oil is nuclear. The nukes today are not 3 mile island, Fukushima or Chernobyl. In Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now he makes the point that only something like 50 (I can't recall exactly) people have been killed directly in those disasters (I know that some much higher number have been affected by the long term effects). How many dead from coal and oil?

Just a thought.

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So student loan payments ARE still on hold thru September 2021? I went to the site and didn't see anything past January of this year. Too soon? This would be very nice if he can't get loan forgiveness passed.

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Also the difference between "whose" and "who's," "lose and loose," "moot" and "mute," "baited" and "bated," "shined" and "shone," etc.?

In fact, let us bring back sentence diagramming. I don't want any more fatuous questions based on the questioner not being able to tell the difference between "our economy is fundamentally strong" and "the fundamentals of our economy are strong". (I'm looking at YOU, Anderson Cooper!)

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Also, it's pronounced Jew-el-ry, not Jew-luh-ry. And Chi-pote-ley, not Chi-pote-el.

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Also, both the first and second "r" in "library" and "librarian" are pronounced.

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I think if you want to pay your student loans you are allowed to keep paying them. My vague understanding is that this will be applied to the principle. I think what should be happening is your payments are voluntary and should be hitting the balance directly, no interest.

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Soon to be first generation citizen!!!

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One of his first day executive orders required that family separation end and directed DHS (which includes ICE) to get off their asses and start reunited said kids.

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How? They can not just dump them in the streets. Many of their parents have been deported, some to their deaths.

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Lord we should have started the NYTimes after travelgate.

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Well obviously not. I wonder if somewhere there might even be, I dunno, professional organizations waiting to take them into foster care, provide them with lawyers, and give them medical treatment. Oh look, here's the one I support: https://www.theyoungcenter....

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Keystone gets its oil from tar sands which is the dirtiest most inefficient method to produce oil. We are transitioning away from oil. Hopefully the Biden administration will promote some research and tax credits for renewables. We could create tens of thousands of decent paying fairly low skilled jobs by subsidizing home and commercial insulation. Just by decreasing demand a few percentage points you lower the cost of oil so that expensive areas like the Alberta Tar Sands become uneconomical to exploit.

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I reckon we all better get gay married, too.

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Less and fewer get my vote.

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Thank you.

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