Topics: 

• A shutdown is a way to torture random government employees
  • The winner is the side willing to torture them longer
• CNN pundit angrily declaring “walls don’t work”
  • Rule of Life: Friction ALWAYS works
• Who will say it first?
  • Politicians provide budgets, that’s their job
  • Engineers decide what’s needed
• What will happen to stocks, once China trade deal is set?
• Climate sides both talk in isolation, never debate each other
  • The two sides aren’t disagreeing with each other
  • They’re talking about different things
  • Tony Heller talks about unaddressed skepticism
    • Temp data has been rigged, fudged
    • Historical records disagree with climate data
    • Why isn’t anyone challenging him, is he correct?
• 97% of climate scientists are all on the same side
  • That’s spin, 97% agree on specific components
• Obama’s Ambassador to Syria…
  • President Trump is probably doing the right think
• Turks are a threat to the Kurds, but…
  • Kurds are in diplomatic contact with Syrian government
  • Kurds are in diplomatic contact with the Russians
  • Israel will have more options in Syria once US is gone
    • Do they have different rules of engagement?
    • Maybe the US just needs to get out of their way?
• North Korea hasn’t given up their nukes
  • So what? The US hasn’t given up anything major either
  • Negotiation process is for both to give up something major
  • Everything that matters is trending in a good direction
• The 3 countries with the most to gain from getting along
  • United States, Russia, China
  • We are NOT natural enemies
  • Only psychology and history maintains our screwing each other

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