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Hilarious! I certainly don't blame Powell...Trump said he was using information from the Fed in the letter, so of course Powell is going to correct the error that is accusing him of blowing the budget for remodels. I would be more upset that the CEO didn't take the grenade for his CFO if the CFO did make the mistake. Buck stops at the CEO! Cheers!

Maybe they don't teach math at Wharton! Cheers!

How is that even possible? If powerful people are going after media outlets because of their commentary, then isn't it equally important to know which powerful people (both sides of the aisle) are criminally hypocritical of behavior that they publicly decry? Why would any citizen want to support a candidate if they knew what they were doing secretly with young people...why would you want tax dollars paying their salary and benefits...why would you want to put them in a position of power? Cheers!

Apparently, these files don't exist now...probably Obama and Biden's fault! Also, you have one of the primary conspirators still sitting in prison...cut her a deal to provide all of the information on Epstein, his organization and all of the clients. Cheers!

How do these old rockers even make it this far with all the toxins they've ingested and the damage they've done over the years? Six different decades with a top 10 Billboard, barely coherent, suffering from Parkinson's and still jostling with Sharon. Cheers!

Greg were you on a vacation or did you just take a little break from the COBF. I saw that you were checking in, but weren't posting. Now, like the Godfather 3, "Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in!" Cheers!

Yes, like having your cases heard in Texas, or appeals to the Supreme Court you appointed...unfortunately, that's how the justice system works sometimes! Cheers!

I don't think Trump is a pedo. I think he's a womanizer who likes some kinky sex from time to time, and has almost zero loyalty to any of his spouses. But he certainly had a friendly relationship with Epstein, as did Bill Clinton and a whole host of others. Cheers!

Of course I find the others more interesting, but we've pretty much run the gamut on information about them, and there really isn't anything illuminating in the thousands of pages released. But Epstein...don't you want to know which politicians, celebrities, etc...doesn't matter which party or side...who his client base was? The question really is why is anyone so hesitant to release that information? Cheers!

JFK, RFK and now MLK Jr. Trump is releasing all the files on left wing heroes for transparency's sake...how about the Epstein files? Distract, delay, defer...Trump's playbook! Gandhi is next! Cheers! https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/politics/released-fbi-records-mlk-jr

You're not quite accurate on that data: Also, the Windsor lineage goes back about 1200 years...so UK culture and traditions began well before the 1900's. Cheers!

Canada is far, far from the Balkans. In fact, based on quality of life, Canada ranks higher than the U.S. in almost every study. We aren't a melting pot...we support multiculturalism...and it works. We also don't have a narcissistic, womanizing, pedophile as our leader. In fact, none of the potential leaders of any of our parties are one...doesn't matter if you are left wing, right wing, or straight up the middle. I guess that's something that the U.S. definitely has on us! Cheers!

Again, bullshit! There are millions of immigrant Americans, including illegals, who built a life in the U.S. and were very proud to live there...not unlike your mother. There are also millions of U.S. born citizens who fly the flags of other countries, look to leave their country rather than change it and are no longer proud of what it stands for. So patriotism isn't necessarily a citizenship thing! Cheers!

Not true. UK immigration began in the early 1900's eventually hitting the 17% of current population that was born outside of the UK. Even the original UK population was an amalgamation of Scandinavian, Roman and Northern tribes. And if you think immigrants haven't influenced UK culture, then why do you have like six Eastern European news stations, a couple of Al Jazeera stations and a slew of other minority channels. The number one dish in your country is Chicken Tikka Masala...even ahead of Fish & Chips, Hot Pots and Scotch Eggs! Cheers!

WRB had a terrific Q2 in underwriting...I would imagine the trend will look similar across the industry, including Fairfax. Cheers! https://finance.yahoo.com/news/w-r-berkley-corporation-reports-201100141.html

MAGA supporters...isn't the office of the President above shit like this? C'mon...no matter how much you hate Obama or Biden or whoever, there has to be some decorum. Has anyone seen all effing gold all over the Oval Office now? This just seems so unseemly at almost every level! Cheers! https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-posts-fake-video-obama-170639766.html Oval office - Biden Oval office - Trump It's like Versace vomited all over the Oval Office...now looks as ugly as Trump's apartment in New York. A setting fit for Caligula! Cheers!

Yeah, but is it preventable? Most of the illegals coming into the U.S. are employed by the wealthy or business owners. That's who is paying them under the table and allowing them to build lives in the U.S. and send money back to family elsewhere. The illegals didn't simply gain a foothold in the U.S. because they crossed the border. Somebody gave them money, either through work or welfare, but they were seeded by other Americans. Cheers!

For sure. At his Trump hotel in Chicago...I bet they are full of them...I've seen them about a decade ago. Guaranteed the guys cutting his golf grounds and the women changing sheets at the hotels...a good number are illegal. He's too fucking cheap to pay full wages to legals! It's why he married Melania...lower pre-nup threshold! Cheers!

What's the difference between an illegal murderer and a legal murderer? They are both frickin' murderers! It's ok for legal murderers with legal guns to go a shoot up a school because they are legal? Cheers!

No crime...when hell freezes over! Commie universities...yes, a slap down of some of your brightest institutions. No one wanted to destroy the privacy of women except the fucker sitting in the President's chair at the moment...forced pregnancies, illegal abortions, increased gender discrimination, limitation of positions and opportunities for racially marginalized women, decreased pay for marginalized women, etc. Cheers!

Weren't the culture and values at odds when blacks were shipped over as slave labor? no problem there! Were the cultures at odds when the Irish and Italian came? Seemed so...keep them out...now they are the foundation of American civilization. What about when the Chinese laborers were brought in to do your washing and build the railroads? Ok. Then Japanese with all of their money in the 80's...Hong Kong in the 90's...Taiwanese...now a high number of Indians with their degrees. Yup, all fine. So, your friggin' culture, whether in the UK, US or Canada, is an amalgamation of immigrants. The homogenous culture outside of Japan no longer exists. Cheers!

Hi 73 Reds, I'm not sure I said anything different than you...re-read my original post. Cheers!

Taxes in and of themselves don't diminish anyone's rights if there are services available to everyone that are paid by them...education, universal healthcare, pharmacare, social security, unemployment insurance, etc. Where government oversteps is in policies or programs that aren't for everyone. For example, DEI itself is not wrong...but when it precludes other groups is where it oversteps its bounds. Because of that, people incorrectly include all diversity programs under the DEI stigma currently running rampant...the pendulum swung too far one way and it now swings too far the other. Inequal tax policies for the rich where they pay too much on their last marginal dollar isn't fair...inequal tax policies on how many rich people/large shareholders/owners evade taxation due to massive deferred capital gains or low capital gains is also not fair...these are infringements on the rights of other groups that do not benefit from that tax advantage. There has to be a rebalancing. Now low corporate tax rates don't infringe on anyone's rights. This should be something all parties should support including the left wing extremists. The rebalancing should occur so that intergenerational wealth is not an aspiration...certainly not a right! And where government policy infringes on the rights of any individual, should be a policy the government never passes into law. Cheers!

"The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened." - John F. Kennedy Cheers!

Richard, you might be correct if you are certain that Trump is the one ushering in the golden age. What if Trump is simply ushering in a mediocre age...then wouldn't the repugnant relationship mean something? Anything? Now I'm going to get criticized for this, but what if Hitler was the one ushering in the golden age? Would his behavior be excusable for the wealth his citizens would inherit? I'm guessing no. Cheers!