Phil1111

Brilliant!

Unfortunately body cameras just show the bad actions of LEO to the public. The 100,000's of video submitted in courts showing drunks, lying and belligerent suspects. Video that seals their fate in courts. Is never shown to the public.

next one will be Donald Hasn't that name caused enough destruction and devastation already?

Well trump is a idiot, a buffoon and a liar. But he is not totally stupid. He promised to end it and he didn't. Instead he passed the whole issue to congress. So the story will be told by the new year how the republican congress addresses this issue. Oh and of course who looses over the whole DACA issue. Setting aside the whole issue that these people were children when they were brought to the US. I wonder if they were white Irish children who came to the US. Would there be DACA?

Can you please cite where he said this. I'm having trouble finding it. “There is a symbiotic relationship between retailers and local media, and it’s related to money,” Limbaugh said as the storm was growing ever stronger. “It revolves around money. You have major, major industries and businesses which prosper during times of crisis and panic, such as a hurricane, which could destroy or greatly damage people’s homes, and it could interrupt the flow of water and electricity.” http://www.thedailybeast.com/monster-hurricane-irma-barrels-toward-climate-change-deniers-playground Hurricane Irma warnings are a conspiracy to make climate change look real, says Rush Limbaugh The liberal media also helps out by tricking people into buying batteries, the right-wing radio host said http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/irma-hurricane-rush-limbaugh-climate-change-conspiracy-sell-batteries-radio-latest-news-a7932976.html Rush Limbaugh’s dangerous suggestion that Hurricane Irma is fake news https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/06/rush-limbaughs-dangerous-suggestion-that-hurricane-irma-is-fake-news/?utm_term=.8fdd166bbdce His exact statements: ...So there is a desire to advance this climate change agenda, and hurricanes are one of the fastest and best ways to do it. You can accomplish a lot just by creating fear and panic. You don’t need a hurricane to hit anywhere. All you need is to create the fear and panic accompanied by talk that climate change is causing hurricanes to become more frequent and bigger and more dangerous, and you create the panic, and it’s mission accomplished, agenda advanced. Now, how do you do this? Well, any number of ways. Let’s take south Florida television, for example. There is symbiotic relationship between retailers and local media, and it’s related to money. It revolves around money. You have major, major industries and businesses which prosper during times of crisis and panic, such as a hurricane, which could destroy or greatly damage people’s homes, and it could interrupt the flow of water and electricity. So what happens? Well, the TV stations begin reporting this and the panic begins to increase. And then people end up going to various stores to stock up on water and whatever they might need for home repairs and batteries and all this that they’re advised to get, and a vicious circle is created. You have these various retail outlets who spend a lot of advertising dollars with the local media." The local media, in turn, reports in such a way as to create the panic way far out, which sends people into these stores to fill up with water and to fill up with batteries, and it becomes a never-ending repeated cycle. And the two coexist. So the media benefits with the panic with increased eyeballs, and the retailers benefit from the panic with increased sales, and the TV companies benefit because they’re getting advertising dollars from the businesses that are seeing all this attention from customers." https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2017/09/06/rush-limbaugh-thinks-irma-warnings-are-exaggerated-for-climate-change-agenda Subsequently Rush has tried to walk back his statements. He is out saying he never said any of this.

Of course! As trump is wont to say. For my friends anything, for my enemies the law.

Shhhhhhhhh... its from Breitbart so it must be true. There is science and there are the believers in fake news whereby science is all about money for researchers. Meanwhile there are facts which can be debated instead of feelings...aka trump-think. "A review of existing studies, including the ones cited above, lead us to conclude that it is likely that greenhouse warming will cause hurricanes in the coming century to be more intense globally and have higher rainfall rates than present-day hurricanes." https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/ This outfit's mission is: "GFDL’s mission is to advance scientific understanding of climate and its natural and anthropogenic variations and impacts, and improve NOAA’s predictive capabilities, through the development and use of world-leading computer models of the Earth System." So they produced the models that suggested Cat 5 for Irma before it was Cat 5 and develops tracks for the storm.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said pursuing further sanctions against North Korea is "useless", saying "they'd rather eat grass than give up their nuclear programme". http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41158281 Well Putin is right about that and if there is a large factor in the N. Korea nuclear weapons program. Its that sanctions have not worked.

That is no joke. The low elevation islands in the Caribbean are badly damaged by 4-5 Cat hurricanes. Reefs, corals, etc. 40' and under takes years if not decades to recover.

God or the divine is referenced in every state constitution http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/08/17/god-or-the-divine-is-referenced-in-every-state-constitution/ So much for the separation of church and state in the USA.

"President Trump has instructed advisers to prepare to withdraw the United States from a free-trade agreement with South Korea, several people close to the process said, a move that would stoke economic tensions with the U.S. ally as both countries confront a crisis over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program." https://www.google.ca/search?dcr=0&q=trump+tweets+cancel+SK+trade+deal&spell=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiv0P-1nInWAhUIwYMKHcISChoQvwUIJSgA&biw=1248&bih=791 Third link is free read. "President Trump targeted South Korea just hours after North Korea's latest nuclear test, saying that "talk of appeasement" with Pyongyang will not work. "South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!" Trump tweeted Sunday." http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/349027-trump-targets-s-korea-their-talk-of-appeasement-with-north-korea-will More bla bla bla from trump. With friends like trump and the USA South Korea may need nukes of its own. trumps own security council has told the wondernut that there would be 10 million South Korean casualties in the opening days of a Korea conflict. "These are not normal times. The man in the White House is reckless and unmanageable, a danger to the Constitution, a threat to our democratic institutions." Above from a seven part LA Times editorial on trump http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-ed-trump-enough/ This is the person making the decisions on NK, nuclear war.

Certainly not, but debate about the merits of political positions with reference to fiscal, psychological, the merits of the benefit to society and the state. Should superseded ideas of "feeling" and the hard core ideologue. I'm on the "green" side but recognize the importance of oil, the need for energy and the associated mess of pipelines, refineries that go with it.

Yes the all important US national interest and if you have a strong military. Why not use some of those assets.

Experience and judgement don't necessarily come with any job. Nor do time on the job, training, rank, etc. bring judgement to the equation. Good answer.

Sure, easy. I don't have to kiss the same rings to get my check. Once apon a time most of the world was covered in ice. They were called glaciers and it was called "the ice age.". The climate of the planet shifted and the ice melted. What caused the ice to melt? Natural climate shift or anthropogenic global warming? If Elon didn't sign onto this whole thing back in the Obama administration do you think he would have gotten his $500 million DOE guaranteed loan? I don't- he wouldn't have gotten a penny and Tesla would have been gone like a fart in the wind. That being said, I fell in love with the EV1 when I drove it back in 00 or 01 and GM could have owned the market if they pushed ahead with the EV2, but that is another story. What's holding back Tesla is the battery. A smaller battery with a backup APU in the trunk would reduce the cost dramatically but allow full electric daily with multifuel backup power for longer trips. This was the series design of the EV2 and if GM had stuck with it they could've been the Tesla before Tesla. Says everything about the #10 welding shade filtering your view of the world. Where politics takes precedent over logical science. Over the critical, analytical yet flexible thought process. Too bad because you had a long post about the possibility of a scientific mind hiding somewhere. You understand the forces in play. The changes that time bring to the equation. But not the effects that 7.5 billion people have brought to the equation.

Its called leadership. No name calling, no grandstanding, stand at the front and lead.

Don't be: "It was, in large part, a facade. A months-long investigation by The Washington Post has not been able to verify many of Trump’s boasts about his philanthropy. Instead, throughout his life in the spotlight, whether as a businessman, television star or presidential candidate, The Post found that Trump had sought credit for charity he had not given — or had claimed other people’s giving as his own. It is impossible to know for certain what Trump has given to charity, because he has declined to release his tax returns. In all, The Post was able to identify $7.8 million in charitable giving from Trump’s own pocket since the early 1980s. In public appearances, Trump often made it appear that he gave far more. Trump promised to give away the proceeds of Trump University. He promised to donate the salary he earned from “The Apprentice.” He promised to give personal donations to the charities chosen by contestants on “Celebrity Apprentice.” He promised to donate $250,000 to a charity helping Israeli soldiers and veterans.... Instead, The Post found that his personal giving has almost disappeared entirely in recent years. After calling 420-plus charities with some connection to Trump, The Post found only one personal gift from Trump between 2008 and the spring of this year. That was a gift to the Police Athletic League of New York City, in 2009. It was worth less than $10,000." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-boasts-of-his-philanthropy-but-his-giving-falls-short-of-his-words/2016/10/29/b3c03106-9ac7-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html?utm_term=.af43d677dbbc The illusion of philanthropy is all part of the marketing campaign of the trump-tribe. Charities will never call someone out for failing to follow through on a donation promise because its bad for PR.

You don't really understand how science works do you? Why do people like you insist on ruining the narrative of Breitbart and FOX. Complex checks, quantifiable study sets, scientific peer review of quantifiable data and analysis. Is much, much easier to understand when corruption and politics drives the agenda.

Hey buddy, I hope you are still fighting. You mentioned that you were having some medical issues in another thread. You still have work to do here before any flames go out.

People can say what they want about Micheal Bloomberg. For certain he comes up with some elitist, nutty, left wing ideas. His soft drink ban comes to mind. But Bloomberg news has real journalists along the lines of the NYT.

Harvey to be costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, estimated cost of $190 billion Hurricane Harvey could be the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history with a potential price tag of $190 billion, according to a preliminary estimate from private weather firm AccuWeather. This is equal to the combined cost of Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, and represents a 1% economic hit to the gross national product, AccuWeather said. “Parts of Houston, the United States' fourth largest city, will be uninhabitable for weeks and possibly months due to water damage, mold, disease-ridden water and all that will follow this 1,000-year flood,” said AccuWeather president Joel Myers. https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2017/08/30/harvey-costliest-natural-disaster-u-s-history-estimated-cost-160-billion/615708001/ Hurricane Harvey damage costs could reach $75 billion, research firm says... The firm's current estimate ranges from $48 billion to $75 billion, with an average of $57 billion.... "The computer models we normally use to do estimates for hurricanes don't really work that well for this kind of a storm," Chuck Watson, the director of research and development at Enki Research, said in an interview with "Power Lunch." "This is more like a big, broad flooding low-pressure type thing and it's over such a large area that a lot of the normal assumptions that you build into the system start to break down."... JPMorgan predicts the eventual insured losses from Harvey could be as much as $10 billion to $20 billion. However, Watson pointed out that he's currently estimating about 20 percent of the damage will be covered by insurance. "It's going to be a huge hit to the flood insurance program, but we're currently thinking as much as 70 or 75 percent of the losses and impact from this storm will not be insured," he said. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/30/hurricane-harvey-damage-costs-could-reach-75-billion-research-firm-says.html Well trump wanted a infrastructure and jobs bill.

Well if trump would have focused all his hot air and bluster. He could have moved the two high pressure systems out of the way that pinned Harvey over S. Texas. Problem solved.

Well FOX ain't no BBC. It would be nice if there were several world broadcasters like BBC. US news broadcasters have a narrow focus on US stories almost exclusively. Canadian ones are better because they all receive BBC and all the major US news feeds. Its not as if ABC, NBC don't or can't get the same stories. Editors know their target audiences. Canadian ones will cover more world stories. CNN used to be worldwide news before they went US domestic politics 23/7. FOX ... well they know their market.

Why are you always the first one to play the race card? You need to recheck the title of this thread. The story of Harvey is yet to be told. There will be months and years of recovery. Katrina was a recent lesson and a different situation. For which the army corps of engineers received blame. http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1941102,00.html Harvey will be a costly event for all Americans. Insurance rates will jump again as they did after Katrina and Sandy.

There are moderates on both sides and they mostly sit on the committees.