Phil1111

Its time to give rushmc a timeout. The Pope has condemned him. Hurricane Irma: Pope Francis condemns climate change sceptics Pope Francis, who is returning from a five day trip to Colombia, has no such doubts. He fears the impact of climate change will be hardest on the world's poorest residents, and has been openly critical of those who do not play their part in reducing its effects - including Mr Trump. His most recent comments could also be seen as a thinly veiled dig at the president. "If we don't go back we will go down," he warned reporters on Monday. "That is true. You can see the effects of climate change with your own eyes and scientists tell us clearly the way forward. "All of us have a responsibility. All of us. Some small, some big. A moral responsibility, to accept opinions, or make decisions. I think it is not something to joke about." He then quoted a phrase from the Old Testament: "Man is stupid, a stubborn, blind man." "Those who deny it (climate change) should go to the scientists and ask them," the Pope said. "They are very clear, very precise." http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41231288

I have once or twice read something in a brochure about hiking, mentioning wearing orange or bright clothing because of hunting season. Now, I might understand it if it were for trails in some area that was PRIMARILY for hunting. But if not, I thought the hunters should be responsible, and not fling bullets around if they can't be sure they won't murder people walking on trails. Otherwise, telling hikers to wear orange to avoid getting shot just seemed to me like some government saying, "By the way ladies, enjoy the municipal park, but don't wear anything too revealing because it might get you raped! It's a pretty rapey park, just so you know, not that we're doing anything about it. If you wear a short skirt, just remember, you were kind of asking for it." B..B..B..B....UCK, shoot, shoot and shoot again!

This is nonsense. While, like any good con-man Trump sways with the wind, but he has identified as Republican in the past and been accepted as such. I'll admit he's also self-identified as "Independent" and "Democratic" before as well and has been accepted as those as well. However, you'll notice at no other time did a party accept him so much as to run him (actively too and without a floor vote [Priebus]). He identifies as Republican and the Republican leadership accepted that enough to unquestionably nominate him to represent them. I dunno, man. Where I come from, you break it, you bought it. You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. You -can't- now say he's not a Republican. Well the stupid games of republicans won them the prize of the WH. A Pyrrhic victory is how the liberals might describe it. BUT the WH is the final vote on legislation and republicans will deal with the devil until the night of the long knives comes. In this case a minor civil war within the republican party will toss the white nationalists of the trump regime overboard. But smart politicians like Mitch McConnell, McCain, etc will keep their mouths shut and their powder dry. When trump goes on his weekend trips to seek out his supporters in his "rallies" he is by himself. Its a trump rally not a republican rally. "You break it you bought it." Nah, this is the modern day USA of Costco and Amazon. You bought it and don't like it, send it back from where it came. Impeachment or not, sooner or later, trump's declining base will signal the time. Recent republican victories: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2017/03/02/resist-since-trumps-win-democrats-have-flipped-zero-seats-in-three-blue-state-special-elections-n2292477 It shows that patience is the game republicans are currently playing. That ain't stupid, its called politics 101.

I have no idea what she said but, knowing the media, and your ability to spin, I doubt it is anything close to what you are implying. Just sayin.... Here's the comments: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/white-house-chief-of-staff-john-kelly-blisters-ann-coulter-for-joking-about-hurricane-irma-victims-dying/ More coverage of idiots making political or religious claims about weather: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/did-lesbians-cause-hurricanes-irma-and-harvey-god-knows/2017/09/08/638efbca-94bf-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html?utm_term=.f2d8ebe95858 To include Coulter's comment of: “I don’t believe Hurricane Harvey is God’s punishment for Houston electing a lesbian mayor,” she tweeted. “But that is more credible than ‘climate change.’ ” Like Limbaugh,Bannon, Evangelical TV pastors, Coulter makes a living selling a product. Herself.

Well without wandering into Speakers Corner to far. trump made a couple promises to go after the excessive costs of the US "Medical Industrial Complex" (quote mine). Some industry lobbyists must have got to him. $336 is a decent price but there are people that get scammed by hospitals, insurers and the industry. Those who don't understand how it works. " about 643,000 Americans declared bankruptcy annually due to medical bills." http://www.snopes.com/643000-bankruptcies-in-the-u-s-every-year-due-to-medical-bills/

I watched about 10 seconds, as far as Bannon representing that "Republicans are trying to nullify the election". trump ain't a republican. Never has been, never will be.

Sensationalizing is part of the job description. Amidst calamitous Harvey flooding, Pence speaks to a racist, a hurricane conspiracy theorist, and other right-wing radio hosts n the ongoing efforts to mitigate the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, Vice President Mike Pence appeared on several right-wing radio programs in Texas to give updates on the recovery and rescue efforts. According to the transcripts posted on the White House website, the vice president appeared to limit his radio outreach mostly to conservative shows, including Rush Limbaugh and Michael Berry, who is notorious for mocking black victims of gun violence in Chicago and other racist programming. Limbaugh has a history of using hurricanes to attack Democrats and further his fringe conspiracy theories. During Hurricane Matthew in October 2016, Limbaugh stated that “it's in the interest of the left to have destructive hurricanes because then they can blame it on climate change” and that the National Hurricane Center is “playing games” to convince people of climate change. Limbaugh also told his listeners that “there is politics in hurricanes” because “there are votes.” During Tropical Storm Isaac, Limbaugh questioned the National Hurricane Center’s forecasting, pointing out “the degree of coincidence” that the storm was headed for Tampa, the location of the National Republican Convention. Limbaugh implied, according to The Atlantic, that “the weather service was collaborating with the liberal media to invent narratives that are unpleasant for the GOP.” In 2016, Limbaugh attacked Hurricane Katrina victims as “liberals” on welfare who lacked “self-reliance.” He also compared the Katrina disaster to “a reality show.” In 2008 following significant flooding in the Midwest, Limbaugh minimized the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina relative to the floods and accused Katrina victims of “waving guns at helicopters,” “shooting cops,” and “raping people on the street.” https://www.mediamatters.org/people/rush-limbaugh

He did not say "there is no hurricane." He said, "you don't need a hurricane to hit." That is what is so frustrating in dealing with the liberal mind. Make stuff up and stick to it until it becomes the accepted reality. "You see what you believe is there and you believe it is there because you want it there." ~A Course In Miracles N. Korea, Iran, War on Terror, etc. If you don't have a enemy make one up. Helps you sell guns, ships, the entire military industrial complex. Yep enemies everywhere. Need some fear and panic. What.... entitlements and libs...

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.