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Verrry verrry hard. Merkel has left for Germany so now dumbff can be himself again.Would it be possible for the US to borrow Merkel on weekends while trump is at the "Southern White House"? Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Despite what you have heard from the FAKE NEWS, I had a GREAT meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Nevertheless, Germany owes..... 7:15 AM - 18 Mar 2017 _____________________________________________ Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump ...vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany! 7:23 AM - 18 Mar 2017 I hate to say it but the US has not come to the aid of NATO since WW2...uh no, not ever. For the EU both France(300 weapons) and Britain(215 weapons) have nuclear weapons. The military industrial complex of the US is not owed "vast sums of money", either by contract, by implication, or by obligation. In fact the US was attacked on 9/11 and NATO came to the defense of the US. http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_69366.htm For which NATO suffered 1190 dead, including: Britain 453 Canada 158 France 88 Germany 57 Italy 53

What would you like to know? I have not had any interest in astronomy, or very much in astrology, during my lifetime. I found out about this phenomena a few months ago from an SF buddy who studies this sort of thing. I am more interested in the attacks on Israel as an indicator. If it happens during our lifetimes, what are you plans after the rapture? "Israel’s sophisticated Arrow anti-missile system has scored its first hit, taking down a surface-to-air missile fired from Syria, according to media reports. The Jerusalem Post reports that the Arrow interceptor was used for the first time after Israeli fighter jets were targeted with Syrian anti-aircraft missiles during an operation over Syria. Newspaper Haaretz said the interception took place north of Jerusalem. Israeli Channel 10 TV reports the Israeli military had been on a mission to destroy a weapons convoy destined for the Lebanese Hezbollah group, which is backed by Iran and fights alongside Syrian government forces. Arrow provides the top layer of the country’s complex aerial defense system. Whereas the country’s Iron Dome system deals with short-range threats such as rockets, and David’s Sling is designed to tackle midrange threats, Arrow can take out targets outside Earth’s atmosphere." http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/03/17/israels-arrow-anti-missile-system-scores-first-hit.html Must be a message in there somewhere?

1. IMO there are very few (R's) who think like this. 2. More power to them; this President, and his loonies in the White House, need to be kept under control. Jerry Baumchen Agree. They are trying to keep their noses to the grindstone and get some serious work done before everything gets sidetracked again. Wishing trump would hit the road to sell trumpcare. Instead of another weekend at the "Southern White House".

Ivanka was there to negotiate the eight free BMW X6M US built cars for the trump family. Harald Krueger thought that it would be a nice gesture to showcase how strong the US worker was. Lets step back in time a bit, to Germany, to trump's credit worthiness, five years before the tax return of 2005. "Imagine drinking champagne at sunset, looking at a breathtaking skyline while surrounded by waterfalls and palm trees on the 50th-floor patio of Trump Tower - not in New York, but in Frankfurt. That was how Donald Trump envisioned Europe's tallest building in November 2001. It was just weeks after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, and plans already included construction materials like high-pressure concrete. Only the best was good enough for this building, an investment worth 350 million euros.... Trump believed that there was money to be earned in a strong economic nation like Germany and actually, his guess was spot on. In the past 15 years, real estate prices in major German cities like Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and Berlin have gone up 25 percent, and in some cases by up to 70 percent. Back in 2000, Trump decided to make money on the German market by building the tallest, most beautiful buildings that were technically viable.... They wanted to start work in booming Berlin. Trump wanted to invest at least 4 billion euros in Alexanderplatz, prime property in the heart of the German capital. The money was not to be used for hotels, casinos or golf courses, but instead, a huge high-rise building at least 200 meters tall. Trump's executive aide-de-camp in Germany, Hans Ulrich Gruber, described Trump's motivation as follows: It was the American real estate tycoon's desire "to build a bridge between Berlin and New York."... Apparently, city officials in Berlin did not immediately grasp the scope of this generous and symbolic gesture. They merely pointed out existing construction regulations, which only allowed for buildings up 150 meters in height. Never again did Trump want to deal with such "small-mindedness." Trump found admirers in the southwestern city of Stuttgart... Trump was pleased. Construction was about to begin when suddenly, things took an unexpected turn. Authorities from Stuttgart's city hall did not have Trump's finance plan. Then, doubts about the creditworthiness of the American developer started growing. No one wanted to be left with an unfinished building. As the doubts could not be cast aside, the city of Stuttgart stopped construction plan approval procedures. Trump was furious. The spirited development giant sued for millions in compensation for the incurred planning costs. However, the district court of Stuttgart overturned a previous ruling in his favor. That was the end of the show. http://www.dw.com/en/donald-trumps-castles-in-the-german-sky/a-36472081 Ah! but today anything for the trump family is possible, is negotiable. Just talk to Ivanka.

No, Merkel has 10 times the brianpower and trump knows it. Thankfully he can hide behind translators a bit and the usual rhetoric. Imagine a reporter asking him if he is a isolationist and anti-trade. That such "tough questions" are even allowed! That German negotiators were better than American negotiators in the other prior trade deals. Must be addressed. US negotiators will be given copies of "The Art of The Deal" at $99.99 a copy. So they can argue that: -Although German minimum wages are $3 above US. -Germany has higher electrical rates. -Germany has higher environmental standards. -Germany has higher fuel prices. -Germany has higher and more expensive social programs. -Germany has higher corporate taxes. -Germany has higher personal taxes, state taxes and a 19% VAT. -Germany looks after their elderly, those that need medical attention. Those that need sanctuary from dictators and war. That they are still unfair traders with the US. That even though Angela Merkel did her homework. She watched his speeches. Talked to the other leaders who met with trump. She complemented him on his big strong hands. trump had to ask bannon just before the meeting. What her name was again.

If the water gets so bad, from unrestricted fracking etc. Like the Flint Mich. situation. The Flint water problem was caused by unrestricted fracking??? No i was thinking more of the whole loose regulatory environment , no absent regulatory environment that the trumps types love. "As President Barack Obama signed a bill on Friday authorizing $170 million to address the problem of the lead being found in drinking water in Flint, Michigan, Republicans in the House quietly closed a nearly yearlong investigation of the disaster — without receiving crucial information from Republican Gov. Rick Snyder. Late on Friday afternoon Utah Republican Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a pair of letters announcing the end of his investigation. His letters offered no new information and essentially summarized what had already revealed about the crisis during several high-profile hearings earlier this year. Over a year ago Flint’s mayor, Karen Weaver, declared a state of emergency because of her city’s supply of poisonous water and still it remains undrinkable. Flint’s water woes date from April 2014, when a state-appointed emergency manager switched the city’s water source from Detroit’s water system to the Flint River in order to save money." http://www.salon.com/2016/12/19/house-republicans-shut-down-investigation-into-flint-water-crisis-blame-epa-instead/ Fracking Can Contaminate Drinking Water It took nearly a decade, but former EPA scientist Dominic DiGiulio has proved that fracking has polluted groundwater in Wyoming https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fracking-can-contaminate-drinking-water/ This week, the Environmental Protection Agency issued its latest and most thorough report on fracking’s threat to drinking water, and its findings support ProPublica’s reporting. The EPA report found evidence that fracking has contributed to drinking water contamination — “cases of impact” — in all stages of the process: water withdrawals for hydraulic fracturing; spills during the management of hydraulic fracturing fluids and chemicals; injection of hydraulic fracturing fluids directly into groundwater resources; discharge of inadequately treated hydraulic fracturing wastewater to surface water resources; and disposal or storage of hydraulic fracturing wastewater in unlined pits, resulting in contamination of groundwater resources. https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-concludes-fracking-a-threat-to-u.s.-water-supplies

Oh don't be like that. Don't do a donald, get mad and carry a grudge. When the FAA restricts skydiving in the US because air pollution is so bad that IFR is the only flight options allowed. You will still be welcome. Regardless of religion, past political mistakes, skin tone, or economic disadvantage. Still welcome. Putin and the trump family might be excluded though. If the water gets so bad, from unrestricted fracking etc. Like the Flint Mich. situation. We will let you have some fresh water if the US gets too bad.

Why feed them when they are nothing but a burden on Social Security. Nothing but costs for health care insurance. As trumps supports say just let them die an be on their way. Its all simple economics. A simple cost-benefit analysis.

Oh for gods sake. STFU, Bond...Bond... even trump can't be that stupid. "British Prime Minister Theresa May has received assurances from the White House it would not repeat allegations that Britain's GCHQ spy agency had helped former U.S. President Barack Obama eavesdrop on Donald Trump, her spokesman said on Friday. A spokesman for May said that the charge, made on Tuesday by Fox News analyst Andrew Napolitano, that the UK's signals intelligence agency GCHQ had helped Obama to wire tap Trump after his victory in last year's U.S. presidential election, was "ridiculous". "We've made clear to the administration that these claims are ridiculous and they should be ignored and we've received assurances that these allegations will not be repeated," May's spokesman told reporters." http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-wiretapping-idUSKBN16O16Q US makes formal apology to Britain after White House accuses GCHQ of wiretapping Trump Tower The US has made a formal apology to Britain after the White House accused GCHQ of helping Barack Obama spy on Donald Trump in the White House. Sean Spicer, Mr Trump's press secretary, repeated a claim on Thursday evening – initially made by an analyst on Fox News - that GCHQ was used by Mr Obama to spy on Trump Tower in the lead-up to last November's election. The comments prompted a furious response from GCHQ, which in a break from normal practice issued a public statement: "Recent allegations made by media commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct 'wiretapping' against the then president-elect are nonsense. They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/17/us-makes-formal-apology-britain-white-house-accuses-gchq-wiretapping/

Donald Trump is set to overturn an Obama-era vehicle emissions rule following a letter from top car manufacturers, including Volkswagen. This comes as the German manufacturer is embroiled in a series of legal disputes over attempts to cheat emissions tests. In a visit to Detroit, the heart of the American auto industry, the President is expected to reopen a review on fuel standards due to come into force in 2022. The move will effectively either weaken or delay the implementation of the new standards. It follows months of lobbying from the Auto Alliance trade group, which has been writing to President Trump since his victory in last year’s election, asking him to do just this." https://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2017/03/15/trump-vehicle-emissions-standards-volkswagen-car-lobby/

Coming soon to a US city near you!! Why is China’s smog so bad? Researchers point far away to a melting Arctic By Eli KintischMar. 15, 2017 , 2:00 PM In China, the winter of 2013 was an “airpocolypse.” A thick soup of harmful smog cloaked its biggest cities, contributing to at least 90,000 deaths and sickening hundreds of thousands more. Things haven’t gotten much better since then, even though the country has enacted tough new emissions controls. A new study may explain why. Melting sea ice and increasing snow across Siberia have altered large-scale weather patterns, replacing currents that used to ventilate China with stagnant air that lets pollution accumulate. “The ventilation is getting worse,” says study author Yuhang Wang, an atmospheric scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. “We think climate change, as it is driving rapid warming of the Arctic, is having a large effect on pollution in China.” Air pollution, a perennial challenge in China’s rapidly growing cities, became a full-blown national crisis during the winter of 2012–13, when 70% of the nation’s 74 largest cities logged pollution levels above government air quality standards. Of special concern were high levels of “PM2.5,” particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers that can lead to heart and lung problems. Citizens flooded the social network Sina Weibo with photos of themselves wearing colored air masks and giant buildings vanishing beneath blankets of smog. Stock prices of air purifier companies surged as the term PM2.5 became a catchphrase. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/why-china-s-smog-so-bad-researchers-point-far-away-melting-arctic

Shortey has been charged with three felony counts, including, Engaging in child prostitution Engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church. Transporting minor for prostitution/lewdness. http://www.koco.com/article/moore-police-recommend-3-prostitution-related-charges-against-sen-ralph-shortey/9135664

Trump travel ban: Second US judge block new executive order Federal judges in Hawaii and Maryland have blocked US President Donald Trump's new travel ban, which was due to begin after midnight on Thursday. The order would have placed a 90-day ban on people from six mainly Muslim nations and a 120-day ban on refugees. Both judges questioned the legality of the ban, which critics say is discriminatory. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39287656

At 22, Karim Baratov was already living the high life. Despite having been expelled from high school in Ancaster, Ont., he owned luxury cars, a large home and an online business called Elite Space Corporation. Photos on social media showed him holding a fan-shaped pile of $100 bills, skydiving, eating a $255 steak, hoisting a bottle of Grey Goose vodka and posing in front of a convertible, women in tight skirts in each arm. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/russian-hackers-charged-in-yahoo-data-breach more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4316650/Russian-spies-facing-U-S-charges-Yahoo-hack-source.html

"Today’s target is a big one: the fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks. In 2011, the Obama administration began crafting sweeping new rules that would steadily increase the efficiency of US passenger vehicles through 2025. By the final year, the Environmental Protection Agency expects new cars and light trucks sold in the US to average roughly 36 miles per gallon on the road, up from 25 mpg today..... Except there’s a major twist here. Technically, if the federal government goes too far in weakening Obama’s fuel economy standards, California has a waiver under the Clean Air Act allowing the state to maintain its own, stricter car rules that other states can adopt — a messy possibility that automakers hate. On top of that, California has a waiver for a program pushing automakers to sell more “zero-emissions vehicles” (mainly electric cars). New York and eight other states have also adopted this ZEV mandate, and it’s a major impetus for US electric car sales. In the months ahead, Trump could conceivably ask EPA head Scott Pruitt to look into rescinding California’s waivers if the state won’t play along. This isn’t part of today’s announcement, and it’s wildly unclear if the courts would even allow this, but Trump’s reportedly mulling such a step" http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/3/15/14828070/trump-fuel-economy-standards Oh well Ohio and Alabama rednecks will be able to buy big wheel trucks that get crappy mileage fueled by fracked oil. Tillerson will be happy.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/16/analysis-key-points-donald-trumps-first-budget-announcement/ The new chairman of the Democratic National Committee said President Trump will harm ordinary Americans if he succeeds in making the major cuts to federal agencies expected in his first budget. Trump will reportedly demand significant cuts at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and State Department to fund a boost in military spending. “Donald Trump’s budget will no doubt be terrific for people who can afford to spend their weekends at luxury resorts like Mar-a-Lago, and it would be a disaster for hardworking Americans struggling to get ahead,” Tom Perez said in a statement Monday, jabbing at Trump’s private resort in Palm Beach, Fla. "Budgets are so much more that a compilation of dollar figures — they are an expression of our values." http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/321461-perez-trump-budget-cuts-a-disaster

Like every time he opens his mouth when other republicans are trying to get bill passed. -his "wiretap" when trumpcare is on the agenda. -his taxes to distract from travel ban. Meanwhile the republican political capital goes drip...drip..drip... like a leaky toilet.

Well first he has to build his wall: "President Trump will ask Congress for $1.5 billion this year to begin work on the wall he promised to build at the U.S.-Mexico border." http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/324118-trump-makes-15-billion-request-to-congress-for-border-wall Then patriots won't be needed for the southern border. That will save money.

OMG all of that melting sea ice will surely seal the fate of coastal communities across the globe!!! Hair on fire, hair on fire. It hasn't been this awful since 1928! If you say so. I'd be more concerned about the melting glaciers, since they actually do affect sea level. From your article "In November, sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic was at record low levels for this time of year due to climate change. The more the ice melts, the higher global sea levels will rise." As we all (should) know, sea ice has no impact on sea levels. Knowing your scientific world view is informed by CNN explains a lot. I suppose you subscribe to USA Today as well. I know its tough for scientists with a degree from bannon U to wrap their minds around earth sciences. But: "“That may not sound like a lot, but consider the volume of ice now locked up in the planet’s three greatest ice sheets,” she writes in a recent issue of Scientific American. “If the West Antarctic ice sheet were to disappear, sea level would rise almost 19 feet; the ice in the Greenland ice sheet could add 24 feet to that; and the East Antarctic ice sheet could add yet another 170 feet to the level of the world’s oceans: more than 213 feet in all.” Bell underscores the severity of the situation by pointing out that the 150-foot tall Statue of Liberty could be completely submerged within a matter of decades." “That may not sound like a lot, but consider the volume of ice now locked up in the planet’s three greatest ice sheets,” she writes in a recent issue of Scientific American. “If the West Antarctic ice sheet were to disappear, sea level would rise almost 19 feet; the ice in the Greenland ice sheet could add 24 feet to that; and the East Antarctic ice sheet could add yet another 170 feet to the level of the world’s oceans: more than 213 feet in all.” Bell underscores the severity of the situation by pointing out that the 150-foot tall Statue of Liberty could be completely submerged within a matter of decades. [url]https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/arctic-ice-melts-cause-rising-sea/ "What the World Would Look Like if All the Ice Melted If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely, global warming will eventually melt all the ice at the poles and on mountaintops, raising sea level by 216 feet. Explore what the world’s new coastlines would look like." http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2013/09/rising-seas-ice-melt-new-shoreline-maps/ LOOK BRENT.... A Friend!! VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV "Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) is accusing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of releasing "propaganda" that is "brainwashing our kids." http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/324252-gop-sen-epa-brainwashing-our-kids

A federal judge in Hawaii has placed a nationwide block on President Trump’s revised travel order, delivering a major blow to the president's policy just hours before it was set to go into effect. U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson, a President Obama appointee, ruled after a hearing on Wednesday that the plaintiffs, the state of Hawaii and a Muslim leader, showed a "strong" likelihood to succeed in their lawsuit against the ban. They argue that the policy violates the Establishment Clause and proved that "irreparable harm" is likely if temporary relief is not granted. The temporary restraining order, which will be in place while the judge considers the case, blocks the sections of the travel ban that would have temporarily suspended the refugee resettlement program and barred nationals from six majority Muslim countries from entering the U.S. for 90 days. http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/324210-judge-blocks-trumps-revised-travel-ban

I was thinking that its time to just let this thread die like trumpcare. As Brent is the only anti-science denyer that ever posts here. Climate change drives thirsty koalas to special water stations http://www.reuters.com/video/2017/03/15/climate-change-drives-thirsty-koalas-to?videoId=371303086&videoChannel=118169 "Seventeen congressional Republicans signed a resolution on Wednesday vowing to seek "economically viable" ways to stave off global warming, challenging the stated views of President Donald Trump, who has called climate change a hoax. Republicans Elise Stefanik of New York, Carlos Curbelo of Florida and Ryan Costello of Pennsylvania introduced the legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives, pledging to "study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates" and seek ways to "balance human activities" that contribute. Several Republicans who signed the resolution, which is non-binding, represent parts of the country most affected. Curbelo hails from Miami, where streets regularly flood at high tide due to rising sea levels. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climatechange-congress-idUSKBN16M235 What's happening in Australia is part of a global trend. Over the last year, about 12 percent of the world's reefs have bleached, due to El Niño and climate change. Scientists have predicted that nearly half of these reefs (more than 4,600 square miles or 12,000 square kilometers, or more than five percent of reefs) could disappear forever. That warming trend is expected to continue through the year, leading to what may be the longest global coral bleaching event in history. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160321-coral-bleaching-great-barrier-reef-climate-change/

The Dutch apparently having learned a lesson from US trump supporters have voted against Geert Wilders. Described as an inflammatory Islamophobe, he once compared the Quran to Adolf Hitler's autobiography. And he was convicted for inciting discrimination in December after calling Moroccans "scum". Dutch PM Rutte's party leads exit polls PM Mark Rutte's party wins Dutch election, first exit polls say, with Geert Wilders' anti-immigrant party trailing His centre-right VVD Party won 31 out of 150 seats, polls suggest. His party came far ahead of the next three parties, including Geert Wilders' anti-immigration Freedom Party (PVV), the Christian Democrat Party and the liberal party, which each got 19 seats. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39285803 http://www.itv.com/news/2017-03-15/dutch-election-will-far-right-geert-wilders-win/

They cover you with a nice clean sheet, and take you to the morgue. Yeah but the sheets will be: http://www.usalovelist.com/buy-bedding-made-usa-ultimate-bedding-source-list/ trumpcare saving entitlements one corpse at a time.

Next week the long knives come out. Who is to blame. trump vs Ryan