Phil1111

Outstanding.

Most of us are smart enough to know what the words mean. What we would like to know is what that means with regards to policy and practical implementation. There is a current vetting system in place. One that has really worked quite well. What improvements are going to be made that will have the vetting reach a higher degree? Everybody knows what extreme vetting means! https://www.wired.com/2015/09/just-need-algorithm-help-politicians-pander/

Norway gas $6.75 a gallon. https://www.statista.com/statistics/221368/gas-prices-around-the-world/ "The export value of crude oil and natural gas in 2016 was about NOK 350 billion. This amounts to approximately 47 % of the total value of Norway’s exports of goods. " http://www.norskpetroleum.no/en/production-and-exports/exports-of-oil-and-gas/ " in 1981 during the early stages of a North Sea oil boom that benefited both Norway and Britain. Norway decided that it would set up a sovereign wealth fund – a piggy bank for the people – so future generations would reap the benefits of the unexpected bonanza. Britain did not. The result is that Norway has amassed $885bn (£727bn) – easily enough to cope with the cost of looking after a population of 5 million as it ages. " https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/15/land-reforms-and-a-sovereign-fund-could-secure-uks-long-term-future Norway. The best example of a good worldwide citizen that protects the environment.

Nothing to do with that. You've obviously missed several things that have gone on in Russia in the last couple of days; members of Kasperski Labs getting arrested, a member of the FSB being arrested, this FSB guy getting killed. Speculation is Putin will shortly say something to the effect of, "yes, something with 'rogue agents' happened, but it was unauthorized and has been taken care of." Is there something in that story related to Russian spying on the US and trump-showers, etc? Or is that just a Putin shakedown for bribes, payoffs and compliance with his kleptocracy? If you read the Telegraph story in Ryoder's post (#193), it seems to show that the dead guy has ties to the guy who leaked the Trump story. And, of course, the Russians are now saying he died of "natural causes". Lead poisoning, perhaps? Well, at least that would be quicker than polonium. Imagine trump, Putin and Erdogan(president Turkey) all sitting around swapping notes on political dissidents. Bannon would have trump going after .... sasssh. We would could all be put on the no-fly list along with a executive order for all jump pilots to comply with no fly lists.

Please provide evidence for this claim. U.S. Refugee Admissions Program: https://www.state.gov/j/prm/ra/admissions/index.htm I think your head will get tired, bloody and sore, with imprints of the brick wall, after a while on this one. US vetting of refugees is the same as Canada, Australia and the EU(more or less). Eighteen to 24 months hundreds of documents and days of interviews. Why let facts get in the way of political ideology. Thats why https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTtLQz3GNz8 But what the hell. If it makes the day, fulfills the soul and mind. For those who need it.... Blame it on Obama.

"Many Turks have been watching the first shocking days of the Trump administration unfold with one thing in mind – “welcome to our world!” Conspiracy. The blaming of outside forces (foreigners) for homeland problems. Attacks on the media. Religion used as a tool to divide with a liberal sprinkling of the word “terrorist”. Turkey has walked this path before. It would be wise to consider Turkey’s spiral into authoritarianism as a warning for what could happen if the world doesn’t stand up to Trump. The things you’re scared of the US president doing, Erdogan has likely already implemented. These are egomaniacs more interested in their own power than the genuine furthering of their country – they are not people May can control with trade deals. It’s easy to sit halfway across the world, read a few articles about Turkey and get busy all over comment sections – “wake up! Erdogan is a dictator” – but look at the US: this is how it begins. The slow creep of what is almost mind control. Divide and conquer.... We need to stand up against the vilification of the free press in the US now before it goes too far. Erdogan is no longer good for Turkey, just like Trump is no good for America. They are changing the identities of their countries. The irony that a possible Turkish accession to the EU was used as one of the key motivations for Brexit is likely to be a common theme throughout our moves towards leaving the EU. While turning away from these sorts of leaders can lead to isolation and further extremes, do we really have to be quite literally holding hands with them? By staying silent, collaborating, inviting people like Trump for state visits, we are handing them more power. We are complicit, and it’s time our government stood up." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/30/brexit-britain-trump-erdogan-turkey Above bold section: "One million people sign petition calling for Trump's state visit to be axed - but No10 say cancelling trip would 'undo everything' Theresa May has achieved " http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/29/petition-calling-donald-trumps-state-visit-uk-cancelled-gets/

Nothing to do with that. You've obviously missed several things that have gone on in Russia in the last couple of days; members of Kasperski Labs getting arrested, a member of the FSB being arrested, this FSB guy getting killed. Speculation is Putin will shortly say something to the effect of, "yes, something with 'rogue agents' happened, but it was unauthorized and has been taken care of." Is there something in that story related to Russian spying on the US and trump-showers, etc? Or is that just a Putin shakedown for bribes, payoffs and compliance with his kleptocracy?

Wait, so you do believe the shit you've been saying in this thread? Jeez dude, when you can't even decide whether you're trolling or not you've got some serious problems. BTW, I notice that even though you've given up supporting any aspect of your position you're still here responding because you're so desperate for approval you just cannot bear to give out any indication that you know you're wrong. No wonder you're defending Trump. The trouble with trump supporters is that they can't accept his personal stupidity. Nor admit that personal political ideology overrides ancillary political views of racism, religious bigotry, trumpisms. I'd agree he(trump) is right on pipelines. Repatriation of US offshore corporate profits, reduction of US corporate taxes when combined with rationalization of the US tax code. Today the effective tax rates for US corporations are substantially below the stated rates due to byzantine tax codes. Its always amusing to hear the left or the right talk about a centrist political position. Such a position is always relative to the predispositions of the country. Benoît Hamon is the French candidate for the left. He has proposed a tax on robots. IMO a tax on robots is most idiotic idea in the history of mankind. These are industrial robots, not ones for home or personal use. Its no different than a job tax. The profits of a corporation are already taxed. Corporations are almost universally allowed to deduct capital improvements. But taxing robots, a capital improvement, will improve productivity. Thats really rocket surgery. http://www.politico.eu/article/meet-benoit-hamon-the-robot-taxing-marijuana-legalizing-jeremy-corbyn-of-the-french-left-socialist-backbencher/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2017/jan/30/meet-benoit-hamon-aka-the-french-jeremy-corbyn

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. Confucius, talking about trump.

Mark your calendar. "President Donald J. Trump held his tongue and his tweets after this weekend’s broadcast of “Saturday Night Live,” perhaps because of the absence of Alec Baldwin, the actor who has regularly impersonated him in opening sketches this season. So all eyes will surely be on the @realDonaldTrump and @POTUS Twitter handles on Feb. 11, when Mr. Baldwin hosts the show for a full 90 minutes. NBC said on Monday that Mr. Baldwin, who won two Emmy Awards during his run on “30 Rock” and who hosts the ABC game show “Match Game,” will be hosting “S.N.L.” for the 17th time; that’s a record for the program, putting further distance between Mr. Baldwin and his closest rival, Steve Martin, who has hosted 15 times. The musical guest on the episode will be Ed Sheeran." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/arts/television/alec-baldwin-to-host-saturday-night-live-on-feb-11.html?mabReward=A5&recp=6&action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0

Yes, my brothers in-laws have a b train and its licensed to 56,500 kg or just under 118,000 lbs. or 39 Prius cars. Michigan allows up to 164,000 lb (55 Prius cars). But different bridges, roads have other restrictions. Thats assuming enough axels, correct axel combinations, tire widths, etc. The heaviest biggest truck that I've personally ever driven is a tandem at about 70,000 lbs. The biggest factor for road damage is weight, speed and moisture if its not paved.

Far too soon to tell. Scenarios run the gamut from him never leaving office ala Putin to nuclear holocaust. The best we can hope for is what I've always hoped for since he announced his candidacy and some R adults will step up and get rid of him. Sadly, they didn't do that when they had the chance and now I think they're beginning to understand the issues. Correct and correct.

Islam is a religion, not a race. Correct. Canada gets complete coverage of all major US news channels. " A Muslim centre in Victoria, Texas has been gutted by fire within hours of Donald Trump announcing a ban on citizens from seven Islamic countries entering the United States. The blaze at the mosque was engulfed in flames. But despite previous attacks on the building, community leaders declined to speculate whether the fire was the result of arson. Nobody was in the building when the fire began during the early hours of Saturday morning.... The mosque was the victim of a burglary on January 21 and in July 2013, a man admitted painting H8 - short hand for hate - on one of the mosque's outside walls. Attacks on mosques and attacks on Muslims have soared in recent years according to the council on American Islamic Relations. Last October three members of a militia group were arrested and charged with plotting to blow up a mosque and block of flats occupied by Somali migrants." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/29/muslim-centre-texas-gutted-fire/ Then trump and bannon stoke the fires of hate day after day. The Christian right stands by him. "In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network on Friday, Trump clarified what this means: Christians refugees will be given priority status. “They’ve been horribly treated,” the president said. “Do you know if you were a Christian in Syria it was impossible, at least very tough, to get into the United States? If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible.” People overseas “were chopping off the heads of everybody, but more so the Christians,” he added, “so we are going to help them.” Related Story The Coldhearted Folly of Trump's Proposed Immigration Order The announcement was met with immediate backlash from leaders of nearly every Christian denomination, along with those of other faiths. They argue that Trump’s actions do not reflect the teachings of the Bible" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/christians-refugees-trump/514820/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38793071 "At least four people have reportedly been killed in a shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada. Shots were fired at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre on Sunday night, police said. The centre's Facebook page posted video of police outside the scene, with a written comment that there were "some dead". Police said two people had been arrested, but did not provide a number for those killed or injured. A witness told Reuters news agency that up to three gunmen had been involved. The news agency also reported a "heavily armed tactical squad" had been seen entering the mosque.... The president of the mosque, Mohamed Yangui - who was not inside when the shooting happened - told Reuters he did not know how many people were injured, but they had been taken to hospitals across Quebec. "Why is this happening here? This is barbaric," he said. The same mosque had a "gift-wrapped" pig's head left on its doorstep in June last year, with a note reading "bonne appetit". Muslims do not eat pork." Race baiting and hate?

I'm going by my brothers freightliner. Its got 48 rear and 20 front. It never sees a scale...

I don't know about that. My GMC 2500 4x4 extended cab v-8 weighs about 5400 empty. It doesn't have many options. Most heavy trucks start at tandems with payloads, not GVW, payloads at 26-28000 lbs. GVW at 70,000 not including trailers.

trump, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, Bannon and Ivanka. Thats all America needs to know about pandering to the diminishing trump political base. Together with the recipe for self enrichment. I can see President Putin, Alexei Miller,Gennady Timchenko, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, etc. all sitting around in a dacha outside Moscow. Munching on the best caviar and laughing at the US and wondering if life can get any better.

Exactly. A trump hotel in a foreign nation gets those residents US nationwide admission.After all, his business would dry up if travel to the US was restricted from those countries! Even the princelings couldn't visit their own hotels! Those without are denied until negotiations with Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr., are complete. With appropriate non-refundable deposits to Trump International having cleared the bank.

Just like Putin isn't going into Ukraine You really do not have to prove to me that you don't know what you're talking about. I know that already. Rush, you never answered my questions about the photos. Do yo think the CNN megapixel photo you posted shows that the Trump crowd had as many or more people than the Obama crowd? Do you think it shows no empty spaces on the mall? "President Donald Trump is reshuffling the US National Security Council (NSC), downgrading the military chiefs of staff and giving a regular seat to his chief strategist Steve Bannon. Mr Bannon, formerly the head of the populist right-wing, Breitbart News website, will join high-level discussions about national security." http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38787241 "The White House National Security Council (NSC) is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for consideration of national security and foreign policy matters with senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials and is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Since its inception under Harry S. Truman, the function of the Council has been to advise and assist the president on national security and foreign policies. The Council also serves as the president's principal arm for coordinating these policies among various government agencies. The Council has counterparts in the national security councils of many other nations." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Council So trump is different, smarter, interested in facts. The Republican party had better get a grasp on this rapidly spiraling goatfu*k. Or the next midterm elections will be a forgone conclusion within the next two months. They are likely busy with ACA legislation and budget legislation. But they better act soon. I keep hearing the news tapes of trump supporters prior to the election. They want change but because "it can't get any worse" feel safe in a trump vote. Week number two and three starts in a couple hours. Bannon to the front.

Someone has hi-jacked this members account! Moderators, I demand an investigation!! A post that's insightful, absent of international politics. Or pro-Putin, anti-west bias. Substantially I agree with what you've said. Electric car subsidies are against everything brenthutch lives and breaths for. In general I'm against subsidies. But using the example of Tesla and the supportive "green" business Elon Musk has in the Solar City purchase. Subsidies bring about research, "guinea pig" lab testing of electric vehicles, batteries, etc. All associated with the expense of being a "early adopter". These subsidies arise of a need to move urban mobility away from gas/oil fueled owner driven vehicles to the future. A EU style future of cleaner energy in the transportation sector. The US appears to be stepping away from the "Paris Accord" which even China has agreed to. trump believes that global warming is a Chinese driven hoax. " China has rejected Donald Trump’s claims that climate change is a Chinese hoax, urging the US president-elect to take a “smart decision” over his country’s commitment to the fight against global warming." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/17/climate-change-a-chinese-plot-beijing-gives-donald-trump-a-history-lesson Furthermore China has recently announced a 1/3 Trillion dollar further push into renewable s. Primarily wind & solar. http://www.newsweek.com/china-invest-360-billion-green-energy-2020-reduce-pollution-538844 China and the EU are both on the right track. But so is California. "While Donald Trump was being inaugurated as the 45th president, California was busy unveiling its new strategy to reduce carbon emissions by 40% by 2030 from 1990 levels. The move is in stark contrast to Trump’s positions on the environment and one that is bound to set off a debate over states rights. California has long been on the cutting edge of environmental initiatives, having first enacted a law to cut carbon in 2006 — a ruling that has required it to review and reset its progress every five years. In the early years, the goal was to cut heat-trapping emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. " http://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2017/01/21/california-undercuts-trumps-debut-with-aggressive-carbon-cutting-plan/#5983fb90422b When China, for crying out loud CHINA goes green, when "US investor Warren Buffett has been all over wind energy development in Iowa, and his MidAmerican Energy company has just one-upped itself with a new plan called Wind XI. If approved, the new $3.6 billion wind development initiative would enable MidAmerican to provide its Iowa customers with a grid mix that includes 85 percent wind energy, up from an already impressive current level of 47 percent" https://cleantechnica.com/2016/04/15/buffett-stakes-3-6-billion-on-massive-wind-xi-project-in-iowa/ The concepts of turning back the clock on the push of environmentalism from someone like trump. Is like a 10 pound rock going under the treads of a D-8 cat. After the tracks roll on the rock is but a hard spot in the dirt totally obscured from view. Just as trumps views will vanish from the landscape 10-15 years from now. Sort of like a bad meal at a cheap diner on a otherwise great road trip.

Who cares as she is a postmark on history. Here is a little story on weather and the mind of trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-trumps-mind-its-always-really-sunny-and-thats-terrifying/2017/01/27/ff0a6278-e499-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.4c0203f231eb and further: "There have been reasons to worry about other presidents’ mental health. Lyndon B. Johnson’s senior aides were so concerned about his behavior that they consulted psychiatrists. Nixon in the throes of Watergate was drunk and unstable, so much so that his defense secretary, James Schlesinger, reportedly ordered the military not to respond to White House orders without approval from him or the secretary of state. Still, other presidents’ outbursts occurred behind closed doors, and there was some hope that aides would intervene. Trump’s inner circle seems divided between enablers and inciters. What is to be done? In a meeting last week with The Post editorial board, Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chair of the House Oversight Committee, said he was weighing legislation to require presidents to undergo an independent medical examination, including for mental health. Chaffetz cautioned that he wasn’t “talking about some of the rhetoric that’s flying around” about Trump. Still, he said, “If you’re going to have your hands on the nuclear codes, you should probably know what kind of mental state you’re in.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-erratic-first-week-was-among-the-most-alarming-in-history/2017/01/27/c6405144-e4b9-11e6-a453-19ec4b3d09ba_story.html?utm_term=.da9a874f809f Perhaps for the next president.

Those would be core arguments against it. But in addition IS is at war with Iran. Iran has many troops and proxy forces fighting IS. Iranian citizens would be monitored, vetted so to speak as well as Saudi or Egyptian citizens. Plays good with the core trump base. Ignorant of the concepts of propaganda and how its used in the conservative Islamic terrorist mindset. So its a week into the trump "100 day honeymoon". He has alienated NPS, CIA, Mexico,China, 1.6 billion Muslims, reinforced the world opinion that he's a liar, buffoon, insinuated that he was going to get and keep Iraq's oil this time, etc. Perhaps a poll on how many weeks for the trump honeymoon?

Amusing, cute, but i wonder about the demographics of a quasi-chick car and the target buyer. I guess the successful 50+ who might have missed their "wild" youth in the drive to success.

I agree but I'll wait till Russian hackers put it online for free when trump backpedals on his Putin bromance. On second thought I doubt I'd waste my time reading such garbage. Most communities are smaller than N.Y.,N.Y. where you can lie so much and burn every bridge that you ever cross in interpersonal relationships.

Correct. While medical professionals may have a standard to personally examine an individual. Its not a necessity. Conduct, statements, action and in-actions is sufficient. Psychological profilers offer opinions on many subjects from the study of a single letter. A single action such as torturing an animal to death for personal enjoyment would be sufficient to most psychologists, to offer judgement. Having said all that, so what. He is President of the United States and most people knew his personality before they entered the voting booth. He has had several books and biographies written about him and the consensus and person admission from him is that he has never had any real personal friends outside his family. So what! Its who he is. I offered this on trump before. So this is really old news. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-trump/480771/