Phil1111

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/

You're asking the wrong question because there is a limited correlation between a cutaway and injury. Read the threads in the Safety and Training section, the injuries in the Incidents section. More injuries and deaths are resultant from poor landings under a main canopy than under a reserve parachute. Welcome

I agree, it was just an interesting outlook from a kid. Have you taught him how to think critically? Critical thinking isn't always intuitive or natural. It's a skill that has to be learned and refined and honed. Same thing with objectivity. Evaluating sources, comparing differing views, looking at situations without allowing your own prejudices too much influence (that's the hard one). There are sources out there that are reasonably objective and trustworthy. Many agree that NPR (US) BBC (Britain) and Al Jazeera (UAE) are at or near the top of that list. Yet when you read the same story on each of them, there's a slightly different spin. So they aren't perfect, and I don't know anyone who claims they are. Yet many of the detractors claim that their follower claim that. The problem is that there are people out there who don't want the truth to be told. So they spread plausible lies. Partly to get their version of the story out there, but largely to make it harder and harder to ascertain the actual truth. Yes and Yes. Its necessary to go to sites like AL-jazzera on occasion to get an understanding of where a portion of the "Arab street" so to speak is coming from. Although I've never read a whole article from Breitbart news. I've been to the site. My personal favorite journal is the Economist. For the times I go to AL-jazzera, I also take a swing through the region to http://www.dawn.com/ for a Pakistani take on news, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ for the Indian take. For whatever reason I omit Australia and new Zealand take on news. I guess that makes me ignorant, but I through them into the BBC news feed. If you feed your mind bs from tabloid newspapers and only go to the same sources of news that support your opinion. Your objectivity attitude will be set in stone. Sooner or later.

Scientists ask a question then seek answers. It requires an inquisitive nature and mind. People need to further develope the same attitude if they do not have such a nature now. Trumpism A gospel politicians preach to instill fear in locals: illegals are bringing crime and robbing their jobs, and radicals among Muslim refugees are terrorizing the "infidels." Although Trumpism arguably promotes extreme nationalism, anti-globalization, xenophobia, and Islamophobia, however, many politicians in the developed world secretly endorse this divisive doctrine to guard against crime and terrorism. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Prov. After being tricked once, one should be wary, so that the person cannot trick you again. Definitions for 'A fool at 40 is a fool forever' If someone hasn't matured by the time they reach forty, they never will. Above is a good start for your son. Beyond that there have been several articles about the psychology of trump books like 1984 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/george-orwells-1984-best-seller-heres-resonates-now/ The pdf book here: http://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/1984-2.pdf

Good story, thx "On the morning after Donald Trump’s inauguration, acting National Park Service director Michael T. Reynolds received an extraordinary summons: The new president wanted to talk to him. In a Saturday phone call, Trump personally ordered Reynolds to produce additional photographs of the previous day’s crowds on the Mall, according to three individuals who have knowledge of the conversation. The president believed that the photos might prove that the media had lied in reporting that attendance had been no better than average. Trump also expressed anger over a retweet sent from the agency’s account, in which side-by-side photographs showed far fewer people at his swearing-in than had shown up to see Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pressured-park-service-to-back-up-his-claims-about-inauguration-crowd/2017/01/26/12a38cb8-e3fc-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html?utm_term=.18c3c4a01735 Britain's coverage of the same story today: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/26/donald-trump-inauguration-crowd-size-national-parks-photos On a separate issue I'm somewhat surprised that the British PM. Theresa May wore a skirt to the meeting with trump. Was that not somewhat reckless given trumps admitted history of sex assaults? trump's admitted following of twitter: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/529816/Twitter-bonkers-Theresa-May-cleavage-boobs-Prime-Minister-Number-10-Downing-Street-London

https://www.charitywatch.org/top-rated-charities https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.profile&ein=475281567 https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.profile&ein=475281567

Well don't be so shy. brenthutch needs all the help he can get and seems to have missed this thread entirely. "The line between hard news and editorialists has been blurred and news guys have been injecting them selves into the story either because of narcissism, ratings, or both." We need some examples and elaboration on how the "main stream" is not laying out all the facts. Fire away the beer is in hand.

Alec Baldwin returns to SNL to brutally mock Donald Trump’s Russian pee-pee parties https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnJn1YxrbXM

Maybe I don't have insurance at a high enough level or whatever, but mine doesn't cover civil unrest. I think terrorism isn't covered either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_insurance Good thinking. Perhaps a smart insurance man will go door to door in trump tower and sell some. I heard some are thinking of moving out because of all the security measures. mmmmm a NY realtor and a NY insurance salesman... a good buck could be made: "Blockbusting was a business process of U.S. real estate agents and building developers to convince white property owners to sell their house at low prices, which they did by promoting fear in those house owners that racial minorities(or terrorists) would soon be moving into the neighborhood."

I agree with everything you said. Republican house and senate members have been around the block as well. The difference is that they know the art of the deal better than trump. I'm sure they are making the odd comment from time to time about trump's idiot remarks. While they and their assistants are actually drafting and discussing bills. -Amendments to ACA that keep everyone covered and improve it. Which can be done. -Return corporate taxes held offshore and simplify the tax acts. -Keep the party separated from trump because midterms are only two years away. If control is lost because voters realize republicans have damaged the economy. This golden opportunity will be lost for the balance of trump's term.

Surely even a dumb jihadi just out of the desert would know that all his business are likely hurting now. As people shun his name, jingoism, narcissistic personality. That he has insurance and would probable love the idea of an insurance company get a dead property off his distressed loan portfolio.

Speaking of anti-trump violence. There have been largely peaceful protests to date. But its only a matter of time till protestors take issue/action against the trump name itself. There has been some minor skirmishing at trump Tower in NY. How long till protestors visit a trump golf course. Say Mar-a-Lago golf course. The "Winter White House" where joining dues just doubled to $200k a year. A 20' vertical spray boom on the back of a truck on a windy day with 100 gallons of glyphosate could do several million in damages in under five minutes. In the dead of night nobody would be the wiser for 3-5 days. Protestors in front of all the other golden trump properties? There has been already http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/workers-remove-trump-nyc-apartment-buildings-article-1.2876146 Then there is trump Tower "New York area newspapers have reported that residents are considering moving from the tower. “These are wealthy people. They don’t need this, and they can’t take it any longer,” an unnamed real estate broker told the New York Post. “They no longer want to stay there. Some of them are already planning on moving out, and they’ll decide later whether or not they want to sell.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/11/trump-tower-protesters-new-york-security

I'm not saying the VA is perfect. I'm also not saying that the recent efforts to improve the VA solved all the problems. What I am saying is one of the identified problems was lack of medical staff. Refusing to hire more medical staff can never fix that problem. I suppose you could work the system like that. The private hospital system would need to be prepared for a huge influx of new patients. I'm not sure we can handle that. The Medicare system would also have to be expanded. I'm not sure you'd really save much money. The VA does some things really well. Between the last post I made and this one I got a call from one of my providers at the VA. I had put in a request through my primary care giver for a replacement part for my prosthetic last week. Today they called to tell me they are going to send me four new parts so if one breaks again I won't have any downtime. They also made me an appointment to come try out a new high tech prosthetic hand next Friday. Sure, I had to wait on the phone five minutes to get my appointment. Regardless of what Trump thinks, VA healthcare isn't just a pile of dying old men littering the halls of a dusty hospital while incompetent doctors and corrupt staff people spit at them. Thanks for that and I agree especially with the highlighted areas. There is certainly an existing system that could supplement existing VA facilities by funding veterans needs at other hospitals/health providers. Most US hospitals run at about 85% capacity.

.66 a watt by the pallet without controllers, wiring, installation, mounts,etc. http://www.wholesalesolar.com/bulk-solar-panels-by-the-pallet

Aug, 2015 "About one in three jobs are vacant at eight of the nation’s regional Veterans Affairs health care systems, leaving veterans waiting weeks to get care. Nationally, one in six positions — nearly 41,000 — for critical intake workers, doctors, nurses and assistants were unfilled as of mid July, in part due to complex hiring procedures and poor recruitment, according to critics of the nation's network of 139 hospitals and clinics that treat veterans." http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/08/20/half-critical-positions-open-some-vas/32003103/ And here is how trump screwed things up some more. Perhaps Mattis would take on both jobs. Defense Secretary and VA. "While most want to get rid of disorganization within the Veterans Affairs Department, some think the only way to fix the problem is to add a little more “Chaos.” A petition is calling for Marine Corps. Gen. James Mattis to serve as the new head of the VA. The general, whose call sign was “Chaos,” retired in May 2013 after a 41-year military career marked with milestones such as serving as the commander of U.S. Central Command and the NATO Supreme Allied Commander." http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/22/some-want-chaos-marine-gen-james-mattis-lead-va/

"In North Dakota’s Bakken region, the fracking boom has generated nearly 10,000 wells for unconventional oil and gas production—and along with them, almost 4,000 reported wastewater spills resulting from the activity. A new study shows that these spills have left surface waters in the area carrying radium, selenium, thallium, lead, and other toxic chemicals that can persist for years at unsafe levels (Environ. Sci. Technol. 2016, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b06349). Soils and sediments at spill sites also harbored long-lasting radium contamination, the study found." http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/web/2016/05/Toxic-chemicals-fracking-wastewater-spills.html " The downside is waste — lots of it. Companies produce millions of gallons of salty, chemical-infused wastewater, known as brine, as part of drilling and fracking each well. Drillers are supposed to inject this material thousands of feet underground into disposal wells, but some of it isn't making it that far. According to data obtained by ProPublica, oil companies in North Dakota reported more than 1,000 accidental releases of oil, drilling wastewater or other fluids in 2011, about as many as in the previous two years combined. Many more illicit releases went unreported, state regulators acknowledge, when companies dumped truckloads of toxic fluid along the road or drained waste pits illegally. ... Compounding such problems, state regulators have often been unable — or unwilling — to compel energy companies to clean up their mess, our reporting showed. Under North Dakota regulations, the agencies that oversee drilling and water safety can sanction companies that dump or spill waste, but they seldom do: They have issued fewer than 50 disciplinary actions for all types of drilling violations, including spills, over the past three years. Keller has filed several complaints with the state during this time span after observing trucks dumping wastewater and spotting evidence of a spill in a field near his home. He was rebuffed or ignored every time, he said. " https://www.propublica.org/article/the-other-fracking-north-dakotas-oil-boom-brings-damage-along-with-prosperi "A Louisiana trucking company believed to have illegally dumped radioactive waste in an Eastern Montana landfill for nearly two years has been ordered to stop by state officials. Dual Trucking and Transport, of Houma, La., has been ordered by the Department of Environmental Quality to cease all operations near the Bakken community of Bainville. DEQ officials, who began inspecting more than a year ago, say that as early as July 2012, and without a permit, Dual Trucking and Transport began accumulating mildly radioactive soil and oil filter socks, as well as other Bakken waste at the site. The waste site is a couple hundred yards upwind from a housing development in a sandy-soiled region where the water the table is high enough to produce wetlands. Dual was warned in Sept. 2012 to stop operations until it was licensed by DEQ’s Solid Waste Program. At that time, it also ordered to hire a qualified consultant to develop a cleanup plan and begin removing waste. Dual eventually started the permit process, but then declined state requests for further information, later informing DEQ the company was no longer processing oilfield waste and didn’t need a permit. However, earlier this month, DEQ inspected the site again and found Dual still managing solid waste without a permit. Contacted by the Gazette, Dual did not respond to questions about the closure. The DEQ action comes amid rising reports of illegally disposed Bakken oilfield waste, namely filter socks, used to trap naturally occurring radioactive silt driven above ground during hydraulic fracturing. Garbage bags full of the filters have been discovered abandoned in a shuttered North Dakota gas station and on a flatbed trailer near a landfill in that state." http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/company-suspected-of-dumping-radioactive-waste-in-montana-ordered-to/article_e63b89ac-cdc2-11e3-b909-0019bb2963f4.html Unfortunately the entire attitude of oil field workers and the smaller companies. Is cut corners, dump, do it at night in places where nobody is around and shut up. Big oil companies have records of disposal of filter socks, etc. The small companies contract with the cheapest subcontractor and the second its off the well site, its problem over. When the owner of a small drilling company is faced with layoffs and repossession of homes. Its get it done regardless of costs and if there not caught its not like there isn't a 1000 square miles of land to dilute any consequences of pollution. Its just a dirty little secret of the industry. "America’s dirtiest secret How billions of barrels of toxic oil and gas waste are falling through regulatory cracks By Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer - March 13, 2014 The oil and gas industry has a dirty little secret, make that a dirty big secret … no, make that one of the biggest, dirtiest secrets in U.S. history. What is no secret these days is that the potential for negative environmental and health impacts as a result of oil and gas exploration and production activity is very real. Concern over fracking, with its toxic cocktail composed of some combination of between 300 and 750 chemicals, 70 percent of which are known to be harmful to humans because they are carcinogenic or endocrine disruptors, etc., gets most of our collective attention these days. But this industry practice is not the only or largest contamination problem our nation faces as the result of oil and gas development. In fact, the oil and gas industry’s other contamination problems are so large, they have literally been deemed impossible to prevent or even clean up by both industry and government. As a result, an unimaginable tonnage of contamination is being placed into our environment every year thanks to the near total lack of regulations over oil and gas exploration and production wastes. The story behind this unregulated onslaught of contamination is so bizarre as to seem impossible, but it isn’t. We often hear of the “Halliburton loophole,” a name used to describe a regulatory exemption that was created for the industry in 2005 to relieve fracking fluid of the burden of the Safe Drinking Water Act. But the Halliburton loophole is just one small exemption to federal regulations for the oil and gas industry. There are many others. The mother of all oil and gas waste exemptions had its beginnings in 1978 when the EPA proposed reduced requirements for a couple of types of large-volume wastes associated with the oil and gas industry, namely produced water and drilling muds. Today, the federal government and the oil and gas industry seem to have created a revisionist history of this early exemption process that gutted the requirements of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976 — an act created specifically to guarantee that there was cradle-to-grave oversight and enforcement for all hazardous wastes under RCRA’s Subtitle C. The modern version of the Subtitle C exemption fictitiously purports that the reason for reducing requirements for oil and gas waste was because these large-volume wastes were deemed to be “lower in toxicity” and therefore not as much of a threat to human health and the environment as other wastes being regulated under Subtitle C. You can find such statements throughout the websites and literature of local, state and federal government regulators of toxic waste and in industry marketing materials. But it is simply not true, not by any stretch of the imagination. Go back and research the records of the exemption process and you will find a far different rationale for the largest exemption of toxic wastes in U.S. history. In the late 1970s, the EPA had decided to study the idea of removing large volume oil and gas exploration and production wastes from RCRA’s Subtitle C. The study was barely off the ground when Ronald Reagan took office was elected in 1980 and government once again started tinkering with RCRA. According to a 2002 EPA report on the RCRA oil and gas exemption, “The oil and gas exemption was expanded in the 1980 legislative amendments to RCRA to include “drilling fluids, produced water, and other wastes associated with the exploration, development, or production of crude oil or natural gas. . . .” By the time they had finished defining “other wastes,” every single ounce of toxic waste generated by the process of exploring for and/or producing oil and gas had been removed from RCRA’s hazardous waste oversight. http://www.boulderweekly.com/news/americarsquos-dirtiest-secret/ "State Senate Minority Leader Mac Schneider, D-Grand Forks, said Democrats are working on legislation that would either make clear that the oil well reclamation fund could be used for cleaning up oil waste or would establish another fund to “rapidly address” future incidents. The proposal also will attempt to create a “meaningful” way to track oil field waste, he said. “The fact that we have been humming and hawing on who is supposed to pay for this cleanup demonstrates a total failure,” Schneider said. “It’s not acceptable to just let this radioactive waste sit there and fester. That’s not something a responsible state government does.” http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/environment-and-safety/north-dakota-pay-cleanup-illegal-radioactive-oil-waste-135824/ What these stories don't discuss is that in N. Dakota all the way to Texas. Is that cash, jobs and oil are more important than the environment. Everybody excepting the major oil companies accept it including local state regulators that are always too busy to forward complaints to prosecutors. To order investigations. Then its the farmers, ranchers and landowners that may receive royalties. Or may not. That are left holding the bag.

Yep be it the NPS or CIA, if somebody thinks orders will turn real government business, national interests and the scientific basis of facts. Into political trumpisms. They will find leaks, subterfuge and inaction. Also called patriotism. Trump’s Anti-Science Campaign, by New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trumps-anti-science-campaign Trump and the anti-science movement is just starting: http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/24/14372940/trump-gag-order-epa-environmental-protection-agency-health-agriculture

I was thinking along those same lines. A robot to get the oil https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-24/robots-are-taking-over-oil-rigs-as-roughnecks-become-expendable another to fly the plane,another to fix the plane, another to pack the rig, and perhaps one to serve supper!

I was thinking a pool or "over/under" on how long it takes the new president to be impeached. Well he has been sued already since becoming president. Given midterms that show a new awakening of voters to trumpism. " Trumpism A gospel politicians preach to instill fear in locals: illegals are bringing crime and robbing their jobs, and radicals among Muslim refugees are terrorizing the "infidels." Although Trumpism arguably promotes extreme nationalism, anti-globalization, xenophobia, and Islamophobia, however, many politicians in the developed world secretly endorse this divisive doctrine to guard against crime and terrorism." That trump will likely refuse to forgive, forget and move on from any republicans in the house or senate that vote against him. I would say his welcome would be worn out in two and a half years. With an impeachment for ethics violations of trump business and conflicts of interests, thereafter.

Economic theories are just that. Theories. The best answers come from countries or states that try it out. Its like safe needle injection sites. When i first heard of it I thought it was the stupidest idea since trickle down economics. But the savings in incarceration costs, health costs from the reduction in spread of disease. Makes it a no brainer. I don't think is an idea that should be tried first. But after a five year trial, EU countries should have some good data to study. You mean try it out like the USSR? I doubt the USSR ever had a successful program excepting space. In order to judge success the economics would have to be close in all the parameters between two states. While EU countries have more government participation than the US. They would be better than nothing. Somehow the idea that hard core republicans could get their heads around it. Would be like democrats agreeing to the arming of every citizen, without restriction.

A subsidy that helps the end user, i.e. the American consumer is nothing less than what every other segment of the economy gets. It like saying federal funding of airports subsidizes airlines and air travelers. Sure it does but its merely part of the whole picture of government support for commerce. IMO there is a subsidy of big oil in the guarantees of oil security, oil supplies by the US military support of Gulf states. i.e. propping up the gulf emirates and the Saudi governments. Green energy and independent oil supply would, or could lead the US away from such support and expense. trumps isolationist ideologies would tend to lead to this. But i personally think big oil and the military-industrial complex is too tied to this policy. The further you dig the more subsidies anyone can come up with. Its sort of like trumps hair. You know there must be a human under it. Its just that nobody has ever looked there before. Or if they've looked, never found a soul which would be identified with a human.

Could you possibly link to where he said that so that we can see it in context? It looks like a description of the possible worse case scenario outcome of climate change. Not like the outcome of one project. It is just as wrong to use his words this way as it would be wrong for him to claim that. No one advances their argument in any significant way when they engage in extreme hyperbole. Agree. you hurt yourself when extreme hyperbole borders on lying. Sort of https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Trumpesque