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Ultimately downtown Detroit is following Chicago's model. I did a story on it almost 20 years ago as a requirement to graduate form Specs Howard after MSU. Back then it was all rainbows and jellybeans, but now, no thanks. Chicago is fucked and I don't want anything to do with modeling this city after chicago if it's going to lead to that type income/violence inequality. He basically said that it's too hard to entertain a country with such brittle ears. "Motherfuckers have become too sensitive, the whole country has turned into a bunch of bitch ass niggers." You only voted for her because of her "fix the damn roads" comment, right? Just playin, she was bound to win just on principle alone after the last fucking asshole. I wasn't aware of that. Idiot. Not trivial at all. It's the only reason that I can now buy a pack of squares and enjoy a weekend of smoking without getting "hooked" again. I just go back to the e-cig during the week if I get that urge and I usually just forget about it and stop vaping all together. For me, nicotine doesn't seem to be physically addictive. When I was a heavy smoker, I once found myself in a situation where access to cigarettes was just not an option. Once that option was taken from me, I realized how not addicted I really was. Ya, I had some thoughts about smoking, but I knew I couldn't get any so it was all good - it's wasn't like real addiction where you apparently become physically incapable of functioning normally. That realization has allowed me to smoke periodically and quit at will. Vaping just makes it easier to deal with the "mental addiction" if you will. Also, If I vape for an extended period, I eventually find myself getting tired of it and just stop naturally. That never really happened when I was a heavy smoker, which leads me to believe that it's all the other chemicals in cigs that fuck you up, not the nicotine.

Yeah to me it doesn't matter what color the person who's using it is. However, that being said, I also can't stand the disparity that exists between it being "OK" to have the hashtag #wypipo or #wypipobelike or any iteration of that bullshit, while we decide as a society that we're going to put the N-word in the dustbin of history (or at least try). I don't like inconsistency. Dave Chappelle said it best: Making fun of our differences is how we made it through that shithole of a city. And It breaks my heart that it's still a shithole, and apparently will continue to be a shithole for another 50 years. Except of course for all the gentrification going on downtown, but nobody gives a shit about that, right?

You once told me that "apologies are weird online" All's good. "My bad" simply works in most cases. Sometimes it makes me cringe depending on the context. I grew up where I was understood and could use it with impunity. It meant nothing to us. And tho I never used it at MSU, I got a rude awakening there about racial comedy, and it broke my heart.

I don't support a ban. Let's not let our previous disagreement on religion dictate our tone to each other. I like you a lot. Believe it or not, we practically the same person aside from religion, my nigga. I worked those factories too. BTW, they still let you smoke on the line? Can you vape?

Another dumbass ASSumption. What in the actual fuck are you talking about?

Then simply don't reply You asked a fucking question and I answered it How about offering your own thoughts when you start a post? You can keep making your dumb ass assumptions, but it doesn't make them true.

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Pardon me, but I don't know everything - big surprise, right? But is that true about radioactive coal? Wow, I just checked for myself. Weird wild stuff, I did not know that.

Pardon me, but I don't know everything - big surprise, right? But is that true about radioactive coal?

Five additional states are in the process of implementing medicaid expansion, so while that should help lower the number of those without insurance, it could very well be offset by new restrictions and work requirements set to take effect in 2020. In Michigan for example, there are about 605,000 people that are at risk of losing their health coverage from the medicaid expansion. 242,000 of those people either have a physical or mental disability that limits their ability to either work or find work and could lose their insurance because of it. Those on SSI with straight medicaid will not be affected, but it's still pretty fucked up tho.

Why would that have made any difference? What Trump tweeted was reckless, irresponsible, and entirely inconsistent with with any briefings he had received up until that point. Why would one more briefing have changed anything?  I suppose we don't really know either way, but given his twitter history, that's certainly a valid point. We agree there. Had he said "I misread the forecast" or "I saw an old forecast" then no worries. He is pathologically incapable of admitting any mistake, so the problem snowballed. . . Agreed, that's a fair assessment.

The staff was told to not contradict "some national level media social posts which hit the news this afternoon." No they weren't. They were told to “only stick with official National Hurricane Center forecasts if questions arise from some national level social media posts which hit the news this afternoon." I agree that Trump's initial tweet was misguided and he should've waited until his next briefing just a couple hours later where he modified his position and asked for clarification. Likewise, the Alabama Weather Service's tweet was also misguided at that time when it said Alabama would see no impact: "From Wednesday, August 28, through Monday, September 2, the information provided by NOAA and the National Hurricane Center to President Trump and the wider public demonstrated that tropical-storm-force winds from Hurricane Dorian could impact Alabama. This is clearly demonstrated in Hurricane Advisories #15 through #41, which can be viewed at the following link. The Birmingham National Weather Service’s Sunday morning tweet spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time." https://www.noaa.gov/news/statement-from-noaa That's odd since the email told them specifically to "stick with official National Hurricane Center forecasts." I do agree, good thing that's not what is/was happening.

And as I sated earlier it actually shows 5-40% depending on where you live in Alabama. It also showed that most of North Carolina had 0-10% chance, so what's your point?

Trump during the Fema/Ken Graham Briefing: "The federal government stands ready to assist their readiness, response, and recovery operations. And, I will say, the states -- and it may get a little piece of a great place: It’s called Alabama. And Alabama could even be in for at least some very strong winds and something more than that, it could be. This just came up, unfortunately. It’s the size of -- the storm that we’re talking about. So, for Alabama, just please be careful also. I ask everyone in Hurricane Dorian’s path to heed all warnings and evacuation orders from local authorities. It looks like they’re going to have to be giving them, unfortunately. And I wish you’d watch." And actually, that chart shows 5-40% chance depending where you live in Alabama - and that was just a 5 day forecast when their flying spaghetti models were all over the place and still displayed a high level of uncertainty. Even when those models finally started to agree on a sharp turn to the north, they still weren't sure when/where it would actually turn: Ken Graham: "The big question is: where is it going to make that turn?" Trump: "Can I just ask you, two days ago, we were given a really comprehensive briefing, and they seemed to think almost every prediction was that it was going to go right through Florida and into the Gulf. Actually, right across Florida. Does that not have a chance of happening now, or what do you think? I mean, everything seems now, it goes up north. What do you think the chances it goes directly straight as the original predictions were?" Ken Graham: "Yeah, this is -- well inside this cone, having this variability and this forecast track, and what's happened [Inaudible] has slowed down. The forecasts had this nudged to the north because now it has that influence with that trough. Teeny changes to make a big difference in the eventual movement of these storms, literally thousands of parameters that we're trying to measure and, clearly, computer models to be able to get these tracks. a small change can cause that forecast track to nudge a little bit. That's why there's so much uncertainty, and we spend a lot of time talking about the actual cone. . . So, we try to communicate the uncertainties, and -- and it does happen, especially when you're measuring thousands of parameters, trying to get that into the model, you can have these small changes." And as I already said: According to Ken Graham, the director of the National Hurricane Center, "the center could be anywhere inside that cone."

Dude, how offensive! You can't even get their damn names right: Tim Apple, Mary Motors, Alan Qantas, Gail Anthem, Peter Paypal, Ginny Ibm, Martine Sirius, Indra Pepsi, Nick Gawker, Marilyn who, Inga Lloyd of London, Safra Oracle, Peter Prezi, Hayley Werkin, Phebe Dynamics, and Joel Grindr.

From your Article: "staff was told to “only stick with official National Hurricane Center forecasts if questions arise from some national level social media posts which hit the news this afternoon.” They were also told not to “provide any opinion,” according to a copy of the email obtained by The Washington Post." Wow, so the NOAA staff wasn't really warned against contradicting Trump. They were just directed to actually stick to official National Hurricane Center forecasts rather than their own opinions - How fucked up is that, right? From another inaccurate Wapo Article: Yet, the NOAA map on Aug. 30 below showed an even greater threat to Alabama than it did on Aug. 29. According to Ken Graham, the director of the National Hurricane Center, "the center could be anywhere inside that cone."

Whhooosh. Is that the sound of your CNN article flying over your head or the noise you make when playing with your toy pterodactyl?

It's clear that you haven't figured out what my point was, but you made it for me anyway. Thanks. The only point I made was how your comment about Republicans had nothing to do with the article you posted. It was about how these disgusting bigots on the Left eat their own and lose voters.

Several ways. SASH. In California, SASH lets low income homeowners get solar. From the CPUC site: "The SASH program provides qualified low-income homeowners fixed, up front, capacity-based incentives to help offset the upfront cost of a solar electric system.. . .The SASH program offers one incentive level of $3 per watt." Note average solar prices in California are about $3.20 a watt, so you could get a 4kw solar system (enough to offset more than half an average home's load) for $800. WAP. Any low income person can get access to the Department of Energy’s Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP.) They focus on efficiency first (which is smart no matter how much money you make) but now also includes funding for solar. GRID Alternatives, a private nonprofit that uses both private and corporate donations along with grant funding and donated equipment to install solar systems for low-income households in California. The Obama administration had half a dozen programs for low income people who wanted solar. Those are, of course, all gone now.  Low income does not mean poverty, and most people living in poverty do not own their apartment. Hopefully the slum lords investing in these programs will pass the savings onto their tenants lest we subsidize both. But for what it's worth, I do appreciate your informative post. Thanks.

Yet our per capita consumption is almost double that of the Germans - and that's what all this really about, isn't it? Raising prices to reduce consumption. That's awesome! How can those living in poverty get in on that deal?

That's because they are donating to her campaign trying to keep her in the race..... Tell that to Kallend who has apparently picked up the habit of posting articles that contradict the points he's trying to make.

This one too!

There is no spoon. Apparently the Left eats their own with their hands.

There is no spoon, just like there are no republicans in your article calling her a fruitcake.