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Posts posted by retread
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That RushFoxHannity brainwashing is some powerful stuff.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/13/donald-trump-has-emasculated-american-farmer/
Quote“It’s really, really getting bad out here,” said Bob Kuylen, who’s farmed for 35 years in North Dakota.
“Trump is ruining our markets. No one is buying our product no more, and we have no markets no more.”
Agriculture exports to China dropped by more than half last year. In 2017, China imported $19.5 billion in agricultural goods, making it the second-largest buyer overall for American farmers. In 2018, that dropped to $9.2 billion as the trade war escalated, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.
This year, China’s agricultural imports from the U.S are down roughly 20%, and U.S. grain, dairy and livestock farmers have seen their revenue evaporate as a result. Over the last 6 years, farm income has dropped 45% from $123.4 billion in 2013 to $63 billion last year, according to the USDA....
QuoteTrump’s damage to farmers has two prongs. The first has been his administration’s evisceration of the Department of Agriculture. As Michael Lewis documented in “The Fifth Risk,” Trump’s appointees had little respect for the scientific research performed by the department’s scientists. In 2018, Trump’s secretary of agriculture, Sonny Perdue, centralized control over USDA researchers in an effort to limit the publication of any research critical of administration policies. As a result the Department of Agriculture’s best and brightest began to exit government service. By 2019, non-retirement departures from USDA research agencies had more than doubled compared to the previous three-year average. That exodus will only increase after USDA scientists were given a short date to select whether to move with their agencies from D.C. to Kansas City. White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney celebrated the transparent ploy to purge the administration of scientists as “a wonderful way to streamline government.” One outside expert warned my Post colleague Ben Guarino, “This is the brain drain we all feared, possibly a destruction of the agencies.”
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Still laugh out loud at old Carol Burnett episodes. So good.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-puerto-rico-aid-another-storm_n_5d655dffe4b022fbceb1d3d8
QuoteSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico ― President Donald Trump again falsely boasted on Tuesday that Congress approved $92 billion in hurricane relief aid to Puerto Rico following devastating hurricanes in 2017.
Despite this grandiose claim, which Trump has repeated on several occasions, Congress has only allocated $42.7 billion in disaster relief for Puerto Rico, federal data shows. Of that amount, the island has received less than $14 billion.
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Used to watch it every afternoon when it went into syndication. I think we watched it some on Sat nights too.
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My post was a little vague. ^ I should have been clearer.
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50 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:
Is this a serious post or a joke? Because I can’t tell.
What a Patriot Farmer would say. Sarcasm.
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Around 2011, Falwell, president of Liberty University in Virginia, and his wife, Rebecca, began personal fitness training sessions with Benjamin Crosswhite, then a 23-year-old recent Liberty graduate. Now, after a series of university real estate transactions signed by Falwell, Crosswhite owns a sprawling 18-acre racquet sports and fitness facility on former Liberty property. Last year, a local bank approved a line of credit allowing Crosswhite’s business to borrow as much as $2 million against the property.
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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:
Your estimate looks to be correct.... plus or minus 5 votes.
They ain't budging. They committed to a cult. To change your vote is to admit you are wrong. And humans really hate to admit they were wrong. An insignificant number of votes will change. The remainder will rationalize that it's really the fault of the Dems, and probably all those illegals.
China's been screwing the US over for decades, and we had to pull the bandaid off at some point. I sure don't trust the Ds to do that. I'm sticking with Trump.
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Very sorry for your loss, UC. Hang in there, man.
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And Bailey Quarters
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Others that I liked:
Wings
Northern Exposure (not comedy)
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7 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:
Night Court is another show I want to watch one day. Is it worth running through completely?
I also see Bob Newhart and Mary Tyler Moore on Hulu. I try and watch one or two old shows in completion every year if I can.
For my taste MTM>Newhart, but they're both great. Lots of great characters in both. CBS on Sat night was murderers' row in mid 70s.
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14 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
first time seeing it, honestly. so one question: wtf is that at the bottom?
I think Burrata cheese
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Kaufman was an original.
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Not bad. You say this is your first Iesson?
Yes, but my father was a piano mover, so....
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Don't mess with me, Pork Chop!
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He and Turtle are racing up the list of worst people in this administration.
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Check your mirrors. Side of your eye. Side of your eye.
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Remarkably, Trump’s performance behind closed doors managed to go even farther in pleading Putin’s case. “Trump’s extraordinary promotion of Putin proved to be the most tense disagreement,” reports the Washington Post, which adds that Trump’s fervent advocacy for Putin “was coolly received by other leaders at the gathering,” and that the meeting “went off the rails when Trump blasted leaders for not including Russia.”
Sources from inside the meeting tell the Post Trump’s presence was tantamount to having Putin himself in the room:But having such a forceful advocate for an authoritarian leader inside the room of democracies profoundly shaped the overall tone of the summit, one senior official said.
“The consequence is the same as if one of the participants is a dictator,” the official said. “No community of like-minded leaders who are pulling together.”
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Balt/Wash Int'l Airport is a little over an hour from Camp David per google.
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The Family sketches on Carol Burnett were often very good. @Vic Mackey
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