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  1. 12 minutes ago, Mo Horn said:

    Firing scientists will be met with praise from his supporters. Those stupid scientists aren't following the bible so they should be fired. They'll burn in Hell for their sins. 

    The anti-education crowd does seem to be growing. Alarmingly so.

     

    On a different note as this seems to be trending across the web today:

    In the pics below, someone noticed in the largest closeup pic, a hand displaying four fingers. Is that another one of those racist hand signs that is supposed to mean something? Or just four more years?

     

  2. I can't decide if the incompetence is the one sliver of a chance we have to redeem our country or not. I vacillate. I've never been much a LOTR/Hobbit  fan but one of my children enjoys(ed) it. It is rather like the part where we are traveling through (what was the woodsy part called?) and "Look, there's a mass of spiders!" or "Look, a troll or an orc or whatever!" and as soon as that is dealt with, here comes more trouble. But even if one is trying to combat evil on a macro or micro level, getting on board to the motivations and ambitions to defeat them keeps getting in our way and the human collateral damage is piling up: children in cages, black boys killed on the streets, brown people told to go back home or denied entry, teen girls raped and ignored, and on and on and on. And you keep waiting for the part where we get to the dragon, or the wizard and we aren't there yet and it makes you want to put the book down except it is reality. There really is no bottom is there?

     

  3. 11 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    The Alabama hurricane story isn’t going away. Doesn’t help at all if Ross threatened to fire people if they didn’t agree with the president. And the weather scientists don’t seem to be swayed and are somewhat protected. Would get worse for trump if he fires scientists, who are protecting the country, because he couldn’t recall or read a weather forecast.

    How are the scientists protected (honest question, not trolling)? I figure they are about as protected as the USDA employees who were relocated to Kansas City. If Ross steps away it will be because he wants to, not because he has to. His money grubbing heart is shriveling him up from the inside out. The Accuweather guy is in it for himself so he could care less other than to see the scientists as fuel for his personal fortune. It breaks my heart because I have admired the weather scientists and the enormous progress the field has made and to know that our tax dollars have supported their endeavors.

  4. 3 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Yes.

     

    However, the Accuweathers of the world do not want competition from the NWS.  They want access to the raw data and other information, but want the ability to put out the forecasts without non-profit (the government) competition.

     

     

    I guess I don't see what the NWS does as competition as much as public service. I mean fire stations started out as private entities, but it soon became obvious that there was a public good in making them part of local government. I view the NWS much the same way. I'm not sure that Accuweather could coordinate with the same rapid response that the NWS can (well as long as idiots don't keep getting in the NWS' way)

  5. 19 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

    Michael Lewis's latest book is called the 5th Risk and it's largely about garbage government. By coincidence, one of its big examples in there is about how good the NOAA has become at both predicting weather lately and using people with insight in communications about how to best transmit that information such that it is usable for the masses.  Lifesaving stuff.  And he talks about how it has been sabotaged by Trump's people so that weather businesses (can't remember which) can look better than what the government says.  Now it is front page news that the NOAA is being attacked for putting out correct information.

     

    5 minutes ago, Burt said:

     

    Accuweather.  Trump even nominated an Accuweather CEO (Barry Myers) to head NOAA.  

    But aren't the forecasts and models by those private weather businesses based on the NWS materials? The thing with privatizing certain government functions especially in the case of weather is that the profit margin would seem to frequently over-ride the goals and objectives of the function. If an entity can make money by telling people to evacuate or stock up on supplies or whatever, they will do that regardless of the duty to the public. Because when people are harmed, literally or otherwise, the two entities (private sector and government) point at each other in blame and the public has no chain of command with which to find remedy.

  6. 15 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

     

    Dear Mr. Ross,

    Bless your heart, you are 81 years old and still having to wield the big stick for your boss. Instead of traveling to Greece for pleasure, here you are, stuck defending the man whom you already bailed out once before when he was just a dumb schmuck mismanaging his casinos. Ah, the stories you could tell. So, why aren't you relaxing in the home in the Berkshires with your third wife and regaling her with stories of the good old days when you stole money from your colleagues? Or kicking back at one of your places in Palm Beach and thinking of how fortunate you are to have so much valuable art due to not divesting any of your financial investments after you switched parties and became Secretary (and we won't worry about the  shorting stocks, I'm sure that was just a BIG misunderstanding).

    Instead of enjoying your life of white collar crime at the expense of others you are having to roll up your sleeves and yell at Neil the Weather Boy for such brazen insubordination. Why he could have been one of those furloughed federal workers you suggested to  "apply for a personal loan" instead of visiting a food bank . The nerve of him for caring whether the weather forecast is correct or not. It's not like FEMA is going to do 'these' people any good. So, go ahead, Mr. Ross, take your retirement and take a nap (like you do in meetings) and rest assured the real scientists will keep watch. It's what they do.

     

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  7. 4 minutes ago, Burt said:

    Careful Linthey, if you get too close to that encephalitic head you'll wind up one of its moons.

    I keep trying to 'like' your post but am getting a popup saying I can't so here is a 'I really like that post, cause it was funny as all heck!.'

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  8. 14 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Lolz

    From the article, the bit about the LU fixer being asked to hide Falwell's dancing and clubbing in Miami by manipulating search engines was interesting.
     

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    According to several people with direct knowledge of the situation, Falwell—the president of a conservative Christian college that frowns upon co-ed dancing (Liberty students can receive demerits if seen doing it) and prohibits alcohol use (for which students can be expelled)—was angry that photos of him clubbing made it up online. To remedy the situation, multiple Liberty staffers said Falwell went to John Gauger, whom they characterized as his “IT guy,” and asked him to downgrade the photos’ prominence on Google searches. Gauger did not respond to requests for comment.....

     

    Longtime Liberty officials describe Gauger as a sort of fixer for Falwell, a man promoted because he would do what Falwell asked of him without complaint. But Gauger is more than just a university employee: Since 2009, Gauger has also run RedFinch LLC, an online business he founded that specializes in search-engine marketing and does lucrative contract work for Liberty. Tax records show Liberty paid RedFinch $123,950 during 2016, for what sources described as search-engine recruitment of online students for the university. Gauger did not respond to requests for comment.

    ...In January, the Wall Street Journal reported that in 2014 and 2015, Michael Cohen hired Gauger’s side business, RedFinch LLC, to rig online polls in Donald Trump’s favor while he considered a run for the presidency. Gauger’s work consisted of writing a computer script to repeatedly vote for Trump in two online polls; his company would get paid $50,000 in return. Instead, Gauger told the Journal that after a meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan, Cohen paid Gauger roughly one-fourth of that amount—between $12,000 and $13,000 in cash—and gave him a boxing glove worn by a mixed martial arts fighter.

    ...As a nonprofit, Liberty University is legally prohibited from engaging in “political campaign activity,” to use the IRS’ phrase, at the risk of losing its nonprofit status.

     

    TAKE AWAY ANY AID AND MAKE THEM A FOR-PROFIT UNI!

  9. 7 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    That’s more insane than normal.   I’m pretty sure FDR, George Washington, and plenty of others are laughing.  

    He must be scared about something coming out, to rally his base like that.  

    Military auditing the Turnberry resort stays?

    Looming government shutdown?

    Epstein?

    Impeachment?

    Deutsche Bank settling with the SEC for the hiring of relatives of public officials in China and Russia?

    Stressed about the upcoming rally?

     

  10. 25 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

    Flaming Dancer.

    Well of course, DJ. Because the CURRENT Senator from 'The' South Carolina was away hanging with his Flaming Racist friend, and when it was discovered, the tweet was deleted. I hope his political career is OVER!

     

  11. DJ's schedule for Monday is less golf-friendly. In the morning he will be presenting the Medal of Valor (pre-credentialed press) and then a little later there is a press briefing with Mark Morgan, the ACTING Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.

    This evening at 6:30/7:00, DJ will be speaking at the Keep America Great Rally/DJ Political Rally. The first, at 6:30 is once again for pre-credentialed press.

    Long day for DJ. I don't know how the press pools work. It seems to me, however, the WH pulls press passes frequently when they disapprove of a media, journalists, etc. What a great way to restrict access and control the narrative.

     

     

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    “In America the Struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word "Fascism" and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty. For they were thieves not only of wages but of honor.” --Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here.

     

  12. The North Carolina tweet was likely by him, but the site I check for attribution has 'unknown' for the Ivanka tweets. Does Ivanka have her own thread on here? They are pushing her more and more into this political ambassador role. She, like her father, majored in Economics. Not exactly reassuring.

  13. 1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    The stupid... it BURNS

     

    Dear Mr. Kirk,

    I sense in you a compassionate being, a person who aches to correct the wrongs in this world. Go East young man, go to Tibet. There you may help persecuted Tibetans; Buddhists who have lost over a million of their brethren. Otherwise, you are simply a stupid bloviator whose outrage is best saved for grainy cell phone videos taken by your staff. Are Christians persecuted? Certainly in some countries, they are. but that isn't what you are talking about now is it Mr. Whatabout Kirk? Go East young man.

  14. 9 hours ago, El Diablo said:

    The 180 is a really nice lens but I just cannot get it to consistently get a sharp focus in there. It does fine in better lighting so I'm thinking it has something to do with that. I've also found that it's a bit much in the way of magnification in there. With the way the horses and riders are moving around the arena it's easier to move myself around with the 85 once I know where to be. I probably need to reprogram my thinking a bit about how to use it too but with the focus issue it's a bit frustrating. I keep trying it though, trying to find what works more often etc... but it's been hit or miss with the focus so it's been hard to pin down.

    Your cowgirl pic is very nice. As a mama, that would be one I would frame.

    @RichUT I want to go to there. That is lovely. The colors of everything are fantastic.

  15. 22 hours ago, Voldemort86 said:

    This guy sucks..... he needs to go back to radio ASAP.

    See, now this is a good take. Because it is obvious he needs to be somewhere his audience can't see him. How can someone make regular old jeans and a plaid shirt look so wrong?

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  16. 6 hours ago, Message Board User said:

     

    In the article that you linked, this sentence has chilling undertones given the context, the nationalism, the shooting of an immigrant by BPS, and the activism by the American Identity Movement, Campus Reform and Turning Point:

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    Speaking to a convention of Republican Party delegates in Indian Wells, California, Brad Parscale also said the campaign’s goal is to build a national army of 2 million trained volunteers, far beyond the president’s 2016 organization, that in California could help the GOP retake a string of U.S. House seats captured by Democrats last year.

    It could be just a figure of speech, but given that Parscale still has the Cambridge Analytica link and:

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    he’s the one responsible for an ad so racist that Fox News wouldn’t air it. He’s also behind the new Trump-Pence logo for 2020, which was taken directly from a white supremacist group.... (Daily Kos, 2019)

     

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