I just missed Jason and the 400. I hope they come back up here soon.
But I can always go to a Nazi flea market in Pennsylvania:
Jefferson: “a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter”
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) July 2, 2017
Overall highlights of Russian FM Lavrov’s eye-popping speech yesterday in below thread (link to full speech) /1https://t.co/E18KmMqHKE
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) July 1, 2017
My son, who was born with a large CNN logo for a head saw the video and thought it was really me, his father, who also has a large CNN head
— Jake🌹💀🌹Flores (@feraljokes) July 2, 2017
Clue-stick time: When your approval rating is ~15% nobody really gives a fuck if you “got any sun today.” That question was an obvious trap.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 3, 2017
This will no doubt sound strange, but I actually hear a lot of Richard Thompson in that. The kind of chord changes. The singing style.
The slide guitar solo in this song is absolutely killer. That’s Jason playing - I didn’t know he was such a great slide player until recently.
So yeah, the guy is an amazingly dishonest piece of shit with zero regard for the public he ostensibly serves. But he’s also a raging idiot.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 3, 2017
Hope you are enjoying #4thofjulyweekend and celebrating our cherished #1A freedoms enshrined in our Constitution which cannot be taken away
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 1, 2017
I love how @CNN looks to #1A as a justification to not uphold basic journalistic integrity or an ethical standard #FakeNews https://t.co/physxhfJrP
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) July 2, 2017
Crazy how the First Amendment protects even speech that displeases the president’s relatives https://t.co/F5aLiVxCnx
— David Frum (@davidfrum) July 2, 2017
Van Jones Retweets….
Just Stop……
— Covfefe McGoo (@DaveoutofAustin) July 3, 2017
re: #10 The Vicious Babushka
Hope you are enjoying #4thofjulyweekend and celebrating our cherished #1A freedoms enshrined in our Constitution which cannot be taken away
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 1, 2017
I love how @CNN looks to #1A as a justification to not uphold basic journalistic integrity or an ethical standard #FakeNews https://t.co/physxhfJrP
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) July 2, 2017
Your charity stole money from children with cancer. https://t.co/JEMedcYTMi
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) July 3, 2017
Considering how fucked up things are in this country, I have not been looking forward to July 4.
That said, I am doing my best to focus on the good things and not the bad. I continue to believe America can survive Trump.
Warning!! Vile but we need to know where the Golden asshole is getting his crap.
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re: #13 Eclectic Cyborg
Considering how fucked up things are in this country, I have not been looking forward to July 4.
That said, I am doing my best to focus on the good things and not the bad. I continue to believe America can survive Trump.
I’m putting my flag out bright and early tomorrow morning. Fuck you, Republicans, you don’t own patriotism.
New Florida law lets any resident challenge what’s taught in science classes
I hate to be pessimistic in a thread with such a hopeful song at its start, but damn. If intelligent people don’t start fighting tooth and nail against this tide of Dark Ages ignorance, we’re doomed.
re: #14 Dave In Austin
Warning!! Vile but we need to know where the Golden asshole is getting his crap.
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re: #16 Charles Johnson
New Florida law lets any resident challenge what’s taught in science classes
I hate to be pessimistic in a thread with such a hopeful song at its start, but damn. If intelligent people don’t start fighting tooth and nail against this tide of Dark Ages ignorance, we’re doomed.
I hope we achieve interstellar travel soon. I want to be the first person off this rock. Leave the dumbshits to their flat Earth.
re: #16 Charles Johnson
New Florida law lets any resident challenge what’s taught in science classes
I hate to be pessimistic in a thread with such a hopeful song at its start, but damn. If intelligent people don’t start fighting tooth and nail against this tide of Dark Ages ignorance, we’re doomed.
Possible bright side: maybe a brigade of Florida smarticles will challenge the shitty shit, like teachers sneaking in creationism etc.
These are the people whose views are being amplified and legitimized by our so-called president.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 3, 2017
re: #16 Charles Johnson
The problem is so widespread in a third of the country that I’m not sure we can stop it. Parents homeschool their kids just to make sure they aren’t exposed to scientific facts which contradict their religion. But that’s not enough for them, so they pass laws like this which allows people who aren’t even parents of kids in school to challenge science and force the schools to teach religion. But there’s a worse third (or maybe more) of America which is just oblivious to science, politics, information, and any other knowledge that cuts into reality TV watching time.
We’re just kind of a dumb country. What’s the cure for that?
Forgive me, folks, for stating the obvious, but this CNN deal isn’t an attack on CNN, it’s an attack on the freedom of the press itself.
I think it’s important that responsible news outlets stand together on this issue. They can’t let the spirit of competition inherent in the profession allow a divide-and-conquer strategy to work.
But it’s also an attack-and-distract manipulation of the media/press in general. The counterattack needs to come from public outcry and other politicians.
I hate this shit.
Per Playbook, Jared and Ivanka were at a party in the Hamptons yesterday with George Soros and Schumer, hosted by a former owner of WaPo pic.twitter.com/xbOXPdQb33
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) July 2, 2017
Where polarization stops: The Hamptons https://t.co/ele3fLiInr
— Thomas Edsall (@Edsall) July 2, 2017
Only 10.3 million Americans are on the #Obamacare exchanges while 28.2 million have no insurance at all. We need relief now. pic.twitter.com/s4RRoRGJlF
— Tom Price, M.D. (@SecPriceMD) June 30, 2017
This probably isn’t the first time HHS has produced nakedly political propaganda as an official document, but it’s exceptionally shameless. https://t.co/eZpP8ACpbt
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) July 3, 2017
re: #13 Eclectic Cyborg
Considering how fucked up things are in this country, I have not been looking forward to July 4.
That said, I am doing my best to focus on the good things and not the bad. I continue to believe America can survive Trump.
We are honoring America with flags & bunting.
But we are also gathering our protest signs to display.
re: #25 FormerDirtDart
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That ad is generated by Amazon’s associate program. @JasonIsbell has nothing to do with it, and Amazon didn’t specifically target Breitbart.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 3, 2017
re: #13 Eclectic Cyborg
Considering how fucked up things are in this country, I have not been looking forward to July 4.
That said, I am doing my best to focus on the good things and not the bad. I continue to believe America can survive Trump.
I’ve been making T-shirt Designs as a way to deal with it.
“Look at all the people who are uninsured under Obamacare! It’s a failure!”
“Under Trumpcare, 22-24 million more people will be uninsured.”
“That’s a lie! They’ll have access to healthcare!”
There’s another nightmare coming at us fast.
My latest column: on the X-factor that no one’s talking about that could reshape the midterms https://t.co/R2TVAQJJ9A
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) June 28, 2017
Anthony. Kennedy. Retirement. https://t.co/aCCLFuhIMV
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) July 3, 2017
re: #32 Charles Johnson
There’s another nightmare coming at us fast.
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“We cannot fill a Supreme Court vacancy during the middle of an election!”
re: #24 Dave In Austin
That who’s-who-of-the-1% is making the rounds:
This is fucking obscene pic.twitter.com/htOBro0STb
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) July 2, 2017
It’s almost like there’s a ruling class that transcends feigned partisan acrimony. https://t.co/h8xIEZZSSc
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 2, 2017
Yeah….they might as well have hung up a banner that said “LOL plebes, it’s all pro-wrestling kayfabe where the winners are us and the losers are YOU.”
The election of Donald Trump has set off a cascade of right wing opportunities and events that are going to destroy much of what’s good about the US, for many years to come.
re: #34 Targetpractice
“We cannot fill a Supreme Court vacancy during the middle of an election!”
No, no, that’s only valid if the party in power is the Democrats. If it’s the Republicans, obviously the will of the people is to fill the vacancy immediately.
re: #25 FormerDirtDart
I didn’t know throwing everyone off constituted relief. Maybe you could talk to TX (my state) about expanding Medicaid.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) July 3, 2017
Typo in the original.
re: #30 Birth Control Works
I’ve been making T-shirt Designs as a way to deal with it.
I’ve been taking web development classes as a way to help, and it does help for the time that I’m working on the sample website and suchlike, but the rest of the time, OMG.
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re: #32 Charles Johnson
There’s another nightmare coming at us fast.
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Kennedy is giving no indication of retiring.
re: #40 Belafon
Kennedy is giving no indication of retiring.
Not wanting to be morbid and all, but any one of the nine could drop dead tomorrow.
re: #40 Belafon
Never mind….. What was I thinking.
re: #25 FormerDirtDart
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— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 3, 2017
re: #6 goddamnedfrank
The Situation really let himself go!
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As long as he can hold a pen and sign whatever they put in front of him, don’t count on Trump’s cabinet using the #25thAmendment
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 3, 2017
Christie ordered beaches closed down due to a gov shutdown. Today, he and his family enjoyed a state beach alone https://t.co/8zBkkShcBn pic.twitter.com/xpLQynT18r
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) July 2, 2017
Me: “Bruce Rauner and Scott Walker are America’s worst governors”
Chris Christie: “Hold my beach ball”https://t.co/3CcBWSYIWo— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) July 3, 2017
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re: #47 William Lewis
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A guy running for attorney general in Alabama: Chris Christie. Poor guy.
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This is an official invitation to you to go somewhere private and fuck yourself, at your earliest convenience. No reply necessary. Bye now.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 3, 2017
re: #35 Interesting Times
It is effing gross!! And yet and still GG and his folks should have voted for HRC without effing hesitation.
re: #50 William Lewis
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CHRIST IT’S THIS ASSHOLE AGAIN
Fake News @CNN attacks woman-my daughter; calls her liar about @realDonaldTrump-It’s 1/2 true-My daughter is NOT liar, but CNN IS fake News!
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) July 2, 2017
re: #50 William Lewis
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The NRA recruitment video that is even upsetting gun owners https://t.co/ufL1zKwPcs
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) June 30, 2017
The NRA is feeding an us vs them narrative of the kind that fuels all extremist movements. I should know. https://t.co/ilbeHlpjVm
— Cynthia Storer (@CindyStorer) June 30, 2017
Cindy was a CIA terrorism analyst. She was the first to warn of Al-Qaeda in the early 90s. She developed the CIA’s radicalization model. https://t.co/nwOWv8CKOC
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) July 2, 2017
re: #51 Charles Johnson
That CBD asshole thinks the media needs to be “bloodied.”
Two years ago today, 32-year-old Kate Steinle was killed by a criminal illegal immigrant. This is her story: https://t.co/2RcvHmDxtx
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) July 1, 2017
Remember how Congress did nothing after 20 kindergarteners were murdered https://t.co/c4WRm962RN
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) July 3, 2017
re: #52 JordanRules
It is effing gross!! And yet and still GG and his folks should have voted for HRC without effing hesitation.
I have an acquaintance who supported Bernie but reluctantly voted for Hillary — as the lesser of two evils. The right had demonized Hillary for decades and too many fell for the lies. The GOP will continue to do this to the Democrats until and unless they are soundly defeated. With voter suppression and gerrymandering, it’s hard to see when such a victory will be possible.
re: #58 The Vicious Babushka
It’s funny. One single incident can easily motivate them to act - as long as it’s for the right cause. If it’s kids being slaughtered by guns, well, nothing we can do, move along.
re: #9 goddamnedfrank
I think it illustrates once again that R’s don’t give a shit about optics anymore. They don’t care because they never have to pay the price. No matter how mean, petty, or downright stupid, they still get elected.
re: #58 The Vicious Babushka
Two years ago today, 32-year-old Kate Steinle was killed by a criminal illegal immigrant. This is her story: https://t.co/2RcvHmDxtx
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) July 1, 2017
Everyday, 315 Americans are shot, 100 die, and the GOP has done nothing to address gun violence in America. https://t.co/VtDBykpxdU
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 3, 2017
re: #52 JordanRules
It is effing gross!! And yet and still GG and his folks should have voted for HRC without effing hesitation.
Here’s the thing…
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re: #52 JordanRules
It is effing gross!! And yet and still GG and his folks should have voted for HRC without effing hesitation.
Nope Ol’ GG and his pals sold their souls to Putin. Just like the entire Republican Party did!
FLASHBACK: We Found Where Donald Trump’s “Black Crimes” Graphic Came From: the white supremacist fever swamp https://t.co/o5mdRXJ5Y6 pic.twitter.com/kTbzVDYBlv
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 3, 2017
I’m re-posting this 2015 article because people need to realize that Trump has been getting his memes from Nazis for a LONG time.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 3, 2017
re: #48 A Cranky One
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re: #55 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
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there’s no better image to represent all of America right now than a few enjoying the things that belong to the many. pic.twitter.com/siPFRurRrK
— Morgan Murphy (@morgan_murphy) July 3, 2017
New Florida law lets any resident challenge what’s taught in science classes https://t.co/Dj3Stp9w3W
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 1, 2017
Whether you have a kid in school or not is the real cherry on this. https://t.co/CUYK5jXppF
— Schooley (@Rschooley) July 3, 2017
re: #69 jaunte
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This is a law that might have unintended consequences. Now the scientists can challenge the creationists and climate deniers about everything they bring into the classroom.
Today I learned that if you add Eric Trump to enough Twilight promotional photos he will eventually block you pic.twitter.com/02eHLl25MC
— elan gale (@theyearofelan) July 3, 2017
Thin skin runs in the family.
Well, they keep saying to “stay Wouk”.
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 3, 2017
#ThePoint is that @joanwalsh is so melodramatic in the way she speaks that listening to her is like hearing nails down a chalkboard. @MSNBC
— Viperbyte (@Viperbyte63) July 2, 2017
When you’re incapable of arguing against what she says always make sure to bitch about how she says it. https://t.co/6U4diIgADq
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 3, 2017
re: #68 Interesting Times
Make 1906 socialist cartoons relevant again :/
tfw you realize the @_IWW invented the “The Floor Is” meme
via @wrkclasshistory pic.twitter.com/zlTCQ6Lw8L— George Ciccariello (@ciccmaher) July 2, 2017
re: #63 Interesting Times
I’m very familiar with their justifications and flirted with it for a bit. Katrina was a huge reason (not the only) why I permanently left that thinking behind. It is so doggone clear which party knows how to govern and knows why it’s necessary.
Finding pragmatism in service of progress healthy makes so much sense to me for so many reasons. As a human in modern day America with certain core values, it really isn’t a hard decision. As a WOC it is more urgent to empower the ‘now+’. We deal with what we have now, plus we keep pushing ‘the arc of justice forward’.
I’m also very suspect of Stein and Bern given how much they haven’t addressed the gigantic red elephant in the room. And some of their circle flatout dismiss it which is just as insane as the GOP that they don’t seem to beef with as much as the Dems.
If you say Chuck Todd three times fast everything is the same and nothing matters anymore.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 3, 2017
re: #76 JordanRules
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re: #16 Charles Johnson
New Florida law lets any resident challenge what’s taught in science classes
I hate to be pessimistic in a thread with such a hopeful song at its start, but damn. If intelligent people don’t start fighting tooth and nail against this tide of Dark Ages ignorance, we’re doomed.
If I was a Florida hearing officer and got a case brought by a creationist or climate change denier, it would not go well for them
re: #78 scottslemmons
Well damn you and your brevity! For real tho… well said.
re: #81 JordanRules
Well damn you and your brevity! For real tho… well said.
Pshaw. Your post was longer, more complete, and more resonant. I prefer to think of mine as short and shitty. :)
re: #82 scottslemmons
Pshaw. Your post was longer, more complete, and more resonant. I prefer to think of mine as short and shitty. :)
Pithy.
re: #82 scottslemmons
Shorty posts are great and welcome!
(Shorty = short and not really shitty)
re: #59 Hecuba’s daughter
I have an acquaintance who supported Bernie but reluctantly voted for Hillary — as the lesser of two evils. The right had demonized Hillary for decades and too many fell for the lies. The GOP will continue to do this to the Democrats until and unless they are soundly defeated. With voter suppression and gerrymandering, it’s hard to see when such a victory will be possible.
That is why the Wisconsin gerrymandering case going up to SCOTUS is so important. If Kennedy accepts that they have an objective test, a whole lot of district lines could be withdrawn in time for 2020.
re: #71 jaunte
So, separated at birth, or what? @EricTrump pic.twitter.com/dNEPDk5Wfn
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 3, 2017
re: #89 Kragar
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what movie is the one on the right from? I know that’s trump on the left… ///////
re: #90 William Lewis
what movie is the one on the right from? I know that’s trump on the left… ///////
American Psycho, of course.
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Like they will answer. SMH
Questions for WH reporters: Which WH staffer made the CNN wrestling video? Were taxpayer funded computers used? Who in WH knew about it?
— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) July 2, 2017
Attention bowtie wearing crap-sacks of Twitter, if someone blocks you never, ever do this. Just move the fuck on and let it go. pic.twitter.com/GE3tBHRUWH
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 3, 2017
ha, this guy. (via @NellSco) pic.twitter.com/EOtdP7Qarv
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) July 3, 2017
ugh
45,000 gallons of crude oil leak after train derails in Illinois https://t.co/tLaDSkjRQ0 pic.twitter.com/dS4lrhRXHa
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 3, 2017
re: #88 Stanley Sea
Dayum
Remember the plane crash on the 405?
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Searched a little, and they’re already calling it a hoax!
*shakes head*
Because I had posted some Perl the other day, I’m posting something in Python that was actually fun to write. I’m studying some linear algebra so I can get into machine learning, and the book I’m reading starts out with determinants. Thinking about it a bit, I realized that the determinant could be one of those problems that could turn your computer into a heap of melted metal if implemented naively. The problem is that you will do some of the calculation many times. So, the solution is to memoize computations and look them up if they have been computed. To show you how much is saved, on a 15x15 matrix, there are 32,752 unique submatrices that need to be computed to compute the determinant. If you don’t record ones that have been computed, you will do 359,089,858,865 submatrix determinants calculations.
So, here’s the Python code that does this in pretty close to the fastest way possible: It starts at one row from the bottom, and computes the matrices that will be used one level up. Now, being in Python, it’s not as fast as, say, C++, but it computed the determinant of a 15x15 matrix in less than a second; a 20x20 matrix takes about 31 seconds. On the other hand, Python allows me to compute a determinant value of 11,832,194,538,958,008,869,319,306.
from sys import argv import random import time def det( m, report = False ): "Computes the determinant of the matrix m" before = time.time() computed_minors = precompute_minors( m ) after = time.time() if report: print( "alloted time = {0}".format( after - before ) ) print( "Number of computations = {0}".format( len( computed_minors ) ) ) # After the minors, the determinant is just the entry for # all of the columns v = computed_minors[ tuple( range( 0, m.rowCount ) ) ] return v def precompute_minors( m ): """Computes the values of all of the determinants of the cofactors of the matrix. It does this by starting at the bottom two rows and works backwards, in the following manner: for the bottom two rows, compute all of the determinants all 2x2 matrices with the right index greater than the left. This generates C(n,2) entries. Then, for one row up, compute the 3x3 matrices using the 2x2. Repeat this each row higher until we get to the top""" computed_minors = {} # The two by two are easy rowIndex = m.colCount - 2 for y1 in range( 0, m.colCount - 1 ): for y2 in range( y1 + 1, m.colCount ): v = m[ rowIndex ][ y1 ] * m[ rowIndex + 1 ][ y2 ] - m[ rowIndex + 1 ][ y1 ] * m[ rowIndex ][ y2 ] computed_minors[ ( y1, y2 ) ] = v # For everything from row three backwards for x in range( 3, m.rowCount + 1 ): rowIndex = m.colCount - x cols = list( range( 0, x ) ) while True: total = 0 for colIndex in range( len( cols ) ): # This gets the value of the minor c = m[ rowIndex ][ cols[ colIndex ] ] # Get all of the columns excluding the one containing # the minor rem = cols[ : colIndex ] + cols[ colIndex + 1 : ] # Look up the computed value for the cofactor cm = computed_minors[ tuple( rem ) ] total += c * ( ( -1 ) ** colIndex ) * cm computed_minors[ tuple( cols ) ] = total # Update the indexes # Update the end index. If it rolls over, update the one # before. Repeat until an index no longer rolls over index = len( cols ) - 1 while index >= 0: cols[ index ] += 1 if cols[ index ] < m.colCount - ( len( cols ) - 1 - index ): break index -= 1 if index < 0: break # We flipped them all # If we had an index roll over, replace it with the next start index if index < len( cols ) - 1: lastV = cols[ index ] cols = cols[ : index + 1 ] + list( range( lastV + 1, lastV + len( cols ) - index ) ) return computed_minors class matrix_row_ref: """Helper class that allows matrix access using two brackets: m[ x ][ y ]""" def __init__( self, m, rowIndex ): self.m = m self.rowIndex = rowIndex def __getitem__( self, colIndex ): return self.m.get( self.rowIndex, colIndex ) def __setitem__( self, colIndex, val ): self.m.set( self.rowIndex, colIndex, val ) class matrix: """Simple matrix class""" def __init__( self, rows, cols ): self.rowCount = rows self.colCount = cols self.table = [ 0 ] * self.colCount * self.rowCount def __getitem__( self, x ): return matrix_row_ref( self, x ); def get( self, x, y ): return self.table[ x * self.colCount + y ] def set( self, x, y, v ): self.table[ x * self.colCount + y ] = v def assign( self, t ): """Allow the matrix to be initialized by an array""" for x in range( min( self.rowCount * self.colCount, len( t ) ) ): self.table[ x ] = t[ x ] def __repr__( self ): res = "" for x in range( self.rowCount ): for y in range( self.colCount ): res += str( self.get( x, y ) ) + " " res += "\n" return res __str__ = __repr__ if __name__ == "__main__": msize = 10 # Default to a 10x10 matrix if len( argv ) > 1: msize = int( argv[ 1 ] ) if len( argv ) > 2: # For testing, allow the seed value to be set # so that the same matrix is generated seedVal = int( argv[ 2 ] ) if seedVal != 0: random.seed( seedVal ) m = matrix( msize, msize ) # Generate random values m.assign( [ random.randint( -10, 10 ) for x in range( 1, msize**2 + 1 ) ] ) print( m ) detVal = det( m, True ); print( detVal )
There’s probably some cleanup I could do, but I solved the problem.
And the thing that turns the problem from a O(2^n) to O(n^2) is why there is such a thing as Computer Science. I stopped the naive implementation on a 15x15 matrix after about 17 hours, with no clue on how far it made it.
/geekout
Justice Department’s Corporate Crime Watchdog Resigns, Saying Trump Makes It Impossible To Do Job https://t.co/ncKaot6Izj
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 2, 2017
Wowww… https://t.co/ADoogcFfNA
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 3, 2017
re: #99 JordanRules
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Maybe she can go work for Mueller.
Edit: Or in NY, where she could have nearly as big of an impact.
re: #96 Stanley Sea
ugh
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Yup. Nasty. No fire, though, which is good.
When crude burns, it’s a bitch kitty to put out and leads to BLEVEs.
re: #95 Kragar
Believe it or not, the whole NJ shutdown thing escaped my notice. Mainly because I’ve had to deal with a death in the family for the last three weeks, and the bullshit that lead up to it in the preceding weeks. I finally got up to speed yesterday, thanks to the good people at nj.com.
You’d think in this age of having what is most likely a mentally incompetent monster running the US, I’d be done being shocked with the genuinely fucked up behavior that Republicans wallow in now-a-days.
But seeing pictures of Christie laying around on a beach that he personally closed because he’s not being allowed to raid a state-run charity’s finances?
Just… wow.
This is what an utter lack of shame looks like. I thought Christie constantly begging Trump for approval, despite the latter’s openly humiliating him every chance he got was bad. This is why every other state hates our guts. And then to basically hold a press conference and say “Yeah, I’m a acting like a spoiled child because I can”?
Shutting down an entire state because you’re not allowed to steal money from a charity. Unreal.
No Cultist!!1 Not a cultist!!!1!
I actually think its the other way around from what I’ve seen. Hence my handle change. (Thx @bobcesca_go )— Covfefe McGoo (@DaveoutofAustin) July 3, 2017
re: #99 JordanRules
I went to go look her up, and found this, containing tweets from May: radicalcompliance.com
Ask not how the administration can change our work; ask how our work can change the world, one thoughtful and courageous step at a time.
— Hui Chen (@HuiChenEthics) May 5, 2017
What do you do if you are troubled by your organization’s “tone from the top”, and feel you no longer believe in its mission? #Ethics
— Hui Chen (@HuiChenEthics) May 10, 2017
As a CCO, I always made sure to have a paper trail documenting improper influences in my work. #TrumpRussiaCoverUp
— Hui Chen (@HuiChenEthics) May 17, 2017
There are more in there, and you can see how they led to this. The only problem is the hole it leaves open.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 3, 2017
🔥🔥WH source: Trump was FURIOUS to learn calls to remove him from office by invoking #25thAmendment are trending on Twitter. Hit a raw nerve.
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) July 3, 2017
I wonder what Trump will be doing at around 6am tomorrow… 🤔 https://t.co/O8Vo8Il0yx
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 3, 2017
#Twooping!! the cross between Tweeting and P……. Well, you get what I mean.
— Covfefe McGoo (@DaveoutofAustin) July 3, 2017
3 states in shutdown, all with Republican governors, two trying to play the “fiscal conservative” card, while the third is trying to raid the coffers of a not-for-profit insurance company.
This does not bode well for this fall…
re: #106 Dave In Austin
I’m sure it did hit a raw nerve, and probably one of the bigger ones. Trump will absolutely not stand for his competence being questioned; he really does believe he’s the smartest guy in the room.
It continues to amaze me how so many otherwise sane people continue to try and normalize the Drumpf’s actions.
I understand that they are on the team and it’s their job requirement to do what they do, but, eventually, it’s just indefensible.
The man is a lunatic and needs to be called out as such. Perhaps if the interviewers just started to laugh at the justifications given by the Trump Team it would help.
Just start laughing at them on camera. Chortle. Snork.
“Are you serious? You can’t be serious! That’s the the stupidest explanation I’ve ever heard from a White House staff member. How can you possibly hope to spin a lie like that?”
re: #98 Belafon
Computing determinants can actually be done very quickly via row reduction. Using the cofactor expansion definition is very slow, but row reduction is very fast, and once the matrix is row-reduced properly, computation of the determinant is a very easy thing. Basically computers are all over computing determinants.
re: #108 Dr Lizardo
I’m sure it did hit a raw nerve, and probably one of the bigger ones. Trump will absolutely not stand for his competence being questioned; he really does believe he’s the smartest guy in the room.
He’s not the smartest guy in the bathroom. The toilet, when it’s not overloaded with shit, works perfectly every time.
re: #108 Dr Lizardo
I’m sure it did hit a raw nerve, and probably one of the bigger ones. Trump will absolutely not stand for his competence being questioned; he really does believe he’s the smartest guy in the room.
He lies about everything — although his cult following worships his brilliance, is it clear that he actually believes this? He is just following the role model of professional wrestlers who boast about everything without believing a word they say.
re: #110 Frenchy
Computing determinants can actually be done very quickly via row reduction. Using the cofactor expansion definition is very slow, but row reduction is very fast, and once the matrix is row-reduced properly, computation of the determinant is a very easy thing. Basically computers are all over computing determinants.
Thanks. It was still an interesting challenge, and the final version was straight dynamic programming.
re: #112 Hecuba’s daughter
He lies about everything — although his cult following worships his brilliance, is it clear that he actually believes this? He is just following the role model of professional wrestlers who boast about everything without believing a word they say.
I think he does believe it, personally. He’s a textbook narcissist and I have little doubt he’s built up for himself a self-image that he’s about as close to divinity as anyone can get.
OK……off to work. Later.
re: #113 Belafon
Wasn’t criticizing, just lending math knowledge. The cofactor thing would be fun to implement via recursion, if you like programming (which I don’t particularly). I assume this is what you did — no offense but I didn’t pore over your code. 😃
re: #59 Hecuba’s daughter
I have an acquaintance who supported Bernie but reluctantly voted for Hillary — as the lesser of two evils. The right had demonized Hillary for decades and too many fell for the lies. The GOP will continue to do this to the Democrats until and unless they are soundly defeated. With voter suppression and gerrymandering, it’s hard to see when such a victory will be possible.
All politics is local. Democrats can and win at the local level, even in extremely conservative areas.
However, they have to run to win.
This is not a fight that will be won with a couple of adverts and a single election cycle. Such things as the Tea Party wave were years in the making. Democrats need to do the same (without the wackadoodle Tea Party nonsense) - run in every election, in every district - and the party must support them.
The idea of “well, he can’t win so we won’t support him” is not a winning strategy. The Democratic Party must support any candidate willing to run a challenge if the candidate is an upstanding candidate and that candidate wants help.
The idea that “well, Candidate X has no chance in (NE, SD, TX, SC, whatever)” is not a strategy for building a party. This is not a sprint, it’s a marathon. Local elections are what shake out good politicians from not-so-good ones. Pretty much every governor, senator, representative, even president started out as a local politician.
If the party will not support local elections, then the party is not building the “deep bench” it needs to create national politicians.
Okay, I’m out. Sweet scaly dreams to all.
Who knows what fresh hell awaits us tomorrow?
It’s the new normal in Drumpf’s Amerika.
this is on a loop in hell pic.twitter.com/CrhB0uOO2N
— king crissle (@crissles) July 2, 2016
I’m not saying his very weirdly baggy around the groin pants are the absolute worst thing about this, but they really aren’t helping either.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 3, 2017
Speaking of a strange roll around the groin……..
As government of New Jersey province is shut down, US governor Chris Christie tans muscular physique on beaches closed to workers and serfs. pic.twitter.com/fsyPugl94Y
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) July 3, 2017
Stressed? A great way to release anger is to write letters to people you hate then burn them. Not sure what you do with the letters.
— Stansaid Airport (@StansaidAirport) July 3, 2017
‘lesbian feminist edition’ you say? pic.twitter.com/8hBoo3HMBa
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 3, 2017
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 3, 2017
Thread - He kicked the cub scouts out of the park…..
Chris Christie gets caught lounging on New Jersey beach he closed to public https://t.co/SgpNkMgyfD pic.twitter.com/1cXpBikRkH
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 3, 2017
Just starting into “The Hornets Nest” on Amazon….
Fuck me……!!
re: #129 Dave In Austin
Just starting into “The Hornets Nest” on Amazon….
Fuck me……!!
I just finished “Fortitude”
Dan Andersen is a scary son of a bitch.
re: #130 Kragar
I just finished it up myself yesterday. That he is. I like Sheriff Andersen…… But I can’t pin “Good Guy or Bad Guy” on him. He now has some strange tastes. I guess (and hope) this goes to Season 3.
I got to go make some coffee. 2 hrs till the weekend…..
re: #131 Dave In Austin
I just finished it up myself yesterday. That he is. I like Sheriff Andersen…… But I can’t pin “Good Guy or Bad Guy” on him. He now has some strange tastes. I guess (and hope) this goes to Season 3.
You’ve got to wonder how bad he actually was before, which was hinted at, and how much has to do with what he went thru.
I do want his hat though.
re: #132 Dave In Austin
I may need to re-watch the last episode from S1. I didn’t recall him being infected. Damned shame about the Governor though, I liked her.
re: #134 Dave In Austin
I may need to re-watch the last episode from S1. I didn’t recall him being infected. Damned shame about the Governor though, I liked her.
I think it happened in the last episode of S1 when he went after Elena, in the Morgan house.
Krager,
You a recent Vet? Hornets Nest is a documentary on Afghanistan, fairly recent. Pretty good.
re: #136 Dave In Austin
Krager,
You a recent Vet? Hornets Nest is a documentary on Afghanistan, fairly recent. Pretty good.
I got out in 02.
You’re correct!! THANKS PRESIDENT OBAMA!!
— Covfefe McGoo (@DaveoutofAustin) July 3, 2017
re: #140 Anymouse 🌹
I’m old. Thanks.
Me too. Army, got out in ‘78, Didn’t see combat, but sat on the ramp a time or 2. I enlisted 1 day shy of Vet Nam era.
re: #140 Anymouse 🌹
Where you been all nite? Not like you to not get a word in. You OK?
re: #141 Dave In Austin
Me too. Army, got out in ‘78, Didn’t see combat, but sat on the ramp a time or 2. I enlisted 1 day shy of Vet Nam era.
Well, now I don’t feel so old, since I enlisted in ‘78 and got out in ‘96.
Been up for a couple of hours…trying to get back to sleep…keep seeing Kellyanne Conway on dance floor in the Hamptons in my mind…fear nightmare….
I’m out to bed. The glass company is coming round tomorrow to fix my car. G’night, y’all.
re: #22 Unabogie
We’re just kind of a dumb country. What’s the cure for that?
Education, but we have cutting back on that for decades now. Last big boom was in the 60’s when we were scared of being overtaken by the USSR. With that bogeyman banished, we feel free to be as dumb as we want to…
re: #16 Charles Johnson
I suppose to be effective, challenges of all courses and not just those dealing with science, would be authorized next. After all, there is plenty in history that would piss off Evangelicals and other conservatives.
re: #101 austin_blue
Yup. Nasty. No fire, though, which is good.
When crude burns, it’s a bitch kitty to put out and leads to BLEVEs.
I had to look that up.
re: #147 Patricia Kayden
I suppose to be effective, challenges of all courses and not just those dealing with science, would be authorized next. After all, there is plenty in history that would piss off Evangelicals and other conservatives.
and plenty of literature they find inappropriate reading…
re: #120 freetoken
You can see the fox in the background, looking into the pen, as if trying to find a way in:
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It’s a buffet after all so I can sympathize with the fox.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Maybe we should start spreading a rumour that D’aesh is starting to open excellent schools?
re: #153 Romantic Heretic
Maybe we should start spreading a rumour that D’aesh is starting to open excellent schools?
Spread the fact that they oppose teaching Evolution…
At some point the Fake News will be forced to discuss our great jobs numbers, strong economy, success with ISIS, the border & so much else!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2017
Interesting choice by Trump to use the word “forced” the day after sharing his fantasy of assaulting a news network. https://t.co/ql65wgAwT9
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 3, 2017
re: #155 The Vicious Babushka
So, the jobs numbers and the economy numbers and the DOW numbers are real again?
Awesome.
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re: #155 The Vicious Babushka
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There’s going to come a time that he can’t continue to coast by on the fruits of Obama’s policies even with his own supporters, largely because he’ll have undermined those same policies and screwed everything up. For example, the economy. At the time he took office, it was a 50:50 chance we’d get through the next 4 years without a recession. Get an actual infrastructure plan through congress and those adds probably go up significantly. What’s Trump do? Messes with immigration and travel - shanking tourism and industries from health care to education to technology. Focuses on small dying industries like coal mining and undermines growing industries like renewables. Eviscerates government jobs and appoints hacks to key positions which impact the economy.
I’m in the office today. I might be the only one. This is normally the kind of day I take off to extend the weekend but I didn’t feel as great a need this time around. I spent three days at home sick the week before last, so I didn’t need the time at home like usual.
Yesterday I drove around on Maryland’s Eastern Shore (I live on the other shore). It was pretty neat, drove through a couple of the older, quaint towns. There’s a little village square in Centerville in Queen Anne’s County, and there’s a statue of Queen Anne herself by the old courthouse.
The only drag was getting over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, which I mistakenly assumed would not be as busy going over onto the Eastern Shore it being Sunday. But I guessed wrong. Still, the bridge is a great ride.
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re: #157 Weaselone
There’s going to come a time that he can’t continue to coast by on the fruits of Obama’s policies even with his own supporters, largely because he’ll have undermined those same policies and screwed everything up. For example, the economy. At the time he took office, it was a 50:50 chance we’d get through the next 4 years without a recession. Get an actual infrastructure plan through congress and those adds probably go up significantly. What’s Trump do? Messes with immigration and travel - shanking tourism and industries from health care to education to technology. Focuses on small dying industries like coal mining and undermines growing industries like renewables. Eviscerates government jobs and appoints hacks to key positions which impact the economy.
All future economic collapses will be simultaneously denied AND blamed on Obama.
re: #159 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #160 Sir John Barron
All future economic collapses will be simultaneously denied AND blamed on Obama.
He’s been saying OBAMACARE IS DEAD!!! OBAMACARE IS DYING!!!11 OBAMACARE IS A YOOGE FAILURE!!! BAD!!!! while GOP has been sabotaging it for years. So when it does fail, all the GOP will say is WE TOLD YOU SO!!!! even though they have planned it this way all along.
re: #160 Sir John Barron
All future economic collapses will be simultaneously denied AND blamed on Obama.
just like the Russian tampering and the loss of insurance coverage by millions of Americans?
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. Gov. Christie is still prattling on about how he had to shut down the state government because the budget wasn’t in place, even though the reason it wasn’t in place was because he demanded action on something completely unrelated to the budget (Horizon BCBS) that he threw into the budget.
So, instead of breaking it out separately, which would have been the prudent thing to do, he’s bullying his way as usual.
There’s a reason he has 15% approval in NJ. People are tired of his bullshit, and the fact that he was sunning himself on a state beach closed to everyone else all because he shuttered the state government doesn’t help his situation either.
There’s a group out there that’s trying to push all the blame on to the Assembly Speaker, and even put up posters at state facilities that put the blame on the Speaker, but that misrepresents and outright shifts the blame for all this from where it belongs- on the governor.
re: #45 Kragar
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re: #163 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
just like the Russian tampering and the loss of insurance coverage by millions of Americans?
The Russian tampering didn’t happen and there was nothing wrong with it, shouldn’t the Russians have given us HRC’s emails if they had them even though they didn’t and no collusion but collusion would be OK—not against the law.
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re: #166 Sir John Barron
The Russian tampering didn’t happen and there was nothing wrong with it, shouldn’t the Russians have given us HRC’s emails if they had them even though they didn’t and no collusion but collusion would OK—not against the law.
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Hillarzy colluded with the DNC!!!
re: #164 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. Gov. Christie is still prattling on about how he had to shut down the state government because the budget wasn’t in place, even though the reason it wasn’t in place was because he demanded action on something completely unrelated to the budget (Horizon BCBS) that he threw into the budget.
So, instead of breaking it out separately, which would have been the prudent thing to do, he’s bullying his way as usual.
There’s a reason he has 15% approval in NJ. People are tired of his bullshit, and the fact that he was sunning himself on a state beach closed to everyone else all because he shuttered the state government doesn’t help his situation either.
There’s a group out there that’s trying to push all the blame on to the Assembly Speaker, and even put up posters at state facilities that put the blame on the Speaker, but that misrepresents and outright shifts the blame for all this from where it belongs- on the governor.
Donald Trump in a second term.
The MAGAheads have turned on each other and on their Fearless Leader.
re: #168 Sir John Barron
Donald Trump in a second term.
The MAGAheads have turned on each other and on their Fearless Leader.
I think the long-term strategy is to tolerate his embarrassments and scandals long enough to get him re-elected in 2020 and then run him out of office directly thereafter so it will have all blown over before the 2024 elections…
He’s sneaking into London in the middle of the night so he won’t encounter any mean protesters.
The American president wants to sneak into London in the dead of night because he’s scared of protestors. pic.twitter.com/egXseHcfjk
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) July 2, 2017
GOP and Trump are again back to the repeal and replace (after the first of Never). This is the same bullshit they were spewing for 8 years. 60+ votes to repeal, and they never had a plan to replace.
They still don’t. They’re back to square one after 8 years.
They don’t have a plan despite having the policy wonk Speaker Ryan having 8 years to work out something that covers as many people as comprehensively as now for comparable cost.
Every single iteration of the #GOPDontCare plan means millions (or tens of millions) fewer with coverage, worse coverage, and millions more affected by bad outcomes (like preexisting condition provisions making a comeback, along with lifetime caps, and dependents being kicked off well before age 26).
The GOP can’t and wont find Democrats to help them gut coverage for millions of Americans, because Americans don’t want their coverage fucked up the way the GOP intends to do all so that a privileged few can see massive tax breaks.
At the end of the day, that’s all the GOP cares about - making sure that the privileged get to expand their power and wealth, while all the burdens shift to everyone else.
The scene of Christie on the state beach with his family while the rest of the state beaches and parks are closed by his order is emblematic of the GOP’s absolute goal - sticking it to everyone else while the privileged get to retain the benefit.
re: #168 Sir John Barron
Donald Trump in a second term.
The MAGAheads have turned on each other and on their Fearless Leader.
The stock market has partially collapsed, unemployment starts ticking back up again, Fox News runs features on Obama vacationing somewhere, complains that Democrats and Americans in general are sabotaging Dear Trump’s MAGA agenda and should be locked up for treason.
THIS THREAD.
I’d like to give a little insight into what it’s like being a journalist in 2017 and why Trump’s rhetoric is incredibly dangerous 1/
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 3, 2017
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
He’s sneaking into London in the middle of the night so he won’t encounter any mean protesters.
Saudi Arabia much nicer than London. Mean protesters here. No protesters in SA! How come we can’t be more like Saudis? No respect for USA! We have yuuuge trade deficit with London! Not good!
re: #171 lawhawk
The GOP can’t and wont find Democrats to help them gut coverage for millions of Americans, because Americans don’t want their coverage fucked up the way the GOP intends to do all so that a privileged few can see massive tax breaks.
After 8 years of constant and malignant ratf0cking, celebrating their unanimous opposition to ACA passage (and everyone Obama), two court challenges, the second of which was particularly ludicrous (remember the challenge over the subsidy?), more sabotaging of the risk corridors (remember Marco Rubio’s congratulating himself about this?), all the while the actual ACA did something you’d think conservatives would have supported—the creation of health insurance markets.
The GOP is not an honest broker on this issue. They have not acted in good faith. So any Dems wanting to help them out would be like Charlie Brown, Lucy, the football, etc.
This is from Anymouse back in January.
Trump may have committed High Treason, but don’t lose perspective: this man wore a tan jacket, ate Dijon mustard, and snuck occasional cigs. pic.twitter.com/JVCzMGH0dp
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) July 3, 2017
re: #119 freetoken
Apparently there is a fox on the loose. Wind back a few minutes:
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“Are you saying ‘fox’ or ‘fuck’”?
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“Ohshit ohshit ohshit!….are you saying ‘fox’ as in ‘fox’ or ‘Fox News Channel’”?
A duck surge runs into a Duck Constructionist.
re: #175 Sir John Barron
GOP attempts at sabotaging Obamacare and depriving millions of access to affordable health coverage continues on a daily basis. These fuckers have the audacity to claim that Obamacare is a failure because not more people have been covered. We’ve seen the tweets from Price about how 28 million are still uncovered, as though that’s Obamacare’s fault when the blame resides almost entirely on a GOP that refused to expand Medicaid in states like Texas (which continues to have the highest uninsured rate in the nation) and where they refused to do anything that might make coverage or the markets more secure.
Every fucking day the GOP attempts to undermine the function of Obamacare, and the direct result of this is higher costs to millions of people, including their own constituents who the GOP lies to daily about the consequences of their actions, and what Obamacare actually is and does.
Calling Trump out for his inability to do his damned job is not same as wanting to see him fail. He’s failing entirely on his own.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 3, 2017
re: #180 lawhawk
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re: #179 lawhawk
GOP attempts at sabotaging Obamacare and depriving millions of access to affordable health coverage continues on a daily basis. These fuckers have the audacity to claim that Obamacare is a failure because not more people have been covered. We’ve seen the tweets from Price about how 28 million are still uncovered, as though that’s Obamacare’s fault when the blame resides almost entirely on a GOP that refused to expand Medicaid in states like Texas (which continues to have the highest uninsured rate in the nation) and where they refused to do anything that might make coverage or the markets more secure.
Every fucking day the GOP attempts to undermine the function of Obamacare, and the direct result of this is higher costs to millions of people, including their own constituents who the GOP lies to daily about the consequences of their actions, and what Obamacare actually is and does.
Sebelius was on two different shows on CNN last week explaining how the GOP has purposely sabotaged the ACA, especially since January. I’m no fan of insurance companies, but no company in its right mind would make any kind of commitments in this carefully constructed chaos.
re: #180 lawhawk
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re: #182 Barefoot Grin
Sebelius was on two different shows on CNN last week explaining how the GOP has purposely sabotaged the ACA, especially since January. I’m no fan of insurance companies, but no company in its right mind would make any kind of commitments in this carefully constructed chaos.
The insurers themselves have specifically identified the GOP attempts to fuck with the marketplace in their premium hike discussions with the various states.
re: #185 lawhawk
The insurers themselves have specifically identified the GOP attempts to fuck with the marketplace in their premium hike discussions with the various states.
Fox, Sinclair and wingnut radio never said a word about it. Ergo, in the view of GOP voters, it never happened.
re: #180 lawhawk
The GOP openly admitted they wanted Obama to fail and all their efforts were devoted to that end.
re: #187 Sir John Barron
The GOP openly admitted they wanted Obama to fail and all their efforts were devoted to that end.
…do I really need to explain what the difference is and why it is now no longer patriotic to “obstruct” the President?
re: #187 Sir John Barron
The GOP openly admitted they wanted Obama to fail and all their efforts were devoted to that end.
They voted unanimously, and proudly, against Obama earliest and most major initiatives, the stimulus, the ACA, etc.
re: #188 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
…do I really need to explain what the difference is and why it is now no longer patriotic to “obstruct” the President?
Black man. White house.
re: #189 Sir John Barron
They voted unanimously, and proudly, against Obama earliest and most major initiatives, the stimulus, the ACA, etc.
and proudly attempted to repeal ACA some 30 times or more, while spending millions on investigating Benghazi and Fast and Furious and E-mailgate over and over and over again…
re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and proudly attempted to repeal ACA some 30 times or more
Which only makes their failure to do so now show how all those earlier “repeal” votes were kubaki theatre.
These idiot Trump trolls (but I repeat myself).
For someone who claims to be working for the stock market, you’d know that the BEA stats show the opposite.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 3, 2017
Blocked for factual dumbassery - the growth slowed with Trump. https://t.co/RULoeNhFtC
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 3, 2017
OMG, the stock market more than doubled, versus a 10% increase. Do the goddamned math. Oh wait, math challenged folks are Trump’s marks.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 3, 2017
re: #88 Stanley Sea
Dayum
Remember the plane crash on the 405?
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re: #173 The Vicious Babushka
THIS THREAD.
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What if I told you I could follow up to both your threads with a single youtube video?
We live in interesting times… O.O
Edit: DO NOT LOOK AT THE VIDEO COMMENTS.
re: #157 Weaselone
I remember the early 80s all too well when Reagan blamed Carter for the dismal economy.
I remember the early 00s all too well when Dumbya blamed Clinton for the dismal economy.
Trump will do the same.
re: #195 Sir John Barron
The stock market growth under Obama was a “bubble”. Now it’s all real growth.
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I’m seeing tRumpers predicting DJIA will reach 20,000 before the end of the year.
re: #198 jaunte
Took a few seconds here…..
re: #198 jaunte
I downloaded an app just to see what that Christie photo will look like when I commission it to be painted in oils - so gorgeous pic.twitter.com/nAupigN8Ov
— Karen Kilgariff (@KarenKilgariff) July 3, 2017
2. Trump promises not to tweet as president pic.twitter.com/gm8NP2NRc0
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 3, 2017
3. Trump says as president he would never see his golf courses, would be working all the time pic.twitter.com/lI3i730fUI
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 3, 2017
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
He’s sneaking into London in the middle of the night so he won’t encounter any mean protesters.
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This underestimates the ability of people to mobilize very quickly due to (a) the Internet and (b) hatred of Trump. In fact, some people might take it as a challenge to get out there and really let Trump know how they feel if he tries to sneak in. I know I would!
re: #203 mmmirele
This underestimates the ability of people to mobilize very quickly due to (a) the Internet and (b) hatred of Trump. In fact, some people might take it as a challenge to get out there and really let Trump know how they feel if he tries to sneak in. I know I would!
They will be airdropping rubber dummy Trumps all over the UK to distract protesters.
Worked in Normandy…
re: #203 mmmirele
This underestimates the ability of people to mobilize very quickly due to (a) the Internet and (b) hatred of Trump. In fact, some people might take it as a challenge to get out there and really let Trump know how they feel if he tries to sneak in. I know I would!
FNC: George Soros paid protesters Obama’s deep state!
re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Rubber dummy Trumps? Hmm. Sounds like it would be good to vent some anger on them.
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #203 mmmirele
This underestimates the ability of people to mobilize very quickly due to (a) the Internet and (b) hatred of Trump. In fact, some people might take it as a challenge to get out there and really let Trump know how they feel if he tries to sneak in. I know I would!
I know how fast a flash picket can be arranged if people are prepared… About 45 minutes. So for the sneakiness to work, he’d have to wait before announcing it so it’s less than that.
re: #205 Sir John Barron
FNC: George Soros paid protesters Obama’s deep state!
And when the above scenario plays out, of course they will blame moles etc.
*sigh*
Woman who cleaned up Trump Hollywood star is “blown away by how much disrespect I got [and] how rude people were to me” pic.twitter.com/spXVhAqSHI
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) July 3, 2017
OMG get this precious snowflake to a safe space #TheResistance https://t.co/K9agaPZqHJ
— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) July 3, 2017
If we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the U.K. and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2017
Trump’s latest distraction….
And wingnuts will be all over this, without ever dealing with the issue of who will pay for the care. Yeah, there’s a GoFundMe fund. But that won’t last. It will be depleted. Then what? Remove life support then?
re: #208 The Vicious Babushka
Maybe I should introduce this snowflake to Jamie Otis. That’d be the guy who took a sledgehammer to Trump’s star last year. I went to college with him, and he was a resident of our co-op. (We’re talking 1985 here, Jamie is no youngster.)
Will be speaking with Italy this morning!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2017
Give it my regards. https://t.co/rQadAFZG2R
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) July 3, 2017
re: #209 weave
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And wingnuts will be all over this, without ever dealing with the issue of who will pay for the care. Yeah, there’s a GoFundMe fund. But that won’t last. It will be depleted. Then what? Remove life support then?
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re: #209 weave
OMG OMG OMG Charlie Gard?! Holy crap, this is a horribly tragic situation. And neither Trump nor the Pope understands it completely. The child has a debilitating disease and even the doctor here in the US with the experimental treatment says it won’t work on Charlie.
Here’s an article that gives the latest (not including Trump’s bloviations):
I swear to God, I could just scream.
re: #211 bratwurst
Speaking with Italy? Oh well, it is the uncouth one and his complete disregard for grammar, people and nations.
Yup, just leave the state beaches for the governor’s family own private use.
You really are looking to get to zero approval rating in NJ.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 3, 2017
Why let immigrants serve in the US Army? I mean, just because they’ve been serving with distinction since 1775. If it works, then break it?
— 🖖 (@pippingrad) July 3, 2017
re: #180 lawhawk
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It’s not the media’s job to make him succeed. It’s the media’s job to hound him and find out what he’s doing so that the public can find out.
I’m sorry, I’m going to rant here.
The Guardian has the following quote:
In a statement on Friday, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia of the Pontifical Academy of Life, said: “We should never act with the deliberate intention to end a human life, including the removal of nutrition and hydration.
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re: #54 The Vicious Babushka
She’s a liar. You’re a liar. Your son is a murderous thug. Your entire family is immoral and disgusting.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 3, 2017
To fill out the discussion on Charlie Gard, I’m providing one of the court rulings from the case. This, I think, is key:
98. On the first day of this hearing I suggested that Professor A and Dr. I spoke, if possible, by telephone to see whether they could reach any form of consensus or at least narrow any issues between them. I have the notes of that telephone conversation. The conversation started by Dr. I being asked whether he had seen the most recent EEG for Charlie. Dr. I confirmed that he had received the results that very morning. He said the following:
“Seeing the documents this morning has been very helpful. I can understand the opinion that he is so severely affected by encephalopathy that any attempt at therapy would be futile. I agree that it is very unlikely that he will improve with that therapy. It is unlikely.”
99. However, he made it clear that, were Charlie in the US, he would treat him, although he would defer to “ICU people” (as he called them) to make the decision. He was asked this question:
“You understand that the nucleoside part was a secondary part and that the main reason for the application to the court is that we believe he is suffering and has no hope of improving. So we have primarily applied for active ventilator support/proactive ventilator support to be withdrawn.”
To this Dr. I replied:
“Perhaps, if I were there, I would support it. Not seeing the child, not seeing progression, it’s difficult for me to make an assessment.”
100. Dr. I also confirmed during this telephone conversation that he had never treated anyone who had encephalopathy. Therefore, he was unable to indicate whether a patient with encephalopathy would respond.
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re: #54 The Vicious Babushka
CHRIST IT’S THIS ASSHOLE AGAIN
Area Christian man elevating the dialogue.
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re: #213 mmmirele
OMG OMG OMG Charlie Gard?! Holy crap, this is a horribly tragic situation. And neither Trump nor the Pope understands it completely. The child has a debilitating disease and even the doctor here in the US with the experimental treatment says it won’t work on Charlie.
Here’s an article that gives the latest (not including Trump’s bloviations):
I swear to God, I could just scream.
The new Teri Schiavo
re: #220 mmmirele
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re: #221 MsJ
I see you’ve gotten over your shyness. :D
It’s beyond words. If I were gov, sure wouldn’t be sitting on beach if taxpayers didn’t have access to state beaches https://t.co/VBtBpoUUkv
— Kim Guadagno (@KimGuadagnoNJ) July 3, 2017
Someone get Christie some salve, because that’s a 3d degree burn pic.twitter.com/n2JECRpTSc
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 3, 2017
Trump recognizes the King of Saudi Arabia as a person. The elected leaders of democratic allies, well… pic.twitter.com/3fsXXLo4vi
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) July 3, 2017
Funny how this all works…
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
He’s sneaking into London in the middle of the night so he won’t encounter any mean protesters.
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We call a rainy day out on a stony beach at a couple of hours notice ‘a holiday’. This would be a festival.
— Hayles Boland (@BolandHayles) July 3, 2017
re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They will be airdropping rubber dummy Trumps all over the UK to distract protesters.
Worked in Normandy…
They could identify hostile forces by using tweets:
One “tweet” to be answered by two “tweets”.
heh
Republican voters basically bought a pet tiger, and now can’t admit it was a bad idea. It’s shitting all over the house & might eat the kids
— Ashley Black (@ashleyn1cole) July 2, 2017
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
Why is dTumpF going to London anyway?
re: #207 Teukka
I know how fast a flash picket can be arranged if people are prepared… About 45 minutes. So for the sneakiness to work, he’d have to wait before announcing it so it’s less than that.
And when the above scenario plays out, of course they will blame moles etc.
*sigh*
Do you know who else made sudden travel arrangements, so that people could not plan to attack him?
Marc Short, WH legislative director, tells @FoxNews that it’s “absurd” men pay for maternity, women pay for prostate cancer treatment. (1)
— Jonathan Cohn (@CitizenCohn) July 2, 2017
The worst irony of abstinence education is we have to spend the rest of our lives telling grown men where babies come from. https://t.co/BXeH8ERfJ0
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) July 3, 2017
re: #235 jaunte
Marc Short, WH legislative director, tells FoxNews that it’s “absurd” men pay for maternity, women pay for prostate cancer treatment.
Because men do not have wives and children and women do not have husbands and fathers…
re: #235 jaunte
Also absurd MY insurance money pays for someone else’s hospital care and cancer surgeries.
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re: #180 lawhawk
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Dakota Meyer married into the Palin clan and basically runs his mouth and poses for Instagram photos. Who cares what he thinks?
re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because men do not have wives and children and women do not have husbands and fathers…
These people are living in some kind of crazy dog-eat-dog fantasy they want to impose on society.
re: #186 sagehen
Fox, Sinclair and wingnut radio never said a word about it. Ergo, in the view of GOP voters, it never happened.
If you want to never sleep again, watch John Oliver’s show from last night about Sinclair’s “input” into local news broadcasts and how it will become even more heinous if/when their Tribune buyout takes place.
re: #236 Sir John Barron
Isn’t that his Lt. Gov?
Ding ding ding…. she’s just as loony as he is, but she’s running for Governor, and needs to distance herself from his bugnuts craziness.
re: #240 jaunte
These people are living in some kind of crazy dog-eat-dog fantasy they want to impose on society.
Someday, when when technology allows us to start hatching fully-grown adult humans who can be given a basic education chip implant and sent out to realize their full potential in society, then their sort of Randian free-market fantasy world might start to make sense…
Spam alert: Some clown with the username Banco just spammed the crap out of the right-hand column with bogus “tech support” adverts.
re: #244 Anymouse 🌹
Thanks. I saw his name this morning.
re: #223 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
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re: #236 Sir John Barron
Isn’t that his Lt. Gov?
She’ been openly dissing him since Bridgegate broke. It’s been one of the few bright spots in our gubernatorial disgrace over the last few years.
re: #239 BeachDem
Dakota Meyer married into the Palin clan and basically runs his mouth and poses for Instagram photos. Who cares what he thinks?
PTSD is a hell of a thing, just ask another MoH honoree Audy Murphy.
re: #233 Sir John Barron
Why is dTumpF going to London anyway?
To ride in a golden carriage. (Guess that will probably have to be scrapped now he’s going stealth.)
re: #233 Sir John Barron
Why is dTumpF going to London anyway?
He wants to arrange a marriage for Tiffany with Prince Harry. Or if that doesn’t work, Barron with Princess Charlotte.
re: #249 BeachDem
Golden carriage was scrapped because the uncouth one was told that is only for royal ceremonies and it is not bullet-proof.
re: #226 retired cynic
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re: #251 PhillyPretzel
Narrow escape. He would have turned it into a pumpkin.
re: #235 jaunte
“Buhhhh, why should I pay for someone ELSE to get healthcare?” That’s insurance, you’re mad at the concept of insurance
— Pixelated Boat (@pixelatedboat) June 27, 2017
I came back in briefly because the auto glass company just called and said they won’t be replacing my windscreen today; it will be Thursday.
My windscreen was shipped to Broadwater, Montana. The glass company has to wait for it to come back from there before they can install it.
re: #255 Anymouse 🌹
I came back in briefly because the auto glass company just called and said they won’t be replacing my windscreen today; it will be Thursday.
My windscreen was shipped to Broadwater, Montana. The glass company has to wait for it to come back from there before they can install it.
Movin’ to Montana soon. Gonna be an auto glass tycoon.
Chris Christie: From Here to Eternity pic.twitter.com/Rxf6uZhjLW
— Nell Scovell (@NellSco) July 3, 2017
I’m starting to really enjoy this Christie in a lawn chair photoshopped into history meme. https://t.co/M7hLIa1giE
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 3, 2017
Chris Christie: From Here to Eternity pic.twitter.com/Rxf6uZhjLW
— Nell Scovell (@NellSco) July 3, 2017
I’m starting to really enjoy this Christie in a lawn chair photoshopped into history meme. https://t.co/M7hLIa1giE
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 3, 2017
HuffPo wins the Chris Christie headline competition with:
BEACH, PLEASE
re: #258 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m starting to really enjoy this Christie in a lawn chair photoshopped into history meme.
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Film history.
I have not seen him at Hastings, Anzio or Normandy yet, I assume those are already out there or in the works…
Especially the Bay of Pigs.
re: #255 Anymouse 🌹
I came back in briefly because the auto glass company just called and said they won’t be replacing my windscreen today; it will be Thursday.
My windscreen was shipped to Broadwater, Montana. The glass company has to wait for it to come back from there before they can install it.
What happened?
Good afternoon.
Landlord finally sent some people over to deal with the trees. Of course, one already fell a week or so ago and the other is leaning. It’s also very tall and dangerous.
Great, right?
Well, they’re not being paid to haul it away….
e_e
re: #260 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Dunkirk….
re: #260 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
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Film history.
I have not seen him at Hastings, Anzio or Normandy yet, I assume those are already out there or in the works…
Especially the Bay of Pigs.
Woodstock
JFK assassination
Even better!
They asked a neighbor to borrow a ladder.
I have no faith they’ll do this right.
I’m keeping myself and the cat downstairs where it is safe.
.@darth cited in @nytimes https://t.co/5SEgb86kvx pic.twitter.com/quBZuYHx2A
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) July 3, 2017
re: #233 Sir John Barron
Why is dTumpF going to London anyway?
Putin asked him to deliver something to the Ecuadorian embassy.
re: #256 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Movin’ to Montana soon. Gonna be an auto glass tycoon.
Montana, repository of Smartfortwo Coupe windscreens. You could corner the market on them.
Jeff Sessions violates his recusal from Russia investigation during Fox interview https://t.co/LPDNPeZqWB via @shareblue
— Propane Jane™ (@docrocktex26) July 3, 2017
“…In a Department of Justice memo explaining the details of the recusal, Sessions’ chief of staff noted that the recusal “extends to Department responses to Congressional and media inquiries” related to the Russia investigation.
But Sessions threw that all out the window for Fox News.”
re: #256 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Movin’ to Montana soon. Gonna be an auto glass tycoon.
Pretty sure that’s also a game.
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If we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the U.K. and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2017
I hadn’t heard anything about this Charlie Gard case before Mango Mussolini’s post this morning. Looks like another Terri Schiavo case. Republicans only seem to care about healthcare if the patient is white and irreversibly brain damaged.
It seems that this has been something the right-wing has been using to bash single-payer with. Never mind that the case really had nothing to do with medical coverage. If the kid had lived in the US either his insurance would have kicked him out the door months ago or his parents would have been bankrupted by his hospital bill.
re: #262 Sir John Barron
What happened?
My windscreen was broken in a hailstorm last week. It is cracked from the passenger pillar almost all the way across to the driver’s pillar, and has separated into two pieces. (I can’t drive it out of town.)
re: #177 Dr. Matt
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re: #273 Ace-o-aces
If we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the U.K. and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so.
Then break out the checkbook, big shot.
re: #263 Varek Raith
Our apartment building once had this very old tall palm tree. Guys went up with a chain saw and dropped ten feet of it off the top into the swimming pool. Forgot to rope it onto a winch to lower it. The manager ran out saw the disaster and fired them on the spot, leaving no one to remove the tree to from the pool or finish the job.
re: #273 Ace-o-aces
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I hadn’t heard anything about this Charlie Gard case before Mango Mussolini’s post this morning. Looks like another Terri Schiavo case. Republicans only seem to care about healthcare if the patient is white and irreversibly brain damaged.
It seems that this has been something the right-wing has been using to bash single-payer with. Never mind that the case really had nothing to do with medical coverage. If the kid had lived in the US either his insurance would have kicked him out the door months ago or his parents would have been bankrupted by his hospital bill.
Under Trumpcare, this kid’s family would be suffering from a medically induced bankruptcy. Insurers are extremely reluctant to approve coverage for experimental treatments - and this kid unfortunately has a bad prognosis no matter what - it’s a genetic condition from which there is no hope for recovery.
I agree the only reason Trump’s brought this up is as an attack on the NHS in the UK, even though the US system wouldn’t do any better with his case - let alone Trumpcare that would put the family in an even worse bind.
re: #277 makeitstop
He could do that but I would try to find out if there is anything in that account.
Reporter flooded with ‘gory’ death threats after revealing neo-Nazi creator of Trump’s CNN tweet https://t.co/4G1tb5QVsB pic.twitter.com/T5HWdxUGp6
— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 3, 2017
Morning/Afternoon Lizardim from the beautiful and warm wild north country. I’ve been running down the fuel in Mrs. Fish’s big brown beastie trying to make sure she gets enough exercise; at least now I can tell how much I have left, as opposed to previously, when I carried a 2-gallon can in the trunk just in case the worst happened. How go things among the lizardfolk on this blessedly quiet Third of July?
Far-right extremist arrested for plotting to assassinate France’s Macron during Trump visit https://t.co/oVLqDtbiTu
— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 3, 2017
“…The 23-year-old is a suspected far-right extremist who told investigators he wanted to kill Macron at the July 14 national day parade in Paris, a source close to the investigation said.
He said he also wanted to attack “Muslims, Jews, blacks, homosexuals,” the source added.”
Sounds familiar.
People complain that Trump has spent 21% of his term on a golf course, but keep in mind that he’s spent the other 79% ruining the country.
— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) July 3, 2017
re: #284 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I gave myself the day off and I purchased a new recharger battery. :)
re: #286 lawhawk
I was reading it as “running the country.” I took a closer look and saw “ruining.”
re: #284 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Relaxing here, scouting for a good place to do a July 4 time lapse or long exposure image.
Chris Christie Beaches Himself (Goes to Wonkette)
(with video)
Asked whether he’d “gotten any sun,” Christie at first denied it. Then, realizing there were
pee tapespix, his spokesman reverted to the time-honored, “he did not get any sun because he was wearing a baseball cap.” That’s up there with “no man born of woman” for loopholes, which is a sucky loophole because “born of woman” never said anything about “born of woman’s VAGINA,” and women’s stomachs are still part of women, GAH STUPID SHAKESPEARE, GET BENT.Perhaps realizing that was fucking dumb, Christie then decided to own it and go full Chris Christie. Want to be able to go to a state beach for the Fourth of July? “Run for governor and you can have a residence,” said some dick who is governor of New Jersey for not very much longer.
On Sunday evening, The Star-Ledger published a series of aerial photographs showing the governor, his family and friends, as the lone beachgoers on the 10-mile barrier island over the July 4th holiday weekend. Shortly thereafter, Christie became a trending topic on Twitter nationally and internationally.“What a great bit of journalism by the Star-Ledger. They actually caught a politician being where he said he was going to be with the people he said he was going to be with — his wife and his children and their friends,” Christie told FOX5NY on Monday morning.
“I’m sure they’re going to get a Pulitzer for this, they caught me,” he said.
More at Politico.
STOP WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING AND READ THIS
Opinion: The hijacked American presidency https://t.co/e7y55YaSQz pic.twitter.com/8jgTFrvnXa
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 3, 2017
re: #295 The Vicious Babushka
I agree with the author.
Are there any major protests going on tomorrow?
re: #295 The Vicious Babushka
STOP WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING AND READ THIS
Respect are president whos MAGA!!!!
re: #211 bratwurst
TRUMP: “Will be speaking with Italy this morning!”
He might be disappointed to find Silvio Berlusconi’s not in charge any more.
re: #211 bratwurst
As was noted on Twitter this morning, it’s likely that dTuRmpf doesn’t know who the president or PM of Italy is. So for that he just substitutes the country’s name.
re: #299 Alephnaught
He might be disappointed to find Silvio Berlusconi’s not in charge any more.
What about the actual Benito Mussolini? He and DJT would get along bigly. Benito is doing great things these days, everyone says so.
re: #302 Sir John Barron
What about the actual Benito Mussolini? He and DJT would get along bigly. Benito is doing great things these days, everyone says so.
Just hangin’ around.
— 👓 Tom Wellborn (@TomWellborn) July 3, 2017
Light penalties and lax oversight encourage weak safety culture at nuclear weapons labs https://t.co/2k2qpCkdfi #nmpol
— NM Political Report (@NMreport) July 3, 2017
re: #301 Sir John Barron
As was noted on Twitter this morning, it’s likely that dTuRmpf doesn’t know who the president or PM of Italy is. So for that he just substitutes the country’s name.
If he really speaks to Italy, he’ll learn what vaffanculo means, and then he’ll know one thing.
I’m reading the second Dirk Gently book and I came across this passage:
It was odd, Kate reflected, that people who needed to bully you were the easiest to push around.
I thought of Trump. It’s not the first time reading this book that it’s reminded me of Trump.
re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth
Someone needs to do Christie w/MacArthur as they wade ashore in the Philippines during WWII.
re: #11 Dave In Austin
Van Jones Retweets….
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The next time Van has Vermont’s junior Psycho Psenator over for a chat, he should ask how the latest FBI interview went. And whether he still fantasizes about rape. And where his GD tax returns are.
Daily Beast reports that Gitmo prisoners are complaining the only English-language news they can get comes from Russia Today (RT).
More at the link:
Guantanamo officials would not comment on why RT, which U.S. intelligence considers a key component of Vladimir Putin’s global messaging, gets shown in Gitmo’s Camp 7. Inmates there include confessed 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and accused USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.
Another one of those cellmates is Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani. Apprehended by the CIA in Pakistan in 2007, Afghani has written to his attorney voluminously—displaying a Seinfeld-esque sense of humor unexpected from a man who was once forced awake for so long he hallucinated. But among Afghani’s observations is that he and the 14 other Camp 7 detainees are fed a media diet heavy on RT.
In a March 15, 2017 letter Afghani wrote, “It’s the only western news we get—and it’s from Moscow.”
re: #301 Sir John Barron
As was noted on Twitter this morning, it’s likely that dTuRmpf doesn’t know who the president or PM of Italy is. So for that he just substitutes the country’s name.
Smh. A 6 year old can use Google to figure that shit out.
re: #315 Eclectic Cyborg
Smh. A 6 year old can use Google to figure that shit out.
None of his staff likely know either.
From the Lavrov speech noted by a Lizard earlier:
“Today, we are all participants of an objective process of forming a polycentric world order..”
re: #314 Anymouse 🌹
Daily Beast reports that Gitmo prisoners are complaining the only English-language news they can get comes from Russia Today (RT).
More at the link:
WTF?
Trump-supporting groups on Twitter are seeking to monetise their efforts by selling their Twitter services to potential Republican candidates in the 2018 election.
re: #318 Eclectic Cyborg
WTF?
Afghani has been watching RT for a long time. He first referenced “the TV I have, RT, Russian TV” in a December 2015 letter to his lawyer, Carlos Warner, who shared a trove of Afghani’s letters with The Daily Beast. He’s sufficiently familiar with RT as to form a critique of the network’s editorial choices.
“Funny how RT likes Trump and doesn’t talk about Guantanamo anymore,” he writes, continuing: “This is all fake news. Propaganda is not news.”
re: #317 Ming5000
From the Lavrov speech noted by a Lizard earlier:
The Russians are tired of the US being the center of everything, and they have the perfect puppet in the White House to change that.
re: #301 Sir John Barron
As was noted on Twitter this morning, it’s likely that dTuRmpf doesn’t know who the president or PM of Italy is. So for that he just substitutes the country’s name.
He does not need to know the name of the leader of Ubeki-beki-stan, he has people for that…
re: #306 wrenchwench
It starts with the fact that the privatized contractors (major defense contractors like Lockheed) never seem to get penalized, or if they are, it’s a token penalty, and the workers continue to get exposed to dangerous conditions while taxpayers continue to be on the hook for the costs.
The other mechanism for enforcing safety is the withholding of some of the contractor’s profits for running the labs and plants. But a review of the payments to contractors at ten nuclear sites over a decade — even with penalties like the one cited above — shows the contractors, on average, earning 86 percent of the maximum profit available to them. “What’s the incentive to do the job right when no matter what, you get the money?” asks Ralph Stanton, a worker exposed to plutonium radiation in an accident at the Idaho National Laboratory.
re: #314 Anymouse 🌹
Daily Beast reports that Gitmo prisoners are complaining the only English-language news they can get comes from Russia Today (RT).
More at the link:
What do they expect, Al Jazeera?
re: #321 Belafon
The Russians are count on Trump destroying American influence in the world: https://t.co/RG5DkphmLO.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) July 3, 2017
re: #311 wrenchwench
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I hope millions of people tweet that to him. Op-eds and official pronouncements don’t bother him in the least. That will.
re: #314 Anymouse 🌹
Daily Beast reports that Gitmo prisoners are complaining the only English-language news they can get comes from Russia Today (RT).
More at the link:
I trust they will promptly add Fox News to their selection.
FarRight Nationalist plotted to kill Emmanuel Macron on Bastille Day in front of Trump.
Plot foiled by French policehttps://t.co/q0aVhWp9Ej— Chris Sampson (@TAPSTRIMEDIA) July 3, 2017
re: #324 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What do they expect, Al Jazeera?
Real torture would be FOX News Channel, though that might violate the Geneva Convention.
re: #317 Ming5000
From the Lavrov speech noted by a Lizard earlier:
I thought we were going to dominate the world. America First.
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DOJ Corporate Ethics Watchdog resigns, because she could no longer stand the hypocrisy of demanding that others comply with ethics standards the Trump Administration routinely violates.
re: #330 Sir John Barron
I thought we were going to dominate the world. America First.
/
At the rate we’re going, we’re more likely to detonate the world than dominate it.
re: #241 BeachDem
If you want to never sleep again, watch John Oliver’s show from last night about Sinclair’s “input” into local news broadcasts and how it will become even more heinous if/when their Tribune buyout takes place.
John Oliver on Sinclair’s buyout of small-town and rural television stations to present only conservative slant to the news. (18:59)
You are one who hates liberty and freedom that Americans have because of the US Constitution #democratsAreIsis #cnnIsIsis #downWithLiberals
— Acct 🇺🇸 (@acctfortwit) July 3, 2017
Dear @acctfortwit: I served on active duty in the US military to protect your freedom to say stupid things. Happy July 4th! https://t.co/nDu5Wu2TWY
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) July 3, 2017
re: #318 Eclectic Cyborg
WTF?
I think this is the relevant quote:
Robinson, however, confirmed that RT is available at Guantanamo for the 26 non-Camp 7 detainees. It’s included in their Galaxy 19 satellite TV package of 200 channels in various languages: “The current list of offerings includes RT, among numerous other news sources. Detainees choose which stations, if any, they watch or listen to.”
Not even the US military can buy cable/satellite TV A la carte. Perhaps they should put a parental block on RT.
In major defeat for the NRA, court rules that Florida’s new stand-your-ground law is unconstitutional https://t.co/wmKhrjKchX pic.twitter.com/IY3fEZ0VBE
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) July 3, 2017
re: #336 Backwoods_Sleuth
The NRA will beg for $$$$ to repeal it.
More from Lavrov:
The emergence of new confident centres of economic power and associated political influence implies a new higher level of mutual trust, which is impossible to achieve without observing such fundamental principles of international life as the sovereignty of states, non-interference in their internal affairs, and the resolution of disputes by peaceful means.
“new confident centres of economic power”? I suppose when oil prices were high that Russia had some good spending money. Right now Russia’s GDP ranks #11, right behind South Korea and in before Australia.
And this: LOL “non-interference in their internal affairs”
re: #336 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #341 Targetpractice
Of course the wingnuts will scream “WILL OF THE PEOPLE!!!”.
The roar of the masses could just be gas.
Even during the cold war I never heard or read so much about Russia.
Russian state TV uses fake video in a report accusing Ukraine of shelling a separatist village on Victory Day https://t.co/s7RIo3P77a pic.twitter.com/wonqaFESYt
— BBC Monitoring (@BBCMonitoring) July 3, 2017
Looks like another vehicular attack on a crowd. Boston
go.cnn.com
re: #345 Unshaken Defiance
How sad is it my initial reaction was: “Well at least they didn’t use guns.” ?
re: #345 Unshaken Defiance
Looks like another vehicular attack on a crowd. Boston
go.cnn.com
The link does not work for me (CNN video seems to be blocked here - but we can get FOX just fine). What is the video about?
re: #343 Ming5000
Even during the cold war I never heard or read so much about Russia.
That’s because the USSR didn’t win the cold war. Whatever this is now, the Russians are presently winning.
re: #345 Unshaken Defiance
Looks like another vehicular attack on a crowd. Boston
go.cnn.com
#Sources: #EastBoston taxi driver loses control of cab crashes into other drivers. He is Cooperating with investigators #WBZ
— Cheryl Fiandaca (@CherylFiandaca) July 3, 2017
#Sources: #Police at this point DO NOT believe #taxi driver incident was intentional #WBZ
— Cheryl Fiandaca (@CherylFiandaca) July 3, 2017
re: #345 Unshaken Defiance
Looks like another vehicular attack on a crowd. Boston
go.cnn.com
Could that be a cab or livery vehicle?
BREAKING: Driver plows into pedestrians near Logan International Airport in Boston; injuries reported. pic.twitter.com/WEF551QBKG
— News4JAX (@wjxt4) July 3, 2017
re: #347 Anymouse 🌹
The link does not work for me (CNN video seems to be blocked here - but we can get FOX just fine). What is the video about?
I notice on YouTube that Fox News clips and live streaming seem readily available in my stream. ugh
#Sources: several other #taxi drivers on break suffered injuries as result of #EastBoston taxi crash #WBZ
— Cheryl Fiandaca (@CherylFiandaca) July 3, 2017
re: #351 Ming5000
I notice on YouTube that Fox News clips and live streaming seem readily available in my stream. ugh
I can’t watch CNN’s feeds from CNN and frequently have trouble with MSNBC feeds as well. (I wouldn’t suspect my Louisiana-based telephone company from blocking those networks whilst allowing FOX through unimpeded… .)
re: #345 Unshaken Defiance
Looks like another vehicular attack on a crowd. Boston
go.cnn.com
Looks like an accident. Cab driver lost control of his cab and ran into a break area. Is cooperating with police. This was at the cab staging area at the airport the break area it hit is used exclusively by cab drivers.
re: #354 danarchy
Looks like an accident. Cab driver lost control of his cab and ran into a break area. Is cooperating with police. This was at the cab staging area at the airport the break area it hit is used exclusively by cab drivers.
Bring on autonomous vehicles. My driving rage coupled with my Trump rage is unmanageable.
How ridiculous is it that every random car accident is now national news.
They now seem to garner as much immediate coverage as an airline crash
Conservative voters in the northernmost reaches of California feel alienated by the state’s liberal urban majority https://t.co/N1McsLwq2x pic.twitter.com/bKSuLnFy8N
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) July 3, 2017
Strange that you don’t see many articles taking this angle on the large, black, liberal populations of red states. https://t.co/KTwDCmDp4U
— Mazel Tov Cocktail (@AdamSerwer) July 3, 2017
re: #357 FormerDirtDart
Yes. And also if an immigrant (recent and legal or illegal) is involved in a crime it is “Breaking News !!!1!”
re: #350 FormerDirtDart
Now saying accident cabbie hit gas instead on brakes.
Maryland rejects Trump voter fraud panel’s request for voter info — and this is a scorching statement from Maryland’s attorney general pic.twitter.com/1EGf7VKjfa
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 3, 2017
Hot air balloon lands in gator-infested Florida pond https://t.co/P4AJDjXojZ #FOXNewsUS pic.twitter.com/6iQXCIJNNl
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 3, 2017
Ha! A+
— driftglass (@Mr_Electrico) July 3, 2017
re: #358 FormerDirtDart
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More Trump Country which Trump will screw over:
Despite a go-it-alone ethos, residents of the 13 counties in the northern bloc are much more likely to receive government medical assistance than those in the Bay Area. In the north, 31 percent take part in Medi-Cal, the California Medicaid program, while the Bay Area rate is 19 percent, and California’s overall figure 28 percent.
re: #361 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is the kind of public servant we should have and can have. Hats off to Maryland Attorney General Frosh.
I didn’t know who “Charlie Gard” was, but after Googling this story it looks like Trump and his GOP religious right pals are gearing up for a rerun of the Terri Schiavo nightmare.
If we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the U.K. and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2017
re: #366 Ming5000
This is the kind of public servant we should have and can have. Hats off to Maryland Attorney General Frosh.
my SoS yesterday:
KY Official: “There’s not enough bourbon in Kentucky” to make sense of Trump Admin. request for voter information https://t.co/zsLEk5TrpA pic.twitter.com/0bXsRX5pKg
— CNN (@CNN) July 2, 2017
— Alison L. Grimes (@AlisonForKY) July 3, 2017
re: #357 FormerDirtDart
How ridiculous is it that every random car accident is now national news.
They now seem to garner as much immediate coverage as an airline crash
Look on the bright side. As a side effect of Terror Panic, we get to find out how dangerous cars really are.
re: #368 Backwoods_Sleuth
my SoS yesterday:
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Okay, I missed that one. That’s pretty good too.
re: #358 FormerDirtDart
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Six months later and The Gray Lady is still moaning about the plight of the Trump voter in America.
re: #362 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hot air balloon lands in gator-infested Florida pond
Damn, was just going to post that..
Reminded me of when I set up a drop zone at Pine Bluff Arsenal for a demonstration jump.
The whole length of the DZ was bordered to one side by the Arkansas River and a lake full of gators on the other.
re: #373 FormerDirtDart
Damn, was just going to post that..
Reminded me of when I set up a drop zone at Pine Bluff Arsenal for a demonstration jump.
The whole length of the DZ was bordered to one side by the Arkansas River and a lake full of gators on the other.
Don’t miss.
re: #364 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Daaaaaaaamn. The balls on that one.
That’s right up there with Mississippi telling them to jump in the Gulf of Mexico, and Mississippi would be a good launch pad for that.
re: #373 FormerDirtDart
Damn, was just going to post that..
Reminded me of when I set up a drop zone at Pine Bluff Arsenal for a demonstration jump.
The whole length of the DZ was bordered to one side by the Arkansas River and a lake full of gators on the other.
talk about your incentive to nail the landing…
The Pentagon is considering pulling out of a deal it made with thousands of noncitizen recruits https://t.co/4KZGEE2tOv
— NPR (@NPR) July 3, 2017
“would cancel enlistment contracts for many of the foreign-born recruits, leaving … 1,000 of them without legal protection from deportation” https://t.co/bDNZIlAOBt
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 3, 2017
re: #358 FormerDirtDart
As a liberal in a red state, in a county that is 75% COP, all I have to say is waaah. At least CA is taking care of you.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) July 3, 2017
News: Kathy Griffin has been interviewed by the Secret Service, in-person, for over an hour….investigation still not closed.
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) July 3, 2017
re: #372 Targetpractice
Six months later and The Gray Lady is still moaning about the plight of the Trump voter in America.
Still waiting for one of these outlets to come hear the plight of a Hillary voter in deep red Trump country … they aren’t interested in the majority voter …
re: #375 Anymouse 🌹
That’s right up there with Mississippi telling them to jump in the Gulf of Mexico, and Mississippi would be a good launch pad for that.
I find it interesting that many state Secretaries of State or Attorneys General are taking this opportunity to find new, creative, and unique ways to tell the President and his bullshit commission to go fuck themselves. It’s kinda awesome to see them one-upping each other in a positive fashion.
Grand Canyon National Park gives in to a creationist who sued for religious discrimination, reports @sarahzhang https://t.co/ObmRwYmzi4 pic.twitter.com/MDKgiET0iZ
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) July 3, 2017
re: #380 Anymouse 🌹
Still waiting for one of these outlets to come hear the plight of a Hillary voter in deep red Trump country … they aren’t interested in the majority voter …
Of course not. The sentiment the press seems to have reserved for Hillary voters, when they actually do talk about them, seems to be summed up as “Look at those rubes who voted for the loser!”
re: #383 Targetpractice
Of course not. The sentiment the press seems to have reserved for Hillary voters, when they actually do talk about them, seems to be summed up as “Look at those rubes who voted for the loser!”
Pretty much. I knew I was casting my vote for the candidate that would lose in my state. (I am still gobsmacked Mrs. Clinton lost nationwide. The Electoral College system needs to die in a fire.)
Actually, I should correct that. The media’s approach to Hillary voters is to treat them with disdain for not “Feeling the Bern,” suggesting that the lot of us bet on a crook and if we’d supported Bernie then we’d still be celebrating our victory.
Some good points, but it’s not “condescending” to say that a lot of Trump’s supporters are Cro-Magnon mouth breathers, because it’s true.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 3, 2017
I’m not saying ALL Trump supporters are like this. But it’s just ignoring reality to deny that a very large percentage ARE like this.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 3, 2017
re: #361 Backwoods_Sleuth
What R you hiding, Hmmmmmmmm??? VOTER FRAUD!!!!1
BWAHAHAHAAAA
Whoops I made this by accident #ChrisChristie pic.twitter.com/okUm9Ca32r
— iNexsus (@iNexsus) July 3, 2017
re: #387 Sir John Barron
What R you hiding, Hmmmmmmmm??? VOTER FRAUD!!!!1
“Then you agree President Trump should provide his tax returns?”
Not required! Not a mandate! No law says he has to!
@Green_Footballs Why is Trump not demanding a pledge of non interference in our elections from President Putin? Needs his help in 2020
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) July 3, 2017
re: #374 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Don’t miss.
re: #376 Backwoods_Sleuth
talk about your incentive to nail the landing…
Went and found it on google map
google.com
re: #386 Charles Johnson
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You can’t ignore that Trump’s threats are as much pandering & incitement w/signals to voters as it is actual personalized threat
— Pre-Existing K (@Citizen_Kryptik) July 3, 2017
(I say ‘should’ because the media still plays both Trump and his base with far too soft a hand, still insinuating they’re ‘Real America’)
— Pre-Existing K (@Citizen_Kryptik) July 3, 2017
You can’t ignore that Trump is actively cultivating this base with this kind of shit. These are the voters he’s reaching out for, the kind he’s enabling. It should be an indictment of all involved when this shit gets treated as positively as it has been by them, and it in no way absolves Trump when you point that out, because it explicitly notes what he’s doing to stir this sentiment up.
re: #386 Charles Johnson
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During the Obama years, when he did things that his base loved (told the truth about his opponents, put his foot down, promoted progressive ideas), the pundit class was in an uproar. They moaned about how his actions were “divisive,” “arrogant,” and declared that his failure to “meet the Republicans half-way” was why America was meandering along. If anybody tried to defend his actions by saying that it was a hit with his supporters, those pundits bellowed “THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS!”
Funny how electing an old white guy to the White House suddenly makes playing to the cheap seats seem “presidential” again…
re: #367 Charles Johnson
I didn’t know who “Charlie Gard” was, but after Googling this story it looks like Trump and his GOP religious right pals are gearing up for a rerun of the Terri Schiavo nightmare.
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Not quite: Charlie Gard’s story is heartrending, to be sure* but the focus of the “outrage” (which doesn’t seem much to exist - yet: the US RW media has yet to get hold of it) is that it is trying to paint the British NHS as heartless wretches because they can’t cure little Charlie’s (fatal) disease: and seem to be balking at letting his family take him to the US for “treatment”. Said treatment being: 1) completely experimental; 2) has little/no likelihood of success; 3) hideously expensive (I read they have raised 1.6M pounds: which won’t, actually, be enough to cover the costs).
This is an instance of “desperate measures” if ever there was one, but trying to turn it into a Terri Schiavo case doesn’t meet the logic test. But I’m sure the RWNJs will try…
*10-month-old infant with an incurable fatal genetic ailment. Very low odds of seeing 12 months….
Obama years: “He’s supposed to be everybody’s president, not just the president for his supporters! He has to appeal to his critics as well! He can’t just be the president of the coastal elites!”
Trump months: “Well yeah, his approval rating is burrowing its way to China, all of his proposals have the popularity of Ebola, and his foreign policy is a total joke. But his base still loves him, so WINNING!!!”
re: #357 FormerDirtDart
This year’s version of the summer shark attack season wall-to-wall news coverage.
Scott Pruitt, in his latest effort to undermine climate science, is using the EPA to launch a programme to challenge the scientific consensus on climate change.
He is going ahead with your tax money to launch his so-called red team/blue team “review” of the data. The red team challenges climate science information, the blue team defends it. (It doesn’t work the other way round of course.)
The idea is to undermine the peer review process of science.
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re: #397 Anymouse 🌹
Scott Pruitt, in his latest effort to undermine climate science, is using the EPA to launch a programme to challenge the scientific consensus on climate change.
He is going ahead with your tax money to launch his so-called red team/blue team “review” of the data. The red team challenges climate science information, the blue team defends it. (It doesn’t work the other way round of course.)
The idea is to undermine the peer review process of science.
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We really are never recovering from this shit for at least another generation, if that, are we?
re: #382 Charles Johnson
This creationist nut has been seeking a permit to collect rocks from Grand Canyon so he can prove that the Canyon is not as old as it is per radiocarbon dating and other scientific measures have indicated.
They’re allowing his permit, despite not including certain key bits of info on his application:
Snelling’s original research application did not mention his young-Earth creationist beliefs. Nor did it disclose his job as director of research at Answers in Genesis, the Ken Ham-led organization that runs the Creation Museum in Kentucky. But his religious beliefs did come up when the park sent his research application out to mainstream geologists for peer review.
Can’t wait for this nut’s “scientific” research to conclude that all the prior scientific research was wrong, and that it’s only a few thousand years old.
On the basis not not disclosing that info, I would have denied his application. But they’re allowing it - and enabling these creationist nuts to continue poisoning the minds of people who don’t know any better and worse, indoctrinating another generation of kids to believe this nonsense when the scientific consensus is that the canyon is at least 6 million years old, and parts could be more than 70 million years old. It certainly isn’t the 6,000 years old these creationists believe.
re: #367 Charles Johnson
I didn’t know who “Charlie Gard” was, but after Googling this story it looks like Trump and his GOP religious right pals are gearing up for a rerun of the Terri Schiavo nightmare.
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As in the Schiavo case, Republicans only care about healthcare if the patient is:
a) White
b) Irreversibly brain damaged.— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 3, 2017
re: #377 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Pentagon is considering pulling out of a deal it made with thousands of noncitizen recruits https://t.co/4KZGEE2tOv
— NPR (@NPR) July 3, 2017
This is treachery.
re: #358 FormerDirtDart
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I guess they finally ran out of yam voters in the heartland and had to spread out to the coast.
re: #400 lawhawk
This creationist nut has been seeking a permit to collect rocks from Grand Canyon so he can prove that the Canyon is not as old as it is per radiocarbon dating and other scientific measures have indicated.
They’re allowing his permit, despite not including certain key bits of info on his application:
Can’t wait for this nut’s “scientific” research to conclude that all the prior scientific research was wrong, and that it’s only a few thousand years old.
On the basis not not disclosing that info, I would have denied his application. But they’re allowing it - and enabling these creationist nuts to continue poisoning the minds of people who don’t know any better and worse, indoctrinating another generation of kids to believe this nonsense when the scientific consensus is that the canyon is at least 6 million years old, and parts could be more than 70 million years old. It certainly isn’t the 6,000 years old these creationists believe.
Well, he is from Ken Ham’s Answers in Genesis, so I guess we already know how this “research” is going to come out.
And the Park Service didn’t drop the case because they thought they were being discriminatory against this guy. They dropped it because of all the creationist wingnuts in our government now.
re: #367 Charles Johnson
I didn’t know who “Charlie Gard” was, but after Googling this story it looks like Trump and his GOP religious right pals are gearing up for a rerun of the Terri Schiavo nightmare.
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I’ve seen it mentioned in the Daily Mail - it’s a cause they seen to have taken up. It is tragic to be sure and I certainly feel for his parents; however, this is not some curable disorder. The parents raised something over $1 million dollars, but the American doctor who offers some tiny glimmer of hope through treatment has already said that Charlie is simply an untreatable case.
So yeah, Terri Schiavo redux, more or less.
re: #402 Shiplord Kirel
This is treachery.
As a former Navy recruiter myself, I can imagine any military recruiter despising this idea.
The military puts forward a programme for recruits, then the Pentagon withdraws it after the fact. (I’m guessing the Pentagon didn’t think this up on their own, my guess is they are getting pressure from either Trump or conservatives in the government.)
Applicant: Why should I believe you about all these programmes? Look what the government did to those guys.
This will be a nightmare for recruiting if this goes through.
re: #400 lawhawk
Staying with my eldest stepson right now, and his wife is really keen to show me the photos she took during a visit to the Kentucky Creation Museum. I’m not sure she even realizes that an irreligious science teacher would be skeptical (and uninterested) in the museum. In other words, she’s not even aware that the creationist museum is horseshit or that it’s non-science.
I suspect she’s not the only one.
re: #407 wheat-dogg
Staying with my eldest stepson right now, and his wife is really keen to show me the photos she took during a visit to the Kentucky Creation Museum. I’m not sure she even realizes that an irreligious science teacher would be skeptical (and uninterested) in the museum. In other words, she’s not even aware that the creationist museum is horseshit or that it’s non-science.
I suspect she’s not the only one.
How can some be unaware of this? I don’t understand.
re: #400 lawhawk
This creationist nut has been seeking a permit to collect rocks from Grand Canyon so he can prove that the Canyon is not as old as it is per radiocarbon dating and other scientific measures have indicated.
They’re allowing his permit, despite not including certain key bits of info on his application:
Can’t wait for this nut’s “scientific” research to conclude that all the prior scientific research was wrong, and that it’s only a few thousand years old.
It was probably due to the Trump effect on all federal agencies that this ridiculous venture was approved. On the other hand, they may have decided it was not worth the cost of defending the suit in court, given the minimal physical damage this will inflict on the Grand Canyon. What is astounding is that this same fraud has also written articles for legitimate publications where he clearly supports the traditional scientific views on the age of the earth.
re: #406 Anymouse 🌹
It undermines national security.
1. As you noted, is reneging on a promise and undermines faith in the work of the military and recruiters. Why would any enrollee in the future trust that any offer the government puts forwards wouldn’t similarly be taken away.
2. Simply put, we need the 1,000 or so soldiers that are being undermined here. If I recall correctly, we’ve seen a series of cuts to recruitment standards for several of the armed services branches in the interest of recruiting sufficient numbers. Seem foolish to ignore and even toss out perfectly suitable recruits and current and already trained soldiers.
re: #408 Dr Lizardo
How can some be unaware of this? I don’t understand.
because the Bible is Truth and Science is Satan.
re: #404 Anymouse 🌹
Well, he is from Ken Ham’s Answers in Genesis, so I guess we already know how this “research” is going to come out.
And the Park Service didn’t drop the case because they thought they were being discriminatory against this guy. They dropped it because of all the creationist wingnuts in our government now.
The Mike Pence influence. Certainly not anything that Trump believes or cares about.
re: #408 Dr Lizardo
How can some be unaware of this? I don’t understand.
In the 80s I had a friend who had a conversion experience while watching “The 700 Club.” His past included dealing coke and weed and one baby born out of wedlock. After his experience he started getting all kinds of videos for his monthly donations. He got a whole series on Creationism. Even in the 1980s this was developed and distributed through somewhat sophisticated techniques. He got brainwashed pretty quickly.
re: #413 Barefoot Grin
In the 80s I had a friend who had a conversion experience while watching “The 700 Club.” His past included dealing coke and weed and one baby born out of wedlock. After his experience he started getting all kinds of videos for his monthly donations. He got a whole series on Creationism. Even in the 1980s this was developed and distributed through somewhat sophisticated techniques. He got brainwashed pretty quickly.
Wow. That’s all I can say.
re: #348 EPR-radar
That’s because the USSR didn’t win the cold war. Whatever this is now, the Russians are presently winning.
Re-establishing the Russian Empire. They are no longer trying to export an ideology or an economic system, just re-establish Russia’s primacy over the territory of the old Empire and the states surrounding it