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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Conan O'Brien had a "Made in Mexico" special the other night and one of his guests was Vicente Fox, aka the former president of Mexico who has repeatedly said to Trump they won't pay for the fucking wall. He said that, throughout history, walls simply don't work, either practically or symbolically. Amen.
Conan also interviewed various people on the street. The overwhelming response he got when asked their thoughts about the anti-Mexico rhetoric in the U.S. right now is not so much anger, but genuinely hurt feelings. As in, our two countries should be closer than this. Again, amen.
edited 3rd Mar '17 6:38:41 AM by speedyboris
Sorry if this is rude, but my immediate response to that was to roll my eyes and think "You know what I mean"
New from the PresVillain Twitter:
JEFF SESSIONS IS AN *HONEST MAN.* #presidentsupervillain
edited 3rd Mar '17 6:50:34 AM by sgamer82
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I already felt ashamed enough, reading the Trump slump article, not least due to the part where the mother's telling the BBC reporter her children begged her not to go to America because the younger child associated the states with hatred and persecution.
edited 3rd Mar '17 6:53:12 AM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives![]()
The deep underground pressures and sediments containing CH 4 and other carbon and hydrogen rich minerals combined generate a hefty amount of hydrocarbons over the years. Though the process still under study and there is even a nebula that is entirely made of alcohol
that is making physics and scientists in general revise how hydrocarbons are formed.
Do you remember the Joker's speech about how we wouldn't know what to do if he reached his goals? That is the feeling I'm getting from the Republicans right now. They are certainly as surprised with Trump's victory as we were and now they have been caught empty handed. Because they actually have to rule instead of being the obstructive shits they have been all those years.
And they have been getting the fallout over their ideas not being as popular as they think they were and they don't have plans or didn't make any provisions to bring anything to the table.
Methinks that is because they really didn't expect to win and were planning to keep doing the same crap they did to Obama but to Hillary instead.
Inter arma enim silent legesSeptimus, I'm referring to the theory referenced by this Wikipedia article
. Technically, it's called "abiogenic petroleum", but the article makes it sound as if the theory is not as verified as I'd previously thought.
So I thought. That theory is considered questionable, which is why I asked. And the magnitude stated here was suspect anyhow.
In other news, I found out that apparently some polities in the US do place their elections on Sunday - apparently Los Angeles has its mayoral election then. As well as a vote on a terrible NIMBY measure that will hopefully be rejected with a wide margin.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanAh, but lets not brush over the implication that most hydrocarbons on Earth are of a biological origin- that "peak oil" actually is a thing.
Peak Oil isn't when we run out, its when production begins to decline due to rising prices. I've seen research suggesting that this would already have happened if it hadn't been for the fracking boom. We can keep putting it off, but only at the expense of the environment. And sooner or later, we will run out of innovative ways to get it out of the ground. At that point, the price will start to rise, with rather dire consequences for transportation, energy and agriculture, unless we've replaced hydrocarbons as our main source of power by then.
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.GA Senators, making us all proud...
David Perdue blocks Latino judicial nominee
U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson last week said Lopez deserved a hearing, but he has yet to ask the committee for one.
Perdue said in a statement he became “uncomfortable” with Lopez’s participation with the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials after a review of his professional and judicial record.
“I am particularly concerned with his continued participation with this organization and his public comments after he became a state judge,” said Perdue.
Lopez, a De Kalb County State Court judge, is a Jewish Republican who is a member of the conservative Federalist Society. He was appointed to the Georgia bench by Perdue’s cousin, former Gov. Sonny Perdue. And the counsel for Perdue’s Senate campaign, Josh Belinfante, served on the panel convened by the senators that sent Lopez’s name to the White House.
When he was tapped for the seat in July by President Barack Obama it seemed to many to be a foregone conclusion. State Republican Party counsel Anne Lewis, former state House Majority Whip Ed Lindsey and a slew of other prominent GOP attorneys signed a letter to the senators in support of Lopez in September.
But a groundswell of conservative blowback quickly slowed the momentum. The attacks center on his past membership on the board of GALEO, which supports a path to citizenship for people here illegally and fought tougher state laws on immigration.
...Perdue, meanwhile, campaigned for his first-term win in 2014 opposing any sort of “amnesty” for immigrants here illegally.
Georgia’s senators stand by Jeff Sessions amid Russia criticism
“He’s a man of integrity. He is a man of principle. I trust him and I take him at his word,” Perdue said in a speech on the Senate floor.
Perdue, a Republican, said Democrats were being hypocritical for lambasting Sessions on meeting with Moscow officials. He said 30 of his colleagues have also met with the Russian ambassador, and specifically called out Missouri Democrat Claire Mc Caskill, who faced blowback about her own contact with the Kremlin official earlier Thursday.
“We have literally reached a point where members of this body are slandering former colleagues for having and taking the same opportunities afforded to them,” Perdue said.
Well, that promises to be interesting. We all know that this will not be decided by facts. Trump doesn't care about facts. So far as he's concerned, the Paris Agreement is just another potential avenue for people to worship him for his awesome decision-making skills.
Instead, this will be decided by an influence tug-of-war. Who has more power over Trump: Steve Bannon or his daughter Ivanka? I am very interested to learn the answer to that question.
If Bannon wins this, then I want a formal investigation into his ties to Russia, because the only way Steve Bannon beats Ivanka is if he represents the arm of Putin's control.
edited 3rd Mar '17 8:00:42 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Trump intends to rule America the way a CEO runs a company, and he regards nation-states as businesses scaled up. The idea that the US has some sort of vested interest in belonging to a community of nations based on trust is as foreign to him as the idea that a business shouldn't seek any source of competitive advantage with respect to it's competitors.
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.@Hispanic judge: I am profoundly bothered by the implication that someone is trying to one-up Trump in the Latinophobia department. Perdue has said some colossally offensive things about Obama as well previously.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanA recap of the days events for anyone who needs a catch up
Some Kansas stuff: http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-kansas-supreme-court-school-funding-20170302-story.html
Apparently they have an one billion dollar deficit in the current fiscal year. And while the 2016 elections have removed a lot of the governor's (and his tax policies', which are the reason for the crisis) supporters from the legislature and returned the state supreme court judges which said that the budget was not funding schools enough. Now the supreme court has ruled again that the state needs to pay its schools better.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanPoor education is a deadly cycle.
"Put more money into improving the education system before we have to have this conversation with the next generation of Kansas citizens who never learned basic economic principles in school."
edited 3rd Mar '17 9:58:31 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Trump's advisers push him to purge Obama appointees
"His playbook should be to get rid of the Obama appointees immediately," said Newt Gingrich, a top surrogate. "There are an amazing number of decisions that are being made by appointees that are totally opposed to Trump and everything he stands for. Who do you think those people are responding to?" The reality, however, is more complicated: The White House has thousands of open jobs across the agencies, many nonpolitical civilian employees are critical of the administration, and some Cabinet secretaries say they need the Obama people during a rocky transition.
Only a few dozen Obama political appointees remain in the federal government apparatus, according to the Partnership for Public Service. Many of them are in crucial positions...
Even if Trump were to ax those remaining senior political appointees, he would still have to reckon with the hundreds of thousands of civilian employees, who stay with every administration. Many of them are skeptical of Trump because they resent his assault on Washington and its culture, his impulsive decisions and his seeming lack of intellectual curiosity about their agencies and work.
They have spent the past six weeks on edge. Many are quietly on the job market, but others have been clashing with Trump appointees, either in the open or privately among colleagues, according to officials across agencies. From Homeland Security to Defense and beyond, it's become a regular conversation among employees about what lines they will not cross before quitting, and how best to slow-walk orders from above to frustrate implementation.
Amid those conversations is a running thread: how long they'd be willing to hold out to bear witness, and try to improve a climate they increasingly hate, or whether to leak information about changes they see in order to try and stop them. "I want to be able to tell people what's happening here," one State Department official said.
damaging leaks have also come from within his administration, advisers say, because the West Wing is plagued by competing factions that are vying for Trump's attention and affection.
"You hire a bunch of people in the West Wing who are hacks and aren't loyal to you, and you'll have a bunch of leaks," Stone said. "There aren't that many Trump loyalists in the White House."
Trump aides like Stephen Miller, his senior policy adviser, have frequently complained about leaks and blamed the Obama appointees and longtime bureaucrats. Other aides have complained about having to sit in inter-agency meetings with Obama holdovers in senior positions. And Trump aides have told their people at agencies not to share plans and documents with Obama holdovers or others who are not sympathetic to them.
Our clown in chief again proving neither he nor his team know how government works.
And the GOP are somehow surprised by the opposition of the civil service when, besides the usual GOP tirades against bureaucrats, Trump practically campaigned on the burning of all their work and their ultimate destruction and his chief strategist has openly declared that goal.
edited 3rd Mar '17 10:17:10 AM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our livesTrump tweets a photo of Chuck Schumer and Putin
We should start an immediate investigation into @SenSchumer and his ties to Russia and Putin. A total hypocrite!

In fact, talking about "peak oil" can actually harm conservation efforts to some extent, because every time we find a new source, it discredits the idea a little further and helps contaminate other, more valid rationales.
edited 3rd Mar '17 6:25:23 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"