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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
So reading through some articles at The Hill today, and we've got...
- A National Security advisor who refuses to listen to the Khashoggi interrogation audio
, stating that he'd learn nothing because he doesn't speak Arabic.
- Sarah Sanders saying that the climate change report is "not based on facts"
- no surprises there.
- And Walter Reed Medical Center caused a scare by running an active-shooter drill that apparently wasn't communicated too well
, causing others to think it was legitimate.
Three days before NAFTA 2.0 was set to be signed (not ratified, that still requires internal work in all 3 countries), the American government got caught changing the wording.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.I mean, Bolton looks like a real-life version of Dr. Eggman Robotnik. Who wouldn't have seen this coming?
ASAB: All Sponsors Are Bad.@Red Savant: To be fair, Go-Karting with Bowser does not necessarily make someone less evil (Hitler did it in the Olympics). And with Eggman there's a certain Depending on the Writer. Some portrayals of Eggman portray him as an anti-villain, whereas some portray him as downright monstrous-and his MO of turning people into robotic slaves is actually pretty darn disturbing.
Leviticus 19:34![]()
Basically that. Sat AM Robotnik and Flynn Eggman are evil as fuck.
Edited by kkhohoho on Nov 27th 2018 at 7:06:52 AM
Article 13 is an EU thing. You might want to ask here
. Although, if someone wants to clarify, since I'm not to knowledgeable on it myself.
The Mississippi runoff is tonight and results are coming in right now, currently the democrat is over performing compared to November 6th, but probably not by enough to win, still it’s gonna be closer than expected.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranIt would be a miracle if the Democrats take this one; sadly being a neo-Confederate with Jim Crow nostalgia probably plays well to the Republican/white base there. Mississippi is one of the least electorally flexible states; its a 60/40 split in the Republicans favor, with few swing voters.
So its looking like its D+39 or 40 in the House, and R+2 in the Senate in the end. A good prelude to 2020 as could have been realistically hoped for.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.A tl;dr for that Nation article posted last page
, for those scared off by the length:
Edited by Hylarn on Nov 27th 2018 at 6:47:57 AM
It is, but in this case its basically Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat. There are few swing voters there, and more Republicans then Democrats (who depend on the large African-American population and a handful of urban whites). Barring a political shift, its not the kind of state that the Democrats can realistically take.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
honestly, the Pentagon really needs some serious scrutiny and oversight on how it handles it’s financials.
I’m very sure this has been a problem that’s been around a lot longer trump, and really, letting any organization go unchecked like that is a breeding ground for corruption.
Edited by megaeliz on Nov 27th 2018 at 11:16:55 AM
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In fairness, that kind of BS goes back decades, as the infamous Packard Commission uncovered
back in the '80s, as the Pentagon claimed $435 for a hammer, $600 for a toilet seat, and $7,000 for a coffee maker.
Edited by ironballs16 on Nov 27th 2018 at 11:23:15 AM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"Those costs are generally that high because they include not just the manufacturing cost but also the design and testing costs (which includes things like testing for weird ass environments, like the ashtray that has to be build to shatter safely in the event of the ship it’s on is attacked).
They don’t spend that much to make the hammer, they spent that much to design and test a hammer that can be safely used in crazy situations.
Edited by Silasw on Nov 27th 2018 at 4:36:43 PM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

Mhm. I feel like figures about how often your average GOP congresscritter voted with Trump are misleading, because typically it's less the party doing what Trump says and more Trump doing what the party says- Trump strikes meas not having a rock solid understanding of much of anything that's going on, so unless we're talking about, say, acknowledging that Russia's done something bad, he doesn't have much reason to question what 'his team' tells him to do.
Edited by Gilphon on Nov 27th 2018 at 2:54:24 PM