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Julep Since: Jul, 2010
#190526: May 25th 2017 at 1:57:09 PM

Apparently only once, as the next time Trump offered a handshake in public, Macron apparently decided to ignore it and go talk to Merkel instead.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#190527: May 25th 2017 at 1:58:58 PM

US Central Command (Cent Com) said it had targeted two snipers from so-called Islamic State (IS) with what it called a "precision-guided munition".

However, the strike detonated explosives that militants had placed in the building, Cent Com said.

Civilians sheltering in the lower floors were killed when it collapsed.

Cent Com said the death toll included four civilians in another nearby structure.

In all fairness the amount of explosives stashed to do such amount of damage is big and no one really expects snipers to be sitting on top of them and finding out the location of those explosives isn't trivial.

The headline makes it look like they deliberately caused 105 civilian casualties as collateral damage to kill two snipers.

Inter arma enim silent leges
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#190529: May 25th 2017 at 2:04:55 PM

[up][up]Really, the bulk of the blame is on ISIS, for using those civilians as human shields (and starting all this BS in the first place).

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#190530: May 25th 2017 at 2:09:17 PM

[up][up]Thanks. We need to parade this around to shoot down the big argument against wilderness protection.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#190531: May 25th 2017 at 2:33:10 PM

People interested in national monuments may also be interested in David Bernhardt, Trump’s pick for deputy secretary of the Interior. A former lawyer for one of California's most vicious water districts - including lawsuits to get fish protection laws weakened - and a lobbyist for an absurd plan to pump (most likely non-renewable) water from a desert in southern California to the big cities. Typical Trump conflicts of interest seems like.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#190532: May 25th 2017 at 2:38:00 PM

Yet another secretary actively hostile to their appointed department?

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#190533: May 25th 2017 at 2:40:14 PM

[up][up]May the ghosts of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John Muir, and Gifford Pinchot haunt all of these people for the rest of their days.

(Gifford Pinchot was appointed by Theodore Roosevelt as the first director of the modern National Forest Service, which helped introduce the concept of conservation to the US, and the first agency specifically founded to promote responsible forestry and resource management.)

edited 25th May '17 5:59:52 PM by megaeliz

pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#190534: May 25th 2017 at 2:55:38 PM

Shades of James G. Watt — Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, who wanted to develop federal lands via foresting, ranching, and other commercial interests. People used to say that he wanted the US to be as bare as his bald head.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#190535: May 25th 2017 at 2:58:00 PM

In this case, "dry as the Atacama" is probably more correct.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#190536: May 25th 2017 at 3:01:31 PM

1/ A federal appeals court will not reinstate Trump’s revised travel ban.

https://t.co/vNqZKPKewt

2/ Lieberman withdraws from consideration for FBI Director job.

https://t.co/4NVwt7fhbG

3/ Trump condemned “leaks of sensitive information” after complaints From Britain.

https://t.co/oV7jvehPnx

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#190538: May 25th 2017 at 3:12:14 PM

[up] "I want everyone else to increase their Military spending to defend us, but I am not sending my men to die for you!"

That is essentially what Trump just did.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#190539: May 25th 2017 at 3:14:26 PM

Man, if I was living in the Baltics I'd be shitting myself right now.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
fruitpork Since: Oct, 2010
#190540: May 25th 2017 at 3:32:42 PM

This is exactly what Russia wanted.

math792d Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#190541: May 25th 2017 at 3:41:41 PM

And I'm willing to bet when (not if, when ) the next wahhabist nutjob attacks the United States, the Botox Golem is going to invoke Article 5.

Calling it now.

Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
#190542: May 25th 2017 at 3:46:51 PM

Can't France step in to defend the Baltics?

math792d Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#190543: May 25th 2017 at 3:48:58 PM

[up] Well, all three Baltic states are part of the EU, and France does have a nuclear arsenal, so yes. Not to mention that even if the UK is undergoing a messy divorce with the Union, they don't want an aggressive Russia depriving them of trade partners.

The question is whether or not there's a political will to defend the Baltic states with nuclear arms.

edited 25th May '17 3:50:00 PM by math792d

Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#190544: May 25th 2017 at 4:01:58 PM

Pretty much, if Trump goes full isolationist, then a handful of French (and hopefully British) submarines with the capability of turning Western Russia into a smoking parking lot are the only thing keeping Putin out of the former Soviet Union and War Pac states.

Well, that and the prospect of a prolonged insurgency and more economic isolation.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#190545: May 25th 2017 at 4:03:42 PM

https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/867831459427504128

NEW: Source close to Gianforte campaign says it's raised $100K+ online in last 24 hours — most of it coming after reporter "body slam."

edited 25th May '17 4:08:14 PM by sgamer82

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#190546: May 25th 2017 at 4:05:45 PM

Disheartening but not really surprising. Probably from the same type of people who liked Trump more after "Pussygate".

Edit: Either that or people who think "the whole thing was staged" or whatever, and don't consider the audio and eye witness accounts as "real" evidence...

edited 25th May '17 4:10:07 PM by LSBK

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#190547: May 25th 2017 at 4:06:17 PM

[up][up] Still pales in comparison to both the independent donations to Quist and the Millions Gianforte got from Lobbyists.

But it is despicable that people would give money to the guy after body slamming a news reporter. We've gotta do something about this in the future...

edited 25th May '17 4:06:29 PM by DingoWalley1

ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#190548: May 25th 2017 at 4:09:54 PM

All over CNN: Jared Kushner now under investigation by the FBI for Russian meetings. Is this another puff of smoke, or something substantial?

Jasaiga Since: Jan, 2015
#190549: May 25th 2017 at 4:10:58 PM

100k in less than a DAY? Seriously?!

Hillary was being generous when she called these people deplorable.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#190550: May 25th 2017 at 4:12:25 PM

I mean, considering how many people there are in the country that's really not all that surprising.


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