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JonF
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Message 4847 of 5796 (871383)
02-01-2020 5:28 PM
Reply to: Message 4846 by dwise1
02-01-2020 5:09 PM


Re: Heritage Foundation Senior Analyst on the deficit and Natoinal Debt
An unqualified PR flack on the radio says SS contributes to the deficit.
QED.

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JonF
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Message 4857 of 5796 (871408)
02-02-2020 11:02 AM
Reply to: Message 4851 by Faith
02-01-2020 8:52 PM


Re: Heritage Foundation Senior Analyst on the deficit and Natoinal Debt
I WILL NOT CALL HIM A LlAR AND SINCE YOU DO I WILL NOT READ YOUR POST.
Any excuse to avoid reality.
What he said is false, proven over and over. Call it what you will, it remains false.
It's apparent his field of expertise is appearing on TV and radio. Reading his biography on the Heritage Foundation site, it seems very unlikely he has studied retirement economics to any noticeable extent.

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JonF
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Message 4858 of 5796 (871409)
02-02-2020 11:06 AM
Reply to: Message 4856 by Percy
02-02-2020 8:50 AM


Re: Hearsay
I have no difficulty understanding that. I am not a lawyer.
I think the most understandable definition is the first one I posted.
There is no definition so simple that Faith will understand it.

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JonF
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Message 4886 of 5796 (871496)
02-04-2020 10:20 AM


Trump demonstrates respect
Trump's famously criticized lack of respect for the National Anthem. Here he shows how it's done.
Edited by JonF, : No reason given.

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JonF
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Message 4924 of 5796 (871612)
02-06-2020 4:07 PM
Reply to: Message 4922 by Percy
02-06-2020 3:49 PM


Re: Who's Worse: Trump or Pelosi
Matt Gaetz Too Stupid For Laura Ingraham - Wonkette (warning:extreme liberal snark)
quote:
Describing Trump's mendacious rant as "an uplifting celebration of diversity of the American experience and the triumph of the American spirit," Gaetz demands that the House Ethics Committee censure the speaker and refer her to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution.
quote:
There is no question that Speaker Pelosi "mutilated, obliterated, or destroyed" the copy of the President's address provided to her at the beginning of the evening. The video evidence is clear and abundant, and the Speaker herself told reporters that she tore up this document because it was "the courteous thing to do given the alternatives."
Accordingly, after the House Committee on Ethics thoroughly investigates this matter and recommends Speaker Pelosi's censure, I urge you to make all appropriate referrals to the Department of Justice for further investigation and prosecution.
UH HUH. Well, as the Washington Post points out, there are a few small problems with this argument. Namely, a copy of a speech is not a federal record, Speaker Pelosi is not a legal custodian, and the House of Representatives is not the National Archives. But other than that, William and Mary Law School must be so proud of its distinguished alum's masterful legal reasoning.

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JonF
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Message 4928 of 5796 (871620)
02-06-2020 7:52 PM


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[We have] taken action to hold one of President Trump’s top defenders accountable for violating legal ethics by risking America’s national security to grandstand in Congress which entailed breaking into a secure, compartmented information facility, then ordering pizza, stated the Miami-Dade Democratic Party in a press release.

  
JonF
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Message 4939 of 5796 (871654)
02-07-2020 8:07 PM


Republican frauds in Mississippi
Mississippi Republicans Steal Millions From Welfare Programs | Crooks and Liars
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Six fancy pants people were arrested in Mississippi for scamming what is suspected to be multi millions of dollars from state programs intended to help the poorest among us.
Two of those arrested were embezzling taxpayers’ money to give it to Republican politicians.
Dr. Nancy New, owner and Director of the Mississippi Community Education Center (MCEC) and New Learning, Inc. and her son Zach New, Assistant Executive Director of MCEC, were helping Republicans run for the House and the Senate.
Two others stole money from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families fund to send a third one to a high falutin’ drug rehab center in California. They said he was teaching a drug rehab program for youth in Mississippi while he was actually in California soaking up the sunshine at his own rehab center.
They took other millions for their personal use and the use of their personal businesses.
It's OK If You're A Republican.

  
JonF
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Message 4940 of 5796 (871655)
02-07-2020 8:22 PM


Now for the purge
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, for obeying the law and telling the truth.
National Security Council attorney Yevgeny Vindman, for being the brother of an enemy of the state (AKA Trump).
Ambassador Gordon Sondland, for obeying the law and telling the truth.
Absolute fealty to the God-emperor is mandatory! Dissent will not be tolerated! The Constitution and our laws are null and void.

  
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Message 4969 of 5796 (871986)
02-17-2020 11:26 AM


Worse than useless wall
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Meanwhile, The Independent reports Smugglers are reportedly helping migrants scale sections of Donald Trump’s multi-billion border wall using $5 ladders.
The ladders are made of rebar, similar to that used in the replacement wall that is costing taxpayers — not Mexico — billions of dollars. So similar that it is hard to detect because they match the rust brown colours of the wall.
The crossings have increased so much thanks to the easily-defeated wall that Border Patrol apprehensions of single adults those most likely to use the ladder method have nearly doubled in the El Paso sector.
In just a few months, from October 2019 to January 2020 Border Patrol agents apprehended 10,030 people, compared with 5,150 in the same period a year ago.
Edited by JonF, : No reason given.

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JonF
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Message 4973 of 5796 (872013)
02-18-2020 11:00 AM


Yeah, no imminent threat
White House Memo Justifying Suleimani Strike Cites No Imminent Threat - The New York Times#
quote:
In a legally mandated, two-page unclassified memo to lawmakers, the White House asserted that the strike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani was in response to an escalating series of attacks in preceding months by Iran and Iran-backed militias.
The purposes of this action were to protect United States personnel, to deter Iran from conducting or supporting further attacks against United States forces and interests, to degrade Iran’s and Quds Force-backed militias’s ability to militias’s ability to conduct attacks, and to end Iran’s strategic escalation of attacks, said the report, which was transmitted on Friday to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
So, not legal.
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JonF
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Message 4988 of 5796 (872134)
02-20-2020 7:50 PM


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Russia is working to re-elect President Donald Trump. That should come as little surprise to many — it’s actually unclear they ever stopped attacking the U.S. elections — meddling, as far too many put it — since they began as far back as 2013, according to the U.S. intelligence community.
But the U.S. intelligence community knows Russia is working to help Trump. Trump knows Russia is working to help Trump. House Democrats were told last week Russia is working to help Trump. And now Trump is furious.
Furious that a representative of his administration let Democrats into the briefing.

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JonF
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Message 5025 of 5796 (872195)
02-22-2020 9:04 AM


Health care
Kaiser: It's the ACA, Stupid! | ACA Signups
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The latest Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll (considered the gold standards when it comes to national polling on healthcare policy issues) is out, and it's findings aren't terribly surprising to anyone who's been paying attention:
quote:
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide today whether to take up Texas v. United States, which challenges the constitutionality of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA). The February KFF Health Tracking Poll finds attitudes towards the ACA has hit its highest favorability since KFF began tracking opinions nearly ten years ago. The latest KFF poll finds a clear majority of the public viewing the law favorably (55%), while slightly more than one-third (37%) of the public hold unfavorable views.
This is one of the most encouraging and exasperating examples of human nature. Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled that after ten years the ACA is finally enjoying high approval ratings (by an 18-point margin!), but it's the height of irony that this is happening right as the ACA is on the verge of being struck down entirely. A classic case of "you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" I suppose... [...]
quote:
Three percent of Republican voters offer opposition to or repealing the ACA as their top health care issue in the most recent KFF Tracking Poll. This is a considerable decrease from the 2016 presidential election, during which three in ten (29%) Republican voters offered it as their top health care issue. It is also a decline from the 2018 midterm elections in which 18% of Republican voters mentioned opposition to the ACA or repealing the ACA as their top health care issue.
That's absolutely mind-blowing. 2016: 29%. 2018: 18%. 2020: 3%. Only THREE PERCENT of Republicans strongly want the ACA struck down EVEN AS the Trump Administration & Trump Justice Dept. are pushing for the Supreme Court to strike down the law entirely.
quote:
Health care remains a top issue for Democratic voters, independent voters, and the crucial group of voters who haven’t made up their minds yet — swing voters. More than one-third of Democratic voters (36%) say health care is the most important issue in their 2020 vote choice as do three in ten independent voters and 28% of swing voters. Yet, when asked what is the one thing that will motivate them to vote in 2020, a larger share of voters offer responses related to defeating President Trump and electing a Democrat than any issue, including health care. When voters who have decided to vote for the Democratic nominee are asked what is most important when choosing a Democratic candidate, a larger share say a candidate with the best chance to defeat President Trump (59%) than one who comes closest to your views on issues (39%).
As it happens, "healthcare" and "defeating Donald Trump" go hand in hand.

  
JonF
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Message 5027 of 5796 (872206)
02-22-2020 1:17 PM


Temps
Trump Is Running The Government With Unqualified Temps To Keep His Quasi-Dictatorial Power | Crooks and Liars
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Impeached president Donald Trump has replaced the former acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire with another acting truly atrocious selection who will also only be in the job as an acting DNI. That's because he is so bad and so unqualified for the job that he couldn't be confirmed even by Mitch McConnell's Republicans. That and Trump just likes to have unqualified temps who are loyal only to him running things.
A Washington Post analysis highlights the churn in Trump's administration, and the fact that there hasn't been a permanent DNI in more than six months. According to the Post, "Trump has kept acting officials in charge of top agencies and departments so much that they've accounted for 1 out of every 9 days in those positions." That means that in the 22 cabinet-level jobs there have been so many acting officials that they've served a combined 2,736 days, which amounts to seven years. That means that in three years' time, Trump "has had acting officials serve more than three times as much as did [President] Obama" did in eight years.
That's without counting the Obama officials that held the jobs on a temporary basis at the beginning of Trump's term for the sake of continuity. There have been three acting directors of Homeland Security, for a combined 440 days. Trump hasn't designated a permanent nominee. At the Small Business Administration, there's been an acting director for 277 days. At the Environmental Protection Agency, 234 days. At the Department of Defense, there has been an acting director for 203 days. The DNI has been acting now for 188 days, and will continue in that capacity under the odious Richard Grenell for the foreseeable future.
In previous administrations, acting directors have just been in place while a confirmation process for a permanent administrator was completed, and people generally left office because of personal and professional reasons. Not because a would-be dictator declared "off with their heads." Trump has said "I like acting because I can move so quickly,. [] It gives me more flexibility." More like it keeps things chaotic, and it keeps the people working for him freaked out and, in his warped mind, loyal.

  
JonF
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Message 5032 of 5796 (872227)
02-23-2020 8:20 AM


They need Russian Interference
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Case in point, O’Brien’s appearance on ABC with George Stephanopoulos where he spoke about concerns about the Russian meddling and attempted to blow them off as inconsequential.
O’Brien dismissed reports of the intelligence briefing on the Hill as coming from ‘second-hand sources’. He said he has seen no back-up for the assertions that the Russians were intervening yet again, the columnist wrote. He completely sidestepped the fact that this week FBI Director Christopher Wray stated that such interventions were underway. He completely ignored the imperative that because the Russians interfered last time, preparing for another round of attacks and disinformation campaigns would be the minimum basic step any senior U.S. national security official should be undertaking. He pretended as though the intelligence community had not unanimously concluded the Russians intervened on Trump’s behalf in 2016, and that in last year’s threat assessment their leaders had not said they expected the same or worse in 2020.
O’Brien, like all Trump officials, was addressing an audience of one. Any sense of responsibility to protect U.S. national security was absent, he charged. Any grasp of facts that are clear to even the casual observer of recent events was missing. O’Brien, like all other Trump officials who survive, has made clear that he sees his job as to serve as a kind of human cocktail of drugs for the erratic presidentpart palliative, part sedative. His job is to keep the boss calm and happy, feeling good about himself and feeling good about O’Brien.

  
JonF
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Message 5044 of 5796 (872276)
02-24-2020 9:32 AM
Reply to: Message 5037 by Percy
02-23-2020 8:15 PM


Re: Trump Rally Streaming
She turned the server over to the Justice Department.
Nitpicking, she did not turn over the physical server. There were several servers, some of them virtual. The FBI got certified forensic copies produced by standard methods for making sure that the copies are identical to the original.

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