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emmett grogan
 
  3  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 08:36 am
@snood,
He's starting move pretty quickly now. Wunnerful, ain't it?
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revelette1
 
  4  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 08:37 am
Poll: 78 percent say Trump should try to make ObamaCare work (The Hill)
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izzythepush
 
  5  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 08:48 am
@emmett grogan,
emmett grogan wrote:
Actually this trump fury is an attempt to draw attention from Putin-gate.


That's his presidency in a nutshell, try to draw the public's attention away from his corrupt and possibly treasonous practices. All his nonsense about banning trans people from the military happened on the day Manafort was raided by the FBI.
izzythepush
 
  4  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 08:51 am
This is worrying. These missiles could end up anywhere.

Quote:
A "stolen" 10m-long (35ft) Soviet-era anti-aircraft missile has exploded at a recycling centre in eastern Russia, killing two and injuring one.
Russian media were alerted to the explosion of the large-scale missile in the city of Chita after a YouTube user uploaded a car dashcam video showing the moment of the blast.
The missile was an S-200 Angara, known as the SA-5 "Gammon" in Nato countries. They have been in service since the 1960s, but are nowadays superseded by the S-300 and S-400 surface-to-air models.
It is unknown how the missile came to be at a recycling plant. Local news website by24.org says that the seven tonne missile "had been stolen" from a military base by persons unknown and taken to the facility in exchange for cash. It had likely exploded while recycling workers were trying to dismantle it.
News website The Insider says that emergency response workers later found another intact rocket from the S-200 missile system.
The incident has ignited lively discussion on Russian social media, with many asking on popular social network VKontakte how it came to be at a recycling plant in the first place.
"What was a missile doing at a non-ferrous scrap metal collection point?" asked Demid Tkachenko.
"We've got so many rusty weapons in Russia that people are selling for scrap," added Mayya Yarovaya, who said that the consequences of this incident "are tragic".


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-40900219
izzythepush
 
  3  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 09:05 am
[url]President Donald Trump says the US military is "locked and loaded" to deal with North Korea, ramping up the rhetorical brinkmanship.
"Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely. Hopefully Kim Jong-un will find another path!" he tweeted.
He spoke as Pyongyang accused him of "driving" the Korean peninsula to the "brink of a nuclear war".[/url]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40901746

Trump very close to sending another fleet steaming at top speed in the wrong direction. That'll show 'em.
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emmett grogan
 
  4  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 09:07 am
@izzythepush,
Did not realize that. How far will he go? He is a true solopist, no recognition of anyone else - the Sun revolves around him. I don't get surprised by much but this is shocking. No wonder he wanted to craft Donny Jr's statement the meeting.
izzythepush
 
  4  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 09:10 am
@emmett grogan,
I didn't know either, it was BBC correspondent Anthony Zurcher who pointed it out on the day the raid was announced. He's very good, and he's an American.
emmett grogan
 
  4  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 09:31 am
@izzythepush,
Good catch on his part. I think Trump is playing the Korea kerfluffle for the same reasons. Zurcher has been on Rachel Madow several times.
izzythepush
 
  4  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 09:48 am
@emmett grogan,
He certainly manages to get people's attention.
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blatham
 
  4  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 01:02 pm
@izzythepush,
Boy, they recycle everything over there.
izzythepush
 
  4  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 01:18 pm
@blatham,
It was the outrage that it had turned up in a non ferrous recycling plant that got me. If it had been ferrous there wouldn't have been a problem.
blatham
 
  4  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 01:26 pm
@Walter Hinteler,
Quote:
Republicans are increasingly antagonistic toward experts. Here’s why that matters.
Motta's piece notes/links to Richard Hofstadter's work and I really cannot recommend this work enough. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is one of the most important books on America that I've ever read. Everyone should read it. I insist. If you don't order up this book, I shall rain down fire and fury the likes of which this site has never seen.
blatham
 
  5  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 01:27 pm
@Real Music,
Quote:
Donald Trump Exploits Loophole To Hire Foreign Workers At Mar-A-Lago
He's like way into the whole diversity thing. Trump is a New York cosmopolitan, you see.
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blatham
 
  6  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 01:30 pm
@izzythepush,
That's just entirely inappropriate. You go buy a bag of compost and there is a missile inside. Not going to help the tomatoes at all.
blatham
 
  6  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 01:35 pm
"Fire and fury" - copyright Tom Waits
"Locked and loaded" - copyright Sarah Palin

If Trump and company keep plagiarizing others, "they're going to hear from me" - copyright Leonard Cohen
blatham
 
  7  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 01:39 pm
Quote:
[In the upcoming Alabama primary] former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, twice removed from the bench for ethics violations, who may be the candidate to watch next week.

It's against this backdrop that Moore sat down with The Guardian, where the Alabama Republican suggested he isn't impressed with America's moral standing.

Quote:
In an interview with the Guardian's Anywhere But Washington series, Moore also said that Ronald Reagan's famous declaration about the Soviet Union being "the focus of evil in the modern world" might today be applied to the US.

"You could say that very well about America, couldn't you?" he said. "We promote a lot of bad things."


Asked for an example of the United States promoting "bad things," Moore said, "Same-sex marriage."

The Guardian reminded Moore that Russian President Vladimir Putin has said effectively the same thing. "Well, maybe Putin is right," Moore replied. "Maybe he's more akin to me than I know."
Benen
Re the bolded sentence, obviously this is the winner of today's No ****, Sherlock award.
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blatham
 
  4  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 01:58 pm
One of my favorite humans, Terry Gross, in an interview on the Tonight Show, tells a brief story of her interview with Bill O'Reilly. Watch it Here
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izzythepush
 
  3  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 03:22 pm
@blatham,
I dunno, lot of phosphates in missiles.
blatham
 
  3  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 05:48 pm
@izzythepush,
Really? I have to get me some.
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blatham
 
  3  
Fri 11 Aug, 2017 05:58 pm
If anyone here on the right has an email address for Paul Manafort, please let me know. I have a terrific Knock Knock joke for him.
 

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