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The Stones thing, something about painting his red door black.. I'll modify that song to paint it orange using the same lyrics and my voice, which, I tell you, will annoy Trump's or anyone's ears.

A Vox piece on the same theme
Vox
This was actually fairly predictable. We knew Trump was profoundly uneducated and disinterested in learning, certainly in those areas that would be of great significance for a world political leader or even a US president. And being with such core knowledge and any coherent set of policies, his responses to events and to political difficulties was certain to be chaotic, knee-jerk and driven most acutely by what has always driven him - a pathological need for adulation and the sort of "respect" bullies demand. We knew he would lie about anything anytime if he thought it would make him look good (as he understands that). We knew he was not going to dig in and study and anything like the necessary levels and that he would leave the hard work to others, then move wherever he was told (so long as his sense of his reputation was not threatened). That he would flip flop comes as a surprise only to those who imagined (and how is this possible?) that Trump was principled.

You know, I never attended to the lyrics of that Stones song. Mind you, I don't think I ever attended much to their lyrics. Jagger is actually a very smart guy (early interviews are impressive) but words served the Stones quite differently than most other really good songwriters. The Stones used words adroitly in helping to craft a "hook".

I know it isn't exactly right on topic but it's not like everyone has been dead on topic in everything they say.

I have a fabulous seashell collection. I keep it on beaches all over the world. Perhaps you've seen it. - Stephen Wright

Very good piece at Vox on the MOAB and its use yesterday
http://www.vox.com/world/2017/4/13/15292418/moab-mother-of-all-bombs

Tangent re Vox usage - it rattles me to see the word disinterested in place of uninterested.

To me, disinterested means to be without bias towards one view or another, but includes knowledge of a situation, even possible interest in how something resolves. Uninterested means not giving a damn.

Am I alone in the world?

Look, y'all. I'm not talking to the conservatives who never seem to see a saber rattle they don't like; I'm talking to the rest of you. I just sat right here and heard Donald Trump crowing about how he's going to "take care of the problem" of North Korea. He's always blustering, but this just happened to be directly after he had signed off on the (MOAB) biggest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal getting dropped on Afghanistan, and that's no coincidence. THEN, I watched Erin Burnett on CNN ask a Colorado Republican Congressman this question: "If North Korea goes ahead with their 6th ICBM test, should the United States launch a preemptive strike against North Korea?" My jaw hit the floor. Thankfully, the guy said no, but is anyone else getting icy terror from how closely we seem to be flirting with war? With crazy men in Syria and North Korea?

I agree, snood. I hope congress for once will assert its right to at least make the president ask permission. Maybe they could stop him.

Yes, I'm nervous, very nervous. There can be sane heads around, but they seem to be on the sidelines.

On seeming not to care: I don't have a tv and rarely use my radio. I read a lot, but not always about the world all day long. On internet news problems, I've mediocre to bad hearing, and most stuff doesn't have transcrips.

So, thanks for the info re the Congressman's question.

I think we all understand the first wave of death, the slower cancers, the generations of damage. Americans can't really imagine it being us at risk. We've never really felt at risk because of the oceans. We need to trade places with those innocent people.

An accident at Fukushima has impaired our ability to eat healthy fish.

One dirty bomb over there, and believe me, it will float back to the one who dealt it. The Great Barrier Reef is dead. Fish kills and die offs and beachings are happening constantly.

The world is changing pretty rapidly. A nuclear detonation anywhere. Anywhere. Would be devastating.

There's no need to **** with that psycho in Worst Korea. There's way too much to lose.

Only a country that thinks they're untouchable would flirt with a nuclear exchange.

If you would just wake up, Snood, the crazy men have always been right here, the US presidents. You people have no right at all to threaten anyone. THAT IS TERRORISM! Plain and simple, and it has been going on for hundreds of years.

The US has been trying to overthrow the governments of Syria, Cuba, Korea, ... for years. THAT IS TERRORISM!

Don't think that you can simply blame conservatives for the vicious crimes all your governments have been committing since forever. You all sit silent and you all make a huge pretense that you have some sort of moral base.

Yes, it would be quite a change for you.

I do love US carnage!

Especially when those who are slaughtered are innocents!

Sounds like your penis

Well there we go ...blatham declared it stupid.

That oil companies have more more money at stake doesn't mean that "lowly" scientists can't be corrupted by money

Or are you so stupid as to not realize this?

No?

You really don't think grant money motivates actions and opinions?

I didn't take you for a scientist worshipper.

We know that already, Finn, your propensity towards evil.

Yes!

I am evil!

Unfortunately, I might get away with my evil if JTT wasn't on the ball.

Not just "lowly", Finn, top, high ranking US scientists, like the jokers/liars at NIST.

Yeah, they are all top scientists like Freeman Dyson who doesn't buy their crap but is heads and shoulders above all of them.