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  1. Posted · Edited by redcairo

    Would you refrain from characterizing the media as liberal. I posted on this in the talk Trump thread and compared historical events from the 30's in which the media was called the 'liberal media'. That is a very loaded and generalized term.

     

    When I see one using this meme, I immediately associate that person with the likes of Rush Limbaugh. Not in every way of course.

     

    I am out of words for what to call the mainstream media if not liberal -- since they are so overtly "left wing" and worse, barring Fox (which is right-wing and worse) that the word "Democrat" would not do (and is quite unfair to the many good democrats who wonder when their party went off the edge) and merely calling them "the enemy" while often but-not-always true would be even more biased. Have you a suggested word?

     

    Your ability to conclude that so many Single Words someone uses as a regular modern part of a living language -- language is alive and changes all the time -- have at some point in history been used for something else and hence the person today using it in a pretty normal way is unreasonably biased -- is so... so... LIBERAL.  LOL!!!!  It IS!

     

    PS I like Rush Limbaugh.

     

    PPS And I used the word again because however it might have been used "at some point in history" is not NOW. Language moves with the people.

     

    RC

     

    I resisted saying you are mansplainin' politics, a double-whammy as that's a leftist-pussyist term of its own--but only barely.

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    Trump is gagging and gutting the EPA at the same time as approving the pipeline. It's pretty obvious which way the winds are going to blow on this one.

     

    I think this was inaccurate of the media to portray (as usual). On that:

     

     

    The way reporters made it sound, the new administration had taken unprecedented steps to silence scientists at not just the EPA, but also the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services.

     

    Though it sounded like shocking stuff, it turned out many reporters had mischaracterized the memos, adding to the growing list of overhyped, media-instigated feeding frenzies.

     

    But officials at the EPA and other federal agencies said the press oversold the story, and that many in media greatly overreacted.

     

    "I've lived through many transitions, and I don't think this is a story," one senior EPA official told the New York Times. "I don't think it's fair to call it a gag order. This is standard practice. And the move with regard to the grants, when a new administration comes in, you run things by them before you update the website."

     

    The agency's communications director, Doug Ericksen, said separately that they are simply maintaining a holding pattern until the new administration gets settled, which is normal during transitions.

     

    "We're just trying to get a handle on everything and make sure what goes out reflects the priorities of the new administration," Ericksen told the AP.

     

    The EPA said Tuesday in a statement, "The EPA fully intends to continue to provide information to the public. A fresh look at public affairs and communications processes is common practice for any new Administration, and a short pause in activities allows for this assessment."

     

    ...the USDA said a department-wide halt in communication isn't unusual for a transitioning administration.

     

    "What happened yesterday was a misunderstanding," the director of communications for the USDA's Agricultural Research Service told Scientific American.

     

    "The announcement that our administrator sent to staff last night was less a rescinding of anything than it was a clarification," he said, adding, "This is what has happened at the transition of every administration … it's just a pause."

     

    Same with the media pretending that everyone in charge of an agency quit at once, when in fact the entirety of people in any prez admin submit resignations when a new one comes in (already done) and the new prez chooses to either 'accept' them (fire them) or request they stay on (hire them). Four people and one minion were fired by the new administration and that's going to be far bigger and more pervasive before long here. Perhaps the media will continue pretending that this perfectly ordinary transition process means that Literally Hitlerâ„¢ is inspiring people to leap from ledges holding hands in their despair.

     

    Trump is only in it for one person: himself. He won the election by pandering to the so-called alt right, a demographic that the establishment politicians were too busy ignoring.

     

    I think the whole meme that Trump only won the so-called alt-right is more of the liberal media's denial, to marginalize him. The man had 63 million people vote for him. 30 million of those were women. The so-called alt-right was a tiny fringe. One of its media (Brietbart) exploded in great part because the mainstream media has been so intentionally out of touch with reality as part of their propaganda machine that people ended up at websites like Brietbart just trying to figure out what was really going on.

     

    He's an expert at reading audiences and giving them what they want.

     

    Probably. But it's not too hard to read 95 million adults aren't working, can't afford their forced-upon health insurance they then can't afford to use, are utterly sick of tens of millions of illegals and the fallout of that, worried of the threat to national security of having no decent southern border and importing people from the regions that most hate us and often with decent additional-cause (they did already anyway) since Obama spent 8 years blowing most of them up, and the corruption that lobbying and unlimited terms has brought to our government, the corruption and politicizing of every federal agency as the C-Span congressional videos on youtube make so clear, and so much more. A person wouldn't need to be a genius to know there are issues government needs to deal with and a lot of citizens would like someone in government who wants to. They would however need to have so much money personally that a lack of funding by existing controllers wouldn't matter, the utter hatred of not one but both parties of government against and outsider wouldn't matter, and the entire edifice of western media against them wouldn't matter. As improbability would have it, the country actually found a guy like that.

     

    Right now the GOP is in control of everything so naturally he will do things to appease them, while profiting at the same time.

     

    He found a way of bringing the GOP to heel on everything that mattered most to him. They have bowed to him far more than he has to them, with a couple rare exceptions.

     

    Trump is a RINO. That doesn't make him any less dangerous but it does mean that he is somewhat predictable.

     

    He's a centrist not a right-wing sort, that is for certain. He doesn't need to be predictable by any grand political or cosmic insight: he's predictable because he is up front and says what he wants and what he plans to do, and then he does it. He's already done more to back his 'campaign promises' than any politician I've known of in my life.

     

    His almost daily approach to pissing off the media and giving them SQUIRREL! talking points to obsess on is a bit unpredictable. Need to get more popcorn.

     

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    I'd sure like to see some UN-climate money go to Flint, and an agency for inventions that best help deal with the economic effects of traditional energy harvesting.

     

    RC

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  3. Posted · Edited by redcairo

    Don't shoot the messenger.

     

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    The White House
     
    Office of the Press Secretary
     
    For Immediate Release
     
    January 24, 2017
     
    Presidential Memorandum Regarding Construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline

     

    MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY

     

    SUBJECT: Construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline

     

    Section 1. Policy. The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) under development by Dakota Access, LLC, represents a substantial, multi-billion-dollar private investment in our Nation's energy infrastructure. This approximately 1,100-mile pipeline is designed to carry approximately 500,000 barrels per day of crude oil from the Bakken and Three Forks oil production areas in North Dakota to oil markets in the United States. At this time, the DAPL is more than 90 percent complete across its entire route. Only a limited portion remains to be constructed.

     

    I believe that construction and operation of lawfully permitted pipeline infrastructure serve the national interest.

     

    Accordingly, pursuant to the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct as follows:

     

    Sec. 2. Directives. (a) Pipeline Approval Review. The Secretary of the Army shall instruct the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), including the Commanding General and Chief of Engineers, to take all actions necessary and appropriate to:

     

    (i) review and approve in an expedited manner, to the extent permitted by law and as warranted, and with such conditions as are necessary or appropriate, requests for approvals to construct and operate the DAPL, including easements or rights-of-way to cross Federal areas under section 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act, as amended, 30 U.S.C. 185; permits or approvals under section 404 of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1344; permits or approvals under section 14 of the Rivers and Harbors Act, 33 U.S.C. 408; and such other Federal approvals as may be necessary;

     

    (ii) consider, to the extent permitted by law and as warranted, whether to rescind or modify the memorandum by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works dated December 4, 2016 (Proposed Dakota Access Pipeline Crossing at Lake Oahe, North Dakota), and whether to withdraw the Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement in Connection with Dakota Access, LLC's Request for an Easement to Cross Lake Oahe, North Dakota, dated January 18, 2017, and published at 82 Fed. Reg. 5543;

     

    (iii) consider, to the extent permitted by law and as warranted, prior reviews and determinations, including the Environmental Assessment issued in July of 2016 for the DAPL, as satisfying all applicable requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., and any other provision of law that requires executive agency consultation or review (including the consultation or review required under section 7(a) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, 16 U.S.C. 1536(a));

     

    (iv) review and grant, to the extent permitted by law and as warranted, requests for waivers of notice periods arising from or related to USACE real estate policies and regulations; and

     

    (v) issue, to the extent permitted by law and as warranted, any approved easements or rights-of-way immediately after notice is provided to the Congress pursuant to section 28(w) of the Mineral Leasing Act, as amended, 30 U.S.C. 185(w).

     

    (vi) Publication. The Secretary of the Army shall promptly provide a copy of this memorandum to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Majority Leader of the Senate, and the Governors of each State located along the Dakota Access Pipeline route. The Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

     

    © Private Property. Nothing in this memorandum alters any Federal, State, or local process or condition in effect on the date of this memorandum that is necessary to secure access from an owner of private property to construct the pipeline and facilities described herein. Land or an interest in land for the pipeline and facilities described herein may only be acquired consistently with the Constitution and applicable State laws.

    Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

     

    (i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

     

    (ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

     

    (iii) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

     

    © This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

     

    DONALD J. TRUMP

     

  4. Posted

    I'm confused about something.

     

    Didn't the tribe say that they wanted a should-have-been-done-and-wasn't environmental study done about this and their area and that they would abide by the results if for some reason it was done properly and did not suggest the level of damage they expected? Is that not so?

     

    Was it done?

     

    Why are they still protesting if that was the agreement?

     

    I must have missed a memo.

     

    RC

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    Trump cannot disagree with every possible thing. He's got to give, or at least not make an issue of, some things, in order to have time for others.

     

    And, there is really no need to create whole furors over something now, when his party can simply do what they want later, regardless.

     

    What irks me is how many people (in both parties) behave like they're going to intentionally, and regardless of detail, cause problems for the leadership no matter what, just because it's not who they would have chosen. Man, in business, this is one reason why a lot of incoming CEOs end up firing a huge slew of people, because of all the subversive F'ing politics, and people not willing to support a change in strategy.

     

    I see Democrats like Tulsi Gabbard from Hawaii, I think she's native american not that it matters but I think that's one of the things she is fairly known for, she's a former soldier, one of her big pushes is getting our gov't to stop giving money to fund terrorist arms that end up killing our own soldiers. Logical focus for her to have, given her background. I do not imagine her working 'against' any president on her own, intentionally. I imagine her doing what she thinks is right which might disagree entirely but might not. Whether she'll be able, with a party that sees anybody with their own brain as a traitor to the cult, is another story -- and don't think I'm just blaming the D's here, the R's are the same way.

     

    But then I see this huge swath of other people who are basically insisting they plan to do nothing but be an impediment for the rest of their term and I feel like WHY ARE YOU EVEN THERE if they are so juvenile and unprofessional they can't even work on finding the ways in which their country and their state could most benefit from WHATEVER the current leads happen to be, and do their best within those boundaries. In the business world, this is how it is. And you grow up or you have the ethics to GTF out so people who are not just simmering impediments can do the job.

     

    I watched the live press conf from DJT the other day. Mostly live just to be a number. Just to support the WH live streaming stuff to the public rather than giving it to the 'press corps' and letting them twist it and spin it and spoon feed it to us in preferred pieces. I was shocked at how unprofessional the press were after like the first few questions. And some female who asked a question "as an accusation" and so on -- people trying to fit 6 complex questions in one or trying to sermonize in the form of a question or whatever -- GROW UP people, my god, the serious lack of professionalism was just staggering. And I know DJT really jumped on the guys from Buzzfeed and CNN but you know what, if you release fake and lurid kill-propaganda on someone less than 24 hours before don't be surprised if they don't F'n want to hear from you. That the press guy stood there shouting and would. Not. Shut. Up. Like he was "owed" anything at all was ridiculous -- it's the PrezE of the USA dude, you are not "entitled" to anything especially under those conditions. It was like Hi I'm An OverGrown Millennial And I Am Owed! I Am Entitled! I Have Rights To YOUR Stage! Like when I see college groups that Milo or Ben Shapiro are speaking for and the people in the audience clearly just do not get that they are the audience -- that someone else is on stage and it's their stage, and questions can come after but making someone else's show into your drama is injust even to all the other people in the audience never mind the speaker... it's like all these people never matured past age 8, if that, what is wrong with their parents I ask myself. Anyway on the press conference, I considered it a complete embarrassment for the press for reasons having nothing to do with Trump's comments.

     

    Annnnnd I got totally off topic I guess LOL.

     

    RC

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  7. Posted

    I've seen human's solar bodies but they looked (humorously) a lot like the 'light beings' in that movie Cocoon -- soft-white light vaguely body shaped, kinda lose the detail near the feet (angelics do also).

     

    The light thing in the sky seemed awesome.

     

    I was reminded of these crazy trumpet-like sounds that I once heard recorded, said to be another weather phenomenon.

     

    I can only imagine what ancient man would have thought of this stuff!!

     

    RC

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  8. Posted

    Yeah... The committee essentially said or implied that they were hoping awarding it to him would be ... inspirationally motivating, and that this did not work out as planned.

     

    Re: religion: the dominant and forceful theme(s) of the preacher he sat through weekly for 20 years is what got most people thinking his religion was an issue. It was a church, not a mosque, some are just as bad I suppose.

     

    I had nothing against him except that

     

    a) if he wasn't born here he was ineligible. I accepted that when the 'authorities' seemed to accept his birth cert but now it turns out the allegedly paranoia tea party guys were right all along and it's a hoax, watch the whole video and it's pretty clear

     

    B) the media gave him what might have been a billion in 'free' positive advertising for 2008 campaign and I resent having the media choose our leader mostly because the media's run by the worst sources and they are not in favor of our political health

     

    c) I really resented you could not have the smallest conversation about any actual issue without someone keening "racist!" which has sucked so much, to me it's enough reason to not put anybody ethnic in the house if it's going to prevent all Americans from being able to have any intelligent discourse (let alone debate) because it causes such egregious political correctness fears

     

    But Obama won and despite I was very depressed for a bit I hoped the country would survive and I hoped he would do well and would bring some of the 'change' everyone was optimistically hoping for.

     

    He did the same thing Bush did, except more of it, and worse, and even came up with new versions of bad. By the time he left, every federal agency (and this is likely not just his fault but 8 years of his admin surely made it vastly worse) appeared to be utterly corrupt, and usually at least somewhat incompetent, and watching some of the congressional hearings on C-SPAN is enough to make one want to just burn it down and start over it's so bad. I feel actual disgust at how bad things are presently and I blame him for a good 8 year chunk of it and its devolution, because I believe in the chain of command, and in business I totally believe that "all problems are management problems." I totally gave him benefit of the doubt and got behind him in spirit and conversation at least. He didn't live up to any of it. Oh well. Here's hoping the new administration will do better.

     

    RC

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  10. Posted

    Well if their goal is "no pipeline" it's unrealistic. If it's "reroute the pipeline or do some real environmental survey studies that should have already been done that would have probably (important caveat-word) changed the routing to begin with" that could happen.

     

    RC

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    That's funny!  (The spoiler too :-))

     

    I guess I do understand that if someone is leaving a job, knowing you hate the guy taking your place, and that he's going to undo some things you did, is very upsetting.

     

    But it does seem O has gone slightly overboard with the "how much can I do and screw up for the incoming" party.

     

    RC

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  14. Posted · Edited by redcairo

    Watching what's going on just a little, I had the darkly amusing thought that it's like when someone is a pathological liar, and have succeeded by keeping people hating each other and away from each other so nobody ever compares stories, and then one day it all falls apart when a couple people talk to each other and start to realize what's going on, and it all starts collapsing.

     

    Everything would have kept on going like it was except DJT had to wade in like an intentionally-clumsy bull with his balls on fire and just have friendly casual conversations with everybody, and the house of cards of "inertia and comfortably entrenched corruption and incompetence" starts crumbling. Company after company, big ones, saying they'll be on board to try and make it happen. He doesn't want war with Russia, considers Climate Change political, and the UN openly sucks. Mexico's president likes him. Russia's premier likes him. Israel's leader likes him. Ohhhh I bet TPTB so far really hate him.

     

    If only DJT would agree to live at least 11 levels down in a secure military bunker for the next four years so he can keep breathing long enough to get that far into things, I'd feel somewhat more secure about the odds of him actually accomplishing something before the globalists have someone shoot him.

     

    RC

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  18. Posted

    growing an offshoot aloe vera plant in a tea cup in front of the generator, see how it goes, it's in no soil or water at present

     

    I've had a lot of that in the past as it grew wild where I'm from in so CA. You'll need soil at some point probably, it is a cacti and its growth is eventually large. If you don't have soil you might just dissolve a multi-mineral supplement in the water if you don't have any liquid minerals, that might help more than plain water.

     

    You have a generator? Do you live in the wilds? :-)

     

    RC

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    They do have to go somewhere. My reason for empathy is that I think native lands should have the native agreement first if they're going to be used for something that eminent domain is pushing.

     

    This I think doesn't have the smallest ones as I saw another image I couldn't find, that had tons more 'hairline' examples. But this is food for thought:

     

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  22. Posted

    Demonstrating IMO that pretty much all human traits are on a circular spectrum -- like politics. Every trait can go two opposite ways toward bad when not in moderation -- and go far enough in one direction, you get around back and run into the other.

     

    RC

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    so all the tribes gather to fight oil , but they secretly want trump to take their oil? lol is that what you're saying?

     

    No... I was responding to the article and it seems like we didn't read the same one if that's what you ask me.

     

    Peace,

    RC

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  24. Posted

    let's hope trump isnt that stupid. 

     

    I see this in it:

     

     

    Trump's transition team commissioned the 27-member Native American Affairs Coalition to draw up a list of proposals to guide his Indian policy on issues ranging from energy to health care and education.

     

    I don't know what more can be asked...

     

    I found it interesting that the article mentions that one problem (...) is that a given tribe may have disagreements internally about whether to do X (plus it's the tribe that allots profit, etc. within reservations so I'm sure there's politics there). That really cannot be anybody's problem but theirs. In the end, someone has to make a decision.

     

    RC

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  25. Posted · Edited by redcairo

    Well there are only so many topics and issues and problems anybody can take on at once, and it's already a long list likely to far exceed what even a demigod could pull off in four years. So I can't hold "he's not talking about X" against him, no matter what it is.

     

    The biggest question to me remains:

     

    What IS there -- even theoretically -- to 'replace' the vast loss of jobs for the just-above-minimum-wage to below-college-degree sector in our society? Manufacturing drastically gone, which means much of warehousing gone, and what's left of warehousing for food or service ties to trucking which automation is shortly going to drastically curtail jobs within. Construction fell by 2/3 of what mfg did in the 00-16 or so era of the big report I read, and so on. Is the development of energy internally really going to provide that many jobs? Circa '91 the oil industry directly and indirectly I think had about half a million jobs. That's a ton. But the country needs at least 10M better at least twice that.

     

    It seems like people who have some education, but no job they're willing to do that gives them a decent life, tend to turn violent, or at least the french revolution rather made it seem like that. So some replacement jobs and improved economy kinda needs to happen before the span of generation that needs it ages and dies and/or the incoming entitled millennials turn the whole country into a #MyLifeMattersMoreThanYours riot.

     

    RC

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