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You haven't truly lived until you've managed to get your bowel movements in sync with Scott Bakula's.GreenGoo wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2017 4:40 pm Of course I don't follow anyone on twitter and the idea of getting a notification that someone took a dump and told the world about it is beyond the pale for me, so I'm probably not the tweet audience.
Oh boy.wonderpug wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2017 4:55 pmYou haven't truly lived until you've managed to get your bowel movements in sync with Scott Bakula's.GreenGoo wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2017 4:40 pm Of course I don't follow anyone on twitter and the idea of getting a notification that someone took a dump and told the world about it is beyond the pale for me, so I'm probably not the tweet audience.
Lord Frelinghuysen doesn't give a damn about his constituents serfs' mild suffering - they merely live to farm his fields and run his many factories.Octavious wrote: Thu Oct 26, 2017 1:02 pm I say FU to Frelinghuysen who voted yes on a budget that would decimate NJ. What a hot mess. It was so quiet for 8 years and every other day is a god damn disaster waiting to happen. Honestly I say screw it. Pass horrible tax "cuts" and lets watch NJ crumble. Even then they won't admit Trump is a horrible human being and a terrible pick to lead anything.
It's just completely bizarre to see these statements by Republicans along the lines of "we're going to be in trouble if we don't pass some major legislation!" Yeah, the clear answer to your party being massively unpopular is to pass a massively unpopular tax bill - that should do the trick.Octavious wrote: Thu Oct 26, 2017 1:02 pm I say FU to Frelinghuysen who voted yes on a budget that would decimate NJ. What a hot mess. It was so quiet for 8 years and every other day is a god damn disaster waiting to happen. Honestly I say screw it. Pass horrible tax "cuts" and lets watch NJ crumble. Even then they won't admit Trump is a horrible human being and a terrible pick to lead anything.
If they remove property tax deductions NJ will collapse as the housing market will instantly die. And I just don't care anymore. Actually I hope it's a gigantic mess so that maybe we never let someone like this in ever again. BUT since Bush almost killed the entire country and we're trying stuff even MORE extreme I'm losing hope that it will matter. On the plus side, aside from killing the NJ housing market it shouldn't have much of an impact on me. My father who I'm sure loves Trump will be 100% royally f'd by this. His taxes have to be like 17K a year.YellowKing wrote: Thu Oct 26, 2017 2:47 pm I finally determined the source of my constant angst, and it's not Trump being president per se. It's the fact that I want to shout "This guy is destroying America and is a horrible human being! And he proves that day after day! And you stupid fucking idiots who voted him into office are too fucking stupid or too fucking oblivious to care!"
But I can't, because they are my friends, family, and co-workers.
This is very true.. we intelligent people don't need to boast out loud.. All of our boasting is internally.RunningMn9 wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2017 2:33 pmThat's a different thing altogether. That's not actually a declaration of intelligence. That's just a clever lead-in to calling something stupid or unclear.LordMortis wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2017 2:14 pmI'm a smart guy, but....
I'm a pretty intelligent dude, but...
If you've actually met someone that is actually intelligent, that said "I'm a very intelligent person" (hard stop), I'd be surprised.
Very intelligent people don't have to tell people they are very intelligent, because it's obvious. You only have to tell people when it's not obvious. And when it's not obvious, it's because you aren't actually a very intelligent person. You only think you are, and are incredibly self-conscious about others not noticing.
This is completely opposite from every government contract I've ever received. Most of those require the vendor to have cost justification and a risk management plan in place before a contract can ever be issued.Whitefish contract states, "In no event shall [government bodies] have the right to audit or review the cost and profit elements." Wow.
The White House has distanced itself from a $300m (£227m) contract awarded to a tiny Montana firm to help reconstruct Puerto Rico's power grid.
The statement came as President Donald Trump met his Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who knows the chief executive of the company, Whitefish Energy.
Federal authorities have expressed "significant concerns" about the deal, and are reviewing the contract.
Some 75% of Puerto Ricans have no power five weeks after Hurricane Maria.
White House spokesman Raj Shah said on Friday: "Our understanding is the decision to give a contract to Whitefish Energy was made exclusively by Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (Prepa).
"The White House is not aware of any federal involvement in the selection."
The US interior secretary - who has acknowledged knowing Whitefish's chief executive, but denies any involvement in the deal - met the president at the White House on Friday.
Prepa, the US territory's main utility, asserted that federal authorities had reviewed the deal.
But the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) denied that on Thursday night.
Among other clauses, the contract states that "Prepa hereby represents and warrants that Fema has reviewed and approved of this Contract".
It also says Fema "confirmed this Contract is in an acceptable form to qualify for funding from Fema or other US Governmental agencies".
In an email to reporters on Thursday night, Fema said "any language in any contract between Prepa and Whitefish that states Fema approved that contract is inaccurate".
Fema also said it "has significant concerns with how Prepa procured this contract and has not confirmed whether the contract prices are reasonable".
And the corrupt folks swim away with the greenbacks, lox, stockpond, and barracuda.Chaz wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2017 4:44 pm I wonder how many options PREPA was given to select between. If they only got one option, then sure, they selected Whitefish. This whole thing reeks.
We're not accusing you of being from a small town you dumb fuck! We're accusing you of corruption because you just happen to be from the same small town Whitefish is headquartered in, are friends with the CEO, who previously employed Zinke's son, and gave many thousands of dollars to the Trump campaign.Ryan Zinke wrote: "Any attempts by the dishonest media or political operatives to tie me to awarding or influencing any contract involving Whitefish are completely baseless," he said. "Only in elitist Washington, D.C., would being from a small town be considered a crime."
And they'll also get a tax cut (unlike many of us).Isgrimnur wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2017 4:49 pmAnd the corrupt folks swim away with the greenbacks, lox, stockpond, and barracuda.Chaz wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2017 4:44 pm I wonder how many options PREPA was given to select between. If they only got one option, then sure, they selected Whitefish. This whole thing reeks.
Every year, the FBI releases a report that is considered the gold standard for tracking crime statistics in the United States: the Crime in the United States report, a collection of crime statistics gathered from over 18,000 law-enforcement agencies in cities around the country. But according to an analysis by FiveThirtyEight, the 2016 Crime in the United States report — the first released under President Trump’s administration — contains close to 70 percent fewer data tables than the 2015 version did, a removal that could affect analysts’ understanding of crime trends in the country. The removal comes after consecutive years in which violent crime rose nationally, and it limits access to high-quality crime data that could help inform solutions.
Published under the auspices of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, the Crime in the United States report contains national data on homicides, violent crimes, arrests, clearances and police employment that has been collected since the 1960s. The UCR’s report is an invaluable resource for researchers who track national crime trends and is a rich reference database for journalists and members of the general public who are interested in official crime statistics. Among the data missing from the 2016 report is information on arrests, the circumstances of homicides (such as the relationships between victims and perpetrators), and the only national estimate of annual gang murders.
These removals mean that there is less data available concerning a perennial focus of Trump and his attorney general, Jeff Sessions: violent crime. Trump and Sessions have frequently talked about MS-13, a gang with Salvadoran roots, as a looming problem in the country. MS-13 has been cited in 37 Department of Justice press releases and speeches in 2017, compared to only nine mentions in 2016 and five in 2015. Sessions gave a speech on the organization last month, while Trump gave a speech on Long Island in July, saying the gang had “transformed peaceful parks and beautiful quiet neighborhoods into bloodstained killing fields. They’re animals.” Trump also frequently refers to gun violence in Chicago, and at the beginning of his presidency, he established a Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement Office, which aims to study and promote awareness of crimes committed by immigrants who entered the country illegally.
Although the removal of the tables makes it more difficult to get information on one of the White House’s most prominent causes, it also seems like part of a trend in the Trump administration: the suppression of government data and an unwillingness to share information with the press and public. About two weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the FEMA website stopped displaying key metrics relating to island residents’ access to drinkable water and electricity. The data was later restored. The early days of the Trump administration were marked by reports that federal agency employees had been instructed not to talk to the press and to restrict social media postings.
When President Trump chatted with Fox Business Network's Lou Dobbs at the White House on Wednesday, Trump bragged about coming up with "some pretty good names for people," and then he took credit for coining the term "fake news."
"I've really started this whole 'fake news' thing," he said. "Now they've turned it around and then, now they're calling, you know, stories put out -- by Facebook -- fake. And they're fake."
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BuzzFeed journalist Craig Silverman, an expert on misinformation, was using the term "fake news" way back in 2014. And I started showing examples on CNN's "Reliable Sources" in 2016. Other journalists also raised the alarm about the proliferation of hoaxes in the run-up to Election Day.
A Google search turns up much older references. The Virginian-Pilot newspaper actually had a headline with the words "fake news" in 1902. The story described concerns in Norfolk, Virginia about "exaggerated and untruthful reports." TV Guide put the term on its cover in 1992 -- "Fake News: A Special Report," it said -- for a story about "video news releases" produced by P.R. firms.
But Silverman popularized the term "fake news" to apply to made-up stories that are designed to deceive you, stories that are typically spread virally via Facebook and other social networks. Anonymous writers invent the stories either to profit from the clicks or to spread propaganda.
Trump did not latch onto the term until a month after Election Day. His first tweet with the words was on December 10, 2016. He really embraced it in early January, shortly before his inauguration, and attempted to redefine the term.