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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[josh]

On a personal level, Yunaska graduated from East Carolina University in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in management and physics. He later got a master's in finance from the same school in 2009. After graduation, he worked for Vail Resorts from 2010 to 2011, worked as an accounting manager for the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health from 2012 to 2014, and was a tax analyst for Georgetown University in 2014.



He sounds overqualified - very likely taking a pay cut to do service.  US government is fortunate to have him.

Sure sounds like it prepared him for the energy department.

But no, apparently, he did not take a paycut - it was a promotion within the department. And he'd been at loose ends prior to working for the transition team.

But I should not have posted the article, regardless.

[josh]

And now we know why Dershowitz is defending Trump:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dershowitz-nixon-gang-dc/?fbclid=IwAR0iAJkvDGCwwvDn3bpSttGp5RLGqzJ0SnjZRHETt4PMhhAPHYFuT3ctT0E

[LarryBnDC]

I feel safer already.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/29/politics/us-border-wall-falls-over-high-winds/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3HeTnoTcjaF2Fw1GNYq3r9yjjWX9zKdSkP8-37W1gSsj6CFgNEI2aotjk

the sections that gave way had recently been set in a new concrete foundation in Calexico, California. The concrete had not yet cured, according to Pitones, and the wall panels were unable to withstand the windy conditions.


With no wall, you're actually in more danger.

Fences are better, let the air flow thru...and cameras can see what's going on on the Mexican side.

$11 Billion dollars
37 mph wind...

Suckers.

[LarryBnDC]

This is indicative of the alternate universe the GOP and supporters inhabit. 

“...the whole world (including Biden) thought Viktor Shokin was corrupt BECAUSE HE WOULDN'T INVESTIGATE BURISMA

The situation is exactly the OPPOSITE of what the president and his lawyers are saying, and them doubling and tripling down on this lie is inexplicable”

—Seth Abramson

[bambu.]

I feel safer already.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/29/politics/us-border-wall-falls-over-high-winds/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3HeTnoTcjaF2Fw1GNYq3r9yjjWX9zKdSkP8-37W1gSsj6CFgNEI2aotjk

the sections that gave way had recently been set in a new concrete foundation in Calexico, California. The concrete had not yet cured, according to Pitones, and the wall panels were unable to withstand the windy conditions.


With no wall, you're actually in more danger.

Fences are better, let the air flow thru...and cameras can see what's going on on the Mexican side.

$11 Billion dollars
37 mph wind...

Suckers.

There's plenty of money...the defence budget is $600 billion pa.
The concrete hadn't set.
Not much good screening people at airports with a large microscope and then just allowing others to waltz over the Mexican border at will...one looks silly.
Anyway, it's very bad security.

[bambu.]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/need-know-violent-animals-ms-13/

What You Need To Know About The Violent Animals Of MS-13

May 21, 2018

WHAT: The violent animals of MS-13 have committed heinous, violent attacks in communities across America.

Too many innocent Americans have fallen victim to the unthinkable violence of MS-13’s animals.

At the State of the Union in January 2018, President Trump brought as his guests Elizabeth Alvarado, Robert Mickens, Evelyn Rodriguez, and Freddy Cuevas, the parents of Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas.  Police believe these young girls were chased down and brutally murdered by MS-13 gang members on Long Island, New York, in 2016. Suffolk County Police Commissioner stated that the “murders show a level of brutality that is close to unmatched.”

In Maryland, MS-13’s animals are accused of stabbing a man more than 100 times and then decapitating him, dismembering him, and ripping his heart out of his body. Police believe MS-13 members in Maryland also savagely beat a 15-year-old human trafficking victim. The MS-13 animals used a bat and took turns beating her nearly 30 times in total.

In Houston, Texas, two MS-13 members were charged after kidnapping and sexually assaulting one girl and murdering another. The two MS-13 animals laughed, smiled, and waved for cameras in court as they faced the charges.

New York communities have suffered tremendously from the abhorrent violence of MS-13. Nearly 40 percent of all murders in Suffolk County, New York between January 2016 and June 2017 were tied to MS-13.

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The wall must be built.
The borders must be sealed.
The deportation bus fleet must be rolled out of the sheds.
Time to banish from the landscape some people already in America, and only let in nice people who pass strict identification, health, and background checks.
Time to take back the country from violent animals, criminals etc, and MakeAmericaGreatAgain.

[bodiddley]

The "Kobe Bryant" chopper was not equipped with terrain-sensor equipment.
What!

It was a near 30 year old whirlybird, a 1991 Sikorsky.
A lot of old planes and helicopters out there.

There's some concern that you'd get too many false alarms in such hilly terrain.  But certainly I'd want an extra safety device (which could likely be turned off anyway).  You'd think you'd certainly want to be able to see the topography on a screen.

But bottom line they shouldn't have gone up in such weather.

[josh]

[bodiddley]

The Arab world never cared about the Palestinians.

I disagree.  Many Arab states and ruling families were newly created, and there used to exist a pretty strong pan-Arab feeling of brotherhood.  They had been governed by larger entities for centuries under first the Ottoman then the British and French Empires.  So national identity was weak and pan-Arab identity was strong.  Think Nasser.  Most Arabs took pride in becoming independent and throwing off the yoke of colonialism, except there were the Palestinians still dispossessed of their land and caught up in European dominance.  Then there was also the rise of Muslim identity, which abhorred Zionism and its Christian  supporters.

No matter what the ruling elites thought of the Palestinians, the Arab street did care about their plight, seeing in it a mirror of their own previous struggles, and feeling a significant Arab brotherhood.  More recently, nationalism and domestic policies, and the ability to affect domestic politics has pushed any concern for the Palestinians way into the background.

There also has been a significant parallel shift, with leaders of Arab countries willing to work with Israel, but their people still strongly against such cooperation.  Israel's only real enemy these days is Iran and tiny Lebanon.  You can add Hamas in Gaza and Assad in Syria, but they are so weakened and in disarray as to pose no real threat.

Overall, things have changed dramatically.  The center of the Arab world has shifted from corrupt sclerotic Egypt to the Arabian peninsula where wealthy Saudi Arabia has staked its claim, while the UAE and Qatar play outsized roles.  Turkey, formerly a pariah and coup-prone, has tried to muscle into a leadership position.  While Iran has also sought to fill the vacuum, limited by being Shiite, but helped by the US overthrowing the Sunnis in Iraq.

[josh]

I feel safer already.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/29/politics/us-border-wall-falls-over-high-winds/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3HeTnoTcjaF2Fw1GNYq3r9yjjWX9zKdSkP8-37W1gSsj6CFgNEI2aotjk

the sections that gave way had recently been set in a new concrete foundation in Calexico, California. The concrete had not yet cured, according to Pitones, and the wall panels were unable to withstand the windy conditions.


With no wall, you're actually in more danger.

Fences are better, let the air flow thru...and cameras can see what's going on on the Mexican side.

$11 Billion dollars
37 mph wind...

Suckers.

The concrete hadn't set.

For somebody who insists on not believing women when they say stuff, you sure grant a lot of credence in men when they make claims - at least, some men!

[bodiddley]

Mike Sagely, a former military pilot with 35 years of helicopter flying experience who uses TAWS in his current work in the Los Angeles area, said that while he likes having the system, he agreed that the frequency of audible warnings can make some pilots tune out.

“People, they get complacent with it because they hear it all the time,” Sagely said. “They get so used to hearing it that when they do hear it, and they might even be in a dangerous profile, they may not react to it.”

He described it as helpful to have, but not something to rely on too heavily. “It is another tool, another piece of equipment that should assist you.”

The audible warning can be muted or dialed down to be less frequent, he said. This would leave the display screen, which depicts terrain or objects in coded colors. A mountain or radio tower is shown in red if the helicopter is dangerously close.

[bambu.]

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/kobe-bryant-details-of-fatal-helicopter-crash-revealed/ar-BBZsEq0?li=AAgfYrC&OCID=AVRES000

The aircraft did not carry a "black box" recorder on board, nor did it have any other type of terrain awareness system, meaning piecing together the crash details may be more difficult.

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Should never have been given special clearance to fly in that weather...given that all other helicopters had been grounded.

[bambu.]

I feel safer already.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/29/politics/us-border-wall-falls-over-high-winds/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3HeTnoTcjaF2Fw1GNYq3r9yjjWX9zKdSkP8-37W1gSsj6CFgNEI2aotjk

the sections that gave way had recently been set in a new concrete foundation in Calexico, California. The concrete had not yet cured, according to Pitones, and the wall panels were unable to withstand the windy conditions.


With no wall, you're actually in more danger.

Fences are better, let the air flow thru...and cameras can see what's going on on the Mexican side.

$11 Billion dollars
37 mph wind...

Suckers.

The concrete hadn't set.

For somebody who insists on not believing women when they say stuff, you sure grant a lot of credence in men when they make claims - at least, some men!

I see it looks like it's under construction, so I'm taking their word for it, it's only a fence/wall, not human beings.
Looks like a flimsy construction to me, but guess they know what they're doing.

No wall there, people in that street in Mexico can just walk right into America?

[luee]

The country is so polarized some are outraged by the destruction of terror general and his aid with no collateral damage. What part of 'death to America" don't they understand?

---Washington (CNN)The House will vote Thursday on a pair of measures intended to rein in President Donald Trump's ability to take military action against Iran, the latest effort by Democrats to reassert congressional authority amid simmering tensions with the country in the wake of a US strike that killed a top Iranian general.---

[bodiddley]

Some folks see assassinating military leaders of other countries as a dangerous precedent.

And no one wants another major war, which such assassinations make more likely.

In March 2018, Trump announced the appointment of Bolton as national security adviser — his third in less than 14 months — in a presidential tweet. A few weeks later the president tweeted that foreign and trade policy was in good hands, and it “feels great to have Bolton … on board.”

Bolton had reportedly been on Trump’s shortlist of candidates for the post since the beginning of the administration, but officials said the president initially hesitated, in part because he didn’t like Bolton’s mustache.

It sounds absolutely ridiculous, but Trump seriously likes his high people to look the part.  He prefers central casting generals, as he's stated previously.

He was interested in Bolton, sicne Bolt had a reputation as a tough guy.  But adding fools like Bolton made a war more likely, as Bolton has been pushing for a war with Iran for decades.  WWVI as Trump says