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Trump is massively unpopular. The Republican's own policies are, for the most part, massively unpopular when actually implemented (as an example, while a lot of people support getting rid of "Obamacare", relatively few - a small minority of voters - approve of getting rid of the "Affordable Care Act". Yes, really.)

So Trump actually gives the Republicans quite a bit of cover to do the unpopular stuff, and then hang Trump with it later. Which is why I don't see the Republicans actually impeaching Trump for at least a year - get the bad stuff out of the way, then "Oops, no, we thought he was terrible too".

So busy declaring their unwavering support for the idea of Global Warming — and its contribution to drought , none of these guys would raise an alarm over the possibility of a flood.

Both have happened before — early settlers in California have died due to drought-induced famine, and 1863 has seen a spectacular flooding, for example.

The science is settled my tail.

The BIGGEST problem in the US is the over-regulation of residential building in the most productive cities that keeps the housing supply artificially low.

In the study "Why Do Cities Matter? Local Growth and Aggregate Growth", the authors show that lowering regulatory constraints on housing in high productivity cities like New York, San Francisco and San Jose to the level of the median city would expand their work force and increase U.S. GDP by 9.5%. That is three or more years of current economic growth rates "for free".

Increasing density in these cities is simple. For example, see these reasonable designs for enhanced density while maintaining green space and livability. You don't have to be like Toronto with 37 residential towers over 46 stories. You can achieve a density of 100,000 people per square mile using a mix of buildings up to 8 stories tall.

To see how screwed-up things have become, 40% of buildings in Manhattan would be illegal to build today, because of height, too many residential units, or too much mixed-use between residential and commercial.

More people living in the most productive cities will also increase the tax bases there, allowing for more investment in transport, education, etc. However transport needs would decline (or at least stay the same) if most new residents live inside these cities instead of the distant exurbs.

Because #LoserDonald would have bragged about winning if he had won.

Cheers.

While you are in this waiting period you will work hard and I have seen people pretty much live at work. This is pretty much indentured servitude.

How does that make you an "indentured servant"? You are free to change jobs while you are on an H-1B (what you erroneously call a "waiting period"); if you think your old employer is too slow applying for a green card for you, switch to a new employer.

Right, Because companies such as Google and Facebook would NEVER collude to prevent H1B holders from changing jobs.

It's almost like Silicon Valley billionaires are slave holders in 1860 South Carolina. The parallels are scary - California is screaming about succeeding from the US, California is attempting to nullify US laws such as those on immigration (need those low-income slaves, err, workers), California is threatening to withhold federal revenues.

The same shit South Carolina did in 1860.

But what about controlled self-destruction?

I think the Saudi's neighbours famously perfected that twenty years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01...

The leading Supreme Court case is Ex parte Garland (1867). Justice Stephen J. Field, writing for the Court in a 5-4 decision, held that the President's pardoning power is ''unlimited,'' and ''It extends to every offense known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment.''

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01...

The so-called President is having Russian troubles of his own. I wonder how this plays into the Snowden saga.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

https://mobile.nytimes.com/201...

Mr. Fryer found that in such situations, officers in Houston were about 20 percent less likely to shoot if the suspects were black.

You appear to not have any facts, you just watch how the media turns any shooting of a black person into national news and ignores the shooting of whites. Cops are therefore more likely to shoot an unruly white person because nobody cares about another dead cracker.

Your media sources would appear to be fake news.

But they have typically fought for net neutrality, rather than against it.

Still feeding the fake news and alternative facts I see. Sorry, you can't rewrite history. If you voted for President Pedophile, you voted for someone who lies and has no problem breaking the law, and if you did it because he made up a claim that his opponent broke the law all the worse. Kelly-Anne Conway just broke the law on Fox News last night by advertising for Ivanka Trump, but I don't see Republicans punishing her either. Most federal employees in the past get suspended or fired for what she did last night, but President Pedophile and Republican controlled congress are the only ones with the ability to punish her, and I don't see either doing anything. President Pedophile actually defended her after she broke the law.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ma...

https://www.bloomberg.com/poli...

The Clinton e-mails are one of the biggest lies Republicans, Breitbart, and Fox News told. Nothing was really deleted. Hillary first sent one copy of the hard drives to a law office and had them sort between all the personal stuff and professional stuff. They "deleted" the personal stuff off that copy of the data before handing it to the FBI. The FBI said that wasn't sufficient and issued a subpoena for all the data including the personal data. Then she handed a copy of all the data including the personal stuff. Once requested, the FBI got everything. The quote from the FBI was about "deleted" e-mails was that there were about a dozen business e-mails that hadn't been included with the first set of business e-mails handed over. There wasn't any crime, because nothing was actually deleted. The FBI also decided that the missing ("deleted") e-mails was not criminal because there was no evidence that it was done intentionally and there was nothing incriminating in them (incorrectly sorting 0.1% of the e-mails was probably accidental). It's not like we are talking about paper copies where there is only one copy of the papers and she shredded them. There were multiple copies of the data on different hard drives and backups.

Rice had her aides use personal e-mail accounts to send e-mails for her. Powell used a private e-mail account (believed to be AOL) for his secretary of state e-mails. Republicans only had a problem with Clinton doing the same thing Republicans had done. They also leave out that she requested a secure e-mail option from the NSA twice and was rejected; the NSA told her to send e-mails from her office computer when she spent most of her job traveling. She was just trying to do her job.

http://www.nytimes.com/interac...

http://www.politifact.com/trut...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

http://thehill.com/policy/nati...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02...

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/...

Still feeding the fake news and alternative facts I see. Sorry, you can't rewrite history. If you voted for President Pedophile, you voted for someone who lies and has no problem breaking the law, and if you did it because he made up a claim that his opponent broke the law all the worse. Kelly-Anne Conway just broke the law on Fox News last night by advertising for Ivanka Trump, but I don't see Republicans punishing her either. Most federal employees in the past get suspended or fired for what she did last night, but President Pedophile and Republican controlled congress are the only ones with the ability to punish her, and I don't see either doing anything. President Pedophile actually defended her after she broke the law.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ma...

https://www.bloomberg.com/poli...

The Clinton e-mails are one of the biggest lies Republicans, Breitbart, and Fox News told. Nothing was really deleted. Hillary first sent one copy of the hard drives to a law office and had them sort between all the personal stuff and professional stuff. They "deleted" the personal stuff off that copy of the data before handing it to the FBI. The FBI said that wasn't sufficient and issued a subpoena for all the data including the personal data. Then she handed a copy of all the data including the personal stuff. Once requested, the FBI got everything. The quote from the FBI was about "deleted" e-mails was that there were about a dozen business e-mails that hadn't been included with the first set of business e-mails handed over. There wasn't any crime, because nothing was actually deleted. The FBI also decided that the missing ("deleted") e-mails was not criminal because there was no evidence that it was done intentionally and there was nothing incriminating in them (incorrectly sorting 0.1% of the e-mails was probably accidental). It's not like we are talking about paper copies where there is only one copy of the papers and she shredded them. There were multiple copies of the data on different hard drives and backups.

Rice had her aides use personal e-mail accounts to send e-mails for her. Powell used a private e-mail account (believed to be AOL) for his secretary of state e-mails. Republicans only had a problem with Clinton doing the same thing Republicans had done. They also leave out that she requested a secure e-mail option from the NSA twice and was rejected; the NSA told her to send e-mails from her office computer when she spent most of her job traveling. She was just trying to do her job.

http://www.nytimes.com/interac...

http://www.politifact.com/trut...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

http://thehill.com/policy/nati...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02...

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/...

The only attacks I've seen are the Berkeley protestors beating people with clubs.

This is fake news. There was a completely unsubstantiated claim by an NY Times reporter, which seems like a bizarre false flag op:

Then I saw someone wearing all black walk up to a student wearing a suit and say, âoeYou look like a Nazi.â The student was confused, but before he could reply, the black-clad person pepper-sprayed him and hit him on the back with a rod.

I ran after the student who was attacked to get his name and more information. He told me that he is a Syrian Muslim. Before I could find out more, he fled, fearing another attack.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

So at best we have a rumour, based on a story that clearly makes no sense (why would an anti-hate, anti-discrimination protester identify as Syrian as a Nazi?). If anything it suggests that the protest was sabotaged by Milo supporters.

This somehow became a factual report when repeated on alt-right websites. And you either didn't bother to investigate it, or didn't want to, or are too incompetent to make a sensible judgement.

So in other words, you'd rather just hand the EU over to Putin.

Point 1. Motive.
Your fear-mongering is so hyperbolic it's hard to take you seriously. The Russians, and Putin in particular, are pretty damn pragmatic. Russia has enough budget problems sustaining not-so-covert combat operations in Ukraine and very overt operations in Syria. Can the Russian government AFFORD to invade the EU? What would the cost-benefit analysis for that be? What is the end state? Russia's primary concern for the past decade has been US ABM sites in their near abroad. The ABMs themselves came after the US unilaterally withdrew from the ABM treaty. These concerns have fallen on deaf ears in Washington:
2016: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
2008: https://sputniknews.com/russia...
2001: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12...

In the absence of US missiles destabilizing the balance of Mutually Assured Destruction, Russia's force structure was primarily aligned for counter-insurgency in the Caucasus, not conquest of Europe. http://turcopolier.typepad.com... And given that Russia has fought 2 devastating wars against military alliances attacking from the West in the past 100 years, are you really surprised that they are unwilling to give the US & NATO the benefit of the doubt?

Point 2. Logistics
Have you looked at a map lately? Kaliningrad to Warsaw: 275km. Kaliningrad to Vilnius: 300km St. Petersburg to Helsinki: ~350km
Even the US military, probably the king of expeditionary logistics, strains to support a 300-400km mechanized blitz with a 3-6 month buildup.
The Russians hit Tskhinvali pretty quickly but that's barely 140km from Nalchik. They have not demonstrated the ability to sustain a brigade or larger element at the distances required, let alone multiple axes of advance against national capitals in a short timeframe (such as all 3 of the Baltic States).

Finally....you have yet to spell out exactly why I should get my legs blown off so the (numerous, tall, and well-fed) sons of Europe can sleep peaceably in their beds. How is the "EU handed over to Putin" undermining my quality of life as an American expat in Asia? Can you even begin to actually articulate that, in real terms? Or are you only capable of posting one-liners of empty rhetoric?

Mrs. Trump contends in the suit, her “brand has lost significant value, and major business opportunities that were otherwise available to her have been lost and/or substantially impacted.” The suit offers no specific examples of lost business opportunities.

The timing of the story was particularly injurious, according to the lawsuit, considering that Mrs. Trump “had the unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as an extremely famous and well-known person, as well as a former professional model and brand spokesperson, and successful businesswoman, to launch a broad-based commercial brand in multiple product categories, each of which could have garnered multimillion-dollar business relationships for a multiyear term during which plaintiff is one of the most photographed women in the world.”

There is no benign way to look at that claim. Mrs. Trump evidently believes her new title affords her a chance to rake in millions of dollars.

Deregulation is already happening at regulatory bodies falling under the executive branch. The FCC rolled back the zero-rating prohibition and dropped the inquiries into AT&T and Verizon for previous violations. Trump's executive orders are weakening financial regulation:

The executive order affecting Dodd-Frank is vague in its wording and expansive in its reach. It never mentions the law by name, instead laying out “core principles” for regulations that include empowering American investors and enhancing the competitiveness of American companies. Even so, it gives the Treasury the authority to restructure major provisions of Dodd-Frank, and it directs the Treasury secretary to make sure existing laws align with administration goals.

Mr. Trump’s action on the fiduciary rule, which Democrats and consumer groups immediately denounced as a gift to Wall Street, could have a more concrete impact. His memorandum directs the Labor Department to review whether the rule may “adversely affect” investors’ ability to access financial advice — and if it does, it authorizes the agency to rescind and revise the rule.

If you doubt that further environmental, business, and consumer regulatory cutbacks are on the way you are in for a surprise.

Here

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

I don't recognise the website, but I leave you to investigate

http://www.stopfake.org/en/rus...

Not RT accused directly but

http://www.businessinsider.com...

A reminder about the lies at the time of the invasion of the Crimea

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga...

And finally

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10...

If you really read TFA, you should know that it is a state law, not a city law [news]. Even AirBnB appears to disagree with the type of activity in TFA (though, I don't know for sure if they really care).

Airbnb offered an alternative to the legislation, saying it would crack down on hosts with multiple listings who essentially run illegal hotels and provide a registry of hosts to local regulators to make it easier for them to enforce existing housing rules. The company also emphasized that it had already removed nearly 3,000 commercial operators from the service.

You mean the way biofuels were the way to the future ?

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0...

Or the way we now burn fossil fuels to include ethanol in gasoline ?

At some point solar may be the best, and when that happens there will be no stopping it, or maybe it won't. Going nuts before there is an actual advantage with power plants that don't compete on their own is stupid.

Reading is fundamental....

"Of greater concern to scientists is how the collapse of ice shelves can affect the glaciers that flow behind them, because the melting of those glaciers can cause much higher levels of ocean rise. " https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

It could also be the false flag operation.

This is true - but a false flag operation with that many people is difficult to maintain. With thousands of people rioting, if they were all secretly Trump-supporters, *someone* would blab.

The false flag operations we've seen in this election cycle have generally been small-scale: an individual committing some petty act of vandalism or graffiti, but making it appear to be done by the other side as a hate crime. The biggest example I know of (that has been identified as a false flag) was a black church burned down and spray-painted with "Vote Trump" (story), in which the culprit later turned out to be a member of its own congregation (story).

So, then there's this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

Across the United States, more than 15,000 doctors are from the seven Muslim-majority countries covered by the travel ban, according to Medicus, a firm that recruits doctors for hard-to-fill jobs.

State Senator Jeff Brandes said the company's interest is in a future workforce...

This is coming from the same company that just outsourced most of it's IT staff less than two years ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0...

They're forcibly uprooting the rural population and moving them into the cities to provide demand for the crap their factories are putting out.

Never mind that the factory jobs that left the US did so because of high labor rates and the only way to get them back and keep them is to pay people competitive wages... for China.

Manufacturing jobs are returning to the US because labor is getting too expensive in China, as Chinese workers want a middle class lifestyle. But the new factories in the US require fewer workers and those workers must possess a college degree, eliminating the vast majority of Trump voters who are eagerly waiting for the 1980's manufacturing jobs to return.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/education/edlife/factory-workers-college-degree-apprenticeships.html

In the meantime, Common F. Sense is eagerly waiting for someone to justify why factory workers suddenly need a college degree.

When college goes from optional to mandatory, it's time to start aligning the price of that degree alongside K-12 education. Fuck the greedy institutions who feel burying students in college debt for a decade or two is somehow the "right" answer.

...I know that the cost of public universities has increased since I finished school, but there's no requirement that you become overloaded with debt to get a bachelors degree.

Based on how you've marginalized the cost of higher education, I can tell you have no idea how expensive it has become to get a bachelors degree, a cost that has risen over 200% in the last 30 years. Not to mention actually landing a job after you spend $40,000+ getting a degree, unlike history when a degree all but guaranteed you employment. There's a reason outstanding college debt is now measured in trillions, and working a menial job through college used to be a way to avoid taking loans. That's hardly the case today.

I'll bet you and are not that far apart in age. I have a bachelors degree. My family was incredibly poor and I started paying my own way for almost everything (except shelter) at 16. By the time I was 19, I was completely independent and in school. I graduated with honors in 3.5 years, and had less than $10,000 in student loans. All while working full time and without any scholarships or grants. I'm not marginalizing the cost of school. I've been there and done that. I did not drink while in school, take girls out to dinner, go on all those fun and exciting trips all my friends went on, none of that. Every dime I made went towards my degree and every hour possible was spent in class to decrease the number of semesters I would be working for a low income. This was all in the 2000's. I broke up with my high school sweetheart when she tried to pressure me into going to a private school with her that would have run me $40,000 a year just in tuition costs. So no, I have no sympathy for anyone claiming that school is just too expensive these days. Maybe the problem is that they've never faced hardships and don't know how to sacrifice? Oh and my student loans are already paid off, too.

Never mind that the factory jobs that left the US did so because of high labor rates and the only way to get them back and keep them is to pay people competitive wages... for China.

Manufacturing jobs are returning to the US because labor is getting too expensive in China, as Chinese workers want a middle class lifestyle. But the new factories in the US require fewer workers and those workers must possess a college degree, eliminating the vast majority of Trump voters who are eagerly waiting for the 1980's manufacturing jobs to return.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/education/edlife/factory-workers-college-degree-apprenticeships.html

In the meantime, Common F. Sense is eagerly waiting for someone to justify why factory workers suddenly need a college degree.

When college goes from optional to mandatory, it's time to start aligning the price of that degree alongside K-12 education. Fuck the greedy institutions who feel burying students in college debt for a decade or two is somehow the "right" answer.

...I know that the cost of public universities has increased since I finished school, but there's no requirement that you become overloaded with debt to get a bachelors degree.

Based on how you've marginalized the cost of higher education, I can tell you have no idea how expensive it has become to get a bachelors degree, a cost that has risen over 200% in the last 30 years. Not to mention actually landing a job after you spend $40,000+ getting a degree, unlike history when a degree all but guaranteed you employment. There's a reason outstanding college debt is now measured in trillions, and working a menial job through college used to be a way to avoid taking loans. That's hardly the case today.

Are they serious?

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...

EO was amended for translators https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

Unlike Obama who silently banned them for 6 months. "As a result of the Kentucky case, the State Department stopped processing Iraq refugees for six months in 2011, federal officials told ABC News – even for many who had heroically helped U.S. forces as interpreters and intelligence assets."
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...
The MSM and the fact checkers are mis-remembering that there was a big up roar in 2011 for the exact reason, but now they are trying to say it didn't happen, even though there own articles from the period said it did happen.

>(You won't find them on any news site I've found, including CNN, FOX or MSNBC, but you will find a LOT of commentary about them..)

You can find the text of executive orders on several news sites. I Googled "executive order" and "text of executive order" and sites include Yahoo News, Business Insider, and The New York Times.

"Below you'll find the full text"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pre...

"You can read the full text of the executive order below"
http://www.businessinsider.com...

"The full text can be found here"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

The whole reason the republican party is so willing to tolerate his bullshit theatrics is that his actual policies are a wet dream come true for the people who have been fertilizing the swamp. They are letting coal mines pollute streams again, repealing laws that protect grandmothers from being ripped off by "financial planners." And reducing the safeguards on the kind of real-estate bank lending that caused the housing meltdown. Its open season on the little guy like never before.

Haven't you been paying attention these past 8 years? Anything Obama and/or the Democrats did, do, might/will do is bad and must be stopped. Screw anything else.

Trump begins to prove he is just another liar in office.

The whole reason the republican party is so willing to tolerate his bullshit theatrics is that his actual policies are a wet dream come true for the people who have been fertilizing the swamp. They are letting coal mines pollute streams again, repealing laws that protect grandmothers from being ripped off by "financial planners." And reducing the safeguards on the kind of real-estate bank lending that caused the housing meltdown. Its open season on the little guy like never before.

The links here are not the data, they're right-wing opinion pieces about the data.

So? It provides the information, plus a good, logical, rational explanation of how to interpret that data. Do you find any fault with their arguments?

but cases of violence by police against blacks (including pointing a gun at them) was MUCH higher than for whites - something the right wing blogs neglected to mention.

Of course they are. That difference is rooted in other racial differences. And the rate isn't "much higher", it's around 20-25% higher, which is basically noise when you look at social science data.

Take a look at the NY Times piece for the full results: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0... [nytimes.com]

The NYT is not a credible source of news or analysis, and it is highly biased, far more than those papers you call "right wing".

Never mind that the factory jobs that left the US did so because of high labor rates and the only way to get them back and keep them is to pay people competitive wages... for China.

Manufacturing jobs are returning to the US because labor is getting too expensive in China, as Chinese workers want a middle class lifestyle. But the new factories in the US require fewer workers and those workers must possess a college degree, eliminating the vast majority of Trump voters who are eagerly waiting for the 1980's manufacturing jobs to return.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/education/edlife/factory-workers-college-degree-apprenticeships.html

In the meantime, Common F. Sense is eagerly waiting for someone to justify why factory workers suddenly need a college degree.

When college goes from optional to mandatory, it's time to start aligning the price of that degree alongside K-12 education. Fuck the greedy institutions who feel burying students in college debt for a decade or two is somehow the "right" answer.

There are 33 public universities in the State of California alone. There are over 600 public universities in the entire US. There are over 1000 public community colleges in the US. If you are/were buried in college debt for multiple decades then perhaps that is your own fault? Two years of community college followed by two years of a public university should not cost you a fortune. If you work while you go to school, you can save even more money. I worked full-time every year except for my senior year and was able to graduate in less than 4 years. I know that the cost of public universities has increased since I finished school, but there's no requirement that you become overloaded with debt to get a bachelors degree.

Never mind that the factory jobs that left the US did so because of high labor rates and the only way to get them back and keep them is to pay people competitive wages... for China.

Manufacturing jobs are returning to the US because labor is getting too expensive in China, as Chinese workers want a middle class lifestyle. But the new factories in the US require fewer workers and those workers must possess a college degree, eliminating the vast majority of Trump voters who are eagerly waiting for the 1980's manufacturing jobs to return.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/education/edlife/factory-workers-college-degree-apprenticeships.html

In the meantime, Common F. Sense is eagerly waiting for someone to justify why factory workers suddenly need a college degree.

When college goes from optional to mandatory, it's time to start aligning the price of that degree alongside K-12 education. Fuck the greedy institutions who feel burying students in college debt for a decade or two is somehow the "right" answer.

Never mind that the factory jobs that left the US did so because of high labor rates and the only way to get them back and keep them is to pay people competitive wages... for China.

Manufacturing jobs are returning to the US because labor is getting too expensive in China, as Chinese workers want a middle class lifestyle. But the new factories in the US require fewer workers and those workers must possess a college degree, eliminating the vast majority of Trump voters who are eagerly waiting for the 1980's manufacturing jobs to return.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/education/edlife/factory-workers-college-degree-apprenticeships.html

It's clear you are some relative of the owners (daddy is the owner?) of this site. Your posts are the most vacuous, information free, clueless low-IQ millennial drivel I've ever seen. Coupled with your vast experience writing 40 lines of Python code once seems to make you think you know anything about nerds. All your posts get "upvoted" heavily by Daddy, that much is plain and clear. It simply precipitates the end of this site.

NY Times headline:

“Berkeley Cancels Milo Yiannopoulos Speech, and Donald Trump Tweets Outrage”

Kinda leaves out the fact that the speech was cancelled because leftist thugs rioted and torched things.

That kind of "false"?

I can see you have a hard time ascertaining what is and is not reality. Trump was never a member of the Democratic National Committee. He registered as a Republican in 2009 and started his "birtherism" bullshit in 2011 when he considered running for President (as a Republican) in 2012.

The links here are not the data, they're right-wing opinion pieces about the data.

Take a look at the NY Times piece for the full results: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...

In one regard, it's correct to say that police shoot black people less in the cities that were reviewed, but cases of violence by police against blacks (including pointing a gun at them) was MUCH higher than for whites - something the right wing blogs neglected to mention.

Never mind that the factory jobs that left the US did so because of high labor rates and the only way to get them back and keep them is to pay people competitive wages... for China.

Manufacturing jobs are returning to the US because labor is getting too expensive in China, as Chinese workers want a middle class lifestyle. But the new factories in the US require fewer workers and those workers must possess a college degree, eliminating the vast majority of Trump voters who are eagerly waiting for the 1980's manufacturing jobs to return.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/education/edlife/factory-workers-college-degree-apprenticeships.html

CEO pay/compensation is generally in a millions, and the double digit millions are apparently reachable.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06...

That talks about CEO pay, and it's from 2013. Even then, the median CEO pay for the top 200 companies in the country was $15 mil.

Probably much more today, seeing as how the growth rate was through the roof.

It doesn't affect 87% of all Muslims, so it isn't a ban, and it affects the 10% Christian populations of those countries and other religions, so it isn't a religious thing.

Section 5 (b) of the executive order:
"Upon the resumption of USRAP admissions, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, is further directed to make changes, to the extent permitted by law, to prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual's country of nationality."

Considering every one of these countries are majority Muslim, this is indeed a religious thing.

Muslims in the US have come out in favor of extreme vetting

And yet, more speak out in opposition.

some Muslim *countries* have come out in favor of the ban

Oh good. The countries who actually have originated people who commit terrorist acts on US soil in the past 40 years aren't upset because they weren't on the ban list. This makes the US safer how, again?

and the president's approval rating has jumped 5 points

So polls by media outlets with a conservative lean that support your position are trustworthy, but all others are "fake news" put out by the "mainstream media". Just want to make sure I've got the logic sorted out here.

And for the record, Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952:

"Whenever the president finds that the entry of aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, the president may, by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrant's or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate."

Obama used this same law at least six times between 2010 and 2014 against people in Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Crimea

The act was invoked as a direct reaction to the civil war in Syria, the formation of ISIS, its subsequent offensive into Iraq, and the annexation of Crimea. All major regional events. The act was invoked this time to block entry by terrorists from countries with no recent major events. Technically the president has the power under the act to say, "only caucasian females with blonde hair weighing between 100 and 140 pounds may enter the US," but he still has to justify it.

Can someone explain how this is anything to get worked up over?

In the simplest terms, because executive orders that very blatantly do not help any of the things they say they are for are not a good thing.

Gender Netural Graham, Chuck You Schumer, Hillary, Mark Zuckerberg, Hollywood elites, or the establishment globalist media.

Well, that ended pretty predictably. At least the pro-Trump diehard posts are consistent in their straw man demonizing.

Americans need to finish their schools to qualify for these jobs too.

New factory jobs require a college degree. Something that most Trump voters don't possess.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/education/edlife/factory-workers-college-degree-apprenticeships.html

Somehow i feel most of the Trump voters would rather get a job in a car factory.

From the various articles of I've read, the ideal Trump voter is someone who wants a 1980's manufacturing job that doesn't require a high school diploma. Those jobs are not coming back.

No.

Case in point: Viking farms built ~1000 years ago are now being uncovered by the melting ice. Thus, the ice wasn't there when they were built.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05...

If people stopped smoking, there would be a savings in health care costs, but only in the short term. Eventually, smoking cessation would lead to increased health care costs.

THIS. There are literally dozens of economic analyses that have concluded the same thing. In fact, over 20 years ago, it was debated whether to bring this argument up in the Big Tobacco litigation (see, for example, this NY Times article from 1996). More recent analyses (such as here and here) agree. Philip Morris even commissioned its own study a while back to argue in the Czech Republic that it was actually saving society money because of decreased lifespans. But the study ended up just making cigarette companies look even more hated, so they backed off of it.

Bottom line is: "healthy" elderly people still cost society a LOT of money to keep alive -- in pensions and Social Security, in assisted living, and yes -- even in generic health care. If you include all of those things, there's NO QUESTION that smokers cost society less by dying earlier.

But even if you take health care costs on their own, it's pretty likely smokers cost less. "Healthy" older people end up living longer and needing hip replacements or treatment for minor cancers or hospitalization over a cold that turns into pneumonia (which doesn't happen as often with younger folks) or whatever -- that stuff adds up greatly over the years. Add an extra 5 or 10 years of "elder care" for non-smokers, and on average those "healthy" people will cost more than the additional costs from a smoker who dies early from a heart attack or whatever.

None of this is an argument in favor of smoking. And perhaps there's still some ethical argument to tax smoking more in order to promote "healthy" living or whatever, which perhaps some governments will make. But let's not be disingenuous about blaming smokers for overall societal cost, when they're mostly "taking one for the team" and giving up their Social Security or whatever for you.

You know, there's a simpler explanation. Maybe fact-checking is a more "left-leaning and liberal" preoccupation.

That's mostly irrelevant. It still means that "fake news" which conforms to left-leaning biases is more likely to slip through the fact-checking.

e.g. Every major media outlet calling it Trump's ban on Muslim immigrants, when it's actually a 120 day freeze (not that I agree with with it). By their definition, Obama banned pay raises for government workers (2 years > 120 days). Or how they unilaterally decided to call them "undocumented" immigrants instead of illegal immigrants, much to the confusion of the public (ask most people what Trump's view of legal Mexican immigrants is, and they'll quote you things he said about illegal Mexican immigrants - because the media deliberately failed at their job to inform the public in order to advocate their own political biases).

There's a saying that was popular when I was growing up: "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Sadly, that no longer seems to be the case. The new version seems to be "I disagree with what you say, and I will do everything in my power to impede your ability to say it." When you take up the mantra of fact-checking, you are by definition agreeing to cast as critical an eye on stuff you agree with as that you disagree with. I've seen them fail at that numerous times. In one discussion with the folks who run Snopes, they told me you could refuse to hire followers of Al Qaeda because they consider women to be chattel thus violating the EEOC prohibitions against discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex." I had to point out to them that, as they had just written, that would violate the EEOC's prohibition against discrimination on the basis of religion. If you're not gonna hire an Al Qaeda follower, it should be because they murder people, not because you disagree with their religious beliefs.

The NYT doesn't have anything concrete either:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

As for the judge, she only imposed a stay for people who have already landed on US soil, and that's not an issue anymore.

China, US, and the former USSR have already knocked out satellites. From the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01...

> China successfully carried out its first test of an antisatellite weapon last week, signaling
> its resolve to play a major role in military space activities and bringing expressions of
> concern from Washington and other capitals, the Bush administration said yesterday.
>
> Only two nations â" the Soviet Union and the United States â" have previously destroyed
> spacecraft in antisatellite tests, most recently the United States in the mid-1980s.

At the speeds in question, a head-on impact with an inert third stage will at least break up the rock into smaller, harmless fragments. No nukes required. The force of impact might even vaporize most of the target. The main problem is detecting the rocks. The Chelyabinsk meteorite was not detected http://www.businessinsider.com...

While a similar rock may not directly wipe out humanity, like the Chicxulub rock wiped out the dinosaurs, consider this... Washington or Moscow gets hit, with no warning, by the equivalant of a multi-megaton nuke. If the surviving commanders have itchy trigger-fingers, a disastrous nuclear exchange could ensue.

By investing in Nuclear.

  He's friggen rich, no commitees, no government oversight, little respect for the common idiot.

Thanks for the advice voice on the internet. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/1...

And please stop CAPITALISING random words. It makes you look desperate for believe, which is kind of ironic given your suggestion and Bill Gate's current investment portfolio.

NOW i am GOING to HAVE DINNer.

while Trump is denying basic science, you're not looking at what he's actually doing. It's the magicians trick of distraction.

Would be helpful if the media wasn't in full 'everything he does is literally Hitler' mantra. An argument for voting for him over Clinton was the simple fact that the media doesn't like him and were in bed with Clinton. It is much easier for the electorate to get informed when you have the government and media at odds. Is it really Trump doing the magicians trick or is it the media convinced of their own hyperbole that they lost all perspective? It takes two to tango and they would rather argue about audience sizes than the limits of executive power. I at least expect it from a reality TV show host made president and not the news media outlets.

Gee I wonder which traitor gave Putin the names?

Nice conjecture. It wouldn't have anything to do with the poor cyber security the US has, right? If you have proof that Trump is a traitor fine put up or shut up. Conjecture does nothing for no one.

but you're missing the fact he's written a law here

You mean, the executive order that stated the law it used to justify? What law is he writing when he lists the law he is using to execute the order?

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and to protect the American people from terrorist attacks by foreign nationals admitted to the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

What happened to the calls for him to divest his businesses and stop accepting foreign money? Lost in all the other stuff he's done. What about his tax returns? The fake numbers he gave in the election filing? Forgotten.

Because that was important before the election and now it is an issue for the courts to resolve... WTF is supposed to happen if you allow ANY citizen to be president?

You see how he sets the agenda by doing something really extreme, and what you miss is what he's doing at the same time. Really important stuff like blocking the head of Defence from security meetings, banning the US Director of National Intelligence from security meetings.... i.e. removing Congregational approved roles from basic government, so that Congress doesn't appoint anyone who has any role.

Is it illegal? Does congress allow the president to do this even if previous presidents have not? Sure, it sounds bad but I honestly don't know. I doubt you know either because your post is mostly knee jerk reactions. Bush did something similar with Karl Rove but this is being described as 'unusual'. Unusual != nefarious like you imply. http://www.businessinsider.com...

Your post is mostly FUD and conjecture it is sad it is modded 5 insightful. If you have something substantive provide it.

An interesting article on the Gates/Buffet adventure. They are investing in a start-up that is trying to build transportable burner nuclear reactors, IFR lite IIRC