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You want to vote for this guy, or someone creating a Space Force?

Besides, Trump already issued a National Cyber Strategy, and there is already a joint military Cyber Force.

Yes, and in his great wisdom he appointed Rudy Giuliani as his cybersecurity advisor. Yes, the same Giuliani that doesn't know how links work and thought someone hacked his Twitter account when his typo was linked is the guy that advises the President on computer security matters. Yes, the same Trump that bragged he would "surround myself only with the best and most serious people" and said "we want top-of-the-line professionals" decided to go with the guy who can't even master Twitter as the main policy adviser for security. I know I'll sleep better at night knowing that Rudy is on the case.

You want to vote for this guy, or someone creating a Space Force?

Besides, Trump already issued a National Cyber Strategy, and there is already a joint military Cyber Force.

Pfft! It's all hot air from Trump. Nothing is actually being done.
He said he was going to spend a trillion dollars on infrastructure. Not happening and I'm still dodging pot holes on my way to work.

He said he was going to replace Obamacare with something better and ...nothing.

In the meantime, he's going nuts over the stupid wall that will not slow the drug problem in this country. Why? Because the drug problem - opioids - are made in the Good ole US of A and the Sackler family(Purdue pharma) is raking in billions.

The tax cut was just crumbs for us little people and I enjoyed writing that $2700 to the IRS yesterday.

You know, when Trump took office, he got a Republican controlled Congress. They could have passed a REAL tax overhaul - Fair Tax, Flat Tax ...whatever. Instead they made some minor cosmetic changes to the 1040, gave HUGE tax cuts to the millionaires and billionaires and gave us little people crumbs.

Of course, the red trucker hat wearing morons think he's doing a great job.

You want to vote for this guy, or someone creating a Space Force?

Besides, Trump already issued a National Cyber Strategy, and there is already a joint military Cyber Force.

Just watch any major network at 9PM EST tonight.

You mean 8 PM I assume

No, he means 9 PM. You must be in the Central Time Zone. It's 8 PM CST, but 9 PM EST.

Weird how Congress rarely gets the blame for deficits or other economic issues. If I recall correctly, Congress controls the purse strings and the President either approves or disapproves of the budget. Trump can say anything he wants and it doesn't matter as he doesn't control the allocation or amounts of any money, Congress does.

Maybe I've misunderstood the real process of the American budget, but it was my impression that the White House writes a budget and then submits it to Congress, where it is read, debated, and possibly modified and then eventually sent back to the White House for signing.

So how is Trump doing ANYTHING to the deficit or surplus. Am I misunderstanding the roles delineated in the Constitution? Does the President control the purse strings?

If the Trump administration wrote the budget, shouldn't they get both the credit and the blame for the budget?

From https://www.whitehouse.gov/disclosures/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/07012018-report-final.pdf

Jared and Ivanka take no salary according to this year's disclosure. But this is a really bad thing, because it means they can be swayed by bribery, like, from MbS.

From https://www.whitehouse.gov/disclosures/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/07012018-report-final.pdf

Jared and Ivanka take no salary according to this year's disclosure. But this is a really bad thing, because it means they can be swayed by bribery, like, from MbS.

On 11 December 2017 Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive 1, the operative part of which is:

The paragraph beginning “Set far-reaching exploration milestones” is deleted and replaced with the following:

“Lead an innovative and sustainable program of exploration with commercial and international partners to enable human expansion across the solar system and to bring back to Earth new knowledge and opportunities. Beginning with missions beyond low-Earth orbit, the United States will lead the return of humans to the Moon for long-term exploration and utilization, followed by human missions to Mars and other destinations;”.

Now that Trump has done all the heavy lifting, signing a policy declaration, his work is done.

All of the stuff about having an actual program with funding and such are just minor details.

I couldn't disagree more. From the NIST budget request summary:

This budget request is consistent with the administration’s priorities to redirect domestic discretionary resources to rebuild the military and make critical investments in the nation’s security, and keep the nation on a responsible fiscal path.

Funding for discretionary programs is being reduced to allocate more funding for the military and "national security", which I suspect refers largely to the President's idea of border security. That makes it fair game to discuss defense and border security when commenting on the proposed shutdown of the WWV stations.

While we can debate a reasonable level of defense spending, let's use NATO's 2% of GDP standard. US defense spending is around 3.6% of GDP, and President Trump's requested FY 2019 budget increases DOD spending by 13% over 2017 levels. Proposed military spending is outpacing GDP growth. At the same time, President Trump is requesting a long list of reforms and spending cuts.

In fairness, it's necessary to understand the context of proposed cuts. For example, NOAA is proposing to cut VORTEX-SE, which is a project that studies tornadoes in the Southeast US. Taken out of context, one might think NOAA isn't prioritizing the improvement of tornado warnings. In reality, VORTEX-SE was supposed to collect high quality in-situ data for a few events each spring over the span of 2-3 years and fund a number of related research projects, many of which use the data collected during the field campaign. Most field campaigns such as the original VORTEX (1994-5) and VORTEX2 (2009-10) have been just as short in duration. VORTEX-SE has run longer and wasn't cut in FY 2018 because Congress never passed the relevant appropriations bill and kept funding basically at FY 2017 levels in the continuing resolutions. Context is important to understand proposed cuts, such as if a program has already achieved its goals.

I looked for justification for the proposed cutting of WWV stations and I couldn't find anything that explains why these stations are being targeted for shutdown. Absent any good context for why funding cuts for these stations is requested, it's fair to assume it would be a casualty of the President's overall budget goals. For that reason, it's certainly fair game to criticize our excessive defense spending.

I couldn't disagree more. From the NIST budget request summary:

This budget request is consistent with the administration’s priorities to redirect domestic discretionary resources to rebuild the military and make critical investments in the nation’s security, and keep the nation on a responsible fiscal path.

Funding for discretionary programs is being reduced to allocate more funding for the military and "national security", which I suspect refers largely to the President's idea of border security. That makes it fair game to discuss defense and border security when commenting on the proposed shutdown of the WWV stations.

While we can debate a reasonable level of defense spending, let's use NATO's 2% of GDP standard. US defense spending is around 3.6% of GDP, and President Trump's requested FY 2019 budget increases DOD spending by 13% over 2017 levels. Proposed military spending is outpacing GDP growth. At the same time, President Trump is requesting a long list of reforms and spending cuts.

In fairness, it's necessary to understand the context of proposed cuts. For example, NOAA is proposing to cut VORTEX-SE, which is a project that studies tornadoes in the Southeast US. Taken out of context, one might think NOAA isn't prioritizing the improvement of tornado warnings. In reality, VORTEX-SE was supposed to collect high quality in-situ data for a few events each spring over the span of 2-3 years and fund a number of related research projects, many of which use the data collected during the field campaign. Most field campaigns such as the original VORTEX (1994-5) and VORTEX2 (2009-10) have been just as short in duration. VORTEX-SE has run longer and wasn't cut in FY 2018 because Congress never passed the relevant appropriations bill and kept funding basically at FY 2017 levels in the continuing resolutions. Context is important to understand proposed cuts, such as if a program has already achieved its goals.

I looked for justification for the proposed cutting of WWV stations and I couldn't find anything that explains why these stations are being targeted for shutdown. Absent any good context for why funding cuts for these stations is requested, it's fair to assume it would be a casualty of the President's overall budget goals. For that reason, it's certainly fair game to criticize our excessive defense spending.

It is nice to see that the Obama-era plan has been fleshed out and in the current plan the real rubber-hits-the-road moment is,

3.4 Identify, assess the readiness of, estimate in the costs of, and propose development paths for key technologies required by NEO impact prevention concepts. This assessment should include the most mature in-space concepts --- kinetic impactors, nuclear devices, and gravity tractors for deflection, and nuclear devices for disruption -- as well as less mature NEO impact prevention methods. Technology assessments should consider contemporary work, including potential synergies with relevant private industry interests (e.g., asteroid mining). They should also consider NEO impact scenarios that may have received insufficient attention thus far (e.g., binary asteroids, high-speed comets). [Short term; NASA, NNSA, DoD]

Asteroid interception is where the goofiest ideas emerge to monopolize discussion and take debate away from practical ideas that would give us a chance of survival in all cases. When you interrupt geeks talking about their favorite solution, something like deploying solar sails to nudge asteroids, to point out their scenario is for an extremely narrow case and it would be irresponsible to pursue such an idea to the exclusion of more practical ones... they get all butthurt.

My own solution which I've broadcast to Trump and two NASA directors and others, is simple and direct. No nukes or exotic technology.

1. kinetic impactor rockets loaded with payloads of simple Lunar dirt
2. missile battery on Moon, manned, truly ready to launch at a moment's notice
3. hundreds, even thousands -- that can swarm to ensure multiplicity and mass
4. the result: best possible assurance of deflect/destroy for any existential threat

Anything less, or more, is a half solution or placebo fantasy to appease fanboys of exotic and impractical technology.

Trump inherited a terrible economy. People really have no idea just how bad off we were.

Seriously? Are you even in touch with reality?

In Detroit they were changing neighbourhoods back into farm land. Chicago was a shooting gallery, still is due to the Democrats running things.

I don't believe either of those things have materially changed, as you note for the second.

Obama's first two years we were in free fall, sky rocketing unemployment, things were terrible.

Why, yes they were. A continuation of the Republican delivered deregulation of the banking industry that resulted in that little depression back in 2008. Do recall who handed the government over to Obama. And what was the condition Bush got the economy in? Oh right, one of the best ever handed off, at least until this latest hand-off.

He also piled on the useless regulations. It was like a land mine field. Screw up and you can go to jail. Over nothing.

I think you're confused there. Seriously confused. But, that goes back to my first statement in this post. Those regulations were useful, although they do prevent unbridled capitalism, which is a good thing actually. Unbridled capitalism leads to things like the crash of 1929 or 2008....

Obama couldn't pull even a 3% growth in GDP. There was a nice chart of all of this and for some reason I can't even pull up www.bea.gov. Sigh. Anyhow, China overtook us - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Look at average values of GDP, not nominal. We just overtook China recently Making American Great Again.

You might want to check those GDP numbers Trump's broken 3% barely, while Obama broke 5% at least one quarter. Granted, Trump's policies have only really had 6 full months of unfettered potential - neither quarter broke 3%. As for GDP, the average for 5 years includes a couple of really bad ones from the 2008 crash. In terms of GDP, we're still almost twice as large as China with 1/6th the population. We also have a lot less pollution and other issues that in concert with Trump's trade war is going to possibly crash China's economy. The only question is whether we go down with it. Making America Great shouldn't be done by sinking everyone and crawling over the corpses.

About the balanced budget - No you don't. There has been one balanced budget and it was because the Republicans made Bill Clinton sign the bill kicking and screaming by shutting down the government. I remember it all too well.

And you're wrong again.

So let me bring you back to the e-mail server. This is something that there is no dispute on. She clearly violated the espionage act and I think everyone knows it. She tried to destroy all of that with bleach bit and hammers to the cell phones. Does this sound like a woman that is innocent? There is no intent in the law. If it were you or I, we'd be in a cell right now. In my case probably for what's left of my life.

Unlike you, I actually worked in a job with those types of restrictions. I also happen to know about a few real violations. Trust me, I have yet to see anything on Hillary that violates anything other than policy. I've had this discussion with others and they have failed to provide any proof other than... but but but.. she must be dirty. She can't even be nailed for using private email for government work, as that was apparently "acceptable" at the time. Not in my job, but apparently my dept works under different and more strict rules.

In your response I see a lot of basic misunderstandings. The last part a lot of people don't understand. Your party affiliation is important during t

Cause this time he didn't just manage to sound like his usual Creutzfeldt-Jakob incoherent self.
He also managed to sound like a teen or a twelve-year-old tweeting "You don't break up with me! I'm breaking up with YOU!" at a porn star he's been having an imaginary Twitter romance with.
And at the same time, begging to be taken "back".

https://www.whitehouse.gov/bri...

But the most hilarious part is when the White House gift shop web site crashed under the weight of the global schadenfreude.
Thanks to millions of people going there to see the commemorative "challenge" coin being discounted after the cancellation of the summit.

There goes that Nobel peace prize all those Republican brown nosers tried to sign him up for, I guess.
That's IF they've managed to spell Norway correctly this time.
That W... very much like an M... all them straight lines...

Oh right you already have.

Actually, I'll thank Xi, since he alone is the one who controls North Korea's entire existance. Funny how all of this happens AFTER Kim visits China.

Funny how the planning of the Trump-Kim meeting was announced within 24 hours of Trump announcing tariffs on aluminium and steel.

Of course, NK seeking peace is all of Xi's doing on his own. That's why Kim visited China nearly twenty days after negotiating with the White House.

Also interesting after China consolidates into a dictatorship.

No, no, no. Trump is literally Hitler, remember. How does Xi not having term limits affect NK? China in real terms is the same China of January. The only difference is Trump. Trump solves problems instead of going on apology tours.

Try the red pills. They are better than soy lattes.

Immigration Priority to South African Farmers facing Systematic Land Confiscations and Murder.

You can read Trump's executive order or Obama's executive order yourself, but basically it boils down to human rights abuses, muzzling the press, violently suppressing your political opponents, etc. Not necessarily a threat, just "quit being such a dictatorship!"

Also "Trump is not my President" is fake news. Well it is if you're American, I'm not, so it's true when I say it.

Mind you it reminds me of a line from an Ozzy Osbourne song

It's been confirmed that Ozzy Osbourne is not the Antichrist. We reached the Devil at his home in Las Vegas. When asked for a comment, Satan said, "No, he's not my boy. But I love him like a son!"

http://www.dailymotion.com/vid... 3m in

And now we find that "Trump is not my President" is something the Russians were pushing. Because their goal is to delegitimize the US political institutions. Also from Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements - extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics."

African American racists = BLM. Secessionist movements are like the one in California. The left have been the ones encouraging "ethnic, social and racial conflicts". And having Richard Spencer on the news all the time is supporting "extremist, racist, and sectarian groups" too. If the media ignored him he's be in a room with half a dozen people LARPing. The media have built him up as a boogeyman who has seems to have much more influence than he really does.

White Nationalist events struggle to fill a meeting room in a hotel and even then most of the people there are journalists and FBI agents. The Right Stuff organized an event in New York and ten people turned up. I could get more than that by just saying 'Anyone fancy a pint?' on social media.

President Trump said it best when he said

https://www.whitehouse.gov/bri...

President Trump says, "it is more important than ever before to come together as Americans. We cannot allow those seeking to sow confusion, discord, and rancor to be successful. It's time we stop the outlandish partisan attacks, wild and false allegations, and far-fetched theories, which only serve to further the agendas of bad actors, like Russia, and do nothing to protect the principles of our institutions. We must unite as Americans to protect the integrity of our democracy and our elections."

Quite right too. Americans need to reject false, Russian planted narratives that try to divide them based on race and ethnicity and ignore irrelevant fringe loonies like Spencer. And all come together and unite around America's institutions like the Presidency.

Trump will be out of office in two terms. It's not that long to wait.

We don't know. The text of the orders hasn't been published. However, there are some details on the White House website:

The first of these two orders instructs the Department of Interior to dedicate a portion of its assets for rural broadband installation. The second order will streamline the installation process by requiring agencies to use standardized forms and contracts for installing antennas on federal buildings, thus improving process efficiency.

According to the White House, it certainly sounds positive. However, there is still room for speculation, and certainly cause to be concerned.

The first order could be anything, from allocating funding for connection projects to forcing the DoI to sell off chunks of land for corporate use. There's so little detail in the descriptions I've seen that it's very difficult to determine exactly what the President is doing.

The second order seems benign enough as described, but the devil's usually in the details. Standardized forms that are too detailed actually become a barrier for those without dedicated resources to handle them. A small ISP may not be able to afford the manpower to fill out every detail of the request form, effectively shutting them out of the opportunity presented to larger companies. On the other hand, documents that are not specific enough can hide uncertainty in a design, which leads to increased costs as problems arise.

As amazed as I am at Slashdot's timely reporting, we seem to have jumped the gun to actually have an insightful conversation.

It is the job of government to think long term. Even if that is their job how can they realistically do that as leadership changes due to elections? Businesses would naturally have a much longer term outlook.

and ideally to show their work.

Problem is, they can't even do that. Governments have been among some of the worst entities for being transparent with data or how data is arrived at.

Of course for government to make decisions like that, you first have to get people to believe in the scientific method and related fields.

Why would they when supposed real scientists do not? They are also altering data sets, massaging data to fit conclusions, laughing off people who want to review work. In such an environment you can't just say "trust the scientific method" because it does not apply any more.

Mr Trump has proclaimed thåat he is going to Make America Great Again without really defining what that means in a quantifiable way. In my opinion a great country would do the math, protect the rights of both the majority and the minority

Since when has a politician really been quantifiable? By the way, you and Mr Trump agree that he should be protecting the rights of the majority and the minority. That is what he has been doing...

And above all, we value the dignity of every human life, protect the rights of every person, and share the hope of every soul to live in freedom. That is who we are.

".... it still feels brazen hearing the commission staff repeatedly discount Americans' preference for consumer protections, simply because they aren't phrased in legal terms...."

You mean, they should have instead set up a whole website to let people submit opinions that they simply ignored, instead? (cf https://petitions.whitehouse.g...)

Which is more disingenuous? Telling people you need to make a cogent POINT, and then they'll bother to read it? Or telling people they have a voice...but you actually ignore it completely?

If people want to actually get results start by:

1. Writing (hardcopy and sent by "snailmail") letters to public officials with formal-language grammar expressing displeasure and politely offering solution of law to override: district representatives for the House, state representatives for the Senate, and President
https://www.senate.gov/senator...
https://www.house.gov/represen...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/con...

2. It does not hurt to submit or virtually sign a petition here: https://petitions.whitehouse.g...

3. Make attempt to contact state level officials to make laws to override: States, under 10th Amendment are not without sovereignty in spite of Article I, Section 8. The FCC would need to take legal action against the state in order to invalidate such laws. It may be to note that Tom Wheeler lost a battle against Tennessee a few years back.

4. Where not restricted by legalized monopolies, either have local governments, or if not possible organized co-ops for internet access (a can of worms in and of itself, but then the customers and the owners will be the same).

5. If still wishing to do protests, make sure a reasonably large crowd also shows up at the the House of Representative local offices. Prominent is good, but keep everything peaceful and non-disruptive at whatever location and invite the local press.

6. If one suspects the FCC to be in the pockets of ISPs, simple discontinue all services of those providers

If people want to actually get results start by:

1. Writing (hardcopy and sent by "snailmail") letters to public officials with formal-language grammar expressing displeasure and politely offering solution of law to override: district representatives for the House, state representatives for the Senate, and President
https://www.senate.gov/senator...
https://www.house.gov/represen...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/con...

2. It does not hurt to submit or virtually sign a petition here: https://petitions.whitehouse.g...

3. Make attempt to contact state level officials to make laws to override: States, under 10th Amendment are not without sovereignty in spite of Article I, Section 8. The FCC would need to take legal action against the state in order to invalidate such laws. It may be to note that Tom Wheeler lost a battle against Tennessee a few years back.

4. Where not restricted by legalized monopolies, either have local governments, or if not possible organized co-ops for internet access (a can of worms in and of itself, but then the customers and the owners will be the same).

5. If still wishing to do protests, make sure a reasonably large crowd also shows up at the the House of Representative local offices. Prominent is good, but keep everything peaceful and non-disruptive at whatever location and invite the local press.

6. If one suspects the FCC to be in the pockets of ISPs, simple discontinue all services of those providers

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How many US Presidents have run for office on a 'We need to stop intervening abroad" platform? Every single one has backed down from it once they're in office, presumably based on issues like the ones I raised.

Admittedly none of them have done much to stop Iran or North Korea getting nukes, but all of them have been at least rhetorically committed to stopping that.

Actually Trump is an interesting case. When he was running he wanted to change the US's arrangement whereby the US extends its nuclear umbrella and in return Japan and South Korea do not build nukes. He even signalled that if the price for withdrawing US guarantees was that they did build nukes, he'd be fine with that.

http://time.com/4437089/donald...

In the same New York Times interview in March, Trump indicated that Japan and South Korea might need to obtain their own nuclear arsenal to protect themselves from North Korea and China if the U.S. is unable to defend them. "It's a position that we have to talk about," he said. "If the United States keeps on its path, its current path of weakness, they're going to want to have that anyway with or without me discussing it, because I don't think they feel very secure in what's going on with our country."
"At some point, we cannot be the policeman of the world. And unfortunately, we have a nuclear world now," he later added.
Trump also said Japan and Korea might need to pay more for their own defense. "You know, when we did these deals, we were a rich country. We're not a rich country. We were a rich country with a very strong military and tremendous capability in so many ways. We're not anymore," he told the newspaper. "We have a military that's severely depleted. We have nuclear arsenals which are in very terrible shape. They don't even know if they work."

And then in office people obviously explained why this is a bad idea - China might decide that it should strike first - and he backed off.

James Mattis made it clear the US remains committed to defend Japan.

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

The Pentagon said defense secretary James Mattis called his Japanese counterpart Itsunori Onodera on Wednesday and "underscored that the US commitment to defend Japan, including the US extended deterrence commitment, remains ironclad".

The Pentagon statement said Mattis "also underscored the United States would work with Japan to enhance its ballistic missile defense capabilities".

It was not immediately clear if the Spy-6 radar system was discussed. Mattis also called his South Korean opposite number, Song Young-moo, who this week called for US tactical nuclear weapons to be deployed on the Korean peninsula for the first time since 1991, as well as other strategic assets such as aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and B-52 bombers.

The US has thus far opposed any redeployment of nuclear weapons. The Pentagon statement on the Mattis-Song conversation said only that the US defense secretary stressed that "any threat to the United States, its territories, or its allies will be met with a massive, effective, and overwhelming military response".

Trump himself told the South Koreans that the US remained committed to its existing security guarantees

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the...

President Trump and Acting President Hwang Kyo-Ahn of the Republic of Korea (ROK) spoke by telephone today. Acting President Hwang congratulated the President on his inauguration. The two discussed the importance of the U.S.-ROK alliance. President Trump reiterated our ironclad commitment to defend the ROK, including through the provision of extended deter

Interesting "coincidence" around Trump's executive order authorizing the activation of retired military personnel was signed recently..

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the...

This was signed with the explanation that it is solely intended to do so in order to get the air force pilot rosters back to their mandated minimums by activating retired air force pilots. It is still cause for concern when viewed in conjunction with these other activities..

Reading from an article from: https://www.salon.com/2017/10/...

"But the broad wording of the executive order seemed to imply that the executive branch would have the power to call up retired military officers and force them back into service for any reason, as the “emergency” Trump used to justify the executive order was extremely vague: “the continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on the United States.”"

How does it feel to be wrong so much?

If Obama didn't want "his legacy" undone he should have worked with congress instead of acting like a king with a pen and phone.

In Schapper v. Foley, 667 F2d 102 (1981), the court ruled that the language of federal copyright law clearly allows "copyright in works prepared under Government contract or grant." OMB Circular A-110: "Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals, and Other Non-Profit Organizations," also clearly specifies that "The recipient may copyright any work that is subject to copyright and was developed, or for which ownership was purchased, under an award."

You might also want to look at the Bayh-Dole act. It's about patents on inventions, not copyrights on publications, but it clearly states that people who receive government grants for their research own the intellectual property that results from the research.

Authors sign over copyright to publishers because the publishers give them a choice: Sign over the copyright and publish in our journal for free, or keep the copyright and pay us $2000 to publish in our journal. Authors often feel that the copyright for their article is worth less than $2000, so they choose to hand over the copyright instead of the money.

Before you quote a "White House spokesman" as evidence, maybe you should give us a date in the past eight months when a "White House spokesman" has not told a lie. Seriously. just one date - one - where there was not a lie from the White House, and I will rule your absurd claim as admissible

Done.

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, 10/2/2017, #18

The President will be flying to Puerto Rico tomorrow to view the devastation, ...

October 03, 2017, Remarks by President Trump, Luis Muñiz Air National Guard Base, Carolina, Puerto Rico

Here is a bonus! --- Yes, Frederick Douglass did a great job.

Before you quote a "White House spokesman" as evidence, maybe you should give us a date in the past eight months when a "White House spokesman" has not told a lie. Seriously. just one date - one - where there was not a lie from the White House, and I will rule your absurd claim as admissible

Done.

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, 10/2/2017, #18

The President will be flying to Puerto Rico tomorrow to view the devastation, ...

October 03, 2017, Remarks by President Trump, Luis Muñiz Air National Guard Base, Carolina, Puerto Rico

Here is a bonus! --- Yes, Frederick Douglass did a great job.

There is no such person on Trump's White House Manufacturing Council. Not even on the White House's page which still lists the people who have quit the council.

As for who's still on the council...

Resigned from council:

Elon Musk, Tesla
Ken Frazier, Merck & Co., Inc.
Kevin Plank, Under Armour
Brian Krzanich, Intel

No longer CEOs (still listed on White House web site):

Klaus Kleinfeld, Arconic
Mark Fields, Ford Motor Company
Mario Longhi, U.S. Steel
Doug Oberhelman, Caterpillar

Currently on council:

Andrew Liveris, The Dow Chemical Company
The Dow Chemical Company said Liveris would remain on the council.
Bill Brown, Harris Corporation
Michael Dell, Dell Technologies
Dell declined to say whether Michael Dell would leave the council.
John Ferriola, Nucor Corporation
Jeff Fettig, Whirlpool Corporation
Alex Gorsky, Johnson & Johnson
Greg Hayes, United Technologies Corp.
Marilynn Hewson, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Jeff Immelt, General Electric
GE said its non-executive chair Immelt will remain on the council.
Jim Kamsickas, Dana Inc.
Rich Kyle, The Timken Company
Thea Lee, AFL-CIO
Denise Morrison, Campbell Soup Company
Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing
Scott Paul, Alliance for American Manufacturing
Michael Polk, Newell Brands
Mark Sutton, International Paper
Inge Thulin, 3M
Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO
Wendell Weeks, Corning

But that's not really equivalent -- ignoring/not listening/not responding is not the same as blocking.

Unless I'm misunderstanding the issue, this Twitter issue would be like blocking this form for certain IPs. Now I'm not sure that would be illegal (IANAL), but imagine if Trump blocked, say, San Francisco-based IPs, or if Obama had blocked it for rural West Virginia IPs.

Jesus fucking Christ, the official White House link is right there on the second paragraph in the article: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sit... .

Make of that what you will.

If you read the actual budget, which I'll link to below, you'll see that they never claim to pay for all spending through tax collections. The budget explicitly says otherwise. It also talks about a deficit neutral--not revenue neutral--tax plan, for what that's worth.

So no, it's not a math error. The budget expects to continue the usual deficit spending, albeit at a lower rate than recent past.

The question is whether these reports amount to fake news. They're making critical claims based on false premises, after all.

Check out Table S-1 here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sit...

Read Trump's order.. It has somewhat similar wording.

OK, instead of reading what you followed that with, I'll give you a very standard disclaimer: Everything I say was my educated opinion.

You can have an opinion; you can also be wrong. Let me give the exact examples of how you are wrong:

You said:

Whereas a more intelligent analysis would instantly realize that most of the targets at a military airstrip are in fact buildings, that only a small number of the missiles would have targeted the runway, that runways are actually a priority target type in war, and that there is nothing at all about Tomahawk missiles that makes them unsuited to that role.

Secretary of State Tillerson says you are wrong:

Q: Secretary Tillerson, you talked about the great success. The AFP is reporting that the runway is still operational and is actually being used. Is that accurate? And can you comment on whether that was your intent, and if that puts a damper on the success of the operation?

SECRETARY TILLERSON: The runways were not the target due to the nature of the construction of those runways. Our military estimate was that we could not do serious damage to the runways. They are very thick and they’re constructed in a way that the ordnance that were used, while would have damaged them -- the damage would have been easily repaired in a matter of hours.

You are just wrong. And to date you have yet to actually answer a simple question: What is the blast radius of a Tomahawk?

The point the OP and I are trying to make (which you don't understand) is if you are going to attack an airfield but not make the runway inoperative, why even attack it? Your response that a Tomahawk COULD make a runway inoperative goes against common sense understanding of what the capability of what a Tomahawk cruise missile can do. Both the OP and I are making the point that the attack was just for show.

Tillerson seemed to say that undermining the infrastructure of the airfield was more important: "So the targeting was selected very deliberately to render the airbase essentially inoperable as an operating base, and that means taking out all the infrastructure, the fueling capability, all the support infrastructure, hangars. And, indeed, there were a number of Syrian aircraft that were destroyed on the ground. Those were the targets that were selected for that very specific reason." However where I disagree with Tillerson is that those things that he mentioned can be replaced or repaired quickly. For example while taking out a fuel depot means that planes might not be able to refuel from that airbase in the short term. But Syria can simply drive a fleet of fuel trucks to the airbase in the meantime while establishing another fuel depot. I fear all these points just went over your head.

Hacker News flags political posts

Thankyou! I was about to say, if this is an April Fools joke, a lot of people are in on it:
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
https://insidecybersecurity.co...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the...

I'm convinced that these petitions will be at least as effective as the ones posted on whitehouse.gov.

Yep, a Facebook friend was recently circulating one of those Change.org petitions. You know that site that was so effective during the Obama-era? Apparently somehow it's going to actually get things done this time around.

I'm convinced that these petitions will be at least as effective as the ones posted on whitehouse.gov.

Incorrect. The Hawaiian judge based his opinion upon "intent" as expressed verbally by members of the Trump campaign in the run-up to the election. The actual (second) order was more carefully written to avoid any reference to religion (here, read it yourself.) There is not a legal scholar, Left or Right, in the U.S. who believes that the partisan Hawaiian ruling will withstand appeal.

If a person didn't read the Washington judge's opinion, in which he cited precedent for finding that statements indicating discriminatory intent can be used to invalidate a law, then he isn't much of a legal scholar.

It is well established that evidence of purpose beyond the face of the challenged law may be considered in evaluating Establishment and Equal Protection Clause claims. See, e.g., Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520, 534 (1993) (“The Free Exercise Clause, like the Establishment Clause, extends beyond facial discrimination. . . . Official action that targets religious conduct for distinctive treatment cannot be shielded by mere compliance with the requirement of facial neutrality.”); Larson, 456 U.S. at 254-55 (holding that a facially neutral statute violated the Establishment Clause in light of legislative history demonstrating an intent to apply regulations only to minority religions); Village of Arlington Heights v. Metro. Housing Dev. Corp., 429 U.S. 252, 266- 68 (1977) (explaining that circumstantial evidence of intent, including the historical background of the decision and statements by decisionmakers, may be considered in evaluating whether a governmental action was motivated by a discriminatory purpose).

Incorrect. The Hawaiian judge based his opinion upon "intent" as expressed verbally by members of the Trump campaign in the run-up to the election. The actual (second) order was more carefully written to avoid any reference to religion (here, read it yourself.) There is not a legal scholar, Left or Right, in the U.S. who believes that the partisan Hawaiian ruling will withstand appeal.

I have a crap memory so I simply use an internal algorithm to generate a three word passphrase based upon the website I want to access. So say I wanted to access the Whitehouse website and they wanted user names and passwords, the one I would go with is bullshitnumber1 https://www.whitehouse.gov/(sh... that Trump is more honest than Obama but at least Trump doesn't pretend to be something he isn't), maybe perhaps a little more complicated than that but you get the idea. Sometimes more slack, sometimes more complex depending upon degree of fiscal risk and how often I will actually go there.

Passphrase are generally good enough generate a whole bunch of letters and of course you can sub numbers for letter but at least three words, no spaces and fill the space provided.

Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Sean Spicer, 2/24/2017

Q Can I first ask about the shooting in Kansas of the two Indian Americans and what the President’s response to it was, but also if there’s any concern that some of the rhetoric that the President or -- that generally has been out here recently could have contributed in any way to that or stepped up violence?

MR. SPICER: I mean, obviously, any loss of life is tragic, but I’m not going to get into, like, that kind of -- to suggest that there’s any correlation I think is a bit absurd. So I’m not going to go any further than that.

If rhetoric killed by itself I doubt there would be anyone left alive to post on Slashdot by now.

Please go developed your own website for middle school adults and their childish attitude.

No need to bother. They've already created one here.

Like the Muslim ban,

Is there a ban on being muslim? I know of none. I suspect you are talking about the suspension of immigration from seven specific countries, using the incorrect language the mass media has attached to it.

Have you read the "Muslim ban"? I have. See no reference to muslims or Islam anywhere in it. You can read it for yourself and point out the places I missed, perhaps? I do see references to refugee status for religious persecution, but the religion is not specified any further than "must be a minority religion in the country of origin". This aligns rather well with the concept that those who are part of the majority can't be persecuted, they are always the persecutors, which is commonly applied to situations in the US where there are minority/majority issues.

Yemen raid fiasco

Military ops sometime go pear shaped. A flight of helicopters trying to rescue hostages in a desert country getting taken out by the sandy conditions, for example. (That was Carter, by the way.) I expect there is an ambassador who would have appreciated a military response when he was in trouble, even if it had been ineffectual. Trump is not unique in something like this.

Trump's disastrous calls to Mexican and Australian heads of state.

I'm not sure what disaster has resulted from those calls. Is either country busy importing Russian nuclear missiles to try to make us behave? Was there a plague of locusts, or what?

If this removal was a demand made of the last two "admin", then it surely wasn't caused by Trump. Who was giving the "option" of removing this material to the USDA? And if there was no demand, what was there to refuse -- in the name of "transparency"?

On a related note, the White House FOIA page is currently unavailable. So much for requesting transcripts of all Trump Administration business done over Confide (just for shits and giggles since there's no chance they'd, you know, comply with the law or anything).

Well you can read the actual executive order here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the...

Which part of it is terribly conceived or poorly written? How was it horribly implemented? Currently there are 6 countries named that are in the midst of civil strife/war, and unable or unwilling to provide the data needed to verify info of travelers from their region. The 7th country is Iran. Not sure why they were selected, it might be because they're uncooperative, or it might be because they have a habit of chanting "Death to America" at large gatherings.

Yes you could rely on the lying MSM to tell you what they want it to mean. Or you could read the real thing here.

Don't you mean here?

(I'd link to the specific one, but there are a few which, just from the titles, could possibly be the one referenced in yours and AC's articles.)