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The White House Now Has Zero Science Advisors (cbsnews.com)
DogDude shares an article from CBS News:
The science division of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy was unstaffed as of Friday as the three remaining employees departed this week, sources tell CBS News... On Friday afternoon, Eleanor Celeste, the assistant director for biomedical and forensic sciences at the OSTP, tweeted, "Science division out. Mic drop" before leaving the office for the last time...
Under Mr. Obama, the science division was staffed with nine employees who led the charge on policy issues such as STEM education, biotechnology and crisis response. It's possible that the White House will handle these issues through staff in other divisions within the OSTP.
Under Mr. Obama, the science division was staffed with nine employees who led the charge on policy issues such as STEM education, biotechnology and crisis response. It's possible that the White House will handle these issues through staff in other divisions within the OSTP.
A government of the idiots, by the idiots and for the idiots.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
...since Pol Trump and the NRA Rouge will be rounding up the intellectuals and putting them in concentration camps before long.
I can see why they need a science advisor.
Maybe there are plenty of advisers available in the Tens of Thousands of Government employees at the Dozens of various agencies...
No need to pay twice.
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"Believe me, I know more than the scientists. I'm really smart, everyone around me knows it. I don't necessarily do formulas and ya da da, but I have natural instincts; I smell science like a cat, and pounce--beautiful bigly American Science! #MASGA!"
Table-ized A.I.
If only "science advisers" were honest, up-to-date working scientists willing to say exactly what they think without fear or favour.
However, most government "science advisers" are chosen by politicians and civil servants, on mainly political grounds, from the ranks of the "great and the good". In other words, they are likely to be elderly, dignified, wealthy, highly regarded by all - and not to have done any actual research, or read any current papers, for a good many years.
They are the kind of people who fall easily into line with government policies and politically correct views. They are the kind of people who agree that solar power (for instance) is far cheaper than fossil fuels or nuclear, and who have a remarkable ability not to notice things like this: https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
Great! now I know where to go when I need advice on the science of zeros.
Problem solved!
So, under Obama, they had 9 people working in this office, making $150,000 a year, doing... what exactly?
What were the great visionary policies for science coming out of the Obama White House?
What great technologies did the administration sponsor?
Maybe they advised the President well on internet and cybersecurity issues, to the benefit of the nation's retailers and online account holders?
No, the OSTP focused on education policy, advocated for more women in science, preached climate change, and worked for social justice. Their primary accomplishments were creating more boards and commissions and hiring more bureaucrats. They also wrote some boring non-technical non-policy papers. Oh, yes, they gave a number of empty speeches.
Futurists, with much better paychecks, at the taxpayers expense.
So, what loss is it to not have self-important 'advisers' and 'science experts' hanging around doing nothing useful? Abolish the office entirely, and return to they way it was in the 70s, before ignorant celebrity 'scientists' got government jobs.
I know that we would like to view every country on Earth as occupants of this cooperative spaceship that has to sustain humanity, and therefore in a sense it doesn't matter all that much that we get set back by one country slowing its science progress for a few years...
But in reality...
It's still a race for competitive advantage between countries, and seriously, the Chinese, Indians, Singaporeans, etc.etc are going to start eating our lunch, guys (even more than they are) -- and every move we make gets us forward or back a step in the race against them.
I think a lot of people don't want to admit this winner-takes-all reality... especially if they grow up in a highly liberal California environment where everyone is supposed to be nice to each other...
And they'll get however many they need. As it is, everytime a government changes, staff overhauls happen - not just at cabinet level, but also the bureaucrats. Yeah, there was always the argument that one needs the bureaucrats for continuity, but this time, you have a bureaucracy that's hell bent on sabotaging the agenda of the new administration. We saw it w/ Sally Yates & the travel ban, and more recently w/ 'Reality Winner'.
There is no reason for any Obama holdovers. Those 9 Science advisors ain't the only scientists in the land. First of all, w/ a $20T deficit, the administration does need to take a hard look at what sort of people are needed, and then, staff up accordingly. Also, the confirmation of all of this president's appointees have been historically slow - be it cabinet, ambassadors, department spokespeople, et al. So let them fill what they need as and when needed.
How is it possible that "other" OSTP employees will "handle" anything, when according to the post there are no other employees? If "science policy wonks" were competent educators, then would they be "science policy wonks"? Similarly for "crises management", why would the WH need some science wonk involved at the executive level in crises management? On its face, the evacuation of the office seems reasonable, given Trump's ignorance of and disinterest in facts (or the truth for that matter). The more alarming (imho) reality is that this must reduce the availability of factual advice to the entire WH staff, not just Trump. OTOH, I have no idea whether these people acted as "honest brokers" or as policy advocates, but I wouldn't be surprised if they tended towards the latter. It is likely that given the policy makers in the WH this is a good thing. I doubt any of them were willing to listen to anything contradicting their own ignorant beliefs.
He had bureaucrats posing as knowledgeable people of science. And every person in that White House was ideological, partisan, and willing to throw themselves under a bus on command. Witness the flaming pile of shit named Jonathan Gruber who managed the fumble the health care ball multiple times, make a fool of himself, all to attract attention away from the tire fire of Obamacare from the cheerleader-in-chief.
A government that can spend $4 Trillion can easily hire expertise when needed. What we don't need is 9 highly paid advisors who tell the president exactly what he wants to hear.
Knowing Trump and the fact that he's illogical, uninformed, unreasonable and hostile to anyone who spooks him, 9 science advisors is a waste of taxpayer money and would be fired the first time they spoke up.
When the so-called "scientists" forge data, hide legitimate data, and tailor their data to fit predetermined conclusions, they are not scientists.
Obama's "scientists" were third tier sycophants, professional bureaucrats, frauds, and quacks. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
science is just a mater of opinion! Everybody's voice counts!
I don't know about you, but I certainly believe everything that anonymous sources tell me.
Those advisers were all the-sky-is-falling Progressives. The fewer bureaucrats like this then the better.
Science is so sad. So sad. Science is like "facts". Wrong. America will be great. Science is fake news. So sad.
The current GOP is, let's face it, angry old white men who don't want to be told they're wrong about anything. Science is the repeatable process of destroying that.
Their "strategy" if you can call it that as such is to lash out at these otherwise apolitical threats to their bullshit, regardless of who they are: The nonpartisan GAO, Comey, Mueller, every single reporter ever, 99.5% of the world's climatologists and 99.9% of those not on big oil payrolls, educators, actors, comedians, economists, historians, judges, the Pope even. If anything any of the world says is a threat to your ideology, you are at ideological 'war' with those groups/concepts. The Republicans have taken this to a new height. They are at war with anything that is not them.
She's a scientologist. Sounds sciencey, and she's available! If she declines, get Van Halen. Any Van would probably work.
The vast majority of supporters of the buffoon-in-chief not only do not like science, but they actively despise it.
STEM education has gotten worse and isn't the president's job; biotechnology does just fine without presidential interference; and crisis response is handled by FEMA.
I think this illustrates how pointless "the science division" actually was.
For he certainly put them to good use.... What with the "Focus on Muslim Outreach" mandate Obama issued to NASA.
Look, Trump already has a scientist he can refer to if so be. His name is Ben Carson. And he is as good as anyone Obama had working for him.
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And yet, when it comes to providing healthcare for all US citizens, it's "fuck them, why should I pay for other people's healthcare".
No, you aren't compassionate and generous.
All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that too much to ask ~~ Randall Munroe
People of all persuasions are majority low information people.
Perhaps it's based around the belief that if you claim to have the information then you're selling something and have no actual interest in them but rather your product.
The deplorable would be shipped off to re-education camps
You mean the Republicans have the "fuck them" attitude. The Democrats finally bit the bullet and raised taxes to attempt to cover the proles. Now if they hadn't relied on the insurance companies, they'd have done much better.
The White House staff employees serve at the President's discretion. Typical turnover; and good to get the Obama Viet Cong out!
The employees are Policy advisors, degrees in Law, "Political Science" (a non-science), B.A. in Government and JDs not even trained in any science discipline.
In addition, The White House has re-initiated the National Space Council, chaired by the Vice President. Likely they need office space, which is very limited at the old WH.
/begin rant /end rant
Why would you need science advisors when you only care about business? Science and research are a waste of time when you are focused on maximizing business profits. Purchase or steal the technology from someone else. Even better subcontract all of the science and research out.
I really like that he is going to tax the churches.
Big central gov't shouldn't dictate education: State & Local offices should, as they see fit. This is the United STATES. Not United CENTRAL GOV'T.!
* Period...
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P.S.=> When we are the United CENTRAL GOV'T. = God, then I will say otherwise. Until then, the Trump administration's done the right thing (dismantling central gov't. education control is another step in the right direction s well - no more DUMBED-DOWN "std. curriculum" CENTRAL GOVERNMENT DICTATES - let local juridictions/principalities decide their OWN)... apk
Obama did nothing special.
IGNORE...
Using iOS 11 on iPads results in weird comments while typing on forums. Does it do it for most users?
Trump is a dumb bitch. Like his voters.
We helped Europe deal with Nazi Germany
I'm not quite sure how fighting the Axis after being attacked by it counts as generous.
But anyway, the US has done many good, generous things, many neutral things and many rather awful, self-interested things.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
They'll handle these issues in the office of creationism and other bullshittery.
What the fuck does that even mean? Were they fired? Did they quit? Where's the actual story in that article?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
OK, different colored ties. And why doesn't anyone say anything about orange hair color? I don't think that's been done before.
But we didn't "provide healthcare", we simply required people to buy health insurance at higher premiums and with higher deductibles than before. Thanks for putting the insurance companies in our pockets, guys! And Obamacare is crumbling, most of the "exchanges" will be defunct by next year if it is left just as the Democrats (it was passed by a partisan super-majority) and Obama intended. Except for the bit where they expected a Democrat to be in the White House to declare it defunct so they could replace it with something worse.
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There were several more were not yet completely convinced, 2% compared to 97% were convinced by the evidence. Only 1% denied the problem. And Sessions picked from that 1%.
https://youtu.be/e857ZcuIfnI?t...
You're literally incoherent. Take your meds, Ahmed.
He know's things, he's the best at knowing, believe me. MAGA!
"I'm not quite sure how fighting the Axis after being attacked by it counts as generous" - Well, before December 1941 the US with Franklin D. Roosevelt as President was doing quite a bit of prodding the Axis (rightly, in my British view), for example:
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He can do anything with his computer.
So what? More Obamabots left the govt. This happens EVERY TIME the White House switches from one party to another. Obama kicked out all of Bush43's science advisors. Clinton did it to Bush41's, Bush did it to Clinton's, etc.
Meanwhile: Trump just re-established the Kennedy-era National Space Council on July 1st (which helped in the Apollo era moon program) that Nixon and Carter neglected, Reagan re-started, Bill Clinton killed, and Bush43 and Obama leaft dead.
Also, QUALITY means something.
The Obama team were blithering idiots who only wrapped the word "science" around their hyper leftwing political fevers. Obama's chief science advisor was John Holdren - a freaky anti-science marxist from the 70's who famously co-wrote with doomsday author Paul Erlich about all the ways life on Earth was coming to an end. The dude freaked-out a generation and indirectly influenced Hollywood to make movies like "Soylent Green", "Planet of the Apes", and "Silent Running". Holdren famously bet that the world would be running out of vital minerals by the 1990s (he lost,obviously). Holdren was the leader of the carnival freaks of the previous administration currently departing the White House. The Obama team not only NEVER asked any skeptical questions about any of the global warming claptrap, or the "peak oil" garbage, or any othe apocolyptic drivel, they would not allow nor fund ANY skeptical research (which is how you replace SCIENCE with CONSENSUS). The left pushes policy in part by frightening soccer moms, so they embrace and hype this stuff - and that's just not honest science, it's more like the science of phrenology which was popular with goebbels.
It was the Republicans and the Dems BOTH who shot down Hillary's Single Payer Health Care Bill
When that Bill died, Obama gave the Democrat controlled Congress a mandate to come up with another solution
And thus ObamaCare was born
For more than a decade, I tried to serve the public good by working in the public sector. I finally got fed up with the shit pay, the shit I got when people found out I worked in the government (called a pig at the trough, incompetent, stupid, lazy, a drone, had my car vandalized multiple times, threaten with death on a weekly basis, and assaulted) and got a job in the private sector that pays one hell of a lot better.
The key here is that there is now a majority of people that think science and engineering are "just someone's opinion." That is true to a limited extent that it is indeed an opinion - but it's an opinion formed from training, intense study, experience, and perseverance. These opinions are not something someone pulls out of their ass.
The current administration was elected by the sorts of people that deny scientific opinion because it conflicts with their world view. The sorts of folks that think welfare is for the lazy the drug addicted, and cheats. Of course the white house science department has no employees. The people that elected this administration do not value science, compassion, empathy, or Christian Values, despite many of them calling themselves Christians. They are not Christians. At best they mistake their fear and anger for piety, their selfishness, lack of compassion and imagination as "being strong". These attitudes serve no one but the top 1%. The key here is that if you read this, you will never be one of the top 1%.
"The world isn't fair" is an excuse I hear a lot, which is true, life frequently isn't fair. Evil prospers when good men do nothing. There's nothing like doing nothing to ensure that life will remain unfair, and uncaring.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Seriously wtf can't we just set the government to a -1% net budget every year and then in 99 years the last one out can shut off the lights.
Fake News is what science is Fake News, and I will see that it will be stomped right out like the rest of the fake news out there. Watch my tweets and you will see all the science you will need to see. Trump
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forcing your neighbors to pay for your health care at gun point is also not compassionate and generous.
the question isn't should i pay for other peoples stuff. it's who the hell are you to be telling other people to pay for your stuff. you got a set of brass balls with no shame, that's for sure.
Wasting time introducing internet kooks to facts is an endless wast of time, but just FYI, "Hillary-care" as it was called, was not exactly single payer. That is part of the reason why the Sanders wing of the Democratic party wasn't all that enchanted with her in 2016.
It did have the vast majority of Democrats behind it, and Republicans were absolutely terrified that it would prove to the public that the government can solve problems that private markets can't find profit in solving.
WW2 when the US government was NOT coming to Great Britain's aid until after Perl Harbour happened in December 1941 some 2 years after the start of WW2. Churchill had to pay the US to get the US to send supplies across the Atlantic whilst the German's sunk many of the convoys via their U-boats.
The Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940 was the British Royal Air Force up against the German Air Force. Britain had a small number of air crews from other European and Commonwealth countries such as Poland, Canada and India. The US government was absent from the fight citing that it was a European war.
I agree that after WW2 there was the US Marshall plan in 1948 to help rebuild Western Europe however, the European governments had to pay back the US over decades. In addition, the US motives included pushing back communism to Eastern Europe.
Please try to get your facts right.
The Republicans killing the three main elements that would have kept the prices lower, and the ACA working - expanded medicare coverage, individual mandate and initial risk corridor subsidy - is what made the increases higher than they should have been, and is why it's crumbling, especially in red states, that then affect everyone else.
It was crumbling when Obama was in office too. Face it, Obamacare is a bust. It failed. The people almost immediately voted out the idiots who passed it and have been voting in people who promise to repeal it for the past six years now. It's time to accept that it's a failed idea and kill it before it starts literally killing people.
The Republicans killing the three main elements that would have kept the prices lower, and the ACA working - expanded medicare coverage, individual mandate and initial risk corridor subsidy - is what made the increases higher than they should have been, and is why it's crumbling, especially in red states, that then affect everyone else.
The Republicans haven't killed anything yet. Obamacare is still the law of the land, and I'm forced to pay in thousands to get zero back out.
Sorry folks, the constitution is still important and nowhere does it state the that the executive branch should promote science and education. Federalism leaves those kind of things to anybody else but not the federal government. Why would you look to the federal government for science, education or even healthcare?
"We helped Europe deal with Nazi Germany,"
Yeah, only after allies begged us to, while our ships were being sunk, and believed Nazi Germany was coming in over Greenland and suspected Mexico. We sat and dragged our ass while millions died, then sent hundreds of thousands of our boys in insufficient arms to be slaughtered.
btw, under Trump's idiocy, he would have remained isoataionist, and his motto of make America great again stems from the isolationists at that time.
"We defeated Japan,"
Yes, and you left a lot of things out.
The same Japan that we forced open that went through at least 2 civil wars, then settled on a military backed government, which built up and embarked on attacking the Russia and China repeatedly?
The same Japan we supplied and steel to, as they rampaged through the Sinosphere? When European allies begged us to stop it, we continued to supply them? The same Japan that then bombed us at Pearl Harbor when we largely withdrew finally fuel supplies, with US trained generals and with airplanes and ships made with US steel in them?
You omit the many 1960s and 1970s Japanese protests against US rule. You also admit many of the Showa era changes that the Japanese own, not the US.
It's one of the reasons China is so wary of us, because of what we did in WWII to them using Japan as a proxy, and why they are sticking it to us in kind using North Korea today.
Please don't ever say we are the world's police. We do good things, but your list ignores the many grievous ills of our modern past. We have plenty of bad policies that we ignore that lead up to many of the conflicts we end up 'resolving.' And Trump is leading the way today, hence the OP's claims are more spot on than your defense against it.
Cuba and Iran of old laugh at your claims. Syria and Iraq of most recent times are flipping you the hell off.
What a completely ignorant, revisionist history post.
He can certainly do your mom with it.
Lock the emergency room doors and only admit card carying medical buyers. Contact a waste company to pick up the bodies in the morning. Require a medical account number to dial for emergency services.
It chaps my @ss that I have to pay for other people's police protection too. I mean can't they afford basic personal security? Losers.
and we continue to confuse "health care" with insurance against risks to our health, demanding that insurers cover the cost of regular health care, with many people expecting that their health insurance premiums should be lower than the cost of their health care (otherwise they wouldn't be getting anything out of it).
and we confuse the idea of figuring out why health care is expensive with the idea of helping people afford health insurance and health care. As far as I can tell, the number 1 reason why health care is so expensive is that the folks who could control health care costs (by voting with their dollars) haven't clue #1 about what any health care services actually cost. And until we fix that, we have no hope of figuring out how to reign in health care expenditures.
The US is the first to lend aid in disasters around the world.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "disasters around the world".
There's the whole mess in the Middle East. But you could make a compelling case that the USA is a major cause: invading Iraq and creating conditions that allowed the rise of ISIS, supporting brutal dictatorship like Saudi Arabia, and supporting what is basically apartheid in Israel.
And then there's just the whole world poverty thing. Globally, somewhere around 20,000 children die of poverty every day. That's a higher death rate than the Nazis achieved with their death camps. The USA is the third largest country in the world by population - and largest in terms of total GDP. But, per capita, the USA is fairly far down the list in terms of charitable spending - particularly if you only count real charities like Doctors without Borders and leave out the weird religious missionary stuff.
We helped Europe deal with Nazi Germany,...
It was mostly the Soviet Union that defeated Nazi Germany. So it was lucky for everyone else that the Soviet Union switched sides mid-war. If not, the outcome of WWII would almost certainly been very different. Here's a little image that provides a nice summary. :)
We defeated Japan,...
If you have a quick look at a map and compare the size of Japan to the territory they hoped to control (China, Indonesia, the Philippines, etc), it's pretty clear that Japan had bitten off way more than it could chew even without its foolish attack on Pearl Harbor. Speaking of which, are you really suggesting that the USA went to war with Japan solely out of concern for countries like Indonesia - and the attack on Pearl Harbor was of no consequence?
The US is the worlds policemen,...
The USA mainly has a long history of doing the Banana Republic thing - supporting brutal dictators around the world who are willing to help the ultra-rich of the USA exploit their subjects. That's not to say that the USA has never joined up with alliances of other countries to defeat some really crazy countries that were trying to take over the world. But any serious history of the USA has it putting the interest of its rich people first and foremost over anything like charity or even basic human decency.
We're idiots, but compassionate and generous.
I suppose everyone in the world has a bit of compassion and generosity buried way down deep somewhere. But, if you think that Americans somehow have more compassion and generosity that everyone else then you're living in a complete fantasy world.
Am I suppose to buy someone else's food as well?
No. It's been undermined before it even passed by worthless, fucking greedy, self serving, anti-American, anti-Christian republicans. Pull your head out of your ass and check out reality for once in your life.
Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. See also: NAZI's
Face it, you're a fucking idiot who is so gullible you believed everything the rat bastard republicans said. Why is it you conservatives lie so fucking much? Have you no integrity or morals?
Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. See also: NAZI's
So what you're saying is, you're too fucking stupid to understand what "insurance" is. I honestly can't tell if you're just a fucking liar, or actually as completely fucking stupid as your posts make you out to be.
Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. See also: NAZI's
Well, you also have to give a little credit to some of the post-war people who understood that one of the lead-up problems to WW2 was the draconian measures we forced onto Germany after WW1. At least they were smart enough to try something different to produce a better results. Still not really compassion... but we have a lot of mentally challenged people here in the US who can't be bothered to actually learn what a word means before using it..... or learn anything else, for that matter.
Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. See also: NAZI's
Soviet union switched sides?
I think it was more that Germany attacked first. They never switched sides, they just fought against Germany, not for allies.
And yet, when it comes to providing healthcare for all US citizens, it's "fuck them, why should I pay for other people's healthcare".
No, you aren't compassionate and generous.
Exploitative is more accurate.
This is why I will add to my US Citizenship naturalized UK and EU citizenship within the year.
I spent 17 years training (in the US) to be a leader in my field, enhancing the economy and general welfare of US citizens, while also teaching them. A major medical injury ended that career trajectory, and the "social safety net" is telling me to go fuck off now. Back when I had just got my BS, I had several job offers on a management track, which I declined, choosing an advanced education instead. I have essentially sacrificed earning about $2,000,000 in personal salary in order to better serve my country.
The US does not have a social safety net. The US does not have a STEM shortage – just a shortage of fresh graduates who won't insist on salaries that their skills deserve. And over-skilled (read: expensive) talent that is pushed to train all of these babies with their decades of wisdom. . . just before the next round of layoffs/department eliminations/redundancy eliminations or whatever they want to call it.
In the US:
(1) Never be over-qualified
(2) Never have a major medical event
You will be kicked to the curb.
No good deed goes unpunished.
So what you're saying is, you're too fucking stupid to understand what "insurance" is. I honestly can't tell if you're just a fucking liar, or actually as completely fucking stupid as your posts make you out to be.
Insurance is for catastrophic unforeseen events. Obamacare is pre-paid health care. You don't use car insurance to fill your gas tank, change the oil, or get a new tire. Why the hell do you need medical insurance for a routine predictable medical event?
And with Obama...no honesty, no willingness to explain his agenda until it was already shoved down our throats, the lies, the lack of basic transparency, his loyalty to illegals over real Americans the race baiting.....shall we go on? Just saying.
But we didn't "provide healthcare", we simply required people to buy health insurance at higher premiums and with higher deductibles than before. Thanks for putting the insurance companies in our pockets, guys! And Obamacare is crumbling, most of the "exchanges" will be defunct by next year if it is left just as the Democrats (it was passed by a partisan super-majority) and Obama intended. Except for the bit where they expected a Democrat to be in the White House to declare it defunct so they could replace it with something worse.
My health insurance, with the same provider providing the same level of coverage, cost 1/3 of what it did before the ACA went into effect.
This buffoon will be even more hilarious to watch.
America is now a failed state.
Office of Financial Science and FinTech Policy...
The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany started the war with a non-aggression pact where they invaded Poland together and divided it between themselves.
Undermined? It was passed by 100% Democrats. It's funny to blame them for a failure of a law that they had no part in, while simultaneously absolving the people who wrote it.
One drops the mic for triumph.
This doesn't sound like she was winning...
Why the hell do you need medical insurance for a routine predictable medical event
Because once that routine event turns up something horrible, you won't be insurable.
So Hillary lied in 1996 with the stupid sort of shit many politicians do of vastly overstating danger every time they go onto the same continent as a military situation?
So? What is the point? Hillary is old news and never coming back. Why are you bringing her up quote altering guy? It's not as if you are not a liar yourself.
"What a completely ignorant, revisionist history post."
Although it is certainly no excuse (at all), surely it is ignorance -because- (s)he has learned the revisionist history that the US tells itself.
Also not an excuse, but it is no different than the revisionist history told in other countries. At least on the subject of WWII (at least my view from the outside) I respect the way Germany attempts to confront its past.
People in the US can't deal with difficult truths. There is a lack of maturity and an insecurity that makes them dangerous. I feel for my American friends and colleagues as they engage in defence of their collective historical myths, even those who are left leaning.
Education and crisis response are not sciences. If you rely on a physicist to figure out how to save people in a burning building, you are going to have a building full of corpses.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
"It was mostly the Soviet Union that defeated Nazi Germany. So it was lucky for everyone else that the Soviet Union switched sides mid-war. If not, the outcome of WWII would almost certainly been very different"
Very specifically, Hitler decided to attack the Sovet Union. Stalin had signed a pact with him, but it was a ruse, it seems Hitler had intended to attack them all along.
Stalin was shocked. He had ignored intel of troop buildups and establishment of supply lines, and should have known this was coming. He apparently took a few days alone in his apartment, the accounts of that suggest he was depressed and overwhelmed.
No surprise, he knew the only way to defend the Soviet Union was to feed cannon fodder into the meat grinder and wear the German forces down. Attrition. It cost over 20 million lives.
This all happened long before the US stopped trying to MAGA, oh sorry, before it decided to care about the rest of the world, oh sorry before it was attacked for no reason, oh sorry before it pervoked Japan by cutting off fuel supplies which resulted in Perl Harbor and FDR was able to convince Americans they should do something. By the time America stepped up to the plate, the course of the war was set (I believe the turing point was at Stalingrad, others may disagree).
Americans suffered an order of magnitude less casualties, but tell themselves they won the war. I'm not a fan of Bolsheviks or their ideology, that isn't the point. The point is the Soviets did this thing, they had to, and for that I'm greatful.
Wasting time introducing internet kooks to facts is an endless wast of time, but just FYI, "Hillary-care" as it was called, was not exactly single payer. That is part of the reason why the Sanders wing of the Democratic party wasn't all that enchanted with her in 2016.
It did have the vast majority of Democrats behind it, and Republicans were absolutely terrified that it would prove to the public that the government can solve problems that private markets can't find profit in solving.
Show this to a poor Republican, "fake news!".
Show this to a rich Republican, "shhh!... I mean, uh, fake news!"
Of course nobody should ever under any circumstances be forced by any form of collective government to pay for anybody else for any purpose, education, health care, anything at all. Everyone must survive on his or her own, nothing should be stolen from anybody to help anybody. Voluntary private charity is still there and more of it would exist if taxes didn't.
You can't handle the truth.
Starting with the obvious clickbait lie in the title, which the editor should know is a lie on the face of it. And since the editor did not correct,,, well you can see where this goes.
Oh, awesome! Now perhaps real scientists who adhere to the scientific method can fill the vacuum of disgrace the climate conjecture cronies left behind. I honestly believe that we might be headed towards oblivion, but I really hate when funding promotes findings. Hopefully in the ashes we will see some real science. Perhaps It is a foolish hope, but I would love to see credible advances in how we might improve life on our planet.
Preventative care doesn't lower costs, though. It increases them. A particular individual may get lucky and have something detected early, but the vast majority won't.
The science advisors were like art critics in a drawing school: they cramped the style of the government as it makes up new science.
You don't create the scientific equivalent of cubism while the establishment keeps complaining that you are doing it all wrong.
Tribus über alles, it seems.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
"Am I my brother's keeper?"
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
They weren't science advisors - they were the clerisy for the environmentalists.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
If you're a diversity candidate, you get the benefit of the doubt - even if you experience the inconvenience of the courts.
If you're a conservative or undesirable, you're considered Fair Game for anything.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
The last thing we need is these assholes controlling our future or getting confused on their roll as a figurehead. Maybe if they don't feel stupid we will get a respectable office. /s
Here is the LinkedIn profile of the last one to go:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/el...
She is a bloody lawyer.
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
I'm not quite sure how fighting the Axis after being attacked by it counts as generous.
The US could have defeated Japan, its attacker, with a fraction of the effort it put into WWII. Most of its resources, and 80% of US servicemen killed in action (source), were in the European theatre against Germany and Italy. And it could have done so: Hitler would surely have repudiated Japan, given the option, if the US would agree not to enter a war that everyone knew it could eventually win.
But, instead, the US spent the output of its industry and the blood of its young men to save Europe, and more of its industry, later, to rebuild it, under the Marshall plan. I would be a fool to be ungrateful for that.
The US did not become involved militarily until after Perl Harbor left them little other option, but they did supply logistical support. That's why Germany spent so much effort on attacking those convoys. Yes, Britain paid, but the supplies would not have gotten through without US government support. Private traders dislike selling to places that result in their ships getting torpedoed.
It's just like any other war: There are plenty of ways in which a non-participant can lend their assistance to one side without having to start shooting. The US sought plausible deniability at the beginning.
Zontar's from SWEDEN's UBI slavery which IS all that results from it, "no go" zones w/ Muslims RAPING your women https://www.google.com/#q=Sweden+and+muslim+rape (you're all "not men" there, punk)).
Take your meds mentalcase https://slashdot.org/comments....
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I see you're also a druggie too https://slashdot.org/comments....
Going to make more sockpuppets to stalk & troll me with you loon https://slashdot.org/comments.... ?
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Your sending me postcards with threats too https://slashdot.org/comments.... ?
* You're a butthurt loon freak, plain & simple... you did it to yourself, loser...
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Why stop there?
Why not get rid of the CDC, NIST, NOAA, NASA, DARPA, the Pentagon, since warfare is based on the science of killing, and the Treasury, since the economy is based on math?
Funny that their first statement is scientifically incorrect... 100 is NOT "exponentially" more than 50-60.
Please mod up!
I learnt something here, shouldn't be the only one...
The Soviets made the sacrifice, but let's be truly honest here: Hitler won the war for us by invading Russia and breaking his army on the Soviet anvil.
alzheimer's early stages but but well into illness. Wife reacts just like him to TV and internet not lie when she was well.
Science advisors are political working an agenda that caters to the elite...
But we didn't "provide healthcare", we simply required people to buy health insurance at higher premiums and with higher deductibles than before.
That's outright false. Subsidies for the poor made purchasing healthcare really cheap. For millions of people premiums were under $50 per month and there were also subsidies to cover deductibles and other out-of-pocket expenses. Those subsidies were tied to income not costs so as costs went up, so did the subsidies for ~80% of the people on obamacare.
The people who got screwed (like myself) were high earners who are self-employed. We don't get subsidies so we have to pay the full bill of the price hikes. But the main reason prices went up is because the republicans (specifically marco rubio) quietly tweaked a very wonkish part of obamacare a few years ago so that a major part of the risk-reduction insurance companies relied on was neutured. And when risk goes up, so do prices.
How Marco Rubio stealthily gutted ObamaCare
So, yet again republicans were dedicated to claiming government doesn't work and then going out and proving it by deliberately fucking it all up.
Because over the last ~20 years talk radio and so-called "alternate media" have transformed republicans into the party of liberal tears. Clickservatives aren't about accomplishing policy goals, they are about their team winning. It doesn't matter what they win, only that liberals lose. They are very flexible that way.
state unambiguously that he was directed to reach out to the Muslim world to make them feel good about their contributions to science and engineering.
So what?
NASA has always been about public relations. They are the single most popular government agency in the world. They have had their own television network since the early 80s. You seem to have a bug up your ass that one of the many, many areas of outreach was to the second largest group of people on the planet.
Lest you forget, the X Prize was founded by Anousheh Ansari a female muslim immigrant from Iran. Seems like encouraging more people like her is exactly what NASA ought to be doing.
First: a modest proposal to cure the problem: some interviewing suggestions. If they answer yes to any, NEVER hire them (and pass on their unsuitability to make forward progress)
"Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Trump Administration"
"Are you now, or have you ever been employed by a company owned by Donald Trump or his relatives"
A second proposal:All federally elected officials are automatically subject to the following:
- maximum taxable rates on their income. Period.
- mandatory tax audits by the IRS
- Apply this to all presidential appointees. Retroactively
Third: Congress and Senate are subject to the maximum taxable rates on their income
Fourth: Congress and Senate are subject to any health care programs they vote in. No special favors for them.
Fifth: Congress and Senate are subject to any/all pension limitations imposed upon private citizens (no automagic pensions)
In politics world, campaign staff and other supporters are offered jobs in government when a winning candidate takes over. When Obama won, he flodded all agencies of government with his political supporters who then used those positions to push his agenda through the permanent burueacracy. Democrats are great at this because they believe in massive government running everything. Republican stink at this because they generally do not think government should even be involved in lots of the stuff it is into.
If you like government involvement in everything and its actions being guided by political activists who were recently college kids or waitresses (and who plan to spend their entire careers as lawyers or government burueacrats) then by all means vote Democrat. If you want less of this, vote Republican or Libertarian.
If you think there is anything wrong with this lady (or her other colleagues on that linkedin page) being in charge of America's science and technology agenda (as opposed to things like market forces, national security demands, etc) then you might want to consider the alternative of SMALLER GOVERNMENT - the sort our founders designed and specified in the Constitution.
"There are no science advisors?!?!? Oh noes...." Seriously, STFU...The warp reactor is critical, the shield are down, there's a romulan spy on-board, and you're worried about whether Spock is on the bridge??! Just stfu.....
There are 2 groups of people you can make fun of on the Internet without fear of attack. The illiterate, and the Amish.
http://www.salon.com/2010/02/2...
If you can pull your head out of your ass long enough to read, and understand, this... then do so; and quit being a gullible fucking idiot. Why are conservatives such worthless fucking liars all the fucking time?
Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. See also: NAZI's
You have no clue.
California Democrats to far-left single payer advocates: Stop bullying and threatening us!
No way to pay for it.
Since you clearly aren't a "gullible" "idiot," do you think someone with your mental powers could help get this all-Democrat mess get straightened out?
Why universal health care died in California
Should be easy for you, right?
California’s Single-Payer Healthcare Bill Isn’t Based in Reality
So he says, but nothing he's done so far has actually helped those supposedly marginalized peoples. He's trying to prop up a coal industry that is failing largely due to market forces by harming other industries instead of helping those communities attract new business or retrain the workers. The healthcare plan would lower monthly costs as long as you were healthy, but if you actually have to use it at all, would be much more expensive in total costs to the lower and middle class. His tax changes are regressive and seek to largely help shareholders with no appreciable benefit to actual workers.
They weren't science advisors, they were the clerisy for the environmentalists.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
He represents the US, especially those marginalized by leftist policies.
There's more to the US than what the modbombing left will acknowledge.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
What has been said of Stanford has been proven through the toxicity of the leftist student population.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Yes it's called food stamps asshole. It keeps desperate hungry people from stealing your shit and hurting you for it.
You're already paying for it, in increased emergency room visits by people with no insurance. If those same people have access to care (like, say, affordable health insurance coverage), they can get that cut looked at before it goes septic, costing you far less.
But you're too indignant about not "paying for other peoples stuff" to allow yourself to understand that. And I'll bet you anything that as soon as you need services of some kind that you can't afford to pay for, you'll be changing your tune.
Health care is a basic need for human life, the costs of which need to be spread out among society in one way or another. One way is to deny poor people basic care until it becomes an expensive emergency, at which point the emergency room sees them (who do you think pays for that?). Another way is to fund access to preventive healthcare and attempt to control spiraling costs.
The United States is more than just the 3 million illegals in California and all the leftists on the coastlines.
It is also the citizens that have not seen opportunities return to them - as a result of the prior regime that ended January 20th of this year.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
You mean the Republicans have the "fuck them" attitude. The Democrats finally bit the bullet and raised taxes to attempt to cover the proles. Now if they hadn't relied on the insurance companies, they'd have done much better.
You mean they could have created another health care system like the Veteran's Administration except everyone would be required to use it?
What kind of evil bastard are you?
He represents the US, especially those marginalized by leftist/globalist policies.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
more science is happening.
it is refreshing to see nasa get some attention for just one example.