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"Folded arms, eye rolls, smirks, deflections, finger pointing - a very unprofessional display of emotion..."
Well, it's often been said that management sets the tone of any enterprise. Let's see now... who's in charge of this administration? Oh, w…
"Secretary Hegseth and his fellow Defendants might reflect and be grateful for the wisdom and expertise that retired service members have brought to public discussions
and debate on military matters in our Nation over the past 250 years."
Just exce…
"Roughly 31% to 85% of affairs start at work"
I just love "statistics" like that...
"31%" is "rough"? What would "fine" be- maybe "31.0276%" ?
"31% to 85%" is certainly quite a spread- it's "rough" alright... quite a range in numbers in between 3…
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian :
Pentagon let Customs and Border Protection fire anti-drone laser near El Paso this week – reports
The Pentagon allowed US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to use an anti-drone laser…
Boy- simply very, very scary. Really glad that I'm as old as I am. I was an electronics/radio tech, and my specialty was technical writing for the rest of the shop. Documenting almost everything that I learned so that other techs didn't have to go o…
@msf- Thanks for the help in sorting that out. Even though "One would have to be in a coma to believe any of the data", at least we can get the lies to agree. :)
@yogibearbull-
Yes, reading between the lines this was a pissing contest between FAA/DOT and Pentagon/DOD. Evidently Hesgeth's people dissed the FAA, and they retaliated. I should have added a note about the cancellation- I'll fix that. Thanks.
Good point. Although I had been looking at the other possibility: the more likely the US might entirely eliminate the production capacity if China gets frisky and things looked shaky. Anyone here confident that Trump and Hesgeth would hesitate much …
Yes, I had missed that report link until PRESSmUP mentioned it. Holy S__T!
"After reading that, I’m just glad to be retired." I just said that to my wife re AI the other evening. And that was before reading rforno's report.
Here's some heavily abridged excerpts from Mark's New York Times report. I recommend checking out the entire report, which is very detailed.
Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
A small group of conservative acti…
I don't believe there is any truth to the rumor that the entire Bureau of Labor Statistics is to be replaced by a new private analytical statistics company headed by Donald Trump Jr, Steve Bannon, and Alex Jones. Just more fake news.
"It's what they're doing now" ?
That's the stock answer that I get for a lot of things that just seem to change for no good reason. But no one seems to know exactly who "they" are.
Gateway Funding Doesn’t Have to Be Immediately Restored, Judge Says
Following is a current report in The New York Times:
U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas had ordered the funding for a $16 billion tunnel project restored last week, but on Monda…
On a loaf of good bakery bread here in Northern CA- from $5.50 to $6.00 in one week. That's about 10% folks, and just one item of many groceries that are going up... up... up...
U.S. Judge Says Trump Cannot Halt Funding for Tunnel Project
Following are excerpts from a current report in The New York Times:
Nearly all of the work had stopped on Friday while negotiations continued in Washington and litigation played out in c…
Trump’s toxic, racist video surpasses previous levels of debasement
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:
Video deleted by White House breaks through numbness barrier and raises further questions about fitness for office
It…
Following are excerpts from an additional report in The New York Times:
Schumer pressed to help rename Penn Station and Dulles Airport for Trump...
The Trump administration has sought to pressure Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and th…
