DC Tom

I'm seeing people say "He probably does this to all foreign countries. Demands something in exchange for giving them something." They're literally trying to criminalize foreign policy.

No, I do. Hell, I used to have to do some of this stuff with pencil and paper. I still have nightmares about solving the stellar structure equations by hand.

I wouldn't even think of doing that. I'd get a real skeleton from a medical supply store.

Not yet, but it's early October, so she should be hoarding acorns soon.

You think Democrats haven't already thought of that? Trump, Pence, and Pompeo. President, and two of the next four successors. Look for them to scandalize Grassley next.

If I were developing the software for a fast food robot, I guarantee I would program it so that a third of the time you told it "no ketchup," you'd get ketchup.

After you factor in the manufacture of the paint and the cleanup and disposal costs, I wonder what the carbon footprint of this little stunt is.

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It's "You're really bad at this." You're really bad at "you're really bad at this." And I'm incorporating as "Deranged Rhino Enterprises" today.

Jump training. Night jump in high winds, with about 80 soldiers. Blew off the jump zone into a pine forest, 16 or so were injured by trees.

Sumerian peach farmers.

Not quite. Appropriations is done line-item by line-item. and the executive can't generally move money around between them (aside from a few specifically legislated cases). For example, from the 2019 NIH appropriation: And NIH alone has 150 pages of this *****. Within the constraints of that federal law, the White House has complete "freedom" to disperse as they see fit.

"I don't understand why people I accuse of guilt would protest their innocence!" ***** douchechugger.

I went to college for this. Spent six figures learning this, and the only use I get is explaining it to you jamokes, so you're all going to get my money's worth, and I am going to explain the ever-lovin' ***** out of it. Nowadays, the interesting aspect is the "sensor fusion," for lack of a better word. 30 years ago, when SN1987a (a supernova) kicked off, it was first detected by neutrino observatories (who had no idea what they were seeing), then three hours later in visible light in Chile. It took 24 hours for the next telescope (New Zealand) to be trained on it, and probably a week more for other instruments to be trained on it. 20 years later, an x-ray observatory caught a supernova in real-time, and other instruments were focused on it within an hour. Today that would be minutes. The speed of data collection and transmission is unimaginable compared to when I was in college. Side note: about half of all observed supernovae are discovered by amateur astronomers. One of the coolest things about astronomy (I always thought, at least) is that it's one of the few sciences where amateurs routinely make meaningful contributions. (That, and bird watching. But astronomy's far cooler, because no amateur ornithologist ever observed an exploding ivory-billed woodpecker.)

It amazes me how people who insist Trump is a liar and you can't trust anything he says will turn around and take the blandest statements of his as gospel when it's convenient. Trump does not exist in any sort of reality as normal people would define it. You can't trust anything he says.

That was a killer combination.

He was pushing the "well spoken black man" trope for some reason or another, and projecting racism on to everyone else calling him out. He's about to do it again, I'm sure. He's pretty spectacularly awful.

It'll never come to that. If Russia can spend $3M on Facebook ads and keep Hillary out of office, Zuck can use Facebook to make sure Warren never wins.

Received by the committee. Schiff can easily say he received them personally, thus they weren't made available to members of the committee, and be correct under the letter of the law.

Oh, holy hell... That's the wedding announcement online. Casual attire...jeans. "Address listed on the invitations was wrong." And they somehow misspelled "woot." You just know he banged one of the bridesmaids during the reception, which she didn't notice because she was gettin' carnal with the best man at the time.

If they're outraged now, wait until the Chinese government bills the victim's family for the bullet...

I promised SDS I wouldn't call newbies idiots until after 250 posts... ...wait, what? You've got 33,000 posts? And you're posting this empty-headed pap? What the hell is wrong with you?

He's been honestly racist.

Seriously, they didn't even have to form their own charitable foundation. They could have worked through the Clinton Foundation. I'm sure Bill and Hillary would have happily taken a nominal few points off the top for use of their influence peddling and money laundering services. What the hell is wrong with these people? Did they ask? The Clintons were RIGHT THERE!!!!

It actually is illegal for me to read it on my own. It's also illegal for me to listen to them tell me. It's also illegal for me to remember some of the conversations I had with Paul. Classification rules can get pretty weird.