For the last 8 years Republicans did everything they could to make sure Obama failed, even when they agreed with what he wanted. Now the Republicans control the government and they are in charge of making America great rather than making America miserable. And in the last 8 year we went from total economic collapse to doing reasonably well.
Now that Trump is tinkering with Obamacare it is now Trumpcare. If they screw it up it’s on them. And if the Dems won’t help them, that’s on them too. There is an opportunity for Trump to really improve Trumpcare if they remove the law that prohibits the government from negotiating lower drug prices with the big drug companies. But I doubt Trump is man enough to go after Big Pharma the way he goes after women and poor Mexicans. In my mind that will be the real test to see if he’s serious or just some big blowhard clown. But now if Republicans break it, Republicans own it.
ObamaCare is paying big premiums for insurance with high deductibles. It’s almost useless for healthy people.
It’s a huge wealth transfer from younger people to older people.
And rewards the super-fatties with diabetes that ate themselves into severe obesity.
There are some good things about Obamacare, but the good things are mostly statistical outliers compared to high costs.
Since Obamacare, Medicare premiums have gone up dramatically, I’ve been told.
Insurance isn’t supposed to punative. If they implemented an Obamacare style system for car insurance or home insurance, it would also be disaster.
This is why for profit health insurance won’t work. The only way this model has a shot, is if insurers regain the ability to exclude people based on their risk and kick people out if they get expensive. Just like your auto insurer can do if you have too many accidents, or your home insurer if you make too many claims.
Universal coverage managed without incentive for profit is probably the most fair solution.
For-profit health insurance is inherently immoral. So was being a plantation owner and whipping the slaves, but they lasted a long time and claimed to be good Christians as well.
Similarly, community ownership of NFL teams (a la the Green Bay Packers) is the way to go, too, but the other NFL owners voted to not allow any other capitalist owner or investment group to deed their team to a community non-profit.
Greed has no ethical bounds. Univeral coverage, like universal education, is the best solution.
Problem is Republicans can only repeal parts of ObamaCare. If they repealed it all then they would legitimately own it. Instead, they will be repealing what they can, and Democrats might block repealing the rest, making things not so good. The expensive health plans would stay, and perhaps get more expensive, you just wouldn’t be required to buy them. Buying something like you could before would require repeal.
Excellent point. Trump has already broken/revoke O-care by removing the key and necessary foundation.
Its why “insurance” is an unworkable premise on which to build ANY healthcare system. USA, as with everything we do, is NOT a healthcare system but rather a FOR PROFIT DRIVEN system of skimming and milking the American Public of its wealth by the AlreadyTooRich.
Just look.
………………………………….. silly hoomans.
Car insurance: Drive great? Llow rates!
Home insurance: Don’t live in a flood zone, reasonably priced!
Obamacare: Take care of yourself? We’re looking at you to pay for heroine addicts, meth users, the 400 lbs. lady who uses a scooter cart to buy groceries, the Marlboro man who smokes 3 packs a day.
Obamacare is a wealth transfer scam.
It is NOT insurance, because there is no reward for those that take care of themselves.
It’s just a scam.
In my company of more than 25 and less than 50 employees with a demographic that goes from young to near retirement, the aggregate cost of insurance (the check I write to the insurance company) has slightly more than doubled from 8 years ago. And the deductible has increased 1000s of dollars and the benefits are less. This is a fact of Ovomitcare. This debacle stands on the backs of the people who make this country run.
Could you repeat that?
Hmeyers hitting the low points of what Trump is all about says:
1/28/2017 at 1:40 pm
1. ObamaCare is paying big premiums for insurance with high deductibles. It’s almost useless for healthy people. /// Yes…. that is WHAT INSURANCE IS. Try to pay attention to other than the givens.
2. It’s a huge wealth transfer from younger people to older people. /// Again: thats what insurance IS. That is how it works: risk spreading, allocation, selEction, allocation, PROFIT.
3. And rewards the super-fatties with diabetes that ate themselves into severe obesity. /// Again: that is the function of insurance. Like car insurance only rewarding those who get in accidents.
4. There are some good things about Obamacare, but the good things are mostly statistical outliers compared to high costs. /// Ha, ha……please name wtf you are talking about? NAME any statistical outlier?==Being under 26? Having had a medical condition 10 years ago?? What???
5. Since Obamacare, Medicare premiums have gone up dramatically, I’ve been told. /// The primary motivation for O-Care was insurance premiums going up 3-4X the rate of inflation. I don’t know about Medicare….but assume it would track.
6. Insurance isn’t supposed to punative. /// How else do you appreciate “for profit” for a non free market driven activity?
7. If they implemented an Obamacare style system for car insurance or home insurance, it would also be disaster. /// How so?
As all too often: you got nothing.
Why do you bother with your talking points. When ObamaCare passed you said it would make things worse, roughly what people are complaining about now. So why pretend you expected something else?
I don’t recall saying exactly that…..but maybe close enough? what I said, or meant to say with what I said was that O-Care “would not work” but it was a necessary first step to change the system from For Profit to Universal single Payer coverage.
Course….I did not even consider that the Pukes would intentionally sabotage O-Care THAT IS THE REPUBLICAN APPROVED HEALTH CARE PLAN…before Obama became Pres.
People are NOT complaining about the same things ===>at all. But why go into detail when you don’t get the basics?
Let’s examine that very first (misleading) sentence: For the last 8 years Republicans did everything they could to make sure Obama failed, even when they agreed with what he wanted.
BULLSHIT!
If anything, what Republican’s have been against is HOW various laws/rules are IMPOSED — NOT for the sole reason to trip up some non-party / non Republican President.
If you’ve been paying attention, “Republican’s” have NEVER been out to “get Obama” or cause him to fail. It may have SEEMED that way given all the wrong moves Obama took over the years. And granted, some Republicans might have actually been “out to get him,” but NOT ALL!!! It’s about as close to RACISM as you can get saying so. It’s like saying all Buddhists are terrorists or something. It’s complete BULLSHIT!
And here’s another little factoid you libtards love to ignore too: when it comes to abortion, the MAJORITY of Republican’s are for freedom of CHOICE just like the majority of you libtards are! Though the liberal left, who always need sensationalism in order to sell their products, always portray “all” Republican’s as “right to life” religious zealots or something which admittedly, a sizable number ARE but not ALL (just like communists are with the Democrat party). Nevertheless, it’s BIGOTED which is really racisms ugly cousin.
Now, onto the third sentence (since the second sentence is just more OPINION masquerading as fact) : And in the last 8 year we went from total economic collapse to doing reasonably well. About all I can say is, HAVE YOU EVEN BEEN TO RURAL AMERICA?! Not the “suburbs” but real “red State” rural America?! Because if you’ve been employed at the same job, meaning the same private company and NOT a government or pseudo government entity for more than 8 or 10 years and you think the economy is good, then you clearly have your head up your ass — or have been very very lucky!
Finally, I hope I don’t have to point out one other very glaring fact about the economic turmoil Obama “inherited” (which is about to repeat itself) — NOT ONE “BANKSTER” was prosecuted nor held responsible in any way for any of their CRIMES! So ya. If I’m a “Republican” then you could say I’m looking for a little PAY BACK!
Seriously, put down that “blue” pill, it’s turning you into a DICK!
Schill.
Aaaaaggggagggghahahahahahahar! You broke the irony meter again.
http://16r.co/1/ironymeter.gif
It’s ObamaCare until it’s repealed. this idea that Republicans didn’t cooperate with ObamaCare is false, since they funded it. Ted Cruz, Michelle Bachmann, and others tried to prevent that, but Republicans caved after Obama shutdown the government. Nevertheless, showing that they were against ObamaCare was enough to give Republicans the most seats for them in Congress in a century. Then they went on and kept funding ObamaCare, requiring Republicans to roll the dice with Trump who is reportedly a liberal Democrat. Based on what I’ve seen to date, I think I’m going to have to switch parties and declare myself a liberal.
Basics: No, the Pukes did not “fund” O-Care. It was a whole bunch of Puke Govenors that did not create their own State Programs and opted out of the MediCare Healthcare Expansion programs. But to the current fubar, it all comes down to Puke Fantastic Little Marco who got a bill passed to DEFUND the High Risk Pools that is now resulting in the premium increases complained about.
Silly Hoomans.
So who passed the budgets for the subsidies and website and everything else?
Add up BOTH SIDES of the ledger.
Focus.
Apparently you don’t know what funding means.
I’ve heard that Trump is going to increase taxes on the wealthy for a middle class tax cut.
1. Get rid of state tax deduction.
2. Cap the mortgage interest deduction to a much lower number.
3. Increase the standard deduction.
4. Cap itemized deductions at $100,000.
So the wealthy (1%ers) — people with houses valued over $400,000 — will have a lot higher effective tax rates.
And eliminating the state income deduction will favor states with lower levels of taxation like Florida, Washington State, Nevada, Texas, etc.
So it will combination …
1) Tax the rich
2) Tax cut for the middle class
3) Tax cut for the poor.
More proof Trump is a 1990s Democrat.
The poor getting a tax cut? You mean the 50% that don’t pay any taxes now?
He is going to lower the tax on cigarettes, Red Bull, wine and junk food.
Oh, and Bling.
I can finally get that 5 lb gold rope necklace. Awesome!
Lower energy bills.
But think about it, if you like your energy provider you can keep your energy provider.
I wonder what those Democratic Senators in North Dakota, Montana, Indiana, Wisconsin, Florida, Virginia are going to do when faced with a tax increase that hurts states with high tax rates like California and Oregon.
This could be a problem. http://blog.dilbert.com/post/156540315831/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-especially-if-it-is
I’m under the impression that the “big money” has taken over the Democratic Party is in the process of scamming and looting the Democratic base for dollars.
So they want to rile up the base to loot them — I mean fundraise.
And they don’t care about whether the Democrats are being hurt politically.
It’s predatory wealth extraction from the Democratic base, like Jill Stein or Hillary.
I think the Democratic Party is being looted and pillaged by fundraising profiteers that just want to get rich.
You mean that money raised for the recounts wasn’t legit?
For that matter, Bernie Sanders was a plant, hand-picked by Hillary to be her primary opponent. Search Wikileaks for ‘arrangement’.
Bernie Sanders wasn’t a plant.
Hillary would have wanted to run unopposed during the primaries. She almost succeeded. It was “her turn”.
And, in fact, ever since Hillary lost the Democratic Party fundraisers have, in-fact, been in charge because there is a complete vacuum in the Democratic Party.
The “money men” literally are running the Democratic Party right now, because they don’t even have a DNC chairperson.
So what is your explanation for the e-mail?
Excellent recognition.
…………………………………. now …………………………..
apply.
https://youtu.be/JaC1-U8LIY0
Bill Maher agreeing with everything I have been saying about Democrats for the last several months.
HM: How to spot your brain is broken: Agree or disagree regarding why Democrats lost (with more votes and not minding the voting fraud and gerrymandering) Bill Maher’s comments were about LIBERALS…..not democrats. And the liberals he was talking about were Hollywood Movie Stars. Not exactly the Democratic Party Leadership.
…………….. just saying.
1 Mbps? Might as well stick to a dial-up.
You’ll be buffering more than watching.
> How to spot your brain is broken
Wait for your alternate personality to reveal it?
No……………….reflect on what you know yourself: your own experiences. You watch a video that talks about LIBERALS and you turn around to post and complain about DEMOCRATS.
That shows a bias or mind set or DARE I say it: conflation un related but distinct issues. aka: fuzzy at best wrong thinking, aka: a broken brain.
A self aware creature can correct that fault, if they wish to. …………….. or they can stay lazy and stay Conservative.
Once you “know”, its all about choices.
So gerrymandering is why Republicans have something like nearly 70% governors?
No Bill Maher said …
“Democrats used to protect working people
Now Democrats protect feelings”
A talking point he sticks to against all evidence, for example gerrymandering by Dems in Illinois- it is bipartisan. Reality is Dems have gerrymandered themselves into compact areas.
Democrats are voting their economic interests, not the social ones.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/444501/democrats-betsy-devos-education-secretary-nomination-senate
Hmeyers: I’ve ragged on you the last 3-4 comments. So….want to thank you for noting you have cut the cord. I’m still checking it out but looks like I will too. I investigated this a few years ago and had no joy. Everything changes. NOW–I see I can get by with a 1mps dsl connection and just youtube. All the news shows I normally watch. A whole lot of Nature and Discovery. Yet to look for Military, History, Smithsonian…but assume they are “somewhere.”
Yet to install Kodi, but that looks like everything anyone could want….. and if not…. go to some media player box with one time fee and if all else then fails…. go with amazon fire stick?
Anyway………..I thought I was a cable tv addict and happy to pay the cost for the convenience. I think a slight period of adaptation, and I’ll be watching just as before without the cost….and with fewer easier to to skip commercials as well.
Not just saying……….but thank you.
1 Mbps? Might as well stick to a dial-up.
You’ll be buffering more than watching.
Meant for the above.
It is dial up….dsl…. phone line. Thats the very reason I posted as I am surprised and confused at how excellent the YouTube videos are on my 65 inch HDTV whereas most other web sources shown as HD will not play due to buffering every 7 seconds.
Some movies at shown at 720p in a small screen area which is irritating…but worth the cost. Just got thru watching Ex Machina. Not as good as i was hoping for.
Also…been looking for VR side by side videos to sample as part of my VR explorations and didn’t find them via my computer….just got no compliance messages. On my smart TV….I get the SBS videos……..AND….. I can even get a strong 3-D effect by watching the two pictures thru tubes of rolled up newspaper……Take THAT Gear!
Just downloaded kodi, going to install and see what I can get.
Getting rid of cable is “The Right Thing To Do”.
Cable just keeps getting worse and worse.
I’ve got 36 hours of it, and am quite happy, but I can see that it takes more conscious effort to search and find what I want to watch rather than mindlessly channel surf (which I do using a guide). I think Kobi is going to fix that by providing a channel guide to internet sources I can get.
Right now, for instance, PBS Newshour comes on YouTube “Live” everyday at 3PM. I assume I can find other shows that do the same thing?
I regularly channel pause on “cooking shows” and think: “What is this moron going to do?” but still watch until satisfied. NOW: I have to actually search and click. CONTRA: If I just let it, this could free up some time to work on my other hobbies….. like Virtual Reality? Like cleaning this dump up??????
We all have issues our broken brains refuse to acknowledge.
Well all I know is my premiums for my Primera Blue Cross did not change for a decade . after Obamacare they quadrupled, benefits went down, co-pays and deductibles went way up. so as far as I’m concerned the proof is in the pudding..
I get the feeling that just like on face bag we are getting commentors that do not have insurance now nor have they had insurance in the past
I got rear ended for the fourth time. I blame Obama.
Perkel would blame Elon Musk.
You get these talking points that the costs for you are lower than they would have been, or something else. But the reality is they know the truth, and they knew it when it happened. They planned on having Hillary win and then tell you the only way out is single payer.
I think it was PJ O’Rourke who said, ‘If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it’s free!’
So easy to have you morons drink the Koolaide.
So………how big was Trumps crowd?
more face bag comments that are totally irrelevant.
What the hell does car insurance have anything to do with it..
And if that was true you would be bitching that the lawyers got over 30% of the settlement which would be the average true story
Marc, you expressed doubt over the Russian hacking story. Another angle is that Russia suffers from Trump’s energy policies. They have been funding anti-fracking campaigns in America for years.
From Newsweek:
fracking: ground water and soil contamination, fresh water pollution and utilization, earthquakes, methane releases.
Solar is now cost competitive with fossil fuels: they all need to stay in the ground.
Fell for Russian propaganda.
Don’t feel bad…… those Russians can make propaganda just as good as the Main Stream Media.
Where is the outrage over the ‘Monday Night Massacre’? Donald Trump has fired the acting attorney general. This was the end of Nixon, along with the public hearing his language on tape(Trump checked that box a long time ago). Perkel’s statement is coming true:
Just as she should have been. USA does not have a civil service class, its all based on patronage.
Careful, NFS… you’re starting to sound like me. 😉
Glad you are back. Think I’ll go for a quick rest break…. stick my head in the toilet and flush.
Sweet by comparison, no news re Trump.
Solar cells cannot be made without the petrochemical industry, typical lack of knowledge lack of forethought . If you’re so worried about the ecology maybe you should investigate various mining techniques used to extract things like silicon lithium blah blah blah you will find it is not a pretty process….
Well that didn’t take long…
On Jan 18 I said (http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2017/01/18/48-hours-till-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2685078)
And here we have…
Federal agencies ordered to restrict their communications
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-agencies-ordered-to-restrict-their-communications/2017/01/24/9daa6aa4-e26f-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html
They’re doing things they don’t want you to see. Otherwise, why would they be hiding it? Be afraid, be very afraid.
Wingnut rationalization in 3, 2, 1…
Here’s how the Canadians stifled their scientists.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/02/01/canadian-scientists-were-followed-threatened-and-censored-they-warn-trump-could-do-the-same
Phydeau, they are lowering the carbon footprint of government agencies. Read the work of Mark Berners-Lee(wonder if he’s related), that could weigh the impact of a spam e-mail vs a regular e-mail vs one with attachments. A typical year’s worth of e-mail is equivalent to driving a car for 200 miles.
The French government agency is recommending that companies cut back on e-mail for the same reason. These electronic press releases and social media posts add up.
Why do you hate the environment so much?
Why do you want to remain ignorant so much? Oh I know… it helps you maintain your fantasy world. 🙄
Pardon my French, but
http://rte-france.com/fr/actualite/nouvelle-version-d-eco2mix-et-dispositif-ecowatt-bretagne-et-paca-2016-2017-mieux-informer
http://piworld.com/post/the-carbon-footprint-of-email-is-quite-large/
For a serious answer, none of this involves hiding things from the public. Trump is locking down the employees from acting against him.
What you say might happen, but it’s not likely.
This is a thin-skinned, petulant, immature man-child who can only see two choices: either you’re with him 100% or you’re the enemy. You think he’s going to allow any executive branch employees to say anything that doesn’t 100% support his views? Dream on. 🙄
There’s a difference between having them say things and hiding information. Take a look at the EPA feed which went dark even before this order came down. How much of that was things that if they hadn’t posted them it meant they were hiding something?
http://sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/firestorm-over-supposed-gag-order-agricultural-scientists-was-self-inflicted-wound
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/some-agencies-told-to-halt-communications-as-trump-administration-moves-in.html
Normal behavior by an incoming administration.
Hmm, silence. What do you think bobbo? Are the wingnuts going with denial on this one? I can picture them with their stubby little fingers in their ears and their eyes squinted closed…
LA LA LA I CAN’T HEAR YOU!
😀 🙄
Nah. Its more like we don’t give a crap about what the crybaby left thinks anymore. You got your collective asses handed to you and the more you pout, cry, and scream racist…….the harder we laugh.
Have fun for the next 8 years.
Thanks for the clueless, self-destructive wingnut perspective, Dave. It doesn’t bother you at all that Trump’s trying to hide everything his government is going to do? You’re good with that?
Will you be laughing when your town gets polluted, when your 401K is wiped out by another Republican-precipitated stock market crash, when your medical insurance is canceled, when the cable company screws you over and there’s nothing you can do? Laugh away, funny boy. F’in clueless wingnuts. 🙄 🙄 🙄
My town already got polluted young lady, Flint MI. And I couldn’t afford my medical insurance, so I’ve been without it for 2 years, asshat.
Or is that a pussy hat.
Not addressing your post directly, just pointing out the hypocrisy and irony of your post.
************* ejaculated Phydeau *****************
…It doesn’t bother you at all that Trump’s trying to hide everything his government is going to do? ….
*************************************************
Your lord and god Ovomit promised the most transparent presidency ever but actually delivered the least transparent presidency ever. Now you complain about the next D/R president carrying on his legacy? Since you aren’t stupid, you must be some sort of sick lying pathetic sleazebag. 😓
“Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen house.”
George Orwell
PM, you realize your content-free right-wing talking points you’re regurgitating is just so much mental masturbation, right?
WORST PRESIDENT EVER KENYA BIRTH CERTIFICATE BENGHAZI!!!
Whatever floats your boat, pal. 🙄
And Dave… despite your polluted water, you’re supporting the guys who want to make the world *more* polluted? To quote your favorite orange-tinted wannabe dictator: Sad!
the deplorables are rumbling. Its going to be a real goat-f*ck when they turn their fury to Trump. thats a thing loose cannons do.
Yeah—have your towns water poisoned and lose your medical coverage and then call the people trying to fix it: “Cry Babies.”
Some people……………….((I suspect a rogue AI program running free on the Internets as “real people” could not be so stupid.))
I have to admit on your first posting of this I thought you were overly pessimistic and jumping the gun. I thought the curtailment of information would come from the “new” department heads deciding to do this on their own more or less to coverup their lack of regulatory enforcement aka: free market.
I guess HL Mencken was right.
So………I’ll be “more negative” than is my natural desire: I don’t think The Trumpsters will deny what they are doing==>they’ll do the opposite and claim their actions are beneficial. Like co2 pollution is “good for plants” and the increased warming if any if better for more people. They’ll say lack of information/regulation will help the market expand…and as everything they do and don’t do: will bring “more jobs” to the USA.
Its going to get pretty ugly before the base pulls their head out of Pedro’s ass…. what with him greasing the skids 24/7.
Probably a good thing.
I don’t like bureaucrats writing their talking points as fact.
Rather than discuss climate change, I will use a different example … the Big Bang.
NASA web pages treat the Big Bang as fact, but in the last 5 years, the scientific news on the Big Bang has been bad, badder and worse — and in recent times some scientists are digging up ideas like “variable speed of light” (ideas that at least in the past have been discredited, but doesn’t mean it couldn’t be true).
I believe humans are ignorant, so humans love social media and group think and “fitting in”. It’s what non-thinkers do to get a sense of security.
And ignorant humans love to repeat. Because its their only way to participate.
Climate change and the environment are important issues of the day, government employees adding to the “monkey chatter” accomplishes nothing.
They should be focusing on their jobs, not goofing around on social media. They don’t let people in private sector do that either.
Social media is to deep thought what McDonalds is to fine dining.
Note: I could see electric cars defeating conventional cars just by simpler maintenance and less moving parts.
If Elon Musks gets the battery tech right.
I’m not an Elon Musk fan, per se, but I sure like what he has done with the thinking on electric cars.
So you’re in favor of governmental agencies forbidden to share what they’re working on to the taxpayers that fund them? You’re OK with Trump stifling all governmental info that doesn’t support his agenda?
You’re no better than the clueless, self-destructive wingnuts. But thanks for the strained rationalization. 🙄
Federal government agencies produce data and statistics which are then published.
The rank and file paper-shufflers don’t need to be playing around on social media.
I’m pretty sure if Flint, Michigan’s water sucks, that’ll be in the monthly reports.
What the government agencies disseminate is not “playing around on social media”, it’s valuable information about how the country is doing. Why do you and NFS want to remain ignorant?
And if Trump has his way, we won’t know if the water in Flint or anyplace else sucks, because he’ll suppress any data that doesn’t show America is Getting Great Again. 🙄
Yes, and he’ll die his hair black and grow a little Hitler mustache.
Or do you think he’ll opt for the Darth Vader helmet instead?
Your concession is gracefully accepted. Better luck next time. 🙂
Ha, ha….HM: I know you are just trying to make me laugh.
You got the science wrong and the criticism wrong too.
You’ve cut the cord: lots of good science debates and presentations on Youtube. Linda Randall, Lawrence Krause, Robin (?) Cox, Machio Kiko (sp)….all at a level more advanced than Bill Nye who does a good intro level job.
I’ll give you I don’t understand how they can figure out “inflation” allowing for light to travel faster than it should….has to do with General Relativity I think in that space itself is expanding …but I thought light’s speed was independent of relative motion? Maybe thats only for trains?
I love that I don’t understand it. Gives me more time to waste on other issues.
The crap for the general public on astronomy is utter trash.
It’s like 99% turds, 1% physics.
I personally wouldn’t spend 5 seconds watching a YouTube video on any of the mathematical sciences.
If average Joe Blow likes a video on science, it means it was dumbed down to NOT contain any science.
Count me in. I try not to be too tired so I can pay attention.
Krause has a wicked sense of humor, very liberal. Randall is quite demanding that science is making progress….hates the word “mystery” and so forth.
Sad …. to be bored with the Universe?
The Big Bang is a creationist myth invented by a Catholic priest as the scientific version of creationism.
Back in the 1960s, it looked like they were on to something when they discovered what appeared to be uniform cosmic microwave background radiation.
In the last 50 years they’ve added countless “changes” to try to adapt it to new information we have discovered, particularly with space telescopes and experiments.
And in recent times, it’s starting to look like a patchwork quilt of bullshit stitched together as poorly as Frankenstein.
None of the things that could substantially lend credibility to it in the last 5 years have turned out “right”, and 3 or 4 new twists make it look highly improbable.
And space telescopes find new observations regularly that don’t fit with the Big Bang whatsoever.
But the real problem is that even though the Big Bang looks increasingly dodgy, no one has any idea what you replace it with.
So you simply don’t see Big Bang news any more, because human tendency is to want to fill that void with something … but no one has any decent ideas.
thanks HM: you are motivating me to check into this. “I would have said” for instance that the Background Cosmic Radiation was one of the key pieces of evidence in support of the Big Bang….. and that more and more the BB is confirmed.
You might be confusing points of concern or seeming inconsistencies as going to the heart of the theory rather than being an artifact of how much those physicists are finding out….. most recently gravity waves and such?
I saw Lisa Randall talk about BB and Dinosaurs about a week ago. Seems to me she mentioned what was grabbing her interest about……and I just can’t recall it. If she poo poo’d the BB, she didn’t emphasize it.
I’m even going to Google (Big Bang Uncertain) and see if there is a shred of anything to what you say……….. right now …………I doubt it.
Should we be afraid of this? We know what happens when Democrats adopt this logo:
https://static.pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/san_francisco_sanctuary_city_cable_car_article_banner_5-1-16-1.jpg
And more information on how Trump could fudge economic data…
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/02/02/should_we_worry_about_trump_fudging_jobs_data.html
https://briankoberlein.com/2015/02/10/beginning/
Hard to google and avoid the tv Show…evidently Penny is going to get pregnant?
I think its fair to say: I’m right, and HM is wrong. Not surprising.
You don’t know enough about physics or astronomy to even be wrong. 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulse%E2%80%93Taylor_binary
In fact, I suspect if you could string together some of the words in that video you watched twice without mixing up the words.
And that video you watched is no doubt the elementary school “Dora The Explorer” version of astronomy.
What is your link supposed to support? Certainly NOT that the BB is becoming disfavored.
Anything in your background/history/imagination making you so hostile to the field of physics????==or is it just science denial in general?
Humor for the day:
Mitch McConnell, 2016:
Mitch McConnell, 2017:
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Politicians are a different breed, but it takes a special kind of soulless one to say these two things.
Personally, I think that since Trump is now a lame duck since being elected, he shouldn’t be allowed to pick a new Supreme Court justice. It should wait until the next administration.
🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄
But seriously, f*** them. We lived with 8 justices for almost a year, and Republicans were clamoring to assure us that it’s no big deal. So it won’t be a big deal to go with 8, or 7 if another one dies, for another 4 years.
Where is … not one scandal during my administration …?
Give me a list of the Obama administration members convicted of crimes (like the many in the Dubya and Reagan administrations) or STFU, you mindless wingnut.
Democrats convict their own? You are a special retard.
Still have your pussy hat on?
Your concession of defeat is gracefully accepted. Better luck next time. 😉
Obamas Top Lies according to the Washington Post: An incomplete list IMHO.
1. More young black men languish in prison than attend colleges and universities across America”
2. “We signed into law the biggest middle-class tax cut in history”
3. “90 percent of the budget deficit is due to George W. Bush’s policies”
4. “If you like your health-care plan, you can keep it”
5. “The Capitol Hill janitors just got a pay cut”
6. “I didn’t call the Islamic State a ‘JV’ team”
7. “Republicans have filibustered 500 pieces of legislation”
8. “The Keystone pipeline is for oil that bypasses the United States”
9. “We have fired a whole bunch of people who are in charge of these [VA] facilities”
Why are you such a shill?
https://washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/19/obamas-biggest-whoppers/?utm_term=.8af706cf3cd6
Politicians telling fibs and lies pales in comparison to the people in the Dubya and Reagan administrations who were convicted of crimes. Why are you such a mindless wingnut shill?
The link is a worthwhile read. Makes me think that “all politicians lie” and I look more closely at the list.
……………… not much there. Most of them revealing more about the “general attitude” of Obama rather than any ACTION taken that would help or hurt anyone.
EG: more black men in jail. I accept that is not true…. but I think it fairly represents a more general idea that Obama thought too many black men or even people were in jail. No negative impact on anyone though…… so what is the real point?
IMPACTFUL ACTIONS: invading countries, removing benefits, shifting tax burdens etc: aren’t on the list.
So, again: all politicians lie. Still: doesn’t make them all the same or in this case: Trump is “ok” because Obama lied?
…………………………………… pull my finger.
Blacks in college is not a lie. I’ve heard it before, and Obama believed it was true. It likely is true by some metrics.
Is the USA in a Civil Cold War?
WTF, even the Dark Lord Dick Cheney thinks Trump’s Muslim ban is bad:
http://time.com/4139998/dick-cheney-trump-muslims/
Never thought I’d see the day I agree with the Dick. 🙄
Cheney.
………………… he wants the oil.
Oh, I suspect you agree with Dick more than you are letting on.
Since Putin is in the news, and so is the Super Bowl, here’s an old story that mentions both! Putin stealing Robert Kraft’s New England Patriots Super Bowl ring in 2005… weird story!
http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2017/02/02/nfl-super-bowl-51-new-england-patriots-atlanta-falcons-robert-kraft-vladimir-putin-super-bowl-ring
Brave peaceful protestors beat man unconscious in the street, then continue to beat him while he lay motionless.
http://college.usatoday.com/2016/07/25/the-whole-leslie-jones-twitter-feud-explained/
I didn’t see anything from Milos even mildly offensive. He didn’t like the movie. Seems like fair comment to me. does show what our Eds are faced with when considering how to control comments/subjects/actual attacks?
I can also feel sympathy for Leslie Jones. All public figures take abuse and where and what kind you are capable of absorbing is individual.
On balance: I think Milo should be on Twitter, and Leslie should choose to stay off. About the Goons that Milo encouraged to be racist and overly aggressive….. yeah, they should be reviewed, warned….. etc.
Twitter is a useless waste of valuable time, much like this blog.
I know, guilty as well.
Well….I got sidetracked…I think. I tried to google the cause of the protest and first thing was that Milo had been banned from Twitter for attacking Leslie Jones. Her tweets were shown but not his…so I went looking.
What the crowd in Berkeley hopefully was more upset about was Milo had previously been temporarily banned from Twitter for making White Power type racists statements together with his recent College scholorship fund for Whites only and then Banned from Twitter again. But …. like too many disputes, its dissolves into who is worse…..and on that…. physical violence is worse than tweeting, even though the latter can motivate the former. Motivate: not cause.
I dunno. colleges don’t seen to be the bright progressive places they were when I was a kiddie. Everything corrupted over time.
Looks like Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch founded a “Fascism Forever” group while he was in high school, and continued it in college.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4182852/amp/Trump-s-SCOTUS-pick-founded-club-called-Fascism-Forever.html
Now I can hear the wingnuts cranking up the rationalization machine, so here’s a question for you: What if Merrick Garland, Obama’s SC nominee, had formed a “Communism Forever” group in high school, and continued it in college?
That’s right, shameless wingnuts that you are, you would have screeched and clamored that it immediately disqualified him for the position. But Gorsuch? No problem! Y’all likes you a little fascism anyway, admit it. 😉
Being an idiot is what college is FOR!!!!
What his TRACK RECORD as a judge is available for all to review and should be the only criteria.
Call me too liberal. To that end….if the RightWing is not complaining about him……..I say the Dumbo’s should reject him.
Yes, because the Democrats mean it. Here Gorsuch is not supporting fascism, but referring to the liberals as fascists. Anyone with knowledge of history would realize that this is the case.
That’s right!
People who accuse others of being fascist are fascist themselves.
People who accuse others of being racist are racist themselves.
People who accuse others of being sexist are sexist themselves.
Et cetera…
I think you learned that in elementary school, NFS: I’m rubber you’re glue, your words bounce off me and stick to you. Might want to consider more adult philosophies to guide you, hmm? 😉
🙄 🙄 🙄
There’s more material in that yearbook. Why haven’t you posted it yet?
Do you mean his yearbook quote from Henry Kissinger:
Or was there something else?
NFS, you never disappoint me in your rationalizations. Never stop being you. 😉
Sure, maybe it’s just a dumb joke. But if Garland had created “Communism Forever” you and all the other wingnuts would have called it reason enough to disqualify him. You’re that tedious and predictable. 🙂
Big whoop, he was a snotty little entitled rich boy at a fancy prep school. I’m sure he’s totally different now. 🙄 🙄 🙄
“MAYBE” it’s just a joke? Do you really think he formed a club named Fascism Forever? Read the rest of his yearbook entry.
The current state of the Democratic Party:
1) Phydeau = softie
2) Bobbo = conservative
Phydeau actually reasonably argues his point of view with rhetoric and discussion.
Bobbo argues for things like freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
The Republican are little better. Raise your hand if you think Paul Ryan wouldn’t eliminate Medicare if he could and if you think the average Republican doesn’t support outsourcing, H1B1 visa job theft, shipping jobs to Mexico.
Both Democrats and Republicans love mega-corps.
The only difference is that Republicans always loved mega-corps, and that the current Democratic love of mega-corps has heavily damaged their support outside the coastal areas.
There’s a bunch of Republican ‘pundits’ biting their tongue about how bad the Carrier deal is and that it would be more efficient to ship the jobs out.
I actually agree with you that the D’s suck up to the mega-corps. I think that’s very practical: it takes millions if not billions to run for office, and that’s where the money is.
What’s been lost in the shuffle is campaign finance reform. You dance with who brung ya, as they say in Texas. As long as candidates need millions to run, they will listen to what the mega-corps say more than what the people say.
Now that R’s are in power, we’ll see even more favorable laws for mega-corps. And the average wingnut is the one getting screwed. :/
So how about campaign finance reform that changes the maximum donation from $2700 to $270000000? Then you only need a handful of wealthy people who agree with you to bankroll your campaign, and don’t have to go begging for all these rich donors bundling $5000 checks at fundraisers for $300k at a time. It worked for Eugene McCarthy who knocked LBJ out of the race, and the establishment responded by passing campaign finance reform, Nixon cackling all the way.
HM–nice review. Independent of accuracy is the recognition of differences. Its key to thinking better each and every day.
I quibble.
I am every bit as soft as Phydeaux. I am also however what I catchphrase as: pragmatic. Doesn’t matter what you think, like, wish for….. IF IT DOESN’T WORK.
The telling fork in the road is when you apply the rationality. It comes AFTER identifying one’s VALUES.
I value the many over the few. IE==the working and middle classes, the 99% over the International Corporations/1% =======>then I apply pragmatism. Take minimum wage. Favoring the Many over the Few, it should be as high as possible, just before it starts to erode the job base.
I have no jealousy or animosity towards the AlreadyTooRich. Societies are better off, stronger, more capable of self defense etc when PRODUCTIVITY is not eroded by too much wealth being hoarded at the top.
Its all pragmatism…… and telling shit from shinola.
>it should be as high as possible, just before it starts to erode the job base
That would be $0, as the New York Times editorialized in 1990.
Well dang, even a blind hog can find an acorn once in a while. Trump actually did something right: Criticized the Israeli government, sort of, for all the illegal settlements in Palestinian territory (universally condemned by pretty much all nations except for the USA).
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/02/02/trump_warns_against_new_israeli_settlements_as_netanyahu_plots_expansion.html
Maybe so………but what strikes me is that America became a Nation because we did, and are still doing this, to our own “Here before Us” native peoples.
Why deny Israel the same druthers?
……………………… same for Russia.
REALPOLITIK: one of the nastiest subjects one can deal with…………… or not.
Genocide of the original inhabitants isn’t so cool any more… we in the US were lucky, we did ours back when God ordained that it was right. Looks like God changed his mind. 🙄
It’s bitterly ironic that the Israelis need a Final Solution to their Palestinian Question. 🙁
I see you are the rare person that can deal with realpolitik WHILE demonstrating humor at the same time.
Thats quite a trick.
………………………………… kudos.
Palestinian territory is Jordan. No one complained when Jordan and Egypt conquered “Palestine” in the 1940s. Historically “Palestine” was what Romans used to refer to Israel.
Get ready to bend over… Republicans are going to repeal Dodd-Frank.
http://nypost.com/2017/02/03/trump-taking-steps-to-roll-back-dodd-frank-financial-regulations/
Relax, financial professionals. Under Trump, you will still be able to put your own profits before your clients’ best interests. Making America Great Again! 🙄
Get ready to be screwed by your mortgage company, your credit card company, and your student loan holder, and any other big company you might do business with.
Yeap…… after decades, I moved from Wells Fargo that is many times more geographically convenient, to a Credit Union.
I hope with the coming crash that Wall Street is sent to jail and our credit infranstructure is rebuilt by funding local small banks and credit unions.
Won’t happen. Just saying.
More regulation of banks makes this less likely, as regulations hit small businesses more than big businesses, when you take into account the revenues available.
Are you sure you actually moved away from Wells Fargo?
Dodd Frank created a separate agency that does not answer to anyone, whose leadership does not answer to the President, and whose funding does not come from Congress, that can then issue whatever rules it likes with the power to close banks, and they don’t even tell people what the rules are. It should be repealed.
Tim Kaine called for leftists to take to the streets. A few days later Berkeley’s campus is on fire. Idiots burn down there own college.
Wonderful. Thank the Gods that moron wasn’t elected.
The rioters aren’t college students but outside agitators called ‘black bloc’
New report says that of 21 people identified all but two WERE from Berkeley, with many faculty involved as well.
Watch them tear there hair out when Trump pulls their funding.
cite, please
Credit unions are great, I use one too.
Get ready for another recession…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/03/trump-to-order-rollback-friday-of-regulations-aimed-at-finance-industry-top-aide-says/
Sure, let’s allow big banks to buy and sell and make risky investments with our money, without supervision. What could go wrong? Oh, another recession like the one in 2008. Right.
Another great quote:
Packed with Wall Street veterans. How’s that feel, wingnuts? Packed with Wall Street veterans. How’s that swampy-drainy thingy working out for ya? Not so good, it seems.
Feeling that buyer’s remorse yet, wingnuts? You will. You will.
You ask how’s that swampy drainy while linking to an article that describes draining the swamp.
Dumping lots of regulations is part of the plan. Last minute regulations are especially easy to do. Not sure how Dodd Frank comes into it since it was passed a long time ago. How old are the rules being repealed?
Anything within six months can be done with majority vote that cannot be repealed.
Just saw this… so cute, NFS! You think a government “packed with Wall Street veterans” is going to clean up Wall Street.
LOL
Stupid, naive, conscious Wall Street shill? Only god knows.
Dodd-Frank was a total failure. It needs to go. Repeal and replace failed policy. Read all about it, wingnut.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/after-five-years-dodd-frank-is-a-failure-1437342607
Well knock me over with a feather… the WSJ, published of, by, and for the Wall Street elites, thinks that regulating Wall Street is wrong. Whoda thunk???
Do you research anything before spewing your bullshit?
The Dodd-Frank Act, signed into law in 2010, was sold to the American people as the solution to our economic woes and the financial crisis that left so many Americans financially insecure. The 2,300 page bill was codified based on the premise that it would promote financial stablity, end too big to fail, and lift our nation’s economy.
Nearly six years since its enactment, we should look around and ask ourselves if any of Dodd-Frank’s promises have come to fruition. Is our economy more stable? Are taxpayers no longer on the hook for bailouts? And are Americans better off today than they were six years ago? The answer is a resolute no.
http://cnbc.com/2016/06/23/dodd-frank-has-failed-heres-why-our-plan-is-better-gop-rep-commentary.html
Really? Really? Republicans, completely owned by the rich in America (as opposed to the Democrats, only mostly owned) have a plan to save average Americans from the predations of the rich?
You’re a special kind of stupid, aren’t you? 😀
Or maybe just a mindless Republican shill?
Republicans like Too Big To Fail. They can get more government welfare that way. If they fail, they don’t pay the price for their own mistakes, you and I do with government bailouts.
I continually marvel at how Republicans get non-rich people to vote against their own interests… SMH
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Machete? 😉
Hey bobbo, I’m trying your way of annotating your name… test…
LOL it worked! Woohoo! 😀
Yeah…I started that a few years ago when people were hijacking other peoples names causing a lot of confusion.
some of the fake names were quite clever but event he good ones were confusing as you didn’t know which of the all stars was responding.
So….I figure with the constant Lead In…one can tailor the Name with add on’s and get the best of both worlds. For about a year, I changed it with every post I made……. it takes effort. does help to focus the intent of the posting to have a 10 word summary as part of the name.
Have Fun.
……..and “you” are not packed with Wall Street veterans.
I suggest: Phydeau, noting Trump is packing his cabinet with Wall Street Criminals….. or whatever is floating your boat.
Yea, only Phydeau could mess that up.
and then cheer about it.
Phydeau, I didn’t think it was possible for someone to make bobbo look competent. Well done sir!
You’re right and I was wrong, NFS… gotta throw you a bone once in a while. 😉
A new prediction:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-to-inherit-more-than-100-court-vacancies-plans-to-reshape-judiciary/2016/12/25/d190dd18-c928-11e6-85b5-76616a33048d_story.html
This is an article about Trump appointing new judges. Down at the bottom we read…
The Republicans in the Senate will ignore this tradition. They will ignore the objections of Democratic senators and appoint whatever judges in their states that Trump wants, regardless of any Democratic objections.
We’re going to hear the word “unprecedented” a lot for as long as Trump is president. 🙄
You didn’t answer the question. Just deflection and passive aggressiveness.
Dang, I’m slipping… I always try to be actively aggressive! 😛
But seriously, almost everyone predicted Clinton would win, so what’s your point?
Great handle there too, but I think it would look better framed with asterisks:
*kerpow*
Comment #200.
Start a new discussion. PLEASE.
I’m with you EA, but there seems to be nothing that can bring outraged wingnut traffic here. All the major stupid stuff is being done by Trump and the Republicans in Congress. MacCullough has to find some obscure NYU professor to stir up the wingnuts, while ignoring all the f-ups of Trump and congressional Republicans. That won’t work forever.