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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2019 16:44:43 GMT
linkHere is how trump answered a question that should have been a simple “no”. From his interview with Jeanine Pirro last night. “PIRRO: OK. And it’s interesting, that’s what I heard yesterday from some of the border patrol agents. Now, I want to move on to another subject. “The New York Times” reported that the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation the day after you fired James Comey in May of ’17. And the investigation was whether you were actively working for Russia or unwittingly. So, I’m going to ask you, are you now or have you ever worked for Russia, Mr. President?“ TRUMP: I think it’s the most insulting thing I’ve ever been asked. I think it’s the most insulting article I’ve ever had written. And if you read the article, you’d see that they found absolutely nothing. But the headline of that article, it’s called “The failing New York Times” for a reason, they’ve gotten me wrong for three years. They’ve actually gotten me wrong for many years before that. But you rook at what’s going on, you know, I fired James Comey. I call him Lying James Comey because he was a terrible liar, and he did a terrible job as the FBI director. Look at what happened with the Hillary Clinton and the e-mails and the Hillary Clinton investigation, one of the biggest screw-ups that anybody’s ever seen as an investigation. And what happened after I fired him? Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, his lover, Lisa Page, they did it. And, you know, they’re all gone. Most of those people, many, many people from the top ranks of the FBI, they’ve all been fired or they had to leave are. And they’re all gone. This is what they were talking about. And, obviously, nothing was found. And I can tell you this, if you ask the folks in Russia, I’ve been tougher on Russia than anybody else, any other — probably any other president period, but certainly the last three or four presidents, modern day presidents. Nobody’s been as tough as I have from any standpoint, including the fact that we’ve done oil like we’ve never done it, we’re setting records in country with oil and exporting oil and many other things. So, which is, obviously, not great for them, because that’s what they — that’s where they get their money for the most part. But many other things. So I think it was a great insult. And “The New York Times” is a disaster as a paper. It’s a very horrible thing they said, and they’ve gone so far that people that weren’t necessarily believers are now big believers, because they said that was a step too far. They really are a disaster of a newspaper.“ ”PIRRO: Well, you know, when you think about it, the people that were involved in that, all of the people have since been fired or gone, whether — TRUMP: Right. PIRRO: — it’s Strzok, page, McCabe. And also the Steele dossier. But “The Washington Times” — “The Washington Post,” I should say, is following up reporting that you went to unusual lengths to keep your conversations with President Putin under wraps. Why not release the conversation that you had with President Putin in Helsinki, along with some other stuff that might involve FISA, Bruce Ohr and the whole lot of them? TRUMP: Well, Jeanine, I would, I don’t with care. I mean, I had a conversation like every president does. You sit with the president of various countries. I do it with all countries. We had a great conversation. We were talking about Israel and securing Israel and lots of other things. And it was a great conversation. I’m not keeping anything under wraps, I couldn’t care less. I mean, it’s so ridiculous. These people make it up. “Washington Post”, that’s basically the lobbyist for Amazon. You know, he uses that — Bezos has got bigger problems than anybody right now. But Bezos uses that as his lobbyist, OK, as far as I’m concerned. And “The Washington Post” is almost as bad or probably as bad as “The New York Times”. Think of it, I have a one-on-one meeting with Putin like I do with every other leader. I have many one-on-one — nobody ever says anything about it. But with Putin they say, oh, what did they talk about? We talked about very positive things because — look, we are beating everybody. Our economy is the strongest in the world right now, Jeanine. Nobody even close. China’s down 38 president. Russia’s not doing well, its economy. Most countries are not doing well. We’re doing phenomenally. Even though we’re paying interest rates because we’re normalizing. You know, Obama had zero interest. Anybody can do that. And our economy’s now better than ever. We’re almost at our high with the stock market again. So, it’s really — can you imagine where they say that I met with Putin, I met with every leader just about individually. I meet with Modi, I meet with — in Japan, I meet with Abe. I meet with all of them, but nobody says anything. But I meet with Putin, and they make a big deal. Anybody could have listened to that meeting, that meeting is up for grabs. You know, the whole Russia thing, it’s a hoax. It’s a terrible hoax. You know it probably better than — you, Gregg Jarrett, so — Dan Bongino. People that look at it, it’s a total hoax. Everybody knows it. And it’s really a shame because it takes time, and it takes effort. And everybody knows there was no collusion whatsoever. They have found no collusion, and they won’t find collusion because I had nothing to do — I was a better candidate than Hillary Clinton. She was a terrible candidate. And the fact is, I was obviously a good candidate. I won every debate. I won everything I did, and I won, and I won easily — 306-223, I believe. And that’s a big difference in the college, in the Electoral College. (CROSSTALK) TRUMP: So that’s — but it’s really, it’s really a shame, Jeanine. It really is a shame. Such a waste of time. PIRRO: It is a shame. It is a waste of time, it’s a waste of energy, and, you know, some people have to say to themselves, how can you deal with all of this? This “New York Times” article, to be absolutely truthful with you, just seems to be another rehash of the same players and the same arguments, and the same dossier, you know, just to keep it going, and they’ll keep it going as long as they can. What keeps you going? I mean, you’ve got such fight in you, it is unbelievable. TRUMP: Well, I guess I have good genes — (LAUGHTER) TRUMP: — because, you know, somebody said the other day no president should have to go — PIRRO: That’s right. TRUMP: — through what you’re going through, Mr. President. Because I’m going through all of this nonsense, it’s all nonsense, but I have to be careful because these are dirty players. They’re no good. And you’ve got the Mueller investigation, you’ve got all this nonsense. There’s no collusion, no nothing. And, you know, they say this should never happen again. Never again should this happen. And that’s the story. But despite that, we’ve done more than any other administration by far in the first two years. We’ve had tremendous success.”
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2019 16:59:53 GMT
Doesn't he have a Bill on his desk awaiting his signature that was passed by both the House & Senate?? IIRC, he said he would sign it but then changed his mind about it because of the heckling from the Fox News "advisers" but I don't remember if it was actually sent to him for signing. Right now, the House has passed bills containing info in that the Senate ALREADY passed a couple weeks ago, but Yertl the Turtle McConnell is hiding in his shell somewhere, and has said he will NOT bring any of them up in the Senate without ASSURANCE that Trump will sign them. Problem is, he changes his mind 5 times before breakfast, depending on what comments or videos he's seen when he's checking the latest news on his phone while sitting on the can. Yertl the Turtle!!!! Great, except that my kids loved that book way back when. I see the physical similarity tho! Fred: scary to read the transcript of Pirro/45. Wow!! Wondering if he's convinced himself of everything he told her or is he covering up reality?? In either case, he should go, NOW!! This is worse than drunk Nixon talking to portraits in the White House!
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Post by lucyg on Jan 13, 2019 17:11:19 GMT
My guess is that he's counting time since his last golf trip, which was about a month and a half ago. This website is fun. 😊https://trumpgolfcount.com/ That’s what I was thinking, too. He meant he hasn’t gotten out to go somewhere fun. That poor thing.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2019 18:05:05 GMT
linkNPR... ”Trump Says He's 'Not Keeping Anything Under Wraps,' About Meetings With Putin” Here is the problem with a president who lies as much as trump does. Not only lies but people know as soon as he says something he is lying. And even when called on it, he keeps repeating the lie. How can you believe this or anything else he says?
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Post by sassyangel on Jan 13, 2019 18:14:13 GMT
No. That's not how it is at all. Yes, insurance companies are often unethical. I know this personally. However in this case, regarding the implementation of the ACA, this isn't about insurance companies being unethical. I work for one, and I have since before the ACA came in. The problem was Obama shouldn't have said if you like your plan you will be able to keep it. Because the implementation of the ACA made that impossible. The plans they had were not compliant with the new ACA rules that stated that certain things MUST by federal law be covered. They are referred to as the 10 essential health benefits. And they must all be covered under the ACA. The problem was that these things were NOT covered under their current plans, thus making them uncompliant in the new marketplace, and unable to be sold at all. They'd be breaking the law if they sold them. Existing plans were grandfathered in as long as the carriers continued to offer that plan without making any changes to the terms and conditions. From ehealth just when the ACA was getting ready to go live.. “Changes Required by the Affordable Care Act Immediately March 23, 2010:Grandfathered health plans: Anyone who had an individually purchased health insurance plan in place had a health insurance plan with “grandfathered status,” which meant that, by-in-large, the plan could stay the same as long as their insurer continued to offer that plan. March 23, 2010:Non-grandfathered health plans: Anyone who bought a health insurance plan after March 23, 2010 would eventually have to enroll in a new plan that met all of the new standards of the Affordable Care Act. The original deadline for this transition was January 1, 2014 or on a plan’s renewal date within the 2014 plan year. On April 7, 2010: eHealth publishes a list of FAQs and tips for consumers and small business owners who buy their own health insurance.” Should President Obama have added that little caveat when he said if you like your plan you can keep it? Probably. But I wonder if people would have heard it once they heard him say if you like your plan you can keep it? And I wonder if the Obama Administration knew or suspected the companies would quit offering the existing plans so they could push people on to the ACA benefit requirement policies that generate higher premiums as fast as they did? We will never know for sure. The only plans currently that can be grandfathered in, are self-insured employer group plans. Fully-insured plans and individual (marketplace) are all subject to ACA. I'm pretty sure you couldn't get the subsidy on a grandfathered plan, it has to be an ACA compliant plan to be able to get the subsidy for them. My job is constructing insurance plans for employers each day, each and every benefit on them I am responsible for constructing and adding. I am very much in favour of the ACA. I actually think it didn't go far enough, although I understand why. I'd be quite happy for my company to dissolve if it was part of a coverage for all initiative. I am a rank and file employee, though - I dont know everything. I am definitely not privy to the decisions made at the highest level of my company, so I dont know if there was some kind of conspiracy you're suggesting. I can't see how with all the regulation we have to go through to even sell a plan in each state, but that is based on my understanding. But even I cringed when Obama said that - knowing what I knew then about the ACA that that wouldn't be true for a lot of members by virtue of what needed to be covered, and that it might come back to bite him. I do know how regulated insurance plans are at not only a federal, but even more so at a state level. I do not think he deliberately mislead people, or anything like that - just that he wasn't aware how complex the insurance market at a federal/state level is. I know I had no clue before I started working here. Insurance companies do not have a free for all to do whatever they like, hell there are some products that can't be sold at all in some states because the state insurance commission deems them too punitive to their residents. Insurance companies do a lot a things that sometimes make me feel terrible I work for one. Like when they deny payment of claims, for ridiculously silly reasons. But they're not always to blame for everything, either.
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Post by hop2 on Jan 13, 2019 18:56:17 GMT
THAT is the truth. That will get a more secure border than an un watched wall. Personnel & technology will make the difference.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2019 19:33:03 GMT
Existing plans were grandfathered in as long as the carriers continued to offer that plan without making any changes to the terms and conditions. From ehealth just when the ACA was getting ready to go live.. “Changes Required by the Affordable Care Act Immediately March 23, 2010:Grandfathered health plans: Anyone who had an individually purchased health insurance plan in place had a health insurance plan with “grandfathered status,” which meant that, by-in-large, the plan could stay the same as long as their insurer continued to offer that plan. March 23, 2010:Non-grandfathered health plans: Anyone who bought a health insurance plan after March 23, 2010 would eventually have to enroll in a new plan that met all of the new standards of the Affordable Care Act. The original deadline for this transition was January 1, 2014 or on a plan’s renewal date within the 2014 plan year. The only plans currently that can be grandfathered in, are self-insured employer group plans. Fully-insured plans and individual (marketplace) are all subject to ACA. I'm pretty sure you couldn't get the subsidy on a grandfathered plan, it has to be an ACA compliant plan to be able to get the subsidy for them. My job is constructing insurance plans for employers each day, each and every benefit on them I am responsible for constructing and adding. I am very much in favour of the ACA. I actually think it didn't go far enough, although I understand why. I'd be quite happy for my company to dissolve if it was part of a coverage for all initiative. I am a rank and file employee, though - I dont know everything. I am definitely not privy to the decisions made at the highest level of my company, so I dont know if there was some kind of conspiracy you're suggesting. I can't see how with all the regulation we have to go through to even sell a plan in each state, but that is based on my understanding. But even I cringed when Obama said that - knowing what I knew then about the ACA that that wouldn't be true for a lot of members by virtue of what needed to be covered, and that it might come back to bite him. I do know how regulated insurance plans are at not only a federal, but even more so at a state level. I do not think he deliberately mislead people, or anything like that - just that he wasn't aware how complex the insurance market at a federal/state level is. I know I had no clue before I started working here. Insurance companies do not have a free for all to do whatever they like, hell there are some products that can't be sold at all in some states because the state insurance commission deems them too punitive to their residents. Insurance companies do a lot a things that sometimes make me feel terrible I work for one. Like when they deny payment of claims, for ridiculously silly reasons. But they're not always to blame for everything, either. I worked in insurance for over 40 years on both the company and broker side. I started out as a rater before computers did the rate computation. I worked as an underwriter and as a commercial insurance broker. My last employer before I retired was a broker that happened to write benefits insurance. The benefits dept. was also responsible for putting together the benefit packet for the employees of the firm. For the last healthcare premium increase the firm had before I retired, the firm had the head of the benefits department come to our quarterly ESOP meeting and tell us why. This was just before the ACA took effect. The reason was the firm had a baby boom and the cost of all those babies being born in a during a specific time period resulted in an increase. But during the meeting someone asked the guy was any of the increase due to the ACA, the guy said while the insurance companies were adding a % to the premiums in anticipation of the ACA taking effect it wasn’t the reason for the increase we got. I also had an interesting conversation with an underwriter once on why her company was increasing the premiums for a specific class of business. Their analysts had said there was a high potential for heavy losses for that particular class of business. Not that were already were, but there would be. So in anticipation of that, they were raising the rates. I moved the account to another carrier. The idea the insurance companies wouldn’t move to push people off the cheaper plans on to the more expensive plans is kind of naive. As it was, they underestimated the number of sick people who would buy insurance and the number of healthy ones who would rather pay the fine then buy insurance. And because of that , some carriers got hammered in the individual markets. And increase in premiums spread to some of the employer based plans to help offset the losses they getting from the individual policies. And because of the high losses some carriers got in a specific markets, they pulled out of that specific market. Which added to the mess of the individual policy market. And the sad thing about all of this, just before the 2016 election, I read that the individual markets were stabilizing, meaning the losses were leveling out. Which in insurance is a good thing. If the Democrats had been able to fix the things that needed to be done on the ACA, there was a good chance the premium increases would be flat if not going down a bit in some areas/markets. And there would have been more choices in some areas. I like the ACA I think it is a good bill that would have been better if the Democrats had a chance to fix a couple of things. To think a bill this comprehensive wouldn’t have a couple of things that needed to fixed once it was implemented is naive. I like insurance companies/brokers but I think they blindsided the ACA with how fast they eliminated the old plans and only offered the ACA plans, that while provided broader coverage, also came with hefty price tags.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jan 13, 2019 19:36:28 GMT
OK, where are the notes? What WAS discussed?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2019 19:40:14 GMT
Now you guys may already know this but look at the name of the current winter storm.
”Roads and highways are backed up across the midwest as Winter Storm Gia has made her presence known. Gia has most of the midwest in a winter storm warning, with anticipated snowfall ranging from 3 inches to more than a foot.
The storm is expected to cover half of the United States with snow and ice over the weekend, and more than 70 million people are expected to feel the wrath of Gia.
Gia, which is what The Weather Channel is calling it, should produce heavy snow and some ice accumulation in the Rockies and more than 1,000 miles eastward to Philadelphia and New Jersey. The storm is projected to affect North Carolina and Virgina, and power outages could happen along the storm's path.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jan 13, 2019 19:52:18 GMT
Oh!! Well named.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2019 20:02:34 GMT
OK, where are the notes? What WAS discussed? He's lying once again. They can't be found even in his files!! There is no record of it and he asked the translator to keep it under wraps (5 meetings with Putin alone!).
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Post by PLurker on Jan 13, 2019 21:01:21 GMT
linkNPR... ”Trump Says He's 'Not Keeping Anything Under Wraps,' About Meetings With Putin” Here is the problem with a president who lies as much as trump does. Not only lies but people know as soon as he says something he is lying. And even when called on it, he keeps repeating the lie. How can you believe this or anything else he says? I always think of his lies as snowballs doing what they do- snowballing. He lies and covers that lie with another lie and so on and so on. He says everything vague so he can back-splain later. and when he gets called on the back-splain he just does it again. a small snowball becomes the base of a huge snowman in no time. and then- avalanche.
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Post by peano on Jan 13, 2019 22:01:38 GMT
I’m violating my “no politics on weekends” policy because this opinion piece came across my Twitter feed. Since it’s from November, it may have been posted here already. If so, I apologize. It does feature the only logical argument I’ve seen for Lindsey Graham’s total personality change in becoming one of Trump's primary ass-kissers.
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Post by 950nancy on Jan 13, 2019 22:06:03 GMT
someone shared this with me and although I've heard "ladder" "stairs" before as wall defeaters the addition of the idea of the country of Mexico building stairs had my minds eye seeing bleacher-like long stair runners running the length of the wall. Cartoon-like tit for tat. Yes I am easily amused. Being "country" I have often thought of that before when seeing the stiles going over barbed wire fences 'round here- and everywhere else. Easy access to get over a fence/wall is not a new thing. You might say they are medieval. I can't say for sure which came first the fence/wall, wheel, or stile though. According to Trevor Noah, the fence was 6,000 years before the wheel. Not sure if that is true, but if you Google it, it is one of the first things that comes up with what came first. Ha. I loved teaching medical history and the study of walls was pretty cool. In every instance we studied, no matter what the wall was made out of, the enemy breached it with new technology. I just imagine an escalator being used just like the one Trump and Melania used to enter the room to announce his presidency run.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2019 1:23:03 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jan 14, 2019 3:53:29 GMT
Cruz: People outside DC are not concerned with Russia investigation By Eli Watkins, CNN Updated 11:55 AM ET, Sun January 13, 2019
Washington (CNN)There is a broad disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country over interest in the Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller, Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz said Sunday.
"There is an incredible divide between Washington and the rest of the country when it comes to Bob Mueller and the Russia investigation," Cruz said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "The mainstream media, Washington, is obsessed with it. And when you get outside the Beltway, I don't find anybody concerned with this at all."
Cruz said people he spoke with in Texas were concerned about economic issues and border security, not about the ongoing probes and allegations about Russian interference in the 2016 election. ** 2peasrefugees.boards.net/thread/87673/trump-catch-scary-political-stuff?page=36
I guess it is a good thing I missed this while it was on live today....... I might have thrown the remote at the screen...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2019 4:02:22 GMT
trump...
“The Trump portrait of an unsustainable Border Crisis is dead on. “In the last two years, ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of aliens with Criminal Records, including those charged or convicted of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes & 4000 violent killings.” America’s Southern....”
”Border is eventually going to be militarized and defended or the United States, as we have known it, is going to cease to exist...And Americans will not go gentle into that good night. Patrick Buchanan. The great people of our Country demand proper Border Security NOW!”
You read stuff like this and you really wonder what country they are talking about.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jan 14, 2019 4:17:35 GMT
”Border is eventually going to be militarized and defended or the United States, as we have known it, is going to cease to exist. He has done this....... Our country was fine 3 years ago......... Well there is always room for improvement, but we were doing ok! Trump references 'Wounded Knee' in tweet mocking WarrenBY EMILY BIRNBAUM - 01/13/19 09:29 PM EST President Trump on Sunday night mocked a video of Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) by saying the video would have been a "smash" if she filmed it in "Bighorn or Wounded Knee," a reference to her Native American heritage. Trump suggested that Warren's husband, who appears in the video, should have worn "full Indian garb." The president also renewed his use of his racially charged nickname for Warren: Pocahontas. "If Elizabeth Warren, often referred to by me as Pocahontas, did this commercial from Bighorn or Wounded Knee instead of her kitchen, with her husband dressed in full Indian garb, it would have been a smash!" Trump tweeted. Trump's tweet refers to the massacre of more than 100 Native American men, women and children by U.S. Calvary troops in the late 19th Century. The massacre has become a symbol of the brutality experienced by Native Americans under European-Americans. ** thehill.com/homenews/campaign/425141-trump-mocks-video-showing-warren-with-her-husbandIt is not just disrespect of Warren, but disrespect of all Native Americans. It is their country that is not as it was for them!
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Jan 14, 2019 5:06:24 GMT
Now you guys may already know this but look at the name of the current winter storm. ”Roads and highways are backed up across the midwest as Winter Storm Gia has made her presence known. Gia has most of the midwest in a winter storm warning, with anticipated snowfall ranging from 3 inches to more than a foot. The storm is expected to cover half of the United States with snow and ice over the weekend, and more than 70 million people are expected to feel the wrath of Gia. Gia, which is what The Weather Channel is calling it, should produce heavy snow and some ice accumulation in the Rockies and more than 1,000 miles eastward to Philadelphia and New Jersey. The storm is projected to affect North Carolina and Virgina, and power outages could happen along the storm's path.” 😀 There you go, demonizing winter storms again. Typical Californian.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2019 5:57:05 GMT
linkThe future From The Atlantic... “The Quiet Ways Automation Is Remaking Service Work”
From the article.. “When blue-collar workers go on strike, demands such as wage increases and better hours are usually the objective. But when nearly 8,000 Marriott International employees marched outside hotels for two months in late 2018, one request stood out among the rest: protection against the automated technology that’s remaking the hotel industry. Marriott employees are right to worry. Over the past few years, the service industry has started hacking worker schedules by outsourcing human duties to machines. Automated experiments include robots that take over bartending and salad-making duties on cruise ships and in airports, and that deliver food to hotel guests’ rooms. More hotels are offering automated check-in via app or even—in China—via facial recognition. Alexa-enabled speakers in hotel rooms let guests ask for sightseeing tips and order toothbrushes without talking to staff. The Marriott workers’ priorities included updated language for health care and buyout packages. But they also wanted assurance that their jobs would not be filled by robots.You lose the humanness,” said Kirk Paganelli, a waiter and bartender at a Marriott property in San Francisco. Paganelli worked in the service industry for 23 years before joining hundreds of Marriott employees across the Bay Area in a 61-day strike. In an emailed statement, a Marriott spokesperson told The Atlantic most of the new technology being added to hotels, such as Alexa, "is about personalizing the guest experience and enhancing the stay [and] hasn’t necessarily had significant impact on workers."People go to a bar to vent, to have experiences, to ask questions,” Paganelli said. “How are you going to do that with a robot?” Worker demands also included implementing new technologies they say will increase safety, such as GPS-enabled panic buttons to combat harassment and motorized cleaning carts, which are less physically stressful for maids. Unlike employees at fast-food chains and coffee shops, which are both undergoing automation pains of their own, many hotel workers see a lifetime career in their industry. Paganelli, for example, said he hopes to retire from his job at Marriott. That means he can’t afford to ignore changes coming five or even 10 years down the line. Rather than fully replacing human workers with The Jetsons–style robots, the service industry is more likely to adopt a system of partial automation. Simple tasks will be automated so that workers’ hours can be cut down, or so that a two-person job, say janitorial services or manning the front desk overnight, can be assigned to one person aided by a robot.”
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2019 7:24:24 GMT
linkThis is is a real piece of work the president is quoting. From the Pat Buchanan column trump tweeted from. “Trump should declare a national emergency, shift funds out of the Pentagon, build his wall, open the government and charge Democrats with finding excuses not to secure our border because they have a demographic and ideological interest in changing the face of the nation. For the larger the share of the U.S. population that requires welfare, the greater the need for more social workers, and the more voters there will be to vote to further grow the liberal welfare state. The more multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual America becomes — the less it looks like Ronald Reagan's America — the more dependably Democratic it will become. The Democratic Party is hostile to white men, because the smaller the share of the U.S. population that white men become, the sooner that Democrats inherit the national estate. The only way to greater "diversity," the golden calf of the Democratic Party, is to increase the number of women, African-Americans, Asians and Hispanics, and thereby reduce the number of white men. The decisive issues on which Trump was elected were not the old Republican litany of tax cuts, conservative judges and increased defense spending. They were securing the borders, extricating America from foolish wars, eliminating trade deficits with NAFTA nations, the EU and China, making allies pay their fair share of the common defense, resurrecting our manufacturing base, and getting along with Russia. "America First!" is still a winning hand.“
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Post by pierkiss on Jan 14, 2019 11:19:18 GMT
Cruz: People outside DC are not concerned with Russia investigationBy Eli Watkins, CNN Updated 11:55 AM ET, Sun January 13, 2019 Washington (CNN)There is a broad disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country over interest in the Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller, Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz said Sunday. "There is an incredible divide between Washington and the rest of the country when it comes to Bob Mueller and the Russia investigation," Cruz said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "The mainstream media, Washington, is obsessed with it. And when you get outside the Beltway, I don't find anybody concerned with this at all."Cruz said people he spoke with in Texas were concerned about economic issues and border security, not about the ongoing probes and allegations about Russian interference in the 2016 election. ** 2peasrefugees.boards.net/thread/87673/trump-catch-scary-political-stuff?page=36 I guess it is a good thing I missed this while it was on live today....... I might have thrown the remote at the screen... Oh really? I’m in Michigan, and I’m pretty focused on the Mueller investigation. 😉
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Post by wellway on Jan 14, 2019 11:45:50 GMT
Good to see this attempt to oust a man because of his religion failed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46841814A Republican county official in Texas has survived a vote to oust him after several local party members took issue with his Muslim religion.
The motion to remove Shahid Shafi from his position as vice chairman of the Tarrant County Republican party failed by a vote of 139-49 on Thursday night.
The effort was led by several county Republicans who argued that Dr Shafi was more loyal to Islam than the US.
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Post by pyccku on Jan 14, 2019 12:10:47 GMT
The effort was led by several county Republicans who argued that Dr Shafi was more loyal to Islam than the US. They might be interested in knowing that there is someone in the government who appears to be more loyal to Russia than the US. I'm guessing they're ignoring that one.
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Post by maryannscraps on Jan 14, 2019 12:25:28 GMT
Trump references 'Wounded Knee' in tweet mocking WarrenBY EMILY BIRNBAUM - 01/13/19 09:29 PM EST President Trump on Sunday night mocked a video of Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) by saying the video would have been a "smash" if she filmed it in "Bighorn or Wounded Knee," a reference to her Native American heritage. Trump suggested that Warren's husband, who appears in the video, should have worn "full Indian garb." The president also renewed his use of his racially charged nickname for Warren: Pocahontas. "If Elizabeth Warren, often referred to by me as Pocahontas, did this commercial from Bighorn or Wounded Knee instead of her kitchen, with her husband dressed in full Indian garb, it would have been a smash!" Trump tweeted. Trump's tweet refers to the massacre of more than 100 Native American men, women and children by U.S. Calvary troops in the late 19th Century. The massacre has become a symbol of the brutality experienced by Native Americans under European-Americans. ** thehill.com/homenews/campaign/425141-trump-mocks-video-showing-warren-with-her-husbandIt is not just disrespect of Warren, but disrespect of all Native Americans. It is their country that is not as it was for them! It's not just disrespect, it's outright racist. Straight from the President.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2019 13:34:38 GMT
Good to see this attempt to oust a man because of his religion failed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46841814A Republican county official in Texas has survived a vote to oust him after several local party members took issue with his Muslim religion.
The motion to remove Shahid Shafi from his position as vice chairman of the Tarrant County Republican party failed by a vote of 139-49 on Thursday night.
The effort was led by several county Republicans who argued that Dr Shafi was more loyal to Islam than the US.
I'm sure the 49 that voted against him would be quite happy to accept his medical intervention if they ever needed it and he was the only surgeon able to save their lives!
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Post by flute4peace on Jan 14, 2019 13:53:27 GMT
linkThis is is a real piece of work the president is quoting. From the Pat Buchanan column trump tweeted from. “Trump should declare a national emergency, shift funds out of the Pentagon, build his wall, open the government and charge Democrats with finding excuses not to secure our border because they have a demographic and ideological interest in changing the face of the nation. For the larger the share of the U.S. population that requires welfare, the greater the need for more social workers, and the more voters there will be to vote to further grow the liberal welfare state. The more multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual America becomes — the less it looks like Ronald Reagan's America — the more dependably Democratic it will become. The Democratic Party is hostile to white men, because the smaller the share of the U.S. population that white men become, the sooner that Democrats inherit the national estate. The only way to greater "diversity," the golden calf of the Democratic Party, is to increase the number of women, African-Americans, Asians and Hispanics, and thereby reduce the number of white men. The decisive issues on which Trump was elected were not the old Republican litany of tax cuts, conservative judges and increased defense spending. They were securing the borders, extricating America from foolish wars, eliminating trade deficits with NAFTA nations, the EU and China, making allies pay their fair share of the common defense, resurrecting our manufacturing base, and getting along with Russia. "America First!" is still a winning hand.“ Holy crap. We’re doomed!
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Post by Merge on Jan 14, 2019 14:30:46 GMT
Cruz: People outside DC are not concerned with Russia investigationBy Eli Watkins, CNN Updated 11:55 AM ET, Sun January 13, 2019 Washington (CNN)There is a broad disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country over interest in the Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller, Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz said Sunday. "There is an incredible divide between Washington and the rest of the country when it comes to Bob Mueller and the Russia investigation," Cruz said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "The mainstream media, Washington, is obsessed with it. And when you get outside the Beltway, I don't find anybody concerned with this at all."Cruz said people he spoke with in Texas were concerned about economic issues and border security, not about the ongoing probes and allegations about Russian interference in the 2016 election. ** 2peasrefugees.boards.net/thread/87673/trump-catch-scary-political-stuff?page=36 I guess it is a good thing I missed this while it was on live today....... I might have thrown the remote at the screen... Oh really? I’m in Michigan, and I’m pretty focused on the Mueller investigation. 😉 And so are many of us in Texas. Cruz is an idiot.
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Post by Merge on Jan 14, 2019 14:32:36 GMT
linkThis is is a real piece of work the president is quoting. From the Pat Buchanan column trump tweeted from. “Trump should declare a national emergency, shift funds out of the Pentagon, build his wall, open the government and charge Democrats with finding excuses not to secure our border because they have a demographic and ideological interest in changing the face of the nation. For the larger the share of the U.S. population that requires welfare, the greater the need for more social workers, and the more voters there will be to vote to further grow the liberal welfare state. The more multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual America becomes — the less it looks like Ronald Reagan's America — the more dependably Democratic it will become. The Democratic Party is hostile to white men, because the smaller the share of the U.S. population that white men become, the sooner that Democrats inherit the national estate. The only way to greater "diversity," the golden calf of the Democratic Party, is to increase the number of women, African-Americans, Asians and Hispanics, and thereby reduce the number of white men. The decisive issues on which Trump was elected were not the old Republican litany of tax cuts, conservative judges and increased defense spending. They were securing the borders, extricating America from foolish wars, eliminating trade deficits with NAFTA nations, the EU and China, making allies pay their fair share of the common defense, resurrecting our manufacturing base, and getting along with Russia. "America First!" is still a winning hand.“ Wow. Since Steve King got no censure - not even a negative comment - for declaring himself a white nationalist, I guess they're not even going to try to hide the racism anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2019 14:52:17 GMT
Oliver Willis..
”a big part of why trump happened is the mainstream media being "bored" with normal politicians, especially democrats. people like obama and clinton "bored" them because they were focused on policy and important stuff. same reason they loved palin so much.”
I don’t know if the media was bored, but they sure wanted to be front and center to “report” on trump because they didn’t want to miss the potential of a train wreck he presented every time he opened his mouth. This was done at the expense of all the other candidates running on both sides. I got so disgusted when I turned on MSNBC and it was all about trump. With an occasional story about Hillary.... and her emails.
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