OP ED-"Little Timmy Wants to Know Why Nobody Likes Airplanes Anymore?

[John Pleisse]

Again...dot com boom, NAFTA, the advent of the micro chip, automation systems, poor trade policy, union failures and corruption, all diminished our traditional manufacturing class and made ordinary tech folks wealthy. This is how we arrived at where we are today. The 99%'ers want us to believe it is evil corporations and manipulation of the political process. Sorry. Time to stop belly aching and raise our kids for the "new world order" our friend Clinton told us about. Time to grow up. Redistribution philosophies are an albatross. A free market economy, with significantly less government will make us prosper.

[BorealOne]

"No to jobs". "No" to part of the "all of the above" to create energy independence.

 

Please.

 

KXL is about moving Canadian bitumen to the Gulf for refining and export. It has no implication for US energy independence. What an absurd notion. You do know that the US is now the largest oil producer in the world, and is in fact a net exporter? 

 

During construction KXL will contribute 5000-9000 person years of employment (2500-4500 jobs for two years) and thereafter "as few as 50'. 

 

TransCanada has great lobbyists - I'll give them that - but this project is hardly the national priority they've made it out to be.

[flyboy0681]

 

 

but this project is hardly the national priority they've made it out to be.

 

I've always felt it was simply a wedge - us against them -  when in reality neither party could really care less about it.

[scottfromiowa]

No future in it, I bet drones will find their way into powerline and pipeline monitoring.

 

What scares me is when some zit-faced 16 year old is flying his modified Johnny Lightening Home Drone kit around the traffic pattern area.

Or the White House...

Seriously, that was such a coordinated event. An un-named faceless government employee thought he would test his drones all weather capability at 2AM by the White House....

Riiiiiiiiiigt.

Talk about "Stupid Is as stupid does"....That guy was NOT 16. The goober "flying" his drone in the pattern will not necessarily be a kid either.

[flyboy0681]

Or the White House...

Seriously, that was such a coordinated event. An un-named faceless government employee thought he would test his drones all weather capability at 2AM by the White House....

Riiiiiiiiiigt.

Talk about "Stupid Is as stupid does"....That guy was NOT 16. The goober "flying" his drone in the pattern will not necessarily be a kid either.

 

Nothing will be done about drones until it takes down a jetliner (if it's even possible) or carries very lightweight explosives.

 

We've already seen the first generation of drone "mules" attempting to fly drugs over the Mexican border.

[John Pleisse]

Obama calls for spending surge, buoyed by rising economy

The Associated Press - By By JOSH LEDERMAN and ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring an end to "mindless austerity," President Barack Obama called for a surge in government spending Thursday, and asked Congress to throw out the sweeping spending cuts both parties agreed to four years ago when deficits were spiraling out of control.

Obama's proposed $74 billion in added spending — about 7 percent — would be split about evenly between defense programs and the domestic side of the budget. Although he's sought before to reverse the "sequester" ''spending cuts, Obama's pitch in this year's budget comes with the added oomph of an improving economy and big recent declines in federal deficits.

"If Congress rejects my plan and refuses to undo these arbitrary cuts, it will threaten our economy and our military," Obama warned in an op-ed article Thursday in The Huffington Post. He said the nation's debt still would decline as a share of the overall economy.

The figures represent Obama's opening offer as he gears up for an inevitable budget battle with the new Republican-run Congress. He was to brief House Democrats on the plan Thursday evening in Philadelphia at their annual retreat.

Republicans immediately balked — Texas Sen. John Cornyn dismissed the plan as "happy talk" — although it was unclear just how much of Obama's proposal they would oppose.

GOP lawmakers are focused primarily on reversing restraints on military spending, while Democrats and Obama are seeking new domestic dollars for education, research, health care and infrastructure. Republicans argue that spending more in so many areas would undo the hard-fought reductions in the country's annual deficit.

They also oppose many of the tax hikes Obama has proposed to pay for the increased spending.

 

 

Posturing. Trying to get it in all in this year, so he won't have to do it next year, when people are actually paying attention. People get it now. Ineffective leadership. He had me at 1.4 trillion in two stimuli, that went to union paybacks to build a bunch of flowerbeds and new city signs around the country, instead of infrastructure. He's done.

[flyboy0681]

A reckoning for Obama on Paris no-show?

BY BRIAN HUGHES | JANUARY 16, 2015 | 5:00 AM

An inconvenient question hangs over President Obama’s first formal press conference of 2015: Why didn’t he attend a unity rally in Paris after the deadliest terror attack in decades there?

 

 

As a great American once said: so?

[AndyFromCB]

Dave, Scott, John,

 

Where were you all when Bush was leading us into war under false pretenses and spending us into oblivion. Or did you not care because it was your guy?

 

I am actually quite pleased with everything he has done so far other than execution of the ACA. Total cluster fuck. I am extremely pleased with his middle east policy. It's working exactly as intended. It just so happens you gentlemen do not like the outcome.

[Guest]

Look...POTUS is a bad guy, who has bad ideas, surrounds himself with really bad people, then together, the mess up our country. Forcing an entire country into $4k to $12k deductibles (Canada-England?) to prop up a bad law, isn't gonna solve the problem, is a bad move. It's that simple. This isn't a "fair share" solution, it is feeding the machine. It'll be filleted to 28 pages and serve its intended purpose, eventually and still be labeled "Obamacare".

Not sure where you're getting your info on deductibles from? There are no 4K to 8K deductibles in Canada.

Small businesses like mine with payroll less than $400K don't pay health premiums either.

Clarence

[flyboy0681]

Small businesses like mine with payroll less than $400K don't pay health premiums either.

 

 

Wow.

 

And people aren't dying in the streets up there from lack of healthcare?

[flyboy0681]

I have not added one word. Just reminded all the Obama voters what they voted for ... they got. And this is only the past week of so. You are so proud!

 

 

I know it makes for good fodder, but history is littered with presidents who have done the same.

 

These came up instantly on Google. There were more that didn't mention Obama.

 

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2006-07-14/news/0607140247_1_bush-white-surveillance-white-house

 

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1982/1/8/president-reagan-extends-registration-pin-a/

[AndyFromCB]

I have not added one word. Just reminded all the Obama voters what they voted for ... they got. And this is only the past week of so. You are so proud!

 

Well,

 

The Taliban are not terrorist. They are simply another political party in Afghanistan. Kind of like Republicans vs Democrats here in US of A. They just have a different way of voting down there. With an AK47. Not everyone who shots at us is a terrorist. Taliban are not the Al Quada. So technically speaking, the press secretary was correct. 

[AndyFromCB]

"Right ... 

Applying your western thinking to third world shitholes like Afghanistan is how we got where we are in the first place. It's a tribal society without allegiances to a country. They don't even have a concept of a country. The border between Pakistan and Afganistan does not exist in the same sense you think border. We could spend another 10 years down, 10 trillion and somebody somewhere will remember their great, great, great uncle got spit on 100 years ago by somebody named Ahmed and it will start all over again.

[flyboy0681]

I didn't say anything about fodder, I just posted what your President has been doing this week? Are you not proud?

 

 

Fodder: noun someone or something considered useful only for one particular purpose.

[Guest]

Wow.

And people aren't dying in the streets up there from lack of healthcare?

They sure aren't. My American sister in law, living in Canada endured 6 different surgeries for breast and then brain tumours over 10 years before her passing. Cost to our family financially was nill, emotionally a worse cost. She said before she passed she was glad to have lived here as she would never have gotten the same level of treatment in the US

Some countries set out a different national priorities than others.

Clarence

[AndyFromCB]

Fodder: noun someone or something considered useful only for one particular purpose.

As in cannon fodder, why we keep poor people around, so they can join our "all volunteer" armed forces...

[flyboy0681]

Question for Canadians. Why do you feel the need to defend your healthcare system to me? What does your system have to do with the current iteration of the US system? Why?

 

 

Probably because there is a huge contingent in this country that is under the assumption that the Canadian system is awful, doesn't work, employs death panels and people are dying waiting for immediate care.

[John Pleisse]

Not sure where you're getting your info on deductibles from? There are no 4K to 8K deductibles in Canada.

Small businesses like mine with payroll less than $400K don't pay health premiums either.

Clarence

 

 

That's was the point I was trying to make. We have them....CA-England, not so much.

[John Pleisse]

Applying your western thinking to third world shitholes like Afghanistan is how we got where we are in the first place. It's a tribal society without allegiances to a country. They don't even have a concept of a country. The border between Pakistan and Afganistan does not exist in the same sense you think border. We could spend another 10 years down, 10 trillion and somebody somewhere will remember their great, great, great uncle got spit on 100 years ago by somebody named Ahmed and it will start all over again.

 

 

Yeah...we learned that from the Soviets. But, after 10 years, the Soviets didn't get  t-h-i-s  done:

[John Pleisse]

AndyFromCB, on 29 Jan 2015 - 7:17 PM, said:

Dave, Scott, John,
 
Where were you all when Bush was leading us into war under false pretenses and spending us into oblivion. Or did you not care because it was your guy?
 
I am actually quite pleased with everything he has done so far other than execution of the ACA. Total cluster fuck. I am extremely pleased with his middle east policy. It's working exactly as intended. It just so happens you gentlemen do not like the outcome.

 

It's like I keep seeing the same Subaru or Prius drive by me with the same damn bumper stickers. Clearly this must be your "Throw Back Thursday" post.

[BorealOne]

The Washington Times? Pretty much the mouthpiece of the Unification Church - aka the 'Moonies'.

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[BorealOne]

If you don't like the news, criticize the source, or just generally deem it as "fodder?"

Lots of proud people ....

Just putting the 'sources' in context - why something is reported is as often as interesting as what is reported.

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[BorealOne]

Question for Canadians. Why do you feel the need to defend your healthcare system to me? What does your system have to do with the current iteration of the US system? Why?

It's a head-scratcher for me as I just don't care about your politics at all.

We are known for being helpful and polite -- so naturally when our friends are confused about how things work up here, it's only proper to do our part to help them out.

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[jetdriven]

Helpful and polite? Naw. Smug? Yup. How about when I want some advise I will ask for it? Works for me.

You're going on and on about the horrors of centralized or socialized medicine and perhaps he feels the need to be helpful and set the record straight. I don't think he can understand Foxpublican mindsets either.

Ted Cruz still has his Canadian passport and his health card. Evil for you, though.

[jetdriven]

I don't acknowledge that it "was false pretenses"...That said there was a colossal error on the U.S. being able to have a post Saddam government strategy.

I disagreed, as I have stated, that we should have just "left". Should have left a large airbase that we would continue to support...like Korea...to provide stability through military force....

Well, Scott, what were the pretenses for invading Iraq?