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Following his tantrum over not getting his big military
ego strokingparade, it's being reported that Trump is looking into the possibility of a private military force that will report to him.QuotePresident Donald Trump is increasingly venting frustration to his national security team about the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and showing renewed interest in a proposal by Blackwater founder Erik Prince to privatize the war, current and former senior administration officials said.
Prince's idea, which first surfaced last year during the president's Afghanistan strategy review, envisions replacing troops with private military contractors who would work for a special U.S. envoy for the war who would report directly to the president.
"I know he's frustrated," Blackwater founder Prince said of the president. "He gave the Pentagon what they wanted. And they haven't delivered."How long until he starts strutting around in a faux-military uniform with lots of gold braid?
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On 8/9/2018 at 7:54 AM, Starlord said:
Lots of problems with Georgia's voting system
670 votes cast
276 registered voters
Remember, the last time someone questioned the validity of an election in Georgia, they responded by completely destroying the voting records.
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On 3/23/2018 at 4:13 AM, Old Man said:
I read an interesting analysis today that Mueller probably has enough of a case for obstruction that he could get a RICO indictment against the Trump family without even bothering with Russian collusion. Interesting, because 1. Thirty states have RICO laws as well as the federal government, and 2. one of the biggest tools in RICO cases is... asset forfeiture.
I keep seeing Trump Tweeting "No Collusion!" over and over. I realize that history is no doubt included in his general ignorance, but at some point you would think that he would remember that it wasn't involvement in Watergate that led to articles of Impeachment against Nixon, it was obstruction of the investigation of Watergate.
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11 hours ago, Sociotard said:
The new Director is the first woman in the position, so that's nice. Gina Haspel.
Less nice, she was one of the supervisors of the CIA's torture program.
QuoteFrom 2003 to 2005, Gina Haspel was a senior official overseeing a top-secret C.I.A. program that subjected dozens of suspected terrorists to savage interrogations, which included depriving them of sleep, squeezing them into coffins, and forcing water down their throats. In 2002, Haspel was among the C.I.A. officers present at the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, an Al Qaeda suspect who was tortured so brutally that at one point he appeared to be dead.
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Trump's comment on China's President Xi Jinping and his recent consolidation of power:
"He's now president for life. President for life. No, he's great," Trump said. "And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot some day."
To reference "Watchmen",
"If that statement starts to chill you after a couple of moments’ consideration, then don’t be alarmed. A feeling of intense and crushing terror at the concept indicates only that you are still sane."
I'm sure it will eventually be spun as "just a joke."
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9 hours ago, Cassandra said:
The zombies were driven to feed even if they didn't have to. Which begs the question do they take a few bites from a victim and then move on to look for others, or consume the victim and then move on?
And i maintain that Zombie movies take place where there are no zombie movies.
It's never been stated on the TV series, but the writers of the Walking Dead comic book have mentioned in interviews that there are no zombie stories in that world. No Night of the Living Dead, no Vodoun folklore, nothing that ever conceived of the idea of the dead reanimating.
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Who's been appointed to advise the USDA on dietary guidelines?
A lobbyist for the corn syrup industry, of course.
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On 1/28/2018 at 4:11 PM, dsatow said:
I think it would be funny, if the Sorcerer Supreme was a contest and you 'd have to have a minimum level of power, but only one person applied and thus got the titled. Kind of like how Harry on the TV show Night Court became a judge. He got his assignment because the outgoing Mayor of NYC made a huge number of appointments on his last day, and Harry was the only person on the judges' list who was home and was able to receive the call and accept his nomination
There was an interesting depiction of such a competition in the Marvel graphic novel* "Triumph and Torment". The winner of the challenge becomes Sorcerer Supreme, but has to perform a service for anyone else who's still standing at the end of the competition. Doctor Strange won, of course. Doctor Doom had just enough magical ability to barely hear the call to the challenge, and his armor's onboard sensors, computers, and servos allowed him to mimic the techniques of the other casters, learning more about magical combat in an hour than years of study would have accomplished, by his own admission. He's the only other person left, and he recruits Strange to assist in rescuing his mother's spirit from Mephisto's realm.
*This was published back when graphic novel was an actual publishing format, not just a synonym for comic book or trade paperback compilation.
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Meanwhile, Trump asked for the power to purge the government of non-loyalists.
Quote“Tonight,” he said, “I call on the congress to empower every Cabinet secretary with the authority to reward good workers—and to remove federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the American people.”
Under Trump’s proposal, any Cabinet secretary could decide that, say, a law enforcement official investigating the president had “undermined the public trust” or “failed the American people”—and fire him on the spot. In other words, Trump is calling for an end to any semblance of independence for the IRS, the FBI, the Department of Justice, or any other federal agency.- Netzilla, Iuz the Evil and Christopher
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Not really political, but Congress is now literally a train wreck.
QuoteA train carrying members of Congress -- including House Speaker Paul Ryan -- to their legislative retreat in West Virginia hit a truck Wednesday, multiple sources told CNN, leaving at least one person dead.
Multiple sources said that all members of Congress on the train and their families were OK, with the exception of a few minor injuries. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed in a statement that there was at least one fatality from the collision, though it was unclear who that was. -
17 hours ago, Ragitsu said:
There's also his Commerce Secretary.
When Donald Trump first hired Wilbur Ross, he delighted in describing the 80-year-old investment mogul as a “killer.”...
But Ross’s fortunes have since taken a turn, with Forbes calling his billionaire status into question, and his stake in a Russian shipping company with ties to Vladimir Putin surfacing at the worst possible time. All this—along with what one source said is his unfortunate tendency to fall asleep in meetings (and to mop the resulting drool up with his tie)— has reportedly caused the president to sour on the man he was once so thrilled to employ. -
18 hours ago, Christopher said:
Just because it does not solve all problems now, is not a reason do finally get it done.
What is it with Americans and "perfect solution or not worth doing"?
You see it with pretty much any issue that requires work, as an excuse not to do it. It seems to come up a lot when discussing climate change.
"Why should we reduce carbon dioxide emissions? (Insert country name) isn't going to do it, so our efforts won't matter."
"If you're so worried about climate change, why are you still driving a car, heating your house, and using your computer?"
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Tammy Duckworth is not pulling her punches.
Quote"Does he even know that there are service members who are in harm’s way right now, watching him, looking for their commander in chief to show leadership, rather than [trying] to deflect blame?” Duckworth said. “Or that his own Pentagon says that the short-term funding plans he seems intent on pushing is actually harmful to not just the military, but to our national security?”
“I spent my entire adult life looking out for the well-being, the training, the equipping of the troops for whom I was responsible,” she continued. “Sadly, this is something that the current occupant of the Oval Office does not seem to care to do — and I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft dodger.”
“And I have a message for cadet bone spurs: If you cared about our military, you'd stop baiting Kim Jong Un into a war that could put 85,000 American troops, and millions of innocent civilians, in danger.""Cadet bone spurs".
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The latest decree from the Ministry of Truth.
The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation’s top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases — including “fetus” and “transgender” — in any official documents being prepared for next year’s budget.
Policy analysts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were told of the list of forbidden words at a meeting Thursday with senior CDC officials who oversee the budget, according to an analyst who took part in the 90-minute briefing. The forbidden words are “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.”
In some instances, the analysts were given alternative phrases. Instead of “science-based” or “evidence-based,” the suggested phrase is “CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes,” the person said. In other cases, no replacement words were immediately offered.Yes, the phrases "science-based" and "evidence-based" are now forbidden, along with other scary words.
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Showing once more that it's really all about erasing everything that President Obama did.
Trump asked about reversing Obama to rename Denali as Mt. McKinley
President Donald Trump, during a meeting earlier this year with Alaska's two Republican senators, asked about reversing a decision made by the Obama administration and renaming the nation's largest mountain, according to Sen. Dan Sullivan.
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The meeting came as Trump and the senators discussed several Obama administration moves limiting development in Alaska.
But Trump had one final issue on his mind. "He looked at me and said, 'I heard that the big mountain in Alaska also had -- also its name was changed by executive action. Do you want us to reverse that?'" Sullivan said.Fortunately, they had the sense to say no.
"Lisa -- Sen. Murkowski -- and I jumped over the desk," Sullivan said. "We said no, no!"
Trump, perplexed that the two Republicans wanted to keep an Obama-era decision, asked why.
"The Alaska Native people named that mountain over 10,000 years ago," Sullivan said. "Denali, that was the name."You have to love his grasp of facts. "The big mountain in Alaska". And absolutely flummoxed that they didn't want to reverse it.
President Obama's jokes at Trump's expense during the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner must have really stung. Most of Trump's actions have been the political equivalent of buying a rival business, shutting it down, and tearing down the building.
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Takofanes has a spell in his write-up that allows him to to blot out the Sun, which is pretty much what Lucius Alexander posted, but without Explosion or the Temperature change.
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It's not exactly what was described, but the Duplication Powers chapter in Champions Powers has short-range Teleportation based on instantly creating and then reabsorbing a string of duplicates, each separated by 2 meters, pulling yourself to the end of the chain as part of the recombination. It's built as Teleport with Must Pass Through Intervening Space.
Anyone remember the Super Globetrotters cartoon from 1979? Multi-Man would frequently use something similar to that effect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtwd9kKafv4
He uses it at 5:20 and 19:30 of the linked video.
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We are more than a year away from the midterms, and longer than that from the start of the 2020 campaign.
Except for Trump, who started his reelection campaign the day after the Inauguration. He loves campaigning and basking in the adulation of crowds at rallies, but doesn't want to do the actual job.
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If the spell requires a Skill Roll, then other people can provide a bonus to the main caster's Skill by making their own Skill Rolls. The Advanced Players Guide has an optional version of Requires a Skill Roll in which the margin of success increases the final Active Points of the Power.
-1/4 less Limitation: +5% Active Points per point of success, maximum +25%.
-1/2 less Limitation: +10% Active Points per point of success, maximum +50%.
-1 less Limitation: +20% Active Points per point of success, maximum +100%.
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Not everyone fighting for the German military was Nazi. In fact, almost none of them were, the greatest majority were just fighting for their country.
I remember someone on another forum commenting that it was hard to sympathize with Colonel Klink and Sergeant Shultz on "Hogan's Heroes", since they were Nazis. It was pointed out that Klink was career military, long before the Nazis came to power, and he had a pretty low opinion of them, as shown by his half-hearted salutes and his obvious disdain for the Gestapo. Shultz was a retired WW I veteran recalled to active duty, was shown to be disgusted by the Nazis, and was a family man and wealthy industrialist eager to get back to his family and business.
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I'm sure it's too late to be anything but errata, but the Condor is missing from Rick Royce's write-up on page 209.
42 Vehicle: “The Condor” (See Below)
...and there's nothing below.
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The Movement and Strength rules include stopping moving vehicles. 5e 238, 5eR 364, 6E2 25, CC 132. I don't see it in 4e.
-2m/-1" per 5 STR each Phase with a successful Grab.
Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)
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A generic statement that didn't actually mention McCain himself, and ended in an exclamation mark.
Mentioning McCain was left to Melania.
Compare to Barack Obama's statement.
I'm sure a meltdown or some attention-grabbing antics will come when it sinks in that McCain invited Obama to deliver a eulogy at his funeral and specifically stated that Trump wasn't invited to the funeral.