Off Topic Trumpy pumpy.

Rusty Lee?

 

Quite galling for a draft-dodger.

 

Current bill in the house would allow Employers to collect DNA from Employers and have it analysed (and be allowed to share the data).

Another proposed bill will make it legal for ISPs to sell your browsing history to any interested party.

These are troubling times. A year ago I would have said voting for one of these bills would be political suicide for a politician.

That was before Trump.

 

The ultimate in racial profiling, though I do remember some episode of Trishia a few years back that she did in the US. She had some white supremacist on, who it turned out, after DNA profiling, was one-sixteenth or something black. He wasn't best pleased.

 

I remember reading about that. That was very funny. I think he dismissed the test as false if I recall correctly.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...k-times-trump-tower-us-election-a7632631.html

 

wow....

 

White House budget plan would slash science
Fiscal 2018 proposal calls for deep cuts in spending for EPA, NIH and other agencies
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SCIENCE NEWS STAFF
5:52PM, MARCH 16, 2017

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SHOW ME THE MONEY President Donald Trump has released his budget request for fiscal year 2018. It includes deep cuts to some federal science agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institutes of Health, but other agencies, such as NASA, emerge relatively unscathed.

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Huge cuts could be in store for federal science spending if President Donald Trump’s vision for fiscal year 2018 becomes reality.

Although details are skimpy, Trump’s $1.15 trillion budget proposal, released March 16, would make national security the top priority. The budget blueprint calls for a $54 billion increase in defense spending for 2018, offset by an equally big reduction in nondefense activities. Among the biggest science losers are the Environmental Protection Agency, which could see its budget shrink by 31 percent compared with 2017, and the National Institutes of Health, which faces an 18 percent spending slash. The Department of Energy’s Office of Science could lose about 17 percent of its funding while DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E — which supports research on promising energy technologies — faces complete elimination.

The bare-bones budget blueprint leaves out figures altogether for many science-related agencies. It doesn’t even mention, for example, the National Science Foundation, a major source of federal funding for basic research across scientific disciplines. NSF is currently operating on a $7.5 billion budget. Full breaksdowns aren't available for most departments, so there's no information on what's to come for such programs as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (part of the Department of Commerce), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (part of the Department of the Interior) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA (part of the Department of Defense). More details for these and other omitted agencies may be included in a full budget proposal that the White House expects to release in May.

The White House’s budget outline is already raising alarm in the scientific community. “Major national goals are served by these investments in science and technology,” says Matt Hourihan, director of the R&D Budget and Policy Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. The proposed cuts, he says, “would set back our scientific leadership and would set back our technologies.”

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Proposed 2018 budget
Here are the president's proposed FY2018 budgets for select science agencies in $ billions. Numbers are not adjusted for inflation, which is predicted to be 2 percent in 2018.

Agency 2017
(continuing resolution) 2018
(president's request) Change
(2017 to 2018)
NASA 19.2 19.1 -1%
NIH 31.7 25.9 -18%
EPA 8.2 5.7 -31%
DOE Office of Science 5.3 4.4* -17%
*Estimate based on reported $900 million cut.

Ultimate authority of the budget rests with Congress. Last year, Congress failed to reach agreements on fiscal 2017 spending; the government has been operating under a continuing resolution that has largely kept agencies funded at their 2016 levels. That resolution expires April 28. But if the House and Senate can find common ground for fiscal 2018, which begins October 1, they are likely to be kinder to science than Trump was, Hourihan predicts. “Overall, Congress tends to find ways to support science and technology.”

Leland Cogliani, a lobbying consultant with Lewis-Burke Associates LLC in Washington, D.C., who specializes in DOE policy, agrees. “There’s a lot of angst and concern and worry about these proposed cuts to federal agencies as a whole,” he says. “My discussions with appropriators is that this budget is dead on arrival.” — Erin Wayman, with additional reporting from SN writers

 

Lol...excellent..That budget is just hilarious..Single Mum's apparently shouldn't be tax burdened with things like the arts or meals on wheels...na they want their taxes spent on giant walls, fighter planes that don't work and protection for their presidents wife to live in a swanky apartment while her husband takes weekends in Florida.....

Oh and where's Sisu...he'd love the claim that GCHQ were personally hired by Obama to spy on Trump.

I'm laying bets that Spicer is the first of the minions to be admitted to a psych ward before this is over..he looks a wreck.

 

Interesting stuff...warning lengthy read though lol

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/mercers/

 

as was Trump's mother.

 

don't people realise he's not anti immigrants he's anti non whites.

 

He's not anti non whites...it's psychopath dictator 101. Scapegoats...it's merely began as a tool...his real paranoia is with white people he still thinks have more power, brains and popularity than he has. Maybe he hates Obama for the same reasons but with the added bonus of brought up racism...bit like with Hilary and the added brought up misogyny.

Not to be psychologist but it really is all about his dad...a guy that told him he wasn't good enough and was a joke and reinforced it by bailing him out.

His reactions are all based on that...press, political opponents, businessmen..all telling him he isn't good enough.

Putin was a trained KGB agent...they fecking looked for guys like Trump in the US during the cold war to turn...

Massage the ego...

 

Seems more worried about mexicans and muslims than the irish fellas in that vid.

All friends with them and ze germans n all.

 

Comey says FBI is investigating Russian interference, including any ...
www.cnbc.com/.../comey

This hasn't been on the news because of the death of McGuinness.

 

Watched the hearing. Apart from the main items of the confirmation of investigation. And refuting the wire tap claim completely by FBI, DNI and Justice.

The funniest was that Trumpy had tweeted that Comey had stated x while hearing still going...a Democratic Rep on the committee, saw it, read it out and Comey and Rogers had to say (diplomatically) he's lying lol.

Other than that you had the Democrats largely using it as a platform to state on the record all of the connections they knew about it and the Republicans trying to undermine the witnesses or deflect to the leakers.

Comey had to explain to the particularly snide and aggressive Texas rep why he couldn't deny deliberately false sources of papers. He just didn't get it...kept saying surely it's more dangerous not denying false reports..

Comey responded no...since if I then don't contact a paper when a true leak of classified materials is recieved and reported then the lack of denial becomes a confirmation....Texas boy still didn't get it..mixture of anger at bring dismissed and fear that he didn't really know why but knew everyone else knew he was wrong...

 

Although the Democrats didn't question Comeys response to why the investigation had been going since July and he'd stated that normally he'd report to the committee quarterly but hadn't done so in this case because of "the sensitive nature of the investigation"

First thing I thought was woah, you didn't take that stance with the Clinton investigation a couple of weeks before the election!

Democrats were silent...I can only assume they are confident this investigation will get Trump and or his people and don't want any doubt cast on Comeys veracity.

 

So Ivanka Trump has a a White House office, highest security clearance and security electronics, SS protection all on the US taxpayer.

No job title, no job description no salary so she doesn't have to sign any ethics code.
People crying nepotism and saying all to benefit her own business interests and that's likely true.

But I think there's a more worrying reason..she's Trump's care giver. There was constant talk that she and her husband both kept Donald under control and his maddest times and tweets came when they weren't there. Her husband is getting a role in the administration too.

So either she's there to look after the crazy idiot while Bannon is president in effect or more worryingly..there's talk that Bannon is being increasingly sidelined after the opening disasters. That he has encouraged Trump's persecution complex to far and now Ivanka is taking control back.

So hey! The US gets its first female President after all..

Edit: it's "more worrying" not because she's a woman lol..but unelected and not actually signed up to any legal code.

 

I'd rather Ivanka steer the USS Calamity than Bannon.

Bannon is a shockingly evil man.