No fair linking to paywalled sites without giving us at least a pull quote!
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If you want to read the whole thing you’ve got to be coy.*
Sorry, the WSJ article is titled:
Cold War Games: U.S. Is Preparing to Test the Waters in Icy Arctic.
and the first blurb that you can read for free tells you that the US Navy is planning a Freedom Of Navigation OPeration (FONOP) in the Arctic. This will be the Navy’s first such operation in the Arctic. They are activating an old WW2/Cold War base on the tip of Alaska closest to Putin (not Canada) that operated from 1942 to 1997 which “could include surface ships and P-8 Poseidon patrol and reconnaissance aircraft” that will presumably be tasked with conducting these FONOPS on the regular. Oh, and the order for more ice breakers was in the last budget, but it’s gonna be a few years.
- No, seriously. If you want to read the whole WSJ article, go to Google News, search for “Cold War” and look for that WSJ article I named above.
Yup, the wall in this backyard is coming down, don’t think even Santa Claus can build us a new one. Gonna have to get used to seeing all the neighbors around a lot more.
What Trump is doing isn’t worse than what happened to Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California, you know.
In the case of Latin America it isn’t necessarily so much a matter of trust as a matter of the US combining “being a big market” with “selling themselves as the new promised land” with “throwing really dangerous tantrums when they don’t get their way”. They don’t trust you as far as they can throw you, but that doesn’t mean they won’t do business with you: it just means they do their best to try and figure out what will the splat zone be, so they can jump out of it when the next tantrum inevitably comes.
SHS and the rest of the right-wing media are screaming about a group of Democrats “partying on the beach” in Puerto Rico during the shutdown.
The story from the Democrats:
While I’m sure they spend some time on the beach there (with, apparently, a lot of lobbyists), SHS complaining about the Democrats attempting to do something about the mess in Puerto Rico after her boss utterly failed to doing anything beyond lobbing a few rolls of paper towels is a bit rich.
Some thirty years ago I was playing the devil’s advocate with a guy who was rabidly pro-nuclear power. I said, “Make it a choice. Say 20% of the power generated by your utility is nuclear. If you check the ‘no-nukes’ box on the application you can use 80% of the average KWh for your size home, then >click< it gets shut off—”
“—Yeah, yeah! That’d be great!”
“And if you check the pro-nuke box, every few months you get a lead-lined tackle-box to watch over for the next 10,000 years.”
When he sputtered that was not fair I simply said, “You want the benefit, you pay the price.” I did not mention coal plant enthusiasts should get a box of mercury-contaminated fly ash instead of the tackle box.
Not just Canada, but all of our allies. It will take generations to repair the damage.
Furthermore, it’s also trading partners who are not our allies who can no longer trust us. When Donny’s trade war with China started up, China stopped buying our soybeans. They didn’t say, “I guess we don’t need those soybeans after all,” they found other suppliers, Brazil and Argentina most likely. Even if Donny comes to his senses (Ha!) or we throw his ass out how long will it take before they start buying from us again when the stability of the supply is questionable?
Sux to be a soybean farmer right now.
You left out the ketchup. Well-done steaks with ketchup. The chefs are not sobbing into their toques, they’re barfing.
During the campaign I read an interview of a contractor who’d been building in Atlantic City when Donnie was going nuts building casinos there. He said they would add a “Trump surcharge” on their bids so that when he inevitably defaulted on paying them, they’d at least make a little bit of profit.
Would you want to pay your contractors if you knew you were being overcharged?
You’d pay the sum you agreed to pay. Always.
Well, he also mentioned a new guy would come in and underbid the old hands after doing an ordinary cost analysis and leaving off the surcharge. He’d get stiffed and go broke.
“Trump administration announces it will build the Wall out of soybeans.”
Hey, it’s a fun game of “Which Came First?”
Would you pad the price with a surcharge if the guy who contracted your services was known for fucking over contractors, first?
I’d certainly build progress payments into the contract.
It looks like we haven’t sent it all to Nevada. “There are 1,565 metric tons of used nuclear fuel in storage at nuclear plant sites in Arkansas.”
The population of the state is three million; 1,565 tons is 3,130,000 lbs. Everyone could bury a pound in their backyard.
John Kelly says Trump wanted to pull the U.S. out of NATO, proposing the idea several times last year.
He should be impeached on that alone. Shit.
There will be a 70th Anniversary Celebration in DC this spring.
James G. Stavridis, the former supreme allied commander of NATO
NATO had planned to hold a leaders meeting in Washington to mark its 70th anniversary in April, akin to the 50-year celebration that was hosted by President Bill Clinton in 1999. But this year’s meeting has been downgraded to a foreign ministers gathering, as some diplomats feared that Mr. Trump could use a Washington summit meeting to renew his attacks on the alliance.
Well, here’s a little bit of cluster fuck reversal, at least (Reuters):
I would like to point out that I have no recollection of ever posting that. In addition, it does not match my style of writing/posting.
The link after my name in the quote does not link to such a quote.
In searching on both sentences in the quote, no matches were found:
One might suspect that someone is making shit up.
He quoted Desert Dog, (right above CIB’s post), and somehow attributed it to you.
I didn’t do a ‘find’.