BobLibDem:
True enough, one doesn’t get to be an admiral without some leadership skills. But, this still sounds like “Take fifty pounds off my weight and gush about me like a schoolgirl and good things will happen to you, buh-lieve me!”
His Wiki bio shows essentially zero administrative experience at any level.
elucidator:
“Corpse” leaps to mind.
I learned here that “corps” and “corpse” are pronounced differently.
Man, can you imagine being the next President and having to see a portrait of Trump hanging somewhere in the White House…like over your bed in the Presidential bedroom? It’d probably look a lot cooler (and save money!) if they did it in velvet like those old rock posters and put a blacklight on it. His hair would really look on fire then.
Um, the government. The COE can plan, make ready troops and materiel and present action initiatives all they want…they can’t just act unilaterally unless in an an urgent situation in a combat zone, since their funding relies on the taxpayers. Although in the case of Puerto Rico, the government should have had the foresight to have the COE completely ready to go given that there was plenty of advance warning in the timing of the hurricane and it’s strength, especially since the sheer destruction it had already wreaked before it got to PR was well known to anyone with a TV.
FoieGrasIsEvil:
Although in the case of Puerto Rico, the government should have had the foresight to have the COE completely ready to go given that there was plenty of advance warning in the timing of the hurricane and it’s strength, especially since the sheer destruction it had already wreaked before it got to PR was well known to anyone with a TV.
When you put it like that, it seems like the government was either incompetent or uncaring.
I **will **get to where I can read “COE” and not think it means “Church of England”. I will .
Why should you? The proper acronym is USACE, which is also their sub-domain at army . mil
irae
March 29, 2018, 8:42pm
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MAGA = My Attorneys Got Attorneys!
Well…I’m sure you recollect whom was Commander in Chief at the time…
“Sir, we have an extremely urgent situation in Puerto Rico!”
“I’m golfing, and plus it’s not like they’re an actual state with real US citizens or anything…shit, they were all unemployed anyway, let them fix it. They need something to do.”
Zakalwe
March 29, 2018, 11:26pm
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eschereal the seriously twisted:
Why should you? The proper acronym is USACE, which is also their sub-domain at army . mil
I deal with the Corps a fair amount at work. Internally, I always use ACOE.
What’s your impression of your interaction with them?
Rick_Kitchen:
Michael Cohen has hired a lawyer of his own, David Schwartz, who is on the talk show circuit and doing a really bad job, from Cohen’s point of view.make the lawsuit moot , then?he admitted that the NDA just before the election was an attempt to help Trump’s election , and therefore could be seen as an illegal campaign contribution.Schwartz tried several arguments as to why that was a good thing: a-everyone should want an employee like this ; b-Kelly and Cohen had since reconciled, which Kelly said was not true; c-Cohen was somehow trying to “help” Kelly. Kelly’s live audience laughed at him.
Michael Cohen’s lawyer gets laughed at by studio audience during disastrous NBC interview – ThinkProgress
The ratings for the reveal—when David Schwartz pulls off the latex mask to reveal “he” is Hillary Clinton—will be phenomenal.
emphasis mine
EPA’s Pruitt lived in DC condo connected to energy lobbyist
ABC News first reported Thursday that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt had been living in a building on a leafy street about a block from the U.S. Capitol. Records show three units inside the building are listed as belonging to a corporation co-owned by the wife of J. Steven Hart, the chairman and CEO of the powerhouse lobbying firm Williams and Jensen PLLC. It was not immediately clear how much Pruitt was paying for the home.
The firm’s clients include Exxon Mobil Corp. and the major liquefied natural gas exporter Cheniere Energy Inc.
A Republican who previously served as the state attorney general of Oklahoma, Pruitt has long been a champion of the oil and gas industry. In the year he has served as the Trump administration’s top environmental official, Pruitt has moved to scrap, gut or replace numerous environmental regulations opposed by the industry while boosting the continued burning of fossil fuels, which is the primary cause of climate change.
In December, Pruitt and members of his staff spent about $40,000 in taxpayer funds to fly to Morocco to help encourage the North African kingdom to import liquefied natural gas from the United States. Cheniere, the lobbying client of Hart’s firm, is currently the only exporter of liquefied natural gas from the continental United States.
In a statement to The Associated Press, Hart said Pruitt is a casual friend from Oklahoma who moved into the building in early 2017. Hart said he had no contact with Pruitt for many months, other than a brief exchange at the National Prayer Breakfast in February.
“Pruitt signed a market based, short-term lease for a condo owned partially by my wife,” Hart said, according to a statement released by his firm. “Pruitt paid all rent owed as agreed to in the lease. My wife does not, and has not ever lobbied the EPA on any matters.”
Hart’s wife, Vicki Hart, is also a lobbyist, focusing on health care issues.
Some aren’t buying it:
“Scott Pruitt, who is supposed to protect our families from pollution, literally lived in a fossil fuel lobbyist’s house,” said Michael Brune, the executive director of the Sierra Club. “The administrator of the EPA should stand up to corporate polluters, not live in their homes while pushing their agenda at every turn.”
Historians are going to have a lot of trouble definitively answering the question “who was the most corrupt member of the Trump Administration?”
Zakalwe
March 30, 2018, 12:30am
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The Corps or the people in the Corps? The people have struck me as well-intended hard workers who really want to do the right thing. The Corps as an entity? Under-funded for their mandates, arrogant, and unprepared for the modern world.
jasg
March 30, 2018, 12:53am
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To me, COE means Cab Over Engine
zoid
March 30, 2018, 12:58am
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LOL - I always think Center Of Excellence
To me, it always means the South Hill rapist .
Zakalwe:
The Corps or the people in the Corps? The people have struck me as well-intended hard workers who really want to do the right thing. The Corps as an entity? Under-funded for their mandates, arrogant, and unprepared for the modern world.
Arrogant and unprepared? In what way?
Tangent
March 30, 2018, 6:26am
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For me, it’s Conservation of Energy.
Tangent
March 30, 2018, 6:33am
18624
Nah, that’s easy. It’s Vladimir Putin.
