Yes. Collector drool drips (or not) way after manufacturing and marketing, and is unforceable. “They made a million of these and no-one wanted them even then”, would an appraiser comment on a Special Collector’s Edition piece.
Talks are continuing at rapid pace and actually it’s good they’re over as they were quite boring. But at least the oil price is coming down in the near distance.
This makes sense–NOT. Banning the press corps from the press office.
God forbid they should find out what’s going on and, you know, report it.
Pentagon bans journalists from press office, designating it a classified space
The change creates a new barrier compared with previous administrations, under which the office was an open room where reporters could stop by the desks of military public affairs officials without escorts.
The Defense Department has designated its press office a classified space and banned journalists from accessing it to meet with the public affairs officers who have traditionally answered their questions.
The change in security status, which took effect in recent weeks, was confirmed by four people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the nonpublic matter.
While Pentagon reporters are still largely barred from the building, as litigation over the agency’s press rules continues, the change would have an outsize impact on them upon a possible return — restricting access to a space they have for years been able to walk freely.
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The move comes amid a months-long legal battle over whether journalists should have unescorted access to unclassified spaces in the Pentagon. Members of the media traditionally have been allowed to access public spaces in the Defense Department, talking to sources and attending regular briefings.
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The latest designation creates a scenario in which even if journalists are able to access the Pentagon, their ability to interact with the department’s spokespeople will be reduced.
The public affairs office used to be an open room where reporters could stop by the desks of military public affairs officials without escorts.
It was a meeting area, and in previous administrations the Pentagon press secretary or other officials would regularly hold off-camera gaggles and take questions from the news media, whose members would gather on couches in the room.
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It’s got to be the couches, amirite? Couches only encourage hanky-panky. We can’t have reporters sitting on couches near government officials. That won’t lead anywhere good.
A tobacco giant donated $5 million to President Donald Trump’s super PAC just days before his administration rolled out a new policy that could prove enormously lucrative for the industry
Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate.
Morbidly curious to see what possible rationization they could come up with for dismantling a vital ocean/climate monitoring system, all I could find in the Times article was:
First bolding - yeah, right - nimbler. The euphemisms they come up with.
Second bolding - what?
If you’re getting that test, it’s because your health care provider is concerned about your cognition, not that they believe you’re a stable sweeper genius. And if you’re getting it done for the fourth time, you should realize something is seriously wrong with your behavior.
Why is the world conspiring to spoil America’s 250th birthday, and, more important, Donald Trump’s 80th? Like a Roman emperor, Trump has busied himself with self-aggrandizing public works, such as a massive triumphal arch, and is staging gladiatorial sports in his own honor, in the form of a UFC fight on the White House lawn on June 14. A string of recent setbacks reveals that Trump is no omnipotent emperor after all, but an American president who—more and more—is forced to fold.
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Actually, this is a pretty happy, uplifting article for The Rest of Us. It might put a smile on your face.
