THE ERA OF TRUMP

[Okeefenokee]

Does anyone know how to look at the google street view images from the past?

Is there an archive where you can time travel to what their cameras recorded about ten years ago?

[Okeefenokee]

Does anyone know how to look at the google street view images from the past?

Is there an archive where you can time travel to what their cameras recorded about ten years ago?

I found it. Posting here,

viewtopic.php?f=64&t=1577&p=53179#p53179

[Smitty-48]

All of Trump's threats against Canada bounce back on the American consumer, I'd actually like to see the Americans follow through with their threats to put an import duty on energy, because as of right now, I'm getting hosed on energy prices, while the surplus gets dumped to Americans for cheap, so I'm basically subsidizing cheaper power for Americans, might as well spread the pain around, and whatever problems it causes for Canadian state run energy companies, that's all the Liberals problem, and the Liberals are the ones who drove the prices up in the first place, so let them burn.

I got some loyalty to Ontario Power Generation and Hydro One? Hells no, November Criminals, stabbing me in the back, I'd like to see them go bankrupt, so we could buy power on the open market.

Trump's ingenious plan, is to lower the corporate tax rate, without cutting spending, by charging the American consumer more for power and gas, which, have at er, America, straight up transfer of wealth from you to Wall Street, welcome to our world; enjoy.

Trump is just adopting the Canadian corporate socialism model, if you've ever wondered why everything was so expensive in Canada, you're about to find out. Gas tax, power tax, lumber tax, milk tax, protectionism is just a scam, which favours narrow entrenched interests, on the backs of the middle class.

Canadian lumber is subsidized? Canadian power is subsidized? That's a direct transfer of wealth, from Canadians, to you, why you would want that diverted to corporate interests, is beyond me, that's the deal we have here, why you wanna be Canadians? You got a sweet deal, we're the ones getting screwed.

[Okeefenokee]

[Okeefenokee]

Tucker's making his name.

[Okeefenokee]

New York Times scraps 'female genital mutilation' for being 'culturally loaded' term

A top New York Times editor decided the paper shouldn’t use the term “female genital mutilation” because the phrase is too “culturally loaded” and widens a divide between the Western world and “people who follow the rite.”

Health and Science editor Celia Dugger said she came to the conclusion to refer to the act of removing the female genitalia of young girls as “genital cutting” during a trip to Africa in the 1990s. She spoke about her decision in a Times mailbag article in response to a reader’s question.

“I never minced words in describing exactly what form of cutting was involved, and there are many gradations of severity, and the terrible damage it did, and stayed away from the euphemistic circumcision, but chose to use the less culturally loaded term, genital cutting,” Dugger wrote. “There’s a gulf between the Western (and some African) advocates who campaign against the practice and the people who follow the rite, and I felt the language used widened that chasm.”

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/24/ne ... -term.html

Next we'll be hearing that beheading is a culturally loaded term. We should call it...... selective amputation.

[Okeefenokee]

Member all those times you heard that there were only one or two cases of fraudulent voting ever? Never happens. Never.

The Board’s investigation is helpful toward that end. It found 508 ineligible votes cast. About 87 percent of those (441) were felons who voted. State law prohibits felons from voting until their sentence is fully served, including probation and parole. It is believed that many of the felons who voted did not realize they could not vote while on probation.

The probe found 41 non-citizens, from 28 countries, voted. All were here legally, but were not eligible to vote. The audit also found 24 cases of double-voting and two cases of voter impersonation (one by mail and one in person).

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinio ... 86019.html

[Smitty-48]

Meanwhile, back in the real world...

Proposed Lumber Duties Will Harm Consumers, Housing Affordability

April 25, 2017

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) today denounced the decision by the U.S. Department of Commerce to impose a 20 percent countervailing duty on Canadian lumber imports, saying it will harm American home buyers, consumers and businesses while failing to resolve the underlying trade dispute between the two nations.

“NAHB is deeply disappointed in this short-sighted action by the U.S. Department of Commerce that will ultimately do nothing to resolve issues causing the U.S.-Canadian lumber trade dispute but will negatively harm American consumers and housing affordability,” said NAHB Chairman Granger MacDonald, a home builder and developer from Kerrville, Texas.

Thirty-three percent of the lumber used in the U.S. last year was imported. The bulk of the imported lumber – more than 95 percent – came from Canada.

“This means that imports are essential for the construction of affordable new homes and to make improvements on existing homes,” said MacDonald.

The trade agreement that has governed Canadian imports of softwood lumber since 2006 effectively expired at the end of 2016. Uncertainty surrounding a new trade pact is the primary catalyst for the 22 percent spike in the Random Lengths Composite Price Index for lumber since the beginning of the year.

These price hikes have negative repercussions for millions of Americans. It takes about 15,000 board feet to build a typical single-family home and the lumber price increase in the first quarter of this year has added almost $3,600 to the price of a new home.

https://www.nahb.org/en/news-and-public ... ility.aspx

[Okeefenokee]

[Hastur]

I think it's getting boring already. He's Sea-Lioning in every interview. It's his only trick.