Joementum posted:

The amendment is agreed to 90-10.

We now move to the Shaheen (D-NH) amendment to expand medicaid and health plan coverage to treat substance abuse and mental health.

On Terra Firma posted:

A small town in North Carolina rejected solar power for a totally rational reason.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...n-a6771526.html


Retired science teacher. My loving god.

That article comments posted posted:

It's called the "shadow effect".

Solar systems generate energy and create shade. Solar Aspect helps make a site economic.

The reporter seems to be "itching to be smarter than you" by making the retired science teacher look stupid.

Aliquid posted:

The difference between HuffPo and NPR's answers is really striking

quote:

Interview Highlights

Susan Glasser, editor of Politico

"I think our role is to play referee, is to provide independent, critical thinking — but not critical news reporting on this. We have an opinion section," Glasser says. "Everybody has an opinion about Donald Trump. So our role isn't to do that. It's to provide original reporting."

She puts it simply: "If you want to call him a racist, you can call him a racist. But it's not our job to inform your use of adjectives."

Ryan Grim, Washington bureau chief of The Huffington Post

"We have a certain obligation," Grim says. "When we see a strain of hate- and fear-mongering rising to a certain level, the press does have an obligation to try to call that out and point out what it is that's happening."

Grim adds: "The idea that you would block all Muslims — including American citizens — from coming into the United States is not just absurd, it's not just unconstitutional. It's evil, and it's fascist. And it's OK to go ahead and say that, and in fact, media organizations ought to."

Michael Oreskes, senior vice president of news and editorial director of NPR

"I think our rules are really quite clear — and what they're based on is actually our bond with our audience, not the relationship to the candidates. I don't actually worry too much about fairness to Donald Trump, but I do worry a lot about the tone of our journalism," Oreskes says.

"Our job is to be open to as many different kinds of listeners and readers as we possibly can reach, and the more you sound like you're calling someone a name, the less people will listen to you."

The bottom line, Oreskes says: "Our moral role in society is to provide as much information to as many people as is possible."

SSNeoman posted:

Talibananas posted:

If someone attempts to murder a bunch of people and fails, should they be sentenced less than one who succeeds? If so, is it because they are less of a danger to society or because their punishment would do less to deter others from similar attempts or ??

FAUXTON posted:

The problem with a detailed public audit is that complex financial instruments are being exposed to the scrutiny of loving idiots with power. I trust the fed, even assuming the worst of what you say, over the possibility of the fuckers of the tortilla coast shattering the bedrock of the global financial system because they are too dim to figure out how sovereign finance works on a basic level.

Aliquid posted:

lol, Professor of History at Hillsdale college

quote:

4.0 out of 5 stars
Extremely enlighenting
By Kindle Customer on February 7, 2013
Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
This is a book that describes better the realities of the Robber Barons of the early 20th century than many of the things that I encountered in school and also while biased in its own way gives a different way of looking at things that fall better into a logic pattern than the idea that the robber barons were just greedy and destroyed things. When you look at ford is plants hired millions the same with many of the others. The towns they built in prospered and standard of living increased, while there were poor we do not always know what made those people poor. I know people today that are poor but you do not see them trying to better their station. There have been people that found ways out of poverty to become huge successes, look at Ophra Winfrey as a prime example.

TheDeadlyShoe posted:

It makes sense that the founders are a big deal in the USA since the Constitution is the bedrock of the government - moreso than many nations - and they wrote that. So there's a definite moral authority that anyone and everyone can draw on.

Of course, much like everything else they touch, the far right has muddled the facts beyond recognition and added deific veneration on top of everything else.

Rygar201 posted:

This isn't even what happened though. The NSA was spying on foreign officials, it's literal purpose, and those officials happened to communicate with Congressmen. Like, it's literally the NSA working as intended.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

as a very minor character. its about the brave sellswords who tried to save them or some poo poo.

Joementum posted:

Do you mean Professor Warren?