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OT: American Politics

Re: OT: Canadian Politics

anne25 said:
You really believe that will happen? I've been hearing that type of promise from various governments for the past 40+ years. As soon as there is a down-tick in the economy, a change in government, or the government of the day needs finds funding for other promises, the military budget is usually one of the first ministries to be raided.
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The bulk of the spending is for 2020-2021, not that far off, just a election away. On top of that, the CPC isn't a party that is likely to cut LPC military spending promises, so unless the NDP somehow win in 2019 I'm not worried about the political winds changing that much.

As for the economy, downturns happen, the military gets the brunt of it, but at least they are looking like they will be trying to increase funding as opposed to saying everything is fine now, no need to spend more.

A good first step in the right direction, a plan on how to do it, all that's needed now is a 4 years of follow through.
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

Altair said:
haha, get real.

70 percent of your 5 best years after 25 years of service, 19 years left to go.

I'll be 49, decent enough time to retire.

Granted, this is based on me not dying in a godforsaken hell hole somewhere. :pepper:thumbup:
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like edmonton?
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

worm said:
like edmonton?
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Simply due to the training ground in Wainwright, I know for a fact I will see Edmonton again in the future, I just hope to never end up on 118 Ave at night alone ever again.
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

Altair said:
Simply due to the training ground in Wainwright, I know for a fact I will see Edmonton again in the future, I just hope to never end up on 118 Ave at night alone ever again.
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lol

i lived on 118 ave (technically in highlands)
it was fine
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

worm said:
lol

i lived on 118 ave (technically in highlands)
it was fine
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118 ave, east of 97th street up until rexall place is not a fun area to be after dark. If you're heading south closer to 112 ave, even less so.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
Habsy will be in to tell us "ha ha told you" in 3, 2, 1......
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I don't think anyone here has said a word about Comey's testimony turning into the smoking gun. I can only speak for myself but my opinion on this has been the same for months. Regardless of what comes out, the Republicans won't impeach him until he becomes so toxic that he's hurting them badly in the run up to 2018 or 2020. If they choose to, they've got him on the 25th easy and have since the day he stepped in the oval.
 
At this point my hope is that he muddles through more or less like this, in constant scandal, unable to get much of anything done due to general ineptness. The Dems win a bunch of shit back in 2018 and play Republican style obstructionist (which wouldn't be hard with this muppet, he's rarely able to get out of his own way) until 2020 when he's stomped out in a general election.
 
wait a sec - comey smartly just listed facts, with zero editorializing, all of which are a) incredibly damning in terms of obstruction, and b) proof that everything the "anonymous sources" claimed was true.

of course, i will keep saying that impeachment is the last thing we should want.
 
and oh yeah - the refusal to answer (or to even give a legal reason why they weren't amswering) by those 2 guys today is kind of insane.
 
MindzEye said:
At this point my hope is that he muddles through more or less like this, in constant scandal, unable to get much of anything done due to general ineptness. The Dems win a bunch of shit back in 2018 and play Republican style obstructionist (which wouldn't be hard with this muppet, he's rarely able to get out of his own way) until 2020 when he's stomped out in a general election.
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That's the dream. Frightening, however, is that all the endless ineptness has been 100% self inflicted. This administration will eventually need to deal with a crisis that's not of its own making. Yikes!
 
interesting piece on climate change practices in the US. follow the money and subsidies.

Two years ago, Kansas repealed a law requiring that 20 percent of the state’s electric power come from renewable sources by 2020, seemingly a step backward on energy in a deeply conservative state.

Yet by the time the law was scrapped, it had become largely irrelevant. Kansas blew past that 20 percent target in 2014, and last year it generated more than 30 percent of its power from wind. The state may be the first in the country to hit 50 percent wind generation in a year or two, unless Iowa gets there first.

Some of the fastest progress on clean energy is occurring in states led by Republican governors and legislators, and states carried by Donald J. Trump in the presidential election.

The five states that get the largest percentage of their power from wind turbines — Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota, Oklahoma and North Dakota — all voted for Mr. Trump. So did Texas, which produces the most wind power in absolute terms. In fact, 69 percent of the wind power produced in the country comes from states that Mr. Trump carried in November.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/climate/renewable-energy-push-is-strongest-in-the-reddest-states.html?_r=1
 
CH1 said:
I'll sum it up. Trump is incredibly dumb but not impeachable (yet)
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There is still a lot there.

1) Trump asks if Comey wants to keep his job
2) Trump asks for loyalty
3) Trump clears the room and then asks Comey to drop the Flynn thing.
4) Trump asks Comey to say that there is nothing to the Russia thing... lift the cloud
5) Trump asks Comey to say that there is nothing to the Russia thing... lift the cloud again
6) Trump tells Comey he did a "thing" for McCabe.
7) Trump tells Comey remember that "thing", lift the cloud.
8) Trump fires Comey
9) Trump tells the Russians he fired Comey cause of the investigation.
10) Trump tells an interviewer from NBC he fired Comey cause of Russia.

Thats maybe not quite there, but its close to the intent needed for obstruction.
 
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