Trump's Second Term

CNBC: I do wonder if you're starting to get concerned about the markets now that these losses are picking up

BESSENT: We're focused on the real economy ... I'm not concerned about a little bit of volatility over three weeks ... I can't tell you the market is gonna go up today, tomorrow, next week

Down −310.35 (0.75%) so far today
 
Jack by the hedge said:
My (limited) experience of wines from BC tells me you'll be okay without CA wines. My similarly limited experience of wines from Ontario makes me recommend wines from BC.
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I can't disagree...the wine business here is not fantastic. Other than Icewines, they don't do much well.
 
Yeah, this is gonna be great.

Promising to drive “a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion,” Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday outlined plans for an aggressive rollback of environmental regulations.

In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece and an EPA news release, Zeldin announced that he intends to reconsider more than a dozen core EPA rules and regulations, including those pertaining to emissions standards for vehicles, pollution from power plants and the finding that provides the scientific basis for addressing climate change.


“Today marks the death of the Green New Scam,” Zeldin wrote in The Wall Street Journal, arguing that his deregulation plan would create an environment where “businesses can thrive and infrastructure can be built.” He added that he wants to reassess rules that, in his view, “throttled oil and gas production and unfairly targeted coal-fired power plants,” and suggested that his proposed actions would roll back “trillions of dollars in regulatory costs.”

The EPA announced that it will revisit water pollution limits for coal plants, air quality standards for small particles and the mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions by large emitters like oil and gas companies, among other rules.
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EPA, protecting business from responsibility.

Thanks maga-nuts.
 
Jack by the hedge said:
Back to leaded gasoline next? I mean, I'm joking, but in that hope I'm joking sort of way.
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And Great Lakes tributaries starting on fire, again.

The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared Until 1969​

Despite being much smaller than previous fires, the river blaze in Cleveland 50 years ago became a symbol for the nascent environmental movement. Time magazine published an article on the fire—with an accompanying photo from an incident in 1952. National Geographic featured the river in their December 1970 cover story “Our Ecological Crisis” (but managed to get the date of the fire wrong). Congress established the Environmental Protection Agency in January 1970, for the first time creating a federal bureau to oversee pollution regulations. In April 1970, Donovan was one of 1,000 students marching down to the river for the country’s first Earth Day. The nation, it seemed, had suddenly woken up to the realities of industrial pollution, and the Cuyahoga River was the symbol of calamity.
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Earth Day, Smearth Day, Think of all the hard work the EPA, conservationists and environmentalists put in to turning things around, and now this idiot administration is gleefully planning to ◊◊◊◊ on all those hard won battles. Every day, I hate Trump, his sycophants, his administration, and maga-cultists even more. They all suck.
 
zooterkin said:
Did he ever take instruction enough to pass the driving test in the first place?
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His driving instructor came to him with tears in his eyes, and said, "Sir, you are the finest student I have ever had. I have told the DMV that there is no need for you to even take a test."

ETA: My mistake, he actually said, "What did Mr. Adams do before he let you pull out into traffic? Well, I mean besides praying, let's say."
 
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Pete Hegseth to overhaul US military lawyers in effort to relax rules of war

The defense secretary has empowered his lawyer Tim Parlatore to remake the judge advocate general’s corps
The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is expected in the coming weeks to start a sweeping overhaul of the judge advocate general’s corps as part of an effort to make the US military less restricted by the laws of armed conflict, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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The changes are poised to have implications across the military, as Hegseth’s office considers changes to the interpretation of the US rules of engagement on the battlefield to the way that charges are brought under the military justice system.
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But remaking the Jag corps is a priority for Hegseth, who on Friday commissioned his personal lawyer and former naval officer Tim Parlatore as a navy commander to oversee the effort carrying the weight and authority of the defense secretary’s office.
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The overhaul of the Jag corps will be aimed at retraining military lawyers, the people said, so that they provide more expansive legal advice to commanders to pursue more aggressive tactics and take a more lenient approach in charging soldiers with battlefield crimes.
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www.theguardian.com

Pete Hegseth to overhaul US military lawyers in effort to relax rules of war

The defense secretary has empowered his lawyer Tim Parlatore to remake the judge advocate general’s corps
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Andy_Ross said:
Stable Genius Donald is about to place a 200% tax on Guinness the week of St Patrick's Day.
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I had a Guinness on the way back from a hike the other day. it was $9.25. I get that im old now, but that's nearly 1000% inflation from my college era pints...which is obscene. Destroy the environment, collapse the economy, eliminate freedom--all bad, but not on the level of making Guinness unaffordable. :mad::oops::beerflag:
 
Immigration officials have reportedly removed all migrants being held at Guantanamo Bay and returned them to the US, just weeks after sending the first batch to the US military base in Cuba.

According to US media reports, all the remaining migrants detained there were transported to another immigration facility in Louisiana.

www.bbc.co.uk

Migrants held at Guantanamo transferred to US, Pentagon confirms

It is unclear why the migrants have been removed from the US military base.
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Andy_Ross said:
This is the story that upset Donald and prompted his WSJ rant

Trump Family Has Held Deal Talks With Binance Following Crypto Exchange’s Guilty Plea
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If there's one thing we know it's that if Trump is denying it, it's assuredly true.
Andy_Ross said:
Judges better lawyer up!
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He won't stop until he gets someone killed.
 
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