zoogs Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Yes, I agree. Stimulus spending just doesn't have the same patriotic oomph that defense spending does, however. I love the F-35. It's a beautiful plane. Like many other military technology projects, malignment in its early years may yet result in refinement as it matures. That said, the way that military projects creatively entrench themselves -- by spreading out their jobs impact to a lot of different states and make it politically costly for an awful number of politicians to oppose them -- *should* be challenged. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Sooo....you're saying military contracts should be required to only produce jobs in one state? Link to comment
zoogs Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 No, I'm saying they spread it out for the express purpose of making burgeoning projects impossible to kill. I don't have any solutions really, but it's something I'd be encouraged to see challenged. There's not enough accountability there, but of course, if I'm on the company's side I engineer as much protection for the project as I can, to shield it from political whimsy. I suppose there's arguments for both sides here. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 You're not saying it but you are saying it. Link to comment
Moiraine Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 You're not saying it but you are saying it. No he's not. He's saying the jobs shouldn't be spread out purely for political reasons. If they are spread out it should be for practical or logistical or economic reasons. Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Infrastructure spending is pretty important. We definitely need to make a ton of improvements there. It would be a great jobs generator, too. Did anyone look at the infrastructure plan they floated a few weeks ago? Didn't it essentially boil down to giving tax breaks to private companies to create new infrastructure for us, after which they can collect tolls on the roads? If so, I'd much rather have the program administered by the government. Link to comment
zoogs Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 I actually thought the F-35's troubles were a very nonpartisan source of concern. There's a lot of coverage on it at Jalopnik; you can start here and click through to see some of these arguments fleshed out more. Back on the topic of Twitter: The Trump campaign’s feud with Twitter began when the campaign wanted to pay Twitter to add an emoji of a bag of money flying away anytime a Twitter user typed the hashtag #CrookedHillary. Twitter has offered this kind of “custom emoji” service to a number of deep-pocketed advertising customers. But according to a senior Trump campaign official, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey balked at the request, and the Trump campaign retaliated by canceling their advertising deal with Twitter. Wow, that's extraordinary. Good for Twitter for not playing along. Link to comment
NM11046 Posted December 15, 2016 Author Share Posted December 15, 2016 Now if only we could create an emoji and get Twitter to use it anytime someone typed #TinyManHands or #OrangeChaGladYouElectedTrump ... will take suggestions of #Hastags that would trigger it as well as emoji's from the group. I'm thinking: #TinyManHands #OrangeYouGladYouElectedHim and for emoji's: A smiley with a clan hat on, wearing a business suit with a Russian sickle in one hand and a big pot of money in the other. A big flashing sign that says "Got Cha USA"! or "Rigged by Russia" Link to comment
NM11046 Posted December 15, 2016 Author Share Posted December 15, 2016 So I saw this ... which made me go read Vanity Fair, which I don't typically. It's worth checking out if you have time ... the front page is heavily headlined and content includes info on him as well. Good reads. http://www.vanityfair.com Link to comment
Lil' Red Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 So I saw this ... which made me go read Vanity Fair, which I don't typically. It's worth checking out if you have time ... the front page is heavily headlined and content includes info on him as well. Good reads. http://www.vanityfair.com I'm not sure what he is trying to accomplish with these types of tweets. His shots at the NY Times have been a boon for them. Link to comment
NM11046 Posted December 15, 2016 Author Share Posted December 15, 2016 But he followed up with this one - to hard to figure out the difference in articles: Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 LOL....sometimes critics writings are so ridiculous it's funny. I love a really good restaurant. However, this is the type of place I would have no desire to eat at. No, it's not because Trump won the election..etc. I just lose my appetite when someone famous like this thinks I am going to want to eat things named after his children..etc....when that the kid probably has nothing to do with that dish let alone actually eats it. It's no different than my aversion to anything related to Paris Hilton or the Kardashians. Link to comment
NM11046 Posted December 15, 2016 Author Share Posted December 15, 2016 I love the piece on his hair evolution. Link to comment
zoogs Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 25,000 people who never heard of Graydon Carter in their lives are now raucously rooting for his ouster from a magazine. I'm assuming he's the author of this restaurant review. #freedomofthepress Link to comment
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