This article makes it sound so much worse.

Basically everyone, the Generals, the Defense Department, and the White House lied or didn't know where the carrier was going, and it took a third party publication to do some detective work to find out where the carrier was actually headed. But carrier groups aren't some hidden asset, they're big ass ships and it's relatively easy for any country to quickly find out where they are, so there wasn't any point to subterfuge if that's what they were actually trying to do.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-da...social_twitter

https://twitter.com/kslnewsradio/sta...74319155724288




A) What's up w/ Chaffetz? Not running in 2018 is one thing, but not finishing the term seems to indicate something out of the ordinary, no?

B) Would the current number 2 on House Oversight take his spot as Chair, or would it be someone else not currently on that committee?

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B) I assume they would move up someone and then appoint another person to take that person's place.

I read something somewhere that I can't find a link to making the point that the specific people who should have been thinking about where naval assets are located and are going and how that information should be incorporated into the administration's messaging are not Trump or Mattis or McMaster, but rather various assistance secretaries and deputy assistance secretaries who simply aren't there because Trump is too much of a ****-up to staff his own administration. That explanation is really much worse than the administration just lying for public consumption because it really calls into question the administration's ability to create and execute a strategy. If they can't track where a carrier is for purposes of just talking about it, how can they track it for purposes of using it?

Chaffetz just doesn't want to get yelled at town halls anymore then run for either hatch's seat in 18 or gov in 20 then pres in 28. Gonna be tough for him to do that under the public eye with his current seat. Funny how he was the biggest loser for trump beating clinton, he was gonna be the biggest R star ever in a clinton pres with his million investigations he certainly was gonna do.

I'm currently updating the spreadsheet of this thread's development, and now saw the Alternative Facts were introduced on Day 3 of Trump's presidency.

Could have sworn it was during the campaign.

Well, they did give 500k to the inauguration. You don't mess with your funding.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/20/politi...est/index.html

Great journalism here...

Who is that moron?

That's the first time they were named as such, AFAIK; though I wasn't paying as much attention to details before Day 1, so Kellyanne certainly could have plagiarized the term from someone else.

Having an incumbent who isn't as personally loathed as Chaffetz would help the Rs keep the seat by removing a lot of attack ad ammunition

Republicans are trying to push another super-quick vote on AHCA 2.0 next week, they've essentially caved to the Freedom Caucus.

I'm with Dave Weigel here, I think what might happen here is that they eventually pass something through the House and Trump just declares victory without signing anything into law, because there's no chance anything that gets Freedom Caucus house votes makes it through the Senate even with reconciliation.

Pretty sure that Brady not showing up was personally the most damaging thing that's happened to Trump this month.

Gisele: "You go and you'll regret it for the rest of your (short) life."

Tom: "But he'll be so sad."

Is it 44th or 3rd? Under OECD data I rank for "Age 25-64 %" and the U.S. is 3rd behind Canada and Russia.

edit: lol. looks like you didn't realize you were looking at the alphabetical order. tables, graphs and spreadsheets ... how do i read 'em? it fit your narrative so you just ran with it huh?

i'll go ahead and disregard all the dribble you posted after that post.

So the GOP strategy is: if we can't agree on actual governing, can we at least agree to pretend like we're governing?

Unfortunately, this isn't the alternative universe where Senate dems have the guts to vote it through (or not oppose it) and Trump has to veto it.

Which means the bill will be even worse for the average American than the last one was. But anything to undo Obama, right?

Trump would hope to put heat on Senate Republicans. He hates Graham and McCain anyway. I'm not sure why they just didn't do this in the first place.

Really the main goal is to be able to blame the Dems no matter what, as we saw when the first AHCA vote was pulled because those D meanieheads wouldn't vote for it despite Rs having ~20 more votes than it needed to pass.

NFL clearly needs more black players. I mean there were only 50 black players who played on the Patriots roster last year.

Does Jasoninthehouse become the worst twitter handle ever of the name of a reboot of the LL Cool J sitcom Man of the House?

how is Australia only at 10% of 25-34 year olds? Would've guessed they were similar to the US, Canada, and the more educated European countries.

i'd like to see the actual OECD report(s) where this data is being pulled from (but am too lazy to search for it). the AUS data jumped out at me too (as surprising).

point stands that ymmv was pounding his chest with alphabetized data.

Trump basically got cucked by Gisele. Sad!

You might be thinking of "fake news" which definitely was during the campaign.

Does anyone have the the weight specifications for the players who attended in 2015 and 2017? Would be interesting to compare total tonnage visited. I'm guessing Trump got a higher ratio on offensive lineman.