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Time to read THE LAST CENTURION?

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Re: Time to read THE LAST CENTURION?
Post by gcomeau   » Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:23 am

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The delivery of the stimulus checks is now apparently being delayed several more days because Trump demanded his name be put on them.

No, not joking.
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Re: Time to read THE LAST CENTURION?
Post by cthia   » Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:37 am

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Michael Everett wrote:
Joat42 wrote:Not to mention that he has no clue that the 10th exists.

...the 10th what?


Annachie wrote:Amendment.

Basically the powers of the US Federal government are only those explicity granted to it, the rest belongs to the states.


I think what Trump is alluding to is the War Powers Resolution . . .
It provides that the president can send the U.S. Armed Forces into action abroad only by declaration of war by Congress, "statutory authorization," or in case of "a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces."


He is selling the pandemic as a war on America.

This President is accustomed to loopholes, inconsistences, improprieties, fabrications, and total outright distortions.

Son, your mother says I have to hang you. Personally I don't think this is a capital offense. But if I don't hang you, she's gonna hang me and frankly, I'm not the one in trouble. —cthia's father. Incident in ? Axiom of Common Sense
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Re: Time to read THE LAST CENTURION?
Post by n7axw   » Wed Apr 15, 2020 11:41 am

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gcomeau wrote:The delivery of the stimulus checks is now apparently being delayed several more days because Trump demanded his name be put on them.

No, not joking.


I'm tempted to wish that he'd have to sign each one individually... think he could do 1000 per hr??? at 1.7 million checks it might keep him out of mischief for a while... :twisted:

Just joking, of course. More seriously, watching for the deposit in my account. Not here yet...

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Re: Time to read THE LAST CENTURION?
Post by Arol   » Wed Apr 15, 2020 12:51 pm

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I have noticed in other forums that a number of people who are fervent Trump supporters are equally; when the subject comes up, supporters of States Rights over centralized Washington federal rule.
Now with Trump throwing down the gauntlet and claiming that the Executive Branch has Total override over States Rights.
The dichotomy between these two beliefs must be hard to reconcile.
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Re: Time to read THE LAST CENTURION?
Post by TFLYTSNBN   » Wed Apr 15, 2020 12:56 pm

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clancy688 wrote:
Dilandu wrote:Seems that USA finally get over the curve. Glad to see that! Hope you all stay safe!


I don't wanna spread doom and gloom, but I wouldn't go that far yet. First of all, it's the Easter weekend. Many tested samples might still be in limbo and only processed after the weekend is over.

But more importantly, you gotta take a look at the number of tests vs the number of positive results. If you manage to get the spread under control, you'd expect to see lots of tests with the majority being negative, and only few positive. This is not the case for the US right now.

Just taking current numbers from Worldometer:

Yesterday, there were 2,832,258 tests, and today it's showing 2,933,476 so far, that's roughly 100k tests. And so far, todays newly infected are at 23k, so almost a quarter. Out of four people tested, one was positive. That's still pretty high. And it gets worse for New York. There we're (right now) at 17k tests and 5.6k new positives - one out of three. New Jersey is at 4.4k tests and 2.7k new positives - more than 50%.

It's hard to compare this to other countries since they don't update their tests daily, but Italy for example (which is over the curve) shows 36k new tests for 4k new positives, so a bit over 10%.

The significance of this is that the "curve leveling off" might not be due to the outbreak slowing down - but rather to testing capability leveling off.



I actually agree with you on this point.

A presidential finding that the Coronavirus pandemic was deliberately enabled by China and maybe certain European countries would enable Federal primacy over the States on managing the response.
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Re: Time to read THE LAST CENTURION?
Post by n7axw   » Wed Apr 15, 2020 2:25 pm

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TFLYTSNBN wrote:

I actually agree with you on this point.

A presidential finding that the Coronavirus pandemic was deliberately enabled by China and maybe certain European countries would enable Federal primacy over the States on managing the response.


Whatever you might believe, there is no credible fact based info to back up your assumption.

As for federal primacy, until we have leadership at the top that could organize a game of marbles on a playground without adult supervision, that would be a disaster.

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Re: Time to read THE LAST CENTURION?
Post by gcomeau   » Wed Apr 15, 2020 2:32 pm

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TFLYTSNBN wrote:I actually agree with you on this point.

A presidential finding that the Coronavirus pandemic was deliberately enabled by China and maybe certain European countries would enable Federal primacy over the States on managing the response.


I'd love for you to show us where the US Constitution says that.
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Re: Time to read THE LAST CENTURION?
Post by Daryl   » Wed Apr 15, 2020 10:41 pm

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So Fly, you are suggesting that "China and certain European countries", may have deliberately set up tens of thousands of their citizens to die horribly in order to target the US in general, and Trump specifically?
Whatever medication you should be taking needs revision.
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Re: Time to read THE LAST CENTURION?
Post by TFLYTSNBN   » Thu Apr 16, 2020 1:30 pm

TFLYTSNBN

Russia is moving up in the World. Russia is now number 5 for new infections:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

One caveat is that the latest data for some countries still hasn't been posted.
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Re: Time to read THE LAST CENTURION?
Post by TFLYTSNBN   » Thu Apr 16, 2020 1:36 pm

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Daryl wrote:So Fly, you are suggesting that "China and certain European countries", may have deliberately set up tens of thousands of their citizens to die horribly in order to target the US in general, and Trump specifically?
Whatever medication you should be taking needs revision.



Nope.

I am suggesting that after they screwed themselves which resulted in tens of thousands of their own citizens dying horrible deaths which is screwing their economies, China along with certain European countries countries, aided and abetted by the World Health Organization, concealed the severity of their epidemics to ensure that the United States would also suffer from the pandemic.

BTW, there is growing evidence that this virus originated in a Chinese biological lab. However; the development was the result of research on an AIDS vaccine rather than biological weapons. Dr Fauci is implicated in this research which might explain why he initially assured people that it wasn't a threat.
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