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WastelandCowboy posted...

Add someone to your ignore list. And then, after some time passes, remove them from the ignore list, private message them to let them know you're removing them from your ignore list. Throw a tantrum if they make a topic about it and then block them again.

Hey, don't knock it until you've tried it.

WastelandCowboy posted...

Not if Ben Stiller is working there.

What

WastelandCowboy posted...

Either Ill post about non-news or stop posting.

Just as long as you aren't posting about dating video game characters. >_>

WastelandCowboy posted...

For the record, last "news" topic I'm ever doing...for the time at least. I'm just...done.

but what will you do with your life if you cant come here and post trump news?

"Those are good things," said Noah Bookbinder, who runs the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. But Bookbinder argues they don't go far enough.

The revolving door continues to spins freely in the opposite direction, as corporate lobbyists take jobs in government, often overseeing the very industries where they used to work. More than a third of the political appointees in the EPA used to work in industries such as oil, coal or chemicals, Bookbinder said.

"You've got conflicts of interest for officials from the president on down sending a message that mixing of business interests and official responsibilities is not only something that this administration is not so concerned about but something that is maybe even encouraged," Bookbinder said.

"This administration has been as swampy and unethical as any in the history of this country."

"Donald Trump, early in his presidency, signed a flurry of executive orders related to trade," said Scott Paul, whose group represents domestic manufacturers and the United Steelworkers union. "While all of these trains left the station, some of them got derailed, and others didn't arrive when they were supposed to and we're still waiting on concrete action from this administration."

Climate
As part of his announcement in June that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris climate accord, Trump made good on his promise to halt payments to United Nations climate funds. So far, though, there's no indication that money has been redirected to American water and environmental projects as Trump pledged during the campaign. Trump is also working to undo the "Clean Power Plan" at the heart of former President Barack Obama's climate agenda. But tax incentives for wind and solar power survived in the GOP tax bill signed in December.

"That's what's going to drive renewable investment in the United States," said Yergin, author of The Prize and The Quest. "And of course many states continue to have mandates about renewable energy."

Infrastructure
A bid to encourage $1 trillion in new infrastructure investment using limited federal dollars to leverage private and local government money has not yet materialized. But it may in 2018.

Education
Legislation to foster school choice has not passed in Congress, although the new tax bill does allow families to use tax-free college savings accounts to pay for private, K-12 education.

Crime
Although Congress has not passed the crime bill Trump promised during the campaign, the administration has created a task force on violent crime and increased the availability of surplus military gear to local police. The Justice Department has also instructed federal prosecutors to seek tougher penalties for criminals reversing an Obama-era move away from mandatory minimum sentences for low-level offenses.

Military
Trump's effort to lift the cap on military spending and boost the defense budget substantially is one element of the budget brinkmanship playing out in Washington this week. Stay tuned.

Whatever happened to ...

labeling China a currency manipulator
Trump quietly dropped this campaign promise after learning, belatedly, that China hasn't been artificially depressing its currency in years.

Congressional term limits
A proposed constitutional amendment to limit the terms of lawmakers seems to have dropped off the president's radar. However, a record number of Republican House members are retiring voluntarily this year.

Draining the swamp
As part of his campaign pledge to end corruption in Washington, Trump promised to impose a variety of limits on the "revolving door" between government and industry. He did impose a five-year ban on presidential appointees going to work as lobbyists, along with a lifetime ban on lobbying for foreign governments.

"The global energy market has been turned upside down by what's happening in the United States in terms of shale gas and shale oil," said energy historian Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of IHS Markit. "For the industry, the notion that new regulations are not going to be imposed and that some of the regulations are going to be rolled back has been important in terms of investing. But the primary drivers are price, opportunity, and technology." What's more, the abundance of cheap natural gas continues to put downward pressure on demand for coal, despite Trump's pledge to bring coal jobs back.

Trans-Pacific Partnership
In one of his first acts as president, Trump formally withdrew the United States from a 12-nation trade deal negotiated under former President Barack Obama. That made good on a pledge Trump made during the campaign, although his rival Hillary Clinton also opposed the trade deal and Congress was unlikely to ratify the agreement in any case. "The president kept a key promise," said Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing. "I would add it was one of the easiest things for him to do." Critics argue that withdrawal has weakened America's standing in the fast-growing Asia-Pacific region and handed a windfall to China.

Hiring Freeze
Trump delivered on his promise to temporarily freeze federal hiring outside of the military, although that freeze has since been lifted. The federal government had 16,000 fewer employees in December than it did a year ago, a drop of less than 1 percent.

Incomplete

Immigration
The Trump administration has taken a hard line on illegal immigration, giving enforcement officers wide latitude to deport anyone in the country illegally, and announcing plans to phase out legal protection for undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children (putting the onus on Congress to sort a longer-term solution). So far, though, Trump has not succeeded in constructing his border wall, nor has come anywhere close to deporting the more than 2 million people he promised. After dropping sharply in the early months of the Trump administration, illegal crossings of the U.S. border with Mexico have begun creeping up again. The administration has tried repeatedly to "suspend immigration from terror-prone" regions. Early efforts were blocked by the courts, although the most recent iteration of the travel ban is in effect while legal challenges continue. The administration's efforts to block payments to so-called "sanctuary cities" have also been stymied by lawsuits.

Repeal and replace Obamacare
Despite repeated efforts, the GOP-controlled Senate never mustered the simple majority needed to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The president has vowed to keep trying, although it's not clear there's much appetite for that in Congress during this election year. While Trump has repeatedly tried to sabotage the health care program by halting cost-sharing subsidies to insurance companies for example and slashing its marketing budget nearly 9 million people signed up for Obamacare coverage in the most recent enrollment period.

Trade
During the campaign, Trump promised to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, end international trading abuses and impose a tariff on U.S. companies that locate factories overseas. The U.S. has entered negotiations with Mexico and Canada over NAFTA. But much of the president's broader trade agenda has moved slowly, if at all. In the first 11 months of 2017, the U.S. trade deficit grew by nearly 12 percent.

As President Trump approaches his first anniversary of taking office, he and others are taking stock.

"2017 was a year of tremendous achievement, monumental achievement, actually," Trump told members of his Cabinet last week. "I don't think any administration has ever done what we've done and what we've accomplished in its first year."

The president has delivered on some of his major campaign promises. Other pledges are still works in progress, while some commitments have been quietly discarded.

In the closing days of the 2016 campaign, Trump issued an ambitious checklist of things he wanted to accomplish in the White House. Here's how he's doing so far. (Jump to: the promises that have been accomplished, those that are incomplete or those seemingly forgotten.)

https://www.npr.org/2016/11/09/501451368/here-is-what-donald-trump-wants-to-do-in-his-first-100-days

Mission accomplished

Judiciary
"We confirmed an incredible new Supreme Court justice and more circuit court judges in our first year than any administration in the history of our country," Trump said last week. "And we have many more coming." Thanks to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, Trump had a large number of vacancies to fill on the federal bench as soon as he took office. He quickly tapped Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court seat vacated by the late Antonin Scalia. Trump has also moved aggressively to fill lower court vacancies with young, conservative judges who could be shaping federal jurisprudence for decades to come. Though some of his nominees have withdrawn under criticism of their qualifications.

Taxes
The $1.5 trillion tax bill signed in December was Trump's first major legislative accomplishment. And while many economists are skeptical the measure will spark the kind of economic growth Trump has promised, it will put more money in many Americans' pockets. "Hardworking American families will receive tremendous tax relief," Trump said last week. "We lowered our tax rates, nearly doubled the standard deduction, and doubled the child tax credit." The tax savings in the bill are heavily tilted toward the wealthy. But the bill does offer some of the savings for child- and elder care that Trump promised during the campaign.

Deregulation
The administration has moved quickly to roll back regulations adopted under previous presidents. Some of these moves have been challenged in court, but Trump and his Cabinet are chipping away at rules governing the environment, labor and finance. Just this week, a financial watchdog agency announced that it plans to reconsider an Obama-era rule governing payday lenders.

Energy
During the campaign, Trump promised to lift restrictions on domestic energy production including oil, natural gas and coal. The administration has worked to open more land and offshore waters to drilling, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. But the boom in domestic energy production predates the Trump administration and has largely been fueled by technological improvements such as hydraulic fracturing or "fracking."

The Fifth Element.

Easily the worst movie I have ever paid money to see, but many people liked it for some ungodly reason.

The whole thing was a mess, from start to finish. Horrible music too.

Not today sorry.

WastelandCowboy posted...

How do they "ruin sushi"?

It's like. Hmmm, I have all this delicious rice... let's put, ummmm, GUAC on it. ... uhg

Napoleon Dynamite, anyone over the age of 5 should be rolling their eyes at that movie's "jokes".

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Zeus posted...

Avocados are a shithole food. She should be thankful to be free from them.

I don't like them, but I know they're good stuff, they're an excellent source of fats.

They ruin sushi and they're stupid and I hate them.

The six participating Northgate stores two in each of the three participating counties use loyalty cards to tally produce purchases and distribute the credits. The amount of credit participants have earned and redeemed is itemized at the bottom of their receipts, and the credit carries over from month to month.

Research has shown that affordability is an obstacle to healthier eating for people of modest means. A 2013 study by researchers at Harvard and Brown universities estimated that a healthful diet costs about $550 a year more per person than an unhealthy one. "For many low-income families, this additional cost represents a genuine barrier to healthier eating," the authors concluded. "Yet, this daily price difference is trivial in comparison with the lifetime personal and societal financial burdens of diet-related chronic diseases."

A 2016 report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture revealed that food stamp recipients spend a smaller percentage of their grocery budgets on fruits and vegetables than other Americans do.

Financial incentives like the ones being tested in California can help narrow that gap.

A 2011 study of an incentive program in Massachusetts found that people on food stamps who got an extra 30 cents for every dollar they spent on fruits and vegetables consumed nearly a quarter-cup, or 26 percent, more fresh produce per day than recipients who did not get such an incentive.

Last week, Ms Fresco began to enroll a second round of up to 2,000 people who will receive the incentive for one year. The current participants will continue in the program through June.

Prickitt says he hopes that even after their financial incentives end, participants will retain what they have learned about healthy eating and continue buying produce.

Food policy experts note that many other factors can influence a family's food choices, including lack of time.

"If parents are working more than one job or children are in more than one school or activity, how do you teach the skills of how you can prepare food, even on a busy weeknight?" says Dr. Dean Sidelinger, a pediatrician and child-health medical officer for San Diego County.

Some advocates for healthful diets have argued that the government should not only encourage people to buy healthier food, but also discourage unhealthful habits.

A 2014 Health Affairs study by Stanford University researchers showed that banning the purchase of soda with food stamps would reduce rates of obesity and diabetes, while a credit of 30 cents on the dollar for buying fresh produce alone would not.

In 2017, more than a dozen researchers from different universities urged SNAP to eliminate diet-related health disparities among programs for low-income people. They noted, for example, that the federal food-assistance program known as Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, excluded soda and candy, but that people could still buy those products with food stamps.

"There are generations of unhealthy people who are overweight with diabetes and hypertension," says Jim Floros, president and CEO of the San Diego Food Bank, which has advertised the Ms Fresco program to its clients. "That's completely linked back to a poor diet, which is linked back to poverty."

Rebeca Gonzalez, who moved to the U.S. at age 18, decided to overhaul her family's eating habits after her husband, Javier Landeros, was diagnosed with diabetes two years ago. Instead of buying cookies, she now keeps chopped fruits and veggies in the fridge for snacks.

She says she wants to instill the same healthy habits her grandmother passed on to her.

"I know she gave us good food," Gonzalez says, "because she lived 105 years."

Rebeca Gonzalez grew up eating artichokes from her grandmother's farm in the central Mexican state of Tlaxcala. But for years after emigrating to the U.S., she did not feed them to her own kids because the spiky, fibrous vegetables were too expensive on this side of the border.

When she prepared meals at her family's home in Garden Grove, Calif., Gonzalez would also omit avocados, a staple of Mexican cuisine that are often costly here.

"I saw the prices and I said, 'No, never mind,' " says Gonzalez, a 47-year-old child care worker who receives about $500 a month in food stamps.

But those items are no longer out of reach for her family. Since enrolling last year in a program that rewards food stamp beneficiaries for buying more fresh produce, Gonzalez has regularly filled her shopping cart with the fruits and vegetables of her childhood not only avocados and artichokes, but pomegranates, various types of squash and more.

Participation in the program, called "Ms Fresco" "More Fresh" in English gives Gonzalez an additional $40 a month to spend on produce, allowing her to broaden the palates of her three children, who were born in the U.S.

"The good thing is my family likes to try the new vegetables," she says. "Now I can buy them because I have the extra money."

The University of California, San Diego is administering Ms Fresco and studying its results with a $3.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has funded similar efforts in other states, including Illinois, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and New Mexico. The dollars invested in those states have been aimed at inducing food stamp recipients to buy more produce at farmers markets or at mobile markets that visit low-income neighborhoods.

Ms Fresco is open to Southern Californians in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties who are enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP the official name for food stamp benefits.

The goal of the four-year program, like that of its counterparts in other states, is to improve diets and overall health by making fresh produce more affordable.

"We know food insecurity and, unfortunately, chronic disease go hand in hand," says Joe Prickitt, a UCSD dietitian who is senior director of Ms Fresco. "For SNAP participants, there's a real cost barrier to buying fruits and vegetables. They say they're just too expensive."

Since Ms Fresco began in February 2017, it has enrolled 1,153 participants, who receive an average of $329 a month in food stamps and typically live in households of five or six people. Ninety percent of them are Latino, but adults from any ethnic background can join, provided they are willing to shop at a participating Northgate Gonzlez Market an Anaheim, Calif.-based Latino grocery chain that is Ms Fresco's retail partner.

For every dollar's worth of food stamps enrollees spend on fresh produce in a given month, they receive a one-to-one match up to $10, $20 or $40 that they can spend only on more fruits and vegetables. The UC-San Diego researchers who are studying the program varied the maximum reward amounts and assigned them randomly to participants to help determine the optimal dollar level that changes people's dietary habits.

President Trump is in excellent health with "no indication" of "any cognitive issues" but he could afford to lose a few pounds and start exercising over the coming year, according to the president's physician.

Dr. Ronny Jackson, a Navy rear admiral who directs the White House medical unit, conducted Trump's annual physical last Friday. He told reporters on Tuesday that the president's cardiac health is strong and that there are no concerns about any memory or cognitive issues.

"I found no evidence that the president has any issues whatsoever with his thought process," Jackson told reporters during Tuesday's White House briefing.

The tabloid-style book Fire and Fury by journalist Michael Wolff, published this month, led to speculation about Trump's mental fitness for office. Trump responded to the criticism by calling himself a "very stable genius."

Jackson said on Tuesday that Trump asked him to perform the cognitive exam, which the doctor had not planned to do, having deemed it unnecessary. Jackson said Trump performed "exceedingly well" and is "very sharp."

Jackson said the president enjoyed good health despite a subpar diet and no exercise routine.

"It's called genetics. I don't know," Jackson said. "Some people have great genetics. I told the president if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years he might live to be 200."

Jackson also noted that Trump has abstained from alcohol and tobacco for his entire life, which contributed to his relatively good health.

Trump, 71, is 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 239 pounds, Jackson said, which is classified as overweight and is 1 pound away from being obese, according to the NIH's body mass index calculator.

Jackson said he will work with Trump to exercise more over the coming year, to eat better and lose between 10 and 15 pounds.

Trump does take Crestor to lower his cholesterol, daily aspirin for heart health, Propecia for male pattern baldness, a skin cream for rosacea and a daily multivitamin. His blood tests and other vitals were all normal.

Jackson said that there is no reason Trump wouldn't be able to complete his first term healthwise, in addition to a second term if re-elected.

During the presidential campaign, Trump's longtime personal physician, Harold Bornstein, famously declared that Trump would be "the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency." Trump released his health history in 2016 on controversial TV host Dr. Mehmet Oz's show.

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WastelandCowboy posted...

Theoretically, you should be fine. However, being anal/paranoid with security and PC integrity, I'd back up my files to another location like OneDrive or Google Drive, reformat the hard drive(s), and start from scratch by reinstalling the OS, assuming you don't have a system restore point somewhere.

i sure hope the files are still useable, i clicked the option to wipe the computer out of desperation, it was a bad night for me i have aspergers so it sent me off the deep end. i think it was thursday when this happened and i've still been in shock and paranoia, i used the computer for a few more days reinstalling a few things but right now i'm just using the new computer which i had in my closet unopened for a few years. it runs on windows 8, but i'm preferring it atm since that other laptop i've been using for years.

i thought you could switch to windows 10 whenever you wanted, but looks like that door is closed for this newer laptop.

He campaigned for president nearly full time, but the one-time top runner for the nomination lagged behind a crowded field that was being quickly wiped out by Donald Trump. Christie dropped out of the race after a poor showing in the New Hampshire primary, and then his approval ratings took another hit when he endorsed Trump.

An appearance with Trump, standing at his side, looking unhappy, took Twitter and late-night TV by storm.

"He looked like he wasn't entirely comfortable standing behind Trump," Conan O'Brien said during his monologue. "He almost looked like he was in a hostage situation."

In New Jersey, Christie's constituents started to feel that he was treating them, and his job as governor, with contempt.

"And people continue to say this is a guy who is still looking for an out. Still looking for a place in the Trump administration or some other way to get out of New Jersey," Murray said.

The low point hit this past fourth of July weekend. During a low-stakes standoff that nevertheless led to the shutdown of state government, Christie was photographed spending a day at the beach with his family. A completely empty state beach that was closed to everyone else because of the shutdown.

His approval rating sunk to the mid-teens and never recovered. In his final speech as governor last week, he made his case for his legacy:

"This all of this is due to our efforts, not bowing to political correctness to not worrying about being loved today," Christie said.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, whose popularity soared during his first term but then fell from grace, leaves office Tuesday.

The Republican served a term-limited eight years in a majority blue state and spent much of that time in the national limelight as he built a reputation as a "tell-it-like-it-is" politician. But the Bridgegate scandal, a losing campaign for president and a day spent on a closed beach during a government shutdown left him with the lowest approval ratings for any governor in New Jersey history.

In Christie's first year, a YouTube video of a press conference went viral when a columnist asked if the governor's confrontational tone might hamper his ability to get bills passed.

"You must be the thinnest skinned guy in America," Christie told Tom Moran of the Star-Ledger newspaper. "Because if you think that's a confrontational tone, then you should see me when I'm really pissed!"

Also that year, Christie made the first of more than 40 trips to Iowa he would take during his two terms. These two things his YouTube moments that went viral and his presidential ambitions turned out to be the defining features of his eight years as governor. Christie doubled the budget of his communications staff, and deftly used video clips from town hall meetings to build his national profile.

"If what you want to do is put on a show and giggle every time I talk, well then I no interest in answering your question," he told a teacher during an early town hall that became his signature style.

The videos made a star of Christie in the Republican Party. He was considered for the job of running mate to Mitt Romney, he chaired the Republican Governors Association and became a regular on cable news and late-night TV.

But his biggest moment came when Superstorm Sandy hit New Jersey in October 2012. The storm damaged 346,000 homes, left 2 million people without power and killed 37 in the state. On the first morning, a shaken Christie appeared before TV cameras, looking like he'd been up all night.

"I'll first say to all of you, especially those of you who are facing loss, devastation and the heart-breaking reality that your home may be gone, we are with you."

Wearing a blue fleece, he was omnipresent in the weeks that followed, touring the destruction, hugging homeowners and giving daily press briefings.

Romney lost the presidential election a week later and with approval ratings soaring Christie saw his own path to the presidency. He wanted a landslide re-election in 2013 that would prove he was a big-tent Republican who could win over Democrats.

"But in order to do that his campaign had to really use some very nasty tactics to twist arms to get Democrats to support him," said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. "And that's where Bridgegate came from."

Christie's political office in the Trenton statehouse and his campaign for re-election began courting Democrats in New Jersey. Those that endorsed got rewards, and some who didn't were punished.

Three top staffers would ultimately be convicted of causing a weeklong traffic jam to punish the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee, N.J.. Even though he was never charged with a crime, his image as a man who was above politics was destroyed.

Yet polls showed it was Christie's inattention to governing he spent 261 days out of state in 2015 that really bothered New Jerseyans.

Chaos and panic broke out aboard a Turkish plane that skidded off the runway, slid down the edge of a cliff and stopped just short of plunging into the Black Sea.

But despite the terrifying landing Saturday night, everyone on board, including 162 passengers and crew, safely evacuated the Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-800 flying from Ankara to the coastal Turkish airport in Trabzon.

Footage taken inside the plane moments after the accident appears to show panicked passengers trying to get out, while crew members offer instructions. A baby can be heard wailing in the background.

The BBC says passenger Fatma Gordu described a chaotic scene.

"We tilted to the side, the front was down while the plane's rear was up. There was panic; people shouting, screaming," Gordu said.

In a statement, Pegasus Airlines explained the plane "had a runway excursion incident" as it landed, without delving into what caused the aircraft to careen off the tarmac and end up, clinging nose first down the cliff.

The Independent reports the only thing that prevented the Boeing 737-800 from plummeting into the water was that its wheels got stuck in the mud.

Mead posted...

Popeyes

So true.
Popeyes is great.

but why, tape is a wonderful product to use.

especially gorilla or electrical tape (they pretty much ensure things that are to stay put, stay put)

Pikazard approves ^.^

don't go for the Velcro, twist-ties or tape will do fine. no need to spend money when you have the stuff at home

A driver who later admitted to using narcotics crashed his car into the second-floor dental offices of a Santa Ana building today, into the second floor dental offices in a building today in Santa Ana, according to police.

The white sedan was partially wedged into the second story of the office building, Santa Ana Police Department reported. A specialized fire truck from Los Angeles was brought in to extract the car from the dentist's office.

Officers were dispatched at 5:25 a.m. to the 300 block of East 17th Street. Investigators determined that the motorist had been speeding north on French Street, approaching 17th Street. The sedan then struck the raised center median on 17th Street, which launched the vehicle into the air.

Firefighters from Los Angeles County and the Orange County Fire Authority extricated the occupants of the vehicle while its front end was still lodged high in the building.

WastelandCowboy posted...

Still recommend some velcro strips for that cable management. Lookin' like a jungle.

while velcro tie downs are boss, it doesn't have to be those.

you can manage with those shitty twisty ties that come with bread.

you'd use more than if you just had a velcro one, but it's still passable and if you're anything like everyone, you keep those twisty ties for reasons that no one actually knows. usually it's "might come in handy", but really they just infest the junk drawer.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

RCtheWSBC posted...

Zikten, why would you post this here?

With your PotD history?

Seriously?

Bwahahahahaha