Trump

[Mathieu Cloutier]

Re: Trump

There is a black joke - a statistician drown in a lake with an average depth of 1 m.

Yeah, they always do that. :p

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Trump

A fresh set of eyes - maybe, but clearly not impartial or even open to science or reason. I find it hard to believe all the so-called 'hard' data that is crunched to 1/10 of a degree. I think the accuracy of most of the measurements are clearly not anywhere near that accurate, but that is just my skepticism...

There is a black joke - a statistician drown in a lake with an average depth of 1 m.

[Bob Gillanders]

Re: Trump

Stephen Miller, one of Trump's scariest swamp creatures!
I first saw this guy being interviewed in the election campaign maybe a year ago, he can just makes your skin crawl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHusZDjesr4

[Tom O'Donnell]

Re: Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSBBaM1GCyY

[Kerry Liles]

Re: Trump

When it comes to media reports about Donald Trump or climate change I prefer to go back to original sources and data because I don't believe anything in the media or the writings of most climate scientists. It is apparent that much of the data supporting the Paris Accord came from fudged science discarding or adjusting satellite and buoy data to make them less accurate in order to "hide the decline" or pause in warming. One of the positives in a Trump presidency is that these things will be looked at by a fresh set of skeptical eyes.

A fresh set of eyes - maybe, but clearly not impartial or even open to science or reason. I find it hard to believe all the so-called 'hard' data that is crunched to 1/10 of a degree. I think the accuracy of most of the measurements are clearly not anywhere near that accurate, but that is just my skepticism...

[Vlad Drkulec]

Re: Trump

Fwiw, there are reports on the Net (at least) that Trump has already said the odd unflattering thing about JC, though these reports are hotly disputed it would appear. That's besides reports of Trump comparing himself to JC, as well as to God. Wikiquotes has a page with tons of quotes by (or about) Trump, many of them pretty ugly IMHO.

It appears you are correct about present day dictatorships in the world, assuming there's only 24 of them:

http://www.ranker.com/list/countries...ship/reference

P.S.: Off topic, on a personal note to you, here's a link re: John Casey, NOAA whistleblower (i.e. of 'Climategate 2' fame):

http://climatechangedispatch.com/wik...dr-john-casey/

When it comes to media reports about Donald Trump or climate change I prefer to go back to original sources and data because I don't believe anything in the media or the writings of most climate scientists. It is apparent that much of the data supporting the Paris Accord came from fudged science discarding or adjusting satellite and buoy data to make them less accurate in order to "hide the decline" or pause in warming. One of the positives in a Trump presidency is that these things will be looked at by a fresh set of skeptical eyes.

[Peter McKillop]

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Speaking of racists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y88rSHtjc-w

Sadly, Trump & co. don't have a monopoly on racism.

[Tom O'Donnell]

Re: Trump

Speaking of racists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y88rSHtjc-w

[Peter McKillop]

Re: Trump

Trump reminds me of South Park character, Eric Cartman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNYGLdsVU2o

Trump reminds me of a jackass. Here are some pertinent remarks by Steve Coll from the Feb 6/17 issue of The New Yorker:

" One might wish that the solemn responsibility of leading a nuclear-armed world power would steer a successful seventy-year-old man away from routinely telling whoppers, yet it is hardly surprising that Trump has not changed since taking the oath of office. He has a long record as salesman, provocateur, self-promoter, and self-worshipper. His eruptions on Twitter and on live TV damage American democracy and credibility, but there are even more worrying aspects of the disinformation emanating from and around the Administration. During the campaign, Trump’s advisers mobilized in their service a phalanx of information warriors, including commentators on Fox News and digital upstarts such as Breitbart News, whose offerings included partisan and extremist content. Alongside them worked looser, less visible online networks of racists, anti-Semites, and nationalists. A question now is how Trump’s image shapers, led by Stephen Bannon, the former Breitbart head who is the White House senior counsellor, intend to adapt that strategy—which included the promotion of big lies about President Obama’s birth and Secretary Clinton’s health—as policy, embedded across federal agencies."

[Bob Gillanders]

Re: Trump

Trump reminds me of South Park character, Eric Cartman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNYGLdsVU2o

[Kevin Pacey]

Re: Trump

I added a P.S. to my previous post, in case you missed it Vlad.

[Kevin Pacey]

Re: Trump

He's a Christian (though he doesn't always act like one) so I see that as unlikely.

You were talking dictatorships. Almost all dictatorships are of the left wing variety these days.

Fwiw, there are reports on the Net (at least) that Trump has already said the odd unflattering thing about JC, though these reports are hotly disputed it would appear. That's besides reports of Trump comparing himself to JC, as well as to God. Wikiquotes has a page with tons of quotes by (or about) Trump, many of them pretty ugly IMHO.

It appears you are correct about present day dictatorships in the world, assuming there's only 24 of them:

http://www.ranker.com/list/countries...ship/reference

P.S.: Off topic, on a personal note to you, here's a link re: John Casey, NOAA whistleblower (i.e. of 'Climategate 2' fame):

http://climatechangedispatch.com/wik...dr-john-casey/

[David Gordon]

Re: Trump

Hey Tom,

You are mentioned in a Chessbase article about some judge and D. Trump.
I hope I did the link correctly.

http://en.chessbase.com/post/the-for...-the-president

[Nigel Hanrahan]

Make America Ungovernable says Chris Hedges

Of course there are much more critical views of Trump. Chris Hedges, an award-winning journalist shut out from the MSM once he refused to cheerlead the invasion of Iraq has some interesting remarks. Hedges is like a modern-day John the Baptist, preaching the gospel of socialism, and he has the religious credentials to back it up.

Donald Trump’s regime is rapidly reconfiguring the United States into an authoritarian state. All forms of dissent will soon be criminalized. Civil liberties will no longer exist. Corporate exploitation, through the abolition of regulations and laws, will be unimpeded. Global warming will accelerate. A repugnant nationalism, amplified by government propaganda, will promote bigotry and racism. Hate crimes will explode. New wars will be launched or expanded.

And, as this happens, those Americans who remain passive will be complicit.

Hedges says: "Now is the time not to cooperate. Now is the time to shut down the systems of power. Now is the time to resist. It is our last chance. The fanatics are moving with lightning speed. So should we. "

Make America Ungovernable

I understand that it is a curse, or wishing bad luck, to say, "May you live in interesting times."

[Wayne Komer]

Re: Trump

Trump

February 7, 2017

I enter this political thread with a great deal of trepidation!


On January 30, 2017, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson sued to block key portions of President Trump’s executive order on travel. Trump’s executive order had barred entry to the United States by refugees and visa holders from seven predominantly Muslim countries. On February 3, a judge granted Ferguson’s request for a temporary restraining order, meaning that federal employees cannot enforce Trump’s executive order.

Today, at a hearing of oral arguments for and against, three judges on the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals focused narrowly on whether a restraining order issued by a lower court should remain in effect while a challenge to the ban proceeds. The judges also will look at the constitutional questions surrounding Trump’s order.

Whatever the court eventually decides, either side could ask the Supreme Court to intervene.
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I have listened to Bob Ferguson speak on CNN and he seems confident and rational.

He evidently has a long history in chess and this story is related in ChessBase today by Alexey Root:

http://en.chessbase.com/post/the-for...-the-president


When I was still Alexey Rudolph I lost a chess match to Bob (then Bobby) Ferguson. Like the Ferguson-Trump showdown, which was on the front page of the New York Times, Ferguson-Rudolph was front page news. Except that Bobby and I were on the front cover of Northwest Chess. Its editor, Robert Karch, had decided that Bobby and I should play a four-game match. Karch put up $150 as prize money. He solicited contributions to the prize fund, and three chess players kicked in $10 each. So Bobby and I were playing for $180. Big money in 1978 for two 13-year-old kids!

Before that match in December of 1978, I had drawn Bobby twice in other tournaments. The first game of the match was adjourned at move 49, on December 29 in Seattle, Bobby’s hometown. Bobby was ill for the second game, scheduled for December 30 in Seattle. But he didn’t tell me in time. So, forfeit win for me! Unfortunately, that was my last win of the match. When the match resumed in March in my hometown of Tacoma, I lost the adjournment, drew game three, and lost game four.

However, I defeated Bobby in the summer of 1980, when I won the “Future Hopes International,” a six-player round robin tournament held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 5-0. Bobby, my fellow Washington State resident, was second with 3.5-1.5. Thus both of us finished ahead of Tom O’Donnell of Vancouver, British Columbia, who was third but later became an International Master.

Bob became a national master (US Chess ratings) and was also rated as a master by FIDE.