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I think you're wrong about CNN. Anyhoo, not surprised about Trump getting history wrong and citing something that happened over 200 years ago to justify natiional security just shows that he HAS no justification. Seriously?!?!?

MY first thought when I saw that they were scrapping swimsuits 'does that mean they're going to be naked?' LOL XD Terrible joke of course.

Pff. And those people have the audacity to call The Donald juvenile and petty? We will attack you personally for your politics. What's next kidnapping his kid? No wonder left loves muslims. The terrorist bone is strong in both. Maybe you should attack Canada, as it's a Canadian who came up with the idea, not Vox. And the Kurwa bone is strong in both Polish and Liberals.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/05/media/fox-news-philadelphia-eagles-kneeling/index.html Maybe kneeling in prayer should be banned if Fox is going to mistake it for protesting? heh (sarcasm, and a dig at Fox news)

Here's a novel idea, put tariffs/sanctions on Trumps businesses. Don't divest? Other countries get to use your companies as targets.

Just an FYI on trade, the President does NOT have the constitutional power to impose tariffs. Congress does. The power to do that was given to the Executive by Congress with two laws. One during WWI that allowed the President to use tariffs as a incentive to nations doing business with an enemy of the US during war with that enemy. Then in 1977 another law was passed that extended that privileged to peace time to respond to a "national emergency". Since the President only has that ability at the sufferance of the Congress the Congress can take it back at any time. Small chance of that happening however. Right now it's controlled by Republicans who won't screw their own President (probably). But even if the Democrats take over they won't because someday a Democrat will be President. Maybe even one of them. And they will want that power. For me this is an object lesson in giving the President, or any part of any government a power they should not have. Someday a man like Trump was going to get elected. It was inevitable. Spotted in an article (from last year) that what I was thinking of is the part of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 called Section 232. Is that what you meant to refer to? Just wondering if we were talking about the same thing since it sounded like you were talking about the usage of 'national security' as an excuse.

Heh amentep. In the context of the cow, he does come off as being sarcastic, just not sure if he intentionally left out the word cow in the link. Also, I can't help but wonder if theres some Balkan thing going on between Bulgaria and Serbia, had to scan the article a few times to be sure it really was some EU law strangeness and not something between the two countries.

I couldn't decide whether sharp_one was intentionally being baity or was using sarcasm in the context of the cow but accidentially left out the word 'cow' in the link. edit: Can he even edit his posts while on probation?

Did you deliberately leave out the word cow in your post? Rest of your post aside (which sounds borderline baity, at least in the context of not having the word cow in the sentence) and the source being somewhat sensationalist, it is weird. The cow was returned to it's owner and theres no indication that the cow came into contact with other livestock and the cow transported itself. If you want to go by a more bizarre definition of transport, they could have just aborted the calf and then killed the calf because the cow was 'transporting' the calf. So, yeah, it comes off as completely nonsensical to me and putting the cow down seems drastic as they could have put it in quarrantine (still nonsensical in this case, but at least the farmer doesn't lose a valuable cow) for a while, if it was healthy, fine, no harm done, if it's sick, then treat it.

It's possible the guy could be in trouble with FBI regulations.

It looks like he just reflexively grabs it without thinking how to grab it safely. Likely also implies that the safety was off on it.

@malcador: I don't think the cake itself was ever described, not as far as I know. Maybe in the case documents?

The article (and the SCOTUS statement) also makes note of the fact that the commission was pretty hostile towards the baker, which infuriated Justice Kennedy. I can see a religious painter making their own choice (as opposed to a commission) to make a painting of the devil sodomizing the virgin mary to be satirical or make some kind of point because, well, art.

Just an FYI on trade, the President does NOT have the constitutional power to impose tariffs. Congress does. The power to do that was given to the Executive by Congress with two laws. One during WWI that allowed the President to use tariffs as a incentive to nations doing business with an enemy of the US during war with that enemy. Then in 1977 another law was passed that extended that privileged to peace time to respond to a "national emergency". Since the President only has that ability at the sufferance of the Congress the Congress can take it back at any time. Small chance of that happening however. Right now it's controlled by Republicans who won't screw their own President (probably). But even if the Democrats take over they won't because someday a Democrat will be President. Maybe even one of them. And they will want that power. For me this is an object lesson in giving the President, or any part of any government a power they should not have. Someday a man like Trump was going to get elected. It was inevitable. I thought I'd read/heard that law was made in 1967 (or so)? Might be wrong, but tiny unimportant detail there anyway. And yes, he's using the whole 'national security' excuse for completely BS reasons. I recall something about the WTO having a similar thing (or maybe I'm thinking of the same law you're talking about GD) where 'national security' can be used as a reason to unilaterally put tariffs or something like that. However, the reason that nobody has used the 'national security' excuse is precedent. The precedent is that if we go and use the 'national security' reason, no matter how BS it is, ESPECIALLY if it's a BS reason, to bypass the WTO, then that opens the door for other countries to go and use the same excuse to unilaterally put their own tariffs on us or other countries. In its current state, 2015. But if you at the reasons for this long conflict in Yemen how is the USA responsible, it has nothing to do with the USA but rather Islamic extremism and the ancient Shia/Sunni animosity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(2015%E2%80%93present) I never said it had anything to do with the US, just that I thought it was just the latest phase in a long simmering conflict.

@BruceVC: I thought the Yemen conflict dated back to before the Arab Spring since it was simmering before that.

Is that Nixon? Not sure who. Anyways, theres nothing in the Constitution that says he can't pardon himself, just that it won't stop impeachment from happening. So, he could, but it'd look massively guilty as the only reason he'd pardon himself is to attempt to be above the law and it makes it look a hell of a lot like he's guilty of something and trying to hide. Not to mention the political firestorm that would ensue.

Frigging pfft the lengths and logical contortions that the Trump team is going to try and prove that Trump can't be indicted, http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/390486-giuliani-if-trump-shot-comey-he-still-couldnt-have-been They're recently effectively trying to argue recently that Trump is above the law, he isn't.

He's in Tennessee. Never heard anything about death zones. Also, while the Australia answer is likely sarcasm, there aren't any coyotes in Australia.

Charging 1k a day is also nuts, seriously. And yeah, there is tons of materials out there to learn on your own, or just watch Bear Grillis.

Meanwhile, Trump is doing to the GOP what Obama did to the Dems. https://www.axios.com/trumps-500-day-coup-of-the-gop-conservatism-5f1f129d-22c3-4f53-b9f1-d957eb1ef05c.html It doesn't exactly mirror it as it's still in the relatively early stages (compared to Obamas two terms), but it's the same thing as Obama not being a party builder, at least not of the Dems and Republicans, respectively.

I think it’s just Trump that hates free trade, most Republicans aren’t as protectionist as Trump is.

This really deserves to go on the weird, random, and interesting things thread, but it’d be better to contain politics in here. (Spotted on Vox) Fox News, wtf? http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/05/31/school-shootings-this-cannon-fires-unbelievable-ammo-to-blast-through-walls-and-help-rescue-victims.html I don’t care what side of the gun debate you’re on, schools aren’t fortresses and I’m pretty sure there’s usually planning before using it and by the time the siege engine squad arrived, it’d be too late.

They also brought a resolution to the UN today that garnered a grand total of one vote, their own, and they must have known that that was all it was going to get- and they spent ages lobbying for it and tried all sorts of procedural tricks as well. At this point the 'bad' diplomacy looks like it's 100% deliberate and intended to make the US look isolated. What was the resolution?

Lol that one raithe. Also, really shrewd on the part of the Atlanta Humane Society.

As for that danish law, I’ve read that they, for some bizarre reason, are also banning fake beards. My first thought was ‘well, goodbye mall Santas’, unless they hire old guys with natural long beards.