OnTheTrail comments

I wonder if the bus that can barely park on the city curb doing mammograms has clinicians that are making these delicate assessments? My suspicion is they are processing people through like a Moss burger drive-thru given what I see during lunch hour. But that could be irrational, non-scientific observation.

Very well said Ricky

Surprised that the coach is not a female. Women's football has been popular and supported for many, many years at this point.

Zotoro, one in the same anymore.

Ah_so, you nailed it! Literally a family inside joke about that line!

I for one have admired the EU for keeping GMO from the US out. Frankly more for the fact that agriculture has always been keeping seeds from prior crops to grow the next season. With GMO seeds farmers are in breach of contract to do what has been done for 10,000 + years. Although I also believe it should be labeled as what it is for consumers to decide.

Since cross breading plants and selecting the strongest to propagate has always been done, I fail to see what the commission is actually approving. Unless, they are using common well understood terms to mean something wildly different in hopes of pulling the wool over everyone's eye to get something passed many would not otherwise support. But that is probably just my own cynicism, maybe.

Not "created by", why would this language be used. Dead people do not, will not, create anything. To use today's parlance, this is debunked, with out evidence given, misinformation.

 I knew at that time were very innocent, very proud of their heritage and optimistic about the future

Great summary of the feel I had from the young Chinese I was around in Beijing over the winter months '88/'89 while I was there. I was in Japan when the CCP decided to kill their own people, so sad.

Just an aside but Matt Walsh is "conservative commentator " but Aaron Rupert is listed as "independent journalist" , whan he is just a liberal commentator. Odd.

"They must to reconsider their wrong actions or they will be responsible for outcomes ", or some such nonsense that China would would say to anyone that dared to mention their country. Back at you, you infantile, international pariah.

Wonder if it was that deadly stuff manufactured in China or just the Devil's lettuce?

They can not enjoy high class pampering accomodation, meals, drinks etc when meeting online no? Simple.

Pretty much what I was thinking

He is not happy with that diet, clearly.

I think overly ambitious characters are not likable regardless of gender, thus the usual set up of putting someone in the position that didn't actively try to take the role.

Seems to be a bunch of posturing and thrashing for and against this. I see this from a lense of history and think that we are getting closer to an edge no one in their right mind wants to approach.

Speaking off the cuff, probably Norway's since I think (could very well be wrong), it is at least partially funded by oil profits the country has realized over the years and not the demographic ponzi scam of most other countries.

And yet wages are not being bid up, somehow.

Have a number of G-shocks but since I purchased Samsung Frontier which I can find faces I can see without glasses, change music, and check the daily temp for bus stop weather without checking my phone, I won't go back. Would love for a smart watch G-shock as I too am heavy handed.

@ PN - Crazy and angry, there appears an epidemic of those between this case, the NY case, TX case and the NC attempted murder of a child and her father over a basketball. Just nuts.

When you design pet food, there's a huge carbon footprint difference between having lamb in the recipe or having beef.

No mention of transport of said ingredients, shipping from China I suspect is a huge footprint for these ingredients (not to mention historically deadly to the pets).

This is a spurious straw man argument. No government is pretending it is that simple, and the costs and impacts of switching are being widely researched and accounted for in formulating policy.

I disagree, speaking for the US only, until middle 2000's all that was needed to stop climate change was compact florescent light bulbs and consolidating errands in your car- simple! Then, simple, stop coal fired plants, simple. Then stop ICE autos, simple. Plastics are evil, simple. All of these are very easy to say but the implications of no plastics in a hospital, food delivery to cities with electric vehicles costing 2x the cost and 1/3 more time, etc., ect.

Contrary to your statement, I believe people are indeed being told it will be easy- "buy an EV, save the planet ". How about some honest dealing, "we are not able to provide the energy needs that you have today, so everyone will have a lower quality of life, at least for now, but we will save the planet in the long run"?

If this green movement was a middle school paper, it would be graded an "F" for lack of consideration of implementation. The idea that, "fossil fuel, bad, must stop now" with no calculus on how this impacts everything is just astonishing.

Renewable energy, fantastic, all for it. However, moving from 100+ years of one integrated energy source to multiple (wind, solar, etc) with serious limitations in 10 or less years (at least in what the US is proposing) is either groupthink fantasy or calculated mendacity.

What do central bankers do for 7.9 hours a day once they decide to either raise/lower rates (always too late and too long),or turn the money tree printer on full/ or half?

Are my kids Japanese-American, multiracial? Are the electricians I hired recently African Americans given they were from South Africa (but White)? What do I classify my neighbors from Argentina originally, white Hispanic? These are burning questions that no one should give a #$+& about.

Let it go, not many really give a farthing about this except the people that make a living of it.

Orlik, Roddenberry was a genius in story telling and far ahead of his time. Swearing in the series just seems crass, maybe more relatable to many but as an idealized future, just somewhat lazy.

peaceful China

Rodney, do you honestly believe this? As an American I can admit my country is waaaay to involved in other parts of the world that we should not be meddling in. Can you admit that China and the mythical 9 dash line map is nothing more than a land grab?

@strangerland, fair enough. My Mama said the same thing

But my feeling is that either democracy is foundational or it isn't. "Money talks,BS walks" the people talk or they don't.

Strangerland, sir/madam, you are highly engaged, how do you feel about my proposal for democratic distribution of paid taxes?

How about a process where by US tax payers can allocate their tax dollars paid (not credited) are sent to, say 10 (pick a number) categories to pay into. The total tax receipts will not change but individuals can direct their payments specifically to certain outcomes. This would be the best form for democracy withe a capital "D".

Oddly, lots of ideological bickering, but no actual responses to creating a zero based budget, which would seem to be the best way to reduce the amount of money the US borrows from friends and China.