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[Mrhat39]

I think its a bad idea for peace i support a 2 state solution.

I'm for Israel receiving all the land God laid out for them in the Bible.
And I support Israel as a sovereign country.

What's your position on Iran? And there Ambitions for nuclear weapons?
Should we wait until they turn into another North Korea? Or blow all their nuclear power plants and weapons building capabilities off the map?

A nuclear Iran is going to be just as dangerous, if not more so than North Korea. They fundamentally, and without apology hate Israel! And would be ready to die, if they could destroy Israel. They feel it is their religious duty to destroy Israel. And if Iran gets into a war with Israel, that pulls us into the war. Whether you agree or not we will support Israel. So a nuclear Iran is a huge threat to us.

So what's your answer for the situation?

Mrhat

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

The deficit is about to get much bigger: Trump could join Obama in the $1 trillion deficit club

The deficit will hit $1.05 trillion in 2019 and $1.1 trillion in 2020, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, if Congress passes the tax cut legislation it’s currently negotiating, along with disaster relief and other measures meant to avert arbitrary limits on spending established several years ago. The tax cuts alone would add about $150 billion to the deficit each year, on average, with other likely changes pushing that up by another $25 billion per year, or so. Deficits will only get larger, unless there are major cutbacks in spending or new taxes in the future. December Legislation Could Bring Back Trillion-Dollar Deficits

I can’t wait to see the GOP bring about “major cutbacks in spending”. The deficit was $585 billion in Obama’s last year in office. Recall how the GOP insisted that Obama’s deficits would bring down our economy? Now the deficit is about to explode during a period of economic expansion, when deficits usually fall. Hey, what could go wrong?

 

[Michael Scally MD]

What is Trump on ...

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Trump Twitter Feed ...

 

[Michael Scally MD]

CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon, said he watched the video closely a few times. "There is clearly some abnormalities of his speech," he said. "You could call it slurring or just a little bit of difficulty forming the words."

Michael de Riesthal, a speech and language pathologist, agrees. "There was definitely some imprecise progressive change in articulatory precision and slowing of his speech that is not typical in normal speech," said https://ww2.mc.vanderbilt.edu/GHSS/31496 (de Riesthal), an assistant professor in hearing and speech sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the director of the Pi Beta Phi Rehabilitation Institute. "The distortion of his articulation, though, is unknown in etiology."

Neither Gupta nor de Riesthal has ever treated Trump for any reason.

De Riesthal said the distortion was particularly noticeable when the President said "United States."

Although Trump has what de Riesthal would characterize as a typical Queens, New York, accent, "this was a noticeable change for his speech." It could be anything, though, especially since it seemed like he was "working hard to speak" -- as if "having a denture fall or some other alternative explanation." However, it definitely "seemed too unusual for something like that to be dry mouth."

 

[Michael Scally MD]

President insisted on his Jerusalem moment, but the impact will be forever.

Wednesday’s announcement about Jerusalem was tortured by a number of inherent contradictions, including the most prominent of all—the contention that the decision was not only in the “best interests of the United States,” but would actually enhance the prospects of a two-state solution and energize the peace process. “We are not taking a position on any final status issues,” Trump added, “including the specific boundaries of Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem or the resolution of contested borders. Those questions are up to the parties involved.” The decision is “in the best interests of the United States of America and the pursuit of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.”

In fact, it seems unlikely that this unseemly sleight-of-hand (of making dubious claims), will allay Arab fears that the U.S. continues to be “Israel’s lawyer” (to use a term coined by former U.S. Middle East negotiator Aaron David Miller). Now it has also become Israel’s realtor. This seems not to bother the president, who is becoming known for playing a poor hand by throwing in more chips.

The strategy is almost perverse in its beauty, and was on full display among administration officials intent on selling the president’s Jerusalem initiative in the wake of his address. The Trump announcement, as one of them argued, doesn’t undermine the peace process—not because there isn’t one (as everyone suspects), but because there is, and it’s going swimmingly. Trump, this official added, was actually anxious to make Wednesday’s announcement because he was so encouraged by the progress made on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process by Jared Kushner and his team. “I know a lot of that progress isn’t visible,” as this official was overheard saying to a prominent television reporter, “[but] it’s partly because that progress is not visible that they’ve been able to make so much progress.”

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Rather, it’s probable that the governments of Europe will remember the real import of this decision—that when asked to stand with our European allies and Arab friends, we chose Israel instead.

Pay attention: This is what it feels like to live in a nation whose moment has passed.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Around the world, journalists, whose basic job description is to tell the truth, are on the frontline of this disinformation assault. But so far they have struggled with how to report it.

Journalists in the U.S. covering the similar blend of fact and fiction put out by President Donald Trump and his trusted spokeswoman, Kellyanne Conway, face the same dilemma.

The post-Pravda way of covering all matters of disinformation would be to de-construct Zakharova’s or the Trump administration’s more outrageous statements, dig deep into them and de-bunk whatever lies they contained.The post-Pravda way of covering all matters of disinformation would be to de-construct Zakharova’s statements, dig deep into them and de-bunk whatever lies they contained.

The problem with this approach is that journalists are still essentially covering the toxic noise, and thereby involuntarily helping it spread. But the noise is not the real story.

What people in power say is only useful to know in the context of what they do. Whether it is press-briefings in Moscow, tweets from Washington, or press releases from Manila, they are always designed to push a narrative. The best journalists know that. That is why when we cover earthquakes we don’t read the government press-releases about the aid that has been handed out to the victims — we visit the victims.

We don’t cover pollution by de-bunking political statements about levels of PM4, we seek out real life consequences. We find children who have developed lung disease, or families who have become environmental refugees because they could no longer breath.

So why is that when it comes to covering disinformation, the industry seems to struggle to remember the basics of the trade? Perhaps it is because we journalists instinctively shy away from covering stories about ourselves. The mantra is that we are never the story, even when we are under direct attack.

But we don’t need to be the story in the disinformation crisis. We journalists may be on the frontline, but we are not the real victims. The real victims of the assault on truth are our societies, the countless men and women whose lives are being changed by disinformation.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Winning ...

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

American democracy is fragile, and unless care is taken it could follow the path of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

Mixed in with many softer comments, that was the somewhat jaw-dropping bottom line of Barack Obama last night as, in a Q&A session before the Economic Club of Chicago, the Chicagoan who used to be president dropped a bit of red meat to a hometown crowd that likely is a lot closer to him than the man whose name never was mentioned: President Donald Trump.

Obama's comments came after a series of playful questions from moderator and Ariel Investments President Mellody Hobson—in the great Batman vs. Superman debate, for instance, we learned Obama sides with Batman—before she eventually asked him what he's learned as a world citizen of sorts.

One thing he's learned is that "things don't happen internationally if we don't put our shoulder to the wheel," Obama said, speaking of the U.S. "No other country has the experience and bandwidth and ideals. . . .If the U.S. doesn't do it, it's not going to happen."

Obama gave one specific example, but it was a solid one: Ebola. To fight the virus the U.S. did everything from build an airport tarmac in Africa to send in medical teams and ferry medicos from other countries. "We probably saved a million lives by doing that," he said.

At least indirectly, those comments could be seen as criticism of Trump, whose foreign policy focuses on an "America first" paradigm that critics say distracts from this country's unique role.

Obama moved from that to talking about a nativist mistrust and unease that has swept around the world. He argued that such things as the speed of technical change and the uneven impact of globalization have come too quickly to be absorbed in many cultures, bringing strange new things and people to areas in which "people didn't (used to) challenge your assumptions." As a result, "nothing feels solid," he said. "Sadly, there's something in us that looks for simple answers when we're agitated."

Still, the U.S. has survived tough times before and will again, he noted, particularly mentioning the days of communist fighter Joseph McCarthy and former President Richard Nixon. But one reason the country survived is because it had a free press to ask questions, Obama added. Though he has problems with the media just like Trump has had, "what I understood was the principle that the free press was vital."

The danger is "grow(ing) complacent," Obama said. "We have to tend to this garden of democracy or else things could fall apart quickly."

That's what happened in Germany in the 1930s, which despite the democracy of the Weimar Republic and centuries of high-level cultural and scientific achievements, Adolph Hitler rose to dominate, Obama noted. "Sixty million people died. . . .So, you've got to pay attention. And vote."

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

TrumpTard, TrumpFuckingIdiot, ...

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Big_paul]

I'm for Israel receiving all the land God laid out for them in the Bible.
And I support Israel as a sovereign country.

What's your position on Iran? And there Ambitions for nuclear weapons?
Should we wait until they turn into another North Korea? Or blow all their nuclear power plants and weapons building capabilities off the map?

A nuclear Iran is going to be just as dangerous, if not more so than North Korea. They fundamentally, and without apology hate Israel! And would be ready to die, if they could destroy Israel. They feel it is their religious duty to destroy Israel. And if Iran gets into a war with Israel, that pulls us into the war. Whether you agree or not we will support Israel. So a nuclear Iran is a huge threat to us.

So what's your answer for the situation?

Mrhat

I'm for whatever it takes to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the world.. as for Jerusalem I'm a Christian as well but I don't want to see the area inflamed unnecessarily. there's no problem with our Embassy being in Tel Aviv.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[master.on]

Why doctor pct doesn't father or adopt a child with all the time and money he wastes retweeting?
He can tell the kid to grow to become POTUS
as long as it doesn't get to the point of brain-washing.