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>>118901
So keep Obamacare but cut and paste a few paragraphs and also fuck abortions.

>>118936
pretty much. take it from the master

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/john-boehner-obamacare-republicans-235303

>'They’re basically going to fix the flaws and put a more conservative box around it,' Boehner said.

>"In the 25 years that I served in the United States Congress, Republicans never, ever, one time agreed on what a health care proposal should look like. Not once,” Boehner said. “And all this happy talk that went on in November and December and January about repeal, repeal, repeal—yeah, we'll do replace, replace—I started laughing, because if you pass repeal without replace, first, anything that happens is your fault. You broke it.”

>dailymail.co.uk
Fuck off, Piers. You could have posted any other source but you had to post shit.

>“Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton and harm her electability and potential presidency,” the report stated, adding that the U.S. intelligence community had “high confidence” in its judgments. “We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.”

>While news outlets reported in June that Russian hackers accessed Democratic National Committee emails, U.S. intelligence agencies didn’t confirm that the Russian government was trying to influence the election until months later. On March 20, Comey told the House Intelligence Committee that the FBI has, since July, been investigating Russian interference in the election and whether there was collusion between Moscow and associates of Trump.

>Comey has previously written to a major news outlet. In 2014, when the FBI was facing criticism because an agent had posed as an Associated Press reporter as part of an investigation, Comey wrote a letter for publication in The New York Times defending the agent.

>“It falls in line with his willingness or his determination to be transparent,” says Frank Montoya Jr., a former special agent in charge of the FBI’s Seattle division and the former head of national counterintelligence.

>For supporters of Hillary Clinton, news of the op-ed adds to the frustration over Comey’s public disclosure of details about the investigation into her emails, including at a July press conference, but not about the probe involving Russia and Trump, which began that same month.
...

>“This raises a lot of questions,” says Jarad Geldner, a senior adviser for the Democratic Coalition Against Trump, which filed a complaint with the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility over Comey’s disclosures about the Clinton investigation. “That raises the question of why Comey or [the Department of Justice] or the White House felt that it was OK to hold that [July] press conference on Hillary Clinton’s emails but not to go public with this.”

>But the source with knowledge of Comey’s request says that the FBI director wanted the Russian interference made public earlier and that it was a sluggish White House that denied Comey and delayed the announcement. “The White House shut it down,” that source says. “They did their usual—nothing.” Both sources spoke to Newsweek on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak to the press.

>Asked about Comey’s push to write an op-ed over the summer, a spokesperson for the FBI says by email, “In general we have not been adding to the director’s comments regarding Russia at the March 20 hearing.” A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment. A spokesman for Barack Obama could not immediately be reached.

I thought it was common knowledge that all countries try to actively influence the elections of all other countries for the betterment of their own country

>>126910
>>125866

>>126661
Yes, and I won't be voting for him again.

>>126661
The FCC was a retarded idea to begin with, so I don't give a shit. If you don't like your ISP, find a new one, don't buy it, or start up your own company. Nobody is forcing you to buy internet.

Mine did and I want the money they gave him. SUcks

What a shame, guess we're stuck with fossil fuels and shoveling millions propping up "clean" energy

>>126655
Is this anyhow tied to the Clintons selling of 20% of USA uranium?

>>126657
You know Nuclear is extremely expensive?

>Ms. Palaszczuk said it was difficult to assess the damage.

>“We’re starting to see it where they’re actually losing communication, and that’s the biggest problem for us — because we just don’t know how many people are injured, the status of their homes,” she said.

>Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told Parliament that “conditions have deteriorated badly” in Queensland, adding that the Choules, a landing ship with helicopters and medical personnel, was dispatched to the area, as were air force airlift craft.

>The government has deployed 1,000 personnel to provide assistance and disaster relief, with the army on standby to help out. The Insurance Council of Australia declared the cyclone a catastrophe, activating a hotline to help policy holders with claims.

>The cyclone forced thousands of people to seek shelter well away from low-lying coastal areas. Lama Ghee, 39, arrived at the Ayr shelter with his sister, daughter and three nieces.

>“I don’t want to stay there in a big cyclone like this and get blown away,” he said, noting that his house was made of wood and was in disrepair and that he feared a storm surge. “I am thinking of my children and my nieces.”
...

>The cyclone was of a size that had not been seen in the state since Cyclone Yasi, a severe tropical storm, hit in 2011. That storm, which caused billions of dollars in damage, was one of the most powerful cyclones to have affected Queensland since record-keeping began, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.

>The slow path of the storm this week had officials concerned about its destructive force.

>“Debbie is a very large, slow-moving system,” said John Fowler, a spokesman for Ergon Energy, noting that 48,000 customers were without power in the Bowen, Whitsunday and Mackay areas. “This one is actually taking its time, so the longer it takes, the more damage it will do — not just to our network but obviously to property as well.”

>Among the longer-term concerns was further damage to the Great Barrier Reef, which has already been seriously degraded by warming waters.

>“There’s probably quite a lot of reef area in the footprint of Cyclone Debbie that’s at risk from damage from the wind and the waves,” said David Wachenfeld, director of reef recovery at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. “So it’s a double whammy for the reef with bleaching.”

Any aussiefriends have any updates? How bad is the damage where you are?

I AM ANONYMOUS AND YOURE NOT!!!

KEK you could NOT make this sh!t up KEK

>>124522
what does it mean if OP has a "dub"?

LOL another retarded amerifat shootout

>>123268
Do I hear banjos playing...

>>123313
>>123323

Jelly?

I give my dog bottled water only haha

>Ms. Wright, who joined Fox in mid-2014 and had spoken up about Ms. Slater’s behavior, was transferred out of the payroll department on Monday, a move the lawsuit described as a demotion. The company described it as a lateral move. While the suit contends that Ms. Brown, who joined Fox in late 2008, was fired on Monday, the company said on Tuesday night that she remained employed. Both women declined a Fox settlement offer, according to the suit.

>The company said on Tuesday night that it took immediate action after learning about the allegations against Ms. Slater and fired her on Feb. 28.

>“We take complaints of this nature very seriously and took prompt and effective remedial action before Ms. Brown and Ms. Wright sued in court and even before Ms. Wright complained through her lawyer,” the company said in a statement. “There is no place for inappropriate verbal remarks like this at Fox News. We are disappointed that this needless litigation has been filed.”

>Fox News did not provide contact information for Ms. Slater, and it was not clear if she had retained legal counsel.

>The suit also includes allegations that Ms. Slater made disparaging comments about Ms. Wright’s hair and credit score. She and Ms. Brown said Ms. Slater had mocked the Black Lives Matter movement and referred to their majority-black department as the “urban” or “Southern” payroll department.

>The lawsuit included the names of four other black employees who it said left or were forced out and cited similar accusations of discrimination.

>>126795
>Tabrese
Really

Those are all hilarious

>>121318

So, a real brexit then, as in an actual exit from Britain. Do it Scotland, for FREE-DOM!

Scottish independence, free of England but wants to be bitched by the EU. Never worked that one out.

>>121349
about time scots will be finally free.

>The researchers began churning out new chemistry options, using such metals as tin, lithium and calcium. Today, the new and improved molten metal batteries produced at Ambri's factory operate at a cool 900 degrees Fahrenheit.

>"Well, there's a secret sauce on the specific materials that we're using," Bradwell says. "It's not magnesium and antimony, but it's similar type materials."

>The liquid metal storage cells look like stainless steel shoe boxes. They're filled with raw materials and vacuum sealed.

>"The heart of the manufacturing operation is this unit here. This is our cell assembly system. It's a very straightforward process," Bradwell says. "Low-cost capital equipment, high-capacity throughput to allow us to scale to manufacturing with relatively low capital investments."

>Five investors including Bill Gates and the giant French energy company Total have pumped $50 million into Ambri, attracted by the company's low-tech approach.

>"Some of the basic skills that are required here are really built on welding steel together," says Ambri CEO Phil Giudice. "It's really quite straightforward, no moving parts, no separators between the layers. It's a very elegant, simple technology."

>"The electrochemistry of the battery involves three liquid components," Bradwell says as he explains the inner workings of the molten metal battery.

>"We have a liquid metal as the bottom positive electrode," he says, "which pools on the bottom of one of those stainless steel cans; a layer of molten salt, which floats on top of that; and then a third liquid layer — a second metal — which floats on top of the salt, allowing the battery to establish a potential."

>That energy potential produces a flow of electrons — electricity. It's elementary, elegant and simple. But it helps if you have a Ph.D. in electrochemistry.

>"On discharge, the top electrode metal dissolves into the electrolyte as an ion, shedding electrons which goes through an external circuit delivering power," Bradwell says.

>Reverse the flow and the electrons return to the positive electrode, charging the battery. The molten metals have different densities and don't mix. Like oil and water, they separate into layers: no pumps, no moving parts.

>And the system essentially runs itself. At the factory Ambri has built a beta prototype battery: 432 storage cells strung together and placed into a small insulated shipping container. A commercial version — the same size — could supply a day's worth of electricity to 30 average Massachusetts homes. To scale up: Add more containers.

>Inside the box it's 900 degrees but outside it's cool to the touch. The system is about 80 percent efficient, but Giudice says very little energy is wasted.

>"The inefficiency, that 20 percent of inefficiency, is actually given off as heat," Giudice says, "and that heat is held within the insulated box that holds the cells and that's sufficient to keep it at operating temperature, and you just charge and discharge to keep it at that state."

Solving A Molten Metal Melt Down

>Bradwell says Ambri was gearing up for commercial production two years ago when the company suffered a meltdown.

>"The one component that we had some challenges developing was the high-temperature seals," he says.

>The seals — separating the positive and negative electrodes in the high-temperature cells — kept melting.

>"There didn't exist a technology in the marketplace that we could just apply to our cells," Bradwell says.

>So, in late 2015, just as Ambri was gearing up for field testing and commercial production, the company had to lay off a quarter of its staff.

>That's a frightening and all too familiar danger for startups, says Galen Nelson, senior director of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

>"It's called 'The Commercialization Valley of Death,' " Nelson says. "It's this leap that companies need to make between testing and proving out a prototype in a lab and actually deploying it in an operational or real world environment."

>The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center provided comfort in the form of a grant to help Ambri transit the "Valley of Death" and survive thanks to newly designed seals.

>"So it is a great material, it is readily available, and we're not fully public with it," Bradwell says.

>"They do last a long, long time in operation," Giudice says as he stands in front of the battery prototype.

>He says it's been charging and discharging flawlessly since last fall.

>"Tens of thousands of cycles is we project out for, so it's really quite remarkable compared to every other storage technology that's out there."

>Ambri's molten metal technology is at the cutting edge of the emerging energy storage industry. The company plans to begin commercial production within two years. There are competing battery designs, but the revolution in the way we use, generate and transmit electricity has already begun.

>>126162
>nation.foxnews.com
Not a valid news source. It's a fucking forum. If you want to copypaste morally outraged comments over muslims go to >>>/pol/

>>126163
Get over yourself, dingus. While it isn't exactly news, it isn't exactly /pol/ worthy either

>>126167
>While it isn't exactly news, it isn't exactly /pol/ worthy either
Not him, but it sounds pretty /pol/ish to me.

Unless this is a growing national trend, it's cherry-picked rage-bait.

But as a fallen Catholic, I will weigh in on the theology a little.
>told students that Jesus’ disciples did not believe he was God.
This isn't even controversial.
Jesus never claimed to be God incarnate, and the Doctrine of the Trinity was developed by the church at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD, so very early Christians in general probably wouldn't have seen him as a physical manifestation of one aspect of a single divine being (God).

> including her claim that Jesus’ crucifixion never took place.
Novelist Robert Heinlein had at least one character that called it the "cruci-fiction".
But yeah, kind of hard to prove it never happened.

I think it's time to abolish employers.

>>120876
thats right comrade bread lines for all

>>120887
the state can make all the hiring decisions.

>>126720
>On the other side of the debate, conservatives voiced concern that Trump's Executive Orders are fatally flawed because they leave in place two pillars of Obama's environmental policy: the EPA's 2009 “Endangerment Finding” which gives the agency vast authority to enforce climate-related regulations on everything from power plants to vehicle emissions; and the 2015 Paris climate treaty.

>“All these policies are closely connected and striking down most, but not all, of them will not be sufficient to undo the damage done by President Obama's energy-rationing policies,” says Myron Ebell of the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute.

>“Environmental pressure groups are already planning to file suit in federal court using the Paris treaty and the Endangerment Finding to stop Trump's executive order on power plants from taking effect,” he said.

>The likelihood of lengthy litigation and the complexity of the regulatory process have brought many observers to the conclusion that while Trump's executive orders may excite his base, they will do little to change Obama's Clean Power Plan, a sweeping EPA rule, already frozen by the Supreme Court, that mandates cuts in carbon emissions from power plants.

>“When it comes to climate change, the Trump administration can't so easily put the genie back in the bottle,” said Scott Fulton, president of the Environmental Law Institute in Washington.

>Fulton, who served as a senior EPA official in both Republican and Democratic administrations, said “Look for deep involvement each step of the way by the courts and for judicial intervention to surface as a major obstacle to implementation of the new executive order.”

>>126721
>Environmental groups signaled that they are ready for the fight. “The safeguards Trump wants to shred — like the Clean Power Plan — are on a strong legal footing," said the Sierra Club's Michael Brune. “Trump can't reverse our clean energy and climate progress with the stroke of a pen, and we'll fight Trump in the courts, in the streets, and at the state and local level across America to protect the health of every community.”

>Another looming question is the president's commitment to the landmark Paris Climate Accord signed by Obama. On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to pull out of the deal, but the realities of governing appear to have given him pause.

>Early drafts of the executive orders were said to have included language critical of the Paris accord. However, two of Trump's closest confidants, daughter Ivanka and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, a former chief of the global energy giant ExxonMobil, were reported to have intervened to have references to the international agreement dropped from the final draft.

>Asked Wednesday whether the president intends to withdraw from the treaty, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said, “It's still under discussion.”

>>126722
>Moreover, despite Trump's public statements opposing burdensome Obama-era environmental regulations, there is growing doubt about the commitment of several key members of the administration. The news website Politico reported this week that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, with the backing of several White House aides, successfully argued against including language in the executive order that would revoke the endangerment finding.

>Pruitt's stance was surprising, as he came to national prominence for filing numerous legal challenges to EPA regulations during his time as attorney general of Oklahoma. His official biography describes him as “a leading advocate against the EPA's activist agenda.”

>Politico reported that conservative members of Congress, many of them the same ones who successfully scuttled the Republican health care plan a week ago, were outraged at the news.

>The latest developments have prompted conservatives to ask whether Trump himself is one of them, a question that arose repeatedly during the campaign.

>Candidate Trump once famously called climate change a hoax. However, a senior White House official quizzed by reporters during a background briefing this week said the president does believe in man-made climate change.

>>126643

ROLF. "old republicans" will sack the power of president if they can get rid of Trump. democrats will still be in shit and there will no new election.