14 hours ago, placeholder said:

I never had seen that one. But usually when I think I've come up with an  original bon mot and check it on the internet, it turns out that somebody or several somebodies, have gotten there before me. So discouraging.

SCOTUS  sided with the Trump Administration and blocked a Massachusetts judges order

 

Roberts sided with the left in a 5-4 vote! Roberts is anti Trump, go figure.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5233166-supreme-court-trump-teacher-grants/

 

4 hours ago, ronnie50 said:

 

My wife has had that said to her when speaking in Thai with a friend in public. I taught her to reply "when you go to me country speak Thai"

On 3/31/2025 at 3:56 AM, James65 said:

I guess terrorism is an American's problem then.  I hope the US doesn't ever need NATO allies again, like they did after 9-11.  I doubt Canada or Europe will come to America's defense anyone like they did back then.

 

Would have still supported USA for trade, now? perhaps not. Unfortunately the Allies stupidly also supported US invasion of Iraq.

12 minutes ago, simple1 said:

 

Would have still supported USA for trade, now? perhaps not. Unfortunately the Allies stupidly also supported US invasion of Iraq.

I don't think most of the did. They supported the US invasion of Afghanistan. Or rather wanted to. Cheney and friends rather rudely dismissed their offers of support. But when the US decided to pivot to Iraq, most of them didn't go along. Oddly enough, they weren't convinced that Saddam Hussein was in league with Al Qaeda.

8 minutes ago, placeholder said:

I don't think most of the did. They supported the US invasion of Afghanistan. Or rather wanted to. Cheney and friends rather rudely dismissed their offers of support. But when the US decided to pivot to Iraq, most of them didn't go along. Oddly enough, they weren't convinced that Saddam Hussein was in league with Al Qaeda.

 

You're correct. Being on Oz and UK citizenship I mistakenly thought of the other NATO countries for supporting  2003 invasion

DOGE volunteer credits Trump for unprecedented effort to curb 'jaw-dropping' Social Security fraud, perpetrated by the lefts illegal migrant love affair.

 

GAO in 2024 laid the footprints , DOGE just followed them, with the help of a EO and a Trump appointed director .

"We found that there were just about five-plus million of them that came to the country as illegals, were given various forms of parole or allowing [in] the country, and they got through an automatic system, Social Security numbers, so they could get into our benefit systems," Gracias said

 

 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-volunteer-credits-trump-unprecedented-151001424.html

48 minutes ago, riclag said:

DOGE volunteer credits Trump for unprecedented effort to curb 'jaw-dropping' Social Security fraud, perpetrated by the lefts illegal migrant love affair.

 

GAO in 2024 laid the footprints , DOGE just followed them, with the help of a EO and a Trump appointed director .

"We found that there were just about five-plus million of them that came to the country as illegals, were given various forms of parole or allowing [in] the country, and they got through an automatic system, Social Security numbers, so they could get into our benefit systems," Gracias said

 

 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-volunteer-credits-trump-unprecedented-151001424.html

 

 

Given the dubiousness of the claims that Musk continues to make, I'll wait and see what an independent analysis determines about these claims.

23 hours ago, Rob Browder said:

Well, if you mean how the virus came to be - yes, there is a lot on that.  For example, the "gain of function" spike-protein used was patented by Moderna in 2016 - a perfect gene-match - 1 in 3-trilliion odds that match could happen naturally.

 

It's trying to get into the heads of the people involved which is problematic.  "They were trying to use this research to save lives," is what they will claim - and, in many cases, that may be true.  For example, a virus used in gene-therapy for cancer would explain creating that spike-protein. 

 

The only way to restore trust, would be to return to a system where medical research is primarily conducted by non-profits and universities - and NOT universities with big corporate "grants" funding the medical-research.  A profit-motive system is great for consumer-electronics and such - but the incentives go sideways when "sick people are more profitable."

Follow the money.  And unfortunately, the people that control all this have money everywhere. Without "grant" money, who would pay for the research?  

23 hours ago, Rob Browder said:

Well, if you mean how the virus came to be - yes, there is a lot on that.  For example, the "gain of function" spike-protein used was patented by Moderna in 2016 - a perfect gene-match - 1 in 3-trilliion odds that match could happen naturally.

 

It's trying to get into the heads of the people involved which is problematic.  "They were trying to use this research to save lives," is what they will claim - and, in many cases, that may be true.  For example, a virus used in gene-therapy for cancer would explain creating that spike-protein. 

 

The only way to restore trust, would be to return to a system where medical research is primarily conducted by non-profits and universities - and NOT universities with big corporate "grants" funding the medical-research.  A profit-motive system is great for consumer-electronics and such - but the incentives go sideways when "sick people are more profitable."

Follow the money.  And unfortunately, the people that control all this have money everywhere. Without "grant" money, who would pay for the research?  The entire system seems to revolve around "grants." Scientists and medical researchers can be bought and paid for, just like politicians, so there's a problem.

 

23 hours ago, Rob Browder said:

Well, if you mean how the virus came to be - yes, there is a lot on that.  For example, the "gain of function" spike-protein used was patented by Moderna in 2016 - a perfect gene-match - 1 in 3-trilliion odds that match could happen naturally.

 

It's trying to get into the heads of the people involved which is problematic.  "They were trying to use this research to save lives," is what they will claim - and, in many cases, that may be true.  For example, a virus used in gene-therapy for cancer would explain creating that spike-protein. 

 

The only way to restore trust, would be to return to a system where medical research is primarily conducted by non-profits and universities - and NOT universities with big corporate "grants" funding the medical-research.  A profit-motive system is great for consumer-electronics and such - but the incentives go sideways when "sick people are more profitable."

Follow the money.  And unfortunately, the people that control all this have money everywhere. Without "grant" money, who would pay for the research?  The entire system seems to revolve around "grants." Scientists and medical researchers can be bought and paid for, just like politicians, so there's a problem.

 

11 minutes ago, jas007 said:

Follow the money.  And unfortunately, the people that control all this have money everywhere. Without "grant" money, who would pay for the research?  The entire system seems to revolve around "grants." Scientists and medical researchers can be bought and paid for, just like politicians, so there's a problem.

 

Thanks for sharing with us something entirely new: a conspiracy theory.

Just now, placeholder said:

Thanks for sharing with us something entirely new: a conspiracy theory.

No problem.  It's my pleasure.  Have you ever talked to people who lived on grant money?  Money is a powerful motivator.  I've known world renowned professors. The tops in their field.  And yet there they are, applying for "grants." It's a lucrative business, by the way.  

11 minutes ago, jas007 said:

No problem.  It's my pleasure.  Have you ever talked to people who lived on grant money?  Money is a powerful motivator.  I've known world renowned professors. The tops in their field.  And yet there they are, applying for "grants." It's a lucrative business, by the way.  

And are they sharing their ill-gotten gains with the peer reviewers at scientific journals? And if so, do you have evidence of this?

14 hours ago, jas007 said:

No problem.  It's my pleasure.  Have you ever talked to people who lived on grant money?  Money is a powerful motivator.  I've known world renowned professors. The tops in their field.  And yet there they are, applying for "grants." It's a lucrative business, by the way.  

Department of Education is gonna get closed down its running a DEI circus.

 

 

 

https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-halt-millions-in-teacher-training-grants/

15 hours ago, jas007 said:

No problem.  It's my pleasure.  Have you ever talked to people who lived on grant money?  Money is a powerful motivator.  I've known world renowned professors. The tops in their field.  And yet there they are, applying for "grants." It's a lucrative business, by the way.  

Epa head Zelden already had footprints on the ground from previous investigations by Senator Capito, billions of dollars  of grant money were going to anti American organizations to spew social justice campaigns.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doge-epa-team-up-claw-back-67m-biden-era-environmental-justice-grants

 

 

 

FAFO, Brown U federal funding $510 million  has stopped. 
https://nypost.com/2025/04/04/us-news/rhode-islands-brown-university-to-have-510-million-in-federal-funding-frozen-by-trump-admin/

Scott Jennings Cnn token Gop voice!

 

 

“Ag Bondi makes a example of out of prosecutor who broke ranks in deportation case”.

 

Weeding out the left on the Doj. This one thought they could get away with it.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-suspends-lawyer-case-maryland-man-mistakenly-deported-failing-zealously-advocate

On 3/31/2025 at 12:18 AM, NickyLouie said:

  

u from Bradford, Pakistan ? 

 

- bless

 

 

Typical MAGA deflection

On 3/31/2025 at 2:20 PM, fredwiggy said:

I understand science, but it's never explained how the universe got it's start,

 

Quite so. In fact now the multiple big bangs theory is favoured by many. It's still a mystery really.

On 4/5/2025 at 1:35 PM, jas007 said:

Follow the money.  And unfortunately, the people that control all this have money everywhere. Without "grant" money, who would pay for the research?  The entire system seems to revolve around "grants." Scientists and medical researchers can be bought and paid for, just like politicians, so there's a problem.

 

 

 

Voters, and politicians, have demanded for years that univerisities only conduct research that is relevant. Pretty much all grant application in the life sciences, for instance, are now required to provide a business plan, or similar, showing how that research will benefit society. Successive cuts in government funding because of things like tax cuts, have caused governments, generally of a conservative nature but not always, to create "in kind" schemes, typically a company funds 50%, government/taxpapyer funds the other half.

 

But mostly your paragraph is tosh. Don't worry, I won't come back to read your retort.

On 3/31/2025 at 12:02 PM, thaibeachlovers said:

All those people don't try to live in the US because the US is so great, they do so because their own countries are <deleted><deleted> and the US up till now let them enter illegally and work there.

If their own countries were half as good as a western country, they'd stay there. No one crosses the Darien for fun, which says how bad their own counties are.

 

PS I don't think any countries are good, it's just that some countries are less bad than others.

The US does not let people enter illegally and work there. That happens because rich people hire them. The US is a great country, has everything anyone could ever want, and is why people move there daily. All countries have good and bad things, some more bad than others.

1 hour ago, MicroB said:

Voters, and politicians, have demanded for years that univerisities only conduct research that is relevant.

Relevant to what?

Before millions came illegally from over a hundred countries.

Given incentives to come by the wacky far left former administration under the direction of Biden urge to flood the border!

 

The American dream was built on judeo Christian values. One value was sacrificed by the far left administration,

“values”.

 

Now 

Notice the date on Google’s AI quote 

 

If you try to enter the United States illegally, lie to get a visa, work without legal permission, or stay in the United States after your visa or visa waiver period expires, you will face serious penalties. These include jail time, deportation, and a permanent ban on obtaining a US visa in the future.Mar 27, 2568.

44 minutes ago, riclag said:

Before millions came illegally from over a hundred countries.

Where did all the non indigenous, now Americans, come from?

‘Hands Off!’ protesters across US rally against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk!

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/05/us/hands-off-protests-trump-musk/index.html

 

“CNN has not been able to independently verify how many people attended Saturday’s demonstrations, but “Hands Off!” organizers say that “millions” of people turned up from coast to coast”.

 

Hey Cnn who sponsored  the organizing?

Constitutional Law Expert And Professor J Turley just posted his opinion on the Lefts rage after the

greatest come back in Election history .

The American Jacobin: How some on the left have found release in a age of rage. “The assassination culture”.

 

 

 

Source article from Turley:

“They are part of a rising class of American Jacobins — bourgeois revolutionaries increasingly prepared to trash everything, from cars to the Constitution.

The Jacobins were a radical group in France that propelled that country into the worst excesses of the French Revolution. They were largely affluent citizens, including journalists, professors, lawyers, and others who shredded existing laws and destroyed property”.
 

I’m thrilled to see some scholars calling it like it is!

Its been brewing for many many years!

The left is a threat to humanity!

Trumpers get so triggered.  I love it.  😁