Poor Adam Corolla. According to the University, "Based on the typical end of semester increased activity, The University Corporation determined that this rental request could not be accommodated," the organization said in a statement emailed to THR. "At no point was the rental approved. Representatives made an inquiry, and logistics could not be accommodated."
....Late Tuesday, University Corporation president and executive director Rick Evans noted that Prager and Carolla spoke at the campus separately about three years ago, in the pre-Trump, pre-safe space era, and that he has no objection to them appearing together there in the future.
"I'm confident there's a time and place for this event. Discussions about security concerns and electronics had not taken place yet," he said.
"I can't have my people scrambling at the last minute," Evans said. "Availability is the first step, not the last one, and there were enough dangling loose ends for me to deny the request, for their sake and ours. We need to start from scratch. I want this event to occur. The police department will determine the necessary level of security."
BTW, The Corolla/Prager performance happened less than 2 months later.
AFAIC, this is another rich, middle aged, hetero white guy upset that our society is listening to someone other than rich, middle aged hetero white guys. No one likes to share power. Boo hoo.
We used to think that having vast sums of money was bad and in particular bad for you — that it harmed your character, warping your behavior and corrupting your soul. We thought the rich were different, and different for the worse.
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The first victims of the rich are the rich themselves.
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How did we lose sight of the ancient wisdom about wealth.
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Oh, and about those non-rich members of congress who still think inequality is just fine, well, this explains, in part, why these people support cutting food stamps (SNAP) and health care to the poor. Quote from the article:
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Some studies go so far as to suggest that simply being around great material wealth makes people less willing to share . That's right: Vast sums of money poison not only those who possess them but even those who are merely around them.
Gore was taking questions from the audience on a CNN town hall with Anderson Cooper when the fisherman and Tangier Island mayor James Eskridge refuted Gore's assertion that rising sea levels were endangering coastal communities.
"I'm a commercial crabber and I've been working the Chesapeake Bay for 50+ years. I have a crab house business out on the water and the water level is the same as it was when the place was built in 1970," Eskridge said. "I'm not a scientist, but I am a keen observer and if sea level rises are occurring, why am I not seeing signs of it?"
But to the point, yes, experts are sometimes wrong. There are no guarantees in life. What I have said is the experts supply us with the best information we have at the time.
To continue ETS's thinking, do not listen to the cardiologist that has made a mistake. Ask someone like ETS instead!
Do not listen to the people who have PhD's in physics, geology, climatology, and more, because they have been wrong in the past. Ask ETS instead, because he knows how to run a multi-meter. Or alternately, do not ask the oceanographers who study sea level rise if sea level is increasing. Go down to the docks and ask some crabber or fishermen who may not have a high school education.
ETS epitomizes Isaac Asimov's quote, "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"
EasTexSteveI know he played a lot of greenies for fools when he was in the carbon credit business. But, What has Gore done to have a "negative carbon footprint?"
Passing the bill did require a tax increase, but it is good to see a state ...See MoreWorking with republicans in a state that is controlled completely by democrats, Oregon passed a health care bill to cover 95% of adults and 100% of children. It will cover every man, woman, and other preferred gender pronouns. It will also cover illegal immigrants.
Passing the bill did require a tax increase, but it is good to see a state take on problems with Obamacare at the state level. I hope that more states will work locally to solve some of our problems.
I'm all for the states taking care of things. You however want to make sure it becomes a federal program instead of a state program. You only want to accept democrat ideas and your party will do nothing in a bipartisan manner when it comes to healthcare as it means the unraveling of Obamacare. For some reason, until Trump became president, you and your party would not admit any flaws and defined any attempt to better the bill as an attempt to repeal Obamacare. NOW, the democrats claim to want to fix Obamacare, despite saying that it is not coming apart due to poor writing and execution.
Bob R/CAI don't insist it become a federal program - I want the federal program to set the minimum standards for coverage. Like civil rights, if the states want to surpass those minimum standards, that's fine with me.
"One loca...See More "Eric Trump, visited the {Irish] course this summer, a property he says his family loves and invested upwards of $50m to $60m in. He recalled first seeing the course in 2014 when "20 or 30 metres of dunes" had already been eroded. A few more heavy storms, and he worried their redesigned, luxury course might be lost completely."
"One local man, who lives beside the golf course, leaned in close and whispered that he could never support Trump. For one, he said, he has nine sisters. But he also worried if the wall is built, the sea will be forced around and flood his own land. 'I'll end up on an island,'" he said.
Crisis tests the mental acuity and character of presidents. It demands a degree of focus and reveals character like nothing else. The ability to navigate crisis isn't merely intellectual—Carter was whip-smart, and terrible at confronting crises—it's also a kind of Wolfean Right Stuff; "Perhaps because it could not be talked about, the subject began to take on superstitious and even mystical outlines. A man either had it or he didn't! There was no such thing as having most of it. Moreover, it could blow at any seam."
When they have it, they have it. Some presidents meet crisis with resolve and discipline. Some have a team of serious, capable advisers who bring knowledge, focus, and insight into complex regions and actors. Some have guts. Some have intellectual horsepower and mental bandwidth. Some understand people and power.
Some presidents show immediate command in some crises and fail in others. From the confident rallying cry of "I hear you" on a firetruck in the ruins of the World Trade Center to "Heckuva job, Brownie" shows two extremes of crisis management in one president.
What we know of Donald Trump is that he lacks all of these characteristics, and while some of his advisers have shining parts, he ignores those who offer him counsel on how to behave, govern, and lead as a president. The Scaramucci sideshow was one more example of how deeply unready Trump is for a real crisis and how at risk our nation is because the president is temperamentally (and, let's be real, mentally) unfit to serve. Donald Trump the television character—decisive, worldly, smart, and always in control—is precisely the opposite of Donald Trump the man. The real Donald Trump is moody, needy, shallow, and impulsive.