Re: Aca
 

Sebby, where do you get your news? What sources do you find most useful?

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https://thepilotwifelife.wordpress.c...t-flight-3411/

Another look at the United thing- summary, Fed Regulations are at fault- in fact the Regs compelled the removal.

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Question: the flight they were heading to was the next day; there was another flight later that day, that hadn't boarded yet. Was this really "must fly"?

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I don't know. The later flights were likely full, or I've heard they were? Plus, United knew the flight was leaving. It didn't know for sure the later one would.

But i think the change that will come of this is exempting people over X years old from being bumped. it is hard enough for old people to fly, let alone dealing with that additional burden.

(oh, and whiff, first definition)

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Hillary would have totally ignored possible civilian casualties and dropped a MOAB way before now.

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This article is total bullshit. It's not even worth discussing how shallow her analysis is.

TM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Maybe you'll like this more.

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It is one thing for ggg to whiff.......

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Come on, we'd all be proud of Sebby if he could rise to that level.

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Sorry. It was just such a shit article.

TM

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I think I explained this a while back...

I do not watch Fox, contrary to GGG's dull assumption. I watch or listen to their business news network every now and again, but never political coverage or opinion.

I actually like Morning Joe. It's pap, but entertaining and pretty fair. I listen also to BBC, Bloomberg, and CNN (I hate Chris Cuomo, but I like Fareed Zakaria (yes, I understand he's a bland Tom Friedman sort, but I like the subject matter he picks)).

I read almost everything, and it's random. I do plead to having a contrarian and skeptical bent, however, so there is an emphasis on authors who either debunk the consensus, explain why the answer is "none of the mainstream choices offered," or pick holes in the consensus presentation of data. I like Foreign Affairs, Taleb's online stuff ("Skin in the Game"), Cowen, Daily Mail (gossip, famous chicks in next to nothing), Guardian, RT (because Hedges does a show on it), Atlantic, Harpers, Vanity Fair, NYTimes, WSJ, WaPo, LATimes, Realclearpolitics/markets/world, Huffpo and Townhall (to see what the nuts are saying), Reason, Reddit, and all sorts of various blogs, usually linked by a story from a more mainstream source.

It truly is random. I just surf on subject matter in which I'm interested. I don't shoot any messenger except wild conspiracy theorists. Taibbi's The Great Derangement is my proxy on that stuff

Mostly, however, I read books. It's all over the place. Right now I'm reading Chuck Klosterman's What if We're Wrong? I needed something light after depressing the fuck out of myself with Cowen's Complacent Class. Books allow more long range thought, and they're not as focused as blogs on making sure they're hedged against being cited as incorrect in the comments section. Most online writing sucks because everybody is continually defending themselves in advance.

I used to read the Times and WSJ front to back every day. Did it for probably 15 years. It was a waste of time. News is fleeting. The underlying trends and forces remain somewhat the same.

I have some other horse's mouth sources. These are familiar with how the sausage is made. They're the source of the greatest amount of skepticism I have for consensus.

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The reports say we dropped that big bomb on ISIS in eastern Afghanistan. Since when is ISIS in eastern Afghanistan? That's a long way from the caliphate. eta: Wikipedia has more.

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I think there is a lot of debate about these little ISIS offshoots in different places and how much communication they have with the mothership in Syria, but they are all over. They get broken up and then something else gets reformed. I've seen speculation that the only time they can effectively coordinate is during the Hajj, and otherwise intl is good enough so its hard for them to have much interaction.

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I don't think "offshoot" is the right term -- it's more like a foreign body grafted onto ISIS, if you want to be vegetative about it. Also seems like it's playing into their hands, and building up ISIS, to be describing an attack on them as an attack on ISIS.