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It's fake news. Will any leftist admit what is misrepresented? ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
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It's CNN so what else can anyone possibly expect? CNN = 100% FAKE NEWS (their weather forecasts are made-up shit, too).

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Cursitor Doom

An "authorization" is not "appropriation", but those mental midgets on the left will continue to claim that something of _substance_ was withdrawn. ...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson

Yeah, f*ck Schumer for even offering to support any deal that involves a single dime of taxpayer money being spent on it; give Trump a Spanish to English dictionary and tell him he should be in Mexico City if he wants to negotiate the payment terms

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bitrex

What's wrong is, that our government/ society is broken. We can only stumble along for a ~month till the next crisis. We should give Trump his f'ing wall, it won't do much good, (IMHO). But let's just be done with it as an issue. Immigration, is another kettle of fish. The senate will pass something (reasonably) sensible and it will die in the house. I heard someone comment, that politics has made zero progress in the last ~30 yrs. Since the first Clinton v Bush.

Electronics on the other hand has done gang busters!

George H.

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George Herold

CNN doesn't spin the news to favour the Republican right-wing lunatics in t he way that Jim Thompson would like to see, and Cursitor Doom has come to e xpect - from his uncritical reading of the Daily Mail - so neither are happ y with the CNN report. Cursitor Doom calls it fake news - which means it is n't the kind of fake news that he likes and has come to expect.

Neither Jim nor Eeyore has a firm enough grasp of reality to have an opinio n worth worrying about, but their ignorance blinds them to their irrelevanc e.

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bill.sloman

He shouldn't get a penny for that wall. It is well established that it would be hopelessly ineffective and the environmental damage would be huge.

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bloggs.fredbloggs.fred

So ineffective that even the Special Forces couldn't scale the models.

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krw

Only a matter of time before the physical wall proposal turns into a "virtual wall" proposal, oh we could just cover every inch of the border in video surveillance and thermal imaging, maybe have SpaceX launch some border security spy satellites, we could contract the monitoring/enforcement out to private firms, maybe do some kind of retinal scan-based national ID database.

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bitrex

Dude, the Special Forces have helicopters. And permission to go through the gates. And boats. And, demolitions training. And sometimes, artillery support.

The Special Forces was putting on a show, not an effort.

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whit3rd

Dude, you're a flaming idiot.

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krw

"A show, not an effort" You take that very ...personally. Why?

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whit3rd

it's posted in the wrong newsgroup.

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tabbypurr

would be hopelessly ineffective and the environmental damage would be huge.

They tried that, it was called SBInet, it cost billions and was a total fai lure. The government can't do anything right. Pay attention to these words from DHS Inspector General:

DHS's own inspector general, Richard Skinner, says that the Boeing contract is in the "high-risk" category for waste and abuse because of its scope, i ts dollar value, and "the vulnerabilities stemming from the lack of acquisi tion management capacity."

It's important to understand that statement because the biggest enemy of Am erica, and the most destructive influence on America, is its pathetically c orrupt and incompetent employees. Until these people are eliminated/destroy ed/jailed, whatever it takes to get rid of them, America will never be anyt hing but a cesspool of waste and lack of accomplishment.

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You have a similar bunch of scoundrels, from alternative even worse industr ies, salivating over the money to be made available for the idiot wall.

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bloggs.fredbloggs.fred

On Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at 8:33:52 PM UTC-5, snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com eorge H.

THere must be some places where a wall makes sense. Where a wall would reduce the number of border patrol agents needed to stop illegal border crossings. And also places where erecting a wall would cost more than it saved.

I have a little difficulty seeing why the environment damage would be large.

Dan

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bloggs.fredbloggs.fred

From tech review.

Then, depending on the quantity of recycled metal within it, there are around 1.8 kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions embodied within a kilogram of steel. That means the steel would contribute a further 4.1 million metric tons of CO2.

I have a problem understanding this statement. It seems to say that a kilogram of steel would contain 1.8 Kg of CO2. I could believe 1.8 grams, but have a problem with steel containing more CO2 than steel.

Dan

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dcaster

It takes energy to form, process and transport this stuff, and that's what they're talking about. Concrete is the worst at 900 Lbs CO2 per cubic yard, and a cubic yard doesn't get you much in any kind of construction, you need a bunch of them.

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bloggs.fredbloggs.fred

About 50% of that CO2 will be absorbed again while fully hardening. Fresh concrete is a strong base. It will bind any CO2 that diffuses into it until it's saturated.

Jeroen Belleman

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Jeroen Belleman

No... they are saying that to produce that much steel, that much gets utilized along with whatever remains in the steel itself. The footprint to produce the steel is that amount.

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Long Hair

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