Thread for obviously newsworthy stuff

[Kidlicious]

Addendum ... I just googled for it ... it was not last year, but the May of this year.
Here are 2 articles about it (and why the military cannot build the wall for Donnie):

http://time.com/5219475/donald-trump...n-border-wall/
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/27/p...ary/index.html

Time and CNN are 99% and 98% anti-Trump. Fake news. I figured as much.

[Kidlicious]

Neither has Trump ... only the military has ... and they AFAIK have told the public and Trump, already last year, that no, they won't take any of theor purpose bound funding in order to build the wall for Trump

Of course the military can say no, but they haven't really. The DoHS asked the military to fund part of it already and Mathis is considering it.

Your argument is that they CAN'T do it, but now you moved the goal posts to they won't.

They simple haven't made the decision yet.

[Aeson]

Addendum ... I just googled for it ... it was not last year, but the May of this year.
Here are 2 articles about it (and why the military cannot build the wall for Donnie):

http://time.com/5219475/donald-trump...n-border-wall/
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/27/p...ary/index.html

... but WHY?!?[/kidortrump]

[Proteus_MST]

Addendum ... I just googled for it ... it was not last year, but the May of this year.
Here are 2 articles about it (and why the military cannot build the wall for Donnie):

http://time.com/5219475/donald-trump...n-border-wall/
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/27/p...ary/index.html

[Proteus_MST]

What are you talking about "denied?" After Congress authorizes funding to the military they have no more control over it.

Neither has Trump ... only the military has ... and they AFAIK have told the public and Trump, already last year, that no, they won't take any of theor purpose bound funding in order to build the wall for Trump

[Kidlicious]

Ok. If the President funds the wall with using military budgets you think he has committed a crime? Which law will he have broken?

[Kidlicious]

Very simple. You take the funding out of whatever budget you want because there is no law against that. That's why I asked you for the law.

[Proteus_MST]

As I said ... if the budgets are purpose bound, they may not have the right amount of money in the right budget in order to buy the materials.
The other question is, if the military budget is allowed at all to be used for national construction projects like the Trumpian wall. ANd, if the president is allowed to order the military to build the wall for him.
AFAIK both questions were answered with a clear "No" the last time this "suggestion" (about letting the military build the wall) turned up (IIRC it was shortly after Trump announced the increase of the military budget in the federal budget for 2018 ... so it must have been somewhere in the latter half of 2017)

[Kidlicious]

What law says that the military can't purchase materials?

[Kidlicious]

AFAIK this idea was brought forward last years already, but was denied as being unrealistic, because even in the military budgets are purpose bound.
That means, while the military might provide personnel and equipment (like bulldozers) they still would be missing the building materials to build the wall

It is funny, btw. that Trump in the article speaks of


Construction hasn't even started yet ... it is a long way between now and a point where we can earnestly talk about "finishing construction"

What are you talking about "denied?" After Congress authorizes funding to the military they have no more control over it.

[Proteus_MST]

Trump doesn't need Congress to fund the wall. We're getting a wall.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-fund-DHS.html

AFAIK this idea was brought forward last years already, but was denied as being unrealistic, because even in the military budgets are purpose bound.
That means, while the military might provide personnel and equipment (like bulldozers) they still would be missing the building materials to build the wall

It is funny, btw. that Trump in the article speaks of

...
considering using military resources to finish construction of his long-promised border wall

Construction hasn't even started yet ... it is a long way between now and a point where we can earnestly talk about "finishing construction"

[Kidlicious]

Trump doesn't need Congress to fund the wall. We're getting a wall.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6144837/Trump-says-use-MILITARY-build-wall-Congress-wont-fund-DHS.html

[Broken_Erika]

Turning a priceless 15th century artifact into something that looks like a cheap dollar store item.

[Proteus_MST]

The article said that the statues were plain wood.
So in this latest case there wasn't even a need for restoration

Do I see this correctly ... the statuette on the right (which holds Jesus) sis supposed to be Joseph?
With the pink Stola and the lipstick he now looks like a second woman next to Mary

[Giancarlo]

Not all of us Spanish guys are that dumb.

We have a lot of history in our country that must be restored by experts in the field. Not by people with access to paint that belongs in a middle school.