Is Trump Nuts?

I used to be smart, until they cured me of it. At the moment I can only be worried about being alive. Smart again, that will have to be at a later date.

Looking at Nooalf. I think Jo, you should talk to Haken about the unicode mishap. Thorn and eth etc are available chars. Diacriticals used in eastern europe are available as well. First though is that ng is not enngah except in rare instances like ingot, most of the time, it's ing, which spent most of its life as one character, and is one sound. I use j. Looks like you've assigned j, maybe "n" is not in use, in your LANGwej or (LAnwej)

Con lang is a hobby of mine as well. This is con-alf, I've done three myself, a script, a block letter and a stenotype method. But many quesitons remain. readability is an issue. Some people can scan thousands of words for minute, from eye to concept skipping the fenetix entirely. It might convey meaning if not sound, in a world where we all information is typed.

Then there's my brother's argument: why not write everything in Chinese? It's a valid question, and would save a lot of translation time. I have issues with that as well, but I figure that all issues can be worked out. Similarly with Korean, for SuMXin(g) MOR FeNeTiK, or Japanese, which has a lot of advantages.

I saw no math. I see some neat gagets. So I believe math was consulted. And Serenite, GuD

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About 5 years ago J0 and I were talking almost every night with Wish. I had started a thread about buying my house and the repairs I was making there and the three of us talked a lot in there. Somehow we found ourselves in the RWED and then I had my problems and they got to witness me basically drink myself to insanity.

I remember J0 showing me some math stuff he was working on and trying to explain it to me. My brain just doesn't work like that, unfortunately, so I couldn't keep up with him on that. Put me in charge of your accounting and taxes for your business and I'll have that ship running tip top, but ask me to design the ship for you and it will sink before it ever leaves the dock.

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Me growing up: 2 parents, 1 grandparent & 5 kids.

Over the years, I saw that all of us were intelligent in our own ways.

Example: My Dad was genius level in math & mechanics. But socially, he
was a dork & couldn't spell for beans. He could draw very well.

My Mom was smarter about social matters & spelling, so she taught Dad
to look up the words in the dictionary. She never let herself see that he
was a dork.

My older sister was smart about most academic work, & had a knack for
computers, programming. In high school, tho, she had me proof read all
her homework, 'cause not only was her spelling poor, but she'd become
blind to her common errors.

I was smart academically, dumb socially, & very good at art work.

& So on: my younger sisters & brother all had different abilities.

Of the 8 of us, I know 4 of us have OCD.

I grew up believing that Intelligence is not just one thing, it's many
things. I think it's good to appreciate & develop our gifts, and not
worry too much about the things we don't grasp easily.

As for Sanity vs Insanity ... that's the emotional part of the brain, a
whole different department. But people who live primarily to serve their
egos indulging anger over objectivity ... will be Nuts.

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

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Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:

I never had any sober conversations with you before Trump was elected, so I can't say if you were always insane or if that is a recent phenomena. . . .

You're wasting your free time ranting about Trump to an audience of a dozen or so people.

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No, no, I am totally nuts, while Trump is perfectly sane. I'm the nut talking to myself in public and you are unfortunately overhearing my mutterings and beginning to wonder if security guards should be called. But I've got another article about Trump's clever ways to make a straight forward massacre that he ordered look like a military success story:
https://theintercept.com/2017/03/09/new-evidence-contradicts-pentagons
-account-of-yemen-raid-but-general-closes-the-case/

The Pentagon’s top Middle East commander told Congress on Thursday that he found no signs of “poor decision-making or bad judgment” in a January raid in Yemen that killed 10 children and at least six women, as well as Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens.

“I made the determination that there was no need for an additional investigation into this particular operation,” said Gen. Joseph Votel. Votel was investigating his own role when he commented on his own decision-making and judgment. Who but himself would know more about himself and what a fine job he had done?

Earlier on Thursday, The Intercept published its own investigation of the raid based on eyewitnesses, including a 5-year-old who described how his mother was gunned down while trying to flee what other family members said was indiscriminate gunfire from a helicopter.

The White House has tried to shame the raid’s critics into silence. Last month, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters “anyone who undermines the success of that raid owes an apology and does a disservice.” In a series tweets the next day, President Trump said criticism from Sen. John McCain, R.-Ariz., “emboldens the enemy.”

Media coverage has largely focused on Owens, the fallen Navy SEAL, and whether the raid produced intelligence — not on the massacre or village, which is now mostly abandoned.

After Owens’s father told Trump “not to hide behind my son’s death,” Trump invited the SEAL’s wife to the Capitol for his first joint address to Congress. Trump insisted the raid was a “massive success,” and was showered with praise by media pundits for paying tribute to the widow.

When I see the pictures of the town in Yemen I think of Jayne’s line “What are we hoping to find here that equals the worth of a turd?” Mal replies, “We are here to gather intelligence by seizing Al Qaeda electronics.” Then after, when they are counting their bags of loot, White House spokesman Sean Spicer says that the mission "gathered an unbelievable amount of intelligence that will prevent the potential deaths or attacks on American soil." He got that right when he said unbelievable. "When you have women and children killed, loss of (a) $70 million aircraft, you do not capture anyone as was part of the mission, that mission is not a success," said Arizona Sen. John McCain. Senator McCaskill also questioned the administration's claim that the raid yielded valuable information. "I think there have been mixed signals about the value of the intelligence that was gathered."
www.cnn.com/2017/03/09/politics/general-votel-seal-raid-yemen-hearing/
index.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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One of the problems that I have with liberals in general is that they have convenient morals which are just as subject to "tribalism" as conservatives.

I see that SECOND is heartbroken about a woman's death ... which was no less tragic, no different than the women who died from Obama's drone strikes.

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Obama’s covert drone war in numbers: ten times more strikes than Bush

Obama embraced the US drone programme, overseeing more strikes in his first year than Bush carried out during his entire presidency. A total of 563 strikes, largely by drones, targeted Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen during Obama’s two terms, compared to 57 strikes under Bush. Between 384 and 807 civilians were killed in those countries, according to reports logged by the Bureau.

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Or, when you think about it, no less awful than the bombing which destroyed Libya (to cheers and applause from democracy-promoting liberals everywhere). If the key characteristic of being "nuts" is not recognizing reality, there are a lot of prizes on that score to be handed out.

Does this sound bitter? If course it does. The key flaw in liberal AND conservative thinking is the ability to give a "pass" to heinous activities when "your tribe" does it, as opposed to when "the other tribe" does it. Which is why nobody speaks up when THUGR is being a clearly-identified troll.

This mindless tribalism, which is a key propaganda point in everything from sports to politics, will be the death of us.




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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR IS A DEEP-STATE TROLL

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

I see that SECOND is heartbroken about a woman's death ... which was no less tragic, no different than the women who died from Obama's drone strikes.

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Per your usual, Signym, you are understanding nothing. Why would I care when General Votel kills two dozen women and children on Trump’s orders, if Trump had good reasons? But Trump’s “reason”, while sitting down to dinner with guests, was to demonstrate to those guests how he would quickly solve terrorism when Obama could not. Trump totally failed and can’t admit failure since he is nuts. But he enjoyed the meal and impressed his guests for a few minutes. What more could Trump desire for that delightful evening in Florida when he approved the raid on Yemen?

What I do care about is General Votel found no signs of “poor decision-making or bad judgment” after he investigated himself. That was very convenient for Votel. Too convenient. The whole system of correcting errors must be completely broken when people and Signym accept when General Votel says Votel did no wrong. It is the same old crazy nonsense when President Trump says Trump did no wrong after Trump looks at his own actions.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Right now this country has Bannon and Trump trying to bring down and circumvent all of our democratic institutions. That leaves a completely unchecked president calling all the shots. It's called a dictatorship. Most recently, today, our State Department was unware a Mexican government dignitary is in this country. They had not been informed. Normally, not only would they help plan the visit, they would attend the meeting. By excluding them Trump and Bannon are enabled to consolidate power. That is the unarguable reason why Trump should not be president. Either he is clueless as to how this country works, or he just plan wants to destroy it. Take your pick, they are both disqualifiers.

And SIG defending him disqualifies her perspective as well.

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