How to Make Private Investment in Infrastructure Really Work

https://www.citylab.com/solutions/2017/10/how-to-make-private-investment-in-infrastructure-really-work/542367/

George, being willful:

Trump’s energy, unleavened by intellect and untethered to principle, serves only his sovereign instinct to pander to those who adore him as much as he does. Unshakably smitten, they are impervious to the Everest of evidence that he disdains them as a basket of gullibles. He understands that his unremitting coarseness satisfies their unpolitical agenda of smashing crockery, even though his self-indulgent floundering precludes fulfillment of the promises he flippantly made to assuage their sense of being disdained. He gives his gullibles not governance by tantrum, but tantrum as governance.

Documentary on pedophilia in Hollywood:

https://vimeo.com/142444429

Trump is making psychologists look insane:

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/355490-psychologists-march-through-ny-to-call-for-trumps-removal

London Has Three Acid Attacks EVERY WEEK:

http://www.lbc.co.uk/news/london/london-has-three-acid-attacks-every-week/

Trump is making psychologists look insane: ~ Snoopy at October 16, 2017 4:43 AM

The guy who defined Narcissistic Personality Disorder says Trump doesn't have it.

He should not be confused for a Trump fan, however, "Bad behavior is rarely a sign of mental illness, and the mentally ill behave badly only rarely. Psychiatric name-calling is a misguided way of countering Mr. Trump’s attack on democracy. He can, and should, be appropriately denounced for his ignorance, incompetence, impulsivity and pursuit of dictatorial powers."

Trump is making psychologists look insane: ~ Snoopy at October 16, 2017 4:43 AM

Diagnosing at a distance is always fraught with peril and is generally considered unethical.

These psychiatrists need to take a history class. If Trump is mentally ill, he's not alone. This article says that at least 11 presidents may have suffered from some sort of mental illness or impairment.

It is hard to have a conversation with someone who performs monologues, Jimmah.

"I don't say I don't mind," Kimmel said. "I want everyone with a television to watch the show, but if they're so turned off by my opinion on health care and gun violence, then … I probably wouldn't want to have a conversation with them anyway."

"Good riddance?" Smith asked.

"Well, not good riddance, but riddance," Kimmel said, laughing.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/kimmel-losing-republican-viewers-is-not-ideal/

"pursuit of dictatorial powers."

I still want those protesters to tell me which dictatorial powers Trump has acquired or is pursuing. Say what you will about Trump, but I don't think he has the drive or the focus to be a dictator.

https://medium.com/@lauralemoon/me-too-an-open-letter-to-mayim-bialik-from-a-rape-survivor-6afbad2a23c6

I have been RAPED more times than I have had consensual sex. It’s that simple. So that is to say, I have been raped hundreds upon hundreds of times (at least) by tens and tens of different cis/het men. I haven’t had sex with anyone- especially a cis male- in over a year precisely because cis hetero men scare the living shit out of me.

This shit has to be read to be (dis)believed.

BTW, Robert Kagan made that same point about "tantrums" many months ago: Move the cursor to 35:30 on the timeline here.


Years ago Amy Alkon quoted someone:

Conspiracy theories are history for stupid people.

'Fake news' is epistemology for the torpid.

(Anyone remember Hillary's "hate radio"? Almost identically curt & dorky, it was similarly successful with her target audience, but even she recognized that servicing its admirers would be an unpleasant way to live.)

Brevity is what these voters seek above all. They want to remember why they're pissed off, and they don't want to have to read a book every year or a chapter ever month or a column every week. Two-word slogans are just perrrrrrfect.

Trump's spittle-moistened tweets, like his voters monosyllabic defenses of them, convey their mutual disinterest in learning and policy and outcomes: These schoolgirls want us to know that their feelings have been hurt.


Well, Okay.


Got it.

Crid, you flatter yourself in sarcastic patter unbecoming of an eighth-grader.

You're tarnished.

I've got the Urge for Burge!

This should interest Amy. The sugar-cancer connection.

Conan: The guy who defined Narcissistic Personality Disorder says Trump doesn't have it.

The guy who defined Narcissistic Personality Disorder should know better than to diagnose (or dismiss a possible diagnosis) of someone he hasn't examined. To say nothing of the ethics of confirming or denying anyone's mental issues (or lack thereof) in public.

Narcissists very rarely present themselves for therapy; they don't think anything's wrong with them.

Or had your boyfriend- a cartel member who beat and strangled you everyday [sic] - sodomize you so brutally that you couldn’t sit down for a week and you left home the very next day....

Perhaps the question you should be asking is why you were still with this violent cartel member. You know, if the beating and strangling was happening every day?

The guy who defined Narcissistic Personality Disorder should know better than to diagnose (or dismiss a possible diagnosis) of someone he hasn't examined. ~ Patrick at October 16, 2017 10:12 AM

True. Although, Dr. Frances did include a disclaimer about diagnosing at a distance. His point was not a diagnosis of Trump, but a warning about the dangers of using diagnosis-at-a-distance to claim Trump is mentally ill as a justification to push back on his policies.

And, he adds, "Fevered media speculation about Donald Trump’s psychological motivations and psychiatric diagnosis has recently encouraged mental health professionals to disregard the usual ethical constraints against diagnosing public figures at a distance. Most amateur diagnosticians have mislabeled President Trump with the diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder. I wrote the criteria that define this disorder, and Mr. Trump doesn’t meet them. He may be a world-class narcissist, but this doesn’t make him mentally ill, because he does not suffer from the distress and impairment required to diagnose mental disorder."

By the way, my first quote above (10:30am) came from the article Kevin linked at 8:45 AM.

• Mistakes were made.

• Old but still funny.

Appropos of nothing, I'd like to remind you that The Adjustment Bureau is a remarkably sturdy film, with about a dozen charming scenes, one of the best soundtracks of the century, a deft and gentle audio mix, wonderful photography & DI, and some tasteful SFX.

I looked it up... My favorite effect (courthouse to Yankee Stadium) is practical: They built a closet door for the women's john on the field at Yankee Stadium.

And years later, typing this comment, I recognize that scenes in men's & women's rooms bookend the story.

Make America Clowny Again, Juggalos!

SNL Mocks ‘Kellywise’ Conway as Evil Clown from Horror Film ‘IT’

New York's Metropolitan Life North Building was designed to be a hundred stories tall when it was built at the start of the Depression. The money went away, so they stopped at 30 stories.

When they chose it for a single exterior shot of The Adjustment Bureau, they completed the construction.

I love that. Hollywood, man.

And we're so worrrrried about Eeeeevil Trump.

This College Professor Is Under Siege for Challenging Transgender Orthodoxy

Well, that didn't take long!

http://dailysignal.com/2017/10/13/exclusive-colorado-baker-asked-to-make-birthday-cake-for-satan/

London: girl raped in three separate violent attacks by four men on her way home from a pub. "Security" cameras recorded everything except the police coming to her rescue in time; they'll find those guys once they finish their tea and biscuits, I'm sure.

Illinois: man kidnaps woman at knifepoint, forces her to drive to a remote area, where she draws her legal CC pistol.

Arrested.

Is that Krispy Kreme residue or meth?

http://reason.com/blog/2017/10/16/man-busted-for-meth-that-was-actually-do

Apparently the Title IX administrators at Columbia University are racist and homophobic. Oh, and dirty filthy global-warming deniers too. Who knew?

> The guy who defined Narcissistic
> Personality Disorder says Trump
> doesn't have it.

Phew! *close one,* right? Golly.

Well, it's good to know that *that* course of investigation has been foreclosed!

!!

Because it would have been a shame if he had been vulnerable to that sort of psychoanalytic attack.

Still, following George Will's admonishment cited near the top of this comment stack, I'm going to need to perfect my spelling of the word gullible.

Gullible. G - u - l - l - i - b - l - e.

Very well. Carry on!

I don't think he has the drive or the focus to be a dictator.

Considering he just rescinded his predecessor's EO authorizing the ability to spend from the exchequer at his leisure, I'm not seeing the dictatorial bent.

If you're confused, I'm talking about the Obamacare subsidies to insurance companies that Congress never authorized. Why Republicans didn't sue Teh Won over that I'll never know, but that does not make me thing good things about them.

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.

Gullible. G - u - l - l - i - b - l - e. Very well. Carry on! ~ crid at October 16, 2017 3:30 PM

You're right. We should take the diagnosis of George Will or that of any random person on the street about Trump's psychiatric state over a guy who is not only a professional in the field but the discoverer of the very psychosis so many of those amateur diagnosticians are assessing Trump with.

The election continues:

http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-president-lawrence-lessig-post-686077

> We should take the diagnosis
> of George Will or that of any
> random person on the street
> about Trump's psychiatric state

Firstly-- It's weird that you feel the need to defend Trump from such a quintessentially leftoid (and feminine) course of critique in any case. Who gives a fuck whether he misses the soft blue blanky his big brother so rudely threw into the fireplace in 1951? You're letting people you don't like paint your gridiron.

Secondly-- Will is not honing psychotherapeautic diagnostics: He's been disdaining such inquiry in print for as long as I've been reading him, nearly fifty years now.

Will is, correctly, describing Trump as an asshole.

Will is, correctly, describing Trump as an asshole. ~ Crid at October 16, 2017 7:56 PM

With that diagnosis, as with much of what Will writes, I agree.

I simply found it interesting that the armchair diagnosticians got shot down by the guy who defined the syndrome they're trying to pin on Trump. Sometimes an asshole is just an asshole, not an unrestrained mental patient.

Conan, that reminds me of this piece - third paragraph - by George Carlin (I so wish I could talk to him again; he was incredibly polite and sweet).

https://chasingthecool.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/legal-murder/

Wish I knew where I can watch it, too. Doesn't seem to be on YouTube.

" Sometimes an asshole is just an asshole, not an unrestrained mental patient."

I keep telling my doctors that and they still won't unstrap this damned jacket.

Yes, I'm typing this with my forehead.

"Why Republicans didn't sue Teh Won over that I'll never know..."

They did, and a federal court found against the Administration. The specific issue is that although the ACA authorized subsidies to insurance companies, Congress never appropriated any funds for that purpose. After the Obama admim continued to draw from the Treasury and pay the subsidies anyway, Republicans did sue and got a court ruling in their favor. AFAIK the Administration did not appeal the ruling; Obama simply ignored it. Trump's halting the subsidies simply puts the executive branch back in compliance, until/unless Congress appropriates funds for the subsidy payments.

It's a well established principle in Constitutional law that no money may be spent from the Treasury without Congressional appropriation, regardless of what statute law says. And the judicial branch cannot compel Congress to appropriate.