Looks like the official number of children killed in the disastrous Yemen raid is 9. One was a 3-month old baby. Sounds like a pregnant woman was also killed.
If Trump calls a raid that kills 25 civilians including children, a US soldier, a $75,000,000 aircraft, while completely missing your objective, "a complete success", I'd hate to see what a failure would look like.
If Trump calls a raid that kills 25 civilians including children, a US soldier, a $75,000,000 aircraft, while completely missing your objective, "a complete success", I'd hate to see what a failure would look like.
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A few years ago, I was paddling with some buddies and we started talking about politics. A couple were blue and one was a devout red. I asked if they ever looked at the individual issues and changed their vote based on preferences. The facial expressions were pretty amusing and it was like 'what a strange concept'. The reasons they gave were everything from my family has always voted this way to that person is corrupt.
It would be interesting to compare voting histories in Canada and the U.S. to see how often people changed the party they voted for. My sense is that American are much more likely to vote for the same party for their whole life. You quite often hear Americans say "I am a Democrat," or "I am a Republican." Like an identity. You don't hear that nearly as much from Canadians.
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It would be interesting to compare voting histories in Canada and the U.S. to see how often people changed the party they voted for. My sense is that American are much more likely to vote for the same party for their whole life. You quite often hear Americans say "I am a Democrat," or "I am a Republican." Like an identity. You don't hear that nearly as much from Canadians.
Seems like that would be true. There is a large portion of Canadians who feel the same way but it seems like people under 40 change who they vote for. I've voted conservative and liberal. The only party I have never voted for is the NDP.
Donald Trump has told Vladimir Putin he does not want to renew a 2010 arms control treaty that limits the number of strategic nuclear weapons the US and Russia can deploy.
Trump angrily denounced the New Start Treaty in a 28 January phone call to the Russian leader, according to sources briefed on the call.
Reuters, which first reported Trump’s remarks, said the new US president also had to pause the hour long call to ask what the New Start Treaty was.
Then when Putin brought up two issues on which their countries had cooperated on, New Start and the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, Trump lost his temper, dismissing both as strategic losses for the US given away by Barack Obama, and he began hectoring Putin.
If Trump calls a raid that kills 25 civilians including children, a US soldier, a $75,000,000 aircraft, while completely missing your objective, "a complete success", I'd hate to see what a failure would look like.
Can you imagine the rage of these people? Families obliterated and the country responsible is calling the mission a "success". So incredibly sad, and the ultimate outcome (a stronger al Qaeda/ISIS), not just predictable, but inevitable.
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Then when Putin brought up two issues on which their countries had cooperated on, New Start and the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, Trump lost his temper, dismissing both as strategic losses for the US given away by Barack Obama, and he began hectoring Putin.
Uh LOL. really?? I don't think Putin is the sort of person you should be "hectoring"
It would be interesting to compare voting histories in Canada and the U.S. to see how often people changed the party they voted for. My sense is that American are much more likely to vote for the same party for their whole life. You quite often hear Americans say "I am a Democrat," or "I am a Republican." Like an identity. You don't hear that nearly as much from Canadians.
Being a born and raised Albertan who has lived and worked outside the province, I've found albertans are the most likely to identify in that sort of way as 'conservatives'. "Well, i'm a conservative so..." "As a conservative, I feel..."
Even in Bum#### BC or middle of indian-hating-ontario I don't hear that kind self identification as much as I do in say, SW Calgary.
With family down east, dyed in the wool liberal voters, I don't hear the same self-identification I see from my family in Southern Alberta. Lots of self-effacement prior to statements that contravene standard western canadian conservative beliefs.
I don't really know anyone in Atlantic Canada though, so maybe they are loud and proud Boosters.
Edit: I should say, the self-identification and vote changing I think can be mutually exclusive. The same people i'm basing my opinions on in bum#### BC probably haven't altered their votes as substantially as the above may imply, just that there is less public extolling of team identity.
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It would be interesting to compare voting histories in Canada and the U.S. to see how often people changed the party they voted for. My sense is that American are much more likely to vote for the same party for their whole life. You quite often hear Americans say "I am a Democrat," or "I am a Republican." Like an identity. You don't hear that nearly as much from Canadians.
That would be an interesting comparison. In my circle of friends and family, I am aware of people changing who they voted for in response to party policies. I agree with you that being a republican or democrat is part of many American's identity. I think a major component of this identity has to do with the connection between religion and state.
Trump and many of his group didn't know to use the translator earpiece during the press conference with the Japanese Prime Minister. Lol! He was laughing at jokes the Prime Minister made despite not understanding but rather taking cues from others who did understand and knew to use the earpiece. He will be tweeting that he is fluent in Japanese now. What a comedy!
