Jwheel86

RIP Wilmington

Ugh, finding a pet friendly AND accessible hotel is a bitch.

Looks like we've decided to go to Raleigh if we go. As have a few neighbors so we're going to convoy out together.

See the UK and GFS models? Direct hit on Eastern NC, like up my driveway.

This storm definitely has my parents spooked, to the point we're preparing to evacuate. Normally evacuating never enters my Dad's mind.

The other issue is this completely blows the impact that a resignation might have now. Pussy footing around just normalizes this and makes the story about the author and not the President's ability to serve.

Lawrence O'Donald thinks it's Dan Coats.

Trump can't fire Pence, if it's Pence it's extra spineless.

Plus the author mentions the 25th, the public interest vastly outweighs the author's job (unless Mattis).

The New York Times should burn the source (unless it's Mattis).

What's weird is adults are shut out of the clinical trials for that reason,they don't want to risk screwing up an adult.

I think it depends on how you define long term, the FDA studies are pushing 4 years and none in those trials have declined or even plateaued in terms of gaining milestones. Kids who'd be on trachs by now are walking.

Best article I could find: https://endpts.com/biogens-big-breakthrough-drug-spinraza-runs-into-a-barrier-as-nice-turns-thumbs-down-on-reimbursement/ The UK has decided not to cover Spinraza, the first drug to treat Spinal Muscular Atrophy (leading genetic cause of infant death), even in cases where the drug can prevent symptoms entirely. They argue there is no long term studies and no evidence it will save NHS money. I'm not surprised they aren't covering it in adults, there you can kind of make an argument, but not covering kids, including "dead before 2" Type 1 kids is mind blowing cruel.

Not covering drugs literally encourages people not follow their doctor's orders and therefore get more sick which results in more utilization.

Why is this so hard for Trump to get right?

Right, but who's he going to testify against in exchange for the immunity? Or is this why Cohen plead guilty?

Immunity against who though? Cohen already plead guilty and DoJ has decided it can't indict Trump.

Manafort would have to talk to Mueller's team then, under oath, since he'd lose 5th Amendment protections.

And the machine has found its justification: "Obama did it too"

What if Trump pulls Mueller's clearance?

George Will did say in a field of 18 Democrats running for the nomination that the DNC could easily be hijacked, just like Trump hijacked the RNC. Biden and Sanders are the only ones going into it with any degree of real support. I worry Biden is a ticking Me Too time bomb (real or not) and Sanders is the only one progressives can agree on. Remove them and the base and the center establishment will fracture into a 18 pieces. Perfect situation for a celebrity or other blow hard to swoop in turn the debates into a circus by making the others look small (exactly what Trump will do in the General).

Clinton vs Joe the Plumber

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/pence-details-plan-for-creation-of-space-force-in-what-would-be-the-sixth-branch-of-the-military/2018/08/09/0b40b8d0-9bdc-11e8-8d5e-c6c594024954_story.html?utm_term=.81bc42377a38 Few highlights from Pence: -US Space Command is going to be recreated as a Combatant Command by the end of the year (I think Rumsfeld disbanded it), assuming responsibility from US Strategic Command. -Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space, a new top level civilian position reporting to the Secretary of Defense “to oversee the growth and expansion of the sixth branch of service.” -"Budget neutral" Sounds like they are going full retard on this by creating a Department of the Space Force equal to Departments of the Navy, Air Force, and Army vs simply a new branch under the Department of the Air Force (like how the Marine Corps is under the Department of the Navy). That new Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space is basically a Secretary of the Space Force in all but name. The natural candidate to build out US Space Command is Air Force Space Command (Strategic Command's Space Component, basically already doing that job, and the Air Force's administrative hub for space), but that means it can't serve as the foundation for US Space Force (pretty sure that's illegal, Joint Chiefs can't have operational authority). Such a bureaucratic mess.

Isn't NY heavily gerrymandered by the Democrats to make their seats ultra safe (as oppose to maximizing number of blue districts)? Thereby creating super red districts like this.