Page 1 of 2 [ 19 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2  Next

Brictoria
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 12 Aug 2013
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,998
Location: Melbourne, Australia

23 Oct 2021, 9:48 am

Quote:
The Department of Homeland Security is spending $456,548 to build a security fence around Joe Biden's Delaware summer house - a property he has visited twice in the nine months since he became president.

This comes as Biden refuses to finish Trump's border wall while illegal migration reaches record highs. New September figures revealed 1.7 million migrants have been apprehended so far this year- the highest number of illegal crossings recorded since at least 1960.

The president and first lady evening left Washington DC on Friday evening for their main family home, in Wilmington, Delaware.

The Bidens' return frequently to their Wilmington home - a 6,850 square feet property which was built on a four acre plot that he bought in 1996 for $350,000.

Of the first 29 weekends of his presidency, Biden spent just six at the White House, according to an NPR analysis in August.

He was in Wilmington for 14 of those weekends, and Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, for eight.

By contrast, he has been at his Rehoboth Beach holiday home, 100 miles from Wilmington, only twice since becoming president: once in June, to celebrate Jill's 70th birthday, and again in September.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10122323/DHS-spent-half-MILLION-dollars-building-security-fencing-Bidens-Delaware-beach-home.html



TB_TB_TB_TB_TB_TB
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 1 Feb 2011
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 532
Location: Planet Emorf

23 Oct 2021, 11:27 am

Quote:


Redirects the Daily Mail and Daily Express websites to Tea and Kittens.
The Daily Mail and Daily Express are popular UK tabloid newspapers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Express

When using the internet in the UK it's almost impossible to avoid occasionally accessing the website of one or the other, even if one finds their political and social outlook unpleasant or offensive.

KittenBlock is designed to solve this problem. It performs one simple function: if the browser is directed to either website it will be redirected instead to a selection of photos from http://www.teaandkittens.co.uk.

There is no override option, and there are no options to configure. The extension can be disabled in the usual manner should the user wish.

NEW: Updated v1.1 changes the manifest file format, so this extension works with recent versions of Chrome.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... d?hl=en-GB

Kitten Block



Cornflake
Administrator
Administrator

User avatar

Joined: 30 Oct 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 65,510
Location: Over there

23 Oct 2021, 1:32 pm

The Daily Mail:
Image
Image
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-mail/

If only someone would compare these sour, pearl-clutching comments - so typical of the Daily Mail - with the number of times Trump went AWOL playing golf. Or holed up watching multiple TVs.
And maybe the effectiveness and cost of Trump's wall - and where he diverted much of the payment for it from (hint: it wasn't Mexico).


_________________
Giraffe: a ruminant with a view.


shlaifu
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 26 May 2014
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,659

23 Oct 2021, 8:03 pm

The report says Biden is refusing to finish the Wall... I thought Trump had a Wall-beauty-pageant, and then funnelled a few millions towards Jated or wherever - did he get started?


_________________
I can read facial expressions. I did the test.


Brictoria
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 12 Aug 2013
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,998
Location: Melbourne, Australia

23 Oct 2021, 11:37 pm

To comply with those sensitive to news sources that are roughly the equivalent for the right to CNN on the left:
Image
Image
Source: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/left/cnn-bias/

Let's try something a little closer to the centre than either the original article or the "approved" CNN:
Image
Image
Source: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-york-post/

Quote:
Build that wall!

The southern border with Mexico is seeing the highest levels of illegal border crossings in 35 years, but the Department of Homeland Security has found one access point it can shore up — doling out $455,000 to a Delaware construction company for a fence around President Biden’s “Summer White House.”

In September, the department awarded a contract of $456,548 to Turnstone Holdings LLC for “PURCHASE AND INSTALLATION OF SECURITY FENCING AT 32 FARVIEW, REHOBOTH DELAWARE,” according to USAspending.gov, an online database tracking federal government spending.

The contract started Sept. 21 and is expected to end Dec. 31. Construction of the fence is expected to end by that date.

The DHS is listed as the main awarding and funding office of the contract while the US Secret Service is listed as the subagency. Additional information and details about the fence have not been publicly released.

For security reasons, the Secret Service declined to discuss their “protective means and methods” with The Post when asked for comment.

DHS did not immediately respond to The Post’s inquiry about the contract.

The construction of the private security fence comes in a chaotic first year of Biden’s presidency, which has seen historic numbers of illegal immigrants crossing at the southern border.

This week, data released by US Customs and Border Protection revealed that 1.7 million migrants have crossed the border in FY 2021, the highest number since 1986.

The Biden administration has faced backlash over its action — or sometimes inaction — throughout the surge, with critics slamming the president’s decision to halt construction of the border wall, which he did as one of his first actions as president.

This month, DHS announced its intention to cancel “the remaining border barrier contracts located within US Border Patrol’s (USBP) Laredo Sector and all border barrier contracts located in the Rio Grande Valley Sector.”

Source: https://nypost.com/2021/10/22/dhs-455k-for-security-fencing-around-bidens-beach-home/

Off Topic
This new feature where the site admin provides details about the potential bias behind articles posted in the news section (to where this will hopefuly be returned and from where it had no need to have been removed from) seems a great step towards eliminaating "misinformation" on the site. I look forward to seeing the same treatment given to all other posts in the news section of the forum.



auntblabby
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 12 Feb 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 113,605
Location: the island of defective toy santas

23 Oct 2021, 11:58 pm

i can't believe in this day and age that anybody is gullible enough to believe that such a wall would be of any good use.



ThisTimelessMoment
Deinonychus
Deinonychus

User avatar

Joined: 15 Apr 2021
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Posts: 324
Location: South Africa

24 Oct 2021, 1:04 am

Unfortunately people want to feel the problems are simple so there can be simple solutions. The world is not very obliging. Everything is far more complex that our monkey brains can deal with.
Simple-think allows for easy emotional manipulation. The good vs. bad narrative.


_________________
Ever onwards and upwards!


auntblabby
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 12 Feb 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 113,605
Location: the island of defective toy santas

24 Oct 2021, 1:06 am

worse yet, there are smart people who are promulgating these big lies. this is a form of domestic terrorism [stochastic].



Pepe
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 11 Jun 2013
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 26,635
Location: Australia

24 Oct 2021, 2:52 am

ThisTimelessMoment wrote:
Unfortunately people want to feel the problems are simple so there can be simple solutions. The world is not very obliging. Everything is far more complex that our monkey brains can deal with.
Simple-think allows for easy emotional manipulation. The good vs. bad narrative.


Burn "Binarism"
"Burn, baby, burn." :twisted:

Image



ThisTimelessMoment
Deinonychus
Deinonychus

User avatar

Joined: 15 Apr 2021
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Posts: 324
Location: South Africa

24 Oct 2021, 3:06 am

Scary world!


_________________
Ever onwards and upwards!


TB_TB_TB_TB_TB_TB
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 1 Feb 2011
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 532
Location: Planet Emorf

24 Oct 2021, 6:25 am

Quote:


Daily Mail

Questionable Reasoning: Right, Propaganda, Conspiracy, Some Fake News, Numerous Failed Fact Checks
Bias Rating: RIGHT
Factual Reporting: LOW
Country: United Kingdom (35/180 Press Freedom)
Media Type: Newspaper
Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY



Cornflake
Administrator
Administrator

User avatar

Joined: 30 Oct 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 65,510
Location: Over there

24 Oct 2021, 7:32 am

Brictoria wrote:
Off Topic
This new feature where the site admin provides details about the potential bias behind articles posted in the news section (to where this will hopefuly be returned and from where it had no need to have been removed from) seems a great step towards eliminaating "misinformation" on the site. I look forward to seeing the same treatment given to all other posts in the news section of the forum.
Unless I use the moderator tags
 ! Cornflake wrote:
Like this
I'm commenting as a member. Sometimes, after using that tag, I continue addressing the same topic without continuing to use it on the understanding that the connection is clear. Occasionally, and I'm working at reducing it, I post moderation-related content without using those tags at all.

It is perhaps an unusual situation (I don't know how moderators on other sites address it) - should a moderator, who is first and foremost a member of WP, be allowed to comment on content while holding the post of moderator?
It seems unreasonable to me to say "no, they shouldn't".


But the reason why I used that particular site is not only because I believe it a useful resource, but also because I'm trying to demonstrate that the Daily Mail is a rag, a sensationalist example of the gutter press specialising in making sour, denigrating comments about... well anyone who happens to be on its radar. Celebrities, royalty, politicians are all up for grabs as victims of their pearl-clutching faux outrage and petty snipes.

I don't really care if it's classified as right or left: the issue is the manipulation of language to pile on the spite.
Just a few examples from the article you linked:
Quote:
The Bidens' return frequently to their Wilmington home - a 6,850 square feet property which was built on a four acre plot that he bought in 1996 for $350,000.
This is irrelevant filler - unless it's intended to snipe at a supposed luxurious lifestyle.

Quote:
Of the first 29 weekends of his presidency, Biden spent just six at the White House, according to an NPR analysis in August.
So? "just six at the White House"? And why use "just"? Pearl-clutching faux outrage. See: Trump.

Quote:
He was in Wilmington for 14 of those weekends, and Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, for eight.
And? What's the implication behind this? Looks very much like, along with the other acid drops, the intention is to cast Biden as a lightweight, taking time off and enjoying a good life spending tax-payer dollars. Again, see: Trump.


This is a typical example of a vicious, spiteful and malicious article the Daily Mail defended publishing:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... ath--.html
This is what it does; its daily bread-and-butter content style.

Here's a short commentary on it:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/ ... ly-boyzone
There is probably other online content addressing it - and yes, I'm aware of the political leanings of the Guardian but it's free of that here.

I'm surprised that, as someone with an incredible and undisputed ability to find accurate detail, you use this rag as a source. Perhaps the true foulness of it is only clear to UK residents and overseas viewers are spared exposure to it. Lucky you! :wink:
Anyway, hopefully this will further serve to demonstrate its utter worthlessness as a so-called "newspaper" and undeserving as a source for anything except bile and vacuous tittle-tattle.
http://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/

As ever, the choice of source is of course entirely yours.


BTW, the thread was moved to PPR because it's difficult to see it going anywhere other than in a political direction.
Most political derailments occur in News and Current Events - understandable and difficult to avoid; they very rarely occur anywhere else so this was simply an attempt at pre-empting a likely derailment.


_________________
Giraffe: a ruminant with a view.


Mr Reynholm
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 19 Feb 2019
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,363
Location: Tulsa, OK

25 Oct 2021, 8:27 am

Why are none of the "migrants" being relocated to Martha's Vineyard?



Cornflake
Administrator
Administrator

User avatar

Joined: 30 Oct 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 65,510
Location: Over there

25 Oct 2021, 8:36 am

Because that would be entirely inappropriate, as you well know.
Facilities already exist for processing them - it would seem obvious that they were used.


_________________
Giraffe: a ruminant with a view.


Tross
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 22 Jan 2012
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Posts: 867

25 Oct 2021, 2:39 pm

The US political scene has become increasingly dumb since the orange ape has been in office. It's as if every department has lost its collective mind. The "wall" had to have been the dumbest idea ever, and a complete waste of taxpayer dollars. Everyone knows that immigration fraud (staying after one's legally issued visa has expired) is the leading method of ending up in the US illegally. Moreover, this "wall" isn't even a wall. It's a fence, and it's not even the greatest fence I've ever seen.

But sure, the Department of Homeland Security can waste more taxpayer dollars to make a stupid point that the US should waste taxpayer dollars on a project that wouldn't amount to much. I'm glad I don't live in that country.



Pepe
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 11 Jun 2013
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 26,635
Location: Australia

25 Oct 2021, 7:00 pm

Tross wrote:
The US political scene has become increasingly dumb since the orange ape has been in office. It's as if every department has lost its collective mind. The "wall" had to have been the dumbest idea ever, and a complete waste of taxpayer dollars. Everyone knows that immigration fraud (staying after one's legally issued visa has expired) is the leading method of ending up in the US illegally. Moreover, this "wall" isn't even a wall. It's a fence, and it's not even the greatest fence I've ever seen.

But sure, the Department of Homeland Security can waste more taxpayer dollars to make a stupid point that the US should waste taxpayer dollars on a project that wouldn't amount to much. I'm glad I don't live in that country.


The Israelis built a wall also.

I am not defending that.
Just making an observation. 8)