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Simple Torture wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Strat wrote:Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, who represents Sandy Hook, the site of the 2012 school shooting, asked DeVos if she believes guns have "any place in and around schools."
"I think that is best left to locales and states to decide," she said.
After Murphy pushed DeVos about why she can't say definitively whether they belong, DeVos brought up a story Sen. Mike Enzi told earlier about a school in Wyoming that has fences around it to protect against grizzly bears.
"I will refer back to Sen. Enzi and the school he is talking about in Wyoming. I think probably there, I would imagine there is probably a gun in a school to protect from potential grizzlies," she said.

I think this woman is an imbecile, but a bear did get into Bozeman middle school hallways last year during school hours, so I can't totally fault her on this point.

Bear experts do seem to disagree, though: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ani ... ed05e85556

President Trump: The Inauguration
4pm, BBC One/STV
After a long absence, The Twilight Zone returns with one of the most ambitious, expensive and controversial productions in broadcast history. Sci-fi writers have dabbled often with alternative history stories – among the most common is the “What if The Nazis Had Won The Second World War” setting – but this huge interactive virtual reality project, which will unfold on TV, in the press, and on Twitter over the next four years, sets out to build an ongoing alternative present.
The story begins in a nightmarish version of 2017 in which huge sections of the US electorate have somehow been duped into voting to make Donald Trump president. It sounds far-fetched, and it is, but as it goes on it becomes more and more chillingly plausible. Today’s feature-length opener concentrates on the gaudy inauguration of President Trump, and the stirrings of protest and despair surrounding the ceremony, while pundits speculate gravely on what lies ahead.
It’s a flawed piece, but a disturbing glimpse of the horrors we could stumble into, if we’re not careful.”

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Strat wrote:Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, who represents Sandy Hook, the site of the 2012 school shooting, asked DeVos if she believes guns have "any place in and around schools."
"I think that is best left to locales and states to decide," she said.
After Murphy pushed DeVos about why she can't say definitively whether they belong, DeVos brought up a story Sen. Mike Enzi told earlier about a school in Wyoming that has fences around it to protect against grizzly bears.
"I will refer back to Sen. Enzi and the school he is talking about in Wyoming. I think probably there, I would imagine there is probably a gun in a school to protect from potential grizzlies," she said.

I think this woman is an imbecile, but a bear did get into Bozeman middle school hallways last year during school hours, so I can't totally fault her on this point.

Bear experts do seem to disagree, though: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ani ... ed05e85556

Plus, who wants to pay the Bear Tax?

McParadigm wrote:"Would you agree with the statement that repeated lead exposure is dangerous to children?"

Pruitt: "I don't know. I've not looked at the scientific research on that."

bune wrote:http://www.cbsnews.com/news/scottish-paper-describes-trump-inauguration-as-return-of-the-twilight-zone/

President Trump: The Inauguration
4pm, BBC One/STV
After a long absence, The Twilight Zone returns with one of the most ambitious, expensive and controversial productions in broadcast history. Sci-fi writers have dabbled often with alternative history stories – among the most common is the “What if The Nazis Had Won The Second World War” setting – but this huge interactive virtual reality project, which will unfold on TV, in the press, and on Twitter over the next four years, sets out to build an ongoing alternative present.
The story begins in a nightmarish version of 2017 in which huge sections of the US electorate have somehow been duped into voting to make Donald Trump president. It sounds far-fetched, and it is, but as it goes on it becomes more and more chillingly plausible. Today’s feature-length opener concentrates on the gaudy inauguration of President Trump, and the stirrings of protest and despair surrounding the ceremony, while pundits speculate gravely on what lies ahead.
It’s a flawed piece, but a disturbing glimpse of the horrors we could stumble into, if we’re not careful.”

McParadigm wrote:"Would you agree with the statement that repeated lead exposure is dangerous to children?"

Pruitt: "I don't know. I've not looked at the scientific research on that."

Bi_3 wrote:

McParadigm wrote:"Would you agree with the statement that repeated lead exposure is dangerous to children?"

Pruitt: "I don't know. I've not looked at the scientific research on that."

Did this really happen?

McParadigm wrote:I got the question wrong, but it wasn't until he started answering that I started really listening.

It was "do you believe there is any safe level of lead in the human body?"

The actual answer: "That is something I have not reviewed nor know about."

McParadigm wrote:Even in the science-fiction universe with somebody truly doesn't know the answer to that question, the mere asking would surely be a cue as to what the expected answer is.