Friday Daily Delawhere [12.11.2015]
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Thursday that the White House press secretary's comment about his "fake" hair was "disgusting." Josh Earnest railed against Trump's proposed ban on Muslims earlier this week and said that such a comment "disqualifies" the real estate mogul from the presidency. "The Trump campaign for months now has had a dustbin of history-like quality to it, from the vacuous sloganeering to the outright lies to even the fake hair—the whole carnival barker routine we've seen for some time now," Earnest said.Donald Trump says it is disgusting to insult his looks. Interesting. How many times has Donald Trump insulted the looks of others? Thousands? He does it on a daily basis. The old adage is true: if you punch a bully in the face, they will never stop crying.
There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a less — a slower-track school where they do well. One of the briefs pointed out that most of the black scientists in this country don’t come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools where they do not feel that they’re — that they’re being pushed ahead in — in classes that are too — too fast for them.That statement is stunning with its sweeping assumptions, especially when you consider the woman, Abigail Fisher, was a mediocre student with mediocre SAT scores.
The U.S. Air Force has fired off more than 20,000 missiles and bombs since the U.S. bombing campaign against ISIS began 15 months ago, according to the Air Force, leading to depleted munitions stockpiles and calls to ramp up funding and weapons production. As the U.S. ramps up its campaign against the Islamist terror group in Iraq and Syria, the Air Force is now "expending munitions faster than we can replenish them," Air Force chief of staff Gen. Mark Welsh said in a statement. "B-1s have dropped bombs in record numbers. F-15Es are in the fight because they are able to employ a wide range of weapons and do so with great flexibility. We need the funding in place to ensure we're prepared for the long fight," Welsh said in the statement. "This is a critical need."The bombing campaign has left the U.S. Air Force with what an Air Force official described as munitions depot stocks "below our desired objective."