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No bombs sent to Democrats even got close to them, or went off...

Unlike the bomb locally delivered to a GOP office.

Maxine Waters

Next.

Uggh so much misleading bullshit, I simply don't have the time to debunk all of it. But I will do the easiest one to show how full of shit you are:

did not at least publicly condemn Harvey Weinstein

CNN: Hillary Clinton, Obamas condemn longtime Democratic donor Harvey Weinstein
"I was shocked and appalled by the revelations about Harvey Weinstein," Clinton said in a statement through her spokesman Nick Merrill. "The behavior described by women coming forward cannot be tolerated. Their courage and the support of others is critical in helping to stop this kind of behavior."

Ah yes, only the intelligent and wealthy can master Android devices.

> Correct. Fortunately these diversity initiatives only exist in the mad ramblings of the far right, as admitted justification to further oppress people.

Tell that to Harvard, they're in court over that.

> Funny that the only mention I can find of this is on literal fake news sites. Not a single public record has any mention of this.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/15/harvard-sued-discrimination-against-asian-americans
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/15/620368377/harvard-accused-of-racial-balancing-lawsuit-says-asian-americans-treated-unfairl

If you want to call those "literal fake news sites," it's a free country ... :)

Guess I'd better use DuckDuckGo to dig up public records for this and an earlier lawsuit:

http://samv91khoyt2i553a2t1s05i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/SFFA-v.-Harvard-Complaint.pdf
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/14-981

> It's well known that conservatives only allow others that believe math and science and reading comprehension are all liberal conspiracies.

Most relevant to this, here's Linus' daughter, signing the post-meritocracy manifesto. So instead of building the best Linux for the benefit of everyone, we should worry more about politics.

Here's a liberal trying to decolonize science so we can get rid of the racism, in which they're saying things like "through black magic" people can send lightning to strike someone and then asking "can you explain that scientifically?" Is this part of that magical liberal bias in reality? :)

CNN has declared that "math is racist" (archive).

In general, a lot of this nonsense traces back to the ideas of critical theory. There are groups who think that every wrong in the world traces back to bad power structures which they need to deconstruct and recreate to achieve fairness. It should tell you something when they're currently trying to deconstruct things like science and meritocracy, though...

The irony is that none of that is necessary and it's actively harmful to the supposed goals. It's true that bad luck, oppression, disasters, etc. unfairly keep some people down or prop others up. The right way to fix that would be to help all disadvantaged people equally. Insofar as certain groups have been historically kept down as such, this would disproportionately help them and right things over time. Instead, it's more fashionable to decide that help must be on the basis of group membership, which instead creates new competition among groups and animosity.

They need to be very careful about this:

[CNN: September 30, 1999] NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because a Lockheed Martin engineering team used English units of measurement while the agency's team used the more conventional metric system for a key spacecraft operation, according to a review finding released Thursday.

Sadly, that's been tried. https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/22...

It didn't go so well.

"Every major carmaker has plans for electric vehicles to cut greenhouse gas emissions". Not because the market demands it or because their customers want it.

Tesla Model 3 is now the best selling luxury car in America (ref: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04... ), and is likely to be the best selling car in America, period, by the end of the year. So it seems that the market does demand it.

It has been reported before, I think also here on slashdot. It would be interesting to estimate if the missing insects (their body is made of carbon and other elements) had a significant role as a carbon sink. A back-on-the-envelope calculation gives me roughly 1% or less of the world CO2 production, but I am not very expert in this field.

China's well on their way:

https://www.businessinsider.co...

And they've re-instated re-education camps:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/10...

Here in the West, though, it'll be packaged up as a "depression detector". Or maybe there will be achievements for wearing it for X hours. Who knows. Regardless, the level of intrusion into not only lives, but very mind and soul itself, should bother us all.

Yeah sorry, maybe when shit really does start to hit the fan we'll care. The general amount of "WE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!" sentiment coming out of the left - especially post-2016 - is so ridiculous that no one's really paying attention anymore. If it's too late by then and we're all fucked...well I guess that's the way it goes. At least we'll die warm.

Yes, Republicans suppress people who might vote Democrat, and Democrats also suppress people who might vote Democrat.

No one(that matters) has said that Russia put Trump in office.

Plenty of people in the media have said it and continue to say it, from late night TV hosts & SNL, to newspaper & TV journalists. They may not be in the government, but they certainly shape public opinion.

And why not? Trump has done nothing but lick Putins boots since even before being sworn in.

You mean like this: Trump launches military strike against Syria, or like this: Trump signs bill approving new sanctions against Russia ? Those don't strike me as boot licking...

No one(that matters) has said that Russia put Trump in office.

Plenty of people in the media have said it and continue to say it, from late night TV hosts & SNL, to newspaper & TV journalists. They may not be in the government, but they certainly shape public opinion.

And why not? Trump has done nothing but lick Putins boots since even before being sworn in.

You mean like this: Trump launches military strike against Syria, or like this: Trump signs bill approving new sanctions against Russia ? Those don't strike me as boot licking...

Problem in China there is no such thing as privately owned and the government can do what ever it wants at anytime. Crap China kidnapped , I mean 'arrested' the head of Interpol without telling anyone. Interpol had to beg China to finally say he was arrested two weeks ago when he came home. https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/09...

We live in a world where an $85 leather wrapped rock sold out. Why would you think people wouldn't buy an overpriced computer?

Here: https://www.cnn.com/style/arti...

I see the same thing from the pro-Trump crowd. Most of them aren't actually traditional Republicans. Mention John McCain to them and they go into a rage about the RINO.

I've voted for more Republicans than Dems in my 30 years of voting, but their attitude of late is why I fucking hate today's Republicans or many of them at least.

To many of them, Trump can do no wrong and they take the same attitude you do that if if pisses off liberals then that's what REALLY matters to them. Fuck what's good for the country. They want to piss off most of the rest of Americans.

Some have openly said that even if Kavanaugh is guilty of attempted rape he should be confirmed. Others think it's a court of law where proof beyond a reasonable doubt must be presented. I honestly don't know if the accusations are true, but Kavanaugh has lied about other things as well and his positions on Constitutional are arguably partisan and very questionable.

It should take more than NOT having a criminal record to be confirmed to SCOTUS.

Trump loyalists have gone from chanting "LOCK HER UP!" being outraged that people might dare question the qualification of Trump's SCOTUS nominee, all while conveniently ignoring what the GOP did to Merrick Garland, a judge who was who was praised by many Republicans.

Orrin Hatch even suggested Obama should nominate Garland

"(Obama) could easily name Merrick Garland, who is a fine man. He probably won't do that because this appointment is about the election."

- Orrin Hatch.

Republicans have repeatedly praised Merrick Garland

I see constant lies, hypocrisy, hatred and mud-slinging at every level from commenters on internet forums all the way up to the Oval Office.

And it's not that Dems are significantly better, but the GOP has really sunk to new lows and don't even appear to care about conservative policies anymore. If Dems are for it, they're against it. If Trump said it, they believe it. Case closed.

I'll admit I have hated Trump since the late '80s which is when I first started hearing about him, but occasionally he does do something right. But his loyal followers cannot admit that he ever does anything wrong.

Except in the SWAT'ing cases where someone died, the person had no idea they were going to get SWAT'ed, because the person who had a reason to be targeted gave someone else's info in provoking the future felon. https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/03...

There is some serious loss of common sense in Seattle Police Department (or any police department) thinking something like this: (1) won't get abused, and (2) will actually save lives.

Wait, you mean Musk didn't attack the shorts for personal gain? Really? The guy who rails against shorts (who wouldn't be an issue if he could actually make a profit) didn't attack them for personal gain, or personal satisfaction?

And you must have missed the 35 who went to jail for the 2008 meltdown, and the dozens of CEOs forced out from their positions...

Oh Space Nutters, don't change!

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9705/2...

Japanese companies announce stuff like this like creimer announces his daily videos and security certifications. It's performance art, no one knows why they do it.

James Comey, then head of the FBI, declared that she's guilty, but that "no reasonable prosecutor" would pursue her.

No. No he did not. He said her staff where careless.

He did, indeed, say that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. Here is the CNBC story that quotes him.

The case is unprosecutable because there isn't evidence of a crime.

From the same story:

Comey began his address by explaining what investigators found. He said that the probe showed that 110 emails in 52 email chains were determined to include classified information at the time they were received. Within those emails, eight chains contained information that was "top secret" at the time they were sent, 36 had "secret" information and eight more had "confidential" information, the FBI director said.

All of that is evidence of a crime. He is further quoted as saying, in the SAME SENTENCE that contains the "no reasonable prosecutor" phrase:

"Although there is evidence of potential violations regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case," he said.

There is evidence, but no prosecutor would bring a case. Further, he said:

He characterized the investigation findings as showing that Clinton and her team were "extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information" but he said there was no clear evidence they intended to violate the law.

So no, he didn't say that just Clinton's staff "where" careless. Clinton too.

But but but ... no clear evidence of intent? Sadly the laws being broken don't have an intent clause, they are broken when the act takes place, intent or not.

Despite the bleatings of the conspiracy theory set, "Grandma doesn't understand email security" isn't a crime,

But "Grandma doesn't understand what 'Top Secret' means and the necessity of safeguarding such material" IS a crime. Grandma shouldn't have had to understand email security, but since she made the attempt and failed, and had classified material transported using that email system in violation of federal law, there is a crime. A crime that Grandma had been briefed on before she was given a security clearance, by the way. Ignorance is not only not an excuse, it doesn't apply here.

join the fact based community.

A good suggestion. I suppose you would classify CNBC with Brietbart, but you can find the full statement here on the FBI's website. Are CNN and The New York Times also Brietbart sycophants?

drivers of actual real licensed taxi cabs aren't likely to stream their fares over the internet, either.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/...

and they are less likely to try to kidnap you.

https://www.wctv.tv/content/ne...

or rape you

https://money.cnn.com/2018/04/...
https://www.nbcwashington.com/...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

because most jurisdictions have actual regulations regarding taxi cabs, their drivers, their cars, and the fares they charge... and the cab companies follow those regulations, because they lose their ability to operate if they don't.

>>preaching to the converted

Casting zealotry stones in a glass house, are we?

This only happened with apple iconography:

digitaltrends.com/apple/apple-causes-religious-reaction-in-brains-of-fans-say-neuroscientists/
https://www.digitaltrends.com/...

cnet.com/news/scientists-apple-makes-your-brain-go-all-religious/
https://www.cnet.com/news/scie...

disinfo.com/2011/06/apple-products-trigger-the-same-parts-of-the-brain-as-religion
https://www.disinfo.com/2011/0...

geek.com/apple/apple-fanaticism-similar-to-religious-devotion-according-to-scientists-1381035/
https://www.geek.com/apple/app...

cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/05/19/apple.religion/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/g...

WHATEVA, ANDROYD CULTZ has always been a shitty deflection, sorry. They're not the ones circlejerking.

Agreed. They've already started. Gated communities anyone? The rich are increasingly protecting themselves. Problem is the French tried that. Before the French revolution the rich aristocrats all hired private guards. They were mostly foreigners without any skin in the local political system. The trouble was, that when 3000 angry revolutionaries showed up at the door, the guards said "Fuck this shit!" and left or hunkered down like the idiots at the Bastille did. Eventually the angry populace stormed those jails and palatial guard posts and dragged the occupants out to be hung from a lamp post or stuffed into a guillotine. The revolution was a complicated mess, mostly, and it wasn't perfect (their leadership mostly sucked and they had some collectivism poisoning them quite often). However, after the revolution ended pay went up for damn near everyone but the rich folks. The theory is, they were a bit worried someone would drag their greedy ass out into the street and chop their deserving heads off. Personally, I believe nothing short of a similar event in this country will wake up the elites to the historical fact that no matter how many walls and guards you have, when the people come for you, they are going to wade through that shit like it was made of wet toilet paper. In a nation with huge levels of gun ownership... well... It's pretty clear that could get ugly in a hurry (like the founders intended).

It is hot because the batteries burn at high temperature for some.

Model 3s have been driven (calculations in a previous Slashdot article) about 300-400 million miles so far. In the US, there's a car fire once in every ~20 million miles. So far the shorts (who've been desperate to find any Model 3 fires they can find) have found evidence of one - count it, one - fire in a Model 3. And that was in a Model 3 at the factory (salvage yard: Fremont; miles on the odometer: 1), not an owner vehicle. And when you look at the damage, it's heaviest on the front bumper, least around the battery.

Meanwhile, new BMWs in South Korea have been catching fire at a rate of half a dozen vehicles per month. Not cars in accidents - most of them have been in parked cars. But of course, we don't report on things like that because, hey, they're not Tesla. Tesla is one of the few automakers which has not had to have fire-related recalls in the past several years. A number of major automakers have had to in the past several months. Gee, who would have ever thought that a combustion vehicle, propelled by combusting a highly flammable fuel, might sometimes have issues with unintended combustion?

Don’t be so sentimental cars spontaneously combust all the time.

So sorry....not gonna happen..

Yep, so sorry ALL THESE FUCKING LITTLE CHILDREN ARE DEAD because, well, changes are "not gonna happen."

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/da...

Goddammit America, every other developed country on the world has figured out how to greatly reduce gun deaths.

You can put a man on the moon but you're unwilling to protect your own people? That's messed up, man.

cnn as my source idiot. https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/18...
And the heading of that link: "CNN: Ford refuses to testify until after an FBI investigation of alleged assault"
You are just a uninformed fucking idiot.

You don't have to go to anti-free speech state like the UK to get jailed for a Facebook post. Just ask this kid about it. Everything you post is a written confession as far as prosecutors are concerned.

Really? Literally all my life apple have seemed focused on form over function; I remember nearly 20 years ago how Mac-zealots would claim that the single button mouse that apple used to ship with all devices was far better than 2+ button mice because having more than 2 buttons encouraged messy and inefficient design; then the same people acting like the release of the "mighty" mouse was the second coming of Jesus.

Back when Apple decided on the 1 button mouse, most people had never seen a computer mouse, and yes, there was PLENTY of research and focus-group-ing that showed that a 1 button mouse eliminated confusion.

How many times have you talked to an oldster, and had them ask "Is that a left-click or a right-click?" Maybe it doesn't happen so much nowadays; but in 1982, when Apple was showing the Lisa around, things were quite a bit different.

And BTW, MacOS (Classic) has fully supported at least 2-button (and maybe more) mice intrinsically since MacOS 8.0, released in July, 1997.

https://money.cnn.com/gallerie...

That means that Macs have supported Multi-button Mice for TWENTY-ONE YEARS!!!

Don't you think it's time to retire this particular meme, FFS???

a lot of that government aid.

where ? proof ? links? or are you referring to the loan given to amongst others, to tesla, which has been paid back, in full https://money.cnn.com/2013/05/... ?

Easier than that, just pull the work from home policy.

The "moving offices" stuff happens automatically as a byproduct and instantly purges all your "expensive" employees: anyone living in the suburbs (people with kids, late-career employees).

First off, that's not an accurate description of the intelligence reports

Only that it left out Bush's "now you've covered your ass" smear after he was given the point-blank warnings.

we knew nothing more than "Al Qaeda (which has attacked the US multiple times) wants to do so again." That's not actionable intelligence - that's not even a plan. It's aspirational alerts; obvious news to anyone that knew about the first WTC bombing, or the embassies, or any of the other attacks.

Like its close cousin Obamasplaining, Bushsplaining has a well known bias against facts:

• July 31, 2001 - The FAA issues another warning to airlines advising that "terror groups are known to be planning and training for hijackings."
  August 6, 2001 - President Bush receives a CIA report about al Qaeda and the possibility of airline hijackings. The warning is passed on to embassies and other overseas facilities.
  August 15, 2001 - The Pan Am International Flight Academy in Minnesota alerts the FBI to their suspicions about Moussaoui. He had paid for the training in cash and requested instruction on flying large jets, even though he had little experience.
  August 16, 2001 - The FAA issues an alert about "disguised weapons." Airlines are alerted the terrorists might use common objects such as cell phones or clothespins as weapons.

Specific intelligence about hijackings and using improvised weapons to take large planes. The Bush Administration could have easily put a couple FBI agents or federal marshals on flights with a few more on 747's. Instead we got "now you've covered your ass". If Clinton did this, wingnuts would have been calling for his execution for treason after he was impeached.

But even you were accurate, what do you think Bush should have done? Shut down all flights, forever? Put armed soldiers on every plane? Order all airlines to spend millions reworking their planes, based on rumors? Bill Clinton gets shit because he chose not to order a strike on Bin Laden when we knew where he was. Bush never had the opportunity.

Is your cognitive dissonance machine nuclear powered? In the same breath you want Clinton to go around assassinating people based on rumors (there was no evidence at the time that the CIA asset had harmed any Americans) but then pretend Bush couldn't have taken actions that Terri Schiavo could have come up with.

and the temperatures have dropped dramatically since then.

What?
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/...
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc...
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/0...
http://www.climatecentral.org/...
https://www.co2.earth/global-w...

Yes, I know... CNN is liberal fake news and NASA has also been infiltrated by liberals, as has been the National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration... or any scientific organization for that matter.

I mean, I assume you're equally diligent about reporting fires in gasoline cars, right? I totally remember your coverage of, say, the million BMWs that were recalled in 2017 due to over 40 parked cars - not cars involved in accidents, but parked cars - spontaneously bursting into flames, right? That's just up to 2017. And they keep getting more fires and keep issuing more recalls this year. The BMW fires have been particularly prolific in South Korea, where 11 burst into flames in July alone.

Want something more recent? Just seven days ago, Ford recalled two million trucks due to fire risks. GM's last major fire-related recall was a couple years, their *third attempt* to fix a problem that was causing cars - often ones that were parked - to burst into flames. Also seven days ago a million Priuses were recalled due to a fire risk in the wiring harness. Need I keep going? Remember here that we're not talking about fires in these cars from crashes - we're talking only the subset of fires that occur during normal use. Fires in gasoline cars during crashes are effectively a problem flagged "WONTFIX" by the NHTSA.

The complexity of the physics and chemistry, the enormous manufacturing engineering effort and the management coordination required to direct the billions of dollars in capital necessary to achieve that is mind-boggling. Six point nine billion transistors onto a one-square-centimeter chip.

How many of those are actually useful as opposed to merely making up for deficiencies elsewhere in the design?

The 386SL comes to mind, with its SMM-introduced insecurity and requiring three times as many transistors as the 386DX. I'm sure there are many, many more examples. Put another way, with a better design you might be able to do more and do it faster than with a more complex design that happens to be a poorer match to the task at hand. See the story of the J1 FORTH CPU.

Yes, the numbers are impressive, but just like USB speed claims (how come a 480 Mbps USB link is easily outperformed by a 400 Mbps FireWire link?) they don't tell the whole story. Just like how "7 nm process" says very little these days.

It's at times like this when it seems we are finally living in the future. Electric cars, re-usable space rockets, 3D printed titanium.

You could've made that case in 19th century, even though that was right on the heels of the end of the golden age of sail and its riches. I don't particularly want to go back, but a little perspective goes a long way. Or, looked at it from the other side, we've been promised flying cars for a few decades now. Still not mainstream. So we have some future coming yet, right?

Meanwhile, FEMA finally found the 20,000 pallets of potable water bottles it shipped to Puerto Rico. On the airfield where it left them. After the expiration date.

Accidents happen. They shouldn't, but they do. In a large organisation like that, a small clerical error can indeed have that sort of result.

Ever heard the story of the futures trader who ended up having a barge full of coal delivered to the trading office? That sort of shit happens in commercial enterprises just the same, but it's not paid for out of the public purse. Unless you're "too big to fail" of course.

Without devolving into absolutist Ayn Rand libertarian zealots, maybe we can all agree that there is something to this invisible hand, free market, capitalism stuff.

"Let's just nod in agreement..." hell no.

You, like so many others, are confusing "good management" with the profit motive. They're not remotely the same, and that is one reason why many privatisation projects fail utterly.

The complexity of the physics and chemistry, the enormous manufacturing engineering effort and the management coordination required to direct the billions of dollars in capital necessary to achieve that is mind-boggling. Six point nine billion transistors onto a one-square-centimeter chip. It's at times like this when it seems we are finally living in the future. Electric cars, re-usable space rockets, 3D printed titanium.

Meanwhile, FEMA finally found the 20,000 pallets of potable water bottles it shipped to Puerto Rico. On the airfield where it left them. After the expiration date.

Without devolving into absolutist Ayn Rand libertarian zealots, maybe we can all agree that there is something to this invisible hand, free market, capitalism stuff.

Drug that doesn't have its price gratuitously jacked sky high: The drug in TFS, yesterday and before.

I've never heard of a drug called "TFS", nor would I know anything about its price. That's not a citation.

Examples of loose IP laws allowing pharmaceuticals being manufactured cheaply

"Manufactured" is the key word here. Once the research is done and paid for, actual manufacturing may be cheap. Your very article is about poor countries being allowed to manufacture, what the pharmaceutical companies have researched and created — at high expense. That expense is being borne by the patients in the rich countries.

Example of state-owned pharmaceutical companies working

That link is also about manufacturing. The Chinese — quite telling for a Collectivist to offer China as an example — are particularly infamous intellectual property thieves.

Again, once it is known, mass-producing it may be cheap. Researching the next drug, however, is funded by the profits from the previous ones. Your attempts to tell companies: "No, you can not charge this much" — threatens those profits for them, and the availability of new drugs and treatments for the rest of us.

Keep your grabby Collectivist hands off — what you want, in essence, is price control, a notion far more evil and destructive than anything one CEO ill-trained in the Art of Public Relations could come up with.

...I'm sure all of Trump's detractors will agree that he has done the right thing and it's about time.

Won't they?

When it comes to Trump you get all the consistency of a magic 8 ball. If somebody shakes the old fart between now and the election we will get a totally different reaction to any election meddling from what he's rambling about now. In the absence of any consistency in this White House I'll believe he's willing to slap sanctions on Russia it when I see him do it.

::Shakes Magic 8 Ball:: You may rely on it

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/08...

Don't you mean ::Shakes Old Fart:: ??

...I'm sure all of Trump's detractors will agree that he has done the right thing and it's about time.

Won't they?

When it comes to Trump you get all the consistency of a magic 8 ball. If somebody shakes the old fart between now and the election we will get a totally different reaction to any election meddling from what he's rambling about now. In the absence of any consistency in this White House I'll believe he's willing to slap sanctions on Russia it when I see him do it.

::Shakes Magic 8 Ball:: You may rely on it

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/08...

And this has ... what?... to do with election meddling?

...I'm sure all of Trump's detractors will agree that he has done the right thing and it's about time.

Won't they?

When it comes to Trump you get all the consistency of a magic 8 ball. If somebody shakes the old fart between now and the election we will get a totally different reaction to any election meddling from what he's rambling about now. In the absence of any consistency in this White House I'll believe he's willing to slap sanctions on Russia it when I see him do it.

::Shakes Magic 8 Ball:: You may rely on it

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/08...

(I don't know what he'll say, and it doesn't matter; we all know it will be far less than 98.5% correct)

As of this morning:

The GDP Rate (4.2%) is higher than the Unemployment Rate (3.9%) for the first time in over 100 years!

Not remotely correct.

Plenty of places are choosing only to get rid of straws, while still selling (much bigger) plastic cups lids, and bags, so people are not doing everything in parallel that they could.

Nice attempt to move the goalposts by introducing a separate issue. Yes we should deal with the other waste streams as well but we need to start somewhere. Straws are easily the least necessary and most easily replaced component so it's a reasonable place to start. (most people can drink from a cup without a straw but a straw isn't very useful without a cup) Nobody is arguing that there aren't other sources of plastic waste that we should be working on as well. Plenty of places are already starting to do so including banning plastic bags and similar actions.

Nope. Every action has a cost, and not just monetary but also public goodwill. If you start doing trivial stuff that is not really bringing any benefit to the oceans, but you annoy the public, then you lose credit, and you'll have a harder time getting support for further regulations.

That is a ridiculous line of logic and again is a form of false dilemma. You do what is possible to do when it is possible to do it. If we as a society aren't willing to deal with something as trivial as disposable straws then we sure as hell aren't going to succeed in dealing with the big plastic waste streams. And there is nothing preventing us from addressing a variety of waste streams simultaneously. Furthermore we control our consumption of plastic straws and other disposables. We do not control China's waste streams. Ergo it makes sense to start with the waste streams we do control before worrying about the ones we don't. Little hard to convince your neighbor to clean up their act if you aren't doing everything you can to set a good example.

Objectively speaking, considering 14 different measures, Obama had a more positive impact on the economy than all but one of the last 6 administrations

Given the depth of the recession, that would have been true of any president, short of starting WWIII. And the very article you quote says "Furthermore, while shortfalls do exist on the Obama end-of-term report card, his performance holds up more than adequately against other US leaders of recent history."

What Obama should be measured by is (1) how his performance compares to his own economic predictions and promises, and (2) how the recovery compares to historical recoveries. Obama performed dismally bad by his own predictions; his economic policies failed to achieve his stated objectives. And the recovery was dismally slow (CNN, Forbes).

Obama's poor economic performance isn't surprising either: his stimulus package, fiscal policy, regulatory policy, and welfare policy worked as people expected it to and the way they have always done: they slowed economic recovery, employment, and growth.

Lol, big mouth, little effect.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43895428

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/28/asia/north-korea-pompeo-kim-yong-chol-letter-intl/index.html

Tariff: A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.

putting a tariff on the good a company imports to do business is very much taxing their supply chain.

Tariffs are not taxes any more, They are gifts from Dear Leader

As is the $1.2 Billion bailout to farmers hurt by his tariffs. Our tax dollars at work people, brought to you by "trade wars are easy to win" Trump and the "bailouts are bad", "smaller government is good" Republicans.

My guess is that the Democrats will have to come in and clean up the mess that the children made. If you study the political and financial history, you will see this often happens.

Tariff: A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.

putting a tariff on the good a company imports to do business is very much taxing their supply chain.

Tariffs are not taxes any more, They are gifts from Dear Leader

As is the $1.2 Billion bailout to farmers hurt by his tariffs. Our tax dollars at work people, brought to you by "trade wars are easy to win" Trump and the "bailouts are bad", "smaller government is good" Republicans.

I'm not sure i follow your argument, the fact that he's muslim is almost tangential; 19 year old male, no job, lots of passports stamps from Syria and Yemen -- sticks up as someone to investigate all by itself.

And THAT is pretty much the entire argument against profiling on religion. Merely being muslim should be a non-issue.

When you added on all the rest of the stuff it becomes more of interest, but that's not targeting muslims... that's proper profiling sure ... maybe he's part of some missionary-building-schools-digging-wells project or assisting doctors without borders or god forbid he's visiting his grandmother so even then one shouldn't jump to conclusions. But yeah, of course that's the person you'd want to look into more... but it's the other stuff, not because he's muslim.

FWIW the 80 year old Swedish nun would be a good drug mule.
https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/08...

Well, Clinton is actually who they voted for, within some piddly margin of error, anyway.