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Well as it turns out, (1) is also a low probability event, as their own internal tests show that it's quite easy to walk right on through with dangerous items. They fail 80-95% of the time. Locking the cockpit doors and changing passenger attitudes is what stopped more terror attacks, not sexually assaulting little kids and old women in wheel chairs, making everyone take off their shoes, conducting virtual strip searches, or any other of ridiculous security theater they've got going.

Wrong ABC link (something about colorado river) in the summary.
See: https://abcnews.go.com/Technol...

There a photo of him here from when he was 5 or 6 wearing a shirt that says "Beto", a shortening of Robert.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politic...

So it was an "assigned" nick name that stuck.

My sons name is Wilbur but we call him Wib. This was my grandfather's name and nickname, but the nickname is the only thing people that knew him called him. My middle name is Wilbur as well (I use the full word, not the nick name, it's a first name sort of change).

An alarming new line of research suggests poor sleep may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s, as even a single night of sleep deprivation boosts brain levels of the proteins that form toxic clumps in Alzheimer’s patients ... even modest sleep reductions are linked to increased feelings of social isolation and loneliness.

Sleep problems have long been recognized as a symptom of psychiatric and neurological disorders

Sounds important. Let's check with the man that has his finger on the nuclear and twitter button....(reference, and here)

During a wide-ranging interview with Fox News's Bill O'Reilly this week, Donald Trump revealed that he is sleeping four to five hours a night in his new life as the US top dog. "I'm working long hours, long hours, right up til 12 o'clock, 1 in the morning." What time does he get up? "Five."

Alzheimers huh? Well that does explain a few things.

I agree with your description of Norway. You're misinformed about Venezuela. They've nationalized at least oil, steel, aluminum, cement, gold, iron, farming, transportation, electricity, food production, banking, paper and the media. By nationalized, I mean that the government publicly announced their nationalization and directly controls how the groups involved act, rather than private owners.

From a story which is 5 years old, the number of private companies in Venezuela was 14K in 1998. In 2011 it was 9K. The government has been identified as running over 500 state-run industrial entities, at least 70% of which are losing money.

Is Venezuela 100% socialist? No, but they're mostly socialist in terms of government direction of the economy and they were being lauded as a wonderful example of how great socialism could be by people who are pro-socialist before their economy finished falling apart, which makes it much tougher to suddenly decide they aren't socialist anymore.

Are you saying it's democrats that are responsible for not just agreeing to whatever the hell trump wants? They would get nothing in return. That's not how congress works.

Except it is. Obama threatened to shut down the govt no fewer than 3 times (one of which actually took place) to get "whatever the hell" he wanted.
The first time was in 2011 when he pretty much wouldn't reduce spending: https://abcnews.go.com/Politic...
The second time was in 2013 on ACA: https://www.politifact.com/fac...
The third time was in 2015 on spending again: http://www.freedomworks.org/co...

So it is how Congress works, in these days of no-compromise.

Not the original AC, but it seems like one of those "Correlation does not equal causation" since GMO mosquitoes are being used to try to fight Zika (and other mosquito borne illnesses), at least in the US.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/...

https://www.npr.org/sections/h...

Disolving bodies in lye has become a not so rare practice across the USA.

New in mortuary science: Dissolving bodies with lye

Bullshit. Every time Venezuela nationalized another industry, that industry stopped being able to function properly and actually produce as many goods anymore. Oil, steel, whatever, they all stopped being as productive after they were nationalized by the socialist kleptocrats in charge.

From 1998 to 2018, oil production in Venezuela is down from 3.5 million barrels per day in December of 1997 vs 2 million in October of 2017.

So what happened in the last 20 years? From Wikipedia :
“After Hugo Chávez officially took office in February 1999, several policy changes involving the country’s oil industry were made to explicitly tie it to the state under his Bolivarian Revolution. Since then, PDVSA has not demonstrated any capability to bring new oil fields on stream since nationalizing heavy oil projects in the Orinoco Petroleum Belt formerly operated by international oil companies ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron and Total. Chávez’s policies damaged Venezuela’s oil industry due to lack of investment, corruption and cash shortages.”

Probably just a fluke, though, right? I mean, steel production in Venezuela increased from 3400 tons in 1998 to about 4600 tons in 2008. The steel industry was nationalized by the Venezuelan government in 2008 and production declined to under 1600 tons. Huh, definitely a pattern forming. Similar stories of lower production and losses in the other industries after they were taken over: aluminum, cement, gold, iron, farming, transportation, electricity, food production, banking, paper and the media.

If you disagree, pick any industry in Venezuela which was nationalized where that isn't true and let us know the name of it so we can look into the economic statistics.

At this point, pretty much no industry in Venezuela hasn't been killed by the socialist policies of the government via inflation, minimum wages, price controls, etc..., but it all started with the government nationalizing and taking over companies and entire industries, "for the people", of course.

The number of private companies in Venezuela was 14K in 1998. In 2011 it was 9K. (ABC News) The government there has taken over and runs at least 500 companies and loses money on at least 70% of them. Some news reports say they’ve ruined thousands of companies./blockquote>

Also the fact that city zoning codes often prohibit productive gardening, as in the case when Oak Park threatened Julie Bass with jail time for growing a victory garden. What Internet connection are farmers supposed to use to upload large files to their crop advisor?

What's sad about this is the sole reason for the lowering is the large increase in drug overdoses.

If we would just legalize drug use we could ensure people got help they needed instead of hiding the problem for fear of being arrested... and get safer drugs to boot.

The Mueller investigation is seemingly nearing it's end. Neither you nor I know what his report will actually say, but we can surmise that Mueller has thoroughly investigated the Russian Collusion claims he was asked to look at. So far, there are no actual charges filed on campaign issues or anything having to do with Russian involvement with the Trump campaign. Maybe he's just keeping his powder dry? Maybe he has nothing? You don't know, nor do I, we have to wait for the report, but unless Mueller is actively trying to avoid charging anybody in the administration, I don't see how we get to this point without at least SOME charges related to his original mandate...

I wouldn't say nothing has been done:
There are dozens of sealed criminal indictments on the DC docket. Are they from Mueller?

Not by our choice but by corps and the loudest screechers?

Yes, the choice to believe lies is entirely personal! Fuck anybody that tells you differently! The audience is the guilty party, not the mass media clown. We need to stop this censorship bullshit.

But you are kind of right, though you give society too much credit. It has hardly reached the maturity of a toddler. It's more like a lizard. If you don't believe me, try taking its cell phone away.

What I'm saying is that 45 could at least bring the tragedy up, tell the people of Paradise that their country will do what they can to help... in times of devastation it is comforting to know that a leader is taking time to at least ACKNOWLEDGE what's going on. He is not, and has not.

Well, maybe that's fair. Obama did: https://www.chicagotribune.com...

Donald, on the other hand, seems to be more interested in cancelling regulations: https://observer.com/2017/10/t...
He is tweeting, though! He says environmental laws are the problem! https://newrepublic.com/articl... But environmental laws are not the problem https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/07...
He says that water is the problem! https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/07... Although turns out water is not the problem: https://abcnews.go.com/Politic...

they already do that. It's not as easy to lie to your spouse as you think. And I am way, way more concerned with this kind of coercion.

when the phony baloney plans went away the kitchen sink approach was there to shore up profits from the insurance companies being forced to cover everyone, even the really sick.

See, insurance is wildly profitable when you don't have to insure high risk customers. And with modern big data you know exactly who's high risk. Plus with all that sweet, sweet data you can always find some "pre existing" condition (my personal fav is skin cancer. Ever had acne medication? Congrats, you've had treatment for cancerous skin lesions, no more cancer meds for you, pre-existing).

The actual solution is to expand the risk pool to the largest possible: everyone. In otherwords, medicare for all. But we've had our heads stuffed full of insurance industry propaganda. They spent billions making sure you think the way you do because if you ever figure out the truth they and their blood sucking parasitic business model are through. They're fighting for their lives, so they're gonna be real nasty about it.

Childhood obesity linked to Poor School Performance and Coping Skills

Childhood obesity linked to antibiotics

Childhood obesity linked to hip disease in adolescence

Childhood obesity linked to More Junk Food Ads

Childhood obesity linked to poverty, parenting style Childhood Obesity Linked to a Mother's Weight Gain in Pregnancy

Childhood Obesity Linked to lakc of sleep

Childhood obesity linked to eating food from animals treated with antibiotics

Childhood obesity linked to Mutant Gean

At least this time it didn't lead to the lockdown of the office and conspiracy theories about alien contact.

President Trump uses two phones, just like President Obama did. Just like I said - this is no different, but for some reason we have to attack because Trump. And we can't bring up these facts because they don't play to the agenda of attacking the President (yes, this IS, in fact, fake news in that it is nothing different than the previous Administration).

This is an unsubstantiated hit piece NYT article from Maggie Haberman, who teed up story after story for Hillary Clinton. How objective is she, given she worked hand-in-hand with the Clinton campaign?

This is a pure political hit-piece trying to drum up anything they can to affect the November elections. You want to talk about collusion and meddling? Look no further than "articles" like this...

Kavanaugh was elected because he was a highly qualified justice,

Highly qualified to suck corporate cock, anyway.

and the claims against him had zero corroboration

Fail, fail.

and in fact, the claimants (all of them) consistently changed their stories.

False.

The only idiots were the ones who chose to continue to believe the claims in such case.

Yeah, you're not an idiot, you're just morally bankrupt.

https://abcnews.go.com/Interna...

a and b:
The girl told a counselor who reported it to police. No spying necessary.

c:
What illegal act in Taiwan?

d:
You present your arrest warrant to the Feds and they do it. You couldn't figure that out?

e:
Taiwan can do whatever they want since it's their country. Unless he's claiming to be someone else from somewhere else I'm guessing they know where to send him.

Last, why do you think Taiwan/China cares that the US spies on its own people? And why would they ask any questions? Like either one of them cares about Cody Wilson. You know those are sovereign nations other than the US right?

It's ironic that Trump is derided for leaving the Paris accord, when he's the only one taking actions to significantly improve the climate.

You mean like rolling back pollution rules to help coal plants? https://abcnews.go.com/Health/...

I'm all for advancing nuclear power technology, but I wouldn't give Trump any credit for it. The bill was passed by Congress. The Trump administration was only mentioned once in the article and even that was about nuclear being bundled with his attempts to save the coal plants.

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.

I'm not crazy about kombucha. It's a big fad now and there are places here in California that have kombucha on tap, but it's not really to my taste. Some people swear by it. I notice that now when you buy it in the store, they ask for an ID since there's a small amount of alcohol in it.

You can thank Lindsay Lohan for the ID thing. She got busted for being a drunken whore during one of her many falls off the wagon and tried to claim that she hadn't been drinking booze, but just kombucha. After that, everyone started requiring ID checks for the stuff. As if we needed another reason to hate that ginger trainwreck.

https://abcnews.go.com/Busines...

You never hear about mass shootings in Texas

Oh really?

"Gun-free zone."

Never hear about them?

"Gun-free zone."

Hmm. Pattern?

You never hear about mass shootings in Texas

Oh really? Never hear about them?

I guess this list is bogus. No mass shootings you say? Perhaps you're not looking hard enough.

I think you missed the part about Rickets. "Without enough of it, bones can become thin, brittle and misshapen, causing a condition called rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults" Rickets in children has been and continues to be a problem, especially amongst the poor in America. When you see very bowlegged or bandy legged children, most likely you are seeing children who suffer from rickets. http://articles.latimes.com/20... https://www.medscape.com/viewa... https://abcnews.go.com/Health/... https://www.webmd.com/children...

Yes, we all know that the NYT ran a hit piece on Friday containing false information (including a claim that Tesla was looking for COO which Bloomberg has since debunked), and whose author made a snarky brag on Twitter about lowering Tesla's stock price.

That's not why the stock fell and continues to fall. fElon musk is also trafficking illegal narcotics through the giga factory.

Republicans don't deny access to healthcare;

They do. Not only that, they expressly support the idea of banning not just abortion, but their rhetoric is encouraging pharmacists to refuse to dispense medication.

That's the consequence of their "moral conscience" and "religious liberty" approach.

they just don't want to pay for others having a procedure they disagree with.

Nope. They want to outlaw those procedures. Or even just having a miscarriage.

I disagree with elective abortion, so I don't want my tax dollars to pay for you to have an elective abortion.

And I don't want my tax dollars wasted opposing a person getting an abortion that's being paid for privately.

Are you going to refund me? No? Why not?

How about the thousands of other things I don't want the government doing with my tax dollars? No, you won't even listen to my grievances about the fault system of elections so I'm effectively unrepresented in those discussions?

Huh. Pardon me for giving little credence to your demands then, since you don't reciprocate.

I am against making abortion illegal because there are some situations I agree with abortion (such as a pregnancy which resulted from rape, or cases where either the mother's or fetus' life is in severe jeopardy).

As Republicans will tell you, those are elective too. Remember, if it was legitimate rape, the female body has ways of shutting it down.

The Catholic Church is against contraceptives, so they don't want to pay from health insurance which pays for contraceptives, but that doesn't stop their employees from buying supplemental insurance or paying retail for contraceptives.

The Catholic Church doesn't get to decide what healthcare I get, even if they employ me. They are a church. We do not let churches govern lives. And you won't find an insurer that doesn't want to cover contraceptives. It's actually cheaper. Why does the Catholic Church get to increase my costs as a potential employee, or an insurer's costs?

What gives them that right to impose expenses upon me do to their religious dogma?

And the Catholic Church isn't even as bad a bunch of liars as the Quiverful movement. Now that group is taking a lot of welfare money. Not to mention the whole adoption business they want to control.

The country is so divided that you parrot your party's talking points without determining the validity of the claims.

Your mind is so blinded that you can't even admit the Republican Party's own dogma or how invalid its claims are.

They are committed to their agenda, and they brazenly lie about it. And it's not limited to abortion, they do the same with immigration, voting, same-sex marriage, public schools, and more.

Maybe you need to do some checking. Here's a suggestion, contact some Republic

We already have an alternate power source to avoid this - nuclear power.

https://abcnews.go.com/Interna...

Or, we could use cheaper power sources, like wind and solar.

Well, we did go into Iraq for (Bush's) thrill of blowing stuff up.

Iraq had not even a thread of a connection to 9/11. This was known prior to the invasion and was communicated to Bush by Richard Clarke immediately after the 9/11 attacks. In response, Bush told him to find a link.

It was known prior to the invasion, and prior to 9/11 that Iraq had no WMD program. To quote Colin Powell, speaking of Iraq's WMD program and sanctions on February 24, 2001 in Cairo:

"Frankly, they have worked. He [Hussein] has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors."

And then the Downing Street Memo:

"Bush wanted to remove Saddam Hussein, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

And then Bush's little slip revealing his hate for Saddam - again pre-invasion. I watched him say it on live TV, so yeah, it happened:

"There's no doubt his hatred is mainly directed at us. There's no doubt he can't stand us. After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time."

Inconvenient facts are inconvenient. There was no intelligence failure.

This is why I don't fly. I am not a criminal and don't appreciate being treated as one. Considering the TSA misses up to 95% of all fake bombstaken on board planes, they have other issues to worry about than harassing people.

Subsidies for uneconomic power technologies that were put in to make people feel good about saving the planet and not to generate electric power.

I have never met a green that could either see past their nose, or wasn't flat out lying about the problems of their religion.

Always blindsided by what anyone with a braincell can see

http://reason.com/blog/2017/09...
wow switch to renewables your power availability goes down and your prices become the highest in the world
or closer to home
https://www.pge.com/en/about/n...
and oddly enough your rates in the golden state are going way up
https://abcnews.go.com/US/stor...

Really if you live in CA and you run into someone advocating renewables do yourself a favor and knock out a few of their teeth.

Sort of like how the TSA scanners highlight my Glock every time I try to sneak it through the security line.

So you're part of the 5% the TSA does find when they do their tests.

"violence"

The violence of U.S. football causes SEVERE physical damage:

CTE found in 99% of studied brains from deceased NFL players - CNN

Ex-Pro Football Players Struggle With Health Problems - ABC News

Health issues in American football - Wikipedia

That TARP that Obama asked for and then rebranded as his own bailout? You mean that TARP?

"Maybe it's because she has almost no credibility and the only ones voting for her were doing it of party reasons, anti-trump reasons, or for gender reasons."

Good points. It seemed to me that she was often surprisingly lacking in logical understanding.

However, look at this article: Hillary Clinton Jokes About Wiping Email Server 'With A Cloth Or Something'. Hillary: "What? Like with a cloth or something?" she asked, then laughed. "I don't know how it works digitally at all."

That was NOT "joking". Hillary is now 70 years old. Most people her age don't understand computer technology, and don't want to understand.

A highly competitive university that gets applicants almost exclusively from the top 1% of ACT/SAT scoring students says that ACT/SAT scores don't predict success in their institution.

Would the correlation perhaps be higher if they accepted students randomly from every quartile of ACT/SAT scoring students?

https://abcnews.go.com/Technol...

Powell never used his personal email for official government related emails. That is a lie. The Left tried to get him on it and it failed for that precise reason.

To the contrary, he did. But it wasn't illegal to use personal servers for government related email. It only became policy after Hillary left office: https://www.wsj.com/articles/c...
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/colin-powell-defends-personal-email-227889
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/fbi-colin-powell-email-probe-218748

(it was probably illegal for him to not archive them, though.

In fact, it was Powell who advised Hillary on use of personal e-mail: https://abcnews.go.com/Politic...

corporate interests write the laws they want and pay your elected officials to enact them. See George W Bush's energy policy as one of many examples.

Obviously you can't be right, since Bush the second's administration's energy policy was decided and enacted with full transparency and under open public scrutiny. Moreover, we know Republicans always put people first, so corporations can't have had any influence on the policy.

It's interesting that you think "Like with a cloth" was serious when it's obvious from the context that it was a joke: https://abcnews.go.com/Politic...

Sure you can, remember what the governor of Missouri said?

"I only took blackmail photos so she wouldn't lie about our affair!"

Dippity-do, want to see Blaknenship's recent ads? Pretty funny to see him running against the majority leader.

Instead of ignoring mostly-Chinese companies that do business with North Korea (as Presidents past have done), Trump is actually going after them:

US unveils largest sanctions yet on ships, companies trading with North Korea

The illegal foreign trade that Kim Jong-un uses to keep his army loyal is being threatened if not actually cut off. And he's squirming. Finally.

People piss away, on average, $5/day on âstarbucksâ(TM) or other specialty coffees.

It's closer to $2, but your point stands.

At no point have I ever risked anything.

I literally risked my life getting on the road to come to work this morning. I do crazy stuff like that all the time.

We pay for 13 years of education at no cost to the child is or the child's family... If the locals choose to reward teachers that fail to teach their students with higher paychecks, tenure, and life-long pension and healthcare rather that's on the community.

People aren't denied education, they simply mismanaged the resources provided to educate them.

Disclaimer: I'm a IT staff member in a public school district.

Given your low 4-digit UID, I assume you're an old fart. So let me spell out something for you.

There is mismanagement of resources, but placing the blame squarely at the feet of teachers is wrong.

Throwing money at education, much like anything else, doesn't guarantee success. Further, it's not like the students being educated are products at the local store. You can't just run in and pay for "education" in a can and always walk out with the exact same product every time. It's a craft, not a mass produced trinket from China. You will get imperfections and defects every time. Even more so once you realize the craft is being applied to substandard materials, IE. Children. These students are not adults with a desire to learn, they are kids who for all intensive purposes, are being held against their will, in a room by people they may not like, along with a bunch of other peers they may not like and may even be terrorized by, under the pretext of it being "good for them".

One of the biggest issues is the gamification of education. The No Child Left Behind Act is directly responsible for this mess because a bunch of politicians decided that everyone was perfect, and mandated by law perfection, with showering of money for showing constant "growth" in student proficiencies, and pink slip Russian roulette for constant "regression". Cue the pubic school districts wanting free money or to avoid losing their jobs bumping up the test scores, and being found out. All of that's before you get into the misuse of the Standardized Test Scores. Plus it's getting worse, what with our US Department of Education Secretary being a privatization of education proponent, e.g. Charter Schools which have a profit incentive to ensure low passage rates and high tuition costs as a business model, who's supporters say she should step down, and state governors like Matt Bevin (KY) who wants to use public funds to support said for profits, while at the same time cutting public education funds saying the money isn't there. Long story short, you can't gamify a person's continued employment completely based on the input from others and expect the results to be good.

And before you say: "We'll that's what they get for not teaching them." Remember that the Standardized Tests are Multiple Choice tests for the sole purpose of expedient grading. They are not a valid method to determine a person’s knowledge because it's perfectly possible to ace the test without knowing any of the answers through sheer probability / luck. Worse, it's perfectly possible for a student to hide their deficiencies on the test because of this. So even an educa

Lies, damn lies and statistics.
Seriously.
That analysis leaves out any hint of context.

The US pharma business isn't ruthless capitalism, its massive corporate welfare on the back end and ruthless exploitation of the customer on the front end. Big pharma spends about 2x on marketing that they spend on R&D.

Trump didn't take away dreamers rights. They were already illegal aliens, whether they came here illegally at 10 or 50. Laws are just being enforced like they always have been. Even liberal media ABC admitted Obama deported more than any other president and Trump is continuing what Obama started http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...

He could get leg lengthening. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/l...

The Vox isn't a credible source. Come back when you have a reliable source.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

https://qz.com/1031027/the-us-...

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

http://thehill.com/homenews/ad...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...

http://www.newsweek.com/americ...

Oh, stop. Plenty of auto makers do voluntary recalls all the time.

Including GM and Toyota?
http://fortune.com/2015/08/24/...
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...