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They were giving away free electricity which prompted a major to build a skating rink. tsk tsk indeed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...

You are wrong.

"Loss Making" implies that the company is losing money. According to this NY Times article , Netflix projected over $165m in profits in Q1 2017.

Your poignant trotting out of a sentence from the second amendment illuminates this week's success story:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/04/us/vegas-shooting-hotel-room.html

By Peter H. Lewis Published: July 19, 1992

BURLINGAME, Calif.— Sometime around the middle of this decade no one is sure exactly when -- executives on the go will begin carrying pocket-sized digital communicating devices.

...

At one end of the spectrum is John Sculley, the chief executive of Apple Computer Inc., who says these personal communicators could be "the mother of all markets."

At the other end is Andrew Grove, the chairman of the Intel Corporation, the huge chip maker based in Santa Clara, Calif. He says the idea of a wireless personal communicator in every pocket is "a pipe dream driven by greed."

And here's a study just last year saying breakfast doesn't matter. This is typical. Decades of nutritional studies have often turned out useless and in many cases harmful...

There is another theory that is reinforced by laws and polices that shows that government supports capitalism no matter the cost.

Capitalism and Greed are NOT served well by a person who never gets sick, never goes to their doctor, or never needs to obtain multiple prescription medicines.

The medical industry does NOT seek out cures for anything anymore, only perpetual treatments bring endless revenue.

Many products that are THE top killers of humans are perfectly legal, because they create massive revenue and perpetuate death.

What does this all mean? It means that nutritional studies may in fact be more helpful than you think. Unfortunately, truth and facts fight against many in the world today who represent ruthless capitalism, and are dismissive of advice that would lead to a long and healthy life, to include your doctor. As you said before, go with your gut. It will be a hell of a lot more honest than the bullshit peddlers we're surrounded with today.

And here's a study just last year saying breakfast doesn't matter. This is typical. Decades of nutritional studies have often turned out useless and in many cases harmful. Hard to trust anything now. Gotta just trust your gut.

That's a pun, but it's often true. Pay close attention to how your body reacts to what you put into it. It's the best feedback mechanism we have.

I know the trend is to call the things in life we wish were different "Fake news" but science is not one of those lest we put ourselves in great peril. Throwing out the baby with the bathwater and going back to an 1850's level of understanding of the world does not do us any good, regardless of the political climate and rhetoric usage in the world around us.

And here's a study just last year saying breakfast doesn't matter. This is typical. Decades of nutritional studies have often turned out useless and in many cases harmful. Hard to trust anything now. Gotta just trust your gut.

That's a pun, but it's often true. Pay close attention to how your body reacts to what you put into it. It's the best feedback mechanism we have.

Trump was given $2 billion plus in free media coverage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...
https://secure.marketwatch.com...
http://www.weeklystandard.com/...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/fe...

Duckduckgo returns lots more with my query, "worth of free media coverage 2016 election Trump"
If the media had ignored him or only ran paid advertisements, Trump would have been a lot less likely to have won

Puerto Rico's government drove the island to bankruptcy.:

With its creditors at its heels and its coffers depleted, Puerto Rico sought what is essentially bankruptcy relief in federal court on Wednesday, the first time in history that an American state or territory had taken the extraordinary measure.

The action sent Puerto Rico, whose approximately $123 billion in debt and pension obligations far exceeds the $18 billion bankruptcy filed by Detroit in 2013, to uncharted ground.

...

Of course the pols in charge in Puerto Rico are now casting about blame to deflect attention from their own contributory negligence.

Oh sure, quote a right-wing rag like the NYT ;)

I worked a power company on a Caribbean Island. Lots of them cut corners by putting up posts instead of using underground cables. Apparently this is the cheaper option. This makes the lines more vulnerable to bad weather and also salt in the air. Wooden posts break easy but concrete ones are also quite vulneralble. Quite often the poles went on fire due to the salt build-up.

The lesson is to invest a bit more in infrastructure and don't go for the cheap option.

Except the Puerto Rican government bankrupted the island:

Puerto Rico Declares a Form of Bankruptcy

With its creditors at its heels and its coffers depleted, Puerto Rico sought what is essentially bankruptcy relief in federal court on Wednesday, the first time in history that an American state or territory had taken the extraordinary measure.

The action sent Puerto Rico, whose approximately $123 billion in debt and pension obligations far exceeds the $18 billion bankruptcy filed by Detroit in 2013, to uncharted ground.

While the court proceedings could eventually make the island solvent for the first time in decades, the more immediate repercussions will likely be grim: Government workers will forgo pension money, public health and infrastructure projects will go wanting, and the “brain drain” the island has been suffering as professionals move to the mainland could intensify.

Puerto Rico is “unable to provide its citizens effective services” because of the crushing weight of its debt, according to a filing on Wednesday by the federal board that has supervised the island’s financial affairs since last year.

...

Note well:

- "Puerto Rico is “unable to provide its citizens effective services”"

- "public health and infrastructure projects will go wanting"

Puerto Rico's government drove the island to bankruptcy.:

With its creditors at its heels and its coffers depleted, Puerto Rico sought what is essentially bankruptcy relief in federal court on Wednesday, the first time in history that an American state or territory had taken the extraordinary measure.

The action sent Puerto Rico, whose approximately $123 billion in debt and pension obligations far exceeds the $18 billion bankruptcy filed by Detroit in 2013, to uncharted ground.

...

Of course the pols in charge in Puerto Rico are now casting about blame to deflect attention from their own contributory negligence.

>> Despite environmentalist daydreams, gas and diesel engines will still be around and still be way most new vehicles are powered.

Yes they will still be around but they will be an increasingly expensive niche market. I'll bet that in 10 years they won't be even close to the majority of new vehicles.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/w...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/b...

Additional Information

From article dated: JULY 2, 2017
Puerto Ricos Power Authority Effectively Files for Bankruptcy

And then there is this.
"Electricity is given free of charge to every one of the commonwealth's 78 municipalities, to many of its government enterprises and even to some private businesses located in buildings owned by municipalities. PREPA has $1 billion or more in accounts receivable, much of which is owed by other units of the Puerto Rico government."
Renewable electricity as a solution to Puerto Rico debt crisis? You must be kidding

And some wonder why the Electric Grid is getting repaired?

You're citing a source in the attempt to use geographical area to make conclusions about distribution of political disposition. You do know that population density is not equal throughout the State of Nevada, right? Or really any other state, for that matter. You know that there are vast deserts and tracts of highly restricted land in Nevada where they used to actually detonate nuclear weapons because literally nobody is there? It's over 1,200 square miles of nobody.

In your own source, 9 out of 15 of those "red" counties had less than 10,000 total voters in a Presidential election, where the two "blue" counties each had well over 100,000 votes tallied, with Clark County having over 500,000 votes recorded. Are you saying that Eureka County is just as populous as Clark County (2.115 million people per the US Census Bureau), but only had 0.038% voter turnout (798 total votes - your linked source)? Because that's what it sounds like you are saying.

You would probably look at the county election results in Oregon and come to the same conclusion, because of the same basic mistake: Oregon is filled with Republicans because the majority of the counties are red! Except that Hillary carried the state 50 to 40, and the State Legislature is made up of 52 Democrats to 38 Republicans [Senate: 17(D)-13(R); House: 35(D) - 25(R)]. And this isn't an abberation - it's been that way in Oregon for a long time.

Population distribution is not equal across counties, therefore a map showing county election results as "blue" or "red" is not useful for statistically determining anything about the population's political disposition. When you add in the other information on the page you linked, it tells a completely different story - and that story is that you are wrong.

You are picking an choosing statements from a sentence and taking them out of context. That's a no no.

That particular aspect of course, I should have backed up, which say a link. https://www.nytimes.com/electi...
You will note that the majority of the state is red, so that backs up my statement "which more than likely", which is a guess based on statistical data. Then again, at the same time the individual was from Misquite NV, which is in Clark County, same county as Las Vegas, which went blue. But like most counties that have major metro areas, the city typically goes blue, where as the surrounding areas are usually a solid red, but the number of city votes beats the rural ones (very similar to Virginia in which Northern Virginia is solidly blue, but the rest is solid red).

The point being, I made a supposition to support my original statement "because the other side of the political spectrum could make the same assumption" showing the OP that I could do the same thing and go in the opposite direction, providing the same guess work, and coming up with an opposite ideological conclusion.

Except for 700+ more, that is...

Nope. You should learn to read better, your own article points out that those aren't even in China.

Mostly because the Chinese know they can't keep burning coal at home, but have a lot invested in power plant construction...which is also failing, especially the nuclear ones.

Odds are, they won't get built.

Except for 700+ more, that is...

Still leaving 700+ getting built.

China cancels 103 coal power plants
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
https://www.sciencealert.com/t...

You didn't notice that China is actually suspending those coal plant build-outs, and if they are keeping some, it's only to retire older, dirtier plants sooner?

You're looking too far, this is a publicity stunt to appease the masses. If you want to avoid the SEC, all you have to do is make sure to hire a particular lawyer firm that has ties to the current SEC administration and then the investigation deadlocks. You know, like this.

In an unprecidented level of political corruption, Hillary Clinton took over $100 million in bribes to approve sale of a uranium company to Russia while secretary of state.
Story

Then she rigged a national primary election to ensure she was going to be the nominee. The argued in court that fair elections are not a concern to the DNC.
Story

Meanwhile...
The imbicle that is PopeRatzo thinks the above is perfectally acceptable, but the "accusation" of Russia buying Facebook ads by Zuck (without having yet shown proof) means Trump should be removed from office.
Yes, PopeRatzo IS that stupid.

That's true to a point as long as you do a few things:

Like bury reports on right-wing violence?

No wait, that's the opposite, isn't it?

1) Group all anti-government, non-Muslim religious based attacks as well as white supremacist attacks into the far-right category while at the same time often miscategorizing other attacks such as classifying Fort Hood as 'workplace violence' even with Hasan's confession about his motivations. That actually required an act of Congress to have to the dead and wounded be recognized as victims of a terrorist attack and awarded Purple Hearts.

I remember another act to get other people Purple Hearts.

What was even worse was the Congressional call, where so many people thought they were getting Medals of Honor. That dismayed me. even more than trying to make a drug-addled depressed person into some sort of concerted act of terrorism.

2) Assign political motivations to non-political attacks. Not all attacks by right wingers are motivated by their ideology in the same way not all attacks by left wingers or Jihadists are motivated by theirs; sometimes an attack in a parking lot is just road rage with no deeper meaning.

Deny actual motivation and declare he's just crazy.

Seriously, any right-wing violence is immediately dismissed as mental illness by their pundits, or worse yet, blamed on the left.

3) Start tracking after 2001 and stop tracking after 2015.

Like this?

4) Change the definition of threat as it suits your needs. In some reports "threat" is based off of actual deaths and in others it's by incident. So when you need a bigger number you count the 5 times someone was harassed on the street (with no injury) and say that is a bigger threat than a single shooting that killed multiple people.

Could have told you that ten years ago.

There is also the fact that many Jihadist plots are stopped before the threat ever materializes due to the massive manpower dedicated to just that while far right attacks are not due to their limited nature and next to no dedicated special policing (they seem to be mostly of the "lone gunman", small or single target variety which are very difficult to prevent) . i.e. it's hard to stop a crazy person with a knife until the attack starts vs someone trying to buy large quantities of explosives.

Oh really?

It's just another case of statistics telling you whatever you want them to and not necessarily the truth.

Is that why you oppose the phony statistics often cited by the right?

You do, don't you? Even Jon Kyl's?

That's true to a point as long as you do a few things:

Like bury reports on right-wing violence?

No wait, that's the opposite, isn't it?

1) Group all anti-government, non-Muslim religious based attacks as well as white supremacist attacks into the far-right category while at the same time often miscategorizing other attacks such as classifying Fort Hood as 'workplace violence' even with Hasan's confession about his motivations. That actually required an act of Congress to have to the dead and wounded be recognized as victims of a terrorist attack and awarded Purple Hearts.

I remember another act to get other people Purple Hearts.

What was even worse was the Congressional call, where so many people thought they were getting Medals of Honor. That dismayed me. even more than trying to make a drug-addled depressed person into some sort of concerted act of terrorism.

2) Assign political motivations to non-political attacks. Not all attacks by right wingers are motivated by their ideology in the same way not all attacks by left wingers or Jihadists are motivated by theirs; sometimes an attack in a parking lot is just road rage with no deeper meaning.

Deny actual motivation and declare he's just crazy.

Seriously, any right-wing violence is immediately dismissed as mental illness by their pundits, or worse yet, blamed on the left.

3) Start tracking after 2001 and stop tracking after 2015.

Like this?

4) Change the definition of threat as it suits your needs. In some reports "threat" is based off of actual deaths and in others it's by incident. So when you need a bigger number you count the 5 times someone was harassed on the street (with no injury) and say that is a bigger threat than a single shooting that killed multiple people.

Could have told you that ten years ago.

There is also the fact that many Jihadist plots are stopped before the threat ever materializes due to the massive manpower dedicated to just that while far right attacks are not due to their limited nature and next to no dedicated special policing (they seem to be mostly of the "lone gunman", small or single target variety which are very difficult to prevent) . i.e. it's hard to stop a crazy person with a knife until the attack starts vs someone trying to buy large quantities of explosives.

Oh really?

It's just another case of statistics telling you whatever you want them to and not necessarily the truth.

Is that why you oppose the phony statistics often cited by the right?

You do, don't you? Even Jon Kyl's?

I have a feeling you're right. We're going to find out about a bunch of Macedonians and Russians posting from Internet Research Agency claiming to be outraged Catalans. But apparently "muh both sides" means we should only be caring about irrelevant Clinton stuff from a failed yesteryear campaign. They have nothing to say for their constant trespasses except "but but ... correct the record?"

Meanwhile they continue to drive these wedge campaigns and stir the pot wherever their (often bought) accounts happen to pop up. Suddenly WikiLeaks and Snowden seem to really care about Catalonia, and are even offering to "host referendum servers" (LOL!)

Absolutely transparent.

The oligarch probably made sure he wasn't using the same building as Putin does for his army of social network trolls spewing their lies

Hallo fellow internet commentators! I am here to assuring you that of course the Kremlin is having nothing to do with such nonsense. Why would a vengeful former world power that does this kind of thing all the time and is run by a KGB agent, do this kind of thing at *this* time, and I assure you I am no agent! I and my and my fallow detractors simply grow tired of such conspiracy theories, I ask them because they are sitting right next to me at the Internet Research Agency, a perfectly normal office building in St. Petersburg where 'journalists' such as myself and Mischa pass along the 'news' to your 'Democracy'.

Is Russia Russia Russia.

And that's fine. KEEP DIGGING.

But why is NOBODY looking into CHINA CHINA CHINA?!

We have proof they meddled in our elections in 1996. Does everyone think they just magically stopped?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

In between you know... stealing our nuclear secrets in 1999?

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03...

And weapon secrets... in 2009?

http://www.popularmechanics.co...

BUT SURELY they stopped right before the 2016 election! So don't worry guys, we don't need to look anymore.

You know, if I was China, I'd actually be pushing for Russia investigations to keep people from looking into all my dirty laundry...

If Russians can't donate directly, and they want to, they WILL find a work around...

If nothing else, they'll simply send Buddhist monks to Washington and throw an "outreach event".

Link?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The provision regarding foreign interference in elections was upheld by SCOTUS in 2012. See Bluman, et al., v. Federal Election Commission.

https://thecaucus.blogs.nytime...

Let me spell it out for you since you are clearly logically challenged and/or incapable of grasping basic concepts:

If a business or country hires/pays/blackmails/threatens a person to steal for them and then that entity receives the stolen goods, then that entity is morally and legally guilty of the theft. However, in the case of China, they literally don't give a shit what the rest of the world thinks or demands or what is legal/illegal, unless it actually costs them money or power in some way. The US has mountains of evidence from our counter espionage against China that they have stolen US IP hundreds if not thousands of times in the last 20 years. Evidence like photographic evidence of the thief dead dropping the data to a Chinese diplomat, electronic evidence of payouts to the thief from a Chinese state backed entity, testimony from the thief that his family back in China was under threat, etc.

You might want to do a little light reading, maybe have a few of the facts before you start making a fool of yourself. http://www.ipcommission.org/re...

Some other pertinent information:
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundi...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
http://www.sciencemag.org/news...
http://www.politifact.com/pund...

Which is NOT the same as "supporting Trump."

Sure it's not bro.
Pushing agendas which favor one candidate, while slandering and defaming the other either directly or indirectly is a clear case of "fine people on both sides".
Or was that "violence on both sides"?

It's getting hard to keep up with nonsense that orange cunt spouts out of that shithole of his.
Or the level of delusion pathetic excuses for a brain holder would sink to in order to support such a colossal racist cunt lording over them.
What a bunch of cucks. Laughable indeed.

Also, FBI is clearly storming bedrooms of campaign managers "on both sides".
In the middle of the night. After picking the lock on their front door and sneaking in, Rainbow Six style.
And then they took photos of his suits. I guess to make sure which ones he was not wearing when he shat his pants as they pounded on the door.
On both sides. He shat his pants on both sides.

You really haven't been paying attention, have you? Yes, the Russians are well ahead of the curve. They've been doing this for a LONG time. Our allies warned us that they've been doing for a long time. They warned us that we were going to be targeted. Putin isn't fucking stupid. He caught on to how powerful (and cheap) using social media was as a tool. You get something to go viral even just once, and it's already paid back a thousand fold.

And that's what happened. Not just here, but also in Europe. More to the point, it was extremely successful.

I've been paying attention for a long time now, and what I see is the same old thing - using Russia as a boogeyman. Before, it was the USSR's massive tank formations, submarines and nuclear weapons which everybody had to fear. Now, since their tank formations are just an outdated shadow of their former glory, their submarine fleet is tiny compared to the US' one, and the nuclear weapons are regulated by treaties, we need to fear something else they're oh-so-good at, right?
And where exactly in Europe have they been doing it? Because I've seen frontpage articles on CNN, in NY Times and elsewhere saying how it seems that Russians are targeting French and German elections. Weeks or months later I've read reports - which somehow didn't get frontpage attention - that French security services ruled out Russian involvement in their elections, and no hacking or something similar has happened in German elections. So who is not paying attention?
Compare these two articles: The NSA Confirms It: Russia Hacked French Election ‘Infrastructure’ and The Latest: France says no trace of Russian hacking Macron. Who is lying? Is it the French themselves, or is it maybe Rogers just riding the wave to get more funding for NSA? And this one is hilarious - NY Times going existential over missing Russian hackers in German elections in an article, where they cite their previous article on how Macron's campaign got hacked by Russians (from May) even though by now it is known that no such thing has happened. Am I the only one who sees a massive number of various interests riding the very, very old wave of russophobia in order to get more money, more readers, more views, more attention? It is all a theatre, keeping us occupied and entertained so we part with our money more easily.

Except that Hillary's 08 campaign created the claim.

Except they didn't, but even if they did, Hillary did not make Trump spend half a dozen years shouting about it.

Sorry, but no matter how much Trump tries to deflect responsibility, we know what he did, why he did it, and how he did so.

citation provided

Subject: Re: Russia - Clinton - private and confidential

Good morning
Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting.
The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.
This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump - helped along by Aras and Emin.
What do you think is the best way to handle this information and would you be able to speak to Emin about it directly?
I can also send this info to your father via Rhona, but it is ultra sensitive so wanted to send to you first.
Best
Rob Goldstone

== Donald Trump Jr's Treasonous Response ==

Subject: Re: Russia - Clinton - private and confidential

Thanks Rob I appreciate that. I am on the road at the moment but perhaps I just speak to Emin first. Seems we have some time and if it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer. Could we do a call first thing next week when I am back?
Best,
Don

I was just reading yesterday on how Staten Island has a deer problem so they are culling the deer. Now usually one would think this means trapping or shooting the deer but no, that would make sense.

Maybe if you want to have a deer slaughter, because of some atavistic primal urges that you can't suppress.

What the New York City government is doing is giving the bucks they catch a vasectomy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

Not even a castration, which would not only be easier but also avoid the rut behavior that puts them at risk of automobile collisions as they travel around the island. They are giving the bucks a vasectomy.

And all the little hunter blogs are up in arms about that.

Don't deer fart too? What of their methane production?

And if the few deer on Staten Island are compared to the millions of cows raised for consumption....

Not only that but the reason they want to get rid of the deer on the island is that they are effectively an invasive species spreading disease, causing property damage, and putting people's lives at risk from automobile collisions.

The inmates are running the asylum in New York City. Those deer should be hunted for their tasty meat and to remove the risks to life and property they cause. But no one wants to vote to kill Bambi, so they spend millions of taxpayer dollars to catch the deer, give them a vasectomy, and then... let them go. That way the deer can die naturally, by getting hit by a truck.

Yawn. You just want them to spend millions so you can have a hunting party instead.

In realityStaten Island Deer have lower disease, less accidents,a nd fewer risks.

But don't let facts get in your way. Hunters never do.

I was just reading yesterday on how Staten Island has a deer problem so they are culling the deer. Now usually one would think this means trapping or shooting the deer but no, that would make sense. What the New York City government is doing is giving the bucks they catch a vasectomy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

Not even a castration, which would not only be easier but also avoid the rut behavior that puts them at risk of automobile collisions as they travel around the island. They are giving the bucks a vasectomy.

Don't deer fart too? What of their methane production? Not only that but the reason they want to get rid of the deer on the island is that they are effectively an invasive species spreading disease, causing property damage, and putting people's lives at risk from automobile collisions.

The inmates are running the asylum in New York City. Those deer should be hunted for their tasty meat and to remove the risks to life and property they cause. But no one wants to vote to kill Bambi, so they spend millions of taxpayer dollars to catch the deer, give them a vasectomy, and then... let them go. That way the deer can die naturally, by getting hit by a truck.

An acrefoot of water contains over 1 million liters, pinky in the air.

Why is this news to anyone with a brain?

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/22/us/californians-as-in-1960-s-lead-in-resistance-to-selective-service.html "many women's groups opposed President Carter's unsuccessful proposal for registration of women"

I don't know if you are old enough to remember when Jimmy Carter was President and he tried to extend Selective Service registration to include women too. By any reasonable measure that is still modern times and feminists fought very hard for their gender to be allowed to escape this potential danger men must accept.

While some feminist groups also fought to extend their gender's unique protections to men, many others did not.

The first one is an opinion piece that asks questions.

Sure. And that asking betrays the author's desire for "hate speech" being banned.

nobody who really doesn't believe in AGW would be prosecuted.

Ah, yes, yes, sure. As Snopes said:

California Senate Bill (SB) 1161 sought to make dissemination of scientifically inaccurate or misleading information by businesses and organizations an offense covered by California's unfair competition law.

Small comfort, though — because what is and what is not "scientifically inaccurate" will be up to the prosecutors (and then juries).

I'm certainly not going to want you shut down by legal means.

Most generous of you. There is, however, a sizeable minority, which sees it differently — and these Constitution-undermining proposals reach as high as pages of New York Times. And the far-Left is particularly against it — openly and unabashedly advocating violence against holders of certain opinions. Just as the subject of this thread says...

Don't take my word for it — the "classical" Liberals are appalled by these alt-Left's trends as well, even if their argument against it boils down to the self-serving "it will backfire" warnings...

It tends to make things inconvenient for people who legitimately bought a song or movie while failing to stop piracy.

A Brittish kayaker was killed by pirates this week, so it is very clear that they do the most serious of harm.

To compare pirates to people who infringe copyright is a travesty which dishonors the real victims of piracy. It is the equivalent of Colbert calling Mitt Romney a murderer. Only Colbert isn't serious when he makes the accusation.

msmash's continued insistence on using the word pirate in lieu of copyright infringement in article after article reinforces the framing language desired by the MPAA and RIAA. It is used to demand harsh punishments for minor crimes. It is also indicative of the biases which tarnishe the reputation of objective news reporting as a whole.

The multi-billion corporations want you to travel by air, however damaging it is — or may be — to your health and that of the planet. Oh, you say, it is a traveler's choice? No, it is not — though it was once an option, is now a necessity.

Bad for you, bad for the planet, bad for mom-and-pop operated vacation spots. Let's ban airtravel and boycott Boeing for enabling it!

Somebody had better goddamned well be spying on the "Donald camp," or they'll sell the whole country down the Volga.

Methinks you doth project too much.

Selling the whole country down the Volga would be Hillary!'s bailiwick:

Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

Note the source.

A lot of Puerto Rico's electrical network is badly neglected. Much of the system is suspended on old fashioned post-war power poles and overloaded with too many cables. It looks like something from 19th century New York. None of this is terribly surprising: it's a government run power system that is absurdly dysfunctional.

The whole thing fell over. Big surprise. Not.

"Minimum wage was not and is not intended to be a wage for four people."

Oh how poorly educated you are in regards to the history of the minimum wage.

https://takingnote.blogs.nytim...
Quotes from Roosevelt who was instrumental in the enacting of the minimum wage.

“By living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the wages of a decent living.” (1933, Statement on National Industrial Recovery Act)"

“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.”

It's awesome you want to believe a conservative myth but the reality is different.

They figured Denver to be the best spot https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

Maybe they are right but For the wrong reasons. Amazon isn't looking for a distribution center to ship from, but a place to house 50K employees that work behind the distribution centers, websites and such. They are looking for a place where they can attract and keep good technical and management talent, not people to pack boxes... So Denver is likely in the running, but will suffer from being an expensive place to live (and thus an expensive place to find and keep employees). I'm guessing they will end up someplace else...

They figured Denver to be the best spot https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

Hillary and Russia have nothing to do with one another.

Tell that to the Clinton Foundation
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0...

The Gore family complained:
http://partners.nytimes.com/li...

They suspected that the Nixon administration kept him out of Vietnam to avoid giving his father anything that might have some political advantage.

I'll just leave this here.

https://www.nytimes.com/intera...