Largely true, but let's remember that the people giving you information about your late flight are as in the dark as you are.
I'm sure dispatch knows what's happening airline wide and how it's likely to affect the future schedule, but until it's been fully decided how to deal with the schedule impacts they don't start telling everybody because they are not totally sure.
Reasons not to communicate include the following: 1. Passengers may take other options. 2. They may be wrong about how long the delay will be, if they estimate too much delay, passengers get shuffled or are missing when they eventually try to board, if they estimate to little delay, passengers may be more angry than necessary with having to wait longer. 3. It's a lose/lose situation when you announce a delay.
Ah yes... Frontier.. "The proud bird with the muddy feet" was the sarcastic description my Dad used to give for them after they had a runway excursion into the mud at Stapleton Airport in Denver.
However, this guy is certainly NOT representative of Trump's nominees and the senate didn't just rubber stamp him, but returned the nomination to the Whitehouse where it was withdrawn. Not that his motivation was one of a political ideologue....
So you pick the one nomination that was rejected and paint all of Trump's nominations with the same brush? This is an error of logic and lame. What about the rest of his nominations confirmed by the Senate? Care to discuss those or are you claiming they are all political hacks?
Which of them isn't an example of the kind of judge that will uphold the law, not make their own? Because that's what I'm claiming...Unless you figure that being a constructionist makes you a political ideologue.
Trump is appointing Judges who care about the law and won't invent rulings on laws that don't exist.
LOL. Trump is nominating unqualified partisan idealogues. Just look at the case of Brett Talley.
The guy who's nomination was withdrawn and wasn't even nominated to be a judge? That's all you got to bash Trump with?
I'm laughing.... Take a look at the long list of successful nominations to actual federal judge positions, pick one of those to complain about because this one is a non-starter...
No, I'm saying that a script or two per year/per person doesn't seem crazy for some populations depending on the age mix.
I'm also saying that the authors of the article used inappropriate numbers and do so on purpose. I'm guessing they are trying to make a point, but when you make a point using misleading facts, I'm inclined not to trust your conclusions and question pretty much everything you say. They needed to do a bit of basic investigation here and actually establish how those pills where distributed. I have a feeling they all didn't end up in a town of 2,900 or even the county of 30,000.
LOL.. I'm guessing that the Nunes memo is about to start a reckoning on the wrong side of the isle for these folks. Heads are already rolling at the FBI it seems, question is how deep will it reach and what it will expose. Seems it will be a lot to me. One is left to wonder how they will react. If past performance is any indicator it will be fun to watch so I have the popcorn ready.
Our judges actually care about civil liberties. You buffoons elected Trump. LOL
Personally, I want judges that care about the law as written, not buffoons who legislate from the bench. I also prefer laws that don't impact civil liberties so Judges who care about the law can protect them. So you need two things here. Just laws that protect civil liberties and Judges that enforce the law.
Trump is appointing Judges who care about the law and won't invent rulings on laws that don't exist. I don't see how that's a bad or dangerous thing for anybody, unless you think the law is wrong. If you think the law is wrong, that's something you take up with congress who writes the law, or the president if he signed it. He may be a buffoon to you, but he's doing the right thing with the judges he's appointing.
I'm not so sure it does. 2 RX scripts per year per person doesn't seem crazy. We've averaged more than that as a family of 4 for a couple of years. But to really know, we need to look at average RX rates for similar social economic and age groups nation wide and compare it to the local RX rate. This discussion of how many pills are being shipped to a location is useless information without some serious context.
Some users argued that they should be allowed to decide what's "true, fake, or otherwise"
Like it or not, there are objective facts.
The Donald didn't have the biggest inauguration crowd ever, there are no 'alternative facts'.
How people can say they want to be able to choose 'truthiness' as if it is equally valid with what is true.
Be careful because there is such a thing as not having ALL the facts. Especially in political theater, the omission of objective facts and cherry picking the disclosed facts to support one's desired narrative is an art form. Misleading use of facts is common. Being objectively true isn't enough. You need "The Truth, the Whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth" to get the full picture.
BTW... Trump is often just boasting to watch folks scurry around making weird noises. I think he enjoys watching folks go off the deep end about things that don't matter such as your inauguration crowd size thing. He made a stupid boast, he does that from time to time. Everybody knew he was that kind of guy when he got elected and he's getting better about this kind of thing. I suggest you let this specific thing go and go after him on things that actually matter..
But selectively discussing truth is what is going on here. The news reports what's demonstrably true, but they only present the facts which support their desired narrative and ignore the things that do not.
I learned this 25 years ago, watching the local TV station's (which I worked for) news coverage of a Senatorial campaign. The incumbent was sure to win, he'd won many senate races before, but that wasn't the desired narrative. We where also subject to "equal time" rules at the time. So how do you cover this when you don't like the incumbent? Easy.. They granted two 3 min segments, one to each campaign's rally in town. For the challenger, you got 3 min of him speaking about how his policies where better than the incumbent's with background video of the cheering crowd. For the incumbent's rally we got a discussion of the protestors who showed up with background video of their protest outside the rally. Both segments where 100% true, but the implication of the coverage was the incumbent was loosing. He won the election by nearly 30% margins the following week.
So being True isn't enough... You need the Truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth... Or you are subject to being mistaken.
It's called confirmation bias and it's very prevalent in political arguments. People don't react well when their bias get's challenged and they are emotionally invested in being "right" about the issues so they react badly, yell at the sky, protest and riot.... RESIST!
Well I was wrong.. The Rainy Day fund in Texas is currently just north of 10 Billion..;) I believe that California's is just about $8 Billion right now, assuming it's not been tapped for something in the last year.
Also, does it matter where it comes from, given California produced a lot of Oil in it's past too?
In the end, all that really matters is that California's AA- bond rating is lower than Texas' AAA, so should Texas need to borrow money, they can do it at better rates.
LOL.. I just checked, we still have one and it's 10 Billion. We apparently didn't use it last year for the hurricane, though I'm at a loss to understand why.
Texas... The home of the 5 billion rainy day fund (well, before last summer's hurricane we had one). We are obviously managing our state's resources rather well, even though we don't have a state income tax and only an 8.25% sales tax.
It may be a hole to you, but we are solvent and able to pay our bills....
The Federal government can just print cash to meet it's obligations if all else fails. California cannot do this.
However, I think Illinois is closer to the end than California. Illinois is bleeding population due to it's large tax structure and faces an unfunded pension debt that they have no possible way to pay. They also have gridlock in government, where they can make none of the hard decisions needed to forestall the inevitable.
So the question is.... How does a state actually *do* a bankruptcy? Does the Fed step in and take over? Do the neighboring states get to absorb the territory as well as part of the debt? Who knows, but when nobody will loan you money anymore because you don't have a snowballs chance of paying it back, some very bad things are going to happen.
You do know that the FCC has asserted it's authority over state, local and land use contracts (I.e HOAs) with it's OTARD rule, where they specifically disallowed any rules which prevented a homeowner from putting up a TV antenna. They also require "reasonable accommodation" of armature radio stations by state and local regulations (though refused to override your HOA on this issue).
It's pretty much a done deal that the FCC has the authority to do this if they wish....
The spanking is coming. When the state's bonds are graded junk and they have to start paying huge interest rates, the house of cards will tumble rapidly.
Sometimes, life is the best teacher, even for toddlers, but in this case, they really are more like a 21 year old living in the basement of mom's house. Sometimes, kicking them out onto the street is the best way to get them to grow up.
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Largely true, but let's remember that the people giving you information about your late flight are as in the dark as you are.
I'm sure dispatch knows what's happening airline wide and how it's likely to affect the future schedule, but until it's been fully decided how to deal with the schedule impacts they don't start telling everybody because they are not totally sure.
Reasons not to communicate include the following: 1. Passengers may take other options. 2. They may be wrong about how long the delay will be, if they estimate too much delay, passengers get shuffled or are missing when they eventually try to board, if they estimate to little delay, passengers may be more angry than necessary with having to wait longer. 3. It's a lose/lose situation when you announce a delay.
Ah yes... Frontier.. "The proud bird with the muddy feet" was the sarcastic description my Dad used to give for them after they had a runway excursion into the mud at Stapleton Airport in Denver.
Ok, Ok.. Yep, I was mistaken..
However, this guy is certainly NOT representative of Trump's nominees and the senate didn't just rubber stamp him, but returned the nomination to the Whitehouse where it was withdrawn. Not that his motivation was one of a political ideologue....
So you pick the one nomination that was rejected and paint all of Trump's nominations with the same brush? This is an error of logic and lame. What about the rest of his nominations confirmed by the Senate? Care to discuss those or are you claiming they are all political hacks?
Which of them isn't an example of the kind of judge that will uphold the law, not make their own? Because that's what I'm claiming...Unless you figure that being a constructionist makes you a political ideologue.
LOL. Trump is nominating unqualified partisan idealogues. Just look at the case of Brett Talley.
The guy who's nomination was withdrawn and wasn't even nominated to be a judge? That's all you got to bash Trump with?
I'm laughing.... Take a look at the long list of successful nominations to actual federal judge positions, pick one of those to complain about because this one is a non-starter...
https://slate.com/technology/2018/01/20-8-million-pain-pills-shipped-to-one-town-over-10-years-might-not-be-that-bad.html
The above discusses the issues that I have with this story...
No, I'm saying that a script or two per year/per person doesn't seem crazy for some populations depending on the age mix.
I'm also saying that the authors of the article used inappropriate numbers and do so on purpose. I'm guessing they are trying to make a point, but when you make a point using misleading facts, I'm inclined not to trust your conclusions and question pretty much everything you say. They needed to do a bit of basic investigation here and actually establish how those pills where distributed. I have a feeling they all didn't end up in a town of 2,900 or even the county of 30,000.
LOL.. I'm guessing that the Nunes memo is about to start a reckoning on the wrong side of the isle for these folks. Heads are already rolling at the FBI it seems, question is how deep will it reach and what it will expose. Seems it will be a lot to me. One is left to wonder how they will react. If past performance is any indicator it will be fun to watch so I have the popcorn ready.
Our judges actually care about civil liberties. You buffoons elected Trump. LOL
Personally, I want judges that care about the law as written, not buffoons who legislate from the bench. I also prefer laws that don't impact civil liberties so Judges who care about the law can protect them. So you need two things here. Just laws that protect civil liberties and Judges that enforce the law.
Trump is appointing Judges who care about the law and won't invent rulings on laws that don't exist. I don't see how that's a bad or dangerous thing for anybody, unless you think the law is wrong. If you think the law is wrong, that's something you take up with congress who writes the law, or the president if he signed it. He may be a buffoon to you, but he's doing the right thing with the judges he's appointing.
I'm not so sure it does. 2 RX scripts per year per person doesn't seem crazy. We've averaged more than that as a family of 4 for a couple of years. But to really know, we need to look at average RX rates for similar social economic and age groups nation wide and compare it to the local RX rate. This discussion of how many pills are being shipped to a location is useless information without some serious context.
Amazon got hit in the overall down day in the market, not this roll your own insurance company thing.
Let me restate that... Insurance companies got caught in the market day.. Not by Amazon's roll your own insurance thing.
Amazon got hit in the overall down day in the market, not this roll your own insurance company thing.
I think that counter is wrong, you might want to check it... Should be around 2545 days at this point.. ;)
Like it or not, there are objective facts.
The Donald didn't have the biggest inauguration crowd ever, there are no 'alternative facts'.
How people can say they want to be able to choose 'truthiness' as if it is equally valid with what is true.
Be careful because there is such a thing as not having ALL the facts. Especially in political theater, the omission of objective facts and cherry picking the disclosed facts to support one's desired narrative is an art form. Misleading use of facts is common. Being objectively true isn't enough. You need "The Truth, the Whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth" to get the full picture.
BTW... Trump is often just boasting to watch folks scurry around making weird noises. I think he enjoys watching folks go off the deep end about things that don't matter such as your inauguration crowd size thing. He made a stupid boast, he does that from time to time. Everybody knew he was that kind of guy when he got elected and he's getting better about this kind of thing. I suggest you let this specific thing go and go after him on things that actually matter..
But selectively discussing truth is what is going on here. The news reports what's demonstrably true, but they only present the facts which support their desired narrative and ignore the things that do not.
I learned this 25 years ago, watching the local TV station's (which I worked for) news coverage of a Senatorial campaign. The incumbent was sure to win, he'd won many senate races before, but that wasn't the desired narrative. We where also subject to "equal time" rules at the time. So how do you cover this when you don't like the incumbent? Easy.. They granted two 3 min segments, one to each campaign's rally in town. For the challenger, you got 3 min of him speaking about how his policies where better than the incumbent's with background video of the cheering crowd. For the incumbent's rally we got a discussion of the protestors who showed up with background video of their protest outside the rally. Both segments where 100% true, but the implication of the coverage was the incumbent was loosing. He won the election by nearly 30% margins the following week.
So being True isn't enough... You need the Truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth... Or you are subject to being mistaken.
It's called confirmation bias and it's very prevalent in political arguments. People don't react well when their bias get's challenged and they are emotionally invested in being "right" about the issues so they react badly, yell at the sky, protest and riot.... RESIST!
Well I was wrong.. The Rainy Day fund in Texas is currently just north of 10 Billion.. ;) I believe that California's is just about $8 Billion right now, assuming it's not been tapped for something in the last year.
Also, does it matter where it comes from, given California produced a lot of Oil in it's past too?
In the end, all that really matters is that California's AA- bond rating is lower than Texas' AAA, so should Texas need to borrow money, they can do it at better rates.
LOL.. I just checked, we still have one and it's 10 Billion. We apparently didn't use it last year for the hurricane, though I'm at a loss to understand why.
I need to correct one fact and add one.. the 5 billion fund is actually 10 billion and it wasn't used last year for the hurricane.
touché sir... Sorry my spelling is bad, but I'm just an engineer, not a technical writer.
Texas... The home of the 5 billion rainy day fund (well, before last summer's hurricane we had one). We are obviously managing our state's resources rather well, even though we don't have a state income tax and only an 8.25% sales tax.
It may be a hole to you, but we are solvent and able to pay our bills....
The Federal government can just print cash to meet it's obligations if all else fails. California cannot do this.
However, I think Illinois is closer to the end than California. Illinois is bleeding population due to it's large tax structure and faces an unfunded pension debt that they have no possible way to pay. They also have gridlock in government, where they can make none of the hard decisions needed to forestall the inevitable.
So the question is.... How does a state actually *do* a bankruptcy? Does the Fed step in and take over? Do the neighboring states get to absorb the territory as well as part of the debt? Who knows, but when nobody will loan you money anymore because you don't have a snowballs chance of paying it back, some very bad things are going to happen.
You do know that the FCC has asserted it's authority over state, local and land use contracts (I.e HOAs) with it's OTARD rule, where they specifically disallowed any rules which prevented a homeowner from putting up a TV antenna. They also require "reasonable accommodation" of armature radio stations by state and local regulations (though refused to override your HOA on this issue).
It's pretty much a done deal that the FCC has the authority to do this if they wish....
The spanking is coming. When the state's bonds are graded junk and they have to start paying huge interest rates, the house of cards will tumble rapidly.
Sometimes, life is the best teacher, even for toddlers, but in this case, they really are more like a 21 year old living in the basement of mom's house. Sometimes, kicking them out onto the street is the best way to get them to grow up.
True, and you can now CLAIM to be using legit stuff because there's no way to know either way.
Do you believe it?
Not on your life... They could prove their assertion, but choose not to. I choose not to trust them until they do.
I'm certainly not going to bet they are telling the truth, until they prove they are.