Governments coming together to form an authority to handle a collective need is not privatization. In fact, Dulles and National are both operated by just such a commission: The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which was organized by DC, Virginia, and Maryland.
If you're going from, let's say, Oklahoma City to Des Moines, or Wichita to Kansas City, I suppose you could avoid the Turnpike - but only if you're okay with going way out of your way.
I hate to point this out, but "Public" doesn't refer solely to things owned by the federal government. States, counties, and cities all count as public owners as well. O'Hare is owned by the City of Chicago and Hartsfeld is owned by the City of Atlanta - they are both public assets. In fact, every single one of the busiest airports in the country is owned by some government or government agency. There is no need, or benefit, to privatizing any of them. I doubt that there even is any private operator with the expertise and manpower necessary to operate such large and busy airports. So why is this even a discussion?
Similar story in my fully-immunized house, but I was the unlucky one. My wife and son both got sick, but barely. I got the full blown flu, but even so it was only a few days of high fever, aches and sleep, with a slight cough for a week after. It royally sucked, but was nowhere near as bad as I used to get annually before I started getting the shot.
"I'm not a Trump supporter, but everything Trump has done is great and any criticism of him is an attack on our nation by the worst people of our time."
Wanting something is not a crime. Taking concrete actions to impede an investigation, such as firing someone when they refuse to shut down an investigation, is by definition obstruction of justice.
States absolutely do have the authority to set requirements for vendors doing business with them. Further, the FCC has not been granted by congress the power to preempt states from enacting their own Net Neutrality rules, so it's highly questionable whether that portion of their policy is legal.
How about the fact that the FISA warrant was renewed three times, and that each renewal MUST be based on new information? The Steele dossier could be used once and once only. Also, note that the Nunes memo doesn't ever state that the Steele dossier was the only justification for the warrant, nor does it say that the FBI was wrong for using it.
You are right that you don't have to be a Trump loyalist to believe the memo isn't cherry picked, though. You could also be willfully ignorant.
Fucking Zerohedge? Get out of here with that shit. Your sources are crap, so it's not surprising that your arguments, and grasp of reality, are as well.
I don't give a flying fuck about Hillary. I never voted for her at any level, and don't care for her at all. Her losing the election is not the part that looks like fascism. Trump trying to remove the independence of the FBI and DoJ and install people who are loyal to him above the nation, the law, or the constitution - that's the part that looks like fascism.
Because what is says was cherry picked by a Trump loyalist, who excluded a lot of information, as confirmed by many, including Republicans on Senate Intelligence committee who had access to ALL of the information.
I don't subscribe to the idea that Hillary Clinton is the country, the law, or the constitution. I don't even subscribe to the notion that she was a good choice to be president - I didn't vote for her, nor did I vote for Bill in the 1990s. You don't have to be a Hillbot to understand that Trump is incredibly corrupt and doing his damnedest to undermine any semblance of checks and balances on his presidency. Just able to see bullshit when it's in front of you.
Carter Page was under investigation before GPS Fusion was contracted by the GOP, which was before Clinton contracted them. FISA warrants were issued for the investigation well before the Steele dossier was even conceived.
He's operating on the principle of "if you can't join 'em, beat 'em". This is nothing less than an attempt to build the case that the FBI needs to be cleansed of anyone who isn't more loyal to Trump than the country, the law, or the constitution.
All the Nunes memo proves is that there are elements of the GOP that are willing to distort facts, cherry pick findings, and strip context so that what they present makes them look good despite being materially inaccurate.
This is mostly true. Their primary objective was definitely to divide the populace and undermine liberal democracy, and they went so far as to organize opposing protests in adjacent locations. But it isn't true that they didn't care who won. They definitely preferred for Trump to win - they just assumed that there was no way US voters would be that stupid, and focused on undermining the legitimacy of the system as a whole. But as Mencken said, "Americans are dumber than horse shit." (That is the quote, right?) And here we are.
In Neville Chamberlain's defense, he knew that A) Hitler was going to go back on his word, but that B) the UK was not ready to fight a war against Germany. He was in zugzwang, and made the least bad choice he could given the situation. In the long run, it bought the UK enough time to build up a sufficient military to fend off German attacks until the USSR, and later the US, could turn back the Wehrmacht.
Nice post. I especially like the part where you make up a bunch of crap about someone you've never met as a way to deflect from the fact that you have no support for your argument. When you don't have facts, intellect, or class: attack!
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Governments coming together to form an authority to handle a collective need is not privatization. In fact, Dulles and National are both operated by just such a commission: The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which was organized by DC, Virginia, and Maryland.
If you're going from, let's say, Oklahoma City to Des Moines, or Wichita to Kansas City, I suppose you could avoid the Turnpike - but only if you're okay with going way out of your way.
If *I* had mod points, I'd mod this up.
I hate to point this out, but "Public" doesn't refer solely to things owned by the federal government. States, counties, and cities all count as public owners as well. O'Hare is owned by the City of Chicago and Hartsfeld is owned by the City of Atlanta - they are both public assets. In fact, every single one of the busiest airports in the country is owned by some government or government agency. There is no need, or benefit, to privatizing any of them. I doubt that there even is any private operator with the expertise and manpower necessary to operate such large and busy airports. So why is this even a discussion?
Similar story in my fully-immunized house, but I was the unlucky one. My wife and son both got sick, but barely. I got the full blown flu, but even so it was only a few days of high fever, aches and sleep, with a slight cough for a week after. It royally sucked, but was nowhere near as bad as I used to get annually before I started getting the shot.
Why? To get it on the record to give voters something to think about (those who actually think before voting, at least).
How long does it take to write a bill that can pass both houses? Longer than a few minutes.
Tylenol kills 150 people per year.
"I'm not a Trump supporter, but everything Trump has done is great and any criticism of him is an attack on our nation by the worst people of our time."
Wanting something is not a crime. Taking concrete actions to impede an investigation, such as firing someone when they refuse to shut down an investigation, is by definition obstruction of justice.
States absolutely do have the authority to set requirements for vendors doing business with them. Further, the FCC has not been granted by congress the power to preempt states from enacting their own Net Neutrality rules, so it's highly questionable whether that portion of their policy is legal.
How about the fact that the FISA warrant was renewed three times, and that each renewal MUST be based on new information? The Steele dossier could be used once and once only. Also, note that the Nunes memo doesn't ever state that the Steele dossier was the only justification for the warrant, nor does it say that the FBI was wrong for using it.
You are right that you don't have to be a Trump loyalist to believe the memo isn't cherry picked, though. You could also be willfully ignorant.
Fucking Zerohedge? Get out of here with that shit. Your sources are crap, so it's not surprising that your arguments, and grasp of reality, are as well.
I don't give a flying fuck about Hillary. I never voted for her at any level, and don't care for her at all. Her losing the election is not the part that looks like fascism. Trump trying to remove the independence of the FBI and DoJ and install people who are loyal to him above the nation, the law, or the constitution - that's the part that looks like fascism.
Because what is says was cherry picked by a Trump loyalist, who excluded a lot of information, as confirmed by many, including Republicans on Senate Intelligence committee who had access to ALL of the information.
I don't subscribe to the idea that Hillary Clinton is the country, the law, or the constitution. I don't even subscribe to the notion that she was a good choice to be president - I didn't vote for her, nor did I vote for Bill in the 1990s. You don't have to be a Hillbot to understand that Trump is incredibly corrupt and doing his damnedest to undermine any semblance of checks and balances on his presidency. Just able to see bullshit when it's in front of you.
Carter Page was under investigation before GPS Fusion was contracted by the GOP, which was before Clinton contracted them. FISA warrants were issued for the investigation well before the Steele dossier was even conceived.
Carter Page was under investigation before even the GOP contracted GPS Fusion.
Your argument is that the President is above the law. That's what fascism looks like.
He's operating on the principle of "if you can't join 'em, beat 'em". This is nothing less than an attempt to build the case that the FBI needs to be cleansed of anyone who isn't more loyal to Trump than the country, the law, or the constitution.
This is what fascism looks like.
All the Nunes memo proves is that there are elements of the GOP that are willing to distort facts, cherry pick findings, and strip context so that what they present makes them look good despite being materially inaccurate.
This is mostly true. Their primary objective was definitely to divide the populace and undermine liberal democracy, and they went so far as to organize opposing protests in adjacent locations. But it isn't true that they didn't care who won. They definitely preferred for Trump to win - they just assumed that there was no way US voters would be that stupid, and focused on undermining the legitimacy of the system as a whole. But as Mencken said, "Americans are dumber than horse shit." (That is the quote, right?) And here we are.
In Neville Chamberlain's defense, he knew that A) Hitler was going to go back on his word, but that B) the UK was not ready to fight a war against Germany. He was in zugzwang, and made the least bad choice he could given the situation. In the long run, it bought the UK enough time to build up a sufficient military to fend off German attacks until the USSR, and later the US, could turn back the Wehrmacht.
Nice post. I especially like the part where you make up a bunch of crap about someone you've never met as a way to deflect from the fact that you have no support for your argument. When you don't have facts, intellect, or class: attack!