Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
If you have an email ending in @hotmail.com, @live.com or @outlook.com (or any other Microsoft-related domain), please consider changing it to another email provider; Microsoft decided to instantly block the server's IP, so emails can't be sent to these addresses.
If you use an @yahoo.com email or any related Yahoo services, they have blocked us also due to "user complaints"
-UE
If you use an @yahoo.com email or any related Yahoo services, they have blocked us also due to "user complaints"
-UE
Comments
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/nations-largest-solar-installer-open-florida-facility-43899405
More details (because they don't fit when I copy-paste them): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Fossella#2008_election
Re Dede Scozzafava: This was the 2009 special election to replace John M. McHugh in NY-23, after McHugh became Secretary of the Army. Local Republicans nominated State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, but national Republicans, fueled by Tea Party sentiment, hated her for being "too liberal" and backed Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman instead. This became a huge drama with national attention from politically-involved people, and eventually ended with Scozzafava dropping out, then endorsing Owens, within days of the special election.
More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dede_Scozzafava#2009_special_election
http://www.cltampa.com/news-views/politics/article/20844100/it-continues-dems-have-a-shot-at-holding-regaining-ground-in-201718-will-they-take-it
Fuck yes
Given that the "default" would be that they'd still get the pipeline anyway, just in a worse place, it's at least a partial gain to bother them about it to pick a better route, even if it's not the best possible outcome which would be no pipeline at all.
Michigan. Worth a read if you care about the details of how the voting,
vote-counting, and recounting processes work.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/12/8/1608704/-Notes-from-the-Michigan-Recount
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/12/14/1611242/-North-Carolina-GOP-shreds-democracy-acts-to-strip-power-from-new-Democratic-governor-and-high-court
PPP polled Christmas.
He's my pick, personally.
The HD85 Dem candidate is an environmental science high school teacher IIRC.
Handy links to campaign sites here: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/5/1617417/-I-predicted-this-Republicans-freaked-by-Daily-Kos-Thanks-to-David-Nir
This violates anti nepotism laws.
Seems like the weak ones -- the "let's not do this because it makes us look bad" -- are already being run over.
More Questions Arise About DeVos
Secretary of Education-designate Betsy DeVos has had a rough time getting confirmed. She faced
uncomfortable questions about her family's donations to the Republican Party (acknowledging that
$200 million is well within the realm of possibility), about her understanding of standardized tests
(she has no real understanding), and about guns in the classroom (which she suggested are
essential for protecting students against grizzly bears). She was also asked about her
role as vice president of the Focus on the Family foundation, a stridently anti-LGBT organization
that—among other goals—promotes "gay conversion" therapy. DeVos said that she had nothing
to do with the family-run foundation, and that if she was listed as an officer, it was a "clerical error."
On Wednesday, Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH)—who is getting her Senate career off to a very fast start,
and leading the charge against DeVos—got
her hands
on 17 years' worth of tax returns for Focus on the Family, and found that DeVos was listed as
vice president on all of them. The Senator observed that it's "concerning" to blame a clerical
error for 17 straight years. Thus far, DeVos and the Trump camp have refused to comment, though
this matter will undoubtedly come up very quickly when DeVos faces the Senate again. (Z)
source: today's electoral-vote.com write-upAlso from the same source:
Pruitt Faces Withering Fire; Admits Climate Change is Man-made
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt
went before
the Senate on Wednesday, seeking confirmation as administrator of the EPA.
Pruitt has, in the past, been skeptical that climate change is real, and/or that
it is man-made. This made it serendipitous, perhaps, that the World
Meteorological Organization
released
its annual report on Earth's climate just hours before Pruitt's hearing began.
It revealed that 2016 was the hottest year on record. This broke the record set
in...2015. Which broke the record set in...2014.
Presented with this evidence, and under aggressive cross-examination from
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Pruitt broke with his boss-to-be Donald Trump,
saying, "I do not believe climate change is a hoax. Science tells us that the
climate is changing, and that human activity, in some manner, impacts that
change."
Despite the Senator's prodding, Pruitt would not go further, and pointedly refused to say
that man is the primary cause of global warming. Nonetheless, for those who are concerned about
this issue, it's a start. Indeed, there's a case to be made that only a Republican administration
has the capacity to build a consensus on climate change action, since they have credibility
with deniers that Democrats do not. Just as only Nixon could go to China, maybe only Trump (or Pence)
can cool the planet. (Z)
Certainly an optimistic assessment!(Magus chuckles.)
- from the internet, fixed for context. (edit reason: grammar)
in case you're curious, messing with the Affordable Care Act -- basically vaguely telling federal agencies to stop enforcement -- was his second.
In more amusing (or maybe disturbing) news: http://ew.com/movies/2017/01/20/trump-bane-inauguration-speech/