“she’s still free to do so...then she’ll just have to pay for the breach.”

Which is why the statement was such a jerkhole lawyer “gotcha” statement. “She’s free to do it and pay us billions of dollars for the privilege”

(note to Palin-ites, THAT’S how you do a *gotcha statement*.)

I cannot answer your first question, as I am as confused as you are. But I can help with the second.

The acrimonious break-up of the conservative christian right and corporations is a fascinating thing to watch unfold.

The interesting thing is, a few of the Pro HB 2 legislators i interviewed touted what they said was the bill’s positive economic impact. There was a lot of hemming and hawing when i pressed them on those positive impacts and, at first, i thought it was because they didn’t have an answer but it turns out they did. One…

It’s the canned responses I was looking at...I could see people genuinely pushing this but you would think most people would see the outcomes from other states that have tried this; it has been a disaster since businesses would not want the negative publicity and money seems to talk more than anything else in…

I want someone to graffiti “your bigot’s” on it.

I’m not sure what you’re asking. HB 2 was a fairly partisan bill with republicans in both houses emphatically voting for it. While a number of house dems also voted for it, most did not. Dem senators walked out in protest (mostly because the bill was pushed through without them getting a chance to read what was in it,…

WHITE’S ONLY WHAT???

“doesn’t fit the narrative that the entire south is gun-toting racist/bigoted rednecks”

Quie true that it’s *obviously not all that* - yet that there aren’t huge protests, boycotts or seem to be much fear of it having repercussions in running for re-election also speaks a lot as well. It seems there must be enough of a…

The message is horrible but what's really killing me is that apostrophe.

Hmmm, were there more people in tone more fervent in defense of this or no? I’m wondering if the NC GOP put pressure on legislators up for reelection to get on board.

Most of the powerhouse companies in Charlotte including Bank of America have also condemned HB2

“Every city and every corporation has the exact same discrimination policy this week as they had two weeks ago,” McCrory (egregiously) added.

I never thought I’d be moved by a bank’s actions, but here we are.

I’m a reporter in NC who interviewed a handful of state legislators about their support / non support of HB2. Hearing several different people give the exact same (I mean literally the exact same) quotes about protecting families and cities (i.e. Charlotte) “overstepping their boundaries” really is a glimpse into how…

Well done Wells Fargo.

There are certainly such things as ventifacts on Earth. But I think she’s saying that *this* effect of wind takes so long to produce that on Earth, other phenomena change the landscape first.

Flash floods and fault slips will dramatically change a desert landscape in seconds/hours, preventing the kind of accumulation necessary to form the mounds in Mars’ craters.

Pangaea actually existed only 300 million years ago so even quicker than you’re suggesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea

I think she’s just saying it works “fast” relative to the time. In 4 billion years Earth’s features have changed drastically from Pangaea to now.