About the same thing happened when Obama decided to shut down the Yucca Mountain project. DOE-RW and the EPA had a collective WTF rage in conference calls. Not like this is new or one-sided.

Being a scientist does not automatically qualify some to set forth policy. Dr. Chu for example was a scientist, but ultimately facilitated Obama and Reid’s quest to dismantle 50 years of nuclear security needs by defunding and dismantling the DOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, and blowing through…

Along that same line, in the past 4 regions I have lived, the average salary for a high school teacher was 29, 44, 64, and 75k respectively. This represents a huge delta between the worth of an educated teacher in a well-heeled urban school versus an educated teacher in a poor, rural school. I’ve never seen the…

They must have used their turn signals too frequently to be accepted as a BMW driver and got kicked out of the ownership clubs...

2035: “Why buy this 2035 Toyota Camry when you can get THIS 2017 Aston Martin?!”

The strategy for presidents since forever was to always pick someone who you think everyone would hate in your job more than you. I honestly don’t know who would be worse in this case...

Post-apocalypse, clearly.

Sadly it’s less hang-wringing and more statistics. Presidential races are decided in swing states, as much as everyone who has ever visited most of them wishes that were not the case.

Could anyone hazard an explanation for what the net positives are for a protest that blocks traffic? It just seems kind of self-defeating to me since 1) you tend to get arrested and removed from the protests, and 2) you upset people who are just trying to get to work/home/school/etc. I’m sure there’s more to it, so…

Counterpoint: Without humanity the planet/world would actually last a lot longer.
Not at all what she meant, but hah! a Pyrrhic victory of semantics! 

Usually the cannibals can find tastier children there I would think.

Working, I’m always confused why protests have to exclude everyone that can’t take off work to attend.

feel like I just witnessed a word salad and am more confused than when I started. What did the Navy have to do with the FBI’s database? Why is ATF supposedly ok with firearms purchases? What law changed to allow this supposed ease of firearms purchases?

The whole strike thing kind of only works if you’re economically capable of taking the day off. A lot of people, particularly non-exempt, non-union workers don’t really have that option.

Please check your quotation marks, there are several sections that could use matching pairs.

It’s actually an insanely bad idea to have a firearm loose in your pants, whether that would be in the small of your back or your pocket. It is very common for people to injure or kill themselves unintentionally by mishandling a firearm in this manner, mostly because people that do this tend to not be very attentive…

Ah everyone knows Russia is doomed to fail, I mean the red flags are everywhere...

Finally, an anti-piracy measure that I can agree with!

Does it make the sound in reverse as well during low speeds? Have you put it up on a car lift to look at things like the brake pads and other attached parts?

Just FYI blimps using hydrogen are prohibited, so consider a different simile.