Brexit is going to be very interesting for foreign firms to figure out. My company has a sales office based in London. But the majority of customers we serve are based in Germany, Sweden and Turkey with only one customer based in Britain. There’s already been some talk of moving the main office to a location in…

Not the ‘base’, they’re too invested in Trump and too immersed in the right-wing echo-chamber. But it will hopefully reach the 10-15% of the electorate that decides elections. Maybe get some of people who don’t vote to turn out.

“Separately, a friendly relationship between the government and the press is typically a symbol of democracy.”

The need for Tip-toeing around Turkey is enormously frustrating. The Kurds have been among the US’s best and most reliable allies in the region for over a decade now. They’ve also proven to be one of the few forces in Iraq (and Syria), not backed by the Iranians, that can and will fight ISIS straight up and win. Until…

I realize most people can probably figure out why government at all levels relies on an accurate census, but it is also crucial to private industry. Many businesses, large and small, use census data for marketing, cite location, investment, product line ups. And of course accurate data is vital for all types of…

I’m not certain about federal statues but at the state level the length of sentencing is a factor determining the type of facility a person ends up in. One year or less on a sentence gets confinement to a local jail likely administered by the local city/county government, more than a year gets placement at a larger…

Of course the Civil War was about ‘economics’. The economics of being able to buy and sell other human beings. To build an economy based on free labor that either worked or died (often both). To sell children, siblings, cousins, friends at a whim, destroying families to add a few dollars to the bottom line.

I would be willing to bet any amount of money that Ivanka and Jared use birth control and that her father has paid for at least one (if not more) woman to have an abortion.

And also, here’s the company that gave us the replacement suspension system, here’s the company that gave us the tires, here’s the company that gave us the engine etc etc.

As I understand part of the reason both left was because of the artificial deadlines and need to cut corners to get the cars done quickly or ‘win’ some fake contest. I doubt very much they’d be interested in doing a competition show where those factors get magnified a dozen fold.

Given that annoyance and crappy treatment starts with the government mandated security theater I highly doubt they’ll take any steps to make flying any less burdensome.

Around February when it became obvious that Trump was going to win the nomination I had the terrible fear we were going to see a repeat of 2000 with Clinton winning the popular vote and Trump taking the Electoral College.

That ‘ticker” also reinforces the obsession with short term thinking. The day to day movement of various stock indexes is meaningless outside the world of day traders and the computer programs they rely on. A 3-6 month rolling average would be a better indicator of corporate health (if not overall economic health).

Fox news always got its best ratings when it was the opposition network. It rose to ratings prominence going after Clinton then took a plunge under Bush Jr. before coming back strong under Obama.

Fine, reinstate the draft, bring the standing US military up to 12-15 million, station 1 million of them in Afghanistan and another million and half in Iraq with orders to kill anyone who so much as looks at them funny. Once we’ve managed to cow the populations into subservience bring in 250-500k people (this is in…

China granted Trademark protections, not Patents (very different things) to multiple Trump brand names, most owned by Donald Trump’s business interests (run by his sons, that he’s still drawing money from), the rest owned by Ivanka Trump (who is sort of a government employee but there’s no indication she’s divested…

Ten minute chat and granting a number of lucrative trademarks to Trump businesses. Our President is easily bribed it seems.

I think they are also worried about people forgetting to turn them back on when they leave the track. Then their wife or teenager drives the car the next day and gets in an accident that the one of those systems could have prevented. You can see the lawsuit, “The track people told me to turn them OFF but never…

YMMV but for me the Jetta has been a VERY good car to own. It’s been my daily driver since the day I brought it home from the dealer 16 years ago. It’s been on a few long road trips around the Pacific Northwest and will probably do another one next year. The engine and transmission have been virtually trouble free…

I own a 2001 VW Jetta VR6 and absolutely love it. It’s a great little car that serves all my needs. I don’t hate the current generation of Jettas but they just don’t do anything for me. While the styling has improved they still look like ‘Passat Jr’ and kind of blah. And power and performance wise, they just feel less…