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Morning...51 going to 58...slight chance of rain today...better chance tomorrow
Morning...51 on the way to 58 with a slight chance of getting spit on...
PT Barnum would be jealous
Enemy of the State works for me...just let her stay over there...I'm sure she can find another ISIS fighter to be the father...that would be her 4th rigt?
The Trump administration said Tuesday that it plans to cancel $929 million awarded to California’s high-speed rail project and wants the state to return an additional $2.5 billion that it has already spent.
Cool...then use it to build the wall...
All god info K...as for Bernie...let him run...and fail again...I'm sure we will hear from AOC about it...LMAO
Excellent...she is a traitor and nothing less.
No worries...thanks
Cool...I've just seen videos of their shows...had the chance several times in Vegas...just didn't want to leave my machines that long...LOL
To his credit...together we were able to get a problem fixed this customer had two other companies look at...one of the problems was it was an OLD house and the wiring was not up to current code...hard to find a good Earth ground.
Southwest shares drop as mechanics labour dispute escalates
By Tracy Rucinski and Ankit Ajmera
(Reuters) - Southwest Airlines Co's shares fell as much as 6 percent on Wednesday after the low-cost carrier said it was investigating whether a conflict with its mechanics union was leading to a spike in flight cancellations.
The escalating labour dispute comes as the airline on Wednesday cut its first-quarter growth forecast for revenue per seat mile due to a higher-than-expected impact from the recent U.S. government shutdown and weak passenger bookings.
Dallas-based Southwest has cancelled hundreds of flights since Feb. 15, due to a mixture of weather and unscheduled maintenance issues that have put an unprecedented number of aircraft out of service.
Southwest said there was no common theme among the maintenance issues, which followed the latest round of negotiations with the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA). AMFA represents about 2,400 Southwest mechanics and has been in contract talks with management since 2012.
On Tuesday, Southwest Chief Operating Officer Mike Van de Ven said the low-cost carrier would investigate why the number of aircraft unable to fly due to mechanical issues had doubled.
In a response posted on its website, AMFA said that Southwest's linking of aircraft disruption to collective bargaining negotiations "is simply an attempt to divert attention away from the airline's safety issues."
Shares of Southwest were down more than 5 percent at $54.70 on Wednesday afternoon, off an earlier low at $54.19.
Earlier on Wednesday, Southwest said it expected a $60 million sales hit from the recent U.S. government partial shutdown, four times its previous estimate.
While the 35-day U.S. shutdown ended on Jan. 25, Southwest spokeswoman Brandy King said passenger demand and bookings continued to suffer due to uncertainty over a potential second shutdown before a government deal was reached on Feb. 14.
As a result, Southwest trimmed its first-quarter growth forecast for revenue per available seat mile to a range of 3 to 4 percent from a previous range of 4 to 5 percent.
Southwest, which flies more domestic flights than legacy peers like American Airlines Group and Delta Air Lines, said it is hopeful that first-quarter demand softness is temporary.
However, the more than month-long hiatus in U.S. government decision-making has delayed the federal authorization process for Southwest's plans to launch service to Hawaii, which it had hoped to begin early this year.
That process is currently under way, though the carrier has as yet been unable to announce a launch date.
Goldman Sachs said this means the airline will have a shorter window to sell tickets to Hawaii, forcing it to discount heavily at a time when most rivals expect an improvement in ticket prices. It issued a "sell" recommendation on the stock.
Meanwhile, flight cancellations by Southwest continued on Wednesday, accounting for about 22 percent of total cancellations across the United States, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware.com.
King said the next round of contract talks with the mechanics union is scheduled for March 12.
(Reporting by Tracy Rucinski in Chicago and Ankit Ajmera and Rama Venkat in Bengaluru; Editing by Patrick Graham and Matthew Lewis)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/southwest-probes-cancellations-says-shutdown-154049910.html
Nope...I don't think the Blue man group is hiring...
Exactly why I didn't give up on him...
<~~~~~Never used the stuff...but my ex is big into it...have many friends that are...actually sad it carries the prison time it does...so many serious crimes thay could use the space for.
come on 14.00...heck might as well go for 15.00
fingers crossed...he might just try to fix WaPo
I don't have to try to convince...just shake my head many times...yesterday I helped a tech...spent over two hours going over basic troubleshooting...when I was asking him to test voltage between wires...he was clueless as to what it meant...no analytical skills what so ever...he is what I call...a part changer not a tech...oh well we did get the problem resolved
Yes but maybe now he will have second thoughts about THAT purchase...one thing is sure...guys with that kind of money do NOT like it taken away...
LOL always...but I do know there is not a mic in the thermostat...we have witnessed one being taken apart...they even have one on You tube...
I still remember when Google bought Nest...I had several peeps that wanted their acct deleted because they didn't trust Google...when I went to do it they had...Gmail accts...I asked if they knew what the G stood for in Gmail...OMG they about had a heart attacks...LOL silly peeps
Please read our board requirements...big board only
I want 10.00....I want 10.00....maybe if I chant enough...
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The Washington Post in a statement said it is “reviewing a copy of the lawsuit and we plan to mount a vigorous defense.”
I hope they spend millions on the defense and in the end lose big time...because of their actions they deserve it...
LOL we were just talking about that here at work...HUGE mistake...peeps already don't trust Google...in the Fox news report Google said secure AND the thermostat...I believe the thermostat mention was a mistake.
It would have been nice if they had let...US at least know...
Why the Washington Post has got to be worried about the quarter billion-dollar defamation lawsuit filed by Nick Sandmann and his parents
By Thomas Lifson
Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the world and owner of the Washington Post, is about to encounter Kentucky justice, and I suspect that he is not going to be happy with it. The parents of Nick Sandmann chose well in hiring renowned lawyer L. Lin Wood, who won over $5 million from NBC over its coverage of Richard Jewell during the Olympic Park bombing incident. Wood and associated counsel launched a lawsuit in federal court in Covington, Kentucky (the Eastern District of Kentucky, Northern Division). According to the Diocese of Covington, 18% of the area's population is Catholic. The Eastern District Court of Kentucky is within Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals,which is based in Cincinati, generally regarded as the most conservative major metropolitan area in the United States.
From the Wapo’s own article on the suit:
The suit alleges that The Post “targeted and bullied” 16-year-old Nicholas Sandmann in order to embarrass President Trump. Sandmann was one of a number of students from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky who were wearing red “Make America Great Again” hats during a trip to the Mall when they encountered Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist. (snip)
“In a span of three days in January of this year commencing on January 19, the Post engaged in a modern-day form of McCarthyism by competing with CNN and NBC, among others, to claim leadership of a mainstream and social media mob of bullies which attacked, vilified, and threatened Nicholas Sandmann, an innocent secondary school child,” reads the complaint.
It added, “The Post ignored basic journalist standards because it wanted to advance its well-known and easily documented, biased agenda against President Donald J. Trump by impugning individuals perceived to be supporters of the President.”
Libel lawsuits are notoriously difficult for plaintiffs to win, but 16 year-old Nick Sandmann was not a public figure when the Post launched its allegedly defamatory coverage of his encounter with Nathan Phillips, which means that the standard is negligence, not actual malice.
Robert Stacy McCain comments:
The lawsuit mentions a crucial fact:
The Post rushed to lead the mainstream media to assassinate Nicholas’ character and bully him, publishing their first article no later than 1:37 p.m. January 19. This story was not “hot” or “breaking news.” To the extent the Post performed any investigation at all into what occurred, its unreasonable investigation did not take long, and contrary information did not stop it from publishing its first story in its Sunday newspaper the next day. One of the reporters on the story first retweeted the video approximately four hours before receiving credit for the Post’s first article. In the intervening time, the Post apparently managed to track down and interview Phillips, write a story, and fan the flames of the social media mob into a mainstream media frenzy of false attacks and threats against Nicholas.
In other words, the Post did not merely report on an online controversy, but by retweeting the video, one of its reporters was actually part of the Twitter mob that incited the controversy. And the newspaper raced to publish an article before it had conducted sufficient reporting even to know the name of the student whose “menacing smirk” may cost the paper an enormous amount in attorneys’ fees to defend this lawsuit.
Normally, I would not think the Post could actually lose this lawsuit. Libel law in the United States favors freedom of the press to such an extent that it is nearly impossible for a libel plaintiff to win. At least nine times out of 10, lawyers will advise against filing such a lawsuit. Yet the facts in this case are unusual and, perhaps, unprecedented. Editors at the Post decided to turn an Internet flame-war into an actual print-edition news story, and they did so with astonishing haste, repeating in print Phillips’s claim that the Covington boys “suddenly swarmed around him”
To my layman's ears, that haste sounds like negligence. Ultimately, it is a jury of Kentuckians that will decide the fate of the suit, and my strong suspicion is that there may well be an element of “flyover country revenge” in their hearts. Kentucky is one of those states that swells on the two coasts regard as inhabited by primitives with only a few teeth in the mouths. And here we have the snooty newspaper in the nation’s capital (which has become the richest metro area in the country) and the richest man in the world, A Seattelite who has driven plenty of store-owners into bankruptcy, picking on a local boy.
Asking for the same amount that Bezos’s personal company paid for the Post was genius. The lawsuit asks for compensatory damages (for income that may be lost by Nick) of $50 million, which is probably difficult to sustain. But punitive damages, intended to “teach ‘em a lesson” and deter future misconduct, must be meaningful to the defendant, on the defendant’s scale of money. If Bezos can afford a quarter billion for the paper, he sure can afford $200 million for punitive damages.
The tort law industry of law firms suing for damages has traditionally been a major donor to the Democrats, and generally goes after “deep pocket” defendants. But with the conversion of the biggest businesses (the tech oligarchies) and richest people in the United States into bastions of progressivism, the old alignment of forces is changing, and tools once wielded by the Left become part of the armory of conservatives.
If I were the Post, I would settle for 8 figures and a confidentiality agreement.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/why_the_washington_post_has_got_to_be_worried_about_the_quarter_billiondollar_defamation_lawsuit_filed_by_nick_sandmann_and_his_parents_.html#ixzz5g5C6oeQ4
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A little up in PM...
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In the UK they can't revoke it unless that person holds duel citizenship
It's all about the Benjamins...and...Baby it's cold outside...
Last I heard EZ was on his way to take out a rodent in PA...just saying
OK now I'm not sure if I need to go to HR...on HUMP day...George brought in...Heart shaped Boston Cream Donuts from Krispy Kreme...Hmmm
You can add TWC to that as well...used to be a weather station...
I'm tired of the FIdiots jumping on stories without waiting for the full story/evidence just because it fits their agenda...hit them where it hurts (Their pocketbooks)...maybe just maybe they will think next time....ROFLMAO...of course they won't...silly me.
I say go for all the Libturd Pols that vilified him as well...Morning K
LOL...be careful on your walks with Lily...it's dangerous out there...
Indeed I did...what I didn't see was the Blood Super Moon...friggin clouds got in my way...
Morning EZ
The full horror of Jussie Smollett's botched plot starting to scare progs
By Thomas Lifson
Like I'm fond of saying lately...I mean so many to choose from...add Smollett to the growing list of those I consider a complete waste of flesh and oxygen...dare I say it???...Get the rope...
The specter of a new "trial of the century" for Jussie Smollett, over what looks like his staging of a fake hate crime, is scaring the leaders of the identity politics movement that dominates the Democratic Party. Two presidential candidates, Cory Booker and Smollett's longstanding friend and associate, Kamala Harris, immediately endorsed and exploited the burst of saturation coverage by the national media to hype the "anti-lynching law" they have been using to burnish their credentials with the victimologist constituency.
The nightmare would be a televised trial over the felonious filing of a false police report and other possible charges. Yesterday, two famous progs started the campaign to treat Jussie as a victim of a psychiatric malady and therefore properly given treatment, not a prison sentence of up to three years.
Rep. Eric Swalwell has taken time off from his incessant unproven claims of Trump collusion with Russia to express sympathy for poor Jussie and "hope he gets the help he needs."
Rep. Eric Swalwell on Jussie Smollett: "I hope that this was not something that was Mr. Smollett did to himself, or created, and if that is the case, I hope he gets the help that he needs." pic.twitter.com/kEBhkP3JpI
— The Hill (@thehill) February 19, 2019
I am certain that he does not regard a stretch in Stony Lonesome as "help." More like an expensive, cushy, private psychiatric hospital, the sort of place other celebrities go for "recovery" from substance abuse and sexual predation charges. Because Swalwell is "very close" to making his 2020 presidential campaign announcement, he has a lot at stake in maintaining the narrative that keeps blacks and gays on the Democrats' plantation.
Charles Blow, the race-obsessed New York Times editorial board member, thinks Smollett — a "most gracious person" — must be insane, or at least a psychopath. The possibility that he carefully calculated a stunt that (had it not been botched) could have made him a superstar does not seem to occur to him (one-minute video):
The Chicago Police Department wisely is keeping as tight a lid as possible on its investigation because premature official disclosure could damage the trial. But leaks by rank-and-file cops to local Chicago media (who have shown up the national media for the shallow drive-by propagandists they are) and careful analysis primarily by conservative bloggers allow us to put together a plausible hypothesis of the actual plan Smollett had in mind — a plan that could have worked and catapulted him into the ranks of civil rights heroes, political influencers, and multimedia superstars.
Of course, I must include the disclaimer that all the facts are not yet on the table and that we can't say with 100% certainty that Smollett hoaxed us. So, yes, he is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and what follows is supposition based on unofficial information. That said, we're not morons, so we can put two and two together and tentatively infer what the plan was.
John Nolte of Breitbart has done exactly that in a must-read article.
The most important dot to connect to all ... comes from Smollett himself, who told Good Morning America (GMA) last week that he suspected a surveillance camera caught the whole incident.
Speaking to GMA's Robin Roberts, Smollett said, "And I looked up and I saw there was a camera directly on the light post that is in the intersection. So I'm like, 'there it is!' ... And then the detective told me that the camera inside of the casing was facing north, so they didn't have it, and that was disappointing."
That detail appears to stick in his craw. Later in the interview, unprompted, he brings it up again: "The camera facing north, how is that my issue?"
File photo via Flickr.
Here is the full 16-minute interview. (Roberts's softball approach to a story that already had big holes showing is already causing her grief.)
So it appears that Smollett intended the staged attack to be recorded but botched the location because he did not realize that the CCTV surveillance camera was pointed in the opposite direction. Recall that the Nigerian brothers — one an extra on his show, the other his personal trainer — reportedly rehearsed the attack with Smollett, meaning that this professional actor was probably able to stage a convincing video. The very night of the failed staging for the surveillance camera, Smollett has just returned from New York City, where he had performed hours before a startlingly similar scenario, as the U.K. Daily Mail reports:
DailyMail.com has learned that Smollett landed in Chicago shortly after midnight following a lengthy plane delay out of LaGuardia.
He had been in New York City for a reading of the play Take Me Out, with sources telling DailyMail.com that Smollett was being considered to appear in a possible revival of the Tony-winning production about a biracial baseball star who comes out as gay.
The script for that play finds the lead character being attacked by a new pitcher who joins the team. That character uses the same racial slurs Smollett told police his attackers screamed at him, including 'f-----' and 'n-----.'
Nolte continues:
[I]t's easy to see what he could have gained — had the altercation occurred in front of any of the other cameras he walked past that night.
First off, he despises Trump and, it seems, Trump's supporters, and this was an easy way to smear both, especially in a world with a corrupt media that is always eager to spread any kind of fake news or hoax that makes Trump or his supporters look evil.
There is also Smollett's debut album, which is scheduled to hit store shelves on March 2, and the live performances promoting the album, which began just a few days after the attack. ...
Imagine what it would have done to this country and to the city of Chicago if the attack had been recorded, if an outlet like TMZ had leaked the video, and if the wildly irresponsible race baiters at CNN had broadcast that video over and over and over again — an endless loop of two men assaulting a gay, black man; pouring bleaching [sic] on him and tying a noose around his neck.
It would have been just like that other media hoax — "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" — and we all know what that led to: the destruction of a predominantly black neighborhood in the ensuing riots.
Those of us old enough to remember the 1992 riots in Los Angeles triggered by endless broadcasts of the (edited) tape of police officers beating Rodney King understand the potential for civil strife had similar media treatment been possible for the fictional "MAGA attack." Would the Chicago Police Department have been able to devote major resources to investigating the signs of hoax had video been available? Consider the demonization heaped upon skeptics of Smollett's tale, claims that they were victimizing him again. Video evidence would have closed the case, in my opinion. Police superintendent Eddie Johnson likely would have denied requests to investigate any of the red flags in Smollett's tale had the city been wracked by riots.
It almost worked, but for Smollett choosing the wrong CCTV camera for his stunt. Now it is a crisis for Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Robin Roberts, and many other pols (like Nancy Pelosi, who deleted her tweet on the attack) and media figures who jumped on the incident, accepting Smollett's tale as gospel and victimizing me and every other Trump-supporter.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/the_full_horror_of_jussie_smolletts_botched_plot_starting_to_scare_progs.html#ixzz5g1giOsvD
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All is well...just taking a lunch break...was on a call for over two hours with a guy that thought he was a tech...LOL all fixed now...
No argument from me
She and Maxine Waters should have a contest...see who can come up with the dumbest statements
Supposed to be the 19th...but I'm sure not MUCH different than last night
Damn...making me shiver just reading about it...will not comment about the potential Darwin award winner.