lol

"Mr. Crutcher reaches in the driver's side front window and Officer Turnbough fires his Taser and Officer Shelby fires one shot from her duty weapon striking Mr. Crutcher in his right lung area."

i cant think of another case where the author writes himself into the story, by name and as the author of the story, as a pivitol character in the story along with real events in his real life, like being hit by a van and almost dying along with other real world events like the collapse of the twin towers which was very important to the story line.

Was going through our library before the packers come. There was Delgo. Being passed from Josh to our grandchildren now.

That said, I believe that the general and marked deterioration in overall customer service on U.S. airlines over the last 20-25 years, which includes their willingness to now charge you nickel-and-dime for stuff that was once considered included in the fare you paid the airline for transit, really ought to concern us all.

Personally, I've always resented being charged extra for checked baggage, particularly since the nearest non-interisland destination to us is San Francisco (2,400 miles away), and all nonstop and direct flights to and from Hawaii are a minimum of five hours in length. That means we're likely going to be gone for a few days at least. The same goes for tourists coming here; the odds are better than even that you're not going to fly to Honolulu, spend a night in Waikiki, and then fly back home the following day. The flight times and distances involved in transit tend to preclude that.

And now, the three largest U.S. airlines -- United, American and Delta -- want to charge coach passengers to use the cabin's overhead bins. The ready adoption of such punitive revenue-generating policies is why I seek to avoid those flying on those three particular carriers to the extent possible, which is admittedly not an easy thing for us to do when United is Hawaii's largest airline.

But Hawaiian Airlines -- which was exclusively an interisland air carrier when I first moved here -- has gown steadily over these last 20 years and has cut accordingly into United's dominance of the non-interisland market. And now with its receipt of an additional 20 Airbus A321neo aircraft and 15 A330s later this year, Hawaiian is poised to seriously challenge United's primacy in the trans-Pacific travel market, not just between Hawaii and the U.S. mainland, but also between the U.S. west coast and Asia as well. And United is vulnerable.

The biggest surprise to me in the airline industry has been the rise of once-small regional carriers like Hawaiian and Alaska, and the explosive growth of Southwest and JetBlue, all of which are now major players. I believe that this growth can be directly attributed, at least in part, to the general and steady decline in the overall quality of the three aforementioned largest airlines.

All this, of course, sums up just about everything that's gone wrong in the airline industry since the advent of deregulation and the demise of the Civil Aeronautics Board in 1978, namely corporate consolidation. What was once five different airlines has now been folded into one big inefficient airline.

About 12 years ago, my wife and I went to Sydney, Australia on United Airlines, and much to our surprise and eventual consternation, our direct flight via Auckland, NZ got cancelled and we were re-routed instead through San Francisco. Some 12 hours after departing Honolulu, my wife nudged me and told me to look out the aircraft window -- and down below us was the island of Oahu, which we were then flying over at 38,000 feet.

You found that nonsense, so you certainly can find and report  information -- which I see widely disseminated -- about the falsehoods embedded in the hacks by the disgraced Icky Leaks.

Here's a link to GotNews.com" that has quite a bit of information.

Like everything on the net it may or may not be true. But the interesting thing is that the French media is rather tepid in denial, focusing more on the fact that the information is hacked rather than content.

Very similar to the defense of the DNC's hacked server contents.

Showing that people care about content, not where it came from.

Well it won't happen under a Demo
The Repubs will unite and defeat it. (cue eye roll).

Uhhmmm ... You know what an eye roll signifies, right?  Because Republicans absolutely WILL vehemently opposed a single payer system.  They've specifically said so (including the guy you laughably claim will get it done).  The only way it happens is with the collosal failure of Trumpcare, which will create a demand by the public so strong that Republicans can't defeat it.

OTOH Trump, who is in no way a Conservative, could fashion a group to get it done.

Even Krauthammer won't make that delusional claim, but it was pretty funny.  Unless you were serious, in which case ...

• A 6.2 percent income-based health care premium paid by employers.
  
• A 2.2 percent income-based premium paid by households.

Medicare for All: Leaving No One Behind

i dont currently have healthcare. i understand the fluctuating income issue. i would be automatically covered under Medicare for All but with ACA im in a difficult situation.

Obamacare was welfare. Some people's costs were paid for by their fellow citizens. The amount paid was different for different people.

That's nuts. That isn't fair.

"[I]f Vice President Mike Pence truly didn't know about Flynn's activities, our next question should therefore be, 'Then who did?'

"It's highly unlikely that Flynn was a rogue operator, given the extent of contacts with Ambassador Kislyak and other prominent Russians by Trump campaign officials such as campaign chair Paul Manafort and foreign policy advisor Carter Page, et al. (At least, these are the ones we know about so far.) It's also pra'ctically inconceivable that they'd ALL be acting on their own respective initiatives simultaneously. In order to believe that, one would have to defy both logic and common sense.

"But if Trump's transition officials were indeed so worried about Flynn as the Washington Post's story would suggest, then as head of the transition team for the president-elect, Pence most certainly had to have known about the general's activities and communications with Kislyak.

"Suffice to say that the vice president -- and by extension, the Trump administration itself -- really can't have it both ways here."

Now, here's what I really think. I believe that Mike Pence was less than honest and forthcoming regarding his prior knowledge of Gen. Flynn's activities, for the reasons above.

Further, given the 18 days which transpired between Sally Yates' first warning to the White House and Flynn's resignation, I'd say it's pretty clear that Trump had absolutely no intention of firing his national security advisor, despite that warning, for much the same reason. He already knew and had approved of what Flynn had done.

It was the Washington Post's breaking story on February 13 about Yates' warning which rendered Flynn a disposable commodity by making his continued presence at the White House entirely problematic -- and even then, that was only from a public relations standpoint.