AOC's Green New Deal would get a huge boost.

#11 | POSTED BY BORED AT 2021-04-11 01:56 PM | FLAG:

Very optimistic of you, Texas will happily sell the wind generated energy, even if it means we sit in the cold lol.

So if your claim is correct, over half the state's budget would have to come from the Feds, and sales taxes would have to be more than doubled to recompense.

#10 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2021-04-11 12:31 PM | FLAG:

Fed's used to be 32%. Not sure with all the natural and man made disasters at this point. Yes, if that tiny minority of dumbasses got their way taxes would have to go way up to support their secession. Though it would probably look more like a Brexit nowadays, still a bad deal.

Regardless, corrupt leadership doesn't default to the workers having no say.

#43 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2021-04-12 11:04 AM | FLAG:

Right, but that's why it's so unpopular. Particularly in the NE and Rust Belt it's synonymous with corruption and organized crime. It's a double edged sword in that yes, they got a union, but it's far smaller, optional, no forced dues, etc.

Unions don't apply to what I do it's all strange for me as a spectator.

Israeli newspapers are claiming the Mossad did it.

The Amazon Union if it had passed would have at least been free of the long term corruption and nepotism inherent in long time Union systems.

My unions were Actor's Equity, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the Screen Actors' Guild. I served in volunteer leadership positions in all three.

#36 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2021-04-11 03:49 PM | FLAG:

I feel like if you asked people to start naming unions, only SAG from your list would get mentioned. I checked an SAG said 160k members. Much more prominent is the UAW, supporting benefits for 600,000 retirees with an active 360,000 labor force. In 2020 the DOJ investigated them, resulting in 12 union officials (2 former presidents) and 3 Chrysler executives being charged with racketeering, embezzlement, and tax evasion. It's such a toxic union brand that people who voted against the UAW union at VW's TN plant went ahead and created their own union.

It might've been a then, or a few years later; the last four trips have been either cabs or rental cars to the Strip, and then usually because of a destination restaurant. Frankly, I don't mind eating or people-watching at the Bellagio or the Wynn, but I don't want to gamble there.

#11 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2021-04-11 06:12 PM | FLAG:

I don't like to gamble, I'm just there for food, shows, and rides if it's for fun. When I was younger I hoofed it all over the damn Strip, usually staying at Stratosphere or the NYNY end of it then walking to the middle. Now it's conventions, almost all at Paris, which is nice since you can take the walk over bridge straight into Bellagio and it connects to the Cosmopolitan. The conventions in the evenings are so wet you want that short walk to your room. Paris & Cosmo has some great food too. Hexx's corned beef with poached eggs breakfast is fantastic.

All hype and flash, short on experience and common sense. He was hyping no-exhaust-vent tunnels using temperature deltas at both ends to control airflow. That is obvious nonsense. If the tunnel gets blocked everybody dies from smoke inhalation during a fire.

This tunnel would make some form of sense if they followed through with the plan to run high occupancy trams, but you'd need 3-5 years to design-build-produce one with quality reliability which is Tesla's biggest sore spot right now.

The ships should be recycled in the name of environmentalism before they can dump their poop tanks offshore again.

but a bit of a pain to navigate compared to Fremont Street.

#6 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2021-04-11 02:00 PM | FLAG:

That was 2006 though wasn't it? They renovated a lot of the Strip. You can walk from Luxor to Wynn without touching the street. The elevated walkways made it convenient and quick for the most part. The tram is okay.

Most likely the US would invade, as Texas produces 24% of US natural gas and nobody really wants the yankee states to freeze to death. We just experimented with that on ourselves and it wasn't good.

There goes their status as a no-income tax state. After all, when you cut off the state from the federal -----, how are they going to survive?

#2 | POSTED BY OCUSER AT 2021-04-10 03:25 PM | FLAG:

It's 89% sales tax, 11% property tax generated. Aside for those, in this completely-hypothetical, never-happening-scenario, they would levy tariffs on exports to the US for petroleum, nat gas, chemicals, and machinery which would cover Federal spending to the state.

Did they study those people to make sure they were nuts before Covid? Doesn't seem likely.

Because Floridians don't "retire to New York", and 10,000 Americans turn 65 every day.

#20 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2021-04-10 12:30 PM | FLAG:

They could move to California then. Blue to Blue. They'd rather go retire in the land of Florida Man.

Ouch.

Amazon pours a lot of R&D into anti-union effort. Remember the leaked Whole Foods document? Anybody?

"Store-risk metrics include average store compensation, average total store sales, and a "diversity index" that represents the racial and ethnic diversity of every store. Stores at higher risk of unionizing have lower diversity and lower employee compensation, as well as higher total store sales and higher rates of workers' compensation claims".

They were also expecting to be bombarded with chemical weapons. This isn't quite the same circumstance.

It's not the environment. It's the sonic boom. They are not legal over countries, you break windows and sometimes topple structures and people die. Limited use in specific military training grounds or over water only.

Hence all the NASA development of no boom supersonic transports via the reborn X-Plane programs.

When I travel by airplane, I allocate three hours to get to the airport, and then I have to be at the airport at least an hour before my flight.
That's getting close to 5 hours wasted before I even reach the gate area for the flight.
Give another hour before the flight departs... close to six hours.

Depending upon the traveling I need to do, going by train looks a lot better at times.

#8 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER AT 2021-04-10 12:04 PM | FLAG:

Sweet jesus. 45 minutes drive which, a quick stop to grab a boarding pass, 5 mins through security with a KTN, straight to the gate and board in a few minutes. Some of the flights I take are about 4 hours start to finish. By car it's around 19 hours. By train you're looking at 2-3 days.

"We're going to talk about commercial aircraft flying at subsonic speeds"supersonic speeds," he said Wednesday, before suggesting that future planes would be about to "traverse the world in about an hour, travel 21,000 miles in an hour."

If I knew we were electing a Reagan again I'd have considered a third party this time lol.

"California is likely to lose a congressional seat for the first time in history after this year's Census, with the state's slowing growth rate trimming its political clout, according to an analysis of new population data released this week.

The projected drop from 53 to 52 seats in the House of Representatives will lead to a reshuffling of the state's political map, and potentially divisive congressional races between incumbents in 2022. It will also shape presidential politics, as California loses one of its votes in the electoral college and other states like Texas are expected to gain as many as three new seats."

Moving from the second housing crisis in the nation... to a place aspiring to be the third worst housing crisis in the nation.

but as a practical matter, being rich, with psychotically toxic fans prone to violence, most football players had guns before it was cool.

More guns in the hands of non-whites will surely make us safer.

#10 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2021-04-08 08:00 PM | FLAG:

Snoofy does know best for minorities. Just ask him.

The question might be can you wave it around in the grocery store "just 'cuz".

#17 | POSTED BY REDIAL AT 2021-04-07 10:31 PM | FLAG:

"It's complicated". The law will fall under different names and have different technical details in each state. Most of the time this is covered, and made illegal, under statues for Unlawful Display, Improper Exhibition of a Weapon, Brandishing, etc.