Good old Marc Morano. He was a representative for the most dishonest of blowhard radio "entertainers," Rush Limbaugh. He posted the false allegations from the Swift-Boat folks against John Kerry. He lied about activities in an AIDS research fundraising dance party. He popularized "Climategate," to falsely show a global scientific conspiracy, and he published private email addresses of climate scientists to harass them.

With that record of honesty and integrity, why WOULDN'T we trust his word over the climate scientists of the world?

Get back into the locker, nerd. No one said you could come out yet.

Very frequently, doing the wrong thing is much worse than doing nothing.
They might be doing something, but doing something is not in itself a praise-worthy goal.

$51.1 billion? (I'll switch to 55 billion for 2015 numbers since they're close enough and 2015 numbers are what everyone uses now) You'd have to be crazy if you think it's going to be that low. The current estimate (Feb 2015) is for $68 billion for Phase 1, the Central Valley segment.

While there could be a few bad actors, Most of the DLC I've seen is an extra for an already-complete game, a game with plenty of content.

Also keep this in mind. In the mid-1980s, most games cost around $40. That's nearly $90 in 2015 dollars.
Game prices have FALLEN drastically in the last 30 years.

Europe is Europe. In America, tempting targets get subjected to security theater to deter terrorism. Currently, passenger rail is not a tempting target... but if it was..

If you want a good high-speed rail from SF south LA, then a northeast trip up to Sacramento is a pretty big detour.

The estimated cost more than doubled within a few years of the bond and our rates of inflation have been extremely low.
It's not inflation. The costs were intentionally underreported (or at best, naively reported) so that the bond measure would pass and that California would get locked into the plan.

This isn't Ecotopia, no matter if some in California desire that nightmare scenario.

I think the game had more to do with Peyton Manning's documented inability to excel in cold playoff games rather than the Patriots' underinflated balls.

Thanks for your derision and condescension. You really added to the discussion, AC. Do you feel better than everyone now?

Clearly you neither work for the Patriots nor are you a New England fan.

I thought the South Park episode that lambasted Belichick years ago was spot-on. Among other things, Cartman claimed that Belichick could get away with cheating by never admitting that he knew he was cheating. Instead, he used the weasel words "I misinterpreted the rules" (Belichick's real words).

From the Wikipedia episode summary: "He then teaches his class numerous cheating techniques, explaining that as long as they succeed, no one will judge them. Cartman cites New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick's success after cheating in the Spygate football scandal. [...] When the kids begin to doubt Cartman's methods, he again points to Bill Belichick, implying that after he decided to win a game "for real", he ended up losing (to the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII). The kids are encouraged by this, and all receive perfect scores (by cheating). The class honors "Mr. Cartmenez" for teaching them "The White People Method", and he is universally praised."

I'm happy with my S5 at the moment, though given Samsung's S6-changes, it'll probably be my last Samsung Galaxy. I'm certainly open to getting a different phone in the future, and the rootability of it will be a factor.

I'm not sure I've seen an X-Ray machine in years that was NOT on the office/hospital's LAN. My dentist's x-ray computer runs an ancient, ancient version of Windows (I haven't seen it boot up, but you can tell just from the widget design) . It immediately forwards X-ray results to their central records.