You can also just go ahead and "try to log in" with no@thankyou.com and any password - there will be "an error" and then it will just let you use a local account.

"Assuming you're an American, by your reasoning YOU are responsible for every gaff made by your president - even if you didn't vote for him."

Yes. Correct. That's how representative democratic government works. Now if only I get my fellow Americans to understand that. We don't magically get to do takesy-backsies just because we change administrations.

I really think almost all of these BS "rewards" programs ought to be banned. A local grocery store chain has a program that allows you to get a certain amount per gallon off of gas at a specific gas station chain. Look, pal, I don't want to have it dictated to me which gas stations I have to go to, and I don't want you using your reward programs as an excuse to tie the data you're mining on my grocery selections to my gas purchases and to the real name, address, etc, that you tried to get out of me when I signed up for the rewards program. Just quit increasing your grocery prices by however much it takes to fund the reward program, and stop dicking us around.

Also in need of banning while I'm on the subject: retail "charity" programs at checkout. Stop trying to get me to pay against your fair share of the tax burden, because we all know - or should - that you're just taking the charitable write-off for all of those collected donations in your own name at tax time.They all do it now, and some of them have the gumption to do it in ways to try to make us look/feel bad about it if we don't.

Obama said there were 57 states. There *are* 57 states *and* territories. He was tired at the end of a whirlwind campaign tour, and he made a gaffe that, if anything, paid rare honor to places like Guam and Puerto Rico that a lot of Americans tend to forget are even America.

I have several beefs with the man - as someone who voted for him in 2008 and against him in 2012 - but sometimes a guy just has a brain fart.

Biden has gone well beyond that. Between his apparent diminished capacity and the Hunter Biden problem - which, make no mistake, is a real problem - he needs to be removed.

But not to be replaced by Trump or any of the Trump proxies trying to run right now. I'll take senile and corrupt in a more traditional American politician kinda way all day long and twice on Sunday before I'll take that scumbag, and I really just can't understand what right-wingers see in him. The devotion would almost be enough to make me believe in an Anti-Christ if I were at all so inclined.

We need a good, stable, relatively not-corrupt career politician with their wits about them. Someone like Buttigieg or Whitmer, but I'd even take a hard look at Kasich or Haley.

We won't get it. "Times are gone for honest men, and sometimes far too long for snakes." Onward to oblivion. :/

"This may, of course, be a lie, however I haven't seen any evidence of that." I think we have practical evidence that you're correct: the fact that the Russians haven't pulled any rabbits out of any hats during the current situation in Ukraine. Either he made certain they don't have access, or, there just wasn't anything there that would be useful to Putin.

And really, does he even need that source, when for all we know he has copies of all the stuff that was in Trump's bathroom? Or that was in Hillary's email servers (and the email of everyone else in government that was doing the same thing - the real reason she wasn't prosecuted, because the stink from that would reach too many powerful people, probably in all parties)? Our government is a shitshow, literally and metaphorically.

Your calculations seem to be based on not having anything else to do, ever, which must be nice for you, but I assure you that lots of the rest of us have to work, sleep on a schedule based on work, have families, relationships, etc. The four hours you're referring to happens to fall right into one of the common time periods when people aren't consumed with the rest of that - which would be why people who like that sort of thing are watching football during it. Duh.

Or they might have skipped this tune after having heard it before when Wizards of the Cost (not a typo) tried extremely analogous crap about a year ago. It didn't go so well then, either.

To be fair, THE LAW is an instruction to follow the law. They shouldn't need an "oh, and we really mean those laws, too". What is needed is proper oversight and enforcement of the laws on them - and for them not to have dossiers of "get out of jail free or the public finds out what you did on Epstein's island" (for instance) cards that they can use against the people who are ostensibly over them.

For a nation our size, it makes sense to have a small handful rather than just one, but 17 (if correct, and I could believe it) is way beyond that, and to have any of them running around impervious to oversight (because they've collected dirt on the officials they theoretically answer to) is unacceptable, too.

Counter-suggestion: Eliminate (not defund) the NSA and CIA and DHS and move their resources to the appropriate intelligence services under SecDef, such as Army Intelligence, Naval Intelligence, etc. Leave the FBI in place but give them the resources to actually do the job they're supposed to do for the people - and give them some new, effective oversight while we're at it.

You can't honestly say "the founders were cool with slavery" - they weren't monolithic, and some argued against it pretty strongly.

There's probably already SAG rules that prevent this and require that anyone who is an actor, even for a few minutes, is covered under their terms. That won't stop what you're talking about, but it might slow it down.

The treaty might require it to be returned, but if India doesn't *want* it back, would it be enough for them to return *ownership* to India, and then India could pass it to whomever they want (including the local party that has it in Australia presently)? Get the lowest ranking person from the Indian embassy to get out there and wave a hand over it. ;)

It was a bathroom, and two wrongs don't make a right: let's see justice on BOTH matters, please.

Yeah..'cause it would be a damned shame if the missing funds were collected and then used to pay some additional workers honest wages. Sorry, but I still see that as a gain even if the net financial gain for the MTA is 0.