I wonder if its just a case of one bird getting a itch in their ass and decide to turn and the guy next them turns just to get out of the way, etc. etc.

So a Chinese spy stumbled across the Spruce Goose exhibit and thought, "Wow, total score! This is better than the Stealth!"?

Yet businesses are still voting with their feet and leaving the fetid cesspool of liberal policy.

pedantic
adjective \pi-dan-tik\

Definition of PEDANTIC
1 of, relating to, or being a pedant(see pedant).
2 narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned but with no social skills.
3 unimaginative, dull, boring, tedious, lives in the basement of the female parent.
4 internet grammar Nazi.
5 Loser

That's how we ended up battling superior A6M Zero's with technically inferior F-4F Wildcat's during the first years of WWII.

These scientist need to understand that the people writing the checks get to make the priorities. If they don't like it, get elected and change it or find someone with money that agrees with them. Being a "Scientist" does not mean you have some moral superiority over others concerning what tax dollars are spent on.

Our first encounter with an alien civilization will be the EPA trying to fine them millions of dollars.

Unless things have changed since I was interested in this, they never supported a White List.

If you are managing your little kid's access, you want to pick and choose sites/review the before giving them the OK.

He has no access to the system. He has no access to radar logs. He has no access to destroyed rockets, etc. He has some pics and a PowerPoint presentation.

I see.

California has lots of oil too.

It remains locked up by the Environmentalists and Bureaucrats. So you have oil, but no oil industry to speak of.

It makes perfect (business) sense to locate it in a state with reasonable wages not drive up by unreasonable taxes and regulations, huge amounts of available land, common sense zoning restrictions, reasonable environmental regulations, and politicians that are actually interested in your business becoming a success . It's what's made the oil/gas/information services/computer/auto/semiconductor/etc. industry successful so far.

But were they young, cute girls?

I had a business called ComputerChicks. For $500 they'd come to your house, fix up your computer and then fix you up...any way you wanted.

The authorities got really cranky about it.

But I did get meet a lot of really interesting guys over the course of 5 to 10 years with time off for good behavior.

Because of more leg room and the Killer Traffic Clearing Device?

Really, it doesn't matter when he or any other President did that.

What really matters is that the ignorant fool of an AC believes that he should be able to do that. It should scare the shit out of everyone that even an AC would think that a President should be able to cast aside state laws with a mere wave of his hand or executive order. That's fucking dictator shit right there.

People have thrown the Dictator charge around and it's been consider kookville, because there has always been some arguable legal construct supporting it. But for anyone to seriously suggest that a President has unilateral discretion over the laws of individual states is scary and should get everyone's attention.