Years ago, I remember reading an interview with a GM former employee and he talked about advances in safety. He said, paraphrasing, that GM discovered hundreds of ways each year to improve safety related equipment through R&D and testing, but lawyers prevented from implementing the changes. The lawyers reasoned that the older equipment still passed safety regulations and implementing the improved equipment could open GM to legal action.

Immigration is broken. The VA is broken. Congress is broken.

Can we please stop labeling everything as being "broken."

And I'll never use it again.

Being curious, I did a quick search and found this graphic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Florida,_2000 The panhandle is heavily Republican.

I agree with you 100% about the panhandle Republicans cheerfully standing in line to prevent Gore from winning. But that isn't what happened. All of the news outlets had projected Gore to win. So the people who were waiting in line thought "Why bother waiting if the election in Florida is over"?

Gore requested recounts in only 4 counties. "Gore requested manual recounts in four Florida counties: Volusia, Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade, which are counties that traditionally vote Democratic and would be expected to garner more votes for Gore. Gore did not, however, request any recounts in counties that traditionally vote Republican." That's from wikipedia but you can find lots of other cites if you want.

I agree that there were only a few votes in the panhandle that would have been in the majority for Bush. IIRC, it was projected 10k to 20k. Not many in the overall scheme of things. However, when a recall is decided by a few hundred votes adding ten to twenty thousand to one side makes a big difference.

'It doesn't matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes.'

Yes, every single one. Don't forget that Gore tried to goose the results by having only Dem heavy counties recounted rather than the entire state.

One last thing that just about no one knows about. All of the major news outlets proclaimed Florida to Gore before voting was finished in Florida. Florida resides in two time zones and the northwest "handle" of Florida is heavily Republican. Many voters left lines while voting was open once Florida was called for Gore. IF that hadn't have happened, the recount wouldn't have been close at all.

Solar and wind are only viable when generously subsidized. Add in that Obama with the militant EPA are putting coal powered plants out of business. Obama stated that energy prices under his plan "would necessarily skyrocket" and that is exactly what is happening.

Just wait until the summer CA. When all of those coal plants are out of business and there is a shortage of electricity. Remember the rolling brownouts a decade ago? Those will be nothing compared to the blackouts where there just won't be any electricity.

"You reap what you sow" will never be more true after the coal powered plants are forced out of business.

Fucking exactly right. Anti-gun liberal extremists is the problem.

Sell off the stock that is generating them funds. Have fun explaining why fees are even higher.

Such economic strategy takes a university mind.

And TechDirt can suck a bag of dicks.

So when you plug in a cable, the logo on the top is always correct. When it is a sideways plug, you are on your own. :)

Assuming you're right, that may work in the courts. With a judge. That definitely won't matter with the court of public opinion and probably wouldn't work with a jury.

I understand your last two jobs were longer, but you have a trend.

You must have used Dragon software to write this article because you were obviously patting yourself on the back with both hands.