Most, if not all of the actual decreases in the CDC budget over the past few years are due to expiring programs.

When certain outbreaks become the newest it thing monies are transferred to the CDC to deal with those. AIDS, Ebola, H1N1 etc.. all get special programs which generally run for a certain number of years and then expire taking their funding with them.

Actually, about the only action that was wholly under the Executives control was he banning of travel from specific regions for the past couple of months. Almost every other action taken is right out of the CDC playbook and is followed regardless of who is in the Oval Office.

This can be most clearly seen in the fact that although Trump wanted to ban any infected people from entering the US, the CDC protocols calls for the evacuation of US residents back to mainland US from infected areas no matter their infection status. This resulted in hundreds of citizens being flown into the US from China and from other known hotspots (including cruise ships with known outbreaks) and in some cases released to go on their merry way.

The House effectively holds the trial and then passes all their findings to the Senate to pass judgement. It is not the Senates job to actually retry their case. They can call witnesses if they want clarification on particular points but it is not required.

In this case the House did a piss poor job trying either article all the while claiming their case was iron clad. Hell the second article, Obstruction of Congress, was merely them claiming the Presidents exercising of his legal rights was in and of itself a impeachable offense.

The GAO finds every president guilty of breaking laws; it's their go to move when trying to grab headlines.

In this particular case their judgement was more about a violation of a reporting requirement and not the actual withholding of funds. Essentially the President controls the flow of foreign aid but must spend the money as dictated by Congress. If he wants to delay the aid beyond a certain time period he has to send an official notification to Congress. There was an informal notice but nothing that could be considered official.

The law also specifies the remedies for violations and none of them are criminal, just more paperwork to file an official complaint which could lead to overriding the Presidents hold. Of course none of that was ever filed either (and still hasn't) because no one actually cared about a small delay foreign spending.

Picard airs on the Scifi channel in Canada. You can just watch it, PVR it or use your cable providers or CTVs On Demand services.

I believe you left out a small but critical caveat:

  "rightists argue that making it easier for voters to vote in a highly untraceable, unverifiable, and unmonitored (meaning no method to prevent external pressures from impacting your vote) way is a bad thing because it might elect more democrats."

You may want to question why Democrats want to remove all protections from the voting booth that allow a free and fair vote?

I was seriously wondering what type of additions Porsche made that could prevent suicide? A speed governor that won't let you get above 25? Super collusion avoidance that won't let you move if it detects any object within 100 yards? An in-cabin sensor for carbon monoxide that will auto shutoff the engine?

The "homeless are all from somewhere else" is a myth put out by California politicians to try and make themselves look better.

In fact studies done within California by various agencies, including governmental, all tend to find similar numbers; the vast majority of 'homeless' in California have lived in California for more than 10 years prior to becoming homeless and less than 20% (in some cities less than 10%) actually moved there after becoming homeless. The non-native Californian homeless tend to be people who moved there for work and at some point later lost their homes/apartments and became homeless, not homeless who moved there for good weather.

Even Politifact and the LA Times had to call out Gavin Newsom after the tried to get away with a similar claim back in August.

Well if you include your rental car for the week(s) your Tesla is in the shop getting a side mirror repaired the costs are definitely higher.

This isn't a knock on EVs as it's not an electric car issue, simply Tesla's terrible service. They have terrible parts management and due to a lack of certified service locations, even getting a shop to work on your car can take forever. Depending on the issues you're having that could mean your car is out of commission for days or even weeks for the most minor of things.

I've had an entire engine replaced in my Kia (manufacturing defect that cause a piston to break apart and destroy a cylinder beyond repair) and it took less time than people just trying to get a light fixed in their Model 3s.

When my friend bought his Dodge Ram last year he was offered the "Guitar Player" option but they only offered 'Acoustic' and 'Banjo' so he passed.

If the case is as reported above, and not just some standard appeals process, I doubt the money was even mentioned. Amazon would only have wanted the verdict of guilt reversed so that they could claim a clean safety record.

Having that clean record can be worth much more in the long run if any similar cases come to light. Being able to legally claim "honestly Judge, this is the first time this has ever happened in one of our facilities" can be worth millions in the right civil suit.

It's a pretty simple concept.

Customer brings in device outside of warranty for repair. Genius looks at device and says the repair costs exceed Apples accepted range and even if you are willing to pay their crazy price they will refuse and only offer a replacement (not for free but usually with some discount).

There have been many reported cases of this online and I know of at least 3 personally where they weren't even given a repair option just told a replacement cost. In the end all 3 visits resulted in new sales so didn't even go into their repair systems so no record of them refusing service.

It would also be one thing if their initial repair estimates were half way accurate but as has been shown time and time again they generally just lump things together and if it's a problem with a specific component, like the main board, they will call for a full main board replacement instead of diagnosing the resistor or connector with obvious signs of stress. So a $50 resistor replacement turns into a $700-$900 mainboard replacement which then exceeds their accepted repair costs for the device in question which then leads to the sales pitch.

It also has a complete electric grill option that fits into the rear storage compartment.

The basis for the claim everyone uses about how the government 'lost' thousands of children is actually from a ORR (Office of Refugee Resettlement) report which simply stated that of the thousands of children placed in temporary care approximately 1500 weren't able to be contacted when attempting a follow-up call.

That's the entire basis, 1500 people simply didn't answer the phone when called. There were no boots on the ground teams sent out to check or any other special actions taken, they simply called the legal guardians and they didn't answer the phone.

A few key points to remember about these kids:
- Most were placed in the system prior to the family separation policy ever came into affect
- Most were unaccompanied minors so they weren't actually separated from anyone
- In most cases they are released to family members who reside stateside, often to a parent residing in the US

Since ORR doesn't check citizenship, merely requiring proof of family status or approval of the detained parent to release the child, they are often released to family members who, while residing in the US, are often illegal immigrants themselves. The likelihood of them either a) keeping the same phone number as the one they list on the papers when picking up the child, or b) answering the phone when called by a federal agency is slim.

So while the 'lost thousands' makes a great headline no one who understands the number, including illegal immigration activists, actually cares as they know it's not a real problem.

It's a list of top men and women in their respective fields not a list of the top people so the presence of women on that list doesn't mean they beat men, just that they were the top women.

Patrycja Bereznowska, for example, was the top women in the 24h IAU championship with a women's world record distance of 259.991 km but that still puts her 11km behind the male winner for that year who didn't even set the event record (which is 277.543). She's an exceptional runner who seemed to be getting about 20km more than the women's average while the male winner had a distance that was just on par with previous winners.

The average difference between men's and women's ultramarathon distances seems to be in the 25-30km range so she was a lot closer to the men than almost every women before her but her distance was still at least 7km less than the men's bronze and after her the differences grow rapidly.