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For the same reason you'd prosecute them if they were taking money to advertise someone selling cocaine. They're taking money to advertise an illegal service that they should know is illegal. All they'd have to do is require their advertisers to submit their hotel permit for rentals of less than 30 days. No hotel permit? No AirBNB ad. Otherwise, AirBNB, Orbitz, etc. are complicit.

I get that in cold climes. But I wonder which is more likely to kill you. Is it the one in a million chance of drowning, or the one in ?? chance of overheating in the tropical sun wearing a heart insulator that keeps the heat in while you're exerting yourself paddling to beat the band? Years ago in Texas, I made the personal decision to keep the life jacket at hand, but not wear it because they're too hot in the scorching sun. If it's cooler out, I wear them, pre adjusted because they're mine. Added to that was the absolute sweaty stench of a typical rental life jacket. I used to rent canoes on the Guadelupe River and the rental life jackets smelled like they'd never been defunked of BO. It was enough to gag a maggot. In Thailand, I always carried my own when kayaking (and even to rent a canoe at Lumpini and QSNCC), but that's because I lived there. Edit: I'd add that the one place I did wear a life jacket kayaking in Thailand was Kanchanaburi by the famous bridge. The guys who ran the hotels told me that they enforce that law strictly. But I never found out...

Only federal offenses. I wonder if he paid his California state taxes? Or broke any state firearm laws? Or any state drug laws?

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Good luck with that. Between greenie regulations and just plain gub'ment incompetence, they may be done in 30 or 40 years. They should have built those (and the west coast) pipelines and ports decades ago. Canucks should be thanking Trump for lighting the fire under their gub'ment's feet to git 'er done. Finally. Meanwhile, refineries in the USA will rebuild at their next normal scheduled turnaround, adjusting to a slightly different mix of crude from other sources. That's a normal part of that business.

You're probably more accurate. But you'd need a stopwatch and a very fast camera to time how long it stays there before it's hijacked to pay for current spending needs. Which, as others have pointed out, makes it a Ponzi scheme.

Out of curiosity, do all airlines have access to your travel details by PNR, or just the airline you're booked on?

The USA is actually a net exporter. And if we quit importing oil from Canada (to process and export), we'll import it from somewhere else. It's a fungible commodity and Canada's nasty, heavy, dirty crude can be replaced by Venezuela's nasty heavy crude. Or any one of a dozen other sources. But Canada hasn't bothered building the pipelines and ports they need to export the vast majority of it anywhere but the USA. They recently built a pipeline and port to handle a small amount on the Pacific side, but most of that is going to California anyway. So who's got who by the short and curlies? Not that Trump intends to disrupt the flow. In fact, they're resurrecting Keystone Pipeline. He's just negotiating from strength. Not from a desire to be liked. When it's all said and done, Canucks will make more money, and Americans will spend less to fuel up.

I'm not sure which is more disturbing, leaving the body in his seat (or row, at least) or drag a dead body down the aisle for everyone to see. The former inconveniences one or 2 other passengers. The latter? Everyone on the plane.

I must have missed that. What $ billions were those? And were they tax dollars?

Just silly people. That's what the syndrome does to them.

There can't be a reasonable discussion with anyone who thinks the war started in 2022. Or even 2014. The seeds were planted in the '80s and the neocons had been watering them ever since, and continue to do so. And they got what they wanted. Kinda sucks for millions of Russkies and Ukes, though. Not to mention the rest of Europe that's withering away.

As I recall, he's putting together a nice offer, including cash, prizes, and security guarantees. Maybe a Tesla in every garage?

Do try to keep up. CNN had to walk that back. They did spend over $8M. Now, CNN concedes that, but claims it lacks context. Lefties changing the goalposts, like lefties do...

Not if the Dems stick with their winning game plan.

You're about 4 years late with that "prediction". America today reminds me of the old Beatles song... Here Comes the Sun.

Well would you look at that. All the lefties claiming he was going to take it back by force, and it's done with private money. Which presents another issue, but not the one that the lefties stomped their tiny little lefty feet about. Anyone who wants to know what Trump is doing on Canada, Greenland, Mexico and Panama should read "The Art of the Deal". It's clearly explained, decades ago. It is so helpful to know what your adversary is thinking. But people don't want to hold their noses and read subversive materials. They'd prefer deliberate ignorance.

That's the big picture. But so many are so fixed on that kerfuffle over Israel (or Ukraine, or...or...) that they're willing to see our rights eroded away under the guise of security.

No. It's bigger than Hamas/Israel. But you're so fixed on that you can't see the unintended implications for the next time.

No. You have one dog in that fight, and you don't care what rights they have to trample to defeat that one dog. But those same laws can be used against your side next time. Then you'll sing a different tune.

People forget that this issue is bigger than Hamas. The law says any flag of any declared terror organization. What if the Righties in Congress voted to declare Greenpeace a terror organization because of their acts of violence at sea? Would that mean carrying a Greenpeace flag is punishable by a prison sentence if a right winger claimed he felt threatened? People forget that the laws being used against others can turn around and bite them in the ass if the winds of politics change. If me carrying a Confederate, a Hamas, or even a Nazi flag incites John to violence, John's the one they need to arrest. Because just wearing a MAGA hat is enough to incite a lot of lefties to violence.

I guess you haven't seen the zillions of YouTubes of lefty snowflakes verbally assaulting people who are just wearing a MAGA hat because they claim they feel threatened. Or take it to the next level, the guys wearing FJB shirts. Lots of places have banned those. It's not my fault if you feel threatened. I have the right to express myself as long as I do it peacefully. If they're vandalizing, trespassing, or actually threatening anyone, lock them up. Just carrying a flag? Protected speech.

In defiance of Trump, I think Nato should put troops on the ground in Ukraine. Sure. Let's start with your kids. Front line. It's time for the killing to stop and the rebuilding to start.

If the US Gub'ment declares someone a terror organization, I'm not allowed to object to that in public without risking imprisonment? If Hochul bans the Confederate flag, I can't protest that ban without fear of imprisonment? That's a legitimate protest against the gub'ment, and that's absolutely allowed by the First Amendment. Slippery slope, especially in lefty areas where they can easily shop the venue and empanel a jury of lefties. Who feel threatened by someone wearing the wrong hat or T-shirt.

I've never sent any food back, but I have left some Thai food on the table when it was too spicy for me. I just order something else. That's just one of the risks I accept when a wimp like me eats out where even "not too spicy" is too spicy for me. I'd do the same if they brought undercooked meat. (Though I don't recall that ever happening.) I'd order something else and leave the undercooked meat on the table. It's not like it's going to affect my finances. But when some Thai workers are making 300 baht a day (or less), it may make the difference between a good day and a bad day for them.