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[Hanslanda]

"Nothing Happened!"
"Anything that happened was good!"
"Anything that happened was totally legal!"
"Anything illegal that happened was for the best!"
"Anything maliciously illegal that happened was not the fault of Trump!"
"Anything that was maliciously illegal that was directly Trump's fault isn't something he can be prosecuted for!"
"But Clinton's blowjob was worse!"

[Egan_BW]

but her emails?

[TheBiggerFish]

Random local politics, presented with no comment.  Do we have a local politics thread?
http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/ac-cn-light-rail-0729-story.html

[scriver]

Not available in EU

Stupid EU defending my rights

[smjjames]

Giuliani has decided that, because 'collusion' is not a crime, Trump did nothing wrong.

It's not significant in the progress of the investigation, of course, but it is interesting that this is the point where even Trump's shock jock -- and Giuliani is exactly that -- has to move one step further up the hierarchy of denials. I think after "well it's not illegal" comes "well he can't be prosecuted," which will play interestingly during the midterms.

It's technically true that there's no crime called collusion, but you know, the devil's in the details and all that.

Not available in EU

Stupid EU defending my rights

What's not available in the EU? Light rail?

Anyways, Trump is threatening another shutdown which would start a little more than a month before the November midterm election date. Part of it is simply circumstance, there is a deadline of September 30th, but it's also possible that Trump views it as leverage and likely thinks he'll escape the wrath of the public if he does it since Obama was largely unscathed when he had it. Though there is a difference between Congress screwing themselves up with the President ready to sign it vs Congress actually doing it and sending it to the Presidents desk and having the President shoot it down.

[scriver]

No, the Sun website isn't available in the EU, presumably because of cookie bans

[smjjames]

The one TheBiggerFish linked is a local Baltimore newspaper though.

[scriver]

Yes, I know it from The Wire (). It's still not available in the EU because of EU laws that apply to us surfing from EU countries.

Anyway, I didn't intend for this to take up space, it was just a comment that I realise in hindsight I had no real reason for posting except that it was my immediate reaction and that I had to share that. Just Twitterbrain problems!

[Descan]

Random local politics, presented with no comment.  Do we have a local politics thread?
http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/ac-cn-light-rail-0729-story.html

Residents say the light rail station, along with the presence of a blood plasma donation center, has contributed to the decline of the shopping center and an increase in petty crime in the area.

... What?

[Rolan7]

It's not that complicated, they're saying that the extra-affordable transportation is attracting people who can't afford a car.  Including homeless panhandlers and criminals.  Blood plasma "donation" would too, because people get payed for the plasma.  It attracts poor (including college students in my experience, heh).

The main counterargument seems to be people claiming that the entire county is getting more homeless and criminals, and that people near the light rail assume it's just them and that the light rail is to blame.

Frankly IDK.  Sounds to me like it is attracting lowlifes, so in a way it's a valid concern, but it's not *making* impoverished people.  I'd expect that it's actually helping a lot of people work who otherwise wouldn't be able to.  If I was in any position to judge, I'd vote to keep it.

[PTTG??]

Give the houses near the light rail station to the homeless people. The current residents will be allowed to sleep in the station.

[Rolan7]

Eh, I think maybe they're suffering enough for the crime of daring to live near a place the government would someday build a land-value-destroying public service they don't need.

[PTTG??]

The real problem is that corporations have done so much to destroy the traditional savings route (pension + reasonable salaries + benefits are now a fantasy) that the only way people save up wealth anymore is in home equity. It's like expecting people to save up money by reselling tulip bulbs.

[ggamer]

Kemp wins the primary, which is good for me bc it means I have work for the next few months. It might be bad for GA, however, bc I think Kemp might just be stupid enough to try and pass that anti-lgbt bill that's been making the rounds for the past few years or so.

This is bad, because a big part of what's gonna help GA's economy get through the upcoming recession is the film industry, and a lot of film companies have threatened to move elsewhere if that bill gets passed.

ugh

[smjjames]

Tell me more about this 'upcoming recession'. It doesn't seem like a recession is imminent, though things could certainly go south in a hurry.