December 24, 2016

Arizona Governor Welcomes Uber Fleet of Self-Driving Cars

PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) - Uber’s self-driving cars are coming soon to a road near you.

The ride-hailing company made the announcement Thursday, much to the delight of Gov. Doug Ducey.

"Arizona welcomes Uber self-driving cars with open arms and wide open roads,” he said after the announcement. “While California puts the brakes on innovation and change with more bureaucracy and more regulation, Arizona is paving the way for new technology and new businesses.”

Uber pulled its 16 self-driving vehicles off the streets of San Francisco Wednesday after California’s Department of Motor Vehicles revoked their registrations last week. The pilot program, which is now coming here, lasted only a week.


http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/34117216/uber-coming-to-az-to-test-self-driving-cars-governor-says-welcome

December 24, 2016

Carrie Fisher in Stable Condition After Reportedly Suffering Heart Attack on Plane

Update at 7:30 p.m.: Carrie Fisher's brother tells the Associated Press the actress was "out of emergency" and in stable condition after suffering a medical emergency on a plane. Todd Fisher declined to go into any more detail about what happened to his 60-year-old sister.


http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/12/23/carrie_fisher_in_critical_condition_after_suffering_heart_attack_on_plane.html

December 23, 2016

Actress Carrie Fisher in critical condition after a 'cardiac episode' on flight from London to L.A.

“Star Wars” actress Carrie Fisher was in critical condition Friday after suffering a “cardiac episode” during a flight from London to Los Angeles, according to emergency officials.

Fisher, 60, was rushed to the hospital by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics shortly after noon, after her flight touched down at LAX.

A source who was not authorized to discuss the incident said the actress was “in a lot of distress on the flight.”

A statement released by United Airlines said that medical personnel met flight 935 from London upon arrival after the crew reported a passenger was unresponsive.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-carrie-fisher-cardiac-20161223-story.html

December 23, 2016

President Obama Says First Lady Would Divorce Him if He Ran Again (VIDEO)

December 23, 2016

James - Sit Down (VIDEO)

December 23, 2016

Did anyone see 'Jackie' yet?

Just saw previews of the Jackie Kennedy biopic and looks good. Has anyone seen it? What did you think?

December 21, 2016

Democrats to Hillary: Thanks you but it's time to hang it up.

PERSONAL NOTE: I am proud to have supported Hillary, but we're all getting old and it's time for us to move on.



A majority of Democratic and independent voters made clear that they don’t foresee Hillary Clinton in their 2020 vision of the presidential election, according to a USA Today/Suffolk University poll released on Wednesday.

Sixty-two percent of Democrats and independents surveyed said the twice-failed presidential candidate shouldn’t mount another campaign in 2020, and only 23 percent would be excited by her campaign if she did.

The two people they would most like to see are two of the most prominent Democratic-aligned politicians unlikely to seek the White House in 2020: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Vice President Joe Biden. Forty-four percent and 43 percent of those voters, respectively, said they would be excited to see Sanders and Biden run.

Sanders challenged Clinton for the Democratic nomination, but it’s unlikely that the 75-year-old independent senator would mount another White House bid. However, he has said he plans to run for reelection to his Senate seat in 2018.


http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/poll-democrats-independents-no-hillary-clinton-2020-232898

December 21, 2016

Obamacare Enrollments Exceed 6 Million, Outpacing Last Years Sign-Ups

WASHINGTON ― Health insurance enrollments on the federal exchange marketplaces served by HealthCare.gov are outpacing last year’s sign-ups, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced Wednesday.

As of Monday’s deadline for customers who want coverage that will be in place by Jan. 1, 6.4 million people had chosen plans in the 39 states where federal authorities operate the exchanges, including more than 2 million new customers.

The overall total is an increase of 400,000 from a comparable period a year ago, Burwell said. The 2 million new enrollees is down from the 2.4 million new customers who signed up during the same period last year, however. Last Thursday was a record-breaking day for HealthCare.gov enrollment, President Barack Obama said last week.

“We’re going to finish this open enrollment by trying to enroll more people than ever,” Burwell said during a conference call with reporters. “Today’s enrollment numbers confirm that some of the doomsday predictions about the marketplace are not bearing out.”

The enrollment figures made public Wednesday don’t include current customers whose plans will automatically be extended by the end of the year or the enrollments in 11 states and the District of Columbia, which run their own exchanges. A final tally ― which Burwell said would include millions of additional people ― will be revealed in January.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obamacare-enrollments-outpacing-last-years-sign-ups_us_585ae559e4b0d9a59456f61c

December 21, 2016

Conservatives' Special Revisionist Math: Trump Won Popular Vote If You Nix CA!

Some conservative publications have taken to arguing this week that the President-elect did much better on Election Day than his nearly 3 million-vote deficit suggests—if only certain liberal cities and states were completely discounted from the popular vote total.

By far, the most popular target for wholesale disenfranchisement in these thought experiments is California. Clinton won the state’s popular vote by more than 4.2 million, according to a tally by the Cook Political Report, which is an even larger margin than her nationwide popular vote lead, which was nearly 2.9 million.

The Daily Mail headlined an article which was later featured on the Drudge Report Wednesday: “Final tally shows Trump lost popular vote by 2.8 million – but he BEAT Clinton by 3 million votes outside of California and New York.”

Such a feat of revisionism belies the fact that California is the nation’s most populous state (New York is fourth) and is home to more than one in eight Americans who voted for president in 2016, per the Cook Political Report.

Other outlets took a similar tack: “It's Official: Clinton's Popular Vote Win Came Entirely From California,” Investors Business Daily declared on Saturday. Joe Walsh, the former Republican congressman-turned-shock jock, amplified the IBD article Sunday on Twitter and wrote “I know California is a state & we have to count it, but if you remove CA, Trump won the popular vote by 1.4 million.”


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/conservatives-without-california-trump-won-popular-vote

December 21, 2016

The Subpoena That Rocked The Election Is Legal Garbage, Experts Say

The warrant connected to the FBI search that Hillary Clinton says cost her the election shouldn’t have been granted, legal experts who reviewed the document released on Tuesday told The Huffington Post.

FBI Director James Comey shook up the presidential race 11 days before the election by telling Congress the agency had discovered new evidence in its previously closed investigation into the email habits of Clinton, who was significantly ahead in the polls at the time.

When Comey made the announcement, the bureau did not have a warrant to search a laptop that agents believed might contain evidence of criminal activity. The FBI set out to rectify that two days later, on Oct. 30, when agents applied for a warrant to search the laptop, which was already in the FBI’s possession. The FBI had seized the computer as part of an investigation into former Rep. Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

The unsealed warrant “reveals Comey’s intrusion on the election was as utterly unjustified as we suspected at time,” Brian Fallon, a Clinton campaign spokesman, said on Twitter Tuesday.

Clinton’s lead in the polls shrank in the wake of Comey’s announcement. Then, just days ahead of election, the FBI announced its search was complete, and it had found no evidence of criminal activity. Clinton officials believe that second announcement damaged her as much as, or more than, the first, by enraging Trump supporters who believed the fix was in.

The legal experts’ argument against the validity of the subpoena boils down to this: The FBI had already publicly announced that it could not prove Clinton intended to disclose classified information. Without that intent, and without evidence of gross negligence, there was no case. The warrant offers no suggestion that proving those elements of the crime would be made easier by searching new emails.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-subpoena-that-rocked-the-election-is-legal-garbage-attorney-say_us_58597cd9e4b03904470b0633