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[skatingfan]

Dunking on Ted Cruz never gets old.

[ponchi101]

Things that cannot be left to the free market:
Utilities
Public Transportation
Health
Security personnel

It is not so difficult to grasp. You simply cannot switch electrical grids overnight. So the free market does not work.

[JazzNU]

If you don't read the final article in those Tweets, that $17,000 bill is even worse than it seems. Just unconscionable.


From the article:

Ty Williams and his family in Arlington were among the lucky ones during this week's storm and never lost power. However, he did pay the price in the form of a $17,000 electric bill for three meters over five days of use. He is a customer of a company called Griddy.

[ti-amie]

AY Allgood @ayallgood
Replying to @NotHoodlum and @k_fernholz
Isn't the Tiffany security guy Melania's BF?

Hoodlum @NotHoodlum

Yup. That would be Hank Siemers.

Tiffany's was doing a reno on their main location on 57th & 5th so this was never a permanent location for the store. Let's see who moves in.

[ti-amie]

Things that cannot be left to the free market:
Utilities
Public Transportation
Health
Security personnel

It is not so difficult to grasp. You simply cannot switch electrical grids overnight. So the free market does not work.

[ti-amie]

[MJ2004]

The idea of fracking scares me more than just about anything else we do to this planet. The implications on groundwater and other unknowns could be monumental down the road.

[ti-amie]

The idea of fracking scares me more than just about anything else we do to this planet. The implications on groundwater and other unknowns could be monumental down the road.

Fracking is Exhibit A in just because you can do it doesn't mean you should.

[ponchi101]

With the current world oil prices, it is unviable in almost all places. It is an expensive process, therefore the break even point is really not financially appealing.
At the moment. And we know how that changes.

[ti-amie]

[ti-amie]

[JazzNU]

Reminder: This is the source of Jessica Pegula's family's immense wealth and the reason I call her the Fracking Princess. Don't be fooled by that Buffalo Bills and Sabres smokescreen.

[shtexas]

75 degrees in Dallas yesterday! Crazy.

[ponchi101]

Worst possible combo. Now you get all the mud and related problems.
Open all your windows and blast the fans. Get all that moisture out. Glad to hear you have made it through.

[ti-amie]

Wife of drug kingpin ‘El Chapo’ arrested on US drug charges
By MICHAEL BALSAMO

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2019 file photo, Emma Coronel Aispuro, center, wife of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, leaves federal court in New York. The wife of Mexican drug kingpin and escape artist Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been arrested on international drug trafficking charges at an airport in Virginia. The Justice Department says 31-year-old Emma Coronel Aispuro, who is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Mexico, was arrested at Dulles International Airport on Monday and is expected to appear in federal court in Washington on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The wife of Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” Guzman was arrested on Monday at an airport in Virginia on international drug trafficking charges, the Justice Department said.

Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, who is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Mexico, was arrested at Dulles International Airport and is expected to appear in federal court in Washington on Tuesday.

She is charged in a single-count criminal complaint with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana in the U.S. The Justice Department also accuses her of helping her husband escape from a Mexican prison in 2015 and participating in the planning of a second prison escape before Guzman was extradited to the U.S. in January 2017.

As Mexico’s most powerful drug lord, Guzman escaped through an entry under the shower in his cell to a milelong (1.6-kilometer-long) lighted tunnel with a motorcycle on rails. The planning for the escape was extensive, prosecutors say, with his wife playing a key role.

Court papers charge that Coronel Aispuro worked with Guzman’s sons and a witness, who is now cooperating with the U.S. government, to organize the construction of the underground tunnel that Guzman used to escape from the Altiplano prison in Mexico to prevent him from being extradited to the U.S. The plot included purchasing a piece of land near the prison, firearms and an armored truck and smuggling him a GPS watch so they could “pinpoint his exact whereabouts so as to construct the tunnel with an entry point accessible to him,” the court papers say.

Guzman was sentenced to life behind bars in 2019. His Sinaloa cartel was responsible for smuggling mountains of cocaine and other drugs into the United States during his 25-year reign, prosecutors said in recent court papers. They also said his “army of sicarios,” or “hit men,” was under orders to kidnap, torture and kill anyone who got in his way.

https://apnews.com/article/el-chapo-wif ... c2bff342c8