Bridge Scandal Didn’t Appear to Cause Harm, Obama Wants More Money for Global Warming, North Korea Is Apparently a Very Bad Place: P.M. Links

  • If sugar's so bad, maybe lobby the feds to stop subsidizing it instead.According to an Associated
    Press review of logs and emergency calls, the politically motivated
    closing of the George Washington Bridge in New Jersey
    did not appear to cause any additional health problems or
    deaths
    .
  • President Barack Obama went to California to pledge
    drought aid
    and also push for funds to make communities more
    “resilient” to climate change, which will undoubtedly be used by
    said communities the same way money was handed out to them after
    9/11 to make them more “resilient” to terror attacks. By which I
    mean the money will be used however they want to subsidize whatever
    they want with some sort of lip service to the actual goal.
  • Storms have contributed to a
    25-year high in flight cancellations
    , though government
    regulations that prohibit planes sitting on the tarmac for more
    than three hours have also contributed.
  • The federal government is
    losing nearly half their deportation cases
    when brought before
    judges. Their failure rate has been increasing each year since
    2009.
  • In news that will make you sarcastically respond, “You don’t
    say,” the United Nations has determined that
    extensive crimes against humanity
    are taking place in North
    Korea.
  • A bill proposed in California would require
    warning labels on sugary drinks
    because people just don’t know
    that they’re bad for them and need the government to tell them
    so.

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