January 11, 2018

Seth Meyers: President Trump's First Physical, U2 Albums - Monologue - 1/9/18

January 11, 2018

The Daily Show: Trump Sends Mixed Messages on Immigration

While President Trump discusses DACA and his border wall with congressional leaders, his administration ends temporary protected status for El Salvadorian refugees.

January 10, 2018

Stephen Colbert - Monologue and Opening - 1/9/18

Trump Still Thinks Mexico Will Pay For The Wall



In an uncharacteristically transparent move, the White House allowed cameras into a bipartisan meeting about immigration.



Sen. Dianne Feinstein Gives No F's (Except For Fusion GPS's Testimony)



Sen. Dianne Feinstein authorizes the publication of a bombshell document (Fusion GPS's transcript) that sheds light on a bombshell document (the Steele dossier).



Future Presidents (Oprah) And Past Presidents (Bannon)



Stephen examines two people making a big splash this week: the recently unemployed Steve Bannon and infinitely employed Oprah Winfrey.



Trump Sings The National Anthem



After months of chiding NFL players for disrespecting our National Anthem, President Trump finally got his chance to show them how it's done.

January 10, 2018

Seth Meyers - Trump Is Becoming More Erratic and Working Less: A Closer Look

Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump continuing to prove that he's an increasingly erratic president who's unfit for his job and apparently working even fewer hours and neglecting urgent issues.

January 10, 2018

What Killed Trump's Cockamamie Coal Plan

Rick Perry's idea to prop up dirty and unsafe energy sources was reviled by just about everyone -- even the president's appointees.

President Donald Trump promised to bring back coal. In a ham-handed attempt to make his boss happy, Energy Secretary Rick Perry in September proposed forcing electrical utilities to heavily subsidize coal and nuclear plants in the name of ensuring a "reliable, resilient energy grid."

Thanks to a quirk of legislative history, though, the Department of Energy can't just issue such a regulation on its own. When Congress established the department in 1977 in the wake of the first oil crisis, it ensured that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the successor to the Federal Power Commission it had created in 1920 and laden with new responsibilities several times since, would continue to set rules for electricity generation, among other things.

This is how it came to pass that on Monday, the five members of the FERC -- four of them appointed by Trump! -- effectively told Perry to take his Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and shove it. The commission said it will "remain vigilant with respect to resilience challenges," but that Perry's approach wasn't compatible with the competitive electricity markets that have evolved under FERC guidance over the past two decades.

This leads to a couple of thoughts:

1. We have a weird system of government!
2. That weird system seems to have saved us from a really dumb idea.

Much more: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-09/what-killed-trump-s-cockamamie-coal-plan

January 10, 2018

Snow and salt can mean serious damage to your vehicle

NORFOLK, Va. - It’s icy, and slushy outside but being lazy and forgetting to take care of your vehicle could be a mistake.

“This is what salt damage does. It’s just big flaky nasty rust that just chunks off of the car and again this is all prior salt damage,” Langevin said.

That nasty looking snow that’s now black, packed behind your tires can cause serious damage if you let it sit there too long.

“All this black, nasty cruddy stuff is all salt and sand that is compacted onto the vehicle. Basically, when it sits for a prolonged period over time it will actually rust and rot the vehicle,” Langevin said.


More (Includes video): http://wtkr.com/2018/01/09/snow-and-salt-can-mean-serious-damage-to-your-car/

January 10, 2018

Tesla's New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production

Photovoltaic glass shingles produce electricity from the sun

Tesla built factory in Buffalo with help from New York State

Tesla Inc. has kicked off production of its long-awaited electricity-producing shingles that Elon Musk says will transform the rooftop solar industry.

Manufacturing of the photovoltaic glass tiles began last month at a factory in Buffalo built with backing from New York State, the company said in an email Tuesday. It comes more than a year after Tesla unveiled the shingles to a mix of fanfare and skepticism.

The appeal: a sleek, clean solar product, especially for homeowners seeking to replace aging roofs. The tiles -- from most angles -- look like ordinary shingles. They allow light to pass from above and onto a standard flat solar cell.

Tesla, the biggest U.S. installer of rooftop-solar systems, piloted the product on the homes of several employees. The company expects to begin installing roofs for customers within the next few months.


More (Includes video): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-09/tesla-powers-up-new-york-gigafactory-solar-roof-assembly-line

January 10, 2018

The Daily Show: Trump Gets Dictator-y with the Justice Department

President Trump slams Attorney General Jeff Sessions for not protecting him in the Russia probe, and the Justice Department announces more Hillary Clinton investigations.

January 9, 2018

Stephen Colbert - Guest Michael Wolff: You Should Believe All Of 'Fire And Fury'

'Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House' author Michael Wolff takes Stephen through some of the biggest bombshells of his bestseller.

January 9, 2018

Stephen Colbert - Monologue and Opening - 1/8/18

How An Oprah Presidency Would Look



While Oprah's Golden Globes speech has many curious about her political ambitions, one man was way ahead of us.



Donald Trump Is Like, Really Not Smart



The President proclaimed his genius on the platform where our society's foremost intellectuals exchange revolutionary ideas: Twitter.



Stephen Miller Got Escorted Out Of CNN



White House political advisor Stephen Miller went on CNN's 'State of the Union' and lost his cool. CORRECTION: he never had a cool to begin with.



Stephen Interviews Jake Tapper's Interview Of Stephen Miller



The Late Show's host goes Stephen-a-Stephen with Trump's book-hating political advisor.