Man has dispute with ticket agent, who wants to charge $300 for luggage on a return trip that cost the passenger $125 on the first flight.

Passenger video-recorded the exchange, which took place in a public area with other members of the public watching.  IOW there is no expectation of privacy.

Ticket agent then revokes formerly valid ticket, forcing passenger to fly home on another airline.

UA spokesperson says this is not company policy, and the company "is investigating."  

Let's hope he's going to say they will stop all business until a special prosecutor is appointed.

I kid you not.

"We have to prime the pump....Have you heard that expression used before? Because I haven't heard it. I mean, I just...I came up with it a couple of days ago."

Three members of a Dublin family who were beaten and robbed by a mob of teenagers at BART's Coliseum station in Oakland last month have filed a $3 million claim against the transit agency accusing it of failing to protect its passengers....
.... BART officials said a mob of 40 to 60 young people streamed onto a Dublin-bound train at the Coliseum at about 9:30 p.m. on April 22 and committed at least seven robberies and injured at least two people.

asking 43 potential jurors -- 33 women and 10 men -- for more information

I always thought Harris fine but a bit of plodder and wallflower.  Not dynamic or interesting.

Newsom I have always liked, a dynamic and telegenic pol.   As I have said, the cabbies in San Francisco talked for weeks when as Mayor he walked the picket line with striking hotel workers.

But Harris has really done something that I find just great.  In discussing publicly the House passing the Trump health care bill, she said, "What the f*&k is that?"  

Harris has showed great fire on this.   Good for her.  

When President Donald Trump hosted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office on Wednesday just hours after firing the FBI director who was overseeing an investigation into whether Trump's team colluded the Russians, he was breaking with recent precedent at the specific request of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The chummy White House visit--photos of the president yukking it up with Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak were released by the Russian Foreign Ministry since no U.S. press was allowed to cover the visit--had been one of Putin's asks in his recent phone call with Trump, and indeed the White House acknowledged this to me later Wednesday. "He chose to receive him because Putin asked him to," a White House spokesman said of Trump's Lavrov meeting. "Putin did specifically ask on the call when they last talked."

Why am I more downhearted about that than Trump firing someone who could actually hold him to some accountability? Feels really hopeless I guess. I know McMaster could curse Bannon through a wall. He's very intelligent but my spouse says he cusses like a wild heathen when ticked.

If Trump fires McMaster though....I dunno. I suppose the FBI and the US Army will have something in common, a shared deer in the headlights shock.

The ransomware, which first encrypts the victim's data and then demands a ransom to unlock it, has spread to at least 99 countries across the world as of Friday. The NHS has been all but shut down today, taking only emergency cases, and about 85% of Telefónica's computers have been affected.

WannaCry's virulence appears to based in its exploitation of an existing flaw in Microsoft Windows operating software, which first infects the machine by encrypting all its files and then, using a remote command execution vulnerability through SMB, is distributed to other Windows machines on the same network.

A snarky congratulations must be offered to our very own National Security Agency, which first spotted the design flaw in Windows software and sought to exploit it for its own use, only to see its secret stolen when NSA databases were subsequently hacked, likely by the Russians and their allies, who then naturally employed the very same exploit for their own ends.

While this exploit was patched several months ago by Microsoft, those systems which have been infected by WannaCry appear to have not sufficiently updated their Windows software to install the fix, which rendered them vulnerable to this sort of attack.

Therefore, to the extent possible, please protect your own computers by making sure that their Microsoft operating platforms are updated accordingly. Those of you who, like Jeralyn and Jim, have your own websites ought to further check with your ISPs or whoever hosts those websites to make sure that their own systems are sufficiently updated and protected from this insidious form of cyberattack, as well.

He told Falwell Jr's wife to stand up in a semi derogatory tone. Claimed the family was very close to him and then read their names uber obviously off the teleptompter. Told the graduates he had made the commitment to be there with them a long long time ago, as if others were clamoring for his presence. Told the graduates boy they really voted too, at least those old enough to vote...their parents. My God, Donald Trump thinks the voting age is 21!

GOP representatives take a verbal beating at town halls across America -- House representatives tried to sell the Trumpcare to constituents this week. It went badly.

Meadows was peppered with questions from the crowd. He told a nurse concerned about Medicaid that nothing would change in North Carolina because the state didn't opt in to Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, but he failed to mentioned that Trumpcare would also impose a per-capita cap on Medicaid spending and cut $880,000 billion from the program over all, which would have an impact on Medicaid.

This type of dodge was typical throughout the week, as lawmakers stretched the truth to defend their decision to pass the bill without a current CBO score, to roll back Medicaid, and to dissolve protections on health insurance for people preexisting conditions. The CBO score for a previous, similar version of the bill estimated that it would cause 24 million fewer people to be insured by 2026. The new CBO score is expected the week of May 22.