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So is the Georgia DNR. They just murdered a giant alligator for FUN.

Spying is big business. For example, spying is Google's main theme for which services to keep and which to do away with. Perhaps spying is driving these ancestry services as well. We already know these ancestry services share client data with police (1, 2, 3). Perhaps this data sharing is listed in the terms of service, but either way the sharing helps authorities augment their database and helps them perform more surveillance on ordinary citizens (most citizens don't commit crimes and therefore should not face such treatment; I'm not convinced those who commit crimes deserve this treatment but the vast majority of the public absolutely don't).

Childhood obesity linked to Poor School Performance and Coping Skills

Childhood obesity linked to antibiotics

Childhood obesity linked to hip disease in adolescence

Childhood obesity linked to More Junk Food Ads

Childhood obesity linked to poverty, parenting style Childhood Obesity Linked to a Mother's Weight Gain in Pregnancy

Childhood Obesity Linked to lakc of sleep

Childhood obesity linked to eating food from animals treated with antibiotics

Childhood obesity linked to Mutant Gean

This data will all be stolen and sold.

Or subpoenaed by law-enforcement. Which will help police even when the suspect is not the firm's customer, but merely a relative of one.

Of course, this prospect should not bother law-abiding members of a well-governed society...

Do you **REALLY** think these companies are going to put up a legal fight for you when your DNA is requested by the government?

A.C.#2

They don't have to. The multiple layers of anonymizing means nobody can provide anything useful. Besides which, there's nothing in there the government can use. Paranoia is a psychiatric disorders, not a political stance.

If you cared to Google it, you would find that, with a search warrant, law enforcement can obtain genetic information and material from places like 23andMe and Ancestry. In fact, the link below confirms they already have at least once. You can use a pseudonym. Maybe it and the corporate anonymity maze will be enough to slip through the sophisticated clutches of the Law's big data algorithms. GLWT.

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/can-police-legally-obtain-your-dna-from-23andme-ancestry/8eZ24WN7VisoQiHAFbcmjP/

BTW, Paranoia is a political stance. It's so obvious, you don't really need a link, but even so:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/20...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35382599

it can't be the primary one.

That is not true at all. Bill Clinton was impeached for Obstruction of Justice (perjury).

You made two mistakes:

Clinton was never indicted for any crime other than obstruction of justice. For one thing, only the house of representatives could start such an action against a sitting president. Just go ahead and ask any lawyer you know whether or not you'll go to jail for lying to the police. It happens all the time. It is illegal no matter why they are interviewing you. This is why a girlfriend can go to jail for obstruction of justice if she provides a false alibi for her boyfriend without committing any other crime. Look it up. Ask a lawyer. Lying and obstructing an investigation is illegal.

I would consider the firing of Comey to be obstruction of justice

Of course, you would — such is your hatred of Trump. And this, too, presumes, Trump was guilty (of something else), was afraid Comey would uncover it, and fired him to avoid the uncovering. For this to make sense, you still need to show, what that "something else" could possibly have been. Until you can state an actual (primary) charge, your complaints of "obstruction" make no sense.

Further, what if I told you, multiple Democrats demanded Comey's firing months and days before Trump done did it? Here:

“My confidence in the FBI director’s ability to lead this agency has been shaken,” said Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia.

If the opposition demanded the man be fired, they can't turn around and cry "crime!" when he finally is fired. And Trump had perfectly good reasons of his own to do it — the leaking of information alone is a fireable offense.

First of all, I do not hate Trump. I have no reason to hate Trump. Do I think he is an idiot? Yes. Do I think he's an embarrassment to the office of the president? Yes. Do I think he only acts in his own best int

it can't be the primary one.

That is not true at all. Bill Clinton was impeached for Obstruction of Justice (perjury).

You made two mistakes:

I would consider the firing of Comey to be obstruction of justice

Of course, you would — such is your hatred of Trump. And this, too, presumes, Trump was guilty (of something else), was afraid Comey would uncover it, and fired him to avoid the uncovering. For this to make sense, you still need to show, what that "something else" could possibly have been. Until you can state an actual (primary) charge, your complaints of "obstruction" make no sense.

Further, what if I told you, multiple Democrats demanded Comey's firing months and days before Trump done did it? Here:

“My confidence in the FBI director’s ability to lead this agency has been shaken,” said Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia.

If the opposition demanded the man be fired, they can't turn around and cry "crime!" when he finally is fired. And Trump had perfectly good reasons of his own to do it — the leaking of information alone is a fireable offense.

Here's a thought: don't get arrested for beating people, burglarizing homes, stealing cars, trafficking in stolen opiates and weapons, and more. I know, it's a crazy idea, but it just might work.

Nope, turns out the police can arrest you and make you confess regardless.

Or even just shoot you out of hand.

Sorry dude, when even your beloved President is screaming for the Death Penalty on a whim, you've got nothing except your own thuggish obsessions.

Americans killed by guns in recorded history: 0

Is that like that philosopher who insisted that nobody was killed by a sword, they died from not avoiding the sword?

Here's a shock for you, guns do kill people.

On a side note, concealed carry warning and brandishing probably stops that many robberies, rapes and murders in a week...

Because...you must think that attempted robberies, rapes, and murders are so common that there are thousands a week! What kind of crime-ridden world of fear do you live in?

Americans killed by medical mistakes each year: about 250,000

And we've got a whole group of people arguing about that problem too!

Americans killed by antibiotic resistant bacteria each year: 23,000

Also discussed.

Clearly guns are not that big a threat unless you are an alt left fascist progressive looking to dominate and subjugate the American people.

Nope, guns are a big threat to the American people, what with deaths from toddlers with guns, whereas imaginary fears of alt-left fascist progressives looking to dominate and subjugate the American people aren't a threat at all, except so insofar as they lead right-wing pseudo-conservative trolls to instigate feigned outrage in America.

Every dictator in the last 100 years from Stalin to Mao on down the line disarmed their people first and then murdered millions of them.

Nope. In fact, many dictators armed their people, then told them to go forth and kill "not their people" because well, that's a great way for dictators to keep power.

You must not be familiar with history.

Guns are in fact inanimate objects controlled by their wielder, which is why every LEO in the country carries one.

Guns, are in fact, tools that ought to be regulated like many other tools, such as lawnmowers, chainsaws, pressure washers, and nail guns, and no, not every LEO in the country carries one. For example. And some shouldn't.

Any group that uses "gun deaths" are political shills with no interest in truth.

I wonder if you realize that group includes yourself.

Gun deaths usually include suicides (who just use different methods in gun free countries), criminals shot by police or citizens, and other justified shootings that are actually a good thing for society and end up saving lives.

Nope, actually, they're not using different methods, the suicide rates are often lower, self-defense and other justified shootings are excluded from the counts though actually...the number of such shootings is a problem, not even counting the various incidents.

Sorry, I know you don't want there to be any problem except not having enough bullets for all those dirty leftists who you hate with all you

John's original LinkedIN profile is gone, now it's just John G. His full name is John W. Gamble Jr., and he made over 2.6 million in total compensation last year. A Whitepages search doesn't find anyone in Atlanta, but does find a John W Gamble Jr. (Age 50-54) in Lockport, NY. This PR release has him at 51 in 2014. According to this he is also on the board of both CyrusOne, Inc. and CyrusOne LP, a real estate company that specializes in data centers. And his "public assets" are over 7.5 million.

He's worked "in tech" long enough to theoretically "know better" than to let this happen. What did he know about security audits, and when did he know them?

What would jailing the couple accomplish? Do you think society needs to be protected from them because they might find and exploit another vulnerability?

What not jailing them would so is send a powerful message to Lowe's and all other companies that they need to stop shifting their costs onto taxpayers and start hiring better people instead of outsourcing at every opportunity.

Giving a speech gassing anyone.

Why can't you morons discern between speech and actions?

why can't YOU realize that some speech IS action. yelling fire in a crowded room. calling for the lynching of black people. screaming for a "whites only" country. stop being naive or bluntly obtuse, whatever you're doing.

Funny how I only hear about blacks excluding whites in college gatherings:

Students' union backs excluding white people from ‘anti-racism’ events

The irony just drips out of that headline, doesn't it? "Keep whitey out of our anti-racism event!"

Or blacks shouting down a white speaker for no other reason than she's white:

Stacey Evans gets shouted down at Netroots conference

Democrat Stacey Evans’ speech to a conference of progressive activists descended into chaos on Saturday, as protesters interrupted her repeatedly and she struggled to make herself heard over chants of “support black women.”

Evans, a Smyrna state legislator who is white, expected a tough audience at the Netroots Nation event, where her rival Stacey Abrams was treated like royalty. But she said she at least expected to be able to make it through her remarks.

That didn’t happen.

Almost as soon as she took the stage, a ring of demonstrators – some holding stark signs criticizing her – fanned out in front of Evans. The chanting soon followed. Pleading repeatedly for the room to speaks – “let’s talk through it,” she implored – the demonstrators at times drowned her out.

...

One of the demonstrators, Monica Simpson, said she made her stand because she wanted to show she was “true to progressive values.” [what value is that? shouting down whites just for being white?]

Asked why Evans hasn’t met that standard, Simpson couldn’t point to any votes or policy stances. But she said she wants “a candidate that truly speaks to my community.” [Gee, I wonder how she identifies who can do that? Racism much?]

“This is our opportunity, especially as black women, to make it known or clear that this is standing on true progressive values,” said Simpson, who lives in Atlanta. “And if you’re not, we’re going to make that clear.” [Yep - racism]

Where are whites being discriminated against, other than in conspiracy theories?

By "progressives" all over the fucking place.

For example:

Stacey Evans gets shouted down at Netroots conference

Democrat Stacey Evans’ speech to a conference of progressive activists descended into chaos on Saturday, as protesters interrupted her repeatedly and she struggled to make herself heard over chants of “support black women.”

Evans, a Smyrna state legislator who is white, expected a tough audience at the Netroots Nation event, where her rival Stacey Abrams was treated like royalty. But she said she at least expected to be able to make it through her remarks.

That didn’t happen.

Almost as soon as she took the stage, a ring of demonstrators – some holding stark signs criticizing her – fanned out in front of Evans. The chanting soon followed. Pleading repeatedly for the room to speaks – “let’s talk through it,” she implored – the demonstrators at times drowned her out.

...

One of the demonstrators, Monica Simpson, said she made her stand because she wanted to show she was “true to progressive values.”

Asked why Evans hasn’t met that standard, Simpson couldn’t point to any votes or policy stances. But she said she wants “a candidate that truly speaks to my community.” [the blatant racist...]

“This is our opportunity, especially as black women, to make it known or clear that this is standing on true progressive values,” said Simpson, who lives in Atlanta. “And if you’re not, we’re going to make that clear.”

Sometimes, the law makes an example of you. http://www.ajc.com/news/local/... Jose Ismael Torres and Kayla Rae Norton got 20 year and 15 year sentences for riding down a street with a confederate flag and yelling racial epithets (and allegedly having a gun). Normally, stuff like that doesn't result in 20 year sentences, but every once in a while, a smack down occurs. Rioters have gotten used to being treated with kids gloves for the better part of two decades. Normal Americans are getting sick of their shit, and in some cases, normal Americans and not left-wing agitators still control the Justice system.

Hindsight is 20/20 and hindsight says Robert Moses di an insane amount of damage to cities he had influence over...

The cities he had influence over are prospering. The cities Jacobs influenced are in massive decline.

How about Trump claiming voter fraud yet again, providing no proof?

How can he?

Perhaps the same way states like North Carolina found voter fraud. A whole two instances that hinged on impersonation. Most of their failings were felons who had not had their rights restored.

Let's see Trump call for those two to be prosecuted though.

We have a secret ballot, there's no way to prove the most common from of fraud, voting on behalf of someone who doesn't come to the polls.

North Carolina did. Twice. Go ahead, demand the prosecution of the North Carolina Two!

Since IDs aren't checked, there is absolutely no way to verify that all votes cast were cast by the people supposedly voting.

ID's are checked in the following states:

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

Photo ID is not always required, but IDs are checked. Other states may require ID on registration. Details are available.

Feel free to find for us, these rampant cases you want to believe exist. Of course, if they do, then all of the elections are invalid. That'll be interesting.

It's like being asked to prove a computer wasn't hacked after all the log files were deleted. How can you? There is no record!

The voting records across the country are still in existence. Go check them. If you know of any that are deleted, please do let us know. Find some people who claim not to have voted, but are on the records as having voted.

People being bused in to vote?

I watched that happen in New Hampshire. People from Massachusetts bused in to interfere with the election. It happens, it's not even really a secret.

Yet you have no videos, no recordings, no names. Funny that. And New Hampshire takes photos before a vote is allowed, so you're merely claiming interference doesn't hold much weight. Do you have photos of any people from Massachusetts voting in New Hampshire? Any records of people objecting to having their picture taken in great numbers?

There is no political mechanism to reverse the decision.

Not true. Similar actions have been reversed before.

The ONLY real hacking attempt we have of this election came from the Department of Homeland Security on Georgia state election offices. But don't let that fool you, it was the RUSSIANS!!!

That wasn't real, it was a bit of hysteria by the Georgia Secretary of State.

You'd know this, if you had looked for the response of DHS to the inquiry.

They're being too polite by far, the correct response should have been "Your vendor is telling you this is some uber-super-mega threat" but it's not.

I get it, I get it, you want to have more evidence of these Russian hacking claims. But repeating stories that are equally as bad in terms of verifiable complaints does not do you any credit, it rather effectively serves to make your own complaints less tenable.

I suggest, instead, you reverse course, and change your approach, demand that the Georgia Secretary of State stop blathering hacking claims without proof.

> Happens here too, domestic violence, and illegal in both countries just a LOT harder to convict over there.

Well, lots of things are harder to convict other there. That's a general characteristic of the 3rd world. But to this specific point, even in the US we have courts ruling that "honor" is a defense, or at least a mitigating factor in an honor killing.

Georgia law allows for a killing to be ruled a voluntary manslaughter when a person "acts solely as the result of a sudden, violent and irresistible passion resulting from serious provocation sufficient to excite such passion in a reasonable person."

A court in Atlanta Georgia hearing a case gave them 9 months to get examples of people who couldn't vote because of voter ID. They wanted to see that it actually was an issue and how bad it was. After 9 months, how many examples were brought to the court?

None, not a single one.

In fact, once voter ID laws were put into place in Georgia, minorities voted MORE OFTEN.
Story explaining turnout after voter id laws.

So, while the liberals are SCREAMING voter id laws prevent minorities from voting, actual reality shows the opposite. After such overwhelming evidence of the opposite, I have to question why is it liberals don't want minorities to vote? It has become the position of the DNC to keep laws off that books that have proven to increase minority participation in voting.

Yet, pointing this out will likely get me labeled a racist. Just like being a Republican, the party ending slavery and getting civil rights passed for blacks, gets you labeled a racist by them.

Better late than never, I suppose, but some big players like Walmart and Home Depot are trying to get chip and PIN, albeit in a round-about way by suing the networks.

I'm a Sad Puppy too, and have been since it all started. What's amusing, is that, last year, Vox Day and his alt-right people decided to leverage the "Sad Puppies" with their own "Rabid Puppies" slate. And, of course, both have been conflated, despite the fact that they come from VERY different places.

Besides, the Hugo Awards, and Worldcon, have been dying for years. The announcement of the Dragon Award by DragonCon in Atlanta is just another nail in the coffin. When the "WorldCon" got 5,171 attendees last year, while DragonCon got over 70K attendees. . . the argument than the WorldCon is representative of Fandom tends to fail. . . similar attendance is seen consistently at the San Diego Comic Con, the Salt Lake City Comic Con, and the New York ComicCon.

That would suggest that perhaps the Hugos and the WorldCon are NOT representative of SF and Fantasy fandom. . .

Both sides want to keep men out of women's bathrooms

Only one side has a clear definition of what "man" means. The other side does not have one, but is demonstrably intolerant of and outright hateful towards the side, which does. Only one of them is bigoted.

Personally, I would prefer people that look like men to you my restroom than my daughter's restroom

If she does not have a penis, she is neither danger, nor particular discomfort to your daughter. But if he does, then he is. You may disagree, but it is no "bigotry" to think otherwise.

Actually, no. No he can not.

What's there to stop him?

And yes, it is a myth

Congratulations, you've defeated a strawman. Your link explains, how improbable (though not impossible) it is to be attacked in a bathroom by a transgendered. But that's not, what I was talking about. Which was the treat posed by a heterosexual man pretending to be a woman in order to get into and stay in women's bathroom. And that has happened...

Am I insane because I identify as a woman?

Yes, one's elevator does not reach all the way to the top, if he considers himself a woman. But, as I wrote once before, we really ought to define terms before continuing. I am now asking you once again to post your definitions for the terms "man" and "woman". Further responses missing this information will be returned unopened. Thank you.

"Blah, blah, blah...so tossing in a grenade first is OK"

And what TV show where you watching?

I read it in the newspaper.

News gets worse.

Here's is someone who got the disk, copied it, and is not mentioned in the list of twelve.
But the state knew about them. How many were actually sent out?

http://www.peachpundit.com/201...

It is possible that the list of twelve released has typos in it and that only twelve disks went out.
I doubt that "Georgia GunOwners magazine"asked for or got the list, but rather the PAC "Georgia Gunowners" which has a web site "georgiagunowners.org"
Likewise, the disk sent to actually sent to Peach Pundit was perhaps listed as "Georgia Pundit"

They did find someone in IT to fire:
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/s...

Here in Atlanta, we are spending $1.1 Billion on widening just one highway interchange: Contractors vying to build $1.1 billion Ga. 400/I-285 interchange

IMHO, that makes the $68 billion California is spending seem like a bargain since they'll be getting 36 miles of tunnels, plus "300 miles of track, dozens of bridges or viaducts, high-voltage electrical systems, a maintenance plant and as many as six stations".

AJC: Missing Georgia Tech student found alive, but bruised

http://m.ajc.com/news/news/loc...

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/l... It looks like they've started putting the article reference next to the story title.

Will taxpayers really get $6M of value out of the fleet?

One of the articles claims that the drones are intended to eventually replace helicopters. If the drones do actually replace helicopters, then I can see taxpayers getting $6M value from the fleet.

Back in 2012, two Atlanta police officers were killed when their police helicopter crashed; they had been flying very low while looking for a lost child. The subsequent NTSB investigation determined that the crash was caused by “the pilot’s failure to maintain sufficient altitude during maneuvering flight, which resulted in his failure to see and avoid a power pole and wires.”

I suspect that one accident will end up costing more than Macon's drone fleet. Several lawsuits have been filed.

Agreed, she had a lot of contacts within the civil rights movement, both political and ecclesiastical. What's also true is that she was a light skinned, chaste (at least apparently so) sober, respectable middle class black woman. Has she been the same person, but darker skinned, poorer, or with an illegitimate child or other non-ideal domestic situation, she might not have been able to make the impact she did.

You are an idiot. Sorry to burst bubble with respect to your bigoted view of the South, but both Georgia Tech and Emory University are located in Fulton County.

Fulton Country was also the location of a historically large meth raid.

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/o...

http://www.11alive.com/story/n...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the paper that broke the story, has pretty much everything on it here http://www.ajc.com/list/news/e...

Can you provide a citation that doesn't include a paywall?

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the paper that broke the story, has pretty much everything on it here http://www.ajc.com/list/news/e...

Yes. It's that simple: Shortsighted moronic stupidity.

But this is the GOP playbook: break things so they don't work, then complain that they don't work, and break them some more.

Case in point: the IRS.
Now nobody particularly likes the taxman.
But the IRS is responsible for funding the rest of government.
So impairing the governments ability to actually pay for the things it does, is stupid.

Specifically, for every dollar spent on the IRS, government takes in 5-7 dollars.
So cutting the IRS, impairing it, preventing it from doing its job, WILL RESULT IN INCREASED DEFICITS.

Customer service wait times, ie help filling out forms, has already more than doubled due to lack of staffing to answer calls. Nearly 40% of

callers give up and hangup before even being helped. There's the issue of tax fraud that they are unable to prevent/investigate because of

lack of staffing, meaning some of the refunds they payout are fraudlent.

And again, there is the simple issue of, if you want government to actually pay for the things it does, someone needs to collect that

money. And making it harder for them to due that, is moronic. Sabotaging and impairing the government's ability to function in order to them

blame them for the dysfunction that you ahve caused is the height of hypocrisy. But again: its the standard GOP playbook.

Mr Bookman says it best:

I suppose they think that’s some kind of revenge for the IRS’ perceived persecution of conservatives, but the agency isn’t some

living, breathing entity that feels pain or retribution. It also won’t affect IRS employees all that much, because they’ll keep coming into work,

doing their job and going home at night, just like before.

However, enforcement will decline, tax cheaters will prosper and even be encouraged, honest taxpayers will get played for suckers,

revenue will fall, the deficit will rise and hundreds of thousands of Americans who call the IRS for information or assistance will be stuck on

the line for an eternity before hanging up, angry at what looks from their end to be an arrogant, unresponsive government that is

supposed to be helping them. Those taxpayers will mutter that no business would ever get away with treating its customers that way. They

will be right.

That’s because no business is run by people whose goal is to make customers hate that business. It’s dumb and it’s destructive, but

that’s what happens when we are governed by children.

So next time you complain about government spending money it doesn't have, remember that it was you that did it to yourself.
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How Stupid Sequester Cuts To The IRS Could Result In A Bigger Deficit
http://thinkprogress.org/econo...

The IRS estimates that every dollar spent on enforcement brings in $4-$5 dollars of additional revenue. As Reuters’ David Cay

Johnston found, every hour spent on corporate tax enforcement bring in more than $9,000 in revenue.

GOP’s childish attack on IRS will hurt honest taxpayers
http://jaybookman.blog.ajc.com...

The IRS Oversight Board, a citizen panel created by a Republican Congress in 1998 to help “rein in” the agency, is even more

blunt about the impact of cuts imposed since 2010. IRS staffing is down 26 percent from two decades ago, and some 5,000 enforcement

agents have disappeared from its payroll just since 2010. That’s pretty dumb, since every dollar spent on enforcement is estimated to

produce $7 in additional revenue to help cut the deficit.

The board notes that account

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/us/racketeering-trial-opens-in-altanta-schools-cheating-scandal.html?_r=0 http://www.ajc.com/s/news/scho...

All the bandwidth in the world can't fix the rampant corruption and graft in school districts throughout Georgia.

The "great equalizer" is throwing those shitheads in jail and taking back the millions in taxpayer money paid as performance bonuses.

Did you not read the links you posted?
This is only in City of Atlanta, and not even metro Atlanta.
One school system had one group of crooks. This is not throughout GA any more than it is through the USA or throughout the whole planet.

Texas conservatives have seized control of the state Board of Education, using it as a platform to rewrite education standards to reflect a more conservative, "Godly" point of view and to demand that textbooks be rewritten to conform with those standards.

http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/jay...

Or...

Texas proposes rewriting school text books to deny man made climate change

http://www.theguardian.com/env...

They're ashamed to be posting a story that's already almost a week old?

Here is a link to a story about the outage.

Therefore, the chiller plant and a large portion of the building’s electrical grid were rendered inoperable

It is also difficult to work without lights, computers, routers, PBX, etc.

Here's the article: Nunn federal building expected to reopen Monday

No, he's right.

SWAT is out of control and needs some serious reigning in. They should be limited to being deployed only where there is solid information that a suspect is armed and dangerous. Addresses should be checked by no less than three people...one on the team, the team supervisor, and upper level supervision. Targets should be observed and confirmed to be present and all attempts made to apprehend them outside of residences.

Further, team members should be criminally and civilly liable for the injury and deaths of innocents at their hand.

Too many innocent people are being killed and maimed by SWAT raids, too many SWAT raids are occurring, and too many times there is no repercussion for fucking things up and blowing a hole in little kid's chest.

If, during an interaction between law enforcement and the public, someone dies, the best option is that it's the bad guy killed by a cop. Second best option is it's a cop killed by a bad guy, the worst option and one that should be avoided at all costs, even the cost of the life of a cop, is an innocent civilian being killed by a cop.

You can't have representatives of the State killing innocents and then just saying "Whoops, my bad" and then throwing money at the family.

Then use that as an example and not a fantasy

Excellent advice! Check out the racial disparity in outcomes of "zero tolerance" school policies, a.k.a. the school-to-prison pipeline. Students of color who commit the exact same infractions of discipline as white students are disproportionately punished starting in pre-school.

In Atlanta, I pay $1000/month including utilities for a 3-bedroom house (in a neighborhood comparable to Portland or Austin). I come out ahead of all you Bay Area suckers even before counting the fact that I work 40 hours a week instead of 60 like most of you apparently do.

Combine this with infusions of blood from your grandchildren and you'll be good to go.

But laying this at the feet of "The Left" much less Obama is utter horseshit

Not really, no. This tactic of destroying people's livehoods by virtue of internet slacktivism is unquestionably a page out of the leftist playbook.

You're kidding right?

• Conservative groups call for national boycott of Girl Scout cookies
• Don't Buy Liberalism
• Talk of a religous conservative boycott of Delta, Home Depot and Coke
• American Family Association: Boycotts
• Conservative Group Calls for Boycott of Ben & Jerry's 'Schweddy Balls' Flavor
• Don’t Do Business with Progressive Appeasers
• Oreo Cookies' Gay Pride Backlash: 25 Companies And Products Boycotted For Supporting LGBT Rights

If you think that only liberals boycott companies and people they disagree with, you are living in a cognitive bubble.

Why per capacity and not actual usage?

No reason; usage is fine. I just wasn't thinking, I guess.

Anyway, you're drastically underestimating the capacity of roads. If everybody with a car got in [at once]...

Actually, my city experimented with that the other day. This was the result (look at the video between noon and 2 PM).

(The capacity of residential streets in front of people's houses is irrelevant; the capacity of bottlenecks is what's important.)

Here's another timeline that's even more interesting because it interleaves the NWS advisories with the actions of various government/municipal entities and school officials:

Winter Storm 2014 Timeline (from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2...

What newspaper do you read?

If by "US media", you are talking only about television, then I have to agree.
The only time I watch news on TV is when I'm on the treadmill at the gym. I assure you that CNN had noted the Jade Rabbit mission before the launch, during the launch, and after the landing. Nothing in-depth, but what can you say about the mission anyway?

Here's some links (below) from the Atlanta Journal. I think they did a decent job of reporting on it. It's similar to the coverage in most mainstream newspapers.
http://www.accessatlanta.com/v...
http://www.ajc.com/videos/news...
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/inter...
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/top-n...
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/top-n...
http://www.accessatlanta.com/v...
http://www.accessatlanta.com/v...
http://www.ajc.com/videos/news...