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I call bullshit. For the past 8 years, every story related to the government was about "...the Obama administration...". So now that it's Trump, nobody's allowed to say Trump?

No, back then they blamed it on "homeland security", or other departments, not "The Obama Administration".

https://www.dailydot.com/layer...

http://www.allgov.com/news/top...

Can you honestly say that you think this story today would not have been blamed directly on Trump?

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/0...

In five years of group lawsuits, we tallied an average of $220 million paid to 6.8 million consumers per year. Yet in the arbitration cases we studied, on average, 16 people per year recovered less than $100,000 total.

Sooo... for lawsuits, 6.8 consumers recovered $220 million -- that's $32.35 per consumer. Lawyers probably get around $100 million.

For arbitration, 16 consumers recovered around $100,000 -- that's over $6,000 per consumer. Lawyers get little to nothing.

Let's not be naive -- this is a push by a long-time, high-flying lawyer to increase the volume of class action lawsuits that are generally easy money for law firms and, as shown by his very own data, don't award meaningful money to consumers.

Congratulations on being the one response that is not hiding as an AC. The whole idea of open records access, as described here, goes against engrained industry practice:
http://www.allgov.com/news/con...

And as for pricing, were you aware that in many states it is not even possible to find out the price of hospital procedures ahead of time. This explicitly prevents a patient from planning ahead, or from finding that gallbladder surgery at a first-class hospital in Mumbai can be had, including airfare, at a fraction of the domestic price.

And where do you see me ranting against the ACA? Given that the medical industry resists transparency and open markets, I welcome Obamacare. Let your industry bend over for a generation of governmental mandates and cost controls, then come back to us and tell us whether you still hate the free market as an alternative to your fourteenth-century Guild Of The Goldsmiths mentality.

also uses DPI (packet injection) and is supposed to be the state-of-the-art full-spectrum intelligence platform: it will allow one to intercept an email, alter and forward it unknown to either the addressor or addressee, with a new meeting time and place, and then dispatch either an extreme rendition, or kill team, to the rendezvous point. Ain't life grand?

https://www.wikileaks.org/spyf...
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
http://www.allgov.com/news/us-...
http://securityaffairs.co/word...

Let's hope things work out better than they did in a couple of years ago.

Though the overall reduction was only 10 percent, the impact is quite visible, claim proponents of marijuana consumption. According to the data obtained, homicides went down from 17 to 8, a massive 53 percent drop, automobile break-ins went down from 2,317 to 1,477 (36 percent), and sexual assaults from diminished to 95 from 110 (14 percent).

http://www.inquisitr.com/14900...

Violent Crime Down Since Colorado Legalized Marijuana

When Colorado legalized recreational marijuana, critics of the idea warned it would lead to more crime throughout the state. But the impact has been just the opposite so far in the state’s largest city, which has seen violent crime go down.

Crime data for Denver, the hub of legal pot sales in the state, shows murders, assaults, rapes, burglaries and other violent crimes declined during the first three months of the year, compared with the same period for 2013.

Homicides went down from 17 to 8 (a 53% drop), automobile break-ins from 2,317 to 1,477 (down 36%) and sexual assaults from 110 to 95 (down 14%). Overall, violent and property crimes dropped more than 10% from last year to this year during the first quarter.

Two types of property crime did go up—arson from 20 incidents to 47 (a 135% jump) and larceny from 2,133 to 2,287 (up 7%).

http://www.allgov.com/news/unu...

Let me show you how broken your thinking is. Here is what you quoted as this thing that requires the Governments to spy everyone. which resulted in 71,803 people killed, wounded, or kidnapped in 2007.

According to this, let us compare to alcohol which is perfectly legal to people of age, and does not require intrusive spying on everyone by Governments. These stats are 2004 so it would be safe to assume that increased population increases these numbers, while "terrorism" is fluctuates massively. For example, in your link the amount of people impacted has gone down annually (which is often due to how they fudge numbers to make things look really really bad). I"m not even touching illegal narcotics which would beat the pants off of these numbers.

Cirrhosis: 372,995 deaths.

Traffic accidents: 268,246

You can read the report yourself, but the point is that the net alcohol related deaths were 2,249,852. So over 30 times the deaths occurred, and it does not mean that we should be spying on everyone.

Real numbers, you have a .00003 percent chance of being killed by a drunk, compared to a .000001 percent chance of being impacted by a terrorist (death, kidnapping, wounding). Pay attention to that, it's dead vs. impacted.

Do you see how broken your logic is, to deem it's okay to spy on people based on some raw numbers? Save the straw man or red herring about how safe the spying keeps us, it's bullshit. Boston is proof that the massive spying on you and I does not make a difference. Save your next fallacy about inept or incompetent people managing the data, it does not change because that is not the point of their spying.

Reality check! More people in the US have been killed annually by appliances falling on them than by terrorists! Here is a fun link for you.

Pay attention and read some history. In every case where people have allowed Governments to abuse their rights and privacy in order to protect them, it has turned out very very badly for that society. Every time, not most of the time. This is why Jefferson stated "Those willing to trade liberty for temporary security deserve neither liberty or security." You should know better, but you are brain washed into believing that it can't happen to you.

Either that, or you are paid to spread propaganda like you just did.

The best way to deal with a playground bully is to punch him in the face. Even if he has his buddies with him. Even if you'll get disciplined by the school. You do that a few times, and no one will mess with you.

Unless you are in Florida. Then they'll arrest you and throw you in jail.

• Suspended students who show up at schools have been charged with trespassing.
• Those who throw spitballs were charged with battery.
• Those who shouted or used profanity were accused of disrupting a school function.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2013-02-09/news/fl-school-arrests-jail-pipeline-20130209_1_school-arrests-show-disabled-students-school-bus

Of the 12,000 students taken from school to jail by police in 2012, 67% were accused of misdemeanors, such as disorderly conduct. Oftentimes, disorderly conduct amounts to little more than a student disobeying a teacherâ(TM)s order to put away a cell phone or stop talking in class.

http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/thousands-of-florida-students-arrested-annually-for-actions-that-used-to-merit-a-trip-to-the-principals-office-130213?news=847052

This should be great for the zeta cartels - it seems they've expanded from drugs and mass-murder to the coal industry.

Now when we do such things as turn on a light, we can relish more than our collective carbon boot-print on the Earth's bemired face -- we can smile as we bask in the sanguineous luminosity of torture and intoxication too!

Do a Google search for "Indiana legalizes shooting cops" or check out this blurb: http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/Indiana_First_State_to_Allow_Citizens_to_Shoot_Law_Enforcement_Officers_120611

There are only so many smart, security cleared, patriotic, family cleared, drug test passing, police cleared, non "dual citizens" who can be accepted for work within the US gov.
The DIA, CIA, NSA.... FBI... health, Energy, Space ... all want staff from the same very limited pool of talent.
Their parents and grandparents exchanged colourful tracer fire with real Soviets (from Russia, not some locals) in South America, Asia, Africa ... they studied hard and stayed clean and found their way into the system.
But thats not what the DHS wants. You have to be of a certain mind set to be soak up radiation everyday or tell your staff with a smile thats its fine.
A problem seems to be that NSA and FBI like telco power is getting very cheap and very fast. What was the world wide skill set of the NSA with huge dictionary network efforts has now become so diluted.
http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/FBI_Stepping_Up_Monitoring_of_Social_Media_120128
Lots of people can now do vast dictionary drift nets when people of interest offer their details.
The difference is you would have never known that the NSA or other "smart" US agency would have contacted the GCHQ, MI6, MI5, Ireland, Scotland Yard ect and passed or not passed them.
Nobody would have known, no press, no forums, no comments - now many people are a bit more aware that Web 2.0 is a US trap and they will be more careful making US dictionary network efforts much less helpful.
What will tourism in the US be reduced to? Education swaps and people who want to feel the rush of entering a police state?

http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/FBI_Stepping_Up_Monitoring_of_Social_Media_120128
Careful if you Web 2.0 about terrorism, surveillance operations, online crime and other criminal matters in any of 12 languages.
800 million members - whats that in Persona Management Software terms?
Don't chat about insider trading - before big valuations.

Top it all off with a little Senate bill 1867 and your nightmares have become true, my friend.

Start preparing for military rule.

The TSA has already commenced some freeway operations.

http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/Tennessee_First_State_to_Allow_TSA_Highway_Random_Search_Program_111108

With the TSA on a highway near you, expect to be scanned and enjoy some "behaviour detection". If you dare quote your rights expect to meet the local "Big Bob".
http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/Tennessee_First_State_to_Allow_TSA_Highway_Random_Search_Program_111108
If a drug dog can walk "around" your car, expect something like this to be tested soon.

Taking an award for a program that is about to die in public is bad form.

“It’s almost a theater of the absurd to have an award on transparency that isn’t transparent,” Gary Bass, founder of OMB Watch, and one of five groups that met with the president, told The Washington Post. “The irony is that everything the president said was spot-on. I wish people had heard what he had to say.”

http://www.allgov.com/Unusual_News/ViewNews/Obama_Receives_Transparency_Award__in_Private_110402

For the MOX in Unit 3 comment http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/Meltdown_at_Japanese_Nuclear_Power_Plant__A_Disaster_Waiting_to_Happen_110313
Not much MOX news in google.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704893604576199884191526312.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8379134/Nuclear-meltdown-threat-Japan-preparing-for-a-worst-case-scenario.html
and for the "minimal" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366055/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-Navy-crew-months-radiation-1-HOUR.html
The USS Ronald Reagan was around 100 miles (160km) offshore.

Too lazy to go looking for SCOTUS decisions, but: http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/Obama_Halts_Sermons_during_Soup_Kitchen_Meals_101126

Same idea.

At breaking laws and acting without morality or conscience against the interests of the nation and humanity?

Outside trauma and emergency medicine, perhaps, but the "crisis managment" mentality is clearly inappropriate to most care, which involves _scheduled_ appointments, examinations, etc.

If we are doing a comparison, a combat turn on an F16 with intake inspection, servicing inspection, weapons load, etc can be done in under 20 minutes (hot refuel done on the taxiway). The Weapons folks have the checklist open and mark off the steps using grease pencil. The process is hectic, but a key part of control is the checklist.

I put down the resistance to checklists outside of dire emergencies ("dire" being outside even of most ER visits) to elitism.
If a pilot can abide by them (including some emergencies) then other skilled people have limited excuse.

http://www.allgov.com/Where_is_the_Money_Going/ViewNews/Medical_Errors_Cost_Americans_19_5_Billion_Dollars_a_Year_100823

Checking out the demographics for Fox News, as of today August 14th 2010:

Watching cable news is not for the young. A new Nielsen survey shows Fox News has the oldest audience, averaging 65 years of age. CNN was right behind Fox, with a median audience age of 63, followed by MSNBC (59) and CNBC (52). The same survey showed that those who tune into network programming tend to be middle-aged, with CBS’ median viewership being 55 last season. ABC’s audience came in at 51 and NBC at 49. Fox’s network audience, helped by such programming as its animated comedy block, has a median primetime viewer age of 44. The youngest of the networks is CW at 33, which is not surprising since its target audience is women aged 18-34.

That's right folks, the average age of a Fox News viewer is 65 years old. Please, downmod Spaznwich as he obviously hasn't checked the "youthful demographics" at all.