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Time travel to this special report aired by CBS on Dec 27, 1968 without commercials
https://www.c-span.org/video/?...

Later in this program includes interview with Tom Kelly of Grumman who discusses the LEM. Kelly wrote an excellent book about the design and construction of this spacecraft many decades later, very insightful.

Only thing I found on FTA was obscure religious channels and channels of languages I don't understand (which these looked like QVC). Even with paid feeds, these didn't seem to be much unless you want 50 hockey channels and content like that. NASA TV is pretty boring, PBS is good but don't need a dish. It would be nice if there was CSPAN from FTA which is very interesting on the weekends, https://www.c-span.org/history as compared during the week the live feeds are mainly staged speeches of senate and congress (generally not much content).

It is up to you to prepare yourself for all things in life, from starting a family to retirement to your own burial.

Considering half of children live in poverty and start the school day hungry (it wasn't up to them to choose where they were born), maybe that's the way things are. Alan Greenspan talked about the growing wealth inequality commenting something like the human intellect really doesn't know how to address this issue. https://www.c-span.org/video/?...

Overall comments on this thread by just about everyone are depressing and example why people vote for politicians that make policy against people's best interests.

No he didn't. He said he didn't have connections to Yale LAW School. https://www.c-span.org/video/?... see about 2h 24m in.

Means the world is going to find ways to uncouple its dependence on the US, as it is becoming considered too irrational and unpredictable.

The recent debacle where Trump badmouths our European allies and praises Putin, then I saw on CSPAN this 1958 film "Why NATO" thinking how much has changed in 60 years https://www.c-span.org/video/?... particularly attitudes back then when a visiting Republican president was there since previous visit as the Supreme Allied Commander of WWII.

I'm thinking Putin has effectively weakened the alliance between US and NATO, much more effectively than his predecessors all without the use of military hardware. Also think about during past 70 years has been relatively peaceful in Europe, I can't think of any other era of a time this long with no major conflicts.

Good god you are thick in the head. Stating a simple fact is not a deflection.

But what about the debates between candidates of multiple parties?

Are yous saying a private institution like a political party cannot set their own rules and agreements with other private institutions?

What about them? Do you have any idea what I'm talking about? Are you just that dumb? Is it too "abstract" for you? Answer my question and you answer your question. I am being "abstract" because that's our laws currently. If you cannot even accurately describe the current system how in gods green earth do you think you can change it for the better? Idiot.

they hold television networks hostage in their quest to actively exclude every other political party from the national discussion.

You must have missed the Libertarian debates. I am sorry I can't hear you over hostage situation in the news room. It appears that An Allepo appeared to legalize medicinal meth and dissolve the FED.

Says the person who's not able to comprehend some pretty simple statements.

Tell me more about abstraction. Do me a favor and just answer my question honestly. It's very simple and from there you will understand how I sit on the issue and what must be done. But if you can't answer that question then we are at an impasse. (Here's a hint; congress shall make no law).

I also believe that any "career politician" should be removed from office

Good for you. Would you like a smiley sticker or a gold star? I guess you should be relieved that the Career Politician Clinton didn't get in.

I see references to Tucker so here's an interesting lecture:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?...

University of Central Florida professor Yanek Mieczkowski taught a class about some of the people who challenged the status quo of the U.S. auto industry from the post-World War II era to the present day. He discussed the successes and failures of people such as Harley Earl, Preston Tucker, John DeLorean and Elon Musk.

Mieczkowski said Musk is not in good company considering these previous auto mavericks all failed. However, Musk has billions to spend where the others do not. Let's see how this plays out (and the drama is unfolding daily!)

Hmm, downvoted without rebuttal, maybe it was my tone or maybe it's because the Southern Poverty Law Center is moderating /. just like it's doing at Facebook. You know, the people that call everything under the sun "racist", even if you just referred to "exceedingly violent" gang members as animals during a roundtable and in response to comments about MS-13 (full transcript). At least the AP retracted their statement, despite their laughable excuse.

The problem here is that Carter Page appears to have been one of *our* spies working for the FBI who helped bust some Russian scammers with a wiretapped binder and there are plenty of reports about it. He also didn't work for Trump for very long at all. You're relying on a lot of secret "evidence" and ignoring how people are leaking rumors to various media outlets to "corroborate" themselves. You do realize how easy it is to pull that sort of nonsense off, right? I mean, right here on Slashdot, we infamously saw the post making that point by saying that one could just as easily claim to have secret evidence you wet the bed... mere days before the dossier about prostitutes peeing on Obama's bed went public.

Meanwhile, we have FBI agents who join that team texting each other about secret societies, insurance policies and telling us that Weiner's laptop was full of classified Hillary emails and they really reopened the investigation just to seize them from the NYPD and declare it a nothingburger before that could get out. Apparently they were too dumb to actually read any of the emails and notice classification markers on thousands of emails, so Comey goes on and mumbles that it's just "a few portion markings" (never mind she'd already lied to the FBI about that, but no need for 18 USC 1001 charges for lying about improper storage of classified material, apparently) and they also hide the fact that Obama knew the whole time, as fact which Hillary's lawyer Cheryl Mills made clear. You can see his press department lying about that around 44:55 in the linked video.

Anyhow, as should have been obvious to anyone with half a brain, Muller isn't going to come out with a damned thing until the mid-terms, at which time we'll start to see various leaks and whatnot building up to a climax right at the election. Not that it helps much, there simply aren't all that many seats for Dems to pick up, but then again, I shouldn't underestimate the crazy tricks...

My reading list and I agree with you, it may not be the opposite but its much more complex than the simple representation of 'dont throttle', the set of rules implemented in 2015 to 2017 being repealed didn't break anything, and if it gets reworked in a way that doesn't negatively effect small groups/companies who want big pipes(amongst other problems with NN that are never talked about) like that set of rules was causing then it will work out better in the end.

And in case someone doesn't get it, I am for some version of NN but not the one imposed in 2015, and not some other one imposed because of a shrill 'the internets are dying' panic. It needs to be worked on some more.

(not my list I can figure out where I got it if anyone cares) The last item was a particularly interesting debate with good discussion:

Robert Kahn, the most senior figure in the development of the internet, delivers strong warning against Net "Neutrality"
https://goo.gl/5SUZ9Z
Dr. David Clark - Internet's Chief Protocol Architect talks Net "Neutrality"
https://goo.gl/iYZH5o
Vonage Co-Founder Jeff Pulver rejects Tim Wu's idea for Net "Neutrality"
https://goo.gl/P7Kxdm
Why Net "Neutrality" is a misnomer
https://goo.gl/o1ZJAG https://goo.gl/tcpQCJ
Former FCC Chief Technologist talks Net "Neutrality"
https://goo.gl/sRYNNo https://goo.gl/uD91hc
Economics used to justify Net "Neutrality" wrong, unsupported, or irrelevant
https://goo.gl/K1RBfm
Internet prices continue to fall
https://goo.gl/JiZJgm https://goo.gl/JLvFRw
Dan Rayburn presents CDN Data
https://goo.gl/bFQWfP
Interview with The Verge on Apple CDN
https://goo.gl/Rvnfcd
Interview with TechCrunch on Microsoft CDN
https://goo.gl/DXANKZ
How President Obama thwarted FCC Chairman Wheeler / Schmidt urges Obama not to pursue Net "Neutrality"
https://goo.gl/dhGHtn
Schmidt tries to bridge "hard-core Net 'Neutrality'" divide
https://goo.gl/FkjzHq
BitTorrent Former CTO statement on Comcast's network management
https://goo.gl/7arhib
BitTorrent Co-Founder rejects heavy legislative approach to solving "non-neutral" internet. Comcast BitTorrent collab "win, win, win." https://goo.gl/7kPBH3
BitTorrent Former CEO claims internet neutrality was achieved with a light regulatory touch, believes the best way to achieve this principle is very much an open debate.
https://goo.gl/aVvwLD
Tim Wu acknowledges Net Neutrality ultimate goal of state internet regulations
https://www.c-span.org/video/?...
Across the country, new local mesh networks which become more powerful as more people use them are an alternative to big ISPs. https://goo.gl/KFHShw
The Future of Mesh Networks
https://goo.gl/hukXpG https://goo.gl/LgAo2f
Elon Musk plans to dethrone telecoms
https://goo.gl/gdpp4D https://goo.gl/WsDpLq https://goo.gl/ZZ7318
FCC regulation withholding progress for new internet service technology
https://goo.gl/SQyCFE
The Law and Economics of Network Neutrality
https://goo.gl/d87HW3
Net Neutr

I submit it should be the people who can afford it -- the shareholders of companies that are the most profitable (I am looking at you, Apple and Google, and your offshore tax havens).

reminds me this mention from “The Know-It-Alls” a panel discussion shown on CSPAN2, https://www.c-span.org/video/?...
“So you have seen the technology -- houses are gone up and work for goggle and work for Facebook and whatever come into these neighborhoods buy houses, and the people get pushed out from those houses are the people that are now the contract workers that help support Facebook and Google and these are not just advertising people that you spoke of but the people that work in the cafeteria the people that drive the dry cleaning cars that bring cleaning to people so they can work 15, 20 hours a day and none of them are Apple or Facebook employees.”

Truth.

Truth.

Truth.

Truth.

I get it though, you're too afraid to admit what the GOP has become in its quest for political power.

EMP! What can't it do?

Dr. Peter Vincent Pry (former CIA, policy wonk and author since) told Congress (see 0:33:10) last Thursday that "we might not ever recover" from a single North Korean EMP attack. One attack will kill "millions of Americans."

I don't know if this is real. Puerto Rico and its craptacular 70 year old wood pole power grid notwithstanding, I don't believe most of our infrastructure is that fragile. I do know that a nuclear powered EMP pulse over North America won't disable our SLBM force, so such an attack will definitely produce a big smoking ruin where Pyongyang used to be.

This CSPAN video where Brian Merchant talked about his book "The One Device: the secret history of the iPhone", in which he retraces the creation and development of the iPhone. What I found interesting is comparison of Jobs to Edison where he didn't invent the smartphone (or the light bulb) but many others did. https://www.c-span.org/video/?...

GPS Declassified: From Smart Bombs to Smartphones. Not very technical, but more of an overview of the organizations and reasons behind the development of the US NAVSTAR (aka GPS) system.

The authors had an event on C-SPAN

A friend returned from recent vacation in S. Korea and Japan was amazed by the rail systems and speaking of bay area Caltrains, "It is so 3rd world country."

I saved this from one of you posters here on slashdot, worth a mention as I was talking with someone who said high speed rail and other such things are guvmint boondoggles. For me I use a car but then I've moved here in the 20th century so I don't have to commute hundreds of miles.

“give out surveys where people rate the relative importance of things.”

That’s likely not going to get you anything useful. What it gets you is a survey of what people think is best for them. And they’re not right a lot of the time, because few people are investors and visionaries. Most people are short-term practical people.

As an example, traffic is getting worse and worse in my little city. Everyone is talking about how we can improve the roads and highways, we’re widening some, improving intersections at others, but nobody is really talking about public transportation. What we need are a couple of light rail lines from the growing suburbs to downtown and the job hubs. That would likely fix a lot of the traffic problems. But that requires people to think longer-term, and rethink how they go about their daily life.

Instead of spending 25 minutes, now 30, now 35 minutes in the car commuting, they need to think about catching a 5 min bus ride, then sitting and checking email for 20 min before getting off near work. But that’s far harder to wrap your head around than “I wish I could shave 10 minutes off my drive to work.” Survey people, and they want less traffic congestion and a better drive to work. That frankly can’t happen without public transportation, but nobody wants that.

Hmmm, our featured person already spends a lot of time on the train. Oh wait, this has been debated before but it was about cars! https://www.c-span.org/video/?...

, but he's hands down a better choice than Hillary

Stop deluding yourself. More of the same was "bad". Trump is "worse".

Im guessing that your objection to Trump is more partisan than it is about policy.

Nope. I can't object to his policy because he doesn't have any. I have no objection to him based on partisan grounds... i don't even think he IS a republican. My objection to Trump is that he is incompetent, petty, easily distracted, easily triggered, extremely narcissist, incapable of humility or honesty, incapable of performing his duties, unethical, and corrupt.

I would take McCain over Trump. I would take Romney over Trump. They'd each be far better presidents.

I would take Pence over Trump. I would even take Palin over Trump. And I think both are horrible candidates both with policy and competency issues... but at least they are trying to serve the country in good faith. I may disagree with them vehemently and think they are idiots, but I believe them to be sincere in their desire to better America.

Trump... has no plan, he has no place in the presidency, he's just ad-libbing it while telling himself he's doing a great job, mostly by telling us he's doing a great job -- and not just a great job, but really the best job ever... of any president... except maybe lincoln... maybe. WTFBBQ -- this orange ass-clown is no Lincoln. Even Nixon and Ford are towering giants over him. We'll see if history judges him better than James Buchanan; I wouldn't be surprised to see Trump take the spot of infamy at the bottom of the list.

https://www.c-span.org/preside...

Look at the criteria --

"Public Persuasion" -- well he did get himself elected so there's that, but lacked the popular vote, and he was running against the highly unlikable, arrogant, Hillary, that even her own party was extremely divided about. And that was his peak.

"Crisis Leadership" -- I'd rate him "counter productive".

"Economic Management" -- is he even participating in the budget in a meaningful way. does tax cuts for himself count?

"Moral authority" -- not from pathological pussy-grabbing liar

"International Relations" - few world leaders want anything to do with him. Nobody is going to go out on a limb for Trump.

"Administrative Skills" -- BWAHAHAHAHAHA; the whitehouse is a revolving door circus and he's the biggest clown there; twitter is official policy now and half the time runs counter to the press secretary.

"Relations with Congress" -- his own party routinely criticises him; he routinely undermines his own party.

"Vision - setting an agenda" -- the ridiculous wall & muslim ban; his only agenda is pandering (badly) for re-election.

"Pursued Equal Justice for All" -- muslim ban, enough said; transgender out of the military, a homophobic VP pick; and he got an official endorsement by the white supremecists... need i go on?

"Performance within Context of Times" -- im not 100% sure what this means, but I'm pretty sure having his staff pepper lots of pictures his own name into reports in the hopes that he might actually read them counts against him here.

I object to Trump because he is not fit to be president, I would object to him running a business I hold shares in, let alone put him at the helm of the United States of America.

The hope is that creating a unique and bipartisan team comprised of top-notch political operatives and leaders in the cyber and national security world, the project will be able to to identify and recommend strategies, tools, and technology to protect democratic processes and systems from cyber and information attacks.

Step 1 to protecting democracy:

Don't riot when someone with different political views comes to your campus. For comparison:

• Bernie Sanders visits conservative Christian university and gets treated like a human being and is allowed to speak: video
• [insert name of conservative politician/pundit] gets invited to [insert name of university] then disinvited after students riot (e.g., UC Berkeley)

Once the universities begin to act like a) they have a role in our democracy (we are actually a representative republic, but I am not going to split hairs), and b) start working constructively to improve it, then we may have something worthwhile.

When you watch the video of the exchange, Markey was being given data he was asking for. He just ignored it.

Markey says there's no data that Network Neutrality hurts investment, while Pai responds by pointing to the data saying it does. Markey doesn't do anything to say why he'd ignore the facts Pai is bringing out; he simply restates that it doesn't exist.

Here's the video clip: https://www.c-span.org/video/?...

Elsewhere in the hearing another senator runs with the data provided by the FCC, pointing out that analysis shows broadband investment was harmed by the Open Internet Order while identifying issues with the NYT analysis saying otherwise.

We need to be clear here that Markey was ignoring information that didn't suit his conclusion. He was cherrypicking.

And elsewhere in the hearing was a senator emphatically SUPPORTING the FCC justification. Slashdot could have mentioned both sides of this issue, but instead seems to cherrypick the side it prefers.

In fact, the senator bringing analysis showing a decrease in broadband investment following the Open Internet Order goes farther, not only bringing a counter claim but also showing where the other analysis went awry. This is supportive of the FCC's position that there is a real cost to micromanaging internet service providers, as used to be the bipartisan consensus.

I've made a clip on C-SPAN since this side doesn't get much coverage:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?...

Actually it was LBJ, however JFK was better at delivering inspirational speeches. Incidently things like space, civil rights were not on JFK's campaign agenda (for LBJ to get his civil rights measures through congress, he made lots of deals with Southern Democrats, i.e. big spending in Huntsville, Alabama which also provided good jobs for blacks*). These matters became things JFK had to deal with when he became president.

However, this go around we ain't going to put a man on Mars (yeah, it's scheduled 20 years from now, it's always been 20 years for the past 50 years). Budgets are being cut (except for military) that involves infrastructure, government workers i.e. NASA people are continually being blasted for being excess baggage. JFK had advantage of huge domestic industrial infrastructure, lots of technical people from German rocket scientists, laid off engineers from Avro Canada, and countless veterans educated by the GI Bill after WWII.

*Richard Paul and Steven Moss talked about their book, We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program, about 10 African Americans who broke the color barrier at NASA. They also spoke about the use of the space program by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson to advance social change.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?...

Likely NSA whistle blower blows lid on intercepts of Trump transition team that had nothing to do with foreigners or Russian investigation.
(https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4662813/whistleblower)

Summary:
-During the open hearing on Monday, he encouraged anyone with relevant information regarding surveillance of President-elect Trump or his transition team to come forward and speak to the House Intelligence Committee.
-Information was legally brought to him by official sources that "thought we should know it", presumably due to his request at the hearing. NSA, CIA, FBI leadership did not know that the information was going to be given to him (looks like a whistleblower).
-He can confirm that on numerous occasions, the US intelligence community incidentally collected intelligence information about US citizens involved in the Trump transition. Details about US persons associated with the incoming administration, with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value, were widely disseminated in Intelligence Community reporting.
-He can confirm that additional names of Trump transition team members were unmasked, similar to how General Flynn's name was unmasked.
-None of the information he was able to see in the dozens of reports was related to Russia or the investigation of Russian activities regarding the Trump team.
-Information was not part of a criminal investigation. It looks like "normal Foreign surveillance" under FISA where there was "incidental collection" that was then widely disseminated with unmasked names, but he still needs to get more information.
-Doesn't know if the information was picked up at Trump Tower, but working to find out details by Friday. Rogers (NSA) appears to be wanting to comply. He's concerned because he doesn't know yet if the FBI will comply. He has called the FBI, no response yet, hoping to talk to Comey later today.
-He has seen intelligence reports that clearly show that the President-elect and his team were monitored and the information disseminated to the IC in a "raw" format.
-Unknown if surveillance was illegal, the main question is why the names were unmasked in reports and widely disseminated throughout the IC.
-Most of the intercepts occurred in November, December, and January. During the transition period. This does not rule out any other periods of surveillance, this is just what he was able to see today.
-It was "a lot of information about the President-elect, his transition team, and what they were doing".
-He is surprised and "alarmed" by the discovery of this information, because it reminds him of when members of Congress were "incidentally" surveilled a year and a half ago. He doesn't understand how the intelligence regarding what President-elect Trump and his transition team were doing had any relation to foreign intelligence activities.

Full press conference https://www.c-span.org/video/?...

Information is coming from a NSA whistle blower, not from FBI,CIA,NSA policiatial mouthpieces. Good job Democrats you turned the your Russian Unicorn into your own Watergate. https://www.c-span.org/video/?...

/. is blocking the story, but without a doubt Trump communications between Trump team members, without any foreigners in the conversations,names unmasked and reports sent throughout the IC . Not related to any criminal investigation or Russia.

From the press conference seems the information might be coming from whistle blower.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?...

Please. You are so biased you must be from the MSM.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4659119/franken-sessions-exchange-russia

Your comment reminds me of this lecture of 20th century suburbs by Evan Friss on CSPAN https://www.c-span.org/video/?... and he describes the garage as a house for a car.

Congress for years has been delegating authority to agencies to make their own rules.
It has been argued that this is a violation of the US constitution.

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

The higher courts also defer to the agencies to interpret their own rules and don't review them for constitutionality.
That's apparently known as the Chevron doctrine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

Benjamin Ginsberg wrote a book about some of that stuff.
What Washington Gets Wrong: The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their Misconceptions about the American People https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01E...

He was interviewed recently on C-Span.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?...
http://podcasts.c-spanvideo.or...

see also:
Is Administrative Law Unlawful https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K...
Terms of Engagement https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F...

Funny thing, though, the chemical weapons were actually used by the "rebels." And of course we made things so much better by arming the "moderate" Islamic terrorists who just happen to also work with the Daesh (ISIS).

Now Russia & Turkey are over there trying to actually make peace in the region. The rest of the world is laughing at us regarding this, mind you, because most other countries learn more about the CIA's long history of interfering with elections and overthrowing governments, even democratic ones, that we didn't like.

Yes, that's Bernie in the link. These are good words to remember right about now. You can see why he has more real respect among independents like myself than Clinton ever did.

Here is Secretary Of State Kerry today, unwilling to hang his hat on unnamed "intelligence officials" and their latest evidence free "analysis."

It's all fun and games at CNN and MSNBC and the rest of the usual suspects; they don't hesitate to broadcast the 100% evidence free analysis of political appointees in the "intelligence community" as metaphysical certitude. But aim a camera at one of these politicians and suddenly it's "I'm not commenting on that."

It's fake news folks and it's not going to work. Trump isn't some pansy ass RINO praying no one calls him a name or tries to put stink on him. You can echo this shit all you want. In the end it won't matter.

She had classified information on a personal server - crime regardless of intent

She is on video lying to congress (the FBI director Comey later confirmed in front of congress that she told the FBI the truth, in direct contradiction to what she told congress earlier) - crime regardless of intent (just ask Scooter Libby, that is what he ended up going to jail over: perjury).

She directed her "IT" guy to purge thousands of emails from her personal server days after receiving a subpoena from congress and in direct violation of federal document retention rules; this is destruction of evidence - this is also a crime regardless of intent.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?...
33:36 will give you a dose of unvarnished truth about Hillary's truthfulness.

I suggest you watch the full video of Comey's testimony before congress. It is very damning and the only way Hillary avoided indictment was some backroom deal between Bill and Loretta Lynch (Comey's boss) on her airplane days before Comey presented to congress. Bill Clinton delayed his flight to wait for Lynch on the tarmac. In that meeting on the plane, everyone was kicked off and they talked for 40 minutes in complete privacy. Lynch's FBI security detail was directed to prevent anyone from photographing or recording the visit via cell phone or camera from the tarmac. Lynch specifically flew out a day early prior to her engagement which was the following day.

http://wallstreetonparade.com/...

a) Sorry, let me clarify, THE FBI found that 110 emails contained classified information, including 8 that contained top secret, the highest level of classification, and two emails that were marked classified at the time they were sent. (This does not include several thousand emails which have now been marked classified but were not strictly marked classified at the time. This is the point of secured email systems for the Secretary of State; much of what they create may be classified, though not so marked at the time, and you want to protect that shit from spies.) You might want to pay attention to the news and maybe watch the FBI reporting on this to congress.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?...

check out 33:36 for some very straight facts on the case, extracted by a former federal prosecutor.

http://www.politifact.com/trut...

b) She was sent a subpoena by congress for all her private server emails which she used for work at the state department, after she failed to turn them over 2 years earlier when she left the state department, as required by the federal records act, which is supposed to take all of her correspondence and archive it for FOIA requests. The federal government has a 100% retention requirement for high ranking government officials. She worked for us and we have a right to review her non-classified work at any time. The 60 day retention policy is pure bullshit.

c) Legislators are accountable every 4 or 6 years (house and senate respectively). DO YOU HAVE A CLUE HOW OUR GOVERNMENT WORKS?? The out of power party is always obstructionist to a degree. If you have a president who is a leader who will compromise to get things done, that is how the government works. Everyone gets something they want, but no one gets everything that they want. Obama has not figured this out in 8 years, so he gets out his pen and his phone. It didn't matter for Obama's first 2 years in office as he had majorities in both the house and senate. He rubbed it in everyone's face "elections have consequences" and used his majorities to pass the ACA, a massive overreach of government power (the penalty for not buying a product from a private company wasn't a tax until the supreme court, then it sure as hell was).

d) We have anything but the two best candidates. Hillary is a liar and a law breaker, and literally every other candidate in the republican primary was better than Trump, he mainly got nominated by non-republicans (i.e. Democrats) seeking to fuck up the process:

http://www.redstate.com/diary/...

So no, the two major parties to not have the best candidates this time around, and if you think so you need to stop smoking whatever you have been smoking.

Obama's IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has admitted under oath to the congress that the IRS targeted the TEA Party.

Obama's IRS Inspector General has admitted under oath to the congress that the IRS targeted the TEA Party and that while it also looked at liberal groups, the liberal groups were a small set, added late (as-if to hide the earlier large action) and they were mostly then quickly approved while the TEA Party groups were still being stalled by the IRS.

Obamabot scripts are no substitute for reality. The truth is that you have no desire to see any facts, since in the internet age you could easily look them up yourself with things like Google (you've hear of that, right?). You are just a partisan hack who attacked somebody else for not citing, while you yourself also did not cite anything; you do that whole left wing deflection thing really well and it might work on morons but not on people with brains and a concern for the rapid decline of the nation.

Obama's IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has admitted under oath to the congress that the IRS targeted the TEA Party.

Obama's IRS Inspector General has admitted under oath to the congress that the IRS targeted the TEA Party and that while it also looked at liberal groups, the liberal groups were a small set, added late (as-if to hide the earlier large action) and they were mostly then quickly approved while the TEA Party groups were still being stalled by the IRS.

Obamabot scripts are no substitute for reality. The truth is that you have no desire to see any facts, since in the internet age you could easily look them up yourself with things like Google (you've hear of that, right?). You are just a partisan hack who attacked somebody else for not citing, while you yourself also did not cite anything; you do that whole left wing deflection thing really well and it might work on morons but not on people with brains and a concern for the rapid decline of the nation.

The HR 5606 did not pass, 229-177
http://www.c-span.org/congress...

Un oh! All hands on deck!

SCOUR THE RECORD FOR THE THING THAT DID PASS,
HR5606 MUST HAVE BEEN A DIVERSION!

Tell me with a straight face you want even four years with this robot at the helm of the country. You do know the Clinton foundation makes money from arms dealers too right? Why do you think she started a needless war in Libya? At least Bush had some motive of saving someone, not just pure profit.

Too bad for you. You probably don't believe people can memorize words like "Suffrutescent" for a spelling bee.

Go to the CSPAN website and search for "Citizen Bee". Watch some of the videos, like this one.

Our team had me and two upperclassmen. We spent three months studying the book before the regioinal competition. And, yes, I did have it memorized.

As for which school year I was in this, it was probably my sophomore year. It was three decades ago, so I can't swear to it.

Stupid Americans fooled again, every 4 years

The coin toss is just a typical media misdirection, the real story is in the voting machine fraud and the vote count fraud.

Those who understand how the world really works knows The Rothschilds has already picked Clinton (see cover of the 2016 January edition of The Economist).

Clinton voter fraud in Polk County, Iowa Caucus
Voter Fraud and 'Missing' Precincts: How Clinton Stole Iowa

Caucus chair and Clinton precinct captain do not conduct actual count of Clinton supporters and deliberately mislead caucus

Imagine how many other precincts used similar tactics. The fact that even C-SPAN calls it outright voter fraud should leave Americans with no illusions: The Democratic nominee has already been chosen.

But wait, it gets worse:

        Sanders's camp says that the Iowa Democratic Party has informed the campaigns that the caucus results from 90 precincts are missing.
        â" John Wagner (@WPJohnWagner)
        February 2, 2016

That's right: Caucus results from 90 precincts are missing. Clinton is certainly talented at misplacing/deleting things that she doesn't want people to read.

Hillary Clinton receives $200,000/hour to speak to Goldman Sachs behind closed doors (and no transcripts of what she says are allowed, of course). Do you really think this election hasn't already been bought and paid for?

"Democracy" is fun.

The coin toss is just a typical media misdirection, the real story is in the voting machine fraud and the vote count fraud.

Those who understand how the world really works knows The Rothschilds has already picked Clinton (see cover of the 2016 January edition of The Economist).

Clinton voter fraud in Polk County, Iowa Caucus
Voter Fraud and 'Missing' Precincts: How Clinton Stole Iowa

Caucus chair and Clinton precinct captain do not conduct actual count of Clinton supporters and deliberately mislead caucus

Imagine how many other precincts used similar tactics. The fact that even C-SPAN calls it outright voter fraud should leave Americans with no illusions: The Democratic nominee has already been chosen.

But wait, it gets worse:

        Sanders's camp says that the Iowa Democratic Party has informed the campaigns that the caucus results from 90 precincts are missing.
        â" John Wagner (@WPJohnWagner)
        February 2, 2016

That's right: Caucus results from 90 precincts are missing. Clinton is certainly talented at misplacing/deleting things that she doesn't want people to read.

Hillary Clinton receives $200,000/hour to speak to Goldman Sachs behind closed doors (and no transcripts of what she says are allowed, of course). Do you really think this election hasn't already been bought and paid for?

"Democracy" is fun.

The coin toss is just a typical media misdirection, the real story is in the voting machine fraud and the vote count fraud.

Those who understand how the world really works knows The Rothschilds has already picked Clinton (see cover of the 2016 January edition of The Economist).

Clinton voter fraud in Polk County, Iowa Caucus
Voter Fraud and 'Missing' Precincts: How Clinton Stole Iowa

Caucus chair and Clinton precinct captain do not conduct actual count of Clinton supporters and deliberately mislead caucus

Imagine how many other precincts used similar tactics. The fact that even C-SPAN calls it outright voter fraud should leave Americans with no illusions: The Democratic nominee has already been chosen.

But wait, it gets worse:

        Sanders's camp says that the Iowa Democratic Party has informed the campaigns that the caucus results from 90 precincts are missing.
        â" John Wagner (@WPJohnWagner)
        February 2, 2016

That's right: Caucus results from 90 precincts are missing. Clinton is certainly talented at misplacing/deleting things that she doesn't want people to read.

Hillary Clinton receives $200,000/hour to speak to Goldman Sachs behind closed doors (and no transcripts of what she says are allowed, of course). Do you really think this election hasn't already been bought and paid for?

"Democracy" is fun.

The coin toss is just a typical media misdirection, the real story is in the voting machine fraud and the vote count fraud.

Those who understand how the world really works knows The Rothschilds has already picked Clinton (see cover of the 2016 January edition of The Economist).

Clinton voter fraud in Polk County, Iowa Caucus
Voter Fraud and 'Missing' Precincts: How Clinton Stole Iowa

Caucus chair and Clinton precinct captain do not conduct actual count of Clinton supporters and deliberately mislead caucus

Imagine how many other precincts used similar tactics. The fact that even C-SPAN calls it outright voter fraud should leave Americans with no illusions: The Democratic nominee has already been chosen.

But wait, it gets worse:

        Sanders's camp says that the Iowa Democratic Party has informed the campaigns that the caucus results from 90 precincts are missing.
        â" John Wagner (@WPJohnWagner)
        February 2, 2016

That's right: Caucus results from 90 precincts are missing. Clinton is certainly talented at misplacing/deleting things that she doesn't want people to read.

Hillary Clinton receives $200,000/hour to speak to Goldman Sachs behind closed doors (and no transcripts of what she says are allowed, of course). Do you really think this election hasn't already been bought and paid for?

"Democracy" is fun.

The coin toss is just a typical media misdirection, the real story is in the voting machine fraud and the vote count fraud.

Those who understand how the world really works knows The Rothschilds has already picked Clinton (see cover of the 2016 January edition of The Economist).

Clinton voter fraud in Polk County, Iowa Caucus
Voter Fraud and 'Missing' Precincts: How Clinton Stole Iowa

Caucus chair and Clinton precinct captain do not conduct actual count of Clinton supporters and deliberately mislead caucus

Imagine how many other precincts used similar tactics. The fact that even C-SPAN calls it outright voter fraud should leave Americans with no illusions: The Democratic nominee has already been chosen.

But wait, it gets worse:

        Sanders's camp says that the Iowa Democratic Party has informed the campaigns that the caucus results from 90 precincts are missing.
        â" John Wagner (@WPJohnWagner)
        February 2, 2016

That's right: Caucus results from 90 precincts are missing. Clinton is certainly talented at misplacing/deleting things that she doesn't want people to read.

Hillary Clinton receives $200,000/hour to speak to Goldman Sachs behind closed doors (and no transcripts of what she says are allowed, of course). Do you really think this election hasn't already been bought and paid for?

"Democracy" is fun.

The coin toss is just a typical media misdirection, the real story is in the voting machine fraud and the vote count fraud.

Those who understand how the world really works knows The Rothschilds has already picked Clinton (see cover of the 2016 Januaray editions of the Economist).

Clinton voter fraud in Polk County, Iowa Caucus
Voter Fraud and 'Missing' Precincts: How Clinton Stole Iowa

Caucus chair and Clinton precinct captain do not conduct actual count of Clinton supporters and deliberately mislead caucus

Imagine how many other precincts used similar tactics. The fact that even C-SPAN calls it outright voter fraud should leave Americans with no illusions: The Democratic nominee has already been chosen.

But wait, it gets worse:

        Sanders's camp says that the Iowa Democratic Party has informed the campaigns that the caucus results from 90 precincts are missing.
        â" John Wagner (@WPJohnWagner)
        February 2, 2016

That's right: Caucus results from 90 precincts are missing. Clinton is certainly talented at misplacing/deleting things that she doesn't want people to read.

Hillary Clinton receives $200,000/hour to speak to Goldman Sachs behind closed doors (and no transcripts of what she says are allowed, of course). Do you really think this election hasn't already been bought and paid for?

"Democracy" is fun.

IA doesn't extend to private citizens -- it's only for government data. But you don't have to take my word for it. http://www.c-span.org/video/?3...

This is an open letter to the OPM and IT Security Professionals or Administrators involved:

Other than outright incompetence WHY, why for the love of all we hold dear, were these systems connected to the Internet? Or connected to internal networks that were then connected to the Internet?

According to congressional testimony there are a group of systems some of which can not be secured AND/OR cannot be secured with encryption or modernized. Okay, the solution is simple, disconnect them and use "Sneaker Net" to access the data.

For the uninitiated "Sneaker Net" or "Trainer Net" means you need to have physical access i.e. walk over to computer that is connected to the system in order to access it. It is disconnect from all other systems and networks.

Is it inconvenient and inefficient? Sure, but it is better than putting a system that cannot be secured on a network that is in anyway connected to the Internet.

It is that simple to protect sensitive legacy systems at a basic level.

Next question: Why isn't this data protect at, AT LEAST, the security level the applicant is applying for?

Is it expensive to do this, yes! BUT on the application it is indicated what security level is being applied for...now how valuable is that data?

Next question [rhetorical]: What is the MOST IMPORTANT PART of any government project, organization, or security plan?

Answer: THE PERSONNEL!!!

The fault of that lies in Congress.
Spend Middle East War money on NASA and science and it goes a lot faster.

You cannot successfully argue against war itself as a waste of human resources or a needless monetary expense. Sure you can philosophize and get a show of nodding heads in peacetime, but then something awful happens and someone shouts "Remember the Maine!" or "Hitler will invade the UK, then Mexico!" or "Let's get Bin Laden!" and all is moot. Inquiring line items is useful... such as whether ~$60 billion disappeared while out-sourcing the supply line or whether airlifting $40 billion in 'unmarked bills' into Iraq was a great idea.

Be sure to tune in C-SPAN today [Sunday] at 4:00pm ET to see how many senators believe the Patriot Act is a good thing. But I'd bet my bottom dollar that all the NSA rhetoric will center on so-called 'call metadata sharing agreements' with nary a word about full content backbone taps which are the greatest threat.

Government spending is a mysterious process. When it is time for the Fed to mint virtual money for Quantitative Easing, bail out banks by easing their losses, or the Federales to finance wars by raising the trade deficit ceiling and selling bonds to the Chinese we are awash in Magical Unicorn Money. When it is budget time every cent is haggled or omnibussed. Clearly this beast has two heads.

But you have to get more specific than 'military spending'. Pick something, anything and try to start a grass roots movement to attack it. Or better yet, just spend your time 'selling' space exploration in all of its forms. Neil deGrasse Tyson wasn't completely joking when he suggests that a militarized space race with China (or rumors thereof) would jump-start the process. A new Cold War would certainly unlock that Magical Unicorn Money. It may seem odd but weaponizing space is actually a good idea.

But there is something I call the 'Pizza Delivery Syndrome', where someone desirous of something, say a Space Program, will seize upon a money-factoid such as this

cite "Consumers spend around 33 billion U.S. dollars in quick service pizza restaurants each year in the United States. Takeout pizza constitutes the largest share of spending within this category at nearly 15 billion U.S. dollars annually, followed by pizza delivery at around ten billion. This is perhaps unsurprising considering more than 20 percent of U.S. consumers eat takeout or delivered meals at least once a week. While older generations appear less dependent on such services, around 40 percent of 18 to 54 year olds felt that takeout food was essential to their way of life as of November 2014..."

and create, out of thin air, some hypothetical world where every one who desires a pizza is visited by a Fairy Godmother who smiles and asks, do you really want that pizza or could we all fulfill mankind's most glorious dream? Your wish is my command. In this scenario they always choose the pizza, statistics show. It serves as foundation for acerbic commentary on the wretched excess of modern humans. This is a dead end because (on the whole) people would rather talk about pizza than space.

Ask not what pizza lovers can do for you.
Ask what you can do to send pizza into

First hour
Second Hour
Great reading so far. Hopefully more forthcoming.

C-SPAN of the event:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?3...
Rand Paul Filibuster begins at index 3 hours 49 minutes.

OPTIONAL POST CONTENT:

"Blah blah PR whore not a hero who cares about independent candidates blah straw polls straw men blah Obama good Obama bad yay Rand yay Ron guns terrorists NSA python script Hosts file WTF all crooks no change schedule all for nought TV says 'filibuster is happening' blah no transcript blah Brietbart posts transcript Yah! Pauls site no transcript posted WTF blah kook like Alex Jones blah USA Freedom Act must be good cuz it has Freedom in the name blah yeah right? good PR bad PR hate dem Repubs hate dem libs blah Rand just a flip flop flip flop dookey drones liquor store tach story FAIL bleedin' heart whatever blah blah look moron blah screw that like dislike fake filibuster real filibuster blah blah"

Y'all go on without me. I'm busy reading the first couple hours of transcript because I like to read, then maybe pick up some of the rest at CSPAN because it does represent exhaustive research to gather talking points, and it also might yield insight on whether Rand and the staff he hires are presidential material.

Oh yeah, turn on a another system while we cut $200 million of your funding.

Press Question: "There's been some criticism (OFF-MIKE) Democrats that Amtrak was not well-funded enough and that Republicans have..."

John Boehner: <cuts him off> "Are you really going to ask such a stupid question? Listen, they started this yesterday, it's all about funding, it's all about funding. Well, obviously, it's not about funding. The train was going twice the speed limit. Adequate funds were there, no money's been cut from rail safety ... And the house passed the bill early this spring to reauthorize the bill and reauthorize the spending. And it's hard for me to imagine that people take the bait on some of the nonsense that gets spewed around here. THANKS."

source

oops - video is at http://www.c-span.org/video/?3...

I don't mind politicians trying something new, but this really does bring down the class and dignity of the presidency. Going on the late night comedy shows was awkward enough (at best), but this is downright distasteful. With this administration, though, this is just par for the course.

You haven't seen it yet, so why be so quick to judge? Also, pundits were saying that Bill Clinton's appearance playing sax on The Arsenio Hall Show was a mistake, but look what happened:.

Clinton's saxophone-playing appearance on "The Arsenio Hall Show" in June, though, was widely mocked at the time by many members of the we-know-everything gang covering national politics.

It wasn't dignified. It demeaned presidential politics. It "coarsened" the discourse of democracy, to use the language that syndicated columnist George Will seems to use to describe anything that isn't white, male and borrowed from ancient Rome or Greece. Clinton was dubbed the "Elvis candidate," in part because he was playing (or rather gamely trying to play) Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel."

Why do you continue to promote that lie? It has been proven true at this point that Wilson was aware that the crime at the store had taken place prior to his encounter with the perpetrators.

Don't take my word for it. Watch the video of the grand jury decision press conference:

http://www.c-span.org/video/?322925-1/ferguson-missouri-grand-jury-decision-announcement

The transcript of the video says:

"AT ABOUT 11:53 A.M., WILSON HEARD A RADIO BROADCAST OF STEALING IN PROGRESS AT A MARKET IN. THE BROADCAST ALSO INCLUDED A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SUBJECT. A BLACK MALE, WEARING A WHITE T-SHIRT AND A BOX OF SWISHER CIG ARS."

"AS OFFICER WILSON CONTINUED WEST, HE ENCOUNTERED MR. BROWN AND HIS COMPANIONS TO WALKING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET. AS WILSON SLOWED, HE TOLD THEM TO MOVE TO THE SIDEWALK. WORDS WERE EXCHANGED AND THEY CONTINUED TO WALK DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET. WILSON OBSERVED THAT MICHAEL BROWN HAD CIGARILLOS IN HIS HAND WHEN WAS WEARING A RED HAT."

So the GP is right, and you are wrong. The officer did have a reason to suspect he was dealing with a criminal before the subsequent incident took place.

The GP's comment should be modded up, not down. Yours should be modded down, because what you're saying is factually incorrect.

He changed his statement. In his initial statement to his supervising sergeant at the scene, the supervising sergeant in his testimony stated emphatically to the grand jury that that Wilson was not aware that these were the two from the robber, not did Wilson make any statement at that point about seeing the cigarillos.

Try reading the full transcripts ..... this is one of the flaws of the case, in that the officer changed his statements, and this was never challenged. If you are going to speak of facts, go to the primary source and spend a little time reading.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/25/us/evidence-released-in-michael-brown-case.html?_r=4