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Well, yeah. Duh....

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/20...

So does that make democrats ISIS? Just wondering if this is also the right side of history, seeing as how they want to destroy monuments. If you don't think this isn't going to make things worse, you haven't seen the "right side of history" happen yet.

Just my wife. And a close friend. And a dozen of their immigrant friends as well - including two who just married on July 4th (one from Argentina, one from China, neither are US citizens). They all work to integrate, but many down here in Southern California refuse to integrate. Thus we end up with bi (or tri or more) lingual everything, paying hundreds of millions in benefits to illegal immigrants who demand that money, etc.

I don't have a problem with marijuana but I do recognize that it is a drug and people act irrationally on drugs. There is nothing amazing about it.

It's not like the guy was drinking.

Let's not pretend that just because pot isn't as intoxicating as alcohol that it doesn't affect motor skills or cognitive function. Driving while stoned isn't a good idea.

Philadelphia, and Comcast

I see nowhere in that article where it mentions exclusivity.

Philadelphia, and Comcast

“The only reason why any of us walked out of this thing, by the grace of God, one of the folks here had a weapon to fire back and give us a moment to find cover. We were inside the backstop and if we didn’t have that cover by a brave person who stood up and took a shot themselves, we would not have gotten out of there and every one of us would have been hit — every single one of us,” said Bishop. “He was coming around the fence line and he was looking for all of us who had found cover in different spots. But if we didn’t have return fire right there, he would have come up to each one of us and shot us point-blank.”

Was the person that Michigan Rep. Mike Bishop was referring to a cop, or a private citizen? The article doesn't specify.

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“The only reason why any of us walked out of this thing, by the grace of God, one of the folks here had a weapon to fire back and give us a moment to find cover. We were inside the backstop and if we didn’t have that cover by a brave person who stood up and took a shot themselves, we would not have gotten out of there and every one of us would have been hit — every single one of us,” said Bishop. “He was coming around the fence line and he was looking for all of us who had found cover in different spots. But if we didn’t have return fire right there, he would have come up to each one of us and shot us point-blank.”

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The article doesn't specify if the "folks" that initially fired back were police. I'm not familiar with the Daily Wire, but this CBS story seems to corroborate Michigan Rep. Mike Bishop's quote.

HIPAA has only ever governed health providers, insurance companies, and health clearing houses or some other phrase I can't remember. It doesn't govern lawyers, the company you work for, your ISP, your dog, or the guy that snoops through your trash. That's why situations like this http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/... are not HIPAA violations.

I believe it as much as I believe that if I get a permit for medical marijuana in Colorado it will remain private.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/201...

But I'm not too worried. I don't need a red card and since I live in CO everyone assume I smoke pot anyway. (and they'd be right)

The impasse is you won't provide a citation in the form of a link, as requested, and as I showed by example for the authoritarian left. You've had no problems supplying plenty of links for other things, so obviously the problem is on your end.

I'm afraid not, as the problem is yours, as you simply won't look. It wouldn't be hard, all you have to do is go look and you'll see all the "deplatforming" demands from the right that you falsely claimed didn't exist in a futile attempt to try to stand on a pedestal. Yet it fooled nobody, as we can see quite a lot of such behavior. If you really want to, you could even stimulate the input by asking them. I even gave you some subjects already: over "BLM" and "Anti-Trump" riots, against "Planned Parenthood", all the "Birther" claims, for example. You could also add "Pizzagate" and the recent Russian riots.

Or check out the gag rule, as recently instigated against Elizabeth Warren. Support of which, yes, was a major topic on those sites. Lots of chuckling commentators for the right cheering how they silenced her over it.

But you'd have to look. On your own. You can't though, because that would require you to open your eyes. And you prefer not to ee.

So what? That happened before he was torpedoed.

So you don't accomplish much by continually resorting to him, he's nothing but a chattering magpie, with no credibility, that got disowned almost immediately when he proved less useful. Not because he lied, not because he fabricated, but because he spoke something the right didn't want said.

They'd have been fine if he'd made something up that attacked liberals. That's the really sad part.

Yeah, so Milo committed a felony and hired provocateurs to beat his own followers and burn property.

Sure, why would you think he's any different than the FBI? Even Alex Jones blamed them, though he had to admit the whole Comet Ping Pong nonsense was his own fault. Since Milo, not a moral or principled person at all, who thrives on exploitation, much like James O'Keefe and other known liars and fraud, wanted attention, of course, he made an effort to get attention. And you bought it.

Then...whups, it was worth nothing, and all that was blown. Because instead of making up some shit about the left, he decided to babble about something that made him look bad. Why couldn't he call Sandra Bland a whore who used birth control pills like Tic-Tacs, huh?

I guess he hired these guys, too, right?

Can you even identify the alleged offenders? That's what's always lacking, actual identification. That's also been Trump's problem. Remember when he went on and on about terrorist attacks, and produced a list...that wasn't what he claimed? Or making up that Bowling Green massacre.

You truly are an ass.

For pointing out that you're stuck navel-gazing at somebody who doesn't even have the credibility of Soupy Sales?

Can't you come up with a new martyr yet, or will nobody play along with the act?

Milo's talks have been openly oppressed for a long time, by both faculty, administration, and students. Berkeley was the second time that it became violent (the first time involved a shooting during the talk).

Yes, yes, Milo liked to play the "victim" card and proclaim his oppression. But in the end, he's now persona non grata. All his own fault too.

I condemned the violence, and all you could do was act stupid enough to say I wasn't condemning right-wing violence.

Nope, you're just eliminating the rest of what I said, and pretending that your outrage over being called out over your lack of admission of the problems of right-wing violence is somehow meaningful. It reall

No imagination there, you just validated my statements, the problem is that you won't look, so you claim not to see it. Hence the impasse.

The impasse is you won't provide a citation in the form of a link, as requested, and as I showed by example for the authoritarian left. You've had no problems supplying plenty of links for other things, so obviously the problem is on your end.

Did you forget that Milo is on the conservative black list now?

So what? That happened before he was torpedoed.

But in case you didn't get it the first time, I'm not terribly impressed that Milo can hire agent provocateurs to create a disruption, but he's on the outs anyway.

Yeah, so Milo committed a felony and hired provocateurs to beat his own followers and burn property. I guess he hired these guys, too, right? You truly are an ass.

Milo's talks have been openly oppressed for a long time, by both faculty, administration, and students. Berkeley was the second time that it became violent (the first time involved a shooting during the talk).

You actually didn't respond directly to any of the articles' information, or show any effort to do anything except twist their content for your own purposes.

I condemned the violence, and all you could do was act stupid enough to say I wasn't condemning right-wing violence. That stupidity is all you.

In fact, there's too much stupidity to be arguing with. I'm three points in, and I'm arguing in circles with sheer pig-headed stupidity. You aren't worth my time, the rest of your post will go unread, and you will get no more responses.

The first is at least productive, but it isn't really a viable skill training program, especially if the only people who get to make license plates are in prison. The others are just pointless punishment that don't actually help anyone and just feed our vindictiveness.

One interesting approach that I read about a few years ago that seems to really help was a dog training program where inmates help to rehabilitate and train shelter dogs so that they can be adopted or for use as service animals. It's certainly not a huge job market outside of prison for this, but it is something and its believed that this also helps to rehabilitate inmates as well.

Gordon Ramsay also did a show about teaching prisoners to cook. This seemed like a pretty good idea since there's no shortage of jobs there and they can provide some stability in life. Someone even started a restaurant around the concept as well.

The easy solution is to shorten the yellow light, that way we catch everyone in the red.

Every jurisdiction has stuff like that on occasion.

Yes, that's why I had quite a diversity of examples for the written confessions earlier, which is why they're very much unpersuasive.

Perhaps you forgot about that? That's probably the issue then, you forget why the police aren't winning the hearts and minds of America.

And they have themselves to blame.

Come back to me if they win *this* lawsuit.

You're the one who wants me to believe something.

But...it may take years before a matter is resolved.

So you'll pardon me, but nope, you're not offering sufficient argument.

Then again, that's why I said earlier, that James O'Keefe is the worst thing for the Conservatives, even IF he by chance, captured an actual homicide on tape, people would believe it to be faked.

People ride "driverless" elevators everyday without shitting or pissing in them. Why would horizontal movement be so different from vertical movement?

I wish I could be more optimistic than you... For example, BART.

Unlike an elevator, to get into a self-driving-taxi you will need to provide a CC#, or an account number linked to your identity. Your behavior in the vehicle will be recorded by one or more $5 cameras. If you soil the seats, your account will be debited, as you agreed when you clicked on the TOS.

Although a CC is probably a deterrent, ask any taxi driver that works the downtown late-night last-call scene, and they will tell you bodily fluids/solids are routinely ejected in their vehicles. Of course these are the same vehicles used in the daytime...

The groups felt that the spillway capacity could be overrun. That has not happened.

I wouldn't count on that yet. We (California) are supposed to get another week of rain starting Wed/Thurs. That's why state officials are scrambling to fix both spillways as quickly as they can. This next week is going to be a nail-biter for everyone with a home downstream from the dam.

This is fake news. There was a completely unsubstantiated claim by an NY Times reporter, which seems like a bizarre false flag op:

That's not a bizarre false flag op, that's cognitive dissonance on your part.

So at best we have a rumour

No, an eyewitness account from a reporter that matches other violence at the event that's been caught on film, such as this flag pole attack, or this woman being pepper sprayed while giving an interview, or this college Republican being attacked wearing a suit and Trump hat the morning after.

based on a story that clearly makes no sense (why would an anti-hate, anti-discrimination protester identify as Syrian as a Nazi?)

Probably because the left has been throwing around the term "Nazi" like it was confetti, and he was wearing a suit, as the reporter mentioned, something you'd associate with the right, establishment, and conservatism at a lefty protest where hate-filled thugs are violently attacking people and property to shut down another person's free speech. Also, maybe he was wearing a Trump hat that was knocked off before the reporter saw the attack.

If anything it suggests that the protest was sabotaged by Milo supporters.

You truly have your head up your ass. And I suppose the 200+ people arrested and charged as part of a gang committing violence during Trump's inauguration were Trump supporters?

What you don't want to admit is that the left has become the party of violence, openly condoning it in many cases.

This somehow became a factual report when repeated on alt-right websites. And you either didn't bother to investigate it, or didn't want to, or are too incompetent to make a sensible judgement.

*snort* Yes, because you've done such a good job investigating it yourself with your baseless claims of false flag attacks and "fake news".

Weapons on any Trump class ships will probably be unable to aim properly, inflicting equal damage on friend, foe, and crew.

They'll still be winning battles, even while losing the popular vote. Like Patriots.

I read about things.

You READ about things? Well, stop the presses then! With literally millions of news sources, could you cite something at least a bit specific?

Voting machines being few and defective in Democratic areas.

States run the elections and voting places, so why would Democrats tamper with voting machines in their own areas?

Voter ID laws combined with closing offices that issue licenses in heavily Democratic areas.

Voter ID laws prevent illegals and dead people from voting, not to mention preventing people from voting multiple times. Again, why would Democratic states close offices earlier if it impacts Democrats from voting?

Illegals and dead people do not vote in significant amounts. This is the sort of fraud that would be easy to find lots of examples of it it were going on, and we haven't seen them.

Funny, but Google pulls up enough examples of voter fraud:

• Hidden Camera: NYC Democratic Election Commissioner: They Bus People Around to Vote
• North Carolina Hillary Supporter Brags on Facebook about Voting Multiple Times
• Double Voting - Even Triple Voting - Found in US Elections
• Democrat Confirms Rampant Voter Fraud
• CBS4 Investigation Finds People Voting Twice
• Detroit Recount Reveals Major Vot Fraud by Dems
• A JMU Student has allegedly registered 19 dead people to vote

Read some real news sometime.

May I suggest the same to you?

Nobody cares. California only votes Democrat, so no one is going to put resources into investigating

Oh. The land of Reagan doesn't care about corrupt Democrats. Got it.

Here's a fun fact for you: California has gone for Democratic presidential candidates 18 times, and for Republican candidates 23 times. From 1952 through 1988 it went Republican for every election except the one in 1964.

They have had 38 governors. 15 of them have been Democrats, 22 Republicans. One of those Democrats was the second governor in American history to get recalled by voters, maybe you remember that, and he was replaced with a Republican (perhaps you've heard of him). Here's how libby California voted in that election. Republican candidates got over 62% of the vote on about 61% voter turnout.

But, yeah, Republicans totally don't care about those 55 electoral votes, or taking control back from the Democrats, right? They know about a major federal voting fraud offense apparently perpetrated by Democrats or liberals or whatever, but they don't care enough to act on it. Makes total sense. They know that Americans in general don't care at all about voter fraud, in fact it wasn't even mentioned during this entire election cycle. Riiiiiight.

Do you even believe yourself?

But, remember, you don't have to be an illegal immigrant to commit voter fraud (look at that, references from this year). It's just easier to blame "scary" groups like immigrants when you're trying to convince 73% of Republicans that the election is going to be stolen from them, even though every actual investigation has shown the actual rates to be statistically negligible.

But, hey, "millions of illegal immigrants voting in California" hits several buttons. It hits your "illegal immigrants are scary" button, the "liberals are evil" button, all kinds of good stuff there. That's why you believe it, even though it is completely false and there is not a single shred of evidence that it exists.

They are actual convictions.

Your own words to describe it:

A small list of 438 proven, fraudulent votes

Actual content of the document? Rather different for your description. There is no count of 438 proven, fraudulent votes in that document, in fact, it explicitly includes many things that were not actual votes. That makes you inaccurate at best. I could have forgiven you if you'd said you posted the wrong document, but that doesn't seem to be the case. You don't even care to address your inaccuracies. So you posted something, and then failed to accurately describe it, then failed to admit to your error, which makes for a problem in terms of integrity.

And it is not exhaustive but just a sampling of documented, proven (in a court of law) cases of voter fraud.

Nope. Many of them are electioneering without voting, including, as I mentioned, petition fraud(no votes), false registrations(caught without votes), and other matters for which zero fraudulent votes occurred.

But yes, I'm glad you agree with me, it's not exhaustive, which means you can't and shouldn't use it for your partisan assertions. If you are honest. However, that is a failing you have, you're not honest, so you do try to use it that way.

You can go and read up about each conviction if you dig - and you'll find they are actual events, actual voter fraud incidents, and all Democrat. Your move.

Oh wow, if you think of this as a game, you just tipped your king. You doubled-down on the falsehood, because you just proved yourself a liar, because you chose an incompetent lie, for no reason, no reason at all. The document is already admitted not to be comprehensive, yet you chose to make a provably false statement that they are all Democrat?

Why lie so badly?

You're not helping yourself, your partisan bias is warping your ability to effectively communicate.

Nope, you have it backwards, Republican votes where switched to Democratic.
source

Here's the list of the latest Medal of Freedom recipients.

That web page says

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.

I'd like to see medals given to people who routinely save lives, like doctors, nurses, and emergency responders. If not the Medal of Freedom, then some other medal.

Also people who bring us our food and water, like farmers and water utility workers. We can live a matter of days without water, and weeks without food. So farmers and water utility workers are super important. But when's the last time you heard of a farmer getting a medal for producing a good crop, or a water utility worker getting a medal for supplying clean water?

Also caring teachers in the inner cities should get medals.

And people who risk their lives to rescue others in need, like these people.

Who else should get a medal?

Thirty one cases you say? I guess this non-exhaustive list of 430+ confirmed convictions of voter fraud must be wrong. I guess all those court decisions were faked...

Not to mention we find report after report where dozens of ballots are sent to fictional people, where hundreds of ballots are "discovered" in an unsecured warehouse a month after the election and end up changing the results of the election, or where the dead continue to vote (and you know, it's hard to charge and convict a dead person for fraud).

I'm sure you'll come back and say "438 is irrelevant, still a small number!" Great - so how many cases are actually needed for you to be concerned about it?

Heated Political Debates Banned From Part Of Long Island Hospital
November 3, 2016 4:05 PM

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/20...

She pulled out of the conference out of fear... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... http://losangeles.cbslocal.com...

Please spare us the woeful persecution tales. You can be matched.

An honest man might bemoan the acrimony. A dishonest one pretends it is one-sided.

Florida is predominantly swampland and sinkhole ridden. Florida is being developed at an alarming rate.

Couldn't POSSIBLY have anything to do with either of those things though!

Yes, it could have a lot to do with it. But that doesn't mean the ocean levels are not rising. Especially in the southern part of Florida, the land is all very near to sea level. This means that small increases in sea level will have large effects on real estate. So places that were not affected years ago, are now. Portions of Miami regularly have incursions of seawater diring spring tides, that did not have them in years past.

http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...

But fear not, The Governor of Florida has simply banned ocean level rise, so the problem has been fixed.

That and a lot of pumps. We are not truly pissing against the tide. http://miami.cbslocal.com/2014...

And as noted, the sure fire cure foro this is , as noted “Let’s pray, let’s pray, let’s pray, it’s going to get better,” said Caballero."

Who knew?

Would you like the police to turn a blind eye to the crimes? Look at what happened in Baltimore when police stopped patrolling.

I'm not the person you're replying to, but perhaps rather than the either/or scenario, we could go back to first principles.

Or how about the police that has militarized to the point where they are an occupying force?

Hyperbole much? An occupying force? That's where you're going? Have you ever been under occupation? Do you have any idea what conditions are like under occupation? Here's a hint: go ask the Palestinians what occupation is like.

Or how about police in neighborhoods that regularly target minorities?

You do realize those neighborhoods most likely have a high percentage of minorities (which is odd since they then wouldn't be minorities)? Would you like the police to turn a blind eye to the crimes? Look at what happened in Baltimore when police stopped patrolling.

because there is obviously a middle ground between giving the police 'new toys' and giving them pillows.

This is the middle ground. Police won't be shooting at criminals. They'll be using less lethal means to do their jobs.

Of course all of this wouldn't be necessary if criminals wouldn't be criminals. But lets us blame the police for doing their job, not the criminals for committing the crimes, for putting their lives on the line to protect the whiners, who think nothing of going into the line of fire in domestic disputes or go out in miserable weather to rescue asshats who drive around signs warning people of flooded roadways, thereby endangering themselves in the process.

It seems they care about the plight of your brothers and sisters more than you imagine in your fantasy world of oppression.

1. SSN cited as evidence the govt is terrible at detecting and eliminating document frauds, mismatches, etc.

2. We already have a national ID standard. It was made law after 9-11 and all states are required to have compliant driver's licenses which include very clear indications of the holder's citizenship status. States like CA are currently in violation and the DHS has issued several warnings that their drivers licenses may soon not qualify as ID for boarding flights

3. even lazy journalists have been able to find that dead people are still voting, ineligible people get registered to vote, and people are registering and voting in multiple districts

Absentee voting should only be allowed for military people who are on deployment. The moment you let people vote other than in-person,you have no way of knowing if they are the actual persons casting the votes. Every election cycle, thousands of people in nursing homes and hospitals are "helped" (without supervision) to cast their votes. Social Security currently claims there are 6 million Americans over the age of 112 and as John F Kennedy and LBJ proved, dead people can win elections - even CBS news admits the dead ares still voting in Los Angeles

The only way to have honest elections is to have people cast votes in-person, with ID, and on hard copy documents. There is no legitimate aregument against that - it's not like the supposedly racist photo ID requirement has deprived minorities of the right to drink beer...

Any effort to let people vote out of sight from poll watchers, without ID, and/or without a paper trail are really just efforts to enable fraud. California is a perfect example: the state has enabled all sorts of attacks on traditional voting (they now even give driver's licenses to illegal aliens which are contrary to federal law that requires any drivers ID given to non-citizens to be significantly visually different from that given to citizens) and now there is no way to ID or stop the voter fraud and frankly the Democrats who dominate the state benefit from it and will never reign it in; they used it all to create a one-party state.

The dead are voting, and surprise, surprise, they're voting Democrat.

Also no surprise that it's a Dem that's now recommending an easily manipulated voting method.

They must've seen the rampant mail vote fraud in Austria and figured they'd like to pull that off too.

You have to start comparing to third-world countries to find the levels of corruption that exist in the DNC.

I do not recall seeing a Trump Death List YET, however there is a Clinton Death List

Please cite your long list of examples of these toys being used in such a dangerous way

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-drone-near-miss-lax-20160318-story.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/07/08/two-drones-nearly-collide-with-nypd-helicopter-operators-arrested/#1294615f1db8
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/09/travel/unmanned-drone-danger/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/dec/23/champion-skier-marcel-hirscher-has-near-miss-as-drone-falls-out-of-sky
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/europe/uk-drone-near-miss/index.html
http://www.wsj.com/articles/faa-reports-more-aircraft-drone-near-misses-1417025519
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/29/ny-bound-pilot-swerves-to-avoid-collission-with-drone.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3251543/Drone-owners-forced-register-devices-tracking-database-four-near-misses-aircraft-past-month-alone.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12180261/Number-of-near-misses-involving-drones-and-aircraft-quadruples-in-one-year.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-37042796
http://gothamist.com/2016/09/20/man_maybe_arrested_drone_crash.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/us/white-house-drone.html?_r=0
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/05/25/drone-crashes-hits-2-people-during-marblehead-parade/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/world/drug-drone-crashes-us-mexico-border/index.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/drone-crashes-stands-u-s-open-article-1.2348324
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/07/02/drone-crashes-in-brighton-mans-backyard/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/07/drone-crashes-into-yellowstone-hot-spring/13721055/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/drone-crash-university-kentucky-football-game-could-land-student-hot-water/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/drone-crashes-empire-state-building-man-arrested/story?id=36729221

Please cite your long list of examples of these toys being used in such a dangerous way

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-drone-near-miss-lax-20160318-story.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/07/08/two-drones-nearly-collide-with-nypd-helicopter-operators-arrested/#1294615f1db8
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/09/travel/unmanned-drone-danger/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/dec/23/champion-skier-marcel-hirscher-has-near-miss-as-drone-falls-out-of-sky
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/europe/uk-drone-near-miss/index.html
http://www.wsj.com/articles/faa-reports-more-aircraft-drone-near-misses-1417025519
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/29/ny-bound-pilot-swerves-to-avoid-collission-with-drone.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3251543/Drone-owners-forced-register-devices-tracking-database-four-near-misses-aircraft-past-month-alone.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12180261/Number-of-near-misses-involving-drones-and-aircraft-quadruples-in-one-year.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-37042796
http://gothamist.com/2016/09/20/man_maybe_arrested_drone_crash.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/us/white-house-drone.html?_r=0
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/05/25/drone-crashes-hits-2-people-during-marblehead-parade/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/world/drug-drone-crashes-us-mexico-border/index.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/drone-crashes-stands-u-s-open-article-1.2348324
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/07/02/drone-crashes-in-brighton-mans-backyard/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/07/drone-crashes-into-yellowstone-hot-spring/13721055/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/drone-crash-university-kentucky-football-game-could-land-student-hot-water/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/drone-crashes-empire-state-building-man-arrested/story?id=36729221

You mean other than in California where the State can confiscate your firearms on an anonymous "tip" that you are a danger. And it can do it without warning, and does not have to return the firearms until you can prove that you are not a danger.

Oh and they have criminalized possession of magazines that were previously legal, meaning if you did not turn them in to the police on-time, then you run the risk of losing all your firearms - permanently (convicted of a gun violation = automatic, lifetime loss of firearm privileges in CA).

But other than that, yeah - no one's coming for your guns...

this reasoning is specious as fuck! Sometimes people are shot for no reason at all, unless you are going to try to draw a specious connection between the Clintons and this guy playing pokemon go in san francisco http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.c... who was also shot but nothing taken

Agreed. What people don't seem to understand is that pro-2nd amendment people do not think that their AR-15s (by the way, not an "assault rifle") will be able to hold off the military. The military has tanks, drones, and nukes. However, they're not going to use that stuff on their own soil unless the shit really hit the fan. If they did that, there would be little to nothing left for a tyrannical government to govern.

What the 2nd does do, is keep things like police-state door-to-door roundups and executions from happening. They won't do that if they know people can and will shoot back. We've already seen in the middle east (and before) how a giant and well-armed military can be held back by a small and determined group of fighters. At the end of the day, even for all the technology, wars are still won by men on the ground with rifles. (Shotguns and handguns don't cut it, they aren't effective over long distances, and most real life battles take place over 100+ yards, not in Call of Duty-esq tiny maps.)

On another note, I find it interesting that we keep hearing in the news about this previously convicted sex offender who was illegally armed, had drugs, and was resisting arrest. Yet we don't hear so much about this poor fellow. Probably because he had his CC license and legal gun, and was lawfully exercising his constitutional right. If you ask me, this instance is much more indicative of racism in the police than Alton Sterling. Curious that the media drums up sympathy for the black criminal, but not the black responsibly and legally armed citizen.

Compare Detroit's scenario to Chicago's: Chicago has the strictest gun laws in the U.S. and the highest gun homicide rate!

Chicago has a much lower homicide and gun homicide rate than Detroit. In fact, Chicago doesn't even rank in the top 10 US cities by gun homicide rate OR by homicide rate. By homicide alone, Chicago doesn't even rank in the top THIRTY US cities. (note: a relatively uniform 68% of all homicides are committed with guns).

http://www.neighborhoodscout.c...

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/20...

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/c...

In Detroit the Police Chief with massive government cutbacks advised local citizens to arm themselves!

And Detroit still ranks 25 spots AHEAD of Chicago in the number of homicides. Detroit still leads the country as the big city with the most homicides (and the most gun homicides).

The notion that more guns = less crime has been proven to be a myth, over and over and over. This is why the NRA really doesn't want the CDC to be able to collect data and do research on gun violence. In fact, they've successfully pushed legislation through a Republican congress that forbids them from doing so.

http://www.livescience.com/514...

No, you aren't thrown in jail for being poor. But you can certainly be thrown in jail for the side-effects of being poor, e.g. the inability to pay a bill or fine. And people on public assistance don't get money. They get vouchers to buy certain necessity items. They can't buy liquor, for example. So I don't think they're buying heroin with it either.

Jailed for not paying a bill or fine: only if that is a Government bill or fine. A private institution cannot have you jailed for not paying your bill. Stop paying your rent, or mortgage, or Visa bill and you won't end up in jail. Don't pay your taxes and away you go!

And those vouchers are easy to sell for cash time and time again.

5 months after legalization.

A doubling of hospital admittances 1 year after legalization.

Different story, same result. 1 year after legalization.

2 deaths from marijuana use 1 year after legalization.

Third death the following year.

Unreported death due to marijuana.

The last article raises the question, how many more deaths as the result of marijuana use have gone unreported? We know more and more traffic deaths have marijuana as a cause.

But please, let us here more excuses how none of the above is related to marijuana use. Drug users are good at making excuses, especially when presented with facts.

While trying to put into words what I feel it is, I ran into the FBI's definition, and it's actually quite good: * Involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law;
        * Appear to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping;

I'll just leave this here. The FBI is a terrorist organization by their own definition, and thus is the enemy and must be destroyed.

EXCLUSIVE BUY TIP!!! ALL TAYLOR SWIFT MERCHANDISE!!!

Taylor Swift's ongoing campaign to defend her brand, boot Etsy items with containing lyrics and shut down merchants selling unlicensed merchandise and destroy their wares has had a surprising and completely unintended effect: it appears the original has been destroyed in the confusion.

"Have you seen Taylor? Tell her to call her agent right away. We're worried."

Asked how Taylor could have been destroyed... how an actual human being might possibly have joined the counterfeit T-shirts, figurines, coffee mugs and life-size cardboard stand-ups collected in bins and being fed into an industrial incinerator, her agent shrugged. "These people are not hired for their brains. Or maybe she just slipped?"

It was also suggested that Swift may have wandering around the facility having neglected her hair and personal appearance. "It's a closely guarded secret, but most celebrities undergo significant transformation at the hands of cosmetology professionals. In their unpolished natural form they could easily be confused for poor quality imitation merchandise. It's a dead giveaway. We take quality control very seriously."

In this way, Swifts proverbial 'bad hair day' could have become the worst day, ever.

When pressed about concerns for Taylor's well-being and the ongoing search, the agent was cheerfully optimistic. "Taylor's output has been well received and we're seeing improved sales since announcing her disappearance. We even have unreleased recordings in the vault. I think her brand will continue to do well... no matter how this all turns out."

[not necessarily the news]

Oh, they're definitely attempting to do exactly that

With more duties comes more power, bigger budgets, and more bureaucracy.

Bunk, stop lying or get updated with the new info.

"If this trend continues, in five or six years non-alcohol drugs will overtake alcohol to become the most common substance involved in deaths related to impaired driving."

http://www.webmd.com/mental-he...
http://seattle.cbslocal.com/20...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/healt...

Bunk.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/healt...
http://seattle.cbslocal.com/20...

http://www.webmd.com/mental-he...

"If this trend continues, in five or six years non-alcohol drugs will overtake alcohol to become the most common substance involved in deaths related to impaired driving."

Or are you saying that poor people can ignore them because they're poor?

Or should a rich person deny public access to a public beach because they're rich?

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/04/27/trial-ordered-over-public-access-to-vinod-khoslas-martins-beach/

why wasn't this done via a popular vote?

It was. Tubman won.

Anything else you want me to Google for you, while I have it up?