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Because bad guys never go to restaurants?

why not post refs even if you're anon?

Just angry, I guess. I never troll... that's deliberately wasting other peoples' time and I don't think that's funny. Being falsely slapped down for trolling makes me less willing to go the extra mile and write solid posts with references.

But I'll start pretending to be a grownup again. Here are some references.

"clintonemail.com" was registered on January 13 2009, 8 days before she was confirmed as Secretary of State.

https://sharylattkisson.com/hillary-clintons-email-the-definitive-timeline/

NSA email discussion was in February 2009.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/emails-show-nsa-rejected-hillary-clinton-request-for-secure-smartphone/

Q.E.D. She did not set up clintonemail.com as a response to not getting a secure phone; she set it up for some other reason. And I can't prove what she was thinking but the obvious one is to dodge FOIA requests.

She has claimed that she went to the unusual trouble of setting up her own personal email server because she wanted the convenience of carrying only one device; she must have forgotten that she already said, in public, that she routinely carries an iPad, an iPad Mini, an iPhone, and a Blackberry.

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/03/11/hillary-clinton-last-month-i-have-an-ipad-a-mini-ipad-an-iphone-and-a-blackberry/

It's kind of an eater egg hoax as someone said.
According to CBS Sacramento setting the date back is supposed to show some vintage screen(s).

Fails as I don't drink.

So because you don't drink, nobody every drinks? Well argued. Guess this didn't happen then. or this. or this. or this. or this. Aren't the things that don't happen amazing?

- I then stab my spouse to death because the gun wouldn't fire. outcome worse than 'bad'.

So it's ok to kill people while on methamphetamine, because people high on coke also kill people sometimes?

Well argued.

Scenario 2: (a) the burglar isn't a burglar, he's a home invader.

And also, he's constantly chasing a long legged bird with the aim of capturing/killing said bird with products he has purchased from ACME corporation. And you forgot to mention he is a coyote.

(b) daughter knows not to sneak in.

Oh. that's all right then, I guess. We don't need to worry about the dead kids.

(c) try finding this actually happening. Removing a firearm from an armed person's hands only really happens in the movies. It's too easy to just shoot somebody trying to snatch your weapon.

OK then

(d) bad conservative/libertarian police: So what? It's the intruder's fault for breaking in. If he doesn't want to risk getting shot, he shouldn't be breaking in.

Sure. We don't need to worry about the dead kids. Just pile em up out back.

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/...

Californiaâ(TM)s eighth place showing in 2013 tells the story of the stateâ(TM)s comeback after years of hard knocks starting in 2007.

"Levy said California is poised to overtake the fifth and sixth largest economies this year."

And...the prior certs are outdated. As of June, it's the 7th largest economy.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.c...

"California Bounces Back As Worldâ(TM)s 7th Largest Economy, Larger Than Brazil"

There's really a knife's edge dividing the 5th and below economies. California could easily become the 4th largest with a small increase.

However, it's unlikely to exceed that of the U.S., China, Germany, and Japan. Especially since any gains it sees will also increase the U.S. so by definition, it can never be #1.

I'm not finding a lot of support for the california doom and gloom scenario.

I'm a texan who's been to california once in my life so no axe to grind here.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.c...

New York also received a threat but didn't deem it "credible" and therefore didn't act on it. My guess is that on any given day, any or all of New York, LA, and Chicago schools probably deal with some kind of threat.

So for LA to close the schools there is likely some other intelligence that they are acting on. Considering that authorities in that area are still getting information about recent terrorist activity in the area, I think the first knee jerk reaction to closing the schools should be "Hmm I wonder what they found out," not "Why are they overreacting?" (Of course, we should avoid knee-jerk reactions altogether, but then there would be nothing to talk about)

In the US, a password cannot be forced from you as it would violate your 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination.

Buahahahahahaha nope! It's adorable how you think the government obeys the constitution that created it.

I don't know about conservatives but preppers sometimes have IED's (some of the mwere caught and sentenced). I'm not sure whether they stored them in umbrella stands. Perhaps we can set up a survey.

Rifles being "illegally modified" sounds scary, right? They were filed down a bit for fully-automatic fire and to accept high-capacity magazines (both of which is admittedly illegal in California). Nonetheless it's anything but uncommon among gun enthusiasts (see e.g. http://denver.cbslocal.com/201... ). Gun enthusiasts correlates strongly with "conservatives" too. Also you seem to be able to get those high capacity magazines by mail order.

So I'd say having high-capacity magazines is really ordinary. Big shocker huh? And who can say about rifles being surreptitiously filed down for automatic fire? Who's going to check, right (unless after a shooting)?

All links I found in the spreadsheet I downloaded (see my earlier post for a link) were to newspapers, news-sites. How are those not "mass media"?

I'm not aware of anybody arguing to keep out legitimate Syrian war refugees.

Ahem.

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11...

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/16/...

The thing about hard working Mexican immigrants is this: they're the cream of the crop. Lazy people don't uproot, go to a foreign country where they'll be in the minority, and then go find a job and work hard at it.

Working hard is, and should be, highly respected.

But our laws and our borders should also be respected. I have absolutely no problem with someone coming into my house as a guest. But I do lock my front door because I don't want just anybody walking into my house and eating my food without contributing to my household or even so much as a how-do-you-do. Furthermore, while someone is in my house they must respect my property and my customs-- it's my house not theirs.

Brain surgeons, rocket scientists, and hard-working people are respectable. Great. But that doesn't give them a free pass to abuse my home and take advantage of me nor my country.

How would you feel if someone just walked into your home, tracked mud all over your carpet, drank all your beer then demanded that he be allowed to stay without paying rent and also be given a full voice in how the house was to be run?

Illegals come over our border without our permission.
They bring in drugs which ruin the lives of our citizens, some of them are rapists and murderers and continue their habits when they're here.
They use up welfare that our productive citizens worked hard to pay the taxes for-- and the illegal immigrants don't pay into this system, or if some do they don't pay nearly as much as a citizen does.
And then to top it all off they want to continue doing all of the above and they vote in our elections!

If the people that you rightfully laud for their hard work are truly interested in becoming part of the USA family then they should be crying louder than anyone for a chance to pay back-taxes + a fine for the chance to become citizens. Any illegal immigrant that just wants a free pass is doing nothing other than taking advantage of the USA and abusing the system for all its worth.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.c...

I thought so, too, but the link is beside the title:

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.c...

Ok, my snark re: the editors may have been unwarranted -- I see the article's sources are now beside the headline. Not used to that.

For anyone else, it's at http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.c...

The "DNA Data From California Newborn Blood Samples Stored, Sold To 3rd Parties" has "(cbslocal.com)" that links to:
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.c...

Or what happens when samsung or panasonic or who ever stops updating your blu-ray firmware?
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com...

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com...

It has happened, and I am not sure what the solution to it is. These drones are autonomous, and even airplanes with pilots have problems with seeing power lines.

A tower of molten salt to power the Las Vegas strip? Hmm. Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson (my heroes!) are trying to buy their power from elsewhere. Government should stop trying to 'help so much'.

Thankfully polling has been done on privacy issues with results freely available to all: http://www.pewinternet.org/201...

Here's the problem with the poll - they ask people about privacy, security and surveillance - but they don't test to see if people understand those topics, or how much they REALLY care about it.

For example, people claim they care about things being made in America - http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/05/01/gallup-60-percent-of-u-s-willing-to-pay-more-for-american-made-products/ - However, one look at how much we import from overseas, and it is obvious how much they (don't) care.

Here's a (bad) car analogy - if I asked, "Do you want cars to be safer?" Most people would probably answer, "Yes." However, if I followed that with, "Do you want cars to be limited to 35 MPH?" Most people would think I'm crazy.

Here's the reality - even people who are aware of their data, how it might be shared, and are actively trying to protect it, are leaking data like a sieve. Most aren't willing to go to the lengths necessary to protect their information properly. Using gmail or any web mail provider? You are leaking information. Buying something online? Name, address, credit card info. Carrying a cell phone? GPS location and contacts. Using iCloud, Dropbox or any online storage service? I hope you have everything encrypted - and I mean your encryption, not their baked in service. I also hope you have never accidentally clicked a link or ad you didn't intend to (or even intended to) - because that info is going all over the place. See the complexity of ad networks here: http://www.lumapartners.com/resource-center/lumascapes-2/

You might claim you care about privacy, security and surveillance; but how much effort are you really putting into protecting it?

In San Francisco it doesn't matter. They've already sold out.

but other than that there are no downsides.

Texas ranks in or near the bottom 20% in the nation in education and access to health care, and its poverty level puts in 46th (out of 50), in between Arkansas and Alabama. It has the highest uninsured rate in the nation. It leads all other states in the number of executions of innocent people. Texas has the highest percentage of children who don't have any access to health care.

  http://educationblog.dallasnew...

http://www.texasobserver.org/t...

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/0...

http://watchdogblog.dallasnews...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/...

Among Texas' other poor rankings are 50th for the EPA's toxic exposure score, 47th for total toxic chemicals released into waterways, 46th for cancer-causing chemicals released, 45th for developmental toxins released, and 49th for reproductive toxins released. So, when you say "diverse ecosystems" I assume you mean there are some places you can live and get cancer and some places you just cannot live.

Texas ranks 50th (out of 50) for greenhouse emissions.

In summary, poverty, poorly educated people, sick kids and an environment disaster not to mention the climate that you mention putting Texas near the bottom of the comfort index rankings do not add up to Texas being a "nice place to live". The highly-touted "Texas Miracle" is a lie.

And here are some unretouched photos of people Texas has elected governor:

http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sit...

http://www.highwaygirl.com/hwg...

And the current governor believes a U.S. military exercise in the region is really an all-out invasion by Obama and the US government to take over Texas. Or, he just says that to pander to his pig-ignorant electorate.

I'm sorry friend, but Texas is a shit-hole. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone who lives there. In Jesus' name.

...they'll be paying everyone $70k a year minimum just like Gravity Payments.

Of course, that didn't work out too well

No, that is HOMICIDE. Murder is illegal, homicide is a general term. Justifiable homicide is a legal concept with a lot of cases behind it.

What we're looking for here isn't homicide, it's intimidation. Keep them shaking in their boots and make them consider the risks before doing shady stuff. This is happening to the families of US military men right now. If this was a gay family who was being intimidated by some local rednecks it would be headline news across America and protests would be held in major cities demanding action. But it doesn't fit the narrative, so it just gets on the local news once and that's it.

We could try to intimidate SOPA advocates the same way, but nobody really cares about piracy that much to do it. Look at the strength of belief that those Muslims have in the story above: they believe so firmly in their cause that they are willing to intimidate powerless women and children. Nobody cares about software piracy in the same way. It ain't gonna happen. Anyone who advocates homicide against SOPA advocates is just another internet tough guy social justice warrior.

Neither Detroit or Greece had anything to do with being "Liberal" you idiot.

You keep telling yourself that, numnut.

How about this:

Moody’s Downgrades Chicago Credit Rating To ‘Junk’ Bond Status

Citing the city’s underfunded pension crisis, Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Chicago’s debt to junk bond status on Tuesday.

The Ba1 rating means that Chicago’s $8.1 billion in debt carries a substantial credit risk. That credit rating is also just a few levels above bonds that are in default.

“The Ba1 rating on Chicago’s debt incorporates expected growth in the city’s highly elevated unfunded pension liabilities,” Moody’s said.

The service cited the state Supreme Court’s recent decision to toss out the state’s pension reform bill as unconstitutional, along with concerns that the city will be able to meet its pension obligations in the future.

I guess going broke because of liberal policies like massive pensions for government union workers has nothing to do with liberal policies.

I can't wait to see what happens to California when their pension obligations come due - that will be an epic train wreck.

I will defend an individual's right to do so, even if I vehemently disagree with their reasons for doing so.

That's a fine sentiment, but you may be too busy to help barc001, because Pamela Geller's need for support to exercise her right to mock Mohammed is in even graver danger...

I'm not even sure it's a good idea. Packing the poor into high density housing doesn't have the greatest track record

A 291 sq ft condo in San Francisco for $415000 is not "high density housing for the poor". Granted, San Francisco is an ugly dump, but not because of condos selling for $1400/sq ft.

"Packing the poor" into anything, i.e., subsidized and public housing, has a lousy track record. High density housing has an excellent track record.

Yep, subsidy or not, nobody wants a shanty town in their backyard.

Oh, let's call it what it is: greedy existing home owners corrupt government officials so that they pass zoning laws and regulations in order to keep housing prices high. And to add insult to injury, they usually pretend they are doing it out of altruism and "concern for the poor".

Ed, is that you?

Actually, in a poll conducted just this last week, 65% of Americans say that NSA surveillance has helped thwart terrorist attacks, and a plurality--49%--say that they believe the benefits outweigh the negatives. So yeah, maybe Americans aren't super thrilled about the fact that the NSA has our dick pics, the same way we're not thrilled that Facebook has licensing rights to all our photos or that Uber tracks our location and uses it to make inferences about our sex lives, but yet, at the end of the day, we're not changing our behavior--neither in the apps that we use nor in the ways that we vote.

Man, I feel dirty linking to the Washington Times, but it was the most recent poll that a two-minute Google search turned up.

....would have been ideal for this.

Too bad the company literally destroyed them when the bankruptcy folks were closing in:

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.c...

Ferret

As for the great lakes, they froze early, thawed late and had 100 year record levels of ice; some froze completely which is nearly unprecedented and niagara falls froze twice in 2 years.

All signs of a warming world no doubt.

But please drag out the weasel words and explain this. Extra points or quoting "Skeptical science".

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
https://www.facebook.com/video...
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/20...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Government is a monopoly — and its pretense to "care" is being shattered in Baltimore as we argue — and I don't mean only the still-investigated death of a miscreant in police custody, but the mayor's orders to police to stand down and not protect citizens and their property from the rioting scum.

legally obligated not to care

Nonsense. They are legally obligated to maximize shareholders' value. This makes them care for my money and the only ways for them to get it is to offer me something I want. Government-run service-providers (such as police or Amtrak) don't have these ugly concerns for so base an object as "money" and consequently care not. All you can hope from them is the pretense of caring...

doesn't seem like a good trade.

I would've left you to your follies, except your decisions to hand over more and more control over your life to the government empowers it to take the same control over mine.

Seriously, have we degenerated as a culture to the point where we need scientists telling people to stay inside during a thunderstorm?

Apparently so. And again, and again and again.

Alcohol-sniffing dogs probably make Judge Ginsburg nervous:

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.c...

The local CBS news affiliate in New York uses disqus.

Go here

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/

Click any story with a whiff of crime, on any day.

Guaranteed racist hate.

It's like a hang out spot for old feeble bigots.

I don't understand why a serious media company like CBS News wants their brand to be associated with constant racist ignorance, but it's been this way for years.

You could imagine that being an old media company it has brought online and attracted the equally old racists.

But still: why would CBS corporate want that to persist, for years, regardless of the reason why their forum is a hang out place for intolerant morons?

Even if CBS New York is run by racists, even such a person could see how being linked to such constant hate would hurt their bottom line, and that the almighty dollar would demand the racism be scrubbed from their website. But no, it's a magnet and hang out for racist hate.

Bizarre.

With a similar anniversary of flight 17 shot by Russia-sponsored assholes in Eastern Ukraine (by mistake), Russian propaganda is spreading lunatic rumors about America shooting down MH370.

They don't have to convince anybody with such accusations. They just need to make enough noise to make the perfectly credible accusations against them look similarly lunatic to the short attention-span majority of the world's population...

I vehemently disagree. I highly recommend taking the 16 minutes and 39 seconds to actually watch the most compelling part of the documentary before trying to wave it away as "gloomy documentaries." For you to say such a thing shows that, contrary to your statement, you are denying the presence of pollution--or at least the social responsibility we all have to improve our health, life spans, and quality of life by regulating pollution.

I live in Washington DC and spend a great deal of time worrying about my health and the health of my children because our air quality here can get so bad that we have Red Ozone Days where we are told to keep our children inside, especially if they have any respiratory conditions, which they are more likely to have thanks to the poor air quality. I think it a blessing that NASA and the EPA monitor our air quality and that the local papers light a fire of panic under everyone's feet about the need to improve it because childhood leukemia and other cancers aren't something we should just shrug at.

Awareness of pollution is why we have Catalytic converters in our cars to dramatically reduce the toxic nature of the exhaust coming out of them. It's why we banned Lead Gasoline and ended the crime wave having that chemical in our brains unleashed on our culture. It's why air quality has improved over the last 10 years as new technologies, improved MPG, and other environmental regulations, but we still have much more to do.

It's also a moral issue for us, because our Made-In-China marketplace is why they have so much pollution. We want cheap goods and they turn a blind eye to the pollution to keep the products cheap. But that pollution is making it's way back to us over the Pacific Ocean. I want to keep buying cheap stuff from China, but I am also willing to pay a little more if it allows the Chinese people to improve their health.

The Chinese government should let people understand the science and choose for themselves.

I like how NCIS (the original anyway) works closely with the actual NCIS on stories(there is a web articular talking about NCIS TV working with NCIS, but I can't find it at the moment). I do get tired of how they get computer speak wrong (or at least irrelevant), but that is the case with every show.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/...
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.c...
http://www.bizjournals.com/san...
http://www.naturalgasintel.com...
http://www.mercurynews.com/bus...

Are there any objections I've missed?

Uber refusing to play nicely with the laws is bigger problem than just fucking the existing taxis. For one, as you mentioned, they don't ensure a safe (read, insured) ride. But taxi regulations also prevent taxis from refusing service to handicapped people with guide dogs (for instance). While there may be some de facto racism when hailing a cab moving along the street, it cannot be baked into the service, but Uber seems like they will allow drivers to not pick up certain races of people. Basically, a good deal of regulations for taxis are to deal with ensuring edge cases get treated fairly. And all-white Portsmouth with it's 21,000 people (and declining) just doesn't have to deal with the edge cases that arise in cities.

government-regulated taxis versus free-market Uber.

Unregulated does not mean "free-market". Government regulations may hamper a free market. But, many times, Government regulations exist because there can be no free market in that market space. Ride sharing is likely to fall into that vein.

A couple of inches of snow is one thing.

Almost two feet of snow in Boston itself, and very close to three feet of snow in other places in Massachusetts, is quite another. As it stands right now, only five storms in Boston history (going back to 1892) have higher snowfall totals (the data on that page predates the 2013 storm, which had a higher snowfall total, if I remember correctly.) The ticker at the bottom of the local TV programming listing school closings and activity cancellations for Wednesday (recovering from the storm) takes a couple minutes to finish its cycle.

A couple of inches of snow is one thing.

Almost two feet of snow in Boston itself, and very close to three feet of snow in other places in Massachusetts, is quite another. As it stands right now, only five storms in Boston history (going back to 1892) have higher snowfall totals (the data on that page predates the 2013 storm, which had a higher snowfall total, if I remember correctly.) The ticker at the bottom of the local TV programming listing school closings and activity cancellations for Wednesday (recovering from the storm) takes a couple minutes to finish its cycle.

From the cited article:

>> “There’s no expectation of privacy” for a vehicle driving on a public road or parked in a public place, said Lt. Bill Hedgpeth, a spokesman for the Mesquite Police Department in Texas.

http://washington.cbslocal.com...

Man that must be a real bitch for them.

go to google news

type in "shooting"

and let's dip into the ocean today

http://www.newsday.com/news/ne...

http://www.post-gazette.com/lo...

http://www.ketv.com/news/omaha...

http://www.twincities.com/crim...

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2015...

http://www.whsv.com/home/headl...

etc.

etc.

tomorrow it will be another collection of dozens of shootings

every fucking day in the usa. oh it happens in other countries. at a much lower rate. because they make guns harder for douchebags to get

the usa enjoys no amazing lower rate of rape, robbery, assault, etc., because of owning lots of guns, as compared to our social and economic peers, we are no crime free paradise. so owning a gun doesn't confer magic anti-crime properties. it does confer something though: a massive increase in homicide. pointlessly. needlessly. every little confusion or altercation in the usa has to lead to death. and this is somehow better

completely unnecessary, completely fucking stupid, and completely ok according to my fellow countrymen who are fucking braindead douchebags

we need gun control in the usa badly

and we are going to get it

you can't ward off logic and common sense with stupidity, lies, and propaganda forever

You mean like Texas selling information on drivers, or Florida doing the same? The funny thing is that these are states where "big government" is supposedly frowned upon.

There really are only so many possible stories and plotlines.

No, there aren't. Music may be constrained by its medium but the imagination knows no such limitations.

If George Harrison was still alive, he could chat with you about how "My Sweet Lord, was copyright infringement of "He's So Fine", written by Ronnie Mack, and recorded by the Chiffons in 1962.

He was sued, and he lost. And yet, seems like the two songs could be hardly less related.

http://wzlx.cbslocal.com/2013/...

I only say what will happen in the future - and it will. Your interpretation of the human imagination and it's lack of limitation means nothing to the people who plan to profit from perpetual copyright.

Look, I have no doubt that eventually, as we find out that this so called protection of IP will end up destroying new IP, and sanity will end up taking over.

But just like patents on "A Novel Way of Collecting Information From a Computer Screen by Looking at it" patents and lawsuits based on that sort of crap stifle innovation, we'll undergo a period of time when people will be sued for silly stuff in the music and literature field.

Should have been: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/02/18/speed-camera-controversy-spreads-throughout-maryland

Many of the cameras, quite frankly, suck. They sometimes pick up the wrong car, report completely inaccurate speeds, fail in unexpected ways in inclement weather or when vehicles are changing lanes at the wrong moment and you essentially just have to take the manufacturer's word for it that they are basically infallible unless you want to hire an attorney and go through a major ordeal to try to raise doubts otherwise. They MIGHT occasionally (if you're lucky) have a police car drive past the camera, perfectly in his lane holding a perfectly constant speed, on an empty road under perfect weather conditions in a "standard" vehicle and verify that it reports he was going the correct speed. That apparently "proves" the systems is working right...
Just one of many examples nationwide.
I know someone incorrectly ticketed (essentially the laws of physics proved they could not have been going the speed that was claimed, unless perhaps their car had been fitted with an aftermarket solid rocket booster...). It happened to be on a rainy day as well, coincidence?

In Maryland, there is a law requiring two party consent to be recorded. Meaning that both the person recording and the person being recorded must consent to the recording. In my opinion, this law needs to be repealed. It has never been used except by miscreants who were caught committing crimes. For example, when James O'Keefe went after Acorn's offices in Maryland, the state's attorney chose not to charge Acorn, though they clearly were caught advocating some very unethical and illegal things. Instead they charged O'Keefe because he did not obtain consent from the people he recorded.

The police may have a mistaken notion that they somehow need to consent to be recorded even while working in a public space. There is good reason to think that mayor Rawlings-Blake was probably advised about the potential for contradictory laws. Thus, when the City Council proposed the police camera laws, she vetoed it because she was concerned that there would be problems starting with the very first court case.

All that said, this is why there are protests nation-wide against excessive force by police. Sooner or later, someone is going to fight back against such asymmetric brutality to save a life. It is not likely to end peacefully for anyone. The police need to be directed to take a step back just a bit, or places like Ferguson and New York may end up looking like practice runs for something much larger.

As demonstrations and looting took place in Ferguson, some friends of mine and many public commentators expressed disgust with some of the most prejudiced comments tweeted with the #ferguson hashtag.

I wonder, if #PantsUpDontLoot was among the "prejudice"...

I hate to have to point this out but Rainbow/PUSH isn't a "civil rights organization" by any stretch of the imagination. It's Jackson's personal vehicle for racialist shakedowns like this:

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.c...

He has about $10M in the bank:

http://www.celebritynetworth.c...

The only "civil rights" he cares about are those of his bank account.

But Obama's social media team was often quicker to respond to things and more creative.

I sure am glad to have a tech-savvy Administration in Washington for once. Finally we have someone, who uses the same devices we do and appreciates their security. Someone, who "gets" of building web-sites, the importance of competition among ISPs, and other deeply technical issues.