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Gasland is crap

Yeah...except it it doesn't

Does it hurt to be so wrong?

I know, in the U.S.A healthcare is just another business. No profit, no care.

New Jersey hospital deports unconscious stroke victim
http://rt.com/usa/jersey-hospital-deport-stroke-282/

Report: U.S. hospitals deported hundreds of immigrants
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57580905/report-u.s-hospitals-deported-hundreds-of-immigrants/

The difference is one of those parties makes a lot of speeches about wanting a free market.

Which party is that?

Funny enough, a software like Parallels Desktop needs such low-level access to the system that it would most certainly be prohibited from being approved into the Mac App Store.

You're absolutely right. This link doesn't go to the approved and ready for download link of the software in the app store.

Apple is pretty strict about what kind of low-level access its App Store apps are allowed and where they can install their stuff.

So they wouldn't, say, approve malware then...

do not want to say that the walled garden is flawless or does not have some significant problems, but your guess is really simply wrong in this case.

Yes, those citations are powerless against the power of denial.

Parallels is NOT sold in the AppStore. It's installed via a custom stand-alone installer.

Of course it is...

You have NO idea what you are trolling about.

Yeah... you're right, the app store is totally safe.

You take issue with referring to the ever fun-loving Taliban and al Qaida as enemies?

17 Beheaded in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan for Attending Wedding Party with Dancing Taliban Hangs Afghan Boy, 7, for Spying I was one of the Taliban's torturers: I crucified people

How do you think they should be referred to? As the, "Asian gentlemen with a minor beheading problem?" "The life of the party with a suicide vest?" "The local representatives of Crucifier's Anonymous - the 12 step program to kill all your enemies?"

And how is this our problem? It's not nice, for sure, but why is it our job to fix it? To stabilize the region? Why should we care? For Israel and Saudi Arabia? The Saudis can go fuck themselves and Israel is only our friend when they want something (usually guns and money). Are we trying to impress Europe? All they ever do is complain anyway. Don't tell me it's for `stopping human suffering', because you know damn well that that shithole was a shithole for the previous century and it will be for the next few centuries too.

Well... cough.... sorta, mostly.....

Sodomy "For the Sake of Islam"
Al Qaeda Bombers Learn from Drug Smugglers

Designed to create the belief:
1 - Intelligence intercepts and interrogations are effective at getting information that "protects" "us".

And you dispute that? People seem to be pretty eager to read them for what you think are ineffective methods.

2 - Drones are an effective weapon against "our" "enemies" and not principally dangerous to villagers and local civic functions.

Pakistani General: Actually, The Drones Are Awesome

You take issue with referring to the ever fun-loving Taliban and al Qaida as enemies?

17 Beheaded in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan for Attending Wedding Party with Dancing
Taliban Hangs Afghan Boy, 7, for Spying
I was one of the Taliban's torturers: I crucified people

How do you think they should be referred to? As the, "Asian gentlemen with a minor beheading problem?" "The life of the party with a suicide vest?" "The local representatives of Crucifier's Anonymous - the 12 step program to kill all your enemies?"

Two problems.

- First, the link in the GP post isn't about IQ. You're arguing apples (IQ) when the subject is oranges (mental health).

- Second, you overstate the results of Røgeberg's research.

Does marijuana lower IQ? New study challenges link

In an interview, Rogeberg said he's not claiming that his alternative explanation is definitely right, just that the methods and evidence in the original study aren't enough to rule it out. He suggested further analyses the researchers could do with their data.

The Duke scientists, who learned of Rogeberg's paper late last week, disagree and said they conducted new statistical tests that ruled out his explanation.

Rogeberg says they need to do still more work to truly rule it out.

As the researchers debate, experts unconnected to the two papers said the Rogeberg paper doesn't overturn the original study. It "raises some interesting points and possibilities," but provides "speculation" rather than new data based on real people, said Dr. Duncan Clark, who studies alcohol and drug use in adolescents at the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said observational studies of people like the Duke work can't definitively demonstrate that marijuana causes irreversible effects on the brain. In an email, she said Rogeberg's paper "looks sound" but doesn't prove that his alternative explanation is correct either.

Pot smokers might not turn into dopes after all

What do the original paper's authors make of Røgeberg's analysis?
Madeline Meier, a psychologist at the Duke Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center in Durham, North Carolina, who co-wrote the original paper with her colleagues, says that Røgeberg's ideas are interesting. However, she points out that the authors of the first PNAS paper restricted their analysis to individuals in middle-class families and those with low or high socioeconomic status. The outcome suggests that the decline in IQ cannot be attributed to socioeconomic factors alone.

In their original analysis, Meier says, she and her colleagues controlled for socioeconomic status and found that in all socioeconomic categories, the IQs of children who were not heavy users remained unchanged from adolescence to adulthood. Therefore, she says, socioeconomic status does not influence IQ decline.

They'll have to dead head back to China with empty ships!

This story reminds me of the documentary "ShipBreakers" showing the plight of the Indian workers breaking down ships and dealing with the toxic and unsafe conditions. At one point a ship arrives that had been on a toxic list for a long time, had had it's name changed multiple times and was finally going to get scrapped in India because no other place on Earth would take it.

CBS 60 minutes did a story on it too but it was in Bangladesh and three years later than the documentary..

"The government lost the information war. They are going to need to refocus on something else to win. Martial law. Election stealing. Murdering people. Extortion. At that point you're no longer looking at democracy and civilization but totalitarianism and military rule. We already lock up every marijuana user. Why not start locking up "terror violators" or some other nonsense 'crime'?

This is the breaking point. Will people vote in politicians who will stop the wars (terror, drugs, guns, privacy)? Or are we going to get another Bush/Obama clone?"

you must live in lala land where everything fox news churns out from marketing any news that they invent in their own heads. obama did almost nothing because whenever the democrats compromized the republicans called for more. they only got obamacare by compromising democrat ideal of single payer heathcare to the 'compromize' of the affordable care act. until the supreme court called it a 'tax' and then this guy called grover went against ACAhttp://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57327816/the-pledge-grover-norquists-hold-on-the-gop/

Sorry, but you're wrong on this. The phrase, “sensitive intelligence sources or methods” specifically refers to spy satellites and signals intelligence. The Wikileaks disclosures were still a compromise of intelligence sources, just not the ones being referred to by that phrase. It was still a bad thing.

As to “there has not been a single case of Afghans needing protection or to be moved because of the leak.”" - The Taliban made it clear that they would hunt down anyone identified in the leaks. What isn't clear is if any of the spokespersons making claims that nobody was harmed were actually in a position to really know anything, or if they can actually personally attest to the safety of everyone on the list. I doubt that they can.

Afghans are not simply translating, they are turning against the Taliban. That is kind of dangerous. The Taliban have been known to hang 7 year old children suspected of being informants (or simply as revenge), when they aren't beheading people for dancing at weddings.

I note that you reference Greenwald. He doesn't really seem to be interested in stopping the barbarism of al Qaida and the Taliban.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57559324/group-says-it-found-child-workers-at-samsung-supplier-factory/
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/apr/25/samsung-tin-mines-indonesia-child-labour
http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/news/new-448.html - Samsung’s Audits Ineffective, More Child Workers Uncovered
http://www.change.org/petitions/samsung-stop-exploiting-child-laborers

2012
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57553262/doctor-dogs-being-trained-to-sniff-out-ovarian-cancer/

2009 (Can Dogs Sniff Out Cancer?)
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-703845.html

2006 (Dogs Excel In Cancer-Sniff Study)
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500368_162-1204680.html

every few years it pops up, but still nothing other than studies, perhaps its just a funding thing

2012
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57553262/doctor-dogs-being-trained-to-sniff-out-ovarian-cancer/

2009 (Can Dogs Sniff Out Cancer?)
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-703845.html

2006 (Dogs Excel In Cancer-Sniff Study)
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500368_162-1204680.html

every few years it pops up, but still nothing other than studies, perhaps its just a funding thing

2012
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57553262/doctor-dogs-being-trained-to-sniff-out-ovarian-cancer/

2009 (Can Dogs Sniff Out Cancer?)
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-703845.html

2006 (Dogs Excel In Cancer-Sniff Study)
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500368_162-1204680.html

every few years it pops up, but still nothing other than studies, perhaps its just a funding thing

Am I the only one who finds this truly frightning; that the photocopier has a bug in a sub system that is basically reading the content of the documents being photocopied?

Yes, you should find that frightening. That's not new, though, pretty much all photocopiers these days don't actually "photocopy" the document, they scan it to memory and then print the scan. Your documents are saved to memory on the photocopier. Yep, that's a security flaw.

http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/digital-copier-security-461009
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-6412439.html
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=60313

"There is no online software."

That's not what everyone is saying. Read the comments to this article.

I've heard that a bunch of times and haven't found a SINGLE source stating what you claim. I guess if the scandal is too bad you just make crap up and hope no one else tries to fact check you.

Actual Numbers:
Of the 298 groups looked at:
292 - Conservative
6 - Progressive

Of those 100% of the conservative groups were given extra scrutiny, 0% of the Progressive ones were. No progressive group members could be found to testify to Congress, they were asked but none of them had been harrassed.

[Citation Present]

Don't come here and lie, it makes you look like the ass you are.

Well, it was reported by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CNN, CBS, and others (ABC, Fox News, NPR, etc.).

As far as I can tell, all the major US news companies reported on the closings.

Is the new Al Qaeda scare, U.S. still on edge in face of uncovered terror plot, just manipulation to scare people into accepting NSA and other "security" agencies doing anything they like?

"Gates: Some Benghazi critics have "cartoonish" view of military capability"

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57584087/gates-some-benghazi-critics-have-cartoonish-view-of-military-capability/

The question is what is seen and what is unseen due to the basically Bill of Attainder against Walmart in Washington, DC.

A study shows that a Walmart opening may negatively affect directly competing stores in neighboring zip codes, but that stores not competing directly with Walmart (such as boutiques and restaurants that do not duplicate Walmart's offerings) benefit from a Walmart opening, and this tends to diversify and enrich local retail markets.

Also keep in mind that Walmart shoppers will now have more cash left in their pockets due to lower prices, and will be able to spend that money in the local economy. Enhancing economic efficiency does not destroy economies, it enhances them.

Many of the Walmarts that will not be built in DC were to be anchor tenants of new retail developments to be built to replace run-down or abandoned areas - and now these retail developments are in question, such as the 18.5-acre town center in Ward 7. Moreover, DC residents already go over the border to Maryland and Virginia (where there are Walmarts) to spend $1 billion.

In the poorest areas of Washington, DC, such as southeast DC across the Anacostia river, locals would greatly benefit from Walmart's lower prices and greater variety of foodstuffs and products closer to where they live.

Although I have no idea how it is possible, it seems the director of the NSA disagrees with you.

NSA director: Snowden leaks caused "irreversible and significant damage"

Starbucks was nearly crucified for using a natural red coloring in their strawberry fraps.

You mean the deficit that's been reduced from 30-50% in the last 4 years depending on your numbers?

Citation needed desperately. Here are mine.

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57400369-503544/national-debt-has-increased-more-under-obama-than-under-bush/

Our dept is now 16.7 trillion. It has not gone down to any significant degree. I believe the treasury paid down something like 35 billion. A drop in the bucket and virtually meaningless.

Sorry, no.

http://www.serendipity.li/wot/other_fires/other_fires.htm

Here's one example:

In October 2004 in Caracas, Venezuela, a fire in a 56-story office tower burned for more 17 hours and spread over 26 floors. Two floors collapsed, but the underlying floors did not, and the building remained standing.

See http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/18/world/main649824.shtml

Yes, they do. Or worse use doctors to spy and break their hard earned trust

Well this comment looks shockingly familiar

Simply being bipolar doesn't make someone a risk for killing their kid.

I used to think like that, but as I've grown older I've realized that some people are just totally unpredictable. It depends on the severity and other combined conditions, but there are batshit crazy examples popping up in the local and national news all the time. People say things like "oh I knew she was crazy, but I never thought she'd do something like that!", yeah we aren't all qualified psychological evaluators and apparently even those who are qualified make mistakes as well.

You mean kind of like this case where a black woman, in the same state as Zimmerman, fires two warning shots in the air when an ex-husband she had a restraining order on because he had a history of violence, gets 20 years in prison and no one was hurt! And to add insult to injury the judge refused to let her use the Stand Your Ground law as her defense!

The prosecution changing the charge was not from murder to manslaughter, but from second degree murder to third degree murder. Manslaughter was always a potential charge and the judge rightly upheld that, but did not allow the third degree charge.
  http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57593306-504083/george-zimmerman-trial-jury-wont-weigh-lesser-offense-of-third-degree-felony-murder-judge-rules/

I think it's because the other guy was black.

Like in this case. Fla. mom gets 20 years for firing warning shots.

A Florida woman who fired warning shots against her allegedly abusive husband has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Marissa Alexander of Jacksonville had said the state's "Stand Your Ground" law should apply to her because she was defending herself against her allegedly abusive husband when she fired warning shots inside her home in August 2010. She told police it was to escape a brutal beating by her husband, against whom she had already taken out a protective order.

Total dead: 0.

20 years for trying to defend herself against against someone she already had a protective order against.

She probably should have waited until after he gave her a bloody nose and then killed him with a single shot to the heart at close range.

No one to contest her story of self defense then - and it worked for Zimmerman (right or wrong - I'm not saying he is or isn't guilty as I haven't the slightest idea).

Assuming Florida applies their ingenious law in a race-neutral manner, of course -- hahahaha.

Oh, totally:
Mom sentences to 20 years for firing warning shots at abusive ex who was violating a peace bond.

Huh, I guess Florida just plain doesn't like black people.

Like in this case. Fla. mom gets 20 years for firing warning shots.

Oh, how typical of Illiberals to withdraw the inconvenient facts, when appealing to passionate, rather than rational... The link you gave us is surprisingly — for an article about a criminal case — devoid of the details, like what was the actual charge, for example... Thankfully, other reporters are still doing their job (which is to inform, rather than agitate the toiling masses). Here, for example, we find that the 20 years come from three counts of aggravated assault. The article also explains, why the jury did not buy neither the "self-defense" argument (which Zimmerman used successfully) nor the "stand your ground" argument (which Zimmerman did not use):

But a jury agreed with prosecutors that the law didn't apply because she left during the argument, got a gun and returned to confront him [emphasis mine], WJXT reported.

I think it's because the other guy was black.

Like in this case. Fla. mom gets 20 years for firing warning shots.

A Florida woman who fired warning shots against her allegedly abusive husband has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Marissa Alexander of Jacksonville had said the state's "Stand Your Ground" law should apply to her because she was defending herself against her allegedly abusive husband when she fired warning shots inside her home in August 2010. She told police it was to escape a brutal beating by her husband, against whom she had already taken out a protective order.

Total dead: 0.

20 years for trying to defend herself against against someone she already had a protective order against.

The Kings of Spain were threatened with excommunication on multiple occasions.

But were those threats conditioned on the ending of the Spanish Inquisition or mere power plays? You give an example of a power play and it ended with the next pope.

Dubious justice but still better than Guantanamo...

Yea right. Guantanamo is still a few centuries shy of the Spanish Inquisition and fundamentally, it's a POW camp. Indefinite imprisonment legally goes with that territory. The war which it's associated with is some nebulous affair that might drag on for generations or it might be ended in a legal sense in a few years. I think the Guantanamo Bay prison is unjust, but it's not at the level of the Spanish Inquisition.

There's also the matter of number of prisoners and punishments meted out. Current number of prisoners in Guantanamo is less than two hundred. They have yet to execute any prisoners (though apparently the wheels are turning) while the Spanish Inquisition executed people from its founding all the way through to 1826.

If the question is, "are financial institutions doing the end run around public or private regulation for the purpose of screwing people, engaging in fraud, and dodging (necessary) liability?" the answer is always yes.

If Mitt had been elected, this would be cheered on by the Whitehouse as good and normal capitalist activity and the FINRA would be disbanded.

Well, if Obama had been elected, he would have just ignored the law anyway. Just like he did with his own health care reforms.

And then taken the Fifth. Just like his IRS attack dog did.

Then the most transparent administration evah would secretly transfer all records to the CIA so they could avoid FOIA requests.

I guess it's a good damn thing Obama didn't get elected. Imagine those corrupt tyrants reading all your emails.

That could never happen in the US of A. There aren't that many USELESS FUCKING IDIOTS more than willing to be fooled over and over again, now are there?

Yet, when the government started wiretapping citizens years ago due to "national security" reasons, there was no such uproar. Sure, there were a few people that wanted the president impeached, but there was no real support for it.

Yes, and there is a reason for that. The Federal government keeps arresting people like this:

With Nidal Hasan bombshell, time to call Fort Hood shooting a terror attack?
Maryland man sentenced to 25 years for plot to bomb military recruiting center
Feds Arrest Somali Teen in Oregon Bomb Plot
Times Square car bomb: Pakistani Taliban 'claims responsibility'

They aren't arresting political dissidents, they're arresting would-be or actual terrorists. They've arrested and convicted hundreds of them. For some reason many people on Slashdot keep waving their hands and speaking the incantations to banish them from discussion. "There are no terrorists. There is no reason for that sort of investigation."

What makes this even more ridiculous is that there appears to be no small overlap in the people objecting to the US government engaging in anti-terrorism investigations by saying the US government can't be trusted while also condemning the US for not having government run healthcare. Apparently you're not supposed to trust the government to keep you alive by preventing you from being blown up or poisoned by terrorists, but you can trust the government with all your medical records, and to keep you alive by cutting open your body to move things around and take things out, or saw off limbs, or pump you full of chemicals and irradiate you, all subject to this years healthcare budget, all the while having access to your financial records through the tax system, and inspecting the food supply to keep you from being poisoned. Anyone that thinks that the medical system can't be used as a tool of oppression clearly has no idea about what various communist regimes have done.

Your view about "insurmountable barriers" is interesting. Sometimes one's political views form the basis for that, and no amount of evidence helps.

Here you go, knock yourself out. The police call transcript and map are helpful, as is various aspects of the other material.

Map and timeline of incident

Trayvon Martin shooting death -- initial police reports and '911' call transcript

Witness: Trayvon Called George Zimmerman A ‘Creepy-A**,’ ‘White, Kill-My-Neighbors Cracker’

Zimmerman trial blockbuster — Eyewitness says Trayvon on top punching Mixed Martial Arts style
Zimmerman Trial Day 5 – Analysis & Video – State’s own witnesses undercut theory of guilt
Zimmerman Trial Day 6 – Analysis & Video – State’s witness Chris Serino seriously undermines charge
Zimmerman Update Exclusive — Mid-Day 8 — State Wins Evidentiary Battle, Loses Testimony War
Zimmerman Case: Experts Call State’s Scream Claims “Absurd” “Ridiculous” and “Imaginary Stuff”
Zimmerman Prosecution’s Voice Expert admits: “This is not really good evidence”

GMA Shows Exclusive Images Of George Zimmerman’s Head Injuries From Night Of Trayvon’s Death
Autopsy results show Trayvon Martin had injuries to his knuckles

Trayvon Martin's legal troubles reportedly covered up by police
Has State Opened Door to Defense Introducing Martin Fight Video?
Zimmerman judge excludes Trayvon Martin fighting, social media and marijuana use

Lest we forget: NBC News Apologizes for Editing George Zimmerman's 911 Call (Which falsely mad Zimmerman appear to be racist.)

Zimmerman Case: The Five Principles of the Law of Self Defense

From what I've read, it corresponds to the 911 transcript. The operator tried to get him to back off.

I think you need to reread that transcript again. Zimmerman had agreed to meet the police officers that had been dispatched to the site. Martin confronted and assaulted Zimmerman after that. Since he was ahead of Zimmerman and on his way home, if Marin had continued on his way he would have been home instead of assaulting Zimmerman, which led to his being shot.

Map and timeline of incident

Trayvon Martin shooting death -- initial police reports and '911' call transcript

Dispatcher: Are you following him? [2:24]

Zimmerman: Yeah. [2:25]

Dispatcher:OK.We don’t need you to do that. [2:26]

Zimmerman: OK. [2:28] (wind noises heard)

Dispatcher:Alright, sir, what is your name? [2:34]

Zimmerman:George. He ran.

Dispatcher:Alright, George, what’s your last name?

Zimmerman: Zimmerman.

...

Dispatcher: Alright, George, we do have them on the way. Do you want to meet with the officer when they get out there?

Zimmerman: Yeah.

Dispatcher: Alright, where are you going to meet with them at?

Zimmerman: Um, if they come in through the gate, tell them to go straight past the clubhouse and, uh, straight past the clubhouse and make a left and then they go past the mailboxes you’ll see my truck. [3:10]

...

Dispatcher: OK, do you just want to meet with them at the mailboxes then? [3:42]

Zimmerman: Yeah, that’s fine. [3:43]

...

Dispatcher: OK, no problem. I’ll let them know to call you when they’re in the area. [4:02]

Zimmerman:Thanks.

Dispatcher: You’re welcome.

Call ends 4:07

The trial seems to be going strongly in Zimmerman's favor, of course juries are unpredictable.

Witness: Trayvon Called George Zimmerman A ‘Creepy-A**,’ ‘White, Kill-My-Neighbors Cracker’

Zimmerman trial blockbuster — Eyewitness says Trayvon on top punching Mixed Martial Arts style
Zimmerman Trial Day 5 – Analysis & Video – State’s own witnesses undercut theory of guilt
Zimmerman Trial Day 6 – Analysis & Video – State’s witness Chris Serino seriously undermines charge
Zimmerman Update Exclusive — Mid-Day 8 — State Wins Evidentiary Battle, Loses Testimony War

Has State Opened Door to Defense Introducing Martin Fight Video?
Zimmerman judge excludes Trayvon Martin fighting, social media and marijuana use

Zimmerman Case: The Five Principles of the Law of Self Defense

Lest we forget:

Considering that workers in the US enjoy among the highest wages in the world I'd say pretty good

You'd have to compare "purchasing power" and/or inflation adjusted wages over time before and after the Chinese "robots" aka workers started being used.

High and going up = things getting better for the workers.
High but going down = things getting worse for the workers.

See the median and mean incomes: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/historical/household/2011/H06AR_2011.xls
When did the Chinese workers start to really come "on line" (and outsourcing begin)? Maybe it's not a marked downward trend but it sure doesn't look as bright as you suggest.

The second and relevant one here is if labor costs are high. The fact that Chinese firms are finding it viable to automate means that millions of people are being pulled from poverty.

High relative to alternatives. Are the Chinese "robots"/workers causing millions of Americans being pulled to become richer than they were before?

If the answer is no (and it seems to be no from the census figures), then why would cheaper and cheaper robots cause more and more Chinese people to be richer in the future?

Maybe it's because of the trade deficit (starting at about 1998?): http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/historical/
But that might be related - it could mean in future the people that own the robots would become richer as the rest become poorer and have a "trade deficit" with the robot owners. And even if the robots and robot owners are in the US doesn't mean that most US people would own the robots: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505124_162-57578162/robots-are-going-to-take-your-job/

If this mutt: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57591030/probe-irs-contractor-won-up-to-$500-million-in-questionable-bids/
can claim to be a disabled vet because he hurt his ankle in high school at a prep school then the sky is definitely the limit for you.

Seriously though as others have stated your resume itself isn't nearly as important as who you send it to. You have a rare combination of skills (engineering, military, jet aircraft etc) and there are small set of companies that would give you a serious look regardless. It doesn't have to be all drones and DoD type companies, NASA and commercial engineering firms would be as well.

As the Gay Population is probably between 3%-10% I doubt that make it a major factor.

Americans Have No Idea How Few Gay People There Are

In surveys conducted in 2002 and 2011, pollsters at Gallup found that members of the American public massively overestimated how many people are gay or lesbian. In 2002, a quarter of those surveyed guessed upwards of a quarter of Americans were gay or lesbian (or "homosexual," the third option given). By 2011, that misperception had only grown, with more than a third of those surveyed now guessing that more than 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian. Women and young adults were most likely to provide high estimates, approximating that 30 percent of the population is gay. Overall, "U.S. adults, on average, estimate that 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian," Gallup found. Only 4 percent of all those surveyed in 2011 and about 8 percent of those surveyed in 2002 correctly guessed that fewer than 5 percent of Americans identify as gay or lesbian.

Gallup survey claims 3.4 percent in U.S. are LGBT
Study sees gays as 1.7 percent of population (US)
1.5% of Britons say they are gay or bisexual, ONS survey finds

Hmmm. IIRC GOP Blocks Bill to Punish Companies that Move Jobs Abroad.

Congrats, you've succeeded in opening your mouth and removing all doubt as to whether or not you're a fool. I guess you didn't take the time to actually read beyond the headline, else you would have thought better as the article points out that there were many Democrats who also voted against it. But hey, it's CBS, what do you expect?

FWIW, OP said nothing about one party or the other, and was very much right in doing so.

Hmmm. IIRC GOP Blocks Bill to Punish Companies that Move Jobs Abroad.

Leaving aside that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", here are some rape reports that might interest you:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57511997-504083/elderly-woman-raped-and-mugged-in-central-park-in-broad-daylight-nypd-says/

http://www.wesh.com/news/central-florida/orange-county/Police-Man-raped-82-year-old-woman-at-knifepoint/-/12978032/19838444/-/f5q5ybz/-/index.html

http://www.foxlexington.com/newsroom/top-stories/videos/elderly-woman-robbed-raped-home-invasion-2435.shtml

Ah, that's enough for me; you can find lots more if you want just like I did, with Google.

Advocates for Assange understand everything except why he should be treated the same as the vast majority of people that go before the Swedish legal system.

If they are going to try him they have to charge him. To charge him they have to question him. If they go to the UK to question him, which will cost and waste money, time, and paperwork, and then charge him, he will still be in the embassy, only on charges not questioning. Nothing really changes. Assange will still be in the embassy. Assange's advocates will continue to proclaim his innocence and that bringing him before the Swedish legal system is all a big plot. What the Swedish government is doing, waiting him out, makes perfect sense. The British government is responsible for delivering Assange to Sweden as he was in their custody. No need for Swedish prosecutors to take time away from other work to travel to meet with his excellency, Julian of Wikileaks.

You can also understand why the British government has warned given a certain issue in a former British Crown colony.

Britain to airlines: Don't let Edward Snowden fly to U.K.

Hmm, Britain, sex, and Sweden.... sounds familiar.