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Actors, newscasters, athletes, they don't really need to know what real life is like. Lets take the Senate and make them work the fishing boats and oil rigs. It might give them some perspective. Shit, my Senator even admitted to never having used an ATM. These are people who would really benefit from seeing things from the other side.

Read the second link in TFA (or here).

This case is about a direct causal relationship. Child gets immunization, child develops high fever, child shows signs of brain injury. It just happens to have an autism-LIKE appearance but is not believed to actually be autism. Unlike autism, this is a recognized (but certainly not publicized) rare adverse reaction.

This is in sharp contrast to the typical autism claim of child gets immunized, child cries (as young children do for any shot), child seems fine, months later child shows signs of autism.

> Fuck off with your paranoia and your litigation filled life

Hey buddy, screw you.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/14/health/main5242168.shtml

(AP) Polio, the dreaded paralyzing disease stamped out in the industrialized world, is spreading in Nigeria. And health officials say in some cases, it's caused by the vaccine used to fight it.

In July, the World Health Organization issued a warning that this vaccine-spread virus might extend beyond Africa. So far, 124 Nigerian children have been paralyzed this year - about twice those afflicted in 2008.

The polio problem is just the latest challenge to global health authorities trying to convince wary citizens that vaccines can save them from dreaded disease. For years, myths have abounded about vaccines - that they were the Western world's plan to sterilize Africans or give them AIDS. The sad polio reality fuels misguided fears and underscores the challenges authorities face using a flawed vaccine.

According to the fine article the case was settled. There was no trial. There was no jury. This is what the government agreed to in order to avoid a trial.

I've challenged people repeatedly to show what, exactly, Wikileaks has shown us in these data dumps that constitutes coverups of war crimes - Assange claims war crimes, but can't point to any entries that support that claim? Suspicious, it's almost as if he has an agenda that he's pursuing that is only tangentially concerned with whether or not the facts support it.

The prevailing /. worldview seems to say that wikileaks is the only group that has the balls to tell us about the war crimes happening in Afghanistan at the hands of NATO soldiers; the MSM is complicit with our opaque government and military in hiding details of anything that might disturb people. And yet, despite all these claims, we see plenty of instances of stories like this one, in the mainstream media, which certainly depict atrocities, and active efforts by the military to investigate and prosecute those responsible.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/08/eveningnews/main6847172.shtml

Yet the /. memes suggest that stories like these don't exist.

If there is evidence in the data wikileaks is releasing, it should absolutely point it out when they release it. If there is no evidence to support the claim that the data "shows evidence of war crimes," then they should refrain from editorializing about the content, and simply publish the data and let qualified people analyze the data. I'm sick of hearing about how "Wikileaks can't possibly vet all the data, they're just volunteers!" coupled with "Wikileaks is showing evidence of war crimes." You can't make assertions about the content of the data, then fail to provide any evidence IN the data to back up your assertions because "you just don't have the time to review it all - but I know it's in there." That's called jumping to conclusions. Whether or not the data they've released constitutes the evidence they imply is still very much in question, and in the meantime, real reporters & investigative journalists are breaking stories like I just linked above, with people actually being charged & prosecuted for the crimes they commit.

The leaks of data have value. Crying wolf before people who can actually understand & interpret the data have had the opportunity to actually review the data and analyze it is stupid, and will only undermine the credibility of Wikileaks.

"Are you, your friends and your family planning on making websites that include information about your Quran burning activities?"

Well, I figured since Americans hate Islam I didn't need the Quran anymore since I'll never convert now and nobody wanted it (no one else wants to be Muslim either) and I hate to just toss it (what if the trashman finds it!?) and I didn't have a starter log so.... [/sarcasm]

Summary of the Summary: BP did a bunch of stupid things, but it was TO's (Trans Ocean - the rig owner) responsibility to control the well even if BP purposely designed the rig to fail. They didn't do that. And Boom. IMHO this is not a shot across the bow of Transocean...it's an arrow aimed straight at their heart: "the crew... did not act to control the well".

That's not how it works in the oil and gas business and I have many friends in the industry. The ultimate responsibility is in the hands of the well owner, not the rig owner. In this case that is BP because BP called all the shots. And that is the company people will sue. There are a number of things that BP did to bypass Transocean's safety protocols. While it appears that Transocean may have damaged the BOP before handling control to BP, you don't know if BP knew that. There is evidence BP pressured Transocean to finish off the well their way. Transocean wanted 3 concrete plugs with finishing mud in between. In order to save time, BP did not want the finishing mud. Professor Robert Bea who was asked to investigate the incident by the White House says if the mud had been left, there may have not been a blowout even if the BOP was damaged.

I get it that lots of people don't like Harry Reid. That's fine. But angle is amazingly, dangerously, stupidly incompetent, and perhaps crazy.

She made a lot of noise about "second amendment remedies" if she doesn't get elected, and now has to back track that and either avoid questions, or blatantly state that she's not really advocating armed revolution. Always a good sign.
http://www.lvrj.com/blogs/politics/Another_Angle_issue_emerges.html?ref=279

This one is golden. The idea that she should be "friends" with the media and they should report what *she* wants? HILARIOUS!
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20012559-503544.html

Or just take your pick. She wants most of the federal government abolished, and is more or less anti-science:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharron_Angle

you could instead argue against the calculation to come by the range of estimates (low end was 90k)

The low end was 78k, from the guy in Arizona who is a "crowd estimation expert". His estimate was 87k +/- 9k, so from 78k-96k.

Now, I'm more willing to believe a guy who has a system and method for accurately estimating crowd sizes than I am a website who is analyzing several low-resolution oblique photos and trying to apply a single formula to the entire crowd. The photos the researcher from Arizona used were taken by a company flying balloons from high overhead to lower down, for the specific purpose of taking pictures for estimating the size of the crowds.

Their site is here: http://airphotoslive.com/.

Here is an article describing the guy's methodology with examples:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20015214-503544.html

I'm much more willing to trust that guy to come up with a reliable estimate versus someone trying to guess at the average croud density and offering a range between 86k and 200k.

My statement was not limited to that one possible event, but for the sake of argument...

The particular "one in a million occurrence" of an oil rig blowing up would happen daily if there were a million oil rigs out there. There aren't.

Fixed that for you. But even with a million (or as you said, 'millions'), you aren't guaranteed to get an explosion daily. That's the thing with statistics. It's only "statistically likely" to happen on a daily basis, over some period, you are likely to have yay many explosion.

And there are more rigs out there than I, at least, thought. On the order of 3500 according to this article (agreeing with other sources +-300).

I thought it was lead but from the google hits, it looks like both (though I can't find anything on the silica in mainstream news). http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/10/health/webmd/main4005638.shtml?source=RSSattr=Health_4005638

We'll start with CBS, which carried a story at the time that pointed out this:

What you are not hearing is a room with thousands of people screaming and cheering.

What you are not seeing are hundreds upon hundreds of American flags waving.

What you are not hearing are members of the audience shouting out state names urging Dean to list more.

What you are not seeing is the way Dean's supporters were lifted out of their slump by the speech.

In a nutshell, you are not seeing that Dean's speech fit the tone of the room.

Alternately, listen for yourself: Version A, Version B, and Version C. Most potential voters heard Version C, some heard Version B, practically none heard Version A at the time.

"Some retard is going to try a rectal bomb,"

Not absurd, been done, and thanks to the Internet we know concealing something the size of a hand grenade (spoon taped so it doesn't snag) is quite practical:

http://www.strategypage.com/downloads/iedsrectalcavities.pdf (possibly NWS for pics of raghead who blew himself in half)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/28/eveningnews/main5347847.shtml

Ah, well, if we're going to quote, there's this link:

Esmin Green, 49, had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours when she toppled from her seat at 5:32 a.m. on June 19, falling face down on the floor.

She was dead by 6:35, when someone on the medical staff, flagged down by a person in the waiting room, finally approached, nudged Green with her foot, and gently prodded her shoulder, as if to wake her. The staffer then left and returned with someone wearing a white lab coat who examined her and summoned help.

Or this link:

Relatives said Rodriguez was vomiting blood and writhing in pain for 45 minutes while she was at a hospital waiting area. Experts have said she could have survived had she been treated early enough.

To quote those Wise And Twisted Sisters, "If that's your best, your best won't do."

Ah, well, if we're going to quote, there's this link:

Esmin Green, 49, had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours when she toppled from her seat at 5:32 a.m. on June 19, falling face down on the floor.

She was dead by 6:35, when someone on the medical staff, flagged down by a person in the waiting room, finally approached, nudged Green with her foot, and gently prodded her shoulder, as if to wake her. The staffer then left and returned with someone wearing a white lab coat who examined her and summoned help.

Or this link:

Relatives said Rodriguez was vomiting blood and writhing in pain for 45 minutes while she was at a hospital waiting area. Experts have said she could have survived had she been treated early enough.

To quote those Wise And Twisted Sisters, "If that's your best, your best won't do."

Show me the private delivery company that perpetually gets taxpayer funds to cover its losses ($3.5 Billion just for last quarter), and I'll show you one that delivers stuff anywhere for "44 cents".

Clearly their costs are far more than 44 cents a letter.

Don't get me wrong. The Post Office has some unique constraints, particularly its coverage of low-volume rural areas that don't get coverage from some of the private companies. So it's difficult to make a real apples-to-apples comparison. I'm just saying that 44 cent stamp is only part of the story.

The real question is who vetted Julian Assange?

Well, who vetted these guys? I'm sure I could find a few others if I spent more than 30 seconds looking. How do we know if the US government has these documents, someone won't leak them? Oh wait, someone did. How do we know no-one else leaked them elsewhere. How can we trust *anyone*?

Answer: we choose someone to trust, and we do.

Why should we trust the US government?

They aren't pre-crime laws. In fact, just the opposite. They are there BECAUSE some idiot did something stupid and hurt a lot of people, the populace demanded something be done to prevent it from happening again and / or in widespread fashion.

Case in point for pool chemicals:
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/021366.html

and dirty swimming pools:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/20/health/main6503076.shtml

The evidence for empty heads is overwhelming.

You make my point for me.

When the only example you cite is a well known one from sixty years ago... all that does is make you look like a loon.

Salvador Allende was overthrown on September 11th, 1973. 60 Minutes did a report on it. I clearly remember watching it air for the first time. On Sunday, September 9th, 2001.

The jist from the entire summary was BoingBoing wasn't the first and only company using the images this submitter created. And it's not like this is the first time a company grabbed a picture without permission and used it commercially despite the CC license (this story comes to mind). This person was just citing the most recent examples of what they felt was a violation of the non-commercial use. For all we know, other "Commercial Companies" may have been using this person's creations for more than just fluffer images in an article with banner ads.

But my response wasn't so much questioning what is and is not valid non-commercial use, but refuting the person claiming we're hypocrites about us wanting information to be free so long as it's not our own.

Ayup. Either that horse is making its way past Jupiter or jumped into an alternate equine dimension and became the ruler of that hooved place, but it is gone.

That said, there's other wells. I try to imagine that operators and owners of said wells have a renewed interest in at least not having a $20 billion disaster bill and maybe a shred of conscience and understand of what their actions can reap. I keep waiting for some news on the fucking dipshits at MMS who were literally fucking those who they were suppose to keep an eye on. No, attending their coke, meth, and sex parties is not the way to do it. I think these people should get jail time.

Given the sheer volume of matter that needs to be cleaned, I don't think there will be any effective solution. I mean, effective and doesn't completely sterilize the water or sand the oil is in. I doubt either the water or sand would be habitable afterwards. Sand gets hauled away to hazardous-waste and rapid degradation of oil in water will suck all the oxygen out. Likewise, I don't have high hopes for the survival of marshes that soaked up tidefuls of oil.

So... yeah, pretty grim outlook but it's the same deal for anything covered in oil. Ideally, the American public will learn that, no, businesses will not regulate themselves and that you actually need to put people who aren't ideologically opposed to regulation into positions to *gasp* regulate. That might be a bit much to ask though.

Anyway, we fucked up on the regulating of oil companies part and the environment will be pretty fucked over for decades (ie, if it ever recovers). We could at least not fuck up the cleanup effort and make sure those workers don't suffer health effects from cleaning up BP's mess. Whoops, too late.... Oh, and fucking up the cleaning effort by trying to bury it with sand.

It's possible that you also might be making assumptions as to what constitutes this. There are some things that fall into this category that you might even be surprised by (I couldn't *quickly* find the links to examples of all the stories I've heard of in the past, but did include some)

I've heard stories of people being prosecuted under cp laws for:
- Cartoon porn (such as sexually explicit Simpsons images). Hey, technically, isn't Maggie over 18 by now? I kid!
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- Photos by parents or a grandmother of their kid running around nude or taking a bath.
- Photos of legal over 18 women, who look like (or are portrayed as) being under 18.
- Teen girls taking pictures of themselves in their bras.
- Legal images of minors held by people that prosecutors convinced the courts that they had the images to fuel their perverse fantasies (thought crime).
- Probably some other dumb things that I'm not even aware of.

I have no idea how many are involved in images that involve real abuse of real kids their are out there. I wish I could be as optimistic as you and believe it was that rare... but I don't. I expect it's far more common, even if for the curiosity factor.

However, the thing is you bring up an interesting comparison with serial killers. Could there be people who have had "killing fantasies", maybe even had materials (books, movies, magazines) that related to the subject, but never actually harm a living person? Does this ever happen? Could it happen with other crimes too? I honestly don't know, but it doesn't seem to be a far fetched idea.

I'm in favor of protecting our children from actual predators, but I'm not so crazy about catching innocents in the overly large net and ruining lives with overzealous prosecution.

They also sue if your non-GM crop is contaminated by another's GM crop.
No, they don't. All of the companies and governments involved clearly say that a certain amount of crossbreeding is inevitable, and not a cause for legal action.

First, Monsanto did claim their GE crops will not cross breed years ago. It was only after it was proven crossbreeding does happened that they stopped making the claim. Secondly, many farmers have either been sued or themselves sued GE companies. Monsanto regularly sends out private investigators, Pinkertons, to collect specimens to test for GE genes. They even threatened someone who's neither a farmer nor a seed dealer. Despite having no evidence, and the State of North Dakota Seed Arbitration Board not having found any themselves, Monsanto still threatens a farming family in North Dakota.

You did not sign a contract but you're sued anyway.
Yes, because you've violated someone's patent. And this isn't a Monsanto or even a GM issue - plant breeders have had legal protection for new varieties since 1930.

In other words if your crop is contaminated, which does happen, you're screwed. The above links are a vary small sample of results Google returns for farmers monsanto. Adding sue still leaves more than a million results. Like this one, Agricultural Giant Battles Small Farmers:

"David Runyon and his wife Dawn put a lifetime of work into their 900-acre Indiana farm, and almost lost it all over a seed they say they never planted."

"'I don't believe any company has the right to come into someone's home and threaten their livelihood,' Dawn said, 'to bring them into such physical turmoil as this company did to us.'"

The Runyons charge bio-tech giant Monsanto sent investigators to their home unannounced, demanded years of farming records, and later threatened to sue them for patent infringement. The Runyons say an anonymous tip led Monsanto to suspect that genetically modified soybeans were growing on their property.

"'I wasn't using their products, but yet they were pounding on my door demanding information, demanding records," Dave said. "It was just plain harassment is what they were doing.'"

Or this one: Monsanto sues and sues and sues and...

Falcon

I'm happy to be proven wrong with a credible link that deals with the actual events...

How about this? In that story, a survivor of the disaster is interviewed. He talks about how several components of the blowout preventer were damaged by accidents in the weeks preceding the explosion. Rather than stopping to repair the blowout preventer, though, British Petroleum chose to continue drilling. They did so because the rig was already behind schedule and over budget. If this witness' allegations are substantiated, it'd be a damning indictment of British Petroleum. They deliberately chose to sacrifice safety in the pursuit of profit. They did so over the warnings and objections of their own employees.

The acoustic dead-man's switch wouldn't have been any help, since it's linked to the same valve on the BOP that failed even when they sent robots to manually shut it down. And, that valve failed because of an accident that happened some weeks before that destroyed the annulus seals: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/16/60minutes/main6490197_page4.shtml. I agree that the relief wells should be required for this kind of eventuality, but if BP hadn't been criminally negligent in maintaining its equipment, this never would have happened.

Government jobs are now -generally speaking- higher paying than civilian jobs, at least in the US. Of course this will contribute to the insane economic trickle down theory of boom and eventual bust/collapse (along with the usury and wealth skimming industry and money "creation" model we have), but they hold most of the aces now and can just demand that everyone else support their growth and raises.

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20091211/1afedpay11_st.art.htm

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503983_162-5007862-503983.html

Are you a professor at Glenn Beck University? You could be! ;)

I can't remember a firm being seriously damaged through the legal system so soon after establishing itself as a ubiquitous and accepted tool by the establishment.

Read more business history. Ones that come to mind immediately are Lehman Brothers, Barings, Enron, Lloyds of London, and Worldcom. Disputes over ownership and contracts happen all the time.

For more details on the background, see this CNET story.

Interesting how the farmers are not the ones against Monsanto.

Except there are many farmers who oppose Monsanto, or visa versa.

1. Monsanto versus Farmers.
2. Monsanto's Harvest of Fear
3. Haitian Farmers Fight Back Against Monsanto
4. Nelson Farm - A Fight Against A Giant -- Monsanto Sues North Dakota Farmer Over Biotech Crop Dispute
5. Goliath and David: Monsanto's Legal Battles against Farmers
6. Monsanto vs. US Farmers [pdf]
7. Oregon farmers caught up in Monsanto suit over engineered alfalfa
8. Agricultural Giant Battles Small Farmers
9. Could Monsanto Be Responsible for One Indian Farmer's Death Every Thirty Minutes?
10. Monsanto watch: Targeting American farmers with lawyers, fear and money
11. 1. Falcon

Monsanto doesn't have anything to do with Golden Rice? Then you'd better tell CBS they are wrong. And Monsanto.

Falcon

Slashdot had an article after the Iraqi invasion where Paul Bremer, who was appointed as the administrator of Iraq's Coalition Provisional Authority, made a law like this: Iraq law Requires Seed Licenses.

Well, the seed they sell you is sterile. Terminator crops will not reproduce so you can't save seed from last year for this year's planting.

Seed saving has been practiced by farmers for thousands of years.

Monsanto tout things like their "Golden Rice" (such a dream name, that one) as helping the poor third world. It's been engineered to have high levels of Vitamin D.

FYI vitamin A not vitamin D. At first look it may sound good, engineering rice to contain a nutrient needed for eyesight, but in fact those who need the vitamin need to eat other foods such as some of those listed here.

Falcon

Pointer to an old 60 Minutes story on just this. The U.S. recycler in question was shocked that his dumpster-full of CRTs ended up in China.

Can you cite an example where they succeeded? I'm not trolling, I'd really like to see one. I've never yet seen a case where someone was successfully sued for seeds that "blew across from the next field". A poster above cited the link below, but the story clearly indicates that Monsanto dropped their action and the state even changed their laws to restrict Monsanto's ability to go onto farmer's land.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/26/eveningnews/main4048288.shtml

Then there is the well-known Schmeiser case. Schmeiser was clearly and knowingly applying Round-Up to selectively kill non-GM canola and preserve the Monsanto Canola that had blown in. He saved those seeds to use the following year. In the decision, the court noted the argument that seeds had "blown in" but that it was implausible given that the entire field consisted of Round-Up Ready Canola.

So, again, I am not saying I support Monsanto's legal tactics. Nor that I support the idea patenting genes. But that does not change the fact that family farmers being ruined because a few seeds blew in would appear to be a total myth. If someone has an example otherwise, I'll gladly retract my statement.

Until then, I do not believe that exaggerating things to make Monsanto appear worse is in any way helpful to the very real problems that do exist.

They are also into putting family farms out of business[0] and monopolizing future food stocks[1]. Overly fussy? screw you monsanto. frickin crooks.

[0] - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/26/eveningnews/main4048288.shtml
[1] - http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7529

That's video shot by a national news outlet, of a US Coast Guard officer, threatening the news crew with arrest if they don't comply with a BP policy. Color of law, anyone?

More: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=bp+photographers+blockade

Search youtube, too. A lot of people with video recorders are getting harassed by local cops and sheriff departments.

It's unfortunate that you generally cannot sue the officer personally.

It's inaccurate too.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/02/national/main2425903.shtml

I don't know the final result of the civil case (too lazy to look it up), but I do know the two police officers lost their jobs because they just recently lost their appeal (to be reinstated). I also don't know if you could sue them individually, but it's not the first time I have seen a lawsuit against a police department that included the officer(s) involved.

The opposite is true. Teslas are still selling for close to retail.

There are only about 1,000 Teslas you could buy:

In the first quarter of [this] year, Tesla sold a total of 126 cars ... 9.7 cars a week.

A few qualifications: First, the company currently only sells the Tesla Roadster, which retails for $109,000. Only so many buyers for cars like that exist in the world. The company also continues to have a long waiting list. An estimated 2,200 customers have put $5,000 deposits down on the Model S, the all-electric sedan coming in 2012.
Tesla Sales Down on Eve of IPO

[June 23]

The Model S has an estimated base price around $60,000.

Tesla is regarded with some suspicion in the financial press.

The company will stop producing the vehicle it became known for, the Roadster sports car, and focus on a premium sedan called the Model-S. This car's selling point: According to Tesla, it will go up to 300 miles per charge, far further than other manufacturers claim for their electric cars. Tesla says it hasn't based its range forecast on a working prototype but chiefly on computer models. And, its IPO filing says, potential new government standards could result in a 30% cut to Tesla's advertised ranges.

The government also needs to ensure private investors don't cash out on the back of its largesse. It has tried that with Tesla, saying the loan will go into default if big shareholders, including Chief Executive Elon Musk, fail to hold at least 65% of their stock for at least a year after the Model-S project is complete. Guaranteed Risks in America's Green Loans [June 24]

Elon Musk is widely regarded as a big-time spender who always seems to be skating on the edge of disaster. Elon Musk, Head of Tesla Motors, Is Broke

That's the funniest part: they are getting rid of that slogan very soon:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/10/ap/business/main6569347.shtml

What worries me is the notion that politicians might begin to use twitter and other internet communication as a way to avoid interacting with the public

They are already doing this. Notice how there aren't too many House Democrats doing town halls this summer? Why face our Consistency and justify our agenda when it's much easier to hide behind the Congressional leadership?

If they keep this up, it's going to dilute honest, real efforts to fight child pornography because people will be conditioned to equate "child pornography" with "government power grab".

It's already been diluted beyond recognition. The original intent behind child pornography laws was to try and cut off the market for pictures and videos of children engaged in sex acts. Now there is virtually no market to speak of, and thousands of people each year are arrested for simple possession without having engaged in any financial transaction to buy the stuff. Not to mention the teenagers being arrested for taking pictures of themselves in the mirror. And the penalties are completely out of line. In most jurisdictions, you're much better off facing a criminal charge of actually molesting a child then you are facing any sort of child porn charge (which can inevitably be prosecuted on the federal level).

People have inundated with the "child porn = worst evil evar on earth" propaganda for so long that they only weakly question if an upskirt pic of 17 year old Miley Cyrus taken in public should be considered child pornography: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/17/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main6590770.shtml

Whether an actual child is being exploited is no longer of any concern. It's simply the easiest way for governments and law enforcement agencies to have some control over the flow of information on the internet.

I don't watch Glenn Beck. I didn't realize Obamacare is a dirty word now, that's what a lot of people call it:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20007679-503544.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1914973,00.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124208383695408513.html ...

Yeah... the players are TOTALLY in control of the fans, no worry there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Escobar

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7944919.stm

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/08/world/main6072208.shtml

Or maybe you'd like me to provide about a thousand links to players, coaches, and announcers complaining about how much it has been affecting the games so far this Cup?

The problem is, there's a misprint in the wording. It's not bear arms, it's bare arms. Everyone has the right to bare arms.

Also, it's vague because the way it is written, it seems you can have arms because you are part of the militia since the militia was to supplement any standing army.

Little known fact: people still had to register ownership of their weapons so the government knew who they could call on to muster the militia. The NRA will never admit to it because that would do away with their efforts to not have people register today.

For reference: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504383_162-5258192-504383.html

And for the link to the Militia Act of 1792 which required white men (only men) to be notified upon their 18th birthday that they are automatically enrolled in the militia: http://www.constitution.org/mil/mil_act_1792.htm

After all, if you're going to call forth the militia, it's a good idea to have some way of knowing who actually owns a weapon, don't ya think?

McCain would clearly have been worse, just by continuing more of Bush's policies than Obama.

So I guess you didn't buy the whole "Maverick" thing. Not that anyone could blame you for that, McCain didn't believe it himself.

will always take advantage of the desperate. 60 Minutes did a piece on this same topic in April about a guy living in the US who scams people the same way, a real upstanding citizen. Kudos to Costa Rica for shutting their clinic down.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/16/60minutes/main6402854.shtml

Certainly. I'll try my best.

Info on two plugs instead of three, damage to BOP seal, pushing for work to be completed sooner, and partial control loss of BOP: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6490348n&tag=related;photovideo
Key findings from that are here: http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/blog/fcp-embeds

Dead battery and other problems with BOP: http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/j/d/jdf15/2010/05/oil-spill-stunner-bop-had-dead.php

Skipping test of cement linings: http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/costly_time-consuming_test_of.html

MMS letting BP fill out inspection reports: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/25/eveningnews/main6518694.shtml

Did I miss anything?

Certainly. I'll try my best.

Info on two plugs instead of three, damage to BOP seal, pushing for work to be completed sooner, and partial control loss of BOP: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6490348n&tag=related;photovideo
Key findings from that are here: http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/blog/fcp-embeds

Dead battery and other problems with BOP: http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/j/d/jdf15/2010/05/oil-spill-stunner-bop-had-dead.php

Skipping test of cement linings: http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/costly_time-consuming_test_of.html

MMS letting BP fill out inspection reports: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/25/eveningnews/main6518694.shtml

Did I miss anything?

In this CBS News link, it is reported that Rosenberg--like almost everyone else in Park City--is actually fron Los Angeles. This is also covered in the complaint filing. CBS news writes that she was walking down the middle of the road when she was hit. This is a VERY busy multi-lane road, with a lot of SUVs full of Californians rushing to Deer Valley driving well over the posted speed limit. Does anyone else find it ironic that the person filing a lawsuit under what is basically the Nuermberg Defense is Jewish? Or at least has a Jewish name....

For higher-capacity chemical power storage...

I can just go for a swim

After reading your comment I watched the episode online, thanks for pointing it out to me.
I don't live in the US so I can't watch CBS on tv.
I recommend to everyone that hasn't seen it yet to check it out, it's been really educational.

Props to CBS for not filtering out non-US IPs like other some tv stations do.