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Remember the pizza parlor that was "attacked" because Trump was peddling conspiracy theories?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-man-with-assault-rifle-dc-comet-pizza-victim-of-fake-sex-trafficking-story/

Actual moderates appreciate statements backed up by articles. Like this one, that highlights how donations to the Clinton Foundation was accompanied by approving a deal to cede control of uranium production to the Russians.

You know what else? I find it amazingly convenient that we go to war with Libya, Saudi Arabia's rival and enemy, after the house of Saud donates tens of millions to the Clinton Foundation over the course of a decade. Then she jokes about it. So yeah, maybe a warmonger is a fitting description.

You really are going to say there were no riots a>

A cheap pen you say? How about nuts, bolts, and washers?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wo...

"An owner of a defunct company accused of bilking the Defense Department out of more than $20 million, including charging nearly $1 million to ship two 19-cent washers, pleaded guilty Thursday to federal wire fraud and money laundering. Charlene Corley owned plumbing and hardware equipment supply company C&D Distributors LLC with her sister, Darlene Wooten, who committed suicide last fall, reports CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson."


"Prosecutors said among the fraudulent charges were ones for $998,798 to ship two 19-cent lock washers, $492,097 to ship an $11 threaded plug, and $499,569 to ship 10 cotter pins worth $1.99 each."

I'm sorry, but is there something about psychology 101 that you don't understand? We are surrounded by hypocrisy. As you can see it is very profitable. And it has no effect on the vote count, so, why not? If people want to elect hypocrites, who are we to argue? It just illustrates the failure of majority rule. That is the real issue. How do we protect ourselves from the idiot majority?

That is the exact opposite of healthy advice in Germany where the police aren't actually out to get you on minor details to raise money or to put you away in prison to appease the prison industry complex.

I don't know the ratio of good/bad US police, but here are some examples of good US police:

Big-hearted cop hailed for buying homeless man a new pair of boots - TODAY.com

Caught on Camera/ CHP Officer Had This Stranded Pleasanton Motorist's Back - Pleasanton, CA Patch

Homeless Man in Florida Discovers Forgotten Bank Account Collecting Pension With Cop's Help

Ohio cop praised for restraint, refusing to shoot suspect

Ohio cop takes homeless family to Walmart, books them in hotel - TODAY.com

Police officer beats teen in dance off, does the "Nae Nae" - CBS News (with video)

Police Officer Caught in Random Act of Kindness, Internet Falls in Love - Temecula, CA Patch

Police Officer Has 'Tea Party' With Toddler Whose Life He Saved - ABC News

Police officer helps woman who couldn't afford a birthday cake for her son - TODAY.com

Police officer shares meal with homeless man/ 'Nobody wants to eat alone' - TODAY.com

Police Sergeant Buys Clothes for Third Grade Bicyclist Struck by Car - San Leandro, CA Patch

Strangers Join Police Officers to Buy 95-Year-old New Air Conditioner - Good News Network

Sweet photo of police officer comforting lost boy goes viral - TODAY.com

Video Captures Police Officer Buying New Shoes For Barefoot Man | HuffPost

Bush had months of daily warnings of an impending attack but chose to do nothing.

The intelligence provided the president is shared with congressional leaders, and as I recall was not what the intelligence community refers to as 'actionable intelligence' - there was nothing specific to act on.

You want to play the blame game, what about Clinton's siloing of the intelligence bureaus that prevented the field reports of the middle-eastern flight school students that had no interest in learning to take off or land, but only in controlling a plane once airborne from ever being investigated?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fb...

You first have to understand what that means, and what unemployment rate means.

People who are disabled and/or are otherwise on a dole system, people going to college, people who are retired, and people who aren't looking for a job at all don't count towards unemployment.

For the first part, over the last 30 years, the percent of people claiming disability has gone way up, even though we are now objectively healthier than in the past, we have better medical technology, and employers can't discriminate against disabilities.

http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-...

And if you're paying attention, the boomer generation is reaching retirement age, so you're ending up with many retirees compared to other points in history.

And then of course, we have the basement dweller population, which is roughly 40% of the young adult population, and is currently at a 75 year high:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pe...

Granted, not all of them don't work, but there's little reason to work if you simply don't need to. (*cough* UBI *cough*)

That article concludes with the ominous statement:

The Transportation Department's inspector general office earlier conducted its own undercover tests of 32 airports after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and found screeners missed knives 70 percent of the time, guns 30 percent of the time and simulated explosives 60 percent of the time, said a person familiar with the report. Those tests were conducted before February, when airlines still supervised security checkpoints.

So maybe the pre-9/11 tests weren't as rigorous, but TSA audits show it's actually gotten worse, even with billions of dollars more screening equipment and much more thorough regulations for detection.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/am...

O rly?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tr...

http://www.salon.com/2016/04/1...

http://www.nbcnews.com/politic...

I can find more if you want.

So you're complaining because he did the same thing President Obama tried to do? Of course President Obama failed because the media as a whole said it was wrong. They're not saying that, this time. Perhaps because CNN and the LA Times have been caught flat out lying and refusing to correct their lies...

You don't have a sense of humor anymore? People aren't supposed to be able to laugh?

As usual, when right wingers criticize the left, they describe themselves.

Right winger vs black lives matter
Trump voter vs man of Indian descent.
Effects of Christians insisting Muslims are dangerous

Your current leader thinks it's fiction (along with most of slashdot of course), so that should be a great comfort to you. Nothing bad will happen

Not so fast. His Orangeness most certainly does believe in climate change. It's the very reason he cited in his application to build a sea wall for an Irish golf course. Specifically:

"If the predictions of an increase in sea level rise as a result of global warming prove correct, however, it is likely that there will be a corresponding increase in coastal erosion rates not just in Doughmore Bay but around much of the coastline of Ireland. In our view, it could reasonably be expected that the rate of sea level rise might become twice of that presently occurring. ... As a result, we would expect the rate of dune recession to increase."

Even more interesting is they used an Irish government's study about the effects of erosion through 2050, then said that study failed to take into account the effects of climate change. Which is why he petitioned to build the sea wall. Because of the effects of climate change.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ra...
http://investingnews.com/daily...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Despite their name, rare earth elements are â" with the exception of the radioactive promethium â" relatively plentiful in Earth's crust, with cerium being the 25th most abundant element at 68 parts per million, or as abundant as copper."

And batteries can be recycled...

If production processes pollute, that is a matter for regulations and subsidies or taxes to adjust for externalities.

Fossil fuels, for example, should have a huge tax on them to account for all the environmental and health problems they cause (including mercury pollution) and risks (like the need for a big military to defend long supply lines) with the tax money redistributed as a basic income. You just pay those costs in health insurance premiums, lower productivity from health issues, higher taxes for the military, groundwater pollution cleanup tax costs, and so on -- instead of at the pump or wall outlet -- and thus distorting market forces.
https://www.pri.org/stories/20...
http://www.environmentamerica....

Excercise? Who needs it.

It's entirely believable that the country is impoverished, starving, short on energy and food, and at the same time is developing nukes, icbms, and has a cyber hacking unit. This is the sort of thing that's possible when you have a totalitarian dictatorship that decides the latter things are more important than the former. What do you expect the average North Korean to do about it? Protest or complain, so they can get themselves and three generations of their family thrown into a permanent prison camp?
(Citation: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/no... )

The elites live well, mostly in the capital city of Pyongyang, but the rest of the country is in terrible shape, because the resources and money that might otherwise be used to help alleviate those terrible conditions instead goes to weapons, missiles, nukes, etc. This is why the only lights in North Korea at night are pretty much the ones in Pyongyang, as seen here: http://news.nationalgeographic...

The US also has a bigger GDP to easily afford a better internet. Like every other shortage it is caused by politics, and of course, economics

protest groups who took to the streets of Manhattan to save the city from being dismembered, disinfected and depopulated

Decades later, thanks to the heroic efforts, the entire Manhattan remains rodent-infested and overcrowded .

Comey has found NOTHING after over a year of trying to prove a link between Trump and the Russians.

It hasn't been a year yet (July or August of 2016 is when the investigation started) so it hasn't been over a year.

There are plenty of links between Trump and Russia when you look at the folks on his campaign and their own connections. Roger Stone bragged on several occasions he was in communication with Guccifer 2.0 and knew when the next batch of emails was going to be released. Guccifer 2.0 is part of the Russian intelligence services.

Flynn, well, we know about his numerous ties to Russia and that he lied about not having any.

Carter Page, who at first said he never helped the Russians with classified or other such materials, then changed his tune to "no comment" when asked about the investigation into his dealings with Russia, and now is saying, "No I'm not going to hand over evidence of my dealings with the Russians so you can hang me with it."

As we saw a day or so ago, Eric Trump bragged that it was Russians who were financing his father's golf courses during the Bush recession. This on top of other financial dealings Trump has with Russia.

Then today, the Senate committee investigating collusion between Trump and Russia during the campaign has asked the Treasury Department's criminal division to hand over any and all documents related to Trump, his campaign and campaign aides.

That doesn't sound like "nothing important".

Comey has found NOTHING after over a year of trying to prove a link between Trump and the Russians.

It hasn't been a year yet (July or August of 2016 is when the investigation started) so it hasn't been over a year.

There are plenty of links between Trump and Russia when you look at the folks on his campaign and their own connections. Roger Stone bragged on several occasions he was in communication with Guccifer 2.0 and knew when the next batch of emails was going to be released. Guccifer 2.0 is part of the Russian intelligence services.

Flynn, well, we know about his numerous ties to Russia and that he lied about not having any.

Carter Page, who at first said he never helped the Russians with classified or other such materials, then changed his tune to "no comment" when asked about the investigation into his dealings with Russia, and now is saying, "No I'm not going to hand over evidence of my dealings with the Russians so you can hang me with it."

As we saw a day or so ago, Eric Trump bragged that it was Russians who were financing his father's golf courses during the Bush recession. This on top of other financial dealings Trump has with Russia.

Then today, the Senate committee investigating collusion between Trump and Russia during the campaign has asked the Treasury Department's criminal division to hand over any and all documents related to Trump, his campaign and campaign aides.

That doesn't sound like "nothing important".

Contractors for the EPA dropped the ball.... Accidents happen, the EPA owned it and worked on fixing it.

If by "owned it" you mean "ignored 1.2 billion in damages", then yes they owned it.

But fuck the wilderness right? Or anyone along the river the EPA poisoned? They should be grateful the government chose to bless them with anything besides the boring old clear natural water they had been getting from the river.

Normally I'd agree with you but since you are trying to compare putting Obama in the White House to putting Donald Trump in the White House I'm going to have to disagree here.

So when you don't like the outcome you think being a hypocrite is ok.

Obama, whatever you may think of him, at least had a multi digit IQ that allowed him to answer questions from reporters

Trump answers them too.

skin that was too thick for his soul to be injured by Saturday Night Live skits

I'm not sure that his "soul" is being "injured". Also, Obama had his own personal feud with Fox News.

and had a clear idea of which countries he had bombed

But apparently didn't know how many states were in the country he was the President of.

Let's get real here. As much as I think Trump is prone to buffoonery, he managed to become a billionaire. And after years of political correctness and a President who refused to use the phrase Islamic terrorism, a guy like Trump was needed to call a spade a spade and shake things up.

Oh, FFS. Rape is not a pre-existing condition. The AHCA is bad enough without spouting a bunch of BS about it.

I keep running into facts that piss me off so much about the schools around here.

Why do schools not allow 3 recesses for more physical activity? Why are school serving trash for lunch? Why the hell are the before/after care places all forcing the kids to stay indoors and be inactive?

France, Japan, and many others with thin kids allow 3 recesses/exercise breaks and serve better food.

http://www.alternet.org/food/f...

Quote: "Another bigger contribution to French students' healthy disposition? Recess. Students have two 15-minute and one 60-minute recess every day, writes Plantier, and they also have the advantage of walking or biking to and from school, which students only attend four -- not five -- days out of the week."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wh...

Japanese friends rave about their childhood lunches. They also all walked to and from school, about a mile or two away. When they got older, they road bikes.

I hear my kids complaining about not having enough time to eat as well. I visited once and was amazed at the time restraint. Here is an Irish article with the same problem. This can't be good.

http://www.irishtimes.com/life...

Well, you can't believe these 80% garbage stories without actual numbers/statistics. Anything is possible, so let's see the numbers. I'm also of the mind that kids, my kids for instance, eat healthier stuff the less you expose them to trash. The more junkfood they eat, the less they want to eat healthy food. If they are hungry, they are going to eat the healthy food eventually. If they aren't hungry, fine, don't eat.

We can learn some lessons from other countries maybe, or at least get ideas.

I read in the past that the French force their kids to eat the same food grownups do, and the kids adapt and eventually eat it. This article might touch on that:

http://www.alternet.org/food/f...
or this
https://karenlebillon.com/fren...

Japan eats the complete opposite way to Americans. All Japanese folks rave about the excellent school lunches (blew my mind):

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wh... ... oh, and the French and Japanese kids are way more active. Who would have guessed. I just saw this in one of the articles I linked:

Another bigger contribution to French students' healthy disposition? Recess. Students have two 15-minute and one 60-minute recess every day, writes Plantier, and they also have the advantage of walking or biking to and from school, which students only attend four -- not five -- days out of the week.

The Trumper has flip flopped and lied about everything which has come out of his mouth so this shouldn't surprise anyone. Here's what he said only a week ago:

"Rigorous science is critical to my administration's efforts to achieve the twin goals of economic growth and environmental protection."

"My administration is committed to advancing scientific research that leads to a better understanding of our environment and of environmental risks," Trump said. "As we do so, we should remember that rigorous science depends not on ideology, but on a spirit of honest inquiry and robust debate.

What better way to advance scientific research and allow for honest inquiry and robust debate than to wipe from the record, the very research one claims to support.

P.S. He had no problem claiming climate change as the reason he needed to build a sea wall around his Irish golf course:

"If the predictions of an increase in sea level rise as a result of global warming prove correct, however, it is likely that there will be a corresponding increase in coastal erosion rates not just in Doughmore Bay but around much of the coastline of Ireland. In our view, it could reasonably be expected that the rate of sea level rise might become twice of that presently occurring. ... As a result, we would expect the rate of dune recession to increase."

So you're arguing that these drugs don't get you high?

That's what I'm told about marijuana. It has no effect whatsoever which is why everyone wants to smoke it. No matter how many articles come out about people jumping out windows, shooting themselves, ignoring train whistles, thinking it's funny to give someone laced food without their knowledge, or driving the wrong way in traffic and killing people, I'm always told it's not the weed. It has to be something else because marijuana is perfectly safe.

So you're arguing that these drugs don't get you high?

That's what I'm told about marijuana. It has no effect whatsoever which is why everyone wants to smoke it. No matter how many articles come out about people jumping out windows, shooting themselves, ignoring train whistles, thinking it's funny to give someone laced food without their knowledge, or driving the wrong way in traffic and killing people, I'm always told it's not the weed. It has to be something else because marijuana is perfectly safe.

DONALD TRUMP'S LATEST APPROVAL RATING PLUNGES AS WHITE MALE SUPPORTERS FLEE THE PRESIDENT

Come again?

Where is this up 10%?

Where?

I'd ask for a citation for your claim, but I'll be honest, you seem to be spreading out some codswallop.

In related news...

Homeowner arrested after shooting intruder dead in the shower

in real news!

just rent out your super cookie info.

Oh sure, they've never sold "individual" customer data, but Verizon & others continue to sell *aggregate* info: you know, because there's not an entire discipline focused on deanonymizing datasets.

At least now Verizon has paid a fine & agreed to make sure that they, first, *dupe* their customers into agreeing to Supercookie injection & tracking.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ve...

Sanctuary cities do not exist and nobody on the Progressive left talks about the need for them. Right?

Actually, they don't exist, especially not in the form that the Regressive right insists on falsely portraying them. They're pretty much just a straw-man where the right makes up false claims about lawlessness and crime in order to whip up a frenzy of hysteria.

Instead, what they are, is municipalities deciding that the Federal Government needs to be accountable, and forced to behave in a manner compliant with the law, by a policy of adherence to the strictures of law informing them that the cities won't knuckle under to their capriciousness. Not new, but a lingering problem for a supposed agency enforcing the law.

Of course, I'm old enough to remember when Janet Reno was demonized for returning Elian Gonzalez to his father. The mishandling of policies on Cuba is bad enough, but apparently we're supposed to decide parental rights on a whim?

So it's hypocrisy too. Even ignoring the other protests against the federal goverment, the silence on the failures of the immigration system is very telling.

Oh, I guess you are just another AC who's full of shit. Brave enough to hide in anonymity while claiming that I am being watched, as if you are a threat.

You're confused again, there's no threat to being judged, you're merely being observed, and recognized, for what your public behavior happens to be. It's called responsibility. You should recognize that as a natural consequence of communication. You spea

To people living paycheck to paycheck, someone with savings looks rich. They are better off then the Majority of Americans. citation: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wh...

I saw another article about this a month ago.

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

They may be able to customize how locked down they are depending on the facility where they're used.

In this article they pay 5 cents a minute.

Inmates can text and call up to 10 contacts who must be screened and approved by the company. Telmate monitors and stores data on the inmates’ communications, providing the information to investigator

Better article:

http://cbs6albany.com/news/loc...

Inmates can't surf the web on the devices but they are allowed to talk to or text up to 10 contacts. The sheriff says Telmate, the company that created the tablet software, checks those people out before any communication occurs.
“As well as vetting the person they look for buzzwords, encrypted messages trying to come through,” Apple said.

I really do not see that much of an issue with this.

The government got a warrant to search the electronic devices. These devices were seized at the time of arrest. Rather than require the owners to unlock the phones - potentially violating our protected right against self-incrimination - they are using third-party software to hack the devices. The government intends - admittedly, as legally required - to share all gathered information with the defense lawyers - and are pledging to delete any information not relevant to the case.

You can make the argument that some of the people arrested during the riots are innocent. That may be true, but irrelevant to the issue at hand: that the government is searching these devices. You might argue that the government may use the information gleaned from the devices in ways that are not covered by the warrant, and that is a legitimate worry but there is no evidence that is happening. But given that these people were arrested, we should expect the prosecutors to use all available legal means to build a case against the defendants. That they are searching the phones is as much a story if the police had gotten a warrant to seize the defendants diaries (which is to say, not much of a story) .

The fact is, there were apparently riots during the inauguration. I am no supporter of Trump but that's just shameful; there's nothing wrong with assembly and protest but some people went beyond that. People were arrested and honestly I would expect the government to try them for their actions. There is a lot I find worrisome about Trump's government, but this is not one of them; this is a case where everything seems to be done legitimately and by-the-book.

Companies like Microsoft and Apple have endless reams of user data and they get fuck all money out of it

Perhaps you have missed the last 5 years?

No. I said Microsoft and Apple, your link talks about companies like Acxiom and Take 5 Solutions. These are completely different things altogether.

Companies like Microsoft and Apple have endless reams of user data and they get fuck all money out of it

Perhaps you have missed the last 5 years?

Do you think anyone eating at McDonalds or Burger King gives a rats ass (ironically one of the many ingredients they are probably consuming) about GMO? Those are some of the largest food joints on earth...

Wouldn't be so sure of that. If that were true why would McDonalds have done this.

I like "60 Minutes".

Lol, i see we have another dumb sheep here. GLMDesigns you are now officially a stupid sheep.

In 2002 they already "lost" 2.3 trillion, Rumsfeld said so in 2002 in a speech, recorded in official transcript, reported by CBS. They kept "losing" more over the years.

More money for the Pentagon, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, while its own auditors admit the military cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends.
By Aleen Sirgany CBS January 29, 2002

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.

The problem is that our industry, unlike every other single industry except acting and modeling (and note neither are known for "intelligence") worship at the altar of youth. I don't know the number of people I've encountered who tell me that by being older, my experience is worthless since all the stuff I've learned has become obsolete.

This, despite the fact that the dominant operating systems used in most systems is based on an operating system that is nearly 50 years old, the "new" features being added to many "modern" languages are really concepts from languages that are between 50 and 60 years old or older, and most of the concepts we bandy about as cutting edge were developed from 20 to 50 years ago.

It also doesn't help that the youth whose accomplishments we worship usually get concepts wrong. I don't know the number of times I've seen someone claim code was refactored along some new-fangled "improvement" over an "outdated" design pattern who wrote objects that bare no resemblance to the pattern they claim to be following. (In the case above, the classes they used included "modules" and "models", neither which are part of the VIPER backronym.) And when I indicate that the "massive view controller" problem often represents a misunderstanding as to what constitutes a model and what constitutes a view, I'm told that I have no idea what I'm talking about--despite having more experience than the critic has been alive, and despite graduating from Caltech--meaning I'm probably not a complete idiot.)

Our industry is rife with arrogance, and often the arrogance of the young and inexperienced. Our industry seems to value "cowboys" despite doing everything it can (with the management technique "flavor of the month") to stop "cowboys." Our industry is agist, sexist, one where the blind leads the blind, and seminal works attempting to understand the problem of development go ignored.

How many of you have seen code which seems developed using "design pattern" roulette? Don't know what you're doing? Spin the wheel!

Ours is also one of the fewest industries based on scientific research which blatantly ignores the research, unless it is popularized in shallow books which rarely explore anything in depth. We have a constant churn of technologies which are often pointless, introducing new languages using extreme hype which is often unwarranted as those languages seldom expand beyond a basic domain representing a subset of LISP. I can't think of a single developer I've met professionally who belong to the ACM or to IEEE, and when they run into an interesting problem tend to search Github or Stack Overflow, even when it is a basic algorithm problem. (I've met programmers with years of experience who couldn't write code to maintain a linked list.)

So what do we do?

Beats the hell out of me. You cannot teach if your audience revels in its ignorance and doesn't

Define "poacher":

(a) Bastards slaughtering elephants with automatic weapons for Ivory? String 'em up, (if you can catch them).

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fa...

(b) Desperate people in conflict-ravaged areas needing any food they can get their hands on? Maybe not.

Meanwhile, the biggest cause of megafauna and other "wild" animal extinction is not poaching; it's habitat loss.
You want to torture to death large swathes of populations in Africa, South America, India and China?

I was not cherry picking. You were opposing races, and I was just pointing out that most crimes (even the most hideous) are not race-related. Or trying to, at least.

Having an agenda would be creating an agency to report crimes made by illegal immigrants to be able to communicate on those, although proportionally more crimes of the same nature would be committed by legal immigrants or citizens. But nobody would do that, would they?

> Dude, the UK is not the US. The UK is a police state where you can get in trouble for something as simple as expressing your opinion on twitter.

The real problem you Americans have is that you're so desperate to pretend that your country even remotely represents the constitution it was founded on that you'll turn a blind eye to what is obvious to any casual, objective, observer. Regardless of what is or isn't true about the UK, I'll give you a hint: Which country brings out a fully militarised police force, backed by military grade armoured vehicles and weaponry just to face off a peaceful protest? Hint: It's not the UK. If you think the UK is somehow more of a police state than the US, then you've really not been paying attention to what's been happening in your country. There's a profound irony in the fact you mention the case of something said on Twitter, when the US itself tried to extradite a UK citizen for threatening the president - you think a fine for hate speech is a problem, but extradition for a joke is somehow okay? Besides, it's not like it's not happening in the US too:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/do...

> The UK is a socialist state. In the US, we cherish our freedoms, which we gained by kicking you lot out, remember?

Socialism and freedom aren't two diametrically opposed things, it's possible to be socialist, and free - Sweden and Norway are fine examples where they're both very socialist, and far more free than the US or Britain.

You're absolutely right that you managed to peak your freedoms when you kicked Britain out, but the idea that that has persisted through time is utterly farcical. You're a nation where being the wrong colour gets you shot, a nation where LGBT rights have gone down the pan, a nation where detention without trial is being extended again, a nation where following the wrong holy book gets you persecuted, a nation where the president is trying very hard to destroy the free press, a nation that's building a massive fucking wall, a nation where some regions have bylaws that micromanage your lives to the extent that they tell you how much grass you can or can't have in your garden, a nation where citizens are placed under the most advanced mass surveillance operation in the world, a nation where secret courts decide things without accountability. You think you're free because you can (mostly) buy (some types of) firearms, yet there's the irony that you can't even buy Kinder eggs.

The idea that the US is still in any position to dictate to any other country about police states, about freedom at this point is farcical. You gave up that ability to dictate to anyone else from a position of moral superiority around 9/11 in 2001. You've only accelerated away from those ideals since then - you don't get to throw away the principals of your nation, and still try and preach to others on them, it's one or the other - you either sack off people like Trump and regain your position of moral highground on these issues, or you double down on people like Trump and accept that you've given up trying to be a country that gives a shit about liberty, freedom, and justice. You can't have it both ways - you either fight to get back what you've lost, or you accept that you've given up on those ideals.

Throwing away your nations founding principals as you have been, and still arguing you cherish them is laughable, it's hypocritical, and it mitigates all worth of opinion you may have otherwise had. The only person you're fooling is yourself, and those Americans who live in denial like you about what you've decided to let your country become. Right now many socialist nations like Sweden, Norway, and realistically even Britain are far more free, and far less of police states than the US. You can live in denial all you want and throw accusations at other nations, but it wont change the reality of what people like you have willingly made your country become, and that's one

It's the playback and that certainly goes under free speech

Yes, the playback is/should be protected, no doubt. But the taping itself? As I already asked in this thread — is everything done in order to talk about it in the future protected by the First Amendment?

Closer to TFA, should this guy have claimed First Amendment protection of his evidence-gathering?

Starbucks treats their employees well and they pay more than fair trade prices for the coffee, so they are in fact a better influence on the neighborhood and the world than plenty of small coffeeshops.

Bullshit. Starbucks is known for having irregular shifts so that part-time workers can't find a second job, was caught keeping their workers' tips (thankfully they lost that lawsuit) and in the face of increasing minimum wage they reduced workers' hours, effectively leaving more work for fewer people.

Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fo...
http://www.latimes.com/busines...
http://www.reuters.com/article...

But “the First Amendment goes beyond protection of the press and the self-expression of individuals to prohibit government from limiting the stock of information from which members of the public may draw.” News-gathering, for example, “is entitled to first amendment protection, for ‘without some protection for seeking out the news, freedom of the press could be eviscerated,’” even though this right is not absolute.

We are making the full circle, but let's try one more time. If it is the gathering of information (meant for later publication) that places video-taping under the protective wing of the First Amendment, why was not this guy's activity under the same protection?

Meanwhile in New Orleans:

Police Chief Michael Harrison says one person in custody and that he is being investigated for driving while intoxicated.