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You STUPID FUCKER.

Stop shouting, Illiberal asshole... You aren't on an anti-Trump rally complaining about "not being heard".

And 10 are dead from water-borne Legionella.

They did not die on the first day the pipes got contaminated, did they? Not even the first month. Back then, somebody wishing to be sympathetic to the people involved in the mess could've said, the same thing: "Nobody got poisoned or sick in the end".

Today, somebody sympathetic towards the hackers, is making the same mistake making the same claim. Some of the chemicals involved in water treatment are nasty and messing with their levels may make the tap water poisonous as well. Whether anybody was, in fact, affected may not even be known, because, if it is the well off and White skinned folks, they are unlikely to attract much attention from media or government regulators. But to make the above claim was bogus — and that's my point.

Children exposed to lead are doomed to irreversible neurological damage, including lowered intelligence and a propensity for violence

Yes, yes, sure. All according to government "scientists", who also claimed for decades, that fat and cholesterol are bad for you...

dyed-in-the-wool, reality-denying neoconservative.

Che Guevara much? Please, don't hate...

why not post refs even if you're anon?

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

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

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

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

NSA email discussion was in February 2009.

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

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

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

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

I don't recall Grover Cleveland (or any other president) telling the Justice department not to defend a law(*).

Well, they taught us way back in high school 25 years ago that enforcing laws (or not) was part of the checks and balances built into the Executive Branch of the US Government, so I'm going to guess that this was not, in fact, the first time an executive order got used in this way.

I don't recall Grover Cleveland (or any other president) telling the Justice department not to defend a law(*).

Well your link claims he deems the law unconstitutional and will therefore will not claim it is constitutional before court. That kind of sounds like doing his job.

I know how much you ACs love to hate on the president, but at least get your facts straight. The last time a president had as few executive orders per year (over the term of his presidency) as Obama was when Grover Cleveland was president.

As the saying goes, it's not the quantity... it's the quality.

I don't recall Grover Cleveland (or any other president) telling the Justice department not to defend a law(*). Or making an executive order that in effect makes up a new law (and contravenes existing law).

How about his executive orders to kill an American citizen without trial, or that citizens' teenage son (also an American citizen) two weeks later?

But you're right - Obama is way better than other recent presidents because he doesn't issue *as many* executive orders!

(*) That law should have been axed decades ago, but getting rid of it *by that method* is wrong.

I'm sure that he regularly slept with a pillow over his head and it was all simply a misunderstanding.

It actually WAS a misunderstanding:

"The ranch owner, John Poindexter, tried to clarify his comments, telling "CBS This Morning" that Scalia "had a pillow over his head, not over his face as some have been saying. The pillow was against the headboard.""
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/su...

Did I say brownies? No, I did not. But to show you how stupid YOU are, here are the stories proving what I am saying is true. But I'm sure you'll make up some excuse how the coroner in these cases are wrong.

First man jumping from window. Note is says cookies, not brownies.

Second man to jump though this time it was from eating marijuana brownies.

Man kills wife after eating edible marijuana.

Man shoots, kills self after eating marijuana candy.

Shall I continue to post facts or do you want to find more excuses?

NO , because you are annoying. Stop.. and realize that everything you are pointing out is trumped by the simple reality .. (And you should know the drill by now kid..) "Correlation does not imply causation."

You point out a handful of cases of stupid people doing stupid things and just around the time that they have had a taste of some marijuana. So it was definitely the Marijuana that did it every time. You know Carl Sagan smoked pot, but we never heard anything about him jumping out of windows or trying to fly.

It is funny how people like you love to point out the same urban legends and stories and have no idea what they are talking about and are so resistant to being clued into reality.

Did I say brownies? No, I did not. But to show you how stupid YOU are, here are the stories proving what I am saying is true. But I'm sure you'll make up some excuse how the coroner in these cases are wrong.

First man jumping from window. Note is says cookies, not brownies.

Second man to jump though this time it was from eating marijuana brownies.

Man kills wife after eating edible marijuana.

Man shoots, kills self after eating marijuana candy.

Shall I continue to post facts or do you want to find more excuses?

NO , because you are annoying. Stop.. and realize that everything you are pointing out is trumped by the simple reality .. (And you should know the drill by now kid..) "Correlation does not imply causation."

You point out a handful of cases of stupid people doing stupid things and just around the time that they have had a taste of some marijuana. So it was definitely the Marijuana that did it every time. You know Carl Sagan smoked pot, but we never heard anything about him jumping out of windows or trying to fly.

It is funny how people like you love to point out the same urban legends and stories and have no idea what they are talking about and are so resistant to being clued into reality.

Did I say brownies? No, I did not. But to show you how stupid YOU are, here are the stories proving what I am saying is true. But I'm sure you'll make up some excuse how the coroner in these cases are wrong.

First man jumping from window. Note is says cookies, not brownies.

Second man to jump though this time it was from eating marijuana brownies.

Man kills wife after eating edible marijuana.

Man shoots, kills self after eating marijuana candy.

Shall I continue to post facts or do you want to find more excuses?

Did I say brownies? No, I did not. But to show you how stupid YOU are, here are the stories proving what I am saying is true. But I'm sure you'll make up some excuse how the coroner in these cases are wrong.

First man jumping from window. Note is says cookies, not brownies.

Second man to jump though this time it was from eating marijuana brownies.

Man kills wife after eating edible marijuana.

Man shoots, kills self after eating marijuana candy.

Shall I continue to post facts or do you want to find more excuses?

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/...

Social Security belongs right where it is. The "trust fund" money has been used for general spending and replaced by IOUs since the 1960s.

How would you close Social Security's deficit?

According to the 2014 Social Security Trustees Annual Report, Social Security's "annual cash-flow deficit will average about $77 billion between 2014 and 2018." After that, the report says, the deficit will rise "steeply as income growth slows (and) the number of beneficiaries continues to grow at a substantially faster rate than the number of covered workers."

"According to Hillary's own emails ..."

More like "according to Hotair.com's dodgy interpretation of Hilary's emails." CBS News had a different take:

But in one email exchange between Clinton and staffer Jake Sullivan from June 17, 2011, the then-secretary advised her aide on sending a set of talking points by email when he had trouble sending them through secure means.

Part of the exchange is redacted, so the context of the emails is unknown, but at one point, Sullivan tells Clinton that aides "say they've had issues sending secure fax. They're working on it."

Clinton responds, "If they can't, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure."

It's unclear whether the talking points themselves contained classified information. Typically, talking points are used for unclassified purposes (e.g. speaking with the media). But in some cases, the material contained in such memos may still be sensitive -- especially if the report originates from intelligence agencies.

On Friday, the Clinton campaign's press secretary, Brian Fallon, denied that the information was classified.

There's no reason to limit it to past secretaries of state. There's been a LOT of flagrant violations of the rules before Hillary.

Jeb did practically the same thing:

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

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/05/...

And George W. Bush did even worse, breaking the law in doing so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

He even refused to turn over e-mails under subpoena: "The White House stated it might have lost five million emails"

At least 5 different investigations were hampered by his private e-mail account:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Unlike George, Hillary appears to have broke no laws, turned over all the data to investigators, and isn't hampering any investigations.

CEOs don't have to worry about losing their job because a few whiny children throw a tantrum. Oh wait...nevermind

http://dailycaller.com/2015/10...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.americanthinker.com...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ge...
http://nypost.com/2016/02/09/e...
https://pjmedia.com/homeland-s...
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ho...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.thelocal.dk/2016012...
http://www.politico.eu/article...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/...
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2...
http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...

If you buy iPhones/iPads for employees and don't use an MDM (Mobile Device Manager), then you have lost control on the device, period. All of this insanity could be a if San Bernadino would have managed their employee devices.

This is a giant tempest in a teapot. The FBI was sloppy and locked the phone, even though they deny the screwup, judge for yourself.

ATTENTION: If you issue iPhones or Android to employees setup an MDM!

Something which I had been questioning from the day I heard the phone was not the terrorist's but owned by a country government in California, couldn't something such as AirWatch be used to unlock the phone?

My answer came over the weekend when I read this article which stated the county paid for but never installed such software.

Having been responsible for setting up iPhones for a state agency, one of the steps was installing AirWatch which we did have to use on a few occasions when people locked themselves out.

Not installing such software is either incompetence or laziness on the part of the IT folks who handed out these phones.

As I pointed out elsewhere, some places abolished slavery before christianity even existed, and other non-christian societies banned the practice before the US civil war, while many of the "good white christians" of the united states fought to support it. Even Thomas Jefferson owned over 600 slaves.

And now the Pentagon is saying it's tumbling again.

Tumbling refers to a very specific behavior in rotational dynamics. A body is only stable in rotation when it rotates around its minimum or maximum moments of inertia (inertia is a 3x3 matrix, not a single number of even a vector like they teach you in high school). When a body tries to spin around any other axis, it ends up gyrating wildly. What's happening is the spin axis is trying to align with a stable spin axis, but overshoots and passes right through it, over and over. Like a marble that tries to reach the bottom of a bowl (stable point) but keeps overshooting and rolling back and forth.

It's very difficult to recover from because the axis of spin is changing dynamically, so by the time you fire a thruster to counteract the spin, the axis may have changed and the thruster may have little to no effect, or even make things worse. I've been trying to get one of the ISS crew to shoot some video demonstrating it because it's very difficult to demonstrate on Earth. But you can sort of see it by rubber banding a textbook closed (pick one whose three lengths are very different). Spin it as you throw it into the air. Spinning it so the axis is normal to the front/back is stable. So is spinning it so the axis is normal to the top/bottom (assuming the book is taller than it is wide). But spin around the axis through the spine will result in tumbling.

Rotationally-stabilized spacecraft and satellites are carefully designed so the intended spin axis aligns with a minimum or maximum moment of inertia. Someone on the design team has a great big spreadsheet full of the inertia tensors and exact position of every single part that went into the spacecraft, so s/he can calculate its aggregate inertia tensor. If it doesn't quite line up, they have to either add/remove some weight or move some items around until it does.

Well, if you audit your food you will be disgusted...
http://www.fda.gov/food/guidanceregulation/guidancedocumentsregulatoryinformation/sanitationtransportation/ucm056174.htm
If that's too long, CBS made a little photo tour
http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/11-revolting-things-government-lets-in-your-food/
and then there is water, no simple chart from the EPA on that...
http://www.epa.gov/dwreginfo/drinking-water-rule-quick-reference-guides.

We got to the point that you have to roll your own BIOS. So we have already lost, for if we go to all that trouble, we will have the only secure machine, as far as we know... and what will we hook it to?

Amazes me how NK can do cruel and horrible things to people LIKE GASSING FAMILIES TOGETHER and can lob rockets over the USes "friends" but the US can only pathetically look on because one look at China and it shits its pants!

Hey look - Twitter has suspended 125,000 ISIS related accounts - why aren't you forecasting total collapse of their empire over this brash attack on freedom of speech?

Complain to your municipal government.

Why?!? Why should I waste time complaining and otherwise raising awareness, when I can just call Uber and pursue happiness?

Competition is a wonderful thing — no wonder Illiberal Statists hate it.

If taxi drivers are expected to live up to professional standards, they'll actually behave like professionals

You mean, like those professional folks at the DMV? Or the toll-collectors? Or the public school teachers? No, dear, what ensures professional behavior is the fear of losing one's job. See also "benevolence of the butcher".

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

The Pats have also benefited from plenty of incorrect calls by the officials.

(1) The first sentence of the article straight up says she denies doing what you've accused her of.

Oh. Well, okay then! Yanno, Nixon said the same thing.

(2) The article explains that it is completely normal to remove the classified parts of a document in order to declassify the rest of it.

Sure, but nowhere in the discussion is there any mention of declassifying the document in question. She just told her minion to get rid of those pesky "TOP SECRET" markings and send it via gmail. Little bit of a difference there, sparky.

(3) The Washington Times is owned by the Moonies - they are not a reputable news organization.

Not especially relevant, since a simple Google search resulted in CBS as the first hit. Hardly a bastion of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.

If correlation = causation, there may be something else we need to take a look at: http://politicsthatwork.com/gr...

The rest of these point out that you're statement of "easy access to firearms actually protects people" is most likely bullshit.

http://www.factcheck.org/2015/...

http://www.nationaljournal.com...

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

http://www.inquisitr.com/18064...

http://www.deseretnews.com/top...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/50...

Sounds like you are getting your science from celebrities like B.o.B. who has been arguing about the Earth being flat with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Ah well, if you are going to get your political views and climate views from actors and musicians, then why not turn to them for physics, astronomy, celestial mechanics, etc?

Surely, the court jesters (entertainers) of our society are the people we should listen to for wisdom and intelligence, right?

What about the conspiracy theory that 9/11 was an inside job orchestrated by the government?

They aren't competent enough to orchestrate something like that. They also weren't competent enough to stop it, despite getting plenty of notice about some of the orchestrators. That doesn't make them any less responsible.

It's hard to believe that the same government that built the SR71 blackbird and operated it in secret convincing many "useful idiots" that 'they aren't UFO's' is so incompetent that they couldn't stop a bunch of extremists from flying a plane into the largest buildings of the largest US city. How can any other security theatre be justified as effective in the wake of such a bungle.

Come on now.

Number one, the Blackbird was actually quite well known within a few years of it's debut. People didn't know or what it did precisely, but they knew what they looked like, what it was called, and who owned it. Revell even had a model on the market by the late 60s

Number two, since it's operations were classified revealing anything actually interesting about it would have gotten you arrested, and jeopardized a mission you probably supported because you'd worked on it. Instead of getting a pay-day, and attaboys form an adoring public; you get prison time and your friends refuse to talk to you again.

On the other hand, as far as we can tell nobody who actually knows anything about the relevant agencies thinks they created S11. Anybody who came forward with evidence would be lauded as a big damn hero. And thousands would probably have to be in on it one way or the other.

An NDA works and makes for Target to sue if the code gets out.

Posting anonymous... NDAs don't mean squat if those breaking it are in countries where such NDAs are unenforceable (think China.) I don't mean to dis the country, but the risk of lost/stolen intellectual property or violation of NDAs is real: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60...

Similar issues exist with Pakistan or certain Eastern European countries such as Romania (I won't bother to provide the links).

Caveat Emptor. If you are going to provide remote access to contractors, make sure they operate in a country where the NDA is actually enforceable.

What about the conspiracy theory that 9/11 was an inside job orchestrated by the government?

They aren't competent enough to orchestrate something like that. They also weren't competent enough to stop it, despite getting plenty of notice about some of the orchestrators. That doesn't make them any less responsible.

It's hard to believe that the same government that built the SR71 blackbird and operated it in secret convincing many "useful idiots" that 'they aren't UFO's' is so incompetent that they couldn't stop a bunch of extremists from flying a plane into the largest buildings of the largest US city. How can any other security theatre be justified as effective in the wake of such a bungle.

Rather than theorize I ask if it is possible that the US military could develop drone aircraft technology in 2001 and deploy it onto a tanker aircraft? Is it possible to order remote crews to participate in an exercise that they will run from the pentagon as the bad guys flying a simulated plane into a building. Is it possible to order a missile crew to launch a missile as part of their exercise, who don't know it is aimed at a drone crew in the pentagon. Is it possible to use a hitman to take out the missile crew so there are no leaks.

OR

Is it possible to convince a few loonies to get on a plane and fly it into buildings so there are no leaks.

Of course not, it's all just speculation. Usually the simplest explanation fits which is really appealing to the dogmatic skeptic masses who want to believe they are just a little too smart to be deceived. No one would ever do such a thing because it would provide the justification is to clamp down on *your* freedoms to protect you from the extremists who hate you having those freedoms. You would somehow have to convince everyone that brainwashing a population is impossible, which of course it is because now we have a simple mathematical model to prove it.

There certainly are plenty of conspiracy theories about other things however I've never seen a forensic investigation of the crime scene that was 9/11 so I doubt that we will ever know for sure on this one.

What I do know is that in the wake of "the conspiracy that wasn't" several laws that clamp down on *your* freedoms to protect you from the extremists who hate you having those freedoms reshape democracy into autocracy. Perhaps the conspiracy was "what if we could steal democracy from the people, how would we do that?".

Freedom, democracy, accountability have been demonstrated as the ultimate weapons against *any* terrorism because you might not have anything to hide, but you sure have got a lot to loose.

What about the conspiracy theory that 9/11 was an inside job orchestrated by the government?

They aren't competent enough to orchestrate something like that. They also weren't competent enough to stop it, despite getting plenty of notice about some of the orchestrators. That doesn't make them any less responsible.

I believe that the cockpit doors are bullet proof, so you can't even accomplish anything by shooting. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bu...

Yes. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bu...

Volcanoes (http://www.livescience.com/40451-volcanic-co2-levels-are-staggering.html)

We already know that humans create, on average, orders of magnitude more CO2 than volcanism.

Termite mounds generating methane gas (http://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/31/us/termite-gas-exceeds-smokestack-pollution.html)

Not even close to what we are releasing by fracking, then storing it under Los Angeles, then letting it leak out.

Penguins pooping on the Antarctica ice sheets

A rounding error.

Evil climate heaters at the Trilateral Commission

hee hee

Tarps used by the UN that absorb sunlight too well

The story doesn't actually say anything about tarps that absorb sunlight too well — and the UN tarps are highly reflective.

Meteorites and asteroids polluting the atmosphere

Rounding error

Ancient Romans

...were making a lot of concrete. We're making a lot more. Nobody claimed that AGW didn't start a long time ago. The claim is that it's increased by orders of magnitude. Straw man.

People against increased food supplies

Only total fucking idiots who don't understand plants think that an increase in atmospheric CO2 is going to be beneficial to them. It isn't. The maximum amount of CO2 they can use is tied directly to their maximum rate of photosynthesis, which is in turn capped by the number of photons they can receive in any given period of time without being damaged by ultraviolet radiation. As atmospheric pollution actually harms the ozone layer that filters UV, what it does is reduce the amount of CO2 that plants are capable of using. When most any plant gets over about 100 degrees, it "shuts down"; its stoma close, for example, which renders it unable to respirate. You know nothing about plants.

Aliens who are causing the sun to heat up [...] (except for the aliens part)

You must be a fucking alien. Go back to the planet of the chucklefucks and let us be.

Without the regulations, the only people who'd have known about the Chipotle e-coli outbreak would have been Chipotle.

Regulation doesn't exist to preserve shareholder value.

So the regulation worked to inform people. Good.

I think people would have found out anyway, but a rational person understands there's no way to know what would happen in an alternate future. Maybe a lot more people would have gotten sick in a lot more locations and, when people finally did hear about it, the company would have lost $10 Billion, or $12 Billion and would now be facing hundreds of lawsuits.

The point is: hurting customers is bad for business. There's a big incentive to not hurt customers. It's easier and more lucertive to sell stuff to people when you you don't hurt them.

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

You're completely wrong. The states with the highest incidences of gun deaths are almost entirely red states.

Bu-bu-but... that's because guns are used for suicides! Yeah, keep talking, while more people die unnecessarily.

On Jan 25th, 2016 "the world will reach a point of no return". It's not next week, it's 3 weeks from now.

So you are saying that, in 22 more days, people will just finally shut the fuck up, because it's too late?

Outstanding!!!!!!!

On Jan 25th, 2016 "the world will reach a point of no return". It's not next week, it's 3 weeks from now.

Still in use. Same with horses in specialty situations.

Hell, goats (well, mules) are still used for postal delivery stateside... http://www.cbsnews.com/news/special-delivery-mail-by-mule/

Gee, I wonder why...

Citation: "iPhone thefts down thanks to Apple 'kill switch'" by Amanda Schupak

Updates on the stories that matter. Anyone want to make a submission?

Will the Trans-Pacific Partnership Force Us to Fund the Paris Climate Agreement?

Saginaw [Michigan] County Board calls on Congress to oppose Trans-Pacific Partnership

Poll: Donald Trump trails Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders in matchup

(This one may seem random, but is perhaps the most on-topic to this discussion of the bunch. People got killed but she didn't join Daesh at least? USA #1!) Suspect in Vegas crash said she was stressed living in car

Sanders Campaign Suspends Two More Staffers Over Data Breach

Global Trade Faces Fragmentation Risks From TPP, TTIP, TiSA

the teacher instead called the police

Kidnapping added to the sordid history of child-molestations.

But, at least, it did not happen in a church.

the drug was unprofitable at the former price, so any company selling it would be losing money

That is a really lame excuse to buy out a company and jack up the price of their product. He really should have just said "we did it because we can, and we knew nobody would stop us". If he really thinks he can fool the world with that line of bullshit he'll get another thing coming later. After all, if the product was such a loser, the proper thing to do would be to allow the market to take over and allow the company to fail, no?

The more rational objections of appearance

Seriously? "Appearance" is a rational objection?.. Kennedy much?

environmental impact

Wait, is this the moment of truth? Democrats admit, solar panels may have a negative environmental impact? Could you elaborate?

cost/benefit

In a properly Capitalist environment, the cost/benefit analysis of a project is the private matter for the investors to consider...

Those are definitely rational objections to a request for a zoning variance.

Some people prefer trees to solar panels.
Anything you build will have an environmental impact, Wetlands, natural habitats, you name it.
There are public costs and benefits of anything built anywhere. Local towns have an opinion on what you can and can't build and have zoning restrictions for a reason.

The public hearing process is where arguments like these get discussed, along with the more 'colorful' ones.

You will come to appreciate zoning restrictions when you actually own something someday and your next door neighbor decides to turn their single family home into a biker bar or a fat rendering plant or a kennel.

The more rational objections of appearance

Seriously? "Appearance" is a rational objection?.. Kennedy much?

environmental impact

Wait, is this the moment of truth? Democrats admit, solar panels may have a negative environmental impact? Could you elaborate?

cost/benefit

In a properly Capitalist environment, the cost/benefit analysis of a project is the private matter for the investors to consider...

What's frightening is that you'd choose a crazy bigoted egomaniac over a fairly unremarkable Democrat who has become the devil incarnate to right-wingers somehow. I never understood the incredible amount of hate that US conservatives have for Hillary. Since she's a huge war-hawk by Dem standards, you'd think they might even find her more tolerable.

hillary was beloved by republicans back when. “I have a sense that she is one of the more competent members of the current administration and it would be interesting to speculate about how she might perform were she to be president,” -Dick Cheney http://dailycaller.com/2011/09... "Look, if we had a Clinton presidency, if we had Erskine Bowles as Chief of Staff of the White House or president of the United States, I think we would have fixed this fiscal mess by now. That's not the kind of presidency we're dealing with right now." - Paul Ryan http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bi... “Having started as a secretary and eventually become a chief-executive officer, I not only have great admiration and respect for Hillary Clinton and her candidacy and her leadership, but I also have great empathy, I must tell you, for what she went through,” -Carly Fiorina http://www.todayszaman.com/wor... “I happen to like Hillary Clinton; I think she’s done a good job for the ... secretary of state’s position, and I have high respect for her and think a great deal of her.” - Orrin Hatch http://www.politico.com/story/... “I think the international star is Secretary Clinton. She has done a really tremendous job.” John McCain http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2... "She's dedicated to her job, she loves her country, I think she is a good role model, one of the most effective Secretary of States, greatest ambassadors for the American people that I've known in my lifetime." -Lindsey Graham http://www.thestate.com/news/p... "I think she's done a fine job. The problem isn't Hilary Clinton, who's great," -Condoleeza Rice http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_...

True connoisseurs prefer elephant. http://www.cbsnews.com/picture...

"around 50% of them end up back in terrorist camps"
Not every person in gitmo is a terrorist and the number that get released, that then decide to become (or continue being) terrorists is not general knowledge.

Doing a cursory Google search points to a far lower percentage (than 50%), and has further decreased over the years.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/18...
http://www.theguardian.com/us-...

So again I say "Citation needed"