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isn't that a little like leaving the gun on the kitchen table where the four year old can grab it while you're out in the garden?

Or under the seat of the truck, or in your purse, or under a pillow.

As far as we know he was only a child molester early in life.

34 years old is not "early in life" And, he went on to become the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in history. By the way, have you heard of many serial child molesters who suddenly "cleanup their act" and stop victimizing kids?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

Like for instance, when a man is allowed to bring a rifle with a loaded 100-round drum into the unsecured part of the airport and the authorities are LEGALLY POWERLESS TO STOP HIM.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-law-allows-man-to-carry-loaded-assault-rifle-through-atlanta-airport-im-not-scaring-anybody-20150604-story.html

Good thing he was just a patriotic american, so we can all just take his word for it!

United Kingdom: The UK enacted its handgun ban in 1996. From 1990 until the ban was enacted, the homicide rate fluctuated between 10.9 and 13 homicides per million. After the ban was enacted, homicides trended up until they reached a peak of 18.0 in 2003. Since 2003, which incidentally was about the time the British government flooded the country with 20,000 more cops, the homicide rate has fallen to 11.1 in 2010. In other words, the 15-year experiment in a handgun ban has achieved absolutely nothing.

Ireland: Ireland banned firearms in 1972. Ireland’s homicide rate was fairly static going all the way back to 1945. In that period, it fluctuated between 0.1 and 0.6 per 100,000 people. Immediately after the ban, the murder rate shot up to 1.6 per 100,000 people in 1975. It then dropped back down to 0.4. It has trended up, reaching 1.4 in 2007.

Australia: Australia enacted its gun ban in 1996. Murders have basically run flat, seeing only a small spike after the ban and then returning almost immediately to preban numbers. It is currently trending down, but is within the fluctuations exhibited in other nations.

. Maybe banning guns like Chicago will do the trick? Last year 2,988 shooting victims, 1,827 this year. Care to guess the demographics, and more importantly gang affiliations of the parties involved? Maybe it's time to have a national discussion about how black lives don't matter to other blacks.

just google the guy's fucking name: Jacob Maged.

Oh, this is interesting: Jacob Maged, the dry cleaner who was sentenced to 30 days in jail, later voiced his support for the NRA and the industrial code that he violated, saying that it had actually helped his business survive.

http://archives.chicagotribune...

How come you don't read about that in any of the right-wing or neo-liberal sites that talk about him as some martyr to the New Deal? Jacob Maged was a fan of the New Deal.

let's compare sources.

You say:

The NRA was a commission set up by congress and chaired by Clarence Darrow.

Wikipedia says:

The National Recovery Administration was a prime New Deal agency established by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in 1933. The goal was to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices.

As for that myth of dry cleaners sent to jail, just google the guy's fucking name: Jacob Maged.

Of course newspapers of the time who reported he story (like the chicago tribune) were all part of that conspiracy of neoliberal websites that just wanted to smear the name of that great President.

http://archives.chicagotribune...

Yes, because making that sort of claim requires evidence that you don't have. Asshole.

Man, you are going to feel so stupid.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/0...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

Your proof is just after-the-fact CYA to direct attention away from their own mismanagement and on to congress. You see a nefarious plan when it is just standard blame-shifting.

The fact that the result was congress opening up the purse-strings is not proof of a plan. If results prove intent then it must also be true that the plan included the #2 guy getting fired.

But the fact that TSA's own estimates for precheck sign-ups were off by millions is verifiable proof of poor planning. Here's an article from March 20th on the topic:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

Extremely risky conspiracy or utterly banal mismanagement.
How you see it is more about who you are then about the facts.

GP is wrong since they DID NOT HAVE A WAREHOUSE when they started collecting tax. They hadn't even purchased/leased land for it yet. Still not sure if they have one today. To put it another way, they started collecting sales tax BEFORE they had a physical or even legal presence in the state.

That's really irrelevant to the basic principle. They made a deal with the state because they were putting in a warehouse, which is a physical presence. No doubt it was a voluntary agreement in exchange for some kind of perk for the warehouse.

But physical presence is the general legal rule. If they made some different kind of deal with the state, then blame the state. Or blame them. It makes no difference to how the law generally works.

In all, Reagan said ``I don`t recall`` or ``I can`t remember`` 88 times in the eight hours of testimony taken Feb. 16-17 in Los Angeles.

At one point, Reagan said he could not identify Gen. John Vessey, who served for more than three years as his chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At other times, he said he could not identify a picture of contra leader Adolfo Calero, could not recall a shipment of Hawk missiles to Iran in November 1985, had no memory of signing one presidential finding relating to the shipment of weapons to Iran and had only the slightest recollection of signing a second such finding.

He also appeared hazy on the identity of Eugene Hasenfus, an American whose shooting down over Nicaragua helped precipitate the unraveling of the then-secret Iran-contra operation. And Reagan seemed totally unable to recall what the Tower Commission-a panel he appointed in December 1986 to investigate the affair-said in its report three months later.

http://articles.chicagotribune...

there are many more articles on the subject all indicating the same thing. Hurting those who hurt others is a basic instinct.

Don't need islam for that.

Every time a some one kills their kid because they might be gay, that's an honor killing.
Every time a husband kills his wife because he thinks she cheated on him, that's an honor killing.

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Please cite an example of the sun rising in the east and setting in the west please. Links or it didn't happen!

Bitch please. *rolls eyes*

turns out most people are too uneducated

That's kinda the problem. The public is so uneducated that they make it hard to fund nuclear, which leads to engineers becoming less educated as old-timers retire and universities shut down their nuclear engineering programs because nuclear engineers can't find jobs (unless they go into the Navy, or are some of the very very few that make it into Los Alamos).

So, nuclear gets caught in a Catch-22 where it doesn't get enough funding to support the advancement of technology that would make it safe and reliable enough to compete. Instead, our collective knowledge of nuclear slips as, again, old-timers retire and youngsters pursue something more likely to pay those hideous education loans.

It's good that the stars have aligned to invest R&D into solar and wind. But it's not a good thing to allow nuclear to slip away... there's a lot of research yet to be done, with potentially great payoffs, if it wasn't so politicized by way of a public where a high-school education is becoming more and more worthless, again because of politics. A dumb electorate can be convinced of anything, like how supersonic transport causes skin cancer, and that was back in 1975. Today, politicians earn their pork-fat living by dumbing down science education, I figure to better guarantee re-election by the time the kids turn 21. These are the people who'll turn on Fox News and see "nuclear... bad ; fossil fuel subsidies... good", all because of fancy wine and caviar shared between the Koch brothers and Roger Ailes on a yacht in the Mediterranean.

The problem with nuclear is it requires smart people not only for design and build-out, but also for for day-to-day operation and maintenance. A poorly educated public is bad for all of this. But fail to keep educating and innovating in this technology, and it slips away (or goes overseas), and that sucks for us all.

My position on guns has me yelled at by both sides. I would like something like a driver's license to be required for buying guns and ammo. The license is earned (ideally at no cost or at a very nominal fee) by demonstrating that you can shoot what you are aiming at, clean a gun safely, and store it properly. You can lose this license by committing a violent crime with a firearm, being drunk or high with a firearm on you, or leaving your firearm unsecured where small children can get to it. Apparently this stance makes me a horrible monster to both sides of the debate.

Sounds wonderful. How about we do the same thing for speech, and heck, while we're at it, religion.

You just know that there would be certain states, mostly southern, where a "religious practice license" would be trivial to get so long as your religion involves worshiping a single god and an oddly Caucasian looking dude who died on a cross and your masses are given in the king's English, but inexplicably difficult to obtain if your beliefs differ substantially from that baseline.

Well that's the same sort of thing that happens with firearms licensing in San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, or (until a few years ago) Detroit. Are you white and live in a nice neighborhood and supported your sheriff's re-election campaign? Congratulations, your license is processed in a timely manner (Except in SF, where they deny everybody). On the other hand, if you are not lucky enough to be one of the "right people", somehow your application encounters unexpected delays and involves additional interviews, visits to the police station "for reasons", or in Chicago, arbitrary denial based on your street address.

Dude, don't stop the metoprolol... just avoid combining it with its evil twin. If you rely on /. for medical advice, all I can say is Darwin.

If one follows the links further in, it shows Metoprolol alone increases the QT level in 13% of the patients, 22% when comboded.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

A lengthened QT interval is a marker for the potential of ventricular tachyarrhythmias like torsades de pointes and a risk factor for sudden death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Metoprolol isn't manufactured as a QT adjuster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... in fact advised against it's use for that condition http://circep.ahajournals.org/... (very long read just search for Metoprolol).

Odd or better without, and there are substitutes.

http://arstechnica.com/science... "The results of the analysis so far suggest that four drug combinations—including the combination of the common antibiotic, ceftriaxone, with the over-the-counter heartburn medication, Prevacid (lansoprazole)—may cause a potentially fatal heart rhythm." "The other problematic drug combinations that the data flagged as possibly producing the same heart problem are: cefazolin, an antibiotic, and meperidine, a pain medicine; meperidine and vancomycin, another antibiotic; and metoprolol, a blood pressure medication, and fosphenytoin, a seizure medication." Paywalled original story: http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

TFA: http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

I have to say you're misinformed about the pensions .... Most everything about Illinois corruption is true, but the pensions just aren't one of them.

I'm not misinformed about a god damn thing and the state pension system you're trying to get yourself into is a racket of monumental proportions. When all the gears finally strip because your corrupt borrow-and-spend anti-business state destroys its tax base you'll end up screwed and you'll deserve it, just like the UAW pensioners and the city of Detroit pensioners and every other clutch of fools that set themselves up for it.

This is your fate: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-illinois-pensions-detroit-public-klickna-iea-perspec-0310-jm-20150309-story.html

Enjoy.

http://articles.chicagotribune...

The people in Flint, Michigan are about to gain a first hand appreciation of what lead does to cognitive abilities.

Not to mention disposition to criminal behavior:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

According to studies, the effects will become most apparent when the children exposed to lead reach their twenties.

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

Will President Sanders be just as respective of private information of citizens — especially, the opposition? Are we to expect more "snafus" from the Democrats?

Healthcare.gov, for example, is just a gold-mine waiting to be tapped. Or, maybe, not even waiting any more...

And now, he gets to meet a number of former Enzyte customers...

No, he doesn't. And odds are, he won't spend any time in prison. And if he does, odds are he gets into some country club prison. I'd love to be wrong here. The only way that we'll see prison reform is if more people with money get sent there.

No. They do not.

Bull:

The national rate for reported "property-damage-only crashes" is about 0.3 per 100,000 miles driven, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Google's 11 accidents over 1.7 million miles would work out to 0.6 per 100,000
http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

The other cars in the automation test drive 70mph on the freeways commonly.

Yes, yes, fine... MOST of the cars, and MOST of the miles driven are very low speed, at or below 25MPH.

Interestingly, the east coast land is sinking around 20 times faster than the sea level is rising. Maybe the sinking land is displacing seawater that is causing the sea to rise? Just a thought. In any case sea level itself is kind of an academic concept when the entire surface of the planet is in continuous motion, the planet itself is not quite spherical, and gravity itself is unevenly distributed. (Interesting articles: http://articles.chicagotribune..., and https://www.newscientist.com/a...)

In my opinion, Miami's perceived problems are likely due to overdevelopment, land subsidence, groundwater depletion, and perhaps climate hysteria -- not unlike Venice. The one thing I am pretty sure of is that the 1/4 inch of sea level rise is not a significant factor. The gizmodo article is misleading, and sadly the comments indicate that people are eating it up.

The evidence is now very strong that leaded gasoline was responsible for much past violent crime. http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

Nobody's talking about helping the poor fat Americans overcome their obesity, poor education, violence

You dumb fuck. Of course they are.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

http://www.christianpost.com/n...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/rea...

http://articles.chicagotribune...

But we're not obligated to do anything and it's not our fault if something bad happens to a group of people somewhere in the world today.

First John 3:17 “But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?

List Joe Blows who have killed innocent bystanders while trying to stop a mass shooter.

List the Joe Blows that have successfully prevented mass shootings with their concealed carry?
Human behavior is the same. A police office is just a Joe blow with special training, A Joe blow without training is not going to perform any better (or do you seriously believe this will be the case?)

Your use of "innocent people" is the exact opposite of the actual definition, liar.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/... If you can't argue using reason, then just start calling names and see how that works out for you...

Hey, back in the day you could buy votes for a drink! Perhaps more effective than the $10 prizes though, is the $500,000 in prizes Code.org dangles to entice schools to get with the program(ming), or (in the past), the $750 gift codes Code.org offered to teachers who got their students to code (with $250 more for teachers of girls).

Since when has evidence mattered to socialists?

You'd be surprised.

What are you basing this on?

The average used car sold in the U.S. is now over $18,000. If you're personally fortunate enough to buy a car with cash, then congratulations. That's just not reality for most people. As you say, people need a car to get to work. Hence, they have to buy on credit. Otherwise, no job and no savings right? Chicken, egg?

Also, what's a "first real job" these days?

There is no room for ethics on capitalism. The market sets the rate, based on what people are to pay. Since people will die if they don't take the drug, they will pay every penny they have (or that their insurance is willing to give).

What are you, some kind of communist? Expecting companies to act in the interests of the general good, guided by morality...

I've heard rumors of companies doing that, but I'm sure they are only rumors. Yes, capitalism is rotten to the core, and only the use of force in order to get people to comply with your new world order will do!

Yeah, I mean, Ben Carson, who is not only a medical doctor but has conducted extensive scientific medical research, is being lynched for not acting the way that liberal white people on CNN have decided a black man should act.

Oh, wait, you don't think he counts because there's an "R" next to his name, which makes racism OK.

Ben Carson is an amazingly intelligent and successful man. Yet he has come up with the most spectacularly bone-headed statements since he entered political life.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

http://thinkprogress.org/polit...

Remember how important stare decisis was to John Roberts before he became Chief Justice? For most of the history of the United States, conservatives like Warren Burger didn’t find any right to own a gun in the Second Amendment. It was only the Roberts Court that found such a right where none existed:

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The NRA is not the slightest bit interested in gun safety, that’s a smokescreen. They’re the lobby for the arms industry.

Because I'm sure they have the students best interest in mind

but I have my own obvious bias

A week ago news broke that Chicago was padding its graduation rates. (They're really around 66% - yikes.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

Then there's the story from TODAY about Chicago's school chief agreeing to plead guilty to bribery:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

To me, this "code for all" announcement mainly seems timed to distract from the fact that Chicago's public schools are horribly ineffective dumps run by hacks.

A week ago news broke that Chicago was padding its graduation rates. (They're really around 66% - yikes.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

Then there's the story from TODAY about Chicago's school chief agreeing to plead guilty to bribery:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

To me, this "code for all" announcement mainly seems timed to distract from the fact that Chicago's public schools are horribly ineffective dumps run by hacks.

Wrong. They moved to Chicago for the free money giveaways: http://articles.chicagotribune...

And http://www.chicagobusiness.com...

I'm afraid you're batting 0 for 2. The "tribunal" your link refers to isn't a government entity. You can find more info at the two links below. The founder has some troubling views.

Bush, Cheney Face Torture and War Crimes ‘Charges’ in Mock Trial
Guess who finds Israel guilty of genocide?

Mahathir Mohamad, the founder of this kangaroo court, was Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003. In October 2003, shortly before he stepped down as prime minister, he attracted international attention with a speech at a summit for the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), where he told his audience that while Muslims “have the biggest oil reserve in the world,” “have great wealth” and “control 57 out of the 180 countries in the world,” they “will forever be oppressed and dominated by the Europeans and the Jews.” Indeed, according to Mahathir, “today the Jews rule the world by proxy.”

I'll correct your correction - hundreds of those emails contained classified information, and it was classified at the time, including the two with Top Secret information. You can't just repeat information in a Top Secret message on an unclassified system and render that information "unclassified."

An arsenal of smoking guns in Clinton email scandal

... Most people can be forgiven for not understanding the difference between classified documents and classified information. A classified document is marked “Top Secret” or some such. But people who work in government understand that lots of information is classified simply by virtue of the kind of information it is.

My National Review colleague Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, has been setting his head on fire trying to get the mainstream media to take note of this fact. He points out that according to an executive order issued by President Barack Obama, all “foreign government information is presumed to cause damage to the national security” and is therefore presumed classified. Clinton routinely ignored this rule. That’s not just my opinion. A study by Reuters found that “Clinton and her senior staff routinely” ignored these rules.

“Here’s my personal email,” Clinton told Middle East envoy George Mitchell, who then proceeded to convey numerous private conversations he had with foreign leaders.

The Washington Times reports that Clinton’s unsecured emails contained spy satellite information about North Korea’s movement of its nuclear assets. This sort of information is universally recognized as top secret and is normally subjected to draconian safeguards. There is no way Clinton didn’t know this.

Remember the H1N1 craze? Swine flu? Or any other of the sky-is-falling pandemics? SARS anyone? Yes, they are contagious. How many cases did we have around the US and Europe? Was it more than a dozen combined? People went apeshit over that crap. Mostly because they didn't have the first clue about it other than "oh it's killing people, watch out!"

So, was our fortune in those diseases not becoming strongly pandemic by chance, or partially because people "went apeshit over that crap"?

Our health system in the US pretty much proved they weren't ready to cope with diseases like Ebola when they started bringing infected people back to the United States. We've since found out that the virus remains in hosts that were determined to be "free" of the disease, for example in eyeballs, yet we have cases like this one where health employees clearly flaunt their ignorance of the possibilities for catastrophe.

You simply need to treat such infections with the same respect you do computer security. If there's a possibility of a breach, assume there will be a breach. Assuming otherwise just ensures that if a breach occurs it will be so much worse.

Initially, the project considered adapting Soviet math books, but quickly realized that it needed an American curriculum that embodied this country's values, he said

Samoa Airlines already started this and no surprise. The economic realities of 2x the fuel per ham means they have to charge more. It baffles me why American airlines, which are nearly as vulnerable to obese passengers, don't follow suit. I'm fed up with subsidizing the obese travelers that slow down lineups, endanger other passengers with their bulk & take up far more than their share of seating.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

It looks like they have at least one eye witnesses (someone was observed fleeing the scene). Further, any communications to or from the devices would be recorded by the phone company (or ISP for wireless communications). So what are they hoping to find on the devices? A typed confession from the murderer?

The wars on abstracts (drugs, crime, terror) has made our society more violent and less safe.

Violent crime has been dropping for several decades any way you slice it, America is at 1970s levels. What metrics are you using to that show an increase in violence? Even between 2013 and 2012 there's been a decrease.

>> What "rapid increase of murder"??

How's life in the country? Here's some 2015/2014 stats...it's becoming a major political issue for those of us in and around cities.

Chicago: 26 percent increase - http://www.chicagotribune.com/...
Milwaukee: hit 2014's total in July! - http://www.jsonline.com/news/c...
Baltimore: deadliest month in 40 years - http://www.baltimoresun.com/ne...
New York: Mayor under fire for murder jump - http://www.politifact.com/pund...

While it is not a vendor's responsibility to control what a buyer does with the acquired product

Anti 2nd-Amendment zealots would disagree.

And, although the above lists mere tort-claims, there are movements afoot towards criminal liabilities for gun-sellers as well. For the Greater Good.

Getting a little tired of this. As cities grow, yes more money is needed. I understand this. But as cities and states grow, there are more taxpayers increasing overall income from sales tax, property tax, gas tax and wtf ever tax. I'm expected now to get an AMA liscence(understandable with insurance and such), and then get a permit from the city to fly anything rc controlled. Bunch of crap.

Ahh, but Chicago ISN'T growing. (Borrowed this from another poster).
This tax is an indication of a Death Spiral.

...you folks wanted government to provide everything under the sun.

Now they're going to take everything you have to pay for it.

Oh, and BTW Chicago has been losing population for years. I wonder why?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

Uber is fast, clean, polite, and - most importantly - reliable.

Except for the Uber drivers who assault, rape, or kidnap passengers.

http://www.people.com/article/...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/uber-...