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The problem with this is that the CTA already operates at a loss, based purely on revenue from fares. City sales taxes in Chicago are already very high (>11%), and the state of Illinois subsidizes part of CTA's operating cost.

According to Wiki, the CTA provided 620.5 million rides in 2011. At an average of roughly $2/ride, free rides would mean over a billion dollars in fares not collected. Illinois' budget shortfall is currently about $1 billion, and the state is currently $6 billion in debt.

So where's the money going to come from? The CTA's proposed budget for 2014 is $1.4 billion, but critics point out that relying on state funding isn't a good idea. Tax increases are never popular, and $1.4B works out to roughly $140 per capita in the greater Chicago metropolitan area.

1) You don't have to wash them after ever visit, unless you're buying, like, unwrapped raw chicken in which case you've got bigger problems

You might want to rethink that statement.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/sns-green-bacteria-in-shopping-bags,0,4837500.story

From the Center for Disease Control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpKZvnJwicA

It wasn't profitable to continue research ahead of disaster. Shareholders demanded a better return. (Though Pfizer felt obligated to their history in this area did maintain a small program.)
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-03-19/health/ct-met-antibiotics-pipeline-20130319_1_drug-resistant-tuberculosis-resistant-bacteria-ketek

How did we get here?
It's likely that we wern't careful to preserve the efficacy of antibiotics. Using wide spectrum antibiotics instead of $$ testing and treating for a specific organism. Surely livestock didn't need it for faster weight gain.

http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-system/industrial-agriculture/prescription-for-trouble.html

Bacteria have "learned" to share resistance thus increasing the threat to us.

http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/antibiotic-resistance-mutation-rates-and-mrsa-28360

You know what? I agree with you.

That is why it is so important to stamp out signs of genuine oppression and actual thuggish behavior immediately when they are identified, and have good oversight over the rest. That is why I find the indifference on Slashdot to the admitted political oppression engaged in by the IRS to be so appalling.

I'm guessing you are talking about the IRS investigating political tax-exempt groups. Number one, political groups shouldn't be able to get a tax exemption to start with. Number two, one of the IRS's mandates is to vet these groups, number three, they were investigating progressive as well as conservative groups.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/20/us-usa-tax-liberals-idUSBRE97J0V820130820
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-07-13/news/sns-rt-usa-taxfundraisingl2e8icenx-20120713_1_tax-exempt-status-tax-exempt-organizations-ofer-lion
http://gawker.com/irs-didnt-just-hunt-the-tea-party-liberal-churches-al-504685119

Just another non-issue drummed up as a scandal by an increasingly desperate & irrelevant GOP.

Per TFA the levels of trans fatty acids in the USA population has declined by 58% in 9 years (2009 data, probably lower still now) and per this article the use of trans fats by the food industry has declined by 73%. Just about all restaurant chains and most packaged food producers have already removed trans fats from their products.

Sounds like an emergency situation that requires an immediate government ban. Or perhaps, the bureaucrats at the FDA were bored and the dart landed on trans fats as the thing to ban today?

Microsoft today announced the availability of Windows 8.1 for tax avoiders. The move is an extension of the company's nod to the tax avoidance community with the launch Windows 8. The announcement means eligible tax adverse institutions and public libraries can request Windows 8.1 through Microsoft's software donation program.

Income earned from interest paid by "non-profits" is tax exempt. That's why all the new hospitals are "non-profits" financed with billions in tax exempt bonds.

The one you are remembering was probably PolyHeme. It wasn't a hundred years ago, but there technical and industrial barriers blocking the development of this type of product didn't really fall until the 70's.

The non-consent trial (technically opt-out, but you had to do it before you got your trama injury) for PolyHeme weren't just disturbing, Polyheme didn't perform well in these trials (for example, the chicago trial). This is probably why you haven't heard much about this since that time.

Because of the blowback from the Polyheme trials, one of the competing products at the time Hemopure never made it to similar trials and went BK. Part of the concern was that at least Polyheme was made from human blood, where Hemopure was made from cow blood.

This Hemerythrin stuff is chemically different, but may face the same issues as the earlier synthetic blood products in clinical trials and the inevitable marketing.

I'm surprised we haven't had more "I don't recall..." moments from Obama. He'd be in good company.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jun/17/gulf-oil-spill-bp-chief-tony-hayward

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-02-23/news/9001160085_1_john-poindexter-recall-reagan-testimony

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

http://www.fairtax.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=34241.0

A Chicago Alderman has suggested bikers pay $25 for a license and must take a safety class. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/clout/chi-alderman-wants-25-bike-registration-fee-20131023,0,7405166.story

I'm all for it just as long as the mandates are delayed until the infrastructure is really done this time.* When does the RFP go out?

* And maybe a "few" other kinks in the law ironed out.

The idea that all serious science is done by atheists

That's not what I said at all.

The reason Newton, Kepler, Copernicus believed the "world was made in 6 days" is because they lived before plate tectonics, Darwin and carbon dating.

There is nothing incompatible about religious faith and science. Lots of great science has been done by mystics. You mention Newton, and he was an alchemist and believer in scrying and other occult practices too. Nobody would mistake him for a circa 2013 American Christian Fundamentalist. In fact, Evangelicals would consider Newton a heretic and dangerous person. They'd be trying to pray the demons out of him.

Kepler was an astrologer. You know a lot of American Fundamentalist Christians who are into astrology?

Copernicus? Well, Copernicus was a faithful Catholic, and for his trouble had to delay publication of his work on heliocentrism out of fear of the Church. If you read the dedication of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (to the Pope), you can see how delicately and carefully he had to present his case that the Earth was not the center of the Universe.

And did you know there is a movement in American Catholicism that still believes to this very day that the Earth is the center of the Universe?
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-07-04/news/ct-met-galileo-was-wrong-20110704_1_modern-church-universe-splinter-group

And I note that Charles Darwin's name is conspicuously absent from your list of great scientists who "think the world was made in 6 days". Is that maybe because the American Christian Fundamentalist group "The Discovery Center" believes in Creationism?

So don't you dare tell me that "most of modern science rests atop pillars" built by anyone resembling American Christian Fundamentalists in any way. It's just baloney.

President Obama, 'It wasnt me'...

• Government Shutdown: "Washington needs to get out of the habit of governing by crisis" , blame Washington
• Weak employment number s, Blame Congress , forget the fact that the democrats have 40 job creation bills they haven't acted on.
• The Economy is sluggish , blame the Europe..
• Structural Problems are preventing economic growth: its the ATM Machines in airport Kiosks
• Businesses have lost their edge causing slow job growth, blame the American Businesses , forget tax hikes and regulations imposed by the administration
• US Economy is slow and jobs are not on the rise, blame High Energy Prices lets not talk about opposition to the American Energy Initiative, Shutting down Coal Production. After all Nuclear Power is the way to go... just ask Japan.
• Debt ceiling, spending out of control. blame republicans, blame congress. Wait.. doesnt the President sign all those spending bills?

Failure is an opportunity.
If you blame someone else,
there is no end to the blame.

Therefore the Master
fulfills her own obligations
and corrects her own mistakes.
She does what she needs to do
and demands nothing of others.

--Lao Tzu

I think the problem we are facing is a lack of good leadership.

WTF? AOL/Time Warner accused of being a monopoly? When? You're just making that up.

Where you alive and aware back then?

Uh, yea I was alive, kickin, and some would say "old" back then, lol. http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=76066&cid=6789993 http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/2612.html http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-06-19/business/0006190010_1_instant-messaging-aol-instant-messenger-tribal-voice It was just a few years ago. Google is your friend and all that.

I found your comment very interesting. I like the flywheel concept in cars (sounds neat), and it was proposed by "Rosen Motors" (not a great writeup, I'll admit. I seem to recall seeing it in SciAm, but whatevs) in a turbine hybrid awhile back, but they had to figure out where to put it such that it could move gyroscopically, how to contain it in a safe way so that the charge & kinetic energy would not become a problem in a crash. One interesting part of that model was to use a small turbine engine for the operation of the electric vehicle, with the flywheel really there to capture the charge necessary to start the turbine and offer up faster acceleration on-demand until the turbine could supply enough sustaining energy. Anyhow, my point is that for all the great things flywheels can do, they don't have an easy mesh with moving vehicles and are still best-suited for well-anchored stationary implementations. I would prefer advancement in capacitors, frankly, where cars are concerned.

The first episodes of Monty Python weren't received that well when first aired either, if things had gone differently those could also have been lost.

Apparently the BBC *did* consider erasing the Monty Python master tapes.

It's unfortunate that the BBC were so shortsighted and "recycled" the master tapes of so many great series. Of course, everyone knows the famous Monty Python story of how that series was almost lost too, but was saved by Terry Gilliam (who basically stole the tapes and put them in his attic). But very few series from that era were so lucky.

I did not know that, though I've often wondered why they survived when so much else was lost. Also, "stealing the tapes" is not exactly a trivial exercise - the original Quad tapes were massive - 2" wide, 10.5" diameter and about 5KG each. If they had 2 episodes each, that's about 22 tapes he'd have had to sneak out of the archives. Not exactly something you can fit in your pocket...

It's unfortunate that the BBC were so shortsighted and "recycled" the master tapes of so many great series. Of course, everyone knows the famous Monty Python story of how that series was almost lost too, but was saved by Terry Gilliam (who basically stole the tapes and put them in his attic). But very few series from that era were so lucky.

Clarence Page at the Chicago tribune thinks we should what do you think?

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-11/news/ct-oped-0311-page-20120311_1_college-costs-rise-kayla-heard-college-attendance

Trading firms are always competing for the edge in trading speed, and have their own inter-exchange private microwave networks. Microwave beats fiber, as the speed of light through the atmosphere is nearly c vs high-speed fiber at 60% or copper at 72%. This technology has made obsolete dedicated high speed fiber lines for trading, some of which charted new paths through dense Appalachian rock to achieve the shortest distance.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Globex) already has one of the fastest links that can be constructed between it's colocation and the NASDAQ New Jersey data center.

Unparalleled Speed: Microwave connectivity provides customers the quickest market data delivery option from Carteret to Aurora – under 4.25 milliseconds (one-way) versus 6.65 milliseconds on the fastest fiber route.

What the article doesn't discuss is the exact nature of the electronic dissemination of the news. Chicago may have a time slew in it's time standard, or the release may have technically not been at precisely 2:00:00.0000000 - either could make an apparent time warp in the trade data. We would hope the article's author has done all the technical research before making an allegation that impropriety has taken place.

Did I miss something? Looks like they're back to me. Just a name change and some money changing hands among rich people...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he didn't exclude running for a fourth term, in a move that would pave the way for him to remain in power until 2024.

Wall Street Journal

The article states that he's 61 years old, so this is more or less "president for life". If he lasts another 10 years he'll just do it again, or not even bother to hold an election.

Russia's slide will continue if this happens. Of course the US has a similar problem with entrenched elites wrecking the economy for their own personal gain.

>> Can 50 Closed Chicago Schools Become 50 Makerspaces?

Here's a list of the schools closed and their capacities:
http://graphics.chicagotribune.com/school_utilization/

These aren't small buildings. Most are elementary schools. Many are in neighborhoods where you'd want tools and other equipment with "street value" locked up behind more than the average school door.

A better idea would be find "maker" space in light industrial parks. I'll bet there's plenty of that kind of unused space in those neighborhoods too.

Well let's see what other folks have done under similar circumstances. By and large people don't lie under oath but sometimes...

Marion Jones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Jones Star Olympic Athlete

On October 5, 2007, Jones admitted to lying to federal agents under oath about her use of steroids prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics and pled guilty at the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (in White Plains).[4] She confessed to Judge Kenneth Karas that she had made false statements regarding the BALCO case and a check-fraud case. She was released on her own recognizance but was required to surrender both her US and Belizean passports, pending sentencing in January. Although a maximum sentence of five years could be imposed, the prosecution recommended no more than six months as part of Jones' plea bargain.[21]

Here's a Police Seargent from Baltimore.

A Baltimore police sergeant was convicted of perjury for lying to get a search warrant used for a pre-dawn raid.
Sgt. Dennis Workley, convicted Friday by a Baltimore judge, used the warrant to lead a pre-dawn raid on an east Baltimore home.
Workley was later charged with lying about that, which resulted in Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge John Howard finding Workley guilty of perjury and malfeasance.

Mark Fuhrman (OJ Simpson Trial 1 fame)

Fuhrman, the detective who reported finding a bloody glove at Simpson's estate and whose racist past became a focal point in the nine month criminal trial, reached a settlement with the California attorney general allowing him to avoid a possible four-year prison term.

Under the agreement, Fuhrman pleaded no contest to perjury and was sentenced to three years of probation. He also was fined $200.

Two police officers there and there's more, but they're sworn to uphold the law.

I'm not saying this guy lied but without corroborating statements from other witnesses or physical evidence it's his word against Ballmer's and I'll bet every other CEO has probably gritted their teeth at their competition as well and probably wished they were out of the way.

I don't see anything about managing sex lives.

One of two options:
1. The feminists that indoctrinated you did a very thorough job, and you feel that women are suffering but that men have it easy, or
2. You're a man-hater, and know that men are being screwed left-right-and-centre but don't care.

Feminist war on sex lives:
1. Rape accusations Part 1: the name of the alleged victim (usually female) is protected, while the name of the alleged perpetrator (usually male) is public. So even when the alleged perpetrator is found innocent, his name is still mud.
2. Rape accusations Part 2: the only crime where the person on the stand must prove their innocence (did you have consent !!). All other crimes: innocent until proven guilty; the prosecution must demonstrate guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
3. Children: Even (if not usually) childless feminists always siding with mothers (simply because they only identify with people according to their gender) when it comes to custody battles. (See any of millions of comments.)
4. Sexual Assaults: Equality? Where are the feminist groups demanding that women receive the same sentences as men. Check out what the PUBLIC PROSECUTOR said in this article
5. Children: Feminists agree fathers should be required to financially support the upbringing of their children. Do feminists also believe a father should have the right to prevent a woman from killing his unborn child?

The list goes on. You just don't see (or care about) the inequalities because you likely have a permanent victim mentality. You don't sympathize with males (even when males suffer) you only identify with women. Says a lot about you as a person.

On the other hand, not only will the state financially come after any man who is the biological father and not raising the child themselves

Indeed. Even if the father was underage and statutorily raped by the woman

They live longer than men ... yet more is spent on women's-specific illnesses.

When underage boys are raped the woman can successfully sue them for custody and child support

Violence against men in the media is rampant. Remember Theon Greyjoy in Game of Thrones? He was tied down and sexually assaulted by two women. He then had his penis cut off. Imagine if something similar was done to a woman.

Remember when Catherine Kieu castrated her husband because he wanted a divorce? This is how this women's daytime talk show covered it.

Need more info: Man Woman and Myth

You can get caned even if you are the CEO.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-metra-clifford-memo-20130714,0,2783610.story

That graphic is incorrect.

http://graphics.chicagotribune.com/dreamliner-problems/

If it was an APU fire then it wouldn't be a risk to passengers since it only runs while on the ground.

Because the passengers only get on board after the Dreamliner is in the air?

That graphic is incorrect.

http://graphics.chicagotribune.com/dreamliner-problems/

It does appear that there is a gas powered APU. And they definitely could be running the APU while on the tarmac. In which case it would be a traditional petroleum caused fire. If it was an APU fire then it wouldn't be a risk to passengers since it only runs while on the ground.

As far as I'm aware, there are two batteries, but the rear one isn't that far back.

That appears to be the case: http://graphics.chicagotribune.com/dreamliner-problems/

Because that's what pilots of large, complicated planes do. You have to do a lot of things to land a plane. Automating some helps.

Regardless of whether the plane is on auto-throttle, a pilot still needs to check the speed and take over if necessary especially during a landing. Their speed was getting low and both pilots did not correct it until too late.

Experts said even with auto-throttle active, the pilots should have been monitoring the plane's speed every few seconds, and could have manually taken control of the engines at any time.

There have been a lot of arrests made in recent protests where there was no reasonable excuse for detaining the protesters. Sure, the police will make some claims as to "rioting, destruction of property, trespassing, vandalism, random acts of violence, and other nonsense" but when these cases are actually challenged, they more often than not fail to pass muster.

For example (and this is just the first one I found) the city of Chicago had to pay $11 million for wrongful arrests in a 2003 protest. "It was clear from the get-go they did not have a right to arrest people for marching," the plaintiffs' lawyer said of the police. " I'm sure other examples could be found without much difficulty.

Is everyone who may have been arrested at a protest innocent? Of course not. But are the authorities increasingly abusing the law to make arrests of people who are just expressing their Constitutionally-protected right of free speech and assembly? Definitely. That there are such things as "free speech zones" or "demonstrator permits" are just the tip of the iceberg. Police will take any excuse they can to wade in wearing their combat armor and throw potential disruptors into a cell.

People are less likely to protest nowadays because they know the system is being rigged against them. Out of fear, their voices are being silenced. How is this not less free?

If you already have legal obligations, the disclaimer is superfluous. I am not sure what you mean by risk management, but if your management scheme consists of using a boilerplate disclaimer then you are doing it wrong. Remember we are talking about emails going to unintended recipients. Not email going between business partners.

Relevant links from page one of the google search. In all email disclaimers are useless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_disclaimer
http://www.economist.com/node/18529895
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-08-26/business/ct-biz-0826-chicago-law-20110826_1_disclaimers-legal-obligations-binding
http://blogs.findlaw.com/strategist/2012/03/that-disclaimer-at-bottom-of-your-email-is-unenforceable-lawyers-say.html

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

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

Map and timeline of incident

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Map and timeline of incident

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

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

Zimmerman: Yeah. [2:25]

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

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

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

Zimmerman:George. He ran.

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

Zimmerman: Zimmerman.

...

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

Zimmerman: Yeah.

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

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

...

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

Zimmerman: Yeah, that’s fine. [3:43]

...

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

Zimmerman:Thanks.

Dispatcher: You’re welcome.

Call ends 4:07

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

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

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

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

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

Lest we forget:

They'll put them in the smart meters, and jail you for not wanting to install them.

I've seen enough people here not get (what I consider to be very) obvious jokes that I don't see the problem.

It is called humor impairment. It is a common affliction.

Wow, you're just eyeballs deep in the shit you spew.

it's watching you like some creepy stalker, while you undress, while you watch TV.. recording everything you do..

Cite specific, verifiable sources for this or STFU. If you honestly believe that bullshit, right before you put on your tinfoil hat, slap a few inches of electrical tape over the cameras. Problem solved.

Quoting a portions of the Chicago Tribune:

"Mr. President: Save us from Xbox One
May 24, 2013|John Kass

That's why Xbox One must die.

All the glitzy stuff aside, the danger of Xbox One is that in the hands of an evil genius — or an IRS agent — it could be a spy system.

Why?

It has a camera and a microphone.

The camera will look at you when you enter a room, recognize your face and greet you. The microphone will pick up your voice,
if you dare speak your thoughts out loud in your own home and transmit it into voice recognition software.

Oh, and you can't turn the microphone off.

The high-powered processor is triggered by keywords. It will learn your video preferences and offer you movies and
other entertainment choices based on those preferences.

To recap: It watches you, it greets you, it knows you. It listens to you, it never stops listening. It anticipates your needs."

---The article does end with the sad truth---

""It's not important to us," a high school junior told me the other day when I lectured at Lake Park High School in Roselle.
"We don't care about the cameras.""

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-05-24/news/ct-met-kass-0524-20130524_1_drone-attacks-xbox-one-jeff-henshaw

Anyone know how they made up the slack besides conservation?

Yes.

Japan takes on more Iranian crude oil
Japan’s energy costs spiral higher
Trade Deficit in Japan Hits Record
Japan's energy imports may outweigh stimulus gain
Skyrocketing energy imports increase Japanese trade deficit

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/oak-cliff/headlines/20130301-firing-and-arrests-of-dallas-police-officers-could-be-opening-salvo-in-another-departmental-scandal.ece
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704720804576009812869266014.html
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-04-15/news/chi-schaumburg-drug-conviction-dropped-20130415_1_john-cichy-hudak-drug-conspiracy
http://theweek.com/article/index/220367/planting-drugs-on-innocent-people-nypds-shocking-scandal

I could go on, but you can read the results of searching for cops planting drugs on google yourself rather than plugging your ears and screaming at the top of your lungs how it can't be happening.

The real story is that they want their P/L to look better Right Now because:
"Some 40 parties have expressed interest in acquiring some or all of Tribune Co.’s newspapers, according to sources close to the situation. The Chicago-based media company hired investment bankers in February to manage inquiries for its eight daily newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-tribune-company-20130515,0,1793743.story

The Idiocy of Eliminating a Photo Staff by Alex Garcia http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/assignment-chicago/2013/05/the-idiocy-of-eliminating-a-photo-staff.html offers a view from one working in that area.

"We also added the ability to take pictures with the built-in camera right from the Lock screen without having to log in."

This is a XboxOne feature, the video and microphone will always be on so it can greet you when you walk into a room or able
to take voice commands. The privacy issues should be obvious for a company like Microsoft.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-05-24/news/ct-met-kass-0524-20130524_1_drone-attacks-xbox-one-jeff-henshaw

While Obama had majorities in the House and Senate for two years, saying he had control is overstating the situation considerably because his majority in the Senate was not enough to force cloture.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-06-16/news/ct-oped-0617-zorn-md-20120616_1_minnesota-democrat-al-franken-filibuster-proof-majority-barack-obama

At the High School my wife works at five students have committed suicide with guns in their homes. Zero have been killed by an armed intruder.

only 55% of US males who commit suicide use firearms, and only 30% of women. More women poison themselves than shoot themselves. And home invasion is not uncommon here. Here's one in the news right now, two men who allegedly broke into a home and killed all five family members with a tire iron are on trial right now.

The public video taping police abusing their authority. For that you'll arrest citizens. While a no brainer that we can video tape police in public, it had to go to the Supreme Court yet again to be upheld yet again. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-supreme-court-rejects-plea-to-prohibit-taping-of-police-20121126,0,686331.story

Europe tends to have a more easy going attitude towards student protest than the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

It's really quite astonishing that you would point to that incident, for more than one reason.

It is beyond ludicrous and well into disingenuous to try depicting the events at Kent State as a typical response to student protests on campuses in the United States. In 1980 there were about 3,200 colleges in the US, and now there are about 4,500. Across all those years at all those schools probably all of them have seen protests of one sort or another: the Viet Nam war, the draft, nuclear weapons, nuclear power, nuclear winter, Pershing and Tomahawk missiles in Europe, the Iraq War, tuition hikes, unpopular speakers on campus, and many other issues. And yet you can point to one mass shooting by authorities on one day, producing a total of four dead, and yet that is somehow representative of the American experience in regards to protests by students? No, it isn't, not at all.

Then there is your false assertion that Europe is more easy going towards student protest. Really? There are a few cases that pop up to show Europe can be pretty harsh - certainly harsher than the United States. Say what you will about the United States, at least student protests there haven't resulted in mass arrests and a pogrom driving 20,000 Jews out of the country (Many Europeans still have a problem with Jews. ), or the use of an Army tank battalion and active snipers against a student occupation - killing 24.

Athens Polytechnic Uprising, Greece, 1973

When their strike on November 14, 1973 elicited no response, students from Athens Polytechnic barricaded themselves inside the university, . . .

. . . They paid a high price. In the morning of November 17, 25 tanks rolled onto the streets and set themselves up in front of the University. Students requested permission to evacuate, but before the allotted time was up, one of the tanks crashed right through the front gates.

Others tried to flee and were taken out by nervous military snipers on the rooftops. The death toll came to at least 24, with hundreds more suffering injuries, and as many as 1,000 people were arrested. . .

1968, Warsaw Poland

Student protests result in thousands of arrests and ultimately in an antisemitic campaign by the government that drove 20,000 Jews from Poland.

May 1968 Protests, France

On May 3, 1968, a student protest at the Sorbonne University nearly sparked a revolution. Protesting against the closure of the University of Paris at Nanterre and the planned expulsion of a number of Nanterre students, Sorbonne University students took to the streets en masse. . .

Over a period of several days, hundreds of students battled it out with police in Parisâ(TM)s Latin Quarter, setting up barricades, throwing rocks and braving tear gas. Discontentment with the political and economic conditions in France boiled to the surface, and what started out as a few student protests escalated into a month and a half of utter chaos, during which several people died and hundreds were injured.

There are certainly other events that could be mentioned.

Finally, the Wikipedia article doesn't really do justice to some imporant issues about Kent State.

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then require that every person own a gun to protect their neighbor as well.

Add in mandatory semi-yearly safety and marksmanship training.

Also, make it part of the mandatory school curriculum. I think a major reason we have so many kids these days accidentally shooting each other is a result of the fact that the only exposure many children get to firearms is playing/watching their parents play FPS games.

Make gun safety courses mandatory for police chiefs, too-- they seem remarkably careless with their guns. One around here just shot himself in the leg http://www.vindy.com/news/2013/apr/19/former-boardman-police-chief-shoots-self/, and looking at the web, day before yesterday another one shot himself at a Boy Scout meeting http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-04-17/news/ct-met-boy-scout-gun-discharged-20130417_1_police-officer-retired-officer-des-plaines

Maybe mandatory gun safety courses for Vice Presidents as well-- at least they could get the "if you can't see what you're shooting at, perhaps you shouldn't shoot. Oh, and maybe you shouldn't go hunting when you're drunk."

Really, it's hard to support that "mandatory gun ownership" thing when there are so many idiots, careless people, and drunks out there.

Here are some photos of the aftermath: http://galleries.apps.chicagotribune.com/chi-130418-fertilizer-plant-explosion-west-texas-pictures/

The Chicago Tribune reports

Current and former counter-terrorism officials said that the Boston bombs were built using pressure cookers as the superstructure, black powder or gunpowder as the explosive and ball bearings as additional shrapnel. The officials said that instructions on how to design such bombs are available on the Internet.

http://slashdot.org/submission/2606257/boston-marathon-bombings-likely-used-pressure-cooker-plans-found-on-the-internet