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You really need to learn to google before believing the first thing you read about a controversial event like this. There are people out there looking to mislead you for their own ends.

Here's a more factual, straightforward article: http://www.citypages.com/news/...

As it explains it wasn't even a one-off event, it was an issue over two years, and the suspension was as the result of many other issues:

As of last month, Adamo had been âoeunilaterallyâ removed by Augsburgâ(TM)s provost, citing a âoerange of issuesâ raised by students: âoebias and discrimination,â âoerespect for students,â âoeteaching competenceâ and âoeprogram leadership.â These âoeissues,â a release from the university said, go beyond âoethat specific eventâ in October.

I can't be bothered to spend more time investigating the incident but it doesn't seem to be what that article you linked to suggests it is. And even if it was, mistakes by one group do not render an entire idea that was incorrectly applied wrong. If that were true the first miscarriage of justice would invalidate the law in question.

Former congressman and DNC chair Keith Ellison. There you go! He even attended May Day parade wearing a T-shirt stating he does not believe in borders.

[citation provided]

Hansmeier is a serious douche, who also has a penchant for suing companies for supposed lack of ADA compliance.

http://www.citypages.com/news/...

It's pretty sad that attorneys are able to do this shit for so long and for so much damage before the hammer gets dropped on them.

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/gop_campaign_manager_resigns_after_fake_hurricane_sandy_tweets_20121031

Knowing where and when power is used and developing trends based on actual fine-grained information helps the electric grid be run more efficiently. The whole effort in the 2006 energy bill was to reduce the number of power plants and transmission lines the need to be constructed by using the existing facilities more efficiently, and better planning for new facilities. DO you think the power companies are actually going to go through 100Ks of customers to determine when they wake up, do laundry, eat meals, etc...We might need a HIPPA type lay for utility companies to prevent them from selling data to 3rd parties who might be willing to pay a high price for raw meter data, but for the most part people are over-reacting to smart meters. I'd be more concerned about my Sheriff's dept flying a drone over my home (my sheriff's dept in northeast ND actually is http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2012/03/grand_forks_police_to_begin_regularly_using_drones_this_spring.php http://www.suasnews.com/2012/03/12582/grand-forks-sheriff%E2%80%99s-department-launching-uas-program/ )

You mean like when Target told a dad his daughter was pregnant?

Also, you loose nothing. If something is loose you should tighten it as not to lose it. Although I guess in this case you sort of did lose a loose customer.

While the rest of your post strikes me as rather crazy, the last sentence leads to a decent "case study" on the misuse of science by fundamentalists. Research is a theme in the anti-gay movement. Both the Family Research Council (FRC) [a leading anti-gay group] and the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) [a leading ex-gay group] have it in their names. The anti-gay people who reference studies usually focus on health and other social problems. Topics include higher incidence of HIV and various STDs, various intestinal parasites, anal cancer, domestic violence and murder, promiscuity, mental health problems and suicide, whether it's a choice or genetic, illegal drug use, and pedophilia.

Here's an article about the American College of Pediatricians [the comparatively tiny anti-gay offshoot of the mainstream American Academy of Pediatrics] distorting some research:

The ACP also claimed that the longer you can keep kids from identifying as gay, the less likely they are to kill themselves. ...
In this case, Remafedi says, the ACP missed the larger point: Kids who come out at a younger age are more likely to kill themselves because they are less able to deal with the stigma and isolation of being gay. If anything, the research shows the need for more support.

"It's obvious that they didn't even read my research," Remafedi says. "I mean, they spelled my name wrong every time they cited it."

It's easy to put up a front of respectability. Here's a nice example from the Family Research Council: an hour long lecture against gay marriage. It's offered by the "FRC University Library", which is almost as respectable-sounding as the American College of Pediatricians. The format is a traditional lecture given by a middle-aged guy in a suit. If you actually listen to him, he rambles incessantly and when he makes a point his reasoning is often highly flawed (for instance, listen to his discussion of the interracial marriage analogy around 48 minutes in; the circular reasoning is just sad). But if you just look at the trappings and believe his conclusions, you might get the impression that he was a trustworthy source to base your own views on.

Even if you have enough money to fight them it doesn't end well. As much of an embarrassment as Governor Ventura was at least he tried but hasn't been successful.

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2011/11/jesse_ventura_tsa_pat_downs_body_scans_lawsuit_thrown_out.php

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/04/jesse-venturas-tsa-lawsui_n_1075676.html

Lawsuit thrown out because "Federal Court" does not have jurisdiction in cases against TSA. And apparently the ruling took soo long that it cannot even be appealed because the time expired.

Talk about getting stonewalled by the courts. Maybe ask Ventura about the validity of the US constitution in 2012?

He worked for Medtronic, which is a huge recipient of healthcare funding for unnecessary surgeries for old people. So, in a sense, yes, he was being indirectly paid by the US government as he tried to frame his neighbor as being anti-government-spending. I'd say that qualifies as promoting a product.

I asked Jordan Kavoosi if his business was a scam. If he had failed to pay writers. If his tattoos made him look like a dbag. He sent me a YouTube video response.

And in case he decides to take down his brilliant acting resumes (complete with sunglasses) like he did with other videos, here are some mirrors. I ... I teared up during his re-enactment of the ending of 300. Frank Miller would be proud.

Hilarious article though, well done CityPages. I liked the dialogue with the judge and the story of Kavoosi's tattoos at the end. Clear infatuation with himself, I'd avoid.

For example: http://www.citypages.com/content/printVersion/1247085

http://blogs.citypages.com/gop/2008/09/rnc_riot_trip_r.ph
I do not have an account, but while you are not giving any sources, all I found when searching for riots are pictures of people sitting aggressively...

I don't need to be a mind reader to see the obvious. Perhaps that is because I'm objective where your convinced.

Say what?

I don't need proof of anything, the cops do. And this proof will come out during their trial.

If there is one. And what if this is one of those "oops we made a mistake" situation? Too bad?

The article presented is a little misleading on facts too.

I have more than one link in my collection:

• I-Witness Video Members Detained En Masse by St.Paul, Minnesota Police in Advance of the 2008 Republican National Convention
• Houses raided, 5 arrested; critics decry crackdown
• National Lawyers Guild: What police seized was not 'weaponized' urine
• Dozens Detained Ahead of Convention
• Dozens Detained Ahead of Convention
• Federal government involved in raids on protesters
• Massive police raids on suspected protesters in Minneapolis

As people posted links in the tread, I'd open then in a new Firefox tab then I'd bookmark after reading them.

The cops said they had informants who told them about the planned activities.

Yea, and those informants were getting paid only if there was an arrest.

They were making, not possession but making devices to cause harm to other people's property

And there were no legitimate uses for any of them? Oh and they were all made illegal?

Now, as for proof, the cops will show that to the courts during their prosecution. I don't need it, all I need is an accusation and charged to be filed which both are true at this point.

In other words it's okay to deny people the right to protest just by making an accusation, or paying an informant to make the accusation. I wonder what you would think if that happened to you.

BTW, possession of dangerous chemicals can be a fire code violation as well as a felony. But there were more then "fire code" violations involved.

And what charges will stand up in court? Or doesn't it matter to you? Is all that counts is that protesters were stopped? Maybe you'll like it with Kim Jong-il then.

Falcon

The /. summary kind of cherry-picks the bits that it mentions. If you read the Star-Tribune article, you'll note that the protesters had buckets of urine at the ready

Who's cherry picking now? If you read the Star-Tribune article you would have read how there was only one bucket of urine, and it was in an apartment without a toilet where a illegal occupant was. And you would have read who that person had nothing to do with the protesters.

in addition to the slingshots, bow and arrows, and gun that police seized

I used to own at least one of each of these as well as a rifle and a blow-gun. Does that mean I was planning something illegal? In that case my dad was a criminal because he gave me the rifle when I was young. And the person who sold me the gun was one too even though we were both in the US Army when he sold it to me.

It's pretty clear that whatever protest these people were planning was going to go beyond peaceful words, unless someone has a better (serious) explanation for the buckets of urine.

It's clear to whom? To you? Maybe you don't need much information as I need to decide guilt.

It also notes that these informants were working on the inside of the protest groups for quite some time, to minimize any doubt that these folks were up to no good.

And those informants were getting paid, but they only got paid if there was an arrest. Let's see, if I became an informant and I knew I would only get paid if the info I gave led to an arrest but there was nothing being planned that was illegal, would I tell the truth and not get paid or would I lie so I would be paid?

So, in other words, the cops were doing their job

No, so either you don't have enough info or you're trolling.

Falcon

All the police did was do exactly what the NORNC people had planned.

I call bullshit. Where's your evidence the protesters planned anything that would violate others' rights? Information from informants who only got paid if there was an arrest?

Falcon

There was an informant inside this organization that told authorities what was planned.

Here's a link about your informants: "Moles wanted". Informants only get paid if an arrest is made. Let's see, I'm a mole and I know if the info I give doesn't lead to an arrest do I tell the truth or do I lie?

Falcon

Since you have all this figured out from reading the mainstream media, I'm sure you know that these moles are volunteers and only get paid of there are arrests. Plenty of incentive to provoke arrests one way or another.

Yes, you can. Bruce Schneier did it. So did author Tim Ferriss. So did journalist Jim Harper.

Software patents are one small but important piece of the IP Empire which demands universally oppressive laws.

• Silencing protest before it happens and then pushing protesters aside where they are not heard and can be abused, arrested and tortured. Need work? Apply here!
• Subordination of local law to US corporate interests.
• Globally depressed wages
• Dangerous genetic modifications and ecological ruin.
• And now, all your Email are belong to US. Why not? we treat everyone like criminals here.
• We should not forget free flow of slave labor for US agriculture. It might be claimed that no US Citizen would take the kind of work mega farms import Mexican citizens to do, but why not pay those people US wages and treat them as immigrants rather than keep them locked up?

The list goes on and on but it has one common theme, your rights mean nothing, shut up and get back to work for the man.

The other thing the public has missed in this story is that there's a huge body of literature showing not only that torture doesn't work, but that it's counterproductive. Torture radicalizes people. In fact, the Israeli torture of Palestinians was actually seen by some as redemptive, in terms of validating the evil of the Israeli side and the rightness of the Palestinian cause. It validated their own importance as torture survivors, and it validated their membership in the group. The CIA did about 200 studies of torture from 1953 to 1974, under two successive projects, one called MK Ultra and one called MK Search. That collective body of work found that torture didn't work. The Brits found the same thing when they were using interrogational torture on the IRA.

Do you really think that the RIAA considered going around in a car in the 70s and 80s and stopping kids with portable 8-track players, Walkmans and boom boxes and demanding that they produce proof of ownership of the music?

In the 1980s, back when LPs and cassette tapes were all the rage, there were record rental stores. The RIAA managed to smash this by getting Congress to pass the "Record Rental Amendment" in 1984.

So, yes, the RIAA was concerned with copying back in the days of Walkmans and boom boxes. (8 tracks were a little earlier, Junior.)

University students are adults. Why should Ohio University - or any other nearby entity with deep pockets - step in to help them?

Why? Universities are at the forefront of the nanny state. Students should be coddled, sheltered, not exposed to anything they disagree with, and only allowed to think the politically correct status quo.

After the Virginia Tech shooting, a student at Hamline was suspended & sent for psych counseling for suggesting concealed-carry was a better choice than gun-free zones (Virginia Tech was a gun-free zone under Virginia Law).

SCO have announced they are hiring the services of The Subpoenator, who is rumoured to have been recruited to travel back in time, search for the real Pamela Jones. The Subpoenator favourite weapon is believed to be the Gatling laser printer, capable firing well over 3000 summons per second. Anyone in the vicinity of The Subpoenator is advised to seek cover indoors, close all windows and door, disconnect all web-enabled equipment, and seal their letterbox with industrial strength duct tape.

This came out of a contest Dan Savage held in his column Savage Love, to find a gay-sex-related definition for "santorum." This was in response to Sen. Rick Santorum's comments several times that homosexuallity is a deviant behavior on par with pedophaelia.

The one they came up with truly nasty, but, apparently, a concept just oozing with a dark need for its own word.

I'm surprised I don't see a link to the original story yet, so here it is:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/10/24/122153/98

From the story:

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl, --AZ-01: Rick Renzi, --AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth, --CA-04: John Doolittle, --CA-11: Richard Pombo, --CA-50: Brian Bilbray, --CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave, --CO-05: Doug Lamborn, --CO-07: Rick O'Donnell, --CT-04: Christopher Shays, --FL-13: Vernon Buchanan, --FL-16: Joe Negron, --FL-22: Clay Shaw, --ID-01: Bill Sali, --IL-06: Peter Roskam, --IL-10: Mark Kirk, --IL-14: Dennis Hastert, --IN-02: Chris Chocola, --IN-08: John Hostettler, --IA-01: Mike Whalen, --KS-02: Jim Ryun, --KY-03: Anne Northup, --KY-04: Geoff Davis, --MD-Sen: Michael Steele, --MN-01: Gil Gutknecht, --MN-06: Michele Bachmann, --MO-Sen: Jim Talent, --MT-Sen: Conrad Burns, --NV-03: Jon Porter, --NH-02: Charlie Bass, --NJ-07: Mike Ferguson, --NM-01: Heather Wilson, --NY-03: Peter King, --NY-20: John Sweeney, --NY-26: Tom Reynolds, --NY-29:

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl --AZ-01: Rick Renzi --AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth --CA-04: John Doolittle --CA-11: Richard Pombo --CA-50: Brian Bilbray --CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave --CO-05: Doug Lamborn --CO-07: Rick O'Donnell --CT-04: Christopher Shays --FL-13: Vernon Buchanan --FL-16: Joe Negron --FL-22: Clay Shaw --ID-01: Bill Sali --IL-06: Peter Roskam --IL-10: Mark Kirk --IL-14: Dennis Hastert --IN-02: Chris Chocola --IN-08: John Hostettler --IA-01: Mike Whalen --KS-02: Jim Ryun --KY-03: Anne Northup --KY-04: Geoff Davis --MD-Sen: Michael Steele --MN-01: Gil Gutknecht --MN-06: Michele Bachmann --MO-Sen: Jim Talent --MT-Sen: Conrad Burns --NV-03: Jon Porter --NH-02: Charlie Bass --NJ-07: Mike Ferguson --NM-01: Heather Wilson --NY-03: Peter King --NY-20: John Sweeney --NY-26: Tom Reynolds --NY-29: Randy Kuhl --NC-08: Robin Hayes --NC-11: Charles Taylor --OH-01:

Some articles to think about in the upcoming election:

Jon Kyl Rick Renzi J.D. Hayworth John Doolittle Richard Pombo Brian Bilbray Marilyn Musgrave Doug Lamborn Rick O'Donnell Christopher Shays Vernon Buchanan Joe Negron Clay Shaw Bill Sali Peter Roskam Mark Kirk Dennis Hastert Chris Chocola John Hostettler Mike Whalen Jim Ryun Anne Northup Geoff Davis Michael Steele Gil Gutknecht Michele Bachmann Jim Talent Conrad Burns Jon Porter Charlie Bass Mike Ferguson Heather Wilson Peter King John Sweeney Tom Reynolds Randy Kuhl Robin Hayes Charles Taylor Steve Chabot Jean Schmidt Deborah Pryce

"You can't replicate that in Europe. Change your laws."

Perhaps you should read this before commenting on Europe.
http://www.citypages.com/databank/26/1264/article1 2985.asp

Europe is alive and well and doing very nicely thank you.

"H5N1 is the most powerful influenza virus we've seen in modern human history"

This virus is quite different from what we see with the standard annual flu, and what we saw in 1957 and 1968, because of the cytokine storm it causes. In 1918, the vast majority of the people who died were healthy young people, 20 to 40 years of age. And that was in large part because they had the strongest immune systems.

Child porn was mentioned in this week's Savage Love. Point was made that, whereas there used to be a clear distinction between children who were in such porn and the adults who made it, those lines has become blurred, what with the recent myspace arrests and such. I can't come up with a good way to disentangle that. Our current system of laws leads to some ridiculous outcomes (take naked pictures of yourself when you're underage, grow older, be arrested for exploiting... yourself?), but anything I can think of isn't much better.

And 17% of Americans believe that the Earth revolves around the Sun once a day...

http://www.citypages.com/databank/26/1264/article1 2985.asp

The section has already been abused.

When a lawyer is charged with committing a crime by speaking to the media we have a problem....

I'm not saying I agree with her, but come on!

According to this article

Japan, China, Taiwan, and South Korea hold 40 percent of our government debt. (That's why we talk nice to them.) "By helping keep mortgage rates from rising, China has come to play an enormous and little-noticed role in sustaining the American housing boom" (NYT, Dec. 4, 2004). Read that twice. We owe our housing boom to China, because they want us to keep buying all that stuff they manufacture.

China is becomming more and more interesting.. and we are buying more and more goods from them (loads of things are designed in "the West" and produced in China) and they are Communist but that doesn't mean that everybody is equal, far from it ("some are more equal than others" in the Animal Farm sense of Communism). They have a huge "worker class" who have no rights. If they have no rights so no rights are abused .. simple. ... and still most of the electronic stuff we buy is produced in China, so we have already accepted their point of view, haven't we?

The controversy over funding is just the tip of the iceburg wrt the NCLB.

1) He doesn't update very often. Most blogs suffer from blogarrhea. Bloggers, listen up: less is more. Chirping away with everyone else in the blogosphere not only leads to repetition and throwaway quality. It also helps shape a kind of consensus thought that is, well, a large part of what makes establishment media so dull. Think a little more, write a little less.

2) Need heterodoxy? Apply here. Perry is clever, witty, leftwing, and, even as the editor of the largest weekly paper in the land of Wellstone, unafraid to give hell to the Democrats.

(Note: no personal connection, just calling it as I see it.)

This article is a rather scathing condemnation of the camera operation.

While I don't agree with the author's statement that it is part of a class war, I do think one of the article snippets provides humorous insight:

During my time in the control room, from 9 p.m. to midnight, I experienced firsthand a phenomenon that critics of CCTV surveillance have often described: when you put a group of bored, unsupervised men in front of live video screens and allow them to zoom in on whatever happens to catch their eyes, they tend to spend a fair amount of time leering at women. "What catches the eye is groups of young men and attractive, young women," I was told by Clive Norris, the Hull criminologist. "It's what we call a sense of the obvious." There are plenty of stories of video voyeurism: a control room in the Midlands, for example, took close-up shots of women with large breasts and taped them up on the walls. In Hull, this temptation is magnified by the fact that part of the operators' job is to keep an eye on prostitutes. As it got late, though, there weren't enough prostitutes to keep us entertained, so we kept ourselves awake by scanning the streets in search of the purely consensual activities of boyfriends and girlfriends making out in cars. "She had her legs wrapped around his waist a minute ago," one of the operators said appreciatively as we watched two teenagers go at it. "You'll be able to do an article on how reserved the British are, won't you?" he joked.

Actually, from what i understand the brakes were put on nuclear power when the Carter (?) administration banned uranium reprocessing and all the power companies were stuck with finding a place for accumulating dangerous waste with no end in sight.

It doesn't take some radical green giant to know that nuclear waste is dangerous, and it doesn't take an economist to know that storing it is too expensive for profit-driven companies.

just a thought or two.

There was an interesting article in the Minneapolis City Pages (a leftist-ish free publication) about this problem, which may be found HERE

-tid242

This "Star Wars is Doomed" article is more of the same trolling dreck that Christopher Bahn has been serving up since he was writing for the Minnesota Daily and Citypages.

He writes the same crap in a previous article about the "Friends" last episode. Hmmm, Funny that has not gotten a /. posting.....

I am not sure the general public has a grasp of just how big Walmart is, and how they wield that power. In February of 2000, Wal-Mart opted to eliminate their meat cutting departments rather than engage in union negotiations. Wal-Mart is the focus of 25 pending lawsuits charging overtime violations. According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Wal-Mart pays men 34 cents more an hour than women in identical positions. Nationwide, Walmart has 2,864 stores. In 2002, they had $244.5 billion in sales. That's more than 5 times the sales of Target Corporation and combined, exceeds Target, Sears, Kmart, J.C. Penney, Safeway, and Kroger! In the last half of the 1990s, Wal-Mart was responsible for almost 12% of the productivity gains seen in the US economy. 2.3% of the US gross national product belongs to Wal-Mart. In 2002, except for auto parts stores, 7.5 cents of every dollar spent in retail stores in the US was in Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart employs 1.3 million people. In almost half of the states in the US, they are the largest employer. Wal-Mart buys nearly 10% of chinese imported products. Figures taken from Fast Company and The City Pages

I agree.

What I find interesting/horrifying/scary-- and much more problematic than this case-- is the situation in my local library, where librarians themselves (usually the people who do their best to protest censorship) are asking for some sort of "protection" against explicit imagery on the grounds that it creates a hostile work environment. So if the Right don't get you, the Left will.

More info on Minneapolis libraries and smut. I find it truly incredible that seeing some pictures on a screen across the room is considered suffering and that such so-called victims require monetary compensation that is more than twice their likely annual take-home pay. I wonder if these folks are compensated for damages if they read any of the filth one can often find in a public library (like Anne Rice novels, the average Harlequin romance, horror novels, the Holy Bible, etc)... heck, just a couple of weeks ago I checked out some Neon Genesis Evangelion graphic novels from the teen section of this library and it had illustrated depictions of unclothed minors in it!

...it's done here in Minneapolis.

This article is from the local "alternative" paper (the CityPages), and includes some good photography.

Also, one of the individuals mentioned in the article has a fascinating website that details their quest for the big cave under the middle of the city. It's the Minneapolis Drain Archive.

by Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn (10/2/96)

"Last September 12, some 1,500 of Hollywood's most beautiful people mustered at Greenacres, the old Harold Lloyd estate in Beverly Hills, and listened to Barbra Streisand serenade Bill Clinton..."

Prince hasn't toured or been seen much in public any more, since he converted to a Jehovah's Witness. There's a story about it in one of the weekly papers here in Minneapolis.

http://www.citypages.com/d atabank/20/991/article8260.asp.

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Although the complexity of computers makes this worse, this problem is not exclusive to the field: Film is a primarily visual medium, and is generally bad at depicting anything that isn't mostly visual. Witness how various films have to grossly simplify politics (in part because the interesting stuff about politics can't be visually represented) or music.

This is a problem that seeps into journalism, too. I know, from my experience, that when I wrote an article about the Midwest hacker conference RootFest, I worried about what the photographer would come up with as an image. Beyond the demands of anonymity from various participants, what is there to depict? I had a really fun time at RootFest (though 90% of the talk went over my head), but I didn't see a single mediagenic image the whole time I was there.

Francis Hwang