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Trade wars lead to depressions.

And I ain't talkin bout the kind they prescribe pills for either.

Hell, even used iPhones would be a more stable form of currency

According to this dated report I just pulled up, from 2011. Each Iphone contains 0.034 grams of gold, 16 grams of copper, 0.35 grams of silver, and 0.00034 grams of platinum.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/13/technology/iphone_trade_in/index.htm/

on his election 'victory'. I don't like McCain, but at least he called Trump out on it.

It genuinely frightens me that we're so quick to support dictatorships. Everybody's looking the other way because they want Russia's gas & oil. Then again I've got to drive to work every day the same as everybody else...

In the USA you can be charged and arrested for a felony for tasteless humor on Facebook. People overestimate their freedom of speech and face serious consequences surprisingly often.

Well, at least links whose site owners, domain-name-servers, or IP-address-owners will take action or be forced to by a court. Good riddance.

If I hack cnn.com and upload http://www.cnn.com/badillegall...

and share it with a few friends, they may never notice.

If I put it in a heavily-watched location like the BitCoin blockchain, someone will tell CNN and *poof* there it goes, plus CNN will probably turn over any logs they have to the police and *poof* there I go, to prison, assuming I'm in America and don't hide my tracks very very well.

If I have my own domain or IP address that's in a western country and I upload porn, my ISP or domain-name-provider will get a court order to pull the plug or I will be arrested or both.

Now if I'm in North Elbonia, American Bitcoin users may be vulnerable but some countries like China may order all of their ISPs to block the entire IP address or domain to their customers. Bitcoin users will be off the hook, but others sharing my domain-name or IP address may suffer the "collateral damage" of being unavailable in the blocking countries.

For "darknet" links like .onion, it may be harder to block individual ".onion" addresses or URLs without blocking all of that particular "darknet," and nevermind the darknet-to-public-net gateways. Then again, if my BitCoin blockchain has a url of https://blahblahblah.onion/bla... and my country blocks .onion, am I on the hook because it's public knowledge that I can go to https://blahblahblah.onion.som... instead?

The long standing advice for men under 70 not to even screen for prostate cancer which , no surprise , seems to be changing again https://edition.cnn.com/2017/0...

My father is 92 and recently started treatment for prostate cancer. His urologist says that if you biopsy every man at that age, over 90% will be positive for prostate cancer, but few will actually die from it. What matters is how aggressive it is (the so called Gleason score - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) as it only becomes dangerous when it starts to spread to other organs. This appears to be what the article says AI can determine as well as a pathologist.

PSA testing is not a good way to detect prostate cancer or to grade its seriousness. It is the best way to monitor the effectiveness of treatment once it is diagnosed through biopsy, though.

Really. Really? You think that America went out of its way to avoid ISIS in Syria? You taint the rest of your post by starting off with that, makes it hard to take you at all seriously.

Your ignorance of the subject is not my problem. Yes, the United States has been arming, training and funding both ISIS and Al Queda to overthrow Assad. From the beginning.

America was reluctant to get involved in Syria in general

America was plotting to overthrow Syria before the Arab Spring was a thing. Again, remedial knowledge of the subject.

if for no other reason than he's allied with Russia and Iran and has been a thorn in Israel's side due to the illegal occupation of the Golan Heights after the 1967 war which was started by Israel

FTFY.

It is sort of curious how hard you are arguing for the Assad side

Why are you arguing for the Al Qaeda head choppers and the ISIS organ eating side? Because you want to see another Arab country turned into a third world hell hole like Iraq and Libya so American neocons can jizz themselves?

its hard to argue that the Syrian government hasn't engaged in plenty of other war crimes

How hard would you fight if if was your country being overrun by foreign-funded terrorists who wanted to chop off your head or cut out your heart and eat it?

The thing about chemical weapons in general is that they are not particularly effective as weapons of war

Then WTF would Assad use them in areas packed with his own people and military, when he was winning the war, on the day inspectors arrived. If your bullshit detector is completely and utterly non-functional....I have some oceanfront property in Idaho I would love to sell you at a great discount.

How much did Magic Leap pay you to publish this?
Magic Leap Sucks it Colleagues and staff dry.

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

https://variety.com/2016/digit...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/1...

The Obama campaign invented the deep-dive into Facebook data for their 2008 and 2012 campaigns. They not only openly bragged about doing what CA did and far more, but somehow the media fawned all over him for it. Odd, that:

https://www.cnn.com/2012/11/07...

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

http://swampland.time.com/2012...

https://www.technologyreview.c...

And these:

https://www.cnn.com/2012/11/07...

https://www.technologyreview.c...

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

http://swampland.time.com/2012...

They BRAGGED about doing the same things (and worse) than what they're accusing Cambridge of doing.

You know, not all crimes are felonies and the IRS wants to tax undocumented workers and even illegal income.

Here's an article that explains it. Instead, she has an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN), created by the IRS in 1996 so people who aren’t allowed to work in the United States could still file taxes on any money they earned. (The IRS does not share ITIN information with immigration authorities.)

+1 Excellent points! Mod up!

> The US legal profession has taken the massively unethical position that their time is valuable - and thus they can charge others for it - but the time of others is not valuable

Indeed. The greed of the legal system and their desire to maintain the status quo (It is illegal to "practice" law without having _their_ permission while ignoring the fact that founding fathers WERE lawyers is conveniently ignored.)

The problem is they don't respect anyone else. That reminds of an old joke:

Q. Why don't sharks attack lawyers?
A. Professional courtesy.

Notice what Tacitus said a few thousand years ago.

The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the state.

These scum over-complicate EVERYTHING. The tax code is 73,954 pages!!! WTF!?!?!

The code is now nearly 74,000 pages long. That's about 185 times longer than it was in 1913, when the code was 400 pages. Source: CCH

Instead of having ONE, EASY, sentence: "10% of all income is taxed" instead we get this bloated shit with so many loop-holes you have to pay an expert to "legally minimize" your fair share.

> All marketing should be opt-in - and opting out should be easy.

Agreed !

than explosives. A common argument is that if mass shooters couldn't get assault rifles they'd just use explosives. Believe it or not handling explosives is tricky. Even with access to the Internet and info on how to handle them you can still blow yourself to bits. Yeah, crock pot bombs are easy enough to make, but that mess in Boston had all of three victims. Compare that with the parkland shooting that killed 17 and injured the same.

...steel tariffs... Sure he's kinda fulfilling a promise, but he's actually harming the people he was supposed to help.

Again, "You may disagree on what he is doing and disagree on whether his policy will help". I think we both agree that it does count as "fulfilling a promise". Whether it achieves the goal or not is debatable.

There were two parts to your claim, first he's trying to fulfill promises, and second, he's trying to help people.

With the tariffs I think it's fulfilling a promise, but I don't think he actually believes it will help people as much as he thinks a trade war will be exciting and good for his poll numbers.

"tax cut" which was effectively just a massive wealth transfer to the rich

Taxing less is a wealth transfer? That doesn't make sense. Keeping more of the money you earned is a wealth transfer?

The money to fund the tax cut is coming from the treasury and massively raising the debt. Sooner or later that money has to be paid back, either through inflation (everyone is a bit less wealthy), raising taxes down the line, or cutting back on other programs.

The tax cut doesn't make the nation wealthier, it just transfers more of that wealth to the richest.

I guess if you feel entitled to other peoples money.

You're assuming that people create wealth in a void and the only role of government is to take from group A and give to group B. Once you acknowledge just how many external factors affect how much money you earn that statement is meaningless from a taxation perspective.

However, can you explain: "When upper-income Americans prosper, so do middle-income and lower-income Americans. Conversely, when high earners are stagnating, so are income-earners in all other categories."

You're citing a paper from a libertarian think-tank, publish in 1996, arguing that the middle class was growing in 1991.... Why do I care about an off-topic publication looking at wealth distribution 27 years ago?

Why don't you look at what's happened in the subsequent decades.

Economics is not a zero sum game. Taxing a person more doesn't help someone else. Just as taxing a person less doesn't hurt another person. Your choice of words "wealth transfer" is odd to me when talking about a tax cut.

I agree economics is not a zero sum game, and in some circumstances corporate tax cuts help the economy as a whole, but these are not those circumstances. If the cut was helping you'd see evidence in the form of raises and investments, instead they're giving out dividends and buying back shares.

The minuscule amount of economic activity generated is not sufficient to pay the cost, hence a wealth transfer.

nonsensical promises on healthcare and then pushed for a healthcare bill that broke all of them?

He did make a good faith effort and he did succeed in ending the forced mandate. He can't repeal healthcare without Congress.

A good faith effort to do what? Show me his good healthcare bill? Heck, show me any good GOP healthcare bill.

The Congressional bill sucked because their ideas suck, the only viable GOP healthcare plan was mandates, and Obama took those. Now all the other things that could improve healthcare are "liberal" ideas they won't touch.

But I don't think for a moment he really cares about helping his base.

I think he is an idiot that likes the country. I think he does care more so than the average politician. Just my opinion.

Evidence?

Here is a clip of the eye-roll. After the eye-roll, she disappeared. I just checked, and she's still missing.

lol. What are you talking about?

A) DACA wasn't mentioned in campaign. How was that a lie? Immigration law is being enforced. Illegal immigration is down. Travel bans in place. Promise kept from what I can tell.
B) What does Carrier have to do with anything during the campaign promises? He tried to keep them in the US and htey are leaving anyway... so he kept a promise to try and help. Ok? I think you misunderstand what promise being kept means.
C) Okay.
D) People paying less taxes is lying to them? Lowering corporate tax rates and regulation to expand business to hopefully create jobs in the US is lying to them? Again, you can disagree how that will work or the economics but that isn't a lie that is a promise being kept. The purpose was to create jobs.
E) Wow, you did it. You got one example. Congrats. An over the top slogan.
F) Hillary wasn't elected, Obama appointees are being replaced and fired. Seems like promise kept to me.

You have demonstrated that he has kept his promises more than he has lied about them. And he still has time to fulfill those promises! It seems like your problem is that you don't like it what he is doing. You didn't like his promises and you don't like them being kept.

I never said that Trump doesn't lie but you claimed: " Trump listened to them and told them what they wanted to hear. It doesn't matter that he was lying. ". Yet you have demonstrated that he has kept his promises to those constituents he listened to more often than not.

Why in the blue fuck would I support the democrats or Sanders? I don't like the DNC behavior or rhetoric. Sanders is an idiot who rants and raves about the 1% yet doesn't care that the 1% means $389,436 annual income. He doesn't care about lifting all boats. He cares about sinking a few large ones by creating one massive boat everyone has to deal with.

The companies don't belong to Trump

You're right, it's the other way around.

Cambridge Analytica is owned by SCL which is owned by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his harridan daughter/wife, Rebekah. They also own the Breitbart septic tank, as well as the manchurian candidate known as Donald J Trump, who is currently on loan to some Russian oligarchs and a terrorist named Putin who just murdered people in Britain with chemical weapons. One of the people he murdered was business partner of a Russian-born business partner of Donald Trump, a guy named Sater, who is a double-agent and convicted money launderer who tried to get Trump financing for a Moscow Trump Tower and is now an informant for the Mueller investigation.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/16...

This is all gonna make a great movie after Trump is done. It's like Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, except with vulgar, money-grubbing sleazebags, porn stars, Slovenian prostitutes and two large failsons who like to run around the world killing endangered animals and posting Pepe memes.

But stuff like this never happens, right?

https://www.statesman.com/news...

http://www.philly.com/philly/n...

https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/01...

Lazy Chinese not doing their own research.

China must stop forcing U.S. firms to share intellectual property

Command and control: China’s Communist Party extends reach into foreign companies

How China squeezes tech secrets from U.S. companies

And so on...

"Ygè shzi de xn zài t de zu l."

Seems like they've chosen to sanction people already identified and charged by Mueller, but not anyone close to Putin.

Correct, Mueller's 13 are among the 19 individuals sanctioned. Five organizations also were targeted in the sanctions.

But note that the administration is acting on an authority granted by Congress last summer, with a congressionally-mandated deadline to act by early February, a month and a half ago. Mueller's indictments occurred after that deadline passed.

And now Trump acts. To say he was reluctant is putting it mildly.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/15...

...I read an article about this exact same technology. What improvements have been made since then?

no shit they had adverts touting their effectiveness. Now, I'm the libbiest lib who ever libed. I waited 3 hours in line to vote for Bernie in my primary in a Red f'n state. But after this I'm starting to wonder if maybe Trump winning was, while legitimately awful, still better than Hilary. I mean, at least I might get a Democratic House & 2 years of grid lock. And these days that seems like all I can hope for.

I'll still be voting for Bernie in my primary in 2 years.

Of course they do! They constantly "play down/block" a lot of conservative posts, stories etc, but, PROMOTE liberal causes & stories. http://dailycaller.com/2016/05... https://gizmodo.com/former-fac... http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/0... https://www.npr.org/sections/t...

What should we tell Commiefornians to get them to go back?

Data disagrees with your assessment. For example, according to this poll http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2018/images/02/26/rel3c.-.russia.pdf approximately 58% of Americans don't think that the administration is taking Russian interference seriously enough. And a large fraction of Americans support the Mueller investigation to completion although curiously about 40% of Americans don't even know who he is https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/poll-most-americans-want-robert-mueller-to-complete-his-russia-probe. It is a mistake to think that because you and the people around you think something that that view must be universal.

And CNN, MSNBC, et al. haven't trained their viewers too, for the bigots and falsifiers on the opposite side of the spectrum?

Even when CNN leaks debate questions to a presidential candidate? https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Or Don Lemon says mostly anyone can go out and buy and automatic weapons? http://www.politifact.com/pund...
When three "investigative journalists" from CNN lie so badly they resign over a false story about Scaramucci? http://www.latimes.com/busines...
Or when it deliberately writes a misleading headline to make Trump look uninformed: "Trump asks Japan to build cars in the U.S. It already does" by using a partial quote that deflects the reality of his statement: http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/0...
Or when NBC doctors a 911 tape to make Zimmerman sound like he's explicitly following Martin just for being black when in truth he was asked by the operator to describe the person's race? https://www.theatlantic.com/en...
Confirmation bias is a two way street; it's amusing but not unexpected to see it at work on a person who, in an echo chamber of their own, believes it only exists on the other side.

Only after Trump came out in hard opposition to it. Originally she and her running mate Tim Kaine we all pro-TPP, as well as pro-NAFTA.

Pretty sure that CNN itself created the fake news monicker.

Do you have anything to back that up? I'm legitimately interested. Google lead me here, here, and here, but they tell it differently.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/...

Do you consider this factual and trustworthy? If you were a layman and saw this, what would you think after that segment?

Wow, praising CNN?

I remember when the report about Russian meddling first came out a month or two ago.

Both Fox and CBS (the only two others that I checked) included the fact that the Russians appeared to also support Bernie. CNN, for whatever reason, chose to omit this fact.

Then there was that time when CNN reported a Trump e-mail as being from September 4th instead of September 14th, which took the story from "Illegal" to "who cares." Yes, they had to correct it, but the damage was done.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/0...

Then, there was the time that CNN had to "insert" a word into one of Trump's quotes in order to make him seem racist. Yeah, that is the height of honesty.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballo...

But if you believe their bias, then you don't see it as a bias.

Other countries like Venezuela, and Australia removed guns from the plebes... and mysteriously the mass shootings stopped. Gee whiz.

Strange, it looks like the number of homicides rose steadily after the gun ban in Venezuela.

Oh look, Maduro is giving guns to his supporters

Here's an example of responsible government gun usage

And another

It's a good thing that they have a ban in Venezuela, it keeps candidates in elections from getting shot

The Gun ban is working so well with petty crime too.

What has Android copied from iOS?

R U Sirius?!?

http://appleinsider.com/articl...

http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/1...

In a world where Apple thinks it can sue over rounded corners and "slide to unlock", then yes. They absolutely copied the design. In the real world, it's also a yes.

If you think that Apple copied the Prada in 3 months, then what do you think Samsung did?

https://gizmodo.com/261172/set...

vs.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/1...

Hard to argue with your reasoning. Uber has been caught numerous times being dishonest and shady, going so far as having 177 employees place 5,500 orders with Lyft and cancelling them so drivers waste their time driving to a pick-up for nothing http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/1...

I'm surprised Uber actually pays their drivers they're so corrupt.

it was a Republican program invented by the right wing "Heritage Foundation" (which is less a think tank and more a mouthpiece of the party meant to give it a veneer of psuedo-scientific legitimacy). The ACA was RomneyCare before it was Obamacare.

The scheme is to force everyone to buy private insurance in order to lower costs by increasing the pool. It doesn't work because once the profit motive is in play costs continue to rise. It _did_ slow the growth of costs, but it did nothing to remove the incentive for insurance companies to deny care or fix the problems of folks not paying their medical bills or skipping the doctor due to high copays and eventually using much, much more care for much worse conditions.

The ACA was the best bill we could get with a Congress full of Republicans and right wing ("Blue Dog") Democrats. The country needs to move left if we want to solve these problems. Funny thing is voters know that, which is why they elected Trump (who, if you just listened to his rhetoric and gave the jingoism a pass ran a left wing populist campaign). Sadly Trump, like the ACA, isn't really going to solve any problems; heck, so far he seems to be making things worse. We get the jingoism without the populism...

Admitting that Trump is a stopped clock which is right twice a day is a huge step forward. I mean, gargantuan. You mean Hitler is right twice a day?

Anne Frank's stepsister, in a January essay to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, accused Trump of "acting like another Hitler."

Christine Todd Whitman: Donald Trump Muslim comments like Hitler's But Trump's most recent comments have drawn comparisons to Hitler, including a front page Tuesday on the Philadelphia Daily News showing Trump with his hand raised looking like a Nazi salute and the headline "The New Furor."

5 Ways Donald Trump Perfectly Mirrors Hitler's Rise To Power

The theory of political leadership that Donald Trump shares with Adolf Hitler

'Insane bigot' Donald Trump 'is Hitler' - sex offender Louis CK

Yale history professor: Here's why it's useful to compare Trump's actions to Hitler's

After Trump asked people at his rallies to raise their hands to swear to vote for him, the press compared it to the "Heil Hitler" salute from Nazi Germany.

Admitting that Trump is a stopped clock which is right twice a day is a huge step forward. I mean, gargantuan. You mean Hitler is right twice a day?

Anne Frank's stepsister, in a January essay to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, accused Trump of "acting like another Hitler."

Christine Todd Whitman: Donald Trump Muslim comments like Hitler's But Trump's most recent comments have drawn comparisons to Hitler, including a front page Tuesday on the Philadelphia Daily News showing Trump with his hand raised looking like a Nazi salute and the headline "The New Furor."

5 Ways Donald Trump Perfectly Mirrors Hitler's Rise To Power

The theory of political leadership that Donald Trump shares with Adolf Hitler

'Insane bigot' Donald Trump 'is Hitler' - sex offender Louis CK

Yale history professor: Here's why it's useful to compare Trump's actions to Hitler's

After Trump asked people at his rallies to raise their hands to swear to vote for him, the press compared it to the "Heil Hitler" salute from Nazi Germany.

Admitting that Trump is a stopped clock which is right twice a day is a huge step forward. I mean, gargantuan. You mean Hitler is right twice a day?

Anne Frank's stepsister, in a January essay to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, accused Trump of "acting like another Hitler."

Christine Todd Whitman: Donald Trump Muslim comments like Hitler's But Trump's most recent comments have drawn comparisons to Hitler, including a front page Tuesday on the Philadelphia Daily News showing Trump with his hand raised looking like a Nazi salute and the headline "The New Furor."

5 Ways Donald Trump Perfectly Mirrors Hitler's Rise To Power

The theory of political leadership that Donald Trump shares with Adolf Hitler

'Insane bigot' Donald Trump 'is Hitler' - sex offender Louis CK

Yale history professor: Here's why it's useful to compare Trump's actions to Hitler's

After Trump asked people at his rallies to raise their hands to swear to vote for him, the press compared it to the "Heil Hitler" salute from Nazi Germany.

The DOJ and FBI refused to comply with the House Oversignt comittee, even ignoring lawful subpoenas (this is getting into scary territory for a Constitutional Republic when unelected bureaucrats who despise their elected leaders refuse to obey them).

Yes, the FBI, that famously Democratic institution (pop quiz: identify the last Democratic director of the FBI). Getting their warrant signed off by four judges - two appointed by George W. Bush, one by George H.W. Bush, and one by Reagan, in that bastion of liberalness, the FISA courts.

The FBI states that it has met all of the subpoenas issued to it (even other House Republicans refused to sign onto Nunes's threatening subpoena letter). “We disagree with the chairman’s characterization and will continue to work with congressional committees to provide the information they request consistent with our national security responsibilities.” The FBI has given the committee hundreds of pages of requested documents and cleared McCabe and Strzok to testify.

It's just like the bogus ethics charges they filed against him that got him off the case for months until the ethics comittee had to admit there was nothing and Nunes could go back to work on this case

Yeah, it's totally ethical for a Trump transition team member to investigate the Trump administration for events that occurred before, during and after the transition. Totally. Nunes totally deserves an ethics prize.

I urge everybody to do what literate and responsible citizens should do:
1. Read the Nunes memo... 2. Read the Schiff memo ... read the Nunes response

Wow - we're in total agreement! Except it amazes me how a person with more than two brain cells could reach the conclusions you have after doing so. Literally every key complaint made in the original Nunes memo was false or highly misleading. "FISA application was fundamentally built on the dossier" becomes "started months before the dossier was even received, and it only made up a minor portion of the FISA application, and with multiple unrelated corroborating sources". "News article based on information from Steele was used to back up the Steele dossier" becomes "Multiple news articles cited only in the context of quoting Carter Page's response to claims about him". "Courts were not informed about Steele's funding and termination" becomes "FBI was proactive in keeping the court up to date with all information related to Steele, including funding and termination". And on and on and on.

And here we have the Nunes response memo literally confirming the rebuttals. We've gone from "The FISA court wasn't informed!" to "The font size was too small when they wrote ''The FBI speculates that the identified U.S. Person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit Candidate #1's campaign"! Sneaky, sneaky FBI and their sneaky, sneaky font sizes! Heck, the Nunes response memo to the Democratic memo starts out by confirming that the investigation started in July 2016 (and offers no rebuttal to the claim that the Steele dossier wasn't received until September), arguing that the investigation was "then fueled" by the dossier. Apparently "then" is a two month gap against the self-described "adviser to the Kremlin". My favourite part of the reponse-response is #3:

However, four times DOJ repeated to the FISA Court (FISC) an incorrect assessment that Steele had not been a source for an earlier, September 2016 Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff. In May 2017, before the final renewal application, Steele admitted in a publicly-available U.K. court filing to personally briefing numerous U.S. media outlets, including Yahoo News, in September 2016

Damn the FBI for not using their FBI Time Machine to go

that's the only thing left. It's got a high barrier to entry and a strong Union (the AMA)

The Medical profession has been under siege for decades now and the war has only intensified in the years since the financial bust of 2008 and the (Un) Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare). Now a consortium of companies including Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Warren Buffert of Berkshire Hathaway and Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase have joined forces to attack the problem of high cost health care in the United States. If the position of the AMA and others trying to preserve high entry barriers and high doctor salaries wasn't in danger before, it sure as heck is now. This is the equivalent of reinforcements with heavy artillery arriving at the siege on the side of the attackers. The days of high paid doctors are numbered in the United States. The independent medical practice, as idealized by Normal Rockwell in his paintings, is in decline all across America. Soon, the practice of medicine will be limited to urgent care clinics, hospitals and outpatient surgery operations all owned by massive health care corporations where the doctors are simply employees working for meager wages like everyone else and if the doctors won't play ball they'll bring in foreigners, just like they did to the tech workers with H1-B visas. American corporations are ruthless cost cutters and they now have health care clearly in their sites and are targeting it aggressively.

It wasn't just one officer

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/0...

The resentment among Coral Springs officials toward Broward County officials about what they perceived to be a dereliction of duty may have reached a boiling point at a vigil the night of February 15, where, in front of dozens of others, Coral Springs City Manager Mike Goodrum confronted Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel. A source familiar with the conversation tells CNN that Goodrum was upset that the Broward deputies had remained outside the school while kids inside could have been bleeding out, among other reasons.

So your position is "You don't need guns, the police will protect you. Oh wait, the police didn't protect you? What makes you think teachers would protect their kids?"

Surely you can why some people are going to say "If the cops won't protect our kids, why can't we do it?"?

It's entirely reasonable it doesn't defend the 2nd given the modern interpretation of that amendment isn't how it's traditionally been interpreted up until the mid-seventies.

Wait. What? You're saying the actually text of the law didn't change but the left have 'reinterpreted' it to mean the exact opposite of what it used to mean since the mid-seventies.

Gee. I wonder why American conservatives are so keen to get originalist judges on the SCOTUS and not ones appointed by the left who'll reinterpret the first and second amendments to be 'You're allowed to speak but not hate speech. And hate speech is anything a conservative says' and 'You're allowed to have a gun if you join the army. Otherwise you're not and we're sending the ATF round to kick your door down'.

Once the left sets the precedent that the actual text of the law doesn't matter, only the interpretation, and that the left will appoint judges who'll interpret it in the way which most benefits the left and shafts the right, it's really game over for the notion that the US is a representative republic. What you've got is mob rule where the mob gets to decide what rights you've got. And the left's media sock puppets will mobilise the mob against anyone who sticks up for rights they disagree with.

Look at that disgraceful display on CNN where an hand picked audience of leftists hooted and booed Rubio and asked him questions like this

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/0...

KASKY: I'm sorry, I know I'm not supposed to do this, but I'm not going to listen to that. Senator Rubio, it's hard to look at you and not look down a barrel of an AR-15 and not look at Nicholas Cruz, but the point is you're here and there some people who are not.
And I need to ask two things of you. Number one, Chris Grady, can you stand up? This is my friend who is going to the military. I need you to tell him that he's going to live to make it to serve our country. And then we'll get to the other one.

Honestly looking at this I'd say the left need to be stopped. At all costs. The logic of what they're doing where laws mean exactly what they want them to mean regardless of what the actual words say and where it's all up to a mob handpicked to be 100% left is far more horrifying than some nutcase shooting a couple of dozen people.

And if that seems heartless consider Jefferson's attitude to violence

http://tjrs.monticello.org/let...

the people can not be all, & always, well informed. the part which is wrong [. . .] will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. if they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. we have had 13. states independant 11. years. there has been one rebellion. that comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. what country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. what signify a few lives lost in a century or two? the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it's natural manure.

And it's interesting how the left doesn't mobilise emotion when it's a crime that doesn't fit their agenda. E.g. illegal immigrants killing natives, Muslims shooting up a gay bar or committing a terror attack. It's not like they have a town hall in those cases where an angry crowd berates a Democrat Senator over immigration law.

Maybe the right *should* be doing that if the left are going to do it to push for their agenda.

Is not government awesome? Consider:

• VA hospitals
• public transit
• public schools
• Border control...

Just recall the above (incomplete) list next time someone suggests, yet another industry/market would be better served by the caring and omniscient government employees, than by the greedy KKKorporations.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/04/05...

Many studies show enough sunlight exposure during youth years prevents nearsightedness.

Actually, yes you are, at least among the developed, rich countries, i.e. countries most comparable to the US.

The fact that there are more gun deaths in countries which have been in a state of never-ending civil war for decades (e.g. Afghanistan, Congo) and those rife with extreme poverty and violent drug cartels (e.g. many countries in Latin America) is not really relevant here. When it comes to mass shooters however, the US tops the world-wide list...

No need for a deep dive here, anyone who knows anything that has been happening in Venezuela for the past decade or so would know this petro thing is just another scam bullshit.

If people are not aware of this, the Maduro proto-dictatorship already "nationalized" (read stolen) a whole bunch of stuff:
Petroleum companies that had a whole ton of American investment:
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/0...
https://venezuelanalysis.com/n...
Toys from private business:
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/1...
General Motors factory:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

It's just a continuation of Chavez sociodictatorship running the entire country to the ground. Brazil, with some stupid socialist politicians, also lent money for some business there which was promptly stolen and their government already announced they are giving nothing back.
The only hope I have left is that all the people behind those decisions end up in jail, because most of them are likely to receive a corruption sentence in the wave of revelations that have been happening for a good part of the past half decade or so.
And unfortunately, venezuelans are likely to keep receiving the short end of the stick until they can get rid of their so called socialist president who's actually a dictator and his entire ilk, party and everything else.
Because they will keep abusing their power... 'till half the population is dead from famine, mark my words. It's the populist plague that infected a whole bunch of south american countries, including mine. Huge swaths of the respective populations were all swayed into their discourse, with some bullshit talk about humble origins and fighting against the mid to upper class, and we're all now in deep deep shit with huge corruption schemes, and organized crime running the countries. It'll be an entire lost decade or more for several south american countries.

I suspect you were so focused on your too-clever jab (pro tip: Milwaukee local channel Fox6 != Fox News) that you skimmed over the very first line of your article:

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.

Had you read on a bit more, you would have observed that the rankings in your article were based on 2015 statistics. Chicago's murder rate went up 65% in 2016, representing 22% of the country-wide increase in murders. That spiked it into the top 10 with bedfellows like New Orleans and Detroit.

Oil was not the sole reason, but a largest contributer. To say otherwise is to turn a blind eye on motivations behind military-industrial complex.

https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/19...
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

By your logic since Iraq was next door to Iran for invading Iraq, we should invade Kazakhstan(or any neighboring state) and China to engage future warfare with Russia and North Korea, respectively? Why not invade Iran directly instead of surrounding it? Also, since Pakistan is also a border state, what's your excuse for leaving that one behind? You know, the one that provided harbor for Bin Laden?

And guess who's the biggest sponsor of terrorism now - Saudi Arabia - but we are allies with them?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
https://www.newsbud.com/2017/0...
https://www.salon.com/2016/01/...
http://www.newsweek.com/why-sa...

You see, we see it as what it is. A complete bullshit by neocons running the White House.

failed to disclose that not only was it paid for by a campaign

Oh, fucking keep up. This was debunked two weeks ago.Yes it was disclosed. Everyone has been telling you the Nunes memo cherry picked the facts. Of course, Trump has refused to let the full facts out so far.

Japan got a head start but only made small progress in cultural change -- now they have some innovation but mostly they became the global leader in refinement, and fortunately they have a strong sense of business ethics such that success is not immediately stolen. Their ethics now mean they can't compete on production, so they're forced to compete on quality, which is why Japanese products are the best in the world for just about any product imaginable (not just for electronics, but for produce, furniture, etc.)

LOL, what an idiot, Japanese are cheaters.

The Kobe Steel scandal: What we know so far

It's the latest big scandal to rock corporate Japan.

Kobe Steel (KBSTY), a century-old industrial giant, has admitted to falsifying data on products sold to top customers like Boeing (BA) and Toyota (TM).

It says as many as 500 companies could be affected, including manufacturers of Japan's famous bullet trains.

Here's the lowdown on the crisis that's rippling through major industries around the globe:

What happened?

Essentially, Kobe employees faked reports to make it look as though products met the specifications requested by customers when in fact they didn't.

The scandal initially concerned copper and aluminum parts, but has spread to steel products, too. It has raised doubts about thousands of tons of material shipped over a period of more than 10 years.

For the aluminum and copper parts, false data was given about their strength and durability.

Related: New corporate scandal shakes Japan Inc

Which industries?

Kobe steel sells metal to all kinds of different businesses. Some of the main industries to which it has supplied the suspect products include aviation, automobiles, railways and nuclear power.