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Are you calling CNN Liars then?

http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/1...

Or USA Today that mentions Charter a year later.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Interesting lists of acquisitions and mergers in that second one.

You tell me oh wise one, learn me the truth, preach to me the error of my ways and set my foot right apon the digital path.

The correct way to provide constructive criticism:

Make a statement to the contrary, provide supporting evidence. eg:

You are incorrect as to who bought whom. Comcast bought Time-Warner

In 2014:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/1...

In 2015:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

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

Name calling is not constructive and suggests the name caller may be lacking in maturity, or blood sugar.

The cost to raise a child up to age 18 is $245k or 300k if it's adjusted for projected inflation. That's right at 15k a year.

So Trump attempting to ban minorities by seeking the highest office of the free world and riling up mobs until they start beating up said minorities = "He has a right to speak!"

What the fuck? He hasn't done any of that!

Donald Trump on Muslims: 'They're not coming to this country if I'm president
Donald Trump on protester: 'I'd like to punch him in the face'
Trump supporter charged after sucker-punching protester at North Carolina rally

What the fuck? Ya' live in a cave!?

People do have a tendency to call people racist when they really mean they disagree about race relate political issues. But that isn't what is going on here. Trump's words far exceed any sort of attempt to enforce current immigration laws. For example, his claims that Mexico was deliberately sending its criminals to the US http://www.laweekly.com/news/heres-a-fact-check-of-donald-trumps-mexico-bashing-5754639 which was demonstrably false. He plans on making a wall between Mexico and the US and making Mexico pay for it, despite the fact that the number of illegal immigrants has in the last few years been stable or declined http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/19/5-facts-about-illegal-immigration-in-the-u-s/. He's claimed that a judge in a legal case was biased against him purely under the basis that the judge was Hispanic http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-02-27/trump-university-argues-ex-student-can-t-bow-out-as-trial-nears. And then there was the bit where he refused to disavow the KKK and then lied about it, claiming it was due to mishearing the question when his response indicates he understood exactly what was being asked http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/28/politics/donald-trump-white-supremacists/

And this is before we get to the fact that many of his other policy ideas about immigration have nothing to do with enforcing current rules (e.g. his ideas about banning all Muslims from entering the US).

I don't know if Trump is racist, but he's made a lot of comments that certainly move in that direction, and if he isn't racist he's making a concerted effort to appeal to racists and general xenophobic sentiments.

Here's one.

sexual assault of child, indecency with child

Here's another.

Christopher Hambrook — who claimed to be a transgender woman named Jessica — has attacked four vulnerable females between the ages of five and 53 in Montreal and Toronto over the past 12 years.

Hambrook, 37, pleaded guilty in February 2013 to two counts of sexual assault and one count of criminal harassment involving two women — a deaf and homeless Quebec woman and a Toronto survivor of domestic violence — while he was living at a Dundas St. W. shelter and the Fred Victor women’s shelter in January and February 2012.

Another

Maddison began hormone treatment while in prison, and was transferred to a women's prison (Mulawa Correctional Centre) in 1999. She underwent sex reassignment surgery while in prison in 2003. At Mulawa, it was alleged that Hall had sexual relations with several female prisoners, allegations that resulted in Hall being returned to a male prison after 3 months. Hall was charged with rape in relation to one incident, but the charge was dropped due to the victim having left the country upon being released from prison in fear of her safety.

Another

Richard Masbruch brutally raped and tortured a Fresno woman in 1991. Today, in a case that may be the first of its kind, he lives in a women’s prison.

Masbruch, who was reclassified by prison officials as a woman after he castrated himself, is the focus of an inmate complaint that says Masbruch is a danger to other prisoners at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. (Fresno Bee)

Another

A JURY has been told a woman alleged to have been raped by a transgender man was found with 49 separate injuries.

Nadine Williams, also known as Dean, 39, is on trial at Swansea Crown Court after denying one count of rape and two of assault by penetration.

I can keep going if you would like.

does anyone spend over 8 billion dollars on diversity training

You do if you're government subsidized and need to make your political masters happy:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/3...

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Don't forget, Panama Papers is just a subset of data that was released. Heavily edited. Conveniently, not a single US politician mentioned in the released data. Yet in all the newspapers it was reported that Putin was directly implicated

From wikipedia:

McClatchy Newspapers, the only participating US news organization, has found four Americans in the documents, all of whom were previously either accused or convicted of financial crimes such as fraud and tax evasion.[43] In 2008, Mossack Fonseca reportedly utilized a 90-year-old British man to conceal the offshore accounts of Marianna Olszewski, a well-known US businesswoman.[197]

In response to the lack of American individuals in the documents, the editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung said: "Just wait for what is coming next."

Also, it has been revealed that Mossack Fonseca created over 1000 US corporations in the last 15 years. And most accounts I have read have not directly implicated Putin, however quite a few people and entities closely associated with Putin (such as his eldest daughter's godfather-a professional cellist-who had assets of $100million in the leaked documents, or Rossiya Bank) are included in the documents.

Not in this day and age! It's all about how you self-identify. After all, you can be lily white but still identify as black and be the president of the local NAACP chapter on the basis of a bad perm and self-identify conflicts!

And neither Sanders, nor anyone in his immediate family are total hypocrites about out sourcing.

In the seven years of Obama, things aren't any better. The changes you posit are window dressing to the real issues underneath.

If you want a really good example, take a look at what major figures in both the (D) and (R) parties say about Snowden ... "he is a traitor"

http://www.theguardian.com/us-...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/27/...

The only person who REMOTELY understands is Rand Paul, who says Snowden needs Jail (alongside Clapper).

I am a libertarian, and while Snowden may have violated the law (and I don't care why), he exposed to the world that nothing has really changed. And still, nothing has really changed.

All you need to know is that there are secret courts issuing secret documents that nobody can talk about. Obama has done NOTHING to stop them

http://www.engadget.com/2016/0...

Go ahead, and make excuses why one party is "better" than the other. IMHO that is equivalent to saying one turd smells better that another.

Am I insane because I identify as a woman?

Ok, sorry, let me clarify this a bit. You are not "insane" — that's a loaded term anyway. But you do have a delusion:

a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary

(That "superior evidence", in this case, is your "biological sex".)

Either that, or, maybe, you have a lighter disorder of pseudologia fantastica.

I'm sorry, but I'm not buying into this subtle differences between "being" and "identifying as". For a man to "identify as" woman is just as (if not more!) delusional (or fraudulent) as for a White to identify as Black. Your "bilogical sex" makes you a man, by definition — which destines you to M-labeled bathrooms, whatever you are wearing.

it depends if you're talking about sex or gender

Nonsense. "Sex" and "gender" are interchangeable synonyms, the latter employed purely to avoid the erotic connotations of the former, when discussing things like grammar. Your attempts to differentiate between these terms may itself be symptomatic of the delusion.

Swaab and others have demonstrated sexual dimorphism in the brain

Any references to "scientific papers" can not, unfortunately, be given much credence — because of how sensitive a topic this is politically. For example, imagine that same "sexual dimorphism in the brain" argument used to justify the wage-disparity between sexes. Heck, you don't even need to imagine, just consider the fate of one L.H. Summers.

So, you are claiming, that some organs of your body disagree with others in identifying your sex (brain vs. genitalia)? Even if that were true, you are "fixing" the wrong organs... Which is, of course, your choice — just do not demand, the rest of society changes the language (and bathrooms) to accommodate it.

See one problem is the law says gender AT BIRTH. Which means it doesn't matter if you've had the surgery.

False.

North Carolina transgender law: Is it discriminatory?

Stam: "In North Carolina, you can have your birth certificate changed if you do reassignment surgery. It has been reported several places that we said it's your sex as designated at birth (that government agencies will use to define who can use bathrooms or changing facilities). And that is not correct. ... It's not what you are at birth. It's based on your birth certificate, which can be changed."

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If people obey this law, it's going to massively RAISE the number of people who don't look like they belong in the restroom they're in.

That would only be true if there were "massive" numbers of "trans" people, which there isn't. Even homosexual only comprise about 1.5% of the population and they are more common.

for those who think this isnt an egregious concern for the state of North Carolina, they very much do have a lot to lose.

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

The Research Triangle Park (RTP) is one of the largest research parks in the world, but its been largely a pearl in an otherwise very salty oyster. Its home to Cisco, Redhat, Microsoft, and NetApp among others. Governors and statesmen are wrecklessly gambling with this research park in the hopes that pandering to ten million North Carolinians with rhetoric from the culture war is a sustainable or responsible approach to governing their state.

It probably won't amount to much despite your hopes.

North Carolina transgender law: Is it discriminatory?

Stam: "When we passed our marriage amendment four and a half years ago, we had the same attention. (People said) businesses would flee, people wouldn't live here. Since then, we've gone from the back of the pack in the nation, now we're the second fastest economy in job growth. We're ranked right at the top in site selection, so it will have about as much effect as it did four and a half years ago. I feel somewhat sorry for these big company CEOs, because they get bullied by people, maybe in New York, who come to their stockholder meetings. But it has nothing to do with what happens on the ground in North Carolina."

Consumers prefer female voices. Crying wolf on sexism and racism does nothing to help society address the real inequalities these protected classes face. Jeez... it's almost like these SJW-types are running a false flag operation to tarnish the advances that the last century of feminism brought to society.

The word "obsession" is an especially bothersome bit of hyperlobe. If these companies were truly obsessed with female servants, Siri/Cortana/etc would display OS-tan-style maid animations with easter egg prompts that convince them to go ecchi, complete with deferential titles for their user (master, mistress, -sensai, -sama, etc.). That's what obsession would like... not just a few cherry-picked search results.

And more effective in getting humans to follow instructions?
While also more effective in establishing an emotional connection with the brand?
Haven't we figured that out already? Like... years ago?

When even CNN can figure out why this is, you are clearly spending time on a non-story. What a fucking clickbait wankfest. Can we get some fucking tech news?

I forget where I read it (possibly here) that many groups have stayed away from using male voices because of figures like HAL have made us instantly suspicious of male computer voices.

A quick google search: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10...

So yeah, there's many plausible reason why these voices are female, however 5 years later when we ask the same question, it's now become a gender discrimination debate.

From 2011 http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/21/...

You Obamabots and Hill people are very deceptive.

Meanwhile, you're conveniently overlooking former Bush appointees Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice for also having retroactively classified emails on personal devices. Why?

The emails were discovered during a State Department review of the email practices of the past five secretaries of state. It found that Powell received two emails that were classified and that the "immediate staff" working for Rice received 10 emails that were classified.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/04/politics/hillary-clinton-email-classified-colin-powell-condoleezza-rice/

They seem to be a bit slow, but its on CNN now:

Here

Well they're using iphones, so there goes that theory.

Maybe, Apple did a special run in an American facility just for the White House (and, maybe, some other agencies)? Or, maybe, NSA did it for them — as they've once made a special Blackberry...

. . . . as there are plenty of examples of classified, air-gapped systems leaking data to unclassified systems.

Like when Hillary Clinton told her staff to remove the classified label from a document and send it to her by an insecure system?

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

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/08/...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

The man who once ran Putin's campaign to take over all independent media in Russia was found bludgeoned to death in a Washington, D.C. hotel room. He would have been privy to all kinds of insider information, including money Putin has stolen from the Russian people. Take note of the NY Times article where, before an investigation had even begun, the Russia state media was already lying about what happened to Lesin: he had a heart attack.

But this wasn't the first Russian who had inside knowledge of Putin's thefts, and who met a similar fate. Considering the billions Putin has squirreled away overseas, it's understandable people such as Lesin would need to be liquidated, especially, if the reports are true, they are giving inside information to the U.S. or others.

This other article from the Guardian appears to be more in depth, detailing how Putin and his oligarchs have amassed personal fortunes worth anywhere from hundreds of millions of dollars to billions of dollars, all stolen via the endemic corruption of Russian business. Bank Rossiya is essentially Putin's personal bank from which he doles out billions to those who please him. To those who fall out of favor, they have to watch their backs or face the same fate as Lesin.

I'm sure there will be denials about all the facts, but since there is no word for truth in Russian, it's understandable. After all, how can a report about someone's death being from a heart attack come out when the investigation hadn't even begun if you don't want the truth to be known?

I think most epidemiologists would agree that prevention is at least as important as finding a "cure", if not more-so.

One of the best tools we have is education. The more people understand the causes and potential risk factors of infection, the more they can be mitigated. Even fairly simple ideas, when in widespread use, can have a profound impact (e.g. washing your hands to prevent the spread of influenza). A broader understanding (and even sympathy) by people in general can go a long way to fighting an epidemic.

We can agree that the primary method of spreading extremism is prolonged exposure (however the exposure is not geographically limited). We can agree that the vast majority would be immune, even within the susceptible group, regardless of the length of exposure. And we can agree that there are hot spots.

But there are more questions to be answered. Why do "hot spots" form where they do? Why are some people immune? Can others be inoculated or develop immunity as well?

A disease cannot survive or spread easily in an inhospitable setting. Generalizing or even demonizing an entire group of people who are more vulnerable to infection creates an environment where this particular virus can thrive. If you create stigma around the disease and those vulnerable to it, it risks isolating them from support mechanisms that may help them avoid infection. It may also prevent others close to the infected person from seeking help, if they are fearful of the government, law-enforcement, or community response.

Immunity is probably a combination of a few things: education, exposure to other cultures, socioeconomic factors, etc. Simply "quarantining" the immune with the infected is probably not the best idea. While most plagues burn through the population killing everyone except the immune, this particular virus tends to do the opposite. Rather, the best approach would be to work with the immune to determine what makes them resistant, and develop inoculations and treatments for those who are also vulnerable.

I like the disease analogy. However, he doesn't take it far enough, and his solution ends up being too simplistic. Ultimately, his "common-sense reaction" is not really applicable to the real world situation we face.

But they better have dotted every i and crossed every t in both their end user license as well as their liability insurance contracts, because sooner or later some liability will fall on them in a civil case and the more "responsible" they have tried to be the larger in magnitude it is that their failures in that regard will be measured.

GM actually killed people and it's gonna come out of the shareholder's hide. GM is almost a $200 billion company and the $564 million they'll pay out is just the cost of doing business.

Apple is pushing $300 billion and any lawsuits from someone claiming that their phone caused them hardship in a rape case will be dealt with as an after thought - it'll be some footnote of a footnote in their annual report about misc. legal expenses.

If I were on that jury, that individual would be considered to have other mental health issues if they rely on a phone app for help in an alleged rape. Meaning, I would think they were just bullshitting because they were a head case and looking for attention or a quick buck.

If you were raped you call the fucking cops - not ask your phone what to do.

Are people that retarded?!

Rich? No, but still in the top 1% of the country.

$75K/year doesn't put you anywhere near the top 1% in the US. It doesn't even put you in the top 35%. It's a decent amount of money if you live in a place with vaguely reasonable cost of living but it doesn't get you even close to the jet set. To be in the top 1% you need to have an income somewhere near $400K/year.

It's willful, deliberate incompetence to implement a program

It's almost like there are no performance metrics or expectations to meet!
Like no one cares if the program is implemented well.

Undercover teams smuggled banned items in 67 out of 70 cases during an internal test. It is a unique operation indeed. Where else is less-than-5% success rate is a perfectly acceptable performance?

They closes thing they get to a subsidy is what the government buys from them for their own use, for the reserve, and what they give out to poor people to heat.

Last I heard (2013), oil companies were getting on the order of $5.1 billion in subsidies for exploration. https://newrepublic.com/articl...

Categorization of oil under the tax code as a form of domestic manufacturing eligible for a 6% deduction of net income, claiming foreign royalty payments as a credit against American taxes, and deducting numerous costs associated with the drilling process is absolutely an insane handout that other energy suppliers are excluded from. http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/29/...

By comparison, research and development for solar energy was given only $302 million; and wind energy just $123 million. http://www.reuters.com/article...

Part of the problem is the bull-headed shitty tactics by government officials in the first place. We shouldn't have to fear being locked up in jail over taking a movie back late and forgetting to pay the $5 late fee. We'd be a lot less ready to give into the scams if there was less of this shit in the first place.

This actually happened, and just last week, in NC. The really surprising part of the story is that after fourteen years a video place is still in business to press charges:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/25/...

All joking aside, I have to respond to this:

There's no particular evidence that she's a "corrupt, serially lying manipulator" other than the intensive media campaign saying so being put forth by the Republican machine.

You mean the Republican machine running the FBI that is investigating actual classified information found in the emails?

The FBI has at no time concluded that Hillary is a "corrupt, serially lying manipulator". So far, what they seem to have concluded is the she used a private e-mail server, a practice also done by previous secretaries of state (including ones working for Bush), a practice that was not illegal at the time; and that some e-mails on that server were later reclassified as classified information. but was, as it turns out, probably safer on her server than it was on the government's server (which was hacked into in the "biggest government hack ever".)

It is hard to screw up worse than that in the government, and if I did half the shit that is coming out, I would already have been through the court system and locked up for life, but I am not as connected as her.

Since there's no allegation that she actually released classified information to anybody who was not authorized to access it, at worst, she is accused of having had classified information stored in an unsecure location (although that's only an accusation so far; there was no evidence that her server wasn't secure.). The usual punishment for that is that the person who did it has to attend mandatory training.

. . . .and when the FBI started to develop its' own case manager, the "Virtual Case File", which was one of the more spectacular failures in Government IT Development.

When the post-mortem finally comes in, I'd be more than willing to bet that it was due to (1) lack of formalized baseline requirements to hang an initial design on, and the real program-killer, (2) constant requirements creep. Because contractors are unwilling to tell a Federal Customer "no" (because it usually results in decreases in funding in the next task order, or re-allocation of slots to another contractor. . .), there's a constant "just add this one little thing". Over and over again, until you have an unworkable mess and a design that looks nothing like the initial requirement.

The same kind of pressures destroyed the Navy A-12 "Avenger" attack jet in 1991: constant scope creep, until the aircraft was too heavy to fly off an aircraft carrier. The resulting legal fight lasted 13 years. . .

Then they aren't handling their customer properly. I used to do contracting with the Department of Defense. I also helped with business development (including some pretty huge dollar value contracts) by writing technical approaches to these RFPs. When we got these contracts I was the lead engineer and often handled some of the project management aspects as they related to the engineering efforts. I went to every meeting with the customer, from cradle to grave. And you're right, I never did tell the customer 'No - I can't do that.' Because the customer doesn't want to think you cannot do something, even if the reason you're declining the task is merely to prevent feature creep and schedule slip. Instead, you have to convince the customer that while what they want is technically feasible, it is not in their best interests to pursue whatever feature they're asking for. Once you get the customer on the boat with you, make it feel like it was their decision not to implement the feature, they will love you. They will do everything they can to make sure you get every single follow on contract possible. Sometimes they'll even subtly alter their future requirements in order to make it easier for your company to win a contract from GSA or whatever agency is handling procurement.

. . . .and when the FBI started to develop its' own case manager, the "Virtual Case File", which was one of the more spectacular failures in Government IT Development.

When the post-mortem finally comes in, I'd be more than willing to bet that it was due to (1) lack of formalized baseline requirements to hang an initial design on, and the real program-killer, (2) constant requirements creep. Because contractors are unwilling to tell a Federal Customer "no" (because it usually results in decreases in funding in the next task order, or re-allocation of slots to another contractor. . .), there's a constant "just add this one little thing". Over and over again, until you have an unworkable mess and a design that looks nothing like the initial requirement.

The same kind of pressures destroyed the Navy A-12 "Avenger" attack jet in 1991: constant scope creep, until the aircraft was too heavy to fly off an aircraft carrier. The resulting legal fight lasted 13 years. . .

So next will the FBI be investigating the Kansas workplace shooter's phone? Or does the FBI only give 2 shits about workplace shootings when it involves teh Muzlimz.

Ordinary (Christian) Americans shooting up their workplace? Why that's just plain patriotism and 2nd amendment celebrations!

"Today the National Security Agency is well known, and spends a lot of time leaning on software, switch and router vendors, pushing them to re-tool their products. The agency's goal: to ensure that the government has access to encrypted data.

The industry is facing a year-end deadline to add a government-approved back door into network gear. Vendors that don't provide this access risk losing export privileges.

--Hot line to the NSA--

It's gotten to the point where no vendor hip to the NSA's power will even start building products without checking in with Fort Meade first. This includes even that supposed ruler of the software universe, Microsoft Corp. "It's inevitable that you design products with specific [encryption] algorithms and key lengths in mind," said Ira Rubenstein, Microsoft attorney and a top lieutenant to Bill Gates. By his own account, Rubenstein acts as a "filter" between the NSA and Microsoft's design teams in Redmond, Wash. "Any time that you're developing a new product, you will be working closely with the NSA," he noted "

July 27, 1998 - cnn.com

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/comput...

I don't see anyone claiming Hillary is literally going to be Hitler.

No, they just call Hillary a "founding member of ISIS":

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/24/...

And that, my friend, is someone who ran for the Republican nomination for president not very long ago.

I mean, no-one has ever faked ID. Or paid a kid $20 to go buy a couple of phones.

That still gets you to the Point of Sale. Time and date of purchase. It may get you video of the buyer, copies of the fake ID, and so on. Do you still want to be the kid who fronts for the buyer of a burner phone? I can't say I like the odds.

Finding a kid to buy a phone for $20 probably won't be hard. Given the fact that teenage girls have been brainwashed into joining ISIS (although these 3 were apprehended in Germany on their way to Syria), simply convincing one of these teenagers to buy a burner phone and do a dead-drop delivery to a terrorist would probably be *child's play* and they would probably do it for free...

Precisely. I remember a couple of years ago Starz demanded extortionate fees during contract renewal negotiations and Netflix declined (citation). A huge swathe of A-list movies and TV shows disappeared from streaming as a result. It's clear that the content providers want to provide exclusive access to their catalogues solely through their own fragmented, stove-piped streaming services.

Because only idiots respond to "Black Lives Matter" with "All Lives Matter". Black Lives Matter is short for 'Black Lives Matter, too", not "Only Black Lives Matter". Only a moron or a Republican apologist would totally ignore context to interpret it that wan.

You mean like or M. O'Malley?

Just in the last month.

As unsophisticated people who have dealt with him in the past have concluded, with Trump, you need to read the fine print.

Having Donald J Trump, his wife and business executives raving that great things will happen if you throw in your lot with him; sorry, that isn't the fine print. You're gonna go down.

Maybe there's more going on behind the scenes than is immediately disclosed to the public. You know, like how negotiations normally work...

Deputy National Security adviser Ben Rhodes also told reporters that in the course of the talks leading to normalization a list of 53 prisoners were given to the Cuban government. The 53 prisoners on the list were all released around the announcement, according to Rhodes.

From http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/21/politics/raul-castro-political-prisoners/index.html

I suppose if you reduce the entire US Economy to a Keg Party, you might be right. Alas, it's not.

But staying with the analogy, some would suggest you stop spending the money collected for beer on stupid party hats and actually spend it on fucking beer. Others would suggest that you pay for the beer you drink. Yet others would say there's enough beer and that BTW, stop buying that premium shit.

The bottom line is that these people want the government to spend even more money than the $3 trillion it collects in taxes and the $1 trillion it borrows because that fall in line with their political agenda.

People end up paying for both?

Not seeing mobile data doing that until coverage is perfect and the price plummets - at least for Canada. Considering how long people were/are still on dialup past people saying 'everyone has broadband'?

There is currently no such thing as a 'self driving car', and there won't be for decades to come, and even if there is sooner than that, it'll still require, by law, a qualified driver behind the wheel at all times.

There's already a self-driving tractor-trailer in Nevada.

Anybody who tried to argue that it wasn't Snowden was being willfully obtuse. Even CNN pretty much said it was Snowden.

Hillary can beat Drumpf without working too hard. [...]

It may not even come to that.

A couple of years ago, Hillary fainted, fell and got a concussion.

It took her over 6 months of recovery, and...

Gave her vertigo and double vision.

Then there was the unnaturally long bathroom break, and the fact that she's always tired and speaks with a hoarse and slightly-raspy voice.

People are starting to wonder whether she will last until the election.

This is a sympathetic article designed to sow confusion about this stuff. The article made the true but irrelevant statement that of a recent batch of emails not many were classified and those not Top Secret; it repeated Hillary Clinton's assertion that nothing she sent or received was marked classified, without discussing what is questionable about that assertion; it didn't mention how many Top Secret emails were found, didn't mention the satellite data or the discussion of the names of spies, and didn't mention that about 7% of all the emails were classified at some level. It also didn't mention that the State Department offered a Blackberry and Huma Abedin said that idea "doesn't make a whole lot of sense." But the article did spend several paragraphs talking about how well she is doing in the primaries.

Problems with Hillary Clinton's claims that no material was marked classified:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/8/28/1416309/-Hillary-Clinton-s-Felony-The-federal-laws-violated-by-the-private-server
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/02/09/judicial-watch-hillary-e-mailed-classified-info-to-get-printout-without-any-identifiers/
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/19/politics/hillary-clinton-emails-server-classified-ig-report/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-on-her-private-server-wrote-104-emails-the-government-says-are-classified/2016/03/05/11e2ee06-dbd6-11e5-81ae-7491b9b9e7df_story.html

Names of spies discussed in insecure email, lives probably lost:
http://observer.com/2016/02/breaking-hillary-clinton-put-spies-lives-at-risk/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3413033/Hillary-s-emails-contained-classified-information-HUMAN-SPYING-State-Department-says-won-t-meet-deadline-publish-emails.html

Satellite data discussed in emails:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3196774/Hillary-s-emails-contained-secret-CIA-intelligence-satellite-info-panic-hits-Democrats-campaign-issues-4-000-word-explanation-s-innocent.html

7% of emails classified... 2079 out of about 30,000:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/02/new-email-release-brings-final-total-of-classified-clinton-emails-to-2079.php

"doesn't make a whole lot of sense":
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/01/18/state-to-huma-in-2011-your-boss-better-get-an-official-e-mail-account/

P.S. So Hillary Clinton wanted a mobile device that could be used for secure communications, and was told "nope, that's not secure, you can visit the SCIF just like everyone else has to do." So naturally she just used her own insecure server to send and receive classified information, so she could use her mobile device. Great.

If President Obama doesn't pardon Hillary Clinton, she will have problems fr

Theater Missile Defense

http://www.britannica.com/topi...

Your thing of the day.

Remember THAAD is your friend

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/04/...

If you would like bonus points, remember all the people who were taking a crap on president Reagan because they said this was pointless.

Why does it take until 2022? By then we will have self-driving cars. The Chevy Volt needed a software upgrade and had to be returned to the dealership with all the associated hassles. http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/1... Tesla has been upgrading their software OTA for more than a year. You go to bed and in the morning you have a car that works better and is more capable (for example, adding autopilot). I'll take that any day of the week.