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There are lots of terrorist attempts in Texas. For example, just in the past few months:

JW Confirms: 4 ISIS Terrorists Arrested in Texas in Last 36 Hours OCTOBER 08, 2014 -- http://www.judicialwatch.org/b...

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/18/... 19 JUNE 2014 2 in Texas arrested in terror-related cases

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/... MARCH 28, 2014 FBI Smashes Alleged Radical-Right Terror Plot in Texas

You would be hard pressed to walk into a busy Starbucks here without a dozen people carrying guns, the terrorists wouldn't have hostages, they'd have a fight on their hands, and frankly they are cowards anyway, so they won't do that here.

It seems that many of these terrorists are largely unconcerned with their own death or the suffering of others.

Gun ownership does not appear to be, and it would not make sense if it were, a deterrent to terrorist attacks.

Why, they are the religion of peace man!!
Just look here:
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12...

Actually, observant Jews would use a euphemism. They never use the word for G-d, but say, for example, "Hashem" (The Name), or "Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu" (The Holy One Blessed Be He).

Indeed. Actually, an observant Jew would know that the name of God is YHWH, transliterated in English as Yaweh. But they rarely if ever use that name, out of reverence for The Holy One. I'm not sure, but I suspect that arabic-speaking Christians use Allah so as not to upset the sensibilities of their muslim neighbors. However, even that seems to have backfired. Of course, using any other name for God would absolutely enrage muslims who would instantly raise holy hell about it. This leads the more cynical side of me to the suspicion that this is just another way for muslims to tell Christians that they should just get it over with and convert to Islam.

It actually has to do with keeping know-how in-house. Consider Airbus, then consider Boeing. One is all EU-based. The other outsources in Asia. Wanna take a bet on who goes bust first?

I bet Airbus goes out of business first.

but maybe worse/faster/whatever) once global climate hit a critical point, things can go wrong very fast, very global, and in a very irrevocable way

"Maybe", "could", and "expected" are the keywords here. A really bad thing might happen with a very low probability. Meanwhile, we are asked to make very certain sacrifices — surrender both money and rights to the State.

No wonder, Statists love it, and scratching a "global warming" alarmist always reveals a Che Guevara T-shirt underneath...

Going quite a bit off topic here, but I'll bite:

Build a border that can be enforced

I hope you're not talking about building a wall. A wall is one of those ideas that seems pleasant, simple, and realistic at a quick glance, but when you get into details it starts to break down. Even the Great Wall of China failed many times.

Rather than trying to go back to Isolationist policies, we should be looking at A) why they come here, and B) what steps we can take to diminish A. In the long run, removing their need/desire to come to America illegally will have far more benefit for everyone than simply trying to hide the problem behind a chain-link fence.

A isn't easy; a lot of people will claim "because America is the greatest country in the world!" Except we aren't turning back a tide of Canadians at our northern border, so far as I'm aware, meaning either America and Canada are roughly equivalent in greatness or there are other reasons that Mexicans are risking quite a bit to come to the U.S. While I'm no expert on Hispanic relations, it seems to me that what is happening is not so much Mexicans wanting to come to the US, but Mexicans wanting to leave Mexico and the US being the most natural choice. (I'm not aware of Guatemala offering a lot, and in fact Mexico is facing its own illegal immigrant problem with Guatemalans)

The main cause that I'm aware of is the Mexican Cartels, who mainly use drugs as their source of revenue. The surging movement in America to legalize weed is having a growing impact on that. They still have crack and heroine, of course, but these are far more destructive drugs that will result in fewer return users.

There are likely other other factors, such as poverty, especially in the border towns (driving along the highway by the border in El Paso, TX gives you an eerie comparison between Juarez and El Paso, especially when you consider that much of the El Paso side is still lower class.) Government corruption might be a factor.

For B, I already mentioned the legalizing of weed in America. If we can change the discussion of our "War on Drugs" from punishment to rehabilitation, we could lower the demand for drugs from Mexico (and other countries dealing with the same thing) even further.

For poverty, I don't have a good plan. But let's consider that fence again. It could cost $22.4 Billion to build (though the full cost is hard to figure out, apparently). A quick search tells me that the estimated population amongst the six Mexican border states was 12,246,99... in 1990. So that number's a bit old, we'll bump it up to 20M (another source says 24M by 2020, but that's for both sides of the border.) With about 27.9% being kids, that's about 14M adults, giving us $1600/Mexican adult (more, actually, as the "kids" only includes up to age 14). The average yearly income for Mexico is about $13K, so that's significant but not huge.

What if, instead of spending that money on the border, we use it to improve the cities on the Mexican side of the border? They would give at least a small economical boost, though short-term, and while improving those cities we could have US law enforcement work with Mexican law enforcement to further route the gang

No article about a sitting President of the US is published without the aim of either helping or hurting his image and objectives. If the article puts positive light on him, then it was meant to help him and it is therefor perfectly legitimate for his opponents (like myself) to harp at the failures.

It's akin to saying someone is very skilled and more creative at using toilet paper -- and then bemoan that they're a pretty poor plumber.

That may be a valid analogy, but you should've used it years ago (2008) — when the slickness of Obama's "use of social media" was lauded (and perceived!) as the indicator of his technological savvy — something for the GOP to "catch-up" on. OMG, he uses Blackberry!..

Some ideas; Do check this link http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/0... Contribute to open source projects when you don't have work https://guides.github.com/acti... Freelance through the elance or other coder for hire type sites https://www.elance.com/ Start your own IT support company/freelance/contract/game development, whatever your strongest skills are https://www.sba.gov/ Get your company registered as a state/federal contractor and bid http://www.procure.ohio.gov/pr... http://www.gsa.gov/portal/cate...

The similarity of goals make for strange bed-fellows. Russia and Saudi Arabia may have little else in common, but they are both major exporters of fossil fuels. Not having the same sort of spy-network as Russia, Saudis finance propaganda movies. Russia would do that too, of course — and take care of translating such movies for audiences in Russia and its Russian-speaking neighbors.

And when propaganda-campaigns fail to stop other countries from developing their own energy-sources, Russia will invade...

I think it is actually higher in Bay Area. http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/0...

Did some checking on CNNFN, Apple's Research dollars in 2011 was only 2 Billion.. They made 108 Billion in rev.... That's a lot less to research and dev than what was lead to be believed here.

http://money.cnn.com/quote/fin...

Look for yourself. Apple is not hurting, even with all the hits for the new buildings, losses in court, legal fees (which was estimated at 1 Billion for the Samsung case), they are still turning a HUGE profit...

I agree that People like to bash M$ while Praising Apply, but come on, Apple is not broke or poor.....

This is sexist in that it extends an invite for girls to code - for something pretty, something cute, something showy. Something typically associated with girls.

I agree. They should put them on a project that's less showy but more important. Perhaps they could reprogram the White House's security system. It's not like they could do a worse job than is already being done. And if they did? Oh, well.

It's nice you have an opinion about the NSA, but this story is about the German intelligence service (the BND) spying on people.

What do they do with the information? Things like this. Hopefully that doesn't trouble you too much.

Ford, Chrysler and GM's management obviously thought (and by most indications, still think) that they've got the US Government wrapped around their little finger. Why improve quality or reduce unneeded costs when you don't believe that lack of competitive offerings will ever truly be the end of you? Their testimony in Congress at the time of this article was ... impressive. http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/...

Nope. Common carriers can be held repsonsible for turning a blind eye to illegal traffic.

Been there, done that.

Dick Cheney in 1994

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think the U.S. or U.N. forces should have moved into Baghdad?

CHENEY: No.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why not?

CHENEY: Because if we had gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There wouldn't have been anybody else with us. It would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. None of the Arab forces that were willing to fight with us in Kuwait were willing to invade Iraq.

Once you got to Iraq and took it over and took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place? That's a very volatile part of the world.

And if you take down the central government in Iraq, you could easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off. Part of it the Syrians would like to have, the west. Part of eastern Iraq the Iranians would like to claim. Fought over for eight years.

In the north, you've got the Kurds. And if the Kurds spin loose and join with Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey. It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq.

The other thing is casualties. Everyone was impressed with the fact that we were able to do our job with as few casualties as we had, but for the 146 Americans killed in action and for the families it wasn't a cheap war. And the question for the president in terms of whether or not we went on to Baghdad and took additional casualties in an effort to get Saddam Hussein was, how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth? And our judgment was not very many, and I think we got it right.

Dick Cheney in 2007: "Look what's happened since then. We had 9/11."

Which raises the cost of college thus ending up in a wash for the most part.

How does reducing interest rates on debt increase college costs?

As for food safety: http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITI...

As for smoking I disagree with you. Testing I don't know what you mean about so far it doesn't look good, major improvement. Why wouldn't Obama get credit for gulf oil compensation? Etc... I don't think you are scoring fairly here. My point being yes they do stuff for the middle class.

Michael Brown's stepfather at rally: 'Burn this bitch down!'

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/25/...

Real classy people...

Transcripts and additional evidence: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/11/us/ferguson-grand-jury-docs/index.html

Wow, are you lazy. Well, lazy about everything except ad hominem - the comfort zone for people who don't like facts.

http://www.cnn.com/interactive...

What constitutes excessive force in your mind? Ignore the Grand Jury's decision for this question, because we have ample evidence demonstrating that the system does not always work toward justice. You can see how many charges law enforcement agents have had to face, even after they brutally beat a homeless person to death on the street. This is one of at least several similar events where no charges were filed.

It is that question that has many people bothered about this event.

Buried under the racism and claims of execution and murder is a valid concern, which is that law enforcement has undergone a fundamental change in the last few decades which does not benefit society. The slogan of "Protect and Serve the Public" today is invalid, officers are placed above all members of the public and the statement "Officer Safety" has become a mantra justifying any and all actions the officer takes.

The take away we should be discussing is the question I proposed initially. The psychological profiling of potential law enforcement officers is a concern, the militarization of police forces is a concern.

I'm not a pacifist. If an armed suspect is threatening the public, the police have the right to shoot to kill. It's when suspects are not armed that we need to draw a firm line on the amount of force required versus the amount of force used. Unloading a full clip into an unarmed suspect from a vehicle goes beyond necessary force, especially in this case where bullets kept flying after the suspect was 15feet from the vehicle (from the evidence released to the public).

Further reading can be found pretty much anywhere, from cases of officers shooting dogs in yards to tossing flash bangs into the wrong house during an unannounced raid to serve a warrant.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/381446/barney-fife-meets-delta-force-charles-c-w-cooke
http://www.sagepub.com/gabbido...
http://www.copwatch.org/databa...

Better link (not just volume 4)

http://www.cnn.com/interactive...

Especially batshit irrelevant, as the cop had no idea there was a reported robbery.

Wrong. Officer Wilson had asked the officers working the robbery if they needed help before he came into contact with the two individuals in the street....

It seems you are committed to a version of the events as put forth by pundits that were not in possession of facts...

Their first concern is to not get shot in the head.

That's a bit paranoid.

It isn't paranoia when it happens literally every single day.

3 days ago - Cop kills unarmed man - shot once in the chest
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/21/...

A quick Google search shows multiple hundreds of "accidental shootings" in situations where most can't physically be accidental and NO situation of risk was presented what so ever to the officer in question.
This isn't paranoia but cold hard dead fact.

Perhaps you can say it is incorrect to state a cop will likely shoot you in the head, since it seems they prefer to aim at the back while terrorized innocents run in a panic for their lives (and proven rightly so!)

But paranoia it is not, anymore than we are paranoid the sun will rise tomorrow morning.

Perhaps if cops were treated as equally innocent as the people they are murdering, the occupation would justly and rightly be the most dangerous in the world. But that isn't the case - no cop was ever prosecuted for murder after cold bloodily killing someone.

No one gives two shits about how dangerous of an occupation terrorism is, yet the terrorists have only murdered about a thousand people on US soil - the same number of people murdered by police in just three years - every year

He has a point. Every story about women in STEM is plagued with posts trying to disrupt any effort to improve things. Typical arguments include:
- There is no problem
- Girls just don't like computers
...

Is it possible that either of these are true, even in a general sense? There are gender disparities in several fields. The median salary for nurses is $65,470, whereas the median salary for IT Technicians is $42,992, but you don't hear a whole bunch of FUD over the fact that 90% of nurses are females. And when it comes right down to it, nurses are far more valuable to society than IT techs. Meanwhile, oil rig workers, about 95% male, make on average $99,175. Why no big push for women in that field?

According to CNN and Forbes North Carolina is the only state without civil forfeiture where the actual property owner must be convicted of a crime before the property can be seized.
Unfortunately as the Forbes article points out local law enforcement often gets a federal agent involved so they can use federal overreach to usurp the state's rights so ultimately it doesn't matter what the state law is.

Oh, I see. You're deeply entrenched in the partisan ideology blinders trap. Buying into Krugman's bullshit is one of your worst problems.

You can cherry-pick insurance rates all you want. They are going up for everyone (pre-existing interventionist state systems notwithstanding). Here's your sign, which you will also dismiss because you are one of the partisan shills that are convinced if only the other party could be defeated, everything would be unicorns and rainbows.

Obamacare is a tax. And if you don't think it's a tax, you're one of the stupid people that Jonathan Gruber was talking about.

The whole premise that anything in the ACA would make health insurance "more affordable" was a LIE. Lie of the year? "If you like your plan, you can keep it."

Rethuglican

How mature. I'm sure those decisions - the same one also made by Democrat governors (or should I use the partisan-bickering-friendly term "Democrap"?) - are all about spite and had NOTHING to do with state budgets and weighing the benefits and risks. Oh, can't be. We have to complain about ending the bickering in Washington while we show them what name-calling and hyper-partisanship is REALLY like.

In the US, it was reported that pro-Russia rebels immediately surrounded the crash area and actively interfered with the debris and prevented investigators from entering the scene. If that's true, that's says a lot about the guilty parties.

Democrats have controlled the Senate for 8 fucking years.

Now they get serious on this?

Where the fuck where they when the Dems controlled the entire government?

Oh, yeah, LYING to us.

Third video emerges of Obamacare architect insulting voters

If you like your plan, you can keep it!

Do you really believe them? The Democrats have literally spent the last 8 years lying to you.

From the article:

The impact of the hack was real: Scientists at Atmospheric and Environmental Research in Lexington, Massachusetts were unable to send a preliminary report about weather patterns to traders and investors earlier this year.

So some traders did not bring an umbrella and got wet walking from their BMW to their office? Why can't they look out of the window like everybody else?

every mass killer in the past 30 years has been prescribed some sort of psychotropic SSRI.

That story keeps growing every time it's repeated. By next week, it will be up to "everyone who has ever killed anybody was on two different types of SSRI".

Here's a different hypothesis: People with mental disorders are more likely to commit violent crimes. They are also more likely to have been treated with drugs such as fluoxetine, particularly in the USA.

For your hypothesis to be supported, you will need to show a correlation between between violent crime and people who are taking SSRIs but have not been diagnosed with a serious mental disorder, and also show that people who suffer from mental disorders but have not been treated are less likely to commit violent crimes than people who have been treated but do not suffer from a disorder.

It's the "other connection" anti-gun folks never seem to want to talk about.

Well, don't let me stop you. Talk about it. Share with us the wealth of peer-reviewed medical studies which support your hypothesis and disprove mine. And talking heads from CNN don't count.

I'll wait.

Here's one:

Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination (NBER Working Paper No. 9873).

Studies like that have been done repeatedly for decades. I expect that if you read the NBER study, they'd have a bibliography of older research.

Each one repeatedly demonstrates actual discrimination against blacks in hiring. I don't know how anyone could avoid that conclusion. Employers are more likely to hire a person with a white name than a person with a black name with the identical resume. It's not just socioeconomic disadvantage, inability to do the job, lack of qualifications or laziness.

I don't know if anyone has done a similar study in tech fields specifically, but it would be a good thing to do. If you're taking a black studies course, you could get a good paper out of it. Send out 100 resumes to Monster.com from Greg and 100 resumes from Jamal.

If you want to know generally why there are so few minorities in science, Science magazine has had many articles.

http://www.chicagobooth.edu/ca...

http://www.nber.org/digest/sep...

Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination (NBER Working Paper No. 9873).

Employers' Replies to Racial Names

"Job applicants with white names needed to send about 10 resumes to get one callback; those with African-American names needed to send around 15 resumes to get one callback."

Now a "field experiment" by NBER Faculty Research Fellows Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan measures this discrimination in a novel way. In response to help-wanted ads in Chicago and Boston newspapers, they sent resumes with either African-American- or white-sounding names and then measured the number of callbacks each resume received for interviews. Thus, they experimentally manipulated perception of race via the name on the resume. Half of the applicants were assigned African-American names that are "remarkably common" in the black population, the other half white sounding names, such as Emily Walsh or Greg Baker.

To see how the credentials of job applicants affect discrimination, the authors varied the quality of the resumes they used in response to a given ad. Higher quality applicants were given a little more labor market experience on average and fewer holes in their employment history. They were also portrayed as more likely to have an email address, to have completed some certification degree, to possess foreign language skills, or to have been awarded some honors.

In total, the authors responded to more than 1,300 employment ads in the sales, administrative support, clerical, and customer services job categories, sending out nearly 5,000 resumes. The ads covered a large spectrum of job quality, from cashier work at retail establishments and clerical work in a mailroom to office and sales management positions.

Here's more:

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/200...

Study: Black man and white felon – same chances for hire

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12...

In Job Hunt, College Degree Can’t Close Racial Gap

"A more recent study, published this year in The Journal of Labor Economics found white, Asian and Hispanic managers tended to hire more whites and fewer blacks than black managers did."

"There is also the matter of how many jobs, especially higher-level ones, are never even posted and depend on word-of-mouth and informal networks, in many cases leaving blacks at a disadvantage. A recent study published in the academic journal Social Problems found that white males receive substantially more job leads for high-level supervisory positions than women and members of minorities."

Computers got better and 3D printers... and stuff. That's how it's going to happen. Don't you dare contradict the geeks with facts

http://www.distancetomars.com/

Their Space Derangement Syndrome will come out full blast! That is, until this dies down and is forgotten, just like the 1997 Japanese Space Hotel

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9705/2...

or OTRAG...

The indian mars orbiter, a vehicle with a lander module, and designed for interplanetary flight, cost less to manufacture and launch than the sandra bullock movie Gravity.

Source
http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/2...

So, there's the cost of a suitable vehicle. About 74 million dollars.

Then we have the designer microbe end. Most designer microbes are intended for biofuel production, using fully synthetic biological pathways, designed by humans.
http://www.hindawi.com/journal...

Other sources of interest are the biodegredation of toxic agents:
http://www.nature.com/nchembio...

And of course, Plastics.
http://garj.org/garjm/pdf/2013...

Feel free to order some of those researcher's samples!

Perhaps you would want some that are sporting a fully 100% human created genome?
http://www.jcvi.org/cms/press/...

Microbes are tenacious things. Once cultured in the lab, and loaded into a delivery system, sending them to venus would cost about 80 million dollars.

Cost of R&D of modifying a suitable sulfur cycle microbe for venusian atmospheric conditions would cost around 100 to 200 million.

So, for around the 300 million dollar mark, we could be initiating the end of the hellish environment on venus-- OR-- we could pay for a few military airplanes.

You are a delusional moron.

Wow! That's a pretty damning list. Now all you need to do is prove that they are in fact lies. The problem is, your list of lies contain lies of its own. And when it can be found that something was said that turned out to be incorrect, can you prove that those are lies as opposed to the results of early models that didn't have the sophistication of our current models? If you claim that someone is lying, then you are saying that they are attempting to deliberately mislead people.

Being wrong or making a mistake does not prove that deliberate misleading is going on, nor does a handful of claims invalidate the thousands of other claims that have been shown to be correct. Even the scientist who pointed out the mistake that the IPCC made about the glaciers still said that he believed that the errors shouldn't shake people's belief in climate science..

If you do believe that catching someone in a lie disproves what they are saying, what should we think about how you have misreported what people said? You claim that Al Gore said that "Polar ice caps would be ice free by 2010", but what he actually said was this:

Some of the models suggest that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during some of the summer months, could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.

So instead of the definitive claim that it would happen, he said that just some models predicted that there was just a chance that it COULD happen. A model being inaccurate does not constitute a lie. Misquoting someone to twist what they say into a lie, is actually a lie.

So did anyone really claim that there would be hurricanes more powerful than Katrina? It seems they did claim the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic that are as strong or stronger than Hurricane Katrina will increase twofold to sevenfold but that was for every 1 degree C increase, which hasn't happened the time of Katrina.

I'm getting bored, so I'll skip to the end. Your assertion that every single prediction of the IPCC from before 2007 is demonstrably wrong.

Because every article I have seen mentions nothing about a warrant.

The life of the victim trumps the need for a warrant.

In law enforcement and law, hot pursuit (also known as fresh or immediate pursuit) [is] the urgent and direct pursuit of a criminal suspect by law enforcement officers. Particularly under common law, such a situation grants the officers powers they otherwise would not have.

In 1939, Glanville Williams described hot pursuit as a legal fiction that treated an arrest as made at the moment when the chase began rather than when it ended, since a criminal should not be able to benefit from an attempt to escape.

Hot pursuit

A month before Delvin Barnes grabbed a woman off a street in Philadelphia, he hit a [sixteen year old teenager] with a shovel in Virginia and stuffed her into the trunk of a car, authorities say.

She was taken to the home of the suspect's parents in Charles City County, where she was sexually abused, authorities said.
While there, the suspect showed the teen pictures of other girls he said he had abducted, authorities said.

Two days later, the suspect allegedly brought the then-naked girl into the backyard, poured bleach and gasoline on her, burned her clothes and dug a hole.

When he was briefly distracted, the girl fled into the woods. Two miles away, she stumbled onto a business, and employees brought her inside.
Barnes is charged with abduction, forcible rape and malicious wounding with a chemical, among other charges.

"I just want to kill him -- just want to kill him," the girl's mother told CNN affiliate WWBT.
The mother says Barnes allegedly told her daughter that he was going to kill her.
After all that her daughter suffered, the mother said, she ''didn't look like herself'' She called it ''devastating.''

Police: Philadelphia suspect also seized woman in Virginia

Oh, it's certainly happening. As you point out, in 2011, 234 companies left California.

What's entertaining is about 132,000 new businesses were started--tied with Texas. And California leads the nation in job creation, which is why these other states are trying to steal businesses from California.

What about regular loans (home, auto)? Credit cards? I understand those are quite hard for someone to get those at 18, and if they do it's usually for a smaller amount with a higher APR. But when I was 18 I could get a student loan for $20K with my mom co-signing (I understood loans, just not the realities of the future.) The difference? Student Loans are far harder to discharge in regular bankruptcy proceedings. Therefore, institutions making those loans take on far less risk themselves, especially if the government can garnish your pay checks or social security to pay them.

I think it's okay to trust 18-year-olds with loans, but it should be limited (or make them take a financial class to be sure they fully understand what they're getting into). Remove the protection for student loans and you'll probably see both tuition and average student debt turn way down after a decade.

Until it crashes.

Do the train companies also make bulldozers?

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WO...

You better keep those Japanese and German trains off the shopping lists as well.
Oh, and American ? FAHGETTABOUDIT.

Yes. I very much remember claiming that "If there were [any injuries], he would have gone to the fucking ambulance and had them treat him" .......

I am not wrong! What he claimed after the fact is irrelevant, because he LIED. If he were actually injured, he would have sought medical treatment, and the medical professional who treated him could testify to such. No treatment == no testimony == NO GODDAMN INJURY!

You want to claim there were injuries? Well then FUCKING PROVE IT! That requires testimony from the medical professional or goddamn pictures of the injury, not the ridiculous bullshit spewed by a proven liar (i.e., Darren Wilson).

This will do just fine.

What we know about Michael Brown's shooting

... the preliminary investigation showed that the Ferguson officer tried to exit his vehicle, but Brown pushed him back into the car, "where he physically assaulted the police officer" and struggled over the officer's weapon, Belmar said. ..... The officer was taken to an area hospital where he was treated for a "swollen face," Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said...

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Indeed, and the answer is, THE GODDAMN FUCKING JACK-BOOTED FASCIST COP!

Michael Brown, strong arm robber and thug.

You're willfully ignoring the point: jack-booted thug Darren Wilson handles "ordinary jay walkers" by screaming obscenities at them and almost running them over with his squad car.

Yes, and we've also heard from some people that Brown was trying to run away and was shot in the back. That turned out to not be true either as proved by the autopsy and just as the claim you repeat probably isn't either.

You say that as if you think I'm some kind of left-authoritarian. I'm not an authoritarian of any kind -- quite the opposite, in fact. You, however, are authoritarian, and whether or not "fascism" is the right word for your particular variety of totalitarian brain-damage, it's close enough!

Well, perhaps you're simply a confused crank, but either way I'm neither a fascist nor an authoritarian.

At the time of the event, there was no report of the officer being attacked.

It looks to me like you didn't get this one right.

From August 11th:

Fatal police shooting in Missouri sparks protests

The officer tried to leave his vehicle just before the shooting on Saturday afternoon, but Brown pushed him back into the car, "where he physically assaulted the police officer" and struggled over the officer's weapon, Belmar said.

From August 11, updated the 15th:

What we know about Michael Brown's shooting

Without revealing what led to the dispute, Belmar said the preliminary investigation showed that the Ferguson officer tried to exit his vehicle, but Brown pushed him back into the car, "where he physically assaulted the police officer" and struggled over the officer's weapon, Belmar said.

A shot was fired inside the police car, and Brown was eventually shot about 35 feet away from the vehicle, Belmar said.

The officer was taken to an area hospital where he was treated for a "swollen face," Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said, adding he had not personally seen the officer's injury.

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In fact there was no named officer at the time of the shooting.

How is that important?

If the Officer was actually harmed, this would have made front page news and calmed the riots that started to ensue days later.

Nonsense. Many of the people were there to protest the death of Brown regardless of what he had done, and others were agitators coming from outside the area. They wanted the officer put in jail, punished for killing Brown regardless of the circumstances.

Any claim of harm to the officer (named nearly a month after the fact) is tainted

The fact that this is apparently a new fact to you just means that you are uninformed, not that the information is fabricated. And as we have seen the information was out there long ago.

My opinion is based on easy to prove facts, not a long string of fallacies and questionable information.

In this case it appears that your opinion is based on ignoring facts or ignorance of them. From that faulty base you build your house of cards.

Of course to you, a mouthpiece for the establishment, facts are a dangerous thing hence you claim "crank" and "look over there!" as often as possible.

Facts are indeed dangerous, mainly to your position.

Nothing you claim can be trusted.

I've already demonstrated that you've gotten simple questions of easily knowable fact wrong. This is just another instance of that.

At the time of the event, there was no report of the officer being attacked.

It looks to me like you didn't get this one right.

From August 11th:

Fatal police shooting in Missouri sparks protests

The officer tried to leave his vehicle just before the shooting on Saturday afternoon, but Brown pushed him back into the car, "where he physically assaulted the police officer" and struggled over the officer's weapon, Belmar said.

From August 11, updated the 15th:

What we know about Michael Brown's shooting

Without revealing what led to the dispute, Belmar said the preliminary investigation showed that the Ferguson officer tried to exit his vehicle, but Brown pushed him back into the car, "where he physically assaulted the police officer" and struggled over the officer's weapon, Belmar said.

A shot was fired inside the police car, and Brown was eventually shot about 35 feet away from the vehicle, Belmar said.

The officer was taken to an area hospital where he was treated for a "swollen face," Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said, adding he had not personally seen the officer's injury.

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In fact there was no named officer at the time of the shooting.

How is that important?

If the Officer was actually harmed, this would have made front page news and calmed the riots that started to ensue days later.

Nonsense. Many of the people were there to protest the death of Brown regardless of what he had done, and others were agitators coming from outside the area. They wanted the officer put in jail, punished for killing Brown regardless of the circumstances.

Any claim of harm to the officer (named nearly a month after the fact) is tainted

The fact that this is apparently a new fact to you just means that you are uninformed, not that the information is fabricated. And as we have seen the information was out there long ago.

My opinion is based on easy to prove facts, not a long string of fallacies and questionable information.

In this case it appears that your opinion is based on ignoring facts or ignorance of them. From that faulty base you build your house of cards.

Of course to you, a mouthpiece for the establishment, facts are a dangerous thing hence you claim "crank" and "look over there!" as often as possible.

Facts are indeed dangerous, mainly to your position.

Nothing you claim can be trusted.

I've already demonstrated that you've gotten simple questions of easily knowable fact wrong. This is just another instance of that.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/30/...

Until it crashes.

Do the train companies also make bulldozers?

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WO...

They found the deceased's blood *in* the cop car and on the cop's uniform and *on his gun*. Multiple witnesses said the scuffle and shootings happened inside the car (even the guy's buddy who tried to make it sound like the cop pulled the huge guy INTO the cop car while sitting in it, LOL).

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/18/...

"FBI forensic tests showed the gun was fired twice in the car, with one bullet hitting Brown's arm while the second one missed, the newspaper said.

In addition to Wilson's uniform and gun, forensic tests found the teen's blood on the interior door panel of his car, The Times said."

Although I bet you'll claim CNN is some left wing news outfit making shit up and the FBI is in on it.

U do realize that most r&d in this arena originated in america. Right? And that america continues to outspend both Europe and China on it?

[Citation needed], CNN certainly says otherwise: http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/12/...
Also what political commitments have you been making? I haven't heard any, that are even remotely as impressive as the Europeans.

Don't have a citation, but I have prior art.

obama closed Gitmo on January 22, 2009 by executive order directing it be done within 1 year.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/09/...

I can see obama doing the same for immigrants. He knows he can't do anything but sign a useless piece of paper that the media will triumphantly laud him and the democrats for, and then be curiously silent on how it had absolutely no effect at all.

It keeps the uniformed voting for the democrats, and it feeds the infotainment that's making Limbaugh Millions of dollars.

Here is the link.

How is this even close to right, as least as it applies to what happened on Friday? One test pilot/engineer (not a half dozen space tourists) was killed and Virgin Galactic is continuing on.

yes, thank you

there is evidence of what you describe: http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/12/...

you could watch Romney's "likes" go down by the second there for awhile