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Are you claiming it's not?

Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence. You are effectively claiming that the police looked into the future and made false statements on the report for a crime that wasn't controversial at the time, or that they doctored or replace an existing report. Evidence? Did they convince the Fire Department members to lie? You are the one making the claim - provide some evidence.

Watch the fucking video [youtube.com] and decide for yourself if this dude looks like hes just had his head smashed and beaten into pavement.

It is already noted in the police report that he was injured, but maybe this will help: Police surveillance video of Zimmerman may show head injury

If only the guy who shot another person without witnesses would have been actually *investigated*, instead of letting him walk entirely on his own testimony...

In short, you don't know what you are talking about, in pretty much any regard. Well done.

NOT BREAKING NEWS on Zimmerman being bloodi

Trayvon Martin Shooter Told Cops Teenager Went For His Gun (Also, watch video)

In addition, an eyewitness, 13-year-old Austin Brown, told police he saw a man fitting Zimmerman's description lying on the grass moaning and crying for help just seconds before he heard the gunshot that killed Martin.

Would coudl possibly go wrong with enough people having your level in insight?

KillZimmerman’ Twitter advocates violence against Martin’s killer
How Many Crimes Did the New Black Panthers Commit in Florida?

When New Black Panther Mikhail Muhammad called for the mobilization of a 10,000-strong black male mob to capture George Zimmerman, we glimpsed into the depths of racial depravity of the organization. “An eye for an eye,” Muhammad threatened. A cash bounty for Zimmerman, “dead or alive,” provided a nasty incentive for thugs across the land.

Paper: Spike Lee tweeted incorrect George Zimmerman address, possibly putting Sanford woman in danger

Inconvenient narratives in the Martin case

Civil rights leaders condemn Sharpton's call for escalated civil disobedience

Sad

It's a wonder that civilization withstands your level of insight as it appears to be all too common.

If only the guy who shot another person without witnesses would have been actually *investigated*, instead of letting him walk entirely on his own testimony...

In short, you don't know what you are talking about, in pretty much any regard. Well done.

NOT BREAKING NEWS on Zimmerman being bloodi

Trayvon Martin Shooter Told Cops Teenager Went For His Gun (Also, watch video)

In addition, an eyewitness, 13-year-old Austin Brown, told police he saw a man fitting Zimmerman's description lying on the grass moaning and crying for help just seconds before he heard the gunshot that killed Martin.

Would coudl possibly go wrong with enough people having your level in insight?

KillZimmerman’ Twitter advocates violence against Martin’s killer
How Many Crimes Did the New Black Panthers Commit in Florida?

When New Black Panther Mikhail Muhammad called for the mobilization of a 10,000-strong black male mob to capture George Zimmerman, we glimpsed into the depths of racial depravity of the organization. “An eye for an eye,” Muhammad threatened. A cash bounty for Zimmerman, “dead or alive,” provided a nasty incentive for thugs across the land.

Paper: Spike Lee tweeted incorrect George Zimmerman address, possibly putting Sanford woman in danger

Inconvenient narratives in the Martin case

Civil rights leaders condemn Sharpton's call for escalated civil disobedience

Sad

It's a wonder that civilization withstands your level of insight as it appears to be all too common.

Stupid subject line, ran out of room...

There a story today that could be an submission by itself:

Santorum has promised to crack down on the distribution of pornography if elected.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/14/vigorous-santorum-crackdown-may-catch-internet-porn-viewers-with-pants-down/

I figured it was cause he was told what his name means, but the article itself has this blurb:
"the government could also prosecute individual citizens who view porn, and already has the legal authority to do it.

“Although the Supreme Court says private possession is constitutionally protected,
it has said that private receipt of [pornography] is not protected,” noted Volokh.
“You can’t prosecute them all but you can find certain types of pornography that are sufficiently unpopular” for easy convictions,
he explained."

So it's illegal (depending upon the meaning of "private receipt") to somehow acquire, and view pornography.

The bottom line being, hope your fetish is a particularly popular one.

ohbummer-related political interference

FWIW: LightSquared CEO resigns amid revelations of company’s proximity to Obama White House

No... I think it's more like people were unable to maintain their stupor with drugs, so they formed the Tea Party.

I think you misspelled "Media Matters".

From recent news reports, it sounds like Brock is a paranoid psychotic with delusions of grandeur and persecution. Besides, it's not possible to *be* a Liberal/Progressive without having a serious break with reality and a lack of critical-thinking ability to start with.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/12/inside-media-matters-sources-memos-reveal-erratic-behavior-close-coordination-with-white-house-and-news-organizations/

Strat

In regards to the previously mentioned Ohio law, it was passed last year in part of a "defense of 'traditional' marriage" legislative package intended to keep homosexuals from wedding.

Ohio passed a constitutional amendment defining marriage being between a man and a woman in 2004 - eight years ago. No statutory law would have greater power to define or limit marriage than the state constitution.

Furthermore, guardians are court appointed and have to make regular reports to the court about the status of the ward and their property. What judge wouldn't consider it a direct conflict of interest for a guardian to marry a ward? Do you think the judge would find the guardian swearing that he really loves his ward and isn't at all doing it to get at the minor's property to be in any way serious or believable and not at all unethical? If teachers can't date students that are technically adults, what makes you think a guardian could date and marry a ward who is a legal minor given the higher duty of a guardian?

GUARDIANSHIPS

The court may appoint, after hearing and investigation, a guardian for a minor or for an adult who is found to be incompetent to take proper care of himself or his property. A guardian, with court supervision, is responsible for making personal and/or financial decisions for the ward. Court supervision is accomplished, in part, through the filing of reports and accountings by the guardian. Both a minor and an adult ward have a number of rights and protections to insure against an unnecessary or ineffective guardianship, including, for the adult ward, the right to be represented by an attorney.

The term 'irony' doesn't even begin to describe the situation there.

I think the term "pure BS" most likely describes what you wrote. Any lie will do to further the cause of "gay marriage", I guess.

And yes, "gay marriage" will have wide spread impact, including school curriculums taught to students about expected behaviors and attitudes, and will bring increasing conflicts between established constitutional rights and those stemming from a newly manufactured right to gay marriage. Think of all the peace and agreement that Roe v. Wade brought to American society, and double it.

Comparing the Lifestyles of Homosexual Couples to Married Couples

Lesbian Divorce Shocker

Lesbian Divorce Shocker: Same-sex marriages between women are considerably more likely to end in divorce than either same-sex male marriages or heterosexual marriages, according to a study of Norway and Sweden:

We found that divorce risks are higher in same-sex partnerships than in opposite-sex marriages, and that unions of lesbians are considerably less stable, or more dynamic, than unions of gay men. In Norway as well as in Sweden, the divorce risk in female partnerships is practically double that of the risk in partnerships of men.

'Poster couple' for gay rights in California is divorcing

The rhetorical and legal machinery that is being used to punch down society's laws and customs will leave a big enough hole that much more mischief will follow. Polygamists are already filing lawsuits using the same legal theories used to support gay marriage, and support for the normalization of pedophilia is entering the stage that homosexuality was in 50 years ago. These battles will only get worse.

Funny. Chris Dodd (MPAA) and Cary Sherman (RIAA) also twist the truth and distort reality. Shoud Apple hire these guys?

It's the Democrats that are trying to raise SOPA from the dead.

But don't let that spoil your primitive tribal reaction.

My legal definition was from that same source you linked. I linked it in a different post.

Quote Sen. Paul:

"But Sen. Paul told TheDC that he certainly felt like he was detained. âoeIf you're told you can't leave, does that count as detention?" Paul asked.

"I tried to leave the cubicle to speak to one of the TSA people and I was barked at: 'Do not leave the cubicle!' So, that, to me sounds like I'm being asked not to leave the cubicle. It sounds a little bit like I'm being detained."

This is consistant with TSA policy in the past. They've threatened criminal action if a person leaves after refusing a patdown. Ergo a reasonable person under those circumstances would believe he or she was restrained and NOT free to go.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/23/rand-paul-on-tsa-detainment-i-was-barked-at-do-not-leave-the-cubicle/

http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/23/report-tsa-detains-sen-rand-paul-in-nashville/

It's a he said/They said. Rand's people are saying it was a detention; the TSA is saying it wasn't. The TSA would deny it was a detention, however.

Come on guys, get together, Grandma's only going to die once.

Not necessarily...

http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/02/nyc-arrest-records-many-occupy-wall-street-protesters-live-in-luxury/

Average home value of the arrested OWS protestors in NY was $305k, 10% were north of $500k. Median monthly rent was $1850.

I'd say this data (which could be a lie, could be cherry picked, and is obviously host to all the source-validation issues that my original tinfoil hat post commented on) suggest that they are simply whiny rich kids looking for a cause to wave some trendy signs about.

"Did they get all of their money from their parents? Wouldn't that make them the 1% they're protesting?"

http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/02/nyc-arrest-records-many-occupy-wall-street-protesters-live-in-luxury/

Considering the average home value of the arrested protesters in New York is $300,000+ (10% were north of $500k), and median rent is $1850/mo, yes, then, that they are in fact the 1% is precisely what I'm suggesting.

11/30/2011

At the Senate Commerce Committee's confirmation hearings for Federal Communications Commission nominees Wednesday, Republican nominee Ajit Pai - previously employed by at Jenner & Block, the law firm representing clients in the AT&T/T-Mobile deal - told Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison that he "would not feel any prejudice" towards a client of his former firm.

In response to a question from the senator over whether Pai would have possible conflicts of interest going forward, and whether he would recuse himself from the proceedings if he did, Pai told Hutschison, "I do not believe that my short period of employment at Jenner & Block would preclude me from being an effective commissioner, or from robustly participating in commission proceedings."

(cite)

They just love appointing foxes to guard the henhouse, don't they? It sure worked out well for the banking industry, why not telecoms?

In what way is OWS not part of the 99%? You're claiming the hippies are the top 1% earners in America?

wut?

Fortunately, since you have to fill out detailed information when you're arrested, and since OWS is basically a crime wave, we've got plenty of data. Turns out they're significantly wealthier, whiter and more educated than the average American. source.

Um, Ron Paul is one of the most vocal critics of inflated defense spending.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/06/ron-paul-joins-house-lawmakers-in-push-for-military-spending-cuts/
http://www.ronpaul.com/2010-07-08/ron-paul-and-barney-frank-cut-military-spending/
http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/02/balanced-budget-or-empire-you-cant-have-both/

He also voted against sending troops to Iraq.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul#Iraq

See also: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s support of the idea of a President doing an end run around Congress. http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/12/jackson-obama-should-declare-a-national-emergency-add-jobs-with-extra-constitutional-action/#ixzz1ahHUc4r6

Obama attacks banks while raking in Wall Street dough

Despite his rhetorical attacks on Wall Street, a study by the Sunlight Foundation’s Influence Project shows that President Barack Obama has received more money from Wall Street than any other politician over the past 20 years, including former President George W. Bush.

In 2008, Wall Street’s largesse accounted for 20 percent of Obama’s total take, according to Reuters.

HOPENCHANGE!!!!!

You are exactly right about that.
Just give this little article a look. . . . http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/01/bankrupt-solar-company-with-fed-backing-has-cozy-ties-to-obama-admin/

"Tulsa billionaire George Kaiser, a key Obama backer who raised between $50,000 and $100,000 for the presidentâ(TM)s election campaign, is one of Solyndraâ(TM)s primary investors. Kaiser himself donated $53,500 to Obamaâ(TM)s 2008 election campaign, split between the DSCC and Obama For America. Kaiser also made several visits to the White House and appeared at some White House events next to Obama officials.

Campaign finance records show Kaiser and Solyndra executives and board members donated $87,050 total to Obamaâ(TM)s election campaign.

And now, just two years after securing a half-billion-dollar federal loan, Solyndra has said that it will declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy."

Today, people say, "why should those union guys have it so good? I want them to suffer just like me!" And now the middle class has turned against itself, and the gap widens to historic levels. I hope it'll turn back around some day, but our corporate masters have gotten really good at turning us against ourselves, and at labor unions that exist to help us.

See, back in the Utopian day you speak of, union members were proud of their work and it was well known. You could expect on American cars to be the best, most reliable cars on the planet. An union constructed building would be one that you knew was not only up to code, but surpassed it. Union members were their own foreman and made sure that all union members were doing their jobs RIGHT.

That's not the case any more. Now you have union members standing around waiting for the union electrician to plug something into a wall socket. You have union members enter a "job bank" requesting a job that is not available in their area and sit around and nothing for years waiting for a job that no longer exists. Now you have union members who are completely incompetent, lazy and cocky because they know they can not get fired. Now you have people literally attacking, even shooting and vandalizing non-union shops and their own coworkers who don't join them. To make sure the operations continue, they want to make all union votes completely open, meaning union thugs may see how you voted to make sure you voted right.

Meanwhile, you have workers that still take pride in their job who work hard and put in the extra hours to get ahead only to see their promotion go to some union member that does nothing but has been at the company doing nothing longer than you have and union rules will mandate they get promoted before someone newer. You have small businesses trying to compete getting put out of business because they are getting harassed by union members of their trade or lose out to jobs because a union may provide kickbacks to your former customers to make union work cheaper "Walmart style". You bust your ass to have a job, pay for your own benefits and struggle to pay your taxes only to see those that are paid with your tax dollars go on strike and literally shut down your government because they DON'T want to pay for their benefits. They want you to pay for your health insurance AND theirs. There are even unions that force non-union members to pay union dues.

And you don't understand why people don't like unions any more? I too hope it will turn back someday to a day when a union not only takes care of their workers, but also guarantees that a union product is a BETTER product. When times get tough, a union is willing to make concessions, even if only temporary, to help the company make it through a tough time and ensure that everyone still has a job. I want to see a union throw a member out for showing up late or doing shoddy work. Until that happens, unions will continue to get the reputation they deserve.

... how come i never run into it?

I run across everything on the internet.

Pirated software, music, games.

We got government leaks, banks emails, etc.

We got dogs fucking chicks, dudes fucking ducks, 2girls1cup, and we even had a black hole of an anus.

I'm offered a done of spam, but none of them ever has been related to child porn.

so I ask, where is this child porn that is so bad on the internet, that we need laws made using it as an excuse?

oh, here we can find them, on the peeps in charge:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20011494-38.html
http://www.uaff.us/pentagon_workers_tied_to_child_porn.htm
http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/07/child-pornography-found-on-assistant-u-s-attorney%E2%80%99s-computer/

I think the only problem with child porn is in the government.

Ron Paul is trying: http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/16/why-im-suing-the-obama-administration-over-libya/

0) I never heard about any campaign stop in Seattle, and I live in the Seattle area. Could you please post a link reference so I can read about this?

1) Why don't we let Slashdot readers click on the link below, look at the photo, and decide how pasty-white those legs are for themselves. They don't look suspiciously white to me, and cell phone cameras aren't the best for accurate color, so you definitely haven't persuaded me on this point.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/29/weinergate-married-congressmans-twitter-account-shares-lewd-photo/

3) I only said the EXIF data shows it was a Blackberry; I said nothing about model.

What camera puts the string "Rim Exif Version 1.00a" other than a Research In Motion Blackberry?

Source: http://wireupdate.com/joereport/news/breaking-congressman-anthony-weiner-x-rated-photos-internet-cache-files-recovered/

5) I find it entertaining that the one point I actually provided a link reference for is the one where you claimed I have no reference. Please click on my provided link.

I haven't researched this myself. If you have a link that shows why he was following random young women, please share it. Maybe he rolls a pair of percentile dice, and follows anyone for whom he rolls "00"?

And, you were remarkably quick to claim that I make up information. To me, that means you just called me a liar. That's rather rude and insulting, and it is not winning me over to your point of view.

Tell me, do you have any idea who I am? Have you read a whole bunch of my postings on Slashdot and formed this as a considered opinion, or do you just feel that it's no big deal to call other people liars?

7) In the Fox video embedded here, he does say "I was tweeting about hockey at the time, when this all happened." About 3:21 in the video. No, the timestamps show that the photo was posted and several minutes later he tweeted about hockey.

http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/06/01/videos-anthony-weiners-disastrous-media-tour/

But you know what, that is sufficiently vague that I don't really care about it. I'm much more convinced by the weird evasions about whether it is he in the photo.

They will be caught, and they will face prison time.

To which I can only say: hey, let's call in the FBI. They can get a search warrant, look at the server logs, and find the IP address from which the photo was sent.

According to the simple theory, the IP address will point right at Anthony Weiner's phone. Some other IP address, perhaps from a public place, would cast reasonable doubt over this theory.

Anthony Weiner, as a sitting member of Congress, ought to be taking this seriously if the story is as he claims.

Either you have a touching faith in Anthony Weiner, or else you are just cynically trolling me. Either way, you won't be swayed by any opinions or facts I might offer. And either way, you called me a liar. So, we're done.

Have a nice life.

steveha

"They're building a big solar thermal power plant [ca.gov] in the Mojave desert"

Except you forgot to mention that environmentalists are trying to block it because of some stupid lizard. Sometimes I think environmentalists won't be happy until we (humans) are all dead.

but I don't see how America's science reporting enters in here. In any case, thanks for the thoughtful post!

You're quite right. The site that "reported" this factoid is in fact an American right-wing propaganda outlet — not a science periodical at all.

Science is already well past that point. String theory: Is it science's ultimate dead end? Some respond to Japan earthquake by pointing to global warming (Global warming - is there anything it can't do?)

Some random people on twitter makes outrageous claims, and that means that science is broken?

As for string theory, I don't get why it is considered science, but a lot of people more knowledgeable in the field than me thinks it is, so I would prefer to wait and see where it ends up.

Occam's razor is a guide, not an iron law. If it was an iron law, we would probably be using the TeVeS theory of gravity and leave the search for "dark matter & dark energy" (supposedly the matter and energy that makes up all but a tiny fraction of the Universe despite never really being seen) to compete for funding with the search for eluminiferous Ether.

TeVeS? The theory that doesn't explain all of the data, and where even it's proponents agree that dark matter is still needed?

Moreover, there are limits to what can be known, and what is provable. Godel's incompleteness theorems

So, since Gödel's theorem is relevant, science must somehow be an axiomatic system that is capable of expressing elementary arithmetic. Weird, I thought it was all about observations, hypotheses and testing.

Every creationist regardless of religious orientation depends on a logical fallacy to advance their beliefs. Which is essentially a form of lunacy as the OP advanced.

So, committing a logical fallacy renders you insane? I would say that you've just condemned pretty much the entire human race as insane, no doubt including yourself.

As soon as you reject occum's razor and introduce non-empirical shenanigans every theory is subject to the Spaghetti Monster/Last Tuesday fallacies.

Science is already well past that point. String theory: Is it science's ultimate dead end?
Some respond to Japan earthquake by pointing to global warming (Global warming - is there anything it can't do?)

The experiments to try and generate the chemicals of life in what is thought to be conditions on the young earth are interesting, but they are at best a form of speculation. I don't believe there is any way to prove that any given method truly resembles what actually occurred. The fact that some scientists are attributing life or the presence of the chemicals of life on earth to meteors doesn't really change things either. If anything, it just confuses the picture even more - "life didn't begin on earth, but in space, and it came here on meteors!" And how did it start in space? Isn't that just a bit more of a hostile environment?

Occam's razor is a guide, not an iron law. If it was an iron law, we would probably be using the TeVeS theory of gravity and leave the search for "dark matter & dark energy" (supposedly the matter and energy that makes up all but a tiny fraction of the Universe despite never really being seen) to compete for funding with the search for eluminiferous Ether.

Moreover, there are limits to what can be known, and what is provable.
Godel's incompleteness theorems

Godel's incompleteness theorems are two theorems of mathematical logic that establish inherent limitations of all but the most trivial axiomatic systems for mathematics. The theorems, proven by Kurt Godel in 1931, are important both in mathematical logic and in the philosophy of mathematics. The two results are widely interpreted as showing that Hilbert's program to find a complete and consistent set of axioms for all of mathematics is impossible, thus giving a negative answer to Hilbert's second problem.

I think the ground you're on is shakier than you recognize, or care to admit.

Read anything by Donald Knuth lately?

Society is a balance between privacy and sharing. When a so-called "social" website decides that everything that goes in the website should be "public by default" that really violates the public/private social balance.

In the absence of strong information/data privacy laws, only a fool would use Facebook to put more than even the basic public details about themselves; you only need take a look at the growing legal, workplace and criminal ramifications to see the end results.

The real tough part is that rabid facebook users can get you listed on Facebook just by "tagging" your photo. So you have to join to even purge the stupid... this is anti-social.

Here's a sampling of articles from conservatives / libertarians on net neutrality:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/18/kahn_net_neutrality_warning/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rOQpQYQtA0

http://www.onlyrepublican.com/orinsf/2006/06/neutrality_for_.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juw5Ew_fKgs

http://dailycaller.com/2010/12/17/free-press-and-the-art-of-profligate-fudging/

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/12/28/if-the-fcc-had-regulated-the-internet-from-the-beginning/

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/04/06/net-neutrality-aint-over-til-its-over/

http://www.freetoassemble.com/blog/cincinnatuschili/net-neutrality-comcast-vs-level-3-communications

A few points:

1) Not all conservatives / libertarians oppose net neutrality
2) Most of these writers have a pretty good understanding of the issue
3) Several who oppose it do it on free market principles
4) There is a legitimate distrust of the FCC - some view the net neutrality issue as being used as an excuse for an FCC power grab

http://dailycaller.com/2010/12/06/leftist-bloggers-point-to-cia-connections-in-assange-rape-case/

So your $300/hr rental makes sense. But we can see by this how quickly the costs can quickly escalate to thousands of dollars per hour.

I'm a member of a volunteer search and rescue unit, and I can tell you second hand from the mouth of a National Guard pilot who flew us in a Chinook that it costs roughly $11k/hour. Of course, that's for a Chinook that can carry 30 troops. Where does this money come from? Your taxes of course, but not in the way most people think of. You see, most pilots have to spend a certain number of hours in the air every month, doubly so for military pilots. Normally this would just be simulated training missions, but when a call comes out to fly 25 searchers (plus gear) into the mountains, that definitely counts for training hours. In case you don't think this is applicable to military ops, just consider where the marines train to be prepared for Afghanistan.

Cig taxes tend not to go up because studies show that increasing the tax generally decreases revenue. Cities and states care more about the revenue than your health (and rather short-sighted in that sense) so they haven't increased the taxes to deal with the health problems they cause. The revenue often doesn't go to paying health costs anyway.

Who has appointed an Attorney General that has released a man caught on video standing at a polling booth club threatening those that won't vote for his candidate based on race? The same man caught in another video calling for black people to kill some "white, cracka' babies"?

And excuse me, the Republicans have just one network. The Democrats have an entire array of networks working for them.

There's a large reward out there for this racism your claiming. If you're not turning in some evidence for your share of $100,000(US), you need to STFU with such nonsense.

When we already have a press like this?

which law was broken by offering jobs to people so they wouldn't run against an incumbent? Seems like a typical political favor to me. Disappointing, but not surprising in the least from a politician.

Depending on the explicitness of the offer it may violate several clauses of Title 18 of the federal criminal code. The Administration admitted that if they explicitly offered Sestack an Administration job it would be a violation of the law. http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/25/top-obama-adviser-says-no-evidence-that-sestaks-bribe-charge-is-true/ There are other sources which give quotes from Administration members admitting that it is illegal to offer someone a job to drop out of an election.