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My bet is that Obama will nominate an SJW like Catherine Lhamon (the assistant secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education). See

http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/08/how-deep-is-this-education-officials-involvement-in-the-rolling-stone-hoax/

Polar Ice Caps: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ja...

Hurricane Lull: http://www.livescience.com/507...

Greening of Africa: http://news.nationalgeographic...

These are "facts", and the "speculation" from the "Global Warming" nuts is also clearly documented. Here are a few good articles on exaggerated claims that never panned out:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...

http://www.thenewamerican.com/...

http://dailycaller.com/2014/03...

Please go ahead and make excuses as to why nearly 97% of all Global Warming Projections are wrong : http://www.westernjournalism.c...

Or perhaps you'll simply parrot someone else who doesn't actually know anything, or continue to believe "consensus = Science"

Anything else is a de facto RELIGION.

Preach it. Those astrophysicists who are going on about the Earth being round and orbiting around the Sun need to be put in their place.

You can't even get a strawman correct.

Astrophysicists question EVERYTHING about how the universe works, which is entirely unlike what we see in climate "science".

Astrophysicists do not have to go back to decades-old data and "correct" it so gravity works "better" today. But climate scientists sure do have to correct old data in order to make the 15-year pause in warming disappear.

Except for pragmatism. Pragmatism only deals with things that work. That's still a problem, though, because you have to establish a standard of "what works". Pragmatically, the current system works wonderfully for those with money and power, but not nearly as well for the average citizen.

We can observe what happens in the world. I have observed that highly idealistic isms tend to fail, usually because of some fundamental mistakes in determining human nature, as well as ideology needing to become ever more "pure".

Communism does not allow for the inherent wish for humans to advance themselves.

Fundamentalist religion allows for no compromise, and it's need tor enemies and ever increasing purity eventually kills it.

Capitalism, which relies on the greed factor, if unchecked means that once enough capital is obtained, those who have attained it seek to destroy the free market. This should be self evident as the drive that produces the wealth will end up making the most greedy accumulating as much of the wealth as possible, and often by any means.

Socialism comes close, but only because it is the closest to pragmatism. Problem is, there are so many definitions of socialism these days, we have to evaaluate. on a case by case basis.

Libertarianism is another ism that is a little difficult at this point to evaluate, because what passes for modern libertarianism is just a quirky form of Republicanism. I'll note that the downfall of traditional Libertarianism is a miscalculation of human nature, assuming everyone is intelligent and law abiding. Perhaps they would stand a better chance if they didn't have to pander to the social conservative base of the party they choose to identify with. It's been sickening to watch Rand Paul try to pander to the religious right http://crooksandliars.com/2015..., Play George Bush the third by doing the aircraft carrier tough guy biz http://dailycaller.com/2015/03... - the only thing missing was the "Mission Accomplished banner! Then he forgot that there is no compromise, no room for anything that he is told that he has to believe, because if you do not do exactly that, this happens to you. http://teejaw.com/rand-paul-ju....

Actual Libertarianism is not compatible with the Republican party.

And if I'm tough on Paul, he deserves it. Libertarianism comes closest to pragmatism, as long as you remember that you can't run a pure ideology. So in my heretical pick and choose pragmatism, Capitalism with brakes to protect itself from itself, coupled with Libertarianism with it's willingness to respect the individual's rights and obligations (not what currently goes for Libertarianism, and progressive understanding that there are some things that should not be run for profit, and some that should. Banks and producing goods should always be run for profit - health care should not, makes for a pretty good version of pragmatism.

I also have this weird idea that a country becomes wealthy by having as many people have money as possible, not by concentrating it in the hands of a few. And this is not done by taking money from the wealthy at all, but by having as much of the populous enjoy the fruits of their labors by pecuniary renumeration as possible. People with money buy the stuff the job creators make. The present situation of making as many Americans as poor as possible, and having me the taxpayer make up for the shitty wages some industry wants to pay is a race to the bottom.

Pragmatism - its not just for breakfast any more.

Riiii-ight.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/12...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/twhyla...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/out...

Great. We will use the UAH version 5.6 since you do not trust the surface station record. (6.x is currently in beta and changing too often to make any predictions with). The data can be found here: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/pu... - see the "Globe" column. In the event that UAH5.6 is no longer available we will need to defer to the RSS satellite reconstruction. The data for rss can be found here: http://woodfortrees.org/data/r...

What's all this? Either it is or it's not. If it is, I'm sure it'll be all over the news. This isn't that hard. Let's not make it hard. Heard me laugh? Well you'd be right. I think this is the first time someone has used something from Alabama to prove their point. While I don't want to belittle them or anything, they aren't exactly known for being at the forefront. Woodfortrees.org? Now if I used a site like these I'd have a feeling it would be a conspiracy site or something.

I think I have an advantage in that you appear to get your science reporting from conspiracy websites. I could be wrong, but based on previous comments I believe it to be the case.

Ok, apparently I flew right over you like a 747 at altitude. Maybe Jim's article will enlighten you - http://www.giss.nasa.gov/resea... ? Here he admits the 1930s was warmer. While I'm sure if you read it you'll be like - eh? What's the big deal, this really was a big deal. Note that he was also wrong in his prediction about the 2000s.

Conspiracy web sites? That just doesn't even make sense why you would say that. This is to be expected in my case, I've been doing science, numbers and such for over 30 years. I have a feeling you're new to this. Look back, say over the past couple of hundred thousand years. Look back over the past 10,000 years. You'll understand why Man isn't responsible if you do. You'll understand how they're lying to you. Understand this isn't a 5 or 10 minute thing. You'll be looking at this stuff for a while.

Maybe you meant something like this, with those crazy Astronaughts and scientists?
http://dailycaller.com/2016/01...

I know, I know, pay no attention to them (there is no man behind the curtain), right?

Time will tell :)

Heh, certainly will. However understand that even if there is an increase, a year doesn't prove the point. Right now they're trying to explain away the previous 15 years. Often by questionable means, such as the sea is much warmer - gee, where have we heard that before? Ever deal with liars and confidence men? I've run across men that can make people so confident that they can convince everyone that they're an attractive woman. Men that can lie with such a straight face and no feeling that they can say anything. They'll think nothing about cleaning out your bank account if you you give them a chance.

Never the less, I think I should reiterate that I think things are warming up. It's not due to man and that's clear. Clear to me at least.

There are already numerous allegations of Twitter censoring and unverifying the political right or pro-gamergate folks such as Milo Yiannopoulos. Trump is actually a big attention grabber and he is capturing lots of media attention, so censoring him would hurt Twitter more.

A better question may be why they haven't come down harder on terrorist activities on Twitter

Look, nobody (except some seriously sick perverts) wants kids to be raped.

Don't be ridiculous. There are entire cultures that have a special place for that custom. And there are people that post on Slashdot that think sex with children (normally referred to as rape) is just fine. Just today I saw a post from someone that stated in essence that he would side with child molesters over the police.

If you want to pretend that drawings are a widespread, major source of injustice in the prosecution of alleged pedophiles, that's your affair. There are far, far more kids that have their lives ruined by child molesters than that.

It's out there if you look.

'Paedophilia is natural and normal for males' - How some university academics make the case for paedophiles at summer conferences
Conference aims to normalize pedophilia

google barely shows a blip if you search for it, but here's the news on Johnston running in 2016
http://dailycaller.com/2015/04...

As a Constitutional matter everyone running is qualified. As a political matter pretty much all of them are qualified as well, including pretty much every Republican.

Sanders is an interesting fellow. He seems to be both more open and honest than many of his peers and competitors in the Democratic party, especially H. Clinton. He seems to listen to his constituents despite having some strong particular ideological leanings. Although his policy proposals would bankrupt the US he is probably preferable to Hillary Clinton, especially with a Republican Congress. Clinton's appeal escapes me in pretty much every respect. She has serious temperament issues (record of abusive, vindictive, and arrogant conduct), integrity problems, meager genuine accomplishments, and a penchant for failing solutions. She married well, which is perhaps why she simultaneously maintains that women making rape claims should be believed but has helped suppress women alleging Bill Clinton raped them.

The US middle and working classes are in trouble. A better economy would be a big help, but Obama administration policies and Democratic demands have largely served to either drive things further off the rails or to stifle a stronger economic recovery.

There is something of a pattern in this: No Country for Burly Men
The Democrats block attempts at reforms aimed preventing damage and implement programs that do damage.
The Republicans attempted to reform the mortgage industry problems that led directly to the economic implosion, and the democrats blocked it.
President Obama's time in office has been a disaster for black Americans.
"Obamacare" is imploding.

As to the whole Democrat / social democrat / "socialist" / Socialist / Communist thing ... why don't you take a few minutes to look at this. It was written by a man who was a friend and mentor to Obama, it is said he was the ghostwriter for one of his books. And here is another very close adviser, and there is someone President Obama appointed as the "green jobs czar." We're dealing with more than "social democrats" here already. However they are constrained by laws until they either change or ignore them and the Congress. They won elections, not a revolution.

Of course, you're not just using this as a pretext to attack your favorite boogeyman of the moment, the mythical "social justice warrior", are you? Because that would be stupid.

Would that be the mythical SJW's who threatened to shoot black students/people, while claiming to be white but were actually black? Or perhaps we should look at what happened at Yale and Mizzou, you know where people took the "it was a bunch of guys riding around in a pickup /white students harassing blacks/etc" that didn't actually happen.

Well, that was all mythical right?

I don't like rule by diktat, however, at least on immigration, Obama is doing a better job of removing illegals than Bush ever did.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/02...

There's plenty to criticize about Obama's administration and policies without making up lies. Please don't do it. it discredits and drowns those who are have legitimate beefs.

--PM

What's frightening is that you'd choose a crazy bigoted egomaniac over a fairly unremarkable Democrat who has become the devil incarnate to right-wingers somehow. I never understood the incredible amount of hate that US conservatives have for Hillary. Since she's a huge war-hawk by Dem standards, you'd think they might even find her more tolerable.

hillary was beloved by republicans back when. “I have a sense that she is one of the more competent members of the current administration and it would be interesting to speculate about how she might perform were she to be president,” -Dick Cheney http://dailycaller.com/2011/09... "Look, if we had a Clinton presidency, if we had Erskine Bowles as Chief of Staff of the White House or president of the United States, I think we would have fixed this fiscal mess by now. That's not the kind of presidency we're dealing with right now." - Paul Ryan http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bi... “Having started as a secretary and eventually become a chief-executive officer, I not only have great admiration and respect for Hillary Clinton and her candidacy and her leadership, but I also have great empathy, I must tell you, for what she went through,” -Carly Fiorina http://www.todayszaman.com/wor... “I happen to like Hillary Clinton; I think she’s done a good job for the ... secretary of state’s position, and I have high respect for her and think a great deal of her.” - Orrin Hatch http://www.politico.com/story/... “I think the international star is Secretary Clinton. She has done a really tremendous job.” John McCain http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2... "She's dedicated to her job, she loves her country, I think she is a good role model, one of the most effective Secretary of States, greatest ambassadors for the American people that I've known in my lifetime." -Lindsey Graham http://www.thestate.com/news/p... "I think she's done a fine job. The problem isn't Hilary Clinton, who's great," -Condoleeza Rice http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_...

What is particularly galling about this is that Mr. Obama has chosen yet another tragedy as a chance to politicize the issue.

Let me fix that for you... he chooses every tragedy to politicize the issue. Except for the tragedies that demonstrate the abject failure of strict gun control, like this one: http://dailycaller.com/2015/10...

The companies whose leaders were held up as visionaries, who provided a new model for industry to follow?

Anyone?

Anyone?

That's right. Kodak and Enron started this all in the early 1990's. One of the reasons outsource persists in spite of not saving any money is what I call "The NFL Problem."

You're a team owner. It's January. Your team went 4-12. You've just fired your coach. Now you need to find another coach. But you want someone with NFL head coach experience AND you don't want to pay what it would take to get Jimmy Johnson or Bill Parcells out of retirement.

What's then available?

The coach that went 3-13 and just got fired from some other team.

Let's now move into the computer industry. You may have read that Fossil (a company I had never heard of until this event) H-1Beed its Americans. http://dailycaller.com/2015/05...

I turned out that this was a decision made by new IT management Fossil had hired that had previously come from JCPenny. CIO magazine described the situation there as "Mismanagement for the Ages." http://www.cio.com/article/284...

Why in in the world with Fossil want to hire "Mismanagement for the Ages" to run their IT Department?

Just like the NFL owner, they probably wanted "experience" and did not want to pay a lot. That's why you see incompetent CIOs getting fired from one company and moving to another. It's not uncommon to see CIOs creating serial disasters at four or more companies.

Sadly, that is not a topic we got into in Sold Out because it was too industry specific but maybe in another book.

Eh. It's a politician thing. Politicians have been blaming the media for centuries, and probably will continue to do so as long as it works.

Q: How can you tell if a politician is lying?
A: Check if his lips are moving.

A recent Rasmussen poll states:

But 68% of Likely U.S. Voters oppose the government investigating and prosecuting scientists and others including major corporations who question global warming.

Seriously? 32% of Americans are not opposed to imprisoning scientists having theories that differ from the political establishment?!

Ridiculous you say? It's already happening with a number of climate scientists calling on Obama to bring racketeering charges on skeptics:

The science on global warming is settled, so settled that 20 climate scientists are asking President Barack Obama to prosecute people who disagree with them on the science behind man-made global warming.

Scientists from several universities and research centers even asked Obama to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to prosecute groups that “have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America’s response to climate change.”

Have we really not progressed from the inquisition of Galileo? Time to wake up, America!

The thing about hard working Mexican immigrants is this: they're the cream of the crop. Lazy people don't uproot, go to a foreign country where they'll be in the minority, and then go find a job and work hard at it.

Working hard is, and should be, highly respected.

But our laws and our borders should also be respected. I have absolutely no problem with someone coming into my house as a guest. But I do lock my front door because I don't want just anybody walking into my house and eating my food without contributing to my household or even so much as a how-do-you-do. Furthermore, while someone is in my house they must respect my property and my customs-- it's my house not theirs.

Brain surgeons, rocket scientists, and hard-working people are respectable. Great. But that doesn't give them a free pass to abuse my home and take advantage of me nor my country.

How would you feel if someone just walked into your home, tracked mud all over your carpet, drank all your beer then demanded that he be allowed to stay without paying rent and also be given a full voice in how the house was to be run?

Illegals come over our border without our permission.
They bring in drugs which ruin the lives of our citizens, some of them are rapists and murderers and continue their habits when they're here.
They use up welfare that our productive citizens worked hard to pay the taxes for-- and the illegal immigrants don't pay into this system, or if some do they don't pay nearly as much as a citizen does.
And then to top it all off they want to continue doing all of the above and they vote in our elections!

If the people that you rightfully laud for their hard work are truly interested in becoming part of the USA family then they should be crying louder than anyone for a chance to pay back-taxes + a fine for the chance to become citizens. Any illegal immigrant that just wants a free pass is doing nothing other than taking advantage of the USA and abusing the system for all its worth.

"Constitutional rights? Bah! Who needs 'em!" seems to be the watchword of the new millenium.

Yep, if events in academia is any guide, the First Amendment rights — including the reporters' right to observe and record the newsworthy events — is done for.

The gun nuts get everything they want.

False. Although the Bill of Rights clearly calls weapon-possession a right, it is treated as a mere privilege even in the most Liberal locales: you must have a government's permission to keep and bear. And even where such a permission is reasonably easy to obtain, it can also be withdrawn by the Executive at a drop of a hat — without Judiciary's participation.

And not just guns — various States and cities take an even dimmer view of the Constitutionally-protected arms like knives, swords, and brass-knuckles.

...but what a load of hogwash. Today, we are one entire degree warmer than "pre-industrial temperatures", which they define as around 1850. Coincidental, I'm sure, that the "Little Ice Age" ended around 1850, meaning that they could hardly have picked a colder point in time. I should certainly hope that we are warmer than that! The Little Ice Age saw the largest glacier extents for thousands of years, devastating many communities as they were inexorably covered with ice.

Note, also, the temperature graph in that article - a lot more than one degree drop from temperatures a couple of centuries before, which brings us to the next point. They label today's temperature range as "uncharted territory", despite the fact that the planet was almost certainly warmer than this during the Medieval Warm Period, and before that during the Roman Climate Optimum.

The rest of the TFA is all about beating the panic-drum.

...and that Angels exist, and Elvis can get your wash whiter with this one weird trick.

Yes, because questioning a climate theory that's only backed by a limited set of hotly debated data is the same as believing in Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster.

I know, I know, SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS. Because most scientists are willing (under intensive peer pressure) to say that anthropogenic global warming is a settled fact, we should all just end all scientific debate and declare anyone who questions the prevailing theory as a heretic who should be arrested and imprisoned.

Never mind that nothing in science is ever supposed to be so settled and beyond question. Yeah, that's OLD SCHOOL science, though, right? New science is where everyone gets together and agrees that X is so, and henceforth X is so and no one is allowed to question X.

Many folks would argue about his "legacy" being thin, and they would be right.

Oh really?

Obama pulled all the troops out of Iraq before Iraq was ready to defend itself, and he publicly announced the date on which Iraq would be defenceless. Result: ISIS overrunning major cities, looting banks to buy weapons, murdering and raping. I lay this death toll squarely at Obama's feet... he inherited a pacified situation from Bush and managed to screw it all to hell. Then he denied it.

Obama signed the ironically named "Affordable Care Act" but didn't write it. He did stump for it, famously promising that "if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor", promising that a family of 4 would save $2500 per year. Result: people found they couldn't keep their doctor, people found that premiums went up for everyone, and now the ACA is entering a death spiral.

Obama's "recovery" is the worst recovery since 1932.

Obama mocked Romney for identifying Russia as a strategic threat, and now Russia is making a shambles of US policy in the middle east. Obama actually started this, when he gratefully let Putin rescue him from having to actually do something when Syria crossed his "red line".

On Obama's watch, an embassy was successfully attacked and the ambassador killed, the first death of an ambassador in the line of duty in three decades. Maybe we should blame that on Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State? But she was Obama's Secretary of State. "The buck stops here."

How has the Democratic Party done with Obama as President? Not well.

I don't think Obama's "legacy" is thin at all. I think it's thick, but it's a thick legacy of failure and disaster.

This is chilling http://dailycaller.com/2015/09... These idiots are no better than the 16th century Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith! Heaven forbid anyone question the party doctrine!

Ask non-SJW males on most college campuses what power SJW's have.

They can get men kicked out of school for rape when no raping happens - with no refunds or ability to argue their position due to SJW pressure. False rape accusations aren't that uncommon.

Ask anyone with any connection to the gaming industry, be it a developer or a gamer what SJW's can do. Rumors have it that top developers have mandated new games have female villains and heroes even if it doesn't make sense.

They've pretty much ruined social media unless you stick to very small specific circles.

They've messed up Slashdot too. We have to have at least one SJW article about why we should all feel guilty women don't want to be in STEM fields. (my wife has explained this to me BTW and it's not a very PC answer)

One would think that trying to organize a "discussion panel" would imply they are interested in a conversation.

You'd think that, wouldn't you? But you'd be wrong.

The problem is that the threats they keep getting seem to be sent by GamerGate to itself.

Well your first link here let me help you out a bit. That bit from Oliver Campell, that was anti-GG individuals who sent themselves death threats. Not Gamergate individuals sending themselves threats. And of course, if you've ever done a FOIA or ATI, then you already know that vague requests are automatically ignored. But then again, you might not know this but there are several people back in the early days of Gamergate, who have T/S clearances and were doxed by anti-GG individuals. That's enough to refuse any requests on information, simply because the information was related to classified information.

The second link, good old ghazi making shit up to support their narrative. Of course the person in question wasn't a gamergate supporter, they used the gamergate hashtag 35 times. To put that in perspective, the #gamergate hashtag on twitter alone has over 3m+ tweets now, there's 50k+subs on Kotakuinaction, that sub alone gets 500k-4m unique visits a month, it's in the top 50 busiest subs on reddit for subscriber size. That of course isn't even counting boards on 8chan, and voat. Here's the good part, they were a prolific writer for left-leaning sites including DailyKos, Feministing, and the guardian as contributors among other sites. He of course also claimed to be a jew, an isis supporter, a neo-nazi, a feminist, wrote as a feminist, and so on as well.

They also advocated the restriction of speech, freedom of speech, radical support for freedom of speech, attacks against individuals who were not of their ideological orientation and so on. Among a whole pile of other things.

You seem to have misstated things. If the women could stay and repeat RTAC rather than being removed from the course upon failure as a man would, there isn't an inconsistency with only 5 passing a particular iteration. So your claim of "a bold faced lie" doesn't hold up.

Anonymous sources ... I seem to have heard of them. The sources of the story are unknown to you, but not to the reporter. And there are people on the record there making interesting statements.

Did you notice that the Sargent Major of the Marine Corps was apparently slapped down recently for stating a position on a related issue in opposition to the ideologically driven Secretary of the Navy? What do you think would happen to lower ranking people in the army leaking embarrassing information? They'd be squashed like bugs.

It seems there are some things we'll never know, and that is intended.

Pentagon Could Be ‘Shredding’ Docs About Female Rangers

It seems very possible there is something to it.

Sources: Generals Decided Long Before Ranger School That ‘A Woman Will Graduate’

Sources listed a variety of exceptions women received, despite men still being held to the rigorous standards outlined in the Standing Operating Procedures handbook for Ranger School.

First, female candidates received two weeks training from the National Guard’s Ranger Training and Assessment Course (RTAC) in January in preparation for the course, which started April 20. Males weren’t allowed to repeat RTAC, but women were — again and again.

Following the pre-training, females were assigned to a platoon at Fort Benning for months to receive full-time training with a Ranger, Sergeant First Class Robert Hoffnagle. They were even taken out to the field regularly to see the land navigation course. This is a difficult segment which is timed. When male candidates in Ranger School came across the land navigation segment, it was the first time they had ever seen it.

“He taught [them] everything, including how to do patrols,” a source told PEOPLE. While the Army denied that women were even part of the special platoon, a woman who belonged to the platoon confirmed with PEOPLE that “Hoffnagle got us ready for Ranger School.”

And finally, a two-star general showed up to cheer the women on throughout the most difficult parts of the course.

Even Capt. Kristen Griest, one of the two females who graduated the course, was surprised she made it through successfully.

Similar things have happened before.

The current administrations' main interest is winning the battle for diversity and appeasing feminist activists. Battlefield victory is a distant concern if it concerns them at all, and it is a problematic issue with their base.

Shhh... Your ruining his narrative.

Grow some balls and stand up for your rights, like these guys:
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2...
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08...
http://blogs.lawyers.com/2013/...

Why are you purposely pretending not to understand what people are saying? They are basically always referring to the 1% of their own country. You're moving goalposts, and then pretending that everyone else is with the Orange County argument.

And even so, I don't think he'd have to exclude himself because he's not the top 1% of Orange County -- because there's a 99% chance he isn't in the top 1% of the US (assuming he's from the US, and assuming that slashdot's 1%er commenters are in proportion to the greater population). With this said, Cost of Living, tax differences, and government benefits are real factors that makes the actual worldwide 1% a little fuzzy.

In addition, you're quoting income numbers, not wealth numbers. Just because you have a higher income than 99% of people, doesn't mean you have a higher wealth than 99% of people.

Also, the 1% of the world is $34k from what I've read: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new..., http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/...

This other source says $47.5k: http://dailycaller.com/2011/11...

This site puts it at around $32.5k: http://www.globalrichlist.com/

So there's a variety of estimates, and note most of those sites are actually explicitly making the same point you are so they aren't biased against you. Where's 22k coming from?

She did what Rice and Powell did before her. But it's only a problem when she does it. Why?

Why do partisan tribalists have such short term memory? Elected Democrats raised hell when the Bush Administration was using private email servers to hide information from the public and from investigators. Democrats like....Hillary Clinton:

• "Our Constitution is being shredded. We know about the secret wiretaps, the secret military tribunals, the secret White House email accounts," Clinton said. "It's a stunning record of secrecy and corruption, of cronyism run amok. It is everything our founders were afraid of, everything our Constitution was designed to prevent."

The one about not sending any classified information, just for starters. As an Original Classification Authority, Hillary knew full well that much of her communications were, to quote a government official, "born classified."

• "I did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail. There is no classified material"

Pants on fire.

Nobody has proven a lie about that, or Monica, or Whitewater, or any of the other politically motivated witch hunts.

Ah, yes, conflation. Pointing out Hillary's naked hypocrisy is totally the same thing as investigating the death of Vince Foster for the 7000th time. In the same way that complaining about Obama letting the banks get away with the greatest fraud in the history of the world, while blowing up kids with drones on the other side of the world, is totally the same thing as going on about birth certificates.

You're portraying one side of the problem. The issue is, there is not enough room within the current parameters given to the market. The elephant in the room is the entity holding it. That would be the FCC. And this idea that large corporations would dominate the wave spectrum if given the chance ignores the loss in the market by doing so. If they were to purchase (the extremely expensive) band and not make use of it, they would be losing their money. Why would a sane company buy a wave spectrum and then not use it? Another question would be, why would they buy it and use ALL of them, when they could rent out or sell the ones that are going unused.

This is the type of illogical approach most people take when they're unaware of the costs associated with actually purchasing the spectrum, and they just assume that once it's purchased it's done. WRONG. If they're not using it, and just sitting on it, that is economic suicide. Every other company that would be interested in that spec would want to purchase it from them, and this supposedly evil corp would say NO, I want to spend BILLIONS of dollars for this spectrum, and DO NOTHING with it.

Now here is when you say, "They won't do nothing with it," to which I would say, the gov is. To which you would say, "Well all of these companies would come in and just hoard all of the spectrum." To which I would say, the gov is!
If any person or entity is doing the hoarding, it is the FCC. Your fantasyland of non-government sanctioned monopolies/oligarchies ignores the world realities that occur on a daily basis where corporations trying to improve the lives of millions by selling them a product they are willing to pay millions for are unable to continue to advance or lower prices because of the increased costs of doing business because of the artificial scarcicity imposed on us by the FCC and other Federal agencies.
It's not that simple you say, yet you claim that giant telcos will come and steal all of the spectrum and leave nothing for the little guy. Yet you ignore the ridiculous costs of buying spectrum BECAUSE of its scarcity (BECAUSE the government hoards it).

http://dailycaller.com/2012/09...

Then I read this, (which includes the study) and what am I to think? Goal seeking at it's worst. http://dailycaller.com/2015/06...

That is completely legal.

However US courts claim that US law is to held up "in Europe!" which makes the teacher lose his job.

We europeans lough our asses off about such stupidity.

I would laugh with you, if that's what actually happened. Except it's not (unless you can provide a contrary link). What actually happens (on multiple occassions, apparently) is that the teacher was fired for violating school rules. Not for violating US law (because in fact a teenager drinking wine in Paris is not a violation of US law.). The teacher was responsible for following the schools rules, the teacher failed to do so, and the teacher was fired/punished for doing so. The only involvement of the courts (AFAICT) is that they agreed the school could fire the teacher.

Now, of course "zero tolerance" rules are incredibly stupid, but that's more of a low-level institutional problem than a US law problem. Note that there actually are a couple of US laws that apply to US citizens even outside the country: for example, laws against pedophilia (to prevent sex tourists from going abroad and having sex with 12-year-olds or younger). Drinking abroad, however, is not against US law.

Yes, let's move on for a war criminal wanted for crimes against humanity and focus on a mail server that was receiving non-classified email as much as a state state.gov address would ....

Neither President Obama nor Bush is "wanted" for any "crimes against humanity" by the ICC, INTERPOL, or any government. The emails that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton turned over from her server have been found to include at least two emails with Top Secret information, and that information was always Top Secret, as well as hundreds more with classified information. The FBI is investigating this matter, has seized the server, and the emails held by her attorney. It seems pretty clear that one or more people were reckless with handling classified information, and may have passed it on to people without security clearances and an official need to know. There is a genuine possibility someone will be prosecuted for this.

Clinton emails contained spy satellite data on North Korean nukes
New Clinton Violations In Use Of Thumb Drives For Emails

Do you think you could do better? Just look at the hours and travelling she worked, from Israel to USA to the Arab countries etc. etc. How about 16 hours per day, and then, collect the fatigue. Yes, she may have had a fatigue caused error, but what the hell!!!"

Yes, let's move on for a war criminal wanted for crimes against humanity and focus on a mail server that was receiving non-classified email as much as a state state.gov address would ....

Neither President Obama nor Bush is "wanted" for any "crimes against humanity" by the ICC, INTERPOL, or any government. The emails that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton turned over from her server have been found to include at least two emails with Top Secret information, and that information was always Top Secret, as well as hundreds more with classified information. The FBI is investigating this matter, has seized the server, and the emails held by her attorney. It seems pretty clear that one or more people were reckless with handling classified information, and may have passed it on to people without security clearances and an official need to know. There is a genuine possibility someone will be prosecuted for this.

Clinton emails contained spy satellite data on North Korean nukes
New Clinton Violations In Use Of Thumb Drives For Emails

Modern society disagrees with you.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/20/tammy-cooper-texas-mom-arrested-kids-unsupervised-video_n_1900113.html

http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/local/2015/01/15/parents-charged-with-neglect-for-kids-playing-outside/21821723/

http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/29/mom-charged-with-felony-for-letting-son-walk-to-park-alone-video/

http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/free-range-parents-found-responsible-child-neglect-allowing/story?id=29363859

Mediamatters ??? Oh that's funny. An organization that exists for no other reason than to pimp the Clintons

http://downtrend.com/robertgeh...
http://dailycaller.com/2015/06...
http://capitalresearch.org/201...

There's no evidence (so far) of someone like Cisco knowingly putting an NSA exploit in everything they sell.

The NSA doesn't intercept all exported routers to a given country, either. Why wouldn't they intercept a single modem being shipped to a single target here in the US? It's no less illegal than most of the other junk they're doing.

A slide leaked by Wikileaks shows Cisco being counted by the NSA as a "strategic partnership". http://www.vrworld.com/2014/05...

UPS and Fed Ex's silence on the NSA's involvement doesn't give me much confidence that they're not participating in domestic interdiction. http://dailycaller.com/2013/12...

Nothing worth quoting

But seeing as you think the EPA is some DIVINE force for good

http://dailycaller.com/2015/08...

A river that turned a troubling shade of orange after toxic waste was accidentally released into it a week ago is “restoring itself,” the country’s top environmental official said Thursday.

Hey apparently it's only when the government dumps toxins that nature can restore itself.

Umm, food stamps can be used for just about anything at a grocer except alcohol and tobacco. Straight up vegetable oil is available for purchase with food stamps. So is Red Bull, candy, cake, and god knows what else: http://dailycaller.com/2014/06...

You keep proving my point.

Repeating the same falsehood over and over again doesn't actually make it true you know.

The State Department cannot locate them. That does not mean Ms. Clinton did not turn them over.

Remember the old days when we mailed a check to a bank to pay the monthly mortgage or credit card statement? Ever have one 'get lost in the mail' or somehow not get it into their hands before the due date through no fault of your own? Do you recall what happens? Usually late charges as it was your responsibility (not theirs) to make sure that your payment arrived on time. Same actually can be seen in the terms & conditions of many online banks & payment systems today.

What does this have to do with Hillary? It was HER responsibility to turn over all documents, not that of the State Department to make sure they gather it all. It's why usually when on the way out of federal service you sign an OF-109, certifying under penalty of perjury that amongst other things:

1. I have surrendered to responsible officials all classified or administratively controlled documents and material with which I was charged or which I had in my possession, and I am not retaining in my possession, custody, or control, documents or material containing classified or administratively controlled information furnished to me during the course of such employment or developed as a consequence thereof, including any diaries, memorandums of conversation, or other documents of a personal nature that contain classified or administratively controlled information.

2. I have surrendered to responsible officials all unclassified documents and papers relating to the official business of the Government acquired by me while in the employ of the Department or USIA.

Such terms would seem to apply to even the SoS right? Oddly enough, (despite it being the norm).

Even without signing the document, the requirements to turn over all official documents still exists, the paperwork is just a reminder with a legal threat attach to drive the point home.

Coupled with the fact that certain documents which are known to have been created and/or received during her time in office which do not appear to be part of what she handed over to State upon her departure, we have really only 4 options:

1. She did not turn over the missing document
2. Somehow the documents became permanently lost during delivery
3. Somehow the documents became permanently lost after delivery
4. Somehow the documents became temporarily lost after delivery and will turn up eventually... say in a different box.

You seem to be pushing for #4 as a possible reason as to why the documents are not currently discoverable, yet as time goes on we will know if that is true or not (once the rest of the emails have been examined)... while certainly possible, given other false statements (only used one device, never sent/received classified information, etc), we have a pattern of dishonesty emerge that while it doesn't prove #1, does start to make it a more likely scenario, doubly so when this isn't the first time documents she was required to turn over mysteriously disappeared (though in the 90's case, reappeared)..

There is a reason federal employees use federal email systems and not personal ones, that way the burden on the employee to archive all documentation is far far less. By opting for her own system she made compliance that much harder, and legally any failure to comply is on her... hence the investigations.

Clearly you have a belief of what happened and are trying to make reality fit that belief. Good luc

Yes, please continue to oversimplify, overstate, and not read papers in their entirety.
It makes this task easier.

http://www.skepticalscience.co...

You got balls

Daily Caller....They never saw a anti-environment position/myth they didn't like.
Linking to the Daily Caller for anything science/environmental is like referring Trump as an example of modesty.

When referring to this link

http://dailycaller.com/2015/07...

You didn't even read the damn title of the story

NY Times Edits Story To Tone Down Facts, Inject Bias

Keep at it prove yourself more of a zealot.

lol sure it is http://dailycaller.com/2015/07...

http://dailycaller.com/2015/07...

Any and everything on Gawker work for you ?

As we all know, you can win any argument with a teabagger by using a single word: 'scientists.' 'Scientists say it’s happening. Scientists say you’re wrong. Why are you denying science, science-denier?' BOOM. ... Scientists are saying this. Scientists! Are you a scientist? If not, you need to shut up.*
*If you are a scientist and you disagree, you also need to shut up. That’s how it works. Some science is more equal than other science.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/06...

Another blatant case of government employees trying to get even with people they don't agree with.

do you truly not know any women in software or gaming who've experienced the kind of awful "boy's only club" attitudes and sometimes downright literal sexual harassment

I do not. I'm willing to believe, the attitudes exist — as do women-only clubs, but I don't see anything particularly wrong (as in "this must be illegal!") with them. Nor do I know a person with a claim of having been persecuted over being a woman supported better, than something I can claim on the basis of being a Ukrainian expatriate.

Such claims are bogus and the laws they are based on — tyrannical. I do not believe, we've become a better country by adopting such laws — they target the symptoms (and do so poorly), while allowing various scammers (both private and governmental) to blackmail innocent employees into various "settlements".