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I'm not familiar with Christopher Booker or his works (he might be full of shite the majority of the time, I just don't know), but it looks like he was right about the 1930s having the highest temp on record: NOAA Reinstates July 1936 As The Hottest Month On Record

I'm not a supporter or denier of "human-caused global warming/cooling/changing/whatever", I think people are a bit arrogant to think they have accurately modeled a system as complex as our planet's weather. To all of the fanatics on the subject, I say "tone it down, you don't know either". /shrug

http://dailycaller.com/2014/06... NOAA's been changing temperatures to fit a computer model of what temperature data should be, instead of just using the data.

Soros gives $1 million to Media Matters

Left-wing foundations lavish millions on Media Matters

The list of Media Matters’ foundation funders, 120 in all, reads like a Who’s Who of the American progressive movement, including the far-left Tides Foundation ($4,384,702), George Soros’ Open Society Institutes ($1,075,000), the Ford Foundation ($966,466), the Sandler Foundation ($400,000) — endowed by subprime mortgage lenders Herb and Marion Sandler, who once bankrolled the embattled ACORN organization — and the Schumann Fund for Media and Democracy ($600,000), managed by longtime PBS host Bill Moyers and his son.

They also include the anti-George W. Bush organization MoveOn.org ($50,000), the Barbra Streisand Foundation ($85,000), the kids’ shoes-powered Stride Rite Charitable Foundation ($25,000), the Lear Family Foundation ($55,000) — endowed by the TV producer and People for the American Way founder Norman Lear — and the Joyce Foundation ($400,000), whose board of directors included Barack Obama from 1994 to 2002.

See, anyone can skew, just like you!

Not sure where you are getting your numbers but representatives of the IRS said you are wrong in testimony before committee:

http://dailycaller.com/2014/04...

> They have since admitted wrong-doing, first blaming it on a field office, but later documents showed to orders came from Washington.

Come on man, give us a link to a reasonable source. All I'm seeing is breitbart-sourced crap from over a year ago.
Oh wait, now I see, you are playing word games "came from washington" implies whitehouse when all it really was were IRS agents from the washington office.

Also, stuff like no liberal groups is really, "no evidence that any liberal or progressive group received enhanced scrutiny because its application reflected the organization’s political views" which is saying that the targeting was not because of their political views, which is what the IRS has been saying all along - it wasn't anyone's brand of politics, it was their political nature that triggered the investigations since the classification meant that they were supposed to be groups working for the general benefit of society not political advocacy.

So, what I'm seeing is that it just more benghazi style bullshit catering to people who aren't very critical thinkers.

Bigotry is nothing more than a character flaw UNTIL it is combined with power. So all those black people living in the bad part of town who fucking hate whitey don't mean shit because no matter how incandescent their bigotry is, they can't do anything about it.

Sure they can. They can go find a white who happened to be passing through their part of the town and beat him up, or worse.

What they do is use their total information awareness to find some excuse to put the executives in prison for a completely different reason. The difference matters little to the executive.

Now, who would do such a thing?

What in the patriot act gives them this power?

You don't need the power officially. They have ways of getting what they want.

[Quest's CEO] says he refused to cooperate based on advice from his lawyers that such an action would be illegal, as the NSA would not go through the normal process of asking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for a subpoena. About this time, he says the company’s ability to win unrelated government contracts - something it did not have trouble with before the NSA meeting - slowed significantly.

And here

I'm not saying anything in particular about Cisco's vulnerability to pressure from the NSA. I'm just saying they don't necessarily need explicit legal power to get what they want.

Sorry, the media is too busy trying to make sure that those stories remain buried. After all it can't embarrass Obama, or Holder, or shine any light on his administration. That would be racist, or show that they're political hacks who are actively supporting an administration which is corrupt, and they're playing political favorites. Never mind that the IRS targeting of conservative groups also falls into this, and was done at the behest of a high ranking democrat.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/03...

Skepticism is discouraged. When little Johny asks how something is possible because it doesn't make sense, and is told to sit down and shut up, that isn't proper science. You cannot claim something is falsifiable therefor scientific and squash all attempts to falsify it due to the fact they are attempting to be skeptical and remain scientific. It is not falsifiable if no one is allowed to question it just the same as there is no way to falsify any supernatural being with it's own free will. God will never be scientific even though one could argue that a God created science and the patterns we observe. Neither will anything claiming to be science when you are unable to falsify it.

I normally would not reply to idiots like you but any small amount of investigation would show you do not have a fucking clue about this. Here is an excerpt from the daily caller reporting on a NPR interview about the standards

"K-12 students at public schools learn about climate change to help fill a knowledge gap concerning the subject, while skepticism will be discouraged.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/03...

It goes on to say Weâ(TM)ve heard stories of students who learn about climate change,â said McCaffrey. âoeThen they go home and tell their parents, and everybodyâ(TM)s upset because the parents are driving their kids to the soccer game, and the kids are feeling guilty about being in the car and contributing to this global problem.

Now, if that isn't indoctrination, I do not know what it. So either believe me or die some horrible death like they say in most religions and now science being taught in public education. Whenever your instruction relies on scaring people to follow you, it is indoctrination.

Have you even bothered with the standards? I mean I read them on that right wing news site PBS, but I believe them to be accurate. IT says things like "Changes in climate conditions can affect the health and function of ecosystems and the survival of entire species." Oh noes, we are all going to die if we don't act now.

"The only explanation that is consistent with all available evidence is that human impacts are playing an increasing role in climate change." It cannot be anything else even if we find something because as we found out earlier, skepticism is discouraged so nothing that counters the intended prolog will ever be viable.

And here is my favorite essential principle "Scientists have conducted extensive research on the fundamental characteristics of the climate system and their understanding will continue to improve. Current climate change projections are reliable enough to help humans evaluate potential decisions and actions in response to climate change." Despite the fact that none of the projections have been accurate as of yet. Sure, you find models that point in the right direction but if they were accurate, we would have half the east coast under water right now, California would be a lot smaller, and farmers in the mid west would be out of a job. I guess that saying about a million monkeys on typewriters would eventually pound out a Shakespearean novel may apply to it. All models so far have only been accurate to their training data- not forward projections. Hell, just a few months ago, they found 4 or 5 new green house gasses that non of the models were considering. But it is reliable enough I guess if your calculator said 2+2 was 5 every so often, the calculator would be "reliable enough"?

Big problem right now for Small Businesses and the ACA is that it prevent small businesses from using the exchanges until next year. This is so the the insurance companies could stick the fork in small shops offering insurance. ($$$). My company offers insurance, it's gone up 30% per year for the last three years. Next year that will drop back to what our insurance cost three years ago.

So now who do you suppose was instrumental in getting that put into the law? Obama, Reid and Pelosi had to throw every bone they could to get the thing passed.

BULLSHIT

The Democrats had a filibuster-proof supermajority in the Senate, and Pelosi needed no Republican support to pass Obamacare.

It's a DEMOCRAT turd through and through.

If the Republicans were willing to participate at all, we could have had a seriously better law passed. But they didn't. You know why the democrats wanted the law passed because anything to contain the rising share of the economy consumed by the health care industry. They had to do it or we were going to get totally hosed.

tl;dr You got no standing to complain, eat your moldy rat turds like everyone else.

Great. So they pass a law that kicks millions upon millions out of the insurance plans they already had - and LIED THROUGH THEIR FUCKING TEETH ABOUT IT.

"If you like your plan, you can keep it."

Costs? Health insurance costs have skyrocketed by 39% in the past year or so. They went up 37% over the ENTIRE previous 8 years.

Health care costs are SKYROCKETING under Obamacare:

Health insurance premiums have risen more after Obamacare than the average premium increases over the eight years before it became law, according to the private health exchange eHealthInsurance.

The individual market for health insurance has seen premiums rise by 39 percent since February 2013, eHealth reports. Without a subsidy, the average individual premium is now $274 a month. Families have been hit even harder with an average increase of 56 percent over the same period — average premiums are now $663 per family, over $426 last year.

Between 2005 and 2013, average premiums for individual plans increased 37 percent and average family premiums were upped 31 percent. So they have risen faster under Obamacare than in the previous eight years.

"You don't tend to see the left calling for banning guns either"

So when these guys call for bans on "assault weapons", they're not on the left or not calling for gun bans?

When NYC starts taking people's guns away, the city is not left-leaning or it's not banning any guns?

When Democrats tried to put confiscation of assult weapons into a bill in New York state, apparently they were not "on the left" and were not going for the guns?

When Democrat senator Dianne Feinstein said this about her desire to order every person in the US to turn in their guns (which only failed to happen because she could not get enough votes) she did not really mean it?

And while we're on the subject, what's with this article on the various Democrat efforts to grab/ban guns and various ways to lie to the public about it so the public will let them do it???

Who am I supposed to believe? You or my apparently lying eyes and ears? Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.... and as a corallary: those who failed to listen to tyrants as they announced their evil plans in the past, are probably too dumb to notice when the next wave plainly announce the evil they are planning.

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/...

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

http://dailycaller.com/2013/07...

http://www.aei.org/article/pol...

But then again, if John Stewart and Colbert don't report it, it never happened ... right?

You haven't a frackin clue! Texas will soon be the second largest producer of oil and gas in the world. Modern civilization's chemistry is build around the hydrocarbon chain. Everything from pharmaceuticals, lipstick, solvents, to plastics. The very notion of doing away with LNG or oil is sophistry. It will happen when we run out of the stuff purely on market forces alone. And when that happens, you will have WWIII as nations fight for it. That last bit is not meant as a joke. It's deadly serious. That's how dependent the world is on the stuff in all aspects.

He is right to contrast Whole Foods with Walmart:

http://dailycaller.com/2013/05...

http://www.thetasteoftomorrow....

http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

In short, stupid people shop at both Walmart and Whole Foods. It's just that the Whole Foods stupid people are trying to let other people think for them, where as the Walmart stupid people don't particularly care.

...so they can pay them less. amirite?

Well, Google has been fans of the Obama administration.

White House pay gap twice as large as pay gap in the District of Columbia

The facts do not support your statement There are dates in the Obamacare law that the president has unilaterally changed:
http://dailycaller.com/2014/03...

http://dailycaller.com/2013/01...

For the most part, it went to hire more administrative staff.

Citation needed on that.

Citation.
Citation.
Citation.

Maybe it's better at NSA (very doubtful), but have you been paying attention to how things have gone for VA medical records?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
http://dailycaller.com/2014/02...

Considering 50 million American out of work. One wonders that American corporations can't invest in American workforces.

Data shows millions of Americans falling out of the workforce

Still No Evidence of a Labor Shortage

Except that Americans don't take exception to the quotes because we see the flaws and hypocrisy. Contrarily, Muslims believe their religion truly is a religion of peace and don't see how it's lies

exactly. Most American's would be amused by the use of quotes where as most Muslims would be annoyed and many would kill you over it.

Please ignore the ravings of a lunatic posted above. Nothing like that is happening!

Xbox Live political advertisement targeting leverages user data

http://www.slashgear.com/xbox-...

Microsoft to target political ads on Xbox Live using player data

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

Microsoft is getting ready to Scroogle Xbox owners

http://bgr.com/2014/03/07/micr...

Microsoft is using your data to target political ads on Xbox Live

http://tech.slashdot.org/story...

One might say the entire US economy, government, wall street, and politicians honesty
are an exercise in speculation.

With the puppet strings controlling most of these one might say its " all rigged "
from top to bottom much like one politicians hot mic recently did.

http://dailycaller.com/2010/11...

Most ppl have no idea what is coming, epic suck is on the way.

Farmer's Almanac which is based on historic patterns, called this one.

Yep looks like it did.
http://www.almanacnews.com/squ...
http://dailycaller.com/2011/09...

Take it as you want.

But why is this the case when the instruments are being financed by a private company.

Because the export limitation is based on military utility, not on ownership of the company. Most weapons and other military equipment is produced by private companies, even if in some cases it is using government equipment or facilities to do so.

If Apple were to branch out into military equipment, even if they didn't sell to the US government, wouldn't you want someone watching what happens with iMissile shipments?

But it is even harder to understand that the military should get better images of the U.S.A. through Google than we can get ourselves. At least in times of peace and while they claim to not be at war with their own citizens.

A couple of things there. First, many things of interest to enemies, adversaries, or terrorists don't move. If you take their picture once, it's always there until you remove the picture. The water treatment plant for your city? It won't be moving anytime soon, including the roads, tanks, fences, and ground cover. Second, the US is involved in military conflict at present against al Qaida, the Taliban, and associates. Iran has agents and allies in the US, thousands of them, and plans to hit the US as it desires.

Iranian commander: We have targets within America

Finally, that line of "they claim not to be at war with their own citizens" is tedious demagoguery. If the US was at war with its citizens I think the results would be more dramatic than limiting the resolution on satellite photographs you can purchase.

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At best it is neutral if the cop decides to ignore you, but all other outcomes go down hill from there. It's best to just be respectful, stay calm and do what they tell you.

If you are lucky, you will get a cop who is reasonable in return. In some cases, you may get the opposite - a copy who is belligerent, abusive, hot-tempered, who might scream at you, push you down, and arrest you just for giving a homeless person your spare change.

You probably could have voted for Gary Johnson last presidential election. (If you were in Michigan, he was a write-in candidate, not on the ballot. If you were in Oklahoma, you couldn't vote for him at all. In the other 48 states, he was on the ballot.)

He has said:

Instead of trying to fix or adjust or moderate TSA airport screening procedures to make them less abusive or slightly more tolerable, I say it is time to turn airport screening and security over to those who should be doing it in the first place: the airlines.

On one hand, that's not exactly the same as calling for complete abolition of the TSA, merely removing them from "airport screening and security" -- it leaves unstated what other TSA missions (new or extant) he might support. On the other hand, it's a lot more like abolishing the TSA than either the R or D candidates proposed... (I haven't followed his campaign closely; maybe he made a less ambiguous statement at some point.)

It's not clear to me that the president has the power to abolish the TSA without congressional involvement, but AFAICS there's nothing stopping him from downsizing it to one guy who sits in an office and eats Skittles all day and updates the terror threat level to the color he just ate.

So in some sense, I believe GP is correct that we tolerate it. If enough Americans were angry enough about the TSA that they were willing to put up with any of Gary Johnson's positions they don't like, and let go of the differences between the Republican and Democrat candidates that make them fight for the less-bad instead of a vote "wasted" on a third party candidate, they could all have voted for Gary Johnson, and the TSA might well be effectively neutralized by now. (Or yes, maybe Gary Johnson would have turned out to be corrupted by power, just like every other candidate who makes good-sounding promises in his campaign, and reneges on them as soon as he's in office.)

But of course there's a long way between "acceptable" and "so unacceptable I'll put it ahead of all other issues combined", so his equivalence of "Americans tolerate [the TSA]" with "we have said ... the TSA is acceptable" is pretty bogus.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/08... This is from a "former head of the U.S. Justice Department Asset Forfeitures Office and a federal prosecutor."

Apparently the UN Climate Chief just said that only Communism can stop global warming.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/15/un-climate-chief-communism-is-best-to-fight-global-warming/

So... you can see how that would effectively cause most of the opposition to feel vindicated that the whole thing is just a ploy to promote radical leftist redistributionalism.

Look, if you ACTUALLY care about the environment, then there is no way to get cooperation unless there is no perception of political bias. If you can't do that, then really you can't do anything. As pointed out in the article, communism actually has a terrible environmental record. So not even that would work.

Making Al Gore your front man was a strategic error. Saying the debate was over just meant a lot of minds closed instantly in response and decided then and there that you were wrong.

If you care... you'll reengage with humility, mutual respect, and patience. The only reason to not do that is because you refuse to control your ego, refuse to treat people you need the cooperation of with respect, and lack the intellectual patience to go through a matter in the time required.

And if that is the case... you don't really care.

I care. I have my own biases but I am willing to humbly go through the matter acknowledging what I don't know or understand, showing common courtesy to people that I might not agree with or trust, and patiently going through the matter step by step.

Anyone that cares must be willing to do that. Anyone that is not willing to can't possibly care because they've put their own petty personal prejudices above the vitality of the global ecosystem.

So you use a bunch of left-wing websites to "debunk" the news?

I don't have time to go into everything, and in fact most of the list doesn't interest me that much.

But the IRS scandal wasn't hatched a couple days before the national press finally noticed. The IRS behavior was being noticed and complained about for many many months before it became widespread knowledge. You probably heard about the IRS being used as a political weapon in spring of 2013.

From July of 2012, "Even worse, the IRS has responded to dozens of tax-exemption applications by tea-party groups with astonishingly intrusive document demands, seeking not only donor lists but also lists of volunteers." http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/310384/obama-s-sunshine-policy-david-french

Mr. French is referring to a DailyCaller article from February 2012, http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/22/congressional-investigations-sought-over-irs-assault-on-tea-party-groups/

Yes it's true that these are all conservative websites, but who else was going to cover news at that time that was negative to President Obama and wasn't already high profile?

Anyway, here is a non-conservative site debunking your debunking http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/05/14/irs-tea-party-progressive-groups/2158831/

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In 2000, Al Gore's motorcade was used to create massive traffic jams on purposed for the intent of voter suppression. Was barely mentioned in the news at the time.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/15/obamacares-id-restrictions-and-liberal-voting-rights-hypocrisy/

I guess the PPACA is too then right? You are seeming like you are inventing things and treating them as if they were real. Have you seen a doctor or anything for this condition? I know it will require an ID, but I hear this Obamacare stuff is supposed to be affordable- if that helps.

Abstract: An examination of the effects of concealed weapons laws and assault weapons bans on state-level murder rates. Like many papers published in academic journals you would have to pay to see the whole thing, although you can preview it.

You can read a news story about it here:

Study shows concealed-carry laws result in fewer murders

Similar work:

An interview with John R. Lott, Jr.

You may find this interesting as well.

Detroit police chief: More legally armed citizens deter crime

However, those two years have brought on voter registration laws designed to disenfranchise, laws so blatantly racist that it's pants-on-heads insane that anybody let them get away with it.

Voter turnout in Texas nearly doubles under new ID law
Minority turnout increased dramatically after Georgia voter-ID law
New Analysis Shows Voter Identification Laws Do Not Reduce Turnout

Voting fraud is an important question since so many elections are now decided by margins of victory less than the margin of fraud.

Al Franken May Have Won His Senate Seat Through Voter Fraud

Poor and minority votes seem especially vulnerable.

Poor and Disadvantaged are Most Likely to Have Their Vote Stolen
Officials Plead Guilty in New York Voter Fraud Case

Mississippi NAACP leader sent to prison for 10 counts of voter fraud
New York Investigators Obtain Fraudulent Ballots 97 Percent of Time
The “snowbird vote” takes wing

1. Antarctic Global Warming Expedition Ship Trapped in Sea Ice. You may have heard about the Russian vessel trapped 100 miles away from land in 10 feet thick ice in Antarctica and how three ice breakers have failed to rescue it. What you may not have heard is this ship is filled with Climate Scientists studying Global Warming. They are comparing data from 100 years ago when there was no sea ice in the same location.

2. Yachts Trapped in Sea Ice in the Arctic Last Summer. You probably didnt hear about all the yachts, sailboats, rowboats, and kayaks that got trapped by sea ice while trying to sail the fabled Northwest Passage. They were promised an ice free passage.

3. Global Sea Ice at Record Levels. Al Gore and John Kerry 5 years ago predicted that 2013 would be ice free in the arctic. You probably havent heard that the exact opposite came true. 2013 is currently at the second highest volume of sea ice ever recorded and will probably break the all time record before the season is over.

4. Half of Meteorologists Dont Believe in Global Warming. Nearly half of meteorologists and atmospheric science experts donâ(TM)t believe that human activities are the driving force behind global warming, according to a survey by the American Meteorological Society.

5. Only 75 Climate Scientists Believe in Global Warming. You probably have heard ad nauseum that 97% percent of Climate Scientists believe in global warming. That stat was based on a study which counted only 75 of 77 Climate Scientists. Compared to the over 31,000 scientists who have signed a petition saying they dont believe in Global Warming. Thats only 2.3 in 1,000 or .23% of scientists that actually believe in Global Warming.

6. NASA caught fudging historical temps to make it look like the globe is warming. By massively cooling the past in their recent graphs, NASA has exaggerated the amount of warming they report by nearly twice as much as they did 13 years ago.

7. Polar Bear Population at Record Levels. Since we've been keeping count the Polar Bear population is estimated at a record high of 20k to 25k. 5,000 are expected to be born around the New Year in Russia alone.

8. Obama Allows Wind Farms to Kill Eagles Without Penalties. Over 50 years ago the green movement started with the book Silent Spring which alleged that DDT was killing the Bald Eagle. Now we have come full circle by allowing wind power companies to kill eagles without penalty because its good for the planet.

9. The Oceans Arent Rising. Remember in 2009 when the officials of the Maldives held a press conference under water to show that their islands were sinking because of global warming. Well a new study do

"Apparently they pretty much do".

Who in their right minds keeps names of undercover agents on a computer that anyone can walk in off the street and copy to a USB device or their Britney Spears writeable DVD ..

'Last month British and U.S. intelligence officials speculated Snowden had in his possession a “doomsday cache” of intelligence information, including the names of undercover intelligence personnel stationed around the world' ref

Apparently they pretty much do.

DOD official: Snowden ‘stole everything — literally everything’

There are plenty of explanations of what is wrong with that story; use Google.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/21/the-republican-party-isnt-racist/

One fundamental logical error is to assume that because a small, decentralized government message may have appeal to racists (because they might hope to reintroduce racist policies in local and state elections) that that makes the message itself racist.

None of the google results for me were anything that a standard food service permit wouldn't cover. You may not have noticed but most Starbucks stores aren't only open a maximum of twice a year because those permits aren't in fact restricted to a maximum of twice a year.

So what's the reference for your case and the paranoid rantings that followed?

The part about the "twice a year" restriction is referring to the permit needed to do this outdoors at a public location like a park, which is separate from a food service (restaurant) permit.

The government is insisting that those trying to feed the homeless secure a building for food preparation and service and otherwise invest the same large amounts of money and pay the same costs and obey all the same rules that a commercial "for-profit" sit-down restaurant would, without the ability to earn money from the free food to ameliorate costs, making it so extremely costly that it's impractical to do.

It's a practical proscription-in-all-but-name by thousands of regulations, codes, fees, permits, inspections, ordnances, and laws enforced to the letter.

Here's a few links to related information.

http://rt.com/usa/north-carolina-police-arrest-homeless-019/

http://www.foodnotbombs.net/fnb_resists.html

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/05/218891324/more-cities-sweeping-homeless-into-less-prominent-areas

http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/19/bloomberg-strikes-again-nyc-bans-food-donations-to-the-homeless/

If you can't see any problems with government behavior and laws/regs/ordnances/policies here, then there's really nothing I or anyone else can say to you.

Strat

They HAVE been found out and disgraced. Look up Phil Jones. Look up comments from climate scientists who left the IPCC because it has become a joke.

Citation of MIT scientists that used to work on IPCC panel now thinks they have become a joke.

Citation 2 Phil Jones deleted data about 5 years after being legally required to share it for peer review. Deleting data to prevent an "arch-nemisis" from seeing it is NOT scientific, it is a desperate act to stop your corruption from being found out.

Its only idiots like you that REFUSE to acknowledge the truth that keeps it going.
Here are claims - And then reality:
More hurricanes every year - Reality is quiter hurricane season each year.
No record lows recorded anymore - Reality is over 1000 record lows have been recorded recently (Including a world record low recorded in 2010)
Average temps will increase - Reality is warming stopped 17 years ago

What you say HAS happened. You are aparently too stupid to actuallty READ anything on the subject because you "know it all already". I would rather debate a "bible thumper" because they can actually POINT to where their ideas come from, you just repeat crap that has been debunked for over 5 years and pretend it is still relevent. You are not scientific, you are worse than the most ignorant bible thumper out there.

I thought my statement was reasonably clear. Between 25 and 33% of all of Planned Parenthood's funds are allocated directly by the federal government. PP admits to 25%, various organizations claim 33% minimum, and some actually claim that 50% of PP's money comes through the government. I don't find the 50% claim to be exactly credible, but I can't discredit it either.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/06/gao-to-look-at-planned-parenthood-related-groups-federal-funding/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood#Funding

To spell out what I know for fact:
If the federal government wasn't funding PP, then PP couldn't keep all their clinics open, and they would probably have to cut pretty deeply into the abortions they perform.

PP's OTHER objectives, of providing gynocology care, and family planning, are perfectly legitimate. There is no problem with tending to women's health - only an idiot or a genuine misogynist would object to it. It's the abortions that so many of us find objectionable. Worse, is the lack of meaningful counseling. PP's counseling ALWAYS tends to push women toward choosing abortion, rather than helping women to find alternatives.

I am not one who wants to end all abortions, for any reason. But, I find PP's methods and goals to be very objectionable.

First Lady Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the contract to build the failed Obamacare website.

Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of ’85, is senior vice president at CGI Federal, which earned the no-bid contract to build the $678 million Obamacare enrollment website at Healthcare.gov. CGI Federal is the U.S. arm of a Canadian company.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/25/michelle-obamas-princeton-classmate-is-executive-at-company-that-built-obamacare-website/#ixzz2laSNJyGs

OTOH, if the NSA can't protect it's data from rogue insiders ... maybe we should assume our tax returns were sold to the highest bidder long ago.

Who says they need to be sold? As of late they've been doing some strategic (and illegal) leaking:

http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/13/the-irs-admits-to-targeting-conservative-groups-but-were-they-also-leaking/
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/04/National-Organization-of-Marriage-Chairman-IRS-Leaked-Info-About-Group-s-Donors-to-Liberal-Groups
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2013/06/04/report-irs-leaked-conservative-groups-confidential-info-to-opponents/

And yes... I did pick the partisan sites deliberately in this case.

I'm sick of Snowden's puppet masters having free reign of the news...we need smarter editors!

Hear hear. And who are Snowden's puppet masters? The key "journalist" he worked with, Glenn Greenwald, supports Hamas and Hezbollah to the point of denying that either is a terrorist organization and is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at a CAIR conference, with CAIR being a Muslim Brotherhood front organization formerly known as the Islamic Association for Palestine (google it).

There was an interesting piece a few months back, What if Microsoft exited the search business?, arguing that the abandonment of Bing would lead to a near-immediate antitrust action against Google, either from the FTC or as a private action undertaken by Microsoft itself.

It may be that Google needs Bing to hang around as plausible competition the same way that Microsoft needed Mac OS to soldier on in the late 90's as a putative competitor to Windows (and remember, Microsoft was still found to have engaged in illegal monopolistic practices anyways, something that Microsoft arguably never recovered from).

(ACA begin as a Republican program under Romney, remember).

What is that supposed to prove? That Republicans are the only ones intelligent enough to watch something play out poorly on a state level and make the connection that maybe doing the same thing on a federal level is a bad idea? http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/03/romney-obama-failed-to-learn-the-lessons-from-romneycare-video/

First Lady Michelle Obama and her Princeton classmate whose company received the no-bid government contract to build the HealthCare.gov Obamacare website were both members of a black student organization that caused a tense scene on campus by inviting a PLO leader who advocated for terrorism.

Michelle Obama ’85 and her classmate Toni Townes-Whitley ’85, a senior vice president at CGI Federal, were both students at the university when their groups the Organization of Black Unity (OBU) and the Third World Center (TWC) engaged in a confrontation with Jewish students on campus.

Source Daily Caller: http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/28/michelle-obama-and-cgi-federal-executive-belonged-to-student-group-at-princeton-that-hosted-pro-terrorist-speaker/#ixzz2jM3P01QH