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Evidence? Who needs evidence?

Indeed. Both — anthropogenic global warming and danger of fracking — are not supported by any sort of evidence. Both are a matter of belief and hypothesis — and Pascal's Wager is even cited as an argument.

And if you were in Australia right now

Did you know, kangaroos can postpone pregnancy ? For months and even years? They developed this ability in response to multi-year droughts that would befall their continent every once in a while since times immemorial... Citing "Australia right now" in support of "Global Warming" (also known as "Climate Change") is ridiculous...

I don't see any of them creating "a well regulated militia"...

If we read the 1st Amendment the way you are proposing we read the 2nd, your right to Free Speech would likewise come with the following restrictions:

• Only if your speech petitions the Government — addressing anybody else is not covered and is subject to regulations.
• Only if the petition is for Redress of Grievances — for example, neither pornography nor bomb-making instructions would be covered.
• Only if the medium you chose for your speech existed, when the Bill of Rights was written — anything said on radio, TV, or the Internet is not covered.

Is that your proposal, or are you going to suggest, we apply self-inconsistent set of rules, when reading the Bill of Rights?

...and burn them at the stake as witches? That aught to take care of those pesky people who disagree.

Oh I wish we could do that. We'd be able to solve many problems at once.

Have a look at the link below. Here's a teaser - Methane levels downwind peaked at the stunningly high level of 2080 parts per billion!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

After the revolution succeeds, a terrorist stops being a terrorist and becomes a freedom fighter.

I know it sounds crazy at first blush, but I think it would make sense to totally get rid of corporate taxes. (Replaced by other forms of taxation.)

The basic idea is that a corporation is nothing but a bunch of people owning it, so instead of taxing the corporation you tax the individual owners (owners, shareholders, etc.) instead. Since corporations wouldn't be paying taxes, you could then get rid of all of the tax breaks/writeoffs for corporations, which would significantly simplify corporate accounting and reduce the incentive for large corporations to shift money around to avoid tax.

Some references:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
http://www.theatlantic.com/bus...
http://www.vox.com/2014/8/8/59...

Please quote that provision of the Voting Rights Act.

Let me Google that for you.

Geez, even Daily Kos is honest about this:

What if legislators didn't have to draw majority-minority districts? Democrats would lose big

The Voting Rights Act saw one of its main enforcement mechanisms gutted last summer in the controversial and partisan 5-4 Supreme Court decision Shelby County v. Holder. However, even without section 5 requiring many jurisdictions to pre-clear changes to the voting process section 2 remains. Through it and accompanying jurisprudence such as Thornburg v. Gingles and Barlett v. Strickland, states and other jurisdictions are effectively required to draw majority-minority districts under appropriate circumstances. ...

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/20/1346374/-BREAKING-VIDEO-Police-Lied-Mike-Brown-was-killed-148-feet-away-from-Darren-Wilson-s-SUV

Maybe he prefers facts to the lies the cops presented in court.

A bit late to the party, bud? The fact of paid shills has become evident from many angles. GHCQ (and the NSA by extension) have already been shown to employ paid trolls. https://firstlook.org/theinter... (Here's where you call Greenwald a libertarian or bitch about Omidyar Pierre.)
Even telecoms employ pay trolls. http://www.vice.com/read/troll...
Oil companies? You bet. http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

So of course the government does as well--are you daft? In another message I'm arguing against a guy named Trollston, for fuck's sake.

The article doesn't seem to point out the obvious explanation, ie that H1B applications contain personal data (of the type Slashdotters are usually passionate about protecting), and that it is good practice not to keep such information hanging around once it has served its primary purpose.

Given the recent reports of how H1B workers are treated as slaves in abuses reminicent of human trafficking, the timing of this seems more than a bit suspicious. And at least one source has the DOL saying "will no longer respond to inquiries to search for records in response to FOIA requests". Explicitly pre-empting the FOIA process without even the suggestion that the data might be anonymized to allay privacy concerns is, again, more than a little suspicious.

There are presumably solutions to the research concerns, such as aggregating the data before it is deleted or collecting the specific data necessary before the records are deleted.

Yes, there are solutions, but will they be implemented? And is the Dept. of Labor so tone-deaf, and so ignorant of the controversial nature of this decision, that they didn't think to put an anonymization program in place in advance of this announcement? Somehow I doubt it.

Men are privileged and any time you provide evidence proving otherwise that's actually just proof that men are so privileged their privilege "backfires" and hurts them.

And by that point you've been tagged as a 'mansplainer'. If you insist on continuing to have your own opinion, you must be an MRA.

It's impossible for anything, no matter how bad it is, to not be male privilege.

Like watching black cops beat up or harass black pedestrians and yet it's still a case of White Privilege.

There is no 150yr cycle.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

He made this melt event sound like it was caused by a semi-cyclical weather event which occurs, on average, every 150 years. Moreover, he admits to having coached the young scientist to write about this "150 year" melt event. In fact, melt events have occurred at a much lower frequency than every 150 years over the past 4000 years. Melt events were much more frequent than every 150 years from 4000 to 8000 years before present when the summer sun was a lot hotter in the Arctic than it is now. Averaging the warm period that happened 4000-8000 years ago with the cool period of the past 4000 years "created" the 150 year "cycles".
Koenig and Wagner refer to a classic paper on Greenland ice cores to support their claim of an approximate 150 year period, but the first paragraph of the paper's conclusion makes clear that the climate was warmer 4000 to 8000 years ago, with far more frequent melt events.

Hand grenade? I can't take you seriously if you're going to spin the story like that.

"ATLANTA - A family says a SWAT team raided their home in the middle of the night and seriously injured a 19-month-old boy with a stun grenade. Alecia Phonesavanh told Channel 2's Ryan Young her child is at the Grady Memorial Hospital burn unit, and is in a medically induced coma..."

Sources: (left-leaning) and (right-leaning).

Fuck the police.

Republicans want this community activist killed for delivering absentee ballots to the county office.

"The AdministrationÃ(TM)s neglect at having a single individual in charge of coordinating AmericaÃ(TM)s Ebola response has caused difficulty with interagency coordination.... We need a designated leader, backed by the President, who can meet the urgency of this crisis head on and protect the American people, and end the confusion about who is charge of our total response effort."

To be clear, when Kingston, Burr (and Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, and others) urges fast action to put someone in charge, he can't mean confirming someone through the Senate, which takes months or even more than a year.

Final related note: The position of US Surgeon General has limited powers and would not be the supreme leader on Ebola. Still, it would not hurt to have someone in the job, and that person can play a key role communicating with the public. However, the US has no confirmed, permanent Surgeon General because the NRA is blocking the Senate confirmation of President Obama's nominee, Dr. Vivek Murthy. He is an MD and an MBA. He practices and teaches at Brigham and Women's Hospital and teaches at Harvard Medical School. He cofounded a clinical trials company, and an HIV education organization. But he supports an assault weapons ban and tweeted that he thinks guns are a health care issue. So the NRA's opposition means his nomination will never come to a vote. It is dead. Even if one disagrees with Dr. Murthy's position on guns, he has no power over guns whatsoever, and it's reasonable that a President get his people if they are more or less qualified and mainstream (not hacks or crazy radicals). Republicans are right to seek smaller government in some places. But to just throw the monkey wrench in the gears of government for political gain is not constructive. It's just politics.

What part of "well fucking regulated" don't you understand?

Which part of "petitioning the government for redress of grievances" don't you understand, citizen?

By your own logic, you don't have a right to any other speech — not to advertise anything, not to produce pornography, not to organize boycotts. Not even political campaign speeches are a right under your reading of the Bill of Rights — unless they are addressed to the sitting government as a form of a petition. If, of course, your thinking is self-consistent, and you are reading the First Amendment with the same literal strictness you are applying to the Second.

And by the logic of others of your kind, your Constitutionally-protected speech is limited to the means available in the 18th century too — even if you are merely petitioning the government, you don't have a right to do that via the Internet, TV, or radio.

The conservatives seem to want to turtle and ban all travel from those nations ... which would, of course, be a death knell for any aide workers traveling there to help out. They seem to think that will prevent it from spreading when, in fact, that's just increasing the odds that ebola spreads more rapidly inside Africa and ensures that it becomes a global catastrophe. But that's pretty typical of conservative ideals. I'm still waiting on those 'trickle down' economics to get to me. Some of the conservatives in the South are real dirtbags. It's really quite ridiculous.

The conservatives seem to want to turtle and ban all travel from those nations ... which would, of course, be a death knell for any aide workers traveling there to help out. They seem to think that will prevent it from spreading when, in fact, that's just increasing the odds that ebola spreads more rapidly inside Africa and ensures that it becomes a global catastrophe. But that's pretty typical of conservative ideals. I'm still waiting on those 'trickle down' economics to get to me.

Some of the conservatives in the South are real dirtbags. It's really quite ridiculous.

The reward is the awareness the The People have after the leak is confirmed. Until then, you're a tinfoil-hat wearer. Either way, it's best to advise The People.

Kids aren't afraid to speak up and protest against the government trying to mandate the history classes to omit teaching anything about the past that glorifies those in the past that blew the whistle or did any sort of patriotic action that would, today, go against the status quo. Maybe you have a point, but what's the use of that point in today's world? I'd rather die fighting for freedom than to live as a slave.

Defense spending HAS been cut back

Dressing up the end of the overt occupation of Iraq and reducing the occupation of Afghanistan as a cut for the benefit of the rubes does NOT make it one. The United States is still spending more than the rest of the planet combined and that's going to change any time soon.

severely

You're using that word, severely....

Then the United States wouldn't be trying it's hardest to renew a cold war with Russia at the same time it's continuing it's half dozen dirty wars throughout the ME east at the same time it's ramping up AFRICOM at the same time it's preparing for the third war on Iraq.

quit funding NATO

Then the Pentagon would lose the deflection that NATO provides. Libya isn't a war, it's a limited NATO operation with no boots on the ground!

ends up being the US warmongering the world

FTFY. Who's going to protect the world from the U.S.?

Its about time the US stopped paying for the defense of Europe, and let them pay their own way for that.

LOLz. You think the European share of of the Pentagon's ~1000 military bases around the world has anything to do with "defense"?

A lot of citizens would like the 'He was going for my gun' excuse to be revoked too.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

At least he lived to tell the tale.

This is a better article on women's roles in Norse society. http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

A little scary when press cozies up to a law-enforcement branch of government, isn't it?

Unbeknown to most members of the public, among the first Executive Orders signed by President Obama upon taking office was the one, declaring Dissent is no longer patriotic .

So, whereas it was glamorous and noble to dissent against RethugliKKKan election-thieves of the past, you better get all your stories pre-approved by the loving and caring government officials as long as a Nobel Peace laureate is in office.

Unless you happen to be identifying an actual shill.

No, it is still the lowest forms of argumentation, not because of the factuality of the ties of a speaker with the technology or industry they are defending, but because they attack the speaker instead of the arguments they present - it's a form of ad-hominem attack. Kinda like saying that Christian apologetics is invalid because those presenting the arguments are typically Christian themselves (they might even be pastors - oh noes!). To accuse them of "shilling for their religion" would be dumb and immediately discarded as a tactic of character assassination, of trying to dodge the argument itself.
Oh and after some more googling I found that his son's statements have been corroborated by other people in Strauss' senior's circle and by independent events (such as him heading the US fusion power research program): http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
In any case, whatever he meant, it was a rhetoric statement, torn completely out of context and expressing a personal sentiment, not the official stance of the atomic energy program. So the more one relies on hyping this quote mine, the more it is shown that the speaker is unable to come up with actual, factual arguments to support their position.

I guess then historians and biographers are in on the conspiracy too: http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
Regardless of what the man meant, it doesn't really matter. The sentiment expressed was that of a very optimistic yet lonely visionary.

I know that doesn't sound like a big deal but cops let thousands of people off per day on minor things where people just need a warning.

That may, actually, be a good thing — enforcing police objectivity by ending the selective enforcement (sometimes affectionately referred to as "Prosecutorial Discretion").

Then, if a silly law affects too many people — including judges, mayors, and good-looking women, who would've all gotten off with a warning before — the law may get amended...

There's one in Iceland that's predicted to be huge and... unfortunately it's looking like it might be thinking about going off sometime soon.

"Mordechai Kedar, a professor at Bar Illan University, last week issued a statement calling on IDF soldiers to rape Palestinian women as “The only thing that can deter terrorists" (Palestinian resistance against Israel’s decades-old illegal occupation)."

Where are the moderate Jews who repudiate this man's extremism? Why don't they come forward. Because there ARE NO "moderate Zionists".

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.606542

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/22/right-wing-professor-raping-arab-women-is-the-only-thing-that-deters-suicide-bombers/

http://forward.com/articles/202558/israeli-professor-suggests-rape-would-serve-as-ter/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/23/1315958/-Rape-is-a-WAR-CRIME-even-for-the-sisters-and-wives-of-suicide-bombers

there were stories about this in the past weeks..

"As part of the American Civil Liberties Union's recent report on police militarization, the Massachusetts chapter of the organization sent open records requests to SWAT teams across that state. It received an interesting response. As it turns out, a number of SWAT teams in the Bay State are operated by what are called law enforcement councils, or LECs. These LECs are funded by several police agencies in a given geographic area and overseen by an executive board, which is usually made up of police chiefs from member police departments...Some of these LECs have also apparently incorporated as 501(c)(3) organizations. And it’s here that we run into problems. According to the ACLU, the LECs are claiming that the 501(c)(3) status means that they're private corporations, not government agencies. And therefore, they say they're immune from open records requests."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

also this link, which I think does a better (and more snarky) job in discussing the issue.

https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

on the House of Reppresentatives website.

Thanks for that. It would be doubly helpful if we knew which congressmen were supporting this, I'm sure that it's more than just R's that are getting big campaign contributions. The article only says "some House members." I'd like to know if mine is supporting it. A quick Google search finds another article that says it's being introduced by Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). There's another one, HR 4752 being introduced by Bob Latta (R-OH) that would prevent the FCC from regulating ISPs under Title II (common carrier).

OTOH, there is a group of senators who are pushing the FCC to reclassify ISPs so they can be regulated: Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Ed Markey (D-MA), Al Franken (D-MN) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Ron Wyden (D-OR). Once again Wyden falls on the side of sanity.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

the article (well, blog, by 'a guy', whose main reference is the book that im guessing he's selling) points only to volume of arctic sea ice, which leads to a faulty conclusion. melt is the far more important feature, as surface volume can and does fluctuate as a function of many complex interactions, even in a global warming scenario.
See: http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
Several recent reports, however, paint a more complex and disturbing picture where the intensifying winds are speeding up below surface currents bringing more above freezing water in contact with deep ice around Antarctica. Twenty of the ice shelves and many of the glaciers that feed them are melting from below.
for some more reputable sources (quickly online), you might want to check out
in any case, i would encourage you to note more creditworthy sources, such as perhaps:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/...
or even
http://grist.org/news/antarcti...
which makes some more credible references.

News stations use to be required by law to state just the facts and give both sides of the story if I remember right.

Uh-huh. And now (well, for some time already) we have courts agreeing with Fox et al that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States.
link

and maybe soon in GOP GA that may be the only way to have a doctor.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

Yeah, keep trying.

No problem.

How about this If Republicans don't like being called racists, they can stop behaving like racists:

Not all Republicans are racists, but the party is permeated with racists, it is saturated with racists. Its racist policies must be read in the context of that saturation.

Republican former governor and apparently perpetual Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's refusal to accept that the nation's first black president wasn't born in Africa.

Republican former senator and apparently perpetual Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum's racist welfare rant.

Republican governor and apparently perpetual presidential candidate Rick Perry's refusal to criticize the racist rant that has other Republicans scurrying to jump ship on the deadbeat social welfare rancher they and Perry had been defending. But then Perry and racism and ranching are nothing new.

Republican senator and all-but-announced presidential candidate Rand Paul's curious habit of associating with white supremacists.

Republican former vice-presidential nominee, current Congressman and potential presidential candidate Paul Ryan's inner city problems.

Apparently perpetual Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. There's not much more that needs be said than Donald Trump. Forever Donald Trump. Perpetually Donald Trump. A real estate magnate in search of a hinge Donald Trump.

Republican former vice-presidential nominee andâ"as long as it keeps her in the general vicinity of a spotlight, any spotlightâ"apparently perpetual pretend potential presidential candidate Sarah Palin... Okay... Just ick.

Republican former Gov. George Allen's clumsy, casual racism that derailed what could have been his own perpetual presidential ambitions.

Republican former governor (and potential future resident of a different form of public housing) Bob McDonnell's fond memories of the Confederacy.

Republican former speaker of the House, former presidential candidate and current CNN TV pundit Newt Gingrich ever and always being Newt Gingrich.

The blithe and lunatic Islamophobia of Republican former Congressman and current Fox "News" contributor Allen West.

The Republican National Committee running a racist ad on behalf of soon-to-be Sen. Bob Corker.

Republican former governor and former Republican Governors Association Chair Haley Barbour's amnesia about the brutality of the Civil Rights era, and fond memories of extreme racists.

Republican Gov. Nikki Haley slowly coming to realize that it wasn't a good idea to have a white supremacist on her campaign steering committee.

Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, whose long history on the wrong side of history continues to defy history.

Republican Gov. Scott Walker's staff circulating a racist email.

Republican Rep. Steve King's special insights about immigrants from the south.

Republican Rep. Peter King's medievalist crusade against Arab and Muslim Americans.

Republican Rep. Devin Nunes rationalizing and excusing bigoted extremism.

Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland calling the nation's first African-American president "uppity."

Republican Rep. Geoff Davi

The FBI has been able to listen to any cell phone mic, even when off (as long as it has battery power) for quite some time now.

But... Kos says there's death panels for Black people! Death Panels actually do exist... if you're Black....

Bullshit right back at you.

"A series of IRS documents, provided to ThinkProgress under the Freedom of Information Act, appears to contradict the claims by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and his House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that only Tea Party organizations applying for tax-exempt status âoereceived systematic scrutiny because of their political beliefs.â The 22 âoeBe On the Look Outâ keywords lists, distributed to staff reviewing applications between August 12, 2010 and April 19, 2013, included more explicit references to progressive groups, ACORN successors, and medical marijuana organizations than to Tea Party entities.
The IRS provided the heavily-redacted lists to ThinkProgress, after nearly a year-long search. From the earliest lists through 2012, the âoehistoricalâ section of the lists encouraged reviewers to watch out for âoeprogressiveâ groups with names like âoeblue,â as their requests for 501(c)(3) charitable status might be inappropriate. Their inclusion in this section suggests that the concern predates the initial 2010 list.

Explicit references to âoeTea Party,â included in the âoeemerging issuesâ section of the lists, also began in August 2010 â" but stopped appearing after the May 10, 2011 list. From that point on, the lists instructed agents to flag all political advocacy groups of any stripe. The documents instructed the agents to forward any âoeorganization involved with political, lobbying, or advocacyâ applying for 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) status be forwarded to âoegroup 7822â for additional review. Groups under both categories are limited in the amount of of lobbying and political activity each can undertake."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

You know, I think you are on to something there. if that is the end goal then it must be stopped. The founding fathers were anti-democracy http://www.dailykos.com/story/... http://www.godlikeproductions.... http://www.thecommentfactory.c... and we, too, should be against the tyranny of the masses and promote the enlightened government by and for the elite. To this end it is imperative that the general public be kept uneducated and in the dark -- and above all, disempowered.

And what, exactly, were his options...
... joining Bradley Manning (aka Chelsea Manning) in Extreme Solitary Confinement that has been described as cruel, inhuman and degrading by the United Nations and many others such as this very detailed report on The Torture Of Bradley Manning by Andrew Blake, or this article by Jesselyn Radack that catalogues exactly How the US Military Tortured Bradley Manning

Russia is the last place that I would have thought of seeking refuge... but I think that we must all trust that Snowden probably knew better than all of us which countries would have succumbed to US pressure to hand him back and which would have taken great pleasure in not doing so.

Now, if Snowden is a true patriot, he will fight for the right to come back home and have a fair hearing before a jury of his peers... and seek to be recognised and judged as a whistleblower.

*If* that is true -- and I'm seeing conflicting information as to whether or not it is -- expect FL to close that loophole to prevent fascist states like MD from targeting FL motorists on interstate highways. FL probably permits database access to allow for CCW reciprocity checks in other Shall-Issue states, and its legislators definitely won't allow abuse of its data by rogue police units like MDTAP.

If only that were true.

Used to live in Florida, not any more, its gone crazy conservative Republican / Tea Party leaning with legislation and thinking. Creating a fake crisis and giving public contracts created from the uproar, to their own businesses for personal gain for example (Gov's wife owned his testing company on paper.). As such, Business interests take priority over privacy and they will *not* close that loophole as the lobbying for the businesses that feed the those political coffers will prevent it.

Wishful thinking on your part, but alas, far from reality given the current political climate in Florida.

Full Disclosure, I am no Democrat, they abuse the system also, just at a lesser degree than Republicans and Tea Party candidates who always abuse the system for their donors benefit. Thanks to Citizens United vs FEC and their prevention of judges getting seated (at all levels, esp Federal Courts that feed into the Supreme Court), they intend for their style of cronie-ism to continue for the foreseeable future. They want only a Republican to appoint judges.

The Tea Party was 100% co-opted by the Koch brothers and their ilk within a month of its inception, in the beginning it was idealist and good, just quickly and easily corrupted... the news reports are there to prove it to anyone willing to look, many don't want to, they have ulterior motives. The Citizens United vs FEC court decision opened the flood gates for massive amounts of money to flood each and every election in the USA, as such most elections are controlled by those with the most money, not the best ideas anymore...thus the loophole is well funded politically.

While there are many examples, one that readily comes to mind by its frequency in the news over the last few days are the tax cutting in Kansas and now Missouri. While Missouri's will not take effect for two years, obfuscating the true cause of the problem when it occurs in 2016, in Kansas, the promised new revenue from economic development did not materialize and they are running a deficit (tax revenue) of over $580M ($480M + 92M was reported on TV news...msnbc I believe, I watch CNN and Fox some too, but I believe that number came from MSNBC) up to $1.3B per this article (Kansas is on track for a nearly 1.3B tax shortfall this year, and in April we endured an unprecedented income drop of over 45%. That's right. The state economy lost 45% of its tax income.). Because of the deficit the Conservative state government (100% Rep controlled) did not fund the school system effectively. In fact it was so poorly funded that judges had to step in and order the state legislature to fund the schools. (this is still playing out and will be interesting to see what the Republicans say to the courts)

In Missouri, the Gov either has or will veto the legislation, forcing them to over-ride his veto and take full responsibility for the tax cutting legislation that will hurt Missouri...Gov points to Kansas deficit as reason for his veto (Article: MO Gov. Jay Nixon points to Kansas, Shuts down Legislative Republicans) If you watch the embedded video, toward the

*If* that is true -- and I'm seeing conflicting information as to whether or not it is -- expect FL to close that loophole to prevent fascist states like MD from targeting FL motorists on interstate highways. FL probably permits database access to allow for CCW reciprocity checks in other Shall-Issue states, and its legislators definitely won't allow abuse of its data by rogue police units like MDTAP.

If only that were true.

Used to live in Florida, not any more, its gone crazy conservative Republican / Tea Party leaning with legislation and thinking. Creating a fake crisis and giving public contracts created from the uproar, to their own businesses for personal gain for example (Gov's wife owned his testing company on paper.). As such, Business interests take priority over privacy and they will *not* close that loophole as the lobbying for the businesses that feed the those political coffers will prevent it.

Wishful thinking on your part, but alas, far from reality given the current political climate in Florida.

Full Disclosure, I am no Democrat, they abuse the system also, just at a lesser degree than Republicans and Tea Party candidates who always abuse the system for their donors benefit. Thanks to Citizens United vs FEC and their prevention of judges getting seated (at all levels, esp Federal Courts that feed into the Supreme Court), they intend for their style of cronie-ism to continue for the foreseeable future. They want only a Republican to appoint judges.

The Tea Party was 100% co-opted by the Koch brothers and their ilk within a month of its inception, in the beginning it was idealist and good, just quickly and easily corrupted... the news reports are there to prove it to anyone willing to look, many don't want to, they have ulterior motives. The Citizens United vs FEC court decision opened the flood gates for massive amounts of money to flood each and every election in the USA, as such most elections are controlled by those with the most money, not the best ideas anymore...thus the loophole is well funded politically.

While there are many examples, one that readily comes to mind by its frequency in the news over the last few days are the tax cutting in Kansas and now Missouri. While Missouri's will not take effect for two years, obfuscating the true cause of the problem when it occurs in 2016, in Kansas, the promised new revenue from economic development did not materialize and they are running a deficit (tax revenue) of over $580M ($480M + 92M was reported on TV news...msnbc I believe, I watch CNN and Fox some too, but I believe that number came from MSNBC) up to $1.3B per this article (Kansas is on track for a nearly 1.3B tax shortfall this year, and in April we endured an unprecedented income drop of over 45%. That's right. The state economy lost 45% of its tax income.). Because of the deficit the Conservative state government (100% Rep controlled) did not fund the school system effectively. In fact it was so poorly funded that judges had to step in and order the state legislature to fund the schools. (this is still playing out and will be interesting to see what the Republicans say to the courts)

In Missouri, the Gov either has or will veto the legislation, forcing them to over-ride his veto and take full responsibility for the tax cutting legislation that will hurt Missouri...Gov points to Kansas deficit as reason for his veto (Article: MO Gov. Jay Nixon points to Kansas, Shuts down Legislative Republicans) If you watch the embedded video, toward the

*If* that is true -- and I'm seeing conflicting information as to whether or not it is -- expect FL to close that loophole to prevent fascist states like MD from targeting FL motorists on interstate highways. FL probably permits database access to allow for CCW reciprocity checks in other Shall-Issue states, and its legislators definitely won't allow abuse of its data by rogue police units like MDTAP.

If only that were true.

Used to live in Florida, not any more, its gone crazy conservative Republican / Tea Party leaning with legislation and thinking. Creating a fake crisis and giving public contracts created from the uproar, to their own businesses for personal gain for example (Gov's wife owned his testing company on paper.). As such, Business interests take priority over privacy and they will *not* close that loophole as the lobbying for the businesses that feed the those political coffers will prevent it.

Wishful thinking on your part, but alas, far from reality given the current political climate in Florida.

Full Disclosure, I am no Democrat, they abuse the system also, just at a lesser degree than Republicans and Tea Party candidates who always abuse the system for their donors benefit. Thanks to Citizens United vs FEC and their prevention of judges getting seated (at all levels, esp Federal Courts that feed into the Supreme Court), they intend for their style of cronie-ism to continue for the foreseeable future. They want only a Republican to appoint judges.

The Tea Party was 100% co-opted by the Koch brothers and their ilk within a month of its inception, in the beginning it was idealist and good, just quickly and easily corrupted... the news reports are there to prove it to anyone willing to look, many don't want to, they have ulterior motives. The Citizens United vs FEC court decision opened the flood gates for massive amounts of money to flood each and every election in the USA, as such most elections are controlled by those with the most money, not the best ideas anymore...thus the loophole is well funded politically.

While there are many examples, one that readily comes to mind by its frequency in the news over the last few days are the tax cutting in Kansas and now Missouri. While Missouri's will not take effect for two years, obfuscating the true cause of the problem when it occurs in 2016, in Kansas, the promised new revenue from economic development did not materialize and they are running a deficit (tax revenue) of over $580M ($480M + 92M was reported on TV news...msnbc I believe, I watch CNN and Fox some too, but I believe that number came from MSNBC) up to $1.3B per this article (Kansas is on track for a nearly 1.3B tax shortfall this year, and in April we endured an unprecedented income drop of over 45%. That's right. The state economy lost 45% of its tax income.). Because of the deficit the Conservative state government (100% Rep controlled) did not fund the school system effectively. In fact it was so poorly funded that judges had to step in and order the state legislature to fund the schools. (this is still playing out and will be interesting to see what the Republicans say to the courts)

In Missouri, the Gov either has or will veto the legislation, forcing them to over-ride his veto and take full responsibility for the tax cutting legislation that will hurt Missouri...Gov points to Kansas deficit as reason for his veto (Article: MO Gov. Jay Nixon points to Kansas, Shuts down Legislative Republicans) If you watch the embedded video, toward the

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN (4/16/2014): Hundreds of armed militiamen rallying to support the Bundys, facing off with the feds at gunpoint.
TERI OKITA, CBS THIS MORNING (4/11/2014): Jim Lordy came from Montana to join the protesters. He says he and other militia members are not afraid to shoot if necessary.
RICHARD MACK (4/14/2014): We were actually strategizing to put all the women up at the front. If they're going to start shooting, it's going to be women that are going to be televised all across the world getting shot by these rogue federal officers.

Your post is positively retarded.

It's great that they are forward looking and value craftsmanship.

In the USA, we are now stealing jobs from Canada -- because we are so awesome!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

Oh wait -- no, they just underbid Canadian workers who were bending over backwards in negotiations to keep Caterpillar jobs -- after they won the contract from workers in Georgia. Next, India will likely "win" the contract as they underbid Wisconsin even with the ever lower wages.

I've already paid for my college education -- so I still have THAT advantage over a robot.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/... Sad.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/... Sad.

Because the H1-Bs are indentured servants they can pay them Mickey D's wages and your US tech workers can't live on Mickey wages thanks to our degrees costing 10-20 times as much as theirs? Not to mention unlike before where a person could get an entry level and continue to get an education while getting real world experience thanks to the H1-Bs you have an arms race where you need more and more degrees (and deeper and deeper debt) just to get ANY job other than lackey?

Perhaps you should watch How NOT to hire an American which is a training video by a law firm that specializes in H1-Bs to show how rigged and fucked up the system TRULY is. At the end of the day you are crippling the country in return for short term gains, as India gets a large pool of tech workers and plenty of money coming in for infrastructure and new businesses, while in america the business districts look like ghost towns and the roads and bridges fall down around you.

Exactly! I bet 6 years ago when Obama was against gay marriage you were calling him a bigot and trying to publicly shame him too, right?

Bwhahahaha hahahahaaha. I've spent years calling out Obama for his bigotry and cowardice on gay rights, but thanks for asking.

I'm impressed. You must be *real* popular over at Daily Kos.

Exactly! I bet 6 years ago when Obama was against gay marriage you were calling him a bigot and trying to publicly shame him too, right?

Bwhahahaha hahahahaaha. I've spent years calling out Obama for his bigotry and cowardice on gay rights, but thanks for asking.

I'm impressed. You must be *real* popular over at Daily Kos.

Exactly! I bet 6 years ago when Obama was against gay marriage you were calling him a bigot and trying to publicly shame him too, right?

Bwhahahaha hahahahaaha. I've spent years calling out Obama for his bigotry and cowardice on gay rights, but thanks for asking.