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Uncivilized Caste system http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

I completely disagree. He should not spend a whole lot of time in an 8 x 10 cell by himself.

Shkreli should spend a whole lot of time in an 8 x 10 cell with a 300-pound oversexed lifer who's hung like a donkey.

While Shkreli no doubt deserves a ton of punishment relying on prison inmates to mete out justice really speaks to the inadequacy of our "justice" system. Criminals are far more likely to prey on the weak than on the deserving. Since about half of all rapes occur while in the government's possession the best way to combat rape is to reduce this. There is literally no better place to start in terms of numbers.

citations:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

The reason that male contraceptives cause depression is easily understood - both sexes need a sufficient quantity of one or the other of the sex steroid hormones - either testosterone or estrogen. This is why drugs such as dutasteride (to treat prostate cancer by dropping endogenous testosterone) come with warnings because they can cause depression and suicidal ideation.

One option is for the woman to sneak sufficient quantities of estrogen in the man's food (known as medical or chemical castration), same as happened with the fish that changed sex.

Or they could just follow the plan to neuter Hitler with estrogen

Agents planned to smuggle doses of estrogen into his food to make him less aggressive and more like his docile younger sister Paula, who worked as a secretary.

Estrogen was chosen because it was tasteless and would have a slow and subtle effect, meaning it would pass Hitler's food testers unnoticed. The Allied plot to turn Herr Hitler into Her Hitler was just one of a number of wacky ideas cooked up to break the stalemate, according to a new book.

He said: ‘Research had showed the importance of sex hormones – they were beginning to be used in sex therapy in London.

The Allies hoped to smuggle oestrogen into Hitler’s food and change his sex so he would become more feminine and less aggressive.’

Professor Ford, a fellow at Cardiff University and a pioneer of popular science, said the Government gave serious consideration to the plan, and that it was perfectly plausible. British spies were already in place and poised to carry out the plot.

Trust us! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

And the density of where you live? Was it around 2 people per square mile> Did it already have regular utlities and power and COs located where everyone was within service distance of such infrastructure?

Since you're making claims that the population density you assert is not inherently relevant(no matter how much you dogmatically try to repeat that same false argument, it will always be a strawman), since you're admitting I could even already have had utilities(what a wonder, we've had them for over a century now!), clearly you know it can be done. You know it isn't particularly difficult, and you even know your reliance on misleading statistics was nothing more than a pathetic attempt at deceit.

Due to that awareness, then your argument is fraudulent, as you well know by now.

Sad. Very sad that you have to lie so much.

But you shouldn't think we're stupid. You may get away with your scams for a while, but eventually we realize you are a con artist and run you out of town on a rail. See, we know that the population density of the US is irrelevant, it's the population distribution that matters, and it turns out that...the two numbers have no real congruence. The population is actually quite concentrated in a relatively few areas.

In fact, over half of the US's population lives in only 146 counties, and even the population inside them is not evenly distributed. Kern County is a particular example. About 8,000 square miles in area. Population? Around 900,000. If we went by a blind application of density like you prefer to assert, that'd be around 100sq/mi. But more than HALF the population lives within less than 250 square miles. In fact, the CDP of Oildale in Kern County has a population density of over 5,000sq/mi.

A little investigation sure tells a different story, doesn't it? Now try to do the same for Saguache, County, Colorado. Here's a hint: A lot of the county is actually designated wilderness preserve. Find out how much, if you dare.

Or do you think we need to provide internet service to the trees?

We'd catch catch the perps faster if BART released video of the crimes. Oh right, BART states it withholds crime videos. *To not encourage racism.* Let that one sink in. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

The kill switch was first widely implemented by Apple on their own phones prior to any law,
There were some reported vunerabiities found in 2014, which were since patched and I haven't heard of any exploits since.

Granted politicians have a habit of passing laws without any understanding of technology or implementation, but this was already a proven solution when the law was passed.
Maybe there are some underground hacks, but I don't think they'll be easily available to the kind of people who feel they have to steal smart phones for some cash. To your point, why *wouldn't* thieves give a shit about it? When nobody wants to buy a stolen phone because they know it wont work they'll get the message. Yeah you can still sell it for parts or sell to unsuspecting people but that's a lower incentive.

Here's a bunch of older stories claiming that the iPhone kill switch lowered thefts
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ip...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
http://www.businessinsider.com...

As others have said, the overall reduction in phone thefts are probably due largely to do with the greater availability of phones, but let's not all of us just jump on the cynical bandwagon and suggest every idea ever is stupid.

Re "leaks came internally?"
""Perhaps one day the source or sources will step forward and that might be an interesting moment some people may have egg on their faces. But to exclude certain actors is to make it easier to find out who our sources are,"" (July 27, 2016)
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07...

'The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks' (15 December 2016)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Think of it more as domestic US politics. Another Pentagon Papers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4727522/First-LGBT-unit-fighting-ISIS-photos-rainbow-flag-Raqqa.html

https://arstechnica.co.uk/secu...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

Snopes Co-Founder Embezzles $98,000, divorces Fat Wife, And Marries A Prostitute

https://ibankcoin.com/zeropoin...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Allow me to present this while being completely unable to comment on its veracity:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Just as ridiculous as women never falsely claim rape, people don't burn their own properties down, people don't crash cars on purpose, parents never harm their own children for profit and the list goes on, create laws that can be abused and they will be abused. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... , well, just a main stream media fantasy I suppose.

Story for you

Its also a non-partsian fact that not a SINGLE person is willing to testify in court that they have seen evidence of hacking the election.

Under oath, Comey said the DNC refused the FBI's help in checking their servers. The company the DNC did hire is a DNC shell company that said the Russians did it. That company is also unwilling to testify that Russia did it now after some more information came out about them. That leaves the FBI with no ACTUAL evidence of Russia doing anything. When asked why Comey still thought it was Russia he said, and I shit you not, "It just makes sense".

Yea, there is no evidence anywhere. Glad to see you posting DNC talking points that have been thoroughly debunked, but I'm sure it won't stop you.

AC the "Julian Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US elections" (July 27, 2016)
""Perhaps one day the source or sources will step forward and that might be an interesting moment some people may have egg on their faces. But to exclude certain actors is to make it easier to find out who our sources are,""
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... (15 December 2016)
"they were handed over to him at a D.C. park by an intermediary for 'disgusted' Democratic whistleblowers"
AC its more like the Pentagon Papers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... all over again. US domestic politics.

Not sure why OP is modded down -- because it's fairly true.

Bullshit, you know exactly why it was modded down, this being Slashdot - land of butthurt fags.

1.) Android's security model is shit. It has to be shit, because they're making an OS for multiple manufacturers -- and that's the deal with the devil you accept on Android. Also, your mobile OS is made by a fucking marketing company -- the former CEO of which infamously once said "Google's job is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it" (http://www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt-googles-policy-is-to-get-right-up-to-the-creepy-line-and-not-cross-it-2010-10?IR=T). Yeah, let's put that on your phones -- and TVs, and cars, and everything else. If Google could put ads on your keyboard, they would.
2.) Apple seemingly intentionally slows their OSes down to force you to upgrade their shit hardware. e.g. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci... (please forgive shitty right wing link; first hit on google and it does the job.)

I'll gladly take a "seemingly" slowed down iPhone over a clearly slowed down phone thanks to all the crapware, malware, adware, etc. on an Android. At least the iPhone actually gets updates.

What obvious choice, eh?

You're jumping to the end too quickly.

Blacks are convicted of crimes more often, certainly. Does that mean they're more violent, or that they get caught more? Or that they live in worse situations than whites? Are Asians particularly good at math, or do Asian parents favour certain qualities that lead to more favourable math outcomes? Are they in more stable communities so their kids have a better opportunity to study math? Is it cultural or innate? Are women actually bad at navigating, or is it that we're less likely to take little girls out to go camping and get experience at navigating? Is that your own bias, since I've always heard that women are better at navigating?

We actually have statistics that white people just aren't convicted as often for drug offences despite having similar or higher rates of use and dealing. Based on conviction data, a machine learning system would internalise the bias that blacks are more likely to have an involvement with drugs, despite that not being true. Garbage in, garbage out, right?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/e...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/...

(Notice that those articles are from 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2014—this is not new data.)

So generalities are not necessarily based in reality. Indeed, your claim that 'Asians are good at math' is particularly bad since Asia is HUGE and there's no way everyone from that area of the world is good at math. And as a half-Chinese guy that's okay at math but much worse than my white partner, and who knows plenty of Chinese people that have no affinity for math at all, I feel like a lot of these generalities are based on folklore and a few selective tests that aren't really representative of ability.

The USA and Canada are not the bastions of equal opportunity that they purport to be, not for everyone. First Nations people in Canada and black people in the USA are consistently disadvantaged through broad government policy.

So all this to say that getting good, clean data for machine learning systems that remove human bias is incredibly difficult, since most humans are unwilling to admit their biases don't necessarily have a basis in reality, or are the wrong conclusions drawn from incomplete knowledge of data.

You were probably joking, but Beijing Polluted Air in a Can actually exists.

- Don't make it illegal. Just make it illegal ($500 fine?) to smoke anywhere in public. Ie all places where other non-smokers may show up and expect it to be smoke-free. If you do it in your own home or some "smoke club" that should still be fine.
- Make all types of advertising of it illegal. Stores should not be allowed to even show that they sell tobacco.
- Make all packets anonymous like http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix...
- Prevent smokers from getting any type of social-security. They need to quit before any tax-money reaches them.

Disclaimer: I did smoke, but managed to quit 13 years ago. I do know what the drug does to you and your thought processes.

And the Europeans do round baling, which I nominate as the single stupidest idea in the history of agriculture. This is why:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

In other news:

Looking for love? Try the office! Relationships that begin in the workplace most likely to result in marriage

Despite discouragement from companies and colleagues, office romances are more likely end in marriage than relationships that start in any other way - even meeting through friends.
By contrast, relationships begun in a nightclub or pub almost always end in either a fling or a one-night stand

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem...

They might be cosy and romantic, but they generate lots of pollution (smog & particulates).

https://www.lung.ca/news/advoc...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Natural gas is far cleaner and a much better source of heating.

Stupid greens with their fake virtue signalling...

Claim you're eliminating co-pilots.
Claim you're offering adult entertainment on flights.
there was another.... hmmmm what was it?

Oh that's right. Standing room only.

A recipe to ensure your name stays in the headlines for loads of free advertising.

And what's next? Since criminals use automobiles, and the cops "need" to know who's driving any given car in the vicinity of a crime, will the DoT also require an ID transmitter in every car?

Good point, but we're already there. License plate readers are becoming ubiquitous, so that with a simple database query a longitudinal history of your car's whereabouts can easily be determined long after the fact. The FBI is flying planes over US cities, for who-knows-what reasons, but possibly recording traffic so that any particular vehicle of interest can be traced back to where it came from.

Anyone who voted up your post which is just a bunch of lies and bogus allegations.

Apparently you're not only one of them "low information voters", you're also promoting ignorance.

Time for you to learn.

- Bill Clinton pardoned two terrorists who were responsible (among other things) of killing two cops.

An unusual combination of New York political and law enforcement leaders have condemned former President Bill Clinton's pardon of Susan L. Rosenberg, a one-time member of the Weather Underground terrorist group who was charged in the notorious 1981 Brink's robbery in Rockland County that left a guard and two police officers dead.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01...

- Bill Clinton also pardoned 16 Puerto Rican terrorists, two of which refused his pardon.

On August 11, 1999, Clinton commuted the sentences of 16 members of FALN, which is a Puerto Rican paramilitary organization that set off 120 bombs in the United States, mostly in New York City and Chicago. There were convictions for conspiracy to commit robbery, bomb-making, and sedition, as well as firearms and explosives violations.[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

- The Clintons stole furniture from the White House and returned some of it to avoid further lawsuits.

The Clinton White House furnishings in question, which were donated in 1993, included two sofas, an easy chair and an ottoman, worth $19,900, from Steve Mittman; a kitchen table and four chairs, valued at $3,650, from Lee Ficks; a $2,843 sofa from Brad Noe; $1,170 in lamps from Stuart Schiller; and a $1,000 needlepoint rug from David Martinous, according to the Post.
Mittman, Noe and Joy Ficks, the widow of Lee Ficks, told the Post that their donations were gifts to the White House, not the Clintons. The contributions were intended to complement a 1993 White House redecoration project.

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/...

and it was apparently not enough because Hilary did it again when she was Secretary of State.

The ex-agent told the FBI that they were aware of Clinton or her aides 'removing lamps and furniture from the State Department which were transported to her residence in Washington, D.C.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

- Bill Clinton has a history of rapes (he settled on the most famous one) and Hillary has a history of covering up his actions.

Bill Clinton raped me, and Hillary Clinton threatened me

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/09/...

- Hillary Clinton got caught lying many times

She said when she arrived in Bosnia on March 25, 1996, "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."

But news video footage of her arrival at Tuzla shows Clinton, then the first lady, calmly walking from the rear ramp of a U.S. Air Force plane with her daughter, Chelsea, then 16, at her side. Both Clintons held their heads up and did not appear rushed.

The video shows Clinton spending several minutes talking with the group, including an 8-year-old Bosnian girl who presented her with a poem, and later greeting U.S. troops.

Why should they know better? Because when they were younger they had more examples of normal-weight kids around them. Their perceptions are like the frog sitting in a pan of progressively hotter water.

It's the same with kids opinions about their being overweight or obese. Many kids just don't see it. They think of obese as normal. And why wouldn't they - they see it everywhere now, so being overweight or obese has been normalized.

A fifth (20 per cent) had a BMI in the overweight category and seven per cent were categorised as obese.

Of these, around 40 per cent thought they were about the right weight.

And it's not getting better.

f parents are to be part of the solution to childhood obesity then parental recognition of overweight and obesity must be improved, they said. Dr Angela Jones, who carried out the study, said that part of the problem was that their had been a shift in what was considered "normal" weight in the last few years.

Only extremely overweight children were recognized as having a problem. The findings were mirrored by a study in the Netherlands which found three quarters of parents did not recognize their children as overweight and half of those with children that were obese.

Why do you think you're seeing all these ads now telling both adults and kids that they're perfect even if they're obese? And the whole "don't body-shame" thing? Shaming works. It worked with tobacco addiction, where smokers over the decades went from being normal to being pariahs, and nothing less will work with obesity. As long as everyone keeps pushing the message that it's okay, people won't feel the pressure to change. It's the "new normal."

Artificial insemination is perfectly reasonable, it's common for humans to do to other humans (my kids were actually produced this way due to some fertility issues we were having).

You want something to make a stink about?

What if we put portals into cow's bodies so we could just reach in to collect samples to analyze their digestion?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

There are videos of this, it's rather gross (OK, very gross is more accurate).

Full disclosure, as a child my family raised, butchered, and ate cows, pigs, chickens and rabbits. But we didn't put portals in our cows...

What they lack are real free speech rights Europe, especially germany, has the same free speech rights than you have. The stuff we are talking about here had nothing to do with government, but with idiots inflaming hate versus others, that is a legal crime here. Prosecuted by the state attorney, not the government.

Obviously you don't have the same free speech rights that we have in the U.S. as evidenced by the fact the police in Germany are raiding homes for "inflaming hate versus others", apparently a crime in Germany but legal speech in the U.S.

Of course, "inflaming hate versus others" can easily be interpreted so widely that it can be used by the government to censor speech where the government feels most vulnerable, like Merkel's migrant policy, which is exactly what is happening. In other words, political censorship. And it has a chilling effect on speech. Maybe you want to write on Facebook about the rising crime rate attributed to migrants in the country but don't because you don't want an interview with the police or to end up on some government watch list. Maybe you won't get arrested but censor yourself as you don't want to worry if government pressure or being on such a list will affect your ability to earn a living.

U.S. Supreme Court has said over and over again that it is the most controversial speech that is most in need of 1st Amendment protection and has long recognized the chilling effect on speech that censorship can have. So NO, we don't have the same free speech rights as Europeans, idiot. What we have is far better, hence original point.

There are no murdering, thieving, raping thugs running around in Europe. We are in Europe, not in the USA ... idiot.

Obviously you do...moron. We are in the U.S.A, not Europe and if they tried the stuff you see in the (very short, could be infinitely longer) list below, very well armed U.S. citizens would defend themselves.
Something on the scale of Rotherham would never happen here because enraged Fathers, AR15 in hand, would hunt them down like the animals they are. Good thing I'm not in Europe, I'd arrested for saying that....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4546450/Rochdale-horror-goes-abuse-rife-10-years-on.html/
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/06/03/grooming-scandal-200-sex-crimes-town/
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/03/22/timeline-twelve-years-terror-attacks-uk/
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/03/02/belgian-police-moroccan-raped-230-women/
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/09/24/swedish-police-admit-loss-control-55-no-go-areas/
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/06/13/sweden-50-per-cent-rise-no-go-zones/
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/sverige-har-fatt-fler-problemomraden-krisstamning-inom-polisledningen/
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/03/23

From the story presented in the links.
"The intelligence captured ... specific instructions on the operation’s audacious objectives"
Why would anyone interesting risk talking over any insecure network?
Who talks on the phone or sends interesting orders down a network the USA sold another nation? Or any network that is at risk by the GCHQ, NSA or CIA?
"Hackers with ties to .... intelligence services"?
What ties? The data walked out thanks to a domestic staff member.
"To guard against leaks, subsequent meetings in the Situation Room followed the same protocols as planning sessions for the ..."
We are really reading about this secret online so soon?
"that ... was working to elect ... "
People all over the USA went to free elections and voted for a candidate they wanted and who could give great speeches in their states.
Want to win a US election? Find a presentable candidate who has the energy and charm to win in more states.
Re ' It was a case that took almost no time to solve, traced to the ... through cyber-forensics"
Nations that have such easy to find malware code litter issues don't hack.
An ip range, time of day, malware thats been in the wild for years and is in use by many people is not "cyber-forensics".
Any language use can be left as a fake trail for private sector "cyber-forensics" to find.
The US efforts showed "Marble" libraries include code used to obfuscate " with the add foreign languages option(4/3/2017)
https://arstechnica.com/securi...
Re "... is a remarkably elusive target." "extreme precautions to guard against surveillance" but we just had " specific instructions on the operation’s audacious objectives"?
Funny how the story has the order that really needed to be kept more secret been transmitted down the not very secure US export grade hardware network?

Someone in the USA walked out with some documents and gave it to the waiting media.
The US saw another Pentagon Papers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Julian Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US elections" (July 27, 2016)
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07...
""Perhaps one day the source or sources will step forward and that might be an interesting moment some people may have egg on their faces."

" a clandestine hand-off in a wooded area near American University with one of the email sources "
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
"The leakers' motivation was 'disgust at the corruption..."

Yes. Exactly like they did with Apple:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

This is from the same company that sell a coconut with a ring-pull (Sorry for the Hate Mail link!). It is probably more about their target demographics and getting some free publicity than anything genuinely practical.

I don't recall seeing a "Google is your friend" comment recently, so searching on yoga+unchristian gives the following top two search items:
todayschristianwoman.com
telegraph.co.uk
A little futher down is item by a Christian criticising the first articlechristianitytoday.com, so yoga isn't universally condemned by Christians.
Addressing your precise point, searching on yoga+evil gives this 2011 news report (I use the term loosely - it's from the English Daily Mail): ... Father Amorth, a colourful and often outspoken personality, said:'Practising yoga brings evil as does reading Harry Potter. They may both seem innocuous but they both deal with magic and that leads to evil.' He added:'Yoga is the Devil's work. You thing [typo is in the online article] you are doing it for stretching your mind and body but it leads to Hinduism. All these oriental religions are based on the false belief of reincarnation.' ...

This is some INSANE marketing!

Don't know if The Slants meant their name as disparaging or not, but I'm glad that the Supreme Court actually took a unanimous stance in favor of free speech. In these days of extreme political correctness/social justice warrior activism, I am surprised it wasn't a 5/4 or 6/3 split. If you think I'm being dramatic, you can look to our English speaking neighbors to the north & east to see how bad it's getting.

Reading the New York Times?
Reading the Washington Post?
Watching CNN?
Taking in a little Shakespeare in Central Park

Did any of them also offer to pay for a legal defense?

If you care about the planet, you also won't ask for a private plane:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

But, you know, Hillary really cares about global warming and all that, right?

Story explaining it.

Comey, under oath, said no federal agency looked at the DNC servers. It was looked at by CrowdStrike, paid by the DNC to claim Russia hacked the servers. Since Muller has been appointed, and lying under oath is likely to get jail time, CrowdStrike is no longer willing to say Russia hacked the DNC servers.

So you have exactly ZERO people on this planet willing to say Russia hacked the DNC servers. Think about that, not a SINGLE person is willing to say what you claim while under oath.

Why are you making things up? And then you attack people for pointing out your lies? Maybe its you who is denying the facts, seeing as now you have been shown them and haven't been able to show a single thing to support your claims. Truth-denier

You're wrong, because the groups you're not talking about are conservatives, bullies, warriors for Christ, "freedom fighters" and so on. They *do* those things. ACT-America, Christian Action Network, John Birch Society, Oath Keepers, Justice Foundation, Christian Exodus, Agenda21Today, AFN, GOOOH, NCAUNT, WTP, TURF, AOF...are all violent right-wing groups.

But you'll never speak of them, will you? You'll claim that it's a "purely" left-wing thing, you'll wave your hands over the KKK, but wait a second, they're not the only group, now are they? (The Right-wing isn't stupid, they know the KKK brand is tainted, so they stick on a new label.)

In fact, you'll go into hysterics when their conduct is documented and reported.

And it isn't even limited to the US.

Yet you are entirely and utterly silent.

No word at all from you.

Oh, and one of your video was a fake.

But hey, I'm sure you can rant over a cake.

Gary Johnson might not have been a very good candidate, but one good point he made was the U.S. has the best policies in place to cause drug users to die. Trillions of dollars spent, and they can't even keep the drugs out of prisons.

To be fair few institutions are as poorly run as prisons. Prison gangs are literally formed and run in the prison system. So many rapes happen in prison that when you factor those in more men are raped than women (citation below). Prisons should be rethought from the ground up as they aren't working. Unfortunately any helpful proposal is likely to suffer from the ever present "disparate impact" which makes the ridiculous assumption that anything that might impact different groups unequally must be a banned -ist (ie sexist, racist, etc).

Citation: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

I've always wondered, if the Iraqi people had the choice to go back in time and keep Saddam and his progeny instead of what they have now, would they? At the time they seemed very happy when he was removed.

How is this even a question?

“...I am one of the political prisoners who was arrested in 1988, but life was better in Saddam’s days, compared with now.”...

If they had such an option they would probably want to return to a point in time to prevent Bremer from disbanding the Iraqi army and delaying Iraqi's from taking control of the government.

...

The problem with Iraq wasn't really the invasion, it was the occupation that followed.

No, the biggest problem was the invasion. I'm not saying you're completely wrong. But to pick out one mistake out of so many is misleading. To begin with the war was based on a lie. So if not WMD, what were the real reasons for going to war? If Jack shoots himself with a gun, then doesn't dress the wound properly, the reason Jack died was because he shot himself.

But anyway, after the invasion, Col. Ted Spain was the guy in charge of law & order, he seems like a great resource to list all the mistakes:

1. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s deployment plans. They didn’t include an adequate number of military police to control the routes during the ground war, and then we didn’t have sufficient military police to control the streets after the ground war.
2. Law and order was not given sufficient attention in the pre-war planning. This failed to provide a police system to provide security to the Iraqi citizenry and to instill a sense of trust in our Army.
3. The issue of detainees. There was really was no clear guidance on the categorization of them. It was really important to me to adhere to the Geneva Conventions, but I really had to make it all up as I went.
4. The flaws in collecting intelligence.
5. Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, an Army Reserve officer who commanded the military police unit at the Abu Ghraib prison. I actually opened Abu Ghraib prison and handed it over to her in 2003. And I explain that she was the wrong leader at the wrong place at the wrong time.
6. Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, who was the top commander in Iraq from June 2003 to July 2004 and replaced Lt. Gen. William S. Wallace. General Sanchez was in over his head, and he continued fighting the ground war long after it was over.
7. The Coalition Provisional Authority, under the leadership of L. Paul Bremer III, dismantled the Iraqi Army, and the highest level of the Baath Party. Under Saddam Hussein, the highest ranks could only belong to Baath Party members, so we lost some of the most experienced personnel that were so vital in putting Iraq back together again.
8. The mistakes of the former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik. He was focused on padding his résumé and getting as much camera time as he could.
9. The Iraqi police and the fact that I was pressured to focus more on quantity as opposed to quality.
10. President George W. Bush’s coalition of the willing. The fact is, those countries had less than 50 people in there. There really was not a coalition other than the United Kingdom.

Nutsign detected: vague non-specific claims with "Google it" instead of providing links to corroborating evidence.

No. Some of us are old enough to remember and its only the "kiddies" who need to Google things. Some of the top links for Clinton and Chinese donations.

"The 1996 United States campaign finance controversy was an alleged effort by the People's Republic of China to influence domestic American politics prior to and during the Clinton administration and also involved the fund-raising practices of the administration itself.
While questions regarding the U.S. Democratic Party's fund-raising activities first arose over a Los Angeles Times article published on September 21, 1996, China's alleged role in the affair first gained public attention when Bob Woodward and Brian Duffy of The Washington Post published a story stating that a United States Department of Justice investigation into the fund-raising activities had uncovered evidence that agents of China sought to direct contributions from foreign sources to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) before the 1996 presidential campaign. The journalists wrote that intelligence information had shown the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C. was used for coordinating contributions to the DNC in violation of United States law forbidding non-American citizens or non-permanent residents from giving monetary donations to United States politicians and political parties. A Republican investigator of the controversy stated the Chinese plan targeted both presidential and congressional United States elections, while Democratic Senators said the evidence showed the Chinese targeted only congressional elections. The government of the People's Republic of China denied all accusations."
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"Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe invited the Chinese businessman whose donations to him have been named as a focus of Justice Department investigators to a 2013 fundraiser at Hillary Clinton's personal Washington, D.C., residence. Wang Wenliang, a Chinese national with U.S. permanent residency, briefly shook Clinton’s hand at the Sept. 30 event, a representative for Wang told TIME. An American company controlled by Wang made a $60,000 contribution to McAuliffe’s campaign three weeks before the fundraiser. Less than a month later, a separate Wang company pledged $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation, the first of several donations that eventually totaled $2 million."
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"Ng, a Macau businessman with ties to the Chinese government, was accused of funneling over $1 million in illegal foreign donations to support Bill Clinton's reelection campaign in 1996. "Ng, a Macau businessman with ties to the Chinese government, was accused of funneling over $1 million in illegal foreign donations to support Bill Clinton's reelection campaign in 1996 ... According to congressional investigators, Ng laundered the illegal campaign donations through a close Clinton associate in Arkansas named Charlie Trie during the 1996 election."
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You have no idea how accurate you are, and no one else is admitting it.

Story about the ONLY people that have evidence Russia hacked the 2016 election. Yes, these are the ONLY people that have examined the DNC servers that were hacked, Comey confirmed the FBI nor any other intelligence agency has been allowed to look at them.

The kicker... That company is REFUSING to testify to that evidence. I'm assuming since a special council has been appointed and perjury will be prosecuted now is when they changed their mind. So the government has not a SINGLE PERSON willing to testify with actual evidence of Russian hacking.

Can I repeat that? Not a SINGLE PERSON is willing to testify with evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Yes, they drug it out for 9 months and not only did they not have evidence of Trump working with Russia, they didn't have evidence of Russia interfering with the election.

What the hell is going on here? Why would anyone listen to Comey? He hasn't seen evidence of Russia hacking the 2016 election, why would he think they would start now?

Said one random idiot from the UK, a country that had been basically leveled down by the Luftwaffe before being rescued by the US, and whose "soldiers" are known more for their obesity and alcoholism than for their military skills.

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Even if they were this stupid, they've been told half a dozen times why they're stupid. So one has to assume they have other reasons.

May's advisor who resigned today, Fiona Hill, is shagging Charles Farr and designer of the Investigatory Powers Act. He also designed the IP Act's 3x defeated predecessors over the last 9 years.. It's incredibly likely it all comes from him.

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According to the Daily Mail, the leaker that this posting is motivated by was fascinated with Islamic jihad and wanted to live in Afghanistan or Pakistan.
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Leaking to expose corruption is great. Leaking that gets Westerners killed and attempts to take subvert the democratic system is still treason.

Advice from those who have succeeded is nearly always worth listening to, but you need to be very careful about how much value you give to that advice. The economy and workforce simply changes too much from generation to generation today.

Whisky and 15 cigarettes a day is the secret of my good health says Dorothy as she celebrates her 100th birthday

Unfortunately it is usually much hard to tell which people ended up overcoming their own horrible believes (now offered up as advice,) instead of succeeding because of them

Comey ADMITTED there is no credible evidence of Russian interference with the election. Of course he doesn't think he did, but he did.

Comey admitted the FBI never investigated the DNC servers (the source of Russian interference). A private company did and gave the FBI "evidence". The same company recently got caught lying about Russia hacking a Ukraine computer. Imagine that during a trial, your star witness has to admit to lying about another case in the EXACT SAME MANNER he is an expert in this case. That is a clear cut case of discrediting the witness. No one else examined the DNC servers for hacking. There is no credible evidence, according to Comey under oath.
Nice story about that company and how they are not going to affirm Russia had anything to do with it.

Wow, what a bombshell. The entire thing appears to be made up. Glad you got suckered in. Now the Trump lawyers are suggesting Comey should be investigated for lying under oath today. What a turn! So not only was Trump NEVER under investigation, not only was the entire thing made up, but now Comey will be under investigation.

What a day!

People with early signs of dementia are the target audience for Fox News and talk radio.

The Average Age of Fox News Viewers is 68...

What I'm hearing is your uncle is driving an unpatched tractor. Do you think your relatives found found these? One of them says "Dick Reimer" - . Damn damn damn those kids. Time to issue more notices. Do you think there are more? Perhaps of various other varieties? How do you think the people on the memes feel? The really bad memes. memememememememememe.

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I don't want Jihadi's in my house. They will not be grateful, and may kill you.