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"It looks like you’re writing a ransom note..."

'moran' is a dog whistle.

Go back to your fucking Democratic Underground and quit ruining Slashdot.

They are the ones that need "caution: hot, may cause burns" on drive-thru coffee cups?

You know that the old lady who got famous for that case was not driving, that the car wasn't moving, and that she got severe burns from the incident? Every time you parrot this hot coffee thing you're doing the dirty work of Karl Rove and his evil campaign to cap damages in civil cases.

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Well, the studies would not agree with your assessment.
US may have the highest gun homocide rate, but remove guns from legal and law abiding owners and it would likely actually increase.

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Today I go to Breitbart first, to find out what's going on.

By "what's going on", I assume you mean, "brown people and feminists are trying to kill me", "jews are devils and you know they're bad because their names are always surrounded by emojis of globes" and, "Nazis aren't really bad, it's the people who are against Nazis who are bad".

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[Note: the original Breitbart typography to denote jews was the triple-parentheses, as in, "(((Jared Kushner)))". The switch to globe emojis is one of their more recent innovations. I assume that they'll eventually just go straight to using yellow stars.]

Because it ain't the lefty media spreading the hatred, Sparky.

Yeah, it is...

was purely motivated by his mixed race.

Could you offer some proof of this — something the rest of us, who do not have your powers of telepathy, can verify on their own? Something, that makes Trump's suspecting Obama's eligibility uniquely different from Clinton suspecting same? Or suspecting that McCain or Ted Cruz may not be eligible either?

You will need to provide substantial proof that the judge is racist before you can make a statement like that.

That judge has just awarded a scholarship to an illegal immigrant . Is it not fair to suspect, he may be biased against someone, who wishes to deport such illegal immigrants?

White judges are suspected of bias against Black defendants all the time (as are White juries) — why is it "racist" to suspect a Latino judge of similar bias against other races?

That Judge is apart of a group called "San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association", not the "La Raza" association

Distinction without difference. Any attempts to promote people based on their race automatically discriminates against other races and is thus racist — by definition.

That's pretty much racist.

"Pretty much" does not count.

directly attributed to anybody from the Middle East, who's appearances are starkly contrasted to caucasians.

The biggest Muslim country in the world is Indonesia, which is about as far from the Middle East as is the US. Fail.

That happened in 1973. He took over his father's business in 1971.

So, he inherited a problem from his father. Big deal. Hillary Clinton's father was racist too

Except that was a lie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

A YouTube clip with some talking-head talking about Trump is not proof, sorry. Maybe, he really forgot, who it was. Or, maybe, he lied. But that's not racism either way.

As for "disavowing" David Duke — wake me up, when Hillary Clinton "disavows" Al Sharpton, who is no less a racist than David Duke... Except she would not do that, because, whereas Duke's endorsement of Trump was unsolicited, Hillary actively sought Sharpton's. Maybe, if Trump ever went to a Duke's rally, you'd have had a point...

Fail.

See, I can copy links too. Please try to remember recent history before being outraged.

"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002

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Seems she was arguing for the war, not sure what quotes you have to offer up, but you didn't offer any, so I am not sure if they exist.

Remember, all quotes must be from before the war started for her to have been speaking out against the war.

They're so compelling. Even the smallest -- the 55-inch model -- can display up to four tweets at once.

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President Obama has ordered the Federal Government (which has all our private tax and now even some health records) to hire without worrying about that whole "convicted felon" thing, and as you can see from that link and many other left-wing sites on the net, the left is excited about this "progressive" move. [sigh] A Political cartoon is not even needed to illustrate reckless insanity anymore.

Let's make our career criminals smarter! Teach a crook to phish, and he'll never go hungry!

... okay... more of this apparently...
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As you can see from the second graph mean concentrations by altitude... its actually not that different. It is more concentrated in the northern hemisphere than the southern... but so what...

As to the political argument you're now making of "shouldn't you be concerned if X is concerned?"...

Lets extend that question to other things. Lets say a military figure says "I'm worried about the Iranian nuclear weapons program"... does that mean you're worried about it?

If a general says "I want to nuke china" which was something McCarther wanted... you know the guy that ran the campaign against Japan during WW2... well respected military guy.

Don't like the military question... okay... so lets talk economics a lot of economists are worried about debt or tax rates or other various economic things that conflict with your politics... are you going to change your politics because the economists want to do X?

Here you might say "but this is science"... perhaps but you're not making a scientific argument. You're saying "this PERSON cares so you should care" that's a political argument and not a scientific one.

The point I'm trying to make to you here is that I don't really care if someone else finds something important. I want to know WHY they found it important, I want that information, and then I'm going to judge for myself.

Here you might say "but you're not competent to make that judgement"... neither are you. And what you're asking me to do then is write someone a blank check and just trust whatever they say.

You wouldn't do that. If all the scientists flipped around and said we have to emit more green house gasses to avoid an ice age... would you be on board for that? I rather doubt it especially if it meant a massive industrial expansion to pull it off.

Lets be real here... this is a polluted issue. There are subtexts in it and we can dance around each other all you like. You'll find I know all the moves. But I don't really see the point. I'm not your enemy here, pal.

I'm your neighbor. And if you think counting cow farts is going to save the world... you can do that on your own time.

My vote which is equal to yours... is that it is stupid. I vote no. I am not even remotely convinced this is a real issue.

The issue sounds like bullshit and the more I look into it the more it looks like bullshit.

...and Saddam existed because we put him there to fight a proxy cold war against Russian-backed Iran.
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And Iran was only Russian-backed because the US and UK overthrew a democratically elected government and installed the Shah, who got kicked out because of the Revolution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

...and Saddam existed because we put him there to fight a proxy cold war against Russian-backed Iran.
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ISIS exists because we need another set of boogeymen to stir shit up with neighboring Syria and Iran on our behalf.
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We read a lot about how ISIS somehow keeps getting access to US-funded weapons sent to the region to help Libyan rebels topple Qaddafi or the Iraqi army "keep the peace". They'll get their Twitter feeds back again when we need them to resume looking evil to the rest of the world so we can justify going back in there to "clean the place up". That time just isn't now.

Are you seriously so fucking stupid you think the guy slept with a 17yold BECAUSE he's a democrat? The problem is that because of tribal identity, and complete fucking ignorance, the republican for the last three plus decades have been pulling this country farther and farther to the radical fascist right. This is simply another attempt to rig the system against the people, and let corporations leech more money out of the population. Then we have stupid fucking idiots like you who keep trying to shift attention away from what's going on so YOUR "tribe" never has to take responsibility for anything they do.

This isn't about some totally disconnected fucking idiocy you want to weave around to distract people... it's about peoples basic rights to information thats not censored and fabricated by the few with enough resources to control them. Pull your head out of your ass for once in your life.

But, if you want to talk about pedophiles and sexual criminals in office, fine, here yah go:

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http://ringoffireradio.com/201...

http://www.911review.org/Alex/...

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Have you anything other than strawmen? By "basics" Libertarians mean enforcement of laws (civil and criminal)

That is tautological. For example, the USSR had laws codifying the planned economy. I doubt that the libertarians consider the USSR anything close to libertarian.

Libertarians want to pick exactly _what_ laws the state should enforce. And by a strange coincidence these laws are the ones that libertarians themselves need to protect them.

Said the man after repeatedly demonstrating ignorance of those same principles! Yes, the US was founded on these principles — nothing else is entrusted to government in the Constitution.

Are you sure? Can you look at the Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the US Constitution?

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

This doesn't sound anything like Madison. I checked the web, and lo and behomd - this quote is an outright fake. See here: http://www.democraticundergrou... So yes, libertardians are libertardians.

I don't necessarily think any victim-blaming was going on.

Whenever something the victim has said or done is used to excuse — or even merely explain — an attack on him, it is victim-blaming. When his actions/words were perfectly legal — whether it is the revealing clothing, or following a suspicious character on public street, or mocking somebody's religion, or even "not caring" for somebody's dire economic situation — such victim-blaming becomes abhorrent.

Poverty breeds violent crime.

Yeah, a famous excuse by Illiberals. Only it is not quite true. Congo, for example, may be the world's poorest country, but Iceland is at the top of the number of crimes per capita.

Poor people with no future and therefore nothing to lose do bad things.

Citation needed. While we do not (yet) know the background of these criminals, the Tsarnaev brothers were reasonably comfortable. Palestinians in Gaza are much wealthier than Egyptians behind the border. 9/11-attackers were from Saudi Arabia — and although not all residents of that country are rich, all citizens are very well off. Bin Laden was a bona-fide billionaire...

Poverty may or may not increase the number of property crimes, but it does not make one a terrorist, from what I see.

If you can do something to fix that problem, you will decrease the number of desperate people doing desperate thing.

The assholes responsible for the attack being discussed were not desperate. Nor did they do a "desperate thing". Off-topic much?

Or it could be that their competition is the most used advertising/search engine in the entire world, Google.

Every time you go to Google it suggests that you should switch to chrome. Maybe that eventually gets to people and they click willingly. Maybe one day they accidentally click somewhere on the page and get it. Maybe they download adobe acrobat or flash and get it installed by drive-by. Maybe a malware site does the drive-by.

A DIVX codec pack causes IE to use Chrome inside IE
Avast antivirus installs chrome if you miss the tiny checkbox Adobe installs chrome with if you miss the checkbox while installing flash player or reader. Maybe you just wanted to install Google Earth and play with maps. Boom. You've now got chrome If you install any well known popular application, chances are it bundles a chrome install.

Hey that's a great idea! what if we just make everyone run chrome if they decide to click yes to a popup box IChrome evangelists are taking a cue from malware writers.

It should be noted that Google is now ceasing this drive-by install method of chrome

Clearly, Firefox needs to invent a superior search engine to regain market share, then push people people to install Firefox. Or just convince everyone of their devoted followers to script "install firefox" into applications and web pages where it is completely unnecessary. That's how Google got their market-share.

By comparison, solar power is still the clear winner, according to ecology.com

That sites like "ecology.com" declare solar to be a winner is not surprising. That they even ask a question, however, is a sign, that things aren't as obvious and clear-cut, as some would like the rest of us to believe.

Just twenty years ago we were lead to believe, growing more corn for conversion to ethanol would save the Earth and otherwise make the world a better place. That turned out to be a lie, but you wouldn't find a mention of it on ecology.com. Or, maybe, you would nowadays, but it is hardly trumpeted the way "progressive" politicians were praised for pushing ethanol and the "kkkonservative" ones — lambasted for opposing it.

so is being sacked for NOT belonging to the mormon church okay? http://www.democraticundergrou...

Unless cops, and I mean a lot of cops, start going to jail for their criminal behavior, then this isn't working at all. I know for 100% fact that many if not most cops are criminals who commit perjury and break the law on an almost daily basis. Yet, somehow, magically - none of them ever does anything illegal, and no matter what they do they are da officas! Dey wouldn't do nuttin' wrong! Sure they kicked a guy repeatedly in the head, but hey - you don't know what it's like to get such an adreneline rush just from the idea that you are going to be able to kick some poor bastard in the head and then get away with it! Can't you see man! It's OK, cause deys da coppas, and dey get excited, so you can't expect them to not kick a sick and helpless guy in the head, or shoot an old man ... just in case, don't ya know!

" A casino is not at the core of the dollar's system. "

That's right, wall street is not a casino, its stable, honest, and reliable.

Glad I wasn't drinking anything I might have spewed while typing that.

While wall street is not the one that issues the money, they are the ones
that turn it into a casino, and theft is VERY much a part of it.

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To the tune of $32 trillion that has been traced.

How much was not traceable, who knows...

Yeah they transferred around $32 trillion offshore and oddly the IRS won't touch it.

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There are monopolies, there are cartels, and there is protectionism when it comes to big money Telcos.

Quality has taken a back seat to a giant cash grab.

They don't really even bother to hide how much they are robbing the sheeple.

All they have to do is distract the sheeple that same way a snake charmer does,
and their favorite tool is the "Operation Mockingbird" media.

$300 billion stolen by Telcos, $32 trillion stolen by a various means and
placed offshore and the IRS won't touch it.

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

http://www.newnetworks.com/bro...

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No no no, they physically worked hard enough to park $32 trillion offshore with IRS immunity.

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All those forms they had to tell a receptionist to fill out.

Having to stand in line for lunch !!! The horror !!! LOL...

A few phone calls would take care of the national debt.

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And this is just the part that we can track, I am sure there is
much more that was converted to physical assets off books.

Sibel Edmonds showed that the US got was funding the mercs known as AL-CIAda and Taliban.

Then she was fired for it.

When a trillion dollar industry needs bad guys, they can always find someone willing to play
the part if the price is right.

With the offshore slush fund of stolen US retirement accounts and tax skimming of $32 trillion
you can afford alot of fake terrorists too.

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This is what happens when ppl are slaves to a monetary system that
uses Artificial Scarcity to control the population.

The human race has become domesticated by the plutocrats and we
won't even setup vertical hydroponics to feed ourselves or those in need.

Instead we clamor and hand ring how we dont have enough ink on paper.

The ink and paper taken back in time to the tribes of the past might be
used to start a fire to cook some food, it would have zero value to them.

When the current group of brainwashed humans realize the money system
has been hijacked by financial pirates who are the "true hoarders" they
might start breaking free from the brainwashing.

Some true hoarding seen right here:

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Many organizations benefit off keeping the sheeple busy with distraction.

Much like the bread and circuses analogy.

While they keep them entertained and in fear from the "terrorists"
while spending as much as the next 25 nations combined on military.

So it is my opinion that it is to some ppls benefit to have things like they are here.

Namely Religion, Mil-Industrial, Big Agri, Big Pharma, Big Medica

Them like most human endeavors have been corrupted.

A part of the looters gold pile has been found offshore....my what a huge pile...

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Well as for money laundering, apparently it gets a pass if you have bribed the right ppl.

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Revisionist History is the most popular history because it can be altered to
please all the different perspectives.

We honestly have a bunch of ppl lying to themselves about what is really going on.

It would also explain how the greatest bank robbery took place in broad daylight
and the truly guilty will never see jail time over it.

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It wasn't thrown away, it was stolen....

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They got a rover on the moon now.

The cost of a rover mission to the moon is not that much, it could
probably be paid for just off the interest of the debt that the US owes china, lol.

No one country can claim the space station at this point, thou
it could be said that a small number of nations could claim most of
the credit.

We could have a star trek like society if we could just get half of what
the Kleptocrats parked offshore.

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Posturing, I'm afraid.. This sort of thing has been popping up for years, with every anti-missile system:

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By me in response ro "Virgle", including a bit on the two worlds at Google: http://www.pdfernhout.net/a-ra...
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"But given what Gatto and Ellul say, that action may be a long time coming because the wealthy get so much emotional reward out of believing the propaganda of elites deserving abundance amidst scarcity for the many and spreading that propaganda further (even via Virgle).
"The Mythology of Wealth"
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"The cheap-labor conservative "minimalist government" social Darwinian world view is just plain bullshit. It builds a new class structure, which just like the ancient class structures, is based on a set of mythological concepts. In fact, those mythological concepts like "property rights", "contract rights", "corporations", "stocks", "bonds", and even "money" itself are socially created to regulate distribution and access to resources. The "market place" is a human creation. The details of how it operates are determined by the particulars of the institutions on which it is built. It is "instituted among men", and if its workings become destructive of the lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness of people subject to it, it may be "altered or abolished"."
For example, Google contractors get no Segways and massages?
http://www.google-watch.org/go...
Or second class badges?
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"I used to work at Google as a Contractor. Let me tell you, it wasn't the greatest place for a contractor. First, you have red badges, so anyone with a Google badge looks down on you. Already you feel left out, and you don't feel like enjoying all the benefits Googler's have. ... I don't miss working there. The people arn't really all that friendly, people have arrogance and MBA, PHD attitudes."
And ultimately, aren't even the people in sweatshops in, say, China who build component used in Google servers in some sense Google contractors? Definitely no Segways or massages for them. :-(
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"Well over 150 million migrant workers from rural areas have crowded into the cities over the past decade in search of economic survival. They may regularly not get paid for months at a time. Public healthcare across the economy is declining to the point where many millions of working families cannot afford to seek medical care or risk huge debt if they do. Migrant workers are at especial risk. Large numbers of workers in the toy industry have now lost their jobs directly as a result of the Mattel recall, and its fallout continues. They are the direct victims of their local bosses' abuses and the lack of safety control. But of course they and their stories and suffering, literally inscribed in the toys they make, remain invisible."
So what is Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California but a little temporary space habitat bubble of happiness for regular employees, but floating on a sea of relative misery for everyone else planetwide who supports it? Can't we as a society or Google/Virgle as an aspiration do better that that? And even within that bubble are emerging issues. How long can a company expect to run on twenty-somethings without kids?"
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We've been watching "Manor House" and "Downton Abbey" and it is perhaps interesting to think about the upstairs/downstairs distinction in relation to Google employees vs. contractors and other supporters (including suppliers and users).

Personally, I feel Google (including its top management) i

Don't you have some chicken wire to jump on?

fact is, more people are murdered with hammers than rifles in total.

Sorry, false.

Would be true if you said hammers, clubs, and other blunt objects.
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http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8

even then, it's a very narrowly crafted statistic, specific to rifles only, making sure you leave out shotguns and other kinds of guns.

And as mass-murders with hammers, well, they are pretty rare.

It can go faster than 132mph, but the Bugatti Veyron will empty its tank in 12 minutes at top speed.. Which is a good thing as the tires only last 15 minutes at top speed.

but after Al Qaeda showed everyone how infiltration can really be done,

Except that isn't true.

Every one of the 9/11 terrorists fit a profile that should have sounded alarm bells at the border. Finding guys like that is easy if you are looking and it doesn't require reading every grandmothers email, or recording every phone call or feeling every crotch.

Russian operatives were far more successful, some escaping detection for multiple decades.

It's actually even worse than that. The CIA was tracking two of the hijackers before the attacks and just didn't tell anyone. Other hijackers were living with an FBI informant. When the 9/11 commission asked to speak with that informant, the FBI hid him away and did not let him appear. Further, 15 of the hijackers were granted visas in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with help from the CIA.

Of course, little of this has made its way into the public consciousness. See my sig for more insight. At any rate, it seems clear that the government did not need more surveillance powers to be aware of the presence of the hijackers in the US.

Look who's talking..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023414198

he looks like a fucking human tick that's just finished gorging itself ...

Other than being 5 years old, Leper colony link: http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20080929/NEWS/809290335/Hundreds-of-Reaper-Predator-pilots-needed
Very bottom of the page: Not a U.S. Government Publication, so to Google we go.

UAV career field takes flight
Nonrated officers, retirees, trainees and...

Hundreds of Reaper, Predator pilots needed
By Michael Hoffman - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Sep 29, 2008 13:03:17 EDT

The Air Force will soon have nonrated officers flying combat missions over Iraq and Afghanistan.

Granted, it won’t be in an F-16 cockpit but behind a joystick 6,000 miles away, flying an MQ-1 Predator or MQ-9 Reaper from Nevada or New Mexico.

Bottom line: These new career unmanned aerial vehicle pilots will be dropping bombs in combat and flying a 10,000-pound aircraft in a congested airspace without completing undergraduate pilot training.

Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz announced the new UAV pilot career field Sept. 16 — part of a two-pronged approach to fill the Air Force’s need for hundreds of UAV pilots.

But the service also will explore the possibility of luring retired and recently separated pilots back into uniform to fly UAVs, and the idea of allowing enlisted personnel to fly UAVs has yet to be ruled out, according to Schwartz and Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Rodney J. McKinley. A decision on that is expected within 90 days.

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With just a little bit of googling, the guy's married and has a kid. Even if it was a 'mutually abusive situation', what kind of guy steps out on his wife? Especially after she just gave birth to their daughter in the last 18 months? The guy's integrity is blown at that point, so it's all downhill from there. Now, add to the situation that the girl's property was found in the guy's room? He's a cheating husband AND a thief at least. Not the best position to be in when it comes to establishing credibility. As for the girl, she's a single lady and what does she gain by publishing her side of the story? I just don't see why there's so much skepticism on this forum about what's going on. The bigger issue here, the number of women getting harassed at conferences is increasing at a number of different venues. http://www.democraticunderground.com/121835860 Until it is clear that this type of behavior is unacceptable and there are consequences for their behavior, cads like Gont will continue to think they don't have to be accountable for their actions while they are traveling.

He was just really into Ayn Rand:

http://jezebel.com/5490207/a-welcomed-rape-sex-and-ayn-rand

http://politicalfilm.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/atlas-shat-ayn-rands-manifesto-of-rape-and-terrorism/

http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2012/08/23812/

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2010/03/10/internal-affairs-how-ayn-rand-followers-rationalize-welcomed-rape/

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So please. Your oppressing him because of his philosophical belies.

Fucking libs !

2. In capitalism, even though corporations may become powerful, they don't have the power to arrest or kill you.

Oh really? Why don't you tell it to these people, threatened with arrest, or in fact arrested for trying to close accounts at Citi and BofA.

The thing is, I really respect what the Indian government does for Indians. I've known a truly huge number of Indians since I started in IT... staggeringly huge, and I really like them. I find them to be good reliable friends.

Let's face it though, these laws aren't being put into place to help Indian techies (they do help them, but that's a side effect). They are being put into place to lower labor costs for large tech companies. Tech companies have decided that they are paying too much for labor, and they go to their stooges in Congress and say, "We're paying to much for labor, flood the market with H1-B's so labor will be cheaper." Their stooges in Congress think of the money they will get in graft, go "ch-ching" and pass the laws that the tech company owners want.

If there really is a labor shortage, more naturalized citizens is the right way to fill it, not the complex H1-B visa. Another fact about my Indian friends? They are great people but they move around the country like soldiers being stationed here, and then stationed there. It's got nothing to do with what they want, either. A contract runs out in sunny Georgia and they may next find themselves in icy NYC.

However, I don't feel particularly picked on because this happens all across the economy and the problem is that almost every law we get is based on graft (or increasing police state power) rather than the public good. It's why copyright length keeps getting extended. It's why we can't import drugs from where they are cheaper, and so on.

We've decided unchecked, rampant graft is going to be the order of the day in Washington, and we get a country that is run by corruption because of it.

Read, "4 Amendments and a Funeral" to see how Washington works. However, a caution, both political parties are currently driven by graft, don't fool yourself into seeing either as "the good guys."

• American Pad and Paper
• KB Toys
• Bealls Brothers / Palais Royal (merged into Stage Stores)

here is a working link..new scientist link seams to SOL

Right, because without tasers, no one has ever been killed or injured while resisting arrest.

I'll ask again - would you rather be tased (unpleasant, but no lasting damage in the overwhelming majority of people) or be restrained by force (unpleasant, also commonly end up with cracked ribs, dislocated shoulders/fingers, concussions, broken limbs, other bruises and other contusions) as a result of resisting your arrest?

Stop pretending like these people are standing around doing nothing when cops walk up and taser them out of the blue for shits and grins. They're being arrested, and they're resisting the arrest. At that point, the cops have two choices: tase the person, or pepper spray them, slam them to the ground, wrestle them into handcuffs, and hope they're not severely injuring or killing the person in the process. Neither way is gentle, or 100% guaranteed safe. You don't want to be tased? Don't get arrested; if you DO get arrested, comply immediately with the officer's instructions - the time to argue "wrongful arrest" or any other bullshit is IN FRONT OF A JUDGE, not on the roadside, or in the middle of a crowd of 50 other people.

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Point the first
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Point the third (and mind the Cryllic - Chrome should translate it)
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The USSR made it a point to suppress (and eventually try to eliminate) religion, as Marxism wouldn't have room for it.

Just another liberal happy to kill for the cause I suppose. There sure are a disturbing number of you around these days, unwilling to debate and only to destroy.

That's some nice projection you've got going on there. I invite you to visit any number of message boards and count the number of death threats vs. liberals vs. death threats against conservatives and see if it supports your assumption.

--Jeremy

I don't think it's projection when he's posting on a forum with hundreds of posts wishing for Republicans to die. Projection is when your project your own faults onto others who do not have those faults. So, in this case, it is hardly what I'd call "projection".

Next, I challenge you to go to "right wing" sites and find me some death wishes. May I recommend Hot Air, Red State or even News Busters. Now, granted, you will find a few whack jobs out there, but nothing like what you have seen here and nothing like what you may find on Democratic Underground or Daily Kos.

Sorry, but in light of what I've read here, it would appear that you are the one who is projecting.

And that "liberal" Jesus was against sexual deviancy, which includes homosexuality. That's not exactly what I would call a "liberal". Sure, Jesus was a liberal for someone living he first century, but not a liberal by today's standard. You should really clarify that.