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"Isn't that how it is supposed to work? If he (and by extension, "the gov't") did what he damn well pleased, isn't that... a dictatorship...actual tyranny?"

No. The way it's supposed to work is that the government operates lawfully and Constitutionally.

The Government is breaking the law by not having passed a budget in 4 years or more. As a result of that (by definition) crime, the government has given itself discretion, not backed by any law, as to how it will spend its money.

Obama is further breaking the law by furloughing civilian employees at a Strategic Air Command base, when he just signed the Pay Our Military Act the other day, which was passed UNANIMOUSLY by congress, and which REQUIRES him to pay civilians working at military bases. Does it "make sense" to ignore the law you just signed over a political hissy fit? Isn't THAT "doing whatever you want"?

The fact is that Obama -- as long as he is not OTHERWISE breaking the law, as mentioned just above -- has a lot of discretion over how the government is spent. And there are government employees who have been saying they have been directed to make this shutdown "as painful as possible" for the general public, while he goes golfing and carries on as he pleases. His recent trip to Africa alone would pay to keep the White House tours for school children operating for the next 25 years! Yet he did go to Africa, and he shut down the tours.

No. THAT is not the way government is supposed to work.

Justice Roberts ruled that Obamacare constituted a tax, hence it is revenue.

http://www.examiner.com/article/obamacare-can-be-defunded-without-senate-approval

The House alone has authority to fund Obamacare lies with the house alone. And Justice Roberts never ruled the bill Constitutional, infact he said quite a bit to the contrary.

http://www.examiner.com/article/obamacare-can-be-defunded-without-senate-approval

http://www.examiner.com/article/park-ranger-admits-being-told-to-make-life-as-difficult-for-people-as-possible

A federal Park Service Ranger admitted being ordered to make life as difficult as possible in order to make Americans feel the most pain as a result of the partial government shutdown ... Same happened at the beginning of the sequester..

You have to reduce the number of Democrat votes by a third to account for voter fraud. Example here.

Viola! - Pakistan new island: 7.7 earthquake kills 300, island rises from Arabian sea (Video) http://www.examiner.com/article/pakistan-new-island-7-7-earthquake-kills-300-island-rises-from-arabian-sea

Perhaps these two will get even bigger asteroids!

We can name some ice chunks in Saturn's belt after all of the black kids beating up and killing white people over Treyvon.

Like most things, it is a matter of how much is bad. Yes, holding your arms up for lengths of time leads to muscle fatigue, but that is something your body can recover from. After all, painters, electricians, and other craftsmen such as mechanics, spent a long time with their arms overhead doing precision work. Just some quick google searching yielded:

Common hazards for electricians

Multi-touch and Gorilla arm and how some companies are ignoring it

Skin problems in mechanics

What is bad about being a mechanic?

You'll notice a common trend in these articles. The only one that mentions arm fatigue is the one complaining about multi-touch surfaces. The rest have other issues from repetitive tasks (see the vibration issue from power tools, tied into the "Skin Problems" article) and assorted chemical/environmental problems. I tried searching a little harder for gorilla arm and injuries associated with it, but only came up with a couple multi-touch articles. It seems the only ones really complaining are those with a desk job.

Gorilla Arm: Painful? probably. Can we adjust to it? Almost definitely, if craftsmen can use their hands to carry and manipulate tools for 8 hours a day, we can move a non-existant cube from point A to point B every now and then. Life threatening? Not hardly. Also, people will naturally gravitate toward the right tool for the right job, or close to it. Once we figure out the hologram sucks for typing, the keyboards will get a new life.

Local exploits? The 1 that isn't on Win7 = patched easily by editing your local environment %string(s)% in System Icon in Control Panel. IE's freely upgraded for free to IE 11 so your old browser examples = moot. If you're running Windows Server 2008 upgrading to Server 2012 != problem, or wait for Patch Tuesday. Too bad Linux can't be fixed as easily at NASDAQ (seeing it failed 3x this week and for 3 hours, the longest fail ever there in recent history http://www.examiner.com/article/nasdaq-shutdown-stock-markets-shut-down-for-3-hours-after-error )

A lot of comments are comparing this to police wearing cameras and while they're both public servants, the situations are very different. Why? Because the majority (if not all) cameras on firefighters (FF's) helmets are owned by the FF. I've not heard of a dept that is actually buying and distributing these. TFA mentions that 2 other big FD's have banned them and the SFFD implicitly banned them in 2009 when all cameras were banned from fire stations.

There has been mild controversy in the fire service over the use of these cameras, mostly related to auto accidents where FF's are likely to see injured or deceased victims.

While these videos can serve a very useful training purpose (and buff privileges), the victim's privacy is obviously a concern. And since the cameras are privately owned, the govt. can't ban them once they've been recorded, but they can ban FF's from using them while carrying out their duties.

Emergency services have a social contract with the general public that isn't examined too often. It's something that isn't taught to recruit classes, but it definitely should be. In exchange for the privilege of being a FF, we agree to help the public (some of us even get paid to do it). What's not clearly defined is whether or not the FF's should serve the public as best as we can. While it seems simple, many FF's succumb to the "good enough" mentality and don't actively seek improvement. The public puts a lot of trust in the emergency services and it only takes small mistakes to damage that trust.

Disclaimer: I am a volunteer FF and I design fire apparatus for a living.
Secondary Disclaimer: The amount of chrome on a fire truck does not improve the fire suppression abilities.

The problem was solved hundreds of years ago. Spreading bay leaves or kidney bean leaves in the infested rooms traps all the bedbugs.

Yes, this line that you did show only applies to freedom of speech. It says nothing of not banning a organization in the U.S. Something that is actually done regularly (most foreign one) in the U.S.

Here are the latest victims of your gun freedom.

http://www.examiner.com/article/three-dead-after-gunman-opens-fire-penn-town-hall-meeting

My take here - Fukushima emergency: Radioactive water still leaking into Pacific (Video) http://www.examiner.com/article/fukushima-emergency-radioactive-water-still-leaking-into-pacific

Even that wouldn't bother me so much if they weren't training with "No Hesitate" targets featuring children and pregnant women and simulating attacks on American cities.

http://www.infowars.com/law-enforcement-requested-shooting-targets-of-pregnant-women/

http://www.examiner.com/article/military-drills-major-cities-alarm-citizens-raise-fears-of-government-action

Both of the numbers we listed are correct: about half from membership dues, and 3.2% from corporate donations. The NRA also gets money from advertisements in its publications, payouts from its endowments, donations from members, donations from state-level gun-rights groups, etc. The point I'm trying to make is that there simply isn't a logical case to be made that gun companies control the NRA when they don't provide even close to half of its funding, while gun-owning members provide more than half.

Indeed, that would be inefficient when they can get members to do their dirty work for them.

You're literally saying that people acting in what they've each determined to be their own best interest, is in fact a giant behavioral control conspiracy. If the NRA's policies really were so out of line with the membership's desires, we wouldn't see the membership continue to increase. Your whole argument relies on the pretentious fallacy that people don't know what is best for themselves, but you do.

The judicious use of outright lies, such as the "they're coming to get your guns" narrative, also helps.

All but the last one of these is from THIS YEAR.

Hawaii legislature proposes gun confiscation
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/its-hawaiis-proposed-guns-laws-that-are-criminal/123

New York Assemblyman asks colleague not to mention that original proposed SAFE Act included confiscation
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/01/20/NY-Assemblyman-exposes-gun-confiscation-agenda-of-Democrats

Missouri Democrats introduce legislation to confiscate guns
http://nation.foxnews.com/gun-control/2013/02/14/missouri-democrats-introduce-legislation-confiscate-firearms-gives-gun-owners-90-days-turn-weapons

VA has veterans who cannot manage their own financial affairs declared prohibited persons unable to own firearms
http://www.humanevents.com/2013/04/15/va-targeting-veterans-for-gun-confiscation/

NJ State Senator "We needed a bill that was going to confiscate confiscate confiscate."
http://www.politickernj.com/back_room/confiscate-confiscate-confiscate#

Oregon Legislator calls fears of gun confiscation a "paranoid delusion" and then states he is in favor of gun confiscation
http://www.examiner.com/article/gun-grabber-has-meltdown-flees-public-affairs-forum-anger

Governor Cuomo says, "confiscation could be an option."
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/336373/cuomo-confiscation-could-be-option-eliana-johnson

Feinstein suggests "compulsory buyback."
http://washingtonexaminer.com/sen.-feinstein-suggests-national-buyback-of-guns/article/2516648

CA assembly proposes confiscating 166,000 legally registered guns.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_22544460/californias-state-senate-democrats-roll-out-big-gun

And the classic from 1995:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoWE8v9QTOY

Common sense is not fully eradicated there yet. Plus they really remember what censorship really is http://www.examiner.com/article/polish-parliament-members-wear-anonymous-guy-fawkes-masks-opposition-to-acta

You do know that democratic groups were not just given equal scrutiny by the IRS, but that the only group to be denied tax-exempt status was a democratic group? And this all happened under a Bush appointee to the IRS?

As it turns out, the commissioner was appointed during the Bush presidency, but was actually a Democratic technocrat from K Street, selected by Max Baucus. He's a Democrat and a active supporter of the Democratic party. At the time (2008), the senate was controlled by Democrats. The IRS Commissioner gets a 5-year appointment, and the Democrats would not confirm an appointee selected by Bush, suggesting he appoint an "acting" commissioner instead. But the law only allows an acting commissioner to serve a couple of months. So Bush made a deal with Baucus, who selected Shulman. His wife works for a far-left progressive organization and actively campaigned for Obama. So it seems that even though the commissioner was appointed during Bush's term, he is a Democrat and supporter of Obama. That's even more telling since Baucus was one of the senators that wrote a letter to the commissioner asking that they apply more scrutiny to applications of 501(c) groups.

I'm reminded of the parody video from The Onion (I think) where you had a jock who was killing the misfits at his high school so that they wouldn't snap and create another columbine.

Well if you think "misfits" aren't already subject to extra scrutiny these days you would be wrong.

School administration, teachers, counselors are all getting training in this. And its more an more evident that even other students are starting to look out for certain types.

So far, the merely odd or quirky kids have not been caught up in this to a great deal, but it still does happen, especially to guys who go goth.

I would expect that knowledge of biological markets that might be discovered would be welcome, by parents and perhaps the people having them. If you know about a predisposition to heart disease you can take extra care. If you are exceptionally predisposed to breast cancer you can guard against that, and take extreme steps. (Jolie).

Oddly enough, the aids virus is now being used to deliver "genetic fixes" to repair or compensate certain genetic defects and even fight http://www.examiner.com/article/science-fiction-aerosol-delivery-of-an-engineered-virus-halts-lung-cancer-progression-mice>cancer.

As a parent, I would jump at the chance to have my kid tested for that even in the absence of symptoms, early enough to make changes in education and upbringing.

You ask us to assume that a gun is the same as any other weapon.

Excuse me, perhaps you do not know what a gun is.

A gun is a device that is pretty much guaranteed to maim or kill--with a single use--a selected target, at a distance and almost instantly. It requires almost no real physical effort on the part of the user. Multiple uses can be accomplished pretty much as quickly as you can point, squeeze your finger, release, and point again.

This works really well for cancelling out advantages of size/weight/strength such as otherwise might be of concern to... I dunno... say, a skinny 16-year-old kid who's got a very big grudge against a high school teachers' lounge full of adults half again as big as he is.

Or a middle aged man who's got a grudge against black youngsters who are clearly unarmed.

Ah,yes, the George Zimmerman circus, er, trial.

MSM zombie, I take it? I presume that's why you're still maintaining that it was a racially charged assault, even though Zimmerman:
- Took a black girl to his prom (and at least tried to bang her, if my prom night is any indication of the standard),
- started a business with a black friend,
- helped tutor a couple of black kids, and
- has black siblings

http://www.examiner.com/article/ignored-by-media-zimmerman-voted-for-obama-tutored-black-kids (was also reported on NPR this very morning)

Not that I'm defending him (personally, I think he was a man who was looking for trouble and found it), but it was quite obviously not racially motivated. So... stop it.

If I remember right, that new porn law means he'll have to have an iPod condom right?

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-idea-that-recent-mass-shooters-are-mostly-registered-democrats-is-a-myth

Based on the most basic of research, I found the same results for the statements that are most easily verified (Hasan, Lanza, Cho). Furthermore, this appears to be nothing but a lame copy-paste job.

How does it feel to be so completely led around by the nose by your conservative manipulators? Does it feel good to be told nothing but what you want to believe? Of course it does. It still doesn't excuse it.

Bingo. Picking on Card GUARANTEES a repeat of the "Chik-Fil-A" effect. For most Chik-Fil-A restaurants, they achieved record sales during the boycott, and elevated sales afterwards. . .

I plan on seeing the movie. During the Chick-Fil-A boycott, I ate more chicken sandwiches than at any point in my life!

It's not that I'm anti-gay. I think gay people are awesome. It's because I'm pro-Constitution. The Constitution says you have the right to free speech. Nowhere does it say you have the right to marry, straight, gay or otherwise.

I always used to hear liberals say "I may not agree with what you have to say, but I'll fight to death for your right to say it." It's amazing how fast that goes out the window when someone says something they view as "intolerant". I figure, if they're willing to claim to fight to the death for opposing views, the least I can do is enjoy a chicken sandwich with some waffle fries and see a movie I was interested in already.

Bingo. Picking on Card GUARANTEES a repeat of the "Chik-Fil-A" effect. For most Chik-Fil-A restaurants, they achieved record sales during the boycott, and elevated sales afterwards. . .

Just us?

Why did you try to find Eric Snowdon's editor account, a clear violation of Wikipedia rules?

Why do you assume he is guilty, and thus worthy of outing, when you have not been privy to all of the evidence pro- or con- his actions (and whether they constitute a crime), since you are not sitting on the Jury at his trial?

Does it make a sound?

http://www.examiner.com/article/englishman-ordered-to-remove-english-flag-on-front-door-may-offend-some
There is much, much more of this madness if you care to look past what your are being fed by the mainstream media ...
http://gatesofvienna.net/

Microsoft's cloud efforts are legendary. Take for example the database that backed the Sidekick and Kin. It did the unforgiveable for a cloud service: it lost data. At the end of the inquiry we find that Roz Ho authorized a SAN migration without full backup because, schedule. Where is Roz now? Working in Windows Phone.

This sort of surveillance ("We need to look at these specific accounts") doesn't bother me: that's how search warrants are supposed to work. (Well, assuming they are looking for terrorists and not just harassing Tea Party people.) This seems quite different from some other recent disclosures, like the Verizon warrants: "Give us records of all calls made." Search warrants, to be constitutional, have to be specific. General warrants were abused by the British and are a specific reason the Fourth Amendment was written.

Also note that at the same time the federal government is conducting sweeping, general surveillance of all Americans in the name of fighting terrorism, "Since October of 2011, the FBI has been forbidden to covertly gather information or set up sting operations at mosques unless they've been reviewed and approved by something the DoJ has tagged the Sensitive Operations Review Committee." I guess the Department of Justice didn't consider sweeping surveillance of all Americans to be as much of a "sensitive operation" as looking for Islamic terrorists in places they are likely to be.

Where's the outage from the left?!?!

The White House (this and previous administrations) has claimed in court that their own metadata of who visited the WH is far too sensitive to release or even share with Congress http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/09/wh-releases-more-visitor-logs-forced-by-jw-lawsuit/a.

If White House vistor logs must be hidden for "national security" http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-stonewalls-release-of-white-house-visitor-logs then of course my metadata can be equally as worthy of protection.

For some people nothing says "appeal to emotion" like FBI arrest reports I guess.

Here are some great resources for anyone confused by information at "911truth.org" and would like more information.

'Debunking 9/11 Myths': Nano-thermite dust found near Ground Zero (Photos)
Debunking 9/11 Myths: conspiracy plots are sheer fantasy

NIST Releases Final WTC 7 Investigation Report
World Trade Center Disaster Study

Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts
Debunking the 9/11 Myths: Special Report
Debunking the 9/11 Myths: Special Report

Resources for debunking 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

Debunking 9/11 Bomb Theories

The Truthers Are Out There

9/11 Conspiracy Theories: The 9/11 Truth Movement in Perspective

Debunking Conspiracy Theories In 'Voodoo Histories'

Looks like more information is needed:

VAN JONES
Van Jones, 'Green Jobs Czar', a self-described 'communist' arrested during Rodney King riots
White House Adviser Van Jones Resigns Amid Controversy Over Past Activism
The resignation (and coming MSM/left-wing martyrdom) of Van Jones; Obama “thanks him for his service”

Looks like more information is needed:

White House Adviser Van Jones Resigns Amid Controversy Over Past Activism

White House environmental adviser Van Jones resigned late Saturday after a simmering controversy over his past statements and activism erupted into calls for his ouster from Republican leaders on Friday....

Jones's position did not require Senate confirmation, so he avoided the kind of vetting Cabinet officials were subjected to. In addition, as an adviser to the Council on Environmental Quality, rather than to Obama directly, his past was not reviewed to the same degree as the more senior "assistants to the president" and other top advisers inside the West Wing.....

Jones, who joined the administration in March as special adviser for green jobs at the CEQ, had issued two public apologies in recent days, one for signing a petition in 2004 from the group 911Truth.org that questioned whether Bush administration officials "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war" and the other for using a crude term to describe Republicans in a speech he gave before joining the administration.

His one-time involvement with the Bay Area radical group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), which had Marxist roots, had also become an issue. And on Saturday his advocacy on behalf of death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of shooting a Philadelphia police officer in 1981, threatened to develop into a fresh point of controversy.

The resignation (and coming MSM/left-wing martyrdom) of Van Jones; Obama “thanks him for his service”

Van Jones, 'Green Jobs Czar', a self-described 'communist' arrested during Rodney King riots

If there's no difference, why are some GMO crops legally considered pesticides?

[citation needed]

And why has Bt corn (already being sold) been proven to cause tumors in mice?

[citation needed] If you mean Seralini's study, that's hilarious.

Nobody tests this stuff.

BWAHAHAHA!

Truth is, we don't know yet if they're safe.

Conventionally bred crops and other plants have NO testing for safety and can and have been harmful. GMO food, OTOH, goes through a variety of tests to show a reasonable level of safety. Why wouldn't a company do this? You think that companies would be ok with insufficient testing that might allow a dangerous product to hit the market, opening them up to a large scale class action lawsuit that could potentially kill that company off?

And personally, I think I should have the right to not be used as a lab rat for such experiments.

You're right; that's why these experiments are done. Using actual lab rats.

The exact phrase I used was: "would be genocidal Iranian regime"

Evidence?

UN chief denounces Iran to its face over calls to destroy Israel
Iran Steps Up Threats to Rub Out Israel

At present they lack the means, such as working nuclear weapons, not the desire. I have to say that I find it astonishing that this might somehow be news to you. It is a fairly widely held goal in the region.

The Jews Were Brought to Palestine for the Great Massacre
Hamas video: Killing Jews is 'worship that draws us close to Allah'
Judgment Day - When the Muslims Kill the Jews

After all, the book by you-know-who is disgustingly popular in certain circles among kindred spirits.

Cut-rate 'Mein Kampf' sells well in Turkey, spurring concerns
Mein Kampf in pride of place on bookshop shelves
Their Kampf - Hitler’s book in Arab hands

Unrelated, but since I have your attention - I expect these topics percolate at the back of your mind:

Jenin: Palestinian Myth Machine
Goldstone: Fighting the Lies Harder Than Fighting the War

As is common in this matter, you have things badly confused. Israel did nothing to Iran to deserve they way the new Iranian government turned on them. If you think otherwise, please provide a list. One hint to reduce the chances of you going down the wrong path again: the Palestinians are not Iranian, and the Iranians are not Arabs.

As to "untermenschen," that would be the view of post-revolution Iranian government, and many Arabs living in Palestine.

Reading Mein Kampf in Tehran

On Monday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry held an international conference. Nothing unusual in that: Foreign ministries hold conferences, mostly dull ones, all the time. But this one was different. For one, "Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision" dealt with history, not current politics. Instead of the usual suspects — deputy ministers and the like — the invitees seem to have included David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader; Georges Theil, a Frenchman who has called the Holocaust "an enormous lie"; and Fredrick Toeben, a German-born Australian whose specialty is the denial of Nazi gas chambers.

The guest list was selective: No one with any academic eminence, or indeed any scholarly credentials, was invited. One Palestinian scholar, Khaled Mahameed, was asked to come but then barred because he holds an Israeli passport — and also perhaps because he, unlike other guests, believes that the Holocaust really did happen.

In response, Europe, America, and Israel expressed official outrage. The German government, to its credit, organized a counter-conference. ...

Hamas video: Killing Jews is 'worship that draws us close to Allah'
The Jews Were Brought to Palestine for the Great Massacre

As to the rest, you should catch up on some reading and get back to me.

UN agency stops aid imports to Gaza, cites Hamas 'thefts'
Looters strip Gaza greenhouses
Gazans seethe over taxes and blackouts
Sewage flood causes Gaza deaths
Hamas Bulldozes UN-Designated Historical Site to Make Room for Terrorist Training Camp
In Gaza, Hamas rule has not turned out as many expected
Rights watchdog accuses Hamas of torture, abuse of Palestinians
Hamas accused of routine torture of detainees in Gaza Strip
Palestinian Authority: Still Stealing "Hundreds of Millions," Hamas Taking Over
NY Times ignores Gaza's millionaires, hypes poverty, blames Israel (natch)

According to reports in the Arab press, a thriving smuggling economy in Gaza has produced no fewer than 600 millionaires. Hundreds of tunnels to Egypt have become bustling export and import conduits -- with the ruling Hamas elite siphoning off milli

Or add more needles. Maybe you've heard that eye-witness reports can be helpful to police?

Citizens’ tips solve an average of two crimes a day

"White Hats" versus "Black Hats" ? ? ?

How about, evil is as evil does!

There's an article in that rag owned by notorious dog killer, Blethens (the Seattle Times) describing "white hats" --- a most muddied description when it pertains to those who support the status quo, which is coding software to track everyone today!

Narus, now a Boeing subsidiary, would describe themselves as "white hats" --- yet their DPI technology (Deep Packet Inspection) has been used to track down, torture and murder pro-democracy activists in China, Syria, Egypt and elsewhere.

The Narus DPI technology has been incorporated into the ultimate automated spy/intelligence platform, the Trovicor Monitoring Center, originally developed at Nokia Siemens Networks, it is now owned and sold through a private equity fund based in Germany, of unknown ownership.

It has been sold to one hundred countries, including China, America, Iran and Bahrain; the last two countries having used it in the kidnapping, torture and murder of various dissidents and pro-democracy activists.

This platform can be set to automatically intercept emails, or phone calls of any type, alter their content (as in meeting place location, etc.) then dispatch a kidnap team or kill team.

Say a member of the global elite requires a new organ. The Chinese government will match the target to Trovicor's DNA database, run an audio program search and match on wi-fi/landline to identify the target and his/her whereabouts, then dispatch an organ harvesting team to do a forced organ theft. The victim will end up either disappeared, or in the next Chinese "Bodies Exhibition" --- a profitable endeavor for the ghouls who pay to view such amoral travesties!

Welcome to the next level, dood!

Not being an abusive piece of shit is far more effective, you know.

You do know that works both ways, right?

Domestic violence against men

. . . When we think of domestic violence, we automatically assume that the assailant is male and the victim is female. However, it is estimated that about 3.2 million men are victims of assault by their partner each year in the United States. Though most of these assaults are relatively minor, such as hitting, smacking, pushing, and shoving, others are much more serious. Some may even result in homicide. The majority of male victims do not report being abused because of the fear that people will not believe them. Men are also silent on the issue because of society’s automatic perception that men are physically stronger and should easily be able to overcome a female attacker. Because of this, they fear that they will not be taken seriously. The truth of the matter is that men are just as susceptible to abuse by their partners as women are, and the issue of domestic violence against men should not be taken at as a joke. . . more

Domestic violence against men: Know the signs

Not being an abusive piece of shit is far more effective, you know.

You do know that works both ways, right?

Domestic violence against men

. . . When we think of domestic violence, we automatically assume that the assailant is male and the victim is female. However, it is estimated that about 3.2 million men are victims of assault by their partner each year in the United States. Though most of these assaults are relatively minor, such as hitting, smacking, pushing, and shoving, others are much more serious. Some may even result in homicide. The majority of male victims do not report being abused because of the fear that people will not believe them. Men are also silent on the issue because of society’s automatic perception that men are physically stronger and should easily be able to overcome a female attacker. Because of this, they fear that they will not be taken seriously. The truth of the matter is that men are just as susceptible to abuse by their partners as women are, and the issue of domestic violence against men should not be taken at as a joke. . . more

Domestic violence against men: Know the signs

There was a rumor of a Saudi student being arrested .. ... and then the authority came out and said that Saudi student wasn't the suspect

Okay, I accept that

But the following action from the government of the United States have been very suspicious

They want to deport that Saudi student !!

Why ?

If that Saudi student is innocent, and if he is still studying, why deport that guy ?

Or is there something that the authority does NOT want us to know ???

http://www.examiner.com/article/saudi-person-of-interest-boston-bombings-to-be-deported

http://www.inquisitr.com/624111/saudi-national-no-longer-boston-marathon-suspect-may-face-deportation/

$10 says this was militant tea baggers. They all post so much crazy shit about killing people on facebook and eventually one of them snaps and acts on it.

Don‘t you mean £10? It’s hard to believe any American would be so clueless about the Tea Party.

If you are looking for bomb makers among political activists in the United States, here is a hint or two on where to look.

Who shall we blame this time? Dem dirty communist hippi anarchs? or ye good olde muslims?

Dirty communist hippi bombers are too busy at working at universities in Illinois and at Columbia.

Quit tuning into Fox news. It rots your brain.

Read between the lines.
Official? Not yet.

BUT, NASA is pushing for multiple human launch vehicles IN SPITE of you neo-cons. In addition, they are pushing Bigelow Aerospace. They want and NEED BA to put up multiple space stations around earth and go the moon, so as to lower the price of launch. As launch prices go down, then NASA is able to accomplish more. So, what does NASA need to have a base on the moon? They do NOT need a single expensive heavy lifter. THat will make it impossible to go to the moon.
OTOH, if NASA can get MULTIPLE human launchers and MULTIPLE cargo launchers, and MULTIPLE pluggable tugs of different types, then we can run humans and cargo to the moon, and elsewhere. 3 years ago, they passed out multiple contracts to study various tugs/fuel depots. 3 were for chemical tugs and another 3 were for SEPs.

Now, NASA's real problem, is that you neo-cons continue to hit their budget and try to stop them from going ANYWHERE BEO. So, now, NASA wants this equipment produced in private space, so that prices come down, AND NASA no longer has to deal with the HOUSE republicans denying them funding to accomplish things.

Obama is not the problem. You neo-cons are.

even PAT ROBERTSON thinks the whole 6000 years thing is a bunch of crap... youd think the militant anti-theism folks would give it a break.

Look, I know that people will probably try to lynch me when I say this, but Bishop Ussher wasn't inspired by the Lord when he said that it all took 6,000 years. It just didn't. You go back in time, you've got radiocarbon dating. You got all these things and you've got the carcasses of dinosaurs frozen in time out in the Dakotas.
They're out there. So, there was a time when these giant reptiles were on the Earth and it was before the time of the Bible. So, don't try and cover it up and make like everything was 6,000 years. That's not the Bible. If you fight science you're going to lose your children, and I believe in telling it the way it was.-Pat Robertson

http://www.examiner.com/article/evangelist-pat-robertson-no-longer-preaching-creationism

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/29/pat-robertson-challenges-creationism/

The summary didn't state what kind of fluid. It's not unusual to assume lava with articles like this floating around.

And in case you haven't been paying attention, who do you think does the background checks??

Do you think they are really going to delete that data in the age of "big terror"????

http://www.examiner.com/article/alaska-gun-stores-say-atf-engaging-new-illegal-activity

What difference does it make? Consoles are just specialized PCs anyway. Does the OS really matter?

Yes. An operating system that allows self-signed code to run, such as GNU/Linux or Windows or Mac OS X or Android, guarantees a larger selection of games than an operating system that allows only code signed by the device's manufacturer to run, especially when the manufacturer has a policy of refusing to sign code from (say) a home-based family business. This is why the console I'm supporting in the next generation is Ouya. On the other hand, a lot of people appear to consider the benefit of not having to fuss with antivirus software worth the lack of selection.

Does the shape and color of the box matter?

Yes. A lot of people don't want to put a typical tower PC next to the TV.

If it matters to you, then you can buy a steambox and play steam games on a thing that looks like a console.

The PlayStation 3 was ridiculed for costing 599 USD at launch. The Piston will cost nearly twice that.

I don't think any gamer, regardless of how casual they are, will pass up the opportunity to buy a cool gaming machine they saw at their friend's house if it was really fun.

Wii beat PS3 early on in part because $249 is far cheaper than $599.

What the hell is a palm? Is that one of those $99 android tablets you can buy at your local drug store?