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might simply fall down on the side of rapping what they find outside

Easy enough to fix... just tell men not to rape women, problem solved: http://www.examiner.com/article/liberal-talking-head-if-we-tell-men-not-to-rape-women-won-t-need-guns

Perhaps Michael Mann would be interested.

I submitted this as a slashdot story, but it wasn't accepted: http://www.examiner.com/article/breaking-obama-campaign-caught-major-vote-fraud-scheme

From the article

February 19, 2013 North Carolina's Civitas Institute has revealed that the North Carolina State Board of Elections and the Obama campaign conspired to register at least 11,000 people via the internet in violation of state law. This has been confirmed through records requests filed with all of North Carolina's 100 counties. The counting is not yet complete.

and

The technology from Allpoint Voter Services uses remote-control pens to transmit “signatures” over the Internet, according to techpresident.com[iii]. After entering voter information in an online form, the citizen “signs” it with a stylus or a finger. The Allpoint technology records the signature and then transmits it to one of two autopens – one in California, the other in Nevada[iv]. One of the pens transcribes the signature on to a paper voter registration form. Allpoint then mails the documents to local election boards – or is supposed to, a point we’ll come back to.

Seemed to be an interesting and technology-relevant story -- perfect for Slashdot. Not sure why it wasn't carried.

ham radio

"In the Bridgeport area, also struck hard by Hurricane Sandy, members of the Greater Bridgeport Amateur Radio Club were called into action.

John Russo, GBARC president, tells Examiner.com that 25 volunteers were deployed over the course of a week, assisting the Bridgeport, Stratford and Red Cross operation centers.

Hams also provided information to help FEMA with damage assessments, he said."

- http://www.examiner.com/article/ham-radio-s-response-to-hurricane-sandy-is-reviewed-and-praised

Forming coalitions and raising funds in a disaster area is difficult, you ignorant motherfucker.

You're wrong.

"However, a timeline of the events assembled by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department and published by CNN proves just the opposite. The armed guard, Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputy Neil Gardner, was able to engage the killers, keeping them from shooting more victims, and he personally saved dozens of students."

http://www.examiner.com/article/fact-check-columbine-high-s-armed-guard-saved-student-lives

None would also be a very wrong guesstimate. This happened just last month: http://www.examiner.com/article/media-blackout-oregon-mall-shooter-was-stopped-by-an-armed-citizen Apologies for the very political news source... it was the first match on Google.

I'm assuming you're referring to this story:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/06/23/2147245/cyanide-producing-gm-grass-linked-to-texas-cattle-deaths

Which you'll note has been updated to indicate that the grass was not GMO. Further reading (with additional links!):
http://www.examiner.com/article/gmo-food-hybrid-poison-grass-that-kills-texas-cattle-not-genetically-modified

Of course, that doesn't mean there isn't the potential for something going wrong with GMO (or any other technology), but the case of the cows had nothing to do with GMO.

Read the Wiki page here. Also read the declaration of Independence for the purpose of the amendment, it becomes very clear "why" the founders felt this was worthy of being put in to our Constitution.

From the Wiki Page you will see the following.

* deterring tyrannical government;[34]

* repelling invasion;

* suppressing insurrection;

* facilitating a natural right of self-defense;

* participating in law enforcement;

* enabling the people to organize a militia system.

Lets not overlook the obvious. If the purpose of Guns is to deter a tyrannical government, do you believe that gun registration is within the spirit of the law? No "but but but" answers allowed, look at the facts. Gun registration provides a hit list for a government we are supposed to be protecting ourselves from.

Would such a list be of benefit to a tyrannical government? Of course, it is a huge benefit. Suddenly we would have people being disarmed by said government prior to a tyrannical take over. This could be by bogus criminal charges or charges of insanity right? Like here (one of many vets recently labelled and forced into treatment), or here, or here? Of course these are not nation wide or common, but the fact is that they are happening to military veterans. These are the ones that make some form of media, but you should suspect that there are more.

Registration is most definitely not within the spirit of the amendment, and is not constitutional.

Now with that said, do I feel that some form of checking is required? Well yes, I do. If my batshit crazy neighbor has a gun, I'd report him to his family when he started waving it around and threatening to shoot the clouds. Well, most of us don't know our batshit crazy neighbors do we? When there has been a sociological break down, and we don't know our own neighbors, we have more pressing concerns than guns right? It's a mixture of "see something say something" bullshit being spread (welcome to Nazi Germany) and our addictions to mass media. Both of those things are signs of a tyrannical government as well.. but you will probably deny it.

Enjoy the puppet show, and tell us if your neighbor tries to remove their bonds. The Cave is wonderful, you should read the allegory sometime.

Hmm. I wonder. What weapons are legal in Mexico?
http://www.examiner.com/article/mexicans-conspire-to-obtain-stinger-missile-and-other-weapons

http://www.caat.org.uk/resources/facts-figures/weapon-costs.php

http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=30738

http://www.pcworld.com/article/260415/google_creates_interactive_visual_about_small_arms_trade.html

http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/11/13/egyptian-daily-details-sinai-arms-trade/

http://www.keepandbeararms.com/newsarchives/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=2050

You might want to reconsider your assumptions.

If anybody "needs" user-restricted handguns and these other features, it would be law enforcement. I'd go so far as to say that these should be mandatory for LEO on and off duty, and optional for the rest of us.

While we don't need religion to tell us that murder is wrong,

Although arguments have been made regarding humanity's innate moral sense, I still have to ask, are you quite sure about that?

Druids Committed Human Sacrifice, Cannibalism?
Human sacrifices 'on the rise in Uganda' as witch doctors admit to rituals
Four held for kidnapping kids for human sacrifice
Nigeria: Prevalence of ritual murder and human sacrifice and reaction by government authorities (March 2000-July 2005)"
Evidence found of human sacrifice in North America
"Chilling" Child Sacrifices Found at Prehistoric Site

Many in the West cannot conceive of things being different in any way if foundations of its morality and culture are destroyed, but that is an epic mistake. Things will change, and many of the possibilities make for something that may not be nice at all.

I would go further though, I would argue that firearms of any type do not have a place in society.

I think the old and the weak who live alone would not think much of your civilization as you turn them into defenseless victims.

Elderly Des Moines woman uses her handgun in self defense against a burglar

Who knows, perhaps the US will start to think a little differently about its huge arsenal of weapons in public hands now that so many children have paid with their lives?

So, is the US is one bus crash away from banning buses in your utopia too? You know the Amish get along fine without buses now, as did many American cities with street cars.

One panic leading to a theater stampede away from banning free speech?

You seem to give a lot of power to the mentally ill to define the limits of freedom for the innocent and responsible.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/solyndra-scandal-timeline/#document/p1/a41682

http://www.examiner.com/slideshow/exclusive-solyndra-scandal-timeline#slide=37499741

Basically, shelved by Bush because it wasn't viable, revived and pushed through by Obama.

Great. So how do you perform the typing to name that character in the first place?

Using the flower. It shows eight groups of four letters and other punctuation. To enter each letter, you hold one of the eight directions and press a button. To see an example, look at this. I'd add a diagram directly in this post, but Slashdot has a "lameness filter" against ASCII art.

It's called the Office of Special Counsel and it has demonstrated its complete and utter failure. No whistleblower in their right mind would attempt to use it given its history:

While the Department of Justice relentlessly pursues, prosecutes and imprisons inconvenient whistleblowers, high-ranking bureaucrats who violate their rights are usually coddled by the system. The crooked wheel of justice crushes those at the lower levels of the government and pushes up criminals in high places.

• Knowingly and willfully ignoring whistleblower disclosures;
• Dismissing and closing hundreds of whistleblowing complaints without investigation
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  Deleting hundreds of files pertaining to whistleblowing disclosures and complaints of retaliation and reprisal;
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  Rolling back protections for federal employees against discrimination based on sexual orientation;
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  Staffing key OSC positions with cronies who shared his discriminatory views;
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  Engaging in retaliatory activities against OSC staffers who opposed his wrongdoing;
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  Assigning interns to issue closure letters in hundreds of whistleblower complaints without investigation;
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  Intimidating OSC employees from cooperating with government investigators;
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  Misusing prosecutorial power for political purposes;
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  Reducing the backlog of cases pending at the OSC by 56% percent by closing cases without an investigation and destroying electronic files;
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  During the fiscal year of 2008, the OSC filed 0 corrective action petitions with the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB);
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  During the fiscal year of 2008, the OSC obtained 0 stays from the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB);
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  Bloch reassigned his perceived critics within the OSC to field offices across the country – giving them 10 days to accept, or else they'd be fired;
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  Bloch imposed retaliatory transfers upon OSC staffers he perceived as having a "homosexual agenda";
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  OSC under Bloch rarely recognized legitimate whistleblowers, typically only when the whistleblower has already prevailed elsewhere;

Remember, this is the BBC, who took a corporate decision in 2006 to pursue an alarmist reporting stance.

Technique one - ad homineum attack on the messenger. A study was done. That study was reported. Attempt to discredit the study by attacking the credibility of the entity doing the reporting. Instead considering the worth of the study itself, the hope is the integrity of the study will be smeared by smearing the entity that reported it.

Technique two- change the topic. We were talking about the effect of global warming on the oceanic food web , now we're going to start talking instead about the BBC and whether they're biased or not.

The original paper says that this is only a pilot study, and that it cannot definitely point to any disadvantage to the animals - 'they MAY suffer increased predation' is a typical comment

Technique three, misrepresent normal and appropriate scientific qualification of results as a license to dismiss the study's findings. The fact is, no single study is definitive. That's normal science. The certainty increases as each successive study is confirmed, amplified, and new studies support the same conclusions using different approaches. Each study considered individually comes with caveats; the picture of reality emerges from an aggregation of such studies. This is called "normal science" and it's how science gets to truth. This study fits into that framework.

Technique four- decontextualize the study from the larger supporting body of related evidence. Closely related to technique three above, the mass of evidence pointing to the devastating effects of oceanic acidification on the food web is incontrovertible. This study reinforces and elaborates this finding with new evidence. Seen in its proper context, this study's relevance increases because its findings are congruent with other studies showing the same disturbing trend- acidification of the oceans is assaulting the food web in the ocean.

The smallest part of the omitted scientific context:

http://www.ocean-acidification.net/FAQeco.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/10/ocean-acidification-epoca

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/opinion/acid-test-for-oceans-and-marine-life.html?_r=0

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/03/02/436193/science-ocean-acidifying-so-fast-it-threatens-humanity-ability-to-feed-itself/

http://oceana.org/en/our-work/climate-energy/ocean-acidification/learn-act/effects-of-ocean-acidification-on-marine-species-ecosystems

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/06/local/la-me-acidic-oceans-20121007

http://www.examiner.com/article/lethal-carbon-dioxide-and-ocean-acidification-threaten-marine-life

Look again, in this case, it took 1 generation. /* anon since I modded this thread */

But asking for "a cut" is the heart and soul of economics: it's the means by which available resources are allocated and exchanged. If something is valuable, it will have a cost to acquire. It's how economics works, and it really sucks badly; it just sucks less than anything else we've cooked up so far.

There's some movement now underway in the Internet-based digital economy in the area of cooperative trust enabled by digital technology but it's not yet proven enough to be more than a fad. What this "cooperative trust" model might mean for data is anybody's guess. Give it 10 years, and then it will be something we can start to rely on.

Until then, sadly, the old rules based on ownership still have merit, because they've worked for thousands of years.

Maybe these racists (but you won't see this on the geomapping racist tweets site (or cbs, nbc, msnbc, salon, mediamatters, thinkprogress, nyt, washington post, chicago sun times, St. Petersburg Times, charlie Rose, GMA, SacBee, LaTimes, BBC, BostonGlobe, CNN, Huffpo, Politico, UKGuardian, or the several hundred other top circulating political news/blogs).

Which just goes to prove that there are assholes in every group. Sadly, no artificially (skin pigmentation, socio-economic status, religious creed, ethnicity, geographic location, etc., etc., etc.) defined group (well, except one -- I'll leave that identification as an exercise for the reader) is free of bigots, jerks and scumbags.

Maybe these racists (but you won't see this on the geomapping racist tweets site (or cbs, nbc, msnbc, salon, mediamatters, thinkprogress, nyt, washington post, chicago sun times, St. Petersburg Times, charlie Rose, GMA, SacBee, LaTimes, BBC, BostonGlobe, CNN, Huffpo, Politico, UKGuardian, or the several hundred other top circulating political news/blogs).

Let's see the coverage this gets on /.

is this going to be geomapped as well, or swept under the [cbs] rug?

Regardless, bad original is no excuse to repeat the drivel in summary. I could decipher the meaning of those two statements, but I'm sure most random readers couldn't. Those are far from the only problems with the article, of course, I just stopped there. Another thing already pointed out is that "remained fixed at around 1,000 becquerels" makes no sense without the volume or even weight specified. There's certain to be more than 1,000 bequerels in the Pacific total!

Another issue is that according to the nuclear company TEPCO the atmospheric release during first three weeks alone was 900 petabequerels. About half of it was Iodine-131 with half-life of 8 days leaving 360 petabequerels for Cesium (over 4 times Chernobyl's Cesium release) and quite where the article came up with "roughly the same amount that went into the atmosphere" isn't clear.

But, all this is enough to make the average person's head rotate around like in Exorcist, so better not get too detailed. The bottom line is the article is factually incorrect gibberish and the summary only makes it worse.

From TFA:

Joe Scarborough of MSNBC called him a “joke,” while an op-ed in the LA Times accused him of running a “numbers racket.” The Examiner dismissed him as a “thin and effeminate man with a soft-sounding voice.” Even the legendary David Brooks claimed that his work was “getting into silly land.”

I'm sure they will all apologize to Nate for their rude behavior and comments in 3... 2... 1... /sarcasm

TBF, at least one of them did actually apologize. The apology was a bit convoluted, but it's there nonetheless.

Granted, a few articles later he was going on about "riding the Long Black Train" into some financial apocalypse after Obama was re-elected, but hey.

I did, he did however retract the comments and apologized for them. It sounds like he just got caught up in election hysteria: http://www.examiner.com/article/regarding-my-comments-about-nate-silver-s-appearance?cid=db_articles

But, but, according to conservative pundits, he's too "effeminate" to be right

Some of the things people said about him were nuttier than that. This guy called him "a man of very small stature, a thin and effeminate man with a soft-sounding voice that sounds almost exactly like the “Mr. New Castrati” voice used by Rush Limbaugh on his program." So that is supposed to have some sort of effect on his analysis?

All he did was take polls that already existed--lots of them--and do statistical analysis on them. Just ran the numbers, and didn't speculate. Contrast that with sites like this one, which, although quite pompous, was stuck in its own alternate reality and ended up being quite wrong.

I have done quite a bit of research actually.

Right...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/20/obama-asserts-executive-privilege-over-ff-docs/?page=all
http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/page/univision-news-investigation-operation-fast-furious-weapons-revealed-17352963
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/11/the-benghazi-drip-drip-drip/
http://www.examiner.com/article/retired-officer-obama-watched-benghazi-attack-happen-sources-say
http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/20/more-than-500-economists-5-nobel-laureates-back-romneys-economic-strategy/
http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/25/news/economy/obama-congress-grades/index.htm
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/tygrrrr-express/2012/oct/2/real-obama-economic-policy-record/
http://www.ijreview.com/2012/07/10891-top-4-most-wasteful-michelle-obama-vacations/ http://obamagolfcounter.com/

Note the many right-wing sources like CNN and ABC News.

I saved the apology tour for last, as I found several quotes you'll no doubt enjoy:

- At a Summit of the Americas, Obama regretted how “at times we sought to dictate our terms.” In an op-ed about policy toward the America’s, Obama declared: “Too often, the United States has not pursued and sustained engagement with our neighbors.”

- Speaking to the Turkish parliament, Obama rationalized: “The United States is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history.”

- Addressing CIA employees about an administration report which castigated the use of enhanced interrogation techniques against terrorist suspects, the President urged: “Don’t be discouraged that we have to acknowledge potentially we’ve made some mistakes.”

- In a speech, Obama denounced the techniques used in the war on terror: “Instead of strategically applying our power and our principles, too often we set those principles aside as luxuries that we could no longer afford. And during this season of fear, too many of us – Democrats and Republicans, politicians, journalists, and citizens – fell silent.”

- In that same address at the National Archives, he went into full apology mode over Guantanamo: “There is also no question that Guantanamo set back the moral authority that is America’s strongest currency in the world. Instead of building a durable framework for the struggle against Al Qaeda that drew upon our deeply held values and traditions, our government was defending positions that undermined the rule of law.”

0's rhetoric and actions have weakened America considerably, which is reflected in the actions of the PRC and Russia in particular.

It was NBC in general, not SNL. Also, this may surprise you, but Anonymous is not generally known for having a conservative bias, given their extremely anti-authoritarian core moral values. And four years is an awful long time to remember something like that—did you think they were elephants or something? ;)

In a nutshell, the modern American Right is losing credibility

The modern American Right is losing credibility because they so completely and thoroughly won that positions more conservative than Nixon's or Reagan's are considered left wing these days. Conservatives have managed to move the political center so far to the right that there are no longer any tenable positions rightward of center.

Even if the Republican party completely implodes and never elects another official again, conservatives still have the Democratic party, which is well to the right of anything considered centrist anywhere else in the world. Right wingers in the US can choose between two parties. Left wingers in the US really only have one candidate, and she has to get arrested to get any attention.

No worries, they're being used effectively all over the world without any negative reprecussions!

"...sometimes with plastic handcuffs which cut into their wrists..."

This whole bruhahaha over voter rights and disenfranchising voters is what elections have been about in this country since it was founded. It's been a tug of war ever since the constitution was signed.

Remember that Women weren't allowed to vote? That was in the constitution as well, not in a state law. Poll Taxes weren't abolished until the 1960s!
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Now all of this voter "deletion" and other unscrupulous acts cause people to take notice? I just ask those people "Where the fuck have you been? Under a rock?"

Look, people in power don't like to give up power, that's why we have really two parties in the US. They've come to write the laws including voter registration laws and the oh so popular redistricting battles that come around every 10 years with the Census. They agree that when one party is in charge that the other will cause no end of fighting and finger pointing to say how fraudulent the process is, no matter how fair people try to make it. Don't like a congressman? We'll redistrict his ass out to the pasture by bringing in more voters of one racial or bias group that will vote more the way we like it.

It's been going on since the country was founded and simply put, it's not fair to some but it's always fair to the politicians who want to hold onto office despite their deplorable voting records and obstructionism.

What's also lost on a lot of people is that Texas picked up a few seats in the house at the loss of predominantly Democratic States. Remember Congressman "I didn't take lude pics of my weiner" Weiner? His seat went *poof* because of the Census and more people moving to Texas. And the Democrats are worried that these 4 extra seats may just go Red. That's why there's been constant legal challenges to the redistricting going on in the state and every left and right wing fringe element is coming to the party. It's just wonderful to watch our courts and our processes get drug into the mud with all this Gerrymandering but it's a fact of life and ultimately the guys who make the laws could fix it but again they have agreement with their counterparts across the aisle to keep the status quo because it keeps them both gainfully in power and employed. You also have a white house with AG Holder that has been playing whack-a-mole with ever voter registration change or requirement that has come along in the last four years to weed out voter fraud. All the while Holder is playing up to every racial minority and pulls the race card out at every opportunity. Having an Picture ID? That's a minimal requirement nowadays even if you want to cash a check, get a bank account or even travel on a train or airplane and this whole bunch of bullshit around this in Texas and in Pennsylvania is another smoke screen to make sure that voter fraud can continue. You see we have to maintain that status quo.

Oh and if you don't think that voter fraud actually exists, how about something that was smoothed over recently. A woman and a democrat, suddenly withdrew from running for Congress when it was alleged that she voted in Maryland and in Florida during the 2006 and 2008 elections. So if you think that voter fraud doesn't exist, here's a woman, running for office with the ethics of a crack dealer. Now it's alleged but her own party called her out! Maybe she can do some arts and crafts when she's in prison?

So who represents you? That's why you vote and that's why every vote does count and I don't care if you're black, white, green or brown but if you're here in the US, are a citizen op age and a resident of the state where you're voting, you should be able to vote. Each state can come up with requirements to assure that

I'm just waiting for an EULA to pull something like "By continuing to live after reading this statement, you agree to give corporation X full and total control of your life and/or posessions"

Already done (some people claim to value their immortal soul above any possessions).

...without one word in support of the concept that even hateful speech is Free Speech and protected in America.

That's simply not true. The video is rather long but he makes it clear that despite the video being vile (and it is, let's not play that game), free speech is sacrosanct. A choice quote, if you don't wish to follow the link,

Like me, the majority of Americans are Christian, and yet we do not ban blasphemy against our most sacred beliefs. Moreover, as President of our country, and Commander-in-Chief of our military, I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.

You'd have a hard time finding a greater free speech apologist than myself, but I think that the president has done a fine job of defending free speech while communicating with the Muslim community.

Yes, and thank you for holding watch on the last front of the fight to retain our liberties, upon these internet forums. It is here that the future of American freedom will be decided. If only I was so brave you would not have to go it alone.

What, you think all I do is post on the 'net?

Yeah, that's all I do.

Yup, that's it, you've caught me out. It's not like there are political grassroots groups I could join, political organizations I could donate to, or protests I could attend.

I'm simply not afraid to say what I think. That's one of those rapidly-disappearing constitutional rights that tens of thousands have died to protect and preserve. It's not like they died so people could actually use it or anything, right?

It's not like I'm using my First Amendment rights for something helpful and uplifting to society like calling for killing "crackas and they babies" or calling for people to "throw bombs through the windows of cracka-baby nurseries" like the upstanding citizens of the NBPP, so I probably should STFU, eh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVcfymOvoUo

http://www.examiner.com/article/new-black-panther-leader-kill-white-babies-by-bombing-nurseries

Sheesh! Some people's kids! :/

Strat

What you mean to say is, the United States of America has been printing money and using it to make purchases from other nations, and those other nations hoard those US dollars and trade them amongst themselves rather than redeeming them for American made goods, so America basically gets a free ride on the back of everyone else and has since the 70s.

It's like if I wrote a cheque and used it to pay for groceries, and the grocer didn't cash it, but paid their power bill with it, and the power company didn't cash it, but paid their employees with it, etc, etc.

But it's going to come to an end soon... China is selling oil for Yuan, and Russia has made an agreement with them to supply them with as much oil and gas as they want.

http://www.examiner.com/article/dollar-no-longer-primary-oil-currency-as-china-begins-to-sell-oil-using-yuan

So, the era of the USA is at an end, along with the ridiculous culture they've created.

ABC, CBS, FOX are afraid to tell you that the USA has a debt greater than Greece or Spain, and that the USA is far far from being number one. That distinction has shifted to the Malgrave and Asia, to countries without such high debut.

Exporting manufacturing jobs killed the USA and toppled it from #1. It will take some fantastic invention to have the USA regain that position. If you look at Apple, as an example, where are the manufacturing jobs and the people who are working and making money? Whose kids are going to university. It is certainly not the kids whose parents work at Walmart or low retail or distribution jobs.

USA, wake up, start to repatriate your manufacturing. It may cost some profits, but it will drop your unemployment from the mid-20's percent to 6-8 percent.

What you mean to say is, the United States of America has been printing money and using it to make purchases from other nations, and those other nations hoard those US dollars and trade them amongst themselves rather than redeeming them for American made goods, so America basically gets a free ride on the back of everyone else and has since the 70s.

It's like if I wrote a cheque and used it to pay for groceries, and the grocer didn't cash it, but paid their power bill with it, and the power company didn't cash it, but paid their employees with it, etc, etc.

But it's going to come to an end soon... China is selling oil for Yuan, and Russia has made an agreement with them to supply them with as much oil and gas as they want.

http://www.examiner.com/article/dollar-no-longer-primary-oil-currency-as-china-begins-to-sell-oil-using-yuan

So, the era of the USA is at an end, along with the ridiculous culture they've created.

The summary (and the article) identify California as the second state to approve self-driving cars. They don't tell us that Nevada was the first.

Example source: http://www.examiner.com/article/google-s-autonomous-cars-clear-california-hurdle
Slashdot link: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/17/1320206/nevada-approves-rules-for-self-driving-cars

The American public/market is the problem, not the car makers. Americans want their big , gas guzzling SUV/Trucks/Cars, then complain that is cost of filling up the 35 gallon tank cost more than $100 bucks. The Ford Fiesta Diesel that gets average of 62.5 MPG , isn't avaiable in the US. I have gone as far to see if I could get the engine and swap it out in a gas fiesta, cost too much to get it from England. http://www.examiner.com/article/why-no-62-5-mpg-ford-fiesta-diesel-the-u-s

Never mind; it wasn't on the Current, it was at examiner.com

Here are some references:

From 2009, Obama has four years to save the world.
From 2009, Global Warming is now irreversible
From 2006, the end of the world as we know it
2005, Past the Point of No Return
2004, Damage becoming irreversible
1989, We Have 10 Years.

Personally I think we've missed a huge opportunity to fund fusion research. It wouldn't actually take that much from a global community perspective. If Copenhagen had focused on funding Fusion instead of trying to make transfer payments to 3rd world countries, they could have gotten support and actually accomplished something. It would have been great. Oh well.

• Makes you shit your brains out for 2 days
• Plugs you up for two days to where you can't shit at all
• • 
    Must be all the petrochemicals in their food: http://www.examiner.com/article/mcdonalds-fast-food-toxic-ingredients-include-putty-and-cosmetic-petrochemicals

I'll take this golf cart instead. Top speed - 150mph.

No.

Working link for subject. In other news, How hot is vehicle theft is your area?

"No." is the correct answer. That headline is just wrong.

No.

Working link for subject.
In other news, How hot is vehicle theft is your area?

I grew up there and yes you need it; but some people over-do it. I frequently walked around in jeans in that kind of heat. Why? Because I knew that when I got into a building I'd freeze. It would be nice if they would keep it at short sleeve temperatures during the Summer.

BTW, 90/90 temp/hum is a a myth. That doesn't mean it isn't miserable. The East Coast has weather that's difficult to predict; but late July and August are fairly predictable:

Hazy hot and humid, highs in the 90s, chance of a thunderstorm.

Yes, you need A/C to get anything done.

Here in coastal NorCal, it actually gets cool at night. Even if it was 90 during the day, you can use fans to blow air into the house and get it down to a sleeping temperature. Back East during the Summer you'd have heat trapped in the house and the outside temperature might not fall below 70. The house could just not cool down without help. Even when my father was the sole provider and not making much money, he would sometimes run the A/C for the benefit of us kids. We'd be tossing and turning, and making it hard for them to sleep, assuming that they could actually sleep in those temperatures.

Of course no one would ever predict greater disasters than is justified by evidence.

It's not GM.
http://www.examiner.com/article/gmo-food-hybrid-poison-grass-that-kills-texas-cattle-not-genetically-modified

Strictly speaking conventional breeding and hybridization is still 'genetically modifying' the stuff.
It is just significantly less Frankenstein-y.

It's not GM. http://www.examiner.com/article/gmo-food-hybrid-poison-grass-that-kills-texas-cattle-not-genetically-modified

It's not GM. http://www.examiner.com/article/gmo-food-hybrid-poison-grass-that-kills-texas-cattle-not-genetically-modified