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You got modded troll, but you made me curious, because I seemed to remember hearing these before, too. Doing a google search of "global warming irreversible YYYY" I came up with these:

From 2009, Obama has 4 years to save the world
From 2009, global warming is now irreversible, study says(also discussed on slashdot)
From 2006, The End of the World As We Know It; THE world has already passed the point of no return on global warming.
From 2005, past the point of no return.
Also from 2005, Global warming irreversible.
From 2004, Damage from warming becoming irreversible.
From 1989, We have a 10 year window to fix the problem.

What do you think of that?

Well we're prepared for that

http://www.examiner.com/healthy-living-in-columbus/delaware-county-prepares-for-a-mock-zombie-outbreak

Ron Paul can do better: He can get you a gallon of gas for a dime today!

Except for the 700+ climatologists that came out after Climate Gate and announced that they thought anthropogenic Klimate Change and Global Warming were a bunch of hooey. I'm a podiatrist. You're a pederast. We've all got our issues. Call me a fool. But 700+ scientists? Probably not so much. ;) http://www.examiner.com/weather-in-cleveland/more-than-700-scientists-discredit-man-made-global-warming-fears

source for what? we have public school system in the US that perform below the standards set just to keep home schooled kids passing.and out of public schools.

Of course this will vary from different areas, and it is not a blanket one is better, but here are some interesting stories showing it..

http://www.cnsnews.com/node/11320

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/secondaryeducation/3852653/Faith-school-pupils-outperforming-others-at-every-age.html

http://www.examiner.com/christian-history-in-national/catholic-high-schools-outperform-the-competition

and just to keep a perspective, it appears that if you adjust the schools performances for demographics, its a different result.

http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/576/mythifying-public-school-claims

although demographically adjusted numbers still support the claim that there are some religious school run by religious fundies that out perform public-secular schools.,

Remember when the next Ice Age was the big concern?

No I don't.

I do, and so do many others. You don't, but... that's ok. It was overly-sensationalized then, even if there were legitimate reasons for concern. Much like AGW today.

I certainly remember it.

This would be a big deal. There was someone who put up nearly $1 Billion on the fact that the US would lose it's AAA rating. The US did and they made ridiculous money.

What competing bookstores? There's Barnes and Noble, and a few remaining independents. Borders is in bankruptcy liquidation. ("Everything must go! 40-60% off! Store fixtures for sale.) Barnes and Noble is in financial trouble. When they go, there won't be much left.

When the big guys give it up, the distribution channel dries up.All the warehousing and shipping needed to service little bookstores isn't profitable if the volume is too small.

Bookstores are going the way of record stores and video rental stores. Gone. It's sad, but probably inevitable.

How about turning all that excrement into a meat substitute? http://www.examiner.com/technology-in-national/japanese-scientist-claims-can-turn-excrement-into-meat-substitute

... or Dustin Hoffman

I hate when an obviously trolly statement is actually the 100% truth.

I think I'll go back to sticking my head in the sand, a much happier place there.

According to the fine report, there were 3,194 wiretaps authorized in 2010. That is roughly 1 wiretap for every 94,000 Americans. On average 118 people's communications were intercepted per wiretap (no doubt including pizza delivery, crank calls, and telemarketing).

So tell me, when did you become overwhelmed with fear and despair? Was it crossing the line of 1 wiretap for every 100,000 Americans to 1 wiretap for every 94,000 Americans? Personally, I would expect that genuine fascism and oppression would result in numbers more like 1 for every 100 to 200 Americans rather than 1 for every 94,000.

"Security theater" has nothing on "civil rights theater", and trolls love theater.

Some recent terrorism arrests, convictions, and developments:
Terrorist plot averted in Seattle at military recruiting station
Sources: Reservist Suspected in Military Shootings Self-Radicalized Through Internet
Chicago Businessman Tahawwur Hussain Rana Guilty of Providing Material Support to Terror Group and Supporting Role in Denmark Terrorism Conspiracy
North Carolina Man Pleads Guilty to Terrorism Charge
FBI Announces Identity of Transitional Federal Government Checkpoint Suicide Bomber
Two Iraqi Nationals Indicted on Federal Terrorism Charges in Kentucky

Terrorism is a deliberate human activity, not a random natural phenomenon.

and cover for each other. According to a local Atlanta radio host he watched as one of the officers took an iPod and other items then left the area. When he tried to confront them they said he had gone home or such. In other words, if they want stuff they know to cover each other and intimidate the flying public with arrest.

http://mydailykona.blogspot.com/2011/06/tsa-stealing-from-passengers.html
http://www.examiner.com/headlines-in-new-york/former-tsa-supervisor-at-newark-jailed-for-stealing-from-passengers

You do realise Russia has banks in the US right?
The US Fed helps as Ron Paul (R) found "88% of overall discount window lending went to foreign banks, and nearly 100% of the New York Fed's discount window lending went to foreign banks"
http://www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/ron-paul-shows-how-the-fed-helped-create-euro-crisis-through-foreign-bank-loans

More sources my friend, each containing plenty of legitimate external links: http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/a-journalist-s-guide-to-project-gunwalker http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/a-journalist-s-guide-to-project-gunwalker-part-two http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/a-journalist-s-guide-to-project-gunwalker-part-three

It is way less out there than the stuff much of the mainstream does talk about. Think about all the BS we do see that hits the news, all the FUD and games. This stuff actually has teeth and is seriously under-reported; there are folks who don't want their blatant screw-ups made public and they have been pulling strings. Business as usual in Washington.

More sources my friend, each containing plenty of legitimate external links: http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/a-journalist-s-guide-to-project-gunwalker http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/a-journalist-s-guide-to-project-gunwalker-part-two http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/a-journalist-s-guide-to-project-gunwalker-part-three

It is way less out there than the stuff much of the mainstream does talk about. Think about all the BS we do see that hits the news, all the FUD and games. This stuff actually has teeth and is seriously under-reported; there are folks who don't want their blatant screw-ups made public and they have been pulling strings. Business as usual in Washington.

More sources my friend, each containing plenty of legitimate external links: http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/a-journalist-s-guide-to-project-gunwalker http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/a-journalist-s-guide-to-project-gunwalker-part-two http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/a-journalist-s-guide-to-project-gunwalker-part-three

It is way less out there than the stuff much of the mainstream does talk about. Think about all the BS we do see that hits the news, all the FUD and games. This stuff actually has teeth and is seriously under-reported; there are folks who don't want their blatant screw-ups made public and they have been pulling strings. Business as usual in Washington.

You're not even sticking to the topic, just blowing smoke by political association (Maoist insinuation) and discounting US history where something like victory gardens was a significant and effective solution. You seem to be trying to invent the Chewbacca offense. Do you have anything to actually say?

By your words you're liable to catch yourself in a public library calling the girl behind the counter Bolshevist, and ignoring Thomas Jefferson's opinion on her work. Now study a bit about rational thought as opposed to calling someone red so you can mindlessly bait them:

http://www.examiner.com/skepticism-in-national/carl-sagan-s-baloney-detection-kit-logical-fallacies ...and come back when you have an on-topic point.

it's true: http://www.examiner.com/progressive-in-richmond/surry-power-station-under-repair-the-aftermath-of-tornado

Tornado was Saturday. I live on the other side of the James River from Surry.

I am in Northern Virginia. There is no power outage or severe weather here.

I'm gonna believe the multiple news stories that say you're wrong.

Since supposedly no federal money goes to that 10%,

It is 3%.

there is absolutely no reason that the aborting providing part of Planned Parenthood couldn't be spun off and relaunched as it's own independent division. I would have no problem funding Planned Parenthood at that point. So tell me, why won't Planned Parenthood do this? They could guarantee their funding and their new abortion spinoff would still provide all the abortions that they always have. So, answer the question; Why won't Planned Parenthood stop performing abortions?

1: Because it is legal.
2: Planned Parenthood is often the only legal way to get an abortion in some rural areas.
3: You already don't pay for any of that 3%.

Depends on WHY the abortion is performed. I follow the rape/endanger to the mother's life rule.

Sorry, that isn't what the law limits it to, and fortunately for the rest of us you aren't a dictator. You can try to get the constitution changed, but fighting over an issue this divisive in a budget bill is lunacy.

I do not want my tax dollars going to fund abortions in any way, shape or form.

Well good news for you, they don't.

Several points:

-- Glenn Beck is not a "mainstream politician on the right". He's a guy who's payed to say provocative shit in the media to generate viewer numbers. Those ratings are turned into profits by the Fox News Channel through the magic of advertising. Much like Howard Stern's detractors listen to him for long stretches of time "just to hear what he's going to say next," Glenn Beck is in the same business.

-- He uses violent rhetoric because it's provocative: it's attention grabbing, it's sensationalist, and it gets people watching. This does not excuse it, in my opinion, but he is no more making "violent threats" than any of the examples below are *actually* threatening violence. Read on.

would you care to cite some examples of left-wing politicians or their supporters inciting their audience to violence on a mainstream news outlet

I would!

-- Rep. Mike Capuano, Democrat, my home state of Massachusetts. Remarking on the collective bargaining legislation in Wisconsin: "It's more than just sending an email that gets you going. Every once in a while, you gotta get out in the streets and get a little bloody when necessary."

-- Pres. Barack Obama, Democrat. Speaking to folks at a fundraiser: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun, because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.”

-- Pres. Barack Obama, Democrat. Talking about Republican prospects in the 2010 midterm elections"They are fired up. They are mobilized. They see an opportunity to take back the House, maybe take back the Senate. If they're successful in doing that, they've already said they're going to go back to the same policies that were in place during the Bush administration. That means that we are going to have just hand-to-hand combat up here on Capitol Hill."

-- Liberal talk show hosts like Beck are fewer & harder to find, but looking over various comments made by Randi Rhodes, Charles Bouley, Mike Malloy, and others... there are examples of violent rhetoric being used.

-- Famous recent example would be where a supporter of Pres. Obama's health care plan bit off part of a conservative protester's finger in an apparent fit of rage over their disagreement.

-- You could also check out the video embedded in this next link: in which a MoveOn supporter allegedly "chokes" a conservative protester. I'm inclined to believe there's not a lot of "choking" going on, but certainly there's still no need for him to be putting his hands around the other man's neck at a political protest, is there?

Look, it's easy to characterize violent rhetoric from liberals as "far, far left" activity, that's way out of the mainstream - nobody wants to believe that "their team" could be capable of the sorts of things that "those people" do, and so it's a natural reaction that you'd want to distance yourself from it. Much like conservatives will distance themselves from anybody who is *actually* preaching violence against liberals, and agree with you that it's the "whacko right nutjobs" who are talking like that.

The fact of the matter is that it's not just the whacko fringes using the rhetoric, on EITHER side. It's absolutely appropriate to be as disgusted with it from Republicans as it is to be disgusted with it from Democrats. Both of them should know how to behave better. But if you're really going to say that you don't mind if "your team" uses that kind of rhetoric, but you're going to object whenever the "other team" does, then you're just a hypocrite.

But, libraries carry e-books. and you can borrow them to all you want. It's the one place where some DRM policy almost makes sense. (enforcing 'borrowing' over keeping). Almost. Of course, some people'd like to screw with that system, too:

http://www.examiner.com/libraries-in-albany/the-upper-hudson-library-system-boycotts-harpercollins-new-ebook-policy

Look at who started using Drupal in the last year or two: The Economist, The Grammys, Fast Company, The Examiner, House.gov (and all ~535 house websites) recently moved to Drupal, Energy.gov, WhiteHouse.gov, and here's a list of some 120 national governments using Drupal.

But hey, Drupal only has 2% market share of all sites on the web, is being adopted by government and corporate organizations at a maddening pace, and just had their first major release in 3 years. There's no reason why this Drupal shit should be discussed on Slashdot.

http://www.examiner.com/gadgets-in-san-francisco/motorola-droid-owners-reporting-issues-with-android-2-2-update
http://www.androidcentral.com/evo-4g-update-pulled-over-problems
http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-20019676-85.html

Just a few quick search examples.

In Eastern Civilization, incongruence is not as excruciating as in Western Civilization. Our civilization wants things in order.

http://www.examiner.com/relationship-psychology-in-mobile/cognitive-dissonance-decision-making

Actually, it's been quite thoroughly studied and shown that the inability to deal with cognitive dissonance is much more of an issue in western cultures than eastern cultures. The Chinese vocabulary even has more words to describe grey areas and situations, and it's been shown those thinking with within that logical framework are better equipped to deal with the grey area than oh say, yourself.

But don't take my word for it! Just reread your own excellent solution you ironically drew right after taking a grandstand on a culture and topic you barely seem to understand, much less see within yourself.

Maybe the only way to deal with this kind of moral squalor we see so often from the mainlanders, is to trumpet their misdeeads from the hilltops as loudly as possible; red Chinee have no morals, but they DO have a honour/shame culture, and will avoid doing the wrong thing if they will be called out on it.

The only way (your understanding of political nuance right there shows you'd do very well in politics! Probably in the Palin 2012 campaign), is to trumpet from hilltops. As loudly as possible, mind you! They [the Chinese] have no morals, (no doubt about that), but they DO have a weakness. That way, we can do this one thing and get this one result.

Yup, airtight and flawless. Not one Chink (see what I did there?) in your armor.

Astrologers have known about this for a long time. There's an interesting interview with a well known astrologer about this from the karmic-astrology perspective: interview

According to karmic astrology, your zodiac sign (and other celestial alignments) are representative of your past lives, which in turn affects your present life.

Manning's book, Cosmic Karma, discusses just this thing. The Star Tribune source was just exercising an unsurprising publicity stunt.

And yes, tech nerds can be astrology nerds too.

I don't think he is a teabagger or a conservative. He is a nutjob who was almost certainly going to snap someday. The question is, was his choice of target influenced by teabaggers, conservatives, and right wing pundits' inflammatory, violent anti-government rhetoric?

Given the fact that Sarah Palin's website had a gunsite target on her district, you mean?

“We’re on Sarah Palin’s targeted list,” Ms. Giffords said last March.

... On the other hand, there's every chance Scott Shoemaker's kid was chewing on shitty chinese-made Cadmium-laced or lead-laced toys. Or chewing lead paint from the house's walls.

Blaming the vaccines is stupid.

Yes, but they got the Low Price Always[TM]! And isn't that the only thing that really matters?

Did he have heavy metal poisoning? If you look up the symptoms you'll see they are quite similar.

In order to get heavy metal poisoning from vaccines, you'd have to get vaccinated on the order of multiple times daily. There are much easier ways to get yourself an accumulation of toxic metals.

On the other hand, there's every chance Scott Shoemaker's kid was chewing on shitty chinese-made Cadmium-laced or lead-laced toys. Or chewing lead paint from the house's walls.

Blaming the vaccines is stupid.

@KingSkippus, I totally agree. The Fourth Amendment died along with any real privacy years ago.

Although reading some of the posts on here I'm amazed some people still don't get that simple fact. Where have some of these /. readers been? ... I'm amazed anyone would need to ask if the US also spies on what is these days simply called open source Intelligence. Its the norm these days to spy on us all. (What was once considered just paranoia by a few freaks in society, has for the past few years become reality to the point where its just normal for them to spy on all open source Intelligence. We have no privacy. Privacy died at least 5 years ago!. Where have some people been?!

For example:
"FBI brass ask Google, Facebook to expand wiretaps"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/17/google_facebook_wiretapping/

Overview of the whole subject of open source intelligence gathering from many sources...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_intelligence

Project Vigilant - "monitors the traffic of 12 regional Internet service providers" and "hands much of that information to federal agencies."
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/08/02/privacy/index.html

Facebook even has a government API used for datamining its users. Here's some more info on Facebook data mining connections with government. http://www.examiner.com/canada-internet-in-canada/facebook-conspiracy-data-mining-for-the-cia

Some people really need to wake up.

@KingSkippus"I know it, the government knows it, and apparently you didn't get the memo."... yes exactly, the government must be laughing that some people still don't get it. Yet /. readers are usually much more technically minded people than the general public, so its no wonder that many of the non-technical general public (who never read /.) don't have a clue how Orwellian its all becoming. Plus this is the levels of spying we have now, as nothing here is even attempting to discuss where research is taking these capabilities!.

Here's a glimpse of just one area of research. Google for, pre-emption precrime, no not as in Minority Report, this is real Pre-crime as in data mining and predicting who *may do something wrong*, not who is doing something wrong, its who could do something wrong.

If that's not freaked you out enough, try adding in the whole social influence research area, for example, just google for, Social influence detection research.

http://www.examiner.com/us-headlines-in-national/arizona-shooting-update-blogger-posts-jared-loughner-s-myspace-posts-online

This guy had a myspace. Just sayin...

Ooooooooo really? Then how do you explain the dismissal of voter intimidation and hate crime charges against the Black Panthers? I repeat if it had been skinheads they WOULD have been charged and convicted of a hate crime, period. even the whsitleblower quit because he said it was so obviously one sided against whites.

You know there is a reason why our symbol of justice is blind and carries scales. It is because for the law to have any respect or meaning it has to apply equally to all regardless of race, sex, religion, nationality, etc. Hate crimes are nothing but a complete perversion of that notion by making non whites and non heteros the "victim class" and making the white the "oppressor class" which as I linked to is the very notion espoused by the leader of those allowed to intimidate voters away from the polls.

We have seen time and time again the whole "victim class" mentality doesn't work, and frankly it wasn't needed in this case. We have had civil rights laws on the books for damned near 40 years now that allowed the feds to take over if the locals condoned racism, but frankly I haven't seen that happen since the early 70s. No what this is is more politically correct bullshit, such as arresting and manhandling the Christians that dared to show up at a Muslim rally holding signs that said "mistreatment of women on grounds of religion is wrong" while treating anyone who pointed out that while they were allowing a Mosque in sight of 9/11 they still refuse to allow the Catholic church to rebuild even after a decade as a bigot and racist.

Hell I'm an agnostic atheist and even I can see how lopsided these new laws and rules are being applied. Hell in many places in the USA whites aren't even the majority anymore but I don't see them getting any special treatment as a "minority" do you? To me this bullshit smacks too damned much of the "white devil" bullshit the late Elijah Muhammad used to spew. it didn't matter what a black person did because it was ALWAYS the fault of the white devil that was keeping the good man down. But our laws and courts are supposed to be above that polarizing hate filled bullshit, and while we have stumbled in the past up until recently I thought we were making damned good strides on the front. But changing the law to give someone special status based on the color of their skin is just as wrong when EITHER side does it and I don't see how any well educated person here can justify two wrongs supposed making a right. Racism is wrong, victim classes are bullshit, we are all equal, period.

Too late, the bible publishing cartel beat you to it. And as a bible-thumping Baptist, it irks me that these folks want to charge royalties for me beating you over the head with words written ~2000 years ago.

The guy with the controls in his hands and a locked cabin door behind him needs to be searched to see if he's carrying a weapon. Makes sense, right?

That would only be true if they were searching the guy in the cockpit, but they aren't. They are searching a guy in a uniform walking into a terminal. The TSA agents have a tough enough time distinguishing between guns and sticks of deodorant. It is unwise to expect them to be able to accurately verify the identity of someone who claims to be a pilot.

...this of harassment by the Detroit PD which is the reason why our gov't officials want to make videotaping of LEOs illegal.

Yet further evidence of our (as in US) slow slip into the grips of a police state.

By networking, I mean to establish contact with each other, potentially leading to sharing their victims with each-other. There have been several high-profile busts of child porn rings involving just such occurrences.
Here's one in the news today:
http://www.examiner.com/sex-trafficking-in-national/fbi-busts-international-child-pornography-ring-with-roots-child-sex-tourism

So you're saying that there are no situations in which someone may need to be killed?

No. But with guns it rarely works out that way.

Your strawman about stopping a rape with a gun is matched with my strawman about your toddler shooting you with your own gun, your toddler shooting another toddler with your gun, your toddler shooting herself with your own gun...(man these toddlers are dangerous; good thing we got guns to protect ourselves from them, huh)...you shooting your toddler and yourself with your own gun, you taking the law into your own hands, etc.

Firearms exist because firearms exist. Your rationalization for the massive proliferation of firearms exists because you think it makes you safer, when it doesn't.

Seems like their Nov 9th launch was from underwater.

It is a mystery.

Pic

-tm

I wanted to add to your point #4: look at GMs compliance with California's requirements. Then look at how much money Tesla (and others) have reported in their statements by selling ZEV credits. For an older discussion of this see http://www.examiner.com/green-transportation-in-national/tesla-openly-admitted-to-zev-credit-sales-an-interesting-2008-letter-to-the-air-resources-board

Neither Honda nor GM appear to have any commitment to producing green vehicles. The volt is far from innovative, but after GM thought they had successfully killed California's efforts to improve emissions standards (see http://www.mindfully.org/Air/GM-Sues-CA-ZEV.htm for an early reference) they recalled and killed their electric vehicle program.

My brother-in-law works at GM and for his (and his family's) sake I hope the company gets its act together and does well. They are, at least, hiring again instead of bleeding talent. But it remains to be seen if it will be correctly managed and pointing at the volt is not the way to instill confidence.

Also, see those pointy things at the front of your mouth? The ones maladapted to 100% plant consumption?

This is a myth. Our so-called "canine teeth" are "canine" in name only. Other plant-eaters (like gorillas, horses, and hippos) have "canines", and chimps, who are almost exclusively vegan, have massive canines compared to ours. Our early ancestors from at least four million years ago were almost exclusively vegetarian, later to become scavengers eating carrion and then hunters with Homo Erectus, making meat a part of the diet. Hunting is hard work - they only did it because of a lack of other options, often at certain times of year. Compare that to the couch-squatting meat eater of today that feels akin to the great hunter of old.. Pretty silly really, especially given that agriculture (now consuming some 26% of all land area on earh) was invented just 10,000 years ago.

All omnivorism means we're capable of eating meat (useful from a survival standpoint if that's all that's available), but our bodies aren't geared for it to be a normal, significant part of our diets. (from here

You eat meat because you like it and you don't have to kill it yourself. There's no other reason to eat meat - there's no evidence to suggest that it's a vital part of a human's diet.

As someone that grew up on a small farm trained in killing the animals I ate, I can say I doubt most meat eaters would have the guts to really get behind their precious meat diet anyway - blubbering with guilt in no time. We had tough kids from the city staying with us that would run away screaming, hands over their ears, when we slit the throat of a pig.

In modern times, meat is just a dietary fetish gone horribly wrong.

Oh, and that last link to fao.org said NOTHING about renal/kidney failure (neither word occurs anywhere), and nothing about the hazards of excess protein consumption. (It did refer to excess fat consumption)

Indeed, I meant to add another link in there. Too hasty! Here you go.

Actually, the Kennedy's in general and JFK in particular DESERVE to be ripped apart--but not for the vapid reasons that Sarah Palin's ghost writer came up with.

Look, I'm not here to turn this into some JFK and RFK and Ted Kennedy did all this horrible crap and killed a woman and got away with it and were womanizing nepotistic rich bastards ... all or or some of these things could be said. But what I was trying to say here was that nobody has ever run on that platform. You can write a book of dirt when you're done with politics but writing such a book before you become president is sort of like asking your future opponent if they'd like to have their way with you right now. I mean JFK, though flawed, was a hero to a lot of Americans. And his martyrdom was just icing on the cake. And to call into question one of his most loved and cherished speeches is more than ballsy, it's downright dangerous.

Sarah Palin is a new kind of political monster, unlike the ones I'm used to watching comfortably from my armchair. She's got a twitter feed that sports so many errors, she might actually be the person running it! From a classic Bush-esque prescriptive versus descriptive linguistics error to making accusations and weird religious remarks. It's a microblogging service! Look at what the rest of the politicians use it for: a paid staff techie is told what to put on it and what goes on it is only tepid words praising safe topics for that candidate to like. And those are usually reviewed seventy times before they go up. She has broken the rules of and committed fouls in politics many times and yet people embrace her.

All I wanted to say in my post was that from what I've seen of Sarah Palin, we should have stuck a fork in her long ago yet she remains. And why is that? Well, she's a dangerously well liked and amicable to a large part of the population that you are not familiar with. If she makes a mistake they seem to forgive her and say "I've made that mistake too." If she uses cracked logic or argument tactics long ago written off by academics, her followers just write off the academics. Trust me, as someone who's tried to reason with a supporter with some fairly simple debate analysis of Glenn Beck's logic, I can tell you that you don't want to approach this as some fancy pants intellectual telling them how dumb they are.

Don't confuse this with praise of Sarah Palin or defense of JFK. This is just me trying to warn people about how I see the situation at present. What happens when she runs for president and her opposition preys on some stupid social gaffe of hers? If it's any less than what she's already done, it's merely going to be ignored by or reinforce her supporter's commitment.

Have elderly parents who need medical supplies? They'll make you wet yourself.

abcnews.go.com: Thomas Sawyer

Small kids? They'll grope them while they scream for help, wondering why their parents aren't protecting them.

examiner.com

Cancer survivor? Have some more rads!

I saw an article discussing this, but I can't seem to find the link right now. About the best I can do is Bruce Schneier's article that discusses, among other things, the case against ionizing radiation in general.

...or become fap-fodder for the guy in the back room?

According to snopes.com, the story reported here is most likely satire. I couldn't find a reputable link anywhere else, so I'd say it hasn't happened yet, but I imagine it's only a matter of time.

HTH!

I'm becoming radicalized, but it's because of the B.S. that TSA is pulling nowadays. Seriously, if TSA/DHS doesn't back off, they will find Americans displaying less and less restraint at security check points. If this...:

http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/tsa-screener-terrorizes-3-year-old-girl

...had been my child, there would be a TSA screener in the morgue and I'd be in jail.

What about the biker that was asked to get redressed so that he could be patted down.

“But that wasn’t enough for the TSA supervisor who was called to the scene and asked me to put my clothes on so I could be properly patted down.”

The statement by the TSA goes to show that it is a complete joke. It's probably the largest single employer of non-HS graduates outside of Walmart. All they know how to do is follow a mental checklist, anything that deviates from that confuses them.

When I flew to India they had just as much (and more) security. The actual threat of a bomb was much greater but they probably had 1/3rd as many workers and numerous faster checkpoints. In America there is 1 'do or die' scanner and then another check for a ticket at the gate.

In India they won't even let you in the building unless your flight leaves within the next 3 hours, don't bother showing up early. Every door is staffed by military. Full gun and uniform, you don't get into the building unless you have a ticket. (Sorry hopeless romantics). Then there is the main body/carry-on scanner. Your carry on gets a tag stamped. You get passed through. But you're still in Purgatory. You have to got through another scanner / ticket check to get out to the gates. Then at the gate they check for the carry-on stamp & ticket. Finally, they won't let you OFF the plane and into the airport unless you have your ticket.

The whole process went so fast, I don't think I waited for more than 3-4 people before I went through. Every single person was military. In shape and carrying a weapon, military.

Compared to O'Hare. Where walking up and down the promenade were a group of 3 TSA "Employees" talking about their boyfriends. Walking 3 wide they had to take up 1/2 the aisle. When we asked a simple question (Can we get food without going through security again) they had no clue. I got better help out of someone that barely spoke English.

TSA is a joke, there are better methods out there implemented by countries where terrorism is a REAL threat (Israel, India, etc).

Responding to your sig... ;-)

http://www.examiner.com/county-political-buzz-in-san-diego/tsa-airport-screeners-gone-wild-san-diego-again

Well, there aren't any conspiracies on

the level of illuminati or "reptilians" or the Trilateral Commission. But there are self serving, corrupt politicians that work together in a shrouded way to line their coffers, which by definition is a conspiracy.

Example : Haliburton and Iraq contracts. Guess who was affiliated and owned stock in them?

Another Example: Back Propagation Scanners in Airports (Soros did own, and Chertoff owns stakes in the company that makes 'em).

Another Example : Goldman Sachs, Need I say more?

Another Example : Chemical pollutants produced by Dow, Union Carbide, Monsanto, ect. (They knew chemical exposure caused deaths and illness for 20 years since the 1970's in workers but bought off politicians and covered up research information so they could keep producing them).

You cannot blame people for acting in their own self interest, but government is supposed to protect the rights of citizens, and that includes not wasting our tax dollars on get rich quick schemes.

Actually it's more like the job rigging scandal in Massachusetts.
http://www.examiner.com/independent-in-boston/massachusetts-job-rigging-scandal-revisited

Whats the difference?
the growing threat of cybercrime

I found an article which shows the connection.Is it a coincidence that this bill was attempted practically within the same week of ACTA?

"This bill is also associated with ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) was decided last week behind closed doors without public debate or democratic process to protect endangered media corporations, publishing companies, and institutions such as the RIAA and MPAA."

http://www.examiner.com/independent-in-boston/senate-panel-oks-internet-censorship-bill-is-this-why