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http://video.foxnews.com/v/403...

There you go. Now please reiterate your message about how people know nothing about it and that it promotes peace.

BTW Sorry about having to use a link from fox news, I know some people can't deal with the fact it exists but they were the only network willing to broadcast this. You might wish to consider what that implies about agenda in the media.

But given that the USA's largest employer is using the government subsidized process

Instead of trying to alleviate this travesty with a new one — minimum wage — why not undo such subsidies? If somebody does not pay "enough" for your goods or services (including labor), people look for another buyer. And if they don't, then the pay is enough — by definition.

The government inserting itself between private parties willingly engaging in a lawful transaction is an abomination. That it is done under the pretext of fixing, what it broke in the first place, makes it worse.

This is a destruction of liberty and path to totalitarianism:

• We must help the poor!
• We must force everyone to be helping the poor.
• Now that we are helping the poor, we must control their lives to prevent them from doing "stupid" things. Depending on the kind of Statist in power, these may include:
  • no working for "too small" a wage
  • no drugs, tobacco, or alcohol
  • no sex out of wedlock
  • forced sterilizations and abortions
  • no usage of encryption to prevent monitoring your life
  • no driving "too fast"
  • forced medical treatments

All under the excuse, that we — the Collective — pay you, so you must do as we say. And, no, you can not opt-out either — our compassionate bleeding hearts would not allow you to make that stupid thing either.

As the definition of "poor" expands, the government's control of us all solidifies. Mandatory minimum wage is no different from NSA-spying and other manifestations of Collective (Glorious) trampling the rights of the Individual (cantankerous and unreasonable) — both are imposed on us "for our own good" by the people, who consider themselves our betters.

I was surprised but happy to see that foxnews.com had an article called "Levels of carbon dioxide in air hits milestone". (news.google.com had a link to it.) The article says pretty much what the research.noaa.gov article says. Hopefully some people reading the foxnews article will be convinced that global warming is real.

Since we have freedom of movement within the US, local regulations don't really mean much.

Only to law abiding citizens who happen reveal they do have a firearm with them when traveling out of state:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014...
http://www.gunnews.com/new-jer...

It's not like you have to go through a checkpoint on your way into Detroit where they'll take your guns away. The only meaningful comparisons are between the nation as a whole compared to other nations - and the numbers are pretty damn clear when you do that.

*face palm*

1. Except that in a good chunk of Europe, there are no border checkpoints.

2. So just because we have this wonderful freedom of movement sans checkpoints... low crime areas (regardless of firearm ownership) also benefit from the freedom of movement of blame from higher crime areas where more often than not, legally acquiring a firearm is difficult? I think not.

The amount of gun violence in this country is nothing short of catastrophic. You're less likely to get shot in a goddamn war zone.

Care to cite your baseless & clearly emotionally driven claim?

Remember that even in a warzone, the flying lead is not equally distributed so not all in the area have an equal change of getting shot. Take a virtual warzone like Chicago (a weekend with only a dozen shootings is a rarity) where there are clearly understood lines as to where your likelihood of getting shot is significantly greater on one side of the line than the other.

I'm sorry to see/hear that you really don't care about cumulative statistics and don't try to understand what areas may be affecting the total. I'll give you one... did you know that with the exception of the 2011 Tucson shooting, every single mass shooting in this country in which 3 or more people were killed occurred in a place where the shooter was not permitted to carry a weapon? That's a rather puzzling fact, isn't it? It's unlikely that a gun free zone suddenly causes people within to go shooting, but just maybe those areas where people are not generally able to defend themselves happen to attack those looking for unarmed victims. Ever consider that?

So why aren't we fixing the real issue of overly broad copyrights?

Because that would require national legislatures to actually do non-trivial work. They're already busy enough deciding whether and how much to spend on particular military, entitlement, and military entitlement projects. Nor have they seen any evidence that reforming overly broad copyright would win them more votes, especially when Hollywood promises them essentially free ad time to reach their constituents during election season but only if they "behave" (FOX News; The Hollywood Reporter).

...that California might, just might, want to take advantage of all that water flowing down from the mountains to the ocean??? http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015... This is the same state that keeps trying to force neighboring states to sell them electricity because the enviroheads won't let California build enough power plants to support their own state!

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011...

There's a guy who unintentionally got stuck somewhere and didn't see anyone for 70+ days, no ill mental effects. He's not the only one with a simlar story. I remember reading a case from a magazine (pre-Internet, and I'm not finding it, but that one kept popping up), where someone lasted months. At the end, he went a little crazy, but he also hadn't eaten for months, so they attribute the craziness to the lack of eating, not the lack of human companionship.

People don't have to have constant contact with others. It shouldn't be hard to select those from the ample numbers of applicants. When I retire, not having to deal with people on a regular basis will be at the top of the benefit list. I'll just need to get the groceries delivered. With orders to leave them on the doorstep.

Thank goodness it was a white on black action or we would not have even heard about it.

Short memory.

Replying as AC because I've already spent quite a few mod-points on this thread. My actual username is NicBenjamin.

It's actually quite difficult to win a race or gender discrimination suit. The salad days of the 70s, when you could have your statistician play with the numbers until there was only a 4% chance of you not being hired/promoted/etc. due to your race ended when Nixon started appointing segregationists to the Supreme Court. Same with gender.

Since Jurors have much more sympathy with people who look and act like them, white suburbanites frequently win suits:
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2...
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08...
http://www.diversityinc.com/le...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2...

Nobody is lining up to give poor people professional baseball teams, or choice executive positions at energy companies. Nor does a poor working stiff who just finished a hard day of running pipes or installing drywall open his motel door in the middle of the night to see women looking to have sex with him.

So is opportunity just getting what you want?? Or is it having a specific income level??

It's not being willfully obtuse as to how this country, and capitalism in general, actually works.

Try again?

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2...

Margins these days on many elections are within a percent or two, so non-citizen voting is enough to have a real impact on how elections swing.

Seriously for your citation you give a speculation piece about something that didn't happen?

When Texas wanted to have voter ID, they were asked to provide evidence that voter fraud was a problem and admitted in court that it wasn't. That kind of voter fraud is very rare.

In Japan, like in many other countries, alcohol is just a drink

No.

Sixty percent of [the country's 3M) problem drinkers are salaried businessmen who claim that getting drunk with clients or coworkers is part of their job and a mark of company loyalty.

Here's a different one she may have broken, http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

Apparently, after leaving the the department you sign this form (http://www.gsa.gov/portal/forms/download/115326)

1. I have surrendered to responsible officials all classified or administratively controlled documents and material with which I was charged or which
I had in my possession, and I am not retaining in my possession, custody, or control, documents or material containing classified or administratively
controlled information furnished to me during the course of such employment or developed as a consequence thereof, including any diaries,
memorandums of conversation, or other documents of a personal nature that contain classified or administratively controlled information.
2. I have surrendered to responsible officials all unclassified documents and papers relating to the official business of the Government acquired by
me while in the employ of the Department or USIA.

If she signed that she lied and therefore essentially lied under oath.

6. I have been advised by the interviewing officer whose signature appears below and fully understand that Section 1001 of Title 18, United States
Code, provides criminal penalties for knowingly and willfully falsifying or concealing material fact in a statement or document submitted to any
department or agency of the United States Government concerning a matter under its jurisdiction.

Section 3 (d), Avoid conducting official Department business from your personal e-mail accounts.

So she was aware of these problems in 2011 and did everything she told other people not to do anyway?

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

You quoted Faux News on a Former Secretary of State Clinton thread.

Can we call this Godwined? LMAO

Section 3 (d), Avoid conducting official Department business from your personal e-mail accounts.

So she was aware of these problems in 2011 and did everything she told other people not to do anyway?

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

It's not unusual for techy people to maintain themselves off the grid. Just because you can't find him by Google doesn't mean he doesn't exist -- that's apparently Fox News' level of investigation (i.e., "Internet background searches"), and I know I am very difficult to find through Google. Not everyone is on Facebook or even LinkedIn.

Ya, because fear of a neocon president sure scared him away from invading Georgia.

Once again, this is a case of "bad vs. awful". Our reaction (both military moves and economic sanctions) to Georgia back then was not enough to push Russians out completely, but it kept Russia from entering Tbilisi and vanquishing the little country for good — as they were poised to do.

But when, instead of ratcheting the sanctions up, the current nincompoop sent the ignominious "Reset" button to Moscow and dropped — only two years later — what few sanctions there were in the hope, Russia will help pressure Iran, Putin was encouraged... For Russia can certainly weather two years of sanctions — a small price to pay for the jewel of Crimea.

FNC SAID IT SO IT MUST BE WRONG!
So what happens when FNC takes aim at against the NSA spy machine, does your little head implode?

Meanwhile, President Obama and the State Department are trying to bring Syrian refugees into the US. Some US lawmakers and government officials are concerned that members of ISIS might slip into the US, along with genuine refugees. For example,

"You have to have information to vet,” FBI Assistant Director Michael Steinbach, said in a Feb. 11 House homeland security hearing. “Databases don't [have] the information on those individuals, and that's the concern.”

Take a look

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists fed large doses of DDT to captive bald eagles for 112 days and concluded that “DDT residues encountered by eagles in the environment would not adversely affect eagles or their eggs,” according to a 1966 report published in the “Transcripts of 31st North America Wildlife Conference.”

That arbitrarily seizes cash left and right because it is deposited in "structured deposits"

What are you, some sort of kook? That never happens!

A lot of rural regions in the U.S. are not only fairly sparsely populated but also aren't really that much better off economically than Cuba.

Please, name 3 regions in the US — rural or otherwise — where the average monthly income is $20. Heck, let's make it $200 — which is ten times, what Cubans earn — because they don't have to pay for that wonderful healthcare of theirs.

You said, there are "a lot" of such regions, so coming up with 3 should be no problem. Thank you.

let people watch the horrific execution videos, so they stop saying shit like "let's negotiate with them."

On the bright side, the House votes 239-186 in favor of repealing ObamaCare. :) http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

The bodies at the Charlie Hebdo massacre were not even cool when phonies like you were already going ballistic about those poor non-violent Muslims that idiots were inevitably going to put in the same basket as terrorists. Not a word about the dead people.

You know what? Fuck you and your bigoted ass.

http://instamun.org/frances-ne...

And fuck you from Charlie Hebdo editors too. The great "march" of who's who of the anti-free-speech bigots. One of the editors told them that they are NOT Charlie, and that they should fuck off. Instead they use that criminal act, just like you did, to justify their own agenda and viewpoints.

Why didn't you bother bringing up the idiots and criminals that actually are a danger?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
or dozens and dozens of incidents where someone non-muslim went on a rampage in some school, workplace or similar.

But oh no, let's easy gang up on one group because we can identify them more easily even if they have *nothing* to do with the criminals.

If you feel the need to be outraged, why don't you think of those women that are sold in the market in the Islamic State, or those 2-hour fake marriages just pronounced to let "freedom fighters" rape women legally? Why don't you defend people who are real victims?

Really? I put *ALL* bigots in the same box. Be that the ISIL bigots, or bigots like Jan Morgan.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015...

or Nazis in Greece and elsewhere, or "* liberation *" thugs in Africa or "settlers" extremists in Israel,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

and *you*. Hell, maybe you'll look at reality and change your views and go out of that box of bigotry and hatred. Who knows.

Anyway, the *real* victims of ISIL are people living in that area. Haven't you thought of that?? It's not *you* and your irrational fear of the "evil muslims" and general racism that is the victim of the ISIL biggots. It's the millions of regular people that got displaced or killed, who just happen to be muslim.

They're talking about the Heritage Foundation's 1989 proposal, later supported by Orrin Hatch in 1993, revised again in 1994.

The Heritage Foundation proposal did include an individual mandate, but that's like saying your bedroom ceiling is based on the Sistine Chapel because they both are covered in paint. The Heritage proposal was for minimal, catastrophic insurance, what used to be called "major medical." That's the sort of insurance people used to be able to buy for maybe $50/month. But the ACA larded everything up with countless mandates (birth control, etc.), so that even minimal insurance is now expensive. And then, in one of many ironies, deductibles are now so high that many people avoid going to the doctor. Remember when the ACA was needed to ban "junk insurance policies," which were defined as policies with high deductibles? Down the memory hole!

I said years ago, before this monstrosity came online, that it would not work as claimed, and in fact might never work. I believe that prediction still holds. They've stopped talking about the problems with the backend, but AFAIK they have not yet fixed them, and are still doing things manually or with estimates. It will also be interesting this tax season, when millions of people find that their tax bill is higher than they thought it would be, thanks to the ACA.

They're talking about the Heritage Foundation's 1989 proposal, later supported by Orrin Hatch in 1993, revised again in 1994.

Also available at less truthy sources in more detail.

but for grey water usage you are not breaking the law to water your plants

http://www.ktul.com/story/21768645/federal-judge-rules-against-woman-in-garden-suit

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/16/man-disputes-oregon-convictions-illegal-water-use

You think you are being a smart ass, but you seem to have blurred the lines between fact and conjecture.

He's both a smartass - and right.

The big problem with weathershifting is that sometimes powerful dynasties are laid low. There are remnents of forests and towns under teh sands of the Sahara as exposed by Radar mapping:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech... This was likely the result of the end of the last glacial age. But the issues are the same. A tiny bit drier in Nebraska, and it will turn into a desert. There are old dunes not far below the topsoil in many parts:

http://articles.latimes.com/19...

Will it happen? I dunno. It might. Large scale weather shifts might topple America's dominance, and as far as I am concerned, patriotic Americans would do well to consider adverse possibilities. "It can't happen here" just doesn't sit well.

I've not see any vote selling things reported on,

Then let me help you in in this very difficult search.

though it's trivial to prove how you voted. Yes, even today, with secret ballots.

You will have to be a lot more specific for your assertion to carry any weight.

And once again, you reconfirm your racism as well.
Everything you stated is both false and hate speech.

It might interest you to note that one of the police officers killeed was in fact Muslim. Leaders are condeming it. It is a religion of peace, just as much any other religion with a chackered past, and a book that people can cherry pick out of to prove any point they wish. A handful of extremists do not define a religion of more than a billion people, no matter how many cartoonists or abortion clinics those extremists attack.

From http://www.mediamatters.org/re... :

ButOnline, Fox News Shows Muslim Community Leaders Denouncing The Attack

On FoxNews.Com, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA Spokesperson Condemns Paris Attack.DuringaJanuary 7interviewwith Fox host Gregg JarettonFoxNews.com, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA Spokesperson Qasim Rashid condemned the attackin Paris and refuted the notion that Islam is inherently violent(emphasis added):

JARRETT: Do you think more Muslims in the Muslim-American community need to speak up and, like you, condemn this kind of attack?

RASHID: I think Muslims are doing a very good job of speaking up. And I think there's an important conversation to be had about recognizing that this is not an Islamic act of terror -- this is just an act of terror done by people claiming to ascribe to Islam.When we studyIslam, we see clearly that the Quran condemns this kind of violence categorically. That Prophet Muhammad said that aMuslim is one from whom all others are safe.

[...]

JARRETT: If, as you say, the Quran condemns thiskind ofviolence, why is it these Islamic extremists, these terrorists use the Quran as justification for committing these kinds of violent acts?

RASHID: Well,it's the same reason why any extremist group uses scripture. There's no shortage of extremists in everything. Let's not forget the Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan terrorist group, that claims to beChristian. And I would vehemently argue against anyone who would blame the bible, orJesusChrist, for their acts of terrorism.This is not about religion. This is about political power, this is about uneducated, ignorant youth who are being manipulated by clerics and extremists. And this is why it's all the more important for us, as the moderates, regardless of faith, to stay united and combat this .[FoxNews.com,1/7/15]

Many OtherMuslim OrganizationsHaveCondemned The Attack

French Muslim Council: Attack Is An "Extremely Grave Barbaric Action."In a statement,the French Muslim Council condemned theParis attack as an"extremely grave barbaric action," and called it "an attackagainst democracy and the freedom of the press." [AlJazeera.com,1/7/15]

Muslim Council Of Britain Condemns Attack: "Nothing Justifies The Taking Of Life."The Muslim Council of Britain condemned the attack, saying "The Muslim Council of Britain condemns this attack. Whomever the attackers are, and whatever the cause may be, nothing justifies the taking of life." [Muslim Council of Britain,1/7/15]

Council On American-Islamic Relations : "We Strongly Condemn This Brutal And Cowardly Attack."CAIR strongly condemned the attack,calling it "brutal and cowardly," and used the opportunity to reiterate theorganization's "repudiation of any such assault on freedom of speech, even speech that mocks faiths and religious figures":

"We strongly condemn this brutal and cowar

Especially prosecutors. Prosecutors, in fact, absolute civil immunity from the consequences of their courtroom hijinks. They can literally, with malice aforethought suborn perjury, withhold evidence that proves innocence (not just cast doubt) and other things and you cannot sue them. Why? The Supreme Court a long time ago ruled that if prosecutors could be sued into the ground for their courtroom conduct it would "unduly influence" their decisions to bring cases.

So you can sue a cop who beats you up because that's not within his training and there's no good faith defense. A prosecutor, legally trained with a JD, can intentionally commit a felony against you in a court of law and your only resources are as follows:

1. Plead with another prosecutor to prosecute him.
2. Get a friend/relative/street thug to meet him in the court parking lot with a baseball bat.

Because the civilized option 3) of taking matters into your own hands in a civil court is completely impossible and has been for a few decades.

Historians are often asked what the Founders would think about various aspects of contemporary life. Such questions can be tricky to answer. But as historians of the Revolutionary era we are confident at least of this

That's all you have? One source, acknowledging the question as "tricky to answer", but offering its opinion nonetheless?

would be flabbergasted to learn that in endorsing the republican principle of a well-regulated militia

I contend, they would be even more flabbergasted to learn, that producing and selling pornography is protected by the right to petition the government for redress of grievances...

which is at odds with gun lovers

Gun lovers? Simple swords are illegal in most of the country — as are brass-knuckles.

for some insane lack of simple intelligence

Ah, yes, whoever disagrees with you must simply be lacking intelligence. Founding fathers were still alive, when Hans Christian Andersen dealt with this sort of argument. Feel free to educate yourself...

think that more guns somehow means more safety and somehow does not mean more death

Chicago, where even a museum can not showcase a WW2 rifle, and Washington D.C., where one can get imprisoned for using an empty shell-case as ashtray, have more violent crime, than Texas' cities, where guns are relatively easy to obtain.

But my argument is not that arms "help" — it is that, for better or worse, it is our right to keep and bear them. And that any laws and regulations infringing that right are unconstitutional and thus it is the citizens' moral duty to ignore or sabotage them.

There's some scary Supreme Court precedent just handed down. The cop can be ignorant of the law, i.e., think you broke a law when you didn't, and then conduct a search, and that search is now legal thanks to a brand new Supreme Court decision. That's right, ignorance of the law is no excuse, except for cops.

Pick your poison:
http://thinkprogress.org/justi...

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

Of course this is supposed to be limited to "reasonable" ignorance, but look at Smith v. Maryland. A one time, short term, metadata collection on a specific individual where there was certainly probable cause for a warrant if the cops had not been lazy, is today interpreted to mean that all metadata can be collected for every person, for all time, in the absence of probable cause. Or how the Executive branch interprets "imminent" to include "maybe possibly at some point of time in not so near future." This ruling is a free pass for the cops to do whatever the hell they want and claim ignorance of the law. Just give it 30 years.

That Sony Picture Entertainment — like most of Hollywood — are Illiberal-dominated is well-known.

That their systems were so easily and so thoroughly penetrated hints, that the company is mismanaged.

The revealed conversations confirm it. The particular item — which dwells on NYT's Maureen Down (herself an Illiberal icon) as willing to abolish fundamental journalist principles "for the Greater Good" — cites the following conversation-snippet:

• Pascal emailed Dowd, saying “I THOUGHT THE STORY WAS GREAT I HOPE YOUR HAPPY"
• Dowd responded: “I hope you’re happy! Thanks for helping. Let’s do another.”
• Pascal replied, “Your my favorite person so yes”
• Dowd finished the conversation with “you’re mine! you’re amazing”

After Obama was elected, when dissent stopped being patriotic, and the only possible reason underlying any sort of disapproval of government was racism, the "haters" were often accused of "hating on Obama". That use of "on" was hardly proper English, and I for one was wondering, if Illiberals are genuinely Illiterate, or are deliberately ruining their speech — perhaps, to better commiserate with the downtrodden. Fortunately, the "on" slowly disappeared and my question went away...

Ms. Pascal's repeated use of "your" instead of "you're" — even after being gently corrected by her wordsmith correspondent — makes me wonder again. Her use of ALL CAPS identifies her as a moron rather firmly in my book — any sort of stupid Sony does, while she remains at the helm, will not surprise me one bit.

1) Fidel Castro leaving the country for treatment actually happened, which is very obviously an option not available to the vast majority of Cubans, hence my quote from Animal Farm: "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."

Actually, you would be surprised about that. When treatment is not available in Cuba, patients are often sent to other countries. This is in no way limited to elites. Unfortunately, budget restrictions are very real. I wanted to share another link about that, but I could not find it. (Also, I have no idea re: Fidel Castro leaving the country for treatment)

2) They could have the best healthcare system in the World and I still wouldn't want to live there.

Indeed.

Nor would most people who value freedom and liberty...

Try "prosperity". I would say that most Cuban migrants leave because of the economy. Yes, there may be a causal relationship between the lack of liberty and the poor economy, but they are subtle enough that most don't even notice. I didn't feel not-free (though, in hindsight, I really did not have the "freedoms" that I now enjoy). Even some who thirst for liberty, seem to be seeking a better economy, to the point that some want to return to Cuba after receiving asylum in Spain. (Sorry, I couldn't find a source in English).

The flower children of 1960-70-ies have all grown and are running the country. A feminist NY Times reporter agreed to show the Sony exec an article about her prior to publishing it — which is strictly against journalistic ethics. The article, of course, is quite adoring — the firm is praised for its "pro-women" movies (like "Frozen"). Journalistic integrity is secondary to the agenda — the Greater Good of promoting women justifies the means. Nobody will know, right?

Sony executive — Ms. Pascal — is quoted in the exchange as unable to properly spell "you are". Despite her correspondent — NYT's Dowd — gently correcting her several times, she kept writing "YOUR" (yes, in ALL CAPS) instead of "you're". How could such a moron become a major executive? Because it is good for a company's image to have a woman at the top, that's how... And, it being Hollywood, she had to be an Illiberal, of course.

And that's part of the bigger picture — our very President is who he is not (only) because of personal merits, but because of his race. Some mythical "haters" may have voted against him because of it, but he got more votes thanks to it, than he lost due to it.

Not only did it help him in 2008, it helped him all along before that. We don't know, how well he did in college, for example, but we know, he was elected President of Harvard Law Review — a feat, for which he thanked Black professors...

Among the first things he did in White House, was to appoint a fellow affirmative action "wise Latina" to Supreme Court. Again, not because she is the best qualified legal expert, but because she is a Latino.

No one with the functional organ will agree to a brain surgery done by a doctor, who got to do it because of his skin color or sex. Why, then, do we tolerate the governance of public and private institutions alike run by people, whose gender and race were taken into account, when they got the job?

From what information the police have released since then, it looks like you're right on the mark. The guy is a violent nutjob that also happens to be an Iranian Muslem; and he has lived in Australia for almost 20 years now. I doubt he has much connection with Islamic State beyond their chat boards.

To be perfectly honest, does anyone have statistics (recent) on the number of terrorist acts that are committed by Christians? I'd like to compare them with Islamic terrorist acts, because it seems to me that Islamic apologists need a wake-up call.

I don't know about world-wide, but in Mexico extremists in the cult of Santa Muerte are out of control.

"A recent United Nations report estimated nearly 9,000 civilians have been killed and 17,386 wounded in Iraq in 2014, more than half since ISIL fighters seized large parts on northern Iraq in June. It is likely that the group is responsible another several thousand deaths in Syria. To be sure, these numbers are staggering. But in 2013 drug cartels murdered more than 16,000 people in Mexico alone, and another 60,000 from 2006 to 2012 — a rate of more than one killing every half hour for the last seven years. What is worse, these are estimates from the Mexican government, which is known to deflate the actual death toll by about 50 percent.

Statistics alone do not convey the depravity and threat of the cartels. They carry out hundreds of beheadings every year. In addition to decapitations, the cartels are known to dismember and otherwise mutilate the corpses of their victims — displaying piles of bodies prominently in towns to terrorize the public into compliance. They routinely target women and children to further intimidate communities. Like ISIL, the cartels use social media to post graphic images of their atrocious crimes."

No. The only way to remember that is to read Fox.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2...

And even they make pretty clear it was baseless speculation.

Szmolinsky said he suspected that his rabbits, which grow to the size of dogs and can weigh more than 22 pounds, were eaten at a birthday banquet for Kim Jong-Il, the North Korean leader, although he emphasized that he had no evidence of this.

The North Korean Embassy in Berlin denied that the rabbits were dead. A spokesman said that they were being used for a breeding program, and had not been eaten. He added that no one at the embassy had contacted Szmolinsky.

He made an off the cuff remark, had no proof, and the "news" ran with his story, because, "lol North Korea."

Then, in 2010, more details emerged:

http://www.rfa.org/english/new...

She said the intended breeding program had run into difficulties once the German-bred outsize rabbits arrived in the isolated Stalinist state, where some sectors of the population still face malnutrition.

To ensure the successful expansion of the giant rabbit population, rabbit cross-breeding and species hybridization were needed, Lee said.

But many female rabbits failed to get pregnant, and of the rabbit kittens that were born, many were deformed, she added.

There's simply nothing that says the seed rabbits were simply eaten. They only sell for a couple hundred bucks each. If you wanted to eat them (they ARE for eating, you know) they could have bought them and eaten them. Creating a fake plan to buy 16 discounted ones just to eat them is nuts -- more than KJ-II nuts.

That the trade union of nuclear professionals advocates for nuclear power is unsurprising, grant me this consideration.

The wikipedia link that you pointed me to says that China has intentions to bring nuclear power usage to 6% in 2020 up from its current 2% whereas the regulated US were at 19% last year, and the hyper-regulated France was at 75%.

Conclusion: nuclear blossoms in social-democratic countries with a strong central government that invests large amounts of taxpayers' money as subsidies to the industry (or owns it directly).

And thorium reactors are nice, except that they have problems too, the biggest one being of course that they currently do not exist in a profitable form, while nuclear power fundamentalists regularly mention them as the obvious, current solution for every woe of nuclear power.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a nuclear power proponent myself, especially after I've seen the damages done by supposedly green energy sources and their governmental subsidy policies. I just don't like echo chambers.

So what? At least this is not some sleazy datamining trick, but a system to protect general safety. It can save lives.

You're absolutely correct, and since Fox News says there were 12 gun murders (this includes K-12 and colleges/universities) in school settings per year in the past five years, we can certainly save lives. By the same token, there were ~1500 domestic violence murders in 2005. By your logic, we should install monitoring devices in every home. It can save lives!

Unfortunately, now that Obama has come out in support of NN, the R's in the House & Senate will fight it tooth & nail.

Indeed, the gloves have already come off. Right now, the screaming headline at the top of the FNC website says Obama declares: Regulate the 'Net. Since this is about "regulation" the R's are certain to oppose this as if Obama had declared we should gladly worship the anti-Christ. I would ordinarily say let the R's enjoy their third world telcos but they will merrily drag all the rest of us down with them.

https://www.riaa.com/
http://www.mpaa.org/
http://www.foxnews.com/

The problem with your thought experiment is that many people engage in behavior that is socially disapproved of, may have serious negative consequences, and may involve disquieting physical aspects. Just look at the people involved with drugs, especially some of the more horrific ones. The outcome of meth addiction is well know, and rather ugly, but people do it anyway. Then there are the even more dangerous drugs that rot your body like Krokodil . And what about prostitution? People engaged in that are continually doing things that have a significant "ick" factor, but do it anyway.

And lets not forget the findings of studying the Pashtun.

Afghan Men Struggle With Sexual Identity, Study Finds

An unclassified study from a military research unit in southern Afghanistan details how homosexual behavior is unusually common among men in the large ethnic group known as Pashtuns -- though they seem to be in complete denial about it.

The study, obtained by Fox News, found that Pashtun men commonly have sex with other men, admire other men physically, have sexual relationships with boys and shun women both socially and sexually -- yet they completely reject the label of "homosexual." The research was conducted as part of a longstanding effort to better understand Afghan culture and improve Western interaction with the local people.

I don't think your thought experiment covers all the ground you think it does.

> happens to all over us (sic)

Sure, and the spontaneous appearance of an extra fiber connection to the house, that happens to all of us too.

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

Sharyl Attkisson Fox News Her Next Stop?

From what I've read, that number is right, but it's because of additional restrictions. For example, there are restrictions on visible tattoos:

http://insider.foxnews.com/201...

IIRC, all people who need to take medication every day are also out. (I know that I'm out for medical reasons, even though I could handle those physical requirements.)

All the restrictions put together really limits the eligible pool.

I am not sure about this. A Federal judge recently found that flashing your headlights to warn oncoming drivers of a speed trap, is protected speech under the First Amendment. You could make an argument that these are a group of concerned citizens tracking the activities of their local police, and publishing their findings.