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That post is offtopic? Hardly.

From the fine story post:

"They tried to frame Iran as having an active nuclear weapons program. Then they try to frame WikiLeaks as the reason why that's not known to the public now."

Both of Assange's assertions are false as shown above. Iran isn't being framed, they do have an actual active nuclear weapons program, including design and testing of implosion based warhead components. What they have yet to do, so far as is publicly known, is to actually produce a real warhead. Anyone reading the papers, as shown in the parent post, or other sources, knows this. If fact, Iran may be making a move to surge their efforts. This isn't good.

Assnage's comments are just another example of Assange's self-glorification. Nobody knows about Iran because Wikileaks hasn't release anything? Please.

That isn't much different from the claim he makes in regard to planning the Arab Spring. I doubt that is even 5% true.

. . . The first time I went to Egypt, also in 2005, I met the same kinds of people I met in Lebanon. Cosmopolitan, liberal-minded individuals who were like Arab versions of me. Egypt had nothing like Hezbollah controlling large swaths of the country and warmongering against the neighbors. No foreign army smothered the country. Instead it had a police state. The narrative there at first seemed to be: democrats against the regime. That’s what it looked like. But my experience in Lebanon prompted me to ask a question of my liberal Egyptian friends that seems not to have occurred to some of the other journalists and Western internationalists who have been there. I asked these Egyptian liberals, “how many Egyptians agree with you about politics?” The answer stopped me cold: five percent at the most. . . . --- The International Elite Bubble , by Michael J. Totten

He's done * research *. All those peer-reviewed science things on Fox News...

It took quite a while for me to find this from Fox News, there were 2 pages of liberal and non-partisan sites bashing them before I found something on Fox, although I think the line that says 'By LiveScience Staff' might be the only reason I found something like this at all there.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/11/20/greenhouse-gases-hit-record-high-in-2011/

It doesn't give an exact number, but at least they say that that the primary source of new Carbon in the atmosphere since 1750 has been man made. So I guess that puts a lower limit of 1 on that number.

At some point you have to accept what the numbers are telling you.

How about if Holder gave thousands of guns to drug cartels, was then found Contempt of Congress for the coverup of the program. A program that caused the death of hundreds of Mexicans and a US border patrol agent. Of course he would face consequences then.

Unless the prosecutor works for Holder and was told not to prosecute him.

I think the point is painfully clear that if Holder will not be held accountable for deaths of Mexicans and US Border patrol agents that he will not be prosecuted for ANYTHING. It is not FUD, it is fact.

What amazes me is how overblown this thing is. Let's see last year all of the A380s were grounded because of wing cracks which is the latest in a long list of teething issues for that aircraft. Yes, there's a problem and when the 787 was undergoing certification testing there were problems with the electrical system.

From here.

On November 9, 2010, Boeing 787, ZA002 made an emergency landing after smoke and flames were detected in the main cabin during a test flight over Texas. A Boeing spokesperson said the airliner landed safely and the crew was evacuated after landing at the Laredo International Airport, Texas. The electrical fire caused some systems to fail before landing.[135] Following this incident, Boeing suspended flight testing on November 10, 2010. Ground testing was performed instead.[136][137] On November 22, 2010, Boeing announced that the in-flight fire can be primarily attributed to foreign object debris (FOD) that was present in the electrical bay.[138] After electrical system and software changes, the 787 resumed company flight testing on December 23, 2010.

Yes, this is highly publicized and visible because of the incredible amounts of money on the table, airlines will be beating on Boeing just like EADS has been beaten over the A380 problems recently.

All aircraft go through shakedown periods after they are put into the marketplace and sometimes it takes years for problems to show up.

So before everybody starts playing the blame game just understand that no complex system is without problems especially initially with less than 50 planes delivered thus far in the production run. The Lithium Battery question had been asked and answered to the satisfaction of the FAA and if it ultimately proves that there was a problem with those initial conclusions, then the FAA will have to change their regulations to cope with the issue. Despite what people say, commercial aviation didn't become as safe as it is today without a lot of processes and thorough follow through when problems did occur.

You may not remember TWA-800 but when that 747 exploded everybody thought it was a bomb or a terrorist rocket. it turned out to be an ignition of the vapors in a fuel tank.

depends which part of America.

In the U.S., around 40% have no broadband access . There was also a resurgence of dial up users because of the economy.

depends which part of America.

In the U.S., around 40% have no broadband access . There was also a resurgence of dial up users because of the economy.

Source on the Aurora shooting. I'm not going to give him a name. As noted in the article, the theater he chose was not the closest. It was not the largest. It was the only one that banned handguns(at the time).

I've heard about lots of prevented massacres; but you have to look for them, unlike successful ones - the successful ones make the national/world news; you're lucky if a successful one makes the regional newspaper.

The biggest problem I see with doing away with gun-free zones is that the next round of psychos will simply start using bombs instead of guns.

Start? The columbine kids had a huge bomb. Maybe if they hadn't had guns they'd have put the extra effort into making sure it worked.

Unfortunately, you (and those who modded you up) seem to have no understanding of the flu vaccine. Your numbers are complete bunk. Unlike most "traditional" vaccines where the target is pretty well understood, the flu vaccine is a crap shoot every single year. If 100% of the population was vaccinated, your risk of getting the flu that year may be the same as another year when no one was vaccinated, because those making the vaccines very well may have guessed wrong on the strains that would be prevalent in that year.

The national news carried reports up until a few weeks ago that this year's vaccine was a great match for the strains circulating in the wild (for example). With flu rates coming in at well-above average, this story suddenly went away. If the vaccine was such a good match when we were urging everyone to get a shot, why it is suddenly so ineffective? (And, yes, that is an actual question, not a smart-ass rhetorical one.)

Actual evidence for the effectiveness of the flu vaccine is non-existent. Do yourself a favor and read some of the recent reports about this from reputable sources. For example, the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy released a report just a few months ago indicating that influenza vaccinations provide only modest protection for healthy young and middle-age adults and virtually no protection to those 65 and older. They concluded that US federal vaccination recommendations are based on inadequate evidence and poorly executed studies. You can get a PDF of the report here. The Center's director is not an "anti-vaxxer" but an experienced expert and government insider. He still recommends the vaccine in general because it is quite safe even if the paybacks are greatly overstated.

You might also want to review some of the Cochrane Collaboration's reports. In the past few years, they have found there is no evidence that vaccinating health care workers had any effect on influenza or pneumonia deaths in the elderly or that vaccinating the elderly provides any benefits to them, They also found that the flu vaccine has no impact on the number of people hospitalized, transmission rates in the population, or associated health complications. It does appear that in a year when the vaccine and virus mix actually match up well, healthy adults under 65 will see milder/fewer symptoms and gain an average of half a workday.

I do not get the flu vaccine. I also rarely get the flu (perhaps twice in the past decade). My spouse usually gets the vaccine for herself and our children. In my personal observations during the past decade, there is no discernible pattern to our infection rates from year to year, vaccination or not - sometimes our house sees a flu or two despite vaccinations and sometimes we see none despite no vaccinations. I'm not suggesting that the flu vaccine is dangerous or completely ineffective, but it seems obvious that the government and drug companies have vastly oversold it.

"Georgia mom home alone with kids shoots ex-con intruder" http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/06/georgia-mom-home-alone-with-kids-shoots-ex-con-intruder/ Another article, jump to the end to read about an 18 year old single mom in mobile home shooting intruder days after her husband died on Christmas. http://www.ibtimes.com/mom-shoots-intruder-five-times-days-after-single-mom-kills-burglar-protect-her-infant-995578

I've tried over a dozen times to post on my favorite Iranian comedy site. I'm starting to think maybe their editors are the sole authorised commentators. Most people seek the sites that confirm their own viewpoint. Some stuff is hard to read , but I struggle through in hopes I can disabuse myself from any presumptions and erroneous perceptions.

This happened in NYC this summer but it was faulty wiring rather than a pirate radio station.

Yes, but it is and will be probabilistic. See for example this on the Moscow heat waves, for example, and the discussions at RealClimate. Attribution studies are very expensive (in time and money, for computing ensembles), but are a key body of work over the last few years, and there is a section of the upcoming IPCC AR5 report summarizing it. The IPCC reports are the best summary of the science, even though they are very conservative.

That's nice when you actually get something that is probabilistic. I see some suggestive frequentist studies in your links. But nothing particularly interesting.

For example, an 80% chance of the West Russian heat wave means even by the logic of the algorithm a 20% chance of the heat wave being normal, which is way too high for the claims made. After all, all you have to do is go over a few heat waves and pretty soon, you'll find that 80% chance. I think that was what was done there, probably unintentionally.

Second, I find the Hansen research remarkably deceptive - as usual I might add. The blogger glosses over the choice of "climatology" (a meager data set of only 30 years which I might add is considerably shorter than some solar cycles that do have an effect on Earth's climate) and then claims the ability to detect "3 sigma" deviations from that skimpy data set (ignoring that the data is highly correlated and doesn't share a common distribution even after the normalization effort, which is contrary to the inherent assumptions used).

The IPCC is a well known propaganda mouthpiece. While this isnt' the first time I've heard the claim that the IPCC is "very conservative", I still remember when the IPCC made very liberal claims not backed by any research in the actual body of the report. They also have on occasion inserted rather vapid propaganda as research (the notorious claim that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035). And they have a number of people of dubious qualification filtering research.

I imagine in the long run we will find that the "very conservative" antics of the IPCC weren't very conservative at all.

Non-scientific, yes. The terms "sceptic", "denialist","AGW believer",etc are not pro- or anti-scientific, they're political.

While "sceptic" and "AGW believer" are pretty neutral, one only uses "denialist" to disparage and discredit. It is a straightforward case of ad hominem fallacy. Hence, why it is anti-scientific.

For ACC vs bad farming practices

Bad farming practices are ACC as well. That's the problem with using the term ACC to mean something other than ACC.

Could we scientifically attribute the rainfall this year to ACC? we could run a large ensemble model (such as the UK Met office did for Russia, 2010) but it would be exteremely expensive in computational time and scientist time, and would still lead a probabilistic result that denialists would dismiss.

The answer is "no". I notice throughout your examples of research a remarkable confusion of algorithm with fact. I too can make an algorithm that takes current data and portrays in some extreme way.

Note that this is precisely what has happened with this story. Coral reefs aren't actually threatened any more than they were before. The model just changed (and not necessarily in a more realistic manner!). A similar thing happened with the other recent Slashdot story about the temperature of West Antarctica. Maybe the temperature change really was more dramatic than formerly thought. But maybe it wasn't.

It's worth reminding people what is at stake. Hundreds of billions of dollars in public funds each year. That's far more than you would need to buy completely the field of climatology. That's also more than the fossil fuel industry earns each year except possibly in the best years.

So my view is that the best strategy is simply to wait rather than rely on opaque and easily corruptible statistical analysis and predictive models. If there really is a problem, we'll see it by then.

Just found this:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/18/fear-being-committed-may-have-caused-connecticut-madman-to-snap/

Oh, no... it must be the video games... no sign of mental problems or feud here.

Anectdote != Correlation.

So he was a gamer.

He was also male.
He was also 20 years old.
He was also intelligent.
He was also fill-in-the-blank.

Even if there is a general connection found between violent video games and real-world violence, it's not likely a significant factor in this case.

From current news reports (which are admittedly incomplete and possibly wrong) it looks like this shooter was mentally ill. One media outlet reported yesterday that the shooter's mother had begun the process of having him involuntarily hospitalized and that the shooter found out and was upset. The same report says the police are looking into this as a possible motive.

Perhaps the lesson here has nothing to do with video games but rather the need to improve access to mental-health resources and to not knowingly have guns within reach of people who are both mentally ill and who are under stress or who you know are about to be put in a high-stress situation where they might "snap."

That the US government is spying on social networks is fact shown multiple places. And only the EFF seems to be doing anything to slow it.

Suicide mission eh! Is this part of the NASA outreach to Muslims?

Actually they've been showing the probes the Twilight movies in an endless loop for weeks now. The probes seem quite excited at the prospect of dying on the mission.

"There will be no more extended missions, because Ebb and Flow are almost out of fuel. The spacecraft will crash into the lunar surface eventually, so the Grail team is bringing them down in a controlled fashion. (An uncontrolled crash would pose an eight-in-a-million risk of hitting a heritage site, researchers said.) "This is all according to plan," Zuber said. A little bit of science left On Friday morning, mission managers will turn off Ebb and Flow's science instruments and order a maneuver that puts the probes on course for the rim of the crater, which sits at a latitude of 75.62 degrees north and a longitude of 26.63 degrees east. On Monday, the low-flying spacecraft will hit the wall of rock head-on, at an angle of just 1 degree or so above the horizontal. The spacecraft will blast out small holes in the rim but leave little of themselves behind. " http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/12/14/nasa-probes-readying-moon-crash/

Suicide mission eh! Is this part of the NASA outreach to Muslims?

so know illegal aliens getting arrested for blocking traffic is the same as jailing someone for posting something some peoples club considers offensive?

*winces at the bad english* Freedom of expression must have a very different definition in your world.

your violent crime examples of homicides, not violent crime. Of course, rape and violence on women is rarely reported, and even less frequently documented. so you link is less facts and more half truth.

Yeah, what was I thinking, using the most reported and documented violent crime as a baseline reference? Silly me.

The crime rate was low in Germany During the Nazi regime. Is that really an argument that Nazi Germans is better then the US, or any country?

You Godwin'd yourself. But ignoring that, there's about 11 million dead Jews and political prisoners that would disagree about the crime rate. But you know, other than that, there's also the problem of there not being any statistics on the crime rate or population of the Third Reich for the past 67 years.

That said, I suspect that there rate of imprisonment is lower then the US. The USs prison increase is doe toy the privatization of prisons.

Every time you post something to the internet, God kills a dictionary. The ownership of our prisons has as much relationship to the reasons why so many are jailed each year as your literary shortcomings do to the number of books Amazon sells each year.

the truth is, they aren't better. All your metrics ignore what life is like for over half their population.

I will admit I have more confidence that the CIA, the United Nations, The Harvard Institute of Law, and a handful of major news outlets got the numbers right than I do in a person on the internet literary abilities of a fifth grader, who is backing up his argument with no citations, logical reasoning, or even an anecdotal story.

However our country can, and has many times, changed without needing a revolution.

I'm skeptical of this claim that stuff has happened many times. I don't think stuff happens many times. In fact, I'd even go as far as to call myself a stuff skeptic. I'm going to need a citation from you that the country has done stuff, and that this stuff has happened many times. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof, you know.

We do live in a country where you can have a different house of worship on each corner at an intersect and nothing violent happens.

Can I suggest you open a newspaper someday?

Businesses should not choose locations on the basis of nationalist prejudice, but on the basis of the relative virtues of each potential location. Such virtues include the various aspects of economic freedom, which creates an evolutionary incentive for tyrannical governments to reform. The aggregate qualifications and work ethic of the potential employees in a particular location also makes a large difference, as do a number of other factors that are not directly related to governance. And of course the availability of cheap labor sways many decisions, but that is a good thing - it makes sure the poorest people in the world who are the most capable of working their way up get the opportunity to do so.

Why should some American person who has squandered his opportunities to raise his career potential be paid more for a job that can be done by a Chinese person who is struggling to escape rural poverty? Why should USA be rewarded for declining in economic freedom at a time when China is making gradual reforms? After Obama's reelection, USA no longer deserves to be the most prosperous nation in the world...

--libman

If you want to be informed, you have to read all the news services and take them all with a grain of salt.

Despite your current moderation, that view isn't really popular with large segments of people on Slashdot. It seems many people here don't like news from a different perspective, or providing inconvenient facts, if you know what I mean. (Cue posts about Fox News lying, reality has a liberal bias, etc. . . . . and then see parent post.) I guess to many people it is vital that we all look different, but think the same.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/11/27/bigfoot-is-part-human-dna-study-claims/

Yeah, I was really surprised when I saw this on an ABC news channel this morning. Still skeptical. This link says it's just Rority. ;)

2. Websites that insist on posting useless bandwidth-hogging 'talking head' videos rather than posting a simple photo and a text summary.

So I see I am not the only one who visits foxnews.com

It is NOT illegal to refuse an unlawful order.

Under modern jurisprudence it IS illegal to refuse.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/15/indiana-high-court-rules-people-resist-illegal-entry-police-homes/
"We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest." "a right to resist an unlawful police [order] is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence,"

The courts say that if you believe the officer's order is unlawful then you need to obey anyway and file a civil lawsuit later to let the courts decide if you were right.

The President doesn't have the AUTHORITY to change the tax structure

I totally agree with you, the executive doesn't have the constitutional authority to change taxes or issue budgets. So I wonder, why is the Speaker of the House begging Obama to do all of the hard work for his caucus?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/09/days-after-victory-obama-faces-fiscal-cliff-as-budget-office-warns-recession/

House Speaker John Boehner on Friday put the ball in President Obama's court over the so-called "fiscal cliff," calling on the president to step up with a solution to avert the double-whammy of spending cuts and tax hikes that threatens to trigger another recession.

---

the same electorate returned who returned Obama also returned a Republican majority in the all important House of Representatives.

As others have mentioned, many state legislatures gerrymandered the ever loving shit out of state districts, packing as many Democrats as possible into a single district that is usually won in excess of 70%, and then spreading the rest of the Democrats thinly enough in other districts that the Republicans will still win.

For example, Obama absolutely crushed Romney in PA, yet only 5 of the 18 districts went for Democrats. Obama also won Ohio, not by as much but he still won, and yet Democrats only won 4 of the 16 districts.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/11/07/how_ridiculous_gerrymanders_saved_the_house_republican_majority.html

In fact, more people voted for Democratic representatives in the House than Republican representatives. The actual popular vote figure across the country is 48.8% Democrat, 48.5% Republican - and yet the GOP still has a 30+ advantage.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/11/09/democratic-house-candidates-winning-the-popular-vote-despite-big-gop-majority/

The elephant in the room here is that the R party has been fielding slates upon slates of actual true nutball candidates, some of which are actually getting elected.

Eh, the worst of them went down in flames. For example, Todd Akin is history now.

I agree that actual true nutball candidates should be rejected. I only point out that there is a horrific double standard, where the media turns a blind eye towards liberal nutballs, and focuses the white hot light of publicity on conservatives who are even slightly quirky. Just imagine if it had been a Republican who had expressed fears that Guam will capsize... but it wasn't, and only right-wing media reported that story.

To me, the worst nutballs are the ones who don't understand economics but presume to command the economy. These are mostly liberal Democrats. For example, most of them claim that we don't need to cut spending at all, that if we just tax the rich all our troubles are over. That's a worse mistake than believing that the Bible is the literal true history of creation. (You could tax the rich at 100%, just straight-up take all their stuff, and it wouldn't even pay for one year of spending, let alone solve our problems.) For another example, Social Security is headed for catastrophe, yet most of these guys insist that we cannot possibly change it or cut spending.

That, and while I really do prefer the President to be scientifically grounded, it is a less important qualification for that position

But President Obama has clearly shown that he doesn't understand economics, yet he intends to command the economy. My bold prediction as an Anonymous Coward: the next four years will be even worse than the last four years. Wait and see.

Well, maybe, or maybe not. But they're sitting on some big news. Anyone hear any hints of what it might be?

Changing the resonance frequency of the scanners (radar) will detect it.

quote:
“If you move half a degree in angle, it stops working.
If you move half a percent in bandwidth, it stops working.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/11/14/deflector-shield-and-invisibility-cloak-wars/

You could say the same about your average FOX news viewer...

Just kidding

Hmmm

Further, the liberal side is mostly women, minorities, homosexuals/transgenders and college students. The conservative side is mostly white men.

No, actually. A solid majority of white women voted for Romney. Also, while virtually nobody black voted for Romney, a very large number of other non-white citizens did - each category, it was around 1/3rd.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/11/why-white-women-voted-for-romney.html
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2012-exit-poll

and if the affair was with a subordinate in the CIA?

It wasn't. The affair was with his biographer, and it was uncovered by the FBI.

It does not matter who it was with. The security clearance is contingent on the person not ever being in a position where they can be blackmailed. He broke this rule. That is the reason.

Lesson: Facts do not cease to be facts just because they were reported on Fox News.

Different members of the Obama Administration have said different things about Benghazi at different times.

American forces in a position to help were evidently told repeatedly to stand down.

Charles Woods, the father of the slain Tyrone Woods, thinks Obama is lying. And the mother of slain State Department employee Sean Patrick Smith just came out and said "I believe that Obama murdered my son” though his negligence. Compare the amount of press given to them compared to Cindy Sheehan.

Now two chain-of-command figures central to the Benghazi controversy, CIA Director David Petraeus and General Carter Ham, commander of AFRICOM, have resigned, while a third, Rear Adm. Charles M. Gaouette, has been reassigned.

None of this necessarily means that Obama issued the stand-down order, or validates the speculation in some quarters that Ambassador Stevens may have been involved in arms transfers. But how blind do you have to be to think that the fact that no additional forces were sent to protect Americans during a seven hour battle with jihadests is unworthy of being investigated?

and if the affair was with a subordinate in the CIA?

It wasn't. The affair was with his biographer, and it was uncovered by the FBI.

You think voter fraud doesn't occur both ways? How about these:

Black Panthers patrolling polling centers, and election monitors being forbidden from scrutinizing:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/6/problems-black-panthers-surface-pa-polling-places/

Voters picking Romney, but the machine gives their vote to Obama:
http://www2.wbtw.com/news/2012/nov/05/more-nc-voters-report-selecting-romney-machine-cho-ar-4900469/

Poll worker pushing voters to vote Democrat:
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/poll-worker-tells-people-to-vote-democrat.html

Polling center has a pro-Obama mural in violation of election laws:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20121106_GOP_goes_to_court_to_remove_Obama_mural_at_polling_site.html

Planning on going to the polls after work today. The boss is letting us leave early to vote after I suggested he do so, so yay for me. Then Minecraft time!
Here's just a few of the stories about shenanigans today.
Philly GOP: Poll inspectors being ousted for Dems
Election Judge Wears Obama Cap While Checking in Voters in Obama's Chicago Ward
GOP - Poll watcher in Detroit threatened with gun, 911 call rejected
Former DNC Chair Howard Dean: The Only Way We Lose Is Through Fraud
Obama Poster Hanging in Florida Polling Station
GOP officials booted, Black Panthers return -- and Obama at polling site?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/02/claims-increasing-switched-votes-in-ohio/
http://www.northwestohio.com/news/story.aspx?id=819850
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/11/can_democratleaning_voting_machines_win_election_for_obama_1.html
Of course lib sites like nbc, cbs, abc, pbs, cnn, etc aren't discussing this, and communist sites like huffingtonpost say Romney is controlling the voting machines.

roman_mir, you should know by now to cite your sources:
http://www.foxnews.com/ http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/ http://www.your.ass/ ...

Abandoning ship into 25 foot lifeboats to battle monster seas is bad for the crew and hard work for the Coast Guard tasked with their safety. The graveyard of the Atlantic is set to claim another prize. http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2012/10/29/coast-guard-monitoring-tall-ship-in-distress-off-north-carolina-with-17-aboard/

"Jurors deliberated four hours before convicting Andrea Abbott"

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/10/23/tenn-mom-guilty-disorderly-conduct-berated-tsa-officers-for-daughter-airport/

...aand the ones asking for it are the ones gaming the elections...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57539706/congressmans-son-resigns-after-voter-fraud-video/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/23/voter-fraud-houston-tea-party-truethevote-texas/
http://capoliticalnews.com/2012/01/08/seiu-voter-fraud-caught-in-wisconsin/
(There's quite a bit more...all you need do is do your own looking for it via Google...)

So...you're going to get a fair election by these people observing it?

And here is a prediction:

there will be no question about inflation, there will be no question about the trade deficit.

A poll was conducted by Fox "News", still, their numbers show the following:

People worried about rising prices: 41%
People worried about unemployment: 24%
People worried about taxes: 19%
People worried about housing market: 7%

If this poll is anywhere near correct, then twice as many people are worried about rising prices (resulting at the minimum from inflation) than there are people worried about unemployment or taxes. 6 times more people worry about rising prices than about housing market.

Yet the Fed's policies are all aimed at 'curbing deflation' and creating inflation by buying more and more mortgages (40 billion a month now or more forever, "until the economy gets better").

And really, if the rising prices is such a good thing in housing (according to the Fed), why is it then something that worries so many people?

Of-course people are worried about rising prices in energy, food and other things that they have to buy all the time. All the stupid 'economic data' that the news like to show right now display 'rise in consumer confidence' based on people spending more.

Nobody in the news is paying attention that people are spending more to buy the same or even less, because things cost more. Is inflation a problem? Not if the Fed has to say anything about it, yet 41% of people think rising prices are a problem.

Or is it more a complaint that the administration's initial remarks in the first few hours or couple of days were off pitch? Part of the argument that Obama can't think well on his feet (reliance on teleprompter, poor debate performance...), and that this is a problem regardless of ability to deliberate and make good decisions given more time and information?

You should expect that if something happens to #1, #2 will take over and if we have a lame idiot, we'll all be in #2.

But then again, Fox News takes great joy in pointing out the foibles of Biden.

You aren't paying the full cost of driving, so how can you say you prefer your car to a train?

For example, cities typically dictate to business owners how much parking they must provide at their own expense for their customers. They have to pass the costs on to their customers through store prices, which means the cost of parking is shifted from people who drive to people who don't drive.

Roads themselves are heavily subsidized. Even if gas tax funds "were fully devoted to highways, total user fee revenue accounted for only 65 percent of all funds set aside for highways in 2007."

And then there are the negative externalities of gasoline usage, up to $1,600 per person per year.

If you had to start paying the true cost of driving, could you still honestly say you prefer driving to taking the train?

Sure it has it's medical uses but look at what those uses are: appetite encouragement, "social anxiety relief", pain relief etc... The objective IS to get stoned.

That problem is now solved:
Researchers develop marijuana without the high

It will be interesting to see how many people need 'medicinal' marijuana, when it is purely medicinal.

"The “highless” marijuana still eases the symptoms of the medical marijuana patients, but it contains less than 1 percent of THC, the chemical that causes pot’s signature euphoric high.

Instead, this new cannabis strain, called Avidekel, is beefed up with 15.8% cannabidiol, or CBD, which has anti-inflammatory benefits but doesn’t bind to the brain’s receptors the way THC does."

It's not accurate at all, apparently. “Crews for International Space Station expeditions have been assigned through 2013,” NASA spokesman Joshua Buck told FoxNews.com. “None of those astronauts has been 'booted' from his or her respective mission.” http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/10/04/no-astronauts-were-bumped-in-making-this-space-tourist/

Funny.. they are digging up a driveway right now to look for him.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/28/soil-samples-to-be-taken-from-detroit-driveway-in-search-for-jimmy-hoffa/

But your right, they still haven't found him.

Nobody's apologizing, failfuck

I guess you didn't get the memo the U.S. is doing just that, and paying $70k of your money to do so.

What was that you called people that got things wrong again? Seems like it rather more applies to yourself.