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Better tell that to the UN General Assembly. Because they just came back into session and their first meeting was to try and figure out how to tax stocks, bonds, trade, slap a 1% tax on billionaires, royalties on minerals/oil more than 100mi off shore of any nation, and supersede national sovereignty and so on. There's other sites picking it up now. But foxnews was first to break it, despite the whining that people on /. like to make. So credit goes to them first.

First of all:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/24/pakistan-disowns-minister-100000-bounty-on-anti-islam-film-maker/

Secondly Mr. Bilour is trying to distract people from the fact that he has nearly ruined Pakistan Railways (deliberately, I might add, since it competed with his family transport business of buses and trucks, of which he himself owns around 500)

So if I were you, I would ignore his ramblings, he has no credibility left.

America is a slave plantation. You are one of its "House Negroes".

Exhibit 1: Jobs removed from labor pool and awarded to prison industries.

Exhibit 2: More US dollars invested for Prisons than Schools

Yeah. America. Go team.

Or just use the Corporate BS Generator.
Or, alternatively, here.

I prefer this site for my Corporate BS. Thanks.

Sure about that?

direct enough for you?

Why not? They were already using public funds to help train advocates for illegal immigration.

Quoting a claim from Faux News is never a sign of academic rigor.

Why not? They were already using public funds to help train advocates for illegal immigration.

Fox News did not give that number, either.

The warning was expanded to roughly 12,000 additional visitors to the park's more remote High Sierra Camps, after an eighth case of the illness was confirmed in a man who had stayed in tent cabins at three of those camp

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/09/07/yosemite-extends-hantavirus-warning-death-toll-rises/

I hear that a lot, but nobody seems to ever be able to prove it.

Define proof.

Would Lessadolla Sowers, and NAACP executive, being convicted of 10 counts of voter fraud (voted 11 times for Obama in 2008) and now serving a 5-year sentence be considered proof?

When people admit it, does that constitute proof?

How about when they plead guilty?"

This shit is why in 2008 the Supreme Court upheld Indiana's voter ID law, 6 to 3, and in their decision stated "Flagrant examples of such fraud have been documented throughout this Nation's history" - the fact that you choose to ignore all the proof, and then sit there asking for proof, is proof that you are a Democrat shill.

This is not the first time climatic change has had profound effects on the human race.

There will be "Population Adjustments" in the future regardless of what measures we take now. The earth can only support so many of us.

Our increasing population has been cited by some to be the cause of climate change. I think they may well be inter-connected.

Let's face it, if the uber-hard-core folks had their way, we would be living a lifestyle from the 1700s. No electricity, no cars, no burning massive amount of fossil fuels. There would be no global economy because there would be no global transportation network. In fact our population would not only have to redistribute out of the urban centres, it would have to suffer a major reduction in numbers. Without modern farming techniques, you can only feed so many mouths.

However you slice it, there will be fewer people on the planet in the future, and it won't be a pleasant transition.

Actually Steve Jobs has been reincarnated and is a warrior-philosopher. Fox News covered it, it has to be true! http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/08/31/steve-jobs-has-been-reincarnated-as-warrior-philosopher-thai-group-says/

Fox News beat you to it— they titled this story "Alien planets found with twin suns like Luke Skywalker's homeworld."

At the risk of repeating myself:

This lawsuit was about the Galaxy line of phones, all of which have a larger screen than the iphone.

If I'm mistaken, tell me where I am mistaken and tell me the correct answer. Don't just say, "YOUR WRONG!" and leave it at that. Tell me which devices are part of this lawsuit because everything I can find says the Galaxy line. I also read that they are using this lawsuit to try to ban the Galaxy SIII.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/48783982

The verdict, which came much sooner than expected, could lead to an outright ban on sales of key Samsung products and will likely solidify Apple's dominance of the exploding mobile computing market.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/08/24/jury-reaches-verdict-in-apple-vs-samsung-case/

As part of its lawsuit, Apple also demanded that Samsung pull its most popular cellphones and computer tablets from the U.S. market. A judge was expected to make that ruling at a later time.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/avantgo/2018986876.html

Apple lawyer plans to formally demand Samsung pull its most popular cellphones and computer tablets from the U.S. market.

While the SIII is not listed specifically, it is the most popular cellphone Samsung sells right now.

In the civilised world, we view people who refuse to help the sick and injured as evil scum. In your country you may be happy with people dying, untreated, on the streets. YMMV.

The same civilized world which in many places don't have the right to free speech? You might not be aware of the fact that people here DO get treatment. If you look at any of the border states especially you'll see the Hospitals filled with people. At one point in Los Angeles 60% of the patients aren't even citizens. How about Hospitals faltering because of massive influx of non citizens.

You are right

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/05/11/dont-hear-george-soros-ties-30-major-news-organizations/

Jimmy isn't ignored, he's just relegated to that senior statesman role and goes to state funerals and goes to North Korea and condems the US.

What's not to like? His policies drove interest rates crazy, inflation was terrible and he couldn't complete a damn sentence in any of his speeches without these god awful pauses in strange places.. "My Fellow Americans....I have.....ordered our....troops." Oh let's not forget because of the turmoil in the US, A moldy old guy with a crazy ass beard went back to his home nation and led an uprising that overthrew an ally, a tortuous and despotic ally, but an ally. That country is now a thorn in our side because of his inept handling of foreign policy and our government. Yeah, he had the Camp David accords, I'll give him credit for that and the big hug on the White House Lawn with Begin and Arafat.. but those two guys are dead and nothing has gone any further on Middle East peace.

He just needs to keep building houses and shut the hell up!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/29/expert-says-obamas-birth-certificate-legit/

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/birthcertificate.asp

"The doubters have latched onto the idea that Adobe Illustrator â" the premier program for computer graphic artists â" âoerevealsâ evidence of document manipulation in the Obama birth certificate. They note Illustrator reveals nine separate layers of the document, and claim itâ(TM)s âoeproofâ the file has been altered.
But thatâ(TM)s not so, says Jean-Claude Tremblay, a leading software trainer and Adobe-certified expert, who has years of experience working with and teaching Adobe Illustrator.
âoeYou should not be so suspicious about this,â Tremblay told FoxNews.com, dismissing the allegations.
He said the layers cited by doubters are evidence of the use of common, off-the-shelf scanning software â" not evidence of a forgery. âoeI have seen a lot of illustrator documents that come from photos and contain those kind of clippingsâ"and it looks exactly like this,â he said.
Tremblay explained that the scanner optical character recognition (OCR) software attempts to translate characters or words in a photograph into text. He said the layers cited by the doubters shows that software at work â" and nothing more.
âoeWhen you open it in Illustrator it looks like layers, but it doesnâ(TM)t look like someone built it from scratch. If someone made a fake it wouldnâ(TM)t look like this,â he said.âoeSome scanning software is trying to separate the background and the text and splitting element into layers and parts of layers.â
Tremblay also said that during the scanning process, instances where the software was unable to separate text fully from background led to the creation of a separate layer within the document. This could be places where a signature runs over the line of background, or typed characters touch the internal border of the document.
âoeI know that you can scan a document from a scanner most of the time it will appear as one piece, but that doesnâ(TM)t mean that thereâ(TM)s no software thatâ(TM)s doing this kind of stuff,â he said, adding that itâ(TM)s really quite common.
âoeIâ(TM)d be more afraid itâ(TM)d be fake if it was one in piece. It would be harder to check if itâ(TM)s a good one if itâ(TM)s a fake,â Tremblay said.
"

The Left-leaning media is hard at work too.
FoxNation.com | 8/13
For some reason '60 Minutes' sent out a transcript of the Romney-Ryan interview but decided not to air the portion where Paul Ryan tells Bob Schieffer his mother is a "Medicare senior in Florida." Don't you think this is an important piece of information considering the Democrat Party's central line of attack against Ryan is that he "ends Medicare as we know it?"
BOB SCHIEFFER: You're going to have to see-- you're going to have to do a little selling.
PAUL RYAN: My mom is a Medicare senior in Florida. Our point is we need to preserve their benefits, because government made promises to them that they've organized their retirements around. In order to make sure we can do that, you must reform it for those of us who are younger. And we think these reforms are good reforms, that have bipartisan origins. They started from the Clinton commission in the late '90s.
http://nation.foxnews.com/cbs-news/2012/08/13/cbs-doesn-t-want-you-know-ryans-mother-medicare

Out of all places, found out more details, heavens to Betsy, from all places FoxNews.

How did it end up in Washington, D.C.? According to The Florida Gun Exchange, the rifle was shipped properly, according to law with the correct address on the box. But in transit, the label with Horvitz's address somehow came off the box with the television and was attached to the box with the gun. "Whoever made the mistake, it's pretty serious. I think it should be followed up," said Horvitz. The Florida Gun Exchange says it's looking to UPS for answers.

Google has installed fiber to everywhere. The "slow" speed is free and the "fast" speed costs $70.

Ex-sceptic says climate change is down to humans

"The results of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature are in and Richard Muller, the study's director (formerly an AGW skeptic) declares, 'Call me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I'm now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-a-climate-change-skeptic.html?_r=4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19047501

CEO Exxon admits AGW is real and burning fossil fuels causes it.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/27/exxon-ceo-climate-energy-fears-overblown/

The natural progression:

• 1. There is no such thing as global warming!
• 2. Global warming is theoretically possible, but it's not happening.
• 3. Global warming is happening, but we are not the cause
• 4. Global warming is happening and we are the cause but it's no big deal.
• 5. Ok, we should probably do something about this global warming before it gets worse.
• 6. We're really fraked now.

We are now at step 4.

Oh, trust me, I'm familiar with Wikipedia's rules. WP:BLP. It does not say what you think it says. In particular, the purpose of WP:BLP -- summarized as "Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced--whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable--should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion" -- is to stop improperly sourcing material from appearing in someone's biography; it became Wikipedia policy after someone was accused of being part of a killing conspiracy with no references or other reliable information backing up the assertion, and Wikipedia being shamed in the media for this.

Romney's bullying incident does not violate WP:BLP because the accusations have been made and repeated in a number of reliable sources: Starting with the original Washington Post report and by countless other well-renowned news reporting sources, such as The New York Times, Fox News, the BBC, etc.

WP:UNDUE states that "Editing from a neutral point of view (NPOV) means representing fairly, proportionately, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources." A Google search for "Romney Cranbrook site:news_source.com" and clicking on the first link is how I found the above articles (I put in "Romney Cranbrook" in BBC's search box instead of using Google but got the same results). The only significant reporting about Romney's days at Cranbrook in the mainstream press has been about this bullying incident. Wikipedia's Mitt Romney article violates WP:UNDUE. It violates WP:UNDUE because the only significant view about Romney's days at Cranbrook posted by reliable sources is about his bullying incident. Wikipedia has over 120 words describing his days at Cranbrook but not a single mention of his bullying.

The bottom line is this: There is a group of people who are trying their utmost to engage in Orwellian 1984-style suppression of Mitt Romney's high school bullying incident at the Wikipedia. So far, they have succeeded. This kind of deliberate suppression of information is not Conservative; it is downright fascist. The fact that some moderators here at Slashdot have tried to suppress my postings pointing out this Orwellian behavior does not impress me with this site.

> Social Security isn't a Ponzi scheme,
Bullshit.

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."

Being *forced* to pay for other people's mismanagement of their health and wealth is NOT sustainable.

By 2036, the program's actuaries predict, Social Security will have exhausted its reserves and will only be able to pay 77% of promised benefits.

by 2033, 21 years from now, the so-called "Social Security trust fund" will be empty. ... Is a Ponzi scheme - which is basically theft by deception - lawful just because the government runs it? The Supreme Court has said yes.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/09/08/is-social-security-a-ponzi-scheme/
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/04/26/social-security-iisi-ponzi-scheme/

> it's an intergenerational contract that works for everyone provided that it survives.
So how did people survive for the few hundred years *before* Social Insecurity was created in 1935?

How has India managed to survive without Security Insecurity for the ~4,000 years prior to 1952?
www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v16n5/v16n5p11.pdf

Quick google search of past headlines:

NYTimes editorial.

HuffPo

Of course, the opposing perspective (from the psychologist you love to hate, Dr. Ablow!)

There's a lot more out there. I didn't really feel like trawling through feminist blogs while at work, so you can dig deeper if you want.

Screw global warming. I'm scared to death of global cooling.

Really.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/05/19/global-cooling-scientists-warming/

Yep the science of AGW is so shaky that the CEO of Exxon admits it is real.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRMV7zi4h_k

But maybe US vice-president Joe Biden would agree about the founder of Wikileaks?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/19/assange-high-tech-terrorist-biden
"Asked if he saw Assange as closer to a hi-tech terrorist than the whistleblower who released the Pentagon papers in the 1970s, which disclosed the lie on which US involvement in Vietnam was based, Biden replied: "I would argue it is closer to being a hi-tech terrorist than the Pentagon papers. But, look, this guy has done things that have damaged and put in jeopardy the lives and occupations of people in other parts of the world."

See my other posts citing Chomsky on the double-think and double-standard in defining a "terrorist", which basically comes down to a terorist being defined as anyone whom somebody influential in the USA government does not like. And that apparently includes US citizens:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/drone-attacks-lawsuit/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/18/families-us-citizens-killed-in-yemen-drone-strikes-file-lawsuit/
"The wrongful death lawsuit, filed Wednesday, claims that the killings of U.S. citizens al-Awlaki, his 16-year-old son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki and operative Samir Khan were unconstitutional. Khan was the publisher of the terror magazine Inspire. ... The lawsuit says: "The U.S. practice of 'targeted killing' has resulted in the deaths of thousands of people, including many hundreds of civilian bystanders. While some targeted killings have been carried out in the context of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many have taken place outside the context of armed conflict, in countries including Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, Sudan, and the Philippines." "These killings rely on vague legal standards, a closed executive process, and evidence never presented to the courts. ... The killings violated fundamental rights afforded to all U.S. citizens, including the right not to be deprived of life without due process of law," the lawsuit says."

And see also:
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/05/29/analysis-how-obama-changed-definition-of-civilian-in-secret-drone-wars/
"As the Bureau's own data on Pakistan makes clear, the very first covert drone strikes of the Obama presidency, just three days after he took office, resulted in civilian deaths in Pakistan. As many as 19 civilians â" including four children â" died in two error-filled attacks. Until now it had been thought that Obama was initially unaware of the civilian deaths. Bob Woodward has reported that the president was only told by CIA chief Michael Hayden that the strikes had missed their High Value Target but had killed 'five al Qaeda militants.' Now Newsweek correspondent Daniel Klaidman reveals that Obama knew about the civilian deaths within hours. He reports an anonymous participant at a subsequent meeting with the President: 'You could tell from his body language that he was not a happy man.' Obama is described aggressively questioning the tactics used. Until now it had been thought that President Obama was initially unaware of the civilian deaths. Yet despite the errors, the president ultimately chose to keep in place the CIA's controversial policy of using 'signature strikes' against unknown militants. That tactic has just been extended to Yemen. On another notorious occasion, the article reveals that US officials were aware at the earliest stage that civilians -- including 'dozens of women and children' -- had died in Obama's first ordered strike

Above all: I realize we are all participating in a thought exercise in the comments today. My thoughts are with the people harmed in this incident and their families.

Now...
Can we please begin blaming the perpetrator and NOT the tool they used to commit their crimes?

Can we craft laws that give family members the ability to report troubling behavior to authorities, possibly forcing a doctors' consultation? How is it that in the U.S., you can be jailed and forced to take treatment for Tuberculosis, but persons who walk around month after month, year after year exhibiting a dozen classical red flags for behavioral illness are left to their own devices? - Maybe they'll never harm anyone. Maybe they'll shoot up a movie theater.

Please stop blaming guns. Where are all the guns in Western Europe, where Britain has a violent crime rate higher than the United States, or for that matter even South Africa?

SOURCE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-country-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html
SOURCE: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/696036-britain-more-violent-than-us-and-europe

10 killed - 63 seriously injured - CLEARLY we need a background check and 30 day waiting period to buy AUTOMOBILES. What happens when a tragedy like this is intentional and not an accident? What could a sick person do with a Chevy Suburban in a crowded parking lot?

SOURCE: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,222924,00.html
SOURCE: http://articles.cnn.com/2004-01-05/justice/farmer.market.crash_1_movsha-hoffman-molok-ghoulian-brendon-esfahani?_s=PM:LAW

I'd rather gamble my life rushing a gunman to grapple their weapon away. The Tueller Drill / 21 Foot Rule says I'd probably win:
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tueller_Drill
SOURCE: http://www.policeone.com/edged-weapons/articles/102828-Edged-Weapon-Defense-Is-or-was-the-21-foot-rule-valid-Part-1/

According to a number of sources, gunshot wounds - with access to medical treatment - are survivable nearly 95% of the time. Fate is cruel; survivability has everything to do with where you are shot and what is damaged internally.

SOURCE: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/nyregion/03shot.html?_r=1

This just in!
Another human being can pick a fight with you, or sucker punch you in the head, AND KILL YOU BARE HANDED.

SOURCE: http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Man__bleeding_in_brain__after_club_fracas-139265238.html
SOURCE: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/02/27/20120227california-girl-dies-after-fight.html
SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9PoXH_-tUE
SOURCE: http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2011/04/teen-killed-in-fistfight-near.html/
SOURCE: http://abcnews.go.com/US/TheLaw/fist-fight-left-miami-tourist-dead-caught-video/story?id=11445914#.UAnc_oa-zUY
SOURCE:

And it is even from FoxNews.

"NBC aims to be objective"

You're talking about the same NBC that edited the Zimmerman tape? The same NBC that edited the Romney video to change the context? Right?

When traveling at a true 70 mph, as indicated by our highly precise Datron optical fifth-wheel equipment, the average speedometer (based on more than 200 road-tested vehicles) reads 71.37 mph.

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/speedometer-scandal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedometer#Error

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/05/11/how-fast-are-really-going-accuracy-speedometers/

You do if you do if you're the RIAA.

1) The "Bush Tax Cut" which ensured the US federal government had insufficient taxes to do their job, combined with the trillions spent on overseas wars.

Passed by Both Houses of Congress based on what was thought to be good information at the time.

2) Governments that preceded him being unwilling to regulate the financial sector, resulting in the meltdowns in 2008. (I blame Clinton here too - His presidency is largely to blame for the subprime mortgage mess.)

It's good you mention Bill Clinton's administration on this.

3) An obstinate congress which blocks anything, regardless of whether or not it is good for the country.

Oh Like when Obama's Administration with a Democratic House and Senate majorities failed to pass budgets?

Look, this is Slashdot and Politics aside there's a ton of blame for the mess we have. As Will Rodgers once said "If you find yourself in a hole the first thing you do is stop digging."

The fundamental problems with our government are created by the people who vote for these idiots over and over again. From the people who vote for corrupt politicians to those who vote for people with IQs less than the McDonalds dollar menu prices.

Speaking from direct experience, the leadership we have is no better than what you find in an episode of "The Office", what should we expect? It doesn't matter, Democrat or Republican and there is the problem, there's only two degrees of separation between them. Close your eyes and you get the same turd sandwich, it's all shit just go ahead and take a bite. Both parties have rigged the political processes, the election laws and created a million barriers for qualified people to run for office. What ever happened to write-in candidates? That's a whole other discussion.

Back in Feb. 2009 I flew from DC to RDU and sat behind two congressmen. One was so myopic that even with glasses he had to keep the paper an inch off of his nose. When they boarded they were high-fiving each other saying "We passed it" referring to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). During the flight they kept passing pieces of paper back and forth, you couldn't help but overhear occasionally even on a noisy plane. One quip was disturbing "I didn't know that was in there" referring to the ARRA
legislation.

So, two congressmen who voted yes on a bill that became law and they didn't read it. Two votes making decisions for you and I. I can't fault their political views or party affiliations but I can fault them for not at least reading the damn legislation that they were voting on. It sounds like they should be part of a human centipad.

True leadership means making the decisions that are best, not politically expedient and not all of them will be popular. Doing your best also means researching the problem and understanding what you're trying to solve. Unfortunately nowadays everybody in this country has the attention span of a 4 year old and now we have an entire generation of adults who grew up not paying attention, barely passed their courses in College and now are running things.

Nobody can fault somebody for serving in public office, but it would be nice if there was at least some brighter individuals who would run. Yeah, you'd get rocks thrown at you but at least you'd be doing the country's business rather than trying to

Well, as of current reports. . . . 2.5 million are without power in Virginia, 800 Thousand in Maryland, 400+ thousand in DC. I've seen numbers in the 3.5 million region between Ohio and New Jersey. We got power back early this morning ~0400, but we STILL don't have phone, net, or cable at home. The real question, since some areas in DC Metro are not supposed to get power back for nearly a week is. . . . do the emergency fuel generators have sufficient fuel bunkers ???

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/28/uk-court-blocks-sex-crimes-suspect-extradition/

Correcting bad link:

Experts: Iran's Quds Force Deeply Enmeshed in Iraq

Folk wisdom may be wrong: http://www.clinicaladvances.com/article_pdfs/ho-article-200904-matthews.pdf points to the damage of the combination of chronic ethanol use and irradiation. A beer or six may be helpful, but I can find no proof of any benefit. I would take with a grain of salt the Australian claim that de-alcoholized wire can help: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16083915 as the resveratol crowd has suffered some reverses recently. The study from Oz could be good work, I'd just want to replicate it in a larger population before taking it as gospel. A Minnesota firm has money from Uncle Sam for 'BIO 300' http://www.humaneticscorp.com/ittrium/visit?path=A1xeb4x1y1xfcex1x65y1xfd4x1x65y1x125fx1x65 an anti-irradiation drug, and Phase 1 trials are underway for another drug http://www.dddmag.com/news/2012/03/phase-1-cblb502-trial-underway 'CBLB502' touted by Faux News http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/03/16/ex-rad-militarys-radiation-wonder-drug/ .

Tech-based terror threats are increasingly raising concerns in Washington, and FBI Director Robert Mueller testified this week that such threats are among the most serious facing the U.S.

FoxNews - March 09, 2012
us-faces-increasing-threat-cyberattacks-by-terrorists

Now I understand why the FBI Director testified in front of congress warning of future cyber attacks!!!!

(and breaking their promises won't get them shot, and have little impact on their electability).

You sure about that? Piss off enough of the right sort of people to the right extent and shit will start to happen.

(yea that's fox, but i was too lazy to dig for a less stupid source. you can use that to search further if you want.)

Here's some actual comparison. First, PBS Newshour reporting on the Arizona immigration law ruling:

The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its judgment today on the 2010 Arizona immigration law that sparked a national debate. The outcome left both sides claiming at least partial victories. The decision came after two years of protests and legal challenges to the Arizona law, then the April arguments before the Supreme Court, today, the decision,5-3, with Justice Elena Kagan recusing herself because she worked on the issue in the Obama administration. The court ruled Arizona may not force immigrants to carry immigration papers or make it a crime for an illegal immigrant to hold a job or let police arrest suspected illegals without warrant.

This was followed by reactions from Arizona governor Jan Brewer, President Obama's statement, and analysis by someone from The National Law Journal.

Now Fox News reporting the same thing:

Tonight, both sides of the aisle are claiming victory after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a split decision on the Arizona immigration law. Now, three aspects of SB-1070 was struck down by the high court in the five to three ruling. However, the cornerstone of that law was upheld. Now, that critical provision is the one that requires police officers to verify the legal status of anybody that they suspect to be in the country illegally. And liberals from President Obama to the Attorney General Eric Holder have long claimed that this measure would somehow lead to widespread racial profiling. And that line of attack was revisited today on the Senate floor by Harry Reid just moments after the ruling was in fact handed down.

After the clip of Harry Reid, Hannity states "Now, it's unfortunate that Harry Reid would rather play politics than protect the border." and follows up with

Please explain to me exactly what bias PBS demonstrated in this report, and explain why the last comment by Hannity isn't an example of a very clear political slant.

If the US passes a bill requiring ISP's to retain the data it would mean that their data (US Congress) would also be retained and possibly be subject to FOIA requests. I doubt that many in Washington DC want their data held for any longer than it takes to complete the http request.

Congress commonly exempts itself from complying with laws, since prosecutable offenses are for the little people usually.

In 1994/5, the Republican-led (under Newt Gingrich) Congress changed that somewhat by passing the Congressional Accountability Act, but once the Republicans were out of power the Democrats resumed business as usual.

To be fair, though, the Republicans probably would have done the same, if only a little slower, and no one made any moves to every fix up the insider trading issues back then, either. And Congress has always been exempt from FOIA requests and other petty laws that as an employer I could have been heavily fined for if I ignored.

Yeah, you're right - you won't find coverage of this on any mainstream media propaganda site!

I wish somebody would cover this vital issue that's very important to me. So important that I've overlooked the literally hundreds of articles written about it in the last couple years.

Yep, you're right. No Mainstream Media coverage at all. Better write to Ron Paul, he'll save us!

It's stupid shit like this that makes people keep thinking radiation is some form of magic.

I might as well call radiation therapy devices like tomotherapy "giant cancer-fighting plastic donuts", or refer to brachytherapy seeds as "Curative metal rice grains".

Radiation is a highly effective type of poison. Just like certain poisons, radiation sometimes causes cancer, and like other poisons, sometimes it cures cancer.

To put an article like "patch cures cancer" on a "news for nerds" website and have the punchline be that it's just topical brachytherapy is pathetic.

It's pretty funny you should ask about risk in the face of the example of underground weapons manufacture in occupied Europe. Those people were summarily executed by the Gestapo or similar agencies. Doesn't get riskier than that, and it still happened.

And as for armed women, the numbers are not ultimately important, the principle of access is. You don't count freedom on your fingers. Which one of these examples would you say to their face 'I would rather you were disarmed to salve my own sensibilities even if it meant you would have been raped and/or killed'?

I think you are painting a naive picture. No one doubts that we make war machines here in America. That is a no-brainer. The real problem is the legislation that effectively turns US war machines against it's people and that with conventional war machines, the pilots had the ability to object to an order. Now, in a closed room with high level officials having direct and immediate access to the pilots, the reasonable thought that pilots may object is removed. Whats more, because there is not a specific pilot to blame for an occurrence, one could assume that these pilots would be protected by anonymity. Lastly, these machines are considered secret weapons, so, if one crashed in a suburb, what exactly will be done? Team of military personnel, maybe self destruct, who knows. In my opinion it is a shadow weapon and a the biggest threat to individual sovereignty that we have ever faced. Imagine a day when drones are the size of a small bird and there are thousands of them... you will never be alone again, you will never not be watched, you will never have any semblance of privacy. I love the wonderful things drones could do for humanity, but am certainly very skeptical and fearful of what may actually come of their deployment. Great article on the topic. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/06/07/where-is-outrage/

Here, let me help you out then. This is a terrible source but it shows exactly how few people were killed by a maniac with a gun: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316322,00.html

Only 4 people murdered because someone else had a gun. There were hundreds of potential victims there and the gunman had PLENTY of ammo. Well, I hope this helps.

You seem to be implying screening people to make sure they have the correct opinions. Well that has many limitations. First off, I have my doubts that it is possibly to be from another culture and not share its opinions and therefore disagree with the one you are immigrating to

You make an implied assertion here that someone from another culture who shares its opinions will necessarily disagree with yours. That is not the case - there are plenty of mutually compatible cultures out there that agree on the fundamentals, especially those that share common roots. I doubt you'd find many important points to disagree upon with a Canadian, say. Or even a Pole, for that matter.

It would just become a test at memorizing the correct responses

Not all tests are about asking questions. Sometimes you just watch the reaction. One can train for that, too, but it's much harder, and it may be unfeasible for the applicant for ideological reasons (which is precisely what you're screening for).

And who is to say that the correct opinions are, most people in any country would have a different opinion on that and they change all the time.

That is kind of a counter-argument to your original point, don't you think? If they change all the time on their own, then surely it's no big deal?

But of course it's not that simple. There are things that change all the time, and then there are things that are relatively constant (or at least change much slowly). Those latter things are also, coincidentally, those on which there's a broad consensus in society, and they also tend to be enshrined formally as part of social contract, e.g. in a constitution of the state. So that's a good starting point to decide what the "correct" opinion is. If someone fundamentally disagrees with freedom of religion or freedom of speech, for example, they're certainly not qualified; etc.

You have no idea what you are talking about. The medical examiner reported that Zimmerman shot Martin from "intermediate range." Or maybe fox news is not to be believed?

Or maybe you were there?

Eat a dick, you fucktard.

"Although in practice we can expect a dumbing down of the user base too :)."

Does IQ measurement go below zero?

Yes.

Prior art.