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Here is the article http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/07/works-shakespeare-produced-by-millions-monkeys/. It looks like Fox News hides or takes down the comments after a while. I have no idea why they would do that.

Given that they can measure time with a resolution in the billionth of a second, my guess is that they've measured the distance using light with the same accuracy. If that's the case, then that should rule out that 30cm difference.

The neutrinos go through solid rock and the detector is embedded nearly 1 mile underground. They are measuring the distance by a combination of GPS and AtomicClocks but that might not be perfect. Plus the detector is HUGE -- it seems like it would be easy to lose a foot in measurement somewhere there.

Initially the rockets will be able to carry into space 70 tons to 100 tons of payload, NASA said, which would include the six-person Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle capsule and more. Eventually it will be able to carry 143 tons into space, maybe even 165 tons, officials told the Associated Press. By comparison, the long-dormant Saturn V booster that sent men to the moon was able to lift 130 tons. The plans dwarf the rumbling lift-off power of the space shuttle, which could haul just 27 tons. The biggest current unmanned rocket can carry about 25 tons. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/14/nasa-to-unveil-giant-new-rocket-design/#ixzz1XwZ5jLiC

The info about his illegitimate kid came out around May 17th:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/17/report-schwarzenegger-fathered-child-household-employee/
(argh, the fox news page was a citation from wikipedia)

In March, he had hit the same low level of approval (23 percent) as Gray Davis, the governor who was recalled, which caused the recall election to happen, which Schwarzenegger won:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/21/schwarzenegger-approval-r_n_507703.html

Also, simply searching for Schwarzenneger approval pages, there are others before that repeatedly talking about his approval rating sinking.

There seems to be a strange cult of personality surrounding Ron Paul and a lot of people who see him as a huge revolutionarist and something completely new. Well, here are some reasons why I'd never vote for Paul:

1) Paul claims to be a constioutionalist and a libertarian but he opposes the seperation of church and state, apparently wishing to emphasize that america is a christian nation. He is also claming that the constitution is ""replete with references to God.", which is false.

2) He is a creationist who says that evolution is "just a theory". Now, I'm not sure whether or not he actively seeks to increase the teaching of creationism in schools (I think not) but this is an important point because the man is a doctor and calls himself "a scientist" while evidently he does not have a firm grip of either the definition of a scientific theory or genetics, which is something that modern medicine is heavily reliant on and which could not function without evolution. Paul should, as a doctor, have a far better understanding of these mechanisms than a layperson, yet he chooses to ignore the reality and put his own religious views ahead of it while still having the guts to call himself a "scienticst". This point alone demonstrates such levels of cognitive dissonance that I have a hard time understanding how anyone on Slashdot could actually vote for this guy.

3) He wants abortion to be banned on a federal level because in his words "If you can't protect life then how can you protect liberty?". There are several problems with this proposition. Now, I am pro-choice, but I have no problem as such with presidential candidates being against abortion. What I do have a poroblem with is when they seek to legislate their own ethics with no consideration of the consequences. Paul is a doctor, he should be more than aware that there are several means to abort the pregnancy other than the medical procedure, all of them (such as drinking excessive amounts of alcohol) are widely known and all of them are far more dangerous to the mother than an abortion performed by medical professionals. Now, Paul seems to think that banning abortions will end them, which is not true. Making abortions illegal will perhaps make some women reconsider it but it will also cause signifficant harm to a lot of women who end up choosing a back-alley abortion.

In addition, it's inconsistent with his stance on death penalty. According to Paul, the states should be allowed to decide whether or not to use the death penalty but the states should not be allowed to decide whether to alllow abortion. Not only is this stance ass-backwards (IMO the death penalty shopuld be banned on federal level and abortion allowed), it's also a conflicting position. According to him it seems, it should never be allowed to end the "life" of a couople weeks old fetus but it's alright for the state to terminate living adults if they so choose.

4) Paul claims to oppose "congressional overspenfdng" and claims that the goverment should not interfere in business at all, yet for example in 2007 he requested about 400 million dollars in earmarks, including 8 million dollars for the marketing of american shrimp. (source yes, I know, Fox News as a source is stupid but the figures come from the wall street journal)

5) He does not suppor equal rights for minorities, wishing to repeal affirmative action kee the IRS from investigating whether private schools used race as factor in denying entrance,

6) His enviromental policies would cause even more strain to the enviroment than the current ones. Among other things he supports off shore drilling, building more oil refineries, mining on federal lands, no taxes on the production of fuel, and would stop conservation efforts that could be a "Federal obstacle" to building and maintaining refineries. He has also sought to amend the Clean Air Act, repeal the Soil and Water Conservation Act of 1977, and to amend the F

Slashdot is dying. FoxNews confirms it.

Slashdot is dead: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/24/gawker-7-other-formerly-popular-sites-dead-or-dying/

You could just call those the "CNN" and "FOX" versions.

Here's a link to the FOX News article. It says "Small risk to the public". That's paraphrased from the NASA press release that says "Extremely small risk to the public". So I guess that is some spin.

Slashdot is dead: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/24/gawker-7-other-formerly-popular-sites-dead-or-dying/

I doubt there are many NATO tanks in Afghanistan. Actually the U.S. sent its first tanks into Afghanistan only late in 2010, after nine years of war. It sounds like an attempt to shock the Taliban. Certainly the Taliban has no tanks for our tanks to fight. And there is very little "tank country" in Afghanistan.

And as you imply, how much infrared imaging equipment do you suppose the Taliban has?

When the conversation does turn to technology, Microsoft and Apple are bashed with information that is often years old and often not relevant to the topic. It seems there's been a flood items posted recently (coincidence with Taco gone?) and I'm struggling to find "News for Nerds and Stuff that Matters". But I am still bitter from a post I recently made with an excerpt from a published article with the citation requested by the authors that was yanked and the misinformation/guessing continued unabated. Apparently number of posts is more important than accuracy. As an old fart I come hear to hear and learn about the technologies I don't use and look at the folks with high IDs to be the fresh youngsters doing cutting edge stuff. Instead there are mostly foks defending criminal technological behavior and a generally emotional lack of respect for the issues surrounding the responsibilities of IT.

Oh,well. To get back on topic: I type with my hands (more specifically, my fingers and thumbs). No. No. Yes. No.

Fascinating.

Anyway, here's the link to a list of sites that are dead or dying, Slashdot included.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/24/gawker-7-other-formerly-popular-sites-dead-or-dying/

You've heard about the controversy within the bill, the processes about the bill. Or of the items. But I dont know if you have heard that this is a legislation for the future. Not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America. Where preventative care is not something that you have to pay a deductable for, or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention. It's about diet not diabetes. It's going to be very very exciting. But we have to pass the bill so that you can, uh, find out what is in it away from the fog of the controversy.

Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innocation - innovation begins in the classroom- clean energy and climate, addresssing the the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may ssay, is health care, health insurance reform.

What exactly is out of context?

At the time of that quote, the Democrats were refusing to provide a copy of the Health Care legislation to anyone for review. They were suggesting giving members of the House only 72 hours to review more than 2000 pages before a vote on it. But there's no misdirection in my using the quote alone.

Regardless of anyone's opinion of that particular bill, the bottom line here is that the quote itself, in or out of context, suggests that the citizens of the US are too stupid to be allowed to read a bill before it's passed. We're not allowed an opinion on a proposed legislation. We're to be told what our representatives have passed for our own good after the fact, and not before. It shows contempt for the process, and more importantly for the citizens. Its a perfect example of the elitist attitude congressional figures have who assume they know better than we do and would prefer that we just shut up.

And true to their word Fox posted the AP story relating that, of course the AP story is just facts and doesn't really have any of the reporter interpretations/endorsements offered in the other article.

Also of note the story isn't found on their Science & Technology section, you have to go straight to the Planet Earth section.

And true to their word Fox posted the AP story relating that, of course the AP story is just facts and doesn't really have any of the reporter interpretations/endorsements offered in the other article.

Also of note the story isn't found on their Science & Technology section, you have to go straight to the Planet Earth section.

And true to their word Fox posted the AP story relating that, of course the AP story is just facts and doesn't really have any of the reporter interpretations/endorsements offered in the other article.

Also of note the story isn't found on their Science & Technology section, you have to go straight to the Planet Earth section.

After the most recent exoneration, Fox was holding out on this NSF report as the last word on the issue: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/06/climate-gate-michael-mann/ They felt that the NSF was the "only independent government organization with the skill and tools to investigate effectively"

Their findings are not surprising. Mann's research has been replicated using different methods time and time again. Here are just a few examples:

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v3/n6/full/ngeo865.html

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/325/5945/1236.abstract

http://www.leif.org/EOS/2009JD012603.pdf

http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2010/2010GL044771.shtml

http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/9059018f4606597f20dc4965fa9c9104.html

Best of luck. I've been a mostly silent reader of Slashdot since about 1999, but I've enjoyed it very much. Mostly.

I guess it's true. Slashdot is dead. Fox News confirms it (seriously: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/24/gawker-7-other-formerly-popular-sites-dead-or-dying/)

This particular judge is an interesting guy. He is reported to have sentenced a woman to indefinite jury duty for answering the question, "name the three people you least admire," with "African-Americans, Hispanics and Haitians."

Agreed, make a baby, support the critter, its not just a good idea, its the law... enforce the heck out of it. Moreover, make such a public stink about being a Dad who won't do his duty that the shear weight of being a pariah makes him do the right thing.

Unfortunately, then we get into cases like this.

How many men are paying child support right now because they were falsely named on a birth certificate and not given a proper chance to demand a paternity test?

This is a clear example of a person who watches 6-7-8 and likes to believe everything the government says.

I do, I like variety too, I watch TVR, hear Victor Hugo and plenty of others a bit more objective than the 6-7-8 hellbent fans.

The problem with people like this is that they have polarized opinions. Either you agree 100% with the government or you agree 100% with Clarin. There's no middle point. This government puts itself in a "trendy" position. It's "cool" to think like the government does. So if you don't think like the government tells you, you aren't cool. You are a loser. These people just can't seem to find a middle ground, and like to adorn their speech with adjectives, like "dictatiorial".

On the 70's we were under a dictatorship, it's the proper word to use, with all the human rights violations that are associated with it, and you call that adorning. And what's a polarized opinion? And where's the "middle point" in the opposition to this government? Looks like you're projecting yourself there. Now tell me where in all of the Clarin controlled media has the government ever said how the people should think. Let's be factual and honest, this government (unlike others) has had fewer decrees (laws passed directly by the president without senate vote) than any previous ones, every single thing this government has done was done abiding by the democratic process of presenting projects to the senate and getting them voted. Even with a majority of opposition on the senate all these projects got reviewed, worked on, voted, and made law (except for the first time in history that the state's budget was not approved). So, when Clarin shows interviews with people like Elisa Carrio that shout out loud that this government is a dictatorship, and when the interviewer agrees with it, trying to make the audience buy that crap, you do buy it too? I wonder how many do this.

It's a fine example of how the government-controlled media apparatus works. They even see the media's "fourth power" status as something bad! Who watches the watchmen?

I'll be called Marxist but the power should not be on enterprises that care nothing but just about money. It should be on the people's hand, for that the media (look up journalism on a dictionary) has to be objective and impartial and be of varied, different opinions, not 100% opposing all the time, neither 100% pro-government. The world right now is showing how that fine neo-liberal model has worked so far.

They applaud the new "media law" which wants to split up nation-wide channels, under the premise of "democratization". The government's main selling point about the old media law was that it was, first, old, but second and most important: "WAS WRITTEN BY THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP!!!!!oMGOMGOMGMGO THE MILITARY ARE CONTROLLING OUR MEDIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA".

Did you read the law in it's entirety? Here's what Fox News said about it. And here's another view. The law does nothing to nation-wide channels. It does so to the "content providers" so to speak. If you distribute content you should not own that content too (but the law grants a few channels for each provider anyway). Anyone with 1/8th of a brain would know that a provider that cannot own all the channels it distributes would be hellbent on having as many channels as possible, which would include a huge lot of local content, plus the already established nation-wide channels and others outside, just to be competitive of other media providers. Competition between providers also ends up being a plus, you get the freedom of choice for your provider based on their benefits, you are no longer locked into "the only provider in my area" anymore (which is the rule in the

2) People who don't care to know any better, and will simply treat them as a tool that prevents them from having to think. These are the kinds of people who will follow their GPS into a river / off a cliff / the wrong way on a one way street / etc.

Technology Leads More Park Visitors Into Trouble

Far more common but no less perilous, park workers say, are visitors who arrive with cellphones or GPS devices and little else — sometimes not even water — and find themselves in trouble. Such visitors often acknowledge that they have pushed themselves too far because they believe that in a bind, the technology can save them.

It does not always work out that way. “We have seen people who have solely relied on GPS technology but were not using common sense or maps and compasses, and it leads them astray,” said Kyle Patterson, a spokesman for Rocky Mountain National Park, just outside Denver.

11-Year-Old Boy Dies After Mom Says GPS Left Them Stranded in Death Valley

She told rescuers in California's San Bernardino County that her son Carlos died Wednesday, days after she fixed a flat tire and continued into Death Valley, relying on directions from a GPS device in the vehicle.

Ignore the fact it's fox for the second article for now and think about how insane that second one is. Given how blindly people rely on tech, I'm amazed it doesn't happen more often.

Yeah, knowing how to use gps and all that might be great when you're in a city, but if you're going to be roughing it you should carry the most simple of technologies (compasses, maps, etc) instead of things that use damned batteries or rely on signals to external technologies to function.

Also in other cities as well

When I lived in the U.S., for a while I had to go from Saint Louis to KC for one week a month for a while for work so listened to a lot of talk radio on the way.

I remember about 7 or 8 years ago listening to Bill O'Rielly on the radio talking about "socialist" Canada, and how rotten the place is, and wondering why anyone would talk nicely of it considering especially how it was always in debt and had spending out of control to finance its socialist agenda. All pure bullshit of course. I can think back on that now and smile.

Since O'Rielly is a darling of Fox, I just to look and see what Fox News' slant was on this was and how they were going to misinform their viewers/readers on the subject. And here it is... not even all that subtle: The three main credit agencies, which also include Moody's Investor Service and Fitch, had warned during the budget fight that if Congress did not cut spending far enough, the country faced a downgrade.. Completely misleading and feeding the Tea Bagger bullshit machine. Ah yeas, the Murdoch slime machine at work.

The downgrade wasn't because the U.S. didn't cut spending. It was because they decided to keep deficit spending (increasing the debt ceiling) instead of addressing the "money in less than money out" issue. Tax increases and the lack of them also figured into the rating change, considering the U.S. has about the lowest tax rate of the G7 countries, but near the highest per capita debt. But hey, if they really wanted to cut spending how about looking at the notion that the U.S. spends more on its military than all the rest of the world does combined... sorry, forgot about the ego and paranoia problem. And a tax increase isn't really a good way to put some of what they could have done to increase revenue. For example, it could have started with getting rid of the Bush error (oops I mean era) tax cuts on the wealthy that was supposed to be temporary to begin with. Alas, the Tea Baggers were rabidly against doing that to their financial backers.

Fox wants to propagandize this to pander to its misinformed viewers to make it seem like the fact that the Tea Baggers prevented tax increases for the most wealthy had nothing to do with it. The most wealthy have the lowest tax rates they have ever had. They omit saying that during some of the most productive and economically booming times in the past century the tax rates on the upper income groups was much, much higher. e.g. In the 50's under Republican president Eisenhower, and during the 90's under Democratic president Clinton. Not increasing revenue by returning taxes to prior levels definitely figures into the credit downgrade.

FWIW, Canada balanced its budget and began paying down the debt starting in the early 90s through to 2008; the only member of the G7 IIRC that was doing so (and why Canada was one of the least affected countries from the current recession). The balanced budget went out the window around 2008 with this recession when the current conservative government went way overboard on stimulus spending.

Maybe you could, you know, let people buy the vehicles they want to buy and then if gas is expensive most won't buy gas guzzlers?

First, we would need to internalize the negative externalities of gasoline usage into the price of gasoline. For example, air pollution costs us up to $1600 per person annually.

Another problem is that road wear is proportional to the 4th power of the vehicle weight, while gasoline usage (and therefore gas taxes) is more linear.

Once people start paying the full costs of driving, then they can start making rational choices about which car to drive.

If they increased revenue compared to what would have otherwise occurred, then why did they add the sunset provision? The answer is they knew it would not, so had to add a sunset provision so that it wouldn't violate the senate rule designed to stop legislation like this from passing (legislation that would add to the deficit for 10 years or more).

FYI, this law is commonly referred to as the Bush tax cuts. This isn't some liberal/conservative or intelligentsia/ignorant issue. Heck, Fox News even has a section on its website called "Bush Tax Cuts": http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/taxes/bush-tax-cuts.htm

Yes, all spending bills must start in the house so of course the budget must originate there, after the President sends his budget for consideration. Unfortunately, we haven't had a budget passed in something like 840 days now and have been operating under a continuing resolution until the end of FY2011 which was most recently presented and passed with minor spending cuts.

Wrong. Congress passed a budget for 2011 back in April. I included a link from Fox news. Obama even signed it into law.

Any more disinformation you would like to share?

if you have the income

else

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1506469.stm
On the garbage dumps that surround Beijing, scavengers from time to time will find a newborn baby girl amid the stinking refuge.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,281722,00.html
The weapons being used against them are prenatal sex selection, abortion and female infanticide — the systematic killing of girls soon after they are born.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-selective_abortion
The selective abortion of female fetuses is most common in areas where cultural norms value male children over female children,[1] especially in parts of People's Republic of China, India, Pakistan, Korea, Taiwan, and the Caucasus.

signed - cow with keyboard.
moo.

At least they realize that their religion is stupid:

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/special-report/transcript/health-care-overhaul-balance#ixzz1ANgRPaqG (about 3/4 way down)

They know they have to cave, they're just grandstanding.

Heh...no. The Dems don't go hacking systems...they just submit fraudulent voters...

In Texas.
In Colorado.

It's not only in Chicago where the dead (and apparently the illegal...) vote early and often.

Speaking as a Norwegian, knowing several who have lost close friends and family members (or are gravely injured, or where at Utøya during the terrorist attack), but as far as I know the people I know are OK. He did not target muslim civilians. He targeted Norwegian civilians, regardless of faith - mostly teenagers at a peacefull political camp. If I where to guess the faith of most of his victims (based on Norwegian demography), i would assume most where atheists - but there was also christians and muslims. This guy is to most christians what jihadists are to most muslims. The bullshit spread by O'Reilly and Fox news is nothing but shamefull, and hopefully extremely easy to look through: http://video.foxnews.com/v/1078836718001/media-brand-norwegian-maniac-a-christian-extremist/?playlist_id=86857 (reposted after finally registering to \., having been a lurker for ~5-8 yrs)

Actually, NASA launch sites may not be best suited to new launch technology. Why not use a railgun to get the initial delta-v. Navy guns have a launch velocity of Mach 7 (35% of orbital). Scale up the launch velocity (increase length to longer than a carrier), and increase the payload capacity (more power!), and you have a way to significantly reduce launch costs as well as decrease the size of the launch vehicle. A launch acceleration of 32G for 22 seconds would give orbital velocity (and a helluva ride!). That's an acceleration value used in ejection seat design. Such a launch system would be required to be 76km long (47.2 miles) and would be affected by the curvature of the earth (only 32 feet at that distance - a doable height).

I wonder if the soon to be decomissioned Tevatron has a strong enough power supply to shoot off a new shuttle. It'd be great to repurpose tech like that instead of seeing it scrapped.

Can we get this into Obama's "high speed rail" program as a rider?

FTFA: "A creationist member of the review panel released a list of Holt's supposed errors involving evolution and common descent."

Thing is, common descent is provably scientifically false at this point.

Fluorescent cats: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/photogalleries/wip-week59/ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316592,00.html

Are we stating that only events in the far past can be included to apply to common descent based on, well, what the words simply mean? Because there's no question there's been Design of living creatures, the only question is whether Design has occurred only recently.

No, really. Absolute proof common descent is false, and Design (in the abstract) is true. Just click on any of the jpg's. It's right there.

Now, the question is, what more nuanced terminology is necessary to describe the principle of "common descent" in this age of genetic engineering? Because it being false on the face of it, if unqualified as terminology, isn't ever going away.

all the hardware is made by a handful of companies in China like FoxConn.

Sorry, but what's the point of saying that? What are you really trying to say, other than pointing out how knowledgeable you are about some obscure facet of business?

Apple's factories are owned and managed by Foxconn, that's a fact. When it comes to Apple products, Apple does the design work, Apple lays out the boards, and Apple chooses the components. Many of the components (batteries, cases, boards, and sometimes even chips and LCD screens) are custom Apple parts which competitors can't buy. Foxconn has no say in component cost, sourcing or product design.

Apple essentially does its own manufacturing. Foxconn is just a contractor that manages the physical plant and distributes the paychecks.

You might as well claim that Foxconn isn't a manufacturing company, because Foxconn is just a corporate entity that owns factory buildings, while the Chinese wage slaves actually do the assembly work.

The distinction is irrelevant.

Sure, we do that, but in the US we used to only open the envelope from Haliburton.

Yeah, because Obama would never do that, right? After all, he wouldn't break a campaign promise, would he?

It's not news? It's not insightful? It's not about astronomy? It's a human interest story about the difficulties amateur astronomers face in a war zone, so it might be interesting to some humans — those who regularly visit an astronomy news site, say.

It's clearly very hard to get a "fair and balanced" perspective on foreign conflicts from news stories alone, so I'd argue this sort of reporting is quite important even if one dismisses the "entertainment value" entirely.

Incidentally, these astronomers deserve support from anyone truly interested in "fighting terrorism," for providing constructive alternative forms of "excitement." Terrorists are no different than anyone else in that their actions are quite often motivated by the desire to "find something interesting to do with their lives." And the fact that astronomy encourages science education, yet has deep roots in both Islamic and Western cultural traditions, is a nice bonus.

"Buyer beware" is just good, if not cheesy advice. "Caveat emptor" refers to an actual set of laws as well as sounding cooler.

The laws which do not apply in the stated context at all.

You do realize that you complained about something sounding smart on a website that's "news for nerds". Maybe this is more your speed.

It seems foxnews is more your speed given your inability to read what was written. See: attempts to sound smart. But nice try anyway.

"Buyer beware" is just good, if not cheesy advice. "Caveat emptor" refers to an actual set of laws as well as sounding cooler. You do realize that you complained about something sounding smart on a website that's "news for nerds". Maybe this is more your speed.

Oh give me a freaking break. You're comparing the Fascist takeover attempt within the military back in the days of Smedley Butler to the Tea Party? That's utterly silly. You simply don't understand how a coup works. It is a measure that is carried out within the government, not without.

You don't think the Tea Party has infiltrated the US government? The Tea Party themselves admit it in this video.

The reason why Smedly Butler uncovered the conspiracy is that it was within his own ranks, and they tried to recruit him to go along with it.

And you don't think the Tea Party is trying to coup Obama? They wont even admit Obama is an American citizen. Nor do they want to pay taxes. And some of the same last names from the same big corporations are involved as were involved with the American Liberty League led coup.

Now, trying to pin Butler with FDR is a bit silly as well. He did it for America, not for FDR. Smedly Butler wrote a nice essay called "War is a Racket" (I'd highly recommend it) regarding the war that FDR was waging and really disliked FDR in every way. . .

And I'm sure many Generals dislike Obama. The point is there are Tea Party militias deliberately recruiting from the military ranks. The FBI specifically says the Tea Party represents the biggest threat to the USA since Al Qaeda. See for yourself here:

So either you are wrong about the danger the Tea Party poses or Robert Mueller/FBI Director is wrong.

so yeah. . .

Why in the hell would there be the need to have a coup in America to install a Fascist system? We're already highly fascist.

And who is to blame for that? Maybe just maybe the Tea Party operatives are more thoroughly infiltrated into government than you think they are. You do realize they control the congress right? Or are you one of those tin foil wearing conspiracy theorists who believes Obama is a fascist and Bush is an alien?

If someone wanted a Fascist America, all they'd have to do is pop on American Idol and just let things run their course unimpeded.

The FBI has always gone after any protest group, right wing or left wing. They go after environmentalist organizations, anti-war groups, small government groups, libertarians, animal rights guys, anti nuclear energy groups. . . they even went after civil rights groups in the 1960s.

And do you know why? Because of the continuous threat of coup attempts. They went after these groups (usually) to prevent civil unrest, to prevent civil war. The majority of the groups they conduct counter intelligence on are actual revolutionary groups who view the US government as illegitimate. Of course sometimes they get it wrong and I'm not defending the actions of the FBI on every case. The FBI can be corrupted just like any organization but in this specific time and in this specific case with regard to the Tea Party, the FBI is actually in a position to prevent an actual civil war.

They had files on any public figure that had any opinion left or right on politics, harrassing and possible worse against such figures such as Ernest Hemmingway, Bob Marley, John Lennon, George Carlin, and even Martin Luther King Jr.

And where did you see me defending these actions? I don't.

The Tea Party has nothing to do with militias. It's something that was started to support Ron Paul's 2008 Presidential campaign,

The militia movement stronghold is in Texas. The Tea Party strong hold is in Texas. Alex Jones is in Texas. Ron Paul is in Texas. Ron Paul has appeared on Alex Jones in Texas. Either Ron Paul is appealing to the sovereign citizens movement and m

P.S. It seems that China has made it difficult for USA to depreciate by buying up dollars so the value is kept high. China's economy is much larger than USA's, and they can decrease the dollar value at a time of their choosing by selling off their dollar reserves. That could be a reason USA is holding back their depreciation; the more dollars they release into the market, the more China can buy up, and the more it can hurt USA in a time of crisis by flooding the market with dollars. Or China can flood the market with dollars at a time of their choosing to trigger a switch to yuan.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/11/26/playing-chicken-china/

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4475823/death-panel-deception
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4475253/death-panel-comeback
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4313344/first-sign-of-death-panels
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/beck-has-happy-fearmongering-session
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ac3_1251310849
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSI4RTWRTxo
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4475784/return-of-death-panels/?playlist_id=87937
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201101020001
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbzoGZTelU
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201101060003
http://www.mrctv.org/videos/glenn-beck-ny-times-vindicates-death-panels-foxnews-2010-10-04

You were saying?

Do you want more? Because I can show you a lot more death panel videos from Fox.

Oh by the way, you might find this interesting:

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/romenesko/110179/memos-reveal-how-fox-news-spun-the-health-care-debate/

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4475823/death-panel-deception
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4475253/death-panel-comeback
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4313344/first-sign-of-death-panels
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/beck-has-happy-fearmongering-session
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ac3_1251310849
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSI4RTWRTxo
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4475784/return-of-death-panels/?playlist_id=87937
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201101020001
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbzoGZTelU
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201101060003
http://www.mrctv.org/videos/glenn-beck-ny-times-vindicates-death-panels-foxnews-2010-10-04

You were saying?

Do you want more? Because I can show you a lot more death panel videos from Fox.

Oh by the way, you might find this interesting:

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/romenesko/110179/memos-reveal-how-fox-news-spun-the-health-care-debate/

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4475823/death-panel-deception
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4475253/death-panel-comeback
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4313344/first-sign-of-death-panels
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/beck-has-happy-fearmongering-session
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ac3_1251310849
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSI4RTWRTxo
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4475784/return-of-death-panels/?playlist_id=87937
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201101020001
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbzoGZTelU
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201101060003
http://www.mrctv.org/videos/glenn-beck-ny-times-vindicates-death-panels-foxnews-2010-10-04

You were saying?

Do you want more? Because I can show you a lot more death panel videos from Fox.

Oh by the way, you might find this interesting:

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/romenesko/110179/memos-reveal-how-fox-news-spun-the-health-care-debate/

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4475823/death-panel-deception
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4475253/death-panel-comeback
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4313344/first-sign-of-death-panels
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/beck-has-happy-fearmongering-session
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ac3_1251310849
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSI4RTWRTxo
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4475784/return-of-death-panels/?playlist_id=87937
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201101020001
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbzoGZTelU
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201101060003
http://www.mrctv.org/videos/glenn-beck-ny-times-vindicates-death-panels-foxnews-2010-10-04

You were saying?

Do you want more? Because I can show you a lot more death panel videos from Fox.

Oh by the way, you might find this interesting:

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/romenesko/110179/memos-reveal-how-fox-news-spun-the-health-care-debate/

Although today's FBI may be sincere...

:-)

I have not heard of any wiretapping abuses by the FBI recently.

I guess that means it doesn't happen, right? I mean, our innocent little lambs would never destroy evidence now, would they? Of course nothing will come of it. You're not to be taken seriously..

Authority should come at a very high price.. They should have to prove they're not violating the rules they impose on us.. Consider them guilty until proven innocent to keep them in line

All this makes the tin hatters look a bit less crazy..

God save the Queen!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is there even one Muslim country where porn is not outlawed?

Is there even one Muslim country where porn is not found?

No. 1 Nation in Sexy Web Searches? Call it Pornistan

Random connection: Exclusive: Pornography found in bin Laden hideout: officials

Far more troubling than the porn:

"I hope that Kuwait will enact the law for...sex slaves"
"When I want a sex slave, I just go to the market and choose the woman I like and purchase her"

Pakistan: In the Land of Conspiracy Theories
What explains those crazed conspiracy theories running wild in Pakistan?

This lost funding on Friday 6-17-11

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/20/railgun-laser-weapon-lose-senate-funding-face-uncertain-future/

I asked on an earlier posting how far and under what conditions can a laser fire in. And yeah, my issue is that most battles are planned in heavy weather (surprise). My understanding is that FEL can fire in rain with little issues.In addition, according to Navy officials, the FEL laser can perform at different wavelengths, meaning it can operate at lower and more powerful levels so that it can be used for different applications, which other laser technology cannot. It is also not vulnerable to atmospheric conditions, as solid-state lasers are, making them wane in power depending on the weather.

Energy is the key. And more importantly, the ability to deliver instant and prolonged energy or in multiple burst is important. I was suprised that we are not making DDX nuke powered. It seemed like it was the smart thing to do. However, I have suggested many times and have written my senators multiple times to suggest that we create an X-prize on beaming and storing energy. That would solve a lot of issues.

Checking out Clayton Morris, http://www.foxnews.com/archive/author/clayton-morris/index.html, he loves him some istuff. His 'Another day another tablet.' Starting line is pure salesmanship! Nice to see Apple scared enough to send out the dogs.

The combination of playing a real-life Rambo and $25M reward tempted others like this Colorado man. The State Department rescued him after he was arrested.