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You don't think that perhaps your view of the Jon Stewart interview is swayed by your own opinions? I read the transcript, and while O'Reilly's trademark bluster is evident, I didn't see much in the way of fact and logic coming from Stewart. But what else would you expect from a guy that criticizes Fox for having opinion programs, while ignoring MSNBC and CNN's opinion programs and winking while hosting his own "fake news" show?

What the hell does this mean "go to prison for possession of certain comic books"

No, that was not an exaggeration:

http://boingboing.net/2009/05/27/manga-collector-face.html

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/manga-porn/

Did you think I was just making it up? Or were you not paying attention to the sorts of laws that have been passed in the United States?

Again I think you are leaving out a couple of facts with this beauty "Teenagers have been arrested for photographing themselves".

No, actually, I left nothing out; just ask these teenagers:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479803,00.html

Oh, sorry, that was a Fox News link. Here, something less fair and balanced:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/aclu-sues-da-ov/

Note that the three girls who took the photographs -- photographs of themselves -- were arrested, as were the boys who received them. Not one of the people arrested here was over the age of 16.

This "people who break the law should not have any doubt as to whether or not what they are doing is illegal" assertion says more about idiots committing the crime than it does about the law.

Oh yeah? Are you sure that you have never committed a felony? These people were pretty sure too:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/05/criminalizing-everyone/

Did you remember to check all the paperwork relating to your hobbies? Obviously importing orchids without doing so is something you can go to jail for, right?

Your US blog post is an punishable by five years in prison or perhaps even more

You'll probably get away with this case as you need to post it "willfully" but I'd be more careful in future.

If you're looking for higher-quality news than is posted here, I'd recommend that you check out FoxNews.com.

I can't give you links, but...

It's common knowledge that the US uses the threat of the removal of highway funds to push states into passing certain laws.

It's been less that two years since the owners of a small business minting gold coins were imprisoned and all their assets stolen by the federal government.

There is this link: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/04/utah-house-passes-recognizing-gold-silver-legal-tender/

At least it's not an entry on the Fox News website.

Oh, yes, at least. Better that we wait a year for some other news source to pick up the story!

"A pilot furious with the Internal Revenue Service crashed his small plane into an Austin, Texas, office building where nearly 200 federal tax employees work on Thursday, igniting a raging fire that sent massive plumes of thick, black smoke rising from the seven-story structure."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/02/18/pilot-crashes-texas-building-apparent-anti-irs-suicide#ixzz1NBnUiitg

Wow they must be upgrading my area, as I used to just hit 2Mbps down and now according to both Cnet and Speedtest I'm hitting between 8 and 10.

BTW for those that haven't heard Randy Macho Man Savage just died of a heart attack in a car accident. As someone who grew up with his "ohh YEAH" he will be missed. RIP Macho Man.

I hear name calling, "You are naive" but nothing factual. Which TEA party isn't grass roots? Who is funding them if they aren't grass roots? Those would be excellent facts to back up your assertations.

Did I hear you say according to your assertions that Rand Paul is ultra conservative far right?

The TEA party was effective in Utah, Wisconsin, Florida just to name a few locations. Just because you haven't been paying attention, doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Is that something like "an hero"?

Oh... it's FOX News. Well... that would be an explanation of sorts.

TFA.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/16/space-shuttle-endeavour-blasts-final-flight/

Taco somehow removed the link.

You don't like the time it takes for security, take a train/boat.

Don't worry, they're working on that too.

Schumer proposes no ride list for train travelers.

"Land of the free, and home of the brave." Remember that? It used to apply..

I don't know if Gingrich is the only conservative that came out openly to combat climate change, but he is certainly the most vocal. And he's being punished for it. I'm only mentioning this, as it looks that the GOP has been ever more turning against anybody suggesting there is a possibility for man-made climate change. I was very surprised to learn that there is an ultra-conserrvative that is completely counter this trend.

Humans are not entering the "containment". They are entering the reactor building.

That has to be right. But what's still airtight enough to be entered through an airlock? Here's what Unit 1 looks like.

> but at least be original and don't ...

We live in the internet age. You present a high bar.

When I can google the term "Faux news" and the second link is the news network being lampooned, I don't find it so far off the mark.

Be irritated by the wordplay all you like. But see how apropos the rest of us find it, first.

First link at the article you point to:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/01/usama-bin-laden-dead-say-sources/

(Fox article updated to match reported facts. Amazing).

At least those of the people imprisoned at Guantanamo and were later found to be innocent.

All it took was Airbus being charged by France with manslaughter over the crash. They spent the money to make a real effort to find the wreckage and black boxes this time; in an effort to get out of the charges.

For those who don't know, France follows Napoleonic Law, not Common Law like in Britain, Canada (and most other commonwealth countries), and of course, America. In common law you are innocent until proven guilty. In Napoleonic law, they don't file charges or (generally) put you in jail until investigation convinces authorities that you are guilty (as I understand it, if murder etc. is involved, they might put you in jail while they investigate, but you won't be charged until they are convinced you are guilty). You have to prove your innocence. So basically, the government is pretty certain they will be able to convict Airbus on the manslaughter charges if they actually charged them. And thus, the search is likely in the effort to prove their innocence, not in the effort of finding the truth to ensure this type of crash doesn't happen again.

I'm not sure if executives of a company can be put in prison for manslaughter if their company is convicted of it. Or of any other crime for that matter. If anyone knows that would be interesting to hear.

Plain wrong. In countries which follow codified law there are many differences from common law, but not what you said.
In fact, you are confusing criminal law with civil law. In criminal law in the codified law countries, afaik everyone is innocent till proved guilty, as it is in common law countries. A criminal lawsuit is not filed, however, till there are a minimal amount of evidence for doing so (the objective is no waste of time). One usually get arrested if caught in the middle of the fact of by Juditial order due to strong evidence and need to do so (example, to not let one continuing committing crimes).
In civil law, however, the 'onus probandi' may change that specially in consummer law the burden of proof may belong to companies in certain situations, i.e., the defendant will have to prove he did not put in the market a defective product, nor that the accident was an equipament fault.

All it took was Airbus being charged by France with manslaughter over the crash. They spent the money to make a real effort to find the wreckage and black boxes this time; in an effort to get out of the charges.

For those who don't know, France follows Napoleonic Law, not Common Law like in Britain, Canada (and most other commonwealth countries), and of course, America. In common law you are innocent until proven guilty. In Napoleonic law, they don't file charges or (generally) put you in jail until investigation convinces authorities that you are guilty (as I understand it, if murder etc. is involved, they might put you in jail while they investigate, but you won't be charged until they are convinced you are guilty). You have to prove your innocence. So basically, the government is pretty certain they will be able to convict Airbus on the manslaughter charges if they actually charged them. And thus, the search is likely in the effort to prove their innocence, not in the effort of finding the truth to ensure this type of crash doesn't happen again.

I'm not sure if executives of a company can be put in prison for manslaughter if their company is convicted of it. Or of any other crime for that matter. If anyone knows that would be interesting to hear.

When a scientist commits fraud and is discovered, he's discredited for life.

When a politician commits fraud and is discovered, he just goes on like nothing happened. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200499,00.html Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq

Why buy what is broken?

The libraries aren't broken, that's what Google wants. The good music is stuff that's older and established, and for Google to stream that they have to make a deal with the labels, who aggregate the key rights holders.

All Google has to do is BECOME a music label, by offering better contracts, more royalties, better artists rights, world wide reach, world wide digital distribution.

Big G could care less about new music, artists have to be found, promoted, and then once they finally get popular they just start their own labels and sell the music themselves. Nobody wants to get into the recording industry now, all of this wrangling is over music that the record companies hold the key distro rights to. Because of utterly destructive copyright extensions in the US, the music business is now 95% about controlling library rights and 5% developing new acts. Occasionally there are co-branding deals with retail outlets a la Paul McCartney and Starbucks, but these are just for sales, not for distribution, no "big acts" worth their beans ever signs away rights, let alone to a Google.

What does Google know about entertainment promoting? That's what production is now; it isn't just as easy as putting up a ton of music on YouTube, 90% of music promotion is telling people what to like, and Google has shown very little skill at consumer marketing or trendsetting; just because they know how to get millions of people to use free stuff doesn't mean they can figure out how to sell people coolness, hipness or identity. You suggested they market music, and "selling cool" is what marketing music is.

What sunk Xanadu, IMHO, is that it was much too ambitious. They were trying to make a framework to present the sum total of human knowledge. Still, some extremely clever work was done on that project, both before and during the Autodesk years.

too ambitious?! Not ambitious enough I say!
What about non-human knowledge?!
Or, a little more seriously, knowledge synthesized by some machine intelligence? What about imaginary knowledge? Or, knowledge of the imaginary? What about unknowledge?!!

Actually, that is one problem we have with using the web as a knowledgebase for bootstrapping GOLEM III , there's to way to capture the veracity of anything. All this information from different sources is given equal weight in truthiness.

"Let's go pick a fight," proclaimed Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN). "If liberals in the Senate play political games, then shut down government. I say shut it down." http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/04/02/spending-fight-political-calculus

“Listen, there’s no daylight between the tea party and me,” the Ohio Republican [John Boehner] said in an interview with ABC News conducted Wednesday. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52722.html

the [Tea Party Rally] crowd chants: "Shut'er Down! Shut'er Down!" http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/04/shut_er_down_shut_er_down.php

Now, who do think will get the credit for the shutdown, if it occurs?

this is front page for any paper or any TV (except Foxnews I guess)

I was curious, so I popped over to FoxNews.com and guess what was the largest story on the front page? Japan Nuclear Crisis. I really love when people are so politically biased that they can help but inject politics into everything, regardless of it's truth or merit.

Grow up? Can't there be *one* day a year that people don't have to take things seriously? One measly day?

Besides, you can always visit the mature news sources today, and read the immature and humorous news sources that take over the job the other 364 days of the year.

legally permitted to conduct domestic investigations?
Your local http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_center has a wonderful mix of CIA, FBI, Department of Justice, US Military and state and local level government task forces. Mix in a bit of the private sector too. Read about it via Fox news http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,399042,00.html
Or http://iowaindependent.com/2983/iowas-intelligence-fusion-center-connects-the-dots

Sorry I can't find a better reference but the short answer is that your state still gets more money from the federal government for its roads than it pays. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/04/states-reaping-highway-money-putting-board-study-shows/ This is generally true and, generally, most discrepant when you are talking about small population state. That is small population states get more federal funds for their infrastructure than more populous states, per capita of course.

Computers already had car viruses.

... They need food, water, and supplies delivered to areas suddenly unreachable through normal means. They need crews to rip apart buildings to rescue those trapped inside.

What rescuers really need are tools, like helicopters, ships to launch them from, water purification equipment, etc.

... Right now, helicopters are needed most. With roads, airports, and ports washed away or clogged with debris, the only way to reach many of the affected areas is by helicopter. Yet Japan now has barely 100 military helicopters engaged in relief efforts. The United States should start sending all of its heavy-lift helicopters in Japan and South Korea to northern Japan. Similarly, the Air Force should dramatically ramp up the number of C-17s bringing in supplies to Misawa Air Base, so that supplies are on the ground when transportation to affected areas can be undertaken. ...

-Japan Needs Its Own Berlin Airlift (March 15th, emphasis added)

The U.S. Navy has sent the USS Ronald Reagan and other "helicopter capable" ships. But the Ronald Reagan only has a couple small helicopters... Amphibious assault ships are designed for helicopters & V-22 Ospreys.. And the Tortuga can service two helicopters itself:

... The USS Tortuga embarked landing craft units and departed Sasebo Friday evening, he added. The ship is headed toward Pohang, South Korea, where it will pick up MH-53 heavy lift helicopters.

âoeWe have directed most helicopter capable ships to be ready to sail within 24 hours,â Davis said. ...

-U.S. military directing assets toward Japan relief efforts

The USS Tortuga was in Japan, but had to go to South Korea to pick up a pair of helicopters first. Like all the other relief efforts in recent memory, this one is being thrown together too.

If the re-purposed USS Enterprise had been in Hawaii (pre-loaded with disaster supplies and heavy-lift helicopters), it could have arrived by ... yesterday, probably.

When I was still formulating my proposal, Win Wenger suggested that there should actually be three disaster-response ships: one in Hawaii, one in Australian, and one in the Atlantic somewhere. How far is the boat ride from Australia to Japan? At least two responders from the last time I posted this suggested retired amphibious assault ships might be more appropriate than the Enterprise (due to the expense?). We can use those too.

When Disaster Strikes, Send The Enterprise. It's a good idea, and everyone knows it. :)

i mean, they can make measurements & all that, but they really have no idea what causes the earth to shake, beyond their primitive understanding of 'plate techtonics'.

... The Japanese quake comes just weeks after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Christchurch on February 22, toppling historic buildings and killing more than 150 people. The timeframe of the two quakes have raised questions whether the two incidents are related, but experts say the distance between the two incidents makes that unlikely.

-Quake moved Japan coast 8 feet, shifted Earth's axis

Said as if the whole earth isn't connected to itself, and the gravitational vectors of the whole solar system don't matter either. Big earthquakes have a tendency to happen in the months around the solstice, November -> March. All the big quakes in recent memory have been in this time frame:

Haiti Earthquake: 12 January 2010
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake: December 26, 2004
2010 Chile Earthquake: February 27, 2010
2011 Japan Earthquake: March 11, 2011

From that wikipedia list: 12 of the largest quakes on record occurred between December and March, 4 in November, and only 8 were between May and October. So... What's so important about the winter months?

Well, the earth's Perihelion (closest approach to the sun) is about on January 4th. In the winter months the sun is putting a little bit more of a 'tug' on the earth's crust.

I'm on an email list of a guy that watches worldwide earthquake reports. He commented on the New Zealand quake, and gave a 'heads up' for the Ring of Fire. When this quake hit, he noted that the moon's perigee is coming up on March 19th, and that the earth would keep shaking until that influence passed.

The crust of the earth is sorta like a fragile eggshell - all it takes to crack is the right combination of spin axis/wobble and gravitational vectors in the solar system (gotta watch out for when Jupiter aligns with Mars, you know? :).

The motion picture INDUSTRY cranks out product art too. Green screens and CGI abound. But Hollywood puts on better self-congratulatory award shows. Sometimes.

the term "black hole" is racist?

I was wondering that myself.

How is it legal for ICE to seize the property of an American citizen?

Linking to another site that has copyrighted content is not a crime.

http://video.foxnews.com/assets/video-player.swf?video_id=4582906&d=video.foxnews.com

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/12/supermoon-cause-moonquakes-scientist-says/

They're reporting that the earthquake warning system DID work, but you've got to wonder how much warning did they get. Report are that "Hundreds of bodies found after 23-foot tsunami strikes northern coast of Japan." There is also a passenger train unaccounted for.

You still here? If you questioned the leadership as much as you question me, would any of us be in the situation we find ourselves?
Photo and data manipulation by experts is far more subtler than my blatant attempts. I showed you this photo rather than this one.
Why is it that day after day, hour by hour, the American people were shown this yet not much of the Pentagram other than this, even though many video tapes were seized. What are people hiding?
People are more interested in two train wrecks like Charlie and LiLo and yet, two other train wrecks like this and this here have greater impact on American policy.
Politicians elected to office by 51% of the vote consider it a mandate, so what does this article say about the pissed off American voter? Politicians in office for more than two terms do not care about their constituents, this is my opinion. Two states and possibly three have decided to go back on their contract agreements. Considering how the American people were left with a bag of worms when Wall Street and the banksters tanked the economy and the politicians used taxpayer money to bail them out so the Wallstreeters and banksters could continue with their obscene bonuses, is it possible that the repercussions in Bell, California could escalate across the country all the way to Washington DC, I wonder?
When the Europeans arrived in North, Central and South America, they first de-stabilized the indigenous people and then decimated them. Just ask any Native American Indian what they think of US government agreements. Now, the American people are being de-stabilized, what next?
It's really been fun debating this with you, but I must move on. So long and thanks for all the fish.

Here's some fair and balanced coverage for you.

I bet Maurice LaMarche, who does Welles' voice better than anyone, would love to narrate a feature about our coming bacteriological apocalypse.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/19/x-ray-vans-security-measure-invasion-privacy/

On the whole the EU is non-interventionist unlike the US which tends towards interventionism. Peacekeeping is a messy business too. How many people in Iraq have died since the US led regime change ? 100,000 civilians according to some sources and that's not even a full blown civil war like Yugoslavia was.

Israel has never threatened to destroy Iran

You sure about that?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133899,00.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7440472.stm

http://peoplesworld.org/coincidence-israeli-palestinian-talks-to-open-israel-threatens-iran-attack/

And of course the US has made similar threats against Iran:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/06/05/hunter-giuliani-on-using-nukes-against-iran/

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/10/ftn/main2908476.shtml

But IMO, actions speak louder than words. Israel has invaded several countries within the last 50 years, when was the last time Iran invaded anyone? More than 100 years ago? With that said, I don't believe Iran should have nuclear weapons, but I believe it's hypocritical of Isreal and the US to keep a large stockpile of long range nuclear missiles while beating the war drums about how "dangerous" Iran is and that we need to invade them, and expect them to not try to defend themselves.

I'm no climate scientist, but as I understand it, there is a lot of data that is showing the climate changing. As I understand well above the 95% confidence level.

The real issue is how much of that is man made.

Well, that is true. However, an increasing number of Americans don't even understand that global warming is occurring at all. In a 2005 Fox News poll, 23% said they didn't believe GW was happening (or perhaps didn't know). In a 2010 Virginia Commonwealth University poll it had risen to 29%. And 49% of respondents to the VCU poll think "many scientists have serious doubts about [the evidence for Global Warming].

A CBS poll (same link as above) also shows a trend of Americans thinking GW won't have a serious impact, from 19% in Feb '09 to 24% in April '10 (thought the margin of error is 3 points). Further down on that same page is a Gallup poll. In 1997, 9% of respondents thought GW would "never" be a problem. In 2010 it's up to 19%.

There is a serious effort to portray this as a non-issue. People are being lead to believe that it's not even happening naturally, and that is really dangerous. Man-made or not, global warming/climate change is real. Even the conservative Heartland Institute cites a poll of climate scientists where 82% said that GW/CC is real.

It's important to have a serious scientific debate about the human impact on the environment and the climate. It's doubly important that this debate not be political, which is what it has become.

This is scraped directly off the original source, FoxNews.com, which has far more information -- and actually wrote the story. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/23/quake-early-warning-reality-california/ Credit where credit is due, y'know.

Like standard issue M-4s using 5.56 ammunition, with an effective range of roughly 300 yards being used in Afghanistan, where average engagements take place at ranges of 400 yards and up(And the documented reluctance of DoD to go to much more capable calibers such as 6.5mm, and the massive amount iof time it took for SCARs and ACRs to even get into the hands of troops)?

1) Short of going to something like a .308/7.62 NATO rifle again, very little has an effective range of 300+ yards. The 300+ yard engagements are against fixed emplacements - RPKs and other LMGs which have little tenacity at such ranges, or 7.62x54R rifles of similar design. Not moving to a larger caliber in a theatre which is difficult to resupply to and where cover fire is important, it makes no sense to move to a cartridge that's heavier and therefore impossible to carry a lot of.
2) Very few people are able to hit a man-size target at 300 yards under the best of conditions, nevermind hitting their head, in bad weather, with approximate but unknown ranging, elevation, and windage to account for. This applies to even the better (not best) shooters in any military: the average grunt is not going to have much luck.
3) Squads have had marksmen since WWII - men with better 'long range, accurate weapons' who are more able to hit those longer targets. They're quite effective, but they need cover-fire to allow them the liberty to make their shots. Thus, those 5.56mm cartridges serve a vital role.
4) The common bullet weight for the M16 has gone from 55 grains to 75 grains in the past 10 years. These bullets are significantly more effective and have similar ballistics characteristics to the 6.5mm cartridged bullets (in terms of arc length and trajectory) - but have the added benefit of truly tumbling on impact.
5) The Afghanistan war is not against armored units, or even those with significant body armor - the areas in which a larger cartridge is generally needed.
6) The military is not restricted to just using M16s. There are a myriad of other weapons in deployment, usually used when the tool is appropriate for the task at hand. Shotguns, the venerable M16, new automatic, recoilless shotguns, the Barrett .50 and .416 cal rifles, and computer-equiped long-range RPGs like the XM-25.
7) Compared to the modern M16 derived rifles, the SCAR and ACR are inferior in many ways. They have not undergone the marked R&D over the past 50? years that Stoner's rifle has. Not insignificantly, they aren't in the supply chain and would require significant expense to replace existing stocks with. (This is a cost-saving measure: the SCAR and ACR do not offer a significant enough improvement to justify moving to them.)
8) There are billions of rounds of 5.56 brass, powder, and bullets in the supply chain and at armories, with years of contracts to supply said rounds which need to be fulfilled. You can't just jump to another caliber "like that". (It took years and years for procurement of the M16 and ammo for it, initially. Fifteen years or so? Same for the M1 and later the M14, though with those the cartridges weren't changed at the same time. The 1903 Springfield was the result of over 30 years of frequent changes in arms and ammunition design - largely starting when Roosevelt saw the poor results from American arms in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. These drastic changes take a lot of time; rushing the matter is not so simple.)

The Navy and Air Force are other matters. :P Due to the scope of production, a lot of the shortcomings have to do with buying too few, not spending too much or designing things poorly. This has been an ongoing trend since the Carter administration. When you're talking about production numbers under a couple hundred for specialized, multi-million dollar items, the per-unit cost goes up with the fewer units you

What's pretty disturbing is that the government is so gullible over such a lie that's ridiculous on its face. Really, secret messages from Al Qaeda in Al Jazeera? Why not hidden messages from Al Qaeda on MTV or CNN? That would be just as plausible.

I'm still mystified by how much neocons despise the channel. No wonder Bush planned to bomb Al Jazeera, he was so quick to jump onto the false notion. Never mind that Al Qaeda hates Al Jazeera and has done so for years (AQ supporters call it "Al-Khinzeera," which means The Pig)

Sometimes a glance at the 'related links' section will let you know the article's not worth reading:

        - Saving Ryan's Privates: Company Reveals Bombproof Underwear
        - Bomb-Resistant Boxers to Be Manufactured by New York Company
        - Invisible Tanks, Planes and Armor Could Hit Battlefields in 5 Years

I guess that editor gets better pay from FoxNews than his gig at The Onion.

Sometimes a glance at the 'related links' section will let you know the article's not worth reading:

        - Saving Ryan's Privates: Company Reveals Bombproof Underwear
        - Bomb-Resistant Boxers to Be Manufactured by New York Company
        - Invisible Tanks, Planes and Armor Could Hit Battlefields in 5 Years

I guess that editor gets better pay from FoxNews than his gig at The Onion.

Sometimes a glance at the 'related links' section will let you know the article's not worth reading:

        - Saving Ryan's Privates: Company Reveals Bombproof Underwear
        - Bomb-Resistant Boxers to Be Manufactured by New York Company
        - Invisible Tanks, Planes and Armor Could Hit Battlefields in 5 Years

I guess that editor gets better pay from FoxNews than his gig at The Onion.

From the article: producing a supercharged electron beam that can burn through 20 feet of steel per second"

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/18/navy-breaks-world-record-futuristic-laser-getting-real/#ixzz1EPpwfpx0

If you weren't trolling there... well... don't know how to break it to you... then you are pretty darn clueless.

My point, both people deserve privacy even if they are "celebrities".

Except one of those people gave away their privacy willingly, readily, repeatedly and continuously in exchange for "fame and fortune" - and we should for some reason be sad cause it is coming to haunt them now.

And the other one was a victim of an assault... who has her privacy pretty much intact and locked up tight.
So protected in fact, that it's left to public imagination to come up how "brutal and sustained" and "sexual" it was.
Ranging from groping to a "gang rape by up to 20 muslim egyptians".

 
 
P.S. Don't know about you, but I find it absolutely hilarious how Rosen was forced to resign his fellowship at New York University - for committing a thoughtcrime.
Truly a land of the free...

I don't know. The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has ruled that games in which there is a leader who gives details about a setting and situation and asks the players how they would react have been determined to lead to the development of gangs. I don't know about you, but I do not want our Secret Service members organizing or joining gangs. Perhaps they should scrap this whole system.