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I realize I'm probably just feeding a troll. But does what you typed, really convey the thoughts in your head? If so, you may want to seek some professional help.

Our entire government was set up so that nothing happens fast. Very little gets passed without debate, which is good for the country. How's this for gridlock? It passed unanimously in the house, and I believe so in the senate and was signed into law by the president on April 15, 2013. The Patriot act was also passed damn near unanimous, along with invading Iraq. Our founding fathers wanted there to be debate and discussion on everything. Unfortunately they gave us more credit than they should have as they thought we wold put intelligent people in charge of things. Not the retards we've had for several decades now.

When the republicans threatened in the past to pass a bill using reconciliation, which is meant for budgets, democrats screamed about how it would be the end of our way of life blah, blah. Then they used it to pass the ACA. Now it's the republicans who are screaming the same thing. Too bad there is a video record of both of them being adamantly for it when it's to their benefit, and against it when it's not.

(Don't tell me racism has nothing to do with it, because it DOES!)

I'm telling you that if you think that it's all due to racism, you are a fucking idiot. Are there some racists in congress? I'd guess so. Do I believe it's the majority? Well, perhaps the Senate Majority leader Or the current Vice President And again.. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of examples of republicans saying stupid things like this too. But do you really think it affects the way they vote? If so, then Harry Reid must vote against anything the president wants passed. OR could it be possible that he said something that was questionable and not be a racist?

The organ theft urban legend has been around for a long time, but organ transplant isn't just something any unethical surgeon can do in the back of a fan.

Unethical surgeons aided by criminal enterprises (which is sometimes the state) seem to be available.

Kidney Thefts Shock India

GURGAON, India — As the anesthetic wore off, Naseem Mohammed said, he felt an acute pain in the lower left side of his abdomen. Fighting drowsiness, he fumbled beneath the unfamiliar folds of a green medical gown and traced his fingers over a bandage attached with surgical tape. An armed guard by the door told him that his kidney had been removed.

Mr. Mohammed was the last of about 500 Indians whose kidneys were removed by a team of doctors running an illegal transplant operation, supplying kidneys to rich Indians and foreigners, police officials said. A few hours after his operation last Thursday, the police raided the clinic and moved him to a government hospital.

Many of the donors were day laborers, like Mr. Mohammed, picked up from the streets with the offer of work, driven to a well-equipped private clinic, and duped or forced at gunpoint to undergo operations.

Illegal kidney trade booms as new organ is 'sold every hour'
China Admits Selling Prisoners’ Organs

Stolen baby is found alive - Woman arrested in grisly case

The baby who had been ripped from her slain mother’s womb was found alive and well in New Hampshire last night, and a woman was arrested in the grisly killing and kidnapping

Social workers 'seize unborn baby from the WOMB' after mother has panic attack

Actually it's not cruel at all, at least not to the subject. He would not have been conscious of his death at all

And you know this how? David Waisel, a professor at Harvard Medical School believed he was at 'substantial risk' of experiencing suffocation for the first five minutes of the execution. He said that before the execution, so likely did not anticipate it would take 25 minutes for the man to be killed.

The problem with this is the person who is being executed can't come back and give an account of their execution. This is no more different than during the French revolution when people had their heads cut off such that the following question can be asked "Did the person who was executed feel pain". Sure there were some spasms of the head and body and a huge amount of spurting blood but basically the person died and could not give an account of what they felt, although the witnesses could only give an account of what they felt but could only guess (be it informed or otherwise) as to what the person being executed felt.

The only people who were affected by an execution (no matter what type be it rope, firing squad, lethal injection, gas, electric chair etc) were the living witnesses who can state what they heard, felt and saw, not the person who was executed who is effectively dead and cannot give testimony (key the zombie jokes here).

I think the question that should be asked is should the state condemn a person to death for a serious crime that normally results in the premeditated death or deaths of other people (obviously there would be laws governing this)? if the death penalty is abolished then what is a fair sentence for the criminal? Do you even treat the criminal as a human being (this can be interpreted many ways too)?

There will always be people for and against the death penalty and the debate is probably going to continue until the end of our species.

Actually it's not cruel at all, at least not to the subject. He would not have been conscious of his death at all

And you know this how? David Waisel, a professor at Harvard Medical School believed he was at 'substantial risk' of experiencing suffocation for the first five minutes of the execution. He said that before the execution, so likely did not anticipate it would take 25 minutes for the man to be killed.

It wouldn't be surprising if former member of Congress, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) has an entire gallery devoted to him.

James Lee was motivated (apparently) by environmental extremism, not atheism.

" social welfare and corporate welfare are the same thing and cost the same amount"

I didn't say there were. My point was that it's not an either/or situation. If I favor cutting foodstamps, it doesn't mean that I favor keeping corporate welfare, nor vice-versa. The false dichotomy is usually presented as such: "You want to cut foodstamps but it's OK with you that we give billions to corporate welfare, right?" Um, no, it's not.

"pre-cooked foods are specifically prohibited from purchasing with SNAP funds"

But several states allow fast-food to be purchased under their food-stamp programs.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2011/09/fast-food-chains-getting-into-the-food-stamp-act/

Food stamps - known more formally as the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - have been in use for grocery staples, such as bread and milk, since 1934, but now, for the first time, they can be used for fast food in four states across the country.

Here’s a quick list of fast food restaurants in states that already accept food stamps for restaurant meals:

Michigan:
Church’s Chicken
Kentucky Fried Chicken

McDonald’s
Subway
Grandma’s Famous Chicken
Eight Mile Pancake House
Mr. T’s BBQ
Vito’s Pizza

California:
Jack in the Box
Subway
El Pollo Loco
Papa Murphy’s Pizza

Florida
KFC
Taco Bell
Pizza Hut
Papa Murphy’s Pizza

Arizona
Domino’s Pizza
Golden Corral
Southern Cuisine
Rally’s Hamburger

"That you don't know such a simple and fundamental fact of the food stamp program tells me that you're too ignorant of the topic to make informed, logical decisions."

Care to reconsider this in light of your own ignorance of these facets of the program and simple inability to use Google?

I have no interest whatsoever in changing my TV over to 4K resolution -- because there's no content...

Actually, Netflix announced that they will begin streaming 4k content today: Netflix App to Stream 4K on New TVs Immediately

They want you to have ID so that the masses who for some reason don't have ID can't vote.

What "masses" are these? Not only is ID de-facto required to travel around this country by air, you can't ride Amtrak without an ID either. Bus operators (I was told by one of them) are also supposed to check IDs, though nobody currently enforces the requirement.

So, if Obama-managed TSA has some good reason (whatever it is) to keep those "masses" from traveling, is not it logical, that same reason applies to keeping them from voting?

Plus, of course, the very good other reason — already cited — of preventing voting fraud, which you dismiss as "miniscule" problem without citing any evidence. We are told repeatedly by the ruling classes not to worry our pretty little heads about it, but the only evidence ever offered is the low rate of fraud-prosecutions... That's a rather bizarre logic — I wonder, if GLAAD would've accepted the argument claiming there being no gays in America based on absence of applications of anti-sodomy laws.

The conflict of interest is staggering — few politicians want to talk much about voting fraud, because that would endanger the validity of their own mandates. Why would you be willing to accept such claims without skepticism, is beyond me.

making the CIA just another device for oppression of brown people worshiping the wrong god, as intelligence they will not gather anymore.

Over time I've come to conclude that when someone goes on about the "oppression of brown people," they are using the race baiting as part of a crutch for a weak or disingenuous argument. It's known that the CIA spies on Russia and other European countries, China and other Asian countries, and African countries. To use the language of "color," white, yellow, and black, in addition to the aforementioned brown. So, why do you single out "brown people"? You are falsely trying to make it a question of race, just as you are religion. The problem isn't worshiping "the wrong god," but the violence engaged in by members of various extremist factions of that faith. Your argument is bad from the start since the allegation was that the CIA threatens family members of people of interest, for which I have yet to see proof. Rendition is a different issue. Your claim that people interested in intelligence work are being driven out of the CIA is manufactured from whole cloth. Your answer is popular with some moderators, but apparently mainly for denigrating the CIA, and by extension the US. I don't think it's really useful.

As far as waterboarding goes, the US has waterboarded probably tens of thousands of people (mainly Special Forces and pilots), but only three of them were terrorists, and the last one was 10 years ago. That seems to be an inadequate foundation for your fanciful musings.

Actually, the loss for 2012 was for two years' worth of payments, so it's more like a $2 billion loss for the year. I could also get into how Congress decided that Saturday mail delivery is a service that no American should do without (even though that alone would turn around the $2 billion deficit), they cannot shut down individual post offices, and cannot allow shipment of alcoholic beverages.

What people don't realize is that while the USPS doesn't take taxpayer money, and hasn't for more than 30 years, they're still entirely run under a mandate from Congress, and cannot make substantial changes to their operations without Congressional approval. When people complain about socialism, or complain about capitalism, they don't see the giant mess that can happen when an organization is effectively subject to both. They have to do inane shit like constantly renaming post offices, but are prohibited from doing the kinds of things, like offering new services, or cutting costs, that would actually bring them into the black.

And what pray tell will the Yakuza do with the radioactive waste?

Collect it, mix it with a special blend of herbs, spices, and peppers, and sell it as:

  Fukushima "Devil may care, screw tomorrow" Nuclear Total Meltdown Exxxxtra Hot Sauce.

Some people are going to be desperate due to a shortage of their favorite. They might make a quick buck in the US, maybe Korea and China too. Or maybe they could just open a store on Amazon. They could compete with this stuff, which has one of the best reviews ever.

Hopely never will get back to it. The position before disclosures were happily attacking, installing backdoors, infiltrating into private encrypted channels/vpns and networks, stripping everyone in the world of any hope of privacy (and enjoying it). Getting back means that even with this revelations they will continue to perpetrate those crimes and that the governments of the world didn't learnt anything from this event.

So why is Delta honoring the price? I think it is because of delivered product

Nope. It's because the Dept. of Transportation makes them honor the fare:

Delta's contract of carriage states that in the event of an "erroneous" fare, " Delta reserves the right to cancel the ticket purchase and refund all amounts paid by the purchaser or, at the purchaser's option, to reissue the ticket for the correct fare." But rules set forth by the Department of Transportation state otherwise, saying that an airline must honor a purchased ticket, mistake fare or not.

Possibly, but note this section from the article:

... sources said, even if the messages had been translated sooner, it would not have been of much use because the messages were too vague and had no context, with no details of time, location or the nature of the event referred to.

The sources did not consider the information to be a smoking gun, and described it as the sort of chatter that is intercepted constantly, and is seldom of use.

Perhaps the parent is referring to the information disclosed in this article: 9/11 Was 'Zero Day' in Intercepted Warning

In the NSA there is no racism, there is clasism. You have the "normal" people that must be watched, herded, manipulated, iied and considered with no rights, of which any vulnerability is exploited, every minor offense is collected for a potential future use, and every hot photo or video is shared for fun.

In the other hand you have the favored ones that are untouchables, the aligned politicians, CEOs of collaborating companies, good part of the 0.01%, certain foreigners and people that buy their pertenence to that class putting enough money high enough, no matter which shady thing they are doing, even accidentally collected info is promptly discarded.

Aha! Yes, those were the exact stages I went through after realizing that the U.S. was just another torturing state and that all that BS they taught me in high school about how we were above all that was indeed BS.

Funny that you mention "BS," since I smell some right now. The US only waterboarded a total of 3 terrorists, the most recent of which was 10 years ago, although it has waterboarded probably tens of thousands of its own service members. You're claiming that you changed your entire viewpoint, went through denial and grief because of that?

Exclusive: Only Three Have Been Waterboarded by CIA

Holder on Waterboarding -- Proving It’s Not Torture While Insisting It Is

You seem to have a perspective problem, at the very least, assuming you are maintaining your integrity in stating what you did.

I find it particularly interesting that these people want us to teach the girls until they discover we are young and male. The irony is WE are the ones blamed for being gender biases.

You want me to teach your kids CS but then accuse me of being a pedophile for wanting to teach kids? Well then, fuck off. They can teach themselves, just like I taught myself.

I don't see anyone complaining that nursing or primary school teaching is sexist, yet those professions have a definite bias towards one sex.

If you haven't heard any complaints, it can only be because you haven't been listening:

Why Men Don't Teach Elementary School [ABC News, March]

Men in Nursing [October]

If you want to protect your information (even from hackers not paid by the government) in any way you will get into their monitoring list. Is not if, is when (and that moment could be in the past already), you will be monitored. And even if you think you have nothing to hide, they could have another opinion.

Don't play boiling frog or by the time you decide that something must be done will be already too late.

You may be more right than you think: a scientist has proposed the theory that toxoplasmosis carried by cats affects everything we feel and do.

Apparently "Prep and Landing" is the name of a 2009 holiday short about Santa's elite "advance team" of elves that visits houses before Santa's arrival and makes sure that everything goes smoothly (Preparation for Santa's Landing).

http://disney.go.com/prep-and-landing/about/prep-and-landing/

The outsourcing model was also a big part of the failed Iraqi invasion. (Blackwater ring a bell?) That also wasted vast resources and had a terrible political outcome. I guess that both started right after 9/11, but we are only seeing the incompetence and bad results from the NSA types now.

The next logical question is why outsource core mission operations?. I think there are two reasons. First is ideological. Outsourcing is supposed to be more efficient. It also is a big part of right wing political theory, where efficient private companies replace wasteful government bureaucracies. Remember the expansion of intelligence and the creation of Homeland Security happened under Bush, so that's when outsourcing happened big time.

The second big reason is plausible deniability. Have contractors to do dirty work makes it much easier to avoid oversight and implement policies that are illegal/immoral/stupid/wasteful.

A very current example is the rogue operation in Iraq of CIA contractor Robert Levinson. The White House is quoted in the article as saying "was not a U.S. government employee", which they can do because he was a contractor as opposed to an employee.

This operation was screwed up that those directly responsible were forced to leave the CIA, and procedures were changed to keep this kind of event from happening again.

BTW, to offer another view point and to point out that I have indeed thought this through:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/charges-texas-father-beat-death-daughters-molester/story?id=16612071 [go.com]

This guy in Texas found a man sexually assualting his 5 year old daughter, and proceeded to beat him to death with his bare hands.

And then called an ambulance in a desparate attempt not to let the guy die. Wow. Not sure how many people would've done that.

I really hope the dad has never lost a moment's sleep over what he did.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/charges-texas-father-beat-death-daughters-molester/story?id=16612071

This guy in Texas found a man sexually assualting his 5 year old daughter, and proceeded to beat him to death with his bare hands.

It is considered homicide, but it is lawful in Texas in this situation.

So killing someone else is acceptable, when the right situation exists. We can debate what those situations are. I doubt very many parents would have a problem with beating to death someone who was raping their 5 year old daughter, clearly that is the extreme example.

Beyond that it becomes a series of viewpoints and opinons as to what crimes justify execution.

My personal viewpoint is that anyone who clearly demonstrates a complete lack of interest in respecting the rights of others and has done so either in single crimes such as this (rape, murder, etc.) or in lessor crimes that have been repeated many times (such as robbing banks dozens of times or commiting dozens of acts of assualt or stealing millions of dollars over time from many people).

If you spend years being a criminal and don't care that you're breaking the law, then frankly I have no use for you and you can just go die and be removed from the human gene pool.

BTW, the above being said, a number of things that are currently illegal, I would make legal (or at least make them very minor crimes). Using drugs for example, putting people in jail for years for smoking pot is just stupid beyond belief. Unless of course they do it while driving and hurt people because of it, but that is just poor decision making. If they smoke it at home and hurt no one, I have no interest in getting into their business.

I guess to sum up... if you aren't hurting anyone else and are leaving everyone else alone, then I think you should be able to be left alone. If you're hurting other people, stealing, getting into other people's business, then you are scum. Live and let live.

It becomes a purple pill and your acid reflux gets better. (Which, coincidentally, is what would happen if the red/blue states and red/blue Representatives actually started working together - you know, for the good of the *whole* country.)

That makes for a great slogan, and for a range of things it might even work. The problem comes in that the US population tends to be more or less evenly divided as to what constitutes what is best for the good of the whole country, and those visions of what is best are very far apart in some cases. It is like one of the explanations of the difference between the US and Europe. Both value freedom and equality, but Europe has traditionally valued equality more, and the US has valued freedom more. The results lead to different places.

Poll Finds Vast Gaps in Basic Views on Gender, Race, Religion and Politics

An almost unfathomable gap divides public attitudes on basic issues involving gender, race, religion and politics in America, fueled by dramatic ideological and partisan divisions that offer the prospect of more of the bitter political battles that played out in Washington this month.

A new ABC News/Fusion poll, marking the launch of the Fusion television network, finds vast differences among groups in trust in government, immigration policy and beyond, including basic views on issues such as the role of religion and the value of diversity in politics, treatment of women in the workplace and the opportunities afforded to minorities in society more broadly.

It might be best if more decisions were pushed down to the state level and let the states go their separate ways on various policies. Then people can vote with their feet. That will likely result in bluer "blue states," and redder "red states." That may be playing out now between California and Texas.

Just think about it. I used to pay $400/month for insurance, now I pay $73/month. That means that some rich guy is covering the difference. So I like to look at it like the doctor that treats me, and charges me x10 what he should, is actually shooting himself in the foot. And it's all in the name of ...hell if I know.

I just know that rich people get life easy. Seen this story yet?

No, I do not believe it. I believe that you just made it up. Do you have a citation? Because a Google search finds nothing except a law banning "aggressive begging" (blocking traffic, badgering or pursuing people, loitering next to ATMs, etc.).

I wouldn't go so far as to accuse him of just making it up. There are several places he might have picked up the idea. Some, the courts overrule the laws or parts of it. Some are just proposed. Some require a permit to 'gather' (eg more than 5 people). On Thanksgiving, the church should have 1 person with food in the park. 4 at a time, the homeless could come over. Then, walk away and 4 more could come up. I think the homeless should not be able to look at each other either ;) Get a permit right? I believe in the Orlando case, the problem was, you can only get a permit twice a year for each park so you have to move around. Are the activist intentionally getting in trouble making their point? Sure. Does feeding the poor in the same park, week after week, putting wear and tear on the park? Sure.



Orlando, FL
Raleigh, NC
Las Vegas, NV
Los Angeles, CA
Philadelphia, PA
Dallas, TX
Houston, TX
NYC, NY
USA Today
LA Times

Good luck with that, this is all the respect that had the NSA workers for the US soldiers in afganistan and their wives/girlfriends in 2008, maybe thet will respect you instead. And it could get much worse

Good luck with that, this is all the respect that had the NSA workers for the US soldiers in afganistan and their wives/girlfriends in 2008, maybe thet will respect you instead. And it could get much worse

The FBI has been able to covertly activate a computer’s camera — without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording — for several years, and has used that technique mainly in terrorism cases or the most serious criminal investigations

... and in LoveINT cases too. If noone watches the watchers they will become stalkers too.

What if it just makes them persevere at attempting suicide?

I'm not entirely sure how (if at all) tongue in cheek this was, but I do recall hearing that starting anti-depressants can *increase* the risk of suicide. This is supposedly because one of the first symptoms of depression to improve (before the suicidal feelings have cleared up) is the loss of motivation- and ironically, it was that lack of motivation that was stopping them from carrying out the suicide.

Typical result from a quick Googling to confirm my memory:-

Doctors admit there is always a risk of suicide when treating a severely depressed patient.As patients start to feel better, energy and motivation sometimes return before the suicidal thinking has faded.

"You get patients who are too depressed to commit suicide," says Dr. David Fassler, a trustee of the American Psychiatric Association who is testifying about the antidepressant safety at the FDA hearing."Patients start treatment and then they feel just better enough to go through with it."

Since you bothered to post, you could have the decency to post a link...

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/04/world/americas/mexico-radioactive-theft/

http://abcnews.go.com/International/mexican-police-find-stolen-truck-radioactive-cargo/story?id=21091737

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/2013/1204/Hijacked-radioactive-material-found-in-Mexico.-How-dangerous-was-it

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/4/-extremely-dangerousradioactivetheftinmexicoiaea.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/stolen-cobalt-60-found-abandoned/2013/12/04/7d3fe3f8-5d42-11e3-8d24-31c016b976b2_story.html

It may look less scary and be legal but if a drone can carry a 5 lbs package it can carry five 14 ounce fragmentation hand grenades.

It's well documented that some animals have the mental capacity of a typical 3 year old human child. (See Alex the african grey parrot, Koko the gorilla, etc.)

Not to mention dogs, i.e. Chaser the border collie who's been taught over 1000 words.

(mute volume) http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/world-smartest-dog-nova-special-shows-border-collie/story?id=12875750

They already been doing a sort of it for years with soldiers private conversations (sharing between them the hottest ones) and it had no consequences for them. And you think they will respect you or your 14 yo daughter if they didn't respect US soldiers in Iraq?

Male elementary school teachers may be scarcer than we thought.
Who gives a shit?

As a man, Wiederspan is a rarity in U.S. elementary-school education. And experts say that as boys continue to lag behind girls academically, schools could use more male teachers.

"Having male teachers, boys have a model that it's OK to be male and be in the classroom, he said. "School isn't just a female enterprise. That's what the presence of a man says to kids."

Why Men Don't Teach Elementary School

Let's see... Republican Tea Bagger Religious freaks don't want assisted suicide for patients, and they don't want government assistance for health insurance. They want to force someone to remain alive even with no hope of recovery and/or while having to endure extreme pain or a miserable existence. And they want that person to pay for it! What if that person didn't have any money. Ah yes, then they and their supporters would say, "let them die!" So there is your solution, put some clause in to take away their money and give it to relatives and they can withhold funds, till the hospital board that supports the Republicans pulls the plug for non-payment. Hmmm..... give the funds to the relatives and let the hospital kill them.... not sure this works either way.

...and there won't even be neither turkey nor booze, over here in Europe *g

(emphasis mine) At least, I hope for you there aren't any grammar-Nazis over there...

No, the eurozone has effectively expunged "Nazi" from their vernacular, if the media is to be believed

Source

Money quote:

Users were warned not to take bids on Nazi items from people in France, Germany, Austria or Italy because of laws in those countries. Users with French- or German-language Web browsers also were blocked from searching for Nazi-related items, eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove said

Probably true, but what about people like Richard Paey?. They had to have 3 trials, pressure his doctor to testify against him(they threatened his medical license), and put pressure on the jury to get a conviction.

Then, once in prison due to the 'cruel and unusual' clause they had to find somebody to treat his pain - and that doctor promptly prescribed a morphine pump that puts the drug right into his spine. At a cost well in excess of a number of years of pill-popping.

They deliberately set the 'intent to sell' amounts low because criminal distributers simply arranged to never be caught with more than a few packets at a time.

that makes me ponder, were these cuts accidental or red herrings?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-cuts-web-access
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4267160
http://tribune.com.pk/story/527148/undersea-internet-cable-cut-effects-50-of-pakistans-traffic/
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/28/damaged-undersea-cable-internet-disruption

i'm aware you can tap fiber without disrupting it but it's underwater which seems difficult to start with and it doesn't mean all the cuts were by the NSA. (since apparently everyone is spy happy)

everything is suspicious now :((((

I would add 2 words to that ones: Witch Hunt. What we see normal or harmless today could be proclaimed as crime tomorrow.

I'll add two more words: Tea Party. Dissent can easily be branded a crime by the Powers That Be. Remember, remember and be afraid.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/bitcoins-virtual-currency-explained-idiot/story?id=20926230

It's 100% safe, almost. But honestly, you'd expect some problems in third world countries like Japan and USA, right?

As far as I can tell, Tesla claims - as do several news outlets - that the NHTSA also releases some other raw numbers to the manufacturers which Tesla then decided to 'combine' (whether that's adding or averaging or whatever - who knows.) to give a 5.4 .

Really, the issue is lack of transparency - since we, the public, don't get to see those numbers. Thus we can't really give a good opinion other than "NHTSA says 5 is the maximum. THE MAXIMUM!" and all nod in agreement at the overlord's words apparently for fear of getting booted out.

This in turn leads to gems like this:
"No matter what, you can't say it's the safest car ever tested, just that it had the best overall test score of any vehicle tested by NHTSA." - NHTSA ( http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/tesla-crash-test-rating-high-maker-claimed/story?id=20024779 )

So it had the best overall test score .. but is not necessarily the safest. But the test is on safety. So it's the best in safety.. but not necessarily the best in safety.

Maybe while they're quibbling they could come up with a system that makes sense to themselves, the manufacturers and, most importantly, the public. If in the end that means Tesla does get a 5.4 and they want to hang on to 5 stars - well I guess they'll just have to lower the rating on a bunch of other cars.

Sarah Palin only said it in a wink-wink-nudge-nudge way, and he's a she:

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/11/does-palin-want-to-whack-assange/

There are thousands of people in the US who are serving "life without the possibility of parole" for nonviolent offenses.

I own the sun. Go ahead, just try landing there, my defenses will obliterate you!

So, you are this woman.

Yes, and oral sex pregnancies are possible too.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/teen-girl-vagina-pregnant-sperm-survival-oral-sex/story?id=9732562