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No, a lie is knowingly telling something that is not true. People thought that homes were a good investment. They were wrong, not deceitful.

Oh, there was plenty of deception going on. For example, clients being hooked up with subprime loans even when they were qualified for prime loans. And there are lies still going on—the Robo-signing scandal, with banks foreclosing on homes without proper documentation (which, BTW, they're still doing).

I think you have it backwards. That's what happens in the US.

I think you have it backwards. That's what happens in the US.

If he's seeing the same shit we're seeing from the ReTHUGlicans in my town, OP's not lying. He may even be sanitizing it a bit.

We had one of those "Tea Party Donation Drives" here too. A local businessman who runs a hardware store donated a bunch of large charcoal pit grills that he claimed were intended for "people who need to cook and may not have gas or electricity for a while." The grills showed up later that month at a "Tea Party Fundraiser" for a set of their candidates for the primaries, cooking the $2 hotdogs instead.

Michele Bachmann runs a set of "clinics" that provide "therapy" which is unapproved by any licensed medical agency, that fails to get proper consent forms and provide enough information that anyone could claim the "therapies" are entered into with informed consent. And since this information has come out, what have you ReTHUGlicans been doing? Oh yeah, what you do every time, attack the messenger.

Sadly for you it's not just "Truth Wins Out" - more and more of the patients Bachmann's unethical, evil husband has abused are coming forward.

As long as the only way to unlock the encryption is in your head, they can't legally force it out.

But what they can do is commit you to the county lock-up until your memory improves or hell freezes over, whichever comes first:

Lawyer Freed After Longest-Ever Term for Contempt [14 years.]

http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/article24.aspx
"According to the CDC, only one-third of U.S. adults eat two or more servings of fruit per day, and only one-quarter of adults eat three or more servings of vegetables per day. These minimal amounts cannot be expected to provide disease protection. I recommend a far more substantial intake of fruits and vegetables with 90 percent of calories coming from nutrient rich plant material, lots of it raw and green. I recommend about two pounds of vegetables and at least 4 fresh fruits per day. Most importantly, attention should be paid to the highly cancer-protective plant foods, greens, onion, berries, beans and seeds. ... The most recent scientific advancement in the anti-cancer research is the identification of specific foods and food elements that offer powerful protection against cancer. These foods are essential for both prevention of cancer and also increased odds of survival after diagnosis. Harmful foods and supplements have also been identified, and avoiding or minimizing these is equally as important. ... All vegetables are not equally protective. Epidemiological studies suggest that cruciferous vegetables, onions, and mushrooms are far more protective against cancer than vegetables overall - inverse relationships between cruciferous vegetable intake and breast, prostate, lung, and colorectal cancers have been found. For example, in one prospective study, one or more servings per week of cabbage reduced the risk of pancreatic cancer by 38% This was only one serving a week, which demonstrates that dramatic protection is available and real when a diet is ideally designed. The regular consumption of mushrooms has been demonstrated to decrease risk of breast cancer by over 60 percent. Onions, berries, seeds and beans also have dramatic beneficial effects. Beans in general, not just soy, are beneficial for protecting against reproductive cancers such as breast and prostate cancer.

http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health-conditions/cancer/
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/study-vitamin-d-kills-cancer-cells/story?id=9904415
"Doctors have known that low levels of vitamin D are linked to certain kinds of cancers as well as to diabetes and asthma, but new research also shows that the vitamin can kill human cancer cells. The results fall short of an immediate cancer cure, but they are encouraging, medical professionals say. JoEllen Welsh, a researcher with the State University of New York at Albany, has studied the effects of vitamin D for 25 years. Part of her research involves taking human breast cancer cells and treating them with a potent form of vitamin D. Within a few days, half the cancer cells shriveled up and died. Welsh said the vitamin has the same effect as a drug used for breast cancer treatment. "What happens is that vitamin D enters the cells and triggers the cell death process," she told "Good Morning America." "It's similar to what we see when we treat cells with Tamoxifen," a drug used to treat breast cancer. "

You can either get your chemotherapy every day from the phytonutrients in vegetables, fruits, and beans, and also vitamin D, or you can pay some oncologist a lot of money when you are older for iffy results.

I head from their own lips

Typo of the week!

Plus, all the other stuff you said are good points too. It's been reported how most guns and bombs get past TSA screeners, so all terrorists have to do to blow up a plane it would seem is to send two or more.

"Profile" is the operative word. Anyone who might otherwise fit a "profile" based on a statistically significant list of common traits ascribable to the vast majority of historical incidents of terrorism over the last 60 years, might also be members of a set of individuals for whom being singled out for attention may be considered as "racial-" or "religious-profiling." Therefore, TSA is constrained by policy to applying only those practices and procedures which are blind to any application of adult human judgment, or in this case, common sense, in order to avoid charges of bias or "discrimination," an otherwise neutral term which has wholly acquired the negative connotation of its worse case application. We see this line of government "reasoning" played out in other areas of public policy, leading to equally interesting, if not nearly as dangerous, outcomes. One example includes elementary schools enforcing "zero tolerance" to behaviors ascribed as "sexual harassment," wherein six year olds might be expelled for hugging his teacher in "suggestive" ways (see the article at: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AsSeenOnGMA/story?id=4585388). At some point the proliferation of self enforced prohibitions against governmental applications of reason and judgment in order to effect the otherwise admirable goal of avoiding unwanted bias may have dangerously negative unintended effects. Such effects may be ultimately corrosive to our ability to self govern, including, but not limited to, eroding public confidence towards government authority overall as these repeated incidents of cognitive dissonance between reason and policies begins to accumulate in the national psyche. At some point, large segments of society become decoupled from participation in citizenship, as evidenced by declining election participation, or in extreme cases may explode in outright rebellion. One problem with the worse case is that rebellion against excess nearly always leads to excesses in the opposite direction, the French revolution being but one extreme example. In short, our government really needs to stop being such G.D. f-king imbeciles or risk consequences none of us want.

So what about the male versions?

OK, sorry, I get it. You poor dude. She got sole custody, didn't she? Can I have the talking stick now? Is it time for the sweat lodge yet? How's that "Ladie's Night" lawsuit going?

Brotherhood is powerful, dude. You're in a safe place here. We understand.

Bitches, man.

I know a lot of people disagree and think everything is easier for us, but it's not.

Here's why they disagree with you (assuming we're talking about the US): White men earn substantially more for the same work as either women or non-white men. They're much more likely to be hired and promoted than black or Hispanic men. Either that means white men as a group are substantially better at working than other groups of people, or there's some other factor helping them out, again as a group. In a similar vein, white men receive substantially lighter sentences than black men for committing the same crime, are more likely to be called in for job interviews than equally qualified black men, and are at far lower risk of police brutality.

There's a ton of research backing up each of these assertions. For instance, they sent out resumes for identically qualified candidates with names that sounded more white or more black (one report on it) and got significantly more interview requests for the white-sounding candidates.

It may not seem like you have it easier, but you do. You might not realize that you're taking advantage of your whiteness when you walk down the street in a nice neighborhood and a cop either ignores you or waves politely. You might not realize that you're taking advantage of your maleness when you convince your boss to give you a raise.

Please cite the metric you use to support your use of the word "more". [waits through extended awkward silence...] Ah..., I see. You were just blowing smoke about all those bad government people "like Wiener". Sounds like partisan bullshit to me. How's about we address the real issue, m'kay?

My silence is due to a lack of readily available access to the internet, but since you ask for citations, here's one, and here's another one.

There is now an unrestricted flow of money from corporations (domestic and international) that is completely subverting our political process. The interests of the American people are a distant second.

I was taught as a child that you clean from the top, down. When the voters realize that they are responsible for the politician's behavior, then, maybe, the voters will take the initiative to recall these bastards. However, not all politicians are bastards, but the few that are not, are outweighed by the many that are.
The outrageous behavior, in my humble opinion, is to provoke the populous into actions that will incur the re-establishment of martial law. The ability of the voters to recall any and all politicians is something that is not talked about because of the power that it gives the voter, and the one thing that the civil masters don't want us to know is that the "VOTER" has the authority, the power, and the responsibility to place these "masters" back in their place as Civil Servants.
Remember, the voters pay their outrageous salaries, health care for life, as well as payoffs, kickbacks and graft from the corporate environment, since the voter/consumer pays the overly priced products to support the corporate graft and greed..

The stimulation to cause orgasm may come from other parts of the body (clitoris, g-spot, etc[1]), but so far I haven't heard the uterus as one of the erogenous zones.

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=127280&page=1
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-orside11feb11,0,79450.story

The US spent $500,000 and all we got were shrimp on treadmills.

TFS is not summarizing TFA. Is it also because it links to TFA's page 2?

Proper link: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/safe-cellphone-plane/story?id=13791569

Proper excerpt:

Asked if a cellphone's signal could really be that powerful, Carson said, "It is when it goes in the right place at the right time."

To prove his point, Carson took ABC News inside Boeing's electronic test chamber in Seattle, where engineers demonstrated the hidden signals from several electronic devices that were well over what Boeing considers the acceptable limit for aircraft equipment. A Blackberry and an iPhone were both over the limit, but the worst offender was an iPad. There are still doubters, including ABC News's own aviation expert, John Nance.

"There is a lot of anecdotal evidence out there, but it's not evidence at all," said Nance, a former Air Force and commercial pilot. "It's pilots, like myself, who thought they saw something but they couldn't pin it to anything in particular. And those stories are not rampant enough, considering 32,000 flights a day over the U.S., to be convincing."

This is the first page of the story, summary links to page 2.

You are mistaken. Most people are three-toed hermaphrodites.

See, just because you say it, doesn't make it true. Supporting evidence always helps.

The last number I could find was 50% for supporting patdowns, even less for frequent fliers.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/abc-news-washington-post-poll-air-travel-security/story?id=12215139

This is corporate money buying off politicians to protect their monopoly. It's to prevent nightmare scenarios like Ashland, OR, which in the year 2000 had public utility fiber optic to every home, and offers internet service starting at $9 a month.

Google reveals that besides the state senate passing the bill, the non-veto vote was likely illegally bought--and--paid--for a long time ago.

Some of your information is very wrong. There's actually evidence that testosterone levels and prostate cancer risk are inversely correlated, not positively correlated. People with low testosterone levels are more likely to get prostate cancer, not less. To my knowledge, however, no study has ever definitively determined how much of that is due to the hormone itself and how much of it is due to differences in sexual activity arising out of the differences in hormone level (pun intended).

Therefore, if the correlation with alcohol were caused by decreased testosterone, alcohol would be associated with an increased risk, not a decreased risk. We can therefore conclude that the protective effects of consumption of wine (not all alcohol) must come from something other than alcohol. Indeed, this is supported by recent studies that show that heavy beer drinking increases the risk of the more deadly form of prostate cancer.

Indeed, this coffee study further supports (albeit not very precisely) a causal link between low testosterone and prostate cancer, given that coffee increases testosterone levels. It is entirely possible that the entire difference in cancer levels among these populations stems from the differences in testosterone levels. It would be nice to see a second study that repeats this, but adds a third study group that takes other substances to raise their testosterone levels comparably, thus controlling for this particularly interesting variable.

Your second point is almost on the right track. It's not the cold temperature, but rather the amount of sunlight. There's a strong correlation between all types of cancer and vitamin D levels. The amount of vitamin D your body produces is directly correlated with the amount of sunlight you receive. Therefore, the farther towards the poles you live, the greater your risk of prostate cancer (and, indeed, all forms of cancer).

Your fourth point might be true, but AFAIK there has been no conclusive correlation between HPV and male cancer risk except for penile and anal cancer.

And your fifth point might be true, but I'm sure not going to try to verify it.

Or, you know, Dick Cheney's commission of what we considered war crimes when the Germans and Japanese did it in the 1940's. It's an open-and-shut case: We have video footage and transcripts of him telling the world all about the crimes he committed on national television.

Don't forget, though, we need to Look forward, not backward. And they hate us for our freedoms. It has nothing to do with committing crimes with impunity, killing children and civilians, or supporting dictators in their country.

I'm amazed nobody gave a link about the blue guy.

http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=5843725

You can also leave a comment for Disney here - http://corporate.disney.go.com/citizenship/feedback.html

While a petition to cancel the trademarks could arguably be filed on the grounds that Disney is not able to *legitimately* exercise control over the use of the mark (see below) if they get enough nasty feedback and public commentary they will probably choose to withdraw or just abandon their application.

307 Time for Filing Petition to Cancel
15 U.S.C. 1064 [Section 14 of the Trademark Act] A petition to cancel a registration of a mark, stating the grounds relied upon, may, upon payment of the prescribed fee, be filed as follows by any person who believes that he is or will be damaged...
***
(5) At any time in the case of a certification mark on the ground that the registrant
(A) does not control, or is not able legitimately to exercise control over, the use of such mark,

OBL's family wasn't anywhere near OBL, otherwise they would either be dead or in position to describe what happened, neither of these two cases being true.

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Amal al-Sada was shot in the leg as she rushed the Navy SEALs, according to U.S. officials. She is now in Pakistani custody, along with her daughter and two other bin Laden wives, according to Pakistani officials, who say they eventually will be repatriated.-- Bin Laden's Wife: I'll Stand With You

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Please show us a video of OBL that is after 2001. I bet you cannot find one. The 2007 video is clearly a fake, since he appears younger.

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Oct. 29, 2004: Osama Bin Laden Video Message

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Wanted: dyed and alive. Bin Laden reappears – and he’s had a makeover
Of course you weren't thinking that hair dye isn't invented till the year 2200, were you?

Next.

The locals know nothing more about OBL than we do. If they did know more, OBL would have been betrayed along time ago.

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BACKGROUND: The Haqqani group, al-Qaeda's own Taliban

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Osama is dead from 2001. US waited a long time to present his death to us, when the time was right.

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See video from 2004, and this: Osama bin Laden Killed: 'Justice Is Done,' President Says

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If Al Qaeda is driven by CIA, MI6 and Mossad, then its no wonder Al Qaeda announced OBL's death. Why would they need to announce it anyway?

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The US had the body, there was nowhere for Al Qaeda to go, was there? Try to say, "He's not dead!", and the US could produce either the body or the photos. Then there would be the awkward question of, "If he's not dead, why isn't he saying anything?" For Al Qaeda to try to cover up Bin Laden's death would have been more pathetic than the idea that, "Al Qaeda is driven by CIA, MI6 and Mossad". Well, there is also the fact that Muslims from around the world have been recruited to fight and die for Al Qaeda, and apparently none of them would have noticed that it was run by Americans, British, and Jews? Really? The fact that Bin Laden's wife saw him killed would also make that awkward, wouldn't it? If you've paid attention, you know that al Qaeda has announced the death of its regional leader in other places, such as Iraq.

You might want to try reading from a broader range of media - you've got things pretty much backwards. Maybe you can start here

OBL's family wasn't anywhere near OBL, otherwise they would either be dead or in position to describe what happened, neither of these two cases being true.

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Amal al-Sada was shot in the leg as she rushed the Navy SEALs, according to U.S. officials. She is now in Pakistani custody, along with her daughter and two other bin Laden wives, according to Pakistani officials, who say they eventually will be repatriated.-- Bin Laden's Wife: I'll Stand With You

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Please show us a video of OBL that is after 2001. I bet you cannot find one. The 2007 video is clearly a fake, since he appears younger.

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Oct. 29, 2004: Osama Bin Laden Video Message

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Wanted: dyed and alive. Bin Laden reappears – and he’s had a makeover
Of course you weren't thinking that hair dye isn't invented till the year 2200, were you?

Next.

The locals know nothing more about OBL than we do. If they did know more, OBL would have been betrayed along time ago.

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BACKGROUND: The Haqqani group, al-Qaeda's own Taliban

Next.

Osama is dead from 2001. US waited a long time to present his death to us, when the time was right.

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See video from 2004, and this: Osama bin Laden Killed: 'Justice Is Done,' President Says

Next.

If Al Qaeda is driven by CIA, MI6 and Mossad, then its no wonder Al Qaeda announced OBL's death. Why would they need to announce it anyway?

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The US had the body, there was nowhere for Al Qaeda to go, was there? Try to say, "He's not dead!", and the US could produce either the body or the photos. Then there would be the awkward question of, "If he's not dead, why isn't he saying anything?" For Al Qaeda to try to cover up Bin Laden's death would have been more pathetic than the idea that, "Al Qaeda is driven by CIA, MI6 and Mossad". Well, there is also the fact that Muslims from around the world have been recruited to fight and die for Al Qaeda, and apparently none of them would have noticed that it was run by Americans, British, and Jews? Really? The fact that Bin Laden's wife saw him killed would also make that awkward, wouldn't it? If you've paid attention, you know that al Qaeda has announced the death of its regional leader in other places, such as Iraq.

You might want to try reading from a broader range of media - you've got things pretty much backwards. Maybe you can start here

OBL's family wasn't anywhere near OBL, otherwise they would either be dead or in position to describe what happened, neither of these two cases being true.

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Amal al-Sada was shot in the leg as she rushed the Navy SEALs, according to U.S. officials. She is now in Pakistani custody, along with her daughter and two other bin Laden wives, according to Pakistani officials, who say they eventually will be repatriated.-- Bin Laden's Wife: I'll Stand With You

Next.

Please show us a video of OBL that is after 2001. I bet you cannot find one. The 2007 video is clearly a fake, since he appears younger.

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Oct. 29, 2004: Osama Bin Laden Video Message

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Wanted: dyed and alive. Bin Laden reappears – and he’s had a makeover
Of course you weren't thinking that hair dye isn't invented till the year 2200, were you?

Next.

The locals know nothing more about OBL than we do. If they did know more, OBL would have been betrayed along time ago.

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BACKGROUND: The Haqqani group, al-Qaeda's own Taliban

Next.

Osama is dead from 2001. US waited a long time to present his death to us, when the time was right.

0 for 5

See video from 2004, and this: Osama bin Laden Killed: 'Justice Is Done,' President Says

Next.

If Al Qaeda is driven by CIA, MI6 and Mossad, then its no wonder Al Qaeda announced OBL's death. Why would they need to announce it anyway?

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The US had the body, there was nowhere for Al Qaeda to go, was there? Try to say, "He's not dead!", and the US could produce either the body or the photos. Then there would be the awkward question of, "If he's not dead, why isn't he saying anything?" For Al Qaeda to try to cover up Bin Laden's death would have been more pathetic than the idea that, "Al Qaeda is driven by CIA, MI6 and Mossad". Well, there is also the fact that Muslims from around the world have been recruited to fight and die for Al Qaeda, and apparently none of them would have noticed that it was run by Americans, British, and Jews? Really? The fact that Bin Laden's wife saw him killed would also make that awkward, wouldn't it? If you've paid attention, you know that al Qaeda has announced the death of its regional leader in other places, such as Iraq.

You might want to try reading from a broader range of media - you've got things pretty much backwards. Maybe you can start here

So basically the FBI can put one of these on anyone it wants, anywhere. Are you part of a group that it doesn't like? Even if there's no evidence whatsoever that anyone in that group has ever committed a serious crime? Then they can and will follow you around for years with one of these.

On the bright side (there is one), at least if you ever are prosecuted you can show your whereabouts pretty easily. Nearly every one of us here routinely spends many hours of the day, at home asleep or watching TV or something. There's no evidence at all to show you were there except for the word of family members, which juries routinely ignore. Thus, if someone you dislike is murdered, bam you're a suspect and you have no proof of your innocence.

As it turns out, you DO need to prove your innocence. "Innocent until proven guilty" doesn't mean anything if they can show 'circumstantial' evidence that indicates that you had the means (as in you had a pair of hands), the motive (you hated the victim because they did something bad to you) and the opportunity (you COULD have gotten to the victim in the time window indicated, and you don't have any proof you didn't. You know, no proof other than dozens of witnesses or whatever. No actual proof, like phone records that you have proof you didn't fake, etc).

I'm referring to this trial, btw : http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8116945

This guy has the death penalty by the slow option : automatic life w/o parole. He has to prove his innocence to ever get out....and it's a totally different matter to prove you couldn't, by any possible means, have committed a crime vs. showing that you did.

you don't have to be convicted to have something like this totally fuck your life. RE: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/arizona-couple-suing-bathtime-photos-prompt-wal-mart/story?id=8624533 The case was tossed out, however, their 3 young children were taken away for a month, they were registered as sex offenders, they spent well over $75,000, the wife was suspended from her job for a year, and then you have the added mental repercussions. Didn't you actually read the article a few days ago about the FBI spending 41% of it's manpower on child porn?

If you want to go that far, then you can say "enhanced interrogation" of al-Libi and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that got him, since that is where the info in the Wikileaks documents came from. Here is the link to ABC News

Because of stuff like this from http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/osama-bin-laden-unarmed-killed-white-house/story?id=13520152&page=2
Before they left, the SEALs gathered a trove of evidence from among bin Laden's personal possessions, from computer hard drives to CDs and papers.

Rendesvous/Bonjour

that was the IETF

Apple went to the music labels

more like Apple directed a music label

and then tried to drop DRM when it was limiting growth.

Apple isn't a replacement for Microsoft, Canonical isn't a replacement for Apple, and Microsoft isn't a replacement for anything. They're all software application companies with some overlap but singular overall.

They certainly can try, apparently. It sure is a good thing that we have arbitration clauses to prevent people gang-raped on the job from having the hassle of an actual trial, when they could simply have a closed-door proceeding run by somebody hired by their employer instead...

I think the biggest problem is you make a player that is going to be primarily used by children and then warn parents not to let your 6 year-old play it.

So the parents start to think, well what about the children older than 6 or the teen has a little brother and they don't want him picking it up.

Whenever you have to tell parents that a toy is dangerous, you can't be surprised when it doesn't sell.

Uh huh...to quote Mel Brooks bullshit bullshit aaaaand bullshit. maybe you'd care to explain how a full 2/3rds of corps paid NO taxes this decade or how GE, who paid paid NO taxes in 2010 and in fact got a REBATE and is now using those funds to fire Americans and build overseas with the head of GE actually having the brass balls to say "We've globalized around markets, not cheap labor. The era of globalization around cheap labor is over. Today we go to China, we go to India, because that's where the customers are."

BULLSHIT and EVERY single time of growth in the history of this country TAXES AT THE TOP HAVE BEEN OVER 70% full stop. We have had unprecedented tax breaks for the top 1% for THIRTY YEARS and NOTHING has gotten better. NOTHING. So peddle the rep fantasy somewhere else, we ain't buying it no more. America WILL BE COME NATIONALIST the only question is how violent the change over will be. China is about to drop their US dollars so the game is over friend, time to pay the check.

Here's another link. It was booed and it appears the news people hate it http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/video?id=8085002

the Fukushima disaster wasn't ultimately caused by a private company taking shortcuts

Yes it was (obviously). Read also this study (caution pdf) for some interesting insight on the probability of such a tsunami in Japan (hint: pretty high).

Mr. Fork also seems to imply that private companies do not have an incentive to engineer for safety. As if it is somehow more profitable for a private company if their nuclear reactors explode!

This is not how it works; large companies are not level-headed individuals who ponder for the most reasonable decisions. Companies are run by engineers whose reputations, well-being and yearly bonuses depend on the reliability and safety of their product, and by managers whose reputations, well-being and yearly bonuses depend on the profitability of the endeavour, also on the short term, and sometimes, depending on economic and financial conditions, on the very short term. Sometimes engineers quit because they feel they're not heard, sometimes managers are fired because they're not cutting costs aggressively enough. At the end of the day the decisions that are made can be very remote from the ideal, most reasonable decisions.

We have seen that with the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, we have seen that with the lost space shuttles, and probably with most large-scale industrial disasters at the end of the day. However I don't think that it has much to do with the fact that a company be public or private, it's more profound than that, it's almost a basic law of human nature from my understanding.

I've often wondered why the TSA's "Behavioral Detection" crap can't detect thieves like Brown, Burton, Simmons, Defelis, Noukeo, Burley, German, Persad, Webb, Pepper, and Arato, or actual sex offenders like Sean Shanahan and Charles Henry Bennett, or complete suicidal whackjobs like Diego Gonzales who was an actual TSA BDO. Shouldn't his fellow BDOs have noticed... I don't know... something wrong?

it's not new, it goes way back before the '80s, corps used to get away with a lot worse, in some cases, they ran everything:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson's_Bay_Company

in fact, if we go to the stars, it will probably under the same form as this:

http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Weyland-Yutani

it makes sense that corporations take these risks, profit, then they are absorbed. the point is, corporations are never going away, because they do make sense for many reasons in terms of the most efficient way to do things. however, they are like beasts of burden: you must harness them and put them to use, or they run roughshod over your society. like GE, which paid no taxes to the USA, where the corporation is corrupting our system of government to stand above the people:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/general-electric-paid-federal-taxes-2010/story?id=13224558

additionally, we are making progress. the labor movement a hundred years ago made a huge step forward (that yes, we are backsliding on now)... after the civil war, corporations had a larger military than the federal govt, to suppress labor. blackwater is a hiccup in comparison:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_National_Detective_Agency

2 steps forward, 1 step back. this struggle is going on for centuries. but please do not forget we ARE making progress against the corruption of the people's will by monied interests. it is very difficult, and takes time and much effort. today, they have an entire corporate propaganda machine, fox news, that incenses the poor and middle class to actually fight against their own interests, like affordable healthcare. it is absurd, but real

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations

And Perry is just continuing the bad practices that Bush started. 16 years of Bush + Perry is way too long. I really hope we can elect a governor next time with the ability to fix all the crap that these two have created, especially in the education area. I love how he was acting all smug about how well Texas was handling the recession a year ago, and now he's cutting education at an even more alarming rate than ever. School districts all over the state are cutting hundreds of jobs in order to overcome multi-billion dollar shortfalls each.

Oh, and he used $11 million in TARP money (i.e. your taxes) to repair the Governor's Mansion after the fire in 2009. If we were doing so well, why did Texas use Federal money to repair the state Governor's Mansion?? And why is he STILL living in a "rental mansion" that costs taxpayers $10,000 a month and as of a year ago had cost $600,000 in taxpayer money? In 2000 as governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee lived in a triple wide trailer while his home was being renovated and he had nothing close to the the budget problems in that state: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=123041&page=2

You can get ESPN and MSNBC online. Do you not know what google is? Do you know how to search? A search for "watch MSNBC online" and "watch ESPN online" showed up in the first and/or first few results.

Granted, this probably won't run on linux due to codecs, but it will run otherwise.

While it doesn't change the point of your post, I believe you have the reason they are protesting the funerals wrong. And I also believe it goes against your point considering they have signs that read "God Hates You" which kind of makes me think they do hate. Of course we could be talking about different "crazy Baptist groups" after all; who knows how many of them are out there.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9102443/ns/us_news-life/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Supreme_Court/supreme-court-westboro-protests-military-funerals/story?id=13037219

Now I hate that I have even given them attention in this discussion...

From:
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=13250247

"When the White House announced the federal government would loan $465 million to Tesla, a California start-up company with plans to develop an all-electric sedan, President Obama called it an "historic opportunity to ensure that the next generation of fuel-efficient cars and trucks are made in America."

The loan also represented a lucrative opportunity for Steve Westly, a major investor in the car company who had raised more than $500,000 for the president's campaign."

I don't know if there's more to the article as the "Next" link seems broken at the moment. Is the story about the Tesla/BBC suit coming out now in order to bury this story? I'm not a conservative, Republican, conspiracy theorist or someone with an agenda against Obama but this seems very coincidental...

Would you like some cheese with your w(h)ine?

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Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/ayn_rand.html#ixzz1I6JtufZD "

Funny, GE seems to be prospering .

"The company, led by Immelt, earned $14.2 billion in profits in 2010, but it paid not a penny in taxes because the bulk of those profits, some $9 billion, were offshore. In fact, GE got a $3.2 billion tax benefit. "

Randroid teabagger says what?

They paid $0 last year. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Tax/ge-exxon-paid-us-income-taxes-09/story?id=10300167

So let me understand correctly. Besides the 9.0 earthquake (which all the plants survived), and the tsunami (which flooded the diesel generators used as pumps to cool the reactors), these 40 year old reactors which had been scheduled for permanent shutdown, but due to environmentalists, not wanting new nuclear reactors, were not already replaced. I do seem to recall that due to earthquake alone, some of the OIL refineries caught fire. They were billiowing CO2 in the resultant fire. I can count on one hand all of the serious radiological accidents in the nuclear industry in the last 50 years. I can't count with a 16 bit computer all of the times the oil industry has had serious accidents in the last 50 years (the Exxon Valdez killed more wildlife than Chernobyl), the BP disaster in the gulf is killing a lot more than 3 mile island. I keep hearing stories about refineries exploding, Neighborhoods blowing up. And constant pollution. Yet one radiological disaster, and everyone goes into ultra-hyper-super-mega panic mode. Run for your lives, run for the hills. The earthquake and tsunami have killed an estimated 10,000 so far. The reactors? None. There might be some, we will have to wait and see. The earthquake killed quick. The tsunami killed quick. Oil kills slowly, and radiation kills slowly (but both can kill quickly, depending on how exposed you are to them). Why do we give car accidents a pass, overeating a pass, the oil industry a pass, drunken drivers a pass (all of which kill millions around the world every year), and yet nuclear power is a pariah? Yes, like anything else, it has to be taken seriously, you can't afford to be sloppy or half assed. But we have chosen long half-life waste in order to build bombs as a sideline (the Chinese are using molten salts with waste half-lives of 12 seconds and 22 minutes... leave it for 3 months, and the most sensative geiger counter can't pick up anything but background radiation... and yet we still maintain the stupid mistakes and bad choices of the past will be carried forward in the future. We insist on poking and pointing at 40 year old technology, not completely taken out when the rest of North Western Japan was, and claiming that 'its bad like that everywhere'. Are people nuts, or is there some kind of 'we luv oil' agenda? Oh, do the 'green' folk know what powers the sun? Has anyone sprung the news on them?

We gotta get out while we're young

Looks like Obama is paying another installment on the debt he owes to his Hollywood buddies.

Between Democrats in bed with Hollywood and Republicans in bed with big business, wouldn't it be nice to have at least *one* choice in an election who doesn't support draconian DRM, Feds kicking in our doors because little Jimmy downloaded an advance screener of The Dark Knight, and ISP's tracking and archiving our every click on the internet? Would that be too goddamn much to ask?

Yep, Good Morning America this morning (2011-03-14) seems to want to prepare everyone for a Chernobyl disaster. The failing reactors use a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) instead of the RBMK design of Chernobyl; by the sounds of it this design is rather safer, but I am not qualified to say how much. In the video, the reporter says this incident rates a "4" where Chernobyl is a "7". Their "Resident Physicist" then goes on to say it "should be a 6". Then the other guy (sounds like a lobbyist, "worked with the government on [nuclear stuff]") says it could become a Chernobyl-type incident, and goes on to say it in such a way that it sounds like he expects it will.

I am sure that there 20 million Americans who are now expecting a nuclear cataclysm that weren't when they first awoke today...

Yes this does not sound positive http://abcnews.go.com/International/dropping-water-levels-nuclear-plant-heighten-fears-meltdown/story?id=13120888
ie "27,000 liters of water, including water stored for firefighting, was being pumped into the reactor via makeshift pumps and other means in order to raise the water level above the reactor's nuclear fuel," at Fukushima Daiichi.
Its seems if they can get diesel-powered generators online, it might be ok, if not, the internal damage will add up fast.

Theres not a war?

Department of Defense begs to differ.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_War_on_Terrorism_Service_Medal

The President agrees that there is a war.

"Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Inauguration/story?id=6689022&page=1

Congress also agrees that there is a war

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Terrorists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Iraq_Resolution_of_2002

How is that raising the question? The governor has visibly demonstrated a desire to destroy unions and punish those unions that sided against him. You may have missed it but a prankster recently called the governor pretending to be a billionaire Koch brother. They made large donations to Mr. Walker, in return, Republicans just changed the law making it legal to sell off public utilities without any bids, so they can basically give away all infrastructure to the Koch brothers. Wisconsin has single party consent recording, so the prankster recorded his conversation with the governor. It was very educational. The governor is not only intent on crushing unions, he believes himself to be part of a group of people who were elected specifically to do that very thing.

http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/politics&id=7975464

Let me tell you about my friend Dean, who works in the refrigerated section of the grocery store, and has for decades. He complained to management about this fellow "Phil" who had been doing some pretty disgusting stuff, but Phil was the manager's nephew. Well, Dean reported him to the union and the union got that bastard fired. Unions do not act as your fantasy anecdote suggests, sorry to burst your bubble, but we have far more problems with cronyism than with unions protecting undeserving workers. I've yet to see a single documented case of a union protecting someone who was undeserving of protection. I am guessing you will not present such evidence, just as I'm guessing your friend "Phil" isn't real.

Looking up "rubber rooms" as you suggest shows they are not so nefarious, but serve a vital purpose. Teachers accused of wrongdoing should be removed from classrooms, but not fired until such wrongdoing can be proved. That is what these "rubber rooms" are for. However, the policy was always a matter decided on by each state board of education, and is being phased out in most places: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/education/29rubber.html , yeah that is from last year.

In closing, may I suggest that if you are not being paid to spread propaganda for the ultra-wealthy, you should look into it. I hear they have hired tens of thousands of bloggers and writers to parrot the opinions of the ultra-wealthy to the public, making it seem as though there is grass roots support for said opinions. I hear it is quite lucrative, and if you already hold those same opinions, you wouldn't even be compromising any beliefs.