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Non-residents are also barred from being mayor of Chicago. That didn't stop Rahm Emanuel (Obama's chief of staff) from finding a way of invaliding a court ruling and doing it anyway.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12...

I don't think Hillary would stop just because something was illegal either.

This math as a sport has some catching on left to do.

Are you sure that a disaster on the coastal infrastructure will have negligible effect on the non-coastal regions of the country? Last I checked our ports are on the coast and our ports are where most of our clothing [1], and non-negligible amount of food [2] come from.

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Business...
[2] http://www.ers.usda.gov/datafi...

The Japanese Space Agency is already on it!

Astronaut bringing test underwear back to Earth: http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...

Talk is cheap.

Guess where his clothing line is made?

Trump is just like the Waltons, banging the USA drum with one hand while selling us out to to China with the other.

Trump also said he had a huge bombshell to drop on Obama, haven't seen that yet either.

Perhaps you meant "misreferencing? I figured that was the sort of "information" he(?) was grasping at. Misrepresented and unsubstantiated references to try and support damaged logic and false conclusions. The same sort of bullshit the NSA and FBI trots out to support their excesses. Different dog, same leg action.

The Russian comment was most likely referencing this (35 years ago)

But somehow disregarded the [citation needed]

and this (a bit more recently).

" Amid swirling anti-gay sentiment in Russia, Sochi’s mayor claims there are no gay people in his city.

“It’s not accepted here in the Caucasus where we live. We do not have them in our city,” Anatoly Pakhomov told BBC Panorama in an interview."

He then "went on to say that he was not sure if there are gay people in Sochi."

A little further on the same article quotes Putin "individuals of non-traditional orientation cannot feel like second-rate humans in this country because they are not discriminated against in any way,”

Of course what those crafty Reds mean is because there are no "individuals of non-traditional orientation" - they therefore "cannot feel like second-rate humans". Cunning. Very cunning indeed if you've ever visited Moscow - the extent they go to is astounding. If you haven't just Google to check the degree they're willing to go to so they can convince us in the West they really do have gays.

As for the handicapped... that's laughable. They have holograms of handicapped people to lecture Rimmers about using handicapped parking spaces.

Which Russian politician claims they don't know of the effects of Afghan and Chechen landmines?

One of the more positive things that has happened recently is that they got starved for victims so they started attacking their own political camps. They were basically doing purity tests. Once everyone is a liberal how do they justify their existence? well... they then ask "how liberal are you"... and they just start goal posting moving to make sure they have enough people to be outraged with at any given time.

So anyway, they were doing that and eventually they hit a segment of their own political contingent that fought back. And now they're a little baffled because a lot of the wind has gone out of their sails. They're getting attacked from all sides now and they're losing credibility rapidly.

Its funny because they're such dogmatic robots that they don't really understand what happened.

We'll see... they'll either be suppressed to the general good of society or they'll osterize most of their political base which will lead to a structural schism in the faction which will weaken them collectively.

Hit. Nail. Head. I wish I had mod points today. What's happening with liberalism today is a case study in self destruction. All we need to do is sit back and watch it play out.

Like those ideological purity tests...if we started measuring conservatives on the basis of how conservative are you, it would surely mark the beginning of the end. Liberal purity tests have pushed their kind so far to the extreme, they're now attacking themselves. And their tactic of keeping one constituency or another outraged at any given time has totally backfired.

I don't really blame liberals for being baffled. They've spent so much time in an echo chamber, they've lost touch. When reality finally slaps them in the face, it is only natural for them to try to figure out what happened. The question is, do they have the capability to make the necessary changes in order to correct their course?

Somehow I doubt it. Liberals are so

The Russian comment was most likely referencing this (35 years ago) and this (a bit more recently).

There was just a case where a parking/tow-away fine was overturned due to a missing comma between "motor vehicle" and "camper" (e.g. no parking for "motor vehicle camper", so, my non-camper is ok...)

So, being a clever grammar Nazi can pay off, in the realm of law.

I'm surprised no one looked into Shark fishing from piers and shores as a possible cause of the Shark attacks.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/shark...

There are many other articles. It makes sense to me. If you lure sharks closer to the shore by throwing dead meat in the ocean then yeah they are probably going to attack swimmers. This is why some districts ban this. It clearly locates their feeding area (or their perception of it) closer to where legs are dangling in the ocean.

Why do people make things complicated?

Uber is fast, clean, polite, and - most importantly - reliable.

Except for the Uber drivers who assault, rape, or kidnap passengers.

http://www.people.com/article/...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/uber-...

They already do. https://mydisneyphotopass.disn... Yes, the price is actually $15 per photo, or $200 for unlimited photos.

However, those same people will also take your photos with your own camera as well if you ask them. As will any other employee at the park you interact with.

No one was asking them to ignore "99% of the text" or to toss the law out. They simply were asking for a few words to be interpreted correctly

The majority failed miserably and created a precedence that many defending their overreach will regret if recent revelations about Hillary Clinton's emails sink her in the general election. The next President is likely to appoint at least one justice that replaces one of the 'left leaning' block (Ginsburg comes to mind) and the court will have a right leaning majority which may use this new found power to interpret all sorts of laws rather than showing judical deference to the legislative branch and letting them fix them.

Dear content industry,

I survive without your content.

Not very easily, at least if you live in a city. You need food to survive. If you buy this food at the grocery store, a percentage of what you pay goes toward royalties for playing music over the speaker system. If you instead grow all your own food in a victory garden, you may be committing a zoning infraction, as in the case of Julie Bass of Oak Park, Michigan.

Clone cables used to work perfectly

Tell that to the Chinese folks who were electrocuted as a result of using faulty clone cables and chargers with their iDevices. Apple really tightened up its MFi program after those incidents and even provided a trade-in program where knock-off products could be exchanged for the legit ones for $10, rather than the full retail price.

Having seen some dissections for the legitimate items and the clone ones, I can understand why they would do so, since the differences between the construction and parts in the two were night and day. It's no wonder people were dying with the clone ones.

You have fun with the High Tech VR stuff, and hope to the gods you do not play the Seahawks this year.

Go Hawks!

Cowboys beat the Seahawks in Seattle last year. They play them in Dallas on Nov. 1st this year.

Go Cowboys!

http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/...

Here you go: http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...

Excerpt - "Thanks to a generous tax credit, Karl Wizinsky is driving a very large vehicle these days — a 2002 Ford Excursion.

"It doesn't hurt to have a larger vehicle, but I wouldn't say it's a requirement of my business," he said on a cell phone while driving the Excursion. "But I ended up saving $32,000."

This year, the perks of buying a large SUV — if you're a small business owner — got even bigger.

Congress recently passed a tax bill, as proposed in President Bush's economic stimulus plan, that offers a $100,000 tax credit for business owners who purchase any vehicle weighing 6,000 pounds or more when fully loaded.

When Wizinsky's accountant told him about the credit last year, the amount was much less, at $75,000, but it was enough to encourage Wizinsky to trade in his Mercury Marquis for the Excursion.

"It sounded too good to be true," said Wizinsky, a health care consultant in Novi, Mich. "But it was true. So I bought the SUV. For a small company like mine it's a significant credit."

Hybrid Earns Smaller Break

Meanwhile, legislation that offers a much smaller tax break — a $2,000 tax deduction — to those who purchase fuel-efficient hybrid cars is on track to be phased out. Congress is considering legislation that would extend the tax deduction to encourage consumers to buy the hybrid cars, but the status of the bill remains uncertain."

And the fiscally responsible GOP made a similar provision a requirement for Obama to get a deal through in 2011 - http://www.forbes.com/sites/ja...

"Melinda Herman shot the intruder five times, hitting him in the face and neck. Chapman said she told the man if he moved she would shoot him again, although she had run out of bullets." http://abcnews.go.com/US/georg...

(To be technical here, she was a "good girl". But I think you'll accept that gender isn't a factor here.)

"Mark Vaughan, the company’s founder, chief operating officer and a reserve sheriff’s deputy, was on site at the time and shot Nolen, stopping the attack before police arrived, Lewis said." http://www.latimes.com/nation/...

(Mark Vaughan may have been a reserve sheriff's deputy, but he was off duty, which meant he was a regular citizen "good guy"

Oh heck, I'll let the NRA show you. Note: There are 660 pages of these in their files.
https://www.nraila.org/gun-law...

The difference in your example compared to the TSA is that even the Greek regular were professionals taking reasonable steps with proper training while the TSA has minimal training on ineffective measures of people who basically would otherwise likely be unemployable.

I had to make it more clear (my fault): most people in the Greek military, both in my S.F. unit AND the "regular" forces, was and still are conscripts - the Greek military is a conscript based (all able men must serve), and actually my S.F. unit's professionals to conscripts ratio was higher than that of the regular forces'... so, in that analogy (TSA as Greek regular army) things are similar.

It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to outsmart a TSA agent as people regularly get stuff past them that should easily have been caught by the old methods of screening and more so by the current ones.

I don't know the level of the TSA agents (i would never tried to outsmart them!), so i can't comment on your first point, BUT i have to agree about the "old methods of screening". Again, from my limited experiance (and because of my former S.F. experience), i have worked for some time in the civilian VIP security business (mostly as a "dumb" bodyguard, close to former police officers who were the "brains")...i am afraid that the "political correctness" on this site will punish me for mentioning some things but anyway:
When you have limited human and/or other resources you don't check a white woman's child just because... you know why (!)... you check Muhammad (plus his wife, and their children).

There was a story a while back about the number of people accidentally getting their firearms past the TSA. These were likely people who had a carry permit and just automatically carry their firearm everywhere without thinking about it, much like you do with your wallet, watch, phone, etc. as it is something done automatically without thinking.

I understand. In a normal situation (i.e., a NON "political correct"), if the guy is NOT Muhammad but just a (real...) American you act the way you must act... you know, don't make it a "situation"! What can i say: some of my old buddies from the S.F. who continued to become pro bodyguards/private security officers went to Israel/Russia for training... where "political correctness" is ridiculed, THANK GOD!

The difference in your example compared to the TSA is that even the Greek regular were professionals taking reasonable steps with proper training while the TSA has minimal training on ineffective measures of people who basically would otherwise likely be unemployable. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to outsmart a TSA agent as people regularly get stuff past them that should easily have been caught by the old methods of screening and more so by the current ones. There was a story a while back about the number of people accidentally getting their firearms past the TSA. These were likely people who had a carry permit and just automatically carry their firearm everywhere without thinking about it, much like you do with your wallet, watch, phone, etc. as it is something done automatically without thinking.

I wonder if The Onion had ever published a story about real life people or new organizations referring to Onion stories as if they were true?

abcnews has such an article. The article includes lots of good links, including a link to the Onion FIFA article.

I find it all a bit ridiculous, personally, but to argue that the US is the only place this happens is also inaccurate. They do it at baseball games in Korea and Japan, if my memory serves properly.

Not exactly a rarity for people to feel pride in their place of residence.

Funny you should mention baseball - "The Star-Spangled Banner" was already commonly played at baseball games years before it became the national anthem. And it seems they didn't play the (de facto) anthem "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" back then. Maybe it's less patriotism, and more stubbornness to change any rituals, or even superstition.

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/6957582/the-history-national-anthem-sports-espn-magazine

Also not every cop is incompetent, [...]

Not every cop is incompetent, but at least we can say for sure: Every cop is below a certain IQ-threshold :)
http://abcnews.go.com/US/court...

I'm gonna have to go with a [citation needed] for most of that.

Starting with this one:

The State Department is trying to delay the release of her emails until AFTER the election.

No, they're trying to delay until January 2016, a full 10 months BEFORE the election, even before the primaries. If there's anything damaging in there, it'll be far worse for her and Democrats if there's something serious enough for her to quit the race since she's effectively the only person running. Getting the e-mails out now turns it into a non-story by then since they'll have already been released.

This value of Ph represents optimism for the future and is directly correlated with the height of skirts above women's knees based on historical data related to how well the economy is performing.

Except the skirt theory has problems as an indicator -- it worked well up to the 1960s or so, but other economists have proposed a "lipstick index" (women buy more small luxuries like lipstick when the economy is bad) to the idea that the height of heels is a much better predictor (dubbed by some the "footsie" index... har, har).

Apparently heels go up in lean times, while skirts go down. But given the better correlation with heels, it seems that the skirt phenomenon may not be the driving trend. If heels go down, women's legs appear shorter, thus requiring skirts to go up to maintain constant L (i.e., the "legginess" factor). QED.

Can I have my Nobel Prize in economics now?

In most countries home-schooling is either not really possible or bluntly illegal.

There are some German immigrants living in Tennessee, who have applied for political asylum because Germany wouldn't let them home school their kids. More info here.

In California, for example, as many as 45 percent of the more than 8 million cell phone calls to 911 each year are for non-emergencies, officials said; in Sacramento, it could be as high as 80 percent. Those calls block the lines for callers who really need urgent help

Source

But national statistics say otherwise. One recent survey reported that 25 percent of all 911 calls are pranks, creating a dilemma for emergency agencies. And in 2003, another national study found that 70 percent of all cell phone calls to 911 are dialed inadvertently.

Source

Estimates suggest 20% of 911 calls are non-emergencies

Source

So, we've got 45%, 80%, 70% or 20% non-emergencies; and 25% fraudulent. Somehow, I don't have a lot of faith in these numbers.

Yeah, until they go fucking postal and kill a bunch of college students because girls don't fawn all over them and worship them.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/insid...

...output per worker fell by 1.9 percent during the first quarter of 2015.

Because the current/remaining employees are being ridden hard and put away wet. Employers are squeezing what they have, instead of hiring, to be "competitive" - even though profits are up and shareholders are happy. Or it could be because of things like this: Georgia Businessman Refuses to Hire Until Obama Is Fired (there are others):

Bill Looman, owner of U.S. Cranes LLC, said he is fed up with the bad economy and D.C. politicians who do nothing to solve the problem. So until there is a change of leadership, his company trucks will bear the message: “New Company Policy: We Are Not Hiring Until Obama Is Gone.”

Or that that the top priority of Mitch McConnell and the GOP was/is to make Obama a one-term president (which didn't go so well) and prevent any successes for the President or the Democrats - instead of actually working to fix the Economy. (Yes, the Dems are a problem too, but mainly because they're inept, not actively evil, hostile and uncaring toward those who are not rich, old, white and male - like the Republicans.)

you forget that ..

a) the nfl was notified back in mid-november during the regular season that the patriots were using under-inflated balls. it is 'more probable than not' they were cheating the entire season, if not during seasons prior as well, dating back to when the supply-your-own-balls program initiated by brady himself came to be.

b) the patriots have been caught cheating before, including what was described by don shula as the "most unfair act" in nfl history (now to be called 'plowgate'?). if it's not cheating outright, it's bending rules, finding exploitable ones, or loopholes. patriots have a proficiency in that that would make even the most seasoned politician envious.

c) brady is quoted as saying he prefers under-inflated balls and loves it when his backs and receivers spike them hard to help with that.

they should get hit, and hit hard, with penalties, fines, lost draft picks, and unpaid suspensions (upon player/coach/owner involvement or knowledge)...

you forget that ..

a) the nfl was notified back in mid-november during the regular season that the patriots were using under-inflated balls. it is 'more probable than not' they were cheating the entire season, if not during seasons prior as well, dating back to when the supply-your-own-balls program initiated by brady himself came to be.

b) the patriots have been caught cheating before, including what was described by don shula as the "most unfair act" in nfl history (now to be called 'plowgate'?). if it's not cheating outright, it's bending rules, finding exploitable ones, or loopholes. patriots have a proficiency in that that would make even the most seasoned politician envious.

c) brady is quoted as saying he prefers under-inflated balls and loves it when his backs and receivers spike them hard to help with that.

they should get hit, and hit hard, with penalties, fines, lost draft picks, and unpaid suspensions (upon player/coach/owner involvement or knowledge)...

Well here is some "data" granted I'm not too sure about the source.

Unfortunately most people hear that and ignore that it was over a 10 year period, assume that all of those 50 attacks were going to happen in the US, and each of them would have been on a 9-11 scale of death. I say lets use those piss poor assumptions and actually believe Gen. Keith Alexander for a moment. This means we would have a somewhat impressive pile of bodies from terrorists at 150,000 in a single year. Also using data from 9-11 that would mean that there would have to probably be about 1,000 terrorists in the country. Unfortunately that body count would only put terrorism at #3 between being a fat ass and smoking in preventable causes of death. This also ignores what this country would look like with a 9-11 event happening basically every week which in my mind's eye I see something like Germany in about 1944.

Now from this impossibly high number we can start to whittle it down to something more realistic. This was 50 attacks over 10 years not 1 year so with all of the previous assumptions terror deaths are now below deaths from STDs #10 and drug abuse #11 (excluding alcohol and smoking) so maybe still in the top 15. Also a 9-11 level even is extremely unlikely given 3 things, locked cockpit door, hardened cockpit door, and the willingness of passengers to turn a terrorist into a red smear on the nasty carpet. So this really limits large attacks so most would be similar to the Boston bombing at worst while most would be like the underwear bomber. So now we are at something like 50-100 deaths from terrorism a year in the US which seems to put in the same ballpark as the number of PowerBall and MegaMillions winners in a given year. Unfortunately this number is still too high since not all of these attacks would have happened in the US. I don't know what number to use here so lets just say that half of them were going to happen in the US so now the annual body count from terrorism in the US would be 25-50. Finally keep in mind that upper limit of 25-50 extra deaths from terrorism each year had we done nothing more than locking the hardened cockpit door and turning potential terrorists on planes into a smear. Now to further depress everyone I'll just leave this here so we can all do a face palm.

With the US having the most expensive 'health care' on the planet, I do find it particularly specious that they find only the programmers to blame. Besides it isn't 'health care' that's to blame but the health insurance' industry. Besides it's in their interest to obfuscate your medical bills. Notice I said expensive, not better ref.

War Resisters Remain in Canada with No Regrets

Many opponents of the Vietnam war fled to Canada rather than face conscription, "An estimated 125,000 Americans fled to Canada in the 1960s and '70s to avoid the Vietnam War military draft, according to the American Veterans of Foreign Wars" according to the article

The town of Nelson planned to build a memorial to these folks, who once they settled into Canada became exemplary citizens and active participants in their communities.

The flood of hate mail from the USA caused them to reconsider.

I really do not understand the hate involved here. Let's assume that climate change is NOT happening. We still have the following facts:

1) Fossil fuels are a limited supply. Maybe enough for another 50 years. Maybe 100. But still limited.

2) We purchase large amounts of oil from countries that, in general, do not like us.

3) If it were not for oil, our interest in the middle east would decline greatly, which would be a good thing. If Muslims want to kill Muslims, that sounds like their problem. There is no "right" side in a conflict like that.

For all of these reasons, we should be decreasing our dependency on fossil fuels. More fuel efficiency and alternative fuels just simply make long term sense, even without considering climate change.

So, what is the problem?

There isn't any, most reasonable people would agree with all of the above...

Then the global warming/global cooling/global climate change people go nuts and take it WAY to far. It becomes about money and power and redistribution of wealth more than the planet.

It is like the environmentalists who are AGAINST EVERYTHING!

The average person is so sick of it that he/she is just tuning them out.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lo...

http://save-as.org/GreenNews/N...

http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...

And on, and on...

They are against EVERYTHING. For frack sake, they probably want us all to go live in caves, or just die... I can't find anything they are actually FOR...

Very well. There's still violation of a couple of department rules concerning preservation of emails and the scheme may also illegally obstruct FOIA requests.

If the "whole of media" lied about surviving having jumped off a cliff would you simply believe them?

The truth is plainly obivous. The whole of media is lying about online harassment. Here's one such hit-piece where they spread their lies. In this one they selected an example post of what will not be tolerated -- violent hateful language -- the poster having been banned for it, and then the media said that this is the normal comment, even encouraged failing to mention that it will actually get you banned instead.

Thanks to Noam Chomsky, and lately #GamerGate it's become blatantly obvious how corrupt the mainstream media is, especially when they are all willfully lying to cover for the truth: That they are lying and should not be trusted.

Do a bit of fact checking and you see that the supposed rape threats against these SJWs are not from the groups or people that the MSM attributes them to, and even the FBI has chimed in, prompted by #GamerGate itself, saying their investors believed the "harassment" target was never in any serious danger. Where is the reporting on this in "the whole of media". Sorry, but it's been known since at least the 70's that the media is chock full of careful omissions, lies that further ideologies, and state propaganda.

Here are your examples. Watch the video and weep, fool.

But money isn't speech.

You should tell that to Justice Scalia. He seems to think so.

Citizen United is predicated on the idea that Corporations are people therefore they have the same legal protections as citizens. As you pointed out, if you agree with that premise then it would follow that you should not be able to restrict which corporation can spend money in politics. This underlying idea, that corporations are people, is not new and has been around as judicial precedent since the founding of the republic.

Do you think that corporations should be able to influence elections despite their inability to vote? What is stopping the citizens that make up those corporations exercising their rights to express their opinions?

Money in politics is not a good thing. I don't think any one disputes that. What is disputed is that non-voting "people" are controlling the dialogue because of their vast reservoirs of cash.

How do you reduce the blatant corruption and bribery infecting all levels of government? http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/top-20-airports-tsa-theft/story?id=17537887
October, 2012

1. Miami International Airport (29)
2. JFK International Airport (27)
3. Los Angeles International Airport (24)
4. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (17)
5. Las Vegas-McCarren International Airport (15)
6. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and New York-Laguardia Airport (14 each)
8. Newark Liberty, Philadelphia International, and Seattle-Tacoma International airports (12 each)
11. Orlando International Airport (11)
12. Houston-George Bush Intercontinental Airport and Salt Lake City International Airport (10 each)
14. Washington Dulles International Airport (9)
15. Detroit Metro Airport and Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (7)
17. Boston-Logan International, Denver International and San Diego International airports (6)
20. Chicago O'Hare International Airport (5)

trying to put together some sort of scandal or conspiracy, or even flat out making things up ("Obama is coming for your guns!")

Whatever your views on the issue, I find it curious that of the laundry list of nasty things the Rs said/did to smear Obama's campaign, you pick the one that was, by all metrics, objectively true.

His views prior, and up to his bid for president contrasted to...four days ago The same man who in 2008 promised among other things to increase government transparency, eliminate domestic spying, and not to go after guns...did what again? Did his part to make government more opaque, tolerated if not tacitly endorsed increased domestic spying, and went after guns at every major opportunity (often impotently).

You must have grown up a long time ago, in a school district far away. Today teachers have to buy their own supplies, out of their own personal funds.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Teachers spending $500 out of own pockets for kids' school supplies: union poll
Pens, paper — the basics — are what hard-pressed teachers are laying out their own cash for, says the union. City educrats, with a $24 billion education budget, say, 'hard-working teachers should not have to pay for supplies.'
BY Ben Chapman
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, March 2, 2014, 6:54 PM

City schools are so strapped that teachers are buying the basics with their own money, a teachers union poll released Monday shows.

On average, public school teachers will spend almost $500 of their own cash this year on pens, paper and other instructional materials.

Even with its $24 billion education budget, the city doesn't always deliver the basics, teachers union president Michael Mulgrew said.

"It was the teachers who were holding the schools together -- with the tape that they bought, it seems," Mulgrew said.

Roughly half of 800 randomly selected teachers who responded to the 2013 survey said that their schools do not have a curriculum for the state's tougher new Common Core standards.

Teachers also said the Internet connections in half of their schools were either too slow or too unreliable to support instruction.

City educrats said they were working to get teachers a cash infusion.

"Hard-working teachers should not have to pay for supplies out of their own pockets," said Department spokesman Marcus Liem.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story...
Teachers Spend Own Money for Supplies
Aug. 31
By Maria F. Durand

Bruce Hogue is always looking for ways to make teaching science more interesting.

But the money he uses for the boxes of Cheerios, Bran Flakes and Total needed for one his experiments usually comes out of his pocket.

“As a science teacher, I have an official budget, but that is usually gone by the beginning of the year,” says Hogue, who works in suburban Denver. “When I want to do a science lab, I usually pay for it all on my own.”

Hogue is one of the millions of teachers across the country who are shelling out their own hard-earned cash to pay for books, pens, pencils and other basic supplies that schools have provided in the past.

No, I don't have it backwards, since they both were Coast Guard veterans, but that's not how it was being portrayed in the media prior to the video, which was the point I was making.

Here is an example of a man in jail serving a life sentence for self defense. Of course you said an example where the man didn't go overboard in defending himself. Of course, there is no such thing as overboard when someone is pointing a gun at you. Only judges, jurists and armchair quarterbacks think that there is such a thing is restraint when someone has a gun in your face. Well, not all judges, jurists and armchair quarterbacks. Some of them have had guns thrust in their faces and understand what that does to a person's sense of self preservation.

Heh yeah right. Boeing recently was sued for threatening to locate a factory in a non-union state. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/po...

Actually, I don't think Alaska is at all obvious, with its relative "frontier" attitude.

Alaska actually has the most restrictive alcohol purchase and consumption laws in the US outside certain areas of the Deep South. There are 96 communities in Alaska that prohibit sale of alcohol, and 34 of those even ban its possession. This is because in much of Alaska, there is f--k all to do except drink, and alcohol abuse is endemic enough already, even without the legal restrictions. The state even has a law, which is actually enforced that makes it a crime to be drunk in a bar. (Yeah, I know.) So while you might think that Alaska would be a "gubmint keep your hands off my guns and booze" state, it turns out to just be a "hands off my guns" state.

Mike Pence was asked many times by ABC if it would allow discrimination based on sexual orientation, and all he gave were non-answers.. Also, it's a lie to call his bill "the same as other states", when other states have laws preventing discrimination against LGBT. Indiana has no such protective laws, and Pence is opposed to them.

Even Fox News has debunked his claims that his law "is the same as the other laws."

Did I miss something? Haven't we been all through this before? Did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 just vanish? It's pretty clear that Federal Law prohibits discrimination. Trying to dress up discrimination as Religious Freedom is farcical.

That would be true, if Sexual Orientation was a "Protected Class" under the 14th Amendment (or a similar State Statute/Constitutional Amendment); but, at the Federal Level, and at the Indiana State Level, that is not the case.

In fact, if Indiana would add Sexual Orientation to its State-Constitutional version of the 14th Amendment (don't have time to look it up), like Michigan apparently did, there wouldn't be this kerfluffle.

But it didn't. And, as long as Mike Pence is in the Governor's office, it won't. He made that abundantly clear yesterday on This Week.

Grow your own food. The food savings really adds up

Go directly to jail.

haircuts, gasoline, legal representation, prescription drugs (though sellers have been caught illegally selling prescription drugs through Amazon), etc.

Compare our invasion of Korea with that of Vietnam only a few years later. Before you say "Korea was UN-approved" — no, that's a lame excuse. Stalin boycotted UN at the time action on Korea was decided, but by the time of Vietnam USSR has changed its approach. That's all.

So what? You're talking about the public perception of the war, UN approval forms part of that public perception.

In both cases American military was sent to fight in remote lands against people, who didn't threaten America directly in any way — for fear of the domino effect of Communism. In both cases the fighting was heavy and numerous war-crimes have taken place.

And yet, there was no domestic opposition to the Korean war — virtually none. No protests against the draft, no accusations of returning soldiers being "baby-killers". John Kerry, for example, has gained more political capital for opposing the war (and returning his medals), than for fighting in it (for an entire 4 months).

Vietnam was widely considered a national shame long before the war was lost. Meanwhile the only source of any negativity about the Korean war in mass culture was the M*A*S*H series.

Why was the domestic reaction to the two wars so drastically different? The theory of propagandists controlled and funded (with or without their own knowledge) by the USSR would explain the known facts.

It's possible, but a far more likely factor is the fact they were very different wars at very different times.

The Korean war was over in 3 years. In Vietnam the US stepped into a long running conflict which ran a lot longer.

The US was also coming straight out of WWII, so the idea that you should deal with belligerent countries pro-actively sounded like a really good idea and provided a great narrative, the communist threat would have also seemed less intractable since you didn't have to deal with Nuclear arms race.

You've also got media actually showing the home front what the battlefield actually looks like, that's a pretty profound change from previously where media pieces were basically clips from war movies.

Finally you had a completely different culture in the 60's that was largely based on a rejection of authority, do you think that was going to mix well with the military?

You don't need Soviet propaganda to explain the Vietnam peace movement, the known facts are explained by the known facts.