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Well! Now we know exactly what the Hillary Rodham Clinton "process" was for converting from classified to unclassified: just order her underlings to strip off the classified markings and send unsecure.

Are you still going to defend her for this?

Looks like Hillary Clinton and Jake Sullivan both need to do 10 year sentences in federal prison. I hope he rats her out for a reduced sentence. Oh wait, that would require the Obama Department of Justice to actually enforce the law against Hillary Clinton... if they don't then I guess she's just above the law, unlike ordinary men and women.

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/01/08/whoa-hillary-e-mail-instructs-aide-to-transmit-classified-e-mail-without-markings/

"If they can’t, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure.” - Hillary!

Yep - Hillary! ordered an aide to strip the classification headers off a classified document and send it via nonsecure email.

He has no chance of being elected, and he knows that.

Reality disagrees... but please, keep saying stuff about Trump. It only helps.

I am aware that polls this early are largely meaningless, but let's look at some numbers outside of context.

He's got about 40% of the Republican vote at the moment. Let's assume that figure holds across the party so that, for example, if Cruz bows out 40% of those supporters move to Trump. That gives him 40% + (40% x 60%) = 64% of the Republican vote, using back-of-the-envelope estimates.

No one bothered to check with Democratic voters until recently, but Trump has stronger support from Democrats than he does from Republicans!

Astonishing!

If *those* numbers are accurate, he could get elected right now.

And all of this is ignoring any context. For example:

a) The investigation into Hillary could conclude, bringing charges against her
b) Hillary could have a medical issue (campaigning is stressful, she's had medical problems, Trump hasn't)
c) US could have another domestic terrorist attack
d) Trump has not made campaign ads - he's spent about a million, compared to Jeb's 32 million.

And finally, Trump will get elected simply because no one opposes his position in any rational way - it's all namecalling and derision.

Don't believe me? Find a rational argument as to why a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country isn't a common-sense response to an immediate threat.

You can't do it. The only response, so far as I can find, is to cast aspersions on the person asking that question. Terms like bigot, predjudiced, racist, and extremist are used. Also outright lies such as "it's unconstitutional" (no, it's not), "it's impossible to tell who's a Muslim" (no, it's not), "that's not what America is about" (we've done it before), and so on.

Then tell me why enforcing immigration law is a bad move (instead of amnesty, which is what the administration was quietly floating), why simplifying the tax code is a bad move, why having strong treaty negotiation is a bad move, and why replacing Obamacare with something better would be a bad move.

As near as I can tell, early November was the tipping point where you could have stopped Donald Trump. Someone could have stepped up and addressed his policies, and in that act presented as a strong leader. By now it's probably too late.

Oh, and let's not forget that the lead Democratic candidate has accomplished nothing in her career, and the democratic runner-up is a Socialist. A SOCIALIST!

Please.

Donald may not win the election, but saying he has no chance is entirely without merit.

so what do you do for the 354 other mass shootings this year not done by muslims?

(repeated from above)
(Re: 355) Shooting tracker is provided by a openly biased anti 2ndA sub-reddit, not a factual news source. Their list also does not meet the FBI criteria for "mass shootings".

(new!)
Here is some actual factual data including the FBI definition of a "mass shooting": https://www.fbi.gov/news/stori...

Average of 11.4 active shooter incidents per year. 16.4 in the last 7 years of the study. Median deaths per incident = 2, median wounded = 2. (page 9)
The FBI found that 64 incidents (40.0%) would have been categorized as falling within the new federal definition of “mass killing,” which is defined as “three or more killings in a single incident.” (page 9)

I reject the definition of "mass killing" as 3 individuals, but that is the government's definition. Therefore 64/14 = ~ 5 per year average.

Another interesting quote: "In 63 incidents where the duration of the incident could be ascertained, 44 (70%) of 63 incidents ended in 5 minutes or less, with 23 ending in 2 minutes or less. Even when law enforcement was present or able to respond within minutes, civilians often had to make life and death decisions, and, therefore, should be engaged in training and discussions on decisions they may face." (page 8)

(repeated from above) Consider the following:
"As for the Washington Post’s citing the 350+ mass-shooting statistic, it’s pure unadulterated nonsense. Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon reported that only 21 of the 355 shootings on this sub-Reddit thread met the standards for the FBI classification of a mass shooting. Second, some of the incidents on the list aren’t even shootings, as indicated by Mediaite’s Alex Griswold. Here’s one that he found:

                A pair of township boys are accused of shooting four others with a pellet gun, police said.
                Nobody was seriously hurt by the 11- and 12-year-old boys who shot the pellet gun at them on April 25 in the Twinbrook Village apartment complex, Detective Lt. Kevin Faller said in a statement.

Of course, many publications omitted the fact that they’re citing Reddit."
source: http://hotair.com/archives/201... [hotair.com]

11 and 12 year-olds with a pellet gun is a "mass shooting" ?!?

Shooting tracker is provided by a openly biased anti 2ndA sub-reddit, not a factual news source. Their list also does not meet the FBI criteria for "mass shootings".

Consider the following:
"As for the Washington Post’s citing the 350+ mass-shooting statistic, it’s pure unadulterated nonsense. Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon reported that only 21 of the 355 shootings on this sub-Reddit thread met the standards for the FBI classification of a mass shooting. Second, some of the incidents on the list aren’t even shootings, as indicated by Mediaite’s Alex Griswold. Here’s one that he found:

        A pair of township boys are accused of shooting four others with a pellet gun, police said.
        Nobody was seriously hurt by the 11- and 12-year-old boys who shot the pellet gun at them on April 25 in the Twinbrook Village apartment complex, Detective Lt. Kevin Faller said in a statement.

Of course, many publications omitted the fact that they’re citing Reddit."
source: http://hotair.com/archives/201...

11 and 12 year-olds with a pellet gun is a "mass shooting" ?!?

Continuously re-posting grossly inaccurate information does not make it fact. Even politifact agrees: http://www.politifact.com/trut...

Until that time most of the rest of us will continue to point out how you ARE the problem, not part of the solution.

Illiberal quoting of bad data to claim wrong-think while providing non-factual data, snark remarks, and moral superiority name calling as a rebuttal is the actual problem.

(not intended to be redundant with this: http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... )

While we're on the subject of Reddits, here is one for defensive firearm use: DGU https://www.reddit.com/r/dgu (where they allow and encourage debate, unlike the owners of "shootings tracker":GRC)

I posted this link a few days ago here on ./ but it's topical and worthy of a repost here:
Cops Now Steal More from Citizens than do Actual Criminals

And also on the "policing for profit" topic: Prisoners are now billed for their time in jail.. More here with some commentary here.

from the /. title and summary:

Microsoft Promotes New Trade Secrets Bill [which] ... would extend ex parte seizure law to federalize private information and data in corporate plaintiffs' lawsuits and extend the possibility for closed hearings and media injunctions.

from the opening sentence of Marco Rubio's guest column warning against government-funded corporate bailouts and appearing today at HotAir.com:

For too long, under both Democrats and Republicans, Washington and big businesses have teamed up to rig our economy to their benefit, often at the expense of everyday Americans.

So, more rigging underway here.

from the /. title and summary:

Microsoft Promotes New Trade Secrets Bill [which] ... would extend ex parte seizure law to federalize private information and data in corporate plaintiffs' lawsuits and extend the possibility for closed hearings and media injunctions.

from the opening sentence of Marco Rubio's guest column warning against government-funded corporate bailouts and appearing today at HotAir.com:

For too long, under both Democrats and Republicans, Washington and big businesses have teamed up to rig our economy to their benefit, often at the expense of everyday Americans.

So, more rigging underway here.

Many folks would argue about his "legacy" being thin, and they would be right.

Oh really?

Obama pulled all the troops out of Iraq before Iraq was ready to defend itself, and he publicly announced the date on which Iraq would be defenceless. Result: ISIS overrunning major cities, looting banks to buy weapons, murdering and raping. I lay this death toll squarely at Obama's feet... he inherited a pacified situation from Bush and managed to screw it all to hell. Then he denied it.

Obama signed the ironically named "Affordable Care Act" but didn't write it. He did stump for it, famously promising that "if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor", promising that a family of 4 would save $2500 per year. Result: people found they couldn't keep their doctor, people found that premiums went up for everyone, and now the ACA is entering a death spiral.

Obama's "recovery" is the worst recovery since 1932.

Obama mocked Romney for identifying Russia as a strategic threat, and now Russia is making a shambles of US policy in the middle east. Obama actually started this, when he gratefully let Putin rescue him from having to actually do something when Syria crossed his "red line".

On Obama's watch, an embassy was successfully attacked and the ambassador killed, the first death of an ambassador in the line of duty in three decades. Maybe we should blame that on Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State? But she was Obama's Secretary of State. "The buck stops here."

How has the Democratic Party done with Obama as President? Not well.

I don't think Obama's "legacy" is thin at all. I think it's thick, but it's a thick legacy of failure and disaster.

Yes. White boy scares school morons . White girl scares school morons

'I am troubled by the allegations that such dangerous and illicit activity went undetected at a federal research facility'

Seriously? After reports of government lawyers watching porn on their office computers, nothing really surprises me about Federal government. Especially given the nincompoop we've twice elected to run it.

Because even among the above mentioned work-place masturbators none got fired.

Never assume drug companies aren't complete bastards who care only for their own profits.

There! Thank you for restoring my faith in Slashdot.

They've make cures from ground up babies

Certainly! I even know, who the supplier would be.

Ghost Gunner...may signal a new era in the gun control debate

Presumably he means a "new era" of debate in which gun-rights advocates are not resoundingly winning that debate. This week's news is that the Texas legislature approved campus carry and both houses of the Maine legislature approved constitutional carry. And those immediately followed the Federal Courts rollback of carry restrictions in DC. And last year Illinois legalized concealed carry.

I don't see how Andy Greenburg using a "Ghost Gunner" is going to reverse that trend.

Ghost Gunner...may signal a new era in the gun control debate

Presumably he means a "new era" of debate in which gun-rights advocates are not resoundingly winning that debate. This week's news is that the Texas legislature approved campus carry and both houses of the Maine legislature approved constitutional carry. And those immediately followed the Federal Courts rollback of carry restrictions in DC. And last year Illinois legalized concealed carry.

I don't see how Andy Greenburg using a "Ghost Gunner" is going to reverse that trend.

Ah, "good" ol' Media Matters! When the chips for Bill and Hill are down, they'll come throught!

NYT reporter: Misdirecting on Clinton stories is what Media Matters "exists to do"

Bombshell book 'Clinton Cash' to get up to 8 revisions, publisher says

... Amazon has emailed those who'd purchased the e-book version that an "updated version" is available.

"The updated version contains the following changes: Significant revisions have been made," the alert reads.

HarperCollins, which published the book, played down the changes.

"The changes that Amazon is referring to as significant are actually quite minor. We made 7-8 factual corrections after the first printing and fixed a technical issue regarding the endnotes. This global fix may have made the changes appear more extensive than they were," HarperCollins spokeswoman Joanna Pinsker said in an email.

Hmm ... Amazon ... Bezos ...big donor to Democrats as I recall.

Well, I guess we'll see what emerges over time.

Except that cash-for-clunkers was a COMPLETE failure:

First as an economic program, it was a joke: http://hotair.com/archives/201...

Second, even in terms of the environment, it was a joke: http://jalopnik.com/5973474/su...

They have a gofundme to help cover their legal fees.

Fuck gofundme, and the horse they rode in on.

UN says US violating international law, calls for closure of Guantanamo
US Attack On Syria Violates International Law
US drone strikes violate international law, harm civilians: Amnesty and HRW (VIDEO)
NATO Violates International Law
US: Prolonged Indefinite Detention Violates International Law
UN says US drone war in Pakistan violates international law
The Military Admitted Force-Feeding Gitmo Detainees Violates International Law and Medical Ethics
US violates int’l laws; moves USS Enterprise into Pakistani water near Balochistan
International community concerned America violating international law by striking Syria
Americans Abandon International Law

Whether they realize it or not, Americans are increasingly embracing policies that undermine the international rule of law, with self-identified liberals, in particular, seemingly reversing their positions on matters such as the Guantanamo prison camp, extrajudicial assassinations and arbitrary detention.

A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, for example, found that 70 percent of the American public approves of the U.S. government’s decision to indefinitely keep the Guantanamo prison open, despite widespread international condemnation of this policy.

As far as we know, ONLY Hillary Clinton used her family email server.

You are mistaken. Hillary Clinton's top aides also used her private server.

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/03/11/video-oh-by-the-way-hillarys-top-aides-used-private-e-mail-too/

The situation is perfectly clear. As Secretary of State, she was provided with a government email account that would archive her emails. She didn't use it, meaning she was free to delete any embarrassing emails with no check other than her own conscience.

She absolutely violated government policy by doing this. The State Department forced an ambassador to resign specifically because he violated this policy. Who was the head of the State Department when this happened? Hillary Clinton.

http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/05/hillarys-state-dept-forced-the-resignation-of-an-ambassador-for-using-private-e-mail/

I'm not saying that I agree with her using her own personal email server, but I also don't think this "controversy" rises to the level of me really giving a rat's ass about. Actually it rises to the level of "She should have known better... but meh".

Really? An elected official, a public servant, took affirmative steps to make sure that you and I cannot use FOIA to look at her official correspondence during her time in office, and that's "meh"?

Tell me, do you have one standard for Hillary Clinton and another one for Richard Nixon? Because IMHO what she did was far worse. No federal law required Nixon to record conversations, so he wasn't violating the law when he erased parts of the tapes. She was violating the law multiple ways, and knew she was doing so, and her actions took place over a span of years.

What does concern me is that the right decided to use this low grade political material so early that it will be forgotten by the time the election season actually hits full stride. So the more important question is what's going on that requires the gullible media's distraction on something as trivial as email usage by a retired secretary of state?

You are speculating that the Republicans are trying to distract the media? Do you think that would actually even work? Given the choice between publishing dirt on Republicans and publishing dirt on Hillary Clinton, the media will publish the dirt on Republicans 99 times out of 100, and the other time they will publish dirt on both.

There is a group trying to get records related to Benghazi, the incident where a US Ambassador and several other people were killed. We have reports that Hillary Clinton personally refused to beef up the security when the ambassador requested it. It would be nice to check the email records to see if this is true or not, so there is an FOIA request to see her email. It turns out that the State Department cannot turn over emails that they don't have.

This is a big deal. Hillary Clinton is not complying with the legal requirements of discovery during a lawsuit. She handed over 55,000 printed pages and claims that it's everything, but we just have to trust her on whether it really is everything.

We have no record of any emails from the Secretary of State for a period of months that includes Benghazi. And we have photographs of her using a Blackberry during those months, and a Blackberry is useful for exactly one thing, email.

Also, does it bother you that she is just straight-up lying about this? She said nothing for a week, and then came up with this weak-sauce excuse that she just didn't want to have two devices. Just two weeks previous to this blowup, she said on television that she uses both an iPhone and a Blackberry.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2561329

Actually no, they did not: http://hotair.com/archives/201...

Their reasoning is mostly vindicated, as they keep voting for a government that takes from the imddle class and gives to their voter base.

So, in your country you can "leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations"?

You sure you aren't talking about the US?

No. I pay taxes because it's my duty to society. [...] Perhaps you are a sociopath, and we need threats of violence to control people

No, dearest. It is the other way around. If, indeed, the tax-avoidance was only found among sociopaths, the Executive (IRS) wouldn't have needed the investigative apparatus, its own "Tax court" (whose Judges the President is empowered to remove at whim), and the power to confiscate property and bank-accounts (on mere suspicion, neither proof nor even an accusation of wrongdoing is required), and to garnish wages.

If parasitic sociopaths like myself truly were a tiny minority you allege us to be, why have the tax code at all? Have responsible folks like yourself pay what each believes their fair share to be, and shrug at the non-paying sociopaths the way you shrug at a similarly anti-social drunkards.

Indeed, why do you trust the IRS to determine your fair share — why don't you pay more? It is easy — and the Treasury encourages such gifts.

not all of us are that way

If most of us were not that way, then we would've been getting by just fine on voluntary donations — as, indeed, we were throughout the 19th century.

But then the government types decided, the benevolent and omniscient government officials are better at running various things — and the taxes went up... Today I pay at least 50% of my earnings to various tax-authorities (Federal, State, and local) — plus the sales tax. I don't like it one bit — I'm perfectly certain, I would've spent it better than Charlie Rangels in Congress do — and only the threat of violence keeps me in line.

I also don't rob banks, because I consider it an obligation to society not to do so.

No, it is not your obligation to society — it is your obligation to the owner(s) of what you would've misappropriated. Derived, of course, from your inner subliminal unwillingness to see the same sort of thing ever done to yourself.

But I do find your equating obligations to the government with those towards fellow men interesting. Perhaps, you'd be better in a country driven by Confucian or similarly Socialist principles, rather than the Individualist America...

Both parties deserve credit for cooperation. Republicans and Democrats have been working together in the House to enact many reforms, not just patent reforms.

... as of August, 356 bills passed by the House sat languishing in the Senate. Some 200 of those bills were passed with bipartisan majorities and 100 with the support of 75 percent of the House Democratic conference.

link.

The problem here is specifically Harry Reid, not the Democrat party in general. However, Democrats will not replace him on their own, and the only way to do that in this election cycle will be to vote a Republican majority into the Senate. Hence support for the Republican party when the actual target is only one Senator.

Actually, I do know how close to reality those numbers are. They're not close at all. The odds of an fatal accident are less than 1.3 per 100 million miles traveled, and the odds of any accident are about 231 per 100 million miles. So you're off by more than a factor of 4 in your accident rate per mile. And even though there's a lot of correlative "evidence" that suggests cell phones cause a lot of accidents, there's much stronger evidence suggesting that this is not, in fact, the case. In fact, the numbers actually suggest that the opposite may be true—that increased cell phone use has reduced the rate of accidents.

Over the past couple of decades, as cell phone usage grew from essentially nobody having one to roughly everyone having one, the number of accidents per mile has been steadily decreasing. This suggests that in the grand scheme of things, either cell phones have no appreciable effect on accident rates, or that any effect that they have is more than negated by other factors, ranging from better braking and traction control to the extra cognitive ability resulting from people doing more multitasking in their daily lives.

Now this is decidedly not the case for teenage drivers. They still suck at driving, and as a result, it is quite possible that the extra risk from reading that text will be greater than the reduced risk from the extra miles. We shouldn't allow teens to use cell phones while driving for the same reason that we don't allow them to drive with other kids in the car—every little distraction is a problem if you lack the driving experience to do it instinctually. But the numbers strongly suggest that such prohibitions are completely ineffectual when applied to the population as a whole. (Although that's about the California law, similar studies have been done in other states that have passed anti-phone laws, and AFAIK, they've all consistently shown that such laws have no statistically significant effect on accident or fatality rates. None.)

In other words, the numbers agree with me and disagree with you. The cell phone distraction myth is just that: a myth. Glancing at a cell phone and reading a short message is no more dangerous than glancing down at the radio or the air conditioner or any of the other random things in your car that you might look at for two or three seconds. As risk factors go, it is almost completely lost in the noise.

What you're fundamentally missing is that the increased risk associated with skimming a text is over a very short period of time. The total risk requires you to multiply that risk times only the portion of your trip that it affects. Even if reading that text made you 100x more likely to have a wreck during those three seconds out of a twenty minute trip, the total risk averaged over the trip as a whole would still be somewhere around a 25% total increase. By contrast, if not taking that call means that you drive 30% more miles, the odds of you being of an accident increase by 30%, because accident rates are roughly linear in the number of miles driven. And I'm not convinced for one minute that it makes you 100x more likely to have a wreck, because for the overwhelming majority of those 3-second periods, there will be nothing happening in front of you whatsoever. I'm not convinced that you're even 10x more likely.

But suppose we go with your numbers and assume that your odds of an accident per mile is 1 in 100,000, and skimming a text gives you a whopping 1 in 10,000 chance of a wreck. That means that if reading the text saves at least ten miles of driving, you're still better off reading the text than not reading it. That's not a particularly high bar. The average American has a 25.5 minute commute each way, so assuming you're equally likely to be asked to stop at any point along that route, using your numbers, on average, you're still better off reading the text message than not reading it, assuming you get it near the beginning of your trip.

Of course it is - after all, the Obama Administration has been railing about the gender gap when it's leading the way in keeping the gender gap alive... Another case of our President being "do as I say, not as I do".

"Yes - it's a big failure" - Yes, that much we can certainly agree on. Here is a little news flashback for you (I intentionally did not choose a story from Fox News or similar Right-leaning news source) : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Not surprisingly, the administration has quitely stopped releasing signup numbers, despite a promise to do so in the article above: http://hotair.com/archives/201...

The Obama administration continues to play fast and loose with the term "enrollment" and still refuse to tell the public how many people have actually paid for an insurance plan via the Obamacare website.

I'm not suggesting that people should "die" when they get sick. Far from it. I believe that Americans should get the best medical care available.

What I am suggesting is that the implementation of the Affordable Care Act has been a collosal bungle, the likes of which the free world has never seen.

Right into the ocean.

Except in the UK, you do not have the right to remain silent, or at least, you can remain silent but that may work against you in court.

Wikipedia explains,

"The right to silence was amended in 1984 by allowing adverse inferences to be drawn at a court hearing in cases where a suspect refuses to explain something, and then later produces an explanation. In other words the jury is entitled to infer that the accused fabricated the explanation at a later date, as he refused to provide the explanation during police questioning."

Furthermore, this is nothing new to the UK; there is precedent for being arrested for not providing your password to the police when requested, and the courts supported the action.

1. "Envisioning the future" vs. working on programs of mass-surveillance against the own population.

NSA's surveillance has not — as of today — harmed an innocent American. It has a scary potential to become a dangerous tool in the hands of a totalitarian-minded executive by arming him with information about opposition, that he really ought not have.

The Zimmermann Telegram was sent during war-time via diplomatic channels [emphasis mine]

There, you said it. Diplomatic channels ought to be sacred — much as (if not more!) so than the channels used by private citizens.

The Enigma was primarily used for military encryption.

All radio-traffic had to be listened to in order to find enemy's messages. Much like the Internet-traffic today needs to be sifted through...

The Allies were at (world) war against Germany.

We are at war with terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda and other non-governmental groups today. In addition, we remain subject to espionage efforts by various other countries. Consider, for just one example, the work Russia's subversives are doing to start a civil war in Ukraine today — to justify their invasion and annexation of the country. Can't a similar method be used in Southern California, Arizona, and Texas? Shouldn't a country's intelligence be working on preventing such things?

The war against Germany was officially declared.

Distinction without difference. When elite troops without insignia, but with very modern weapons (and Russian accents) occupy government buildings in Alaska (which Russians already refer to as "Ice-Crimea") to oversee a "referendum" on separating from US and joining Russia, they will do so without a formal declaration of war either.

The national ACLU, post-Heller, has tried to stake out a position next to the the dead armadillos, but several state affiliates have consistently held (and local and national have occasionally defended) an individual-rights position.

So how could the IRS fund their Microsoft Custom Support? By seizing tax refunds.

http://hotair.com/archives/201...

Obama wasn't on board until about 2012 as well, he must resign too.

You can try to paper over Venezuela's self-inflicted problems, but it won't be with toilet paper.

How socialism has destroyed Venezuela
" Somehow, toilet paper is now more valuable than paper money."

Venezuela Imploding Like the Soviet Union

The left has a blind spot on Venezuela.

Discrimination based on one's sexually or discrimination based one's religious/political beliefs? It's seems the discrimination of homosexuals has been replaced by discrimination against anyone who opposes gay marriage. http://hotair.com/archives/201... Which seems to be the majority of the people that voted for the ban because it passed.

I am amused by AGW Apparatchiks. Because that's what AGW is, a political movement, not science and not religion.

It seeks to control what people drive, where they drive, when they drive, where they live, what they use to fuel the vehicles, heat their homes, cool their homes, etc. etc. etc. Using these controls, they want to move on to wealth distribution because they can argue that wealthier people produce more C02 (But they ignore Algore and China because they are politically correct)

And it has the stink of totalitarianism to it. Some what to send "deniers" to jail

The very fact they use "denier" stinks of political condemnation by the Global Warming Nazis.

Major newspapers censors dissenting opinions

Carbon taxes seek to punish industries that have broken no laws and has put people out of work.

And the science of it is laughable. Computer models drive all the predictions of doom and gloom. Funny thing is, they can't predict the past and they certainly haven't predicted the future...at least the last 17 years. So they move the goal posts. First, it was 5 years doesn't show no warming, that takes 10 years. Then after ten years, it was 15. After 15, It's now...what? Who knows? If they were smart, they'd go for 100, just to be safe.

Global Warming is to Science what Piers Anthony is to Journalism; a side show of freaks and grant seekers.

So, are you saying that we lost our Freedom around 1914? I'm very curious, what was happening then? Well, there was the build up to the Great Depression. I'm probably giving you too much credit. You probably just don't know how old our country is.

Federal Income Tax. Evidently, I know your history at least somewhat better than you do.

The Free Market is a lie. It has never existed, and it never will.

That's putting it straight, sure... Completely false, but nicely straightforward, thank you.

Mind you, the CIA and the NSA have been doing this shit for decades now

CIA and NSA are only invading my privacy. It is a serious transgression, to be sure, but they don't care, how I raise my children, what I am paid, what sort of light-bulbs I use (a new excuse for the government to check my bedroom), nor, indeed, where and I how I buy my car — just to put this conversation back on topic.

You should read up on what the US did in South America

Stopping the spread of Communism — the deadliest school of thought known to man (even Hitler's peculiar strand of Fascism is but a distant second) — was and remains something to be proud of. Compare Chile, where we succeeded, with Cuba, where we failed... One is Latin America's top economy, the other a crap-hole, which even Michael Moore's brilliant propaganda can't turn into a chicken sandwich.

But we are talking about domestic laws, not foreign policy, so let's stick to that.

If you don't want to help the needy, fund basic education for the betterment of all

I don't want to be forced at gun-point to pay for all those things — and that's exactly, how IRS collects the monies. But, if I must subsidize those poor, would you accept their disenfranchisement? For any recipient of public assistance is to state the Pauper's Oath — and not participate in any poll while receiving such assistance and for, say, three more months after recovering their self-sufficiency?

Why wouldn't you accept that — the unfortunates temporarily down on their luck will not care, while the life-long takers will, at least, lose their say in the affairs of the country. No, it is neither a poll tax nor a property requirement — you can be dirt poor and still vote, as long as you don't ask for public assistance.

Still a no?..

I don't know where you got shelter and telephone service from...

From the government's subsidies for housing projects, fuel assistance, and the telephones — both wired and cellular (affectionately referred to as "Obamaphones"). Evidently, I know more about the country's present than you as well — not just history.

go live in fucking Somalia

(Manners, young man, manners. If you lose your temper, I win.) Why don't you instead go live in fancy North Korea — where laws abound, effective taxes exceed 90% (what is not government-provided is unaffordable) and every one is equally poor?

With my taxes, I buy civilization. I'm going to bike my hippy ass to work tomorrow on publicly funded roads

Is not it terrible, that one still has to pay for the bicycle to e

At least according to the Obama administration.

Chicago is where crime is high because of global warming.
I don't remember reading about famines in Chicago, seeing as I was there a few months ago and didn't myself starve.

THAT is the reason people don't believe it anymore. One CNN anchor tried to suggest global warming caused asteroid strikes on Earth. AGW supporters are idiots for not calling out stuff like this.

Democrats have used fake websites, and their functionality depended on the purpose. Of course they have done more than that too, including running fake candidates.

Dems who created fake Tea Party candidates arraigned in Michigan

Reid Campaign Targets Angle Supporters With Phishing Website

Harry Reid’s campaign, however, took the code from the prior Angle website and launched a website called “TheRealSharronAngle.com.” The fake website was what, in internet terminology, is called spoofing, where a seemingly real website is created, usually to obtain information under false pretenses (frequently referred to as “phishing”). ...

But the reality is that by creating a spoofed website with the contact and volunteer functions operable, the Reid campaign sought to obtain personally identifiable information about Angle supporters. At a minimum, such information about Angle supporters would have been gathered under false pretenses.

The phishing function also would have been disruptive to the Angle campaign because people who thought they had volunteered for the Angle campaign never would have been contacted to help out because they had, in fact, been tricked.

Regardless of whether the Reid campaign’s spoofing and phishing attempt was criminal, it was sleazy.

Is Reid Campaign Hiding Its Activities To Evade Campaign Finance Laws?

The result was at worst neutral, and likely better.

Why President Gore might have gone into Iraq after 9/11, too
What Would Gore Have Done? (WWGHD)

It could have been much better than it was, if only ....

Blame Fannie Mae and Congress For the Credit Mess

However, those two years have brought on voter registration laws designed to disenfranchise, laws so blatantly racist that it's pants-on-heads insane that anybody let them get away with it.

Voter turnout in Texas nearly doubles under new ID law
Minority turnout increased dramatically after Georgia voter-ID law
New Analysis Shows Voter Identification Laws Do Not Reduce Turnout

Voting fraud is an important question since so many elections are now decided by margins of victory less than the margin of fraud.

Al Franken May Have Won His Senate Seat Through Voter Fraud

Poor and minority votes seem especially vulnerable.

Poor and Disadvantaged are Most Likely to Have Their Vote Stolen
Officials Plead Guilty in New York Voter Fraud Case

Mississippi NAACP leader sent to prison for 10 counts of voter fraud
New York Investigators Obtain Fraudulent Ballots 97 Percent of Time
The “snowbird vote” takes wing

You missed me? I didn't mean to cause a moral panic by my absence. ;)

Yes. Obama created this storm to destroy his Kenyan birth certificate that his mother secreted at an Indonesia Bank ...

Really? I heard that was all just a plot to help hide the fact that Obama is a lizard man* and Biden used to wear a mullet (party on Joe!).

* That was enlightening. There are some Slashdotters I can peg to a number of those theories..

It's worse than that. Many people thought President Obama's first election was the Second Coming. Certainly the promises were messianic. But only now after President Obama's actual 2nd coming with his reelection are some people beginning to experience their first second thoughts. Now that the media is growing far less inclined to carry water for the administration, I doubt as many people will believe that President Obama walks on water. For some, the revelations are only beginning. Turn with me now to youtube page 5yaxVYNGaUU for a stirring rendition of Jerusalem.

Obama speech oceans receding, planet healing

Obama came up with ObamaCare because he needed a throwaway applause line in a campaign speech

George Soros doesn't attempt to hide what he does with his money.

That is too funny! Remember this little gem? - Discredited Lancet study gets even more discredited

That must have been some of the best propaganda money Soros ever spent. That "club" he paid for kept giving, and giving, and giving.

There is far more than goes on with him and his money than meets the eye.

Because it's not fair that some have saved money and earned a good amount, and they have options those who have done neither don't have? Remember, we're dealing with a President who doesn't really care about results, but more about what's "fair", even if it costs money to do it.

I was able to register fairly early (around the 3rd) - when the site was still undergoing the initial onslaught of gawkers....

Wow, this is kind of like seeing an endangered species or something.

Only Five Iowans Have Signed Up on Obamacare Exchange - 10 Oct 2013
Hawaii Relaunching Obamacare Exchange After Not Selling Any Health Insurance Due To Software Problems - October 10, 2013
Good news: Maryland has successfully enrolled 326 people in ObamaCare - October 7, 2013

Just 51,000 Americans Have Enrolled in Federal Obamacare Exchanges? - Oct 11, 2013

Double Down: Obamacare Will Increase Avg. Individual-Market Insurance Premiums By 99% For Men, 62% For Women

Watching these people selectively target the public is amusing. They're making very precise decisions about what happens, attacking constituencies they don't value.

The park service shenanigans are really amazing. Amnesty rally on the closed National Mall? No Problem! Have at it. Stand up and yell about racist nazi America; we'll bring the portapoties. Want to use an otherwise free, almost zero maintenance Federal parking spot at Mt. Rushmore? Nope, that's coned off and you need to move along or get fined.

Don't think this nasty shit isn't being noticed lefties. This "shutdown" theater is going to cost you. Read the poasts above. Nobody is taking this seriously. They know it's political games. They're going to get sick of it soon and the man in the White House, and his party, will take the hit.

All of you are missing the point.

http://americablog.com/2013/08/if-the-irs-gets-nsa-data-who-doesnt-this-is-a-data-trafficking-story.html

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/do-nsas-phone-internet-monitoring-programs-make-sense

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/06/06/breaking-fbi-nsa-massively-collecting-data-from-9-internet-companies/comment-page-2/

http://www.iowasource.com/health/2012_02_wifi.html

http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf

You all think ubiquitous wireless is for your convenience?

It's SO f'ing ridiculous, & worst of all? They're trying to feed us BULLSHIT like we're fucking STUPID or something... It's an INSULT to American people's intelligence!

* This really 'sets me off': &, it should all of you also, as fellow americans - we DON'T want this shit to go on -> http://hotair.com/archives/2013/07/24/video-nsa-white-house-getting-worried-about-defunding-vote-in-house/

Mr. Alexander's getting "panicky" & REACTING too: His tax dollars WE PAY FOR *may* be cut the F off... "We SEE you" pal, for what you TRULY are.

Why am I upset along with every other "Joe Public little person" out there? The assholes use it against us, but "OH, NO, not on ourselves!"...

That, & I saw protesters get f'd over - then, the abuse of the IRS targetting political opponents (both of which are WRONG as wrong gets), but then I saw how Gen. Keith Alexander & Mr. James Clapper outright LIED saying they were NOT intercepting communique data of US citizens (especially since the NSA is or WAS not permitted to do so to native US citizenry - sure, "but it's LEGAL" yea, ok - changing the rules IN "SECRET COURTS" (WTF? They're EMPLOYEES OF OURS, not our masters, we have a RIGHT to know what the fuck they're up to, especially when it concerns us), subverting constitutional rights & such is WRONG too - up there with "hate speech" b.s. too - if you say something, it has every RIGHT to be said, but it's up to YOU to listen or not, but it is STILL a right).

NOW, here's a theory on WHY Mr. Obama is trying to VETO this from passing: My guess is that the reason the head of the IRS didn't lose her job is that she'd "spill the beans" on WHO gave her the "go-ahead" to pull her shit as she did (and his hair has turned grey from it this past quarter - now, there's a clue)... same with all the others like Clapper & Alexander.

The rats WILL start eating the other rats when push comes to shove, just like in this video (i have to hand musicians 1 thing - they're generally intelligent & see things WAY in advance) -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfpgpf6QVnI&ob=av2n

APK

P.S.=> Folks - today, is THE day, where we find out just how "for the people & BY the people" our representatives in Congress are... apk