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Someone, please find and post this footage. Hell, I'd pay money!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/05/sex-pit-bull-detroit-students_n_3391671.html
I know the saying about man's best freind, but this is one brave, brave man.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-kern-sheriff-fbi-beating-death-20130514,0,7559565.story

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/15/david-silva-police_n_3280663.html

One woman frantically called 911, telling the operator: "The guy was laying on the floor and eight sheriffs ran up and started beating him up with sticks. The man is dead laying right here, right now. I got it all on video camera and I'm sending it to the news. These cops have no reason to do this to this man."

Two cellphones were confiscated by the sheriffs. Although they did get search warrants, they effectively held the witnesses with the video hostage until they gave up the phones. The warrants were not issued until after the cellphones were in police possession. When the cellphones were returned, one of the videos had been deleted. The owners of the cellphones said they watched both videos and at least one other person saw them as well.

Because of the obvious conflict of interest, the FBI is looking at the case. They also examined the cell phones. They have not made any statements so far.

Kern County just paid out $4.5 million for a very similar beating death that occurred in 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kern_County_Sheriff's_Department

You don't need a crystal ball to know how this will turn out. There will be an internal review that will "exonerate", i.e. whitewash, the cops and no charges or internal disciplinary actions will occur. The family will sue and get a big settlement. It will be resolved without going to trial, so there will be no transparency. The sheriffs office will maintain that they acted professionally and obeyed the law. A statement identical to this one will be issued: "Chief Deputy County Counsel Mark Nations says the jury's findings and the amount awarded to the family are excessive." That was the response to the settlement that was just awarded.

Every cop in California knows about this. They now have a new number one priority: destroying cellphone video evidence of anything they do. Don't be surprised when cops start attacking and arresting people with cellphones so they can delete videos.

If you record the police acting badly, leave the scene as quickly as possible. Upload the video and/or take it to the local news immediately. The people recording in this case thought that by calling 911 and telling the dispatcher about their recording that it would stop the beating and save a life. The actual result was that the officers involved will literally get away with murder.

Take a look here.

This iris scan device is expensive, ineffective and excessive.

But there are money for the contractors, bribe for the school administrators. Everyone is happy, right?

This just sounds like theft of public resources. Almost as bad as having a vice squad wrongly bust an autistic high school student for drugs (the school administrators were in on that one too) [1]. Or that case about the school admins who used software to take pictures of their students in their rooms with school laptops [2].

In all these cases, it's these un-impeachable un-elected school administrators who work with seedy police or corporations and are never punished. Instead, the public pays for unnecessary services, or they pay for unneeded lawsuits.

What will it take to get these folks fired and put in jail for reckless negligence and/or corruption?

[1] http://temecula.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/autistic-tvusd-student-wrongly-accused-in-massive-dru6a5c988a16
[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/11/lower-merion-school-distr_n_758882.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_ounce
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/13/soda-obesity-diabetes-ban-_n_2862064.html

Most governments often don't have their priorities straight. Everybody has their own problems.
Besides, as rightly pointed out by a comment below, what logic says that India should stop worrying about its defence till all Indians are shitting in toilets?

What's to stop them from lying like Holder apparently did. Just editing out tons of stuff. It's not like they're worried about going to jail.

I am not being cynical.

http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/05/28/eric-holder-under-investigation-by-house-judiciary-committee-for-possibly-lying-under-oath/

We have a serious problem with the integrity of the justice system. It's mainly because of worries about national security. Those worries go directly to a part of the minds of the individuals involved, the decision makers, and interact with inchoate, unconscious, individually-derived, unexamined, unspoken, irrational fears of death, chaos, disorder and loss of control.

What we're getting from this is a lot of law breaking and attempted law breaking on the part of the authorities who are basing decisions on the contents of their own personal unconscious .

Essentially everything, every breach of secrecy, every challenge to the ways and means they've decided upon, in some cases every utterance and especially anyone displaying an attitude of contempt for America is processed as some sort of potential disaster of absolute and unrecoverable proportions and justifies every kind of abuse .

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesselyn_Radack#cite_note-Dark_Side.2C_p.97-22

http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/05/29/imprisoned-cia-torture-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-pens-letter-from-loretto/

9-11 made us lose perspective of a lot of things we need to keep perspective on in order to achieve real security and also to maintain our way of life, e.g. democracy.

One of those things is the fact that people may hate us for perfectly reasonable causes from their perspective because war involves the injection of unfairness by Bad People followed by an attempt to reduce, mitigate and unfortunately redistribute that unfairness. That's the morality of drones. As soon as the extremists in Waziristan decide someone's going to die, our job is to make that dying redistribute to them and unfortunately those close to them, but in any event it's not going to be their intended target. The morality of it is, we didn't decide anyone has to die in the first place- they did.

We have to consciously and collectively decide what we're wiling to put up in terms of terrorism in order to sustain our way of life . We aren't doing that.

The answer can't be "nothing ever gets through" because no one can promise that anyways and only the total corruption of our government lies down that road.

Maybe one day their will be a DIY doomsday technology. When that day comes, and I think it will, we will have to have worked out a way for us to keep ourselves free and keep ourselves safe. In order to have achieved that, we have to start talking publicly about tradeoffs between security and freedom, gotten the unconscious, hysterical motivations out of the collective closet, created a means to know what needs to be known and a means to deliberately not know what doesn't need to be known.

The government is hysterical. More precisely, the people in the government are so afraid of making a mistake , not having turned over the right rock, that they're breaking the law.

I have to add that the insane, vituperative politics which treats every potential national security error as a form of treason plays into this too.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/21/pete-santilli-secret-service_n_3312564.html

No one wants to lose

We still manufacture lots of stuff. Just a few miles from where I am we've got a plant making stuff to ship to china. You'll love it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/23/georgia-china-2-million-chopsticks_n_872333.html

"HSBC faces court threat..." The Guardian, Thursday 23 May 2013.

Unlikely.

I'll just leave this right here:

Holder's confession

Everything Is Rigged

in its shelters. "In 2011, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) behaved in a regrettably consistent manner: it euthanized the overwhelming majority of dogs and cats that it accepted into its shelters. Out of 760 dogs impounded, they killed 713, arranged for 19 to be adopted, and farmed out 36 to other shelters (not necessarily "no kill" ones). As for cats, they impounded 1,211, euthanized 1,198, transferred eight, and found homes for a grand total of five. PETA also took in 58 other companion animals -- including rabbits. It killed 54 of them."

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/petas-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-history-of-killing-animals/254130/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-j-winograd/peta-kills-puppies-kittens_b_2979220.html

I fail to see any regret in their actions of 2011, since they continued in 2012: http://www.vi.virginia.gov/vdacs_ar/cgi-bin/Vdacs_search.cgi?link_select=facility&form=fac_select&fac_num=157&year=2012

in its shelters. "In 2011, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) behaved in a regrettably consistent manner: it euthanized the overwhelming majority of dogs and cats that it accepted into its shelters. Out of 760 dogs impounded, they killed 713, arranged for 19 to be adopted, and farmed out 36 to other shelters (not necessarily "no kill" ones). As for cats, they impounded 1,211, euthanized 1,198, transferred eight, and found homes for a grand total of five. PETA also took in 58 other companion animals -- including rabbits. It killed 54 of them."

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/petas-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-history-of-killing-animals/254130/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-j-winograd/peta-kills-puppies-kittens_b_2979220.html

The fact that Chertoff advocated for more full-body scanners in U.S. airports is the kind of irony and cognitive dissonance that has recently been a hallmark of American politics.

Of course he did. He was a salesman for RapidScan ( the X-ray machines ) posing as an expert.

See here

People who think that ANYTHING they get on a COMEDY channel from two Democrat SATIRISTS (Stewart and Colbert) is actual NEWS are fools.

Probably. I should point out, however, that those fools are still far better informed that Fox News viewers. Sad, isn't it?

Study Finds Fox News Viewers Least Informed Of All Viewers

"Among the S-80's celebrated advancement is a diesel-electric propulsion engine that, ironically,
promises to be 20% lighter than comparable systems while delivering 50% more power."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/24/spain-submarine-s-81-isaac-peral-cant-float_n_3328683.html

I love this "story" it's a top of the heap WTF, destined to become an "I told you so" link to www.snopes.com

If you haven't seen it, here's a PDF of what one will look like, inside and out. (linked from the above article)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/qda7omq (1,125 KB) of course it's shown cruising proudly on top of the water.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/J_D_Exposito/spain-submarine-s-81-isaac-peral-cant-float_n_3328683_256066767.html

These are very biased news and in fact they are wrong.

For starters, only the first submarine has a floatability problem. The other submarines in the series are larger, therefore they have no problem.

Now, why has the fist submarine (the original design) a floatability problem? Because the Navy asked for more equipment (electronic equipment, weapons, etc) and more comfortable cabins for the sailors than originally planned.

It is not a design problem but a modifications problem and this is very very very frequent in large projects, especially if military.

The changes have been taken into account in the design for the second and subsequent submarines (S81, S82, etc). The first submarine (S80) will be fixed by making it a bit longer and adding some floating aids.

Source: I work in this project.

Next time you want to say stupid things about very serious projects, please warn us you are drunk.

J D Exposito

I could see scope creep being the cause of weight problem. However, wouldn't the weight calculations be redone to account for the changes? Or was the hull construction underway before the requirements were finalized?

It almost sounds to me like they decided to use rapid development and it turned around and bit them in the ass.

These are very biased news and in fact they are wrong. For starters, only the first submarine has a floatability problem. The other submarines in the series are larger, therefore they have no problem. Now, why has the fist submarine (the original design) a floatability problem? Because the Navy asked for more equipment (electronic equipment, weapons, etc) and more comfortable cabins for the sailors than originally planned. It is not a design problem but a modifications problem and this is very very very frequent in large projects, especially if military. The changes have been taken into account in the design for the second and subsequent submarines (S81, S82, etc). The first submarine (S80) will be fixed by making it a bit longer and adding some floating aids. Source: I work in this project. Next time you want to say stupid things about very serious projects, please warn us you are drunk.

J D Exposito

The U.S. stock market crashed momentarily on Tuesday afternoon after the Associated Press' Twitter account was hacked and a hoax tweet was sent out that suggested explosions at the White House had injured President Barack Obama. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped about 150 points in a matter of seconds

If you're joking, then awesome joke. Otherwise...

FPSRussia is a persona played by an actor, Kyle Myers. He is American and lives and films his videos in the state of Georgia. His home and his father's ranch were each raided by FBI and ATF agents earlier this year.

But what was the justification for the raid? ATF spokesman Richard Coes told the Banner-Herald: "The claim is that [Myers] was using explosives and getting paid for it via YouTube."

Myers has used the substance Tannerite in his videos. While the powder explosive is legal in the U.S., Business Insider points out that the manufacturing of explosives for business purposes is illegal without a federal license.

Apparently, it's just like the one for Catholics. :)

But if they had, Obama would have taken all the credit for it, right? Because the (R) can never do good, and a (D) can never do bad in your world ... right? I'm just waiting till some Libtard tries to blame the IRS scandal on GWB. Oh wait, already happened ....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/23/nancy-pelosi-george-bush_n_3326029.html

Please remember, corporations don't have their own money, every penny they have comes from consumers.

If you raise corporate taxes, prices increase...

Because currently Apple is selling their products to us as cheaply as they can (as a public service?), and have razor thin profit margins?

The non-contract-subsidized price of an iPhone 64B is $900 (you can get it discounted to $850). The cost of parts for that phone is about $188, cost of labor $8, Apple mark-up $700 or so.

With a 350% mark-up the price of Apple products have virtually nothing to do with their costs of manufacture or doing business. They are charging every penny that they think the market will bear. In other words they are already squeezing every dollar out of the consumer that they can. If they have to pay a little more taxes on their profits, it will come out of their margin.

What's really missing in the discussion here is that all large multinational corporations use tax avoidance strategies. GE for example has a team of lawyers and accountants just focused on minimizing their tax liabilities globally. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/11/general-electric-taxes_n_2852094.html . This Tax avoidance problem has been discussed for the past few years especially with deficits running as high as they have been. It's the old "we're not taking in enough revenue, so where can we get more." The administration plays that message up, the spin doctors on the Sunday morning news programs echo it because it keeps the discussion in the public eye. Even the news in the UK about the same avoidance strategies being questioned just echos the same problem. What's missing from the discussion is how much money is being pissed away by bad ideas, red tape and boondoggles like studying the sex life of squirrels. Fraud and waste alone cost us billions in the US each year and for every billion we save, that's a billion that could be put to towards other programs (like offsetting the sequester) or simply put back into the taxpayer's pockets by not taking it in the first place. http://www.businessinsider.com/government-waste-spending-sequestration-sequester-2013-3?op=1

So, Apple in this case isn't alone and it's just business. What needs to happen in the US is that the crappy tax code and the IRS need to be changed. We need to get rid of the loopholes that allow companies to shelter billions in profits overseas and allow them to move money from place to place without being taxed. That requires changes to the law and specifically to the tax code, I for one am in favor of abolishing it and going to consumption taxes or a flat tax. Think of it: no April 15th hassles. No audits.. That will put thousands of bureaucrats out of work and H&R block and Quicken to boot! Does that mean a smaller government too? Yes, and that is a good thing.

These primitives just used their spears for defense against predators. We know they were vegetarians so why would they be throwing their spears an innocent creatures??

The whole meat thing is just more capitalist exploits of the Earth. It gives people cancer and wrecks the planet. The capitalists have wrecked the palates of western victims to create demand for their meat-based economy.

Wouldn't those workers be replaced by labor cost saving robots?

Apparently an endless supply of low-wage humans is cheaper than robots.

Get paying on those loans... the Dept. of Education needs more money to roll in.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/obama-student-loans-policy-profit_n_3276428.html

Also, do take note that academic scientists are anything but impartial... they need to get money, a lot of money, from various "impartial places". One example would be from the NSF. If the NSF wants global warming, that is what they will buy.

This would be the same NSF that the GOP is trying to sabotage and politicize?

In Florida? You go bowling.

It's good to see then taking the Muzzy threat seriously. And they needto:

Florida Man Charged With Plotting Terror Campaign in Name of Islam
Florida Terrorism Suspect Planned New York Attack, Feds Say
Hafiz Khan, Florida Imam, Convicted In Terror Case Of Aiding Pakistani Taliban
Witness Is Silent in Terror Probe

Oh, let's see:

IRS Apologizes For Singling Out Conservative Groups
Justice Department Seized AP Phone Records to Track Government Leaks
Women shot by cops were just delivering papers
Man Dies in Police Raid on Wrong House
Student Photojournalist Beaten and Arrested While Taking Photos of Police in Public

Such activities involve a pretty large number of people. It's interesting how they collectively can keep it a secret for a pretty long time.

It's even amazing that the "fixed" prices are not essentially different than Amazon or Alibris or BN. Very clever price fixing indeed.

BS they weren't 'different'. They were SIGNIFICANTLY higher. At least $3 to $5 higher under the 'agency' model, which on a book that was $9.99 is a 30 to 50% price hike.

Are you some Apple fanboi or something?

Your pulling monkeys out of your butt. Here's an actual price comparison:

http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/11/apple-is-already-fighting-amazon-in-the-ebook-price-wars/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/17/cheapest-ebooks-amazon-ibooks-google-barnes-noble_n_1952736.html

Yes sometimes Amazon is cheaper. But mostly not. Sometimes apple is cheaper.

I think you're giving them too much credit. The DHS, like the TSA, is a very stimulus-driven organism. More likely they discovered some suspicious activity was utilizing Dwolla with Bitcoin, and decided to break the link between the two. The intelligence community in the US generally avoids bad PR as long as possible.

Which is why the TSA is so beloved of us all, and why none of us cheered when Yukari Mihamae groped the TSA agent back...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/17/yukari-mihamae-61yearold-_n_900969.html

The only real surprise in that case is that you can't buy T-shirts with her face on it.

The average women in America is 156 pounds, the average man 196. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/26/ideal-weight-americans-weigh-pounds_n_2193385.html

Are there any women left in America under 120lbs? Or men under 160lbs?

Drink limit charts and such that top out before you even reach the lowest rung of real Americans only confuse people. How many drinks can the average 156lbs women have before reaching 0.05%? And the average 196lbs man? What about the above average (and sadly very, very common) 200+lbs women, 300lbs man? Do you double the recommendations...or do you see that 1 drink is the difference between 120 and 160...so "logically" it's 1 more drink for each 40lbs above the 120lbs floor... So a 300lbs man should be able to drink...5 or 6? A 200 lbs woman should be able to handle 3?

Never mind that what passes for "1 drink" is like the "1 serving" on nutritional info. A typically real drink is easily equivalent to 2-3 "recommended" drinks.

Add the mythical weight specs to the mythical drink sizes and it's little wonder why people are stumbling out of bars thinking they can drive. We told them they could!

Somehow corporations are citizens these days.

I realize that is the meme popularized in the media. However if you actually read the Citizens United decision it says something different:
(1) Groups of people have the same rights as individuals.
(2) It does not matter if that group of people is a corporation, trade union, advocacy group, etc.

The CEO, or who ever was involved in committing a crime should go to prison just like any other citizen.

They do. Here's a top ten list, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/18/top-10-ceos-sent-to-prison_n_1527361.html.

A reduction in nukes is a reduction in nukes. Also on the topic of inflammatory weapons-related conversation points, Nixon believed in fairly strict gun control. Where is your god now? (Your black-and-white, two-party-system, completely facetious and entirely idiomatic god, that is.)

Who gives a fuck about Nixon or any other politician for that matter?

I see Nixon quoted in MSM movies, but almost never in anarcho/libertarian forums.

A reduction in nukes is a reduction in nukes. Also on the topic of inflammatory weapons-related conversation points, Nixon believed in fairly strict gun control. Where is your god now? (Your black-and-white, two-party-system, completely facetious and entirely idiomatic god, that is.)

No problem! You can drink it up now: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/02/poutine-soda-jones-soda-co_n_3201471.html

Seriously...who comes up with these? I really can only suspect Operation Poutine...

Obviously, in affluent countries you will have to make them expensive, not cheap.

Insects aren't so different from shrimps, and apparently grasshoppers have a similar taste. Here is an article on the taste of insects: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniella-martin/what-do-bugs-taste-like-a_b_901775.html

It's not Nixonian until you come up with the tape of Obama telling his aides to sic the IRS on the people on his enemies list.

Well....

Now, before I begin, I'd like to clear the air about that little controversy everyone was talking about a few weeks back. I have to tell you, I really thought it was much ado about nothing, although I think we all learned an important lesson. I learned to never again pick another team over the Sun Devils in my NCAA bracket. And your university President and Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS.

They need to kill anything that provides textbooks for free or they wont survive. We don't even have to wonder about this goal, we just have to wonder how they'll try to execute on it. . My best guess is embrace ,extend then murder- like \Microsoft tried to do with Java when it started out.

They'll offer their *versions* then their *versions* will be (all but) mandatory.

We can defeat this. We can defeat anything they try to do. We can take down textbooks, then course credit, then finally the whole degree granting system. It's days are numbered and if, through legislative fiat- the final refuge of scoundrels- say through mandatory *accreditation* for anything calling itself an "educational degree" then other nations who aren't owned lock stock and barrel by the 1% sociopath class, which at this point pretty well describes higher education and all the industries and personalities around it :

From:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/09/sallie-mae-student-loans_n_3247979.html

"University endowments and teachersâ(TM) pension funds are among big investors in Sallie Mae, the private lender that has been generating enormous profits thanks to soaring student debt and the climbing cost of education, a Huffington Post review of financial documents has revealed.

The previously unreported investments mean that education professionals are able to profit twice off the same student: first by hiking the cost of tuition, then through dividends and higher valuations on their holdings in Sallie Mae, the largest student lender and loan servicer in the country, which profits by charging relatively high interest rates on its loans and not refinancing high-rate loans after students graduate and get well-paying jobs."

all those other nations and other people won't be following their lead and America can enjoy its status as an educational and economic backwater of graft corruption and crony capitalism.

That is, to the extent that's not already true.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-uptake/mccain-responds-to-arab-a_b_133820.html

She mixed them up, not I.

Since the peak in 2005. The US should reach the Kyoto treaty goal of 1988 CO2 emission levels in 2014. It is almost there now.

Most of the US reduction was accidental due huge discoveries of cheap natural gas. That has replaces a quarter of more dirty coal production, with much more to come. As Obama vehicle emission laws take effect, CO2 will fall even more.

The hope is that China imitates the US and switches to methane energy production too. China has TWICE the methane resources of the US, but has barely started producing it.

Facebook has some big problems:

• Facebook traffic peaked in mid-2012.
• Facebook profits peaked in 2011.
• Facebook is no longer "cool".

Social just isn't that big a business. Facebook made only $53 million in profit last year, on $5 billion in revenue. (Way down due to some dumb acquisitions. They did better in 2011.) Despite all the noise it makes, Facebook is small compared to Dell or Google or Microsoft or HP or Oracle. VMware and Adobe have revenue roughly comparable to Facebook.

Facebook hasn't had that revenue for long, either. Social networks have a short lifespan. AOL, Geocities, Orkut, Friendster, Myspace... the list of once-big social networks is long. It's hard to make money in "social". Blast out too many ads and users leave. That's what killed Myspace.

Facebook is desperately trying to develop something that will make them cool again, or some way to get people to swallow more ads. All-night hacking sessions probably won't help. They've been acquiring other companies, but that may not help either. Buying Instagram is where their 2012 profits went. Instagram is cool, but not profitable. This year, they bought Hot Studio, a San Francisco design house whose mantra is "build brand loyalty first and ask for payment later". That's so late-1990s first dot-com boom.

You can still do that

Oh, really?

(but we can't afford to educate our children... bright.)

Note: Im trying to cite sources on both sides-- not just heritage, but also huffington-- and to include "primary" sources (US Dept of Education).

Interesting thing about education is that there seems to be little direct relationship between spending and results with education. Look at [PDF WARNING] per-pupil spending by state (Table 8, on page 26), and compare to NAEP performance by state. You have some top spenders in the first few top spots, but you also have the very top spenders-- New York and DC-- all the way at the bottom of the list; and you have a number of others scattered throughout the rankings. It would be nice if there were a combined graph somewhere, but I wasnt able to find one.

Also (and I didnt know this till looking it up just now), apparently per-student expenditures have doubled since 1970, and yet scores have remained flat:
http://www.heritage.org/static/reportimages/796DF8C7C231CFFE366308277E88CF57.gif
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-gates/bill-gates-school-performance_b_829771.html
(verify the numbers @ http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66 and http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/edlite-chart.html)

Its almost as if, after a certain point, spending on education has very little effect. Almost as if "getting iPads for your students" doesnt ACTUALLY magically implant knowledge in their brain, or motivate them to learn. Almost as if there are much more important factors like family and community involvement.

Just because you've never seen a banana thrown on a NBA court means nothing.

It has happened in the NHL in Detroit. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/23/wayne-simmonds-banana-flyers-red-wings_n_977423.html

Speaking of double standards, I think it's rather unfair to jump to the conclusion that the DA charged her because she's black. You'd need to show a history of bias to make an insinuation like that less than libelous. The Huffington Post op-ed makes loud protestations that it's not accusing anyone of anything, which might be enough to avert a libel charge. It does fall far short of decency, though. Mr. Lava makes no attempt to consider other possible differences between the cases of the white boy and the black girl, like the age difference between the kids or the fact that the BB gun accident happened at home and the chemistry accident happened at school.

Actually, I think you are wrong.

The girl who killed her brother was 13 and she held a gun 6 inches from her brothers head and fire it. Even if it was just an accident, she purposely put a gun (bb gun, but still a gun) to the head of her brother and pulled the trigger. She knew it was a bb gun, she knew it shot bb's. And yet, she still put it to the head of her brother and pulled the trigger.

You grasp that yet? That girl is not being charged. At 13, she is more then old enough to know better then to put a gun to anyone's head and pull the trigger. I knew better then that when i was 13, shit, I knew better then that when I was 7 (first time i got to play with a bb gun).

So, we have a case, where a girl purposely put a gun to someones head and killed them, and is not being charged. Then we have this case where a girl does an science experiment on school grounds, made a very small explosion, and she is getting charged as an adult. No one was hurt. She wasn't trying to hurt anyone, she was just repeating a science experiment. Did she do wrong? yes, she should of been supervised, or at least, not on school grounds when she did that.

So, what is the difference between these 2 stories? 2 young girls, one is 13, and the other is 16. While there is a difference in age, it's not really that much. And it doesn't matter, as both should of known better then to do what they did. So what is the difference? One girl is white and the other is black. And the white girl did a far worse thing, far worse. Even thinking the bb gun was unloaded is no excuse for pointing it at the head of someone, at close range and pulling the trigger.

So you keep saying there isn't any proof that the charges are racial motivated and those of us who can grasp the obvious will keep discussing them.

For the record, I am white, and if I was the DA, that white girl would of faced charges (as a kid, not as an adult) and the black girl wouldn't of.

Speaking of double standards, I think it's rather unfair to jump to the conclusion that the DA charged her because she's black. You'd need to show a history of bias to make an insinuation like that less than libelous. The Huffington Post op-ed makes loud protestations that it's not accusing anyone of anything, which might be enough to avert a libel charge. It does fall far short of decency, though. Mr. Lava makes no attempt to consider other possible differences between the cases of the white boy and the black girl, like the age difference between the kids or the fact that the BB gun accident happened at home and the chemistry accident happened at school.

So, you spend a lot of time in Paris McDonald's do you?

No, I prefer Paris Hilton.

I swear that if anyone approaches me wearing those things I'm going to punch him in the face.

So, you spend a lot of time in Paris McDonald's do you?

Remember Merdith Attwell Baker? She approved the NBC/COMCAST merger. Then she started working for NBC right after The way the US government stands now is that politicians get elected by gathering the most money through campaign contributions. They then do everything in their power to help those who gave them money. Some people say the corporations interest is the people. But most know this isn't always true.