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What this proves is the US haw really twisted views about the subject for example http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/21/jeffrey-epstein-disgraced_n_654674.html. A convicted paedophile gets confined to his mansion for a year, WTF, the place where a lot of the crimes supposedly were committed.

Is this a whole far right scheme, your allowed to do what ever you want as long as you are rich of have political power and you stand up a cheer and victimise poor people and progressives upon the slightest accusation of anything.

Of course buying (with a credit card) and downloading illegal content using a government computer during work hours is to put it bluntly really, really stupid. These people should likely be sacked not for what they did but for a complete and total absence of common sense. Clearly because of their position they think they are above the law and this can be indicative of much worse practices with regard to national security. Do these people need to be blackmailed or is this a list of people that can quite readily and easily be corrupted ie bribed.

Halliburton did the cementing job. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703572504575214593564769072.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/10/halliburton-deepwater-hor_n_570733.html

OK, it's just intellectually dishonest of you to use the results of that poll once it was shown that the numbers were made up. It's one thing if you want to push your Democratic agenda, but you better be using real data if you don't want to be compared to the scum of the earth. And by the scum of the earth, of course, I mean......marketers.

Seriously, that just made you look really bad. Learn to find good information.

Well, here's some good information showing that Republicans are nuts.

OK, it's just intellectually dishonest of you to use the results of that poll once it was shown that the numbers were made up. It's one thing if you want to push your Democratic agenda, but you better be using real data if you don't want to be compared to the scum of the earth. And by the scum of the earth, of course, I mean......marketers.

Seriously, that just made you look really bad. Learn to find good information.

Indeed. Luckily for both liberals and libertarians, Fascism never got the type of credible intellectual backing necessary to take off in the US initially. But at some point the libertarian instincts and political conservatism clashed I quote:

Buckley wrote that Republicans "will have to support large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards, and the attendant centralization of power in Washington -- even with Truman at the reins of it all." Buckley's National Review became a central outlet for such opinions. In response to libertarian critics, Buckley explained, "National security is a proper concern for the libertarian because without it he stands to lose -- in this case -- all his freedom."

from a CNN piece.

Once that link was made, between the military-industrial complex and 'conservative' ideology in the US, they produced a synergistic and mature version of Fascism that still guides the Republican party in the US. They learned how to make voters ignore their economic interests through, to quote you:

us[ing] nationalism and a myth of peoples to reject rationalism and use a spirit of the people to achieve greatness.

To me, this seems to be a very mature and sophisticated form of Fascism, that certainly is consistent with the idea of 'corporate rule'. As an example, I would hold up the United States Chamber of Commerce, a lobbying organization that used to work with State and Local Chambers to support small business. Now, when small business throughout the country are experiencing severe problems, they trot out this [pdf], which includes tax breaks for corporations who offshore jobs, and nothing to get banks lending to small business.

Are democrats the answer to this? No, since they specialize in spending billions to shoot themselves in the foot, repeatedly, with a shotgun. But until the Republicans have cut spending (never done in my lifetime) I'll choose spending for the little guy over the big guy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/27/uma-thurman-movie-motherh_n_515731.html

More people downloaded it than saw it in UK theatres.

Though correlation isn't causation.

It really goes into conspiracy-theory territory here:

BP Subcontractor warned of incomplete design documents

BP cut corners while constructing well

Liberals claim Haliburton at fault

BP, Transocean, Halliburton will blame one another for the spill

It's going to be a real wham-dinger seeing them fight this one out ...

The Telegraph - 2nd March
New Scientist - 2nd March
Fox News - 2nd March
Popsci - 3rd March
Huffington Post - 2nd March
The Economist - 22nd April
The Daily Mail - 2nd March
Time - 10th March

Etc etc.

Oh for crissakes. This is a stupid article that draws together two unrelated events. The first is an interview with Al-Jazera which (surprise!) emphasizes NASA's importance to the Muslim world. Which isn't all that big, but what do you expect him to say?

Then the writer manages to tie in this interview with Obama's Cairo speech which doesn't even mention NASA. Since this happened at about the same time, it somehow "proves" that Obama is only interested in NASA for helping him make nice with the Arabs.

Brainless.

Hell, we've got footage of a pipe under the sea pumping out gallons of oil, but you think they're doing something else that's not only worse, but also visible only up close?

As one example, there have been numerous stories of additional large oil/gas plumes forming underwater near the ruptured well. However, it seems that getting near enough to these plumes to figure out what's going on will be difficult when there is an Exclusion Zone set up for a large distance around them.

The cynic in me notes that proper estimates of the leakage into these plumes could increase the official tally of the amount of oil/gas escaping into the Gulf and thereby increase BP's financial liability.

I don't know who reedited that particular page - was it you, perhaps? Certainly, other pages say differently.

Major danger of linking Shitopedia, I know. You never know who's going to make it change, for what POV, at what time.

Then again, the debate still goes on today, for all the good it's really doing us...

How much more arsenic will there be? Will the entire ocean die? Will just a few patches of the Gulf die? Or more likely will it not make the tiniest bit of difference?

I found these two abstracts that may help. Langmuir adsorption model is used to determine the effects.

I was trying to put some perspective on the BP oil spill for myself and found it's roughly an Exxon Valdez (E.V) disaster every week (based on approx 50,000 bbls per day), so it's 6 E.V's so far. Considering the amount of damage that was done there, local fisheries are now supported by hatcheries so the overall toxicity of the oil spill has pretty much destroyed the ecosystem. Twenty years later not much seems to have improved and Huffington Post reports not only the human health implications but the same-old same-old response we get from these companies as data collection efforts are simply stopped. Ignorance really is bliss and when it's not possible to do any science and politicians in the future can honestly say "The health implications cannot be determined".

That arsenic is a carcinogen that bio-accumulates in the environment means that even if this catastrophe was to stop right now the human health implications are something that will continue to unfold well into the next generation. Airborne pollutants like Hydrogen Sulfide, which took a week to dissipate from E.V just continue.

Bottom line: No-one knows (A metric ass load?). EPA says you can't harvest fish from seawater with a greater concentration of 0.0175 micrograms of Arsenic. Seawater is more capable of containing As than fresh water and there are many other factors (temperature, organic/inorganic As) that determine toxicity. Pressure from the depth of water is also a factor. I think what is being said here is that the Gulf of Mexico's days as a fishery are pretty much over and it's time to drill the shit out of that oil reserve and empty it as soon as possible.

Lets be realistic No-one is going to take the risk of being the "Oh but you made it worse" person that everyone points fingers at so NO-ONE will do ANYTHING. Right now you are seeing the people standing around the dying person bleeding wondering when someone is going to call the ambulance. I blame the greenies, if they'd have protested more none of this would have ever happened and we could have lived our apathetic little lives without an oil spill of this magnitude. As it so happens now we have to live our apathetic little live without the luxury of ignorance going, tsk tsk that oil spill - so bad tsk tsk.

References; Neff, Bioaccumulation in Marine Organisms: Effect of Contaminants from Oil Well Produced Water

I wish I could find the references I'm looking for, but 10 minutes of google seems to be failing me.

There was an environmental scientist who had his own show in the 70's and 80's, one of the first pro-environmental shows, big into opposing deforestation, one of the first to advocate recycling, and so on. When global warming started becoming a hot topic, he said;

1) I don't see conclusive evidence it's caused by man
    and
2) If it is happening, the best way to fight it isn't emission controls, it's protecting the rainforests.

He lost his show, was removed from the public eye, any further work was mostly ignored; he was blacklisted.

There's a few people that agree with him, of course, (Here and here for example), but by and large he's been ostracized because he didn't toe the line. In the parlance of grant work, emission studies were sexy, and pushing protection of rain forests was not.

There are many environmental scientists that have been blacklisted for having dissenting views. This is what I really have a problem with.

I find that the debate about whether global warming is due to man or not is being handled with politics, not with reason. Perhaps this is why even in the small group of posters here, I see obvious evidence of closed minds. When I see an individual state a hypothesis (even one with good evidence) as a fact, it's bad enough, but when it is followed up with a statement indicating that anyone doubting them is an idiot - that is not science or rationality. I see individuals making a claim, and then stating that because no argument they accept disproves it, that it must be true - a negative proof, and a fallacy.

That's not science. That's a religion.

record every keystroke and constantly surveil us with built-in webcams and microphones..

Well, then they can follow US's steps...

Yes i actually watched the "Booyah" (?) shouting guy on CNBC last week. He was going on about how this was expected to shoot through the roof in the initial IPO but as a company faced too many hurdles (competition, public interest, etc.) to justify holding on to the stock long term. He said get in early, then get out early. Also, apparently some brokers make you hold IPO stock for 30+ days. He said basically don't use them then.

And that's one to grow on.
(The more you know?)

He also said "Buy Bear" before the Bear Stearns fiasco, then flat out denied saying it afterwards. He's a lying sack of shit who was busted by Jon Stewart quicker than you can say "Roll 2:12!"

Your use of the Bill O'Reilly tactic of taking .000000000001% of all commentors and pretending it's representative of a group just further marks you as being a fucking idiot.

Whereas less than half of Republicans believe that Obama was born in the U.S. Try to find something from the other side of the aisle that's on the same planet, much less the same page, as that bit of lunacy. Oh, and remember how liberal celebrities were mocked for saying they'd move out of the country if Bush was re-elected in 2004? How about Republican Governors talking about seceeding from the frikkin Union after Obama was elected? Feel free to give up your bogus false equivalency at any time.

Good find

Oh, and speaking of good finds, I might as well point out that your smear of Helen Thomas is 100% bogus as well. Watch your own video - she's asked a question on Israel the country and then the "interviewer" interrupts her to change the subject to Jews. Nice try. Well, not really.

What do you mean? Here is a discussion of this, but it is common knowledge where Dodd gets 'his ideas' from - Geithner and Summers.

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You are right that small banks can take seasonal loans from the fed's discount window but look at the amounts. After the crash of 2008 Bear Sterns for example couldn't have access because they are an investment bank, so the Fed changed the rules for them and allowed them to have access through JP Morgan

These were the banks allowed to 'borrow' from the Fed's discount window, see anybody small there?:

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.
Banc of America Securities LLC
Barclays Capital Inc.
Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc.
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Countrywide Securities Corporation
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
Daiwa Securities America Inc.
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein Securities LLC.
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc.
HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.
J. P. Morgan Securities Inc.
Lehman Brothers Inc.
Merrill Lynch Government Securities Inc.
Mizuho Securities USA Inc.
Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated
UBS Securities LLC.

The lending went up from about 46 billion before 2007 to over 400 billion after 2007 but most of that money went to the large banks.

    Big banks are getting discounts and bailouts, small banks are getting nothing of the kind. Of-course the discount window is almost nothing compared to the secret bailouts authorized by Geithner and Bernanke within the past 2 years to the tune of a couple of trillion dollars and they don't want to say who the money went to, so there wouldn't be much reference on the issue anywhere until the Fed is audited (an unlikely possibility).

1 - Stop snatching people off streets. Provide a Right to fair trial. (REALITY: No longer have Miranda rights even for U.S. citizens.) (Obama's advisers say americans can be held indefinitely w/o trial)
2 - Protect our Right to Privacy. (REALITY: They now spy on us via warrantless wiretaps and track our cellphones.) (Patriot Act renewed by Obama and the Pelosi Democrats.)
3 - Stop interrogation. Close Guantanamo. (Revoked - Club G is still open and now they interrogate US citizens too, not just foreigners.)
4 - End the war. (Nope. Instead it's been extended two more years and apparently involves killing children & journalists not soldiers (see wikileaks))

5 - Protect whistleblowers. (Instead of protecting them, Obama has decided to attack whistleblowers more strongly than any previous president. For example, Thomas Drake and Bradley Manning).
6 - Government transparency. (Obama negotiated away the public option in secret meetings with the big pharma companies)
7 - Obama has taken punishment without trial to a new level by authorizing assassination of US citizens who are no where near a battlefield.

Obama said a lot of great stuff during his campaign, it's too bad he has reversed himself on a lot of the most important issues.

I think you actually have to suck the horns, no the balls.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/22/julio-aparicio-gored-in-t_n_585941.html

Seriously, I can't wait till these old farts in office die off so they can be replaced with younger, tech savvy individuals who understand the internet is a revolutionary product and a paradigm shift. You cannot monitor it and you can't censor it because the genie is already out of the bottle. As with any medium - books, radio, television - you will have individuals of all kind who use it to further their cause and express their point of view. Hey ignorant Politicians, I know you don't need a degree to get in office so I'm going to spell it out for you. The revolution is building, information wants to be and will be free. Whether that just compounds the peoples apathy or reverses it has yet to be seen, but you cannot stifle this medium. Reminds me of the other idiot serving who wants an internet kill switch. Idiot.

After all, nobody in *our* country's majority religion would ever decide that somebody needed to be killed based on religious dictates. Nope, wouldn't ever happen.

You *really*

Really

Really

Don't know about Reid's opponents this time around do you?

Sharron Angle is fucking crazy.

Opposes fluoridation, the UN and the Department of Education.

She's got a lot of tough questions ahead of her.

Google "California prison overcrowding".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/14/california-prison-overcro_0_n_611281.html

-molo

I'm hardly the first person to make this point, but consider the last time you heard of a rooftop-suicide epidemic at a major corporation. Can't?

Actually, I can

These suicides are well within the statistical expectations for a worker population that large. But People don't care about facts, just emotions.

Really? Is it statistically common for groups of people from the same workplace to throw themselves off the same rooftops in large numbers? I mean, keep in mind that these aren't unrelated people slitting their wrists or taking pills.

I'm hardly the first person to make this point, but consider the last time you heard of a rooftop-suicide epidemic at a major corporation. Can't? That's because even given the huge number of people employed by corporations it's an unbelievably rare event. In fact there have been one or two such examples over the past few decades and they were treated as exactly the unusual and horrifying event that they are.

Correlation != causation. As for suicides at a major employer: France Telecom. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/09/france-telecom-suicides-a_n_531713.html "A report by the French labor inspector's office concluded that 14 cases of suicide, attempted suicide or depression can be considered directly linked with the company's managerial techniques – such as pressuring employees to change jobs or giving them work the employees considered "devaluing."

France Telekom only had around 100,000 employees before the lay-offs. And the number of suicides is actually even larger, those are the cases where they have proof that they are work related. IOW unlike the Foxconn cases.

About $124 billion of that savings stems from provisions dealing with health care and federal revenues; the other $19 billion results from the education provisions.

As the link you provide says, the bill depends on shifting education provisions from education to health. Now did the CBO also consider what effect giving every person the same tax deductions as employers get for offering health insurance as well as it the federal government allowed interstate commerce, the Interstate commerce clause of Section 8 - Powers of Congress? Did it also find where the Constitution of the USA gives the federal government the power to regulate health and medical care?

Those figures do not include potential costs that would be funded through future appropriations (those are discussed on pages 10-11 of the cost estimate).

Ha, so they had to leave out some costs. Is that because their figures are a snow job? Is it because it's political after all?

Oh let's not forget this:

They had a year to read it, and many of them bet their jobs on it. They read it. If I gave you a 1 page book, which you read, and then added a page a day, would you be able to keep up? Of course.

Congress had no where near a month, never mind a year, to read all of both bills. And together they weren't 365 pages, they were more than 1800 pages. A quick calculation says that if congress had a full year, almost 5 pages would need to be read to read all of the pages. Ah, however wanting to know precisely how many pages health care reform took, a Bloomberg article says it's more than 2400 pages. And the Huffington Post has Republicans asking how anybody could digest 2700 pages. What was VP Biden's response? "A big fucking deal." How ignoramus can you get? He obvious does not care what people think, or what the USA Constitution says. But anyway, using 2700 pages, more than 7 pages would have to be read a day for a year to read all of the bills.

Falcon

The 'average' household uses something around 700-1400 kwh a month.
The 'average' electronic vehicle gets about 5 miles to the kwh, and the average vehicle is driven around 10-15k miles a year.
Don't forget that the average household is 2 cars today.

So, you're looking at probably around a 22% increase in electricity usage if people go to EVs. You just can't reduce energy usage that much via other means, especially when you also have 5% growth in population/households on top of it.

1) Upgrade the power grid (Thankyou Obama)
2) Embrace nuclear (Thankyou Obama)
3) Fund Battery and EV R&D (Thankyou Obama)
4) ...
5) All of the issues you listed are addressed (Thankyou Obama)

This is perfectly within our means, provided big oil and auto makers are unsuccessful at stonewalling these initiatives (which they are desperately trying to do through their mostly Republican congress critters). The auto-industry relies on planned obsolesence, which is much more difficult to hide using simple electric engines that can last for decades.

If Eisenhower could get an interstate system built, there is no reason we can't do this.

So is Apple being testy because of Android....or is this the gameplan all along, and Android was a good pre-emptive strike?

I don't think so. Google was one of the most important partners when the iPhone got its start: Google search, Maps, Youtube it was all on there. Then they decided they wanted a piece of the pie instead of depending on Apple and started directly competing with them making inane jabs in the process comparing Apple to North Korea and targeting them in their presentations. Don't start a fight if you can't take a punch.

Start with the Top Thugs and work down.

Yours In Novosibirsk,
Kilgore Trout

The president should temporarily take over BP's Gulf operations. We have a national emergency on our hands. No president would sit by and watch a privately owned nuclear reactor melt down and the gulf spill is the environmental equivalent.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/why-obama-should-put-bp-u_b_595346.html

No, he still doesn't "have his life back" yet, so I'm sure he's not posting on Slashdot today.

Of course not, because while Europeans (I'm guessing the GP is of EU descent) consider themselves part of a diverse multi-spanning society worthy of individual judgement, many refuse to look at the United States as a union of fifty separate states, equal in territory and with over half the population.

On the other hand, we do have Texas, and it's hard to get over that criticism.

Well, I happen to live in Texas, and while I can't really defend the government and the kooks here, I can say that at least we aren't South Carolina! :)

Meet the scum that is Thomas Dunlap of the Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver law firm (aka US Copyright Group): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/30/ashley-biden-cocaine-tape_n_180703.html http://jonathanturley.org/2009/03/30/sellers-remorse-lawyer-reportedly-first-tries-to-sell-tape-of-ashley-b iden-allegedly-snorting-cocaine-and-then-withdraws/

You hear the one about the unemployed man about to jail time for complaining to his senator? classic.

Yes, yes, I know the controversy over freeze production "beers" but the 27% they're referring to is Sam Adams Utopias, which releases only 10,000 bottles in a production run. I was fortunate enough to sample some last night. However, this is not the highest percentage alcohol beer by conventional standards of what constitutes beer (malt, hops, water, yeast). That honor would go to Scottish brewery known as BrewDog for their 41% "Sink the Bismarck", ousting their 32% ABV Tactical Nuclear Penguin.

How does the Huffington Post come up with details a /. contributor couldn't? Oh, yeah, he didn't rtfa. Anyway, there are a few examples of DIY tablets if you want to go through the effort, such as the Carbon and a Shanzai Tablet (btw, reading the root article translation of this is funny at times if you have brain leakages).

It seems unlikely

strike one: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20100531/as-film-new-zealand-hobbit-delay/ gas on the black.

Do you have a reference that FB had no role in yanking the page? This article says:

Pakistan lifted a ban on Facebook on Monday after officials from the social networking site apologized for a page deemed offensive to Muslims and removed its contents, a top information technology official said.

Further in, it continues:

Facebook assured the Pakistani government that "nothing of this sort will happen in the future," Malik said.
Officials from the website could not immediately be reached for comment. They said earlier the contents of the "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" page did not violate Facebook's terms.

Maybe Malik got his facts wrong or he's outright lying but given FB's recent mendacity about what is and isn't private, it's hard to know who is telling the truth.

Here is one.

American beer defined at urbandictionary.com:

Comparable to having sex on a boat. It's fucking close to water.
European person: What's up with this barley water? 241 thumbs up.

What the rest of the world knows as water.
I thought I asked for a beer, not a dasani. 179 thumbs up.

Dog piss and fairy sauce. The crappiest beer ever. Australian and european beer is the best!
yuck taste this crap. its called american beer...
no thanks! 144 thumbs up.

Huffington Post: "The 9 Countries With The Worst Beer In The World". Guess who comes in at #1, as voted by a diverse range of the world's population? Do we really need any more [citations] and footnotes?

The reason for this is back in 1920 our government had the bright idea to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, improve health and hygiene, and reduce the tax burden on poorhouses and prisons by making alcohol illegal to produce, consume, transport, buy, or sell. Prohibition. All distilleries and breweries were shut down and their inventory destroyed (except for a few that were crafty enough to slip under the government's radar). When these breweries were closed down, most of them permanently, their progress in the field of crafting tasty beer was stopped and forgotten. Meanwhile, the rest of the world was making beer like they had been for the past 500 years. Eventually, in 1933, prohibition was lifted and production of alcohol started with a clean slate. This is why American beer sucks: because there is no history, not as much trial-and-error time to get it right as everyone else had. And we haven't even broached the subject of Canadian beer, either, so STFU.

It's not a resource availability problem: it's an infrastructure problem.

This applies to our "energy crisis" as well.

It's not a resource availability problem: it's an infrastructure problem.

This applies to our "energy crisis" as well.

Goldman Sachs Reveals it Shorted Gulf of Mexico NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - In what is looming as another public relations predicament for Goldman Sachs, the banking giant admitted today that it made "a substantial financial bet against the Gulf of Mexico" one day before the sinking of an oil rig in that body of water. The new revelations came to light after government investigators turned up new emails from Goldman employee Fabrice "Fabulous Fab" Tourre in which he bragged to a girlfriend that the firm was taking a "big short" position on the Gulf. "One oil rig goes down and we're going to be rolling in dough," Mr. Tourre wrote in one email. "Suck it, fishies and birdies!" The news about Goldman's bet against the Gulf comes on the heels of embarrassing revelations that the firm had taken a short position on Lindsay Lohan's acting career. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/goldman-sachs-reveals-it_b_558774.html ALSO SEE: Criminal Negligence: Despite Knowing It Had a Damaged Blowout Preventer, BP STILL Cut Corners By Removing the Single Most Important Safety Measure - http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/05/despite-knowing-it-had-damaged-blowout.html AND Prominent Oil Industry Insider: "There's Another Leak, Much Bigger, 5 to 6 Miles Away" - http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/05/prominent-oil-industry-insider-theres.html

Did anybody stick a mike in Palin's face and ask her about how her "drill baby drill" bit went over? watching her squirm would have been fun. Oh and while we we were told socialism for health care is bad and wrong and evil, guess who wants to have mommy government bail out the oil spill? That's right, you good friends on the "right".

Although I don't get how they can call themselves es "conservatives" anymore, since they are pretty much the same as the Dems, blowing money like crack whores in Vegas and wanting ever bigger government. The only difference between the parties I can see is that the Dems suck the big media cock like the RIAA, while the Reps suck the megacorp and defense industry dong.

As for TFA while I'm glad they may have it stopped, now BP needs to be hit hard and forced to clean up every mile of coast they fucked up. Of course with the oil rig inspectors doing meth and watching porn instead of doing their fucking jobs a disaster like this was inevitable. Maybe we'll actually force greater accountability and regulation? Naaah, that would hurt a corporation's profits!

Speculation:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-cavnar/bp-top-kill-today-finally_b_590178.html

In short, the guy thinks that maybe they waited because they didn't think it would work until the pressure in the well had reduced some.

Not that police listen to that or get around that, but you wouldn't know because since you're white it doesn't happen to you. For the rest of us, it does happen.

Here's one, on Fox, from before the law was passed.

Arizona Police Routinely Asking for Proof of Citizenship How many Canadians do you think they asked? I'd say, oh, 'round about zero.

Here's another from before the law was passed.

Truck driver forced to show birth certificate claims racial-profiling This guy, born in the US, was arrested and had to have his wife bring in his birth certificate to get out of jail.

Here's one for a guy who was almost deported even though he is a naturally born US citizen. I don't know where they'd deport him to. He was locked up for 3 days even after he showed his birth certificateDeportation Nightmare: Eduardo Caraballo, US Citizen Born In Puerto Rico, Detained As Illegal Immigrant

Verizon was the last company investing in broadband infrastructure with their FiOS deployments. They've already announced that they're stopping. No more FiOS.

References:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/verizon-shelves-plans-for-future-fios-rollouts-relocations-to-m/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shelly-palmer/verizon-ending-fios-expan_b_516600.html

There is more than one Mike in them there links.
Mike Mason, the guy in the photo there and Mike Williams, the guy in the CBS' 60 Minutes". The "electrical engineer".
BTW, those two Mikes talk about different cases of negligence by BP.

Also, the first link in the GPP is an analysis report by another guy called Glenn Stehle, an engineer with "extensive experience in drilling operations".

Then there is Bob Bea, a professor of engineering at the University of California, who got the job to analyze the Deepwater Horizon accident.
That is like.. four guys and a couple of cases of "cutting corners when it came to oil rig safety" already.
Then there are couple of more guys in that second link.

So like... Do I now get my +5 Informative or a +5 Insightful?

There are multiple accounts saying that BP cut corners when it came to oil rig safety. If this is the case then they need to be held criminally as well as financially accountable for their "accident". If this bankrupts them, so be it.

http://www.thecablevine.com/forum/showthread.php?2434-Eyewitness-Says-BP-Cut...

http://www.blacklistednews.com/?news_id=8748

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/5/17/867129/-60-Minutes:-Despite-damaged-blowout-preventer,-BP-cut-corners-immediately-before-explosion

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/30/evening-buzz-did-bp-cut-safety-corners-before-oil-rig-blew-up/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/12/bp-whistleblower-claimed_n_573839.html