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So how did Russia get the names of US agents, one former FSB and one current FSB, and one hotel cleaner, six days after Trump got the unredacted piss memo with the names of those agents in?

I'm not sure what your point is. The article here is about one intelligence failure, which was in 2011. You're asking about a different intelligence failure, six years later. The existence of one intelligence failure doesn't say much about the other one.

...There is ONE article by "Zach Dorfman and Jenna McLaughlin" and this is it. Just because you read it, don't assume its true.

Yes, it is one article. Once you read it, however, you see that there were earlier articles on the same leak which just didn't have the actual details.
https://www.pulitzer.org/files/2015/national-reporting/mcclatchy/10mcclatchy2015.pdf. (alternate source: https://www.kentucky.com/news/...) :

John Reidy, a former CIA contractor, recently cited his frustration with the inspector general’s handling of his case in his appeal to the new intelligence community panel. Reidy claimed he was demoted and eventually fired in retaliation after he tried to raise the alarm in 2007 on an “intelligence failure” by the spy agency. His lawyer McClanahan said he understood that “the intelligence failure involved U.S. government activity that was supposed to be covert but was done in such a bungled way that it was virtually guaranteed to be discovered.” CIA inspector general investigators didn’t interview Reidy until two years after he first went to them and then only after being directed to do so by the House Intelligence Committee, McClanahan said.

Or here: https://www.emptywheel.net/201...

he [Reid]described what by 2010 had become a “catastrophic intelligence failure[]” in which “upwards of 70% of our operations had been compromised.” The problem appears to have arisen because “the US communications infrastructure was under siege,” which sounds like CIA may have gotten hacked. At least by 2007, he had warned that several of the CIA’s operations had been compromised, with some sources stopping all communications suddenly and others providing reports that were clearly false, or “atmospherics” submitted as solid reporting to fluff reporting numbers. By 2011 the government had appointed a Task Force to deal with the problem he had identified years earlier, though some on that Task Force didn’t even know how long the problem had existed or that Reidy had tried to alert the CIA and Congress to the problem. All that seems to point to the possibility that tech contractors had set up a reporting system that had been compromised by adversaries

Or here: https://www.thestate.com/news/...

http://www.kentucky.com/news/l...

Thats too bad in Kentucky we have a state initiative to do just the opposite and bring fiber to every house: http://www.kentucky.com/2014/1...

Unfortunately that sign on their car door "To serve and protect", they serve and protect the state. Getting back your iPhone does little to serve and protect the state.

I don't like making generalized statements, however, and shame on me if the description doesn't fit, I'm about to do so. And I don't mean to even criticize the Police in general, because among their ranks are everyday heros and legitimate true, ready to lay down their lives, heros. But to make an observation that I'm sure others have noticed, that even though police

have backup, guns, radio, jackets — all that stuff civilians don't have

it seems at times the choices that the individual police officers we hear about are neither motivated by duty to protect the public nor the state, but themselves first and foremost. Speaking as a coward, fear of injury/death and self-preservation are instincts that are not easily overcome, but members of various US Special Forces and Military, firefighters and deep water and swift water rescue teams, perhaps out of bravado (but so what?), seem to have little trouble doing so. What is it about police duty that makes them less heroically suicidal than those that choose these other careers, when one should expect the vocation to attract the very brave and incorruptable, and those as close to real "superheros" as we can get, like the other vocations I mentioned?

For those civilians that carry weapons for self-defense, no one should have to remind you that the origin of your right to do so was originally one of selflessness, i.e. to protect your defenseless neighbors at risk to your own life or property, either from raiding parties, foreign enemies, crime, or the government. I also would like to emphatically applaud the unarmed bystanders that bravely risked their lives to save a Memphis Police officer today. That is amazing to me... because I just know I would have been running away from obvious danger, and not towards it, as fast as my feet could carry me. And I would not be proud of myself for surviving.

FWIW, material items are definately not worth even risking injury over, let alone risking life. But another life, or multiple lives is worth that risk, and we know this because we have a word for people like that and you probably noticed me using it a lot, and I do because I am facinated by... our heros.

Then maybe your neighbor should have had fewer kids?

Maybe you could try not being a sociopath?

Or maybe he should do something worth as much as it costs to feed his family?

Like going to school to get a degree in something "worthwhile" only to end up back at Taco Bell because no one his hiring in his field, so you can sneer at him a second time for having student loan debt? Have you tried not being an elitist?

Find a company with a large low-paid workforce. Now look at how much they pay in taxes.

Typically very little.

What value is the government adding to this transaction, exactly?

What is the point of this non sequitur, exactly? It's not rocket science: you are paying more in taxes to support social services for low wage workers because they are paid so little. If they were paid more, they would need less government assistance, and you would pay less taxes.

As long as there is no slavery in law or in fact

A necessitous man is not a free man.

then the workers are getting paid the least they will accept and the most the company will pay. That's fair.

That's what your sociopathic predecessors said about children working in coal mines. No, it's not fair that someone would have to work at a Taco Bell counter for 24/7/365 for a few centuries to make what the CEO of Yum brands does in one.

You don't care that there are more poor people, as long as they're all equally poor?

Another non-sequitur. Most of your so-called job losses would come from workers cutting back from 3 jobs to 2, or 2 jobs to one.

Prior to the development of modern medicine, your neighbor's father would simply have died. The treatment for Parkinson's disease is expensive. Someone has to pay that cost; if your neighbor decides that it's worth her time to pay it, that's her prerogative. But what right does she or he have to conscript the rest of us to pay for his treatment?

What right do you have to make us pay for your sidewalks, fire service or police protection? This is Civilization 101, sociopath.

Your lack of control over some of your circumstances does not extend to you the right to take control over some of mine.

Like you Randians aren't handing control of your standard of living to FIRE, with or without any cronyism from the government.

The companies are paying the workers, and they are paying taxes

Workers could only dream that they would be taxed like businesses. Your house, your food, your transportation, your monthly bills would be tax-deductible business expenses.

Not in million dollar tax breaks in exchange for low-paid jobs.

The alternative to those low-paid jobs is no work. Is that better?

Have you considered not being a fascist? The jobs are there because the demand is there to support a business, and the tax rate on profits has nothing to do with that.

Because I'm on my fourth online application and kynect had me in some sort of infinite loop purgatory (in which I wasn't allowed to complete the application process) for the past three weeks. This morning, I finally got a message asking me to upload additional documentation.

For what it's worth, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services is in charge of Kentucky's exchange. The same Cabinet which is responsible for child welfare and has a history of hiding information about child fatalities which occur under their watch.

Of course, if we were talking about a courthouse or other government building it would be a different story.

In some places. In the Commonwealth of Kentucky and at least 10 other states (according to an article in the Lexington Herald-[Mis]Leader) it's legal to pack directly in the state Capitol.

And some people try and say that Southerners are all a bunch of ass-backward rednecks... that sounds like a pretty damn progressive policy to me!

Missouri may be following suit soon, if the legislature overturns the governer's veto of H.B. 436, which would make it a crime to enforce, "all federal acts that infringe on a Missouri citizens' rights under the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution."

Damn but I love living in the Midwest!

Of course, if we were talking about a courthouse or other government building it would be a different story.

In some places. In the Commonwealth of Kentucky and at least 10 other states (according to an article in the Lexington Herald-[Mis]Leader) it's legal to pack directly in the state Capitol.

Coal can be clean and safe too http://www.coalcares.org/cleanenergy.html

How is Mountaintop removal clean? How is coal mining safe? Ops, that's in China. 19 killed in coal mine accidents in U.S. in 2012. Now how many have been killed by solar, wind, and other alternative energy sources?

Falcon

You're exactly right.

Even if fraud is not perpetrated using these machines, they are going to fuck up at some statistically significant rate. Think papers jamming, touch screen calibration errors, etc.

And of course there's the eight people in Clay County, Kentucky, who are serving hard time for tricking people with electronic voting machines. One was even a judge!

http://www.kentucky.com/2010/03/26/1197075/jury-convicts-all-8-defendants.html

The county had new voting machines that year that required people to push two buttons after making their choices — one to review choices and the second to record them.

That created opportunity for a scam in which corrupt precinct officers duped people into thinking they had voted after pressing the first button, then switched the votes, according to trial testimony.

1) Think about this for a second. If you want to commit a felony, would you rather commit the felony in person where you can be caught, or would you rather commit it anonymously via absentee ballot?

For example, the special election of Bill Stinson in 1993 in PA was overturned because the election was stolen...with absentee ballots.

2a) You know that "free" ID you were supposed to get? Take PA, where the law was passed in the past seven months (March 2012). That "free" photo ID did not exist until late August! Up until then, they were requiring everyone to get the standard photo ID - the one that costs money and requires a higher burden of proof. Imagine your surprise when you go to PennDOT and try to get your "free" photo ID, after you manage to get a ride there (did you know that something like six counties in PA have no PennDOT facility, and another 13-ish counties have one facility open one day a week?)...only to discover that you actually do need to pay for your ID.

2b) What you need an ID for in modern society is a red herring when it comes to voting. Almost 20% of the registered voters in Philadelphia do not have a state-issued ID! Regardless of this fact, how do you define a "significant" amount of people without ID? If this law ends up preventing more legitimate votes than preventing fraudulent votes, is that significant enough for you?

3) I think you're mistaken when you think "no one" is trying to prevent real people from voting. You know that firm that the Republicans are disowning lately, Strategic Allied Consulting? The owner back in 2004 was caught throwing away registrations from voters who registered Democrat. The GOP knows that in-person voter ID is practically nonexistent, and that elections are really stolen with absentee ballots or just by manipulating the voting machines, like these eight people in Clay County, Kentucky, including a judge.

Voter fraud is real, but in-person voter fraud is very rare (see 1 for why). So if the GOP is really interested in honest elections, why are they focusing on the rarest form of fraud? None of these ID laws would stop any of the documented instances of voter fraud that I have mentioned in this post - at least one of which resulted in an actual stolen election.

Another committee member, Rep. Ben Waide, R-Madisonville, said he had a problem with evolution being an important part of biology standards.

"The theory of evolution is a theory, and essentially the theory of evolution is not science â" Darwin made it up," Waide said. "My objection is they should ensure whatever scientific material is being put forth as a standard should at least stand up to scientific method. Under the most rudimentary, basic scientific examination, the theory of evolution has never stood up to scientific scrutiny."

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/08/15/2299629/kentuckys-gop-lawmakers-question.html#storylink=cpy

Not definitive proof, like video of it being said, but here's the original quote, straight from the Kentucky Lexington Herald:

http://www.kentucky.com/2012/08/15/2299629/kentuckys-gop-lawmakers-question.html

It's actually the other way round. Both Pauls have been anti-TSA. 6 months earlier, Rand was grilling the TSA over handling of a 6-year old girl.

http://www.kentucky.com/2011/06/23/1785359/rand-paul-questions-official-over.html

Many people suspected Rand's treatment was payback, although as frequently as "anomalies" happen it was probably perfectly coincidental.

Please, if you're going to make some point, make sure you know what you're talking about. There are plenty of other examples that support your point, but this is not one of them. I suspect you don't have any moderation because there is no "-1 Factually Incorrect" moderation. Since it would be abused.

This lovely fellow was also on my mind. Or this rather sordid story...

One could also look to the ongoing "hydrofracking" saga, or the vast number of leaking mine sites in the American west whose owners disappeared once the extractable minerals were gone, leaving the heavy metal leachates for somebody else to drink. Because extraction industries are always rather ugly(or, at best, are much more expensive to run cleanly), an ability to evade liability for environmental destruction and human casualties is a valuable competitive advantage in the sector.

In terms of sheer political rot caused by this, coal country is probably the worst domestic location; but one can, of course, find much more extreme examples in the assorted despotic oil princedoms and warlord-controlled African mines and other such delightsome places...

1. Because you start fixing things by starting at the top. A fish rots from the head.

2. Make it the same rule for everyone. No corporate endorsements. Period.

3. Many jurisdictions have sexual harassment in the workplace laws. If she lives in one of those, file a complaint. If she doesn't, then maybe it would be time to start agitating for such laws. Or she could have gone the cheaper route - record the harassment, give a copy to police as evidence for a charge of attempted sexual assault, post it on youtube and make money going on the talk show circuit. Bonus: No need for a "confidentiality" agreement (which is what ends up happening if the perp agrees to pay up).

People are using their cell phones to record all sorts of things nowadays - one teenager made a video of several other students pushing her off a cliff. The students have been charged with kidnapping and attempted murder.

McKEE -- The mother of a gay Jackson County teenager says an attack on her daughter by classmates was a hate crime, but a detective said he would not classify the incident that way.

Cheyenne Williams, 18, was attacked Friday because she is openly gay, said her mother, Dee Johnson.

"It is a hate crime," Johnson said.

State police Detective Joie Peters, who is investigating, said it appears the incident began as a practical joke but got out of hand, escalating to the point that Williams sustained minor injuries.

Peters said he was not minimizing the incident but has not uncovered evidence it constituted a hate crime.

The girls accused of attacking Williams are charged in district court with kidnapping and attempted murder, based on a criminal complaint Williams swore out.

Peters said he would present evidence to a grand jury for a decision on what charge correctly fits the facts of the case.

The grand jury could indict the girls on the same charges, a lesser charge such as assault or decline to indict them.

The investigation is ongoing, Peters said.

Those charged in the alleged attack -- who attended Jackson County High School with Williams -- are Ashley N. Sams, 18, of Annville; Corrine M. Schwab, 18 of Sandgap; and a 17-year-old girl. Her name and the charges against her have not been released because she is a juvenile.

Williams said the three teens took her against her will to Flat Lick Falls, physically abused her and tried to push her off a cliff.

Johnson said her daughter had the presence of mind to videotape the attack on her cell phone.

"There's proof on the video that this is a hate crime," Johnson said.

A hate crime is an offense motivated, in whole or in part, by bias based on race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or ethnicity/national origin, according to the FBI Web site.

The site notes that the presence of bias alone does not mean a crime can be considered a hate crime.

"Only when law enforcement investigation reveals sufficient evidence to lead a reasonable and prudent person to conclude that the offender's actions were motivated, in whole or in part, by his or her bias, should an incident be reported as a hate crime," the Web site says.

Johnson declined to disclose details of the video or of the attack, saying police had told her not to discuss the case.

Williams brandished a stick at the girls and was able to get away.

The girls found her and forced her back into the car but then let her go, warning her not to say anything, said Corbin attorney Tim Crawford, who represents the school system.

Williams also retrieved her phone and has given police the video.

The girls charged in the attack had been friends with Williams for years and knew of her sexual orientation. One of the alleged attackers roomed with Williams on a senior trip to Key West, Fla., and the Bahamas three weeks ago, Crawford said.

1) According to the site, 1190437 people submitted votes or named selections. "Colbert" got 230539 and "Serenity" got about 190k. Even combined, the top two choices only got about 35 percent of the vote. Alone, "Colbert" got about 19% of the vote. Even if the poll results were not biased by ballot stuffing, all they make clear is that no matter what choice NASA made, 80 percent of the voters disagreed with it. In no reasonable sense did "Colbert" win an election -- if a candidate was voted into office with a plurality of only 19% of the vote, there would be calls for his head and the system would probably be reformed.

2)Can we please stop conflating whoever put this survey on with the entirety of NASA? Some small group of people within the organization are responsible for the survey and the name selection. Complain about Bill Gerstenmaier, as it appears that he bears some responsibility for the survey and the naming, or maybe the ISS Project Office.

3)The rules did make it clear that the contest "winner" wouldn't necessarily be picked for the module name. It even gives reasons why: "NASA reserves the right to ultimately select a name in accordance with the best interests of the agency, its needs, and other considerations. Such name may not necessarily be one which is on the list of voted-on candidate names." The ISS is a big international project, and it's possible that the naming of a module might have a diplomatic effect. Relations with the Russians, our major partners on the station, seem somewhat stressed, maybe even on station. So not selecting what may be viewed as the flippant choice for a module name seems the more diplomatically sound choice.

--sabre86

Why no citations with your charge of Democratic complicity? There were 8 indicted, and I am aware of the party affiliation for four of those, and their party affiliation count runs an even 2-2 split between Republican/Democrat.

Charles Wayne Jones was the Democratic Election Commissioner, and William E. Stivers was the democrat judge for Manchester Precinct, and is current Clay County Democratic Chairman.

Freddy W. Thompson is a Republican and Clay County Court Clerk; Paul E. Bishop was the Manchester precinct Republican Judge.

Now let's discuss two other indicted individuals, and why their party affiliation is irrelevant to this analysis.

William and Debra Morris are owners of a Clay County sanitation company that has contracts with local governments. They are not politicians, and were motivated to commit election fraud as a means to extort business contracts from officials they helped elect through their criminal activities.

I score the partisan affiliation of the indicted as 2 Dem - 2 Rep - 2 irrelevant - 2 unknown. Where's the evidence of a predominant Democratic participation in this?

Additionally, something your attempt at deciphering party affiliation through simple internet searches did not expose is that there was a prior 2007 indictment handed down in Clay county, KY., for election fraud, and several of those indicted were Republicans: former county Clerk Jennings White; former Clay County judge-executive James Garrison; former sheriff Edd Jordan; and former state representative Barbara White Colter. The 2007 indictment also involved these four officials making a deal with an arrested drug dealer to assist them with their vote buying scheme.

This racketeering had nothing to do with party politics, your paranoid fantasy notwithstanding. This was a criminal conspiracy, that involved more than just conning the local rubes into believing they had finalized their votes, then changing the votes to a preset slate of approved candidates. It also involved shaking down certain candidates for money, used for purchasing some votes in the county, as well as fattening the wallets of co-conspirators.

The party affiliation of Clay County voters is predominately Republican. Maybe you should be asking yourself, why these upright Republicans were willing to have their votes so cheaply purchased by scummy Boss Hogg Politicians.

A few Links

• Indictment
• 2007
• 2006
• 2002

LEX18 is not a newspaper. The Herald-Leader is, and their news story is here.

You obviously didn't go through the indictment itself, where the party affiliations, when relevant is given. So the Democrat election commissioner is named in paragraph 4, and the Republican judge in paragraph 7. The #1 unfounded assumption a person makes is that the world is the way s/he thinks it is. In short, there's plenty of evidence that what you wrote is false. While the party affiliation of most people indicted is not mentioned (as it does not pertain to their job description), when mentioned, both parties come in.

Source please? Not saying your wrong, I just missed that detail when I RTFA.

From the website of WLEX-TV in Lexington KY ( http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=10037216&nav=menu203_2 , 3rd paragraph):

According to the indictment, these alleged criminal actions affected the outcome of federal, local, and state primary and general elections in 2002, 2004, and 2006. The indictment accused the defendants of the following criminal actions:

From the official indictment papers ( http://media.kentucky.com/smedia/2009/03/19/17/clayindict.source.prod_affiliate.79.pdf ; page 14, paragraph 2):

2. On or about May 16,2006, and on or about November 7,2006, pursuant to the
laws of the United States and the Commonwealth of Kentucky, primary and general
elections were held in Manchester, Clay County, in the Eastern District of Kentucky, for
the purpose of selecting candidates for state, local and federal offices.

That's followed by the precise manner in which the conspirators tampered with those elections.

Meta-moderators feel free to down-moderate people who thought parent was insightful. It's very much not so.

Wanna bet that ACs who don't even RTFA are uninformed idiots who have zero idea what is going on? Troll.

I'd like to see a study revealing how many ACs spout partisan, kneejerk reaction nonsense about American politics and likely don't even live in/come from the States, judging by the spelling of "favour".

For the record, it appears that those indicted include "Charles Wayne Jones, 69, the county's Democratic election commissioner"

the "academics" should figure out a way to win more
more basketball games.

Yours In Socialism,
Kilgore Trout

http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/338489.html

This was the original story. Replying to myself, yeah I know.. but I didn't have the link yet for my prior post.

Here in Michigan, adulterers are considered "sex offenders".

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/nation/1 6495155.htm

Russia exports 8 grams of polonium-210 monthly, all to the United States. He said there had been no exports to Britain in five years.

Russia exports 8 grams of polonium-210 monthly, all to the United States. He said there had been no exports to Britain in five years.

Rigggght. . .

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/editoria l/15986574.htm

I'm surprised I don't see a link to the original story yet, so here it is:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/10/24/122153/98

From the story:

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl, --AZ-01: Rick Renzi, --AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth, --CA-04: John Doolittle, --CA-11: Richard Pombo, --CA-50: Brian Bilbray, --CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave, --CO-05: Doug Lamborn, --CO-07: Rick O'Donnell, --CT-04: Christopher Shays, --FL-13: Vernon Buchanan, --FL-16: Joe Negron, --FL-22: Clay Shaw, --ID-01: Bill Sali, --IL-06: Peter Roskam, --IL-10: Mark Kirk, --IL-14: Dennis Hastert, --IN-02: Chris Chocola, --IN-08: John Hostettler, --IA-01: Mike Whalen, --KS-02: Jim Ryun, --KY-03: Anne Northup, --KY-04: Geoff Davis, --MD-Sen: Michael Steele, --MN-01: Gil Gutknecht, --MN-06: Michele Bachmann, --MO-Sen: Jim Talent, --MT-Sen: Conrad Burns, --NV-03: Jon Porter, --NH-02: Charlie Bass, --NJ-07: Mike Ferguson, --NM-01: Heather Wilson, --NY-03: Peter King, --NY-20: John Sweeney, --NY-26: Tom Reynolds, --NY-29:

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl --AZ-01: Rick Renzi --AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth --CA-04: John Doolittle --CA-11: Richard Pombo --CA-50: Brian Bilbray --CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave --CO-05: Doug Lamborn --CO-07: Rick O'Donnell --CT-04: Christopher Shays --FL-13: Vernon Buchanan --FL-16: Joe Negron --FL-22: Clay Shaw --ID-01: Bill Sali --IL-06: Peter Roskam --IL-10: Mark Kirk --IL-14: Dennis Hastert --IN-02: Chris Chocola --IN-08: John Hostettler --IA-01: Mike Whalen --KS-02: Jim Ryun --KY-03: Anne Northup --KY-04: Geoff Davis --MD-Sen: Michael Steele --MN-01: Gil Gutknecht --MN-06: Michele Bachmann --MO-Sen: Jim Talent --MT-Sen: Conrad Burns --NV-03: Jon Porter --NH-02: Charlie Bass --NJ-07: Mike Ferguson --NM-01: Heather Wilson --NY-03: Peter King --NY-20: John Sweeney --NY-26: Tom Reynolds --NY-29: Randy Kuhl --NC-08: Robin Hayes --NC-11: Charles Taylor --OH-01:

Some articles to think about in the upcoming election:

Jon Kyl Rick Renzi J.D. Hayworth John Doolittle Richard Pombo Brian Bilbray Marilyn Musgrave Doug Lamborn Rick O'Donnell Christopher Shays Vernon Buchanan Joe Negron Clay Shaw Bill Sali Peter Roskam Mark Kirk Dennis Hastert Chris Chocola John Hostettler Mike Whalen Jim Ryun Anne Northup Geoff Davis Michael Steele Gil Gutknecht Michele Bachmann Jim Talent Conrad Burns Jon Porter Charlie Bass Mike Ferguson Heather Wilson Peter King John Sweeney Tom Reynolds Randy Kuhl Robin Hayes Charles Taylor Steve Chabot Jean Schmidt Deborah Pryce

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/state/15 299339.htm

What's even scarier are the Christian colleges in the south using myspace to expell students who do not necessarily live up to or agree with their college's hyper-conservative model.

It's sick and disgusting that practices like these are still allowed in the US. Nobody should have to hide who they are. A college expulsion these days is like having a criminal record.

You probably think that the only way to beat terrorism is to adopt it.

I can't see how you can remotely think that from what I posted.

I think if we truly wanted to win the war on terror we would tie enemy combatants up and execute them in public.

Hmm... let's see, who does things like that? Oh yeah, the Taliban.

And you say I want to adopt terrorism? You are the one advocating we take a leaf out of the Taliban's books!

This is how it has always worked in the past.

Except it doesn't work, does it? If it had worked in the past, we wouldn't still be dealing with it, would we?

Why should we think that all of a sudden being considerate and gentle is a valid tactic?

Straw man. I never said we should be "considerate and gentle".

Since you seem to have completely missed the point of my comment, I'll use smaller words and make it clearer: It's proven fact that a subset of the Coalition forces will happily torture people. Therefore the parent's claim that this weapon is relatively safe because the Coalition forces are nice guys is of no value.

Or maybe Democrats will learn what is and is not sex? Or more importantly, DO NOT keep semen stained mementos. Doesn't Lewinsky wash her frigging clothes? Was she gonna have the dress framed? WTF? As for what is and isn't sex - lots of people disagree over that kind of thing.

Employers have recently tried every carrot they can think of, including cash incentives and IPods, to persuade employees to quit smoking. Now they are trying the stick. Pointing to rising health costs, and to the oversize proportion of insurance claims attributed to smokers, employers around the United States are refusing to hire applicants who smoke, and sometimes they're firing employees who refuse to quit. Workers fired for smoking at home

Yes, these things take time. States take years to certify voting systems. The Open Voting Consortium has been at it since November 2000, has a prototype system built, with a web demo and publicly demo'd, which the San Jose Mercury referred to as The touch-screen holy grail.

The goal is to have HAVA funding enable the Open Voting Consortium to finish the system in time for the 2006 elections. Feel free to help out the the project.

This shouldn't be a surprise. Look at the headlines they give in 50 point type, and then when it turns out to be wrong it doesn't even make front page news.

Yellow cake in Niger, for example, they hail him as nearly a god when he says there was no such thing, and that turns out to be wrong...see here here here here
here and here.

They've finally run a story about it, but wouldn't it have been a lot better for them to have investigated those Wilson allegations themselves, when they first happened?

That's only one of the latest...

I'm unclear as to why they chose GPS. Surely the same result could be achieved used a terrestrial or local area wireless sensor system set up around the track.

The article mentions the problem of speeds differing depending on the start gate, and improved accuracy of GPS is within "a few metres" which is accurate enough. "Good enough" is a long-standing principle in technology deployments but it's not very clear from the article what specific advantage GPS has over other systems beyond the obvious.

This link to the Equine Research New Zealand project at Massey University is slim on details but they may post more info once they get a good Slashdotting.

The system sounds similar to this 2002 Kentucky GPS horse tracking system.