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Well, that and the fact we allow illegal aliens to vote. Seriously. Automatically signed up when they get a driver's license, AND they are allowed to vote in State and local elections.

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Nope. Why do you lie LynnwoodRooster? Is it just habitual for you, or do you not even know anymore?

Is it possible that you didn't even bother to check your allegations? I mean really, if you believe the California Secretary of State is failing to conduct his duties properly, you should be standing against it.

And since we only have one ballot for a given precinct, that has ALL elections on it (local, State, and Federal), well...

If so, then you're more efficient than some places. My local polls occasionally mix counties, cities, and special tax districts. A few people get handed the wrong ballot every year.

That amazon prime guy isn't as happy as you think:
http://www.latimes.com/busines...

Here's a good article on this:
http://www.latimes.com/busines...

Obviously, Putin used the Nigerian to hide his own tracks. Duh...

So big hurrah for LA Counties judicial system. I am frustrated however that no entity be it private corporate, or municipality has simply said protection of our information shall come first. This thought that let's just contract with (insert name provider, likely Microsoft) for an off the shelf solution which clearly isn't secure is absurd. Now I am also not saying some municipality pay a contractor to custom design a system, we know which way that will go (see link).

DWP billing system errors add $245 million to uncollected debt
http://www.latimes.com/local/c...

Am I the only one who thinks all 'secure' networks should be on a isolated protocol e.g. email be only text with no public network dependent information. user systems with no access to the internet, and no user level login on public devices including your phone.

The price being paid for the convenience of looking up bread pudding recipes from your work station (or ranting on /. for that matter) is simply too high. Just a thought.

I didn't make up anything,

Fair enough, someone else made up shit, and you're just passing it along. You're a regurgitator, not a creator.

it's how the CA system works now.

Nope, this is how it works:

What is the process?

When people go to the DMV to obtain or renew a driver's license, or to get a state identification card, theyâ(TM)ll be asked for the usual information in such transactions, such as their name, date of birth and address. Theyâ(TM)ll also be asked to affirm their eligibility to vote and will be given the choice of opting out of registering at that time. Information about anyone who does not decline registration will be electronically transmitted from the DMV to the secretary of stateâ(TM)s office, where citizenship will be verified and names will be added to the voter rolls.

You're welcome to call the California Secretary of State's office and ask them about their verification procedures. (916) 653-6814

That doesn't mean they are legally allowed to vote, but they are registered, and there is nothing stopping them from voting.

Except for not being registered.

I will grant that it is not impossible for some person to submit fraudulent documents, however that is a problem for every state. If you want to say there are 3 million illegal votes across the country, again, you're stuck with investigation of every state.

Go for it. Bet you can't commit to that.

Yeah this definitely discourages me: http://www.npr.org/sections/th...
And 3 years before that they said it was 10%: http://china.org.cn/environmen...
So do you believe it's really 20% or actually higher?

If you don't believe that it's a problem perhaps you can convince these bunch:
http://articles.latimes.com/20...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com...

See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

permits test parades of self-driving tractor-trailers as long as humans are in each truck.

Hopefully, the human will be required to be at the wheel, ready to take over immediately if there's a system glitch.

In the recent self-driving truck demonstration in Colorado, the system developer (Otto) bragged that "Our professional driver was out of the driver's seat for the entire 120-mile journey down I-25, monitoring the self-driving system from the sleeper berth in the back." http://www.latimes.com/busines...

Does anyone else feel that was quite unwise and cocky? It take a while to get from the sleeper berth to the steering wheel.

I do so enjoy showing you're an idiot. Don't worry if the media isn't telling you what you want to hear.

Maybe you can still keep your doctor?

in the current environment, there are a large number of readers who are likely saying "exactly!"

You, guys, wanted the President to be a dictator as far back as 2010! So he could "do a lot of things quickly".

And that is how history repeats itself.

The law being discussed will be signed by Obama. Whom you elected.

An article in the LA Times describes how un-equal our trade deals are in terms of professions. Doctors and lawyers are protected from much offshoring & visa workers due to various laws and trade agreement exceptions, for example.

There's no reason law and medical schools couldn't be set up other countries to train remote and visa workers on US law and medical practices. But our rules arbitrary limit or exclude those schools.

You want cheaper ACA? make outsourcing and/or visa-ing doctors easier. Otherwise somebody who used to make $25/hr at a factory and now making $9 as a Walmart clerk has to pay $200 an hour for a doctor. One is zapped by globalization and one protected from it, creating a huge discrepancy between their service rates. Of course medical care goes up for such people. It's not ACA's direct fault.

If the impact of globalization is spread around more evenly, then perhaps life won't be so difficult for those subject to globalized careers: their wages may go down, but so will their cost of living as others' wages also go down.

Trump may be a babbling blowhard, but he has focused attention on this issue. Let's do it right this time: Spread the "love".

However, something tells me the heavy lobbying money of those professions will buy protection. Blue-collar workers don't have the equivalent counter-bribing force. Lawyers and doctors won't accept a cut without a heavy fight. The rich simply have more weapons.

getting two fiscal conservative governors in a row—Schwarzenegger

Schwarzenegger was nothing of the sort. On his first day he created a $4 billion deficit (in city and county budgets that the state backfilled). In 2004, he campaigned for Prop 57, which was $15B in bonds for operational costs, the interest on which was $1M a day for 11 years (another $4B). His administration, instead of "cut[ting] up the state's credit card," tripled the debt.

Look, I just read the article. It points out that California's credit rating has been raised. Yet it's somehow a catastrophe?

Yes, the article mentions that before pointing out the long term problems. Here's another article about pension problems in California.

Besides, _not_ borrowing when you can invest it profitably is stupid. Just ask the president-elect - he's built his empire entirely on managing debt.

Government spending isn't "investment" and doesn't work like a business.

And if you lower taxes then people will flock to your state, right? So Kansas should be bursting at the seams right now from a YUGE influx of people. Oh, wait....

Well, yes. Of course, the sad part is that many of the people who move from blue states to red states then attempt to wreck the states they move to in the same way they wrecked the states they moved from.

Taxes are just one factor that determines where people want to live.

True. It's primarily a factor for the middle class. People who don't pay taxes, or people who are quite rich, don't really care much about taxes. Which is probably why California is losing its middle class and why it has some of the highest levels of income inequality in the country. California truly is a bellwether for progressivism.

Don't forget the media themselves have their own controversies, such a rigging car crashes or using laughably fake memos created in MS Word as "proof" to impugn Bush's National Guard activities during the Vietnam War.

This "fake news" is a backlash from the mainstream media that realized that they don't actually *control* alternate media sources, and it terrifies them. Because, after all, those who haven't gone through journalism school and don't work for a real new organization can't possibly take their place in shaping the perceptions of the American public. This is about institutions collectively panicking over lost power and influence, and trying to find someone to blame. It's not that "fake news" doesn't exist, or that it's somehow new (hello National Enquirer), but given that the mainstream media outlets have been solidly pushing for Clinton for the last half year, it's not surprising they'd see this as some sort of watershed moment, and look for a reason that they couldn't convince the American people who they should obviously have been voting for.

In reality, the mainstream media has disenfranchised a large percentage of the population long ago. They're just now realizing that something is very wrong, but as is typical of human nature, it's much easier to find some external boogeyman than to look inward at what they could be doing to regaine people's trust.

Wow, great response. Maybe your next one will be based on our world. That world being the one I personally remember happening while I was in the military with Clinton as my Commander in Chief.

Here are few examples of how Clinton's scandals were thought of back then:
http://articles.latimes.com/19...

If disgust with the current crisis depresses women's votes in November, we will see an anti-women's rights majority in Congress roll back the gains for women of the past 30 years," said a joint statement released Thursday by 15 feminist and civil rights organizations.

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01...

The initial public reaction of feminists and other women's advocates to President Clinton's latest trouble can most charitably be described as restrained. They have a problem:

How do you defend a man whose relations with individual women, at least in some cases, are widely believed to have been irresponsible, disrespectful, exploitive and profoundly destructive?

And yet how do you attack a President with the best record ever on issues related to women?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Throughout Clinton's dealing with the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Jones and more recently with allegations that he had sex with Lewinsky, a former White House intern, women generally have supported him, and leaders of liberal women's groups have remained neutral on, if not sympathetic to, his plight.

Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) complained yesterday about what has been "the deafening silence" of women's organizations after their criticism of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas and then-Sen. Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) in recent years.

With the various issues those articles bring up, the recurring theme is what I pointed out: the feminists are happy supporting a sexual predator and accused rapist, as long as he supports abortion.

You need to link credible news sources, not fake news sites.

I realize you're joking, but it's actually a gaslighting maneuver by the alt-right neo-nazis to say that any of the actual, professional news sources that they don't agree with are really "fake news sites". The real Nazis even had a word for it: Lügenpresse. See, if they can convince enough people that nothing is true, and everyone's lying, they can fill their heads with any old kind of bullshit and aim them at whichever group they want.

And it should be no surprise that lügenpresse is a term that has been adopted by the alt-right neo-nazis in the US. The funny part is, that while at the same time denying that they're neo-nazis, they actually use the term in the original German.

There was a joke from the late, great writer Molly Ivers about really enjoying a speech by George W. Bush and how it was probably even better in the original German. Little did she know that just over a decade later, we'd actually have right-wing political movements in the United States that are heil-ing and quoting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and that mainstream Republicans would be cool with it.

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/20/...

http://www.latimes.com/nation/...

http://www.latimes.com/busines...

Automation makes no business sense unless it contributes to the bottom line. Meaning it should be better, cheaper, or faster than existing human labour (preferably all three). If the total amount of (wage paying) man hours per unit of output isn't lower than without automation, it's not competitive. In all three cases it will mean a net reduction in human labour in a particular niche plus support jobs (insofar as they are billed through to the work they're replacing),.

In the past there were always new investment opportunities (new things to do; often new natural resources to exploit) that would absorb that labour, and offer a return on investment. In other words: it would drive up our collective wealth to more than pay for those new jobs.

For better or worse I don't quite see where the next big economic expansion is to come from (and if I did I wouldn't be telling you until I had secured a slice of the pie). I fear it may be absent.

Unfortunately some of the biggest niches in US labour market are in manual work: manufacturing things, mining, driving trucks, warehousing, janitorial work, and the service industry.

Ever read about the time when so much employment was in farming jobs? Mostly gone. Automated. Jobs absorbed by industry.

Manufacturing jobs are shifting. Some offshore. Some to automation. As far as I know, the bulk of shop floor manufacturing jobs (just look at the automobile industry) are assembly-type jobs (i.e. not skilled machining). Which can be automated as pick and place robots become more affordable and more capable.

Warehousing: same thing. Jobs being automated. Just ask Amazon. Easier to run 24/7 and no more restroom breaks.

Driving trucks seems on its way to being automated too. According to this site http://www.alltrucking.com/faq... there are about 3.5 mln. truck drivers in the US. What if we can eliminate just the easiest 10% of those? See e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/te... and http://www.latimes.com/project... and https://www.wired.com/2015/05/... and here http://www.bloomberg.com/news/... . Any ideas where about 350k former truck drivers will find employment? That's a lot of low-skilled jobs to offset by generating new demand. In fact, it's about 2% of the labour force (see http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat0... ).

I believe that mr. Trump's recent win is mostly because whole groups of US citizens are facing the problem that what they have to offer (their labour) is no longer in demand. It can be (and often has been or is being) replaced by automation, different products, even cheaper competition offshore, or illegal immigrants. That should at least tell us that people are feeling the squeeze.

To continue a bit with mr. Trump: his promises seem to hinge on three economic pillars: erecting trade barriers, exploiting the commons for commercial gain (as in exchanging environmental protection statutes for operating profit), and injecting a trillion

I hear you, don't bother engaging these folk, if it's about solar they'll argue their way into a paper bag and the muffled whispers from inside the bag continue for days. I could sell these people solar cooked hotdogs on a cloudy day. ("It's 10% completely cooked!") I'm just hoping that Musk will be forced to start subsidizing his own existence before long.

(Chomping down on a yummy nuclear cooked hot dog in a blizzard)

3600,000 honda accords are sold each year.

Try again:

Thieves stole 53,995 Accords last year,

But, if you want to discuss the electoral college and the popular vote we can. There's nothing wrong with people in cities having a lot of votes if there are people there. It is in only because those people don't vote the way you like that you have the opinion you do. Moreover, the actual cause for an electoral college was primarily two things: First, to prevent populist demagogues by having another layer between the population and the electorate. Hamilton discussed this in Federalist 68 http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed68.asp. In that context, having an electoral college that just votes the way the state popular vote directs it to is exactly counter to that goal. Second, the electoral college preserved the power of the slave states http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/12/13598316/donald-trump-electoral-college-slavery-akhil-reed-amar. It should be clear why the second reason is not acceptable.

And if you really want to look at the "popular vote" numbers, you have to take into account the number of votes the Dems should not have gotten due to fraud such as illegal immigrants voting. The D's cheated and STILL lost. Their policies are obviously so popular that they're now trying to implement them by force.

Thank you for giving an excellent further example of the complete disregard for facts that some on the right are demonstrating. There is essentially zero evidence of any substantial immigration voting. See for example here http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-noncitizen-voters-20161025-snap-story.html. Facts matter. And if you want to play that game then it is worth noting that massive numbers of legitimate votes in swing states were disenfranchised due to voter ID restrictions, and even federal judges agree that many of those restrictions were designed to deliberately target minorities. Look for example at North Carolina http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/north-carolina-voting-rights-law/493649/. Again, facts matter. There's a good argument for not using the popular vote in this *specific election* because we have a system right now, and we don't know if it would have ended up this way if Hillary and Trump had focused on turning out the maximum number of voters rather than voters in swing states, but that's a distinct issue that's completely removed from the basic facts.

So you're just completely ignoring the Obama shooting targets that suddenly got popular both times he got elected, not to mention the people who actually hanged and burned his likeness hundreds of times, during the widespread protests?

A few 'interesting' news clips over the last two election cycles about violence targeted at people for their opinions:

A Thousand Oaks man got his finger bitten off by someone who didn't like the Anti-Obamacare Protesters.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.co...

Democrat tried to run down Republican with his car.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOL...

Left wing nut flies plain in to building.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02...
(interesting to note that he was 'originally' reported as a right-wing nut because... Texas. After his "note" was found, it was clear he was a left wing nut)

Man beaten and robbed by democrat thugs because he supports Trump.
http://www.cnn.com/videos/poli...

High school girl attacked for supporting Trump:
http://nbc4i.com/2016/11/11/vi...

To be fair, there were also these bits:

Muslim women in CA and LA attacked by Trump supporters.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article...
Oh wait... no witnesses or injuries -- and one admits to lying about it entirely and is going to be charged for filing a false police report.

Trump supporters paint "Die Blacks Die" during protest:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016... (foxnews, but associated press provided).
Oh wait... it said "Die whites die". So silly of me.

How quickly people forget.

Yes... and how willingly they ignore what's under their nose...

Indeed, when you silence an idea it only makes that idea grow and fester. The KKK has been religated to a few hundred die hard racists because everyone could see the stupidity for their own on display. But with actions we see from the left, like Twitter, you get people taking violent action to shut down peoples constitutional right to protest which galvanize support and give them sympathy.

Let the racists speak and their stupidity is on full display. Silence them with violence and no-platforming tactics creates sympathy and the illusion that they are speaking truth to power as they are now appear oppressed by the established norms that grew out of rejecting their bullshit ideas.

They tried, but ultimately failed. http://articles.latimes.com/20...

Wasn't that a hoot? Trying to copyright the sound a poorly designed engine makes. That 45 degree angle, single crankshaft pin was a design compromise from years ago that makes for a pretty unbalanced engine, which is why they vibrate so damn much.

The potato-potato-potato-potato sound is distinctive, but it is a testament to early 20th century design that should have been gone a long time ago.

I love the way Harley bikes look, so it was a matter of finding something else that suited. I ended up getting a later model VTC 1100 Shadow Spirit. Smooth ride, chopped looks, and instead of potato-potato-potato, it's a steady budabudabudabuda.

They tried, but ultimately failed.
http://articles.latimes.com/20...

As I said, if you can't be bothered to use google I'm not going to help you. I would recommend you read this:

https://www.greenrushdaily.com...

The quote from Obama (which people like you don't understand):

"What I specifically said was that we were not going to prioritize prosecutions of persons who are using medical marijuana. I never made a commitment that somehow we were going to give carte blanche to large-scale producers and operators of marijuana—and the reason is because it’s against federal law."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Here's more information on the raid that is 404'd in the huffpo:

http://articles.latimes.com/20...

And yet the folks committing violent acts and mayhem in American cities are leftists.

I assume you're talking about the anti-Trump protests, yes? So far, they seem to be relatively peaceful. A quick summary from the linked article:

1. Nearly 2,000 protesters gathered in downtown Chicago chanting "Not my president" and "F*** Trump" outside Trump International Hotel & Tower. Police said they arrested five people mostly for obstructing traffic and criminal trespass.
2. In New York, thousands of protesters could be heard chanting and banging drums as they marched past Rockefeller Center up Sixth Avenue... At least 65 people were arrested, NBC New York reported, quoting police. Most of the arrests appeared to be for disorderly conduct.
3. More than 100 people shut down a major highway through downtown Los Angeles Wednesday night NBC Los Angeles reported. As of midnight local time (3 a.m. ET Thursday), 13 people were arrested.
4. Police said more than 7,000 people mobilized in Oakland, California, where tear gas and flash-bang grenades were deployed. Bottles, rocks and firecrackers were thrown at officers, reported NBC Bay Area. Thirty people were arrested on charges including vandalism and unlawful assembly, and three officers were hurt.

NBC's article mentions many other protests, but the above were the ones I could find where arrests were reported.

I haven't seen the KKK, the Neo Nazis, or the Skinheads doing this for the last 8 years whilst Obama has been President.

You're not serious, are you? Come on -- must I really demonstrate that the Ku Klux Klan, Neo Nazis and skinheads are violent, regardless of who sits in the Oval Office? Fine. Here are recent examples of violence related to these groups:

1. At a June 26th 2016 Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim, CA, Six Klan members were arrested after using a flagpole to stab protesters.
2. On June 8th, 2014, Jerad Miller and his wife Amanda killed two police officers and left a swastika on one of their victims.
3. Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., founder of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, killed 3 at a Jewish community center in April of 2014, including a 14-year-old boy.

And that list above isn't comprehensive, nor does it cover incidents beyond the last two years. A complete list a violence associated with the Ku Klux Klan, Neo Nazis and skinheads within the last 8 years would likely fill volumes, but I assume I've made my point.

Perhaps the real problem is... the left!

You're welcome to think what you like, but if you'd dare to take just a minute to step outside of the Fox News conservative echo chamber, you might discover that folks on the left are not nearly as bad as you've been told.

You've been eating up everything the media (biased, even though they claim they're not) has been saying about Trump. I tried to warn people like you. Trump is not a right-wing extremist like the media has been trying to portray him to help get Clinton elected. He was actually one of the most politically moderate candidates running in the primaries. That's a large part of the reason the Republican party leaders were horrified he won the nomination. They wanted someone more solidly right-wing (which is why he selected Pence as VP - to mollify the party bosses).

His political beliefs aligned pretty closely with the American mainstream, not the skewed viewpoint the party faithful think is "normal" (either party). I warned you to take him seriously, but instead the press went off-topic onto witch hunts looking for any dirt they could come up with on him, while Clinton supporters got busy planning a transition into a Clinton Presidency. The only poll which seems to have got it right was the USC / Los Angeles Times poll, which tried to correct for how people who refused to answer polls would vote. Apparently with all the public lambasting of Trump going on in the media, a lot of Trump supporters weren't comfortable telling strangers (pollsters) that they were voting for him.

So babies are assholes: http://www.latimes.com/science...

They are good assholes.

So babies are assholes: http://www.latimes.com/science...

It's also not Facebook, it's a few top people at Facebook. And there are at least two top people at FB who are very publicly associated with Trump (albeit one has the self awareness and sense of decency to at least be embarrassed and ashamed about it.)

This is a non-story, and like certain other non-stories (OMG! A low level Clinton staffer was caught spitballing ideas about how to demonstrate Trump supporters are violent!) it's an attempt to muddy the waters and get people to forget wide truths (Facebook has pro-Trump [1][2] people on its board, Trump has actually supported violence against opponents.)

"Attacks on the Internet keep getting bigger and nastier" (22 Oct 2016)
http://www.latimes.com/busines...
"1.2 trillion bits of data every second" or
"How Hackers Make Money from DDoS Attacks"
http://fortune.com/2016/10/22/...
"1.2 terabits of data per second"

Just because you know people who are responsible gun owners does not mean everyone is and the statistics prove it out, particularly when it comes to children either killing themselves or others with guns they found lying around.

Then there are those who think Russian roulette is a game.

This doesn't include those gun owners who don't bother to report their guns have been stolen. Which is odd because if they're responsible they wouldn't leave their guns in their cars.

Right, but a small mention of "Entire family wiped out in car crash" pales in comparison to the news coverage that a Tesla just scraped a parked car .

This shows the the level of media attention does not correlate to the appropriate levels of concern. Just like the terrorist attacks. Tobacco companies kill far more Americans than terrorists. Do not ramble on on the argument that smokers choose to risk their health and life, I'm talking about second hand smoke.

Tesla's autopilot will save many lives on the motor ways. It doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be statistically better than you or I. Even though this technology is in its infancy, it is already a better than you are, statistically.

there seems to be confusion on who are "educated" when it comes polls.

just 1 example,
la times tracking poll
http://graphics.latimes.com/us...

in its breakdown, "college grad or up" go for clinton >50%, while trump is in 30%s. trump wins other categories of education in that poll.
but when it comes to income, trump wins "more than $75k"(smaller margin) and "$35-75k"(bigger margin) , while clinton wins "less than $35k"(bigger margin).

but all studies say income and education is highly correlated in usa.

so how to explain this anomaly(income and education giving different preferences) in poll( which is similar in other polls that offer breakdowns like that).

a partial explanation is race. as la times says "clinton holds a distinct edge among lower-income voters, reflecting her strong support among blacks and latinos. " in fact, its blacks who go for clinton 87 to 4.

but that explains only lower income category.

Here come all the paid (and unpaid) Hillary shills and trolls, they've flooded this discussion already.

http://www.latimes.com/politic...

Claiming Trump is working with the Russians is quite a silly conspiracy in itself.

"It's completely insane that Pepe has been labeled a symbol of hate, and that racists and anti-Semites are using a once peaceful frog-dude from my comic book as an icon of hate"

How much of that racism and anti-Semitism is actually real, and how much — "false flag" operations by DNC-operatives like these?

“You remember the Iowa state fair thing where Scott Walker grabbed the sign out of the dude’s hand and then the dude kind of gets roughed up right in front of the stage right there on camera?” Foval asks. “That was all us. The guy that got roughed up is my counterpart who works for Bob.”

Foval also references Shirley Teeter, a sixty-nine-year-old lady who claims that she was assaulted at a Trump rally in North Carolina. “She was one of our activists,” he says while introducing the term bird dogging to the political lexicon.

In addition to these thugs on the ground, Clinton's campaign also employs online trolls (like Putin). If her political consultants aren't directing some of these guys to create fake "hate posts" — as their ethics clearly allow them to do — they aren't earning their pay...

N. Dakota charges reporter with 'riot' for covering protest--but gets slapped down by judge
http://www.latimes.com/busines...

China's program is about only one things: China. Which is only appropriate, because that is all any space program is about - national pride. Single exception is the ESA which is about pan-European pride. Cooperation is also not a magic answer - it can often cost more to cooperate meshing organizational structures on Earth and technical networks, plus the hassle of making sure everybody measures things the same way. Sci-fi is fantasy like Harry Potter, it isn't real. We aren't going to become a United Federation, and there are no Ewoks.

[meta-monkey wrote: " There's nothing at all fishy about this to anyone except those who hate strong independent wymynz what don't need no man."]

Grab this -- and share -- before YouTube takes it down: "Donald Trump secret meeting leaked", posted by John Patrick Acquaviva, May 31, 2016 at https://youtu.be/ZJyIztXX3Bs?t=9s (236, 826 views). Sadly, the prophecy that Trump made in 1980 (thirty-six years ago) in that video has come true,

Grab and share what Joe Watson wrote:

Former Miss Nebraska Teen contest winner Natasha Rickley has slammed the media witch hunt against Donald Trump, revealing that ABC News contacted her trying to get dirt on Trump but that she told them he was “an absolute gentleman.“I was contacted today by a producer at ABC News in New York. She is wanting to question me regarding the Miss Teen USA allegations. They also let me know that they are reaching out to All of my fellow contestants from 1997,” wrote Rickley on her Facebook page.

“I am going to be very truthful and let ABC know that Donald Trump was an absolute gentleman. I never witnessed any inappropriate behavior whatsoever the entire 2 weeks that I participated in the pageant. I’m sure that none of my interview will make the news since I have nothing but positive things to say about my experience with Donald. I do find it interesting and important for people to know that these are the depths the media is going to for their smear campaign,” she added.

Rickley’s praise for Trump was backed up by a former Miss Universe manager who came into contact with thousands of pageant contestants and “never heard one accusation against Mr. Trump.”

“I’m coming forward to tell you that these accusations are wrong, they’re false. These young ladies trusted me – if ever there was a time that Mr. Trump had done anything inappropriate, they would have come to me before they would have even gone to their parents,” she said.

“Those things that you’re hearing on national television – that’s wrong, it’s very wrong,” she added, calling Trump “a true gentleman”.

The mainstream media has been on a mission to smear Trump with numerous salacious accusations from women that claim Trump sexually assaulted them.

It has now emerged that one of the women – Jessica Leeds – who waited 35 years before making her accusations public – has a history of conflict and a clear vendetta against Trump.

A New York Daily News article from October 2007 reveals how Leeds was locked in a dispute with Trump over trees that were erected on a golf course owned by Trump in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.

Another story out of the L.A. Times from October 2008 reveals how Leeds was also embroiled in a dispute with Trump over a fence outside her house that Trump claimed was on his property.

“If the Palos Verdes Jessica Leeds is the same Jessica Leeds in the New York Times accusations, it certainly raises the question of an undisclosed personal motive, anger over the past, and/or a probable axe-to-grind,” reports the Conservative Treehouse.

-- source: FORMER MISS TEEN SLAMS MEDIA WIT

Tens of millions of Universities? Oh my indeed!

ahh, the troll, the last resort of the defeated. better luck next time.

Now lets drop the snark for a second, because I want to ask you a serious question.

Immediately after I gave you webpage citations, several of them, and then said "I can give you hundreds more", and the challenge to tell Universities that they are trolling the world with a problem, that you actually thought that I was talking about individual students, and not the Universities that are experiencing the problem that I was giving the links to?

And lest we forget, I answered you in the same vein as you replied, which to the trained eye, looks kinda snarky, but if you declare that trolling, then you were as well. P So since I've cleared that, is it your opinion that the problem does not exist, and that the Universities are making this up?

In some ways, this is like the remedial classes that are taught at Universities for Algebra, or other ares that placement tests show that a student is deficient in.

The big difference is that the deficiency is held by the parents of the students, who have not learned the final courtesy of parenting - letting your child become an adult. In my University, as the problem presented itself and would not go away, they eventually separated the parents from the students for special parental orientation. And it was much more traumatic for the parents by far. And only partially successful, as 18 years of overprotection doesn't go away just because someone tells you you are interfereing in your adult child's emotional growth.

Another part of the disservice we have done to them is the self esteem movement, a cornerstone of the millenial's education and socialization, has failed and failed badly.

https://www.psychologytoday.co...

http://www.albertmohler.com/20...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

side note - when the President of the Southern Baptist Theological seminary and the Huffpost agree on something, we might pay attention.

http://www.education.com/magaz...

http://articles.latimes.com/20...

Regardless, the millennials were badly let down, by their parents inability to parent, and by societies belief that if you constantly tell someone they are special and the best, that they will grow up to be special and the best. Neither idea actually worked very well. Self esteem, that cornerstone of the millenial's upbringing, as it turns out, is earned, not conferred by praising every tiny thing a person does. A young person should not have either high or low self esteem. It is something developed, not inculcated. They should be encouraged and told about what they might be, but not told they have achieved greatness for sharpening a pencil.

And another corrosive element often shared by sports people is that if a person puts their mind to it, they can be anything at all that they want. Nope, nope nope. I can never be a female supermodel, and although athletic, I will never set a record in a marathon. Just won't. Wrong body style. I can wish and try as hard as I can, but I will fail.

And yet, I have very high esteem. It's built on what I have done in life, and my many achievements. All of them earned, and earned well.

You say "not exactly", but then affirm my point...

You can be a criminal but not an enemy. And an enemy isn't necessarily a criminal. Being one of them does not make them the other. I know its semantics, but they are two different meanings.

Unless you are going to suggest, the Indians or the University's management are the enemies implied in the text of the Oath, the question is not pertinent...

I am suggesting that SOMEONE has been told to cut costs anyway they can to fund something else. Oh wait, here is the reason.

The concern in TFA is that a bunch of people lost their jobs, because their employer decided to switch labor-suppliers. Even when/if we develop Free(er) Trade, this is going to continue happening.

I do not believe that this is a Free Trade issue, see the LA Time link that I provided. This is about what is called GREED that is running rampant in the executive ranks of everything in the public and private sectors of government and business

Tuition won't go down, after all we have to keep paying CSU regents more than $400,000 per year on average, and we have to give them raises well above the State averages... At least with corporations loading money into their executives it's the company's earnings - not the general tax dollars of the State residents.

"The scientists found that even six months after radiation exposure, the rodents still were suffering from brain inflammation and neural damage. Neurons sported fewer dendrites and spines, which meant their neural networks were less interconnected than in a healthy brain. On behavioral tasks, the rodents exposed to radiation performed poorly on tests of learning and memory. Their ability to suppress unpleasant and stressful associations also declined — an effect that could make someone prone to anxiety over a multiyear trip to the Red Planet and back." http://www.latimes.com/science...

Seriously? Read the transcript.

Trump: ... I just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.

Unidentified voice: Whatever you want.

Trump: Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.

That is not a woman "jumping on him", that is him grabbing women unsolicited and bragging about how he can get away with it. As for the "boss" thing, there have been numerous other complaints about his role as the "boss" on the Apprentice. So much so that they won't even release those for scrutiny.

http://www.latimes.com/politic...

We all hate Martin Shkreli because he's smug and arrogant about what he does, but look at the Mylan CEO Heather Bresch and Epipen overcharging (her daddy is Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Manchin). She's just as much an asshole but feigns being an honest and compassionate when she's interviewed. http://www.latimes.com/busines... Shkreli is at least honest about his doucheness. Bresch and CEOs like her and for ripping off the taxpayer millions all they get is a slap on the wrist http://www.business-standard.c... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/hea...

But you try shoplifting a stick of gum and watch happens. The golden rule is whoever has the gold the gets to break the rules.

Moral of the story is if you hate this then stop voting for the people that let them do it.

This. A simple google image search shows no zoomed out large scale images of this supposed patch. You can bet if there were one, we would have photos of it plastered everywhere. Yes, there are zoomed in pictures of floating trash, but that is hardly some great floating mat of garbage. Further, we know that under direct sun plastics rapidly break down.

The ocean is the world's toilet. Even first world nations expel their treated sewage into the ocean. Third world nations dump their raw sewage into rivers that eventually empty into the ocean. They also dump their trash into these rivers that empty into the ocean (see Brazil as one example among many). This trash rapidly decays and sinks, except for plastic, which tends to float around for a number of months before breaking down.

http://www.latimes.com/world/m...

If we are really concerned with this kind of trash making it into the ocean, I suggest we focus our efforts on stopping the source. The US and most other first world countries contribute very little plastic waste to the ocean. We bury ours in landfills and only the errant wind blown bag from a beach party makes it into the ocean (as evidenced by the fact that our beaches are usually devoid of anything more than the occasional piece of trash). On the other hand, undeveloped countries are putting tons of plastics and other garbage/toxins into the ocean every day that do take time to decompose and can cause damage. The best bang for your buck is to bring your big ass net or sieve to Brazil and mount it at the mouth of their rivers. You will catch metric tons of trash every day. Just put the net on a conveyor that dumps it all back on land and then haul it to a land fill. Doing that at the mouths of 20 of the largest rivers around the planet would go a long way towards cutting the pollution, but that is a non PC, real world solution to the problem, so it will probably never happen.

The peasant culture may not be ready to accept basic environmentalism yet, but that doesn't mean we are powerless to mitigate their pollution. And we sure as hell are not going to accept the blame for this pollution/littering, when it is very clear who is doing it these days.

Meanwhile, 24 members of congress wrote a counter-letter :)

Led by a Republican, by the way.

The fact is that we are again seeing the free market beating government cronies.

Meanwhile, 24 members of congress wrote a counter-letter :)

Please cite your long list of examples of these toys being used in such a dangerous way

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-drone-near-miss-lax-20160318-story.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/07/08/two-drones-nearly-collide-with-nypd-helicopter-operators-arrested/#1294615f1db8
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/09/travel/unmanned-drone-danger/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/dec/23/champion-skier-marcel-hirscher-has-near-miss-as-drone-falls-out-of-sky
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/europe/uk-drone-near-miss/index.html
http://www.wsj.com/articles/faa-reports-more-aircraft-drone-near-misses-1417025519
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/29/ny-bound-pilot-swerves-to-avoid-collission-with-drone.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3251543/Drone-owners-forced-register-devices-tracking-database-four-near-misses-aircraft-past-month-alone.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12180261/Number-of-near-misses-involving-drones-and-aircraft-quadruples-in-one-year.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-37042796
http://gothamist.com/2016/09/20/man_maybe_arrested_drone_crash.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/us/white-house-drone.html?_r=0
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/05/25/drone-crashes-hits-2-people-during-marblehead-parade/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/world/drug-drone-crashes-us-mexico-border/index.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/drone-crashes-stands-u-s-open-article-1.2348324
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/07/02/drone-crashes-in-brighton-mans-backyard/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/07/drone-crashes-into-yellowstone-hot-spring/13721055/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/drone-crash-university-kentucky-football-game-could-land-student-hot-water/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/drone-crashes-empire-state-building-man-arrested/story?id=36729221