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Jeb Bush wants to model himself after Lyndon Johnson. I think we can all agree that he is a disaster equal to or greater than Hillary.

Liberal folks, this is your issue. The conservatives and libertarians are all over preserving the right to speech.

This, from the party that is attempting to ban the term "climate change"
Remember this? http://www.miamiherald.com/new... It's kinda recent...

I don't know why "free speech" seems to lose all its value when NOT being used to threaten women.

If you create an anonymity network, those of us who have worked in forensics know the depravity and criminality that it will attract

If you create a law enforcement framework which hoards power jealously and does its best to prevent openness, those of us who are thoughtful citizens know the depravity and criminality that it will attract.

If you want to run an anonymity network - dont be so naive as to say it's for the greater good.

If you want to run an organized crime network, don't be so disingenuous as to say it's for the greater good.

I note that you're hiding behind anonymity, and that you're a depraved criminal, so I guess that there's something to what you say...

Rubio, state lawmakers push for deregulation of taxi industry (in Florida) Honestly, we all saw this coming a mile away. Taxi companies in general don't exactly have the most stellar reputation and it's quite possible for people to fake being a taxi but even easier to fake being an Uber driver. The whole situation will likely be used by both political sides for their own petty interests and not focus on the woman's situation.

Meanwhile, I don't think the woman is actually too interested in justice or anything but is interested in money from Uber as it's quite insane to hold the stance that there's any level of safety precautions that Uber could take to prevent a would be rapist to become any form of a taxi driver (as if that's the only means to get women alone and rape them). That isn't to say I think Uber does a great job at verifying people, but 99% of companies follow the same shit standards on claims they make. It's just that most people aren't raped as a result and can't use that emotional leverage to funnel money out of a company. None of that, of course, does anything to resolve things because then it becomes "business as usual" to pay off people for all sorts of claims--and I'm not at all talking about just Uber, as this is an epidemic problem.

Want to see real change and justice? Talk to the actual owners of Uber and see if you can convince them to make a better company. It probably wouldn't have stopped the lady's rape, but it will at least make you feel better that Uber might actually try.

Define 'efficient'?

Whole industries have been created because of lax oversight by Medicare - like, for instance, the personal 'scooter' (chair) industry.

The fraud in Medicare is staggering, it is a multiple of the 'fraud, waste, and abuse' of even the worst 'for profit' insurance company.

For example, two people, over 7 years, committed $258M in Medicare fraud - http://www.miamiherald.com/new...

Even Planned Parenthood was charged with Medicare fraud:

Texas - http://online.wsj.com/articles...

Ad Naseaum...

http://www.miamiherald.com/new...

Back in 1981-1983 when I was local support team leader for Space Studies Institute in Miami, FL promoting the idea of space colonies among the locals, one of the slides we showed was of this artist's conception of a Single Stage to Orbit Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing system proposed by Boeing to loft solar power satellites into LEO. This vehicle also appeared in Gerard O'Neill's original edition of "The High Frontier" that Jeff Bezos probably read while he was becoming the valedictorian of his high school class.

Looking at Bezos's New Shepherd Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing vehicle you might think that somewhere along the line Jeff caught a glimpse of Boeing's old design.

1) There is not a lot of evidence that most people who share this material are actually involved in harming children in any way.

18 years for trading child pornography?

I'll come out and say it, these laws are wrong. We have a higher incarceration rate than anyplace else in the world, rivaling Russia and China. Do you want to send those rates up even further?

I agree that child sexual exploitation is wrong. I think child pornography should be used as evidence for prosecuting the underlying crime. I can accept a reasonable criminal punishment for distributing child pornography, if that's the only way to send a message that our society strongly condemns child sexual exploitation. It seems that prosecuting people for having child pornography on their computers does more harm than good overall. I'm not convinced that prosecuting people at six degrees of separation from the underlying crime should be a crime itself. And I'm also not convinced that possessing child pornography created outside the U.S. should be a crime within the U.S. (Our bombs blow children to pieces in our many wars, which I think is a greater harm than their being sexually abused.) We don't prosecute web sites like bestgore.com that show beheadings and rapes.

But 18 years for trading child pornography is way out of bounds. That's the sentence we should give to somebody who originally abused the children to create the pornography, not someone at several steps removed who winds up with the images of it.

I think child pornography prosecutions are like traffic tickets. It's a lot easier for a cop to sit on his ass eating donuts in front of a computer monitor than it is to go out and prosecute actual sex crimes. And it would take a large shift in budget from uneducated cowboy cops to social workers, criminologists and social scientists who actually understand child sexual abuse and how to stop it.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...
Child abuse rises with income inequality
February 11, 2014
Summary: As the Great Recession deepened and income inequality became more pronounced, county-by-county rates of child maltreatment -- from sexual, physical and emotional abuse to traumatic brain injuries and death -- worsened, according to a nationwide study.

http://www.bmj.com/content/347...
Research: Preventing sexual abusers of children from reoffending: systematic review of medical and psychological interventions
BMJ 2013; 347 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (Published 9 August 2013)

http://www.miamiherald.com/201...
Florida spurns $50 million for child-abuse prevention

Nor would it change the fact that people would still bring (founded and unfounded) lawsuits against the police.

This is flat out wrong. All the evidence to date shows that cop-cams result in a dramatic reduction in complaints, for two reasons:
1. Since there is a recording, there are far fewer false allegations
2. Since they are being recorded, the cops behave better, so there are fewer incidents that result in valid allegations.

Here is a typical result:

THE Rialto study began in February 2012 and will run until this July. The results from the first 12 months are striking. Even with only half of the 54 uniformed patrol officers wearing cameras at any given time, the department over all had an 88 percent decline in the number of complaints filed against officers, compared with the 12 months before the study, to 3 from 24.

But body cameras will solve all that, right?

In the case of Michael Brown, YES, a camera likely would have prevented the riots. The riots didn't occur because a white cop killed a black kid, but because there was a perception that it was unjustified and the cop "got away with it". If there was a camera, there would be much less dispute about what happened. The camera would either show that the shooting was justified, or it would show that it was not and the cop would be charged with murder. In either case, I don't think there would be a riot.

Thats all very nice idealism. Too bad reality says, fuck you and your cameras.

The tragic irony is that police in Ferguson have a stock of body-worn cameras, but have yet to deploy them to officers.

Worry less about deploying them WSJ. Worry more about the people in control of them.

Not arguing with the general point here, but regards gitmo specifically, that's extremely unlikely to happen. There are roughly 300 million US citizens, and currently about 155 detainees in Gitmo http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/03/18/4003331/first-view-of-the-worlds-most.html, most of whom are foreigners.

That would represent a very, very tiny percentage to the point where it's almost negligible, statistically. Things ain't quite that bad.
Yet.

Linux Journal, really? The real extremists are over at LWN. And by extremists, I mean those who are extremely good at what they do.

Anyway, while the NSA is searching nerd sites for terrorists, the FBI has been caught covering up for Saudi terrorists.

I live in Canada . . . We go there for vacation whenever the fuck we want. Americans need to get fucking clue and get over themselves. It's just fucking Cuba. No big deal. America has relations with China, and they've executed WAY more political prisoners than Cuba has, and you;re probably reading this on a Chinese built computer. So bag the anti-communist BS and grow up.

By your words and tone I take it you're a fan? What's not to like about Cuba, eh?

How Cuba became the newest hotbed for tourists craving sex with minors

Foreign tourists, especially Canadians and Spaniards, are travelling to Cuba in surprising numbers for sex — and not just with adult prostitutes. They are finding underage girls and boys, a joint investigation by The Toronto Star and El Nuevo Herald has found.

Cuban rights abuses, jailings up in new repressive wave

How Cuba is exporting repression to Venezuela

... another significant visit to a place where Internet access is either forbidden or impractical for most of the citizenry; hopefully it heralds change on that front.

Good luck with that. Maybe they'll turn a few of their '57 Chevys into mobile hot spots.

Cuban rights abuses, jailings up in new repressive wave

The Lost World, Part I
The Lost World, Part II
Condom shortage hits Cuba

Remember when their used to be one link to The Fucking Article? (If you don't, get off my lawn.) Is there any reason for three links, when one is the real story, and the other two are fluff pieces glossing the story?

...he's just been set up by a tiger dad or mom. Big fucking deal.

Nope. Tiger moms/dads are the least likely to give their kids an expensive pile of toys, or coddle them in any way at all. Tiger parents are typically hyper-strict disciplinarians who might threaten to burn their children's stuffed animals if their homework isn't perfect, or if they make anything other than A grades.

As for the rest of your post, well...you sound pretty bitter about something related to childhood. Would you like to talk about it?

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/21/3769823/in-miami-gardens-store-video-catches.html

An arrest is supposed to mean an officer had probable cause. In practice it means nothing whatever.

Requiring judicial review preserves a little privacy for victims of DWB and harassment arrests.

And I have a nice bridge to sell you in the Everglades swamps...

This dude gave $90 million for one and doesn't even own it!!

Yeah, and all these conservatives have college campuses where they can expel people for expressing themselves on and off campuses. Damn consevatives.

Student Expelled for Facebook Posts Sues 2-Year College in Minnesota

Court Rebukes Le Moyne College for Censorship

University of Cincinnati: Speech Code Litigation

Modesto Junior College (MJC) students were barred from passing out copies of the U.S. Constitution in celebration of Constitution Day

Big Brother’s Lawyers

College Republicans lobbying against open club membership

FAU College Student Who Didn't Want To Stomp On 'Jesus' Runs Afoul of Speech Code

...and the Chinese follow suit on speech with the support of US universities.

China’s Peking University fires professor who criticized government

Not Orwellian enough? How about this:

'US citizen has no right to free speech?' State Dept spokesperson grill

??? How old ARE you? (OMG: I'm only 55 -- maybe I really am older and more paranoid than I thought.)

Let me get this straight: you gave away control of your unencrypted files to someone who wasn't a known personal friend and then am surprised that something happened to them??

I treat on-line services slightly differently: I keep local copies of EVERYTHING that goes out, and I'm surprised when it's still accessible online 5 minutes later, never mind 5 years later. And controlling exactly who has access to it? That's just a fantasy -- really. It's actually binary: either it's out there and they MIGHT have it, or it's not and they DON'T.

I do run Dropbox and use KeePass as a password manager. The credential store is encrypted, but even then the stored password there just isn't "quite right". Phone camera pics get uploaded to Dropbox. At times I'll AES encrypt and email or use Dropbox and expose. For stupid pics I'll just dump 'em out there straight. But I know what's exposed and encrypted-exposed. The latter die soon after they're used.

You store important and critical (tax receipts, lawyer-enforced) notices that might cause breach of contract? And you put control of that in someone else's hands, paid for or not? What kind of an IDIOT are you? Then again, you must not think much of the breaching penalties. That's great, I'm glad you're so confident at everyone always doing the right thing everywhere and nothing bad ever happening.

Me, if I'm going to have a some contract or data leakage it'll be because *I* did it myself and have no one else to blame. Then again, it's obvious digital computer files and paid services will stay around forever: Just ask MegaUpload, GeoCities, and LavaBit. Oh, and the data center located in the Twin Towers? Onsite backups sure came in handy there. Some got thru better than others: One, Two

Then again, there's this brand new data center that will hold all of your data for years -- all for free! I'm sure you can retrieve all of your data from that.

Really, I'm glad things are going so well for you, with the exception of a few bumps. And local storage doesn't solve everything either -- drives can be stolen, warrants can be served, computers can be hacked and data downloaded. But damn it, for 99.9% of my data, I'm 100% directly responsible for it. Offloading everything to the cloud is just offloading responsibility, never mind anything at all to do with the NSA.

Oh, one last thing. Even if all of the employees in the ISP, supporting companies, 3rd party vendors and everyone involved are all above reproach. are you sure? And even say all of the software is 100% vetted and accurate (ignoring accidental software bugs): oops.

Paranoid? Probably, but then again most things don't deserve multiple layers of defense. Only a few do, and of those only a select few get vetted, encrypted, backed up, and rotated offsite. But as for "What would you need if everything was suddenly gone (house fire) and you could only keep a couple of things?" Well there's your answer.

Good luck with it all; hope you produce a updated

Really?

Cholera reportedly kills 15, sickens hundreds in eastern Cuba

People in Cuba say hospitals are chaotic and being controlled by security agents who don’t want alarming reports to get out. ...

Security agents have locked down the city’s hospital, he added, but staff told him the situation inside is “chaotic.” ....

The journalist also wrote that Piñeiro and a hospital employee reported that doctors are signing death certificates saying that the victims died from “acute respiratory insufficiency” rather than cholera.

“We have been forbidden from using the word cholera, and there have been people arrested and detained temporarily in stations of the PNR,” the National Revolutionary Police, Piñeiro was quoted as saying. The provincial newspaper, La Demajagua, and radio stations have reported nothing on the outbreak. ...

Your faith in socialism and the Revolution is touching, but misplaced.

God knows it can't be worse than what the US has, even Cuba trounces the US.

Not so much.

Cholera reportedly kills 15, sickens hundreds in eastern Cuba

Cuba’s once-vaunted public health system has slipped significantly since the end of Moscow’s massive subsidies in the early 1990s. During one 24-hour period in January, three flights from Cuba to Toronto arrived with groups of passengers suffering from nausea, vomiting and fever.

Michael Moore's Wish For America.. Cuban Healthcare

Just before the weekend, the National Park Service informed charter boat captains in Florida that the Florida Bay was "closed" due to the shutdown. Until government funding is restored, the fishing boats are prohibited from taking anglers into 1,100 square-miles of open ocean.

If it's so unpractical, why is the military 'blowing' money on it?
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/12/12/v-print/2631593/the-greening-of-guantanamo.html
Guantanamo Bay has solar panels on its floodlights. Does that sound like a "dead end" technology to you? You said he's overblown but then you agreed with him that solar's "has nowhere to go". I don't need a crystal ball to tell you that's untrue.

Reference please. Sounds like more of your Islamicist apologist rubbish - hence, reputable reference please.

Torture doesn't work is an apologia for some religion? What a simplistic world you live in.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Laughed Off Waterboarding

Before you jump to defend the internet cafe owner, read his complaint. The "internet cafe" was a disguised gambling den.

TLDR:-
1. Their computers all carry a "Game Display" programme.
2. Buying internet time entitles the user to participate in sweepstakes where they can win prizes. The more time you buy, the more chances you get to join the sweepstakes.
3. The "Game Display" was expressly created to, in their own words, "instill in the patron a sense of excitement and entertainment".

Yes, the law is overly broad and should be reworded, but in this case it did not get the wrong victim.

Having said that, the politicians appear to be equally dirty. There is some suspicion that this legislation was about politicians covering their butts and keeping legalized gambling interests happy.

Re 'Those countries have denied doing so."
http://www.france24.com/en/20130705-spain-says-it-was-told-snowden-bolivian-flight
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/05/3486761/how-the-hunt-for-edward-snowden.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2013/0705/Faulty-lead-linked-Snowden-to-Bolivian-jet-European-officials-say
France apologises in Bolivia plane row
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23174874
"France has apologised to Bolivia for refusing to allow President Evo Morales' jet into its airspace, blaming "conflicting information"."

http://www.harveysilverglate.com/Books/ThreeFeloniesaDay.aspx

Doesn't change the fact that the Federal code base is so vast and so vague that the average citizen commits three Federal Felonies per day. Throw in laws that are secret and you're fucked if they want you. How do you even try to follow a secret law? Talk about a tool of tyranny.

Headline: "Intelligence Director declassifies law to explain massive phone, Internet surveillance"

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/06/3437545/white-house-defends-collection.html

Relevant:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/25/1988286/wikileaks-how-us-tried-to-stop.html

There's been an aerostat in the Florida Keys for, what, decades?

Not for much longer. http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/23/3196194/drug-tracking-fat-albert-blimp.html

Maybe they're moving it to DC?

So the Savior of the Left is having Army drills in U.S. Cities, His D.O.J. is on a tear and even the left wing media is describing His D.O.J as a "sick culture".

We are one a well worn path that has been blazed by the best of Despots.

Do you have your AR yet?

I hope that its really a secret operation against Muzzy terrorists in Miami

Like China? A large nation who's rapidly expanding domestic flights and automobile usage at exponential rates???

No. Like the OTHER China that just a few days ago opened the worlds longest highspeed railroad line:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/04/3164610/china-worlds-longest-high-speed.html

So what exactly was your point again?

Now you see the flaw in railroads being a primary solution to public transportation. Next, you'll be in favor of horse back riding where all we have to do is shovel shit off the dirt roads.

No, I don't see the flaw yet. Please explain.

And, for the past few years we have had reverse immigration.

1. From the article description: "The sad fact is that so much money is being spent, no one can even keep count".
2. From an NPR report dated October 11, 2007: "There's a nationwide crime epidemic going on that rakes in $35 billion or more each year. Exactly how much is being stolen is impossible to say, because the federal government doesn't try to measure it. It's Medicare fraud." http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15178883
3. See the similarity? I do.
4. From the Miami Herald newspaper two days ago: "An offshore remittance company called Caribbean Transfers financed a complex money-laundering ring that moved more than $30 million in stolen Medicare money from South Florida into Cuba’s banking system, federal authorities said Thursday." Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/10/18/3056554/feds-remittance-firm-at-center.html#storylink=cpy
5. Is this so hard to see the relationship? Do you see that I'm not politicking?

Ex-Broward teachers union chief charged with theft, fraud

ARRESTED: School Board Member Stephanie Kraft and Husband Mitch

Ex-Broward School Board member Beverly Gallagher sentenced to 37 months in prison

Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2010/06/exschool-board-member-beverly-gallagher-sentenced-to-37-months-in-prison.html#storylink=cpy

That's just in the past 5 years.

Florida just closed down it's only state hospital specializing in tuberculosis cases on July 2nd. Bad timing.

Report: Fla closed TB hospital as cases spiked

So I see:

The people at the Retreat at Twin Lakes had been missing bikes, grills and a few times thought strangers were casing their town houses.

When the homeowners association wanted to start a neighborhood watch, only one man stepped up: George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old who admitted to shooting an unarmed Miami Gardens teenager and who is now the focal point of a race-related scandal of national proportions.

Interviews with neighbors reveal a pleasant young man passionate about neighborhood security who took it upon himself to do nightly patrols while he walked his dog.

Licensed to carry a firearm and a student of criminal justice, Zimmerman went door-to-door asking residents to be on the lookout, specifically referring to young black men who appeared to be outsiders, and warned that some were caught lurking, neighbors said. The self-appointed captain of the neighborhood watch program is credited with cracking some crimes, and thwarting others.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/17/2700249/trayvon-martin-shooter-a-habitual.html#storylink=cpy

In short, he was an armed vigilante, not part of a legitimate neighborhood watch.

"Neighborhood Watch" is supposed to be just that: the entire neighborhood watches out for potential crimes, and calls police when necessary. They typically have a special liaison with the local police that they can go to for assistance.

Neighborhood Watch does not "patrol."
Neighborhood Watch does not go about armed (except to the degree that people ordinarily go about armed.)
Neighborhood Watch absolutely does not "warn" people who are "lurking."
Neighborhood Watch absolutely does not "thwart" crimes.

This "student of criminal justice" was a grown man playing cop, eg. a vigilante.

I have read that Zimmerman specifically targeted blacks for watching. E.g. http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/17/2700249/trayvon-martin-shooter-a-habitual.html [miamiherald.com]

This lie has already been debunked a couple of times in this thread. Where does the linked article state that he "specifically targeted blacks"?

Does it make his actions acceptable to you?

Of course not. But the point ist: you are a fucking idiot for instigating racial tensions with your stupid lies.

Read the story: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/17/2700249/trayvon-martin-shooter-a-habitual.html. The guy was so amped up on black people that even black people who lived in the neighborhood, who as their self-appointed watchmen he should probably be able to recognize, felt that he was harassing them based on racial profiling.

So I see:

The people at the Retreat at Twin Lakes had been missing bikes, grills and a few times thought strangers were casing their town houses.

When the homeowners association wanted to start a neighborhood watch, only one man stepped up: George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old who admitted to shooting an unarmed Miami Gardens teenager and who is now the focal point of a race-related scandal of national proportions.

Interviews with neighbors reveal a pleasant young man passionate about neighborhood security who took it upon himself to do nightly patrols while he walked his dog.

Licensed to carry a firearm and a student of criminal justice, Zimmerman went door-to-door asking residents to be on the lookout, specifically referring to young black men who appeared to be outsiders, and warned that some were caught lurking, neighbors said. The self-appointed captain of the neighborhood watch program is credited with cracking some crimes, and thwarting others.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/17/2700249/trayvon-martin-shooter-a-habitual.html#storylink=cpy

It stopped being a safe neighborhood when armed vigilantes started stalking the streets, harassing people based on their suspicious blackness, and killing them when they legitimately stand their own ground against threatening behavior.

Do you have real experience with or knowledge about this neighborhood, or are you just displaying a bias against neighborhood watches in general? Despite the best efforts of the media, I haven't seen any evidence at all (that wasn't easily debunked) to suggest that George Zimmerman was motivated by race, and I haven't read any stories of any other so-called "vigilantes" in that neighborhood, so I'm just wondering how you reached your conclusions.

I have read that Zimmerman specifically targeted blacks for watching. E.g. http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/17/2700249/trayvon-martin-shooter-a-habitual.html

But supposed that is either debunked or can be satisfactorily weasled around. Does it make his actions acceptable to you? Ignoring sane neighborhood watch protocols and the 911 operator and confronting someone while packing a gun?

The photo of Mr. Martin in the red shirt is not from age 17, or even 16... but ~ age 12... as are the majority of the photos shown in the MSM...

So the truth is no one in the media has claimed Trayvon was 12 years old. They've use a variety of photos, one of which is 5 years old. And if you're a frothing right winger, you can go and work out how long ago it was taken, subtract 5 years from the 17 years the press have been quite clear about. And some up with a figure of 12 years old that no one ever claimed.

It's insane.

Care to support that argument? All credible information I've seen says just the opposite that people of all races in the community knew that he was someone who could be counted on.

By "credible information" of course you mean "what I've read in the right-wing blogosphere". The actual ordinary press that sane people might read you dismiss as the "MSM".

Here's one of the references to what I said.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/17/2700249/shooter-of-trayvon-martin-a-habitual.html

Even the current system isn't correct. The Republican Party holds voting accuracy as near sacred as part of their party talking points. Take a look at how they handled a primary season where they should have absolute control over the rules:
* Iowa went from Romney to Santorum, though a statistical tie, because someone mistyped a 2 as 22: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/01/18/rick-santorum-might-have-actually-won-the-iowa-caucuses
* Maine almost didn't even count a whole county: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/maines-miscount-one-county-might-be-included-after-saturday/
* Nobody can seem to make up their minds on what to do about Florida. It is supposed to be, normally, a winner take all state. It moved its primary up and got sanctioned by the party by having its delegates cut in-half. Also, it may or may not be proportional. We'll find out in August: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/26/2610390/fight-looms-over-fla-delegates.html
* Missouri has two elections this year. The first doesn't county, but everyone is assuming it will. The one that was held already was state mandated, but the state Republicans, not wanting to lose half their delegates, have decided that one won't count. They'll have a second one that will really count. Note : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/07/missouri-primary-2012-explained_n_1257817.html
* She was allowed to vote once it was all sorted out, but an 84-year-old was initially told she was dead when she appeared at the polls: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/03/07/84-year-old-fall-river-woman-tries-to-vote-told-shes-dead/

My apologies to any Republicans I offended with these results. I only used these examples as they are near immediate in time scale.

The current voting system is full of flaws. It has been full of flaws. It will likely remain full of flaws. No need to worry about hackers mucking up an election when a typo can swing an election, and never have gotten caught if someone didn't post an image to FaceBook. So I don't see on-line voting as some type of corrupting influence on a pristine system.

The problem I see here is in the oversight. Considering it took two days for Washington D.C. to notice, I would say the real problem was not so much that the system got hacked, but D.C. didn't care enough about the election to monitor it as it was going on. The same lackluster oversight could still swing *cough*Iowa*cough* a close election.

Could you imagine the headline if it had exploded in Iranian airspace?

Sure. It would probably read something like this.

Man sentenced to life in child porn case

The US justice system is garbage, on par with Iran and Saudi Arabia.

I can't help you if you refuse to read a newspaper, look up statistics, or generally pretend that stuff that's happening isn't really happening. Here, here's a sample of what the FBI has done lately:

http://www.collateralvision.com/?p=446

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/23/2280652/james-whitey-bulger-boston-mobster.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/09/national/main20041229.shtml

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/19/fbi-arrests-man-as-agent-of-pakistan/?page=all

http://articles.ocregister.com/2011-09-03/news/30117033_1_fbi-arrests-campaign-treasurer-kinde-durkee

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/01/20/feds-arrest-over-100-in-ny-nj-mob-takedown/

But that's all just the lazy feds, doing nothing all day long, I'm sure. Here's a tip: actually being informed is much more effective in life than striking a hip pose and pretending to be informed.

We think of MLK's work as mostly about race, but he was seriously concerned with other social justice issues in his day.

It is the state stepping in where parents use to be. School lunch, school breakfast, school dinner. Parents use to feed the kids. School clothing. So much for parents dressing the kids. School bus for transport.

So where are we? The kid leaves the house in school mandated and subsidized clothes, the state hauls his butt to school and then feeds the kid throughout the day.

At that point you just take over the remainder of the socializing role of parenting and erect a professional disciplinary system to handle all aspects of child rearing. When the kid throws state provided food around the room you don't have to rely on the non-parents to act.

Who built all this? The buses, the food and all? Who emasculated the parents by outlawing discipline? Who ruined the parents with food stamps, disability, unemployment etc.? Who made it such that the kids are better off inside the state system than at home with the degenerate parents?

"Recall that only a week ago they used a SWAT team on defaulted student loan"

"Well, the idiot media reported it that way, but you heard it on the interoobs, so it must be true!!!!1!"

"More On Dept. Of Education Search Warrant Executed At Kenneth Wright's Stockton Home"

link

At least then they won't have to break the phone if someone catches them shooting innocent people. They can just press the Brutality Button on their utility belts.