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It was re-opened because "Federal prosecutors, under former Miami U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, broke the law when they concealed a plea agreement from more than 30 underage victims who had been sexually abused by wealthy New York hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein, .."

https://www.miamiherald.com/ne...

But you will of course chose to believe whatever you want.

"According to their 10-Year Power Site Plan [frcc.com] that was filed in April of 2018..."

For some reason, this announcement sounds like political greenwashing. The current voter-initiated ballot proposal to open Florida's energy market up to competition would reduce profits to the state-run monopoly.

https://www.miamiherald.com/ne...

NOTE: I was actively petitioning for this campaign in Florida for a couple weeks -Floridians all said their energy bills were too expensive, especially when they're seeing relatives in other states with far-lower bills. My water bill in Colorado is 1/10 of a similar residential bill my friend pays in Wisconsin. That last one begs for pause, as Colorado is a semi-arid desert, whereas Wisconsin is right next to the largest fresh water deposit in the world. Seriously, wtf??

You have record cold Niagara falls is frozen https://www.accuweather.com/en...

Very first paragraph: "It's that time of year when the Niagara Falls transform into a majestic winter wonderland. - sure sounds like that's unusual. NOT!

Record Snowfalls https://www.miamiherald.com/la...

55 years - for that day. Of course the temperature was actually above average for that day, too. Warmer, with more precipitation - gee, what does that sound like?

Power outages in Europe from the snow https://www.express.co.uk/news...

Funny how the BBC video in that article mentions nothing of what the headline claims. Odd, ehh?

Meanwhile we have record heat in Australia, and a sunny 40F in Anchorage, Alaska.

You have record cold
Niagara falls is frozen
https://www.accuweather.com/en...
Record Snowfalls
https://www.miamiherald.com/la...
Power outages in Europe from the snow
https://www.express.co.uk/news...

And they have the balls to scream about global warming meanwhile at the Davos Summit focused on climate change
You have 1500 private jets flying in
https://nypost.com/2019/01/23/...

Sad thing is the crazy people who actually worry about this don't realize they are the butt of a colossal joke and actually get upset when you try to explain it to them.

I agree with your description of Norway. You're misinformed about Venezuela. They've nationalized at least oil, steel, aluminum, cement, gold, iron, farming, transportation, electricity, food production, banking, paper and the media. By nationalized, I mean that the government publicly announced their nationalization and directly controls how the groups involved act, rather than private owners.

From a story which is 5 years old, the number of private companies in Venezuela was 14K in 1998. In 2011 it was 9K. The government has been identified as running over 500 state-run industrial entities, at least 70% of which are losing money.

Is Venezuela 100% socialist? No, but they're mostly socialist in terms of government direction of the economy and they were being lauded as a wonderful example of how great socialism could be by people who are pro-socialist before their economy finished falling apart, which makes it much tougher to suddenly decide they aren't socialist anymore.

Bullshit. Every time Venezuela nationalized another industry, that industry stopped being able to function properly and actually produce as many goods anymore. Oil, steel, whatever, they all stopped being as productive after they were nationalized by the socialist kleptocrats in charge.

From 1998 to 2018, oil production in Venezuela is down from 3.5 million barrels per day in December of 1997 vs 2 million in October of 2017.

So what happened in the last 20 years? From Wikipedia :
“After Hugo Chávez officially took office in February 1999, several policy changes involving the country’s oil industry were made to explicitly tie it to the state under his Bolivarian Revolution. Since then, PDVSA has not demonstrated any capability to bring new oil fields on stream since nationalizing heavy oil projects in the Orinoco Petroleum Belt formerly operated by international oil companies ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron and Total. Chávez’s policies damaged Venezuela’s oil industry due to lack of investment, corruption and cash shortages.”

Probably just a fluke, though, right? I mean, steel production in Venezuela increased from 3400 tons in 1998 to about 4600 tons in 2008. The steel industry was nationalized by the Venezuelan government in 2008 and production declined to under 1600 tons. Huh, definitely a pattern forming. Similar stories of lower production and losses in the other industries after they were taken over: aluminum, cement, gold, iron, farming, transportation, electricity, food production, banking, paper and the media.

If you disagree, pick any industry in Venezuela which was nationalized where that isn't true and let us know the name of it so we can look into the economic statistics.

At this point, pretty much no industry in Venezuela hasn't been killed by the socialist policies of the government via inflation, minimum wages, price controls, etc..., but it all started with the government nationalizing and taking over companies and entire industries, "for the people", of course.

The number of private companies in Venezuela was 14K in 1998. In 2011 it was 9K. (ABC News) The government there has taken over and runs at least 500 companies and loses money on at least 70% of them. Some news reports say they’ve ruined thousands of companies./blockquote>

Different people have different lines for what is too much "political correctness".

Most Americans would agree that the "n-word" shouldn't be used in everyday conversation. That's why we even created the euphemism "the n-word". I certainly wouldn't want it banned though (either by rewriting Mark Twain or attempting to expunge it from history).

But we'll argue about whether saying electing the black candidate would "monkey this up" is a racist dog-whistle or just an innocent expression. It seems incredibly tone-deaf of him if he didn't mean it as the dog-whistle. In fact, IMO, it stretches credibility.

DeSantis says Florida shouldn’t ‘monkey this up’ by electing Andrew Gillum

Moving towards more questionable "PC" arguments, there's this FB post that a school district's police department deleted and apologized for.

(To save people the click, it's a picture of an overloaded bus (presumably in India) with people on top and hanging on to the back with the caption "Don't forget! It's National Bus Safety Week" and it seems obvious (to me anyway) the point was bus safety, not "look at all the Indians!")

Katy ISD apologizes after parents express outrage over what they call a racist Facebook post

And then we have cases of people not wanting children to play Cowboys and Indians or dressing up for Halloween as a Disney character from a different culture.

And should I really feel guilty that I enjoyed The Party starring Peter Sellers in "brownface"? Or Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's?

This is completely false.

In fact, some cities that depend on traffic ticket revenues are being hurt severely by Uber. They depend on those drunk driving arrests and tickets for revenue, and that revenue is dropping precipitously.

https://www.miamiherald.com/ne...

https://www.mercurynews.com/20...

I get it. You hate Uber. You are going to shill away, no matter what reality says. But lets get real, worst case scenario, Uber is just another cab company. If they are bad in the ways that you believe, they'll crater on their own, without any need for FUD spreading.

According to a new poll on citizen security in 135 countries, Venezuelans are the least likely people in the world to feel safe walking alone at night.

The Gallup 2017 Global Law and Order Index found that just 12 percent of Venezuelans felt safe walking after sundown and only 14 percent expressed confidence in their police.

In addition, 38 percent of Venezuelans said they had been robbed in the last year, putting it in sixth place worldwide behind five countries, all in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Observatory of Venezuelan Violence, or OVV, says there were at least 28,479 violent deaths in 2016, or 91.8 deaths per 100,000 residents.

https://www.miamiherald.com/ne...

Great place. Good thing they banned guns. Keep up the good work, Hugo!

Or push them to to drive drunk, thus killing people. But hey, why worry about all those other unintended consequences, right?

You think standing matters to ICE or Border Patrol?

How credulous can you be?

A Dave Barry column from 2004 gives credit to Gallagher.

You mean their life. It's yet another way that the brutal forces of oppression stomp over the rights of private citizens.

Some of us just want to be safe from harm and the threat of danger, but we can't even escape that in our own homes.

Why? Because the police will come bursting in, and kill us. And what price do they pay? Four Red Cents

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

Abramovich's scheme involved calling unsuspecting customers with a prerecorded message instructing them to “Press 1” to hear more about an “exclusive” vacation deal offered by a well-known travel or hospitality company, like TripAdvisor, Expedia, Marriott, or Hilton, the FCC said.

They would then be transferred to a call center, where live operators would attempt to sell them one or more “discounted” vacation packages, like timeshares.

But neither the call center nor Abramovich were affiliated with the well-known brands presented to the customer during the prerecorded message.

This picture from the Miami Herald article shows a design with no redundancy. If any one of those diagonal elements fails, the whole thing comes down.
And one did fail.

they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments

Blame late-stage capitalisms race to the bottom on the state level ...

"Late-stage capitalism"? Way to paint yourself as a deluded moron.

I'll take "late-stage capitalism" over late-stage Socialism where kids have to fight over garbage with machetes in order to survive:

In Venezuela, hungry child gangs use machetes to fight for ‘quality’ garbage

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's not "true socialism".

Just like Joe Stalin and the Soviet Union or Pol Pot or North Korea weren't "true Communism" either.

Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg have no problem selling out. You're the product, MORONS.

You were saying?

BREAKING: China Makes Shocking Announcement About North Korean Denuclearization

On Wednesday, China said that it secured a commitment from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to denuclearize the Korean peninsula during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

So, kow-towing to petty bully dictators a la Clinton and Obama did for decades doesn't work?

But standing up to them like Trump has done might?

Whoda thunk!

Gawd, I'm gonna be laughing my ass off at "progressives" if a few months of Trump tweets can get North Korea to do what years of bribes from such "enlightened" leaders as Barack Obama couldn't.

Gee, you'd think someone with some BRAINS could figure out that bribing North Korea to "behave" merely rewarded bad behavior?

Hey, maybe Obama should have set some sort of "red line" that North Korea had better not cross?!?!

BWAAA HAAA HAAA!!!!

Amazing to learn that "progressive" foreign policy is as fucked up as "progressive" economics. How's Venezuela going?

Oh, yeah, kids are fighting with machetes to get the "best" garbage:

In Venezuela, hungry child gangs use machetes to fight for ‘quality’ garbage

Yep, "progressive" Socialism sure helps make everyone equal - equally desperate to simply survive.

That's an interesting assertion, but it conflicts with what the President has said.

The president is a WWE character, a self-promoter and a habitual liar. If he said water was wet I could ask a chemist for confirmation.

If the focus of the investigation is limited strictly to the Trump campaign, you would have a point. But it's much broader in scope.

Which is the problem with special prosecutors: they turn our entire Constitutional system of justice on its head. Probable suspicion > warrant > investigation > prosecution is how this is supposed to work. Not having a Grand Inquisitor with a writ of assistance, unlimited powers to investigate and anyone and anything he chooses for any reason, in the complete absence of any evidence to support its theory.

it is shocking that there is any push back on the investigation from anywhere. http://www.miamiherald.com/new...

Both parties have been actively hostile to Russia for over a hundred years. Which makes for one of the many, many, many, many plot holes in Russiagate: why would Russians try to interfere to put one party hostile to their nation over the other party hostile to their nation? It would be like accusing MLK of interfering in an election between Strom Thurmond and George Wallace. Doesn't make any kind of sense.

That's an interesting assertion, but it conflicts with what the President has said. “Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President. The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong — no collusion!” If the focus of the investigation is limited strictly to the Trump campaign, you would have a point. But it's much broader in scope. It's also not clear what our intelligence agencies knew or should have known. But the actions taken by the Obama administration are also controversial because they may have (intentionally or otherwise) ended up investigating Trump campaign operatives during the campaign. Given that both parties have hurled attacks at each other around this, it is shocking that there is any push back on the investigation from anywhere. http://www.miamiherald.com/new...

I think a better way to look at is to look at this case

http://www.miamiherald.com/lat...

When a 13-year-old runaway threatened to leave a Miami pimp, police say, he forced her to a Liberty City flea market tattoo shop to ink his street name, "Suave," on her eyelids.

The vicious twist to a human trafficking case surfaced this month when Miami police arrested Roman Thomas III, 26, who was already on probation after serving four years in state prison for having sex with a minor.

Thomas was wearing a state corrections GPS monitor when Miami police arrested him on March 18.

The girl, dubbed "Sparkle," was pimped through the classified advertising website Backpage.com, police say. Thomas and a woman plied the girl with liquor, marijuana and the drug Molly as she had sex with men at the Miami Shores Motel.

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/...

Now suppose it was a newspaper? I think they'd refuse to run the ad. And if a newspaper run ads like this they would not be protected by safe harbor protections.

I don't see why a website should be allowed to run ads like this, profit from them, and then claim those protections.

And if you look at the law you find it only applies to sex trafficking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) is a United States bill introduced by Senator Rob Portman. It seeks to clarify the country's sex trafficking law to make it illegal to knowingly assist, facilitate, or support sex trafficking, and amend the Section 230 safe harbors of the Communications Decency Act (which make online services immune from civil liability for the actions of their users) to exclude enforcement of federal or state sex trafficking laws from its immunity. Portman had previously led an investigation into the online classifieds service Backpage (which had been accused of facilitating child sex trafficking), and argued that Section 230 was protecting its "unscrupulous business practices" and was not designed to provide immunity to websites that facilitate sex trafficking.

I.e. it's not 'the end of the internet', or anything like it. It's basically an 'anti Backpage law' that adds an exemption for sex trafficking.

And look at this

https://www.dallasnews.com/new...

For many of us, gift cards are presents for hard-to-please family members who want to pick out their own gadgets at Best Buy.

For pimps and prostitutes, gift cards have become a currency to pay for sex ads on Backpage.com, anti-prostitution activists say.

Dallas-based Backpage, a classified-ad site similar to Craigslist, is the leading online marketplace for sex, according to government investigators and federal prosecutors who have been struggling for years to shut it down. The U.S. Justice Department says more than half of sex-trafficking victims are under 18.

Credit card companies stopped doing business with the website two years ago. People could still buy Backpage ads, but it became more difficult: They had to mail in checks or use complicated digital currencies like bitcoin.

But now, Backpage has begun accepting gift cards from major retailers, The Dallas Morning News has confirmed. That means a pimp could walk into any local grocery store and pick up a convenient, untraceable way to pay the site to post ads selling women, critics say.

So more than half the victims were under 18. That's not a failure of moderation, that's a business model. Them hiding behind safe harbor protections was bogus from the start.

As if we dont know how this will turn out. 'whats your is mine'.

http://www.laht.com/article.as...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
http://www.miamiherald.com/new...
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/0...
http://www.scmp.com/news/world...
http://news.abs-cbn.com/overse...

I'll just let Dave Barry illustrate for me the bias in the press via his 2016 Year in Review, the month of November:

"Trump’s victory stuns the nation. Not since the darkest days of the Civil War have so many Americans unfriended each other on Facebook. Some even take the extreme step of writing “open letters.” Angry, traumatized protesters cry, march, shout, smash windows, set fires —and that’s just the New York Times editorial board."

Once I thought Fox was pretty bad, in the last 2+ years CNN, NYT, WaPo et al have pushed me to Fox. At least they are fun and have more attractive anchors. I still do check google news headlines though to see what the left press is talking about.

The whole review thing is a great read btw: http://www.miamiherald.com/liv...

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!
Yes, sleazy publishers have always screamed their headlines to sell newspapers. For some reason, remnants of this marketing practice continue in the internet age. It's a delicate balance; trying to appeal to the unwashed masses who have some reading ability without offending the educated reader with crass commercialism. In which group are Slashdot readers?

"Judges Say the UK's Digital Surveillance Program Snooper's Charter Is Illegal"

After reading that headline 4 times and failing to make sense of it, I tried to read TFS. Eventually I understood a bit more. Why Does Every Word Begin With A Capital? Let's try this again:

"Judges say the UK's digital surveillance program Snooper's Charter is illegal"

Now we see that 'Snooper's Charter' is a thing, and the rest are ordinary words. Notice that in this century, many forward thinking publishers no longer scream their headlines. Here are some:
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.miamiherald.com/new...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/
https://www.cnbc.com/ ...

I doubt lawsuits will get very far - an entirely computer generated notice along the lines of "if you feel suicidal, you can call XXX-XXX-XXX to talk to someone" is going to fail tests for invasion of privacy

Sigh. Even TFS outright says "or contact local first-responders." Calling the cops on you because you might be suicidal is never the right thing to do, especially since there is a significant chance that the cops will just show up and murder you, even if people are standing by begging them not to.

and not exactly play well with a jury that can see Facebook is trying to do the right thing.

You mean "believe that" Facebook is trying to do the right thing, because they are not.

FL voters already voted to pay for this clean up. The republicans (absolute majority fo both the state senate and reps and the governor) are instead (surprise, surprise) using the money for anything but. http://www.miamiherald.com/new... "Two years after Florida voters overwhelmingly endorsed a trust fund expected to raise $10 billion over two decades to save the state’s stalled conservation efforts, lawmakers are again proposing spending a big chunk of it on more mundane matters like risk management insurance. In twin bills that lawmakers will hammer out this week in Tallahassee, only a fraction of the $880 million allocated under the Amendment 1 constitutional measure is slotted for conserving new land. Instead, lawmakers divvied up the money to cover salaries —including paychecks for the entire staff of the state’s forestry service — and shifted much of the costs covered by the state’s general fund to the trust. In addition to human resources and expenses, lawmakers also propose using $20 million to treat sewage sludge in central Florida and $25 million for a wastewater treatment plant in the Keys.

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

Opa-locka Fruit and Produce Market didn’t just sell fruits and vegetables.

Instead, owners Karla Rodriguez Diaz and Luis Marzo Machado allegedly used their produce market inside the Opa-locka Hialeah Flea Market to bilk the government out of $2.4 million, Wifredo A. Ferrer, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, said Wednesday.

Diaz and Machado were two of 22 people charged in 15 cases Wednesday in “Operation Stampede,” organized to bust business owners and their employees who allowed customers to use their government-issued EBT food stamp card as a means to get cash, in exchange for a cut. In total, Ferrer said there were more than $13 million in fraudulent food stamp transactions stemming from markets throughout South Florida, the largest food stamp fraud take-down in U.S. history.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-m...

Baltimore, Maryland – In August 2016, a federal grand jury returned nine indictments charging 14 retail store operators in the greater Baltimore area with food stamp fraud and wire fraud in connection with obtaining over $16 million from the United States Department of Agriculture by illegally trading food stamp benefits for cash. Twelve of the fourteen charged defendants have pleaded guilty, and two defendants were sentenced this week to federal prison.

Today, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Mohammad Shafiq, age 51, of Baltimore, Maryland to 46 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Judge Bennett ordered Shafiq to pay restitution in the amount of $3,712,353.00.

In a separate sentencing hearing held on May 18, 2017, Judge Bennett sentenced Mohammad Irfan, age 59, of Baltimore County, Maryland, to 51 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Judge Bennett also ordered Irfan to pay restitution in the amount of $3,550,662.00.

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/352...

NBC2 started tracking local court cases to see how Heacock’s team is doing.

From 2012 to 2014, 31 people were charged with welfare fraud in Lee, Charlotte, and Collier counties.

That number has nearly doubled in recent years. Since 2015, 71 people have been charged with welfare fraud, almost all of it from false reporting.

“We're pursuing it more,” Heacock said.

“We don't go after misdemeanor cases. We only go after felony cases.”

The results are easy to see.

DPAF discovered $20,719,036 in fraud in FY 2015-16. Compare that to just $5,527,677 in FY 2010-11.

But there’s another area of food stamp fraud that Carroll would like to see better enforced.

Food stamp trafficking, as it’s called, consists of retailers trading cash for government benefit dollars. Here’s how it works:

Store customer offers retailer food stamps for cash;

Store charges $100 of food stamps then gives customer $50 cash;

Store receives $100 reimbursement from government and makes $50 profit.

“It's organized crime,” Carroll said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

Sami Deffala, who's managed a corner store in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood for 13 years, said he hears that every day from customers vying for a private moment in hopes of using their Link cards to exchange SNAP benefits, the modern-day version of food stamps, for cash — an illegal practice called trafficking by federal regulators. And every day, Deffala said, he hears them out but refuses to take part in the scheme.

"I have peop

Fuck Duke, FP&L, et al. They already screwed us for millions of dollars and they want more. Levy County is just one example. Crystal River is another fine example of consumers getting bent over the barrel. https://www.dailykos.com/stori...
Don't forget their attempt to control the use of residential solar through an intentionally named and misleading constitutional amendment. http://www.miamiherald.com/new...
There's a reason residential solar isn't prolific in the Sunshine State, and it ain't because there is no sunshine.

So while technology is hot again, it is far more reserved, and will not classify a pet food store as a tech company because it sells its product on the internet at a loss.

I'm not so sure about that...

I'll just leave this one for you to rage over:
Court rebukes NSA for 5-year illegal surveillance of U.S. citizens

Sanctuary cities do not exist and nobody on the Progressive left talks about the need for them. Right?

Actually, they don't exist, especially not in the form that the Regressive right insists on falsely portraying them. They're pretty much just a straw-man where the right makes up false claims about lawlessness and crime in order to whip up a frenzy of hysteria.

Instead, what they are, is municipalities deciding that the Federal Government needs to be accountable, and forced to behave in a manner compliant with the law, by a policy of adherence to the strictures of law informing them that the cities won't knuckle under to their capriciousness. Not new, but a lingering problem for a supposed agency enforcing the law.

Of course, I'm old enough to remember when Janet Reno was demonized for returning Elian Gonzalez to his father. The mishandling of policies on Cuba is bad enough, but apparently we're supposed to decide parental rights on a whim?

So it's hypocrisy too. Even ignoring the other protests against the federal goverment, the silence on the failures of the immigration system is very telling.

Oh, I guess you are just another AC who's full of shit. Brave enough to hide in anonymity while claiming that I am being watched, as if you are a threat.

You're confused again, there's no threat to being judged, you're merely being observed, and recognized, for what your public behavior happens to be. It's called responsibility. You should recognize that as a natural consequence of communication. You spea

It's not just the USDA.

It's also the EPA and the Department of the Interior. Tweets containing non-controversial scientific facts were deleted this afternoon.

http://thehill.com/policy/ener...

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

Don't be alarmed, it is for your own good. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Climate change alarmists are doubling down on more command and control.

Reading this article, I don't see that it's "climate change alarmists" that are scrubbing references to AGW from public documents.

It kind of sounds like the climate deniers are the ones trying to exercise command and control.

In Florida, the GOP government went so far as to ban the term "climate change".

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

In Florida, governor Rick Scott issued an edict that state employees can't say "climate change" or "global warming".

In Wisconsin, governor Scott Walker scrubs all mention of humanity's role in climate change from state websites.

From here on out, I'm not trusting anyone named Scott.

Florida voters narrowly (and surprisingly, to me) defeated a constitutional amendment that was funded by Florida Power & Light and other very interested parties that would have made it difficult and expensive to install solar power in the home. A rare victory for common sense in Florida.

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

Google tells me that a ballot initiative by the Good Guys failed to achieve enough signatures to make the 2016 ballot (due to some scam artistry by the polling company they hired) so they will try for the 2018 ballot.

https://ballotpedia.org/Florid...

I'm not comfortable with amending the Constitution for something as specific as this, but I suppose they figure the legislature could be bought out by the incumbent power companies if it were a mere lowly law on the books.

Do you seriously think coastal areas will not be able to deal with that incredibly slow rise?

Ask Miami if they'd like to have more sea levels rise.

Convenient list that ignores 49 killed in the name of Islam in Miami. That attack ALONE outstrips all those the Guardian totals up over 14 years as attributable to the KKK and white nationalists. They have an agenda, obviously, and because it goes along with your own agenda - you champion it. Even though it's missing GROSS chunks of attacks (San Bernardino anyone?)

Also interesting that the total starts AFTER 9/11 - giving a few thousand head start to the Islamic terrorists... But then, to offset that, you'd have to go back to the KKK in the pre-civil-rights movement, when it was the DEMOCRAT ENFORCEMENT wing with proud member Robert "sheets" Byrd and Fullbright (BilL Clinton's idol) leading the charge against those uppity black folks...

I applaud you sir! You have, in your mind, defined the problem so narrowly that you are only willing to see evidence that cannot possibly exist. You must've been paying attention in Gaslighting 101.

I assure you that only diehard fanatics like yourself obsess over whatever activity you specifically define as "voter fraud". Most of us humans, however, are gravely concerned about honest and fair elections, and the threats are many, including voter fraud, election fraud, and whatever other forms of fraud could possibly interfere.

Indiana

California

Florida (Note that the response to this was to send out 173,000 more blank ballots.

More Florida

Anyone that cares to spend a little time searching can probably find similar stories from nearly any state. Oh, and of course the Project Veritas Action videos show people discussing the mechanics of successful fraud, clearly from a position of personal knowledge.

Keep in mind that a lot of this fraud is very hard to prove. In nearly every story, the people involved protest their innocence. Bank robbers caught in the act tend to do that too, of course, as do innocent people. A year from now, we'll know the extent of the fraud that was caught and prosecuted, and maybe have an idea of the fraud that was caught, but not prosecuted, and absolutely no idea how much fraud was not caught.

Further info:

Racist India

Racist Mexico

Yep there's ocean drive (hint it's named ocean drive because it's next to the ocean) flooding. Damn it looks like Atlantis.

So, you're saying that the live webcams set up by the Miami Beach Department of Tourism doesn't show any flooding? Well, I must have gotten some bad information about the flooding in Miami Beach then. I guess the photos on weather.com and the Miami Herald were just photoshopped.

https://weather.com/science/en...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09...

http://www.miamiherald.com/art...

I don't see how the case where the judge ruled Bitcoin wasn't money was in the interest of the Federal Government. If you read the original article about the MIami-Dade circuit case, it was about whether or not someone had promoted illegal activity and violated Florida's law against money laundering.

As TFS says, other cases around the US have also ruled that it counts as currency. It's not unusual for courts to disagree, eventually a case will reach the Supreme Court and their decision will set the precedent for everything going forward.

Also, apparently Bitcoin advocates "hailed" the Miami-Dade decision, which makes no sense to me... If you're a supporter of Bitcoin, don't you want it to be recognized as equal to government-backed currency? Doesn't that mean that Bitcoin has achieved its goal?

What's low about this is that the primary source they cite is Gawker.

Trump blasts Obama, hopes Russia can find 'missing' Clinton emails
The many problems with Donald Trump's call for Russia to spy on Hillary Clinton
Trump Says He Hopes Russia Can Access Clinton's Emails
Trump Asks Russia to find Clinton's missing emails in Doral [Florida] Appearance

Trump can't even run a business.

I think that is political BS. IF I understand things correctly each project is usually a different corporation.

He can't, Trump is a serial abuser of both bankruptcy law, and the suppliers he contracts to perform work.

This is a typical Example of one his corps abusing a supplier, rather than pay supplier what they owe, they resort to a form of extortion (ever increasing legal fees to collect a debt). And that is not the only Forum about Trump and Rcih assholes like him

We really don't need a person, (unrepentant serial abuser), like Trump as Commander in Chief.

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Guy does not think he is a communist (hint: "democratic socialist" is not the same thing)

Maybe, but he has said nice things about evil communists (yes, Castro is evil) plenty of times of which we are aware:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/megana...

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

It's also quite fascinating to see what the communists say about him.

Let's just remember that this is the state where in 2015, Department of Environmental Protection employees were banned from usage of the term "climate change" or "global warming". .

i don''t like the sound of that "blimate bange"

I have a feeling that those with the beach view will be just fine with not completely losing their property investment to being permanently underwater.

You've clearly never met a real Floridian. "Climate Change" is an unofficially banned term in government. Most of the people there are confident that nothing will happen during their lifetimes. Their property values (which have already taken a huge hit since 2007-2008) are dependent on a lack of climate change. Therefore, the climate must not change. If the climate must not change, there is no need to do anything about it. QED

Let's just remember that this is the state where in 2015, Department of Environmental Protection employees were banned from usage of the term "climate change" or "global warming". .

The Florida government does not condone speech about climate change or sea-level rise:
http://www.miamiherald.com/new...

It's almost like the old Soviet Union's fixation on Lysenkoism.

Ideology based science FTW?

Oh dear, it looks like this post is getting the bejabbers moderated out of it. A lot of people are calling it a troll.

Allow me to explain.

There are times, and there are groups, that allow their ideology to get in the way things that others declare as the truth,

Everyone is going to get their Ox gored here soon, so deal with it.

Lysenkoism was a politically motivated campaign against genetics and scientific agriculture. It was based on Lamarkian inheritance, and rejected Mendelian Inheritance, and utterly rejected Natural selection as professed by Darwinian Evolutionary Theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/L...

It held that plants could transmute into each other, and that rather than natural selection as a process, natural cooperation was the norm.

This outlook was for some reason very attractive to the ideals of the Communist party there. Stalin agreed with Lysenkoism, and it is interesting to note that some 3 thousand mainstrem biologists were sent to prison and died there, as well as scientific research in biology already done was destroyed, and further research banned in the field. Other related fields were either ideologically affected or banned, such as neurophysiology and cellular biology, in fact, any biological field that did not agree with the ideological based "facts" of Lysenkoism. Soviet Genetics remained in this state until the death of Stalin in 1953.

This situation may or may not shed some light on the repeated crop failures of the period

It was formally ended in 1964 after a huge amount of damage.

Now we come to some other idealism based fallacies. In the US, there are a fair number of people who ideologically favor a universe created in 4004 b.c.e, and also reject evolution and it's biological underpinnings. From time to time, they have tried to work their ideology into the classroom, however, and especially since their ideology is based upon a particular interpretation of their religious documents, they have failed do far. The latest version of this ideal based effort was in Dover PA, when a School board tried to implement science courses containing religious theory, eventually losing in court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... In Georgia, they wanted to dismantle evolution by using the colloquial version of theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Now finally, we come to the Global warming issue. While certainly not as deadly as the Soviet Union's treatment of Biologists, there is a lot of ideological push against a concept as simple as the energy stored in the atmosphere and it's relation to certain components of the atmosphere.

Examples of this are a bit silly, like Florida's Governor Rick Scott banning the words Climate Change, Global Warming, and Sustainability, as well as banning the words 'sea level rise, and replacing it with "nuisance flooding". http://www.miamiherald.com/new...

In 2012 North Carolina passed a bill placing a 4 year ban on acknowledging that sea levels were rising.The Governor did not sign it into law. http://www.ecology.com/2012/07...

In 2012 Arizona attempted to abolish sustainability efforts and attempted to make it a crime for cities to endorse or implement the UN agenda 21 principles of sustainable development.. Alabama, Kansas, and Louisiana attempted to as well. Tennessee passed a resolution condemning them. Seems these folk

How dumb people can go? Trump resort in Palm Beach also "can't find" local workers no matter how many crowds of locals try to apply. They just import them from Romania.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opi...

we add a meter to the floodwall every century

The issue is the cost. In Miami alone they are spending between $400-$500 million over the next five years to keep up with the rising sea level which is already causing salt water incursions into streets and fresh water supplies during high tide. And the costs will only accelerate along with sea level rise. Economists agree that a revenue neutral carbon tax is the most cost efficient way forward.

Now one can argue about how much of this problem is man-made, and how much is natural causes. And you can argue about how costs should be divided between nations that contribute(d) to the problem. But even then, some part of the problem is man-made, which means the *fair* thing to do would be to pay compensation for that part of the damage.

The US couldn't afford that - Miami barely can afford the $300 million 5-year-plan to keep their streets from flooding during "king tides". http://www.miamiherald.com/new...