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no, the pause is a manufactured construct that plays off of two things:

-1998 was a record shattering year. a peak, tremendously higher than anything before, and anything since (until quite recently).

-then the following years, 1999 - 2010, showed a slower rate of warming. still warming but not as quickly as the 90's did, and each year not as warm as 1998 either. (As it happens, we also now know why that period warmed at a slower rate than expected: the heat went into the oceans.)

So then, when plotted as a graph, the period from 1998 (record higher year) to 2010 gives the false appearance of a "pause".
This is called cherry picking.

The full graph, including years prior to 1998, clearly show the years of 1999-2010 were still warmer than the nearly every previous, other than 1998.
IE, the trend is clearly warming and there is no pause .

http://www.motherjones.com/fil...

They're called smart people, who know how to read a graph.

http://www.motherjones.com/fil...

That's because the pause is a manufactured artifact created by cherry picking your starting point at 1998, a peak year, and ignoring the previous several years of data.

IE, there is no pause .

http://www.motherjones.com/fil...

your argument is stupid and lazy.

No actually it's not, well at least not entirely. The answer is zero emission vehicles (electric cars) are best suited to the west whereas gas powered cars are more suited to the east. This is due (see the article) by more states in the east relying on coal fired electric plants:

http://www.motherjones.com/env...

The data is 2014 so it's not that stale. I think the takeaway is that just because it's a zero emission vehicle is does not follow that it'll have a better impact on the environment. But you can read the article.

Experimental program not instantly profitable? Say it isn't so!

So, is the experiment a success in your opinion? They've extracted a total of about $52 million dollars worth of material for the cost of $100 million...

Do you expect it to become profitable some time in the future?

I'm sure they can improve the efficiency of the extraction process.

They'll need to not just improve, but double it just to break even. That recycling is a fraud is increasingly obvious — even its cheerleaders have to cite consumers' liking products made from recycled materials to support claims, that it is profitable. Those with a totalitarian streak acknowledge, that without increasing government oppression (such as banning plastic bags in supermarkets) the recycling is too difficult and expensive.

Apple is not doing it for (direct) profit. They expect clueless customers to feel better — and buy more — thus helping the profit indirectly.

They don't get a tax subsidy. Please stop posting that bullshit.

Please educate yourself.

Taxpayers currently subsidize the oil industry by as much as $4.8 billion a year, with about half of that going to the big five oil companies—ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, and ConocoPhillips—which get an average tax break of $3.34 on every barrel of domestic crude they produce.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/oil-subsidies-renewable-energy-tax-breaks/

"CIA ... trashing the constitution"

Secret U.S. government agencies do whatever they want. There is very little oversight. Those who want to kill people have no need to take a chance on getting arrested for murder. They join one of the many secret or semi-secret agencies.

Those who want to play video games that kill real people could work for the U.S. government in 19 countries. Now only 18 countries since the Uzbek government evicted the CIA killing organization.

Those in the U.S. who want to mistreat other people don't need to risk going to prison.

Those who want easy money that can be wasted in crazy schemes have no need to face bankruptcy. They can join a secret agency and use taxpayer money for things like a $43 million compressed natural gas station that serves only about 100 taxi drivers.

Those who want to find investment opportunities can join the many secret U.S. government agencies like No Sense in America, NSA, and listen to phone calls. Think the NSA is one organization? No, the NSA has contracting companies: How Private Contractors Have Created a Shadow NSA.

There is little democracy in the U.S. The U.S. government helps the rich get richer.

It's funny when you follow the links and quickly see the scientists failing economics. This is because they're not economists. "Growing world population will strain natural resources"? That happened at either 60 or 130 million humans; welcome to scarcity and technological growth.

The other big one is the space station as a good investment for the country, and a smaller consideration for biofuel. Childlike fascination and a misunderstanding of economics confuse "X is tangentially related to or was involved with Y" with "X is an effective way to reach Y".

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/04/ted-cruz-dildo-ban-sex-devices-texas

"No right 'to stimulate one's genitals'..."

In the Age of Trump, Tech CEOs Cast Themselves As the New Statesmen

... and the supposed champions of the people are now happy with the corporate influence.

Because some CEOs are more equal than others... Oh, wait, Koch brothers hate Trump too, so let's suspend this campaign.

The noble aim of #NeverTrump justifies all means, does not it? Principles are for wussies anyway...

Send them to the middle of nowhere 100 miles east where they won't be bothering anyone.

Send them back to Las Vegas!

For years, the Las Vegas Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital, Nevada's primary state mental facility, gave discharged patients a bus ticket out of town. Poor and mentally ill, they ended up homeless in cities around the country—especially in California, where more than 500 psychiatric patients were sent over a five year period.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/10/nevada-settles-busing-homeless-lawsuit-san-francisco/

One of the beasts that the Republicans starved was the IRS fraud investigators.

The IRS discovered wholesale tax fraud by organizations claiming to be 401(c) organizations illegally using their tax-deductible contributions for political campaigns.

Many of these organizations had "Tea Party" and "Patriot" in the name, so the IRS used those key words to find applications to investigate http://www.motherjones.com/pol... It's as if you searched for organizations with "Jihad" in the name to find terrorists.

The Tea Party organizations and their Republican campaign fund recipients didn't like it when they got caught, so they responded by cutting the IRS budget. These were broad cuts, not only for fraud investigations but also for simple things like 800-number information lines (which they discontinued).

It got so bad that the IRS' Taxpayer Advocate, Nina Olson, blasted the IRS taxpayer services in her annual report as inadequate.

That's what happens when you starve the beast. You don't have any more government services. The only people who benefit are people who are committing fraud.

I'm not going to spend a ton of time with this but this along with associated links should satisfy your first request

http://www.motherjones.com/pol...

And to address your main point, please note, just about all of these tech companies were happy to locate themselves in South Carolina before Charlotte passed the bathroom law. It was the state's regressive policies of nullifying a local law and then taking it a step further and not allowing any local governments to pass legislation in regards to LGBT people that created this. Don't pretend these companies are being anti democratic by being upset about a law meant to take away the ability of local governments to protect minorities they would like to protect.

My own experience is that electronic trading is far better than the old way of letting human brokers skim off much bigger commissions for willing out a form.

http://www.motherjones.com/pol...

I assume he is, since Ted Cruz would be the Christian's choice. After all, God told his wife to tell him to run. Of course, maybe he should have mentioned some other things...

Why do you have any expectation that further automation will change this trend?

Why do you have any expectation that further automation will change this trend?

They have spectacular successes and even bigger Failures

The Hafnium bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Their Cybernetic Menagerie : Weaponized Rats, Bees, and a mechanical elephant http://www.motherjones.com/pol...

One of my favorites, the Connection Machine architechture http://www.inc.com/magazine/19...

And lets not forget that Bush had a hard on for getting Iraq, someway, somehow.

Security briefing on day 1 of Bush's presidency: "How do we get Iraq?"
Security briefing on 9/11 attacks: "Can we use this to get Iraq?"

http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
http://www.timelines.ws/countr...

1/30/01
Saddam's removal is top item of Bush's inaugural national security meeting. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill later recalls, "It was all about finding a way to do it. The president saying, 'Go find me a way to do this.'" [Date the public knew: 1/10/04]

8/10/01
Major air raid on Iraq. (air defense installations destroyed)

Sep 2001
Curveball granted German asylum, ceases cooperating. British spy agency MI6 has told CIA that "elements of [his] behavior strike us as typical offabricators." [Date the public knew: 11/20/05]

9/11/01
Al Qaeda attacks. Minutes taken by a Rumsfeld aide five hours later: "Best info fast. Judge whether good enough [to] hit SH [Saddam Hussein] @ same time. Not only UBL [Usama bin Laden]." [Date the public knew: 9/4/02]

9/12/01
According to counterterror czar Richard Clarke, "[Bush] told us, 'I want you, as soon as you can, to go back over everything, everything. See if Saddam did this.'" Told evidence against Al Qaeda overwhelming, Bush asks for "any shred" Saddam was involved. [Date the public knew: 3/22/04]

9/20/01
British PM Tony Blair advises Bush not to lose focus on Al Qaeda. Bush replies: "I agree with you, Tony. But when we have dealt with Afghanistan, we must come back to Iraq." [Date the public knew: 5/1/04]

9/20/01
PNAC letter to Bush: "Even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack, any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power." [Date the public knew: 9/21/01]

11/21/01
Bush collars Rumsfeld physically and asks: "What have you got in terms of plans for Iraq? What is the status of the war plan? I want you to get on it. I want you to keep it secret."—Bob Woodward. [Date the public knew: 4/18/04]

12/9/01
Cheney on Meet the Press: "Well, the evidence is pretty conclusive that the Iraqis have indeed harbored terrorists." Also claims 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta met with Iraqi spy in Prague, a claim he'll repeat long after CIA and Czechs disavow.

12/12/01
Rumsfeld demands plan for war against Iraq. Gen. Tommy Franks proposes softening up Iraq: "I'm thinking in terms of spikes, Mr. Secretary. Spurts of activity followed by periods of inactivity." [Date the public knew: 8/3/04]

12/28/01
Gen. Franks briefs Bush on Iraq war plans. [Date the public knew: 3/5/03]

Feb 2002
"I was asked by one of the senior commanders of Central Command to go into his office. We did, the door was closed, and he turned to me, and he said, 'Senator, we have stopped fighting the war on terror in Afghanistan. We are moving military and intelligence personnel and resources out of Afghanistan to get ready for a future war in Iraq.'"—Sen. Bob Graham. [Date the public knew: 3/26/04]

March 2002
"Fuck Saddam. We're taking him out."—Bush to Rice and three senators. [Date the public knew: 12/8/03]

3/13/02
Bush on Osama: "I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him."

3/22/02
Downing Street memo: "US scrambling to establish a link between Iraq and Al Qaida is so far frankly unconvincingWe are still left with a problem of bringing public opinion to accept the imminence of a threat from IraqRegime change does not stack up. It sounds like a grudge between Bush and Saddam." [Date the public knew: 9/18/04]

3/24/02
Saddam "is actively pursuing nuclear weapons at this time."—Cheney on CNN

3/25/02
Downing Str

In other words, our government doesn't have an income problem - it has a spending problem.

If you're talking about the imperial budget, sure. Otherwise, you're a Randian that should buy a house in Michigan and drink the tap water. Low taxes have very high costs for society.

There's a couple of things wrong with that. Nobody paid those top marginal rates, nobody.

Deductions do nothing to change the fact they paid a far higher percentage of the nations taxes than they do now.

"The Republican Establishment terrorized themselves resulting in Donald Trump becoming a party nominee"

That would imply that the Republican Establishment are capable of taking responsibility for the situation that they created by embracing the Tea Party.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/how-gop-elite-set-stage-for-donald-trump

I mean, those guys with hearts as pure as driven snow really just want to make sure we've explored those scary terrorists' phones and everything to the extent possible. It can't possibly be that they want to set a precedent that they'll use repeatedly to go after low-level drug users instead.

Look here and you can see that those "sneak & peak warrants" that they got to fight terrorism have actually been used a couple of times to fight terrorism:

http://www.motherjones.com/kev...

See, in 2013 they only used sneak & peaks against terrorists 51 times. Think about that. And forget about the 11,078 times they were used against druggies. Just think about those 51!

Except the Christian extremist do tend to get their way in places like Uganda, with encouragement from American evangelicals. Exporting hate is a growth industry.

Cellphones must be a godsend to 911 in this regard. I wonder how many people died over the years because they couldn't tell the ambulance where to come?

Nope, quite the opposite. Imagine you're in a high-rise apartment building. First, you're indoors so the building prevents you getting an accurate GPS location fix, so emergency services will only know approximately which CITY BLOCK you are located on. Secondly, given time the location may get more accurate, but even once they've figured out which building you are in, they have no idea which apartment you are in. If you're unable to give your name, address, and/or open the door, it will take emergency services HOURS to find your cold dead corpse.

With landlines, the phone company kept detailed records of exactly where each phone line was installed, so the INSTANT you dialed 911, the dispatcher had your exact address including apartment number coming up on-screen. With VoIP E-911, you are required to type-in your exact location and the service provider, so again 911 calls have your exact address the moment you call. Cellular operators have fought tooth and nail to resist any technical improvements to cell phone E-911 which would give emergency services a quicker and more exact fix on your location, because they would cost a few dollars more per customer:

http://www.motherjones.com/pol...

You'd sound a lot more reasonable if you could find ONE MRA who wants to shut anybody up.

Exactly what would that constitute?

Any of this qualify, or do you need something more, like shutting down a women's study course, or calling for a book or movie to be boycotted?

And so is pointing guns at law enforcement. But hey, they're white!

And in several cases, in custody today or even dead. What's your point?

the guys at the original Bundystock got a free pass for promising to shoot people http://static2.businessinsider... http://www.reviewjournal.com/s... http://graphics8.nytimes.com/i... http://www.trbimg.com/img-536a... http://www.motherjones.com/fil... the new bunch overgeneralized from that.

The quality of John Oliver's shows are high and he provides a valuable service which used to be handled by the major news networks in highlighting ridiculously over the top bad government and corporate abuse.

Your point is quibbling and irrelevant to John Oliver's credibility which was what was being discussed.

http://www.motherjones.com/med...
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In preparing for upcoming episodes, Oliver & Co. will often reach out to journalists or experts in a certain field for more information and perspective. For instance, prior to the Keith Alexander interview, they got in touch with Shane Harris, who profiled Alexander for Foreign Policy late last year. Furthermore, their staff includes Charles Wilson, an alumnus of the New York Times and The New Yorker, who now serves as the show's "journalistic fact-checker," in Oliver's words.

"You can't build a joke on sand, because otherwise then the joke doesn't work andâ¦everything falls apart," Oliver says. "So you gotta make sure, even if it's sometimes incredibly frustrating, if you get excited about a joke angle, and then your fact-checker says, 'Yeah, you can't say that. That's not right.' And it's a tough job. I remember when I was talking to Charles before he joined the show, I was just saying, 'It is the thankless position to have to walk into a room that has kind of a joyful momentum behind itâ¦and be the one saying, 'Yeah, you can't do any of that. It's not true.'"
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Everyone makes mistakes but Oliver's show takes efforts to check the facts and get them straight.

I'm saying that GMO food makers could sue non-GMO food makers for defamation when the non-GMO makers try to distinguish themselves by mentioning that they're not GMO. Something like this case about milk and bovine growth hormone. I have no problem with someone who wants to avoid GMO (for whatever reason floats their boat) being able to get the information needed to do so. I do have a problem with saying "GMOs are bad, even though we have no evidence, because they scare me". Unfortunately there's an area in between, where someone could say "My stuff isn't GMO, and you know what that means *nudge nudge wink wink*" and imply superiority without actually proving it or saying anything bad about GMO. I can't think of a good way to resolve that given my personal feelings on freedom of expression, but I have hope that as time goes by folks will start to be less fearful.

has been around for years. The US gets "invited" in by some emerging democracy, leader and builds a small camp with a runway.
Just like in another few nations in the region.
Just how very "very slick" and "efficient" can be found in the Drone Papers https://theintercept.com/drone...
The Pentagon's New Generation of Secret Military Bases (Jul. 16, 2012)
How the Pentagon is quietly transforming its overseas base empire and creating a dangerous new way of war.
http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
As for the US 'French" connection? Clinton Email Shows that Oil and Gold Were Behind Regime Change In Libya (01/09/2016)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...

Will the US vision of a remote war work? For that the US needs constant signals intelligence ie people have to walk around with electronics that is "on" and been in use. Shared electronics or electronics thats just been driven around randomly could be another part of the puzzle.
Another method was to hand out tagging and tracking systems to local "freedom fighters" or US trained "moderates" to then place near people of interest. Such efforts can get used to quickly settle local issues rather than the US expected role for easy leadership decapitation.
The US is still trying to reduce flight time and get more loitering time.
Great news for the contractors and mercenaries working hours. Just like the Vietnam war base funding, pacification ideas and search and destroy zones but no complex draft politics back home.

politicians write the rules, dont blame others for playing by the rules signed off on by politicians.

These days the politicians don't write the rules. The Wall Street lobbyists do. I'm not giving neither Wall Street nor the politicians a free pass.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/spending-bill-992-derivatives-citigroup-lobbyists

For anyone still reading, all of those links show that a single man shouted a nazi reference to a crowd of people who shouted at him first. Seriously, read the links.

Oh, there are more.

http://www.theblaze.com/storie...

http://www.motherjones.com/moj...

In the US alone - 130 natural gas, 96 electric, 56 oil and gas, and 4 nuclear facilities at or slightly above sea level. http://www.motherjones.com/blu... Would seem to be a matter of national security !

Often not. A recent example I can corroborate is Detroit. Over 50% of households in Detroit are delinquent on property taxes; they're tax squatters and have been for many years. They famously don't pay their water bills either. Some large fraction of your "bazillion other taxes" are contingent on employment, which is another rare condition in these areas. Otherwise you're just deducting income taxes from benefit checks or paying sales tax with EBT credits.

Flint is just a smaller analog of Detroit.

some call get made for gun control and in the end it all gets brushed under the carpet

Because the number of people dying a violent death in the US is declining .

Then terrorism shouldn't be reason to do anything different either.

Here's some data for you so you don't have to rely on "I hear that ..." and "... my personal experience". I picked this one because it seemed to take a measured approach, including a reasonable definition of "mass shooting" than is generally used (in other words, there are more gun-related shootings than presented here because they don't fit the definition). Glancing through this, I don't see a distinct trend upward or downward in either frequency or fatalities. Certainly nothing I'd call "substantial".

US Mass Shootings, 1982-2015: Data From Mother Jones' Investigation

Some context is available here: A Guide to Mass Shootings in America

Here's some data for you so you don't have to rely on "I hear that ..." and "... my personal experience". I picked this one because it seemed to take a measured approach, including a reasonable definition of "mass shooting" than is generally used (in other words, there are more gun-related shootings than presented here because they don't fit the definition). Glancing through this, I don't see a distinct trend upward or downward in either frequency or fatalities. Certainly nothing I'd call "substantial".

US Mass Shootings, 1982-2015: Data From Mother Jones' Investigation

Some context is available here: A Guide to Mass Shootings in America

some call get made for gun control and in the end it all gets brushed under the carpet

Because the number of people dying a violent death in the US is declining . Constitution-shredding anti-gun zealots try to "not let a good crisis go to waste", but the sentiment does not last long.

someone happens to shout some Islamic slogan, this becomes a matter of national security

Because this is a new motivation. One which, considering, what other Western countries are experiencing, could dramatically reverse the blissful trend. This terror-couple were living the life, millions of people world-wide can only dream about — American citizens with steady income, a nice house in a beautiful part of the country, blessed with a newborn daughter and supportive extended family.

If they can be radicalised into a murder-suicide mission by an organization as revolting as ISIS, who can not?

They don't get *any* special subsidies or tax breaks.

Oil companies get to deduct expenses just like any business, which includes writing off the expenses for the first year when drilling a well, whether the well is profitable or not. Specific to the oil/gas industry are the depletion allowance and Domestic Manufacturing Deduction, which allow the industry to avoid over $1B in taxes per year.

The last 2 sure look like they are special to that industry.

Talk about "freak outs". This type of nonsense is happening all over the country. It's the new normal under "zero tolerance" policies.

http://www.motherjones.com/pol...

*Finger gun at a Virginia grade school: suspension
* Breakfast pastry "gun" at a Maryland elementary school: 2 day suspension
*Hello Kitty bubble gun at a Pennsylvania kindergarten: 10 day suspension

If a pop-tart gun is grounds for discipline, then why does clock boy deserve $15m for a freak out about a timing device in a metal case?

Yep. Kevin Drum goes into the details with links and transcripts: http://www.motherjones.com/kev...

The absolute roar-back - presumably being coordinated by Breitbart and similar message management systems of the hard Radical Right - over what Trump clearly and obviously did say is fascinating. Dog whistle got too far down into the human hearing range for comfort?

And downrating people who describe and link to what Trump actually said - that he wants to create a database of US citzens whose religion he doesn't like - is only highlighting how desperate the hard Right is to keep this one quiet.

sPh

Yeah, not really: http://www.motherjones.com/kev...

As to questions to a candidate for the US Presidency being "too political", I'm not sure what that even means. Or are you arguing the leading Republican candidate isn't sharp enough to handle a tough question on his feet? Seems a bit at odds with the criticism of President Obama from the hard right that he [Obama] pauses and thinks before answering a question and often speaks in complex paragraphs rather than snapping out a cute one-liner. Trump snapped out a one-liner, got himself in deep trouble over it, and now you think the questions were "too tough"? Got it.

sPh

Kevin Drum, a moderately conservative centrist, pretty well demolishes the "Trump didn't really say that" cover story that is now making the right wing circuit:

http://www.motherjones.com/kev...

Yeah, Trump really did say that.

sPh

Reminds me of the movie fight club where the guy supposedly worked for a car company, and part of his job was working with formulas to determine if the cost of lawsuits from deaths would be higher than the recall cost.

At least according to a Mother Jones story from 1977, something similar did happen at Ford, although it wasn't based on lawsuit costs, it was based on a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration figure for the dollar value of a human life.

Although religion was created by the ancient politicians in the first place, it's still in their hand to achieve their goals. So it comes back and haunts the world like this. This is very enlightening: http://www.motherjones.com/pol...

Except armed people stop killings and other violence all the time.

Maybe you could cite a few of those cases for the authors of this article.

http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
The NRA Myth of Arming the Good Guys
Mass shootings in the US are on the riseâ"and ordinary citizens with guns don't stop them.
By Mark Follman
Dec. 28, 2012

If only Sandy Hook's principal had been packing heat, the argument goes, she could've stopped the mass killer. There's just one little problem with this: Not a single one of the 62 mass shootings we studied in our investigation has been stopped this way--even as the nation has been flooded with millions of additional firearms and a barrage of recent laws has made it easier than ever for ordinary citizens to carry them in public places, including bars, parks, and schools.

Attempts by armed citizens to stop shooters are rare. At least two such attempts in recent years ended badly, with the would-be good guys gravely wounded or killed. Meanwhile, the five cases most commonly cited as instances of regular folks stopping massacres fall apart under scrutiny: Either they didn't involve ordinary citizens taking action--those who intervened were actually cops, trained security officers, or military personnel--or the citizens took action after the shooting rampages appeared to have already ended. (Or in some cases, both.)

Gun rights die-hards claim the Portland mall shooter saw an armed good guy--who ran for cover instead of firing--and promptly shot himself dead. Obviously.

Healthcare costs increase are mainly due to a lack of universal coverage

If this were the reason, we would've seen sharp increases before WW2 as well. We did not. Fail.

Working with the government is much simpler, which saves time, which saves money

That may be, because the government has unlimited pockets — if they run short, they can always take more money from taxpayers.

I've not only learned this in class

Ah, so you are still under the influence of the Illiberalism — college professors are overwhelmingly Left and getting worse. Themselves overwhelmingly paid by the government, their solutions to most problems are inevitably Statist as well. It will take you years to shake off their influence — until then discussions of such topics with you aren't going to be productive...

Our complicated private insurance healthcare system is extremely wasteful.

Because it is not really "private" — the heavy regulations, mandates, and the government-enforced absence of competition is keeping it inefficient. The health-care market in general — and the insurance market in particular — aren't really free: the barrier to entry is enormous — an Alabama insurer, for example, can not sell policies to Tennessee residents. Instead of using the Commerce-clause to force States to open-up their markets for health-insurance, the Federal government is looking the other way — since 1945... Any corporation will get slow and inefficient in the absence of competition — it may, indeed, become worse than government in that case.

No US citizen was murdered by a drone, they were killed, legally. The law of war permits that. When you fight with the enemy in an armed conflict against the US you are part of the enemy and can be killed just like any other enemy combatant. That is what those US citizens had done, and it cost them.

Wrong.

Some of the Americans killed were fighting with the enemy. "Some" is not the same as "all".

http://www.motherjones.com/kev...
http://content.time.com/time/w...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://www.aclu.org/video/acl...

"HP Is Now Two Companies. How Did It Get Here?"

Two words: Carly Fiorina.

I know people throw around the term psychopath in connection with CEO character a lot but in this case, she absolutely ticks off the boxes, including :

PATHOLOGICAL LYING

Carly Fiorina Makes a Lot of Stuff Up About Everything

http://www.motherjones.com/pol...

CONNING AND MANIPULATIVENESS

"..the thing that comes through clearest is this almost, if we werenâ(TM)t on TV, Iâ(TM)d say almost psychopathic denial of reality. As you saw, even the creators of that hoax Planned Parenthood video, that even they say that this is not the footage that she says it isâ¦when she was national finance chairman for McCain, she was jousting with him, what his positions are on contraceptives, trying to contradict him in real time. It was very bizarre.

Or saying that he is not equipped to be the CEO of a corporation, but he could be the commander in chief while sheâ(TM)s helping to run his campaign, and then denying she said it when it was on tapes everywhere.

This is like, she stomps her feet and demands that black is white, hot is cold, and rich is poor and wins are losses.â

âoeâ¦Many great leaders failed. but their resilience came from exoneration or contrition. She just stomps her feet and demands redemption. You have to earn redemption.â

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/is-...

LACK OF REMORSE OR GUILT

Wallace: âoeWhat about the 30,000 American jobs that you laid off?â

Fiorina: âoeYou know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times. And every family is cutting back, and every business is laying off right now. I donâ(TM)t say that with delight. I say that with sorrow. But yes, it is true that jobs are being taken out of California. By the way, China fights harder for our jobs than we do.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/is-...

SHALLOW AFFECT / CALLOUSNESS / LACK OF EMPATHY

As CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina laid off 18,000 workers. When reflecting on her tenure, she admitted she wished she had "done them all faster."
Fiorina Fired At Least 18,000 HP Employees

POOR BEHAVIORAL CONTROLS / IMPULSIVITY

According to those who work with her, she has a barely stifled impulsivity towards make deeply personal and alienating remarks to others, and for no real reason :

She once ridiculed the music interests and appearance of a dissenting board member Walter Hewitt, son of HPâ(TM)s co-founderâ"as well as the allegedly dowdy look of rival Senate candidate Barbara Boxer.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazi...

a trait she *barely* has under control as evidenced by this live mic "accident" .

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

IRRESPONSIBILITY

"....She makes irresponsible decisions. At HP, Fiorina abruptly pivoted from a strategy of chasing IT services to a splashier, but less sound strategy of ramping up in device manufacturing.

While her predecessor, revered HP CEO Lew Platt, traveled coach in commercial planes, she demanded the company buy her a Gulfstream IV. More recently, her service on the Taiwan Semiconductor board indicates continued irresponsibility. Financial disclosures at the time Fiorina left the board in 2009 show that she attended just 17 percent of the companyâ(TM)s board meetings."

These surface images do seem to show lots of " Dark Ice

Not taking any sides here, just pointing out some ignorance. It was actually the R's who changed the national dialog to "Climate Change." http://www.motherjones.com/fil... Take of it what you will. Dems the facts.