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Video link: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/t...

He's being quoted very accurately. Video link: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/t...

Those blaming SJWs aren't as interested in the facts as they are playing the woe is me victim of media bias again. Trump may be backpedaling, but this story is being reported perfectly accurately, whether you want to keep your head up your own ass or not.

Video link, for the skeptical: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/t...

http://www.nbcnews.com/politic...

He is explicitly asked should there be a Muslim-tracking database system to which he replies the whole nonsense about "There should be a lot of systems, beyond databases" and "signing up at different places" when asked about signing people up at mosques.

Nobody is putting words in his mouth.
He IS an idiot that does not think or listen to other people and talks in thought-terminating cliches but he clearly understood those questions and replied to them in his poorly thought through manner.

Trump explained how he'd sign Muslims up in the database:
"It's good management."

When asked whether he'd go to a mosque, or what:
  "You sign them up in different places."

Video link:
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/t...

But you seem like the type who is more likely to blame the media than attempt to understand facts, so hopefully others will read this, and catch onto your party's stupid little anti-media ruse.

http://keystone-xl.com/keyston...

The Keystone XL terminates in Nebraska. The existing pipeline terminates in Patoka, Illinois, and Nederland, TX, with a branch proposed to Houston. It is running to refineries, but we can just assume that none of the oil products will end up being used in the US and Canada. That however makes no sense, it is oil being refined by US companies.

Oil products for most of the country come from tankers, what is your point there? This despite the Democratic party being the party of environmentalists, they hate the environment when it is something the Republicans support. I guess it is just better to keep having the oil spills.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/in...

That is the Democratic Party's legacy in refusing to approve the improvement of our oil pipeline infrastructure.

Doctor and Lawyer salaries are through the roof because those are two of very few jobs that can not be outsourced to a third world country. If Blue Cross could ship you to Haiti for a 40c an hour doctor you don't think they would?

Welcome to the "Global Economy". You have heard all about it I'm sure, and how great it is. A real Utopia where everyone benefits. Assuming of course you are already extremely wealthy, because the rest of the people are expendable. As long as a company can stay afloat using dirt cheap labor, they will. Zuckerberg won the lottery, nothing more. That is your shot to getting out of the cesspool we are creating by complacently watching the government be run by the same people profiteering.

History is cyclical, we have seen this all before. The same result will come eventually, because people never learn to learn from history.

Doctors are being outsourced:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6621...
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/1...

Lawyers are being outsourced:
http://www.americanbar.org/pub...
http://www.economist.com/node/...

Doctor and lawyer salaries are not high because they can't be outsourced (they can), but because of the fucked up healthcare and legal systems in America.

One would think that trying to organize a "discussion panel" would imply they are interested in a conversation.

You'd think that, wouldn't you? But you'd be wrong.

Perhaps you haven't been paying much attention to the primary races, and I certainly can't blame you for that. I seldom have until this year. But when it comes to money, Bernie is doing just fine thanks to large numbers of small donations. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...

As for being able to win in the general election, hypothetical polls show that Bernie does just as well as Hillary in match-ups against likely republican candidates. http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-th...

For once we have a chance to vote for something other than one of two lizards, and there is a real chance he can win. Lets not let that chance go to waste ;)

While we're on the subject of unrealistic counterfactuals... If each American had to choose between keeping their cellphone or their gun, how many would choose which?

Considering only about 1 in 3 Americans either owns a gun [1] I'd say most people by default would choose their smartphone since 2 in 3 Americans [2] own one of those. I assume in both cases, they're counting adults - but regardless, that means 2x smartphone owners vs gun owners. If I owned a smartphone but no gun, I'd have to answer to keep my real smartphone and not keep my (not owned therefore theoretical) firearm.

Among gun owners, you're talking about a biased group - you don't need to own a gun in most parts of the country - and lack of firearms has rarely prevented someone from finding employment unlike say, not having a car.

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...
[2] http://www.pewinternet.org/201...

I work remotely, for Google, and get good performance reviews. I suppose one counterexample doesn't necessarily destroy your claim, but it does call it into question.

It greatly depends on the group, but the group I was involved with was rather large, and has since gotten rid of many of the remote employees.

The most successful remote employees were those who were well thought of because of their existing reputation in the field, or because they would periodically fly in and stay for at least a week to build a rapport, before flying out again, or because they were critical path, and most everyone knew it, and they did their job.

The least successful were those who were *not* critical path, and most everyone knew it, or they would fly in rarely (e.g. every 3 months), and tended to stay for only a couple of days, or who were relatively unknown players in CS.

A lot of the review intermediation is also done by your manager, meaning that if your manager likes you and your work, they can buffer bad reviews, and pick other people to place at the bottom of the bell curve instead of you.

Stacked ranking is somewhat of a malaise on the entire industry at this point, and you don't have to look very far to find articles about the negative effects it has had on organization (predominantly, it causes forced churn of employees). Here are a couple of them:

http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://qz.com/320532/marissa-m...
http://www.nbcnews.com/busines...
http://www.halogensoftware.com...

A number of companies in Silicon Valley just give severance to the bottom 30% (yes, 30%!) in the rankings.

You do have a point, but I read somewhere that the cell providers are finally implementing the GSM lost phone server which prevents phones that are lost or stolen from functioning on the network.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4688...

http://www.digitaltrends.com/a...

"She's been investigated for years, and not one problem found"

There's been plenty of 'problems' found. Nothing that has yielded an indictment -- but enough that a reasonable person should keep her clear of public service.

"There are records of every "official" email to and from her in the State Department servers."

Clearly you've no idea what you are talking about.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...

The State Department received the emails from the Department of Defense "in the last several days," State department spokesman John Kirby said. "

Those emails werent ON the state department servers. Because she sent them from her PERSONAL account to the DoD. How many other emails have yet to surface because they aren't on the State Department's archive?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09...

Charles McCullough III, the inspector general for the intelligence community, found the two emails containing what he determined was “Top Secret” information in the course of reviewing a sampling of 40 of Mrs. Clinton’s work-related emails for potential security breaches.

You know... if I see enough tell tale clues that a rat has been in my kitchen (chewed hole in dog food, for example) I can decide that there *IS* a rat without actually SEEING it. There MIGHT be a logical explanation for the hole, but as far as Clinton goes, every excuse comes with a lot more tell tale clues. Example:

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

The company that managed Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private e-mail server said it has “no knowledge of the server being wiped,” the strongest indication to date that tens of thousands of e-mails that Clinton has said were deleted could be recovered.

And then this:

http://www.npr.org/sections/al...

And it was wiped....

She could be spitting your your face and you'd be saying "it's raining!" Please, I'm not saying "beyond a reasonable doubt" in the legal sense that she did anything illegal. I'm saying that a reasonable person could only conclude that she hasn't been forth-coming and should not be trusted.

(please note all my citations are either liberal or left leaning sources).

Hardly seems reasonable to mention exaggeration over the number of people killed by police without also mentioning the exaggerations on the other side.

I have not heard of anyone saying "the police are killing everyone!" except for law-enforcement fans setting up hyperbolic straw-men, but there is concern over the numbers. It's hard to say how much validity there is these concerns, since many police departments and states decline to release consistent (or any) numbers on people killed by police; I suspect that accurate numbers could help put the incidents we see in the news into context. But the numbers of police killed are notably more accurate, notably dropping, and notably exaggerated as the linked article explains.

What do you mean? looks pretty gun control friendly to me. He wants to ban "Assault weapons", which is a made up term in itself (Cosmetic features that do not make the gun more or less deadly). Funny how particular safety features also turn the gun into an "Assault weapon" (Barrel shrouds).

Though he did vote to allow guns in national parks, to shield firearms manufacturers from liability for shootings and against a five-day waiting period for gun purchases.

Though the second one seems pretty common sense to me since we don't hold any company accountable for the misuse of their products.

http://www.senate.gov/legislat...

"Bills stated purpose: To regulate large capacity ammunition feeding devices."

He voted yes

http://www.senate.gov/legislat...

"Bills stated purpose: To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes."

He voted yes

http://www.nbcnews.com/politic...
(Two days ago)

The cost/return ratio is, pardon the pun, out of this world. :)

So, exactly the same as nuclear, only with less fetish-stroking.

Nuclear fantasies are a staple of Slashdot forums, but I personally think fission technology is both quaint and unsuited to observable human behavioral patterns. Thank god I live in a country with some pitiful semblance of democracy, so that the majority will occasionally prevails, despite insanities like the Cheney energy policy.

RTFA. There are people legitimately searching for extra-terrestrial communications and there's a big difference between believing in UFO little green men with butt probes, and theorizing that life may exist elsewhere and testing their theory scientifically. Snwden has made a good observation too because SETI is after all searching for openly-broadcast plain text. If they're as smart as Hawking they would think twice about doing anything which might attract a more powerful neighbor http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3676...

But yeah: Snowden's enemies will seize on anything to discredit him but but there's a big difference between intelligent comment and Asange's dating habits which were asking for trouble.

Snowden was talking to Neil deGrasse Tyson after all and what good is freedom of speech if you don't use it because you're scared your enemies might twist your words?

Mind you, Segway had a glitch that could cause the wheels to reverse direction suddenly.

Just the very fact that supposedly educated people are pushing this shows haw far we have fallen as a society.

This has all the hallmarks of an Orwellian thought crime. What's next, breaking down your doors because you don't recycle? Oh, wait...they're pretty close to that
already .

... is opening a plant in Alabama. People hoping to get their kids hired on are probably figuring (correctly) that European managers won't put up with ignorant slobs the same way Americans do.

Is this the same guy? How much of this is true?

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-ma... Transcript: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5336...

Such a program already exists. And guess what - shock of all shocks, the IAU is throwing a hissy fit about it. They're basically at war with NH's director Alan Stern and are planning to refuse a large portion of the NH team's feature names for Pluto.

college transfer after this? how many credits will a 4 year school take from this?

There are issues with moving to a different school like

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_new...

"Columbia wouldn’t accept credits for a class Hernandez had taken and passed in meteorology, for example, she says. “My dean said, ‘Well, we don’t know what that covers.’ I would think that would be so simple: It’s, like, about the weather.”

"For example, while some credits from one school may be accepted by another, they may not count toward a major, something students often don’t find out until after they’ve transferred."

In 2010 Obama killed the Constellation program w/o discussing it with congress first and with NO PLAN for ANY American manned spaceflight going forward; his plan only funded the Americans using ISS for a few more years via Russian Soyuz flights before dumping ISS into the Pacific Ocean There was vague rhetoric about new tech development and a possible commercial crew taxi program, but. That was it. Congress had a freak-out because Constellation had been a hard-negotiated bi-partisan program with support and buy-in from the hard-right in congress all the way to the hard-left in congress and supported by both Bush and the Pelosi-Reid team. Constellation had even made it through the 2008 election cycle ans the change of power in congress. Congress under-funded Constellation back then, as they always do to NASA, but Bush and his team did not go around whining about it and blaming the underfunding on Democrat hatred of Bush and/or white people. Obama's supporters have used commercial crew underfunding as "proof" that his opponents are racists; they LOVE this fight.

Obama's plan got such a negative backlash even from prominent Democrats that he cobbled together a plan to come up with a plan and, after months of back-room negotiations, ended up calling for a manned version of the Bush-era commercial cargo program, combined with an extension to ISS operations (which even now not all of the ISS partners have agreed to). Congress (again BOTH parties) were so unimpressed with the plan that they insisted on the SLS rocket as part of the plan and the law that ended up getting written allowed Obama's commercial crew program but also REQUIRED the SLS rocket. Obama signed that into law, but has been playing passive-aggressive games with it ever since. Every year, he tries to shift money from SLS to commercial crew, which angers congress and they in turn refuse to increase the commercial crew funds. He then announces that SLS does not need the money any way, then in separate reports to congress announces that SLS is slipping its schedule due to lack of funds (he actually says it's slipping because of delays to the Orion's service module - but THAT is because ESA is building it because he said we could not afford to have Lockheed build it in the US (an budgetary bankshot))

Congress wants a rocket to enable the US to return to the Moon and go on to Mars.

Obama is adamant that we not return to the Moon and that we will go to Mars someday in the distant future

There's no happy compromise between such opposite views.

Obama's NASA fills its website with Mars-centric rhetoric but absolutely no plan, budget, goals, or schedule (this is called "planning to fail by failing to plan"). He attempts to square-the-circle politically by making it look like he is agreeing to a deep-space future for NASA while in actuality he keeps trying to limit NASA to renting taxis for flights to and from LEO that will be easy for a future President to kill-off (since it will lack the political constituency of a big NASA program). He could EASILY get the funding for commercial crew if he would do 2 things: [1] stop slow-walking SLS and robbing its funds, and [2] agree to let congress increase the NASA budget WITHOUT tying that to an across-the-board budget balloon (boosting NASA would require either cutting something else or violating the budget caps, and Obama insists that he be allowed to bust the caps on all social spending programs if NASA gets a boost); Obama is using NASA in a supremely partisan set of fights and it's VERY bad for NASA.

Oh lordy! Everybody's a critic. I was really just saying that some parents are lousy teachers... Please, officer, don't shoot!

Slamming the messenger instead of the message is a sure sign of your lack of a viable position.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...
http://www.latimes.com/nation/...

Apparently, there was even a geologist who warned the EPA that their solution wasn't safe:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...

I haven't seen anything that explicitly says it was ONLY sent to her by other people

Probably because you are only reading sources that have a vested interest in this being a scandal. Or that buried that information inside dripping copy, like NBC here did:

Tuesday night that Charles McCullough, the inspector general for U.S. intelligence agencies, had reported that two of the emails not only were classified but were in fact categorized as "Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information"

...

John Kirby, a spokesman for the State Department, said that was the case with two emails, adding that it remained unclear "whether, in fact, this material is actually classified."

"Department employees circulated these emails on unclassified systems in 2009 and 2011, and ultimately some were forwarded to Secretary Clinton," Kirby said Tuesday. "They were not marked as classified."

So its possible someone in State should be in deep doo-doo over this, but that person(s) would not be Clinton. This has nothing whatsoever to do with her having a private server either. If that info was classified, it should never have touched a network connected to the internet. What kind of email server it eventually was forwarded to is utterly beside the point.

I know you can be arrested on any type of motorized vehicle even a bar stool http://www.nbcnews.com/id/2997... However I believe drunk bicycling only qualifies as public drunk http://www.forwardedfunnies.co... Stupid but it won't get you in near as much trouble

First off, whenever anyone posts an article like this, everyone jumps all over it as some sort of evil abuse of government power. Here's people's reactions on Slashdot the last time. But when you actually look into the case, you find this out.

We see the same thing here again - everyone just automatically assuming that this is some sort of huge government overreach of power... because tech... and free speech... and... stuff. Should we even bother to look up the details of the case? First, here's what the article says:

Keonna Thomas, a 30-year-old from Philadelphia who went by @YoungLioness on Twitter, was charged in April with attempting to provide material support for the Islamic State. In an affidavit in support of probable cause, an FBI agent pointed to tweets that Thomas "re-posted on Twitter" supporting the militant group.

Oooh, evil FBI - going after a woman just because she hit the retweet button! Except... not exactly

A Philadelphia mom has been charged with planning to go overseas to join ISIS and martyr herself — going so far as to buy plane tickets.

"That would be amazing... A girl can only wish," Keonna Thomas allegedly told an ISIS fighter in Syria who asked over the Internet if she would be involved in a suicide mission.

"I can make that wish come true," the unnamed fighter allegedly replied.

The government says Thomas, 30, researched travel routes to Turkey and bought a plane tickets in late March.

Thomas, who also went by the nickname YoungLioness, allegedly posted support for ISIS on Twitter, writing, "If we truly knew the realities ... we all would be rushing to join our brothers in the front lines pray ALLAH accept us as shuhada [martyrs]."

Court documents say that after applying for a passport, she told a friend that she would deactivate her Twitter account "till i leave for sham [greater Syria] ... don't want to draw attention of the kuffar [non-believers]."

In one exchange of messages with the overseas ISIS fighter, he talked about how he would shoot or behead his wife if she turned out to be a spy and betrayed him.

"Cutting head is more personal," Thomas responded, according to the criminal complaint.

Ooooh, evil FBI, damning an innocent woman because she hit a retweet button, right?

Do people ever check into these things before they rush to damn the FBI for overreach of power?

The DPRK already flies "drones" with cameras over the border. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/wo...

Russia still have armed nuclear ICBMs that can reach the U.S. faster than tanks rolling across the bridge. The cold war may have ended, but Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) have not. You should be more concern about the Chinese buying farmland in the Pacific Northwest.

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/real-estate/californians-chinese-scooping-farmland-washington-state-n401841

This is hilarious, it was quite obvious that you only read the first paragraph article you cited... and now you didn't even read the first paragraph of what I last cited, allow me to demonstrate. You claim:

State may have them. Nobody knows except the State Department.

Except that's not what the State Department has said, to quote the last article I cited (and the first paragraph no less):

The State Department said Thursday that it could not locate “all or part” of 15 e-mails provided last week to the House Select Committee on Benghazi by Sidney Blumenthal from his exchanges with then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Still not convinced? Why not consult a whole number of articles from various sources which report the same thing?

http://news.yahoo.com/state-de...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/15...
http://www.nbcnews.com/politic...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/25/...
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/26...
http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/sta...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes...

Noticing a trend yet?

Thus, your claim that we know she didn't turn over all of the emails is false. The State Department might have them, they might not.

So you are calling the professionals at the State Department and national archives incompetent because they cannot adequately locate these documents they may or may not have? Riiight. Occam's Razor would seem to apply.

You're misunderstanding the quote. According to them the information should have been deemed confidential.

On the contrary, I understand it quite well (as unlike you I've spent some time reading on this subject. Failing to set the 'classified' flag on an email doesn't change whether it is actually classified or not, it simply flags it for filtering & handling... not unlike putting "ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGED" in a subject line of an email. It's the content that matters, not the subject of flags.

It wasn't, though. That means there is no proof that she sent material that was, at the time it was sent, deemed classified.

Again... that's not what the IGs (two of them) have said. Though even your use of the term 'proof' is laughable. The intelligence agencies do not deal in proof the way the rest of us do, but in terms of probability. And the IGs have determined it is very probable that classified information that Hillary had access to is not in the control of the government due to her. That's the first step to opening a criminal investigation which will hopefully lead to a trial and proof that even you would accept.

Say hi to President Sanders for me.

Sorry, the OP was correct.

Even if the Blumenthal emails meet the subpoena requirements, we don't know if the State Department has them or not.

The WSJ article appears to be the one that's out of date. See, for example, Hillary Clinton: Report of Email Probe Has 'a Lot of Inaccuracies', which includes comments from the State Department making it clear this isn't about Ms. Clinton at all, it's about whether some information should have been deemed classified that was not.

I was wondering how much the drones were actually interfering.

Were you? Were you really wondering?

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli...

After the fire-fighting aircraft were grounded because of drone activity, the wildfire went from 750 acres to 3500 acres.

Do you really think - are you such a goofball - that you think the people in charge of fighting a wildfire in California are going to call a halt to firefighting activities because they simply had an opposition to private drones?

I hope you never have need of any first responders.

No, I don't... That is Saudi Arabia's problem, let them spend their money and military on that one.

Oh, Saudis have already been spending their money on ISIS.

According to this article, Robert R. Doggart posted a Facebook item, which asked other people to join him in burning down a mosque in New York state. He was arrested in April.

Court documents say Doggart talked with a confidential source and with others on a cellphone the FBI was monitoring, saying he wanted to firebomb several buildings, including the mosque, a school and the cafeteria.

I'm glad the FBI was monitoring his phone calls. And I'm glad someone reported the Facebook item to the FBI.

Washington. is filled with staid contractor types not versed in the fast-paced new methodologies and technology. Witness the near failute of healthcare.gov. Now more SV types halping Washington.
http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-th...

Prove it.

Given the number of times they've been caught lying in the past — including very recent past — the burden of proof is on Iran — and its apologists. The same apologists, who have no problems protesting Iran's innocence, while at the same time arguing for their right to have nuclear weapons...

Oh, and TFA itself is proof — the argument, that Iran are doing it "for energy" is defeated by the simple Math presented here.

It is admirable, that you wish to apply the "innocent until proven guilty" principle even to foreign regimes, but it is also naïve. Even in the legal system and offender on probation has to continuously prove innocence...

But realize that the propaganda machine is using the WMD line to trance you into gearing up for war, just like they did for Iraq.

So, your argument for Iran's innocence is our attack on Iraq? I fail to see a connection... The above-enumerated lies are totally independent of whether or not I am unduly influenced by some ominous propagandists — whom you would not even cite.

Have you considered the possibility, that it just might be you, who are a propaganda-victim? A "deal" with Iran (and Cuba) is the only good legacy Obama can have: despite all the Statist interventions (like the "Cash for Clunkers" flop) the economy is contracting, the Ukraine-related sanctions against Russia should've been Georgia-related and tightened instead of abolished in 2010, Obamacare is increasingly unpopular.

Bringing "peace for our time" with the mullahs would be — he foolishly thinks — something he could point a finger at. The way Clinton can point to his — equally foolish deal with North Korea. This is why they push for the "deal" — the same inept morons, who tried to befriend Putin with a plastic button...

Then why do I sense hysteria? A quick google gives m http://www.worldfinancialwatch...

Or this one:

http://economywatch.nbcnews.co...

It would seems from articles like this the situation is dire. Or why the hysteria?

Giving you the benefit of the doubt that you aren't just engaging in sophistry --

Even if gay parents are not as good for their children as straight parents - a position that the American Academy of Pediatrics disagrees with and has disagreed with for well over a decade - it isn't like all those gay parents would be straight-married in order to have kids. Those kids would either simply not exist at all, or be relegated to orphanages because they were not adopted. Then there are all the kids in single-parent families - those kids have got it way rougher than kids with two parents even if they are gay.

If science is going undone because of a lack of scientists then obviously whatever it takes to get more qualified scientists on the job is good for science. Just like it is better for orphans to have gay parents than no parents at all.

It's about damn time.

Time? No, it is long overdue. Now it is time for incest.

There is no argument for making acceptance of gay marriage mandatory, that would not also apply to making sex between and marriage of parent and (adult) child or between siblings legal. "Troll" my foot — do try to come up with one...

This is hardly news — and some legal professionals have said so. And the fight for Full Marriage Equality is already ongoing. All over.

Oh, and before you say "Think of the (malformed) children of such unions!" — sorry, that's not enough. First of all, they don't have to have children with each other — like gay couples, they can adopt. Second, most of the existing laws banning incest make no difference between actual close blood-relatives "in laws" — it is equally illegal for a step-father to marry his adopted daughter (Woody Allen got away with it, because he never formally adopted his wife's child).

And third, the courts have ruled for years (here is a "1948 decision for example!), that any concerns for the health of the offspring are not sufficient grounds for denying the right to marry.

Within a generation the term "motherfucker" will become a disparaging sign of bigoted microaggression — which is, of course, much worse than the actual bona-fide aggression it manifests in our parochial times.

According to this article http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli... , and this, http://poseidonwater.com/, the Poseidon desalination plant produces 50 million gallons per /day/.

If?

Europeans shiver as Russia cuts gas shipments - updated 1/7/2009

Russia shut off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine on Wednesday — leaving more than a dozen countries scrambling to cope during a winter cold snap. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly endorsed the move and urged that international observers be brought into the energy dispute. ....

As of Wednesday, nations including Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey all reported a halt in Russian gas shipments. Others — including Austria, France, Germany, Hungary and Poland — reported substantial drops in supplies.

You may recall that Putin is a former KGB officer. It was his job to be a bastard. He doesn't seem to be able to fully shake the habit.

"Science has been seriously undermined by the censorship and alteration of testimony and news releases," said Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. "Science and facts are not a factor in decisions, and ideology dominates."

Guess what you're reading now (assuming you read the first link in the summary)......it's a news release.

You warped foil-hat wearing lefties who keep ranting that Bush is to blame for 9/11 because he did not interpret a memo that said "Usama Bin Laden is planning to attack the United States" (at some vague time in the future, possibly involving planes) to mean "airliners will be hijacked on Sept 11 2001 and flown into buildings" then scream that Bush was evil/stupid to take us into war in Iraq when the SAME intelligence people gave him a flood of very-specific memos about Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction.

hmmmmmm

Had Bush ignored the much-more explicit Iraqi WMD memos (which were not just from US agencies but also the intel agencies of several or our allies) and then had the US been attacked with such a weapon, you guys would be the first in line to screech that he was evil/incompetent and to blame for that too. It's your damnably partisan hack narrative that forces a president in Bush's position to do what he did - no president in either party could have ignored that WMD threat so soon after 9/11

Unfortunately for you guys, even the leftists at NBC had to admit that the whole Valerie-Plame-and-hubby set of assertions related to yellowcake uranium in Iraq were wrong. Those claims had been used to massively mislead the American people to think Bush lied us into war, but they were just as wrong as the claims Bush listened to. You see, there WERE large stockpiles of the stuff in Iraq and we and Canada quietly moved it out after we removed Saddam from power. I'm not some sycophant GOP jerk who will say that this means Saddam had nukes - he did not, but it CONFIRMS the assertion Bush made to the American people that Saddam had acquired yellowcake. Bush did NOT say Saddam had WMDs, he said that he had been given reports that Saddam was rebuilding his WMD program (this was a true statement - Bush had been given multiple reports from multiple agencies that said this).

Of course, now that the Obama administration has prosecuted the Boston Bomber for use of a WMD (re-defining pressure cookers to be WMDs) Democrats can no longer claim there were no WMDs in Iraq - that country is clearly FULL of WMDs...

Because the GPS lobbyists are at it again. There are a few Oregon lawmakers who are paid to trot this proposal out every couple of years, because evetually it'll pass: Here's 2013: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/01/03/237258/oregon-lawmakers-propose-mileage-tax-on-fuel-efficient-vehicles and here's 2008: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/28472161/ns/us_news-life/t/states-eye-taxing-miles-driven-not-gasoline/

In California, for example, as many as 45 percent of the more than 8 million cell phone calls to 911 each year are for non-emergencies, officials said; in Sacramento, it could be as high as 80 percent. Those calls block the lines for callers who really need urgent help

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But national statistics say otherwise. One recent survey reported that 25 percent of all 911 calls are pranks, creating a dilemma for emergency agencies. And in 2003, another national study found that 70 percent of all cell phone calls to 911 are dialed inadvertently.

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Estimates suggest 20% of 911 calls are non-emergencies

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So, we've got 45%, 80%, 70% or 20% non-emergencies; and 25% fraudulent. Somehow, I don't have a lot of faith in these numbers.

Video games also stimulate the flight or fight response flight or fight response. This has been showed to improve the emotional state of the brain.

It would be conceivable that the right kind of educational pornography may help young men to be better lovers. Communication has been shown to be the number one issue with sex and emotional responses to sex. Some couples even find pornography as a stimulus or template for their own sex lives.

Enough research has been shown that video games help young men and women as they have hurting. My personal opinion is that the dangers vary from person to person and can not be generalized across a wide audience. As far as addiction? I am addicted to water, I love the stuff and it helps me to live! However even to much water can be deadly.

Non-black people are attacked by police every day.

Really? You see any riot police in paramilitary gear in the below pictures? Any white "thugs" getting shot in the back while running away? Hell, if you're white, you don't even have to run away. White guys have walked into movie theaters armed like Rambo and murdered a bunch of people in cold blood and the police take them alive and make sure they don't bump their head on the cruiser door when placing them in the back seat.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...

https://www.google.com/search?...

You can not possibly believe that interactions between police and white people are anything like interactions between police and black people or hispanic people. Let me ask you this: You hear about any white people who have been shot and killed in police custody with their hands handcuffed behind their back?

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_new...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/in...

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/vid...

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Non-black people are attacked by police every day.

Really? You see any riot police in paramilitary gear in the below pictures? Any white "thugs" getting shot in the back while running away? Hell, if you're white, you don't even have to run away. White guys have walked into movie theaters armed like Rambo and murdered a bunch of people in cold blood and the police take them alive and make sure they don't bump their head on the cruiser door when placing them in the back seat.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...

https://www.google.com/search?...

You can not possibly believe that interactions between police and white people are anything like interactions between police and black people or hispanic people. Let me ask you this: You hear about any white people who have been shot and killed in police custody with their hands handcuffed behind their back?

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_new...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/in...

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/vid...

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...