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In 2016, NYC had to release a list of 31 recognized genders, and even that wasn't enough for some, so they had to expand it even further.

How the fuck are you even supposed to put that on a form??

Male, Female and other, given that other for the moment is a fairly small percentage of the population? Not guaranteed to stay that way though.

That being said, I wonder if we are getting the point where that question doesn't belong on a lot of forms anymore.

In 2016, NYC had to release a list of 31 recognized genders, and even that wasn't enough for some, so they had to expand it even further.

How the fuck are you even supposed to put that on a form??

Male, Female and other, given that other for the moment is a fairly small percentage of the population? Not guaranteed to stay that way though.

In 2016, NYC had to release a list of 31 recognized genders, and even that wasn't enough for some, so they had to expand it even further.

How the fuck are you even supposed to put that on a form??

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https://ijr.com/2018/01/104853...
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Citation needed.

http://time.com/4783932/inside-russia-social-media-war-america/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/us/politics/russia-facebook-twitter-election.html
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/trump-putin-and-the-new-cold-war
https://www.newsmax.com/Politics/james-clapper-absolutely-russia-interfered/2017/05/30/id/793102/
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448931/vladimir-putin-russian-election-interference-american-incompetence-weakness-helped-it

I'd lay off the magic mushrooms.

Yeah, I know-- don't bother saying it: you're not going to read any of these because "that's all fake news because the mainstream media lies". Yeah. When you dismiss everything that confronts your entrenched position, yes of course you will never change your mind.

Or, alternatively, this is what happens when you destroy the job market like Obama did for the last 8 years with massive new regulation and Obamacare while simultaneously trying to buy votes by eliminating the work requirement for welfare recipients and massively expanding entitlement programs... The rich already pay 80% of all tax in the US http://www.newsmax.com/Finance... while the "poor" 45% Democrat voting block who thinks the rich don't pay enough pay ZERO taxes but enjoy all the general benefits as well as free healthcare, free housing, free food, free phones... the list goes on. http://www.marketwatch.com/sto...

That said, the federal government as well as most states mentioned don't have an income problem, they have a spending problem.

...this so-called president is an idiot who is in waaaaaaaaaaaay over his head.

And in the meantime, over 500 VA employees were fired, demoted, or disciplined for incompetence.

...but sure, keep telling us about how outrageous his tweets are, how it's shameful that he has no sense of decorum.

Meanwhile, he's quietly getting his agenda passed.

Also of note, Mark Meadows has threatened to shut down the government unless Congress funds the border wall, and if that happens it will be the Democrat's fault!

Also also, Ronna McDaniel wants to delay or cancel the [legislature] August recess unless health care is fixed.

I am *SO* happy that people are outraged over his tweets!

He's so waaaaaaaaay over his head, what with all the winning and such!

Bwaaaah ha ha ha ha!

Your teacher showed an R rated fictional, sensationally violent movie about Vietnam that you liked and happen to agree with. In my book (and probably most parents) that is unacceptable. There are plenty of documentaries out there about Vietnam that would have been more informative, and if you want to expose yourself to the horrors of war, that is your choice, but there were probably a number of kids in your class who were not ready for it. (Just because you CAN be drafted into war at 18 doesn't mean that being exposed to war is good, it is a necessary evil; just look at all the Vietnam/Gulf war/Iraq vets who came home and committed suicide or have permanent emotional problems.) You might be a sociopath who enjoys other people's suffering, but most people, at least initially, are sensitive to that level of violence, and it leaves permanent emotional damage.

As far as your history teacher, it was wrong to prohibit any discussion of Watergate or the Vietnam War (unless he was blowing smoke and had gotten in trouble for blatant America bashing in a prior year, I wouldn't be surprised if this were the case). However, if you are going to discuss Watergate, you need to actually discuss all of the surrounding facts and other national and world events of the time for context (for example that the Democrat party was very friendly to the communists and there was real concern that they were working together to interfere in the election or leak classified documents; we know for a fact that Teddy Kennedy tried to steal the election from Regan with the help of the KGB in 1984 at the height of the cold war). http://www.newsmax.com/Reagan/...

Regarding the Vietnam war, the same is true. Most people don't even know the state Vietnam is in today, or that it was a defensive war, or how many people from south Vietnam were murdered after the US pulled out (hint: over 900,000 plus MURDERED). We didn't do well in Vietnam, but we were trying to protect millions of people from tyranny and murder by the fascist communists supported by China who were attempting to take over Vietnam. Were there human rights violations on both sides? Yes, as in every war. Did our soldiers deserve to be treated the way they were by politicians and liberals alike? Hell no.

"At least we didn't cozy up to the religious right, spawn the TEA partiers, and elect a cheeto."

So instead of cozying up to the religious right (the group of people who founded, and fought and died to create the country that you live in and benefit from http://www.freerepublic.com/fo... ), spawned the Tea party (a grass roots set of peaceful organizations fed up with Washington politics and liberal overreach who left their protest and event grounds cleaner than when they arrive http://www.thegatewaypundit.co... ) and elected president Trump (the only non-politician citizen running for the office this last election cycle). Instead of doing all that, which you somehow think is horrendous, the left spawned:

-The sometimes violent/rapist Occupy movement that caused mass disruptions and cost large cities millions of dollars to clean up after http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
-The violent, rioting, police and law and order hating, racist Black Lives Matter group who were founded on a lie in Fergusun http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfro... went on to inspire a man to mass murder police officers in Dallas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and generally hate law enforcement http://dailycaller.com/2015/08...
-The left has spawned violent riots over conservative speakers http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/...
-The left has disrupted and shouted down conservatives and their events and violently attacked Trump supporters. http://www.theblaze.com/news/2...

There seems to be a large contingent of rabid fascists on the left and an even larger cross section of lefies who are so secure in their moral superiority that reality cannot intrude. The fascist left had better tone it down or they may end up facing the national guard and lead bullets the next time they try to violently assault someone else's freedom to assemble/speak. The rest of the left had better start paying more attention to reality and pull their heads out of their collective echo chamber (or their asses, I can never tell which is which with them).

Based on this comparison, I will take the conservative approach any day of the week and twice on Sunday. You should focus less on name calling and more on staying abreast of actual actions committed by these groups, both left and right.

Agreed. How could Hitlery have become the DNC nominee?!?! I would have voted for Bernie but the Democrats made me vote for Trump.

Ironically, the Clinton campaign sought to promote Trump, Carson, and Cruz in order to swing the Republicans to a more conservative platform; a platform they imagined would be easy to defeat in the general election.

Clinton was just difficult to get behind. She reeked of career, entitled, and, yes, even crooked, politician.

Again with the irony, she was possibly the perfect outcome for the Republicans and Trump.

I'll see your politicalcompass.org and raise you:
http://hotair.com/archives/201...
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundi...
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfro...
http://insider.foxnews.com/201...
http://archive.mrc.org/biasbas...

Most of the people on the right that I know have to provide evidence to debunk the claims and positions of the left.

That you know, eh?

How many people do you know?

I read everything I can get my hands on so that I can argue against the leftists.

How much do you read of what the right says and does?

Such as I did above showing wage discrimination.

But what about this?

Here's a challegen: Show why it's wrong.

Leftists on the other hand simply repeat the same bogus numbers over and over and over.

Bogus information like these?

The 70c on the dollar fabrication is repeated not just by former President Obama but every voice in the Left (Clinton, Pelosi, Schumer). That gets repeated by most leftist media outlets (just about all print and broadcast), and executives are repeating the lies. If they don't, they get lambasted by the left for being politically incorrect (members of the patriarchy, misogynists, bigots, etc...)

Now what you may be hinting at is the RINOs, of which there are plenty. Considering your statement about Trump, I'm guessing that you perhaps are one.

Oh, so you think your shit don't stink, is that it?

Plenty of others. Lots of them.

How many Republicans will you declare persona non grata in your refusal to admit you are repating lies, and to be honest, declaring them to be politically incorrect in a more original sense of the phrase.

This is the problem the right-wing phonies like you have, you can't understand what you're doing wrong.

You can't even grasp that you're doing something wrong.

Trumps pick for supreme court is down the line constructionist. You may disagree with constructionist judges, but that is a fact that no one is disputing, unless you are a fringe lunatic. That means he will protect the constitution as written, and as Trump nominated him, that means Trump is also a constructionist. That may mean that imaginary/pulled out of the ass rights like abortion go away unless progressives can get actual laws passed, which is the way that it is supposed to work in our democracy: Legislature passes laws/amendments and the courts interpret them... (see all the other laws and constitutional amendments ever.) I happen to like the plain language of the constitution, progressives have hated parts of it (freedom of religions that they disagree with, freedom of speech they disagree with, right to bear arms by people other than themselves/their bodyguards) and have consistently tried to end run around the constitution by placing activist judges who pull shit out of their ass in their rulings instead of reading the words on the page and doing their job of interpreting them.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfro...

Regarding immigration, the countries temporarily barred from entry have internal records/vetting problems that make the investigations around the visa granting process uncertain (basically all Obama was doing was getting them in a room and asking them if they were a terrorist... obviously they are going to lie if they are).

Furthermore, if you were telling the truth, you would not call it a Muslim ban because there are still dozens of other Muslim countries that are allowed to come and go in the US with a valid visa. It is a ban on immigration from unstable Muslim countries with active terrorism and conditions which make normal visa vetting processes less reliable. The current visa vetting process was not even able to review social media postings of visa candidates (as of the date of the San Bernadino massacre), and consisted primarily of what the home country had in it's records, combined with an interview which consisted of an investigator asking the candidate if they were a terrorist... not exactly up the wazoo as you call it... Further, waiting to get hit with a terrorist attack is what the Clinton and Obama administration did. The current administration does not find it acceptable to wait until American blood runs in the streets to take action. If you can't understand that, I can't help you. The 9-11 attack that Osama Bin Laden perpetrated on the US cost about $3.3 trillion when you take into account the lost productivity of everyone who died, all the added security, lost productivity etc. It would have cost the US a few billion dollars to better screen immigrants from Muslim countries and deny the 911 hijackers entry in the first place.

As far as assimilation goes, it worked in the past because for the most part our immigrants were from European countries who all had similar values. Islam is not just a backwards, violent religion, it is also a form of government, known as Sharia. It is medieval and is fascist, and it supports some very heinous and illegal things such as subjugation of women, rape, statutory rape, honor killings, murder of homosexuals, and the list goes on. It is fundamentally incompatible with our western values and constitution and no amount of time will make it compatible.

Regarding terrorism vs mental illness, those are just the facts. Dont act like a smart ass and then provide zero facts to support any other conclusion. The last real non-Muslim terrorist attack that we had in the US was the Oklahoma Federal building in 1995 in direct response to the murder of over 80 people including women and children at the Branch Dividian compound in Waco, Texas by Janet Reno and the FBI. Every mass casualty event since then has either been driven by Islam or mental illness.

It depends if George Soros funds the protests or not.

George Soros (Hillarys primary financer) instructing Hillary on what policies to carry out as Secretary of State:

https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/28972

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Top contributors for Hillary Clinton page:

https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/contrib.php?cycle=2016&id=N00000019&type=f

Soros admits creating the European migrant crisis:

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/02/soros-admits-involvement-in-migrant-crisis-national-borders-are-the-obstacle/

Soros tells Europe to take in at least a MILLION refugees every year:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/616541/European-Union-Migrants-Refugees-George-Soros-Hungary-Viktor-Orban-Europe

Soros finances Handbooks to spur EU-bound immigration:

http://news.sky.com/story/1551853/sky-finds-handbook-for-eu-bound-migrants

Soros urges giving Ukraine $50 billion of aid to foil Russia:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-soros-idUSKBN0KH0NQ20150108

Hacked emails expose George Soros as Ukraine puppet-master:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-01/hacked-emails-expose-george-soros-ukraine-puppet-master

George Soros funds Ferguson Black Lives Matter protests:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/14/george-soros-funds-ferguson-protests-hopes-to-spur/?page=all

Soros funds paid "protestors" to spur civil unrest:

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Ferguson-Missouri-paid-protesters/2015/05/25/id/646587/

Soros funds MoveOn and Media Matters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Matters_for_America#Funding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoveOn.org#Financial_contributors

Soros funds Black Lives Matter:

http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2015/11/13/anti-american-left-funds-blacklivesmatter-now/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/14/george-soros-funds-ferguson-protests-hopes-to-spur/?page=all

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/19/hired-black-lives-matter-protesters-start-cutthech/

Globalists Unite: Hillary Clinton Running Mate Tim Kaine Dines with George Soros Son as Donald Trumps Rise Terrifies World Elite:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/12/globalists-unite-hillary-clinton-running-mate-tim-k

"Oracle ... gouging their clients."

One example of Oracle's gouging, two stories:

Oregon settles bitter legal fight with Oracle for $100 million

Oregon Reaches $100 Million Settlement With Oracle

How it happens: Managers with no technical knowledge believe they can buy contracts for technology development. Technology companies know they can say anything and it will usually be accepted.

Another example of an ignorant manager assuming it is possible to manage technology without knowing anything about technology: Price for Failed Obamacare Website: $394 Million and Counting.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama often acts like a knowledgeable leader even when the depth of his knowledge is extremely shallow.

Story that I found looking to see how accurate your claim is.
Some cool numbers...
Since 1989 $32 Billion in Federal grants to AGW scientists (dwarfing any amount people claim anti-AGW gets from "big oil")
Mann, 1 person, has gotten $6 million, $500k while UNDER INVESTIGATION for fraudulent research.

So, it appears that if you are pro-AGW enough there is plenty of money and easy to get rich from Federal grants.
Glad you made me look it up. I like looking up claims from liberals, I tend to learn a lot doing that.

Second Story saying AGW gets $22 billion a YEAR. Wow, to be so poor that you had to rely on such a tiny amount. NASA budget is less than that. We spend more on AGW research than NASA, those poor poor scientists.

lol

Nancy Pelosi tried to make a federal law that media outlets had to deliver the message she approved.

The article you linked has a very different story.

This is all about legislation that was designed to:

“encourage diversity in the ownership of broadcast media, promote the development of new media outlets for expression of diverse viewpoints, and clarify the public interest obligations of broadcasters who occupy the nation's spectrum.”

Basically talk radio is overwhelmingly right wing and they were looking for ways to make it more balanced, possibly by finding ways to encourage more diverse ownership, or by something like the Fairness doctrine, where broadcasters have to offer time to opposing viewpoints. Note that radio is regulated by the FCC already, so this doesn't necessarily violate free speech (though it's certainly a point worthy of discussion).

Either way your post is a fantastic example of the subtler side of "fake news".

Yes, there's a very tenuous connection of the facts to "Nancy Pelosi tried to make a federal law that media outlets had to deliver the message she approved".

But that's a very, very heavy spin that contains lots of false implications, and most people reading only your summary would come up with a completely false version of events. If your comment were a news report I'd call it fake news, yet it's currently scored "+4 Informative".

Nancy Pelosi tried to make a federal law that media outlets had to deliver the message she approved.

Bah, here's the link I meant to use, but you don't need links to get the idea: a lot of the right wants Snowden's head on a platter.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfro...

"Trump's Plan for Coal Industry Revival Means Big EPA Changes" (Nov-14)

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/trump-coal-industry-revival-plan/2016/11/14/id/758745/

Can't have voter ID laws, because the DNC says Black people can't figure out how to get a free voter ID. But that isn't racist.

Literally nobody has argued that in the history of Voter Suppression Laws. What has been argued is:

1. Minority voters are disproportionately unlikely to have an existing photo ID (say, a driver's license.)
2. Once enacted, states with Voter ID laws have a habit of erecting roadblocks to make it harder to get them if you live in areas with high minority populations. For example, closing offices that issue driver's licenses.
3. If you've never had ID, it can be - depending on your situation - difficult to meet the criteria for obtaining ID, requiring the gathering of paperwork that most people don't actually keep, and in some cases is - in practice - impossible to obtain.

There's also been at least one court case where a Voter ID law was thrown out specifically because the Republicans that created it fashioned it knowing that Voter ID laws would disproportionately impact legitimate Democratic voters. I actually heard a Republican pundit argue that they weren't being racist, because, uh, yeah blacks were disproportionately affected, but they overwhelmingly vote Democratic, and attempts to suppress their vote were based upon the fact they were Democrats, not because they were black as such.

Yeah, right.

IF you simply look at the excuses being made on behalf of black people, they are all telling black people that they are incapable of doing normal activities, simply because ... they are black.And I find that extremely distasteful and as fucking racist as anything.

You're basically making stuff up in order to justify the "But Democrats are the TRUE racists" spin. Have you considered listening to what the big bad Democrats are saying, rather than inventing absurd caricatures? You'll look less ridiculous.

Apparently you don't have a firm grasp of it...

There's a reason 401ks were introduced, they are far superior and allow you to control your own retirement money.

401k is the biggest failure in US economic history.

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/...

https://www.newsmax.com/Financ...

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

The vast majority of people with 401k plans will not have nearly enough money to retire by age 70. The entire 401k law has been nothing but another way to siphon working and middle class wealth to rich people.

Then you have worked at two companies who you could file a complaint against. H1-B is supposed to be only for hiring workers you can't find in the US.

See, for example, Disney, the Senate Judiciary committee on several others, perhaps a couple more examples, though many overlap.

Ha ha, that's rich.

Consider the USA very carefully:

You have killings.
Mobs.
Torture.
Unsafe water.
Corruption.
And at least one of your presidential nominees is a Total Nutjob!

So what's wrong with India exactly?

Let's see how I do...

Murder: In the US, there is the 2nd amendment right, enshrined in the Constitution, which gives everyone the right to own a gun (or, indeed, as many guns as they can buy). It's fair, everyone can have guns, even people who mow down defenseless children by the dozen. It's what the NRA wants.

Mobs: Admittedly, that is a problem, mobs generally don't behave rationally. Though most protests start out aimed at government groups or companies that are damaging their rights, rather than singling out and murdering individuals for perceived slights against a book they've read.

Torture: This, too, is a toughie. It was (is?) a program by the Bush administration and CIA to extract information from suspected terrorists. While morally and legally wrong, they at least tried to limit it to people who may have performed real world actions, rather than supernatural powers. If the witch floats, she's a witch, and if the witch drowns, she wasn't a witch?

Unsafe water: According to the Republican leaders, the EPA is in the way of business, so they've spent long years bleeding the EPA of ability to enforce the law, issue warnings and hold people accountable. That is a problem.

Corruption: Yep, the financial system is broken. Yep, the police are rarely held responsible for murdering people, destroying evidence, lying, et cetera.

Candidates: Our choices are horrible. We have a crazy, erratic liar who says whatever thought pops into his head and a consistent liar who is desperate to say whatever she thinks people want to hear as our only choices. But, at least neither of them have been implicated in the mass murder of thousands of their own constituents.

All in all, shitty as both places can be, the reality is still that a much better, safer life is still possible in the USA. Maybe not for long, but at least for your lifetime, maybe.

Ha ha, that's rich.

Consider the USA very carefully:

You have killings.
Mobs.
Torture.
Unsafe water.
Corruption.
And at least one of your presidential nominees is a Total Nutjob!

So what's wrong with India exactly?

Two Statements:
Ship owners are realizing bigger ships aren't better than smaller ships.
Ship owners continue to prefer to buy bigger ships rather than smaller ships.

Journalists and media are doing this purposely. They're creating cognitive dissonance in their audiences, to keep them confused. If you watch for it, you can find conflicting statements, both presented as fact, in many many MSM news stories. I've only recently picked up on this trend. Often, it will be the headline that says one thing and the body of the story says the opposite.

Here's an example, from MSN:

Chicago recorded its 300th homicide this weekend and tallied six others over a 60-hour period that saw 55 people shot, 13 fatally, from Friday afternoon through early Monday morning.

Okay, 300th homicide, presumably since the start of 2016. But... "and tallied six others" ... So there were 7? "13 [shot] fatally". Wait... 13? So that means they are now at 307, including the 13 this weekend. Well... what's with all the conflicting numbers? Did I actually interpret that right? Maybe not, because the Tribune claims there were only 5 homicides during the same period.

And here's another one from Newsmax. The headline is "Kepler K2-33b, Youngest Exoplanet Found Yet, Shows How Planets Form". But in the copy is this:

The planet is roughly the size of Neptune, about 5 million to 10 million years old

Ok... But then further down:

K2-33b is the second young "hot Jupiter" found in recent months, the Los Angeles Times reported. A hot Jupiter is a gas giant orbiting close to its star. The other one, discovered orbiting a 2 million-year-old star named V830 Tau, was written about in a separate article published in the journal Nature.

But wait.. the one found first is 2 million years old, but the youngest one found is now (K2-33b), which is 5 - 10 million years old? How does that make it younger than one 2 million years old?

I think it's intentional.

Nobody cares if Taliban wants to call school teachers terrorists, because we know, and they know that's bullshit. We just care what they DO, and what they do is try to scare people into conducting their lives the way their religious say they should. Beard police! No dancing! Fly kites and die!

Indeed, a better example of relevancy probably comes from western perspectives about brainwashing in public > schools.

Why look to an outside group that is widely dismissed already, when you have ones here at home pushing their own message? The question is, who is full of bullshit?

PS, don't worry about the Colonies not having representation in the British Parliament, inhabitants of England didn't, even the rotten boroughs weren't eliminated for another few decades and true suffrage was even longer in developing.

Of course, the US has its own problems with representation today.

Bernie is literally the only candidate in the US since the very creation of Israel to EVER suggest that support for Israel be contingent on them not committing atrocities. That makes him the least zionist candidate the US has had since 1948.

What a fucking moron you are.

Ron Paul UNAMBIGUOUSLY called for an end to foreign (or what he calls - paraphrasing - taking from the poor in rich countries and giving to the rich in poor countries).

So Ron Paul would end the financial "support" DEAD STOP. He would not make it "CONTINGENT" on some BS checklist. Which is least Zionist? Sure as fuck it's not Bernie Sanders.

http://mic.com/articles/19608/...
http://www.newsmax.com/Headlin...

You may reasonably disagree on who is less Zionist. Your contention that Bernie is somehow a special snowflake - "only candidate in the US since the very creation of Israel to EVER" (Jesus fucking Christ, you actually wrote that) - is unsubstantiated bullshit spewn from a dumb-ass motherfucker.

NK doesn't threaten to attack the US, it says that any attack BY the US will be met will a strong defence.

Anyway, this is a great step forward for peace, surely. Mutually Assured Destruction is a key to stopping devastating conventional wars, so any state that is threatened by the US should seek long range nuclear weapons. You can't argue that only the good guys get nukes, that's not how MAD works.

Oh yes they have. I'm pretty sure I recall San Francisco being mentioned as well. Your theory also fails to take into account they're ruled by a megalomaniac dictator who's not exactly in the most stable state of mind. While I have doubts they'd actually be fired, it only takes one nationalistic soldier to press the button and BOOM! Both Koreas and a chunk of China forever destroyed.

It's cool when it happens to non-politically approved persons... Right slashdot?

Morons.

It's long been traditional to point and laugh when someone who supports something against others gets upset when that thing happens to him.

Trump Won't Rule Out Warrantless Searches for Muslims in the US

I know right!?!? It's not like one day it'll be U.S. Citizens that are "placed" into the need for help and populated with "domestic" terrorists (whether they are infiltration plants or not). Wait. oh snap. lol comment captcha was apathy. Figures.

Or "let's throw out every military absentee where the military didn't properly postmark the ballot". People on active duty military service don't deserve to vote, do they?

Apparently they don't, because they commonly don't count military votes at all, let alone "the valid ones".

Nonsense. People on active duty in the military do not give up their right to vote. They can vote absentee just like anyone else who is unavailable to go to the polls on election day.

If you had read and understood my comment, which contained the word "apparently", you might have understood it to be a complaint against the fact that military ballots commonly go uncounted.

You know, the logic behind your post sounds vaguely familiar.

I wonder if Hanlon's Razor is fundamentally wrong. Incompetence is the new malice.

Finally the war on terror is one step closer to being over.

One tends to ponder for what purpose they would be flying over San Berdu after the mess.

1. The aspect of there never being a cop around when you need one?
2. Making sure the people treated as mushrooms for 50 years don't have any clue as to what is going on because being on that terrorist watch list thingy is scary... ( http://www.newsmax.com/Headlin... ) Incidentally WTF are they doing flying in airplanes anyway? Anyone think Obummer will take their guns AND planes beyond not selling them anymore guns? Billions of rounds and not one gun eh? Would suck to be in DHS in Cincinnati. ( http://www.ctpost.com/news/art... ).

"Make it about “political correctness run amok”: For instance, you might open the article with the transgender students’ protesting the Person of Stature’s University talk. But then you will pan back and show that this is but one instance among many in a much larger and disturbing trend sweeping the nation—aka, “political correctness running amok.” (I am not sure why political correctness is always “running amok” as opposed to other synonymous phrases, but just roll with it.) And at this point, you can simply provide readers with a laundry list of seemingly similar incidents of activists and minority groups taking things way too far with their “political correctness” and “censorship.” For examples of this laundry-list approach, see recent high profile pieces by Jonathan Chait, Michelle Goldberg, and Caitlin Flanagan (there are countless others—The Atlantic alone seems to be churning out one or two of these per month!). The benefit of this approach is that you don’t have to go too in depth about any specific issue (e.g., interviewing all the parties involved, accurately conveying their differing perspectives, etc.)—you can just hastily depict all of them as being outrageous. Additionally, this allows you to conflate some potentially legitimate issues (e.g., protests of the Person of Stature) with a bunch of random mean things that random people (who have no stature) have said on Twitter." https://medium.com/@juliaseran...
"When people rail against political correctness, they're usually stating that it has run amok." http://www.dummies.com/how-to/...
"Political Correctness Run Amuck!" http://reflectionsfromtheburg....
"On the other hand, I do think political correctness has run amuck" http://greginhollywood.com/jer...
"There are those who claim that political correctness has run amuck." http://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/ne...
"Flag defenders: Political correctness has run amok." https://www.dailyadvance.com/n...
“the clearest example of political correctness run amok that I have seen in quite some time.” http://knoxblogs.com/humphreyh...
"Political correctness run amuck again." http://forum.woodenboat.com/sh...
"Has political correctness really 'run amok' on college campuses?" http://talk.collegeconfidentia...
"Political Correctness Run Amok" http://www.newsmax.com/Freind/...
"Has political correctness really 'run amok' on college campuses?" https://www.washingtonpost.com...
"Has Political Correctness Run Amok?" https://www.insidehighered.com...
"In Fort Collins, political correctness run amok"

Senator Wyden has been pretty vociferously against mass surveillance, on repeated occasions.

Some examples:
http://www.theatlantic.com/pol...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfro...

You do realise wikipedia has banned feminist editors from articles to with gamergate, right? It can hardly be considered a reliable source when it comes to gender politics either.

Sweden is fairly monolithic in nature, a singular people and culture, so socialism's failures haven't reached it yet, but there are cracks even there. Whenever another "culture" invades, it will succumb to the inevitable failure when the minority culture realizes that it can vote itself goodies from the public trough.

Here is a good article on this topic: http://www.newsmax.com/Herbert...

This kind of potentially critical situation (the gov't being able to filter the internet at the behest of corporate interests) shouldn't require us all rising up and complaining. We elect people that should have our fiduciary interests at heart

When you have a past president saying:

"[Citizens United] violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system," Carter said. "Now it's just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and congress members.

"So now we've just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election's over," Carter continued, according to The Intercept. "The incumbents, Democrats and Republicans, look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves. Somebody's who's already in Congress has a lot more to sell to an avid contributor than somebody who's just a challenger."

You should know you're fucked.

The only fiduciary interest these guys have is their own, and your politics are irrevocably for sale.

Your interests don't fucking matter, unless you have enough money to make a large campaign donation and pay for lobbyists.

When money == speech, if you don't have money you don't have speech, and your government doesn't give a crap about you.

America has been an oligarchy for a long time, and it's only getting worse. Why do you think they let the MPAA write laws like SOPA in the first place?

Because that's who paid for them.

And just as I predicted (and got troll-modded for saying), conservatives are already pretending this paper says something it doesn't, and spinning a new zombie lie:

NewsMax: Researchers: Earth Facing Imminent Ice Age

the CDG is the ONLY nuclear powered carrier in service outside the US Navy. Iran have a wooden replica of the Nimitz (seriously!). Citation: http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire...

Odds are stacked against men. From the fake "rape culture" propaganda and an environment that ensures if she regrets a hook up you will too, stacked courts, diminishing reasons to get married. Why hook up with a woman when she can change her mind, take at minimum half your stuff, and if you have kids the courts are stacking in such a way that a man will lose?

Men are playing video games and retreating from women and normal society in general because masculine men have an uphill battle to fight. When even former places of refuge for men to be masculine are attempting to force masculinity out of society men are retreating even further into their own self contained worlds.

3rd wave feminist recognized that men were retreating into games so they created the Gamer Gate fiasco which was nothing more than a false flag bitch-a-thon trying to take over that refuge as well. It's still a bit early to say, but I think they failed, but since Gamer Gate was nothing more than a political move rest assured, there will be another double-downed attempt to destroy that refuge again.

Here's a really good book on the subject written by a woman no less, so don't dismiss it as just men sitting around bitching.

Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana, has let Norquist's organization, Americans for Tax Reform, decide state tax policy:

What gives Norquist and his lieutenants the control they clearly have is that Jindal has simply given it to them.

In defending their role, ATR officials like to point out that the pledge reads as a promise to a politician’s constituents, not to the group.

It’s the interpretation of the pledge that’s the rub. As many people who’ve had conversations with the administration have said, and as Jindal and his aides have pretty much publicly admitted, the governor is not just refusing to raise taxes. He’s hewing to ATR’s highly debatable interpretation of the pledge’s terms.

That means refusing to consider anything that would increase revenue unless it’s paired with an equal, explicit offset. That means eliminating only those tax breaks that exceed a payer’s liability so the action can be counted as a spending cut. A couple of years ago, that meant vetoing a 4-cent cigarette tax renewal — 4 cents! — because refusing to let it expire somehow counted as a tax increase.

The interpretation is almost comically strict. That’s not on Norquist, who has no power to enforce the pledge. It’s on Jindal.

When you announce that you are planning on spending $889 billion on the next election politicians stand in line to meet you. The Koch brothers have already held the first audition for their candidate:

A large group of Republican presidential hopefuls will gather for lunch at billionaire conservative David Koch's oceanfront mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday and meet face-to-face with some of the party's most influential contributors.

The event at Koch's 30,050-square foot home is being sponsored as a fundraiser for the Republican Governor's Association, one of the many conservative interests Koch supports, reports The Washington Post. It is attracting prospective candidates such as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.

Newsmax writes in the article titled Critics: Cuomo's 'Tax-Free' Plan for NY Is Not So Tax-Free :

... critics say the devil is in the details: the plan, which is centered on the creation of tax-free zones, contains many regulations and exceptions that will make it hard to work as promised.

"Don't expect these zones to achieve much," said Iain Murray, vice president for strategy and a financial and trade expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington.

"There will be some businesses for whom margins are tight enough to allow them to start up with the tax relief rather than without it, but nowhere near the number if government really did get out of the way and allow real regulatory relief for them," Murray told Newsmax.

The tax-free zone plan, called Start-Up NY, pledges a 10-year exemption from property, sales, and state income taxes for people starting or expanding a business in New York. Cuomo sees it as a way to generate increased business revenue for the state.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfro...
https://www.lewrockwell.com/20...
http://www.westernjournalism.c...
http://www.theblaze.com/storie...

Yes.

Hehehe, "flamebait". Sorry folks, it's all true, though I wish parts of it were otherwise. Obama can't make treaties with other nations, the Constitution says so. Here's the Iranian general sneering that they'll still destroy Israel. As far as the likelihood that the Iranians will comply with the terms, why in the flying (insert term here) do you think they're hanging onto their underground enrichment facility, as many observers have noted?

cyber-security is looking to be the safest career path an undergraduate could pursue.

Ok put away the grease gun, we get it. our cybers need more warriors, because our government (at least here in the united states) can only solve problems by declaring a misguided overfuned underperforming war on them. but next-gen cyber warriors only makes sense in a country that hasnt ranked 31st in mathematics, 23rd in science, and 17th in reading on a global stage. next generation technology "warriors" in a country that thinks global warming isnt real and evolution has "alternate" theories is an uphill climb but lets say for the sake of argument we can get past it. Youre now proposing undergraduate education, something consistently underfunded in every state, every year, is the way forward? This type of education represents one of the statistically largest amounts of debt in the US, and its in all likelyhood forecasted as the next bubble to burst. Its a type of education that by all indications has the same rate of employment after completion as having never attended college at all due to 'lack of experience.'

so lets assume we make this a government priority and not a privatized military like halliburton. what then? The glaring problem in the armed forces isnt funding or training, its plummeting recruitment rates. You see, you can only have a few wars that fail before the limbless vets and combat shocked alcoholics start piling up in society, first outside the VA, and next outside freeway onramps and alleys. Eventually it doesnt matter why youre fighting, they wont join. For the few left who really want to fight a war, Most potential Army reservists are addicted to prescription drugs, are overweight, have mental health problems, or too many tattoos that prohibit them from joining the military. http://www.newsmax.com/Health-...

http://www.scientificamerican....

Don't be dumb.

Don't be a tool,

... last year "was not even close to be[ing] the warmest on record" according to data compiled by the two top satellite climate data sets: the Remote Sensing System (RSS) satellite data, which measure the lowest few miles of the earth's atmosphere, and data compiled by the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH).
ast year "was third-warmest, but barely," said UAH climate scientists Roy Spencer and John Christy.

The year 2014 "was warm, but not special. The 0.01 degree Celsius difference between 2014 and 2005, or the 0.02 difference with 2013 are not statistically different from zero," Christy said.

Christy said that between 2002 and 2014, temperatures have warmed at a "statistically insignificant" rate of 0.05 degrees Celsius per decade.
RSS and UAH satellite data show there has been no global warming for more than 18 years. This period, which began in October 1996 and lasted for all of 2014, is referred to as "the Great Pause. Satellite Data: 2014 'Not Even Close' to Warmest Year

If you don't like satellite data,

The HadCRUT4 dataset (compiled by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit) shows last year was 0.56C (±0.1C*) above the long-term (1961-1990) average.

Nominally this ranks 2014 as the joint warmest year in the record, tied with 2010, but the uncertainty ranges mean it's not possible to definitively say which of several recent years was the warmest. 26 January 2015 - Provisional full-year global mean temperature figures show 2014 was one of the warmest years in a record dating back to 1850

and as far as the 18 years without warming,

[T]he rate of warming over the past 15 years (1998–2012) [is] 0.05 [–0.05 to +0.15] C per decade)which is smaller than the rate calculated since 1951 (1951–2012) [of] 0.12 [0.08 to 0.14] C per decade.
IPCC AR5 weakens the case for AGW

even the IPCC AR5 agrees.