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The real problem is sex offenders with religious power and organized support for cover-ups. The Catholic church has had a huge problem with this for decades. Now it's coming out that the New York ultra-Orthodox Jewish community has a similar problem. They're having big rallies for a sex abuser. Not for the victim, for the abuser. The 12 year old abused girl "wore supposedly indecent clothing, read People magazine and questioned God's authority in a religious school class", which in that community is considered justification for sexually molesting her.

And New York State is worried about video game chat.

The real problem is sex offenders with religious power and organized support for cover-ups. The Catholic church has had a huge problem with this for decades. Now it's coming out that the New York ultra-Orthodox Jewish community has a similar problem. They're having big rallies for a sex abuser. Not for the victim, for the abuser. The 12 year old abused girl "wore supposedly indecent clothing, read People magazine and questioned God's authority in a religious school class", which in that community is considered justification for sexually molesting her.

And New York State is worried about video game chat.

You may want to read this.

Apparently his mother did take him to a psychiatrist.

OK, so the mother kept guns in a way that made the available to a person she knew was mentally ill.
It seems to me that the problem it is legal to have plenty of guns at home, the problem is that some people think that it is a good idea.

Apparently his mother did take him to a psychiatrist.

So, what will we be paying The Netherlands for sea level rise due to AGW?

No, from the article, I think this is mainly what to do about the most accute cases - tiny island nations that will be underwater 50 years from now.

Or all the residents on Long Island when the hurricanes wash their ocean front properties away?

This has nothing to do with the UN, but yes, to the tune of $60 BN from Sandy alone. (Of course not all that damage is due to sea level rise).

But going forward, this is going to be a huge issue, as owners of expensive waterfront property feel ripped off by rising sea levels (which they are not exclusively responsible for), but people who live far away don't want to subsidize millionaires' foolishness.

Whenever an (R) brings up Solyndra, you know they going to go full retard. Investing has risk, and investing in green energy is not corporate welfare. Certainly not to the degree of the copyright regime. (D)'s are not innocent, but please STFU about Solyndra.

President George W. Bush signed the bill launching the Energy Department’s loan program in 2005, and his administration selected Solyndra from 143 applicants for the first loan.

The deal almost closed during Bush’s last month in Washington, but the department’s career staff delayed it, saying the loan “appears to have merit” but wasn’t quite ready. Bush aides had given so many assurances to Solyndra’s CEO that they apologized.

But all lenders make bad loans. Obama’s stimulus package reserved $2.5 billion for Solyndra-style busts. A review led by a Republican financier found that the portfolio — which includes the world’s largest wind farm, a half dozen of the world’s largest solar farms and America’s first cellulosic biofuel refineries — is doing fine.

Overall, the stimulus poured $90 billion into clean energy, when the U.S. had been spending just a few billion a year, and it’s launched a quiet green revolution. We’ve doubled renewable power; with help from the low silicon prices that killed Solyndra, solar installations have soared 600%. The stimulus has jump-started the smart electric grid and created a new domestic battery industry for electric vehicles.

s: http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-09-09/news/33718400_1_george-kaiser-solyndra-solar-panels

All Petraeus did was have a girlfriend. So at worst he was a dick to his wife, which is not a crime.

Kind of understandable..I mean, have you SEEN what Holly Petraeus looks like? Ugh...

No wonder he was looking for some strange....

Like this one:

Oklahoma cop tickets mom for 3-year-oldâ(TM)s âpublic urinationâ(TM) outside his family home; fine comes to $2,500.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/okla-tickets-tot-3-public-urination-article-1.1197591

According to MTA officials, some brooklyn-manhattan service will shortly follow power restoration. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/limited-mta-subway-service-continues-friday-article-1.1195659

Darn, now my insurance company will be asking if I have any laser cutters, 3D printers, etc. And it will probably cost me more than a pit bull, fireplace, or inground pool.

Thieves. Next thing you know, they will also tell me what I can or cannot make with it. Oh, wait...

As opposed to those that committed genocide within their own country

The word "genocide" means the desire to kill all people based on an ethnic criteria. Actual genocides are very rare in history (there's more profit in slavery, taxation, or ransomed expulsion), and USA has never committed "genocide" of any sort!

There have been wars with some Native tribes, but there have always been tribes that weren't at war, and Native individuals who have assimilated and lived among the general USA'ian population. (If only my Jewish ancestors had historically been treated as well in Europe as the Natives had been under Uncle Sam...)

Don't get your history from monochrome Hollywood, or from left-wing race-baiting propaganda - read credible sources! You'll find many examples of European settlers and the natives getting along just fine, trading for mutual benefit, or the settlers making alliances in wars where Native tribes were fighting among themselves, etc.

Some tribes had no concept of Property Rights, and they at times broke agreements and/or raided peaceful settlers. Some settlers took revenge without distinguishing one tribe from another... Peace is a very precious thing between cultures that are so different... Cultural integration has always been difficult, in every part of the world...

and instituted slavery for another ethnic population, you mean ?

USA didn't "institute" slavery - slavery has existed in every part of the world prior to the Industrial Revolution. Europeans enslaved Europeans for thousands of years, with Feudalistic institutions lasting well into the 19th century. Read up on the Arab slave trade -- which once also enslaved Europeans, and lasted from antiquity and well into the 20th century -- and compare their accumulated enslavement count to the post-revolution United States. There has been massive amounts of slavery internally in Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and elsewhere since the dawn of time!

You mean to say that USA has perpetuated slavery, in some states, from its inception in 1776 to 1865. (With slavery being just a small fraction of the economy of those states that allowed it, and those Slave States in total only representing about a fifth of USA's GDP by 1860.) This isn't much different from the time when slavery was phased out in other Western nations, and slaves further south of the United States (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil, etc) had to wait decades longer to be freed...

I also don't blame current Europeans for actions that happened donkey's years ago... [...]

The difference is that the overwhelming majority of Americans have learned from their biggest historical mistakes, while, as the recent election in France demonstrates, many Europeans have not. Germany violates Speech Rights pertaining to discussion of National-Socialism, and, equally as sadly, many today if they could would defend it...

--libman

I like listening to music. Here is what some people have to say about forcing other people to listen to music:
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-06-02/news/31989906_1_music-groups-torture-prisoners-guantanamo-bay
"A new documentary released by Al Jazeera exposes the use of childrens songs and heavy metal music to torture prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. "

I also like math... By analogy, what is forcing people to do math against their will?

You wrote: "I hated highschool..."

Then you wrote: "I have to ..."

Why do you have to perpetuate the system you hate?

I know there are answers -- the right to consume in our society is linked to participating in our current economic order. See: "The Triple Revolution Memorandum".
http://educationanddemocracy.org/FSCfiles/C_CC2a_TripleRevolution.htm
http://www.beyondajoblessrecovery.org/2009/11/17/why-the-triple-revolution-memorandum-was-ahead-of-its-time/index.html

So, maybe you have to stay a school teacher for that reason. I certainly face the same economic issue myself regarding other paying work. And maybe you students are indeed better off with your approach in the context you describe, all other things being equal. So, then the issue is, how can one change the context so all other things are not equal and there is a rebalancing?

Still, either a universal basic income or the proposal I outlined would give families plenty of money to hire math tutors like yourself if their kids wanted to learn math. Or a basic income for everyone would mean you could do different things with your own time.

What you say from your experience is truth. But, you can still think more deeply and creatively about the meaning of it, like John Taylor Gatto, Jeff Schmidt, or John Holt did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciplined_Minds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holt_(educator)

If all the kids you were teaching had freely chose to be in your class, would you have to think so much about authority? What would your day be like if the only kids you were interacting with explicitly wanted to be learning math or anything else you wanted to teach (like they wanted to be engineers or whatever)? The fact that there are children who are compelled to be in your classroom when they don't want to be there is a big part of the problem. Sadly, Jaime Escalante's efforts were essentially shut down by the school bureaucracy that could not accept them, so I'm not saying creating or sustaining alternatives in public schools is easy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Escalante#National_attention

Khan Academy is one example of part of a different way forward. Free schools are another:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_school
http://www.sudval.org/

Or:
http://www.augusttojune.com/
"Come inside a public school happily and purposefully going against current trends and join 26 8-10 year olds, their teacher, and their parents for a year bursting with opportunities for curiosity, creativity and compassion. "

The last link, is a documentary about an alternative public school, so things are possible.

More alternatives:
http://www.educationrevolution.org/

More on this theme

He's right. At one time, I "had a friend" that would have put a bullet through Assanges' head on "unofficial" orders.

Is that a fact? And your friend actually told you this*? Leaves me wondering what kind of a friend you have there, sharing what would obviously be highly classified information. . .if true. . . for you to spread around? Even more so, does he have friends . . . . or maybe a team (?) of his own preparing for action against Assange . . . . maybe with FBI support?

I would think that when it comes to Assange, even if the US government was inclined to direct action, they would be open to following Napoleons advice: Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Assange has made plenty of them, and they seem to be continuing. Instead of going to Sweden to clear his name, he has managed to commit actual offenses in the UK (jumping bail and fleeing the law) and confine himself in a small apartment for an indefinite term. As things are going he could easily be there for years, ultimately be captured and sent to Sweden, be cleared in Sweden, and then returned to the UK to face charges for jumping bail and fleeing the law.

Besides, since the US only waterboarded three people, the most recent in about 2003 in pretty much the immediate aftermath of 9/11 to try to get some insight into Al Qaeda's next attack after having just suffered 3,000 dead, and there has been endless carping about it ever since, what do you think would happen if the US employed your "friend", or someone that is actually dangerous, to kill a "journalist" like Assange, and word got out -as it inevitably would? Somehow I just don't see that happening since Assange hasn't actually participated in direct warfare against the US, unlike Al Awlaki.

In any event, you can rest assured that Julian Assange takes strong evasive measures whenever possible - no catching him with his pants . . . down.

* So you fancy your friend as the ruthless sort then?

Obama likes to appease Muslims at the expense of free speech.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-09-09/news/27074909_1_korans-president-obama-first-amendment

To be clear, I think what this pastor was going to do was completely stupid. However, I will defend his right to do it peaceably. Unfortunately our own president doesn't count this as an American value (read the article).

Elsewhere it was revealed that it was a young kid who threw the rocks, and a staffer "accidentally" wiped the computers with a Linux disk.

I say accidentally because he was being investigated for illegal use of campaign funds, and some of the data that may have been of interest to the investigation was lost. And it's not exactly trivial to accidentally wipe your disks with a Linux disk. I can see someone doing it, but you do have to go through enough steps that you have to have been trying to do *something* with that disk even if it wasn't wiping the system.

Yep, New York Daily New has the story here. Apparently like the data wasn't deleted and whoever they had to do their IT didn't know enough about Linux and partitions to realise.

The young kid is still a terrorist. Good thing the police are treating it as "a crime against the government", since we're not in a world where a kid throwing rocks can be "shrugged off". No, indeed, we cannot ever ignore such violent acts of treason. And Linux? LINUX??? The white-text-on-black-screen OS of any true terrorist? I mean anyone who ever dumps out of the window system needs to be investigated thoroughly, let alone someone who does it to A GOVERNMENT COMPUTER?!

The IT guy was obviously working with the little kid to help Al-Qaida. "Grimm and his staffers said the vandalism — cement blocks were thrown through the office's windows — is a cover-up for the attacks on the computers." This happened Monday? Never forget 9/24. We must now enter a new era, a new world, a world of safety, plexiglass, and ubiquitous Windows 8 on machines with encrypted bootloaders. We'll enforce it all in an act called the Gabby Giffords windows and Windows Protection Act of 2012. Seriously. Never forget 9/24.

Elsewhere it was revealed that it was a young kid who threw the rocks, and a staffer "accidentally" wiped the computers with a Linux disk.

I say accidentally because he was being investigated for illegal use of campaign funds, and some of the data that may have been of interest to the investigation was lost. And it's not exactly trivial to accidentally wipe your disks with a Linux disk. I can see someone doing it, but you do have to go through enough steps that you have to have been trying to do *something* with that disk even if it wasn't wiping the system.

Yep, New York Daily New has the story here. Apparently like the data wasn't deleted and whoever they had to do their IT didn't know enough about Linux and partitions to realise.

"As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball" is something I would be utterly unsurprised to hear coming out of Romney's mouth.

Mitt strikes again: Romney wonders out loud why airplane windows don't open

It's been tried. Apparently it doesn't even qualify for indecent expose if you claim it's a protest..

Anyone with an axe to grind and a green screen could have made this.

Yes, but only a real pornographer from the 70's could give it that authentic, sleazy look: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/anti-islam-film-directed-form-hollywood-soft-core-porn-filmmaker-alan-roberts-report-article-1.1160487

It in no way "screams Israel"

Well, in one scene of the film, The Prophet is given a Tabasco enema by "The Satanic Nurses", and he does squeal:

"Oooh! You make me feel so Macho!"

I was in Texas at the end of July, and the average temperature was about 105 degrees F. I left my cellphone in the car to charge while I was out and about, came back an hour later and found my phone displaying the Termperature warning (which apparently kicks in at 113 degrees F)...

I'm one of the guys behind an open source music hardware project (meeblip.com) and strongly against NC/ND restrictions. They exist out of fear and stand counter to the central tenant of open source (*anyone* should be able to study, modify, distribute, make and sell the design or a derivative work based on that design).

Sorry,

The key assumption in your argumentation: "open source software/hardware" and "open artistic creation" are identical. I assert that there's a fundamental difference between the two:

1. software/hardware is an engineering problem, and the results can be improved, polished, maintained over time in sync with technological advances.

2. By contrast, an artistic creation is meant to transmit/produce emotions/feelings/sensations etc... For some creations, the author may feel that any change in the expression would alter too much the intentions s/he had when creating it
Say whatever one may, no-one - maybe not even the author - can "improve" on a specific artistic creation

Yes, you can try to use an existing creation to build something equally appealing to the people, but in doing so you are going to dilute the original authors intentions (if not outright destroying them entirely).

Another example

Pink Floyd's attorney Robert Howe describes the band's albums as "seamless pieces." No-one who's heard 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' would quibble with that.

You know, I do agree with that and not only in respect with The Dark side of the moon.

My opinion is: the "open source" or "closed license" character for an artistic creation is irrelevant - the creator's wish is to be respected . Anything else would show a lack of respect for the original creative act, which I would say is more dangerous for society than the potential loss of another derivative creation.

It's almost like the Republicans (or at least some prominent members of their party) pissed a lot of people off by doing something similar in the past. I think there might be some folk wisdom that applies in this case. What was it again?

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you?
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone?
Turnabout is fair play?
Don't dish it out if you can't take it?
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones?
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander?
Judge not lest ye be judged?

Something like that anyways.

Make it impossible to accidentally[...]place a call (eg. to 911)

Yeah, especially if you're trying to buy some dope.

Make it happen, Motorola!

Actually, in Minnesota, you can be charged with a felony for giving people any warning of an upcoming speed trap

Citation needed or GTFO.

Every time someone decides to fight stuff like that, especially "the flashing of headlights is a felony" bullshit, it gets struck down as unconstitutional.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-05-23/news/31829713_1_ryan-kintner-speed-trap-free-speech

Legislatures can keep passing these laws, and they can keep getting struck down. If you get hit by one of these laws, fight it.

--
BMO

There was just one two years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Austin_plane_crash If that's not enough, here's some more TSA Fail: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/newark-airport-terminal-shut-baby-checkpoint-unscreened-article-1.1068800#ixzz1tHJ5bW5z http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/new_jfk_security_breach_PB8L58gzpwjmyqktLHRssN http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/TSA-Agent-Slips-Through-DFW-Body-Scanner-With-a-Gun-116497568.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357012/TSA-causes-outrage-confiscating-pregnant-womans-insulin-ice-packs.html http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120509/10161518848/congress-tsa-is-wasting-hundreds-millions-taxpayer-dollars.shtml http://consumerist.com/2011/12/tsa-agent-finds-pot-in-rappers-bag-leaves-note-rather-than-confiscating-it.html http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/boarding-pass-arrest-nigerian-slipped-jfk-airport-security/story?id=13963831

Birth control hormones

Influence on fishes has already been measured. http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009-09-15/news/17931386_1_river-basins-intersex-fish-male-fish

Is it wrong for religious people to have a say in how others live? These did:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19132089

Some people are really sure that they can spot sinners:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jealous-tennessee-man-allegedly-smacks-girlfriend-a-pic-guy-facebook-page-mitt-romney-article-1.1126074

Contrast this to a very similar sized loss suffered by the Navy (or a shipyard insurance company?) when a guy got depressed and set a nuclear sub on fire the other day to get out of work... it is much easier for me to see a real loss in that case.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/olympics-2012/china-ye-shiwen-shatters-record-waves-suspicion-article-1.1126250

And I quote Mr. Leonard :

"If there is something unusual going on in terms of genetic manipulation or something else, I would suspect over eight years science will move fast enough to catch it ...â
 

The government has taken steps to protect you from terrorists, but do you feel any safer for it?

Feelings are irrelevant. The objective answer is yes, you are safer. Governments in Western nations continue to arrest actual and would-be terrorists, usually before they can carry out the attack. As a result there have been few successful terrorist attacks in the Western world, the item below being one of the sad exceptions (of course we must remember that officially this was "workplace violence" by someone shouting Allah Akbar!):

Horror at Fort Hood: Gunman Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13, wounds 31 in rampage on Texas Army base

This isn't like the magic anti-tiger stone since we have actual bodies of terrorists in jail and in the grave - that isn't true for the magic anti-tiger stone. A few examples from the US, followed by some from Australia. Examples in the UK are trivial to come by.

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 17, 2012

Detroit: ‘Underwear Bomber’ Sentenced to Life in Prison for Attempted Christmas Day Attack

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called “underwear bomber,” was sentenced to life in prison as a result of his guilty plea to all eight counts of a federal indictment charging him for his role in the attempted Christmas Day 2009 bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253.

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 10, 2012

Minneapolis: Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Somali-Based Terror Group

Ahmed Hussein Mahamud pled guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to al Shabaab, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, in its fight against the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) and the Ethiopian military, which supports the TFG.

Chicago: Chicago Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Funds to Support al Qaeda in Pakistan

Raja Lahrasib Khan, a Chicago taxi driver and native of Pakistan who personally provided hundreds of dollars to an alleged terrorist leader with whom he had met in his native Pakistan, pled guilty to attempting to provide additional funds to the same individual after learning he was working with al Qaeda.

Washington Field: Revolution Muslim Leader Guilty of Soliciting Murder, Promoting Extremism

Jesse Curtis Morton, aka Younus Abdullah Muhammed, pled guilty to using his position as a leader of Revolution Muslim Organization’s Internet sites to conspire to solicit murder, make threatening communications, and use the Internet to place others in fear.

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 3, 2012

Tampa: Florida Man Indicted for Attempting to Use Weapons of Mass Destruction

Sami Osmakac, of Pinellas Park, Florida, was charged with attempting to use weapons of mass destruction against persons and property in the U.S., as well as possessing an unregistered machine gun

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending January 27, 2012

Denver: Man Arrested for Providing Material Support to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization

Jamshid Muhtorov was arrested by members of the FBI’s Denver and Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Forces on a charge of providing and at

Even though crime in NYC is down, it's not a matter of victims carrying more valuables: thieves are targeting iPhones. For at least the past two years, the NYPD has publicly stated that thieves are targeting iPhones. These aren't random; they wait and watch. When someone walks by talking on an iPhone they charge at them from behind, knock them over, grab the dropped phone and run. I know someone who had this happen in broad daylight. I saw it happen to someone in broad daylight.

I think it was two years ago that the NYPD advised people to keep their phones hidden and replace the iconic white earbuds. You can imagine how that went over with the fanboys.

Even though crime in NYC is down, it's not a matter of victims carrying more valuables: thieves are targeting iPhones. For at least the past two years, the NYPD has publicly stated that thieves are targeting iPhones. These aren't random; they wait and watch. When someone walks by talking on an iPhone they charge at them from behind, knock them over, grab the dropped phone and run. I know someone who had this happen in broad daylight. I saw it happen to someone in broad daylight.

I think it was two years ago that the NYPD advised people to keep their phones hidden and replace the iconic white earbuds. You can imagine how that went over with the fanboys.

What type of "value" they really think they truly share with us?

Spying on your own neighbors?

Frame innocent people up with trumped up charges?

Keep track of every-single-thing on every-single-person on earth?

How about trying to prevent mass murder, even if the person planning it is someone who happens to be a neighbor, but is also a terrorist in direct communication with Al Qaeda? Or do you not approve?

Get it wrong, and things come out like this (just pretend the perpetrator of this "workplace violence" who was shouting "Allah akbar!" as he shot down American soldiers, and in direct contact with an Al Qaeda trainer and facilitator prior to the attack, was really involved in terrorism.):

Horror at Fort Hood: Gunman Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13, wounds 31 in rampage on Texas Army base

Instead of like these:

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 17, 2012

Detroit: ‘Underwear Bomber’ Sentenced to Life in Prison for Attempted Christmas Day Attack

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called “underwear bomber,” was sentenced to life in prison as a result of his guilty plea to all eight counts of a federal indictment charging him for his role in the attempted Christmas Day 2009 bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253.

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 10, 2012

Minneapolis: Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Somali-Based Terror Group

Ahmed Hussein Mahamud pled guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to al Shabaab, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, in its fight against the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) and the Ethiopian military, which supports the TFG.

Chicago: Chicago Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Funds to Support al Qaeda in Pakistan

Raja Lahrasib Khan, a Chicago taxi driver and native of Pakistan who personally provided hundreds of dollars to an alleged terrorist leader with whom he had met in his native Pakistan, pled guilty to attempting to provide additional funds to the same individual after learning he was working with al Qaeda.

Washington Field: Revolution Muslim Leader Guilty of Soliciting Murder, Promoting Extremism

Jesse Curtis Morton, aka Younus Abdullah Muhammed, pled guilty to using his position as a leader of Revolution Muslim Organization’s Internet sites to conspire to solicit murder, make threatening communications, and use the Internet to place others in fear.

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 3, 2012

Tampa: Florida Man Indicted for Attempting to Use Weapons of Mass Destruction

Sami Osmakac, of Pinellas Park, Florida, was charged with attempting to use weapons of mass destruction against persons and property in the U.S., as well as possessing an unregistered machine gun

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending January 27, 2012

Denver: Man Arrested for Providing Material Support to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization

Jamshid Muhtorov was arrested by members of the FBI’s Denver and Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Forces on a charge of providing and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic Jih

The US has already lost it's war on terror - its government and its citizens live in terror every moment of every day.

What you wrote is true to the same extent that the stories of the spread of penis stealing and penis shrinking magic from Africa to Australia and New Zealand have left all men outside of the armed forces (BTW, aren't you Australian?) as angry, emasculated remnants of their former selves. Is it true? Shall we call you "Little Richard"? Or are both rubbish?

The worst part is the government fears its citizens and the citizens fear their government.

American citizens continue to control their government by means of elections. There are some members (no offense) of society that do bear watching. The price of getting it wrong is a bit high.

Horror at Fort Hood: Gunman Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13, wounds 31 in rampage on Texas Army base

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 17, 2012

Detroit: ‘Underwear Bomber’ Sentenced to Life in Prison for Attempted Christmas Day Attack

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called “underwear bomber,” was sentenced to life in prison as a result of his guilty plea to all eight counts of a federal indictment charging him for his role in the attempted Christmas Day 2009 bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253.

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 10, 2012

Minneapolis: Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Somali-Based Terror Group

Ahmed Hussein Mahamud pled guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to al Shabaab, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, in its fight against the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) and the Ethiopian military, which supports the TFG.

Chicago: Chicago Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Funds to Support al Qaeda in Pakistan

Raja Lahrasib Khan, a Chicago taxi driver and native of Pakistan who personally provided hundreds of dollars to an alleged terrorist leader with whom he had met in his native Pakistan, pled guilty to attempting to provide additional funds to the same individual after learning he was working with al Qaeda.

Washington Field: Revolution Muslim Leader Guilty of Soliciting Murder, Promoting Extremism

Jesse Curtis Morton, aka Younus Abdullah Muhammed, pled guilty to using his position as a leader of Revolution Muslim Organization’s Internet sites to conspire to solicit murder, make threatening communications, and use the Internet to place others in fear.

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 3, 2012

Tampa: Florida Man Indicted for Attempting to Use Weapons of Mass Destruction

Sami Osmakac, of Pinellas Park, Florida, was charged with attempting to use weapons of mass destruction against persons and property in the U.S., as well as possessing an unregistered machine gun

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending January 27, 2012

Denver: Man Arrested for Providing Material Support to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization

Jams

Um, remember your decimals. That's 3%, not 0.03%. And that's 2 million people that could be arsed to get off their arses and go protest. That's a huge number of people considering that 0.03% of the population could be expected to protest about a significant event normally.

....why in the hell did they start the massive gov't surveillance programs in the first place. Did they not think the Dems would 'improve' upon them?

Hard to say, . . . I guess it will be an eternal mystery.

Horror at Fort Hood: Gunman Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13, wounds 31 in rampage on Texas Army base

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 17, 2012

Detroit: ‘Underwear Bomber’ Sentenced to Life in Prison for Attempted Christmas Day Attack

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called “underwear bomber,” was sentenced to life in prison as a result of his guilty plea to all eight counts of a federal indictment charging him for his role in the attempted Christmas Day 2009 bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253.

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 10, 2012

Minneapolis: Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Somali-Based Terror Group

Ahmed Hussein Mahamud pled guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to al Shabaab, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, in its fight against the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) and the Ethiopian military, which supports the TFG.

Chicago: Chicago Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Funds to Support al Qaeda in Pakistan

Raja Lahrasib Khan, a Chicago taxi driver and native of Pakistan who personally provided hundreds of dollars to an alleged terrorist leader with whom he had met in his native Pakistan, pled guilty to attempting to provide additional funds to the same individual after learning he was working with al Qaeda.

Washington Field: Revolution Muslim Leader Guilty of Soliciting Murder, Promoting Extremism

Jesse Curtis Morton, aka Younus Abdullah Muhammed, pled guilty to using his position as a leader of Revolution Muslim Organization’s Internet sites to conspire to solicit murder, make threatening communications, and use the Internet to place others in fear.

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 3, 2012

Tampa: Florida Man Indicted for Attempting to Use Weapons of Mass Destruction

Sami Osmakac, of Pinellas Park, Florida, was charged with attempting to use weapons of mass destruction against persons and property in the U.S., as well as possessing an unregistered machine gun

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending January 27, 2012

Denver: Man Arrested for Providing Material Support to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization

Jamshid Muhtorov was arrested by members of the FBI’s Denver and Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Forces on a charge of providing and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic Jihad Union, a Pakistan-based designated foreign terrorist organization.

Baltimore: Man Pleads Guilty to Attempted Use of a Weapon of Mass Destruction in Plot to Attack Armed Forces Recruiting Center

U.S. citizen Antonio Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain, pled guilty to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction against federal property in connection with a scheme to attack an armed forces recruiting station in Catonsville, Maryland.

Washington Field: Man Pleads Guilty to Shootings at Pentagon, Other Military Buildings

I read a number of newspapers and Internet news sites, and this is the first I've heard of it,

MSNBC: http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/cyborg-steve-mann-details-alleged-mcdonalds-assault-889595

Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/07/17/cyborg-discrimination-scientist-says-mcdonalds-staff-tried-to-pull-off-his-google-glass-like-eyepiece-then-threw-him-out/

The Huff: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/17/steve-mann-attacked-paris-mcdonalds-digital-eye-glass-photos_n_1680263.html

NYT Daily: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/cyborg-professor-claims-assault-paris-mcdonald-digital-glasses-article-1.1116246

Canadian news: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/07/17/tech-mann-digital-eye-glass-assault.html and a few others.

Plus El Reg, CNET, Network World, and the usual tech news sites. And the story is the second top google-news results for "McDonald's".

It's also the second article on Slashdot itself about the incident. http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/07/17/0335227/man-physically-assaulted-at-mcdonalds-for-wearing-digital-eye-glasses

We have patrol bases in areas that have nothing but marijuana fields around them

I seriously doubt you've ever been to Afghanistan

People there don't plant marijuana there

O RLY?

But the fact remains that a teenager is *legally* incapable of giving consent. Just like you don't have the legal capability to sell me the Brooklyn Bridge - even if I pay you a bunch of money, the bridge doesn't actually become my property.

Never make analogies again.

The reason you can't sell me the Brooklyn Bridge is because it belongs to somebody else. Are you suggesting that teenagers' bodies belong to someone other than them? If so, to whom? There's a very, very important difference between legally incapable and legally forbidden.

Please share with us the specific cases and laws you think need to change, and the specific cases that illustrate the monstrous miscarriage of justice, because as far as I can see, there's precious little evidence that a generation of teenage boys is being railroaded into prison by these unjust age of consent laws.

Sure. Since you're a fan of Wikipedia, start by reading about Genarlow Wilson, a 17-year-old who did nearly 3 years of hard time for consensual (in fact, passive) sexual contact with a girl just two years younger.

Or maybe you should read about Marcus Dixon, an 18-year-old who was imprisoned for **child molestation** for consensual sex with a girl just shy of 16.

Yes, one of the cases was later overturned and the punishment in the other was reduced -- but not until both of the accused suffered a punishment far worse than statutory "rape" for non-crimes that you falsely claim are covered by "fairly permissive set of exceptions".

I prefer that Direct TV absorb the cost for the remainder of my contract, and raise it at the end of my contract, just like rent (because that is what it is).

After all, the impasse is over a trivial amount: "Viacom is asking DirecTV for a rate increase of a couple pennies per day, per subscriber."

At the end of their contract with the providers they should give plenty of advanced warning to the customers, and if an impasse is reached, a price reduction to reflect the reduced content should be offered to the DirectTV subscribers.

Check your expensive coffee!

I don't like seeing companies get political

Then I hope you're not living in the USA

No joke Actually, in that case it was a stabbing. But I've heard of drive bys too.

I'm amazed the Iranians have been so restrained.

I'm amazed that anyone would say that they believe that.

Malaysia court orders extradition of Iranian over bomb plot
Israel says Thai bombs similar to those in India, Georgia

Good 'ole peace loving Iran.
Iran sends troops to Syria

Tehran, May 30 — Iran has sent its troops to help the regime of embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fight opposition forces, a senior commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards has said.

Iran boosts Qods shock troops in Venezuela

Iran is increasing its paramilitary Qods force operatives in Venezuela while covertly continuing supplies of weapons and explosives to Taliban and other insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to the Pentagon’s first report to Congress on Tehran’s military.

Iran's Quds Force: Supporting Terrorism Worldwide
Experts: Iran's Quds Force Deeply Enmeshed in Iraq

State Sponsors: Iran

Tehran Attempts to Deceive U.S. President Obama, Sec'y of State Clinton With Nonexistent Anti-Nuclear Weapons Fatwa
Chairman of the Gulf Forum for Peace and Security Fahed Al-Shelaimi Accuses Iran of State-Sponsored Terrorism

You should take a look at the Affirmative Action Bake Sale. Like universities it makes it easier for immigrants to "enter" the market by making them only score half as much as whites. Just as they only need to score 750 on SATs to get into college (while whites must score 1000), they only have to pay $1.50 to get a muffin (while whitey must pay $2). Seems fair to me...... after all whites have an "unfair advantage" according to a new campaign run my the Democrats.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-09-25/news/30231563_1_bake-sale-student-newspaper-republican-group

This girl was with her uncle, and intending to give the iPad to her cousin.

In fact, no.

  I accidentally posted this anonymously farther down, but in fact Bill Gates has done tremendous harm with his so-called "philanthropy"; his real contribution is "leveraged philanthropy", where you use philanthropic donations to control something so that you make more money. This is true with his vaccine so-called "charity" - which forces poor nations to spend money from other sources on expensive foreign vaccines, rather than on development of local vaccine manufacturing or of general public health infrastructure, and thus actually degrades the quality of 3rd world health care while making Bill Gates his "charitable" money back and then some. This is true of his education so-called "charity" - which forces poor school districts to spend money from other sources on high-tech gadgets and expensive consulting services, which are sold by Bill Gates' various partners, but which are actually worse than no services at all.

The Gates' foundation has announced a partnership with Pearson (for profit-education company) to develop and market materials aligned to the common core. These are the materials that your school district must agree to purchase (this particular test cost $32 million state wide) in order to qualify for Race to the Top.
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-04-19/news/31369375_1_answer-silly-question-pineapple
    So, Bill Gates is using a small amount of his "charitable" money to force public money in much larger amounts, to be wasted on this crap.

Bill Gates wants to fit teachers with galvanic bracelets:
http://dianeravitch.net/2012/06/09/just-when-you-thought-it-couldnt-get-crazier/

Bill Gates needs vaccines to be a "profit center" for his pharmaceutical buddies. I spelled this out above but read the comments.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2011/11/10/what-bill-gates-says-about-drug-companies-2/

Oh, hey, Bill Gates is using his agricultural charity to force the 3rd world to buy Monsanto's crops:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2010/sep/29/gates-foundation-gm-monsanto

Really?

Seems that the ones clamoring for everyone else paying for it are the ones spouting hateful attitudes.

http://twitchy.com/2012/06/06/kill-scott-walker-angry-libs-flood-twitter-with-death-threats-after-wisconsin-recall-defeat/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/police-investigating-death-threats-gov-scott-walker-recall-victory-article-1.1090894
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/06/Kill-Scott-Walker-Angry-Dems-Twitter

Yeah, it's unacceptable, all right. The problem is...he's not really being "hateful" and YOU and people like the above referenced links.

"why is it the govts responsibility to protect stupid people from their own stupid actions?" ... who do you think paid for this?

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-04-10/news/31320495_1_fire-department-rescue-crews-hazmat

"It took the combined efforts of police, fire department, Hazmat unit and EMTs to finally get a 600-pound man in need of medical attention out of his Pennsylvania home." our tax dollars pay for EMS. Fire, Police and Hazmat (WTF hazmat)... it's not like this was a 20 minute call either. they had to CUT THE HOUSE AWAY to get the kid out.

600 lbs.. I weigh 160. Imagine having me wrapped around your gut almost 4 times over.

Thats what she said