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Seriously... is this what passes for "news" in the rightwing world ? Stories that are literally IMPOSSIBLE to be true

I am not on the right, so perhaps you are just so far left you can't even see the truth. I am a slightly left leaning libertarian according to political surveys. Don't try to paint me as "the other side" just to attempt to discredit what I say, it is bigoted and childish, and completely false.

Smells like more of what I am starting to refer to as 'Trumped up news'.

Not that I support the man (or in fact could really care less directly about US politics), however it seems very important to quite a group of people to
make it look like the sky is falling right now. It is quite sad to see the side that believes they stand for fairness, doing the right thing, caring of others, etc
having to throw so much dirt so bitterly. Its like watching monkeys at the zoo fighting over scraps.

No it's not. It raising the alarm over alarming actions. It's the same thing thing that happened to some other guy. It's the same thing that yet some other guy did many many times.

when you think the press is critical of you, and not the other guy, you're just biased. when you complain and criticize almost non-stop, then call it unfair when other people criticize and complain about you, you're just a fucking cry-baby.

The NYC subway L line is capable and fully tested for automation since 2009. The MTA wanted to remove the Conductors completely. The Union fought this plan as a contract violation and won. automated-train-rolls . I suspect the railroads have similar problems.

I'm content with saying he's "acting stupidly".

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my Mother-in-law streaming Hulu

She should be watching television

And spending $800[1] to time-shift over-the-air television.

my kids gaming while playing Youtube videos

make them go outside and play

For one thing, I have no idea how to make the weather suitable for that on any given day. For another, stranger danger hysteria has increased since you grew up, to the point of parents getting arrested for letting their kids walk to and from the park.[2]

the telephone works just great for talking to people

Yeah, at $6 an hour for long distance on a landline. A better suggestion might have been to downgrade from video to voice over IP, which is billed at a much lower rate than POTS long distance.

[1] Estimated price of a TiVo DVR with an All-In subscription.
[2] See "5 Things Everyone Did Growing Up (That Now Get You Arrested) by Chan Teik Onn, "5 Things Your Parents Did (They'd Be Arrested For Today)" by C. Coville, "Cops called on Texas mom for son playing outside" by Philip Caulfield, "Mom Lets 4-Year-Old Play Outside, Faces Jail" by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, and "When 'Stranger Danger' is actually the police and CPS" by Katherine Martinko.

People should be able to seek a diagnosis for mental illness without stigma, and get treatment if they need it.

They already do, depending on the "diagnosis". It seems like having aspergers, ADHD, or being on some part of the spectrum is almost a badge of honor in some circles, especially in tech:
http://nymag.com/news/features...

And just think about the amount of people getting prescribed Xanax, Prozac, or Adderall nowadays.....seems like people are getting what they want (whether or not this is "treatment", or course, is debatable).

Look at Adam Lanza (the Newtown guy) -- according to all accounts, his mother basically hid his developing mental illness for years and refused to accept there was a problem. But, the sad thing is that even if she had sought help for him, she wouldn't have been able to get itc

Hogwash. She was fairly well-off financially, and it's been said that what set him off was that his mother had finally decided to have him committed.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Although the details behind that were somewhat speculative, he was at the very least seeing a psychiatrist, one that was in the news recently with his own set of problems:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

I'm not saying we should go back to the bad old days of locking people up for depression, giving them lobotomies or abusing them...but I do think deinstitutionalization went way too far.

Maybe. But you need to be careful of what you're asking for:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

> while Hillary actually supports, and got financed by, Wahhabi regimes

Since you brought up Trump...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/exclusive-donald-trump-made-millions-saudi-government-article-1.2777211
https://mic.com/articles/130070/here-are-some-of-donald-trump-s-middle-east-business-ventures

Clinton took money from the saudis because they were giving it away.
Trump does business with them.

The solution to this problem is free education and a basic income. We should start with a grant for 60 credit hours of community college and a basic income at 60% the federal poverty level.

I think you're underestimating both the scope and the magnitude of the problem.

First, consider that the problem we're facing here isn't just going to affect only low-skilled workers. Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics will ultimately impact higher-skilled workers too. It's only a question of time. If IBM's Watson can already diagnose illness better than a physician with a decade of college and on-the-job education under their belt, than even doctors have something to worry about. Don't forget that we're at the point now where nearly 1/3 of all Americans already have at least a bachelor's degree. When the economy itself needs fewer and fewer workers to produce more and more goods and services, a few extra free junior college units isn't going to keep average Americans employed.

Finally, the end-game here is all-too obvious; with an increasing population chasing fewer and fewer jobs, a basic income at 60% of the poverty line isn't going to do anything but ensure grinding poverty in the future, likely for decades to come, as the vast majority of Americans will never be able to find work again.

Overall, after careful consideration of the problem, I think this plan sucks. We as a nation ought to be able to do better than that. A handful of the uber-rich presiding over a nation of hundreds of millions of perpetual beggars is what I would consider a nightmare scenario. It does not have to be this way. I pray that we'll find some way to avoid this kind of apocalyptic scenario. I suspect it will require a great deal of out-of-the-box thinking, and we'll likely have to abandon some of our cherished capitalistic principles.

WTF with Slashdot today??

It's turned into the Fucking Huffington Post.

Or did they hire Michael Hirsh?

The outlook is not so great for slot machines either I see:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens-casino-told-woman-43m-prize-slot-machine-malfunction-article-1.2854392

Enough with the Red Scare.

Paul Horner isn't a Russian and was paid $10k to write fake stories

The Macedonian kids aren't russian either.

Fence wall: 60 minutes http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Prosecuting Hillary: He's not going to do anything. At all. After saying he was going to get her locked up for her criminal behavior.

If I understand you correctly, you're unhappy that he appears to be adopting a moderate position?

Fence wall: 60 minutes
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Prosecuting Hillary: He's not going to do anything. At all. After saying he was going to get her locked up for her criminal behavior.

Shelley Duvall claims Robin Williams has become a shape-shifter in troubling Dr. Phil interview

"After vanishing from the spotlight for more than a decade, Shelley Duvall is now looking for mental health help from Dr. Phil.

The "Shining" actress returns to the public eye in an interview with the talk show host in which she makes troubling claims."

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I bet this is PTSD for the Popeye movie she co-starred with Robin in. A shame too. All the actors perfectly nailed their roles. Unfortunately, that was not enough to redeem a most horrific script and storyline.

I'd say the statement isn't so much "continually pointing out racism is bad for you" as much as it is "continually pointing out perceived racism, over-generalizing and exaggerating it, and focusing on that to the exclusion of other, more legitimate criticisms is bad for you". Trump has said bigoted things about Muslims, no doubt, but he hasn't said anything against Hispanics. What he said was about illegal immigrants from Mexico; still a bigoted and untrue statement, but not racist. And he has praised legal immigrants numerous times. The attack should have been against what he actually said, not at an exaggerated or false version of it.

What Trump actually said? Why? He'd just deny it. Even if you had it directly on video. The man is actually accusing Mexico of directly sending the bad ones to the US. That's wilder than I had imagined, to be honest.

Oh but he ended his remarks, with "And some, I assume, are good people" so let's pretend that's what matters.

But no, you have to realize, racists and other bigots have always been good at denial, deflection, and recrimination. They were doing it when desegregation was happening. They were doing it when the abuses of segregation were being studiously ignored. They were doing it during the Civil War. Before the Civil War.

So now, it's a case of exaggeration, and even taking him seriously. Don't we realize when he's just joking?

Whatever.

The truth is, Trump was called out for his brash, bombastic, presentation as much as anything else. Just like with Reagan, nobody cared.

Shelley Duvall claims Robin Williams has become a shape-shifter in troubling Dr. Phil interview

"After vanishing from the spotlight for more than a decade, Shelley Duvall is now looking for mental health help from Dr. Phil.

The "Shining" actress returns to the public eye in an interview with the talk show host in which she makes troubling claims."

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Shelley Duvall claims Robin Williams has become a shape-shifter in troubling Dr. Phil interview

"After vanishing from the spotlight for more than a decade, Shelley Duvall is now looking for mental health help from Dr. Phil.

The "Shining" actress returns to the public eye in an interview with the talk show host in which she makes troubling claims."

https://www.nydailynews.com/en...

Shelley Duvall claims Robin Williams has become a shape-shifter in troubling Dr. Phil interview

https://www.nydailynews.com/en...

"After vanishing from the spotlight for more than a decade, Shelley Duvall is now looking for mental health help from Dr. Phil.

The âoeShiningâ actress returns to the public eye in an interview with the talk show host in which she makes troubling claims."

The main impetus of Trump supporters is:

A complicated situation that you haven't quite covered as comprehensively as you might have. Silentcoder has already called out some, on his prior replies, but let me add some more, since he seems to be more frustrated over it.

curb ILLEGAL immigration. Have a legal process and stick to it.

That might seem true, but it requires you to ignore all the other things that Trump said. And his supporters CHEERED. Build a WALL! Make MEXICO PAY for it. Deport them ALL! ESPECIALLY the MUSLIMS! This chant didn't come from nowhere.

Now then you add in how Trump brazenly claimed that Hillary, and Liberals in general, want completely open borders, and to invite terrorists into the country, then you have to wonder...how truly nuanced the conversation was.

I mean, if you want to tell me that Trump was over-the-top, hyperbolic, and a more moderate discussion should have been had, I'll respect that from you, but don't tell me that I didn't see what I saw.

Of course, what I'll tell you in that discussion is that we will end up with amnesty, much like Reagan, because the sheer cost of deportations is excessive. There is no way the numbers are going to go easy, even Romney couldn't bring himself to tell that big a lie, so he had to with self-deportation. But the fact is, Trump himself admitted Obama deported millions. He had to lie about nobody talking about it though. That was odd and perplexing. The only truth to that, is that he wasn't talking about it honestly.

Surely you can acknowledge, that Donald Trump has been intemperate, and prone to exaggeration, and that that might be his problem, as it clearly is his own choice, and even when handed the opportunity, he doubles down on his rhetoric, rather than walk it back?

drill for oil at home because
--- jobs here
-- stop sending money to Saudi Arabia which then funnels their money to expand their totalitarian ideology

Because they've watched too many episodes of the Beverly Hillbillies and Dallas, and think it'll cure what ails them.

In reality, there has been an Oil boom already.

Hasn't done that much. And Saudi Arabia has had their totalitarian ideology for decades. They've been receiving US support for just as long.

Trump won't change it. He might claim he will. But he won't. They'll still have oil. Even if we drilled ours right now, at a prodigious rate, regardless of the cost, they'd just have that oil, and we'd not even have potential reserves.

The better way to go, I submit, is to use up their oil first, and maintain ours at some level of stability. This would be a more calculated and considered response, I think. It might not be immediately gratifying, but long-term, it has advantages.

-- (conversely they are not opposed to renewable energy)

This is the same group that had the vapors over Solyndra, blaming Obama, claiming it was crony capitalism, and even to the extent that they denied that the company even made solar panels? That's right, they were so upset, they didn't realize the factory was, in fact, built. That the real problem was CHINESE dumping of their solar panels for cheap.

This is also the same group that freaked out over the incandescent bulb ban, the same group that is so upset over wind that they pretend to be upset over bird deaths. Really, I recall all the people declaring that they'd buy a lifetime supply of bulbs, and that the mercury, the mercury in CFL's was so terrible, and I just saw how Trump wigged out of LED bulbs,

Sorry, kwbauer, the fact is, we've already heard that sentiment. Republicans have proclaimed they have a mandate. Oh you may sputter over use of another phrasing, and you certainly won't admit the meaning is clear, but we've heard it.

Don't worry, some of us remember. Hypocrisy, and amnesia may be your defect, but others, others have their own recollections, and can spot your lies.

You have done it. You will do it again. Your political side has done it, in this particular instance. They have made the claim, get to the back of the bus. And yet...Trump still has less voters than Obama did. And a tighter margin.

Feel free to shock me, admit my interpretation is correct, then deny that Paul Ryan was correct.

Perjury, we know it happened. President Clinton admitted it. Sexual assault? Well, he did pay Paula Jones $850,000 which most would consider at least strong smoke, if not indication of fire...

Trump is way worse than a lying asshole.

1. He is a facist - populist us vs them mentality (muslims), denounces anything said about him as lies & blames others, whips up the armed/racist minority.
2. He hates the constitution. Wants to change 1A, 4A, and sure as hell the 19A.
3. He's a racist - see twitter war with Jon Stewart, see endoresments by David Duke & KKK, see his talk in MN yesterday
4. He's a power abuser - see every business dealing ever, see how he grabs women by the pussy because he can get away with it
5. He wants to take us straight to war - see his comments on why we can't 'bomb the shit out of the Middle East'.
6. He's an exploiter - uses & abuses every religious, ethnic, regional divide he can
7. He hates America - he detests freedom of speech - in others, he hates freedom of religion - in others, he tries to get people to stop Americans from voting - 'help watch out for a rigged election'

He is as bad as any other dictator in the world today. He has single handedly torn America apart to stroke his own ego.

You can hate Hillary all you want, I won't disagree with you, hell I'll probably mostly agree with you. But she is the lesser of two evils, and it's not re-fucking-motely close.

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I don't really care enough to dig up documentary evidence.

And that's why nobody gives a shit about it when you blather on about it. Really, it's your own choice. You have produced nothing but innuendo and aspersion, or when you do claim evidence, it's tenuous fabrications, so...what do you think is going to happen?

I'll tell you what happens, people stop giving a shit about what you have to say.

It's happening - there were ample records of this back in the 90s in New York City - in particular, the 1989 mayoral election.

This would be more persuasive if you hadn't previously said it was occurring in cities where nobody expected a competitive election. But no, Giuliani's claim isn't that legitimate. Maybe if he'd effectively proven his allegations then, you'd get some reform beforehand, but oh wait, he didn't, he just managed to win in 1993. And 1998. Then he got the only reason he has any claim to fame, though oddly he seemed to have some memory loss for partisan reasons.

Personally I'd just point to them being off-year elections, never favored those myself. Don't need to prove any allegations there. Of course, that'd be dozens of state elections, but eh, what do you care?

My father was involved in Jersey politics...no one there would argue the position you are arguing, since we all knew it to be true.

Then why don't you get your father to turn in his evidence? Why don't you turn him in yourself? That's what you'd do if you had integrity.

But, i'll leave this here for you, since you doubt such things.

Yeah, you choose to link to a spectacularly non-informative page where most of the page is google news feed links?

That does you a LOT of harm to your credibility. Really, a vapid and vacuous article, and that's what you choose to link? That's almost worse than if you'd linked that Veritas stuff. C'mon, show some discernment, and realize how badly you're messing up.

Be honest with yourself. Be serious about your own conduct.

He was labeled anti-black for reasons I have yet to be able to find.

Donald Trump violated the civil rights act by refusing to rent homes to black people.

* http://www.nytimes.com/times-i...
* http://new.www.huffingtonpost....
* http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
* http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...

Trump continued to refuse to rent homes to black people three years after Justice Department ruling on the matter sides against Trump.

* http://www.nytimes.com/1978/03...
* http://www.nytimes.com/1983/10...

Trump ordered blacks to leave casino floor whenever him or wife arrives on property.

* http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...

1991 book written by Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino President quotes Trump as saying:

"I've got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day⦠. I think the guy is lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It's not anything they can control."

* http://articles.philly.com/199...

Trump built a casino in black majority city and breaks promise to mayor about hiring locals, refrains to hire the minorities and opting to staff the casino with almost exclusively all Caucasian employees.

* http://www.nydailynews.com/arc...

Trump was asked about replacing TSA's 'heebeejabis' with veterans, responded with:

"We're looking at it"

* http://www.npr.org/2016/06/30/...
* http://www.businessinsider.com...
* http://time.com/4039658/trump-...

Trump responded to accusations of racism by hiring a former aid for Joseph McCarthy to sue the government for half a billion dollars.

* http://www.salon.com/2011/04/2...

Trump kept books of Hitler Speeches by his bed.

* http://www.businessinsider.com...
* http://forward.com/the-assimil...
* http://www.gq.com/story/donald...

Trump's campaign photoshopped a white model black.

* http://www.huffington

So she was following the example of Bush who didn't preserve millions of emails as the law requires so he could hide his illegal activities from FOIA requests.

Got it.

Dramatically understating the scope of the problem does not make for "safety":

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/te...
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com...
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
http://www.phonearena.com/news...
http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/new...

And that's just the citations I could find from a 30-second Google search that didn't even glance beyond the second page of search results. Many (perhaps even most) of those phones were not being charged at the time of the incident.

[meta-monkey wrote: " There's nothing at all fishy about this to anyone except those who hate strong independent wymynz what don't need no man."]

Grab this -- and share -- before YouTube takes it down: "Donald Trump secret meeting leaked", posted by John Patrick Acquaviva, May 31, 2016 at https://youtu.be/ZJyIztXX3Bs?t=9s (236, 826 views). Sadly, the prophecy that Trump made in 1980 (thirty-six years ago) in that video has come true,

Grab and share what Joe Watson wrote:

Former Miss Nebraska Teen contest winner Natasha Rickley has slammed the media witch hunt against Donald Trump, revealing that ABC News contacted her trying to get dirt on Trump but that she told them he was “an absolute gentleman.“I was contacted today by a producer at ABC News in New York. She is wanting to question me regarding the Miss Teen USA allegations. They also let me know that they are reaching out to All of my fellow contestants from 1997,” wrote Rickley on her Facebook page.

“I am going to be very truthful and let ABC know that Donald Trump was an absolute gentleman. I never witnessed any inappropriate behavior whatsoever the entire 2 weeks that I participated in the pageant. I’m sure that none of my interview will make the news since I have nothing but positive things to say about my experience with Donald. I do find it interesting and important for people to know that these are the depths the media is going to for their smear campaign,” she added.

Rickley’s praise for Trump was backed up by a former Miss Universe manager who came into contact with thousands of pageant contestants and “never heard one accusation against Mr. Trump.”

“I’m coming forward to tell you that these accusations are wrong, they’re false. These young ladies trusted me – if ever there was a time that Mr. Trump had done anything inappropriate, they would have come to me before they would have even gone to their parents,” she said.

“Those things that you’re hearing on national television – that’s wrong, it’s very wrong,” she added, calling Trump “a true gentleman”.

The mainstream media has been on a mission to smear Trump with numerous salacious accusations from women that claim Trump sexually assaulted them.

It has now emerged that one of the women – Jessica Leeds – who waited 35 years before making her accusations public – has a history of conflict and a clear vendetta against Trump.

A New York Daily News article from October 2007 reveals how Leeds was locked in a dispute with Trump over trees that were erected on a golf course owned by Trump in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.

Another story out of the L.A. Times from October 2008 reveals how Leeds was also embroiled in a dispute with Trump over a fence outside her house that Trump claimed was on his property.

“If the Palos Verdes Jessica Leeds is the same Jessica Leeds in the New York Times accusations, it certainly raises the question of an undisclosed personal motive, anger over the past, and/or a probable axe-to-grind,” reports the Conservative Treehouse.

-- source: FORMER MISS TEEN SLAMS MEDIA WIT

This is an important point, these are just simple apps and they still perform decently. The real test for doctors will be against something like Watson:
"The artificial intelligence machine correctly diagnosed a 60-year-old woman’s rare form of leukemia within 10 minutes — a medical mystery that doctors had missed for months at the University of Tokyo."

Here's a solution offered by one segment of the population:

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

Another paid troll funded by the Clinton campaign. http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Ah, the AC must be one of those paid trolls I read about http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Please cite your long list of examples of these toys being used in such a dangerous way

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-drone-near-miss-lax-20160318-story.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/07/08/two-drones-nearly-collide-with-nypd-helicopter-operators-arrested/#1294615f1db8
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/09/travel/unmanned-drone-danger/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/dec/23/champion-skier-marcel-hirscher-has-near-miss-as-drone-falls-out-of-sky
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/europe/uk-drone-near-miss/index.html
http://www.wsj.com/articles/faa-reports-more-aircraft-drone-near-misses-1417025519
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/29/ny-bound-pilot-swerves-to-avoid-collission-with-drone.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3251543/Drone-owners-forced-register-devices-tracking-database-four-near-misses-aircraft-past-month-alone.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12180261/Number-of-near-misses-involving-drones-and-aircraft-quadruples-in-one-year.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-37042796
http://gothamist.com/2016/09/20/man_maybe_arrested_drone_crash.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/us/white-house-drone.html?_r=0
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/05/25/drone-crashes-hits-2-people-during-marblehead-parade/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/world/drug-drone-crashes-us-mexico-border/index.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/drone-crashes-stands-u-s-open-article-1.2348324
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/07/02/drone-crashes-in-brighton-mans-backyard/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/07/drone-crashes-into-yellowstone-hot-spring/13721055/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/drone-crash-university-kentucky-football-game-could-land-student-hot-water/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/drone-crashes-empire-state-building-man-arrested/story?id=36729221

Only if we could get Bill Clinton to shill for the University! But at $750,000 per month, he's a bit expensive...

Well, the main question was whether to treat this user like any other normal user doing the same thing, or like sock-puppet account. In this case it was pretty clear with a modicum of other investigation that he was in fact a separate user, and not a sock of the other ("good") user.

If I'd treated this the way the cops in this story were treating things, I would have just dumbly acted as if every user who's ever shared an IP were all socks of each other, and sent a nasty note (and probably a suspension) to one of our websites best users, who had in fact been one of the people who flagged this guy to my attention in the first place. Or that'd be like going to the scene of a robbery, and shooting the guy who called it in because he was at the scene of a reported robbery. Fortunately, we all know things like that don't happen.

Spent years suggesting that a black president wasn't born in the US, despite a ton of excellent evidence to the contrary.

How is that racism?

It's an example extra layer of scrutiny applied only when the candidate is black. One only needs see the relative disinterest with which the birthers treated the fact that the exact scenario they were speculating about applied directly to Cruz.

Said a judge of Mexican heritage wasn't fit to judge him due to his heritage.

I did ask for actual quotes didn't I? And yet, you chose to paraphrase... What are you trying to slip here, uhm?

Nothing, I just don't want to waste time.

What Trump actually said, was that the judge — a Mexican racist himself ("La Raza" member) — may have a conflict of interest.

Which was dumb, despite the fact they kept confusing different "La Raza"s. But more to the point lots of white judges are members of ethnic professional groups, no one accuses them of being racist, so only making it an issue when it's a Mexican judge in a group for Mexican judges is racist.

If it is Ok to suspect, that an All-white jury may be unfair to a Black defendant, why is it "racist" to suspect, a Mexican may be unfair to a White one?

Judges, unlike juries, have specific training on how to deal with biases. And there's no reason to think that a Mexican would have a negative stereotype about a German.

Has proposed banning members of a religion from the US (very similar to racism).

Not racism. Stick to the topic.

Muslim and Arab are highly correlated, particularly in the minds of Islamaphobes.

Regularly stereotypes blacks "you've got nothing to lose", suggesting that they're one monolithic underclass.

Never heard of it. Actual quotes, please.

Meh, why not.

Notice the stream of negative stereotypes and a false claim of 58% black youth unemployment.

He's not even talking to a black crowd, he's making his "outreach" to a white crowd.

Why is every Republican supposed to "disavow" Duke — except to play into the opponents trap of accepting some guilt (sort of like disavowing beating of one's wife)?

If you're explicitly asked about it? Yes.

If David Duke and other white supremacists have repeatedly and enthusiastically endorsed you unlike anyone else in decades? Definitely yes.

There's a reason Duke and the other white supremacists continue to support Trump so much, he refuses to convincingly say they're wrong.

Would Bernie Sanders disavow Lenin?

Not sure, there's a reason I didn't support Sanders.

Has Hillary Clinton disavowed Al Sharpton, who, unlike Duke, actually encouraged racial violence

It was a lot more BLM than anti-Semitism, the anger was the perception that the life of a black child was treated as secondary to the life of the white (and Jewish) driver who had killed him.

Spent years suggesting that a black president wasn't born in the US, despite a ton of excellent evidence to the contrary.

How is that racism?

Said a judge of Mexican heritage wasn't fit to judge him due to his heritage.

I did ask for actual quotes didn't I? And yet, you chose to paraphrase... What are you trying to slip here, uhm?

What Trump actually said, was that the judge — a Mexican racist himself ("La Raza" member) — may have a conflict of interest. If it is Ok to suspect, that an All-white jury may be unfair to a Black defendant, why is it "racist" to suspect, a Mexican may be unfair to a White one?

Has proposed banning members of a religion from the US (very similar to racism).

Not racism. Stick to the topic.

Regularly stereotypes blacks "you've got nothing to lose", suggesting that they're one monolithic underclass.

Never heard of it. Actual quotes, please.

Extreme reluctance to reject or disavow David Duke or other white supremacists

Why is every Republican supposed to "disavow" Duke — except to play into the opponents trap of accepting some guilt (sort of like disavowing beating of one's wife)?

Would Bernie Sanders disavow Lenin? Has Hillary Clinton disavowed Al Sharpton, who, unlike Duke, actually encouraged racial violence and is responsible for at least one Jew getting killed by a Black mob? No, she not only didn't disavow the asshole, she actively sought his endorsement and attended a rally at his organization.

but many of the things he says and does are quite racist.

So far, the number of actual racist quotes is a perfect zero... Keep trying...

Not really. Bill Clinton was the one who said Obama would be getting us coffee.

Continuing on this thread (at least, in my mind) is the lack of focus on betterment as a whole. Our society idolizes movie stars, musicians and athletes... None of which are known to focus on making the world a better place. The general public knows "that guy from the Fast & Furious movie", not that Paul Walker bought a miitary couples engagement ring. Or the NFL player that takes kids on a shopping spree. No, the general public is too concerned about who plays the Super Bowl halftime show, and who is in the game.

As long as the media spends 3 weeks overanalyzing Kim Kardashians red carpet attire and not the newest life-saving tech/medicine/advancements, this trend will keep going.

They've shown that they don't just blindly respond to DMCA requests, that somebody is vetting them first and deciding whether or not to take down the supposedly infringing material. In the linked case, Google decided not to honor the request to remove Warner Brothers websites from their search engine, as it was obviously erroneous. Yet they do not provide the same service globally, as evidenced by the request to take down a Ubuntu torrent despite this request being farcical.

I can see this issue being used by both sides of the DMCA argument to show that Google is not handling these requests correctly. The fact that they aren't handling all DMCA requests the same leaves them open to a possible lawsuit.

They mostly ignore it because it doesn't feed into "Hills is the corrupt one" narrative they've been running. Remember, Hillary is a crook while Trump is a racist, if you're the New York Times anyway. Balance! The fact that Hillary isn't, and Trump is both, is a minor detail, to be swept under the rug.

That said, reports do surface here and there. Trump himself has boasted of bribing politicians on the campaign trail, so it's not like this is a secret. And rather a lot of people have been pointing at the media and asking them why they've barely mentioned Trump's IRS fine for bribing the AG of Florida (to get her to drop her charges against Trump U, which she did.)

Here's an example of the people we need protecting from - Matthew Desha shot Deborah Pearl several times with a rifle while she had her hands in the air.
Reason for the altercation? She'd just crawled out of a rollover wreck of her car that HE CAUSED.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
This was in Solon, OH - by all reports a pretty nice place to live

Maybe Apple will have to hire tailors for their release day.

Isn't Johnson the guy who stripped on the Libertarian Convention?

I'm not American so I don't have a horse in this race - but calling this guy a buffoon seems warranted.

What kind of major outlets are you looking for?

http://abcnews.go.com/Internat...

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

http://www.wsj.com/articles/gr...

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

Hell, even the NY Daily News covered it:

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

You think al Qaeda isn't a corporation? Someone read its expense reports.

Chicago isn't even close to D.C. Chicago doesn't make the top 100 list of most violent cities. D.C. is number 35.

Media accounts of violence in Chicago are reported with a kind of frenzy that is out of phase with the reality. I don't know if it is because the mayor is so despised, or because Barak Obama might be embarrassed by it. Not really sure why Chicago gets so much hate in the national media over violence, murder and shootings when the truth is there are many more violent cities across the US.

Seth Rich kin to Wikileaks: Stop the murder conspiracy theories

The family of slain Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich has a message to the Wikileaks crowd: Stop with the conspiracy theories.

After Wikileaks founder Julian Assange implied Rich was the source of the recent Democratic National Convention leak — and offered $20,000 for info on Rich’s murder — the grieving family slammed him for trying to “politicize this horrible tragedy.”

“The family welcomes any and all information that could lead to the identification of the individuals responsible, and certainly welcomes contributions that could lead to new avenues of investigation,” Rich family spokesman Brad Bauman said in a statement to Business Insider Wednesday.

“That said, some are attempting to politicize this horrible tragedy, and in their attempts to do so, are actually causing more harm than good and impeding on the ability for law enforcement to properly do their job.”

He urged the public to “refrain from pushing unproven and harmful theories about Seth's murder.”

Rich, 27, was shot and killed while walking to his Washington, D.C. apartment last month, and his killing remains unsolved.

Assange suggested this week, without evidence, that Rich played a role in leaking emails that showed DNC officials disparaging the presidential campaign of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. The leak led to resignations for several DNC leaders.

“Whistleblowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often very significant risks. As a 27 year-old, works for the DNC, was shot in the back, murdered just a few weeks ago for unknown reasons as he was walking down the street in Washington,” Assange told Dutch TV station Nieuwsuur.

“I’m suggesting that our sources take risks and they become concerned to see things occurring like that.”

Wikileaks then offered a $20,000 reward for information on Rich’s killer.

Assange is the only public figure to claim there is a link between the leak and Rich’s death — even though he said in July he had no idea who the hacker was.

A hacker named Guccifer 2.0 claimed responsibility, but the source of the breach has not been determined. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton blamed Russian hackers, and Republican nominee Donald Trump then asked those hackers to steal Clinton’s emails.

The Newtown school shooting was done by a guy who broke in and stole his mother's weapon (then killed her with it). He was not a "gun owner".

He was provided access to a gun, and he legally acquired it, borrowing a gun from a family member, then going on a killing spree. The gun nuts make it sound like it was a home invasion of a stranger. The facts support it being a peaceful visit, until he took the gun he was given legal access to and shot his mother.

Heck, let's pretend it was a home invasion of a stranger - she and all the other people were killed because she owned a gun that was easy to turn against her.

Also, the argument that everything was fine until the gun became "illegal" is disingenuous because it is so damn easy to turn a legal gun illegal, not to mention that the vast majority of illegal guns were in fact legal until such a simple turn occurred. Anyway, I'm still waiting for the explanation when exactly the gun used in this case became illegal http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

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The artist got beat up a couple times for this.