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does the chant "lock her up" ring a bell

<HILLARY>Well, there weren't any email servers.

Oh, wait. There weren't any email servers with classified data on them.

Hmm, make that there weren't any email servers with data marked classified on them....

Damn. How about there weren't any email servers with classification markings removed because I ordered them removed.

Oh, and those not-classified emails that weren't marked and I never told anyone to remove the marking from? That were on servers that never existed? I never told my no-security-clearance-made to print them out..</HILLARY>

If you don't think Hillary lied about that server and broke the law, your head is so far up your ass you can probably count your teeth from the backside.

'Gemini Advisory alleges the thief this time is known as JokerStash or Fin7. The hackers sent phishing emails to company employees.

If the recipient clicked on the attachment, which is meant to appear as an invoice, the hackers infected the system, according to the Associated Press.' link

There are a lot of people killed by elevators every year.
Normally chriminal charges are made to the company that installed the machine, the company that made the machine and the building owner.

Is everyone supposed to die at 64?

Yes, though the Individual — cantankerous and selfish — may feel different, that's the preferable turn of events from the point of view of the Glorious Collective.

At 64 you'll stop getting the subsidy and living beyond 75 is unethical — end of life counseling is all the health care you should be getting then.

Bain keeps popping up today, like a blight let's see Toy's R US and now I Heart Radio and what do they have in common? LBOs lead by Bain.

These private equity firms create nothing except debt and huge profits for themselves and their customers.

I'm sure all this is nothing but a coincidence:

Chicago 2/28 – Are Rideshares Increasing Traffic Congestion?
Denver 2/25 – Studies suggest Uber, Lyft cause traffic congestion
Boston 2/25 – Uber, Lyft drivers are making city traffic worse
Seattle 2/12 – Do Uber, Lyft worsen Seattle’s traffic congestion?
Manhattan 2/26 – Your Uber Car Creates Congestion. Should You Pay a Fee to Ride?
Washington, DC 2/28 – Ride sharing services such as Uber are causing causes of traffic congestion

Please cite your evidence that shit posters on Twitter increased after Trump started running for President and that this problem didn't exist prior. I did a quick Google search from prior to Dec 31, 2015 and here's a few I came up with:

Shock Jock fired for racists Twitter Rant

Obama's Twitter Debug attracts hate-filled posts

Shocking racist tweets follow high school basketball win by all-white team

A brief history of people getting fired for social media stupidity

That last one was one month after Trump formally announced is candidacy in June of 2015.

So I've provided evidence this was happenging before Trump entered the stage, lets see if you can provide evidence of his presence making it worse. I can assure you the increased amount of vitriol coming from his opponents is easily measured, hell just look at how often people like you post on Slashdot - a news for nerds site - your vile hate for the man, but how about you show statistics of an increase in toxicity from his supporters?

Police carry guns. Is your thinking that they are all cowards? (Even if a few actually are?)

Soldiers carry guns. Is your thinking that they are all cowards?

Are young girls that don't get assaulted, raped, or murdered because they used a gun "cowards"? Or do you think they should be assaulted, raped, or murdered?

Girl, 11, scares off home intruder with shotgun
Kendra St. Clair: Oklahoma Girl, 12, Shoots Intruder During Home Burglary
Armed With Her Dad’s Gun, This 17-Year-Old Girl Fended Off A Wanted Man Who Broke Into Her Home

Maybe the problem isn't that any of them are cowards, but that you believe and wrote something foolish. What will people think if you do that often enough? Perhaps that you are a ..... ?

Buzzfeed's not doing too well and they've got an IPO coming up.

https://www.inc.com/erik-sherm...

https://nypost.com/2017/03/29/...

Is not government awesome? Consider:

• VA hospitals
• public transit
• public schools
• Border control...

Just recall the above (incomplete) list next time someone suggests, yet another industry/market would be better served by the caring and omniscient government employees, than by the greedy KKKorporations.

Apparently, the latest shooter had a brush with law enforcement about 10 weeks ago, over brandishing firearms and threatening to shoot people. But the police in Broward County decided to let him off the hook because he had a tough life. Imagine if they actually had done what the law required (at least arrest, and conduct an investigation about ownership of the firearms), there might be 17 more children alive today.

But hey, let's not worry about warning signs like threatening to shoot people, let's focus on an inanimate object instead.

...Likewise, diversity is not supposed to be about competitive advantage, but about the betterment of society and the fair treatment of all people.

Careful, the last diversity officer that said that had to step down. Diversity has been nakedly about promoting favored classes for some time. If you even suggest that a white male might be more than an evil oppressor you will be punished.

Citation:

https://nypost.com/2017/11/17/...

You are complaining about spreading misinformation yet spread misinformation. Democrats commissioned the dossier. Stop spreading misinformation.

Actually, AC isn't completely wrong. Bush allegedly initially hired Steele to make the hit piece, but it was completed after he got $$$ from the Dems, and then was leaked by them via useful idiot John McCain.

I classified adults as everyone older than the 80odd million people under 20.

Yeah, they're already paying for it.
But most Americans aren't paying $5 a year for it. 45% don't pay any federal income tax.

You know - the guy whose wife got almost $1 million from Hillary! cronies - while he was "investigating" Hillary!'s illegal email server.

Yes, Andrew McCabe, former Deputy Director of the FBI. A long-time and close Clinton ally, Terry McAuliffe, directed in total $760,00.00 to Jill McCabe's campaign for Virginia State Senate.

FBI No. 2 did not disclose wife's ties to Clinton ally, records show

Clinton Ally Aided Campaign of FBI Official’s Wife

Bureau boss McCabe under Hatch Act investigation>

Jill McCabe's campaign appears to be have been a front for receiving a monetary bribe in exchange for obstructing or delaying the Clinton server-gate investigation past the presidential election. There is unquestionable evidence that he tried sitting on it:

Justice Department investigating McCabe’s handling of Clinton email probe

McCabe, FBI Knew About More Clinton Emails Well Before Comey's Announcement in 2016.

Washington Post: IG was investigating why McCabe appeared not to act on Weiner emails

$760,00.00 is an insane amount of money to donate for a state senate seat in Virginia, vastly disproportionate to both the value of the seat to the Democrat party and to what other candidates receive. What you need to know to understand that this was actually a monetary bribe directed to her husband is that in Virginia any money which is not spent on a campaign can be kept for personal use.

Leftover campaign money can fund almost anything in Virginia

If we include the recent revelation that McCabe's signed the FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campagin, it then appears that, all together, Hillary Clinton bribed McCabe at the least to:

- Help Hillary win the election by covering up or delaying revelation of evidence against her.

- Make false charges against Trump before the FISA court and then spy on the Trump campaign.

Clinton allies in the Obama administration gained access to secret FBI intelligence on Trump using hundreds of unmasking requests.

From the lists I could find online, it appears that the prominent people who have been caught up in the #metoo accusations in 2017 run somewhere between 25-1 or 50-1 in favor of left-wingers and Democrats vs. conservatives/Republicans. They're almost all in left-wing dominated industries, as well.

It's gotten to the point where I actually have a little more sympathy for left-wing accusations of sexual harassment based on the fact that maybe instead of exaggerating, they're just describing their personal experience with how it works in left-wing dominated places like Hollywood, the media, the Democratic Party and academia and the right-wingers just don't understand as much because they don't experience it as much in their institutions.

But it's crazy the left gives Hillary Clinton any credibility at all when it comes to sexual harassment and rape reports, when she's been one of the most consistent enablers out there (for Bill, and Weinstein, and in her own campaign), yet still claims as recently as yesterday that “For most of my life, harassment wasn’t something talked about or even acknowledged.” The article goes on to mention "Except for the bulk of the 1990s, when her husband was accused by multiple women of harassment and by one of rape and Hillary worked to publicly discredit them. Other than that, no knowledge."

Way to wish away the reality of the situation. Yes, extremists - like crazy lefties who want to silence speech

You appear to have an extreme case of irony deficiency. You should get that looked at.

"Crazy censoring lefties" is a talking point of your particular tribe of extremists who are desperate to accuse everybody else of your own crimes.

Rapper Common Disinvited By University As Commencement Speaker Over Song Lyrics
Vanderbilt puts Duke Med alum on leave after complaint about kneeling to protest white supremacy - The Chronicle
CBS Fires Jewish VP for Anti-White Comments Follows Las Vegas Shooting – Occidental Dissent
Drexel censures professor for white genocide tweet.
Firing of Shirley Sherrod - Wikipedia
After news reports on tweets, queer advocate fired from Claremont Colleges
Two Liberal Professors Fired after Making Controversial, Anti-White Remarks |
Texas State Student Who Wrote Anti-White Op-Ed Fired Off School Paper
L'Oreal Drops Transgender Model After 'All White People' Racism Post
Texas State newspaper fires anti-white column's author as backlash escalates | Fox News
Nurse fired for post suggesting sons of white women be ‘sacrificed’ | New York Post
Lawmaker pushing legislation to refund fans angered by anthem protests
Good News: Trump Protestors Accused Of 'Hiding Behind The First Amendment' Acquitted | Techdirt
Fox refuses to air tax ad with Trump impersonator - POLITICO
Profane anti-Trump sticker sparks free-speech debate in Texas | Fox News
Tennessee Baptist church that hired female pastor can't vote - WRCBtv.com | Chattanooga News, Weather & Sports
Why I was banned from the campus of Liberty University | Religion News Service
Why Liberty University Kicked an Anti-Trump Christian Author Off Campus - Th

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You're basically advocating that an independent organization have total power in choosing one of the candidates for POTUS, that they can do what they want to swing things their way.

And it's not bullshit. There was one of the primaries (Arizona, I think?) that where the chairperson basically called the vote before tallying up the Sanders votes. Nomination went to Clinton. I may not be remembering that 100%, but it's close.

Or maybe articles like this that confirm that "corruption and collusion": https://nypost.com/2017/11/02/...

I know there are other examples, but my memory isn't great so I'd have to dig around for them.

We really just need to get rid of the electoral college.

If people that were registered as Democrats voted in that way for Cruz, well....sure, but I don't see that happening, I think that's pretty hyperbolic (just like neither Sanders or Clinton would ever be on an R ticket).

NPR is probably the most unbiased and go-to radio news source

I guess in the process of being an unbiased news source NPR forgot to report that the former NPR CEO confessed that NPR has a liberal agenda. And the guy doesn't talk about a conspiracy, but simply of NPR being a liberal echo chamber. See:

When you are liberal, and everyone else around you is as well, it is easy to fall into groupthink on what stories are important, what sources are legitimate and what the narrative of the day will be.

https://nypost.com/2017/10/21/...

It was a charge. I doubt that, even in Florida, she was convicted: https://nypost.com/2017/11/03/...

It gets worse, though: http://www.newsminer.com/junea...

https://nypost.com/2016/03/11/...

Jurors at Hulk Hogan's invasion-of-privacy trial heard Friday how former top Gawker editor Albert "A.J." Daulerio - who put the infamous Hogan sex tape online - also posted video of the young woman engaged in sex in a bathroom stall at a Bloomington, Ind., sports bar in May 2010.

Days later, the woman wrote Gawker, begging that the video be taken down from its sports-themed Deadspin Website, according to e-mails read in court by Hogan lawyer Shane Vogt.

"I am the girl in it and it was stolen from me and put up without my permission," the unidentified woman wrote on May 11, 2010.

Gawker's complaint department forwarded the message to Daulerio, along with a note saying, "Blah, blah, blah," Vogt said.

Daulerio then e-mailed the woman and told her to "not make a big deal out of this," adding: "I'm sure it's embarrassing but these things do pass, keep your head up."

Then-company lawyer Gaby Darbyshire also e-mailed the woman, defending the video as "completely newsworthy" and scolding her about how "one's actions can have unintended consequences."

But Gawker reversed itself the next day and removed the entire posting, with Daulerio later admitting to GQ magazine he had regrets because the video "wasn't funny" and "was possibly rape."

Three women and one man on the six-member jury scribbled notes about the e-mail exchanges, with the man sternly peering over his glasses at Daulerio, 41, a co-defendant in the Hogan case.

An expert witness appearing for Hogan also testified that Gawker boosted its corporate value as much as $15.5 million by posting the hidden-camera sex recording of the pro wrestling legend.

Jeff Anderson, director of valuation and analytics at Consor Intellectual Asset Management, said 5.4 million people viewed the Hogan tape at Gawker between October 2012 and April 2013, resulting in a 28.5 percent spike in traffic to the site.

Awful people. And look at Daulerio's expression in the picture - he knows both he and his employer are screwed.

Gawker refused to remove pictures of a woman being raped when asked to. There are limits to free speech: We do not allow revenge porn, we do not allow sites like Gawker which have no respect for people's privacy or feelings. Gawker was the site with a writer who ruined a woman for posting an insensitive but harmless joke on Twitter.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.
 

No, it's the 35 year old female boinking her underage students.

I wish I had been one of those students.

Just remember, she can say you victimized her, https://www.thestar.com/news/w... , and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... , and https://nypost.com/2017/12/20/...

One of these days, and it won't be long, a female teacher will screw a little boy, and he'll be the one arrested.

Remember that towing glaciers to Dubai business?
https://nypost.com/2017/05/17/...

Antarctica is much closer to Cape Town than Dubai is.

Actually most people who read the news likely knew about it. That story was covered all over the place when it happened.

Just a sampling:

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
https://nypost.com/2017/10/16/...
http://abcnews.go.com/Internat...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com....

One would have to be fairly ignorant to not have run across it on some news website after it happened.

(his race - you think similar views expressed in this scenario by a fashionable race would have resulted in a firing)?

Saying "fashionable race" makes you sound like a really stable genius.

And conservative-correctness is everywhere. For example, this guy was fired for saying all he wanted for xmas was white genocide. This university newspaper fired a reporter for an anti-white column. This nurse was fired for anti-white tweets. L'Oreal fired this spokesmodel for her anti-white post on facebook. Shirley Sherrod was fired by the Obama administration after Breitbart quoted her out of context to make her look racist. This professor was fired after saying it was OK for a BLM protest to ban white people from joining. Pomona fired the head of their LGBTQ resources center for saying the police enforce white supremacy.

If I've said it once.... I've said it a hundred times.

Our technology is evolving faster than our species.

• 
  Suicides of teen girls in the USA are up due to cell phones and social media.
  Cell phones are killing our necks.
  In addition to carrying a personal tracking device, governments are using and abusing any and all technology to spy on citizens
  The Sun could wipe out our power grid with a direct hit from a geomagnetic storm, and utilities aren't doing anything to mitigate the risks.
  5 Countries are destroying the ocean with plastics and covering the earth with asbestos.
  And let's not forget about the Doomsday clock and Nuclear Weapons. We still have a cold war posture that could end badly.
  We have governments with cheap gene editing tools CRISPR/CAS9 working to make designer pets that glow in the dark and super biological weapons
  Video Game Addiction is rampant
  The Internet is a Pandora's box of garbage and porn, bad behavior are shaping your minds through YouTube and other video streaming sites.
  The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. There will be a tipping point and this will lead to global unrest.

We can truly say it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. If we could all just grow up and use our technology for good, but we can't. Just like light and dark, yin and yang, the good of technology is always accompanied by the evil dark side.

My prediction for 2018 is that AI and machine learning are going to be applied to hacking. AI's will be trained to write code to exploit all things and the exploits will be endless. Humans won't even be able to understand the exploit code as the AI software churns them out. Further I predict human cloning will happen this year and that China/Russia/North Korea will test some pretty nasty hacks on Americas Banks, Stock Market, Telecommunications, and/or gas/electric/water. I also predict that US drug usage will continue to increase (opioids, weed, alcohol) and the life expectancy will continue to decrease and suicide rates will continue to increase. I also predict that based on an increased energy in the atmosphere that storms will continue to grow in intensity. I also predict there will be a war in North Korea due to an error in a rocket test hitting a US ally. Further I predict Russia will take over another ex-Russian republic and China will continue to flex it's military muscle.

7 billion people on the planet. Technology everywhere, and we still can't figure out to behave and share.

I was watching TV with a little child and she was horrified by the war videos on the news and she asked me, "Why is there war? Why are they fighting?"

My answer, "Because, Sharing is hard."

To all reading this, in 2018 do a better job of sharing, loving your neighbor, and using less plastic.

Happy New Year!

The consent decree imposed on Comcast for the NBCUniversal merger is set to expire soon. However, there is a lot of risk the federal government may extend it. Since Trump seems susceptible to flattery/buttering up, giving him credit for things seems a cheap way to curry favor.

Certainly, their statement should be taken with a grain of salt.

It was big in the 90s. The Late 10s? Not so much. Guy's got a custom-made dungeon in NYC, I am sure there's a disillusioned young lady lurking somewhere downtown waiting to pull the pin on her #MeToo grenade. The Alphabet Board did the only thing they could do.

In his defense: "News outlets have been sniffing around Schmidt’s former flames looking for a Harvey Weinstein-like bombshell, a source close to Schmidt told The Post. But sources say there’s nothing there." https://nypost.com/2017/12/21/...

Why weren't you saying the same thing when Obama signed his 800 mile border wall extension in 2013 ?

It's just trump is evil ?

Probably because in reality, what Obama was doing was different, namely a measured and considered response that reflected a rational desire to mitigate harm that was based on acutal problems, and not the blatant hyperbole that Trump resorted to, which is really Trump's own fault because of his personal lack of temperance and desire to concoct imagined demons to fight. In fact, he himself rejected the fencing of the Bush and Obama days in preference to his own concrete edifice. Among other castigations.

You see, some of us haven't forgotten that Trump denounced Democrats for "an open door policy" that was entirely his concoction while falsely claiming phony successes of his own.

But hey, great that you're admitting that Trump lied. One lie down, dozens to go!

The state, which most actively opposed — and continues to oppose — Trump, is getting the punishment even while the nation as a whole is prospering.

You know, you shouldn't buy into all the conspiracy theories and bullshit lies the deranged talk radio circuit want's to sell you.... it makes you look like a stark raving mad lunatic completely out of touch with reality.

The FBI has no say over who Trump hired for his campaign, and unless you're admitting that Trump is a complete fucking idiot that can't do a damn thing right without his hands being held, you probably shouldn't suggest they should have any say. Trump fucked that up. He was an idiot that didn't vet his personnel, and now a bunch of whiny little hyper-partisan bitches want to blame someone other than him. Get up off your knees; Trumps wife should be the one sucking his cock.... unless you really, really want to.

Right now Mueller appears to be working right up the chain... and each lower level person he flips into talking is just more evidence against the higher ups. I shouldn't have to say that.. that SHOULD be a pretty common knowledge tactic for anyone that has any brain cells functioning. I'm not sure what your problem is, maybe head-up-ass syndrome or head-up-partisan-political-dogma ass syndrome.

As for the "uranium one" scandal... you mean the scandal where a bunch of republican want-a-be propagandists took a break from lying about pedo shops in pizza joints, and aides being killed for whatever reason (both outright lies... why do conservatives lie so much, by the way?) and decided to try lie yet again? Here's fauxnews, of all places, explaining it to you... try to keep up: http://video.foxnews.com/v/564...

But... if you're looking for an actual quid pro quo assault on the citizens of this country: https://nypost.com/2017/11/06/...

The media is lying to you. Are you seriously saying we should trust them? WTF? It's like the character in the first five minutes of a dystopia film. The one who shortly gets disappeared.

CNN on family leave before and after Trump backed it

Julie Pace of the AP calls Trump a liar about media conspiracy while she was actively conspiring to promote Clinton.

https://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/trump-keeps-claiming-fake-news-and-these-media-mistakes-make-his-case.html/6/

Paul Krugman Lies. Gets 8k+ retweets. . . "Ok, It's not true". 160 retweets.

NPR chief lives among the savages for a year and it changes his view.

story for you. It was Clinton and the DNC that colluded with Russia to influence an election, not Trump.

You are a denier, I bet you also support sexual abusers like Frankin and Conyers.

We don't know why Mozilla Foundation has changed from accepting money from Microsoft to accepting money from Google. We are, apparently, not allowed to know. One possibility is that Google is willing to pay more. Another possibility is that there was a breakdown in the relationship between the very poorly managed Yahoo and Microsoft. (Although poorly managed, one reason Yahoo has money is that Yahoo is part owner of Alibaba. See, for example, Why worthless CEOs laugh all the way to the bank. May 20, 2017)

During the time the money from Microsoft dominated Mozilla Foundation's income, Mozilla Foundation released a version of Firefox that removed the ability to use most add-ons. Add-ons are the reason people prefer Firefox. We aren't allowed to kinow why Mozilla Foundation makes its decisions.

During the time that Microsoft dominated, Mozilla Foundation changed the Firefox user interface in a way that had a negative influence on acceptance of Firefox.

During the time that Microsoft dominated, Microsoft tried other ways to dominate: Mozilla and Google accuse Microsoft of unfair browser competition (May 10, 2012)

That is, in fact, what happened, according to news reports at links I gave.

Other people who have commented and I feel uncomfortable with the fact that we aren't allowed to know how Mozilla Foundation spends its money.

The world needs a browser that is not controlled in a hidden way. At one time, I thought we had that. When Google was paying $300,000,000 per year to Mozilla Foundation, to make Google search the default Firefox search engine. it appeared that Google was not negatively influencing the development of Firefox. Of course, we don't know what actually happened.

most medical professionals would find this deeply insulting

Yeah, they like to pretend they're doing good rather than being purely commercial about it. e.g.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/p...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/d...

Fancy a chance at surviving a serious head injury, especially if it may take months or years to recover? Don't sign up to being an organ donor: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/1...

This court case appears to be still ongoing: https://nypost.com/2012/09/26/...

Maybe try some carrots instead of sticks?

Jimmy Carter ... is that you? All jokes aside he should have had to give back the Nobel prize he got when the North Koreans duped him.

Citation: https://nypost.com/2016/01/06/...

Age of consent is irrelevant. There are plenty of jurisdictions where it is legal for a person to have sex, but illegal for the same person to take a nude selfie.

The difference is that the sex does not require technology.

"Indiana court rules that sex with 16-year-olds is fine, but sexting them is not" https://nypost.com/2017/10/04/...

Uber today has announced a new internal company investigation, to discover which part of their company is not operating illegally and unethically.

"There must be something in there that's good, we intend to find it" said CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, "I mean, even Stalin wasn't pure evil, his mustache was downright luscious."

Laughter from Andreesen Horowitz was heard to inexplicably ring out all across downtown Palo Alto. Stalin could not be reached for his comment. His grandaughter was too busy wielding firearms, and didn't care.

I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately the forces of political correctness, as they discourage actual thought that is consistent, see it otherwise. The most recent victim is: https://nypost.com/2017/11/17/...

Here you see them carefully remove a statue so that it can be put in a museum.

OH... WAIT...

So why should anyone take seriously anything that comes out of this stupid, worthless, moronic, retarded parody of a brain of yours ?

Because Hillary! Funny you don't hear much about how her campaign and the DNC funded the "Russia" dossier and stuck it to Bernie. Even though Donna Brazile stuck it to her, Hillary might still be back for 2020 because, hey! It's HER turn, and people are with HER!

At the end of the day, a media described "bad day" with Trump is better than a "good day" with Hillary.

Sears kicked ass for years because they owned their own real estate and they were able to offer competitive prices. They'd already have gone under if they hadn't kept their trucking fleet, although they had to change the name on the side of the trucks because nobody wanted to see a Sears truck.

They were already failing before they started selling real estate, though, which they started doing specifically because they couldn't cover their operating expenses otherwise. And they were failing not because they couldn't compete with the internets, but because they didn't try. They compromised customer service, which was what got people through the door. They also compromised quality, for instance Craftsman tools have been going downhill for years. So why would you bother to go in there?

I also wonder how much money Sears has spent on their agonizingly awful e-commerce site. It does tend to carry pretty much everything, but it has pretty much everything at the highest prices anywhere. When you add to this the fact that it's one of the worst sites on the interwebs, it's easy to see why nobody uses it.

I, for one, fell out of love with Sears years ago, when I was just getting acquainted with powered yard equipment and found that they wanted about 400% of reasonable parts prices. More recently, I had a problem with them not wanting to honor a warranty. Sears changes model numbers on products which haven't actually changed every year so that they don't have any stock to make warranty replacements with, so that they can dick you around. Is that really cheaper than just doing business properly? Who knows. But fuck 'em.

Try flipping off the president, it could easily cost you your job.

Posting your contempt on fb, twitter or any public venue, will get you fired and rightly so.

According to this article (and others), Juli Briskman wasn't identifiable in the photo (and was off-work and displayed no company affiliations in the photo), but after it went viral she voluntarily told her company that it was her and they fired her for violating their social media policy by posting something ‘lewd’ or ‘obscene’.

It's worth noting that the company only reprimanded a male executive who called someone “f—ing Libtard a–hole” on his Facebook account that displayed the company logo and info and then allowed the guy to clean up his posts.

Pretending that it's somehow equal is totally wrong. The Left utterly banished opposing opinions from the airwaves. It got so bad that conservative opinions retreated all the way to AM radio, a terrible ghetto, to be heard. I mean, come on, AM radio? It's a wonder that it still exists, and I had that thought 30 years ago. Then Murdoch started his Fox news, but what else? Prior to the rise of citizen journalism on Youtube, there was hardly anything but tame, controlled opposition which would be allowed to say something non-controversial and then refuted by the two other talking heads and the hosts.

The recent election was the tipping point, when the mask came off and the mainstream media became a partisan force, one dedicated to the cause of electing Hillary Clinton, who we now have hard proof in the form of a confession from her campaign manager, that she was utterly corrupt. The New York Times, after its completely biased coverage, said that "We believe we reported on both candidates fairly during the presidential campaign", a statement breathtaking in its nearsightedness. Here's a leaked email showing how the Dems colluded with the press. Glenn Thrush of Politico was exposed seeking Podesta's approval of articles about Clinton. Even Thrush wrote "please don't tell anyone" and "I'm such a hack". The consequences for Thrush? He was hired by the New York Times after the election. How can you have any sympathy with these organizations that threaten people into silence with threats of doxxing? It's like the mafia. So let's drop the "both sides do it" thing because the power levels are not even remotely the same.

The problem I see . . . is folks flagging stuff as 'controversial' because they disagree with it. Lots of the left wing channels got flagged. But even some science channels got flagged by the anti-climate change folks and the 'intelligent design' crowd.

On one hand I would say it generally isn't right to do that. On the other, my heart bleeds for them. I mean, it's not like the left wing goes out of its way to abuse, ... well ...

PragerU sues YouTube, Google for blacklisting its conservative educational videos

College melts down over plan for white people-free day on campus

Justice Department settles IRS lawsuits from 400 conservative groups claiming discrimination

Court Documents Show The IRS Focused Scrutiny On Conservative Groups

Now, thanks to filings in a federal lawsuit in Ohio, there is such a list, with 426 names on it. And yes, it's top-heavy with conservative groups:

— 62 had Tea Party or Tea Party Patriots in the name

— a additional 14 had Patriots in the name

— 30 groups had 9/12 or Liberty in the name (9/12 refers to groups inspired by conservative television personality Glenn Beck)

In all, 282 conservative groups were on the IRS list, about two-thirds of the total number of groups that got additional scrutiny.

The list also has 67 progressive organizations (16 percent of the total) and 21 nonpartisan civic groups, including three League of Women Voters chapters.

The IRS took a hard look at Friends of Abe, a group for Hollywood conservatives, and at five state chapters of Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition. But also at LULAC (the League of Latin American Citizens), seven state groups with Progress in their names and two Occupy groups.

The Deerfield Beach, Fla., chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women caught the agency's eye. So did the National Federation of Independent Business and a group recorded simply as The Institute. Thirty-two groups couldn't be identified

I could go on.

It's not the buildings you would need to worry about with respect to fiber optic cables during an earthquake. It's the fiber runs buried along the roads and bridges that are most susceptible to damage. Though earthquakes probably aren't nearly as dangerous to fiber cables compared to a backhoe or vandals.

http://nypost.com/2017/09/15/thousands-left-without-internet-after-vandals-cut-cables

Anybody missed that story? ...this noises