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"As opposed to what?"

As opposed to other cellphones.

"It sure as heck did go down for awhile on 9/11."

Blackberry was the only communications lifeline for many on 9/11. It was reported in the NYT.

It has even been suggested that radio jamming technology may have been employed on 9/11, as several important communication systems 'just happened' to go down that day:

- New York cell phones (although this could possibly be caused by a system overload)
- WTC’s internal communication system (just happened to be down that day)
- Port Authority's transmission repeater on top of WTC5 (just happened to be down that day)

Regardless of these communications failures, Blackberry still allowed people to communicate on 9/11.

Then we moved into the age of surveillance, and the world of the Spyphone - largely justified by those attacks. How ironic.

The flaw in the GM cars was obviously an accident.

But not implementing the fix before going into production because they deemed legal costs would be less than the cost of fixing the issue was not. That was a malicious management decision that has led to hundreds of deaths and injuries, which could have been expected at the time.

VW clearly and deliberately ordered their engineers to design the car to pollute more than allowed.

The decision was made by engineers. They were not ordered - they just had to make a target which they apparently could not at the time. That does not quite absolve whoever set those targets, but it is certainly not they way you present it. Also, the issue is not that the cars pollute more than allowed, but that part of the engine management software makes the emissions tests result in an unfair representation. On the road, they do not actually pollute more than most similar diesel cars.

GM has previously been caught using defeat devices in the past and while they deny the accusations, there is evidence to suggest that current models include software similar to what was found in Volkswagens.

We can forgive a company that makes a mistake, even one that in hindsight is really dumb and obvious. Harder to forgive a company that intentionally and with malice aforethought tried to defraud customers and regulators.

The defeat device was ultimately the work of a few people, who have now been suspended and will probably be fired. VW acknowledged their responsibilities when they were made aware, they are solving the issues at no cost to the owners and several high-ranking managers who should have prevented this were suspended, including the CEO.

GM management was aware before they even started manufacturing the faulty switches that people would die from this and they did not do anything about it for thirteen years. Additionally, they tried to cover it up. Because of extensive lobbying and interests that happen to be aligned with the U.S. government, GM were handled with kid gloves by the authorities and, consequently, the media compared to the shitstorm that went over VW, so they effectively got away with it.

Frankly, I can forgive VW as a company if they manage to do everything they have promised. I really cannot see how I could ever forgive GM. I get the feeling that they would do the same again tomorrow and I would not trust one of their products.

Pollution hurts people and the environment and there are very good reasons why we care about what comes out of vehicle tailpipes. We have reasonable estimates of the number of people killed each year directly and indirectly by pollution. Don't think for a moment that VWs actions didn't have any effect on the lives of others.

Firstly, it is very hard to argue that this is applicable to NOx, which is after all a very minor pollutant in the grand scheme of things. Secondly, as mentioned before, many other diesel cars emit more NOx than the Volkswagen group cars with the defeat device software. I see no reason to think that the real-world emissions would have been lower had there been no defeat devive. It shouldn't have been there and the people who did it should be prosecuted, but let's not pretend that it caused any actual harm.

I don't think so:

...Mr. Dear [shooter] was raised as a Baptist, Ms. Ross [ex-wife] said in an interview in Goose Creek, S.C., where she now lives. He was religious but not a regular churchgoer, a believer but not one to harp on religion. “He believed wholeheartedly in the Bible,” she said. “That’s what he always said; he read it cover to cover to cover.”

I remembered high-fiber, low calorie bread ... made with wood fiber. See Wood pulp as fiber in bread

There is some evidence that he was taking small doses of LSD for this purpose when he helped uncover the double helix structure of DNA: NY Times and Reddit discussion

Me, not so much.

lol. A bit more seriously the 9x more likely than social scientists thing tells you nothing, because social science is an ideologically homogenous wasteland in which literally everyone is left wing, according to social scientists themselves!

Yea, well the Supreme Court doesn't seem to agree, and now you've probably also contractually agreed to resolve any disputes in Arbitration, with an arbitrator chosen by the corporation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11...

The sad truth is that after four years of war in Syria there are few moderates left and those that do exist lack military strength. The Free Syrian Army was always a mosaic of factions and is now largely ineffectual.

The FSA, could be considered the most "moderated" group, actually showed that they are extremists, if not terrorists. Their commander ATE heart of Syrian soldier, or accused of allegedly trafficking in human organs. By no means, this organization is fighting for DEMOCRACY or FREEDOM.

Why, the West continuously claimed, Russian is bombing "moderated groups", they unintentionally reveal, BEFORE the Russian bombing, there are only 'four or five' Syrian fighters against Isis, by top general, many were deserted, or hand the armors, weapon to Al Quaeda. Or AFTER the bombing, eventually, the Defense Secretary of U.S Ashton Carter said:

However, the moderate Syrian forces “have not come under attack by either Assad’s forces or Russia’s forces.”

The Pentagon explicitly admitted their 500 million program to train "moderated" rebel is FAILED.
Where is the hell "Western-backed rebel forces" is bombed!?

those of us who aren't sociopaths

Easy with the name-calling. Please, don't hate.

Glass ceilings are a real thing.

Whether that's true or not, there is not one in Linux (nor FreeBSD) project. And yet, the ratio of females there is even worse, than at Microsoft.

People don't have to be enslaved for a workplace to be a very bad place.

If the free people willingly choose to work somewhere, then it can not be that bad.

there is clear and unambiguous evidence that if we allow discrimination based on those criteria that the results are bad both for society and for the individuals

Such a claim sounds rather hollow without citations. Got any?

Your "anti-discrimination" (poorly) fights symptoms, not the problem — which only gets worse because of your efforts, as we are forced to wonder, if a protected minority occupying an important post really deserved it, or got it thanks to the color of his skin. Racial relations today are worse than before — with Blacks especially alienated.

Your approach demonstrably failed. Decades ago we surrendered an essential liberty to your kind in exchange for a promise of harmony, and now we have neither the liberty nor the harmony. Look at Baltimore — despite having Black mayor and Black police commissioner, it still got racial tensions like nowhere else... It is such an egg on your face, your wisest now blame lead paint!

You are a pathetic failure. And yet, instead of pulling back to reflect on what went wrong, your kind doubles and triples down with new charges. Today even the belly-dancing or yoga are off-limits to the Whitey.

Constitution is junk to you — you may preach "tolerance", but wish to ban "hate speech". And that includes everything that makes you uncomfortable.

The market demonstrably cannot fairly deal with this problem.

Because it is not a market problem. In fact, I am not convinced, it is a problem at all. But, if it is, you and yours are the least qualified to address it.

those of us who aren't sociopaths

Easy with the name-calling. Please, don't hate.

Glass ceilings are a real thing.

Whether that's true or not, there is not one in Linux (nor FreeBSD) project. And yet, the ratio of females there is even worse, than at Microsoft.

People don't have to be enslaved for a workplace to be a very bad place.

If the free people willingly choose to work somewhere, then it can not be that bad.

there is clear and unambiguous evidence that if we allow discrimination based on those criteria that the results are bad both for society and for the individuals

Such a claim sounds rather hollow without citations. Got any?

Your "anti-discrimination" (poorly) fights symptoms, not the problem — which only gets worse because of your efforts, as we are forced to wonder, if a protected minority occupying an important post really deserved it, or got it thanks to the color of his skin. Racial relations today are worse than before — with Blacks especially alienated.

Your approach demonstrably failed. Decades ago we surrendered an essential liberty to your kind in exchange for a promise of harmony, and now we have neither the liberty nor the harmony. Look at Baltimore — despite having Black mayor and Black police commissioner, it still got racial tensions like nowhere else... It is such an egg on your face, your wisest now blame lead paint!

You are a pathetic failure. And yet, instead of pulling back to reflect on what went wrong, your kind doubles and triples down with new charges. Today even the belly-dancing or yoga are off-limits to the Whitey.

Constitution is junk to you — you may preach "tolerance", but wish to ban "hate speech". And that includes everything that makes you uncomfortable.

The market demonstrably cannot fairly deal with this problem.

Because it is not a market problem. In fact, I am not convinced, it is a problem at all. But, if it is, you and yours are the least qualified to address it.

Ads do this quite often, it is called a drive by exploit.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...

It happens quite a lot. Most of your malware infestations come from drive bys, thought there are other exploit vectors as well.

Obama invaded Iraq and created a vacuum?

Umm, yeah, that's EXACTLY what Obama did by withdrawing from Iraq despite it not being stable.

Who knew?

Damn near anyone living on the third planet from the Sun - the one with a blue sky. What color is the sky on your planet?

Which is why Obama has been so insistent on minimizing the severity of what ISIS is doing - ISIS is on HIM as it was OBAMA'S decision to withdraw US troops from Iraq, which allowed ISIS to grow.

Because ISIS goes back to before Obama was even President.

And now he's forced to send them back into a worse situation then was there when he pulled them out.

But he isn't strong enough to admit he was WRONG to pull US troops from Iraq.

Or did you forget John McCain saying he would be willing to leave US troops in Iraq for 100 years?

Let me guess - you're against higher taxes too?

Irrelevant strawman from a petulant child. No wonder you're trying to deflect blame from Obama - who also gets petulant when he doesn't get what he wants.

Probably as deliberate as Bush/Cheney when they fucked around in Iraq and broke it.

Nope.

The Bush/Cheney "rush to war" wasn't poll-driven, nor was it a "rush" in that it took almost a year and included multiple attempts at UN consensus and Congressional approval.

Obama's "policies" (to use the term generously) seem to be flailing attempts more intended to preserve whatever "legacy" he might have by not allowing facts to destroy the narrative of the "Great Light Bringer" making the world all peaceful instead of leadership making a decision and them implementing it.

Obama can't acknowledge the seriousness of ISIS, for example, because that would invalidate his decision to withdraw from Iraq and emphasize his fuck-ups in Syria (remember the "red line"?). Read this NY Times article.

ISIS traces its roots to Al Qaeda in Iraq under Zarqawi - read that article and note the US troop with a captures ISIS flag from 7-8 years ago - well before Obama withdrew from Iraq.

is to get rid of the mosquitoes directly by using selfish gene elements like segregation distorters. But imagine the "what could possibly go wrong" comments if you tried to even suggest this.

People tried to eradicate mosquitoes decades ago. Fish population suffered. We never know how things we hate are connected to the things we need. That's why it pays to consider long-term consequences before doing anything drastic.

is to get rid of the mosquitoes directly by using selfish gene elements like segregation distorters. But imagine the "what could possibly go wrong" comments if you tried to even suggest this.

I'm not aware of anybody arguing to keep out legitimate Syrian war refugees.

Ahem.

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11...

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

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/16/...

I'm not aware of anybody arguing to keep out legitimate Syrian war refugees.

Ahem.

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11...

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

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/16/...

I'd be more impressed if he was offering the same benefit to his employees.

So be impressed. You could even have read the summary which stated "At Facebook we offer our U.S. employees up to 4 months of paid maternity or paternity leave which they can take throughout the year."

As the 'up to' could mean that the claim is actually bullshit, I googled for a few seconds and found this:
"A Facebook spokesman, Slater Tow, said in an e-mail that the company offers four months of paid leave to both mothers and fathers, including same-sex couples, as long as they are full-time employees. The policy also covers the adoption of a child. Plus, new parents get $4,000 in “baby cash” for each child born to them or adopted."
http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com...

As long as they can pretend that the work serves some sort of educational purpose, they can use people as unpaid interns and get away with it.

Thats awful, and a good example of how the Corporation *do* rule America, far more than in other developed countries where such exploitation is illegal.

Even with minimum wage, corporations have people working for no money. As long as they can pretend that the work serves some sort of educational purpose, they can use people as unpaid interns and get away with it.

From a Steve Jobs NY Times interview,

"Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like," says Steve Jobs, Apple's C.E.O. "People think it's this veneer -- that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

Apple should concentrate on how the UI works, and put appearances second. If the menus look elegant but hard to understand, then the menus should be changed. If the fonts and colors look pretty, but are hard to read, then the fonts and colors should be changed.

Fear not, the Clintons have made 'getting in on the act' their career. Bill Clinton picked up the neocon script back in 1998, stating that Iraq had WMD and Saddam had to be deposed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Some reading about Hillary's favorite neocons (having become one herself):

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06...
https://consortiumnews.com/201...

Fear not, the Clintons have made 'getting in on the act' their career. Bill Clinton picked up the neocon script back in 1998, stating that Iraq had WMD and Saddam had to be deposed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Some reading about Hillary's favorite neocons (having become one herself):

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06...
https://consortiumnews.com/201...

How do you know what the people who are paying the bills want?

If only there was some way to get a handle on peoples' preferences:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07...

Corn, soy, cotton, canola, sugar beet, alfalfa, summer squash, papaya, apple, potato...those are the species you need to remember.

That's not a complete list now, is it?

Maybe you should scroll back to the top of the page and read the headline again.

Can you give a rational reasoning as to why only one thing, which just so happens to have public controversy, should be singled out?

Yes. Because the people who are paying the bills want it. Now, you may believe that the great unwashed masses shouldn't be allowed to have that information, or aren't smart enough to process that information, or need to be protected from that bit of information, or just can't handle the truth, but that's not your call to make because they are paying for it. They pay every penny of the cost of research, the cost of marketing, the cost of growing, the cost of harvesting, the cost of distribution and every damn thing right up to the cost of the minimum wage cashier in the checkout line at the grocery store. And that, my friend, means they get to know what they demand to know.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07...

There is actually a pretty small amount of wild salmon available to buy as most of it comes from farms whether or not it is a GMO. Perhaps the easiest solution would to require labels for if the fish was caught in the wild or farmed? http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04...

According to The New York Times, more Mexicans are leaving than entering the United States.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/us/more-mexican-immigrants-leaving-us-than-entering-report-finds.html

From the New York Times:

French intelligence officials have concluded that Mr. Abaaoud was involved in at least four of six terrorist plots in France that have been foiled since the spring, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced at a news conference.

Mr. Abaaoud, a Belgian citizen who was 27 or 28, went to Syria last year to fight with the Islamic State, but it was not until Monday that French authorities learned - through a foreign intelligence service - that he had returned to Europe, via Greece, Mr. Cazeneuve said.

They had been tracking him, at least enough to break up several other things he was planning. But the problem with this situation, like we all know, is that the terrorists only have to succeed once, while law enforcement has to succeed every time. They didn't even realize he was back inside the country until 4 days before the attack, and that's not a lot of time to find someone who probably didn't want to be found.

Hardware is hard. Really really hard.

The list goes on, and on.

Even hardware projects with experienced teams can fail. If you see a hardware crowdfunding project, be fully willing to accept that your 'investment' (which is what it really is) is more likely to disappear than result in a finished product.

Well, now there's this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11...? which seems to be the NYT's contribution to the Obama Administration's propaganda arsenal.

Read clearly the first paragraph to contrast the second one.

Exactly. In March 2011, a month after the Japanese Fukushima tsunami, there was a NYTimes article critical of Japan's leadership during the disaster. However, after re-reading it 8 hours post-original online publication, I noticed that it had become watered down and so I inquired to the NYTimes public editor about the discrepancy. I received the following response a month later from the Office of the Public Editor:

"To answer your question, yes, stories can be edited if they are part of the continuous news cycle. Mr. Brisbane [NYT public editor at the time] asked assistant managing editor Jim Roberts to address this in one of his first letters columns: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10... ... Hopefully Roberts’ response gives you some more info on how The Times processes material as part of the continuous news cycle. It seems that this article was constantly being updated with new information due to the changing nature of events right after the tsunami."

I tried to find the article just now, originally entitled "Flaws in Japan's Leadership Deepen Sense of Crisis," (March 16, 2011) only to find that even the title had been altered to the less damning "Dearth of Candor from Japan's Leadership," and the even weaker "In Tokyo, a Dearth of Candor" for the print edition. I always suspected that someone in the JST time zone made a last minute call in those critical hours between online print and hard copy, lots of "new information" right there.

Here is a discussion of the definition and the purpose for the narrow meaning:

http://www.nytimes.com/1861/01...

So why do the corporations pay taxes to government if they control it?

Have you missed the millions of complaints about corporations legally not paying taxes?

Why have business executive been going to jail?

Don't forget, Ken Lay was found innocent in court. How many bank execs went to jail for the fraudulent credit swaps? http://www.mintpressnews.com/i... http://billmoyers.com/2013/09/... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05... The only banking exec sent to jail was one immigrant. The hate of immigrants exceeded the protection of bankers, and served up a single exception, so nobody could say "nobody" went to jail. Though his crime was in internal fraud to get a bonus, not defrauding anyone outside the company.

So the number of business execs who went to jail for defrauding customers is still zero. One exec went to jail for defrauding shareholders.

As that was defrauding shareholders, I think we can say that nobody went to jail for causing the largest recession ever recorded.

And the NYT has a new and extensive story that absolutely "mentions" crypto.

We don't need "backdoors". What we need is a clear acknowledgment that what increasingly exists essentially amounts to a virtual fortress impenetrable by the legal mechanisms of free society, that many of those systems are developed and employed by US companies, and that US adversaries use those systems against the US and our allies, and for a discussion to start from that point.

The US has a clear and compelling interest in strong encryption, and especially in protecting US encryption systems used by our government, our citizens, and people around the world from defeat. But the assumption that the only alternatives are either universal strong encryption, or wholesale and deliberate weakening of encryption systems and/or "backdoors", is a false dichotomy.

Dude, you're the liar, not me, even if it is only to yourself. Your mind is shut like a trap. The relativism is strong with you. Watching you deny it is pure entertainment. Your lesser evil bullshit doesn't fly. You are merely playing both sides for profit, that's how the game works. There is no "moral" judgement being made. That's just something you wish for, but it ain't happening. Do try to get that nonsense out of your head and realize that this is business and nothing but. Maximal profit is the singular goal, well, that and keeping the competing Russian and Chinese "investors" out of the way. And in that regard, you should be most pleased with the President's (and Hillary's) performance... A nice simple graph shows what it's all about, and yet here you are, playing your little charade, trying to be the *big man*, all huffing and puffing with your little speech there.

By the way, if people do read back up the thread and they are honest with themselves, they will understand perfectly who is the bullshitter. You're just reciting boilerplate propaganda throughout. I do like your style though, a real fighter... feisty! The most rudimentary studies document perfectly your real nature that you reveal so, um, eloquently right here, You're a combination of Archie Bunker and Jerry Falwell, correction, you are merely a follower.

Your lack of understanding of what US intel is currently doing is hilarious.

So you're saying we saw Paris coming, but just didn't bother to tell the French? Or we've caught all the people leaking NSA/CIA information (other than Snowden, the one guy who came out and admitted what he did and that this crap goes on all the time). Of course, we're pretty good at catching Chinese spies. Because they have Chinese names.

Some Christians certainly are evil

KAMPALA, Uganda — Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” homosexuals have been widely discredited in the United States, arrived here in Uganda’s capital to give a series of talks.

The theme of the event, according to Stephen Langa, its Ugandan organizer, was “the gay agenda — that whole hidden and dark agenda” — and the threat homosexuals posed to Bible-based values and the traditional African family.

For three days, according to participants and audio recordings, thousands of Ugandans, including police officers, teachers and national politicians, listened raptly to the Americans, who were presented as experts on homosexuality. The visitors discussed how to make gay people straight, how gay men often sodomized teenage boys and how “the gay movement is an evil institution” whose goal is “to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity.”

Now the three Americans are finding themselves on the defensive, saying they had no intention of helping stoke the kind of anger that could lead to what came next: a bill to impose a death sentence for homosexual behavior.

This was just business as usual, nothing new.

Uganda is set to pass new anti-gay legislation with provisions calling for the execution of gay people under some circumstances. The rumor of the death penalty clause being removed seems grossly exaggerated. Dr. Warren Throckmorton, who has followed the legislation closely, indicates that some Western media are erroneously reporting that the death penalty clause has been removed. He writes that "the bill is the same bill it has always been. It cannot be amended until the committee report is presented to the floor of the Parliament." Even with the amendment the legislation remains a gross travesty of justice.

The "intellectual" fuel for this grotesque law came from Christian fundamentalists in the United States. According to The New York Times:

Much of Africa's anti-homosexuality movement is supported by American evangelicals, the Rev. Kapya Kaoma of Zambia wrote in 2009, who are keen to export the American "culture war" to new ground. Indeed, American evangelical Christians played a role in stirring the anti-homosexual sentiment that culminated in the initial legislation in Uganda.

Of course, it's also right at home in the US as well. Earlier this yesr:

California proposal to legalize killing gays hard to stop

A California initiative proposal is testing the limits of free speech. Lawyer Matt McLaughlin wants to authorize the killing of gays and lesbians. Yet legal experts say the state’s attorney general can’t block it.

McLaughlin’s plan refers to “buggery” or “sodomy” as “a monstrous evil that Almighty God, giver of freedom and liberty, commands us to suppress on pain of our utter destruction even as he overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.” Under the proposal, “... any person who willingly touches another person of the same gender for purposes of sexual gratification (would) be put to death by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method.”

Anyone transmitting “sodomistic propaganda” to a minor would be fined $1 million per offense, and/or imprisoned up to 10 years, and/or expelled from California for up to life. It would ban lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, or those who espouse sodomistic propaganda, or who belong to any group that does, from serving in publ

Yesterday Marco Rubio equates all muslims to nazis and he's cheered for it.

Video: http://youtu.be/RVCip5B8P6c

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, arguing that the United States is "at war with radical Islam," sharply criticized Hillary Rodham Clinton for declining to characterize the perpetrators of the Paris attacks in that way, invoking Nazi Germany to make his point.

"That would be like saying we weren't at war with Nazis, because we were afraid to offend some Germans who may have been members of the Nazi Party but weren't violent themselves," Mr. Rubio said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

http://www.nytimes.com/politic...

they would sign up for the military and go bust some rear

You're assuming that the military is actually busting some rear.

I am very much underwhelmed with the progress being made by our military.

As an example, I would like to know why it's only now that the US attacks the oil trucks smuggling oil out of IS held territory when we have known for at least a year that this is how they generate the majority of their revenue.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11...

Article from Jan 4 discussing the funding of IS:
http://www.economist.com/blogs...

I saw this movie.... it doesnt end well!

The apes are actually American niggers and thanks to welfare and SJW bleeding heart liberals they out-breed us all with each morbidly obese single mother having at least seven or eight fatherless gangsta thug bastard babies and soon the once proud nation is reduced to a bunch of hulking apes screeching at each other, pointing guns sideways for some stupid fucking reason, throwing gang signs, and hitting each other with sticks!

Isn't it strange the way Detroit didn't go straight to hell in every imaginable way until after it was over 80% black and you had nigger voters voting for nigger leaders and nigger community organizers crying about any effort to improve the city calling it "gentrification"?

Starting with Babylon every single nation that tried multi-culturalism ended up sorely regretting it. But hey, fuck facts, fuck history, we have a political agenda to feel good about, that's what really fucking matters!

Oh did you know that white folks living near the Mississippi River have experienced massive flooding a lot like what happened to New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina? This didn't make major news even though it has happened more than once. Why? Because when that happens to white people they band together and help each other and they pull through. They don't all go ape-shit, loot everything, pillage everyone, and have total fucking lawlessness where even the fucking cops are doing the looting and rioting too. So you see it's not considered newsworthy in any national sense. "If it bleeds, it leads" as the news people say. Isn't that odd the way white people act civilized when disaster strikes and black people really show us how savage they can be as usual? Coincidence I am sure.

That majority black people do this to other majority black people is OBVIOUSLY because of white racism, somehow, even though this goes completely against the well-established social dynamic of "us against them" proven again and again by sociology, because even though it's demonstrably false, that failed idea fits the libtard narrative of "blacks as victims" and certainly never "hold blacks responsible for the choices they make, just like whites, because that would be true equality". Just like feminists want women to be equal, oh, except for that Selective Service/draft thing, no they don't want to be quite THAT equal, thanks. We're supposed to pretend not to notice such "inconsistencies" in their philosophies, of course.

If anyone is offended by this post and has the guts to actually talk about it instead of blindly hating me for the way I use my free speech, I challenge you with this: name just one majority-black city you would like to relocate to. Detroit, Harlem, South Central are a few good candidates.

I thought Bin Laden was holding it for them?

Pornography Is Found in Bin Laden Compound Files, U.S. Officials Say

Actually Senator Ted Kennedy had problems with airport security and had difficulty boarding flights. If you weren't a senator, I don't know how well the process would work to clear your name. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08...

The claims of WMDs came from someone on the ground in Iraq, someone whom is believed to have been a member of Saddam's Revolutionary Guard. It's even possible that such existed and were moved to (thoughts were/are) Syria. It's also possible that it was a lie. It's also possible that the powers that be believed it to be unreliable intelligence. Except...

There were, indeed, WMDs in Iraq. The narrative that such did not exist is odd. We have search engines. It's pretty easy to find a LOT of information concerning this. Here is one such link - if you'll accept Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

For some additional reading (those injured by chemical weapons during the Iraq War) then I find this to be a fairly well balanced article:
http://www.nytimes.com/interac...

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

“At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything about it,” the Marine’s father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012. He urged his son to tell his superiors. “My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it’s their culture.”

When was the last time a Christian, a Jew, or an atheist flew a plane into a building full of people while praising their God? Fuck them. This shit keeps happening over and over again, and every single time some idiot comes out and starts telling everyone that "they're not all like this". I don't care. A sufficient percentage of them I so ass backward that we need to do something about all of them at this point.

The Christians, Jews and European atheists don't have to fly planes into buildings, they can just drop bombs.

The last time? How about this one:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11...

Mr. Hollande actively stepped up French participation in the military air campaign at the end of September. Just last week, France attacked oil operations under the Islamic State’s control in Syria. On Oct. 8, it conducted a targeted strike against militants in Raqqa, Syria, apparently targeting Salim Benghalem, a French citizen fighting for the Islamic State.

Frenchies are so far gone into liberal la-la-land that they'll probably find a way to blame themselves for the attacks. That's why they need American soldiers to stop attacks for them. The Frenchies were probably too busy running up to the terrorists apologizing.

Target not K-Mart.
"...some useful patterns emerged. Lotions, for example. Lots of people buy lotion, but one of Pole’s colleagues noticed that women on the baby registry were buying larger quantities of unscented lotion around the beginning of their second trimester. Another analyst noted that sometime in the first 20 weeks, pregnant women loaded up on supplements like calcium, magnesium and zinc. Many shoppers purchase soap and cotton balls, but when someone suddenly starts buying lots of scent-free soap and extra-big bags of cotton balls, in addition to hand sanitizers and washcloths, it signals they could be getting close to their delivery date."

"Constitutional rights? Bah! Who needs 'em!" seems to be the watchword of the new millenium.

Yep, if events in academia is any guide, the First Amendment rights — including the reporters' right to observe and record the newsworthy events — is done for.

The gun nuts get everything they want.

False. Although the Bill of Rights clearly calls weapon-possession a right, it is treated as a mere privilege even in the most Liberal locales: you must have a government's permission to keep and bear. And even where such a permission is reasonably easy to obtain, it can also be withdrawn by the Executive at a drop of a hat — without Judiciary's participation.

And not just guns — various States and cities take an even dimmer view of the Constitutionally-protected arms like knives, swords, and brass-knuckles.

And I am supposed to accept your verdict based on what evidence? Your say-so?

Based on the facts that
- Russia is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists

- Russia has one of the lowest press freedom indices in the world

- There is a clampdown taking place in Russia on all independent media
- there are confirmed "Troll Factories" in Russia spreading lies and propaganda on social media across the world

Really, I could provide 500 other sources on all that's wrong with Russian media, but frankly I'm getting tired of fiddling with the A HREF's.

But let me guess, you're Russian (or from a Russian-friendly nation, such as Serbia) and you consume your news mainly from Russian sources?