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1. Actually, the racists in Alabama almost closed the DMV. Kinda hard to go when they try to shut it down.

2. Nope, you don't care about voter fraud, you just used it to pass a voting discrimination act targeted at minorities. Sorry pisspot, you got caught and nobody believes you. Bing "Running the Idiot Tailors out of Town"

I dislike the disposable culture of today, given that we cannot infinitely replace old electronics with a finite supply of building materials.

As long as you can live with the knowledge that your miserly tendencies are cheating a 25th Century landfill miner out of rare earth elements.

Soviet Famine killed millions
Chinese famine killed millions
Venezuela's communist system is failing them now just like the USSR's system went belly up.
Communist Vietnam has almost no human rights

I could go on, but I think this is sufficient to disprove your bullshit.

Umm.. did you not see the outcome of the last list of sanctions that we applied to Russia? It's devastated their economy. Sanctions on Iran brought them in line to negotiate on nuclear capabilities. Sanctions on North Korea has all but slowed their economy to a halt, requiring them to depend on foreign aid, preventing all-out war..

In case you forgot: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontl...

They're huge and fragile.

The British air force in WWI had a very difficult time taking down German Zeppelins that were bombing their cities with impunity for two and a half years. It was only the invention of the incendiary round, combined with the use of hydrogen as the lifting gas, which eventually made them vulnerable targets. If Germany had adequate supplies of helium, the Zeppelins might be remembered as invulnerable terror weapons like the V2 rockets are.

What is he doing RIGHT NOW that is corrupt? You do realize that conflict of interest laws apply different to POTUS, right? I would love to hear what you and your mods think he has done RIGHT NOW that is corrupt.

Are you denying what was in those emails? Do you think the collusion between the DNC, MSM, and Clinton campaign are just republican conspiracies? Do you think the pay to play policies of the Clinton Foundation were jokes?

> The electric vehicle has been recognized as central to the future of mobility,
> and GM has been a leader, making EVs accessible to the broader market.

GM? Leader? EVs? Accessible? I can't believe he said that with a straight face.

Talk about having a short memory about GM and Electric Vehicles. He's never seen Who Killed Electric Car.

As noted by this respected institution....

Behind a white hearse circling the cemetery and to the sounds of a bagpiper rolled a line of EV1s, their devoted drivers taking a literal last ride in the cars they had leased from GM. Many extinct cars continue to exist as collectors’ treasures; in rust-free California, for example, such evolutionary casualties as Edsels, Corvairs and Studebaker Avantis tool down freeways. But the EV1, an innovatively engineered attempt to jump-start GM’s 21st century, will never again be driven by loyal fans. Although some 1,100 of the vehicles were produced since 1996 and leased to drivers in California and Arizona, almost all were destroyed once the leases ran out. For many of the lessees, this was a tragedy. As one owner wrote in an open letter to GM CEO Rick Wagoner, “...the EV1 is more than a car, it’s a path to national salvation.”

Replying to the false narrative Russia keeps putting out:

I guess they would be defending Crimea and other Russia territory from attacks over the border.

There was nothing to defend since it isn't their territory. It's Ukrainian soil and Ukraine wasn't attacking Russia, let alone even threatening Russia.

However, since the Russian invasion and occupation of Crimea there has been wholesale arrests of Crimean Tartars, the television, radio and other Tartar news sources have been shut down, and their businesses stolen.

Got Crimea back,

There was nothing to get back. It wasn't Russia's to begin with.

got involved in Syria and seems to have resolved it

By deliberately bombing hospitals and civilians, yes, that is one way.

and installed his choice of leader in the White House.

Agreed. Putin did a fantastic job on the gullible rednecks in the U.S. which shows how far this country has sunk.

while removing sanctions and doing deals to boost the Russian economy.

Also agreed. That is what Russia needs most right now because with oil prices still being low, Russia just might run out of money in the coming year. We know the sanctions have been have been having an effect so Putin had to do whatever he could to make sure Hillary Clinton didn't get in since she would have increased sanctions as well as possibly provide military support to Ukraine.

He doesn't have to give up his business interests according to law or at least it is an unknown whether he has to or not. Although, if he wants to limit criticism from both sides he should... but conflict of interests laws apply different to POTUS because the only thing limiting POTUS is emoluments clause which has not been used to this extent for a president or interpreted the way you imply by any court let alone the SCOTUS.

It is a legal issue that should be challenged but not by the court of public opinion. It is a constitutional matter that has no precedent.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru...

In reality, however, we see that abortions are dropping.

The Little Sisters of the Poor were just picking a legal fight rather than admit they used the coverage let doing more to actually help the poor who they are supposed to serve. Apparently filling out paperwork is so onerous, they'd rather pay a bunch of lawyers. To waste time. Even the Supreme Court punted.

The GOP was given everything they had wanted in healthcare reform, yet refused to get behind their own plan. Now they're stuck with years of repeal calls, but they can't afford to deliver. And they have nothing to counter offer.

No, there really isn't. It's hard to get good statistics for the number of gay/trans people in the US, but of the ethnicities, only Hispanics are underrepresented. Statistics on Hollywood characters can be found here, and statistics on the demographics of the US can be found here (though the comparison is a bit confused, as hispanic != not-white, so I don't know what the PBS numbers consider as hispanic vs white).

Which means the economy will falter as it usually has when Republicans control both the White House and Congress.

Your link shows he kept 46% of promises and compromised on 26% of them. Furthermore, if you read through the list of recently-rated promises, you'll notice that politifact stretches pretty far to give him a positive rating, particularly on the compromise ones.

A particular favorite of mine:

Restrict warrantless wiretaps

Update November 18th, 2016: Some limits on warrantless wiretaps but loopholes remain

Note also that the full list of promises omits several key items, not the least of which was the promise for transparency, which has obviously been broken.

TOTALLY AGREE. As an ex-military NCO with top secret security clearance - requiring quarterly briefings and signed documents attesting to your understanding of the responsibilities and penalties - I am fully aware of the offenses and penalties for abridging the classified document handling procedures.
INTENT is NOT a requirement, only that it HAPPENED by the person's personal choice and their own volition.
THIS, along with being a well-entrenched part of the 'establishment', is what cost "Hillary - dillary - can't touch me - I'm a politician, a lawyer, and I'm rich" the election, even though the choice was an agonizing one of the 'known devil' vs the 'perceived devil'.

Take a trip down memory lane with the following: (some pro, many con'vict')
http://rense.com/general80/hop...
http://www.wnd.com/2000/04/447...
http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...
https://peterfrancisgeracilaw....
https://www.truthorfiction.com...
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/...
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/20/...
http://www.politico.com/story/...
http://conservativeamerican.or...
http://www.theatlantic.com/pol...

Americans have made their choice, whether through the electoral college or the basic raw vote count - - - being tilted a bit in Hillary's favor, but with the small margin still showing an inherent distrust of the entrenched 2-party system - either side is the same, just a bit different on the talking points - - - basically, the same old shit !

News reports already seem to indicate that president-elect Trump is willing to accept new information and alter his 'campaign promises __LOL__ ' in order to get down to the actual business of running the country.

A good chunk of the exclusion zone is to the southeast of the reactor. The winds on the day of the accident were primarily to the northwest. Radiation levels in the southern portion of the zone are only slightly higher than natural background, and about the same as some of the more naturally radioactive cities on Earth. Most people don't realize that Ukraine's capitol of Kiev is only about 100 km southeast of Chernobyl.

Some elderly people have been allowed to move back into this portion of the zone, but it's still kept part of the exclusion zone out of an abundance of caution. I think it should be kept undeveloped because this is a great experiment on the long-term effects of a nuclear accident on wildlife (both flora and fauna), and the results could be very insightful for determining the effects of radiation on humans. There's very little data on long-term exposure to low levels of radiation. Right now we simply take the effects of high doses of radiation on people, and extrapolate it as a straight line down to zero assuming that if a lot is bad, then a little is also bad. The early research coming out of the Chernobyl exclusion zone seems to contradict this. Slightly elevated levels of radiation actually seem to make animals healthier than normal background radiation (though it could just be that they're not bothered by people). (source)

This makes the game even more realistic.

What other parts of the Constitution is it time to 'get rid of'???

The first amendment, apparently. Maybe a little of the second amendment. The pesky fourth still needs some trimming, and the fifth gets in the way of mandatory death sentences. Since we're making edits, why not tweak the sixth amendment too?

The allegedly-violated itself obviously violates the First Amendment and is thus invalid.

It is both unconstitutional, which should be enough in theory, and ineffective in practice — quite obviously, the interracial relations in this country continue to stink despite (or because of?) our having a half-Black President.

Whatever it was we tried for over 50 years to achieve racial harmony, is not working. Let's stop sacrificing actual rights to it...

Well apparently Trump and his supporters aren't high school level then.

Trump does poll well with the uneducated.

Well, these things are all true today. Next year, who knows?

Trump threatens to weaken First Amendment protections for reporters

Donald Trump vows to "open up" libel laws to make suing the media easier.

"With me, they're not protected, because I'm not like other people. We're gonna open up those libel laws, folks, and we're gonna have people sue you like you never got sued before."

and that this will occur before a sufficiently large asteroid hits Earth

So, these countries are wasting their money planning to destroy or deflect it then?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/n...
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/b...

Good catch on the water injection connection. Water injection, or water flooding, was a process developed in the late 1800's in Pennsylvania, but it did not become mainstream until the late 1920's. The purpose is usually to get the well to produce more. Injection increases well pressure and more oil can be released from a given site.

As you noted, a side effect is that pressure in the underground chambers in maintained using water injection so the risk of massive earthquakes from chamber collapse is reduced.

However, crude oil is much more viscous than water is. underground reservoirs that will hold oil for millions of years won't hold water as well. That water will more likely drain from the areas that would hold the oil. Because the water is less viscous it can flow through permeable layers of rock that oil could not. There is good evidence that this causes many, much smaller tremors. Water injection probably prevents the big collapses that lead to big deadly quakes, but seem to trade it for many smaller quakes.

There are some theories that water injection 'lubricates' fault lines leading to quakes. I think the evidence based jury is still out on that one. This article points to evidence of a few large quakes in areas of heavy drilling in an era before water injection became common. The Oklahoma evidence shows many small quakes in an area where water injection was heavily used. These both theorize the same reason for the quakes, destabilization of structures after the removal of oil. One quickly and catastrophically, the other spread out over time as water flow regulated the rate of destabilization.

However, Southern California is an area of known tectonic activity. The quakes there could have been unrelated, or only partly related to drilling.Oklahoma is pretty stable. Residents of South Eastern Missouri, along the New Madrid fault line, experience plenty of small quakes. But Oklahomans used to worry more about tornadoes than earthquakes. If the Huntington Beach type earthquakes had happened in Oklahoma back in the 1920's, before water injection, I'd say this guy should get a Nobel Prize in Geology (if it were a thing).

Absentee voting should only be allowed for military people who are on deployment. The moment you let people vote other than in-person,you have no way of knowing if they are the actual persons casting the votes. Every election cycle, thousands of people in nursing homes and hospitals are "helped" (without supervision) to cast their votes. Social Security currently claims there are 6 million Americans over the age of 112 and as John F Kennedy and LBJ proved, dead people can win elections - even CBS news admits the dead ares still voting in Los Angeles

The only way to have honest elections is to have people cast votes in-person, with ID, and on hard copy documents. There is no legitimate aregument against that - it's not like the supposedly racist photo ID requirement has deprived minorities of the right to drink beer...

Any effort to let people vote out of sight from poll watchers, without ID, and/or without a paper trail are really just efforts to enable fraud. California is a perfect example: the state has enabled all sorts of attacks on traditional voting (they now even give driver's licenses to illegal aliens which are contrary to federal law that requires any drivers ID given to non-citizens to be significantly visually different from that given to citizens) and now there is no way to ID or stop the voter fraud and frankly the Democrats who dominate the state benefit from it and will never reign it in; they used it all to create a one-party state.

It's all probably part of a conspiracy to restart the astrospies program.

No, I'm refusing to take the bait you're trying to use to change the subject, as a way to distract from the fact she only avoided indictment because of political support from the administration.

Nope, you're refusing to address a serious problem, and making a tedious excuse for your refusal to do the right thing. Yet it was a subject you brought up.

Why do you lack the courage to denounce an actually abusive system, so badly that you immediately start to retract your support for your own statement?

Did you not realize someone would notice what you said, and support you? Are you afraid that you'll be subject to criticism for taking on a sacred cow?

Regardless, not a SINGLE person in the US military is there but for having volunteered to be there.

Indeed, the rich and privileged have managed to end conscription, leaving themselves free to benefit, without risk of paying the price. And there are still concerns about lying recruiters, and even targeting of the impoversished for recruitment.. Recent editorial on conscription. Which is why there are severe questions about the prosecution of individuals in the military, since it is not representative of the public, which leads to abuse, since nobody cares about them.

And then there's Trump's proposals.

So needless to say, these are some serious issues, and you should treat them with a modicum of consideration, not attempt to ignore them.

The UCMJ is publicly available to read before you decide to start taking a paycheck and benefits from the DoJ, and nobody - NOBODY - is even a little bit foggy on whether or not being in uniform and carrying around weed are compatible. Anyone in uniform who's too dumb to know that should be in the brig just for being that dumb.

Which would be one thing except For all the shit it has lead to happening. I'd rather they smoke weed than commit suicide to be honest.

It's ok, you can continue to stick your head in the sand and ignore the problem. You can do that. Totally.

You shouldn't. But you can.

Both military and civilian government employees who work with the clearances to handle classified material are subject to the same rules.

Nope, different rules and protocols. Was true even when it was Francis Gary Powers, who absolutely was not working for the DOD, absolutely not. And of course, there are severe problems with that system, as came up in a story the other day.

And then there was the story about misuse of databases by individuals engaging in personal affairs. Which is another problem that gets ignored.

Any involvement of the military in Hillary Clinton's prosecution would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.

Whew! It's a good thing you made that counterpoint to an argument nobody is having with you.

You're the one bringing it up, when it's meaningless what would be done under the UCMJ to someone who isn't subject to it anyway. Now something meaningful is the treatment of individuals to injustice under the UCMJ. You brought that up, but the swerved away from it.

It's a hot-potato, I'll grant you, but if you're brave, you can handle it. Right?

The problem isn't ITT, it's that people think some school (or ANYONE ELSE) will make you successful.

You make yourself successful. Only you.

Wrong.
Watch this: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontl...

The problem is the for-profit "schools" who:
- Admit *anyone* with a pulse, regardless of qualifications.
- Charge tuition that is multiple times what a real school charges.
- Do crap like sending nursing students to a Scientology museum and call it "clinical hours". (They graduated w/o ever being in a hospital).

I consider myself an exact opposite of a neocon, being fairly liberal, but I too have watched Russia's behavior under Putin with grave concern. The Frontline documentary, Putin's Way offers a glimps of the man and it isn't pretty. The former KGB agent is up to his eyeballs in corruption in a way mafia bosses could only dream of. What I find frightening is that Russia will basically run out of funds in the near future. His reaction to the resulting meltdown will not be pretty.

I found out that WM who said that they recycled local, does not. They send it all to China.

Nothing you've said support- your previous claims at all. You're still completely fabricating what you imagine happens on the other end.

The reality, meanwhile is that entire industries are built around salvaging working equipment out of the e-waste stream.

Godson, one of the e-waste dealers who have set up shop close to the port, shows the contents of the container he has bought.

He sorts through them looking for working electronics that can be sold. He says that maybe 50 percent of the shipment is junk and the rest he will be able to salvage in some way.

Hard drives that can be salvaged are displayed at open-air markets.
The drives are purchased for the equivalent of US$35.
http://www.pbs.org/frontlinewo...

That's mostly myth it was mostly done because the school buildings were too hot it the summer before air conditioning and it hurt attendance.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/up...

You asked "why?"

why did UK, run by a Left wing government run by Tony Blair, back that?

1. Because warhawks are warhawks, and allies are allies, regardless of party affiliation. After 9/11, Europe sympathized with the US.

everybody's intelligence agencies seemed to suggest that Saddam had chemical and/or biological weapons

2. Actually, the intelligence agencies didn't suggest this. The politicians claimed that the intelligence agencies said this, but they really didn't. The agencies don't really speak publicly, they speak through the elected officials that they report to. We now know that what they told the president and prime minister isn't the same as what the president and prime minister said publicly.

For example: We now know that for example, at the time that George W. Bush gave a speech about the supposed "yellow cake uranium," that he knew it was falsified evidence but proceeded with the speech anyway. The UK did the same thing, leading up to the invasion, asking BBC reporters to basically make-up phony facts.

If you look back at the evidence, it was clear that the evidence was being used to justify an already decided-upon conclusion. For example: The UK and US cited a shipment of aluminum tubes as evidence that Saddam Hussein was developing nuclear weapons. It turns out that the tubes were used for the much more mundane purpose of rockets. If you saw an aluminum tube that could be used for rockets or nuclear weapons, and you knew the country was developing rockets, why would you assert that these tubes are evidence of nuclear weapons? Certainly, it is possible. But they didn't present it as "well, it was probably used for rockets, but maybe it is for nukes (shrug)." It was presented as "OMG This is proof that they are developing nukes!" A lie of omission is still a lie.

You asked "Why?" It is important to understand why. It is because well-intentioned people can sometimes lie to support what they believe is right. The populus and the media in particular, must be vigilant against such things. The New York times, has since, apologized for being the white house's mouthpiece.

As a matter of fact, I do remember Katherine Harris.

My condolences then, I've tried to forget her.

She followed the letter of the law in the matter you alluded to and as a Florida resident I would not call that fraud.

Nope, she interpreted the law to suit her own political interests by certifying the election before the legally requested recounts were completed, and yes, she did abet in voter disenfranchisement as well.

I don't know, maybe Florida law specifically allows an inaccurate list for removing voting eligibility, it's possible, but I can't say I would call that commendable.

And I don't believe that interpreting a law in way that violates a campaign's request for a recount when that is allowed is reasonable either.

Please provide a time frame and specifics for your allegations.

I'd suggest all times when Katherine Harris was in office, any kind of office. But she's out of office now, so it'd be pointless.

You'd do better to spend your efforts making sure the same things aren't done again.

Still, if you want to look up her voter purge, you can, and you can look at her actions after the 2000 election as well.

Election rigging is a serious matter and a valid complaint should be investigated thoroughly.

That's true. But 16 years on is a bit late to start.

A complaint made on a web site cannot be properly evaluated. Florida statutes spell out what steps to take for cases of voter fraud.

Oh please, even the failure of the Florida Legislature to follow the legal requirements that the voters imposed of them for redistricting won't be investigated, let alone their numerous other failures.

You obviously weren't paying attention to the court cases during the election where Katherine Harris was involved. Are you a Florida resident who was disenfranchised or were you just upset because your candidate did not prevail in the election?

Actually, you weren't paying attention to the level of politicization involved. Did you notice how it was Katherine Harris's party that benefited from her decisions?

All of them. Like I mentioned above, it started BEFORE election day.

I don't doubt she'd have acted entirely differently if it suited her interests in selecting George W. Bush for President.

I suppose the only saving grace was that she didn't play the long game, which ultimately destroyed her further political hopes. If she'd actually taken the course of purported principle, and not picked the candidate she was already supporting, but instead demanding a thorough examination as to the facts, she could have made herself look like a hero, and bilked that for tons of bipartisan support by appearing to be a just person. Even Republicans wouldn't have attacked her, since she could have used that to elevate her own status.

But she picked a course that ultimately caused her political career to dead-end. All she got was a House seat, and even then, she was hardly there for long.

She's even less of a noise in the political sphere than Sarah Palin. So net gain in that regard.

Perhaps you should look at the FDA yourself. It has always been an agency that regulates what you put in your body. Food and Drug Administration? Does your current device, in fact, warn you that you are using nicotine and the potential health effects? All nicotine products are currently regulated by the FDA and must warn users that they are using nicotine. What about any other chemical present in the liquid like ethylene glycol which is toxic? Does your product tell you anything about what is in it?

Actually, there has been some research done. Then there is simple logic. Ecig vapor contains nothing not also contained in cigarettes. It also does not contain a number of harmful things that cigarette smoke does contain. That doesn't prove safety in an absolute sense, but it does strongly suggest less harm than cigarettes.

Some research does not mean ALL questions have been answered. One study did not definitely prove that smoking increased risk of cancer; it took many studies. For sure less smoke means less chance of second-hand smoke effects. Vaping is not and will never been harmless. At best it might be is it not as deadly as cigarettes.

Otherwise, yes, LiIon batteries can have problems. Sounds like a job for the FTC, not the FDA. Though the ecigs these days (other than the crappy ones on TV) have switched to LMR batteries which are far less likely to have a problem. The cellphones have not because LMR batteries are larger and they want thin phones for some reason.

When something is to be ingested or inhaled, that is the jurisdiction of the FDA. The FTC would get involved if your laptop exploded unless you inhale your laptop for some unknown reason.

Interestingly, the way the FDA crafted it's restrictions, those entirely inadequate devices where the battery is in the airstream will be permitted under a grandfather clause. It is the safer and more effective devices where the battery is completely isolated that the new regulations will block.

So what you're saying is that going forward the FDA crafted rules so the NEW things will have to follow rules and some things are grandfathered. Yet you still had outrage about their "overreach". I see.

You may find it interesting that there exist ejuices that contain no nicotine whatsoever. Nothing at all derived from tobacco. According to the FDA, it is somehow still a tobacco product.

Nicotine. The key term here is nicotine.

1) Having a flash card is not a crime 2) Having a flash card concealed is not a crime 3) Having a flash card concealed that contains porn is not a crime 4) Possession of child porn is a crime. ...."Whether it’s child porn, terrorism intelligence, narcotics or financial crimes information, "...

You make a blind false *blanket* accusation, which you then use to justify a blanket fishing expedition, which you occasionally catch a criminal. Your dog cannot sniff out child porn, terrorist intelligence, data on narcotics, or data on financial crimes. You just haven't been stopped in your random searches yet, and you hope by marketing this miracle dog the courts won't take action.

Either:

a) You are a liar doing blanket searches and occasionally catching someone. b) You are hiding parallel construction (i.e. being given evidence illegally obtained by mass surveillance and then using a dog to conceal the source of that evidence to fool the courts). c) You pick a victim and set the dog on them, this has been done in drugs cases where the dog is used to sniff around cars and signalled to give a bark which is then used as excuse to justify a search you already decided you wanted to make.

I recall this: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru...

A Korean man was stopped at the border, his laptop cloned and searched for evidence while he was detained for hours (missing his flight).. 'on a hunch'. They had a hunch he might have data on illegal sales of exports.... on a hunch.... and lo and behold they found some evidence on that hunch.

The court was not fooled and suppressed the evidence. There was no way an expensive forensic data search was done on a hunch. It was likely parallel construction to conceal a previous illegal hack or search.

"Your honor, the terms of usage clearly state that I do not own this child porn, I merely have a license to use it".

The issue, and what separates her situation from that of Colin Powell, is that she used that server for both personal and official email exchanges.

http://www.pbs.org/weta/washin...

Than George W. Bush during his presidency? Yes, they are. Sure Republicans these days manage to stay right of Democrats but if you consider their policy on Muslims even Bush would be a pinko commie liberal compared to them.

I presume "they" who were burning Israeli flags were the liberal protestors the actual Democrat officials was giggling at and trying to ignore. Both parties have slid way to the right, to the point where neither party is recognizable.

Now you have a bunch of activist judges making legal leaps and declaring Voter ID illegal not because it's against the Constitution, but because it "unfairly affects minorities".

It's not the voter ID that's against the Constitution, dumbshit. It's the "unfairly affects minorities" part.

http://www.politico.com/story/...

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

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontl...

You will notice that states that enacted these strict voter ID laws still allow absentee ballots. The Federal courts might not have decided against these states if Republican officials in those states didn't come out and flat admit that they were passing these laws to keep minorities from voting

http://billmoyers.com/2014/10/...

http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...

But I'm sure the new excuse for these statements is that they were being "sarcastic". That's what Republicans say now when they get their tongues caught in a zipper.

Be sure to have sub-games within the game. Nuclear war might break out, wiping out civilization. Never short on ego, the story of man must be told, whether or not there is anyone left to watch it. You get to write the story of man, broadcast as an endlessly repeating series of cartoons from the Mars Orbiter.

An example broadcast - It's the 1970's again, an Wiley Coyote is chasing the Roadrunner around the Southwestern U.S. He never quite gets that clever bird, but gives it a try when a package comes from Acme Plowshare Projects Inc containing the nuclear fracking kit. He slides the contraption down a hole but our favorite bird is unphased by the shake and quake.
The segment closes with the roadrunner setting up a roadside stand and selling maps to the Methane Hot Spot. It's very popular with tourists from Porter Ranch.

Nothing like a few good cartoons to memorialize silly things man did, like those Nuclear Fracking experiments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/up...

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pu...

Around the world in 11 days.

Just one look at this guy, and you know Linux was involved somewhere.

Maybe he's a Perl monk?

Around the world in 11 days.

Just one look
at this guy, and you know Linux was involved somewhere.

Maybe he's a Perl monk?

Yeah, go figure, nobody came forward to complain that they were intimidated

I invite you to imagine, David Duke and friends standing in front of a polling place somewhere, pointing a weapon at non-White would-be voters and telling them: "You are about to be ruled by a White man." This is precisely, what happened in Philadelphia.

making the case difficult to impossible

False. Says Wikipedia:

In April 2009 Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer who was serving as a poll watcher at the polling station where the incident occurred, submitted an affidavit at the Department of Justice's request supporting the lawsuit, stating that he considered it to have been the most severe instance of voter intimidation he had ever encountered

The Justice Department has won their case already — and then asked the court to dismiss the default judgment in their favor. Whatever the problem was, it was not the difficulty of actual prosecution.

Meanwhile, others examples of actual voter suppression do exist

Ah, and here we go redefining terms — as if asking for a proof of eligibility is "suppressive". Nice try, but fail...

well as death threats about a Mosque being used as a polling station in Florida.

Completely off-topic.

Funny, how Obama's Justice Department dropped the only voter-intimidation/suppression case documented in recent history — as if that was curtailed by something too...

Yeah, go figure, nobody came forward to complain that they were intimidated, making the case difficult to impossible. And in fact, throughout the history of the act, prosecutions have been rare to non-existent.

Meanwhile, others examples of actual voter suppression do exist, as well as death threats about a Mosque being used as a polling station in Florida.

But heck, even if we pretend all of that isn't a problem, the fact that voter turnout in 2014 was outright abysmal should make everybody take notice.

Back in the day, "Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain" was what Hearst shoved down everyone's throats.

Hearst's papers also documented the Spanish concentration camps in Cuba, which were responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Not only is the Chinese facility twice as large, but the Arecibo telescope's funding is going away. and the NSF is desperately looking for someone to take it over. The NSF's funding has been flat for quite a while, but their expenses are going up and they need to trim programs.

This is all nicely metaphorical of China's rise as the world's major superpower, and the decline of the US. China is pouring huge funding into science and technology, and the US is cutting programs and shutting down major facilities.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 enabled the biggest telecom theft of public dollars in history:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pu...

Essentially, we gave $200 Billion to the telecoms in exchange for fiber connectivity to every residence and business in America. The telecoms took the $200 Billion and gave us - nothing.

Guess who signed the Telecommunications Act? Yep, Hillary's husband - Bill Clinton.

Why should we believe that Clinton 45 will be any better at tech policy than Clinton 42?

The gross profit analysis ignores the cost of cable infrastructure.

I call shenanigans!

Not a convincing argument when the telcoms graciously took $200 billion of taxpayer money to build the infrastructure via the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pu...

We're now called the 'broadband backwater' of the world when compared to S Korea, Japan, etc. who had less time to build faster and cheaper access to the internet.

Also, not convincing when these clowns were recently found by the U.S. Senate of overcharging their customers for years amounting to millions of dollars.

They're all crooks looking to protect their monopoly... mainly by suing community-funded-and-controlled networks from ever being created citing 'unfair' competition!

He exposed programs and technologies that provided real foreign intelligence and were no threat to American citizens.

That's because he doesn't view himself as an American citizen. He is on the record as saying that he's a "Citizen of the World," whatever that means. I rather liked Robert Gates assessment of him, "He said the government has built an institution of oversight over intelligence-gathering for the past 40 years, and there are avenues for people to pursue with the authorities if they believe a law has been broken. Gates said for Snowden to make public his allegations instead “is an extraordinary act of hubris.”

Hubris indeed; a 29 year old decided that he knew better than the hundreds of elected officials that we the people appointed to make these sorts of decisions on our behalf. Nobody elected him or entrusted him with this sort of power, he just took it for himself. Then, as if that wasn't enough, he leaks EVERYTHING, to foreign media. At least Ellsberg leaked to a reputable American media outlet that takes pains to scrub information that would endanger lives. Snowden's media buddies just dumped everything out there without any consideration whatsoever of the consequences.

Then, the final insult, he runs away to a country that stands diametrically opposed to every human right he claims to champion. This happens AFTER he makes himself the story, by outing himself, rather than at least trying to remain anonymous, as Deep Throat did. It speaks to a personality that craves the affirmation of the public spotlight, which brings me back to Secretary Gates' comment about hubris.

I'm not the one who claimed that black-on-black violence is equivalent to poor-on-poor violence.

That's because you're an idiot. Poverty is the cause of crime not race dumbass. In the early 19th century, Irish immigrants were very poor, lived in ghettos, joined gangs and committed acts of violence against other just like impoverished african americans today. The same thing happened with poor Italian immigrants.

Fool me once, shame on Hillary
1980's-1992: Served on board of Walmart, union buster. Nobody there ever heard her support unions.
1990's-early 2000's Hillary: I support my husband's push for NAFTA
Democrat Party supporting Unions: This is (provably) not good for us
2007-2008 Election season Hillary: I think NAFTA was a bad idea and I oppose free trade with Columbia
2007-2008 Hillary supporters: Hillary is allowed to change her mind (sound familiar?)

Fool me twice, shame on me
2011: Emails show she LOBBIED Congress to push for free trade with Columbia, which passed!
2012-2014 Hillary: I'm fully behind the Trans Pacific Partnership (she said this publicly 45 times claiming this is the 'gold standard')
(NOTE AFTER SHE SAID NAFTA WAS BAD!)
Democrat Party supporting Unions: This is not good for us
Sanders said TPP was not good!
2015-2016 Election season Hillary: I'm (now) against the Trans Pacific Partnership

We may have the best doctors in the world, but we have a mediocre healthcare system. Both before and after the start of Obama care. Take a look at the statistics here. Basic measurements of performance are cost and health care outcomes. As to cost we are more than twice the average of other developed nations (OECD) and more than 60% than western European countries. These other countries have a broad range of health care systems including socialized, insurance mandates, private insurance, single payer, tax based and two-tier system. Yet they all perform better than the US for both cost and outcomes.. We have surgery and major test rates double other countries. And over prescription and patent laws drive our pharmacy rates to be double the rest of the western world. If we had great outcomes then I would be happy with the cost, but we have lousy outcomes. We have poor outcomes relative to other western countries as measured by any measure include life expectancy, asthma rates and infant mortality. So both before and after Obama care we have been paying twice as much and getting half the results. Much of this is indeed the system's fault such as the very high number of clerical workers in a US doctor's office to fight with the Byzantine insurance system, the perverse incentive that doctors get paid more for doing too much in a fee for service and the broken way we over pay for patented drugs. One the other hand we as a society have each have some responsibility. How many Americans really make any effort to drop that weight the doctor proscribed they drop? As consumer of health care far too many of us hector our doctors into over prescribing and over aggressive surgery decisions. We must be willing to accept that often the correct prescription is to make changes to our diet and not a prescribe a pill. The effects of the waning smoking epidemic is still working its way through the health care system and it would be interesting to see if the rise in deaths are these folks causing a blip or perhaps it is just the leading edge of the obesity epidemic or even the fallout from over prescribing opiods. I still see a candy jar setting on every admin's desk that gets paid for by the company that is paying for part of the health care cost - how crazy is that? One word of caution with the statistics, they are averages. We have a very uneven societies and this expensive health care is not spread evenly. In the US, the rich over consume health care while the poor put off preventive care until the cost of fixing what would have been a preventable/curable illness become massive. Drug costs for diabetes is a big chunk of health care dollars and most diabetes can be cured with weight loss. Again with an uneven society folks working 50 hours a week flipping burgers and no options for time off for a check-up are set-up to fail. Sure, IT and tech workers spend long hours at work and feel pressure, but few of us would be fired the first time we took an hour off to see a doctor. Yes, as others have said Obama care fixes access, not quality. That quality fix takes no small part of responsibility on our part.