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The current expansion of the Panama canal goes online next year. "New Panamax" ships are 13,000 TEU vs 5,000 for current Panamax ships. All the important East coast ports have already been or a currently being dredged out to accommodate these ships. This was accomplished quickly and quietly beginning in 2012 when Obama exempted the dredging operations from the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act.

Guess they'll be needing another bunch of pencil whipped wavers to dredge out the ports even deeper for the EquadorMax ships, because what China wants China gets.

The way he defines success and failure is framed to say all missile defense fails.

Iron Dome uses a combination of a proximity (radar activited) fuse and fragmentation. Sometimes the interceptor destroys the warhead. Sometimes it causes an explosion of the propellant which destroys the warhead. Sometimes it simply breaks the incoming missile or rocket into segments or destroys its ability to follow its planned ballistic path. According to Lloyd and Postol, if the warhead isn’t destroyed the interceptor failed.

You don’t need a Ph.D. to see the immense flaw in this logic: if someone fires a missile at you and you aren’t hit that is good news.

While his opponent ran on a platform of immigration deadlock, Cantor didn't lose the election because of that. Mitch McConnell was also pro amnesty and even more 'liberal' about immigration than Cantor and he won by a landslide.

Cantor would have lost it to anyone with a little bit of organizational skill. He lost because he got arrogant and stopped paying attention to his constituents. They weren't pissed about immigration, they were pissed because he took them for granted as he played in DC instead of paying attention to his district.

and their toys. Think of how many meals for the homeless than money that he literally threw into the ocean could pay for. His kind is disgusting. He is just doing this so he can brag to his friends about how he is fucking over the world with his waste. In other words, the typical Republican.

Yep...James Cameron is your typical republican: vegan athiest who believes in climate change, and has donated to both republicans and democrats.

Or maybe you meant Eric Schmidt, in which case I'd laugh even harder because you'd be so wrong:
http://www.redstate.com/2013/0...

Somebody explain to me again how private enterprise is just in every way better and more efficient than government?

one word: healthcare.gov

Created by private enterprise on contract.

Who did this?

And this for the lulz
http://www.redstate.com/2013/11/18/healthcare-gov-site-advertising-sql-injection-attacks/

can you imagine a better target than servers holding everyone's tax returns?

Yes, healthcare.gov.

Read in horror: https://www.trustedsec.com/files/CONGRESS_Hearing_HealthCareSEC_FINAL_v1.1.pdf

Or, if you aren't keen on long reading, note that the website actually advertises the fact that it is the target of SQL injection attacks via it's search function: http://www.redstate.com/2013/11/18/healthcare-gov-site-advertising-sql-injection-attacks/

Don't forget:

* The Obama Administration, no doubt with an eye to the 2014 elections, has announced that certain parts of the Affordable Care Act (a/k/a Obamacare) will simply be postponed until after the election. Nothing in the ACA gives this power to the Executive branch.

* President Obama attempted to make "bench" appointments when Congress was still in session. Months later, this one got shot down in the courts.

* The IRS went after political enemies of the Administration. There may or may not have been direct orders from President Obama. (I am not ruling out something along the lines of "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" instead of direct orders.) Not only is selective enforcement of the law illegal, but the IRS released confidential details of some conservative organizations to those organizations' political enemies, which is absolutely illegal with no possible wiggle room.

* Eric Holder's Department of Justice has a history of flouting the law.

I read an article that observed that one of the traditional checks on the power of government is the worry that, when the pendulum shifts and the other party is in power, that the other party might start taking advantage of any precedents you set. The article speculated that the Obama Administration isn't worried about this, as the mainstream media is solidly in Obama's pocket and yet implacably opposed to the Republicans. This leaves the Obama Administration free to do things that would get any Republican a firestorm of horrible publicity.

Fans of Bill Clinton, after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, used to chant "Bush Lied, People Died. Clinton Lied, Nobody Died." Remember that nobody died in the Watergate scandal, and think very hard about the Benghazi scandal. But the mainstream media isn't interested in Benghazi or any of the other scandals, any more than they have to be.

I'm not sure why I bothered to write this as somebody will mod it down to -1 really fast, rather than writing a rebuttal.

Any what?

Security. You claimed there was zero security. He was with a group that had 3 armed guards if I remember correctly; sufficient for personal protection, but not an ambush.

Regarding the request to not spoil the investigation by spilling details:

"The emails, ranging from Sept. 14 to Sept. 15, indicated that CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell requested that references to Al Qaeda, an Al Qaeda linked terrorist group operating in Eastern Libya, and prior terrorist attacks in the area be scrubbed from public talking points--hours before State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland made a similar request, as previously reported."

http://www.redstate.com/mvespa/2013/05/15/cia-requested-al-qaeda-references-be-removed-from-benghazi-talking-points/

As far as birth certificates, the courts generally hold that it's up to a given State to certify births in that State. If you want to complain about O's bc, complain to Hawaii, not O.

Obama trumped the Endangered Species Act to allow our Eastern ports to be dredged for the Super Panamax shipping coming in 2015. Why not for clean energy?

Beating China is easy. Just suspend a few regs, starting with the ESA and exempt 'clean' energy development from pressure group lawsuits.

Instead, our 'clean' energy dies the death of a thousand cuts in courtrooms while you mopes whinge about Republicans and the budget.

Whatever. Suck it. You made it.

It's not economically sensible to ship regular, lower-grade coal for producing electricity all around the world.

This is factually incorrect. Coal used for power generation is called `steam coal' and the recent growth of US coal exports is due to steam coal.

You may expect all of this to accelerate rapidly. As the story points out, met coal is going to China from the East coast the hard way; via the Atlantic, Cape of Good Hope, etc. Our pollution outsourcing and de-industrialization needs are so great that the Panama Canal is being expanded to accommodate much larger ships. Simultaneously we're waving environmental regs right and left to dredge up East coast bays for those ships.

This will all be up and running in 2015.

Once "Super-Post-Panamax" shipping can haul coal from the East Coast to China via the Pacific we'll see huge growth in coal exports and more de-industrialization. Coal going that way and finished goods coming back.

The most prominent cases of SWATing I'm aware of have been carried out against conservative bloggers:

• Aaron Worthing.
• Patterico
• Erik Erickson

Several cases seen to involve people criticizing convicted Speedway Bomber felon (and left-wing activist) Brett Kimberlin.

First of all, there never was a "hole" - a better term would be an "ozone reduction". Its cause remains unknown. There are many theories, and the one exclusively blaming CFC's is made increasingly implausible by recent research, as well as the recent ozone increase. What is known is that the government intervention in banning CFC's had some small negative impact on the quality of life of almost everyone alive today. The effect of the ban on the ozone layer, if any, won't kick in until the CFC particles already released begin to exit the atmosphere many decades from now...

There are many natural cycles that affect this planet and this solar system, and modern science has not been around long enough to measure and fully understand all of them. However "we don't know" is not an acceptable answer to many people - they want a story that sounds good and fits their preconceived political beliefs...

--libman

The same thing happened in New Jersey and New York after Sandy. This time, FEMA joined with the unions. Many people were turned away because they weren't union and wouldn't pay union dues just to work for a few weeks.

http://www.redstate.com/2012/11/07/about-tuesdays-loss-if-the-archangel-michael-were-on-the-ballot-beelzebub-would-still-have-won/

Organization, Organization and more Organization.

Redstate's terrible ad hominem aside, they are correct. The Right is just too dysfunctional to mount an effective campaign. And that's not the Left's fault at all; no one is stopping the Right from putting boots on the ground, or being more precise in GOTV efforts.

It comes down to this, if you can't win when the sitting President has had 8% unemployment for pretty much his whole term, you do NOT deserve to be in charge of ANYTHING. I am glad Obama won, because even if Mitt was "right and just" he and his party are too incompetent to be trusted.

I imagine that their database helped determine who needed a taxpayer-paid-for-lift to the polls. http://www.redstate.com/briansikma/2012/11/06/federal-job-corps-vans-used-to-bus-voters-in-wisconsin/

http://www.redstate.com/2012/11/07/about-tuesdays-loss-if-the-archangel-michael-were-on-the-ballot-beelzebub-would-still-have-won/

Organization, Organization and more Organization.

http://www.redstate.com/2012/10/26/swingometer-gallup-party-id-figures-predict-solid-romney-win/#

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2012/11/05/Why-the-Polls-are-Wrong-Poll-Shows-Electorate-is-R-6

You may think its a cakewalk for Obama.. but I wouldn't bet your life savings.

This has been debunked.

http://www.redstate.com/vladimir/2011/02/27/an-inconvenient-truth-about-gasland/

Just another liberal happy to kill for the cause I suppose. There sure are a disturbing number of you around these days, unwilling to debate and only to destroy.

That's some nice projection you've got going on there. I invite you to visit any number of message boards and count the number of death threats vs. liberals vs. death threats against conservatives and see if it supports your assumption.

--Jeremy

I don't think it's projection when he's posting on a forum with hundreds of posts wishing for Republicans to die. Projection is when your project your own faults onto others who do not have those faults. So, in this case, it is hardly what I'd call "projection".

Next, I challenge you to go to "right wing" sites and find me some death wishes. May I recommend Hot Air, Red State or even News Busters. Now, granted, you will find a few whack jobs out there, but nothing like what you have seen here and nothing like what you may find on Democratic Underground or Daily Kos.

Sorry, but in light of what I've read here, it would appear that you are the one who is projecting.

And that "liberal" Jesus was against sexual deviancy, which includes homosexuality. That's not exactly what I would call a "liberal". Sure, Jesus was a liberal for someone living he first century, but not a liberal by today's standard. You should really clarify that.

Letwin was OS/2's chief architect and one of Gates' most trusted employees at the time. He wrote the book that introduced the operating system to applications developers (now available for a bargain price!).

Here is a Usenet post Letwin wrote in 1995, after it was obvious that OS/2 had lost out to Windows 95 (and eventually NT/2000) in the marketplace.

BTW I also found Letwin in an early group photo of Microsoft (Letwin is second from the right in the middle row). By comparison, here is the photo for Mitt Romney and Bain Capital

Sorry, no. The DOJ filed court documents telling Gibson they need to offshore their jobs:

http://www.redstate.com/aglanon/2011/08/31/doj-advises-gibson-guitar-to-export-labor/ [redstate.com]
CHRIS DANIEL: Mr. Juszkiewicz, did an agent of the US government suggest to you that your problems would go away if you used Madagascar labor instead of American labor?

HENRY JUSZKIEWICZ: They actually wrote that in a pleading.

CHRIS DANIEL: Excuse me?

HENRY JUSKIEWICZ: They actually wrote that it a pleading.

Can you or anyone show this to me? Some type of evidence this is true? If true that would be scandalous headlines I'd think. I'd spread that news, and I'm Not righ twing .

Sorry, no. The DOJ filed court documents telling Gibson they need to offshore their jobs:

http://www.redstate.com/aglanon/2011/08/31/doj-advises-gibson-guitar-to-export-labor/

One possible reason:

http://amerpundit.com/2011/08/27/gibson-guitar-competitor-uses-the-same-wood-but-donates-to-democrats/

however, Romney does not have a good chance, his chances approach zero.

Maybe, but it's still a little early. Regardless, I'm sure Perry would happily say the exact same thing that Romney did; all of today's Republicans believe that corporations are people. And their supporters are dumb enough to believe them.

if the economy is rebounding around election time, it'll be Obama.

I seriously doubt it to be honest, and even if the economy is rebounding I hope he doesn't get re-elected, but instead is replaced with a different Democrat. He's been a terrible president. Just now, he's trying to take away black people's jobs and force them to be outsourced overseas. Why does Obama want black people, the people who supported him the most in 2008, to be forced into unemployment?

What's really disgusting is how no one ever talks about how the people have another option in 2012; they always frame it as Obama vs. the Republican who wins the primaries. Being the President does NOT guarantee that you'll win your own party's primaries; four times before, a sitting President did not, plus LBJ gave up on his re-election campaign when early results showed his popularity to be in the toilet. The Democrats need to elect someone else. Any of the other Dems running in the primaries in 2008 would have made a better President than this guy.

Actually former secretary of homeland security, but the point is still valid:

http://www.google.com/search?q=michael+chertoff
http://www.cov.com/mchertoff/
http://gawker.com/5437499/why-is-michael-chertoff-so-excited-about-full+body-scanners
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Chertoff
http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2010/11/19/michael-chertoff-behind-tsa-pornoscanners/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/23/fear_pays_chertoff_n_787711.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/31/AR2009123102821.html
http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/history/biography_0116.shtm
http://www.americablog.com/2010/11/airport-full-body-scanners-are-made-by.html
http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Chertoff_Michael
etc.

As one of the nation's largest union employers, this bodes well for those who support unions.

This also bodes well for those in the seciton of the Venn diagram who both hate unions and think that AT&T sucks. They have a brand new outlet to scream about how lazy union workers are responsible for AT&T's sucky network and poor customer service and are going to ruin the T Mobile experience.

This came-up in the other Slashdot discussions and I am compelled to post it here too since this misinformation seems to have stuck. Comcast did not put any restrictions on Netflix. Comcast and Level 3 communications (who happens to host Netflix) had a peering agreement, which Level 3 violated. It has nothing to do with freedom, or network neutrality, or Netflix.

Slashdotters talk about the technical merits of the proposals, but the politicians and bureaucrats are talking about something entirely different.

http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2010/11/20/tech-at-night-red-alert/

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1993/10/em368-why-the-fairness-doctrine-is-anything-but-fair

I haven't seen this story posted yet, and it's far too good to pass up.

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/11/18/another-tsa-outrage/

To summarize: 330 soldiers coming back from Afghanistan were flying back to the US. They were carrying (all unloaded) M4 assault rifles, some carrying M9 pistols, and some carrying M-240B machine guns. After flying part of the way back and dropping off 100 soldiers, the TSA decide the rest need to deplane and all need to go through screening again. They find a pair of nail clippers on a soldier, and confiscate them, saying they are a potential weapon.

The soldiers continue on with their unloaded guns and fly on to their destination.

Now really, are the TSA so moronic, that they don't understand the ASSAULT RIFLES could be used as a bludgeon weapon far more effectively then a pair of toenail clippers? I mean, come on, these guys just got back from fighting in the terrorist's safe haven. About the last thing they're going to do is to help the psycho idiots, and yet they confiscate their toenail clippers, and let them continue on with the rifles?

Really?

No, REALLY?

"OK, Rand Paul was witness to his supporters holding down and stomping on a woman."

False. As clearly seen in the video here

http://www.redstate.com/rs_insider/2010/10/27/exclusive-video-lauren-valle-before-the-head-stomp-vid/

He was well clear of the area and moving in a different direction.

"He did not stop it nor denounce it after being pressed on it."

False. He denounced it, and fired the guy from his campaign.

But this is all futile. If there's one thing this entire slashdot thread has made crystal clear, it's that people will believe what they want to believe, and to hell with the truth.

  - Alaska Jack

a guy flew his plane into an IRS building because he didn't want to pay his taxes

True, but that guy was being robbed by an illegal statute that was going to be fixed after the bill was passed. (oh, where have I heard that one before?!)

a christian militia that was allegedly planning on murdering police officers

emphasis mine. And what does being Christian have anything to do with it. I can guarantee, if this group was as malicious as the media make them out to be, all of the Christian sects would stand against their actions.

people screaming threats at e.g., Obama, at conservative/tea party rallies.

Most of the TEA party rallies around the nation are very peaceful, except for the liberals trying to subvert the party. Many of those people are then asked to leave.

I'm glad that the FBI is checking up on these things

Heaven forbid they check on the real terrorists that attempt to blow up their pants on planes, their trucks on streets, or check on personnel that may be psychotic because he is of a certain religion (and are afraid of a profiling charge). Oh, that's right, there is no terrorism, there are no terrorists, and jihad is a legitimate tenet. I will agree with you. I do not want an assassination. It is interesting to note, however, that it is usually the left that are the ones committing the violence. (Don't like those sources, doesn't matter, fact is fact no matter the source.)

After reading the linked article above I got curious as to what exactly the proposed changes were. I had a sneaking suspicion that someone wasn't telling the whole truth and after some searching it turns out that I was right. It seems that Jefferson was never going to be cut from the curriculum and most of the other changes the article mentions (which is based off an AP story) were either over exaggerated or flat out lied about. Here is the real truth: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/joshua-sharf/2010/05/23/have-ap-or-denver-post-actually-read-new-texas-curriculum. This is just another example of how the media is just swallowing the lies the progressive wing is just throwing out there without doing any damn fact checking. Just like how they keep promoting net neutrality as good even though members of the administration have said quite openly that they have every intention of using the legislation to censor content: http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2010/05/20/dont-let-them-tell-you-they-dont-want-to-censor-the-internet/ How does the old saying go? Trust half of what you read and none of what you hear? With this administration that quote has never rung truer.

With the internet primary source material is -very- easy to find and would teach children how to think rather than how to be brainwashed by the Right/Left.

Yeah, there's no way to get brainwashed by the left or the right on the internet.... ;)

threatening a guy who was reporting and pelting the charter buses with eggs

Impressive multitasking! Reporting AND pelting charter buses with eggs! So intentionally causing damage to property whilst recording license plates and such ISN'T threatening, only verbally threatening is? I'm confused! My head spins!

I did search for Kenneth Gladney... I was kinda curious about your description, since most reports I read stated that he is a Democrat-leaning supporter, who happened to be selling merchandise outside a rally. Thugs? Sure. Not sure there was much proof of SEIU involvement, or that it happened "for supporting the Tea Party".

... our Government in the United States forces it's notion of "net neutrality" upon us.

I'll see your [picard_double-facepalm.jpg] and raise you a [picard-riker_double-facepalm.jpg]!

Sorry,I read the linked page and I couldn't find where they were addressing the points made by BadAnalogyGuy. How about this if anthropgenic CO2 is responsible for significant global warming, then why after the CO2 levels have still been rising, there has been No Significant Global Warming for 15 years?

I can't seem to find it on DHS (probably because it's marked for official use only) but both Michele Malkin and Huffington Post have the document online. I highly doubt those two agreed to jointly release a faked version. Incidentally, here's a gem from some dude on Redstate in response to the bit about rejecting Federal authority in favor of state or local control:

Liberals, please note: that includes people who argue that individual states have the right to decriminalize marijuana, permit the sale of raw milk, allow assisted suicide, or recognize same-sex marriages. If you're one of those people, welcome to the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: here's your accordion.

The matter of corporate bonuses is entirely between the managers receiving the bonuses and the shareholders who hire them.

Dude, the shareholders are as pissed off as anybody. The interlocking nature of corporate governance makes it impossible for them to have a real say in this.

Anyway, we're all a little tired of this libertarian ideological lockstep. This idea that private agreements are private business only seems to apply when it's to the benefit of the wealthy and powerful. I'm willing to go along with it most of the time — entrepreneurs needs a lot of freedom to do their thing — but it can't be the last word in all arguments. Right now we're reaching the point where all the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few individuals, and the economy is expected to function solely for their benefit. That's actually a kind of socialism. Not any kind Karl Marx would recognize, but it resembles all the old socialist states where the economies existed solely to benefit a small ruling elite while the economy at large stagnated. The only difference here is that the elite is a collection of private individuals, not some political cadre that waves a red flag. Though, ironically enough, the American right now also waves a red flag.

Besides which, do recall that many of the companies that pay themselves these huge bonuses are begging for government help!

Post it to RedState.

Do they still run on that Communist Open Sores content delivery system?

What do you think of RedState? I'm a liberal, but I found their discussions quite interesting to join in. They are pretty strict about trolling, but on the other hand I was able to join the discussion as long as I was careful and uberpolite about disagreements. (I stopped visiting because my account was deactivated, and while part of my paranoia assumed it was because of my POV, I think actually it was just technical incompetence.)

This was a few years ago, however, and stopping back in it seems they've declined a little -- in particular, they've gone over more to aggressive talking points-defense in the manner of a lot of other sites, left and right.

You obviously think everyone is an idiot.

Some people don't have time to read 8 hours of fucking news every day to meet your standards.

One should take in all sources of news and make up their own minds.

Red as in US GOP or red as in communist?

Lieberman is the right-most leaning Democrat in Congress, comparing the rest of Democrats to him is ridiculous. Especially considering that Connecticut Democrats voted him out for being too conservative. If you really think D's and R's are the same, then you think Tom Delay and John Conyers really have the same policies and voting record?

Go right now and compare, say, Daily Kos, a Democratic blog with Red State, A Republican blog. See the opinions and voices of the people there.

Long story short, if you think Democrats and Republicans are really one and the same, you're either trolling or utterly clueless.

This is the DNC way http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/bre aking_philly_fraud

This more to your liking then? http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/bre aking_philly_fraud

Running out of Fish.

The comments are hilarious, yet insightful.

Not only is the sky falling, the oceans are just emptying right out, too.

It goes beyond the satire of deserving fools in our political system and leans closer to outright hatred of traditional American values and anyone in flyover country.

This is exactly why I (as a eeeeeeeeeeevil American-hating Democrat) can't take seriously any of the supposed Republican leaders, people like you, or members of places like RedState and other conservative blogs.

Any disagreement that goes beyond the most mildest of statements is met with a level of venom that's hard to believe sometimes. And when they receive a less than polite response in return, suddenly all sorts of disbelieving comments about Democrats/liberals being uncooperative, full of rage, hating America, etc. start flying. Because surely the only way someone could disagree with their shining right-wing views is to be retarded or a terrorist or something.

By far the most enlightening thing I have read on the blogosphere in the past two months came from Republican Operative and founder of RedState.com Joshua Trevino, on Armando's and Trevino's new blog Swords Crossed. In an incredibly instructive piece--and I encourage everyone to read the whole thing--Josh Trevino does us all the favor of introducing us to the Overton Window.

That is a great question. Thanks for posting the link to http://www.redstate.com/ because it is a great site and I intend to visit it daily.