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There were several years when the most common predicted effect of carbon warming was drought - endless drought, in every possible place, and there's nothing we can do about it! (Muahahahaha!). Articles like these have been typical:

https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...
http://news.mit.edu/2017/clima...
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/fl...
http://news.nationalgeographic...
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/0...
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/0...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/0...

Let's just say that if you sell stock photos of dry lake beds, you're probably a millionaire by now.

There were several years when the most common predicted effect of carbon warming was drought - endless drought, in every possible place, and there's nothing we can do about it! (Muahahahaha!). Articles like these have been typical:

https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...
http://news.mit.edu/2017/clima...
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/fl...
http://news.nationalgeographic...
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/0...
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/0...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/0...

Let's just say that if you sell stock photos of dry lake beds, you're probably a millionaire by now.

There were several years when the most common predicted effect of carbon warming was drought - endless drought, in every possible place, and there's nothing we can do about it! (Muahahahaha!). Articles like these have been typical:

https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...
http://news.mit.edu/2017/clima...
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/fl...
http://news.nationalgeographic...
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/0...
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/0...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/0...

Let's just say that if you sell stock photos of dry lake beds, you're probably a millionaire by now.

Yes, Obama promised to shut down Guantanamo and ended up being worse for civil liberties than Bush. He promised transparency, but his legacy is the war on whistleblowers and an expansion of the powers needed to prosecute that war that now belongs to future presidents.

There are many, many other defects in Amazon management. Every web page, for example, tries to sell you something else before giving full information about a product.

Playing games with prices is EXTREMELY self-destructive. People buy much more from companies they know they can trust. When a company can't be trusted, customers must spend time thinking carefully about every item before buying.

Amazon abuses employees, according to news reports:

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (Aug. 15, 2015)

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (Feb. 23, 2014)

Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (February 19, 2013)

Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, owns a spaceflight company, Blue Origin. Would you fly into space with a company whose owner makes abusive web pages?

I don't see Republicans actually supporting this idea. It just seems rather unlikely.

Don't think about. The democratic party doesn't support it either, but the voters fall for the act every time.

The primary point of anti-trust laws is not to break up companies, but seek remedies against companies when they violate the laws....

Well, that's one way to describe anti-trust law goals. A better one would be "to promote fair competition for the benefit of consumers." I hope everyone will admit that these mega-corps could really benefit from more competition.

They complained so much that it was decided Congress doesn't have to follow the same rules, despite it being in the law.

Except that never happened and was debunked over four years ago.

So, yea the GOP had the same idea as you. But we learned that even if it is written into law, Congress still doesn't have to follow it if it screws them over too bad, and they don't care if it does the same to you.

So here's where is gets really nuts. The GOP is trying to except congress. Talk about getting the story entirely backwards. Never in my life has the right seemed so crazy.

Simple--freedom of the press is also covered by the First.

If that's your argument, that mere plans to publish a recording later protect any activity making it, you need to answer my follow-up questions for it to make sense:

• Leaking State Secrets (to the press)
• Entering Federal property "under false pretenses"?
• Or even murder — as long as it is done on video for future or even immediate publication?

Prostitution, as in having sex for money, is illegal in most places. But being paid to do it on video is perfectly fine — because pornography is protected by the First Amendment.

http://www.salon.com/2010/02/2...

If you can pull your head out of your ass long enough to read, and understand, this... then do so; and quit being a gullible fucking idiot. Why are conservatives such worthless fucking liars all the fucking time?

You mean small eyes, big mouth and fat body? something like this

The left considers violence wrong except in very specific circumstances.

Of course (Vol. I)!
Of course (Vol. II)!
Of course (Vol. III)!
Of course (Vol. IV)!

Oh my, somebody is a quote-miner, and hoping to come up with gems? Sadly, you've got a bunch of duds!

You aren't even being honest about them.

Seriously man, hoping Ailes dies a painful death is not a call for violence. It is unsympathetic, but hey, guess what? It happens on your side. Nor is accurately describing a murder victim as a bigot a call for violence either. That's wanting to be truthful. Warts and all.

And Madonna's words were clearly describing a state of mind which she rejected as an action.

You shouldn't lie. Especially with the number of people on the right claiming their words were twisted and misrepresented. These were mentioned in comments about those quotes already, so you should know to look at them with more scrutiny yourself.

And of course, there are already lists pointing out the right's calls for violence, and their own vicious statements. Well, actually, they're a decade old by now.

You think people forget? Well, I can't say you are entirely wrong.

How many of these do you remember?

As they say, the log in your eye is quite conspicuous. Go compile a list of your own sins, then repudiate them.

Right, how is supporting the NRA even close to this? I've never heard the NRA advocate the shooting of it's political opponents, have you? I haven't.

Then you haven't been listening. The NRA is really a lobby for the gun industry and they are spewing plenty of rhetoric about how the government or "violent leftists" are coming to get them and the only way to protect yourself is to arm yourself. It's complete bullshit of course but scared people do buy lots of guns. They're clever enough to not directly say "shoot the liberals" but that's certainly what they are strongly implying.

If, by sabotage, you mean they report what he says and does, then I concede the point

No, by "sabotage" I mean publication of falsehoods and innuendo, which, without stating an accusation, masterfully create a perception of the impeachment-worthy "high crimes and misdemeanors" having already been committed by the President.

he should stop giving them so much fodder.

What "fodder" did he give anybody to accuse him of treason? None — but for months we were talking about it... Indeed, Comey, of all people, knew perfectly well, the charges of "treason" are so baseless, there is not even an investigation about them — but still maneuvered to have a special prosecutor appointed to investigate something — even though no one can even state a coherent accusation, much less prove anything.

That is done to sabotage his agenda — there is no other plausible explanation — an undeniable and objective fact...

I've always wondered, if the Iraqi people had the choice to go back in time and keep Saddam and his progeny instead of what they have now, would they? At the time they seemed very happy when he was removed.

How is this even a question?

“...I am one of the political prisoners who was arrested in 1988, but life was better in Saddam’s days, compared with now.”...

If they had such an option they would probably want to return to a point in time to prevent Bremer from disbanding the Iraqi army and delaying Iraqi's from taking control of the government.

...

The problem with Iraq wasn't really the invasion, it was the occupation that followed.

No, the biggest problem was the invasion. I'm not saying you're completely wrong. But to pick out one mistake out of so many is misleading. To begin with the war was based on a lie. So if not WMD, what were the real reasons for going to war? If Jack shoots himself with a gun, then doesn't dress the wound properly, the reason Jack died was because he shot himself.

But anyway, after the invasion, Col. Ted Spain was the guy in charge of law & order, he seems like a great resource to list all the mistakes:

1. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s deployment plans. They didn’t include an adequate number of military police to control the routes during the ground war, and then we didn’t have sufficient military police to control the streets after the ground war.
2. Law and order was not given sufficient attention in the pre-war planning. This failed to provide a police system to provide security to the Iraqi citizenry and to instill a sense of trust in our Army.
3. The issue of detainees. There was really was no clear guidance on the categorization of them. It was really important to me to adhere to the Geneva Conventions, but I really had to make it all up as I went.
4. The flaws in collecting intelligence.
5. Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, an Army Reserve officer who commanded the military police unit at the Abu Ghraib prison. I actually opened Abu Ghraib prison and handed it over to her in 2003. And I explain that she was the wrong leader at the wrong place at the wrong time.
6. Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, who was the top commander in Iraq from June 2003 to July 2004 and replaced Lt. Gen. William S. Wallace. General Sanchez was in over his head, and he continued fighting the ground war long after it was over.
7. The Coalition Provisional Authority, under the leadership of L. Paul Bremer III, dismantled the Iraqi Army, and the highest level of the Baath Party. Under Saddam Hussein, the highest ranks could only belong to Baath Party members, so we lost some of the most experienced personnel that were so vital in putting Iraq back together again.
8. The mistakes of the former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik. He was focused on padding his résumé and getting as much camera time as he could.
9. The Iraqi police and the fact that I was pressured to focus more on quantity as opposed to quality.
10. President George W. Bush’s coalition of the willing. The fact is, those countries had less than 50 people in there. There really was not a coalition other than the United Kingdom.

Usually future conservatives (aka "bullies"). And when they grow up, Conservatives usually run screaming for "safe spaces" whenever somebody pushes back ( https://www.nytimes.com/2016/1... or http://www.salon.com/2017/04/0... ).

Yes, there seems to be a large difference in perspective.

Oh, it's not merely a difference in perspective, there's a degree of distortion. Like a funhouse mirror.

Looking at Russia, all I see is a country that has lost 20% of its territory and 50% of its people in the last 30 years. I see a third-rate military power, shrinking, aging population, rapidly deteriorating nuclear defenses, an economy the size of Texas, with a corrupt, inefficient crony capitalist system run by a dwarf.

Looking at Russia, I see a country that is run by a murderous tyrant (whose height doesn't matter), and that is far more likely to be a problem than a bunch of guys whose best efforts was hijacking some planes, and whose current practices are broadcasting executions on Youtube and getting disaffected idiots to build bombs.

Islam? They couldn't do anything that Dylan Roof or Timothy McVeigh didn't manage.

Russia? They actually have an industrial base, technological resources, and some semblance of discipline.

That they're a system of corruption is making it more dangerous, not less.

All your claims of collapse? Compound the worries.

If we stretch the facts and forget about NATO and Trump, then yes, Putin might be a threat to a few weak/tiny neighbors (Ukraine and Estonia?), but frankly, who gives a fuck about those? They left 30 years ago, he can have them back for all I care.

Your indifference is already established, you need not compound the issue by adding to it. You don't care, I get it. You need not keep trying to make me believe you further.

You, on the other hand see Russia as an immediate, existential threat, worth starting a nuclear war over... Seems strange to me.

Seems like distortion to me. Who is talking about starting a Nuclear War...other than you, for your strawman jousting?

Though I do suspect there are some people who would like to bring back the posturing over warheads again, they may not be the ones you believe they would be.

Now, regarding Islam, I see a vicious, toxic psychological virus that currently infects about a billion people, spreading exponentially.

Exponentially, eh? From what zero? Because last I checked, there were a billion members in 1990, so you're not making a convincing case there. And for a billion people infected by a virus, it sure doesn't seem capable of much virulence to me, especially since most of the casualties of their afflictions in the last year were internecine.

Sad, but true. The worst fighting is within the same house.

"Our uterus is the weapon of Jihad," said some Islamist asshole in the 90s (google it if you care to find out which one).

Actually, that reminds me of the Quiverfull movement. And other assorted white nationalists.

It's a notion that's hardly unique, or uncommon, but I don't think it's really sustainable.

There's an automatic death sentence given to anyone who dares to leave Islam.

Not really, no. Plenty of people have quit, and lived! Allah apparently doesn't feel terribly bothered. I mean sure, they're going to die, but we're all going to die.

Try to spare me the hyperbole, if you want to say something, do it without the excess.

Fundamentally, this pathogenic "religion" is incompatible with our Western modern-day society...

So you say. So far you've not offered any substance to your argument, preferring instead to make up complaints about liberals. It's less persuasive than you might imagine.

Yet the "enlightened" liberals seem to have no antibodies against

O rly?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tr...

http://www.salon.com/2016/04/1...

http://www.nbcnews.com/politic...

I can find more if you want.

There were no scientifically valid theories predicting the end of the world.

Wow way to strawman and tautology.

There were no scientifically valid theories predicting the end of the world

Seeing as even the worst of global warming predictions don't predict the end of the world that seems a rather pointless statement.

There are however over a hundred models for global warming, and even more predictions of "Dire Consequences" based on those models.

Misinformed? Ignorant? Stupid? What do call people who continually use the word "theory" to describe idle speculation and other crap that has not been peer reviewed or otherwise substantiated?

I'd call them James Hansen http://www.salon.com/2001/10/2...

Here's another question for you what do you call someone who thinks peer review makes a paper correct ?
Answer: Ignorant.
 

At least not just yet.

Here's Michael Mann's (The Hockey Stick guy) prediction that the West Side Highway would be under water by now

http://www.salon.com/2001/10/2...

What?? I think you're confused. That article refers to a prediction Jim Hansen made in 1988 or 1989, shortly after he testified to Congress about climate change. Nothing to do with Michael Mann.

"While doing research 12 or 13 years ago, I met Jim Hansen, the scientist who in 1988 predicted the greenhouse effect before Congress. I went over to the window with him and looked out on Broadway in New York City and said, “If what you’re saying about the greenhouse effect is true, is anything going to look different down there in 20 years?” He looked for a while and was quiet and didn’t say anything for a couple seconds. Then he said, “Well, there will be more traffic.” I, of course, didn’t think he heard the question right. Then he explained, “The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water. And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. The trees in the median strip will change.” Then he said, “There will be more police cars.” Why? “Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.”" http://www.salon.com/2001/10/2...

At least not just yet.

Here's Michael Mann's (The Hockey Stick guy) prediction that the West Side Highway would be under water by now

http://www.salon.com/2001/10/2...

Flash in the pan? They've been around for 13 years. Their products are rolling around all over the US. Compared to "latest instagram clone that is popular with VCs," I wouldn't call them a flash in the pan.

More important, there's no real connection between startups that are obviously going to go bust and employee abuse. Tesla being new or losing money has nothing to do with it. It's Elon Musk that is the issue. Companies with self-important assholes running shit treat employees like they treat furniture no matter their stage or revenue. I'm guessing Tesla employees are treated better than Amazon employees.

I listen to the same song again and again. The artist got paid once.
I buy CD's used. The artists doesn't get paid there.
I share CD's. Guess what -- the artist doesn't get paid.

Quit playing the "starving artist isn't get paid" card -- because there are numerous legal examples.

Maybe you missed the memo that the RIAA are the the biggest thieves -- NOT the consumers.

People who pirate regularly spend MORE on films and BUY more.

Google is not different from anyone else. You are conflating the (free) distribution of music on YouTube as if it is the ONLY source of income. This is false. Artists aren't making a living off of YouTube even if ZERO of their music is "pirated."

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Fuck You Red Cross for hijacking the + operator and the color red hundreds of years AFTER the Templars.

I do see the violence on the right but I do make a distinction between actions v words and lone wolfs v groups.

Actually, what you do is try to embrace a false sanctimony as you fail to admit to the violent organizations on the right, from the Bundy Ranch militias, the Respect the Flag group, the Huttaree, and even the various Tea Party groups and others on the right-wing clamoring for a revolution. Which included Donald Trump, in 2012, with his infamous Tweetstorm.

If you want to admit to them, then fair enough, go ahead and condemn them. Say they're deplorable. Say they're repugnant. Say they're dangerous.

I don't blame the Chicago kidnapping on the left anymore than I blame the Charleston shooting on the right.

Yes, yes, you already made it clear that you want to ignore how Dylan Roof is merely one among many on the right espousing such views, but that won't make it not a fact that "they do exist in abundance.

Sorry, but Dylan Roof wasn't merely some lone isolated nut following the beat of a drum only he could hear, there's a whole marching band.

By their fruits we know them.

As for the rest of your diarrhea... try harder.

I will, you're not worth giving up on. You deserve to be informed. You deserve to have the strength of character you need to admit the truth. You can have the fortitude to boldly proclaim that the shit stinks all around. It's a dysentery that

I have a couple of those "ceramic" pans too, and I just can't help wonder what sort of nasty chemistry that involves--especially after reading this: http://www.salon.com/2016/01/0.... Did they just switch to another just-as-toxic or even-more-toxic chemistry?

That said, I will just stick to good 'ol cast-iron or tri-ply from now on.

So plainly the notion that money is the absolute determinant in politics is false.

Oh no, the Republican gerrymandering is also a significant factor.

North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Virginia, Texas, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia all demonstrate the effectiveness of that manipulation.

Of course, they already lost in Arizona, so it won't be long before the people start taking back the power. Then what will they do?

Oh, you want to talk about who is taking over ? Not to mention what they take out.

For decades.

I know you don't want to face it, but the right-wing is the bastion of the thought police.

You should probably just abandon your false conception of the left-right political spectrum, and make your arguments without it. Even if you had a historical point (which you don't), you'd be fighting uphill against reality. Of course, denying reality and living in fantasies is a hallmark of the right, so...you'll keep on keeping on. We will always have been at war with Eastasia, and the chocolate ration will be increased to 30 grams a week.

Nice pigeon-holing.

*Some* Republicans are conservatives. Some are Progressives. Some are Republican in name only (RINO) and vote with the Democrats often.

Some Democrats are conservatives. Some are Progressives. Some are Communists, some Socialists. Some are Fascists and wear masks, carry weapons, and dress in black while rioting and violently attacking others that do not share their opinions.

What, only black? Not red? Camo? You know, like Cliven Bundy.

Up until just a few short years ago, the Democrats kept a former KKK leader in office, Robert Byrd, as a long-time Senator until he died in 2010. That's right, the Democrats had a Senator who served for decades who was a former KKK leader. Not 'member'. Leader.

You know, it's funny how people who rail about Byrd never mention two things. First, they never mention that Byrd expressly and explicitly repudiated the racist KKK (some go so far as to claim he never did), and Second, they never mention how the beloved Strom Thurmond was belovingly embraced into the GOP, and served pretty much the same time as Byrd.

Can you explain it?

Coincidently, speaking of civil rights and minorities, Democrats (and the KKK) fully support Planned Parenthood is and always has been, to slow the birthrates of 'undesirables' like blacks, the poor, the mentally challenged, and other minorities.

Oh no, because Margaret Sanger didn't want women to be burdened with no choice except to give birth time after time, she's not only anti-black, she's anti-Semitic. A self-hating Jew. You tell others to google her? You should look beyond the nonsense you've found on the pages of right-wing propagandists. She was actually brought into Harlem by the NAACP and the leaders of that community, after they saw the effects of her work in Jewish areas. In reality, it's the KKK that opposed Planned Parenthood, and their adherents in the White Power Quiverfull movement that want to breed themselves into dominance like some sort of infectious virus.

But sure buddy, it's conservatives and Republicans who are racist, etc etc, blah blah blah. Yep. Uh-huh. o_0

Yup. Let's see, there's the wonderful Steve King. There's that state Senator in Florida. There's Reagan's history of Dogwhistling, and there's Trump's rampant birtherism. Not to mention his Mexican Wall, Muslim ban, and inability to remember who David Duke is.

Sorry dude, but it's a telling sign when it's a Republican opposing the removal of monuments to white supremacy.

Climate of Fear: Jim Risen v. the Obama administration

NYT reporter Jim Risen says Obama's actions "will have a chilling effect on freedom of the press in the U.S."

The Obama DOJ’s effort to force New York Times investigative journalist Jim Risen to testify in a whistleblower prosecution and reveal his source is really remarkable and revealing in several ways; it should be receiving much more attention than it is. On its own, the whistleblower prosecution and accompanying targeting of Risen are pernicious, but more importantly, it underscores the menacing attempt by the Obama administration — as Risen yesterday pointed out — to threaten and intimidate whistleblowers, journalists and activists who meaningfully challenge what the government does in secret.

...

Yep - Obama went after a New York Times reporter.

Aaaand Trump is the "fascist"!?!?!

Yes, yes, you're adopting the party line to blame Obama as usual.

That reveals your devotion to what the Trump administration insists is correct, you're happy to swear that you are pleased with their increase of the Chocolate Ration, aren't you?

Of course, it is quite revealing that you focus on that anyway, to try to distract from how wrong you were to praise the deeply flawed Underwriter's Labs. You didn't have instructions on what to spew on that, but your marching orders on Flynn were clear.

Sorry, but the truth, hard as it will be for you to admit, is that Trump hired Flynn solely because of being fired by the Obama administration, and if Trump blindly accepted the recommendations when he called them liars anyway, well, that still isn't good for him.

But you won't care. Trump is your deity, you will worship at his feet even as he dishonestly claims one fraud after another.

Only I don't go around lumping FDR in with Hitler (Godwin)

Naturally you don't: FDR is a progressive hero, and you don't want to taint his legacy or image. Progressives instead love to lump Trump, Trump supporters, libertarians, conservatives, and anybody who didn't vote for Hillary with Hitler [1] [2] of fascism[3][4].

Pardon me for trying to set the record straight and point out what plenty of academics and historians agree on [5] [6].

Similarly, your blinkered view of history and misplaced reverence may lead you to a very rude awakening.

I actually had quite a pleasant awakening when I came to the US and saw that there was an alternative to the socialism and progressivism that I grew up with. And my view of history is shared by large numbers of historians, political scientists, and US voters. See above.

Lots of women are against a woman's right to choose; Their gender doesn't make them any less deluded...

So you are saying that any woman that doesn't defer to your superior progressive American male intelligence must be "deluded"?

like those Hispanic Americans who supported Trump and are now shocked they live in "Papers Please!" hell.

So you are saying that any immigrant that doesn't defer to your superior progressive American male intelligence must be stupid?

FWIW, I have zero problems with police asking to see my papers when they notice (as they do) that I wasn't born in the US.

That just makes you a Randroid shit who shills for privilege

I'm just "shilling" for myself because I don't want the US to turn into the kind of places my family and I escaped from. The only "privilege" I enjoyed was that I grew up in an intact family that stressed education and self-reliance; by US standards, I was pretty poor growing up.

noticed your habit for calling people names, BTW.

I'm sorry I upset your sensitive progressive feelings by factually calling fascist economics "fascist economics". Why don't you go to your safe space and cry a little? Feel free to continue to spew your vitriol, I have a tough skin; I had to develop that growing up in a rather more homophobic and oppressive environment than you apparently did.

Only I don't go around lumping FDR in with Hitler (Godwin)

Naturally you don't: FDR is a progressive hero, and you don't want to taint his legacy or image. Progressives instead love to lump Trump, Trump supporters, libertarians, conservatives, and anybody who didn't vote for Hillary with Hitler [1] [2] of fascism[3][4].

Pardon me for trying to set the record straight and point out what plenty of academics and historians agree on [5] [6].

Similarly, your blinkered view of history and misplaced reverence may lead you to a very rude awakening.

I actually had quite a pleasant awakening when I came to the US and saw that there was an alternative to the socialism and progressivism that I grew up with. And my view of history is shared by large numbers of historians, political scientists, and US voters. See above.

Lots of women are against a woman's right to choose; Their gender doesn't make them any less deluded...

So you are saying that any woman that doesn't defer to your superior progressive American male intelligence must be "deluded"?

like those Hispanic Americans who supported Trump and are now shocked they live in "Papers Please!" hell.

So you are saying that any immigrant that doesn't defer to your superior progressive American male intelligence must be stupid?

FWIW, I have zero problems with police asking to see my papers when they notice (as they do) that I wasn't born in the US.

That just makes you a Randroid shit who shills for privilege

I'm just "shilling" for myself because I don't want the US to turn into the kind of places my family and I escaped from. The only "privilege" I enjoyed was that I grew up in an intact family that stressed education and self-reliance; by US standards, I was pretty poor growing up.

noticed your habit for calling people names, BTW.

I'm sorry I upset your sensitive progressive feelings by factually calling fascist economics "fascist economics". Why don't you go to your safe space and cry a little? Feel free to continue to spew your vitriol, I have a tough skin; I had to develop that growing up in a rather more homophobic and oppressive environment than you apparently did.

"We can't afford to ignore discrepancies between the espoused views of those in leadership roles and the values of our culture."

Goreanism is misogyny, pure and simple. It's inappropriate to have a man who is openly misogynist in a leadership position on an open source project. Do you think misogyny creates a welcoming environment for women? No no women are toooootally welcome in the Drupal community, just ask the dude holding a topless woman on a leash.

In Gor's violent, low-tech society, men are Men and women are slaves. This, the novels say - and say and say and say again - is the proper and rightful state of things because it is in consonance with the true evolved nature of the sexes.

A major theme running through the Gor novels, and often echoed in Gor fandom, is that the free women secretly long to be owned by dominant and powerful men.

Few women respect bullies or the swaggering jerks so commonly associated with the myth of machismo. Virtually everyone I talked to, men and women, could understand the value of the domination-submission kink in a couple's erotic life. But the consensus, in consonance with Julian's realization about this society's understanding of rapists, was that men who need total control outside the bedroom in order to feel "manly" are pathetic or laughable.

The more you read about Goreanism, the more repugnant it becomes. It's not just some sexy-time private life. These philosophies have no place among the leaders of an open source project. No platform.

At least this time it's post retirement and post death.
No real surprise seeing as short term predictions kept coming up wrong.

50 million climate refugees and entire countries gone by 2010 (UN)
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

West Side Highway under water by 2010 (James Hansen)
http://www.salon.com/2001/10/2...

You DO know there is a REASON why there is an electoral college, yes? That it was designed for precisely this purpose where the majority of states say "we do not want this person" only for the two most populated states to say "tough shit we don't care what you think" and getting to rule in perpetuity?

Whether you like it or not when HRC announced her candidacy her approval rating? 15%. After a year and a half of the media throwing themselves at her feet, actually running their stories by her for her approval AND if that wasn't enough the DNC actually rigging the primary in her favor? After all of that and hundreds of millions spent trying to sell her her approval rating was....14%.

Lets face it Hillary Clinton was a lying backstabbing arrogant money grubbing influence peddling insider that could have been beaten by the corpse of Richard Nixon, she was THAT hated by the majority of the country. There was literally not a worse possible candidate that could have been chosen by the insiders and her "Its her turn" campaign slogan just showed how fucking arrogant she was and sealed the deal. ironically it was Hillary herself that told the media to push Trump as he was a "pied piper candidate" that, again because she was so fucking arrogant, she thought she could easily defeat by dividing the country up into nice neat little demographics and using some pandering so obvious Ray Charles could see through it basically buy votes. Her "basket of deplorables" was her final Willie Horton that insured she would lose, NY and CA would of course give her the popular vote because....well they would vote for a crackhead for POTUS if they had a D after their name which again shows EXACTLY why we cannot go by the "popular vote" because it would allow 2 states to dictate to the other 48 who was in the White House no matter what the 48 thought.

What do you think of these stories?

Amazon: Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (February 23, 2014)

Amazon: Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (August 15, 2015) Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon: Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany/a (February 19, 2013)

Ok, if it is a known practice, cite it.

Originalism. It's not hard to find.

Find me some supreme court decisions that disregarded amendments in favor of what the Founders thought. Or appeals court decisions. Or circuit court. Or traffic court.

Oh, you want to see it in an American legal context? Most especially you'll want to look at the criticism of the Dred Scott decision for the most infamous example.

More recently, well, there other sources of information as to the patterns and practices of your average self-proclaimed originalists.

It's a bankrupt and destitute moral philosophy.

With a income of at least 100M that we know of, and possible billions elsewhere, I believe we can clearly say he knows what he is doing.

I possibly have billions elsewhere. I don't, but I possibly could. That means fuck-all. However, we know for sure that Trump is in a shitload of debt — No really, an entire shitload.

So no, no it is not clear that Trump knows what he is doing, and it cannot seem that way unless you willfully ignore the concept of debt.

News stories I've found indicate what you said is correct:

Seattle: Together with abusive companies and bad city management, Seattle is a miserable place.

Houses in Seattle are expensive: Seattle bumps Boston as the most expensive U.S. housing market that's not in California.

Rent is expensive: Seattle rent is 5th most expensive in U.S.

Traffic: Seattle one of the worst U.S. cities for traffic congestion, tied with NYC (March 31, 2015) Quote: "An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic may not sound like much, but when it adds up over a year it becomes 89 hours." (Whoever wrote that must be accustomed to Seattle misery. An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic sounds HORRIBLE.)

Slow internet: Many areas of Seattle have poor internet connections. See the article, These places have the slowest Internet in the country. (June 25, 2015) Quote: "... Seattle ... CenturyLink (CTL) customers trying to access particular sites from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. will have unbearably slow speeds."

Microsoft: Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012)

Amazon: Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (February 23, 2014)

Amazon: Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (August 15, 2015) Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon: Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (February 19, 2013)

Concur 100%!

The OP is confusing the middleman with the content creators -- I guess they _completely_ missed the memo in back 2000 when Courtney Love called the RIAA is nothing more then a bunch of thieves

Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist's work without any intention of paying for it.

I'm not talking about Napster-type software.

I'm talking about major label recording contracts.

She also made a letter to Recording Artists

Dear Fellow Recording Artists,

I'm writing to ask you to join the chorus of recording artists who want us all to get a fair deal from the record companies. R.E.M., the Dixie Chicks, U2, Alanis Morrissette, Bush, Prince and Q-Tip have called me with their support and we need your participation as well.

There are 3 basic facts to all recording artists should know:

1. No one has ever represented the rights and interests of recording artists AS A GROUP in negotiations with record companies.

2. Recording artists don't have access to quality health care and pension plans like the ones made available to actors and athletes through their unions.

3. Recording artists are paid royalties that represent a tiny fraction of the money their work earns.

Apparently, the OP also missed the memo in 2001 when Courtney Love, Don Henly, LeAnn Rimes Testified on Artist's Rights

The RIAA is so out-of-touch with artists that they didn't realize Trent Reznor intentionally 'leaked' his Year Zero album in 2007.

The old medium is dying because the new medium has driven the cost of content creation down to almost zero. And zero fucks were given.

The consumer's "problem" is that they are drowning in mediocrity -- a first world problem -- along with MORE choices. /sarcasm Such a "problem."

The only ones complaining are those still trying to figure out how to monetize it because the internet is cutting out the price-gouging of the middleman.

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Greed destroys every "industry."

Why do you say SJWs aren't a thing?

Because they're not.

That's as much bullshit as claiming that racist Trump supporters don't exist. Off the top of my head:

Game of Thrones was "glamorizing" rape in a scene that was supposed to be creepy as fuck: her brother forcing himself on her over the corpse of their dead son. The SWJ's on Salon got half a dozen articles out of that, but DGAF about cannibals murdering an entire village in the same episode, and Theon's far worse fate in a previous season.

All the ratfucking aimed at Bernie Sander's way when he said "excuse me, I'm talking" during a debate - ermagerd he's so sexist to shout down the wooman in the race! When in reality she had constantly been interrupting him, and Sanders was just speaking up for himself.

The craters made in fainting couches over Marvel's variant cover of Spider-Women, even though Spider-Man often drawn in the same pose. In the same vein, the pearls clutched over Apocalypse holding Mystique by the throat, ignoring the fact that is also a common display of dominance from both antagonists and protagonists.

Of course SJW's exist. They are the left wing equivalent of right wingers who rail against trans people using bathrooms or Muslims - assholes who use demagoguery to control conversation and shut people up.

Amazon: Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (February 23, 2014)

Amazon: Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (August 15, 2015) Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon: Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (February 19, 2013)

Microsoft: Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012)

Seattle: Together with Microsoft and bad city management, Seattle is a miserable place:

Traffic: Seattle one of the worst U.S. cities for traffic congestion, tied with NYC (March 31, 2015) Quote: "An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic may not sound like much, but when it adds up over a year it becomes 89 hours." (Whoever wrote that must be accustomed to Seattle misery. An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic sounds HORRIBLE.)

Slow internet: Many areas of Seattle have poor internet connections. See the article, These places have the slowest Internet in the country. (June 25, 2015) Quote: "... Seattle ... CenturyLink (CTL) customers trying to access particular sites from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. will have unbearably slow speeds."

Where is equality mentioned in the bible?

Quite a few places. Just a couple search results

http://bible.knowing-jesus.com...
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/c...

"Equality" is not part of Christianity.

Except, of course, in all the parts where it talks about it.

But only retarded leftist westerners believe we're equal in the eyes of Mother Nature.

"Retarded leftist westerner" is a pretty accurate description of Christians.

In the same way most organized criminals in Sweden are of certain ethnicities, most leftist westerners are of Christian tradition. You might even go as far to say that it's only in Christian nations do you find retarded leftist westerners

Remember MLK? Christian. He also said this

This Christian teaches Sunday school. He also plays political blackface to mock conservatives.

And then there's the Catholic Pope himself getting into a little twitter spat with Trump.

And then they'll turn around and spit at Christians for "not believing in science,"

Well, that's another funny thing about Christians (though they aren't the only religion that does this, of course): they love to turn on their own. The one thing Christians hate more than a non-Christian is another Christian who doesn't follow the exact same sect or interpret the Bible the exact same way as they do.

My favorite was 4 ago when Florida Spring Break beach goers were asked "Did you vote against Mitt Romney because he is black?" and "Did you vote for Obama because he's Mormon?" They swore they were not racist nor religionist, that they voted because of what Obama stood for. "Like what?" Uhh.

Hey slashdotters, if this shoe fits, then go spend some quality time learning this stuff from quality sources. Now.

On the way? America was already globally shunned. We were the rogue superpower. Take a look at these articles to see who rated America as the greatest threat. http://www.salon.com/2014/01/0... http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry... Face it, it can't get any worse, the whole world hates us.

Most of the people on the right that I know have to provide evidence to debunk the claims and positions of the left.

That you know, eh?

How many people do you know?

I read everything I can get my hands on so that I can argue against the leftists.

How much do you read of what the right says and does?

Such as I did above showing wage discrimination.

But what about this?

Here's a challegen: Show why it's wrong.

Leftists on the other hand simply repeat the same bogus numbers over and over and over.

Bogus information like these?

The 70c on the dollar fabrication is repeated not just by former President Obama but every voice in the Left (Clinton, Pelosi, Schumer). That gets repeated by most leftist media outlets (just about all print and broadcast), and executives are repeating the lies. If they don't, they get lambasted by the left for being politically incorrect (members of the patriarchy, misogynists, bigots, etc...)

Now what you may be hinting at is the RINOs, of which there are plenty. Considering your statement about Trump, I'm guessing that you perhaps are one.

Oh, so you think your shit don't stink, is that it?

Plenty of others. Lots of them.

How many Republicans will you declare persona non grata in your refusal to admit you are repating lies, and to be honest, declaring them to be politically incorrect in a more original sense of the phrase.

This is the problem the right-wing phonies like you have, you can't understand what you're doing wrong.

You can't even grasp that you're doing something wrong.

What more do you want, exactly?

It'd start by realizing that you don't have proof of a conspiracy or anything.

A signed confession?

Those, as we well know, are not reliable.

Except Donald Trump.

You can only stick your head in the sand so far, man.

The Republican party, however, seems to be reaching for new records in sticking its own head up its ass.

Seriously, you'd have better luck if you dug up your own dirt. People might believe you.

Salon has a great article on autism: The Monster Inside My Son!

Scary stuff. The stuff of horror movies.

because a Republican-controlled Congress was dead-set on doing nothing in order to obstruct Obama at all costs. This is, seriously, no shit, because the Republicans would be damned if they even APPEARED to be supporting a president that some still swore was not a citizen.