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He was facing a possible 99 year sentence in the US. If his crimes were as harmless as you state then it certainly would have been less.

Wut.

Aaron Shwartz was threatened with 35 years for what was, at worst, trespassing. That's what the Feds do - threaten draconian prison terms that would make Saudi Arabia blush in order to get people to accept plea deals, saving the prosecutor the work of having an actual trial. That's why Chelsea Manning pled to a 35 year sentence despite it being a much longer sentence than spies who sold secrets for actual money after Obama's unlawful command influence in her trial - something that has gotten other soldiers out of discharges.

He may not have even used the spearfishing since the password was easy to guess and that may have been a completely different attack.

As I recall, the story is Podesta got a spearfish email asking him for his email password.

Podesta assistant asked IT staffer if it was legit, staffer assured him it was "legitimate".

Podesta's gmail account was scooped up by hackers.

Podesta's emails were put on selective public display.

Podesta's IT staffer that assured him the spearfish email was a "legitimate" email blamed a typo, he meant to say "it was illegitimate", but only typed "it is legitimate".

Podesta's IT staffer feels really bad about typo.

Trump's lead lawyer resigned yesterday and four other top law firms refused to represent him.

New York Times' report about how the data of 50 million users had been unknowingly leaked and purchased to aid President Trump's successful 2016 bid for the presidency

See, how Trump destroyed the innocent company? In 2012 Obama's campaign did the same thing with Facebook data about millions of users, and it was all fine — a testament to Obama's genius, in fact.

Had Hillary won, Facebook would've been just peachy as well. Damn Trump!! #Impeach!!

Hillary Clinton hired a foreign worker herself, and I don't remember you ranting about that... Not that you should have, because it is NOT illegal to hire overseas contractors, but it IS illegal to accept overseas contributions as Obama did, not to mention the Obama campaign was fined for illegal donations.

Hey there. I just wanted to say hi and disagree with you on a few things:

The US has TSA and constitution free zone

Again nope, not there are no abuses but this isn't true.

It's not really that "not that there are no abuses," but more "But you're very likely to find abuses."
Border Patrol Agents routinely overstep their bounds and the charter for border patrol. Like the TSA, who also routinely abuses their power to inconvenience you, they're not law enforcement agents, and have very little actual authority. The only authority Border Patrol has is, legally, at the border, to ask your residence status. i.e. whether or not you are a US citizen. Some take this to mean that the burden of proof that you are not is on them (including many judges), but they don't see it that way.

The US does not have universal health care.

Yes and until that conartist Obama go elected we were a free nation for it. Thanks to DJT's tax reform the truly evil part of Obama's healthcare law is going away.

Whether or not you meant that Universal Health Care is evil, I don't know. I will state that it is not. Also, thanks to President Trump's tax reform, there are many other down sides. According to a poll available on The Hill, many small businesses are stating that they are not going to hire or give raises. Though, that's what many of them said when the ACA started (and put some insurance companies and small businesses out of business).

The US has trigger happy cops with tanks.

Well you go there, there is no excuase for cops having tanks. There should be no such thing as a SWAT team. If "special weapons and tactics" are needed that isn't a crime anymore its an uprising and our National gaurd not local police forces should be handling it. Accountability should at least hit the Governors office.

The US has for profit private jails.

And why not? Waaay more accountability than you get with public union employees. Much better chance of individuals who are wronged getting redress thru the courts.

For-Profit prisons drive our criminal justice system to "mandatory minimum sentences," the "war on drugs," and other terrible ideas. It also drives lawmakers to create more criminals because their friends over at CCA and GEO/Wackenhut. The companies are trying to turn a profit from the "rehabilitation" of criminals, which leads to abuses, inhumane conditions, and sub-par facilities. Granted, they're criminals, so it shouldn't be a day spa, but these facilities take first-time offenders and create career criminals, the prisoners are treated like animals and robbed of any decency. It's not "rehabilitation," it's criminal career training.

And even if all of that was resolved, you still have Trump for president ;-).

Yes well we can be forgiven for that I think. You have to consider the alternative was Hillary Clinton!

Well, she wasn't the only alternative. Until people get smart and quit with the idiotic "If you vote 3rd party, you're throwing your vote away," crap, this country will be screwed by the most powerful, not the best. the DNC and GOP are terrible organizations, rife with corruption. But people still vote for them, even though they hate the candidate... because "At least it's not Clinton!" or "At least it's not Trump!"

There were good candidates in the other parties. One such party was on the ballot in all 50 states (Libertarian) and the Green Party was on the ballot in most states.

I mean, if you're a left-winger, might as well vote for the Communist Party USA. If you're a right-winger, might as well join the American Nazi Party.

If you're norma

Wow, praising CNN?

I remember when the report about Russian meddling first came out a month or two ago.

Both Fox and CBS (the only two others that I checked) included the fact that the Russians appeared to also support Bernie. CNN, for whatever reason, chose to omit this fact.

Then there was that time when CNN reported a Trump e-mail as being from September 4th instead of September 14th, which took the story from "Illegal" to "who cares." Yes, they had to correct it, but the damage was done.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/0...

Then, there was the time that CNN had to "insert" a word into one of Trump's quotes in order to make him seem racist. Yeah, that is the height of honesty.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballo...

But if you believe their bias, then you don't see it as a bias.

You mean like how Trent Lott, then Republican Senate leader declared his wish that Strom Thurmond had won the Presidency?

Yeah, I'll have to grant, that's not fighting for the right to own black people. Thurmond just wanted to fuck them illicitly. Disreputable, but not quite legally sanctioned property.

Sorry dude, you only exposed yourself.

I get it though, you think IOKIYAR is the mantra to live by. That's why you swore undying devotion to the Birther-in-Chief. After all, once you've abdicated your very soul, what does it matter what destitution and depravity you espouse?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundi...

http://www.capoliticalreview.c...

I suppose you could get them for breaking campaign finance law.

Then again Hillary broke campaign finance law by using her law firm as a proxy to pay Steele.

http://thehill.com/opinion/cam...

There is no justice but what we make. Instead of wishing for some deity that likely doesn't exist, or is at best indifferent, work to turn them out of power. Donate to the groups that support net neutrality like the Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/, and support candidates who will work on net neutrality and sane gun laws. Right now, approximately most Americans support background checks for buying guns http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/374692-poll-97-percent-support-background-checks-for-all-gun-buyers. You can help out with both these issues by donating to Conor Lamb's election https://conorlamb.com/. Lamb is running as the Democrat in Pennsylvania's 18th district for the upcoming special election to replace Tim Murphy. Lamb is in favor of net neutrality and is in favor sensible gun restrictions. He's a former Marine, and a former prosecutor, which gives him a healthy appreciation for guns (and let's be honest many Dems probably can't tell the difference between different guns other than that if they look scary they must be an "assault weapon"). He's a reasonable moderate and is running in a close election. Don't hope for hell, work to put better people in charge.

72 percent of Republicans support KEEPING the net neutrality rules.

http://thehill.com/policy/tech...

Somewhere between just under or just over half of republicans support stricter gun laws.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-...
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/13...

Neither of these groups supports Republicans. They both support morons.

72 percent of Republicans support KEEPING the net neutrality rules.

http://thehill.com/policy/tech...

Somewhere between just under or just over half of republicans support stricter gun laws.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-...
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/13...

Neither of these groups supports Republicans. They both support morons.

Is not government awesome? Consider:

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

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

Elections have consequences..

...for accepting campaign contributions from foreign donors?

Me neither.

And they did it again in 2012.

No prosecutions for that, either.

But no, let's talk about some Facebook trolls...

I along with most conservatives have no illusions about Trump. He has had multiple affairs and slept around quite a bit. However, I give exactly zero credence to any women who were happy to say nothing for years after the event (even though it was consentual, many women regret one night stands after the fact and there are tens of thousands of cases where they have falsely accused rape to varying degrees of success for myriad reasons including regret, revenge, mental instability, etc.)

However, to wait until someone from the alt left came by with a monetary offer (or until your partner is president) to claim sexual assault taints any the claims beyond credibility. To be fair minded, men and women have sex, a lot more than most people want to admit, and if you don't go to the police immediately (assuming you are not physically restrained from doing so), IMO you had a consentual sexual relationship and you should be barred from ever making a claim.

Classical feminism wanted parity between men and women, that also means equal responsibility for having consentual sex, regardless of how you feel about it or the other person the next day, week, year or decade.

It is so bad these days that most college campuses require some kind of recorded consent to prevent this kind of baseless after the fact accusation.

Allegations years later any reason should be suspect by critical thinkers and should be made illegal if made for monetary gain. http://thehill.com/homenews/ad...

With Bill Clinton, several of the sexual assault and misconduct allegations were made and confirmed shortly after the act.

Come next election you'll be whining about 'how could people in those flyover shitholes not vote for the party I told them to.

What are you bitching about? That "is how the forgotten men and women of America talk at the bar. If you're at a bar, and you're in Wisconsin, and you think they're bringing in a bunch of Haiti people, or El Salvadorians, or people from Niger, this is how some people talk."
— Fox News Talking Dweeb

Here's a study from Oct 2016 showing relative percentages of donations from federal workers, broken down by candidate and department.

97% of donations from the Department of Justice went to Hillary.
84% from the Department of Defense went to Hillary.
Every other department was around 90% Hillary.

Conclusion: The actual facts show that you're full of shit.

What a fucking liar/Idiot.

Seriously? Use some god damn logic and reasoning. The only thing that shows is that democrats are more likely to donate money, individually, than republicans, who mostly have fewer huge donors.

It's so much easier to look at "number of people who are X" and get both a more verifiable, easier, and more truthful result than "amount of money that went to X from people within X".

The former clearly has only 1 possible truth to it, the latter has at least 3.

Here's a study from Oct 2016 showing relative percentages of donations from federal workers, broken down by candidate and department.

97% of donations from the Department of Justice went to Hillary.
84% from the Department of Defense went to Hillary.
Every other department was around 90% Hillary.

Conclusion: The actual facts show that you're full of shit.

Then it shouldn't be too hard to find citations. I'm not seeing anything indicating Kathy Griffin is educated or has an advanced degree.
Katie Rich seems to have attended a fine school.

Both seemed to experience pushback from both liberals and conservatives and apologized.

Contrast that with this...
or this...
or this...

Ted Nugent is still a darling of the right, Liz Trotta apologized, but faced no disciplinary action.

Yes and no. They are intended for entertainment but sometimes hard news is disseminated on these platforms. You can't deny this.

And sometimes the National Enquirer tabloid rag has a fact in it. That doesn't exactly justify it's existence or my need to read it. If the hard news is worthy enough, it will be picked up and reported on by reputable sources, without having to wade through the other 99% of bullshit click-bait.

And sometimes the National Enquirer tabloid rag has a fact in it. That doesn't exactly justify it's existence or my need to read it.

The president of the USA cites the National Enquirer as a reliable source. He says it has a very good record. Possibly some of that affection comes from the fact that they have engaged in at least one cover up on Trump's behalf.

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you or I can recognize bullshit. The president of the USA is susceptible. Likely a sizable group of voters are as well. As you say, we can't fix stupid, but if we want an informed democracy then we shouldn't promote it.

it can't be the primary one.

That is not true at all. Bill Clinton was impeached for Obstruction of Justice (perjury).

You made two mistakes:

Clinton was never indicted for any crime other than obstruction of justice. For one thing, only the house of representatives could start such an action against a sitting president. Just go ahead and ask any lawyer you know whether or not you'll go to jail for lying to the police. It happens all the time. It is illegal no matter why they are interviewing you. This is why a girlfriend can go to jail for obstruction of justice if she provides a false alibi for her boyfriend without committing any other crime. Look it up. Ask a lawyer. Lying and obstructing an investigation is illegal.

I would consider the firing of Comey to be obstruction of justice

Of course, you would — such is your hatred of Trump. And this, too, presumes, Trump was guilty (of something else), was afraid Comey would uncover it, and fired him to avoid the uncovering. For this to make sense, you still need to show, what that "something else" could possibly have been. Until you can state an actual (primary) charge, your complaints of "obstruction" make no sense.

Further, what if I told you, multiple Democrats demanded Comey's firing months and days before Trump done did it? Here:

“My confidence in the FBI director’s ability to lead this agency has been shaken,” said Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia.

If the opposition demanded the man be fired, they can't turn around and cry "crime!" when he finally is fired. And Trump had perfectly good reasons of his own to do it — the leaking of information alone is a fireable offense.

First of all, I do not hate Trump. I have no reason to hate Trump. Do I think he is an idiot? Yes. Do I think he's an embarrassment to the office of the president? Yes. Do I think he only acts in his own best int

Was there (at least) one instance where US people did not feel strongly enough to protest, but were egged on by outside influences?

Sure there were. They got the left out on the streets and they got the right out on the street. Well actually with that last event, they got both sides out on the street. Just for a start.

Obviously people already felt strongly, but those protests didn't arise spontaneously. Those feelings were deliberately amplified and those people were "egged on" by outside influences who went so far as to organize the events.

... chill. The purpose was to get people riled up and divisive, and by being outraged you are playing into their hand. Furthermore, if you are outraged don't propagate by posting about it - that just amplifies the effect.

This, OTOH, is wisdom talking. And actually, it's OK if your fellow citizen has different political opinions ... it's great in fact! Would you like to live in a country where that wasn't allowed?

it can't be the primary one.

That is not true at all. Bill Clinton was impeached for Obstruction of Justice (perjury).

You made two mistakes:

I would consider the firing of Comey to be obstruction of justice

Of course, you would — such is your hatred of Trump. And this, too, presumes, Trump was guilty (of something else), was afraid Comey would uncover it, and fired him to avoid the uncovering. For this to make sense, you still need to show, what that "something else" could possibly have been. Until you can state an actual (primary) charge, your complaints of "obstruction" make no sense.

Further, what if I told you, multiple Democrats demanded Comey's firing months and days before Trump done did it? Here:

“My confidence in the FBI director’s ability to lead this agency has been shaken,” said Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia.

If the opposition demanded the man be fired, they can't turn around and cry "crime!" when he finally is fired. And Trump had perfectly good reasons of his own to do it — the leaking of information alone is a fireable offense.

Turns out Jan Ludovicus van der Velde has likely just been printing money via Tether. Why wouldn't he?

See http://thehill.com/policy/tech...

He also wrote the initial draft to re-open the email server investigation so...not sure where you're going with this.

Yeah. After sitting on it for months.

WaPo: Justice IG focused on McCabe delay in examining Clinton emails on Weiner laptop

You really need to start looking into Cody Shearer and his ties to Fusion GPS and Steele - Shearer would be the same Clinton "plumber" who back in 1992 planted false stories about Dan Quayle using cocaine.

Or are you going to argue it'd be beneath the Clintons to plant a false story about Trump and pay a few hundred thousand dollars to an anti-Trump Brit ex-intel officer to front them?

"Seriously, how is this joke of a company still allowed to do business?"

Some links, if you haven't been following the story:

Equifax hired a music major as chief security officer and she has just retired.

Equifax Faces Mounting Costs and Investigations From Breach.

The Equifax Breach Was Entirely Preventable

Equifax's data breach sins live on to this year's tax season

Equifax, Fox, NFL top report of most-hated U.S. companies

You Can't Fire Equifax, but Your Employer Can. Mine Just Did.

Senators want 'massive' fines for data breaches at Equifax and other credit reporting firms

Thanks to Equifax, the risk of fraud is higher this tax season

This Will Make Equifax Think Twice About How They're Protecting Your Data
"If this policy had been in place during the Equifax breach last year, Equifax would have paid at least a $1.5 billion penalty, half of which would be returned to consumers affected by the breach."

Ok, so all your evidence is two copy-paste articles (the Verge is simply repeating the Twitter blog) showing some memes and a link to Google Search?
However I clicked on your Google search, on top of the list I found an article from the WaPo with a collage of "Russian Propaganda" memes. On top of that collage there is a meme-like picture showing Sanders and the text "Clinton foundation is a problem". The problem is that Sanders actually said that: again "fake news" are truer than MSM news.

In spite of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's heroic efforts to save our incandescent light bulbs from those Washington bureaucrats.

There was a time when America prided itself in it's technological prowess. A time when we believed science had the potential to solve our problems and propel us into the future. It's sad that we've gone the other way, clutching superstition and paranoia, as a great thinker once predicted: https://www.goodreads.com/quot...
This has historically been a "pro tech" site, which be definition and education should include individuals educated in science... but alas, it's just more politicized, polarized arse holes too willing to jump on the reichwinger "blame libs for all evils" bs....
Your prizes:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
https://worldtop20.org/2017-wo...
http://thehill.com/policy/inte...
And the cherry, the US, the Country FOUNDED on the principles of freedom, drops to 21....well done....
http://theweek.com/speedreads/...

It is how the Constitution is setup. For good or for bad state's rights enable each state to regulate when the Fed fails to do so. Unfortunately this balkinization also causes massive problems for national/international organizations. This was simply not a problem when the Constitution was written. With additional rules being put in place by each state, at best they will supplement each-other, at worst they can directly contradict each-other. Now each ISP has to comply with each states net neutrality regulation in an ever growing quagmire of bureaucracy.

To see an older example of this cluster fuck balkinized bullshit look at the state by state sales taxes and how shit is all fucked up for internet taxation, for decades creating a uneven playing field that fucked small and mid sized organizations in favor of the truely massive who could game the system. http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/2... .

This all could have been avoided if the anti-government savage leaders even bothered to list their anti-government savage followers. http://thehill.com/policy/tech... . Even the most savage of people had to admit that net neutrality was a good thing.

With his bare face hanging out, martinX claimed:

Although the opposite seems to be the case: http://thehill.com/opinion/whi...

<sigh>

Of all the women cited in the anything-but-objective opinion piece to which you linked, ONLY Nikki Haley is even arguably qualified for the position to which she was appointed.

Of course, the same thing is true of most of Trump's male appointees, so he's at least an equal-opportunity incompetent ...

(Posting as AC only to keep from undoing prior upmods in this thread.)

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Check out my novel ...

Although the opposite seems to be the case:
http://thehill.com/opinion/whi...

I'm finding it hard to believe that this technology has not been available for a long time. Of course the system requites installation of the signaling systems. Here in the United States, major freight carriers have chaffed at even installing modern safety systems (The more we learn about Amtrak derailment the stranger it gets). But then again, those are "non-revenue generating" while this certainly has the potential. But also remember that unions have a say in manning. Again here in the US, unions fought tooth and nail when rail companies got rid of the caboose.

urgent need for a massive reskilling programme

As the swamp's "favorite" President seeks to cut down the number of people paid by the taxpayer (especially for things other than security), a "report" comes out suggesting yet another way, the taxpayers' monies can be spent.

Why should I be compelled to pay for somebody else's education, again? Because I studied Math, while these slobs were playing football in school — when not robbing me of my lunch-money?

Collapse of U.S. society? More details of the collapse:

Links about Trump
from 18 different organizations

Trump moving toward starting a nuclear war:

> Trump Says His "Nuclear Button" Is "Much Bigger" Than North Korea's (Jan. 2, 2018, New York Times)
Two unstable people threaten each other.

> How Does Trump Trump Trump? Start a War. (Jan. 6, 2018, Huffington Post)

> Cartoon: "My nuclear button is bigger than yours!"" (Jan. 4, 2018, Gary Varvel at ArcaMax.com)

Trump's lies:

> In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims. (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

> President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, New York Times)

> In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

> 10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

> Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"

Books about Trump:

> Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Published Jan. 5, 2018)
Four days after publication, there were 1,432 customer reviews; 82% were 5-star reviews.

> Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

> Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green (Published July 18, 2017)

> Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding (Published Nov. 16, 2017)

> It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

Sexual abuse:

> The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)

Trump is said to have paid to avoid publicity:
Lawyer paid $130k to silence adult-film star over sexual encounter with Trump: report (Jan. 12, 20

Unless of course we are actually fighting a war now - but nobody recognises it?

I nearly finished Tamim Ansary's Destiny Disrupted (2009) last night, a book which I highly commend to anyone as ignorant of the history of Islam as I was before picking up this book.

It reads like hanging out in a bar with your favourite egghead drinking buddy, who casually injects 100 times more information than what you've ever known during an extended bull sessions about the history and politics of the Middle East. Rated against anal-retentive scholarship, there are no doubt many bones to pick; rated against general-information bull sessions, it's an epic romp.

The Great Game

East of Iran, the Cold War simply looked like the Great Game revisited. The differences were only cosmetic. What had been czarist Russia was now called the Soviet Union. The role once played by Great Britain now belonged to the United States. The dynamics, however, were the same: the intrigues, the pressures, the threat of violence, and the actual bloodshed. ...

The core battlefield of the Great Game had been Iran, Afghanistan, and central Asia, and this region remained in play. The Russians of the nineteenth century has wanted to push south through Afghanistan to the Persian Gulf to secure a warm water port for their navies and shipping. The Soviets had the same interest, but with added stakes: geologists were now confirming that roughly 65% of the world's petroleum lay under and around the Persian Gulf ...

Huh. I wonder if any American troops are stationed in Afghanistan this very minute?

Afghanistan: 16 years, thousands dead and no clear end in sight — 2017
The Forever War — 2017
Trump shifts gears on Afghanistan — 2018

"My original instinct was to pull out and, historically, I like following my instincts. But all my life I've heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office," Trump said as he revealed the strategy.

Wow, what an amazing reveal—it sure is news to me that he's ever heard that once in all his natural born days.

Here's to your having a blast with your now spectacularly doubt-free "are we really at war?" executive time in the coming days and months, Mr Trump.

They changed the Trending section LAST NIGHT. That was BEFORE the #trumpshutdown had more tweets than #Schumershutdown.

Do you have a citation for this claim?

Let me guess, that poll is D+23 ? D+30 ?

Are we really going to have to have this discussion? Party affiliation is a fluid notion; people change whether they self-identify to pollsters as a given party to a large extent whether they are happy with the party or not. Using a high party affiliation is exactly the sort of notion that was the basis for "unskewing" polls in 2008 and 2012.

I guess you didn't take a Civics class to learn what is a Super majority. The Republicans DON'T control the Senate, which is why we're here.

This is a complete abuse of language. They have a majority. They don't have a super-majority. Control of the senate is exactly what they have, and is reflected in who the majority leader is, who controls committees, etc. Senate control is not determined by having enough votes to override a flilibuster. This is why for example PredictIt discusses what party will "control the senate" https://www.predictit.org/Market/2703/Which-party-will-control-the-Senate-after-2018-midterms. This is standard language. Now, putting the language issue aside, the point that the Republicans don't have enough votes to overcome a filibuster is a valid one in terms of explaining part of what is going on, but the idea that that means the Republicans lack control is pretty awful phrasing both in terms of denotations and connotations.

Because in 2013, in that case, it literally was. The Republicans at the time voted AGAINST the bill because it contained OBAMACARE financing. The contents of the actual CR was the issue that caused the shutdown, and it was all in order for sitting President at the time to pass his legislative agenda.

That wasn't Trump's argument. See here http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/369756-trumps-comments-blaming-obama-for-2013-government-shutdown-resurface.

Yesterday's bill was different. It had none of Trump's agenda even in it. The Democrats even got a bone in the form of 6 years of CHIP financing.

Schumer, the guy you like blaming, explicitly offered funding for the wall in negotiations with Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/01/20/schumer-offered-trump-something-democrats-hate-to-get-something-republicans-broadly-like/.

It doesn't because the Democrats did not vote against the contents of the bill. They voted because the bill didn't contain non-CR, non-related items, mostly Amnesty for a bunch of illegal aliens. Maybe you should ask yourself why the Democrats voted against 6 years of CHIP funding and an open governement, to try and force Amnesty of some 3M illegal aliens. Seems mighty Anti-american to me.

Disagrees with you doesn't make something "Anti-American" and it is disturbing that people decide that legitimate disagreements are in that category. Your comment also ignores that the people in question literally came here as young children and have lived in the US their entire lives, engaging in study here and economic productivity. If you want to throw around words like "Anti-American" I suppose someone can say that doing economic damage to the US as part of punishing people for the actions of their parents sounds Anti-American. But the majority of Americans, and even the majority of Republicans are in favor of DACA- see the last link above. The idea that DACA is somehow uniquely D

The TrumpShutdown Hashtag got far more Tweets than SchumerSchutdown http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumpshutdown-beats-schumershutdown-hashtag-battle-assign-blame/story?id=52487452. Twitter didn't make a political decision there. This is also in keeping with the fact that more Americans blame the Republicans than the Democrats for the shutdown https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/more-blame-republicans-than-democrats-for-potential-government-shutdown-post-abc-poll-finds/2018/01/19/c4fce2f6-fd32-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html?utm_term=.2b05358862e7, and that you can make reasonable arguments blaming a whole bunch of groups for the shutdown depending on what you want to focus on https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/18/if-the-government-shuts-down-heres-your-cheat-sheet-on-which-party-to-blame/?utm_term=.e08056687732, but given that the Republicans control the House, the Senate and the Presidency, and Trump explicitly said repeatedly during the Obama administration that any shut down would be the President's fault http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/369756-trumps-comments-blaming-obama-for-2013-government-shutdown-resurface, #TrumpShutdown makes a fair bit of sense anyhow.

Trump claims he wants Congress to pass a DACA deal. If funding the government is so important, then why let that stop you? Cut the deal, pass the budget, and move on.

Because then he'd be seen as backing down on the border wall. That's the real sticking point. DACA isn't really politically controversial -- the overwhelming majority of Americans want a deal for the Dreamers, including a majority of Republican voters. But the Freedom Caucus wants to couple that with funding Trump's border wall.

Would meetings by people in the campaign with what they believe to be people working for the Russian Government for purposes of obtaining favors rise to the level of collusion for you?

The definition of collusion is simple :

col . lu . sion
secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy, especially in order to cheat or deceive others.

So for this "meeting" to be collusion, it would require for it to be to "cheat" or "deceive" and have been secret or illegal. Does said meeting meet those requirements ?

Let's look at the other side. Was it in fact deception that even led to this meeting ? And did this deception require special steps from an outside influence ?

Is the fact the meeting took place collusion, or did collusion result in said meeting even taking place under false pretenses ? So what do you think about me thinking about a "simple meeting" being equal to collusion now ?

Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders

Now we know why the libs hate Trump so much. After all, he scored highest on his cognitive tests.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-...

And also because he was the best baseball player in New York in the early 1960s.

https://www.sportsgrid.com/as-...

Links about Trump
from 18 different organizations

Trump moving toward starting a nuclear war:

> Trump Says His "Nuclear Button" Is "Much Bigger" Than North Korea's (Jan. 2, 2018, New York Times)
Two unstable people threaten each other.

> How Does Trump Trump Trump? Start a War. (Jan. 6, 2018, Huffington Post)

> Cartoon: "My nuclear button is bigger than yours!" (Jan. 4, 2018, Gary Varvel at ArcaMax.com)

Trump's lies:

> In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

> President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, New York Times)

> In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

> 10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

> Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"

Books about Trump:

> Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Published Jan. 5, 2018)
Four days after publication, there were 1,432 customer reviews; 82% were 5-star reviews.

> Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

> Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green (Published July 18, 2017)

> Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding (Published Nov. 16, 2017)

> It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

Sexual abuse:

> The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)

Trump is said to have paid to avoid publicity:

Lawyer paid $130k to silence adult-film star over sexual encounter with Trump: report (Jan. 12, 2018, TheHill.com)

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Hawaii officials give timeline of events surrounding false alarm

Scaring the crap out of everyone is considered "a state exercise?"

It was a mistake by state officials, plain and simple.

Hawaii officials give timeline of events surrounding false alarm

Approx. 8.05 a.m.: A routine internal test during a shift change was initiated. This was a test that involved the Emergency Alert System, the Wireless Emergency Alert, but no warning sirens.

8.07 a.m.: A warning was erroneously triggered statewide by an employee at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA).

8.10 a.m.: State Adjutant Maj. Gen. Joe Logan validated with the US Pacific Command that there was no missile launch.

Honolulu Police Department notified of the false alarm by HI-EMA.

8.13 a.m.: State Warning Point issues a cancellation of the Civil Danger Warning Message. This would have prevented the initial alert from being rebroadcast to phones that may not have received it yet. For instance, if a phone was not on at 8.07am, it would not receive the alert later on.

I'm sure glad you're not making any decisions for me because you're conflating two different things:
- Access to iCloud Data (the subject of TFA).
    Apple has always divulged this data when presented with a warrant, whether in the U.S. or anywhere else that they operate:
    https://www.apple.com/lae/priv...
- Access to information on devices:
    Again, Apple co-operates with authorities when they can but cannot do so once a window of opportunity closes and the device is locked. This was the case for the Las Vegas shooter: http://thehill.com/policy/tech... and more generally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–Apple_encryption_dispute

One assumes that your other reasons for being "glad" you don't use Apple are just as ignorant as these.

You want a citation? here it is.

This is one of the biggest slam dunks in bipartisan issues going today. 83% overall support keeping the rules. 75% of Republicans polled support keeping it. 89% of Democrats polled want the rules to stay the same. 86% of Independents polled want the rules.

Very rarely do issues come along where it is a slam dunk with voters.

Likewise - Devin Nunes has nothing to do with Democrats or even Obama.

The reason to bring up Obama in this context is the last President's willingness — nay eagerness — to unmask US Citizens tangled in the surveillance for political reasons. The former Administration officials remain evasive about the process and procedures — they really are to blame for the actual privacy deterioration that took place.

After all, the worry is not so much that the NSA will know, who said something. It is what the rest of the government may do, when they learn about it.

If we aren't willing to block NSA from surveilling the foreigners, we better codify how to treat the cases of US citizens getting recorded incidentally — and not simply leave it up to the Executive, who has and will continue to abuse this power himself or by delegating to low-level unelected flunkies.

Looks like the Russian trolls aren't just using Facebook any more!

Looks like you're just as full of shit now as you were in 2003, when you ran around calling Iraq war skeptics Saddam supporters.