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Why do these people keep doing the same reports year after year? Every previous report has said the same thing.

From 2009

August, 2013

August 2013 again

September 2013

June 2014

We don't need any more studies to state the obvious.

The idea of Clinton being exonerated really seems to be a personal tragedy to a lot of you. You furiously dig for any scrap or phrase or any citation that will support your cause that SHE could do it but nobody else could because she is the anointed or something. Some of you posting here claim to have a security clearance yourself say that.

I find the last paragraph in fairly insightful:

Indicting Clinton would require the Justice Department to apply a legal standard that would endanger countless officials throughout the government, and that would make it impossible for many government offices to function effectively.

That really sums it up. Yes it isn't right, but people are trying to get their job done and sometimes the security rules just aren't serving the purpose.

You can argue that Hillary "gets away with it and nobody else does" all you want but it is equally valid to say Hillary gets investigated over it when nobody else does. You can say she was "careless" but what she was really careless about was not so much state secrets as giving her relentless opponents an opening to attack.

Grid storage has historically been cost prohibitive. However several big energy players are working with the auto industry to re-purpose used batteries from EV's and hybrids which is driving the cost of grid storage down making it more economically feasible.
You are correct that nuclear is the way to go based on existing technology but the NIMBY attitude is so strong getting them built anywhere is a monumental task and even if they get built face continuous resistance and scrutiny on a much larger scale than solar or wind.
If this product can produce a fraction of the claims it makes it will still be seen as a win for MoDOT.

And what does the NRA pay? I'm open for a bribe.

If you can make it to the US Senate, they'll pay you a bribe of up to $7.7million.

http://thinkprogress.org/polit...

I don't think either of us have been hiding under a rock for the past several years.

http://www.businessinsider.com...

I read that article but no-where does it blame men.

Are you serious? Male dominated "culture" must change or else women will not enter the culture. As Thinkprogress.org states:

"There is also persistent discrimination against women who enter the science and math fields. CTI’s study found that almost a third of “senior leaders” in STEM fields think a woman would never be able to reach top jobs at their organizations. A part of this surely comes from a general societal bias against women in those fields. Previous research has shown that even STEM professors doubt the ability of their female students. Biases against women in STEM start when they’re young girls and can become so ingrained as to actually make the girls worse at the subject. http://thinkprogress.org/econo...

So anyhow - who is doing this discrimination -the Flying Burrito Pug?

As well, they are far more likely to get into STEM if the classrooms do not have male type art on the wall:

Over and over, Dr. Cheryan and her colleagues have found that female students are more interested in enrolling in a computer class if they are shown a classroom (whether virtual or real) decorated not with “Star Wars” posters, science-fiction books, computer parts and tech magazines, but with a more neutral décor — art and nature posters, coffee makers, plants and general-interest magazines.

So men need to stop putting things that offend women on the walls. A Star Wars poster can keep them out of tech.?!?!

As well, the Barbie in a T-shirt and jeans might j8ust backfireon Mattel because yup, you guessed it, a person in jeans can apparently keep a young woman out of a STEM career. to wit:

In another experiment, Dr. Cheryan and her colleagues arranged for female undergraduates to talk to an actor pretending to be a computer science major. If the actor wore a T-shirt that said “I CODE THEREFORE I AM” and claimed to enjoy video games, the students expressed less interest in studying computer science than if the actor wore a solid shirt and claimed to enjoy hanging out with friends — even if the T-shirt-clad actor was another woman.

So it appears that the t-shirt barbie is wearing will actually be counterproductive. Girls don't like other girls in t-shirts

Here is the article cited. It unabashedly blames males, and for things like -- almost everything about them. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10...

To make up the list for the tl;dr crowd, what really keeps women out of STEM:

Star wars posters in the classroom

Science fiction books

computer parts

tech magazines

T-Shirrt on men or women with anything technical on them.

pop culture portrayals of scientists as white or asian men.

Guys drinking beer when you don't

This sounds so ridiculous that people should doubt my veracity, but its right there in the article. One of the most damning things on this list is "computer parts. If seeing computer parts keeps a woman out of STEM, just what on gawds green earth is she going to do when she sees on where she works? It is exceptionally difficult to work with computers when seeing one makes you quit working with them.

By the way, there is an easter egg in the second article, a one sentence paragraph that kinda sums it all up. Let's see if you find it.

I think you are reading too much into this. These people are not blaming men, not blaming 50% of the population. They are identifying institution

• Missouri: Of 38,970 applicants, 48 positive drug tests. Percentage: 0.03%
• Utah: Of 9,552 applicants. 29 positive drug tests.Percentage: 0.29%
• Kansas: Of 2,783 applicants, 11 positive drug tests. Percentage: 0.39%
• Mississippi: Of 3,656 applicants, 2 positive drug tests. Percentage: 0.05%
• Tennessee: Of 16,017 applicants, 37 positive drug tests. Percentage: 0.23%
• Arizona: Of 142,424 applicants, 3 positive drug tests. Percentage: 0.002%

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/econo...

• In 2014, US population: 318.9 million.
• Illicit and Marijuana Drug Use During 2014: 44,157,000.
• Percentage: 13.84%

Source: Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality. (2015). 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Detailed Tables. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Rockville, MD, - See more at: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cm...

how do you account for MILLIONS of weapons being dumped into the population's hands every year yet murders decline?

The people who are at prime murdering age have been either a) exposed to less lead after the EPA was formed or b) incarcerated (US has the highest incarceration rate in the developed world).

Plus, since the average gun owner now own 8.1 guns yet only has two hands, there bound to be diminishing murder returns per gun. Also (and this is true) the number of households that own guns has gone down. This decrease alone accounts almost precisely for the decrease in murders.

Also, your premise is flawed. More guns = more murder.

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

http://thinkprogress.org/justi...

These programs cost more than they 'save' and are all around useless.

This is bullshit, because the linked article is bullshit. Taking an example from the article for which all the numbers are available, Arizona had 142,424 welfare applicants, of whom 42 were referred for drug testing, 19 actually turned up for the testing, and 3 tested positive. Then they put up a bar chart showing only 3 positive drug tests out of 142,424 applicants! And the fraction of drug tests that came back positive is 3/19 = 16%, which is compatible with the rate of drug use in the general population.

But why did those other 42-19=23 applicants not turn up for their drug test? Because they knew damn well they'd fail it. The 3 who tested positive are just the ones too stupid to realise it. So a more realistic assessment would be that there were 3+23=26 drug users out of their pool of 42 selected for screening. That implies a drug use rate of 26/42 = 62%. And they only spent money on 19 drug tests (costing $500), and saved 26 people's worth of welfare cheques (much more than $500).

I should clarify here that I'm actually in favour of legalisation of drugs: I don't think these programs should exist, because I think drugs should be legal in the first place. But to claim that these programs don't save money, on the basis of such bullshit arguments, offends my intellectual integrity.

Really? I did a quick search and this is all I could find on the topic.

Point to the Christian mass shootings against gays in this country in the last 5-10 years.

You mean like the Christian terrorist who was thwarted in LA today from carrying out his attack on gays?

Of course there are the Christian terrorists shooting up abortion clinics.

Nuclear plants, when running normally, do not kill 28,000 birds a year

No, they kill hundreds of thousands. Which is at least a fraction of the millions killed by coal - and the hundreds of millions killed by glass windows, let alone cats.

most nuclear plants will never have an accident at all, much less one that harms the environment

True. Unfortunately, the few that do cause economic damage costing hundreds of billions.

Solar isn't perfect, but it's got a long way to go before it gets worse than our current alternatives.

You do realize every single muslim is on the right politically. The Right is where politics and religion mix. You can't have a liberal(left) religious government. Every religious based government is based on conservative viewpoints.

It's hard to be more wrong than what you wrote even though it fit's your bias nicely.

http://thinkprogress.org/secur...

Of course, there are the people who didn't realize the rule changed and thought they were parking illegally...

Negligence of the law isn't a defense, in either direction.

Unless you are a cop. http://thinkprogress.org/justi...

I'm thinking they will end up refunding or a class action suit will happen. It's the cops responsibility to know the laws they are writing out tickets for.

Sorry, that is wrong. Courts have found that you cannot expect a police officer to know the law that they are enforcing. And if they make a mistake it is ok and they can proceed with your trial and incarceration. http://thinkprogress.org/justi...

This is one opinion why. There are more online.

most of her significant wins have a cloud of large-scale voter suppression over them.

http://usuncut.com/politics/ne... http://www.democracynow.org/20... http://thinkprogress.org/polit...

When your guys is losing, there is always "large-scale voter suppression."

Actually, she's not winning free and clear; most of her significant wins have a cloud of large-scale voter suppression over them.

http://usuncut.com/politics/ne...
http://www.democracynow.org/20...
http://thinkprogress.org/polit...

And at least in NY that likely would have disproportionately older people (it seemed to hit people with old registrations more) and minorities (because they always get hit the worst by voting issues). Aka Hillary's base.

Whatever you think of Hillary's politics she won because more people wanted to vote for her and more people did vote for her.

The door to this was left open when 191 million voter records were leaked, making re-registration with edited details trivial. The earlier scandal over the DNC voter records being open allow for specific targeting of those not supporting Clinton which is the demographic reporting issues.

http://heavy.com/news/2016/04/...

Quite simply, yes, there's overwhelming signs that this election is being heavily rigged and in dirty

Ok, lets look at the first piece of evidence from that link.

Shelly Berry shared on Facebook that she had proof her New York voter registration was changed. Her registration was switched from Democrat to unaffiliated and she was told the change was made in 2012.

So Hillary's dastardly plan to rig the primary by specifically suppressing Bernie supporters began four years ago?

Otherwise do you have any idea how many people would need to be involved to mess with enough registration records to really affect the democratic primary? That's a 9-11 truther level of conspiracy theory.

Sure there are problems with the US's voting system, it's a disorganized mess, it may be worse this year or it might just look worse because of the extra scrutiny.

But voting issues + your favourite candidate not winning aren't the same as "overwhelming signs that this election is being heavily rigged and in dirty".

Actually, she's not winning free and clear; most of her significant wins have a cloud of large-scale voter suppression over them.

http://usuncut.com/politics/ne...
http://www.democracynow.org/20...
http://thinkprogress.org/polit...

And huge number of affidavit ballots cast in New York have simply not been counted.

Across the country, voters that have long been registered Democrat have discovered their registration details tampered to make their participation in closed primaries impossible. The door to this was left open when 191 million voter records were leaked, making re-registration with edited details trivial. The earlier scandal over the DNC voter records being open allow for specific targeting of those not supporting Clinton which is the demographic reporting issues.

http://heavy.com/news/2016/04/...

Quite simply, yes, there's overwhelming signs that this election is being heavily rigged and in dirty

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
                ---Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone

Yeah, these are the "masters of the universe" that tanked our economy, was bailed out for 10s of billions of dollars after their CEO became the treasury secretary, then outsourced 1,000 American jobs and gave their execs huge raises and paid "up to" a paltry $5 billion for defrauding their own customers.

No high level execs at Goldman Sachs went to jail,and the systemic problem is worse today than before the crisis.

Why would I give even even a penny to admitted criminals with a proven record of abusing their customers and being grossly selfish and irresponsible?!

Fuck those guys. Seriously.

"And we screwed up again in Iraq."

stabiesoft, respectfully, there is no "we". The people who started the Iraq war did it for money, and because they deal with life by being aggressive. They kill, or try to destroy the life of, anyone who tries to limit their aggression. Two of hundreds of sources:

House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties

9 Ridiculous Passages From Former Vice President Dick Cheneyâ(TM)s New Book

They can do it because you want to live there. Its called economics.

Luxury development is a nation-wide problem.

Out of every five multifamily rentals built in the country's biggest cities from 2012 to 2014, four were luxury apartments "that command rents in the top 20 percent of the market," the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The 82 percent figure that real estate researchers at CoStar Group came up with in its analysis for the newspaper is an average of data from 54 separate metro areas. The percentage is even higher in some cities from the list, such as Atlanta's 95 percent luxury construction rate from the three-year period.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/05/22/3662239/luxury-housing-80-percent-developers/

There are already electric trucks and even electric semi trucks out there [...]

Yes. Here's one. There's only one issue, FTA:

The 40-ton truck has a range of about 62 miles per charge [...]

This might be okay for Germany, but it isn't going to work out well in the US.

Backward companies like Mack,GM, Ford,and Freightliner [...]

Well, for the US, Freightliner is going hybrid.

here ya go

Why would Watts try to suppress a video calmly showing how his 'discovery' of bad weather stations was totally bunk? They compared the stations Watts' said were good with the full set...and the data from them was *exactly* the same as the whole data set Watts claimed is flawed because of the bad stations; which the gov readily admits have issues. I.e. they know about the issues and mitigate them as any good scientist does when working with imperfect data where you know the imperfections.

I have local friend and family who say they actually put a shit-ton of them in jail and (highly illegal - or so I understand, I'm not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure it is) they arrested them (or took them into custody) and put them either in vans or on the bus. I've been told both vans and buses by different people. I'm also told that there's a bit of a cover-up for this but I have absolutely no way of knowing BUT I've been told this by three different people during the run-up to the game.

I think I might have even mentioned it, here specifically, and I want so say that someone confirmed it in a reply - and I think it was here. I'm almost positive it was here. I... I say a lot. ;-) I'm not gonna go read through all my old posts to find it.

In fact, if I understand correctly, someone important has a kid who was hauled away mistakenly and that this might have repercussions and result in a bit of a media dust-up but I've seen nothing more of it. Of course, I don't actually read the news that much and I really don't read the news for San Fransisco. But, nobody has mentioned it since - that I've seen. So, I've no clue how valid any of that is but it wouldn't surprise me. In fact, I recall being mostly amused by it. I'm kind of old to go getting outraged at everything. I don't have time or inclination to do so. People will be people.

Hmm... A quick Google isn't telling me a whole lot of scandalous results. They say they moved 24 and put them in a homeless shelter in this article:
http://thinkprogress.org/econo...

What bothers me is that there are usually zero free beds at that time of the year. So... Where did they put the 24 people who would have slept in those beds? More interesting is how come the number is only 24? 'Cause I have been there and have stomped all over the city - for months when I was younger and even worked out of SF for almost six months at one point and I don't actually believe the number is as low as 24. That's off by an order of magnitude, maybe even two. Ah well... I don't keep up with it and it was mentioned as items of interest by those who brought it up but it hasn't been mentioned again.

What corporation isn't a whore?

PayPal as per this story? The NFL? http://www.washingtonexaminer....

Arizona came close to losing the Super Bowl - heck that might have been 15 dollars of profit...

Georgia

http://www.breitbart.com/sport...

Indiana: http://www.indystar.com/story/...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03...

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/...

Ther are many more.

Because the peopel who want to impose their beliefs on othes are just a minority of loud assholes, most Americans simply don't give a dman about other peopels sex lives, and would prefer th loud assholes would just go bak to handling snakes,

A cross-dressing boy has nothing to do with a transgender woman. A cross-dressing boy is still a boy and would be kicked out of said locker room without this law. However, this law requires actual (transgender) men (which look indistinguishable from cis men) to use that locker room; leaving way for your cross-dressing boy room to blend right in if he so chooses.

Now at the same time, you're putting transgender women at risk. The assault trans for trans women is already beyond ridiculous (see here and here). Do you really think forcing trans women into a situation where A) they are vulnerable and B) they must out themselves against potential transphobic attackers is a great idea? Do you really?

So, about that applying common sense thing... Perhaps you should follow your own advice.

Obviously, the transgender woman (not man) should prevail. By forcing her to use the men's room, she has a significant risk of harassment or assault. US law guarantees the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".

It does not guarantee the right to never feel slightly uncomfortable.

Oh, and in case you never learned it: Democracy does not equate to "majority rule". True democracy respects the will of the majority while at the same time putting in place institutions and laws to protect the rights of everyone, not just the majority. Even if 95% of Americans wanted to remove the right to vote from people whose names started with "Q", to actually do so would be highly undemocratic.

What becomes the labia in females becomes the scrotum in males.

Sure. And it all happens long before birth.

It puts transgender people at risk without increasing anyone else's safety.

BS. Certainly an opportunistic heterosexual voyeur, stalker (or even a rapist) can put on a dress and prey on women in bathrooms all day. Without this law, police have nothing to arrest him for until he actually strikes. So the law, by giving law enforcement legal means for removing such predators does increase somebody's safety. And, sure, the brave "progressives" denounce this argument as a "myth", but it is not.

Whether protecting women (50+% of population) justifies inconveniencing the transgendered (0.5%) may be a valid question, but North Carolina answered it for themselves, following a democratic process. I see no reason to disagree with them and you are yet to explain, why Evangelicals are especially responsible for the decision you dislike.

Did you read the papers on Dick Swaab's brain-bank studies of the brains of transgender people?

I will, before talking to him. Meanwhile you are yet to explain, why person born with penis and without vagina (or with both X and Y chromosomes) calling himself a woman is any more sane, than a human calling himself a cat or Napoleon. If you wish to further argue this part, please, be sure to include a definition of the terms "man" and "woman" in your reply. For a student of biology such as yourself, this should not a burden.

it also contained provisions explicitly banning local LGBT non-discrimination ordinances

Opposing special treatment of a certain group is not equivalent to attack on the group.

contention [...] doesn't make it a fact

Sure. It is just that I deem this particular contention self-evident and your sole attempt at a counter-example fell flat...

In North Carolina, it is illegal for me to use the women's restroom even though I am a transgender woman and look completely female. And transgender people face enormous rates of harassment when forced to use the wrong washroom with 9% reporting assault.

but would like to ban religious people from running for office?

Where on earth did I say that? Religious people are quite welcome to run for office. What they should not do is push their religious beliefs on others by making public policy.

I'm afraid, your understanding of laws and ethics is just as messed up as your sexuality.

My sexuality? Where did I mention my sexuality? Oh right, you're among the many ignorant people who conflate gender identity with sexual orientation... I forgot that there are a lot of you out there.

http://thinkprogress.org/clima... Significant subsidy to fossil fuels companies. The taxes they pay are wholly irrelevant in a discussion about whether they receive assistance. By far and away the biggest subsidy though is being able to release all the CO2 for free. It's cost is staggering unless you're denying climate change and humans driving of it...

How many? Well, it depends where you live.

Well, in the US, it takes only a few nutters committing a bad crime for the country to decide it's war, because war is one of the few things that people in the United States think they understand.

Europe actually understands war, so it would require a hostile attack from a recognised country. If it helps, remember that the IRA caused more deaths and damage in Europe than ISIS could ever dream of, and the UK never really considered itself to be at war. The UK knows what war is, and it's not that.

I don't want to downplay ISIS, who are definitely destroying the lives of people in the (thankfully shrinking) areas that they control. As murderous despotic regimes go, they're up there. But when it comes to terrorist attacks in Europe go, they're playing in the minor leagues. Separatist organisations are a far worse threat.

Just read this.

Why hydrogen is stupid as fuel for cars

While you and others who think they're smarter than everyone else are poo-pooing the idea, us crazy ones out here in California are actually trying it out to see how well (or not) it will work. In point of fact, we've already got filling stations open, with more on the way. That kind of puts an end to the discussion of whether it can be done or not -- it already has been done.

Just read this.

Why hydrogen is stupid as fuel for cars

While Apple earns more from all areas of the world added up than it does in the U.S., its largest sales by far come from the Americas. And one of the company’s most notable tactics for lowering what it owes in taxes is using three subsidiaries it headquartered in Ireland, which has a corporate tax rate of 12 percent and where Apple has been accused of inking a sweetheart deal where it only has to pay a 2 percent rate, and routing most global revenue through them. While those subsidiaries pay royalties to the U.S.-based headquarters that it pays taxes on, most profit is left in Ireland. The tax analysis group Citizens for Tax Justice has calculated that the company would owe $59.2 billion in U.S. taxes if it didn’t hold so much profits offshore.

So where are all of the slashdot complainants about offshoring now? Why are they all silent? Is it only offshoring of labor that they dislike? Only H1B charades that get you angry?

At some point, there will be no more rich people who want to live in San Francisco, and developers will start to concentrate on moderately priced housing.

It's not San Francisco. It's a nationwide problem as developers are focused almost exclusively on luxury housing.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/05/22/3662239/luxury-housing-80-percent-developers/

The Polar Vortex was a local phenomenon, and while the Lower 48 was freezing its nuts off, Alaska was 18 degrees C warmer than usual.

You're confusing local weather events with the global temperature record. I wouldn't go yelling about bad science if I were you...

Yet you're paraphrasing. Do you have a link to the transcript of that comment?

“And the other thing is with the terrorists, you have to take out their families. They, they care about their lives. Don’t kid yourself. But they say they don’t care about their lives. You have to take out their families.” link

Asked about it later, he refused to back down

Yet you're paraphrasing. Do you have a link to the transcript of that comment?

“And the other thing is with the terrorists, you have to take out their families. They, they care about their lives. Don’t kid yourself. But they say they don’t care about their lives. You have to take out their families.” link

Asked about it later, he refused to back down

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/12/15/3603686/supreme-court-if-youre-a-cop-mistakes-about-the-law-wont-stop-your-drug-bust/

And that was an 8-1 ruling, so nothing Obama or the next President does to the Court is going to change the new law that ignorance of the law IS an excuse if you are responsible for enforcing the law.

The fact is that the world and the US DID have a consensus regarding human-induced climate change prior to the Koch brothers injection of denialism into the public discussion. You have only to read some of the eexhaustive and authoritative books available to you : Dark Money, Merchant of Doubt Doubt Is Their Product and The Hockey Stick And The Climate Wars to understand therehas been a deliberate coordinated attack on climate science and climate scientists for the express purpose of deferring and delaying action on climate change. The Koch brothers own study told them the mainstream science was correct, and they buried that study.

http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

Alright then. What are we really looking at? We are looking at a group of terrorists who have built and set off a bomb called global climate warming with the specific intent of handing the world's governments- which governments they have openly called for the desmantling and destruction of- a problem so large they will not be able to cope with the fallout. They have set off a bomb which they believe will cause the collapse of the United States Government. In this they have been aided by anti-government conservatives, conservative moevements, conservative think tanks, other conservative billionaires, all stripes of conservative publications, editors writers and bloggers. Each and everyone of is a terrorist or a supporter of terorism and the result of those terrrorist activities is hundreds of millions dead and condemend to death the permanent destrcution of the habitiblity of large portions of the Earth , mass envrionmentally caused political upheaval, population dislocation wars and diseases taking the lives of yet hundrends of millions more.

Those are crimes. Those are crimes so vast, the criminals believe they can never be charged with them. The criminals believe they will not be held accountable. The criminals believe there are too many of them to be prosecuted and their actions resemble too closely mere opinion offering to ever be labled as crimes.

I'll give them this- their plan to radically deconstrcut then reconstrcut the American government is going to suceeded beyone their wildest dreams. Because under our pre-Global Warming system of government, they would have gotten away with everything. But as we the afflicted, the destroyed, the people forced to live under the New Koch-Inflicted Reality, we the victims of Scalia and Thomas and Americans for Prosperity and the Wall Street Journal and Scaife and Murdoch and Norquist and all the tens of thousands of other organizations and individuals who together joined to systematically destroy our species common heritage, our ability to sustain life human civiliation on this planet, take power they will meet a very different United States Government. They won't be facing corporate water-carrying bitch boys and and fucking house niggers like Holder and Obama. No, it'll be more like the full Black Lives Matter treatment, joined by Yellow Lives Matter and Red Lives Matter and While Lives Matter and All Lives Matter. They'll be facing real justice courtesy of the United States Government and in accordance with the United States Government's laws, served up hot and they'll be no limit to scope of their assets we'll seize, or the nooses the United States Government's courts of law will sentence them to swing from.

In the pre-Global Warming American government, no mere opinion maker would have been put on trial for his life for "opinions" he offered. Under the post Global Warming American Government, they're very lkely find that the tolerance for mass-murder via mass-lies has been exhausted and, just as the world will witness unthinkable climatic and ecological and social events, so too the world will witness the trial of "average" citizens for Crimes Against Humanity. Let them tell the court and the wo

It's a good thing that this has been tested before they asked you.

http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

There is more about the ruling here http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

Apparently, China's peak coal consumption occurred in 2013 http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

Fails as I don't drink.

So because you don't drink, nobody every drinks? Well argued. Guess this didn't happen then. or this. or this. or this. or this. Aren't the things that don't happen amazing?

- I then stab my spouse to death because the gun wouldn't fire. outcome worse than 'bad'.

So it's ok to kill people while on methamphetamine, because people high on coke also kill people sometimes?

Well argued.

Scenario 2: (a) the burglar isn't a burglar, he's a home invader.

And also, he's constantly chasing a long legged bird with the aim of capturing/killing said bird with products he has purchased from ACME corporation. And you forgot to mention he is a coyote.

(b) daughter knows not to sneak in.

Oh. that's all right then, I guess. We don't need to worry about the dead kids.

(c) try finding this actually happening. Removing a firearm from an armed person's hands only really happens in the movies. It's too easy to just shoot somebody trying to snatch your weapon.

OK then

(d) bad conservative/libertarian police: So what? It's the intruder's fault for breaking in. If he doesn't want to risk getting shot, he shouldn't be breaking in.

Sure. We don't need to worry about the dead kids. Just pile em up out back.

The U.S. government has killed, or caused the death of, an estimated 11,000,000 people since the end of the 2nd world war.

War is extremely profitable for some corporations: House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger. Bush and Cheney started a war that was profitable for them.

In some ways, the U.S. government is the most violent government on earth. For example, the U.S. has the largest percentage of its citizens in prison, of any country, in any century. The prison system is hugely profitable for prison corporations.

ACLU: With only 5% of the world's population, the U.S. has 25% of the world's prison population.

ThinkProgress: The United States Has The Largest Prison Population In The World -- And It's Growing.

The U.S. government is EXTREMELY corrupt in some areas. A few areas of corruption:

Finance: in 2008, banks were allowed to steal from taxpayers. Bank managers were rewarded with extremely high pay: The Divide. "New York Times bestseller -- Named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews".

Health care: The new health care system will further bankrupt the country. The ACA, Affordable Care Act, is NOT affordable. #1 Best Seller: America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Back-Room Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System.

Prison system: The U.S. has the largest percentage of its citizens in prison, of any country, in any century. The prison system is hugely profitable for prison corporations. ACLU: With only 5% of the world's population, the U.S. has 25% of the world's prison population. ThinkProgress: The United States Has The Largest Prison Population In The World -- And It's Growing.

Violence: The U.S. government has killed, or caused the death of, an estimated 11,000,000 people since the end of the 2nd world war. War is extremely profitable for some corporations: House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger. Bush and Cheney started a war that was profitable for them.

RTFA http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

2015 is virtually certain to beat 2014's record as the planet's warmest year since record keeping began in 1880

Not according to satellite data cherry picked and misrepresented by well known serial climate liar Roy Spencer

FTFY.
Plus, unless you just have no clue how to read a chart, the chart at your link clearly does show warming.
which is probably the rest of the climate science community stopped taking Roy Spencer seriously a long time ago.

For more his greatest hits, check out:
https://www.skepticalscience.c...
http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

That quote is ridiculous. Anybody who's ever been to a gun show can tell you it's one of the safest most orderly mass congregations of people you'll ever have the pleasure of attending. The stuff that's for sale adheres to strict local, state, and federal laws. And there is no tolerance by the show management, attendees, or other vendors of shenanigans.

six people shot in one week at gun shows.

That's just one example. Googling "man shot gun show" yields a veritable treasure-trove of examples of accidental discharges at gun shows.

Kind of an odd definition of "safest most orderly mass congregations of people you'll ever have the pleasure of attending", seeing as how I have never been to an event where anyone was shot, including a 4th of July concert where there were a million people.

Yes, there is growing evidence. If the oceans became anoxic in past global warming extinction events, then it stands to reason that anoxia is a risk in the anthropocene.

And that temperature risk is on top of the acidification risk which is already being felt.

http://thinkprogress.org/clima...
http://news.mit.edu/2015/ocean...

You have to be in deep denial to think the oceanic (or land-based) food chain "seems just fine". It is anything but.

There is no "do nothing" option. We have the choice of continuing current biosphere-damaging industrial processes (the real extreme here) or switching to processes that stay within ecological limits that the biosphere is able to handle.