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I didn't RTFA but I'm gonna guess it has something to do with the wall and children in cages.

The "cages" are a product of feverish imagination. We are perfectly entitled to build a wall — nothing unethical about it.

The idea that they are raging SJWs who object to all immigration control is just silly

Abolish ICE is just that — because someone told them about the imaginary "children in cages", thousands of people call for the abolition of any and all efforts by the US to protect its borders. Communists are spear-heading the movement, as one might expect, and will even sally themselves with your money (the root of all evil) over it.

Surely you don't actually believe that.

Once again, you are shown to be in denial about the evil of the crowd you choose to affiliate with at best, or are willingly lying at worst...

Yeah, I can imagine it now:

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

And:

https://twitchy.com/brettt-313...

"CNN is reporting is an 18-mile-long funeral procession for Officer Charles “Joe” Gliniewicz"

every activist group in the country would be calling for their job—and they’d get it.
Josh Jordan remarked

Fake news had a very specific meaning, which is propaganda consisting of outright lies masquerading as real news to influence public opinion in a given way.

No, the term "fake news" is looney left propaganda made up in the face of Hillary's loss to explain why she lost. The MSM has been putting out fake news stories for years about Republicans, and finally people are pushing back.

Let's take an example. Time Magazine reporter Zeke Miller pushed a fake news story (literally: he made it up and it's factually incorrect) about the bust of MLK being removed from the White House by the Trump administration. Now, when he was caught and outed he quickly retracted the story, but it was already out. I know how this works, because I still check facebook every week or so. By the time he retracted the story, it was too late. It's already made its way into stupid meme pictures being shared about facebook. Since the lefties don't pay attention to anything but their echo chambers they have no idea the story was fake because Media Matters isn't going to bother telling them. So it lives on.

You think Time learned? Of course they learned. They learned that fake news is better than the real thing when smearing your opponents (let that sink in for a minute that a news source has "opponents"). So here we go again:

http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136...

Amazing. Trump's "travel ban" (based on a law signed by Obama, but I digress) was able to time travel and force someone to be detained last December before Trump was President. Fake News. Period. Time *did* quietly update the story with no mention of the changes anywhere, no retraction, tweet still up.

So, yeah, we know what "fake news" is. We see it all the time. I got tired enough of it that I started taking certain people out of my facebook feed.

Which is exactly what Hillary's position was/is back in 2005

http://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/...

You sound a lot like the winner. Who's ranted against free speech, and freedom of the press. And that's just this week.

Priceless: That moment when the MSM realizes Trump just took a position advocated by Hillary Clinton in 2005

As the media freaks out over Donald Trump’s latest tweet, this one on criminalizing the burning of the American flag, here’s something you probably won’t read a lot about: Hillary Clinton agrees with the president-elect (or at least she used to):

Ted Cruz pointed this out when he autographed a troll's copy of The Communist Manifesto.

He is always doubling down his position

http://twitchy.com/2016/04/20/...

and I doubt he will answer a real challenge

https://stevengoddard.wordpres...

He isn't particularly informative but it is fun to watch him squirm.

First Lady Michelle Obama didn’t accompany her husband on the first leg of his trip, opting instead to fly separately.

We’re losing count of how many planes, helicopters and vehicles are involved, but it looks like somebody’s trying to make the carbon footprint too large to calculate so as to ward off any charges of eco-hypocrisy.

And tomorrow, Earth Day, we’ll all be lectured about climate change.

I keep having flashbacks to the Talking Barbie who when you pulled her string, said "Math is hard!"

Because the entire gist of th e story is thatbecause algebraII is hard, and some peopel drop out because of math being so hard......

Get ready for it......

We must make school so easy that no one is even remotely put upon. That's the takeaway.

I pretty much sucked at algebra. Turned out I had possibly the worst algebra teacher in the world.

But after a different, non math class where teh instructor taught us how to use slide rules, a miracle happened - I became rather good at it.

Point is, I'm not saying that we have to learn how to use slide rules - although they do illustrate a mathamechanical concept that really worked for me - th epoint is that perhaps it needs taught better.

One thing I do know, the common core mathematics children are being taught today makes the very basic maths darn near incomprehensible, and can turn the simplest problems into gobbledygook. http://toprightnews.com/insani...

http://twitchy.com/2013/10/04/...

While the far right has gone nuts over CC, the fact is that the simplest forms of math should not be so insane.

But I digress.

For as much as I hated algebra and my poor grades in it for one year, I use it on a daily basis now. And others might too, because who among us can say with certainty what skills we learn in our education will be needed in our careers and lives.

Perhaps you are not clear about what harassment is?

If you take a little bit of Google for a moment, you learn that harassment is "aggressive pressure or intimidation".

Your definition is too broad.

In a world where many young women believe if a man asks you out and you don't like him, it is sexual harassment, it gets a little hazy as to what sexual harassment is. Sometimes trying to pick up a simple friendship might be harassment. http://www.avvo.com/legal-answ...

My favorite answer to the question is the attorney who answered the question starting with "There should not normally be a problem" Oy. Certainly John Edwards' former blogmaster Amanda Marcotte believes that it is http://twitchy.com/2014/04/21/...

As she wrote on Gawker after the High School boy asked out "Miss America", which was just a silly trend for a few years of your people asking celebrities to proms: "I really wish people would stop acting like it’s cute when teenage boys sexually harass older women. " http://twitchy.com/2014/04/21/...

And here is the problem. As most of us know - once accused, always guilty in many people's minds. So we can have all of the googling of law we can handle, yet there will always be people with an axe to grind, so why get caught up in that.

Any male that is remotely prudent and is career minded would be insane to get within ten feet of a woman he did not know well. He's playing roulette with his life and career. I wouldn't be too surprised if there were some women who simply don't want to be talked to by a man at all. So a prudent guy simply leaves well alone.

Perhaps you are not clear about what harassment is?

If you take a little bit of Google for a moment, you learn that harassment is "aggressive pressure or intimidation".

Your definition is too broad.

In a world where many young women believe if a man asks you out and you don't like him, it is sexual harassment, it gets a little hazy as to what sexual harassment is. Sometimes trying to pick up a simple friendship might be harassment. http://www.avvo.com/legal-answ...

My favorite answer to the question is the attorney who answered the question starting with "There should not normally be a problem" Oy. Certainly John Edwards' former blogmaster Amanda Marcotte believes that it is http://twitchy.com/2014/04/21/...

As she wrote on Gawker after the High School boy asked out "Miss America", which was just a silly trend for a few years of your people asking celebrities to proms: "I really wish people would stop acting like it’s cute when teenage boys sexually harass older women. " http://twitchy.com/2014/04/21/...

And here is the problem. As most of us know - once accused, always guilty in many people's minds. So we can have all of the googling of law we can handle, yet there will always be people with an axe to grind, so why get caught up in that.

Any male that is remotely prudent and is career minded would be insane to get within ten feet of a woman he did not know well. He's playing roulette with his life and career. I wouldn't be too surprised if there were some women who simply don't want to be talked to by a man at all. So a prudent guy simply leaves well alone.

Until some politician like this claims "harassment" because their malicious tweets are permanent parts of the public record. Never mind the fact that a lot of politicians could stand to take a heaping dose of "harassment" for the garbage that they spew and do on a regular basis. When the right one, probably a liberal democrat, crybullies Twitter hard enough, they'll pull the plug.

Because that's what they do. This is a site that banned Milo Yiannopoulos for a while, but has never touched Randi Harper's accounts despite the fact that the former is a journalist and the latter a female troll so bad that a major open source community was willing to risk opprobrium by asking her to leave.

Of course, you're not just using this as a pretext to attack your favorite boogeyman of the moment, the mythical "social justice warrior", are you? Because that would be stupid.

Would that be the mythical SJW's who threatened to shoot black students/people, while claiming to be white but were actually black? Or perhaps we should look at what happened at Yale and Mizzou, you know where people took the "it was a bunch of guys riding around in a pickup /white students harassing blacks/etc" that didn't actually happen.

Well, that was all mythical right?

In the event somebody may have noted this already, Sony has decided to cancel the release to all theaters this afternoon. It was not the theater chains' decision. I guess Sony Entertainment et al didn't want to risk seeing any of the threats come to fruition. Here are some links for your perusal: http://twitchy.com/2014/12/17/... http://www.theblaze.com/storie... Meanwhile, there may be an idea of who is behind the breach and release: http://www.theblaze.com/storie...

I'd like to point out that there are a LOT of unhinged gun control proponents out there as well. Like the guy who suggested dragging Republicans behind a truck until they "see the light on gun control". Or the guy who explicitly threatened to kill recall activists taking signatures in Colorado. It may be less publicized, but it's there: http://twitchy.com/2012/12/16/...

They're armed too. And they have funny ideas about what a right means. And they are also paranoid! Oh and they're pandered to by a major political party.

I won't lump all gun control proponents in with the likes of them. But rest assured, both sides of this fight have unhinged crazies. And they're both just as dangerous...

If this was anyone who wasn't a Democrat we would be hearing out it for hours straight on CNN.
 
Call immediately for her resignation: 573.751.0100

It's now apparent that Obama and the Democrats were lying when they said people could keep their insurance, lying when they said people could keep their doctors, lying when they said families would save $2,500 a year on their insurance, and lying when they said it would extend health care coverage to most of the uninsured (who are largely not signing up). Millions of people have lost their insurance or had huge hikes in their premiums.

The only people the law has been good for are insurance companies, Medicaid bureaucrats who get to expand their budgets, feminists who get to force taxpayers and Catholics to pay for their abortions and people paid to make those insulting "get covered" ads.

As far as I can tell, ObamaCare has not a single defender outside the ranks of Obama's defenders and the Democratic Party.

It's a horrific law that should be repealed in full.

Yes, it should be repealed in full.

Speaking of horrific, what did the trend look like before Obamacare came along for insurance premiums? Oh yeah, that's right...gee, can't wait to get back to that shit.

It's now apparent that Obama and the Democrats were lying when they said people could keep their insurance, lying when they said people could keep their doctors, lying when they said families would save $2,500 a year on their insurance, and lying when they said it would extend health care coverage to most of the uninsured (who are largely not signing up). Millions of people have lost their insurance or had huge hikes in their premiums.

The only people the law has been good for are insurance companies, Medicaid bureaucrats who get to expand their budgets, feminists who get to force taxpayers and Catholics to pay for their abortions and people paid to make those insulting "get covered" ads.

As far as I can tell, ObamaCare has not a single defender outside the ranks of Obama's defenders and the Democratic Party.

It's a horrific law that should be repealed in full.

And now kicking elderly people out of their own homes with his brown shirts.

Shutdown meltdown: Elderly residents kicked out of private Lake Mead homes; 60 families affected

You pathetic morons should be ashamed you ever supported this turd. Flamebait indeed. More like community billboard. Can't wait till he comes for you.

As long as it apples to everyone. http://twitchy.com/2013/07/13/twitter-lynch-mob-threatens-to-kill-george-zimmerman/

It applies to everyone. It also applies in this case.

In all fairness the discussion if this is against Twitter's TOS or not is a moot point. Threatening somebody verbally or via Twitter with death and bodily harm is an offense in most jurisdictions and should be prosecuted as such. The problem is that jurisdictions have lost all sense of proportion and forgotten about "mens rea". Although the latter is also a concept lost on our little-esteemed lawmakers.

Is it ok to sentence a particularily bad troll to a couple of hundreds of hours of community service with no prior conviction attached? Yes! Definitely! This seems appropriate in this mad mob threatening death and rape to somebody simply for wanting a woman on a bit of paper.
Is it ok to sentence a particularly egregious troll to a jail sentence but unleash him on the unwelcoming population on probation? Possibly earning him a prior conviction? Depends. The guy who posted nasty stuff on dead teenager's tribute facebook pages would qualify for this.
Is it ok to sentence a definite madman who not only threatens but also prepares to carry out his threats? I'm fairly certain we already have laws to convict somebody for threatening and preparing for murder if we can establish his intent beyond reasonable doubt. We also had those laws before Columbine(and 9/11). So no kneejerk legislation would be needed.
Is it OK to jail a kid for a couple of months before his day in court and to set his bail at a cool 500k bob with a lengthy jail-time dangling over his head to intimidate him into a very bad plea bargain? Have you gone off your rocker? It bloody well isn't!


So much for trolling. The other issue is why people think this is acceptable behaviour. It isn't If you behaved like this in meat-space and then turned up at a police station to complain about your somewhat broken nose they'd might break the other one and send you on your merry way. If you and your broken noses actually faced the guy who smacked you around for a bit in front of a judge the judge would most likely throw the whole case out because your vile behaviour was the main cause for your nose-breakage.


There is a difference between trolling just to take a dump in a discussion and actual hurtful trolling. In this case a young woman campaigned for a cause she felt passionately about but which to the most of us was a cause of supreme indifference. Yet an angry mob slapped her down in a most vile and nasty fashion. And yet we wonder why women don't participate in politics, IT, business and other areas as much as we'd hope for. That's 50% of human-kind not contributing to their fullest potential. Small wonder when the other 50% resorts to this bile or more underhanded methods. In a better world these guys would qualify for Darwin awards by not procreating. Which sometimes makes me wonder...
I really, really hope this guy who got nicked(and the sorry rest of those) gets sentenced to some humiliating community service. Or better still a place where he can actually help ease the excesses this mindset brought forward. I should be "volunteered" to assist in a womans shelter and be thrown into jail if he just as much as utters one snide remark.


This is NOT a freedom of speech issue. This is not a Twitter TOS issue. Shutting down his Twitter account is not quite sufficient. And this is not an issue for new kneejerk legislation that could potentially put him into jail for the next 5 years. But it is an issue for true punitive action. Because it is so wrong on so many levels I wouldn't even know where to stop.

‘Bingo’: Iowahawk sums up the jobs report in one tweet about Taco Bell

David Burge @iowahawkblog

Unemployment report in a nutshell: the Taco Bell that had 30 40 hour workers now has 40 30 hour workers.

Behind the Dismal Jobs Numbers: The ‘New’ Economy Takes Shape

Another way to look at this is that corporations will cut costs wherever possible, including not offering benefits at all if they're not forced (one way or another) to do so.

Part time workers need health care too and this is just one more example of how companies really don't give a shit about their employees.

And I hate to say it but being in the trenches i can say its true, the reason is Obamacare which i said before it passed was gonna be a disaster, and wadda ya know? it is.

What we NEEDED was a single payer option and caps on the crazy drug and insurance prices, what we GOT is practically a love letter to those same drug and insurance companies so all the businesses are just making everybody short timers. in the past few months i don't think I've had a single customer under 40 that is getting full time anymore, they ALL have been cut to less than 30. this is really hurting a lot of families and i expect to see disability and food stamp rolls explode as folks scrabble to get on the dole just to survive.

So don't buy the bullshit they are selling on the coasts folks, here in the heartland I can tell you things are pretty fucking bad. I have a feeling we are gonna be seeing a "dead kid and old folk" summer as the weaker kids drop and the old folks cook because their families can no longer pay the bill for the AC thanks to being put on short time, everything from construction to services are either letting folks go and replacing with short timers or are just making sure no employee gets above 30 but in both cases its really hurting the working poor folks, its really getting bad here in the flyover states.

‘Bingo’: Iowahawk sums up the jobs report in one tweet about Taco Bell

David Burge @iowahawkblog

Unemployment report in a nutshell: the Taco Bell that had 30 40 hour workers now has 40 30 hour workers.

Behind the Dismal Jobs Numbers: The ‘New’ Economy Takes Shape

You can't prove that a Darwin fish is more likely to be stolen than a Palin-Huckabee 2016 sticker. Or, for that matter, a Mitt Romney one

http://twitchy.com/2012/09/29/got-a-romney-bumper-sticker-or-yard-sign-watch-out-for-these-unhinged-libs/

In fact it would be interesting to test if bumper stickers expressing a minority opinion were more likely to be defaced than ones expressing a majority one - perhaps holders of minority opinions are more prone to defacement because they are minorities.

Also minority opinions may well be the majority in some areas. Maybe they want payback for mistreatment they suffered when they were in the minority.

You're best off without any stickers on your car, though. They're the most reliable indicator of road rage.

Agreed. If you tell complete strangers your political views you shouldn't be too surprised if some of them object in a crazy way.

Federal Prosecutor Oritz said Aaron's suicide won't change how she handles cases:
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/01/ortiz_says_suicide_will_not_change_handling_cases

And Assistant United States Attorney Stephen Heymann 'drove another hacker Jonathan James to suicide in 2008 after he named him in a cyber crime case':
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262831/Revealed-Aaron-Swartz-prosecutor-drove-hacker-suicide-2008-named-cyber-crime-case.html

Here are some other grubby cases Oritz has been involved in: http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/01/17/carmen-ortizs-sordid-rap-sheet/

Ortiz’s husband attacked the Swartz family on Twitter: "Truly incredible that in their own son's obit they blame others for his death and make no mention of the 6-month offer ... 6 months is not 35 years or lifetime" What an asshole.
http://www.boston.com/business/innovation/blogs/inside-the-hive/2013/01/15/attorney-carmen-ortiz-husband-attacks-swartz-family-twitter/vzxbY5lrrG7BvGjQGnNDtJ/blog.html
http://twitchy.com/2013/01/15/husband-of-mass-attorney-general-deletes-twitter-account-after-defending-prosecution-of-aaron-swartz/

There are "We the people" petitions to remove both Orirz and Heryman, but don't hold your breath. She is an Obama appointee and Heymann's father is a Clinton staffer. How about Someone in the press corps ask Obama what he thinks of his appointees killing off bright young kids?
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-ortiz-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-attorney-steve-heymann/RJKSY2nb?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

Civil liberties attorney Harvey Silverglate said of Aaron: "He was being made into a highly visible lesson, He was enhancing the careers of a group of career prosecutors and a very ambitious — politically-ambitious — U.S. attorney who loves to have her name in lights.” http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57564212-38/prosecutor-in-aaron-swartz-hacking-case-comes-under-fire/

The problem is Federal Prosecutors pick a career-building target and then shop for a crime. Big Criminals are too much work, but small fry like Aaron don't have the resources to fight back so all they have to do is bully them into taking a plea bargain and then bask in the glory. It's been going on for a long time and many people have been swallowed up, but the media usually never reports it:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Tu5RB6YHf10C&pg=PP1&lpg=PP1&ots=51Ya4U8XFt&dq=lynch+in+the+name+of+justice (Go to page 43 of this Google Books preview).

I used to be one, but libertarians who claim that "the two big parties are equally evil" are dickheads! Republicans are just "libertarian lite", with a better understanding of geopolitics and the hands-on dirty details of gradualist reform. Democrats are wrong on everything across the board, starting with complete retardation in understanding of basic economics. Libertarians (radicals, not gradualists) have the luxury of sitting in their futurist Ivory Tower and not having to deal with the disgusting "lesser evil" tactics of the here and now. Convince Republicans to only pursue their "culture warrior" bullshit locally (on the state, municipal, or ideally neighborhood association level), and they're good people. Their halfhearted appeasement of the functional idiots who are religious is politically inevitable (democracy sucks), and is far less harmful than the Democrats' appeasement and bribery of the dysfunctional idiots on their side!

Political dodging of questions like the age of the Earth is not ignorance - to the contrary, it is strategic awareness of what the democratic circus requires. Obama has done the same thing! AGW is the only scientific issue on which there is genuine disagreement, because it is the one issue on which the government-funded "scientific community" is largely wrong, or rather it's bribed and coerced to jump to politically convenient conclusions. Real scientists know how to tell politicians "we don't know", "don't jump to conclusions", or "there's no cause for alarm". Real climate science is a process of data gathering and factual analysis - not a popular democracy, a shouting contest, or a barrage of emotional videos that end with the Earth catching fire! Real scientists know that, without a time machine, our knowledge of climate history is very approximate at best. So real scientists are suppressed by the system, while the politically-convenient greeny radical are promoted instead...

If you study the actual science, you will inevitably see that political alarmism over AGW is baseless, and very likely could be the most dangerous fraud in human history! It is a set of politically desirable solutions in search of a problem, and if the problem doesn't exist it must be manufactured. No crisis - no need to retain / expand / monopolize the power of the state! The Soviet commies knew they couldn't win because the relative advantages of Economic Freedom were obvious and inescapable - the only way to enslave the world is to homogenize all governance. So they stepped back, regrouped, and painted themselves green! Only a world government can make communism possible, by removing all frame of reference and all intergovernmental competition that has been the only source of freedom throughout human history. And only a bullshit lie like an alien invasion or a global ecological crisis could provide the excuse. After the AGW hysteria goes the way of all other politically-bought pseudo-scientific fraud that occurred throughout history (ex. Lysenkoism), the people who advocated it should be treated the way Nazi supporters were treated after the spring of 1945! A "climatologist" without AGW wouldn't even be able to get a job flipping burgers!

Never mind that the total human contributions to greenhouse gases are like a mouse riding on the back of an elephant (the elephant being water vapor, natural sources of CO2, etc). Never mind that all their projections are based on the assumption that there will be ZERO TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION in the 21st century! Never mind that the margins of error on their CO2 ice core samples and temperature measurements before modern satellites are greater than the alleged temperature changes! Never mind that there are natural temperatu

The number of posts calling the president racists terms probably is 100 times more than any of those other folks.

Citation or retraction please.

A google search turned up this quote:

This reporter searched Twitter with several specialized Twitter search engines using the keywords “Romney,” “Obama,” “kill,” “shoot,” “riot” and other terms to denote violence, and found scores of original Tweets and re-Tweets advocating violent behavior against both the President and Romney. Many more of the Tweets, though, were, in fact, directed against Romney.

And these pages -- don't even bother reading the articles just scroll down through the tweets:

http://twitchy.com/2012/10/14/death-threats-against-mitt-romney-proliferate/
http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-supporters-continue-threats-to-riot-assassinate-romney.html
http://www.infowars.com/threats-to-assassinate-romney-explode-after-debate/

While these are specifically about threats against Romney, it certainly doesn't suggest a dearth of such threats. Hell searching for "twitter threats obama" turns up page after page of threats against Romney with the occasional link to something against Obama.

In California, home to a lot of VC-funded companies, high state taxes make this considerably worse.

By the way, CA just raised the top state income tax rate to 13.3%. Even those making $250k of more will now pay 10.3%. Also CA sales tax is now 7.25%.

And yet California has the most billionaires of any state. Many of them are in Los Angeles, a city that would not exist if the local government had not raised massive tax revenues to pay for its utilities (esp. water).

Aside from Hollywood, much of the wealth being created is the direct result of the state's incredible universities. Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD just to name a few public-funded schools. Cal Tech and Stanford on the other side of the house. I don't think it's any accident that California is able to attract or produce such great talent. And yes, these things need to be paid for. Since property taxes are so low, revenues have to come from sales and income taxes.

In California, home to a lot of VC-funded companies, high state taxes make this considerably worse.

By the way, CA just raised the top state income tax rate to 13.3%. Even those making $250k of more will now pay 10.3%. Also CA sales tax is now 7.25%.

I forgot to add this great tweet by the author of the final story linked in TFS when I submitted this to Slashdot:

Long story short: Don't beta-test an election.

If you don't think there is voter fraud you are not paying attention..

How is it not voter fraud when you go to your polling place and someone has already voted for you?

Really?

Seems that the ones clamoring for everyone else paying for it are the ones spouting hateful attitudes.

http://twitchy.com/2012/06/06/kill-scott-walker-angry-libs-flood-twitter-with-death-threats-after-wisconsin-recall-defeat/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/police-investigating-death-threats-gov-scott-walker-recall-victory-article-1.1090894
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/06/Kill-Scott-Walker-Angry-Dems-Twitter

Yeah, it's unacceptable, all right. The problem is...he's not really being "hateful" and YOU and people like the above referenced links.