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The government shouldn't use force based on the pretense it will somehow make things fair. The answer to injustice caused by happenstance isn't another unnecessary, purposefully-committed injustice. Save government force for use against murderers and rapists rather than calling out the stormtroopers when your Netflix is fuzzy.

It doesn't work anyway. Regulatory capture is common. The regulators end up working hand-in-hand with the people they're supposed to be regulating, big companies and lawyers benefit while the public suffers. Look no further than Uber vs. the taxi companies and their government friends.

It's not cheaper in the US because the government refuses to subsidize it

The government subsidizes it.

indeed has done almost everything they could do to destroy Amtrak.

Not true at all. It is the government keeping Amtrak afloat. Support for Amtrak is surprising broad. Democrats support it because they like big government, and especially like trains. Republicans support it because service to sparsely populated red states would be the first thing cut if the subsidies were reduced.

Gun deaths in Australia dropped sharply after the ban was enacted. Here's a Washington Post article about the effect as well. Your figures about the UK are also wrong, but that is more understandable because they changed the way they counted gun crime which made it look like it increased after the ban was enacted--including nonfatal accidents into the records that were previously not recorded.

"changed the way they counted gun crime"

"previously not recorded"

And we wonder why people could give a rats ass about asking anyone for statistics with excuses like this.

You want to know what any gun statistic actually says? Whatever the fuck the presenter wants it to.

Let's just stop asking for this shit as a tool to present facts on this particular topic, since I've yet to see one presented where ALL parties are in agreement with the numbers.

Gun deaths in Australia dropped sharply after the ban was enacted. Here's a Washington Post article about the effect as well. Your figures about the UK are also wrong, but that is more understandable because they changed the way they counted gun crime which made it look like it increased after the ban was enacted--including nonfatal accidents into the records that were previously not recorded.

Never aspire to be Henry Ford, he was a horrible evil man.

Not to Godwin the thread, but I happened to have stumbled upon this yesterday...

" The relationship of Ford and GM to the Nazi regime goes back to the 1920s and 1930s, when the American car companies competed against each other for access to the lucrative German market. Hitler was an admirer of American mass production techniques and an avid reader of the antisemitic tracts penned by Henry Ford. "I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration," Hitler told a Detroit News reporter two years before becoming the German chancellor in 1933, explaining why he kept a life-size portrait of the American automaker next to his desk.

Although Ford later renounced his antisemitic writings, he remained an admirer of Nazi Germany and sought to keep America out of the coming war. In July 1938, four months after the German annexation of Austria, he accepted the highest medal that Nazi Germany could bestow on a foreigner, the Grand Cross of the German Eagle. The following month, a senior executive for General Motors, James Mooney, received a similar medal for his "distinguished service to the Reich."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Now, as then, we have lots of overlap between government and corporate power structures.

Here's wapo two weeks ago telling me Antarctic ice is increasing — because of AGW.

The pause is a skeptic fraud. The pause is real and caused by AGW.....

"We Have Always Been At War With Eastasia"

Fuck off with your head games.

We did "vote for the a candidate who will push for net neutrality". Pre-election, Obama was for neutrality. The following quote says it has not changed, at least as of August 5, 2014.

One of the issues around net neutrality is whether you are creating different rates or charges for different content providers. That's the big controversy here. So you have big, wealthy media companies who might be willing to pay more and also charge more for spectrum, more bandwidth on the Internet so they can stream movies faster. I personally, the position of my administration, as well as a lot of the companies here, is that you donâ(TM)t want to start getting a differentiation in how accessible the Internet is to different users. You want to leave it open so the next Google and the next Facebook can succeed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

So, we did what you said. 3.7 million out of 211 million is not a significant gauge of public opinion, but it shouldn't matter, because we voted for the right guy.

Are you going to change your statement to emphasize the word "push", as if they have to actively work on the issue? And then further clarify a chain of command where people have to listen to the President's opinion? Your logic checks out, but facts are lacking.

Direct peering links are not "on the internet". They bypass the internet.
Different classes of service within the ISP's network are not "on the internet", they are within the ISP's intranet.
See how easy it is to really say nothing at all? And how easy it is to completely not understand the issues?

We did "vote for the a candidate who will push for net neutrality". Pre-election, Obama was for neutrality. The following quote says it has not changed, at least as of August 5, 2014.

One of the issues around net neutrality is whether you are creating different rates or charges for different content providers. That's the big controversy here. So you have big, wealthy media companies who might be willing to pay more and also charge more for spectrum, more bandwidth on the Internet so they can stream movies faster. I personally, the position of my administration, as well as a lot of the companies here, is that you donâ(TM)t want to start getting a differentiation in how accessible the Internet is to different users. You want to leave it open so the next Google and the next Facebook can succeed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

So, we did what you said. 3.7 million out of 211 million is not a significant gauge of public opinion, but it shouldn't matter, because we voted for the right guy.

Are you going to change your statement to emphasize the word "push", as if they have to actively work on the issue? And then further clarify a chain of command where people have to listen to the President's opinion? Your logic checks out, but facts are lacking.

I wouldn't be surprised if blue at night were murderous if our eyes are indeed compenssting by adjusting towards higher blue sensitivity near dawn or dusk when there's not much blue in the incident light.

If you came to that conclusion on your own, I'd congratulate you on (possibly) being extremely perceptive, but also surprised that you weren't aware that it's already been widely reported in the past few years that, yes, blue light is apparently very bad news from the point of view of being sleep-inhibiting:-

Example story

Blue light presumably being far more of an issue in recent years due to (a) the increase in use of electronics and (b) the blue LED fad. (*)

I've seen an alarm clock with blue numbers- presumably because blue LEDs are cool!!!!!!11111- which struck me as an absolutely horrible idea. As did a ******* blue-coloured baby nightlight (because even baby deserves to be kept awake by fashionable blue LEDs. Sheesh.)

(*) FWIW, the blue LED fad seems to have died down in the past couple of years, and white LEDs are the new hotness. Which is a good thing from an aesthetic point of view (**) but I suspect those white LEDs still contain a lot of blue. Especially the more bluish-white ones which may well just be blue ones with phosphor coating (as some "white" LEDs apparently are).

(**) Nothing against blue LEDs as a concept, it's great that they were invented. What I hate is their gratuitous use- or rather, misuse- in consumer goods, both because they're overused and the novelty wore off long ago, but also because they're far more distracting in context than red ones ever were.

Well, give Ashcroft some credit. He pushed back while sick in the hospital against Bush White House cronies and refused to sign off on domestic spying when they wanted him to.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Darn, sorry, hit "Post" instead of "Continue editing". If you aren't convinced yet, taxes are growing, here is another item: the share of Americans in the labor-force is lower in recent years than in Bush's era, the percentage collecting "disability" is record high, the official unemployment numbers remain stubbornly above Bush's, but the Federal revenue is the highest ever.

This can only mean one thing — those of us, who are still working, are paying the ever higher taxes...

For anybody interested, if you want to have an informed opinion of the topic you should read these articles from WaPo (Volokh Conspiracy) and Cato:
Orin Kerr, how iOS 8 thwarts lawful warrants, and has some goods and some bads. Series of three articles: [part 1] [part 2] [part 3].
Cato institute take: link.

the only thing that Kerr doesn't address is the snowden stuff, and how that may justify enhanced apple protections. apparently he thinks this is still too "tinfoil hat" for a deep consideration. whatever.

For anybody interested, if you want to have an informed opinion of the topic you should read these articles from WaPo (Volokh Conspiracy) and Cato:
Orin Kerr, how iOS 8 thwarts lawful warrants, and has some goods and some bads. Series of three articles: [part 1] [part 2] [part 3].
Cato institute take: link.

the only thing that Kerr doesn't address is the snowden stuff, and how that may justify enhanced apple protections. apparently he thinks this is still too "tinfoil hat" for a deep consideration. whatever.

For anybody interested, if you want to have an informed opinion of the topic you should read these articles from WaPo (Volokh Conspiracy) and Cato:
Orin Kerr, how iOS 8 thwarts lawful warrants, and has some goods and some bads. Series of three articles: [part 1] [part 2] [part 3].
Cato institute take: link.

the only thing that Kerr doesn't address is the snowden stuff, and how that may justify enhanced apple protections. apparently he thinks this is still too "tinfoil hat" for a deep consideration. whatever.

For anybody interested, if you want to have an informed opinion of the topic you should read these articles from WaPo (Volokh Conspiracy) and Cato:
Orin Kerr, how iOS 8 thwarts lawful warrants, and has some goods and some bads. Series of three articles: [part 1] [part 2] [part 3].
Cato institute take: link.

the only thing that Kerr doesn't address is the snowden stuff, and how that may justify enhanced apple protections. apparently he thinks this is still too "tinfoil hat" for a deep consideration. whatever.

As to my anecdote... they wouldn't have bought those things in their own country. They might have bought some of it but not all of it or even most of it. The taxes suppress demand which is a change in consumer behavior DOWNWARD.

As to England:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

there are other examples... you admit the french one so apparently you weren't aware that both england and france were basically interested in the same solution to the same problem.

Look, logic doesn't enter into this discussion with you if you think 70 percent tax rates are sustainable or not damaging to the economy. It is too frothing at the mouth stupid to be taken seriously.

Good day, sir.

You are absolutely correct. Clearly, with voter turnout tilted towards women (around 53% in 2012), they should control far more than 20% of the available seats. The fact that they don't points to factors limiting women's opportunity to run for elected office, such as having less access to campaign finances. What keeps women from running for top elected offices? There are many factors involved, but it certainly seems that women don't have a fair opportunity for representation. They are being persuaded by the people with the money to run for office that men are the "better choice," which is the very definition of inequality. That, or they "don't care, and are too stupid" to vote for a candidate who represents their interests.

This was not an "ad hominem". This was an insult. Don't you know the difference?

There distinction you are trying to make, idiot, is without difference. When you switch an argument from the topic being argued to the person doing the arguing — whether it is name-calling or discussing his hygiene — it is an argumentum ad hominem — a fallacy.

Chickenhawk is perfectly fine carnivorous bird, by the way — can't really insult anyone with such a comparison, unless you are trying to use the term policitcally:

a political term used in the United States to describe a person who strongly supports war or other military action, yet who actively avoids or avoided military service when of age.

You don't know anything about me to be able claim, I took active steps to avoid military service in any war the US fought, nor do you know my age.

Your having committed an ad hominem first, and an idiocy of misusing a term that your fellow idiots have misused too, thus established, let's get back to the other topics.

assuming that Obama would be somehow mine

If you are from Europe, then Obama is "yours" even more — whereas his popularity in the US in 2008 barely exceeded the 50% necessary for being elected, he was and remains more popular in the corrupt continent (80+%). For all I care, you can have him any day of the week — the sooner the better. Just be sure to take Joe Biden with him.

The current mess in Iraq has been caused by toppling Saddam Hussein.

Yeah, nothing like a strong leader for those unwashed sand-niggers, is there? Some peoples may have a democratic government, but certain untermensch just need a strong hand, right?

And then by arming the crazies who were rebelling against Assad.

Right. Because only a crazy could rebel against the kind and benevolent king (masquerading as elected President) such as Assad. Sure. But even if that's the problem, in your opinion, it was Obama's doing — and he was never called "chickenhawk" in his life.

You are seriously calling the Southern regime back then "kindler gentler"?

No, you dimwit. If you can't read English, stay out of English arguments. I challenged you to explain, how the things would've been better in the North Korea, if the South Korea's regime was kinder and gentler.

Without American intervention a way less radical government for an united Korea would be quite possible

Sure. And Palestine would've been a united and calm, if America had not given Israel any support. And China would've unified into a calm Confucian existence long ago, had the US not defended Taiwan. And Germany too would've united much earlier — under Eric Honecker (or even Ulbricht), of course. Wouldn't such have been a better world? If only the US war-mongers didn't resist Communism, huh?..

Sorry, but I'm rather glad there are enough of my countrymen still supporting that earlier chickenhawk's doctrine:

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that

This was not an "ad hominem". This was an insult. Don't you know the difference?

There distinction you are trying to make, idiot, is without difference. When you switch an argument from the topic being argued to the person doing the arguing — whether it is name-calling or discussing his hygiene — it is an argumentum ad hominem — a fallacy.

Chickenhawk is perfectly fine carnivorous bird, by the way — can't really insult anyone with such a comparison, unless you are trying to use the term policitcally:

a political term used in the United States to describe a person who strongly supports war or other military action, yet who actively avoids or avoided military service when of age.

You don't know anything about me to be able claim, I took active steps to avoid military service in any war the US fought, nor do you know my age.

Your having committed an ad hominem first, and an idiocy of misusing a term that your fellow idiots have misused too, thus established, let's get back to the other topics.

assuming that Obama would be somehow mine

If you are from Europe, then Obama is "yours" even more — whereas his popularity in the US in 2008 barely exceeded the 50% necessary for being elected, he was and remains more popular in the corrupt continent (80+%). For all I care, you can have him any day of the week — the sooner the better. Just be sure to take Joe Biden with him.

The current mess in Iraq has been caused by toppling Saddam Hussein.

Yeah, nothing like a strong leader for those unwashed sand-niggers, is there? Some peoples may have a democratic government, but certain untermensch just need a strong hand, right?

And then by arming the crazies who were rebelling against Assad.

Right. Because only a crazy could rebel against the kind and benevolent king (masquerading as elected President) such as Assad. Sure. But even if that's the problem, in your opinion, it was Obama's doing — and he was never called "chickenhawk" in his life.

You are seriously calling the Southern regime back then "kindler gentler"?

No, you dimwit. If you can't read English, stay out of English arguments. I challenged you to explain, how the things would've been better in the North Korea, if the South Korea's regime was kinder and gentler.

Without American intervention a way less radical government for an united Korea would be quite possible

Sure. And Palestine would've been a united and calm, if America had not given Israel any support. And China would've unified into a calm Confucian existence long ago, had the US not defended Taiwan. And Germany too would've united much earlier — under Eric Honecker (or even Ulbricht), of course. Wouldn't such have been a better world? If only the US war-mongers didn't resist Communism, huh?..

Sorry, but I'm rather glad there are enough of my countrymen still supporting that earlier chickenhawk's doctrine:

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that

There is actually a cult in the U.S. where people worship ebola and hope for it's spread. They know that the locals are superstitious when they blog online about this and are trying to encite a panic. http://www.washingtonpost.com/... http://www.latimes.com/world/a...

Please write to your governments and have these sorts of people punished. Please send aid money to Africa where Africans (not foreigners) can deal with it themselves. They know how African diseases work and can fight it much more effectively than westerners can.

Besides, avoiding to call them "Islamic," helps to break, or at least, tone down the association between Islam and terrorism.

Finally, calling them Daesh, Un-Islamic State, QSIL, or the like, is a way to stress out that they are being attacked not for being "Islamic," but for being terrorists.

1) On the one hand, it seems to be fair to force users - be they companies or individuals - to pay based on usage. Based on how many packets they put on the network. Currently they do not do that. What they do is to pay for their connection. If you want a very high speed connection, you pay for that. The ISP won't guarantee that speed, except in bursts. Kind of like how a 2 x 4 piece of lumber is really 1.5 x 3.5. Conflicts arise when people try to use the full connection bandwidth in a sustained manner.

2) On the other hand, lack of net neutrality would open the floodgates for corporations to manipulate traffic. To create slow and fast lanes, to favor content, to create yet another pricing tier for American consumers who already pay among the highest prices in the world for high speed internet.

Based on the fact the government is already under regulatory capture (head of FCC is a telecom executive, head of FDA is a Monsanto executive, 2nd in command at the central bank is a Citigroup executive, etc, etc), allowing net neutrality to be defeated will result in a bad outcome for consumers.

Net neutrality is not perfect, but it's much better than ceding more control to cable companies.

What's the difference between Bush's illegal wars and Obama's illegal wars?

is the answer "What did Bush start and fail to finish, leaving Obama holding the bag?"

In terms of the economy, Obama has done at least as much damage over time, based on his own administration's charts, even. Remember all those rosy predictions?

All kidding aside, Obama inherited an incredibly horrible situation from arguably the worst administration in history. But I think we can all agree we're better off now than in 2009.

What's the difference between Bush's illegal wars and Obama's illegal wars?

In terms of the economy, Obama has done at least as much damage over time, based on his own administration's charts, even. Remember all those rosy predictions?

5 Billion? Hell no. A Washington Post article on the website costs:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

"War on Women" is a Democrat campaign scam - the Obama administration itself (and the Democrats in congress too) have been caught paying their female staffers less than their male staffers.

As for Issa's wealth... and whether it's "bad", let's see here:

Issa built his own wealth by starting and running businesses BEFORE going to Washington

The Kennedys (beloved by Democrats) all inherited their vast fortunes from their prohibition-era alchohol smuggler patriarch (whether you like that law or not, Joe senior was a criminal and the family fortune was built on crime dollars). This would be like somebody today building a financial empire on drug money, then after drug legalization pretending that the money was "clean" without regard to all the crime and dead bodies that contributed to the stash.

former Senator John Kerry (now SecState) got rich by marrying a rich widow.

Senator John McCain got rich by marrying a girl rich with inherited wealth

Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) inherited a MOUNTAIN of money from a so-called "robber-baron" and then, in one of the planet's most hypocritical acts, struts around pontificating against the wealthy (while hanging-onto that inherited wealth and all the power it bought him).

Politics is an expensive game, so more and more of the members go there already wealthy, but most politicians who go to Washington NOT rich, (and spend MILLIONS on campaigns for jobs that pay $174K per year) somehow amazingly end-up quite wealthy after only several years. There are many ways this happens; members of congress, for one example, are exempt from "insider trading" laws (they can hear things about companies and markets, even in closed-door meetings, and then call their investors and place orders). Many of them sit on comittees where they direct taxpayer funds... and direct those funds to companies run by their relatives, like Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is an example, Former Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) and congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) (Who both have rich husbands who are investors - remember that insider trading exemption??).

What? Obama's new wonder-plan is what TOOK AWAY our low deductible plan and forced us, for more money, to buy one that will cost us thousands more each year in premiums, and ten thousand more a year in deductibles.

Here's a decent article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/29/this-is-why-obamacare-is-cancelling-some-peoples-insurance-plans/

The health law allowed plans that existed back in March 2010, when it became a law, to keep selling coverage. These are known as "grandfathered plans:" They don't meet the health law's requirements, but as long as they don't change much, insurers can keep offering them.

Insurance companies typically do like to change their insurance plans, making changes to cost-sharing or the benefits they offer. That means that grandfathered plans have disappeared. [...]

These cancellations are, essentially, a lot of grandfathered plans exiting the insurance marketplace. From an insurance company's vantage point, grandfathered plans are a bit of a dead end: They can't enroll new subscribers and are really constrained in their ability to tweak the benefit package or cost-sharing structure. There's not a whole lot of business sense, for a managed care company, in maintaining a health plan that doesn't meet the health law's new requirements.

The law took away your plan, only so far as your insurance company decided to get rid of it.

China has arguably moved from communism to fascism and as Mussolini stated "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." One can see many of the tenants of an oligarch's paradise: a single party police/surveillance state, labor unions are outlawed, environmental regulations are practically non-existent, imminent domain is abused, and there is an income inequality that even surpasses the US. Capitalism has chosen the most profitable government model and is hedging their investments on it. China is already the largest trading nation and is expected to soon surpass the US as the largest economic power. In the 1930's many American investors flocked to the economic growth in fascist germany. and Prescott Bush(perhaps indirectly) come to mind. Given the current political climate in the US perhaps there may be another Business Plot in our generation.

I imagine many of these large investment firms have direct or indirect access to zero percent federal reserve loans (going on six years with no end in sight) and they would be foolish not to speculate on Alibaba with house money.

Can we put all of those who wants to secede in texas or florida and kick them out of the union?

How would those Obumbles job numbers look without low-tax, low-regulation red-state Texas leading the US in job creation?

Texas isn’t just leading the nation in job growth—it’s doing it more equitably, too

Texas experienced stronger job growth than the rest of the nation from 2000 to 2013, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Not only that, a pair of researchers note in a Thursday research publication, but Texas leads the nation in creation of jobs at all pay levels, too.

“Texas has also created more ‘good’ than ‘bad’ jobs,” they write. “Jobs in the top half of the wage distribution experienced disproportionate growth. The two upper wage quartiles were responsible for 55 percent of net new jobs. A similar pie chart cannot be made for the rest of the U.S., which lost jobs in the lower-middle quartile over the period.”

We’ve written plenty about how the income gap has continued to grow in recent years and decades, and the same is true with jobs. Nationally, all the jobs created since 2000 were concentrated at the highest- or lowest-paying quartiles. In Texas, however, job creation was more broad-based.

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Except They are the Cavalry — according to their own page — are focusing on Cyber Safety, not privacy.

And our privacy — as far as cars are concerned anyway — has been shot for over a century already, when New York (always the Illiberal) mandated license plates in 1901.

They could not think, of course, that some day automatic license-plate readers will be archiving our driving histories. But the move — targeting "the rich", of course — was just as invasive even back then, as mandating that people carry identification at all times would be. And not just carry, but keep it visible from distance too...

Cars' new electronics may make it easier for the State to track us, but it has not been that hard before...

Terrorist groups ... The United States National Security Agency, the US Military, and other terrorist operations ...

I'm pretty sure that nobody from the US National Security Agency is going to come and detonate a suicide vest while you are in a shopping mall or buying groceries whereas Isis will do that if they can.

The report is a lie.

Well, it certainly doesn't discuss all the facts, it's basically a white wash on Snowden's behalf.

Washington Post: The Volokh Conspiracy - As evidence mounts, it’s getting harder to defend Edward Snowden

No matter how conclusively this is proven, these idiot officials will continue to use Snowden as their scapegoat.

No matter how conclusively it is proven that Snowden caused harm there will be people that continue to proclaim Snowden their hero.

Washington Post: The Volokh Conspiracy - As evidence mounts, it’s getting harder to defend Edward Snowden

How Al-Qaeda Uses Encryption Post-Snowden (Part 1)

Analysis Summary

Since 2007, Al-Qaeda’s use of encryption technology has been based on the Mujahideen Secrets platform which has developed to include support for mobile, instant messaging, and Macs.

Following the June 2013 Edward Snowden leaks we observe an increased pace of innovation, specifically new competing jihadist platforms and three (3) major new encryption tools from three (3) different organizations – GIMF, Al-Fajr Technical Committee, and ISIS – within a three to five-month time frame of the leaks.

Washington Post: The Volokh Conspiracy - As evidence mounts, it’s getting harder to defend Edward Snowden

Washington Post: The Volokh Conspiracy - As evidence mounts, it’s getting harder to defend Edward Snowden

How Al-Qaeda Uses Encryption Post-Snowden (Part 1)

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Dubya: What do you mean western union kicks ass their commercials are funny.

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Get over your "blame BOOOSH!!!!" childishness, you ignorant twerp.

Eugene Robinson: George W. Bush’s greatest legacy — his battle against AIDS

This is a moment for all Americans to be proud of the best thing George W. Bush did as president: launching an initiative to combat AIDS in Africa that has saved millions of lives.

All week, more than 20,000 delegates from around the world have been attending the 19th International AIDS Conference here in Washington. They look like any other group of conventioneers, laden with satchels and garlanded with name tags. But some of these men and women would be dead if not for Bush’s foresight and compassion.

Those are not words I frequently use to describe Bush or his presidency. But credit and praise must be given where they are due, and Bush’s accomplishment — the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR — deserves accolades. It is a reminder that the United States can still be both great and good.

When the Bush administration inaugurated the program in 2003, fewer than 50,000 HIV-infected people on the African continent were receiving the antiretroviral drugs that keep the virus in check and halt the progression toward full-blown AIDS. By the time Bush left office, the number had increased to nearly 2 million. Today, the United States is directly supporting antiretroviral treatment for more than 4 million men, women and children worldwide, primarily in Africa.

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Eugene Robinson and the Washington Post are hardly Bush's greatest supporters. Yet I bet you never even heard of what Bush did for Africa and AIDS, have you? Yet you felt qualified to make fun of what Bush knew about Africa. So that makes "childishness" and "ignorant twerp" quite accurate, aren't they? How about "arrogant", too, to go along with "ignorant"? It fits.

Meanwhile, Obama's poll numbers are worse 6 years into his Presidency than Bush's numbers 6 years in. Yeah, we know, all Obama's problems are because of "BOOOOSH!!!!".

Fucking baby.

Please tell the truth.

Link 2015 proposed
Military is 16%, SS is 33% (double military by itself), Medicare is 27% also more than military.

Link 2014 actual
SS is $866 Billion, military is $627 Billion, Medicare is $531 Billion.

Also note SS is mandatory 100%, while military is discretionary 100%.

The official news (not WSJ speculation) will be revealed on a live feed today at 4PM EDT. Lots of info in the link below. Link: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.c...

Bingo. OTH (and to add more fuel to the speculation pyre), WP is reporting that the news will announce contracts will be awarded to both Boeing and SpaceX. http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

The PRISM PowerPoint slides leaked by Snowden.

... the fix may already be in. Hard to believe that it's been ten years.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

John Oliver made a really good point about Netflix (especially if you look at that nice bandwidth chart with Comcast before and after the deal -- http://knowmore.washingtonpost...). Ending net neutrality will give internet providers the freedom to extort anyone and everyone who needs significant bandwidth. And there's absolutely nothing to stop them.

POOR.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/836...
RACIST.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
UNCIVILIZED.
http://www.firstpost.com/livin...
UNTOUCHABLE.
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com...
POLLUTED.
http://www.theatlanticcities.c...

IIRC, back in the 80s, we used to see satellite pics of Antarctica and the effects of ozone depletion

there was a *huge* evironmentalist movement to ban CFC's from aerosol cans...and of course the conservative/big biz backlash saying that "there is no ozone hole" or "it's a natural cycle" or [insert anti-science argument]....**just like the global warming debate**

well...the laws passed and the ozone layer recovered...

i can't help but think this might be a factor in the new ice...and a useful guide as to how to handle our current problems with idiot conservatives/big biz types who irrationally deny that pollution harms the environment

that's the final analysis of the situation **pollution is harmful & should be regulated**

Seems they need them

You should be asking what are the chances of it failing verses the chances of someone taking my gun and using it against me. It might be more of an issue for cops than for people at risk of home invasion.

There is also the issue of someone else taking your gun without your permission. Maybe you lock it up securely, but quite a few gun crimes are committed with weapons owned by family members. Better hide that key well, assuming you care and are not only interested in your own well being.

In case you want references, 1 second with Google turned up: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

I've reviewed the literature and found a much better article going in Dominion Power's hijinks.

Personally, my 'solution' would be simple - disallow them purchasing 'renewable energy credits'. In order for it to count it has to be a renewable energy source IN THE STATE AND ON THE GRID.

Oh, and the charging for solar installs is only for 10kw-20kw systems. Keep it at 10kW and you don't have to pay anything. But yeah, massively stupid.

I mean, I live in Alaska and I keep looking at Solar panels. Really the only thing holding me back is that I'd rather put a new roof on first, and I think that the inverters need to come down in price and up in warranty before I pull the lever. Please note that this is because I can't 'break even' even assuming I do most of the install myself with our crappy isolation levels. Go to a spot further south with equally high electricity costs and it'd be a stupidly easy decision.

You're part of the problem and you're wrong, because you're only focused on short-term thinking. Change is slow, and a vote matters even if you don't win "today's election", because it's public opinion and sentiment that matters. The parties _mold_ themselves around it. If they know they can get you to continue to vote for them without changing, they'll never change. The entire fact that libertarians are on the rise now in the Republican party is because a movement was started and maintained back then, even knowing they weren't going to sweep/win any elections: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Reining in Forfeiture

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/...

Federal Asset Forfeiture Continues to Skyrocket Under Obama

http://reason.com/blog/2012/07...

Rand Paul introduces bill to reform civil asset forfeiture

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

The Stealing of America By the Cops, the Courts, the Corporations and Congress

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

(As usual, the Huff Post gives the primary culprit, the head of the executive branch, a pass.)

Here.

The real source is this Washington Post article(s).

CBC's article is just a Canadian take on things. The original article (just as scary) is here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...