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  1. Re:About time on Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and you can see a missile hit the plane before it struck the building.

  2. Re:About time on Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    I see. In actuality Barack Obama would really, really, like the NSA to stop spying on us. But he fears for his reputation if he were to actually act and do something about it. Perfectly understandable, all is forgiven, carry on.

  3. Re:NSA failed to halt subprime lending, though. on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1

    The ACA has affected me and many other people far more than the WOT ever did. The lies just make the effect more like a slap in the face. I don't like it when my government slaps me in the face. It tends to make me want to revoke my consent to be governed.

  4. Re:About time on Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the NSA is constantly disobeying presidential directives. Look at all the effort the administration has expended trying to get them to stop.

  5. Re:About time on Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional · · Score: -1, Troll

    You obviously didn't think it was that big of a mistake, because he got your vote a year later.

  6. Re:A new product on FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 1

    Triclosan does kill germs.

  7. Re:About time on Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional · · Score: 2

    The NSA operates at the direction of the President. When they overstep their bounds, it is the President's duty to stop it, and fire those responsible. It is long past the time to actually start blaming the person responsible for the NSA's actions.

  8. Re:About time on Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And it was reauthorized again in 2011, signed into law in the middle of the night by the current President.

  9. Re:A new product on FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 1

    What unsubstantiated health claim are soap companies making with antibacterial soaps? Do they not kill germs?

  10. Re: police arive within 'minutes' on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 1

    And the people who are not racists, want every people of every culture, particularly the ones most affected by gun violence, to be able to defend themselves.

  11. Re:You people... on Former Google Lawyer Michelle Lee To Run US Patent Office · · Score: 1

    Are you saying your congressman decided who was put in charge of the Patent Office?

  12. Re:Rule #1 on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 1

    I'm sure Germany had very safe schools in 1939 as well.

  13. Re:police arive within 'minutes' on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 1

    It possibly could help make schools safer, but it won't help the employment rate. We could hire a bunch of people to dig holes, and a bunch more people to fill them back in. We'll pay them with tax dollars, and it won't affect anybody because we'll just pick the dollars off the money tree.

  14. Re:police arive within 'minutes' on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 1

    I don't know about "loaded" firearms, but lockers certainly were filled with shotguns and deer rifles.

  15. Re: police arive within 'minutes' on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 2

    What don't we just say what you guys are tiptoeing around. Gun violence has to do with race. It is by and large a racial phenomenon.

  16. Re:police arive within 'minutes' on How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School · · Score: 2

    "if there ever was a fascist takeover of the US"

    You obviously haven't been paying attention. Are you and your jackbooted thugs going to come take our guns away? Are you going to use guns to do it? I bet those state gun registry databases that were "accidentally" shared with the feds will be useful. Not to mention, it will be pretty hard to communicate and plan resistance with the complete monitoring of our communications.

  17. You people... on Former Google Lawyer Michelle Lee To Run US Patent Office · · Score: 0

    ...all voted for this crap, you'll get what you deserve, and you'll like it. Did you really think president Goldman Sachs, would put someone neutral in charge of the Patent office? No, it's fascism all the way down with these people. Wake up.

  18. Re:Meanwhile in russia on Newly Discovered Greenhouse Gas Is 7,000 Times More Powerful Than CO2 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Do you know what else has high leakage rates, and are a much higher source of methane emissions? Lakes, ponds, marshes, and swamps. Do you know what higher atmospheric levels of carbon and methane, and rising global temperatures lead to? More lakes, ponds, marshes, and swamps. If we want to get real serious about methane emissions, the best thing we could do is drain all the wetlands.

  19. It wasn't "recycled"... on Program to Use Russian Nukes for US Electricity Comes to an End · · Score: 1

    ...it was never used in the first place.

  20. Re:President Obama... on Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA · · Score: 2

    One of the articles of impeachment against Nixon was for attempting to use the IRS to audit one of his political enemies, even though the IRS refused. This President has joked about using the IRS to audit his enemies, and the IRS has politically targeted dozens of groups opposed to the President's agenda. There has already show to be communication between the White House and the IRS in regards to this. The IRS's chief counsel testified before congress and repeatedly (more than 80 times) used the "I don't recall" defense. There has been a total lack of interest by the media in finding out what has been going on. Something is really, really, not right here.

  21. President Obama... on Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...won't visit the NSA to show support, because doing so would show acknowledgement that he is in charge of their actions. He prefers to remain at a distance, so he can politically separate himself from their actions to the maximum extent possible. Judging how few comments there are here blaming him for their activities, it appears to be working well.

  22. Re:Data In, Garbage Out on About 25% of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors · · Score: 2

    You're really hung up on this idea that insurance companies never pay out. People that I know who have had to file large claims, generally have not had a problem. I have a friend who was in a motorcycle accident and never had to even look at a bill. Later on he discovered that his insurance company had paid more the 400K for his hospital care. ICU, surgeries, follow-ups. Be careful that you are not unfairly maligning a system, to reach an end result that you find favorable.

  23. Re: Totally worthless anyways: I won't buy on About 25% of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors · · Score: 1

    It's not the rich that have to pay their fair share now. Now the healthy have to pay their fair share. I've never been able to figure out what a "fair share" is. No one ever seems to be able to objectively define that term. It's always more for some, less for others, and we never seem to get to the point where we can say we have achieved fairness. I'm starting to believe that a "fair share" doesn't actually exist, and it's just a device that get used to create jealousy and buy votes from people who are easily persuaded.

  24. Re:They seem to have their priorities correct on About 25% of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors · · Score: 1

    They are not entirely different and independent things. All you have to do is look at the reasons that were given before and after the law was passed. It was wholly insinuated that the ACA would improve care for many. It's is naive to think that completely restructuring the financing system for health insurance won't affect the health care itself. After all, it is the insurance that pays for the care.

  25. Re:They seem to have their priorities correct on About 25% of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors · · Score: 1

    Obviously you have not applied for enrollment. It asks for a hell of a lot more than age and address.