Given that there is a court date then this is not just a case of locking him up to put the scare in him, someone in the police department took it seriously.
If a 12 year-old was behind the email that convinced the LA Unified School District to shut down 1,100 schools and send 600K students home, would you still argue that the arresting officers were ignorant racists?
The only thing we know for sure is that because this case involves a minor the school and police will not tell us anything that happened involving the minor, and that because everyone else in this case is legally prevented from describing the events that transpired, the family is free to claim whatever they want.
In the Ahmed case of a few months ago and in this case, until the court date we are only being fed one side of the story and - surprise - it makes the side subject to a gag order look bad.
Early reports are that the boy with the charger backpack told officials (teacher, police) he did have a bomb, and Ahmed refused to answer any questions until the police took him in to custody. Do these actions warrant police action? I don't know, we'll see - but one thing is certain, in both cases public opinion was manipulated by the family and a gullible public simply accepted whatever the kid's family said.
Yeah, because he tells his supporters 'it's not your fault you're not getting ahead, it's their fault, they tilted the rules against you - but I'll make them pay, pay for your health care, pay for your retirement, your children's college!
Sanders will be popular, until his supporters realize they they will also have to pay for everyone else's healthcare, retirement, and education - they don't have enough money to cover Bernie's promises...
You do understand as Solicitor General of the state of Texas he had *ZERO* choice on the positions he argued in support of, right? His positions were staked out by others, then he was forced to argue them.
Also, I think he argued *nine* cases before SCOTUS, not one:
http://www.nationaljournal.com...
Because.... Why?
Kids can't shoot out between cars in front of self-driven cars? Other drivers can't cut you off, stop suddenly, or do anything else that leads to an accident when the car drives itself?
Maybe cable companies learned from all those 'comcastsucks' websites that rail against cable companies they figured turn-about is fair-play...
They don't pay their bill, cut service. If cutting service isn't an option, publicly shame them... Can't afford your cable bill and don't want to be shamed? Cancel cable service and work out a payment schedule for any outstanding balance.
I joked the administration would try and pass this off as 'workplace violence', lol and behold, I saw this:
âoeA senior federal official who is monitoring the case said investigators believe one of the shooters left the party after getting into an argument and returned with one or two armed companions,â the Los Angeles Times reported.
So a guy gets into an argument, runs home, tells his friends, the three of them decide to suit up, grab their 'long rifles' and a bunch of pipe bombs and head back to the community center and shoot it up???
Wow.
35 years ago the problem was global cooling, the global warming, now 'climate change'... This has, at best, been a moving target.
I wasn't aware 'obstructionist' republicans ran the US (world?) government these past 35 years...
Not after you figure in the government subsidies and the premium price utilities have to pay me for any solar-generated power my panels generate that I can't use.../sarcasm
What? It's preferable to spend more money, hand-assemble and configure your custom solution to a robust, industry-standard device whic serves the same function for less money because it has 'too many' ports?
Kids today...
Tim Cook is not accepting of rights abuses in Saudi Arabia.
And you know that how? The ONLY public statement he made regarding equality for homosexuals was in regards to imaginary bakers and florists in Indiana that might, if asked, refuse to be part of a homosexual wedding ceremony.
So far he's been silent on the tossing of homosexuals off the tops of buildings, stonings, etc.
It's nice you want to give him the benefit of the doubt because of his orientation, but until he speaks the words condemning the atrocities against gays everywhere, he can just as easily be assumed to be supportive of them as not.
Where does Michael Adele stand on equality issues? Don't know, don't care - he chooses not to share his positions. Tim Cook chose to share his opinions, but he only cares enough to call out Indiana - no one else.
Saudi Arabia has no national economy if the world stops buying their oil. A boycott could be VERY effective. It would never happen, but we're it to happen it would be VERY effective.
No. If a company decides to become politically active, as Apple under Tim Cook apparently does, shouldn't it speak out/advocate against those places WHERE IT ALREADY DOES BUSINESS and the offenses are greatest? That is what Ms. Florina was talking about - not US policy.
BTW - There was nothing in the Indiana law that said, for example, that if a baker didn't want to bake a cake for a gay wedding on religious grounds they didn't have to - the Indiana law said that 'religious freedom' is a valid argument in court, not that religious freedom trumps any other existing anti-discrimination laws on the books.
The baker can argue based on religious freedom, but that argument does not mean the baker will win by simply making the religious freedom defense.
That's the point! Apple does business in BOTH Saudi Arabia and Indiana/Arkansas, yet the possibility that an Indiana baker might argue in court that he doesn't want to bake a cake for a gay wedding is the action that rises to a level he feels compelled to comment on, not the countries where they also do business in where they hurl homosexuals off the tops of buildings for simply being gay?
Apple doesn't have to sell their products in the anti-gay countries, the countries where they stone homosexuals, throw them off buildings, etc. BUT they choose to, and they choose to do so silently. BUT, Indiana joins 18 or so other states with a similarly-worded religious freedom law AND they are the problem?
When someone's home is destroyed by a natural disaster their biggest problem isn't getting a tent or pre-fab box dropped on their property, I think the real problems are (in no particular order):
1) getting approval to rebuild from local gov't
2) getting rebuilding materials/workers
3) securing quick payment from insurance company
Temporary housing is only a plane/bus ticket away, the issue is to expedite the rebuilding process, not to make them slightly more comfortable for the YEARS it will take to rebuild.
We have a dome that covers all the plants, it's called the atmosphere, and it captures 100% of all gasses emitted by anything (people, animals, plants, cars, factories, etc.
The thing is, nuts use a whole lot of water: it takes about a gallon of water to grow one almond, and nearly five gallons to produce a walnut.
There's only one problem with this theory - we'll call it the 'Five Gallon Walnut' problem - if it takes 5 gallons to grow a (single) walnut, then why don't walnuts weigh about as much as a five gallon bucket of water?
The reason they don't is because while a walnut USES 5 gallons of water, it doesn't RETAIN those 5 gallons, whe vast majority of this so-called 'virtual water' works it's way back into the environment.
If the 'Five Gallon Walnut' theory was valid, with every walnut consumed, five gallons of water would disappear, never to be seen again - but that isn't what happens.
The problem will be 'poor people' fighting their unaffordable speeding tickets because they can't afford to pay.
Charging every offender the same amount regardless of income level is actually fairest - the '12 day' fine example speeding ticket discussed above would CRUSH anyone living paycheck to paycheck, which is more than half of all Americans.
Serious offenses accumulate to loss of driving privleges in many (most? All?) states, that is the great equalizer. By increasing fines you increase the incentive to find a way out of the ticket, which will likely result in increased numbers of high-speed car chases, etc.
A speeding ticket that results in a '12 day's worth of income' (or is it 12 half days of income?) are very abusive. Think of an average person, making a comfortable, but by no means exceptional, salary - say $52K/yr as a teacher. That 12 day speeding ticket costs the offender 12x$200/day income (or is it 12x$100/day?)... Do you know many teachers that can 'afford' a $1,200 or $2,400 traffic ticket? That's approaching a half-month of pay, as opposed to the current fixed fine system.
The numbers are just as cruel for low-income speeders, if not more so.
What problem, exactly is this type of system designed to address? Financing the city? 'Punishing' the rich?
I think using private email for official government use is a valid concerned for a current governmental employee. That said Hillary is retired and serves no official capacity.
What? When ahe did it it was OK, but now it's not OK, but since she doesn't work any more it's not an issue?
But it wasn't OK at the time, she personally sent emails out telling others no to use personal email accounts for official communications - and warned them to do so might cost them their jobs.
Every email she ever sent to any world leader or their aids and did NOT include a state department staffer on is not part of the federal records, period.
Coupled with the conspicuous timing of large donations to her family charity soon after her state department helped broker multi-billion dollar deals and the possibility of corruption increases.
Imagine if Dick Cheney had done this... See a problem with that?
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If a 12 year-old was behind the email that convinced the LA Unified School District to shut down 1,100 schools and send 600K students home, would you still argue that the arresting officers were ignorant racists? The only thing we know for sure is that because this case involves a minor the school and police will not tell us anything that happened involving the minor, and that because everyone else in this case is legally prevented from describing the events that transpired, the family is free to claim whatever they want. In the Ahmed case of a few months ago and in this case, until the court date we are only being fed one side of the story and - surprise - it makes the side subject to a gag order look bad. Early reports are that the boy with the charger backpack told officials (teacher, police) he did have a bomb, and Ahmed refused to answer any questions until the police took him in to custody. Do these actions warrant police action? I don't know, we'll see - but one thing is certain, in both cases public opinion was manipulated by the family and a gullible public simply accepted whatever the kid's family said.
Yeah, because he tells his supporters 'it's not your fault you're not getting ahead, it's their fault, they tilted the rules against you - but I'll make them pay, pay for your health care, pay for your retirement, your children's college! Sanders will be popular, until his supporters realize they they will also have to pay for everyone else's healthcare, retirement, and education - they don't have enough money to cover Bernie's promises...
Based on recent headlines in the news, Iran *really* wants nuclear energy...
You do understand as Solicitor General of the state of Texas he had *ZERO* choice on the positions he argued in support of, right? His positions were staked out by others, then he was forced to argue them. Also, I think he argued *nine* cases before SCOTUS, not one: http://www.nationaljournal.com...
Because.... Why? Kids can't shoot out between cars in front of self-driven cars? Other drivers can't cut you off, stop suddenly, or do anything else that leads to an accident when the car drives itself?
Bob Moog started his electronic instrument business offering Theremin kits to hobbyists, IIRC.
Maybe cable companies learned from all those 'comcastsucks' websites that rail against cable companies they figured turn-about is fair-play... They don't pay their bill, cut service. If cutting service isn't an option, publicly shame them... Can't afford your cable bill and don't want to be shamed? Cancel cable service and work out a payment schedule for any outstanding balance.
The us gov't goes out of it's way to force gun shops to sell guns to straw buyers who sent their guns off to Mexico. Fast and Furious ring a bell?
So a guy gets into an argument, runs home, tells his friends, the three of them decide to suit up, grab their 'long rifles' and a bunch of pipe bombs and head back to the community center and shoot it up??? Wow.
Long gun has a specific meaning, refers to a type of weapon that is not easily concealed and in many, many jurisdictions can be openly carried.
"AK-47 type" means black gun, nothing more than that...
35 years ago the problem was global cooling, the global warming, now 'climate change'... This has, at best, been a moving target. I wasn't aware 'obstructionist' republicans ran the US (world?) government these past 35 years...
Not after you figure in the government subsidies and the premium price utilities have to pay me for any solar-generated power my panels generate that I can't use... /sarcasm
What? It's preferable to spend more money, hand-assemble and configure your custom solution to a robust, industry-standard device whic serves the same function for less money because it has 'too many' ports? Kids today...
And you know that how? The ONLY public statement he made regarding equality for homosexuals was in regards to imaginary bakers and florists in Indiana that might, if asked, refuse to be part of a homosexual wedding ceremony. So far he's been silent on the tossing of homosexuals off the tops of buildings, stonings, etc. It's nice you want to give him the benefit of the doubt because of his orientation, but until he speaks the words condemning the atrocities against gays everywhere, he can just as easily be assumed to be supportive of them as not. Where does Michael Adele stand on equality issues? Don't know, don't care - he chooses not to share his positions. Tim Cook chose to share his opinions, but he only cares enough to call out Indiana - no one else.
Saudi Arabia has no national economy if the world stops buying their oil. A boycott could be VERY effective. It would never happen, but we're it to happen it would be VERY effective.
No. If a company decides to become politically active, as Apple under Tim Cook apparently does, shouldn't it speak out/advocate against those places WHERE IT ALREADY DOES BUSINESS and the offenses are greatest? That is what Ms. Florina was talking about - not US policy. BTW - There was nothing in the Indiana law that said, for example, that if a baker didn't want to bake a cake for a gay wedding on religious grounds they didn't have to - the Indiana law said that 'religious freedom' is a valid argument in court, not that religious freedom trumps any other existing anti-discrimination laws on the books. The baker can argue based on religious freedom, but that argument does not mean the baker will win by simply making the religious freedom defense.
That's the point! Apple does business in BOTH Saudi Arabia and Indiana/Arkansas, yet the possibility that an Indiana baker might argue in court that he doesn't want to bake a cake for a gay wedding is the action that rises to a level he feels compelled to comment on, not the countries where they also do business in where they hurl homosexuals off the tops of buildings for simply being gay? Apple doesn't have to sell their products in the anti-gay countries, the countries where they stone homosexuals, throw them off buildings, etc. BUT they choose to, and they choose to do so silently. BUT, Indiana joins 18 or so other states with a similarly-worded religious freedom law AND they are the problem?
When someone's home is destroyed by a natural disaster their biggest problem isn't getting a tent or pre-fab box dropped on their property, I think the real problems are (in no particular order): 1) getting approval to rebuild from local gov't 2) getting rebuilding materials/workers 3) securing quick payment from insurance company Temporary housing is only a plane/bus ticket away, the issue is to expedite the rebuilding process, not to make them slightly more comfortable for the YEARS it will take to rebuild.
We have a dome that covers all the plants, it's called the atmosphere, and it captures 100% of all gasses emitted by anything (people, animals, plants, cars, factories, etc.
There's only one problem with this theory - we'll call it the 'Five Gallon Walnut' problem - if it takes 5 gallons to grow a (single) walnut, then why don't walnuts weigh about as much as a five gallon bucket of water? The reason they don't is because while a walnut USES 5 gallons of water, it doesn't RETAIN those 5 gallons, whe vast majority of this so-called 'virtual water' works it's way back into the environment. If the 'Five Gallon Walnut' theory was valid, with every walnut consumed, five gallons of water would disappear, never to be seen again - but that isn't what happens.
The problem will be 'poor people' fighting their unaffordable speeding tickets because they can't afford to pay. Charging every offender the same amount regardless of income level is actually fairest - the '12 day' fine example speeding ticket discussed above would CRUSH anyone living paycheck to paycheck, which is more than half of all Americans. Serious offenses accumulate to loss of driving privleges in many (most? All?) states, that is the great equalizer. By increasing fines you increase the incentive to find a way out of the ticket, which will likely result in increased numbers of high-speed car chases, etc.
A speeding ticket that results in a '12 day's worth of income' (or is it 12 half days of income?) are very abusive. Think of an average person, making a comfortable, but by no means exceptional, salary - say $52K/yr as a teacher. That 12 day speeding ticket costs the offender 12x$200/day income (or is it 12x$100/day?)... Do you know many teachers that can 'afford' a $1,200 or $2,400 traffic ticket? That's approaching a half-month of pay, as opposed to the current fixed fine system. The numbers are just as cruel for low-income speeders, if not more so. What problem, exactly is this type of system designed to address? Financing the city? 'Punishing' the rich?
What? When ahe did it it was OK, but now it's not OK, but since she doesn't work any more it's not an issue? But it wasn't OK at the time, she personally sent emails out telling others no to use personal email accounts for official communications - and warned them to do so might cost them their jobs.
Every email she ever sent to any world leader or their aids and did NOT include a state department staffer on is not part of the federal records, period. Coupled with the conspicuous timing of large donations to her family charity soon after her state department helped broker multi-billion dollar deals and the possibility of corruption increases. Imagine if Dick Cheney had done this... See a problem with that?