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  1. Re:Butterfly Ballot not Supreme Court decided 2000 on Perfect Coin-Toss Record Broke 6 Clinton-Sanders Deadlocks In Iowa (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    No, he would have only won in some scenarios

    Every scenario for a state-wide recount. Facts are stubborn things. The question as to why Gore asked for county recounts is an equally simple question with equally simple answers: because Florida state law allowed for country recounts, and because Gore went with the counties that had the highest margin of error. It's not his fault that, counter-intuitively, it was the more conservative counties that had sprung for the more accurate opt-scan ballots.

  2. One must be able to go to where the assembly is taking place, if air travel is the only reasonably way to get there due to say time constraints, the government cannot prevent a citizen from traveling by air, without due process of law.

    This seems like an arbitrary line to draw, especially as an example of why it is wrong to draw an arbitrary line counting privacy as part of the right. Surely requiring people have a driving license would breach your definition, how else could they reasonably reach a remote location within time constraints..

    Only if you had to have a pilot's license before boarding a plane as a passenger.

  3. Why couldnâ(TM)t they guarantee they wonâ(TM)t extradite to the US? For the reason you quoted: Swedish law doesnâ(TM)t allow rejecting an extradition request that doesnâ(TM)t exist and may not ever exist.

    Willfully obtuse tautology. Cold Fascist's partner in propaganda, Rei, has even stated (between protesting that Sweden can't promise not to extradite) that Swedish law does not allow for extradition for intelligence crimes. So, yeah, Sweden can call Assange's bluff and make such a promise. They've been able to do it for years now - if this was actually about alleged rape. Same for Assange's offer to be interviewed by Swedish investigators in person or remotely - another offer that Sweden has refused, because reasons.

    Which tells any person, that doesn't have a hole in their head, that this is not about rape and never has been.

  4. By this point, even Cold Dumbfuck Fascist must know that there are people still in Gitmo that were cleared for release by the Bush Administration. Guy's still bent out of shape that he was born at the wrong place and time to be an informer for Francisco Franco, the Shah, or Pinochet.

  5. The NSA actions are not unequivocally crimes.

    Then you are willfully ignorant of the 4th Amendment. Unequivocally.

  6. Do you turn around and ignore reasonable assessments of threats

    You are many more times more likely to die from a pen cap, or your couch, than any kind of terrorist attack. You are many times more likely to win the Powerball than to be blown up by a suicide bomber walking on a street.

    With that laughable level of risk assessment, I ask again: did you put vinyl sheets on your bed before watching 24? Or were you a Depends kinda guy?

  7. buy Atlas Wanked, get a free lobotomy? on Congress Votes to Scrap Obama's Clean Power Plan (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    What does Congress do? Pass laws.

    What does the Executive do? Enforce laws passed by Congress.

    What is the EPA? A part of the Executive Branch.

    What does the EPA do? Enforce laws passed by Congress. This is preschool-level civics, here.

    There are only two constitutionally proscribed ways to create or change a law. That is either by congress passing and the president signing a law or the congress overriding a veto or amending the constitution.

    EPA neither creates nor changes laws. Did the ice pick come with an ice pack to dull the pain?

  8. Re:Hey. Wingnut. on Contractors or Not, Seattle Uber Drivers Might Get Collective Bargaining · · Score: 1

    Or try opening a business in a gang run area then demand all the benefits of the gang's protection (i.e. not having your store burned to the ground) while paying none of the dues.

    Or try praying to Santa? Has as much relevance to the subject as your non sequitur about protection money. But, there's something about the word "union" that causes a lot of people to toss their brains down the garbage disposal without a second thought....must be a trigger word buried somewhere in Atlas Wanked.

  9. Re:Why does gov't care about climate change protes on France Using Emergency Powers To Prevent Climate Change Protests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Obamas a crook and Hilary's a mafioso.

    And? There's no shortage of corrupt right-wing politicians to choose from, no matter what side of the partisan aisle they happen to fall down on. You could change the subject to Republicans and abortion....they would never actually ban it, as it would mean the rubes wouldn't turn out to vote for them.

  10. As opposed to CEO's paid $5000 an hour? on Contractors or Not, Seattle Uber Drivers Might Get Collective Bargaining · · Score: 2

    It's funny how many people hear the word "unions" and race to the garbage disposal to cram in their brains and flip the "on" switch, based on the same tired 50-year-old capitalist buuuuuulshit. If you work for a living and are against unions, then you're as much of an idiot as a slave who opposed the 13th Amendment.

  11. Re:What year do you think this is? on Contractors or Not, Seattle Uber Drivers Might Get Collective Bargaining · · Score: 1

    You must not live near Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philly, etc. or take a close look at who's involved in the pension plans then.

    You must have been in a coma for the last 50 years. Before the FBI could create terror plots with paid informants and then swoop in for arrests, they had to make do with prosecuting mobsters. That and breaking up anything approaching "the left" is what the FBI does.

  12. Hey. Wingnut. on Contractors or Not, Seattle Uber Drivers Might Get Collective Bargaining · · Score: 1

    but unions are opposite of that, first they FORCE workers to "self organize" (be members) otherwise they cant work for that specific company

    Walk into your local Chamber of Commerce and tell them you're a business owner. Then, demand all the benefits of a Chamber membership while paying none of the dues, and see what the response is.

  13. Considering the security measures required to get into a stadium in france vs a group of protesters and someone wandering up with a suicide vest strapped to them. Well, there does appear to be a security risk to general people. Those protests would be a splody-dopes dream.

    Before Fox would air a new episode of 24, would you put a new set of vinyl sheets on your mattress in preparation for a night of terrified bedwetting?

  14. Re:Why does gov't care about climate change protes on France Using Emergency Powers To Prevent Climate Change Protests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Right, so the French government that recognizes climate change and agrees it is a major issue to be dealt with

    Does it really agree, or is it just throwing around two-faced platitudes it has no intention of honoring? Like Obama when he vowed to renegotiate NAFTA, or Hillary now being against the TPP after she spent years drafting it as SOS.

  15. Re:or....GTFO with those priorities on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    It was HALF an hour, douchenozzle.

    Times three, not including the initial freakout by the incompetent teacher and principal. Who's the dooshnozzle?

    the family never allowed the school to release their records of the incident, because, SURPRISE, the family wants their narrative to be the ONLY narrative of it.

    1) Irrelevant, we already know the record 2) no on would be more vested in claiming that Ahmed had come close to hinting at a joke of a hoax than the school district and the police department. But they aren't doing that.

    So why are you wingers grasping at the same straws passed up by both the principal and the police chief?

  16. Re:That won't last long... on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    Only in that it spreads the same amount among multiple school districts in the form of future payments--plus a bit of overhead, etc.

    If insurance companies could arbitrarily jack up rates without losing customers, they wouldn't wait for a settlement for a reason to do so. They'd jack up the rates and pocket the extra profit. Else the customer would move on to the next insurance company - supply and demand, market forces, the invisible fapping hand of capitalism, and all that.

    So it's back to the districts/departments bad behavior. There's no reason this has to work any differently than with any other kind of insurance. You have no accidents or tickets on your record, you're going to have lower car insurance rates than a chronic speeder with half a dozen DUI's under her belt. You're a school administrator or a police chief that doesn't have his head up his ass, you have low insurance rates. You're an incompetent racist authoritarian - high insurance rates. Stick, carrot, and all that.

  17. Re:That won't last long... on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    ts reasonable to wonder why and what reaction he was hoping for. A childish joke is one possibility

    We've been over this. No one would be more vested in hinting at a suggestion that Ahmed came within a 200 foot pole of making a "childish joke" than the school district and the police department. Yet they aren't doing that. Why?

    Because there was no joke, there was no bomb, and there was no hoax. Period. Do you go into police brutality stories and argue that the cops were justified, despite all evidence to the contrary, when not even the cops in question are making that argument?

  18. Re:Step to the right direction on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    Obviously, what they have in common is the drooling right-wing stupidity. It was a simple enough point, but right-wing morons could miss water if they fell out of a boat in the middle of the Pacific.

  19. Re:Taken to police station as part of investigatio on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    He was told not to show it to people by one teacher yet he kept doing so

    Irrelevant. Hoax requires intent. No intent, no hoax.

    This is something the police do every day.

    They freak out over supposed bomb threats at schools, while not evacuating the school, every day? The district and the police were incompetent reactionaries no matter which way you try to polish this turd.

  20. Re:Step to the right direction on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    So no, you didn't leave your brain by the door - you stuffed it down the garbage disposal and flipped the switch.

    Does it leave a permanent arrest record that he has to mention every time he fills out any government form?

    He's a minor. He wouldn't have to do that even if had jumped up on his desk screaming 'it's a bomb, it's a bomb', then been tried and sentenced to juvie. Christ, you wingers are stupid.

  21. Re:Self awareness? on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    You misspelled the CIA.

  22. Re:Unbelievable on Donald Trump Obliquely Backs a Federal Database To Track Muslims · · Score: 1

    The United States was invaded by Japan during WWII.

    Ok, Slugger, which State had foreign troops on it's soil? If Japan had landed troops in some part of India, that wouldn't have meant that the UK was invaded, just because India was a British Colony. So again, which State had Japanese troops on it's soil, threatening its government?

  23. Re:Taken to police station as part of investigatio on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    If recognized as a hoax there would be no reason to evacuate, yet as a hoax there is still a legal violation.

    Or if recognized as the Easter Bunny. There was no hoax. If Ahmed had made the slightest crack about it being a bomb, you would have been hearing about that from Day 1. That didn't happen.

  24. Re:Step to the right direction on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 2

    Actually, he was *NOT* arrested. He was detained.

    He was perp walked in handcuffs, taken to the station, fingerprinted, photographed, and questioned for over an hour. On planet is that *NOT* arrested? Did y'alls leave your brains parked by the front door?

  25. Re:Step to the right direction on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1, Troll

    However, as more information came to light about his father, it started to look more and more like a setup.

    Well, sure, if you're the sort of person that thinks that Sandy Hook was a false flag operation, or a moron, for short.