So, management had no responsibility to follow any government procedures in place? Don't even try that shit with me. If I interfaced with his manager and found out any of the issues were going on I would have the manager fired for negligence. But, of course, managers who have ONE NETWORK ADMIN for the WHOLE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO aren't apparently culpable.
Sorry. Can you point to the place where it is illegal to take a vacation to Vegas and spend $10,000? Court order? What? I have friends right now that spent $10,000 last weekend at a casino? You're a shitty excuse for a thought police.
Apparently you can read minds too so maybe you should be applying for one of the great management positions in San Francisco.
"Sources have stated that not only was Childs the only admin, he was always on call, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. As the only admin with the knowledge and access to the FiberWAN, he had no help. During the past few years, the DTIS staff has been significantly reduced due to budget cuts, keeping the city dependent on a sole admin for its core network."
"The confrontation that started the standoff
On Friday, June 20, there was an altercation between Childs and Jeana Pieralde, the new DTIS security manager at the 1 Market Street datacenter in San Francisco. Until her promotion, she had been a city network engineer who worked with Childs. The city's court filings claimed that Childs harassed Pieralde, confronted her, and took photos of her with his cell phone. Fearing for her safety, Pieralde retreated to a room in the building, locked herself in, and called the DTIS CIO for help. The DTIS CIO then called Childs and the two had words. Childs subsequently left the premises. Why was Childs so upset? According to the city, no one had told him or others that Pieralde was auditing his network, and he perceived it as a threat or intrusion.
Childs disputed this interpretation of events, claiming in court documents that Pieralde was conducting clandestine searches of DTIS employee workspaces and had removed a hard drive from an office when he confronted her. He also denied taking photos of Pieralde.
What occurred over the next two weeks remains a mystery, but at some point, DTIS officials demanded that Childs relinquish the usernames and passwords used to access the FiberWAN network devices, and Childs refused to do so. He was suspended for insubordination on July 9."
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Clearly he was no longer employed with the city. Clearly he had no obligation to the city in any form. Clearly nothing he did was illegal. Clearly the city is the one that scapegoated a citizen. Clearly! Any audit of the city's security and management procedures was at the very least, negligent.
Childs could be the biggest ass in the world and he still was not the one that did not follow procedures.
Paul Venezia reports on a leak to Slashdot from one of the jurors.
'This case should have never come to be. Management in the city's IT organisation was terrible. There were no adopted security policies or procedures in place. This was a situation that management allowed to develop until it came to this unfortunate point. They did everything wrong that they possibly could have to create this situation.'
Venezia picks up the ball.
'Shouldn't the letter of the law be applied to other 'denial of service' problems caused by the city while they pursued this case? In particular, the person or persons who released hundreds passwords in public court filings in 2008 be tried for causing a denial of service for the city's widespread VPN services? After all, once the story broke that a large list of usernames and passwords had been released to the public, the city had to take down its VPN services for days while they reset every password and communicated those changes to the users. And the kicker is that the VPN password debacle had immediate and widespread negative effects on the users and clearly caused a service outage, while Childs' actions did not effect users in any way.'
The difference of course is that Childs wasn't 'connected', wasn't political, and Robinson, at the head of the notorious city IT organisation described by a juror as 'terrible', was.
'If the letter of the law is what convicted Terry Childs, then the law is simply wrong', concl
I call bullshit. Let's see the public bill for $900,000 for 12 days of work. Who is the incompetent political hack that billed that out to their nephew? For $900,000 I could grab some sodium pentathol and have the passwords in an hour or so.
The whole thing is just so much bullshit. Please make sure you SF supporters put GOVERNMENT STOOGE on future resumes so I do not hire you.
He had one law staring him in the face saying that handing over the information insecurely would place him in jail. He had (basically) someone's political bitch telling him to subvert the law. Then a jury is ordered to ignore the law to convict him.
You'd better hope you never end up in that situation. Essentially, the court is impressing that they can and will subvert State law in order to support a process they evidently do not understand.
If anything, organizations like the ACLU should be screaming for this fight.
I'm not saying that there aren't US companies which don't use H1-B as cheap labor. But none of those I've listed in my post do so, to the best of my knowledge (which is to say, I know some pay figures to compare, and they do not support the theory that H1-Bs get paid less).
Pay isn't the only issue with an H1-B. The employee virtually becomes tied to the company and can only work in the USA for that company. When the employees break the agreement under the H1-B conditions they lose legal status to stay in the USA. The relationship creates a near defacto state of servitude.
I don't mean to be sarcastic, but every time I hear people say "I don't pay enough in taxes", I wonder what's holding them back.
A single person paying even twice as much tax as they normally do would be a drop in the bucket - or far less than that, even.
The only point is when the tax is raised universally, or at least among a sufficiently big group of people (e.g. some tax bracket).
I have a six figure salary in Washington. I wouldn't mind paying more of that as income tax alongside others in the same bracket. Though only if that is state income tax and not federal (I don't want to fund further growth of federal power at the expense of states).
...and so what people who make sarcastic statements about themselves paying more taxes really mean is that they approve of the government using violence against other people to take more of their money.
Easily. I'd pay $10 a month without blinking for SG:U to continue. Wouldn't it be interesting if Netflix started supporting entertainment based upon the numbers and not some flipping idiot's Hollywood version of science fiction. Seriously? Wrestling? Ghost freaking hunters?
Unless you shitbags pull some talking dogs or cats out, I'd really like to know which other race you're referencing. There's only one human race. Ignorant doucebag.
After reading this: http://crave.cnet.co.uk/cartech/tomtom-admits-to-sending-your-routes-and-speed-information-to-the-police-50003618/ I'll never own any TomTom products again; nor will my family members. I walked out and removed the TomTom GPS devices from three of our cars and will be dropping them off (unworking) at a electronic recyclable post today. We were thinking about getting newer GPS devices with larger screens soon and this article has definitely lost your company four sales from me.
"If you're doing nothing wrong, you should have nothing to fear from cops."
Being Libertarian (i.e. 10th amendment constitutionalist) I strongly disagree with her. Cops ARE people you need to fear, especially when they have a habit of dragging people out of cars and beating them, or "accidentally" shooting kids/pets during drug raids. The last thing I want it them tracking me.
Drug cartels are buying law enforcement in the greater San Diego area all the time. Recently, a family friend that owned a Chinese restaurant was kidnapped, ransomed, and murdered. Maybe I don't want my personal information used for any reason because the ignorant asses at TomTom could give a shit less about how that data actually gets used.
The ONLY reason I would buy a TomTom product after this is to join a class-action suit against them. Hint hint you lawyers out there!
Perhaps TomTom could follow police around and record video of them conducting their daily work and then post it anonymously for the public to develop safety assurances about police work?
So the American bourgeoisie are finally getting slammed? Well, here's the world's tiniest violin. They had it coming for a long time.
No wait! We can get a union together, control all the politicians through returning dues in campaign financing, and then force them to legislate unpaid benefits that will have the full faith and whatever....
Earnings in a higher income brackets simply get taxed at a slightly higher rate than earnings in a lower bracket. So increasing taxes on those earning over $250k does not mean that those making $250k (actually, making exactly $250k would mean you pay the same tax rate as making $249k) would be taxed at the same rate as those making $10m/year. If you don't understand this, please shut the fuck up about taxes. Please.
--Jeremy--Jesus was a liberal
Jesus also said go forth and sin no more. Developing complex tax code over a million words in length sounds like someone is hiding a whole lot of sinning.
There are plenty of frontiers for America to forge ahead. Great leaders in America are forging technologies that will take us to the next frontier. It's unfortunate that the last four or so Executive administrations haven't put on a decent marketing campaign, but good things are coming in space exploration and that new frontier will change our world society for the better.
Yep, I have a co-worker (Republican and Baptist pastor on the side) who's wife is not working and they have 5 kids (all home schooled too.) He mentioned one day that he got more back in tax return than what he overall pays in taxes over the year. Because he has all those kids. So I actually paid for his return via my taxes, while he rejects the idea to have Universal Health care?:)
Nice story. In your logical world I suppose the co-worker should follow tax code, instead, religiously and base their morals on what is fair. Let's just assume that is what you're implying with your slanderous juvenile statement. I think this quote would be applicable:
U.S. Representative Rob Portman (R-OH)
"The income tax code and its associated regulations contain almost 5.6 million words -- seven times as many words as the Bible. Taxpayers now spend about 5.4 billion hours a year trying to comply with 2,500 pages of tax laws...."
Of course, in your Anonymous Coward world, I'm sure you've spent the requisite time becoming familiar with 100% of U.S. Tax Code.
Since they were forced to pay into Social Security all of those years, why shouldn't they collect what they can? Now if you find them doing something to collect something voluntarily they did not directly pay into, feel free to castigate them for their hypocrisy. Otherwise, go chew out your grandma, I bet she is getting some social security. Or better yet, tell her to give it back and you will take care of her.
While I agree with your assessment, it does not go far enough.
The reality is that they were forced to pay into Social Security through threat of violence and now the self-appointed bitches at rollingstonemag have decided that (essentially) victims should not only give up their money involuntarily, but be appreciative of the rape process.
In the movie Hatemongers, members of the Westboro Baptist Church claim their children were being "accosted" by homosexuals in Gage Park, about half-a-mile from the Phelps' home (and a mile northwest of the Westboro Church). Shirley Phelps-Roper claims that in the late 1980s Fred Phelps even witnessed a homosexual attempting to lure her then five-year-old son Joshua into some shrubbery. After several complaints to the local government about the large amount of homosexual sex occurring in the park, with no resulting action, the Phelps' put up signs warning of homosexual activity. This resulted in much negative attention towards the family. When the Phelps called on local churches to speak against the activity in Gage Park, the churches also lashed against the Phelps family, leading to the family protesting homosexuality on a regular basis.[13]
In 2005, Phelps and his family held a signature drive to bring about a vote to repeal a law that protected homosexuals from workplace discrimination; they collected over 6,000 signatures, enough to bring the measure to a vote. In the aftermath of the election, 64 individuals who'd signed the petition came forward to state that Phelps' family had lied to them about what they were signing, and asked that their names be removed.[30]
Also in 2005, Phelps' granddaughter Jael was an unsuccessful candidate for Topeka's City Council; she was seeking to replace Tiffany Muller, the first openly gay member of the Topeka City Council.[31]
Democratic Party
Phelps has run in various Kansas Democratic Party primaries five times, but has never won. These included races for governor in 1990, 1994, and 1998, receiving about 15 percent of the vote in 1998.[32] In the 1992 Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate, Phelps received 31 percent of the vote.[33] Phelps ran for mayor of Topeka in 1993[34][unreliable source?] and 1997.[35]
Support for Al Gore
Phelps supported Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic Party primary election.[36] In his 1984 Senate race, Gore opposed a "gay bill of rights" and stated that homosexuality was not something that "society should affirm".[37] Phelps has stated that he supported Gore because of these earlier comments.[38] According to Phelps, members of the Westboro Baptist Church helped run Gore's 1988 campaign in Kansas. Phelps' son, Fred Phelps Jr., hosted a Gore fundraiser at his home in Topeka and was a Gore delegate to the 1988 Democratic National Convention.[4] Gore spokesman Dag Vega declined to comment, saying "We are not dignifying those stories with a response."[39]
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Why wait for the supposed Republican incidents when Democrats keep proving they are the party of hate?
In fact, this is one thing I cannot fathom. How the RNC and big business (which are essentially one now - with the other party quickly being subverted as well) have managed to still get support from the very people that they shaft over and over again.
That's why they brought us the Southern Strategy, the bedding-down with the Religious Right, and the new Southwestern Strategy.
I.e., they figured out that if they can make someone's knee jerk, they can make their finger twitch in the voting booth.
We've got a country full of citizens who will gladly vote away their freedoms, their privacy, their financial well-being, and their health, for the chance of foisting their prejudices and religious scruples off on the rest of society.
If Republicans ran on their real platform - making sure the rich get richer faster than they would without a Federal government - they wouldn't draw 1% of the votes. There just aren't enough rich people to get anyone elected, so they appeal to the basest instincts of the masses.
Cheap labour - that's going to be off-shored by any wealthy country.
Exactly. It is so disappointing to see my home state among others saying "gut education. screw infrastructure. We gotta cut taxes so we can get jobs!" I know that
count(manual_laborers) > count(professionals)
, but why do the teabaggers have such a boner for the notion of becoming the next China or India?
Because maybe they get tired of pedophiles/two-party advocates justifying everything based upon their butthurt? Just saying. Or maybe they just tire of theft being justified for the real rich.
Peter Pan should be free mate! His author died in 1927. How stupid is a law that believe something needs to exist for 70+ years after its author is dead in order to PROMOTE art. Come on!
In my office full of conservative people at my work all believe Copyright laws should be dissolved completely. Much like 1960's nuclear technologies, updates are often necessary to make things work for the benefit of the most people. Last time I checked, we have almost no conservative politicians in California on ANY side of the party spectrum. They all suck at the teat of Hollywood.
Slashdot Mirror
So, management had no responsibility to follow any government procedures in place? Don't even try that shit with me. If I interfaced with his manager and found out any of the issues were going on I would have the manager fired for negligence. But, of course, managers who have ONE NETWORK ADMIN for the WHOLE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO aren't apparently culpable.
Sorry. Can you point to the place where it is illegal to take a vacation to Vegas and spend $10,000? Court order? What? I have friends right now that spent $10,000 last weekend at a casino? You're a shitty excuse for a thought police.
Apparently you can read minds too so maybe you should be applying for one of the great management positions in San Francisco.
I can imagine the arguments in your house if you inflate shit like this.
So, I'll bite. How is being ordered to the point of violence to work for free after you have been fired equivalent to bank robbers or pedos?
A much fairer assessment. You missed the part where the new person politically appointed walks in a demands network information with no credentials.
http://ca.tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/article/453
"Sources have stated that not only was Childs the only admin, he was always on call, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. As the only admin with the knowledge and access to the FiberWAN, he had no help. During the past few years, the DTIS staff has been significantly reduced due to budget cuts, keeping the city dependent on a sole admin for its core network."
"The confrontation that started the standoff
On Friday, June 20, there was an altercation between Childs and Jeana Pieralde, the new DTIS security manager at the 1 Market Street datacenter in San Francisco. Until her promotion, she had been a city network engineer who worked with Childs. The city's court filings claimed that Childs harassed Pieralde, confronted her, and took photos of her with his cell phone. Fearing for her safety, Pieralde retreated to a room in the building, locked herself in, and called the DTIS CIO for help. The DTIS CIO then called Childs and the two had words. Childs subsequently left the premises. Why was Childs so upset? According to the city, no one had told him or others that Pieralde was auditing his network, and he perceived it as a threat or intrusion.
Childs disputed this interpretation of events, claiming in court documents that Pieralde was conducting clandestine searches of DTIS employee workspaces and had removed a hard drive from an office when he confronted her. He also denied taking photos of Pieralde.
What occurred over the next two weeks remains a mystery, but at some point, DTIS officials demanded that Childs relinquish the usernames and passwords used to access the FiberWAN network devices, and Childs refused to do so. He was suspended for insubordination on July 9."
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Clearly he was no longer employed with the city. Clearly he had no obligation to the city in any form. Clearly nothing he did was illegal. Clearly the city is the one that scapegoated a citizen. Clearly! Any audit of the city's security and management procedures was at the very least, negligent.
Childs could be the biggest ass in the world and he still was not the one that did not follow procedures.
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Paul Venezia reports on a leak to Slashdot from one of the jurors.
'This case should have never come to be. Management in the city's IT organisation was terrible. There were no adopted security policies or procedures in place. This was a situation that management allowed to develop until it came to this unfortunate point. They did everything wrong that they possibly could have to create this situation.'
Venezia picks up the ball.
'Shouldn't the letter of the law be applied to other 'denial of service' problems caused by the city while they pursued this case? In particular, the person or persons who released hundreds passwords in public court filings in 2008 be tried for causing a denial of service for the city's widespread VPN services? After all, once the story broke that a large list of usernames and passwords had been released to the public, the city had to take down its VPN services for days while they reset every password and communicated those changes to the users. And the kicker is that the VPN password debacle had immediate and widespread negative effects on the users and clearly caused a service outage, while Childs' actions did not effect users in any way.'
The difference of course is that Childs wasn't 'connected', wasn't political, and Robinson, at the head of the notorious city IT organisation described by a juror as 'terrible', was.
'If the letter of the law is what convicted Terry Childs, then the law is simply wrong', concl
The whole thing is just so much bullshit. Please make sure you SF supporters put GOVERNMENT STOOGE on future resumes so I do not hire you.
He had one law staring him in the face saying that handing over the information insecurely would place him in jail. He had (basically) someone's political bitch telling him to subvert the law. Then a jury is ordered to ignore the law to convict him.
You'd better hope you never end up in that situation. Essentially, the court is impressing that they can and will subvert State law in order to support a process they evidently do not understand.
If anything, organizations like the ACLU should be screaming for this fight.
I'm not saying that there aren't US companies which don't use H1-B as cheap labor. But none of those I've listed in my post do so, to the best of my knowledge (which is to say, I know some pay figures to compare, and they do not support the theory that H1-Bs get paid less).
Pay isn't the only issue with an H1-B. The employee virtually becomes tied to the company and can only work in the USA for that company. When the employees break the agreement under the H1-B conditions they lose legal status to stay in the USA. The relationship creates a near defacto state of servitude.
I don't mean to be sarcastic, but every time I hear people say "I don't pay enough in taxes", I wonder what's holding them back.
A single person paying even twice as much tax as they normally do would be a drop in the bucket - or far less than that, even.
The only point is when the tax is raised universally, or at least among a sufficiently big group of people (e.g. some tax bracket).
I have a six figure salary in Washington. I wouldn't mind paying more of that as income tax alongside others in the same bracket. Though only if that is state income tax and not federal (I don't want to fund further growth of federal power at the expense of states).
...and so what people who make sarcastic statements about themselves paying more taxes really mean is that they approve of the government using violence against other people to take more of their money.
Easily. I'd pay $10 a month without blinking for SG:U to continue. Wouldn't it be interesting if Netflix started supporting entertainment based upon the numbers and not some flipping idiot's Hollywood version of science fiction. Seriously? Wrestling? Ghost freaking hunters?
Yes, it's all about Medicare. Geez. U.S. Farm Subsidies: Billions and Billions Served
Unless you shitbags pull some talking dogs or cats out, I'd really like to know which other race you're referencing. There's only one human race. Ignorant doucebag.
After reading this: http://crave.cnet.co.uk/cartech/tomtom-admits-to-sending-your-routes-and-speed-information-to-the-police-50003618/ I'll never own any TomTom products again; nor will my family members. I walked out and removed the TomTom GPS devices from three of our cars and will be dropping them off (unworking) at a electronic recyclable post today. We were thinking about getting newer GPS devices with larger screens soon and this article has definitely lost your company four sales from me.
"If you're doing nothing wrong, you should have nothing to fear from cops."
Being Libertarian (i.e. 10th amendment constitutionalist) I strongly disagree with her. Cops ARE people you need to fear, especially when they have a habit of dragging people out of cars and beating them, or "accidentally" shooting kids/pets during drug raids. The last thing I want it them tracking me.
Drug cartels are buying law enforcement in the greater San Diego area all the time. Recently, a family friend that owned a Chinese restaurant was kidnapped, ransomed, and murdered. Maybe I don't want my personal information used for any reason because the ignorant asses at TomTom could give a shit less about how that data actually gets used.
The ONLY reason I would buy a TomTom product after this is to join a class-action suit against them. Hint hint you lawyers out there!
Perhaps TomTom could follow police around and record video of them conducting their daily work and then post it anonymously for the public to develop safety assurances about police work?
So the American bourgeoisie are finally getting slammed? Well, here's the world's tiniest violin. They had it coming for a long time.
No wait! We can get a union together, control all the politicians through returning dues in campaign financing, and then force them to legislate unpaid benefits that will have the full faith and whatever....
Earnings in a higher income brackets simply get taxed at a slightly higher rate than earnings in a lower bracket. So increasing taxes on those earning over $250k does not mean that those making $250k (actually, making exactly $250k would mean you pay the same tax rate as making $249k) would be taxed at the same rate as those making $10m/year. If you don't understand this, please shut the fuck up about taxes. Please.
--Jeremy--Jesus was a liberal
Jesus also said go forth and sin no more. Developing complex tax code over a million words in length sounds like someone is hiding a whole lot of sinning.
There are plenty of frontiers for America to forge ahead. Great leaders in America are forging technologies that will take us to the next frontier. It's unfortunate that the last four or so Executive administrations haven't put on a decent marketing campaign, but good things are coming in space exploration and that new frontier will change our world society for the better.
Didn't you hear from all the bible-thumping god-fearing right-wing Republican idiots? Birth control is a sin!
No, murder is a sin. RTM. Maybe you have also been trying to find morality in the U.S. Tax code. How's that going so far?
Yep, I have a co-worker (Republican and Baptist pastor on the side) who's wife is not working and they have 5 kids (all home schooled too.) He mentioned one day that he got more back in tax return than what he overall pays in taxes over the year. Because he has all those kids. So I actually paid for his return via my taxes, while he rejects the idea to have Universal Health care? :)
Nice story. In your logical world I suppose the co-worker should follow tax code, instead, religiously and base their morals on what is fair. Let's just assume that is what you're implying with your slanderous juvenile statement. I think this quote would be applicable:
U.S. Representative Rob Portman (R-OH)
"The income tax code and its associated regulations contain almost 5.6 million words -- seven times as many words as the Bible. Taxpayers now spend about 5.4 billion hours a year trying to comply with 2,500 pages of tax laws...."
Of course, in your Anonymous Coward world, I'm sure you've spent the requisite time becoming familiar with 100% of U.S. Tax Code.
Since they were forced to pay into Social Security all of those years, why shouldn't they collect what they can? Now if you find them doing something to collect something voluntarily they did not directly pay into, feel free to castigate them for their hypocrisy. Otherwise, go chew out your grandma, I bet she is getting some social security. Or better yet, tell her to give it back and you will take care of her.
While I agree with your assessment, it does not go far enough.
The reality is that they were forced to pay into Social Security through threat of violence and now the self-appointed bitches at rollingstonemag have decided that (essentially) victims should not only give up their money involuntarily, but be appreciative of the rape process.
Hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Democrats!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Phelps
Anti-gay
In the movie Hatemongers, members of the Westboro Baptist Church claim their children were being "accosted" by homosexuals in Gage Park, about half-a-mile from the Phelps' home (and a mile northwest of the Westboro Church). Shirley Phelps-Roper claims that in the late 1980s Fred Phelps even witnessed a homosexual attempting to lure her then five-year-old son Joshua into some shrubbery. After several complaints to the local government about the large amount of homosexual sex occurring in the park, with no resulting action, the Phelps' put up signs warning of homosexual activity. This resulted in much negative attention towards the family. When the Phelps called on local churches to speak against the activity in Gage Park, the churches also lashed against the Phelps family, leading to the family protesting homosexuality on a regular basis.[13]
In 2005, Phelps and his family held a signature drive to bring about a vote to repeal a law that protected homosexuals from workplace discrimination; they collected over 6,000 signatures, enough to bring the measure to a vote. In the aftermath of the election, 64 individuals who'd signed the petition came forward to state that Phelps' family had lied to them about what they were signing, and asked that their names be removed.[30]
Also in 2005, Phelps' granddaughter Jael was an unsuccessful candidate for Topeka's City Council; she was seeking to replace Tiffany Muller, the first openly gay member of the Topeka City Council.[31]
Democratic Party
Phelps has run in various Kansas Democratic Party primaries five times, but has never won. These included races for governor in 1990, 1994, and 1998, receiving about 15 percent of the vote in 1998.[32] In the 1992 Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate, Phelps received 31 percent of the vote.[33] Phelps ran for mayor of Topeka in 1993[34][unreliable source?] and 1997.[35]
Support for Al Gore
Phelps supported Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic Party primary election.[36] In his 1984 Senate race, Gore opposed a "gay bill of rights" and stated that homosexuality was not something that "society should affirm".[37] Phelps has stated that he supported Gore because of these earlier comments.[38] According to Phelps, members of the Westboro Baptist Church helped run Gore's 1988 campaign in Kansas. Phelps' son, Fred Phelps Jr., hosted a Gore fundraiser at his home in Topeka and was a Gore delegate to the 1988 Democratic National Convention.[4] Gore spokesman Dag Vega declined to comment, saying "We are not dignifying those stories with a response."[39]
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Why wait for the supposed Republican incidents when Democrats keep proving they are the party of hate?
In fact, this is one thing I cannot fathom. How the RNC and big business (which are essentially one now - with the other party quickly being subverted as well) have managed to still get support from the very people that they shaft over and over again.
That's why they brought us the Southern Strategy, the bedding-down with the Religious Right, and the new Southwestern Strategy.
I.e., they figured out that if they can make someone's knee jerk, they can make their finger twitch in the voting booth.
We've got a country full of citizens who will gladly vote away their freedoms, their privacy, their financial well-being, and their health, for the chance of foisting their prejudices and religious scruples off on the rest of society.
If Republicans ran on their real platform - making sure the rich get richer faster than they would without a Federal government - they wouldn't draw 1% of the votes. There just aren't enough rich people to get anyone elected, so they appeal to the basest instincts of the masses.
Demorats and their strategies. Good one. Yeah, it's not a Democratic problem. Democrats love the gays and atheists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Phelps Democrats never lie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rizzo Democrats do their duty. http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/congress/6838-democrat-senator-caught-in-tax-evasion-scandal No Democrats here, just us rats.
Cheap labour - that's going to be off-shored by any wealthy country.
Exactly. It is so disappointing to see my home state among others saying "gut education. screw infrastructure. We gotta cut taxes so we can get jobs!" I know that
count(manual_laborers) > count(professionals)
, but why do the teabaggers have such a boner for the notion of becoming the next China or India?
Because maybe they get tired of pedophiles/two-party advocates justifying everything based upon their butthurt? Just saying. Or maybe they just tire of theft being justified for the real rich.
Peter Pan should be free mate! His author died in 1927. How stupid is a law that believe something needs to exist for 70+ years after its author is dead in order to PROMOTE art. Come on!
In my office full of conservative people at my work all believe Copyright laws should be dissolved completely. Much like 1960's nuclear technologies, updates are often necessary to make things work for the benefit of the most people. Last time I checked, we have almost no conservative politicians in California on ANY side of the party spectrum. They all suck at the teat of Hollywood.