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Nope, Asians are even less equal than whites in the “social justice” hierarchy.

Spread the failure.

I just always figured black kids wanted to be “light black” in the same way that white girls tan to be as “dark white” as possible.

Maybe it comes from anchoring, and everybody wants to shift to the middle and away from extremes, or maybe girls are just being superficial girls (and some vain guys follow along as society becomes more and more effeminate).

Awesome—somebody needs to take this thing nationwide.

Brilliant! Send it to all the sheep you know jumping on the Earth Day / Lenin’s Birthday bandwagon.

They have officially become the Party of Government.

If you’re in a free state, fill out the number in your household. No groupthink info for race-baiting, preference-pushing, set-aside-seeking parasites and their racial spoils system.

If you’re in an urban failure, just trash it. They’re losing population but making up for it in gerrymandering, illegal aliens, and vote fraud. The sooner they lose reps the better.

As an FYI, the Nikkei currently stands around 10,000, roughly even with the DOW. DOW’s peak was 14,000. Any guess on the Nikkei’s?

It peaked at 40,000. In 1990. Since then Japan has been in a “Lost Decade”, which is now a full 2 decades long. They’ve passed about a dozen or so “stimulus” packages.

“Tax’s” should be “Taxes”

I wouldn’t consider the firewall alone to be adequate. It’s basically a shield against someone scanning for open computers to attack, but I don’t believe you’re secure from malicious scripts and stuff like that from web pages you visit.

If you have a home network and are behind a router (wireless or just the kind you plug your network cables into), that’s the best possible firewall, because your computer is literally invisible to outsiders. Instead of having addresses to the outside world, your computer(s) would just have internal ones the router uses. To the world you’d just show up as a router, which makes no sense to attack since it doesn’t execute code like a computer. Legitimate info is routed appropriately by the router, but any attack is just like junk mail being delivered to a hotel lobby.

Of the 3 free programs I recommended, I use Avast. It was literally a several minute process. I looked through the options to see that it was set up to update automatically and not harass me about whatever, and haven’t given a second thought to it since.

It sits there doing its thing, updating as necessary, without any action on my part. If I hit a questionable link it’ll intervene by popping up a message saying it’s found something, and I continue about my business with the crisis averted.

Full article at the link--check the comments section out!

Are you looking for a firewall, or just virus/trojan/malware protection?

Avast, Avira, and AVG are 3 free programs that do a fantastic job of keeping your computer clean. I use Avast, and it’s a 1-time install with automatic updates and no interference.

I’m going to keep saying it until you guys get it right and quit asking. It’s very simple. If you live in:

Free states - fill out the number who live there. No additional info for the race-baiting, government preference pushing crowd to use.

Urban failures - trash the thing. They’re losing population but making up for it with illegal aliens and vote fraud. The sooner they lose reps the better.

Here’s another symptom:

Below are actual lines from the head of the Detroit Public Schools, Otis Mathis. Not casual notes either, these are verbatim from mass emails to parent and teacher groups.

“If you saw Sunday’s Free Press that shown Robert Bobb the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, move Mark Twain to Boynton which have three times the number seats then students and was one of the reason’s he gave for closing school to many empty seats.
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Do DPS control the Foundation or outside group? If an outside group control the foundation, then what is DPS Board row with selection of is director? Our we mixing DPS and None DPS row’s, and who is the watch dog?”

There are another 6 or so paragraphs/sentences (strings of words?) that go about like that, with a plea at the end to contact the media, the pastors, and the “Superintended”.

He “graduated” from a Detroit high school with a 0.98 GPA, and then went to Wayne State, the only public college in Detroit, a city he’s never left. He spent several years there suing over their basic English proficiency test, required for graduation.

The lawsuits didn’t work, so he stayed for 15 (fifteen) years and then quit. After he was elected to the school board, in 2007 Wayne dropped the requirement, so he “applied for” his degree. He now holds a BS in “Criminal of Justice” (his words).

His current approach to fixing Detroit consists of several ideas:

First, reinstating the recently ended “social promotion” program of giving diplomas to kids who couldn’t read, because not graduating calls attention to a student’s illiteracy. The program was ended by the emergency manager appointed by the state to make sure changes were being made.

Second, fighting any outside oversight. There had been talk of the state taking control of the schools, but Mathis didn’t feel the 25% graduation stat was a good enough threshold. He was asked at a forum if every single student failing out would justify oversight, and answered no.

Third, he’s vigorously pursuing additional federal money. Detroit already spends $13,000 per kid per year, vs. a national average of $8-9000, but apparently its teachers’ unions are the best place to throw that “stimulus” education money. There are 90,000 students left in Detroit, and the $100 billion schools are supposed to “compete” for should just be given to a place that really needs it.

I just hope it wasn’t “stunnin” or “stuntin”...

If you live in:

Free states: fill in number of people, that’s it. No other info for the race-baiting, government preferences crowd to use.

Urban failures: trash the thing. They’re losing population but making up for it in vote fraud. The sooner they lose reps the better.

I find that hard to believe. Only $300 to market order it 25%?

I know Intrade markets are thin compared to real financial markets, but surely it’s gotten enough attention over the last few years, and the healthcare takeover a front-and-center enough issue, that there should be more liquidity than that.

Guess we’ll see tomorrow.

Bit it up and *offer* it down.

And it takes money to do that, the same as if you try to move Intel stock or oil or any other market. Of course, Intrade contracts are going to be a lot less liquid.

Apparently in 2004 someone market ordered Bush presidential contracts all the way to zero to try to manipulate the market. The article I read was saying this would’ve taken hundreds of thousands of dollars to do.

Naturally it rebounded, and apparently came all the way back to where it was. So basically somebody just gave everyone else incredibly cheap buys—the same as happens when someone tries to artificially move any other market.

Free states: just age and nothing else. Don’t give the gerrymandering, race-baiting, government preferences crowd any data to use.

Urban failures: trash it. They’re losing population as it is, but make up for it in vote fraud. The sooner they lose reps the better.

Your video is titled “Untitled.avi”, so it won’t show up on searches of related videos. Perhaps rename it?

Also, there’s a TON of material to choose from. Perhaps as a second video you could add more examples, but with more concise clips for each (Bawney Fwank!) to make it more content dense.

It’s not just a few exceptions here and there, they’re rotten to the core.

TTIWWOP!

I do remember Eminem saying it.

But it’s benevolent racism!

If your family’s food is covered by food stamps, you get a check for each kid, your housing is Section 8, and the gov’t is providing you a free cell phone and subsidies on the already-subsidizes trains and buses, what costs do you really have?

Add to it that their useless 36% “average” unemployment check comes from the fact that if you made 100k your unemployment is a small fraction of that, but if you your income is low you get almost the whole thing (think it’s 80% or more here), it’s enough for plenty of people to keep living comfy, hood-rich lifestyles funded by our paychecks.

The comments there are great. Mine is #6.

I’m glad (and surprised, given the timing—just as Americans are realizing they’re being dismissed as ignorant peons) that Yahoo reinstated them.

Bobby Rush pushes that crap every year in IL.

He’s a Chicago thug, Black Panther party member, militant racist separatist, and multiple prior felon.

This makes him unable to legally own a gun, just like the serfs in Chitcago. As a felon, he of course wants to ensure a safe working environment for his felon constituency.

The F-16 dominates everything else on earth.

And the F-22 wipes the floor with the F-16. It’s not a matter of air superiority—yes, it out maneuvers the F-16, but that’s not even necessary.

In training exercises, F-22s are able to take out F-16s when outnumbered by a factor of 3 or 4. The F-16s don’t even get to “play”. They basically fly around until the F-22s call to tell them they’ve been blown out of the sky.

Supposedly the F-22 can locate the F-16, “kill” it, and then fly over it making visual contact before the F-16 detects it.

And Barry has canceled the program. Wouldn’t want complete air superiority over future threats, that would warrant another American apology. Better we be on a level playing field, and one step closer to dependency on stagnant Europe.

Links that work:

http://www.atr.org/net-neutrality-kill-jobs-a4594

http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2010/03/05/study-net-neutrality-bad-for-innovation-investment-and-consumers/

“chartreuse” is yellow-green.

Wouldn’t a more appropriate color be some mix of red and green?

“You are literally talking about sales tax on a bagel and a bowl of Cheerios”

You are literally talking about sucking an extra $10 million out of the economy with no change in behavior by those effected and no costs passed on to anyone...

The kid’s two and in past incidents has already had a broken leg, a broken arm, and half her hair pulled out?

I thought this was Bellwood, a ‘hood of Chicago.
Turns out it’s Belleville, a ‘hood of East St. Louis.

Next up will be the “Earned Ticketing Tax Credit”, where receiving a DUI, running into someone’s car while driving with no license or insurance, or flipping your 20 passenger minivan while fleeing the cops will result in the government sending you a check.

Great quote. I actually thought this when I clicked the article, but figured nobody would get the random Dune reference.

I don’t understand what the problem is—I interpreted the “unfair” part to mean that you aren’t a gentleman who’s agreed to a duel, but a civilian under attack.

When you left work you had a 99.99% chance of getting home safely to your family, and now your attacker has dragged you into a situation where you have even odds at best.

Therefore, you have zero interest in “fairness” or “proportional response”—you never volunteered for a 50/50 chance of death today, so you should use any stick, knife, bottle, bat, gun, truck, or killer attack bear within reach to stop the threat.

If it’s a complex/technology-based product, you’ll have to find somebody to fund you.

But if it’s something you can make yourself without too much expense, just start small. Make a few, see how friends like them, have them recommend to their friends, etc.

If it’s a hit, word of mouth should keep you busy. Maybe it’ll stay small, in which case you just have a neat hobby, or maybe interest picks up and you can expand.

“for the remainder of his first term”

should be

“for the remainder of his term.”

Rather than pack the court with enough yes-men to get what he wants, why not just dissolve the Supreme Court and declare himself the sole judge?

Then replace the Legislative branch as well!

Something doesn’t add up here.

718 hp, <3300 pounds, all wheel drive, and it takes 3.2 seconds to hit 60?

The 911 turbo weighs 3500, has 500 hp, and claims 3.1 seconds.

The GT2 weighs 3200, is RWD, has 520 hp, and claims 3.2 seconds.

The weight on this 918 must be wrong, because batteries are incredibly heavy, and there are the motors as well. I would guess it’s more like 3800, and the hybrid gear just makes up for its own weight.

In that case, I’d say dump it, and make for a significantly lighter car with the 9200 rpm 500 hp V8. That would make for a very interesting alternative to the twin turbo flat 6.

What’s the source for this? Holder is a racist control freak, but I’m pretty sure I recognize that quotation from last year.

HR 45 is pushed every year by Bobby Rush, the former Black Panther, militant separatist, and violent felon, but it hasn’t made any headway.

Chitcago’s pistol ban and onerous registration are about to get thrown out by the Supreme Court (McDonald v Chicago starts this week), and once they rule that cities and states can’t trample 2nd Amendment rights, I don’t see how IL’s complete ban on bearing arms will stand.

While I’m sure they’d like any and every infringement and ban they can get, they’re going to have enough trouble just trying to slow the restoration of our rights—much less piling on new restrictions.

The suit itself only concerns possession in the home, not carrying.

However, Heller already said that “the people” in “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” refers to individuals (sad they had to say that, but it’s official now).

This case is deciding whether states & cities have to respect that right, or if it’s just the feds that can’t trample it (again, sad, but it is what it is).

So if they say 2A applies to the states, I don’t see how they’ll be able to separate the “keep” from the “bear”. I’m sure they’ll try, but they’ll lose in court. Some people think IL will rush to implement the most restrictive and expensive carry law they can in order not to simply have its laws scrapped in court.

Given the alternate universe Chitcago and Crook County politicians live in, I could see them being arrogant enough to keep blocking RTC laws and sticking their heads in the sand, until a lawsuit brings permitless Alaska and Vermont style carry to everyone overnight.

In the meantime, feel free to join us at www.IllinoisCarry.com to fight the good fight.

Here’s the Cnet link. The comments are hilarious.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-10459872-260.html?tag=mncol;title

Greece isn’t even firing their (massive in number) government workers.

So far their proposal has been to stop paying them for 14 months (!) of “work” every year. That’s right, on top of the fact they have a New Jersey or Chicago style government where half the jobs are invented and grossly overpaid, they somehow get 14 months’ worth of paychecks each year.

And threatening to go to a 12 month year alone has their lazy unions striking to try to shut down the country. On the bright side, maybe the few who don’t work for the government will realize how much they don’t need them and finally dump the dead weight.

Otherwise, they’re Detroit.

That’s because “conservative” and “Liberal” (big-L) have such warped definitions here.

There is absolutely nothing liberal about the group calling itself “Liberal”. They are the Party of Government.

They used to only want to control your wallet, while giving lip service to speech/expression, but even that hasn’t been the case for some time. They’re the ones who push all the cutesy ways of getting around the 1st Amendment (FCC, “hate” speech, “political” speech, “commercial” speech, “artistic” speech, PBS, NPR, NEA, “equal time”, “localism”, etc).

My views are very “liberal”. That is, I want to be left alone, with strong individual rights and personal liberties, and a very constrained government. That makes me a “conservative”.

Our Founding Fathers are sometimes referred to as “classical liberals”—to distinguish them from (non)Liberals who seek to undo every check they placed on government and undermine every individual freedom they supported.

“classical liberal”, “libertarian”, or “conservative”, at the end of the day you either side with Individual Rights and Freedoms, or Omnipotent Government and Control.

I feel ripped off that I’m having unemployment “insurance”, welfare “insurance”, AFDC “insurance”, Social Security “insurance”, Medicare “insurance”, etc taken from my paycheck.

But I’d sure as hell get rid of those massively bankrupt, blatantly redistributionary failures and consider what’s been taken from me so far as a sunk cost, rather than expand them even further in the hopes I’ll get to collect a slightly higher chunk of someone else’s paycheck, knowing everyone who actually works will end up paying that much more down the road.

Funny stuff, but a lot of these dogs look like they’re wound up / high stress like happens when they don’t get enough exercise.

I hope you guys all walk your dogs daily—and far enough that they crash for a nap afterward. Dogs love being worn out, and it keeps them calm & happy the rest of the time, so run them into the ground!

It’s called “insurance” in the same way that Social Security and Medicare are.

The payments in have no connection to the payments out. The majority of those who (chronically) use it pay in an irrelevant pittance and are getting paid out large welfare checks. Those who never use it pay in very disproportionate amounts.

Congress has tacked on 26 week extensions half a dozen times over the past year, to the point where “unemployment” now runs 99 weeks!

That’s TWO YEARS of welfare if you can’t find your dream job, or don’t want to, or would be better off just taking a cash job AND the checks, like illegals/drug dealers.

Ayn Rand wrote about the exact thing you described, except instead of “magical thinking” she used the ubiquitous “somehow”.

You know, pass this plan so we can make health insurance cheaper.

But all it does is add several million people to the demand side, give a bunch of handouts, and severely restrict, tax, and fee the supply side. How in the world will that reduce costs?

Somehow. (Now shut up and agree with us or you aren’t being bipartisan.)