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Comment Re:Ron Paul (Score 1) 577

He wants to return to the gold standard, deregulate the economy, gut social programs, and eliminate the IRS. All of those benefit the capitalist class almost exclusively.

Ron Paul has good social policies, but terrible economic policy for most of us.

Comment Re:Error My Ass (Score 1) 1005

I have never heard that term use to refer to Obama

Then you haven't been listening. Second result on Google. First is ubrandictionary defining it as "A play on Barack Hussein Obama II's last name, citing his roots as a typical Apefrican, bongo beating, bush monkey."

That strikes me as a "macaca" charge: and attempt to create racial animosity where none exists by inventing new terms or new meanings for them

Considering that the phrase "welcome to America" came right after the word macaca (aimed at a natural born citizen, by the way), I don't think that the word's usage was anywhere as innocent as you're trying to paint it.

If you're trying to link this incident to other attempts to introduce racial animosity, you could pick better examples.

Comment Re:This seems reasonable (Score 5, Informative) 747

I'm not sure what people have against someone who, remember, has already been convicted of a crime, to have to endure special screening before incarceration.

Arrest != conviction. The man in question was wrongfully arrested (for a fine that he had already paid). On the radio this morning they were also talking about strip searches for offenses such as riding a bike without an audible bell and walking a dog without a leash.

The worst thing about this ruling is that it provides police with yet another way to silence people who are inconvenient. Protesters, people who record video of police brutality, and anyone else are now at risk of punitive strip searches. The only sliver of hope in this ruling is that it doesn't overturn existing laws that prohibit strip searches in minor cases. We'll just have to see if legislators try to dismantle those in the next wave of "tough on crime" election year bullshit.

Comment Re:BSA "stab in the back" advertisement (Score 1) 235

I saw it in two different articles: 1 2

Doing a Google reverse image search turns up a few articles on different sites, all around the same time, so I guess it must just be from 2009/10. Not sure where I'd go looking for articles about the campaign from ~1999, but I hope what I found helps your search a little.

Comment Re:Wha??? (Score 4, Interesting) 385

I assumed that too, but it doesn't seem true in this case:

Technicians apparently mis-entered the pattern enough times to lock the phone, which could only be unlocked using the phone owner's Google account credentials.

Why they were even bothering with the unlock screen rather than just slurping up all the data on the phone with a UFED is beyond me.

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