Congratulations, you have just crossed over the Flamebait Singularity. Any sincere words you attempt to utter are now longer able to escape your mouth due to the irresistible urge to have all of America lambast the shit out of you.

But! But! One time I heard somebody say that liquids are "incompressible fluids" and I instantly had a complete understanding of thermodynamics! Teh Global Warmings are a hoax!

Two things: One, the predatory lending practices and other shady shit that wall street did prior to the financial collapse was for the most part perfectly legal. That was the problem, and we don't do ex-post-facto laws around here. AFAIK, in the cases where there were illegal actions, investigations are ongoing (also, congress managed to change the laws for next time. See Dodd-Frank).

Secondly, the justice department has no control over insider trading in congress. Again, that's a legal activity which some congressional members are trying to make illegal by passing a bill. Separation of powers, my friend.

I agree with your sentiment. But sadly, in some areas, I think it will literally be impossible to redevelop to the point that people no longer have to rely on a car.

Like, have you been to Phoenix? It's basically 500 sq. miles of parking lots. They'd need to increase to a population the size of NYC to have any workable level of density.

"... there may be a wholly innocent explanation for conduct or behavior that appears suspicious in nature. For this reason, no single indicator should be the sole basis for law enforcement action. The totality of behavioral indicators and other relevant circumstances should be evaluated when considering any law enforcement response or action."

That would probably have made this document a lot less stupid.

Right after I went to energy.gov and searched for Yucca Mountain, I got the same 22 results. However, on that results page was a link right at the top entitled "search all of Energy.gov" which then yielded 108 results. It doesn't seem like the author was very thorough here, herself.

Considering that these are generally PDFs containing large quantities of information (not endless blog re-posts like you'd get with Google hits), it's pretty hard to believe that there's a deliberate attempt to obscure information.

Is their search system as intuitive and comprehensive as Google? No. Then again, nobody's is- if it was easy, everybody would be doing it, and Google wouldn't be Google.

1. Replace all backscatter X-ray machines with millimeter wave scanners; the kind that aren't linked to cancer.
2. Make sure all scanner machines use the updated software which only shows a generic human form rather than your pseudo-naked body.
3. Only used pat-downs on people that set off scanner alarms first.
4. Let people keep their shoes on.

Wouldn't this take care of about 98% of complaints people have with the TSA? Could we at that point accept that the TSA really is just an attempt to provide security, and not to psychologically mindfuck the populace?

Surprise, China is already on the Priority Watch List in the "Special 301" report: http://www.ustr.gov/webfm_send/2849

Other nations you may have heard of that are already on this list include: Canada, India, Israel, and Pakistan. Being named in this list, as the ambassador suggested might happen to Spain, does not mean that the U.S. is starting some kind of trade blockade or economic war with Spain.

Does the Sinde law sound bad? Yes. But the ultimate responsibility and/or blame lies with the Spanish government. Insinuating that the only reason the law was created and passed is that the U.S. threatened Spain with an act of war is silly hyperbole.

...that if the TSA were replaced by private security contractors, as all these Republicans would love to see, that not a one of them would have a problem with "police-style uniforms" that "insult real cops" or any other complaints people have?

Did you ever notice how the vast majority of these people never said a negative word about the TSA in their life until Obama became president? They don't care about issues of personal liberty. They care about getting people mad at any cost so they'll vote the Democrat out of office.

?The DEA is considered a member of the intelligence community and has been known to use NORAD to track airplanes.

Ok.. they're part of the DOJ, but whatever. I don't see how the mere fact that they are an intelligence or law enforcement agency can be a negative- it's how they run shit that's important. And why would using NORAD to track a suspected airplane be an encroachment on civil liberties?

I'd be interested in seeing evidence on your wiretapping claims.

Apparently, it's:

1. Being the cousin of a member of a drug cartel who recently fled to Mexico.
2. Being the current owner of an SUV which formerly belonged to said cousin.
3. Using said SUV to drive your drug-dealer cousin's wife to Tijuana, and staying there a few days.

No. Guilt by association would be if he was convicted merely of being related to a drug dealer.

Police, local/state/federal etc., investigate and gather info on many suspects and associates of suspects in criminal cases all the time- it's called solving crimes. You're acting like 20 years ago, the police would have never even paid attention to this guy, despite his connections to the suspect, and are only tracking him because it's easy to slap a GPS transponder to his car (as if it requires no resources to do so, or to monitor said GPS device and cross-reference where he goes, etc.)

As for why they didn't get a warrant, from my understanding it is because they are not currently required to, at least not until this lawsuit is resolved, and they obviously feel it is legal.

I'm undecided on whether federal agencies should need a warrant to use a tracking device on your car, but if the person of interest here, "Greg," is trying to insinuate that the government is tracking citizens at random big-brother style, that is wildly inaccurate.

Read the full article: by his own admission, his cousin is involved in a Mexican drug cartel, and was the previous owner of the SUV. His cousin recently fled to Mexico, after which "Greg" drove his cousin's wife to Tijuana and stayed there for a few days.

He noticed the tracking device after these events. He's clearly being investigated as part of the DEA's attempt to nail his cousin. Even if a warrant were required to track him, it seems likely a judge would have granted it here.

Let me get this straight: the accusation of rape and subsequent extradition to Sweden is all a secret plot by the US authorities (who are forcing Sweden to do this) all in an attempt to eventually extradite him to the United States for imprisonment on other espionage-related charges...

... because for some reason, the UK, who is supposedly a "puppet state" to the US, would never extradite him directly, despite the fact that according to you they have bowed to the whim of the US multiple times in the past?

Where do chemtrails fit into this story?

I don't recall either this administration or the previous one ever promising to have all troops out of Iraq by a certain date and then backing down. The refusal of a pullout date was the problem. From what I recall, Obama promised to begin ending the war as soon as he took office, which is why he removed 2/3 of the troops almost immediately.

Even if we kept a few thousand advisers in the country, at the request of said nation's government, that shouldn't automatically be defined as a continued war. You know we still have troops in Korea, right?

Regardless, I'm glad they're all coming home so we can finally put the damned thing behind us.