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From Comments: I don't know the mental gymnastics and cognitive dissonance required to convince oneself that how Tamir Rice died is okay, but the police should not possess it. - WarLord

From Comments: Especially when said protest involves the shooting of a child. I think "I don't like it when children are shot dead" is the least controversial stance this side of "Oxygen is a good thing." - WarLord

The last election, the problem is that voters believe we're all in on this cabal together, and nobody's thinking about their families," Ellison said. "The minimum wage is winning all over the country at state and municipal levels but Democrats still got shellacked in the midterms. People have separated Dems from the minimum wage. [Members of Congress] won't let [themselves] be painted in a way that is pro-Wall Street and anti-middle class." - WarLord

President Obama claimed that some of the actions that were taken (note past tense), were contrary to our values. What seems to be lost on the President is that values are not something one professes; values are established through one's actions. Under the Bush administration, torture was systematic, brutal, widespread, and patently illegal - WarLord

We know from the torture report, innocent people were detained and tortured. We also know that innocent people have been killed by President Obama's drone strike program. Perhaps it was overlooked or maybe it was simply ignored, but the UK-based human rights NGO Reprieve published a report at the end of November. Reprieve investigated the numerous attempts to kill individuals labeled high-value targets. Its findings demonstrate the moral depravity of President Obama's drone strike program. - WarLord

Attention seniors your Republican vote is about to cut your Medicare #stupidisasstupiddoes - WarLord

Hell no. Obamacare is bad enough. I'll be 65 in next October. My unsubsidized premium for 2014 was about $600/month. Next year, the same plan premium is over $900. What did they change about the plan? A $1000 increase in the deductible. - Greg GuitarBuster

I'm ordering my orange trees next week - WarLord

And they weren't alone.... #WTF. - WarLord

"..... The company says it is increasing the training for cashiers, though it might be hard for some of them to care very much about being trained by a company that is taking away their health insurance. ...." - WarLord

McCain said THIS: "... "I have often said, and will always maintain, that this question isn't about our enemies; it's about us. It's about who we were, who we are and who we aspire to be. It's about how we represent ourselves to the world," he said. McCain added: "When we fight to defend our security we fight also for an idea...that all men are endowed by the Creator with inalienable rights." "Our enemies act without conscience. We must not," he added ..." - WarLord

THIS: Our enemies act without conscience. We must not - WarLord

"... The committee examined 20 reported “counterterrorism successes” cited by agency officials who claimed that the use of torture was essential to thwarting terror plots. In some of the cases, the report states, there was “no relationship” between the counterterrorism success and the use of torture. Meanwhile, in the remaining cases, the information CIA interrogators obtained from detainees either simply corroborated information the CIA already had or was extracted from detainees prior to the use of torture. ..." - WarLord

THIS: ",... And the predators lose their ability to tell the difference: “Few tricks of the unsophisticated intellect are more curious than the naïve psychology of the business man, who ascribes his achievements to his own unaided efforts, in bland unconsciousness of a social order without whose continuous support and vigilant protection he would be as a lamb bleating in the desert.” That was written by the British economic historian R.H. Tawney in May 1926, in the New Republic — whose present owner is bewildered and bleating. ..." - WarLord

From comments When your labor practices make Nike look good, something's wrong! - WarLord

"... Social-media accounts run by robots, fake accounts and real people lying through their own accounts were among the more obvious issues identified as obstacles to research in the paper, “ Social Media for Large Studies of Behavior.” ..." - WarLord