Maybe bathrooms need a voting preference light. The people in the bathroom at the time get to press a button that displays green for 'Ok' and red for 'Sorry'.

If you are a transgender looking to use the ladies room, if the light is green, you may enter. Too many 'Sorry' votes and the stop sign goes up until enough yes votes come up, or those uncomfortable with your presence vacate the restroom and the Yes votes become the majority.

IF you enter the room against the sign, it's a detention. Multiple offenses mean expulsion.

Plan your pee times with your friends who can vote you in! See, tolerance can be fun kids! (rolls eyes)

Yes let's all respect Iran. They are deserving of our undivided love and affection.

Ask any Iraqi whose family member died in a chemical weapons attack in the 1980-88 war with Iran.

Ask the families of 13 year old Iranian boys, whose lives were worth less than the tanks they walked through minefields in front of, near the end of that same war.

Ask the IAEA who more than once has found evidence of collusion between the Iranian nuclear industry and the military, including nuclear warhead design for ballistic missiles.

Ask the political dissidents how wonderful Iran is. For a country that wishes to be taken as an equal on the world stage, it still refuses to be tolerant of multi-faceted political discourse. The government pretends it wants dialogue until it can't win the argument. Then it simply throws you into the bowels of Evin prison. Home of endless beatings, raping of female prisoners, and where people who defy the state are sent to be broken.

The last general election saw the 12 unelected mullahs go on a bit of a tear, disqualifying 672 out of 680 candidates on purely arbitrary grounds. Political opposition? Yeah their party leaders were either under house arrest or in jail at the time of the election.

Death penalty in Iran? Big business. Almost 550 executions in 2012. That's like 10 a week, every week, all year long. Oh and lest you think it takes an adult crime to be executed, you'd be wrong. In Iran the age one can be executed at as you have been legally deemed to have reached puberty? For women NINE years old. For men, FIFTEEN years old. Yeah, that's fair.

So remind me again, why a country that is a religious theocracy, pays lip service to democracy, tortures and rapes political dissidents, and executes children is one I'm supposed to treat with respect as an EQUAL???

Well it should be entertaining if for no other reason than pro-immigration groups have offered five grand for someone to yell "Trump's a racist!" during the show.

Will NBC put the show on 7 second delay so no one at home hears it? Will activists try to storm the studio? Will technicians and stagehands boycott the show?

All kinds of fun and games are possibly in store. We know Trump is a ham, so expect lots of mugging for the camera. I'm sure there will be more than a couple skits with direct attacks on him.

Maybe he plays Meygn Kelly in one of the bits?

Does Kanye show up and say "Donald Trump hates Mexican people!"

Just hoping that they give him a little bit of a break, since he's putting himself out there to be ridiculed.

In regards to Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, there was a huge outcry over how the case was handled.

Paul slapped around Karla one night while the cops were in the middle of the investigation into two murders they liked Paul for. Karla was in part beaten with a MagLite flashlight, (which is like a club) and figured he would kill her if she didn't get out of the relationship.

She surrenders to the cops and cuts a deal to rollover on Paul. She claims 'battered wife syndrome' and that her participation in the deaths was strictly out of fear for her own safety, so she went along. One of the victims was her own younger sister, who she drugged and got drunk and then handed to Bernardo as a sex toy.

After several months, and exhaustive police searches of the house, Bernardo contacts his lawyer and says there's a video hidden in the house which he doesn't want the cops to find, and he needs the lawyer to retrieve it, and keep it under wraps.

His lawyer reviews the tape and discovers that Karla was actually a very animated and active participant in the crimes. The lawyer shows it to the cops who then tried to get out of the deal they made with her, but it was too late.

She got out a couple years ago, and I believe lives in the Caribbean somewhere, and wants a career teaching kids. What I always thought was a little creepy about these two is that even though they had committed these horrendous crimes, there were still men and women who if you asked said "Oh yeah, I'd do him or her." Wow. Exactly how LOW are your standards that you'd happily date a rapist and serial killer?

<---- slowly slides a saucer of milk over to Sassy. *meow*

I seem to recall a stat from maybe 5-6 years ago that in the U.S. women 'consumed' 50% of the porn. That was defined to mean the women purchased it, but may not have actually watched it.

So they were buying the DVD's, the magazines, and renting adult channel programming via home cable systems for their men. I have no doubt a percentage watched it by themselves, or shared it with someone else.

In the 90's there was a push by female adult film personalities to start their own production houses, and to direct films so that they could provide the 'women's perspective' of porn. The premise was there would be more 'story' as opposed to simply filming the mechanics at close range.

Women have always had better imaginations than men, hence the endless sales of 'bodice rippers' from publishers like Harlequin. Men are more tactile and need to see and touch. No big surprise men watch more porn.

I know for a while it became a 'thing' for you and the girlfriend/wife to go to a strip club where she would watch you get a table dance. The stripper basically drapes herself over you for $20/30/40 a song depending on the level of touching she'll allow you to engage in.

The raunchier clubs allowed the dances to transition into sex in the back room, or an upstairs room where privacy and more money was ensured. So you, the wife and the dancer? Hmmmm.

In most large (and some small) cities you can usually find 'swapping' clubs where you can engage in sex with someone else's wife or husband. Any seasoned traveller knows a call down to the concierge in your hotel can be used to arrange a 'discreet' conversation in your room for adult entertainment, drugs, booze, even a gun for the duration of your stay. Walk out of your hotel to the taxi stand and ask a cabby for information on all of the above. A $50 bill gets most of them pretty chatty in short order.

Porn is only as a big a problem as you allow it to be. Most women are offended to start with when they find out their guys watch it. They quickly realize they can't physically compete with someone who's had $50-100k in surgeries. Then they realize they really don't need to since their man already chose them. Porn for guys is the naked version of "Oh, a squirrel!". How many guys leave their wives so they can track down, date, and marry their porn babe? Zero.

Women watch it and see the guy with the 10"-12" package, and now look at the hubby with a slightly disappointed expression. How many women leave their husbands to track down huge porn penis guy? Zero.

So relax people. As long as it isn't consumed in a way that physically hurts or demeans people, it's simply entertainment. What you do in the privacy of your home is your business.

Next time I'm at a sporting event with a long bathroom line, I'll just walk into the ladies room. When I'm met with frightened stares and hollers to get out, I'll just tell the ladies I'm channelling my inner lesbian.

Yeah, I'm sure I'll be able to pee in peace until the cops show up and try to bust me as some kind of perv.

Gender is 'fluid' right? I have some fluid that needs to leave my gender, so I'll be doing that here. Thanks ladies! Enjoy the game!

Well it flies in the face of common sense that a SECSTATE would NEVER have sent or received classified information during her tenure, when a personal e-mail address was the only one available for people to use.

At the very least, I would think that since ANYONE in the Secretary of State position is by statute part of the White House National Security Council, and would receive classified information, as your job is to advise the President on national security and foreign policy matters.

One assumes these NSC meetings discussed classified information, and I'm sure there are minutes recorded of the meetings. Minutes are usually distributed to attendees as reminders, and as a resource for future meetings. I also assume e-mail is used to send everyone their copy. Since you normally see any classification rules involved in the material, AND who else is on the distribution list, it kinda shoots holes in the "I never sent or received classified documents." story. It ALSO kinda blows up the Obama story that he didn't know she was using a private e-mail address. He saw it on every copy of minutes that were sent out to the team. DUH.

We're ALSO forgetting one of the allegedly MOST important documents in the U.S. government, which is produced EVERY SINGLE DAY. The PDB! That's the President's Daily Brief. This is a TOP SECRET document, and has a distribution list that has almost always included the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Advisor.

What are the odds that Hillary Clinton NEVER received EITHER NSC meeting notes OR PDB's via e-mail on her server? That in four years she NEVER got ONE document from either group she was a member of?

Puhleese people. Wake up and smell the maple nut crunch. Of course she had classified documents. IF her team stripped file markers off for her as a CYA process, she still knew the material inside the emails were sensitive, and dealt with it anyway. IF she claims she had no idea the material itself was 'sensitive', then she's too stupid to be President.

There has been a story for years that Hillary's 'Monica' is actually Markie Post from the TV show 'Night Court'.

Story goes a secret service agent hears a thud in the President's bedroom, so he rushes into the room. Bill Clinton is sitting in a chair, chucking ashtrays around, and Hildabeast is in the middle of a Markie fish taco.

The SS agent asks if everything is ok, and Slick Willy apparently says something to the effect that they are the Clintons, and they'll do whatever they want.

Agent slides out of the room, and closes the door.

True story? I have no idea. Hope not. What a waste of blonde.....

I've seen the video from before the cops exit the vehicle. You don't hear a siren, and I don't recall any flashing lights.

The video actually shows that more than once, Ms. Bland was educated as to the reason for the stop,(her personal safety) and given the suggestion by the officers to walk facing traffic so she can see the oncoming vehicles and jump out of the way if needed. She can't see the traffic coming up behind her if she stays on the side of the road she was on.

In fact, I seem to recall there was at least one side of the street that had a sidewalk that she could have been walking on, and not the road.

As of last Friday, the U.S. debt was $18.153 trillion. On Monday, Obama signed the legislation suspending the debt ceiling.

By the end of the day on Monday, the U.S. debt had risen THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY NINE BILLION DOLLARS. In a single day the debt went up nearly one third of a trillion dollars!!!!

This legislation allows Obama to borrow as much money as he wants, as the previous debt 'hard' ceiling is now gone. He can dig as big a hole as he can get the votes for.

To put this in perspective, the last time this was done in 2012, it took nine days to go 100 billion more in debt.

Now, I and others in long gone threads noted how the Treasury Department for 150+ days reported that the U.S. debt figure was EXACTLY the same amount, each and every day. It never varied by even a dollar. Why? Because the debt limit had been reached, and Obama had directed the Treasury to use 'extraordinary measures' to keep the government afloat. So what did it do? It simply flat out lied to you for 6 months about how much debt was on the books. IF no one actually knows the government is out of money, then it just continues to pile up the bills. Then one day, BAM! It hands you a bill for $339 billion dollars!

Think about your credit card company saying, "Nah, you're good. Charge what you like. We trust you. Don't worry that you're not getting any monthly statements. It'll be fine!" Then after six months without a statement, they suddenly send you one for $339,000, with a note that says "Pay up now or else..."

Now, here's a question for you. All of the major news organizations have some kind of business unit, or investment gurus, or investment focused shows. How come NONE of them were reporting how the national debt was the same for weeks, and then months on end? Did none of them notice, or did all of them know not to say anything lest they be shunned by the Obama administration and no longer get any access?

How can 'hiding'the debt from the public (including investors) not be illegal? If I had a company, and was looking to generate investment, would it not be fraud if I failed to disclose a mountain of debt for 6 months, and then suddenly say I needed a ton of money overnight or we go broke?

Since the GOP are fully complicit in this farce, we know no one is going to be held accountable for these events,and thus there's no reason for it no to happen again. Why have a budget limit if it's not going to be adhered to?

Criminal

We know Hildabeast has lied. That's a fact. The question is WHY does anyone NOT want to do anything about it?

Simple example. She said earlier this year, that she had deleted all her personal e-mails 'last year', meaning 2014.

The 'server' she 'surrendered' to the FBI came out of a warehouse in New Jersey. The company said they upgraded her server in 2013. IF Clinton gives the FBI a server she put in storage in 2013, and didn't delete emails until 2014, WHERE is the 2014 server? I don't recall the FBI walking out of her house or office with a server.

We also heard about her 'backup' server that was housed in a bathroom closet in Denver?? WTF is THAT about? That would make at least two servers that she 'forgot' to mention. Hmmmmm.

The e-mails are merely a sideshow. IF the Republicans on the Benghazi committee have a smoking gun, they should have shown it when Hildabeast testified.

If you wait until the last second to provide proof of criminal behavior, you leave yourself open to the charge of fabricating evidence, desperation, and unless it's a blockbuster revelation, her team will minimize and dismiss. A favorite Dem strategy. "Is that all you have? That's no big deal. People do things, make decisions, blah blah yadda yadda." A dismissive wave of the hand and the lapdog press moves on......

Well, this is a tricky subject when it comes down to trying to establish what data is correct, and who's cooking the books.

Climategate a couple years back showed a paper trail of emails amongst climate researchers that showed a conspiracy to fake data, and to simply create the existence of global warming. Instructing colleagues to delete previous memos, delete data, and even delete the information on the original collection sites was suggested. Centered out of East Anglia University, those who participated in the fixing of the data thought that because they were working on a UN project, their files were beyond the Freedom of Information requests being submitted from their own countries. They were wrong.

I took to heart the information provided by a man named Lord Monkton in the UK. He had worked for Margaret Thatcher when she was PM. His point was not to believe or deny in global warming, so much as to gather useful data, and analyze it with integrity. He had been sort of the face of the 'skeptics' crowd in the UK, and then started getting calls from the U.S. with people complaining about the junk science used by Al Gore and his cronies as well.

Digging a little deeper he found flaws in the U.S. data. For example, the U.S. Weather Service data is collected via a network of weather 'stations'. These are little white wooden boxes with slats that can be found at airports, on top of buildings, in the middle of farm fields, etc. The data is gathered, and in part used for forecasting, as well as the basis for a lot of global 'warming' data. When he investigated, it was found about 40% of these boxes were in some state of disrepair. Slats broken off, entire sides fully exposed to the elements, etc. In addition, many boxes were moved to poorly placed collection sites so as to jack up the readings. Placed in the corners of asphalt parking lots, or next to walls painted black the temperatures would of course be 10,15,20 degrees higher during the day, and then stay slightly elevated at night as these sources bled off their heat. In high enough numbers, it would only take a small percentage of these stations to up the 'average' temperatures, and show a year to year warming trend.

Now, if you follow the proposed solutions, you follow the money. One of the great solutions is 'carbon credits'. If I'm a high polluting company, I can buy 'credits' such as planting trees in the rainforest to offset my global warming emissions. Where do I buy these 'credits'? Through a carbon credit exchange. Really? Well who runs these exchanges?

The CCX or Chicago Climate EXchange has among its investors, Al Gore. He also registered a company in England to trade carbon credits there as well. The exchange has an official bank called Shorebank. It's just a small institution, almost got wiped out in the 2009 crash, but for a bailout from the Obama administration. On the board of this little bank? Jan Piercy, roommate of Hillary Clinton at Wellesley College. Seems Billary are investors in the bank. Mary Houghton a friend of Obama's mother. Mary had worked for Tim Geithner, father of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. Bob Nash is a Vice Chairman. He was the Deputy Chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign. Nash also sat on the board of the Chicago Law School with Barak Obama and Bill Ayers. Nash was also a member of the Obama White House transition team. Adele Simmons is a Director at the bank. She's a friend of Valerie Jarrett an Obama advisor. Simmons and Jarrett also sit on the board of a Chicago Civic Organization.

There are more friends of Obama, Cinton, and even Jimmy Carter who are on the bank board, invest in it, or helped to found it.

So, anyone else see why there has to be a global warming 'crisis' that requires a carbon trading solution?

Ok. As a Canadian, with the luxury of watching U.S. politics from the outside, I'll provide some suggestions. You'll never implement them, but if you want to know that someone out there actually took the time to try and help, you can re-read this post. lol

1) Rule of Law-- Yeah, yeah. Everyone says it, but nobody goes to jail. Too many people being investigated simply refuse to co-operate, and those who know the truth, have no desire to come forward for fear of retribution. Congress issues a subpeona for documents, and a year later stuff that was never requested gets dumped on them to the tune of 10,000 pages worth. People are called to testify, and tell the press in advance they'll plead the fifth to every question, so why are we wasting each others time? In the case of 'big business' we had the mortgage crisis with hundreds of thousands of mortgages that never should have been written. Brokers wrote up mortgages with blatantly false numbers, and the banks didn't do credit checks. Did the brokers go to jail for fraud? Nope. Why? That little line of 'legal-eeze' on the bottom of the form that says "I hereby attest that all the information contained herein is truthful" and the signature of the homeowner who later defaulted, not the broker. So the broker is off the hook. The ex-homeowner is the fraudster because they signed the form.
2) Campaign reform--- Have all political donations go to a single fund. Parties get funded from this pool based on the average percentage of elected members they have in the Congress, Senate, and the percentage of the popular vote received in the last general election. Absolutely no money can be donated to individual candidates, or funneled from outside the country, and candidates 'books' must be open to surprise audits at any time during the campaign. ANY campaign law violations that prove money came from outside the U.S. illegally will immediately render the candidate disqualified.
3) Budget Reform-- The entire entitlement budget is up for review with no program beyond the reach of potential cuts. The gravy train has to end. Until you are serious about getting social program spending under control, the economy has no chance to recover.
4) Limited Line Item Veto-- The President will have a line item veto equal to 5% of the total budget dollar amount. Congress and the Senate with a 2/3 majority of each, can increase that veto percentage by 1% each year for the term of the President. An 8 year President could eventually have as much as 12% of the budget under a line item veto process. In any year where he does not receive this 2/3 vote, his veto percentage is frozen at the last amount he was approved for. He can also have his veto percentage lowered by 1% if the same 2/3 majority votes for the decrease.

So there's your start. Throw the corrupt politicians and fraudsters in jail. Clean up campaign donations and spending. Cut endless entitlements, and give any President a tightly regulated line item veto for the budget.

Actually we have two planes. Just waiting for the glue to dry on the backup....

Reports now have ISIS claiming to have brought down the airliner. They don't specify how of course.

Debris field reported to be about 3 miles in size would point to the aircraft breaking up in flight.

Reports of sudden loss of radio contact, and a change in altitude equal to a 6,000 foot per minute descent sounds like a catastrophic failure and loss of control.

Even at a rate of 6,000 ft per minute, anyone still conscious in the cabin or cockpit had to wait a full five minutes for impact.

I hate to sound 'dark' but I can't imagine the panic and helplessness of knowing your fate is sealed, and you have no alternative but to simply sit there and wait for your world to be smashed into total blackness in a millisecond resulting in your death. Other people screaming, kids crying, it must be horrific.

I can only hope the cabin was breached, and everyone passed out from loss of cabin pressure. A little more humane at least.

Ok, before I post a comment, and people flip out, let's be clear here. Hitler was a bad man. The Nazis were bad men. Killing 6 million Jews was heinous and attempting to dominate the world was a deadly aspiration that resulted in the deaths of millions more. Ok? Nazis bad.

NOW, the poster DOESN'T say anything about the above. The poster DOESN'T say kill anyone, beat anyone, tattoo numbers into their arms, or dominate the world. It literally has a picture of Hitler and the phrase 'Hitler Was Right'.

So, Hitler is universally regarded as the first modern politician to campaign for office using the airplane. At the time he was considered almost God-like for being able to appear in widely distant cities on the same day to give a speech.

He's considered to be the 'father' of the German highway system on which the U.S. 'interstate' highway system was modeled.

Approved manufacture of the volkswagen car.

So was being a visionary campaigner, highway engineer, or vehicle sponsor wrong?

I completely understand why the poster would upset people, but is it REALLY a hate crime? The article claims the poster is anti-semitic, but Jews are not mentioned or seen anywhere on the poster! The ONLY anti-semitic comments mentioned in the article were scrawled across a window ledge, not even written on one of the posters.

Does it really require the forensic resources of the police department to dust for prints and review CCTV footage and try to arrest someone for an OPINION? Right now, that's all it is for whomever slapped them up.

WHEN the system eventually churns up a suspect and charges him/her with these 'crimes' the REAL racist/prejudiced groups will hold them up as proof that the 'immigrants' have taken over, and the government is owned by the minorities. THAT's when the townsfolk with the pitchforks and burning torches come out of the woodwork.

Simply removing the posters and not even giving them the time of day would have been a far more effective strategy in my opinion. Don't give them the TV/newspaper/radio time they're obviously looking for.

Considering the location, I'd be looking for a jihadi hijacking. Altitude is too high for a manpad, and I doubt the local AK-47 toters have tracked anti-aircraft missile systems.

Russians, now by bombing ISIS makes them a target for middle east groups, and not just those from the 'stan' countries.

Condolences the victims and families.

Well if I were a local I think I'd want more info than just the strength of the quakes. I'd want to know location and depth.

A 1.0 that's 10 miles deep and 50 miles away is not even felt, but if there are 3.0's happening a mile under a city, I'd be a little more concerned.

Since I don't know, I'd want to ask the experts if the quakes are happening on known faults, at depths where there are identified movements previously or are these totally random and new?

So after saying for a couple years now that the U.S. will not put boots on the ground in Syria, the WH announces 50 specops troops will now be deployed with 'vetted' fighters opposing the Syrian regime.

So after talking about how bad the Syrian government is for a couple years, dropping a couple bombs a day on ISIS for a year, spending half a BILLION dollars to train 6 guys who actually went and fought ISIS instead of the Syrians, and now finally throwing a few (50) troops at the problem, Obama completes the most half-a$$ed application of U.S. resources to any conflict in maybe the last 50 years.

Awesome sauce dude. Thanks for showing up to the party like what, two years late?

Just wondering if U.S. aircraft are going to fly top cover for operations involving U.S. troops? If not, it's gonna be REAL interesting when a Russian bomb, dropped from a Russian aircraft, kills a U.S. soldier. Conversely it will also be interesting if a U.S. warplane drops a Russian plane out of the sky because it was acting in an aggressive manner towards U.S. ground troops.

Maybe I need to revisit that WW3 survival checklist......

Well as I understand the situation unfolded at the time, the Benghazi 'compound' had two parts. One, the physical consulate, and a short distance away a CIA compound,called The Annex.

The CIA team worked to fight its way to the 'consulate' and rescue the ambassador and his staff, and were unsuccessful. That CIA team says they were told to stand down by the most senior on site CIA team member, and that he did so on his own authority. This individual only ever referred to as 'Bob' spent 20 minutes on his cell trying to get a rescue op sanctioned, but apparently never did. It resulted in a 30 minute delay before the CIA team entered the fight. They say they also asked for close air support, and none was ever provided.

The team went of its own volition and saved 20 American lives.

The more confusing 'order' was in Tripoli. You had 4 security team members who wanted to go to Benghazi but were told to 'stay in place' to protect Tripoli staff who had actually bugged out of the embassy there. They had also destroyed classified materials and computers, and were at a 'safe house' location. The team stayed with diplomatic staff, and eventually wound up treating the Benghazi injured who were later evacuated.

Rear Adm. Brian Losey who was the African Theatre Spec Ops commander is the one who issued the 'stay in place' order. Stand down by any other name as it were. His opinion is they wouldn't have made a difference, and they had other duties.

Of note is if he makes the call himself or if the White House or State provided 'input'. No one has ever actually answered THAT question.

NOW STUDENTS (lol) here's the REAL issue you need to find the answers to. The U.S. compound was a CONSULATE, NOT AN EMBASSY. Why does that matter? Consulates are where you go for help to replace a lost passport, find a local doctor or lawyer if you've broken a local law, had a birth or death on your trip, or been a victim of crime.

EMBASSIES are created to the tune of exactly ONE per country, AND in the capital city of that country. CONSULATES can be several in number throughout a large country based on need.

So WHY did the U.S. have a facility in the middle of a civil war zone that primarily is supposed to assist tourists, and is being guarded by 'contractors' and in close proximity to a CIA facility? Oh and what were Christians In Action doing there as well?

Find the answers to those questions and you may be able to posit a theory as to why seemingly no one made much of an effort beyond the local CIA guys to save anyone during this attack.