Indefinite Detention? But I Have Soccer Practice at 4: U.S. Politics 2012

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DIY drones

I don't have a problem with private drones anymore than I do with private aircraft

govt drones are more sinister if you ask me.

the pilot of a private aircraft is much more likely to be responsible about its use if he or she is inside it imo

Yeah, that's why I referred to them as hostages

eh bring on the robots

given that it'll likely be very easy to make a DIY drone in yr garage v soon, I'd rather they be allowed and regulated (as air traffic is today) and made useful, and not outlawed. Or worse, allowed to be used by only rhe govt and a v narrow slice of the private sector. I really don't understand how drones would be bad aside from cluttering the airways

some dubious syntax there but I think u get me

that Monsanto dude appt. is a fucking embarrassment btw not like there's anything anybody can do about it but seriously

I have problems with, say, Donald Trump owning a drone.

private security drone armies

I would prob start watching the apprentice tbh

why? srs q. Xp

private security drone armies

I would assume that ARMED drones would be illegal

bear in mind my def of "drone" is "robot that flys"

what if drones started falling from the sky

oh no

don't really want to find out what, say, the Oakland Police Department would do with armed drones fwiw

basically this comes down to me having real, serious problems with the militarization of law enforcement in this country - police departments are armed and trained as if they are serving in warzones, it's fucked up.

this drone thing reminds me of recent things like this and this

Oh, it's worse than you think, Shakey: Now college campus police departments are getting SWAT teams. A solution in search of a problem.

http://nineronline.com/2011/unc-charlotte-swat-team-%E2%80%93-an-asset-we-hope-to-never-use/

I would totally build a drone that throws rocks at the police drones.

basically this comes down to me having real, serious problems with the militarization of law enforcement in this country - police departments are armed and trained as if they are serving in warzones, it's fucked up.

dude I feel u 1000% which is why govt drone usage is creepier than Donald trump

I would assume that ARMED drones would be illegal

I guess I'm not making this assumption. private security firms carry weapons.

Yeah, but private security firms don't have gunships.

or at least those that operate domestically.

I should change that to private security firms operating within the borders of the USA. Because, you know, xe or whatever they are now.

oops. yup.

http://www.gamergirlsunite.com/reviews/pcreviews/finalfantasyXI/FFXI_ship.jpg

I assumed for this whole discussion "drone" meant a plane w/ missiles on it. Why else would you have one?

snacks

Why else would you have one?

surveillance. helping nancy grace catch child murderers? I dunno.

Nancy Grace's drones would zip around the country, slut-shaming left and right

I got a drone RIGHT HERE for you guys.

traffic, news, weather, science, injuring smaller numbers of people at air shows...

I was hoping u were going for "Fugue for Tinhorns" xp

In other news:

A federal appeals panel in San Francisco ruled Tuesday that California’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the constitutional right to equal protection. The panel overturned Proposition 8, which was approved by 52 percent of the state’s voters in 2008 and amended the state’s constitution to limit marriage to a man and a woman.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/calif-same-sex-marriage-ban-ruled-unconstitutional/2012/02/07/gIQAMNwkwQ_story.html

Obama is not yet using drones in his war on Catholic hospitals(below is the right-wing spin) but he might:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-poor-pay-the-price-for-obamas-political-calculation/2012/02/06/gIQAU7W5uQ_story.html?hpid=z7

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/komen-catholics-and-the-cost-of-conscience/2012/02/03/gIQAqSGYnQ_story.html

Pasrkker is such a hack. I'd rather get rick-rolled.

Gerson and Parker. Apparently anti-choice and anti-contraception views and policies are constitutional, the reverse are not. Parker wanting people to cry the blues for the now-departed Komen official is comical.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_02/catholics_the_contraception_ma035251.php

Mark Shields, also Catholic, opined on the PBS NewsHour: “The fallout is cataclysmic for the White House and for the president.”

But:
Glad to see that public polling has been showing support for the decision.

cataclysmic oh please

Cokie Roberts was moaning on NPR too

about how bad this was for Obama. Hopefully the poll results will stay the same even if these inside the beltway folks are not happy

this is a blip in the newscycle, will be forgotten next week

Moanie was coking

Shields and Roberts, the two freshest thinkers in the punditocracy

Whitehouse all blowed up, President Obama hair and jacket singed, holding a smoking IUD.

blip in the newscycle, will be forgotten next week

Catholics who regularly attend mass may not be allowed to forget about this, depending on how incensed the bishop is over it. bcz catholics make up a chunk of the trad dem coalition, esp in the industrial eastern states like Pennsylvania, this may be more than a blip - although "cataclysmic" is not quite right, either.

this is a blip in the newscycle, will be forgotten next week

― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier

Romney, Gingrich, Santorum et. al. are trying to keep this Obama hates Christians and religious freedom meme alive too.

Religious freedom in USA: "Ground Zero Mosque" vs health provider "conscientious objectors" to rubbers

Polls show that as many as 98 percent of Catholic women in the United States have used birth control, despite the church's teachings.