Spike Lee should be charged with a hate crime

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Spike Lee settles for retweeting wrong address

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><root></root>SANFORD, Fla. (AP) ? An elderly couple has reached a settlement with Spike Lee after the pair said they had to leave their Florida home after the director help spread a Twitter posting listing their address as that of the man who shot an unarmed teen.
The couple's attorney, Matt Morgan, announced the settlement Thursday. Morgan says Lee called them to apologize for retweeting their address. Specifics of the settlement weren't disclosed.
Elaine and David McClain are in their 70s and say they have a son named William George Zimmerman, who lived in their Sanford area home in the mid-1990s. They say he is no relation to 28-year-old George Zimmerman, who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26.
The killing has touched off widespread protests around the country and expressions of outrage ? including from Lee and other celebrities ? because Zimmerman was not arrested. The neighborhood watch volunteer has said he acted in self-defense.

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"At this point in time, we have come to an agreement with Spike Lee and his attorneys, and at this point, the matter is fully resolved," Morgan said. "Spike has agreed to compensate the McClains for their loss and for the disruption into their lives. He's taken full responsibility."
Lee tweeted late Wednesday: "I Deeply Apologize To The McClain Family For Retweeting Their Address. It Was A Mistake. Please Leave The McClain's In Peace."
Morgan added that Lee also called the McClains to apologize personally.
"He was really kind," Elaine McClain said. "And when he called us, you could just tell he really felt bad about it. And it was just a slip, and I just know that he really, really has been concerned."
A production company representative for Lee in New York had no comment.
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Reporter Michael Lewis contributed to this story from Sanford.
 
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Is Conservatism Our Default Ideology?
New research provides evidence that, when under time pressure or otherwise cognitively impaired, people are more likely to express conservative views.

According to a recent Gallup poll, 40 percent of Americans describe themselves as conservative, while only 21 percent call themselves liberal. (Another 35 percent are self-identified moderates.)

This gap has long puzzled scholars. If left and right ideologies comprise a mutually dependent yin-yang system, reflecting different approaches to meeting our most basic needs, shouldn?t they be held by roughly the same proportion of people?

One possible explanation is that some ?conservatives? wear the label quite loosely. Another points to the long-established link between right-wing attitudes and a tendency to perceive the world as threatening. In an era where the latest scare is constantly being hyped on television and the Internet, it stands to reason that conservatism would dominate.

Newly published research proposes a somewhat different, and quite provocative, answer.

A research team led by University of Arkansas psychologist Scott Eidelman argues that conservatism ? which the researchers identify as ?an emphasis on personal responsibility, acceptance of hierarchy, and a preference for the status quo? ? may be our default ideology. If we don?t have the time or energy to give a matter sufficient thought, we tend to accept the conservative argument.

?When effortful, deliberate responding is disrupted or disengaged, thought processes become quick and efficient,? the researchers write in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. ?These conditions promote conservative ideology.?

Eidelman and his colleagues? paper will surely outrage many on the left (who will resist the notion of conservatism as somehow natural) and the right (who will take offense to the idea that their ideology is linked to low brainpower). The researchers do their best to preemptively answer such criticism.

?We do not assert that conservatives fail to engage in effortful, deliberate thought,? they insist. ?We find that when effortful thought is disengaged, the first step people take tends to be in a conservative direction.?

The researchers describe four studies that provide evidence backing up their thesis. In each case, they used a different method to disrupt the process of deliberation, and found that doing so increased the odds of someone espousing conservative views.

Their first method was a time-tested one: inebriation. Researchers stood outside the exit of a busy New England tavern and offered to measure patrons? blood alcohol level if they would fill out a short survey. Eighty-five drinkers agreed, expressing their opinions of 10 statements such as ?production and trade should be free of government interference.?

?Bar patrons reported more conservative attitudes as their level of alcohol intoxication increased,? the researchers report.

A second experiment featured 38 University of Maine undergraduates who filled out a similar survey. Half did so while working on ?a distraction task? that required them to listen closely to a tape of tones that varied in pitch.

Those who had to do two things at once, and were thus under a heavier ?cognitive load,? were more likely than their peers to endorse conservative attitudes, and less likely to endorse liberal positions.

In a third experiment, participants under time pressure were more likely to endorse conservative viewpoints than those who were not. In a fourth experiment, those asked to ?give your first, immediate response? were more likely to express support for words and phrases linked to conservatism (such as ?law and order? and ?authority?) than those who were instructed to ?really put forth effort and consider the issue.?

Eidelman notes that this dynamic was found with different populations (college students and bar patrons) and in people from different parts of the country (three of the experiments were conducted in Maine, a fourth in Arkansas). He adds just one caveat: ?Largely, our sample consisted of political centrists.?

?Ideology is multiply determined, coming from many sources, including values, experience, history and culture,? the researchers note. It?s unclear whether this rightward drift would occur in a population of strongly committed but cognitively overloaded liberals.

Similarly, it?s not certain whether die-hard right-wingers would express even more conservative views under these conditions. What does seem clear is that our first impulse tends to be to stick with the tried and true, and this attitude aligns better with conservative ideas than liberal ones.

?The bad news for liberals is we?re saying that conservatism has a certain psychological advantage,? Eidelman said. ?The bad news for conservatives is that someone who has a knee-jerk conservative reaction may change their mind about an issue after giving it more thought.?

Of course, it?s an open question as to what percentage of the population genuinely ponders political issues, rather than simply going with their initial instincts. This suggests liberals face a significant challenge in converting people to their cause.

As Eidelman puts it: ?It might take a little extra effort to convince yourself (to support a liberal position), and a little extra work to convince others.?
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no wonder the neo cons are so stupid

they got no brain power when it matters

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Funny thing about this story is no one talks about the ethics of his behavior if it had been the correct address.

Anyone still questioning the bias in the media?

On a related happier note, Keith Oberman is out of work again.
 
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A nuclear weapon is also an inanimate object. According to this theory we should allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon for it is not the object to be blamed but the people who own it. :shrug:
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A NUKE is WMD, chew and a Shot Gun are not.

You cannot purchase a Nuke at 7-11 like Skoal or buy a NUKE at Big 5 like a Remington 870

We have been down this road before, only speculating, guessing, that some country has a WMD.


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U.S. intelligence agencies agree: no evidence of Iranian nuclear weapons program

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By Madison Ruppert
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Despite the repeated statements made by United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta which have clearly indicated that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons and the analysis of the American intelligence community, the heated anti-Iranian rhetoric never seems to let up.
Indeed, it has even been reported by none other than the New York Times that intelligence analysts in America have yet to find any hard evidence indicating that Iran has even decided to construct a nuclear bomb.
American intelligence assessments have continued to be congruent with the 2007 intelligence report which clearly concluded that Iran had in fact completely abandoned their nuclear program years before (scroll to the bottom of the article to read the embedded report).
According to anonymous U.S. officials, this assessment was reinforced by the 2010 National Intelligence Estimate and ?it remains the consensus view of America?s 16 intelligence agencies.?
So, how can the governments of the United States and Israel continue to ignore their own intelligence agencies and nonsensically push forward with the effort to go to war with Iran?
If nothing else, it has become painfully clear that our so-called leaders are ignoring any and all contrary evidence which might weaken their war effort and making the relentless push towards war.
Given that American intelligence agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have concluded that the Iranian nuclear weapons program was likely halted all the way back in 2003 and Panetta himself has debunked the Iranian nuclear myth, it becomes evident that they have no interest in the truth.
To make matters even worse, it appears that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an agency of the United Nations (UN) has now become little more than a tool of the warmongering factions of Western governments.
Recently the IAEA claimed that Iran had actually accelerated their nuclear program, increasing their production of highly enriched uranium and refused to answer some of the agency?s key questions about their program.
In their report issued Friday, the director-general of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, said that their inspectors continue ?to have serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions to Iran?s nuclear program,? according to the Los Angeles Times.
Apparently Amano and the IAEA know better than one of the best funded and arguably the most powerful intelligence community on the planet.
?As Iran is not providing the necessary cooperation ? the agency is unable to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities,? Amano stated.
To any thinking person, this statement should be laughable. That?s like me saying that my neighbor cannot provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared thirty foot tall spiders in his garage, and therefore I cannot conclude that my neighbor is peaceful.
If the IAEA is worried about ?undeclared nuclear material and activities? they should be focusing their efforts solely on Israel, not Iran.
According to Reuters, even though the IAEA?s report was far from conclusive and the preponderance of the American intelligence community has dismissed the alleged Iranian nuclear weapons program, the latest report from the nuclear agency ?will further inflame Israeli fears the Islamic Republic is pushing ahead with atomic bomb plans.?
?The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency gives added proof that Israeli beliefs are true? about Iran?s nuclear program, a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?s office said, according to AFP.
My favorite part of that statement is the usage of the world ?beliefs,? since that is exactly what it is. It is not based on fact or logic but instead blind faith and a belief that Iran is this bloodthirsty, genocidal nation relentlessly seeking nuclear weapons.
Of course, none of that is true but apparently Netanyahu has no interest in the truth, either.
?Iran is pursuing its nuclear program with no end in sight. It is enriching uranium to 20 percent, totally ignoring demands by the international community,? Netanyahu also said.
Israeli leadership ? especially Netanyahu ? pointing to the demands of the international community is painfully ironic. Israel regularly rejects the opinion of the international community in their oppression of Palestinians, raids on humanitarian aid flotillas and more.
The White House has also jumped on the report as more fuel for the anti-Iranian fire. They stated that Iran was in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions with their nuclear enrichment efforts, even though their own intelligence assets have said that there is no weapons program.
?When combined with its continued stonewalling of international inspectors, Iran?s actions demonstrate why Iran has failed to convince the international community that its nuclear program is peaceful,? Tommy Vietor, the White House National Security Council spokesman said.
The problem here is that Vietor is not speaking for the international community; he is merely speaking for the National Security Council ? the same group that makes the call to murder American citizens without charge or trial.
There is no arguing against the reality of the Iranian nuclear program and their efforts to enrich nuclear fuel.
However, the problem arises when one makes the leap of faith required to come to the conclusion that Iran is developing nuclear weapons or their program is anything other than peaceful.
Iran is a sovereign nation and as such, the West has absolutely no right to tell them that they cannot pursue peaceful nuclear technology.
Thanks to the American intelligence community, yet another blow to the anti-Iranian propaganda has been dealt but obviously the leaders of the Western world care not about these facts.
Hopefully the real international community can take note of the truth and ignore the insane delusions of our so-called leaders who are making the relentless push to bring us to war.
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Lumi, you know I was bustin your balls a little.
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Kinda....

But you know how defensive I get when it comes to the 2nd A ?

Although the original statement was made because of a response to some irrational tools who's only response is "Buy more ammo"

People like that scare me.

Yes, lumi has ammo, some...

but those who piss in the wind, and shout from the mountain tops about "lock n' load" are only going to get hurt and or killed, FAST !

Yes, lumi has ammo, some...
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but, Lumi can hit the bricks in less than 5 mikes and not leave a trace.

Getting the daughter and the dogs moving... might add an extra min or 2 or... :mj07:

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