You probably have 2% of British who wouldn't mind if Hitler or Stalin were reincarnated and ruled their country as well.

fortunately we don't have a problem with stalinists running off to fight for the motherland

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1510866/Poll-reveals-40pc-of-Muslims-want-sharia-law-in-UK.html

vote ukip

So long as Congress allows the law to expire.

US intelligence agencies will stop bulk collection of data documenting calls by US telephone subscribers in June, unless Congress extends a law authorising the spying, US officials said on Monday.

The disclosure that the National Security Agency was collecting metadata generated by domestic telephone users was one of the most controversial revelations made by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden nearly two years ago.

A spokesman for President Barack Obama's National Security Council said abandoning the mass collection of domestic telephone data would deprive the country of a "critical national security tool."

The current law, due to expire on June 1, allows the NSA to collect bulk data on numbers called and the time and length of calls, but not their content.

Efforts by Congress to extend the law so far have proved fruitless, and Congressional aides said that little work on the issue was being done on Capitol Hill.

There are deeply divergent views among the Republicans who control Congress. Some object to bulk data collection as violating individual freedoms, while others consider it a vital tool for preventing terrorist attacks against America.

Ned Price, a national security council spokesman, told Reuters the administration had decided to stop bulk collection of domestic telephone call metadata unless Congress explicitly re-authorises it.

Some legal experts have suggested that even if Congress does not extend the law the administration might be able to convince the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to authorise collection under other legal authorities.

But Price made clear the administration now has no intention of doing so, and that the future of metadata collection after June 1 was up to Congress.

Price said the administration was encouraging Congress to enact legislation in the coming weeks that would allow the collection to continue.

But Price said: "If Section 215 (of the law which covers the collection) sunsets, we will not continue the bulk telephony metadata program."

"Allowing Section 215 to sunset would result in the loss, going forward, of a critical national security tool that is used in a variety of additional contexts that do not involve the collection of bulk data," he said.

Last year the Administration proposed that if collection does continue, the data should be stored by telephone companies rather than NSA itself, but that approach was rejected by the phone companies.

US officials have said metadata collection had helped important counter-terrorism investigations.

However, a review panel appointed by Obama to examine the effectiveness of surveillance techniques revealed by Snowden found that not a single counter-terrorism breakthrough could be attributed to the practice.

BUT COMMON CORE IS PART OF THE LIBERAL AGENDA

Are you going to withholding the funding for schools if they don't adhere to common core?

What the fuck is even happening.

wtf is even going on

Mom was beheaded by my dad.

He had converted to Islam.

They'll fold immediately and this will all be a distant memory.

I refuse to believe you have that much disdain for human life.

By giving false information about climate change, they're setting up another generation to shill for them while making the kids scientifically illiterate at the same time. And because these kids won't believe in climate change, they'll downplay its effects and not give it the proper funding it needs, thus endangering everybody.

Nobody disagrees.

But where the fuck in there does it justify the revocation of preparedness funding?

Quote from: Meta Cognition on March 23, 2015, 03:44:45 PM

Quote from: Mad Max on March 23, 2015, 03:41:00 PM

It has nothing to do with my views. Climate change is a real thing, not some liberal ploy.

He's criticising your view that the vindication of climate change is worth the deaths of innocent citizens. Not that you believe in climate change in the first place.

Yes, he is.

Quote from: Verbatim wird verzögert on March 23, 2015, 03:33:59 PM

"They don't agree with my views... Let's withhold valuable disaster funding that could effect many lives! Yeah, that'll teach 'em! They'll really change their minds now!"

His post is saying that someone like a climate-change-denying governor doesn't agree with my "view" that climate change is real.

Right. . .

But he's criticising the fact that you're willing to see people die over it.

It has nothing to do with my views. Climate change is a real thing, not some liberal ploy.

He's criticising your view that the vindication of climate change is worth the deaths of innocent citizens. Not that you believe in climate change in the first place.

The citizens shouldn't have elected scientifically illiterate dipshits. They only have themselves to blame.

Are you fucking kidding me?

So it's fine for liberals (not necessarily you) to call for things like federal legislation striking down state laws blocking gay marriage, despite the fact that such would be a direct result of electing a specific governor, but when it begins to trespass on climate change you're willing to say "que sera sera"? What about when the interests of representatives, senators and governors clash, which takes precedence? And why should you be allowed to dictate the electorate's priorities? What about the 47pc of Floridians who didn't vote for Rick Scott?

You're being short-sighted, and you probably know it.

can UKIP just go away now please

No, they're performing an important function.

Quote from: Madman Mordo on March 23, 2015, 01:36:47 PM

>enjoys freedom
>isn't voting for UKIP

? ? ? ? ? ?

lol I dunno what the fuck UKIP is.

They're essentially moderate Republicans.