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TPRJones wrote:Yes, in this era of the US being mostly a tech & service economy, let's outsource that $45mil to make a decent website to Ireland. Because there's no way anyone here could do it and keep that money in-country.

In 2013, the Ethisphere Institute designated Accenture as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 5th time.

We are not just going to be waiting for legislation in order to make sure that we're providing Americans the kind of help that they need. I've got a pen, and I've got a phone. And I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward...

The flaws that have been found are mere speculation, pointed out Krush, whose firm has done security work for the Department of Health and Human Services.

“Nobody here at this table can tell you there is a vulnerability,” he said during testimony. To actually test the flaws would require hacking the website itself, which would mean breaking the law, he noted.

“There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President,” he said. “Now, the flip side of it is there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because I’m a black President.”

“You can be somebody who, for very legitimate reasons, worries about the power of the federal government—that it’s distant, that it’s bureaucratic, that it’s not accountable—and as a consequence you think that more power should reside in the hands of state governments,” he said.

But Obama said “that philosophy is wrapped up in the history of states’ rights in the context of the civil-rights movement and the Civil War and (South Carolina Sen. John C.) Calhoun. There’s a pretty long history there.”

To sum things up, the number of people who like and hate him because of his half-black heritage is about equal.

TheCatt wrote:

To sum things up, the number of people who like and hate him because of his half-black heritage is about equal.

He uses the same "some" qualifier, but doesn't say it's equal.

As for the pot quote, it irks me. Apparently, scientists can talk about the benefits of pot until they're blue in the face, but a politician states an opinion, and that's front page news? That's what we should base our policies on?

“Trying to influence elections through bogus campaign contributions is a serious crime,” George Venizelos, the assistant director in charge of the New York FBI office said in a statement. “Today, Mr. D’Souza finds himself on the wrong side of the law.”