(yeah, I’ve never claimed to be a blog title expert.) Peter Schiff wrote an article titled, “Why Not Another World War.” It’s actually an interesting article in which he explains how we all agree that World War II ended The Great Depression and sparked the greatest American economic trend, so why not have another? This Gulf War [...]
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Last year, a Canadian writer, after visiting the U.S., returned home and was stopped by the U.S. border guards. They demanded that he step out of his car, which he did. When he chose to ask “why?” he was being ordered around, he was pepper sprayed, hit, cuffed, and arrested. The officers claimed in their [...]
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Facebook readers: this post came from my official blog; the auto-transfer to FB tends to strip any embedded images.) Now that Democrat Obama (corporatist) is president, and Democrats control Congress (corporatists and oligarchs); just because the overtly fascist, corporatist, imperialistic, evil Bush regime is gone, doesn’t mean the threat of USSA, Amerika, is over. “The [...]
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My apologies in advance: I think I’m going to be posting a few (hopefully not too long) blogs in succession to try to make up for the fact that I can’t blog from work any more, and school work (and the desire to not be on a computer after a day of work) after coming [...]
READ MORE »Now that the Democrats have won, how do those of us who have been called traitors and unpatriotic for being patriotic by expressing our freedom of dissent, behave? Wil Wheaton says, “Don’t be a dick!” “…or else we didn’t win anything at all.” Wise words.
READ MORE »If you know me you know that I have a love/hate relationship with conspiracy theories. On the one hand, they’re really entertaining! They make for great “X-Files” plotlines, and extra bonus points if they can work in The Illuminati! (And keep a straight face.) fnord But on the other hand, they’re almost always complete bunk. [...]
READ MORE »Cryptography and e-security expert, Bruce Schneier, has a good article featured on BoingBoing today arguing to either let people bring liquids back on planes, or take the ban seriously and actually treat the supposed threatening liquids like a threat: Why people who try to bring toothpaste on a plane should be arrested
READ MORE »I can’t believe I missed this. In researching information on my last post regarding the addition of peaceful opponents to capital punishment being added by police to terrorist watch lists, I found this news item from last year about the FBI and CIA’s programs to recruit and pay for citizen informants (thus spreading fear and [...]
READ MORE »It’s easy to find countless articles on the appearant rise of police brutality and fascist, militarized mindset, and are gleefully proud of their testasterone overdosed abuses, and stories in which the police are used as political weapons. Well, here’s one more story of overreaching abuse of power and damage to civil liberties: Top Maryland cops [...]
READ MORE »A year ago, MIT student Star Simpson was nearly killed by police when an airport worker panicked at seeing a benign electric light-up design integrated into Star’s sweatshirt. Long story short, she’s been forced by the state to do community service and issue an official apology–for doing absolutely nothing wrong. They tried to get her [...]
READ MORE »This is a very, very scary time we live in right now. Jack Cafferty has a fantastic although disheartening commentary on CNN.com right now: Commentary: Is McCain another George W. Bush? He talks about how McCain was at the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy (likely got into the Navy through his Admiril [...]
READ MORE »I really need to keep writing this weekend (OMG! I just touchtyped that last sentence! And most of this sentence! This is a big deal for me. I’ve been using a keyboard, sometimes 10+ hours a day, for 25 years, and I still can’t touchtype. Anywa….) so this should be reasonably brief. A couple of [...]
READ MORE »This news item: Man whose US immigration notice was sent to the wrong address is detained with untreated spinal cancer until he dies, denied access to his wife and children I have no comment of my own that could add to the story itself. I’ll just post what some others have said: OM: …You know, [...]
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