tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91070353677366105822024-03-05T22:47:04.152-06:00Tyranny UnleashedCalling the modern political environment as I see it - and it ain't pretty.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger212125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-9123114610438244852022-01-07T10:24:00.000-06:002022-01-07T10:24:03.034-06:00Insurrection!!! (Part 2 - one year later)I'm a day late on this, but was too busy yesterday. <div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><i>Insurrection - a violent uprising against an authority or government </i></h4><h3 style="text-align: left;">Facts:</h3><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The only person killed as a direct result of January 6th was an white, female, unarmed protester, who was shot through a barricaded door (and we still don't have any real details as to why she was shot). I'm curious if the same blase approach to the investigation and subsequent clearing of wrongdoing would have happened if the protester had been a person of color. </li><li>Many (certainly not all) of the protesters were invited through the barricades and into the building by uniformed Capitol Police. Some did break in via some windows.
The ultimate responsibility for security in the Capitol lies with the Speaker of the House - Democrat Nancy Pelosi - who was warned of the potential for a large protest days ahead of time, along with an offer of support from the National Guard by the Office of the Presidnet of the United States (which she refused). </li><li>Protesters vastly outnumbered Police. </li><li>There are STILL 750 someodd people in Police Custody with no bail over a year later. Congressional authorities initially were denied permission to even enter the facility where they were being held. Some were injured and were denied medical treatment. Subsequently, a Federal Judge has ruled that their civil rights were violated and the conditions of their imprisonment were inhumane. NONE of them have been charged with Insurrection under United States Federal Law. Most are charged with what is effectively trespassing. (Opinion here: Personally, I consider them to effectively be political prisoners held in a modern day gulag.) </li><li>The Capitol building has been subject to numerous protests where people occupied it without permission in recent years - none of them have been subject to similar legal treatment. Similarly, protesters attempted to breach the doors of the Supreme Court recently and were not charged or held without bail in such conditions. </li><li>The FBI, run by Democrat appointed Merrick Garland, found NO evidence of insurrection or coordination outside of a few far-right militia type groups (which constituted a minority of those protesting), who showed up unarmed. </li></ul><h3 style="text-align: left;">My Take:</h3><div>I said this in the days after the January 6th protest and I'll repeat it here. If this had been an insurrection, an attempt to subvert democracy, the protestors would have been well armed, and they would have won the battle (likely not the war). With the numbers involved, an armed and even minimally coordinated group could have taken the Capitol building, and done nearly anything they wanted to with those inside. </div><div><br /></div><div>This should be considered a warning to anyone in power, Left or Right, that they truly do serve only with the consent of the governed, and care should be taken to truly listen to the concerns of those on the other side. Piss off enough people, and next time this might happen with armed opposition instead of political signs. The way to address widely held concerns about the legitimacy of an election is not to do everything in your power to stop or prevent deep level audits, it's not to ignore or otherwise downplay irregularities, and it's not to scream racism when people are asking for accountability, traceability, and integrity in their voting systems. </div><div><br /></div><div>Getting rid of conspiracy theories and settling people down is as simple as opening the books wide in a bipartisan manner, publicly, loudly, with cameras and lights blazing, and demonstrating with no doubt that the election was conducted fairly and legally. If the evidence doesn't exist to make this happen - <b>YOU'RE DOING THE ELECTION WRONG</b> and need to change the laws for more documentation, accountability, traceability, and integrity. Stop screaming "racism!" and start showing that the way you're conducting the election in your state is not prone to fraud and can be successfully and transparently audited. Further, if your state can't declare a winner within 24 hours of close of polls, 48 hours at the max, <b>YOU'RE DOING THE ELECTION WRONG</b>. </div><div><br /></div><div>This was a wakeup call, no matter your politics, and our "leaders" utterly failed the test. Worse, they didn't listen to the warning shot that was fired across their bow on January 6th, instead, they created a gulag, imprisoned protestors that did nothing more than trespass (those that destroyed property, or committed other crimes should have been tried by now and should have been subject to the same bail schemes you see everywhere else in this country), and have created a partisan committee that, despite no evidence of insurrection found by the FBI, is ham fistedly trying to punish and harass their political enemies while declaring that there was an "insurrection". </div><div><br /></div><div>The January 6th commission is a kangaroo "court", is blatantly politically motivated, and just like the Steele Dossier and the FISA courts being used/abused to wiretap an opponents' campaign and subsequently a Presidency, is a gigantic political abuse of power. Supporting this crap, by either side, puts you on the wrong side of history.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-83422822017019647772021-01-13T07:08:00.025-06:002021-01-13T13:07:17.593-06:00Little Brownshirts in Training<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a35181737/helena-duke-mom-trump-mob" target="_blank">My Mom Joined A Pro-Trump Protest The Night Before The Insurrection, So I Outed Her</a></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px;">"At that moment I was definitely prepared to share the video to my social media. Although the video doesn't depict my mom engaging in any violent acts, the crowd was unruly, and I was troubled that she was among them. I saw nothing wrong with outing her. I decided it was the right thing to do; that my family members needed to be held accountable for their actions."</span></p></blockquote><p>Well, aren't we just the perfect little statist, bootlicking informer. Rather than discuss the situation with her family, perhaps see if she could maybe learn something (and vice versa), find some common ground and understanding, she decided to "out" them for cheap internet points, a good and proper virtue signaling, and high fives from her friends. And she's shocked, just shocked, that they've cut her off! How dare her mother engage in unauthorized First Amendment activities!!! Two legs bad, four legs good!</p><p>I think we all have family whom we don't see eye to eye with politically. But to out them on public media for ridicule, and in our modern political environment, targeting for cancel culture - being fired, ostracized, threatened, etc - that's just a sign of the "tolerant", "let's all unify", left. Screw family, we've got a thought criminal over here that needs persecution!</p><p>Well hey, at least now she can feel self righteous and claim additional victim status with her newfound poverty. Her family will probably need her college fund to keep afloat and pay the bills when they are persecuted for their political beliefs by the rabid leftist facists. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-92183971457534018282021-01-12T07:02:00.023-06:002021-01-12T11:49:38.870-06:00Getting Warmer<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-extremists-capitol-plot/2021/01/12/id/1005255/" target="_blank">New Plot to Surround Capitol Revealed</a></span></p><p style="color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 12px 0px;"></p><blockquote><p style="color: #ffffff; bgcolor: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 12px 0px;">"They were talking about 4,000 armed 'patriots' to surround the Capitol and prevent any Democrat from going in," Lamb said. "They have published rules of engagement, meaning when you shoot and when you don't. So this is an organized group that has a plan.</p><p style="color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 12px 0px;">“They are committed to doing what they're doing because I think in their minds, you know, they are patriots and they're talking about 1776 and so this is now a contest of wills."</p></blockquote><p>Now we're getting warmer. In case you were sitting around wondering why I scoffed at the Capitol Incursion last week, if you were wondering what I meant, this right here is just a small, small escalation towards what could happen.</p><p>Whether it happens or not, this is another shot across the bow of Democrats and Republicans who have been jumping on the Democrat bandwagon out of some misguided sense of self-preservation. And ladies and gentlemen, this is still miniscule in the greater scheme of things.</p><p>Do you think the Democrats will listen? Do you think they'll back down from the precipice and actually truly try to re-enfranchise the millions (about 77 million) of people they've cast out into the cold, that they've mocked, minimized, isolated? </p><p>Or do you think they'll double down?</p><p>My money is on the latter. And it's not going to be pretty.</p><p style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 12px 0px;"></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-33449122915487794172021-01-06T21:48:00.001-06:002021-01-06T21:48:28.581-06:00Insurrection!!!This was a mild temper tantrum. Not saying I condone it, but the leftists lectured me endlessly in recent months about how the BLM riots were the result of people not feeling like they were being included, treated fairly, and heard. I was told that rioting, burning, and looting was the correct way to communicate that anger while the left cheered them on. I looked today and saw a far more restrained outburst.
<p>Bear in mind, conservatively there were 80-100k people (possibly more) protesting there today. Many of these folks are right leaning to far right. Most right leaning folks are fairly well armed, many well trained and familiar with the operation of high caliber, semi-automatic rifles. You don't have to look too far back in our history to see well armed civilians storming government facilities and even engaging in firefights.</p>
<p>Had this been the "fall of our democracy", or an "insurrection" as is being breathlessly shouted on most of the lame stream media, there would have been a lot of dead politicians and protestors, because those folks would have shown up armed to the teeth.</p>
<p>As I said, this was a mild temper tantrum, but what else can you expect when the courts have refused to confront the lawlessness and punish the lawless, most politicians on the left and the right refuse to act in the people's best interests, and our election system has been messed up to the point that it is impossible for either side to have even the basic perception that our elections are fair, let alone having the ability to transparently prove that they really are in a timely manner.</p>
<p><b>I'm not saying that they should have done it, but I understand.</b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-76619487452292853342020-11-12T21:35:00.001-06:002020-11-12T21:35:00.196-06:00III<p> "Heeeeeey! You have a III in your header! You're racist!!!!"</p><p>So, yes, I have a III in my header. Yes, it means 3%, and yes, I consider myself a "threeper". You may notice this blog was created many, many years ago. During that time, I was an avid reader of the Sipsey Street Irregulars, run by the late Mike Vanderboegh. He was the man who coined the 3%, based on the 3% of colonists who fought against the British during the revolution. You can, in fact, click on his blog over there in the left nav, scroll on back into history and see exactly what his intent was when he started talking about the 3%. The original colonists fighting in the 1770's weren't worried about slavery (mostly, they were indeed products of their time), and the founding of this country wasn't about being able to own slaves. Nowhere do you see mentions of "we're rebelling because King George is telling us to free our slaves". In fact, in my opinion the founding documents were designed to allow for the eventual downfall of slavery, though there were headwinds from slave owning states during the founding.</p><p>So recently, the III symbol has been coopted by some asshole racists. So has the "OK" symbol (though I see a lot of chatter that it was really a Reddit hoax that got out of control). I can't help that, and honestly, if we abandon every symbol that some backwards, jerkoff white supremacists coopt, we're going to run out of symbols shortly. So it stays up there. It stays up there as a sign that I'm woke to the ideas of true liberty, personal sovereignty, personal accountability, and self reliance. That I abhor any idea or law, whether from the left, right, or center, that tells me what I must do without also demonstrating that it is Constitutional and doesn't trample on personal freedoms. And that I will, God willing, resist any attempts to take those liberties by force.</p><p>If you don't like that, you don't have to read any further, I wish you good day.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-63597118287312627662020-11-11T22:51:00.001-06:002020-11-12T11:00:26.909-06:00<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/us/coronavirus-covid-lockdowns-gallup-poll/2020/11/12/id/996670/" target="_blank">Gallup Poll: Fewer Than Half Likely to Comply With COVID-19 Lockdown</a></span></p><p>Just a quick reminder, the only way the system works is if you willingly comply. Government is by consent - when enough people do not consent, a law (or "emergency order", also known as a Government Fiat) has no basis and can not be enforced effectively.</p><p>With regards to a national mask order, or a national lockdown, I fail to see the Constitutionality. I fail to see the authority by which a tyrant 3000 miles away can rule my life better than local government, which at least I have the chance to affect more directly with my vote.</p><p>Local governments have a far better chance of evaluating their numbers, understanding the will of their people, and implementing restrictions that are "reasonable" to handle their locality. Should one be implemented, I will consider it my duty and right, protected by the First Amendment, to use my lack of compliance as political speech. </p><p>For now, I will wear a mask indoors out of civic duty, as I find that to be reasonable and believe in protecting myself in an enclosed environment. I will continue to refuse to wear one outdoors, where the ventilation and crowding is scarce. Lockdowns do nothing but bankrupt people and businesses.</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"Which is better - to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away or by three thousand tyrants one mile away?" - Mather Byles</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-79816978968603485792020-11-05T07:30:00.001-06:002020-11-05T11:31:29.378-06:00So NOW is finally the time to get Portland under control?<a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/oregon-governor-activates-national-guard-violent-riots-portland" target="_blank">Oregon governor finally activates National Guard to counter violent riots in Portland</a>
<div><br /></div><div>Does anyone else find this timing to be suspect? More than three or four months of riots, and just after the election is "over" and everyone has put in their votes, NOW you decide to get tough on rioters, get tough on ANTIFA, effectively stop everything you've been happily blaming on President Trump for the last four years. </div><div><br /></div><div>Color me skeptical.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-74967634768477814682012-11-07T19:00:00.000-06:002012-11-07T19:00:26.597-06:00The Four Horsemen ComethReady for the apocalypse? I'm back and it's going to be interesting. New posts coming soon! Riding in on their horses we have Obama, Jarrett, Reid, and Boehner, and now they're out for your blood.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-39711385321157310642011-02-11T09:45:00.003-06:002011-02-11T14:53:44.407-06:00The Tide of TyrannyArtic Patriot <a href="http://arcticpatriot.blogspot.com/2011/02/letter-perhaps-written-in-vain.html">posted his letter to CONgress today</a>, and I felt the urge to reply in comments.<br /><br />Since many of you may not follow AP, I'll also post my comments here:<br /><br />In my opinion the tipping point has long passed.<br /><br />Our current Lords have driven us into debt to the point that we owe more than 7 times what we take in in revenues each year. Paying that back will be near impossible, even were we to stop spending on everything tomorrow. The only way to get our financial heads above water would be to stop all spending on all entitlement programs, yet the politicians in CONgress know that to do so would result in the 48% of our zombie "citizens" who pay nothing into the system, yet receive the benefits of our labor, voting them out of office.<br /><br />There is no way to vote ourselves out of this. There is no way we can fulfill our debt "obligations" to our creditors, and there is no way we could survive under the tax regime that would be required to become a solvent nation again.<br /><br />The grand experiment has failed, and done so miserably. Not because the Founding Fathers erred in their drafting of our Constitution, but because we have allowed our so-called elected officials to violate that document repeatedly and capriciously, with no punishment for having done so. The tyrannic tide advances each year, and no amount of voting we do can reverse it. Our nation is like Venice - slowly and inexorably sinking beneath waves of over regulation and debt.<br /><br />As a complete Nation, we have lost. Our only hope, in my opinion, is to break from the Nation as a free state or states (which has been demonstrated in the past to be a bloody affair which is difficult to "win"), or to sit by as our Nation self destructs, and hope that we can build a new, free society from the ashes.<br /><br />Either way, Winter is coming, and it's going to be a bitch.<br /><br />IIIUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-60769186825154191522010-11-16T22:45:00.011-06:002010-11-16T23:15:36.905-06:00How to Handle Your Next TSA GropingStep 1: Opt out of stupid ineffectual pornographic radiation bath...I mean "full body scan".<br /><br />Step 2: When receiving your Government Mandated Free Groping, perform the following maneuver. Man or woman, it doesn't matter, have fun with it - the louder and more over the top, (and men, if you can put on a lisp, go for it,) the better!<br /><object width="640" height="505"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5nNhOH4Y0bI?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5nNhOH4Y0bI?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="505"></embed></object><br />There is absolutely <b>NOTHING</b> a weak, ineffectual, impotent, loser Government Employee hates MORE than being made to look like the total trash heap that he/she is. NOTHING.<br /><br /><i>Disclaimer - I take NO responsibility for any reactions you may receive for trying this approach in a security line, to include (but not limited to):</i><br /><ul><br /><li> <a href="http://cbs4.com/local/tsa.screener.arrest.2.1681203.html">Being beaten within an inch of your life by TSA thugs.</a><br /><li> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEJpzVPmih0">Being interrogated for hours by TSA losers for spurious reasons.</a><br /><li> <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/armed-tsa-agents-threaten-travel-journalist/">Being arrested.</a><br /><li><a href="http://www.passportmagazine.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1909-Man-Who-Refused-Full-Body-Scan-Faces-11K-Fine.html"> Being fined $11,000 for refusing to be sexually assaulted</a><br /><li> Being tea-bagged by those that profess to hate "teabaggers" (or Tea Partiers - see Sarah Palin and friends).<br /><li> <a href="http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/tsa-alleged-child-molester-did-not-train-or-use-new-full-body-scanners-logan">Actual attempted sexual contact by the TSA deviant that is feeling up you and your child.</a><br /><li> Or any other repercussion visited upon you by the tyrannical leeches, degenerates, and powermongers that comprise the true underclass that is the Federal or local State Government these days.<br /></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-51440369274916544232010-11-16T22:26:00.002-06:002010-11-16T22:29:14.083-06:00The Federal Government SpeaksTerrorists, Lions, and Bears, oh my!<br /><br />Been looking for this clip for a while. Very apropos don't you think?<br /> <br /><object width="640" height="505"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PhsvmY3Q9cY?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PhsvmY3Q9cY?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="505"></embed></object><br /><br />Is that you John Wayne? Or perhaps it's Pelosi, Reid and Obama....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-38976672190109295122010-11-13T23:19:00.004-06:002010-11-13T23:36:50.666-06:00Johnny Edge - Touch My Junk and Go To Jail<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhODahKiwSgF053i0QTHq_egKBRfIbUE_MNY4jfhu49RM1yDlDTskZ2zWnUVWlCZHVB6_YBywf3umWlu_Ums9W3j4VjZ42OC4bS7MWF1MaarogIv0DnzDkARG7rcMLa2-vVdOSfPA82QJbR/s1600/no_groping.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhODahKiwSgF053i0QTHq_egKBRfIbUE_MNY4jfhu49RM1yDlDTskZ2zWnUVWlCZHVB6_YBywf3umWlu_Ums9W3j4VjZ42OC4bS7MWF1MaarogIv0DnzDkARG7rcMLa2-vVdOSfPA82QJbR/s400/no_groping.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539275170918028658" /></a><a href="http://johnnyedge.blogspot.com/2010/11/these-events-took-place-roughly-between.html">Threatened with $10,000 in CIVIL FINES for refusing to submit to TSA groping at the airport.</a><br /><br />Much like gun control, it's not about safety, it's about control.<br /><br />Before I go on, I would like to remind you of what modern airport security actually is in places where the lovely naked body scanners are installed. You have a choice:<br /><ol><br /><li>Submit to an XRay scan of your body that generates images that are detailed enough that a TSA Agent was fired for punching out his boss after repeated jokes about the size of his genitalia.<br /><li>Submit to a TSA agent, who may or may not be of the same sex (not that that makes it any better), squeezing your breasts (ladies) and/or genetalia with their fingers.<br /></ol><br /><br />The advertised point of TSA and airport security is to make sure that air travel is "safe". Despite the fact that most TSA screening is shutting the barn door after the horse is out, if you decide you don't want to be screened, you just leave the airport right?<br /><br />WRONG.<br /><br />The link above has an account from San Diego where, after the potential passenger decided he didn't need a pervert TSA agent squeezing his balls to make sure he hadn't packed C4 in his sack, he was told he could get a refund and leave the airport.<br /><br />Except according to the TSA, he really couldn't. You see, once you start screening, the TSA has decided that they OWN YOU. You are not allowed to leave the screening checkpoint without being sexually assaulted or paying $10,000 in fines in a civil court. Even getting a refund on your ticket and trying to leave the airport is unacceptable - you lost your Constitutional Rights the minute you entered that security line.<br /><br />So ask yourself, what does this make TSA Checkpoints? <br /><br />Nothing more than an excuse to sexually molest men, women, and children for perverted Government paid sexual deviants.<br /><br />You want an eye opener - Google <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=tsa+abuses&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS322US323&ie=UTF-8">TSA Abuses</a>.<br /><br />How can you help?<br />Join a <a href="http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-news-in-national/we-won-t-fly-the-airport-molester-protesters">We Won't Fly protest</a> at the airport near you.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-73673264961951947202010-11-02T23:01:00.003-05:002010-11-02T23:03:35.549-05:00Farewell to the Wicked Witch of the West<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhph3zDRXyd2izXhDoi23wb6NyOYsQz4HkRd3VoYovNyGvoK8Asi1yCVQLh0EzRxbecLd0M6XfSnJAeudeinhQkwB10LqXC-YDZxeGIr84hysTf1176blwJkpJHuEeKF_VIDc9XWmwkD3xI/s1600/pelosi-with-gavel-wicked-witch-cropped.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 322px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhph3zDRXyd2izXhDoi23wb6NyOYsQz4HkRd3VoYovNyGvoK8Asi1yCVQLh0EzRxbecLd0M6XfSnJAeudeinhQkwB10LqXC-YDZxeGIr84hysTf1176blwJkpJHuEeKF_VIDc9XWmwkD3xI/s400/pelosi-with-gavel-wicked-witch-cropped.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535169090946452338" /></a>Bye bye Pelosi. You will "speak" for the House no more. May a House drop on you on your way off the podium.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-83144798680330962872010-09-03T17:00:00.000-05:002010-09-03T17:00:02.883-05:00Muslim Cleric Calls for Beheading of Dutch PoliticianAhh yes, another glorious proclamation from the "Religion of Peace".<br /><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100903/wl_nm/us_dutch_wilders">Muslim cleric calls for beheading of Dutch politician</a><br /><br /><blockquote>The Sydney-born Muhammad has gained notoriety for, among other things, calling on young children to be radicalized and blaming rape victims for their own attacks.<br /><br />The paper posted an English-language audio clip in which he refers to Wilders as "this Satan, this devil, this politician in Holland" and explains that anyone who talks about Islam like Wilders does should be executed by beheading.</blockquote><br />Modern Islam is a scourge and a sore upon the face of this planet. While it originally probably was about peace and goodness, it has been hijacked by violent elements that use it for the subjugation of women and the complete control and oppression of hundreds of millions of people.<br /><br />There is very little that is good about modern Islam as practiced by these radicals.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-11230040123560221452010-09-03T16:45:00.001-05:002010-09-03T16:45:00.517-05:00How Long Did YOU Work for the Federal Government This Year?Happy Friday - Now F*** You! (Love, the FedGov) - Part 2 <br /><br />This one snuck by me, however, it bears repeating.<br /><br />August 21st.<br /><br />What's important about that day? From January 1st, until August 21st of this year, EVERY penny YOU made went towards funding the Federal and State Governments. Every last dime. That's what it takes these days to fund the travesty that is Washington D.C.<br /><br />See the methodology and a State by State breakdown here: <a href="http://www.fiscalaccountability.org/?content=cogdteas10">August 19, 2010 - Cost of Government Day Has Arrived!</a><br /><br />Do you realize that at the time of the founding of this Nation, you didn't pay income tax, you didn't pay property tax - you actually OWNED that which you made and purchased. Your land was yours, it wasn't to be taken away from you simply for refusing to pay the lease payments on it.<br /><br />While I will cede the point that some amount of taxation is necessary, how can we possibly agree that we must work the majority of the year simply to settle with the various forms of Government??? This truly is tyranny. It's far past time to get the Government out of our lives.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-89550366231296809002010-09-03T16:30:00.000-05:002010-09-03T16:30:00.453-05:00The Largest Tax Hike in HistoryHappy Friday - Now F*** You! (Love, the FedGov) - Part 1 <br /><br /><a href="http://www.atr.org/days-thebr-largest-tax-hikes-history-a5370#">120 Days to Go Until the Largest Tax Hikes in History</a><br /><br />I'd just like to thank the idiot Democrats in Congress for making sure that the economy is stimulated by making sure that even more of what EVERY taxpayer makes goes not into their pockets, where it can support their family, but into Government, where it can be wasted by a bunch of chimpanzees with no impulse control.<br /><br />From the article:<br /><blockquote> First Wave: Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief<br /><br />In 2001 and 2003, the GOP Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors, small business owners, and families. These will all expire on January 1, 2011:<br /><br />Personal income tax rates will rise. The top income tax rate will rise from 35 to 39.6 percent (this is also the rate at which two-thirds of small business profits are taxed). The lowest rate will rise from 10 to 15 percent. All the rates in between will also rise. Itemized deductions and personal exemptions will again phase out, which has the same mathematical effect as higher marginal tax rates. The full list of marginal rate hikes is below:<br /><br />- The 10% bracket rises to an expanded 15%<br /><br />- The 25% bracket rises to 28%<br /><br />- The 28% bracket rises to 31%<br /><br />- The 33% bracket rises to 36%<br /><br />- The 35% bracket rises to 39.6%</blockquote><br />Get that? If you pay any Federal Income tax AT ALL, your taxes are going up. Remember the Idiot in Chief while he was campaigning?<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UJVMWjTQh_Y?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UJVMWjTQh_Y?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br />That's called a bald-faced lie, and every one of you who voted for him is complicit in this travesty.<br /><br />Then there is Pelosi:<br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jAJfuIaZdxg?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jAJfuIaZdxg?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br />So how do you square that Pelosi? You're a traitor and a liar.<br /><br />Read the entire article linked above. Between Obamacare, expiration of the Bush Tax Cuts, the complete failure of Congress to address inflation with the Alternative Minimum Tax, upping it's draconian application from 2mil to 28mil families this year, the Federal Government is an epic train wreck. Great job CONgress, now **** off.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-50106181683022898152010-08-25T16:45:00.001-05:002010-08-25T16:45:00.336-05:00Karl Denninger Takes on Education<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsF8QtbJB_Vtp4JTrTxlOkKusycTrz6q6OlzDkzw0Xxv-2-AaROJDA3l919x0FxcsoEFMC078hMA_vuXGgorFuJkKns-_XLRg06Yf_5oNvii_Ru2L9lDtun6uoj5Evce1Und0A7YlFgAnk/s1600/brick.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 352px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsF8QtbJB_Vtp4JTrTxlOkKusycTrz6q6OlzDkzw0Xxv-2-AaROJDA3l919x0FxcsoEFMC078hMA_vuXGgorFuJkKns-_XLRg06Yf_5oNvii_Ru2L9lDtun6uoj5Evce1Und0A7YlFgAnk/s400/brick.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509442538224772642" /></a>Two words Mr. Denninger. Right On.<br /><br />Denninger takes on the Education establishment (racket?) with an excellently written and researched post.<br /><br /><blockquote>If you're a teacher or other "educator" and tell me this can't be done, I'll take you on. You sign over to a company I set up the total amount you get from the state for each kid, I'll run the place as noted above, and I get to keep the excess funds (that's called "profit", which is my motive to do it.) I have only one condition - I get written into law protection against unionization, just as you have your unions, I'm going to be free from them. And I get to set my own school policies with regard to instruction, qualification to teach and discipline, consistent with state law (that is, the staff cannot assault the students, obviously.) This is part of the experiment - the place runs exactly as above with no interference - including interference by organized labor and other socialist bull****.<br /><br />If, five years hence, I don't beat the pants off your school district's academic achievement on balance, as determined by nationalized standard testing (E.g. ACT or SAT scores for High Schoolers - not state-specific ones that a school can teach to) I'll give all the profit I earned doing it back to the state and you can declare victory. If I can't outperform you I don't deserve a nickel for my five years of labor, and I won't keep it. We'll write into the contract.<br /><br />But if I do beat your academic achievement, you, and every one of the employees in your school, is fired, the district buildings and land are sold off to private interests, the money that is no longer going to be wasted is returned to the taxpayers in the county, and your pension funds and all other forms of deferred cost that you and your cronies stole from the taxpayers for your sub-standard and ridiculously overpriced underperformance are returned to the people as unearned plunder.</blockquote><br /><br />The entire article, including numbers and arguments to support his conclusion above, is available at <a href="http://tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?singlepost=2143215">this link</a>. I'd support this approach in Texas in an instant. It's about time we started applying the scientific method to our Governance. It's obvious the current system is NOT working.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-75561610895923181072010-08-17T16:30:00.000-05:002010-08-17T16:30:00.592-05:00Social Security is 75, and it Needs to be Put Out of Its MiserySocial Security turns (turned?) 75 this week! Let's see what we have to show for it:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">$0</span></span><br /><br />Yup, that's right. That program that was supposed to be <span style="font-weight:bold;">optional</span>, <span style="font-weight:bold;">1% of your income</span>, with funds <span style="font-weight:bold;">held aside to guarantee that you'd be repaid</span>, is broke. CONgress spent all of it - every last dime. Much like Madoff, as new funds are coming in from current payers, they're being immediately sent to folks who are payees, because those folks' money was spent by the Government to keep up the wonderful utopian mirage of Progressive Socialism.<br /><br />And here we sit. Each paycheck I get has 7% taken out of it, with jailtime or summary execution by Federal SWAT team awaiting me if I refuse to pay it, and I know with absolutely certainty that I'll likely never see a dime of the money I'm paying into it. That 7%, which could be used to invest in an account I CONTROL, which could be kept safe from the idiots in Washington that think that they're entitled to EVERYTHING you own, is sent to a group of people that piss it away on such high-minded activities as funding cocaine addiction studies on monkeys.<br /><br />Need some fun analysis? Try this article from the Market Ticker: <a href="http://market-ticker.org/archives/2584-Revoke-Krugmans-PhD-Social-Security.html">Revoke Krugman's PhD</a><br /><br /><blockquote>That so-called "trust fund" is a fraud. It does not exist.<br /><br />Here's what actually happens (and Krugman knows this, which makes him a damned liar besides):<br /><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Your tax dollars go to Treasury. <br /> <li>Treasury keeps them and issues "special" Treasury bonds to the Social Security "trust fund."<br /> <li>Treasury counts these tax receipts against the federal deficit, making it look (much, until the last year) smaller than it really is.<br /></ul><br /><br />Note the slight-of-hand here. Social Security gets an alleged "bond" but they can't sell it to anyone but the Treasury. That is, legally it is an IOU, not a bond. A bond can be marketed in the open market to anyone who is willing to buy, for whatever they're willing to pay. These are unmarketable (intentionally) and thus can only be redeemed in one place - at Treasury.<br /><br />The problem is that Treasury spent the money and thus doesn't have anything with which to redeem the IOUs!<br /><br />So in order to redeem these alleged "bonds" Treasury will have to sell more bonds - this time to the general public (foreign governments, people, etc) who have actual capital surplus, because Treasury doesn't - it blew that surplus on social spending programs right here and now.<br /><br />This is similar to you coming to me with $100,000 and I "promise" to hold on to it for you and keep it "safe." I give you a promissory note to this effect. But I never hold the funds - I immediately go blow them on hookers, coke and limousines. You now have a bunch of IOUs, and I have no money.<br /><br />Now perhaps I can manage to sell someone else some bonds when you come to redeem those IOUs. Perhaps. But what is unmistakable and true is that the money you allegedly "deposited" with me was immediately dissipated, not invested, saved, held or secured.<br /><br />This little scheme seems to work just fine provided that each year the Social Security system takes in more than it spends on benefits - that is, so long as the file cabinet full of IOUs continues to get bigger. Treasury gets the appearance of "Free Money", Social Security is able to pay benefits, nobody's the wiser.<br /><br />But it's a scam, because in point of fact the so-called "Special Bonds" are nothing more than a bare promise to pay and the asset against which they were issued (tax receipts) was instantly dissipated!</blockquote><br />The Baby Boomers are retiring, and there's nowhere near enough of us younger folks to keep this program solvent. "The Government will just cover the difference!" you say. Bull. We're currently spending $1.4 TRILLION MORE THAN WE MAKE. That is, the U.S. brings in around $2 trillion in revenues each year, and is currently spending $3.4 trillion. All of that money is coming in the form of a printing press from Treasury, or foreign investment - at the moment, Chinese funds.<br /><br />"Well, the Government is aware of the problem and they're going to do something to fix it!" Wrong again. Check out this little gem (and it's a talking point for sure - I heard the exact same phrase from DemocRAT after DemocRAT on the news yesterday):<br /><br /><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/labor/114473-social-security-at-75-dont-mess-with-success-rep-sander-levin">Social security at 75: don't mess with success (Rep. Sander Levin)</a><br /><br />From that article:<br /><blockquote>Seventy-five years ago this month, President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. By any yardstick, Social Security has been the most successful domestic program in our nation's history, lifting millions of seniors out of poverty. Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Security to provide guaranteed protection against the loss of earnings due to retirement, disability, or death.</blockquote><br />This mental midget then goes forward with his talking point arguments of "had we allowed people to privatize Social Security and invest it in the stock market, they'd be broke right now". What tripe. Yes, the market goes up and down. Yes, you can lose money. However, Social Security pays around 1%. That doesn't even cover the massive inflation we have seen over the last 75 years, no where close. Having money in Social Security means you've LOST a significant portion of your "investment". I can get a better rate of return with that money in a Savings Account at a local bank that is insured by the FDIC. <br /><br />Privatization doesn't mean you HAVE to invest your Social Security in risky equities, but it gives you the option of managing your OWN money. Personal accountability. Oops, can't have that - just let your betters in Government handle that for you - you can't be trusted with your own assets. Just give them to us so we can <span style="font-weight:bold;">spend every last penny on bull$!@#.</span><br /><br />It's far past time to stop this madness. Do away with the system. Every day Americans dump in good money after bad, and most of us will never see a dime. Robbing us to pay for the actions of politicians we were too young to even vote for isn't the answer - especially when we're all pretty sure that we won't ever see a dime of what we put in come back to us. How are we supposed to secure our retirement if we're told that we must pay for yours?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-17728737075392413432010-07-16T21:47:00.002-05:002010-07-16T21:55:38.039-05:00Body Mass Index - Now Required by Federal Government<a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/69436">Obesity Rating for Every American Must Be Included in Stimulus-Mandated Electronic Health Records, Says HHS</a><br /><br /><blockquote>New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records--that all Americans are supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year--must record not only the traditional measures of height and weight, but also the Body Mass Index: a measure of obesity.<br /><br />The obesity-rating regulation states that every American's electronic health record must: “Calculate body mass index. Automatically calculate and display body mass index (BMI) based on a patient’s height and weight.”</blockquote><br /><br />Lovely. Those of you who are serious about weight lifting take note - muscle weighs more than fat. It's possible that even though you are incredibly in shape, you'll be flagged as "obese". From a site with a BMI calculator:<br /><blockquote>Although BMI can be used for most men and women, it does have some limits:<br /><br /> * It may overestimate body fat in athletes and others who have a muscular build.<br /> * It may underestimate body fat in older persons and others who have lost muscle.<br /></blockquote><br />The article also states that the health records will be available on the national exchange. Good luck getting insured (while there are still insurance companies other than the retards (and yes, I do mean <i>retards</i> Ms. Palin) in Washington.<br /><br /><blockquote>Under the stimulus law, health care providers--including doctors and hospitals--must establish "meaningful use" of EHRs by 2014 in order to qualify for federal subsidies. After that, they will be subjected to penalties in the form of diminished Medicare and Medicaid payments for not establishing "meaningful use" of EHRs.</blockquote><br /><br />Doctors - this one is really simple. Stop accepting insurance. Stop accepting Medicare/Medicaid. Go back to directly seeing a local pool of patients who will pay you directly for your services. Drop your prices to something that will be in accordance with running a profitable and successful business, without being ripped off by the Feds and the Insurance Companies.<br /><br />Screw the Washington Bureaucrats. Let them stew in the cesspool that is D.C, trying to get blood from the bankrupt stones that are many of the Liberal states, and lets get some 10th Amendment assertions and secessions going here folks. I'm tired of this crap.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-48468532804802368922010-07-12T20:06:00.003-05:002010-07-16T21:57:08.149-05:00I'm a racist, you're a racist, he's a racist, she's a racist...<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/12/naacp-considers-condemning-tea-party-racism/">NAACP Considers Condemning Tea Party for 'Racism'</a><br /><br />Considers it? Hah, Tea Partiers have been branded as racists since they emerged during the Healthcare "debate".<br /><br />Whatever, go ahead. We're WAY past labels at this point.<br /><br />Hey, by the way, National Association for the Advancement of <b>Colored</b> People. Who's the bigot now???Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-30237738691815101662010-05-21T11:50:00.004-05:002010-05-22T20:49:39.886-05:00Governor Jan Brewer - Obama, Do Your Job<script type="text/javascript" src="http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=4206174&w=400&h=249"></script><br />A long watch, but worth it.<br /><br />I'm liking Governor Brewer a lot more, with the various bills she's been signing, I *almost* regret leaving AZ.<br /><br />Remember, the folks that are the most upset about this, other than the illegals of course, are the folks that don't believe in borders. Those folks that would like to invite anyone, regardless of criminal background, regardless of their ability to contribute to our country (and therefore help to pay for the entitlement programs they will enjoy), and most of all, people that actually WANT to become Americans, not Mexicans living in America.<br /><br />You're an illegal? You don't want to get arrested in AZ? Don't do anything to draw the attention of the Police, such as speed, rob, burgle, etc. Don't like it? Get the **** out until you've gone through the time honored legal process of getting your citizenship.<br /><br />Keep giving 'em hell Gov!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-47370737494467899842010-05-20T18:43:00.002-05:002010-05-20T18:47:32.777-05:00Make the Mojave Cross Permanent<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikY4wtI7C9xY5XvXCzqCU1FidiLv7o-MrXe9GwZc4JUUym5DtXHrdxllDG1xDs40WBkfkSIos60VQI5pZ8sLQjEPn9mnBiaFMuFs8p_OfO2tAdytHjFodPdtukeWLCZO7ASQe-fJwmnTgo/s1600/jackhammer.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikY4wtI7C9xY5XvXCzqCU1FidiLv7o-MrXe9GwZc4JUUym5DtXHrdxllDG1xDs40WBkfkSIos60VQI5pZ8sLQjEPn9mnBiaFMuFs8p_OfO2tAdytHjFodPdtukeWLCZO7ASQe-fJwmnTgo/s400/jackhammer.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473502954835790290" /></a><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/20/authorities-replica-cross-placed-mojave-desert-war-memorial/">Authorities Say Mojave Desert Replacement Memorial Cross Must Come Down</a><br /><br />Since apparently it's ok to settle a score after you lose the decision of the Supreme Court by removing that which offends you, I have a suggestion for the people that used to maintain the cross.<br /><br />Get a large jackhammer and etch a cross into the rock. Make it as large as possible, and nice and deep. Make sure no matter what happens that it's always there.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-13798203461892980632010-04-15T21:45:00.004-05:002010-04-15T21:55:21.636-05:00Hey Obama, About Those "Tax Cuts" and "Bi-Partisanship"<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/15/obama-renews-bipartisanship-takes-jab-tea-partiers/">Obama Renews Call for Bipartisanship, Takes Jab at Tea Partiers</a><br /><br /><blockquote>"I've been a little amused over the last couple of days where people have been having these rallies about taxes," the president said, noting the numerous tax cuts pushed by his administration. "You would think they'd be saying thank you."</blockquote><br /><br />Hey jackass, "cutting" my taxes just enough to buy a Whopper each month, all the while allowing for a monetary policy that is pushing commodities, including oil, higher, and passing a "Healthcare Reform" that in reality will COST me money (and possibly my job), and you want me to thank you??<br /><br />I've got a different gesture for that:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTMo7rj5qHTyEjAvAevh9IrjgEgstwSwVnsghuodaga6TrOA8ec5R4zZglckSLs-S7L-1tmfMgMYR6OW3wpYNBWWoXxyYCCjMvvmrbdv7q35Jux1A-EKM8XC2Bb24Ko_mil-2lc8vvEod/s1600/UpYours.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 395px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTMo7rj5qHTyEjAvAevh9IrjgEgstwSwVnsghuodaga6TrOA8ec5R4zZglckSLs-S7L-1tmfMgMYR6OW3wpYNBWWoXxyYCCjMvvmrbdv7q35Jux1A-EKM8XC2Bb24Ko_mil-2lc8vvEod/s400/UpYours.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460562870737210146" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">You want Bi-Partisanship? You can start by resigning. Then, and only then, will we come to the table.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-39937970978709884492010-04-15T21:36:00.003-05:002010-04-15T21:42:14.849-05:00FBI Able to Read Emails Stored on Servers<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijhCGkZ4QQ8bxL0vjo2b25_NunOQ5zR6qZYR8YbYbDflvussEL5568V5rF4aoRtEpmEkKdjZq74UWHnHhx06y1eN81ysQujsEGxk1uanNSr3ETwMz_d8Jy4_orqQ4iUqMObKMOHGMvjXbb/s1600/FBIEmailTap.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 255px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijhCGkZ4QQ8bxL0vjo2b25_NunOQ5zR6qZYR8YbYbDflvussEL5568V5rF4aoRtEpmEkKdjZq74UWHnHhx06y1eN81ysQujsEGxk1uanNSr3ETwMz_d8Jy4_orqQ4iUqMObKMOHGMvjXbb/s400/FBIEmailTap.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460559351970659522" /></a><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/emailprivacy/">Yahoo, Feds Battle over E-Mail Privacy</a><br /><br /><blockquote>The legal dust-up, unsealed late Tuesday, concerns a 1986 law that already allows the government to obtain a suspect’s e-mail from an ISP or webmail provider without a probable-cause warrant, once it’s been stored for 180 days or more. The government now contends it can get e-mail under 180-days old if that e-mail has been read by the owner, and the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protections don’t apply.<br /><br />Yahoo is challenging the government’s position and defying a court order to turn over some customer e-mail to the feds. Google, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy & Technology and other groups late Tuesday told the federal judge presiding over the case that accessing e-mail under 180 days old requires a valid warrant under the Fourth Amendment, regardless of whether it has been read.<br /><br />“The government says the Fourth Amendment does not protect these e-mails,” Kevin Bankston, an EFF lawyer, said in a telephone interview Wednesday. “What we’re talking about is archives of our personal correspondence that they would need a warrant to get from your computer but not from the server.”</blockquote><br /><br />I learn something new every day. Sometimes, I wish I didn't.<br /><br />Quick note to my fellow Threepers - if you're in the habit of keeping communications on a server such as GMail or Yahoo, Hotmail, etc, be aware that someone without a warrant might be watching.<br /><br />Of course, none of you would put anything that might incriminate you into email now would you? OpSec and CommSec friends.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107035367736610582.post-14318010000142519332010-03-30T23:02:00.003-05:002010-03-30T23:21:45.212-05:00My Stance on HealthcareLongtime lurker Cheddar (and you're welcome to lurk, I encourage it!), an always good questioner of my rants, asked on <a href="http://tyrannyunleashed.blogspot.com/2010/03/obamacare-synopsis-of-fail-by-karl.html">this post</a>:<br /><blockquote>Would health care be so bad if it were provided to only citizens and immigrants (please don't confuse immigrants with aliens).</blockquote><br /><br />The short answer is "yes", because we *still* can't afford it.<br /><br />This isn't about "pre-existing conditions". There are two issues with that:<br /><ol><li>If you as a person were able to get a tax deduction for paying your own healthcare, we wouldn't have the problem where you lose your coverage every time you changed jobs. The Government and its regulations CREATED pre-existing condition issues by only allowing businesses to receive credits for insuring employees' health. </li><br /><li>You can't wreck your car, and call Allstate the next day and demand insurance can you? Why not? Because the premiums you DID NOT pay over the last 5 years CAN NOT ensure that Allstate can afford your coverage. You understand that what this idiotic law has done is ring the death knell for private health insurance? No one can be profitable in that situation - not without tripling, quadrupling, or MORE the premiums of anyone <b>stupid</b> enough to continue paying for healthcare.</li><br /></ol><br />This isn't about who gets it. Ultimately (and Mark Levin has proved a number of times), we're talking about less than 20mil people that "need" healthcare - the rest are foreigners, wealthy folks (making more than $75k a year) that choose not to carry coverage, and also younger folks who are generally healthy and don't feel they need insurance.<br /><br />This IS about NOT reforming medical tort laws, where Doctors must still pay exorbitant amounts of money to cover frivolous malpractice lawsuits, and order all manner of extra and unnecessary tests to try and prevent same, increasing the costs to insurance companies.<br /><br />This IS about a Nation that somehow believes that they deserve the latest, most expensive treatment that has a low success rate, even if they can't afford it. I'm sorry, but if you can't pay for a plan that can cover it, you don't deserve the latest in whizbang tests and surgeries.<br /><br />This IS about not having to wait four or more months for cancer tests, MRIs, etc. This IS about not having to ration care because people overuse the system since...after all, it's free!<br />This IS about not losing many of your Doctors because, shock, they don't feel like putting up many thousands of dollars only to be told they make too much and should work for peanuts.<br /><br />Here is basic human behavior as I channel Joe and Jane Everyman:<br /><blockquote>If my choice (after my company drops my insurance plan because the premiums just doubled - and THEY ALREADY ARE DOUBLING), is to pay $1k a month (or more!) for health insurance (and I have always kept myself covered up until now), or to save $12k up (12 months, $1k saved per month by not enrolling in Obamacare), pay the fine for not having coverage at the end of the year ($2k), and if anything happens in the mean time, fuck it, I'll go DEMAND coverage since they can't turn me down for pre-existing conditions, what do you think I (and 99.5% of the rest of the country) is going to go do?<br /></blockquote><br />And when we all drop our plans (after our employers drop them as well), and start showing up demanding coverage all of a sudden when we get cancer, break something, have a heart attack, etc, what's going to happen to Insurance Companies - right, out of business. That'll just leave Uncle Sam to take care of it. Just like they took care of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the Post Office, etc. etc. etc.<br /><br />Please read the articles I've linked. They're not about politics, they're about simple economics, human behavior, and basic math. <br /><br />Healthcare as it stood before this bill was DEFINITELY broken - no one disputes that. What this new law has done, though, is put Government in charge of the broken system because somehow (and they NEVER EVER EVER EVER HAVE IN THE PAST), they're going to lower costs, increase coverage, and improve services.<br /><br /><b>That'll be the day.</b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1