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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

Court strikes down FCC indecency rule. Too bad it didn't strike down the FCC.

Chile passes net neutrality law. That's sad.

SOCIALISM:

Black boxes show that Toyota crashes the result of driver error. Do you think Congress will convene hearings to apologize to Toyota execs? I think there's a market for a car maker which doesn't put black boxes in cars.

ECONOMY:

In case you haven't heard about enough economic crisis coming up, here's another one: trillions of dollars in short term loans coming due that must be paid off or rolled over.

"“There is a cliff we are racing toward — it’s huge,” said Richard Barwell, an economist at Royal Bank of Scotlandand formerly a senior economist at the Bank of England, Britain’s central bank. “No one seems to be talking about it that much.” But, he added, “it’s of first-order importance for lending and output.”"

Lovely.

TAX AND SPEND:

Liberals and many libertarians complain that we spend too much money on wars, and fighting wars is bankrupting us, but domestic spending far outstrips our spending on wars. In 2008, our government spent more on economic stimulus than on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. We should end all that government spending.

REGULATION:

I did know that the financial oppression legislation would create a diversity czar for financial regulators.

EDUCATION:

A study shows that a college education in general is not worth near as much as people expect. That's because government money has poisoned it.

HEALTH CARE:

Obama lied about health care rationing in Obamacare and about pretty much everything else too.

GLOBAL WARMING / ENERGY:

BP tests new cap.

POLICE STATE:

I agree on principle that a person who chooses to intentionally kill another should suffer the death penalty, but I've come to the conclusion that our corrupt government cannot be allowed to make that decision.

Ten ways we are being tracked.

"The war on terror is a worldwide endeavor that has spurred massive investment into the global surveillance industry - which now seems to be becoming a war on "liberty and privacy."  Given all of the new monitoring technology being implemented, the uproar over warrantless wiretaps now seems moot.  High-tech, first-world countries  are being tracked, traced, and databased, literally around every corner.  Governments, aided by private companies, are gathering a mountain of information on average citizens who so far seem willing to trade liberty for supposed security."

A false sense of security. I wasn't aware of this one:

"Public sound surveillance -- This technology has come a long way from only being able to detect gunshots in public areas, to now listening in to whispers for dangerous "keywords." This technology has been launched in Europe to "monitor conversations" to detect "verbal aggression" in public places.  Sound Intelligence is the manufacturer of technology to analyze speech, and their website touts how itcan easily be integrated into other systems."

We have nobody but ourselves to blame for this.

"All of this is leading to Predictive Behavior Technology -- It is not enough to have logged and charted where we have been; the surveillance state wants to know where we are going through psychological profiling.  It's been marketed for such uses as blocking hackers.  Things seem to have advanced to a point where a truly scientific Orwellian world is at hand.  It is estimated that computers know to a 93% accuracy where you will be, before you make your first move.   Nanotech is slated to play a big role in going even further as scientists are using nanoparticles to directly influence behavior and decision making.   

Many of us are asking:  What would someone do with all of this information to keep us tracked, traced, and databased?  It seems the designers have no regard for the right to privacy and desire to become the Controllers of us all."

That's what I keep saying. Pretty soon cops will be arresting people because they went from point A to K to R to D, spent so much time at each point, said a couple of keywords, then a government expert will tell a jury that 98 percent of people who do that are selling drugs or planning a terrorist attack, and juries will convict. We're the fools allowing this to happen to us.

WAR:

Afghan soldier turns and kills three British soldiers.

POLITICS:

Republican Governor Chris Christie has been successful so far in ultra-liberal New Jersey. The problem is the way we measure success. Small decreases in the burden of government tremendously improve lives, but large reductions in the burden of government improve them proportionally more. Why should we settle for anything less than the maximum freedom, prosperity, and security possible that can only come from taking away the government's power to tax?

Convicted felons voting illegally may have delivered the Minnesota senate seat to Al Franken. Or it may have been the extra boxes of ballots found in a Democrat poll worker's trunk that just happened to heavily favor Franken. I support the rule of law, but outlawing felons from voting once they've served their time is wrong.

Score one for loony representative Michele Bachmann for understanding that Obama trying to turn America into a nation of slaves. That's what Marxism is: a slave state.

MISC:

Instead of screening two year olds for high cholesterol, maybe we should just feed them properly.

Claim that Vlad Dracula wasn't especially cruel. He was just normally cruel.

""Vlad Dracula was doubtlessly cruel, but not more so than other princes of his time," said Margot Rauch, the Austrian curator of the exhibition, entitled "Dracula - Voivode and Vampire"."

You can't make this stuff up.